skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Setting up payroll, writing employment contracts in different countries, timezone differences etc. are pretty valid but not unmanageable for a company of this size. Hope they expand it later once this turns out to be a great idea.
You also need to organize your engineer and product management layers to cover all the new locales which could mean much longer days for those people.
That's too crude. What I'm saying is, it should be around 0.5 line height for grouping inside a method, ~1-1.2 between items of a class, 2-2.5 around classes.

Of course, coders' tendency to nest breaks the idea a bit on levels deeper than a method. Though I think with a lot of fiddling some variation can still be achieved.
This type of reporting is called a "feature story", as opposed to "straight news" or "hard news". The whole point of a feature is to tell an interesting but not necessarily time-sensitive story about something which happened.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feature_story
Polymer gels with tunable ionic Seebeck coefficient: ultra-sensitive thermopiles
Powered down.
> IMO the broader issue is the stigma against mental illness

Yeah yeah that rubbish again. I have mental illness (see my posts for boring details) and I've always been open about it, except when it's so obvious that people pick up on it without my assistance.

I've never had a problem. Stop saying there is a stigma. Any stigma may be down much more to the individual's anticipation of stigma which might cause them to not admit stuff, but my experience is society (UK anyway) is very tolerant of it. You're really not helping.

There's no frigging stigma for mental illness alone. If it causes someone to reek or act unpredictably there might be, but it's a reaction to the sad manifestations, not the illness per se.

NB. I contacted a company I'd previously contracted for, explained the situation, met some of the guys, became evidently stressed in front of them (people + noise get overwhelming quickly), and now I'm working for them. It gives me summat to do and to get used to social situations again, and they get a DB guy. Win/win! No drama.

So I repeat, STOP claiming this crap. You're making it harder for people who have to deal with it.

(Edit: no argument with the rest of your post)
Lifestyles and activity levels have dramatically changed. Eating breakfast everyday and consuming high levels of carbohydrates is actually a good idea, if you do manual labor on a farm.

Western lifestyles are relatively sedentary, yet our brains are consuming more information than ever. Mental processes have nutritional needs and we're stabbing in the dark as to how to approach this problem. People have not figured out the best regimen for this new lifestyle.
Off topic, but does anyone know why this post didn’t match up with my submission from last week [0]? I know scheme and querystring can throw it off. But in this case the links appear to be the same? Not sore about it, genuinely curious what the matching rules look like!

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19783668
It's not all that uncommon to have test code which is never actually run. Usually just because of disabled tests or leftover helper functions that are no longer used, but sometimes due to bugs in the tests themselves. Turning on code coverage tracking for the test code itself can sometimes reveal some interesting things.
Most violators of the law are not "baddies", unless you believe most people are "baddies"
ETL is the bread and butter of the company where I work and you can be sure Java is not even allowed near our systems.

We have thousands if not dozens of thousands of different data providers and it is mostly financial data.

Everything important is PHP and Python. It was Perl 10 years ago. There is some Java, but not in the ETL subsystems.
That's a bit of an uncharitable reading of the parent's comment - they do specific call out some doctors as making patients feel this way, rather than assert that as their own opinion.
I can’t remember, but in a chest x-ray room it is usually taped to the Bucky reversed, in which case I had assumed the letter was around the wrong way.
I can provide more details next week once the article is out, but I've fed it a corpus of one liners and it started to produce weird and sometimes very funny liners :)
Most people don't have great opsec, and most people are technically criminals.
I'm more surprised at the 38% true positive rate. If you consider false positives, it would mean that they are shockingly good at profiling and most criminals are dumb enough to leave obvious evidence on their phone, or an overwhelming majority of people have committed a "customs-related offence" so that you could pick anyone and they would be guilty.
Definitely a looney if they care about Mozilla having essentially a live backdoor into your computer if you’re running Tor. It’s not like they are a US company that the government can manipulate at will as long as they properly insinuate terrorism or child pornography. These guys can just be trusted, right?
It should not be surprising that different writers have different priorities and opinions.

Would it not be more suspicious if the paper's content were monotone and homogeneous?
I raised the same question several years ago on this very forum. I got some good answers but none that ultimately satisfied my needs, but they could be useful for you: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9631362
Also how terrible and archaic financial insitutions APIs are if you're used to nice polished REST APIs from the web..
Will that also terminate the in-memory ephemeral key that’s set up at first login to permit background app refreshes?
That’s an interesting question in itself. Since different processes kick off in the brain in handwriting vs typing on a keyboard. Does this effect quality and therefor economics?
It’s not on 38% of phones. It’s on 38% of phones that they search, and they only do that in situations where they think they are likely to find something based on the story provided by the traveler. Usually it involves working on a tourist visa, or intent to overstay on a visa (person claims to be visiting but does not intend to leave).
While for a laptop one can use xen ( or grub, or similar ) to default boot into a pretty boring image of, let's say, windows 10, with some fake-but-good-looking documents, photos, etc, I wonder what are the possibilities on a smartphone? Would this be possible on an Android?
A while back i wrote an ISBN barcode scanner which would lookup the item on amazon and fond the price, the script would use your webcam as the source for the image, im sure you could adapt it to your needs, its very simple and has minimal error checking so beware.

https://github.com/bshep/ISBNbarcodescanner
> Care to elaborate on the dangers?

