skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In your example, what is the measure for determining that routine mammography is net-negative? By what measure is "any individual more likely to be harmed" determined?

I totally understand the caution medical boards use when crafting their recommendations. However, I don't think consumer access to medical screening equipment is similar. In fact, I think that empowering consumers and patients to be more in control of their medical decisions is vastly net-positive, and as the article points out, the healthcare industry is going to need to adapt to it.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18076214
there are strong encryption apps though, and the bad actors are already probably using those.
I am constantly and genuinely confused about why people care just so damn much about other people's privacy.

What is it about privacy that bothers people so much more than the myriad of other violations that take place across the world, and what makes the fact that corporations are committing this sin so much worse than when individuals do it?
A lot of these list maintainers put a lot of work into not breaking things, but their are just too many websites out their to know if a block breaks one of them or not. Send the list maintainer an email - or if they are on Github/Gitlab open a ticket and have a discussion. I think you'll find many of them are happy to remove breaking domains. Of course whitelist is always an option too if the list maintainer disagrees with the removal of a domain.

Also, there is a popular whitelist project for the Pi-Hole that can make it more user friendly: https://github.com/anudeepND/whitelist
yeah, definitely made the right call opting to restore an 89 Bronco II. i have a lot left to learn about it, but at least its simple enough for me to understand and ford parts (even for old cars) are plentiful.
Is there an extreme amount of astro-turfing going on in this thread? I looked at the profiles of 3 of the most fervent supporters of this tool (comments by livin21, shyjal, and g0vz) and the accounts had only 1 other comment among all 3 over the course of years. Is this tool really that amazing that several lurkers have come from the shadows after years of silence to pledge their allegiance? Those were literally the ONLY 3 I looked at as well.
Persuade the Bill Gates, Warren Buffets, Mark Zuckerburgs to become the anti-Koch brothers by supporting left-wing politicians.

Support the land value tax (Georgism). Much of rich people's wealth is tied up in the land value of big cities.
From what I understand, all flights across the nation were equally impacted. My connecting flight was delayed, but ended up leaving right before my flight landed.

Interestingly, there was a very, very long line at the ticketing counter of Delta this morning. I asked a few passersby if they were put up at a hotel like me. Every person I asked was in the same situation.
Right now, It doesn't support that feature, Its in out TODO list after getting feedback from users
How do we as individuals “require” companies to be ethical? At the end of the day, we don’t have the power to enforce ethics. We have to work within the framework of reality and get everything in writing.
Use a different root filesystem. Ext4 is not robust against power loss, as I've discovered in multiple embedded Linux systems where Ext4 was used.

The best filesystems for robustness against power loss seem to be log-structured filesystems like YAFFS2 or QNX's ETFS. The design of the filesystem basically means that a block is never modified on flash, only obsoleted by future writes. The trade-off is that the filesystem has to be reconstructed from the raw blocks at power-on but it's incredibly robust. And the filesystem also has to be garbage-collected before additional writes can be performed. But as long as you run your filesystem below capacity this isn't a big deal.
With the bikeshedding we see for much less controversial changes in the Emacs codebase, I suspect it will be released around the release of Duke Nukem forever II.

Elisp code runs fine under guile, but it has seen virtually no optimisation work and does a lot of unnecessary work. I suspect there is an lot of low hanging fruit, but since there is virtually no interest in guile-emacs apart from in comments on HN and Reddit I doubt the situation will get much better.

The guile VM is getting better and better though. Maybe they'll come around by guile 4 :)
I'm not sure how to answer this as it would require more context in regarding to what you consider a malicious actor and I would need more details regarding the blockchain in question.

But in regards to identity verification, you are correct that it would be through digital signatures controlled by private keys. In order for malicious actors to masquerade as legitimate ones, they would have to steal these private keys. That can both be easy and hard, but that is probably going to have a relatively strict correlation to how much is at stake.
GNU Ring seems nice and quite cross-platform: https://ring.cx/
We're not getting divorced as much because we haven't had a lot of time to be married. I know it accounts for that in the article but it just seems silly to declare us better at marriage when we've barely had time to know whether we should get a divorce (I'm on the older side of millennials too).
Show HN: Honeycomb turned an outage into an interactive sandbox
This is one of several questions that get asked repeatedly, and would be ideal for a HN wiki.
Yeah, we do prioritize Mac disproportionately to its market share for that reason. It does sometimes happen that we have to make hard calls though, and that's what Jeff is referring to.

