skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nobody who wants to learn a skill wants to master it in 20 hours. The entire point of this article is that the 10000 hours number is a red herring.

Spending every single day learning something is the exact opposite of a shortcut, it requires a huge amount of discipline. 20 hours spread over 30 days should be more than enough to turn someone who doesn't know what a mandolin is into a novice mandolinist who knows what further steps he has to take to get better.
That's one of the more blatant ad populum fallacies I've seen in a long time.
I'm not entirely convinced the UK/NHS should ever be used as a good example for handling medical notes, at least by today's standards.

As a Brit who left the UK a while ago, I recently had cause to request my "medical records" from my former GP. Of course such data can presumably be requested via the UK's Data Protection Act, but the lack of any kind of standard process or checks really shocked me, given the care they are treated with in places such as the US via specific legislation such as HIPPA and so forth.

My GP posted my entire history after one phone call to their receptionist via Skype, did no checks what so ever on my identity beyond confirming my name and DoB to look me up, I was left close to speechless following the call. I can't profess to be an expert on the topic of rights to medical data in the UK, but the above was true of my own experience and others I know, I've heard similar stories from a handful of GP friends and family. There is literally nothing stopping someone pulling your name and DoB from a Facebook account or similar and doing the same in many cases.

The number of GPs without electronic record keeping of any kind in the UK frankly amazes me as well, supposedly the NHS will be paperless by 2020...
Nearly 150 million people in the states get their medical funding chosen for them by an HR analyst III & their favorite consultant buddy. Then it gets paid for in a combination of literally hidden payments, pre-pay deductions & tax subsidies. The idea that there isn’t a connection between this and costs is incredible. That’s before talking about the impacts on small businesses, long term care & the like.
A Brief History of 'Great Walls' That Didn't Work
Since you seem informed on the matter, how much can a lobbyist give to a politician's charity foundation? For example, can they give more than $5,000 to the Clinton Foundation or the (now dissolving) Donald J. Trump Foundation?

I've always been very skeptical of the fact that high ranking and influential politicians (eg: ones that a lobbyist would want to influence) always seem to have a "non-profit" charity foundation, while low ranking politicians (ones who aren't high enough on the totem pole to be worth influencing) infrequently or rarely have non-profit charity foundations.

It's always about loopholes and indirect payments.
That slick buying experience is pretty helpful.

After years of paying $200+ for glasses, I decided to go with WP. It was a little nerve wracking- but having the home try on (and the option of a store try on) helped.

Sure, maybe the glasses aren't as nice as the ones I had. But they are $100 cheaper. And that's a decent chuck of change.
Accidentally Declarative:An Approach for Mapping Input Field Values To/from JSON
No. I never said that.

I am simply stating we have a problem. That problem is we have poor people.

It's one thing to tax the rich if that will make poor people not poor. It's an entirely different thing if we are simply taxing the rich simply to give to socal programs that don't have a track record of turning poor people into self sustaining non-poor people.

I think taking from the rich to give to poor people is a bandaid. And probably will result in more poor people who will require government help.

So back to the topic. We want to tax rich people. How are we using that money to have a net less number of poor people year over year?
I always thought the Casino DOS virus was pretty inventive. If an infected file is run on the payload date, it moves the FAT to RAM and warns the user not to shut down their computer. The user plays a game with IIRC a 1/17 chance of winning. If they win, the FAT is restored, else it's gone.

I think it's an interesting way of holding the PC hostage.

A video of the virus in action: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wdZJHvBRRqg, that channel has loads of videos documenting DOS/Win9X viruses. Some are very creative.
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Which is still worse than "stack you don't have to pay for"
Go works reasonably well on openbsd despite syscall churn. You really only need to make it to uname() to decide what to do.
`/bin/ed` has gotten me out of a few serious disk recovery binds in the past.

In one of them, a FreeBSD system's `/usr` and `/home` slices got corrupted, but they still had entries in `/etc/fstab`. The mount failures prevented further recovery. There were, however, a handful of binaries under `/bin`. Guess which one is really good at editing `/etc/fstab`...
I think there is a Japanese Core 2000 deck which is of a similar nature.
Another pitfall on the Apple Store at least is that you as developer or agency creating apps for customers have to create an account for each entitiy (customer, company). Another $99, another excruciating approval process.
According to the page, that version of ed is the editor on which you learned Unix. What editor do you use on Unix these days?
What's the TPS on any of your ad hoc queries? If it's low and very specialized than relational or a lucene or redshift type system likely is what you want, eg more like ERP.

If say you're doing dotabuff type stuff then just chunking the records you want out by player or even just an S3 Blob that is updated might be better. Then the rest of your tables are literally just indexes to the large amounts of data.

