skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’m curious what sort of stresses are thought to cause adrenal issues. Can they be environmental/situational vs. chronic hereditary?

About 5 years ago I was fairly healthy, eating great and CrossFit 6 days a week. Then my body started to become tired all the time. I had pretty high work stress at the time along with what might be considered frequent physically stressful workouts. I suddenly found myself sleeping most of my Saturday and Sundays. Struggling during the week, just enough energy to get myself to work and back to crash at night. Eventually dropping exercise altogether. Along the way I started feeling weak, shaky and would have almost tremors in my body. I had read about adrenal stress at the time and suspected it might be an issue.

It’s hard to tell what’s related but I eventually developed prostatitis, a few rounds of cipro and no help. Then almost a year later some pretty severe digestive issues developed and they thought I had Crohn’s disease, then hospitalized due to reaction to medicine. Then kidney stones, gallstones, gallbladder removed. The last few years have been hard but so many people have it worse.

After the gallbladder removal I’ve finally starting to feel meaningfully better, digestive significantly better and prostatitis issues resolved.

I don’t work out like I used to, I’ve had times that I try to get into a running regime but eventually I start to feel sick and pain around my kidneys. I’m able to do extended hours of yard work and be outside for long hours. I’m lucky that my health appears to be coming back. I have no idea the ultimate root cause of all this but I’m counting my blessings.

When I read about stories like this, it’s inspiring and relatable. When doctors and specialists can’t figure it out they send you to someone else or suggest psychiatric issues. It’s disheartening and easy to lose faith in the medical system.
> Asking one of these companies to reveal the algorithms they’re using is tantamount to theft.

Intellectual property is a legislative creature. There was never a "natural law" conception of it and it largely didn't evolve in caselaw either.

That said, Australia has a constitutional guarantee against compulsory acquisition without payment on "just terms"[0] and which is not for a purpose supported by another Parliamentary power.

Such a case might not succeed (a case by tobacco companies against plain packaging was not successful in arguing that it represented an acquisition of their brands and trademarks[1]), but it would almost certainly reach the High Court.

If their Honours ruled that an algorithm or trained model was property within the meaning of the Constitution, it's likely that compulsory acquisition would require payment of billions, perhaps tens of billions, of dollars. At that point it would be easier to regulate it, which would be unlikely to trigger the guarantee.

I am, of course, not a lawyer. But Constitutional law was one of my favourite subjects before dropping out of law school.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Section_51(xxxi)_of_the_Consti...

[1] http://eresources.hcourt.gov.au/showCase/2012/HCA/43
That's related to an issue often found in medical devices development: the certified toolchain contains errors, but you cannot use the newer version with fixed errors because it is not certified. Of course, the new toolchain passes the same certification suite as does the faulty one (because the certification body does only check the documentation for completeness and basic plausibility and does not have any means to test anything themselves), it's just that it isn't commercially viable to "buy the official stamp".
That awkward transition period away from floppies happened while I was in high school. I remember what a nightmare it was until things finally standardized on the USB flash drive, and then soon after, on nothing physical at all (i.e. file transfer over Internet).

I remember zip disks being around. The disks were too expensive and the drives, especially so. I used a disk or two at school but never bought one for myself. We had a server at school we could upload/download files to (or just log into directly) so there was never much point.

I also remember CD-RWs being terribly unreliable, and sufficiently costlier than a one-use CD-R that basically no one ever used them. I certainly didn't. What a mess of thrown-away plastic all those CD-Rs were (and remember how if you used the computer for anything else while it was burning and it ran out of buffer the CD-R was ruined?). It certainly felt like a regression from the earlier days of rewritable disks.
Also see

https://youtu.be/oZZ5Kouj_hQ

The clock is ticking, Youtube!
Reviewers not willing to learn anything during a code review is probably an easy tell for a crappy code review culture
"Keys Under Doormats" should be required reading on the issue of exceptional access. https://www.schneier.com/academic/paperfiles/paper-keys-unde...

tl;dr Governments are vague about what they actually require in terms of exceptional access. And few ever discuss how to mitigate the inevitable multi-jurisdiction conflicts, like if China compels Apple to unlock phones belonging to US-friendly intelligence assets.
http://news.aa.com/news/news-details/2011/AMR-Corporation-An...

"American also intends to order 100 of Boeing's expected new evolution of the 737NG, with a new engine that would offer even more significant fuel-efficiency gains over today's models. American is pleased to be the first airline to commit to Boeing's new 737 family offering, which is expected to provide a new level of economic efficiency and operational performance, pending final confirmation of the program by Boeing. This airplane would be powered by CFM International's LEAP-X engine."

