skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Maybe, but probably not. I encourage people to read the full Karl Popper quote, which contains this:

In this formulation, I do not imply, for instance, that we should always suppress the utterance of intolerant philosophies; as long as we can counter them by rational argument and keep them in check by public opinion, suppression would certainly be unwise. But we should claim the right to suppress them if necessary even by force; for it may easily turn out that they are not prepared to meet us on the level of rational argument, but begin by denouncing all argument; they may forbid their followers to listen to rational argument, because it is deceptive, and teach them to answer arguments by the use of their fists or pistols. We should therefore claim, in the name of tolerance, the right not to tolerate the intolerant.

The claim isn't that we should denounce those who hold opinions we find abhorrent as intolerant and fail to tolerate them; it's more specific than that, it says that we may need to physically fight those whose 'opinions' are backed by force or the credible threat of it.

I don't think vile, anonymous Internet racists rise to this measure. Your mileage may vary. Most of the Interneterati who invoke the paradox of tolerance are saying that, e.g., being intolerant of the LGBTQ, or racially chauvinist, or less than enthusiastically feminist, is grounds for censorship and deplatforming.

I don't agree, and don't get the impression Karl Popper would either.
> where a cancer diagnosis doesn’t financially ruin you and your family for you life,

If a cancer related, life-saving surgery takes 4-5 months to happen before you can have it, I'm not sure it really matters if it ends up being free or not.
I would have expected the rolling out of various countermeasures as the epidemic spreads to have a visible effects on the figures. It's weird that it fits a predictable progression so smoothly.
Who pays for uncollectible medical debt in US?
Some of the best advice I've been given on this is to look at how the potential customer is already solving the problem today. If they're just ignoring the problem altogether, then they're not going to spend any money on you to solve it. If they're spending considerable time and/or money working around or manually solving the problem (maybe by working weekends, or buying a whole team of vendors, or outsourcing to Mechanical Turk type stuff), and you can solve the problem for them for less money and/or time, then it's a feature worth shipping.

It can give false negatives, especially with future looking and platform-type work, but it's a great heuristic for weeding out useless feature work
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>Please, tell me more about the genetic mechanism behind religiosity, let alone 'everything'. Which genes are involved, how does the epitaxis play out, which pathways are influenced

I've seen people here claiming that Asians are more conformists they've been selected for conformity from the time where your books were burnt if they were not allowed by the Chinese empire.

>Which genes are involved, how does the epitaxis play out, which pathways are influenced?

We know tall stature is genetic trait and we've many genes which correlate to tall strature. We don't know pathway which causes tall structure. So can you tell me which pathway makes a person tall? Should we stop believing tall strature is a genetic trait even if partially?

Similarly, there are gay or transexual people - we don't know pathway, are you going to claim that its cultural? There are many gay in Muslim countries or India where they were not socially accepted for long time.

There have been experiments on mouse where when they injected q mouse with testosterone, they became more dominant and fought more fiercely against the bully.

Similarly, there are accounts of trans people who went from female to male - and became more competitive, aggressive, dominant.

It's not far fetched to think there are hormones which turn depend on genes or environment which make a person more "individualistic"

In psychology, we know of this disorder Borderline Personality Disorder which sometimes is genetic and sometimes not. It's a very individualistic disorder and person suffering from it finds it hard to keep meaningful relationships for long term.

We don't know if it's caused by hormonal imbalance or genetics or some brain anomaly.

Similarly, depression is contender for genetic trait yet we don't know any pathway.

So what's my point? Asking for specific genes or pathway is not going to invalidate the hypothesis that a particular personality trait might have genetic basis
Once you purchased the shop which resources did you use? Where did you purchase from? And have you gone on to do more deals since then?
Slightly disagree. The metric the author is measuring against is hassle. In my experience up front yearly payments often are much more of a hassle. Invoices, accounts receivable departments, paper checks, etc.

I absolutely agree with your metric however, in that from a cashflow and churn basis this is a worthwhile hassle.
Aha, I see why there’s been pushback.

To be more clear: I only want to see the balances from specific accounts. The two chequing accounts in this case.

I don’t want to see the savings account that has a slowly (and automatically) increasing balance because then I subconsciously count that as “too much” and think things like “I could spend a little and it wouldn’t make a big difference”.

To be fair, I’m also working hard at shifting my brain after a lifetime of ‘paycheque to paycheque’ patterns and it’s not enjoying the shift.
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Netlify (http://netlify.com/) works great for static sites as well!
> that children instinctively have when they're told to go to bed and start throwing a tantrum

Would you be happy if right now someone forced you to go to bed at arbitrary times when you are not tired and potentially had work to do?

> who in many ways were juvenile adults

Are you calling them immature, youthful, or something else?

