skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've watched my family go through smoking, and cancer hasn't been the issue. I don't know how representative it is, but my experience definitely reflects the premise of this article: cancer testing could have caused way more harm than good.

Both my mother and her father were still smoking frequently when they were on oxygen. In other words: When they should have known better. Her mother was looking really bad at 50 and when the Dr told her "it's killing you, and not in some abstract way", she cut it out cold turkey and pretty much instantly looked 10 years younger.

Grandfather was struggling in general, but it was twisted up intestines that did him in. My mom, one nurse told me, her lungs were "just shot". COPD. Funny thing was that she was getting enough oxygen (with O2), she just couldn't get rid of CO2. Basically took her outta the game 20 years early.

Hopefully, my kids who watched this, can use the experience to steer clear of some things. If you can't set a good example, show what a bad example leads to. :-)
I was a PhD student at MIT CSAIL a few years ago and recall an incident where a visiting scholar from a corporation who had donated money had to be asked to leave because he essentially scraped every piece of internal data and code in the lab and sent it back home.

What was amazing to me was that he was allowed to return a few months later with the explanation “it was just a cultural misunderstanding”

I want to be careful not to point fingers at a particular country or culture, but that experience taught me that a grey-area version of corporate espionage is _very real_ in academia — an environment that operates with all guards down and no defenses against it.

[Edited to fix tappos]
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Low-level software is responsible for most memory issues, but there are definitely electrical reasons, too.

For example, I have a devboard that only support 1 GiB of DDR2 RAM, but it's a 64-bit system and the memory controller on the CPU was supposed to support at least 2 GiB of RAM. Meanwhile, another board that uses the identical chip runs 2 GiB RAM without problems.

The engineers of the devboard briefly explained that the problem was electrical. The memory controller itself has inadequate drive strength, adding more RAMs would increase the load on the DDR bus and destabilize the system. On the other hand, the other board had better PCB layout so the problem did not occur.
> You’re being sarcastic, right? What is the signal you’re trying to send by admitting to choosing one of the most unreliable car brands on the market?

Your statement is pretty closed minded.

What if they just like the car enough they're willing to put up with the unreliability? That's like suggesting people who buy new cars are all idiots because the depreciation is much worse.

Different people are allowed to have different priorities and tastes.
There are rebates for specific use cases like that. It’s a lot cheaper than just fire hosing subsidies for everyone.
Great project, but this seems like a classic example of a programmer naively assuming a technical solution can solve a social problem.
I just finished reading 'AI Superpowers' and I hardly understand now if US has any single chance to compete with China's Tech fairly, openly, democratically, with respect.
Air Force still cannot identify 19 of 64 satellites from the “ride-share” launch
Much of the modern business models I've seen basically try to minimize research and innovative work because it's costly and risky. It's far easier to wait for other venture to succeed and either buy the strategies early while they're cheap (even though they may not be well marketsble) or simply copy the successful models to become competitors, trying best to avoid infringement lawsuits but writing them off as a cost of business. These approaches are more cost effective and help maximize ROI then the innovation process.

US business is becoming increasingly efficient at accumulating and concentrating capital while producing less innovation for society at large by utilizing a variety of tactics that break much of the picturesque model of capitalism.
Which is no different from the landmines that "Europeans" (one country) "use" (still have them after an atrocious war) to keep migrants out. This was my point.

It felt like a "whatabout" reaction and no effort was made to remove the impression that mines are actually employed with the purpose of keeping migrants out.
"Our network support of your handset has been deprecated due to national security".

EDIT: I admit I was initially skeptical about the claims being made against Huawei and ZTE, but as more evidence arrives, I (personally) think caution is warranted. Critical infrastructure is a thing. Offer trade in/replacement rebates if you want to reduce friction during the device purge.
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I think so. You could probably pick something better.

Its more of a Pavlovian reinforcement than reputation. You see what got you lots of points (what people liked) and you're more apt to do that in the future.

By keeping everyone else blind to someone's scores, you don't have as much popularity bias creeping in.
Freedom of the press doesn't mean there's no media manipulation. Do you see articles criticizing the private prison industry and mass incarceration of black males twice a week?
> Federal circuit courts are split on whether it is required for a forensic examination of a mobile phone at a border crossing

Did Cotterman 2013 clear this up? How does are circuit courts split yet the 9th assumed jurisdiction?
Yoga specifically makes a lot of sense to me. Recently I've been getting back into playing CS:GO and it's shocking how much your physical state affects your gameplay. Tense up and you become much more erratic with your aim and movement. In games where the margins are so thin and twitchy reactions are required, anything that can calm you down and set your mind right are vital.

