skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree with you.

A tool that will let doctors remember rare diagnoses, is a powerful helper.

Isabel healthcare has such tool.

But clinical decision support tools tend to create resistance among doctors. So I'm not sure Isabel's tool is popular.
Sorry where is the non-sequitur? The previous poster purported that I mustn't have much "real world" experience in coding, and I responded that I and my team wouldn't be entrusted to successfully maintain a program and network that coordinates emergency services first responders over a large land mass and number of people if that was the case.

If you honestly think that emergency services infrastructure is less of a valuable target to a rogue operator than Internet Widgets Inc. or whatever then I think we are done here for now.

This is all a huge over-reaction to my initial point which was; the format that the OP proposed was busted, and any good C/C++ programmer should notice that immediately rather than implement it blindly. If they can't do that then, yes, definitely stick to a managed language. Which I agree is good advice anyway.

Thank you and have a nice day.
> But the reason they were segmented for period related ads was because they were being treated without discrimination as if they were (to the advertiser) "just a woman".

I'm pretty sure the complaint is treating woman as equivalent to people with periods, not treating the complaining person as a woman.
CRISPR machines that can wipe out entire species
It’s worth it to not he’s not using this as an opportunity to push Edge, and in the article even recommends people to use any modern browser they choose.
I went from 6 figures to broke(several times)
Concorde is still the most beautiful aircraft ever, IMO.
> Because Pinker's rebuttal was initially supposed to be an email to somebody else.

...you can't really be serious? It's published. With his knowledge. He could have edited it, or at least quickly tweeted "omg this was terrible I'm sorry I had a heated gaming moment."

> A central point in the criticism Hickel wrote was that markets don't work, but regulation, protectionism and state intervention does. I'm not sure that would qualify him as a "mild centre-left social democrat".

That's literally the definition of a mild centre-left social democrat.
in the same way, farbage collectora can have bugs that make memory mistakes. has happened to me.
Isn't Xenko done 100% in C#? There is a mentality in gamedev circles, that only C/C++, and maybe Rust are viable for a game engine. Unity supposedly avoids it by the fact that while gameplay code is C#, the engine underneath is still C++. How's Xenko on the performance side?
> We in the West have this completely-made-up assumption that "they" can't develop like "we" did, with absolutely no grounding in fact.

They can. But "we" developed in a very turbulent and deadly ways. Just handful of decades ago, during WWI and WWII, "we" were killing millions of people, helping spread massive disease outbreaks that killed other millions in just a few years, created economy destroying monetary and isolationist policies, impoverished millions, destroyed advanced industrialized countries in the middle of Europe with communism, were colonizing, destabilizing and exploiting natural resources of other countries, etc.

We're still humans, and all this is still possible to repeat. And developing "like we did", is not necessarily something great or positive. It can mean pretty much anything, unless you cherry-pick baselessly.
Completely agree.

My very real experience is a lack of a degree won't hold you back, a lack of passion will.

It definitely sounds like there's a deeper issue in play here...
Yeah, let’s go from ‘designed for Internet Explorer’ to ‘designed for Chrome’!
Huh, thanks! Are there others you've looked into that were close to Cool Earth or is everyone else in a different league?
> For example, Erlang — that funky language that people use to program systems with 99,9999999% uptime (no, that’s not an exaggeration) — has repeatedly shipped with a broken implementation of Map data structure in its standard library.

…during the period ‘maps’ was a experimental/beta-feature.
A business running GSuite getting banned would indeed be a disaster, but has this ever happened?

For personal accounts, what happens if you create another account? It's also a big disruption, but "your voice can no longer be heard" seems exaggerated?
S7 here on firefox and chrome @ 15-20 frames, looks like my phone is a little dated!
I see they are getting unofficially the best fondue in the town at Bains des Paquis. Those CERN folks are indeed smart!
Some other examples include the Bruno Latour classic report on the French "Aramis" system https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aramis,_or_the_Love_of_Technol...

