skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's pancreatic cancer and cancer of the pancreas. (There might be more, i know about these two). The difference in life expectancy is staggering. One is basically starting the clock (in months to a handful of years), with the other, recovery is possible.
It's more complex than that. We as a community need to learn to stick to the interesting aspects and forego the flamewar aspects. This article is a good test case for that, since it clearly has both.

Please see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24871577 also. You spend enough time here that I think it's worth trying to explain that you're mis-assessing us a little. You'd find HN more interesting and less frustrating if you recalibrated.
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I'll concede the Xbox One wasn't Ballmer's fault, but he still gets a fair share of the blame for WP. It was (or should have been) Microsoft's most important new initiative for years, Ballmer could clearly see that it was failing, and yet he kept promoting Myerson and giving him more power. A better CEO would have intervened.
100 reps with bad form will still make you stronger, so long as you don't injure yourself
> What does a failed prediction about super-symmetry in 1996 have to do with the opportunities of the next collider?

There are two criticisms she articulates very clearly:

1. SUSY is not a testable theory, as it can always "retreat" to higher energy levels, without any real limit.

2. There is no scientific reason to believe SUSY should be true - it doesn't solve any real problem with any of the known theories of the universe. There are infinitely many ways that the universe could be different wherever we haven't looked yet - we can't possibly test all of those theories.

The combination of both arguments leads to the following "law": until we have a theory that solves unsolved problems in physics AND that makes concrete predictions with bounded parameters (so that a failure will explicitly rule out this theory, instead of pushing it endlessly to "maybe at higher energy levels"), we shouldn't be paying huge amounts of money to test things blindly.

This is the fundamental difference between, say, the Higgs prediction and SUSY - we were looking for a concrete thing that it was necessary to exist for the rest of the Standard Model to make sense; and we knew a clear range of energies where the Higgs must exist; if we found it like we did, we know the theory was correct. If LHC didn't find the Higgs, then it would have definitively ruled it out, leading to an explicit need for a new SM.

By contrast, SUSY has not been confirmed, but it is also impossible to rule out entirely, and none of our models NEED SUSY to be right - so in the end, experiments for SUSY don't achieve anything. We might as well be launching space missions to look for Russel's teapot.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foxit_Reader#Issues
Agree with all of this. I also think Cook should get credit for the Apple Pay / Apple Card ecosystem, and for Car Play.

In addition, under Cook, Apple also made great strides in ecological manufacturing and supplier accountability. And early on, Cook had the courage to fire a highly visible but toxic executive.
Hi, long time lurker here. I wanted to share with you a little project of mine and a technical write up I did explaining how it was achieved. If you're into VR you might find it interesting.

I know that Medium has a reputation but given that it's my first public article and that I don't really plan to maintain a blog in the long run, I just wanted to give it a shot and see how it goes.

Please feel free to give feedback! I'm eager to hear your views on how desktop experience could be improved with the next generation of AR/VR headsets.
Not OP but I read this as something they miss because they no longer work with PHP.
Florida counts quickly. Their absentees have to arrive before the polls close to count, and are counted right away with the day of votes.

If Biden has a decisive victory in Florida, it would be very reasonable to call the election the next morning (which would still be late night in the West).
> you’d need either every state to agree or an amendment.

Neither of those is actually necessary because the states decide on their own how their electoral college votes are allocated. In principle Texas or California could allocate their delegates proportional to the popular vote of the people in that state.

Which might be in the interests of the people in that state, because then candidates would actually bother to solicit votes there. But you'd have to convince a local government controlled by one party to give about a third of the state's electoral college delegates to the other party.
It is mentioned in one of the captions.
There was a study in 2016 about the same topic but instead they focused on the ending of a colonoscopy.

I told this anecdote at a job interview with a terrible company that I didn't want to work at. I didn't the job. Aww shucks.

https://econsultancy.com/what-can-we-learn-about-customer-ex...
The funny thing is they have Wisconsin (my state) showing biden favored to win. Just look at the electoral college electors record. It's been a red majority since Bush. They even had a swing blue state turned red 2016 that helped cement the state vote. And these were affluent white liberals outside of Milwaukee.

This is just going to be 2016 all over again where somehow polling = "the correct prediction" when none it is taking into consideration the voting record of the electoral college. Just a general consensus among a biased selection.
Mozilla opposes Google by taking a stand against some of the APIs that are shipping in Chrome: https://mozilla.github.io/standards-positions/.
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Never ever create sub domains for your users using your main business domain. There is a reason why GitHub uses github.io.

