skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don’t think the right approach is to pretend it’s more dead than it is just to keep the tourists away. That kind of dishonesty doesn’t pay off.

That aside, damage due to tourism is minor compared to bleaching and is easily abated through government supervision, and the fact that tourism operators have a commercial incentive to prevent damage in order to stay in business long term. That system has always worked well on the GBR, which is why it has continued to be an international tourism destination for decades and not sustained serious harm.

Every time i’ve visited the reef (and I’ve done it a few times), clear instructions are given on how to behave to avoid damaging the coral (not standing on it etc), and everyone there, being nature lovers in the first place, is most willing to oblige.
You are your brain/body, but don't overestimate the ability of the brain to see what it is doing. It doesn't have perfect insight into how it functions and often must guess why it made decisions (Reconstructive cognition).
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I thought this was referring to XKCD's "What if".
That one is flagged [dupe] but with no link to the original article.
Well, the comparison mentioned in the abstract is between Americans and Japanese, so Hofstede's rankings seem to agree with the "common view" mentioned in the paper...
Mine is earthquakes and tsunamis. I live in Oregon, where we are due for a big one "some day", and I grew up on the Oregon coast, where there historically have been major inundations in some areas.

Every time I drive 101 on the coast, I'm constantly scanning and planning what driveway or what side road I'd go up to get away from a tsunami. "I could turn around and go back to that one road - oh wait here's a new one. OK that one."

If I'm driving across the Willamette Valley and I'm on the other side of the Willamette River from my home, I'm thinking, "OK if I make it across this bridge and then there's an earthquake, I can make it home. But if not then it might collapse and I'll have to figure out how to get across."

Ironically, I actually didn't develop this until I spent about 5 years working for seismologists, so I suppose it's kind of a rational, scientifically driven irrational behavior.
Finally they found the way in, as Goolge always do
But Paul Ryan, leader of the house, wants to cut social security, medicare and medicaid. He's against unemployment. He's the titular leader of 1/3 of the govt. That's not an exaggeration, those are his stated goals in multiple interviews over many years. I agree that the vast majority of Americans want those things but the leader of the house does not.

He's not just a fringe figure that managed to get elected but has no real power.
One thought I had about this was related to a book I was reading recently about the Math Olympiad. It was discussing how in the US the way math is taught never allows the students to struggle with any hard problems. That experience of going up against something potentially intractable is totally foreign to most students, even at the undergrad level I suspect. When you throw someone into a totally new environment where their life revolves around doing something they have never done before, it is kind of a shock. I think part of the solution here would be to introduce harder problem solving earlier into the standard curriculum. For this reason, I would be curious if PhDs in Russia or Eastern Europe, where the school systems are known for being more mathematically difficult from an early age, suffer from the same level of problems that exist in the US system.
The benefit is more noticeable when you have more clients using the connection - big family with phones, tablets, desktops, etc.
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I was going to do this, but someone said that 23andme also takes a survey of family history, health, and demographic information—which is then used for actual research. I don't want to pollute data used for scientific research!

How recently did you do this, and was there any information collection like that?
I understand why you have these feelings. I ended up in a similar place for awhile after a traumatic event. The desire to be sure it’s not going to happen again is incredibly strong.

The thing is, there is no way to know for sure that you are healthy. Any of us could keel over and die from some previously unknown or suddenly occurring problem at any moment.

You’ve already done your due diligence by checking to be reasonably sure you do not have high blood pressure. Now, you just have to let it go. When it comes to stuff like this, 99.9% sure is the best you’re ever going to do. Accept the uncertainty. It would be a real shame to waste part of the life you do have by constantly checking for something that doesn’t exist.

The best thing for your mental and physical health is to accept you are probably, albeit not certainly, just fine. If you cannot get over this yourself, I highly recommend cognitive behavioral therapy and medication as appropriate. Good luck!
The location for most major cities around the world is where there was a transition point between modes of transport. Sea <-> river, river <-> road, then later adding canals and rail into the mix. Where such transit points exist you are going to develop infrastructure for storing and re-packaging goods from one mode of transportation to another, which will lead to trade of the goods at these locations, which leads to more goods coming in to be traded, and round and round it goes.
Discord will start selling games
Ask HN: I need a customizable email autoresponder
I need a tool to register incoming email messages and send a respond based on regex.

Example respond message: Your message received, it's id is ########

Can you suggest me any service or tool?
Interesting I think if I were approaching BSL sign interpretation I'd start with recognising hand shapes, and then move on to other elements of sign notation ... in theory then you could feed the system a dictionary and recognise all signs.

