skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Generally healthy: You can have a chronic disease and work on being generally healthy. Eat a varied diet. Exercise as you can. Don't smoke. I should mention at this point that I have a chronic disease - MS. There is no cure. But all that stuff helps people's outcome. The special diets do not.

There are special doctors for some chronic diseases - like MS. Most folks go to a normal neurologist, and a few are lucky enough to have some specialists near them. I have nurses that are specialized that I see more than the neurologist as it helps the neurologist see more folks.

That said, not all chronic diseases and conditions need a specialist. Type 2 diabetes is a chronic condition. High blood pressure is a chronic condition (and not always caused by diet/exercise). Depression is chronic. The thing is that some of these are common enough that it is pretty easy for a doctor to know about them. If you are lucky, you see an internist, who specialises in adult general medicine.

Not all chronic diseases and conditions are things that are puzzling either. There is no reason for most folks to see these sorts of specialists, but I wish they were more available for folks that need them. This is a pretty slim portion of patients, though. Some diseases we don't know much about, and we need science to help. I've donated spinal fluid to help things along and I'll donate my body to science after whatever organ donation they'll let me do. I urge others to do similar stuff, and this is why I both want medical records digital and want them to be searchable by researchers. For everyone that doesn't specifically opt out, anyway.

Most of the tests you mention? Yeah, if you are going to see a specialist, they are going to do the tests. Medicine is a profession of puzzles. You take vague symptoms that could have many causes and do tests to rule things out.
When You’re the Scientist in the Family
Help with the Karma
i need anleast 2 karma, how i can a get it?
I mean it is essentially a premium feature in the current market of cheap locked down shit.
Twitter now suspending users who share woman yelling at Cat Meme
Black Friday Sales on Weed
The FSF has long held the position that an OS that you and any hacker can modify is better than one that neither you nor any hacker can modify. (This position seems seriously flawed, if not actively reckless, to me.)
Giving someone else a poorly-supported device running a weirdo operating system as a "gift" seems pretty unethical to me.
Don't see any evidence of that actually happening as of yet. Would more expect that they'll just make them stop working entirely without a connection, instead of adding fancier ways of connecting them.
Except when the FAANG company revenue turns out to be driven by the same fake money faucet.
I think you are looking for the functional square root operation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Functional_square_root

In mathematics, a functional square root (sometimes called a
half iterate) is a square root of a function with respect to
the operation of function composition. In other words, a
functional square root of a function g is a function f
satisfying f(f(x)) = g(x) for all x.

For your example of f(f(x)) = e^x, that would be the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Half-exponential_function with a=1 and b=e. Unfortunately there's no simple arithmetic representation of f(x).
EU states reject move to expose companies' tax avoidance
IPs are considered personal information, so, yes ?
Really? I've never heard of that. Can you elaborate?
I tried to arrive at a stricter definition of whimpiness by throwing another analogy into the mix.

Of course matter of taste is entirely subjective, but that shouldn't stop us from making fun of it when warranted. Or even when not, such unimportant distinctions shouldn't be taken seriously.
Is mutation testing different than mutation-based fuzz testing? If so, how?
Yes, I see what you mean, and I agree that it’s a good analogy. But factually, the absolute version of that statement is wrong. You can, in fact, live with your own mortality without suffering. The process of arriving to that state of mind might require some suffering, though.

—

I didn’t put you in a prison, Evey. I just showed you the bars.

[…]

You were in a cell, Evey. They offered you a choice between the death of your principles and the death of your body. You said you’d rather die. You faced the fear of your own death, and you were calm and still. Try to feel now what you felt then…

I… felt… like… an angel…

— V for Vendetta, issue 7, 1989
See also Viral Code and Vaccination by Robert J. Chassell:

—

When others hurt me, I try to defend myself. But some tell me that this makes them sick. They tell me that I should permit people to rob me of my work. They tell me that I should never try to defend myself.

