skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The most concrete detail provided is that the attack "disrupted a shared production platform" that apparently made it hard for the printing presses to work - but what does that mean? Disrupted how? What was the shared platform? Was it targeted at multiple newspapers, or was this an attack on a single platform that just happens to be used by all of these newspapers?

A "production platform" in the context of a newspaper means the systems used to produce the newspaper. This can be anything from laying out pages and editing stories to making plates for the press.

(This is not a great thing to get pwned because it's not implausible for it to contain unpublished stories or confidential source material.)

> All papers within The Times’ former parent company, Tribune Publishing, experienced glitches with the production of papers. Tribune Publishing sold The Times and the San Diego Union-Tribune to Los Angeles businessman Dr. Patrick Soon-Shiong in June, but the companies continue to share various systems, including software.

So this sounds like an internal Tribune problem that also affected some of their former papers that still use their systems, including the LA Times.

> It also stymied distribution of the West Coast editions of the Wall Street Journal and New York Times, which are all printed at the Los Angeles Times’ Olympic printing plant in downtown Los Angeles.

Apparently the WSJ and NYT contract out some of their printing to the LA Times, and since the LA Times' (i.e. Tribune's) production system was down, they couldn't do the contract printing either.

This part is funny:

> “We believe the intention of the attack was to disable infrastructure, more specifically servers, as opposed to looking to steal information,” said the source, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to comment publicly.

It sounds like they asked one of their IT staff what happened (or maybe one at Tribune) and got an off-the-record answer because IT isn't allowed to "talk to the press" even when they work for a newspaper.

Then they published it before corporate PR finished deciding what to tell them because deadlines don't wait for PR departments.
What were you taking it for? Pain reduction? (Curious, no judgement, trying to understand if there was any other reason)
The paper mentions that at issue are all NSAIDs, including aspirin, etc.
I'm not sure if it counts as enormous. I'm looking at my Ibuprofen bottle and it says do not exceed 6 (200mg) tablets in 24 hours unless directed by doctor, so 1200 mg is the OTC maximum recommended dose per day.
> I just don’t really see the point of risking dying and whatever else

Ibuprofen is not the painkiller where taking 2x the recommended limit has an enormous risk of death.
Thanks. Well, that is extremely counter-intuitive.
Life expectancy will definitely be a multi-variate equation. I don't know how much the family play the role. But, India and China with nourishment, clean drinking water, basic sanitation, pollution etc as other variables do not negate it.
> Would be interesting to know if the effect persists when the viewer tilts their head, not just the viewed.

I just had to think of the equivalent of two people trying to make way for each other on the street, and stepping to each side at the same time. Two people wanting to put each other at ease in the same instant, both wiggling their heads from one side to the other for a bit, then laughing politely and settling on tilting their heads to different sides from one another.
I might quibble with one of the points:

> Put six months’ expenses in a money market account.

This is presumably supposed to be the "oh crap" emergency fund ... i.e., for major, unexpected expenses which can't or shouldn't be covered by credit card.

Putting this in a money market account can make it just a little bit too inconvenient to withdraw for emergencies, and it's subject to market fluctuations.

My equivalent account currently has several hundred less dollars than I've paid in to it. I know it'll be better later on, but if I needed it right now, that would be a loss I'd hate to take.

You can now get 2.25% APY on savings accounts at legit banks (example: https://www.mymoneyblog.com/cit-bank-savings-builder-account...). Two and a quarter sucks way worse than a healthy market, but it's about on pace with inflation and it's a lot better than a crappy market. It's also a lot more liquid: if I needed the cash right now, I could do it with a bank-to-bank transfer and I should have the funds in my checking account pretty quickly. If I wanted to liquidate my market account, there's a couple-day waiting period while things are sold and transferred around.

I've found it helpful to break things down into:

- cash-on-hand: what I could walk into any business and spend right now;

- emergency fund: a modest stash that I could access in about one business day;

- near-term investments: market accounts and the like;

- long-term investments: IRA.

