skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In a hunter-gatherer society you'd have far higher chances of survival in a team/tribe. I don't find it surprising at all that feeling lonely (a desire to be part of a tribe) would have such a strong impact on mental (and therefore physical) health. It would act as a strong drive for the lonely person to change their situation, potentially improving their chances of survival and reproduction.

From an evolutionary perspective it's little different to starvation. In fact, you could define loneliness as "social starvation".
> For the small group of young study participants who used ibuprofen for only a short time, “it is sure that these effects are reversible,” Jégou said.

That could be true, but of course, there's some self-interest in that statement. Bringing long-term harm to your study participants is not exactly a good move for a medical researcher.
While some people may seek aloneness, I can't imagine anyone seeking loneliness.
With regard to your first question, I was wondering the same too. Found this Coindesk article which might be helpful (https://www.coindesk.com/everledger-blockchain-tech-fight-di...).

"Before a stone like this can be digitised, pricey or not, it needs a unique identifier – a fingerprint – that allows it to be tracked on Everledger’s platform as it changes hands.

This is calculated from 40 data points related to each stone – alongside the Four C's. Any diamond over 0.16 carats will also have a serial number inscribed on its girdle during the grading process.

While a criminal could reshape a stone to distort its 'digital fingerprint', Kemp explained that diamonds are not, in fact, the sum of their parts. The cutting process results in a lot of wastage, so any attempt to alter a diamond, or split it into two, will drastically reduce its value."
I have a 6yo T420 with a Samsung SSD and 16GB of RAM. It was $400 with a new battery. It easily outperforms the MBP 2015 monster I had before on my daily programming tasks.

Point being. Most hardware is overkill anyway. You'll want enough RAM and the fastest SSD you can afford.
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> apply existing technology. There is a lot Facebook can do, but they are not, because they are lazy.

Mmmh. You do realise that the state of the art technology that you refer to was developed by Facebook, right? I mean, there are no public communications around whether and which type of image recognition is used to detect harmful content at scale for obvious reasons but… take a wild guess.

Do you _really_ think engineers at Facebook who love to solve problems at scale would prefer to have an army of contractors handle something hurtful if there was a solution involving smart code and a battery of servers?
Why do you say that? They are/have been a major reconnaissance/aggressive drone hub.
A more accurate title would be that Microsoft disabled the specter mitigation’s due to a flawed Intel update, right? I thought this was all Microsoft’s fault until getting half way through the article.
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Wow, all the ones I have (and I don't remember seeing any different in Australia) all say do not take for more than three days at a time (except with a doctor's advice).

6 weeks is a long time to be popping 1200mg/d!
You make a very good point on this.

As you say, a big win by text is that you can quickly skim it, ignore parts of it that you don't deem to be relevant, and essentially only use the working/short-term memory for the information you are interested the most in the context. Therefore, if the device responds back to you in voice, even if it's entirely a human-like experience, that's still inferior (at least in terms of speed) compared to the text-based experience.

Even for using voice as an input-only mechanism, it's still going to contain lots of redundant/useless information and verbosity.

Compare "OK google, what is the price of bitcoin today?" vs goolging "bitcoin price".
Speaking from experience, Siemens is the company where they ask you what is SQLite when you mention that a half-binary xml is not necessarily the best format these days.
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Zendesk is great for customer support and Github is great for working and managing the code. But how to make it possible for software engineers not to go to Zendesk and be able to answer right from the lovely Github without switching between services?

That was how the idea of this bot appear.

This open-source Zendesk-Github bot was tested during last 12 months on ByteScout.com technical support in production. The general idea was the following: in Github we create a separate "inbox" repository where the bot puts tickets and replies from customers as Github issues. And then it is possible to discuss, to reference this issue from other Github repositories. And when the answer is ready then one just puts a special keyword that indicates that bot should use this comment as a reply to customer's request in Zendesk.

Other features include:
- copying the issue completely with comments to another repository.
- posting comment from Github as a Zendesk Knowledgebase article.
- fetching of optional information about customers from mail marketing system or CRM system (is there an active or expired subscription? etc)

And best of all, this bot can be deployed and run on a completely free Heroku dyno on Heroku.
I had to read that billg-review thing one more time. It's such a wonderful story.
Even more accurate: Microsoft joins HP, Dell, Lenovo, VMware and Red Hat in disabling Intel's buggy Spectre patch.

> HP, Dell, Lenovo, VMware, Red Hat and others had paused the patches and now Microsoft has done the same.
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What is your favourite, or most common way you receive financial news?
> What's wrong with "Here's the raw data, here's how we measured it, Here's how we've shown the data, and look you can see for yourself that we are right! oh and the data costs $$$ much." ?

