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Ask HN: Why we cannnot have periodic automated health check?
Somehow even HN is full of stories about cancer, but lately I also noticed quite high amount of cancer cases of people I know. The biggest problem usualy is the detection, as early stages are curable than later. Every time my questions is, if it actually would not be feasible to have fully automated health check, lets say once per year. I imagine it in way that you may provide you urin, blood sample, maybe some questionare and then go thru the MRI or CT (which as it is XRAY can be harmful too often?). But all the data would be analyzed by DPNN. I assume after some time of doing this with large amount of people and some feedback when they got issues, you could train the network to see if something is going on in advance. If it would be highly automated and well organized it migth take just hour or so. Without waiting and all the other stuff that makes it so hard to get examined.
Well, that's what I'm wondering but the article doesn't specify at all.

It's like an article's headline states: Amazon stopped paying thousands of employees it hired last year.

Incendiary title, is Amazon perhaps breaking the rules?

And then you click on it and read that Amazon did not renew contracts of 10% of the employees it hired last year, and is therefore not paying them anymore as they're not working for Amazon anymore.

Which is normal business procedure, just like not having to pay taxes when you take a loss. And then the second question is, were the people fired illegitimately perhaps? Or did Amazon use a ta trick? Well who knows, the article doesn't mention a shred of evidence of it. That's why it's poor journalism.

I'm not absolving Amazon of any faults, it's obviously a company with many faults and issues and I would not be surprised if there's any more. What I am saying is that this article doesn't present any evidence of any faults, yet insinuates them. I tend to like reading the Guardian so it's a disappointment to see a lack of nuance or information.
This works in theory, but if your program has been running for a minute, going back a second by re-executing from the beginning will take a minute. rr snapshots every second so that going back takes similar time to going forward, rounded to seconds, adjusted for overhead.
There are lots of other types of pretty rock available.

I think also if you decide to bow to those constraints, grit your teeth and buy a diamond, you can get ones certified to as less likely to have murder and slavery involved in their extraction. Albeit you'd still be supporting that ridiculous market indirectly. Smashing the stigma against lab diamonds seems like a great idea.
Buffetts comments are still spot on.

Right now bitcoin is a gambling thing.

Why else would you invest in it right now? There is no legit reasoning why someone would invest this kind of money.

Right now every ten minutes bitcoin as a system pays out bitcoin of 300.000$ for avg of 2000 transactions.

What real value would bitcoin has, right now, to make this kind of investment not just gambling?

And from a pur statistic value, I bought 100% drugs with my bitcoins (probably 500-1000$ per year for the last 5? Years) while I do know stories of friends who bought one pizza or one Döner, no one I know use bitcoin for anything else.

So I don't share your criticism. After all btc is invented out of thin air and you don't need to put that kind of money into btc as itt doesn't support the research of cryptocurrency.
In the UK at least, there is an "engagement ring" that has a diamond typically, and then a "wedding band" that is typically a gold (or silver) band that goes next to the engagement ring on the ring finger, with a similar ring for the other partner on the ring finger.
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It's a URL-friendly form of base64.

11 chars encode 66 bits, but actually 2 bits are likely not used and it's simply an int64 encoded to base64.

Given everyone and their grandma is pushing 128-bit UUID for distributed entity PK, it's interesting to see YouTube keep it short and sweet.

Int64 is my go to PK as well, if I have to, I make it hierarchical to distribute it, but I don't do UUID.
Re: a), the best thing is to document the protocol, then let someone else (who has not seen the insides of the original application) implement it based on the documentation.
Totally forgetting how staying together for the kids often results in more trauma for them when it boils over and the anger gets redirected at the children..

Somehow I doubt two humans amicably separating will have as much trauma. Some for sure but it's not like they'd be hurting for paying for some therapy.
Honest question: Why marry in the first place?

Why practice a personal relationship in a way others have designed?

Isn't it somewhat contrary to the theme of Hacker News? To me, the term "hacking" describes the habit of doing things in a more interesting/efficient/fun way than how they are usually done.
I wonder how environment friendly that tiny dish washing machine and its detergent is.
MAybe it can save some water instead of trivial manual washing, but how pollutant is that waste water?

Isn't it better to manually wash those 2 to 6 dishes, 1 to 3 glasses and maybe 1 pan?
Caved in and bought an expensive diamond. What really counts here is social ideas of what is necessary. You can push against but most people will do what's socially the done thing. I shudder to think what horrible things we might be able to get people to do as a gateway to getting married. Eg the Spartans had to murder a Helot to graduate IIRC. What if you had to beat up a random person to get married? People would still do it I think.

