skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Maybe a silly question, but how do they identify you? Simply based on your IP address?
What if you set FS with -F but then later in the script want to change FS to something else.
They may be talking about Avastin which there was a controversy around a few years ago. IIRC despite being originally used as an anti-cancer treatment it was found to be very effective (as effective as other treatments) for Wet AMD (age-related macular degeneration, a degenerative condition of the retina). The NICE approved drug options for the condition were significantly more expensive.

Some Trusts were attempting to make this the first line treatment as an off-license prescription as it was cheaper and the pharmaceutical companies were trying to sue the Trusts for "not providing NICE approved medications and therefore disadvantaging patients" while simultaneously not seeking to license Avastin for wet AMD.

This was a few years ago so I may have misremembered some details.
Is that your personal definition of ethics? Just kill anyone you disagree with?

No that's just a crazy fantasy.

It is unethical to pretend to "help" someone by intentionally using an ineffective solution to make yourself look good without putting in the effort.

This is basically a lesser form of hero complex/syndrome.

You see a problem, think of a solution that makes you look like a hero and everyone is worse off except you.

Celebrities visiting poor african villages is probably the most obvious occurence of this. They book an expensive flight and hotel and drive a car and when they arrive they just do minor help for a week but hey everyone sees it on my instagram account!!!
Tesla becomes first American automaker worth $100B
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XKCD's Randall Munroe did a survey about color names, and the report he did on it is fantastic: https://blog.xkcd.com/2010/05/03/color-survey-results/ , both informative and hilarious.
The top 141 'elite engineers' are certainly making more than $10m/yr and their careers will last much longer.
Verifying your system state in a secure and private way
Thank you. Yes hopefully it can and it works really well on desktop or mobile.
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With so much to be outraged about, we're all burned out on outrage... to put it another way, the battery's in dire need of a recharge.
That sounds like an excellent plan.
There's no atrocity people in free democratic societies won't do if their standard of living is threatened.
Can you please provide some form of a source for your statement? I read this a lot, but I can't find any factual basis for the statement. The US is known for having the highest cost of health care per capita, more than twice that of France and the UK, two countries commonly named for having socialized health care [0].

0: https://www.businessinsider.com/cost-of-healthcare-countries...
How does your own DNS server substantially help, given that it needs to get its data somewhere?
You'll have a unique 6 character id, which you'll use as a subdomain or path in dns-over-https

For example, if your id is abc123

DNS-over-HTTPS https://dns.nextdns.io/abc123

DNS-over-TLS abc123.dns.nextdns.io

You also have ipv6 hostnames, which has the id in it
> ...I would be surprised to learn if the occurrence of lane departure accidents has gone down or stayed the same since cars have begun to get wider.

Now is that primarily a consequence of wider vehicles or smartphone-induced distracted driving?
I know it's not very hard to do, but 20 minutes from unboxing the pi to a fully running pi-hole is unrealistic for someone who's not used to setting up pis.

"just ask a friend to do it". Exactly, you and I don't live in the same circles...
>Really she was rags to riches which is pretty inspirational I think.

Horrible as it may be to say, it kind of proves that lying was totally worth it for her. Probably worth it for a lot of the courageous "big" liars out there. If no one's gonna check on it, and you're making all this money, why would you stop? It's working for you.

Like you said, it's probably inspirational to many people. A lot more people will take the "fake it til you make it" route. Because it works often enough to make it a viable life strategy.
Swift is used for systems programming on Apple platforms, as already replied on another thread.

Google already mentioned a couple of times at Android Fireside Q&A sessions that it is weighting Kotlin/Native adoption on Android.

And even if not, Rust isn't taking C++ and Java place on Android, specially after Project Treble changes, where drivers can even now be written in Java.

Google and Microsoft are indeed adopting Rust, with some products already in production, although they are also among the major ISO C++ contributors, so it remains to be seen how much Rust love from their security teams will spread into the OS development teams.

For example, I still look forward to the day that Azure Sphere actually offers something else other than C, in spite of its security sales speech.
Uh, what? Content Blockers on iOS aren't scummy, they can't track you because all they do is provide filter lists to the OS, which then runs them against your browser traffic. They work just fine in Firefox. Firefox Focus provides its tracking protection list as a Safari Content Blocker, which is nice. Other than that, I use AdGuard because it's free and lets you choose which filter lists to use.

You have to enable content blockers in Settings → Safari → Content Blockers. Just downloading the app without following the instructions is not enough.
Are you listening to music just from games you've played, or game music in general?

