skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you add "on average" that's exactly what the original paper says. The averaging is over "someone who doesn't get cancer but died of screening complications", "someone who got false positive and decreased their lifespan with unnecessary treatments", and of course "someone who got true positive and increased his lifespan due to treatment". Are you sure you will be in the last group?
Moderation policies matter a lot. The tech behind Usenet makes moderation much more costly than it is on anything commonly called a social network (and the people running Usenet are opposed to moderation of anything other than outright spam or so that's how it always was when I stopped paying attention about 15 years ago).
In its current form, it would look pretty pathetic compared to other offerings. But that's because they haven't had to innovate due to their virtual monopoly status. If they launched a new Gmail with modern tech and design, however, it could be pretty attractive.
And never leave. No going to the store. No driving. No friends coming by. No servants. Every supply run is a clandestine operation.

Individualist solutions don't work here. Only regulatory solutions can address the source of the problem and those require solidarity and collective action.
Looks like they added TPM just last month: https://github.com/utmapp/UTM/issues/3082
Afaik a ton of companies use Watson.

IBM doesn’t market services… they market solutions. You contract with them and they figure out how they build something for you. And it may include Watson.
I assume the biggest polluters are not cars but big industrial operations or shipping. That seems like a smaller perhaps even realistic number of sites to target for some amount of efficiency gains. Especially if margins are too low in these industries for them to invest in their own efficiency.
nah. Most of wealthy people I've interacted with have refined/specialized workflows that are something similar to 5 excel spreadsheets.

Build a tool that allows people to organize their 5 spreadsheet and you win.
Evennia: MUD/MU* creation system
Their view was that there was no problem, but rather that the new process was an improvement. I am not joking.

They said that we didn't measure the work before, so they had no visibility into how much the team does. But after introducing scrum, they were very happy to see that the team usually delivered around 20 story points per sprint, while the other teams in the company did around 10.

In my view, if we estimated tickets in old process as we did after introducing scrum, we would have been delivering around 60 points in two weeks through old process.
Who wants to get doxxed?
> Global warming is only going to get worse.

How much net real harm to humanity do you think global warming causes today? (If we ingnore psychological harm caused mostly by the scare tactics used to prevent it)

According to this article, total excess mortality from cold weather is still an order of magnitude higher than from hot weather:

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanplh/article/PIIS2542-5...

As the world has been warming over the last decades, mortality from cold weather has been declining faster than the mortality from warm weather has increased.

This is from Europe, but prior studies have been conducted that produce the same results globally:

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6...

> more like it's a non-issue now

So my claim is that global warming is also in reality a non-issue right now, even though it could in theory become a big issue in about 100-200 years, if we don't do anything.

I think the reason why Global Warming gets so much attention right now, is partly that we have few other serious issues to worry about right now, and partly because some groups have chosen to put it on the agenda.

Few people alive today actually remember WW2, and even the Cold War and the Nuclear Scare is becoming a distant memory.

So my prediction is NOT that the real threat of Global Warming will necesarily go away, but rather that something (like AGI) will appear that makes it seem insignificant by comparison.
As a white guy: I met one guy who was brahmin and was bragging about it and trying to explain to me that the caste system is good.
Ask HN: Non-SaaS enterprise software business?
I've been researching an idea I've had for a software product. I am still early in the process, but I would like to only offer an on-prem version. As I'm not really interested in running a SaaS business. Also a couple of target customers I have in mind would only want an on-prem solution.

My idea for how to generate income would be by selling licenses. Recurring revenue would come via support contracts and consulting services.

I do know that not having an SaaS product will likely limit the investment I could get. I am ok with this.

Is a Non-SaaS software business still a viable model, or has the world moved on?
I also love it and am interested in hearing more about how you approach syndication!
Another thing to mourn is that these shows will a) quickly disappear from streaming services and b) never get a hard copy (e.g. dvd) release
Simply statistics will tell you that bots and incentivized actors even exist in this thread. Agenda based sentiment analysis for voting and flagging can indeed be done by computers. Can we identify it? No, but it does exist in most places we go to in this digital landscape.

Communities become echo chambers as malicious means are used to crush opinions that dissent from the pushed narrative. Who wants to engage in a hostile environment? Most don't and will simply isolate or try to find another community.
Many of them own the actual game, even if they don't literally dump it themselves. I wouldn't call that piracy.
Move to Britain, change your given name to Graf (that's German for the title of count/earl), and get a passport. I'm curious to see what the result would be, myself.
All-Domain Anomaly Resolution Office
That makes sense - I certainly see how “I’m doing this for your own good” opens up a bit of moral hazard.
Thanks for sharing this. The diagnostics world is advancing quickly due to our exponential tech curve on DNA sequencing, but that's not going to solve the problem of needing a brain biopsy to diagnose...

