skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> People with chronic pain will be sitting there looking comfortable, normal HR, eating and walking and watching movies comfortably on their iPads.

Are you really a doctor? It's hard to believe - if you were, you should know at least how the chronic pain works, how devastating it can be, how it destroys people's lives, all the while without (most of the time) making them scream and cry (or have elevated heart rate).

The chronic pain works not through how severe it is (although it can be really severe at times), but through it being chronic: it's with you non-stop, never leaving you, you can't forget it, you can't do anything about and - which is the worst - you know it won't end. It's easier to cope with the pain if you know it will subside at some point, in a week, in a month. It's incredibly devastating to know that there is really no point in you trying to bear the pain because all it gets you is more, not less, pain tomorrow.

It's incredibly hard to even imagine what the chronic pain feels like. Chances are you are mostly healthy, and the pain you experienced was temporary. You can't, at all, use such experiences to try to understand chronic pain patients. If you want to understand it, go break an arm. Wait for it to heal a bit, then break it again. Rinse and repeat, for years. Then, try to live a comfortable, fulfilling life and come back to tell us how it went.

Chronic pain patients can look alright on the outside. Especially if they are on a good painkiller, but even if not, they can look perfectly normal... for a time. They develop coping strategies and generally do their best not to show their pain when in public. You can limp for a while with a broken leg, too, before passing out. Yet, if you observe the same patients for a whole day or two, you'll see a lot of signs that they do, in fact, suffer a lot. Don't dismiss it just because some of them manage to look alright when waiting for an appointment.

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Another thing is that I don't understand what is wrong with taking opiates, at all, other than the risk of overdose, which would be non-existent if they were legally available. From what I've read, very few overdoses are intentional, most happen because people are getting fentanyl when they expected oxycodone (actually, it's crazy that they use fentanyl to fake oxycodone - it's like trying to fake coffee with amphetamine...). The less-potent opiates and opioids (basically oxycodone and tramadol), which seem to be fuelling the crisis, have a lot fewer side-effects, including mood-altering high, than morphine or heroin. I don't see a reason for banning people - even healthy ones - from using them, other than some almost-religious conviction that people "should live clean". If there's something I'm missing here, I'm all ears.
Yeah, but are tariffs the best way to achieve this?
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> it seems less than clear to me that this has to be to the same "standards" as people being jailed for serious crimes

It seems clear to me they should be - it's a clear deterrent against a serious problem.

> I'd guess that if the process appeared less horrific

I agree - the optics don't look good. But part of me thinks they shouldn't look good and this will quickly lead to fewer people trying to illegally enter the country.
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Only half sarcastically: I wasn't aware there was a genuine legitimate use for cable ties.

I suppose they could be used to tie cables to things, and I suspect electricians and their ilk probably actually do use them for that. But the general public? I'm willing to bet the general public is not using cable ties for tying cables to things.
Alexa for Hospitality brings Amazon's digital assistant to hotel rooms
That doesn't validate it for users though, only that other businesses believe it has traction and value.
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Ask HN: Encrypted file drop for the masses?
I work with clinical collaborators on healthcare research projects and, although many solutions exist, we are still struggling to find a system that is dead-simple to share information in a secure way across institutions.

The requirements that we have are:
- hosted solution that we can install on our servers
- data encrypted at rest
- possibility of sharing the files dropped into the system via a password protected system (possibly with 2FA)

The nice-to-have would be an open-source based solution.

Maybe we are asking too much?
Any idea?
EU Parliament Committee Adopts Piracy ‘Upload Filter’ Proposal
An interesting point is that the Cuban government uses an extremely regressive taxation system to extract maximum revenue from the people providing services to tourists. According to the people I spoke to, the first bracket is taxed at 100%, and revenue above this is not taxed (at all, I believe). However, the bracket limit is set quite high, so that a lot of work is required to clear the hurdle. But the motivation to reach that goal is high, so people work hard, and the government collects the fruits of this labor.

I believe Mancur Olson described a similar, extremely regressive taxation system at work in the Soviet Union. I cannot find any reference to this unfortunately.
.Net supports this (at least on Windows), it is called AppDomains: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/framework/app-domain...
Britain’s strawberries may wither on lack of foreign pickers
TLDR: "Today, the Legal Affairs Committee of the Parliament (JURI) voted on the issue. With a 15 to 10 majority, the Article 13 proposal of Rapporteur Voss was adopted. This means that the plans move ahead in their current form, despite massive public outcry.

...

Now that the proposal has passed the Committee the plans will move to plenary before progressing towards the final vote on copyright reform next spring.

