jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I'll engage. I think your comments are clearly bigoted, and I'll tell you why.
What you do with that is up to you.

> Hmm, somehow I knew Justine is a 'transwoman' by this feat. Lucky guess I suppose...

You use scare quotes around "transwoman". Why is that? Is that a concept you
believe is not real somehow?

You are guessing that something technically impressive was achieved by a
trans woman. Why is that? Are women not capable of technical feats?

> Lucky guess I suppose...

This implies that women being technically inferior is something obvious,
something we all know but can't say.

> If all the high achieving women in tech end up being [yet-again-scare-quotes (and for some reason one word)] "transwomen", ...

This isn't a playful hypothetical question. You are reinforcing your claim that
women in tech are not high achieving.

> I think trans/self identifying people should be in a separate category so they don't exploit allowances made for under represented minorities.

> So when the dominant group starts taking the identity of underrepresented groups and coopting their protections

From these two statements it is clear you think that trans women are the
dominant group (men?) that are exploiting special allowances meant for women.
Because in your eyes trans women do not count as women. And they don't deserve
protection.

You are getting downvoted because the community recognizes the bigotry against
cis and trans women that is the backbone of your two comments.
Static pressure in fluid dynamics is just pressure, so the parent poster is suggesting a fan that can produce more pressure (in other words, uses more force to move air).

For example, if you're just setting up a simple "fan blows air through filter" setup, more static pressure is needed to force more air through the filter; a fan that can move 30 units of air per minute might not be able to move 30 units of air per minute when an obstruction, like a fine-particulate filter, is placed in front of it.

If you look at the fan used in the article, you can see that the fan blades don't reach all the way to the outside of the cowling, meaning that some air could actually make its way through that gap, and that the blades are large but sparse, meaning there's more room for unwanted airflow; in other words, the air flow you're getting might not all be coming through the filters, but rather flowing around the fan and getting blown back out.
I’ve looked through their terms and we’re in the clear, but :fingers-crossed:
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It doesn't sound like you've ever been to California at all.
My daughter is in art school. She was considering a Wacom tablet, then did her research and bought an iPad pro instead. She seems thrilled with the choice.
Agreed -- both extremes are harmful. My point was that this particular disease has been blown way out of proportion.

I've read a study in my home country about children suffering from bronchopneumonia (I was one of them) at early age and how does that affect their adult life -- and how much does it reduce their life expectancy (especially in terms of increasing the chance of pulmonary diseases in elder years).

I mean, all diseases are awful -- especially those that leave lasting negative effects.

The whole thing seemed to turn into a campaign to gain political capital at one point. Enforcement was loose, rules changed many times (the WHO organization didn't help matters there), and data gathering was unreliable for months.

What are we to do? Just bow our heads and pretend that the people in power are oracles? I am willing to obey well-informed decisions but at least where I live clear facts were extremely hard to get throughout at least half the 2020.

I don't necessarily disagree with you -- making this clear here. It's just that the pandemic was handled in a rather totalitarian manner and results have been... questionable.

:(
The issue is lockdown and how the UK government chooses to proceed, not coronavirus spread or science.

I'm opening up from March 23, they can do whatever they want.
I look at the imperative programming model as the escape hatch, and I'm focusing first on data. My next step is to build UIs and look into AI.

For instance, I've build the entire back-end for Battlestar Galactica ( https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/37111/battlestar-galacti... ). I can't release a product around this as the IP is not mine, but it is a good foil. I play a bunch of games, and it's hard to boil down every game into a concrete set of rules.

So, my strategy relies first on getting (1) data synchronization, (2) privacy, (3) multi-user transaction flow , and (4) durability of state on solid ground. Once the foundation is good, and the foundation can grow into other domains (like converting Excel worksheets into web apps) then I can ask what models, idioms, and ideas do I want to layer on top of it.

The hard part, it turns out, after the back-end works is getting a usable UI. This is my current focus, and I hope to have results sometime this year with my silly approach.
Creating currency by itself does not create any value.
I am not a large-N group though, so my main interest is whether a properly worn FFP2 mask can protect me. Everything indicates that it can. My only worry was FFP2 vs FFP3, since the former is not actually recommended to be used to protect against aerosols, but it seems that it's the default even for medical personnel - high aerosol inducing procedures aside.

The fact that others are wearing surgical or even FFP2 masks is a protective bonus for me, even if the former vent or it doesn't protect them in all cases. I believe this was the reasoning of the German original fabric mask mandate starting spring/summer 2020: mask + no mask = 0, but mask + mask = good protection against droplets. Whether that made any significant difference with the transmission in aggregate is probably impossible to tell now, but it probably did prevent at least some infections. More importantly it made masks more normal, compared to spring where you were looked at like a maniac for wearing one.

