skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We don't really have a means of measuring whether something 'feels' in any meaningful sense of the word other than by judging from its reactions to stimuli.

Hell, I can't even tell that you 'feel' anything. I only know that I 'feel' because I am able to subjectively experience it. I make the assumption that you feel because you appear to be very much like me in all other respects, however there is no objective measurement that can prove or disprove that assumption. Historically, not every culture even gave all human beings the benefit of the doubt on that, let alone animals (which contemporary western cultures at least often agree do 'feel').

Where you draw the line is seemingly arbitrary. Some might say that means there isn't one, that either we're all P-zombies (or at least everyone who isn't me is), or we live in a panpsychic universe. Of course, the universe has often resisted such black and white categorizations.

Consider this then: why do we care? I submit that the only reason we care whether or not something 'feels' is so we can exploit it without guilt, so we can shield our empathy from the consequences of our actions. I feel it is important to keep this in mind when making decisions which hinge on questions like whether or not something can truly 'feel'.
I believe it's the origin of Comic Sans
> app is not Code-Signed yet, code signing is pricy

I've used K Software before (who resell Comodo certs for cheaper), but it looks like they are around $90/year now; I'm sure they were a good bit cheaper when I last renewed 2-3 years back :-/

Be prepared for a shitty and lengthy verification experience though, including having to put details on multiple online telephone directories of their choosing (wtf that is meant to prove, I don't know!), and possibly having to get your identity notarised by a solicitor/lawyer.

I really wish there was some kind of "Let's Encrypt for code Signing", but because of the verification requirements it's hard to see it happening. I suppose it might be technically possible to do for a selected set of countries if the right gov APIs existed.
I think the concern is that despite increased activity in space, most countries have slowed down the amount of dangerous debris being created.

Meanwhile, India created about as much space junk in a day as the US creates in 1-2 years. That's despite claiming that the the test was in an orbit that wouldn't leave any longterm debris.
> "Passive magnetic attitude stabilization was performed by carrying two bar magnets to align with the Earth's magnetic field in order to provide a favorable antenna footprint."

Wow! I heard of this technique recently but I didn't realize it had already been deployed so long ago.
If you think about it, you just weren’t actually charged for what you used.

If what you did were reflective of the doctor’s hourly rate, that doctor would be making around $150,000 usd/year.

And that’s ignoring the costs of every other aspect of the overhead.

The cost is being born some other way.
I love you and thank you for coming to my defense but please do not link vaccine distrust with my views. I trust the data and the science behind the vaccines and believe we need to be getting them distributed as soon as possible
Nice. I was considering the same (did POC w/ just screen no input a couple of years ago[0] tho may not work since I used gunjs). One thing I was considering instead of Electron is a systray daemon that send input to a chrome extension via native window messaging.

0 - https://github.com/cretz/myscreen.live
The headline calls her a data scientist because that was her job title. You can have an opinion about the term but there are many people who have that job title, or that term in their degree, or generally work in that subfield of our industry so it's hardly NPR's fault for using the term too.
The other factor is that hospitals have wised up over the years and started merging, which turns them into local monopolies and makes insurance companies price-takers.
> And that is an example of how political correctness is an arms race.

Is it so hard to be nice?
This is a tweet thread covering the risks of a tech startup that has raised money in the effort to disrupt rape kits, most specifically having previously called itself MeToo Kits and rebranding to Leda Health. The tweet thread explains that the DIY rape kits are likely doing more harm than good, partially because these rape kits don't have the documentation of who owned the kid when and where that a rape kit at a hospital would have and therefore may not be admissible in court.
The simplest formula from the OEIS page seems to be

a(4n)=4n,

a(4n+1)=1,

a(4n+2)=4n+3,

a(4n+3)=0.

Once you have the formula in front of you, it’s easy to prove it by induction. A branchless implementation of this function with no multiplies or divides:

f(x)=(x^(x&1-1))+(((x+1)&2)>>1)
> probably near some ivy league schools or something.

I understand that feeling.

It took me a long time to discover that “intellectual” intelligence is only one small part of being smart. I now have friends that on first appearance (poorly educated, drifters, bimbos, pub drunks etcetera) look stupid but who have genius level skills in areas I am a complete moron (often subconscious or intuitive skills.)

I think it was Dunning-Kruger that clued me in - my eyes were open to looking for things in all people that I was unaware of.

Four examples where you should be able to name a person with a trait, and where you have shared enough time with them to learn from them:

* a room reader - they walk into a room and grok all the people within seconds.

* a next-level fashion dresser - it takes real intelligence and intuitiveness, and is an area many intelligent people are dismissive of. I’m not saying you should learn to dress well.

* a successful sociopath - this one is hard to find because they blend in. Worth knowing so you can recognise them, and protect yourself and others from their negative qualities.

