skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When Jake and Amir was canceled I was quite disappointed, When they made an awful soulless return in the form of an anti-trump video, my fury was immense.
they held out for quite a while making original content and as of recently once in a blue moon they made something interesting but the company became very corporate, and their main product was incompatible with that, compatibility is a feat I think only Adult Swim can manage today...
That sounds outright terrible. Yes, it's not as bad as being beaten or raped (as mentioned by Enginerrrd in a sibling comment), but that's a really low bar.
Huh? I'm ready to dunk on any project, but that's just not true...
https://github.com/vesoft-inc/nebula/blob/master/README.md#l...
Some of them are a little ambiguous to me. For example, the ligature for #{ looks like it could be #={. I honestly couldn't tell until I selected the text.

Some of them are nice, however. Specifically the ones that just tighten up the spacing and make small adjustments. For example, most of the ones that involve a colon I think are an improvement, but still distinct and unambiguous.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Navy_SEAL_select...

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I'm not a game dev, but rough guess: the framerate is artificially limited to some 'sane' range by the equivalent of a short sleep() which is cancelled by an input event. More devices, more events, more chance to prompt the next frame early?
I think specialization is making labor markets more exploitative.

If the market expects you to do things that aren't worth the wage, but you spend a decade and half a million dollars on training and switching to something comparable would take a ton more time and money, well, then you probably won't switch careers. And if too few people switch then there's little market pressure to adapt.
The interesting project that seems only fitting to google or amazon is the collation of ALL data in the world regarding threat analysis. Seems like the bellingcat scenario writ large.
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CollegeHumor did not shut down, from the article itself:

“In words that I’m sure are as surreal to read as they are to type, I will soon become the new majority owner of CH Media,” said Reich, a longtime executive at CollegeHumor. “Of course, I can’t keep it going like you’re used to. While we were on the way to becoming profitable, we were nonetheless losing money — and I myself have no money to be able to lose.”

Dropout, its streaming service, will continue for at least the next six months while it churns out content already slated for release, Reich said. The future of CollegeHumor itself, and other humor sites run by the company, are less certain.

“In these six months, I hope to be able to save Dropout, CollegeHumor, Drawfee, Dorkly, and many of our shows,” Reich said. “Some will need to take on bold new creative directions in order to survive.”

The CH Media staff contracted from more than 100 to between five and 10 employees, according to Bloomberg News.
>Excluding fancy schools (which I believe aren't exactly a good thing), none of those things were inspired by "aspiration" in the sense being used here. They were inspired by genuine need.

Is sending out status signals to attract a mate or business partners a genuine need?
I don't think this is correct. A lot of the new driver assistance technologies are having a significant effect on safety:

https://www.cnbc.com/2017/08/22/new-report-shows-how-many-ac...

These features are new in the last 10 years, some are new in the last couple years, and they are continually improving.
And the inverse of not having this type of investigative data? People rightfully saying "source please" or "citiation needed" when we claim that apps are tracking us. Kinda surprised you don't want data - even if you don't have time to review the data yourself.
What "quality" means with respect to software is something that the experts (Watts Humphrey, SEI, etc) leave up to the imagination, as if "quality" had a single, easy to express meaning. But it doesn't. That's why we need articles like this one. I don't happen to agree entirely with it, as I think that "quality" can have goals in tension with one another, like the "Good/Fast/Cheap, pick any 2" triangle of quality. But overall, a good article.
It's not a household name, but it's a fairly large, privately held, company with a significant reference list.

They have a web site, if you want to check them out.
Physician practices get absorbed by large national corporations and patient care gets reduced to metrics that administrators can tweak to extract more revenue and profit. The benefits get paid to administrators as bonuses, while physicians see their salaries stagnate.

The corporitization of physician practices is destroying the profession.
Remember the AMA successfully lobbied to reduce the number of residencies and thus the number of doctors in the 90s.

We need to open up the medical profession to competition and allow the # of doctors to meet the demand.
or make their OS available for virtualization. Remember this was 2012 so our entire build process was done via cloud vms and Mac's requirements were a nasty welt on an otherwise exceptionally smooth process because there were no options available at the time.
FB's measure of views was dubious (3 seconds, even if the audio was off). So the #s looked great for them, but in reality the majority of views were just glimpses as people scrolled through their news feed.
Does it really matter? Why switch just for view numbers without a revenue model?
This is not at all surprising. It's happening in central Mexico too. But there, it's desert that's moving up.

Generally, moving inland, poleward, and up are the options.
> He suspected this would ultimately lead to consolidation of doctors under health organizations to limit personal liability.

That's not necessarily a bad thing. Safety in herds and shared risk pools work to limit individual risk for physicians.

