skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Good question, I don't know. It's possible they were sent on wild goose chases knowing they were in vain and just a front. I have no idea, but I know they had good scientists in their employ.

In any event, research labs have many lines of inquiry and separate teams working on their specialty. I don't know if they produced good IP, just that they had good scientists working for them, and have moved on to other reputable companies since.

This outfit singled out by the FDA though, it looks like complete fraud.
> DOS. It has no privilege escalation exploits, because by design it has no concept of different privileges.

No, DOS has no protection against exploits, because by design it has no concept of different privileges. Anyone with access to a DOS system is automatically root and can do anything. "No exploits" is not a good description of that state of affairs.
Samsung’s Galaxy Buds Are Cheaper Than AirPods and Have Wireless Charging
I think you're being a bit harsh in this case.

I don't think many of these have a useful explanation that would stay within the useful scope of a list like this. Knowing the local implementation details of Argentina dialing requirements, and why the 9 needs to be dropped, most likely involves long-gone phone carries, organic implementations, and local politics.

Expecting guidelines for most all of these is not realistic since many are just "how it is". For most, the guideline is an obvious "don't do/expect this". If your list is mostly comprised of unexpected behavior, then "falsehoods x believe" is probably ok.

As for avoiding the problem, you can't always avoid reality; sometimes you have to accommodate its weirdness, especially when dealing with > 100 year old systems with massive interoperability problems.
We do that! Email hn@ycombinator.com and ask.
How can plasma transfusions not have gone though rigorous testing? Has it not been done routinely millions of times for decades?

I understand it's not been proven to have any health benefit. But the safety of the procedure must be extremely well known.
Leon – Open-Source Personal Assistant
Did they do an overhaul recently? Maybe people are remembering an older version.

I had to use LastPass at work, maybe 2 years ago, and I can confirm, it may have had the worst user interface (both in terms of aesthetics and usability) of any webpage I've ever had to use. I simply couldn't believe any self-respecting developer shipped that.
It is pretty simple, actually.

All you have to do is judge people on their actions, and let them say (but not act on) whatever they want.

So as long as someone is merely saying words on the internet, or whatever, then that's fine. And if instead, this person is stockpiling illegal weapons, well that's what the police are for.
The Long March from China to the Ivies (2016)
correct, the point of doing something like what i'm describing is to have a system for keeping / creating N unique passwords stored only in your head, in a way that provides an acceptable amount of strength, avoids disclosing all of your passwords if one is compromised, and doesn't require you to be a savant of long-random-string memorization.

there are plenty of things that this isn't an appropriate approach for, and fwiw I wouldn't tell someone it would be a good strategy for all their passwords.

it can be useful when you have a set of longer lived passwords that you need to care about guaranteeing that the entire set can't be snarfed without holding you at gunpoint.
We really should have more Easter eggs.

I was disappointed that nothing unusual happened to my "past-life account" with 1000+ karma.
That may actually happen someday, because I wrote an HN client to help with moderation and it has all kinds of keyboard shortcuts for navigation. It's on my list to publish the navigation parts.
I just think its too on the nose. A classical liberal think tank writes scare piece about the downsides to Utopian progressivism. Yawn. Perhaps im getting old.
I don't think that I've had any kids. But yes, I would have been a laissez-faire parent, I think. Although it's possible that I might have become paranoid and over-protective (and over-controlling).
> Zebras have stripes because their stripes shoo away flies, which helped previous generations of zebras who had stripes thrive and pass their genes forward.

Not necessarily. A trait may also be there simply because it's not actively harmful, or maybe because it's a useless side-effect of another trait that is beneficial.

It may be that zebras have stripes because they are not harmful enough to prevent them from passing their genes forward. (of course, in this particular case the flies hypothesis seems more likely).
I'd say it is unsavory in the same way today's movies are "manufactured" to extract the most value from american and chinese markets. Where decisions of film locations, dialogue, plot, etc are driven by marketing and political aspects of these two major markets. And the "art" comes after the market research.

"ars gratia artis" doesn't apply to Forrest Gump. It was manufactured out of marketing data. It was the 90s version of most recent nostalgia film "Ready Player One". I know it won a bunch of awards ( which I put no credence or value on ) but it is film saccharine. Forrest Gump is one of the forefathers of the current movie industry.
America's Signature Mode of Transportation Is High-Cost Rail
Ford Is Testing a New Van Delivery Service Using Cloud-Based Software
I lived in seattle during the city council’s employment tax. It was wild how many canvassing yuppies amazon had on the streets trying to get folks to sign their petition.
SCOTUS can't create new legislation. But in a common law system like the US, where court decisions are part of the legal framework, simply issuing a court ruling can result in the creation of new "law."
I do wonder how EU's "right to be forgotten" comes into the play here. Could it be used in your case?
Hyperfisheye Lens – The Lens That Can See Behind Itself
Is it invoking a forgotten elderitch prayer to Chthulhu?
Stage refers to the progression of the tumor (size, spread). Generally Stage IV is bad news - the cancer has spread throughout your body.
https://www.cancer.gov/about-cancer/diagnosis-staging/stagin...

