skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Frankly, putting up my name with my medical history has far less to do with having the two linked and far more to do with "I'd rather not have a future employer have an easy link to my social media information".

Oh genetic disorders, you didn't ask about that earlier. My family is a carrier for cystic fibrosis. Is that something that's supposed to be super terrible to share?

I'm not the GP, but frankly I think it's a little crazy how worried everyone is about being identified through round about methods in medical data. Google has a far better bead on exactly who I am than any doctor and, frankly, I'm far more worried about that advertising profile than I am about the "what if's" of my medical data being shared between hospitals and doctors (and potentially being leaked).
>El Salvador has found itself in an ever-deepening sinkhole of debt, with its cringe president lobbying the International Monetary Fund for a $1.3 billion loan, according to the magazine, and shortly after the Bitcoin City announcement in November, the country’s sovereign bond dropped from 75 cents to 63 cents overnight and is now at 36 cents.

The above sentence is nearly impossible to parse, it has so many commas and clauses.

I agree that the financial decisions of the current administration of El Salvador are unwise- but saying the president of El Salvador is ‘cringe’ is so low effort it’s insulting.
Ok then next steps:

Plan A:
- sit and do nothing "it's impossible to release any data, too bad, we'll never know!"

Plan B:
- "we have a risk that a few % of ppl may be identified if we already know their medical history/details, it's impossible to release any data, too bad!"

Plan C:
- "we remove the biggest identifiers to make sure the majority of the people cannot be reasonably identified, this is going to take a few days or weeks of work but will bring benefits to the overall population and transparency on the treatments"
Companies with literally thousands of people with billions of dollars to invest have a hard time making their products bug-free no matter how many times they patch and rewrite, and we're talking about dealing with computers here. Exactly how many years of rewrites are you willing to spend on each piece of legislation to make it bug-free? Is it even remotely realistic? or will your solution grind legislation to a halt?
An entire article devoted to telling us lockdowns were a very very bad idea, without saying lockdowns are bad.
Answer yes/no first
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You can innovate in batteries while standardizing on form factor.

I very much don't want to have to buy ten different batteries for devices and have none of them work with each other.

AAA, AA, C, D, 9V... these are all very much handy to have. You can find them with Alkaline, NiCad, NiMH, Li-ion, and the only thing is whether you can, and if so then how often, you can recharge them
Prompt based security has been shown to be a bad "solution" over and over again. The primary goal of which degenerates to "blame the user".

Even if you do want to do that, what do you ask the user? Even the basic entitlements often require some amount of knowledge a regular user simply doesn't have. Then the law itself has rules prohibiting restrictions, and I would bet someone will claim dialog based security counts as a restriction.

The law even makes it hard (impossible?) for a platform to protect even a modicum of user privacy. Section 2 (b) 3&4 explicitly prohibits a platform owner from placing restrictions on collection and use of user data.
You don't need to focus your conspiracy theory on clinical trials, there are billions of people who got the vaccine. Are you saying that every single of all those countries are part of a giant conspiracy that are hiding the impact of the vaccine under the rug?
Whoops, they beat me to it. Super nice, I hope it gets very well received by all people interested in FP.
Why don't you include a step where you ask patients if they're ok with their medical history being put in a public s3 bucket?

I'm fully supportive of the right to pseudonymous speech, but it strikes me that you are in an awfully awkward position of speaking anonymously while demanding that you should have access a trove of patient history without signing any sort of data use agreement and without even the most basic step of getting permission from the people whose patient history you insist on seeing.
Apple doesn't have the authority to shut down Meta's business. Only our congress, department of justice, and the governments of foreign markets have this power.

You can measure just how big of a monopoly the iPhone App Store is by how many billions of dollars shift with simple changes to Apple policy.

As much as I hate ads and tracking, it's not Apple's right to be the sole defender of the American people. That's what laws are for. (And besides, Apple is already a direct beneficiary of all that tracking themselves. They're absolutely doing business and making decisions based on your behavior.)

Too much economic activity (50+% of American computing) is happening on iPhone for Apple to be afforded the monopolistic privilege of taxing it all. Apple makes so much money from sales of their remarkable hardware, subscription services, and other incredible and highly profitable business units that they won't be at risk by giving this up.

For the health of the broader industry and the enduring benefits of fair competition, Apple must relinquish the App Store monopoly.

Apple will be more than okay. And they'll shift efforts that used to be spent on protectionism into true innovation.
I don't mind the use of an acronym if it's harmless, like if JEDI was Java Embedded Device Implementation or something like that. But in this case it's Justice, Equity, Diversity, Inclusion, which means these people are trying to attach themselves to the image of fictional paragons of light. This means they have failed to understand their position in a political debate with different sides, instead implying a false dichotomy where those who oppose them are surely the dark side. This kills the debate and makes it a non-discussion; kinda like a scientific work with a non-falsifiable null hypothesis.

