skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To the developer: kudos. Ignore the naysayers. Why build this — why the f* not? It's not like there are apps out there that do the same. And adding another way to interact with people is fun.

That's not to mention it might help people with anxiety. Sure, it's not a silver bullet. I don't know if I'd really use it. But it's novel, and why not.

Now, there's a real problem with this app, and it's that it's a feature turned into a product.

It's a problem because:

1) Bail is not a Google Calendar / Facebook Events replacement, which is what people use to schedule things, AND

2) It would be a great feature in both of these products. If it ever gets implemented, Bail is instantly obsolete.

Again, kudos to you! But as a user, I hope the calendar software I use gets this functionality, and I won't have to introduce anyone to yet another app.

It's not at all a problem unless you're betting everything on this app. Who knows where this will bring you though. Best of luck!
The way your body processes food during ketosis is so different from processing "traditional" diets that I hardly think it would be relevant enough to warrant a rebuttal.

I do like hearing Mark's opinions on such things though:
https://www.marksdailyapple.com/what-does-the-who-report-mea...
I used to frequent a website with nearly a hundred experiments like this, almost all interactive and very beautiful. They were all created with Flash/ActionScript. There were lots of tree visualizations, fluid simulations, and one specific demo with randomized bugs that walked around using inverse kinematics. I've since lost the link, does anyone remember what I'm talking about, maybe could provide a link?

[Edit] found it
http://levitated.net/daily/index.html
http://levitated.net/daily/levWalkingThings.html
They should publish it only in electronic version.
Oh I see your point.

Yeah, that was unnecessary. Ironically now I remember that I was once frustrated by someone who was using Boolean logic to emulate if/else in Python.
Do you know of anyone working on such an effort?
However if the vegetarian diet consists of mostly starches and grains it is pretty easy to put on weight.
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>There's no need for a cheap imitation, because what they sell is already the cheap option.

I just looked up their price for a queen-size foam mattress. SIX HUNDRED DOLLARS? SIX HUNDRED DOLLARS!

WTF. It's just a hunk of foam.
The optimal choice for using this app is to always bail.

I mean, if you don't bail, the other person(s) might not want to be there.

If "the double bail" does occur; more time to hang out with other people or be alone.
Your response implies that structured data, including numbers, are a somehow a problem for CouchDB, but that's just not the case.

Validating data is something you can and should do before saving it in the DB and with CouchDB that would be done with a "design document" using javascript.

In this case validating that user input is a positive number or a zero should be done on the client side before even submitting the data as well.
Sending every I/O operation through userspace and back again is going to be _glacially_ slow, good luck macOS
So go back to the 90s? Microsoft being the reigning king? Not sure if this time period was honestly better.

Or alternatively, give users ownership of their data like the EU has taken steps to do. Advertising is here to stay and provides its own use. But there could be something that forces transparency.
Maybe your campaigns weren't setup correctly?
All elements of the marketing mix matter, especially word of mouth advertising. Even if adblocker users think they're protecting themselves from ads, they know plenty of people who aren't. And those people will talking about those products.

It's one-step removed and more filtered, but it's still effective advertising.
I'd actually expect that to be higher than it is, just given that red meat has been vilified for 50+ years by public health officials.

I'm not sure if there's a name for the reverse of healthy user bias, but I like to think of it as blaming baseball for oral cancer, rather than the chewing tobacco common among players in the sport.
extra income?
I'm sorry I don't remember where I saw it. It was a long time ago. I remember the quote itself only because I loved it :-)
I haven't read the article yet, but going from the headline, I certainly assumed they were claiming the same/similar risk for both red and processed meat.

From the summary you gave, it certainly does seem like a click-baity headline. Personally I would have hoped for better from the NHS (even if I wouldn't have expected it).
The comparison to existing tools doesn't mention any of the other tools in this category, just tools in other categories.
Maybe someone throws a handful of these into a grinder to harvest prescious metals or something. Grinder cracks the encapsulation of like 10-20 of these in sequence with an operator standing nearby. Now is it an issue?
From the article, they claim that the parameter names are easier to understand and therefore easier to enter correctly. As I've not used either lib directly, I'll have to take their word for it.
I think he means calling established leads, not telemarketing, which I believe is what you are referring to.

Like calling an existing business partner and offering them an additional service. At least that's what I hope he means, rather than telemarketing.
> from a developer perspective, data such as what software your product is used with is INCREDIBLY valuable for project planning and prioritization.

I don't think anybody is disputing that. But that its very valuable to devs does not excuse collecting it without getting the user's informed consent first.
We're in the process of a rewrite into Elm at the moment and have been loving every moment of it. Even the devs who are seeing Elm for the first time are enjoying it.
Well, they are tackling the problem medically.

