skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is amazing news, it really is.

Slightly off topic but I would like to address the people in this thread saying things along the lines of "with a medical condition is serious as this, it's better to abort"

Yeah, fuck no.

I was born in 1978 in the UK with spina bifida and Chiari malformation of the back of my brain which basically means a couple of the ventricles are being pulled by my spine out of my skull.[1] (Very basically)

If you look at any sort of scan of my brain and ask a Neurologist what they are looking at and they will tell you very forthrightly that the person whose scan they are looking at will definitely be uncommunicative, will have cognitive impairment, will probably be on a ventilator and will definitely have a foreshortened life. (This is not from some hypothetical thought experiment, I've done this over the years)

So, speaking as a 41-year-old quadriplegic hacker with spina bifida who's not on a ventilator; let me say that life finds a way. I was written off so many times it's unreal, medicine is not a science but rather a series of very very very good guesses. We need doctors, but we need lots of opinions and you don't have to do what they say. They gave Stephen Hawking three or four years to live when he got his MND diagnosis, he lived another 30 years or so.

My life is great, yes I'm quadriplegic but once you get past that little speed bump I have a job, friends, a wonderful partner, family everywhere, a very serious addiction to Raspberry Pi's and exploiting networks and I feel incredibly lucky. I am so glad I was not aborted.

Okay, because this is the Internet it's time for the caveats

Yes I am aware I am slightly unusual and not all quadriplegics with spina bifida dodged a bullet in quite the same way I did.

Also, I think that the woman who is going to be carrying the baby to term has the right to decide whether to abort or not. Regardless of my opinion because I did not have to have a baby.

[1]: I know, eww right? :-)
In the UK, official signage often calls them that, but it's not something ordinary people tend to say.
AI predicts PUBG player placement from stats and rankings
Of course they pay them, who actually believes these firms are capable of breaking the encryption? This is digital hostage taking, you pay the hostage takers, you don't try and fight them.
Yeah, jokes aside I think _technically_ the post title should be changed. (Even the article's title is wrong. Though, it wouldn't be the first time NH's title is more accurate than that of the article it points to.)
You may have forgotten that Facebook owns oculus and is doing some pretty cool things in the AR/VR space
I am from the US and my perception is that the parent post is true. In reality this is all that matters if someone feels they might have a need in such an area but otherwise can ignore the issue until something catastrophic forces it.
Ask HN: Drag and Drop HTML block builder
Hello, I'm in search for an open source html drag and drop builder that I can add to my project.
I don't need a full drag and drop web site builder just something to design div blocks that clients can place on their own sites.

I came across elementor and grapes but I think these might be overkill for what I need.

Thank you!
Show HN: Toolkit to build accessible web apps
Completely agree, but then if users followed Tesla's instructions about AP then we would not be here.

There is precedence that "it's up to the user" is not sufficient as a societal standard for what is legally allowed. (For example seat belt laws). It is reasonable to ask: "Should we allow such a feature in cars on our road?" For example, what if the car had struck a cyclist rather than a truck and the fatality went the other way?
The “smarter” wall: how drones, sensors, and AI are patrolling the border
Better serve Linies still!
I’m okay with internet rot and you should be too. I’m not sure where we got the idea that “our data must be preserved forever”. This can be especially harmful for teens and young adults whose indiscretions now follow them forever.

Think of the privilege you had when you were younger. You could do something stupid and nobody could whip out a high def camera to record it and make it part of your history forever.

Let it rot.
As Bill Gates said, we tend to over estimate change in the short term and underestimate change in the long term. The advances in machine learning in the last decade are significant.
When everyone involved has been explicitly been trained and selected to work with secrets, in a historical period when such activities are extremely dangerous and brutal, and under the treath of expedite death penalty or assassination... it's not that hard to believe any involved party would keep very silent.
I though the recent theory that Oswald did shoot at the motorcade but Kennedy was killed by accident caused by a Security service member being startled by one of Oswald shots and accidently discharging had a lot going for it.
I don't universally love what autoformatters do to code my coworkers wrote. I've worked with plenty of people who manage to do fewer weird formatting things than what mediocre autoformatters do.
The core problem of mental health and insurance is:

1) resource utilization
2) long term cost-effective value

A therapist can induce infinite demand on a patient, by just doing follow-up sessions ad-infinitum. In argentina for example, people go to the same therapist for decades!!

This means that the insurance model doesn't work well, because you can't do actuarial analysis on how much therapy someone might need and how to distribute that in the population.

The second part is that as a patient, if the insurance covers your cost, you might as well go to the most expensive therapist you can find, and consume the infinitely. Also, you know more than the insurance company if you plan on using or needing this care, thus you have a very strong adverse-selection situation going on with any plan that is generous on mental health.

