skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Learnings" makes me cringe. Why is it a thing? "Lessons" is a perfectly good word. (Edit: see HN examples at https://hn.algolia.com/?query=learnings&sort=byPopularity&pr...)
EDIT: I didn't consider dielectric heating (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dielectric_heating). Seeing as how microwave ovens have 500W rating on the low end, I assume heat generated by 10W source can be dissipated fast enough that proteins don't get denatured even if it's directed at a small area of the body.

Most energetic photon in radio frequencies has wavelength of 1mm and energy of 0.00124eV (http://www.photonics.byu.edu/fwnomograph.phtml) I think. Would just pass through a single cell as cell is much smaller than the wavelength. And 0.0012eV is really small amount of energy. "Van der Waals bonds are weak bonds with a dissociation energy of about 0.01 eV" (http://lamp.tu-graz.ac.at/~hadley/ss1/crystalbinding/bonds/b...) I wouldn't expect it to do anything cellular/molecular level.

Not really a biology person so don't know if there's some effect on aggregate of cells on the millimeter level that could be harmful. Human body's electrical resistance inside is high and through skin is higher so I don't expect much effect on that scale either?
As someone who most recently worked in product at a healthcare startup I found the most difficult thing about innovation in the space is the cost of compliance/regulation.

When you work in an industry that is so highly regulated, and assuming you are working at a company that follows the rule of law, how do you actually "disrupt" a set of problems in this industry when there is so little wiggle room for doing things differently? Following legal guidelines in healthcare means reenforcing bad norms rather than disrupting them.

One of the biggest WTF moments I had when I first started was realizing that fax communication is HIPAA-compliant whereas email/SMS are not, even though in theory anyone could walk by a fax machine at any time and take medically sensitive information sent over.
If you give someone a paper wallet, then both of you have access to it and both of you know about it. (You can't prove you don't have a copy) If you do it on opendime, then everyone with access to opendime know about it. (Potentially - depends how much you trust opendime)
Thank you, arghwhat
These are all effects of unregulated markets.

Markets aren't right or wrong. People decide what's right and wrong, and apply the relevant constraints via regulation.
I don't quite understand this - what is the purpose of the FDA process for approval for "compassionate use" drugs? That is, what does completing this process let a doctor do that couldn't otherwise be done?

https://www.fda.gov/NewsEvents/PublicHealthFocus/ExpandedAcc...

(My understanding was something along the lines of, the FDA regulates which drugs can be used/sold but not how, so if a drug was approved for any purpose a doctor can use it "off-label," but a new drug still requires FDA approval. Is that accurate?)
I've been seeing this a lot the past few days as well, even just with some skills while others continue to work: "I'm having trouble reaching Skill X right now".
Is abuse a position?
The world wide shipping makes the prices worth what you're getting, but it doesn't change the fact that my currency isn't that great.

What I've seen in some e-commerce shops is that they automatically change the currency based on the customer's location and have a small option on the bottom or top right of the site displaying available currencies. For your site a dropdown menu/box for the currency to the right of the price might be best.
It pretty terrifying in politics when in many countries like the US what happened usually matters less than the political affiliation of the messenger.
Compuserve was more efficient than the internet

'Dankort' isn't global
What's an example of a product that was badly designed because the product designer wasn't technical enough?
I don't know that specific one, but there is plenty antenna simulation/modeler/optimizer software out there.
It's not Web 2.0-era social networking, it's a kind of tech utopianism that's been around for decades. I agree that the article doesn't make a lot of sense if you never believed that the Internet was going to automatically bring about (or be) a utopia. It's also reasonable to argue that the Internet, for all its flaws, succeeds at being an agent of social progress.
This seems like a legitimate use case for the DMCA. Why not just use the bot to issue DMCA notices? These accounts are clearly violating copyright.
It's worth noting that Scott Aaronson has commented on previous work by the same authors: https://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=2212 . At the time, he was convinced that their approach wouldn't scale. I'm not sure about their current approach, but at a glance it seems similar to the previous one.

