skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
On the podcast Invisibilia I heard a fascinating story about a woman who could smell people who would develop Parkinson’s, well before other diagnostic tests. Here’s an article about her: https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2020/03/23/8202745...
>So for all the reasons above when any physician tries to suggest that a physician is the only “real doctor” you can roll your eyes and suggest they crack open a history book and then let them go back to stroking their own ego.

I think you are misunderstanding what their issue is. They aren't mad about people calling themselves 'doctors' in general society, but in a medical setting. You have nurses, PAs, chiropractors, naturopaths all calling themselves a 'doctor' in a medical setting, all trying to associate themselves with the rigor and expertise an MD would grant.

As to the origin of the title in a medical setting, you may be right, but it has been used that way for a long time now. Being pedantic about its usage isn't helpful when there are lots of bad actors trying to confuse people by referring to its commonly understood meaning.
At the time we did that poll we had ~1000 followers on Twitter, so that's 15% of our audience, which is pretty good for an online poll.

But more important than that, we receive ~200 issues per month on Github (which makes us one of the projects in the PyData stack with higher values on this metric) and I don't remember a single one since we rolled out this feature that argued strongly to remove it. So either people dismiss our suggestion, or try it and decide if they like or not.
Nah, handling mouse events would be better.
Basically, its using the Agora SDK for real-time audio. As long as you have a valid token, you can do whatever with the API. Including going into any room with the SDK. [0]

This is also where the bot spam starts. Phone number verification is also terrible. This is not worthy of $1B in valuation with 2 million users.

Don't believe the hype (From the same VCs).

[0] https://www.agora.io/en/
Freedom from the demands of religion tends to only really evolve in the context of freedom of religion, at the edges that form where people are practicing different religions that have conflicting access needs.

It’s similar to how accessibility measures get implemented: you need a vocal group that’s disparately affected, and who needs the change in order to function properly, before anyone will bother to change how they do things. You need a “lobby.”

Religious freedom is an accessibility need where “functioning properly” means “being able to adhere to the tenets of their own religious beliefs.” So the friction responsible for change only comes up where you have a “lobby” of people of another religion, where that other religion has a conflicting requirement.
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I tend to agree - "Scrum" often means some formalized process that goes through the motions of Agile, but misses at least half of the principles behind it. So far, every single Scrum team I've joined ends up falling back to "Someone said this in a class/book/training session, so it must be the right answer, so we'll do it." Not that the books or classes are wrong... but you are supposed to customize the processes to the needs of your team, not follow a rigid script. Scrum is a tool, not a goal.
Herding cats is always my go-to metaphor for software projects.
Somehow I read this and think it’s more about hierarchy of power rather than a free and open bestowal.

By becoming a municipality or locality, the state Supreme Court has greater jurisdiction over the company and on top of that becomes common law land - essentially short circuiting the Section 230 debate.
Toilet water is a better name for Java indeed
Yes, and the same with the Robocop story, with OCP building Delta City, complete with enforcement Droids.
It's a good ruling, but framing it as good news masks the fact that the law is only necessary because intolerance and religious coercion is growing at the social and local level. It was passed in direct response to a videotaped incident.
I love this essay so much. It was the inspiration for my Dogsheep project - https://simonwillison.net/2020/Nov/14/personal-data-warehous... - which I called "Dogsheep" because I'm imitating Wolfram but it's not nearly as impressive.
There are "brain areas"(local brain chunks specialized in something) and "brain networks"(non-local connections like the default network).
NNs seem be focusing in modeling specific "brain areas"(static capabilities) but brain is highly modular, 'neuroplastic' piece of machinery that is dynamic and evolving with brain networks being central to its 'learned capabilities'.
so i'd have to say inter-area communications are more important aspect that is being neglected as the 'brain networks' are more complex to probe vs static brain areas.
https://www.pennmedicine.org/news/news-releases/2020/februar...
Only if there was a way for companies to pay employees with equity or options...
I'm curious about this (since I don't want to hurt my cat). Wouldn't he show pain or have a bleeding tongue?
Obviously it has been seized. They put it in the /police/property/seized dir and therefore it is the government's!
Whereas the VPN provider might do something with your data, your ISP most definitely does.
Would it be possible for all the missing matter to be just unseen baryonic matter? How are we sure that most of this is exotic dark matter?
I know for a fact that I've watched this before but still I just had to rewatch it.
I wonder how different would this be from early 1900 housing provided to workers by businesses, such as Ford Motor Company?

