skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Cancer survival rate uses "5 year survival rate".

Take every man over the age of 50 and then give them prostate screening, and then don't do anything else at all. Don't test any of the prostate cancer that you find.

Your 5 year cancer survival rates go up, because most prostate cancer is slow growing.

But this situation isn't what happens. The US screens a bunch of men, and then treats the cancer they find. Does this reduce all cause mortality?

No.

https://www.harding-center.mpg.de/en/fact-boxes/early-detect...

This is what people in the American system pay for: testing and treatment that causes harm and which doesn't prevent death.
I'm glad I was able to provide an enlightening counter-example; I hope you approach things with a more open-mind.
Thanks for writing it.

This is certainly disturbing news. And it's great to know about it. But I'm left feeling hopeless. Because we've been fighting this bullshit for decades, with little to show for it. And personally, there's nothing actionable.

So it goes.
Yes. Sometimes GB exports power to mainland europe and/or ireland, sometimes it's the other way round.

On average GB imports more from europe than exports. It exports more to Ireland than imports.

Doesn't really help with the troughs in wind - when it's calm in the north sea for the UK, it is calm for Denmark too.

Maybe if europe puts a lot of production in Biscay and the Med it will smooth things out - but there's only so much capacity on the interconnects (2GW from France, 1GW from Netherlands, 1GW from Belgium, 500MW to Northern Ireland, 500MW to ROI)

That said, planned interconnects bring it up to 10GW from mainland, 1.5GW to Ireland
Generations are basically agegroups that share for a part the same cultural experience, e.g. the same mass media, cartoons, educational trends, etc. Research shows that these overlaps in culture lead to several predictive trends in behavior and opinions.

It's normal you don't associate personaly with every trend. Especially if you lived in some local bubble or if you are on the edge of some defined group. That doesn't matter and I would just ignore it. This isn't about any specific person.
This is a pretty fun tool. An animated color cycle might be a nice addition.
I suspect they'll fail to see the humour in it after you show up with the second box full
Actually are they allowed to leave an ICE facility once they've been put into the encampments? For example, when a citizen youth was put into an encampmet for suspicion of being in the country illegally, I don't believe they were ever provided the option to be released.
I believe there's a note that recommends the use of alignas when available: https://github.com/abseil/abseil-cpp/blob/fa00c321073c7ea40a...
There are so many comments attacking OP for the straw man that he dislikes ICE because they enforce immigration law. I highly doubt that is why OP dislikes ICE. Instead, it is much more likely that he dislikes the tactics used by ICE, such as separating families, and locking people in "ice boxes".

The comments attacking the straw man are seemingly only written to satisfy an attack against an other, which here seems to be the other that "supports illegal immigration", and I don't believe these attacks further the conversation. Nowhere do we have evidence that OP or anyone defending him is in favor of fully open borders, an accusation thrown around more than once in these comments.

Regardless of the "why", the more interesting discussion is the "should", as in "should people be allowed to rescind their open source work for any reason". Otherwise, we are just wading back into a political discussion where people are not interested in listening, only fighting.
Is this because Google is taking AWS clients en mass?

#BoycottBezos

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21026237
https://www.investopedia.com/terms/q/quantitative-easing.asp

> Quantitative easing is an unconventional monetary policy in which a central bank purchases government securities or other securities from the market in order to increase the money supply
Of course, like anything, this is a problem of degrees. Numbers, severity, evidence, etc. It's pointless to extend any given decision to its logical extreme and present that as some kind of evidence on whether or not the specific decision was justified.
Honestly, I don't really know either, and regret that comment already.

Either way, I guess I'm just frustrated by how all these media stories seem to be about the software engineer annoyed by the likes of ICE/the military/whoever using their code rather the other way around. Or perhaps the constant focus on ethics in tech as if said ethics are somehow universal/can be agreed upon.
So instead of forcing Twitter we forces the ISPs? I'm not sure if that's an improvement.
I think that a "-punk" story with direct action and psy-ops would probably incorporate culture jamming. Are you familiar with the term?

https://www.thoughtco.com/culture-jamming-3026194
Can you go into more details about what a heatpump is and how something can be 400% efficient?
> Devalues the existing currency already in circulation.

Anyone with debt (e.g., mortgage, student loans) is advantaged from a future lower-value currency:

> If wages increase with inflation, and if the borrower already owed money before the inflation occurred, the inflation benefits the borrower. This is because the borrower still owes the same amount of money, but now he or she has more money in his or her paycheck to pay off the debt. This results in less interest for the lender if the borrower uses the extra money to pay his or her debt early.

* https://www.investopedia.com/ask/answers/111414/does-inflati...

