skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Reading stories like yours does make me wonder if the bigger issue here is variance in standards of care.

Clearly you've been advised, based on your specific circumstances, of why it would be in your daughter's best interests to have this surgery done (there's no sarcasm here - it's great that so much consideration has gone into it and clearly it's been the right thing to do in your case).

It does seem like based on my own anecdotal experience, and from other comments in the thread, as if "tonsils out" is an automatically triggered decision in much of the world for certain ailments in cases where it may or may not be appropriate or warranted.

For the record, I hate even being anywhere near the fence on an issue like this, as I'm very much pro-vaccination (for example) and my position on this comes across as anti-science which I'm anything but.
> and been running ultra-marathons and doing base jumping ever since 1986

Your own analogy doesn't hold up because by that logic then a recovered alcoholic would be 'fit' to have a drink again
I wish this was true! :)

So:

1. C
2. Java

Special mention: Perl
I believe you find this article interesting: https://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/11/upshot/labels-like-altern...

"My friends who believe in homeopathy don’t really care. Those who favor conventional medicine, though, can be just as blinded. Too often, when confronted with evidence that advanced technology might not be providing benefits, the medical community refuses to change its behavior."

He goes on to argue that the distinction between conventional and alternative medicine is misleading. The only distinction should be between what is proven and what is disproven.
->Every single advice that Sam Altman gives has survivorship bias written all over it. I have never learned anything remotely useful from his vague generic articles and speeches.

Every and never are really strong words, I don't think he intend to market himself as startup guru at least intentionally.

He is young and already had 10 years of experience of watching top notch startups rises and falls. Main message I am getting from him is practically advice about start-ups. like, do this and don't do this, then you may succeed.
it has. there’s twin studies where they are adopted to differnt families and yet end up scoring the same on IQ tests later in life and end up with similar levels of educational attainment and income etc
> "cases were no less healthy than controls presurgery in the first 9 years of life"

Looks like they addressed that (heading: Testing for Biases in General Health Before Surgery)
Boring speed is not the main limiting factor for those projects. Unforseen blockages that take a long time to resolve (see the SR-99 tunnel) are what makes them impractical. I doubt that any reallistic speedup they might be able to achieve will offset that significantly.
I was considering buying Tesla after that, but didn't. A decision I now obviously regret. Dips like that are always a great time to buy, but I got caught in the fear of the moment I guess.

I almost never short. The only time I ever shorted was when earlier this year some bad -- and to a techie, obviously false -- news about AMD hit. Expecting panic from non-tech investors, I bought short turbos for a day, sold them later that day, and would have bought long if it had dropped far enough. But most of the time, I find shorting way to speculative and risky.
> If the interest rate is 0% then it means that money is worthless (because in that case debt behaves exactly the same as actual money)

Zero or even negative interest rates don't mean money is worthless. Money money, as in cash, always yields zero.

And even in a zero or negative rate environment, there are still assets (including debt) which have a positive yield. The point of lowering interest rates is to drive capital to those riskier ventures.
Floating Point Lazy State Save/Restore Vulnerability Affects Intel Chips
Its almost always easier to find a space on the train than the bus. There is the space in the front, but its just an extra stress to be separated from my luggage if the bus is crowded and theres no possibility of sitting unless you want to take up a handicapped seat.
Same here, I had them removed at the same age and never had an issue related to allergies or anything serious.
> It's become a religious issue to too many people.

Indeed. I tried to give a very clear and non-provoking answer to a very clear question in a sibling comment but still get downvoted to oblivion.
When that happened I saw a photo of his plane with doors open so that you could see the cockpit panel. From the glance it was equipped with everything you could wish for. Afair he was caught by darkness but otherwise reasonable visibility. I had a hard time to understand why he failed this (but I admittedly have only simulator experience).
W/F is cool. But it's not the whole story. The dipper function (https://link.springer.com/article/10.3758/APP.71.3.435) describes a deviation from W/F behaviour that seems to represent a direct link between population neuronal activity and perception : basically, neurons respond in a sigmoidal way to increasing input and hitting the steep part of the sigmoid reduces your discrimination threshold. After a while you are past that steep bit and back to the boring old W/F regime.
I was just playing around in node a few days ago, and had to mock some console statements. I stumbled upon this exact API and played with the output bit. It's a useful feature I never knew about in my years of doing javascript and it's kind of surreal to see it on the top of HN just a few days later!
Not only that, but in The Count of Monte-Cristo, the hero subverts a Chappe telegraph to send a fake message to Paris to undo his nemesis. Sound familiar ?

