skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Princeton research collaborator here. Glad to answer questions about Rally.

> What "data"? Browsing history? Identity? Something else?

That depends on the Rally study, since research questions differ and studies are required to practice data minimization. Each study is opt in, with both short-form and long-form explanations. Academic studies also involve IRB-approved informed consent. Take a look at our launch study for an example [1].

> Why? What's in it for them? Since when was giving our data to third parties a good idea? There is literally no motivation presented here.

The motivation is enabling crowdsourced scientific research that benefits society. Think Apple Research [2], NYU Ad Observatory [3], or The Markup's Citizen Browser [4]. There are many research questions at the intersection of technology and society where conventional methods like web crawls, surveys, and social media feeds aren't sufficient. That's especially true for platform accountability research; the major platforms have generally refused to facilitate independent research that might identify problems, and platform problems often involve targeting and personalization that other methods can't meaningfully examine.

[1] https://rally.mozilla.org/current-studies/political-and-covi...
[2] https://www.apple.com/ios/research-app/
[3] https://adobservatory.org/
[4] https://themarkup.org/citizen-browser
But: that surgery is not without risk, and if there are no symptoms there is a fair chance that there never will be symptoms. Depending on your age and your genetic make-up you might be more or less at risk. There is such a thing as spontaneous remission and so on.

So no, I'm not 'basically giving up', and no you won't die anyway (well, unless you take that in the most abstract way), in particular likely not from cancer.

Even for those cancers where we do screen (such as for instance breast cancer) it is not a given that the increased frequency of detection has led to better patient outcomes.

But once you know someone's genetic disposition increased frequency of testing might be advantageous.
had governments not bailed out unconditionally a big chunk of the economy many business sectors would have collapsed. This would have triggered a run on the financial system like no one in recorded history.

maybe we should have left "creative destruction" to play out. after all a pandemic is a known business risk.
Anyone who wants to put something important in a phone app should be required to give somebody non-technical an Android phone with Facebook installed and take a look at what apps are on the phone after an hour. I'm convinced a big chunk of Facebook's mobile money machine is just advertising blatantly malicious apps and pretending not to know.
Is the problem not so much the testing, but that most current treatments for cancers are so crude? If you have a relatively asymptomatic cancer, the treatments (chemo, surgery, proton beams) and psychological stress of discovery could be worse (statistically) than letting the body naturally take care of it. This probably depends very much on the cancer ( e.g., some Thyroid cancers might be better left alone).

If our best treatment for fixing a harddrive was to hit it with a hammer, then maybe we'd also conclude monitoring for minor bit errors in data centers is unwise too.
Yeah you’re right, even low power Intel gpus can render an X11 desktop with audio wayyyyy faster and with less artifacts than the proprietary nvidia driver.
We learned that. But does my grandpa even know what WD is when he goes to the shop buy a disk and is sold this thing?
I have had a chance to read the article now. I still have some BTC and I have made money from it. I am not looking to make any money back, I can never make a loss. Same for all the people I advised to get into it in 2011/2013.

I am also fortunate and with enough self-awareness to understand that the economy that I operate in is not the same for everyone all over the world. I understand what being un-banked means, I understand the extra costs that come with being poor. I understand that remittances from developed nation to developing nation are a lifeline for many many families. I understand that the traditional ways of sending money to these destinations involve fees as high as 20% or more and doesnt always include the ability to immediately access those funds at the other end. I know that there are unscrupulous Western Union branches/employees that will charge further fees at the receiving end. So whilst it is nice to have a high horse to sit upon, perhaps you could use that perspective to understand that not everyone is in the same position as you. Where you see waste someone else sees financial access, where you see speculation others see utility.

You don't plan for the future because you forsee the downfall of society, so through choice you elect not to plan. Others don't plan for the future because they cant plan further than a week or 2 weeks ahead because the subsist and survive on a day to day basis.
“Excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted.”

Focus on ‘unusual’. All the words in this document have a meaning.
Keep that in mind when asking developers to estimate how long it will take.

Could be next month, could be tomorrow.
There is no early detection for pancreatic cancer. So we don’t know what we can do yet. Right now by the time we detect it, we are dead.

An entire generation of early detection might create new methods to treat it. We don’t know what we don’t know.
Interesting...how well do these features work with F#, that's a language I've heard excellent things about.
> conceptualizing lighter vehicles

Horace Dediu (Asymco) advocates "micromobility". I still don't really know what all that entails. Bikes, scooters, hoverboards, ...?

I've been binging on his misc podcasts for a while. I really like how he asks questions, does analysis.