Can cause allergies

Is toxic for domestic animals

Their wood is useless, too soft and brittle to be usable. Being toxic, its sawdust is a biological hazard in carpentry.

Is bad for biodiversity. Virtually unerradicable when enters in a forest. Grows in dense thicks that compete and displace native plants. If chopped regrows much faster and multiplies aggresively.

Is toxic for other plants. Drips its own herbicide from the leaves, killing all other tree seedlings around.

Therefore is toxic for crops also.

Is a huge economic disaster. Damages foundations, streets, railways, sidewalks and water channels.

Is bad for cultural inheritance. A nightmare for conservation of hystorical buildings. Must be removed routinely from the roofs (unless you want 3m high trees growing trough the roof of your 800 years Cathedral in three years). One single female tree can produce around 100.000 seedlings each year that fly with the wind.

Has caused more than 5 millions of Euro of damages in just one of the Deustch landers, including 1,5 millions Euro just by allergies. And has been naively introducted in 30 countries.

Oh, and the male flower stinks.
What's "amateur" about that? It seems that the word appears only in the title.

Edit: he had a $25k budget at least (over $150k adjusted for inflation) and while it was his first movie he hired professional performers and the intention was the commercial exhibition of the film in movie theaters (as it did happen).
I never trust these unless they show the generated images next to the nearest images in the training set. I have a strong suspicion that most just end up being training set picks. Which invalidates the claim that these people/models/whatever do not exist.
Sounds promising but I have JS framework fatigue.

I am going to have to spend some time comparing this with https://koajs.com/

I still haven’t seen Koa out in the wild and I like the sound of TypeScript being used here... the FAQ says it’s not compatible with Sails which I would consider a Good Thing(tm).
Headaches and fatigue typically happen after the stress, so if you do have a stressful job then it can take a few days or longer to recover.

Even if you like your job and you think it's great, that doesn't mean it isn't stressful. IMHO if you have meetings then your job isn't great, but maybe you're a strange person who enjoys meetings :)

Anyway, all I'm saying is to think carefully about your job and decide whether or not it is right for you.

Also worth getting a sleep study done, in case it is sleep apnea.
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They want a:

> global medical device registry where patient outcomes for all medical devices are openly monitored

A global open database of people’s most sensitive medical information, what could go wrong.
I was diagnosed with CFS after being prescribed an immunosuppressant. I reacted badly to it, developing chronic pain and fatigue, so it's possible that's a vector (I say possible as CFS is a diagnosis of exclusion, and it's highly likely thatany people diagnosed with CFS have some other, undiagnosed condition of which fatigue and pain are a symptom).
Probably only if the seized information was provably "used" for something.
Ah, you're correct. Seems they skip CA CRL/OCSP in favor of their own CRL. Thanks for the correction.
Ai in general is an area of active research. The AIs that will bring about the end of the world do not exist — they are not simply in need of an implementation.

Right now ai is driven by the collective effort of many research entities. Universities and private businesses. Ai research in those places can be shut down very effectively with regulation. That would probably be enough to buy us centuries because progress in ai depends heavily on this open community of research.

Making the use of high level signal processing illegal for business would further delay ai because there would be no incentive for anyone to develop models for profit. We audit taxes and lots of other things, auditing signal processing is not obviously impossible.

As you mention, cloud computing is a thing. Cloud computing will likely be the nucleation point from which the first agi springs. It should be shut down. Through regulation or through the dismantling of the internet it should be shut down. Shutting it down would buy us lots of valuable time.

ICs are not something you can make in your back yard. Controlling the compute density and energy efficiency or any other aspect of ICs is trivial because they require huge factories to manufacture. Huge amounts of space, energy and money are required to run those fabs. And there aren’t very many of them. Therefore they are highly susceptible to regulation and public oversight. We could stop the production of ICs that are too powerful.

So, here you are in your basement. You are trying to train an AGI. You are stuck with old hardware that you somehow bought on the black market. You are risking your life to do it because it’s highly illegal. You don’t have any investment, legal or otherwise, because it’s highly illegal and also stands to make no profit for anyone. You don’t have access to cloud computing. The training is very slow. It is made even slower by the fact that you have to slowly charge a gigantic battery array before each training because without batteries the spike in wattage would be inexplicable for a house in the suburbs and probably trigger a visit from the power authority. The probability that anyone would succeed in this scenario is not zero, but it’s very low. Very, very low. And I think it would save the world.
Binge reading to me isn't actually good its just necessary to consume information, we do that already with our feeds and sites like this.