Why don't we try and engineer around the problem. All cancers exist for the same reason - our immune system isn't picking them up.

Ideas?

1. Nano bots to replace immune system

2. Blood monitoring kits like Theranos tried.

3. Inmune system training kit that tries to encourage
attacking cancer cells ( huge backfire potential )

(Disclaimer - I have no idea what I'm talking about )
You can’t just respond that way to every radiation worry. You need numbers.
It purports to be something it's not. It says "Rolex" on it.
I know it's snark, =) but..

Like most data collection, this is far too sparse a dataset to ever be useful.
The most robust alternatives are containerd and lxd.

- containerd was pun out of the Docker engine to address community criticism. Pretty much every reason for creating rkt in the first place, has been addressed by containerd.

- lxd is very similar to containerd, but evolved out of the lxc userland tool.

There is also Podman and Cri-o, but I would not recommend those.

Unlike containerd and lxd, they were not created to solve an actual user problem, but to advance the interests of some vendors to the detriment of others.
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Can't wait to see how this goes wrong. 100x leverage? Here we go..
Does this include Fire TV devices?
80% of the functionality isn't where the value resides. It's the 20% of really well-thought-out niche features that make it valuable.

Perhaps not 'unicorn' valuable anymore as it went through that phase of adding enterprise shovel features. These days all cloud enterprise software companies must badly incorporate the features of other products because most Enterprise software buying criteria are just boxes to be ticked.
Is this even a thing or just a landing page with an email harvester?
Doesn’t mean it’s good. It’s an inhalation hazard.
"It's possible to deposit, trade and withdraw without ever completing any KYC."

How is this legal?
Is Wacom's driver an example of excessive monitoring?

While the author presents the graphics tablet as a glorified mouse, tablets usually offer many more features. How those features interact with various applications is important, and they have to prioritize which applications they support. The data collection that the author describes may be viewed, internally, as part of that process.

Now I am not claiming that Wacom is doing the right thing, nor am I claiming that they are doing the right thing in the wrong way. Yet it is entirely possible that they feel justified in collecting that data for product development without having ulterior motives. Their failure may simply lay in the failure to recognize that many people are sensitive to data collection due to real, potential, or perceived abuses by other parties.
Ask each side to give a probability. If both sides have a similar estimate, then you move on to the next logic step(s). Don't bother debating things you already agree on. We don't have to dissect everything.

If it varies too much, then explore the reasons for the different estimates. Often times it comes down to different past experience, which is obviously going to vary per individual. (Ex: "when users see X on UI screens, they usually do Y, in my experience".) But at least one can narrow down recommended decision logic to observed patterns of history. Narrowing down the point of disagreement is often still helpful even if both sides still disagree.
Nightmare Google Photos bug sent private videos to the wrong people
I don’t think that’s anything to do with it. Suggesting that other people shouldn’t be bothered about their phone number being leaked is like trying to argue away their rights. Naturally when you do that, people react negatively.
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I've worked almost exclusively in large enterprises - the attitude towards cold-callers has ways been the same.

I and others I know have had cold-callers using scummy tactics, such as claiming to know the decision maker from way back, claiming they lost their number etc - but these are so old nobody I know falls for them anymore.
So, unplug the device and leave it on Alice's Desk. if Dorothy gives you a hard stare, then you know she must have had access to the video feed in the plug-in, and so is the corporate spy.

But if Dorothy instead gives Alice a hard stare, Dorothy is innocent. But if you return that morning to find the device plugged back in, Alice must be the spy.

Unless Bob from HR got in early that morning ...
Work for Universities (for P.I.s housed at universities) for less than you are worth on the open market.
(And still be resented by profs making less)

Soylent data (it is made of people), is hard because
it has all these lawyers attached to it.
Figure out a trivial/foolproof way for EHRs to be satisfactorily anonymous for the legal departments
to allow sharing but still be useful.
(I won't be holding my breath)

A concrete thing without any "hard" bits
There is an open source tool named Protege that is ...
err... the best tool of its class ...
fix it or make a replacement

[]https://protege.stanford.edu/
Batteries too.
That's exactly I would love to see BMI as another dimension in the study, as it would fully eliminate this speculation.
are there no fat binaries in linux? or are they just not used?
Same thing here, TravelMap.net has 100k+ users (total), handles photo uploads and runs on a simple droplet with PHP and JS.

