skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not a big news, Amazon is a crap company exploiting its workers worldwide and creating a lot of externalities. If the practice is illegal, an employee could sue (and win) but that personal choice.

On the 10-12 hours, the concept of "work" in Japan is a big different than in the West, in particular because there seems to have almost no notion of productivity. I often see 4 people on a task that would be allocated to one worker in Europe, or 12 person cleaning the same square meter. That combined with perfectionism (again, with no notion of productivity) that if 1% improvement can be done with 300% effort they try to do it, is a perfect cocktail to raise the total "worked" hours.

And finally there is the bureaucracy. Today I spoke with someone about implementing an idea, where the implementation of the idea is literally sending an email. I spend 10 minutes explaining it. But that could not be done directly! No, that person need to consult her boss. How long this will take? Probably at least half an hour... 2 or 3 times more if there is back and forth with me through the intermediate person. How many "worked" hours does this represent in total? I plan on a least one man/hour. In my country: doing the task directly, which represents at least a 120 times better productivity...
The study started with 767,338 patients with clinical notes.

Out of that haystack, only 41 referred to an Apple Watch alert about abnormal pulse detection.

And of that 7 were found to have enough concern to further explore potential cardiovascular disease.

So, out of three quarters of a million visits, there were 41 with concerns from an Apple Watch, and 7 people received early treatment they might not have otherwise received (which could potentially save millions of dollars of future healthcare costs).

34 people were false positives and inconvenienced with a doctor's visit.

This seems like a net positive.
It's complicated and IMO misleading to claim medical mistakes are the 3rd leading "cause" of death as if it's a fact and as if there are clear and better alternatives. No question there are mistakes and room for improvement, but you're linking to meta-studies where people decide what "mistake" means, not a recognized system of categorizing causes of death. I feel like the wording is vaguely implying general malfeasance, while the studies you linked to actually include categories of mistakes that are sometimes unavoidable and sometimes have very unclear lines of responsibility relative to the patient.

For example, "One example of a lethal error of communication between provider and patient occurred when cardiologists failed to warn their 19-year-old patient not to run. The patient had experienced syncope while running, and 5 days of inpatient, diagnostic testing were inconclusive; however, his cardiologists knew he was not ready to return to running but failed to warn him against this risk. Having not been warned against running, he resumed running and died 3 weeks later while running." https://journals.lww.com/journalpatientsafety/Fulltext/2013/...

This categorization assigns 100% of the blame to a cardiologist who was not performing a procedure and who did not know that the patient would die. The patient chose to do something for which they'd recently experienced issues with, without waiting for complete test results or clear instructions. It's an accident, and unfortunate, but my point is it's very problematic to conclude that the cause of death here is a medical mistake, rather than a heart condition. This is the representative example that the Journal of Patient Safety uses to illustrate communication errors, so it seems reasonable to assume there are many such examples.

Furthermore, how many people would be dying if there was no care instead? Probably a lot more, and that's not accounted for. To call mistakes the 3rd leading cause of death, I think we need to account for how many people were saved by medical care too... and when you think about it that way I suspect it's complicated if not impossible to tally that number, meaning that it's also complicated if not impossible to rank medical accidents as a cause of death against objectively identifiable categories like heart attack vs car accident.
It's been quite a while since I've looked at mediawiki. Has any of the codebase been transition to modern PHP?
Very interesting and beautifully written piece.:-)
Greetings to her, and good luck during pregnancy for you both.

I lost part of my taste for about week around Christmas, and when eating my mother's waffles I thought she had lost her baking touch because it tasted like cardboard. Thankfully my taste was soon recovered, but it made me think of the "small" things we take for granted . . .
Because the ability to purchase housing has gone way down and has probably absorbed that.

https://www.cbpp.org/blog/census-renters-incomes-still-laggi...
I would draw a distinction between video recordings and whatever the meeting's acting secretary happened to note on a one-page form.
I'm not trying to argue that one should look at the colorization of "art photos" as a repair/restoration. Artists of all kinds indeed choose their medium carefully, and their work is, well, their work. It's an expression of their choices made in response to the constraints of the time. The best way to conserve art, is to try to restore it to exactly the way it was when the artist created it; not to try to second-guess the artist.

But most photos are not intended as art. Most photos are candids (or portraits, or photojournalism.)

Or, to say that another way: most people who take "photos"—both historically, and today—are not "photographers" by profession, trying to paint with a lens and film. They're just people who want to preserve a view of something, and have a convenient technology for doing just that.

