jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
It turns out that Hydroxychloroquine is kind of meh. But that's not the most relevant, most important part to think about. It's how the media covered this issue that needs to be talked about.

When the very first person said “Vitamin D helps” and “Hydroxychloroquine is a miracle cure” and “masks don’t work”, that became the red letter, unchangeable, holy truth to the masses.

Facts:

- Medical professionals are the ones who *started* talking about Hydroxychloroquine.
- This issue became *highly politicized* with the media taking a very one-sided stance, even using hysterical
comparisons to "goat urine" in one case.
- Efficacy of HCQ was correlated to very early dosing along with zinc. This was seldom covered in the press and
was never mentioned in mainstream articles and analyses of results.
- Studies which were widely criticized were mentioned time and again by the press, simply because it fit their chosen narrative

Just go and look at the numbers coming out of HCQ studies. This issue was nowhere near as one-sided as it was portrayed in the mainstream press. Go look at the numbers coming out of HCQ studies and compare them to Remdesivir, then go and compare the coverage of each. (That one goes to the level of WAT!?) Examine articles and coverage for emotional manipulation. The western press looks extremely fishy in this regard.

Again, it turns out that HCQ is kind of meh. Ivermectin does seem to be quite good, however. But of greatest importance, is how did the press acquit themselves in their coverage? It seems clear to me, that they care more about "saying the right thing" and following a narrative, and "it bleeds, it leads" than they care about providing accurate, unbiased information.

Science should not be politicized. Right now, our press is basically at the level of Lysenkoism. Ideologically motivated science coverage is what is preferred.
Incidentally, –90°C/–130°F happens to be almost exactly the lowest natural temperature measured on Earth (–89.2°C, in Antarctica in 1982).
Where did Marx deny spirituality?
The universe of citizens interests includes countries that are overleveraged and can never resolve their budgetary constraints, alongside countries that simply don’t need the additional revenue.

The tax collection expectation is based on hubris, and seems to misunderstand that countries have to figure out their own revenue structures, with national formalized taxes on profits being a new scheme, and international taxes being newer. This obviously brushes up against the capabilities of the nation state concept, as enforcing it even by the wealthiest country is an impractical game of whack-a-mole.

Countries should revisit how they are funded, because they are in competition. Its only a couple of the biggest countries that have egos about it.
>the truth is that the field of psychiatry doesn't put much weight on "chemical imbalance" takes.

Plenty of psychiatrists still assume mental illness of all sorts are primarily caused by chemical imbalance, which is why so many of them solely rely on chemicals to treat mental illness.

"Schizophrenia is caused by a chemical imbalance and other changes in the brain."[1]

[1]https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/health/conditions-and-diseas...
True, although it is not exclusive to Clubhouse. These actors are everywhere on the internet: newsletters, videos, tweets ... This just gives them an easy option to take money directly, instead of first funneling those funds through other products.
> Engineers...could be invent[ing] new products that have some percentage chance of being much more profitable

Doubtful. The successful products to come out of Google are Search, GMail, and GCP. They bought Adwords, Doubleclick, Android, Youtube, and Nest and Fitbit, I suppose. GCP is their only recent win, but it's a me-too late entrant in a market Google should have invented.
So far, the answers have contained non-technical answers like "Distributed Scraping." Well, yes, obviously.

A more useful answer is: I did this once, many years ago. Back then it was a matter of hooking up PhantomJS and making sure your user string was set correctly. Since PhantomJS was – I think – essentially the same as what headless chrome is today, the server can't determine that you're running a headless browser.

Now, it's not so easy nowadays to do that. There are mechanisms to detect whether the client is in headless mode. But most websites don't implement advanced detection and countermeasures. And in the ideal case, you can't really detect that someone is doing automated scraping. Imagine a VM that's literally running chrome, and the script is set up to interact with the VM using nothing but mouse movements and keyboard presses. You could even throw in some AI to the mix: record some real mouse movements and keyboard presses over time, then hook up some AI to your script such that it generates movements and keyboard presses that are impossible to distinguish from real human inputs. Such a system would be almost impossible to differentiate vs your real users.

