jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Do I think that 100% of Morgellons' sufferers have a medically explainable cause? Nope, there's hypochondriacs everywhere.

Do I think that doctors are way too eager to dismiss diagnoses that don't fit their criteria? Yup. I have a sister who has an absolutely zebra diagnosis (astroblastoma tumor, <0.5% of cases, with typical characteristics), given by top doctors. It was a case punctuated with all kinds of medical accusations regarding the diagnosis.

I write Clinical Decision Support tools for a living, for a high-level nonprofit. Our content providers suck ASS. Do I worry that I might be contributing to inappropriate diagnoses/non-diagnoses? Yes, it's a thing I bear in mind every day, every meeting, and I have gone to bat to improve.
well, some engineers are lucky enough to get to specify the environment that makes them the happiest, even if it's rare compared to the number of opportunities out there.
"Hey guys, want to get coffee" - is a historically common (and yes, now bad way) of asking if a group of folks, of any gender, want to get coffee.

The insistence that someone is focusing on genital's and have a pervasion when asking this really does seem like a projection on the part of the folks making that claim, and I have noticed the genitals things come up over and over now in this context - it seriously is WEIRD! Please read up on projection.

Many of us are married, with kids, and focusing on the genitals of work colleagues is the LAST thing on our minds.

I've broadened it in the past, hey guys and girls or hey guys and women - all less than ideal in my view, girls doesn't have same connotations as guys, and women or ladies feels awkward. Hey people works well in my view. But when a women says to me, hey guys, want to get coffee - I don't freak out on them with this type of focus on genitals / perversion language. I just say, sounds great - 5 minutes? And away we go very happily to chat about whatever issue has come up.
I guess it was a rush job, because it certain looks like it.

Besides the cringe factor, I think the bigger problem with it is "who is this video for"? If I didn't already know about the Apple/Facebook controversy, I'd have no idea what message it was trying to get across, and even then it's extremely vague. If I didn't pay attention to the bizarre voice over, I'd assume it a video for a new photo app or filter or something.

Apple isn't blocking Facebook from doing anything. It will just now be asking users to confirm they are ok with the tracking behaviour first. Facebook will have to do a lot better than this cringefest video to convince people why this is such a bad thing.
(“Kemalists” is the correct term here)

I have an incredible amount of respect and admiration for Atatürk but he also had his flaws when it came to freedom of speech, expression and religion.

What’s interesting is all of the liberal turks I know (I live in Istanbul) voted for the HDP in 2015 but are also highly critical of their association with PKK and have since switched to CHP.
Tayipp is the state. Türkiye is very much a single man ruled nation.
For linear programming solvers, there is an annual competition to see which is best:

https://www.minizinc.org/challenge.html

Is there anything like this for gradient-free optimisers?
Political stability has a huge impact on how many countries have responded to the pandemic. In the US, there is a lot of distrust in our government that has inhibited a timely response to the outbreak.
I guess I am in the minority but I appreciate the scrollamated site.

I am slow at picking up information and find visual aids super helpful. An image with all the information on it is really busy and doesn't get through to me very well. But if I can "layer on" information at my desired pace of scrolling, it is a lot easier for me to ingest information than maybe a lot of different images where I have to break and rebuild my mental model each time, or a single image where all the information appears and I need to parse it myself.

For a slow thinker, this type of "at your own pace" visual guides is pretty nice.
Dunno about Nvidia, but the usual approach here is to keep MSRP the same on paper, but distribute more devices to your distributors that jack up their price and get a rebate from them or some other favour.

And you can bet every other vendor is paying MSRP with possibly 0% markup, but shutting up about it unless they want 0 deliveries. Maybe even paying more than MSRP and expected to, on paper, treat it as a loss-leader.
Thanks for the correction. My point remains that the "NoScript" extension doesn't do anything with those "noscript" blocks, so they're not shown to the user despite the user not executing JS on the site.

This is a bit of a PITA when one tries to make the site "work well" with JS both enabled and disabled; or provide _alternatives_ for when the user-agent isn't running JS.