If you want a general policy on how to conserve photos, it should be based around the idea that unless you know better, you should assume that the taker of a photo very likely wasn't an artist choosing their medium for effect; but rather a person constrained by the media available at the time of the photo's creation. Most photos that were taken in the period when B&W photos were the only photos you could take, were not intentionally B&W. If given the option, a color photo would have been taken instead. These photos are, in est, "damaged" color photos. As if the taker expected a color photo, but due to bad camera settings, a B&W photo was taken instead. The equivalent of a photo taken when there was a hair on the lens—an incidental aberration.

Just like, for example, most photos taken at 320x240, when that was the best quality a digital camera could give you, were not intentionally taken at 320x240. It was just the fact of the photo-taker being unable to afford a fancy film camera and rolls of film, but indeed being able to afford an early-2000s webcam and no rolls of film.

Or, for another example, most people who recorded mono audio of themselves onto wax cylinders, early reel-to-reel tape, etc., weren't going for the "mono audio mix-down sound." They just were in possession of only a single-track audio storage or distribution technology. Remastering the sound with source-separation more faithfully achieves the sound they wanted to record, but didn't have the technology for. (Do the surviving Beatles disapprove of the stereo remasterings of their mono albums? No; they think they're grand!)
Emailio, a Y Combinator Productivity Startup, Fixes Your Bad Email Habits
Monsta: Everything on One Paper
Everything on one Paper.

On each paper you can add unlimited todo lists, nested notes, repeat events and number trackers.

Use it for tracking your savings, reminding yourself of important days, diary, shopping list, meeting notes, cook book, and anything!
If you don't regularly test your failover, chances are it will not kick in when the primary fails. Especially if the primary is very reliable. Very common pattern.

Ideally, you periodically test your ability to failover. But if it doesn't work, well, there's a chance that you just caused a user-facing outage with your test.
>The article clearly identifies the source of this
challenge:
HR culture

I don't think so. I don't think the problem here is companies struggling to find the right people.
It seems to me that companies have slashed hiring. There are too few regular job positions and too many people seeking them.
Automatic failover is like data backups, if not regularly tested it's like it doesn't exist.
A linear time algorithm ('.includes') is a constant time algorithm when its input is constant. Of course, the other input to '.includes' (the char) can vary in value, but to know if that affects running time we'd have to look at the implementation of '.includes'.
For a cosmic ray bit-flip, or to perform a hundred billion operations?
I think this gets closer to the original core of the story. Time is the only and ultimate non-renewable resource, no matter how poor or rich you are. Yes, if you're poor, this forces many more external decisions on you than if you had the money to be able to say no — but in almost any other case, you have some autonomy left on some part of your day and life. And how we use that tiny bit of autonomy to either play games or learn something new can make or break a career.
Nope. Early editions of Inside Macintosh were pre-Internet. The CD edition was 1995, for instance -- web publishing was still in its infancy at that point.

The PDFs on Apple's old developer site (mirrored at informatimago, among other places) are a decent substitute for the Inside Macintosh CD, although they are a bit scattered around the site.
> Most scientists take a full stop at "my unproven theory of physics"

Not convinced that's true. Considering how many physicists still keep talking about String Theory, even though it hasn't produced a single testable prediction after 30+ years.
Playing devil's advocate, how many Americans would truthfully respond "yes" to the same question, "Is this the life you want to live?".
I am not sure! I think so, although I am not in Napa. The good news is that you can build greenhouses on land that is not suitable for vineyards, like in abandoned parking lots.
I meant backing up TOTP keys is better than:

> to plug this [Yubikey] into a server and control it through USB over IP.

Obviously multiple Yubikeys is the only real solution.
I don't think it's a coincidence that Japan has the highest debt-to-GDP ratio and also the largest number of jobless youth living with their parents.

Debt fueled by inflationary government money-printing drives wealth inequality between asset owners and salary earners. Newly printed currency boosts asset prices and inflates away salaries.

As Milton Friedman pointed out, it also increases the tax burden on citizens two-fold because inflation causes salary earners to be pushed into higher tax brackets over time as some of their salaries are eventually negotiated upwards to offset inflation.

My guess is that it has something to do with what happened in 1971 when the US dollar (and all currencies which were pegged to it) moved off of the gold standard. This was the time when asset values started inflating. This is why it only affected millennials and they could not afford their own house.

Japan took on more public debt than any other country which is why they felt this effect more strongly since they ended up having to print their national currency at a higher rate (thus resulting in worse asset-inflation) in order to pay off the interest on their debt.
It happens to some people, but it does seem to be more common with covid.
Thanks for sharing that. Is the SIM card removable like in mobile phones?
My understanding is that CA got the data by building a free quiz app on Facebook’s platform (I don’t think FB was getting paid for that, correct me if I’m wrong). The difference is that the quiz app used Facebook’s developer-facing APIs to access the data, whereas these Chrome extensions are hijacking the user agent to access the data via Facebook’s browser-facing APIs. I don’t think it makes a difference as to whether Facebook ought to try to stop the data collection to prevent the another CA-type scandal, and to protect itself from the resulting uproar. The fact that the extension developers haven’t made any agreement with FB means that FB needs different legal tools to try to shut it down, and perhaps they won’t succeed.
What a great thread. Thanks for sharing.
Zones that resist federal incursions[0] have significant overlap with riot zones[1].