I guess it depends on the daily traffic.
They should have switched to Hypervisor.framework already.
I'm still not feeling the warm fuzzies.
It takes years after standardization for software encoders to become efficient, it was this way with x264, x265 and will again be the same with rav1e. Initially they're only going to provide a good quality/size tradeoff if you throw ungodly amount of CPU resources at them. There's also Intel's SVT-* encoder family, but that's meant for many-core server class machines, so again only good for batch encoding.

But for streaming services even those initially costly encoders are worth it since they pay the cost only once and then stream to millions of viewers.
This isn't e-voting. The job of this software was to accomplish basically the same thing as emailing some numbers to headquarters and entering them into a spreadsheet. Precinct officials reporting their results can (and should) check that the results they reported are the same results received at the state level. You can see from the results that have been made public [0] that the precinct numbers are very easy to check by hand, and the math to combine the results can and should be independently checked by, say, copy-pasting the numbers into an Excel spreadsheet. No trust required, none of the complications involved in recording and verifying individual private ballots.

Even if the software was compromised, the incorrect numbers would be detected by independent checks — the same checks you have to do anyway to guard against data entry errors and typos in Excel formulas — and the correct results could still be calculated. There was no way a hack could have done anything worse than delay the release of the results, leak the results prematurely, or possibly induce the party to release some manipulated initial results if they were careless enough not to do any internal verification before releasing the results to public scrutiny.

Everything involved in running an election can be done poorly. If we unconditionally rail against software being used at all, then sure, we can show off our clean hands when something goes wrong. But we accomplish nothing to stop someone who doesn't know better from hiring a contractor who, like in this case, doesn't do the job responsibly.

This software should exist. It should be subjected to an independent security audit, thoroughly tested, supplemented with user training, and trusted only if the results are independently verified at every step. Which is to say, not really trusted. But it should exist.

[0] https://results.thecaucuses.org/
Do you have a citation for that? The definition of a rogue wave is a function of existing conditions, but that doesn't exclude a rogue wave in calm conditions; it just requires a greater height in rougher seas.

Intuitively I would expect rogue waves to be more likely in rougher seas, but it's another thing entirely if the physics of rogue waves requires rough seas locally. I don't disbelieve you, but an explanation of that claim would answer a ton of questions about how rogue waves form (answers missing from the Wikipedia page, which seems more inconclusive) and a page worthy of bookmarking.

EDIT: Your claim seems consonant with the "linear" theory of rogue waves, but as the Quanta article explains that theory is contested by proponents of the "non-linear" theory.
Basing policy on 99.99 percentile sized families would certainly be odd.
For some scenarios, most (all?) of them have write-an-image-but-you-can’t-run-it-locally semantics.

My build server is x64, but target output is ARM. Can't exactly just run that locally super easily. Perhaps somebody has created a container runtime that will detect this, and automatically spin up a qemu container, running an arm host image, and communicate my container run request (and image) to that emulated system, but I haven't heard of that feature. (Not that I actually looked for it.)
Welcome to the world of nutrition science, where the methodology is shoddy, the evidence is poor, and the recommendations are ridiculous.
Meat is rarely the source of excess calories in a person’s diet.

Sugars, starches, dairy.
Definitive conclusions shouldn't be derived from observational studies only. Also, the methodology used is very questionable.

We should be more critical about matters concerning our diet, as studies like the former will be used by the media and professionals to back potentially life-changing advices.
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Did they use the app? Talk about dogfooding...
> I use WhatsApp without allowing them access to my contacts.

That appears to be impossible for WhatsApp on Android. Someone wanted me to install it a bit ago, I refused to give it access to my contacts and it refused to do anything else until I did.

So I deleted it and we used Signal instead.
Proprietary surveillance company is okay with manufacturers creating proprietary drivers to be used for surveillance. Shocking.
This seems inevitable in the evolving post-Cold-War geopolitical environment. MAD only works when there is a nation-state whose cities you could conceivably target. When the threat model is a larger number of non-state terrorist organizations that do not have well-defined borders, permanent populations, or even stationary bases, having a 450kt warhead targeting a city is basically useless. Imagine that say a Chechnyan separatist group detonated a nuclear warhead on U.S. soil. What would the response be? Nuke Moscow? "Yes, please, we never liked them anyway."

The unfortunate thing is that everyone saying that this dangerously lowers the threshold for use of nuclear weapons is right. Deterrence works when there's an oligopoly of nuclear powers. When nuclear weapons proliferate beyond a handful of powerful nation-states, into countries or groups with nothing to lose, there's nothing stopping them from using their nukes. It's like how in the tech patent world pre-2010, people described all these "defensive" patent portfolios as mutually assured destruction, "and then Nokia launched the missiles".

