skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Medicine is a must for any empathetic society. However I wonder if the dawn of modern medicine was the end of natural human evolution.

Now that people with diseases such as CFS and diabetes can receive help, we are no longer breeding these diseases out of the gene pool. As a result, we are actually spreading them epigenetically over time.

We will be forced to turn to science, such as vaccines and pre- and post-birth biological modification, in order to continue the progression of our species in our battle against ailments and germs.

As a side note, what is the best way to get tested for CFS? Is it possible to devlop CFS after contracting certain immuno-suppressant diseases?

In my youth I was constantly sleeping in class, but I chalked it up to a combination of insomnia and 24/7 forced consumption of amphetamines to treat ADHD. I mean I would sleep literally anywhere if I had more than half an hour to kill with nothing to do, much to the embarrassment of my guardians. At the time I was not interested in getting tested for narcolepsy and adding yet another item to my list of mental illnesses.

Then right after high school, I contracted mononucleosis. I was completely bed-ridden for almost six months, and for about two years I basically had no energy at all. Always sleeping. Those two years went by in a flash. And now I still feel that to a degree, years later. I'm Bipolar II, and when I'm in my manic phase I have near unlimited energy, but when I'm at baseline or in my depressive phase I basically crawl into a permanent coma for two weeks punctuated by work.

A lot of people intentionally allow their children to contract mono in their youth, similarly to chicken pox, so that the virus comes at a more manageable period in their life. It can be devastating/disruptive to an adult life. I was homeless and unable to work for a long time. I wonder if any research has been done towards the link between early contraction of these diseases and CFS.
Run away!

I never would have thought that the Pythons were inspired by medieval meme culture...
> is this not evidence of incomplete requirements?

Yes! But there will never be a complete set of requirements — indeed if you think the requirements are complete, you spent too much time on them and you aren’t looking at the problem carefully enough.

There’s a balance between calling for more complete requirements and being able to work with less complete requirements. The more you can correctly choose to do the latter, the more you “hone this skill”, the more effective you can often be.

(As a bonus, when you do call for more complete requirements, in my experience people will be more open to doing that work. They know you wouldn’t ask if you didn’t “really need it”.)
There are many deserted regions around the world.

Desertification in those areas is increasing, especially North Africa, and Central Asia.

The focus of environmentalists on the Rainforest is not productive. Solutions need to be future-oriented, and not directed towards restricting economic growth.

In other words, it is of primary importance for enivornmental organizations to create a positive vision of a greened planet, with a systematic forestation program for Africa and Central Asia, to create a prosperous environment and give Africans and Asians a future.

This vision is central to the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_Marshall_Plan as well as https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holistic_management_(agricultu...

Meanwhile, let Brazil have their wealth and prosperity with cutting a couple of their trees, they have too many anyway.
I do security for a large Enterprise. You'd be surprised how unorganized some of this shit is.
Uber being a money sink is the biggest VC joke ever. I can't understand how they are losing that much money while having no car expenses, providing an app, customer support and some certification service for the drivers.

Their developer and RnD departments has to be way too bloated and the ambitions way too high.
Alright, I apologize for the tone. It's unnecessary to make something like this into a heated discussion.

That said, the part I was referring to is:

> The mere fact of such a thing being possible is a usability defect. On what basis do I trust that my work is not going to disappear on me like that again?

The possibility of a bug happening is hardly a usability defect in my mind. Or if you want to call it one, it seems like a perfectly reasonable one - this was a defense born out of necessity when malicious extensions were more of a problem.

And I think that the "On what basis" question definitely implies a total lack of trust, but sure, maybe not. The basis is that this is a single instance of a failure over the course of the features' lifetime, for a feature that has existed for absolutely ages.

I pointed to Chrome as an example of similar issues cropping up across codebases to show that these sorts of bugs do happen. I don't consider that whataboutism.

All bugs are foreseeable and preventable. Systems are complex. I think you're putting the issue in a very unfair light, even though it's very reasonable to be upset about time and effort that is lost because of the issue.
And frankly, the person you are complaining about thinks essentially the same thing, writing "But I figured that even if he spent $5k of the money on some unrelated computer, we could call that compensation for his past work, and it would still leave ~$25k to fulfill the promises he'd made in the fundraiser."

The point wasn't specifically a complaint about spending $5K on a computer but more establishing a pattern of a lack of transparency which the author thinks has an overall negative effect on community-funded, multi-author/community-run open source projects in Python.

Also, as described, it sounds like Smith - an author of the networking package which Reitz was planning to use - presumably knows what hardware needed to develop and test the network layer.
I see, so basically instead of intuiting a simple threshold (e.g. >X% change), they apply an SVM which is able to discover more accurate thresholds (and error ranges). Do you have any suggested resources on learning more about SVM?

