skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm Chinese American and I've come across it twice. One time was when I was elementary school...my family started as non English speaking, no insurance (American dream I guess?). My mom was in great pain for a long time, something internal in her abdomen...I don't know what it was. One of my aunt's practiced acupuncture in China. She came over...stuck the needles and the pain went away that day. I don't know the details because I was young.

The other was me in college. I had bad acne. Even saw a doctor...got some cream. Didn't work. Took a family trip to China. My cousin says...why don't I try fire cupping. I've never heard of it...I searched online...what do I have to lose? Worse case I get marks on my body for a few days. So I do it at a local clinic. I did a few sessions...my face gets better, no acne.

Both experiences could just be coincidence. Who knows. I'm just stating what happened.
I don't think it is as simple as business models.

Fundamentally, there is a lot of content out there. So much so, that it is necessary to have some algorithm assist in curation. Any algorithm you choose will favor certain types of content over others (unless you literally choose randomly, in which case you aren't really solving the original problem). The question is what should that algorithm be optimizing for. We have seen what problems optimizing for ad revenue causes; but I see no reason to think that optimizing for some other metric wouldn't produce a comparable class of problems.

Ultimatly, the problem of algorithmic curation is a new problem, and no one has a good answer for it. Whatever answer we pick will have significant influence on the public discourse, because so much of said discourse is filtered through the algorithm.
The world is full of interesting projects, and you have to do triage or go crazy with too many things to work on. While I have a fair amount of experience with build systems (starting with a public domain version of make that I wrote in the early 1980s for Vax/VMS and MSDOS), it's not something that I want to spend a couple years on.

On the other hand, I complain enough about CMake, Gradle and similar tools that maybe I should. I've got some ideas to try out . . . . :-)
Its simple really, we need a blockchain-style solution to ensure that the populace as a whole directly controls the largest bot army, otherwise the future is just one dictatorship unto oblivion
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> Also: temperatures of things that are ill defined, like the ”temperature of the surface of the sun”.

This has more to do with phrasing it as the "surface" of the Sun rather than the temperature being ill-defined. The proper term would be the temperature of the photosphere of the Sun, which is where the physical conditions finally become such that optical light can escape. The temperature at that layer sets the blackbody emission that we observe.
> Unfortunately, it seems the ROE of American occupation forces in Afghanistan is more civilian-friendly than the ROE of American cops

You had me until race war but yes. This is true in my exp.
Why are carbon credits a joke? Carbon pricing is an obvious Pigovian approach to reducing emissions and it's what we'll eventually end up using, in conjunction with CCS. What's the problem?
76,000ft altitude reached by glider Perlan 2 - Higher than U-2
> Babylon 5 [...] the best writing in all of SciFi

This is where you lost me.
But that's always the argument people who want to ban things present. Bad people are using it. It's implied by the context.

The article's point is that good people are using it too and getting rid of it hurts them as well -- or hurts them worse, because criminals have alternatives that are only available if you break the law (or have the margins that come from black market trading).

And people do make that argument against antivirus. It detects things that aren't viruses and not things that are. Half the non-tech people with Windows PCs have antivirus and twelve pieces of malware installed at the same time. So if it has high cost and low effectiveness then why have it?
I'd also say it's also only easy when you know the right question, often that's the most important step in getting to an interesting answer.
> But the main -ve point of this whole process is that one round of demonetization is not enough.

1.5 million jobs were lost during the first four months after demonetisation. And you'd like to see it repeated a few times for the sadistic pleasure of seeing a few rich people suffer. But even that will not happen because the rich people I know have converted their cash to gold bars and more real estate.

https://www.livemint.com/Opinion/GWagxJq3AzHyM0w8RnUC0O/Demo...

> A few more rounds of demo, and crooks will have enough fear in even accepting cash for bribes and probably will need to resort to barter system.

