skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is more of a ex-British empire thing, but at least some surgeons I have heard of in Australia insist, among medical company, of being called "Mister" not "Doctor", to set them apart from "mere doctors".

I think this is a formal distinction in the UK, but in Australia I think both groups can be called Dr.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1119265/
They made it default. It's called Normandy.
Puritanism reloaded
IANAL, but in the U.S., maybe something like "conspiracy to obstruct justice".

I know even less about Canadian law, so I have no idea on that side.
> As for the problem, it really comes down to making money: Data is sold to inform targeted adverts.

If it came down to simply targeting, the original DNT proposal would have succeeded. If someone cares enough about not seeing targeted ads that they're willing to opt-in for this setting, then probably not much value in targeting that way anyway.

The issue came down to things like measurement, ad spam & the rest. Basically things that involve tracking but not targeting. The advertising side wanted to still allow these things if DNT was set, but there were vocal voices saying DNT must be strict & not allow those tracking cases either.
OK so that search is NSFW
Instructing then how to power wash their chrome book and then simply login with their you okey again is achievable
The fix is to always hire contractors, let the bad ones go, and convert the good ones to full time if you can.
How does the low paid border security drone even know you have a cloud storage account?

What country do you live in that has to worry about people being tortured to death on a frequent basis?

This stuff just doesn't happen often, despite what a silly XKCD comic would lead you to believe.

Encryption actually works pretty damn well, for basically all usecases that a normal person would come across.

The world is not a James Bond spy move.
Engineers just end up performing the tests manually and with each release. Or they don't and it blows up somewhere down the road.

Some open source projects I've seen don't have too many tests. IIRC the source for uBlock Origin doesn't have too many tests in it. But it's small enough that a motivated maintainer can keep the quality high.

For what it's worth, I worked at a Fintech company that built trading systems for the FX marketplace. They had automated tests out the wazoo and a super thorough and on-the-ball QA team. YMMV.

I'm curious, for the projects you worked on in the Fintech space, how much money could be lost due to software glitches? At this firm I worked for they were responsible for the gain/loss if a bug caused a trade to go into an error state. So it could easily cost ten to hundreds of thousands of dollars in a few minutes during market volatility. A friend of mine had a bug slip into prod and it cost the company $90k.
Ask HN: Looking for a recommendation for a quiet and robust keyboard
I was using a Mac magic keyboard from 2011 on my PC. Unfortunately, it got fried when I plugged a high powered USB device into it. What I missed about it is that its quietness when compared to the mechanical keyboard that I am using now.

These days, the Apple magic keyboard are about 150€ and only has a lightning cabled connection.

What options are available for a quiet keyboard that is USB cabled?

I know that the HN crowd is passionate about their keyboards so I asking. thanks for any recommendations given.
Careful not to swing too far the other way. In situations where physical treatments are an option (even if they would only help, not cure), it is important not to give such treatments if it is a mental illness as treatments have risks. If it is mental, mental illness treatment might actually help.
Do you eat 20 cans of tuna a day?
When I was much younger I ate 1-2 cans of tuna pretty much every day for few years and I didn’t have any ill effect at all.
It's pretty common outside of startups and Big Tech. My boss at my first job told me specifically to "not waste time" writing tests, which I thought was insane and I ignored him since the were having me write a system for charging subscriptions.

I'm fine with not writing tests so long as I'm not held responsible when something unexpected happens. Unfortunately for you, they are making you responsible for your own code and have no form of code review.

If you can, you ought to write tests anyway as a part of your work, even if it's just a handful of end-to-end tests to ensure you don't cause anything catastrophic. And if they ask you for an explanation, just tell them that having those tests in place helps you get more work done and not waste time.

There's a chance they're going to be irrational and opt to run their own software into the ground long-term. If they tell you not to write tests, I'd suggest continue working there until you've held your position for a year and, in the meantime, keep looking out for better opportunities. The reason I say that is because if you adopt their cowboy-coding culture long enough, it will sink in with you and it will be harder for you to adopt best practices at your next employer.
Spotify and Pandora disagree.
For work data such as the lawyer in the article I would recommend go one step further and not having the password in the first place. You can achieve this by for example having the server admin at work remotely unlock the device at request, have hardware tokens at trusted locations, or software that provide similar effect. No amount of $5 wrench or legal threats can change the situation as it not in your hand to give them access, and you can helpfully give the path forward for the officers to follow. Even better if you have a written company policy with you which spells out that employees don't have capability to unlock devices during travel.
Google Street View for the ISS (2017)
I remember signing documents that said I (basically) would not allow anyone access to my work phone or laptop. This would put me in quite a pickle if work council wasn’t immediately available I would think.

