skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, because the FCC is preventing state and local governments from introducing their own net neutrality regulations. It is a regulation to prevent net neutrality in totality.
Isn't he also trying to say that perhaps the bias that some women have against male doctors might also contribute to the statistic? In other words, women heart attack patients might be more stressed or worried with male doctors leading to higher mortality.

You yourself admit to being biased against male doctors.
Hospitals to post prices online under new Trump administration rule
Ask HN: What's your must-have software for OS X?
Just curious if anyone has any recommendations.
Podcasters!
I'm cheating a bit with this answer, because this is really the industry I've worked in for the past 3+ years. But it still strikes me what camaraderie there is between audio producers, and even great goodwill/respect between tech platforms that are ostensibly competitors.
I think both phenomena are a function of the fact that the industry is more concerned with growth, improving podcasting tech, and attracting new listeners/advertisers (rather than just competing for existing ears/dollars).
Result: podcasters genuinely try to help each other, and enjoy meeting like-minded souls at meet-ups.
Also, see online communities like "Podcast Movement Community - For Podcasters" Facebook group (14,000+ members) and many more online groups with thousands of members. There's a StackOverflow-level generosity of knowledge/advice sharing.
Example: I shared this "Grateful for friendships" post after an industry conference https://www.instagram.com/p/BlxX3pjgr06/?taken-by=awesoundap...
America’s first dogs lived with people for millennia. Then they vanished
AI experts share what their favorite algorithm is
"Reverse ageism" is actually a fairly controversial topic in biotech. After a Twitter debate, a top VC (and one of the only biotech VCs who blogs) wrote this post about why he likes older entrepreneurs [0]

IMO he has valid points, but there are all kinds of issues with his analysis, but bottom line is there isn't enough data to prove either sides point, so there's a lot of opinions presented as facts

[0] https://lifescivc.com/2018/02/grey-hair-c-suite-experience-a...
As sibling commenters have alluded, this is actually already (and has always been) the case, at least for "cheaper", rather than "only possible".

However, looked at another way, it has also never been and never will be true, if one defines "digital network" broadly enough to include any connection between the storage device and, say, a CPU.

Sneakernet or "a station wagon full of tapes" merely increased the bandwidth of one segment of that end-to-end connection. What's usually forgotten is that it doesn't do anything about the bandwidth of, for example, the tape drive (if as many as one are freely available for long enough).

In the more modern world, it can be easy to forget just how huge hard disks are, compared to how much they can transfer. A 12TB drive that can do 120MB/s would need 100k seconds (almost 28 hours) to transfer its entirety.

The situation is particularly severe with "spinning rust" but SSDs seem to be headed in that direction, as densities increase faster than interface speeds (even NVMe).
I've noticed I feel great when I fast for an hour every other day. Sometimes I'll supplement turmeric root.
Surprise, 99% of people aren't in the 1%.

Jokes aside, all of the people I know who are in the 1% are the types of people who do at least a few minutes of research before buying things like Bose headphones. Do people actually order things like headphones on Alexa? I imagine something like "Oops, this isn't what I wanted, time to wait another few days for a better set" happening.
I don't think that's true. Bezos isn't sitting there designing Alexa from his gold-plated desk.

Rather, I think Amazon realized they're a huge tech company that missed the lucrative phone game (despite trying with Amazon Fire). They realized they could be first to market with home automation, so they jumped on it. But they're still an online store, so they obviously had to include "buying stuff" as one of the main features.

Basically, my point is: I don't think their premise ever was "the best way to order stuff is via voice", but rather "we need to let people order stuff since we're Amazon, and we're doing the best we can with the medium".
I sell on Amazon and a huge issue I see is that my items frequently get their Alexa keyword changed.

This is partly because I am not a leader in my niche, but it is frustrating because I cannot advertise the fact that you can order through Alexa. (My guess is the ROI would be negative, but it's something I want to test)

This leads me to believe that you could say "Alexa, order diapers" today, and again 3 weeks from now, and get completely different brands, sizes, etc.
> You ain't gonna win in education until you win at politics.

