skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's a lot of people in the thread who are saying that people are reacting the way they are to this study because of the "stigma" against mental illness. Well, maybe that's part of it. But there are other things going on here. The Reuters article references the PACE study. And people are not just objecting to the "stigma" but the actual consequences of the study.

https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2015/12/18/28362/

> I agree it’s an absolute disaster of a paper. It otherwise should not be the object of my attention but there is some nastiness associated with its dissemination. Peter White, one of the authors is paid for working with a group trying to get social welfare payments denied to people with chronic physical illness. He promotes the idea that chronic fatigue syndrome, whatever its origins, is perpetuated by fears of exertion. The deconditioning model that is the basis for these claims has been discredited. So he is forced to rely on dodgy research like this to promote the view that chronic fatigue syndrome is largely “cognitive” and psychosomatic. I’ve seen horrible testimony from him that patients who “appear” to be disabled should be denied handicap parking passes because that will force them to walk more. He has personally testified in a number of hearings where patients with chronic fatigue syndrome have had the benefits revoked.

In other words, the study is being used _by one of the authors_ to deny people state benefits meant to help people with chronic conditions.
> In sum, zero benefits from using containers.

Agree. Especially in native cloud, like AWS, where you already took care of host deaths, scalability, making data persistent, aka good automation.
So what do you think a better tax system would look like?

Here's what I think:

- No corporate taxes
- No income tax deductions
- No income tax exemptions
- Lower income tax rates across the board
- Income tax rate is calculated by a continuous function based on your income
- Such a function would be based on existing effective tax rates

Done correctly, such a reform would be much simpler, easier to deal with, and revenue neutral.
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This forum is crawling with Google employees, shareholders, fanboys and others who have a vested interest in the continuing centralization of the web/internet. Suggesting that people should stop relying on one of the largest centralizing forces out there will generally result in downvotes for that reason.
His theory is that each individual is the center of the universe from birth to death AND that each and every individual's life is being run and created each moment by an infinite power in a very delicate and precise manner.
You can advertise Premium in-app. Just have to charge iOS users more than Android users.
I started doing the same. Bitwarden is the best! I urge HN users who haven't checked it out to give it a try and please support the project so it lives on.
Here is a simple rule.

Any condition that can be improved with a placebo, has a possible psychological component that can either be a cause or a contributing factor. This is not to say that it is all in your head, or that all people with it have it due to psychological reasons. But some of the people have at least some of their symptoms worsened by psychological factors.

Anyone who finds this controversial has psychological issues with reality. And this is true whether your condition is CFS or high blood pressure+heart disease.

Now people don't want to believe that acupuncture is a placebo, but there is ample evidence that it is. Therefore this applies to every condition that people find that acupuncture can help for. And that is a lot.
Imagine that the only thing that is reported to the Chrome backend is a client ID and a URL, which would be the only thing needed to render this app: https://myactivity.google.com

Would you think of Google as trustworthy because they only gave their backend two pieces of data? I myself would not, because I'm pretty sure the actual request and response messages are looked up by client ID (in their Google Analytics data store).
Hasn't quantum chemistry calculations already been simulated using quantum computers?

https://sydney.edu.au/news-opinion/news/2018/07/25/first-eve...
You are also incorrect that Tripp's original info release did not establish or indicate wrongdoing. Tesla claimed industry-leading levels of scrap expense in their financial filings. They are almost certainly capitalizing scrap as R&D expense.
Being able to vote. Consular services. The American military keeping the peace worldwide. You can quibble over the value of these services, but there are logical reasons why countries may want to tax overseas citizens who retain citizenship.
>I find it worrying that it took them so long to come to the obvious conclusion

Aviation regulators and internet forums are literally at the opposite end of the spectrum with regards to jumping to conclusions.
Yikes! If it helps, mine is just a side-project, nothing serious. Yours looks great by the way. :)
The conflict here is one side thinks this is some kind of political correctness scheme when in reality, IQ and race are just terribly unscientific social constructs.

You'll get much less push back from something like "genetic marker found to influence spatial thinking in young children.
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Their documentation doesn't mention signing specifically, but wouldn't S/MIME include signing?
Unless you turned that off, or never enabled it in the first place.

Edit: And presumably you're using Incognito for... some of those activities, which wouldn't be captured regardless.
Completely agree. The blindness of users here towards the use case of non-techies is surprising.
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The UN said the same in 1990s. So forgive me if I'm unsympathetic when everyone screams doomsday. There is absolutely nothing you can do today in your personal life that'll matter at a scale to impact the global issue of climate change.

