skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The health supplement industry is still alive and kicking. And that's an industry that's so sleazy many companies can't be bothered to even put their claimed active ingredients in their products. Yet it's a very healthy industry that has very cushy anti-regulation protections.

So even if you were right on the lack of efficacy of modern medical treatment (and I strongly suspect you are not), I highly doubt that its exposure would lead to a collapse in the industry.
Modern medicine has some aspects that are miraculously good and it is easy to fall into the trap of thinking that those are representative for all of medicine. It's a kind of halo effect bias.

In my opinion the most amazing thing still is antibiotics (and vaccination). Treatmeant of war/vehicle/sports injuries taking the second place (including anesthetics).
Both can take people from a path of sure death within hours or days to often complete recovery within weeks or months.

If that is the performance expectation of the general public for all of medicine, then it certainly is overrated.
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I have no words.
> "raising the standards of evidence would essentially block off the invention of new treatments altogether"

Citation needed.
UK Mass Surveillance Challenged at European Human Rights Court
Let me extend the query, is "modern medicine" overrated. Modern technology + western like urban lifestyle changed how we live.. and how much medicine we think we need.

Walking in the woods is probably as effective as the average anti depressant. Good physical activity too.

But we sell that modern life is great and that ailments are normal and that thanks to the medical field we have all these solutions.. that we probably didn't need in the first place.
Yeah, hybrid cars might be called a "local maximum"... at best.

"Local" because they were always predictably a technological dead end.

"Maximum" because they maybe gave us a slight improvement in fuel efficiency, although gas-efficient internal combustion engine cars may have been the more energy-efficient option all along when you consider the up-front cost and maintenance complexity of hybrid cars' dual engines.

The only thing we know for sure about hybrid cars is that Toyota successfully profited from selling people's self-image about being more energy efficient. But since we also have Tesla in the market, selling the actual solution to the problem of gas-burning transportation, absolutely no one should be buying hybrids.
That's a great theme. Programmers have a different set of aspirations than most people, so making books that speak to both a different aspiration and teach tech seems like a winner of an idea for the rest of the people out there who don't identify as a nerd.
Good points, although your situation probably does not apply to most players. It is a striking point that games are a "pain killer". So games are like morphine opium or heroin. Many people need those at some point in their life, during a hospital visit, but not every day.
A bottle recycling “fee” is actually a deposit, because you’re expected to get it back upon return. A “fee” is something you don’t get back.
I have a closed source proprietary database that I wish I did not have to manage. I pushed for the open source but CTO didn't trust that there would not be a long development tail (it probably would) since there were few good options at the time so he bought it and I regret not fighting harder against it nearly every day since it went live.

The core product works fine and has little maintenance which is nice but its cost scales badly and takes every bit of my budget now and the fancy features never work or can actually be used in production. If I had that budget instead we would have something far more suited for the company but seems like few managers will take that risk unless its the core function of the company.

Also the mostly relevant xkcd: https://m.xkcd.com/1205/
Show HN: Monty Hall Problem simulation and game (8th grade science fair project)
One that may be of particular interest to HN readers: here's Gross interviewing Steve Jobs in 1996, right before his return to Apple and the long, remarkable run of successes that would come from that, on "the future of computer technology": https://freshairarchive.org/segments/steve-jobs-future-web

EDIT: And a few more blast-from-the-past interviews, for good measure...

- Bill Joy, in 1989: https://freshairarchive.org/segments/computer-scientist-bill...

- Stewart Brand on Silicon Valley, also in 1989: https://freshairarchive.org/segments/short-history-silicon-v...

- Richard Stallman, 1991: https://freshairarchive.org/segments/software-and-copyright

- Mitch Kapor, 1993: https://freshairarchive.org/segments/information-highway

- Bill Gates, 1995: https://freshairarchive.org/segments/bill-gates-future-infor...