When a customer demands...
Seems reasonable to me. The USB floppy driver is still maintained, which is the only thing I've seen a floppy in for the past ten years. Anything older than that is likely running a 32-bit processor and is being dropped by most Linux distros anyway.
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No, but it does feel very Star Trek.
> It's amazing how closed-minded "experts" can be

Speaking as someone who has been in a comparable (though not nearly as severe) predicament to Lindsay's for several years, I'm more sympathetic to the experts.

Medical science is incredibly vast and complex, and is limited by external constraints like research funding, insurance, the political/social climate, and many other factors.

There is a limit to how much attention the practitioners and researchers can devote to any topic, and they have to focus on what will generate the greatest overall benefits whilst keeping themselves in a living.

And for every "tip of the iceberg" Doug Lindsay who figures out a valid diagnosis and treatment, there are countless time-wasters.

I've been one of the time-wasters in the past, and it'd be nice to think that after the many years of research and experimentation I've done, I’m closer to being a bit like Lindsay (though fortunately I won't be needing to find someone to slice my adrenals open, thanks!).

There could well be a place for a system that makes it easier for people like Lindsay to be heard and taken seriously. Surely there are many others who have made similar breakthroughs in understanding their own illness, but who aren't able to talk their way into medical conferences and present well enough to be listened to.

But let's not be too harsh on the experts, at least in the medical profession. It's a pretty challenging and thankless business for them, much of the time.
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You're correct that most of the US is in a power market. I'd still call it regulated though. There are some regions like TVA, Colorado area, and BPA that do their own thing, but BPA is joining CAISO's secondary market (energy imbalance) which is a step towards a full day ahead market which does commitment and dispatch instead of just dispatch (commitment and the sharing of reserves is where the majority of cost savings occur).

The other parts of the US participate in either ERCOT, CAISO, MISO, SPP, ISO-NE, PJM, or NYISO which all do commitment and dispatch. ERCOT is a little unusual as they don't co-optimize reserves in their real-time 5-minute market. Each of these markets has an independent market monitor that looks for participant gaming and other market anomalies. FERC mandated this after some heavy abuse in the north east from a utility where the fine was divided up and went to funding the market monitoring groups. Either this group or sometimes the market software itself looks for instances of market power being demonstrated. For example, if you're unit is sitting right on top of a congested area and your offer jumps up a certain percent, the software pushes you back to the approved offer that the market monitor verified is your true marginal cost. So the market is deregulated, but there is still plenty of regulation of a sort.

In a perfect market, yes you would have uneconomical units shut down quickly, but this isn't the stock market and there are many reasons why this doesn't happen all the time. Maybe you need it for capacity reasons (markets have rules on how much you need to reliably serve load or they even have capacity markets) as wind and solar aren't as reliable as thermal generation.
Barr and others like him have been saying this stuff for decades. Showing them the math has limited utility. Geeks have been doing that for decades too, with limited results. Barr and his predecessors don't read math, they wouldn't understand it if they did, and even if they understood it, they would demand backdoors anyway. Barr in particular has already demonstrated that national security and our economy are less important to him than increased power. It's probably true of all these government people making all these false claims about cryptography since the mid 1990s, but it's demonstrably true of Barr. (The Trump coverup he's currently attempting is not even his first coverup as Attorney General. He did similar work for a previous administration.)
Yeah I think in the long run, some aspects of search are going to be under purview of some regulation.

There is too much potential for SERP manipulation for political ends. Be it regulation, unionization, candidate preference, social issues, etc.

Google and others like it may not overly abuse it now, but there certainly is potential for it.
As a Mac user anyway, they were very practical, and were basically the de facto standard for external/portable storage for a while. Service bureaus accepted files on Zip disks, etc., Apple built them into a few models of Macs... they really were the "floppy replacement".

The 'click of death' thing happened with their later drives; I assume they tried to cut corners either on the design or QA and things suffered as a result. The original SCSI drives didn't have that issue, that I ever saw. It was the later USB and parallel-port drives that weren't especially reliable.

My feeling is that Iomega couldn't figure out if they wanted to do a razors-and-blades business model by selling the drives cheap and then charging for the media, or if they wanted to let the price of media fall, so that it became a widespread standard that they would 'own'. At first they didn't allow anyone else to make Zip disks; eventually they let Fuji and a few others manufacture them and sell them under their own brands. (I still have a few NIB Fuji Zip disks!)
I most certainly did not advocate for that.
No. Adrenal fatigue is little more than alt-med jargon for what the average HNer would call burnout. The invocation of adrenal dysfunction is, to put it politely, poetic license.
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Twitter for mobile (web) is filled with dark patterns like these. They do everything in their power to make you download their app, including limiting and/or sabotaging features that would obviously work on any web browser.

For example, you can see someone's tweets but you can't click on the mentions or media tabs. Search is downright unusable. Try searching for something and scrolling to the top to get the latest results.