Well, what with the current replication crisis, maybe some researchers feel it's safer not to make it too easy... /s

(Not impugning the integrity of the authors in question here, of course, just musing on this widespread phenomenon in general...)
I guess there have not been any large scale or very public attacks against these computers because the people that would do this would be an enemy of every state that has manufacturing.

The disruption may be temporary as things would recover quickly, and the perpetrators would be hunted down by law enforcement and thrown into jail for a long time.
The “dude” is also probably working under an insane amount of pressure and being made to feel like he is somehow responsible or at fault for the whole situation. Best not to make it personal from the peanut gallery.
Aaaaaand here comes the Linux defending! OK...

> But keep in mind that if your system can't cope with this what you've done there is engineer in unreliability

It's weird that you're blaming my operating system's problems on me. "My system" is something a ton of other people wrote, and this is the case for pretty much every user of every OS. I'm not engineering anything into (or out of) my system so I don't get the "you've made a system that [basically, sucks]" comments.

> [other arguments]

I wasn't trying to go down this rabbit hole of Linux-bashing (I was just trying to present it as as objective of a flexibility-vs.-reliability trade-off as I could), but given the barrage of comments I've been receiving: I don't know about you, but it happens more often than I would like that I update Linux (Ubuntu) and, lo and behold, I can't really use any programs until I reboot. Sometimes the window rendering gets messed up, sometimes I get random error pop-ups, sometimes stuff just doesn't run. I don't get why it happens in every instance, and there might be lots of different reasons in different instances. IPC mismatch is my best guess for a significant fraction of the incidents. All I know is it happens and it's less stable than what you (or I) would hope or expect. Yet from everyone's comments here I'm guessing I must be the only one who encounters this. Sad for me, but I'm happy for you guys I guess.
> Apparent wave function collapse happens when a wave function in a superposition of several eigenstates appears to reduce to a single eigenstate. The apparent wave function collapse collapse is mathematically equivalent of quantum decoherence where the wave function never really collapses but the states gets entangled with the observer.

The problem with this interpretation is the fact that density matrices work: that certain probability-weighted ensembles of states are completely, provably equivalent to other probability-weighted ensembles of states. If you don't interpret collapse as physically real, then it remains to be explained why this should be the case.
it would make more sense to have
just one typical user,

Some products have users with distinct - almost contradictory - requirements.

For example, some spreadsheet users want simple graphs with big numbers that will look good in presentations, and a simple UI they can use on their phone. Other spreadsheet users want to make complex graphs with labelled arrows, thousands of points, multiple different graphs with aligned axes, and things like that.

Multiple personas can be useful for expressing that fact - otherwise you're stuck saying the just-one-user wants things to be simple and complicated at the same time.
The systems where wide, and not deep. But by now they want industry 4.0 - means they want intelligent behaving machines.
As in - material flow on fail rerouting, process controlling and self-adjusting, as in self checking for upcoming flaws. All parts are tracked over network, all guides to the machine have to be electronic.

And they want this with the conditions you described.
While the blockchain is clearly a distributed system, in a very real sense it is the antithesis of classical meanings of distributed computing in the sense that cryptocurrencies are designed to escalate their level of difficulty so as to fend off being accelerated by distributed processing, the exact opposite of most distributed systems that are designed to explicitly harness, or at least collaterally benefit from, parallelism.
I'm not sure; it doesn't seem obvious that the certification chains of unrelated products should be on the same blockchain, and it doesn't seem obvious that users of this system will want to pay the high energy prices of proof-of-waste.
OOP isn't always needed. Most of the PCLs are very simple state machines where there really is no actual use for inheritance, or even encapsulation.

It it true though that the mindset is decades behind the web-oriented world.
Is there some sort of water or soil restrictions that warrant the licensing requirement?

I know NZ can be resource limited for a couple of reasons, but I'm trying to imagine why growing things would present enough danger to warrant the law being involved.
Believing that some (unproven and nonexistent) entity is going to solve all your problems

Few religious people believe anything so simplistic, and many religious believers have a much greater sense of personal responsibility and empowerment than the norm.

I'm not a religious believer, and only a few years ago I was an indignant anti-theist, but I can now easily accept that the decline of religion could be a factor in the rise in depression (having experienced much depression in my own life).

Some of the factors in religion that may reduce the propensity for depression include: a sense of meaning beyond one's self; a sense of belonging and community; a sense of the transcendent; the sense of fulfilment that comes from charity and/or service to others; having a set of stories, principles, metaphors etc that can help in working through difficult life problems.

