skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I have knee pain when running with no physical explanation (MRI found nothing)

That MRI found nothing only means there isn't clear damage no? Would it find e.g. short or tight tendons, or unbalanced muscle mass?

> can I treat myself with a placebo?

Nothing stops your from trying. You can just get some inactive pills (I don't know if it's possible to find excipients-only pills which would be the ideal but homeopathic crap or some innocuous supplements would do the trick) and take that on the regular as "treatment".
How effective are the apps for contact tracing?

Getting people to use them is work but there should be a huge savings in human effort.
I'm not an infrastructure engineer - could someone explain the benefits of using quotas for something like an authentication service. It feels like something that shouldn't really need a quota - unless the idea is to monitor services that have run amok.
They do allow merchants to sell subscriptions - https://help.shopify.com/en/manual/products/subscriptions
> Nintendo as a company makes more money on selling consoles, than on Zelda.

In revenue or profit? It’s kind of definitional that there’s more revenue from the console than the game given that for any console you need to purchase on average ~1 game at most and a game is worth far less than a console. However, it’s my understanding consoles are generally loss leaders, priced at or below cost in anticipation of profit driven by sales of content.
What Mark Zuckerberg and the rest of the mindlessly ambitious spectrum of the population really need is AR/VR spectacles that tell they every 2 minutes that they already own the whole world. Maybe the rest of us will get some peace.
Yep, or alternatively an iPad Air with a magic keyboard.

(Ducks)
I used to think music from back in the day was better. Then I washed my predilections out and did a clean take on modern music. There are some real gems there. They’re also ... new.
That is true, and likely one of the reasons for that favorable EU deal.

But what's also correct is: neither Pfizer nor BioNTech did accept money from the Trump government (except as payment for the finished product once it was approved of course), which is what the OP probably meant. There's a huge difference regarding the potential for politicization between this particular government and any other sane government on this planet, and especially the German one that's currently being led by a trained physicist.
MyGNUHealth: The GNU Health Personal Health Record (PHR)
That would stop opportunistic stranger stalking only, no?
That 1% have the ability to devastate the healthcare infrastructure.

ICU beds are dollar for dollar the most expensive resource in healthcare today.

Not to mention the rarity of qualified healthcare workers who are trained in working in the ICUs and the risk of losing them for 2+ weeks if they get infected.
I guess the line of thinking is "the more differences there are, the leakier the abstraction is".

The obvious case people will think about is the security angle (by using a vm you to impersonate a consumer end user, so for eaxmple malware doesn't realize it's running in a vm). But there are other cases where murphy's law will bite you.

For example I bet some WebGL apps manage to trip themselves up over this feature string because of whitelists or buggy logic in code that tries to be clever about used features vs underlying platform.
Nobody thinks that.
I wonder if Microsoft could gain ground on hp/dell etc by offering something new in terms of vendor management,device management, and maintenance. For example by offering laptop's on Azure with next day delivery. Vertical integration could make a lot of sense for that.
"Post-scarcity" doesn't mean nothing ever is scarce - that's impossible to achieve (simply because humans can invent new categories of things to want). "Post-scarcity" means all the things you need to survive, plus a good chunk of the things you'd reasonably want, are so cheap to make or in such abundance, that they become effectively free and unlimited. Thanks to fusion power and matter replicators, that is the case for humans in Star Trek universe.

The behavior of companies owning Star Trek IP stands in stark contrast with the values preached by the show. It's not just fictional post-scarcity vs. real-life market economy; the IP owners are aggressively and self-destructively greedy (much like the Ferengi of Star Trek). It's sad to watch, really - Star Trek has an extremely dedicated and creative fanbase that could be endlessly monetized if given a modicum of consideration. Instead, fan contributions are terminated with extreme prejudice.

Yes, I'm still sour about how they treated Stage9 - a fan recreation of the entire Enterprise-D in Unreal Engine. See [0], [1] for some visuals. CBS lawyers killed this, because of course they did. Would they lose money because of this project? Nope. Would they make money because of it? Sure, through renewed interest. They could've done a number of things, including officially subcontracting the developers and selling the work officially. But they didn't, they killed it. And they'll never produce anything that even comes close to this.

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[0] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bAM2dEEulBk

[1] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s8wpO8ONYm8
Except the resale value on Macs tends to be quite good relative to other platforms.

And while you’re using your first you get the performance benefits of integrated memory.

You’re obviously welcome to prioritize whatever makes you happiest, but Apple isn’t doing this just to sabotage its customers.
> They say that people taking opioids develop tolerance for them and the meds lose effectiveness over time.

