skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
ad hominem is "He's stupid, therefore he's wrong about some claim."

"He did a stupid thing, therefore he's stupid" is not ad hominem. Inflammatory, subject to a huge debate about definitions, perhaps even wrong? Sure. But if you expand it out reasonably (a sample intervening premise: "People who do stupid things are stupid."), the logic is valid, in the technical sense. To attack the conclusion requires attacking something else about the premises, the most obvious fruitful avenue being the definition of "stupid" in question.

(Although, spoiler, that pretty much ends in "I have my definition and you have yours, and by mine, yes, he's stupid, but by yours, no, he's not.", and as long as we don't mistake the map for the territory and argue as if the definition of "stupid" that is used by someone has any power over the real world, is a perfectly acceptable result.)

(Incidentally, I consider my sample intervening premise up there as stronger than I personally would use the word stupid. I like to think of myself as generally not stupid, but I've done stupid things. Still, with that premise, the argument is logically valid.)
You never learned at school to save what you are working on often? It's crazy, you are either too old to have required computer for school work or too young to have not lived through years of constant bluescreens.

Both 3 and 4 are mitigated by you saving your document often... it's not so bad, considering it can happen whatever you do.

Nowadays, Word is made to keep saving your change for that reason... They learned and designed it for the worst situation which is a whole system crash. If you can't handle that, well you aren't doing your work well.
The reason why consumer/enterprise software is so lightly regulated is that very few people die when mistakes are made. (Embedded, especially medical, is a different story: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Therac-25)

Meanwhile, cars (and roadways designed for high speeds without proper pedestrian accommodations) have been the #1 cause of injury deaths for kids for generations:
https://www.cdc.gov/injury/wisqars/LeadingCauses.html
Jacob - I'm living in Serbia. This has happened to us in Novi Sad couple of nights ago. I should have maybe added Southeastern Europe. I'll fix that. Estonia is light years ahead of my home country! :)
Although obviously wrong on Uber's part, I'm curious: If they had informed law enforcement, could it be possible to legally pay the hackers to delete the data?

Hacks of this magnitude, especially in other cases where they involve credit card information, cause millions in damages ultimately, however the black hats involved (the initial part of that chain of events) sell that data for much less. Could we cut the losses there, by paying the hackers? Would it be legal? It could be a more serious version of a bug bounty.
The 1st amendment only applies to the government, not to your peer citizens or to companies. They can censor whatever they want.
You’re exactly right. What I don’t see is how Roberts’ experiments help advancing that engineering challenge; the article gave no details about the injection, such as the vector being used to get the genetic material into cells, or the carrier, etc.
> If Americans want access to less expensive healthcare, why not make it so that some kinds of medical treatment are available from people with ~2 years of education instead of 10? (Yes, the treatment would be inferior, but also much less expensive.)

We already have. It turns out that patients generally don't want this. When given the choice, they generally opt for the practitioner with more training (the physician) over the one with less (an NP or PA).

Sure, we can (and do) pass these costs on to the patient, or (in some cases) force them to use the cheaper option, but at that point, you're literally talking about either:

(A) forcing patients to assume the costs of their care directly, either entirely or in proportion; or

(B) forcing patients to use the lower-cost, lower-quality option

Politically, people don't like (A) because it means patients' access to quality medicine is restricted by their ability to pay. And people don't like (B) because nobody likes to be told that they can't have access to the top level of quality (whether or not they're expected to pay for it themselves).
I'm a cofounder of Snips https://snips.ai and we are launching a platform for data generation to improve the performance of your chatbot or your voice assistant

Snips is a platform to build 100% on-device voice assistants that we want to open-source over time
I would love if SCMs made it easier to have access controls. E.g. I want to give a contractor access to a single file or directory. That's basically impossible with git
Hah, yep, that looks exactly like it. I forgot how horrid it looked.
I am pretty sure the crgoculting testless bloated code dismayed the incompetent refactorer. This is not a proof of benefit of duplication, it's a proof of the low quality of the legacy code.
Listen to this interview with Robert Sapolsky. Somewhat of a superstar in this field: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=obmt_PkIfBE

(Ignore the person interviewing him)
Yes, that's more or less the solution given in the SO answer to which I referred. I like your idea of giving the created resources human-friendly names/paths; it may be that the POST data can even indicate a preferred name, though the server may need to modify the name to preserve uniqueness, etc.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_tolerance

Tolerance is generally a useful tool for social discourse, but when your "peers" are actively working to recruit and organize a movement to silence/deport/kill your friends it's generally not useful to tolerate that behavior.

Tolerance only works when you have at least the smallest and most fundamental amount of social cohesion.
You could also just reduce driving deaths by having better public transportation and reducing driving overall.