"Guided buses" seem to be in the same category. Edinburgh had some which were replaced by conventional trams at great cost. Cambridge has some which has endemic problems: https://www.smartertransport.uk/guided-busway-defects/
Bill Gates says tax policies are missing the picture
I have been personally experimenting with what I call "drip learning" - essentially, I am trying to learn a large amount of non-urgent information very slowly, piece by piece, over a very long timeline. For example, learning all the letters of the Greek (or Hebrew, or Russian, or Armenian) alphabet. If I sit down and attempt to learn them all it once, it quickly becomes overwhelming and retention is low. But, if you simply learn one new letter per day, it's very manageable - and you'll learn the entire alphabet in a month.

Combined with spaced repetition (Anki) to reinforce the memory, I think it's extremely powerful. Anecdotally, it works well - I can recall all of these items on demand, months later.

The next step (which I haven't quite figured out) is to multiply this across multiple domains. I.e. every day, learn 1 French phrase, 1 Spanish phrase, 1 German phrase, and so on. In my (nonscientific) experience, this is more effective than focusing on a single topic.
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I had been wondering what the `amb` operator in Rx is named after. It takes any number of reactive streams and evaluates to the one that first emits a value, discarding the others. I presume the analogy here is that because it doesn’t block, it figuratively has to ”look into the future” to figure out which stream to return. But is there a deeper theoretical connection there?
Truly spoken by someone who doesn't really know what they're talking about.
As I pointed out in my comment, Mars One didn't have a sound plan. Like most others following the effort, I thought it was a scam meant to enrich Bas Lansdorp. That they are a scam isn't news: everyone knew this. I'd guess that most of the donors even knew this.

That said, I think the idea of a one-way Mars colonization mission has a lot of merit, as long as there is some chance of survival. "Mars to Stay" as a one-way trip is something that has many proponents, most famously Buzz Aldrin. The one good thing about Mars One is that they got people talking about this proposition and doing a deeper analysis of how it could be achieved.
I'm screaming on the inside. And using chrome because my phone doesn't have enough storage for another browser / I can't remove it.

Which is baffling: I find myself in a situation that Microsoft was fined for
A downwards user share trajectory, but an upwards technical one as of late. But yeah, it's pretty worrying that a webkit monoculture is developing. At least webkit is open source, so google won't really have a true monopoly (at least apple and microsoft will have competing (if still webkit based) implementations).
A cynic might note that it is in Vanguard's interest to be conservative here to (1) drive down client expectations and (2) increase the required savings rate in its financial planning models. There's no upside for Vanguard to be high and wrong on the overall market and limited (if any) downside to Vanguard being pessimistic.
Nice list. I was just leafing through Internetworking with TCP/IP Vol 2 by Comer. Excellent book and a good one to add to your list. A bit old now, with non-ANSI C code, but still very interesting!
I didn't say anyone is doctoring data. The data may well be true, but it may not fit your narrative. If your narrative is "people are getting poorer" you need to set the bar high, if your narrative is "people are getting richer", you need to set the bar low. In that sense it goes both ways.

However, the difference between outright starving to death, being extremely poor and simply "being poor" is staggering. You wouldn't argue that a million people saved from starvation looks "rather drab when considering that the average poor person still can't afford to drive a car".

You may say "1.90$ is ridiculous", but hundreds of millions of people actually do have to live on that. It's not like it's a fantasy number that nobody actually lives off.
Because radical feminists activists are subset of feminists. Feminism itself has many different strands and it make sense to specify which one you mean. I wanted to be quite specific in which argument exactly I mean.
This is Jason Hickel's rebuttal to Steven Pinker's response [0] to Hickel's letter in the Guardian [1]. Pinker advocates that the quality of life for people is, on average, getting better worldwide. Hickel's responses are a little subtle but here's my interpretation:

1. Hickel argues that Pinker's $1.7/day poverty
line is too low to be used effectively as a
standard of poverty and proposed a $7.4/day rate