- Tim Berners-Lee, 1996: https://freshairarchive.org/segments/creator-world-wide-web

- Andy Grove, 1996: https://freshairarchive.org/segments/intel-president-and-ceo...

- Jerry Yang, 1997: https://freshairarchive.org/segments/jerry-yang-navigating-w...

- Linus Torvalds, 2001: https://freshairarchive.org/segments/computer-programmer-lin...

- Larry Page and Sergey Brin, 2003: https://freshairarchive.org/segments/google-founders-larry-p...

- Jimmy Wales, 2007: https://freshairarchive.org/segments/jimmy-wales-user-genera...
All mortgages are about ability to repay

It's absolutely not that simple.

Given that you a. dismissed the idea that Freddie Mac is a federal program and b. completely ignored the rebuttal of that erroneous assertion to blather on about your world view and insist you are right and I am wrong anyway, I don't see any constructive value in continuing this discussion further.
Would it be possible for you to be more specific about the ways in which the commenter is wrong?
You can quite often get older versions of Vegas Pro ridiculously cheap on humble bundle as well with all of the money going to charity
Sure, for that specific situation maybe physical activity is a good solution.

But what's next? Anti-vaxxer stupidity?
The A320 has "flight envelope protection" which does something much like MCAS except it is much more comprehensive because it is integrated with the fly-by-wire system and can use all control surfaces.

FBW on the A320 has many benefits such as better passenger comfort because it can use the control surfaces to take the edge off turbulence. You can get away with smaller control surfaces which then lowers weight, improves range, etc.

Airbus went through a lot of work to validate the safety of the FBW/Flight Envelope Protection -- if sensors fail, it goes into one of several degraded modes. Pilots are trained to recognize these modes and fly them.

Boeing has applied this technology to their large jets, but it's just sad that the most common Boeing jet by far, the 737, is a technological backwater. Boeing is talking about making a "New Midsize Aircraft" which has a questionable market, but so far as I can tell, their business plan is to be building a starship for NASA in 2070 but still be selling 737s.
Dirt-based farms are antiquated and inefficiently use resources compared to fogbox and airponics. Healthy soil is great, if it's for grassland vegetation browsed by managed mega-herds.. otherwise, the trend (climate change and lack of roaming mega-herds) is towards desertification.
> There’s been an explosion in the engine, and the plane is going to crash in 15 minutes. There’s no chance of survival. There is a potential way out—the plane happens to be transferring a shipment of parachutes, and anyone who would like to use one to escape the plane may do so. But I must warn you—the parachutes are experimental and completely untested, with no guarantee to work. We also have no idea what the terrain will be like down below. Please line up in the aisle if you’d like a parachute, and the flight attendants will give you one, show you how to use it and usher you to the emergency exit where you can jump. Those who choose not to take that option, please remain in your seat—this will be over soon, and you will feel no pain.

This analogy is used to obscure rather than to clarify. Preserving someone's body and hoping that they can be resurrected in the far future is something that anyone can understand. So why do we need an analogy?

The article makes many comparisons between medical intervention and cryonics. When considering a medical intervention, one has to consider the likelihood of the intervention's success. My opinion is that there's roughly zero chance that people being preserved will ever be resurrected. I think it's dumb to spend large amounts of money on medical interventions with roughly zero chance of success.

This is what it comes down to: people who pay for cryonics think that there is significantly greater than zero chance that they will be resurrected. I support their right to make that gamble but I think it's a bad gamble. I think that it's a waste of money, that it's selfish, and that people who make that gamble will tend to be people who have led unfulfilling lives because they've been unable to accept things that they can't control.

Maybe I'm wrong. Only with the passage of time we will know whether these people will be resurrected or not. As I said, I'm betting on "no chance in hell".

If you like Don DeLillo, Zero K is an excellent criticism of cryonics.
Eastern Michigan professor reveals forgotten history of WWII pianos
A brief history and future of credit scores
I would also imagine manufacturing a piano keyboard is much harder, since it's not a simple on/off switch like computer keyboards. They need to have very precise tactile feel, and support multiple steps of pressure and speed when pressing the keys.

