jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Indeed, all fair points.

Though I disagree that Hróbjartsson et al undermines the notion of many placebo effects.. or maybe I don't, depending on our definition of placebo effect.

If we define "placebo effect" as any clinically significant change observed in the placebo wing of a clinical trial, there are many placebo effects. As I mentioned before, regression to the mean, natural history of the disease, experimenter effect, and so on.

Alternatively, we could define it as any clinically significant change observed in the placebo wing of a clinical trial which is not also observed in a no treatment wing. This would eliminate things like regression to the mean and arguably leave behind only a "true" placebo effect. Though even here, we have to account for bias (and perhaps even classical conditioning?) I wonder how much placebo effect is left if these are controlled for?

Within the context of analysing trial data, it is the former definition we are interested in. But within the context of discussing "the placebo effect" as a standalone phenomenon, I'd argue the latter definition is more useful.

Unfortunately, as most trials don't have no treatment arms, any clinically significant changes observed in the placebo arm are chalked up to "the placebo effect", especially by the media (though sometimes by clinicians), even when there is good reason to think many of those same changes would have been observed under no treatment. Which IMHO leads to a distorted view of the clinical relevance of the placebo effect outside the context of a clinical trial. Especially as the placebo effect appears to have a reputation as a bizarre mind-over-matter affair.
If by 'elevation' you mean 'latitude', then no. The elevator has to be on the equator. Or rather, the geosynchronous anchor has to be over the equator. I think the elevator cable could run to any point on earth, but it's going to hang as a curve where most of it is vertical over the equator, and so is in the way of satellites in equatorial orbits.
I got to level 9, the difficulty escalates pretty quickly. I'm a designer, I'm curious how the other members of my team do.
I think the main problem is mixed content. Wikipedia has excellent HTTPS support, but would be listed as mediocre because it isn't the default (I've heard this is due to it needing to be accessible in countries like China). The New York Times (and many other sites) is unusable in HTTPS but has the same classification.
>most wealth is accumulated by being close to the power (either by lobbying, favoritism, coercion or plain corruption)

Then you understand why people are so pissed about the 1%? The middle class, particularly under 40, is fucking suffering, man. That's not a good thing.

If you're an honest man in the top 1%, you should be working like a demon to change the current system, because having so much resentment against the most wealthy doesn't bode well for your future (either due to extraordinarily high taxes or civil unrest, neither or which I am advocating for).
I quit about 2 months ago. Currently researching a new tech stack and in the process of designing a web application.
+1 I felt the exact same way! True hacker in heart.
I look at this from a slightly different perspective... Why shouldn't animals (mainly dogs, really) be allowed in many of these places, assuming they are well behaved?

When I lived in the UK, you would often see a dog or two in pubs or outside areas of restaurants. Even occasionally in the grocery store (they were smaller ones, though, and always in a cart). There was never any commotion over them.

In Norway, dogs aren't even allowed in the outdoor area of restaurants unless the waiters are willing to look the other way. The same goes for pharmacies and grocery stores (some grocery stores look the other way if you are carrying the dog). The explanation is always that the Norwegian food authority (which also has jurisdiction over pets, for some odd reason) bans them because people might have allergies.

I think Norway is an example of taking things way too far. Why not allow the shop owners to decide for themselves whether they are more interested in catering to dog owners or people who might be allergic? People with allergies have to worry no matter what, because a service dog is still allowed in, so they have no guarantee of not encountering a dog, and if they have a severe allergy, the dog hair on my clothes could be enough to set off an allergy attack (if it isn't, my dog probably won't cause the person any problems unless she jumps on them, which I always do my best to prevent).

In the end, people need to stop abusing the system, but the system needs to be relaxed to allow more flexibility.
As far as I am aware Ruby has no real equivalent to Numpy and Scipy for Python. This is why I swapped to Python from Ruby; the Ruby community gets extremely thin indeed as soon as you stray from web-related things.
So none were actually used?
Development is still happening at http://gitorious.com/fish-shell
As a token of support, I implemented signal protocol in 250 lines of python.

https://github.com/adsharma/zre_raft/blob/main/zre_raft/zre_...

Hope more programmers understand how this works, implement it correctly and create apps we haven't thought about yet.
At that point, you might record storage media and technology information at lower resolution to make it easy to read and easily identifiable. Like a text on how this thing works engraved on it, with a magnifying glass. We partially do that on product labels that say you should open it only in high vacuum or laminar chamber. (Simplified to "do not open" for normal people.)
See my other comment I show how to use a teac fd 505 with greaseweazle to backup Amiga disks on pc.
That's true, but on the Bulldozer/GCN system I had as well as the Jetson I played with it was still able to decode 4K 60fps video.
You’d need some other channel to communicate with the tribe to exchange the new ciphers, by which time you might as well just use that other channel instead of reddit.
The best preparation is a wood stove, a couple of months' wood supply, and a root cellar. The best place is in a rural area.
Sure, but not why you are assuming it is fast or cheap.
> This is absolutely necessary to have a community.