They tell me that I should stop using the GNU General Public License, a license that vaccinates me against hurt. Instead, I should adopt a license that permits other people to rob me with impunity. They want me to adopt a license that forbids me from fighting back. They want me to give up my right to benefit from a derivative of my own work, a right I possess under current copyright law.

Of course, the language is a little less feverish than this. Usually, I myself am not called “infectious”. Rather, the legal defense that I use is called “infectious”. The license I choose is called “viral”.

In every day language, words such as “infect” and “virus” describe disease. The rhetoric is metaphorical. A legal tool is not a disease organism; but it is popular to think of the law as an illness, so the metaphor has impact.

The people who want to rob me use language that says I make them sick when I stop them from robbing me. They do not want to draw attention to the so-called “disease” that makes them ill: my health and my rights, and the health and rights of other people. Instead, they choose metaphor to twist people's thinking. They do not want anyone to think that I am a good citizen for stopping crime. They want the metaphor to fool others into thinking that I am a disease agent.

The GNU General Public License protects me. The connotation of “virus” and “infect” is that my choice of defense gives an illness to those who want to rob me. I want freedom from their robbery; but they want the power to hurt me. They get sick when they cannot hurt me.

To use another health and illness-related metaphor, the GNU General Public License vaccinates me; it protects me from theft.

Note that the theft about which I am talking is entirely legal in some situations: if you license your work under a modified BSD license, or a similar license, then others may legally take your work, make fixes or improvements to it, and forbid you from using that code. I personally dislike this arrangement, but it exists.

— https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/vaccination.html
Mozilla’s Firefox Hardware Report has the latest desktop OS share across all Firefox channels:

51% Windows 10
27% Windows 7
6% Windows 8
6% macOS
11% Other (Linux, BSDs, etc)

https://data.firefox.com/dashboard/hardware

I think the Firefox Nightly, Developer Edition, and Beta channels have a slightly higher share of macOS and Linux users, but not much. There are a lot of Windows users out there; you just don't see them at JS conferences. :)
He’s linking to the IPCC and UN reports he’s citing so you can just look it up.

Being anti-nuclear is a pretty good indication that you don’t think climate change is really a serious problem. France has a CO2 footprint much lower than its neighbors because it’s grid is heavily nuclear. (Right now, we don’t have the battery technology for a fully renewable grid, so countries like Germany must backup renewables with coal and gas. Also, it makes no sense to shut down nuclear plants that have already been paid for to build renewables. If climate change was really pressing, you’d keep the nuclear plant running, build the renewable resource, and shut down a coal plant instead.)
> Why do you think people's identity is tied to the auditability of complex computer systems?

I don’t think that. I think people tie their identity to all sorts of things, including the obvious Apple and Android fans, but more importantly “user of mainstream apps”. Many people think they can’t be who they are (a.k.a. “can’t live”) without normal mainstream phone apps.

People don’t have to tie their identity to this, but many do.
I recently bought an LG OLED as well.

I never connected it to my network and never will.

It was a dark pattern during setup. The options were to connect via LAN or WIFI, and only by scrolling into "nothing" did a skip option appear.

This ImO is the only option and even then I bet it's trying to exhilarate data by like trying to connect to a phone or high frequency audio or something.
This also raised my eyebrows -- I don't even see the redirect, I just get broken HTTPS if I try to use it. In 2019 (almost 2020!) no website should be served over plain HTTP let alone have broken and nonfunctional HTTPS.
I took a class one summer that used OpenCL. Ended up learning a lot. Maybe this will help someone: https://github.com/nixpulvis/gpu_prog_arch
I have the latest Paperwhite Kindle. It works - but leaves much to be desired. Most of it is around me wishing the glossary was more accessible, navigation were easier. Charts and diagrams should stay visible for all their references, highlights should be easier to extract, and the DRM system is awful.