It is generally helpful to track statistics by stage, but stage is just one of MANY factors.
You're assuming that ethnic nation-states were the norm in human history. They were not - most states originate from rulers that unified them, and their original citizenship was basically people who swore fealty to that ruler and not the other. Most modern nations didn't exist then, either, except as numerous separate tribes that had to be forcibly unified, and their distinct identities erased, to make them into those nations. We see the legacy of this process even today, e.g. in how many European countries treat their various regional languages and dialects.
Was unaware of Unit 731, thank you for the knowledge!
No. Several presidents were sworn in using documents like the Constitution and the Magna Carta instead of the Bible.
Is there a list of things Leon is currently able to do?
As long as you do not limit the email to certain popular providers then it is a good solution.
HN doesn't have that standard. Not being Reddit doesn't make you weird.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16131314
I'm quite impressed you took the time to write a full paragraph telling someone who wrote several that you didn't like what they had to say. The cleverly disguised personal insult to their engineering credibility is also quite subtle. /s

I find that the color added by a good story adds more to the conversation than the blatant elitism of a contentless dismissal.
These might be valid but nobody uses them and nobody will complain if you do not support them.
They think that if they don't control their content, their customers and advertisers will leave. They are probably right.
"I can do a million connections/processes per machine, and that would be very unfeasible with Apache."

It's somewhat less infeasible now than it was in the early 2000s. The main barriers to C1M with an OS process per connection are:

1. Stack size. With 8M stacks 1M processes would take up 8 TB of RAM.

2. Process creation overhead - loading the executable into memory, setting up global context, opening sockets.

3. Context-switching overhead: swapping page tables, TLB flushes, saving registers, etc.

For #1, recent versions of Linux will happily let you create threads or processes with 4K stacks now. They also don't actually allocate the memory for the whole process, they just map pages, and then the page fault is what assigns a physical page to a virtual address, so if you never touch a memory location it doesn't exist in RAM. For #2, new processes get COWed from their parent and can inherit file descriptors as well, so all the read-only data (executables, static data, MMapped files, etc.) is essentially free. #3 is a legitimate reason why language-based solutions are faster (they don't have to flush the whole TLB on context-switch, and know exactly which registers they're using), but mostly affects speed rather than concurrent connections.
This would make me very happy.
It wasn't a fraud from day one, Elizabeth Holmes was a teenager when she got started on Theranos, she had no idea at that time that it had no chance of working. Uncle Tim gave her $200k in seed funding and she ran with it. Shit got progressively more fucked up along the way.
However a shared album requires one to manually, selectively choose photos to share with people, as opposed to sharing all your photos with your spouse, which Google makes easy.
One thing most of Tesla's competitors all have in common is that they don't have functional self driving tech either. Tesla will buy from a startup, if it buys at all. So I don't think your line of reasoning is valid.

Remember: having tech is one thing, getting it to market at scale and sorting out legal and regulatory issues, cross-border issues, distribution agreements, etc. is quite another. Tesla has done this before and thus presents a nontrivial value-add for tech holders, quite aside from "money on table now".
fxxk Facebook
For a treatment to be granted 'FDA approval', the FDA needs to see evidence of two things: safety and efficacy. Even if a treatment is demonstrated to be safe, if there's no evidence of therapeutic benefit, they won't approve it.
I think a good enough reason to forbid it would be to prevent companies from paying donors more (or at all) and diverting blood that could be used for necessary medical treatments.
> a genuinely useful innovation

I agree. The writing is on the wall... people are ditching desktop computers in droves in favour of handheld/portable devices.

Just as I usually do with any new V1.0 tech... I'm staying away, but am excited about future improvements!
Why do you think that someone who would literally suck your blood out of your veins so that they can live forever would bother to tell you what it feels like?

Why are we pretending this is anything but horrifying? We have multiple works of dystopia and horror fiction about this very premise: The Golden Compass, The Waterworks, Get Out, The Supernaturalist, Unwind...
I mean plasma products aren’t zero risk. But yes pretty low risk. One of the problems with FDA approval processes are that they wont approve anti aging trials. Because basically the FDA only allows you to treat a problem and it doesn’t consider aging to be a problem. https://www.politico.com/agenda/story/2017/12/13/anti-aging-...
Authoritarianism by definition requires a strong central power.

This is one of the dishonest absolute tropes which need to be squashed, because it obscures the truth. It's an obfuscation that's as good as a lie. (1) Here's the universal, timeless truth: All power is temporary and contextual. All of history teaches us this. A masked mob dominating the street for a couple of hours clearly has contextual power. The mob that took over Evergreen State College and made the president ask to go to the bathroom had temporary, contextual power.

