skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why is this controversial? Such a bias will almost always exist. There is an anecdote from Hamming's famous "You and your research" [0] talk which I'll reproduce in full:

> Another personality defect is ego assertion and I'll speak in this case of my own experience. I came from Los Alamos and in the early days I was using a machine in New York at 590 Madison Avenue where we merely rented time. I was still dressing in western clothes, big slash pockets, a bolo and all those things. I vaguely noticed that I was not getting as good service as other people. So I set out to measure. You came in and you waited for your turn; I felt I was not getting a fair deal. I said to myself, ``Why? No Vice President at IBM said, `Give Hamming a bad time'. It is the secretaries at the bottom who are doing this. When a slot appears, they'll rush to find someone to slip in, but they go out and find somebody else. Now, why? I haven't mistreated them.'' Answer, I wasn't dressing the way they felt somebody in that situation should. It came down to just that - I wasn't dressing properly. I had to make the decision - was I going to assert my ego and dress the way I wanted to and have it steadily drain my effort from my professional life, or was I going to appear to conform better? I decided I would make an effort to appear to conform properly. The moment I did, I got much better service. And now, as an old colorful character, I get better service than other people.

Anecdotally, I've been on the job search train recently. Even though recruiters say that dress code is "casual", what I've found is that if I take some time to wear fitting clothes and make sure that my video background is either blurred out or nicer looking, the results are very different.

[0]: https://www.cs.virginia.edu/~robins/YouAndYourResearch.html
Yeah, no. If that's your source of information, it's hopeless. You need to look at VP org-charts (and maybe know which are highschool friends) to see the power structure. Here's a public list of recent changes:
http://www.koreaherald.com/view.php?ud=20201204000678

It doesn't address the key issue that I brought up which is that comparing operating profits of radically different company/conglomerates doesn't make any sense, while (whether it's called SLSI or SamsungSemi, a name I've never heard used in Gumi/Suwan) comparing a subset of SEC (a name which internally only refers to the OEM side) would at least be comparing honeycrisp to grannysmith.

SLSI is the internal acronym used to discuss the whole of Samsung Semi whether for historical or political reasons. Certainly, a quick search shows other news sources get this correct. I don't think that naming is really so complicated or controversial to those in the industry.

https://www.phonearena.com/news/google-pixel-6-and-pixel-6-p...
No, this is Hacker News, where we have to gripe about every single little thing until it loses all fucking meaning

Edit: you downvote me because you know this is exactly how it goes around here
Queue "overpowered OTC aids destroyed my hearing" pushback...
I am sure that this is not what this site is for. But...

For a moment I thought: What a great attack vector. Collect WiFi passwords from around the globe.
There is no real specification. This is the best source[1], which documents QR standards.

>There are some standards -- de facto and otherwise -- already in use. This wiki attempts to catalog some possible standards for encoding various types of information, and suggest a standard action associated to them.

[1]: https://github.com/zxing/zxing/wiki/Barcode-Contents#wi-fi-n...
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Do you think this was largely due to wearing a mask? Whether a mask would block a virus particle is debatable but even cheap masks are effective against larger particulates such as pollen, dust, dander, etc.

When I was a kid my neighbor always wore a mask while he was cutting his lawn. He had asthma that was pretty easily triggered and he said it made a big difference.
I personally believe being targeted with advertising is much less intrusive than the government having unfettered access to my daily interactions with people and various institutions. I would prefer to not have to worry about either.
A better idea would be to choose a random submission from a larger number of submissions. This would prevent most attacks. Any duplicate submissions should be flagged and there should be a penalty for users that submit them.
I agree with your model, but I also find Fowler’s model on tech debt helpful: https://martinfowler.com/bliki/TechnicalDebtQuadrant.html

It’s sort of one level “deeper” that the one you use. For me it is helpful because it allows to work with temporality in decisions on tech debt, ie “do we have time to do this right or do we need to get sh*it done now and pay later”. This is valuable because it allows you to work with tradeoffs in architecture and design.

Tradeoffs are inevitable in SW design and sometimes some thing is gonna be more important that not taking on tech debt [right now]. The important thing is to remember that debt has to be payed off.
I have the opposite use case.

Most of the stuff my company is running is made up of data pipelines and machine learning pipelines. So we have a lot of infrequent jobs that don't really care about latency.
Still waiting for a real argument that addresses this issue instead of substance-free snark.
> What Branson & his team did today was incredible and will pay off in spades for the future of humanity.