Not long after I got married, I read about Moissanite.
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to clarify: the biggest concern for these devices is that the prove of ownership is leaking. And an easy way would be to copy the device.

Anything that copies the identity (private key) to a physical key is broken because the identity could be copied before it is on the key.

That's why you create a cryptographic keypair on the device, and the device does not offer to extract the private key.

It must be impossible to clone the key. When you read articles that claim 100% phishing failure due to these YubiKeys then that's because phishing is copying secrets. And you simply can't for the key. You have to physically steal this device.

And then there is also a human aspect. If you have something that is convenient and 100% successful then don't make it less convenient. You risk that people try to circumvent it.
What's your favorite game easter egg?
There is a difference between using laws as they were intended to be used and hiring a literal army of accountants and lawyers to find holes in the law.
This story comes back again and again. And it makes no sense, because businesses pay tax on profits, not revenue!

It sounds outrageous that a big company does so much business and doesn't end up paying lots of taxes, maybe it's suspicious, but it's only a necessarily problem if you make some flawed assumptions about how the business works.

There are different theories about the social value of enterprise, but in general businesses are meant to reinvest revenue into developing the business, and only taxed on what is taken as profit, such as to be payed to shareholders. That this incentivizes direct reinvestment is a feature, not a bug. It's just that amazon takes this to an extreme in prioritizing reinvestment over profit.

Does Amazon also structure its operations to optimize its tax posture? Of course, they're obliged to as a publicly traded company.

Overall is this an optimal/fair situation? Probably not. But the problem is really an inevitable outcome of the way that tax laws are setup. Amazon's only major moral failing here is simply in being a large multinational, with an expansionist business model.
I can well imagine people flagging it for "Celebrity Divorce" not "Gratifying [their] intellectual curiosity", plus it's very widely reported on non-tech sources and not something with much to discuss.
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We opted for a moissanite. Partly because of the ethical problems with diamond mining, and partly because my wife didn't want to carry something with the replacement value of a small car around on her finger. See previous discussions of moissanites on HN: https://www.google.com/search?q=moissanite+site%3Anews.ycomb...
Previously he stated that his children wont inherit lion share their fortune. They had no marriage contract. It could be that Melinda wanted their children to receive more, so now that she gets half, she can pass it to their children.
I have many pocket computers, sadly not that one. My Casio VX-4 might be closest. Not cheap currently $400

https://buyee.jp/item/yahoo/auction/j714515522

Still my all time favorite for the 70 colors ist the Casio PB-100
Perhaps (although this tends to be a core skill for any experienced DS - I 100% would not hire anyone without basic SQL, as it's just setting them up for failure). SQL is the only tool I've used everywhere I worked.

But, SQL is bad at lots of stuff. For example, if you need to compare id1 and id2 (with some kind of locality sensitive hash or something). This requires a full join, which is prohibitive in any large data environment.

And honestly, writing 50 case when statements when I could write a function in R or Python is not my idea of a good time.

I love SQL, and do a lot with it, but there are definitely cases where it's the wrong tool. As an example, retention analyses are really annoying to do in SQL, but pretty easy in R/Python (to be fair, the article actually provides a solution here, but it's not standard).
I don't wear a ring at all - don't see why I'd need to. My wife wears one because she wants to.

Why do you care what anyone else thinks?
I'm fairly young and it's something that scares me deeply about marriage. How do you spend 30 years with someone, someone you once loved deeply, and come to a point where you no longer want to share your life with them.

My closest friend I've known for 10 years and we know each others intimately, it's a deep connection that can only be built with time and effort. It's without comparison to other friends that I've only known for a few years. So you spend 30 years building something so strong with a single person, there's never going to be someone else like this, you can't spend another 30 years building something with someone else, that's it. I don't know how you can deal with losing something like this.
It might be possible to pull hydrogen from the ground, leaving the carbon in place. https://proton.energy/ claims to be trying.
> Bill Gates negotiated into his marriage the right to take an annual beach house weekend with his ex-girlfriend.

What's that now?
As a Norwegian I agree we should phase out oil sooner. Like you say, not releasing the CO2 to begin with is the best option.

However Norway is not the sole oil producer. If demand is not reduced and other producers compensate for our reduction, then that won't really help the planet at all.

As such it seems reducing demand would be the best way. Not that easy to achieve on a global scale though, it would seem.
> a gold or silver ring is acceptable

As in not having a ring is 'unacceptable' somehow then?
If you are on the same page as your partner, you'll have no trouble sorting this thing out. In my case I bought a joke ring that cost me about 2$ in a toy store.

