skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Bernays did not smoke cigarettes himself, and persistently tried to induce his wife Doris to quit.[49] After his semi-retirement in the 1960s, he worked with the pro-health anti-smoking lawyer John Banzhaf's group, ASH, and supported other anti-smoking campaigns.[citation needed]

I skimmed the Wikipedia article on Bernays [1] and found this interesting. At first, I think 'Oh hey, he realized his mistake and tried to make amends?' But that "citation needed" is curious. Did he merely tell his wife to stop smoking because he cared about her and knew how dangerous it was, but didn't actually support anti-smoking campaigns? Is the Wikipedia article content itself a product of deceptive PR about Bernays' legacy?

EDIT: that last bit was mostly in jest: the section of the article about his work w/United Fruit Co is not at all positive in hindsight.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Bernays
claiming that ~100% THC is 'the purest cannabis product' is much the same as claiming that No-Doz is 'the purest coffee product'.

I like my entourage effects, thanks.
Anyone know how Ad blocking works for Edge on iOS? I’m getting better results than Safari and while I see AdBlock Plus in edge settings, there’s nothing to unable under Content Blockers under iOS settings.
The main problem with TypeScript is that at the end of the day -- you're still using JS.

Which outside of its natural realm of application (i.e. the browser) is a highly questionable value proposition.

"A bandaid over a machine-gun wound" is what we might call it.
Aren't we seeing our first requests from manufacturers to remove sideview mirrors entirely? To be replaced by cameras and video screens.
DIPY: Library for computational neuroanatomy, focusing mainly on dMRI analysis
There is the obvious plug to the Century of Self documentary, if someone hasn't seen it yet but is interested in the subject of "creating needs and wants":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DnPmg0R1M04 or https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2d29tf

The documentary relates "The story of the relationship between Sigmund Freud and his American nephew, Edward Bernays. Bernays invented the public relations profession in the 1920s and was the first person to take Freud's ideas to manipulate the masses. He showed American corporations how they could make people want things they didn't need by systematically linking mass-produced goods to their unconscious desires."
Beige Book – January 2020
Ask HN: What are tech fields that physicians can get involved in?
I'm a medical student and one of my career goals is to figure out how to combine my interest in technology/medicine. Thus far I've done so in research but I'm looking for other areas to explore. Does anyone have any experience in this?
Note that almost anything can form uniquely identifying information, so technically, it's not easy to fully exempt yourself from GDPR.

Not that anyone would care about minor unwitting infractions. So far, enforcement is way on the other side of spectrum, it's hard to get yourself in trouble even when blatantly and purposefully breaking GDPR.
Show HN: Get your invoices paid faster, with less hassle
When I'm looking for something, relevant ads are great. Ads that were relevant to something I was looking for a month ago? Not so much.
> Doesn't have to be perfect, just has to be better than human performance.

Firstly, it's about time we stop pretending that people wait until technology does something better than humans do before they deploy it. It will be deployed long before that point. Secondly, there are more reasons to be concerned about this sort of technology than just whether it is effective at its intended purpose (identifying people who do not want to be found, at long range, for the purpose of assassination).
> And this was in Seattle, where cops are reputedly much gentler than many other places.

SPD are not gentler than many other places. They've been absolutely blasted for police brutality in a 2011 DOJ investigation. [1]

Now, to SPD's credit, it has been taking steps to improve since then. [2]

What you can count on, though, is them usually ignoring homelessness - if nobody complains. There's just too many homeless people in Seattle for them to do anything proactive about it.

If somebody does, and it's a slow day, the homeless person in question will get ran off by them. Law enforcement against the homeless is incredibly selective, which is one of the reasons why being homeless is so hard - you always live in fear of being the target of essentially random violence.

You never know if you're actually going to get 8 hours of sleep, or if you're going to be kicked (Or shouted) awake half-way through it.

[1] https://www.seattlepi.com/local/article/Feds-findings-in-Sea...

