skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
starlisp required that you rephrased your problem to be large vector, with support for turning off logical cpus, very much like programming a modern gpu. if your problem could be recast that way it was pretty nice. however the generalized scatter/gather was so expensive, it had to be used very sparingly. you had to use the grey coded nearest neighbor hypercube network as much as possible.

the really* cool language from Hillis and Steele was cmlisp, but I don't know how far they got, they never released anything.
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Reading through the paper it seems like all the statistics are presented as Odds Raios vs placebo. But I couldn't find the actual efficacy of placebo. Did I miss it or does someone know?

Something being twice as effective as a placebo is great when the placebo effect helps 30% of patients, not so much when it's 3%
You can find the letter submitted to Nature quite easily. The story is terrific and will follow you there as well, though. He's listed as a co-author along with his affiliation - his rooftop rig, the Observatorio Astronómico Busoniano. If that doesn't give you the warm fuzzies, having a supernova go off in your living room probably won't either.
I'd almost be willing to argue that if an opinion appears on HN, it is likely to not be representative of the relevant population (especially for consumer goods like iPhones).
There has been discovered partial link between biome and obesity. Likely it is not based on single gene but rather total sum of factors.
You should check out Valis, the book PKD wrote as part of his attempt to deal with his experience.

He was very much aware he was likely going insane.
Saipan used to be very popular with Japanese tourists, because it's only about a 4-hour flight from Tokyo. Then the Japanese economic bubble burst and that dried up.

FWIW, I visited once in 1998, when Japanese tourism was trailing off but hadn't completely collapsed yet, so flights & hotels were cheap. It was a bizarre but largely uninspiring combo of the worst of strip-mall America (McDonaldses, K-Marts) with mass tourism (huge, slowly decaying hotels and beachside hucksters). The snorkeling was OK and the beaches were pretty, but dotted with rusting WW2 tanks...
I'm for climate agreements when everyone carries a relative burden, but no way would I support the TPP or anything like it. That's just a continuation of the WTO but on a bigger more nefarious scale (corps having say in local laws.)

Globalization has already done quite enough hollowing out and selling out our blue collar workers. We don't need the same with more vigor.
> 461 people were killed in mass shootings last year in the U.S.

For context, over a hundred people are killed by cars every day. http://asirt.org/initiatives/informing-road-users/road-safet...
Contrarily, I find it to be a total waste of time, energy and money to build such a device and stuff it into a mountain where a few handfuls of people will ever see it.

The saying "out of sight; out of mind" exists for a reason.
As someone in the very same boat, I appreciate and can relate to the line you have to walk. My life was positively changed by going on Prozac in a way that I didn't think was possible. After years and years of trying any way of dealing with depression that didn't involve medication, I was absolutely at a dangerous place. Most of my reasoning was that I didn't really believe in the efficiency of medication, and even if so, I didn't think I was actually someone with depression, just that I had been, since i was a kid, putting myself into constant situations that caused severe anxiety and depression. It didn't all work at once, and I had a lot of weird steps between starting and being in a state that I would now consider "my normal self that I never knew I actually was", but it's been an overall life changing experience.

That being said, I understand that medication, or even the same medications, can't work for some people in the way they did with me. It's difficult to explain the position of "I know medication doesn't always work and isn't always an answer, but sometimes it is an answer that I would hate to be missed out on".
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Not in literal terms: that job falls to nearby Guam and Okinawa, which host huge US military bases.
Oh I know I did. If I'm PERFECT for the role-- why contract again? I'm not going to pull my trigger if you're not going to pull yours.

These amateur [psycho|soicio]paths have no balls. A real psycho would have hired me then fired me. Basically, he is confident enough to lie to someone to hire them, but not confident enough to simply fire them when needed.
They only hire the brightest over there.
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And every other site that links off.
So in conclusion, friendships happen via function or temporal need, and that's a truth for a lot of people. Thanks for lowering the bar, game theory.
Sorry, nope. For your link:

> Actually solving a constraint graph is an NP-hard problem. This algorithm is basically a nice heuristic to make sure we get roughly the best answer most of the time.

That's miles away from the simple, linear time algorithm proposed here.

Maybe it doesn't matter (though I suspect we'll discover it does), but that's not what you were arguing.
Plain HTML sites are faster than having your article loaded instantly by the browser?
Their stock price is too hinged on a certain amount of usage. How do we decouple the link between the stock price and how much attention is extracted?

This is a good question for a lot of companies.
Please do some searching on the internet about what Gates knows about. There are many articles and first hand accounts of the array of experts and topics he familiarizes himself with.[0] He astounds high level researchers with his domain knowledge.

[0]https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2006/06/16/my-first-billg-rev...
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Can’t the Supreme Court grant certiorari whenever it wants to?
Wow I had no idea Costco sells cars. I've had a membership forever and have bought car tires there. Ha!

