skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Margo" and "Neem paste" were the only big brand-name neem based products on sale in supermarkets until a few year ago. Now every MNC brand has a neem/turmeric variant. It is no secret that a lot of Pharma companies steal traditional knowledge systems, isolate the active molecules and patent it. Modern medicine is also based on clinical studies and not full understanding of all the side effects. Ayurveda is based on 1000's of yers of clinical observations, with no commercial bias.
The Brothers Karamazov, by Dostoevsky, without doubt. Seriously, the chapter with the Legend of the Great Inquisitor forced me to ask myself what was the meaning of "freedom", and this in turns urged me to reconsider a lot of beliefs I had hold before.
I don't think so. I mean, that is a change that has occurred, but I think the more important change was women's liberation. Society used to enforce that women could not attain social status or sustain their own quality of life except via a husband. Now that women can have careers and operate independently in society, they have significantly reduced pressure to couple and consequently tend only to do so on their own terms.

This is good if you believe in egalitarianism, as I do, but it does have consequences. It would seem, though I'm not sure to what extent available data backs this up, that women will tend to couple only with a relatively small percentage of men, and without societal pressure to behave otherwise, are either willing to share them or simply not couple at all.

Unfortunately for them men who aren't in that category, their hormonal drive to mate is significantly stronger, and our culture still ostracizes and humiliates men who are unsuccessful with women. The upshot of which seems to be that there are an increasing number of sexually frustrated young men in society, and they are held in very low regard because of it, which one has to imagine is a very dangerous and destabilizing trend.
Arrest for EU bureaucrats for when they go outside the EU for trying to enforce unlawful laws?
I hope that IPs will stop being considered PII for the same reason. It's much easier to anonymize them at the ISP level rather than doing all these acrobatics.
With the software-only approach (e.g. usbmon), the interface is even more like Wireshark :) https://wiki.wireshark.org/CaptureSetup/USB
You can still buy things with it. The only thing that has really changed is way more people are speculating on it than before, and that's revealing some serious scalability problems with the blockchain and security/trust problems with the exchanges.
Yes, extradition for EU officials who try to enforce illegal lawss against the citizens of sovereign nations.
Because Sidewalk has avoided answering those questions. If you go to the meeting all they will say is that "we don't know" The meetings have been a giant waste of time.
It's not so much the greatness of JS that attracts people, but having access to the DOM and browser based rendering. HTML/CSS is the very best possible declarative syntax for building interfaces ever devised really. The alternatives are way less flexible and cross platform.
A warning beacon for the iceberg
That’s as accurate as saying that Amazon accepts payments in stock if I sell some before making a purchase. The fact that you paid a different company to convert your Bitcoin into some real currency is a separate transaction. It doesn’t mean that Amazon has any exposure or investment in the Bitcoin world - just that they take credit cards like everyone else.
> Oh, that does happen.

That's based on international law, while there is no such thing about privacy
I'm sorry, but what part of the GDPR do you think demands invisibility? It doesn't even mention privacy because the GDPR stands of General Data PROTECTION Regulation.
A post about a startup that was trying to create an open database of algorithmic ways to treat patients. I've tried and tried to find this with HN's search engine, but can't seem to pick the right search terms.
> It's the huge matrices where performance matters

I wouldn't say that, just look at CGI where a lot of effort is spent making fast 4x4 matrix multiplies. But yeah, a general matrix mult needs to scale, but a lot of the time you know what size you will run and you can optimize for that.
> I've met very few people who play tabletop RPGs for the mechanics.

Most of the people I have played with were like that. Some branched out into tabletop boardgames, others just wanted to play the rules to "win" and the rest mostly gave up. This is the whole narratology vs ludology debate.
Except that, when you are writing scientific code to solve a large linear problem, like a weather model or asupernova simulation, the difference between some naïve code and a heavily optimized one can be ten hours against ten days...
The EU is overplaying its hand by claiming global sovereignty. If the EU really wants to play hard ball, the rest of the world can impose sanctions against the EU and bureaucrats who try to enforce illegal laws
the part where you are not allowed to profile the user based on a piece of information for which it is impossible to obtain consent (IP address).

The law does not mention privacy, correct, but its entire rationale is based on the idea of privacy rights.
I like to place trail cameras in the mountains during hikes and leave them for a few months to see if they catch any animals. One of them caught in one of the big fires in CA last year.

When I got back to the area the only thing I could find was the metal rod it was on, some wires and a disk of molten plastic material under it. I guess they were luck to find as much as they did :-)
ultimately real work that produces actual goods and services has to get done. how does computing hashes "do all your work for you, leaving you to do whatever you want in life"
MultiChoice' headache
GLFW+GL provides a portable way to do this though. Otherwise you'd need to mess with platform-specific window systems.