I do listen a lot to music from games, movies and series for that emotional boost, but it always has to be something I've already played/watched and engaged with emotionally in the past. The music doesn't generate new emotions in me, it pulls on the past experiences. Listening to arbitrary soundtracks wouldn't work on me.
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Let's assume you just want to hook up a BME280 to an Arduino or RasPi, that would be the quickest way to end up dealing with i2c.
https://www.bosch-sensortec.com/products/environmental-senso...
Ohhhh, right! I remember when that happened, forgot ... Amazing that the software is still in use. And that it's still useful given the temporary nature of these filters. Its syntax was pretty neat; writing your own cosmetic filters was pretty easy. And I suppose that the community wrote some code to auto convert public block lists maybe?

There's something to be said about the adblocker being a filtering proxy, it can really get anything before it hits the browser.

Do you know how it compares to Privoxy nowadays? Way back then it was the open source but harder to configure alternative, that didn't quite work as well as Proxomitron. But maybe Privoxy continued development and got better, I don't know what direction that project took.

Oh and I personally always really liked the default skin :D
Definitely tangential to this discussion, but it's about language and sufficiently geeky I think the HN crowd would probably appreciate:

I read a book a few years ago called Alex's Adventures in Numberland (https://www.amazon.com.au/Alexs-Adventures-Numberland-Alex-B...). In it he has a story about a group in South America who have no words in their language for a number greater than two (or maybe it was three? It's been a while since I read it). Anything larger than that was just referred to as "many". It's not as though seeing more than two of anything was uncommon, most families would have a half dozen to a dozen children. But if you asked how many children they had it was just "many". Whether it was eleven or twelve just wasn't an important distinction to them.

He goes on to discuss how language can expose what's important to a group and shape thinking. The introduction of a concept and word for zero was hugely important for our advancement in all number of fields. He also discusses how our constant pursuit for ever increasing levels of specificity has it's trade-offs: we seem to be becoming increasingly bad at estimating (which is both language, social expectations around what we value, and a reliance on tools).

Anyways, it was a story about language and numbers that I thoroughly enjoyed.
I just pushed it, the blog post (which includes the notebook) is here[0].

It's 14mb of data, not sure how many messages it actually comes down to but FB Messenger has been my main platform for talking to friends for the last decade.

0. https://svilentodorov.xyz/blog/gpt-15b-chat-finetune/
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Maybe just NSA and NAVY covert, keeping Chinese scientist busy wasting their time with nonsense science ?!
> competing talents were denied their rightful places

Absolutely. What are the odds he (and/or others in his team?) did this just for this one competition? It's possible, but unlikely he/they invented this (or other) code hiding technique(s) just for this single occasion.

Also, the employer did the right thing and kick him out. Now they only have to scrutinize the last few months of his work instead of looking over his shoulders the next few years.
It's also the discipline to clean up, keep it ordered and throw things out that aren't useful anymore.
Original submission:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22012763
Yeah, it's hilarious that this argument is used by Americans as many Americans die because they can't afford treatment [0]. They even pass away from the flu, because they can't afford going to see a doctor.

0: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/jan/07/americans-he...
A bit offtopic, but interested to know: having such a union/agreement - does it mean you cannot bargain to get higher salary just for yourself?
Capitalism optimizes for wealth accumulation, not for utility. If an entrepreneur can sell a false but appealing image for millions and move on, why would they spend their time inventing anything concrete or meaningful? It’s a lot easier to sell a viral video of a revolutionary product than it is to invent and sell an real revolutionary product. So why innovate then, if you can just green-screen it and get the same result with less effort?

This article is a fascinating study of the increasingly post-material world we live in where images without substance - signs, signals, and abstract statuses - determine the true price of things. Think of the Supreme brick. It’s all about signaling that something has value, like Dollar Shave Club, and in our bizarre economy, that empty signal becomes reality - the image alone eventually is what gives the useless thing value. The fact that in reality they just resell cheap razors made by someone else using a technology - the mail - that Sears used 100 years ago doesn’t matter; they simulate innovation, and so they are innovation. God this shit sucks.
> . But there seems to be a pattern of people who heard that contributing to open source is good for their CV, this ends up being their only motivation

Honestly I don't care what motivates people to contribute to open source. Some people are previlaged enough to contribute for fun in their free time. Some do it for improving their resume (Not everyone is previlaged to work in a FAANG or reputed tech company or went to an Ivy League). Some do it for improving the software they use. None of the reason is honestly better than the other. At the end of the day what matter is the code gets commited to the repo. Nobody mentions the reason why they made the contribution in commit message. Don't worry about maintainers getting overwhelmed by contributors. Its a good problem tp have. Most of them are smart enough to come up with a system if that problem actually arises. Honestly the main reason most open source projects die is not because of too many contributions. Its because of lack of contributors and a single maintainer having to do all the heavy lifting by themselves.
Britain helped Iran’s Islamic regime destroy the left-wing opposition
And their only driver to decrease costs is profit, not lower prices. If those private organisations could run it cheaper than the government, the rest would end up in the pockets of shareholders.
Yeah, that's the same story with me. Normally I don't even consume caffeine for that reason.