For instance: ~1.1b automobiles today, ~1.8b by 2050 (IIRC). Average lifetime of ICE vehicle is 30 yrs. So getting to carbon neutral just by replacing the current fleet won't happen fast enough. We'll need alternatives to automobiles, like public transit and scooters.

https://micromobility.io
Riehl's "Category Theory in Context" is great. It's one of those books where every page really takes a couple hours to fully absorb. It pairs well with Milewski's "Category Theory for Programmers" [1] series, which is comparatively lighter and gives some concrete examples.

[1] https://bartoszmilewski.com/2014/10/28/category-theory-for-p...
The impressive thing here isn't that some random company is doing it but how many don't recognize it is a dark pattern even when told it is one on HN.
You're thinking of money. The parent poster was talking about art. If you can afford it, gamedev allows you to blow not only your own mind, but also the minds of everyone else - especially new generations who have learned the medium from birth.
I thought either I was going crazy or I had some fishy extension changing the search results CSS. Good to know it's none :-)
More than being buggy, the expansion is bleeding players because the on-foot gameplay loops are super grindy (even for Elite) and not very fun in the first place. The xpac has absolutely zero new ship-based content, so people are just going off to play other FPS games that don’t suck. The PC community is already more or less dead just a month after it’s release; Steam player counts are lower than they’ve been in years. Dropping VR support was the final nail in the coffin.
What I said was I didn't want to have to pay to do DNS lookups.

E.g. if a client side DNS call was rate limited because DNS services like CloudFlare (1.1.1.1) or Google (8.8.8.8) got tired of caching data that was never suppose to be there.

There are people who have joked you can use route53 as a database (Corey Quinn originally?). But taking a joke too far is irresponsible.

Imagine having to pay a subscription to resolve DNS queries...

We have a good thing with it and this idea is like a knife in it (like my free CI minutes and cryptominers example)
> Imagine living in a society where basic income is guaranteed no matter what

Realistic UBI proposals wouldn’t exactly provide a comfortable wage. They’d provide just enough to get by on the basics, if that. That doesn’t mean it wouldn’t be helpful, but it does mean that it won’t be an attractive alternative to work for anyone who isn’t comfortable staying poor forever.

UBI would still be a safety net, not an attractive alternative to working. The idea that UBI would enable people to become free of work and follow their dreams for free has been greatly exaggerated. It’s just not possible to tax enough to pay everyone high UBI wages. Safety net wages, maybe, but it won’t be a fun living situation to depend entirely on UBI.
Re the weeding robot -- you may be thinking of https://tertill.com

iRobot founders' new thing. Small, and undercapitalized, but promising.
This was an issue caused by a negligent company failing to keep their devices secure. For me the solution to this is not just to rely on another potentially-also-negligent company. In my opinion on-prem+off-prem, or multiple off-prem solutions are necessary for anything of actual value.
It doesn't mean anything. You have zero guarantees that anything like that will be actually applied. The government and its military won't ever care about it.

This is just some research while we have surveillance technology and weapons controlled by the AI right now. Get real.
For someone who has no medical background, you are certainly spouting a lot of nonsense as if it was fact.

The WHO, for example, disagree.

https://www.who.int/activities/promoting-cancer-early-diagno...
This was my thought. A popular open source project will get a lot of wannabes who just want their name on something and file issues from random code analyzers, etc. I've looked at CVEs that don't have a good solution and decided to release because I understood the attack vector and it didn't apply to how we used the library. That's not the same thing.

That said - the problems being discussed here do happen, I just don't know how accurately the headline represents that.
French intellectuals have a long history in this:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Property_is_theft!

And honestly, they do have a point, to some extent.
The takeaway being that Google should publicize its events more if they want more than a single digit number of submissions.

Ultimately, these events are entered either for the money or for the fame - the submitter finding a way to get a bit of both. Since Google didn't give out a large amount, they could rely mainly on fame, and that requires more than a post in a single reddit community (and a post removed by the moderators!).
The cathedrals that are the most visible surviving monument to the culture of the middle ages took a century each to build. Perhaps the truly great video games of our era will take just as long.
They will be able to recycle batteries, but that's not where much of their current order volume or materials come from. The article is a word salad that conflates a series of unrelated points.
Star Citizen is a cautionary tale about how too much money can be a curse.

Star Citizen and Elite Dangerous came around at roughly the same time but Elite has been a complete game for years. Elite did things right in the sense that they released a complete game and added to it.

I've seen videos on Star Citizen talking about new systems they're adding like being put in prison and escaping and all I can think of is that this sounds cool but why are you spending any effort on this before you have a core game?

star Citizen development just seems to be completely unfocused with periodic sales of ships to top up the coffers. How much better could it have been had they decided on core features that were a complete game and then just added content releases every 6-12 months?

