skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From what I can tell the substance is in the latter half of the article:

> Streams began as a collaboration with the Royal Free Hospital in London to assist in the management of acute kidney injury.

> However, it emerged that neither the health trust nor DeepMind had informed patients about the vast amount of data it had been using.

> DeepMind Health went on to work with Moorfields Eye Hospital, with machine-learning algorithms scouring images of eyes for signs of conditions such as macular degeneration.

> In July 2017, the UK's Information Commissioner ruled the UK hospital trust involved in the initial Streams trial had broken UK privacy law for failing to tell patients about the way their data was being used.

Still not super clear what happened but it appears that google simply failed to tell patients about how it was using their data, which seems to be a violation of UK privacy law.

I'm sure to some people this does not seem super concerning, and to others seems very concerning. In my opinion this is a mistake that should just not be made. The data privacy cultures in tech and healthcare are so incredibly different. Personal healthcare data is regulated arguably too heavily, while in tech it seems that privacy doesn't exist. It seems quite irresponsible to me that such a high profile company as google, that already has a reputation for lax privacy practices, would mess up such a seemingly simple compliance issue. It suggests they simply either dont care, are negligent, or think they can get away with whatever they want

That said, the reporting on this seems to be egregiously sensationalist and fearmongering, and potentially factually incorrect. My initial reaction to that kind of language is to recoil and it makes me side with google rather than the reporter, although upon further consideration it seems clear to me that google / both google and the journalist are in the wrong. But i am probably in the minority and other people may respond to this kind of journalism. If it takes this level of aggressive journalism to raise public awareness of privacy concerns in healthcare, then maybe i support it...
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Anecdote: I stopped using OSX for primary development about 7 months ago and started using a Pixelbook + Crostini exclusively.

Par

- Hassle free desktop experience on par with OSX
- Password managers, music apps, etc available via Android appstore

Advantages

- Fast time to productivity because Crostini takes a few clicks, then apt-get everything
- Native "File Manager" integration makes it painless to move files to and from VM
- Desktop apps in the VM appear in ChromeOS apps menu without hassle of X11.app, SSH forwarding, etc
- Android integration to unlock the laptop, etc works great
- Hardware built-in FIDO U2F device

Disadvantages

- ChromeOS 70 still crashes once and awhile inexplicably (weekly)
- Android apps can be janky to resize
- Multi-display with Android apps sometimes doesn't work

Overall I feel more productive on my Pixelbook vs OSX.
So, the mainline effort is focused on Tokamaks with good reason. A huge population of the smartest physicists around have been debating this topic for several decades. Not to be rude, but armchair opinions here aren't worth much vs that.

Yes we have been building dozens of these. But that's also because it's fundamentally a very difficult project. Do you somehow expect airplanes to go from the Wright flyer to a jumbo jet in less than a dozen steps?

There's also been plenty of research into alternatives. Germany is building a stellarator.

There's also a whole cohort of startups looking at more speculative ideas.

I'm not saying there can't or shouldn't be more research into more alternatives. I am saying it's unreasonable to look at tokamak research as some sort of dead horse we're flogging.
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While Obsidian "made" it, it used the same engine/code/technology as Fallout 3.
I posted this article partly in response to the recent one about Glyphosate affecting bees’ gut microbes.

One hypothesis about the cause of colony collapse disorder is that a number of environmental factors (possibly including glyphosate use) are combining to weaken the immune systems of bees, as well as increasing the number of disease-carrying parasites they are exposed to.

The studies done by Stamets, while small-scale, show remarkable decreases in virus load, making for healthier bees. This article is both recent and a good write up of the whole tale. You can hear Stamets tell it himself in any number of videos, but he takes about an hour to do it. He does show more in-depth data than what’s in the article.
You violate the terms of their service when you use a fake name. If you don't want to use your real information, pay $1000 for a full sequencing. Their rates are lower because they're able to subsidize consumers with selling aggregate information to drug companies for rapid drug prototyping and development.

EDIT: I am astounded by the entitlement complex exhibited in the replies to this. You don't have to agree to their terms, but don't use the service if you don't. Especially don't be infuriated that they're not holding up their end of the bargain (supposedly not destroying samples) when you flatly decided not to as well (fake name). I don't understand why that is a difficult concept to accept.
> Latest commit 16451d8 on Mar 29, 2016

I'm all for keeping old things around and that includes Flash stuff (look at my user name). But Shumway is super dead.

I believe there are more active projects going you might want to check out if you're looking to keep Flash alive/around.

Alternatives:

* https://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/otherversions/ (yeah, still works!)

* https://github.com/lightspark/lightspark

* https://wiki.debian.org/PepperFlashPlayer
I lived in a $3000/mo condo that was a 45 minute BART ride away. By myself. Without stock options.