It seems to me that even greater dependency on their employer is not what a freedom loving people would want.
> Righty tighty, lefty loosey, right?

This phrase always irked me, because when you're rotating something, it's not moving either left or right. The top of it moves right, the bottom moves left. Is it tightening or loosening?

Further, the only time a phrase might be needed to work out which way to tighten something is when it's unusually-positioned, for example upside down or facing away from you, and in those cases "righty tighty, lefty loosey" gives exactly the wrong answer (to the extent that it gives an answer at all, since "clockwise" and "right" are not the same thing).

I prefer the phrase "clockwise moves the thing you're turning away from you, anti-clockwise moves it towards you", which I'm hoping will catch on.
This is good news. Indonesia has been on a road to become quite intolerant of other religions over the past years with some very tragic outcomes like lynchings. I have little hope that this is a sign of that process slowing down or halting or even reversing, but a win is a win I guess.
>I guess I'm reluctant to eat acidic stuff out of plastic.

It might help to realize that plastics are extremely resistant to acids. Hazardous Industrial acid products, far stronger than anything a consumer can purchase, are stored in Polypropylene barrels. Generally speaking plastics are considerably more resistant to inorganic chemicals than even specially formulated metal alloys.[1](link even lists the resistant data for tomato juice :))
Additionally, metal used for canning is usually(always?) lined with plastic[2] to keep metals from leaching. Ironically canned foods with bpa liners are one of the biggest vectors of BPA intake we know of.[3]

[1]https://www.usplastic.com/catalog/files/charts/LG%20CC.pdf
[2]https://www.ewg.org/research/bpa-canned-food
[3]https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S00139...
Now it's just a beta version so there is no subtitles feature at all. But yeah I'm gonna use an existing library which can handle not only eng.
> just because a negative emergent behavior manifested doesn't mean any one person had to have taken an action rising to the level of criminal culpability.

If that is true (and I think it is) I would argue the law is wrong. It should absolutely be the case that senior executives have criminal liability for criminal behaviours that emerge under their stewardship whether or not they personally contributed to them. Either they knew about it in which case they're complicit or they didn't in which case they're negligent. The risk of criminal liability is also the only possible justification for the high current level of CEO pay relative to average salaries at most big name companies.
Target and Meijer are not uncommon supercharger locations for Tesla. Works well on road trips.
I can try to explain it in a simplified fashion:
When provisioning entities (EC2 instances for example) you go through certain settings (for this example I am talking about a manual provisioning through the UI, not IaC, CLI etc) and one of the things you can do is give EC2 instance a tag. There are a number of reasons to do tagging, to name a few: To make it easier to find a particular instance, cost optimisation, see who owns it.
After this you write a policy that says what user/entity can do. This policy can take advantage of the tag, to say: "Only user, who has a tag XYZ can stop this EC2 instance that has tag XYZ" Let me know if that does not make sense and I can go a level simpler
It's interesting to see this exchange, though, because it's high-trust: I would bet the professor's initial letter was courteously written, and asked if there were other factors besides purely surface area to volume. The responder wrote a clear technical letter without any marketing flim-flam. We are in a golden age of communication in some sense, with blogs and technical online communities. But I could hardly imagine getting a letter from a corporation of this quality.
Nowadays its probably best to set up your own VPN server for that. Back when I lived there, most VPNs got occationally blocked, then they would get new IPs and work fine again. But from what I heard, it got way worse since Winnie the Pooh took over.
Yes, that's correct, that's actually the obvious way to write it. I think the logic behind putting it in the index was to be able to check the transaction timestamp without the extra indirection and cache miss, and to have that information there if the data is on disk, and there is no record loaded in memory. Not having the indirection was a big deal for the cache eviction algorithm which sampled many records and then evicted the coldest %, weighted for frequency of access and size.