> a more adult one

No, a more authoritarian/collectivist one that consider abstract concepts such as society and morality as more important than the personal freedoms of a human. It takes out the individualism from a person and only considers them as a cog in a bigger machine which can be replaced at will. This mentality is what led us to absurd laws such as the ones that forbid sodomy, or alcohol, or any other victimless crime really.

> it also consists of maintaining enough order so that authentic expression of freedom is possible

What is this supposed to mean in the context of the internet?

> Social approval should be incorporated into law

Which goes back to the point about lgbt rights. Until recently most people were against them in the west and most people are still against them outside of the west. You should not need your village's permission to commit a victimless act.

> because places that don't do it become uninhabitable

Should it not be up to the "rulers" (that is the server owners) of these services to decide their rules then? It is not like it is the business of someone outside of the community whether said community becomes inhabitable.

> as the current public internet increasingly is

You say increasingly, yet it is only recently that there has been adaption of rules to satisfy the wider social pressure to censor.
A computed tomography scan is not MRI. It involves ionizing radiation (xrays). Not that an xray scan should cost $2000.
How about taking a few days off to prepare for interviews?

I mean, you're going to spend 4-5 hours per day for each of your onsite interviews (plus an hour or two each for recruiter calls, phone screens, etc.), so if you have zero free time, interview prep is probably the least of your problems...
> "fire!" (in a crowded room) = not okay.

I really wish people could find a different expression to convey what they mean by this, because what they/you mean by this is probably worlds apart from what this phrase actually meant when it was formulated.

> ""Shouting fire in a crowded theater" is a popular metaphor for speech or actions made for the principal purpose of creating panic. The phrase is a paraphrasing of Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.'s opinion in the United States Supreme Court case Schenck v. United States in 1919, which held that the defendant's speech in opposition to the draft during World War I was not protected free speech under the First Amendment of the United States Constitution."

I think we can all agree that protesting the draft should be protected by the first amendment.
My mill has the cutter fully surrounded by a vacuum manifold, and the vacuum itself is bag and HEPA filtered.

The compressed paper PCBs have horrible properties. The RF laminated all have specific properties for electrical performance; dielectric constant, low loss tangent, low surface roughness, homogeneity, controller thermal expansion, thermal conductivity.
Thanks TIL
Quite sure they had a Zika virus vaccine completed within a few months after the outbreak. Obviously getting regulatory approval takes much, much longer but people would probably be surprised how quickly such things can be developed.
Yes, I'm aware of the difference. Typically, CT is more available and cheaper, which is why I thought it was a relevant point of comparison.
Well done for simultaneous criticism of him and me. This feels like "if you are not against him, you must be for him" reductionism. I merely note he is capable of being seen, like all of us, as multithreaded.
It's also unclear what such a statement would look like in Google's case.

"Zerohedge has been moved to page 10 for the following searches:" strikes me as expensive, impossible in the general case, and relatively useless.
Unfortunately this is kind of how the human brain works. It presumably evolved from a simpler design that only had "emotions", adding a higher level processing function that began as something very simple, evolving over a long time into the complex neocortex we have now. The primitive emotional brain is still present, with an imperfect "interface" to the newer brain.
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I have my own fond memories of After Dark, especially the Satori module. The colored whorls Satori produced were so aesthetically pleasing, and I do think part of its durability would be the “organic” quality of the render, a quality probably partly due to the excellence of After Dark’s randomization.

Jack Eastman attributes quite a bit of After Dark’s success among the competition due to the team’s striving for high quality randomness:

> The other thing we were careful to do was not to put the toasters on a track and repeat the show. Random numbers were always important from that point on. I had done Monte Carlo simulations in my physics work and knew how to produce random numbers in various distributions. I think that was an important idea – we had these little movies, but you couldn’t predict them.

> Competitors didn’t have that insight. With After Dark you could just zone out and watch for a long time. Plus it was really a screen saver – it wouldn’t do to have images sitting in one place or in repeating patterns. [0]

[0] https://lowendmac.com/2007/aggressively-stupid-the-story-beh...
You would get every country banned that way. I am not aware of any state that allows free access to all content.
Don't see anyone mention these rather notable features of NetBSD 9.0:

* NVMM — hypervisor compatible with QEMU. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19622590. http://blog.netbsd.org/tnf/entry/from_zero_to_nvmm.

* KASLR — kernel address-space layout randomisation. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15769457. http://blog.netbsd.org/tnf/entry/the_strongest_kaslr_ever.

Both were done by the same person, BTW, who also found a serious bug in OpenBSD's VMM hypervisor earlier today, too — https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22336962.
just curious. this is not relevant nowadays right?
Seconded. I mean, computers made of rubber bands and tinker toys that play tic tac toe exist, but I wouldn’t make a chess playing computer that way.