But as other folks have pointed out, if you're saving anything at all then you're doing better than most Americans.
As far as I can tell, the article linked says that there was a reduction in empathy (for pain) directly after being administered acetaminophen. I'm not seeing anything about long term use.
311 is increasingly used for local services, but coverage is spotty and usage is inconsistent. In Indianapolis, last I heard, it was only for police use, while in some other cities it’s a general government point of contact.
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UEFI Secure Boot, mandatory signed binaries, and Windows Defender (XProtect on macOS), have contributed more to protecting from malware than 3rd party anti-virus. Although I think the existence, cost, and PITAness of 3rd party anti-virus might very well have contributed to motivating the OS vendors into securing their products better.
Dismissing someone as a possible Russian agent has to be the laziest response to ever have become a meme online. Such paranoia prevents good-faith engagement over reconcilable differences of perspective while simultaneously allowing us to dismiss core ideological conflicts as being the result of deliberate misinformation campaigns.

We live in an adversarial information environment, and in order to develop a realistic understanding of the world around us, we must be willing to begin with an assumption of good-faith, while not being naive enough to take every claim on its face.

I believe they're tinfoiling.

Nevertheless, false-flag operations represent a valid strategy that does not necessarily have to be attached to apocalyptic stakes, the government, or even cartoonishly shadowy cabals.

Too many people too readily accuse inconvenient events or perspectives as malicious. I don't believe this was a false-flag attack.

False-flag ops do exist, though we don't know exactly how common they are. The NYT recently ran a piece on a false-flag operation that was ran recently.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/19/us/alabama-senate-roy-jon...
If you are like me - and yearn for the feel of ink, yet the convenience of a ballpoint..then do try using a rollerball.

The hack here is to use some very specific refills and use it inside your cool Rollerball.

For example I use a Signo 307 refill (which is smear, water and tamper proof and specially designed for anti-document signing fraud) inside my special edition Waterman.

The other super cool Rollerball refill is the Pentel Energel. That's as close to an ink pen experience you'll get.
Ibuprofen induced liver toxiticy:

https://livertox.nih.gov/Ibuprofen.htm

"Rates of serum aminotransferase elevations during low dose, chronic ibuprofen therapy are comparable to those that occur with placebo controls (0.4%). However, higher rates of ALT elevations occur with high, full doses of 2,400 to 3,200 mg daily (up to 16%)."
Paywalled. :(
Click bait title. Actual title should be: "Doctors are asking Silicon Valley engineers to spend more time in the hospital before building MEDICAL apps"
Since the OP specifically mentioned "Acetaminophen" and "Naproxen", it's worth mentioning that Acetaminophen is _not_ an NSAID like Ibuprofen, but Naproxen is.

That said, like the OP, I used to also take lots of Ibuprofen for headaches, and unfortunately, Acetaminophen never seemed to work for more than an hour or two max (tested in "isolation" for 7+ days), while Ibuprofen could stop the headache cycle for a day+.
> I'm left-handed and there are several techniques for writing left-handed with a fountain pen. They don't all involve twisting your writing hand into "some bizarre contortion".

I'm just curious if you've ever tried the mirror script technique? I remember reading in Isaacson's biography that Da Vinci wrote everything in the mirror script not to code it but because that's how left-handed people were taught to write. I figure that it'd work just as well in modern days, though obviously not if you needed someone else to read it.
Ironically, that title itself hypes the content of the perspective piece that follows. It does to not refute any finding in the PNAS paper. They simply question whether the observed effect on LH, which wasn't disputed, is clinically relevant or should result in modification of clinical recommendation, for which further work is needed.