Provisos:

> Inflation can help lenders in several ways, especially when it comes to extending new financing. First, higher prices mean that more people want credit to buy big-ticket items, especially if their wages have not increased – new customers for the lenders.
I went through an existential crisis and needed to learn better coping skills to start a new chapter in life as I approached 30. I don't think prescriptions were the answer for my case to be perfectly honest, I'm not going to speak for anyone else though (do what works for you). I got screened to be sure I wasn't bipolar or schizophrenic and I was told by more than one professional that I don't meet the criteria for either one.

It's been almost 2 years since my first ayahuasca ceremony and I don't feel depressed at all, I feel a child-like absorption with life and a need to serve the planet I call home. I wouldn't attribute all of this to the entheogen itself, I made a conscious choice to change and the ceremonies were catalysts that helped. People go to ceremonies and revert back to their old ways if they don't 'integrate'. Integration is just as important, if not more, than the ceremony itself.
A thousand times this. I recently bought a Toyota Vellfire which has a touch screen ICE and I find that annoying enough on its own, I'd _hate_ to have to fiddle around on a screen to operate other car functionality.
It seems like the sweet spot is around the middle of the list - places like Dallas, Atlanta, Denver, Salt Lake City, etc. Good salaries and lower cost of living than California, but you will have all the quality of life features of a bigger city. I guess that's why those middle-tier cities on this list are also at the top of the fastest growing places in the country.
"Democracy is government for the people, by the people, on the principle that the people should get the kind of government that they deserve, good and hard."

[wish i could attribute this, but i don't remember where i first heard it]
very well put together comment because I started seeing a therapist and it has helped me find a new perspective on life in general. I was just grinding away in San Francisco without really having a long term plan...now this is just one part of my life.
Here you go:

https://www.congress.gov/bill/101st-congress/senate-bill/386...

This was Metzenbaum's reaction to the Stockton massacre; it was covered in the NYT (both at the time and in retrospectives about how we ended up with our batty FAWB). Note that in addition to definitionally regulating AR-15s, it also bans them outright by name.

(The definitional criteria here is --- this is from a skim and from memory, so correct me but don't jump on me if I have this wrong --- any semi-automatic rifle with a detachable magazine that accepts more than 10 rounds).
Agree.

I've noticed that most speakers don't actually convey any information, instead just exploring some very basic idea in way too much depth. Just lots of fluff really.

Also agree with others though, that conferences have their uses for meeting people which does result in knowledge exchange.
Soon "tell us what to think" will be so subversive that most people might not have any way to combat it. Experiments have shown that leading questions can create memories where none previously existed, and how fragile and inaccurate our memories are. I don't know if that makes times interesting or terrifying.

It's come to the point where I seriously toy with handing off most of my decision making process to statistics. Mathematics has derived an algorithm for a lot of real world decision making that is superior to what the vast majority of humans can do, and I'm not sure which group I'm in: the ones that make really poor emotional decisions (although "luck" and emotions are tied together, according to more research I've read; luck might just be a way of thinking), or if I'm able to make well informed decisions based on data.
Pretty sure digging past comments goes against the guidelines. It's also a primitive an absolutist way of judging a comment (rather than on, say, its substance).
> One advantage this technique provides over ad blocking is that there's no data to be phoned back home. […] But from a privacy perspective, I personally much prefer this technique.

Are you suggesting uBO is sending data “back home”? It doesn't, and this comment is borderline FUD.
"Presumably the latter was his goal all along."

I'm not sure if this is the case and I think this is a bad faith interpretation of the developer's goals.
Solution-focused brief therapy is great and highly effective. It's also not the only thing out there. If you're marching into a therapist's office unknowingly presenting a personality disorder and expecting your life to feel wildly different next month, you're just going to be bouncing therapists and blaming them for the next couple years.
> public safety - China has a clear win.

If this is based on statistics, bear in mind that China does not report all crimes outside its borders (for face reasons) and even locally (so as not to disturb "social harmony").
See upthread. Did you think I was just making that up?
I think they are simply bad actors.
TTY: Under the Hood
One of my buddies at Zeldathon (https://zeldathon.net) holds the World Record in Zelda's Adventure Any%... It's so crazy to see them play it, on a real console, and fast. https://www.speedrun.com/Zeldas_Adventure#Any 1:12:56 for that game is crazy fast.
I wish I understood what this meant. From my primitive understanding, we have too much money concentrated in too few people trying to make unrealistic returns, so they hold on to it rather than invest it.

Does this move mean that the fed is trying to keep its benchmark rate too low and absent market forces it would be much higher?
ITT: post facto justifications for why an open source developer should be forced to materially contribute to actions they find morally abhorrent. Along with many meaningless digressions about the validity of the developer's moral code (ignoring the whole point of a moral code not needing outside justification).
> As a non-designer, I am finding it easier and easier to get something professional looking up

The reason you find it getting easier is not to be found in any of these tools, but in your repeated effort to "put something up" and getting better at it.