It also means that they are now much harder to stop or change."
Curious, do Google regularly give free stuff to their customers (advertisers) hoping that in a few months those customers will upgrade to a higher service?
Conversely, a subset of the population may experience weed-induced psychosis.

I experience it while high, so I only take a toke or two irregularly. I might feel as if I'm experiencing the pain of a broken leg, or that my foot is bleeding, as well as more abstract things. It also grants some introspection and lateral thinking so its not a bad time.

I've heard higher amounts of CBD can counteract this, but I just mooch from friends who regularly smoke, and all their weed is high in THC / low in CBD. When its fully legal in my province I'll try a high CBD strain.

Either way I'm excited for the neurological research to come out of Canada from legalization :)
The part of being ethical in business outside the legalise still holds?

I would agree with your point of professional contracting: contract for the worst and write out scenarios in contracts.

In this case though the employer acted in a way that signalled renewal and the contractor delivered in good faith. Back to contract law and ethics: are services delivered possibly without contract but in good faith without value and compensation?
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Blender channel reinstated by YouTube after issues get sorted out
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How is this even possible?

It ties together the two rear seat belt buckles to prevent them being squeezed together and leading the bottom one to be unbuckled by itself while driving.

It should be obvious to anyone who dabbles in physics that the seat belt buckles should be fixed to the vehicle in a way that makes this impossible to happen.

The pictures in the reference linked to Tekniikan Maailma[1] show the obvious absurdity of the design.

1. https://tekniikanmaailma.fi/tm-testasi-uudelleen-volkswagen-...
I should be concerned about this, but somehow I am not.

This will never work. If they try to make it work it won't work and the political fallout from the Internet being broken would be huge. Europeans value free speech and cat pics as much as anyone else in the world.

To me I think, this sounds like TTIP. A bunch of policies put together by Brussels lobbyists, adopted by aloof commissioners but that will never get past the more politically-grounded deliberation phases.
Wait, is it really solved now? I get the following error for many videos:

> This video contains content from BlenderFoundation. It is not available in your country.

For example:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kes2qmijy7w
and all other videos in "Blender Fundamentals" playlist.

I'm located in Sweden.
> > The web today rebuilds the scrollbar in javascript

> Who does that?

Google in some of their developer docs for example.
> It also means that they are now much harder to stop or change

Making it all or nothing, including the politically unpalatable bits so it'll probably fall at one of the final posts.
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HTML is not an accessibility API, it's a document mark up language.

A properly designed document or web site will be easily accessible, but this falls apart for web applications, where it's no longer enough to have mark up, because HTML has no knowledge of UI elements like menus, windows, views, buttons and their roles (links are sort of close), control groups etc.
> vary wildly between countries

Not really, name a European country where I won't be jailed for having even an ounce of cocaine? Portugal is as close as it gets to sensible drug policy, and they've only decriminalized (as opposed to legalized) small personal-use amounts.

The only drugs that should be regulated are antibiotics :)
Lead paint really isn't a big deal if it wasn't chipping away. And you weren't eating it. Lead paint isn't ideal but if just existed and was maintained in an older home you had little risk.
My argument is that the number of people who didn't vote doesn't need to be extrapolated: apathy isn't a yes or a no vote, but something else.
How does one find a reputable banker? I’ve come across a number of them in my industry, none of whom I’d trust as far as I could throw them.
Same error and message in Canada.
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static code analysis e.g. Sonarqube.

CI/CD
Use on humans is discouraged because of nerve damage. Apart from that, I don't care...
The problem is all the great stuff is on Vive and Rift which is inconvenient to jump into. Then you have Oculus Go which is convenient to jump into, but there's not much great stuff due to lack of hands (crippled interactivity), and will get shelved with little re-engagement.

The Second Life continuations aren't the best examples to measure VR's traction. I'd look at user re-engagement of apps on the level of Bigscreen, Rec Room, Beat Saber, Google Earth. Those apps get people back into the headset and capable of logging 1000+ hour playtimes. Once high-end capabilities (6DoF head / hands) meets convenient form factor (standalone, wireless), I expect to see VR gain wider traction.
CI. Code analysis. Revision control. Something for documentation.
I support the people who do these things, as I think they should live in the same amount of fear as those that they unfairly persecute. They are all complicit in the acts of violence and oppression against innocent civilians. The capitalist system, especially in the USA is designed to oppress the poor and protect the rich. It does this through the use of agencies like ICE. Pretend it's not true, but the facts over the past century overwhelmingly speak for themselves.
"In Paris, a single planning organization, the RATP, dictates routes and spending for new infrastructure. Individual transit agencies operate trains and buses, they do not plan or construct their own expansions." If only... The new metro lines (around Paris) have been a turf war between many agencies and levels of government.

