skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As I explained elsewhere, that's not a valid conclusion to draw, since the families of all of the players donated their players brain because the family suspected their player had CTE. But it's still a horrifying stat, and the conclusion one should draw is that playing American football means you are at significant risk for developing CTE. Enough that it has changed how I view the sport.
Maybe, but it won't happen fast enough. No sarcasm/snark; I mean this seriously. Things are happening now and we can't wait for it to die of old age to fix them.
The other part of the Long Depression that's frequently glossed over is the substitution effect. While prices in aggregate declined, some prices declined extremely rapidly while others (thanks to Baumol's Cost Disease) declined slowly or not at all. The resulting cost differential led to a fundamental change in the structure of society and its values.

What represents wealth in an agrarian society? Land, livestock, horses, slaves, servants, leisure time, and social connections. Many of these goods increased in price during the Gilded Age, or became impossible to obtain. No more homesteading the West, no more slave plantations, independent ranchers & farmers were driven out of business by the meatpacking & agribusiness industries, the domestic servant class largely disappeared.

But what happened, eventually, is that these definitions of wealth became marginalized in favor of ownership of new luxury goods. What represented wealth in the 1950s? Having an expensive car. Owning a house in the suburbs with electricity & running water, and a washing machine, dishwasher, and vacuum cleaner. Flying on jets. None of these even existed during the Gilded Age.

It's possible we'll see a similar resolution to the current crisis, where the expensive and un-automatable pillars of a middle-class existence - health care, education, housing - simply get marginalized as a backward remnant of a previous era, and new status symbols - perhaps control of virtual currencies, prowess in computer games, neural net uplinks, bionic implants - take their place.
I think there has to be tougher scrutiny for the tech we apply to healthcare. Us in the healthcare technology community have to have the guts to stand up and call out companies like theranos. If we don't, investors will come away thinking that healthcare is overly complicated and won't invest, and healthcare stakeholders will come to the conclusion that we don't actually care about their business practice or more importantly patients.

We need to prove them wrong on both these accounts.
Funny that you mention Amazon, because open S3 buckets have been implicated in dozens of security breaches.

It's not so much that Amazon is the culpable party in those instances, but so many times, have I encountered a headline citing a "massive exposure of protected data" and somewhere in the body of the article, someone had dropped everything into an S3 bucket marked open read for public everyone.

So, is it Amazon's fault? This sort of thing was an FTP server thing, before S3 reduced the hardware infrastructure overhead of setting up and maintaining your own secure FTP server...

But, then again, lowering the technical bar meant letting in more and more non-experts, and naive, or otherwise less competant people. This, of course, broadens market penetration, and increases revenue. So, to add barriers, irritating warnings, nanny-goat advisories, hazard alarms to such a versatile and useful product might seem tantamount to leaving money on the table. After all, the goal of the product is ease of use. And, by the way, how does one solve the problem of bone-headed users?

But, you know, there's the real distinction between an AWS S3 data breach and a Facebook data breach: with S3, you've shot yourself in the foot. Facebook, on the other hand, is pointing a gun at you.
In the Gig-Economy, Training Is the Key to Getting Providers Onboard
Don't see how Facebook is a fundamentally tech job at this point, any more than a machine-learning powered slaughterhouse would be. It's a dark-pattern, privacy invasion and dossier company that happens to use (and true often research) a lot of new technology to accomplish its goals.
This was really helpful! I've seen the coin change problem before, but not been able to solve it.
BDE (Bond dissociation energy) is the energy require to split the chemical bond in half. This would lead to two radicals through homolysis.

Binding energy is a bit more vague in my opinion. For atoms it means disassembling the atom into free electrons and a nucleus. In chemistry it is the average energy required to break all bonds in a molecule.