I think BSL uses a variant of Stokoe notation.

Presumably the system of the OP could be modified to recognise dance/skating/snowboarding/martial arts moves.

It seems that once you have an ability to model every aspect of body position from video (as there doing for enhanced love-action sequences in movies now) that this sort of thing becomes much easier.
I don’t see account access being abused either. People could already be giving out their credentials, but somehow it’s not happening, so I don’t see the argument against personal access tokens.
Social media? So just anyone with no credibility, oversight, quality control, resources, connections, or training?

It’s great that individuals can funnel up stories that would otherwise be buried — but that’s no replacement for true journalism. Journalism hardly perfect, but does have a much, much higher bar.
No that's not ok either. That was not said or implied in the post you are quoting.
I actually don't drink, but when I used too, I preferred Syrah, or whiskey. I understand time domain based analysis is difficult for computer scientists to understand, and most people don't understand the ACOPF.

You can go read more about how all of this works, but I understand it's actual work, and the topic is complex enough to span beyond stereotypical litmus test viewpoints on both convservative and liberal sides, which makes people immediately shut down. That's the best way for media to control people, is to polarize them so they are mentally too close minded to even explore the possibility that anyone in the field of "clean energy" might be engaged in corruption. (oh no! I thought only people who sell oil do that!).

Exposing pricing incentives to clean energy could encourage more generators to increase performance and reliability. Right now, they throw away roughly 70% of the energy and easily 30% of it could be saved and put into the grid and supplied to people if they had any reward/loss mechanism other than receiving flat government subsidies for simply existing.

To believe that clean energy doesn't need a proper incentive system like everything else is fine. Europe does this well, but then the discussion should center around whether real time energy pricing markets should exist at all. To me, it's debatable. I think the fundamentals are sound, but it's too complicated of a system for the average person to understand, so politics rules the compass for how much corruption is at play. That's never a good thing. We would probably be better off operating like how Germany operates.

Still, wind turbines and solar panels could do better on their energy efficiency...

Acting like clean energy generators should get a free pass, free funding and never be reviewed on performance or reliability metrics or incentivised to perform better is like saying "my child is a genius. He's two years old, but he deserves to be at Harvard. He doesn't need to do homework, or work at anything in his life/ He's my son, hes entitled to all the success in the world because he has "potential" and is objectively more gifted than the other competitors".

no, you need to work at things, and get better. Solar panels and wind turbines need to get alot better. They have gaping holes in their performance metrics, all which can be fixed if they could profit from getting better.

I challenge you to a test that requires holding more than one thought in your head for 5 minutes. Go find one clean energy company in the U.S. producing solar or wind. The actual company who funds it, and follow the subsidy money. Where does it go? Does it go to power your home? Go find out, tell me where it goes....
Does anyone know what the cheapest hardware solution for buffer bloat is that can handle gigabit speeds?

I'm currently using an EdgeRouter Lite iii which reduces the download speed from gigabit to 130 Megabits per second when SQM is turned on.
http://archive.is/zHkHC
> Like, if you do type the arguments of a function, the optimising compiler will have less work to do.

Giving types for function arguments doesn't actually have any effect on performance: the compiler specializes on concrete runtime argument types anyway, so completely untyped code is just as fast as fully type annotated code—since the types are known when the code is compiled. On the other hand, giving type information is essential for performance involving memory locations, i.e. field types and the element types of collections.
That is mostly true for reputable programs. But there are a lot of unreputable Ph.D. programs. They may even graduate the bulk of PhDs.

And even some reputable programs will let some people "buy their way" if they don't qualify as for a fellowship/funding.
Discussion on the same story from NYT, a few days ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17697361
> We'll develop consensus systems that will be better than the old system.

Oh yeah, so the blockchain will somehow save this? (cough)

The best "consensus" system we've got for social media / forums is the upvote / downvote and that is a horrible indicator of truthfulness / factfullness / quality of something. Upvote / downvote is only an indicator of the prevailing groupthink on any given forum -- it is not a substitute for a reality check.
> Pushing them into some kind of not-for-profit

Health (and perhaps life) insurance should be not-for-profit, period. Healthcare providers in general should also be either nonprofit, or they should be mandated to publish their prices and stick to them, so that transparent competition exists in the marketplace.
Really very surprising that such a long piece doens't seem to mention once that the current crop of older Americans are teh first generation to live largely on credit, lived in houses 3x larger than previous generations, purchased 10x more new cars than previous generations, and have spending habits that far outstrip anything their progenitors would ever have considered.