Economically speaking, mental health should not be part of an insurance scheme. It should be cash pay. To help people that could not afford mental health and they need it, you would do better to provide state-run service, that is low-cost high-effective-value and cover the lower side of the population.
If you're in AWS, you can use Kinesis which is similar to Kafka. It also ties into a lot of their other offering such as:

* s3 - use kinesis firehose to take the contents of your kinesis stream and time partition it into files for either ingestion into redshift, elastic search, etc... or later batch analysis for ML or just to treat as cold searchable storage with something like Athena

* dynamoDB - spit out the data into kinesis from dynamoDB as it changes to create a change stream used elsewhere in your platform. (dynamo-streams)

* real time analysis - perform real time sql analysis (kinesis analytics) on what's in your stream over a given window of time or data, and react as events/situations occur.

Looking at all the services that amazon has built around kinesis might help you understand some of the differences between kafka and something like RMQ.
Here is an imgur link of the plots, as far as I could follow along: https://imgur.com/a/6TauNoU

I'm not really seeing anything in the non-log scaled y-axis data. But the log scales of both data do seem to show three clear 'islands' of planetary sizes.

EDIT: These' islands' in the data correspond to 3 planetary types (kindaaaa): Big and heavy super-gas-giants, small and lighter rocky planets, and heavy and smaller-ish gas giants. It's interesting to see there is a gap between the gas giant sizes and that it's not continious, despite them all being the same-ish mass.
Can you give some examples of these 'favorite websites'? I'm interested in knowing what kind of website would be so interesting that I would want an entire offline copy of it. (Besides maybe Wikipedia)
"but also in order to discourage and punish drunken behavior"

No club is trying to discourage patrons to have drinks.

Also, some people like conversation. You can't have that at a nightclub
That’s a private poem, not a government policy, never was.

We have a responsibility towards fellow Americans. If the Chinese have a bias against people from their countryside, it’s not up to us to fix their mess. We want people who can come here and contribute, not be welfare for them because their own country isn’t doing the right thing. We would not be doing “the right thing” by Americans if we subsidized this either.
Some of us care about privacy. "Privacy terrors" is granted a bit extreme. I differ from the author in that I prefer to listen to random songs from my collection of curated favorites that I have built up over the years rather than listen to individual cds. I've tried streaming services and that whole paradigm is just not what I want. I prefer to know that the next song is one I want to listen to, and I'm OK with not randomly finding that the next song is a new favorite. I have other ways I discover music. I prefer to control the music files I listen to and don't trust the cloud to keep them safe. When I was younger I listened to cassette tapes and cds more than I listened to radio.

Am I afraid of this new technological world? Well, no, probably not, since I've spent most of my spare time (and later, my work life as well) programming or otherwise interacting with computers since at least 1978 or so.

People are different. It's a good thing.
Remember the "I'm Rich" app on the iPhone years ago? It was just a picture of a spinning diamond. I think it was like $1000 per download? The dude who made it had a bunch of sales before Apple took it down.

People will definitely buy stuff JUST because it's expensive.
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They're not doing the same thing. I have no insight into how Spotify's algo works. When I go on RYM, I am reading human-written message board posts about WHY they're recommending this album. That additional context is far more valuable to me than a generic "Users also liked..." message that Spotify shows me.
Koalas are now ‘functionally extinct,’ experts say
Some emphasis added:

Me: A lot of the ... rhetoric

You: Calling all that racist

By pointing out this, I don't believe I called the views themselves, nor any specific adherent to the viewpoint, let alone 100% of them, racist. Just that "a lot" of the rhetoric comes from this. Which it does.

Meanwhile, did you listen to the Lee Atwater clip? Here it is: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AT2fsv7xt4E

This aligns pretty well with the rise of Reagan (for whom Atwater worked) and the late 20th century to present wave of "small government" politicians who somehow, shockingly, seem to rack up massive debts without a care when they are in power.

Lastly,

> you're just trying to find an excuse to dismiss it without having to make an argument for why it won't work.

Health care is the perfect such argument, actually. Look at the rest of the developed world, or even something low overhead like Medicare [which doesn't need massive advertising budgets or, say, thousands of redundant billing companies], and tell me the US private sector does a better job.
I definitely agree about there being legal consequences. The issue here is that this should not be a situation in the first place, not that there are consequences for actions (which I am not arguing at all).

