skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Your claims were as follows:

1) BigTech commissars currently get to define racism.

First, "BigTech" isn't a thing. Despite what many right-wingers currently believe, there isn't a cabal or conspiracy involving all American tech companies, this is an ill defined term which only serves as a vague epithet and strawman enemy, like "the left" or "the gays."

Second, there are no "commisars." The implication here is that tech companies have dictated the definition of racism to the population by fiat, like Communist dictators, but this clearly isn't the case. Rather, social media has caused movement from the ground up.

None of the links you've provided demonstrate that racism is defined by an authoritarian conspiracy among tech companies.

2) BigTech companies are more powerful than governments.

This is absurd on its face. The US could repeal Section 230 tomorrow and social media would collapse. The government could roll in with tanks and guns and burn Facebook to the ground. "BigTech" only exists to the degree and in the form that governments allow.

Take a look at the recent controversy over OnlyFans. An entity more powerful than governments wouldn't be at the mercy of a payment processor, since governments, at least, can define the laws under which payment processors operate.

None of the links you've provided demonstrate that any tech company is more powerful than governments. To the contrary, some show that tech companies are beholden to government.

3) due to their downstream effects, they can bully even BigMedia.

I don't even know what this is supposed to mean. But none of your links prove it either.

So we're left with your triggered logorrhea in this comment, where you've apparently forgotten your entire premise and decided to go on a rant about social media "censorship." This conversation has been had a thousand times on Hacker News, it's a turd eternally swirling around the frictionless fluid that is this forum. Feel free refer to any one of those, I don't even feel like pretending to care anymore, it's off topic anyway.
One of them, huh. Yeah... But I'm so sick of going through the systems. Maybe another good doc will show up in this shithole part of the world.
Someone just needs to make a niche search engine that caters specifically to blogs. Preferably as a labor of love instead of a get rich quick scheme.
I mean if Google is serious they should buy Cerner and a few medical device manufacturers.

I don’t see federation of health records as all that interesting. Most people get comprehensive care from a major hospital.. I’ve taken records from one place to another and guess what, it’s basically a DVD of PDFs and images.

I don’t actually think it’s a real use case when you are in a network like that.
You could run it all inside a virtual machine.
Solar generation peaks roughly at the same time that air conditioning loads peak.

Making commercial buildings put solar on their roofs and over their parking areas would help a lot.

Giving people incentives to put in battery storage to do load shifting would also help a lot since AC load is local to a building.
a bit more until the virus runs out of variants, or in a very rare case becomes able to duck the immune system.

a bit more until there are no more infectable hosts, and a variant spills over from our species of succeptability to another of succeptability that will allow greater transmission, wash rinse repeat. this or very similar has happened 6 or perhaps 7 times as evidenced by the endemic corona virus we all experience on a regular basis
That would show up in the test positivity rate, as it would mess with the denominator. In my area it's pretty low (2.5%) still, despite case counts rising which shows that lots of people are testing negative.

Also your claim about people with the vaccine still being infected/infectious is a pretty bold claim. That's not settled science, and it's quite likely (and consistent with other viruses and vaccines) that the immune system fights off a COVID infection before it becomes communicable in most immunized people. There are definitely breakthrough cases but it's not clear that the majority of cases behave this way.

Of course we'll likely never know for sure because of the stubborn 30-50% who refuse to get vaccinated.
Often conspiracy theorists will take evidence against their conspiracy and twist them into evidence for it. “Of course, that’s what the Apollo astronauts would want you to believe!” The evidence against is actually evidence of an even bigger conspiracy!
I made a code challenge which consisted basically on some simple ETL stuff, get data, parse geoJSON into a State, return data in json format in an api endpoint including pinging some random example api, which casually the day I sent the assignment and was testing it, would be crashing and giving nulls for the positions. It was because some CDN/DNS provider du jour (can't remember exactly which was down. So whatever was auto-generating random gps locations wasn't working it this small time window and would make my otherwise correct code and tests fail, I explained all this and got hired, but I could haven't had the luck to read about the down issue on HN and just be f***
Why Netflix Phishing Just Won't Go Away – By Systemnest
Current blockchain technologies aren't scalable enough for storing clinical data. The volumes are just way too high. And blockchain doesn't really give us anything we need. There are only a limited number of payers and providers, and they can all trust each other to an extent based on legal agreements. Or at least they can trust a smaller set of organizations which act as centralized data aggregators and network hubs. For compliance reasons we also need the ability to permanently and completely delete patient records, which is problematic with blockchains that only allow appending blocks.

HL7 standards don't really dictate any particular architecture, they just define public APIs and interoperability formats. The data models are inherently complex because the problem domain is complex; attempts at simplification tend to cut off important use cases.
https://www.entechin.com/python-if-else-one-line-statement/
Well, in other electronic device, say one type of temperature sensor, let's say microchip's MCP9701A you can have accuracy of +/-2 Celcius with a precision of 0,01V per Celcius.