And this is the root of those claims. Some people even started to believe that patients fake chronic pain just to get those sweet sweet opioids.
I've been taking them for over five years and I have not noticed that they lose effectiveness, nor I had to increase the dose. You do still feel pain, but the difference is between being able to function in the society and thinking about killing yourself.
I've been through many of those therapies and I have seen disbelief on people faces. You can't get your life back just by thinking there is no pain or that the pain will not take it away. What they do is they get people to learn some basic thought patterns that any CBT therapy do and then sprinkle it here and there with theories about pain.
This is not bad in itself, but when you marry it with the thought that opioids are unnecessary, you sentence people for unimaginable suffering, while patting yourself on the back, that you are "helping".
The Mandelbrot set cannot be described by an L-system. And not every L-system describes a fractal.
Branding My Own Startup
What would a coarse-granular specification for Excel look like? How would you prove correctness against such a spec? Examples, please. In these discussions, I only ever see vague statements and handwaving by formal verification proponents — which is kind of ironic, when you think about it...
Using edge machine learning in privacy-first location detection for browsers
M1 is an implementation of Apple Silicon. I’m really not sure what you’re trying to argue here.
I didn't say you should use it? I don't understand the reaction.
I'm unease with the fact that I don't really know that my Swift program is doing in the background

I don’t really understand your complaint here. The Swift runtime library is pretty limited - basically just allocation and reflection. The compiler spits out machine code that you can look at. Where is the “background” you are thinking of?
Ask HN: Can mods be contacted without an email
Signal etc? Or DM for modmail?
A non-trivial amount of satellites have also used Transputers (and there's legacy of it in SpaceWire network)
Hardware and software goes hand in hand. A custom CPU would also need custom software. The engame is probably "you can only run this in our cloud", but its open source you say, yeh before they added the proprietary code, so if you do run the code yourself you can't use half the features and performance will be degraded, and you won't have access to the community/plugin ecosystem.
Like anything you can overdo it. I regret smoking so much in my youth. I also regret drinking so much, and eating so much pizza and chocolate, and spending all day surfing (the web, sadly, not the waves). I was doing all those things before I became old enough to buy cannabis (although cannabis did exaggerate them somewhat).

It does seem like the cannabis had a negative effect on my memory and emotional stability (I was high basically the entire day for several years while my brain was still developing). And many of my worst paranoid delusions ever have been on uncomfortably high doses of cannabis. But so have some of the most beautiful and dare I say spiritual experiences of my life, and I wouldn't take those back.

I do wish I'd waited until I was older though, and in a better place emotionally (I was using it as a painkiller, if you will.)

All things considered though, I'm a much bigger fan of psilocybin and LSD. Rather than worsening my addictions they made me quit a lot of unhealthy things I was doing. I also found microdosing to be very beneficial.

For comparison, you can conduct a business meeting on a small dose of LSD and find that it actually helps you pay attention and think clearly, while even small doses of cannabis will interfere with something as trivial as a trip to the corner store.
> I think that's what it's called, but I may be wrong.

You're wrong: that's not what it's called.
I think the parent was saying if you want a laptop, buy a laptop, and that the Air’s throttling isn’t a big deal...not that the Mini throttles.
Digital Breast Tomosynthesis Lesion Detection Challenge (DBTex)
We ask for participation in the DBTex Grand Challenge by submitting algorithms for the detection of biopsy-proven breast lesions on digital breast tomosynthesis (DBT) images.
yup, it's hard to believe that they don't exist only because of that reason
>Another colleague got a job at 36 as a bare programmer after a very successful PhD where he wrote books and was invited to conferences.

I can relate, as this basically describes me - though I've been lucky enough to find bare programing jobs that I quite like doing.

One of the toughest things about leaving academia is discovering that (i) no-one who doesn't have a PhD has any clue what a PhD is and (ii) everyone who has a PhD has a healthy disregard for the intellectual capacities of their fellow doctors.
I don't see why it's like that at all, but you realise that this is not how it's always been, even in America, and certainly not elsewhere? What seems "logical" to you is merely a current snapshot of a social construct that's been built built over decades of political activism by shareholders.
Absolutely. I was always a huge fan of the originals and other old-school RPGs like Baldurs Gate, and this is one of the few that actually scratches that itch. The game is highly interconnected and every choice has a realized impact.
Yeah I dont like when people imply I don't have friends or enough of them. I know I can have a discussion with anyone if I feel like it or if people come to me. I just answer "the world is my friend". My father is also like this.

I'm leaning on the introvert side but as an adult I've quickly adapted.

