skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Uber
I visit Bogota every 2 months and try to use Uber exclusively, the cars are always cleaner and newer than the taxis, and much SAFER! You know who the driver is, Uber has all of his information. Taxi's are notoriously unsafe when taken on the street.And more expensive. They provided a safe and efficient service. Typical move by a beautiful Latin country doing something to hurt it's citizens and cowing down to a powerful taxi lobby. Without Uber it will be imposible to get a Taxi at rush hour and raining days in Bogota. Very bad news, I wish Uber would fight this.
That kind of hubris is a form of stupidity.
I think most people don’t have the context to understand half of what’s being said there.
GimGrains
What a juicy statement, I don't know where to start!

1. What study? How do you know it's causative and not correlated? Should we make policy decisions based on this study?

2. Are you saying the reason some people are poor is because others are rich? If so, why?

3. Does this mean we should have someone arbitrarily decide what too rich is and take their money to redistribute it?
TikTok and the coming of infinite media – Nicholas Carr
In my view this is a tricky issue. I agree that anti vaxxers are a bad trend. But I think to some degree the medical establishment has brought this onto themselves. I remember when things like yoga and meditation came up a lot of doctors just brushed it off as total nonsense. It took a long time for them to catch up. Same for the microbiome. A lot of traditional medicine for a long time has claimed a connection between gut health and general health which most doctors also rejected. Only recently the idea gets some acceptance.

If I had a serious disease I would probably also look into alternative treatments (In Addition to the usual options) because I think most doctors have a very narrow view on things. What bugs me for example is the focus on fixing things vs preventing. Doctors should put much more effort into to promoting healthy lifestyles than they do now.

In short: I am not surprised that people are skeptical of the usual medical advice. Unfortunately some people take this way too far as the anti vaxxers show.
This is a great article. The original paper was in my head as a truth, and I've revised that since reading this post. Thanks!
Except does it even have reasonable end to end encryption?
Got WPA3 working with it, yaay! https://gist.github.com/est31/d92d17acbb4ea152296f9b38764cd7...
Barbershop Music
> And they're usually "stupid" bugs too, forgetting to sanitize inputs etc. Even worse is when a language tries to be "smart", so you end up with "1" + 2 = "12" and no errors at all.

The last one is no longer possible in Python 3 and will throw an error. That's another thing I am glad they fixed.
If you dig sigur ros and god is an astronaut, check out my post rock band MOLLY, we kind of go in the same direction :)

/shameless selfplug
Robot Arms Selling Huawei Phones in New Unmanned Store
I mostly agree with this sentiment. However, even in the pre-recorded music times there was a pretty clear separation between the music people would play themselves at home and the music they would actively seek out to hear in a more professional environment (churches, concerts etc).
When first recording mediums were invented, people were really excited specifically about being able to preserve and listen to the greats, not just any music.
I’m simply pointing out why we get lots of repeat submissions.

Some stories are great and worth seeing every few years.

Your anger gave away the fact that you do the same thing:

https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=Tomte

The one downside is that it creates a lot of noise on HN. It forces new stories off the first page quicker.

Also, stories about Jerry Lee Lewis’ marriage to a 13 year old isn’t HN, for example.
Walter Isaacson quoted Steve Jobs as giving this reason:

"I didn't want my body to be opened... I didn't want to be violated in that way."

It's still not a good reason to avoid surgery, but it's also not a rejection of medical science.
I don't blame him. I made the same design choice for my python library[1]. I also don't use any non-native libraries in the single file. I'm sorry to say it's a much better experience for users if they don't have to deal with pip if they don't want to. I myself have been burned many times trying to install some python module for hours and failing because of some dependency issue.

[1] https://github.com/RPGillespie6/fastcov
That’s my point though - so far dark matter only exists in equations (and our imagination) and isn’t real (that we’ve been able to prove). It’s got as much proof as ghosts. That will surely change but we’re not there now.
> The ruling in 1616 was about the notion that heliocentrism was proved fact, using it as a hypothesis and pointing out it gave better results was fine.

