jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
The FDA makes sense as an independent entity that does impartial comprehensive testing, because you need somebody to figure out if something really works who isn't motivated by wanting to sell it to you.

But their role should be advisory. If they run a trial and it shows that a given drug has a given effectiveness and particular side effects, they should publish that information and be done. Then it should be up to you and your doctor whether it's something that makes sense for you.

They shouldn't be in the business of prohibiting stuff -- especially when the only reason they have for prohibiting it is that they haven't gotten around to testing it yet.
Thanks! I’m keen to explore integration with GitHub in the near future (https://github.com/vsls-contrib/codetour/issues/10), in order to provide a browser-based “player”. That way, the knowledge in the tour isn’t limited to any one editor.

That said, I wanted to record the tours in a simple JSON file, specifically to enable interop with other tools. I’d love to hear any feedback you have on the experience and/or the format!
I wish there was some way to highlight this discussion better. For everyone going stir crazy right now, it really makes me appreciate having my freedom.

Of the 2mm+ people in prison, almost none of them should be there for as long as they are and many should not be there at all.

The entire situation is so awful, but I really don’t know what I can do.
On the contrary, many of the lowest-paid jobs are lowest-paid because they're non-profits, volunteer organizations, or other organizations that provide some social benefit. Raising the minimum wage prevents these organizations from doing as much good for society.
Minimum wage isn't just flat for a decade, it's not being adjusted for inflation. This means minimum wage workers have been getting a pay cut over time.

The debate isn't just whether we should raise minimum wage, it's whether we should be cutting it. By allowing it to remain stagnant we're making the default decision to cut.
how do you do in browser sorting with a plain old html table?
I always found that excel can be as simple and as complex as you need it to be. You can use it to write your shopping list (ok, not ideal), or a small budget, and you can ramp it up for really complex simulations. Once you know vlookup, indirect/match, sumif/countif and very few other formulas (for example text manipulation to clean and harmonise data inputs), you can do really interesting stuff even with datasets of thousands of lines.
I found that often in excel the most difficult stuff is not the back-end (data analysis and simulation) but the front end (i.e. giving the user a clear interface for inputing data and conditions in the model, and visualising outputs, for example with buttons, constrained inputs, conditional formatting etc.).
This is actually a perfect intro to how I believe escape from simulation could work.

There could be absolutely no feedback on the success or failure of an attempted escape until the post processing is complete (after the heat death of the universe). Escape might depend on some entity or automatic routine finding something interesting enough to warrant a second look.

To escape, you'd litteraly have to cause a universe wide anomaly, then social engineer your way past the ones running the simulation.
alternative media? with comments about how jews are responsible for everything and how russia will save white race? Dear HN, really?
I lot of the time it seems programmers are just avoiding using SQL to do query-centric processing (slicing and dicing lists). Aside from performance problems, another downside is that one reinvents query language idioms in each programming language. It increases the learning curve and is anti-standardization.
There are many countries where free speech is regularly challenged, that doesn't make it right.

Especially in New Jersey's case trying to retroactively tax them. California at least is just changing a law.
I think people find arguments involving Nazis easy to dismiss as hyperbole. Especially in the UK when we weren't invaded. Also people who are accepting or supportive of mass surveillance usually imagine themselves firmly in the safe majority not the oppressed minority.
You can actually implement IO using unsafePerformIO fairly easily. There's a little bit of compiler magic for speed, but its not strictly necessary.
Was this site used in your search? It seems geared toward sf startups: https://www.startupers.com/
This shows the folly of modern approaches:

> Pornographic images, for instance, are frequently identified not by the presence of particular body parts or structural features, but by the dominance of certain colors in the images

Neural networks are unsuccessful because they are not detecting anything. They're just making statistical correlations that happen to be right for the specific set of training data they have received. There's no robustness whatsoever. Artificial gullibility.

If we want to teach computers to think, then we have to teach them to model the physical world we live in. Plus the emotional, social world.

And even that is entirely separate from heavyweight abstract reasoning. Just because a computer can pass the turing test, doesn't mean it can spontaneously diagnose your medical problems, design a suspension bridge or play Go.
Yeah, the OP has serious blinders here. Like the student who threw alarmist BS about how the data could be used to track visits to stripper clubs...this seems to be an example of cherry-picking the data. So, I'm not good at discerning deviation from thousands of small dots...what's the numerical measure of the correlation here? What are the significance of those blue lines when they show a trend over empty black space?

And what does the analysis/trendlines look like on drivers who can be discerned as not being Muslim?