After a few years of mostly doing React apps, I’m considering vanilla js for a new thing. It’ll be best for performance purposes, but man, I’m gonna miss components.
Here's a keeper. I did not colorize it myself but it's close to what I would have done,

https://i.imgur.com/rVFYwfE.jpg
Caspr Biotech developed a prototype to quickly diagnose coronavirus
To be honest I only posted this because I am highly confused and disturbed by it. I frankly could not understand the site and I can't tell whether its satire or legitimate. Could someone please explain what's going on here?
This doesn't seem to be something that's common knowledge. Can you point to information on how to use private health insurance like this?
pretty sure parent comment is tongue-in-cheek
I would have paid it, but decided my main needs are backup and I’ll make do with Microsoft for sync. So I use office 365 and backblaze. Costs about 160/y for both.
The BBS and mailing list were vulnerable to spying too. I certainly remember the weird signatures people used on their emails to "confuse echelon".
You are basing that on what metrics? It's all just speculation for now.

AMD 4000 mobile processors, on the other hand, already exist.
>After that, there isn't much advice specific to cancer

There's HPV (human papillomavirus) that causes cervical cancer. It's preventable by a vaccine (e.g. Gardasil).

Helicobacter Pylori can cause stomach cancer. If detected early it can be eliminated with a two week antibiotic treatment.
I'm responding to the paper you linked, where you assert "this has happened before".

The story with the Reddit link is similar: at the time of the posting, only ~6 data points actually mattered for R^2, so you would expect R^2 to be very high. (The fit is extremely poor for the first ~6 data points, but that doesn't affect R^2 at all.) After the last date on the chart shown, the R^2 begins to plummet. This is also exactly what you would generically expect.

Amusingly, both of these totally ordinary results are taken as evidence for a conspiracy: the 6 points that fit are taken to be fabricated, and the subsequent points are taken to be fabricated with the sole purpose of throwing off people on Reddit. But if you can claim evidence for a conspiracy no matter what the numbers are, has something gone wrong in your reasoning process? You be the judge!
This sort of journalism feels capricious. Is this supposed to be surprising? The way it’s presented makes it seem like something should really be questioned here and that readers should walk away with some kind of unnecessary ideological reaction about the evils that be in Big Tech. What is the point of this?
The alternative is to treat everyone as the null hypothesis population, or administer the treatment to everyone and then be unable to determine if it's effective.

Both of these are strictly worse, since neither of them can result in the discovery of an effective treatment.
Stop!! You don’t need Microservices.
Scroll.in is a hit modi site. Why am I getting downvoted? Show me a page where they write anything pro modi? Technology related bashing is just a way to get into hn and pollute hn.
After skimming past recommendations for YNAB I looked it over just now, and because of Tangerine’s multiple accounts (max is about 15) as well as the money-transfer automation, I’ve actually been using the same principles just within my bank tools.

That’s why I was frustrated when they changed from a summary of chequing account balances to a full “dashboard” that showed all accounts.

Up until then I was doing awesome avoiding the “I’m flush with cash” triggers because I was only seeing my actual spending money and not the bills account, the rent account, and the various proactive savings accounts.

Essentially I had all the benefits of YNAB principles because of the tools Tangerine provided
For *nix screensaver fans feeling nostalgic, there's an XScreensaver version for iOS, FYI
I wonder what the resolution on these will be like. As I understand it, bigger magnets and more power = higher resolution.

Will this thing have enough to be useful?
William Gibson talks AI and climate collapse
Lessons from Europe's Densest Neighborhoods
I’m too ugh to engage with this at length but just a word:

If you don’t have insurance, go for it.

If you have insurance:

People standing on EMTALA are generally another word for “we are never going to see a penny for this patient.” Your ED doc does not give a fuck. However, the hospital will be assigning you a nurse case manager ASAP, whose only job will be to scrutinize everything done for you, to ensure you don’t get a single iota of care beyond the bare minimum needed to meet EMTALA standards, with as prompt a discharge as humanly possible. This will save you money - at the expense of appropriate care you’d otherwise receive (care that doesn’t qualify as an “emergency”, which means EMTALA doesn’t touch it, but that we’d normally do very urgently in order to keep your tuchus alive.) This is the standard of care random homeless people get.

People have every right to prioritize according to their resources, but if you’re not worried about ending up homeless, this isn’t the route I’d take.
Could we "just" be carving the aspects of reality that math can model?
I mean perhaps math is very effective in explaining what it can explain and we developed a blind spot for what it can't explain?
And then what do you do when you upgrade compilers and the build starts failing?

This isn’t a hypothetical, it happens in real life. Your only option at that point is roll back compilers and hope someone cares about the regression enough to fix it.

The point is the better model is to build the semantics into the language rather than relying on the whims of implementation.