Glad I don’t travel for work outside the US.
You'll Accomplish More Without a To-Do List
Not just landlords, any property owner ie owner occupiers as well. That's the idea behind land value tax.

Alternatively get more permissive with zoning, in the right places, but careful not to grant a monopoly to any developer.
Well, it's not like they're hoping it will crash. Presumably they're hoping it won't.

Wouldn't it be more irresponsible to deploy to every user without first testing it out?
Unhelpful comparison without acknowledgement of the serious shortcomings and corruption in Chinese healthcare; and the free debate in the US concerning privacy. The gap is too large to "what about".
>open ff
>lastpass gone
>google error messages
>please update ff
>update
>browser works

I'm sorry to break it to you Chrome fanboys but it'll take a lot more than a minor extensions goof up (that was fixed in a day) for me to switch my browser.
So are the extensions checked at startup time for disk integrity issues?

My extensions on FF have not stopped working but I hadn't restarted the browser in that interim
Your advice to mail ahead your secure computer is not good. Mailed electronics are just as susceptible to search, if not more so, as what you keep with you.

I think the reality we have to grapple with, regardless of rights violated, is that if you want to cross a nation border, it's best to assume that all nations involved will end up with a copy of all the data (hopefully encrypted) you move across that border. In the face of that scenario, how do we proceed?
Don't know about the old one, but the new one from the patch is:

Not Before: Apr 4 00:00:00 2015 GMT
Not After : Apr 4 00:00:00 2025 GMT
This was a real research paper. The result would have been extremely interesting to any mathematician tempted to work on the conjecture. You can check it by tapping those numbers into a calculator—the search itself need never be performed again.
Whether it's common or not, is this the right place for you? Stepping into a tire fire for your first job runs the risk of burning you out early and cementing lots of bad habits.

If you do want to stay there, there's a vast happy medium between "no tests at all" and "test driven development". Check out the "git effort" command for a list of the most-changed files in the codebase. (If it's not installed, try looking for a "git-extras" package for your operating system.)

The files changed most frequently are often also the ones most in need of refactoring and tests. If nothing else, you can cobble together a little test suite of your own and be the guy that finds bugs faster and introduces fewer new bugs.
Weird how Marx came to this conclusion 125 years ago in Capital, Vol. 3 and isn't mentioned once.
I still have severe performance issues with Firefox on my Mac also. When I mentioned it a couple of weeks ago in a post here I was downvoted and basically accused on making it up.
>I don't see why "poor urban blacks" buying $200 sneakers is a "desperate wealth-singalling purchase". Maybe they just like them.

According to economists Banerjee & Duflo: “The poor are skeptical about their supposed opportunities, and the possibility of any radical change in their lives…Therefore, they focus on the here and now, on living their lives as pleasantly as possible, and on celebrating when the occasion demands it.”

>I don't see how its any different that the 10-20% buying the "best phone" when it provides no greater utility than a cheaper model.*

The difference is that for the 10% that is an insignificant amount, and they still can cover their more basic needs with aplenty left anyway.
“My grandfather was sent to Auschwitz when he was just 10 years old”
'Ink' goes back in time to remember Murdoch before he was a mogul
Ask HN: Is there a universal abstract template for academic conference apps?
I've submitted to present at many different conferences, typically in the biomechanics field, and it seems that each conference uses a distinct abstract template with distinct requirements. I've observed that a substantial amount of time is spent modifying the same content to comply with various word-limits, adding or removing figures, and changing the submission formatting. I was wondering if there was a reason for these template differences and if there had been any effort to create a universal conference abstract template to reduce the time reformatting.
According to Wikipedia on the lead designer:

> She earned a B.A. degree in psychology from Wellesley College (1998) and an M.S. degree in visual studies from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (2006).

My bet is that this doesn't really work, or, well, maybe it does, in the exact same way a buried dead body eventually decomposes.
I quite liked uzbl when it was being more actively developed, seemed like a very promising project. Unfortunately development stalled some time ago and it doesn't seem like it's going to start again any time soon. So I migrated to luakit. Luakit and uzbl are pretty much on par with each other feature wise and both are pretty scriptable.
There are always unforeseen requirements or some requirements are very loose because there is really no way to know something will work until is tried.

If there were any protocol that requires discussion about every little thing you would never ship nor be productive.

So, companies relies on programmer's judgment on what to do when there is no clear resolution or something is not perfectly spelled out.
One phenomenon in the "concert ticket" space is that promoters have discovered a way to dynamically price tickets. So you'll pay the concert promoter $1000 to sit front and center.