On the occasions I do have it and attempt to accomplish something that requires focus, it elevates energy but worsens focus considerably, even in minute amounts. It's at best a fun way to spin my tires, and at worst the harbinger of productivity destruction.
I think it's really about being passive. If you're passive, nothing can hook you. Everything (anything?) is enjoyable when it's an active activity.

Books should not be downloading content to your brain. They should be more of a conversation. TV is only fun when you're asking questions back - that's why things like anime, drama, and Marvel movies have such dedicated fandoms.

There's the Pirsig's brick principle. To quote a site: https://www.thestrategyexchange.co.uk/2014/05/pirsigs-brick/

"There’s a point in Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance where the author, Robert Pirsig, is describing semi-autobiographically his experience teaching English ('Rhetoric') at a college in Bozeman, Montana. One of his students, a clever but unimaginative girl, has set herself the task of writing an essay on the US. Pirsig gently suggests that she try narrowing her focus a little, perhaps to an essay about Bozeman.

A few days later the girl is back, quite upset this time, because she’s struggling to get started, and she can’t understand why she should be able to write about a small and incidental town like Bozeman when she’d wanted to write about the US.

Pirsig, angered, tells her to write about a street in Bozeman, about one building there – the opera house – and to start with the upper left hand brick.

Puzzled she goes away, and a few days later turns in a lengthy and outstanding piece of work. She had sat herself in a coffee shop across the street, started writing about the brick, and it was like taking a cork out of a bottle. She couldn't stop writing."
There are way more random internet publications than TV stations/channels and sustainably run physical magazines.
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and what prey, does a global pi-hole grid give that an actual RaspPi and pi-hole can't? What does it add?

Given they are based in Delaware, USA my starting point is far below zero privacy trust: Nextdns are gathering maximum possible data from everyone's DNS queries and selling it, or proposing to use it for advertising soon(tm). Enough independent reviewing and auditing might eventually persuade me that's unfair, maybe. If they actually cared for privacy why not incorporate in the EU and proudly wear full GDPR compliance? Or CA's upcoming privacy legislation?
You are welcome.

Berlin schools, even Gymnasien, have a bad reputation due to Berlin's failed economic policy, which resulted in a lack of equipment and missing teachers. To get into a Gymnasium with a very good reputation processes are highly competitive.
I'm sorry, but I simply don't see a direct connection between how you choose to finance your company and how you plan your engineering strategy. Boeing made a decision to modify the 737 instead of building a new plane. But that's a perfectly valid strategy. Hell, Boeing's chief rival is Airbus and their equivalent of the 737 Max is the A320 neo- they did exactly the same thing. It's a fine strategy. The problem was that Boeing was trying to cut costs - which is a natural and expected part of a large company. The problem was they executed that badly and the company culture became bad. But that really has nothing to do with the debt structure of the company.
If some animals are going to be euthanised, would you rather you euthanise at random, or euthanise those who are likely not going to be adopted anyway.

The problem here isn't AI, it's the problem of pet ownership. This problem has existed. And you are criticising an imperfect attempt at solving a part of this problem, because the solution isn't perfect.

shake my head
ocsp.int-x3.letsencrypt.org.edgesuite.net

matches

edgesuite.net

I whitelisted only the FQDN and left edgesuite.net largely blacklisted.
Doesn't matter what kind of black magic you put into a tiny car, a big heavy SUV will destroy it in an impact and barely take a scratch. People buy big SUVs because they "feel safer", and they're going to keep doing that without some intervention. If I were a national regulator I would pass a law adding a pollution rating and a 3rd party danger rating to the vehicle registration plate.
You can have a talk with your manager to move to the next level on the Tarifftable, but these are extremely well defined. Another option is to move out of the agreement and get a free lease on a car, but it is not a very good idea.
The diet industry is worse.

Those companies where you count some kind of points as you eat and pay membership to turn up for a weekly weigh-in and pep talk rely on the good habits being poorly embedded so that you get fat again without the meetings.

I disagree with the conflict of interest RE doctors.

At least with doctors, people will always get ill. If people no longer turn up for lifestyle-related ailments, they will still come in with a rash or pain or whatever. They will also have fewer complications or confounding factors for diagnosis.

In a profit-driven healthcare system, I would imagine that lots of healthy patients is more profitable for a GP than a few sick ones. The sick ones incur more costs, and end up getting referred away to specialists for much of their care anyway.
Japan has removed all humanist subjects from thier universities.

I would refer to these STEM subjects in this order instead, because thats how they depend: math, physics, chemistry and biology. MPCB does not sound as good though.

As for jobs they do not exist; only work exists, and you need to spend energy to do it.

One last thing, we need to have more female teachers in these subjects, since they are not trying to keep secrets.