You want real change? Fine, let's work together to ensure that companies and corporations are held accountable for their emissions, reduce population in areas most impacted and stop the hyperbole. Climate change is real. It's here. and hyperbole is not going to save us. It didn't in the 90s and it's not now.

The sad bit is, those 100s of millions will die none the less so you can have your grande caramel macchiato in a non-recyclable cup instead of making coffee at home and using a mug. Excessive consumerism had a massive hand in leading us to this point, and now consumerism is trying to sell us the cure in the name of zero emission cars and expensive recyclable crap? Spare me the hypocrisy.
Android has plenty of its own problems, but not so much in this category. Android users can set default browser, email, SMS app, etc., where iOS does not allow this. Any navigation app can work while the device is locked, it's enabled by a permission called "Draw over other apps", IIRC.

In my opinion, the problem with Android is not that you can't add to its functionality, which you can, but that you can't effectively limit Google's privacy-invasive functionality (much worse than iOS's) unless you can unlock the bootloader.
>who are definitely losing from the situation

Maybe you haven't considered that some consumers don't feel like they're losing from the situation. Maybe some consumers feel like they are winning because Apple's interests align with their own, and the interests of Apple's competitors are not aligned with their own?

I like having an app store I can trust to not have malware, I like knowing the apps I download have had a human review them for quality. I like having hardware with an OS where the developer of the OS controls when I get updates, not a carrier or manufacturer who are not affiliated with the developer. I like getting security and feature updates for my OS for 5 years. I like paying the developer of my software so the developer has a profit structure that doesn't necessitate spying on me. I like knowing that every piece of software pre-packaged on my device was put there by the developer of the OS with their explicit approval, and not sold to the highest bidder. I like knowing that the software on my phone is exactly how the developer planned it, and not modified by an unaffiliated device manufacturer to the point where multiple websites exist for the sole purpose of creating ROMs that mimic the developer's intended software, necessitating that I now either trust the unaffiliated hardware manufacturer or trust some random person on the Internet to deliver me a clean ROM.

There are platforms that are open and free to use however you see fit. They exist and they are great options. Very modern and easy to use and as open as you want them to be. I prefer the option that isn't open to modification. Products exist for both use cases.
And most importantly, it's not 30% for Apple Music.

What do you mean it isn't? Apple Store could trivially take a 30% cut of the Apple Music revenue, and the only thing that would change would be the distribution of revenue between Apple Music and Apple Store in Apple's revenue reports. The total revenue would be the same.
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Waaaat who told you this? An ceo directly interfering with engineering is a huge nono. Do you think this guy is Tony stark? He's a up jumped Web Dev.
Can you imagine any person iterating as fast as Elon, manufacturing in US, while the company is surviving? His management is extremely dangerous to the future of his competitors. The only car companies that are growing faster than Tesla are Chinese.
This is absolutely not how entanglement works. This analogy requires the locket half you receive to be defined at time of "entanglement" (when the locket halves are separated & sent). Half a century of Bell experiments have told us that the result of measuring an entangled system is defined at time of measurement, not at time of entanglement. If it were defined at time of entanglement, the particles would have to carry information with them to "remember" how they decided to collapse (a local hidden variable). Bell experiments disprove the existence of local hidden variables as a means to explain entanglement.

I wish people would stop posting these third-hand metaphors about quantum entanglement being like finding a single right-handed glove in your pocket or whatever. They are irredeemably flawed and completely misrepresent how entanglement works.
Another physics layperson question here: Can this technique of studying a past state reversal apply to compromising one-way hash functions in some manner?
All of my Signal/Telegram/WhatsApp contacts are unverified in the app itself, but almost all of them are de facto verified by other means; we plan meeting up at bars and I know who I'm chatting with because the person I expect shows up. Or we send emails or communications via other means and the conversations match.

I don't need to verify the code because everything else about the communication matches.
Lazarus is, in a nutshell, the FreePascal compiler + a lot of libraries for GUI (among other things) + a nice RAD.

So “written in Lazarus” is a shortcut for “written in Pascal with the Lazarus runtime”.
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That already happens, but instead of bots, it's dumb people with a political agenda doing the harassing, and they even do it with their own resources, you don't have to pay for bot servers.
I use Firefox + DuckDuckGo for personal stuff

I sync my passwords with Bitwarden.

I have started doing this as well, except I'm using KeePassXC and using Dropbox to distribute the file everywhere. Would Bitwarden work behind a company firewall at a company that doesn't allow Dropbox?
As one example, in most cases, overseas citizens are still eligible to receive social security benefits.
> Also quite interesting that they changed the default search engine for China to be Baidu.