You need to migrate user accounts to their own domain asap and use Search console to redirect and handle whatever issues that Google has flagged.
The not-surprise surprise: the wall-street posers who ordered the Mouton but were served the Pinot couldn’t tell the difference.
People within these verticals create their own micro-hierarchies. Surgeons see themselves as above pediatricians; heart and brain surgeons see themselves as above other surgeons. Among Ivy Leaguers, those who come from old families (with old money) join clubs that are closed to students who are poor, non-white, immigrant, etc.

To me, it's a huge positive signal when a group has a culture that actively embraces new people and finds way to identify and celebrate what's cool about them, rather than just the opposite. I personally found student coops at my college to be one such culture.
So, here is my short take on that: forget it.

A 1KW mill based on this principle might give you that power in a storm but not under normal circumstances.
Apple Quietly Discontinues Apple TV Remote App
Definitely interesting, but the post isn't about elephants vs wolves (no wolves are mentioned!) but about why the Romans didn't adopt the use of elephants in war.

TLDR; Despite being theoretically SUPERBADASS (my words), elephants are only somewhat effective against prepared armies, but are expensive and hard to maintain, especially compared to horses.
I built a very similar thing to this [0] in 2013 which no longer works because Google shut it down just this year. I wrote about that here [1].

Summary: YouTube API terms and conditions forbid using it to create an alternative UI for YouTube. Specifically from these docs [2]:

> You and your API Clients must not, and must not encourage, enable, or require others to use YouTube API Services to create, offer, or act as a substitute for, or substantially similar service to, any YouTube Applications. API Clients must not mimic or replicate YouTube’s core user experiences by recreating features or process flows unless they add significant independent value or functionality that improves users’ interactions with YouTube. For example, an API Client must not recreate the browse experience from any YouTube Application without adding significant independent value to that flow

So just be aware that, assuming you're using the YouTube API for this, they can and will shut it down when they realize that's what you're doing.

[0] https://toogl.es/

[1] https://critter.blog/2020/08/04/a-farewell-to-toogles/

[2] https://developers.google.com/youtube/terms/developer-polici...
I just moved closer to the business operations side of a 2000 person business that's owned by a 10x the size business.

Your comment has been my learning in the last six months. Holy mother of god there's so many things that keep the company running.
So true! It's like "Firefox is not perfect so let's support Chrome which is not trying at all"! How will that ever make anything better!?
Azure seems to have made $12B in Q3 2020 and that didn't exist when Jobs was alive.
As others pointed, the best thing you can do is learn to debug PHP interactively with an IDE (easier locally) so you can step, REPL and so on, into a mess of a code to improve it
> "What is Microsoft doing with all that data?"

Error reporting and usage telemetry, same as many apps and websites.

Ever notice how, for all the furor about Windows telemetry, nobody is ever able to explain how that data is being abused or point out anything specifically that's problematic? That's because the people who keep bringing it up haven't been able to find any (yet, of course) despite proclaiming loudly how terrible it is. That really tells you all you need to know about them.
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I think things would be a lot better in the non-profit world if they actually did compete for talent with profit-earning companies.

But the truth is, they don't. With a few rare exceptions (like Harvard's foundation, which has come under a lot of scrutiny over just how successful it's been), NGOs by and large end up with the leftovers. The folks who weren't really able to get jobs anywhere else.

For employees of NGOs, they end up with bottom-barrel, barely subsisting wages. For administration, they're ususally cronies of someone in charge of appointments. A handout to some other, successful executive's spouse, or sibling, or college buddy.

CEOs and directors talking about "competitive salaries" are just part of the ever growing problem of NGOs being siphons of money from donors to these "elite adjacent" individuals.
The site starts with "secret courts issuing dns takedowns" and "#covid1984" on every page.

The content is stuff like "Climate alarmists–from the Pope to Rabbis to Greta–are calling for a Sunday “Green Sabbath,” forcing people to stay home in deference to Gaia. Now that people are used to perfect surveillance and enforced lockdowns, the stage is set for this truly Satanic inversion: worship of the creation, instead of the Creator, on a day chosen by the Catholic church"

Further scrolling: false flag conspiracy theories, undisclosed affiliate links for CBD products, and weirder and weirder content like "global AI surveillance system [...] being plugged in to the DoD’s AI weapons system, in a war being perpetrated against all of humanity" and how the government is stealing your children.

Hidden affiliate redirects to companies like "my patriot food supply"

The tweet replies are all absolutely bizarre (at least, anything more than just some kind of sad emoji):

> Its because they are putting hydrogel in the food, which is linked to nano, which is linked big tech sister of YTube and her DNA database, linked to the vack's which is linked to that frequency number thingy. U get the code?