Not so sure about doing squats though..
I guess what I'm saying is if they aren't worried about the optics of it or don't consider this bad PR, why not take a better name?
Isn't the battery tech, at least in significant part, licensed, non-exclusively, from Panasonic?

It's producing the whole battery unit that's the hard part. Toyota gets their automatic transmissions from another company.
Tesla pinning its future on the Model 3, struggling to get them to China and EU
Perhaps the author could have put such a disclaimer? "Note: it is beyond the scope of this blog post to explain what a monad is. Please refer to x,y,z for background material."

Anyway, I understand.
>Taxing trucks, used for transporting groceries, goods, and packages to the city, will increase the cost of each of these goods. The increase in grocery prices serves as a regressive tax on all people living within the congestion pricing zone.

You're already effectively paying a premium to account for the extra time the drivers have to spend in traffic. It's not clear whether the congestion charges will be more than the labor-time saved.

Also, a general point: typical market goods are, by default, "regressively priced", because most of them don't look at your income to determine the price. This is generally a good thing, because if every good's price scaled with income, there would be no material gain to earning an extra dollar.

Any time you recognize a real scarcity and ensure it's priced explicitly rather than allocated by an ever-choked queue, it's going to be regressive in this sense. That shouldn't be a deal-breaker by itself.
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Poor taxpayers spend 200+ dollars to file their taxes. Every single one of my employees goes to H&R block or some tax guy to pay taxes. Almost all of them have 1 job. Most of them 1 or 2 W2s and most don't houses.

A pre-filled form will help every single one them to save money.

And you can still have your pre-filled form verify by an accountant or H&R Block. No one is stopping you from that.

You should listen to the latest Planet Money Podcast - Tax hero. Republican don't support this because having complicated form will make people oppose taxes in general. That is the republican motto.
I use it a lot.

Sometimes, you want to have a temporary snapshot, but not a commit.

So I write some code, it works, but I'm thinking of trying some things out. I stage the working code and make more diffs. Now I can have my editor show the diffs between my stage and my new changes. And I can easily rollback individual files or re-stage some more files.

Until I am satisfied. And now decide to make a commit.

I could just make them all commits, and then do a interactive rebase as well. And I do that too. But sometimes the staging area is just simpler and quicker. With git status I can see it at a glance. Etc.
Nice find! Reminds me of the Dell Vostro 230. It will "officially" support 8GB memory but if you buy 8gb "low density" DIMMs it will accept 16GB just fine. Not nearly as difficult as your setup but similar in nature.
Is there any list of such companies?
In the proper context of course it is.

Why would I choose someone I don't know and who I don't know if I can trust when I know someone else who can do the same task, I trust them and are required.
Poor people in NYC do not even really own cars, and if they do they certainly don’t drive in Manhattan, where the cost of a parking spot is horrendous.
This has a name, btw:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fundamental_attribution_error
So the performance was lower on the server than the pi?
What makes you think that the solution wouldn't be something like how Staples and Fedex copy centers used in response to copyright liability laws where they handed the responsibility of the content they're photocopying/printing on the user (which is why they don't print things for you, they just let you use their photocopy machine/computers.

I am imagining that companies may come up with legal solution which uses technology in a way that puts this liability in the hands of the user (of course this would only happen if US follows a similar law).
This may not be entirely true. I lived in NC full time and filed taxes in CA and NY (as well as other states). Nexus is the term our accountant used.
I wonder if microsoft would be interested in copying the linux approach.

bug report?
> Reddit uses machine learning models to maximize engagement.

Can't you just sort by new...?
The Later-no-harm criterion is basically a nonsensical idea invented to make IRV look better than it is. See a Princeton math PhD dissect it here.
http://scorevoting.net/LNH

tl;dr for non-experts (I co-founded the Center for Election Science and have studied voting methods since 2006).

The idea behind LNH is that if I vote for the Green in 1st place, it's "safe" to then rank the Democrat 2nd, because that can't cause the Democrat to defeat the Green. See this explained visually in this video by Andy Jennings, another CES co-founder who did his math PhD thesis on voting methods.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JtKAScORevQ

The Later-no-harm criterion is highly misleading, because "safe" here means safe for the CANDIDATE. But tactical voting is about what's good for the VOTER, not the candidate. With IRV, the Green voter's best strategy is to actually rank the Democrat in 1st place. So the whole notion that he can safely rank the Democrat #2 after he's ranked the Green #1 starts with a false premise. If he's rational, he WILL NOT rank the Green #1. It's the same reasoning that Democratic primary voters have about far left candidates. Even if you win the nomination and advance to the general, you're so far left that you'll probably lose against the Republican, by not capturing enough of the center of the electorate.