For anyone who just wants to explore without the grittiness and over-realism of Elite Dangerous, check out No Man's Sky. Side note, there's a great Internet Historian video [1] on the redemption of NMS after over-promising on release.

Also, I see another game that seems to be falling into the trap of being too ambitious before having core gameplay and that's Ashes of Creation, sadly.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O5BJVO3PDeQ&t=26s
FYI in Portugal it was at 21.6 years in 2019.
With respect, I think you've got it quite wrong.

On the question of proving damages, that is the same in England and the US: both make a distinction between libel (or slander) per se and per quod. Libel per se covers statements that require no proof of damage because they are inherently damaging on the face of it. Falsely stating that someone is a serial killer who murdered five women is to say they are guilty of a crime of moral turpitude, one of the criteria recognised as actionable per se in both England and the USA.

In the USA, you have the issue of the application of the New York Times v Sullivan standard which grants First Amendment protection to potentially defamatory statements made about a public figure requiring proof of actual malice. Because of the press freedom protections contained in the First Amendment, statements about a public figure (or a limited purpose public figure) are granted a higher degree of protection. If a person is a public figure, then you would need to show that the person making the defamatory statement knew it was false, but if they are not a public figure, then that requirement does not apply. I think it rather unlikely that the present facts would lead to the Sullivan standard being applied: other than having a small personal website/blog to discuss programming issues, the OP is not a "public figure".

Regarding malicious intent, you don't need to show that in England. It helps if you can: malicious intent undermines a number of defences including honest opinion, and the publication on a matter of public interest defence (s4 Defamation Act 2013, and before that the Reynolds test), but it does not undermine truth as a defence. The burden of proving the truth of a defamatory statement does rest on the defendant in England in a way it may not in other jurisdictions. Malicious intent also goes to remedies. (It also wouldn't apply here: Google's algorithm cocking up is not "malicious intent", it is merely AI—automated incompetence.)

What the post you are replying to was likely referring to is the application of the "serious harm" test under s1 of the Defamation Act 2013, taken along with the requirement that the defamation amounted to "real and substantial tort" under the test established in Jameel v Dow Jones & Co. While I have considerable sympathy for the OP, the serious harm test is hard to find as you'd have to establish how many people actually saw the material and how many people were led to believe he is a serial killer rather than a person who happens to unluckily share the same name as a serial killer.
What does "KPI" mean in this context? Never heard the term before
And probably in mining too
I believe the "damage" they are trying to prevent are fingerprints. I don't think that's worth a plastic bag.
It indeed is a luxury to be able to take a year off at will. Big reason I can think of is financials.

In my opinion, burnout is a problem only faced by people who can afford to do so. I am not saying everyone doesn't face burnout, they probably do, but not everyone can afford to take a sabbatical, dip into savings, indulge in a hobby etc. There are many people who don't earn as much as a silicon valley engineer, have low savings to dip into, and perhaps even have/inherit debt - Making rent and being able to afford essentials takes priority to dealing with burnout in such situations.
Just use an automated irrigation controller with misters.
What is your addon? What does it do? Who are you targeting?

Identify and reach out to productivity nerds. You know, people with their own blogs and newsletters about office tools, productivity, life hacks and such. You probably want to super niche your outreach even more.
thanks to you and everyone for the explanation - I haven't lived in the U.S for 20+ years now so I forgot all about air conditioning.
The context is already there in most cases.

For someone attempting to make an argument based on logic, you sure are missing a lot.

You attempt to create a ridiculous example just so that you can compare a flawed old example against an even more flawed new example, and say "this new way is worse, this is bad math". Logic duh amitrite?

Meanwhile you ignore the math of comparing the difference between being considerate to you vs being considerate to 50% of all humans.

It must suck being so threatened and being the only one who sees how insane everyone else is.
Don't forget No Mans Sky
If you’re young, have no children, and don’t mind picking up and moving and giving up local connections, sure.

That’s not common, though.

Really though, the solution is to change jobs. Despite how it looks from HN comments, there are plenty of companies out there with good work life balance.

Painting this as a false dichotomy between staying in burnout-inducing jobs or dropping everything to become jobless isn’t helpful. There’s an entire spectrum of options that should be explored to change a burnout-inducing situation.
Any amount of hobby projects allow to blend software with whatever your interests are.

Everyone probably has other hobbies that they could easily write software for
Remote jobs are getting 4 times more applicants compared to office jobs
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Yes that is right. I make no claims to being a rational being. I am at best pseudo rational. As much as I love computers, I make no claim to being one. I am a human.

