skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>California mental health officials have been in talks with two startups about developing a digital system that identifies when a smartphone user is about to have an emotional crisis, characterizing it as a “fire alarm,”

This whole concept of predictive software for mental health (or otherwise) is a new level of disconcerting.

In an era where both of the following are true, we should not be pursuing these wide-spread predictive applications:

- Inability (or simply not caring) of companies / agencies to properly secure their data.

- Systemic inaccuracies present in an infantile field

We're struggling to hold companies accountable for the data they lose. Some of the biggest companies and agencies in the world are having data breaches (or inappropriate access to data, etc.) We are only just exploring how to identify and remove bias from predictive software. And yet, they want to roll this out?

>But it’s still unclear how effective an algorithm can be for someone at their most distressed, and in the meantime, the distressed are providing a tech company with its most desired asset—a wealth of deeply intimate data.

That paragraph, at least, sums up how I am feeling.

Noble goal, I think. Terrifying execution.
Ah, that's great! I use Duet (paid app) for this at the moment but it's disappointingly flaky - it seems to only work sometimes and when it does, you'd better not touch anything unless it resets and stops working again. Worth the setup effort for longer sessions but hardly practical for shorter ones on the go (which let's face it, is the main usecase). Having this native so it 'just works' out the box would be amazing.
Plane crashed, most likely by the hands of the pilot.
I understand your reasoning, but for me after having used Car Play in my wife's vehicle...it was a major factor in my car shopping experience.

I spend a lot more time getting things set "just right" on my phone than I ever will on my car. Being able to hop in and have Waze, Google Maps, Pandora "just work" and be easily accessible rather than some built in system within the car that's going to just "check a box"...it's night and day. Car Play was so far above anything I've seen in a vehicle before that I actually miss it when it's not there.

I can understand the preference for analog controls though. It will be interesting to see how it pans out.
You can do full-time research in your megacorporation on your current salary or higher, probably.
Didn’t know this! Really interesting
Say you receive an offer for a specific position in a specific department and hope to negotiate a better salary. Aggregated data averaged across all fields, all universities and all ranks is not useful. However, the salaries of recent hires, for the same specific position, in the same field at comparable universities will give objective data (and possibly leverage) to negotiate your offer.
the functional difference is that BCH doesn't have a meaningful portion of the SHA256 hashrate, so it's vulnerable to 51% attack all the time. But, it's basically worthless so nobody cares.
"Will no one rid me of this meddlesome priest?"

Plausible deniability for authority figures is and has always been a thing.
No, we mean the power operator, 2 to the power of 16 would be '0' in a short int, since the value overflows...

But since philosophically a signed int has '1's in every bit from the MSB to infinity towards the left, it should thus be -0 not 0.
Thanks! Comments moved thither.

Edit: actually, the BBC article seems to contain more information, so let's keep this submission instead.
1. the hackers were in a university building, and Snowden told us that university buildings are bugged

So what?

2. The Dutch told the US about it as it was happening

This is not news. We already know that the US covered up Russian hacking as it was happening at Mitch McConnell's insistence.

3. Mueller's prime objective isn't Trump collusion, it's Russian hacking

What the hell does that have to do with Dutch intelligence?

4. Anonymous sources

The fact that the newspaper doesn't print names doesn't mean that the newspaper doesn't know who their sources are.

5. The Mother Jones article uses the word "attack" instead of "exploit", and Dutch intelligence has connections with the NSA

So fucking what?

6. The public won't get to see the evidence

Yeah, that's how intelligence investigations work, and that's why we give security clearances to politicians.

7. The article mentions MH-17

So fucking what?

8. The article uses dramatic language in a few paragraphs

So fucking what?

9. The russians used spear phishing attacks so it's all fakenews because it's not sophisticated

lolwut?

10. The article says the intelligence agencies worked together but Snowden said they spied on each other

So fucking what?
We are already shifting the misery to people have no control of it, that's what an externality is.