Terrestrial tourism has already pretty much destroyed this planet, what long-term good can you foresee here, seriously?
Or that you really, really need to establish precedent (and ideally, a pttern) by first successfully going after the "easier" targets. It's much easier to go after fintech and banking if you can go "what's the problem, you're just next in line, your industry's hardly getting singled out"
I wonder how much impact the reduced pollution due to reduced traffic during the lockdowns and increased remote work later had on the study subjects, even if they were indoors.
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I'm afraid that I disagree with your appreciation of the landing page. It seems, from first blush, that I can't get an immediate sense of what it does and how it does so, exactly. A link to some video description or example would be handy.

I can't even find something on YouTube?

Do I have to install and see? If so, that seems like a wee bit of a high bar.
I recall a study of the like that did this https://www.bmj.com/content/373/bmj.n1372
So are you vaping or using nicotine spray purely for nootropic reasons?
It's 2021 and Android still has fragmented QR scanning.
Ultimately like most things in security this is an education problem. It's all about people knowing more than what some online "secure SSH guide" tells you, including recommendations to "secure" your machine like changing the port or "disabling root login", etc. Most of it under some scrutiny isn't actually that substantial, but a lot of professionals are out there are treating it like dogma.

> Changing the port of your SSH server to 900 may, in isolation be a fine thing to do, but when actually done in the real world it tends to be a substitute for keeping your SSH server up-to-date, or more realistically, even remembering you opened up the port to the world in the first place.

It's interesting that you frame it this way, because I was thinking of this as the opposite: that the 'theory' being taught is not changing the port because security through obscurity is bad, and that the 'practical' solution is doing all of the things you mention it shouldn't be a substitute for, and only then adding obfuscation methods.

I think we're saying the same thing, that you can't substitute obfuscation for 'legitimate' security measures, but from different perspectives.
1. I'm a liberal.

2. Both cases were about a news network program not being news but an opinion show (not statements of fact).

3. Seethe harder.

4. We liberals need to learn how to self-critique and also accept criticism from within without labeling everyone as enemies or as "others". This shit is fracturing our identity and driving people to the right. The correcting function to our shitty behavior is going to be ugly.
Ask HN: Did you found a startup that made you rich? What was it?
Doesn't have to be named. Just a general outline of the industry, and what you were selling, why you think it was successful where others weren't, and approximately how rich you got from it. Thanks!
For Richard Branson, the Romance of Space Tourism Meets Reality
SciHub needs to be decentralized. Zeronet seems to be a good blueprint on how to do it.
There's much more in the actual order addressed toward banks and telcos and ISPs than there is language directed at "big tech".

https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/presidential-action...
Sort of good, but we'll see how it plays out without other policies supporting it. Frankly, many consolidations are not malicious but necessary for survival. Economies of scale and verticle integration are required to complete with foreign companies with lower costs. Look at domestic steel production. No way the market can support numerous domestic options that can compete with the low cost of foreign imports.

Then there's vertical integration. I don't know if this will effect vertical integration. If it does, I wonder how domestic companies will compete without it.

As a beekeeper, it's vastly cheaper foreign imports (some of it fake) that are more damaging than large domestic producers (although there's a healthy variety). The low prices have been forcing consolidation, or for some people to switch from producing domestically to packing imported honey. It's tough to market local honey for even $12/lb when walmart sells honey for less than $5/lb.
Having differing opinions is healthy. Some of the negative commenters offer valid points that are worth discussing.
Queue private agency testing, evaluating and rating products on the market
Are there any affordable and reputable niagen products? On Amazon, it looks like 300 mg x 30 days costs ~$50.
Papers like this need machine learning reviewers and even better, coauthors. I cannot believe that anyone with competence in ML reviewed this paper.

For one thing, the figure that the linked article presents is very misleading. It is not the performance of the model! It's just the raw data. Patients by how well we think they might recover vs. how well they discovered. The goal of the model is to figure out how will recover well. Literally, nothing in that figure is an output of the model.

> In case of stroke lesions affecting the performance of parcellation, the correspondence part of the lesion on the unaffected hemisphere was used and interpolated over the lesioned brain as a brain transplant and fed into the above-described structural imaging processing.

The classifier will trivially discover that you are doing this, and it's almost certainly correlated with terrible outcomes. (PS: should be "corresponding" part) This alone calls into question all of the results and never should have gotten past anyone. Just because you can't tell as a human, doesn't mean the data manipulation isn't immediately obvious to even a simple model like an SVM.

> By means of k-means clustering, patients were identified as fitters, i.e. revealing a proportional recovery, and non-fitters, i.e. patients lacking proportional recovery.

Good god, why? Just set up a simple criteria and use it. This kind of strange arbitrary boundary in your data that comes from k-means can only hurt your model.

Finally: The results are terrible. When cross-validating the model does well, 83% accuracy (87% precision). But on the external data the model is worthless. 60% accuracy, 53% precision.

They provide no trivial baselines. They don't even list of the base rates for their dataset (I'm guessing that out of their main dataset the classifier is just operating at chance at 60% accuracy / 53% precision is just the base rate).