Previous work:
https://arxiv.org/pdf/1411.4798.pdf
The monitoring devices are the real problem, not the people. Do you think all weight spikes simply equate to having CHF? You can't just rely on such a basic measurement when dealing with an incredibly complex system such as the human body. A lot more specialist equipment is going to be needed to come to a final conclusion (Questioning from experts, MRIs, XRays, even Microsurgery with cameras).

What consumers can currently access are weighing scales, and heartbeat monitors. Maybe even temperature monitors. Do you think this stuff is useful for diagnosing medical conditions? There is a whole lot going on under the surface that we simply can't see at all, that's the real problem.
Many are mentioned in the article. One I particularly loathe is 'reaching out'. In my generation, 'reaching out' is what someone with a serious drug or alcohol dependency did when they hit rock bottom and it was either get help or die. I cringe, I cringe....

A few years ago, it was 'at the end of the day', which my boss said 42 times in one 60 minute meeting. Yes, 42. I counted.
I see a pattern, based on this article and in my daily life. A lot of these processes and ridiculous terminologies are usually created by managers who have no real hard skill. Instead of doing any real work this is what they come up with in order to validate themselves. What does the delegator do when the work has all been delegated? Nothing absolutely nothing and that’s where all these ideas, terminologies mentioned in this article come from.

IMO the best managers are the people who have hard skills and leadership skills as a combination. They are able to solve their own problems and help other people solve their problems, and are able to ensure everyone on their team comes out with a net positive on happiness.
http://dack.com/web/bullshit.html
Do they have wifi in all of those farm buildings?
Wasn't there an article here last week about how consumers in China were really looking forward to blockchain technology to ensure the safety of the products they buy?

Trust is indeed very efficient, but it has certain...limits.
- "Synergy" is the archetypal word that wasn't even brought up in the article.

- "Cross-functional"

- "Ping"

- "Green Field"

- "ROI" (this actually means something specific, but it's often mis-used to imply something like 'overall value')

- "MVP" (this actually means something but has now been co-opted to sound agile while meaning 'the thing we're willing to release to users and keep our pride')

- "A matrixed organization"

- "Get everyone on the same page"

- "Stakeholders"

... many others...
Sometimes you forget. Or sometimes a command generates an unexpectedly large amount of output. This is a tool that I use every day. Usability should be a priority. Even if there is a more complex way of doing something, it is better if there is a simple way.
I think the way to look at it is soft skills can compliment the hard skills, but any engineer w/out the hard skills has nothing to compliment:

engineer w/ hard skills = solid;

engineer w/ hard + soft skills = powerful;

engineer w/only soft skills = useless;
However that doesn't happen instantly - and in the meantime everybody may stop mining.
Learning Esperanto is my New Year's resolution. Are there any successful learners who have tips? Right now my plan is to get through duolingo then figure it out from there.
Suggest we take this offline and align first before we come back to you by COB today. Don’t want to boil the ocean, as per my earlier comment.
I'll bet the chances are good that the FDA is understaffed to the point where they have no choice but to work on an awkward schedule just to get a reasonable amount of stuff done.
I don't think it's any worse than other auxiliary languages (which I think are all doomed to failure if that's really their goal as opposed to just building a community). I don't know if you can really attack the languages for "problems" if it starts being adopted to the point that it evolves like a natural language (as Esperanto has done). Anything "inefficient" or the like about the language will be changed to the point that native speakers find it suitable.
The Preface begins:

> Types are the central organizing principle of the theory of programming languages. Language features are manifestations of type structure. The syntax of a language is governed by the constructs that define its types, and its semantics is determined by the interactions among those constructs.

I'm not certain that I buy any of those three sentences. If I understand correctly, Lisp is a counterexample to all of them.

