skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hi djsumdog! Weird to see you here!

Use search to find Kaniini's threads about Rapunzel.

Also, no, it's not something inherent in distributed social networking as a whole (previous attempts have avoided it), and it's not even inherent to push protocols, but without a bit of thinking behind it, it's easy to collide with.

Deleting is stupid, though, yeah.
That's not speech then.

If you're talking about compression, Q-codes[1] were invented long before most of us were born.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Q_code
They are analogous to dividends.

Example: You own 10% of company with market cap $100M. You have $10M.

Dividend scenario: company pays 3% dividend, you get $300k. You have $10M + $300k = $10.3 million.

Buyback scenario: company buys it's own stock for the same amount. You own 10.3% of the company. You have $10.3 million. If you want, you can sell stock to get $300k in cash.

The only difference is that in the buyback scenario you can decide when to sell (and pay taxes).
"You can't have a tight community like this unless the members are all homogeneous in traditions, beliefs, values, etc."

Citation needed.
Then you make the cleaning company reimburse the cost of the monitor. This isn't rocket science
Another word for "lazy" is "efficient".

I'd think people stealing bait cars are often the same people who would be stealing regular cars. So a successful bait car protects one or more regular cars. It is important to solve crimes that happened, but it is even more important to prevent future crimes. In fact, for property crimes, the overwhelming benefit of solving them is preventing future crimes. Except in backward countries with retributive justice system, like US, I suppose. (I want the guy who robbed me to suffer!)

Otherwise we, as a society, would simply get collective insurance to make victims whole and simply ignore property crimes.

Bait cars protect other cars as well, police is advertising their presence often, so everybody knows they are there. That has a chilling effect on crimes of opportunity.

In fact you don't even need to have any bait cars at a given location to reduce crimes, just say you do.

Would you be ok with private citizens, en masse, installing GPS trackers in their belongings, turning _all_ cars into bait cars btw? Would that also be considered entrapment?
I just read the abstract, and I'd say we should be very excited about this result.

When I left my Masters in 2012, the clinical trials being done still resulted in a prostatetectomy. Meaning, these generous men donated their time to allow us to use them as guinea pigs, yet received no benefit since their prostates were removed anyway. That did allow us to perform in-depth pathology reports about the efficacy of the treatment.

This paper has 115 men that were treated and allowed to not have the surgery done, so this is the first time that we were able to see what the outcomes of the treatment truly are. Based on the results in the abstract, it looks like the hypothesis that men would be "cured" and have a better quality of life (i.e. no incontinence or sexual dysfunction) seems to be well-supported.

More of these trials will need to occur before it becomes approved as a viable alternative to surgery. The big benefit though is that even if the the treatment fails to kill all of the cancer, it probably kills enough of it that you can go back to a watchful waiting approach, keep monitoring PSA levels and symptoms, and if anything was missed, follow up with full surgery. That is, surgery can become the last-ditch approach vs. being the only approach.
On the other hand, generalizing from two incidents to a rate isn't great statistics. The list of accidents and incidents with the previous generation [1] shows some 9 fatal problems spread over more than a decade, which is closer to a rate. But saying that the 737 Max is known to be 20 times worse when the real value might be anywhere between 2 and 200 if it had been allowed to continue flying is a little imprecise.

Put people in jail for negligence, sure. But we should be criminalizing based on that negligence and not on its results.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_accidents_and_incident...
Mods is it ok that this user ONLY posts links from paywalled sloanreview.mit.edu links? Seems like spam to me. They never comment, they only post every article from that website.
15 Years (At the Same Company)
@HorizonXP first thank you for your willingness to answer questions.

1) Any idea on where to look to find out when this might become available? Looks like it was just cleared by FDA with 510(k) clearance.

2) My guess is that if you want this done - you would have to travel to UCLA? and Dr. Raman (or colleague) would perform the operation?

3) Is there anywhere to find a real discussion of down side risks with actual rates and figures?

For example, the RSNA article has a statement:

>"There were low rates of severe toxicity and no bowel complications."

4a) What does `severe toxicity` entail? 4b) Is that a operational complication that is remedied at the hospital and overcome in the short-term? or is that a long term quality of life issue?

5a) Furthermore what is this actual "low" rate? is it 2/115 or is more like 10/115? It looks like the base rate for these is perhaps around 3%-7% is how would I compare this study of 115 to something published like: [1]

Similarly RSNA states:

> "We saw very good results in the patients, with a dramatic reduction of over 90 percent in prostate volume and low rates of impotence with almost no incontinence" --Dr. Raman said.

5b) Where could I look to find the actual rates of each of these negative side effects? 5c) Or would you guess they are not published?