A few more rounds of demo may also lead to a run on banks and destroy the nation's banking system and currency.
I suffer from psoriasis. Avoiding gluten made a significant difference in symptom reduction. I know that this isn't really "alternative", but many people do poke fun at people who avoid gluten.

Someone close to me died of cancer a few years ago. None of the many alternative treatments you can find online (some of them quite disgusting, but also the commonly mentioned ones... soursop, vitamin C, marijuana, etc) made any difference whatsoever. I assisted with some of them only because all medical avenues had already been exhausted (stage 4 pancreatic cancer) and she was grasping at straws and telling her there was no hope would have been cruel.

I'm not sure you'd call kava "alternative medicine" (most people use it as a recreational beverage rather than a medicine), but it's an anxiolytic drink that works wonderfully as a substitute for benzos and alcohol, without the addictive potential.
It's chilling but it will be a little while before we end up there.

The engineers (and friends) who built these systems are wildly successful, and as often happens in these cases, they now feel guilty about that success, especially when they're surrounded by so much human suffering (in a place like SF), which pushes them in a progressive direction.

But now they've discovered that the systems they built had unintended consequences and may have even led to the very success of the political ideologies they despise.

The cognitive dissonance working at a place like Twitter must be palpable. Trump probably drives more revenue to the company than any other person, and yet probably 90+% of the employees who work there despise the man and everything he stands for.

So you can see why so many people are on-board with trying to do something about it. But the same poorly-thought-out, gung-ho attitude which led to algorithms no one understands anymore, will backfire when they try to "correct" them.

Social engineering is a dangerous game. This country is a time bomb just waiting to go off and when Silicon Valley finally pulls the plug on Trump there's no telling where it will end.

(though I do think things have calmed down a little in the last couple years... we'll see where they end up after the midterms...)
I would object and claim the title is a bit Clickbaitish and short sited. I find it absurd that GAS can remain as cheap as it is forever. After all, we have to store that data forever!
20M historical artifacts destroyed in Brazil National Museum fire
Most orders to fire will be discretionary, in both if, when and with what to engage it’s fairly rare for an order to engage to be explicit and in those cases they can still request confirmation including from higher up in the chain of command (depending on who is actually commanding the mission) only if it’s a direct order would they have to follow it at that point unless it’s an illegal order.

Pilots drone or not have the best situational awareness and they often scrub missions and even abort after launch if the situation changes to what they would consider unacceptable.

Essentially any type of “fire at will” order is discretionary.

Pilots didn’t sign up to blow up schools and hospitals and they can and are directly liable for any collateral damage and civilian casualties they can and do question the intelligence and information which lead to authorizing the strike they’ll asses the strike package and they will assess the situation and the target to the best of their abilities before engaging.

Shit does happen, mistakes are made but they are by far not the norm.
> But pro-Brexit and anti-Brexit are two sides of the same coin.

Not necessarily.

For example, recommending videos that are somehow categorized "pro-evolutionary theory" would almost certainly be less divisive than recommending Creationist videos that attempt to "debunk" evolutionary theory. The pro-evolutionary theory videos would typically be substantive scientific talks or lectures that require patience and critical thinking in order to understand. The Creationist videos, on the other hand, typically use lots of underhanded tactics. They will attempt to mislead the viewer and typically throw out so many different arguments from so many disparate fields that it's impossible for any one person to debunk them all out of hand.

If you recommend the "pro-evolution" videos you probably end up with a lot of bored viewers who don't even make it through a single video. If you recommend the "anti-evolution" videos then you'll get a biologist debunking point 1 of 100 and a troglodyte responding "what about point 2-100?"

I have no clue whether the pro/anti Brexit videos fit that bill. But it's certainly a possibility.
> Jeremy Rubin is currently a technical advisor to Stellar, a Bitcoin Core Contributor, investor and advisor to early-stage crypto startups, starting a company for Bitcoin scalability and privacy solutions

Yeah... no. The major cryptos all attack each other, and B-grade cryptos like Stellar must convince the world that Ethereum is doomed or they themselves are doomed, because Ethereum is turing complete and if they figure out scaling many of the altcoins like stellar also fail, as ethereum can clone all their features.