Unless politics doesn't control education... which is a direction we're fortunately slowly moving towards.
Ask HN: When does a rewrite/refactor make sense?
What is the biggest motivation for a major rewrite/refactor?

I feel the effort and time it takes to rewrite Architectures and Applications (especially when the entire team thinks it has been poorly designed to scale) is too high and probably not worth for the current requirements of the stakeholders and users involved.

I'm just wondering whether rewriting or redesigning architectures to a great scale makes sense especially with stringent deadlines and expectations.

Joel Splosky's blog post on "Why rewrite is a mistake" makes so much sense yet is a challenge on poorly designed codebases.

So, when does it all make sense to go ahead and rewrite?
That’s for a pet.

While labs have huge economies of scale—-I worked somewhere with a quarter million mice—-the mice aren’t just random field mice. Some of the genetically engineered ones are hundreds of dollars a pair (and possibly more if custom, raised under unusual conditions, etc). Xenografts need skilled labor and very clean conditions for the immunocompromised mice. $1000 seems a little high, but not much, especially if the work isn’t being done by an underpaid grad student.
The AI of Doom
The skeptic in you would be pleased to know those "post-ban" bulbs fail much faster, and live about a quarter of the time.

As much as I tried to avoid all of these new ugly light bulbs (never met a florescent that looked right, and it took me a long time to find an acceptable LED), I eventually just got rid of all incandescents and got CREE warm whites.
This was super fun. A little bit of feedback:

The text telling you what the song was that just played goes away way too fast. It'd be nice if it stayed longer, or if a list built up somewhere to reference later.

Also, I may be crazy, and random things happen, but I swear 70% of the correct answers were the #1 option.

edit: At 72,000 or so points and haven't seen #4 show up as the correct answer.
You can mostly block blue LEDs by coloring over them with permanent marker, if you don’t want to physically disassemble the device.
Brendan Burns was the Lead Engineer on Kubernetes at Google around 3 years ago, then went to Microsoft to lead this entire AKS/ACS/Container effort.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/brendan-burns-487aa590
It's amazing we have Bill Joy to thank for not only C shell and much of BSD, but also VI.
Have you filed a bug report for that through the Feedback Hub, yet?
I'd argue that Nixon wasn't in that boat, he actually supported formation of the EPA and such. Nixon's big contribution to the Republicans was his southern strategy (use of racism to win a previously Democrat south) and mis-application of domestic espionage.
First world problems, but “Alexa, broadcast ‘dinner is ready’” is just amazing. Or, “Alexa, drop in on [child’s] room” to remind them about X.

Also timers, light switches, and playing music to the surround sound from a Bluetooth connection to the receiver...

We didn’t own one when we lived in Brooklyn, but they are all over my house in the suburbs. I don’t apologize for my love fest. But I won’t use it to order anything. Add something to lists? Definitely. Make a purchase decision? Ha!
Blue LEDs are basically inappropriate for any purpose where they might be on at night. Making them dimmer doesn't fix the basic problem.

Use an orange or red light instead.
I've been ranting about Blinding Blue LEDs for years. It seems that, almost as soon as blue LEDs became available, Every. Damn. Manufacturer. decided, "This is the new style because, hey, blue LEDs!"

A blue LED isn't so bad if they tone the brightness down, but too many companies can't be bothered, or just think it's "cool" and "edgy."

I've heard of people applying a thin layer of black nail polish over eye-blasters like those. Fortunately, my main system's case has a door that normally stays closed, mercifully hiding the room-lighting power indicator.
The surrounding context doesn't really change/clarify that core message very much.
A small boat can stop immediately and recover someone in normal circumstances. Even those who can’t swim should be able to stay above water long enough to be rescued in such a situation.
> Do people genuinely run into cases where they frequently have to be hitting 3+ keys simultaneously to use Emacs?

Paredit mode has several useful ones for writing elisp.