Authoritarianism just requires power, and all power is temporary and contextual. Silencing speakers just requires this temporary, contextual power. Ruining a life just requires temporary, contextual power. Instilling fear so that people remain silent just requires temporary, contextual power. All of that is authoritarianism. All of that is coercion instead of convincing, and none of that requires the power of a government.

That said, there is plenty of centralized power now being used by corporations and by colluding groups spanning multiple powerful corporations. There is plenty of the corporate power of the purse acting to actively silence people operating in 2019 and recent years.

Whatever you're talking about isn't authoritarianism

Merely wielding power to make people do what you want is authoritarianism. That is what comes of pseudo-activism that never gets beyond grievance and outrage. That is what comes of pseudo-activism that stays in that potentially toxic zone and never gets to the level of universal and unifying principles. That's the dishonest ideology of people who want to wield power to coerce others, yet deny it at the same time. It's based on the obvious lie of static, timeless power, easily refuted by history.

(1 - "Power + Prejudice" being used to justify the distortion of a racial arrow onto what should be universal justice that applies to all human beings -- is part of the lie. We've seen ideologies that assign different justice to different races, creeds, orientations. They all claim to be part of a movement of justice, and in the end, they all turn out to be evil. If power is temporary and contextual, there can be no idiosyncratic directional vectors to justice, especially none related to melanin.)
Walmart Is Quietly Taking Control of Its Rail Operations
No but with the 3 planes method you can progressively hone any 3 non flat planes of material to arbitrarily closer margins of perfection without need for an external reference.
You're asking the previous poster to answer a question he has already sufficiently answered. Rhetoric or not, it's the truth.

While you may consider the literary sources he pulled from to be "BS", we've had more than enough precedent implemented in the last 30 years that these literary "cautionary" tales are instead of being used as a warning to not encroach on civil rights, are instead being viewed as instruction manuals for how to do so.

I.e. Semantic/linguistic engineering, appeals to nationalism, declaration of 'war' against nebulous but never seeming to disappear enemies, silencing or suppression of journalism/access to information, and engineering of artificial socioeconomic classes.

If you haven't read the books, and are just tired of seeing people talk about them, then I recommend you read them and take them to heart.

If you have read them, and yet still consider them irrelevant, then I can only question your motives/ position and whether it is fundamentally dependent on slowly eroding others right to be free of surveillance, because in no way whatsoever does the implementation details of the government in the United States proof its' citizens against these forces which are very actively employed by parties foreign and domestic.

I don't like to assume malice, but I find it absolutely mind boggling that anyone paying enough attention could not recognize this in good faith. It's just too painfully obvious.

So, if you truly aren't gaslighting, please enlighten me as to how you're trying to do anything but undermine actually valid concerns through rhetorically underhanded means? Because I'm honestly not seeing it.
I don't quite get the intent behind rather here. I too would like to hear from people who tried this, but its not a preference to being told the FDA is clamping down, its just another perspective.

Nicotine addicts like taking nicotine irrespective of the 101 toxic chemicals in smoke they get along side it. I'd rather the Surgeon General didn't say "oh well, let them do what they want"

I also have views around paid blood and organ donation in general. I think its a bad idea.
> When the Persians invaded 'Greece' - the infighting Greek states bound together and acted more or less as an entity to push out the invaders. Point being: 'Invading Persians' was not the same thing as 'Spartans invading Athens'.

You're reading an awful lot into a single anecdote. There were other occasions where some Greek polities allied with Persians against others.
> "Unfortunately, one of the rats accidentally drowned during swimming training; therefore, the final animal number of the [experimental group] was 17."

Damn, poor guy.

> "When training, a screw nut approximately 3% of their mean body weight was tied to the top end of the tail of each rat, and all rats were kept in the special pools with water of 60 cm depth (water temperature 25–30°C, pH 6.5–7.0) until fatigued (submerged below the surface for five seconds twice). The fatigued rats ceased training immediately, were removed from the water for a short break, showered with running water and then dried with hair dryers."

So, systematically drowning rats until they aspirate water, every day for twelve weeks. And they showed negative respiratory effects. Huh.
What did you use for the parallel data? the paraphrases are much better than an auto-encoder.
Thanks. If I manage to work through it, I'll put it online somewhere (and post the link to HN).
Show HN: We Got Sick of Giving Out 'Ballpark Estimates' So We Built This
Members of Congress Want to Hold a Hearing to Investigate Facial Recognition
Bang for Your Buck
I'm reminded of the title of a distributed systems post the original appears to be no longer working but here's a HN link:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12245909
I think this all lumps into nobody really knowing everything about phone numbers, email addresses, and time
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The Sedition Act, passed by the First Congress (consisting of many members of the Constitutional Convention), for starters, which was a huge restriction on free speech.