I guess my question comes from the observation that these advanced statistical techniques such as machine learning haven't been around for long and yet medicine has often created decision boundaries, presumably just looking at the data and making a reasonable cutoff. Is all the extra effort in a case like this worth the time investment?
How could Tor both be "good at hiding government employees using untrusted networks from hostile third parties" and "NOT good at keeping you private from government"?
HAHAHahahahaa.

An entire bucket of Chinese electronic components in my living room begs to disagree.
From the wiki article on the tree, I don’t think most people will appreciate it:

In many urban areas, it has acquired the derisive nicknames of "ghetto palm", "stink tree", and "tree of Hell".
I think if it's a free frequency you can do whatever you want, no? I mean I use 433Mhz in my house to do some communications between devices and I think I don't need any authorization from someone.

Or is it the power that is limited? (Which makes a lot of sense)
How Airbnb Took over the World
They also stopped responding to all DNS queries for some neonazi asshats because of public pressure and politics. They're definitely jerks but they still should be treated like any other customer unless they're actively breaking the law.
I think when something is pervasive but hidden, there's an urgent need as members of a social species to find out and become part of it. When it's discussed so openly, there's no fear of being out of the loop, just a decision of whether you think it's worth pursuing or not.
The cost of their “solution” seems pretty high in retrospect.

This isnt a binary proposition, they could have solved that issue while respecting user choices, if it had been a priority. The solution they chose inherently was flawed. Hopefully this gives other providers pause before they build similar things.
I am not a designer nor a software engineer, nor a business person. I am just a (heavy) user of all sorts of software for a very long time. I am a competent coder, and I code for research and pleasure. I don't have a dog in this, let's say, professional race.

Every time I spot "UX" in relation to something I use, I cringe. Not because I have anything against the idea of design, or good interfaces, or designing good interfaces. That is all great. The problem is that 99% of the time that the term "UX" shows up in connection with something I use, two things are going to happen:

1) I will have to relearn how to do something that I already was used to doing without even thinking;

2) Some feature or option is going to be removed.

The human brain is incredibly plastic and adaptable. Unless the interface is truly absurd, most people can get used to it and never give it a second thought again.

My number one (by far) request as a user:

DON'T FUCKING CHANGE THE INTERFACE

Unless there is a very good reason, and I bet there isn't.

I bought my first MacBook in 2007. Thankfully, Apple is one of the best behaved companies when it comes to not changing things for the sake of it, and part of the reason why I stick with them. I don't mention this out of some sort of fanboy-ism (I have no loyalty to corporations, I just buy shit I like). I mention it to make a more important point:

The UX of 2007 was absolutely fine, and if they would have made zero changes since then I would be perfectly happy. UX for laptops/desktops was solved in the early 2000. Everything else since then is just irrelevant bullshit.
Came here to also recommend LibraryThing. It's been around for 14 years, and the community has lots of similar situations to OP's. Probably a good place to look up anecdotal evidence for this kind of project, too.

LibraryThing also hooks into [TinyCat](https://www.librarycat.org/) which can make your database more like a library's.
Agreed, but it's still great to have evidence of a physical condition, as many CFS patients have been made to feel like crackpots at some point, and indeed some doctors use it as a convenient label for people they believe to be mentally ill.

Of course, this also raises a question about how those with mental illness are often treated.
Nobody has proven these technologies will be a net negative either, there are many positive applications.

>These companies are playing with fire, and the whole world stands to be burned. Wake the fuck up.

Your tone and arrogance is very unwelcome.
On this topic, more specifically of whole-brain emulation, a very interesting report I found a few months ago: "Whole Brain Emulation: A Roadmap". It's one of a very rare breed: an evaluation of a future technology that does not enter into wild speculation or wishful thinking, but remains critical and objective as far as possible.

[1]: https://www.fhi.ox.ac.uk/brain-emulation-roadmap-report.pdf
Working title
“Over-Under: how the tech industry gambles by overpromising and underdelivering, sometimes with disastrous results.”
Some Factors Fitting the Right Forex Brokers
Because you try to generate a square wave by adding toghether "round" waves (sinusoidal). In order to get into the "corners" you must add "round" waves with smaller and smaller diameters (period). Small periods means high frequencies. The more waves you add, the squarer the sum becomes.
Modules and components do not need FCC certification to be imported. CBP isn't going to do anything.

Finished goods need FCC certification to be sold.
A news agency in China uses an AI news anchor.

The speed at which China seems to be adopting and implementing the latest deep learning technology into everyday life is truly astounding. There is no doubt it is going to be one of the top countries contending for the world leader in AI in the next decade or so.
Even though he inadvertently caused consternation with people with keyfobs and rc garage doors, he did quit after it was brought to his attention. I'm much much more lenient on someone who's tinkering and causes that accidentally.