Their data seems to be horrific. Half the patients in the 2nd dataset don't have data for both time points. How can they be assigned to groups that fit or don't fit without this basic data? They don't even describe results on their 3rd dataset.

They don't bother to compute a confidence interval, which will be huge because they have so little data.

Seriously. Authors. If you are reading this, reach out to a machine learning person. If you don't know anyone, reach out to me, I'm a scientist at a major US university. Papers like this just pollute our science and are a total waste of time on your part.
> I've literally heard native Indonesians refer to their language as just "bahasa", though admittedly those same speakers told me off for doing it myself

The second part could be indicative of this being usage only acceptable for 'insiders' to employ, and the first part could mean but does not have to mean that outsiders / speakers of other languages / in other countries could and should use those very words. For example, in an American context one often hears "this country" to mean the USA, but that cannot be transported into contexts based outside the USA. Similarly, there's 우리나라 /uri nara/ lit. 'our country' > "Korea" in Korean but you wouldn't say "I'm flying to Urinara" or "I'm flying to Our Country" when you're about to board a plane to Seoul. In Japanese and Taiwan, the Japanese language and the Chinese language are often referred to as 國語 lit. 'national language' > "Japanese" or "Chinese" (depending on the language used). Of course you can't normally say "我不會講國語" in Chinese to mean "I don't speak Japanese" except when the context is clear and the listener can be expected that 國語 may mean Japanese in Japanese.

So Indonesians using "bahasa" in Indonesian doesn't necessarily license using that word in English.
There's nothing wrong with the keyboards.
I see what you're saying, namely that there's a disconnect between food/resource production and population growth in the 1st and 3rd worlds. But I would point out that there are many, many more factors involved beyond just food and other basic resources that influence population growth. Like you mentioned, child mortality rates are one, but cost of education and college are another. The Economist recently had an article about how many families don't have a 4th child because the majority of cars can only seat 2 adults and 3 kids.

I still don't see overpopulation as a serious future issue because much of the world is showing the same steady decline in birth rates to near or below population replacement levels.
I’ve had both experiences.

Like anything, it’s a complex of the doctor’s personality, personal motivations and their own contentment or lack thereof and how it manifests in their work.

One of the finest bedside manners and wholistic approaches was a doctor I’d had growing up who moved up here from Kingston, Jamaica. The life he had led up until his career as a GP forced him to maintain a “big picture” approach.

One of the worst bedside manners and considerations is a doctor who I can’t name or point to because he’s one of rather high standing in Toronto. A truly brilliant physician and technologist. Awful manner, poor communication. That’s compounded in emotional effect as it’s your life on the line and not theirs.

People are complex and some doctors prioritize their work with patients, others prioritize their research, others their personal finances and so on.

If possible, it’s best just to seek out help and insight elsewhere. Sometimes that second opinion doesn’t change anything, other times it’s fundamental.
https://publicintegrity.org/environment/the-invisible-hazard...

I imagine that keeping schoolchildren home from those schools would substantially help their respiratory health.
If the odd rubber band is the price I have to pay for nice, friendly men (and they are almost all men, for some reason) turning up at my door, and perhaps helping me if some disaster has befallen me, then it's a price I'm willing to pay.

Now, back to watching England getting slaughtered by Italy... oh, wait!
This post couldn't have come at a more perfect time. I recently got a call from a client who couldn't access their Unifi Cameras remotely anymore. Apparently the EOL for the self-hosted Unifi Video was was announced last year.

And the replacement solution is no longer self-hosted and is a hardware solution that costs a few hundred dollars to keep the system up to date.
>Podswap has stock of both new "blank" bud cases and batteries.

They seem very picky about the condition of the case on what you send in, so I'm not sure they have a stock of new cases.

See: https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0520/9856/4273/products/ai...
> I helped port the full back catalog of books from The Pragmatic Programmers over to Medium

People feed the beast and then wonder why it's come back for more.
Lucky for you that you haven't personally seen any case of long covid, I personally know two people suffering from it and third one bit more distant.

Two of those are in people 30-40 years old. Third one is over 60. One had some unusual brain fog and memory issues, second one is unable to work and still treated for various symptoms. The older one became housebound while before that she was self sufficient and even taking care for young girl from extended family. To think of it I also know of one very young person in family of my friends that had to be hospitalized multiple times for post covid stuff. He's not even 20.

You may of course discount all of this that it couldn't happen spontaneously or after a bad flu. That's why I believe long covid is a thing mostly because of reports comming from all over the globe and associated research not because of those personal stories.

If you need evidence of your own eyes to believe something I don't envy you or anyone that relies on your decisions.
> There are dozens of companies who would no doubt start making inexpensive hearing aids tomorrow. Absent government regulation, they already would be.