In everyday life, some suburban trains have to change drivers when they enter and exit Paris because the railways belong to a different organization...
Are you sure it's apathy though? There are plenty of other reasons why somebody might not make it to the polling station.

(EDIT: For example the elderly who have been shown to be overwhelmingly pro-brexit could have diffculty)

All polling and analysis since the result bears out that the vote was indeed representative of the population.
Another discussion: https://www.reddit.com/r/musictheory/comments/8sc2xg/i_wrote...
> it seems that OpenBSD is an operating system built mainly for OpenBSD developers

I don't see it that way at all. Whenever I have to work on a project where security is top concern, I always look at OpenBSD as an option. In the Linux world, the equivalent would be the Openwall GNU/*/Linux project. Not something for an average user, but to say it's used by its devs mainly is off by an order of magnitude.
> things like cannabis are entirely domestic

Not true at all.
> use my UK citizenship

Better hope it becomes a thing before March.
Also read the Unabomber Manifesto (Industrial Society and its Future). Technology enslaves us.

But it can also liberate us, and we should seek to maximize the liberating force of technology and try to disrupt the enslaving tendency.
In 80s vs 90s?
CI/CD. Revision Control. Artifactory. VPN.
What's three amigos? Never heard that term in programming.
Also a factor in retaining the accent while the rest of the world moves on ( e.g. Canadian French )
For the first month or so I take a very humble listening position, even if I immediately see things I want to fix. More often then not, there is a background and a history to things that could lead to a) my “fix” being unnecessary and/or ill-informed and b) friction with the rest of the team because here comes a whippersnapper upending all our stuff.

Process and code fixes are _much_ easier once you have good rapport with the team.
CI/CD

Dockerize all the things
Old stupid racists most likely voted for brexit.

Other people also voted for brexit, including young stupid racists, middle aged opportunistic millionaires, people who wanted to vote against Cameron, and other groups.

Overall only 26% voted for brexit, and many of those "old stupid racists" have since died, so no, it's nowhere near 50% of the United Kingdom and Gibraltar that are "old stupid racists".
This is because this issue with Blender is just a cherry on top of a multitude of issues with YouTube that have crop up for the past few years. So the thread is about the impact of YouTube algorithms.

I have myself found it pretty hard to publish videos without ads on YouTube, even though I have a minuscule channel.

Their Content ID system is triggered for almost any background music I throw at it, including Royalty Free or CC-BY music. The insidious part is that the videos are not taken down, they just put ads on top of it while you try to refute the claim, even if you tick the "I do not want ads to appear" box. The problem in this instance is anyone can upload a piece of audio and claim copyright on it, and video are then automatically flagged.

There is an interesting support thread about paid-for, Royalty-free classical music, that shows how outrageous the system is: https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/youtube/iMlPy...
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It depends on your definition of good.

If by good you mean: needs a new turbo at 223,000 kilometers, and removing and replacing the alternator is a 6 hour job, then yes I agree, my 2004 VW T5 Transporter is a great car!

The alternator in the T4 was accessible from underneath the car. I suppose they intend for you to sell the car to someone else before those things need doing. Oh wait, that's me.

I'm suspicious of any claims that "auto manufacture x makes good cars, because the auto manufactures mostly don't make very much of the car at all.

Toyota have a reputation of assembling a reliable set of components. VW not so much.

The trouble with all of this is we can't know what is a good new car* to buy today, because we don't have statistics on maintenance and repair costs for new cars.

I reckon your best bet is to look at those guides that detail maintenance and repair costs of used vehicles, then find one you like in your price range.
I don't understand if you truly believe that or are trying to be sarcastic (poorly).
So, this is about legalisation - I can totally see medical rescheduling working (and nobody seems to have countered Sajid Javid's announcement yesterday). It's a step in the right direction, but it's still a while to go to undo most of the ills of the war on drugs.
If you are looking for processors that are intellectually challenging, consider looking at Analog Devices DSPs (blackfin) and Texas Instruments (MPS430).

They use mostly C/C++/asm.
That’s not how it works everywhere.
The title was "breaking", when it should have been "braking". This is fixed now.
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Did you read the article? There was no premature termination here. He was “fired” exactly because his contract expired.

It’s a shit situation and the company should have made him whole, but on ethical not legal grounds.
I built a proof of concept project that was a lot like transfer.sh at one point in time. My solution was to not only have a time limit but a download limit as well. I'd guess most people transferring files from the command line want to transfer something from one machine to another, or maybe to a few other machines. I was going to allow a transfer limit of 10 transfers before the file/link went dead, which would hopefully deter most nefarious people using it to widely spread files around..
Not to forget, Intel have said this collection of exploits cannot be fixed in microcode, only mitigated - it's so fundamental to the CPU hardware that it requires redesigning the chip to fix properly. The mitigation has led to serious performance hits and further problems down the line. And the permanent fix requires eventually replacing the CPU.

