skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We found that because the complications of Spina Bifida covers so many different medical domains, we’ve had to try to keep the cardiologists, the pulmonologist, the neonatologists, gastroenterologists, and the neurosurgeons AND neurologists on the same page.

The closest thing there is to a “Spina Bifida” expert we found was the head neurosurgeon at Washington university in St Louis, a state away from us. After complaining to the head of neurology at our children’s hospital we were able to send her test results and brain scans to him and get a second opinion. He definitely seemed to have insights other doctors didn’t, as well as not bullshitting us when he didn’t know something. He was also careful to point out that because he’d never actually examined her so his opinions were conjecture, not solid infallible facts. My favorite GP I’ve ever had told me “I don’t know, but I will find out”.

We’ve really learned to bristle when our daughters doctors present the face of absolute certainty. It gets really tiring when it results in them talking in a really indecisive way and not giving a straight answer.

I’m not a medical professional, but I’m a software engineer, I’m not a fool, but getting a doctor to straight talk to you the way an engineer would seems to be a rare event.

We’ve had pulmonology suggest a tracheostomy’s multiple times, without discussing the drawbacks of the procedure, and after lots and lots of careful questions, then reasking the question until we get “real” answers about the merits of the procedure it -feels like- the actual reason they want to do it, and the reason children who get a hole in their throat have better results than children without is because once your child is given a trach medical insurance will pay for in home nursing care. Extracting that information was painful and took days of trying to pin down doctors, but it’s really made us feel like the doctors are either incompetent, malicious, or just too busy to care and want us to go away.

Even getting them to “prove” she needed a trach via a sleep study was like pulling teeth to get scheduled, the doctors insisted on wanting to do it without the evidence then seemed irritated when the results came back that indicated the trach wouldn’t help her breathing.
I loved it, but i have a soft spot for Arcadia and Virgil's eclogues.
Why not? Cash is divisible, readily accepted, and anonymous.
Surely that sort of thing is relatively easy to identify and use the data to adjust the relative quantities per pack?? All this flavour sells first, lets put more of that flavour in each box for people to select their purchase from?

Maybe, people return to get the Tikka, resulting in more sales??
I just moved from Florida to the midwest. I'm still shopping at Aldi, but I miss Publix subs and their fried chicken.
Bikeshedding: The Thread.
Should smart phones be treated like tobacco too? Millions (soon, billions) of people glued to their phones have hurt their relationships, impoverished their lives, and developed an addiction quite akin to the addiction to the social media. In fact, this addiction has killed thousands because someone couldn't stop messaging while driving. The phone manufacturers and app developers pay a lip service to these problems, and continue to design ever more accessible and addictive devices.

Or should we draw a line somewhere, and agree that it's unreasonable to eliminate every imaginable source of addiction from the world, and that people should be able to deal with it?
Your talking to someone who has done very well for himself without a degree, not by choice. I couldn't afford community college in my day because I was unwilling to take on debt, while working 40 hours a week and living at home.

I don't believe that is a fair way to treat students though. You shouldn't have to get in debt up to your eyeballs to compete in the job market.

I was lucky I was naturally inquisitive and interested in learning all I could. Not everyone is though, and that's alright. If they learn better in a structured environment, I don't think that should preclude them from being educated.
Sorry -- I misremembered the story. But as another commenter notes, it's routine for women to not know they are pregnant [0]. So my claim is not "absurd", and I don't feel any need to "reflect" on my actions. The patronization is not necessary.

The main intent of my anecdote is to show how retail companies are already analyzing data. And I think it's foolish to assume that we (i.e. people working directly in tech) know better than the people who are working in tech + retail. (Many retail stores are on the technical bleeding edge - Target spins up K8 clusters in each store [1]!)

[0] https://www.webmd.com/baby/features/can-you-be-pregnant-not-...
[1] https://tech.target.com/infrastructure/2018/06/20/enter-unim...
The problem is that a product like Slack does not wear down, you do not have to replace it every second year, so there's no good opportunity for a competitor to sell a replacement product. It either have to be an order of magnitude better, or you have to sell it as an alternative, not a replacement, to customers that not already have their needs fulfilled.
So when people search for a team chat product, first you need to make sure people know that your product is an option, but not only that you need a very good explanation of why they should pick your product and not the most popular one.
You can pay Google and still be the product (you’re certainly not their primary customer). And it’s quite possible for Google to do things which I don’t like (“something wrong”) and to simply not tell anyone.

This said, I personally used gmail for years (and still do for work), but these days I just want that business model out of my personal life.
> This paper adds a lot of credence to that theory.

This is a nice, high-resolution illustration of a phenomenon that has been known for a very long time. This data may inform an analysis of the detailed anatomical mechanics, but it doesn't tells us anything about the evolutionary theory that wasn't already known.
Which is why people keep citing the dystopian fiction story of Harrison Bergeron [0].

