skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am German living the US, and I can absolutely second this.

Neither view-point in inherently better or worse, just different.

Note that Germany does have two class system now. The public class, and the private class. When you're in the public system you often sit in different waiting rooms for hours while those with private insurance get priority treatment, choice of Dr., better rooms in hospitals, etc. Many Germans now follow a hybrid, basic coverage through public insurance, with private add-ons.

It sounds like the poster had private care.

Most vividly I remember the birth of my son some years ago in the US. We had to practically force the doctors to stop looking at monitors and machines and actually look at the mother. They wanted to control the whole process like a machine, instead of letting nature do its thing, unless and until something goes wrong.
Afterwards the bill was $32k (for a no frill, no complications birth) $24k charged to his mother, $8 charged to my son (at age of the few days, his first official mail).
The insurance covered it all, still the cost seemed staggering.

However, _would_ something have happened, I felt extremely confident that we would receive the best care and treatment that current technology could deliver.

It's also often different from Dr. to Dr. and region to region. I have not come across a chamomile sipping Dr. in Germany, yet. :)

I do subscribe to reducing "fixing" things with pills. Often that's the instant-gratifying, cheap way out. Health requires thought, time, and "work". And of course I would not try to cure cancer with herbal tea.
Some over the counter cough medicines contain a first-generation antihistamine, which causes drowsiness. Back in the day, some also contained codeine, but I’d hope this is no longer the case.
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Question from someone who knows very little about the Mach/XNU APIs: Does this code leak Mach ports? If you call task_for_pid, you get back a Mach task port. Do you have to close the port with mach_port_deallocate? Could a resource leak be contributing to the system freeze?
You'd be surprised. :)
"We know for a fact through scientific research and polls that Soldiers already love the 'PT' Belt," McDirkington said.

This must be satire, however it's on army.mil. The article frankly comes off as very bizarre. Can anyone vouch for this?
Remember, if you store coins on an exchanges, they are not your coins. Be the bank.

Bank grade security? What's that?

I'm using a Ledger Nano with password and 24 words seed phrase generated with physical fair dices thrown by me. I'm super safe.
Interesting to see that Ford is investing in entire transportation stack at the same time. They are working on a self-driving car, ride sharing service AND a service to manage those rides efficiently for organizations. From my limited knowledge of Ford's activities, it seems like they are significantly behind GM and Waymo (and probably Uber too). Anyone know the timeline and how they are stacking up against these other companies?
> I'm much more likely to see a movie I would never normally pay to see with a MoviePass subscription.

That is the exact thing that makes the data actually interesting: it removes the risk factor, aka "do I want to see a movie for $12/person and risk that it's trash?", from the viewer's decision process.
Russian trolls created Facebook events seen by more than 300,000 users
I have touchscreen gloves - never had any problems even for the 5 years I spent in Buffalo.

I recommend Agloves because they have awesome customer support incase your gloves have knit issues. They sent me a pair of the thicker ones for free when I asked for help with a pair that had some stray threads.

Here is an amazon link: http://amzn.to/2Eg8MUc
Digital art in unencrypted form can never be rare. It will only be rare if it is painted by a homomorphicly encrypted algorithm that contains vector or any infinitely scalably primitives. This would ensure that screencaps never capture the "real" thing at the heart of the asset. Clearly, this takes a lot more work than what was done here. But it is the only pure way to not scam people on assets that can be easily cloned.
How exactly does that make the job any better?
OT: I understand the need/want for reporters to get paid, but jfc Guardian, there's a giant blob at the bottom of the page asking for support, and a giant banner that takes up easily a 4th of my screen asking for support.

https://i.imgur.com/LydtPuJ.png

I'm no UX/UI guy but come on.
Bureaucats: Felines with Official Positions
I have had my teeth filled by a dentist that didn't "believe" in novocaine. Luckily, he died before I had any significant issues, and I had a later dentist that did it correctly. If you are doubtful of the usefulness of pain management while receiving a filling, you can try it yourself.

