skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Lancet is different than other scientific journals - it is the pinnacle. Publishing something so bad is reputationally harmful in ways that might not be so severe in other cases. Of course, this isn't the first incident Lancet has had (recalling the Wakefield incident in particular), but it should not be excused - just as Wakefield shouldn't - and should be judged rather harshly.
I think we need to understand exactly what "peer review" is required for publication or publication certain places. Is it:

a) a grammar/spelling check

b) a gut check to make sure it "makes sense"

c) validation of the math/analysis

d) validation of the underlying experimental procedure used to collect the data

e) validation of the underlying selection criteria for inputs/candidates in the experiment

f) reproducibility of the experiment and results

g) something else?

h) all of the above

My impression is that "peer review" generally includes a & b and sometimes c & d.
I don't have your Yoga, but fwup has worked perfectly for me. That's something Lenovo should be proud of.
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Okay, so it has nothing to do with the orientation of the point planes.

Having thought about it some more, I think this is a consequence of the reduction of surface area hit by the LIDAR rays, as the square of it's distance. Basically, the rays are cast in a spherical distribution (which has a surface area of 4pir^2). So the further out you go, the rays "capture" less of the environment, and you get the sort of sparse pixels at a distance.

So those circles are just reductions in pixel density that are proportional to linear distance from the center of the LIDAR sphere. You can kind of see how depending on the distance to the building walls, the surrounding 'halo' of circular pixel density increases or decreases.
He controls 57.9% of the voting shares[1] and, historically, hasn't exactly been a paragon of virtue.

[1] https://www.investopedia.com/articles/insights/082216/top-9-...
Except that the rate of profit has fallen and is falling, with small fluctuations year over year.

It is possible for monopoly and industry power to crush worker power, while the rate of profit increases. In fact, this is exactly what he predicted.

The mechanism for this to happen is simply accumulation of capital.

Another reality is that the profits of many industries such as the financial industries are not predicted to fall according to Marx, only that of commodity-producing industries. An absolutely huge part of modern profits is not profits according to the definition used at the time, and not realizable or even intangible. If you look at the rate of profit in commodity-producing industries, you will find that it is exceedingly thin in a great many cases, and that often profit is only realized via financial instruments (for example, the sale of new cars).
Meng was arrested for fraud for the claims she made to banks as part of the sale of HP servers to Iran. She knew it was illegal, so she lied to cover it up so the banks would transfer money to Hauwei. This is the US.. fraud is a crime. If you or me went into a bank and lied to get a loan, you would get arrested too.

Meng wasn't arrested for selling goods to Iran. The truth is Huawei is free to sell to Iran. But action have consequences... and if Huawei wants to sell to Iran, the US isn't going to help them do it. They can't use our banks, buy our equipment, or sell their goods here. They can make a choice: do business with Iran or do business with the US. That's their free choice to make.

Huawei is upset because they want to sell to Iran, but still do business here. They don't like the consequences of their actions. They want to force the US to engage in commerce that we've decided we don't want to engage in.
Awesome! Great idea - if you are looking for feature requests, it would be great if you could also create only bi-directional channels on demand. Basically like a Star Trek communicator...
Canada will only extradite for things that would be considered criminal in Canada, and only in cases where the requesting party can provide enough evidence that it could be brought to trial in Canada as well.

They also will also consider every decision in the face of Section 7 of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms which provides for a fundamental right to justice and security. If the extradition, or actions post-extradition, would likely violate the person’s rights then they will not be extradited. (So, e.g., will not extradite someone to face the death penalty.)

There’s a general overview of the process, checkpoints, appeals, etc here: https://www.justice.gc.ca/eng/cj-jp/emla-eej/extradition.htm...

Meng is being charged with fraud for lying to HSBC. It was a point of contention since the representations she made would not have been criminal in Canada (no sanctions). However the actual act of making fraudulent misrepresentations is the crime, and it's criminal in Canada as well. There's some information and a link to the actual court ruling here: https://www.macleans.ca/news/canada/with-the-meng-wanzhou-de...
Not a chance. That doesn't mean he can't maintain delusions.
Unless you can fuse it into helium.
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They're sending the full article and just putting an overlay on it, so reader mode or inspect element will clean it right up.
> and I still think Tesla got it right with the touch screen available for passengers to change the volume and the tactile steering wheel control.

That's not a super relevant point in response to me mentioning that my car has a touch screen available for passengers to change the volume and a tactile steering wheel control, and that I don't like it.
Having worked in both of the locations you mentioned I can say that Scandinavian culture is much less dogmatic than the American engineering culture.