There are ways to live in the bay, but I'm looking forward to SF trying new ways to content with the street life problems there. Ultimately, it was definitely a discouraging element of life in the city.
There is a world outside of Intel, especially back in the 80's and 90's...
Cheap, light, low powered/long battery life.
As if Snap didn't have enought trouble already. An investigation
When you write immigrants do you mean undocumented immigrants? It's confusing because your next clause is about undocumented workers so we the reader are left unclear.

My personal experience just from San Jose is there are a lot of immigrant homeless from southeast Asia, Mexico, and central America, it just depends on what neighborhood one visits.

Also, people who actually interviewed homeless, found something different from your speculation (I am assuming you didn't actually talk to a lot of homeless people), this story is just Los Angeles but there were a lot of other news stories and it's obviously an issue because the federal government made undocumented immigrants not eligible for federal aid in 1996.

https://www.scpr.org/news/2016/07/14/62582/immigrants-a-larg...
In EU I like the growth prospects and environment for E-commerce - of course, riding the wave while differentiating from what Amazon is aiming to achieve...
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Doctor Rhonda Patrick's website allows you to upload your data to and have additional analysis done:
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At least for Rome and Sparta, it was a small group of elite families that lorded over the mass of people. In addition, the Greeks and Romans considered their representative form of government to be the exception among their neighbors and took great pride in it.
Hi there! I'm the lead author on the paper that Seif (expertly) implements. You're right that my Python implementation isn't at all optimized, as I was more interested in the theory, though I think Seif's Go implementation does much better.

HyperLogLogs are normally used for intersections through inclusion-exclusion (though there are more sophisticated methods out there). As such, it is really good when the two sets A and B being intersected are about the same size and the intersection is large. It performs poorly when |A ^ B| << |A v B| because inclusion-exclusion means that a small error in the union size results in a large relative error in the intersection size.

HyperLogLog uses 6 bits per bucket in normal use. For our purposes, the rule of thumb we propose uses 16 bits per bucket. So we lose a factor of ~3 on the number of buckets. In exchange, we don't lose as much accuracy when |A ^ B| << |A v B| and also do much better for multi-set intersections (where inclusion-exclusion becomes unwieldy).

As an aside, there are a bunch of other really cool Jaccard index fingerprinting methods out there that are asymptotically better even than HyperMinHash. But, they aren't as easy to work with and lack some of the other nice properties of MinHash.
In case you're interested in the technical guts of crostini, I gave a recorded talk to the NYLUG: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WwrXqDERFm8
Happy Chromebook user here. I use the Asus c213 as my daily driver now. I do the heavy lifting on a Linux server.

Crostini made it all click for the mobile development environment. VS Code was the last piece of the workflow that I was missing.

Now, I've got a rugged laptop with rubberized edges and some water resistance. I take this thing into environments I would never have taken any other laptop. I don't worry about this laptop and I love that.
I think it's great to hear this number, as long as it's accurate. A lot of regular folks probably think we spend very little on homeless people, so they think anything we do to help will be a net cost and more taxes. Getting people aware that we spend money either way is very helpful because then you can make arguments about how to save money. If we spend 40K right now, then how much can we save if we spend $10K a year instead in free housing. I.e. what SLC did.
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No one is dismissing technology. My point is that humans are terrible at assessing risk.

The Japanese built Fukushima to standards that they felt were acceptable, and they were wrong and now the ocean is being polluted for the next thousands of years with the continuous risk of things getting worse at Fukushima.

In the same manner, they may be building this fusion reactor or LHC with what they feel is acceptable risk, but could they be wrong, with extremely catastrophic results? This is something I don't know but would love to know the answer to.
If it makes you feel any better I did the same a few years ago and echo your sentiments exactly. They like to sneak the shit and its derivatives into all sorts of things. It took a little effort to educate myself but by and large the stuff with palm oil in it tends to be garbage you don't need. There are more of us out there and seeing this news proves we aren't alone!
Now if only the textiles industries would follow through with some commitment to environmental sustainability in that same reigon.
This is very close to my recipe too! I keep a ~8 litre container in the fridge with dough always ready to go (pizza or bread). Whenever it runs low 2 lb flour, 1.5 Tbsp salt, 4-3/4 cup warm-ish water. You can add yeast or not. If it's still new 1.5 Tbsp yeast though I've had great results with far less or none if the container still has old dough in it.