With fiction I want to take my time, so no books can wait.

Netflix to me is this generation's radio, its background noise. It produces some good content but we only truly tune in for that release. On most days it's old episodes of the office, fraiser and the west wing.
I have severe CFS, but I personally don't take it badly when someone suggests it's psychosomatic. Since everything I know and everything I feel is a hallucination of the mind, I have no way of knowing what my subconsciousness is influencing. "Psychosomatic" also doesn't mean "it's your imagination", but that it may be an interplay between mind and body. The mind does control many responses and hormonal activity.
Well, true, but all this is a lot more conspicuously fishy than "flip a setting that the user might have legitimately flipped themselves". You're not going to get far hiding a whole new Firefox install in $HOME before someone asks why theirs suddenly got 200MB bigger, for one thing.
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Powering down if possible and then initiating a remote wipe for my supporting Apple devices (macbook, iphone) as soon as possible would be my very first move. It's possible they do have procedures in place to block connectivity to any wireless networks, but couldn't hurt to try.
Who says folks believed myths to be realistic? We are actually talking about knowledge, not believe. There may have been many people for whom between horses and steam engine powered trains there was no certainty nor prospect for motorization, only wet dreams of flying.

Interesting fact nontheless, Pegasus comes to mind.
Ask HN: Starting a Consulting Business
Hey HN - I remember some threads in the past about starting a consulting business. I am not a developer but I can do Product consulting (surveys, user interviews, pricing and data analysis).

Do you have suggestions on how to get started?
Great article! I really like that it's aware of its own limitations, or rather that it knows it's trying to explain something largely obvious.

As with everything, the hardest step is the first one, then each successive one gets easier; and similarly, some things simply aren't enjoyable in bite-sized ADHD-addled portions.
They did! 5 years ago, Al Jazeera made a documentary about Boeing's problems [1]. Choice quotes from the first two minutes:

- "They're shortchanging the engineering process to meet a schedule."

- "We uncover a whistleblower fired as he fought for safety."

The very things that you wonder why they never happened, did in fact happen.

[1]: https://www.aljazeera.com/investigations/boeing787/
Port forwarding on v6 or v4? You shouldn't be port forwarding on v6 but if it was v4 it's likely they are using CG-NAT which basically results in double NAT which breaks such things. NAT64 would break this as well but I've only ever seen it in corporate networks or mobile networks.
Most people are not baddies, but some are. True malevolence is quite real unfortunately.
To say this, it means there is literally people to hold accountable.
The Effects of Peanut Butter on the Rotation of the Earth
Facebook admits huge scale of fake news and election interference
Great story! It is incredible what kind of impact a competent developer can have if they are given the chance and if they understand the problems users are having. A little automation can eliminate majority of repetitive and mundane work of users, leaving them time and energy to cope with more important aspects of their jobs. Everyone wins, including the company customers.
Yay Canada!
Why isn't Rosie and those other leftists on this one?
> engineering talent

That's the saddest part. A lot of talented people could be working on important problems, but instead they're trying to make people click on ads a tenth of a percent more, so they will buy Crest slightly more often than Colgate.

I guess it's no worse than going into finance: just another way for someone with talent and ambition to make a boatload of money while providing almost no value to society (and sometimes negative value). Still, one could hope that talented people would sacrifice a bit of lucre to do some good. The inventors of Arpanet don't have rocket companies, but I bet they're living comfortably.
CBSA officers are directed to disable any internet connection and only examine content that is already stored on a device
Tech giants are the biggest companies by market cap and run the world now. They're not the lovable runts from the 90's anymore.
LEOs prerogative is to see how you are violating the law. Their view is to gather all data which could turn into evidence at a future point. This is that scenario and LEOs do perceive us all as 'baddies'.
For what it's worth, I hear most of those things so often in my job (ui dev who works very closely with uxers) that I'd consider them very specific cliches
I saw the interview, and it kinda annoys me. Close reading comes from broad reading - it's only after you've read a library of books that you get all the subtleties and references. There are all sorts of orthodoxies around reading propagated by philosophers, often ingenious ones, often trying to make some kind of backhanded point.
So what’s the Canadian governments real position on this?

Are individuals and companies allowed to store private and confidential data, or is all information seizable by the government without a warrant at the border?

They can pick one...
Read their other comments. They're clearly saying that CFS isn't mental illness, it's "real" physical illness, and this is a common trope in the CFS community.
Chaos engineering: the steps to achieve on your application
Exploring the Apple Pippin ROM(s), part 7: A lot to digest
Call me paranoid, but i'd be putting those devices into a heavy duty shredder if I got them back.
South-East Asia market is very strange. Uber should have won the market easily.