It seems to be a logical move since I believe Google is blocked in China.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_China
Interesting Reddit comment below. If true, this means the AoA probe does not need to fail for the MCAS to trigger, but be caused by transient bursts of high AoA. If this is true -- a big if of course -- and Boeing knew about it as early as August 2018, it's pretty damning.

https://www.reddit.com/r/flying/comments/b08h03/737_max_mega...
"Later that day, Tripp heard from the sheriff’s department in Storey County, Nev. Tesla’s security department had passed a tip to police. An anonymous caller had contacted the company to say Tripp was planning a mass shooting at the Gigafactory."

Think of how this could have played out under different circumstances. We've already had numerous "swatting" incidents where innocent bystanders were hurt or killed.

The more I see Musk doing stupid pseudo-celebrity stuff like appearing on a kiddy Youtube channel to "review memes", the more I think he's eventually going to go the swatting route one day. He's extremely thin-skinned and responds on Twitter to even the slightest perceived slight.
Google doesn't have a monopoly on search. Having a popular or high-quality product is not the same as having no competition. You can run an ecommerce business online entirely through instagram if you wanted to.

Amazon theoretically is abusing it's market power by being selective about which products it sells in it's stores. When they removed competing AppleTV/Chromecast products from their own and seller lines, to promote their firestick, that was monopolistic behavior. There's also arguments that Amazon is promoting their own line of products on their platform as well, by replicating products that end up being successful, but this is a new area for antitrust that needs to be sussed out.
Fwiw: this has always been the case, since Chrome 1.0.
It's not stress and it's not playing a factor. Unconscious, repressed emotions are the direct cause of RSI and many other ailments, including Chronic Fatigue Syndrome. I highly recommend reading the book.
It's very possible the "new information" may be what WSJ just reported: https://www.wsj.com/articles/pilot-of-crashed-ethiopian-airl...

tldr - The pilot had reported flight-control problems and wanted to return to the airport
Genuine question, if I configure DuckDuckGo as my default search engine, would my key strokes still be sent to Google?
> Microsoft got into a lot of trouble when they bundled IE

I think it is an impressive PR achievement by Microsoft that you remember it this way.

As a more recent example, when Google was fined related to Android, they tried to spin it as "being fined for bundling the play store". That is of course not what they were fined for, but it makes a nice memorable headline.
Same, as one badly constructed book (or season of a TV series) can ruin the whole lot if they're all sequential.

It's become so much of a trope that it's become a pet hate. I actively avoid buying any that is "first of..." now, no matter how famous you are. The few times I break this rule, I generally regret it. Most trilogies are just a book, heavily padded. So I simply won't buy unless all are written, and well reviewed. Then, do I buy all or none.

There are just a tiny few that deserve it. Archer's Clifton Chronicles, Follett's Century Trilogy, Stross' own Merchant Princes (1-6 anyway, skip the new ones) were all marvellous and fully deserved a series. Yet most are unworthy. Song of Ice and Fire - great idea, so much padding and so little direction. Good book, awful series. I forget where I gave up. Cornwell's The Saxon Stories was mostly great, but I preferred the battle by battle progression of Sharpe without having to achieve perfect continuity or care much what order I read them.

Much prefer the random peeks into a universe approach of Sharpe, Discworld, or Follett with the Kingsbridge series where there's hundreds of years between the books. Or Adam's HHGTTG leaping all over the galaxy with continuity that can leave Marvin in a car park for a millennium. Even Charles Stross reads far better if simply ignoring Laundry Files as series. Lots of unconnected episodes and forget the underlying destination or continuity. It's the only way I can carry on when there's been two books that really didn't work. Well, more one book and one ending that failed hard.

Atrocity Archives and the other Bob books were some of the most entertaining, delightfully observed comedy fiction I've read. Nightmare Stacks didn't really join up, but was a rollicking good tale, and some interesting new characters.

Labyrinth Index on the other hand, was disjointed and unfinishable (The only book from Charles, one of my favourite authors, I can't finish). It should have been a book of Alex, Bob or Cassie. Anyone but Mhari, who might have worked here if given a red shirt to die spectacularly in chapter 2. She's not even anything like the Mhari as created in previous books.

The only way I can react to that is simply ignore as series, tuning out continuity, or stop buying.
The fact that this publishes conference telephone numbers, complete with access code and security code, and that none of these numbers changes over a period of 6 months, is somewhat worrying.
You'll be downvoted for being off-topic, excessively contrarian and uttering non-sequiturs.

Paleoclimatology bears no relevance to the effects climate change will have on human civilization, and extant life more generally. i.e. it does not follow from the fact that life has (and could again be) adapted to Eocene-like conditions, that "climate change is good".
> I disagree entirely with this. The difference is clear -- data is not operational on its own, it requires something to operate on it. So in terms of trust, I only have to trust the software operating on the data -- and I have many choices of software to use to do that.