- C-M-f, C-M-b, and C-M-u (forward-sexp, back-sexp, and up-sexp)

- C-( and C-) (barf and slurp commands)

- C-M-k (kill-sexp)

M-: (eval-expression in the minibuffer) is also a frequent command for me.

I've overlaid several keys in the number row with Control and Alt, so they are nice to press with my middle and ring fingers (as opposed to pinkies). I've been meaning to write a blog post about this.
It includes some but I can't imagine it's exhaustive. I think it has most of the Chinese megarounds

If you know of any good data sources for domestic china biotech VC id love to see it
I mean, it doesn't have to be like that. There's plenty of profit to be made in offering a convenient product that makes your life easier without being evil, because if it makes your life easier then people inherently will want it. The problem is that the [awkward] ergonomics of ordering things through voice doesn't pair well with the way Amazon works.

I think that's maybe why Amazon has seemingly decided to put more emphasis on home automation instead of shopping and rely more on the halo effect keeping you in their ecosystem. I think they launched the Echo not really knowing how people would use them and are evolving them as they go.
> If someone does care then it should be replicated.

It is tested in other forms, but isn't generally replicated in the sense you seem to think is paramount. Nor should it be. I'll give you a silly example - would you support a project to go back and replicate electromagnetism experiments performed at the start of the century? Say we do repeat Millikan's oil drop experiment and get a different result (which is actually what happened) - does this mean there is a reproducibility crisis in physics? If we don't repeat the exact experiment, does that mean that Millikan shouldn't have received funding? Why is it that replicating the result the way Millikan did it more useful than doing other related experiments with more sophisticated or different apparatus? The latter is actually MORE useful.
How does one read the actual charts? Some symbols are clearly shots on goal, but others seem like tackles or potentially passes. There also is some kind of shorthand with o's, x's, and the odd hat symbol or a square. I'm curious if there is a standard way of charting a game, or if the author just made up their own shorthand.

Even without knowing how to interpret the chart, you can still see patterns emerge like more action on the sides than the midfield which is pretty interesting.
Interesting. The kubelet seems to use varying negative OOMAdjusts to prioritise killing[0] but if I'm reading the kernel code right anything at -999/-998 would return 1 from the badness function and essentially be equally valid to kill unless it was using over 99.9% of available memory.[1]

I see OOMScoreAdjust=-999 for kubelet being used but why not -1000. -999 seems like it would be equally likely to be evicted as -998 unless the for_each_process(p) macro always goes first to last processes?

[0]https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/blob/master/pkg/kub...

[1]https://elixir.bootlin.com/linux/latest/source/mm/oom_kill.c...
> but why is it only ever a slippery slope to come for the Nazis, but never a slippery slope to let the Nazis come for us?

The more important question is why it suddenly becomes not a slippery slope when it comes to Nazis? The danger comes from inaction not our ability to question every action. Which is the very good reason ACLU has defended neo-nazis right to hold protest for decades (including defending the Unite the Right organizers in Charlottesville court).

If you don't defend it when it at all times than when it 'matters' (to you) it will be too late.

Besides I doubt there's more 'Nazis' today (or simply racists) than in the past but there does seem to be far more people willing to concede our rights in order to fight them in some extremely dangerous ideological war... which is perilously predicated on the current power structures continuing to be on the (far-left's) side in the future and not giving some future government the power to use the same actions against them.