>Despite the excellent quality of the work,
the main point to emphasize is the confusion
that has arisen concerning the study conclusions versus the real-world relevance and application of its results.
Curious where you got the 30% from out of that? Where does the extra 10% come from on top of the "Save 20%" bit?
I am not aware of any common uses of Ibuprofen and Acetominophen that saves lives?
None of those are cyberattacks, which is what I was responding to. I'm not even a little interested in the debate about whether (for instance) Tonkin was a false flag.
Sure, I realize there's much that the current tech does not cover. But you gotta start somewhere, and through extremely wide deployment tens of thousands of lives will be saved, and important feedback will be collected to improve products. $400 watch that does a dozen other things and that the user would buy even if it didn't have ECG is not "expensive diagnostics".

This is where things are at, whether you like it or not, especially for the working poor who can't afford to fork over a few hundred dollars every time something feels "off". The current crop of devices is not affordable to them, but 5-10 years from now they'll be bundled in cereal boxes. Hook up sensors to wearables, catch diseases early and at a massive scale, cure or treat them before they get extremely expensive. To me it looks like it's the only way out of the ripoff "healthcare" scheme we're in right now. I'm pretty convinced the solution to the US healthcare problem will be technological in nature.

And don't tell me universal healthcare will fix things. It won't, because US doctors (unlike their counterparts elsewhere) expect to be earning a pretty penny after they go through the trouble (and expense) of educating themselves for a decade, and that's not going to change. There simply needs to be less demand for doctors, and the ones that remain should be able to use their time efficiently.
Anything with e. coli I presume.
Just had a kidney stone problem—first for me, quite painful experience. My ibuprofen dosage is 800mg every 8 hours, as needed. I had little choice. “Sustained” is the keyword of the study here.

On another note, maybe this will drive alternative treatments such as CBD/marijuana for those who need to sustain their pain relief.
An index fund by definition just tracks an indicator. You don't have leave the USA to see a long-term decline; the Nasdaq is currently below its Feb 2000 peak. All index-fund investing advice includes diversification across several asset clases. (Insert plug for https://research.wealthfront.com/whitepapers/investment-meth...)
Yes, people who are not cryptography engineers.
Yeah, I wasn't disagreeing with your point so much as just commenting on the fact that so many people here say "X says blah but they're a conservative so who cares what they think." I probably could have worded it better, though.
And acetaminophen reduces empathy, according to some convincing research.

What's wrong with cannabis-derived solutions, again?
US Newspapers Hit by Cyberattack, causing printing and delivery disruptions
Healthcare is not irrelevant, that is a ridiculous statement. Perhaps you mean healthcare spending, but even that is only supported by a few outliers like the US.

Lifespan statistics are heavily influenced by early deaths. Drugs and violence take many more lives in the Western Hemisphere than in Singapore. This is enough to explain a large portion of it. Especially during this opioid epidemic.

I'd argue that diet is significantly worse throughout the Western Hemisphere as well, but nutrition is a difficult science.
Thanks for this....I did not realize that Descent was still around today!
I believe his response to that was that people were purposely misinterpreting what he said. I haven't looked into it in detail for a while, but last time I did, it seemed like a perfectly reasonable defense.
Just curious-- Did your blood T levels recover? How much / what % lower than normal? Was it just by chance that the T reading was days after Ibuprofen?
> the treatment group took 600mg ibuprofen daily for 14 to 44 days to induce the reported effect of compensated hypogonadism

That phrasing is misleading. We don't know if it takes 600 mg for 14 days "to induce" hypogonadism. The study didn't test for that. It only tested if there would be an effect, and as with most pilot experiments, it did so cheaply and quickly.

That's the idea of small sample size experiments such as this. Try a big dose as see if you get an effect at all. If so, that's a jumping off point for more rigorous, expensive studies later on.
Also off-topic: Why are 6 of the 8 'comments' on that page autocomments merely saying that it's a top story on HN? That seems a bit excessive.

edit: Ah, downvoted within seconds. This is a Displeasing Question apparently. Sorry for whyever that is. But I'm curious. ..and won't be bullied into deleting the question.
Edited title, since original article's title is too long for HN
Composable, lazily evaluated map, filter and fold in C90:

This is the TXR Lisp interactive listener of TXR 204.
Quit with :quit or Ctrl-D on empty line. Ctrl-X ? for cheatsheet.
1> (take 15 [keep-if* oddp (mapcar* [dup *] (range 0))])
(1 9 25 49 81 121 169 225 289 361 441 529 625 729 841)

Lazy keep-if: http://www.kylheku.com/cgit/txr/tree/lib.c?id=c310771b221125...