That's incorrect. You can read the 1616 ruling on heliocentrism, which I both quoted from and linked to above. The Inquisition did not mince words in definitively stating heliocentrism to be both false and heretical.

> in 1616, how the motion of the Earth would escape the notice from everyone standing on it was a serious scientific challenge

Even were that true, it would not justify the Church's muzzling of Galileo, nor their ruling that heliocentrism was false because it violated Scripture. However, I think the argument about parallax was less problematic than you think. There was an obvious answer to it, which is that the stars are very far away, and therefore have small parallax motion.
No, they redirect you to an advertizing domain.
Many modern studies have shown that not everything related to behavior is governed by the brain, some of it is offloaded to other subsystems. Seems to me that this should be considered when talking about the effect of medication on these behaviors, as the parent commenter pointed out.
I can't remember exactly, but I believe it was one of the "Cook's Illustrated" series of books:

https://www.barnesandnoble.com/s/cook%27s+illustrated

A really thick, textbook-sized one.
Why aren't you calling out the name of the medication given your story of warning?
Raw WebGPU
> Jobs wasn't stupid.

I think all of above indicates the opposite.

People easily influenced by the loonie culture are not the same sort of people who bought into snake oil treatment for them not knowing it.

People from more well off countries don't have the same mental "immune system" than people coming from places with fraud on every corner.

I think it is very appropriate to call stupid people stupid, and confront stupidity.
People like Jobs are successful because they go against the mainstream and do what they think is right even if everybody else disagrees. And they are very stubborn. It’s not surprising that they have the same mindset in other areas of life. This kind of arrogance and stubbornness makes them successful but can also be their downfall.
Somehow related, for non-US people, do you ever use or heard/read the term "loser" (or direct translation)?

My hypothesis is that it's a very American concept, as in I don't remember ever anyone outside the US/Canada use that word (same with "winner"). Like in Europe or South America for ex people would say somebody is a deadbeat or terrible at their job or lazy but not a loser (this may be just in my head).
With songs though, they'll generate revenue while you're sitting on them. Silver doesn't do that.
Perhaps (2013) should be added to the title.
I don't think you can really corner the market for songs, people can just make new songs. Also if you don't have a lot of media clout besides owning some pop songs IP there's nothing you can do to keep the popular taste aligned to your music portfolio.
Also, world war 1 was revolutionary in terms of politics.

The many countries (sometimes newly established after the fall of an empire like austrian-hungary or russia) suddenly found themselves with a completely new political system.

The november revolution in germany resulted in the abolishment of the monarchy and firmly entreched social-democrats inside the political spectrum. It also shows us why having a young democracy without a strong sense of institutional-ism and tradition is incredible fragile.
re-re-re-post -zzt-
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17029004

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10589398

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21853997

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10976898

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13290070
I don’t really care to have the discussion right now. There there are valid arguments on both sides.

It’s intellectually dishonest, lazy and counterproductive to groups everyone that you disagree with. That means that you never actually cared to understand the arguments.
So if I'm reading this correctly, this guy is saying that traditional labels put too much time and effort into album sales and completely ignore the money available from licensing and performance royalties (if they don't own the rights to a song why would they care to)

So by buying up the rights he has the incentive to push hard to sell licenses to that music and can build up teams of salespeople to do only that. What songwriter wouldn't want to sign up if they don't like the burden of managing those opportunities themselves and don't trust that labels will put the effort in.
How Can I Do This Right?
So they likely have access to info PayPal doesnt. So how much does PayPal make from selling financial data then?
> If hunger had an effect on our mental resources of this magnitude, our society would fall into minor chaos every day at 11:45 a.m.

...this has potential!

Scrape GitHub, find closed issues marked 'bug', do a blame on the offending line or lines, find the timestamp and plot.
This article provides no meaningful references (but some useless ones).

