skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>"You know that weird sensation when it feels like everyone around you is participating in some mild mass hallucination, and you missed the dosing?"

Yeah, Stanislaw Lem wrote a book about that, which Ari Folman made into a movie.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Futurological_Congress

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Congress_(2013_film)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IMMI8HWhqEc

>An EPIC scene from "The Congress" (2014)

>A short but entirely mesmerizing drug come-down, reality dissolving scene from the film "The Congress" (2014) based on the 1971 novel "The Futurological Congress" by Stanisław Lem. All rights to the makers.

Such a great movie. Quite different than the book, but they both stand on their own and deal with fascinating issues, and it's well worth reading and watching both, like Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep and Blade Runner.

>The Congress Official US Release Trailer (2014) - Robin Wright Fantasy Movie HD

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zkDyKWKNeaE
Nope. Our visible universe is bounded by the expansion of space that happens at the speed of light. That means we can only see a subset of the universe at any time.
Because he's CEO of an American company but acts like Chinese.
> “He was, in my humble opinion, a technology genius, a computer math genius,” says Martha Walters Barnett, a former TLO chief privacy officer. “He was among the first to acknowledge … that insignificant, unrelated pieces of data, when put together in the right way, could become a powerful tool.”

Hmm.

David Burnham published The Rise of the Computer State (ISBN-10: 0394514378) in 1983. In the "Data Bases" chapter, he writes about how transactional data (when you swipe a credit card, when you pay a bill) that used to exist on paper only was then starting to be stored in databases by different companies which, with the rise of cheap and fast networking, could then be quickly and easily combined in previously unfeasible ways. He specifically calls out credit reporting agencies TRW and Equifax, and warns that "the astounding power of these records is not appreciated by the public, the courts or Congress."

It's a fantastic book, and I highly recommend it.
You are always going to have to rely on other service providers for critical things - networking, power, etc. I don’t think there is going to be some massive move for every business to be in control of every aspect of their supply chain. It simply isn’t feasible.
Certainly not our consumers.
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Not even so.
"It's just cheaper."

Is that really true? We have a ton of meeting rooms and other space that also use up a lot of space. You don't need meeting rooms if people can sit together in their offices.
I don't interpret it as having anything to do with introversion or introspection. You don't have to be either of these to have the desire and ability to sit quietly from time to time (once a week/month).

To me, the quotation draws a link between the ability to sit quietly and the condition of being at peace with one's self. Enjoying the mindful act of sitting quietly is a manifestation of such peace, and learning to sit quietly involves tackling ways in which you are not at such peace.
That's precisely why we should be open to new theories and novel experiments... something which happens all the time in the scientific community. It's not a case for wild and uninformed speculation (as is happening all over this thread).
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I'm legitimately curious as to why you only learned this only today. We've known that governments have been taking data like this from companies for a long time. All access that Google has is pretty much up for the government to grab.
I have to confess I wasn't clear on what he was trying to convey without digging in a bit deeper. This blog post from a teacher in response to his post clarified things: https://denisegaskins.com/2008/07/01/if-it-aint-repeated-add...
Epic Games Sues YouTuber 'Golden Modz' Over 'Magical' Fortnite Powers
I heavily use both Firefox and RSS — with FeedHQ — but I've never used any of Firefox's RSS features (except the feed preview, but only incidentally, and it's nothing I'll miss.)
> Nice piece of work. The role of influencers in this study is akin to that of hubs in scale-free network. Diffusion on scale-free and small-world network have been studied extensively in physics community. It will be interesting to compare the results from this paper with work on scale-free networks.

Also, context is everything. A social graph is not a flat structure. This work, for instance, https://arxiv.org/abs/1507.03826, shows that how consensus is formed and spreads across an agent population depends heavily on how different network types overlap.

I also remembered this work on how rare scale-free networks are rare in the wild: https://arxiv.org/abs/1801.03400
Very relevant op-ed: https://foreignpolicy.com/2018/10/11/if-the-u-s-doesnt-contr...

tl;dr: Prior to the 80s, the US government was strong and never allowed American companies to organize themselves in ways that allowed foreign powers have power over them and weaken national security. Free market ideas that were implemented by Democrats and Republicans in the 80s/90s weakened the the government's power and encouraged companies to pursue profit over all else. That lead them to put themselves in situations antagonistic foreign powers could exert control over them to the determent of the US, which is starting to happen with China. If the US government doesn't strengthen its hold over these companies, the Chinese government will, which will be detrimental to US national security and public policy goals. Trump's trade war is a start, but people like him rely on a weak, disorganized state, so he's not the one to successfully see this through.
That's Windows. There's no such thing on linux.
>No it doesn't depend on how you see things.