Source: Chemist and wiki

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bond_energy
Yeah they have. Their political coverage puts more mainstream outlets to shame.
The Science of a New Oven
Nixon wasn't impeached. We can only speculate as to the outcome if he had been.
The Article is just re-reporting the Albuquerque Journal, which has a better description[1]. The power company (PNM) planned to split the costs of the grid upgrade between wholesale payers and the ratepayers. The regulator ruled that PNM cannot charge the ratepayers, but PNM did not include the the grid upgrade in the contract with Facebook. It seems that the power company is the one stuck holding the bag.

[1] https://www.abqjournal.com/
I was absolutely going to guess search and rescue.
Try Manjaro. Based on Arch with KDE Plasma desktop. It's awesome.
Breaking News: Local fox offers to protect hen houses in the district.
What fix/patch could the Go team do here to mitigate the issue from happening? It does seem like it would be nice if you could specifically to the runtime the amount of pre-alloc stack size needed. Would this help?
It's certainly not unique to Go; this is encouraged (if rarely done) in the Erlang community.

In fact, this is the reason that "Erlang/OTP" is a concept distinct from "Erlang." OTP is a distribution of Erlang, a "fork" that remixes together the core Erlang components in a certain way.

(Specifically, OTP is Ericsson's distro of Erlang targeted at building telecom switches. That means it contains not just regular language stdlib stuff, but libraries like "Megaco/H.248: a protocol for control of elements in a physically decomposed multimedia gateway".)

You're free to make your own distro of Erlang; it's extremely easy (and in fact, everyone is implicity doing it every time they use Erlang's release building process to build an app. An Erlang "release" is a customized, derivative Erlang distribution! You can build a new SDK with the release tooling just as easily as you can build an app runner.)

Even if it's rarely taken advantage of, it's clear that "forking your own Erlang distro and customizing it" is the idiomatic approach for many potential user stories. If you study the Erlang "kernel" library, you'll notice that there are many customizations which the kernel "expects" people to make, but not in the sense that there is any stable ABI grip-point to slot in a plugin via a configuration stanza. Rather, Erlang just has a trivial implementation of the logic in the kernel, sitting there in well-factored module. The kernel authors are expressing a clear intent by doing so: if you want some logic more fancy than this trivial version, just fork the kernel and plop in your own version of this module that does something else!

Personally, I love this way of thinking. Rather than the usual problems cropping up where something in the runtime that wasn't "quite right" for the application's use-case, was then reimplemented as a non-runtime-integrated library, with other warts and higher overhead as a result; instead, users are encouraged to just solve their problem in the runtime. Sometimes that results in upstreaming a patch, but that's not-at-all the goal. The goal is just to have software that has e.g. exactly one IO path, which everything uses.

(Side note: I find it mystifying that Ericsson's OTP release of Erlang is still considered by the community to be "the" Erlang SDK. It's as if Ubuntu was the only Debian-alike and there was no Debian, even though it's very clear exactly what Debian would look like. A "core" Erlang distro—with all the generally-useful OTP stuff like supervisors, but without the telecom-specific stuff—is totally possible; as is rebasing OTP to be a downstream distro of it. But nobody really seems to care about doing so.)
> But what can be done?

Cart your (sensitive) recylcing to a recycling center yourself, rather than relying on exposed curbside pickup.

> Spread the disposal over many months? The signal is still there.