Yes, healthcare costs a lot, and social security pays very little. To previous generations, such knowledge would have been motivation to spend less and save more...
When you say OpenAPS "works much better", while I believe that in general is probably true, how exactly do you know? Is somebody monitoring the OpenAPS fleet and its users? If something did go wrong, would you be able to recover the decision process that led to the incorrect dosing?
>In Europe I believe that insurance already may not discriminate on sex: compared to women, men's car insurance got cheaper

That's false. After EU came meddling insurance was raised for men to the same level women had even though men have statistically lower risk of accident.
> Kindly fuck off with your guilt complex.

This just not what anyone wants to see here at HN. No one personally attacked you, yet you feel compelled to spew anger. That's just not our culture. There are other places for shitposting.
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Haven't looked for solutions but 3 points can also form a line. Maybe there is a configuration where 3 or even 4 points are colinear?
So, does this not apply to Pages? Only personal profiles? If it applies to pages too, it's going to break thousands upon thousands of post automations for publications.
You'll probably need to give them an ultimatum. My SO isn't as extreme, at least in the same ways, but I need to constantly police the boundaries of their obsessions and, gently, push back against them to the degree I think they can handle.
Something like procmail (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Procmail) and a bit of scripting would achieve this goal.
Submitted title was "Blue light is toxic to human eyes". That broke the site guidelines, which ask you to "please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait; don't editorialize.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
> Although 80% of science students start their PhD with the intention to pursue a career in science, their enthusiasm typically wanes to the point that just 55% plan to continue in academia when nearing graduation

These seem like different questions to me. There are plenty of ways to "pursue a career in science" that don't involve academia.
Totally agree, and will use a real computer once I find pants with wide enough pocket for it :)
I relate very keenly to this and found this resource really helpful: https://www.intrusivethoughts.org/ocd-symptoms/pure-ocd/

The main thing that has helped me has been meditation. I’ve also found labelling of thoughts to be very powerful. If you can realize what’s going on and label it as anxiety, it takes the sting out of it.
Totally disagree, he survived so long just because he was near invisible, while being to some extend useful.

He got great luck that his scholarly postulates happened to align with prevailing winds during Jiang's era. From then and on, he was just an obscure speechwriter and unofficial chief of propaganda, with some "strategy advisor" cred.
Cool tool, btw your post seems to have been killed instantly by HN's server, I vouched it but it might have been too late
If it is law and everyone needs to use e.g. LEDs (see Europe, although it is still legal to sell std bulbs) even what you personally do has an impact. Without government level action ... difficult.
What about i18n/multilingual documentation with MkDocs?

Edit: Some answers in the issue tracker: https://github.com/mkdocs/mkdocs/issues?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=is%...
> All bad actors have to do is find lunatics with fringe views and keep upvoting.

Or just get bots / click farmers to do all the work. The crackpots will latch on eventually...
The F-Droid argument is the strongest and most evident among all. I don't trust Google, I don't trust Play.

The main point is, Moxie could take the wind out of the sails of literally all arguments in this page by publishing Signal on F-Droid but he just won't.

This alone is enough for me to lose trust in Signal.
I'm not really an expert on T2DM (I'm T1), but I believe the main issue is going to be that insulin sensitivity is much more variable for T2s than T1s, and will change faster than autosens can keep up with.

The reason for the mixed messaging about treatment decisions is that the Dexcom G4/G5 (they're the same sensor with a different receiver) spent part of its product life not approved for use as a basis for treatment decisions, and was later approved for use as a basis for treatment decisions, but only under certain circumstances. There are some best-practices around CGM sensors that the manufacturers won't tell you about, like pre-soaking sensors, which greatly improve reliability. And, counter-intuitively, a closed-loop system is actually less demanding of sensor precision than a human giving correction boluses would be.

For OpenAPS, getting started involves installing Linux on an IoT board, setting up a server on Heroku, and monitoring log files. Tech savvy is definitely required, but mostly for setup, and occasional troubleshooting; if you have a tech-savvy person willing to put some time into it, the can set it up, show you how to monitor it, and then step away.
It's unnecessary if you're trying to write technical reference docs. That was not the goal of the author.

This style was more enjoyable to read and gave more insight into the author and their perspective. I appreciated it and read the whole thing.
Is it just deja vu, or does someone make a comment like this every time an article is posted about organic batteries.
Oph. This is going to be bad for a long time.