On that note, one of the key motivators behind WebRender (our new graphics backend) is that it provides hardware acceleration across all platforms, including mac (whereas our current Direct2D acceleration works only on Windows). So Mac graphics performance should generally improve once we get that shipped.
Ask HN: Is it reasonable to assume all skype calls are recorded by Microsoft?
There's been an uptick in privacy policy articles lately targeted at Google. At work we always joke about how Microsoft and the Gov. has access to all Skype video calls, but I'm actually wondering seriously whether this is the case. I seem to remember the architecture around skype is still P2P for voice and video calls? Their privacy policy doesn't seem to preclude them from doing so. Thoughts?
You're absolutely correct despite the downvotes. Of course everyone is allowed to voice their opinion about privacy, but people with power or money should put their money (or power) where their mouth is: fund an alternative. Also, "used him" doesn't mean it was not consensual in this case.
I very much doubt that “most” developers use “More space”.

Most developers in their early 20s seems plausible, but even there, I surveyed my team’s younger cohort, and it was less than 50%.
Whataboutism.

edit: If someone is using whataboutism (as the person I'm responding to is) there is no real argument to respond to.

Any modern day atrocity can be justified by saying that it was done in the past by a different nation. Saying that the US had done something in the past to justify a different countries' present day actions is intellectually lazy and dishonest and is meant to shut down discussion. I was just not trying to waste my time typing this entire statement out but apparently some of you don't understand why `whatabout x` isn't a real argument.
Not really an off-the shelf consumer router, but since you want to install custom firmware anyways, you might want to consider the PC-Engines APU2 board [1]. You can either install any "normal" desktop x86_64 Linux distribution or a specialized router OS such as OpenWrt [2]. The AMD APU on the board supports hardware virtualisation, so you're able to run several VMs via KVM to isolate the services the router is providing.

Of course this board doesn't come with the features of a fully-fledged consumer router, such as built-in DSL/DOCSIS modem, DECT, WiFi, etc, so your mileage may vary. It comes with 3 independent Ethernet ports and 3 mPCIe slots though.

[1] http://pcengines.ch/apu2.htm
[2] https://openwrt.org/toh/pcengines/apu2
> They’re a closed source, always on device with a microphone. How do you know it’s not always listening?

Your iPhone might be closed-source, but Android devices can be compiled from source and fully inspected.
Wouldn't they also need access to a device that already synced your passwords? That essentially switches your computer to be the second factor, albeit one that's more easily compromised with malware. And if they already have malware on your computer, you're probably hosed anyway since the passwords have to be decrypted at some point.

If all they managed to do was trick me into entering my master password on a dummy login page, the sort of phish that U2F is designed to protect against, U2F would still keep me protected while OTP wouldn't.
can you tell me how you got that running in some more detail? I also have a 2013 MBP and would like to try out GuixSD
Yes, that one is more similar to a Renault thingy, called Twizy:

https://www.renault.it/veicoli/gamma-ze/twizy/versioni-e-pre...

that has also an interesting option, i.e. the battery that can be rented instead of bought.

They are more like a cabbed quad or an upgraded golf cart than a mini car as the Axiom or Ligier (or the Chinese ones).
Sure, so emphasize the "duct tape and bubblegum", then. There are a number of modern software development practices that make software systems more robust as they are evolved over time. These are the kinds of things that companies whose leadership lacks individuals with tech backgrounds do not seem to appreciate enough to budget for.

* Sharding and clustering.

* Queuing between services.

* Geographic distribution across multiple datacenters.

* Continuous restoration from backups.

* Unit testing.

* Source control.

* ...

Those practices are not language or system specific, but they may not be easy to follow when using older technologies.
Yup, this is why I created Remarkbox (https://www.remarkbox.com) as an alternative to Disqus who just got officially bought by an advertisement firm.
Now I find myself in the unfortunate position of defending Facebook, a site I barely use and whose founder does not to me represent the best of Silicon Valley. He took their money. He should just shut up. There was never any question about what Facebook was dealing with its data. Never. They have always been explicit about it in their user agreement. He didn’t seem to mind when he took billions from them. I have an old-fashioned sense of ethics and cannot understand how someone would like that would bad-mouth the public company he benefited so richly from, when he knew all along what they were doing. There are no heroes in this story.
There's a gentlemen's agreement between nations that this is permissible for poor nations. China is no longer poor and now must act like a wealthy nation and accept IP laws.
It seems to me that we would should focus on is how to break the link between wealth and political power. If we could do that than a) we wouldn't care if some people were wealthier if we were all better off and b) the wealth couldn't make themselves wealthier by changing the rules of the game in their favor.
"growth hacking"
Not a lawyer either, but the license says that the "Programs" (meaning the JDK) may only be used for these purposes. Once I write my application, it will be running on the JRE, not the JDK.
Disingenuous coverage of Bitcoin by mainstream media
Thing is though from the other side even if you have good intentions, you still have more then one people to think about. So your loyalties are split. For an employee, it's only one entity to be loyal to.
How many times have you walked away from 9 digit sums?
You already know, what you personally can do - nothing.