Lazy mapcar: http://www.kylheku.com/cgit/txr/tree/eval.c?id=c310771b22112...

Lazy range: http://www.kylheku.com/cgit/txr/tree/eval.c?id=c310771b22112...

P.S. dup generates a one-argument function which duplicates its argument into two places and calls another function. [dup *] gives us a squaring function, thus.
To provide people with poor internet connections with effective access to videos, youtube transcodes videos to various qualities. That's not cheap, but neither is it magic.
Why would they give more information? It's an active crime scene.
Fevers kill. Ibuprofen and acetaminophen reduce fevers.
It's not even so much his political stance as his lunatic ravings about it: there's not a drop of policy in his talk about trump, it's all weird mysticism about how persuasive a personality trump has, sort of reminds me of the way PUA types talk.
I would add investing in precious metals to that list. Especially silver and gold right now. Its been extremely undervalued, and steadily moving sideways. When this stock market tanks even more then it has the last few weeks, we are going to see metals sky rocket like it has in the past. Gold and silver are an indispensable long-term inflation hedge. Look at jpmorgan, they were shorting silver for how long, now they are going long buying almost 2million ozs a day, i think they are up to over 750million ozs. All the central banks are buying up as much as they can get there hands on, so id say its a safe move to use a % of your savings and buy physical silver and gold. Im staying away from the paper precious metals investments, because if we do have a financial melt down, at least i know ill have some of my savings in my physical possession. ;]
This is news to me. The more common side effect I've heard of from regular or excess NSAIDs like Ibuprofen are stomach problems (eg ulcers, gastritis, etc.).
That is a beautiful memorial. Thank you Terry for writing it, and helping me appreciate Jean's life and work better.
Random fact: Did you notice that both countries' names end in the letter N? At least, their English spelling ends in N.
I'm not the OP, but a company I worked for once had reason to set up a US presence, but decided against it because once you have a US entity, patent trolls have someone to sue in their jurisdiction.
Money market account != money market fund. For example, I have a MM account over at Capital One. It's FDIC insured. The only material difference (from the customer's perspective) between it and their traditional savings account is that you only get the 2% rate once you've met the minimum balance (otherwise the rate is lower than for the savings account). Transfers from the MM account to my checking account work in exactly the same way (and are just as fast) as savings to checking, even down to the 6-withdrawals-per-month limit.

Agreed that there are other options with higher rates and are considered regular savings accounts, but for most people the distinction doesn't matter. For me, the hassle of switching banks wasn't worth a quarter percent. YMMV.
I don’t think anyone should call you a moron. I do think you should consider that if professional mathematicians don’t have a problem with a proof and you do then it is most likely an indication of a lack of understanding on your part.

I don’t understand your objection because I’m not sure what exactly you mean by

...each element in (0, 2) is forced to cover twice as much space...

I will point out that saying that (0, 2) is a larger set than (0, 1) is wrong without specifying how you are using the term size. The size of the sets, in the context of set theory, are the same. However, in terms of measure theory they are not the same. The notion of size depends on what exactly is being measured. In one context (0, 2) is larger than (0, 1) but not in another context.

Unfortunately the term “size” has a connotation to most people and in set theory that term is not the connotation that most people have. A person will naturally think that an interval of length 2 is bigger than one of length 1. The word size doesn’t have any inherent meaning. It’s jut a word. It means what people agree to have it mean.