This is a really interesting question, but essentially left unaddressed.
Here is the entire curl trace: http://ix.io/277P
Shapley Attractor and Dipole Repeller
Does it has C++ ISO standard pdf's.
This seems like a caricature or an exception. Doctors are very aware of HIPAA (and the equivalent in every other country), and the professional and monetary costs of non-compliance.

Doctors didn't set up these systems. Doctors didn't expose them to the internet. As the other post said, vendors did. If those vendors couldn't properly communicate the needs, that's their problem.

What I think is a more rational explanation for doctor (nurse, lab technologist, etc) resistance is that the industry is rife with incompetence and vendor balkanization. So much so that every healthcare professional deals with literally dozens of logins to try to do their job. Every one of those logins has its own bizarre password policies, rotation schedules, etc. Pretty soon there is rightly hostility to whatever scheme some small niche vendor has imagined up in the illusion of security.
some historians argue the prussian-franco war, ww1 and ww2 are essentially the same conflict.
I'm not angry, actually. I just wonder why you're so invested in what I'm doing. I'm actually proud of it. More people should un-earth cool stories and submit them.

About Jerry Lee Lewis: I disagree. The sheer fact that moral compasses were so wildly divergent between America and England, of all pairs of countries, so recently, is quite on-topic, in my opinion.

Also, I think it's great that you found only one story you disagree with in the thirty stories my submission page shows. Clearly you approve of my selection.

> I’m simply pointing out why we get lots of repeat submissions.

That's explicitly okay, as the moderators point out all the time.
It's some kind of hubris and mistrust.

The word you're looking for is arrogance.
Your point being?

This is a very sad attempt at dismissing an entire study by personal anecdote, just to feel better about yourself. Truth is nobody cares, and you just made yourself another obnoxious commenter on the internet :-)
Header only c libs also emerge from c and c++ realities that are less true elsewhere.

The biggest one is the optimizer does a better job when stuff is in the same compilation unit. (Inlining and stuff.) A good example to look at is sqlite, which is developed as multiple files but they concatenate them together for distribution.

Another reason is a C++ one, and C is not C++ but the community has enough overlap that I think it tends to spill over. And that is templates. Templates need to be in the header so a lot of c++ libraries have complicated, slow to compile headers.

I do think, for example when any given person on HN links to a header only C or C++ library, that a lot of these people are overdoing it. They have likely not measured it and found it to be better like the sqlite people. They are fighting, perhaps even misunderstanding the tooling, at the cost of compile times and large binary sizes. And for what? Makefiles are not really that hard to write.
There are numerous examples over the course of history of new cities being built from scratch by government decree. I guess some worked out better than others.

One prominent example is Heian-Kyo, today's Kyoto:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heian-ky%C5%8D

which served as the imperial capital for about 1,000 years.
An alternate take is that, from a certain point of view:

1: Cancer and heart disease are the leading causes of death in Rich Countries, specifically the US [1]

2: Your chances of dying from either cancer or heart disease, given no other incidents claim your life first, asymptotically arrive at 100% [2]

So, yes, cancer is not infectious, but our bodies are prone to two classes of diseases (neither cancer nor heart disease are actually a single disease, but more correctly disease families) that have environmental and hereditary causes. Our tools for treating both are crude, but getting more and more effective year-over-year.

By advocating against the state-of-our-current-art in treating either disease (informed criticism is fine, and in fact, encouraged), the end result is that many people suffer and die when they could merely suffer, then live years of their lives before succumbing to a relapse or other causes of death. Perhaps the headline is hyperbole, but the argument is analogous: By advocating against chemotherapy and replacing it solely with a hard-to-follow diet and exercise regimen, the cull of older people dying from treatable disease can look something like the cull of younger people dying from preventable disease due to advocating against vaccination against infectious diseases.