It's also an un-chorded interface (pun intended) for traditional pianos. So I'm not really sure how much better it could be made.
http://archive.is/NtfoT
You store them in the same place where you place other tests. It's just code. You version the data as you version any other test data. Never used travis myself, I guess it's some kind of CI.

Many people do this. It's perfectly normal.

Of course if you don't even use Excel in the first place, I don't know why you're asking.
Con Ed can’t explain what caused the Manhattan blackout
Cloud providers should auto-generate these kinds of graphs and make this available as part of their Web UI.
> "We need to be careful how we say this"
Who is "we" ?
Yes, there really are several successful companies who specialise in landfill gas recovery, it's profitable and practical. But I don't think it's neccessarily a reason to continue with landfill in itself.
This comment is like a red rag to a bull for me, because why wouldn't some artists want a basic grasp of calculus?

Bear in mind that a secondary education, for most people, involves learning the basics of calculus. You might be thinking that all artists are bad at math or too stupid to grasp calculus. You might be thinking that there are no applications of calculus in art. I don't know. But given the role artists are supposed to play in society, it seems pretty reasonable to expect that some of them will have an interest in learning calculus to a high school level like a significant fraction of the non-specialist public.

A concrete example of this might be an artist who is interested in systems theory from an ecological perspective. Once you start talking about stocks and flows (of fish or minerals or greenhouse gases) then calculus and differential equations are really the next thing to tackle.
We've started with ubiome/23andme providing customers data previously not available.

Another area is improving existing processes. We see techniques where photos are being read more accurately and quickly compared to manual processes.

Medicine now resolves around tests. Those can be improved and automated.

We will see tools that will empower personal medicine and shift the power balance away from the family clinics.
The U.S. Land Forever Leased to England
Yes, lots here: https://hn.algolia.com/?query=things%20i%20won%27t%20work%20...
> ... this coming fiscal year ...

No mention of the next fiscal year, or the one after that.

Microsoft already decided they want to push these changes through -- and they will. It might just take them a little longer than originally planned but Microsoft will continue to "extinguish" anyone or anything standing in their way.

(I know this isn't a popular opinion with some of the developers here on HN -- who seem to think they are Microsoft's BFFs -- but some of us don't forget so quickly.)
I very much agree with this. This approach helped me a lot to turn jealousy into being gratefully inspired by others. Every time a thought of jealousy appears in my head, I make a concious effort to turn it into being grateful that there’s a person who accomplished what I wish to accomplish and who can inspire me or even teach/mentor me. Such first concious steps were a bit strange, but after some time the automata in my head got replaced with a new path and jealousy have virtually disappeared since then.
So what is different about this bulb versus a regular filament one I can get at wal-mart? And more importantly... where can I buy one at?
Population might come down but the current trajectory says it will cross 10billion in the next 20years . It will come down long after problems of over population start hitting us.
It's comical how little people understand about machine learning, no one calls an ODE solver artificial intelligence but gradient descent on an interesting equation is somehow now A.I.
spoiler: blackmail scheme under the cover of a hedge fund.
i’m reading it right now. very highly-recommended!!
Macintosh Forks
Initial product development.
I mean dosbox. Look behind the counter next time you're with a human bank teller or checking in at the airport. You'll find a screen running telnet connected to an instance of dosbox running on some central server.
Would you kindly elaborate on that?

I have enormous respect for the difficulty of the training that doctors like your spouse have gone through, and yet I share the quoted sentiment. We assume that difficulty is essential to the work, and I think that's an assumption worth questioning, as the dental profession has been recently.
I stayed at a place once that had this resort fee. They had a nice indoor pool, spa, etc. But I couldn't choose to opt out. I paid for access to the pool and other services via the resort fee whether I intended to use them or not. So it doesn't just need to have "resort" stuff, those things need to be optional. Otherwise it's just the price of the room.
Not taking the time to read all of the original comment provides a nice compact example of the point. Perhaps you were too busy lifting? (I'm being sarcastic, please don't take offence!)