So instead of all floor tickets being $100, there are some floor tickets that are worth way, way more than others. Even "row 1" tickets up in the 3rd deck are more than row 2 tickets in the same section now.

Ticket pricing has evolved to maximize profits at the source. The value of the tickets is very close to their retail price.

So if you ask "how much would you pay for Taylor Swift tickets", the answer is "depends on what row".
Bertrand Russell
The 38% true positive rate makes me think that either border customs violations are incredibly broad and common, or there is some kind of parallel construction happening here where they have a good idea of what they hope to find when they seize these devices from extralegal sources.

Edit: given the source, the 38% could also be inflated (perhaps by not counting certain false positives) since it comes from the department looking to justify their work.
> r must be greater than g for investments to make sense in the first place

Why would that be true? Say r was lower than g, what is my alternative to investing my capital?
> Those are technological innovations, not really relevant.

Those are extremely relevant, especially the source for those invocations.

E.g. I could believe the USSR achieved greater income equality, but I'm skeptical it would have produced those innovations.
Medical device regulation has a clause where if your product is close enough to a product that is already approved there is a shorter regulatory process, that could apply here. There's a lot of grandfathering of medical devices due to those rules.
Can this be used to easily disable ME?
What if Pornhub rebuilt their own version of Tumblr?
We've open sourced our integration tests for our API: https://github.com/serpapi

However we've really little unit tests.

There is balance between what tests are useful and which are not. Testing for sake of testing can be counterproductive. However in your case, it seems there is no reason to skip some form of testing or code reviews. Some companies have just bad practices.
Yes, except you have the ability to replace it if you'd like.
DevOps? Fix it on the production line mentality.
Wow, judging by the response this is a problem a lot of people think about. Am overwhelmed by the helpful info. Obviously have to start at the low hanging fruit as I am working with non-technical people and am relatively non-technical myself. I just tested LibraryThing and it seems very fast and accurate so will give it a whirl.

Again, thanks HN for the overwhelming response.
The use of machine learning needs to be explained. I’m half expecting it to boil down to “we evolved the neural nets until it perfectly separated the two groups” — overfitting “learning”.
>but it is likely that it does so indirectly by creating demand for actual CP

Until there is evidence of that, it seems strange to say that's a conclusion at all, or that it's likely. In fact, Patrick Galbraith's work on how users of fictional CP actually interact with their materials suggests exactly the opposite: they have developed a form of sexuality for the representations themselves - the more fictional, the more real to them. To add to that, the research I've read shows that pornography is not associated with increased rates of sexual assault or rape. If the link isn't even there for regular porn, what would make you say it's "likely" there for cartoon representations?

Furthermore, do we apply this standard elsewhere in society? If there were no research on the link between video games and violence, would you conclude that it is "likely" it indirectly creates a demand for videos of real violence? Is the fact that someone might be spurred on to do a different act sufficient to illegalize the original act which spurred them? I would say not, unless we were to illegalize drugs (for example) because those who partake are likely to be violent? Should we prosecute cannabis users because they create demand for drug cartel products which finance murder? Apple users because they create demand for the appalling treatment of Chinese workers?

Most researchers on the philosophy of law in this area (e.g Suzanne Ost) while obviously opposed to actual child pornography find no philosophical basis in the harm principle to illegalize fictional representations. As such, it's not reasonable at all. You need to justify why you think it's "likely" and just what that standard means. If it cannot be justified, then we may say that any likelihood is sufficient to illegalize any material, but I doubt that's a conclusion you'd want to follow to its extreme.

Finally there's the issue of penalties - isn't punishing someone for something they might do (access real CP) unjust? This seems shockingly close to the notion of pre-crime. To avoid that, you'd want to look more at punishing the creators of the material rather than those who have consumed it and harmed nobody (other than themselves perhaps).

If there is no cultural understanding of the real people themselves, how they read the text and how they interpret it, any law is based merely on speculation and I must stand firmly against such speculative laws.
It's odd - on my laptops, my multi-container settings were preserved, but I opened firefox on my desktop last night and they had vanished. I did not remove any add-ons myself.
If you can only read one book, get Sterman's Business Dynamics.

The original hardback is out of print and so new ones are hideously expensive, but there are affordable second-hand copies and cheap "international" editions have popped up lately.
World Is Not Fair
at all
>using meme arrows on HN
Just set a duress password
https://github.com/rafket/pam_duress
https://github.com/jcs/login_duress
The ham-handed Librareome digital preservation project from Vernor Vinge's Rainbows End

>> "The raging maw was a "NaviCloud custom debinder". The fabric tunnel that stretched out behind it was a "camera tunnel" ... thousands of books that had already been sucked into the "data rescue" equipment"
Lots of `any` in the code kind of defeats the claim that this is "strongly typed".
>In the US. Meanwhile much of the rest of the world was mired in communism, which created incredible poverty and misery.