The other piece of the puzzle is user accounts. You often have to have "aged" user accounts. For example, if you tried to scrape LinkedIn using your own account, it wouldn't matter if you were using 500 IPs. They would probably notice.

It's hard to counter a determined scraper.
And how do you know this video isn't real history and all the other Apollo videos aren't deep fakes? Answer seems obvious now, but once the generation that was alive during Apollo dies off, this is a likely conspiracy candidate that will take root in some skeptical future generation.

We are increasingly living in an age of misinformation where it is becoming more difficult to tell what is true and what is not without significant effort.

This tech I'm sure CCP will use extensively to shape history/propaganda however they want.
The disparity between his speech and head movement makes it looks like he's suffering from Parkinson's disease.
I wonder about that alloy decision. Starship needs to be strong at cryogenic temperatures, and strong after being used as a heatshield to burn off energy from an interplanetary orbit. Both temperatures change the properties of the material it's made out of considerably.

Is the same alloy really also the best at everyday -50 to 50 (c) temperatures?
Authors problem starts right at the beginning: He mentions that POSIX filenames consist of 8bit bytes, but then uses a utf-8 string as the example filename in the first code block.
GitLab community advocate chiming in, I just wanted to share a n Epic with plans from our team regarding this issue and future releases. https://gitlab.com/groups/gitlab-org/-/epics/1887
This is also why no one should use or trust this company with your money.
I can think of approaches that would work despite this.

I'm working at a place that does agent based modelling at the moment, and I think that approach would be perfect for this.
Better explanation of the case here http://www.businessweek.com/news/2010-11-15/sap-s-mcdermott-...
I find myself reminded of the famous Dr. Sagan quote for some reason: “If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.” (From "cloning Minecraft" to "implementing a list" in only five sentences!)
I give thanks every day that there are people like the author and others who can write and understand code like that so that I don't have to. I'll be damned if that doesn't look like trying to build a boat using a chainsaw and popsicle sticks with instructions written in Farsi.
There will be. There could be right now, we just haven't added it.
or instead of cherry bombs why not some form of plastic explosive. The guys a suicide bomber - Someone convinced him of that and someone will convince him of this.

Or a step further and why not in the stomach cavity. Soon you will be getting full x-rays just to get on a plane.
Fast atomic types support is indeed a good reason to do this sort of hackery - that's one of the reason why it is used in kernels. The difference of performance hashmap/vectors/sets between void* and int-specialized can be very significant (easily up to one order of magnitude if not more in some real cases).

I wished there was a language (not C++) which could help for this kind of things. Unfortunately, it becomes difficult very fast. One interesting approach is K as suggested by some FreeBSD hackers, but it never went into production AFAIK (http://wiki.freebsd.org/K)
You know, Gruber has implied that he's an HN reader in the past... I think his blog does have a comments section; it just has an orange stripe at the top.
I haven't checked for a while, but when I compared Slicehost and Linode pricing, they were about the same. I stayed on Slicehost for that reason. Slicehost has been great to me, and I like their IRC channel. I see no reason to switch. I guess I'll go compare again soon and if there's a big difference I'll be obliged to switch (very poor), but I haven't had any trouble with Slicehost.
The same sort of thing happens regularly in any sport where any sort of external outcome is dependent on individual games. The best example is any league that relies on final standings to determine the next season's draft order. When the team with the worst record gets to pick first in the following year's draft, it begins to make little sense for teams close to the bottom of the standings to win games at all.
Apple doesn't care for anything that doesn't work on their OS.

Unless they show to be as committed Microsoft is with .NET Core, Swift will have the same support as Objective-C has had since NeXT days.

As for Google, I still don't believe that they are that committed as well, Chris Lattner left, and SF4T appears more on Reddit and HN comments than on any kind of Tensorflow official communication channels.