And with the lack of certification requirement, someone will start cutting corners to make an extra chunk of profit. Just imagine a faulty hearing aid that fails while a person is driving, and the person causing an accident as a result. Good luck suing anyone over that one. Or people mis-tuning hearing aids leading to more damage than before.

Another thing I can easily imagine is unscrupulous manufacturers using banned chemicals to manufacture the hearing aids. We have enough of this sort of shenanigans with nickel allergies in jewelry.
The average devs with 10 years of experience also make ton of mistakes, even when developing the 10th project. Projects are not all the same. I've met people with 10+ years of experience, labeled as seniors who write horrible code.

I'd take a smart junior who can think logically and who is passionate about the job over someone who has 10x 1 year experience and doesn't want to learn, or is just not smart enough. Chances are a good junior can beat such senior after a few months (sometimes even weeks) of experience on the project. And the junior typically won't fight with the tech lead over something they "have always been doing" (even when it was an anti pattern).

Anyway, it is good to have at least one senior dev who is an expert on the tech stack / architecture used.
> Almost everything is right-wing in the US.

Compared to what?

Compared to a dozen or so of the most liberal countries in the world, all of which are located in Europe - fair enough.

Compared to the world as a whole today, including Asia and Africa? Almost everything in America is left wing, including the republican party and USA today.

Compared to virtually any government anywhere prior to 1800? Again, almost everything in America is left wing, including the republican party and USA today.
You make it more complicated than it is: we have easy access to tons of calories, our lives don’t require us to move a lot and we are hardwired to find/eat calories and store them in the body for worse times.

Low-carb certainly isn’t the solution. For some it is, but not for most.
"monopolies are able to exist because of some sort of legal authorization or protection"

The entire point of patents...
Weird that they are doing it in total silence though.
Tried it, app is well designed and really polished :)

Scrolling feels super slow when there are lots of images.

Which framework was used to build the mobile app?
That is reason enough, in my view. If you're going to install fail2ban for instance I feel that you might as well also change the port.
I'm almost two years into self-employment and I'm wondering when I'm going to either stop cutting myself on things or land a position with some people who can show me their cool scars for a while.

This forum is the closest thing I get to coworkers and I don't even understand what half of you are saying. I'm fortunate for the opportunities that I have, but my antisocial tendencies and lack of professional peers can make progress a bit of a bear on occasion.
I have a QR code for guests and Wi-Fi too. Unfortunately it doesn't seem to work as expected on iphones but works fine on Android. Wouldn't think a QR code was platform specific.
‹mutters something about the rat race›
Is that really going to be a thing? Earbuds have been out for a long time and are easily capable of destroying hearing.
Facebook shares lots of data about people who have never signed up for a Facebook account. Everyone is a Facebook "user" whether they want to be or not.
Understanding the bias of the author is important: He is an optimistic guy who dislikes capitalism and has been writing some posts critizing crypto for a while. Seems to be someone focused on macro economy.
Or none at all.
The only people that can pay to be an "astronaut" atm are billionaires, or close to. Someday maybe it might be something ordinary people can do, long after I am dead. When Disney builds a park in orbit or on Mars and fills it up, then space travel is affordable (if you view Disney as affordable today!).
Ravelry is kind of amazing. Really well run community for knitting, yarns, etc.

https://www.ravelry.com
It was not great before patents when a big company could steal your work and put you out of business after you put in the R&D effort.
I often choose simple, useful projects for learning new technology… i can’t learn something new if I am not using it for something useful, but I also don’t want to try to learn something new WHILE also solving a challenging problem… so something simple like this is a great sweet spot to learn new tech.
Wouldnt it be anti competitive? The good thing about capitalism is supposed to be competition of products and prices. The cartel/monopoly thing destroys that.
I think it’s the latter. Aerospace engineers do have fads like the aerospike rocket engine. Nobody’s launched one (that I know of) because it simply doesn’t work yet. The cost of failure is just too catastrophic. Instead, there’s a focus on the tradeoffs and lots of experimentation to get it right.

In software, if the prototype didn’t work, you tweak it and try again or even deploy with known issues and fix in prod later (looking at you game companies). If you had to throw away all your code and start over completely with each iteration like you do with rockets, you’d see more discussion and testing out earlier (in fact, you tend to see this more in critical software —- eg, the software that controls those rockets).

Finally, very few companies throw as much money behind business software as they do at rockets. I’d bet heavily that v8, .net, hotspot, or even gcc (metaphorical engines for your code) have only a fraction of the resources spent on a new rocket design.
This is amazing and inspirational engineering.

Can they scale this up to taking humans & large payloads to orbit? It seems hard to run this business sustainably on millionaire tourists, 4-minute science experiments and ads. Anyone have an idea of what their business plan is?