(although in the original story, the fake message causes a run on the stock exchange, thereby ruining his enemy. And the operator is bribed. Less romantic and much more prosaic than Terry Pratchett's version)
Volkswagen Group will pay another $1.2B in Germany over diesel scandal
See [1]. It's really hard to tell and there are big short-term swings.

[1] https://fredblog.stlouisfed.org/2018/02/are-wages-increasing...
PowerShell uses objects as output. They get automatically formatted and save you from custom parsing code.
> most non-Google QUIC implementations, which follow the IETF drafts

... which in practice means that you would be able to actually use QUIC with the most widely deployed client implementation (which might in-fact be the only client implementation that's not a development build right now).

IETF QUIC doesn't really exist yet, so offering it over Google's QUIC which exists in Chrome would provide next to no benefit to everybody.

However, I do hope, or rather, expect google to very quickly move both Chrome and the load balancers to IETF QUIC once that is finalized.

Until then, I keep my pitchfork safely stored in its closet because what is being offered here certainly is the practical offering and the correct offering would be completely impractical.
They told me it was space air. I began to protest that there was no air in space, and before the count of 10 the nurses began spinning around me as I fell into my first psychedelic trip. Didn't have an experience like that again until I tried salvia. I was 6-8. Weird.
Right. And maybe it should be done before supporting VR.
>The trains are great, but also pretty expensive.

I'm from the UK but moved to Spain and used to live in Germany. I think the trains are better on the Mainland.

>Terrible, terrible wages in tech

This is true for the whole of Europe :(

I agree with you about the racism and uneducated population though - given I now have a foreign non-white SO it's part of the reason I wouldn't want to move back.

Kids will have to stay in school until 18 soon, the law has already passed but I doubt it'll help much if they don't want to be there.
It sounds like what we really need is a memory model that reflects this notion of trusted and untrusted data. The "evil bit", basically, but for real.
All their generated examples look like Markov chain generated captions. Pretty random and generally unfunny. I completely disagree with the claim that you can't differentiate between these generated memes and real memes. None of these would make the front page of reddit, for example.
Well, that is what inspired them, seveda! ;-)
I used to drink really heavily, I got 2 blackouts on two nights of extensive drinking and smoking. It's really like two hours of my life were gone, I was conscious, I talked to people and stuff like that, but I can't recall anything between the beginning and the end of the blackout.

It's a really strange feeling because I can remember pretty well what happened before and after the blackouts but in the middle it's just nothing.
What is extreme about it?

I'm never hungry, I never feel bloated, and I don't have any digestive issues.

I suggest you do some research yourself and perhaps even experiment, before you regurgitate things out of the first result that comes up on Google after you enter an already biased query.
"Alternative" means "unproven or disproven", doesn't it?
If you are an ISP and you're preventing people using Google Chrome from accessing Google's properties (like youtube and gmail) during peak hours because you're dropping UDP packets, then you'll hear from your customers.
> It's really hard to tell and there are big short-term swings

I completely agree. That said, we have enough data to conclude that real wages are higher today than they were pre-crisis for the vast majority of Americans. The uncertainty is more pronounced if one were to ask the same question in respect of the last 4 or 5 years, in which case I'd have to say "we don't know".
its an irony that on accessing the link in Chrome, it warns me about privacy error,

"blog.torproject.org normally uses encryption to protect your information. When Google Chrome tried to connect to blog.torproject.org this time, the website sent back unusual and incorrect credentials. This may happen when an attacker is trying to pretend to be blog.torproject.org, or a Wi-Fi sign-in screen has interrupted the connection. Your information is still secure because Google Chrome stopped the connection before any data was exchanged.

You cannot visit blog.torproject.org right now because the website uses HSTS. Network errors and attacks are usually temporary, so this page will probably work later."
There's no surprise there. Every leader stands in front of a team who is mostly (80/20) responsible for doing the work to fulfil big promises. Nothing new.
Completely tangential, but you can also do the opposite with nesting, which I learned about literally yesterday:

const { some: { nested: { field } } } = tree;
// field === tree.some.nested.field

or rename things while you destructure them:

const { crappyFieldName: betterName } = myObject;
// betterName === myObject.crappyFieldName

Now I can't stop using this feature...
Researchers Develop Automated Robotic Device for Faster Blood Testing
That's somewhat unfair comparison - most of the length of track already existed above ground and didn't need a lot of work