First, most carbon taxes I have seen proposed are revenue neutral, and give the money back to those with lower incomes or provide lower carbon options to people like transit.

Though vehicle access and use has climbed in recent years in places like Southern California, it's not as though a carbon tax is an unavoidable expense, people always have other options.

A doubling of the cost of living is just so far outside of the plausible realm as to be ridiculous. A $3/gallon gas tax is way higher than any carbon tax I've seen proposed, but even if the economy didn't adapt to it and optimize a ton, that's not enough for a doubling of the cost of living.

The key is that we must change behavior, and change our carbon use. It's not enough to say "if we do this bad it will hurt this small group of people," we must say that and show how to mitigate that harm or show that it's greater harm than our current course of action. The status quo is not justified as a default option.
I think you can look backwards at technology and see what's really going to happen. How many people build an FM radio from scratch? Not many, that technology is 100% commoditized; sure, there will be some, but they'll be extreme outliers.

Many people I know got their first car via building it themselves from a junker. How many upper middle class kids did that? Those kids were building valuable skills that translated to a career. Same for people piecing together and fixing old computers. What skills do today's kids get? Expert level knowledge of emojis? The hacker mentality is gone for the new generation of computer users because everything already exists.
Tickling the dragons tail seems very appropriate. I'd be sweating bullets manaually adjusting a nuke core with a screw driver.
I know you're just using Netflix as an example, but has anyone actually had that app pulled from their TV? I have an old 32 inch Vizio smart tv that I bought back in 2011 and all my big apps still work on it, albeit kind of slowly. Netflix, Prime, Vudu, all still available.
The Programmers' Stone
Parent is saying that the event of Woodstock cannot be copyrighted, but that the footage of the event can be
Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20205131. Both submissions made the front page but that article seems a little more substantive.
The original link includes links to the patches. Fascinating how the SACK MSS problem seems to be a relatively simple situation nobody realized can occur.
Feel free to explain how, because all the research I've done suggests that an Apple Watch is completely unusable without an iPhone to set it up.
They attempted to do it as far back as Windows NT, which was originally supposed to support multiple shells, including OS/2.
I work at a unicorn in NH. I hope I never have to work anywhere else. I love it here and I don't understand the "right wing" comment.
I'd also imagine that the image quality is pretty terrible on those compared to a comparably priced OLED TV.
Recovering partially lost Ethereum private keys for fun and profit
Don't make unfounded accusations... It's too cheap an argument to be effective.

You did say that.

Quote: "It's also possible you just made a mistake."

Quote: "no, it's not possible"

I'm just pointing out the very real possibility that you are as human as the rest of us.
Yes but 43” is not really TV size material. They are made for different use cases.
Have you ever used iDrive? I've been using it in cars occasionally for at least 10 years and it still confuses me.

I just bought my first vehicle with it yesterday, so maybe I'll get better at it. Touchscreens are not great in cars but if you can perform the action quickly, it beats fiddling with a knob for 15 seconds.
So what you are saying is we need to create more plastics since they sequester carbon better than plants!
Yes.

https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net.gi...
The problem is mis-representing what's in the shipment.

(There's probably a lot of plausible deniability in the system. People throw a lot of trash into recycling bins for lots of reasons, including ignorance or laziness. Trash companies don't take responsibility to make sure that's what's in the bin is actually what's supposed to be there.)

Read the article. There's dirty diapers mixed in with so-called "recyclables."
The Orwellian Attack on Section 101
FYI, some SQL databases let you physically interleave rows from different tables, which would let you put all the data for a user in the same place. For example:

https://cloud.google.com/spanner/docs/schema-and-data-model

https://www.cockroachlabs.com/docs/stable/interleave-in-pare...
As an exercise for the reader there's about $30 in Eth contained in the partial key in the readme. If you can find the actual key of course.

Happy cracking.
You never completely control your build env. You are always relying on 3rd parties for some extent.

