skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’ve been in plenty of stupid big SUV’s with air conditioning blasting in the summer while in China. Big SUV’s are a status symbol and China summers are horrendously hot.

That being said I’m much more concerned with trash burning (it still happens, I’ve seen it plenty when driving outside of cities) and the byproducts of the intense construction that can’t be slowed down without seriously hurting their economy. I know multiple Chinese people with their retirement investments in concrete manufacturing companies that are losing big with recent government clamping down on that.

Both of these are anecdotal, sure, but then again I don’t trust official Chinese government data so anecdotal has some value.

The USA and other developed countries went through their own periods of abusing the environment during their industrial revolutions so I have to assume China will get through this as well. Things are already improving. And at least their government acknowledges it’s something they need to improve rather than actively regressing like the USA.
Not just that, the top-down structure is shaped after a cult of personality.

Talking to my friends who work at Apple, FB, Google, Amazon and others, facebookers are the only ones who seem to be willing to defend their leader on a personal level, as if they had a dear friend being attacked.

My other friends couldn't care less if someone criticizes or attacks Bezos, Tim Cook, Sundar and so on.

The only other company I can think that behaves in the same way is Tesla with Musk (well, an Apple with Jobs in the old days), but the key difference is that most Muskians don't seem to work for Tesla, and the folks I know at Tesla aren't actually obsessed with Musk.

In the case of FB, it is the opposite.
Google Suite price increase
Does the US not have a Press Complaint Authority? In Denmark, we have Pressenævnet[0] which handles complaints against media outlets.

If an article is found to be at fault, the publishing outlet will be required to publish a retraction/correction/apology, depending on the offence. During the review, the outlet can make their case against the complaint.

Does the US not have something similar? Because these complaints sound like the perfect fit for something like this.

[0] https://www.pressenaevnet.dk/
The Übermensch in the Cuckoo’s Nest: Malware in AI-Human Hybrids
Oh, wow. I had to do a double-take when I read '2-D', because the initial shock of 'converting wi-fi signals to electricity' was already too much for my mortal mind to comprehend.

If this ends up being practical, this is really, really, cool - and that's an understatement.
I work in healthcare and one thing that's always top of mind for me is that that the data we work with is only (generally) indicative of the physicians'/billers' best guess.

So - say we get a bunch of diagnosis codes from a hospital. Codes are generally added in via medical billers after a patient is discharged, based on the physicians input and other data on the patient record. So at this point the data in which you generally work with has gone through two different humans, who used their (best attempt) subjective viewpoint for this patient.

This generally works fine for a lot of common conditions, evident conditions, so things like heart attacks, fractures, and so on. But for things that are complex, like sepsis leading to more evident conditions, the data may not necessarily capture that sepsis even occurred.

Not to say this is a unique problem to healthcare, but something that's not talked about often. A lot of the data we train and model on is based on a human's best guess, which may in some ways be limiting given really complex, dynamic processes.
The site crashed my browser... very strange.
It was a fascinating and terrifying read. I’m glad you made it out.
the government of Argentina has also been very welcoming and expedient with Venezuelan migrants, turning around documentation for the ability to work in as quickly as 2 weeks.

here's a decent presentation (english): https://robuenosaires.iom.int/sites/default/files/Informes/N...
Ask HN: Need help on Stripe Atlas
I've been applying for stripe atlas for a while now , everytime , i get to hear that they don't support a business that has a risk of chargeback , while my business will have absolutely zero because mine is an android app + ios app and would collect payments only through the stores ,so where's the risk ? ,
I'm missing something and i don't understand what , i could see that people with no revenue could be accepted too , but mine is a good idea and has been rejected , also , i've selected the website incomplete option as i still don't have anything on the website yet , could that be a factor ?
Please help out understand where i could be wrong .
That’s all well and good but despite your indignation you haven’t actually explained what it means to market to children. Maybe I accept your premise that marketeers know how to single out specific demographics, but I don’t work in marketing so I have no idea what separates “marketing at children” versus just marketing in general.
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18961676.
I don’t think it’s a worse euphemism. The people who I see angry about “illegals” are the same ones who think blacks are all criminals and it would be great if we could to to the good old days when blacks were segregated, women didn’t have the right to vote, and white men ruled supreme.
I hate these articles. Some group decided on a less then meaningful set of criteria to measure how innovative a country is and measures the US outside of the top 10. This is used as the headline.

Then it's reported how a different group picked different criteria and puts the US on rank #2 behind Switzerland.

Overall benefit of this article is less than zero because it wastes people's time. Of course the US is one of if not the most innovative countries in the world. Everyone with eyes can see that.
In most legal systems contracts/transactions with minors are void to begin with and not enforcable. It's beyond me, why transactions beyond a limited monthly allowance are even possible, if the game is clearly aimed at minors.