Edit: the "gaslighting" comes from their article, too.
Russia already has a direct border with a number of NATO countries. Ukraine will not be the first. I think it would be the 5th.
They also maximize the number of engineers and managers needed to oversee the whole thing. People are unlikely to speak against something that guarantees their employment.
‘You know words have “co” in them’ seems like an easy thing to think of.
Congrats, I haven't made it that far yet, buy enjoy working anyway.
Exactly. At least make it something like --jps for strings and --jpn for numbers.
So the "getting out of consciousness" that is the relaxation experience many "habitual" smokers have is worthless, while changing your state for ritualistic purposes is helpful?

Both are very tiny self-reported effects that are close to non-observable for outsiders. Why would one outweigh the other, if you allow self-reported epsilon effects at all?
A small, but growing community, I'd say :-)
This seems to work for me just fine on Pixel 6 Pro on Android 12. I created a QR code for several of the examples and then scanned it.

I wonder if the reporter's QR code creation app was doing the correction and not Google Lens?

Edit: oh I see it's only if you do it through the camera app
I remember those! A family friend had one and he called them the "Oh Shit" handles! I had a blast riding back there for short trips. I think I was 12 or so. The 80s and early 90s were a very different time.
There are definitely lineups like that, yes. It's a bit unfair to put all lab leak stuff in the China sabre-rattling camp, but there's plenty like that too.

Havana syndrome is another one. I was accused of being a unwitting stooge for Putin (on HN) for doubting "Havana syndrome", or at least saying it's also really quite plausible that there's nothing there -- no weapon, no attacks. Now the CIA itself says it does not exist. Which is an interesting position to be in because based on historical precedent you should never trust a word the CIA says, unless they're admitting "we did that"!
He is mentioned repeatedly in the article.
didn't netflix have to stop their algorithm recommendation competition because people were starting to identify real people through the samples provided?
There are some other languages in Spain like Basque (pretty well known), Galician and Aragonese https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aragonese_language
Fair enough, what do you propose to give access to people who want to help ?
Show HN: API with Linux Syscall information for various architectures
The "no amount proven safe" mantra is refuted by epidemiological studies on the subject. There's no evidence that modern drinking is something to worry about.

It's well known that pregnant women become more risk avarse, and humans being bad at risk assessment in general they tend to channel those worries in relatively unproductive ways.

E.g. worry about obscure food safety issues, as opposed to something like traffic risk, or just focusing on staying generally healthy and anxiety free.
> My use of the word hierarchy in the subtitle of this work is meant to be provocative. There is a strong theoretical need to contrast hierarchy with the more widespread use of the words class and State; careless use of these terms can produce a dangerous simplification of social reality. To use the words hierarchy, class, and State interchangeably, as many social theorists do, is insidious and obscurantist. This practice, in the name of a "classless" or "libertarian" society, could easily conceal the existence of hierarchical relationships and a hierarchical sensibility, both of which — even in the absence of economic exploitation or political coercion — would serve to perpetuate unfreedom.

> By hierarchy, I mean the cultural, traditional and psychological systems of obedience and command, not merely the economic and political systems to which the terms class and State most appropriately refer. Accordingly, hierarchy and domination could easily continue to exist in a "classless" or "Stateless" society. I refer to the domination of the young by the old, of women by men, of one ethnic group by another, of "masses" by bureaucrats who profess to speak in their "higher social interests," of countryside by town, and in a more subtle psychological sense, of body by mind, of spirit by a shallow instrumental rationality, and of nature by society and technology. Indeed, classless but hierarchical societies exist today (and they existed more covertly in the past); yet the people who live in them neither enjoy freedom, nor do they exercise control over their lives.

No one's going to have time to read this whole thing to comment here, but I skimmed some of it and I get the impression that this guy wants to comprehensively eliminate "hierarchy" in favor of "freedom." That kind of thing strikes me as one of those perhaps philosophically satisfying but completely impractical ideas. I really doubt humans were built to implement such a radical vision (maybe something very far in that direction is possible, but not so complete as implied here).
The UI on Apple Music is atrocious. It isn't possible to go back a track when using their radio mode, nor is it possible to even see what the previous song was in case you decided you want to hear more by the artist or whatever. Truly awful design.
Couldn’t git lfs handle large non-textual files? How does SVN hand large non-textual files?
Microsoft winning at streaming and mobile would be horizontal integration, not vertical wouldn't it? Neither of those things are part of the "supply chain" of their core gaming business.
Sure, but only for certain uses of the term ‘possible’. There are solutions to Einstein’s equations that imply faster than light travel or communication, but that doesn’t mean such solutions correspond to physical reality. For example such solutions can include terms in the equations that correspond to negative energy densities, or infinite masses, or trajectories around infinitely extended one dimensional massive objects. Such solutions somewhat stretch the meaning of the word ‘possible’.
It's being replaced by historical market transaction data. Like stocks prices are based on last price.
This headline should mention that she was a 19 year old who just set a world record of being the youngest woman to fly solo around the globe.
How/why would the AppointmentModule suddenly start using CPU? Where does it get called from? Unless a web request comes in that requires it, it shouldn't be called at all. If all your incoming requests call the LoginModule, the AppointmentModule shouldn't enter the picture.
No, but the problem is that a scientifically informed (evidence based) public health site communicating risks should be consistent and shouldn't use inconsistent absolutist language.
Thanks, the text was much harder to read in the mirror.
Crypto and fraud. Shocked I tell you! Shocked!
Great to see further progress on CHERI!