* an intuitive - someone who just seems to solve social puzzles and see things that are “obvious” when they mention it. Humbling. They must be correct (many people say they are intuitive, but are instead Dunning-Kruger victims).

The trick is to start encouraging yourself to be fascinated by how others tick. A side-effect is that most people don’t get much attention, so when you have a deep interest in someone, they respond with friendship and caring.

Where are you unskilled and unaware of it?
Indeed. Thanks for advice. I will implement it. I will first work on a throtting system will and a way to detect programmed clicks. This should already drastically reduce spam.
Admissibility in court feels like the barest minimum of requirements here, to say nothing of the other services like counceling the linked thread discusses.
Personal opinion (as a health economist) is that this is a nice policy, but probably not going to do that much.

You as a consumer now have the ability to search, but do you have an incentive to do so? Do the savings come to you?

Some of it, perhaps. But it's likely not that much and only under some circumstances.

E.g., if you are just faced w/ a copay on a visit, your copay is going to be the same at two facilities.

Coinsurance is different - there you may realize some savings. IF you are below your deductible for the year that is also different. You may realize savings and care.

But there are a decent number of patients who for most of their visits will not see much incentive to search.

Also... it is possible for these releases to help hospitals coordinate on prices in a way which they currently do not. (Tacit collusion, not explicit, back-room, definitely-illegal collusion.)

Hospital A now knows exactly what Hospital B gets from Aetna, so Hospital A may realize it can hold out for more w/ Aetna b/c Aetna is willing to pay their competitor more for the same procedure.

Both of these questions are above all empirical questions and one to which we do not yet know the answer. I would be wary of confident predictions.
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> So you wave aside my actual argument, about norms, then proceed to refute a straw man?

He eviscerated your actual argument that Bangladeshi marriage norms are something to aspire, considering how they treat 60% of their under age 18 girls (but 4% of their boys).
That's still a massive selling point. In python, getting speed can be weird and counterintuitive. In C, a straightforward algorithm can be blazing fast. For example, finding the length of the longest word in a string, you can just iterate through the string keeping track of a few indices. In cases like that, where the obvious simple C function is incredibly faster than the same python, where does Julia fit in? Would that kind of naively written function be closer to C or Python?
Kids who can potentially become Steve Jobs are unfairly ending up in jail?
At home kits have been admitted to courts in California. The tweets claiming these kits are inadmissible is false.

https://www.refinery29.com/en-us/2020/04/9727395/rape-kit-at...

A judge determines what's admissible in a court of law. That's why your texts, social media posts, etc are all admissable.

The companies in this space are not trying to fool anyone into not going into the hospital. They are trying to help serve the 80%+ of survivors that never go to the official system.
How I Build Web Apps As A Freelancer
Confirmed, on every launch. I think it might be hitting some other undesirables, but FB was enough for me to close the Pi-Hole interface and delete the app. Disappointing, but Apple Maps doesn't suck enough for me to get terribly upset, except for one less acceptable alternative existing.
Right. If you increase the surface area or add more oxidizer, iron quite readily burns, see thermic lances, ferrocerium, metal powder explosions etc. But that is different than rusting.
Deskreen can run without access to world wide web with its own local signaling server.

That should be the standard setup. Allowing any access to your screen via a remote server is a huge security hole.
> subordinate-to-revenue-generation IT departments

If your company is large enough to have an IT Department, even if it's just one person with a sufficient amount of clue, they should know how to set up FDE with a recovery key manually stored in a secure location (even printed on a piece of paper locked in a safe of the CEO, or something).

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/security/informatio...
I have heard so many different stories about this matter. Wouldn’t surprise me if plenty of others have too.
That BMJ article he linked is relatively worrying, so much so that I may actually read the FDA reports for the Pfizer vaccine.
Wow, looks like free speech went here to die!

Police are raiding her house, pointing guns at her kids, continuing to come back with technically illiterate and nonsensical reasons to arrest her, because she's said something that someone in politics did not like. Why is this discussion even about covid? This is not an epidemic discussion, this is a political liberties discussion.
Yes I did. US has 3 times more murder then average EU. That is not the same as 6 times more. And some of surplus is one person killing more people, so you then have one person being in prison instead of multiple.

And murder clearance rates are low anyway, so that on itself can't be reason for disparity.

Switzerland has super low murders.
She might not have had the qualifications to make the judgement about what data was correct. She was defying the team of epidemiologists. She had a degree in geography and communications. She might have been over-reaching here. She already walked back a number of her commments.
I think that's a fair description of pretty much every webapp :D

Most of them are doing nothing more than copying data from the database into an http stream.
My knowledge of US justice systems is mostly from films... are judges in the US elected? I seem to remember prosecutors are at least.