[2] https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/crime/in-major-ste...
Based on the article, it looks like the fundamental problem is lack of "skin in the game," and the author notes it as a defense against becoming an immoral maze. But, how can one identify "skin in the game," particularly 2+ levels of the hierarchy above oneself?
As one of the most widespread high wage earners, doctors are probably the biggest dollar weighted constituency out there.
Hell yeah! Cool to be able to share that eureka moment with others who know the area. Spread the word.
Textadept – A fast, minimalist and extensible cross-platform text editor
Very strongly recommend that anyone and everyone explore the entire ubuweb website! There is a lot (pretend I capitalized that entire word for emphasis) there, and a lot of it is very good. I can’t really think of another highbrow art and culture site that compares to it!
Aren't all browsers in iOS Safari reskins?
If things are working out the way you want them to then tracking your time won't help but if you're trying to find more time then having that information can help a lot instead of randomly deciding you're going to cut out more time playing games.
Backdoors can still exist in public code bases.
The only moment I would use chrome devtools is when I need to debug remote devices (Android webview)
This problem was most prominent right before the switch to 3D NAND, when planar NAND dimensions were at their smallest and the consumer market had already mostly switched over to 3 bit per cell TLC rather than 2bpc MLC. In the worst case, we were down to about 8 electrons difference between cell voltage states. That's now been relaxed by 3D NAND allowing for larger cell sizes, and most 3D NAND also switched from floating-gate to charge-trap cell design so leakage is less of an issue. Nowadays, data retention in SSDs is only a concern toward the end of their lifespan (as measured by write endurance), and it's probably inadvisable for the SSD to start doing background data scrubbing until the raw read error rate starts climbing.
You might need data to increase your sales, though. But that parts needs not be unethical, nor leave your company.
The process deregisters the phone number from the account; it does not shut down the entire iCloud account or disable iMessage entirely.

"iMessages" sent to your phone number will be translated to SMS.

iMessages sent to your email address will still be delivered to the account associated with that email address. They can be accessed on pretty much any modern apple device associated with that account.

It's rare that people intentionally iMessage an email address, but the interface is opaque enough that it's essentially impossible on an existing text chain to tell that you did (unless you're specifically looking for that information).

The behavior as implemented makes sense provided that every user made an intentional and informed choice when choosing to message a friend via phone number or email. That is, of course, not the case (and is not helped by Siri sometimes silently deciding to use a contact's email over their phone number).
So Apple should allow random third parties to intercept SMS messages because “people in your group” don’t use SMS?
Agreed. I think pure THC is an awful experience, possibly with long term side effects we don't know about at this time.

There are lots of other compounds in flower that negate and balance the effects of THC. I think without them, you may end up in an awful state.

I know I have personally used the oil pens before that are pure THC, and they just made me feel anxious and insane.
"Now, persuasion is a generic skill—it’s probably not enough to build a career on. You need to combine it in a skill stack, as Scott Adams writes."

Naval quotes Scott Adams, dilbert creator who has on the record said things like this:

"But in general, society is organized as a virtual prison for men's natural desires. I don't have a solution in mind. It's a zero sum game. If men get everything they want, women lose, and vice versa. And there's no real middle ground because that would look like tweeting a picture of your junk with your underpants still on. Some things just don't have a compromise solution."

"Naval: Tony Soprano was a businessman who had to enforce his own contracts. That’s a very complicated business."