Who knows what will happen, but FUD like this is dumb
You don't want people distrusting banks. Banks provide essential financial services and access to credit that's extremely expensive and risky to obtain elsewhere.

A big part of what drives the shady payday loan industry in America is the poor's lack of access to the regular banking system.
Global replace "Kenya" with "USA", the tale still rings true.
Pedantic: Clos isn’t an acronym and only the first letter should be capitalized. It’s a non-blocking switched network named after its inventor, Charles Clos.
Someone close to me died of cancer a few years ago. None of the many alternative treatments you can find online (some of them quite disgusting, but also the commonly mentioned ones... soursop, vitamin C, marijuana, etc) made any difference whatsoever. I assisted with some of them only because all medical avenues had already been exhausted (stage 4 pancreatic cancer) and telling her there was no hope would have been cruel.

I'm not sure you'd call kava "alternative medicine" (most people use it as a recreational beverage rather than a medicine), but it's a traditional Pacific Islander drink that's a great substitute for benzos and alcohol, without the addictive potential. Works wonderfully for anxiety.
I suffered from chronic pain that was starting to seriously interfere with my life for a couple of years. I could find neither a cause nor non-invasive solution till I read The Mind-Body Prescription[0]. It quickly and completely fixed my problem.

I actually learned about the book here on HN: I'm usually a very skeptical person, but enough self-proclaimed skeptics (who were embarrassed to admit they even read it) claimed success with it that I decided to check it out.

I highly recommend reading it (with an open mind) if you're suffering from a chronic ailment that lacks an obvious physical cause. I used it for chronic pain, but the author claims success with just about any other type of "catch-all" diagnosis that doctors make when they're stumped, like IBD.

BTW: the doctor is an American psychiatrist with a long career, so it's not your usual alternative medical book. But I consider it "alternative medicine" in that it's based on similar principles as some other alternative medicines and the theory does not seem to have any sort of acceptance in the western medical community. (The author cites his evidence, and provides his explanation for why the medical community rejects that sort of evidence.)

[0] https://www.amazon.com/dp/B000FA5SJS
As the turnout implies, the anti-brexit camp had it harder to mobilize, since the status que seemed quite safe and unlikely to be challenged by many, especially, being already in a pro EU-region. So a lot of people did not come out to vote in favor since they seemed their vote not neccessary. Asymmetric mobilisation and de-mobilization is a thing.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Kingdom_European_Union_...
We're in the first round of digital media becoming a pervasive part of everyone's lives.

People are just now realizing how harmful these services are & just how extensive their powers are. At the same time, there are a bunch of new services popping up that offer to spread power more equally with structures that are more distributed by design.

I think it will take time (like, maybe a decade or two)...but today's dominant services will die out through a combination of terrible events and user-hostile moves, and new services will emerge that build on the lessons learned. It might seem unthinkable right now, but I think the right dynamics are in place to make it happen in the near-future.
A page I refer to now and again about space battles in terms of science as we know it today is Atomic Rockets' INTRODUCTION TO SPACE WARFARE page [1]. And even before that, I remind myself to read Stross' The High Frontier, Redux [2] and Space Cadets [3], and ponder upon our gravity well's sheer massiveness standing in the way of putting enough people into space to even hold an envisioned battle. We're struggling with the energy demands as it is as a species just to move ourselves terrestrially; thinking about moving around in space with the extravagant energy expenditures that accompany war seems a bit premature to me at this juncture.

[1] http://www.projectrho.com/public_html/rocket/spacewarintro.p...

[2] http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2007/06/the_high...

[3] http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2010/08/space-ca...
That is cool! Now you have me looking into these devices.
Yes, did that. Nothing showed up :/
A small package for english variations
ROBLOX SHARK ATTACK
Wrote it in C++ too a while back (5 years ago ) https://github.com/tlextrait/2048