And when the first three foundational sentences are wrong, the rest of it (590 pages!) is probably suspect. I mean, there's probably a lot of valid stuff in there, but it may only apply to languages where types actually are the central organizing principle.
Alternatively, Grass Roots the posting. Twitter's problem is that the bot is posting, so set up a third party site that identifies tweets and ask legitimate users to respond to them.
This is a process systems issue more so than a market one. The inflexibility of traditional energy sources and unpredictability of renewable energy sources coupled with the inability to store energy conspire against the balance of supply and demand. When there’s too much energy suppliers can’t simply shut it off on a daily basis nor can they store is for excess use and so to deal with market forces they allow prices to go below zero which helps no one, especially not the consumer. What if we created more flexible energy distribution channels from energy stored and not generated daily? Is this possible?
> Growing up watching the original Star Trek in reruns, I thought we’d all be talking to computers by now.

I thought the same, but I also thought the computer would be a massive box somewhere on site like the Enterprise's computer
I found this article to be of little utility. Some random history about corporate management, crapping on an entire layer of the organization, because they are called "management" (there are good managers and they serve a purpose) and in the end not suggesting a single thing to help improve the clarity of one's own language.

All to sell the author's book. Wish I had passed.
"IBM and the Holocaust: The Strategic Alliance between Nazi Germany and America's Most Powerful Corporation" by Edwin Black.

IBM had child company in Germany Dehomag, but transported machines and cards from outside too (including during war through not whole of it). The book however deals more with management and non-German citizens guilt which is harder to show. That people of all sorts in the Germany, including technologistics, were contributing to Nazi plans is easier to believe. It was just first example that came to my mind.
This one I struggled with. What's the alternative to 'reaching out' in the context of sending a message to a third party?
The answers could range from "I blog about things I learn" (indicating a small amount of notes) all the way up to "I use GTD[0]" (indicating an endless amount of constantly updated and reviewed notes), but none of the suggestions are going to help you.

You need to try different things and see what works for you and what doesn't. Your personal preference could be even customized to the situation, so you might want to use GTD for work and some other system for your personal life.

So how I did it is tried one option (blogging about everything), then tweaked it (blogging about something), then tweaked it again (leaning towards messy notes, away from blog drafts), then tweaked it again (Markdown brain dumb of all the things that I think I might need in a day/week/month/year), and again (some of the notes about a random topic get detailed enough to write a blog post about it).

And the reason I've mentioned blogging so much is that, when trying to tell a story about the topic, I often find some previously unnoticed gaps in my knowledge. So that's kind of "reading notes, re-writing notes in such a way that I'm telling a story" style that currently works for me the best. YMMV

0 - https://hamberg.no/gtd/
The way you fix the existing system, is by not trying to change it. You replace it instead. You build new, lighter, more nimble approaches to old problems, rather than trying to convince existing power structures to change. That's where any gains will come from by big tech entering the fray, if there end up being any.

Trying to change something like the hyper regulated, hyper stagnant, special-interest dominated US healthcare system, is a folly of an idea. You kill it instead by routing around it with new solutions wherever possible.

Simple example: the rapidly growing market for direct primary care subscription services [1]. Pair that up with guaranteed catastrophic coverage for all by the US Govt or state governments, and the US healthcare system as we know it is dead due to a simple route around that would dramatically lower costs. It's far easier to implode a failed bureacracy by replacing it in that manner, than by trying to change the existing bureacracy. You see that in everything from old media (which held a cartel stranglehold on broadcast access, the Internet routed around them), to the taxi medallion cartels (which Uber & Lyft murdered by routing around them instead of trying to convince them to change).