And if you read into the article, the person who did it was special needs (mentally or physically). They're also likely on a fixed income. Jail would be unconscionable, as would fining someone which lack of payment would lead to jail.

Hopefully the result here is "person quits, person reads up on proper RF practice, and does things better next time"
Okay, I understand now that you were not making that implication. Thanks for cleaning that up.

Since general practices explicitly allow anonymous complaints for whistleblowing, including for anonymous complaints in public fora, I don't see how your appeal to general best practices affects anything - this already is part of general best practices.

Perhaps you could describe what practices you are thinking of?
That very page acknowledges your concern & presents their counterargument - namely, they consider security software to be part of the Windows model, and expect that to intervene in the case of modified binaries:

> By baking the signing requirement into the executable these programs will either have to submit to our review process or take the blatant malware step of replacing or altering Firefox. We are sure some will take that step, but it won’t be an attractive option for a Fortune 500 plugin vendor, popular download sites, or the laptop vendor involved in distributing Superfish. For the ones who do, we hope that modifying another program’s executable code is blatant enough that security software vendors will take action and stop letting these programs hide behind terms buried in their user-hostile EULAs.

(emphasis mine)
Single screen eh? Is that why I see all the devs at the office with their screens turned sideways?
The idea that visual programming languages get too hard to read as programs get larger doesn't really resonate with me.

Just like written code, you need to create higher level abstractions. In simulink for example, you might have 1 top level box called a "Radar". You drill down into that, and find lower level components like an RF transmitter, but still those are abstractions that you can drill down into [0]

Yes if you squeezed all low level implementation onto one screen it'd be hard to read, but same as if you put all low level c code in one giant file without any abstractions.

[0] https://www.mathworks.com/help/examples/simrf/win64/RadarSys...
curl is good enough for fetching RSS, leaving that running would probably help quite a lot.
I hope that this is sarcasm. Ailanthus is one of the most dangerous species of trees in the planet. There is not excuse, this is known since decades.

If the goal is to destroy nature in the stupidest way possible, Ailanthus is the weapon of choice.
Windows 10 WSL Distro Manager GUI Tool
For people who haven't read the article this is extremely misleading:

> The ends with him agreeing how the film sucks and maybe the prosecutor was right!

He says that, only as a joke that it's so bad it should've been illegal. While in reality a great mis-justice was done to the man, and he was railroaded into accepting a plea-deal due to the gravity of the unfair charges.
What are your criteria for something being "rewarding"? Making lots of money? Helping humanity? Personal satisfaction of solving hard problems? Something else?
What's cringey about it? It seems like reasonable (if obvious) advice.
The extension disabled itself due to expiry in this case, but it sounds like OP is upset that Mozilla can remotely disable extensions used by Tor users at will with a kill switch (which they didn't use here, but surely exists to combat malicious extensions).

Some other people are also upset that the Normandy system has the capability of pushing extensions that it does and that it is apparently on by default.

These both seem like reasonable concerns that are unrelated to the expiry but highlighted by it.
You need to stick a barcode on the location (shelf, box, etc) like they do in a warehouse. Scan the book, check it is correct, scan the location to book it in. Doesn't have a barcode, put it in another area for later. I wrote a sketch of exactly this once...
Library Extension: See book availablity from your local library
That you can measure stress response in blood cells doesn’t rule out that the disease is psychological in origin (although I doubt CFS is).
If you have ever wondered why they tell you to turn off electronic devices during take off and landing, here it is.
So I just showed you a massive API could you use your intuition,comments, etc to figure out the response? Are you claiming that any API that you can’t understand through “intuition” is by definition not well defined?

Have you ever integrated with something like Workday?
Another link: https://share.qz.com/news/2420179/body/
There was a sexual comedy that came out some years ago that said the openness of sex led to an increase in social acceptance of more things out the norm. The main characters however complain that they missed out because they grew up in the 80s when HIV hit which led to a massive backlash and obvious public health scare. The characters are all friends and they eventually plan a party based on what they think they missed out on. The theory makes a little more sense to me.
Twitter? That is what it is, and anything goes.

As for the rest, I find it refreshing that the NYT and Guardian are "bleeping" fewer quotes. I don't think the paper itself should start working blue, but if someone swears in an interview, you should print what they said.

EDIT: Oh, I hadn't read that particular article. It doesn't bother me much, but profanity is a crutch. I'm fine with it in day-to-day conversation and blog posts, but a professional writer using it in an opinion piece is lazy.
I dunno... I think I used to prefer 2700k at home and now I'm settling on 3300k, although sometimes even that seems frustratingly yellow now. I'm getting older and presbyopia is really setting in now. I'm from CA(formerly southern, now the bay area).
Do you also believe that people who think otherwise should be fired?
Shade, an Urban Design Mandate
In the articles such as this, I would always want to see a paragraph about basics of what is carbon dioxide, about its increase in atmosphere during last hundred years or so and of what many scientists suggest this increase will entail in changing global climate. And how deforestation at this scale greatly contributes to the release of co2 to the atmosphere.