To your point about grand juries: many states do not use them anymore due to similar outrage as we are seeing here. There is widespread belief that secret tribunals are the things of kangaroo courts and backwater justice systems that people tend to despise (think ussr/north korea). They are largely used by governments to silence political opposition and hide that fact as much as possible.
Then in that case a developer like the guy who made that library would have gotten paid!
for those who might wonder, like me:
https://github.com/joeyespo/grip
a command-line server application written in Python that uses the GitHub markdown API to render a local readme file.
Even with fond remembrance and sometimes not-so-remembrance of my University days in Bavaria, where beer is a big part of the culture, that sounds excessive to me. Unless you mean that those weeks are spread out sparsely over a longer time?
Which is why we need to stop promoting it as the default choice for everything.
You working for your kids doesn't mean your kids worked.
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Correct. Mental health does not really fit insurance models.

To be fair, most healthcare doesn't. Primary care being part of insurance is ridicolous.
Let’s say that ends up being the case. It’s their govs responsibility to set up programs to promote those people to us, not ours to hunt them down.

I don’t see why it’s our responsibility to do “equal opportunity” to a foreign population we have no responsibility for. We have this responsibility for our own population, yes, but others are out of scope completely.
HP isn't one company. They are two completely separate companies that share part of their name.
They're not very important if you're the only developer on your team.

If you're working with others, though, then it becomes very important. I don't think I'm being entirely hyperbolic when I say that inconsistent or poorly-chosen formatting rules are the death of 1,000 cuts for a team's productivity.

There's a tiny but existent cost that's incurred every time formatting rules that aren't diff-stable result in a noisy code review that takes longer to read, or makes it harder for reviewers to discern the real changes from the formatting junk. There's a tiny but existent cost when excess delta makes it harder to gitblame. There's a tiny but existent cost when people have to stop and think about how to format their code manually. Or when they have to stop and debate formatting. Or when they read someone else's code slightly more slowly because different formatting rules make it harder for them to skim it or rely on pattern recognition instead of careful reading to understand its structure.

All those tiny little costs add up to something that's not so tiny. And it's so easy to make it just disappear, for the low low cost of swallowing one's pride, by simply adopting an opinionated autoformatter.
No, but it is my understanding that to even detain a person you need to meet some standard of evidence. I am saying: let the police use whatever lead generating method they can, as long as they are not using it as evidence to detain, search, or imprison.

That is, their system can be whatever they want to generate a list of names. Afterwards, they need evidence to search a persons house, or to detain them, or to arrest them.

(In legal lingo: I am okay with them using these methods, as long as they are not considered probable cause https://www.nolo.com/legal-encyclopedia/when-police-can-make...)
”That's a quarter of the usual fatality rate”

I beg to differ. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transportation_safety_in_the_U...:

”Comparing motorways (controlled-access, divided highways) […] the United States had 3.38 road fatalities per 1 billion vehicle-km on its Interstate-type highways, often called freeways”

I think that number better reflects where Tesla’s autopilot is used. Also, if you remove motorcycle deaths from that number, I can’t see how the Tesla could be significantly safer, let alone four times less deadly.

I think you should also correct for vehicle age (older cars and lighter cars are less safe). You could (and, IMO, should) also correct for vehicle size/price, as Tesla drivers won’t be interested in whether their car is safer than other cars on the road, but in whether it is safer than what they could have bought instead.

And of course, there’s the elephant in the room. I expect that Tesla drivers prevented at least half the deadly accidents that would have occurred if Autopilot did all the highway driving.
But it forces the other party to have evidence for everything. The point of the questioning is to gain additional evidence from the answers. But if all answers are "If that's what it says, then that's what it says" as Richard Sackler https://youtu.be/-qCKR6wy94U?t=952 then it's apparently the effective way to go
My book costs $20.95 hardcover/10.95 paperback on Amazon. When Kindle books and the Kindle went live, I added a Kindle version. I wanted to make it free, but Amazon mandates a minimum price of 99 cents, so that's what it costs.
Hopefully the team gets a good exit out of the deal before HP destroys the products.
yeah, someone above mentioned that with Go as the example. It's pretty nifty in some cases but think there are two sides to the story. I know folks who write lovely python code everytime. I know others at my gig who even after 3 years are not putting spaces after equals sign (and other PEP/flake8 blunders) and every PR is littered with syntactic errors. The code formatter is brilliant for this case.
If you're comfortable, I would like to hear more about the Kaiser-related incident.
My gripe is that there ought to be an assigned overhead compartment for every individual seat. I get really annoyed when there's not enough room for my carry-on and it becomes my problem. It should be the airline's problem.
the outputted code should at least be decently readable and predictable, otherwise I don't see the point of having a formatter at all.
Where did 'StaticRedux say anything about demanding anything?