Well, that's what I strongly disagree with. You either oversimplify it for practical purpose (which exactly what I wanted to point out making this statement) or are simply wrong on a fundamental level. Distinction between data and code is artificial. It really helps us when we programs, but hurts when we think about security issues and that mindset in a way is an exploit itself.

If you look into security-related updates in any mature interpreted language, you'll see that 99% of them are related to data processing, not some restriction being forgotten. Think about good-old stack overflows errors, where your data suddenly becomes a code, or numerous exploits in simple text formats, xml parsers or PDF nightmare.

Real security problems have very little to do with the fact that malicious data was carried by some executable code, they do just find without it. In fact, having so heavily-tested VM that there are, makes daily usage of average computer user much safer that it would be without it.

> I don't live in the EU, and this is the exact sort of attack that I'm doing my best to protect myself against.
I didn't mean that new hysteria about being tracked by ads and browsers. It's a toothless issue, that poses no significant threat and we as community could entirely fix it in less than a year, I just don't think anybody's capable really cares. After all, if we can have some GDRP joke and that makes people feel better, why even bother?

I was really pointing that your traffic is compromised at ISP level and if you were a person of any interest, analysis could be bought at black market, just as your SMS could be intercepted without you knowing. It's business.

Oh, and don't let me start about hardware level, which we trust, but as it turns out, should not.
So weird to see two Serbian (like me) contractors in all this.
> Just look at the $35k Tesla that he pulled off by kicking out sales. A regular CEO wouldn't have done that.

You know that's reversed right?
https://paloaltoonline.com/news/2019/03/11/tesla-puts-brakes...
Canada is extremely tightly tied to the US economy, and the US government is still taking Boeing’s side on this.

I wish this didn’t have to be about politics.
Isn't DuckDuckGo just a white label of Bing?
According to the bibliography on wikipedia the only non-fiction I can see is "The Web Architect's Handbook" - from 1996

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Stross_bibliography#No...
What I don't understand is why Bloomberg is not required to publish that they have any financial interest in Tesla. Bloomberg seems to only publish negative news about Tesla, and clearly has a bias, as if they hold or represent someone that holds a large short position.

The story published by Bloomberg does not actually cite any sources, only what is already publicly known and what Tripp has personally claimed; and seems to just run entirely on emotions, not facts. The whistleblower did, indeed, blow the whistle, and this seems to be one of only two provable and externally verifiable fact in the entire story (the other one being he once worked there and was fired from there; even the internal investigation at Tesla over Tripp's actions, according to that story, just seems to be Tripp's claims to such).

There is no proof that Tesla invented the shooter story, and it is also at least as equally possible that someone outside of Tesla saw a chance to throw a spanner in the works and take advantage of the situation. It is also just as equally possible that Tripp had expressed feelings of shooting up the place, but lacked the materials, know how, or actual willpower to achieve the act, and told someone they intended to perform the act.

If law enforcement believes that Elon, or someone from his company, made false claims to suppress Tripp's speech, then charges should be pressed. A quick Google tells me no charges have been pressed, and it does not seem likely charges will ever be pressed.

I know some people just have an eternal hateboner for Elon's style as CEO and the way he personally conducts himself as a human being, but the only thing I care about is facts, not feelings. This entire story is just summed up as "whistleblower ex-employee claims Tesla called cops on possible revenge shooting after being fired for violating employment contract; Tesla released statement claiming that they believed it was a credible threat and no shooting ultimately occurred."

What I said in quotes, obviously, does not sell newspapers and is not sensational enough to even warrant a second glance from a reader.
GCP is the cleanest cloud platform by far. But it's also the one I know only in theory, whereas I have worked with Azure and AWS enough to seem them fail miserably, so maybe I have a case of rose-tinted glasses.
Because musk/tesla have a... questionable record with truth and safety, and all these guys claims were about said transparency/safety? Why do you trust musk/tesla over tripp?
I heard that part in the very first broadcast I heard about the crash Sunday morning, pretty sure.
> How am I hypocritical?

Oh, that wasn't about you specifically, just humans in general. We aren't internally consistent, we are all hypocrites.

It isn't a criticism :)

And we're all in favor of no lock-in until it conflicts with our own interests.
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These may be true, but yet other countries don't do this.

I once worked with an American guy who served 5 years in the French Foreign Legion. This poor guy played hell when he returned to the US after an almost 5.5 year absence. The Legion gave him a new name during his service and French citizenship upon completion of his tour, and when he returned to the US, he said they treated him like a pariah. The IRS audited him, yet did not assess him any levies. It was a nightmare for him that took over 6 months to sort out--with help from a tax attorney.