I know I make no difference at all for the folks at Twitter, but they certainly lost me as a loyal user after witnessing such shady practices.
Worth pointing out that some places like Australia have mandatory voting and they still manage to elect some really terrible, racist politicians
How fast can a BufferedReader read lines in Java?
I'm surprised nobody is discussing this paragraph from the article:

> The failure scenario was known previously and had been assessed in a safety analysis when the plane was certified before entering service in 2017. At that time, Boeing concluded that pilots could overcome the nose-down movement by performing a procedure to shut off the motor driving the stabilizer movement.

This isn't a new fault. Boeing certified this as safe along with MCAS back when the aircraft first flew in 2017, using the same justifications ("pilots can overcome it").

They weren't going to fix it this time either, except test pilots ran across it in late-stage simulations monitored by the FAA and found it wasn't as easy to overcome as Boeing had been asserting in their cost-safety analysis (just like MCAS) and now the FAA are requiring a fix.

Has Boeing learned anything from MCAS? The company has cultural problems vis-à-vis safety. I'm just glad the FAA are doing their job this time around.
DeHavilland didn’t do that badly - the last Nimrod (based on the Comet) was retired in 2011. The name disappeared because, like a whole host of British aviation manufacturers (English Electric, Folland, Vickers, Supermarine, Hawker-Siddeley, Bristol, Hunting, Avro), they successively merged together until all that was left was a name you probably are familiar with - BAE Systems.
I don't think it's about new features or anything, but running regular regression tests to make sure that changes elsewhere in the kernel don't break it.
Aside: Should have a 2012 in the title. I recognized Julien’s work because he came to Bloomberg almost immediately after this :)
Ditto. I've come to terms with it but it seems that many people around me haven't.

Then there's TV and Movies. Body shaming is still considered funny when it comes to baldness apparently.
That's great, but what is the primary attack vector? Fake app store? Interception of app store connections?
From everything I've heard about it, the Jaz drive was an unmitigated failure caused by bad hardware choices (basically, the "disk" contained hard drive platters and the drive contained the rest of the hard drive mechanism, and you'd insert the one into the other!!). It was also much too expensive.

If they'd never embarked on that ill-fated idea, and instead continue to put all of their wood behind zip drives (and maintaining compatibility), they could've done better. I agree that licensing would've helped a lot. The zip disks were simply too expensive, and they always felt like a proprietary format in a way that 3.5" floppies did not. I was only a teenager at the time but even I was thinking "So wait, this one company is the only manufacturer? Seems niche, not the guaranteed next thing."
As long as someone else pays for it.
Hand me over any intellectual property you own simply because I want it.. Lets not pretend there isnt a maltitude of pretty dumb laws that were passes simply because lets say "the law makers are not the sharpest tools in the shed"
> I think he's an archetype for a "tell it like it is" New Yorker (like me).

> they're superior to the more common "asshole NYer"

West Coasters don't see the distinction. California culture (and many other cultures, I'm sure) believes that making people feel bad is the ultimate social sin and should be avoided at all costs. In their eyes, "telling it like it is" makes you an asshole.
Commonly it's to prevent confusion with "J". A confusion with a number when only letters are expected in that place is unlikely.
If the requirements were for it to buck like a bronco before slamming into the ground then I say job well done.
That actually makes a lot of sense after a bit of Wikipediaing. Thank you for broadening my knowledge.
I skimmed through looking for some key numbers but didn't find them. I bet someone who knows how to read the many numbers they did share would be able to hazard a guess:

what would the $/kWh look like?

how many cycles until you hit 90%, 80%, 50% capacity?
I say: "Sorry, I am just an engineer, not a VC :)" (with a smile)
World crop yields are up year on year, according to the USDA. See Table 01 World Crop Production Summary here:

https://apps.fas.usda.gov/psdonline/circulars/production.pdf
I tried it in a VM a while back and would surely make it a daily driver once it gets to that point. It was an awesome experience.
The problem with "just throwing tests at the wall" is that every test has a false positive rate. For rare diseases like this (~30 documented cases ever!) even tiny false positive rates will lead to significant over-diagnosis.
If you were from Australia I'd let your whole post go.

Murdoch isn't that powerful. When the media tells people what they want to hear, it's very difficult from the outside to figure out who's the one pulling the shots.

The AFP raided the ABC to ensure accuracy of a report about military action that was released under the reign of a far left management. Now that Ita Buttrose is in charge, you won't see that again.

The Australian people trust their own government several orders of magnitude more than the foreign SV tech companies that put people out of jobs and push around politics which America can barely reign in.
Hah. I remember using 5.25" floppies (just barely), but I was quite young at the time.

