skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Giving up any addiction is good, especially sugar, alcohol, smoking, etc but telling someone to try this instead of chemo when they have cancer is criminal imho. I have seen people listen to that and then go back for chemo when it is too late. Maybe during chemo it can help or can’t hurt, but instead of... Ofcourse people decide what they do with their own lives, but do not state things as if this is proven or even shown outside a few vague cases.
It does mention this, but doesn't use those exact two words:

Crucially, 99.4 per cent cases identified as cancer were correctly spotted - meaning just 0.6 per cent of cases were misdiagnoses of healthy patients.
Exactly, this is a trivially parallelized problem. My iPhone 11 Pro can easily do real time face boundary display with dozens of faces at once on a 12MP sensor (and that’s not it’s sole purpose, if all it cared about was face boundary identification I’m sure it could do a lot more). With custom ASICs, the face boundary checking could be embedded alongside the sensor array in this mega camera sensor setup. Then once a face boundary is identified, you send just those pixels off to a GPU array to do the face identification.
Wikis on GitHub are themselves git repos and can be cloned separately: https://help.github.com/en/articles/adding-or-editing-wiki-p...
Polish banks haunted by Swiss franc mortgages in European court
No we dont.
Well yes that would be great, fusion is the holy grail, but it is always 50 years away.
Heartburn No More Review, Work or a Scam?
Based on the paper's own statement about the situation, it was the paper's management that told him to do this search, and when he found posts made as a minor, he presented them to the paper's management who made the decision that the posts were relevant and ordered the reporter to publish the posts despite his own misgivings about it. They then pilloried him when it all blew up in their faces, and sacrificed him, but it was management that steered the entire affair and made the decision to publish.

For some reason the management is reluctant to fire themselves for their shameful and unprofessional behavior, which is the appropriate action at this point. It's distasteful that management is now denying their own culpability and setting out a scape-goat given they not not only previously admitted their culpability, but self-righteously bragged about it in an open letter to subscribers.

Any journalists considering working for this paper in the future will likely carefully consider the risk of working for someone who orders you to to unethical things, then when that backfires, destroys your entire professional career in order to protect their own bad decisions from themselves.
Is to built into Remote Desktop clients? Doubt it.
The world is absolutely being crushed by "knowledge" right now. What the world needs is wisdom, that's in serious short supply. So what is the wise choice of open source tool in any sector? Some good measures are numbers of stars, forks, weekly downloads on NPM, that kind of thing. Eyes on. Active users.

"Sharing knowledge" is mental masturbation, feel-good, I give back to the community talk. Nothing is given if there are no takers!

"Aquiring users" is modus operandi, million dollar idea, change-the-world talk.

And then there's the real wreckers in this thread who are all on about equality and fairness. Hey wreckers, just put in the work and get users; there's many ways to get paid! My problem with many of you is that you simply can't deliver the goods and are bitter about it.

Maybe you're in the wrong line of business? I've heard the DMV is a delightful place for torturing comrades and ruining civil society.
I never even made it to pre-calc and I suck at Algebra but I'm teaching myself CS and functional programming. The title made me interested and the warning tells me I'm probably not ready for it.
Thank you!

I read his book, Steven Corvey is very interesting!
SVG is the only way to get vector printing through a browser currently unless its just normal html/css which isn't enough to render a pdf.

Canvas is just a bitmap so when printing pdf.js renders to a certain dpi canvas which I believe is less than 300 dpi (150?) which even still uses huge memory and ends up with fuzzy text.

You don't want bitmaps going to printer for text and line art, you want vector so it can come out at 600+ dpi while using minimal memory.
Subpixel AA is basically just trading color resolution for spatial. It’s true that it’s not composable, but you can actually “fix” that by keeping it in 3x horizontal format as long as possible, then actually rendering to 1x with subpixel detail later.

P.S.: because subpixel effectively gives you 3x horizontal resolution, it looks terrible to still fit to a pixel grid horizontally. Check the Anti-grain geometry article on font rendering for more cool font rendering bits, I recall it being very interesting.
>is the one thing in the Universe you are guaranteed to never experience

Isn't this whole reason why dying is so scary? It would be less scary to die if there was some kind of afterlife (this is popular view given existence of various religions).
Dropping out of college (or not attending college) for comp sci is great if you can make it work, or if you have the knowledge and discipline to get where you want to go.