Scandinavians communicate more directly. At the moment of giving feedback, Americans lack initiative, communicate vaguely and avoid confrontations.
I am not an economist. Compared with the hard sciences (physics, biology, chemistry, mathematics) economics is still quite new and I suspect there would be more people seeing these trends and offer other models trying to explain them.

From a libertarian acquaintance the root cause is clear. Going off the Gold standard[1] in the US. I am not completely convinced.

[1] https://wtfhappenedin1971.com/
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The quality of conversation on facebook is not higher than twitter, just more verbose. Twitter’s short form is not the cause for its deficiencies, the low threshold for reaching a wide audience is.
By context (Development, Personal, Business, References) on my personal machines and by project/customer on the work ones.

Right now, since I've moved about in the company a bit, and still have an archive of work from my previous role, that means "My Org/Customer Deliverables/ACME/Coyote Dynamite Project" and whatnot.

All my deliverables are named "YYMMDD Thing that got done.format" inside those folders (and yes, I still version some of these manually, because they are easier to compare side-by-side).

I do that because in Spotlight it is trivial to start typing the approximate date of what you did by memory and (in the past, before macOS became hopelessly bloated) I got to any important file in less than 2 seconds.

(Today, of course, Spotlight is useless and takes up to 30s to display anything of consequence.)

Reference stuff goes into folders by topic - I usually file whitepapers and presentations separately, because I retrieve them in different contexts (so if I need to re-use something, I'll go into "Presentation Resources/Infrastructure Automation" and that sort of thing).

Most project work, however, ends up on Teams/Sharepoint/whatever the customer wants, and teamwork patterns vary _a lot_, so I'm very dependent on searching for stuff anyway.
It is difficult to align worker-incentives in large off-shore contractors with the client's needs.

Someone mentioned that contractors don't write tests unless you explicitly tell them which ones to write. Well, even if they did, are you going to be able to promote them? That dev's manager is probably hyper-focused on spec completion and billable hours. Even if you paid more for test coverage you start paying for things like assert sum(1,1) == 2.

High quality code often comes from people coding for "the job they want" not the job they currently have. In-house work usually has this carrot of a senior role that can be attained by taking initiative and thinking outside the spec for the missing pieces. This is a form of compensation and incentive missing in low end contracting work.
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I've only used Apple laptops for the past 15 years. So when I buy a Laptop for OS Z, I actually expect Z to work.

Maybe its my fault for having unreasonable expectations. No idea what the story is on Windows.
Ask HN: How hard is it to sell Tech/SaaS/etc. products?
Many tech entrepreneurs or solo founders struggle with the idea of how to gain any traction at all. But is it really that hard to sell products, grow or even cover your expenses if you're not living in the most expensive cities?
That is why I said even within existing precedent there were plenty of actions Obama could have taken. Obama was in charge of the entire executive branch.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_federal_executiv...

It's a real cop-out to say his hands were tied. He had wide latitude and authority to implement changes within the executive branch.
The point of view depends on the experience.

When you actually see the horrors of abuse, helped by internet and you realize that there are voluntary walls to protect these people (encryption for instance, but others too) you may have a different position. I would willingly give up that just to see children (or whoever) saved.

You may not, that's a choice. I would just like to know whether you have seen what actually happens in these circles before making a decision.

Also, I live in a normal country where this concern (state surveillance) is less of an issue.
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Not only the First Amendment, but also the Fourth.
There is a lot to unpack, but here is one example.

He holds out AIG as a world-leader to be emulated.

In the same year he gave that talk, he attacked CFTC chair Brooksley Born when she proposed margin rules for OTC swaps. She made this proposal in the aftermath of the LTCM collapse. Summers/Greenspan/Rubin said that banks were so "sophisticated" that they didn't need margin rules, and that these rules would somehow cause a financial crisis.

Ten years later, AIG almost collapsed because it had a division making massive directional bets on credit markets using un-margined swaps. Were it not for a $200bn loan from the public, AIG would have collapsed.
> Don't expect the computer to organize you. If you have a messy desk, you will have a messy computer.

Nicely put. This has been the biggest invisible wall whenever people sing praises of some particular organizational tool. It’s easy to learn the tool if one has a clear notion of “legibility” to impose on data and processes, but that organizational clarity seems to be much harder to pick up. Nobody really talks about that, and I suspect it’s also a much harder thing to communicate as it gets close to the core of one’s perspective towards knowledge and activity.

I also wonder whether there’s some tradeoff in being legibly organized, and seeing liminal possibilities.
Oh please, nice try. You'd have to be desperate to make that assumption, just like the previous person that tried to pull that.