I'm not an economist but here are my basic thoughts:

1. Inflation has caught up to them
2. The lack of stable planning for those retiring

This is going to devastate the middle class/lower class in expensive markets (I.e. CA and NYC where the parents support their kids starting out and in jobs where they can't sustain their lifestyle without extra support)
No mention of medical costs at all? I'd expect that'd be a driving factor as even with platinum insurance you're going to be feeling the pinch due to medication costs, co-pay fees, and other supplies which aren't covered, not to mention the hassle of dealing with insurance companies.
I reject this assertion. I am certainly not sexist, but I flag stories like these because they belong on Reddit discussion forums. Hacker News should be for tech-related discussion, in my opinion.
For me, Images.jl. The design is just great, and a lot of work (mostly from Tim Holy at WUSTL) went into the array handling code of base Julia and of Images.jl to make it all fast and easy to use.

I'll give you one quick example of the design. Images are just arrays of "Colors". The upside is that you can write generic code that handles arrays of Colors of any kind, meaning you don't have to worry about iterating over the color axis. You also don't have to worry about whether your 100x100x3 array is three images (at different times or locations) or one image with three RGB channels. All of this comes at little to no cost in terms of speed.

Check the docs here: http://juliaimages.github.io/latest/

But fair warning, it still needs some fixes for 0.7/1.0. We're on it!
Comcast customer portal vulnerabilities exposed sensitive data
"Is it possible to attain a phd and rely mostly on rote memorization?"

No, but it's possible to just be a research serf to the professor, and the professor will carry you more or less to completion - very little indepenent thought needed. You do need to be able to do lots of (well defined, but tedious) work.
Slightly off topic, but I read somewhere that some online video games censor anything that has the word "Xi" in it. Not sure if that is to prevent badmouthing him or to prevent Chinese political discussion altogether.
Is there any hope for setting something like this up for someone who doesn't really understand networks? I've got fiber service from my isp. Wires go in one end, and wifi comes out the other. I can get to the web-based config panel, but I wouldn't know how to go about making hardware changes.
Did we not already know about this ?
I remember 5+ years ago blue LEDs were pulled off of the market (at least in France) because the spectrum they emit in is way too close to uv and could burn your macula.
this is what masogyny looks like.
Yup. Not only that, but this is basically missing the whole point of computing, which is for humans to not do the stuff computers are better at.
I would have much preferred a network diagram with little buffers on the hosts filling up rather than the overwrought & unhelpful analogy.
Sure. Go to the Verizon DNSSEC Analyzer site and type in the domains of giant banks, like BankOfAmerica.com and Chase.com. Those are companies with security teams consisting of hundreds of people, and "authentication" is something they spend fuckloads of money on. None of them are DNSSEC-signed.

It's 2018. You think maybe they're just late to the party? No: they've decided not to do it, the same way the browser teams decided not to support DNSSEC in their libraries or UX.
It's mostly because your Facebook account doesn't have a balance :).

On the other hand I'm not sure what data you need exported and can't. A bank data export is the monthly bank statement. Most banks allow you to to export every transaction going back some years from the app or website. Going further back you can address the bank and they will provide you with such an export going as far back as the local laws mandate.

You're going to have some issues getting realtime access and this is the how I was referring to. Pretty sure Facebook doesn't help you with this either.
> That's not how Android app signing works. It's a "trust on first use" model, so once you install an app, any update must be signed by the same key or the system will refuse to install it. That key is held by Signal, not Google, so Google cannot sign updates to apps.

My understanding (and I'd love to be corrected if I'm wrong) is that Google Play Services run with access to root privileges, and thus can circumvent this protection without the user becoming aware.
You are an outlier though....

(but I must admit, if I did pull the plug on cable the primary reason (besides we really don't use it much) would be the fact I pay big bucks to watch a fuckton of advertising)
His push into social sciences did not seem very childish to me; it was more like a plea to have more explicit models. I haven't come across his editorials for econometricians. Could you post some references that I can read?
> raw chicken, diapers, feces, shoes in the house

That last one isn't like the others! You could almost certainly safely lick the bottom of your shoes (assuming you hadn't just literally stepped in shit).
Fair enough (though it looked as if at least some of the trouble was not inside IJulia).

I thought it might be interesting to try the Juno IDE, but met with a similar lack of success: first of all it told me I needed to do Pkg.add("Atom"); when I had done (not that but) the approximately equivalent ]add Atom, starting Juno yielded only a cascade of error messages (no method matching eval(::Module, ::Expr); failed to precompile Media; failed to precompile Juno; failed to precompile Atom).

Presumably, again, the answer is to wait a little for things to settle down. It feels as if it might have been better to get all the ducks in a row before declaring version 1.0, though...
China is exactly doing that, investing huge sums in solar to improve air quality.

US on the other hand dropped out of the climate deal.