skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The patient should own the records because he/she pays for it. And to avoid repeated unnecessary tests and procedures information has to stay with the patient, not with the doctor.
Forsyth did work as an MI6 spy, so the procedure may well have been known to him.
White House considering antitrust investigation of 'online platform bias'
Just to add to my list of links, the actual manufacturer website (1990s style design but tons of information) is

https://www.wittner-gmbh.de/
Even Windows 10 seems much less creepy compared with what Google's become.
Microsoft Focuses Azure More Tightly on HPC and AI
If you have your own server somewhere or access to such managed by someone you trust may I suggest using a meta-search engine like Searx [1] instead? That way you get to swat a whole cloud of flies in one fell swoop:

1: no personal tracking or profiling data for the search providers

2: no 'personalised' search

3: search results from several providers condensed into one list, i.e. more results for the same query

You can also use one of the public Searx instances [2] if you trust them enough not to do their own profiling. By default Searx does not use cookies but there are other ways of tracking individual browsers so that is not a guarantee for tracking-free browsing.

[1] https://github.com/asciimoo/searx/

[2] https://github.com/asciimoo/searx/wiki/Searx-instances
In many cases it’s because that’s what we demand of them. The “you get what you pay for” line works well here, we demand low cost so they have low time to build anything right. Long term impact is that they never fully developed into seasoned and deeply skilled staff. Then we complain about quality, its kind of funny in a sad way...
I wouldn’t say very. Didn’t Fortnight bypass the play store by using a direct/side-load install? Those things can only be done with design level decisions being made in a product.
I wonder how much this decline was to do with how heavily they embraced things like Humble Bundle

I for one never bought a Telltale game because I knew they'd wind up as either in part of a pretty solid bundle or even just a full fledged Telltale bundle. Can't think of another company in the games industry who so willingly devalued their whole catalogue as quickly. Assume the goal was to get loads of people up to date so they'd pay full price on launch for the next season of w/e but...
One thing that really surprises me with Google is how some of the old timers there (who very likely aren't constrained by the "I have o make a living" at this point) can still agree to continue working there when they witness what the culture has become.
But Bing is Microsoft. Aren't they evil ? :)
Maybe an antitrust break up of Google will be a good thing.
Ask HN: I earn 14K post-tax in a baltic country, worth moving to Bay Area?
I work remotely for a Bay Area company and get paid SF money. The CoL here is very low, my rent is around $400 for a 4-bedroom apartment. Have 2 kids (3 and 5 years old), wife is happy, our whole family is here. But ...

I want my kids to learn proper english and I don't know how long sustainable I can keep up working remotely. I'm always working alone and need to put more efforts to keep up with technological advancements. Second, I have the feeling that my career will get a hit in the long term and that I could learn more by joining a proper big-corp (Google, FB, Apple, etc...) I have the abilities to join them very easily. Most of my friends are already working for them.

I know Bay Area is very expensive. I made the calculations and seems like I'll be able to put only around $1K money aside (for $200k annual minimum while working for a big-corp). Currently I can put aside at least $10K money each month from my current gig.

My concern is that my kids would have harder time in the future to learn english (the younger the easier they can learn english) and that I might not be able to join these companies in the future due to ageism and not be able to keep up with technical knowledge.

So, is worth moving to Bay Area, get a hit money wise but increase quality of living (nature, career, etc..) or is it better I earn as much money as possible?
> But I speculate, a good collection of today's "chrome leavers" here already use another browser - and are just adding fuel to the fire.

Haha you got me! I did leave Chrome (for privacy reason) for Firefox. Not during this big debate, but during a previous one (when Firefox came out with the big Quantum update and it started to perform on the same level as Chrome). Though I haven't stated I would leave today.

It's not a big change like migrating to another country. Most plugins have add ons for all big browser platforms. I do think that you'll see a decent amount of people in this discussion on HN change browser. But for Google this is just a blip in the graph.
Why the iPhone XR is a rip-off!
The data centre editions have bigger heatsinks so you can run them 24/7. But that would cost a few dollars, not thousands...
Yes just make sure to inverse every trade they suggest and also make sure to stay out of MU
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bacon with your waffles? hot dog for lunch? meat lovers pizza for dinner?
You better learn Chinese then. Podcasts is $7 bln business there, not ad-driven.
Let's say we'd compare the carbon foot print of an average 10-kids Yemenite family with an average single guy with no kids living in Los Angeles. I'm not sure if the single guy would have a lower foot print.

Put it another way, if the poorest half of world population suddenly disappeared, would it solve the problem? I could be wrong but I doubt it.