[1]: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2900775/
Who is "they"? Did you not have product teams writing clear business cases for everything you work on? Like if a developer doesn't understand why something is important it isn't going to get done right.
By that argument (the argument of the headline, at least), then if voting is justified, so is a poll tax.
Sounds like a you problem. If anyone is spending thousands of dollars on a single item and doesn't take the time to review the usage manual that's their own problem.
I think people would be better served focusing on waste in government. If I were a billionaire why would I want my taxes just to go to the countless big consulting firms incentivized to work slowly to get the most billing hours?
up until the moment you realised that your very specific skill is not that worth much more elsewhere.
Well, you have to know these things when you're a king, you know.
> Dairy is protected because if you let a foreign power destroy your source through uneven capitalism (e.g. the US dumping their excess, subsidized production) the number of farms/cows/chickens would collapse

Sooner or later, it’s going to happen. May as well ease them into it starting now.

We’re already moving toward artificial meat. Once it’s cheaper than the « real thing », those farms are toast.
Not OP, but I feel the same way as them. I'm taking an EMT class and planning on applying to PA programs. It's scary doing something totally different but it feels so much better.
By the way, your family member is probably aware of this but there is another ultrasound treatment option for prostate cancer that is completely non-invasive. It is called hifu.

https://www.hifu-prostate.com/

Hifu sends ultrasound from a curved emitter from outside the body in such a manner that the ultrasound ray will be focused on the treatment area. Thus, while you have ultrasound going through your body, only in the treatment area does it become high intensity enough to actually destroy tissue. This way they can burn off cancerous parts without damaging other parts of the prostate and the rest of the sensitive parts around there.

I am not sure why the new atlas did not mention HIFU, it also uses MRI.

HIFU is already cleared by the FDA, and it will become approved by medicare very soon (this coming January, I believe), so it will be paid by medicare and probably most insurance plans (as they tend to follow medicare).
Why it shows some crazy high FPS numbers (50-250 fps), when it's clearly rendering at <5 FPS ?
This is a good point: the tradeoff for learning vs doing depends on how good a learner the individual is. You're describing people who are not efficient at learning. Therefore allocating a lot of learning to them is a bad idea.

Maybe this is why programming interviews are infamous for arbitrary puzzles: the more unexpected and weird, the more the interview tests adaptability rather than current skill.
Dropbox doesn't use FUSE -- in large part because I was terrified of adopting 60k LoC in the kernel (from FUSE) that we weren't experts on versus 1k LoC that we actually needed (and had audited by third parties).
I guess. I'll ping you on yours so you can say whatever; I don't keep mine in my profile (mostly out of laziness).
Apple returns to CES after 27 years but not for a new product
Amazon is in a growing market: e-commerce. Lots of other companies are not.
For sure, SSB is a cool community. Cel wrote demo software that allowed a disaster radio node to post messages to SSB. Check out the source on git-ssb, https://git.scuttlebot.io/%25SyAU1pa6g6yYcELjTrBG4JY41vjuP6H...

And agreed, once we have stable hardware and firmware, talking to local disaster response practitioners would be a great way do test deployments and get feedback on the software design and usability. I'm curious about the disaster-related literature you referenced, would love to read it.
I had a good experience at undergrad, but that was due to its divergence from the norm. It actually gave me the broader perspective by having me read thousands of pages of the primary literature for the Western canon, along with in depth critical group discussions of the texts, and learning to write coherent papers. Nothing in my CS degree impacted my life, except making me marketable. Much of the CS I could have picked up on my own, and very little have I actually used in day to day jobs, except the programming experience. On the other hand, the literature program has indeed changed my life.
At my time it was because the Internet was too slow in the first place and too expansive. Also it was nice to get together, play, drink and smoke weed for a whole weekend.
Plus a large proportion of the top <whatever>% of rich people are only in that category for the one year due to some kind of event like selling a house or business or cashing out a lifetime of investments.
Replacing ethics with empathy results in bad journalism and gullible journalists
It's the HN echo chamber at work that finds little value in social networks targeting non-devs. I don't use LinkedIn myself but know lots that do and most do find work and opportunities through it, otherwise they wouldn't bother using it.
Very much this. If the management culture at your workplace is so sick they feel the need to make this behaviour a problem, there are probably other things wrong with the culture there.
I'd be surprised if any one of the 500ish English-language books on my shelves could be typeset entirely in ASCII without some compromises. Most are just fiction, too, and few could be characterized as "hyper specialized".
"Oh you work on Toptal? I have a business proposal for you. What if I use your profile and do all the work, and give you 30%!" I get a few of those a week.
As someone hacking on a linkedin alternative as a side project to solve my own talent search problems, she's captured a lot of the rationale. Amazing.

