skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, not at all. Modern medicine is wonderful, and there are a lot of doctors doing really great work.

Yeah, I totally agree that the magnitude of the problem is certainly part of the issue, and that IVF offers an easy path forward for those who can't conceive. Still it's depressing when you conceive easily, lose the baby, and the doctors have no clue (a few of my friend's stillbirths have been birth control failures, so they weren't even trying).
Do you think citizens of western countries (eg. US and UK) do? Do you think the government respects that?

https://www.forbes.com/sites/erikkain/2013/12/29/report-nsa-... https://www.theverge.com/2013/12/29/5253226/nsa-cia-fbi-lapt... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postal_interception https://books.google.com/books?id=2OZgDQAAQBAJ&pg=PA97&lpg=P... http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/04/us/monitoring-of-snail-mai... http://www.pucl.org/from-archives/81july/mail.htm https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/henryporter/2010/m...
How about targetted use? eg lighting the doorways either side of toilets, or entry/exit points? Might be lower cost retrofit than entire venues, for close to same benefit.

Huge potential in schools, if this is kidsafe.

And cruise ships, floating gastro-enteritis factories.

Or on Aircraft.
Show HN: Iterating towards Cixl v1.0
I've used them in a grant application.
It's weird, because Cubans manage to pirate all manner of other things through El Paquete, a system where pirated content is sneakernet'ed throughout Cuba. But looking at the list of files:
http://paquetedecuba.com/
Literature doesn't appear to be on the list. Either they aren't popular or they might be seen as propaganda, and incur the wrath of the officials.
So, looks great, but who is it for? For movie execs? I don't see myself needing much more than the movie review and a critics ... the rest is way over my head. Anyone care to explain to me?
I see cilia and organelles, so this is a eukaryotic microbe, maybe Protozoa?
Thanks for sharing, what a fun and clever solution!
This highlights the problem-- the most "conservative" approach, a savings account, is actually TERRIBLE financial advice. First the money won't keep pace with inflation and second a bank failure will wipe out the fortune. That happened to savers in 2008, most notably the failure of IndyMac.
I'm a big supporter of open source software. However, I pay for a copy of Aquamail. I also paid for a version of K9, in order to support the developer. Aquamail is a good product and the developer is continuously improving it. I would hate to live in a world where your only options for email would be to use one of the big providers (gmail, office 365, etc).

BTW, Aquamail is free, just not open source. The free version has a few limitations, I think, like a non-changeable signature.
How about they give them antipsychotics instead?
Emoji graphics are sincerely a complete eyesore, and have been from day one. Worse than clippy. Tasteless, regrettable, childish, disappointing.

There's no accounting for taste, and yet, to look back upon a century or two of typography, most fonts never approached the total abomination emoji manages to achieve, even on the worst font's worst day.
I had this happen constantly. It was pissing me off, but not what made me boycott amazon altogether.

They started charging my items to other credit cards associated with my account (added in the past to make one-off purchases for relatives or friends.) To prevent this happening again, I deleted every card from my account except my one current personal card.

Despite that, a few weeks later they charged a random subset of my holiday shopping to my mothers credit card. Now, we have an excellent relationship, but you can imagine even the best of relationships has a wtf moment when a thousand dollars of spending randomly appears on their account without so much as a by-your-leave.

I called amazon to complain, and their response was just, “well, you got the items you ordered, didn’t you?”

They were contemptuously baffled as to why this was at all a problem.

I yelled at them until they refunded my prime membership and closed my account.
I visited Chelsea Market Google offices by mistake. I was at the market, and not knowing so much about it, I though that was small. So me and a friend got into the elevator to go to the next floor.

The elevator just opens and there it is. It was Google´s offices with a big green Android figure. I took a picture and just went back to the market using the elevator.

As it was a weekend, I was on vacation, there was no one.

