skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is an absolutely delightful short story by -- who else? -- Robert Silverberg about predictions of the far future, "When We Went to See the End of the World". You'll be amused and you'll laugh, though perhaps you'll need a dark sense of humor for that!
My workplace is bought pretty heavily into Azure, which I generally love. However, the specification for any given Azure resource is stored in a JSON file called an ARM (Azure Resource Management) template. This is usually okay, except for two main problems.

One is the lack of comments that is always brought up when criticizing JSON.

Two is the fact that Azure provides a way to access certain keys, IDs, etc. of resources in an ARM template, but it's very clunky. It's basically a specification for a service call, often involving mod operators or looping, in a single line of JSON. Such specifications are unreadable and unavoidable when provisioning any mildly complicated Azure resources, and they make ARM templates much more difficult to maintain.

If it's wanted, I can provide examples of what I mean.
> “Prophylactic” is no less bizarre.

Isn't it (less bizarre)? My dictionary gives the medical meaning of prophylactic as "intended to prevent disease"; using it to refer to contraception just requires a more generous conception of 'disease'.

By contrast, if 'préservatif' in French were translated to 'preservative' in English, it would mean, again according to my dictionary, "a substance used to preserve … against decay." I find it a bit more of a stretch to generalise this to pregnancy.

On the other hand, maybe it is just my English-speaker-ness showing through that I can think of pregnancy much more easily as a disease (it literally causes dis-ease …) than as decay.
Zuckerberg defends Facebook users' right to be wrong – even Holocaust deniers
I haven't really worked with any client-side languages before, so I picked up Elm because it was similar to other languages I'd used in the past. It's got a unique approach to things and an incredibly active community. It's adoption is not as widespread though. Most of my coworkers swear by React and Vue.
Would you mind making your comments more thoughtful and informative?

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I think eBay has a lot of what I would call "process debt". Not technical dept, I don't know what their code looks like. It's all that extra complexity that has built up over the years. eBay has so many menus and settings and listing options that I just get lost.

The most obvious one is PayPal. That may have made sense in the '90s, but today I should just pay money to eBay, they take their cut and send the rest to the seller. Instead I pay directly to the sellers PayPal account, which may be named something completely different from their eBay account. Then eBay sends the seller an invoice at the end of the month or something. All unnecessary complexity, but I'm sure someone would be outraged if they changed anything.
Google Authentication Pitfalls
Funny but I lost more email accounts to Google's 2FA, than to actual hackers. It happened before, but these were simple disposable accounts, used for stuff like registering IRC nicknames. But lately I failed to login into account linked to my Paypal, which requires email confirmation when logging in from devices with unknown fingerprint.

It says "This device isn't recognized. For your security, Google wants to make sure it's really you." and offers no way of recovering access besides using cell phone, which was seized by police, when I Russia charged me with "terrorism".

Good job, Google!!! It requires special talent to mess up something as simple as password authentication.

I complained at official Gmail support forum, but only got some typical tech-support scam message from spammers, promising to recover yahoo, Gmail and Hotmail emails (guess Yahoo and Hotmail are on par with Google at torturing their users).

Still I have myself to blame for relying on Google services. Before that Google banned me at Youtube under a pretense of "hate speech" for making a video criticizing Russia in Russian language. I'm Russian myself and I'm not allowed to criticize Russians? No idea if that incident is related to Google blocking my email account, although it could be.

TLDR: don't rely on your Gmail or Paypal beng available when FSB gets on your tail. Good luck and be careful.
Ha. Makes me think of the way Trump makes promises. Seems like a great way to get a crowd riled up.
Bad assumption:

"Indiana cardiologists sued for alleged unnecessary surgeries" (October 28, 2014)

MUNSTER, Ind. (WLS) -- Dozens of people are joining a lawsuit filed against three Northwest Indiana cardiologists as well as Munster Community Hospital for allegedly performing unnecessary procedures.