Those work really well when the user-agent is blocking JS globally, but not for NoScript: broken behaviour everywhere.
Maybe it meant the rate of energy consumption while the servers are rendering and sending the page. You'd have to multiply 30w with the time spent by the server doing all this stuff (probably less than a second) to get the total consumed energy. A web server consuming 30w of power per connected user sounds exaggerated to me. A high-end server CPU at full load probably pulls 200w and can handle at least 1000 users.

But this is an art project and I have no idea what expertise does the artist have, and I'm not an expert either.
I believe the main motivation for these code snippets was not to point out the verbosity of the OOP style, but to draw attention to the fact that the onclick handler mixes the concerns of updating the state and updating the UI. Or in the author's words:

"[...] duplication between the initial construction of the UI and updates. [...] to add a slider showing the value, the onclick handler also needs to be amended to add an update for that".
You can make french fries incredibly easily at home, using just a microwave. They taste a lot better than anything bought commercially.

Just buy a big potatoe, cut it into thin strips. Place it on a regular dinner plate. Add seasoning. Microwave for 5 minutes.

Take out, shuffle the strips around, add oil (regular olive oil works fine) and normal, non-processed cheese. Microwave for another 3 minutes. Its done when you can poke a fork through the fry without any resistance.

Total prep time: about 10 minutes.
Intentionally copying the work of someone else, letter by letter, with the goal of getting some kind of reward, can be seen as morally wrong.

But from there down you have a lot of shades of gray, can seven musical notes be taken as plagiarism if you do a different song with a sucession of notes that you didn't know from where they came (for you may be indistingishable from your own creation), or that you never heard before? Or a full phrase, in a different context, or a "common sense" algorythm to solve a common problem with not so many ways to solve it?

When you are not doing a full copy, at some point you reach the level of meme transmission, something that makes us humans, enabled the emergence of civilization and let us to stand on the shoulders of giants. Or worse, with just independent, but similar enough, work, putting laws penalizing that turns creation into a potential trap for whoever that doesn't have an army of lawyers already.
Did you submit a request and wait for a response, or just assume they are clueless and never actually found out?
It pays to have a better connection than the other guy, very nice!
> You honestly believe that any one of those companies, none of which has been around for more than ten years, could reach a market cap of $200B within 5 years?

That's not the bet. The bet is that they will, in aggregate be worth $200B.

"Proposition 1: On January 1st, 2020, these companies
will be worth at least $200B in aggregate."

Edit: Can't read. The parent is in response to the grandparent, not the bet.
SAT solvers and SMT solvers are greeat for the kind of problems where your first thought would be to use brute force or backtracking. They use some really clever implementation tricks and heuristics that are likely to beat any of your algorithms that you write from scratch.

One of the more famous places where these constraint solvers are used is to deal with dependency management in package systems. For example, zeroinstall uses a SAT solver to resolve dependency conflicts.

http://0install.net/solver.html

A sillier example is the time I used a sat solver to find the solutions for a flash puzzle game. The part I'm proudest of is that the sat solver could handle the highly symmetric cases that stumped the hand-written backtracking algorithms. And if I had used an SMT solver instead of SAT I would not have had to convert everything all the way doen to boolean formulas.

https://github.com/hugomg/hexiom

In the readme I explain a bit why the sat solver helped.
FWIW I've been seeing an increase of spam from DigitalOcean networks recently -- over the last couple of months or so -- and that's probably going to bleed over into the RBLs and other countermeasure systems that larger mail services use.
White Bear
> you don't want there to be an arms race of every local dentist trying to get a wikipedia article so that they seem important.

I wouldn't mind at all actually. Or maybe I just miss the issue?
Unfortunately this isn't restricted to science. Just about any project that can't show metric X is increasing at the next quarterly/annual review is going to have some difficulty proceeding.

Truly massive projects that can be measured in large fractions of a human lifespan are exceptionally rare.
Unless you're advocating pure vegetarianism, prolonged animal husbandry will inevitably lead to more diseases crossing to humans. The idea that this is only a problem in Africa and Asia is entirely nonsensical.
Can the js code be deployed in the same .xlsx file as the spreadsheet?