So "suddenly Google" is one of my memories to my travel to New York.
I had a list I really liked that just disappeared recently. I think he's right that they removed the feature.
With a low bitrate speech codec, you can get well down to 1 or 2 megabytes per hour.
Foxconn unit to cut over 10k jobs as robotics take over
Social Security is perfectly sustainable. The problem with is the demographic bump of the baby boom and use of it as a political football during the 60s and 70s when benefits were spun up, followed by the congress reducing funding by capping payments.
Surely it would have made more sense for the existing behaviour to be the default and have to request the new formatting, instead of potentially changing the presentation of existing documents?
Antidepressants aren't much better than sugar pills
Classic divide and conquer. Nobody will vote for worker protection laws because the law might also benefit someone who makes a different amount of money than them or someone otherwise from a different tribe.
> > No, the dowry wouldn't be the classic example because that's more akin to prostitution or slave trade than monetizing and marketing affection.

> Tossing aside slavery, it's akin to prostitution because it's very similar. But prostitution is also a classic example of the commoditization of affection/sex.

Or, you know... porn?
Actually it’s not even about guessing or delusions: WeChat plainly admitted that it shares everything with the Chinese Government.

https://www.theverge.com/2018/2/1/16721230/wechat-china-app-...
The bank wouldn't complain but if your account is significantly above the FDIC's $250k limit, it's usually worth it for them to invest a few days or weeks of a salesperson's time to get you to convert to a more profitable investment account. That kind of human attention is just not profitable with an account that only has 10s or 100s of thousands of dollars.
I think there might be still politics at play that GV is a investor at Uber. While Waymo is pretty unrelated to GV, there might have been "signals" from the parent company to quiet down the case.
They haven't lost them at the expense of those others either, though, nor would the people who have more likely have received it if the people who had to work for them knew that they would be whisked away in large measure to iron out every last inequality.
I'm idly curious what the throwaway rate is on that hardware. Heh.

And chances are there are some security researchers who wouldn't mind diverting those devices from the trash...

(My curiosity honestly probably stems from the fact that I'm always on the lookout for unorthodox ways to upgrade my own _very_ old tech)
SpaceX Shop: Falcon 9 Desktop Model with Crew Dragon/ Fairing
The phrase "personal responsibility" has decades of rhetorical baggage, from long use as a dog whistle by the USA's political right.

Going with the principle of charity: I apologize for assuming you were using "personal responsibility" as a bludgeon.
The ethics of enhancing human fertility is really questionable. We do not need more humans on this planet. Please. We are pushing 8000000000, there are 20000 lions left, there are more people in my suburb than lions left in the world.

Look at this: http://www.watoday.com.au/wa-news/new-research-sheds-light-o... There are less than 1500 great whites in millions of square km of ocean of WA, and, then we get this extraordinary quote "Environmental ideology has been allowed to take over ... Human lives must come before fish" 7800000000 vs maybe 13000, I think we have got the human lives before fish thing down flat senator.

If you have to have kids (and you don't) adopt. Everybody wins if you elect to adopt.

Choosing to refrain from producing another person demonstrates a profound love for all life.

To educate/self-radicalise yourself on this topic, please see: http://www.vhemt.org/
Finally, lacrosse is getting the recognition it deserves, from the unicode community:

https://emojipedia.org/lacrosse-stick-and-ball/
Since the title doesn't tell you, it's about Bal Harbour Shops in Miami Beach, though others are name-checked too.
Down voting is one of the few powers some downtrodden people have in this world. You won't even afford them the satisfaction of at least pretending they hurt your feelings? ;-)
Or just not bother with unification? Have "Pawn" and "Emoji Pawn" it's not like we're starving for space. This and things like CJK unifications make me feel like design happens on a level of naive convenience instead of giving a shit about what things mean or how they are used.
Technical review of Sia cryptocurrency
I've been doing full stack web programming and server administration for the past 20 years, and I almost never encounter "Big O" notation and algorithm problem solving except in interviews.

99% of the things I have built in the past (and continue to build on a daily basis) consist of just gluing things like APIs together, or building user interfaces that essentially just allow users to display and modify data in various databases.

