skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In Our Time does indeed sound very good - I'll have to check it out - thanks.

> And have you really never heard of the Today Programme or are you exaggerating for effect?

I've heard of it - never seen an episode so couldn't say what it was about (although the name probably gives it away). Traditionally I've not really watched much "broadcast" TV, even as a kid. I spent most my childhood in front of a computer...

> ...but you don't have to, for radio.

True, but does feel like free-loading a little?
Pascal is also a first name in France even though in the case of the programming language, it is named after Blaise Pascal last name.
Which politician would pass such a law? Only the one that has very tight control over the judges that execute it.
I forgot the other reason: to give a gift to the new party in power in hopes of stopping the anti-trust cases. The dems were nudging some of them, ill be interested to see if we get a magical 180 degree turn.
https://opensourcemed.com

It's a crudely built version of UpToDate from 2018 as it was on April 2018. Useful for 98% of the population still.

Edit: definitely works better on mobile, and the search needs to be fixed.. this isn't my website but a resource that I've been passed down/told about by medical students.
Who is 'us'? I'm speaking directly to you.

Seems like you're just interested in name calling. When people resort to name calling it usually means they've lost the argument.

But I'm sorry you're having a bad day.

I'll leave it that. Thank you and take care.
Whoa, I had literally forgotten all about this. Read it right when it first came out. Super creepy.

Are you familiar with VX modules, by any chance?
agree with the adaptability of change requests from clients, but i would say only insofar as the design issues you're mentioning are actually addressed as quickly as they are surfaced. Otherwise this type of building eventually grinds to a halt.

another commenter sort of hinted at this, but this type of process has a downside of prioritizing short term design decisions that lead to working code. It takes time and sometimes a lot of thought to think about the system and the problems deeply and ask yourself if you've created the right primitives.
>I think banning online advertising

So you want to limit speech in the name of protecting free speech?
Headspace Attracts 8M Leads per Year Through Content Clusters
On the other side of this point, I've used typescript and converted a major project to use it and it was fairly simple. The main thing you should start with for low hanging fruit is database queries. Make sure your database query functions are typed and it'll make the rest of your code much easier to write even if the rest isn't in typescript. Start getting types into the places where the data is coming from. The source of the data.
But that's the entire point -- fragments of space junk can be the sizes of pebbles you're talking about.

Cosmic dust, on the other hand, is just dust. It can be abrasive but satellites are designed to handle it, as is the ISS. It may have high velocity but the fact that its mass is miniscule means it can be shielded against.
I guess my question is really what the effect of such laws was? Obviously there has been general prosperity and peace between the Western European countries but this may have been due to other reasons.

There doesn’t seem to be much more resilience in the population to the kind rhetoric we’ve seen recently in America. Indeed, there seem to be many parallels. Maybe the laws helped but we see less difference now as Europe after the war started “further behind”?

It’s certainly true that holocaust denial is illegal in Germany. It isn’t, for example, illegal in the U.K. (there was a libel case lost by David Irving against someone who called him a Holocaust denier where he tried to prove he was a legitimate historian however), and there are surveys showing that some percentage of the population don’t really believe it (but maybe this is the fact that for even seemingly trivial survey questions, some proportion of people give the wrong answer). I suppose here I would just point out that Europe is a big place.
How would you go about storing notes from a book/course so that they fit in this system?

Would you break them into multiple notes? Group them together somehow? Have an "index" note with just hyperlinks to the rest?
Interestingly, "typical European Free Speech laws" are both more and less restricting than you would see in the US - there's more limits on harmful ideologies and violence but less restrictions on sex and nudity, for example.

Of course it's not just constitutions and laws - movie ratings are not de iure laws but work that way de facto - and EU limits other things, like advertisement of pharmaceuticals.

Comparing the different approaches needs finesse and not just "free US vs non-free Europe".
Anybody who wants to this with Linux: scrcpy
uses adb(turn on usb debug) und works like a charm
'"Oh, uh—hmmmm," she said. "I don't know if we can spare the budget here, to be honest. It's very fun...but I'm not sure if our practice can justify this cost."' - Susan (psychiatrist)

It just goes to show you how haphazard and lacking of scientific method the psychiatrist field is.

'"And that isn't worth something? Prescribing better treatments?"