This can take the form of larger private practice groups like Kaiser Permanente's physician group (a distinct entity contracted with the Kaiser Permanente hospital/managed care corporation).

It can also take the form of NHS in the UK which employs the vast majority of physicians there and represents them in malpractice cases.

The risk inherent in medicine is real and has to be borne somewhere. Better by shared risk pools, however they are organized, than by individual patients or doctors.
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> Scaling a law firm is difficult to impossible due to conflict of interest rules.

That's why I've long thought the conflict disqualification rules should apply only to individual lawyers, with suitable ethical walls. I strongly suspect that the traditional disqualification rules evolved in a bygone era where sole practitioners and one- or two-man (yes, man) law firms served as trusted advisers to clients who weren't that sophisticated about legal matters. It's not at all clear that firmwide disqualification for conflicts is still appropriate in an era of (i) giant global law firms and (ii) in-house counsel who are the client's actual trusted advisers and who use law firms strictly on a project basis as hired help.
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I've seen this with my own doctor. They said another reason besides the insurance was the increased demand for paperwork and electronic backups or something like that. So it's much easier and cheaper to have a single team manage the digital side for 20 doctors instead of just 1 or 2 doctors.

From the consumer end I like this more because their new group has a wide variety of specialties so you don't need to keep filling out the same paperwork and they also can afford to maintain an electronic system so you receive text notifications for appointments and can make appointments online and such.
Not speaking from experience here, but I don't think it's the same. I'm guessing there's a churn of people, so no long-term relationships, also since you're not working on the same thing you have less of a connection with them.
All gasoline engines have a spark source. A magneto, a distributor/coil setup, or a transistorized driver/coil setup in the case of fuel injected bikes. Nearly all bikes from 1920-1990 have a distributor. The differince is that it often runs off, or is part, the stator (generator coil), making it appear to not exist. Just follow the plug wire.
I don't ask this in an argumentative way. Honestly curious...

Is there a technical reason you would oppose this?
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Cool!
Now it is time for you (alleged hackers) to produce cool software for these devices, open sourve preferred.
The heart is the most critical muscle of the body. It is possible to detect a whole lot of disease using ecg data. Also there is alleged tibetian pulse diagnosis and where are some papers about pulse diagnosis.
What does this have to do with software freedom? If every bit of the Google software in question was under GPLv3 I fail to see how the outcome would have been different.
yeah, I remember soneca from the 7 dwarfs but I failed to mention it
Complaint was from Nassim Nicholas Taleb (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nassim_Nicholas_Taleb)

Elon responded - https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1217493904297058304
Well, I think the claim that worldwide capacity will drop to zero is absurd. But after enough price erosion, domestic capacity will dwindle significantly and these companies' goal is to remain in business.

I love low airfare as much as anybody but the claim that price transparency leads to price erosion isn't ridiculous. I honestly think that the trend towards lower prices has led to the reduction in quality of the flying experience as the airlines try to accommodate both low prices expected by consumers and high margins expected by Wall Street.

But your point is fair. The capacity rarely disappears completely because of price transparency. Only innovation and obsolescence will completely take that capacity offline.
With a Pixelbook and Android phone, it is completely predictable.

You choose which does what using UI controls on each device.

You can specify whether this device will provide charge to the other device. Whether this device will share files with the other device. And the other device can specify that it will be charged, and will receive files.

There is no guesswork about it. No mystery.
Make rhino horn legal so we can breed them and sell the horns. It would be a lucrative industry, like cannabis. Right now rhinos are high risk animals and no one wants to breed them and keep them on their game farms. There’s literally no incentive to do this.
eFAIL documents a series of client implementation errors in a 2018 paper that allow attackers to exfiltrate plaintext by emailing you your own encrypted messages with an attacker payload.

Diary site implementations will need to carefully evaluate whether this is relevant to them or to their users, who may well have been fine emailing plaintext to begin with (if you want an encrypted diary, you probably aren’t going to use email to write in it), before they assume that it’s a concern and begin testing email clients.
Every time I see "Deep Impact" in the context of NASA I end up thinking of the Climate Orbiter; where, due to an issue with unit conversion between metric and SI they turned it into the most expensive lawn dart to ever leave the solar system.
That's a complicated question. Let's say you're working on a software project that's running late. Does that indicate you should through more software developers at it?

The problem with medicine is that you have a culture of perfectionism in a field where random bad shit naturally happens all the time, and there's a great amount of human suffering. On top of that, perfectionism helps a lot, in the short run, even though it may be toxic in the long run.
That depends on what mean by "status signals". If you mean attending a fancy school or owning trendy stuff, then no. Most people manage to attract mates and get business partners without doing that.
You can move the points just like you'd rotate a distributor. One set of points drives one coil which provides ignition for two cylinders, one which is firing (near the end of its compression stroke) and the other non-firing (near the end of its exhaust stroke). For a four-cylinder engine, two sets of points and two ignition coils are used.