That probably works too, if you have a bin and the signal is stuff extending beyond the bin signalling to drive-by opportunists; by spreading it out over time, you can keep the stuff you don't want to expose in (and at the bottom of) the bin, which exposes you to people who dig through the bin for intel, but that's a whole lot more active search.
_Maybe_ if your software business idea had at its core some fundamentally hard problem and you needed expensive hardware to be able to run your service fast enough to support all your customers... but even then you could probably get by on cloud providers and being a bit slow, if what you did was useful enough to be worth waiting for. Then just upgrade as you get more customers paying more money.
We've all been in situations where no amount of positive thinking will change anything, and it's unhelpful because it fails to acknowledge the trying situation felt by the sufferer at hand and comes across as preachy and moralistic, except rather than admonishing someone for not going to church, it's for not exuding 'positive vibes', but also it's sometimes perceived as insincere and a way to absolve one's guilt for not doing more to help. This backlash explains the online appeal of Jordan Peterson, who is like the anti-Tony Robbins.
I'm not sure if do-release-upgrade supports skipping releases, except for going from lts to lts? In other words, it might either: 16.04 -> 18.04 -> 20.04, or 18.04 -> 18.10 -> 19.04. But not 18.04 (lts) -> 19.04?
Sorry, brain fart – you have to upgrade between non-LTS releases sequentially, as far as I know there's no supported way to upgrade to 19.04 from anything but 18.10. (in general, to get to release n, you must either be on release n-1, or n must be an LTS and you must be on the previous LTS.)
Shares for Zoom are flying, but some might be trading the wrong stock
> I mean, why a person has a better highlight reel than another?

But you aren't comparing their highlight reel to yours. You're comparing it to your entire life, because you have visibility into everything in your life, including all the stuff you don't post.
Like this? https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3581515/
It takes a net worth of millions to be comfortable in Silicon Valley
Public knowledge, public opinion, and court-admissible evidence are three different things.
The article says "HeH", but tt's very important to notice that the molecule they detected is HeH+ (the charged version), not HeH (the non charged version).

I can't find the information now, but the non-charged version is probably not stable (or the bound is extremely weak).

The title of the research paper is: Astrophysical detection of the helium hydride ion HeH+
If they were sitting in a log file somewhere, you could probably audit who had accessed them. The file permissions might have allowed access, but the audit logs could show that nobody did.

P.S. I have no knowledge of what actually happened.
> Also, as a passenger it's fairly easy to say "turn in five blocks" and track how many blocks are left

Which is of course region specific. Using it in the UK would be confusing as (often) the roads just aren't laid out like that, and "in X blocks" is almost never used.
I don't see the differences between google maps and the alternative you suggest regarding their price or their money making strategies.

> I really don’t understand why google maps is so popular.

Because it's bundled on billions of devices ? And it's a product that was/is working really well for the vast majority ?
Where there’s muck, there’s brass (2007)
We have had the cryptographic technology for year that allows us to authenticate ourselves to third parties without giving them secret information. Why are we still using passwords?
That was me as well until I got back to safety ;-)

That and:

- ctrl and fn being swapped on the laptop keyboard (but not on the full size keyboard), with no way to fix it in settings or bios.

- movement and selection key combos varying wildly between apps.

Rumours has it both can be fixed now. Meanwhile Windows is now less annoying to me than it has been since XP was fresh and KDE has left the 4 series behind so, all while Apple fans are raging furiously everywhere about the new keyboards, so I'm not asking dor a Mac bext time either it seems.
Naked Scientists is an excellent Cambridge based Science podcast, seemingly big in South Africa.

This item is about a nifty oven that has recently been invented that uses IR sources with a black body temperature of 2000ºC, this halves the time it takes to cook a chicken, sounds promising.
Great further reading on this sentiment from academic/philosopher Byung-Chul Han if you're interested. He makes a pretty entertaining case against positivity in his book "The Burnout Society."

"...Because Otherness is disappearing, we live in a time that is poor in negativity. And so, the neuronal illnesses of the twenty-first century follow a dialectic: not the dialectic of negativity, but that of positivity. They are pathological conditions deriving from an excess of positivity."

http://theorytuesdays.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/Han_Bur...
An excellent viewpoint, and one that I've found value in as well.
I'm not entirely sure what canonical guarantees in terms of "security" updates, but non-lts releases do get updates - just for a shorter window than lts releases.
You better explain it to me then. I'm not great on QFT, so keep it graduate level physics so I can follow along.
I will say here what I said on security Slack just a few minutes ago:

Security people see shit like this all the time. Facebook found a raw request log, which inevitably contained lots of passwords. Rather than doing what most tech companies would have done --- delete the log and pretend nothing ever happened --- they disclosed the log in a fashion that guaranteed a whole news cycle about it.