"Hmmmm," she said, picking at her fingernails. "Not directly. Of course I always have the best interests of my patients in mind, but, you know, it's not like they'll pay more if I prescribe Lexapro instead of Zoloft. They won't come back more often or refer more friends. So I'd sorta just be, like, donating this money if I paid you for this thing, right?"' - Susan again

This is an absolutely disgusting response to me. They don't care because the costs of shitty treatment - medications that fuck a person up - are externalized, the practitioner/psychiatrist doesn't have to deal with whatever severe "side" effects the medications they'll experiment on a person with.
Much like Michael Jackson a complex genius leaves a complex legacy. I do appreciate his musical work, in most familiar with Let It Be for example. (Though I’m told McCartney was very upset with the Wall of Sound treatment)
This mischaracterizes my position. I'm not against pure mathematics research, but I am against claiming applications exist when they don't.
This is a case-study in how capitalism fails. It is not a system that maximizes efficiency. Here we have a product which materially improves peoples lives and health, which fails because no one is incentivized to pay for it. If we had a nationalized system it would be a no-brainer for the government to pick up the bill.

Capitalism sucks in general terms, but healthcare and capitalism is an awful, evil combination.
Amazing how cynical one can be.
Proof-of-work cryptocurrencies are super polluters and need to go.
The precomp step will speed up significantly and move to pkg install time in the upcoming 1.6 release. There's a beta out if you want to try
I don't know why, but I envisioned something out of a thriller where they are storing a body in a fridge.
One counterpoint: everyone knows that as the makers of these tools we have power over others. Somebody somewhere must have a plan to manipulate us. Personally I take whatever I read with a huge grain of salt and stick to time-tested principles with minor updates.
the absurdity of the question becomes clearer if you start thinking about the right tool for the job. if you need to invent facebook you don't start with reinventing the wheel but with applying software development. it's the right abstraction for the job. and no sane mind would claim that serving content to billion users a day is an easy task but in the end it's just software.
Incoming spam is unwelcome in general, and I would not assume that this people are trying to help me.
"Engineer" sounds like kind of a moving target. The only "real" engineers design...engines. So it's worth asking what the actual value is of "engineering."

In my mind, there are two: making stuff, and tolerances.

Making stuff is magic. Most people reading this can sit down at a computer and formalize an idea such that the computer can do it. Most people can't do this. It is valuable for the same reason the ability to design a car or escalator or rocketship is valuable.

Tolerances is all about providing certain guarantees about the stuff you make. I think most developers could hit those guarantees...if they were ever verbalized. What, you want me to decrease memory usage by 50%? Actually, I probably can do it. At the very least, I can point you some academic papers as to why it's impossible.

But nobody has ever asked me to do that, ever (except in interview questions). I suspect my experience is common among developers.

So, from a "making-stuff" perspective, yeah, we're engineers. From a "tolerances" perspective, most of us aren't, but wouldn't have much trouble becoming them. It's just that no one actually wants that.
TUF, N30:Lottie Files for vs Code – Integrate React with Custom Elements-AppyDev
Do you have a different link? The file is missing
there is a fair bit of detail compiled into the figures in this article, its good to have around for conference.
I wouldn't necessarily be as bearish on the one in Vietnam. The dynamics are very different. To wit, I have already purchased AirPods bearing Designed in California, Assembled in Vietnam markings a few months ago.
This is really fantastic reply and context. Thanks for posting this!

When you see research like this, assuming all things trend positive (big if of course) what is the timeframe one expects to see it make its way to mainstream application?
> Not having free elections makes it a dictatorship

There is a good sign that your free elections aren't when you have 99% percent approval rating on every election. A sharp drop in approval ratings once you no longer control the elections directly may also be indicative of problems with your implementation of democracy.
I think it's a good thought exercise to give perspective on the challenge of getting clients to hand over good specs for software. Putting something into a fridge is simple and familiar, and here we see it's still a struggle to define a quality spec.

A client may say, "all I want is a button, why does that take two weeks an $20k to add?", and the developer who knows all the ways that button breaks the system's assumptions about data and behavior may have trouble expressing that to the client. The frustrated developer may wonder why it's like pulling teeth to get the client stop changing requirements, but in the client's head everything seems simple (like the fridge) until they encounter a bizarre behavior they didn't consider but the application code had to.

This article provides a good starting point for a discussion between client and developer about why their process needs to be iterative, and why its important to make requirements decisions early while they're still cheap to update.
In their robots.txt, no crawl delays are given, someone seems to have overlooked that ?__a=2 works just as well as ?__a=1, and overall, whether they intended to or not, they appear to be saying they only want to allow certain bots. Perhaps try changing your user-agent string to match the ones in robots.txt.

Generally I do not use middleman sites like Imginn as I find I can perform for myself whatever "service", e.g., downloading resources from some other website, they are offering.
>Can a person with an engineering degree call themselves an engineer in Canada?