My understanding is that what matters is not so much how many we are, but what the richest do.
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The elephant in the room here is the WordPress add-on market. There are thousands of devs doing a thriving business selling themes & plugins, all of which have to be GPL licensed, with basically no trouble. If you want a model for successful open source commercial development, that’s it.
USAREC works in mysterious ways. The exact legal definition of waiver vs standard vs requirement is complicated and fuzzy. This link from NYT (a fake news source, but sometimes accidentally factual) gives some insight in that the number of waivers roughly doubled.

https://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/14/us/14military.html

The effect on the army is unclear. Note that even during the surge more than ninety percent of recruits required no waivers. So you can spin the story as the number of recruits with clean records dropped from 98% to 96% which doesn't matter, or its a crisis that the number of troublemakers doubled.
But surely in that case we would all demand to be able to inspect this data that is being generated and shipped on the devices we "own".
Exactly. You can only make decisions based off the information you have. Heck, for all we know if this guy did go work at Instagram then the company could have never taken off! You can never be sure of anything.
Firefox with the "Multi-Account Containers" add-on is pretty great for managing multiple identities. Browser tabs get labels (with color-coded stripes) for which container they belong to.

I can ignore identity switchers provided by a site (google in this case) and just keep two gmail tabs, one for personal and one for work, open right next to one another. Firefox keeps each one sandboxed with its own session info like cookies etc.
Haha, had exactly this happen to me, which is why I switched to CIFS / Samba. I don't know what I was doing wrong, but each time the LAN connection to my file server broke, NFS would enter a state where any attempt to touch the file system - including umount - would just freeze the process and make it uninterruptable. This made even turning the computer off safely impossible, since init would try to unmount the NFS file system and hang.

Samba seems to have saner defaults, and does not hang if the connection is interrupted. I guess NFS was written with C and A but no P of the CAP theorem in mind, or I had it just misconfigured?
There's a gigantic difference between $200,000 a year and "I don't need to work again."

The "money doesn't make you happy" camp compares $70,000/year and $200,000/year; not $200,000/year and "I have enough money to never work again if I don't feel like it."
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Everyone's got an excuse for why they were in the right when they got a speeding ticket.

And you now admit you drive according to the speed limit having been ticketed? So it seems like what the police force are doing is effective.
> I am also not planning on competing with any existing app.

But that's not up to you. That's up to users and the decisions they make.
Could you also remove the "Show HN:" this isn't a free book, see first comment by anonytrary.
Seems to be a lot of horse dung involved.
I could boil it down to a thought experiment: If you could trade being alive and healthy today, for hitting it rich 10 years ago but you have no idea if you'd still be alive/healthy/happy today - would you do it?
This works if your machine learning is just for data analytics purposes.

The article somehow completely ignores integration with other services to query or update the model, which requires some API to be hosted on a static ip or domain, as well as the devops process.
Occam's razor is the simplest explanation, not the simplest statement.

Tautology has no explanatory power.
As a programmer in "other countries", you're very much wrong. You just get what you pay for, and when you're going for "cheap outsource" you get bottom of the barrel. Pay senior salaries, you get senior people.
There must be a cleansing.
I'm also looking for an alternative to GA but paying $168/year (for now) for an inferior product is not really a solution.
My gripe with SiriusXM is their pricing model (worse than the cable company). You only buy it when they have a special which makes it 50% off, that is actually a fair price. However in 6 months it will auto-renew at the public rate, snd they hope you won’t notice or you’ll be too lazy to call.

Their call center is horrendous but at least if you threaten to cancel they will magically find another special that’s good for 6 months. Wash, rinse, repeat.

Don’t even get me started with their additional fees that they try and mask as being regulatory/licensing. That’s their freaking business, to license content so they can broadcast it. Just like the airlines, it pisses me off when they try and pass their cost of doing business (actually the whole basis of the product) off as an additional fee.

I will never do business with them again due to these deceptive practices. Hopefully I’m not the only one.
What if particles affect spacetime only when they interact?
Well, it's probably warm and soft?
Treesize (https://www.jam-software.com/treesize_free/) is a great one for Windows.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_10#Privacy_and_data_co...
If the company is asking you to do things that you find ethically untenable, you should leave, even in full knowledge that the company will find a way to do it anyway.
Respectfully, those companies' cloud architects suck.

If someone goes to the trouble to migrate onto cloud, and then replicates pre-devops workflows... wow.
Hacker news has a culture of avoiding stupid comments (like this one ), if you call that unpopular belief then yes, it always happen.
You can't disable it installing new extensions behind your back without telling you, though. These are "system extensions" and you can't opt out of them.
For large companies to buy something, there's considerable overhead: legal review, finance review, management, budget, etc.

That's _after_ someone at the company has figured out what the product is and that it makes sense to buy.

We wouldn't want all of this overhead involved every time a developer adds a new package to an app. And if it were involved for all the thousands of deps most teams have these days, there would be a whole second team just managing the purchases.