In this case Accuracy mean the reference as in: this device reads 10C but could actual temperature could be 8 or 12.
Because it drift according to multiple factors.

Precision means the linearity or if you prefer resolution (I think). Datasheet for the device says +/-0,5C meaning you can't have a reading more precise than 1C with that device.
I think the term linearity apply if you try to mesure below that value: the reading may become non-linear because of fluctuaction, noise or other errors in the device.
Fully open source hardware with an audited supply chain would be ideal, yes. We're not quite there yet, though some groups are working on it, and a device like the PinePhone is a big step in the right direction. There is still a risk that components may be unknowingly compromised but at least you're not stuck running software on "your" device which is publicly acknowledged to place the manufacturer's interests above your own.

It's still a good ideal to enforce compartmentalization and privilege separation, of course. That last sentence was aimed at knowingly running untrusted proprietary software and relying on compartmentalization alone—I didn't mean to imply that one should forego proper security architecture just because the hardware and software are a bit more open.
Can those daemons be deleted/renamed?
> how do you know whether people are Black?

I can't know without a genetic test. I can only assume.
I assumed based on what I see, often. If a person is dark skinned, it's a convenience to call them black or "looks black" because it's a defining characteristic (associated with the sense of sight, hence - looks) that is no different from saying someone looks white. This is highly efficient as part of our shared survival mechanism across the animal kingdom (eg Mullerian mimicry).

I don't find classifying people as being of a specific race, in absence of information, to be demeaning. How you use that information (known or assumed) to justify other actions, is what's demeaning.

My best friend looks Chinese. He's half black half Chinese. How do I know? We know the genetics of his parents (and him). Is he black?

I'm majority German mixed with English+Tennessee Chicksaw American Indian. Am I American Indian?

The distinctions are rather silly and will eventually fall out of concern as time marches on, imo.
Right. Actually, from what I understand, the situation is even more dire and Cesium clocks are (would be) complete rubbish at timing consecutive ticks, so when people say cesium clock they actually mean a quartz oscillator (ultrapure, double ovenized, binned, aged, etc -- but still quartz) to create the output and then a control loop to push/pull the quartz oscillator and frequency lock it to the cesium absorption line.

A similar trick is more commonly used to lock, say, a 5.8GHz on-chip oscillator to a 10MHz quartz oscillator, except in this case the quartz oscillator plays the role of long-term reference and the on-chip VCO plays the role of short-term reference, whereas in the case of an atomic clock it's the other way around.

The overall game is that different filters/oscillators are better at different timescales, so you use control loops to synthesize the best parts of each of them into a clock that is good at all timescales.
So what? I would argue that most companies don't live and die on their technical merit. I don't think that Toyota cares if they're using the latest JS framework or if their devs are 10% slower than the SV ideal. I for one struggle to think of a single company that is where it is only because of it's technical superiority, and not because they also knew how to sell that technology, how to talk about it, how to relate with people who should use it.
Ok, so the scenario is I buy a headset, create a fake account, load up on games, then abuse the account to get all of it refunded so as to effectively have free use of the games for the period of time.

But I still had to buy a headset, put in a real credit card, pass Facebooks initial "real identity" checks etc. With real human review and some basic policies to prevent repeat abuse this doesn't seem like something that would really open a wide level of abuse. Perhaps sporadic situations where the headset breaks the user decides its the easiest way to get all their purchases refunded.
I plugged my company laptop into my LAN, closed the lid, and tucked it near my router so I can use it as a jumpbox into the corp network to do my "actual work" from my battle-station while everything looks like it's coming from the laptop.

I also got IT to buy me a tablet for Slack/GMeet/whatever else doesn't work over ssh, and hide that away in a drawer during non-work hours. When they asked why I couldnt use my smartphone, I told them I have a BlackBerry and wouldn't mind them paying for a new phone :^)
Just today (possibly related) someone else tweeted:

Sooo, #Apple has pics of my boobs. During a discovery thing 3yr ago, legal forced me to hand-over all my texts. They refused to let me delete anything, even "fully personal," even when I said "by fully personal I mean nudes." They said they're in their "permanent evidence locker"

I questioned this aggressively. Apple R&D pressures us to have one iPhone for work & personal (so we can "live on" / dogfood). I said, if there's texts that aren't with employees and have nothing to do with work, I should be able to delete them or at least attachments. "Nope."

https://twitter.com/ashleygjovik/status/1428495420917837826
yeah thats it, apple is successful due to the "exploitation of human weakness" and not due to providing products that people use everyday and love.
> That would show up in the test positivity rate, as it would mess with the denominator. In my area it's pretty low (2.5%) still, despite case counts rising.