(something like minifb would be a more minimal option though: https://github.com/emoon/minifb)
GDPR is great. Link Tax is shit. The EU is perfectly balanced. As it should be.
if you 're likely to receive requests, you re most likely to receive them now that gdpr is in the news.
> Those sub-cubic algorithms require the matrix to be very-very-very large to recoup the extra constant costs associated with them.

Wikipedia disagrees:

"In practice, Strassen's algorithm can be implemented to attain better performance than conventional multiplication even for small matrices, for matrices that are not at all square, and without requiring workspace beyond buffers that are already needed for a high-performance conventional multiplication."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strassen_algorithm
I agree with you but I do think Sony missed the chance to take advantage of their camera expertise and invent the best cameraphone first.
> 10 years into Bitcoin there's still no reason for someone to buy in other than speculation

If you're comparing with the Internet, I'd say 10 years is still quite early into the Bitcoin and Blockchain space. You could say the Internet of 1999 was almost 15-20 years of development from the time TCP/IP was introduced on the ARPANET.

With the attention that Blockchain has received in the past year and the sheer number of smart people working in this field (yes there are plenty of scammers as well but you can't deny smart people are flocking to it right now), I'm pretty sure you'll be surprised of what it looks like in just another 3 years or so.
I love my Casio watches. I have an F-91W and a B640W.

The F91-W is super light and you basically can't even feel it on your wrist. Sadly after three years the pin holding the lock in place broke, and I still have to change it (I am using the other one).

I'll probably join the G-Shock bandwagon soon, I'm intrigued by the bluetooth-enabled G-Shock watch.
Hindu nationalism has always been a thing and Congress too practiced it. Otherwise they wouldn't have been in power for over half a century.

The difference between Congress and BJP is that Congress is a bit more opportunistic, so will cultivate any votebank that helps them get into power. BJP is a bit more ideological and prefers to cultivate Hindu votebank over other votebanks. I would say they now have a reliable enough votebank that they've given up any pretense of being anti-corruption and are being honest about their power plays (See recent Karnataka elections).
The Great Transition, James Martin.
The fight is far from over. We still have crypto. If that is outlawed, we'll have steganography. When that's outlawed, well, we'll still have sneakers. Iron curtain and Stalins' organs failed. Stasi failed. War on drugs is failing. We, the people, shall prevail. Have hope, brother.
We tend to recognize the names that were involved in large territorial gains or losses (in other words, war).

Probably for the average commoner, living in one of those boring kingdoms with a now-forgotten ruler was a much better deal.
That's true -- for the first time, I learned about a Roman emperor called Trajan during whose time, it seemed from the animation like the Roman empire was the largest it has even been in Europe! How come the history books don't focus on these successful and well-behaved emperors?
Hi,
Remember some TLDs may have serious consequences on your service availability depending of the organization behind ot[1]

Thus my startup which require high availability use a .com domain with a domain related suffix: https://phasersec.com

But one of my side project use a .io domain (https://infosecjobs.io) because high availability is not a primary concern.

You can also mix the two, like:
Mydomain.io for your website
And mydomainapi.com for your api which require high availability. (Like do getstream.io)

[1] https://hn.algolia.com/?query=io%20domain&sort=byPopularity&...
Simple advise: If ever anyone asks: Be active and responsive.

But remember: The GDPR protects people's data. Companies aren't people (at least in the EU).
It was in fact because of the fact that no stance was taken I sought clarification.

I don't really care what the answer was, as personally I think either position is workable. I was just curious what rayiner thought.
>No sane western corporation will willingly eliminate an entity about the site of USA out of spite and take a profit hit just because of new PII protocol.

Considering how many US-only startups I see on HN every day, this is patently false.
Carlos Castaneda, definitely.
Materialistic doesn't run any servers
Its about thinking biases, by far the book with the greatest information density I have ever read. 2 pages per thinking bias. Paid of a 1000 times.

https://www.amazon.de/Art-Thinking-Clearly-Better-Decisions/...
I wonder if an issue could be detected in most cases and the drone could immediately seek a safe landing, say on a building rooftop.
Maybe, but firewalling an IP range doesn't actually require logging the specific ips. I don't think gdpr has any teeth for information that isn't actually stored.
I am physician. Would love to work on a decision support tool...
Moral Mazes by Robert Jackall.

It helped me better detect and understand seemingly hypocritical and self-defeating actions by middle managers in companies, and also a lot of the disingenuous emphasis on “passion” used to suppress wages in start-ups or sell job candidates on a reduced salary or equity package with poor expected value or risk characteristics.