> (((Communists))) always seek TOTAL control. That's why it's called totalitarianism.
Microstrategy was a public company that recently put its treasury reserves into 100% BTC from USD.

Why is this important: note "public." To do this legally, they had to convince:
- external auditors
- internal compliance
- external/internal legal
- and where it gets interesting: the institutional investors who are large enough to matter, i.e. your big-money movers. This party says no at a shareholder meeting, the conversion isn't happening.

CFO who led this found that last party were all ok with the move given explanation, and most owned BTC already. 1 holdout took some convincing. These big money-movers hold BTC already, in short. Yeah it's not 100% of their assets, but this isn't an argument about that.
FWIW, Jobs was diagnosed in 2003, so he lived another 8 years after his initial diagnosis.
Why then does Ben and Jerry's get involved in advocating for any number of political positions? (https://www.benjerry.com/values) They're a division of Unilever, a public company... an international conglomerate no less...

Certainly it can't be profit motive. Some of their positions would reduce profitability and alienating a substantial number of your potential customers can't be helpful for business either.

Maybe Unilever management or it's board are asleep at the wheel. Who knows, but there are plenty of counter-examples that demonstrate that no company is necessarily about financial profits alone. I'm pretty sure that investors know this, and invest for some of these non-financial motives as well... again, may not be the norm, but probably not rare for these companies either.
I think the author happens to live near a printing plant or something that commonly tosses these in the trash or sells them for peanuts once they're worn out. You can substitute any large sturdy sheets of free aluminum that you happen to have nearby, as people do.
Then we built new technology that conclusively disproved them. As a result we have sat-nav and space travel. If that's the disaster that came from building bigger telescopes, keep it coming. 'We don't believe it because it's hard to test' is not science.
If anyone is new to his blog and finds this series entertaining, his series on Sparta is amazing and incredibly insightful: https://acoup.blog/tag/sparta/
And someone can consent to working in a chemical plant without protection but OSHA won't let that happen. Worker rights need to be protected by law, or it is a race to the bottom for the working conditions of the poorest.
I will leave you to enjoy your highly refined, bleached, deodorized oil. I'm sure it's good for you.
Well, I thought it was useful in terms of how to think about the situation, but yes, acknowledged, it has not been useful to discussion. :(

I emailed dang to ask him to auto-collapse the comment, which seems to have helped.
I agree didn't start but has definitely continued and has been encouraged under Cook.
Politicians do though.
I think that's probably the best to explain to others. Easy answer, truthful, and fits into the mold that many people think about.
Exactly :) Last time I touch PHP I think it was 5, I don’t know what happened in between so when I say “was” I mean it was for me.
What model is factoring for my states electoral college voting record that clearly states trump is going to win even though the they predict it will be biden? 2018 only had a minimal increase in democrats elected (still not even a competitive minority) and the governor was a democrat (whom many people are meh on or despise). The only reason a democrat won was because there was no electoral college and Scott Walker was universally disliked after he destroyed unions. Eventually he hurt enough republican constituents that he shot himself in both feet.
Recital 47 (https://gdpr-info.eu/recitals/no-47/) explicitly states:

"The processing of personal data for direct marketing purposes may be regarded as carried out for a legitimate interest."

It's also mentioned in Article 21 describing the right to object to processing using legitimate/public interest:

"Where personal data are processed for direct marketing purposes, the data subject shall have the right to object at any time… etc."

The ICO has some useful guidance on when it is an appropriate basis: https://ico.org.uk/for-organisations/guide-to-data-protectio...
I think the instructions are meant for the turbine itself and the applications such as attaching a motor are listed as ‘only a guide’ along with this:

> If and when you get to this part of the process please email us directly or check out the Facebook group, where the community can help you build what you need and you can follow what others have done already.
I was thinking of moving to Chile, but it's now closed. So still stuck in the US and pursuing my other options.
Yeah what? Are you insinuating posting this commonly discussed belief is a legitimate reason to ban communication based on "misinformation"?
This

Collider projects were much more interesting to a public who had remembered the sea change of reactors and the bomb. While I love the LHC, from a productivity standpoint there are other projects which have been bearing more fruit for ~50 billion.
> It's always amusing to me how people who only work in one area of the company (ie. engineers, designers, sales, etc.) think they are the only ones doing "real" work. Everybody else is doing bullshit and wasting money. Without fail, every single time, if you give rank-and-file the opportunity to express this, they will.

Same here. I've spent my career hopping between functionally different areas - supply chain, IT, business operations, marketing, BI/Analytics, and a few hybrid/in-between roles.

As you said, every single time, each group tends to trivialize the contributions and efforts of the others.