Men keep secrets to get what they want, which mostly is women.
Netflix is still saying ‘no’ to ads
Hello fellow non native speaker. You don't mean "insensitive[s]", but " incentive[s]".

On topic: My university offers "Ethics for Nerds [=CompSci]" lecture. The lecturers have degrees in both CS and Philosophy, and the stated goal is to make compsci students more aware of ethical implications - plus giving them some tools/thinking to assess these implications.
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> I feel that the author saying LaTeX is bad because it is (in particular) not based on a GUI/point-and-click system, and preferring Microsoft Equation Editor/Outline to it, reveals a big misunderstanding.

He does not prefer MEE.

Quoting the article:

> TeX, being a pretty-printing system, can be considered in the same class as Microsoft Word Equation Editor. The difference lies only in their mode of operation. Specifically, TeX is by compile and batch operation like a typical computer language, and the Equation Editor is by using a mouse to click menus and buttons with graphical user interface. The heart of both as far as math notation is concerned, is doodling of a em space or en dash. All math notation's semantic structure are lost.

I don’t think asking for a graphical shell for TeX/LaTeX is unreasonable.

However, back when I was winding down my active LaTeX involvement in the late 90s, there were applications that enabled wysiwyg editing of LaTeX.
I reckon small cars pose less risk to others. Pedestrians and cyclists can easily see over them. Stopping distances are probably better. Ending up on the hood/bonnet of a small vehicle rather than under a large one with it's very high front end (often with an attached bullbar) is almost certainly preferable. Finally, consider that large vehicles likely do much more damage to other vehicles in a crash.

All in all I find ownership of a large vehicle to be a fair proxy for an inconsiderate personality (bear in mind, I don't live in the US where large vehicles seem to be the defacto choice).
I think the way forward is even more powerful and interactive "document". Imagine for example a car manual that also lets you run diagnostics or tweak the HUD. And also third party "web pages" that can do the same thing if you allow them to.
Imagine searching for a baking recepy, then with a click of the button, the "web page" connects to your baking machine and sets the ingredients.
Imagine a document about some math topics, with interactive models that helps you understand the concepts (that actually exist today).
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I wonder if the breeze was warm, that could be a good hint for the plant.
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Just a little nit-pick: The NaNs always compare false, so this property only holds for values up to +inf (0x7f800000).
Selling food is a bit different than selling drugs.
Saying someone's "patch is boring" is also harassment.
You should check out OsmAnd [1] and their pro client, which is FOSS [2]. The maps are downloaded in svg from OpenStreetMap (available offline) and the app has a ton of features. Also i'm not sponsored, I just find the whole thing very useful

[1] https://osmand.net/
[2] https://f-droid.org/en/packages/net.osmand.plus/
I was incredibly unproductive during the first half of my 20s and procrastinated to the point of setting my career back a few years. Around the time I turned 26 I was suddenly able to actually do what I said I would, get stuff done, and in fact be extremely productive.

So even though I've overcome it myself, I have no idea what advice to give to someone who's struggling with procrastination.
Great! Let me hook you up with the latest medical AI technology. Actually, let me hook you up with all of the latest medical AIs, throw your symptoms at them and let them treat all you ailments. And add to that, all the latest medical robotics, and we'll take the surgeons and intensivists, interns, and nurses away.

Good luck with that, I'm sure you will be much happier and healthier when the current AI tries to decide whether you are acutely dying of hypercalcaemia or a cardiac tamponade and Marshalls the robots to save you.

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For all the faults and failings of doctors (read: humans), I find many Hacker Newsers vastly oversimplify what doctors do and vastly overinflate what AI is able to do now, or will be able to do in the next ten, twenty, or even 30 years.

It's great that we not have some AI that can diagnose a stroke better than a radiologist on a CT scan. But it can't tell you the scan also shows a space occupying lesion. Or hydroencephaly. Or an extra dural haematoma. Or any other intracranial pathology. And that's about the state of the art.

I welcome new diagnostic aids as I think most clinicians do, but I would take the fleshy system we have of human healthcare providers and suspect that will be the case for a good while yet.

Disclaimer: am doctor and engineer
The broken families in impoverished homes are far less toxic to society than the broken families in privileged homes.

See recent US and UK politics for examples. Although perhaps like attracts like, so if there's enough dysfunction around at all levels you get a politics of brokenness with dysfunctional broken leaders appealing to broken supporters.
You need an alternative view. He provided one. A good deal. Philosophy is never about convenience.

The real question - is philosophy of science helped science or human. I am not sure.
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Well Haskell's prelude is purposefully small and extended by a variety of extensions in the GHC. Prelude + libs + extensions effectively make what we call Haskell today.

Just like with Elixir and many other high level languages I don't think it's meant for building low level systems where you're heavily constrained by resources.

But why wouldn't it be able to interact with external systems? I'm not having any problems building an API that interacts with a database, caching layer etc.