If it wasn't for the valiant effort of one single developer not employed from either of them, Swift for Windows wouldn't even exist.

This is how committed both companies are.
This is a good thing, as it allows you to learn where the limits are without dying, and discover that there is more that you can do without having to risk significant pain to find out. Breaking the mental barrier to discover the true limits is important.

A personal anecdote, my bouldering skills (no rope technical rock climbing) improved tremendously once I started top-roping (climbing much higher walls with a safety rope), as the rope gave me the confidence to try moves I never would have without the safety rope.
Most people will run out of money (or the willingness to spend it) long before at freemium hosting would have given out.

Also, for anyone building a site they aren't directly responsible for, getting payment details in a crisis is effectively impossible.

Lastly, don't be so sure services like Netlify wouldn't help if you asked. They often do.
I have, but there is a new tenant moving in right after me so there's not much she can do. She offered to store my stuff in the garage for as long as needed thankfully.
> It's not JUST google and apple, I'm sure they have enough cash and expertise and will to create enough momentum to attract more domain experts in other areas.

Maybe, but I'm doubtful. Scientific domain experts flock to languages like Python, Julia, Matlab, R, etc. because they're interactive and allow them to quickly iterate on ideas, query data, produce plots, etc. Swift is not much of an interactive language and is not built around that kind of repl driven experience.

> In particular, do you have another example aside from DifferentialEquations.jl ?

Sure, here's a smattering of high quality packages made by and for research scientists:

https://github.com/JuliaApproximation/ApproxFun.jl
https://github.com/BioJulia
https://github.com/JuliaDiffEq/ModelingToolkit.jl
https://github.com/crstnbr/MonteCarlo.jl
https://github.com/chriselrod/LoopVectorization.jl
https://github.com/JuliaNLSolvers/Optim.jl
https://github.com/PainterQubits/Unitful.jl
https://github.com/mcabbott/TensorCast.jl
https://github.com/JuliaPhysics/Measurements.jl
https://github.com/Jutho/TensorOperations.jl

There are many many more, these are just the first that came to mind.
Exactly. By “clearing the deck” of all APIs (and software using them) that won’t make it to ARM, they can position it as the same OS and apps, just running on a more-efficient chip. And for 90+% of Catalina-compatible apps, a recompile is all that’s needed. (And/or they’ll have an emulator)
The article mentioned this in the last couple of paragraphs.
For the record, I'm in ~northern Europe, and plan to eventually retire to warmer climes. Observing the intensifying weather, I am most definitely looking at how the change in sea levels, ambient temperatures and more powerful storms will affect my future choice of location.

Immediate sea front properties are out of the question. Same for low lands. Forest covered or at least shrubberied hills, outside of but somewhat higher than most port towns, are looking ever more enticing.
Why would a hazmat team need to borrow lead aprons from a dentist? Surely those are not the best radiation shields in existence but rather just good enough for the purpose.
There are a lot of 4-bit microcontrollers, and they're still being sold. Perfect for a mass manufactured item that requires a bit of control.
For the person described in brudgers’ comment.
I personally spend less hours working but doing more when at home. I first thought it was procrastination until I measured my output and noticed that I was being far more effective and doing work in maybe 50% of the time so I can just take days off.
>Don't you need a MS developer key to build it or something now?

I built it myself a couple of months ago and I didn't need any key. I just cloned the source from GitHub and compiled it following the build instructions.
Offtopic:
For interest, there seems to be an issue clearing/deleting values from inputs. Ar least on mobile anyway.
The last digit is never visibly removed and appears to still be considered a part of thr input value.