> What are you doing with all that time?

Working! Why are you spending all that time screwing around? You've just told me you have another 10 hours a week you can be working that you use exercising. And another 30 hours a week you spend watching movies and playing guitar! That's like a whole other full-time job you could be putting into work! (for the record I'm being very sarcastic)

In responding to dec0dedab0de's original comment, I agreed that I share his superficial feelings -- but I don't think those feeling are right. My point is that while for some people like myself, grinding as hard as possible as long as possible, is both natural and not healthy. For some people, work is not naturally the thing they spend all their time on, and they gravitate to other things as soon as the clock hits 8 hours for the day.

For people such as myself, my natural tendencies to overwork can, at times, unfairly extend to other people and I often have to resist the temptation to think that they should be doing the same as me -- and if they aren't that they aren't putting in 100%.

These are very unhealthy thought processes and one that I personally have to spend time, effort and discipline to temper. The problem is, for me, work is fun.

On the flip-side I've also really worked with people who become incredibly unreliable at work (during normal work hours) while they train for <sporting event> and it's absolutely intolerable. I also say this as somebody who intensely pursued a sporting activity very heavily in my younger years at about 20-25 hours a week. People really minimize the amount of time they spend doing these things.

And to dec0dedab0de's original point, I've also worked with people of impossibly limited technical capability who fly up the corporate ladder, often to disaster, because they have good looks and dress well.
Didn't all Wall-E do was compact trash?
Relevant: https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2006/11/21/choices-headaches/
There is a fellow on YouTube, Scott Manly, who does rocket and aircraft videos, who did an episode featuring “Ignition!” And its wonderful compounds a while back.
Attach a printer to the access logging of your web site ;-)
I lose faith in representative democracy by the day. I certainly don't feel like my opinions are being represented 99% of the time. But the vast majority of Americans are completely unaware of what's happening in Congress at any given time.

I've thought of building an app where voters could enter their opinions and be notified whenever their representatives vote for or against their views, but I can't figure out monetization.
It's quite odd to dismiss better sanitation and nutrition as not medicine, isn't it?

I think the problem is that we take for granted the things that have been discovered, because they were found a long time ago. Washing surgeons' hands in carbolic acid help puerperal fever rates. Cholera has something to do with water. Vaccination works. All those things happened way before any living person remembers.

From what I hear among pharma friends, the problem is also that the low hanging fruit has been picked. A lot of lines of inquiry are variations of the same thing, and over time we've found what is there to be found.

If you think about it, it makes sense that it's like that. Something really powerful like vaccination is going to pop out of the stats immediately. Subtler effects require more trials to detect.

In any case, it's a greater danger that there are people who don't believe in evidence based inquiry at all pretending to be medical professionals. Look at anti-vaxxers, or the Goop type quackery.
With regard to fixing this, the article contains a link to:

https://theconversation.com/to-restore-our-soils-feed-the-mi...

"To restore our soils, feed the microbes" (2017)
Can you explain to me the intent of your argument? Never mind that there were many states that voted in favor of same-sex marriage, it seems rather disingenuous to claim that it was simply a 'small number of elites' as well as claiming your argument is somehow not debatable.
Money.

It's a bit like reality TV, like 'influencers', etc.
Many "anti-vaxxers" are simply concerned parents.

Considering that vaccines (in general) have been deemed "unavoidably unsafe" at the Supreme Court level, they are not completely unjustified in their fears. [0]

Vaccine manufactures cannot be held liable.

Thus there is a "National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program" put in place to compensate those that have been damaged by vaccinations.

To date, over $4 billion dollars has been paid out in damages. [1]

Just as mentioned in this article, side effects are major deterrents of any medication.
And significant efforts need to be made in order to ensure that side effects do not occlude positives effects.

