skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You are missing the point that in order to save species, often individual animals need to be killed. Even in the modern era of DNA sequencing, museum collections tell us much about animals and even work as a sort of time machine for sequencing. I recently went to a seminar about a project that was studying the microbiomes from the gut contents of 19th century preserved animals in order to see if they were different from modern ones. This will help us know to what degree the greater human impact in the 21st century is affecting the health of wildlife. If people hadn't collected animals in the 19th century how could we do this? How will people in the future do the same if we don't collect animals now?
From what I've seen, it's 'do what the cops say or go to jail.'

https://nypost.com/2017/09/01/nurse-arrested-after-refusing-...
I am an EMS provider with experience sedating patients (generally using Versed, but I have used Ketamine on occasion as well). In every instance it has been done out of concern for safety (my own, my crew's, or the patient's).

Taking the article at face value, it seems likely this procedure was being abused (and I would not be surprised if that was proven to be the case).

However... Many of the circumstances described do not necessarily mean it was inappropriate to sedate the patient. Just because someone is handcuffed does not mean they are not a danger to me. Just because someone is secured to the stretcher does not mean they are not a danger (I've been kicked in the head by someone who continued to fight after being secured to the stretcher and eventually worked his leg free).

Just because someone has not committed a crime does not mean they cannot be taken to the hospital involuntarily (generally after expressing an intent to harm themselves). I think the moral answer to "should we prevent someone who wants to hurt themselves from doing that" is worth some discussion, but the legal answer is quite clear... I am required to transport that patient to a hospital.

In many cases is it safer for the patient to use chemical rather than physical restraints.

Again, I am not defending every instance of sedation in Minneapolis. I am simply providing some examples of how this isn't always a cut and dry decision.
I don’t really disagree with what you’re saying. I realize my viewpoint on this topic was
Very selfish. But that is why I pointed out that we all get to vote with our money.
The problem is that they will never be able to reach the potential in the market. Many shippers would refuse to do business with a competitor, and hiring random kids in moms minivan to schlep boxes won’t retain B2B.

Seems strange for Amazon to enter a business with low margins and a low ceiling.
The Killer App for AR (and Google Glass) is called iNARcissist, which makes other people talk about you.
> At that point UPS will have a lot more leverage in union negotiations because the alternative will be bankruptcy and everyone losing their jobs. Hopefully union leadership adopts a longer-term view before then.

Unfortunately that's not usually how it works out. See for example, Hostess a couple years back. The union thought management was bluffing about their imminent bankruptcy, turns out they weren't.
Sometimes I wonder if it's better for a religion to have strange beliefs:

1a) It's a better show of commitment to the group if you are willing to stand up and say the absurd on behalf of the group. It's saying that membership in the group matters more to you than the potential loss of face. You could expect to be able to rely on such a person to be loyal to the group.

1b) It's also a better show of group commitment if someone is motivated enough to try to convince themselves of something very difficult to believe.

2) Groups espousing weird beliefs will face ostracism, and that will bind them more to each other. They will spend more time with each other away from outsiders, developing their belief system further with even less sanity checking from the outside.
> It [Amazon] already has a lot of experience in a related industry, combining that with logistics is only logical.

Amazon is a logistics company, first and foremost. From order entry to delivery, they use their logistics systems to deliver whatever it is that you want to buy, from physical goods to movies to third parties' products.

I once read a foreign policy expert talking about drug cartels and why they all seemed to do human trafficking too, and why a terrorist organization tried to use them. The author said that the cartels started with drugs, but they have evolved into logistics organizations which specialize in illegal goods and bypassing customs. They have the means to ship things confidentially and without customs, and they'll put whatever you want to ship into their system. The author's point of view was that Wal-mart and Amazon are the same, but with legal goods and lawful business practices.
Amazon's "inventory mixing" situation seems strikingly similar to the mixing problems in the commercial meat production industry [often identified as a significant factor in contamination investigations].
He obviously didn't know they had his identity, but I would agree, if running a criminal enterprise, be careful where you go.
Certificate Transparency policy
They have up or out policy.

For others: I dunno why this is downvoted. The military actually does what he suggests.
On fedex, you are right about independent drivers - but they also contract to independent companies to do last mile deliveries and haul. I would think amazon would do the same as Fedex, which means these local companies would be inclined to switch to amazon if they get more business from them. Alternatively, these local companies would grow their business to handle both to de-risk their business.
Iceland successfully identified, prosecuted, and jailed specific bankers for their roles during the 2008 financial crisis https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2016-03-31/welcome-t... and this article mentions "market manipulation and fraud".