I'm all for personal data protection, and the TLC erred in not anonymizing the data. But this weak analysis and alarmist bullshit by a PhD serves little but to give governments more excuse to hide public data.

edit: Linking to someone more well versed than me, regarding the cherry-picking of data in the "Riding with the Stars" article http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/infolaw/2014/11/21/the-antidote...
...inasmuch as Mickey is a proxy for Disney's (some others, but mostly Disney's) mindshare which copyright protections are about to expire. I really wish the original copyright law stipulated that for a given work, controlling law is what's on the books at the time it was printed.
Note to mods: there should be a year label in the title (2006).

(Is there a more formal way of requesting this?)
Can't find that option in my stock Android browser - what menu is it under?
apparently LSP is just a contravariant functor https://apocalisp.wordpress.com/2010/10/06/liskov-substituti...

But I don't see how the relationship of contravariant functors to OO-style subclasses is as clear as the DI <-> function abstraction example (functions are just functions in OO or FP)
I agree with everything you said about what makes racket a great fundamentals class, but I think you left out a key advantage. Most people haven't seen racket. Kids who took some basic CS course beforehand, but have to take the college introductory course, are practically level with kids who haven't seen anything.
In the UK, yes. In the US, yes, if they can show evidence that you should know the key.
Your business model is part of why I think it’s bad advice: every third party service used is an operational liability. The less standardised the integration, the harder it is to swap to a competitor if required. The more standardised the integration, the easier it is.

To use your email argument earlier: if a company doesn’t want to handle its own mail servers (which is a common choice these days) the cost of moving between vendors can be pretty low. A few DNS records and some config/environment vars, and voila. It’s very possible to do it with zero downtime.
And in the case of the pictures, what if you manage to memorize the hex codes of the pictures and just retype them if the computer data is lost? That is difficult, but some people might do such things.
Yes. As it already did in 2016.
>Adding a language like Mandarin, for example, provides very similar mental utility as some dying tongue, but additionally gives the child a useful communication tool later in life

Really? How, exactly? Will a significant number of these countries be doing business directly with Chinese counterparts ...who don't already speak English? As someone who learned Mandarin, I can promise that the vast majority of its benefits I've had to go out of my way to enjoy.

Why should the small number of people who will find any use at all out of Chinese be valued more than maintaining a language that is significant to their heritage?
> SWATd is a daemon for running scripts when your house gets raided by the police (or broken into by criminals).

It's funny how the distinction seems blurry at times.
Hey, my job's on HN! I work on JWST (simulation software, among other stuff) and I think it's pretty cool too :)
About this:

"When Cowboy Ventures founder Aileen Lee coined the term unicorn as a label for such corporate creatures in a November 2013 TechCrunch blog post, just 39 of the past decade’s VC-backed U.S. software startups had topped the $1 billion valuation mark. Now, casting a wider net, Fortune counts more than 80 startups that have been valued at $1 billion or more by venture capitalists."

Again, this is because interests rate, in general, are very low, much lower now than they were during the original Dot Com boom, which is why valuations are higher. The math on this is simple.

Suppose you have a company that makes $1 million in profits. The question then is, at what point does it make sense to invest in something else? When prevailing interest rates are 10%, then $1 million is 10% of $10,000,000, so the company is worth $10,000,000 (excluding a million other factors for the sake of a simple model). If the company demands more than $10,000,000 to buy it, then it makes sense to invest in something else instead. If a company wants less than $10,000,000 for ownership, then it is a hot deal.

But when prevailing interest rates drop to 1%, as now, and since $1 million is 1% of $100,000,000, then for same level of profit, the value of the company has gone from $10,000,000 to to $100,000,000.

Again, there are a million other factors you could consider (do you trust the management, can they scale, how fast are they growing) but I'm going with a simple model here to demonstrate the basic driving force of modern valuations: when interest rates go down, valuations go up.

Of course, that doesn't explain why a web startup with no profits would be valued more than, say, a mature company like GE, which has known profits. Some of the wilder valuations are obviously being driven by speculation about wild growth rates.
"...the speed is just incredible."

Others have suggested: Perhaps it seems "fast" only because the systems that are considered acceptable today are (by comparison) incredibly slow.

"... purpose built..."

I believe it is only a minority of all my kernel's (and my OS's) capabilities that I actually use. The majority are there only because it is too much work to remove them. This is only my opinion.
I think this was a joke, but I hope no one has ever made any assessment or decision of any sort on the basis of this quip (incidentally, not Einstein's[1]).

This, of course, is not the definition of insanity, nor is it a remotely good proxy. Doing things over and over again -- whether chopping at that tree or going to the gym or working on a difficult problem -- should absolutely yield different results. All actions accumulate, some more than others.

[1] http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Rita_Mae_Brown
Lazarus is the modern alternative for Pascal coders
Sounds like the beginning of a JL Borges story.
>he author here doesn’t even get compensation from his/her work based on journal sells

Did you make that up or actually google to see if any journals pay? Because some do.