Imagine asking what you can do, to stop the sun from rising tomorrow. Your question is not too far off.

The world is going to go, the way it's going to go. If you've ever tried to get a relative or friend, or gasp yourself, to cease a harmful habit or pick up a good habit (getting in good shape, quitting smoking, etc) - you'll know how much or how little you can do to stop anyone, from doing anything.

So really, the answer to your question is - pick something you know you should do, but aren't doing, and go do that with any consistency. Something that is unquestionably positive - not something along the lines of changing others. If you can stick with it, do one more, or do one less of what you know you shouldn't do. Repeat.

If you can do that with any consistency - you'll quickly become a role model to some, and have a positive impact on society as a whole, which's what you seem to really be after.

There's a path of violence - that appeals largely to young people, and then the path of peace, that one gets around to, usually when there's no more you can accomplish with violence, and lots to fix. Path of violence is thinking if only others were more like me, the world would be a better place. The path of peace is realizing that's a delusional thought, and that if you want to get along with others, that's a counter-productive way of living your life. Everyone wants to get along with others - not everyone is smart/wise/whatever enough to realize the place (violence) their attempts are coming from, is at least half the problem.
In no way would cruise control force an attentive driver to blow through an intersection. You hit the brake and cruise control stops. If you didn't hit the brake, you weren't paying attention and you would have go through it anyway.

Having controls on the steering wheel are much safer than having someone blindly reaching for a knob or touchscreen. How many crashes have happened because someone has looked down and taken a hand off the steering wheel to adjust the volume knob? It only takes a second for someone to pull out in front of you or for a pedestrian to step out into the street. The less you need to take your hands off the steering wheel and the less you need to look away to control other things, the less you'll be looking somewhere and doing something else when that critical moment happens.

Sure, the lack of standards suck. I drove a loaner this past weekend because my car was at the dealer getting work. The new car had similar steering wheel controls but some of the lever switches did things in the opposite direction. But after driving with it for a day, I got used to it and that was that. They aren't too complicated that it takes years of study to figure out. Look at the manual. Try it out while in park and you'll be fine.
There are still plenty of systems out there on Java 7, usually due to external dependencies.
I don't have a company car, but my office key is stamped "do not duplicate" and is a commercial keyblank that is not easy to duplicate.
I do the same as Tudor. 10 years since I work as freelancer, before that was basically changing jobs in Romania every year or at best every 2 years. For me the site that enabled me to have US/Canada clients is Upwork (former oDesk when i started)
Not sure where you live or what sort of company you work for but in my country & our company we cannot just have a fuck all attitude towards software licenses.
>Do you know who's going to gravitate toward projects with a Code of Merit instead of a Code of Conduct?

Who the hell chooses a project to contribute to based on its "code of conduct" (the notion which didn't even exist for much of history of open source)? I thought people write code to solve actual technical problems, not just to flame each other on the Internet.
that’s a bit of silly wordsmithing. you are technically right in the general case, but in this case we can indeed infer bad intentions. one doesn’t need to imagine good or bad intentions, one can simply look at the facts in the ground (even at the time, not later in hindsight).

he was preying on people’s naivete and admitted as much.
The US pried the textile and locomotives industries from the UK

This is the sort of argument that an eight-year-old makes to his mother, and the mother responds, "If Jimmy jumped off a bridge, would you?"

I don't know if you're an American or not, but there's an very common expression: Two wrongs don't make a right.
> The dithering on images is actually kinda nice. Less visual over-stimulation.

Yes, but does it also consume less power, formatting the images this way?
Almost no flights are held back for connections.

There's probably the odd flight that is held back if there's a large number of passengers that will miss it due to a late connection--and there's no later flights with seats available. I would imagine the cost of holding the 11pm LAX-SYD flight because 20 people are 10 minutes late on the NYC-LAX connection is a lot less that paying for hotels, especially when the next flight may not have 20 seats available anyway. Though then again, most carriers have gate pressure at LAX and they might not be able to hold the flight anyway.

It's an interesting optimization problem to solve!
FWIW, Piketty's proposal is a "progressive annual global wealth tax of up to 2%, combined with a progressive income tax reaching as high as 80%.

I'm fine with that.
You mean the clapper?
I drive a newer car (2018 Camaro SS 1LE) and only Apple and I know what music I listen to. Even without disabling OnStar.

Rather than living with an older car, I think we should tackle issues like this head-on, since they're not going away. Legislation, or just making a shitstorm for the manufacturer, stuff like that.

In this case didn't GM specifically ask people to opt-in anyway? As long as it's overt, and not in some fine print somewhere, I don't think it's that big a deal.
I've worked at a company which could be described that way (in aerospace). I know by experience that they're terrible at this.