I'm perfectly understanding the concern for long term morpohine derivatives for treating post-surgical pain (although there are plenty of studies that show pain delays healing) so there is a bit of picking-n-choosing going on. Many nurses would recommend OTC acetaminophen in combination with ibuprofen as they work quite well and you're definitely still going to "feel it" if you're pulling out stitches with no risk of addiction. Since you aren't using a narcotic, you won't need a stool softener either.

http://www.worldwidewounds.com/2001/march/Pediani/Pain-relie...

I'm a bit concerned by the reliance on ibuprofen for pain (it's great for inflamation but prevents blood coagulation) since it can cause bleeding, although I'd note that she didn't even need that to sleep so her lapro-surgery was either extremely minor or she has high pain tolerance. Normally, combination with acetaminophen is preferred, because the dosage of each can be minimized.

Frankly, this all just sounds like German doctoring. I've also been told that you don't need decongestants (when flying) because your "nose should flow". It's normally acceptable (if inconvenient) advice, but if you're flying it could lead to eat infection and damage. It's not like your ear pain is going to get a pilot to turn a 747 around or help your cold pass faster. Suffering is not the answer to everything any more than a painless existence is.
Any government has national defense responsabilities. With your logic, Intel is a multinational company and should have informed them all, which leads to its own kind of problems.

Edit: The only reasonable path seems to inform every government simultaneously, at the same time as the public. How could the EU possibly let Intel sell CPUs, and let Intel inform other governments of vulnerabilities first? So that the other governments have a time window to play with the vulnerability against the EU?
I don't look know that I know where everything is, but I'm guessing it takes awhile to learn where 72 weird APL symbols go when you're first learning you know?
Few people realize how unprepared parents/authority figures are, "to do the right thing".

And that includes the characters who are educated and aware. God knows what's happening in households with unmonitored 24*7 sewage being pumped into developing minds.

Once your kid has had his or her mind misguided during crucial periods of its development, reprogramming it, postfacto is on par with rehabilitating the severely disabled. It takes a huge effort on all sides.

When it comes to mental health and development, the instinctive thing to do is not always the right thing. And it's even harder to do after things go wrong. So take it seriously. Keep talking to experts and other families going through the same thing. Stay on his case.

And lastly don't expect the govt or sillicon valleys shitheads (who produced this environment) to act fast.
Well, I find it better than sites which just refuse to show you the content.
If there were no landlords to buy and then lease those properties, the rental market would not exist. Just like Ford builds cars, but they don’t create the car rental supply. Enterprise, Hertz, etc do. The cars are the capital asset being rented, not the supply side of the rental market.
I saw nothing in there about fitness trackers.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/a-map-showing-the-users... is the recent WaPo article titled "U.S. soldiers are revealing sensitive and dangerous information by jogging".

> The Global Heat Map was posted online in November 2017, but the information it contains was publicized Saturday only after a 20-year-old Australian student stumbled across it. Nathan Ruser, who is studying international security and the Middle East, found out about the map from a mapping blog and was inspired to look more closely, he said, after a throwaway comment by his father, who observed that the map offered a snapshot of “where rich white people are” in the world.

This seems to have nothing really to do with Marcus Ranum's blog post that the OP linked to.
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Sort of like automobile manufacturers, who with all their airbags and crumple zones have defaulted drivers who don't ever think about safety to extremely strong safety. It's really disheartening, to read security professionals hoping to deny security to regular people. I guess I'm somewhat mollified that you've stopped pretending this is about catching criminals.
At Facebook's scale, there is not a good way to do it. Even if they were able to scale it, it would not be good enough anyway.

You can automate it, but clearly that doesn't catch everything and automated systems can result in just as much bias as humans doing the job.

You can hire humans to do it and make them work fast, because the amount of posts per day is extremely high. You can use some automation to help them, but that will combine the problems of human moderation and automated moderation.