That may not look relevant in short periods of time, but there are large odds that somebody will be biten by your choice of using -Werror 5 or 10 years down the road.
I bought a 2016 Golf with CarPlay and only used it about twice. I hated how it was locked into only the functions it supported, didn't let me use the in-car nav or other functions while it took over my screen, and it also took over my phone.
>> Why does a smart TV that's meant primarily for streaming content directly from the internet need a R/W file system?

Downloading Ads. I read that these TVs run their own ads, sometimes via "partner" apps (IIRC something like a TV-network app) that Samsung disclaims responsibility for. For these reasons, my Samsung TV has never been connected to the internet and never will be. TV should be a monitor + tuner, nothing more. If it didn't work without a network connection I would have returned it as defective.

BTW, the 55" curved 4k TV makes an excellent monitor and is cheap at Walmart.
This is an incredibly helpful explanation of everything, thank you!
Truly a thing of beauty.
After having used macOS Mojave in dark mode for many months, on a whim I went back to light mode on my iMac.

It's like somebody just shined a flashlight right into my retinas.

Flipped back to dark mode in mere seconds. So yes, we really do need dark mode. :)
Creeping Toward Permanent Drought
Intensity vs. Consistency – Why Kurt Cobain Was Wrong
Thanks! I almost added that I'm sure there have been others.
A lukewarm and soggy Firehouse sub is not worth 3 dollars.
The member m_currentIndex is a std::atomic<uint32_t>. The loads and stores to that member specify the memory consistency, and will use the appropriate fences as needed to meet those requirements.
I finally found a real source, and as usual, my memory leaves much to be desired (ultimately Dilbert gets a gift certificate):

Alice: A gift certificate is completely different from cash.

Dilbert: No, it's not. They're both pieces of paper you can exchange for goods and services.

Alice: You're missing the point.

Dilbert: Actually, a gift certificate is worse than cash, because you can only use it in one place.

Wally: And it expires.

Alice: At least it shows some thought.

Dilbert: It shows defective thought. You're trading perfectly good money for something that does the same thing, only not as well.

Facebook’s currency may not expire or be limited to one place, but it does seem to me that “it does the same thing [as money], only not as well.”
This is incorrect. In fact you cannot adjust the cruise speed via the touch screen at all.

Apparently this was actually changed in an early software update to the TM3, and cruise initially was engaged via the screen though!

https://interestingengineering.com/tesla-moves-autopilot-con...
> I'm not even sure multiple inputs are all that desirable at this point. Better to just get a nice AV receiver unit that can handle all that for you and has the interface stuff you want

Multiple inputs on the TV can be nice for temporary things. Rather than keep my SNES Classic, NES Classic, and Switch all hooked up all the time, I'd rather keep them in a closet, and just plug then in when I actually want to play a game.

My receiver inputs are in the back, and the receiver is on a shelf below the TV. It's a pain to get to them, requiring moving some stuff out of the way and sliding the stand out. The TV inputs are on the back of the TV but near the edge, and are pretty easy to get to without having to move anything.

On the other hand, hooking things up to the receiver directly means no issues getting sound to work. For the longest time, I just could not get ARC to work to get sound from the TV to the receiver.

Eventually, I noticed that the receiver manual specifically said that to use ARC the device had to be connected with a "Standard HDMI cable with Ethernet" or "High Speed HDMI cable with Ethernet". So I swapped out my regular HDMI cable for one "with Ethernet", and ARC immediately started working.

This, of course, makes no sense whatsoever. To quote HDMI.org, the people that are in charge of HDMI, "All HDMI cables will support Audio Return Channel functionality when connected to Audio Return Channel-enabled devices. You can use your existing HDMI cables or choose a different cable type" [1].

If we were talking about eARC, this would make sense. eARC requires a "with Ethernet" cable to get the bandwidth it needs. But that's an HDMI 2.1 thing, released at the end of 2017. My receiver is from 2011, long before 2.1 was even on the horizon. (The TV is also too old for eARC).