Do you want a community/bubble or be open to other's idea ?
I was going to chime in with a thought similar to gp(? P?) -

I've witnessed a huge increase in all sorts of crime the past bit over a year and I'm sure it's a combination of factors, but I feel the primary factor is extra time on the hands.

So very similar to what the initial comment said, not necessarily cabin fever aka all jack nicholson / the shining type.. so I did a G search and it says "Cabin fever refers to the distressing claustrophobic irritability or restlessness experienced when a person, or group, is stuck at an isolated location or in confined ..." - so maybe that's not the best term, of course it could be a factor.

I've heard saying like 'idle hands are the devils plaything' and 'if you have a boy you have a full boy, and when you have 2 boys you have half a boy and when you have 3 boys you have not boy at all; - or something like that.. I think these things apply way more to the pandemic shutdowns/lockdowns more than anything else.

I've seen some reports that child abuse is up because less school. I imagine that domestic abuse rises when people are at home more.

Hundreds more people not at school or work in one apartment complex means many more people staring at packages being delivered, noticing when people come and go from work - more opportunity for ding-and-dash (which also chows lookouts who is not home)

add to that people stuck at home in some cases very crowded and uncomfortable home and want to be out, and there is not as much to do out there..

I'm sure tons of crimes have increased immensely and much of it unreported.

I'm sure factors like pressure to de-police and stuff like that has influenced some, and all sorts of things are playing a part. I am guessing that a few people having time and choosing to go through cars is a small step towards murder - and it's likely that some of those petty crimes of boredom have only led to some increase in murders, but I would be that that's been a part of the murder increase.

It's not necessary that a mental condition has resulted of cabin lockdown to still consider that telling lots of people to stay indoors could certainly be a primary factor in the increase of all sorts of crimes including murder.

I would wager there are many couples out there that keep from killing each other because or work / school keeping them apart most hours of the week for another example.
My intuition is that like taxiderming a beloved pet, these will feel "not quite right" because of the lack of subtle characteristics that make the person who they are in your memory.
Did you actually read it though? The point of the article was that they didn’t change the logo.
High-Inertia Random Idea #218,554,763:

A service people can publish extremely specific ideas to about how they want certain things - apps, systems, hardware, policies, anything - to work, and the best/most insightful ideas float to the top. Then, people who a) want to Start Again™ or b) vent off some steam in the general direction of a project they're already familiar with, can just look at this site for community-ranked suggestions of where the most demand is.
I wonder if CMOVcc instruction on x86 is considered a branch. It is fairly trivial to implement fizzbuz without Jcc but with CMOVcc.

EDIT: Or SETcc, minus 1, and use it as data mask.
Do take a look at Google's RE2 library (https://code.google.com/p/re2/) - it is designed to handle user-entered regexes safely.
I've updated the library and blog if you'd like to take a look. Thanks for your feedback!
a valid argument is valid apart from the truth of its premises [1]. I am perfectly happy to agree that an argument's construction is formally valid and still deny it's conclusion.

all sound arguments are valid but not all valid arguments are sound.

so I ask; in what way is my argument invalid?

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[1]: http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Validity#Validity_and_soundne...
You just reinvented DMOZ?

http://www.dmoz.org/
> How much "work for hire" does Cato do? Or the average US think tank? Can you trust anything from a US think tank?

What makes you think that think tanks are different in this respect? Heck - what makes you think that think tanks are only on one side of this issue?

> But, certainly, credible references as to why you can ignore arguments form top think tanks would be interesting?

Yes, if you've got any.

Hint - "they got paid" isn't one. Very few people work for free, and their record is pretty bad.

A "think tank" is just one mechanism for funding folks making arguments. There are many others.
Yeah. The wrinkle is I've only been at my current gig for five months... the pragmatic side of me doesn't want to have two back-to-back five month stints on my resume. I left my last job after five months because a former coworker presented me with an opportunity that I'm discovering was slightly... embellished.
Is anyone else consistently astonished by how rude and offensive the leaders of FOSS projects can be to legitimate contributors?
I have never had more then a 5 favorites, unless it is something I go to everyday (google analytics) then it doesn't get added.

Also browsers have great autocomplete. If I want to go to hackers news. I hit "n" in the url bar and I am there.
I agree with you but it’s still possible to make a perfectly well formed argument and still not be correct or the best choice for the situation.
>Some estimate there are a million RVers, I kinda wish the feds would step in and offer a program maybe. If you worked remotely traveling full time or retired in an RV, I think it's stupid you have to still be tied to a state somehow. Right now only US government owned vehicles have federal license plates. But I guess no one really considered this was a possibility maybe? One county in SD has more RVers than people with actual houses and apartments. Apparently, you can vote for state and fed elections with your PMB, but local issues they won't let you anymore I've heard from someone in a FB group... Not sure how true that is or even if that's legal since that's the address on your license and even a homeless person using a park bench could vote. Clay County in FL has also been challenging voting rights for RVers. There was a lawsuit in Texas over RVers using an address in Livingston, TX but Texas recognized their voting rights in the end.