Sounds like it would even be better in the long run.
It's pretty widely discussed but I don't think it's as well studied as it should be. The shift from 24 to ~16 was made without much evidence, and analyses subsequently didn't support the change.

An awareness that we need to study these decisions before making them has finally taken hold. To that end, trials are now ongoing that have randomized residency programs to the (shorter+more handoffs) vs (longer) shifts.

Patient outcomes are obviously the most important, but measures of physician wellness would be a valuable secondary outcome.
And that's cheap! With employer health insurance I pay $4k in premiums.
You can say and think whatever you like. Companies giving platforms to hate is not something that democracy requires.

It's less "that idea is popular" and more "these people are inciting hatred against other people".

I'm baffled that people still repeat this "free speech is important" thing when we're talking about a private service giving an audience to white supremacists.
Not if the government already pays for it. Why open up self-funded slots and show that the government doesn't need to pay for it? If you make a small profit, you are just putting the other pure profit slots at risk...
No one believes they can't. But should they? https://theintercept.com/2014/08/21/twitter-facebook-executi...
I was a bit confused until I noticed that this is only a partial sequence. A full antibody is considerably larger, and you also need to get the disulfide bonds formed correctly for it to work.

And I don't think it is entirely clear if expressing that antibody alone is enough to defeat HIV, especially as it targets the immune system itself. If antibodies are the solution, then developing a vaccine that triggers the production of suitable antibodies is probably the better way forward.
This right. In fact CVS MinuteClinics are usually manned by nurse practitioners. They can do many things typically associated with internal/family medicine.
Being offensive is a valid marketing strategy
Right, you need to continue reading.

Even if the Gas Chamber had never been designed, those people would of still been marched outside and shot by firing squad.
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^This

My first memory of surveillance in any kind of large-scale was in the early 1990s, well before Tony Blair. It was when the Met police put up the "Ring of Steel" around the centre of London to stop the volunteers blowing things up.

Anyway, too much surveillance bad. Unless they use it to find your phone, in which case too much surveillance good. One might think it's somewhat of a nuanced issue!
That's pretty much what I ended up doing as well, albeit with my own static site builder scripts. Each time I build my site[1], the deployment script is just a directory rsync. No mess, no fuss.

You are also right about not needing a CDN. My site has occasionally become momentarily popular and my $5 hosting VM hasn't even blinked on my completely static site. A database is a fine thing but you don't want to be serving web pages out of one. Thats why I finally ditched WordPress.

[1] https://sheep.horse/tagcloud.html#computing - a complete waste of your time.
> This is also naive. In that case you won't be able to publish your results in prestigious journals and your career will die out.

Charlatan fortunetellers aren't owed careers as scientists -- if they can't produce reliable, predictive models because they utterly fail to control experiments,then they should have their careers destroyed.

We've seen enough damage from corporate leaders and politicians relying on guides to reading chicken entrails masquerading as science.

It's time to stop the fraud.
They really don't have much in common. If you want more kinder eggs, you have to walk to the store. When the mechanics are based on exploiting a skinner box as they are in games these days, breaking engagement like that pretty much ruins the whole thing. If EA or Caesars Palace required you to go to the store and buy a physical card to play again, revenue would plummet.
You can run A/A studies in the sense of permutation tests or bootstraps where you shuffle individual mice which weren't treated and see how often you get a 'significant' result; this is how you can see stuff like litter or cage or room effects (ie mice housed close to each other will respond more similarly to each other, and woe betide you if you do your 'randomization' by selecting from different cages rather than selecting from different individuals!) eg "Design, power, and interpretation of studies in the standard murine model of ALS" http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.654... , Scott et al 2008, subsamples data from their 'control' mice to empirically estimate pseudo-effects and the null distribution. This is equivalent to raising two batches of mice and comparing. More interesting are multi-lab attempts at eliminating that heterogeneity and getting consistency in results, the most recent example being _C. elegans_ life extension - it turns out to be incredibly hard to harmonize labs in terms of measurements, environment, and results, and that's for well-established effects in model organisms which are about as simple as possible.

Unsurprisingly, there's a ton of heterogeneity which means it's easy to violate your statistical assumptions (i.i.d. being more important than normality here, I think) and so you get a lot of false positives. It's similar to the brain imaging issue: the assumption of spatial locality and Gaussianness is not really true and drives a lot of false-positive _p_-value inflation. There are really quite a lot of problems with animal studies, so it's not a surprise that they wipe out spectacularly when transferring to human.