And yes, I do also greatly appreciate evidence based medicine. There are many terminal illnesses where there is no evidence that constant screening improves outcomes. My impression is that people successfully market products like this to give people a false sense of control tire through micromanagement where given the state of the art, control is lacking.
Great Product Managers Are Great at Networking
How about something like this:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spidercam

Where it can be suspended above the field and moved to any point above the plant and can be raised as crops grow?
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Key Performance Indicator. The implication is that some Huawei engineers are rewarded for contributing to the kernel.
A good intro real analysis book will have no prerequisites, really! I learned from Ross, "Elementary Analysis: The Theory of Calculus", which starts with sequences of natural numbers.

(I'm of the opinion that the usual Calc1+2+3 sequence should be scrapped in favor of everyone taking "Advanced Calculus" first. It should probably even be taught in 10th/11th grade in place of the dreadful "pre-calc" courses many schools have. Calculus didn't click for me until my first proof-based course. That's also when I learned that a "proof" is just a detailed explanation of exactly why something is true.)
When you start off playing Stardew Valley but end up playing Factorio/Satisfactory.
Delay Insensitive Circuits
I dunno, much like how most people aren't artists, I think most people probably wouldn't get a lot out of game programming because they just don't have that combination of creative spark and narcissism to think they can create a great game.

Most of the actual fun in programming is that feeling of ongoing small puzzle solving.
Key Performance Indicator: ie, someone at huawei’s job performance review depends on “made N open source contributions to major projects”, and Goodhart’s Law strikes again.
I follow them for some time, they seem to be doing something, but I don't understand their grand vision.
Go tell 6M citiziens to back up their mobile wallet - how exactly is the key here.
The test in the article actually has very few false positives. And who knows, maybe even those false positives were just extremely early cases of cancer.
Unfortunately, as an Israeli, you were indoctrinated in both school and most likely, the IDF.
The ethnic of cleansing of the Palestinians was already 50%.
completed by the time any outside Arab forces arrived on the scene.
The seven armies you speak of never numbered as many as the zionists/Israelis were able to put in the field.
The only one that the zionists (who were British trained via the armed police forces) had reason to fear was the Jordanian Arab Legion (also British trained) hence the agreement to give control over what came to be called the West Bank to Jordan.
I'm really sorry for your loss, but please try to keep a healthy balance between personal tragedy versus medical policy set for a whole population, which are two entirely different things.

For any particular individual, especially those who end up dying from cancer early detection would have likely mattered. Which is exactly where the problem lies: that is a large number of people, but still (much) smaller than the number of people who will end up with positive cancer test. And policy is set by the outcome for the population as a whole, not for any particular individual.

In most places in the developed world cancer screening is already elective, but not for all types of cancer. Even so, how often are you going to do it? Once every year could easily be too slow to make a difference, and these tests aren't free so say a bi-annual test on all of the population would wreck the ability of the medical world to do much else. This is a tough problem to solve, especially because wetware tends to be finicky to work on and tiny little details will have a huge effect on outcome.
key performance indicator? kernel programming interface?

I too ponder the meaning.
The only thing ‘outside forces’ want the land for, is the right to tax the inhabitants.
No More Shell
Actually you don't want this, and you are describing a nightmare scenario that everyone who studies health policy understands all too well. Mass screening of healthy people will result in extreme iatrogenics and unnecessary psychological damage and stress (which leads to physical effects as well), not to mention overwhelming the medical system.

The fact is that many things that could be detected will never result in symptoms or other noticeable problems. Further, for many things that can be detected we can't really do much about, so by detecting it early you are just reducing the amount of life they have left without worrying about their disease, or causing unnecessary treatment (which includes unnecessary damage, cost, stress, etc.)
If you’re embarrassed that corporations with billions and trillions can expense expenses then the problem may be you.

A political system that has different expense rules for different company sizes sounds like a nightmare of dipshits trying to micro issues.

Set the rules that are fair on first principles, make sure taxes are proportionate, stick with that.
I see that these "cleanup" patches are not bringing much value, bust I also don't see why fixing spelling mistakes or log messages is considered as harmful, KPI boosting or not.

The maintainer even said if someone else sent those patches it would be OK, but not if Huawei employees do it. If they distrust Huawei so much, why not just ban them from committing, the same way they did recently with university "security researchers".
Your point across this thread is weird because it's not the testing itself which is an issue (if we assume the testing has a negligible cost economically and is comfortable/easy for the subject).

We just need to improve the decision making after getting test results (one of these decisions is to decide to not do anything), and more data make improving it easier.