As a practical matter, software teams need to buy dozens rather than thousands of products.

By grouping a lot of packages together, Tidelift lets those thousand transitive dependencies benefit, while previously only the largest high-profile projects had a chance.

This reality (that buying stuff has a lot of friction) also explains why Tidelift builds "fund a sales team" into the model.

Here's an interesting article from patio11 on enterprise sales and purchasing: https://training.kalzumeus.com/newsletters/archive/enterpris...
I have a hard time taking seriously any analysis that states x is n-times smaller than y, with neither being a negative number. That's not how math works.
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If you smell like sh*t, people will not come near you, and hence this keeps possible human infectious diseases away.
At the same time, it's better to be rich and miserable than poor and miserable. It is easy to have zero friends, zero romance and zero meaningful hobbies under almost any circumstances for the kind of people that end up getting jobs in SV anyway.
you can use the same argument to tell people not to vote. it's not a good one.
So I have a small content producing company and have three podcasts that I host and track user interactions. Create a lightweight curl (possibly oath) API that lets my server send your server real-time play information and stream refresh info. You will get better data that way, it’s like a Facebook pixel or whatever.
Thanks. I signed up ages ago for Superhuman but haven't received an invite. If it is possible can you invite me using stdin@neillyons.io?
I miss Grooveshark.
Engelbart. A Grocery List in 1968 Changed Computer History Forever
Wow,more bad news on the privacy front for Chrome users. I hate to beat a dead horse, but I'm glad I switched back to FF. I'm absolutely loving the multi-account container feature.
I think you can already build Docker images via Docker within travis CI, because they somehow provide you (semi?-)privileged access to the required Linux cgroup and namespace features.

If you are running within a regular Docker container commands such as

sysctl -w kernel.unprivileged_userns_clone=1

are not possible, due to /sys being read-only.

Am I doing something wrong?
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You could replace "SiriusXM" in your comment with "<insert your ISP here>" and it would still be 100% relevant. Fortunately for you, SiriusXM is easily replaceable ... your ISP? Not so much.
Post was:

> Latest version of Chrome doesn't remove Google cookies when you clear browsing data. I feel like Google is adding super cookies to track users even after clearing browser data.
Ruby on Rails or JavaScript and Node.js?
So much this! "Flick" or "flicks" is a reference to the flickering that happens during old fashioned mechanical projection.
Ask HN: Best personal website hosting service?
There are a couple of options:

- Github Pages
- Static Website on personal domain
- Wordpress/Blogger

It'll be a text-only static website. Does having your own domain name really matter? Do people take your work more seriously after that? All other options are free, and Github Pages is exactly the same as a static website on a personal domain except it's free.

I'm a student, if that's relevant.
I started off doing digital design but quickly switched to embedded software after seeing the state of tooling. It's not just the tools themselves either. There are folks who will vehemently defend the way things are and shoot down even the slightest improvement efforts as naïve. With that culture in place, I'm happy just having someone else slap a cortex-mX on a board and programming it with gcc/makefiles/openocd.
Im a longtime ios user thinking of switching to android soon - can you elaborate on android spying? All android devices? How do they spy and what do they gather? I hadnt come across this in my research so far
> Let's say we'd compare the carbon foot print of an average 10-kids Yemenite family with an average single guy with no kids living in Los Angeles. I'm not sure if the single guy would have a lower foot print.

If you assume those 10 children are also going to have 10 children each, and those children are also going to have 10 children, etc. You're talking 1000 people in 3 generations.

Every birth is a tragedy.
You don't have to say "think" rather you have to ask yourself big questions. Through continuous uninterrupted meditation (like a Newton type of life style, the symbol of idleness during his discoveries about gravity ) you can find answers to broad and big questions.
I think your pricing information might be slightly out of date. AWS Lightsail's $5 plan is equivalent or better than Linode's $5 plan. Plus AWS Lightsail has an even more barebones plan at $3.5 per month.

Two years ago you would be perfectly correct. The cheapest AWS option back then would be a micro EC2 instance at around $20 per month IIRC.
It's also healthy to cut back on (red) meat consumption. NHS recommends 70g/day. One proper steak means no meat for the rest of the week.

https://www.nhs.uk/live-well/eat-well/meat-nutrition/#how-mu...
If you want to defend something, in this case the environment, you need people to defend it, against those who want to exploit it to the max.
Having play services (https://github.com/opengapps) on LineageOS is not like that. You can go to Privacy Guard and deny any permissions from Play Services.
So, whatever bakery paid for ingredients, wages and owner's profit is still less that what you'd just pay for just the ingredients? What are they putting into these cookies, sawdust?
Yes we do. Just like Tesla employees get to critizise Musk for his Twitter market manipulation while still working their day job and drawing a sallery, and Americans can criticize Trump whithout moving out of the country.

