skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In the example of diabetes, many people are diagnosed when they show later term symptoms that require an ER visit. Since it's chronic, they won't be "cured" of the disease, meaning an ER can be their main mode of healthcare and the main mode of being diagnosed.

You may not understand the nuances of the article you referenced. Take Detroit, one of the cities used to support the claim in the article. The baseline decade used is the 1960s. Detroit has only about a third of the population it had in the 1960s so it's not rational to think they would maintain their previous healthcare infrastructure. Further, much of that population left for the suburbs of metro Detroit, meaning the healthcare facilities being built are just following the population demographics. Add onto that the point that healthcare has changed dramatically over the last 60 years with much more emphasis on outpatient care, and there are rational, non malevolent reasons to decrease the number of urban hospitals
Saying “No” to Unethical Tasks
You don't need XSS, that's not interesting at all. You can get the admin password from an insecure page, and then there's also a page to run commands as root.
Yup. Jeep had a potential OTA exploit and Tesla fans were here crowing about how "stupid" they were, and how only Tesla had done OTA "right".
How do you gain "control" of a device (presumably a PC) merely by having access to the router it is connected to?

ARP spoofing, DNS spoofing, UPnP...
Yeah I did some digging and Toms.... has a sister company Tech Radar, so probably is the case with many and some big company borged all these sites over time, kinda same as News papers and owners was/is.
Yes and no. If enough companies offer it, and enough people who have a choice choose to work for those companies, others will have to follow suit.
What is the best open source alternative? Ideally one that works similar to PlatformIO where you aren’t tied to a specific IDE.
Guess I need to be charged as a war criminal for the thousands I slaughtered in Call of Duty...talk about overreacting.
UK government to propose digital “freedom pass”
Well Andy Wingo and others ganged up on RMS. I think it was very unfair.
I get sad and angry when I read about this. All the missed opportunity because of the low-cost options I chose--the first two years at a community college, living at home, taking a public bus to school, and then doing the last two years at a low-cost private college, still commuting from home by bus while working 30 hours a week.

I'll be damned if my tax dollars will pay for someone's Mills College Russian Literature degree, or someone's Stanford CS degree.
How 3 technical founders are shaping the non-technical world of sales
Yeah I looked at that language:

'We disrupt the Western-prescribed nuclear family structure requirement by supporting each other as extended families and “villages” that collectively care for one another, especially our children, to the degree that mothers, parents, and children are comfortable.'

So what? There are tons of cultures in which child raising is communal. Including various parts of Western cultures at various times.

They're not saying "nuclear families suck." They're saying, "nuclear families are one approach among many which humanity uses to raise children, and it's not necessarily always the best."

'Disrupt' doesn't mean 'Destroy'.

They also said 'to the degree that mothers, parents, and children are comfortable.' Meaning, IMHO, 'folks should make their own choices for their own families.'

Considering how incredibly destructive slavery was to any form of family institution (father sold or killed, mother sold, child not, etc), and how that has echoed down to the present day in the black community, I can understand why black folks would want to have that discussion.

Which is not just a discussion being had by black people, either.

What exactly is your beef here?
A SKU is another way of saying a product. Each thing you sell is a SKU. Very jargony, and not how I would've written it ;)
Because the person who hires you wants foundations dug, not just to hire a fixed amount of headcount. To an employer, the worker who knows how to run a backhoe is more valuable than the person who knows how to run a shovel.
I assumed it meant he lost his virginity to a prostitute.
One of my high school friends has become a judge in my hometown (fulfilling his dream), and they are actually a team specialising in dealing with cases against local authorities[0]. I exchange conversation with him about all kinds of societal issues. I don't know how it can represent everywhere in China but I understand that the legal system has improved massively comparing with decades ago. In major cities most civil cases are ruled by law and working quite well. You can have any opinion you like but I find people completely dismissing a working legal system in China is a bit silly.

[0]https://zj.zjol.com.cn/red_boat.html?id=100995604
That original research only looked at one Wavlink router. This is the extended research with the help of two other researchers. And of course the attempted exploit from a malicious IP address which was detected only recently
I have found that the SD card tends to 'wear out' after a few years. Agreed USB is suboptimal; but it can work OK.
Or, at the very least, know enough about the problem to leave a comment that properly explains why you're unable to fix the bug.
I have several machines running NixOS and one running Guix.

In Nix you have several channels that push package updates. The stable one moves very slowly, and because Hydra tests packages, it's really rare to experience broken things.

You can also mix them and e.g. install some packages from unstable, and keep others from stable.

Additionally Nix and Guix provide easy total and partial rollbacks, so you should not be afraid of breaking anything.
> 15 feet of the key

My car keys are right inside the front door, so stand on my porch and you're well within range.