Approval Voting actually makes it safe to ALWAYS vote your favorite. And, in general, to vote for everyone you prefer to your favorite of the frontrunners.
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Have you talked to Tesla owners much about this? I think you'll find that they do value the package far beyond the mechanics that move the car.

In particular, I think Tesla may be well positioned in terms of autonomy. Although Waymo and Cruise might have a more robust approach, they are taking their time. I see that Tesla is very serious about bringing the benefits of autonomy to market across all their vehicles.
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I'm not entirely sure if I understand – What electrical component could these be used to replace? Could they be used to build single molecule wires, or something like single molecule NAND gates, etc?
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Redis is quite fast on the Pi3, completely another story compared to the original Pi. With AOF enabled and fsync policy every second, without using pipelining it does 28k ops/sec. With pipelining it reaches 80k easily. Not bad for a hardware that is quite cheap and limited. About the problems with the SD card, in the specific case of Redis there are mitigations if it is possible to give up on durability. One could use snapshotting and configure a delay that will not trash the SD too much. I think PostgreSQL does a lot of random access in the on-disk btree, but other systems using some log structured storage in append only should create less problems in theory.
I cannot relate to any of these. Is this phenomenon unique to the American culture?
Actually, for the most part I don't like implicit. But I also like encapsulation and polymorphism and you can't have those things if you are exposing implementation details all over the place.

The other thing I don't like is pointless boilerplate code.

But I do like strongly-typed languages and originally I thought I'd like checked exceptions before realizing just how wrong that concept is. It's not hard to see the parallels between checked exceptions and error returns.
Yes, but that's not the point. That merely shows that we still need to trust someone -- you.

Specifically, let's say you support belief A, and I want to add a whole bunch of facts that support belief B. You're still the gatekeeper to decide whether I get to be a contributor. There's no way for someone to know that you're going to approve equally-qualified contributors on different sides of an issue, so they're always going to wonder whether there are voices or facts being omitted.

(But if that's just the plan for beta, that's fine.)
Trucks cause the most wear and tear on roads so I’m not entirely against capturing some of that via gross tonnage (or weight per wheel) tax of some sort.
> The mechanics of Reddit are completely different from forums

Well, that's the double-edged sword of reddit: it helps niche forums stay alive by constantly bringing in new users that originally visited reddit for other reasons. But that visibility can also kill them.

Still, aren't there lots of private subreddits or subreddits where only subscribers can post? If mods are active and ban regularly, you can preserve a culture if you want.
> Java has checked exceptions (which honestly is more like error-return) and the innerException property is used extensively to hold the "real" exception and, of course, it's type is just "Exception".

Yeah, well, Java's semantics and programer laziness make a mess. News at 11.

> I'd argue it makes polymorphism completely impossible.

Oh, so two birds with one stone!
> Modern plants don't need to be decommissioned. All parts are fully replaceable. Additionally, the point about maintaining older reactors isn't entirely relevant if we are talking about building new ones.

That was my point. You can either extend the life of reactors almost indefinitely, which is very expensive. Or you can build new ones, which is also very expensive.

I heard that new reactors are indeed easier to maintain but to what extent? When every part becomes a radioactive mess, it may be a better idea to properly decommission the plant and build a new one with new technology rather than to change every single part, even if it is possible. There will be a point where it will happen, and it will be expensive, and hopefully, properly budgeted.

Politics certainly play a role in the costs but the plant itself is inherently expensive. For example, the reactor vessel is single 500 tonne part made of a special kind of stainless steel. In fact every part inside the reactor has to be designed to resist radiation. And of course, the safety requirements are huge. I think the EPR has 4 different cooling systems, for redundancy and to avoid having to deal with another Fukushima disaster.

As for China, AFAIK, not only they are investing a lot in nuclear power, but they are very good at it.
One partial fix is to vastly over provision SD card storage. SD cards use very simple wear leveling algorithms, so having a card that is 20X larger than necessary can extend life a lot.
Like Wikipedia contributors?
You can see a user's karma on HN though, just not on their individual posts.
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How we've existed for so long without this is beyond me. Thank you, to the creators of this.
Just like this one site ... Wikipedia?
Although I personally find this pretty nightmarish yet I still can acknowledge it makes some sense and there probably is quite a number of people who would prefer to live in a surveillance-heavy police-state city (willing to trade privacy for guaranteed lack of criminals around). So I believe such a city should exist in every country just for them (in fact the more different kinds of places to choose from there are in a country - the better) as long as people outside don't get discriminated and as long as people who lived in the city before the surveillance system implementation are well-assisted and compensated in moving out.
in places like china and other parts of the world, no one does income taxes. the companies you work for do it for you.