Just for others' edification, I'd like to point out that Tony Soprano is not a real person.

source: https://jezebel.com/dilbert-creator-scott-adams-weighs-in-on...
We’ve seen a large upgrade due to the increasing interest in ligatured programming fonts that are optimized for Retina display. In that context, maybe: this is really the third entrant after Fira Code and Cascadia. But I doubt it.
Homeless moms evicted after taking over vacant house in Oakland
I land on the idea that the percent is not as important as the raw value if the company hits the targets. 1%? 5%? Of what? If the company plans to get to a $1B valuation, that is different than a company that wants to exit at ~$10M. And since we all know that equity is usually worthless anyway, I think the real way that smaller companies should compete for talent is with other perks. More time off, less days per week, more control over the product's direction, better perks, etc. Oh, and better liquidation preferences that favor employees at the same level as investors because employees _are_ investors if they are taking a pay cut.
I shared a project on Show HN (at a bad time of day: 3:30pm PST on a weekday), and all I got out of it was a barrage of accounts created by spambots using breached Yahoo and Hotmail email addresses! They didn't stop for weeks, until we put in a recaptcha.

Pretty funny - I'm definitely not complaining about HN. And it's nice to hear your story!
Kubernaughty: A collection of documentation, how-tos, tools for K8s
To add some support to GP: I couldn’t figure out any of the visualizations either, especially the days in the week table. None of the days even add up to 24 hours.
You've made me want to visit Vermont.
The Untapped Potential of ‘Cluster Hiring’
Firefox is actively moving away from XUL.
> Advertising isn't there to help consumers--it fundamentally is the wrong way to help consumers.

Advertising helps businesses. Businesses serve consumers. Businesses wouldn't spend a dime on advertising if it didn't need to in order to stay in business. Ergo, advertising serves consumers, albeit indirectly.

> They aren't honest about it.

Has any advertiser ever claimed to give you the full picture? Both sides of the argument? No, of course not. It's a sales pitch. You know it's a sales pitch. They know you know it's a sales pitch. They know that you know that they're only presenting the positive sales points. You know that they know that you know.

Where's the dishonesty, exactly?

It's like going on a date and saying "You know, sometimes I don't shave. Or brush my teeth. Or wear a nice outfit. I only did those to make a good impression. There's a really good chance there's someone better for you out there."

Of COURSE advertisers are putting their best foot forward.

Does your resume list every time you were ever late for work? When you signed up for a credit card, did you tell the bank that you were late on rent a few months ago? When you applied for post-secondary, did you tell them about that math tutor you needed to get through trig?

How freakishly up-front do you need the world to be to live up to your standards?
or put another way: when they become a target for bad actors to abuse extensions, expect the review process to be more difficult.
Elementary school kids doused as jet dumps fuel before LAX emergency landing
> [IQ] rigorously shows how well you will do on IQ tests. That's a real useful metric, now isn't it?

Surely IQ is measuring something useful if it correlates so well with things like job performance, school performance, income, and crime?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intelligence_quotient#Social_c...
I am sure CH had some serious numbers people watching FB as they initially tried it out and then over the longer term - the issue is that FB outright lied about numbers in a very misleading manner that has been found to have been fraudulent. It's quite possible CH could discover this via revenue attribution but you need to be paranoid enough to do a deep dive into the numbers to actually confirm that and, TBH, it's generally irresponsible for businesses to invest that heavily into revenue auditing when they don't have strong suspicions about their revenue stability.

It's likely that CH specifically erred in acting overly bullish on early numbers back from FB, seeing the view trend they wanted to capitalize on what seemed to be a very strong market and be an early entrant - FB vastly inflated their numbers but even without that aiming to dominate an early market is always quite risky due to the lack of proof around the long term stability of the market... that sort of over-investment would usually result in a contraction to appropriate size along with a loss of fluidity for a company, it's only game ending when the market is committing outright fraud.
I think the takeaway here is that no matter your circumstance, you should find a way to gain "specific knowledge". It boils down to:

- If you can afford to apprentice / intern under someone success or on a trajectory to success, do it.
- If you can't, then work your paying job, whatever that is, but feel around for opportunities that no one else is looking to own yourself.

Not bad advice, but IMO, not exactly "finding the time to invest in yourself". I actually think finding the time to invest in yourself is getting better at time management:

1. Instead of reading tweets, opening instagram, swiping on tinder, etc - go start an essay, article, etc.

2. That time you'd normally zone out and listen to music on the bus/train - read or watch something that you learn from in a big way.