You are learning how to design by doing design.
It became paradoxical as soon as you could step outside the offices of SomeTechCo.(ly) in SF., and literally find the sidewalk littered with homeless humans, human waste and needles.

I'm not saying there is any correlation. Merely that if tech companies in the SF Bay area cared about 'making a difference' - there is ample opportunity to do so, literally outside their door.
I would argue that macro-economy is done with the wrong timespan. Much climate and weather forecast, there is a gap that is very hard, if not impossible to fill.

Predicting the next semester is done quite alright. There are good economic models for long duration trend (50 years at least), though they are not used much because they are not very useful to invest as they do not have enough granularity. But the middle ground is just chaos.
> silicon valley's sunny optimism

This is all marketing hype speak from the type-a extrovert hustlers at the top. No sane person truly believes things like FB etc... are changing the world.
You can get a range of skin colors, since it depends heavily on how much sun an individual is exposed to. Hair color should be pretty straightforward, but, again, depends on the amount of sun and the prevalence of hair dye in the population.
> Well, if you're writing an FOSS project that happens to be picked up by the Chinese you're SOL. It's not as if the PRC has a history of giving a shit about your IP.

Not to mention, if it's FOSS they can respect your IP and still use it - after all, you did give them (and everyone else) a license...
Intel 18-core Cascade Lake-X leak gives us a glimpse of the CPU’s might
If people being able to feed themselves would cause unsustainable inflation, then we have bigger problems.
This is one of those studies that is primarily "belief" based.

I for one am not a fan of these - since we can't really disprove it.

Let's predict what a Denisovan skeleton looked like based on the ancient DNA of a single specimen...

Anyway I don't mind papers like this - they are to show the public that scientists are sometimes working on problems that they can relate too.
All things considered, my Apple Watch has had the highest ROI of any piece of fitness gear I’ve ever bought. It finally integrated fitness into my life as a daily habit — I find myself actively wanting to run to improve my times and keep workout streaks alive. Gamification is pretty stupid for a lot of use cases, but really motivating for something like working out.
> Many people work in front a computer these days so it can't actually be applied to them.

This sort of advice can be literally applied to anyone who doesn't have severely limiting physical limitations. Sure, working in front of a screen is a constraint you may have to work around - but the rest of your time you make a lot of choices about.

Just a for instance, I had a colleague recently who lived in typical suburbia and worked as a programmer. He changed two things: First was that while he still drove in every day, he left 30 min earlier and parked about 20 min away from the office. So he walked about 45 min to and from his car every day regardless. Second thing was to get up and walk nearly every day during lunch, just a little 15 min loop or so.

He visibly lost weight, and claimed to feel great (and that his commute wasn't actually much longer - better traffic)
In winter, UK solar doesn't produce much - and produces zero for 14 hours a day.

The same time it's producing zero in spain, greece and turkey
There is Fedora CoreOS, it seems pretty active.

https://github.com/coreos/fedora-coreos-tracker
Like with law enforcement, it is a target rich environment. There are many more possible cases to litigate than time or personnel to do it. So cases get chosen for a variety of reasons. Public good, self promotion, lobbying by competitors, etc...
Resume-driven development is unfortunate; but a valid strategy when employers who run everything on one server that hasn't been updated since 2003 start listing 5 years of Kubernetes experience as a requirement in their job posting.
AMD Unveils Epyc 7H12: A 280W 7nm Server Core to Rule the Roost
So nice of the Fed to help the banks mark the close of the quarter.
For many a datacenter - balancing the loads across the three-phase power supply is one area that makes one of, if not the biggest difference in the bill/power charged for using. Though that for many a tech, is an area they are more inclined to overlook.

Then quality of the power (clean sine or noise spikes) auditing, then the factor that UPS's do square wave. Though that's more stability and indeed longevity of your kit plugged that appreciates those nuances.

It is one big rabbit hole and can imagine the likes of Google having dedicated teams to focus just on power optimisations as the dividends at that scale - more than pay for the team.
I don't think it seems that way at all. It seems merely like the parent post is suggesting that the GP's position is more like amorality than it is like a specific moral position. I can see reasonable arguments for both positions - but calling either of those opinions "scary" seems unnecessarily provocative and dramatic.
Peter Thiel: Uncommon Knowledge
> To use whistleblower protections, he would've had to go through official channels. But doing so would have made it likely that his concerns would be quashed and that he would've faced retaliatory action. Previous NSA whistleblowers didn't fare well.

That's - logically - the point of his defence. Since Snowden can plausibly argue that he couldn't go through official channels - and his proof is previous cases - he doesn't have a choice other than going around them. The perceived interests of American public - which are for grand jury to determine, IMO - require, in case when there is no regular way, to do it "irregularly". Otherwise the law breakers - the intelligence services - go uncorrected.
Facebook is legit changing. It is pushing me updates from small groups I belong to, some of which are people I've known for over 20 years now back from the earlier web.