Regarding the graph, Germany was and still is in a lockdown, so numbers will be going down masks or not. Upgrading the mandate to surgical/FFP2 was done more out of fear of the new mutations and it wasn't FFP2 only because it's economically / socially not tenable.
I don't know why the US decreased, but the US is way ahead on vaccines and also had more infected, so I assume it will continue to do so.
Leveson's Engineering a Safer World[1] is excellent, for those interested in safety engineering.

[1] https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/engineering-safer-world
Wikipedia says it’s headquartered in New York City.
That would be pointless, because Math.round already returns a double.
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every other sentence out of his mouth could be "I'm better than you" and people wouldn't flinch

To my understanding, that's pretty much what "charismatic" means. It's not a synonym for "friendly".
It's because "simple" can be a measure of different things. C is a pretty simple and straightforward language, but it takes 10 times as much code to do anything, which could be said to be quite a bit more complex.
Even though I see a graph of how memory accesses have gotten slower relative to everything else at every conference I attend, it's still striking to see how much relative cycle times have changed. IN and OUT are now serializing instructions that have a penalty of hundreds of clocks, not even including time spent waiting for the I/O itself, as they flush the machine or cause some scheduled instructions to replay, depending on whether or not your micro-architecture supports dependent replay. The memory access instructions aren't quite so bad, since they might hit in the cache, and they don't create a serializing memory barrier, but they can still be hundreds of cycles.

Correctly predicted branches now have a cost of 1, and almost all branches are correctly predicted (and they're actually free on the P4, if they're already in the trace cache). The arithmetic instructions are now single cycle, too, and multiple copies of them can execute in the same cycle (and they're only half a cycle on early P4 micro-architectures).
Foreign goverments have access to the same closed-source products too. For exactly the same reasons.
Hmm, would http://min.us be similar? Or dropmocks what it was based on.
"Given that, I think it would be better for Apple to stick to making damn good PCs, MP3 players, and cell phones, rather than branch out into a wide number of product categories and lose their reputation for excellence."

Branching out into iPods (plus music), cell phones (plus apps) and tablets is what turned the company around and sent it into the stratosphere though. Prior to the launch of the iPhone and the launch of the iPad you would be hard pressed to find people who would have thought those products would have gone on to be the blockbusters that they've become.

The only problem I can see for Apple is how to continue coming up with successful products - how many cool, new consumer electronic devices could they conceivably conjure up?

EDIT: typo
Here is some perspective from a current PhD student. Others please also share your experiences:

I do think that the current PhD system is broken. As pointed out very correctly in a comment above: "I believe the problem lies in funding. Currently, we base funding largely off of publication success."

However, all is not lost. I have made a conscious effort in my PhD to not end up super specializing. I have tried to take up a problem that requires me to learn about multiple different computer science areas (compilers, architecture, machine learning and graphics currently). This has made my PhD a lot harder as I have to spend considerable amounts of time reading while others are publishing papers and getting better scholarships, I do think this is better for me in the long term.

Overall, while I no longer recommend anyone else to do a PhD, on the flip side if you work hard enough you might still gain value out of a PhD. Whether that value is enough is debatable, and requires considerable effort, but it is also possible to not super-specialize by picking your research topic wisely.

I do agree with the article in general and do think that more cross disciplinary stuff needs to happen. The academic system is currently largely unsympathetic towards trying to cover multiple sub-areas even within computer science with people in other sub-areas often being unwelcoming. Funding agencies are also unhappy with the much larger "startup time" spent in cross-disciplinary projects during which you spend time reading and not publishing.
I find myself not wanting to use or focus on objects at all. I am more interested in message passing and protocols. Seem like a big blind spot.
I've noticed a pattern. If you're unhappy with the "default out of box experience" of an OS/distribution and you need to apply an increasing amount of tweaks/hacks to get it to be the way you like, you will be unhappy and eventually switch away.

How "pleasant to use" the default experience is, and "number of steps needed to be done" after a fresh OS install are a very important metric to me. If see that metric going up, I will switch to something where that metric is lower. I care more about this metric than the end result usability (including personal tweaks).

Tweaks and adjustments are fine in the short term, but in the long term, if you're unhappy with the design decisions and the direction the OS developers are making, there's no winning.