Also, decimal input fields(such as TER) do not seem to accept any decimal character input
My guess would be contaminated building materials used to build the school.
These are the building blocks on which the meta-verse will be based, not the new vrml itself.
No; too much risk of realizing "The Emperor has no clothes"
Baidu-Baidu in China.
Who wants to give me stuff in exchange for karma IOUs?
I've dropped some off on the onramp of the Parkway before. We don't get many, but every once in a while.
The offer of bail money is a bit pointless if the judge hasn't granted bail. I know he's appealing at the moment (I can hear the protesters from my office) but it will be interesting to see if MM puts his money where is mouth is.
This is especially cool for me, in that I remember the day in grade school I told the other kids about how Voyager 1 was passing Saturn and was the farthest-away man made object; now, some 30 years later, it is still making news and performing a useful scientific function.
I think it's kind of non-linear. You have a user with ~18000 karma wagering against a user with ~6000 karma. Moving from 18000 to 17000 karma would have no impact on rms' HN experience or general ranking. Similarly, paul is not going to get any big bump in going from 6000 to 7000.

Now, if paul was a new user with 5 karma, the 1000 point bump would open up options on HN that he did not previously have. It would also boost his perceived ranking slightly from an unvetted newbie to someone with roughly first-tier status.

So, the value of 1000 karma isn't some baseline value multiplied by 1000. It varies by user based on the relative impact it has to that user.
Don't use MD5.

This only gets faster, not slower. No matter how much you salt your passwords, soon they will be able to crack your passwords fast enough. And soon there will be rainbow tables of salts.
Developer career tracks end in management, for better or worse. Frequent telephone calls. Frequent meetings. Much of the conferencing software assumes a Windows desktop. Development occurs on hosted VMs so that works in progress aren't lost. Many of the development tools were built in-house, including the bug tracker and the source control system, the latter of which bears some resemblance to Rational ClearCase.

My time at the company was brief. Though I did meet a few people who clearly loved their work, the feeling I had was of a vast, top-heavy organization with a culture of micromanagement, and I was glad to leave. I don't know if any of the above is applicable outside of the division that I worked in.
Man, that's not even close to how I remembered the story. I need to watch Infinity again, maybe that version took liberties with the original by merging the hitchhikers with Fuchs, and that's what I remembered...
who has a balanced job? :-)
That depends on what costs more: the sickness, or the vaccine (adjusted for effectiveness).

At $25/shot it seems unlikely that the vaccine costs more. The fact that my HMO gives it away for free suggests that they think it's a net financial gain to vaccinate, and they don't even see the costs from lost productivity.

You assume nobody asked the question. Perhaps it has been asked and answered "yes."
"Climate change is a huge problem."

That's exactly the point, it is not a proven "huge problem". This "hottest year" is a statistical tie with previous years, including 1998. 2014 supposedly won the crown by 0.01 deg C, what are the error bars on that measurement again? It is, if anything, a statistical tie.

As to "The deniers and skeptics make it difficult for real scientists to study the problem", how so? The scientists are receiving full funding, and "studying the problem" to their hearts content. I would fully support a new satellite using state of the art technology to measure surface temperatures - what we need is ground truth instead of models.

Note that in fact current satellite measurements do not support this being the "hottest year on record".

We'll see where things go from here, but I'm betting that lower solar output and cloud activity as Cycle 24 winds down will result in descending temperatures. We'll see over the next 10-15 years.
I'm going to disagree with this only because it comes down to the intent of the interviewer. If they're looking for a boolean right/wrong answer then you're absolutely correct. Feel bad for the interviewer who asks such things thinking they're being clever (and believe me, I've suffered through those interviews).

Instead, if it's the starting point of a conversation then hell, bring Google into it. Use that topic to figure out if the candidate is someone who converses well, thinks well, googles well, bullshits well, ultimately is it someone your team would want to continue working with.