The burden of checking age for each transaction should be with the seller, as it is enforced in retail. If the seller doesnt check for proof, then the transaction should be trivially refundable at least.
It's down to the unfortunate reality that people aren't the actual customers of Facebook or Experian, their actual customers are advertisers and lenders (principally there's a few other people but basically anyone who's asked you for permission for a credit report). Under that lens it makes perfect sense that both would have information about everyone because it makes them more valuable.

It's easier to see with Experian because people pretty much never actually use their credit report actively but rather monitor it to know what the actual users will see about them. It's a metric about you rather than a metric for you. Same basic schema applies to the advertiser profile Facebook builds. They've just built a facade to get you to give them a lot of info willingly (in the case of users).
Embarrassing story:

I did my dissertation research on formal methods and network protocols. Somehow, I managed to completely ignore Petri nets.

Then I had an interview with Boeing, where they apparently used nothing else.

I think I managed to convince them I didn't understand my own research. Worst interview I ever had.
That level of control is exactly one of the reasons why I don't buy devices from Apple. If FB think they can use iPhones and mess with Apple's licensing terms they are very delusional. Hopefully this was (another) wake up call for everybody.
In the US, the average resident makes ~57k USD these days. If you're familiar with medical bill rates in the US, a week of billings covers the entire annual salary. For specialists (e.g., derm, radiology, etc) a day of billing can cover the entire annual salary for the resident. Even if you assume not all bills are collected, or that many are negotiated down by insurers, the profit margin on residents is off the charts.

Given billing rates, "we dont have money" is a very convenient answer for why there arent more residents (and hence more future supply of doctors.) Heck, given the wild profit of a resident, I'd personally fund their annual salary for a share of the annual billings.

The real answer is...current doctors, specifically specialty boards must actually be willing to train a resident, however they are funded (medicare, by hospitals, by me, etc.) -- and specialty boards do not. It would increase supply and decrease their future wages. Openings are very carefully throttled to create artificial scarcity.

Medical specialty boards are essentially cartels.

This is hard to imagine as a technologist because we largely operate in a free market. Anyone can enter the market and opt to work for less money than you. A foreign worker can try to do your job for less. The job can be off-shored.
When I was 14 I lived in a country called Yugoslavia
Wow, good find. Apple should absolutely be revoking Google’s certificate as well in this case.

But they use the enterprise certificate for their external “research” apps, because they are doing things on the device (using internal APIs) that an approved app is not permitted to do, and that is certainly not possible through the web browser.

Of course their internal-use apps could be WebView almost certainly.
And you could have made your comment even shorter by not writing it at all.
Leaving aside the literary purpose for the moment - when I go back and look at them now, some multiple decades after I first read them, I see a massive human-centric focus that I never did before. WHY is a human life more valuable than a robotic one? WHY is human "harm" so bad? WHY are human commands so powerful?

I mean, for story purposes it all makes sense, but I'm fascinated that I never raised these questions myself before. I accepted human divine right unquestioningly.
Radiation detection is really good. You would never get the device into the country.

There have been people pulled over in the DC area after undogoing chemotherapy. In one case it was a small dog.
It would cost you billions of dollar to buy the service, that's why you rent it. You can buy the hardware though.

Apple doesn't dictate what you can install on your phone, you can install whatever you want using the developer tools.

What Apple dictates is what people can distribute on their App Store.
> no gloves

Wearing gloves when you are working with spinning things (table saw, lathe, etc) is a huge no-no. The glove may initially protect your hand, but as the blade shreds it, it will get tangled up, and will pull your hand into the blade.
Another nice kickback video is this one, which uses a foam block to illustrate the principle --

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5yNrIVh6oNs
US never does well in these kinds of rankings lol
You could give Hubzilla a shot. Though you have to opt-in to join the ActivityPub federation. And I'm sure the Events only works with users from other Hubzilla instances.

https://project.hubzilla.org/page/hubzilla/hubzilla-project
I need to know more too
But my 'hit' are alarms, communication with family, news, emails etc

I prefer reading emails on my way. I'm distracted anyway and when I arrive at work, no emails anymore.
Image files should only be for images, and what little metadata needed to display them properly. Anything else should be discarded.
This actually comes up a lot - people writing about problems inherent in Asimov's laws.

What I never see is what you would replace them with, and the problems inherent in that. That omission to me is scarier than these 3 laws.
The director apparently told this woman that people have walked out of his interviews before.

We all know interviewing is broken, but making them so horrible that people leave in tears is abusive.