A second article mentions, "He argues the crimes themselves are simple matters such as embezzlement, merely with a complicated “wrapping” of financial jargon around them." https://www.ft.com/content/dcdb43d4-bd52-11e6-8b45-b8b81dd5d.... This shows that prosecutions and imprisonment are possible for bank actions related to the 2008 financial crisis. Iceland's special prosecutor also believes that similar crimes were carried out in many other countries so the opportunity for prosecution was therefore possible.
Maybe you live under a bridge? ;)
Back in old days, we had to wear buttons that said "Hi! I don't remember your name, either!"
But are they required to deliver individually? If not I can imagine patents in the spirit of "fake it before you make it" which may be applied against someone else who "made it" while the patent holder still "fakes it"

or not even trying to.
Actually I responded directly to the claim that the professional properties are "usually not-well-cared-for" which was an unsubstantiated claim that is clearly way too broad of a generalization.

As far as nuisance guests, I've said elsewhere in the thread that I think the cities should not hesitate to give out large fines for recurring noise violations from one address. Party houses and frats also make a lot of noise even though they have nothing to do with vacation rentals. Banning Airbnb is a less direct solution to that problem than simply passing and enforcing noise regulations. People will just rent on Craigslist and make as much noise as they want if you don't.
That was because being in US was considered a status symbol until recently. Parents used to feel proud to tell their friends and relatives that my son/daughter is in US, even though deep down they are afraid of ending up alone. I see an Indian eagerly waiting to be picked for the H1B visa similar to the Sausage Party movie where they all wait eagerly at the supermarket thinking outside the door is heaven or something. I agree some of the things (especially pay) are better than in India, but they are loosing a lot. And India is only going to get better (probably in another 10-15 years, lot of things in India will be comparable to what US has currently).

Coming back to the parents, now with all the negative coverage of H1B in Indian media, people have a negative perception of being in US. My visa expired and is in process of renewal. I didn't go to office one day. My dad thought I wasn't going because I was hiding from the authorities since my visa expired. They have been asking me to come back for a while now.

600K Indians out of 1 billion is nothing. Huge number of Indians don't want to leave India. I hope you know that. It becomes more evident once you are in the marriage market. Lot of them are downright reject proposals from people who work in US. Also, I never heard of Canada immigration until 1 year back. Now, a lot of my friends/colleagues are talking about or in the process of applying for the Canadian visa.

And a good number of those who apply for green card don't do it because they want to become a citizen. Its because once you complete a certain stage of green card (I-140), you can continue working in the country. Otherwise, you have to leave once you complete 6 years. They plan to work for 10-20 years, and come back to India and retire nicely with all the money they made in US.
The loading of the trucks requires much more dexterity than a machine would be able to deliver. Also the packages themselves would be difficult for a machine as you get these huge pieces that come down the belt weighing 150 pounds and the weight isn't evenly distributed at all. In these cases we have to stop the belt and two loaders load the item quickly, and the belt is restarted. What happens when a package comes down a slide and busts open and gets over everything? This actually happens quite a bit.. one time a goats head came out of the package and blood went everywhere. Or better yet, what happens when a package accidentally has two labels instructing the package to go to two different trucks, perhaps even two separate parts of the facility? We call this a double label and it usually requires a human to sort it out.

There is a lot of idiosyncrasies like this with many of UPS' jobs. Automation will come not to take the paycheck from the low wage worker, but rather from the high wage worker such as driver dispatching, human resources, etc. Those people won't be fired though, most will be reassigned to over see some drivers I would imagine. That is a tough job and those people need all the help they can get.
Ask HN: Switch from Web-Dev Freelancer to Mobile Freelancer?
I do mostly Spring Boot and Angular stuff.

I love the backend and Spring in general but ...
I hate frontend, seriously, there are no words to describe how much I hate this stuff.

It's really hard to find clients with 100% backend work and therefore I have to do quite a lot of frontend work.

So I figured, maybe I should switch to mobile development ?

The cons are obv. It would take some time to be productive and it's much harder to find clients without any app in the app store.

Any suggestions what I could do ?
Do I need to know Android as well ?

I'm also a little bit worried about the latest trends in that sector where companies throw a bunch of frontend devs into a mobile project, think react native etc.. this might be an indicator for less projects ?

What do you guys think ?
I think it's in many ways about precaution. We're pretty damn cautious when it comes to signs of decay in food for good reasons, even if many apples are still edible. It's just not worth ruining your stomach with a rotten one.

And I think that mindset ought to apply to civil servants as well. It's not just enough for them to be just okay at their jobs, they have the right to exercise deadly force so we can demand that they are more dutiful and more restrained than the people they protect. The 'servant' is in the name for a reason.