I get royalties on stuff I've personally written. Some of it is in technical books, and I've not checked, but I bet sci-hub even copies such stuff.

So care again to claim sci hub is not affecting any authors?

Finally, if an author wants his/her papers spread, it's easy to do. If an author only want their work in a certain journal, then the author can do that. Sci hub removes any author wish from the equation without author permission.

For example, there is no way for me to remove papers I wrote that sci hub has copied onto their servers (see above for an example link).
The problem is not the intelligence of the merge algorithm. The problem is that in this case there is no right answer.
Guys, thank you for your comments. I appreciate your understanding. Please note, however, that there is some irony in the piece, aside from the seriousness rightly accorded to the incident of the inattentive mother.
No matter what, Unlike Google, Apple is making lots of money from its ios devices.

Android feels geeky thus limits its audience.
Ios is very well polished and fancy. Maybe some people might not like it, but still ios has a lot larger audience than Android.

This article sounds like saying "Both are great but android is catching up and will beat ios someday soon".

I highly doubt that. Until Google learns doing marketing as well as Apple, apple will be leading the market and eating largest piece of pie.
I love how the emergence of human-like AI, something I wouldn't expect my great-grandchildren to see, is placed before the USA declining as a world power, something which is happening since the beginning of the century and will probably accelerate during the next decade (I mean the 2010s). Also, I hope I won't have to wait 30 years to see the end of the EU.
I got an internship my senior year of college with an excellent little software consulting outfit. They hired me full-time after graduation. I, too, was content, even though I'd sometimes work straight through the night and fail to accomplish anything meaningful. I liked my coworkers and am still in touch with them.

Leaving there was the best decision I've ever made. I activated my professional network and had another job lined up in under 24 hours. Now, this job is about as meaningful, and I will leave it at the end of my year-long contract... but it's been a good change of pace, it doubled my pay, and I got to move to a new city and meet new people.

I'd encourage you to take the plunge. It's easier if you have a professional network in place, but even if you don't, unemployment is a powerful motivator. If you're single and you're not living paycheck to paycheck... do it.
While I think this is actually an interesting usage for them, I've always been satisfied with setting up Google Alerts for brand monitoring. This has the advantage of catching mentions of your website that don't include a link.
Sad. I would personally love to mount a drive so that I didn't have to have nearly 100gb .raw files on my laptop but could still access them any time.

That thing is just useless for any purpose.
I think Periscope is the way of Twitter to counteract Meerkat. They have fear to Meerkat make the same that Instagram made with the photos.
Or you could print some garbage in the margins using several different printers, ending up with a pattern that can't be read unambiguously.
I would pay 10% more for a deaf-mute introvert cabbie. 20% more for a completely automated car.
There are a LOT of hyped startups that deliver hugely mediocre products/services. From consumer (HomeJoy, FlyCleaners etc) to enterprise software, there's a lot of nonsense out there.
> Added language-integrated differentiable programming into the Swift language. This work continues in the official Swift compiler.

While the readme tells us that the project is in archive mode, it also tells us that the differentiable programming part is still worked on by the compiler team.
Is there further information on that?
Is that even a feasible strategy for languages? I mean I get it for APIs... but we are talking about a language.
Fair point. Though who knows, it's hard/impossible to say. For some individuals, it might have been positive, for others, perhaps negative. Overall however, I would not say that today's programmers are of worse quality, on average. (It's hard to compare however, as clearly we have a 10/20/30 year experience gap over them.)
I don’t know anyone using Windows Containers in production.

Even Microsoft is using Linux containers for production dotnet deployments.
I agree, that is such a bad take. And the reason we have a renewed asset bubble in the midst of a unprecedented economic contraction is purely because of stimulus and QE.
Not disagreeing about chiropractors but...

> "If alternative medicine worked it would be called 'medicine'"

This seems a bit simplistic. There is some scope for exploration of new ideas in medicine, and many ideas may go untested until after they see adoption in the community.

They then might go through a double blinded trial (or several) that doesn't reveal any benefit beyond placebo, but even then, it's worth noting that some placebos work better than others, and likely placebos work differently for each individual. So for something like pain, which can be controlled somewhat by psychological intervention, a better placebo could have merit. But also, it could be found that some 'alternative medicines' supported by anecdata become scientifically validated interventions.

Not saying that unproven interventions should be thrust upon naive patients, but there are many willing and desperate people who've tried mainstream therapies without success
For info, the same tool works well with 2 million images found in the Unsplash dataset [1]. Features only have to be computed once for the dataset, and only the feature vector for the user query has to be computed on the fly. Then matching features can be done in a manner that scales well.