[1] https://www.hdmi.org/manufacturer/hdmi_1_4/arc.aspx
It's not at all tangential. It is the core of the problem. Any 'solution' or 'improvement' needs to understand and acknowledge the benefits of monolingualism. Look at Dharwadkar, who is calling for breaking up monolingualism without any consideration of the costs, or Sheridan, who advocates for more handholding by professors (because they have so much free time as it is?), or her example of an Indian professor: if the paper is so badly written that it cannot be understood despite many revisions, then how is it supposed to add to scientific knowledge? (It's not like scientific journals have very high standards for prose as it is, so that paper must have been gibberish at the start.) Consider this quote:

> English speakers have become the gatekeepers of science. By keeping those gates closed, we’re missing out on a lot of perspectives and a lot of good research.

OK, so let's say we switch to having everyone publish in their own native language because gosh we wouldn't want to be gatekeepers. Now instead of one 'gate', we have... hundreds, because everyone has to learn every language or else they are being 'gatekept'. Oops.

This pervasive error, this nirvana fallacy, of praising only the benefits of multi-lingualism, renders the entire discussion moot. It's a tissue of complaints and buzzwords.
Scooters and cars are not compatible on the same roads. Whoever wants to risk their life could drive these scooters. However, when a company makes scooters widely available and with no barriers (e.g. no scooter licence) the perceived risk lowers as in "everybody does it, must be ok" or "if it's legal it's safe" type of judgement.

Banning scooters is not a smart idea but the entry level should be stepped up a few notches. Maybe operating one should require some safety lessons. Or maybe a licence that can be lost as incentive to not do stupid things.

The alternative is to not do anything and learn from accidents and deaths of others. This is the long and painful road.
HN headline is slightly misleading:* the doctors still made a treatment decision which is, as the courts sensibly held, is a medical decision (for example I would not be considered qualified to make such a decision). And while doctors are imperfect should not be punished for errors out of their reasonable control, this seems unambiguously to be malpractice.

* the original title is useless so thanks to scripthacker for writing something more useful.
> This to me is insane reasoning. That is no way user centric. This decision is 100% business driven and has nothing to do with the end user.

I absolutely hate user interface of my Audio (with rotary knob and without touch screen), so I use CarPlay pretty much exclusively.

I would love to be able to use a touch screen on that for some of the interactions.

> It basically means they have given up on developing a good branded interface between the driver and the car.

You can't expect that all car markers will develop a good branded interface, just like most Android phone makers have a UI that's worse than the standard Android one.

With CarPlay, I get to use a UI from a company that's an expert a making good apps.
I'm also curious how fellow HNers think x86 will fare in the next 10, 20, 30 years. Will we still be using x86 as the most common option in laptops by then?
The League of Entropy Forms to Offer Acts of Public Randomness
Wow. I feel like I herp-derped hard. I don't know how I missed that.

I'll look at this later. Apparently I'm not in the right state of mind yet.
I'm not sure how meaningful this analysis is. First, as others have noted, just having the word "professor" in the title doesn't mean much: both a full, tenured professor and an untenured, adjunct professor would have the word "professor." (In my field, mathematics, postdoctoral positions are often called "visiting assistant professors"; these are not tenure-track positions.) Second, again as others noted, salary varies widely across fields, e.g., a med school professor will be paid a lot more than an English professor.

Just looking at nominal salary also misses out on important subtleties. For example, med school professors primarily doing research are often expected to pay their own salaries out of grants (since many of them do very little teaching or practice medicine), whereas clinical professors (e.g., those who teach in hospitals) get a salary. The former category is much less stable as it is contingent upon sustained research funding, but the second will not leave time for research (nor would it be expected).