After two patients announced legal action six months ago, dozens more have come forward accusing three Indiana doctors of medical malpractice and, in some cases, wrongful death. Lawyers say their investigation has revealed that 75 percent of heart procedures were performed unnecessarily....

http://abc7chicago.com/health/indiana-cardiologists-sued-for...

More:

https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=unnecessary%20surgery&b...

(550,000 results)

https://duckduckgo.com/?q="unnecessary+surgery"+fraud
They should be fixed now. Email us at software@ycombinator.com if you run into any issues.
Americans have systematically destroyed / left the various community organizations and ties and/or interpersonal relationships that in the past would have been the place to go for these things. Like, after our seven miscarriages, people suggested a therapist, which we saw. We saw the top rated therapist in our area for pregnancy loss grief, but honestly, she was quite useless in comparison to our two sets of married in-laws (quite a rarity these days), our priest, our deacon, and our deacon's wife, who have been significantly more helpful simply by being there and being close to us.

The thing is that therapy can be bought, and Americans love spending money on things. You can't buy relationships. This is my -- admittedly completely unfounded -- explanation.
Are SKS keyservers safe? Do we need them?
Its becoming less stigmatized in the US, but it is present all over the world. My parents are both doctors (therapists), my uncle is a doctor (therapist), I have a handful of family I'm aware of who see therapists (not due to any crazy trauma or anything, just not stigmatized in a family business).

My father traveled all over the world sharing evidence based research with other international researchers in India, Japan, Korea, Russia, Germany, Spain, etc. Now he focuses on research oversight in the US but trust me, its very common, just not talked about due to stigmas surrounding mental health.
Bezos’s “play money” is a far larger pile than SpaceX will accumulate from operations.
Hopefully both can succeed.
Show HN: Parse addresses with perfect accuracy every time
The web was just slowly emerging at that point.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_Internet_usage#/media/F...

15% vs 80% these days. And thats the "developed world", globally it was around 2%.
I think that a big part of this is that the "willing to admit it" part has become slightly more de-stigmatized, particularly after the recent suicides of some high-profile celebrities.

There's a vicious cycle at work here: People don't want to talk about going to a therapist since they are worried about being seen as "broken", so people who could benefit from therapy don't seek it out because they don't know anyone else who does, so it becomes more unusual, which creates more of a stigma against it

Edit: I also think that perceptions are changing around, what, specifically, is broken. Your post mentions "broken people", but if a person had cancer, or a fractured bone, or an infection, we wouldn't say that the person is broken. Similarly, I think we need to realize that people with mental health issues have issues with brain chemistry, rather than being broken people.
I'd love to see like a browser extension to news aggregators that works like that. I'm sure there are lots of things a few clicks away from a lot of the articles that get posted.
Vans Warped tour is in its final year after 23 years. Crowds aren't what they used to be.
Commandos Sans Frontières
Thanks. Looks like no retro rockets on the capsule this time around to me. Wonder what the underside looks like now.
I came across this article by looking up Neptune and going down a wikipedia rabbit hole after seeing another submission that's currently on the front page: `Supersharp Images from New VLT Adaptive Optics`

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17556955
True many people go for high levels of trauma ("broken" is probably a terrible word to describe a human) but many go for guidance or even just low levels of anxiety- the US works so many hours we don't have time for mental health and cooling off like other countries.
U.S. intelligence documents on Nelson Mandela made public
This is addressed in the paper.

They use Bayes to update their estimates based on the lack of evidence so far (which is, itself, evidence for lack of advanced stellar civilizations).

It has been dissolved in that they've pointed out a fundamental error in the logic that leads to the paradox, and have used statistics and a review of available literature to illustrate this error.
There's probably some spillover from the psychotherapy boom in midcentury America. In some circles it was (and probably still is) viewed more as advanced self-exploration than fixing some tragic brokenness. One tends to see therapy used by upwardly mobile urban professionals, as an example.