The comments under the non-apology from the director are telling: https://twitter.com/UncleThargy/status/1090498634809049093

Here's an interview with her: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p06zl8n6 (It's a bit frustrating that she's asked, several times, for what he said and she doesn't ever give any direct examples).
Please explain which part of this timeline is where Facebook was innocent:
- 1. Facebook publishes app that steals user data to App Store, disguised as a VPN and it gets removed because it violates the terms & conditions that Facebook agreed to
- 2. Facebook publishes similar enough shady app through program meant for enterprise app deployment, violating another rule on top of violating the previous set of rules again, also they access children's data
- 3. get punished, rule-violating enterprise app distribution channel gets suspended

Thought experiment: If you published an app to Microsoft's Xbox One store which spies on users' out of app habits and therefore breaks the rules and got removed, then proceeded to send everyone jailbreak kits for xboxes and trying to incentivise them to use the app that way and got punished for it, would you feel that Microsoft has it out for you?
Project Paper Cuts
I've seen this happen in the midwest US too.

Given the choice between jail, being outside, or maybe a shelter if you live around a bigger city, I know what i would pick for the winter.
And, belatedly, I see

>eight people in eight states who allegedly were students at the school and recruited additional students to enroll

...so not employees as such (presumably the "school" was offering them some financial incentive to do the recruiting work, but if they were students who knew there weren't actual classes etc that makes their intent much clearer.)

I grant myself a failing grade for reading comprehension today ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
It was very common until late 1980's in Australia to shoot and kill aboriginal children who would wander into your property. The Australian government paid ₤5 to kill an adult and ₤2 to kill a child during the Black War.
https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/ajzbia/til_t...

The killings were legal till the 60's and then overlooked till the 80's. Last year a guy was acquitted by the court even after murdering 4 aboriginal children due to double jeopardy laws.
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2018/sep/13/bowra...
When people code, most of the time, is unrelated to work-life balance. Many people code weekends if they slacked off during the week.

How many hours they code is probably a better indicator. Commit times and frequency aren't really indicative of hours invested in coding.

This post needs a disclaimer as "speculation"
Occasionally I'll explore the depravity of 4chan.org/b out of curiosity, and the rekt threads often include what appear to be relatively recent videos of similarly cruel and violent punishments. This sort of stuff goes on to this very day.
Apparently Google did exactly the same thing! Their “research” app only targeted adults though, which still violates Apple policy but is a lot less scummy.
To quote the guy in the video: "This shows just how stupid this was..."

After the fact he realized the magnitude of how dumb this demo was.
Why? Are some people allowed to pollute more or less depending on if they are rich or poor?
I am all for SawStop and their invention.

I am also all for the Consumer Product Safety Commission doing their fucking job and requiring this to be part of any table saw sold in the US, without paying SawStop any patent fees. This is a consumer safety issue; the exact kind of thing that the CPSC was created to manage, and they've done nothing to reduce or limit the number of appendages being cut off in saw accidents.
Many prevailing strategies simply persist the JWT, this works, but is more difficult to scale and sort breaks the portability idea in my opinion.

Once you persist it - you might as well be using a session. I suppose it depends on your scale - maybe with just a couple of thousand users it would work ok to store every JWT issued for their lifespan.
Unfortunately, most of the books I've read just have the extra material as filler, and don't lead to much engagement. It was just anecdotes like "the nurses in hospital X reported that their bosses were 30% assholes, and in hospital Y they were 96% assholes, so it's no wonder hospital X saved 49% more patients!" and other non-sequiturs like that.
The scariest part is how his fingers get pulled towards the blade:

https://youtu.be/u7sRrC2Jpp4?t=273
My point is Apple offers no alternative.
It's true. Feel like the Umbrella Revolution was the tipping point. 2040 is only 2 decades away.
Before we (inevitably) argue from emotion whether or not the ranking tracks our experience, it's useful to understand what metrics Bloomberg (the index cited in the linked WEF article) includes in their definition of innovation. From a 2015 article [1], it seems that innovation to them is defined as follows:

"Bloomberg ranked countries and sovereigns based on their overall ability to innovate and identified the top 50. Six equally weighted metrics were considered and their scores combined to provide an overall score for each country from zero to 100.

1. Research & Development: Research and development expenditure as a percentage of GDP

2. Manufacturing: Manufacturing value-added per capita

3. High-tech companies: Number of domestically domiciled high-tech public companies—such as aerospace and defense, biotechnology, hardware, software, semiconductors, Internet software and services, and renewable energy companies -- as a share of world's total high-tech public companies

4. Postsecondary education: Number of secondary graduates enrolled in postsecondary institutions as a percentage of cohort; percentage of labor force with tertiary degrees; annual science and engineering graduates as a percentage of the labor force and as a percentage of total tertiary graduates

5. Research personnel: Professionals, including Ph.D. students, engaged in R&D per 1 million population

6. Patents: Resident utility patent filings per 1 million population and per $1 million of R&D spent; utility patents granted as a percentage of world total"