I actually wrote a post about this here:

https://jborichevskiy.com/posts/digital-tools/
Yes, and for backend and mobile too since you can build for android and iOS.
https://tfl.gov.uk/corporate/safety-and-security/security-on...
"I made too much money and I'm bored, help. :'("

God, get a fucking grip man.
This might be of use. However I don't blame you for not using it altogether.

https://gist.github.com/peteryates/b44b70d19ccd52f62d66cdd4b...
You've now defined "consensus" as "anything you don't stage an armed rebellion over" ... which doesn't seem like a useful definition at all.
Right. Many people who put up those notices don’t need them, and in doing so unfortunately sour public perception for the law. It’s actually not as stupidly written as people think it is.
It's not like this is the only method for harnessing the sun's energy.

PV fields for example don't cook the local fauna.
I don’t understand the dedication of resources to solving problems on Mars when we have plenty of unsolved problems that affect people that are alive today and suffering. Maybe they don’t have the allure of private profit but I think it would be much more valuable to figure out how to grow and distribute food in food insecure places than to figure out how to grow and distribute food on Mars in addition to figuring out how to get there in the first place.
The 1700 estimate is probably off by a factor of a million.

1.7 billion in computation
Can't you just map that in software?
it really doesn't. The worst they'll do it block off a bridge.

Plus, there are two taxi systems, the Black cab, and the minicab. There are way more minicabs than black cabs, and they are a much bigger competitor to uber than black cabs.
Hi, I have some questions regarding your privacy policy. It appears that Unlisted maintains records of IP addresses, calls, texts, contacts, voicemails and lots of other metadata.

I admire the goal of trying to provide a convenient way to increase privacy when using SMS, but this feels a bit invasive. That's a lot of collected data. Unlisted has access to the entire history of all my conversations and calls. Why not encrypt most of the at-rest data with the user's password and decrypt it client-side? This is common practice for the more privacy-leaning email providers, such as ProtonMail. Similar SMS services have taken this approach as well, like crypton.sh.

You are leaving a lot of the privacy enthusiasts on the table (myself included). It may seem like a small market, but communities like /r/privacytoolsio are very active and constantly on the lookout for privacy preserving products.
It only became a topic for discussion after people failed to take your advice.
Whatever man, this is straight up grimy and both parties disgust me.
They have been using an exploit that allows you to wipe out the Intel backdoor. Maybe that prevents them from updating.
That's just bumper-to-bumper hype.
Sorry to hear about this. If you don’t have any other recourse, just charge this to experience and move on. Everyone makes mistakes so I hope you take this well.
From a user perspective, we are trying to focus less on rewind and step back and more on adding logging retroactively.

The best way to think about this is when the user adds a logpoint, they'll immediately see the logs in the console.

We hope that making logging much better is a great way to help people better understand the recording.
It would have to be a zoonotic pathogen and those tend to be rare.
They didn't get a pass at 99%.
I always felt the Fortran exponentiation operator (* *), which is inherited by javascript and php, was more intuitive notation.
Fair enough. I still use and like your service for a second off-site backup of ~40GB of very very important stuff, but was unable to ignore the cost savings for bulk data.
Well, it uses standard touch* events, so I guess it would work - did you try it?
But in reality you'd need to do some complicated operations on each 64-bit item, right? When e.g. cracking a password or so.

I also don't understand what type of real-world application is being simulated here. I do understand that it is a simplified example, but of what?

The takeaway is that it is feasible to perform a single comparison operation for each 64-bit bitstring. But we don't just do a single operation per item in the real world.
but, when one starts talking about idempotence and retries the first thing that comes to mind is these are just user mediated two phases commits, where an error dialog and user interaction drive the phases instead of a distributed transaction system, by which point one can just cut the middleman and build the thing out of tested and robust components
Not everything that uses lots of services needs to be a classical "microservice" architecture, where every service can call every other service.

You can have a component that coordinates workflows (can be a different component for each workflow, or can be one central component, depending on your need to scale vs. simplicity).