Supporting protestors and civil unrest doesn't mean you support violence, but I'm not a naive child that thinks great change happens without bad things accompanying it.
From a harm reduction standpoint, this is wrong. I want heroin users to get pure, uncut heroin -- just as I never worry that a bottle of whiskey is going to be cut with fentanyl. Legalize it and regulate it, and price out the black market or it will have all the incentive to undermine the possible good.
Quoting my chrome incognito screen:

> Your activity might still be visible to:
Websites you visit
Your employer or school
Your internet service provider
OpenShift?
OpenStack?
Thanks! Definitely looking for feature requests. I'm not sure what you mean. Do you mean quick/throwaway groups?
Secretly? Isn't this effectively the entire point of their business?
How about having the judge do some questioning?
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That could be the genesis of the name, but Epstein was also known to espouse a lot of eugenecist and transhumanist views and had ties to geneticists like George Church. So another possibility is he originally intended to do the research and then wound up using the entity for money laundering or blackmail instead.
Ask HN: Do you go to protests, marches, demonstrations? Why or why not?
>This extradition better be worth it. If the US frees her as some political pawn I’m going to lose my shit.

The US may (and probably will) return her to China as part of some sort of diplomatic action. Why would you be angry at US? It's China that is engaging in terrible behaviour.

Also, I can tell you right now that this extradition isn't worth it to Canada, but so what? Canada is following its laws and international agreements - would you have it any other way?
> making you an extraneous cost which anyone in their right mind would want to remove

Wanting to remove people for being "extraneous costs" is not right-minded. It is extreme sociopathy.
He certainly gave it a shot.

https://www.npr.org/2017/01/19/510448989/trump-inherits-guan...

> In 2011, Congress began placing restrictions on Guantanamo transfers in its yearly defense authorization bill, effectively stopping the president from transferring the detainees to a U.S. facility.
I really hate changing the topic here, but I feel it has to be said sometimes.

It's _very_ frustrating when people immediately discredit someone or something because they don't agree with them, even if they don't have the full story.

Project Veritas does some good work, even if they're blasted in popular culture/mainstream media for being 'biased', 'alt-right', 'etc'. I bet you the downvotes you're getting are just because you mentioned Project Veritas.

They have some very out-landish views, but when they actually put people on the street or go undercover, they've revealed dirt on a lot of companies and people.

It's shocking to me to see society go from "let's look at ALL sides of the coin, no matter how egregiously offensive they are to me" to "fuck 'em, they're trash media, they suck, they shill and are racist, alt-right losers and I'm not going to look at anything they post because in my mind everything they do is bad!"

I don't even go to Project Veritas outside of what I hear in the media, but I still give it a fair look and make my own opinion.
Cool to know!
it can be overwhelming. cnn turns every news story into a story about trump. it seems looney tunes sometimes. there's a lot of fear and uncertainty pumped out.. it'll make you go gray early. i'm glad hackernews is here, and that it's mostly about other stuff. good, brain-food, kinda stuff.
I like the idea that these things could be potential star-seeds. It would be an interesting way for new solar systems to form.
IMHO it's not going to work. I saw a lot of Bloomberg ads and the message was undeniably "Trump sucks, vote for me" and he dropped out. "Not Trump" just isn't enough, just like "I'm a woman" wasn't enough. Stand for something that people want and feel will positively affect their world.
And because they didn’t perfect their chat and video calling app strategy, it’s fine for companies to have unrestricted access to personal data without any oversight.
You may want to write a blog post on how to recover so that others may benefit from your experience.
Yes, this is correct. Children bullying is one such example.

And this is exactly the case where we want to be able to have digital evidence.
> So yes, there are some bad studies that come through, but that is why healthcare professionals are TRAINED to interpret studies

So healthcare professionals are trained to separate the wheat from the chaff, but peer reviewers are not?
Ultimately, the keys to a technically good photograph is to be close and to collect a lot of light. For the documentary photographs most people want to take, there is no camera that wouldn't meet their needs. They are close (literally arm's length) and there is usually plenty of light. Any camera will be good under these conditions.

The challenge comes when you want to photograph something unusual. The biggest disappointment I've had in recent memory was sitting on a ferry at night, surrounded by what seemed like the blindingly bright and infinitely large city skyline. Basking in the glow, I knew I wanted to take a picture, so I busted out my iPhone. All I got was a blurry sphere or two surrounded by pitch blackness. I wasn't close and I didn't have a lot of light, so the choice in camera didn't work. (I know my a7 would have handled this admirably at ISO 1600. I kind of forgot there were stars in the sky until I started using that thing at night -- I can't see them, but the camera can.)