However, for many (myself included), it provided a framework that I wouldn't have been able to get otherwise. After I got that framework, then the idea made more sense to me.
> last I checked (earlier this year I believe), there’s still a 14-character length limit on the MS account password

It was 16 chars. And it hasn't been true since 2016.
FreeLB: Enhanced Adversarial Training for Language Understanding
Most cards have m2 interface nowadays; so you'd like to have an adapter too. Also mPCIe cards tend to use two screws, not one.
Yes, I have also seen discussion of dongles being made to jailbreak your iPhone. The Nintendo Switch has a bootrom exploit and a dongle to exploit it is available.
I have two children at one of these schools, and we are not remotely wealthy. Just like they could fill the class with perfect SAT students, they could probably fill it entirely with children of the super-rich, but in both cases, the resulting group would be somehow dull or socially unhealthy in some way. So, the admissions people are smart; they accept some of the rest of us for diversity, sanity, and spark.
... yes, I am responding to a comment critical of the usage of composer, requesting for it to be published as individual, self-contained files.
> seemingly impossible goals that they keep setting for themselves

John Carmack made this point on the JRE podcast when talking about his failed Armadillo Aerospace, that a rocket company needs to have outrageous goals, otherwise you'll waste ten years accomplishing nothing (think Amazon Blue Origin).
Very interesting demo. Thanks for sharing. Unfortunately it doesn't seem to parse Winograd schemas[0] correctly

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winograd_Schema_Challenge
I had an experience like this with a stranger on https://sysop.chat/ (as seen before on HN!) where he 'emulated' a text adventure. It was quite fun to see the story he built and the mistakes he made while typing (it's a real-time experience).

I hope to see more fun ways to communicate, like this one.
There are tons of people that write code that aren't college graduates and aren't very educated in math.

I'm a high school drop out. I'm teaching myself functional programming and I'm slowly relearning HS algebra so I can move on to subjects I've never taken like precalculus, calculus, and undergrad math.
"Climate Catastrophe" is a completely normal word to use and it's absolutely not suspicious that it's being pushed harder than the term "fake news" when it was coined three years ago.

edit: yup that took less than 40 seconds
I had been wondering about that. Are there any mechanisms in say, Nord VPN, that stop them from tracking you or is it just shifting your trust from the ISP to a VPN provider?
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't think it's even possible to merge your iCloud account (Apple ID) with your Mac user account. Aren't these always separate identities?

I thought what Microsoft is pushing people to do is to use a single identity for both their PC and their Microsoft account, just like Google does with Chrome Books.

My concern with the single identity model is not just privacy. I worry that if something happens to my online account I might lose access to my local data.

At least on Chrome Books this is something that can happen. Not sure about Microsoft's approach though.
Fusion is not necessary at all, thorium is a sufficent holy grail, currently underfunded because of humanity irrationallity.
Ask HN: Germany vs. Canada for Tech Jobs?
I'm 25M from India and looking into settling in either Berlin or Toronto to build my career in tech. I'm not considering the US because of its visa issues.

Both Berlin and Toronto seem to have some tech scene going on. Cost of living in Toronto is quite high compared to Berlin. It seems it'll be easier to save money in Berlin to work towards financial independence.

On the other hand, tech companies in Canada pay peanuts and the high cost of living leaves quite a small amount to save each month. However, once a Canadian citizen, there is a possiblity to get transferred to a Silicon Valley arm of a US company from Canada (using the TN visa) and hence receive a higher compensation.

How would you compare between the two countries for building a career in tech for an immigrant?
Sunday: The First Return of Exiles
To do what? The world has ended...
> Filtering by college degrees is filtering by family wealth more than anything else

I'm not sure it's wealth as much as filtering by situation. My family was not and still isn't wealthy. Quite the opposite in fact. I was fortunate enough to be born near a local college so I could live with my parents while going to school, and working 30 or so hours/week to pay tuition.

I definitely didn't have the 'college experience', but I graduated with almost no debt.

I got my first programming job when I was a sophomore in college through people I met there. A couple different companies asked me to put college on hold for a semester in order to work more, but I'm glad I said no. College is not the only path, especially today. But, it was the best path for me.
I went with subscription model, my goal is to put content in the app, I want a way to inform and recommend users about what "good" Habits there is to implement in life.

I appreciate any suggestion on that.
They didn't removed it.
The title is misleading, The button is still there, but they renamed the button.
It's under "Domain Join Instead" https://i.imgur.com/tA9fo1R.png
And there you can create an offline account: https://i.imgur.com/eBLi5cv.png
What is the likeliness of global warming being a climate catastrophe?
What is your theory though? Who is pushing this concept and for what gain?
This attitude probably doesn’t help it in securing funding. Not everything can be solved with more money, obviously, but if we were putting a fraction of the money into basic research that we are putting into the petroleum industry I’m pretty confident we would see that timeline jump very suddenly.
Another article from five days ago:

Nuclear energy too slow, too expensive to save climate: report

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-energy-nuclearpower/nucle...