As has been previously noted, Meltdown, Spectre and related exploits came about because nobody ever thought it would be possible to access the cache from other processes. 1 year is probably quite reasonable for Intel to redesign the architecture (in fact, is probably going to stretch to 2 years or more), but people need security fixes now. In this case, it looks like OpenBSD are taking the right approach.
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PeerTube is awesome and needs more visibility. Coincidentally, they're having a fundraiser right now to be able to ship a 1.0, so if you like the idea of a federated, decentralized YouTube alternative that can also talk to other ActivityPub software like Mastodon etc. consider donating[1].

1 - https://www.kisskissbankbank.com/en/projects/peertube-a-free...
The first thing I do is work to gain enough political leverage so that I can manage my own time.
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I had to google that as well. It seems to be an agile practice [0] that consist in gathering a developer, a product owner and a QA tester in order to produce acceptance tests using the format given/when/then.

[0] http://jonkruger.com/blog/2012/01/04/the-three-amigos/
That's just the React Native.

It sounds like in total they have nearly 1m lines and 800 "screens". Between 100 devs that sounds about right.

For comparison, Uber have 400 devs working on 3m lines across iOS and Android.
Grafx2 is also very much like Deluxe Paint if that's your thing. Moving from Deluxe Paint IV to Grafx2 was pretty seamless for me for that reason.

I'll note that it's probably best to run an old release (the 2.3 version that ships with Debian is OK) or build from master at this point, because there were some bugs in the 2.5 release that I couldn't get over. The project maintainer is very active and quickly accepted my patches, though.

The software is also pretty interesting from a developer's perspective. It has basically grown organically for 20 years, originally starting out as a freeware closed source Deluxe Paint clone for DOS. The source code reflects this, and there is some low hanging fruit ripe for improvement.
You could harvest the energy to charge the phone from a perpetually rotating cat by strapping a piece of buttered toast to its back.
I don't think it really matters who you vote for. The people who seek power are often the people you really, really should not grant any power.

I think the problem is most western societies is really that there is no accountability for wrong doings. If a politician promotes a law that has huge, negative consequences, she will not be held responsible in any way for those consequences. As long as she succeed in deceiving the public - she will win elections and continue to abuse her power. The same goes for the "foot soldiers" in the bureaucracy, justice system, health care etc.

If a prosecutor holds back evidence and lies to the court, to get someone convicted - it has no consequences for him even if that is later proven, and even if the sentence is nullified and the person released. The victim may suffer from post traumatic stress for the rest of his life. The prosecutor goes on with his misconduct. The same goes for judges. I caught a judge in Norway deliberately breaking EU law (denying a defendant to examine witnesses) - and he even admitted that to me after the trial - it was "convenient" for him to run his court that way. It was convenient for him to just ignore one of the core principles of the justice system - the right to a fair trial. He did this regularly, and as far as I know, he's still working as a judge. (I was shocked, and contacted the agency responsible for running the courts in Norway - who confirmed to me that he was indeed breaking the law - and then did nothing).

I am an optimist. I think governments can be fixed. But I don't think the politicians will have accountability for themselves, and their servants, as a high priority any time soon. In the mean time, I don't want their bad apples to use my free work!
Yeah, I have to say I'm a bit surprised to see people so eager to change things that are working, so fast.
That's pretty cool. Makes me want to program
Sure, it isn't just apathy (as in your example). But if you compare the turn-out for the Scottish independence vote in 2014 (~85%) with the EU referendum (~72%), I think it might be a considerable factor.

Another factor is complacency on the part of those that would have voted to remain: polling leading up to the referendum showed a clear remain win.

(I should point out that I'm not suggesting that the result of the referendum isn't pro-Brexit, but that the numbers don't support the case for a so-called "hard Brexit")
I don't use cannabis but based on what the NHS has to say about it (https://www.nhs.uk/live-well/healthy-body/cannabis-the-facts...) it's probably not a great idea to use it for most people. However it is important not to waste tax revenue going about trying to stop people in a heavy handed manner. The biggest issue with it seems to be around driving, much like alcohol. That is a real problem and people should be made aware that they should not drive under the influence.
Was this is the US?
There are benefits to having a national, public, unique ID # for each person and this is one of them; it reduces the number of 'they had the same name' mistakes to nearly zero