>No. Individuals with an engineering degree are known as engineering graduates, and a licensed engineer must take responsibility for their engineering work.

https://engineerscanada.ca/frequently-asked-questions
an international study that demonstrated that out of 24 mobile health (mHealth) apps, 19 shared user data with parent companies and service providers (third parties). They also showed that third parties shared user data with 216 fourth parties, including multinational technology companies, digital advertising companies, telecommunications corporations, and a consumer credit reporting agency.

But what data are they collecting? Things available via JavaScript, tracking pixels, phone characteristics - most definitely. But the raw data about their pregnancies that users enter into tracking apps? While that’s entirely possible, Citation Needed.
HN guidelines: “Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith.”.

I would presume that sentence is a quickly typed paraphrase. If you presume they are a competent salesperson, you can also presume that they say it less antagonistically in real life. Edit: Or perhaps they have found that antagonism is the most profitable solution for the business to turn around a “no” answer.
I'm not speculating anything. Maybe she's one of the best data scientists out there, I don't know. But the article expressed little interest in asking what should be an obvious question. Or why she may have been fired. Sure, it's unfair to speculate, but we should expect some fair journalism.
What makes central authorities and mainstream popular media inherently more suspicious?

I disagree that having worked on tech projects would help you spot propaganda. It is illogical to assume you're an expert on the stock market just because you know how to code. (There's a fallacy name for this one which is escaping me)
This should give pause to every companies using only the cloud, especially from single cloud company. It is single point of failure and it's under someone else's control.

Are they comfortable giving that kind of power to another company? Maybe a competitor?
Parler seems to be sliding back onto the Internet, but not onto mobile
I wonder if this is partly an extension of what you might call "confirmation culture", which could be described as a way of avoiding disgrace/humiliation.

For instance, when applying for a promotion, I've heard that in Japanese culture it is common to get pre-approval from various parties beforehand so that it is ensured before a formal/public application is made; this way, nobody is disgraced by being turned down. Not sure how true that is. But it could apply to the justice system in a similar way; having a high conviction rate means the justice system is effective, whereas trying someone and not convicting them might make the justice system look bad.
nuclear streisand effect
Software development is the process of writing a complete specification, including every single button and label. If you have a formalised complete design, you could write a compiler to do the work for you.
I would very strongly recommend you invest a day or two in trying Radio 4 - just put it on in the background all day, and see what you find.
> So I built something people wanted. Consumers wanted it, doctors wanted it, I wanted it. Where did I go wrong?

A lot of people in this thread are talking about the woes of ethical doctoring, the problems of healthcare, and so on. The reality here is that no one wanted it -- at least no one that he was selling to. I can relate. I've been there -- building something for months and then hearing crickets. The Y Combinator motto -- "Make something people want" -- is actually pretty tough to get right. In fact, it's the crux of any viable business. The reason why 9/10 businesses fail is largely in part due to the fact that they aren't making something people want.

Prospective customer interviews suck (especially for technical folks), but they are integral to building a product people want. Doing them before an MVP is crucial.
>How did a person with a history of inappropriate sexual conduct with subordinates get a management position in the first place?

If it happened it was a relationship between two consenting adults, so there is not really a reason for them to care.
You would not need to put up a lot of money if you just came to a market to sell some vegetables. For less central areas you could potentially sell stuff for free. Convenience store is a bad example as these are heavily standardised by now: we all expect a high diversity of products and thus the equipment needed to store it
There has been plenty of liberal, non-figurative burning down just in the last year. For example:

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2020/may/31/george-...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2020/05/28/minneapolis...

https://abcnews.go.com/Health/wireStory/police-declare-riot-...

https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/fire-chief-damage-kenosh...

Codifying a double-standard of when it's "reasonable to assume" that certain threats are figurative based on political orientation of the speaker is just the kind of thing that pours fuel on the fire.
> More likely, they would draw from contemporary symbols that already had positive sentiment associated with them.

Yes I think so. In fact, that's precisely what the nazis did with the swastika.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_use_of_the_swastika_in...
This seems like it needs to be a nonprofit database - perhaps funded by government grants or industry sponsors - rather than a for-profit growth-oriented startup.
Ask HN: Will Starlink Be More Than a Moderate Success?
Perhaps Starlink is going to be much better than existing satellite Internet, but how can it be better than existing broadband, at least in those places that have reasonable broadband?