There are other ways of doing that though, I'm not sure the trade off was the best one in the end.
Using R to Create Generative Art
I have been removing all my paid Google services one by one. it's a long process but so far I have managed my email, my drive and cloud, my streaming video service, and my webhosts and got repos.

everything is self hosted and runs better than Google half the time. I have a map plugin to use openstreet maps instead of Google maps, and I have everything running in a plug n play form factor. just plug into internet - wait 10 minutes for DNS to propagate - boom.
I only got around to watching all the Bill and Ted movies last month, and found this explanation to make more sense:
https://www.reddit.com/r/explainlikeimfive/comments/397ukr/e...

(tl;dr it's a reference to a watch ad.)
For me, Nordvpn was much much slower than Expressvpn, and with this, its a no-brainer
This reads like Hollywood. US inteligenc
Time to get a new ISP? :)
> I do choose rg/fd/fzf over python-equivalents all the time but I acknowledge that I have to manually keep track of installing/updating these programs.

No you don't. I'm not sure why you're spreading misinformation. And there is no viable Python equivalent to ripgrep anyway.
I suppose Geounblocking is a big feature - I use PIA to watch in-market MLB games.
A copy of the paper for anyone who can't read the journal site: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2101.06048.pdf

On reading it, one thing I'm a little stylistically critical of (and this is minor):

They go through all the principles, methodology, findings -- distances, dimensions, (0.1 pc at 4 pc distance), velocity, properties, etc. etc. of this thing.

But I guess in keeping with the tradition of hiding the headline worthy thing that the BBC would want to write about, not once did they just outright clearly say "we believe this is a filament of dark gas in our own galaxy causing this"!

The terms "galaxy" and "interstellar" appear about 4 times total, and only incidentally to describe the history or context. They never simply clarify in plain language that:

-- This is a piece of gas inside our galaxy (versus outside)

-- It's big, and long, floating around between us and other stuff

Maybe writing for an academic audience, you assume everyone understands the obvious and need to make it sound very detailed, but they could sure have done a better job of making it not just sound like a technical addendum paper. Maybe after months of staring at the details, they got the enthusiasm for making a clear simple statement beaten out of them! But there are good examples of paper writing in astronomy that read simply and clearly. Not everything has to sound technical and swamped by the details to be credible.

I might've called it "First detection of a dark matter filamentary cloud in our Galaxy through pulsar scintillation" or something like that.
Seems like you don’t care about religious freedom Pakistan at all.

This is just about you wanting to shame Apple.
I admit that I use it mainly because of all the nice code checking. I've been programming for 40 years, mostly "scientific," but have never made effective use of an IDE. So this is a new experience for me. With the guidance of a couple of colleagues, I'm bring myself up to date on writing quality code.
1. Home made food can be home grown food and you can test your own soil. I would think the toxic levels would be higher in a factory farm setting vs a small farm.

2. No and levels may be lower now compared to years ago when we had more heavy industry.

3. It's a hit piece and shouldn't be taken at face value.
Wow so just yesterday I was trying to figure out more restricted policy set for an instance someone else created. This is great!!
Please tell me you correct them in the code reviews?

Everytime someone uses %args inappropriately a baby seal dies.
Discussed yesterday, different article: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26035663
"his achievments are pretty underwhelming" - I don't feel that at all. Sure, his self-promotion can make it easy to be skeptical. But he has built SO MUCH stuff in his career.

Wolfram Alpha, Wolfram Language and Mathematica are incredible achievements.