I don't like Facebook. Facebook is bad. But Facebook handled this about as well as I've seen anyone handle this. Cheers to them for that. This story is not a good reason to single Facebook out.
Of all the plants, trees by far give me the most pleasure. A suburb with trees is a thousand times better than one without. The shade of a tree is completely transformative. It gives me a fuzzy warm feeling inside.

It’s concerning to me that such an important aesthetic component is so transient and difficult to control. When you build a house, you control every aspect of its design. It’s materials are tough and long lasting. But the trees around the house are prone to dying. They get too old or they get sick or whatever. And when they do, you can’t really replace them. I’ve seen tons of houses where they had great atmosphere but then one of their large trees died and the feeling of the house is totally ruined. I’m not sure if you can order a grown tree and have it implanted but it’s probably really expensive. We need artificial trees that last longer and are easy to replace.

Humans are drawn to vistas. Standing on the top of a hill and looking at the vista is something everyone agrees is beautiful and feels good. I think it might be because our ancestors were tree-dwelling monkeys. The higher in the tree you climb, the better the view, the safer you are from predators. If we are drawn to views then we would likely spend more time high up in the tree. Maybe that’s also why we find trees themselves so appealing. Ancient wiring.
Interesting, in Scandinavia Engineering Physics is quite prestigious and many graduates end up as SWEs. In fact many researchers across Sweden hold Engineering Physics degrees in CS and other disciplines outside physics.
full text is available at RG https://www.researchgate.net/publication/332281661_Working_m...
I have worked in the software world for 20 years, and started coding while in grad school studying for my master's in astrophysics. I initially was building websites on the side to make extra money, but then decided to go full time. My physics background never seemed to matter to anyone. It neither seemed to help or hurt, so long as I could do the work, they seemed content to believe I could learn anything else I'd need to know. Which was true. I bought books on various languages, patterns and computation theory (one of my favorite textbooks).

Other than having co-workers find out I have a physics degree and thinking I'm the nerd as a result, there really hasn't been upside or downside to having studied physics.

Though, I totally went into physics not for the career but because I really wanted to learn physics.
I'd say the problem arises in market share. Google almost has a monopoly on digital map data. With any monopoly, there should be limitations on their ability to profit, as there can be lots of pricing abuse due to lack of competition.
Yeah but that's what it's trying to do too, and that's exactly what's failing: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19693284
I don't know enough about Amazon to call bullshit on this, but I do know enough about other major tech companies to call bullshit on this.
> Ask everyone on your team if they would like a tea or coffee every 2–3 hours each day

> Do it with a warm smile.

> If they say no — still smile & politely say “no problem, please let me know if you need anything!”

> And if they say yes, write down their order carefully so you don’t mess it up including any special requests (soya milk, 10 sugars etc)

> When you return with their beverage of choice, again make sure you give it to them with a warm smile!

That's not professionalism. That's just toadying. Junior people who do stuff like this creep me out. Who needs a sycophant?
AI has been applied to healthcare technology since the 1970s, like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mycin and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CADUCEUS_(expert_system) .

One failure by one company, even IBM, won't stop future attempts.
I used it for a while as it was the maps provider on my Windows Phone, and it was fine. Not always as up-to-date as Google, but it was competitive.
awesome explanation
I was mainly commenting on the frontend as I'm not well-versed in Rust, my dissenter seems to have a problem with the backend and the organization of the project, which seems unfair since it's in it's infancy, you can always restructure a project and reorganize code. I was commenting on the code, not the files.

As for the frontend, it's all typed, and very minimal. Very rarely do we see frontend code that does just what it needs to do and nothing else. The fact that they achieved a "React-like" (Inferno) environment and managed to keep the frontend under 80KB is a feat.