I don't understand this. My conjecture is that people who are infected but asymptomatic due to vaccination would have no reason to show up in the case counts either way, since they would not seek out being tested at all.

As for being a bold claim, it's established science that vaccination can not prevent infection. The virus can still enter your system. I agree that it is a debatable question as to how many and to what extent those vaccinated people are infectious to others.
Right. I knew a researcher at a well-known company who was developing software for kids. His attempts at getting outside funding were usually met with "This is great, I'd love to have this for my kids! But funding it? Let me get back to you on that."
And on top of that he manages to play multiple Paradox games to a sufficiently advanced level to realise their emergent dynamics! Makes one wonder where the time for sleep is!
The first tasks with debugging are reproducing the issue and then isolating the problem area through process of elimination.

I read the code and think through it to form a hypothesis, then use print/error logging to test the hypothesis and come up with a fix.

I haven't used a real debugger in a long time.
> "the vaccines are a serious public health risk"

That is not my claim. My claim is that compulsory mass vaccination using the current vaccines are a serious public health risk.

You are the one making an unjustified leap, in what appears to be closed minded defensiveness of your ideology. We are in agreement that vaccines serve a useful purpose and can help save lives. Not sure how I can be any more clear.

> It's not even in the same universe as what the papers are talking about, and is purely your own invention

It's obvious that you haven't read any of the cited references. Vaccine induced immune escape is a well known risk to experts in the field, and has plenty of historical precedent. To suggest otherwise is completely disingenuous of you, and only speaks to your lack of knowledge on the subject matter.
> Have the AI do most of the work, then have a human being sanity check it and add a personal note

This is exactly the Stitch Fix approach.
If I recall a few years ago Chatroulette really needed a "Hotdog/Not-Hotdog" classifier. I hope they solved that tiny problem using big data.
Who are some of the most attractive scientists?
Relevant:
http://n-gate.com/software/2017/07/12/0/

The site seems to block refeerer from hacker news so archive link: https://archive.is/xcQ5j
I ran ethernet down to my summer house about the same distance. The first 30m in external grade 25mm plastic round conduit, then underground. 1.5 to 2 spade depth, 2" of gravel/stones/whatever to run water out. I used underground stable plastic conduit, weld glued together. At 0.75ish spade depth, I put a black/yellow warning tape. I ran two CAT6 cables.

I ran a SWA (steel wire armoured) power cable down too in an earlier project and have four double IP66 (EU regs for water and dust ingress - 66 is good for an accidental spray from a hose)

My garden backs onto a park and my summerhouse has a POE switch with an AP in it. I can get wifi in the park to quite a long range. I also have a DECT extender in the summerhouse. The range I can use my house phones (I have an IP PBX) is pretty mad.
Richard Hipp returns (to The Changelog podcast)
Yep, your interpretation is correct, I was sloppy with my wording.
Yes, Facebook is a bunch of assholes. This is obviously a grossly incompetent scenario at best, and a deliberate rip-off at worst.

But the guy totally glosses over how they could have "beat his 2FA." That is a huge unanswered question.
How?

Understanding what I do is not something most people can do, and understanding I work 100% remote (as does our entire company), and understanding there is no way IT policy in our org can affect my hardware: How?
Algeria's Vast and Diverse South
Your tourist guide to the desert of Algeria, where the diverse cultures and the diversity of architecture and environmental diversity
"Do you think all violence is wrong, or only murder?" Of course there are degrees. I don't really see the gotcha here -- if you found out your favorite anime or Pixar movie was animated by slaves, would you still be able to enjoy it?
Besides the complexity, I think there's still merit in keeping the path the to the exit clear

If you're considering leaving a company, it's just another irem to have to deal with on the way out
OTOH, unless you power it off when not in use, it's still a spying device. Your own devices can at least be somewhat trusted.
Haha, from the article:

> We live in a culture where millions of people want to get rich quick — exhibit A: cryptocurrency, something that has no intrinsic value except as use as a form of exchange outside the banking system

I mean, a lot of people argue that is the value.
This is why unions exist
Standard advice in the nutrition community is to that most people should be substituting processed foods and meats in the diet with whole fruits, whole vegetables and whole grains (a "plant based" diet):

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4991921/

Healthy diets strongly correlate with both sufficient fiber and healthy BMIs. The point is that 95% of people don't have healthy diets. As long as diets remain so poor -- the phrase "standard American diet" purposely forms the acronym SAD -- there is no obesity mystery.
Let's break this down.

1. Is there or is there not a potential conflict of interest in the CEO of a "space traffic control" company being quoted as saying that "space traffic" is "out of control" and in dire need of solutions like the ones his company presumably sells or plans to sell? Why or why not?