Still, I’m disappointed MS didn’t implement a typesafe lang such as C# or F#.
I never said it was objectively better.

My point was just that we find Type{parameter} to be nice pleasing syntax, and so reserved the curly braces for that.

Of course it’s not objectively better, that’s a dumb attitude towards syntax.
Syntax sugar on the JVM, as it is never to be more than a blip on the Java Virtual Machine.

As for the Android Runtime, Android team is gatekeeping Android Java on Java 8 subset on purpose, as means to serve their political games to push Kotlin no matter what.

Kotlin without godfather Google will just fade away.
Wow, I keep being surprised that MeFi is still a thing.
MSN presumably has a license agreement.
erm… Evernote?
I said this to my coworker yesterday: the funny thing about code is that the more testable it is, the less it actually needs to be tested. (I specifically meant unit tested, because well factored code is easier to reason about, etc.)
Probably. I didn't write it with the intent to submit it to YC or anything. I just wanted my own Delicious, and then wanted to show it off. :)
As West is a highly trained physicist, I'll believe he's a bit more statistically careful than that. In the most crude, there's a thing called the Bonferroni correction which helps to counteract cherry picking effects. Beyond that there are a great deal of other methods to account for overconfidence.

If we were not able to identify a small number of relevant patterns in a large sea of options, how would we learn anything?

If you've got a mountain of data and are willing to run a lot of models you can indeed identify ones with good tradeoff between prediction and generalization errors. It's very possible that some of your models are weaker than you expect due to cherry picking, but it's even more possible you've identified some useful trends.

As you said, he seems to be restating very common knowledge about economies of scale. Since he's not saying anything terribly surprising, I don't think there's much need to get up in arms about multiple comparisons.

Moreover he's looking for the on-average rates of growth of these economies of scale and identifying outliers which will likely be interesting. I think it's pretty exciting research.
Thanks for being comfortable in revealing that you don't have everything organized and figured out. (2nd Law of Thermodynamics)

I'm eagerly awaiting this:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Battleship_Yamato
Yeah, RSS and JSON views are on the shortlist.
hmm, I don't visit hacker news often enough to recognize the nicknames and make friends on here

would it be cool to make a tool that helps you friend people on hacker news and view their profiles? Does something like this already exist?
Assuming you don't care about blind users, yes.
Just a few years ago Javascript had a horrible reputation. It's funny how the more people learn Javascript, the more it is considered as a great language. I guess it's some form of Stockholm syndrome.
Many of the things you describe here would make for a more palatable experience on an ad-based website. But you completely miss the boat by assuming that people 'fear' advertisement, some people just really dislike it on principle. This is especially true when it comes to free culture projects who wish to be self-sustainable and perhaps even feel as if their efforts are validated a bit by the willingness of their users to support their project.

Wikipedia is a huge project with tremendous social value. It is sad to me that you may be right that an advertisement would bring in 10x the revenue, because it means we're in a culture in which one expects to perpetually be in commercial relationships. This makes the user more likely to purchase a consumer good than they are to donate to a service that has been consistently offering them more value.

The reason for this is that any direct donation based system is deeply damaged by the mass tendency to assume that someone else is in a better position to donate. In fact, the more valuable (and successful) a project is, the more this becomes a problem. But this problem is cultural, in an ideal world people would have a greater social responsibility without the need for assuming someone else is going to take care of important services like these. To push us in that direction, we get a giant fucking picture of Jimmy Wales to make us feel guilty and give. Personally, this has about the same negative impact on me that an advertisement would, albeit for different reasons.

I think the real solution is for Wikipedia to find a better way to fund itself in a grassroots fashion. I have trouble seeing how the Wikimedia Foundation can't come up with other ways to fund themselves. They have a tremendous amount of content and data. I'd love to see them build something they can sell that would support Wikipedia's operations.
I read SSC for years. I still like his writing about psychiatry.

They didn't call him a racist. They pointed out where he aligned himself with racists and where he didn't. They left out him saying he likes eugenics.[1]

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20200228054021/https://slatestar...
> Uttar Pradesh, a state in Northern India.