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4800750/
[2] https://www.cdc.gov/pcd/issues/2016/16_0211.htm
This is great, thanks for sharing it. I started a Rust project awhile ago to do something similar but based on a boardgame. It was fun but I didn't keep up with it. I'll try to get back at it using this as inspiration!
> John Carreyrou didn't act like a hater

Not by common definition, but perhaps by this article’s.

Carreyrou was obsessive, turned his Theranos crusade into an identity component, and repeatedly used the word “fraud.” Externally, his behaviour was indistinguishable from someone with a beef if one ignored the evidence he raised. (Which was, at least early on, mostly circumstantial.)

Toxic personalities must be ignored. But if someone is calling our fraud in your organisation, it’s worth checking if there’s behaviour you may have left unchecked.
From Techcrunch's article it looks like it's possible to see so-called "protected health information" (PHI) in these images. PHI includes patient names, diagnoses, hospital and doctor names, contact information, and so forth. It's sometimes possible to "de-identify" medical images by scrubbing off patient info. But I bet most of these are not de-identified.

The examples in the TechCrunch article are redacted, but I guess that was done for publication and not on the stored images themselves.

In the USA, HIPAA and ARRA 2009 (followon legislation) made it a federal crime to knowingly or negligently disclose PHI. It's a crime that "pierces the corporate veil." That is, natural persons can be tried and convicted, even if they were acting on behalf of corporations.

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has a Breach Notification Rule, requiring holders of data to notify patients and CMS themselves if PHI is breached. https://www.hhs.gov/hipaa/for-professionals/breach-notificat...

CMS announces breaches involving 500 or more patient records here https://ocrportal.hhs.gov/ocr/breach/breach_report.jsf

It wouldn't surprise me if the people involved in securing these sloppily configured DICOM servers are in a state of panic. I was involved in dealing with an unintentional breach of 44 patient records a few years back, and yeah, we had some panic. (Misrouted fax messages was the root cause, for what it's worth.) Also observe that I remember to this day how many records leaked out. Breaches are a big deal. It stinks to be them. I know that for sure.

I hope they get it sorted out. It will take a while. It will also take a while for the affected medical professionals and their IT providers to start responding to these breach reports rationally. Kubler-Ross's stages of grieving are still in play for them: anger, denial, negotiation, etc.
Not paying exorbitant fees to pump poison in your body that makes you wish you were dead anyway. Not giving your family false hope that you will get better while looking like a stepped-on prune. The humiliation of trying experimental, unproven treatments.

At least with witch doctors, you'll keep your family somewhat calm and won't take a toll on your wallet. More inheritance for them.
what resources did you use to learn ?
Also, the weimar republic was a very young democracy in a country with very little democratic traditions.

Many germans simply didn't believe democracy was the form of goverment required to battle the great depression and return germany to it's former glory. Both on the left side aswell as the right side of the political spectrum. The nearly endless turmoil during the 20's was a result of that.
Chemo is not only poison but also very expensive. And this while cannabis oil (with high THC concentration) for cancer exists and could be made for free at home, if it weren't for the fact that the criminal governments of the world keep it illegal. A serious crime against humanity.
> He's not bashing microsoft out of a generic sense that "microsoft is bad"

Jobs did a lot of that in his “we are pirates” phase. Us-v-them is a legitimate leadership tactic, and requires somewhat demonising the them.

I like the idea of a fanboy being a sign-flipped hater. But these are spherical cows. I’m not sure we can draw real-life lessons from their comparison.

(For example, fanboys can be evangelists and haters canaries in your coal mine. History is filled with delusional people doing great things.)
It is always the data. Everyone stores everything these days, even if it is not immediately acted upon/sold. If it is not immediately used, it is still a bargaining chip for valuations/acquisitions.
It speaks to the fact that cancer treatment is almost as scary as cancer itself.