When it looks more like a group of people on a power trip then something has gone very wrong.
EMS providers operate under a set of protocols that define what they can and can't do. Deviation from those protocols requires permission from a doctor.
>excuse for taking somebody's life away.

There are a million other things he could have sold online that wouldn't have resulted in 20 years in jail. Whether you agree with the illegal status of drugs or not, if someone choose to subvert the law, you can't expect law enforcement not to prosecute.
Everything’s automatable, to a point. Sometimes, in this case, it wouldn’t be worth it. Machines could not handle what a human can do
I moved a way from react-native to flutter because developing react-native is frustrating.
Note: I love React and Redux but I HATE react-native!

a) Flutter's hot reload is a much better experience than react-native or Expo.

b) I am more confident with Flutter (React-native makes me feel incompetent since I have no idea about native stuff). With Flutter, I feel that I am in charge of my code, because dart compiles to native arm code.

c) I have OCD and don't like RN's console warnings when I am compiling the code.

d) Flutter UI widgets are so consistent that I don't even bother testing on both platforms. (one is enough)

e) I dislike RN's ecosystem. I don't even bother making canny request on react-native's canny, due to lack of response. None of the most popular planned FRs from last year are done yet ! https://expo.canny.io/feature-requests?sort=top

f) React-native's libraries are out of date.(I prefer corporate backing over community support)

g) lack of response on stack overflow

If I wear react-native, I would take Flutter's approach instead of bridge. Completely modernize JavaScript, get rid of its bad parts and compile it to arm. SKIA is open source and if Dart can compile to it, so should JavaScript with more tweaks of course.
> That nobody has tried this shows IMO that nobody (in power) actually wants it.

Sheriff Joe tried this and ended up with a federal indictment, a pardon from Trump and (apparently) is now running for congress.
> My impression is that the "inventor(s)" have to be the people who actually came up with the idea.

(Inactive) patent attorney here. Your impression is correct (for the U.S.; I can't speak to other places): ALL "co-inventors" MUST be listed as inventors, and ONLY they may be listed. A "co-inventor" is someone who contributes to the "conception," i.e., the complete mental picture, of the subject matter of at least one claim in the patent application. [0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inventor_(patent)
Theranos had great PR.

You have to understand that most tech news places question the substance of most press releases. Especially if they are medical.

For example, no-one questions AirBnB's core buisness model: listing holiday lets. There is literally nothing+ new about airBnB. Uber is the same, its a taxi service that is subsidising users.

Babylon health is another example, which has yet to really break mainstream news.

They have run trails for replacing NHS 111, They make a lot of noise about using AI and other such bollocks, but actually its a decision tree with a nice natural language system infront.

What they don't say in the blurb is that its less effective than the current telephone system. Parts of it are deemed unsafe by their own medical staff, and there is no rigid medical testing to prove it's safety.

None of this matters yet because its an app, and it has "AI".
That's quite an attitude toward international travel, something practiced by millions of people for business and pleasure every day.
That seems to be part of it.

However, I don't think disliking parsimony is that radical. Andrew Gelman is not a fan of parsimony.

http://andrewgelman.com/2004/12/10/against_parsimo/

My current view is that parsimony is a heuristic you can use, but weak evidence at best. Plus, parsimony is not unambiguously defined, so comparing hypotheses in terms of it can still be subjective even with objective criteria as there is no agreement on which approach is best. It's most justified to say that extremely complex models are unlikely if the complexity is not necessary.
Patenting inventions that don't work is a great way to waste a lot of money on patent attorneys and patent office fees. Worldwide patenting can get even more ridiculously expensive.

There are some really nutty patents out there.
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Trust me. Awk is much faster.

I say this with no disrespect for Python, it's just you should know the tradeoffs of the tools you use. It does not matter if the individual operations in Python are implemented in C. It will still be much slower at looping over lines of a file than a compiled language designed decades ago for that exact purpose.
Sounds like you should have reported that rental instead of taking it out on all vacation rentals. I can send you pictures of very sketchy hotels that I've stayed in where the bathroom was literally unusable. I still don't want to ban hotels. I give the hotel a scathing review, sometimes complain to them directly, and then I move on.
You're not required to proof anything; you can (and people often do) patent things that just seem good ideas at the time. If you work for big companies you're strongly encouraged to patent lots, and generally all you have to do is persuade some of your colleagues that it makes sense before then convincing the patent examiners it's new.
Not just then. Your local laws and rights dont mean shit in your holiday destination. This should be the very first question you ask yourself when traveling.
The automation will impact the ground facility guys, who are low seniority chum whom a union will typically sacrifice.