A therapist also told me friendships are a lot of work to maintain, and often a cause of pain. If romantic relationships are already a source of pain, I cannot let friendships do the same to me.
Because I didn't fully grasp this without further research: Kodak ceased production of nitrocellulose film in 1951, when "safety film" was commonly used instead.
From https://account.chase.com/consumer/banking/chaseprivateclien...:

"Within 45 calendar days, transfer a total of $250,000 or more in new money or securities to a combination of eligible checking, savings and/or investment accounts (excludes Chase business checking and savings accounts, any You InvestSM, J.P. Morgan retirement accounts and CDs), and maintain the balance for at least 90 days."

But note, another requirement is: "Meet with a Private Client Banker by January 15, 2021 to upgrade your account to Chase Private Client."
That is a non-solution. DNS spoofing is notorious, and it's same for any "meaningful" names. If there isn't a checksum it's actually harder to detect a typo, human brain tends to autocorrect it.
Domains also rely on trusted third party and are stolen all the time.
US Army see self-adjusting turbine blades powering new supersonic VTOLs
What, you can get general anesthesia for wisdom teeth removal? Is that a thing?
https://www.forbes.com/sites/hbsworkingknowledge/2017/05/03/...

https://www.vox.com/identities/2019/8/16/20806069/slavery-ec...
Two doses is very common for vaccines because this is based upon how the immune system responds to real infections. The first dose will initiate a primary immune response. The second dose will act as a "challenge" to trigger a secondary immune response.
This is an interesting perspective however only the most extreme examples given are convincing enough to be as truly adversarial as the author implies.

Using the articles very own examples, hardware seems to be attempting to commoditize software, and software seems to be attempting to commoditize hardware, the chain is bidirectional and long, there seems to be no clear rules. In the example of Sun and Ximian, it can be viewed as commoditizing or directly funding a non existent yet required comunterpart due to lack of in house expertise.

I suspect the reality of the majority of less visible chains of compliments are closer to symbiotic than parasitic - that intentional and extreme commoditization are the adversarial exceptions which are so large and monopolistic as to bias the landscape... even then as other commenters point out, those relationships don't appear to be sustainable long term, due to longer term negative side effects or a changing landscape.
What percentage of grand juries throw out the charges?
I wonder what kind of degradation this might have over the sink metal (probably very minor, still...)
Connecting an Arduino to a telephone line? (2015)
In that case, only the first fail will be reported and exit. Which is fair enough in some cases, but may be confusing for long sequences of tests.

(There’s the option to get that behaviour in pytest as well with a parameter. Also, pytest may run the tests in parallel, which may speed up the results)
I think this is super new - there are only two apps that offer subscriptions that integrate with Shopify Checkout, and one of them launched in November it seems and is still in beta:

https://apps.shopify.com/collections/checkout-subscription
No, fortunately for the world ... The satire was a state of US /Worldwide government networks security.

I expect things to change in 2021, rather quickly.

And it is 3-5 years too late, but better now than never.

US and other western countries must:

1)start producing their own chips / boards / hw etc, end-to-end, no exceptions

2) Disconnect networks from "non-partner jurisdictions" (and I don't care about FooBacks and Gargle Ads driven business models and their bottom line)

3) Stop low-level software outsourcing. Effectively, only US citizens should work on such projects- both commercial and government

This will be good news for American IT workers, their unions and fresh US citizen IT graduates.

Finally!
I find those studies problematic. In the ones I read from your links, the doctor says something along the lines of "this pill is a placebo. It means it has no active ingredients. However, the 'placebo effect' is known to be powerful and if you take these pills as instructed they can still help you..."

As I understand it, a big part of the placebo effect is setting the expectation that the treatment will help. And it is only known to help in subjective conditions, such as pain.

I expect we might see different results if the doctor said something more like "This pill has no active ingredients and does nothing. We are giving it to you to see if you will imagine that it worked anyway."

Kissing a child's scraped knee is not a treatment but, it along with a reassuring "there, all better!" works wonders for the child anyway. They are comforted and relived.
Technically you can accomplish the same thing using seccomp, I.e. the way most services run third party native code to process untrusted data, e.g. imagemagick.

That’s what I would probably do since it’s more efficient and simpler. No need for a compilation step or an interpreter. No need to trust the (likely complex) webassembly runtime to be bug free.

Edit: most responses are being made under the assumption that seccomp is the same as seccomp-bpf. The two are different and designed for different use cases. For example it is not possible to run a wasm JIT entirely under seccomp but is possible under seccomp-bpf. Seccomp was specifically designed for the use case described in this article by Shopify. You can read more about the differences here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seccomp
A friend of mine said: "Hassen macht hässlich". In english this would be: "To hate makes you ugly"
>Academia is hard because it's extremely competitive,

The issue isn't the level of competitiveness but the cost of losing.

Now that I'm outside academia, there's plenty of competition. For example, getting a good job at Google is just as competitive as getting a tenure-track position. The difference is that I can easily get a respectable job that pays the bills if I don't make the cut for Google. A nice side effect of this is that it enables me to take a rational view of how attractive these prestige jobs really are. And there are limits on what Google can demand of its engineers because they all have other options.