2. Do you believe, generally, that the presence of potential conflicts of interest can be a valid and useful heuristic for evaluating the objectivity and trustworthiness of claims, especially unsubstantiated and relatively subjective claims like this one? Why or why not?

3. If yes, why not in this case?
A public system to enter data into, probably some sort of SAS or COT for most practices, has got to introduce far more insecurities than having the clerical staff enter it into the same backend the public system has to interact with.
We are better of if we vaccinate every 6-12 months. We are better of if we keep some social distance measures. So we should keep doing this as long as it is the better option. The goal is continue with our lives with the least damage from the virus.
No, I’m the one missing something. It tends to make people assume I don’t know what’s up technically.

Based on your experiences, I am going to assume you are not in the same situation. You will likely have better results for an otherwise identical request.

Have a good day.
There are other reasons but you're ignoring them.
Yes, Facebook really doesn't have a convincing argument why they will not just disable the social interaction features when the ban is made on that basis. They will say that they want to build social features into all their software as integral and therefore it is not possible but it doesn't pass muster to me .... it simply isn't that hard to make it conditionally available within apps and if it is that hard then it is Facebook's fault for engineering it that way.
1. Regulation
2. Regulation
3. Regulation
Netflix Phishing Changed the Game This Year
How about also starting mass campaign to get people healthy and taking appropriate supplements - using carrots where necessary?
Cool website. Percentage is a good place to start, but if you want to get closer to the alpha of a given idea, dividing the percentage return by its beta to the benchmark, then subtracting the return of the benchmark over the same period will get you closer.
If you’re using a Mac for work and personal stuff, you can use one of the LG monitors Apple sells as a hub. Single thunderbolt cable does all. :)
A little bit. It's mostly a time delay, since the alternatives to verify your identity seem to be a different emailaddress or a phone number and then you're back to square one imo. The phone number is still susceptible to social engineering and the alternative mail likely is too. Ideally I want something where keys gone = account gone. Now a dedicated scammer could still succeed and it sure doesn't provide any real safety for political groups which Google kind of claims it does by using testimonies from politically vulnerable people to "advertise" the Advanced Protection Program. This is a tricky situation though since your adversaries could get your keys and your password and then they control your account without any chance of getting it back, so it's definitely a double edged sword.
Countries have specific laws about age of consent. Being on the internet doesn't magically invalidate those laws.
It seems entirely reasonable to use costs to motivate people to either get vaccinated, or bear a larger share of the health cost burden, if they choose to take actions which cost society significantly more.
I'm talking about improvement on a percentage basis, not absolute: even if your productivity is improving linearly at 1 awesomeness-point per year, your fractional improvement ("% awesomeness gain per year") is going to trail off over time, which means where you are when hired really does matter more the more experienced you get. Based on informal observation, most (not all) good engineers tend to improve slightly sub-linearly, so it's even more tilted.
I didn't see a video conference web app. I did find the Video Room on the demos page, but it doesn't look suitable for real-world use. I didn't notice anything better in a quick scan of the janus-gateway github page, nor in debian's list of janus* packages.

Perhaps I'm overlooking something?
Remember the post-decomposition "soil" is extremely carbon rich.
I agree with this, it was my original expectation.
6502 is about as simple a CPU as you can get without it being a complete pain in the ass to work with. So it's a great CPU to learn nuts and bolts of computer hardware. It's pretty easy to interface it to external devices, pretty easy to learn the instruction set, there's a huge community of enthusiasts for it, it's very cycle efficient and very responsive to interrupts and somehow feels fast, and the ins and outs of how it functions are super well documented and reverse engineered.
It is almost as if JavaScript/WebAssembly need a sandboxing feature that allows a library to be LGPL (or GPL?) compatible - legally callable from your own JavaScript source code.

I wonder if a legal sandboxing feature could be designed, perhaps even misusing the technical words to munge the sandbox to be compatible? Misuse words like header file, Library, link, object code etcetera to make the sandbox legally compatible?
No. A precise oscillator ticks as close to the second mark as it can, but may be biased in one direction or another consistently. A precise clock can be thought of as a ruler with graduations down to millimetres, where every millimetre is 1% too short. In an accurate clock (like atomic clocks) every millimetre may be 10% too long or too short, but in a random direction.

In the precise ruler if you measure out a 1000 milimeters you will be 1 milimeter short. In the accurate ruler you will be 1/10th of a millimetre long or short.

Both are useful. If you're a carpenter measuring a space to put a cabinet in and you use the same ruler to measure the openings as to cut the cabinet you'd rather the ruler be precise than accurate. If you email those measurements to someone else you'd rather the ruler be accurate than precise.
It sounds like the problem at Google is no one's maintaining things once the person responsible for it moves on.
Great to see them reporting a negative result. We don't get enough of that in our industry.