See the following for theoretical foundations for the work:

Linux 60th Anniversary Keynote

https://t.co/IRe3vpMlWn
Decided to check the QR codes in the image at the top of the article:

- never
- gonna
- give
- you
- up

Rickrolled by QR!
The client code which defaults to STS in us-east-1 includes the AWS console website, as far as I can tell.

Real question, though - are those genuinely separate endpoints that remained up and operational during the outage? I don’t think I saw or knew a single person unaffected by this outage, so either there’s still some bleed over on the backend or knowledge of the regional STS endpoints is basically zero (which I Can believe, y’all run a big shop)
But the peer who reviews your code will hate it.
Obviously I'm on the outside looking in here - can't say anything with confidence. But I've been on call consistently for the past 9 years, for some decent sized products (not Roblox scale, but on the order of 1 million active users), mitigating more outages than I can count. For any major outage, the playbook has always been something like this:

1. Which system is broken?

2. Are there any recent changes to this system? If so, can we try reverting them?

They did "1", quickly identified Consul as the issue. They made a significant Consul change the day before, one they were clearly cautious/worried about (i.e. they'd been slowly adopting the new Consul streaming feature, service by service, for over a month, and did a big rollout of it the previous day). And once they did identify streaming as the issue, it was indeed quick to roll back. It just seems like they never tried "2" above, which is strange to me, very contrary to my experience being on call at multiple companies.
Sealand: A peculiar ‘nation’ off England’s coast
Trusted by the virtue of curiosity seekers.
>... my name with my medical history...

>My family...

>... I'm far more worried about that advertising profile than I am about the "what if's" of my medical data...

Again - yours. It's great that you're fine with your data being public, but as is evidenced by the way certain posts in this comment chain are being down/upvoted, clearly many other people share the opposite view and would prefer their data remain private.
Write more. It's great.
Have you seen Sam Simmons tv series Problems? You might like it. Its not related, just you might like it.
See also: the AOL search CD ROM set and many other releases where it turned out that anonymous data isn't.
Sigh. There is literally nothing I like about the changes in Android 12 versus 11. This seems like yet another shoe-horning in of "cleverness" when it wasn't invited and in this case appears to be outright broken.

After disabling every single assistant or enrichment option I could find, Android is still putting auto-reply prompts into any notification that has a reply button. GO AWAY!
Amazon's interesting because when you look at their premium tier, it's just under $0.01 / stream. But on a blended basis when you are include their ad-supported streams and their Prime Music streams, it's actually a bit more than $0.007 / stream so better than Apple.

I can't easily pull our Tidal numbers unfortunately.
> Fortunately, the fuzzy bottom doesn't affect the performance of the shoe.

That's false. They slide all over the place on tile and polished floors. They're terrible. I've abandoned them for Vans. Maybe they've improved in recent years but they lost me long time ago.

I can hardly think of anything more ridiculously overpriced than some canvas, rubber, and eyelets for $60. Then they have the gall to add extra crap that wrecks the shoe to pinch a few more pennies.
I’m not the person you’re replying to, but 80% of my record collection is not on AM (or spotify), as well. Hardcore punk!
The majority of experts will agree, that restricting sideloading is not 'necessary for the security'.
The author makes a lot of claims such as

> Until this phase of history or prehistory, the elders and males rarely exercised socially dominant roles because their civil sphere was simply not very important to the community. Indeed, the civil sphere was markedly counterbalanced by the enormous significance of the woman's "domestic" sphere. Household and childbearing responsibilities were much more important in early organic societies than politics and military affairs. Early society was profoundly different from contemporary society in its structural arrangements and the roles played by different members of the community.

Are these based on any kind of archeological evidence?
Go to work in the field.
Alternatively we could argue that the HN realm is some kind of weird partially-albeit-loosely rules-based environment that doesn't represent reality more than superficially, and that the little arrows, karma counting, and ladder-climbing (influence or points) are a sad, incomplete replacement for true human connection.

Who's to say, really? Is any other environment much different?