Religion may not be for you, and the "benefits" I've suggested above may seem absurd given your own understanding or experience of religion, but please try to consider that perhaps the reason so many people still find it compelling is that there's more in it for them than there might seem from a simplistic assessment.
> Same should hold true for any recording where the intent is not to record the works of others but rather the person doing the recording.

From what I can tell most streams depend fully on third party graphics like games for their visual content.

I like your argument. But i totally see why this would be different.

Edit:// adding to that fair use allows snippets to be used. While let's plays more or less show uncut content from start to end. Imagine that with a movie.
This is an interesting paper on a subject that has provoked debate on HN in the past. I would be interested to read criticism of the methods from those who have expressed support for these kinds of automated systems.

The most obvious criticism is that the uninspiring performance of the COMPAS model does not provide any evidence of the weakness of automated systems in general, which is surely correct. This kind of argument would not, however, address more general concerns about how and why these kinds of systems are adopted - why is this system being used when its performance is not obviously competitive? (The answer to that is presumably "corruption", in a generalised sense, but that is hardly an adequate response.)

Even more broadly, as the complexity of human society increases, it seems likely that the difficulty of making constructive interventions will also increase, and possibly more rapidly ("The Collapse of Complex Societies" by Joseph Tainter investigates this hypothesis). It does seem risky to just plough on, hoping that we can invent our way out of any problems that might arise as a result of what we are doing.
There are 99 ranch's in Australia?!
I don't know why, but I love that. Even in the US, it's one of the best places to get produce.
The only plausible explanation for this is if they store the names in order like: <Last Name> <First Initial> and somehow just assume the first Smith J is correct.
Yes? Righteous hate is still hate, even if enjoyable.
What makes me sad about Siri on the iPhone is that it would be such a boon if I was able to use it with actually good apps and if I didn't feel like a second-class citizen for having an iPhone outside the US.

I'm forced to use the buggy Reminders app, because Siri only supports creating reminders with Reminders.
Apple refuses to support anything else than Apple Music, which means I can't use Siri for music. (Yet, when the 4S was released, it only took weeks until I could control Spotify with Siri using jailbreak).
I can't use Siri for navigation either in any form ("Hey Siri, when does the next train leave from here?"), because Apple has never provided public transit or good navigation in Sweden, nor announced a timeline on what year that might happen – and of course, Google Maps can't use Siri. And even if it could, Siri does not gracefully support foreign words such as addresses.

I could easily love Siri if Apple would stop gimping it by tying it to other subpar products.
Screenshot 'without AMP crap' : https://imgur.com/a/6i7ae

Screenshot with AMP : https://imgur.com/a/3IsGe

I hope you understand why people might prefer AMP.
Thanks! :) It's always good to hear that we're on the right track with usability.

It's one of the things that I'm most worried about: I've been working pretty isolated for the last year and a half, and lack a background in biology or bioinformatics, and did not even have webdev experience when I took on this project (plenty of embarrassing proof of that in the code). Kudos to Sten Linnarsson, the PI of the group and my boss, for taking a gamble and hiring me anyway.

> I really liked the ease with which one's workflow can integrate into the data analysis.

Just to make this clear: the file format is a "dumb" data storage, and the viewer a "dumb" plotter of that data. To do more in-depth analysis requires loading the file in python, R, or anything else that might support the files in the future. The idea is to then store the results of this as attributes in the file. For example, the tSNE plot here[0] is just pre-calculated x/y data stored as two attributes.

Currently there is an issue with fully integrating the viewer into such a work-flow: for performance reasons, it caches accessed data from the file. This cache needs to be refreshed manually.

Sten recently added library support for keeping track of file modifications[1]. That enables me to make the viewer automatically update stale cache whenever a file is modified, making it even easier to integrate. Currently working on that.

There's still a ton of polishing and bug-fixing to do. Feedback, suggestions and help are always welcome!

[0] http://loom.linnarssonlab.org/dataset/cells/Dentate%20gyrus/...

[1] https://github.com/linnarsson-lab/loompy/issues/26
They likely never had avocados before (which is how they could afford to buy a house).
One reason: the prospect of an endless stream of unpatchable Spectre-like hardware vulnerabilities.

The "real problem" exposed by Meltdown and Spectre is running untrusted software on the same hardware where sensitive information resides. Moving away from physical coupling defends against potential sidechannel attacks.