This is basically what already SD does and they do so easily so there's little demand for a federal service.

SD's policy is basically that no matter what it is as long as you can provide some sort of proof of ownership you can tag it. To someone who lives out of an RV and has no good way of proving an address or a myriad of other situations can often be out of luck (or in for a heck of a battle with the bureaucracy) in other states. SD makes a buck off that inefficiency.

IMO if the other states don't want to lose out on the tax money then they should make their processes not suck. Except for people from a few states with sky high cost of registration we're talking like a double digit number of dollars per year. With a difference that small most people with a residence will just register in that state for peace of mind.
Aside from what everyone else is saying about the semantics, there were also a lot of changes in the header format to make it easier to parse in hardware by ASICs. Fixed-length basic header, a single integer flag that indicates to routers when they need to parse variable-length options, a requirement that in the unlikely event they are used that those options need to be 64-bit-aligned, etc.

As long as they were breaking compatibility, all kinds of details were changed to make things easier on implementers.
No mention of "Theranos" even once in that article.
Cancer diagnostics do not rely on a single test. There's a number of (more expensive) metabolic and endocrinology panels, imaging, biopsies, etc. that follow to validate.

The idea is that you have something cheap and easy up front before or in parallel to further downstream diagnostic procedures.
If you want to post the job description, location, and salary range, we could make the discussion more concrete.
I'm pretty sure that "i18n" and "l10n" are about fifteen years old -- not exactly a trend any more (at least, not a new one).
As long as it’s an approved procedure with minimal side effects where the benefits far outweigh the downsides, I don’t see that as a problem any more than parents who get other non life saving treatments for their kids which will be beneficial in the future.
Do Kapten and Bolt have comparable safety features such as facial recognition for drivers? How are they satisfying the TfL's requirements to be "fit and proper"?
Any suggestions on a place to store the private key? This is an interesting question, btw.
I use my lunchtime for personal pursuits, like reading articles by Joel Spolsky.
Doesn't work at all for me on IE6.
Wikia hosts many fan sites/wikis that would probably have been Geocities pages back in the day. The Wikia sites just don't look like Geocities. :)
Do you go home earlier because of the time saved?
It's interesting to see how a decision that seems mostly based on a technical difficulty (how to make it work simply with multiple or any folder), had so many positive consequences in terms of user experience.

The fact that it doesn't take forever to do the first sync,* that you don't get to mess up your existing documents, that you don't go over your quota right away, etc.

On top of that, having a Dropbox folder is fantastic for branding.

* I'm having this problem with my BackBlaze account that has been uploading the first batch for the past 6 months…
> If they're looking to turn a profit, its probably by ...

...anonymously crowdfunding this half-thought idea with bitcoin.
Depends on your location, it's already April in the far east. What does the oc stand for anyway?
Not trolling... is this still a going concern, shipping eval boards, etc? I saw this a couple of years ago, someone commented on HN, and then nothing. I liked the eval board specs and it seemed reasonably priced given the low volume (maybe a hard sell when STM is all but giving away kits).
I don't get why it is apples and oranges. Why is it fair to take 45% of the income I toil for, but it's OUTRAGEOUS to take 25% of someone's passive investment.

>If you buy your first stock, you are using money that was already taxed at the ordinary income tax rate.

Which is why we only tax the amount gained. I don't see why it should matter if the gain is an investment or working.

And a lot of my salary is a return on an investment that I made into my own education and training.

IMO, captial gains should be adjusted for inflation* and then taxed like any other income.

*you really do a have to adjust for inflation. Right now inflated gains (which aren't real) are taxed as if they are.
Gosh, strawman is such popular word these days .. hey, at least look around you before you start speaking about what others believe. Here, right in this forum: "Unjust wages", "business is benefiting from work of others", "the filthy rich", "top 1% have made the rules to their favor", "economic output of the planet", "if they claim to own it then you can't freely use it anymore", "People don't get rich in a vacuum", "they get rich because of the thousand of workers in their offices and factories" ... these people are saying black on white that the rich stole something from them.

