skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the reason you want them connected is the ability to channel private capital towards achieving medical progress.

If there is a disease which costs the general population tens of billions of dollars a year, either in providing healthcare or in an inability to carry on a normal life, work, look after yourself and so on, then there is an inherent and huge pot of money which can go to solving the problem. If you sever the connection, you rely solely on funding achieved through political processes. Which given the level of expensive failure inherent to the process, tabloid campaigns, lack of public understanding, and short termism from politicians, does not seem like something we should rely on.

For instance, can you imagine what the reaction would have been if the hundreds of millions spent on alpha-beta clearance for Alzheimers had been spent by public bodies? Future funding would depend on a battle waged on twitter, opinion pages and talk radio.
Germany has a very dark history with that.
was this the year Relu became mainstream? the paper itself was out there few years before too right
PostgreSQL's JSON columns are pretty powerful
You’re really going to throw the press in Britain, along with independent anti-establishment papers like Socialist Worker and Marxism Today alongside the Times and the Guardian, into the same bucket as that of Soviet Russia, Maoist China and North Korea?
Show HN: Deskguru.io’ a team wellness app for Slack
I don't think that Rust has solved this, not by a long shot. I do think there are some things you're getting at that are aligned with my thinking, but that's for the next post :)
Why the Days Seem Shorter as We Get Older
Even if I’m using an RDMS, as a tech lead, I still enforce only one “service” writes to a particular set of domain related tables. I don’t mean an http microservice necessarily. It could very well be a separate project/module in a monolith or even a package/module shared via an internal package manager.

But I would never use a weakly typed language and a weakly typed data store. That’s a mess waiting to happen.
Photos of the Eiffel Tower at night are restricted due to copyright (2017)
I was talking from experience. Dont really follow any guidelines available online.
These are the ones I have 20 years of experience with. Want more stories? I have friends working in healthcare, you wouldn't believe what they say.
Show HN: In response to the new EU copyright laws, an API to filter user uploads
No no, you got that all wrong. When you have an iOS device, it's Apple who controls everything. See? No monopoly!!!111
There are subreddits. I am in China now so reddit is blocked for me, but try /r/webcomics
Doesn't exist but is well under way already like seen in this Vice: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dkw15LkZ_Kw
Another best practice, don't write logic to deal with BUGS but instead assert.

Bad:

int something_failable(xxx_t *ctx, void *data) {
if (!is_valid(data)) {
return xxx_err(ctx, "invalid data");
}

/* ... */
}

Less bad:

int something_failable(xxx_t *ctx, void *data) {
ASSERT(is_valid(data));

/* ... */
}
Hey HackerNews!

My names Olly, a UX/UI designer from the UK. I’m currently in the process of validating a product idea and I thought you guys would be the perfect people to run this by and get your feedback.

I’ve been working on DeskGuru, a team wellness app for Slack. It’s designed to build happy, healthy and mindful teams by delivering simple and accessible meditation, stretching and wellness routines straight to Slack. I want it to be your Slack integration to a healthier work-life balance. I’m not a hippy type but I have found working in small daily habits such as a quick mindfulness meditation before I start work, taking well timed breaks and keeping active during the day has really helped me focus, increase productivity and feel healthier in general.

So why did I think this was needed? Over the last few years I’ve noticed that the wellness of a team is becoming more and more important to employers, especially as we are shifting toward a remote, working from home culture. It’s easy to forget to keep mentally and physically healthy when working alone at home. There’s no one there to remind you to take a break, get up and stretch or go home at the end of the day. I wanted to create something that could be accessible to a team which wasn’t cheesy or ‘hippy’ whilst keeping it super lightweight and customisable to everyones preferences.

You can check it out the landing page here- https://deskguru.io/

So, what do you think? Is this something you think is needed for you or a team? Can you see yourself using this to help improve your mental and physical health on a day-to-day basis? I would love to hear your feedback, thoughts, fears, stand-out-bits and anything in between. It’s currently in a very early stage so any feedback would be really valuable. Oh yeah, and if you’re into it please sign up with your email and I can keep you up to date with my progress!

Kindest thanks, Olly

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To the contrary, I think the average joe is generally more reasonable and able to develop critical thinking skills than most people think. They just don't ever get the opportunity to learn it properly. There might be a subset of the population that is actually incapable of proper reason due to cognitive deficits, but that is definitly not the majority.

This sentiment is one of the reasons anti-intellectualism is thriving at this very moment.
It’s kind of hard to claim that something is some entity’s job, or not.

It is “not their job” as in it is unreasonable to expect Facebook to start educating its users out of the blue. However, it’s easy to argue that it’s better for Facebook’s bottom line in many respects if their user base is more effective at navigating life and surviving.