Digital processing can help here -- AI denoising, using frames of video stacked on top of each other and carefully shifted by using accelerometer data to simulate a longer exposure, motors that move the sensor around, etc. But often you can look at one of these pictures and tell that it's synthetic -- not capturing the moment you saw as you saw it, but looking like what you saw shaped by 1000s of other similar moments composited together by an AI.

I have yet to find the perfect camera. Big sensors collect a lot of light, but require big bodies and big lenses. Small sensors are always with you, but fail when you're about to take the most interesting picture. There is probably not a workaround for this, so I think you'll find a lot of people with big cameras for years to come.
It looks to me like only Scratch 1.4 is written in Squeak. Scratch 2 is written in ActionScript, and Scratch 3 in JavaScript.
Every medication has a side effects and you balance if the benefits are better than the side effects it causes. Chloroquine has tons of side effects[1] though (including things like causing trouble with breathing).
It might still be worth it if you have Lupus.

When an existing drug is intended to treat some new disease it needs to be reevaluated for that disease again, because even if it can save lives for one disease it can be deadly for another.

So the fact that it is given to thousands or millions does not mean much in this context.

[1] https://www.drugs.com/sfx/chloroquine-side-effects.html
That's why they said "If they were eligible".
Who is we? And why is that a problem?
Typically getting languages to talk with each other is very difficult and onerous for the programmer unless the languages were built to interface with each other, and in this case, that probably means "different syntax frontends for a common semantic backend".

Even if you build Python-like and JS-like and etc syntax frontends for a hypothetical common backend, they will only be syntactically similar, but the semantics and standard libraries will be different than Python, JS, etc so there's really very little to be gained here.

And maybe it's even worse, since the whole goal is to allow a Python-like frontend to reference functions and variables defined by other frontends, the authors will probably have to understand certain aspects of all frontends. if those frontends are sufficiently similar and familiar (e.g., Python and JS) then there isn't much of a problem, but if you throw in an obscure syntax like Nix this becomes harder.
A bit weirdly, Bloomberg is exhibit B; Howard Schultz's attempt a few months earlier was Exhibit A, and about as successful. At some point, those same consultants had to convince Bloomberg he wouldn't be another Schultz.
This should work in Zoom, as in the latest release of Zoom 5 they have re-enabled virtual webcam support.
It is far beyond imperfect.

Let’s say I work at Kroger. I don’t like the way I’m treated, so I quit.

Now the remaining grocery stores I can work for owned by Albertsons or Amazon. What kind of choice is that?

Pick any other industry and you’re likely to find similar problems.

It would be really interesting to see what mandatory democratic corporate governance might look like.

Or, perhaps, fixing union regulations so that unions don’t have a bunch of downsides for the employee or other regulatory issues that seem to have directly led to their decline.
> It's not perfect, particularly for lower income people...

I don't think many minimum-wage retail or service workers can just "vote with their feet" and easily get another job, especially if you don't consider major changes in location and hours to be a non-starter.

For folks with kids, or who depend on public transit to get to work, "up and moving" isn't really an option. If you're one missed paycheck away from eviction, bankruptcy, or arrest due to missed fines or court fees then you can't play "hardball" with your employer.

Saying the arc of history improves overall cruelly glosses over the reality today for millions of Americans.
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Absolutely none in practice, which is why I run Linux on my machine while hoping dearly for systemd, networkmanager and some distro agnostic package manager to succeed and make "distros" more OS less redundant.

The year of the Linux desktop will be 2021! /s
And yet the gulag is still there. It's a binary thing: either he closed it or he didn't. Clearly he did not.
These were the Self people.
Yes, but how was her initial detainment by Canada justified? So in effect does it imply that anyone wanted by US can be detained by Canada, and Canada needs to establish legality of it only after the fact?
And opportunity. She is married to charisma.
Regulations, a lot of times, tend to have the opposite of the intended effect. In this case, you'd need to define what is meant by "having data".

Is having an email or phone enough to qualify?

Maybe yes.

In that case, think of a rapidly growing startup, which breaches that mark (50% or whatever the law says) - and now has to comply with the law.

But the startup is not capable of compliance, because the law was made for behemoths like google.

This startup will go belly over and die soon.

Google's monopoly saved.

Alternatively, leaving it in the public domain for civil suits to be filed has a tendency of natural selection. If a company is TRULY big enough, and has that kind of data, someone WILL sue.