Please stop clickbaiting headlines by leaving out relevant context.
> In fact, we're only trying to hold them to the same standards they hold everybody else to.

Then convict them. You can't? Fix that. Why this convoluted scheme that punishes unrelated people? You say you want the same standards to apply to the police but on the other hand you accept that they can never be punished directly and their colleages must be fined instead. That's crazy inconsistent, those are not at all the standards that normal people are held to.
The post has never been able to say what it wants. It's only when it's safe to put a head on a pike that it does it.

Nixon wasn't crucified for the genocide in Cambodia (I don't have another word for a bombing campaign that was projected to kill 20% of the countries population by the CIA) he was crucified for having fucked with the other powerful people in the US. Watergate wasn't even a blip compared to what Hoover did to the anti-war left, organized labor and organized anti-racism [0]. What was so bad about it is that it targeted people with power who could fight back.

Journalists are being told that there is a new set of powerful people they need to be careful around and they haven't gotten the message yet. The current generation without the instinct to walk softly around big tech will be run out of journalism the same way that those who didn't understand they needed to walk softly around robber barons and not just land owners in the gilded age were.

Trump, like Nixon, seems like an aberration to these people because he, again like Nixon, did not treat their sacred cows with the respect they expect. He treated them like he treated everyone. Interestingly enough Trump was a lot more successful at it, which means that they have lost a lot of power since Nixon was in power.

[0] https://twitter.com/propagandopolis/status/11816410786524487... that this is now thought of as racist in progressive America should tell you all you need to know about how successful cointelpro was.
But what was your BATNA?
This piece makes the case that the only way traditional media can hold powerful people accountable is by being the arbiters of their distribution, by controlling who gets published and how their story is told. The way things used to be before the internet.

It’s a good thing this is not the case anymore. Big media is essential for democracy, but controlling distribution is not democratic.

Big media has two options now. Either:

1. They can learn to use social media better, so their accounts reach as many people as @realdonaldtrump.

2. They can ask social media companies to artificially boost distribution for Big News.

The other option that the article seems to imply — going back to a world where Big media is the arbiter of distribution — isn’t going to happen. Social media (and the internet) are here to stay.
Okay. And what does that have to do with the article under discussion?
I always thought it was due to majority right handedness, holding with the left arm leaving the right hand free for more complex tasks. That was my experience as a righty. My wife is a lefty and used to do the opposite.
This a classic communication error. Media can't handle subtlety of message. It's a mistake Fauci should not make, being a decades-long expert.

But I hear, and I heard at the time, "Masks help, but they are not perfect, and if you use them in the obviously-wrong way, they are useless or harmful".

Which aligns with my understanding of every tool used for any purpose.

The Surgeon General, OTOH, was never a person to be taken seriously. But I don't blame Fauci for that.
Have you got in touch with Valve? If not give me a shout and I can give a couple of people a poke to take a look...
Wait a sec... are you the Dan who used to date Sweeney? Small world. I was the guy from Toronto who was actually considering tagging along for the Africa trip :)
There's no argument. 'jiff' is simply incorrect. Regardless of what the person who invented the format says.
I prefer my movies in animated .gif format or ascii via telnet.
Most emacs users I know don't. Myself included.
I'm not defending the original quote--I was just saying that the contrapositive "that which doesn't make you stronger, kills you" seems overly absurd unless you consider the universe of discourse.
Emacs has pull down menus, cut and paste, CUA bindings, displays graphics, plays sounds...

WTF do you mean by "terminal-style buffers/frames?"
You can't make the decision one way or the other.

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which is low, coarse, the way of ordinary
people, unworthy, and unprofitable; and there
is addiction to self-mortification, which is
painful, unworthy, and unprofitable. Avoiding
both these extremes, the Tathagata (the
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calm, to insight, to enlightenment and to
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by the Tathagata...? It is the Noble Eightfold
path, and nothing else, namely: right
understanding, right thought, right speech,
right action, right livelihood, right effort,
right mindfulness and right concentration."
- Siddhārtha Gautama, Dhammacakkappavattana Sutta
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Been an active professional programmer for less than 1 year ..
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