You can hire lots of humans to work at a normal pace and give them psychological counseling, and spend so much on their salaries that you'll go out of business, and even then they won't catch everything and will be frequently accused of bias.

It's a no-win situation for Facebook because even if they were able to objectively and fairly moderate every single post, they would be accused of bias by politically motivated people anyway.

This is not a technology problem, it's a social and political problem and Facebook will never be able to please everyone. Twitter is in the same boat.
In the army, 600 mg pills of Motrin (ibuprofen) are called Ranger candy. Because they get eaten "like candy" by Special Forces units.
They moved to other locations (including Southern California) to cut costs: https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/2017/01/25/kink-com-to-stop-filmin...
Can't disagree with you there.
“Not at all” is too strong [edit: and actually it was “not all” which is correct and even an understatement], but it’s true it’s a small (and declining) contribution: http://www.hspm.org/countries/germany28082014/Lists/LivingHi...

However, that table doesn’t include subsidies for the SHI. All in all, 10% is funded with taxes.

http://www.hspm.org/countries/germany28082014/livinghit.aspx...
And then people share that "solve this simple order of operations problem to prove you're a genius" bullshit on it, just like Facebook.
My father‘s neighbor‘s garden covers more area than that. Isn’t the administrative cost within, say, 10 years, not higher than the asking price?
Taking a pubsub message broker approach to logging
Software is usually a product of both intelligent design and evolution, in varying proportions.
I like to think that rather there is no reason for either country to want the island full time, except to say they have it and the other does not, and plenty of reasons to keep a quirky tradition that serves as occasional reminder of an old treaty.
Who do you think the Chinese companies told upon learning about the flaws?
The parent said not all, which means not entirely. Adding at in the middle changes the meaning substantially.
Why not ask for more anesthetic? When a friend went to a dentist for a procedure, she repeatedly asked for more anesthetic until she couldn't feel the pain. I think it took two or three additional injections after the first one before that happened. (It's hard for anesthetics to make their way into the jaw bone, I believe.)
Is there a contingent of 9fans doing work on using Plan 9 for DevOps? The fact that doesn't have popular graphical software (or even the same conventions) wouldn't hold it back there. If it's really as well designed and coherent as the praise always makes it seem, it should be an attractive option on the server. So developers can stick with Windows/Mac/Linux on personal machines, and should be deploying to Plan 9 in the cloud, right?
Most likely the NSA already knew, wouldn't they?
This setup is to protect the company, not the workers.
TLDR: There are two ways to justify progress in a game: proof-of-play and proof-of-pay. Stay away from games that allow the latter if you like your money.

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Yeah this is the problem with pay-to-win games. Pay-to-win often becomes pay-to-resell-equips-for-a-profit, which is just gambling on the future value of those in-game digital tokens, items, and currency. Without a good game underneath, it eventually becomes one big valueless scheme.

Pay-to-play is often implemented in such a way that it is actually pay-to-win. A really good bullshit test on any video game is to first ask which category it falls under:

1. Pay-to-play (sufficiently constant join-fee, this is fine.)
2. Pay-to-win (DANGER!)
3. Free-to-play (often implies paying for cosmetics, this is fine.)

One should carefully understand all value streams associated with a particular game, specifically when real currency goes into the system, what comes out? Some red flags that indicate a game may be pay-to-win:

1. You can buy EXP
2. You can buy better gear
3. You can buy scrolls that allow you to progress much faster (exp boosts, spawn increases, item drop rate increases, etc.)
4. You can skip levels with money

Put simply, if Kim Jong-un can walk into the game and be the best player in under 72 hours, then the game is probably a waste of time. MMO games need to be done right, there can't be sudden phase-change events like a new player suddenly becoming the best player because they bought $84,000 in items from the cash shop (twinking is fine, since it can be backed by proof-of-play).
Are you sure? IIRC valgrind supports everything up to macOS Sierra.
A brief look at sklearn.tree.DecisionTreeClassifier
Ask HN: I just got fired
I'm a contributor here but using a throwaway for obvious reasons.