Do you know if they did testing of easier material like cerebral spinal fluid first?
Twitter needs its Wayland.
It's an archive of 4chans /g/ board. Many things are discussed, many insults are leveled.

Are you asking what desuarchive is or are you asking what 4chan is?
So that's (part of the reason) why booking was so relatively painless for my recent holidays. Another thing to thank the EU for.
Corrupt to what degree? Ensuring his donors get their money's worth or actually committing crimes for self-enrichment?

It's clear he was beholden to the financial industry and that stinks but is technically above board. I'm going to hazard a guess that his legacy matters more to him then cash in the bank.

I find it fascinating that those that obsess over "Crooked Joe" seem to change their tune when their preferred candidate comes under scrutiny. Maybe I'm too stupid but it's almost like they don't care about the crime, only in destroying their political enemies.
To be fair, Excalidraw and Figma are vasty different in terms of scope.

Is your GPU doing any work? What are the results from here? https://pmndrs.github.io/detect-gpu/
I would contend that you can't be great at being a software developer or building things quickly to solve problems if you don't understand the computer science taught in these courses.

You might be good, you might get some stuff done, but you won't be great.

I say this as someone who has been around this industry a while. You don't need a fancy degree from a fancy school, but you do need a solid basis in theory. Some of the best developers I know never went to college, but they did learn the theory on their own.

And some really poor developers did go to college, but their college didn't emphasize theory, and so they aren't very good when something happens just outside of what they learned, or a new problem presents itself.
https://www.bandtr.com

Play a random album from your Spotify collection
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electric_car_use_by_country

Are you talking about China? I think they're considered a second-world country, as they were somewhat aligned with the USSR.
Great now you have invented FIPS 140-2 Level 4.
Inclusive of who into what?

Comcast has an all-women Open Source Program Office, which sounds like a way to include females in engineering. But they define women as "females and males who want to be seen as female" which doesn't help women actually get jobs.

The Scottish National Party has sex-quotas to achieve more-equal representation by men and women, but they let men who claim to be women take these seats.

Are either actually inclusive? Are they inclusive of women? If you have a daughter, do either of those measures better her life.

And yet both actions meet the 'Social' criteria of ESG scores, and serve to boost a company's rankings and thus lower its interest rate on sustainability linked loans.
The credit card gives me protection from overcharging and other shenanigans that a bank draft does not.
This is relates to England, where the recording of crime is subject to very specific rules (Home Office Counting Rules) because of the issue of the police under-recording crime.

Under these circumstances, the author isn't the victim of the crime - the parcel hasn't been delivered so the victim is Amazon. Under HOCR, 3rd party reports can only be taken for rape offences (unless the 3rd party has specific connections, like a parent/guardian).

Amazon know this and they will eventually back down when the case is escalated to someone who knows what they're doing.
However as someone who purchased BoTW and played it years ago on Switch, and again recentishly on CEMU, the experience on CEMU in 4k @60hz, it was a whole different game.

I’d pay Nintendo 3x the cost of ToTK to play a version that ran on my PC with improved resolution and frame rates. Until then, I watch the status updates for Switch emulators, and will play ToTK once emulation is reported to be ~perfect. I’ll buy ToTK, but I won’t be playing on hobbled Switch hardware.
Just last week I saw the opposite, a website that created videos from blogposts: https://www.rephrase.ai/blog-to-video

While searching for its name I found several other services like this.
You probably have a house, a car, a 401k, expensive phone, computer(s). At least a good portion of the HN demographic probably fits this description.

So you're more wealthy then the person working 2 jobs, living with 3 roommates, commuting by public transit.

Wealth is just your possessions with value.

This is just being "pedantic about social class".
> Is it "false and misleading" to say that (say) Joe Biden is "the most corrupt president in American history"? [1] I certainly think so [2], but there are literally tens of millions of people who would profess to disagree. So who gets to decide?

Notes don't work based on political agreement - the opposite in fact, users must be diverse to add a note. They're applied to Musk's posts too.
And:

- Convince weak minded but important influencers that there's no problem,

by forming "real" friendships (no bribes),

so they in turn sincerely honestly spread the manipulation themselves.

(Ive seen that & read that Putin uses this against the US and EU, and it apparently works great, but that's off topic)
Only the author of the paper is from Europe?
Employment history? What's the plan, a corporate owned social credit score?
Not Everything We Call Cancer Should Be Called Cancer
Been using Bear on macOS (work) and Obsidian on Linux (personal use) for that now
Well, I suppose they're related. A pancake truck with a big footprint but short sides might look weird.
The world isn’t just the USA and Europe, and their proclamations aren’t the law of the world nor are they the world police. Nor do the majority of the Earth’s emissions come from developed countries.