It totes depends on what you're doing.

The big issue with relational really is that you hit a point where transactions just can't keep up with locking across the cluster. If your system doesn't do this, then your next problem is just sharding on tons of data. If you don't have enough data then relational is fine. If you do have that much data then you're going to have to figure out a sane sharding and joining strategy across a cluster, which is more work. At some point in size of data you either have each user on their own shards of boxes, or you are keeping only indexes in the databases to retrieve other data. Both take a bunch of work.

Much of the motivation behind that talk and amazon's drive away from SQL is really just the business risk of hitting that scaling limit while you have a business that is doubling in revenue. Your options when you hit a limit on sql (esp with transactions) is to heavily re-architect it. And that takes a while, so you have to pause growth during that time. At which point a second mover can come roaring past you.

If I was building somthing like dotabuff I'd go with relational database sharded by users or some type of columnar database for the ad-hoc querying. Tho really for dotabuff you could build almost the entire site to be statically served off of cloudfront and just re-crunch data when a new match comes in.

However I'd have dynamo as the front end data ingest record keeper. Things like "did I see this game data already" to avoid using things like FIFO queues.

Happy to talk about it more if you provide more examples of what you're trying to map.

And again, if you don't have these problems, relational is just totally fine. You can scale quite high on relational, it's just that you run the risk of hitting that asymptotal tipping point where the system just goes down and you can't get bigger hardware. If you're not going to hit it, the tool you know will serve you well.

Another random thought, I find that people who thing in SQL forget how damn awkward it is... For instance, ask someone who uses Relational regularly how to create tables for users's shipping address. They'll spout a denormalized form that works in many many places. Ask a college hire the same question, you might get more than one table. The thing that is obvious to the regular user will be non-obvious and confusing to the college hire. And I would argue that the table layout is somthing that evolved over 30+ years of the industry doing it over and over.
I can imagine this being released is a way of covering up the spyware in those blobs.

(Note to the insufficiently paranoid: "I can imagine" does the work you need it to.)
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I wonder if you would change your mind if you thought about the fact that Holden wasn’t just an angsts teen but a victim of sexual abuse? IMO that changes the whole read
Implementation of SOTA Image Captioning Model in Pytorch
I would like to share my recent project work done as a part of the computer vision course under Prof. Rob Fergus. In an effort to make image captioning results more reproducible, me and my colleague (Nicholas Choma) implemented a recently published state-of-the-art method which is popularly known as Bottom-Up and Top-Down Attention model.
The code is available on this GitHub link: https://github.com/njchoma/transformer_image_caption
Lack of price transparency is a problem. But by what I (off the top of my head) understand to be an overwhelming margin, Americans who get their health insurance from their employers like that insurance; it's also hard to see how the HR rep at your company is influencing decisions about how many hospitals to build or how many MRIs to prescribe.
I think you're conflating wire format changes (which agreed, should be versioned and backwards compatible) with code level api changes. If V2 of xyz.h adds an argument to some method, a polyrepo just updates the tests and submits the change. In a monorepo, you can't submit until all clients are also updated.
Mission creep
Please stop it with the flamebait and flamewars on HN.
> More awareness of evil means more political will to clean it up.

Maybe, but it seems like people who fall into the echo chamber just vote for the evil doers instead.
They contracted a bunch of academic "psychedelic experts", and later on didn't tell them about changes to their business organization. Without more information, I don't know if that's bad or not. Should they have? Were they required to? From the article it sounds like in at least one case the researcher already hadn't been working together for several months when the change happened.

They definitely burned some bridges, but worse things happen all the time. The text you quoted even calls it "conventional pharmaceutical-industry tactics". Sounds like sour grapes to me.
Bunch of books about Python are on sale now
Goodheart's Law, the recursive edition.
I deal with various EHRs every day of my life, and 4-digits-worth of providers. The primary barrier is that practice managers are working to get data standardized, but get pushback from the providers who are busy doing their jobs being doctors and not data scientists.

Some EHRs can streamline via templates and workflow. Others don't. I've literally had practice admins not implement new practices that would document properly and facilitate easy reporting because they would not be able to sell the change to the providers.

I'm not blaming providers for the data issues. They have a job to do and they do it. It just doesn't always get documented in a reportable manner. There needs to be an easier way to document, or some kind of Middleware that documents for them.

I see people a whole lot smarter than me trying to use ai to interpret notes. I personally think they are just facilitating the ongoing poor documentation problem. And things will slip through the natural language cracks, and it could be a potential health hazard.
I will probably go down in flames with you, because I felt the same, though I liked his other works like Franny & Zooey.

Catcher was full of slang that I simply couldn't relate to. For me, it wasn't that different from reading Shakespeare in high school...focusing on interpreting the language got in the way of my ability to empathize.
Would you please not post in the flamewar style to HN?