Fusion is even further out than fission.
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1177636866671157248.html
For folks who don't like reading a series of tweets.
Maybe we should all stop digging around in social media to find things people said and quote them out of context...
It is not proven, even informally that stable nuclear fusion is possible on human scale.
Unlike sufficiently great solutions such as thorium fission.
>There has been a lot of buzz recently about spaceflight companies shooting for frequent "airline-like operations," but scientists, engineers and policy makers generally are not "putting two and two together with respect to the emissions that are implied by that idea,"

I wouldn't worry about that. I saw Musk's video[1] on using rockets as a way to supplant air-travel and the idea is even more ridiculous than his hyperloop and underground-moving-street concepts. There's no point in mentioning it as even a possible eventuality. Rockets will never be used for intra-earth passenger travel.

[1]https://www.space.com/38314-elon-musk-spacex-mars-rocket-ear...
Sure, so you can represent the other far extreme. I certainly advocate for review, but we should be practical. No one reads all the code down to the proc to ensure nothing malicious is happening, and the average software dev wouldn't be able to understand something malicious at that level anyway. I could have used a more hyperbolic example than a practical one (have you read all the PHP source for the version you're on? Have you read all your PECL libraries? Those ones are okay but OSS in PHP is not? Why? Just because it's harder to read C, right?). Pretending we do review everything is disingenuous -- but we should do what we can. Review doesn't have to be reading lines of code, but it could be ensuring it comes from popular and trusted sources (part of my earlier comment).

It should be noted that your example was not bad source, so rigorously reviewing source code would not have helped. It was an unpublish event which was unexpected but is now differently handled by the package managers + registries.
My initial thought was that they completely removed the option only in the Home version of Windows.

Since (I don't think) you can join Windows Home to a Domain, is that true? Is the option for a local account now only available in Windows Pro, unless you install Windows Home disconnected from the Internet?
As a sibling comment said, some people are griefers who only seek to inconvenience or otherwise harass others. Particularly with online games.
What word would you use instead of catastrophe with those datum?
Do you think this is because the people at SpaceX are incredibly motivated by what they are working on, because of the inspiring leadership of Elon Musk, because they actually have enough money/funding, because of some unique agile way of working that SpaceX has developed, because they don't have to deal with (or have found a way to deal with) as much stifling regulation, or some combination of all of the above?

I am genuinely trying to understand it as an outsider to SpaceX. It seems like either SpaceX has figured out a formula for organizational success that we all need to learn from, or it also seems like there's a possibility something else is going on. I really can't tell.

EDIT: If anyone has any books or reading material on this topic, please share!
Who has more to lose here and who has more resources to put towards propaganda and disinformation, climate scientists and green energy companies, or a deeply entrenched $1.7 trillion/year fossil fuel industry?
Check how much the fusion projects got in financing like ITER, Wendelstein 7-X and others received

The National Ignition Facility also got a lot of funding but it has goals beyond the study of fusion
Thorium also has its issues. Germany had a commercial reactor in the 80s, but it was abandoned.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/THTR-300
I have the same problem as well :D, hopefully I can make the app motivational enough for users to be able to stay consistent on using it.
> You can get a college degree just for showing up.

Highly depends on the college and major. My CS degree had a ton of out of class homework assignments and projects not to mention the need to study to pass the tests preventing you from coasting by. Add onto that the fact that at least 10 of my math and cs classes were bell curved based and Cs are the minimum passing grade so if you try to coast by, you will need to retake a bunch of classes or switch to an easier major as everyone else is working really hard to not be in the bottom (i had to retake 3 classes myself).
Yup, that would be about the time fusion research received funding not sufficient to keep progress at zero.
Yup, as much as things like magic wand, warp drive, aliens or parallel worlds colonization, they all can save us.

How dare people say just limiting consumption and CO2 pollution could have any effect. Let's just bet everything on zero.
i think, ios, sdk and tools won't work for iphone 4,5,6 etc - so you won't have developer tool chain support and no way to update them due to non-OSS proprietary base.
This is bullshit.
Nuclear is one of the most economical way to create energy, despite current overengineered safety specs.
https://www.world-nuclear.org/information-library/economic-a...
It doesn’t come free, you or another demographic is losing. Public schools comes to mind, slow congested public transport ... etc limited beds in public hospitals

Lower quality of life because of High taxes

Waste because old people see a doc as a free social interaction

I don’t know both systems are not right
Likelihood is probably the wrong way to look at this, since it completely depends on human behavior. That’s like asking, what’s the likelihood of my eating a banana. It’s whatever likelihood you want it to be.
Basic research is never a loss. Even if we weren’t to find a workable solution for nuclear fusion the technology developed as part of the search would almost certainly push forward many areas of physics and energy research.
I agree, it can be confusing, it's something I can take with me, thanks!
Total agreement. College is largely about trading money for status. I have a comp sci degree from a good school, don't see what the big deal is, if I had to do it over again I would have skipped it and just hustled my way into a programming job at 18.
> SVG is the only way to get vector printing through a browser currently

This is what seems weird. Why is that? Also it's not like most printer drivers don't need to convert it back to ps or pdf before printing.
sure, you could arrive at this rhetorical question after about 30 seconds of rational thought OR you could be a contrarian and feel super smart because you saw through a conspiracy!
I can't see what on earth can MS gain from making this change. What does Microsoft gain from users having a "Microsoft account"?