[1] http://www.businessinsider.com/direct-primary-care-a-no-insu...
There's a lot of roles on a team, though, and some of them require "soft skills" more than technical skills. For instance, your scrum master is probably better served by having strong people and management skills and a more general understanding of the technical problems the team is facing on a day-to-day basis rather than a deep understanding of implementation details. The idea wouldn't be to focus on staffing a team full of "soft skills" people, but rather to fill your team with people who cover a broad range of different skill sets applicable to different situations. So maybe you've got a hard computer scientist who can pound out complex implementations in a few seconds; she's probably ultimately going to really appreciate having a teammate who's better at condensing the scatterbrain designer's ideas into a hard set of specs that won't require as many back-and-forth feedback iterations even if said teammate isn't as good of a programmer as she is.
100 KDF rounds are enough for OpenSSH keys
I read it the same as you, except I hate that line of reasoning to hand-wave things away.

Let us assume a perfectly rational market... should preface all of these statements. That way it triggers us appropriately like "Assume an infinite plane" does.
Management consulting has got to be the pinnacle of corporate bullshit...some favorites of mine are "synergies, deliverables, alignment, collaboration, circle back"

Also this is fun:
http://www.atrixnet.com/bs-generator.html
but tup tracks what it built, so a clean command would come for free and in fact be reliable!
Sure but as a user of Linux, I don't particularly care why the bugs are present in Linux. My view is if you ship it, you should own it. Assigning blame to Nvidia or whoever can go both ways. They might point the blame back at the interfaces inside Linux for being unclear or less than adequately documented, or whatever. Or they might blame some other aspect. Nobody knows unless you're the person who actually wrote the code or has intimate knowledge specific to the bug. In any case, my point wasn't to compare Linux vs AMT. I'm considering deploying ME/AMT to manage systems inside our office. After all this news having come out, I'm waiting till the dust settles. I have to unfortunately wade through a lot of hype to get to the meat of the issue. So far I haven't seen anything that would dissuade me from deploying ME internally.
Here is my reply to a similar concern last time this came up: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15927130.
never-ending sales strategy changes that can be summed up as "explain the product to the right people and ask for money".
Is that particularly different from how you'd be treated in any other foreign country?

I mean, I have no idea what would happen if I broke my arm while overseas either. I have insurance (in the US), and assume it would get sorted out somehow, eventually, but I have no idea what my share would be. I just don't anticipate being turned away at the hospital door though.
The first step to becoming more productive at work
I blame the algorithm behind the mirror, and the people behind the algorithms.
Congress Is Debating Warrantless Surveillance in the Dark
You mean like these guys?

https://www.civilianexposure.org/enewetak-atoll-marshall-isl...

https://dceg.cancer.gov/research/how-we-study/exposure-asses...
Yeah - during the first month. And then people figured out how bad it actually was.
The A350XWB was their second attempt. The original A350 and 787 were introduced around the same time. But the all aluminum A350 was DOA compared to the flashy new carbon fiber 787. It showed in the order books as well, no one wanted their warmed over A350.

TL;DR the 787 didn't have a 4 year head start. The A350 arrived 4 years late after a complete redesign.
I use at the end of the day; it’s a meaningless verbal tic, less something you could, erm, justify in a business context.

Annoying? Oh yea.

But what is wrong with reaching out? Seems like a different way of phrasing “make contact with”, except with a connotation of intending to help.
Five plus eighteen fifty four / Charles declares a Pig War!
Cache (site is down):

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:https:/...
Call, e-mail, text or otherwise contact them.

'Can you call Bob's surf shop and see if they carry Mr. Zog's Sex Wax?'
How would that interact with the Same-Origin Policy?
In reading these sorts of stories what I always wonder about the sort of wildly optimistic and risk taking personalities that would decide to settle down in some land where the overseeing government is not yet known.
But the assumption is wrong and letting non-technical people design products more often than not just leads to badly designed products.

Yes, just like letting the technical people do the design.

Good design uses a separate set of skills, which few people have because few people realize they're important. There is very little correlation between having this set of skills and having the usual set of "hard" technical skills.
Wow, I didn't think about its origins that way at all, but it makes sense given the timing/context of how it began.