They're not a software company, so not only do they lack experience, they lack the company culture. As a PG essay once pointed out (in the context of American car design), if your manager lacks knowledge of a thing, then they also lack knowledge necessary to identify a competent expert to hire.

The company is world-class at systems integration. If you want a giant component built in Italy to mate with a giant component made in Japan, they can manage to deliver the specs, have them built and tested independently, shipped to their factory floor, and joined perfectly. And repeat the manufacturing process, every day, for years.

If you suggest that the database should use a transaction for saving a crucial piece of data, they're lost. They've got internal policies that work great for bolts and wires (standardize all the things!), but suck for software (every software system must use the same database system, which we selected 30 years ago, i.e., it's no longer maintained). Specs are written like hardware specs which will change only minimally (we need a larger bolt), but of course they change all the time in significant ways (need to add a new core feature to the software which will require a completely different schema). Release cycles are literally measured in months, and they have a culture of hard public deadlines, so most problems simply can't get fixed in time, even if they're identified.

It doesn't surprise me in the least that car companies are having problems with software.
Even when they have more billionaires than the US? And who's doing the spying - some poor factory worker?
You think they’re not. You really have no idea. You just have to trust that they aren’t constantly recording and sending everything back to the mothership. If you can trust that, why can’t you extend the same trust to a smart speaker?
I would assume it's the standard tradeoff - if you lose the key to the password DB (be it an actual cryptographic key or a password you synthesize it from), you lose access to the data, and some people are more interested in guaranteeing access to their data over avoiding storing it with an external entity.

(I work for Google but on nothing remotely related to this.)
Ask HN: Looking for software to reimburse volunteers for a nonprofit
I'm looking for an app/platform to reimburse volunteers for a nonprofit. I've looked at Square Cash, Paypal, Venmo, etc., but they all seem to limit transactions on a monthly basis and are geared mainly for personal use. Thanks in advance!
Yes, but if you have a mechanism (either technical or institutional) that you trust to attach real-world goods to your blockchain in a sufficiently correct and tamper-resistant manner, why not just let that mechanism manage your ledger directly and skip the blockchain entirely?
IMO, there's an argument that you implicitly license others in making your code available in a package manager such as NPM which requires no authentication or license clickthrough to incorporate code in your project, unlike the .net or other PMs where license terms are presented and require click-through agreement.

Not saying anyone should stake any bets on that argument winning, just that it wouldn't likely be summarily dismissed in court and would at the very least factor into the damages calculation.

Will be interesting to see if any cases like this ever get adjudicated and precedent set.
Ah poor DuPont, who will think of the little and weak most powerful chemical company in the world. Oh the humanity.
Startups, for the most part, are funded by investors (the rich). Investing in Vanguard just has them put money into the top 500 companies instead of having to do it yourself one by one, if you're talking about index funds.

The other suggestions are good.
RE: We have an illusion of control, but do you know exactly what's going on inside the slab of black mirror?
I guess this is true (for most people, it's definitely true in practice), but the difference with Echo's is that it's not just that it's _possible_ that the device is listening and recording, it's that those are proudly displayed as critical _features_ of the product. We worry about things like "the apps on my phone could be secretly recording me", but then buy Echos, Google Home's, etc, all of which require "always listening" to function at all.

NOTE: I own an Echo and love it, despite being otherwise fairly privacy conscious (I know that these two statements are wildly inconsistent).
I have to chime in and display my ignorance: what makes RPG or COBOL so special that git or mercurial could not simply be used for source control?
Oh I'm not saying he's a saint, but that things like donating $50M to Signal are nothing to sneeze at or ignore.
Note that techdirt tracking consent form start with all options pre-toggled to "active".

This is in violation of the GDPR, is a pain to turn off, and indicates that no, techdirt does not care about the users privacy.
Maybe you should try watching the video I already cited, specifically this part: https://youtu.be/YxmXIgLEAIE?t=1404

You might learn something.
You must be either the most
naieve person on the planet or a complete moron to sell your company to an advertising company and not expect them to put advertising in your product. Of course he wasn’t noble enough to turn down the money in the first place and turn his product into a big buisness by himself. WhatsApp was literally just a user grab based on a ToDo list app idea released at the right time. Guy should spend Facebooks money on some therapy and move on with his life.
i'd say it's somewhat relevant in that it popularized the idea to a new generation of folks (like me) who'd never heard of it before. spent hours with pov-ray as a kid (well... minutes, then hours waiting). didn't know at the time it wasn't 'new' (it was 'new' to me), but also AFAIK there were no other moderately affordable home computing systems where this was possible. maybe it was a thing on ms-dos clones of the late 80s and I just missed it there?