They also tend to have very little awareness of their own unique privileges. When I'm on a business team, even if I'm doing technical work it takes an absurd amount of effort and approvals to even get local admin access to my computer, whereas when I'm on a technical team it gets rubber stamped and is usually part of the onboarding process. Same with infrastructure - if I need to set up a recurring process/script, it's pretty trivial finding/accessing infrastructure somewhere that I can plop that onto when I'm on a technical team. But god forbid I have the same need while working on a business team - you have to move mountains and requisitions to be able to accomplish the same thing.

There are privileges in the other direction, too. In particular, sales/marketing/account people expense an absurd amount of stuff in the daily happenings of their job, and can choose to do so with little fanfare. Whereas on the IT side, it can be near impossible to spend $10/month on something if there isn't a clear business unit to charge it back to and wasn't in the annual IT budget.

At the end of the day, every group tends to have different internal skillsets and organizational capabilities and restrictions. And all are working just as hard as the other to keep the sausage flowing, within the capacity of their abilities and role. The number of posts and comments on HN about devs struggling with marketing/selling their single person SaaS should be an indicator that you shouldn't trivialize any group's contributions before taking the time to fully understand them.
Sure, but if the money were redirected to climate science, then the climate science people would be the well-payed ones, wouldn't they?

Also, there are other avenues for particle physics that don't require 20 billion dollars to start with. The 20 billion isn't going to retaining particle physicists, it's mostly going to hardware, engineering construction etc. efforts.
Counterpoint: if they find _nothing_ wrong, then whoever hired them has potentially failed to justify their job. Better to find minor, easily fixed, bugs I'd think.
If you combine DC and Maryland, it makes Maryland go from the 19th largest state to the 10th. DC is bigger than 19 states, why not let it have its own representation?

Edit: I mixed up DC and Puerto Rico. Forget what I said.
Efficient smart contract security audits with machine learning and slither-simil
yeah, i watched the whole youtube video hoping it would get to something useful, but it seems to be mostly a "how to bend sheet metal" tutorial.

that's not really the part i need a tutorial for...
> A fourth way is burning agricultural waste or wood (net zero carbon emissions) to run a steam turbine to generate electricity. I don’t know if anyone really does this in practice. It takes quite a lot of fuel (and storing the fuel) to generate meaning full power continuously. Plus high pressure steam is dangerous.

I've seen links to wood gas generators, which seems a lot more tractable than a homemade steam plant, although this is more micro and less diy; you could diy the wood gas part, but then you'd most likely put it into a commercially sourced generator. There are some commercially available all in one setups too (wood bits in, AC out). I haven't done this, be careful with carbon monoxide and icky condensed liquids.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wood_gas_generator
It's difficult to informatively delegate your vote with all the entirely false mailers and advertisements bombarding people every election. The numbers of voters who vote flippantly, or vote on false premises, have never been quantified, but I wouldn't be surprised if they were significant given the amount of times the electorate has directly voted against their own self interest (like banning subway construction in LA from the 90s to the 2010s, and paying for it now with higher construction costs three decades later).
Lets hope starlink lives up to the hype and brings more options!
I'm Canadian and we get -35 temperatures for at least a few days every winter. This doesn't make sense to me. Of course you should put a scarf over your nose. At those temperatures , exposed skin freezes very quickly so you need to cover all your skin or you'll get frostbite.

I've never had a problem with a scarf freezing stiff like you describe. They build up ice crystals of course, but they don't interfere with air flow and are easily broken.

The biggest problem I expect from wearing a mask in the winter is that they'll get damp quickly because the cold temperatures, and perhaps having a scarf over top, will prevent moisture from evaporating.
Brute-forcing the problem with a variant library and high-throughput screening could easily end up being far more inefficient. At least with crystallography it's easy to set up the experiment, whether or not it actually works.
> (presumably with Bizible, GA, or any other tools and data)

You mean Bizible, GA, AND every other SAAS marketing attribution tool under the sun
That's too bad. The real remote has numerous problems:

- Too small -- easy to lose and hard to find.

- Too symmetrical. In the dark it's hard to figure out which way to orient the remote.

- Too sensitive. If I (or my cat) accidentally brush against the top surface, that's a button press.
The question of what constitutes 'shot up' is too pedantic to be worth considering further.

Why are you so invested in defending an extremist conspiracy theory from criticism?
How the humble garden shed inspires genius (2017)
Flash is cool and very good at certain things. I just prefer a more native-feeling UI.
I used CasparCG[0] to do live html overlays with a major broacaster out of Singapore about 5 years ago, still going strong. The actual on air graphics that were used rather tame compared with the sample ones I did to prove the system.

[0] https://github.com/CasparCG/