True, my interpretation is objectively right, but I wanted to put it more mildly :-)

Though, if you don't believe on God-given rights and wrongs, it still falls on "how you see things" (and your interests), which is the whole point of politics.

>You can disagree with Obama, even about facts, but you were not oppressed. Trump claimed Obama was a terrorist. Yet, he was not oppressed. For crying out loud Trump was invited the correspondence dinner when Obama was in office. He was rightly mocked, but he was not disappeared :)

Well, people don't disappear under Trump either, so there's that. I made some specific points under which Trumps politics could be seen as better (being against the constant after 9-11 wars and interventionism and the pro-corporate globalization).

In any case, as a non-American, I mostly care about the foreign policy: stopping the hawkish attitude, and making a stand against "race to the bottom" globalization. I remember a time when the "left" were for those things too, instead of against them because Trump peddles them.
I can second this. I always take 3-6 months off between jobs for travel and personal development (given I stayed there ~2 years). I'd say I technically progressed about the same during these periods as I did during the preceding employment (minus the real world experience) because I actually really enjoy it.
I have never once gotten a negative response in an interview because of it.
I don't think you understand the difference between civil and criminal law. Almost all sexual harassment cases are going to be civil cases, where the only recompense a defendant can expect is monetary. No one is going to jail over a typical sexual harassment case. Now, if a crime such as sexual battery or rape was committed, criminal charges would likely follow.

If you win a case you get will get paid whatever is due to you, a wrong will be righted and people will move on with their lives. I understand that you may be dissatisfied with this arrangement, but we don't have time machines so there is no other recourse.

All lawsuits fall on a spectrum, there are strong and frivolous cases that settle and go to trial. It's impossible to make a judgement call without hearing the details of a case. If you want to risk going to trial on principle, you may find out that principles are very expensive.
I know this. We know this. The public does not. DM hunters never talk about such things. All the public gets is "we used a massive detector to look something in this narrow spectrum, didn't find it, and will try again next year with an even bigger detector."

Any new detector should be described in terms of the new technologies it will require and how those new technologies will be used elsewhere. That gives it value regardless of whether it detects anything or not.
I don't care anymore. (I do care. I had no idea I was being moderated.)

I use this site as a diary somedays.

I've had a moderator tell me to stop posting. I had no idea some Moderator could invade my privacy, and tell me to get lost. I don't ever remember any TOS. It affected my psychological state. It still hurts. I really thought I was just being honest?

I just wanted to help.

I really didn't think I was out of line.

I think I ruffled a few Wealthy Boys feathers though?

The biggest hypocrites I've seen are 99% of the Wealthy. They will steal the Timex off our wrist, and tell us the time.

I have no love/respect for the silver spoon clan.

If I feel the emotional damage is severe enough; I might seek out legal counsel? You Wealthy Boys are reading this now?

I love HN. I don't like how it's moderated. I never saw, or clicked on a TOS agreement.

I really care about all of you.

I just wanted to add mt two cents.

If you're going to Shadowban me, email me? Don't let me ramble on, and on?

And thanks to fao_. I figured they wanted to silence me, but wasen't sure until now.

I do mean well.
MOND does work a lot better than Lambda Cold Dark Matter (L-CDM)... but only for explaining the rotation of galaxies. It can explain this rotation almost perfectly given only the mass distribution: no tuning is required. Dark matter, on the other hand, has issues with dwarf galaxies and has no predictive power: you just fit the dark matter to the results you observe (Which is why you end up with some dwarf galaxies that are almost entirely composed of dark matter, and ones that almost have none. With MOND it just works).

Of course MOND can't really explain the third peak of the cosmic microwave background radiation, so it isn't perfect either. It is also phenomenological, with no underlying physical theory at the moment. Still, it's surprising that it does work at all.

I should also mention that the bullet cluster, which is touted as proving dark matter, causes issues for dark matter as well as MOND. The velocities involved in the collision are higher than can be explained by the current dark matter models. MOND kind of sucks at dealing with clusters, as well.

TL;DR
MOND is a lot better than LCDM at explaining galaxy dynamics, LCDM is a lot better than MOND at explaining the cosmic background radiation. Both aren't that great at dealing with clusters (but you can also make dark matter work with enough fiddling).

https://tritonstation.wordpress.com/2018/09/04/dwarf-satelli...
Interesting perspectives from cesarean born people:

https://cesareanvoices.com/

See in particular this presentation by Jane English:

https://cesareanvoices.com/SHOW-small.pdf
You're right:
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Thanks for the information.
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Decisio Health has created real time dashboards that identify sepsis early so that care teams can start treatment protocols and monitor what has been done when a new shift comes on.

It seems like something like that would be helpful for birthing. Midwives and doctors rely on their knowledge of past births and patients' health to make decisions during the birth. There's room for bias and error.