Contrast that approach to something like FizzBuzz, which really affords no avenues for interesting conversation and the difference becomes apparent.
I quite did not understand what "waking" up means, but it seems that Blue waters will indeed have a sustained performance of more than a petaflop with adapted applications !
I'm guessing he is one of the few that really doesn't mind the TSA's new backscatter opt-out policy.
According to the link in the copyright header (http://www.java.com/js/deployJava.txt)

"This file is part of the Deployment Toolkit. It provides functions for web pages to detect the presence of a JRE, install the latest JRE, and easily run applets or Web Start programs."
Because that chunk of stuff is from http://www.java.com/js/deployJava.txt

And apparently Oracle slaps "ORACLE PROPRIETARY/CONFIDENTIAL" on everything.
What is it the tool that generates C++ codecs for JSON from .proto specifications?

(I wrote a generic command-line Protobuf-JSON converter).
Well, this may be insanely obvious, but how do you locate real problems?

I realize there's an easy opportunity to make fun of me for asking that, but I'm just curious. Do you solve problems that you yourself face? Do you look around for signs of problems online? Ask people you know? All of this, I'm guessing, would be worth while.
here is the original source code:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Morris_Worm.jpg
I work for a media aggregator, and we do a lot of different media (microblogs like twitter included). We index close to 100M documents a month. We also charge a fraction of 360k/yr. I'd like to know who the target market is?

Anyone here from people genuinely ready to spend that kind of cash for 50% of Twitter?
Why are there so many posts about the bystander effect instead of asking WTF may be wrong with Bill Nye's health?!
news.yc is now really, really crowded. an avalanche of submissions means that only a few get to make it to the front page. as simply a numbers game, not very many of them are going to be indian-specific.

personally, i can very clearly see why they'd want to do something like this.
There are tons of new features, this list is pretty pathetic. I'm not sure why the spaceship operator got top billing when there has been so many other great changes.
Are you worried because you are lacking in domain knowledge that could only be known by working for the company for a significant amount of time? If so, I wouldn't worry so much, since that kind of experience only comes through time. Also, you're a Junior Developer, you shouldn't be expected to be an expert...yet :)

I do think it's troubling that you think everyone you work with is unhelpful. This is not normal and sounds like a potentially toxic environment. I'd make sure this is the case though before jumping to conclusions. Maybe some are just busy or you're asking for help at the wrong time (maybe try asking in advance through email/instant message and scheduling time on their calendar). Maybe it's neither of those, but just giving the benefit of the doubt. How often are you asking for help and have you already tried other (easy) means of assistance like the web/documentation/etc? Do you take notes to avoid repeating yourself or forgetting what you learned when you do get assistance?

Those in your team though should be the most helpful though since in theory, they depend on you and you depend on them, so assistance is mutually beneficial. Sometimes I will leave a junior developer to work out something on their own when they have already been through a similar scenario before. It can be hard to resist (learned that was rarely the best idea when tutoring a friend in school) rushing in and helping them too quick, but I tell myself they'll learn more if they try to think it through and refine those problem solving skills. In those cases, I have a pretty good idea that they know the answer, but it hasn't clicked yet. I mean if they get stuck on it for too long, I'll help them a long, but as a more senior developer you when you're helping and when you're just doing their work for them (the later rarely helps them to learn/understand).

My other thought it's maybe they're not helpful because they just suck at communication. Not talking so much about general communication as much as trying to convey a complex topic to someone else in a way that is relevant to the person trying to understand. Some just don't know as much as they claim about a subject to actually teach it to someone else or have the patience to do so.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_aircraft_hijackings

There were definitely a couple.
The Sahara is a complex ecosystem, like everywhere else (actually, it's a network of several deserts with different geographies, climates, and ecosystems). It's not a dead place, and can't just be harmlessly stripped.

That said, it's easier to make square sand round than round sand square. It's probably easier to crush rock into concrete-appropriate sand than to turn desert sand into concrete sand.
My point is that the data isn't sitting in a database the phone tech can look up. Putting in a service order is how it gets to the people that can answer the question.
By that logic, nothing can be unlimited. There are a finite number of computers, hard drives, heck even atoms in the world and therefore no company could offer an unlimited amount of storage.