The multiple attempts by former CC members to pass anti-slavery legislation in Congress in the many decades leading up to the Civil War.

There are a number of other examples, well covered by a number of primary and secondary sources.
I don't really know what @2:33 is about, but let me take a guess and ask you: would you let actual children see the contents that appear @2:33? And if they did, would they be horrified? If you asked them to describe what was happening on @2:33, would they feel unfomfortable? Or would they give some innocent, mundane description?

This is a great test to see if something is dirty or if it's only dirty in your mind. If you have to create an imaginary pedophile in your mind that gets aroused by @2:33, and a whole group of them that are searching Youtube comments to find the timestamp for "what they're looking for", you have to wonder if you're not using some huge leap in logic to arrive to conclusions.

Ironically, what this video has shown is that Youtube's system works, as this guy, to make his video, had to go for what seems to be hours of research and after it, he shows the most shocking videos of little girls he was able to find. And there wasn't any nudity, or anything actually implicitly sexual shown. Everything was clean and every timestamp led to family-friendly content.

The "worst" thing I saw was the usage of the water emoji, and I'm like, really? People use the water emoji and suddenly you can be very detailed about their sexual orientation and why they timestamp videos or share them? All what is happening on these completely innocent videos could be explained in many ways, thinking the most likely explanation is "that's a pedophile" means the imaginary pedophile in your mind needs to be toned down.
Thank you. TIL. Given about 5-10 web pages I badly miss the google default steerage choices for gmail/photos &c, this may well fill a hole in my life.

So .. thank you kind HN reader.
I think it's hyperbole for "things you should be careful about". Obviously nobody really believes every human on the planet has a phone number, or only one, or that there don't exist people who share phone numbers... or pretty much every other item in this list :P

I think it was a riff on the "falsehoods programmers believe about names" article, which is a bit more insightful.
> Seattle sits right next to the only temperate rainforest in the world, though

See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temperate_rainforest

You might be interested in the section "Global distribution".
We are shifting more and more towards a legal system where not only those who actually did something wrong (here the tax evaders), but also those whose services have been used to do so are considered guilty. Another example is copyright, where websites are increasingly held liable for user uploads. I'm not convinced that this is a good development.
Holy crap! I did not see those two on Reddit. I had posted to Reddit and was monitoring those comments but didn't know of these. Thanks! Although, I'm sad both of those threads got more comments then the original one I posted. Not that it really matters in life. Heh.

And yes, I saw that pull request but I didn't know what HN was at that time. After I saw that comment, and before they said HN = Hacker News, I started Googling around to see if I could find where my repo was being mentioned. That is how I found this post in HN.

Thanks!
From 2016: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11321236
Not mine. I like the work I'm seeing, so posted it here.
I hope the author sees this to answer your questions.
Cancer represents a broad class of diseases (like "viral infection" is everything from common cold to HIV). If you or someone you know is diagnosed with cancer, and especially if it is later stage, please seriously consider comprehensive genomic profiling (CGP). CGP can help identify targeted therapies (and often clinical trials) which treat the specific genetic alterations or other factors in your disease.

I'd like to shamelessly plug the company I work for, Foundation Medicine (https://www.foundationmedicine.com/) who is a leader in this area. Regardless of who you go with, please do CGP to learn more about your disease and the options you have.
That sounded preposterous to me so I looked it up. I think it leans towards being false. Obamacare seems to require plans to cover them without copay, and if you don’t have health insurance, the CDC provides a free program to get vaccinations for kids.

https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/programs/vfc/index.html

Bring 18 or under and uninsured is enough to qualify. To your credit, public awareness of this may not be everywhere.
I don’t think this should be allowed as a treatment, if it’s efficacy hasn’t been established. But I wish there were a trial. I want to be able to live healthily to 100.
So much this. Iran's phone number formats have changed at least 4 times in the past 20 years, and I am sure many more times if you go back a couple more decades.
Window titles are recorded by this script. I wonder if you noticed this? You could have pretty decent filters with those, e.g. you can get a result for "time spent reading comments and writing on hackernews". If I use slack in the browser, i can even get the time i spent talking to different people / channels.
You'd be welcome to bug us about it periodically at hn@ycombinator.com. The reason it's not done yet is that we have limited resources for working on software and there are always much higher-priority things to get done. But I really would like to get it out someday. Also, it's written in Arc using an Arc-to-JS implementation, which is fun.
I know. I just think it’s somrthing YouTube should implement, because people uploading videos of their family probably don’t intend on complete strangers searching for them and thus probably don’t worry about making them public.
If I didn't have independence on the internet starting the age of 14, I wouldn't be who I am today. I did many things I would not have been comfortable doing under supervision, and many of those contributed greatly to my long term personal and professional growth.