I love that the dough is always there ready to bake something yummy whenever I want.
The PR department is ready to crank out another "We can do better. We'll learn from this" SV non-apology.
In Gödel's collected works vol. 2 one has the detailed argument by transfinite induction up to the first inaccesible ordinal. Interesting to have this as guidemap.
1990 you say.... maybe the programmer was just an MC Hammer fan.
Are you kidding? It's the current governments policy that has caused all of their issues. Their "rule of law" is the problem.
If you've made a long distance call at any point in the last 20 years (including today) you have decent odds that the call went thru a DMS.
It's a side effect of empty strings and nulls being different on Postgres, but not on Oracle.
Did he say 75% off? Can some elaborate the discount?
I've used chromebooks as my primary laptops for dev stuff for ~7 years now. No regrets, but there are tradeoffs that are worth considering.

Things in my situation that I think make this work well are:
I have a "real" machine in a desktop (or a work laptop, if that's what an employer gives me), I don't consider any laptop my primary personal machine in any case. I'm happy running what I want in a linux CLI-only environment. (You _can_ do gui, but you start pushing the hardware limits of the lower end machines pretty hard.) I want a light, cheap, reasonably secure, and ultimately disposable machine that I'm not concerned about tossing around, throwing in my backpack, leaving out on a coffee shop table while i use the restroom, etc...

Issues I've hit:
Poor/no docker support. I've just remoted back to home for things that need it and that works, but isn't ideal if you want to work disconnected. Occasional linux apps that require an X server -- either don't offer a CLI or do something stupid where even the CLI tries to connect to X. Internal storage tends to be limited and non-upgradable, SD cards are the portable option, but slow, and lugging around an external HD is a pain.

(Also, I haven't actually played with the new crostini stuff at all yet. I'm still on an older machine with crouton.)
What you perceive as agreement and/or similarities in perception, is just your perception. Furthermore it says nothing about how much we can agree on and understand.

Sure, you could list a finite number of things humans perceive in a similar way, based on your own perception, but what about the possibly infinite number of things that humans don't perceive the same way or agree on?
Your comment and mine are currently next to one another in this thread. Having just come from SaMo I can attest to your experience. Your insight that homelessness in LA almost has its own definition is spot on. It might be part of why the conversation on this topic is so complicated.
If I remember correctly original Phantasmagoria release that I still have had like 7 discs.
The cost of the current homeless situation can also be measured in human lives
> I'm pretty comfortable with the idea that free societies should not economically support oppressive ones.

That is a great idea. Except it's not really what's at play here. If it were, then the US would ban all imports from China, and not just ones where it feels it needs to maintain a strategic advantage. It would also stop supporting Saudis.

I believe what GP is trying to communicate is that US struggle against Chinese government for maintaining top superpower status, thinly veiled as concern for human rights, is unnecessarily hurting Chinese people.
If that's so, why is a real name necessary?
What if the oracle stops working or gives inconsistent results?

Do you think having to rely on oracles is a major flaw in that they will become trust authorities?
I think you're underestimating the real estate market. A significant reason new developments cost so much is that the land they are built upon costs so much.

For example, in Portland Oregon, where I live, most new developments are being built on expensive real estate in central areas. As a result the apartments built there, even if they aren't particularly nice, end up going for high amounts. This is due to non-physical assets, like location and proximity to public transportation.

Your solution would give free reign to developers to cut costs and still rent the housing out for exorbitant amounts because the housing market in SF is already so ridiculous. It would take a lot more than 1 square mile to significantly affect the market.
It's real annoying when Chrome crashes (which it does once or twice a week on average) because it restarts all your Android apps as well !
Or you can start your own utility and be the change you want to see in the world. A lifestyle business does not appear to be out of reach for those with some technical skills and a modest budget[0].
[0] https://startyourownisp.com/
Another problem is the conflation of homelessness with heroine users. Forget the professional homeless (which my fiancee's parents have been at times). The problem is we treat both as "homeless" when they are very different animals. Social programs tend to elevate and help those who can be and it doesn't look like a dent is made because, statistically, the remaining homeless are either deranged (renting to newly rehabilitated homeless has wrecked properties I managed) or drug users.

>You can start by not judging the homeless.

It's not a complex topic, but the judgement is based on information and the existing information speaks volumes.
I'd say that one needs prior knowledge to follow maybe 70% of HN posts. And some of it's quite arcane.

I could have linked the Wikipedia article, but that's getting pretty close to LMGTFY, no?
+1

DrNuke, please reconsider what you’re doing here.

3 years is hardly enough to understand the cyber security problem space, let alone build useful products/solutions.

At best, they’ll fleece some unaware VCs, sell rubbish to companies via flashy PR, and exit or collapse.