If that's not acting out of a position of naive 'privilege' than I don't know what is...
Thank you, this podcast episode looks worthwhile. I did misread your intent, I’m afraid; otherwise the history of hysteria is familiar to me.
Yeah, I always assumed they were unintentionally DDoS'd by the bots spamming fake comments. Which anyone non-technical could honestly but inaccurately describe as "being hacked".
Actually if you look at their full sample data you'll see that women physicians had higher survival rates for both make and female patients. It's just that only female patients were statistically different from zero. And note that just because female-female was statistically significant and female-male was not, that doesn't by itself imply that female-female was statically distinguishable from female-male. (Though it may have been, I don't understand all the controls.)
Yeah, I use C-/, not C-_. Had forgotten the latter even existed, really.
The Hunger for a Bold Socialism
It's good to have reasonable goals and a budget, even if some of them aren't met. The funders absolutely know what they are doing and handicapping a replication effort because it went a few thousands over budget would be outrageous. There are still unknown quantities at play here, a large scale replication effort hasn't been attempted before and those efforts themselves - the extent of the effort required to replicate and the impact of failure - are also goals. Failure results, of which there have been several already now, can severely damage the reputation of prestigious journals and teams of scientists. They're not doing this because replication is popular, or cheap or because they thought it would be a fun afternoon lark.
The article mentions that women are more likely to present with "atypical" symptoms (which actually may be typical for women). Maybe almost all men present with "typical" symptoms or female doctors are more diligent about checking women for "atypical" symptoms.
A common tragedy in Australia is recent migrants, going to the beach, not understanding "the rip" and drowning.

These migrants can come from anywhere. Africa, Asia, Europe. The commonality is that they have at best, 25m or 50m swimming proficiency. They have never swam in open water, experienced tidal pull, waves, uneven rocky shorelines.

At various times, there have been campaigns to get them trained up. Its a short, sad life to emigrate, hit the beach and die.

(a second common fatality is rock fishing without an anchor or a life vest but thats Off Topic)
That's a sequence, though, right? Like, you aren't expected to hold Meta, m, x, d and SPC down simultaneously, you're pressing M-m, then x, then d, then SPC. Which is no different from some lengthy Vim command sequences.

(and in GNU Emacs, just-one-space binds by default to M-SPC)
> (If someone had, we wouldn't be having this discussion right now--he'd be serving life in a SuperMax for conspiracy.)

Pure speculation, and unlikely at that. There were dozens of assassination attempts against past presidents, not once has anyone been imprisoned for allegedly inciting the attempt.

This comment, and your previous one as well, are trying to criminalize acts of speech that are protected by the First Amendment.

Which is why there are no current criminal proceedings against Jones.
Force check on my Pixel 2 did not work =(
I wonder tho... are you better off buying paper towels at Costco if you have one available?
> While Emacs certainly still has a following, some people think that the Editor Wars are over and that Vim won.16 The 2018 Stack Overflow Developer Survey suggests that this is true; only 4.1% of respondents used Emacs.

I'm an Emacs user for years now and love the editor. But I'm curious about this claim of its poor popularity. The article refers to a piece from
http://www.linux-magazine.com/Online/Blogs/Off-the-Beat-Bruc... which bases its arguments on two surveys from 2013 and 2014.

Does anyone know of a credible way to measure the popularity of Emacs and what the usage trends are in 2018 other than SO?
Alexa is worth it just to turn off/on light switches, get the time and weather occasionally.....really turning on and off the lamps in various rooms is very convenient though.
Amazon’s web site is its main drawback. They have way too many options with many different prices. I can’t just order a USB cable because I don’t know if it’s the best option or not. I have to look at, at least, a few of them to see if it’s a genuine one and some thing I want before I order. Something like that does not lend itself to be ordered on the voice interface.
Ask HN: How do you implement a notification system in your web apps?
Not every web apps need a notification system.

But apps like CRMs, Social networks, Forums etc where a lot of things happen often needs an efficient way to notify their users and also the notifications need to be available in a notification feed inside the app (with unseen notification count).

Facebook has implemented a great notification system. With In-App real-time notifications, A great Notification Feed, and Native Desktop Push notifications too.

How do you do this usually for your web apps?
By flying I assume you mean flying in the USA because I don't have any issues with Australia, Asia or Europe.
Sadly there's a very popular group of people pushing for censorship in their partisan political battles online.
Ladies and gentlemen, the most expensive real estate market in the Western hemisphere!
True for for Trump and a few others, but there are plenty others who go.
Which is far preferable than Apple (FB, Youtube) deciding it for us.
iCloud Bypass Pro
"Alexa, order Tim Tams."

> The TimTam Pulse Therapeutic Wearable System Wireless TENS Unit + Mobile App Muscle Stimulator for Chronic Athletic Pain Recovery costs $199. You asked me to confirm purchases if they cost more than $15. Are you sure you want to continue this order?