IMHO nuclear winter is a far more likely end of civilization than global warming is.
The bottleneck on a single big server setup is available network bandwidth to serve all those 100k users. If you run a simple site you can probably slap some cdn to serve all your static assets so it won't clog your network, but if your app uses more bandwidth per user than a typical website that can't be offloaded to cdn, then your single server might not have enough available bandwidth to serve all those 100k users and you'll be forced to scale horizontally even though your server still have plenty of cpu and i/o capacity. You might be able to increase your bandwidth but your mileage may vary as dedicated server vendors usually cap their offering to 1-3gbps per server.
Well then the obvious solution is to start treating phone numbers as you would an email address - effectively public.

I would love a version of privacy.com for phone numbers..
I wish there was more technical details or a whitepaper. All i can see is some handwaving about dht.

But full text search is not really naturally applicable to a DHT approach. So what exactly do they do? How does what they do scale? How is work broken up between dht nodes (what exactly is being used as the hash key in the distributed hash table)? How does it deal with malicious nodes (SEO is a big thing in search)? Is the division of resources between dht nodes "fair"? How are results ranked?
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Thank you for linking this, definitely going to use it.
Reminds me of this great SMBC comic -https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/2012-04-03

We need to be careful of this kind of utility optimization, even when it readers to humans.
It’s 2020. We’re starting to develop a pretty solid framework around what is respectful to users and what isn’t, how to disclose things, ask for permission, etc. (All knowledge that has been acquired the hard way - through data breaches, users getting their personal data stolen because of a lazy software company, etc)

Wacom is a $500M company. They don’t get the benefit of the doubt.
"Not normal doesn't imply bad"

From a purely pedantic standpoint: sure. But, uh, I wouldn't suggest going around dropping that one in conversation with people you'd like to have conversations with in the future.
Unless you're a founder, just ask what the policy is. It could very well be your company's hiring process just sucks (as-is), and your colleague is coloring well within the lines. How does the company reconcile "solved absolutely fine" with "pressing for an alternative"? It could be settled by who gets trolled the hardest, yes, but it's hardly reliable. This seems like something worth talking about 1-1 with your manager, like over lunch. Is this behavior normal? Can I just not be paired with him?
Social commitments are called that because they are exactly that: commitments. You promised to your friends you'll show so you just show. If you never flake you don't have to waste precious brain cycles agonizing on whether to cancel.

Do you want to be a flake and do you want others to think of you as a flake? If not, just keep your social commitments. Pretty basic stuff.
Stand closer?
There are significantly fewer people voting in the Iowa democratic caucus than who live within 10 blocks up or down from me in NYC. Does it matter who got 50 more votes than another candidate? The idea that this tiny number of voters who apparently demand that each candidate personally bake them breakfast determines the fate of our nation is the unacceptable. Have one primary in every state the same day and end this farce.
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Author here, with regard to "taking it down/replacing it", I found a middle ground. I moved all those repositories to another organization (that I control), so my profile is clean and if I need/want to see that code I can go there.
But the graph is also looking three days into the future, presumably based on fitting some model to the historical data. The output of any worthwhile model is a probability distribution over possible future infection and death counts. As a consumer of that graph, I should be able to see not just the value just a model thinks is most likely, but at least some indication of how tight a bound the model is placing on those values.
I can imagine two friends who love each others company and desperately want to hang out keep canceling plans because they have the app set to let the other one out.

They each end up spending time with more demanding people who don’t care what they want.

(Because this is the internet: kidding. The app can work, just be honest with the app at least)
Re: but sometimes what I've heard is that they disincentivize work for those who are able

I agree it can be hard to distinguish between the truly needy and intentional slackers. But, it would cost even more tax money to inspect harder to find out. Inspectors ain't cheap. It may be counter-intuitive, but it's sometimes cheaper to let some degree of riff-raff slip thru the cracks. The third alternative is that nobody gets anything.
Or the failure may be on your end, believing that "many people are sensitive to data collection" while in fact, most people don't give a dusty fuck about it and happily share everything for saving a few bucks a month.

Hackernews is NOT the people. HN represents a TINY TINY fraction of users.
https://science.sciencemag.org/content/early/2020/01/29/scie...
Any application whose primary concern is something with contact lists. Maybe it offers a special view into it. Maybe special searches. Maybe a better management interface.
I’m sorry, but that’s simply an unwarranted assumption.
Which codec features do make it RAM hungry? Are they optional and can be turned off in the encoder?
What about open, distributed indexes instead of companies?

Sites that wished to appear in searches would have an incentive to get added to an index. That could create a market for compute to calculate and update indexes.