> and know the VIN

Good thing the VIN is required by law to be visible through the front windshield of your car, which is very likely parked in your driveway, on your way to the front door.
Just grabbed one of these too. Great middle ground between F-91W and the g-shocks.
I'm not thinking someone would want to do it.

I'm thinking it's going to accidentally happen to some people, at least if there are facilities that offer more than one vaccine.
Same. Why are we having this discussion anyway? The author released his code with an MIT license. He couldn't have made his intentions of free/fair use more explicit: https://github.com/feross/safe-buffer/blob/master/LICENSE
I don't have much faith in preorders from small hardware vendors, so I'll pass. In truth, if I wanted to do recreational programming I'd put Temple OS on a T60.
Exactly, the number of startups which have failed or never even got a chance to start because they had to compete with an unprofitable VC-backed unicorn is unfathomably greater.
This is my bet. Computer automation probably removed more wages than it created.
I did quite a bit of research on that just recently for my startup and here is what we landed on and a super happy with:

Pipe all event tracking through Segment.io including the triggers for transactional emails

Setup Customer.io to listen to the transactional event triggers from Segment.io

Create workflows in customer.io to send follow up, churn and other non transactional emails based on other events coming from segment.io

This makes it super easy for non engineers to change the setup

Customer.io provides email templating, analytics, AB testing and everything else you might need
That was 1980, with the Volcker Fed.

From at least World War II to 1980, we had cycles of recessions and recoveries. Each cycle had higher inflation (at corresponding points in the cycle). Since 1980, each cycle has lower inflation, but higher unemployment.
This depends on the market structure. If your competitive advantage is product/market fit, it matters how you run the startup. If you are selling a commodity at a loss in order to acquire a market share, all that matters is the depth of your pockets.

And, well, if your competitive advantage is access to legislators to carve out special legal exemptions for yourself [0], good luck competing with that, mom-and-pop startup.

[0] https://ballotpedia.org/California_Proposition_22,_App-Based...
Am I the only one who thinks that Wal-Mart should be absolutely slammed for doing this? Like, they are a corporation actively participating in the material worsening of our national security. I don't even want to think about a threat model that includes undermined router hardware! If they can't be patched remotely those things need to be recalled, destroyed, and Wal-Mart fined significantly.

(When I say slammed I mostly mean "pay big fines", maybe jail time if the flaw was known, and it should result in real reputational damage to Wal-Mart and its willingness to sell anything with a network connected computer in it. At the very least, if the buy cost is even less than the china price, that difference is coming from somewhere. Wal Mart should have spotted that.)
Trucks, trains, and planes! Can't wait for "personal cars" to join this list of places where you can sleep while traveling.
It's a Ship of Theseus situation.
Yep. For a more dramatic test of what you're describing, you can add fire. It's a pretty clear difference with the mask versus unmasked: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x6cTDGqcUpA
In both cases, a strong motivation is to get people to buy now instead of pushing back to later, both so they don't bounce and to get the viral marketing train going as quickly as possible/while you are still in launch promotions.
Author may have gotten lucky in their Western Digital Blue SN550 selection. It's a fairly low power drive. WD has been making their own controllers, & they have a history of being fairly power friendly. This is a very new drive too. This review[1] shows it using 2.62 watts during a large file copy and on-idling at 0.96 watts.

The best drive shown is a Crucial MX500, using 2.32 watts during cpy and 0.52 watts at on-idle.

There will be some additional power consumption from the usb adapter too but i'd expect no more than 0.2 watts.

[1] https://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/wd-blue-sn550-m2-nvme-s...
The irony in an ironic statement is difficult to detect when a sufficiently high percentage of the population believes it unironically. That is why sarcasm cues, like obvious exaggeration, can be useful.
> the nested stack elements that are going to change, not only the parent ones

You should be pleased to hear that 'change sets for nested stacks' support was just released last week:

https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2020/11/aws-cloud...

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSCloudFormation/latest/UserGui...
We now have 26 Followers. How we got our Founder to follow us back
The base assumption should always be that your network is breached and your devices vulnerable.

With so much poorly supported “smart” devices on the market, a great deal of your life is easily compromised once somebody is inside your network.