I keep a list of systematic reviews & meta-analyses I run across at https://www.gwern.net/DNB-FAQ#fn95 One of the most impressive ones, I think, are sepsis treatments: ~150 sepsis treatment experiments in humans based on mouse/rat experiments, and all of them failed: "Genomic responses in mouse models poorly mimic human inflammatory diseases", Seok et al 2013 http://www.pnas.org/content/110/9/3507.full.html
Well then it has the potential to be a buttton faster than Greyhound.
I agree with this logic about "if residency programs predictably broke even" but I don't see any concrete support for that in the article. They don't have an accounting of revenue per doctor or at least the article has not shown one.

Saying the benefit is social benefit doesn't help here, obviously it is it's a hospital, there needs to be revenue numbers in the mix to talk about breaking even.
Just curious, are you speaking as an Uber employee
No. There are two files, Program.cs and Startup.cs. Program.cs is 26 lines long, Startup.cs is 35 lines long. Project file is 15 lines long.

Of course, there is whole web server Kestrel referenced somewhere, using NuGet and DLLs full of MSIL. Formulating "depending on compiled library code" like "contains _ lines of code" is, especially in the context of the conversation, arguably dishonest.
My wife is a doctor. She is just over a year out of residency. She makes around $300,000 per year. It's a lot of money. She has to make that much money because the U.S. has stupidly decided to burden doctors with massive med school debt. Her debt is $400,000.

When she pays off her debt her salary won't go down. People expect to make more in successive years. Hence large salaries are going to be normative unless there is drastic change in the system. It would be much better for the country, and for my wife, if her debt were wiped out and she made a lot less money. We'd be happy for that.

Whatever system is going to be in place will require some form of rationing. Prior to Obamacare that rationing was done on the basis of money, and whether or not a person was lucky enough to have a job that had health benefits. Obamacare is an attempt at free market forces whilst providing care for most people. It's somewhat better now than in the past but not ideal. I think universal, government funded healthcare is the most moral and economical option.
"Does this user have a racial slur in their username?" would knock out like a really good chunk of the problem, tbh. Or like "Is the user saying they are a nazi" would cover a lot too. Pretty basic stuff would go a long way.
> We don’t need to construct the rules with an eye toward maximizing the contexts in which men can pursue sexual relationships.

Nor do we need to minimize them. You're talking as if men are the only people who might want to pursue romantic relationships. You are also proposing a world in which we limit the pursuit of romantic relationships to select places. You can't do it in a professional environment, nor any clubs where there is a strata of levels (say sports clubs or martial arts, for example), nor trade or professional organizations. You can do it at the bar, using online dating or in designated areas. Even if people thought that would be a good idea, there's no way it could ever work. It's entirely natural for people in the same profession to pursue romantic relationships and they are adults who have a right to do so.

Furthermore, sexual harassment doesn't just exist in the workplace. Women are harassed everywhere: walking down the street, in bars, online, everywhere. Saying "no harassment in the workplace" doesn't even come close to addressing the issue. An open discussion does far more than that.

This isn't to say I don't believe there isn't inappropriate behaviors for the workplace; taking your pants down or kissing someone unsolicited is never appropriate. Nor would it be appropriate outside of work. But sexual harassment can be far more subtle and the line can only be drawn with communication.
People on both sides pull this card out till it affects their PoV. Imagine the calls we'd witness from one side of the spectrum if Twitter went 4chan.
I don't believe that's at all what the OP meant by:

> "Other entities should not be allowed to keep or trade information about individuals without paying them directly.

I interpreted the comment to mean if I subscribe to say Hulu they are not allowed to sell that information to third parties and also if I cancel my Hulu account my data is not kept around since its no longer needed.
> Or allow people to do internships with normal, non-ER doctors.

Huh? What does that even mean? The only people who do their residency training with EM physicians are residents training in... EM.

> Or eliminate the residency requirement completely.

So... have people who aren't qualified to practice medicine be allowed to practice medicine?

Residency isn't just some arbitrary requirement - it's how neurosurgeons actually train in neurosurgery[0], and so on.

[0] Well, to be pedantic, neurosurgery also requires a post-residency fellowship. But you'd be hard-pressed to make the argument that neurosurgery fellowships could somehow eschew the residency requirement - it's a prerequisite for a reason.
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As an engineer my salary is frozen in 1998, technical salaries have been effectively frozen so long that my salary thinks Biggie and Tupac are still the big thing. It doesn't matter how rare the technical skills there's a hard ceiling on income coupled with high cost of living and you work 100 hours a week but still have to go hungry on some days. Salaries are frozen in time for the benefit of the thin layer of people who own other people for a living.
And the dismissive attitude of the Firefox team just makes the whole thing worse.