I've had to learn tools like Docker, Git, Travis, Ansible, and Kubernetes. I've had to be able to learn the basics of languages like Javascript and Python and Ruby in a matter of months or even weeks. I've had to pick up frameworks like Angular and React and whatever new shiny thing exists, at the drop of a hat.

I have built large web-based software projects that power multi-million dollar companies, and that handle millions of users on a daily basis.

I don't have a college degree, and my knowledge of advanced math ends at Algebra. But that didn't stop me from assembling and launching a machine learning platform for the company I work for.

But yeah. I don't know shit about algorithms or your "Big O" that you love so dearly and love to judge every "programmer" by.
If we had the tech to do that we would already have the ability to genetically modify embryos with heightened intelligence. Do we even know what genes are responsible for that?
> one DES link encryption box [...] was sending out plaintext on the LEDs

What? Care to elaborate? Did they just set the LED brightness based on the current octet being encoded or something? But that seems like it's too high frequency to work.
I run a Radicale (CardDav/CalDav) server for Calendar and Contacts:

http://radicale.org/

And I use DavDroid off of F-droid on my phone. Calendar sync and Contacts work great on my phone.

Calendar works great on Thunderbird .. contacts .. eh...last I checked there was a SOHO CardDav extension that was kinda garbage. Not sure if that's been improved yet.
Actually that's exactly what the article is about. Amazon has already had their own delivery drivers for a long time, they are now directly competing with UPS and FedEx by shipping packages for businesses that don't operate on Amazon's eCommerce platform.
These days pygobject seems to be the way to go
Hockey players make more than football players.
Well you're not going to be inclined to pay them for something simple.
Can 100% confirm this happens on imgur too. Shared a link - I don't remember what it was, unfortunately - trying to ID someone who'd done something stupid on the internet, that sort of thing.

My "I just sent an interesting PM and it probably won't disappear but just in case it does this is a canary message" stayed, and the interesting message actually did disappear. The chat bubble remained, the message content was gone (so the bubble was tiny).

Feel really really stupid I believed "nah, it won't disappear" enough not to screenshot both messages beforehand >.<

TIL that day that the imgur moderators (that, like all unpaid moderator situations, have a reasonable amount of drama associated with them) have access to PMs. Nice.
I'm putting it in a to-read list after 2 minutes of skimming, but that looks like an excellent article.

Sounds like Riot have a good head on their shoulders about how to handle testing games.

If you come from a different domain, it's important to realize that testing games is much more difficult than testing a lot of other types of software. And much like other kinds of software, when it's done well it looks easy.
When did I say anything about the bill of rights?
I think here's the argument underpinning all of these.

Assumption: Facebook is more effective at capturing attention than TV, TV was more effective than radio, radio was more effective than newspaper.

Follows: If this process continues, at some point we will develop something which captures attention as perfectly as possible.

Opinion: That hypothetical end case is most certainly a social ill, especially for democracies.

So whether it's Facebook, or whether it's the thing after Facebook, if we keep stepping down this path we're eventually going to end up somewhere very dark.
That was a bit of a different story since his parents took out loans in his name.
I'm confused. What was the normal character that got turned into chess pawn? Or are you saying chess pawn was already a normal character and is now unnecessarily an emoji?
If someone keeps losing their job because they can't sit still and concentrate for 25 minutes, you aren't going to hear about it. If you can't imagine that, then I'm afraid you're imagination needs a tune up.
I believe the $14/year property tax is for the private street, not the individual lots which go at a different rate.
Peak clown car.
Which is it - inconvenience or comfort? I don’t see how you get both here? If you don’t want something listening don’t buy it. If you don’t want tracking enabled on your phone that you feed to cloud services don’t use it. What am I missing ?
If you are good with the UI, I have a project which UI sucks: https://github.com/AlexITC/crypto-coin-alerts

The server side is stronger and you are welcome to contribute.
That's... that's really weird. I definitely argue that it's not a good idea, and I'd also argue it puts quite a few nails in the coffin in terms of my trusting it as a good protocol.