"The biscuits! You stupid computer, I want chocolate biscuits!"
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Follow it up with:
https://github.com/iCHAIT/awesome-macOS
https://github.com/jaywcjlove/awesome-mac
You may be interested in this paper:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20700495

They take basic neuronal growth "laws" inferred by Ramon y Cajal just by looking at a crapload of stained neurons in the late 19th to early 20th century and apply modern computational techniques to grow realistic neurons based on randomly placed "growth signals" and an extremely simple rule.

Of course the next step is to grow groups of these "neurons" together with non-randomly placed signals based on some sort of input and allowing one to input on the other. I haven't followed up on it for a few years so maybe they've gotten into that.

To me this looks like successful science in action. Something that looks very complex (dendritic arbors) turns out to be explainable by a very simple to understand process/rule/principle.
I will use a voice assistant to add items to a shopping list, but there is no way in hell I am using one to actually order things.
Show HN: A Kotlin Based Alternative to Gradle Witness
Vox is a cancerous place to cite any political opinion...
Well, this is on the front page, the top comment is misinformation, the posters left out details that made them look bad, and they seem to be going on a smear campaign out of spite on every platform they have. at what point is any of this in good faith?
It took time for people to start buying things on their phones, too.
If Mozilla’s DeepSpeech is getting a 30% WER on this test set with a >2GB model... something is very wrong.
What do the reviewers do? They don't try to reproduce it. So yeah make shit up, as long as it is plausible no one will notice.

For example Yoshihiro Sato was recently (2016-2017 time frame) caught fabricating results, turns out he had been doing it for 30 years. He had more than 20 papers retracted. Also note he wasn't caught by a fellow scientist in the field he was caught by a statistician bulk processing papers looking for anomalies. So yeah big penalties if you are caught, but the odds of getting caught are so low you have to be stunningly stupid to get caught.
My feeling is that humans are not adaptive to changing game flows either.

Most pro games are played with a strategy that is settled once draft is finalized. If the strategy turns out not working, Humans did not show noticeably different adaptivity.

Occasionally, a versatile team can transition from a late-game oriented line up to play a split push game. But usually such transition is based on a suiting draft, which requires the team members to be versatile in playing their heroes in slightly different styles; and a well-oiled team coordination to transition from one to another style.

> the “simple-minded” snowballing-cheesing strategy

In the show matches, there is no cheesing. It's plain team fight + push; the AIs executed the plan with ruthless precisions.

TBH, a typical pub game is best described as strategy-less game play. And pro games probably have 3 styles of play:

- Team fight

- Stick-together push

- Split push

The most close team that shows vastly better versatility is Wings gaming, which pretty much run any lineups they feel fitting.

Sadly the team disbanded after TI6, otherwise, their match against with OpenAI would be the most interesting thing I can imagine.
Key Vault (their HSM product) is even worse.
No.

Nobody ever reproduces papers exactly, because you can’t. There are too many variables, and even though you try to control as many as possible, you can still be blindsided by the random variate that you didn’t anticipate.

Scientific results that are robust to random variation are the important ones. The ones that can only be reproduced exactly as specified are most likely to be “meaningless”.
Pentagon doubles down on ‘single-cloud’ strategy for $10B contract
> There's no way that can go wrong after a while.

Well, giving him whatever platform he wants has already gone wrong right now. So if deplatforming him goes wrong in the future, and puts us back into the same situation we found ourselves in before today, at least we'll have between now and then to enjoy things, and come up with a plan C.
I'm about 15 mins into the first video, and I want to buy the camera guy a new taller tripod. I feel like I am a small child having to look up at the speaker.

Getting past that, it's a cool interview. Thanks for these links.
> data race conditions impossible.

Are you sure? Using message passing doesn't magically make stuff immune to races. You Still have to think about atomicity.

Here is an excerpt from the documentation on my multiprocessing library, zproc.

http://zproc.readthedocs.io/en/latest/user/atomicity.html