And also, it can be made their job if we so desire.
Google Podcasts in-episode search is coming, shows now being fully transcribed
I believe he's mentioning this:

> On 30 September 2012, a convolutional neural network (CNN) called AlexNet achieved a top-5 error of 15.3% in the ImageNet 2012 Challenge, more than 10.8 percentage points lower than that of the runner up. This was made feasible due to the utilization of Graphics processing units (GPUs) during training, an essential ingredient of the deep learning revolution. According to The Economist, "Suddenly people started to pay attention, not just within the AI community but across the technology industry as a whole."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ImageNet
I think you'll like the follow-up post. As I said, my goal here was not to discuss if these movements achieved their goals or not; it was to describe the history. So, yes, I'm not talking about any of that, it was explicitly off-topic.
At a previous job we also used PayPal. We tried switching to a traditional credit card processor, which was a nightmare.

We had a seasonal business that processed sales of $1 million+ revenue in a week, once a year. Around 60% of sales were international. This combination was like kryptonite to card processors. We finally got accepted by one, the fees weren't much better than PayPal. It was amusing seeing TFA describe PayPal's API as "a horrible experience" after having implemented that traditional processor's API.

We ended up going back to PayPal after one season.

Although in the end, our decade-old business was killed by relying on PayPal's fraud detection. We got hit by a flood of China IP-sourced carders and the chargebacks ruined us. This can happen with any traditional card processor as well, it was really on us for being too naive (and being spared from fraud in the past decade)
When I worked in academic research one of the biggest wastes of time was that the Professor in charge of the lab never turned up to meetings on time (30 mins late being typical) - which wouldn't have been too bad except he constantly bragged about his time management skills. I eventually realised he meant he never wasted any of his time but happily made 15 of us sit around a meeting room for ages.... Which is fair enough I guess (he was in charge) but did nothing for morale.
Free Online PDF Service? Better Read the Small Print
And the tooling around it? For instance the Mongo C# Linq driver can translate LINQ to MongoQuery.
The US government has an admitted history of running fake vaccine programs and intentionally cultivating syphillus in non-consenting vulnerable populations. The US government lost its vaccine-mandate legitimacy through its own crimes against humanity.
From a user input point of view, a numeric keypad or slightly modified numeric keypad would easily suffice.

Or, display a numeric keypad as default with a text keypad available.

There are better solutions than what is currently offered.
Because they think it will work better over 10 years than sequentially buying two 6-month bonds, a 2-year bond, and a 7-year bond based on whatever the market rates are as each one expires.
Ah I see, interesting, thanks!
This is interesting to me, historical semi nude portraits are okay but recent ones are not? So old things are accepting? What does age matter, I don't see it making that much of a difference in reality
Perhaps. If you could get to Israel could you not get to southern Europe? If I were a Muslim, I know where I'd be avoiding.
As far as I know, Node.js was used inside in a limited capacity, but they had an alternative for npm for security reasons, and you had to get an npm package approved to use it internally.

FWIW, this is a very good thing. A company as large as Amazon should do this with all of their repositories; even a small start-up should be doing this to mitigate suspicious packages / third-party code vulnerabilities.
The next one is even better: https://www.gocomics.com/calvinandhobbes/1992/02/20
I was recently a child in the uk only a few years ago (I'm in my early 20s) and got into trouble for having a knife while playing out in the woods. I was sent home with the knife confiscated, and it was later returned to me.

Of course, its entirely possible in other circumstances for it to be less/more acceptable. While at scouts we could of course carry knives without worry, and even met police officers who came to talk to us who had no issue with us carrying it while explicitly using them for scouting.
Facebook does not pay for content the way that YouTube does. This creates very different economic incentives.

Facebook needs to realy on content from people pushing an agenda. YouTube gets content from people directly trying to make money.

Net result, it’s easy to find many videos for home repair or learning Calculus on YouTube, not so easy on Facebook.
Loopy is one of several Explorable Explanations tools [1] that let people interact with models embedded in web pages.

[1]: https://explorabl.es/tools/
Why Is AI Art Copyright So Complicated?
> Facebook has a lot to answer for. The internet was supposed to be a new human enlightenment by enabling professionals to remotely connect. We didn't bank on the ability of idiots to connect too...

Cheap printing presses were a wonderful idea, but just one of first major application happened was printing books about the "jew/catholic/arab burning."
> For the Alaska to Argentina trek, two years and 40,000 miles through 16 countries, I spent $27k, for everything.[1]

including vehicle? If not, it can be cheaper. We did Europe to SE Asia (southern route: India and up through Tibet / China). Then California down to South America for less over 2 years (wife daughter and I)
It sounds like your product was in the sweet spot where there isn’t much data complexity or evolution, and the schema is understandable and easy enough to modify over time without strictness.