My guess is that they overutilize seasonal/temp people and understaff later in the year from the unions pov.
> It's lots of outrage & negativity, and I imagine it's because that's the kind of article people are actually reading & sharing, so that's what feeds the recommendation algorithms

I would think a ML model could fairly accurately judge the level to which articles are written in an intentionally inflammatory way, I would like to see tech companies start to make a sincere effort to allow users set an adjustable filter on this "inflammatory-ranking" dimension of the content in their feed.
> 2) Patents are really hard to read

I second that. In a previous life, I had to read and understand a few dozens of patents. Imagine page after page of buzzwords, unjustified claims, approximate logic, vague and meaningless sentences, clearly designed to be write-only.

In my experience, reading cutting-edge research papers in domains with which I'm barely familiar is so much easier.
“Why should the laws of nature care about what I find beautiful?”

My suspicion is this is something we will forever wrestle with because "beauty" is a proxy shorthand measurement for things of real value, but it is confounded by an enormous and oft abused potential to use this fact fraudulently. That which has real value is often appreciated for its beauty, but the street doesn't run both ways. Seeking to make something look good doesn't necessarily give it the more valuable underlying properties.

In GIS school, I learned that a good map will typically be described as beautiful, but a beautiful map isn't necessarily good. A good map is elegantly designed to effectively convey information. When the goal is achieved, high quality design also has inherent aesthetic appeal. But trying to just make a map pretty doesn't make it more useful. In fact, it often makes it less useful.

I think the same principle generalizes. I was born with serious respiratory problems. I always had really lousy fingernails. With getting healthier, my fingernails have grown stronger and prettier. This makes me suspect that manicures and painted nails are about trying to enhance a signal of baseline good health that is inherently valuable and attractive. But painting your nails doesn't actually improve your respiratory health. Fake glued on nails can give an appearance of health that isn't real.
Some years ago, I had a close friend who got drawn into ketamine (ab)use and spent an extended period seriously addicted to it. Having watched the devastation it wrought in her and her family's lives, and the struggle it took to break its hold, I find this highly disturbing.

Yes, ketamine has its uses, but it also carries real risks and should not be used without proper controls and medical oversight.
You can shape the thing so it slows down to a lowish terminal velocity. Think of a wide shallow cone shell with rounded tip.

Or even a hollow sphere.
Storing one’s ledger in a publicly-viewable, massively replicated database is a pretty big on the risk factors IMO.
You might need to revisit the definition of second world countries (soviet aligned countries during the cold war).
A human 'context switch' seems to be equally expensive as for a computer.
Good to know. I've known a CEO who deliberately altered all the patents from his startup to put his name (and only his name) as inventor, rather than, say, people who actually any clue what the patent was about.
Works ok here...

Version 66.0.3359.181 (Official Build) (64-bit)
That would be Maersk.
Hah, lol, thanks, Today I Learnt ;) Will try using this next time, probably.

That said, there's one extra advantage with the awk script, that by rearranging the expressions appropriately, I can choose whether to include or exclude the the first and last line in the output (i.e. 'FIRST; p; LAST' vs. 'FIRST; LAST; p' or 'p; FIRST; LAST', etc.) Is this also possible with sed? :)
Well, if it can tell exactly where you're looking (and can update fast enough), it only needs to provide enough detail at the exact spot you're looking at.
Have a look at https://github.com/MerlijnWajer/Simba/. It uses uses a dialect of Object Pascal for scripting and some core functions are available in a library.

There are other projects which attempt to do similar things but I sincerely believe Simba is the best program for desktop automation to date.

I helped write it.
It is tenable. We will be fine I think. The answer is to use the AI automation and humans in a symbiotic relationship where in the AI or the human would not be as effective without the other. Its easy to justify the workforce on the books if they are producing for example, 10x more than what they do now and despite the myth of unions, we actually have a ton of good employees who would jump at the chance to do some of this stuff.

The bottom line is that there are ways to make this work and be vastly profitable, but I think ultimately, the question is whether our management and union leaders will work to do that.
Even then, nothing seems perfect.

I have FileVault turned on in OSX. But I noticed that, since the latest version, if I open my laptop within some interval, it doesn't even make me type my password again.

And sometimes I've even opened my laptop many hours later and it inexplicably bypasses the login. Just seems so precarious.

I read how the FBI(?) faked a scene (a fight?) near the Silk Road creator so that they could nab his laptop while it was open. Well, I chuckle at how unnecessary that would be for my laptop: just walk up and open it. The piece of shit probably won't even make you log in.
Who hopefully keep in mind the consequences.
You (hopefully) wouldnt travel to Somalia, the fact that other countries arent in headlines doesnt mean they are a safe destination.