If you'd review the guidelines at https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and follow them, we'd appreciate it. This one is particularly relevant: "Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith."
Just a little life pro-tip: Even if you view 'the other side' as horrible murderers for profit, you should tone down your viewpoint when talking publicly because you will not convince anyone of your viewpoint by saying these people are horrible murderers for profit.
It's even better - Fi gives up to 5 extra data sims for free. This made all the difference for me, personally - they go everywhere there is a slot for one.
I was referencing the property tax freeze, but I take your point as well.
Ask HN: Why are we spending billions on Space Exploration?
...when we’re in a planetary crisis?

At this stage..what applicable value does it bring us?
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Android does that too now but many apps will just refuse to work until you accept.
As an illustration, I just downloaded and uninstalled the waiter.com app. Screw that, I’ll use the website.
JavaScript spread syntax – nexladder web tutorials
Can anyone complete the last sentence in this paragraph, I'm very intrigued what its actually attempting to refer to

> HDT also aims to balance host reactivity at the site of infection by reducing or preventing an excessive inflammatory response, which can damage internal organs and can even kill. This is achieved through cellular therapy, in which a specific population of bone marrow cells is injected in a host’s body, reducing and preventing tissue.

Preventing tissue what??
If Golang decides to avoid the platform interface library, any resulting problems are on Golang. I totally get Go's "not C" ethos, but there's no incompatibility between being not C and making system calls the way that programs are expected to make them on a platform. Go is flagrantly and needlessly incompatible with a lot of things, and there's no functionality or performance rationale for it.

There is absolutely nothing about the Go language or runtime environment that excuses them calling into libc to do platform things. Nothing. Every other managed language environment does it, and Go can too.
> I'm not aware of climate scientists actually caring about supersonic travel.

Because there isn't any. None. Zero. Why would you be aware of people worrying about something that currently doesn't exist?
Researchers Fool ReCAPTCHA with Google’s Own Speech-To-Text Service
Apps I use at least several times a week (often multiple times a day). Leaving out some that I use but where there are likely many good options (e.g. TOTP authenticator apps, alarm clocks, calculators, etc.) and "any color as long as it's black" options like GMail and Youtube.

Apps of particular note that people could easily have missed are at the top of the list. Hope I kept lines short enough.

- TripLog Mileage in plug-to-start mode;
- Bouncer (auto-remove permissions from apps after you close them);
- DroidEdit Pro (multitab text and code editor);
- Join by Joaoapps (Pushbullet alternative);
- Meteogram Pro from cloud3squared (Weather widget);
- SMS Backup+ from Jan Berkel (pushes to GMail with label);
- Nine (multi-account Exchange client);

- Firefox (plus "Dark Background and Light Text 0.6.10" and uBlock Origin);
- Firefox Focus for untrusted links (no default browser set = always prompts);
- Microsoft OneNote, Office Lens and OneDrive;
- PocketCasts;
- Textra (for SMS) and Signal;
- Nova Launcher Prime plus Will Windham's Vintage icon pack;
- Swiftkey keyboard;
- LastPass;
- TimeClock Connect Pro from Spotlight Six;
- Ultimate To-Do List from Custom Solutions, but I recently dropped ToodleDo so this may drop away.

And for frivolity, Pokemon Go and Calcy IV.
You can't say "always". This doesn't make sense either because it's on a case by case basis. You could have a simple product used by billions of people, which doesn't require many devs, or you could have a complicated infrastructure no one knows about that gets billions of requests from 10 other products per day. This could be handled by an army of engineers.

Is your hot product in a maintenance mode? If so, just a few devs can handle it.

Then you have companies with groups like retail, legal, hardware, etc. They require tones of software engineers to build internal tools. They definitely don't reach billions of users and you see a lot of these teams. What I found out while working at some of the Faang's is that the hottest teams are usually very lean. You'd be surprised how one single rock star engineer can handle. When you start having +10k engineers in your company, only a minority of folks will end up working on the hot stuff.
> has not back fired

Unless they ended the program, you forgot the word "yet"
I just bought a new iPad and one of the first things I looked for was apps that utilize the AR frameworks etc. if you are just gonna stick to the web it’s hard to take advantage the full power of your new device.
I have a phone, an Android tablet, a Windows laptop, and several power banks and and external USB drives. My spouse has a phone and a tablet. Everything is USB-C.

