skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The idea that the EU would blockade the transport of medical supplies is ludicrous; or if it's not ludicrous, it is further proof that leaving was the right choice.

It's the geopolitical equivalent of "maybe I shouldn't have divorced my husband, because despite the beatings, at least the insulin was mailed on time."
The 3rd generation Apple TV couldn’t really run apps. All apps were basically simple web pages that used WebKit and Apple’s TVML. It limited the UI of apps and they were all much more consistent.
Was hoping for this: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polybius_(urban_legend)
One of the biggest reasons why we left Aurora for an rds solution was that basic ddl operations like table alters would fail to work on db sizes greater than 2TB. Such operations required double the amount of disk storage for copying. We were forced to solutions like github Ghost or Percona if we wanted to stick with Aurora. After thoroughly testing these solutions, it would take close to a month to perform such an operation on large tables. An rds solution only took a few days. I recommend a pure rds solution for db sizes greater than 1tb.
Yes, very good point. They already were treated special and in many ways most many didnt really consider them being part of Europe - so the Brexit just reflects that.

Jokingly I said many years ago that the UK is more like the 51st state, rather then a member of the European community
China's economy isn't effecient at the macro level and never has been.

It's wildly inefficient, with those inefficiencies previously covered over by the former rapid rate of growth.

You can see that inefficiency coming to light now, as they over-invest into stagnant state owned enterprises in their credit markets and deprive the private market of capital. That despite most of the employment, innovation, and growth formerly coming from the private sector. The reason they're doing that, is to fake growth, the only place they can immediately force-allocate stimulus spending is in the giant stagnant state owned enterprises. Several years ago all of their economic metrics went hard south, despite their claims about growth everything was indicating a near recessionary environment, so they fired up big stimulus programs and inflated assets such as real-estate. That stimulus was overwhelmingly focused on things they didn't actually need and it has resulted in mediocre growth. They're facing the exact same situation again now.

Their productivity rate has collapsed since they shifted to that perma stimulus model seven years ago or so. Once your productivity implodes, you can only grow by shoving capital or labor at a problem. They have a contracting labor market, so their options there are now mostly exhausted. Which is why China now has to constantly run capital stimulus programs with big shots of capital or credit lending to the state enterprises. Their economy is no longer growing rapidly organically. Each subsequent round of this produces reduced returns, because the last thing China actually needs is to produce a lot more steel or concrete or buildings (they have extreme vacancy problems in their real-estate market), and those are the easy targets for juicing the economy in a command style from the top. It also resulted in loading up their local economies with enormous amounts of debt, as the local regions & munis are part of the stimulus shoveling process of moving capital into the state enterprises and real-estate.
I don’t like the Touch Bar, but the keyboard itself I have no real quarrel with.

Weirdly I have two 2016 MacBooks: a 13” base and a spec’ed up 15”. The keyboard on the 13” feels substantially more tactile.
Brexit seem like a short term solution for a long term UK identity crisis.
Interesting, that's a surprising oversight. WE've just updated our system to maria in RDS, I'm interested to see the performance and hopefully convince some others to give aurora a try.
From what I understand, they don’t pay per stream. They pay one sum no matter how many people watch it.
I would love to hear the audio version narrated by sama.
I hope it's a blockbuster. But this line bothered me:

"This ends here. Anything you write from here on out, we have to approve. If you write a tell-all book without our permission, you go to prison. Any questions?"

I hope that does not apply to software.
The first author has done similar studies with lower p values:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24740588
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26632023
I think you’re getting at a great paradox of humanism: in a society where the customer is always right, one person one vote, and authenticity comes from the self... what if there is no such thing as a true self and we’re just a grab bag of needs and fears glued together with a hasty narrative?
I think tourism will drop drastically, all of my European friends try to go one last time before Brexit - I found that interesting.
I Cured My Erectile Dysfunction (My Experience)
Unfortunately, the "new" keyword can override functionality.
Sorry , should have said you might as well buy direct I bet you can get it cheaper. I dealt with a friends clevo that stopped working after two years .
Thanks for the summary. The root cause of the problem is not so far from what is happening in the US. Many in the hinterland have tried to attribute their misfortune to various forces like immigration or other countries(China, Canada, Mexico).

Truth is that it's an unforseen confluence of factors. In the US the reasons for current upheaval against neoliberalism include(but not restricted to):

1. The nature of the electoral college and legislatures causes equal weight to all areas irrespective of population and wealth.

2. Patchy labor mobility due to affordability and labor evolution[2]

3. Rise of more efficient manufacturing outside the US(sometimes helped with stolen technology).[0]

4. Trying to solve difficult problems with simple ideas[1]

I always wondered if the right path in the future was to create legislation that has a built in "retrospect" clause and "behavior" component in it.