This was really something you could do? The back surface of the floppy was inaccessible, but was still usable despite not intentionally being so?

That reminds me of this, except real: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mwEuQAMVfZc
The first is that most of the algorithms they’re using are probably based heavily on machine learning, making them inscrutable not just to the general public but also to any experts they have auditing them.

I still think this is going to be a big problem with regards to legislation and safety boards. I'm pretty sure they are not going to accept the black box decision making nature. They see the results of prejudice or unsafe decisions, real or imagined[1], and will probably see lack of ability to explain these actions clearly as hubris on the part of companies. The algorithm did it will not hold as an excuse.

1) iPod shuffle play randomness
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I can tell it will ballon soon, from all the CA secession movements trying to split water resources. It's going to get messy.
This was my gut reaction when I first learned about graphql, but in practice when I used it it didn’t end up being an issue (although we didn’t have to run at particularly large scale).

If your data models are pretty well structured, then basically every graphql object is a single table that you get by an indexed field, and traversing relationships can each do a where in query on the indexed id field. The parameters you expose on queries should be for indexed fields. So in practice, you’re not really autogenerating any particularly expensive queries, and if you assume the client isn’t asking for tons of data they don’t need, it’s not much different in query patterns than rest. Except that in some cases, the client can omit fields or related objects instead of re-using the rest route that’s a superset of what they need, so you can save resources sometimes too.

Then on top of all that, you have the option to not auto-map certain queries to the orm in special cases that are more complex, so you always can still write the code yourself to be more strict about what you allow. For writes, you typically would always do this to control exactly which fields you write.
There was an idea to build a water pipe from Wisconsin to Vegas because...reasons

Apparently they needed water for fountains and golf courses.
This is a "blue ocean" situation. Plenty of people would care if they understood the hazards of the status quo and a viable alternative existed. People can already make their own privacy-respecting phone, but most people aren't up for it. Someone will have to get close enough to the UX polish of Apple and Google to pull people away.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Ocean_Strategy
Few architects consider how easily sound can travel in residential buildings - from nearby buildings and closely-spaced balconies for example. Many apartment blocks have adjoining balconies with light partitions that do nothing to dampen sound. The result is having to listen to every neighbour above, below, to your left, and to the right. It's even worse when sound proofing is poor inside the apartment complex.
Resubmitting the url without the 'mobile' subdomain also works for me every time for some reason. Same setup setup with Firefox on Android. It's infuriating.
I really wish Apple would stop messing around and give me a touch screen MacBook.
It sounds like you're entering the realm of sufficiently niche to the point that you might need two computers (or at least dual boot). I've been there for decades, though not for the exact same reason.
Right, but if the answer to "it's too slow" and/or "it's too unpredictable" is "limit it to known queries", then ... how is that meaningfully different from known queries in SQL?
Whats the status of all the grounded max planes?
I think the most important piece of info isn't even in this article. The Verge article I submitted[0] had this quote:

"Additionally, as The Guardian notes, while Amazon and Google allow customers to opt out of some uses of their recordings, Apple doesn’t offer a similar privacy protecting option, outside of disabling Siri entirely. That’s a particularly bad look, given that Apple has built so much of its reputation on selling itself as the privacy company that defends your data in ways that Google and Amazon don’t."

I was shocked by this because I opt out of sending analysis data to Apple at setup of my devices. I figured that would also prevent sending Siri recordings. Apparently not, though.

[0]: https://www.theverge.com/2019/7/26/8932064/apple-siri-privat...
Whoa! Thanks for this. The abstract makes so much more sense, and is at the same time more exciting, than the originally posted article.

That article was like saying that geriatric people are observed to never go clubbing, and if you prevent young people from clubbing they mope around the house all day, so maybe if we get people to go clubbing every day they'll never grow old.

The abstract is a lot more reasonable and sensible, and concludes that (lack of) nucleotide synthesis does seem to play an important role in senescence. They were able to kick things back into action with telomerase. Enforced clubbing resources bed sores. No word yet on how many additional injuries it might trigger from ill-advised breakdancing.
Only if you fly the absolute most budget carriers, though. Which fortunately I haven't done yet! (Unless EasyJet counts; does it?)
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> Intellectual property is a legislative creature. There was never a "natural law" conception of it and it largely didn't evolve in caselaw either.

IMO the issue isn't with IP but trade secrets which have a long and well established history within human endeavours. In fact, they are the basis of the patent system which intended to get them "freed" from companies so others could expand on their work.
It's kind of amusing to read this sort of headline in the current context. Feels like it's ten or twenty years out of date.

Flying is a colossal use of resources that in almost all cases is pure luxury.

Less legroom is a good thing.
Yeah but those secession movements have zero chance of success. And longer term if the zero percent chance actually happens they would be begging the us to come back.