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harrison_Bergeron
this opinion piece is such garbage, typical washington post biassed journalism. not only that it's poorly written. for gods sakes this asshole doesnt even mention yukka mountain or nuclear waste in general! all he does is discuss catastrophe and catastrophic thinking and basically apologizes for the guaranteed disaster of airpollution and smog caused by 'dirty power factories'. Also solar is incredibly dirty right now to produce. wind ALSO has production tradeoffs.

finally , new tech to sluice uranium out of seawater (it is 15 parts per billion naturally! ) may make it incredibly environmentally friendly

the guy simply isn't able to put his finger on the real button of corruption in government and industry as the reason why we cannot have nice things. and the answer is innovation and technology, smaller and better nuclear reactor designs and better nuclear chemistry to isolate dangerous elements and bombard them with neutrons to speed up their wasting process. (let's not even go to the thorium and 'recycling' cycles which still have not yet been proven to be commecial viable)

nuclear was the future , and it still is. just wait until the rest of the world catches up , india and china are coming with giant power grids, and the west is going to waste away with power shortages and artificially high power prices for many decades to come ......
I can't tell if it's cute or absolutely terrifying.
Even though email search can't find anything. Ridiculous coming from Google.
here are some pages that might be relevant

https://ncatlab.org/nlab/show/tensor+network
https://ncatlab.org/nlab/show/string+diagram
I think "the peer web" and "decentralized web" / "dweb" are emerging terms that are trying to describe all of the efforts to make software work peer-to-peer without centralized servers.

e.g.

1. https://www.inkandswitch.com/local-first.html

2. http://thaliproject.org/

3. https://briarproject.org/

4. https://beakerbrowser.com/

5. https://blockstack.org/
They host your emails that is where this data comes from, if you don't like that then delete said emails.

Deleting emails is no solution - Google has already scanned the email by the time it shows up in your mailbox.
Having worked in Python and other languages for many years, I can tell you that 1) this doesn't matter and 2) many of the ways people write Python are much uglier than the conventional formatting in other languages. Most notably:

this_is_my_very_long_function_name_and_here_come_the_args(self,
foo,
bar,
baz)
Truth, Beauty, and Oliver Sacks
I live in a major city and 10 years ago it was like that. It's only recently, after a neighbor said it had changed, I went back. They have fresh produce there now, and it's good quality, and cheap. The selection isn't huge, but it has like 90% of what I want.
Oh hmm, no you can't: https://vsupalov.com/cache-docker-build-dependencies-without...
Is it your view that the anthropogenic climate warming idea is a hoax?
If the app is a native Cocoa application, it’s been written in Obj-C or Swift. Cross-platform apps and frameworks are usually written in C++ with a UI implemented in a common framework like Qt.

To port the application to Windows, you’d lose a lot of the Mac-specific features, or have to do a substantial amount of work implementing platform-specific UIs.
> "New customers may be jolted at first by the experience of shopping at an Aldi, which expects its customers to endure a number of minor inconveniences not typical at other American grocery stores..."

The "unconvinces" listed are true. However, what I believe this article, and the rest of the "super market" industry is missing is that inexchange customers get simplicity and a sense of normalicy.

Aldi's success is as much about what they do offer (i.e., low prices) as what they do not (e.g., a ridiculous number of peanut butters that overwhelm your already saturated brain.)

My gut tells me there are lessons to be learned from this "trend" for other brands and products.
If this is true, would that mean that life is rare in the Universe? I would mean that we are an anomaly in that we have the perfect size and core materials to be able to hold onto some of our atmosphere, but not so big so as to turn into a gas giant.

Kinda sad to think that there may be nothing but space out there.
Maybe not, but if you offer better than the competitors, then you get people who are a lot, lot better and, in my experience, one of these people is worth much more than the average person working much longer hours. If you want the BEST people, you have to offer better than the alternatives.
The official names of the different versions are "Java Edition" and "Bedrock Edition".

Java Edition is the one that lets you run your own server, is more moddable, and works on Windows, Mac, and Linux.

Bedrock Edition is the one that works on Windows, consoles, and mobile. People can invite people into their own world as long as they're online. Your only private server option is Realms, which is a subscription service. (Edit: Apparently there is finally publicly-available server software for Bedrock Edition. I doubt it's very moddable though, so don't expect to be able to run a public server with all the modded tools you'd expect if you were familiar with running Java Edition servers. Also, I don't think the console versions of Minecraft can join arbitrary servers.)