There’s no great promise that your PC is secure unless you’re rather well brushed up on security best practices.
Those are the same links.
What Does Datadog Do?
I was going to trash this, but it actually made me think of something non-obvious: where is the line between hacks like this and smart behavior? For example, we have code in systems that performs network retries, and I have code in my own software that performs polling operations when a request/response "should" work, but in practice, a variety of reasons cause it to be less robust. It seems right that something like "allocating extra memory just to be safe" falls on the wrong side of defensive programming vs obvious kludge, but where is the line, exactly? It doesn't seem to be first vs third party code. Is it network hops? That seems extremely arbitrary, especially given that modern networking has characteristics closer to a bus than say, accessing a disk, where such defensiveness is less sane. If network boundaries are the norm where we start assuming failure is likely, maybe that's why microservices are considered beneficial since they result in more defensive programming in practice even though in principle there's no reason that needs to be the boundary? Maybe I've had too much coffee this morning.
Oh for sure 100%. i mean no you probably wont work 2 full time jobs, but you will get more work done! think about it, you drive an average of an hour or more to and from the office. then you get a lunch break, and other short breaks, talk to coworkers, and spend about probably only 4 hours actually working and get paid for 8 hours of work. Whereas if you work from home you'll get more done so the value will increase.
Show HN: Speech Recognition and Audio Summarization API
> How does someone who knows what they're doing make this many bugs this subtle in such an app?

What they're doing is building a successful product and company. Code quality is probably not very important to this goal.
There's no JavaScript and only a small number of CSS dependencies. No caching, 239kB transfer. With caching, it's only a 3.1kB transfer.

Interestingly HN's front page is an order of magnitude smaller in uncached transfer size. It does include some JS, but the lower perceived snappiness seems to owe to longer round trip times (for me anyway ~60ms for HN vs ~10ms for dev.l1x.be).
A SKU is a Stock Keeping Unit it is used as an identifier about different types of products. Say I have gizmos and boobabs, the gizmo will have skue like G-123 and the Boobabs will have SKU B-384
Yes I did pretty much mean attacking 'Trump personality cult'. I wasn't arguing for the blue or red team, I was making a broader point about future funding in the western world's current political climate. I regard the DNC as effectively the Republican party circa 2000 right now though, and there are two giant vacuums left by what are/were arguably strawmen in Sanders and Trump.
If you can control the router you can inject vulnerabilities into normal traffic.
Awesome list!

I haven't read comments yet, but I bet some people would criticize the tech stack as "too complex" or "not perfect" or "not even mention my favorite tech"...

1. Typically tech stack starts very simple, then evolve into something a bit more complex. It's normal.

2. If this tech stack is the author's most familiar tech stack and it gets jobs done, then it's a perfect tech stack for the author & the business. There's not a tech stack that works well for every developer, every company, every business...

3. Treat this tech stack as a data point. Find other data points on the internet. And you'll come up with your own "perfect tech stack", just for you, for your specific business.
The message history is all there, held hostage by Slack. Clearly it's not a burden for them to store it or they would simply delete everything past 10,000 messages rather than still storing it and reminding me frequently that they have it if I ever decide to pay.
> When business requirements change, you then have the difficult dilemma - just insist on "no", introduce a minimal hack, redesign interfaces to support the use case in a clean way (possibly big task) etc.

one thing I will add is that every new feature does not have to be a plugin just because you have a plugin interface. "implement it directly in the core" is a perfectly valid fourth choice. some things just aren't suited to a plugin implementation.
The One Productivity Hack Scarcity Mindset
Tech icon criticizes SF, announces move to Florida: 'Impossible to stay here'
It might have meant that had it not been included alongside his being bullied and described as a harrowing experience.
Android needs a default SMS client, so might as well enable E2E encryption(or provide the option to). Is it secure? A little, maybe. E2E encryption over proprietary clients, on closed platforms, is as secure as HTTPS, in that, it provides some value but I wouldn't bank on this to protect you from government spying or even police investigations.
Link to fcc filing

https://fcc.report/IBFS/SES-LIC-20190211-00151/1616678

It is a phased array on a mechanically steered base.
That sounds like a good working theory.
Hello! We are happy to release the speech recognition API service for developers. The SpeechText.AI API automatically transcribes speech to text and summarizes audio data with high accuracy in multiple languages. SpeechText.AI uses a combination of speech recognition and natural language processing models to auto-summarize your recordings and highlight key moments in discussion. The unique domain-specific speech recognition technology enables users to improve the accuracy of automatic transcription for industries such as finance, healthcare, legal, IT, HR, and others. The API can recognize multiple speakers and add word-by-word timestamps, punctuation, casing to transcription results. SpeechText.AI supports almost all common media file formats and can transcribe audio/video files stored on your hard drive or files accessible over public URLs (HTTP, FTP, Google Drive, Dropbox, etc.).
I don’t think that was guaranteed, at least not in C. Wasn’t that implementation-dependent?
He kidnapped the children of refugees, that’s not personality, that’s policy.
Indeed. The loading time far exceeds the time I spend actually making choices.
I believe that this is the area where hydrogen technology is supposed to step in. I am sceptical of that as well though.

As you note the light loads will do well with electric systems, there is a lot of low hanging fruit to take care of on every farm before the big horsepower will get tackled.. and maybe autonomous tech will get good enough that the answer will instead be replacing a lot of the high-HP jobs with more lower HP jobs instead?
Large areas were also deforested to provide the charcoal. Roughly 100kg wood to produce 1kg iron.