[0] https://www.voanews.com/usa/race-america/mayors-major-us-cit...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_United_States_racial_unre...
Prior to having a cellphone data plan (2013) I kept a copy of most Wikipedia articles on my laptop for use when traveling and being away from easy internet access.
He could (and should) have, but I do not think that he intentionally tried to hurt open source projects.
“Extremism in defense of liberty is no vice. Moderation in pursuit of justice is no virtue.”

“Extreme” only means that it’s outside what is currently in place and what is generally accepted. I’ve arrived at an extreme political position because that’s where logic has lead me, not because it is extreme. It gives me pause, but my position has been only reinforced by introspection and discussion with others.

> When designing a system always be sure to design from the perspective of the losers as well as the winners. Being a loser in an ancap world would be one of the shittiest lives one could imagine

I don’t disagree - but I would also point out that being a loser in our current system is no walk in the park, and that being poor isn’t the only way to lose. At least in the system I envision, there’s recourse against the dominant powers in more cases than there is today. If you have a serious dispute with the state... you’re pretty much out of luck.
Election polls are designed to do exactly that, whereas this sample isn't anything even approaching a random subset that could be used for inference about the whole population.

It may be the case that in state courtrooms judges are the same, worse, or better, but making that inference on the basis of federal-level data is probably unjustified.
I have four. One is clearly insufficient, you need a backup.
I've used the Hershey fonts in several projects and they look really good.

MicroPython code to write using Hershey fonts a LCD Display: https://github.com/russhughes/ttgo-hershey-fonts

MicroPython based robot that draws using Hershey fonts:
https://github.com/russhughes/turtleplotbot3

I've been toying around with adding text to the EtchArtDuino and turning it into a "typewriter" or serial terminal.
https://github.com/russhughes/EtchArtDuino
it's good to be king
There is also nothing preventing you from installing multiple importable modules, or module names already used by somebody else, etc. It is really a behavior that most people would describe as "broken" if there wasn't a need to keep supporting the legacy of existing packages.
US only at this time, unfortunately.
Unfortunately not in a position to help with advice. But I too am in a position that I'm struggling to escape from, and a steady income would be very helpful. Would you mind sharing how you created that income stream (of course, I'm not asking for specifics, just what general field, how long it took to create it, how many failed attempts were there before it etc).

As for getting out of your geographical area, money is usually very helpful. Many countries offer investor visas for instance.
https://altstore.io/ is the best known. Google "alternative app stores for ios", there are many.

(Not an endorsement; Have not used any of them myself).
Newbie question: why would a hash function ever result in hash collision? Why can't a hash function guarantee a unique output value?
It should be noted that this is from 2018 (not saying it's less relevant, but adding it to the title seems important)
I'm saying if your hardware token is plugged into a machine that you connect to with USB-over-IP your hardware token is basically security theater and your actual security is whatever secret you use to protect the machine the token is plugged into. So if you're worried about availability but want something like 2fa software TOTP secrets make a better tradeoff.
Thank you for the response! Could I have some references for these claims? Not that I doubt you but this historical context seems very important to the debate.
Wait a second. Correct me if I am wrong but does he write that he has a theory of spacetime from that both quantum mechanics and relativity can be derived? Would that not be a slam dunk Nobel prize?
If you made a significant contribution (and it certainly sounds like you did) then you should probably have gotten some reward for doing a good job, maybe raise or promotion etc.

However just because you increased revenue with you test in no way means you deserve to capture the value of it. You didn’t do it in isolation. At the very least the reason you were able to increase revenue by a third was because there was a revenue and a customer base to start with. You didn’t create that, that was given to you to leverage off of. I assume you had infrastructure and tooling support as well. So at the very least that increase revenue should be distributed amongst other employees that build the foundation in the first place.
I'm not sure I would call it that at all. Silicon Valley is not the world and, in the corporate world, this remains a very California / Silicon Valley phenomenon (present but less strong in a few key other places — New York, Seattle, Portland come to mind).

It is of course also a university-campus phenomenon (especially private universities) but those aren't really "corpo". For that matter, the Wikimedia Foundation is only "corpo" insofar as a 501(c)(3) is technically in fact a corporation — unlikely to be within the meaning of what you intended.

On that note, it is more prominent in the nonprofit sector, perhaps due to volunteers being more predisposed to activism in general. (Mozilla was a bellwether.)
Really enjoyed reading this post thanks.