I wouldn’t say anything from Moral Mazes was surprising when stepping back to think about known manipulative behavior of middle and upper management. But it did give an excellent analytical and even a normative philosophical framework to use for recognizing and diagnosing it, which sometimes helps for avoiding it, choosing your battles, or knowing when to quit or turn down job offers.
Last I heard about Venezuela and bitcoins, people there were using the "free" electricity to mine bitcoins, contributing to the rolling blackouts. And then using the bitcoins to import overpriced stuff.
Yeah, you shouldn't give people electricity flatrates, because of stuff like this. This is why we can't have nice things, this is why socialism doesn't work etc. But the bitcoin miners are really destructive in this case and not something you should praise.
Fight Club, the book/movie, put the final nail in the coffin of my waning materialism.
The "Pale Blue Dot" photograph strikes the same chord for me. Carl Sagan's reflection on it can be especially moving [1].

[...] The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors so that in glory and in triumph they could become the momentary masters of a fraction of a dot. [...]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pale_Blue_Dot#Reflections
The Poker Face of Wall Street by Aaron Brown

Tied together a lot of concepts from my undergrad with my new work, and on top of it also Poker, which became one of my main analogies for life.
The Pressing Need for Everyone to Quiet Their Egos
>>I don't see an obvious reason why online dating would make things harder for men but not harder for women and vice versa. I think the broader trend in online dating is that it's harder for unattractive people to find partners, regardless of sexual identity...

On dating sites, men rate 50 percent of women as below average (in line with the statistical expectation), while women rate 80 percent of men as below average.

It is a fact that women are pickier than men on average, and that women are less willing to marry down and to settle for less, than men are.

This is why there is gender assymetry in how increased information efficiency in the dating market affects SMV (sexual market value) of men and women.
Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind, by Shunryu Suzuki

I was 19 and living in a van, camping under bridge overpasses in Colorado so I could just ski all day every day. My naive uneducated mind was formulating some sort of psuedo-hippy philosophy around the state of ecstasy reached in the perfect ride down a mountain through powder. Little did I know the "no-thought" mantra I had been inculcating was just a pale impression of this thousands year old tradition of mindfulness. When I picked this book up at a library I just sat down reading page after page being blown away by how he would describe the exact same sensibilities I had been reaching for. It was my first spiritual awakening as an adult.
Looks cool, put in an order. Looking to make some high quality videos and this looks like it will lower the bar to getting interesting shots.
Siddhartha, Hermann Hesse
Not just IPs, The regulation knows about all of them (including RFID):

Preamble paragraph 30:
> Natural persons may be associated with online identifiers provided by their devices, applications, tools and protocols, such as internet protocol addresses, cookie identifiers or other identifiers such as radio frequency identification tags. This may leave traces which, in particular when combined with unique identifiers and other information received by the servers, may be used to create profiles of the natural persons and identify them.
Environmental noise is much lower with 6 people then with 30. It is huge difference in amount of noise and interruptions. On average, 30 people generate five time as much "weekend golf" discussions and all on-topic debates of other teams are off-topic to you. It is also easier to police interruptions with around 6 people, unless they are jerks - but chance of jerk among 6 is still lower. By policing I mean saying something like: "you are noisy today and I cant focus, take it please elsewhere".

You don't get zero interruptions, but there is significantly less of them and the barrier to communication in team is still small.

Unless the colleges are very noisy, I would say that most people can focus in reasonably large room with 6 people. I guess it is individual, but the need to be completely alone with everything completely as you like it is rather on the more extreme side of spectrum. Most people can make compromise about lighting, are able to share window etc and can still focus. (I am absolutely cool with home office or whatever for those who cant. Just that the average worker should be both able to work in non-perfect privacy and simultaneously not to consistently disrupt those who are focused.)

If the relevant questions happen too often and you are not an analyst or pm or senior responsible for teaching new person (in such case it is your job to answer questions as they arise to speed up process), then it warrants organizational discussion in team and bundling questions into one meeting. After all, if private office would stop them, then they are not that necessary and it should be possible to lower them down by discussion.
Countries without stable currencies tend to use things like USD which have stable values rather than wild fluctuations. That’s a product of a social system and years of practice, not hand waving about magic real-soon-now technology. In your Russian example, the value would be in the link to the commodity rather than whether it’s a printed bill, entry in a database, or record in a block. If that’s honest, any of them will work and if it’s not, none of them will.

Besides, if I lived in Venezuela or Russia, would I really want to record my black market activities in a public ledger which is hard to disavow?
Look at a private school first.
I'm working on an app now and I using QT. I have used QT off and on over the years from 3.x days even. I still use QT because I feel if I wanted my app to run on other platforms like macOS or Windows I might have an easier time at least with the GUI piece.

You can use GTK on other platforms too, I just never have.
Gandhi didn't "succeed" in a vacuum, and especially not due to "British sensibilities". The British Empire as a whole was an unwieldy and increasing unprofitable venture(not in small part to the threat of revolt and Civil Disobedience from occupied regions) for a country that had been devastated through the damages and effort of fighting the largest war in human history.