[0](https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/22/technology/china-micron-c...)
[1](https://dailycaller.com/2019/01/14/smoke-out-resistance/)
[2](https://www.economist.com/free-exchange/2012/07/05/america-s...)
Ask HN: Which bookmarking app do you use?
Specifically looking for Mac, iOS and I must be able to link to a saved bookmark from .org mode in Mac. Thanks.
It depends on who is paying them this month. Each of my Roku remotes have different buttons but of course they always have Netflix.
The original intent? What original intent was that? Brexit was always light on detail, and that is coming home to roost. When pressed, most Brexit supporters I've spoken to show absolutely no interest in the dismal nitty gritty of politics, preferring to spout shallow platitudes like "why can't they just get on with it".

The silence from chief Brexiteers Nigel Farage and Boris Johnson has been profoundly deafening.
Stars die, so I'm not sure why your example includes stars forming -- that's not a steady state.

Still, rocks and crystals are not quite an end state either, in a non expanding universe -- eventually they collide and crumble to dust.
No mention of connection pooling? Does Aurora handle 1000s of concurrent connection considering it is cloud-native?
I really hate bad science, and this is an example.

Springer Science+Business Media (the publisher) does not transfer copyright of the paper from the author to the publisher like many other journals. This begs the question, why isn't this article open access? The primary author, Dorothea Schipp, is a statistics consultant in small town Germany [0] not associated with a University and the blood work was done in Slovakia. No PHDs or MDs among them. [1].

Digging deeper into their research method [2] the study looked at DNA breakage over a four month period in blood sampling for a coffee and non-coffee/caffeine group. I have a few questions about this, mainly around how effective the time period and method for determining total DNA stability. How many individual cell gnomes were measured in the before/after? What's the random variance for genome variability among cells in the same body? I suspect the variance is high enough to explain their unbelievably low p.

My guess is that the statistician is having fun with p-hacking [3] while collecting some funding from industry.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosenthal-Bielatal

[1]https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00394-018-1863-2

[2] https://www.mdlinx.com/journal-summaries/coffee-comet-assay-...

[3] http://psychology.wikia.com/wiki/P-hacking
My cohort of late 20s kids switched to insta now that it has stories and disappearing chat too
Cool I don’t have to bang Google for directions anymore!

I started using DDG (slowly trying to remove Google as much out of my daily life as possible) after reading about how Google ATAP tried to patent a MIT researchers life’s work without her knowledge or consent.
Seriously. My friends use it a lot, but even more of my students do. It's rare to find a student who doesn't try to spend the day just snapping candid pictures of others... It's a mess and a half, but they're all over it. Don't see it dying out with that age group anytime soon.
"Fire in a crowded theater" came from the SCOTUS justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., not a jury.

"Yelling fire" in this case was a metaphor for "opposing the draft."
With diminishing returns it's interesting to think about this as a purely economic function when it makes sense to index more data.

If a 5% increase in accuracy worth more than the cost of data storage and computation then it's a pretty clear win.
I could almost guarantee that anyone who thinks anarchocapitalism is an innovation has never been kidnapped, ransomed, subject to extortion, or lived under a corrupt regime supported though bribes and cronyism.
Note: From 2017.

Lots of interesting discussion from the original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15127271
It's really amazing that, 8 days ago, there was a commit for a tool to improve a game from 2001 that shipped for the PC in 2005.
Leaders, stop doing what you’re good at
It's still a bit arbitrary. Why is the water cycle in a mountain/coud/river not a living process, but the ATP cycle in a cell is?
I mean the author even says:

> Is this an advertisement for the video game I'm working on? Well, honestly, yeah, it kind of is.

I'm more than okay with seeing this sort of thing, whether or not it's an advertisement, as long as it provides value to read. I hope someone sends in that FoI request and posts it later (I might do so myself once I have access to a computer), as the context sounds fascinating.

Interestingly, this is also much more effective than traditional advertising, at least for me - I'll be keeping an eye on this game when it goes to early access, whereas I actively avoid the majority of products I recognize from advertisements.
I can deny it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alleged_Russian_interference_i...

Of particular interest is where the massive pile of cash that funded the Leave campaign actually came from.
Of course you're joking here, but for images people do reverse the image to enhance the output of their models and this has shown to be beneficial. There are other augmentation you can do as well. In total they're called "Synthetic Data".
It's a commentary on our age that your first thought is that it might be a lie.
The lack of serious consequences to Canonical regarding their spyware-like, opt-out search integrations in Ubuntu with Amazon way back when (and then doubling down with legal threats against fixubuntu.com) gives me doubt as to this being the case.