What appears in my feed seems very curated.

I also don't have friends who post random political news stuff.

My FB feed has become enjoyable and fun now. I get to see my friend who moved out of the big city to start a farm run her now successful farm. I get to see my friend who moved to Germany talk about work/life balance in another country. I get to see my friend who is a prof at college talk about his student's essays.

Honestly... it is sorta nice now. It wasn't a year ago, but these last few months have been great.

Reddit is completely what you make of it. I belong to some super positive communities, some great recipe groups, and some technical subreddits. I get an endless feed of healthy food suggestions, opportunities to help out students just entering the work force, and some awesome discussions on science and engineering topics. /r/askculinary is great and I've had multiple people reach out to me due to my activities helping people out on various smaller programming subreddits.

I spend more time on HN than either of the above.

> Eliminate cognitive load. Eliminate distractions.

Agreed! My reddit feed is small enough that if I refresh it after an hour, odds are nothing new will show up! Facebook is similar now, it is no longer an endlessly scrolling list of stuff, honestly after 10-15 minutes I am back to where I was yesterday. Overall it is a win for FB because I have gone from "0" to "10 minutes", even though I imagine these changes may have made some of their heaviest users drop their total engagement time. If they can get more people back on the platform, it may be worth it to them.

> Ignite a fire in the forest that is your life and let all the shit burn to the ground.

I think this is why Marie Kondo is so popular right now. Throw it all out! I've always tried to get rid of things I don't use, but forcing functions and absolute rules can be useful at times.
No, but all western countries are interested in getting some of that control for themselves...

If you consider what governments track today and what was considered "totalitarian surveillance" back in McCarthy era, it's clear where things are headed.

Or consider how many extra bureaucratic checks, controls, and laws exist now, compared to 1950 or 1920...
From what I've been able to gather, there has been a decrease in demand for US Treasurys from certain segments of the market. This has resulted in primary dealers having to purchase the difference. They don't purchase USTs from cash on hand. Instead, they use the repo market to fund the purchase. However, the supply of repo market funds is relatively inelastic. Thus, you have a big spike in repo demand with a relatively fixed supply. This was causing the rate spikes we saw. Thus the Fed stepping in as lender of the last resort.
275MW isn’t much. It’s only 30-40 turbines.
Not sure what you're talking about, the courts have ruled that NSLs are constitutional.
And then the obvious next conclusion is you can argue with a judge on whether or not that's reasonable.

We already have laws on the books to deal with organized crime - why would we give up our rights so that something we have no evidence for might happen?
Show HN: Alpha test multiple namespace support in OpenFaaS
Nothing's changed. The usurers aren't better because they're app based.
Andon
Is this terrible, or is it literally the worst thing in the world? :/
A scientific attempt to demystify meditation yielded astounding results
It's all in the PDF they helpfully link at the very top of the page, along with references. They also link the 2013 report that it is an update to.
I don't know what troubles me more:

1. a clearly-expert developer bragging about 1 hour to write hit app then telling everyone to basically live the dream chicken soup for the soul bs

2. people who experience increased anxiety from said wampeter/foma/granfalloon* because they haven't wildly succeeded

My brain to me: Welcome to 2019.

* See: Kurt Vonnegut
I'd think that at the very least, it's more difficult to stand still for long periods without walking around at least a little bit, than to remain sitting. So prolonged standing presents a lower barrier of entry to not being sedentary.
Interesting. The vibe has changed considerably since I was here last. Nevermind.
Great tool, a small suggestion: Let the user add a HEX color and then show hues before/after based on that. It would make this tool more useful.
The most likely way it happened was a multitude of complaints received in workers-rights or competition institutions because that's a formal way to complain about companies doing unfair stuff, and when Amazon abuses their workforce or vendors it affects a LOT of people with the right to turn to these institutions. These institutions will default to having paperwork supporting their process and decisions as they routinely need to use the legal system to solve problems. I think it is very unlikely a competitor could orchestrate these consequences for Amazon's actions.
This is really off-topic. He tought that ICE actions are immoral, therefore helping them is immoral, and decided to remove his FREE (as in freedom) software from his github account.

This has nothing to do with legal or illegal immigration.

Btw i'll stay off-topic with you:
the waiting list for legal immigration is more than 20 year if you're from Mexico, up to 60 if its for familly reasons (so a son, a daughter, a wife or parents). This have some interesting effects (if the green card holder of the family die, what happen to those that remains, even if they lived in the US for 20 years?)

And what about the companies that hire illegal immigrants? Why are the fines so small. If you want to prevent illegal immigrant to "take away jobs", simple: higher fines for companies and incentives for illegal immigrants to denounce the company they are working for. This should do the job just fine.