So, the present tool does not scale because the videos are part of the user query, but a company with an easy access to the videos and the computational power to pre-encode the frames as features could create a search engine based on CLIP.

[1] https://github.com/haltakov/natural-language-image-search
Swift lovers have to grasp that unless Apple actually puts the effort like Microsoft started doing with .NET, it is going to be used outside Apple eco-system as much as Objective-C has been used in the last 30 years.

There is no way out of it.
I really like the historical note: "Historical note: At the end of the 20th century when this was written, "cool" was an epithet of approval particularly among young, indicating trendiness, quality, or appropriateness. In the rush to stake our DNS territory involved the choice of domain name and URI path were sometimes directed more toward apparent "coolness" than toward usefulness or longevity. This note is an attempt to redirect the energy behind the quest for coolness."
about 7 minutes remaining :)
People use bricked incorrectly way too often. Leading to others wondering if they actually mean it is as functional as a brick or that it just crashed and thus can be rebooted or restored.

Then again I haven't personally bricked a device in a long time.
The best snippet for me: "Think of the URI space as an abstract space, perfectly organized. Then, make a mapping onto whatever reality you actually use to implement it."
Im the original poster, that found the bug. Nah it doesnt brick it, it does however require (atleast on 4.1. for me) a factory reset.

The problem seems to be that springboard locks up in an endless loop, restarting the device wont help it because its still loading the offending notification from the cache.
Of all the things I've seen scare people in plants, OSHA wins, hands down. The environmental agencies probably come neatly in second. Fines can be paid, lawsuits settled, but OSHA will come in and lock down your facility and stop production. They're like the nuclear deterrent of plant safety (and while it can be said that stuff still gets by, there is always the omnipresent fear of getting caught, and even that helps raise safety awareness).

They have teeth, such that just baring their teeth can be enough to incite action.
EDIT: Just found this ... http://blog.sendgrid.com/why-you-should-not-use-noreplydomai...
I was wondering if I was the only one having that issue. It's a shame no other company in my area offers 1000Mbs duplex because when it does work, it's great.
Lisp is, and always will be, the no true Scotsman fallacy actualized as a programming language.

Clojure is curb stomping Lisps in applicability. I get lisp in general. I use Emacs to write Python. Lisp still can't get it done. And It is whatever people are doing this decade. Sure Lisps should be better, but it's always the fault of someone else that lisp hasn't taken over the world.
Hmm.. I find it interesting that they have kept IE6, FF 3, Chrome 3, Opera 9.6 and Safari 3 in far-past category. Doesn't IE6 is Far-far past then?
No. I am commenting on point #2 of that article:

> My success — and that of my people — depends largely on being the master of obvious and mundane things, not on magical, obscure, or breakthrough ideas or methods.

Follow the URL if you don't believe me;-)

EDIT: Ah! I see why you say that. I copied from the wrong place (from the comments) but the above quote was what I intended to highlight. Sorry about the confusion.
Anything that you couldn't really do firing off an ajax request after the page loads?
Video https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ICgarjMX3tw
The study is of all active shootings, not just active shootings where potential victims have arms.

You can't really conclude that arms wouldn't be more useful in stopping active shooters.
What’s wrong with anthropomorphizing?

I’ve noticed at least as many people under-anthropomorphize as over. People who seem obsessed with human exceptionalism and are personally offended at the idea that plants and animals (and computers!) might have subjective experiences like our own.

But to me it seems obvious we are far more alike “lower” species than we are unlike them. I would say the cases of human exceptionalism are actually extremely rare. The main source of our uniqueness is that we amalgamate other species, not that we have transcended them.

My theory is that we are terrified that we might be simpler than we think, because socially we behave as if we are so singular. If we are simple, and animals and machines are like us, then maybe we should be treating them with more reverence.

But being afraid of that is OK for a random person. For a machine learning researcher I would hope they are more careful about what we have evidence for (the similarities between us) and what we don’t (that there is some ineffable magic about humans).
There is nothing but houses and a hospital within a kilometer of me. The closest store is about 5km and with the hills would be serious cardio there and back.

Biking sounds fine until you think about being sick and needing to run to the store with a fever.
It’s a chicken and the egg scenario for Android watches. No company wants to invest money in making processors for watches because there is no market and there is no market partially because no Android manufacture can make money selling watches. They can’t really make money selling phones.
Really sad. We could have saved dinosaurs from extinction, then...
Time to go. Any suggested alternatives?
Apparently a couple of people are unhappy at my suggestion that WSJ is sometimes a propaganda arm of the USG.

I just wanted to re-interate that suggestion, and invite those people to learn some history. But only if they're interested more in facts than fantasy.