Edge case? Probably, but only because most people don't consciously factor this into their purchase decisions. It's clear that USB-C is the way forward for phones, and once that happens on the low-mid market segment, everything else will follow.
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The Dark Past of Canadian Prime Ministers
Well, it’s not autopilot, it’s guided steering and gas, which on a freeway is the “easy” autopilot path: trivially (for a human) identifiable routes, signage, infrequent low visibility occluded by tight turns, etc. I’d guess a) if you removed the driver from behind the wheel the accident per mile would skyrocket and b) humans already have a much improved accident rate on the freeway compared to general purpose driving. Is it better than a driver driving alone? Maybe—time will tell as more dose off behind wheel, although I am hopeful—but it’s hardly designed to operate without failure and should not be referred to as autopilot at all. It would help if Tesla provided a meaningful comparison instead of the disingenuous one they trot around.
The most important thing in my opinion is to thoroughly understand people, those who report to you, and who you are responsible for: their biases, fears, motivations, habits, and strengths. Upon this basis you can form a cohesive strategy for any task at hand, while at the same time ensuring that the team grows with you during the temporary alliance they have formed with the firm.

At the end of the day, code has to work, and it might be easy to lose sight of this in a myopic and cacophonous world.
Pretty nifty idea, and a great way of introducing someone to web design in a light and straight-forward way.

A couple nitpicks: #555 is too light and hurts readability a bit; spacing is exaggerated, 4em padding results in headers too for apart, and the 1.5 line-height ends up breaking apart the paragraph masses. As someone in the field I also wished the font-face section was not there - it's one of the first things to hurt performance on the web and rarely warrants the cost.

For the last step, I missed seeing the header since I clicked the bottom-most link (‘one last thing’) instead, and got lost due to back button not working.
Don't mix up downsides of multirepo and bad composition of your microservices
To be fair they mentioned his chair not him.
At first I thought that you were talking about the people management track vs technical leadership track. I guess "management" and "leadership" are overloaded terms.
Not surprised.
Yes, it would be an excellent tool for that.
Not a fan either, but I also didn't read it until I was over 30 and couldn't stomach the narrator. I think most of my friends who recommended it had read it when they were teenagers not as adults.
They aren't planning on growing anything ... they have to synthesize the compound as the 'grown' versions are not pure enough for the FDA.
MasterCard Is the Final Boss (#PatreonPurge)
It's a little weird that he includes Columbus there. Columbus was many things and genius wasn't one of them. Persistent, egomaniacal, outrageously cruel to the point that the Spanish crown threw him in prison, extremely bad at basic arithmetic -- but not genius.

More importantly though, who is Fulton?
I ended up ad-blocking YouTube’s sidebar because it kept recommending me videos such as “Jordan Peterson Destroys Feminist” and “Jordan Peterson Owns Muslim”, despite me not even really knowing who Jordan Peterson is and not being interested in watching videos of that nature in the first place.

Do more right-leaning viewers have similarly incendiary, left-leaning videos popping up in their feed? Is YouTube’s algorithm designed to increase engagement by showing us videos that will elicit an angry response?
As doctors taper or end opioid prescriptions patients driven to despair, suicide
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Ask HN: So what if my personal information gets stolen?
Are there any real consequences to having your data leaked in a breach? If yes, what?

Assuming not passwords. Things like name, address, passport number, etc.
Not at the levels we like to use for surgery, certainly. But my understanding is that a “medically-induced coma” (the potentially-irreversible palliative-care kind) does suppress all pain signalling. Likewise, people in a vegetative state have no physiological response to pain. If you completely suppress central functioning, then you completely suppress pain response.

(There might still be a local release of pro-inflammatory cell-danger-response purines from the wound site that do things when they hit various organs/tissues on their way through the circulation, but I believe we don’t tend to call those “pain signals”, for the same reason we don’t call them that in plants or fungi.)
After reading ‘jecxjo (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18825038) it occurred to me I used ed(1) (or ex(1)??) as part of my response to heartbleed mitigation at $TELCO. A scripted edit across a few thousand machine instances, iirc.
I bought an AP1 Tesla just before they started shipping AP2. I kept my AP1 because I doubted that they'd really be able to ship FSD anytime soon. Shortly after, a friend of mine bought an AP2 Tesla. For the next year, my AP1 performed much better at the features either one provided -- adaptive cruise control and lane-keeping -- than his AP2. And now we're at the point where it's "just kidding, you really need AP3." Still with no end (FSD) in sight. Two years down the road, and no regrets keeping my AP1.
For exactly that reason. The only viable long term climate change solution is to move energy intensive mining and manufacturing off planet. If your problem is with human space exploration, I agree that's a waste of time, best left to billionaires. However robotic is not.
I was curious about that so I followed through the link and saw there was a jump down of a million, and upon googling it, it seems that Google did a purge this spring. It doesn't have to do with users or developers but just Google doing a clean-up.

https://bgr.com/2017/02/09/google-play-store-app-privacy-pur...