The Java Edition and Bedrock edition are not cross-compatible with each other. They are fully compatible within each-other though. Bedrock Edition supports cross-play between different consoles and PC, etc.
Yes, they have egress locks activated by magnet that locks the wheels, or they have another physical lock system, at each pedestrian exit to the car-park of my local supermarket -- that's one reason they are really inconvenient for pedestrians accessing the site, they want to have trolley controls.

The exits are narrow with soft soil and low hedges bordering the paths. You can lift a trolley over, but you need some muscle, especially if your trolley is full of shopping.
Global foundries was amd spinning out its fab business iirc.
We Are Going
At the bottom of the post it says: "We will provide more public information after our investigation cycle concludes."

Might not be fair to judge the overall response yet. If full details of the problem were expected upon initial disclosure, then they wouldn't be able to do prompt disclosure.
The U.S. has that stuff in good neighborhoods too. It turns out the problem is less homeless people, and more affluent people who can't park close by and are too lazy ass to ever bring those carts back.

(I mean, seriously, Tarzana is neither urban nor a bad neighborhood. It does however have an entitlement surplus at the local Whole Foods)
thank god they picked both
Kids hit each other with them.

Based on my kids enthusiasm it seems to be a good product.
Off the top of my head, sure, you could think of things that way, but I don't see that you get a lot out of that framing.
I am, but I wrote that.

Something like "ps -axu" will fail the UNIX/POSIX/SysV parsing, then restart in a pure BSD mode with the "-" ignored. Something like "ps -aux" will too, unless there is a user named "x". There is also a PS_PERSONALITY environment variable to force the parser to act in a particular way.

It was needed to transition people over to a standards-compliant syntax. I couldn't support all the old syntax. Prior to 1997, something like "ps -ef" would parse as "ps ef" does today, which is not standards-compliant. People were unwilling to just switch over without the compatibility hacks. There were instances of things like "ps -aux" all over the place, including in people's private shell scripts. People couldn't resist typing it.

I got pushback just for including the warning on stderr when somebody caused the parser to kick in to compatibility mode.
I think the posh bit is slightly incidental, I think it's shops that people [can] walk to.
At least a public deposition would allow people to come to their own conclusion. If Chelsea felt that public questioning was one sided and a smear campaign then she could release a statement afterwards filling in the context and pointing out the other side of the story.

With a grand jury it is illegal to discuss anything, so a one sided smear campaign during a grand jury can lead to an indictment and Chelsea would have no opportunity to offer her side of the story without risking more jail time.
Or, completely in keeping with the open source license he made it under?

https://github.com/andyhall/noa/blob/master/LICENSE.txt
Does it count as a data breach if unauthorized users were allowed to access data, but they didn't actually? ie. server logs showed that nobody actually read anything they weren't supposed to.
Now they are heads on competing with Uber.

Also heard that they bought a food delivery startup today. Maybe Lyft is next!

This will be interesting to watch.
That wasn't helpful. Instead of repeating a vaguely condescending remark, please elaborate on what you think he needs to learn.
Even better suggestion, If you've used Markdown or similar to write the book, relese the source (and an artifact, i.e. EPUB). I have seen so many books that I wanted to read but couldn't, because EPUB and PDF aren't great when it comes to accessibility, particularly with maths and diagrams. Getting access to the Markdown source usually solved all of my problems.
You have to read the incoming emails to filter them.

There's no way to know if the email you were sent is spam without looking at it, in some sense.
My common response is that there are real world costs to having too much stuff, data is pretty small to keep around. You can fit a RAID 5 box with 30 TB of space in a shoebox for $15/month, that is enough to keep pretty much any content that you ever consume so that if you want anything it still exists. My parents and grandparents hoarded files and documents to no end and I have been going through some of them and there is mostly garbage but there is some real gems in the rough. Willingly disposing of the internet through our own negligence is something I don't advocate for because there is some sort of value preserved in what we save for the next generation.
Today for the first time in two months I went to a retailer that was cash only. I haven't carried my wallet with me for two months - I just leave it at home and use Apple Pay for literally everything, including public transport.

But then, I also don't shop at Aldi or need a trolley.
There was a memorable period when one of my namesakes moved into the dorm for his freshman year of college. I was initially confused about the influx of a particular flavor of adult-oriented adverts until the textbook rental invoices started to arrive.

This wasn’t the first time this kid had used my address, and my social media reconnaissance had revealed he was quite the little jerk.

When I got those invoices with his parents contact info, there was a serious temptation to print out and mail a little care package of everything their baby boy had been up to. Alas, life was quite stressful at the time, and I never made the time to follow through.
With numbers like this you really need to link some benchmarks. I can't find anything remotely similar.
One can always identify something unknown and question the result. Is there an actual reason to think this count was different? Especially with governments, betting they did the same thing they've always done has the highest probability.
Enterprises tend to have tech staff. Thousands is not atypical. I assume some of them have heard of it.
Well, here is how they announced “The Machine” back in 2014:

This changes everything,” said HP CEO Meg Whitman in introducing the Machine in her HP Discover 2014 keynote in Las Vegas. “We’ve been talking about many of the component technologies for some time,” she noted. “Now we’re bringing them together in a single project to make a revolutionary compute architecture available by the end of the decade.”