This setup is even used on modern-ish vehicles, where two transistors drive two coils to run four cylinders.
Those types of goods usually aren't mass advertised, e.g. high end music or video gear, mechanic's tools, etc.

Peleton bikes, smart toilets, diamond rings, high-end purses, and so on are all things you can get the cheaper versions of and still get roughly the same experience.
Seems odd to include Ryan Hoover and Niv Dror.

Ryan Hoover is generally pretty innocuous and is also the founder of ProductHunt, something builders might want to hear about. And ShrugCap pretty much just makes fun of SV VC.
Using linux doesn't mean spending time setting it up and maintaining it...at all. Not every distro is arch or gentoo.

Plenty of people using linux have other hobbies, and certainly don't want to bother dealing excessively with configs and the like.

Insinuating that people use Linux because it's 'cool looking' but less productive for writing software is patently absurd.
FWIW, when printing film (which would then be used to expose plates, which would then be loaded on a standard web offset press), the dpi doesn't change when rendering film. Smaller dots allow for a finer-grained halftone pattern.

You'd choose different DPIs based on the paper the final print would go on, though (it took longer to print at higher DPIs: sometimes over an hour before the job got sent to the film printer). Newspaper has the worst dot gain, and got the lowest DPI. Coated stock had the best, and got higher DPI.
It's shouldn't take twitter and involvement of the CEO to get basic customer service.
Cheers, that's very interesting!
Uber spies on passengers using the microphone, I’m willing to bet. I was in an Uber, having a conversation with the driver about wine tasting in Woodenville. When I got home, I had an email from Uber advertising wine tasting trips to Woodenville. The email was sent four minutes after my Uber ride. Coincidence?

I found a forum for Uber drivers where someone asked, “Why does the driver app ask to access the microphone?”
Speaking of Technorati...the site Technorati. "The Web We Lost" pretty much sums up what I miss: https://anildash.com/2012/12/13/the_web_we_lost/

The early 2000s had so much promise. The rise of reasonably easy to use blogging platforms, RSS, and web companies that were interested in playing in that world of distributed independent communication. Even Google was a different beast back then. It was the perfect balance: faster paced and more interactive than the days of manually editing files on GeoCities, but still mostly driven by indies doing things because they enjoyed it...instead of the cynical, marketing driven hellscape centered on siloed social media sites.

My pet hypothesis is that we had another Eternal September with the rise of the smartphone. Some of that amazing stuff is still out there, but it's drowned out by the firehose of corporatism and "normal" people. You can even see it with the shift in web sites aiming to be primarily consumed on a phone screen instead of a regular computer.
The country also wants more supply of healthcare, at lower prices, while the supply of doctors remains constrained via the restriction on number of residency training spots each year. This is the root cause, insufficient supply in the face of demand, and it is manifesting itself in these various side effects.
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That still feels like a "wheels of capitalism" thing -- the writing was on the wall and someone else would have run the Theranos article if the WSJ hadn't. But the overall editorial tone went from centrist to hard-right in the course of a decade, to the point it's not taken seriously as a financial publication anymore.
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Yes. See my replies above.
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Yes, but what are you giving up to do that?
Woah now, I would completely disagree, heroin does not make you happy, short term pleasure is not the same thing. New information which helps people is inherently a good thing, but can be obtained through other means than ads, i.e. word of mouth. The fact is that most ads are targeted badly and thus useless for most people, and the targeted ads that do help some are breaches of privacy, the better the ad the more information you must know about the person, which leads to all types of misuse of information.

Ads also give large companies leverage to destroy small companies. Basically if two entities are trying to compete, if one has more money, and a worse product, then they have the ability to out compete the smaller company specifically by spending more on advertisements.

The incentive model for advertisments is to take away as much privacy as possible from you (which we have seen in practice) and removes the effectiveness of the free market to function properly. Case in point, we should completely remove ads and only have new information from word of mouth or people who are willing to be paid for their time.
There was a chart posted a while back about how consumer Internet traffic has changed in the past decade or so. Today, the majority of traffic flows through FB, Google or Netflix properties. 10 years ago, it was much more diverse.

With that loss of diversity comes loss of communities and cultures. CollegeHumor used to have all its videos on its own site. If you liked the site, you created an account and interacted with the community, which had its own culture as you wouldn't behave as you normally would on FB or Twitter.