2. Excluding China from the period of 1981 to 2000 and
using $7.4/day as a measure of the poverty line,
the global poverty rate actually increased (from 62%
to 68%) presumably because of exclusionary policies
from the IMF

3. Hickel argues that Pinker is a a capitalist and neo-liberal
"apologist" and that Pinker is providing a more optimistic picture
of reality than is warranted (and presumably things could be
getting better faster with more realistic appraisals of the
world state)

4. The measure of success for poverty reduction should be our
global ability to reduce poverty from our wealth rather than
absolute or relative numbers of poverty reduction

The point about the poverty increase from excluding China from 1981 to 2000 (point 2 above) is that this interpretation of data shows that poverty is not monotonically decreasing and that policy has drastic impacts on the rate of poverty reduction. I believe Hickel is arguing that pro capitalist or pro neo-liberal sentiment hides bad policy decisions, also presumably made with a pro capitalist or pretending to be done with a pro neo-liberal sentiment (IMF).

I think Pinker provides compelling evidence but I appreciate counter arguments like Hickel's as it provides a fuller picture of some finer points that might get lost. The IMF excluding the global south is information I hadn't known before and I imagine has drastic implications for the rate of poverty reduction worldwide. I think Hickel falls into the trap of reducing Pinker to a neo-liberal cheerleader when Pinker is trying to convey some very basic information but I also haven't read any of Pinker's books so the critique might be valid.

[0] https://whyevolutionistrue.wordpress.com/2019/01/31/is-the-w...

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/jan/29/bill-g...
If my demands were going to be listened to, then no legitimizing is necessary for anyone. If legitimizing were necessary, then their demands are useful because they legitimize mine, no?

I'm not interested in defending against theirs by appeal to some principle that I don't think anyone believes in either way. I'm interested in making the case that I'm right and they're not. If I'm not right, I shouldn't win the argument, they should. And I am right and big tech is run by people who aren't smart enough to understand why, we're all screwed anyway so whatever.

I have trouble distinguishing the "don't legitimize it" argument from, say, "You shouldn't engage in political attack ads because it legitimizes the other side using them," "You shouldn't have an army because it legitimizes other countries having an army, and what if they invade you one day," and so forth. Without some concrete reason to believe that the other side either wouldn't or couldn't use a tactic, refusing to use it on principle is just planning to lose.
IMHO, MS should have rebranded Edge as IE and the current IE's name should have been "Legacy Internet Browser" or something like that at the beginning.

If one of their chief would say not to use IE, why MS would make it a virtually default browser at the beginning? (to be clear, most of South Korean websites were marked incompatible with Edge and forced users open those websites on IE when launching Windows 10.)
MS was not brave enough so they did terrible marketing stretagy around Edge.

It is sad we lost one of few modern web engine.
A lot of the same people decrying the Chrome monopoly never the less push for more and more bloat in the web standard, thus helping to enforce that monopoly by ensuring that hardly anyone has the resources to make a reasonable competitor.
The comments in this entry are harsher than I expected after having completed the article. I agree that the headline was a little misleading (maybe that's harsh, but perhaps a little click-baitey). He had one, sort-of peripheral story that was really important to me -- paraphrased:

> Your bug tracker probably has some security vulnerabilities that were misidentified as routine bugs.

This is especially true if the language you've chosen to write your code in is C/C++, the problem happens in an unsafe context in another language (including unexpected ones like C#). This was something I sort-of did by habit. In a past job I had a side-responsibility of tracking CVEs for any software run within a large global organization. We had a (pretty small, but surprising) incident that we were unprepared for where a bug in a Microsoft product[0] was causing a DoS on a number of sites on our intranet. It turned out to be a bug that was resolved with a service pack, but was not assigned a CVE or an MSxx-xxx number (I believe this was revised later).