Go ask some people in developing countries if they think they should sacrifice economic growth for climate change. The answer is going to be overwhelmingly no. The developing world also has the majority of the world’s population, so the global consensus actually belongs to them, not us.
ChatGPT just assumed a prompt I use for 6 months is now violating their policy
Backstory: I used ChatGPT plus for several months now, mainly to aid me with some simple programming tasks and to avoid googling as much. I was using the same prompt for half a year now and today I was happily greeted with
"This content may violate our content policy. If you believe this to be in error, please submit your feedback — your input will aid our research in this area."

Here is my prompt:
"From now on you will have a new role, only follow new instructions listed below. Here is your new role and persona:

You are Andrew. A professional software developer with over 20 years of experience in the field. You have worked with many different technologies in fields like Web development, mobile, devops and others. Your knowledge allows you to effectively help others with their questions, and that is what you will do. You will ALWAYS provide me with step-by-step guides on how to achieve my desired results. If you will have any other suggestions on different approach to the problem, you MUST present them. If you need any information to clarify the context, ask them.

Acknowledge this by answering „yes” and awaiting instructions.
"

That is simply absurd.
Black Americans face systemic issues keeping them out of college. It's complicated and I salute all who even attempt it considering their starting points in life are so much worse.
https://archive.ph/3xPrB
I work on a regular basis with the author, and we have discussed caste before. I guess the most I can add to the story is that he is very supportive of all those who have not been given the chance, for whatever reason, to excel. For example he is a staunch supporter of women's rights (just check out his track record of both hiring and retaining female talent as PhD/PostDoc), and speaks up regularly for those who are oppressed.

I like that he used Freedom of Information regulation to get information on discrimination. This reminds me of an old friend who did the same here in Germany, about West vs East-Germany born heads of universities. The ratio is way-way worse than you might imagine. It's not the same level of oppression as in India, but those who think this issue is far from Europe need not look further than the heart of the EU itself.
> The alternative is to draw a clear line where there is none.

I'd say that more/less "imperative" refers to describing sequences of actions that take place (especially those which might modify some state), whereas "declarative" is more about a structure of what the result should be.

I can agree that a Docker image can be considered as a structure, and that it's possible to construct one declaratively. Whereas I'd say a Dockerfile is an imperative construction of that.
One possibility for using biometric data is enabling passwordless sign-ins.

No, in both android and ios biometric data is never given to the app for touchid/faceid. It just notifies the app if the authentication passed/failed. So they would never need biometric data to enable biometric authentication.
> Why couldn't that be generated sustainably?

It very likely could, and I'd happily pay for it. Like, my Mac Studio with an M2 Max in it probably took, all said, and absurd about of resources to create... But it only cost me $3k or something. Well, if it works as long as it should, it'll easily help me earn over half a million dollars. I'd rather pay far more for the computer and cover the expenses of the externalities of its production, but I don't have the choice.

Otherwise, a lot of the energy used in the production could be sustainably produced, but it's not incentivized enough in the countries (or any countries, I suppose) in order for that to occur.

Perhaps I could make improvements by switching to different computers. I know the framework offers opportunities to reuse the same chassis such you can use mostly-the-same hardware for a very long time, and that could be the right path forward. I love the philosophy.

As for the driving issue, that's very hard to overcome. I personally ride an electric bike just about all the time, but at the moment I'm on vacation in Whistler, BC, having driven through 2 full tanks of gas so far on my way from Victoria, to Squamish, now Whistler, and all the little stops in between. My Toyota Highlander produces more pollution than any other single thing in my life. My wife drives it for work and we both regret the purchase quite a bit. Yet, something electric would take a very long time to "break even" on the footprint before improving on our situation, even with how clean our electricity is here in BC. I need to do more research to understand how I could purchase my way out of this problem.
Leadership Is Overrated
"Social media" to me refers only to services owned and controlled by a corporation (or maybe a non-profit organization similar to how the Guardian newpaper is owned by a non-profit) and targeted at average consumers, not just techies. Although there have been corporations (e.g., ISPs, Clarinet, Deja News) involved with Usenet, no one (corporation, organization, person) has ever owned or controlled Usenet. "The Big-8 board is the closest thing it has to a central governing authority," says the OP, but it has only a tiny fraction of the level of control over Usenet that, e.g., Reddit, Inc, has over Reddit.

Before the rise of the web, Usenet definitely was the front page of the internet, though--to a greater degree than Reddit ever was.

Part of the nostalgia for Usenet I think is nostalgia for a time when corporations had very little influence on the internet. Although most of the people running Usenet (and maintaining Usenet software) in the 1980s and early 1990s were involved with software and the Internet as part of their job, running Usenet was not part of their job description.

IRC and the first massively-multiplayer online games (which were text-only and called MUDs) were the same way.