I live in US and from Thailand. Grab in Thailand is much worse than Uber/Lyft in US in terms of experience. The fundamentals don't work well. I used Grab 5 times in Bangkok and only succeeded once (e.g. the driver accepted but never came, the driver almost arrived but turned away). In the success case, I waited 20+ mins (which is normal for Bangkok's traffic, I guess). In US, the reliability has been 100% for me, and the wait time is like 10 mins max.
not that interesting tbh
In reading crime stories from my area, this IS the case.
This and related edge cases are something that I've always wondered about e.g. where compliance would be illegal. There are a number of scenarios where one can have content on devices that it is expressly illegal to disclose to random border police. Even within a single country, there is a conflict of authority here.
Living in SEA, I really enjoyed having the option of both Uber and Grab as it was easy to compare prices, and sometimes get a taxi for cheaper.

Now I use Grab as a price gauge and usually haggle a taxi for lower if he doesn't want to use a meter. Can usually always get a taxi cheaper, GrabBike is the only thing that beats it.
Russian Aeroflot plane makes emergency landing in Moscow
The reason why the shape of a lot of pianos looks like an exponential
Puffin Browser said goodbye to iOS
It's also enabled by default on Surface Book 2 (and possibly other Surface line devices). No idea how well Bitlocker (or Windows Hello for that matter) stand up to border control.
the phone doesn’t have illegal material, it has evidence of an offense. in case that isn’t clear.
Can you expand on this? I'm curious and a little Googling didn't yield much
I would think most offenses are for improper entry, visa, etc. If you were entering to work on a tourism visa I think it would be very easy to find proof in a simple email, text or document.
I know the HPA axis has been an interesting line of investigation, but not everyone with CFS is showing up with HPA axis issues. I still disagree with the direction that the illness is primarily a mental illness simply because it can result in some mental symptoms. If primarily it is physical in nature, as measured on various tests, and in your case may be caused by an endocrinological dysfunction, and secondarily it causes changes in mood or behavior that doesn't make it a mental illness. (I'm familiar with PEM myself but do not have any severe mood change during it myself.)

Take for example African sleeping sickness. After initial infection the patients have a number of mood and behavior changes, excessive sleepiness, confusion, etc. that might appear mental. But it would be absurd to classify it as a mental illness. It sounds very similar to the logic people are applying to ME/CFS in trying to label it mental.
That doesn't do anything to reduce the complexity of code, it just means you have a lot more functions to read and the actual logical units distributed across random sets of them to fit the arbitrary line limit. Some of the worst codebases I've ever seen had many small functions because the logical boundaries of the problem domain didn't match the logical boundaries of the source code.
Still, the rule is the same - you make it your expertise. You can't competently develop something unless you know how it will be used.

> Say you are writing some medical software that has to diagnose patient based on some inputs. You, as a programmer, are not a doctor and you can't "make" it your expertise within the time constraints of the project.

Either you need to partner with someone who knows the domain (a doctor) and discuss every detail with them, or you have lots of learning to do. :)
>Most people are not baddies

According to the moral sense or The Law? As in "Three Felonies a Day". Because gestapo doesn't have too much interest in the former.
I laughed out loud and rolled on the floor laughing at the same time.

:-)
Dump them all in a shredder. Blow the shreds through a well-lit tunnel full of digital cameras. Assemble the books from the images. Now it's just a software problem.

(This isn't my idea. Either Rudy Rucker, Vernor Vinge or Cory Doctorow thought it. I forget exactly who.)
It's crazy that the certification engineers literally work for, collect a pay check from, and report to management at the company they are supposed to be overseeing. Clearly a system designed with the manufacturer's interest in mind -- It'd be impossible for this not to be abused by someone at some point with the way its structured, and obviously it has.

Also, 10,000 engineers required to move certification in-house? Can someone explain why it'd be so high?
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Yes, CFS does often comes as a result of a mononucleosis, about 22% of adult mono cases have CFS after 6 months, and <5% have CFS after 2 years. It's much better to contract mono as a child.

You don't get "tested" for CFS yet, it's currently a diagnosis given when all other explanations have been tried.
Suspicious, sure, but most users aren’t equipped to do that kind of diagnosis, and many won’t be able to afford new devices, and maybe it will look even worse for the government but I am certain absolutely nothing bad will happen to the people who added the malware.
And you have to go via about:config, which is a no-go for the majority of the users.
Come to think of it, if Henry Ford could, he probably would design a faster horse. The idea would have a lot of both business and practical sense - it would be improving a known tool, necessary infrastructure and network of services already existed, zero fire hazard, self-driving of level 4 autonomy out of the box. He (and people before him) designed automobiles, because that was the only way we could get the speed and power people needed in useful form.
Entire New Orleans Times-Picayune staff axed after sale to competitor