[0]: https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/10pdf/09-152.pdf

[1]: https://www.hrsa.gov/sites/default/files/hrsa/vaccine-compen...
Let us clarify/summarize: ssh didn't go away, it simply became less visible, and remains the secure channel component of gaining access to remote screen/tmux sessions.
> So despite the fact that many consider Go to be the main Rust competitor for writing complete programs...

Really? That seems odd to me. I guess there's some overlap between the two languages but they mostly exists in different spheres.

C++ would be the more obvious comparison.
> Once all of this data becomes available, it will be obvious how worthless and expensive most medical treatments really are. Most prescription drugs do nothing, and the ones that do something are more so just covering the symptoms.

I've read Bad Pharma (and will recommend it to anyone interested in this subject). And one way to summarize (perhaps oversimplify) it is: pharmaceutical corporations manipulate data to justify expensive drugs of questionable effectivness.

But to think "startups and tech companies" are going to help solve this problem... man, that's optimistic. And as Bad Pharma demonstrates, the data is already available. There's just not a lot of interest (economically or politically, especially where those two are strongly correlated) to seek it out or listen to it.

Also I don't think it was HIPAA's intention to hide data from well-meaning startups. That's just an unintended consequence perhaps. I'd like to think its primary motivation was to protect patient data from predatory insurance companies and unscrupulous marketing forces. (Does it succeed in doing that? I don't know. Are startups and tech companies going to help with that if it doesn't? Hmmm.)
Landfills are highly concentrated stores of resources. Why would future archaeologists be the only ones interested in them?
ML doesn't fix bad statistics. ML is really just a sexier way of saying real-time statistics with lots of data.
FreeBSD’s pkg does that, but they’re recompiled in the package server and you just download the updated binaries built against those releases. It is very fast.
This is a very fair point. Many successful businesses are not multi-billion dollar unicorns. I think the question then is, can an aggregator for software-based lifestyle businesses make Koji itself a billion-dollar platform? I'm curious to see where it will go.
Oh it is.
But that isn't quite it actually.
They identified different clusters of foods having higher amounts of certain classes of chemicals that have anti-cancer properties. TLDR eat your vegetables and drink your tea is perhaps justified so long as the vegetables you choose encompass enough from all these groups.

I chose the highest concentrated and most common items among the six classes listed:

1.
Carrot
Cabbage
Oranges

2.
GreenTea
Grapes
Apple
Peanut

3.
Cucumber
Garlic
Tomato

4.
Bean
Lentil
Radish
Peas

5.
Olive
Soy Bean
Potato

6.
Avacado
Peach
Onion
Rice

If I were to make a dried superfood, I'd want to combine all these together.
Amusingly, for me, my partner buys each of her folks a puffer jacket every few years from Uniqlo - apparently they're just about different enough to stand out from the crowd they work so hard to confine themselves to! :)

Personally, I see Uniqlo as offering fine base-elements for clothing. I long ago settled into having my own uniform - just so that I don't have to think about my daily clothing too much - so own a dozen or so exact-same long-sleeved navy blue t-shirt-things from them. No logo, no branding, no overt design - just simple, methodical soft cotton clothes that pair nicely with whatever else is in my wardrobe.

.

I never thought I'd write about my crap fashion on HN...
According to the article, Israel used a similar technique for landing but failed. Wonder if India will be successful!
Like the other comment is saying, it's pretty much part of your education (dictee) up until high school IIRC. It's really really hard. Actually I don't think I know anyone in France who can write correctly, even in casual chat.
Anti-vaccine groups referencing and quoting this article in 3,2,1..
> Were it otherwise, every home would be built without a kitchen and people would go out to eat all the time. We'd need more jobs for people staffing the kitchens, but it wouldn't help people overall.

Isn't the 'ready meal' phenomenon essentially this? Someone else does the real cooking, you just store then heat it up. Plenty of people survive solely, or mostly, on that.
Misread this then realized it's missing "Prince of Bel-" and it's not what I had hoped.