If colonised countries had not been actively(and violently) trying to get rid of their colonisers, the British Empire could have persisted indefinitely.

Violence is much more effective than non-violence in trying to get rid of any oppressor. Consider this: any State can deal with 5-10% of its population not working/paying taxes and "non-violently" resisting(these days even property crime can get you counted as a violent protestor). States would be much more hard pressed to deal with even 1% of their population in active, armed revolt against them.
Everything changes yet remains the same. The Man and the people are always in balance. Have hope. We shall prevail.
The war of art, by Steven pressfield
This book called Mindfulness[1], was gifted to me, is very short and easy to read, it has nothing to do about spirituality (which I though it was), and has real life and practical examples.
So because it changed my view then I could benefit from a lot of other good materials and talks that before this book I'd not even consider. Long term it also gave me a rational reason to meditate.

I think the saying "the master appears when the student is ready" kind of applies to books, it the depends the moment of your life the book will tell you something or not.

[1]https://www.amazon.com/Mindfulness-25th-anniversary-Merloyd-...
The art of worldly wisdom, by Baltasar Gracian.

Timeless classic, tiny book of 300 maxims. Each one very profound, highly re-readable as you go through life. I've been reading it over and over little bits at a time, for well over a decade by now. Life changer for sure.
See the OP. They are not charged the amount used. They are charged some weird function of amount used, the rate it was used at, and their home size.
> You could also "layerize" the list in here

Is that the answer to "how do recursion schemes handle heterogenous layers"? I'd love to learn more.
Traffic cameras are often not high-res enough to even read a license plate. Weight sensors can also be used.

I don't see the big deal about microphones used for decibel measuremrnts potentially being used to keep audio. Companies record video and audio outside their premises all the time.
Ground stations and aerostats.
Should be this or the top comment
It's not the EU but the member states that are enforcing the regulation. They are also free to make minor changes to the regulation (e.g. Austria won't allow NGOs to make complaints and releases state-run companies from the regulation's duties).
What's the obsession with needing a legal reason? Why do people reject the illegal but interesting uses? Doesn't the fact that bitcoin has managed to subvert drug prohibition for many people make clear that it is capable of interesting things?
There is a lot of discussion about GDPR from an American perspective. I'm curious about the Chinese one. Does the EU really expect Baidu, WeChat and Tencent to comply with these rules? Or is this just a roundabout way of extracting bureaucratic benefits from American technology companies?
This isn't at all what you're looking for, but the book Vampyroteuthis Infernalis (Flusser, V. & Bec, L., 2012) might be a fun read for you.

https://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/vampyroteuthi...
The sensor used to flush a toilet does not capture detailed photos of me and promise to throw it away. It captures essentially no detail in the first place.
The example I gave wasn’t a good one. I suggest something else: think of goals as a “module”, it has a function that servers the main objective.

This idea of modules is also found in Dr Duckworth’s book: Grit.
We have tried that already - it has worked horribly. Dumbing things down to the level that algorithm is treated as a swear word doesn't make easier to maintain code. It does the opposite and begets abominations like excel sheet flat table databases thousands of lines long and inconsistently formatted /for accounting/. And to add insult to injury if they master it then their growth is likely to wind up hindered. Besides it isn't the best or even the cheapest way to produce more. Has anyone read or even heard the concept of the "Mythical Man Month"?

The idea is dangerously wrongheaded in many other ways. Those hard concepts aren't for the sake of some hierarchical clubhouse but because they are fundamental at worst and at best would take real intellectual labor to remove and reduce to something simpler without creating other problems.

Frankly we need to abandon this anti-intellectual fantasy that we can all be spared the hard work of learning by utilizing the uninitiated masses. It is wishful thinking run amok. Gather their input, figure out how they do things already, explain it in whatever way, sure. But trying to get them to do it without serious training to make them the "old" elite will end in tears.
Not science != not true
I refer to my handwritten notes on this all the time, and seemingly no matter how consistently I apply the ideas in my dealings with others, I always have a feeling that I wish I was doing better at it.
I would call much of western medicine pseudoscience, or perhaps more accurately fraud. I’m referring to when drugs that are widely prescribed turn out to be ineffective once unbiased studies are done, or it comes out they have harmful side effects that the manufacturer covered up.
Solving homelessness is a very high bar, and I don’t think anyone thinks that’s an easy issue to tackle.

However SF is uniquely failing to prevent feces, needles, and condoms off the streets. To prevent public daylight IV drug abuse in the densest city center. To prevent tens of thousands of car breakins from happening on organized crime scales. All while spending ever more money putting little band aids on the problem, like increased budgets for feces removal.

These aren’t problems most cities faces on that scale, why is SF struggling so much comparatively?
That's really agreat idea. If they utilized solar they could run the thing for next to nothing.
A key or a pair of binoculars:

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1561604/Key-that-cou...