Since then, not a lot. HP Labs has done a lot of sexy things, but HPE as a business is big on hype, bad on delivery. Hopefully Cray won’t be the same
> The criteria for admissions in many undergrad/graduate programs is really not that high, and some schools are not very expensive at all.

We could, at the same time, make standards a lot higher to obtain a student visa in the first place.

I for one have no problem making it extremely hard to get a student visa or an H1. But it seems to me rather unfair to allow someone to build a life here for 6 or 8 years and then deport them.

In general, a system where only the most promising individuals are awarded immigrant visas, and where it is extremely difficult and unpleasant to reside here as an illegal immigrant, but where anyone who has resided here for a given number if years (legally or otherwise) is automatically a permanent resident, might be a marked improvement over the current system. Almost all new immigrants would be economic assets, would not drive down wages for working class citizens. And at the same time the problem of the "dreamers" already here will be solved.
Look at the difference between the emails you get from amazon today when you make a purchase, and several years ago.

Today, this is what shows up: https://imgur.com/UF2YBVa

5-6 years ago, here's what it looked like: https://imgur.com/lBWWkin

Honestly, amazon has so much information about what I buy and why I buy it, I'm a little upset that I can't get these data from any retailer I shop at and import it into some software where I can actually look at what the trends are.
My favorite:

> If you were plowing a field, which would you rather use?... Two strong oxen or 1024 chickens?
No. The test are similar, but actually being claimed as a dependent has nothing to do with it. If you meet all of these tests, you may be subject to the tax.

1. You had more than $2,100 of unearned income.

2. You are required to file a tax return.

3. You were either:

a. Under age 18 at the end of 2018,

b. Age 18 at the end of 2018 and didn’t have earned income
that was more than half of your support, or

c. A full-time student at least age 19 and under age 24 at the
end of 2018 and didn’t have earned income that was more than
half of your support.
(Earned income is defined later. Support is defined below.)

4. At least one of your parents was alive at the end of 2018.

5. You don’t file a joint return for 2018.

https://www.irs.gov/instructions/i8615

Edit: But being eligible to be claimed as a dependent can reduce your standard deduction, potentially causing more of your income to be subject to tax. Even if they choose not to claim you, your standard deduction is still reduced.
That's one of the biggest differences between the US and Sweden, and probably most of Europe; access to cheap labor. Too cheap, if you ask me. You could never employ somebody as a greeter here, or to pack your groceries, or to pump your gas, or other extremely menial and near useless jobs. Can people really support themselves on those, or are they forced to work multiple jobs?

It's actually becoming relevant here, because of our recent influx of largely unqualified people/immigrants. There aren't enough simple jobs that can be done without any education, and so politicians are discussing what to do about it. Personally I think it's a big step backwards to have people do extremely basic stuff as busy work. Most stores are removing manned checkouts and replacing them with self checkouts.
The grandmother effect suggests that proximity is a factor in family size
and intel, right?
If they can get you to come into the store and not buy the soda, that's a great outcome.

No, that's a terrible outcome, because they have taught me to check the soda aisle first (and they have kindly put it near the front of the store where it's convenient to do so). If the shelf is empty, I just turn around and head for the competing grocery store down the street....

... which, of course, is owned by the same conglomerate. Grrr.
It's not just rich people. It's people who have spent every bit of disposable income they have on keeping their mortgage paid up.

That includes not investing into retirement funds. They are counting on their house being the retirement fund. When the housing market collapses, there are going to be a lot of people left holding the bag.
> With a grand jury it is illegal to discuss anything

No, it is not; grand jury secrecy rules apply to attorneys, court officials, grand jurors, and government staff to whom material is disclosed to assist attorneys, but not to witnesses called before the grand jury.

So, actually, not only would Manning be allowed to present her side of the story, no one with actual knowledge of her time before the grand jury would be allowed to contradict it.
You just need to look to any other developed country to see universal healthcare.
Curious, do you work for Facebook?
A planet can have a atmosphere that is sufficient for life, but of negligable mass compared to the core. In our solar system we have at least 2.5 examples of that: Earth, Venus and Mars. And that is not counting ocean moons with an ice crust such as Europa that might be hospitable to life as well.
I agree that particular business knowledge is very helpful, but general business knowledge is still quite helpful. The trope is that engineers want to spend months trying to find the best solution, and the business wanted it yesterday. Being able to balance those two things is difficult but valuable, and a business-savvy engineer has a better chance of doing it I think.