That's not to say it's perfect, but it's not finished. I was just very surprised to be able to jump right into the code and see what was going on without wading through boilerplate.
كيف يؤثر رفع مؤسسة فيتش لتصنيف مصر الائتمانى على قوة الجنيه أمام الدولار؟
How do you know that the platform engineers at Instacart haven't surreptitiously inserted a memory debugger into their app servers and recorded all the passwords people log in with? Does that sound far fetched to you? It's something teenagers have done for fun.
> Google is really leaving the door open here for Apple [...] tipping point

It's 202X, and you are offered AR glasses from Apple, Amazon, AT&T, Comcast, Disney, Facebook, Google, and Microsoft. With almost-always-on mics, 180-degree cameras, gaze tracking, centimeter-resolution indoor position, and hybrid local/cloud infrastructure.

Who do you trust?

What is the net present value of that trust?
It would be nice if the initial stack per routine size was configurable. Ultimately, it would be interesting if the Go runtime could profile the typical stack usage for new routines and dynamically adjust the pre-allocated stack size configuration. It's a little crude and might waste some memory, but it would help.
Using cooperative molecules for programming signal processing
I think it should: https://askubuntu.com/a/240189
> Doctors noticing that Watson is wrong is expected.

Well as a doctor if I’m still ultimately responsible then nothing has fundamentally changed, this is just another tool, possibly one I’ll be forced to use by someone with not one day of medical training.

And medicine in the US is in a precarious position. Software engineers are generally not licensed, and they’re not sued (it’s virtually unheard of). It’s different for doctors. There’s a complex dynamic of removing autonomy from providers to ostensibly improve outcomes (and revenue cycle) while also still holding those same personally liable.

So much of what I do is indirectly dictated by wonks in IT and billing, but they have virtually no liability. And one wonders why burnout in medicine continues climbing with no end.
http://www.natap.org/2019/HIV/s41593.pdf
A small discussion from last year: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15626816.
Package managers solve it quite well. Just depend on the latest version of your dependencies and tag a new version whenever they change.
In theory, things should be better[1] (I have an nvidia card too, I will probably hold off for a few weeks).

1: https://www.forbes.com/sites/jasonevangelho/2019/04/15/ubunt...
Well, it's more experimental than applied, bad word I guess. It could've been theorical, but it was experimental.
Perhaps I'm reading the doc wrong, but I'm not seeing that there's an absence of evidence, but that the justice department is not the correct venue to evaluate and act upon the evidence which was found.
I'm a recent graduate with a BS in Engineering Physics (EP) as well. I chose the field because I love mathematics and because of the "infinite career possibilities" that the Physics department advertised (just like in this article) which was actually very misleading. I had a really hard time getting started right out of college (your description of HR's view of EP majors is spot on) and started to pursue my Master's at the same University in EP. I dropped out of my Master's program after about a year because I realized I hated doing academic research. A lot of the courses that I took were also very similar to my undergraduate courses... So I didn't feel like I was gaining any added value from my MS.

Most of us graduates in EP either went to pursue graduate work or became Systems Engineers. Now I'm working as a Systems Engineer really only because it felt like the only alternative. I'm planning on getting my Master's in CS so I can get myself on track to the career that I really want. I don't regret studying physics - but I wish I had done a double major instead.
Studies also show that doing "the women's work" type stuff at work actually hurts your chances for promotion.
I think you're assuming the passwords were stored in readable format as a matter of design. That would get reviewed and flagged at any moderately competent tech company.

I think it was probably something more inane like a POST body being logged. That could slip through a reviewer's crack easily.

Not defending this breach in any way.
I agree with your opinion but will fight to the death for your right to say it!

(Wait, I'm getting this wrong somehow.)
Everyone who uses the downvote as a disagree button and downvoted this obviously insightful comment should be banned immediately.