The alternative a lot of people will find is a different browser.
Does this also mean the FCC will attempt to invalidate those state laws bought by ISPs to block municipal network competition?
Second that. But those engineers are not paid anywhere as much as any doctor and there is no artificial limit on engineer supply.
No, how about users (me, at least) are leaving Twitter because it's a rotten cesspool of misogyny, racism and stupidity. Maybe users should get a choice to avoid some of this?
You have to allow for some level of pragmatism. They found a method that seems to provide better data without actively biasing their results. Rodents make convenient test subjects, and no scientist wants (or more likely it doesn't even occur to them) to include an unproven methodology in their published work.
Medical stuff is incredibly complex. Hospitals aren't making massive amounts of money -- overall the situation is that there are too many hospital beds as insurers push more and more procedures into outpatient settings with better outcomes and lower shared cost.

That's why medical networks are forming -- they put the GPs on a salary, cram in more nurse practitioners and PAs, avoid union contracts that are more common in hospital settings and extract more money from those settings.

So you have lots of implicit and explicit subsidy. Hospitals lose money on Medicare and some medicaid patients, and on no-pay patients who lack insurance. When my wife had my son, the unplanned c-section cost over $40k, largely because of those insane overheads that require subsidy.
You need a prescription to buy contacts? Weird. In 3 European countries I’m familiar with they are a supermarket item (literally) or anyway simply an over the counter item from pharmacies and opticians’ shops
> where even the vilest, most hateful and antisocial behavior should be tolerated.

I'm confused, I see stories complaining about Twitter's heavy-handed censorship all the time, whether it's banning accounts or simply removing objectionable hashtags from the "Trending" list.

When did they suddenly develop the opposite problem?
Yeah because you don't have to smoke pot to understand bodily autonomy, you just have to treat people with respect. If you've gotten drunk this month you don't deserve the job you have is basically what you're saying.
> Is that a question? Isn't this well known?

I didn't mean only that we feel happy when we smell lavender or something like that, but more drastic things. Others mentioned toxoplasmosis, something like that basically. Now imagine being able to control and tailor that. Or something like rabies where it induces rage for example.
And white supremacists say their enemies are against social cohesion and organizing to silence people (in the latter case there's a bit of truth, in terms of the anti-civil-liberties streak of my fellow progressives and leftists).

In the end it's still taking political sides.
> Capitalism fails for many. It succeeds for a very few, with most stuck in the cycle of "Work to live, live to work"

As long as the goods required to survive (food, housing etc.) don't materialize out of thin air, it makes sense to expect people to work for them.
Yes it was a human but she obviously had no medical training, just asking scripted answers.

Ten minutes is far too long. If someone thinks they are having a heart attack this should set a red flag for immediate professional attention?

Having a professional always dealing with these calls would be the ideal but, I guess, you get back to the shortage of qualified staff problem.

Also, maybe, making access easier will also encourage people to use the service more often - maybe for trivial issues too. So you end up making things even worse?

I am 52 and when I was a child my parents could call our doctor at any time, even if he was at home in the middle of the night. He would come out straight away, no question. The assumption was if you had taken the trouble to call it must be serious. Often it wasn't but with children you can't take chances.
So lets just say the savings as described in the article by not paying doctors as much would be $100billion (cut doctors salaries by half). Spending on US Healthcare was in 2015-16 was $3.2 trillion. Assuming there are no side effects in the market (such as number of students entering medical school would decrease etc) the $100 billion in savings is 3.1% which is a very small figure.
Sandi Metz said in one of her talks that wrong abstractions are worse than duplication and we just tell new developers about duplication because it's the only thing they understand. Strongly agreed.
Mitmproxy is nice, but I think dev tools have become alot better, I discovered that because my standard work horse Chrome+Wireshark is very fincky with SSL:

SSLKEYLOGFILE=$HOME/ssl_crt_dbg google-chrome --user-data-dir=TEMPUSER

Then you configure wireshark SSL decoding with with pre master key file as "ssl_crt_dbg", it fails too often for me.

Now days I use remote-debugging and Python a lot:

$ google-chrome --remote-debugging-port=9222

import PyChromeDevTools
chrome = PyChromeDevTools.ChromeInterface(host="localhost", port=9222)
chrome.Network.enable()
while True:
print chrome.wait_message(timeout=0.1)

But the simplicity of a Mitmproxy is almost as great as wireshark.
You're spot on. This pertains to a more or less homegrown query DSL (or family of DSLs) that gets "translated," in a sense, by the server to SQL and/or MongoDB queries. The read-only endpoints being queried represent collections of a great many items, so being able to filter–search for, say, a dozen to a few thousand at a time is a real need.

Using GraphQL would probably be better, but if it's not an option then it's not an option.

I am, though, looking at dynamic-rest[1] and Eve's "projections"[2] for inspiration, i.e. to allow for flexible queries that more closely match particular use cases (of the API's users).

[1] https://github.com/AltSchool/dynamic-rest

[2] http://python-eve.org/features.html#projections