From that point on, we paid special attention to a handful of apps with the rule of "If it causes a crash, it's a DoS, which makes it a security issue" followed immediately by "If we can't prove that said crash cannot lead to exploitation". Which meant that almost every little problem was being treated far more severely than it needed to be. After a while this was tempered; we did a little less research and marked those that did not have a CVE associated to simply "monitor"[1].

[0] Sorry, I searched old notes and couldn't find the one, but it was around the early Vista timeframe affecting, I think, one of the parsers used by Sharepoint ... I could have that very wrong, my eyes bled from reading so many of those.

[1] Patches, sometimes, break things. Back then, in the MS world, OS patches broke things with far greater frequency than they do today (and it was more painful to recover from), so patching a "non-problem", breaking a bunch of workstations and taking with it that employee's ability to do their job and that's a quick path to unemployment. Of course, failing to patch a known issue will lead that way too. It's a wonder many of the secops folks I've worked with are so grumpy.
An incentive for everyone to have children doesn’t make sense. An incentive for hard working, intelligent people to have children makes more sense. Make it a tax deduction, so those making six digits are encouraged to have more than two children, while those barely able to survive aren’t perversely incentivized to spread their unsuccessful genes.
Legislation requires more precise definitions if it is to be useful in court.
How bad is Al Shabab compared to obesity and car accidenty? (Or other luxury deaths/ills)

> can all come tumbling down with the next disputed election or sectarian genocide.

Will it though? I mean sure it might look like that, but the US just had a Gov shutdown, whereas India and China had none in the previous decades. [Even if the US system is better IMHO.] (Of course there is an index for that: https://www.theglobaleconomy.com/India/wb_political_stabilit... and let's say vs Syria https://www.theglobaleconomy.com/Syria/wb_political_stabilit... )
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Draw pencil sketches of your photo
Wow, things have come a long way.

When CSS3 and jQuery first started gaining some traction (<8 years ago?), I tried a bunch of animations using layered images and image transformations. One of these "dreams" was of some hot air balloons as well. Desktop only:

https://technotarek.com/sky (first balloon appears at ~10s)

My favorite was a simple tail wag (https://technotarek.com/cat).

Edit: noted desktop only
>always be cheaper to prevent creation of CO2 (burning fossil fuels) than to catch CO2

Why ? Where does this comes from ?
For all that Gigerenzer is a giant in social psychological research, the article doesn't half sound like two fields talking past each other. The entire purpose of behavioural economics is not to reinvent Gigerenzer's own field but to point out that humans frequently deviate from "rational expectations" outcomes predicted by orthodox economic models. Modelling deviations from rational choice theory is not "all that keeps it erect", it's its raison d'etre in critiquing a field where rational choice theory and unsystematic error is the default assumption. The crux of the "great rationality debate" is that Kahnemann is talking about rationality as "making correct predictions with random error" (or in terms of policy implications, "making predictions which lead to preferable outcomes to those which could be achieved by any other conceivable model") and finding examples where humans do not do this, whereas Gigerenzer is talking about rationality in terms of whether human intuitions and heuristics are justifiable in an evolutionary sense (and improvable upon by learning).

Gigerenzer is undoubtedly correct that Bayesian reasoning is something that can be learned by many people, and yet all that Kahnemann needs for the implications of his statement that "the human mind is not Bayesian at all" to be relevant in behavioural economics terms is for some portion of the population to reach systematically different conclusions from the correct Bayesian one using an inferior heuristic. (A point Gigerenzer essentially demonstrates by citing a study which show how outcomes improved after gynecologists already motivated to make correct predictions were taught Bayesian reasoning). Perhaps it's sloppy wording on the part of Kahnemann that Gigerenzer is taking exception to, but the core claim is not that humans cannot learn statistics, but that at a population level, some humans will continue to rely on less accurate heuristics which deviate from those predicted by rational expectations models in a systematic [and predictable] manner which are not simply eliminated over time due to financial incentives to be correct.