The Qubes approach of "careful decomposition of various workflows, devices, apps across securely compartmentalized containers" seems to point a way forward after this sobering assessment:

http://robert.ocallahan.org/2018/01/long-term-consequences-o...
There's something very poetic about this, as the similarities of diamond cartels [1] and cryptocurrencies [2] effectively granting a small amount of people the control the majority of supplies of artificially constrained assets both of which have vastly inflated prices relative to production costs.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_Beers#Diamond_monopoly

[2] http://www.businessinsider.com/bitcoin-inequality-2014-1
Are you sure it didn't have codine in it? In the UK, the only (AFAIK) non-prescription medication with that sort of warning is anything containing codine.
I was at the Sprint store a few months ago and wanted a cheap phone that had a gyroscope. I couldnt find it listed anywhere on the phone kiosk, so i asked the sales rep. He didnt know so he asked his manager who also didnt know. I had to go home and google it.
My brother was hit by a recent update to Windows 7 that prevented the machine from booting. He went to Microcenter to buy a hard drive. There were a lot of people doing the same thing for the same reason when he was there.
I built a Windows machine for 3D work and VR just over a year ago, after being a Mac only user for 15+ years. Honestly my Win 10 experience has been the total opposite, it's been stable, fast, minimum update nagging. Overall I've actually been shocked how stable and hassle free the experience has been.

Maybe I just got lucky with the right combination of hardware.
mexico.. i see a program in recent files, just delet it (i just try to translate in english) and it seems not problem now... the thing are that i never download anything in the past days
It's not the same company - David Woodhouse works for Amazon. He used to work for Intel but not for a year or so.

It's also not the same reason. Linus doesn't like the mitigation in the kernel, disagreeing on how Intel intends to implement it. This article is about unstable microcode patches that Intel retracted, and that retraction has been discussed on here a few times. The article is just exceedingly bad at describing the actual issue. It also doesn't help that the kernel mitigation depends on new flags introduced by the faulty microcode update, but the update being faulty is orthogonal to Linus' opinion.
If you read the article you would see it's about IOTA.

More importantly, IOTA never implemented seed generation into their native client software. With this being THE central function to their entire platform, one has to question the priorities and motives of the team behind this project.

When coupled with the comments by the CEO, one has to ask if the negligence is so absurdly severe it's malicious?
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> How does nature decide which determinate state would my universe take? It still requires the magical collapse. (Or is it that I am branching off too and loosing access to myself in other branches?)

You're branching too. It remains to be explained why your subjective probabilities of which branch you find yourself in follow the Born probabilities, but that's the only known way of assigning subjective probabilities that behave as probabilities should (in terms of things like "probability of A or B <= probability of A + probability of B").

> That is, how do we know that the decision on which particle has which spin did not happen during separation itself (getting stored as a hidden variable)?

Conway's "Free Will Theorem" offers a simplified proof that this can't happen: if you measure the particle along three orthogonal axes then you will always get two of one result and one of another, but there's no way to preassign values to all possible axes such that this remains true. So the result you get from measuring in a given direction cannot be fixed if you have a free choice about which set of directions you're measuring in.
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As for your second question, it depends on what kind of platform the diamond industry builds on. If the diamonds are tracked using a smart contract on the public Ethereum chain, there may be special functions in the contract that allow certain entities to edit data in the contract. The problem with this is that consumers have to trust that the companies use this write access honestly. A partial solution might be to only allow certain data in the smart contract to be edited IF at least X number of companies in the consortium agrees to it. Still requires trust, but less of it.

If they're building their own blockchain to track the diamonds, and consensus is simply maintained by a small group of entities in the industry, then it's trivial to edit the data. But of course, if this is the case, then it begs the question of why a blockchain is even needed. Just use a shared database.
in the activity monitor (macos) i see a turistid process that i can't shut down and i never see that process before
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Correct. Adults can take up to 800mg q6hrs and I routinely prescribe that dosing after ankle sprains, etc for a few days. 6 wks duration would be way out of my comfort zone.
That is a fallacy, whether worded as a rhetorical question or explicitly as "faulty generalisation" or "fallacy of defective induction". The fact is that the subjective observation is generalised without any buttressing evidence whatsoever. "That's not my experience, so that's doubtful."
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The problem is, the converse is not always true. Problems that are very easy to formulate ("find the k shortest paths from my house to my office") might require very sophisticated, non-obvious, non-simple code to be solved in a non-naive way.
because he doesn’t make sense to me, i don’t know how to respond. battery use time is a function of capacity and consumption.

battery use time provided by the manufacturer is a better measure as it includes both variables of the function and not just the capacity.

he can’t estimate use time of another device from the battery capacity as he is missing the consumption variable unless it’s the exact same device.

He will have better shot if compares his actual use time to the advertised time and apply the difference to the device that he wants to predict.
Often the trick is not to make the new thing, but to make the old thing comprehensible so someone else can pick it up and run with it.