Just because you are a benefitting part of an organization, it doesn’t mean you cannot disagree with management and if you disagree it doesn’t mean you have to quit or stop being critical.
There's no 'cumtown'.
Our ideal is that if a subscriber is using it, we can sign up its maintainer. The Tidelift platform is built on an OSS project called libraries.io which supports many package managers: https://libraries.io/platforms
Here's what's involved in adding more:
https://github.com/librariesio/libraries.io/blob/master/docs...
Show HN: How do you uploads your pictures from your pc to your instagram?
I developed a Chrome Extension in my spare time.
I felt terrible using Instagram on my computer so I decided to do that.
In fact, this plug-in is for my own use, of course, now finished, it can serve more people.
It named Instagram Enhancement Suite, I hope you will like it.
Here are the features:
￼
The first feature is publishing pics on PC, this feature was developed to meet the need to publish the HD original image on the computer. Because I own a private photography studio.
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The download function is definitely needed, which is very convenient.I added a batch download.
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You can do some settings on the download page.
Then, I think the PC version of the browsing experience really needs to improve.
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So you can see the front page has been changed to two columns, and a lot of functions have been added, such as viewing large images, downloading, etc.
Finally, go to Chrome's store if you need to. It would be nice if you could give me a 5-star review lmao.
Here is the link:
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/iges-instagram-enh...
you forgot an increasing pool of state that cannot ever be captured in a reproducible way.
Love the article, it's so true!
> why doesn't XM have 10s buffer?

It's odd because some of the first generation Sirius radios touted "DVR" like functionality, which makes it clear that buffering is possible. I would imagine they started to phase out that element of the hardware because of cost (especially since most are bundled with the vehicle)

In the same line of thinking, my navigation apps (Google Maps and Waze) also glitch out when driving through extended length tunnels (under Boston for example). I find this odd given that the app knows my route, and these tunnels are used by millions each year.
I wouldn’t call Microsoft as a company returning control to Engineers and product.

I bought a surface pad for my dad. Setting up was a pain, my dad had constant issues where he’d do something and didn’t know how to get out of it. UX was inconsistent. Bing ads everywhere. Yuck! It still very much felt like features were created for someone to get a promo.

Google at the moment feels like a ruthless data driven company. “Our charts show that with this change people use more google services. It invades user’s privacy and pisses off a bunch of HN users but who cares? This will make us a trillion dollar company, and it is working!”

And this is why everyone should fear Google. If they are willing to do this, as their AI capabilities advance, their actions show they value their stock price far above their users privacy. God knows what they’ll do next. It’s not the first time they’ve done something like this.

On the other hand. The current US govt is in bed with Google. They lobby like crazy. The govt will not do anything. Gogo is a behemoth that can pretty much get away with anything now. May be the EU will. I really hope they get fined for this.
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Years ago I ran across those extreme bilateral hydrocephalus cases you linked. As a neuroscientist, naturally they piqued my interest. I was skeptical then, and even moreso now. To my knowledge, in the years since those 2-3 cases popped-up, there has never been any follow-up on those original patients, and no similar bilateral cases have been found in the modern-era of brain imaging.

I will happily stand corrected if someone can provide any evidence from the last 10 years where any case like this has been documented and independently confirmed. Until then, I will continue to consider the brain important.
Or use a good cross-platform (Linux included) open-source password manager. For example: https://bitwarden.com ;)
My blanked statement indeed does not cover some fundamental aspects. IP/Copyright laws are in place and will restrict consumer rights. So pirating software is still illegal.

BUT AFAIK you can make legal copies for Backup purposes of your legally acquired software.

Also AFAIK a restriction to run Software on a certain type of Hardware is not valid in Germany. For example I'm pretty sure that Apple can't do anything against Hackintoshs here.
I upgraded last night and almost can't tell the difference, which I guess is a good thing.

Had to reinstall Xcode command line tools after the upgrade finished.
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>genderqueer

Forget the word "gender". There is only sex (male and female, no more) and nothing more.
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Well, in the 90s Windos usually required a reboot after modify a config setting, like the host IP address...
The open source part of our implementation is here:
https://github.com/librariesio/libraries.io
https://github.com/librariesio/bibliothecary
There are other tech hubs you should look into:

Seattle, Washington

Boston, Massachusetts

Austin, Texas

Atlanta, Georgia

Raleigh, North Carolina

Denver, Colorado

Boca Raton, Florida

Don't limit yourself to the Bay Area.
This is a naive, short-sighted analysis. It makes sense at the level of a singe individual or couple, but, unfortunately, the world is filled with other people. It may be unintuitive, but if you have an environmentalist bent, having more children is a better strategy than having less. I've expanded on this idea if anybody is interested:

http://www.richardjones.org/kids-are-good-for-the-environmen...
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