Depends on where of the world.

Most of the rest of the world in the 50s (aside from eastern Europe, USSR and China) was anything but communist.

And even the communist (socialist) parts, where not really about some "incredible poverty" (e.g. in places like Yugoslavia, Czechoslovakia, and so on, just substandard middle/working class existence. Everybody there could get a job, healthcare, college education, and a house, for one.
Everything I knew about reading was wrong
I have some doubts that this will be 100% specific to CFS, but as professor Davis said at this point it's important to demonstrate that these patients have something wrong with them.

Davis called this the last major disease we know almost nothing about. It's 2-3 as common as multiple sclerosis with worse impact on the person's life. It's also the most underfunded illness when the number of patients and the severity is taken into account.
Banking in the US is utterly ridiculous. In Europe, if you need to move up to 100,000E in a day, you can do it with a few clicks or taps, and maybe a card reader that they already gave you.

In the US, you have to use a wire transfer is you're moving more than about $4,000. And wires cost a lot of money. And they aren't even instant even though they are billed that way.

I had to move some money from one account I own to another, and I needed it there the same day. The only way to make it happen was to drive 15 minutes to the origin bank, spend 15 minutes filling out a paper form in the branch, which was then faxed to the central processing center. Then I had to call the center center every hour to see if they'd gotten to it yet. When they finally did do it, I had to call the receiving bank with the tracking number and tell them, and then they had to find it on their side, which took a couple minutes, before it was finally processed.

From the time I finished filling out the "instant" wire form (and paying $45!) to the time it hit my other account was over three hours! And that was after the initial 30 minute delay of driving to the bank and filling out a paper form.
I have been asking this question myself. To a technologically nerdy person like myself it makes absolutely no sense. There is no reason whatsoever to physically transfer any dangerous or delicate information across a border. Anyone actually with the possession of such information would obviously never bring any of it near the border control.

However, I think the answer is that I'm way too optimistic. There must be lots of people who voluntarily do carry incriminating information with them across borders because they either don't care or they're just stupid. Others have mentioned emails or text about a job when you're not travelling with a work visa.

If this is true then I think border control is also just being merely pragmatic.

With a bit of questioning and informal profiling they can spot people whose story doesn't ring true: next they just need a way to figure out what's false with that one particular person. A success rate of 38% for electronics searches was quoted: that is very high and certainly makes mobile/laptop search to the top of the list of what to look at when you bring the traveller in and start investigating. I think they'd do it even for a 10% success rate: checking a few emails and messages is fast and apparently a low-hanging fruit.

That's pretty much what I would do if my job was to figure out what's wrong with a person's story.

It's akin to starting debugging by enabling asserts and running the binary in a debugger to catch any obvious issues live with a stacktrace, or something similar. Won't help with most of the trickier bugs but sometimes it points right at the culprit and it's a cheap test to run.

They wouldn't find the folder containing your blueprints for that bomb but they'll see you'll be meeting some people next week in a place that is very, very far from where you said you'd be vacationing.
Ah, the weak-on-crime approach to creating affordable housing?
Not in my case. I'm for the decriminalization of sex work, among other things. I'm just against raping children and generally mistreating poor people because you think you can get away with it.

Keep it among genuinely consenting adults, and I don't care how many, what genders are involved, how you folks agree to get your freak on and yadda.

Just one easily findable prior comment by me:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19821347
Haha, it is pretty awful, but they seem like they're getting a little traction at least. So, hopefully serves to make it catchy and memorable. It can happen. I remember plenty of people thought "Twitter" and "tweets" were dumb names too.
All sorts of assets were destroyed in WW2, not just housing. It's not an outlier in that respect.
It works on the main branch now too, so quickfix or not try to update from the play store asap (or whatever repo you use)
I grew up in the bay, and I definitely did not understand this until I left. I generalized my life experience to the whole country.
You're not going to be tortured to death, but there are quite a few things that the government can do to make your life miserable.
By the way I've added some documentation lately on https://sirix.io :-)
Sounds bad (?)
> It's a world where a 10-20% can afford the "whatever" (e.g. best phone, live in NY/Bay area, university degree

not so sure about that line. Many of the whatevs are scraping by.

https://www.financialsamurai.com/scraping-by-on-500000-a-yea...
Probably because this workaround consists in deactivating add-on security.
Would anyone who understands mind explaining the phrase "prefetch window"? I don't quite get what's meant by that from context, and can't seem to find anything from googling.
You're better off waiting a few more hours that disabling important security features.