I was fired without notice a few days ago. The initial shock and hurt have worn off, I think, but I am still in deep processing mode. I was very unhappy at this job, and I believe it became obvious to management. I was halfway out the door myself, actively interviewing at other companies, but getting rejected like this is still a blow. I wanted to leave on my own terms.

As I reflect on my experiences and the direction I want to head in, I was wondering if any of you all have been fired and have advice on how to cope in the coming days, months, years. I'm relatively young (29) and have a long career (I hope) ahead of me.

I've applied for UI, I've told a couple very close people (but not anyone else, I still don't know how to confront the shame and tell people in my circles). I'm going to hit the job search hard. But what else can I do to minimize the damage and maximize future success?
As mentioned in the article, she was given a painkiller (ibuprofen, a NSAID). In much of Europe, doctors are far more reluctant to use opioid painkillers, granted.
https://www.axios.com/trump-team-debates-nationalizing-5g-ne...
on mobile yes, would love to use on mac but plugin are mess right now
Let’s also not be smug, let’s explain for everyone who comes here: why is this good or why is it bad. So describe why this is good or describe why it’s bad

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Do dentists in the US actually give out opioid painkillers for wisdom teeth extraction?
When I worked for a research lab for a university attached to a hospital, facebook usage was highly correlated with diagnosed depression. it was unclear whether depressed people used facebook more, or using facebook more caused depression.

the correlations with facebook usage and other illnesses was weak, but depression was not.
In “simple” FPS I agree (e.g quake style shooters etc). But in BF where there is tanks and planes and a hundred modes I like the incentive it gives me to vary my playing with unlocks for “fly a plane for an hour” etc.
After a hundred hours or so you have most stuff and there isn’t much progression for many hundred hours after that.

I agree it shouldn’t be useless grind, it should be rewards for varying it up.
Such as just trying something, or getting 5 kills with a gun.
When you go out of your comfort zone, you are initially shit (naturally), so without the lure of an unlock “if I can just not suck for enough time to shoot down 3 planes” you stick with where you would have just gone back to the comfort zone otherwise.

Not something you need hundreds of hours of repetitive play to do. So perhaps “grind” is the wrong term for this type of progression. Getting to the end if the progression might be a grind if you want to do it deliberately. But I enjoyed the progressions of BF3 and 4 and I probably would have had less fun without it. I did the first 1000h because the first 100h had those rewards that compensated for me sucking as a player.
It's just a matter of priorities. Of course Google wants you to stay within the browser and of course Apple would prefer native apps.

But their financial motives don't discount from the pros and cons of their approach. If anything, we need both in order that both actually have a reason to keep advancing.

Native apps capture depth, webapps capture breadth.

I actually think they're both doing the right thing by their users even if I don't agree on each individual choice they make.
Any country where Intel sales CPUs could require by national law Intel, AMD etc to notify its government of vulnerabilities, no later than other governments.

If Intel explicitly does some kind of US exceptionalism explicitly, the EU, China and other governments will probably require to be aware of the vulnerabilities no later than other governments.

How could the EU possibly let Intel sell CPUs, and let Intel inform other governments of vulnerabilities first? So that the other governments have a time window to play with the vulnerability against the EU?
If you have JS disabled, disable also CSS to read the article.
For those like me who want something clickable:

https://makezine.com/2013/04/20/enzo-maris-autoprogettazione...
I enjoyed board games in my early years. YMMV.
I think they are making a wise long-term bet on automation, but their current products are behind GM's. If Ford had a viable Chevy Bolt competitor, they'd be selling it.

If you think Ford is on the right long-term track, the stock is a bargain right now. I think they are, and I hope the shareholders won't force the company back to a traditional business model to boost their short-term profits.