Maybe this is an unpopular opinion, but IMO the fact that Facebook "trust" it means that I have a lot of reserve about using it myself.
Obviously as others have mentioned there were a lot of mistakes here around engineering best practises: using a bleeding edge source based distribution for critical storage infrastructure, allowing drift of package versions, and not testing releases.

I've done some work in Ceph and in my opinion it is too ambitious: block, object, and file system storage, custom raw partition format (Bluestore), along with a somewhat legacy C/C++ codebase makes the system fairly fragile. I would only recommend it if you "know what you are doing" or are willing to get some help from Red Hat.

The other comment I'd make is that 12TB unreplicated (assuming they are using 3x replication for Ceph) is actually not a huge amount of data and in my opinion a ZFS setup would be cheaper and more stable. It is not too challenging to do a HA ZFS setup, and also ZFS's many mirroring, scrubing, and checksuming abilities makes it very resilient. Copy on write and ZFS snapshots are also a great features that can save on disk usage.

I feel the sweet spot for Ceph is probably 50TB - 1PB where you need both block and object storage and are unwilling to use cloud solutions. Lower than 50TB and the overhead and risk of managing Ceph makes it less practical than traditional solutions. From the other direction CERN did testing up to 30PB with Ceph but they had to make significant code changes and had Ceph committers in their team. To compare Hadoop is running in clusters of up to 600PB (but you will be accessing the data very differently).

[1] https://cds.cern.ch/record/2015206/files/CephScaleTestMarch2...
It's absurd because you're describing it as some sort of money shakedown when 1) Google isn't profiting off of this and 2) you can get certificates for free.
Archive of thread: http://archive.is/QfwWC
A Random Walk Down Wall Street

Dave Ramsey videos on YouTube.
Oh, yes[1]. I was arguing why there isn't a knowledge barrier to entry into programming, not why there shouldn't be one. :)

[1] Well, not me in particular! I know the important things and only use SE for looking up trivial details, of course. But maybe not everyone agrees with me which is which...
The unlikely life and sudden death of the Exile, Russia's angriest newspaper
Do Online Ads Work: A Large Scale Field Experiment [pdf]
I honestly don't think so. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16344091
Predictive accuracy of combined genetic and environmental risk scores [pdf]
Like what specifically?
Ask HN: What if someone builds and uses advanced AI systems unethically?
It’s not because a technology can be dangerous that it shouldn’t be built. I think that’s the argument a respectable authority once used for nuclear technology. Thus, what if in the near future, someone manages to build an AI that is intelligent enough to pose a real threat to society?

I’m not talking Skynet yet, but a more realistic scenario where a company or individual would, for example, become able to use machine learning to hack most of any computer, financial, or power grid system.

I’m aware influential companies and individuals have invested in the ethical aspect of machine learning, but how would that help mitigate such unethical use of such technology?

My understanding is that unethical use of nuclear technology is discouraged between countries by deterrence, in which case retaliation could ensure that no side ends up winning, but as far as I understand, it doesn’t apply to machine learning, does it?
This is awesome. Our team at Infinite Food have been working with UVC light for our food robotics project, and the area is very dynamic. Traditional UV lights were broad spectrum and had spikes in output at various wavelengths that could not be controlled, consequently they were only effective with vast power consumption. Newer UVC LEDs are able to target specific wavelengths identified through research like this as particularly damaging to pathogens, thus enabling very low energy, high effectiveness machine sterilization. Current germicidal applications are mostly in industrial settings, water and air conditioning, however I believe we will see a lot more UVC deployment. There are only a handful of manufacturers in the world that can achieve high longevity products right now. Lower spec products last only hundreds of hours, higher spec products are rated to 5000-10,000 hours. A complicating factor in deployment can be protecting the LEDs - quartz glass must be used as emissions in these wavelengths cannot pass through traditional glass.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28941399 and http://www.infectioncontroltoday.com/articles/2008/11/uv-lig... are examples of prior information.
Belated edit: "DEA even has ..." doesn't belong in the quoted text. And "sited", not "cited".
They were not the densest ones I could find. Not by far. I'm surprised you even thought of it. How many science articles not in your field have you read?