I personally think almost everyone would benefit from a good therapist, though stigma, cost and the view you're expressing are all probably huge obstacles.
Yep, I haven't heard a lot of great things about Angular and my JQuery itself is a bit rusty so I figured I'd start fresh with something new. React seems more robust than Vue on close inspection, but maybe harder to learn. I hate CSS and HTML is often excessively tedious to me so a UI kits are looking attractive. Has anyone used Sketch plus https://ant.design/ ?
It has been theorized that tiny black holes may have formed shortly after the Big Bang, and have since evaporated.
Oh I see the point, yes this makes sense to me. Obviously it's not a black-and-white world of "crippling mental problems" versus "no mental problems", and to plenty of folks, engaging in mental health care is closer to life optimization and perhaps a luxury rather than a necessity.
Therapy isn't really a "recent" development but its formality and evidence based research has really been refined to something to be proud of in the past 20 years. Yes, its been a shitshow up and down, but so was everything back in the day.
> just because you're a foreign company, what are you supposed to do then?

Most foreign companies aren't considered bad actors.

We are talking about 1) the old Microsoft here - definitely a bad actor - getting rid of it seems to have been refreshing even for Microsoft shareholders.

- 2) Google, a company we many of us loved at some point but who might now be in need of some refreshing at least in some areas.
I always thought the style was part of the intention to express the enormous amount of time described. When you get to the end of the book you are left with the feeling like you have lived a billion years :)
YAML is even worse. Meaningful whitespace should die.
Sounds good to me. 12 cm is not very thick, so I assume it's quite firm yet comfortable enough to side-sleep?

I don't like foams too much because they tend to release VOCs. But I reckon that a boat might be more humid than a regular home, so it might be tricky to get other materials to work well except wool, horsehair or kapok.

Perhaps you could find a Hästens shop near you, walk there and try one of their 8 cm horsehair toppers (TM8) without a bed. Don't buy it. It's a good product but really insanely overpriced. It will give you a good idea of how a thin custom wool mattress will feel, though. These will compress a bit more than foam, but they also breathe more which might be an advantage during warm weather.

Are you Flemish or Dutch? If so, there should be a few shops close to you.
College for me but I spent a lot of time at the QE2. Awesome place
That’s an angle.

Google is exactly in the same position as Microsoft when they were caught red handed doing shitty stuff with the vendors.

The interesting part is both Microsoft and Google prioritized licensing/delivering the OS and associated software, keeping a healthy distance from building hardware. Google tried a bit more with the Nexus/Pixel programs, but even then the target was only for small scale niche devices.

What I am driving at is that once android got traction, Google’s position went way up while vendor’s bargaining power went down, even as vendors where the ones taking the risks down the line. That kind of unbalance makes it easier to have abusive contracts and business practices.

It starts with good intentions (working symbiothically with the makers at innovative products) but things change, and with success I’d guess different kind of people also come into the organization to push more aggressive practices.
As someone mentioned the other day, a lot of these government contracts are written to select for predetermined vendor. The request for proposal is just going through the motions to make it seem like it was open to anyone.
Thanks. Your setup seems very well thought. Keep up the good work.
Thank you, Finbarr. It was really easy to take over. You did a great job
You've managed to post something gratuitously negative without saying anything at all. Could you please re-read the guidelines and then not do this?

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I know the Dark Matter Theory is very successful at explaining lots of phenomenons of cosmological physics. Nevertheless, it always reminds me of the Aether Theory.
Anecdotal, but imho old therapists practice older research. Younger ones are more apt to continue their learning, with the exception of my mother, who is nearing her 80's, still has a vibrant private practice, just completed a 3 year academic program (well past medical school she did in her 30's) to maintain current training, etc.