3. Instead of staying in and watching netflix, hulu, etc get out to a meetup of people that are interested in the same thing you are.

But these - I think - are all obvious things to people that are reading this. ️
I guess I'm a bit confused, why would they deploy something when humans are still better off without it?
I have concerns about this. From their website https://atomocoffee.com/formulation

> By evaluating the individual compounds in coffee we were able to map the most significant ones contributing to the characteristic aroma and flavor of coffee.

More and more, we're learning how micronutrients and chemicals that we wouldn't even class as micronutrients are beneficial to human health. If they've brought over only those compounds most significant for aroma and flavor, what are we missing? I don't think it's alarmist to suggest that this "coffee" might resemble the real thing as far as our senses are concerned, but it might lack all of the health benefits of grows-on-a-tree coffee.
Ok, so how about "as long as you don't mind another recession"?
Left one (Edge?) has Cleartype enabled - you can see RGB edges if you zoom in.
I think the clothes-on-amazon thing is fair and a cost of doing business, though. If my only choices, as a customer, were "all sales are final"-buy-online or go in-store, I would 100% go in-store. I would never, ever buy what could be a brick in a box online if I wasn't allowed to return it if it turned out to be a brick in a box.

And clothes have another dimension (heh, literally) of size/fit/feel. I think it's totally reasonable to buy a shirt online, put it on, think "wow this material is awful" and return it. That's what you can do in-store, and it's not your fault that that loop is a lot more expensive for online retailers.
On MacOS it requires admin privilege to install.

I am done with that after all the crap that previous software with admin rights installed. I cleaned it up and swore I would not install anything that required admin rights again - for my own security and peace of mind. What does it need admin rights for?
do you believe Democrat and Republicans have significant policy differences?
> 3. Most advertising (there are very few exceptions) fund various types of media. With the exception of state-funded media, advertising is the reason we have TV, radio, newspapers, social media, online news, YouTube, etc. Generally speaking, no one is willing to pay the full cost of the media we all consume. It's paid for by advertising. (You're welcome.) (If anyone brings up Netflix, tell me when exactly they intend to turn a profit and become a sustainable business?)

I would greatly appreciate if advertising stopped funding "news" networks like CNN and Fox News. I think I could live happily in a world where Anderson Cooper isn't making 12 million dollars a year for being a news caster in-between ads for various prescription drugs.
To be fair, levels.fyi is a very poor indicator of salary levels across the industry, whereas salary reporting on physicians isn't.

Median salary for physicians is almost certainly significantly higher than for software engineers, but it is less obvious what happens when you factor in length of career, debt load etc.

Neither group tend to work nominal (40h) weeks either...
Seems quite like Go.
Because military contractors like money.
I love that the instruction decode unit's ability to command a flush on branch mispredicts is represented in the diagram as a toilet.
Framing is key for how you think about these military technologies.

You could frame this as the government making it possible to kill people in the dark automatically or as another data input to a vast array of data sources used to make life/death decisions for high-value military targets.

The technology has the potential to make sure we're getting the right people but almost certainly its use will be pushed too far. It has a utility and we should rightly be concerned that it doesn't get used outside of its limited intended application.
It is not an unregistered account if it is being received on an iPad.

Further, if you are not logged in with the account on at least one device, it will not show as delivered.
I don't run one anymore, but when I did.

- Basecamp, CRM + marketing automation, email services, SEO (moz), google business services, twilio (phone/sms) and AWS were all common.

I'd also pay for plug-ins and stuff when it made more sense then building stuff. But those are kinda the base level things I always had available. SEO tooling was really critical when doing web dev work for people, that way I could show proof of results from before and after.