Academia these days is competitive in about the same way as gladiatorial combat.
these guys are legends, thank you for sharing
The most bespoke parts would be tool chain certification, which among other things, covers "if I have source A, then I can be sure resulting machine code does B, not anything else".

And that's something you'll get even if you're running MS-DOS on 286 in space ;-)
> Different systems produce different results. It tends to be the case that when you drastically alter the fundamental properties of a system, you won’t get the same results - because it isn’t the same system.

Yes, but you claim to know changing which set of variables, by which amount, produced what result, while you don't actually know that. Your epistemology is emotional rather than rational.

> and you fail to observe that all current implementations of that idea have never demonstrated a single instance of producing Google-like companies since the industrial revolution, your ideas are not going to be very robust.

Not that I think Google is a great company (it's a pretty lousy one, all things considered) but it is unique, and still you don't know precisely what combination of variables unique to the US produced this particular result.

> which is why they fired her.

That's fine, but you blamed them for being sort of victims in the first place.

> And the conditions that make Google better for them were not created exclusively by employees and especially not by employees who didn’t share the mission.

I never said that.

> It is only through the right balance of incentives that such a system can function at all.

Sure, but there can be more than one right balance, and you don't know all of them. You make the mistake of thinking that if the current situation is X and you think X is good, then any other balance Y is likely worse than X.
Pro: You don't need server infrastructure to customise a Shopify flow.

Con: You need coders knowledgeable in WASM.

However, I could imagine that an ecosystem of "plugins" could emerge, i.e. ready-made WASM apps that merchants could plug into their stores.

There might be more security issues though, if the developer of the WASM and the merchant using it aren't the same party. I think it will be interesting to see how this will play out.

Then again, it might be sufficient to to code something in an LLVM-supported language of choice, then compile it to WASM and just hook it into Shopify, without needing to understand the WASM code that was generated. Good luck troubleshooting or debugging this though...
Java being faster on nqueens shows an interesting result : GCs can actually make code "faster", by moving some work to another core.

It's possible this could still be done with the described approach, but it looks much more difficult.
> Or maybe the trick is to hire a supervisor as well. So first you hire someone to do the work and then you hire someone to supervise it.

That‘s traditionally what the gentry used to to do. They had a butler managing the drivers/grooms/groundskeepers and other outdoor staff and maybe valets (reporting to the male head of the household) and if they could afford it also a housekeeper to manage cooks/maids/cleaners (reporting to the lady of the house). Plus tutor/governess as direct reports.
I'm unfamiliar with the FAA so is there a particular set of circumstances that would give incentive to them being complicit in the cover up?

Do Boeing contribute funding to the FAA in a direct and discretionary way?

I can't comprehend how a federal body would aid a private company like this when the ramifications could be so severe (threat to life and to the FAA's public credibility).
Thank you, I added reference to the docs:

https://docs.ellx.app/#namespaces
don't even know how to react... but health is more important than any job. therefore, great job!
Viewing Your Websites on Other Devices in Real Time Through Local Host
This expresses the problem perfectly and echoes everything I've seen in the industry at least. Great comment.
Many thanks for posting that. It was a very interesting read.
> Wearers collect copious amounts of data, which is fed back to Facebook for analysis.
Wow. That is scary on so many levels.
> So we need to ask ourselves whether we’d really welcome such pervasive monitoring, why we should trust AR providers not to misuse the information they collect, or how they can earn our trust.
1. We shouldn't welcome it until we have full control of our consent for AR provider to acquire our personal information.
2. We shouldn't trust AR providers to not misuse the information they collect! They will definitely misuse it even if they're asked not to by legislators.
3. To earn our trust, they need to grant us full control of our personal data.
The person you're replying to doesn't say anything about "music from back in the day was better" though. They're talking about the "consumption" of music. And in a way I agree, I generally lean towards limitations being important. Humans aren't good when everything is given to them easily.
How America’s Oldest Gun Maker Went Bankrupt: A Financial Engineering Mystery (2019)
Cracking a game like it is 1990 with the Amiga Action Replay
I'd love to see how test driven development looks like for ML systems.

You write the test for your non-existent model, then write the model and try to train the model to 'pass' the test? Do you also train it on the test case or on other data only?
A while ago I made a demo of an “interactive readme” for a fuzzy string matching library called fuzzyset: http://glench.github.io/fuzzyset.js/ui/

Really cool that this author is thinking about ways to make that kind of stuff a reality. To me it’s exciting to imagine a future where programs automatically generate UIs that explain what they do with the best techniques from pedagogy, graphic design, video game mechanics, etc.