I saw a terrifying series about people confessing to crimes they did not commit, and the struggle to reverse their sentences. One person, proven by DNA to be innocent, would still not have their charges dropped. The prosecutor said his community believed the accused guilty so he cannot go against them.
This! How likely would collisions be on a sphere the size of the earth? How do the probabilities change from low earth orbit to higher orbits?
Except solving linear functions has a clear role in any field that makes use of linear algebra. Interviews that require memorizing volumes of pointless trivia unrelated to the work at hand are completely different.
Here's some additional reporting on this:

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2020/04/diy-remote-rape...
Right no shit. What I'm arguing is that people take the path of least resistance and it would have been far easier to announce a policy change than cook the books. I am saying that if opening up was the only reason, I do not believe that's the path they would take. Of course I'm just basing this off of my own feels.
As someone else noted, I am taking a swing at Go's lack of generics.

More to the point, I am criticizing the reason for that. Designing a simple language is fine. I like simple languages a lot. Go was designed not because simple languages are good for some jobs but because Google decided their engineers aren't up to using more powerful tools.

I don't know Go. I've only written about 200 lines of it. I don't pretend to know whether or not it's any good. What I do know is that the reasoning behind it is bizarre to me.
Once again, chip production becomes a strategic problem...
You can still have your password reset with an encrypted disk, if you're using some networked active directory thing to manage access, no?
How does it "belittle activists" to make a comparison?
Would the general public of other developed nations be happier if their healthcare systems were more like the US's?
Ikea for the most part...

The dimmable ones where $18 Osram ones though, and they died first of all.

edit: more specifically, a lot of this one:
https://www.ikea.com/se/sv/p/ledare-led-ljuskaella-gu10-600-...
I think I'm the only one here who liked this article.

While there are some good, albeit somewhat pedantic, points raised in the comments. I think we may be missing the forest for the trees.

There is a sort of sophomoric myopia that exists in silicon valley and maybe it's not technology per se that is the problem, but in fact the incentives created around the tech community. I think the problem is more accurately described as the combination of access to large amounts of capital and low cost mass communication/experimentation technologies (i.e. the internet). This has a created a culture that thinks they can solve any problem with one of the two.

But I think what's even worse is that the solutionists subconsciously have an unspoken prerequisite to "solving" a problem, which is "It needs to be wildly profitable". And it's that incentive that lead to the myopia and pervert the "solutions" they create.

Instacart and Uber are great examples. Did they actually solve a problem? For whom did they solve it for? For whom did they not solve it for? Did they make certain things worse than they were before? You probably have your own answers to those questions.
Distrusting Google and Facebook while fully trusting Apple is a strange worldview.

What makes one so confident Apple won't behave the same way now or in the future?
I would create a sovereign third generation Proof of Stake blockchain with Cosmos.network technology (written in Golang)
Well for one, she’s a woman.

This feels like a slightly more polite version of gamergate.

I can imagine the Internet SQW (Status-Quo Warrior) posts now: “actually it’s about ethics in epidemiology”.
Python also allows Greek letters.

There are no Greek letters forced upon you, they aren't even used in Base, and barely if at all, in the stdlibs.

It is a feature for you to use, if you want. (And they dramatically improve code readability in heavily mathematical code.)
Haha, he's kind of right - there's two assumptions there. Saying grandparents are old and saying grandparents aren't technically inclined.
Do not draw conclusions from this specific case because Kaiser in particular is very, very different.

You may be able to find similarly insane examples at other hospitals, but Kaiser is vertically integrated: generally Kaiser doctors send Kaiser-insured patients to Kaiser hospitals.

I am not sure how they reach their measure of a "price" here but it is entirely possible it's unusual and or different.

Again you can probably find something similar at non-Kaiser hospitals (Just for fun... check the Sutter system in NorCal - it's extremely expensive), but Kaiser is not the reason you should think this is insane.
Maybe a case for a community colocation cloud where I a consumer can buy a system and colocate it in a large data center with great internal networking. Edit: typo
The Venn diagram of terrorists and domestic abusers is a circle, or near enough as makes no difference.
Yeah, but he doesn't need to. He can leave that to the courts.
Apple's evil is based around getting the middle, upper-middle and aspirational class to cough up more, whereas Google is far greater threat to freedom and happiness for all. I'd say cynicism is warranted but it is still a step in the right direction.
Is this a new-Reddit skin for HN?
This might be helpful: https://benlauwens.github.io/ThinkJulia.jl/latest/book.html
Covid-19: in the United States, the vaccination campaign is accelerating
As sibling posts have pointed out, you can do all of those things:

1. You can trivially write a `getproperty` method for a tuple. It is considered to be type piracy and thus runs the risk of colliding with someone else's definition, but the language absolutely lets you do it.

2. You can broadcast over the fields of a `NamedTuple` by defining appropriate methods. Again, it's type piracy, so take that into consideration, but the language lets you do this easily as well.

3. The https://github.com/JuliaArrays/PaddedViews.jl package implements exactly what you're saying Julia won't let you do.