I'm more happy to make small sacrifices and adjust myself to to like the default experience so that this metric can be lower, and I can enjoy using the OS more. But that's me.
Because you have to: OSX doesn't have much of a culture of backwards compatibility, and every update tends to pressure developers into the latest greatest thing. Maintaining old software is just not a cultural value.

Once the developers move, the users pretty much have to. I have an iMac from 2009. I had two OS's on it. Windows 7? Everything still works there. Runs fast, new software is great, etc. OSX 10.6.8? DEAD. It's basically useless. I guess it's nice that apple offers free upgrades, except that they mysteriously make a system that used to be lightning fast extremely slow, even though other OS's seem to run just fine..
You can switch to Linux, but unfortunately it's been degrading along similar lines.

Big, wrong ideas are destructive, and the two biggest, wrongest ones right now seem to be: "desktops are just out-of-date tablets", and "the only good affordance is a dead affordance".

Affordances are what make computers humane, and there's a world of difference between how phones are used (mostly social), tablets are used (mostly media consumption), and how desktops are used (mostly productivity).

The visionaries in charge of all three of Windows/OSX/Linux are of similar mind about the "big ideas", and it's caused a lot of grief for productive people.
http://bliker.github.io/cmder/
SSD on retina.
WMP actually isn't that bad these days, though all I use it for is ripping CDs (yep, those shiny plastic things for you young'uns) since it's great at that. For playback in Windows, I've stuck with Winamp through the years as I haven't found anything that works the way it does without a bunch of features I don't need. I tried Foobar2000 and couldn't get into it, and MediaMonkey just seemed like overkill.

By the way, a great site for finding apps in specific genres is alternativeto.net. Here's a list of alternatives to iTunes:

http://alternativeto.net/software/itunes/?platform=windows
Apparently the high frequency alone did not effect brain activity unless coupled to audible or "low frequency" sounds.

I wonder if the two frequencies interact to form beat frequencies or complex wave superpositions in the audible range. That would jive with this description of the Japanese researchers' instrument:

"Traditional gamelan music of Bali Island, Indonesia, a natural sound source containing the richest amount of high frequencies with a conspicuously fluctuating structure, was chosen as the sound source for all experiments."

Alpha brainwaves, which were seen when both high and low frequencies were combined, correlate with being "relaxed and alert". Interesting findings.
Yeah I'd submit it but I don't really want to have to deal with Theo and his planet-sized ego.
The thread built on a previous submission of this 18 March 2014 story to Hacker News, with lots of comments:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8158510

I remember reading this article back then, and I see this story has been submitted a couple of other times here. Rereading the article just now, I was astonished that the author doesn't mention any of the massive data sets that show that IQ scores have been steadily RISING around the world, a phenomenon known as the Flynn effect,[1] after James R. Flynn, the researcher who first drew the attention of the psychological community to all the data on rising IQ scores around the world.[2] Really, if we are going to talk about mysterious effects of "toxins" here, we should first of all look at the actual trend lines in the real world.

[1] https://www.ted.com/talks/james_flynn_why_our_iq_levels_are_...

[2] http://www.psychometrics.cam.ac.uk/about-us/directory/beyond...
I think news like that is among the toxins that threaten my brain. A long as hell article, very little substance, no new insights, and designed to provoke certain emotions. How about solid data about the threat that I'm supposed to be facing all the time?
It's actually 1) a testament to how awful traffic in certain Seattle neighborhoods is, and 2) still really crazy to me that anyone at the Seattle Times would ever publicly endorse any measure that is anti-car[0].

The Seattle Times is notoriously anti-public transit, as evinced by articles like this one: http://slog.thestranger.com/slog/archives/2014/04/05/seattle...

Notably, this article also appeared a couple days after Seattle saw its worst traffic meltdown[1] since an ice storm crippled the city and cost then-Mayor Nickels his job[2]

[0] Proper context: I'm an 11 year Seattleite, and walk, bus, car2go, and uber everywhere. I hope that, someday, my city has a decent public transit system. I am also the maintainer of the iOS version of OneBusAway, for which I receive literally zero compensation.

[1] http://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/transportation/over...