In set theory the accepted meaning of size corresponds to mappings between sets. The size of the set {0, 1, 2, 3} is less than the size of the set {0, 1, 2, 3, 4} because I can map the first set injectively into the second set but not vice versa. This is an intuitive sense of size when dealing with finite collections of objects. Intuition can break down when abstracting to infinite collections of objects.
Yeah it’s not like acetaminophen where you’re going to immediately die, but if you look up recent papers on NSAID mortality the risk is still a lot higher than previously thought.
> "Biometrics is always an arm race," Krissler said.

No kidding. They might have to fake an entire arm soon!
I wish we’d measure the health of a society by instances of chronic disease rather than life expectancy alone. For me there is not a lot to celebrate if I live slightly longer in a country with marginally better healthcare but in a state where I’m full of chronic illness caused by poor lifestyle and diet
Maybe I am missing something but how can this advice work for 95% of people? Maxing out the 401k and IRA would take $25,000 a year [0]. The median personal income in the US is only about $30,000 a year [1].

[0] https://www.irs.gov/newsroom/401k-contribution-limit-increas...

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_income_in_the_Unite...
I see now. Thank you.
What about it reduces empathy? My uneducated guess would be that it's unrelated to _which_ pain medicine you choose.

Also, FWIW, in the past, I tried both CBD and THC without any luck where Ibuprofen helped so it's certainly not 1:1
These results are impressive, however they don't talk about how difficult it is to attach those multi-core fibers to end points can be.
> An untyped (that is, it cops out to int) bunch of public static’s that should’ve been an enum.

Java platform code does not use enums since they are more taxing in terms of memory usage. Till Google I/O 2018, Google use to officially recommend that you should avoid enums in your app code if you can.
People are mad at him for supporting Donald Trump.
That is very true, and I feel a democratic discussion could kinda work in a game like Fire Emblem. Like, the overall story is the same, but if it's kinda an open world, you could do it in any order, and that would be dependent on what characters you've recruited and are still alive. The reactions and bosses and such would require that too as well.

Supports would be the harder to thing to find to influence the game at that point I think...But maybe you could even just do that down to NPCs commenting about how so-and-so look so in love, or how they glare at each other. Might flesh out the world a little more. Even maybe make them have rumors about ones who've died who they've heard about.

It's just a matter of bringing everything together I think. That's the annoying bit of it.
Same just did that.

>resulted in the clinical condition named "compensated hypogonadism," a condition prevalent among elderly men and associated with reproductive and physical disorders. In the men, luteinizing hormone (LH) and ibuprofen plasma levels were positively correlated, and the testosterone/LH ratio decreased.

Fuck that.

I wonder what I should give my kids when they have fevers though
Yeah, when I was a college freshman in the 1970s, I got a printed directory of my classmates' names and photos which was informally called the "Face Book". By that time, it was already an old tradition.
>any multivariate Monte Carlo analysis that doesn't show your sensitivity to correlation is essentially useless

This rational is why this tool shouldn't be used for anything consequential -- like business decisions that can sink you company.
But how do you know the rando is right? As in, aren't his corrections just as likely to factually mistaken as the original? The Amazon reviewer doesn't site sourcse.

Since I'm not a history, I don't feel comfortable judging accuracy. Instead, I would trust a historian's peers writing reviews in trusted publications.
I couldn’t find a “Why” section that explains why this needs to exist. Anyone?
If you're saving 20% of your earnings, then that's 25% of the remaining 80% (which is assumed to be expenses). I estimated another 5% for the miscellaneous other stuff like buying shares, maxing 401(k), paying financial advisers etc. If all of that was meant to come out of the original "save 20%" then call it 25% (of expenses) rather than 30%.
That's an interesting article, though I think I would disagree with assumption 3, at least as they apply towards non-special needs secondary school children.
> At least windows doesn't freeze your whole desktop under heavy IO.

It does it as well on Windows and unlike Linux, Windows still has a risk of permanent damage under low space available, it was even worse in the XP days but these issues are still there.