For the unenlightened (like me), Google Translate renders this as:

"In a dense African jungle savage negroes without Di 'have already solved the linguistic problem, by so-called'" [1]

Yeah, not sure if I'd say "ominous", but it's definitely a double-take.

It reminds me a bit of the Indian scene from Disney's Peter Pan (1953) [2]. When it was made, I guess it was supposed to evoke a sense of wonder about the fantasy/dreamlike-nature of their adventure. But in the modern day, it just comes off as "wow, that's incredibly offensive."

What's funny is the cultural/time context. I saw the Peter Pan film as a child (in the 1980s) and I do not remember thinking it was patently offensive. In fact, iirc in US in the 80's it was not considered politically incorrect to use phrases like "Indian giver" or play games like "Cowboys and Indians" with your friends, etc. I think Esperanto's early history might also suffer from this sort of cultural baggage.

[1] https://translate.google.com/#auto/en/En%20densa%20Afrika%20...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Pan_(1953_film)#Controve...
Now if only you had some way to show how many people are shadow-banned or have their posts automatically buried.

People seem to think this place is better than Facebook, Reddit or all the other vote-based, algorithm-driven discussion forums that encourage groupthink, but that's probably because they've never been guilty of posting an unpopular opinion.

It might be eye-opening if they could see how heavily manipulated these discussions really are.
Sure, I agree with that. It's not clear the comment I'm replying to does so. If we want to view the market as a phenomenon like soil erosion that's fine. I got the impression that the parent comment was implying markets as a provably optimal solver for resource allocation problems.
The SE is one of the best phones, but it's not a pain to use for long periods and 32GB is enough storage. I have the 64GB version and all the apps I want, but only use half the space.

If you are trying to reduce your smartphone usage, it won't help.
At some point lawn care firms will start to automate and the costs will come down. The idea that every landowner should own those devices that sit idle most of the time is a bit crazy if you think about it.

By the way, why do you /have/ to mow 25 times per year? Is that an actual requirement of some sort or really a personal preference? I live in central Europe (Berlin), haven't mowed a single time this year. Doesn't look particularly classy but it's not a jungle either...
I'm pretty sure email can be HIPAA compliant as long as you implement the system using the established guidelines.
Ahem, 'moonshots' anyone?
Does anyone have advice on how to resist this bullshit? Recently, I've been moved away from software into an operations role where my entire propose is to create bureaucracy and make numbers look good for managers' managers. I lack experience and data for my voice to be heard when I point out that we're obviously going backwards.
We have too many to count, but some of my favorites:

-Kabuki Dance

-Coal Face

-KT (Knowledge Transfer)

-Across the Piece

-And my personal Rockstar: Like Putting Socks on an Octopus

Our HR group actually put together a wonderful "Leadership" website complete with a "Leadership Handbook" (Buzzword Dictionary). Of course, it's hidden on an obscure sub-site and is unsearchable. I've never met anyone else who's actually seen this site or handbook, but it's been fun for me!
Nobody is saying Airbus has made a profit on the A380, but absorbing development costs over 250 aircraft delivered leads to much lower losses than absorbing them over 14 aircraft delivered like a certain innovative indirect ancestor of Airbus...

And much as program costs are accounting fiction, Boeing's written down far more than a 10th of the A380 program costs as 747-8 development programme specific losses, never mind the bigger issue of losing a natural monopoly cash cow - even a declining one - and the tag of being the undisputed best at large widebodies which has wider ramifications. Not sure the 747-8 was ever really a significant factor in A380 pricing, because Emirates were even less likely to buy something only fit for freighters as their flagship passenger aircraft than they were to take any notice of what the actual sticker price for the A380 was when negotiating deals.

It's an open question whether the A350 would have done much better if Airbus had doubled down on launching at the same time as the 787, or whether it will do better in the long run for being the more recent aircraft model for its first couple of generations.