If they could have access to more data about similar patients and outcomes as well as real time information about the patient, maybe the software could predict or confirm a decision about which high risk patients were going to need to be transferred to a hospital earlier into a birth. Hopefully it would prevent unnecessary cesareans for women they can confirm are progressing fine.
Defamation lawsuit over “Shitty Media Men” spreadsheet could break new ground
I'm in Czech Republic, but I guess the practice will be similar in Germany.

It depends on the degree of verification you need. You can just post a scan or a photo of your ID, you can send a small wire transfer because banks have to verify the account owner, there is an OpenID provider that offers authentication tied to the real world identity, a courier can come to your home to verify the ID or any combination of the methods.
I'd say, "Vote for the people you distrust the least, and watch them like a hawk." You can't trust anyone with power, because they will use the power you give them to get more; why would we want to give them the tools to do that if they don't absolutely need them? Governments haven't needed to know all my purchases, my movements, my financial details, who I talk to, what news I read --- none of this is necessary to make and enforce sensible laws, provide for national defense, or coordinate international and intranational trade. They want this data so they have more control, i.e. power.
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In the face of extreme anxiety, I literally become stupid.

In a stressful situation your brain disengages the frontal cortex and falls back to an instinctual mode of operation. This mode is generally unaware of the modern world. In my own field of expertise sometimes divers with plenty of gas in their cylinder will tear their regulator out of their mouth. What’s happening? They are having difficulty breathing normally, panicked and the hind brain has said “there’s something in my mouth, take it out!”. Similarly pilots who fly aircraft into the ground, they have panicked and the hind brain has said “get to low ground ASAP”.

And after the fact everyone wonders “what we’re they thinking?” But the answer is, they weren’t thinking at all, they couldn’t.
What you think about artificial womb? Would you prefer to make forced birth one month earlier, when baby is small, and then raise it in artificial womb for month or two?

https://gizmodo.com/for-the-second-time-researchers-have-use...
We can measure it.
I have always been blessed (and cursed) with the ability to block out everything around me. It bothers people, actually, because they will come talk to me and I won’t realize they are standing at my desk talking.

I still don’t like open offices. I hate the lack of privacy.
John Lewis.
Do you also disagree that there is such a thing as an image of masculinity?
I've read so many variants of this same article.
What I find troubling is the recent trend of people feeling they have to be “ideologically correct”. I started to notice that attitude as the right united under a common party discourse against Obama, even when some of that discourse was obvious bs. I guess media could have played a big role, bubbling up a single “voice” (What a weird world this is today, where I find myself missing John McCain)
Gravity behaving like that would be a lot weirder than there simply being some types of mass we aren't able to detect yet. Physics has had a long history of predicting particles that hadn't been detected yet, and then actually going out and finding them. See neutrinos, the Higgs boson, etc.

General relativity being wrong would be waaaay weirder.
> Saw a couple of fights between flight attendants.

In flight entertainment.
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I really enjoy how this piece captures the sheer joy of programming.
That would immediately trigger a company ending lawsuit. There is zero chance they are using a service for handling PHI without a BAA in place with the vendor of that service.

Defending on the service provider, there may be an upfront cost for signing a BAA, but generally the service costs remain the same (assuming you stick to "BAA approved" services). In the case of Google, there is no additional cost:

"As such, we can offer HIPAA regulated customers the same products at the same pricing that is available to all customers, including sustained use discounts. Other public clouds charge more money for their HIPAA cloud, we do not."

https://cloud.google.com/security/compliance/hipaa/
As far as I know, almost every PDF application, including Acrobat, has had this capability for many years and it's widely used for the same purposes. In addition to searching, it also allows you to copy text.

Perhaps using Google's service is faster or more accurate, but it would be necessary to have a comparison.
All the link you're providing says is that uncomplicated C-sections are less risky than complicated ones. Sure, that sounds right.
AppEngine had some big failures early on, but I (and some friends) built a $$$$$$$$$$$$ company on AppEngine (and GCP) and couldn't have done it without it. The stability the last few years has been extremely good. Our base logic was that we trust Google to hire and train talented DevOps more than we can do it and it sure sucks carrying a pager.
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It makes sense, V1 is the hack (speed) and if it gets traction then you push for a V2 with different constraints and more market information (leverage).
I don't think the vast majority of people are oblivious to what the standard archetype of a white man in technology is, why is it so wrong to use that as context?
I think I bring it up because a part of the "Tesla Dream" was that you didn't have to deal with poor salesmen at dealerships.

But based on these stories I keep hearing about Tesla (sometimes) dragging their feet and so forth... I just realize that I'd personally prefer the dealership model when it comes to customer service.

Yeah, Tesla offers a consistent price across the country. That's good and all, but delivering a car is more than just the price. Its about delivering on time, with good updates and support.