OK it's a partnership through local dealers...
I'm somewhat amused that, although this article suggests that Buso's work was vital to the Nature paper, as does the first sentence of the paper itself, he is author 7 out of 21: https://www.nature.com/articles/nature25151
this is a kind of tangential comment/rant :

but to me it seems that research papers _must_ be, for lack of a better term, runnnable. i would, and hopefully others as well, like to, replicate all these wonderful results that are advertised in these papers. without that, they are all just advertisements of scholarship rather than scholarship themselves. a set of instructions + environment which generated these figures would be very welcome.

<end-rant>

on the subject of bloom filters, have a look at this one: https://www3.cs.stonybrook.edu/~ppandey/files/p775-pandey.pd... (A General-Purpose Counting Filter: Making Every Bit Count)
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Since 1934 automatic weapons were required to be registered with the ATF, in 1986 they stopped registering new ones. You can still get pre 1986 automatic weapons, but you have to pay out the nose for them.

I don't think a registered automatic weapon has ever been used in a crime.
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> That's completely backwards. Dividends are the only distribution to shareholders. Stock buybacks look great for Executives trying to inflate share price and earn bonuses tied to Earnings Per Share (EPS).

Argh.

Suppose you have a company with a business worth a billion dollars. The company makes $200 million in profits, so now they have a business worth a billion dollars and $200 million in cash, so now the total of the company's shares are worth $1.2 billion.

Suppose they have a million shares. When they make the money the price per share goes from $1000 to $1200. If they pay the dividend the share price goes back to $1000, but each shareholder now has a $1000 share and $200 in cash, so they still have $1200 in value.

If, instead of paying a dividend, they pay $200 million to buy back a sixth of their shares and each shareholder tenders a sixth of their shares in the buyback, then at the end of it for each original share the shareholders now have... wait for it... $1000 in shares and $200 in cash. Or, in particular, for every six shares they had they now have $6000 in shares (5 x $1200) and $1200 in cash. Which is basically the same thing.

But then the taxes are due on the ~17% profit from share price appreciation instead of on 100% of the dividend. And the shareholders who would have reinvested the dividend back in the company simply don't tender any shares and don't realize any taxable gains at all.

And then if the price per share gets too high they can have a stock split.

Of course, you also get almost the same effect by leaving the cash inside the company and letting shareholders who want immediate returns sell that percentage of their shares on the market, and if the cash is inside the company then it can be inside a foreign subsidiary in a jurisdiction with lower corporate income tax rates. Which is how the tax code encourages multinational corporations to hoard huge piles of cash.
Mark Warshawsky of George Mason University's Mercatus Center was on Econtalk and had the same theory and numbers to back it: http://www.econtalk.org/archives/2017/01/mark_warshawsky.htm...

Edit: also interesting point Mark Andreesen made: we don't have too much automation, we have too little at least in some sectors. If things keep going as they are now, a TV will cost $10 and health insurance and college $1,000,000.
Personally, I think long lines should never be hard-wrapped; let the editor wrap them.

gofmt was a revolutionary social achievement: it got a huge number of people to basically all format their code the same. That had never been achieved before; prior to Go doing it, I would not have even thought it would be possible.

(Obviously, not revolutionary in any sort of technical sense.)
That’s good info with one exception. You are probably ok with Keepass, but for most people I’d MUCH sooner recommend a solution that can not be done wrong.

LastPass is my go to for most people. It simply can not be set up wrong or confusing. The same can’t really be said for keepass.
As another person who is on antidepressants, and tried going off them for a while: well, duh. Yeah, I know, anecdotes aren't data, and I'm glad this is being verified by more reliable statistical methods, but this is not news to the many of us who might be dead or worse if someone hadn't said "you are sick--go see a doctor" and if that doctor hadn't said "you need medication--let's see if this works".

Without antidepressants, my best case scenario is being an unemployed grad-school drop-out. With anti-depressants... well, it's amazing what you can do when you actually have enough neurotransmitters in your brain!
OK, added. Thanks!
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> No wonder the USA is the best in the world at being a tax haven.

The US could hardly be any less of a tax haven.
I’m sorry but you seem misinformed about very basic facts. Federal judges aren’t elected, anywhere in the US.
or more generally a Content Addressable Memory (CAM). seems like the memory fetch latency is pretty steep though
Can someone help me understand the query part?

It says that a query is done on each BF, even on the ones that were added after the initial storage. So suppose we have only 2 iterations. In the first BF, there's k0 hash functions and in the 2nd (iteration) BF, there's now k1 hash functions.

So naturally, an item is stored using the k0 hash functions. But in order to query, I run against k1 hash functions which is a larger set. If any one of the k1-k0 extra hash functions returns 0, won't that be a false negative?
I would spend more time in Ruby first.