Many among us will of course know all this and more, but for a large swaths of people, these fundamentals are lost in all the hand waving about climate change making it just a bit easier to not pay attention. Repetition. Repetition.
I had CFS like symptoms so bad I was stuck in bed for several years and the doctor basically would not help me. Eventually I decided to treat it myself with antibiotics and anti parasitic medication. I basically came to the conclusion that for my specific case I had an unknown blood parasite and the fatigue was being caused by neurotoxins. I don't think all CFS are caused by an infection but mine definitely was and I have my life back. If you a researcher looking for a cure, try to test medications that flush neurotoxins out to see if the disease goes away and then try figuring out what is creating them in the first place to treat them.
Exactly. Derek Sivers gives some good examples for programming in this essay[1], e.g. overcoming a common mistake, cool trick or suprising feature of a language. These are obviously useful things to have immediately when you need them. I think the article lists some bad examples (not worth committing to memory) for programming to be honest.

[1] https://sivers.org/srs
Seeing a Big Future for Micromobility
Why, when, and how to say ‘No’
Among the problems you get with the neuromorophic chips is that they are choosing which hypothetical neural algorithm the chip should use and which silicon implementation should be made of that algorithm.

Current AI is continuously modifying it's algorithms. Personally, I'd want to see parallel chips with a programming interface at least as "general purpose" as the GPU.

One might even boldly say something like "the only way this deep learning explosion happened is through the consumer market making powerful parallel chips ubiquitous". Or more cynically, "if chip maker had been looking at only AI applications, they would have strangled the deep learning explosion by their tendency to demand $10K+ per installation since they look at the well-healed corporation that easily afford these and thus ignore the graduate students who make the conceptual progress in their basements." Even Nvidia is eager to divide their offerings between $500 game boards and $5000+ deep learning boards. One assumes a neuromorophic chip would be way up this "high end".
Let us never forget the Jimmy Carter rabbit incident.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_Carter_rabbit_incident
> Am I the only one annoyed by people pushing this "they flicked a switch" narrative?

What they set was essentially a dead mans switch, though.

> A third party having remote control capability is something entirely different.

They’re pushing fixes through a telemetry channel which can also be used to change your preferences soo..
Yeah, I tried modafinil(well, armodafinil) when I was waiting to get my sleep apnea treated. I've used it a few times since. It's sometimes helped with getting things done, but I have enough anger and irritability issues normally which I don't want to exacerbate.
Even if part of the spectrum is unlicensed, you're still bound by power limits.
I like the Pi, but am leaning away from it for routers. I haven't tried it for a router, so the following is just my initial impression, take with a grain of salt...

The Pi is around a closed hardware SoC, you can't pick&choose devices (like people often do when they can), devices are limited (e.g., 1 Ethernet), RAM is limited, devices might be on funny buses internally (e.g., on internal USB), microSD cards are not very reliable.

I don't know whether there's as solid a router software setup for the Pi as OpenWrt on a well-supported SOHO router.

I don't know how well the built-in WiFi in the Pi 3 can be made to work as an AP, and I think it's only one radio. Picking&choosing a WiFi device(s) that you plug in via USB gives you more options. You might need a powered USB hub, depending on how much total draw you've got on USB, and whether you've hacked your Pi board for USB power limit.

There used to be another consideration with the Pi, which is that I'd end up having to plug a bunch of things into it, including a powered USB hub, somewhat fragile, and I ended up putting everything into an electronics project box, and running just a power cable on a strain relief out. You also used to have to consult a list of known-good wallwarts and microSD cards, to reduce risk of flakiness, but I think that's improved. By comparison, a WNDR3700v2 with OpenWrt was an off-the-shelf appliance box, and could do more than the Pi, router-wise.

There are SBCs with better specs for routing. Where the SBC (and SoC) is designed could be a factor. Separate from SBCs, of course there's amd64 PC hardware on a Mini-ITX or MicroATX board, with PCIe slots for your choice of NICs, and gigabytes of RAM (though AES-NI is in the minority of fanless-capable options I've found). All these boards are effectively unauditable, of course.

(I'm not criticizing the Pi in general. I've used older Pis successfully, and currently use a Pi 3B+ with a 64-bit kernel as a builder&programmer&powersupply for PostmarketOS devices. I'm also thinking of putting a Pi into/onto the chassis of my laser printer, to provide a CUPS IPPS server that prints to USB, rather than try to keep firewalled in the router all the things this printer seems to want to do if you give it network access.)