As an open source focused person I tend to avoid them in favour of OS alternatives (not that the open source world has anything even remotely comparable to Wolfram Alpha) but I can't deny that they are astonishingly powerful products.
I imagine that if he tries to spend it, that would be considered theft
I would strongly disagree for the following reasons:
You can and should differentiate VPN providers. Ways to differentiate them: Have they shared logs in the past, where companies are headquartered, reputation.
???

Apple absolutely takes 30% of Enterprise services, depending on how they are paid for, and as they gain more power, they will absolutely lever that power into other sectors.

"Apple is demanding 30% commission from Airbnb and ClassPass. That's because the pair have shifted to selling virtual, online classes during the pandemic. It has threatened to remove Airbnb from the App Store if it doesn't comply." [1]

How risky is it now to create a startup, used by anyone in a situation of 'individual buyers' that involves any kind of service?

Apple is threatening to take 30% of most of the US services economy.

If it 'happens on an iPhone' - they want 30%.

For small companies, it's 15% - but the difference is irrelevant because they are 'price setters' in a monopoly setting, and those prices cause consumer harm.

You cannot currently upgrade Spotify or Netflix using an iPhone - that is a fairly radically obvious example of Apple stupidity/consumer harm.

And finally the 15%/30% charge are material because they drive that consumer harm - were there no such charge, you'd be able to a range of other services.

" you didn’t provide a counterfactual, which is exactly my point." - yes, I did. A 30/15% tax causes material harm. The 15% is evidence of price setting. You can download apps for 0% all over the Android universe.

[1] https://www.imore.com/apple-threatens-remove-airbnb-app-stor...
Not as much time as I'd like. Mostly been playing games so far (I just scored two vintage Apple II joysticks!). But one of my upcoming projects will be experimenting with its serial card. I have a vision of being able to "remote in" to the Apple II from my laptop. Then I'm thinking it will be easier to actually write code for it, since I'll be more easily able to version control it (rather than saving it down to tape or something on the actual machine). Anyway, that's what I'm thinking lately, but we'll see!
I get your point. But that innovation comes from experts too, not someone who watched 10 YouTube videos on the subject.

I would say most novices soon find out why things are done the way they are done. True innovation is really exceptional.
First case of likely Covid-19 reinfection in Singapore, located in dormitory
You bring up an interesting angle which is that the title inflation thing in the US now has secondary and tertiary implications. Optometrists call themselves “doctors” as do chiropractors and others. Increasingly it seems medical facilities just go back to the root and put someone’s degree in giant letters on their badge. “MD” “RN” etc. And the public at large increasingly just calls all these people “your healthcare provider” instead of “your doctor.”

In essence physicians are upset at others (optometrists, chiropractors, and such) doing exactly what medical school graduates did in previous generations... insist on people calling them “doctoral to gain more recognition with the public at large. When you know the history it’s all quite amusing.

However if random people are running in providing unqualified expertise to patients in a medical practice though that suggests there are far bigger problems to be dealt with than title games. The “doctor” thing is just a red herring.
This is absurd. The buck stops with the C-level and, if need be, the board. Toss them in prison, in gen-pop, and see if it doesn’t reform some behavior.

Part of the job of running a business is ensuring said business doesn’t run afoul of the law. If that doesn’t happen, well the boss needs to go to jail, do not pass Go, do not collect $200mm golden parachute.

“We can’t figure out who to charge so we charge no one” is not an acceptable answer in a just society — or a society that strives to be just.
Ok. So you think that it would actually do no good at all for these companies to leave, because they would be replaced.

It seems like you don’t actually care at all about religious freedom in Pakistan then.
I hope to see the end of LaTex only explanations.

The site already has simulations so one must assume it has code that could codify those LaTex eqs.

Perhaps a ‘things ever ___ should know about ___’ is needed for mathematicians and notation.

Ala, “some disciplines use the same symbols for different functions” and “many symbols are intended to obfuscate details for ease of hand writing”.