If anything, Julia errs on the side of allowing you to do too many things! There are very few things the language really won't let you do.
Not religious, but a friend of mine was in an award winning state orphanage in the 1930s. (I haven't heard,but i suppose he is dead now) They would beat kids with a wire chineny brush if they slept with their heads in the pillow, which is how they won those awards for how neat the beds were.

There isn't a good answer to the problem of kids when the parents don't care for them.
I don't really know how the "enterprise" solutions work, but I imagine they get the disk decryption key from AD or something, and thus the IT support team can "reset" disk encryption.

There are a variety of threat models, and whether or not this is acceptable depends on the worry that you have. If you are concerned that the IT department is going to decrypt executives' laptops and leak confidential information, then this isn't a good model. But if you're merely concerned that someone leaves their laptop in an airport, it's fine -- whoever picks that laptop up and resells it won't hack your directory system and be able to decrypt it.

A long memorized passphrase that only one person knows is the best possible way to prevent unauthorized access, but that isn't necessarily the problem that you're trying to solve with disk encryption.
With my ad and tracking blocking, I get that all the time.

Try refreshing the page when you see that message.
Try being an Ahmedi in Bangladesh and get back to me.
On the contrary - Sweden is supposed to have a great power system...!
When a single "cake baker" holds nearly half of the world's market, as monopolies like AWS do, and routinely colludes with their "competitors" to not serve anyone they dislike or that starts a competing service, absolutely.
Ddcutil: Linux program for managing monitor settings
From a personal conversation with an insurance company board member, I’ve been told this isn’t a factor as most aren’t running anywhere close to that line. The bigger factor in his eyes is healthcare providers building local monopolies. I don’t know how true that is, but I wanted to share.
Blog post that started the project.
Worth reading.
https://andygrove.io/2019/07/announcing-ballista/
Yes! I thought the same thing. Such a great film.
I think it's telling on the state of rust in 2021 that this project can't compile fully for the latest rust versions. Maintaining these types of frameworks in the early days is an intensive and often thankless job, having your language leave you behind is a near guaranteed way to kill off your project, not too mention introduce the obvious "I tried using library X and hit compilation issue Y type issues".

I'm curious to see how this evolves as there are a number of motivated folks working on similar efforts such as Vega. I for one would welcome a mature rust based distributed compute platform.
We do not know the conditions, we know the conditions Boeing said, and we know that Boeing said it's rare. The data from flights before grounding could answer this question, but it's nowhere to be found in the report. It's not even discussed.
Are you referring to some other thread? None of the other comments on this article are about system security or passwords.
Hi Lyndon. Yes, but that's exactly what I meant! I think my phrasing was off. For a company of that size, I've seen very good activity promoting the julia brand, both officially and through word-of-mouth networks. (your own Cambridge meetups notwithstanding). Therefore, I think much of the hype is at least partly that, rather than just the technical merits of the language (which I agree it has plenty). I don't remember this kind of 'buzz' before v1. Back then it was just people who saw promise in its features. Now people seem to be promoting it quite actively.

I've seen a shift in the winds, that's all I'm saying. I wasn't mean to come off so negative. (certainly not as negative as Chris took it!)
Why the downvotes!?

It's obviously true that being banned from contributing to an important project can be saddening and in rare occasions harm your career, but it happens very rarely.

OTOH losing your job can be way more serious consequences and happens way more often, even without any blame on the employee (e.g. a company shutdown)

And on top of that, a project BDFL cannot order inactive contributors to do some work under threat of banning them.
Essentially our response to [every issue] has devolved into people shouting memes at one another...

That is the unfortunate state of public "debate" in the US today. Questions never get settled, and as a result, very little gets done.
This is with a cop parked outside and a nurse over a zoom call. These kits are being used as a last resort in the middle of a pandemic. Chain of custody looks to be a problem and it is mentioned in the article.
Fair enough, but you don't think we all come to HN with agendas?
> "Because Julia’s compiler is different from the interpreters used for languages like Python or R, you may find that Julia’s performance is unintuitive at first. If you find that something is slow, we highly recommend reading through the Performance Tips section before trying anything else. Once you understand how Julia works, it’s easy to write code that’s nearly as fast as C."

If Julia needs a "Performance Tips" section to produce fast code, I might as well use Python.

The "speed" from Julia comes from LLVM, but there is nothing stopping Python to use LLVM as well where it _makes sense_ (which is the case with XLA in TensorFlow, for example).

I see no plus value in learning Julia over existing tools, there is nothing revolutionary or nothing that could alleviate future risks.
A signaling server does not provide access to your screen. The clients can verify that they are connected to each other without MITM.
It’s more complex than simple sensor, it’s effectively counting numbers of impacts before it responds. https://www.newscientist.com/article/2074582-venus-flytrap-c...