The Ruhr valley area was denuded already in Roman times due to this.
That's no longer true, in case you were wondering. People still say `bytes <-"instead of"-> chars` sometimes but we should stop that.
Slow loading times aside, looks well made.
Thanks! Very helpful!

I agree that these examples don't provide much clarity.

Just to satisfy your curiosity:

1) Hygiene: things that we "need" to be there (e.g. I need some sort of salary or I'll starve).

2) Ship of Theseus: it remains the ship of theseus even if all its part have been eventually substituted for newer parts. Your kids: even if their "mind" is made of things and people that are not the parents, they remain your kids.
This post discusses the history of ad blocking, but doesn't mention my favorite from the era, Proxomitron. Anyone else remember it?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proxomitron
I followed the link before I read your comment. On mobile, I did not notice that there is any scarring or thought it was just rendering artifacts. I would expect your results to be skewed toward the more symmetrical images.
Also, is there any reason why the survey takes five minutes? Why not limit it to 10 images, with the option to keep going?
I really like the idea, I hope this feedback is valuable.
Yeah, I'm sure there are better possible systems, but in the imperfect 2020 real world, things work the way they work.

In reality, these costs are microscopical compared to the cost of the Covid recession, and all the "stimulus packages" across the planet.

I assume most governments will pay the cost of vaccines, or even pay people to take the shots. The US says it will.
I was wondering about that as well, the office only has three breakers and they are 20 amp but still they have heaters and the like everywhere. I used to have a AC power monitor that would print receipts for stuff like that, wish I had kept it.
>"...It's not something you _need_ to do, necessarily..."

I completely agree with you that there is a value in containers but everything has a price and so far I have yet to find project with the scale that does require all this overhead.

I had no problems making / working with / deploying containers on Azure when it was required by client. Since client is the king I do as instructed. For my own business or when I am the one making deployment decisions for a client I get away without containers.
It doesn’t sound like the back door was put in for Walmart to use. So no, Walmart shouldn’t be slammed for this vulnerability anymore than for the vulnerabilities in the PCs they sell.
As an atheist, my line between bad and good is "don't harm others". Ideally, those others include living beings besides humans, but ffs, if at least you restrict to humans, even if you never actively help anyone, it's a great improvement.

So we would have to ask: do I harm others by working for this bad company?
There was a government project on how to design a 10,000 year sculpture indicating that this is a nuclear wasteland.
No telling how to cut across language cultural barrier in case of a great reset.
It looks like I have to pay for Medium premium in order to read this story... can anyone give me a tl;dr? Or it looks like I can use Google cache text only to get around the paywall but that seems sub-par.
The landing page is safe for work. The survey itself involves looking at bare breasts, so is "NSFW."

Breast cancer runs in my family. Two close relatives have had it more than once starting at early ages.

My impression is you are barking up the wrong tree. What is "aesthetically pleasing" to random strangers according to some survey is of little importance.

If she is in a serious committed relationship, her partner's opinions will be really important to her decision-making process.

If she is really young, this will tend to matter a lot more to her than if she is older.

Scarring is not just about aesthetics. It's about pain and swelling and limited movement and things like that. That tends to get short shrift by people in the business of selling you surgery for the purpose of improving your appearance.

I started the survey but didn't finish it. It's boring and repetitive and I thought images were weird, starting with the detail that there are no arms. Like I'm supposed to care about a woman's breasts and not be bothered by the fact that she has no arms?

As a woman who gets tired of some people acting like I am only a sex object and the only parts of me that matter are the parts covered by a bikini and as someone with a serious disability, I find details like that pretty insensitive and disturbing.
I would say you should have held onto the DVDs. That way you can some claim to way you transcoded the media to a format you could use.
If I was making an intentional back door I wouldn't make anything that stupid. The super-secret password is "password123".

Maybe you have more faith in developers than I do because this sounds exactly like a dumb mistake/cutting corners to me.
If you are curious for the theory behind this mechanism, a good source is “what has government done to our money“ by Murray Rothbard.

It’s freely available here:

https://mises.org/library/what-has-government-done-our-money
In general I agree, it's pretty unlikely that China is anywhere in the top 10 per capita, but there's still a lot of room for a cover up.

It could very well be that China chose to sweep it under the rug and has many more people dying than reported. But the number could still be perfectly average, which is not that much. And perhaps below since most of SE Asia seems to be doing very well regardless of policy. China could have 50 times the per capita death rate and would still be below average.

Certain wards are overflowing, hospitals as a whole aren't. Many if not most didn't have that much excess mortality. Not hard to cover up at all by simply not admitting people and/or providing sub-optimal care (in which case you'd have much more effective capacity).