If they go to a services model their Windows marketshare will plummet. As soon as users have to directly pay a monthly fee, all the Linux UX issues will seem meaningless.
Pin 1 Problem
I'm replying to this comment only because there are numerous other comments talking about the use of this for people who are in some way physically impaired.

What's the state of designated parking spaces for such people? Just yesterday I crossed the parking lot at my local supermarket and passed a dozen extra-wide spaces right by the door, all marked with the generic symbol, painted in blue, and clearly marked for use by such patrons only. As it was most of them were empty, but that's good; every shopper with that need, currently at that store, had been able to park right by the door.

A short way beyond those spaces, are spaces marked for those shepherding children, which is less vital but still helpful.

So what's the state of this facility - extra wide designated spaces right by the door specifically intended for the people who need it - across the US and other countries? If it's being done, then this "smart summon" seems more of a gimmick. If it's not being done, it feels a little like an unnecessarily high-tech solution to a low-tech problem.
I assume Chinese investors are going risk-off and piling into Chinese bonds. Meanwhile foreign investors with Chinese equity exposure are definately not trading that for Chinese currency and inflation exposure. I imagine those investors are looking to shift their positions in potential EM beneficiaries of the trade war: Indonesia, India, etc.
What about all the data?
What about direct evidence like the glaciers melting way, and the coral reefs dying? There is video evidence of these two, fyi.
Tangent: I've been running Windows 10 on my work laptop since January 2019 and I use the PIN feature for login. Every so often I'll try to enter my PIN to log in and it says something along the lines of "your pin is not available". What on earth does that mean? The messaging is absurd and gives me no indication of what to do. I don't believe it's directly related to network availability because I'll retry again in a few minutes and it is still unavailable. The only reliable means to get around this is to reboot or enter my full username and password by typing 60 characters in from 1Password on my phone.
> despite current overengineered safety specs

Yeah you're right, they should remove all redundancies, ridiculous factor of safeties, and over the top safety measures /s
Fission isn't far out. Fission has been a readily available solution for decades. The only obstacle is political. The only reason fission is expensive is political.

As the climate situation worsens, more and more nations will overlook that obstacle and roll out large scale nuclear. The only question is, will they be able to do it quickly enough.

I feel like I'm the only person in the room missing something when watching the world focus on 'renewable' technology when a much less resource/labour intensive and much higher energy dense power source is already available. And it's safer too. [1]

Why is renewable in quotes? Because we don't actually have a way to recycle solar and wind installations[2][3]. Nuclear is the only currently available large scale power source that doesn't require a large and continuous supply of mined materials.

Am I missing something? Am I an idiot? Why is everyone so anti nuclear and pro 'renewable' when nuclear is significantly better by every objective metric? Looks like the 'ban plastic straws' activism which ignored that straws make up an insignificant fraction of ocean waste and the vast majority of it is discarded fishing equipment. Inconsequential feel-good activism is a higher priority goal than more difficult but effective solutions?

[1] https://www.forbes.com/sites/jamesconca/2012/06/10/energys-d...

[2] https://recyclinginternational.com/editors-top-picks/critica...

[3] https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/waste-crisis-looms-a...
Recently had a discussion with a colleague about JSON in C++. It's actually a big issue, because reflection isn't really supported in C++.
It's not just a blocker for parsing objects as JSON, it's a fundamental limitation for being able to map objects to any kind of format in a general fashion without creating initializers for every object.
I actually have no idea what kind of black magic they're doing to achieve this, but it sounds pretty admirable to me.
TPM-chip acting up somehow maybe?
If we get sucked by the gravity, we are stuck as well.
> NIST is working on algorithms resistant to quantum attacks, but we're still far off.

These have existed for years already
To my limited knowledge, there are today some reactor that take both normal uranium and thorium. (the state of the art seems to be Russia from 90s)
The only issue I saw is that thorium is less lucrative than uranium with today technology.
Being less lucrative make it still lucrative enough to provide energy for all humanity decently.
Nice...no normal user would click that.

This is terrible.
I have Enterprise on one machine, Pro on another. I don't recall ever having a reboot forced, but sometimes they make it really annoying, popping up a "please restart now to apply updates!" message multiple times a day - I'd really like a "remind me in x days" option for these notifications.
Technically, maybe. Commercially, the licensing is a huge mess. In some areas with low volumes you certainly don't want (or maybe MS won't even sell to you under reasonable terms) to deal with that. Even with medium/high volume I would find it nightmare.