It makes me laugh that such a small problem (pressing a yubikey at an awkward angle, which sometimes doesn't register properly) can be solved with such a delightful over engineered solution.
How many people died? How many were hospitalized?
Yup. And then IT departments will use users doing it as an excuse for further lockdowns, you can't trust those users after all, look what they do. Vicious circle of mistrust.
German automakers already are far behind and they try to stick to their combustion engines. Letting a battery manufacturer go insolvent just paints this picture more colorful. Hope that Tesla will have success with their plans in Germany, the industry here needs to wake up.
I wonder: could there be some metastable states that you could nudge a given material to, and have it stay there for a while after control pulse is disabled?

I also wonder if the material doesn't need to be one-atom thick for these tricks to work.
"You should sit in meditation for twenty minutes everyday - unless you're too busy; then you should sit for an hour."
- Dr. Sukhraj Dhillon
Now that’s a little out there. It’s not that I see it as impossible, but that my scenario doesn’t require malicious actors - it’s reasonably likely given only random chance at this point.
Yubikeys can perform many functions; the one in the article is an OTP which can be accidentally pasted into Slack.
Well, I'm considering it in the context of a YouTube video, where there's a length limit and such. Usually you get around this by actually doing the work beforehand and swapping it out, or doing something simple and then saying that this isn't actually representative which is easier and doesn't require a cut but can lead to the issue we see here. Again, I can't fault them for choosing to do this, but I can still say it ended up being a poor choice.
Why are people in the Global South less virtuous?
Are you talking about the cruise ship crashing? It's a hypothetical. Nobody was hurt.
ISPs injecting ads is one reason that everything should be HTTPS now
That is actually not a problem. It's not sustainable if everyone is a full-time chef — that doesn't mean being a full-time chef is bad. The problem here is that these people are in a disadvantaged and unsatisfying position in society with no clear way out.
Delivering connectivity to rural Kenya [video]
Something big happened in 1971 that affected the core of the economy: we unhitched the US Dollar from gold.

https://wtfhappenedin1971.com/
I hope you mean this with some irony. The current prime minister of India, who is a self made in every way possible is not upper caste and the President is a Dalit. They both belong to the ruling Hindu right BJP.

The opposition, Congress, which is secular left, has been dominated by Brahmins including the Gandhi family. For all the anti Brahmin nonsense spewed by the Congress, they could have remedied it by the Gandhi's stepping aside instead of ruling India for 40 year out of its 70 directly and another 10 by proxy in the 2000. Ironically even the politburo of Indian communist parties are dominated by Brahmins.

Just step aside!
> This is ridiculous, if such a device exists and can detect a new condition that 5% of the US population has with a 80% false positive rate, and the condition was as serious as heart disease this would really be a miracle device and people would be grateful that such a thing exists.

Since we're overly simplifying, there _are_ devices that can detect conditions that 5% of the population has _and_ have far fewer false positives - X-rays, CT scans, MRI. In the grand scheme amazing things, but no-one's calling them "miracle devices".
While I don't think Japan should be judged solely on its fax machines (they're ahead in some places and behind in others), there is a difference with fax machine usage in Japan vs the US - they're a trailing indicator of another bottleneck. Fax machines are so widespread in Japan largely because they ease the process of physically stamping documents with a registered stamp (a hanko), which is used instead of a signature. So far they've failed to digitize them, and it's often cited as a huge cause of bureaucratic slowdown, especially in the pandemic. One of the goals of the new prime minister is to finally start phasing them out.
This right here is the straight dope. I've worked my way from zero a few times and now have some assets as I approach 40. Wealthy people see the poor as consumables thirsty for opportunity. Also while climbing the ladder there are tons of people who are just closeted sociopathic sadists who have no assets but just get off on manipulation. Another thing I learned was when the work gets to be worth over about $250,000 it's hard to tell the difference between funded people with vision and trust fund kids that have disbursements over some interval if they are building something so they do not plan to succeed. They intend to use me as a therapist and prostitute while they grind it to zero and start again.

The only method I've found that works for transitioning class is to make rich people feel like they are missing out on something they can't buy. Being an appropriately confident jerk that is willing to starve rather than give them an endless loop of scope creep. Charge more than even I think I am worth and when they tell me that's too much politely tell them good luck. It cuts down on the noise of non-serious actors and makes people that want to be serious take note.

I barely have an inkling of how hard that would be if I wasn't a white man with an abnormally deep voice. I've seen how women and people color are discounted and expected to be silent when speaking real truth and someone who sounds like what bossman thinks reflects them gets boosted without question.

What a mess. Glad you saw through the "rules" of the game and made it work for you. Cheers.