In conclusion: I'm not sure whether I understand my original comment, either. It probably says more about me than expected, and perhaps to boost my ego further, I should follow my own guidance and walk away from that :)
If the situation is serious enough, you'll have several layers sitting together at the status update meetings to hear it straight from the dog's mouth.
I love that this comment can be applied to both Russia and Ukraine.
bottom-line-oriented bankers?!? Well, I never!
A strict data use agreement signed by a real person with tangible assets and reputation at stake, outlining the acceptable and unacceptable uses of the data and well as appropriate data handling rules.

Until/unless patients agree otherwise.

I.e., the status quo.
>>it is the end of the semester, and I've just discovered I've forgotten about an entire class for most of the semester. Then I wake up.

I used to have this exact same dream for years after graduating from college.
Hasn't the Casimir effect given possible real life negative energy densities?
Textbooks, meta-analyses, asking researchers personally (multiples of them), and individual studies (also multiple, never rely on a single one)
> High-Frequency Trading - equities

> Commodities - Gold, Silver Stock indices

?

It doesn't help for FX that it is effectively unregulated.
What is the specific basis for your belief that patient re-identification is possible? The federal government has provided clear guidance on de-identification which should eliminate that as a serious concern.

https://www.hhs.gov/hipaa/for-professionals/privacy/special-...
I am sure this is not about Apple being altruistic or caring about artists at all. All streaming services pay out about 70-80% of their revenue. It just happens to be that for Apple Music "money to be paid to rights holders" / "number of total streams" equals a slightly higher "payout per stream" than their main competitor. There are other players on the market that pay twice or even three times as much per stream compared to Apple Music.
If you knew you needed it, you had foresight. You were just not paying close enough attention to what you were doing. Perhaps you need to slow down?
The reason it's shallow is this is directly addressed by the content of the article. The author starts out the essay by giving all of the reasons we have to believe that our relationships with pets and other humans are mutual, i.e. closeness in evolutionary distance, the fact that we're all social creatures that form bonds within our own species that are clearly advantageous to us and friendship makes sense from that standpoint. It then contrasts that with a traditional naive view of octopuses as loners that either mate or kill each other when they meet in the wild, giving reason to doubt that they would form friendships with humans.

It then goes on to complicate that narrative, claiming that more recent discoveries indicate many species of octopus are, in fact, social creatures, and older understanding of them was likely due to insufficient observation and the fact they hide themselves so well.

It's quite an in-depth essay with a lot of information in it that addresses this exact question with nuance, research, anecdotes, from every side of every possible answer. It deserves better than a pithy response implying the author never thought to just ask the reverse question. He definitely already thought of this.
> extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence

I think you've got the sign on your skepticism reversed. The burden of proof is very much on those who claim that FTL travel is possible.

From Wikipedia:

The special theory of relativity implies that only particles with zero rest mass (i.e., photons) may travel at the speed of light, and that nothing may travel faster.

As of the 21st century, according to current scientific theories, matter is required to travel at slower-than-light (also STL or subluminal) speed with respect to the locally distorted spacetime region. Apparent FTL is not excluded by general relativity; however, any apparent FTL physical plausibility is currently speculative.

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faster-than-light
I admit, I did a double-take: thought it was a joke,at first... like those meme-oriented O'Reilly book covers.
Or we can call it the Hash-based Ordinary Daily Lending Rate
I've had a number of things stolen over the years, but somehow there isn't a whole lot of resources put into it. Strange how that works. Why should these people get preferential treatment with an entire department dedicated to tracking those who may try and defraud them when running their tax avoidance scheme?
Deployers of QR code MUST now embed some form of a checksum value of undisclosed algorithm to protect the original URL.

Hence another frontier of cat-and-mouse game of security theater has emerged.
I think the difference is that there is something to be gained in exchange for the risk posed by cosmic rays during air travel, so people are more interested in taking a nuanced approach to it. Meanwhile second hand smoke is a nuisance at best and a legitimate health concern at worse. Most people (myself included) are happy to ban smoking on airplanes or in restaurants even if the health benefits are negligible at best.

I do agree though, studies like this should always include useful context rather than just making absolutist statements. Perhaps alcohol and tobacco smoke need something similar to the banana equivalent dose used when talking about radiation exposure.
People instinctively want to keep their head out of water. In floatation tanks they give you ear wax to plug your ears, and the salt water is supposed to support the weight of your head, but basically only your face will stick out. So you might over compensate to prevent your eyes and nose from being submerged.

Not sure if this works for everyone though, different shapes and sizes of head and neck.
The is actually kind of annoying behavior. My work's phone system emails me voicemails as a sime email with a wav file attached (why wav? arent we 30 years past that for spoken text?). When I tap the wav file to listen to it, fine, but then I get in my car and it fires up and plays that voicemail.