It's not just linkedin, the whole concept of a resume was to facilitate an unskilled middle manager who could manage labor in a commoditized way. Today, hiring managers know what they want, and talent competes globally. Teenagers especially understand that the difference between them and their parents is they are entering into a global talent market with a steep distribution curve. Growing up with social media threw them into the world of elite competition that previously only ivy league students were exposed to (thanks, Zuck). Resumes can't capture the differentiation they need to compete and leverage their real skills.

The infrastructure around resumes was all about legitimizing that broker role for recruiters and enabling generalist HR managers, where those roles could be replaced by tech tomorrow, (or like 3-4 weeks, suppose I should launch).
Don't stock buybacks basically transfer wealth from the company to the shareholders? The major advantage this has over other means of transferring wealth is that shareholders get to realize their gains with only capital gains tax applied, rather then the much higher dividend tax rate.
I see. That will work as long as your app is built on the same distro as your tools image (in your case, ubuntu).
You do not understand what the parent comment meant. It's not bug fixing he's opposed to. It's busywork and the idea that a programmer themselves have no idea how their time might be well spent. So much human potential wasted by corporate efficiency tyrants that do nothing other than burn out their employees.
Is is a monitor, albeit an expensive one with an apple on the back. So-called 'professional' displays have been used for a long time for e.g. digital medical imaging, they get cleaned every day using normal monitor cleaning procedures. If brands like Eizo can produce monitors which can cope with being cleaned with normal monitor swipes while maintaining their suitability for medical imaging while this monitor can not cope with such it can not be said be suitable for professional use.
No it's not work. It's an investment by the employer taking the risk it will pay off in the future.
I agree, and we do have a line, sting operations are not lawful already. I just don't think passive baiting crosses that line.

Active baiting is different, there police would be introducing the same forces that create criminals in the first place.
So no true Scotsman? “Regulation never works well because it’s never the right kind of regulation.”

In what world do the regulated parties not oppose being regulated? If there’s no opposition to a regulation then it probably isn’t needed.
It's just another outlet for spammers/recruiters. And the sharing of Facebook-style posts is annoying.

Indeed and LinkedIn are basically the only job sites these days so you need an account to use it.

I wish I could block certain employers or be able to tell LinkedIn to quit telling me about jobs from certain companies.
You're right, and it's not just youtube comments. There was a large study at Cornell last year; it generalizes to society at large, and has detrimental effects for women [1].

[1] https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/07/180702145605.h...
Shhhh... You will anger the enlightened techbros that are saving humanity through 10x returns.
It seems like "ASCII QR" is a play on "ASCII art", which is an existing compound word with a specific history and meaning that the term "text art" simply does not have. When I think of ASCII art, it reminds me of old plain-text video game FAQs, which often included elaborate ASCII art throughout. "Text QR" or "Unicode QR" does not have that association.
@hristov I am incredibly moved by your wonderfully thoughtful reply; we are just getting up to speed so had not heard about this at all. From the bottom of my heart, thanks for sending this.

Merry Christmas!
From the POV of your team lead, this is perhaps not an advantage move on his side, so I do understand his concern, after all he is not the company, just an employee as you. And from your description it seems that you are a competent employee, thus even the less

Nevertheless he should give a more encouraging answer as a team lead. And if you still want to make the change (looks like you are not very interested in it too), maybe just ask to spend a little more time on server stuffs and see what's the reply.

It's all negotiation and sometimes it's difficult to ask the right question.
It’s going to make a fantastic cargo plane
Because the Department of Labor has actual real teeth and staff, whereas the IRS is drastically understaffed.

Also the situation you describe would make your life incredibly complicated. The logistical hoops necessary to pay your rent make it extremely unappealing, IMO.
It might be possible for the US to successfully hang onto the keys, at least for a while, but you'd have to hand out keys to dozens governments. Given the general level of corruption in the world, some of those would probably be perfectly happy to sell access.
`oc` sounds like a thing of great beauty but I'm sure I couldn't convince anyone to pay Red Hat licencing fees.

Our project is a bit unconventional and I'm usually dealing with applications that have been minimally and reluctantly containerized. Pods that crash with no logging and no tracing is probably something I have to deal with more than others.
>Maybe I would be more on board if I felt the government could properly manage the additional funds this would generate. It's not like they have a great track record with what they already have.

Whenever I hear someone saying we need to increase taxes, I always refute their point with something along these lines. A lot of people seem to be under the impression that simply throwing money at a problem may solve it.