Then I would build APIs basic unit tests, and lots of request specs.
Has no one ever come up Minimal Version Selection before ?
Although it does happen that’s amature and unacceptable.

Either you have some EXTREME legacy or lazy engineers. Doing it right doesn’t take long.
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I believe the GP forgot /sarcasm tag
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Were you diagnosed?

Do you have neurological issues? (or suffer from risk factors? such as high blood pressure, overweight, diabetes, sedentarity) I wonder if that could be related (because of PKD's eventual tragic death by stroke). As far as my tiny medical knowledge goes schizophrenia hallucinations usually auditory in nature and not very explicit. There's also the question of the effect of the drug supposedly taken during his dentist procedure ( a compound which seems to have brain effects https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sodium_thiopental#Side_effects ).

Of course he was probably in general risk for delusional thinking given his job to constantly devise bizarre plots questioning every aspect of reality. But it does make me curious whether he suffered from a neurological condition, or just a psychiatric disorder such as schizophrenia.

Hope you're doing well, mental disorders are scary :(
> well, it's amazing what you can do when you actually have enough neurotransmitters in your brain!

This notion of chemical imbalance in the brain is wrong/misleading by the way.[0]

> The fact that two efficacious classes of medications exert opposing effects on serotonin levels raises questions concerning a simplistic chemical imbalance model.

[0] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4522609/
Christian mythology is so boring once you realize what came before it. All the good stories in the Bible are basically Zoroastrian, Egyptian, Greek, Jewish, and other stories mashed up with historical fact (and historical fiction) and a good dose of PR and random rules that make no sense.

When people have these big religious experiences I just think, if you're going to believe in Gods and messiahs and all that, why not one that's actually old that all your stories come from anyway? It's like having a religious experience where you're reliving the life of a Viking farmer who's secretly still praying to the Old Gods and at risk of getting killed if they don't convert to Christianity. See how stupid it sounds when Odin is the big guy in charge?
WAF, IP blacklists, naive bot detection[0] and why would a decent thresholding system allow for a single IP to fail multiple accounts in a short time period.

If you hit two valid accounts [1] with bad passwords in a few ACCEPTABLE_UNIT_OF_TIME, it’s captcha time.

Thresholding isn’t just action per IP it’s being smart about how people are going to attack your system. It requires thought and upkeep.

[0] Previous thoughts on bot detection: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16182405

[1] Also, if your login identifier and your public “display names” (usernames) are the same thing, that is a disservice to your users’ security.
@mesozoic: 'It appears his "criticism" was name calling and attempts to shut down rational discussion. Sounds like grounds for dismissal to me'

What are your sources for the above? Meanwhile we can read the original memo and make up our own minds:

https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/3914586/Googles-I...
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Seems like a variant of "I knew them before they were cool."
Agreed. First time this was in HN, I wanted to understand both types of bloom filters, so I wrote https://github.com/mceachen/bloomer.
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Google and others would presumably cache it.
An anecdote fwiw:

I rarely brushed my teeth as a child, and had numerous cavities. But for some reason, they only occurred on my baby teeth, not my adult teeth.

My brushing habits atrophied further and by the time I was 18, not only was I not brushing at all, but I never went to the dentist again, except for once in my mid-30s. The dentist admonished me over lack of brushing and the plaque buildup on my teeth, but there were still no cavities or irregularities. I've not been to a dentist in the 10 years since then, and on the very rare occasions (once a week or two weeks) where I do brush, I don't use tooth paste (kept forgetting to buy some).

I keep waiting for the hammer to drop, but so far lucky.
And it wouldn’t be secure.
'mesozoic is referring to Tim Chevalier, the subject of the article, not James Damore.
How can I never login to HN again
because it's turned into trash.

sayonara.
Why do you suspect it does? Cargo has gotten tons of use and the speed of the dependency resolution process has, to my knowledge, never been a problem.

Besides, I suspect that if you restrict your Cargo graphs to use only the features that this Go proposal supports (minimal version pinning, in particular), then the algorithm is no longer NP-hard. There's no "Go magic" here: it's that just Go chooses not to implement features that could theoretically be slow (but aren't slow in practice).
Why don't you define Expr to be:

type Expr interface {
Eval() float64
}

Instead of that being an empty interface and ditch the "Eval" interface? Or just require the structs to take instances of "Eval"? That way BinaryPlus won't accept the string without being wrapped in a type with an Eval method?
Sure and 10k will do fine otherwise “! I thh Cher;457?:25?//(5 we” is going to suck for you user login story.

Maybe salt your passwords, use some stretches, and a decent algorithm instead of MD5, SHA1, etc.

Also stay up on algorithms and roll your users over to new ones over time.
Echo Show violated Youtube's TOS, which is why they withdrew support from Amazon. If Amazon followed the rules and included the channels and subscriber functionality, they could use it like everyone else.
I'm confused by this. There have been several supernovas throughout history that were bright enough to be seen without instruments, including some ones in 1006 and 1054 that were quite a bit brighter than Venus, and ones in 1572 and 1604 that were brighter than Jupiter.