Note: I'm not recommending you move to those countries. the US is one of the few places that you still owe taxes too, even if you move out of the US!
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12018965

Generated a few comments but not many. I put in by thoughts on why code reviews are so much more better at gauging expertise. I have since adopted that and found that it led to much more productive interviews. Even candidates that do not make it thru' appreciate the fact that they were treated as peers rather than being 'questioned'.

I'd like to also add something else that I've adopted -- the solve-at-home question, if we do go with one, is never just a lazy spec. document. It is an unfinished bit of code with tests etc. This way the candidate is not intimidated/overwhelmed/have analysis-paralysis and it feels more natural. Again, insights from submission to those are better than from-scratch assignments IMO.
Could not find what targets does it support, and are features identical between them?
He's right, and nothing on these sites feels 'real'. Not even the people you know in real life project themselves as they are, and if they do it's only the happy side of their life that people see which is certainly not healthy to see every day for anyone's mental health or realistic perceptions and expectations of life. Anything different from that people tend to stay clear from, almost to distance their relation to a particular person.

Couple that with being bombarded by obvious and not so obvious advertisements through promoted content, viral marketing campaigns, promoters and creators that act (emphasis on act) and galvanize certain lifestyles that appeals to individual wants and needs at a unrealistic level.

Just like the old medium of television, everything is manufactured to look a certain way, and consciousness of looks still persists.
Your toughs more or less match everything what I have read and practiced.
Lots of things look like cancer and can be ignored, and there are benign cancers.

Every treatment has risks.

That's the cruddy math.
Your government definitely knows your marital status and how many kids you have.
Chinese tech is impotent, so there's a fair chance for America.
I ask this question about metrics constantly. "If you had this information a year ago, what decisions would have been different?"

It usually ends in dropping the request for another metric
I can't do that with billions of users. I'm saying that I'm shown comments by complete strangers on every post that shows up in my news feed. There's no way to turn that off.

Facebook was great until it started inserting posts from people I didn't explicit whitelist as friends, and I'm including news articles in that category.
Hash in particular was tested.
"Today, on 'Real-Life Dystopias'..."
All sorts of things! We're proud of it.
The unvoiced limitations of socialized reality
>> fonts can be adjusted
>Never wanted to do this

You are probably young. Trust me -- when you are approaching 50, if not sooner, this is extremely helpful. And my father in his 80s has started reading again because he can make the fonts on his Kindle basically gigantic. There are of course a small number of printed books in large print editions, but ebooks allow this to be done on any book.
> but are the version #'s mentioned here ... the only ones affected

Usually when a range like that is given, yes.

> From version 2.4.17 (Oct 9, 2015) to version 2.4.38 (Apr 1, 2019)

This case implies that they know the bug was introduced in a particular change, which went public with version 2.4.17 and was either fixed or otherwise mitigated in 2.4.38.

The only earlier or other versions that I would expect to see affected are dev/alpha/beta branches.
It is good that you did. I was about 20 years in before I realized that the arc of my career was built on networking that I didn't really know that I was doing.
But it might be worth a try. Wikipedia does pretty well imho but if someone would told me the idea I would never thought that it would work.
It's going to die. Urbanists have killed this freedom, it's only a matter of time. Everyone has forgotten all the benefits cars provide, and has focused solely on the drawbacks, just as cars became advanced enough to eliminate all of their problems in the first place.

Today, in 2019, I drive a car that generates absolutely no pollution, makes no noise, is powered entirely by renewable wind electricity, and can drive itself in many (but not quite all) situations. This should be the best thing ever. This is the cleanest, safest, most reliable, most convenient, and cheapest public transit that has ever been invented. There should be cities filled with skyscrapers full of these things.

But instead, urbanists have convinced everyone that 19th century Europe was the pinnacle of humanity, and they are attempting (and succeeding) at removing/eliminating all of our best public transportation infrastructure. Gone are public parking structures, gone are public freeways. Gone is clean affordable housing. Gone are inclusive communities. The lessons we learned and progress we've made is all being lost.

Now you should take a tram or bus, wait 80% longer on every trip, always deal with weather directly, have to plan every trip on routes and timetables, and only live/work in the (super expensive) places their routes allow for it. They want all transportation to be long, frustrating, and limited. Because that was good enough for your great-grandfather, it should be good enough for you too.

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I get why it's happening. If you limit transportation and freedom, you can further artificially inflate property values, and further monopolize people's finances. (They have less options on where to live, less options on where to shop, less options on where to send children to school, less options to simply consume less and spend less on anything at all).

But it's so incredibly frustrating because there is not a single valid reason for it, and it's so disheartening to see such huge regressions happening throughout our cities today. To the extreme that cities today are basically not even for real people anymore, just capital.