If you are not on the same page as your partner, you have more important concerns than a stupid ring of metal.
Wishing them both the best of luck with this. It's a great reminder that despite having money, people can still run into difficult relationship issues.
> Simple logic leads to the latter explanation being more likely.

Simple logic would be to conclude that a US company with >$400 billion in revenue looking to take-over an EU market is going to make long-term investments that aren't profitable in the first years and generate losses on $40 billion of revenue in this new market.

There's nothing strange about that.

The article doesn't even mention your logic, nor provides any evidence for it, not even a specific allegation by expert opinion. That's why I think it's poor reporting. (I should not have said terrible reporting).

I'd be happy to receive arguments against Amazon's faults because I'm not an investor, not a consumer, not a fanboy, and concerned about the larger issues. But I want to see the facts.
I wonder how well this Reddit-famous commentary about the diamond industry has aged:

https://reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/8pb8d5/i_grow_diamonds_i_...
I have implemented the Perspective API for a small forum moderation and it complements human moderation well, when reading everything going across the board is not possible.
We need both, less CO2 extracted from fossil fuels and active capture of the CO2 already released.
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The study title is “ There Is No Evidence That Associations Between Adolescents’ Digital Technology Engagement and Mental Health Problems Have Increased”.

It does NOT suggest there is no link, but that it hasn’t gotten worse (or better) in the past 10 years.
Bad headline by the BBC - the study doesn't say 'no link', they are saying the link has not got stronger.
From around 1996-1997, when Linux desktop use became popular, some university departments had this distributed computing system installed in both classroom computers and staff's desktop computers, to run distributed computing jobs when the computers were not in use otherwise.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTCondor
My mother had inherited a bunch of jewelry from her mother, among which was her engagement ring. It was a really nice ring that was just sitting in a box, so I asked if I could have it and used that.
But is it typical to use neither hooks nor classes?
All these things that require and support only a mobile app to set up are tremendously irritating. I use my headphones with my Mac and would like to be able to configure and update them there.

Can we get over this "mobile is replacing everything" meme? It's obviously not happening. I never thought it would happen, but a bunch of people started predicting it via faulty reasoning by loose analogy with the mainframe to PC transition.
What social constraint requires a ring?

We bought the cheapest gold rings we could fined. 757 gold due to the internet saying that below that, your ring will loose material.

We wanted wolfram but it's bridle, ring size can't be changed and gold was just the easiest at the end.

I think we paid 700$ for both.
Divorce can be as traumatic as a death - for me it was liberating though.
Given that the main article is about the USPS, yes, that is a US based comment.
>Don’t we all sometimes, when busy with our own thoughts and worries, occasionally spout out oddly appropriate responses to what our spouses are speaking, without actually listening to and processing the conversation, maybe because we heard it all so many times we can readily predict what they are going to say?

No. Sometimes I can predict what a friend will say but I won't actually say it. The more I think about it, the more I realise that AI at the moment is the unlistening (but hearing) spouse. And just like it seems we can engage with such a person (though can only rarely), so too can the AI trick us ('simulate') that behaviour.
http://content.time.com/time/printout/0,8816,1120657,00.html
(1997, by Walter Isaacson)

" Even now, Gates has an arrangement with his wife that he and Winblad can keep one vacation tradition alive. Every spring, as they have for more than a decade, Gates spends a long weekend with Winblad at her beach cottage on the Outer Banks of North Carolina, where they ride dune buggies, hang-glide and walk on the beach. "
I'm afraid I don't have any experience with those devices. Most HW encoders however struggle with one thing - the fact that encoding is very costly when it comes to memory bandwidth.

The most important performance/quality related process in encoding is having the encoder take each block (piece) of previous frame and scan the current frame to see whether it still exists and where it moved. The larger area the codec scans, the more likely it'll find the area where the piece of image moved to. This allows it to write just a motion vector instead of actually encoding image data.

This process is hugely memory bandwidth intensive and most HW encoders severely limit the area each thread can access to keep memory bandwidth costs down and performance up. This is also a fundamental limitation for CUDA/gpGPU encoders, where you're also facing a huge performance loss if there's too much memory accessed by each thread.

Most "realtime" encoders severely limit the macroblock scan area because of how expensive it is - which also makes them significantly less efficient. I don't see FPGAs really solving this issue - I'd bet more on Intel/nVidia encoding blocks paired with copious amount of onboard memory. I heard Ampere nVidia encoding blocks are good (although they can only handle a few streams).
This sounds very similar to Visual Studio's "historical debugger" (Enterprise feature) [1]... has anyone tried both? How do they compare? Either feature-wise or usability-wise.