How do we know no human happened to be watching during the first hour of one of these?
Why are all the neural network DSLs JIT obsessed?
You aren’t prerendering in the same way google is. They pretender in the browser, so zero latency when you click on an amp link.
I found myself getting lost among the various posts by rsc and the resulting HN discussions, I hope this helps someone else too.

All of the posts in this series on vgo are listed here: https://research.swtch.com/vgo.
There will be at least one more, a FAQ on Friday.

And the most popular HN discussions about them (in chronological order):

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16421966 (Go += Package Versioning)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16431299 (Semantic Import Versioning)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16433425 (Minimal Version Selection)
Some of my oldest, closest friends today are people I worked with at a startup in the ‘90’s. But I always keep my current workplace and social life distinct.
In the US, all research funded by the National Institutes of Health must be made publicly available on PubMed Central after a delay of up to 12 months (https://publicaccess.nih.gov/). This is a good thing, but no embargo would be so much better.

It's difficult to change this situation because the journal subscription fees are paid from university budgets and are invisible to academics. Authors and editors benefit from affiliation with prestigious journals' brands. The university library system and the taxpayer pays the cost. Academics also pay a cost in wasted time wrestling with journal paywalls, but that will go away only decades after a complete switch to open access. Open Access is definitely the right thing to do, but the economic incentives are aligned against it. Since there are ~ 300 applicants per open faculty position these days every bit of self-promotion is perceived to be life-or-death for one's career.
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It's clearly been done before. Python, for example, has mandatory indentation, so there's huge pressure for everyone to indent the same so that code can be copied around. Going back further, you have languages like Fortran in which column numbers were significant.

Having the editor wrap lines is contrary to standard practice in pretty much every other language. It requires extra editor configuration for no real benefit other than making gofmt a shorter program. Besides, editors don't wrap lines as nicely as a good pretty printer can. Again, look at clang-format: the heuristics it applies in order to apply a maximum line width are very carefully thought out.
> If you actually mean that our consciousness [...]

I'm not talking about consciousness (as in qualia or subjective experience), but about conscious thinking as in train of thought or intentionally thinking about something. For me, this process itself feels very sequential.
You are kind of a prat to put those 2 in the same light honestly.
Your condescension here is amusing. My good friend, please feel free to explain in more detail how the algorithm described in the aforementioned link is miles away from the algorithm in the OP. Feel free to also explain your fascination with linear time algorithms, considering that the nonlinear algorithm in question is demonstrably instantaneous for extreme real-world workloads (Go is supposed to be about pragmatism, I hear?). Lastly, feel free to lecture me further on how a you suspect that an algorithm that has been deployed and used, to overwhelming acclaim, by tens of thousands of programmers over the past three years will be found wanting in comparison to an algorithm that has existed on paper for two days, with no ecosystem or real-world experience to its name. :)
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Reposting from the other thread about the study.

>"We excluded quasi-randomised trials and trials that were incomplete or included 20% or more of participants with bipolar disorder, psychotic depression, or treatment-resistant depression."

Wikipedia defines treatment resistant depression as "cases of major depressive disorder that do not respond adequately to appropriate courses of at least two antidepressants."

Maybe I'm unfamiliar with study methodology, but doesn't this undermine the study's conclusion? It's essentially stating that forms of deppresesion that respond well to antidepressants respond well to antidepressants.
Could you please elaborate on those sources (Zoroastrian, Egyptian, etc)?
I'm genuinely curious.
It likely did, but that's why its even more remarkable, for social capital has a multiplying effect. Every parent wishes their child to surpass them in the end. All of this makes me think of that Created Equal episode of Milton Friedman's Free to Choose, https://youtu.be/YRLAKD-Vuvk?t=650 as well as the talk about family inheritance https://youtu.be/hoFdVuqrMZw?t=3928
Devs shouldn't have to learn Docker, K8s, 30 other things to deploy an app
I'm totally clueless about video streaming (other than being end user), but isn't video streaming a solved problem with RTP/RTSP ages ago? With products like Icecast, Helix, Darwin Streaming Server, etc?
PSA: The first thing to realize is that psychiatrists, and regular practitioners, have no clue what will work for you.

In my case, it took 8+ years of trying, giving up, and trying again. E.g., Prozac didn't affect me at all, but the doctor never suggested increasing the initial dose. Paxil didn't work, Lexapro kinda worked, and now on the maximum dose of Effexor.

The biggest difference makers were the doctors perfectly willing to help me find a solution. Keep trying to find one like this, and don't give up.
Well, if each of those 1,000 dependencies goes three years between accidental breaking changes, you still have a broken build every day on average…