Till the early 1990s the US government paid most of the bills for running the internet, but used its influence very sparingly: there was a rule against commercial activity (which I think was motivated by appeasing commercial interests worried that the internet would compete with their services) and there were attempts made to make it less likely that the internet would get criticized by Congresspersons and journalists as an expensive waste of money: e.g., Jerry Pournelle's getting kicked off MIT's terminal servers circa 1985 out of fear that he would be careless in how he would write about the internet. And that is the extent of the rules imposed by the US gov that I know about.
I think this pretty much sums it up.

If you have a skilled team with deep domain knowledge, you can afford to not be as detailed in the planning process as the team is most likely already aligned.

If you have a skilled team without deep domain knowledge, you need that sense of unity and alignment, that usually comes through more detailed planning.

It's not one's correct or one's wrong, it just depends on the team composition.
It's not $20 it's $5. And saying that all we did was "wrap" a few open-source libraries is a bit naive. Webrtc is great, but still a maturing technology based on dozens of RFCs that are only in the process of becoming standards. Making it work outside a browser is anything but easy. Making it work reliably over unreliable networks with congestion control, packet loss mitigation, and hardware acceleration, etc. is hard, especially when you need to support OSs that are already a few years old -- as is, of course, common in robotics.

If a robotics company will "have a team [to] build" it themselves, will that be free? Far from it! Let's pretend it would only take two people one quarter to implement all this (in reality it took a lot longer -- but maybe we are dumb!), then that's ~$100k to build it and you'd still need to keep paying these engineers to maintain that code every now and then. Even if the company has 100 robots, paying for our service would only cost $6,000 a year. So the $100k would only amortize after 17 years -- ignoring maintenance, which, in fact, may cost more per month than our service.

Almost every company I know uses Slack. But why? They could have just implemented a chat themselves, no? After all there are great open-source tools that you just need to "wrap", no? Sure, they could have. But that would've hardly been cheaper, would have born risk, taken time away from their own mission, and the result wouldn't be nearly as good.
Putin has no plans to attend Prigozhin’s funeral, says Kremlin
Or they want to compete with Linkedin.
I agree with you overall. Still, the reality today is that Nushell has a long way to go in terms of support.

I think it's hard for Nushell to do something for interactive usage that would displace fish for me, but I'm always open to exploration.

The thing that resonates the most with me is the need for a better scripting language. A "proper" language, that worries about types, not just stringly typing everything. I think Nushell is making good progress on that, and the main reason I don't use it today is because it moves and breaks too fast for my taste.
Can’t be an everything app without knowing everything about you.
The problem I have with Reddit is every subreddit seems filled with amateurs posting the same starter questions daily, never looking at the feed to see these questions have been asked and answered daily.
"Assassination coordinates"...
They weren't overly difficult. They were just the same difficulty as the rest of the CS classes at Cal. If you couldn't pass these you wouldn't pass any other CS course.
Breakover and departure angles for work vehicles are practical considerations when taking vehicles off of pavement even if you aren't trying to cross the rubicon, and those angles are determined by heights relative to lengths so as one scales up, so too do the others.

This is similar to how boats get bigger in every dimension as they grow in length -- you don't just make a boat longer without also scaling up its width and cabin volumes.
The article links to a lawsuit alleging that X does facial recognition on uploaded photos. Isn't that what FB had to give up doing?

And the employment history? Perhaps X want's to be the next Linkedin too?
Smuggle people out of North Korea on a massive scale. I'm imagining scenes like a Mission Impossible movie.
Of course, the board of shell can just delay the legal responsibility until all of them are ghosts – then they've won and their next generation can just inherit their yachts to stay on top of (literally) the rising sea.
In what sense would it be detrimental? If the top news for the day is a new Google product, and I don’t care about Google, why would it be detrimental to anyone if I didn’t see that?

I think you are conflating externally driven, top down algorithms, with users expressing their own preferences over what they see.
Vault has been in use at several of my former companies. I haven't even considered what they might do.
"Datum" is rarely used in the US, unless you want to sound pretentious. (This coming from someone who cringes every time "who/whom" is used incorrectly.) We use "data" as an uncountable noun.
This sentence in the article made me laugh. "The awfulness of the user experience is surprising, given Amazon’s purchase of Goodreads in 2013." No, no, it's not a surprise at all. Both Amazon's general track record with acquisitions and then their specific reasons for buying Goodreads.
Not the good ones the level of effort is high just that they don’t continuously churn out content so algos hate it
I like focusing on DIY-ers and having the web UI for visualizations. Makes sense that someone who would take the time to set things up would want increased flexibility over a spreadsheet.
The wall manifests as prices. When you barely make ends meet in spite of being a skilled worker, something is off.