The product I work on has ~400 tables active at the moment, and ~800 that have ever existed in it over the last 6 years. We depend on the database schema to reduce complexity at the application level.

I don’t think the complexity would be manageable at the application level if we couldn’t do this. At least not with the ~6 engineers working on it.
You and I agree that we're responsible for our own critical thinking, but the average person accepts as reality that Google is black and white with regards to facts (even though that is clearly not possible).

That's not in itself on Google, but as democratic whims over the last few years have shown, the lack of awareness is having out-sized effects on all of us that still isn't being talked about.

Social media may not be actively seeding viral nonsense, but it sure is making bank selling the petri dishes.
He defined the way he uses it in one of his earlier posts: (actual total gross revenue minus any fees, refunds, disputes)
https://tik.dev/how-i-acquired-my-first-10-customers-for-cro...
Thanks for the response, and I will definitely take another look at MongoDB and it's recent enhancements!
> Someone who believes that vaccines are causing brain damage has already formed a contrary opinion, so in all likelihood would be expected to search for "vaccines cause autism" (negative connotation).

I understand this, in fact, "vaccines cause autism" was exactly one of my test searches.

As for Tor: I don't have it and I'm not going to bother. And if nothing else, my region is a well known hotspot for anti-vaccine idiocy, so I would expect that to bias the test in favor of the filter bubble hypothesis, not against it.
And yet somehow millions of us manage to survive largly without incident into adulthood. Incredible!

It's almost as if this is an incredibly minor consideration.
Congrats! Absolutely well deserved. Simons' Foundations of Deep Learning seminar this Summer 2019 will seek to illumine some of the issues around reproducibility, failure modes, etc

https://simons.berkeley.edu/programs/dl2019
Hackers attacked millions of Asus users through malicious update
This is what I've done and it works pretty well. You can usually filter out just the "bad" session IDs pretty easily and recover a more or less chronological explanation of what happened.
Estes model rockets still offer a little bit of that wild freedom. You build something yourself and shoot it into the sky on a pillar of flame. And if you're really lucky you get it back in the end.
An external advisory council to help advance the responsible development of AI
If relations are embedded in a document then you favour querying from the "side" of the relation that is the outer document. But usually you cannot anticipate from what sides of the relation you may want to query in the future. As such, MongoDB may scale nicely for performance, but it doesn't scale nicely for business needs. A relational database is completely unbiased in that regard, you do not need to make nor encode any decision on what would be the "outer" document or inner nested objects. It's all just entities and relations.
> The question the media should be asking Facebook is why can't they just stop tracking those users?

Because it would reduce their profit margin, and some chunks of their founding society hold that corporations are duty-bound to maximize profits.
It's not an API. It's a website which asks for your email address and says that it "wants" to offer an API.
Appeal to liberty is almost always the lowest and weakest answer when applied to most questions.

Even in context of the great patriots of Massachusetts in the American revolution, throwing off the yoke of imperial Britain brought the less than enlightened governance of the legislative process, which was arguably less respectful of liberty... impressing sailors, levying goods, etc,

In the US we instituted a supreme Federal government because of the failure of the initial, “liberty” focused government that enabled petty local interests over the overall good.
Yeah, Meteor was pretty amazing when it first came out. It felt like it was from several years in the future. As I recall, it relied on mongo on the server and a minimongo that ran in the client. It made it trivially easy to create universal real-time webapps, which was a game-changer for me at the time. Reactivity has since become mainstream, but at the time it represented a bright line / step function increase in both DX and UX.
There's a much greater possibility of long term reactions to the diseases vaccines prevent. It's not such a stretch to consider refusing to vaccinate your children as on par with refusing to use seat buckles.
How many Belgians use Facebook, Instagram or WhatsApp?

I believe that’s your answer.
F1 TV has said they'll do apps for streaming boxes, but haven't given a timetable as of yet, the same for in-session catchup.

2nd-screen sync sounds cool, but I also feel like getting the sync right will be very difficult.
Documents. You said it there.

I work a lot with documents in my current role which includes a lot of JSON structures as well.

MongoDB has been immensely useful for a team with limited scope (and requisitional abilities within the organization) to get up and running and store backups of documents that have been processed and JSON API responses.

I definitely wouldn’t apply it as a panacea, either.

Like any tool, it has it’s place in the belt for me. It’s no universal hammer, though.
Ay, it's neat. I've used AppsGeyser in the past to do the same thing, but that was many years ago, back in like 8th grade.
Thx for sharing, interesting.
The American voter is under attack by entities seeking to confuse, mislead, and misinform him or her for their own profit and power. Isolated from reasonable or normative thought, uneducated in the mechanisms attacking their thought, and indoctrinated in these lies as cultural, social, and even patriotic standards to be upheld and identified with, we can hardly be expected to break this crushing mold and make choices with clarity and rational thinking.