In the OpenStack project, they developed TaskFlow[0] for that. It allows you to build graphs of tasks, handles parallelization, persistence of meta information (if desired) and, important for your use case, rollback functions in case of errors.

[0]: https://docs.openstack.org/taskflow/latest/
Good question.

Everything is in firefox and open source

Here are the bugs: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?cmdtype=runnamed&na...

Here's the primary directory: https://searchfox.org/mozilla-central/source/toolkit/recordr...

The debugger API is implemented in JS here https://searchfox.org/mozilla-central/source/devtools/server...
What do you imagine they had to sign to get in weeks ahead of time? Very obviously, something deeply compromising.

Car news is, first of all, a business.
My #1 request for indexes from PostgreSQL or 3rd party tool is concurrently rebuilding indexes.

I have had several cases where query performance dropped significantly (unfortunately in managed AWS Aurora DB, so I have limited inspection abilities).

Index rebuilds is the solution but it locks the entire table.

You can get a concurrent rebuild by creating a new index concurrently, then transactionally drop the old one and rename the new one. It's error prone though.
An interval cancer is one that is diagnosed outside of the regularly-scheduled screening exams.

Example: A woman feels a lump, goes to see her doctor immediately rather than wait until her next scheduled screening, and this results in a cancer diagnosis.

One of the main reasons this happens is because the previous regular screening exam failed to detect the cancer.

Mammography misses cancers more often in dense breasts than in typical breasts. MRI has long been known to be much more sensitive than mammography at finding cancer in dense breasts.

This study looked at whether adding an MRI to a screening mammogram for extremely dense breasts would result in fewer interval cancers. It did, which is not surprising, but this was a relatively small study that resulted in only 4 cancers diagnosed in women who actually underwent the supplemental MRI.

Link to the paper: https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa1903986
Accepted_Here: Database of 500+ companies accepting crypto
Not true.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25277322

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S106474811...
No quantum supremacy comparisons ?
It is worse because you'd be taking away opportunities from some to give to others against their will. It's cheating.
How do modern web-sites work, principles for everyone
does this work for native applications as well? as that would be a very useful feature.

also, once you're already annotating, would it be possible to zoom in on a specific area a bit?
If you don’t want the “smart” features, just never enter your WiFi password.
Very impressive. They strengthened the fuselage to meet requirements almost exactly, and fell a tiny bit short. That's an incredible amount of optimization, that means there's hardly any excess material (weight). This keeps fuel costs low and airfares competitive.
I always like the quote that people in the photography community use - I think it applies just as well to software. "The best camera is the one that you actually use"
The plan is to do user testing on mac and if it is validated roll it out.

Replay requires a ton of difficult platform-level investment to get right and we're still actively finding bugs in the real world.

After it is validated, it will be easier to add the appropriate platform level bindings in other OSs.
Maybe I'm out of touch with current lego prices, but the prices on the Lepin webstore look very high for what I expected. $70 for a small house? Isn't that about the same as lego?
Well ... try reporting a bug without doing so and see how far you get?!
I have three org domains I really care about and have already bumped them out as long as currently-PIR will let me. Sucks to have to but two of these domains are so old, I have no idea what all would break if I let them go.
I didn't address my reply to FAA either
Has HN become Reddit now?
Android has a tiny BusyBox clone (ToyBox IIRC) in the default installation that can be accessed over USB with the right commands. It isn't particularly useful for anything besides poking around, and definitely doesn't support SSH, but it does do ls and cd.
I have a HD Homerun and the channels app for that.

I’m using the shield exclusively for smart features and the OLED as a dumb display.
Calling external services "microservices" is fundamentally wrong. They are "services". All that will do is create a lot of confusion because you are utterly misusing terminology. You can't just decide to misuse terminology. That's like calling "red" "blue". You don't gain information by misusing well-defined terms, you create confusion and misinformation.

That said, your ideas on distributed systems is wrong. Any point in a workflow can and will fail. You need to account for all of this. You can successfully create an account on Stripe, and then when you bill that account, it could return an error. Or even worse, it can timeout, meaning you don't know whether or not a user was charged.