Its a mixed bag on age. Younger, I think, is better due to both learning more recent research and also continuous education. Relatableness is a factor. Again, all anecdotal.
That wouldn't even take a developers time- its configuration.
Anyone know which Android based phone manufacturers or brands are based in the EU? Does the fine match their expected loses?
What does the EU do with the money?
With a Sniff and a Signal, These Dogs Hunt Down Threats to Bees
This!

I found in university, strangely through sheer accident, (during the first two years of my PhD program in physics) that I performed best on my final exams and written qualifiers with three hours of sleep.

I would sleep 3 hours after late-night study, drink a lot of coffee, and then be able to hyper-focus like a felon on a three-hour-long exam.
How to save time with magic scaffolding (Node.js/React Focus)
Kind of LambdaNative? http://www.lambdanative.org/
At least make the new behavior optional and off by default. Iirc, some languages do this by requiring a modifier to the regexp, like /[0-9]/u
Doctor rating sites are crap because people are far more likely to emotionally sway hard positive/negative to doctor exp than something like restaurants. I find doctors by word of mouth and visit then once, and grade them HARD on my first experience, including their practice/admin/location etc. I think people trust their own experiences over others' in rating something as personal as a doctor (or therapist)
Good news on the Paypal front. eBay didn’t renew their deal with PayPal. They’re going with Ayden, the European processing company. Should be integrated into the site.
THIIIIIS.
Does Elm's charm wear off if you aren't already a functional programmer? What were your favorite learning resources?
No fomo. Everyone is resting/sleeping.
Khrushchyovka
Great react tutorial
I wrote a little library for building DSLs in JavaScript [0] because of this very issue—JSON is not good for this kind of stuff. I want to be able to create small DSLs to solve problems rather than squeezing the language into a JSON format. I want the full power of a language AND the ability to serialize the semantics to send over the wire. Maybe we'll move toward that one day.

[0] https://github.com/smizell/treebranch
No, what the article is saying is that when you rely on distributions of outcomes from the Drake equation rather than averages, it's much more likely that you'll get tiny results.

You don't need extremely low values in the Drake equation to end up with nearly no aliens. It's actually kind of likely that we're (close to) alone, even without a crazy complicated theory to justify one of the values being nearly zero.

This is missing the point that many people do treat the Fermi Paradox like it's a real paradox - like there's some kind of fundamental universal principle that has to almost universally block out all life or all communication.

The article is saying you don't need it. It's good enough to say "well, life might just be sort of uncommon, and even in that scenario we shouldn't be surprised that we got a very low roll."

That is a surprising conclusion. No, we don't know the exact cause, but it means that the Fermi Paradox might not be a paradox, in the sense that it doesn't directly contradict all of our priors.

Think of it like the difference between saying, "Trump won the election because we fundamentally don't understand how democracy works in practice", and "Trump won the election because he had a 1 and 5 chance of winning, and sometimes 20% chance events happen."
Who's buying drugs on Venmo?
> literally strengthens Apple

yes; but to exactly the same degree that it strengthens all other competitors.
Are you able to comfortably side sleep? How thick is you wool mattress?
Facebook to Remove Misinformation That Leads to Violence
Do you drink caffeine? I gave it up 100%, not even having a cup in the the morning, and sleep much much much better.
The comparison made was based on standard functionality, not antitrust.
That may be the argument. Yet it was considered by the commission & dismissed as there are ways to monetize android profitably for google without resorting to anticompetitive contracts.
I feel the kind of consumers able to afford space tourist flights would also do extensive research before putting down their money. Forming a perception based on some amusing YouTube videos should surely be discounted by a myriad of other factors.
Because Obama totally cred about jobs with all of his other policies, right?

that totally matches up with Obama as a President...
According to their website the ToS issued at 08 29, 2013, already contained the arbitration, and only the version issued at 10 10, 2012 is missing it.

https://robertsspaceindustries.com/tos
1. Do you think all Bell test experiments ever done were flawed, i.e. none of the observed Bell inequality violations were real?