On the other hand this is the first I witness someone to cry strawman to pull a strawman, how creative!
In EU, are they prohibited from asking even if it's a matter of national security?
Thanks! We already tried it and she liked it so far, but unfortunately, the tablet had only Paint installed. She doesn't do hardcore art, but the sketches she draws should have a certain quality (No jiggy edges, which I heard was a problem when drawing slowly). I think I'll ask for a demo with a sophisticated drawing app next time I'm in the store. But the linked article gives me hope that this might be perfect for her work.
What about high energy physics? You could make an argument that bigger better colliders should wait till engineering makes building and operating them more efficient (like say, wait until space manufacturing).
Well not to put a dollar value on the contribution but he gave companies $500k in accessible capital which they used to grow or recover.
This is exactly what it is like.
It's hard to say, but except for some outliers, on average, won't it be something like:

40 years x the salary of the best paid profession x the compounded interest rate over those 40 years x heck, I'll be nice and add a 2-5-10x multiplier to account for various other factors

More than that, aren't we talking about sheer, dumb, luck? Plus, anything over that, it doesn't really matter anymore, you're living like a king compared to the average person. If you're a religious person, it kind of feels like greed :-)
How did he amass that billion in the first place? By contributing 1000x, or just because the capitalistic society rewarded him more for his efforts than some other workers earlier in his career?
> It isn't helping the fish because consumer demand for tuna isn't dropping, in part because consumers are insulated from the actual cost of real tuna by mislabelling; if consumer "tuna" was only real tuna (and thus, the supply was restricted to the supply of real tuna, driving the price of consumer "tuna" way up), there would be more consumer experience with tuna substitutes under their own name (rather than mislabelled as tuna), and the demand would shift to the acceptable substitutes (which clearly exist, otherwise they wouldn't be acceptable mislabelled as tuna.)

If I buy a can of shredded escolar that calls itself tuna, then I am increasing the profit margin of the fish company which may allow them to sell real tuna to people who demand real tuna at a cheaper price and remain profitable, but in reality real tuna already commands crazy prices and nobody is dropping those prices because of escolar profits.

If you restrict the supply of fish labelled tuna to 'real' tuna, then by the time the cost skyrockets to kill the demand it is already too late. Low supply is exactly what we are trying to avoid. Counting on low supply to safe the species is foolish.

> But if suppliers make more money selling escolar as "tuna", it will make it that much harder to by escolar as escolar

If they couldn't initially sell it as tuna, would they ever sell it at all? Would consumers even be aware of it?
In general, filter-branch should be avoided rather than part of a long-term plan. It can cause all kinds of havoc as soon as you move beyond a handful of collaborators.
We'll get there quicker than you think. Most civilized countries are around 30-45%: https://www.akamai.com/us/en/resources/our-thinking/state-of... The US is at 44% presently.
You're right of course, but not all such actions are protected.

Intermittent strikes, for example, are not.
The parent comment isn't about "same look and feel", they're talking about literally dumping the ROM from the TI calculator and running it on other hardware.

Could you sell a calculator, and say "hey this calculator has no software on it, but you can dump your TI ROM onto it and it'll run" kinda like how emulator software is handled on computers? Probably.

Can you just straight up rip the ROM and start selling that on an emulated calculator? Almost certainly not.
Founded by Dan Jezek, who unfortunately died young: https://www.danjezek.com/index.html
Is anyone else exhausted with the lazy, comparative journalism that is ubiquitous these days.
Yes unfortunately and yet only for now. We just started with Mac (coin toss) and now we'll do our best to cover all of them soon.
If the county wants to allow beach access they should build it or buy land. If it becomes a serious problem they should use eminent domain. The home owners shouldn’t be forced to build access.
You will probably have to write a VCL plugin if you want to parse the cookie, but that's not a huge hassle.
Erlang wasn't exactly created in the past few decades (1986), neither was OCaml (a successor to 'Caml', dating back to 1985 or so).
I believe it depends on:
- How relevant the project is to the startup niche
- How interested the developers are in the startup success
- The situation the startup is in at the moment: maturity, cash in the bank etc
"This definitely seems more attractive than the typical outsourced team." I'm glad we share this opinion.
So I wrote a 2 liner plugin that replaces .html with no extension, with the idea that I could upload them to s3, but facing the following problems:

- server doesn't deliver the file with the right mime-type.
- uploading to s3 doesn't yield the right mimetype either, I have to manually set them.

Can Cactus deal with either of these?

Edit: okay, so put prettify: true in config.json, and it generates directories with index.html in them for directory urls. Neat. I don't really want dir/ urls, but it'll do.
We have a saying over here - TWGIF[1]. Any time someone checks in commented out code, they get chastised.

1: TWGIF - That's what git is for
Since minimum income and negative income taxes are an often discussed topic on HN, I wonder what supporters of these ideas think about this article? It's pretty troubling to me that 27% of the surveyed men were watching TV at 2 in the afternoon. I'm intrigued by the idea of a guaranteed minimum income and especially the effect that it could have on allowing people to pursue risky or creative projects. I'm very much not intrigued by a quarter of the population watching daytime TV.