Faced with the choice of poisoning your body to spite your cells, having a chunk of your organs lopped off, or just letting it ride... Hindsight is 20:20, maybe his decision was a mistake, but I have sympathy for Jobs here.
Are there commercially successful roguelikes that use ascii art only? Dwarf Fortress is the only one I know of and it's getting an official makeover for the Steam release.
Nope, no true Scotsmen at all.
I mirror your experience. People are hostile and always interpret in the worst possible way. It is very difficult to defuse a situation, it's like walking on eggshells while blindfolded with a heavy backpack. I don't like their community at all.
This is clear cut. If you have, for example,stage 4 non-hodgkin's lymphoma and arent treated very quickly with R-CHOP chemotherapy, you will die very quickly. If you are treated, the cure rate is 90%.

Taking the time to look around, going down to South America to take in the airs, travelling to India to try to yoga it away, you will die. And quickly.

There are certain very aggressive cancers like NHL that are curable with a high success rate today using, in the case of NHL, a combination of chemo and bio agents like Rituximab.

If you aren't immediately treated you will die.

Convincing someone with one of these diseases to avoid "western"
medicine because they are lying and seek alternative treatment is essentially participating in assisted suicide.
Hah, no, of course I don't.

With an apple watch, I do wear the hardware in the configuration shown. But I have it set so that the screen is 'upside down'. For a conventional watch, the crown is on the 'wrong' side; one gets used to it.

I didn't notice that the screen was 'upside down' relative to the user, until you pointed it out twice. So I can only conclude that the photographers who take these sorts of photos know what they're doing, and you're an outlier.
You're really blaming the subjects of a database for errors in that database? There are many reasons for errors that have nothing to do with anything a physician might or might not have done.
It is amusing to me the sort of detached love people have for Eastern medicine. It's really a feeling of grass is greener on the other side.

In India and a few other SE Asian countries, the predominant killer disease is heart disease. There is no "Eastern" medicine for that.

"Eastern" methods work really well on innocuous diseases and symptoms because they really aren't medicines nor a treatment. Sure Ayurveda and other "techniques" tackle a few simple problems. But people actively seek such treatment for important medical problems: "a little knowledge is dangerous".

The troubling fact is none of the Ayurveda nor Eastern medicine is based on a deep understanding/exploration of human beings: instead they rely on folklore and guesswork. Very dangerous after seeing the amazing progress vaccines, statins and so on have contributed to the world.

This article talks negatively about "statin" painting it as some sort of a bad word based on one potentially problematic drug: the number of lives saved by the simple Atorvastatin-like medicines is really astonishing. I really hope a nuanced discussion about important life-saving drugs can be had in forums such as this instead of quickly reverting to the tropes of Eastern magic medicines.
This depends on the kind of meeting you're having. If it's a negotiation with a counterparty, then absolutely schedule for right after lunch. It'd be better if they were a little insulin drowsy after lunch. Ideally you'd be buying them lunch, eating little (or mostly vegetables yourself) while they enjoy an expense account meal.

On the other hand if it's an internal meeting with your team, you want to get them at peak alertness, 10-11 (people settle in for the day, but not hungry for lunch yet), 230-4 (the post lunch blood sugar swing has settled down but people aren't itching to leave just yet)
>radiation shielding

Can someone explain to me what the heck they mean by this?
I'm surprised at the harsh negativity in this article. Not that the inquiry into why people become 'haters' isn't intriguing, but to explore it so shallowly and to boil it down to "Well, they are losers", and call in the image of "basement dwellers" frankly, makes pg sound like he is falling into the same trap he is trying to write about - generic hating on others.

Despite that, his other points have merit. Haters and fanboys do have similarities - they stem from the same root cause, that they were emotionally impacted by someone. If that was a positive impact at a time in their life when they really needed it, they are fanboys. If it was a negative impact at a time when they were already struggling, they become haters.

I'm not a fanboy of pg, just a reader, so I'm not going to act like he has let us down by penning a weaker article. We're all imperfect beings, whether we are fanboys, haters, or blog authors whose works isn't always the best. I'm going to look at this specific post as a rough draft that got shared too soon.