2. If so, do you think a non-flawed Bell test experiment could be done?

3. If so, do you have a definite opinion about whether or not it would yield a Bell inequality violation?

4. If so, would it yield a Bell inequality violation or not.

5. If you think all Bell test experiments ever done were flawed, can you pick one, preferably one commonly considered a good one, and point out what exactly you think the flaw in the experiment is?

6. If you think Bell inequality violations are or could be real, how do you want to explain them?

Note that those are all yes no questions, well, at least all but the last two. I don't need and want more than a yes or no for the first four because from your comments alone it is not clear, at least to me, what your position actually is.
Where are the skills and schemas stored? Are they in the main GitHub repo somewhere or separate JSON files or what? Is it possible for me to add my own transformations?

Is there a package manager or common repository for sharing and searching Optics skills?
Android System WebView reviews
Not only did this update my phone but also gave me a complimentary pre-frontal cortex upgrade and increased signal processing in my amygdala. As a result I can now time-travel without loss of coronal dissonance, enabling me to kill God and create a better universe. And I didn't rest on the seven...

I used to live in darkness. Now with this app my credit rating increased.my dog came back from the dead and my wife returned.and best of all I just won the lotto......

I put this app on my TV and now I get every channel possible, and even a few that don't exist yet. I injected myself with it and now I have super powers. This app also makes a wonderful topping for ice cream. Or, try adding it to your favorite coffee!

Upon installing this app, my acne cleared up. Your results may vary.

This app is amazing and I don't even know what it really does! Two thumbs up!

Ooooh .. thank god ...after this update i can wash my cloths easily with my phone....what a brilliant goooooooogle...

Never leave home without it

Life changing application.

This is good. But I'm missing some calls, and messages from my gf. If she dump me. I'll be very mad, and I swear I will rate this app with 1 star.

What a riot! This app makes every day little brighter. It is useful and hillarious!..

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.android.webview&hl=en
At the midpoint of that period your clock day would be 12 hours off from your rotational day.
EXAPUNKS (a new game from Zachtronics)
Well, for example if you're a student and you have you@your.edu, you might lose access to that account after you graduate.
Developers and users generally won't care whether it's open source, I agree. Manufacturers like Samsung or Sony would though, especially after their experiences with Symbian. Not because they care about freedom, but because they want to have some form of control over their own destiny.

The US market was always an anomaly and under tight carrier control. There the iPhone and Android enabled choice.
This is however mostly irrelevant for the EU and especially for this verdict. It's undeniable that there are now fewer choices and competitors available, and that most of the ones that are gone have been killed by Android: Windows Phone, Blackberry, Symbian, Meego, FirefoxOS, etc.
That's an equivalently bad e-mail from AWS, but it's a single datum, out of context.

Actually, you did provide some context, which is that it was a "demo" account on a personal credit card. This, at the very least, implies much less spending than in the blog post that kicked this all off.

More importantly, what's missing is the human/support response and attitude from AWS, which is the OC's primary concern.

Anecdotally, from the comments I've seen on HN, AWS customers (at least beyond a certain size) seem generally pleased with the availability of human judgment during support issues, especially so when paying for that support.
> Just to know you aren't alone

Which requires the probe to return information.

> because it's interesting to learn about others

Which requires the probe to return information.

> to trade technology, philosophy, science, and media

All of which, and say it with me, requires the probe to return information.

At the speed of light, that return will take four years from the nearest star.

> If just one alien civilization sent out a Bracewell probe a century but started back when the dinosaurs were around they could have launched a million probes by now.

And if 'if' were a skiff, we'd all take a boat ride.

What is the benefit of launching one such probe? Especially knowing that your next launch is in 100 years. Voyager, after about 40 years, is just barely out of our solar system.

Voyager is broadcasting at 19 watts and we're barely getting that signal here. And it takes 16 hours.

So instead of contemplating what would happen if hypothetical civilizations with hypothetical technology would do for hypothetical reasons, think about what we can and would do right now with our technology.