That goes double given Fedora's position as what boils down to RHEL upstream. Too much corporate support for any backlash to make a dent, even if it could get critical mass.
Scott Forstall on Stanford's Philosophy Talk program [video]
Having one team on victorOps and the other on Pagerduty I can say that pagerduty has better UI and mobile app. The scheduling UI in vitorOps is a mess.
Certainly everything with gravitational mass or electromagnetic energy communicates with others via the waves and particles of physics. The question is only in the complexity of these messages compared to biological and psychological processes.
There are exceptions, but most hotels are nothing like an Airbnb home. You'll find that a multi-room suite with a kitchen is very, very expensive compared to an Airbnb.

I've never encountered an Airbnb where you have to clean up after yourself, nor have I encountered an Airbnb that has fire and health code violations.

But again, different experiences. For example, a two-bedroom vacation home with a private pool, its own parking space, maybe its own beachfront, etc. is going to be nothing like a hotel.
Responding to your shameless plug, I work on this stuff (auth and enrollment for the security token), would love to chat if you have time!
That's the beauty of foss, you can just remove the offensive bits.
Sure, but that was not my point.
What are your thoughts on Diaspora? (Greg Egan)
mine too interesting. which firewall do your employer use ? here it is sonicwall.
Historically, things haven’t ended well for monarchs who tried to act independently of parliament.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_I_of_England
Okay. "The attack is on Alice, who thinks she's connecting to Eve, but is actually connecting to Bob. Assuming Alice doesn't check the host fingerprint (which nobody does), the attack succeeds."

You're fundamentally misunderstanding the argument about which key is being copied. It's Alice's public key that's copied. The fake server generates its own public and private keys and nobody notices that it doesn't match the real server. The user won't be "prompted to cancel" when this is their first time connecting.

authorized_hosts, as typically used, prevents an imposter from showing up later. It does absolutely nothing to prevent an imposter that's there from the start.
"How do you have a single market without common rules and hence political integration?"

Rules and regulations regarding trade can be negotiated just like any other treaty - but they can be held as that, i.e. treaties - there is utterly no need to devolve national power in order to have frictionless trade and even relatively free movement of labour.

North America has something approaching a customs union, and it's very nearly a common market - but there isn't any remote hint of political integration.

Norway and Switzerland are effectively part of the single market without having political integration, though they have less influence, there's no reason a system couldn't be had wherein they did actually participate.

The real sticking point might come down to commercial courts and arbitration, and for that there can be binding mechanisms put in place, without any need for a Court of Justice which effectively has supremacy in all judicial matters in Europe.

Economic impetus is really easy to argue for and it would be fundamentally easier to arrange for something like this than it would be for political integration.

The EEC is really based on this anyhow.

It's the common market and trade that is really the bedrock of the EU, the political stuff is secondary to the point that were there no economic integration, there wouldn't even be any discussion of political integration.
I think Trump might defy the mainstream definition of intelligence and in a twisted and narrow sense he might have something approaching cunning and a primitive feedback loop modulating his speech like the YouTube algorithm, optimizing for one goal sacrificing everything else
Scott Aaronson – The Winding Road to Quantum Supremacy
"I can take some fictional people, make everyone betray them for all their own petty and cowardly reasons, and our protagonists will just have to deal with it."

Birth of a genre.
Article is from 2014.

Original source: https://outline.com/DDTjXe
Diversity in data is better.
Ask HN: Is this patent valid even though there is prior art around the world?
This year, a patent was granted for a laundromat service using a mobile app (number US10168678B2 [0]). Prior to this patent's filing, there were similar apps in other parts that allowed users to do the same using a mobile app by scanning a QR code. Why was this patent granted in the US? Is it valid even though prior art exists?

One example of prior art is LaundroSmart's YouTube video dated Sep 30, 2013 [1].

[0] https://patents.google.com/patent/US10168678B2/en?oq=patent+No.+10%2c168%2c678

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i-L2J-H6fY0
I'm sure they're good, but better is better.
Build a wall
Haven't, no, but I'll swing by and see if I can try a cup. Thanks for the suggestion
I almost bought my first apple computer last year, but I couldn't get over the keyboard. I ended up with a surface book instead but I'm not convinced I made the correct decision since I spend most of my time in linux.

It seems so very uncharacteristic for Apple to ship a product that you need to use in a clean room for it to work properly. I don't like to baby my products, they will develop dings and scratches over time.
I see you missed the entire point of my post.
Perhaps it would be more accurate to say that marginal return is materially positive for all feasible n
Maybe they do more than "sells future predictions" - but I think what you are quoting is still basically true.