You have to take into consideration all of these failure situations. There is no atomicity in the way that you expect. Whenever things deviate off the happy path, you fail quickly and decisively so that everyone knows where they stand. That gives people the option to retry or call support.
Back when I started to explore GPGPU, OpenCL was all about C, CUDA allowed me to play with more productive languages, naturally I also went with CUDA.

Same applies to Vulkan versus other next-gen APIs.
Try to use OpenCL on Android.
So why are we losing against the anti vaxers?
But consumer TVs nowadays come with absolutely hideous defaults, with color, contrast and sharpness adjusted to first and foremost compete for attention against other manufacturers on store shelves. It's gotten bad enough that stores now offer adjustment services — for a price, obviously — just to get the picture to look the way it should in the first place!
Well this wouldn't work obviously if it wasn't a more far reaching ban. If the next private school was in Europe I'm sure not many people would move over there. The next town is not a hindrance.
> it will NOT appeal to the average truck owner

Clearly it's not meant to appeal to anybody average. It is supposed to make extremists salivate. Have you seen what pick-up truck buyers are buying, lately? Nothing about them says useful.

I don't doubt they will sell. Just not to people with work to do.
India's space program is a huge point of pride for their country (and rightfully so).

They have problems to solve. It doesn't mean that it's wrong to spend a (relatively) tiny amount of money to give people something to aspire to, and to take pride in accomplishing together. We can do two things at once.

You're only focus on the space program because it's technically similar to food insecurity. But you're ignoring the 50% of the economy which is focused on -- let's be honest -- irrelevant shit. Incredible sums of money (and time and effort) go towards entertainment (hollywood), fashion, jewelry, vacations, and other luxuries.

If you want to divert more resources towards solving world hunger, take it from Hollywood. You don't need to strip bare a source of inspiration that unites people and moves humanity forward.
This is such an awesome paper, thanks for posting it!
That's true, I guess that was wrong. I remember reading something about cancer causing effects of milk, and I assumed that was due to inflammation. However it seems to be more related to the steroids in dairy.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4524299/
I'd like to hear the reasoning behind that

Something like: Oxfam is a fundraising organisation that just does enough charity work to generate photos for their marketing. It’s a long way from what most people believe a charity is - volunteers doing good works and raising money to directly buy the supplies and equipment.
That crosses into personal attack. We ban accounts that do that on HN. No more of this, please.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Sadly, this will only push TV manufacturers harder to implement built-in always-on 5G connectivity that completely bypasses the end user.
> Why is buying an iPhone or Pixel not logical?

You seem to misunderstand me. No decision we make is made logically – not a decision to buy a Librem 5, nor a decision to buy an iPhone or an Android-based phone. There may be one or several logical reasons for one or the other decision, but this is at most a tiny factor.
With regard to that conclusion, I'm reminded of a scene in Heinlein's «Stranger in a Strange Land», near the end of part 2 chapter 13, a conversation between Dr. Jubal Harshaw and Duke:

“To Mike it’s a solemn—but joyful—religious ceremony.”

Duke snorted. “Jubal, you don’t believe that stuff about ghosts. It’s just cannibalism combined with rank superstition.”

“Well, I wouldn’t go that far. I find these ‘Old Ones’ hard to swallow—but Mike speaks of them the way we talk about last Wednesday. As for the rest— Duke, what church were you brought up in?” Duke told him; Jubal went on: “I thought so…. Tell me—how did you feel when you took part in the symbolic cannibalism that plays so paramount a part in your church’s rituals?”

Duke stared. “What the devil are you talking about?”

&c.
> Additionally planes age. What's your failure point after 10-15 years of service?

In practice there is/are none, because would-be points of failure are continuously replaced at a schedule well ahead of the number of cycles at which they are known or expected to fail. This is true for aircraft of all sizes, not just passenger jets.