With the pivot to FB, that's gone. Now, it's no longer a friendly conversation between people who have CH in common, it's a free-for-all comments section featuring everyone from spambots, trolls and random users who stumbled across the video and just have to add their 2c.

Numerous other forums and blogs, all with their own communities have suffered this fate. That is why the Internet isn't fun anymore.
Adding more doctors isn't like adding more developers to a software project. Additional doctors can treat new patients in parallel without affecting the work that other doctors are doing.
I think that the aspirations that almost all advertisements give to people are actively harmful in every possible way.

- It is the main revenue source of most mentally harmful products like social media. A replacement created for the good of the world paid for by taxes with open data would be much preferred.

- Has masked how the world really functions via out-right lies and deception. Coke makes you happy, Happy Cows come from California, Diamonds must be given to show love

- Allows people with the most money to have the most likely chance of getting elected.

- Uses your personal information so that they are more likely to sell you things.

- Drug should not be advertised. Why the would a doctor want their patient to ask them for a specific drug???

- Convinced people that single use garbage should have a place in our society.

I am sure there are many more negatives, but for now I think this will suffice.

Perhaps with enough regulation many of these things could be changed, but I don't see it happening. Advertising can be used for good, see anti-smoking ads, but in its current state it is all bad. I can't think of an aspiration an ad has given me which gave me a problem to fix instead of a reason to consume.
Is it meant to work on mobile as well?
It seemed unclear that the patch addressed all the issues raised in the ticket, and looking at random patches still requires dev time. It is a different story when someone else actively works on getting it upstreamed and working on resolving any issues. It's about who volunteers to do the hard work.

Given that no one stepped up to do it yet and random users chimed in with aggressive and/or unhelpful noise, locking the issue was adequate.

I find it concerning how much abuse GNOME devs get, and I can completely understand that they respond like this.
The risch algorithm is not trivial to implement.
It seems like many small companies are also not run by people who have read in some business magazine or have been told by some consultants that they need to be doing big data. Unless they do advertising, they likely don't need the data in the first place and so the path of least resistance is to do the right thing. No data, no problems.
>I don't disagree with your opinions on Apple and their products but what in your list of bad things about them is actually illegal?

Where in the parent's quote that I was responding to was there anything about laws?

I was specifically responding to:

>Amusingly, there are two sets of people arguing about why Apple is bad,

I see nothing about legality. I see the word bad.
Diesel ignights via compression and does not require external ignition. For this reason, they can 'run away' and rev until they explode if somehow given too much fuel as the result of a failed injector or oil leak from the turbo that feeds the combustion cycle. The yt videos are intense.
I have an Apple TV and two Rokus. According to my PiHole and my UniFi controller, the Rokus (attempt) to do an awful lot of talking to domains associated with telemetry and advertising all throughout the day. My Apple TV is pretty quiet, though I do catch some ad/telemetry traffic when using individual apps.

I intend to replace the Rokus.
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I'm really curious why they released to stable with so many basic features missing. For example, your bookmarks won't sync between devices (although that was recently re-enabled in the preview channels). It sounds like they're not pushing out automatic updates right now anyway, so I'm not sure what this announcement amounts to. Why not wait until the 20H1 Windows 10 feature update (which sounds like the update that will include the stable version of Edge) is released to mark the first stable version? Just seems like a weird release schedule.
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I worked at Facebook for four years (three of which on the iOS app) and it's implausible to me that they're using the microphone to listen into people’s conversations, at least on the flagship apps (Messenger, Facebook, Instagram).

They'd have to be using some very sophisticated techniques to hide internally that they're doing it, given that engineers can all see the entire codebase. I was pretty intimately familiar with every bit of the build process; it'd have been hard to miss some injection of secret code. Also, the benefit would be minuscule, and the threat to their reputation if caught (given that Zuckerberg has very explicitly claimed not to be doing this) would be huge.

I am almost certain that it's not happening on Android either, but I'm not as familiar with that codebase, so I won't claim to know first hand.
Thanks to HN "who is hiring" thread earlier this month I was able to find a 100% remote contract. With it in hand I expressed to my job I wanted to quit and they countered with letting me work 100% remotely (all I really wanted)! Thank you HN!
I would like to see the data sliced by employed vs independent physicians.

Independents (a majority of physicians) need to deal with all the billing and insurance headaches that now come with the industry, and have to deal with setting up their own EHR to deal with it.

Employed physicians in an integrated health system and plan (like Kaiser or Geisinger), in theory don't have to deal with those aspects as much, and can concentrate more on the patient.

Would be good to see if there is a correlation there.
View numbers were the revenue model. Eyeballs make money for advertisers. The more eyeballs, the more money.