Take a look at the other articles in the current issue of Cell, at http://www.cell.com/cell/current . (This is one of the journals with the highest impact factors, so is less likely to consider the deliberately opaque language you mention.) You'll see the one I gave was not even the densest in that issue. Here are the titles to some of the others:

"Fast-Spiking Interneurons Supply Feedforward Control of Bursting, Calcium, and Plasticity for Efficient Learning", "In Situ Structure of Neuronal C9orf72 Poly-GA Aggregates Reveals Proteasome Recruitment", "5-HT2C Receptor Structures Reveal the Structural Basis of GPCR Polypharmacology", "Abstract Image
Multiscale Structuring of the E. coli Chromosome by Nucleoid-Associated and Condensin Proteins", or "KRAS Dimerization Impacts MEK Inhibitor Sensitivity and Oncogenic Activity of Mutant KRAS".

I submit that your original statement, that "most people who studied an empirical discipline in college and did ok (good school and/or good grades) can pick up a paper and, using the internet, understand and critique it creatively within three weeks." is woefully undervaluing the expertise needed for each field.

I have 3 years of post-graduate education in physics. I can't read a chemistry paper for the life of me. I never even took organic chemistry. I find the idea that I can critique a paper on, say, some new reaction, with only a few weeks of internet-based research, to be ludicrous.

I note that you appear to have changed your statement. Originally it was just college, and now it's "another 3-4 years of post-graduate education." Originally it was "creatively within three weeks" and now it's "understand journal articles" with no time limit.

It feels like you think my objection to your original claim is representative of some absolute stance of mine against amateurism. As an amateur historian, I do not see how you have made that shift, nor do hold that opinion.

I don't understand the relevancy of your second paragraph at all. People get into quackery and pop science because it seems easy, and it comes with the built-in belief that experts are wrong and can be ignored.

If anything, it is the quacks and fringe science people who believe that three weeks of research is enough for them to be able to critique the standard views on evolution, global warming, chemtrails, pyramid construction, shape of the earth, etc., and critique to such a level that they should be listened to.

Nor do I understand the relevancy of your third paragraph. Could you clarify how you drew that inference from what I wrote? I am not connected to an institution with journal subscriptions yet I read and understand journal articles (acquired through ILL, links from Google Scholar, and yes, even Sci-Hub), so obviously I think it's physically possible for that to happen.

Are you sure you haven't just misunderstood my previous comment?
I'd assume that any use of github services (such as use of a token) keeps the account non dormant.
PUBG combines great game design with terrible technical implementation and bad community management. I'm with you on hoping that epic will succeed in a long run.
I agree that large-scale machine learning is a bigger risk, but there are people who personally creep around in others' personal data.[1]

Also, it doesn't need to be just a few people looking at your private data. One early worst-case example is Ashley Madison[2], but it's going to increasingly be a problem for society in the upcoming years, especially with the expansion of technologies like face recognition, voiceprinting, license plate cameras, etc.

[1] http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/google/8003925/Google-...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashley_Madison_data_breach
"If You Can" by William J Bernstein.

It gives a simple conservative investing strategy, and refers to other great books for the details.

Available here: https://www.etf.com/docs/IfYouCan.pdf
That's like saying physicians have a responsibility to not care about money.

If the money was in "preventing infant deaths" then physicians would specialize in it. But when you have a huge supply of people willing to spend hundreds of thousands on fertility, lots of docs will respond to the market.

I get your point, it would be nice. It would also be nice if everyone working at facebook and snapchat would work on making our healthcare system more efficient. But money talks...
Payments have always been capped (maximum taxable earnings), your history is factually wrong. Congress spends the surplus but the only actions ever taken by Congress on the revenue side of Social Security have been to increase taxes paid into the system.
Does your phone talking with you Fitbit and wireless earbuds, then unlocking and starting your car when get close counts ?