I'm not worried about Waymo and Uber as a threat to the traditional car companies. They may be the ones who invent self-driving technology, but they won't be the ones who produce millions of automated cars -- it will be Ford and GM who do, and they'll license the automation software if they need to. It's really hard to make cars at scale, as Tesla is now learning.
Opioid painkillers aren’t necessarily particularly expensive. They are considerably more dangerous than NSAIDs, though, hence the reluctance to prescribe them where not absolutely necessary. It’s not a money thing.
Still blows my mind that it took Uber so long to migrate away from a single db solution. The bit about wanting an event system to handle downstream trip processing w/o having one failure block the whole job was shocking.

I’m all for avoiding premature optimization but this was taken to the extreme.

PostgreSQL is capable of all of this out of the box. Wonder why a custom tool was built instead?
> Caveat, they're likely too CPU-intensive for mobile devices.

Mobile user here. Would love to be able to listen -- could you make recordings of the generated music and put up links to audio files?
Cheers, just ordered that :) There seems to be lots of used copies pretty cheap on amazon.
If anything, it makes the job worse by an order of magnitude. Arvato Bertelsmann is famous for bad working conditions.
For example: circumventing minimum wage by (de facto) requiring unpaid over hours. They write into the contracts that you only need to work Mon-Fri but in reality they even ask you to show up for work sundays, christmas or whenever they feel like it. If you don't comply, they show you the door. Illegal yes, but with minimum wage you usually can't expense the time or money to sue them.
Load the page, print to PDF, and read it locally. I know it's not ideal, but that's IMHO the best way to avoid the issue.
So you have basically found out that one could log structured data and use
message routers to pass these logs around? Well, congratulations, better late
than never. The industry uses that for many years now.
Futhark looks amazing. The functional paradigm seems a natural fit for a SIMT device. Opencl and opengl always felt really 'weird'. The imperative nature doesn't really seem to fit the programming paradigm (avoid loops. Avoid branches. ) This basically looks like I hoped opencl would be.
This seems like a very wrong-headed assumption. We don't understand the etiology of cancer generally, and radio frequency radiation may have physiological effects which produce conditions favorable to cancer. Microwaves aren't ionizing, but it's easy to demonstrate that an oven will damage tissue. Tissue damage results in a cascade of physiological processes, including inflammation and scarring which may precipitate cancer. RF energy is similarly absorbed by tissue producing heat, but the specific absorption rate (SAR) for common RF emitters, including phones, is low. Maybe enough exposure over time becomes an issue, though.
I just noticed that I misread the comment.
1. What matters is what I give to society, not what society gives to me. People are reciprocative, so giving more to society means getting more things back in the long run, even if I am not good at things like negotiating.

2. Be honest. Credibility is something everyone starts with. But once you lose it, you don't get it back. It's also quite rare and easy. A lot of people will simply pick an honest person over someone more skilled but less honest.
> Facing other mindsets and cultures at a young age as a reason, or at least contributing, to depression? That's really a stretch.

I can see it contributing. Humans are tribal animals and teenagers are the extreme of this with all sorts of cliques and clubs that form in high schools. Imagine being a teenager and discovering that your in the wrong tribe, then imagine that the tribe you like is "at war" with your tribe. Even with modern communications it would be easy to feel isolated without that face to face interaction.
> So, the people employed by the NSA who hacks other nations' computers and networks... are they cyber-criminals too?

In the reverse direction, the US has tried to sentence Chinese military members - https://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2014/05/19/chinese-mili...
The existential challenge for most teens is "Do I belong with peers?" I had a hard enough time with that, with only a few hundred schoolmates. I can't quite imagine how tough that must be on social media today. Bullying and mobbing are just so much more efficient.

I suppose that one could argue that's it's just stronger selective pressure for toughness. "Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me." But now, words can hurt. Can destroy your life. Or so it seems. And what about the ones who survive? What sort of society will they create? I have no clue.

Maybe we should manage social media like psychoactive drugs.