It doesn't mean their criteria for innovation is objective or correct, but understanding them will hopefully elevate the discussion from just saying the rankings are garbage -- which it well could be, but is a position arising from emotion and not analysis. (I personally don't think rankings are useful, but the underlying data may be)

[1] https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2015-innovative-countries...
There are so many places on the world where $2000 a month is more than most people get. Of course they didn't pay that much. I would probably consider it seriously given that currently I get about $800 and that is still considered average.
Remind me what the ROC curve looks like for `can` again.
Intel Names Bob Swan as CEO
Facebook plans new products as Instagram Stories hits 500M users/day
It matters for those starting in the US. The US may have excellent universities, but not elementary education.
For a more humorous take on workplace safety, I heartily recommend "Shake Hands with Danger" [0].

[0] https://www.rifftrax.com/shake-hands-with-danger
Venmo processed $19B in payments last quarter with $200MM revenue for the year
I agree with what you say. That's why I tend to use the phrase "automated testing", rather than something more specific like "unit testing". The tests I write would mostly be called property tests and integration tests, although I think the terminology around testing is too loaded and ambiguous ( http://chriswarbo.net/blog/2017-11-10-unit_testing_terminolo... ).

In any case, whilst I think it's good and healthy to debate the different forms of testing, their merits and tradeoffs, etc. I don't think it's appropriate when the alternative is not testing at all (e.g. "customers don't pay for tests").

I've worked at three organisations and managed to introduce automated testing to two of them. Even then, the test suites were "my responsibility", since (a) nobody else was running them and (b) I had to hand-hold people whenever I spotted a breakage (which they inevitably blamed on the test being wrong).

The heuristics I've come to follow are:

- Having automated tests is better than not having automated tests

- It's easier to improve a bad test suite than it is to get a test suite added/accepted

- There usually aren't enough tests

There are exceptions to these rules, but I don't believe them without evidence. For example, "the test suite is slow" won't convince me that there are too many tests; demonstrating systematic redundancy and fragility in the test suite might convince me (e.g. exposing privates in order to test them).

Only if people are on board with the idea of automated testing, will I bother to get more opinionated about the specifics.
The Firebase Blog: Cloud Firestore Has Gone GA, Lower Pricing Tiers
This isn’t some “think of the children” excuse and regulation already exists here...but I suspect you know that.
I don't know about ban, but an automated mechanism which removes up/downvoting anytime their are too many in a thread sounds like a good option to me.
If we're going to ban people, I propose we start banning users who post whiny, pointless comments first.
Canada is not at all spherical...
Why aren't I using tons of amazing South Korean and Swedish-designed products in my daily life if this is the case? (or jealous of all the great products they seem to have that I don't have access to?)
Better UX than any modern Desktop OS.
Worth noting that tech workers in London make about 1/2 to 1/3 of what they do in the Bay.
So place an embargo on the US because people want to buy big cars? That seems smart.
Alright, central table.

So is @anc84 advocating for the embargo of Australia too, whose 2015 pollution is even higher than the United States?
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Correction: Jan. 25, 2019
An earlier version of this article misstated the number of peer reviewers who evaluated the 2016 Nature paper “Genomic Insights Into the Peopling of the Southwest Pacific” before publication. It was four, not three; a fourth reviewer was added to evaluate the paper after the original submission was revised. The article also misstated the geographical area where migrants from the steppes of eastern Ukraine and southern Russia significantly replaced existing communities of hunter-gatherers and early farmers, as reported in an academic paper on the migration. It was Central and Northern Europe, not the entire continent.
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Why should they? Facebook went out of their way to abuse the rules, but should get an exception because they buy a lot of iPhones?
> without paying SawStop any patent fees

That'd be a great way to stop any future safety innovation that may benefit many people.
> We are in dire need of regulation here.

In many cases internet regulation, especially the sort that would curb data misuse, is a scarier line to cross.
I don't think that's a super fair assessment of my comment. If we're just disagreeing on the definition of an in-flight accident, or what percentage between 30% and 90% of accidents constitute a vast majority, we should probably leave it at that, because that's not really disagreement :)

My point is, there's plenty of accidents caused by things that happened while the plane was in the air, that has many survivors or just some injuries. The news article at [0] has some examples, and it's possible to search for more. Granted, if you exclude the cases where the injuries or casualties were caused during an attempted landing or a forced landing due to malfunction, the picture would probably look much more bleak, but then you would also have ruled out a large portion of the accidents that happened.

It's thankfully _extremely_ rare that it's been impossible to make an honest attempt at a controlled landing or ditching during an accident, and in a large part of the cases where this was possible, things turned out okay for most passengers.

[0]: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/after-air-accidents-sur...
Highly doubtful that could be detected.

Here's some interesting research on that topic

https://www.reddit.com/r/netsec/comments/38wl43/we_used_sock...