The first step, when one is able to temporarily rise above this suffocating morass, is to cry out that it must be torn down. Reform the first-past-the-post voting systems that generate and enforce an extremist 2-party system, stop powerful and wealthy entities from buying their own rules through lobbying and regulatory capture, adapt rules that were written without a concept for what they would mean in a world with broadcasting and instant copying of information, recognize that harmful externalities are not corrected by an irrational purely capitalistic economy...the list of injustices is long and reasonably obvious, from the outside. Tragically, though, these goals are next to impossible to achieve without a critical mass that the systems are actively repressing.
Twitter birth-year hoax locks users out of accounts
Online pornography age checks for UK web users [video]
I don't want to do the whole "think of the children!" thing here, but: It's children we're talking about.

Forced immunisations in adults is absolutely a violation of civil liberties. They are an adult and they can decide whether they consent to being immunised or not after making a choice on the matter.

But children have none of those rights or responsibilities. Why should a child suffer and/or die from a disease preventable by immunisation because of the actively harmful choices of their parents? It's literally child abuse. Refusing to immunise your child on some completely false belief that it will harm them is no different from letting your child play on a busy road.
Is this a meme? No they have not. Sure they are a popular hardware provider, but NN have been around before they were even a company. I think Fukushima deserves a spot here too, before giving it to Nvidia, but there are so many people that have contributed to NN, so I guess those in the spotlight take the glory if it must be taken.
For making insanely painful-to-deal with dependencies and effectively instituting de facto vendor lock-in for deep learning?

Nah.
Could you be more specific? I was inclined to respond, "Intel, too. And keyboard and monitor manufacturers. And throw in John Von Neumann!"
> (everybody would switch to them, if they had lower fees)

i guess they have more profitable things to do than banking
Pls check https://www.nearform.com/blog/pino-the-fastest-node-js-logge...
^^ This makes me feel better, believe it or not.

I still think an Internet search / social media PSA campaign is urgently needed.
the EU parliament can't actually trigger a vote by themselves. I think it requires the EU commission to introduce the legislation. so if parliament believes it made a mistake and the commission won't support them then there is no going back.

http://www.europarl.europa.eu/about-parliament/en/powers-and...

'A Member of the European Parliament, working in one of the parliamentary committees, draws up a report on a proposal for a ‘legislative text’ presented by the European Commission, the only institution empowered to initiate legislation.'

I guess in a way the EU commission has a similar Veto power that the US president has except it possible for the legislature in the US to override the President's Veto power.
Ask HN: Physicists of HN, what are you working on these days?
Of late, except for few headline-friendly fields (colliders, quantum computing, gravitational waves and astrophysics in general), I don't get to see/relate with a lot of activities in Physics. Also I have noticed a growing trend of physicists becoming data scientists post phD. Although I understand the money factor, are there any other reasons for this as well?
996.ICU – Chinese Developer Is Boycotting Working Long Hours (GitHub Trend No.1)
Excellent article, thank you. My snag in thinking about word2vec is how the vector model stores information about words with multiple, significantly different definitions, such as 'polish', Eastern Europe or glistening clean.
MIT. I don’t know.
Thanks! You're right that I'm not attempting to in the post, so no worries.

> If you control the monetization strictly, it's not open source, and it loses the appeal.

Hmm, open source and free software both say nothing about money. Could you elaborate a bit?

> Simply having source available isn't appealing to me. Contributing to a project like that is just free labor. I see few mutual benefits.

I think you'll like my next post. :)

> P.S.: Steve, I'm really curious about that Gender bit. Are you going to clarify your thoughts on that?

What I will say is that the speculation of this as being about "brogrammers" is incorrect. I don't want to super get into it, because my thoughts aren't fully formed, and this is a hot-button topic. What I will say is that, in the last 20 years, our discipline has grown, and women are returning to it. If you take the large public figures in both movements, like RMS and esr, both have attitudes and beliefs that are... not great, on topics like sex, gender, and other social issues. In general, the social stuff around these movements is very masculine, and often socially regressive. This makes it hard for women to care about these movements. Obviously, these are mostly broad generalizations, and there have been some women who are involved here. I know several women who are very passionate about both Open Source and Free Software. But I've also spoken to many who say "never", and the numbers speak for themselves.
I haven't used myself but have heard good things: http://jasperfx.github.io/marten/documentation/documents/que...
Stripe has bought early in Stellar Lumens (they own 2% of the supply). But did Coinbase do something similar ?
That's universally condemned in the medical world as unethical.
That faux science helps no one. As bad as communicable diseases are, anti vax segments won't wipe out the whole population. And these "tribes" are flexible since they are based in psychology not firm genetics. They aren't fish who die when the lake dries up.