A few weeks ago there was another story posted on HN that related to multinationals shifting profits to tax havens. Someone commented about how they don't mind paying their taxes as they got public services in return, and that if someone doesn't like paying taxes they should stop and forgo the use of said services. I responded saying that most people probably don't mind paying taxes however they are getting angry that they aren't getting the bang for their buck. The person's response was that we should give fund the IRS to collect MORE tax revenue.

I'm willing to bet that the government is receiving enough in taxes already. Unless we solve the root problems of gross misspending, unaccountability, etc. giving them more money won't solve anything and instead anger more people, and leave many others with mediocre public services and claim they can't function properly because they're 'underfunded'.
I don't think Tesla needs to license her design as there is no trademark or patent. They can start manufacturing mini-pickups any time they want to. They probably aren't because the market for small electric pickups with miniature beds is a small one. The direction they are going seems like the right one to me; big, powerful, featured, luxurious vehicles that absolutely out-class ICE vehicles and leave us wondering why we spent a century going the wrong way, is the correct market to address. Musk being a dick driving around LA in his hulking machine is also correct and brilliant marketing.
Twitter has "private accounts," which are accounts that have restricted followers, and only allow posting to followers. This is fine with Twitter's way of doing things, however breaks in a federated world.

Matrix is bad for many reasons, but it's not a direct fix over this problem more than a band-aid.

Keeping private stuff centralized would be reasonable, but they're not going to do it: expecting large entities to handle something like this with surgical precision rather than a sledgehammer is unrealistic.
This is primarily a demonstration of how cash instruments can be decentrally issued.

Secondarily, it demonstrates how we can move validation from physical properties of cash instruments (such as fine printing and exotic inks) to cryptographic properties.

We believe the latter to be superior and a path to ratchet down the cost overheads that go into securing cash issuance and payment channels.
Matrix has a lot of problems, too, but at least it's not fundamentally flawed, which is a good thing.
Can confirm and sing the praises of HiFu.

Went to China so my spouse could have a procedure done in 2014. HiFu took 1-2 hours and my wife walked away from the procedure. She was hiking the next day.

Tumor was shrinking almost immediately.

The alternatives we had were surgery that would have removed part of her abs or weekly treatments of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tamoxifen

Neither of which was great.

Now we had to pay for the HiFu but it was soooo worth it. I think it was about $25,000 USD so very reasonable and affordable for us.
> would you swap a competent employee for an incompetent one, paying the same amount?

But this is the glass-half-empty boss. The glass-half-full boss is happy to have a competent employee who can be called upon when needed for important front-end stuff and is picking up backend work at a faster rate than the intern the team would have otherwise, because they're already an experienced engineer (with knowledge of the front-end no less!) and there is skill beyond just writing code that transfers between domains.

And that's to say nothing of swapping a competent employee who's already onboarded for an empty seat and a talent search, when the employee quits to expand their skills elsewhere.
OpenBSD system-call-origin verification
I can’t tell if you and I are agreeing or disagreeing at this point. And yes, I would not disagree with the quality of your code and the libraries you’ve published, they’re some of the best and most widely used in the community.

You’ve said don’t panic for code paths that the program doesn’t control. That is nuanced, and often is not always obvious and easy to reason about, but the language makes those exceptional cases obvious, so why not use that to your advantage?

edit: and by the way, I didn't say that on indexes, I totally agree with you. Though, sometimes it is valuable to go to the extreme and prevent malicious index values from untrusted sources crashing your program...
Part of the change is due to the appearance of alternative powered vehicles. In Tokyo, it seems like every mother is riding an electric cargo bike with covered seating for two kids and room for groceries -- the minivan of bicycles. In Seattle, the morning commute is full of electric skateboards, scooters, onewheels, and wheelchairs. It looks doable.
Precisely. See Ultrasound attenuation coefficient (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attenuation#Attenuation_coeffi...)

You'll note that it's measured in dB/(MHz-cm), and that soft tissue is 0.5, while bone is 6.9. Just like light, anytime ultrasound hits an interface, there are reflections and refractions. Furthermore, since bone attenuates ultrasound so much, you have to increase your amplitude greatly (and even more so with higher frequencies) in order to get enough thermal energy to be deposited at your target. If you don't do it right, you can create dangerous hotspots at the bone-tissue interface, and you can also deposit energy where you didn't intend to. Given that ultrasound therapy intends to be more precise than other techniques, you're kind of defeating the purpose!

Edit: in response to your edit, yes that's exactly what they do. They create an array of transmitters to be able to precisely target various locations within the skull. It wasn't my area of research, but I'm pretty sure they used them to create interference patterns as well, so many emitters were activated to work in concert to target one area.

See this image: https://sunnybrook.ca/uploads/1/_research/about/fus/3-ultras...