Sure some ad sales are simply general feel good branding, some ads may be to get more data for use years later, however many of the ads I have run with both fbk and big G were in fact using their predictions of the future.

search term "dentist open saturday" - predicting a future dental visit.

realtor Portland - predicting future buying or selling of property.

yes their customers in which they can take money from are advertisers, and the product they are selling is the fbook user and google user, often predicting a future choice, and offering us a chance to influence for the right price.

The more they know about their product (the end user) like zip code, the more valuable sometimes.

There are sometimes issues when ads on a web site are illegal, and many more times when an advertisement is right or wrong is not so black and white but depends on many other factors.
The Cayenne is ugly and it's a rare sight to see one driven by a responsible driver. The only reason I can anecdotally say that is because they are ugly and stick out like a sore thumb. It actually was memorable when I saw one using a turn signal and obeying the speed limit. It was like seeing a unicorn.
Except for a few, most Remainer tories in brexit districts aren't coming out in favor of a second referendum or abandoning brexit without even a second vote. That tells you what you need to know about what they think of popular opinion in their districts. Same for Remainer labour MPs in brexit districts.
So, What Really Happened to the Cauldron?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18879957
Apple has nearly 1 billion iOS users and 70 million MacOS users. If Apple had invested more heavily in their MacOS ecosystem, rather than letting products like the Mac Pro rot for half a decade, they may have eaten at the marketshare of their competitors.

As is, many of the Mac diehards I know have migrated their kids off the platform in the past year or two, and some have made the leap themselves. Its a sea of change from just a few years ago.
I don't live in the EU, so maybe I'm missing something, but how could Brexit possibly end in a war?
I think yours is a pretty accurate summary of OP
The topics seem interesting but I'm having a lot of trouble parsing the contents of the article

> The malware launches a Powershell command, which then inserts malicious code into the Firefox browser. The attack is designed to infect movie torrent files and is also meant to infect Windows computers in particular. The point of the attack is to phish for any Bitcoin or Ethereum addresses that the user might have. It’s an advanced virus as it then actually aims to replace these victims addresses with the hacker’s wallet.

Not sure where torrent come into this at all, for example
I have just retested and the problem I mentioned before doesn't exist anymore, It has happened around Christmas time, back then, the search returned not very relevant results, Now it shows at the 9th position what google shows at 1th (exactly the article I was searching back then, still as first match on google), but this is a minor difference of order of the first page so I have to say the search is working pretty as expected now. Sorry for not retesting it before making that comment and thanks for keeping the search good.
:all right I didn't want to say it but there: russia hypersonic
As usual, Krugman has little to say and takes his time not saying it.
> Anyone interested in an infuriating tale of mismanagement, fraud, incompetence, duplicity, backstabbing, turf wars, and tyranny of petty authority, I encourage to send a Freedom of Information Act request to NSA. Ask for the post "Beyond Mere Malice" from the Parting Thoughts blog, November 2016.

Anyone going to do this?
Yeah, you're right. What I meant is that in our day they are mutually exclusive, either you have privacy or you have convenience. I like duckduckgo and I use it as my default search engine but we can agree that it lacks many of the convenient features Google maps has. So I'm looking forward to the day that privacy and convenience are the norm.
> My wife, who is obsessed with clickbait and loves buying nonsense-products from ads

Have you ever confronted her about that? Such behavior would be hard for me to tolerate, especially if it meant money out the window.
Microsoft re-enters healthcare, to partner with Walgreens
I think the Wikipedia article on the Curse covers it pretty well.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curse_of_dimensionality

The common theme of these problems is that when the dimensionality increases, the volume of the space increases so fast that the available data become sparse. This sparsity is problematic for any method that requires statistical significance. In order to obtain a statistically sound and reliable result, the amount of data needed to support the result often grows exponentially with the dimensionality. Also, organizing and searching data often relies on detecting areas where objects form groups with similar properties; in high dimensional data, however, all objects appear to be sparse and dissimilar in many ways, which prevents common data organization strategies from being efficient.
And the district boundaries got redrawn, and the new districts are a bit more favorable to the tories, so I think the chances of a Labour win in the next GE are only good if the tories commit electoral suicide (which, of course, they might), even assuming SNP aligns with labour (which, as you say, is not a given).
This is getting [partial] control of every machine that merely downloads a file from the one you took over.
Perhaps research “Differential Privacy” to better understand what they are actually doing.

You are seemingly suggesting that they do Google-style data collection where data is attached to a specific user. It’s a disingenuous interpretation of their privacy policy (both the marketing version and the legal version.)

https://www.apple.com/privacy/docs/Differential_Privacy_Over...

What should actually be eye opening is how Apple actually does protect privacy. They should be applauded and not condemned.
Apple Differential Privacy [pdf]
Many brexiteers would be happy with no-deal brexit. The EU will almost certainly negotiate something, if not now, then later. Of course they'll say that they won't renegotiate _now_.