This "VIN Shuffling", missed deadlines, taking of money ($2500 down and no information??) and so forth would be enough to make me angry. A car is a big purchase and a sizable portion of my budget. I don't want my time to be wasted like that, or for my plans to be upended due to poor scheduling. (Ex: If I was selling my old car, the exchange between selling my car and buying a new car needs to happen very smoothly and predictably. Otherwise, I'm stranded without a car for several days!!)
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With Abbyy and ocr.space Local there are good and (for companies) affordable local OCR solutions available. There is really no need to use online(!) OCR for sensitive data. Plus, local ocr is faster.
"The theory. This tells us that around every galaxy and cluster of galaxies, there should be an extremely large, diffuse halo of dark matter. This dark matter should have practically no “collisions” with normal matter — upper limits indicate that it would take light-years of solid lead for a dark matter particle to have a 50/50 shot of interacting just once — there should be plenty of dark matter particles passing undetected through Earth, me and you every second, and dark matter should also not collide or interact with itself, the way normal matter does."

I've always heard that the lack of interactions was an observation, not a deduction: we can't see it, therefore it doesn't interact.
Tokutek licensed the fractal tree under GPLv2 with an explicit patent license to make clear that anyone could use the fractal tree code. I don't know what Percona did after the aquisiton.
Note that some of the people involved are also the original authors of TokuDB [0], including Bradley Kuszmaul [1] , Michael Bender [2], and Martin Farach-Colton [3] who were the founders of Tokutek (acquired by Percona in 2015).

Previous discussion with the authors: A Comparison of Log-Structured Merge (LSM) and Fractal Tree Indexing https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9248298

[0] TokuDB Fractal Tree Index https://github.com/Tokutek/ft-index TokuDB Engine https://github.com/percona/tokudb-engine

[1] Bradley Kuszmaul http://people.csail.mit.edu/bradley/startups.html

[2] Michael Bender https://www3.cs.stonybrook.edu/~bender/

[3] Martin Farach-Colton https://www.cs.rutgers.edu/~farach/
In Zalando, every PR made must be reviewed by at least one other engineer. Every application must be registered which involves giving it name, a description and associates it with the team owning the service. APIs that cross team boundaries must further be reviewed by an API guild, a group of people that are experts in API design, this also applies to events.

Events go through Nakadi, which enforces a schema and authorization. You can further tell which services are subscribing to such events and through the before mentioned application registry who is responsible for them.

Additionally compliance with various laws and shareholder expectations requires regular reviews, to identify and fix issues such as missing documentation, monitoring, SLOs, data storage restoration tests (in production), load tests etc.

The scenario you describe is not possible or allowed. As awareness and adherence to these rules is also part of performance reviews, it’s also not in any engineers in interest to do that.

You’re right of course that one needs to be aware of that.
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WE’RE NOT WORTHY

I love this hack. Genius.
>You know that weird sensation when it feels like everyone around you is participating in some mild mass hallucination, and you missed the dosing? ﻿

Google Glass was a different (but related) product and I remember going to one of their "come try Glass" events and feeling the same way.
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The original story has some technical problems: https://appleinsider.com/articles/18/10/12/saudi-journalist-...

- It claimed Saudis were able to unlock Khashoggi's watch using his fingerprints (the watch uses a passcode)

- Apple Watch does not have cellular functionality in Turkey -- e.g. how did the recorded data get onto iCloud?
Preface edit: I'm from Germany.

Usually in the same way it's done everywhere else: name, date of birth, registered/current address, sometimes an additional pin/security question/etc, depending on who you're calling.

If it's official business you might be required to send an actual letter, though I doubt they ever check your signature unless you're suing them.

If it's online and state business (portal for unemployment stuff, state employee pension details, etc.), you usually have to provide your name and address first, which they then check against your registered address. They'll then send you a letter with a one-time password you can use to register your account.

Edit: Modern E-Business companies often require you to "verify" your identify by ways of Postident (you present your ID to a post office) or IDnow (you present your ID to a random guy via webcam who asks you to move it around so he can see all holograms, data, etc.) and can compare it to your picture in the webcam.

This is considered to be enough for financial transactions according to our current money laundering laws, so it's about the most though version you can go through.
> This carries the implicit assumption that all forces fall off monotonically with distance. Maybe gravity doesn't? Maybe it has a curve similar to a meteor impact crater: raised in the middle, a deep valley, and raised at the outer edge?

I always wonder about the interplay between a gravity well and dark energy specifically at the galactic boundary. If dark energy is in a sense "anti-gravity", would it not be stronger outside of a gravity well and weaker within? Would there be an interference pattern ( wave or valleys ) between dark-energy and gravity? Isn't a rotated wave just a spiral? Could the difference in rotational velocity at the edge be dark energy "pushing" the matter away to make up for gravity's weakness at the boundary?