It's perfectly possible to report a bug without demanding that it be fixed.
> Granted this is less of an issue for physics where virtually every index goes from 0 to 3 inclusive

These days physicists who do tensor-network analysis and simulations of many-body quantum systems (e.g., MPS in 1D) probably use the diagrams more than relativists, and in those cases the indices can come with arbitrary dimensions.
What about for the newer processors like the 9980XE, 9900K, etc.? I would have assumed that Intel's latest processors have some additional engineering in place to mitigate the spectre/meltdown performance impacts.
Something about Olof Palme himself. I don't think there has been any other politician in Sweden that have split the opinions in society like him. The left loved him. The right did not. I don't want to reach out for the word hate, because it is so often used today. He was certainly hated among some, yes. But more than that, he was despised probably by the majority among the minority that did not vote left. He left no one neutral.

How come?

A well known quote of his :

"Jag tror efter de studier vi gjort är korrekt att säga att Arbetsgivareföreningens propagandister i mycket framstår som hatets och illviljans kolportörer mot svensk arbetarrörelse"

Basically, this in very sofisticated words describes the Employer organisation's "propagandists" as agents of hate and ill-will against the labour movement. Quite an insult against political opponents. Today, we are perhaps used / more exposed to similar language in social media etc. But during this time, there was nothing like it.

This should be understood against the backdrop of the politics of the time. Sweden was at the time significantly more socialist, very high income taxes, and the right probably felt that there were no limits how far social democratic politicians were prepared to go. Right or wrong, this was the sentiment among many.

His language was often arrogant and in ways derogatory, but not similar to Trump's bombastic tone. In contrast, using much more elegant and precise prose.

I am certain I will get replies that will defend his deeds and oppose how I describe him. Understand that just like society appeared during his reign - two sides who could not understand the other.
The airlines chose to turn a simple logistical procedure into a silly game of caste and cash. Passengers chose to play the game and try to win, beating their fellow passengers. Moving 100 people 100 feet takes 45 minutes and 5 crew members to organize. Instead of everybody working together to make it smooth, passengers compete against each other and the airlines. Passengers try and get the largest bag possible on the plane free of charge. They try to get on before other passengers so they can take up lots of overhead space and normally try to put their bags in bins closer to the front than their seats. Later passengers who sit up front then have to put their bags closer the the back of the plane and then fight to get back there when it is time to get off. They shove, squeeze and smash bags into the already filled bins rougher than any bag handler could dream of in a desperate attempt to avoid checking. The designers and players of the game all seem to work very hard in making the simple task of getting on a plane very difficult, slow and unpleasant.

The whole game is so bizarrely penalizing that passengers actually want to be first to get onto a cramped plane and sit down, where they will be cramped and sitting hours on end. While flight is a modern miracle, flying is like the Jerry Springer show- it is humans at their worst and is depressing to watch.

Why don't they just put seat numbers and dividers on the bins? Your luggage fits in your bin or it gets checked at $25.

Travelling for one week or less and all my luggage (clean underwear and toothbrush) fits into a small backpack that I still can't find room for when I board late. Being tall means under the seat does't work well since my feet are there. Anything less than ten hours drive is a road trip for me.
The heavy sarcasm indicates that you think the farmers did something illegal, unfair, unethical, or wrong in some other way. They sprayed Roundup to kill undesirable vegetation. This is the very purpose for which Monsanto sells Roundup.

Do you think it is wrong to spray Roundup on thistle in your lawn to protect the grass? Even if your grass exhibits traits probably influenced by your neighbor's grass?

Would it have somehow been ok if the farmers had hand-picked and uprooted each stem of less desirable product without using Roundup? If you are trying to select for Roundup resistance, why wouldn't you use Roundup in that selection process?

Monsanto could choose not to sell Roundup to these farmers. They could have quit spreading their pollination all over the countryside indiscriminately. Instead, Monsanto chose to sue farmers who had not stolen anything, not violated any contract. Imagine if Fukushima farmers were sued because their crops exhibited some desirable trait after the nuclear meltdown and they continued to select for that trait.
That only works when there is an effective provider network exists and the main problems are expanding it and removing cost as a barrier to access.

The problem with mental health care is that such providers either don't exist or are very rare, meaning there is little to no effective care to be had for any amount of money. Simply throwing more money at this problem will not do anything to solve it.
My entire point was that "personal data" as defined in Article 4 is any data related to you, not just names, photos and so on
Fred Rogers
I'm slightly more convinced. But it does seem a pretty silly name. Also I have read about these counter intuitive properties of large vectors in other places without this specific name having come up.
But, yeah, interesting link, thanks :)
All I am saying is there are 2 different questions:

* Is the method good? (FR with celebrity, maybe not. A hat, surely not)

* Is the method legal? (IANAL, but the relevant question seems to be if they are using it as evidence or just for lead generation)
However the pandas source is not blackened, and I really miss not be able to just fix all formatting issues while working on a PR. After just a few months I am so used to black it just feels weird to not have it everywhere