Perhaps this is meant as a collection of reference material and I am wrongfully assuming complexityexplained is trying to be educational material, but if the intended audience is people hoping to have complexity explained to them then I think code and its underlying abstractions are going to better explain to a higher percentage of people who click through than LaTex.

Show both if you can.
> paying an army of incompetents to modify a codebase isn’t a sustainable development process.

Unfortunately it doesn't have to be sustained long term. Only until you get bought or whatever, the people at the top make their money, the army of incompetents cash in somewhat too if they are lucky, and some poor sucker is stuck with an unmaintainable mess that they just paid a premium for.
He might know the 12 word key phrase. https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Brainwallet
They just whipped two gay men in the streets after a burglar broke into their home and caught them in bed together.

A win is a win but this isn’t a huge milestone IMHO.
Some people who champion the free market believe in worker mobility and the power of competition to lower prices of goods and services. Some seem to think that if they make a neo-feudal type system, they’ll end up being in the minor nobility and that’s okay by them. This is why discussions about “less government” tend to be so disjointed and inconsistent.

The issue is that they both try and represent themselves as part of the same group.
Look at the comments:

> The paper is amazingly bad. None of the authors are mathematicians as far as I can see. I think the word “new” appears 50+ times in the paper. Looks like they updated the paper to include your observation from last time about the Gauss continued fraction without mentioning the source (the authors admit here they read your blog: http://www.ramanujanmachine.com/idea/some-well-known-results...). Classy!

Just some light plagiarism/academic misconduct!
Also, never forget that they've bought out Atom extensions in the past to insert promotions for Kite.

https://github.com/atom-minimap/minimap/issues/588#issuecomm...

https://github.com/autocomplete-python/autocomplete-python/i...

Edit: Related HN thread with ~400 comments. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14836653
From a human perspective, it's difficult to imagine a civilization that could remain cohesive when its territory is thousands of light-years wide, and therefore separated by time as well as space. Every significant journey is a trip into the future
I was thinking cats would prefer scala.
Which you would notice immediately because of the big, scary warnings.
>How can the public learn to perceive truth from disinformation from misinformation.

They cannot. Hence politicians/bad guys thrive.
Sure.

1. That's how law enforcement works. The FBI can't chase "racism" but it can come down on the KKK for a murder and conspiracy.

It doesn't apply to regular people. I can look at QAnon, understand this is beyond the pale, and refuse to give it an inch. So can businesses, political parties, web platforms, and basically all of civilized society.

2. This isn't actually true. First, courts have tests for incitement. Nothing is perfect but this is well-tread ground. But more importantly, we're talking about Nazism and the like. Do you really mean to argue that nobody can know if Nazis intend to kill people?
Why RSS still dominates in audio, but not text
Backstory to failed Deloitte vaccine system story
I do like this amendment! I'd say, if it's not a thing, it should be passed.
I made a link shortener with powerful analytics for event organizers
And with Mullvad you can just make a one-time payment of EUR 5.00 if you need to use it for 30 days. No auto-renew crap / commitment to long subscriptions to deal with.
Yes. If you have a PhD and you were an academic or researcher or practitioner, then fine call yourself "doctor". If, like jill Biden, you never really applied yourself in that domain as a professional career, then get over yourself.

I guess we'll overturn those conventions now for the sake of politics.
Are you and GP thinking of all Indonesia or just Aceh?
> Apple absolutely takes 15/30% of Enterprise services, depending on how they are paid for.

This is complete bullshit. They charge 15/30% for delivery of digital content through their actual platform.

Paying for services is done through Apple Pay, which has fees in line with any other credit card processor.

Yes, it’s true that there are some fucked up cases where Apple is classing certain digital content in a way that seems to violate this. Yes, we should be pressuring them to be sane about that.

But let’s not spread bullshit like ‘Apple charges 30% for “Enterprise Services”’ in some general way. That’s just misleading, and false.