[1] https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/visualstudio/debugger/histo...
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Charging for a Bose product with a Boze name.. You’re going to get sued.

If it was free or open source you could argue you’re not profiting from it, but the way it’s presented..

You’re selling software with the likeness of a brand for the products sold by the brand.

Hope you’ve got a lawyer.

You’re probably lucky that they’re a research driven organisation given the founder donated majority shares for it to MIT with a mission lock clause which means it’s never going to be acquired by a tech giant or private equity. This is good because it means they don’t have for profit lawyers on staff to fuck over people like you. Nevertheless you’re still screwed.
Being married has a bunch of tax benefits where I live.
> lobbying hydrocephalus

Autocorrupt or a novel biting put-down?
There's also the subsidies provided by CCP central planners to consider. This subsidizes consumption in their target markets.

I appreciate the strategic concerns. However, the obvious benefit of a foreign nation subsidizing your consumption shouldn't be overlooked. Some of the knee-jerk reactions to central planning suggest that the western nations should emulate the CCP's statist system.

To be sure there are pragmatic concerns, but more concerning is the race to the bottom of top down planning this creates. Government bureaus will always find a rationale to expand purview of the state.

Specifically, if photovoltaic solar isn't cost effective without subsidies, then why use it?

When the state chooses winners and losers, it distorts the incentive based progression of technology. By narrowly focusing on artificially profitable PV solar, more efficient innovations may be overlooked.

There's always an unseen cost when central planners misallocate resources away from profitable industries. Pragmatists' best case might be that strategic concerns outweigh the losses of productivity and employment.
I'm just fascinated that you would admit to being the kind of founder who sends a third of his company packing over personal policy.
This is the mantra I hear from all divorced parents, no exception. But I saw their children before and after, and I'm not sure if it's true. In one case, I witnessed the very moment of separation, it was heartbreaking, the kid was crying all night. She's never experienced that kind of trauma before.

I'm very, very far from judging these parents, everyone has the right to be happy. But using the well-being of children as an argument is often just a way of rationalizing one's emotional choice. And I'd venture to say a more honest approach could be more beneficial for everyone involved.
Sure but that's kind of like saying that since cars kill many more people than RPGs that it's unfair to only ban RPGs and not cars too.
It's an interesting question! I think a lot of the time when both partners feel getting married adds no value, they don't marry! I know plenty of older couples who never got married and don't regret it.

Some good reasons I've heard.

1. Legally it's a lot simpler if you're married, if one partner dies for the other partner to get control over assets/legacy.

2. For many couples it's a ceremonious way of making a commitment that is recognised and understood between cultures.

3. In some cases, it allows for certain benefits/perks to be shared (tax, healthcare).

4. It's fun to have a party and get family together.

I personally don't see Hacker News as one homogenous culture with a distinct opinion on what "hacking" is. Being curious, rational and experimental, I still think getting married can fit into that.

If you were truly trying to optimise every aspect of life to be some sort of objective best option, I think getting married may or may not be the right option. I do think generally we give too much power to "the culture" over how we live our lives though and so I do think being sceptical of the rituals/ceremonies we're born into is a positive thing.
As anyone ever would be able to distinguish a real diamond from anything else.

Like srsly how often even does someone look longer than a few seconds on your ring?

I would bet people can't really determine a difference between glass and a diamond
Tricky. I agree that the sum of these circumstances make it somewhat hard to say if something like taproot creates a new currency or not. As long as the longest chain is the one with taproot transactions, then probably not.
And if you put a holding company above a profitable company, and the holding company has 1 employee, then it makes billions per employee.

There's no reason to think this gives any perspective.
I assure you, there are large parts of the web that do not use excessive amounts of javascript.
I would argue that in wealth it is easier to separate, when people have safety cushion tolerating other side is not predominant virtue.
I considered marriage and we even filed half the paperwork, but I decided against it because it would end up in the public records that I am married, and to whom exactly.

So, I didn't marry out of infosec concerns.
If they would want to make OP’s life difficult, they will find a way. Even through the protocol reversing angle.

Most likely there’s a clause in their EULA that prohibits reversing anything related once you start using a product. The only way around it is to show that you never accepted the EULA in the first place. That in itself is difficult, especially since the OP is being open about already using their products.

Not to be a skeptical old fart, but this won’t end well. Especially since it’s a $ software.
The SPARCstaton SLC (Silly Little Computer) was integrated with the monitor, and was meant to be an "X-Terminal Eliminator".

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https://www.nytimes.com/1990/05/16/business/low-priced-work-...
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