Part of the key for me was to make sure I looked like a firm even when I was just one person but wanting to grow. So I always kept a professional website, business email addresses, phone numbers etc. I would never lie if someone asked me a direct question about how many people worked at the company, but if they said how big are you guys, I'd usually give number of projects done in the past 3 months or 12 months etc. And I'd include all the little projects even if I did them as favors or as pre-sales activity to gain a larger deal. As long as I was doing it professionally and to further the business it counted IMO.
That's super interesting, but Airbnb in 2013 was long past the seed stage, and when we talk about early engineers that's what we mean, no? Those are the startups that have the chicken/egg problem with hiring.

Not that it's a minor point if Airbnb was that far ahead in employee compensation.
I'm not sure I'd consider this a possibility as much as a guaranteed evolution of defense.
PS2 Keyboard for FPGA
TLDR: can’t take things that belong to other people.
That's inefficient. There are several direct synthesis processes for THC.[1] If that approach is legal, it's possible to get rid of all the pot farmers and just mass-produce vaping cartridges. Which the cigarette industry will probably do if it's legal.

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2597621/
If you want to provide services to 100 percent of the population, you need to bend the knee to Apple.

I don't, and it means 10 percent of the population can't use my free apps that save people time and money.

I suppose that's the cost of Apple being Evil and people buying from such a company.
uMatrix doesn't even load the site for me, it displays message that it prevented loading the page entirely.
The Joy of X Podcast
Interesting! Thanks for this; this happened just as I was getting into speed running, and I, like many others apparently, didn’t realize that, but I did some googling over lunch and it appears this was the case! Thank you for the extra context.
To be honest, I paid more attention to the Russian version than I would English. I kinda know how to pronounce it, and it's fun to see if I can figure out any of the words.
I do not believe this is correct:

https://www.mdmag.com/physicians-money-digest/contributor/he...

From the article, "And, it turns out that most (more than 95 percent) U.S. graduates did match in a residency program." Generally speaking, the U.S. residency program prioritizes and favors physicians graduating from U.S. medical schools.
Ask HN: Where can I find examples of good Node.js code?
Trying to put together a list of projects written in Node.js that can serve as a reference for best practices in terms of how the code is organized, appropriate usage of core functionality and everything else that can qualify as good architecture.
On average, doctors earn far more than software engineers. Only a small portion of software engineers can compete with doctors and it's clustered in a few select regions of the US.
Politics. Money. Expediency. The cheaper and easier you make it to do something, the easier it is for you to get signoff to do it. Humans require oversight and care. A robot staking out an area? Not nearly as much, and folks don't get nearly as much backlash when a robot doesn't come back home.
> I thought the point of native command queuing was precisely to enable the drive itself to make these lower-level scheduling decisions

The main purpose of NCQ (and SCSI command queuing which came way before it) was to allow higher levels of parallelism at the drive interface. This does allow the drive to do some smart scheduling, but still only within that fairly small queue depth. Scheduling across larger numbers of requests, with more complicated constraints on ordering, deadlines, etc., remains the OS's job. And once it's doing that, the incremental benefit of those on-disk scheduling smarts becomes pretty small.
Portfolio of a slow but precise fuzzer + fast imprecise fuzzer is the easiest integration. Start both together and return the one which fails first. SMT solvers are often complementary with samplers.

However, it would be very interesting to see if a closer integration of symbolic and sampling methodologies is possible.
Okay, I can get behind the "new firmware" for Boost.

But this, less so:

> It's the same case with the Full Self-Driving package: you're not paying for hardware you have to be enabled

Now, obviously there's a cost for software development. But this is nebulous hand waving at best (and though you don't "speak" for Tesla, they're also not alone in this).

"Oh, the hardware is free, you're just paying for software..." as a justification, that is.

The hardware is demonstrably NOT free, no matter how you spin it. It's just a better business model for them. It's no different to Comcast wanting to charge me less for installing telephony equipment that was never plugged in, in order to "bundle", than just plain Internet service.