Source: I'm tenured at an R1 university in the US.
You don't need -Werror for enforcing warning-free compilation.
Officials forget to turn off cat filter during Facebook Live press conference
> people can't even use language to describe what actually happened

This is a good point, although I'm not sure sure I agree with the cause or motive. But if one starts paying very close attention to the general nature and specific wording used in forum conversations, I think it starts to become clear that very often participants believe they are discussing "just the facts", when in reality they are often discussing things in the form of a story, or a particular perspective which usually only takes into consideration a subset of all the relevant facts.

In this case, new technology has been broadly deployed into society without corresponding training, and a young man has ended up dead. It seems unlikely the entirety of the fault rests in one place, but rather could plausibly be attributed to any number of things that had they been done differently, the gut-wrenching emotional pain this family has to live with for the rest of their life could have been avoided.

I believe if each of us made a serious effort to be more mindful of our thoughts and words, we could perhaps move closer to a society where these realities can be discussed in a more objective manner, and we could enjoy both the advancements of technology, while increasing the likelihood that everyone gets home to their loved ones at the end of the day.
Bitcoin is the only one with a track record to prove it.
That couldn't be less true. I'm not even sure what point you're trying to make. Obviously not "everyone" is a professor when you mix in facilities and administrative staff.

If you're trying to more narrowly say "all instructors are considered professors", that's not true at any institution type, not even R1 (major research Universities)

https://www.aaup.org/sites/default/files/10112018%20Data%20S...
He didn't use the words reading and writing...
Is it even possible to buy a dumb screen anymore?
I'm very skeptical of this new technology. I used VirtualBox for years and I will continue to do so. I just don't see any reason to switch to that new technology. Mounts? VirtualBox can do that. Fast boot? Well, VirtualBox boots in seconds, that's more than enough for me. Dynamic memory allocation? VirtualBox has memory balooning, if I ever would run into memory limits, I can always do that. And zero problems with all those Hyper-V conflicts, like Android emulators, snapshot support, VM import/export, actually any OS rather than just Linux, etc.
By definition the port of arrival has no jurisdiction on what the ship does in international waters.
Do you think it's a good idea to mix bicycles and scooters?
Try http://transferwise.com/, that's what I usually use.
I remember running A/UX on a Mac IIsi. It was a quirky UNIX, based on SysV r3. I remember the first thing out of the box was to compile GCC with the included non-ANSI C compiler. Then you could actually start compiling everything else, like Emacs, LaTeX, Ghostscript, GNU binutils, etc.

The best part is that you could run a lot of productivity Mac software such as Word, Excel, Powerpoint. I used it during my last two years in college and was really sad when it was discontinued.
No one thought many things were possible until they were. But we can keep hoping we reduce our fossil fuel use instead.
>>Have you never gotten a flat tire?

That's the thing: I do get a punctured tire... sometimes. Maybe every 2-3 years. Not critical, just losing pressure. Not urgent. Last time, local shop fixed it for $28. They gave me a little freezer bag with the nail that they pulled out of the tire.

Now, did I ever have a flat tire that needs a replacement like right now, with the spare tire? Well, I don't remember having that. In several decades of driving.

For the record, I do go to service to get regular maintenance, so every like 3-4 years or so I change tires. I guess that helps.
I set up a custom JSON export to save and import animation files from the tool. I could definitely make it work with Lottie and other formats, that is if I continue pursuing it ^^
I spent a few years in Belize, and their currency is pegged 2:1 to the USD. Given the size, capability, and general competency of the Belizean government I always felt it was a major catastrophe just waiting to happen. Worse, nobody there seems to be remotely aware that this is a very risky way to manage your currency. If it were to collapse it would be a terrible blow to an already struggling country. Like diaspora terrible.
The zenith of React’s functional paradigms – The worst parts of React
I don't get all this about Spring being an "insane" way to do DI. It works well enough, and Pivotal is very thorough with their documentation. I would much rather RTFM than dig randomly through the code and hope I find what I'm looking for.

How exactly does Guice differ in request- or session-scoped injections that makes it that much better?