Of course the semantic guarantees will likely be somewhat weak because of differences in ISAs, memory hierarchies, etc.
The fact it's necessary to write such an article already demonstrates how corrupt hospitals are. The whole process seems to be full of intentional pitfalls. If the patient doesn't follow any of the rules (he doesn't know about) either the insurance or the hospital will screw you big time. Or they make some mistakes themselves and screw you that way. And it's always up to the patient to spend time and effort fixing things. I can't find think of any other industry that gets away with this nonsense.

It's really hard to believe that the country is not capable of bringing some level of sanity into this.
Life threatening stuff is obviously not going to be a 4 month wait. The OP obviously didn’t have this sort of issue.
You need an untethered protocol to support chatbots and other applications. And desktop as a first class device falls out of that. And mobile users benefit too, now no longer having to distribute their phone number. I feel that they had started with untethered, then Signal would be a lot father along the road to its goals.
Life threatening stuff is obviously not going to be a 4 month wait. The OP obviously didn’t have this sort of issue.

If people were dying left and right from waiting for cancer treatment. There would be a ton of news about that. No less in American media showing how bad European health care is.
Sorry, I realize I was not bringing in enough background to explain why it mattered.

You’re right for sure, and I do find benefit in the account overview, it’s just that I only want to see the “spending” accounts, and not the long-term savings accounts.

Much like it might change your financial choices if your bank overview also showed your available credit (instead of the balance owing) and a realtime update of home equity.
In Germany you go to a hospital, get treated and don't have to worry about surprise billing. It's hard to believe that the country accepts this.
> for example, a major trash incineration facility on a plot of land in the middle of your quiet residential neighborhood

We can either chat about the 0.01% of scenarios ... or the other 99.99%. The other 99.99% look extremely similar ... it's towns not allowing two-family homes in one-family zones. Three-family homes in two-family or one-family zones. We're not even talking about apartment buildings. All of those are built using "variances", which just illustrate how absurd the system is.

Oh and speaking about your example? I live in a two-family home in a two-family zone ... next to a bus depot. How you ask? Well, they just got a variance I guess. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
It's hard to believe cloud won't be profitable. You are selling one of the world's greatest engines of innovation (computing) using a proven delivery model (internet services). Combine that with very low execution risk, since big tech has been self-consuming computing as a service over 20 years of growth. It would almost be irresponsible to leave this opportunity on the table. If Google lands in third place $a_small_percentage is actually quite large.
We know the performance/power trade offs of Apple’s ARM chips in iPad Pros.
Understandable. I am saying it genuinely.

The replies I made to other users will hopefully clear it up.
Read the last paragraph first. In fact, only read the last paragraph, where the author explains that they have zero expertise and are basically just making it up based on a bunch of pages they found on Google.
What if the treatment causes adverse effects? That way the control population are better off.
Face ID compatible respirator masks
Not everyone hates their ex, you know; it just might be emotionally difficult to be reminded of the loss.
I do, yes. I use sync.com instead (about $60/year) and they have awesome encryption
Most welcome. Latest update: IBM cancelled on RSA Conference due to #Coronanoia.
In this article are 10 object ways the world is getting better. Your "meme" is not capturing the gradual, and quite amazing, lifting our of poverty of hundreds of millions in the last few decades. The failures of communism in Russia, China, Venezuela are their own meme.

https://singularityhub.com/2016/06/27/why-the-world-is-bette...
Off by as much as two infinities, since floating point numbers have +infinity and -infinity. ;)
worked out better in the long run

The bigger obstacle is that it would not have worked at all in the short run - it was closer to a technology demonstrator than a complete OS. It's often presented as some sort of key decision between similar options, perhaps because Jean-Louis Gassée was also a former Apple exec and remains a well-known commentator. But I don't think it was anything like that, Apple already had plenty of its own half-finished OS tech.
I built a pro-audio software business without ever having a stand/booth at any conference. I went to the conferences early on, and was almost jealous of the startups I saw there. Almost without exception, they've all vanished without a trace and 20 years later, I'm still doing what I do.

So in short ... not necessarily.
eBPF: extended Berkeley Packet Filter
What sort of thing does one make with 1000+ developers?
MRI is not an emergency technology. Most hospitals will outright refuse to do them for the vast majority of inpatient stays.

This technology will mostly end up in imaging centers, improving throughput.
If the advice works as intended, why does the author have a disclaimer at the end indemnify him? Has he tried this out in a real emergency or is this just armchair pontification?
I hate doing video on calls. But I might be more willing with a stylish red beanie. My appearance is my biggest concern and a stylish hat is a good idea.
Here are some of the responses:

https://www.reddit.com/r/privacy/comments/f3gqoc/privacy_bro...
https://www.reddit.com/r/privacy/comments/f3gqoc/privacy_bro...
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Yes, it feels expensive but I pay for it. I might swap to something else soon. The only thing holding me back is inertia.