This field is hard.
Original article (with more data than this comment piece): https://www.axios.com/corporate-america-blockchain-bitcoin-f...
No, anarchy is not a solution to over-regulation. If it were, then we would not have regulations. Markets are not a solution for all problems: market failures are quite real, and no, they are not all caused by government.
Since it doesn't sound like they have strong domain expertise in any area, I'm going to recommend eCommerce. If you can create a fad (e.g. fidget spinners, Razor scooters, ICO, etc.) and quickly capitalize on it that's going to be the quickest way to make $10mm+.

It's a heavily luck-based plan, but if there was a no-luck 3-year plan to making $10mm+ we would all be doing that instead of whatever we're doing now.
Ask HN: Opensource video streaming options?
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I understand. It was partially a tongue in cheek remark :)
I will be honest. I bought my Pixelbook mostly due to the aesthetics and features(most of which I no longer use e.g. tablet mode and pen support). I loved it for a long time. My laptop was mostly a browsing machine anyway so ChromeOS was perfect. I did use it as a dumb terminal to remote into my main dev machine. Then Crostini came around and I do enjoy being able to just develop on my Pixelbook. However, for some reason I keep wishing I had bought a Macbook instead. While I do have a soft spot for Macbooks (had two previously) there are just certain things that are limited in Crostini, and it is far from a finished product yet. If I were making my choice today I would definitely get a Macbook even with crostini on Chromebooks.
TDD need to die.
This is a curse.

There should be integration tests along with some property based tests and fuzzy tests. Usually catches a lot of things.Invest in monitoring and alerts too.

TDD is like relying on debugger to solve your problem. Is debugger a good tool? yes,it is a great tool. But using it as an excuse to avoid understanding what happens under the hood is plain wrong.

The problem lies in industry where software engineering is not given any value but whoteboarding and solving puzzles is.

Software engineering is a craft honed over years of making mistakes and learning from them. You want code asap, kick experience engineers get codemonkeys in and get a MVP.

Quality is not clever algorithm, but clear conscise logic. Code should follow the logic, not the other way around.

Clear > clever.
Yeah you are probably right about that.
That'd open up quite the can of worms, for me ;)

And I'm just a punter.
With all due respect WSL will always be behind Google's implementation. WSL implements a subset of linux syscalls to get compatibility. Crostini's guest OS is a Debian image so there are less compatibility challenges than WSL.
They can probably build some snake oil in 3 years.
That's just in the beginning. Not every regulation saves lives - some are just on the books to protect rent seeking entities and lobbyists, and some are just there because they've always been there.
I am a South Asian. It told me I was of South Asian ancestry. Was hoping for something more specific than that.

I love me some coffee (drink more than 3 cups a day), and it said I am very likely to consume less caffeine.
It also told me I have a high chance of having smooth hair, but I have extremely curly hair.

And I am extremely skeptical of their traits in general. Some of the traits include: "cilantro taste aversion", "misophobia" (likely to hate chewing sounds), "ability to match musical pitch", "fear of heights" etc.

I am guessing they find correlations between survey answers and presence of genetic markers. A lot of these traits would also be affected by nurture not nature.

Overall, I am not happy with the experience. I don't know if it is the current state of technology or regulatory concerns holding them back from releasing better results. Another reason for their lack of specificity could be the absence of South Asian data in their datasets. Most of the disease diagnosis is targeted towards people with Ashkenazi Jewish descent. Probably because they are much more present in their datasets.

Either way it seems like a lose-lose for me because on one hand I am getting mediocre results, but on the other I am relinquishing my privacy.
"No Luck 3 Year $10M" sounds like the new 4 Hour Work Week.
How does Blizzard/Activision do their patching? In WoW, the game will go from red (patching) to yellow (playable) usually before half of the patch is downloaded and they are just modifying existing files that may be 10+GB. The patches are usually quite small by comparison. (50MB to a frew hundred MB)
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My father had Factor V Leiden[1], a mutation that increases blood clotting. He was hospitalized multiple times in his 30s, and died suddenly at age 50. After his first blood clot he was put on anti-coagulants and took them every day of his life.

There is a 50% chance to pass this mutation to your offspring, and I wanted to know whether I could be affected. I discovered that I did indeed inherit the same allele, and went to see a hematologist to discuss it. She advised that I not smoke and keep fit (unlike my father) and that I shouldn't worry about taking medication unless some evidence of blood clots appears. This was always a worry for me, not knowing whether I would suffer the same fate. When I sent my DNA to 23andme, I was 25 years old and wondering if I'd already lived half of my life. Getting the results and following up with a specialist gave me great relief and eliminated this worry pretty much entirely.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Factor_V_Leiden
This is why the 2nd amendment is absolutely crucial in ensuring that American citizens have the right to self-defense once these types of policies become more popular in America. Anyone still in Venezuela who has not planned to leave is utterly screwed.