My best hope for Starlink is that it will provide sufficient competition to the incumbents to do better and extend broadband more widely and maybe even reinvigorate fiber. I don't see how it can ultimately compete except on the margins.
You'll Figure It Out
If creating new accounts only when you are at the secure location where your backup key lives works for you that's great, but I suspect that most people in that situation would do one or more of the following:

(1) Store their backup key in a more convenient, but less secure location (likely their home), putting them at risk of losing both the primary and backup key to the same event.

(2) Enroll only their primary key when an account is created, putting them at risk of locking themself out if they forget to add the backup at some point.

(3) Only use security keys for the highest value accounts, which tend to be a small enough number that you have a chance of actually remembering to add the backup key every time you set one up.

Of these, #3 is the only one that doesn't pose what I consider an unacceptable risk of lockout to the average person, so that's what I recommend.
How we buy, why we work and how we live in 2021 and beyond
maybe, but it is everywhere
Ask HN: If every human in the world died, what would happen to the internet?
It really depends on your tonality when you say it. In either case, saying "Are you sure increasing your user retention isn't worth something to you?" is just going to be met with another "No, we don't need it" from the other end.

"So you have perfect user retention then?" is a better question because you know for a fact that they can't have 100% user retention and they know that as well so it forces further dialogue.
Clubhouse has a rather intriguing "hallway" that varies hugely depending on who you follow. I encountered a lot of similarly low value rooms for a while but once I rounded out my followings more, the value shot up and I get much better rooms recommended now. This seems to be a common experience.

One thing to avoid is following all of the default suggested people. This really messed up my feed. Once I cleaned it up, happier times followed.
A common mistake in applied computer vision is to use a classical method (e.g. distanced-based watershed) to buoy your training set. You’ll end up with a computationally expensive method (e.g. a region-based convolutional neural network) that’s a poor replication of the classical method. The major advantage of learning-based methods is to go _beyond_ classical performance and make inferences comparable to the manually annotated image. There’s no shortcut.
I thought I read this here before: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21947551

I still feel the same about it[1]:

> Don't shut down the website. Keep it running and make the data available in read only mode and add a donation button (alternative to ads). It should cost $5 a month to host on linode or digitalocean. Don't let the money you spent go down the drain.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21951604
Looking at the roadmap, I have a feeling that their release of "Shuffle Marketplace" is their secret sauce. By allowing others to sell Shuffle components and them taking a cut out of each purchase, they can have a steady flow of cash into the future, as even if you purchase a lifetime sub, you can continue to spend money on their platform.

It is quite a good idea but it makes me reluctant to purchase the lifetime sub. I think I'll wait until the marketplace releases and see their pricing model on that.
Should we ban hyperbolic exaggerations? phrasing things in way that makes it seem like its a Biblical battle between good and evil, should be allowed in my opinion. I think its questionable how many literally belief in those things. But exaggerating things has been part of story telling forever.

Its also not that off to call someone a witch, that literally brags about staying youthful by applying a cream made from baby foreskins.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BY2aOHQlAco

And referencing Epstein island, which many elites did go to, is not really a conspiracy theory anymore. Its a documented fact.
Aerospace engineer who dabbles in code here: I've seen a lot of these articles and they always miss what I feel is the central tenet of engineering, which is the ethical piece.

I've said it before on HN and I'll say it again: Engineering is a social process, not a technical one.

It's a social process because society has certain expectations of the people who design bridges and skyscrapers and cars and toaster ovens. By certifying a design you as the engineer are making a representation to society, not just that you are trained but also that you have conducted yourself in an ethical manner. You are making a representation that, for example, you did not cut corners just to save your employer money, or that you sought fair compensation for your work (so that you are properly motivated to carry out your due diligence), or that you didn't opt to use $fancy_new_but_not_proven product merely because the manufacturer took you out to the strip club.

Conversely, when engineers screw up then society rightfully demands that there be consequences whether punitive or remedial. This is why engineering isn't just a job but a Profession, that is to say Engineering as a field is self-governing. Professional Engineers are accountable to their fraternal orders (regulatory bodies) who are themselves accountable to society.

Given limitless time and money, anyone can design a bridge that will stay up. But only a properly trained engineer can design a bridge that will just stay up, and therein lies the difference between a software engineer designing and maybe implementing code that will fly on the Space Shuttle versus me slapping together some javascript for my personal website. The latter is not engineering just because I'm an engineer.
Well, I suppose back then Google’s and Amazon’s risk tolerance was different. What would be an impact of bit flip in repeatable crawling and search results vs product listing and atomic financial transactions?
Uh no. He had a problem - how to choose a medicine - and built a product to solve that problem. The issue was that solving the problem isn't something people wish to pay for, not that the problem doesn't exist.
Photosynthetic bacteria existed long before plants, which are eukaryotes.