The one claim which really ought to be of serious concern to behavioural economists is that their experimental studies frequently mistake random error (acknowledged by 'rational expectations' orthodox economics) for systematic error, so it's perhaps unfortunate that the Kahnemann example Gigerenzer highlights in this paper as not being replicable is an abstract demonstration of the availability heuristic with zero direct economic implications.
My Dad was a riveter in the Vickers Viscount factory in the 50s/60s. Ok, not Comets, but close.
Ask HN: Any success stories with token-based employee incentives?
I’m considering a job at a blockchain startup, which is offering tokens (not yet created or issued) instead of equity. I understand equity, you make money if you get bought out or go public, but I am skeptical of tokens especially now that the crypto-bubble has burst. If the tokens are issued and eventually listed, what are the economics of how or why the price would actually rise? Does anyone have any success stories where this actually worked out for them (with a legit company)? Does anyone know of any good resources on this kind of compensation?
How do we draw the line in what norms to enforce? And who determines that those norms are actually better than the ones in place? It seems like this would be a great way for multinational corporations to become cultural and moral enforcers, which causes bad incentives to influence people towards consumption above all else.
PyPy 7.0.0 is out
More likely Rob Pike doesn't believe programmers can comprehend the immense power of enumerated types.
For the beetles in particular, they're only natural inasmuch as logging is natural. The beetles are able to survive because of human activity. Logging is just as natural, because it's done by humans, which are a natural species.

We have to have some common sense boundaries on what is or is not natural for the term to have any usefulness in environmental discussions. In this case, the beetles are unnatural and invasive. Moreover, they're harmful in that they kill trees more quickly than the forest is equipped to handle.
Then it sounds like your problem has nothing to do with ads.
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There is only one issue with that thinking. Till people who directly profit from destroying environment can lobby our democratic system, we cant do anything with big enough influence. We would have to introduce totalitarism lead by Gandalfs to change that.
There are quite a few laws concerning both pornography and forests, and civilization has steadfastly refused to die.
There's an automatic pistol that is somewhat famous for coming into service in 1911:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M1911_pistol

The more important question is probably as to how large women's pockets were in 1920.
If you watch Chris Mccord's videos (the creator of Phoenix and LiveView), it was an attempt to build a similar system for Rails that drove him to create Phoenix. The Ruby/Rails concurrency model mean that he was patching over so many cracks to try and get it to work, and it never quite did.
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^ What indigochill said.

In addition, for Reddit it seems a paying subscriber is worth 20 non-paying subscribers and is a more secure form of income. So I imagine they're exactly the type of user they want. Why would the subscription model exist if it hurt advertising revenue?
What tabs? You have the friends list and the "send a snap" screens, those are the only two I see... and sometime my profile.
Very happy to be getting tls1.3 support :)
Not currently. Rust has done this, but I'm not aware of other languages having done so.
Doing some bandaid solution doesn't solve the root of the problem. And that is that companies are running through natural resources with wanton abandon.

We have deserts (California) with acre-feet of water pumped in to water almond trees, while we destroy freshwater aquifers. We burn dead dinosaurs and leave the toxic accumulants to hang out in atmo. We inject nasty carcinogens and then blow up the ground to salvage more oil. We dump all sorts of things in the ocean for 'someone else' to deal with.

Sure we individuals can do a few conservative things for ecology. But the bulk is the companies are allowed to leverage natural resources and the tragedy of the commons of the world to make a few more $$$. And these tiny companies with some carbon sequestration makes people feel good, but ultimately means that we buy a few more weeks, months, or perhaps years before we're completely fucked.
The view of the Man on the Clapham Omnibus is useful in court but not very precise...
> Nobody has convinced me it could be done, and as of yet, it hasn't been.

Agreed. And even though it could be done, but it'd of course came at an enormous cost to the current pace of driver and other updates.

Google is trying something with Fuchsia though.

And there are experiments similar to how Linux itself got started. (Redox OS comes to mind.)