[2] http://www.seattletimes.com/politics/after-storm-of-criticis...
If in some stage you'll want to create some kind of PoC, consider making a radio-play and some visual story boards, they relatively low in production costs, but can deliver a feeling that one will have experiencing end product, or can be a good medium in itself. Good luck with your endeavour.
I’m not making any value judgement here about the system; in fact I’d probably agree with you that it’s not the most efficient it could be at funding the absolute best ideas from the absolute best people. I’m just saying, if you’re trying to get funding from Silicon Valley VCs today, this is how the game is played, for better or worse.
Oh, I'm not that it exists but the assertion was that the use of "oreo" was pervasive - I'm not convinced of that given thadisputingt I've never heard anyone use that term in real life.
If you have an account you can specify your preferred types of deals in your profile.
Mac App store to do $1B in 2011? Seems pretty unlikely to me. Looks like the mobile store in June '10 had done about ~1.3B in total since launch [1]. A key difference here is choice and installed base - every iPhone app purchase has to go through Apple's store, and nobody had a big existing library of software they had purchased for the platform. I'm sure apple will do quite well with their Mac store, but the dynamics are different enough that I wouldn't expect them to soundly crush the mobile store in their first year - let alone an incomplete calendar year.

[1] http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/breaking_down_apples_ap...
i think the language you learn should depends on what you want to build.
Does anyone have any links to 2010 predictions of this kind?
Unfortunatelly the version 5.3 is used by 45.9% of all the websites who use PHP version 5.

Source: http://w3techs.com/technologies/details/pl-php/5/all
No, that what you gave is awful advice, to anyone who cares about their money!

Go talk to an _honest_ insurance broker (not some State Farm or other company you see on TV commercials) or better yet a financial adviser. You should reserve an insurance claim for catastrophic issues only. You should also have max deductibles. Forking over 500 for a lost iPhone is a MUCH cheaper deal than paying insurance premiums for that coverage and then the INEVITABLE rate hike because this claim appears on your CLUE report.

I made the same naive mistake as your assumptions when I was young. Lost a 1k watch, made a claim, went about my jolly day with my nice check for $750 (250 deductible). 1 year later when I go to buy a house I am surprised by how much my insurance rates are. FOUR years later after that claim fell off my CLUE report my premiums went way down. I paid the insurance company more than the $750 I got from them.

I was lucky in that my neighbor was an insurance broker and told me low deductibles are taking advantage of suckers and the lesser fortunate who are scared into these policies. What he advises most of his clients to do is take the highest deductible they can, then put aside that amount of deductible in some low earning liquid account. Now when you have an accident you "pay your self" and keep your insurance rates low.

Don't be a sucker.
I haven't looked into the actual legal details of this case, but in most jurisdictions it is a tort (i.e.l illegal) to interfere with others' business contracts. It's a notoriously tricky area of law though, and the source of a lot of borderline frivolous lawsuits. There are also numerous exceptions.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tortious_interference
What is DD short for? My google powers are not strong enough...
I used to think that way, that education would inevitably lead people to more egalitarian belief structures. Then I spent a few years at school in the US. I met many very educated people (ie well beyond undergrad) that scared the heck out of me. It is very possible to have an advanced CS degree and still believe in a ridged class system.
> they are e2e encrypted

Only if you trust Facebook with their proprietary software.

And on Telegram you can easily export your history at any time and delete from the servers.
> (I can confirm that on my side: I'm living in Europe and I haven't seen the dreaded popup yet.)

Also leaving in EU and just got the popup this morning, so it's definitely comming to Europe too.
WhatsApp allows Group Conversations and Sharing Media (Pictures, Videos, Files, Audio Files, GPS Location, Video Calls). SMS and MMS can not cope with that in large quantity like 100mbs of video files and hundred of pictures, because data is cheaper than MMS costs.

This Privacy policy change whill allow Facebook, who bought WhatsApp, to extract all these data for their own purpose, before it was not the case.
I feel like non encrypted messengers like Telegram/Discord/Zoom shouldn't even be in the running here as alternatives.
I can cut out WhatsApp from professional use no problem.

There is no way to cut WhatsApp from casual/family use in Europe.

Schools, kindergartens, mechanics, contractors, plumbers everyone uses it.

The problem is that WhatsApp is the easiest method to share photos on mobile.

If you do not have WhatsApp your plumber can not send you a picture of pipes they fixed. How do you work around that?

Other parents are using WhatsApp for organizing out of school activities. Again, there is no way to go full Stallman here...
I've heard directly from doctors that the entire ventilator thing was a huge mistake and ended up causing more death. Treatment is now more focused on statins. The covid shell is basically in your blood clotting everything up - it's a huge ass fat cell that is killing people. Take aspirin.

Also help your immune system before and after you get covid by taking Vitamin D, E, K, A, C and Magnesium (helps with D intake issues).
This is not a problem the R poses, this is a problem that people pose. If you want to run the same code you need to bundle the source code of all packages and archive it with the data. This is not an R problem at all.