There's 10 new stations and about 40km of tunnel (20km each way)

That said the tunneling cost alone came out about £30m per km, so about $65m per mile.
Can confirm that. Recently visited an otorhinolaryngologist with my 3 y.o. daughter having a blocked nose for too long after being sick, and the conversation started with typical "Why you even bothered to come here with such insignificant issue" and ended with "She have an enlarged adenoids, you need to remove them". And all of that been said only after short visual check of a crying child's nose. What you even able see there, with such tools and conditions? Of course I didn't trust the doctor at all, after that quick check-up and bold statements. And this is not a single doctor, after a many encounters with other doctors I can say that the whole health care system here, in the Czech Republic, is screwed up. Doctors are too ignorant and unprofessional to have so big self-confidence (often replaced by just being rude) as they have here.
Lucidity – visual data debugger
You forgot to mention Quantum Cloud Computing. The first killer feature of the new and fantastic Quantum Internet.
Sure, I was only listing the ones from my toolbox. :)
Note, she won $5000, based on what she would have paid to subscribe to a raft of identity protection services. She did not in fact have to subscribe to any of those services to receive the award (and she stated elsewhere in this thread that she didn't do so).
I've been saying for years there is obvious astroturfing on HN just like on reddit. Every time I mention it it's dismissed as a conspiracy theory..
I wish Google, Apple and Microsoft just worked as an alliance here. They are all working on TLS and if together they deployed TLS 1.3 no middlebox on earth would stand a chance.
it's only dwarfs who hate people above 220lbs and 6'3".
I wish the comments here that suggest resources could also provide an amount of privacy protection the various apps and sites listed have. It's hard to tell who is keeping data for others with these various portals.

I also wish the psychtoday and healthgrades and others would actually call the places listed in their pages, maybe an hour before closing listed hours, and leave a message asking to be called back instructing them that leaving a message or text is okay.

In my recent experience using some of the methods suggested by others here to find help for a friend in this growing city, not 1 of the twenty or so places that I called answered the phone or returned a voicemail.

Maybe they are overwhelmed and not accepting new patients, maybe they heard the willing to pay cash no insurance and decided not to return a call - but this kind of data I think is more important for this kind of a directory than say a listing of car repair shops.

Reading many of the comments here, I think it's fair to say that it's not as easy as it should be in many places to get help.

I read an article recently saying some places may be coming out with a new type of practitioner class that doesn't take the decade to get license and that may provide more help in the future, but it also seems that more help will be needed.
Financial Literacy: Most Americans of Americans Fail Test
I counter your counter with this neither being an internal tool nor gRPC/Stubby owning even plurality utilization outside of Google.
> like, do this and don't do this, then you may succeed.

That's the whole point. It's 'may' and not 'will' or 'probably will'. Buy a lottery ticket and you may win.

Real advice should alter your chances, not leave them exactly the same as before.

If Sam Altman were a successful serial entrepreneur with a track record of one hit after another some of what he writes might be worth emulating but on the whole it is like observing the lottery playing crowds and noting that the ones carrying umbrellas ended up winning more lotteries so therefore you too should take your umbrella with you.
Its not just the boring speed itself. Its also the cost of equipment. Public transit and home prices in a lot of countries could be lower if cheaper Tunnel boring machines would be available.

For too long that part has been fiefdom of big earth mover companies.
Things disappear, or get deleted, or old versions get replaced for various reasons. There's no "reliable dependency". Even if you think something's reliable, sone deeper dependency may disappear. See npm and left-pad for example.

Committing vendor directory may or may not be a good idea. But having your own copy of all dependencies (current and past) is necessary.
They can identify you a number of ways without your knowledge or consent. One is timezone allocation. Another effective way is browser fingerprinting. IP addresses. Browsing patterns. Device screen size.

Privacy on the web is an information theoretic arms race with tremendously deeply asymmetric stockpiles of information.
My sympathies.

Had adenoids removed at the age 6 or 7 with only local anaesthesia. It was fucking terrifying.
Can these datasets be used for academic and research purposes?
No - but I was waiting for years for the Deus Ex: Revision mod to be completed, yet have not found the time to play it yet.
The Chappe telegraph was also used to communicate information such as harvest results and the price of commodities.

Knowing before anyone else if the harvest was good or if the price of a commodity dropped was a surefire way to corner the market: telegraph operator bribing, insider trading, spreading false rumors, and much speculation ensued.

Plus ça change...
Return of the Hidden Number Problem [pdf]
If QUIC allows arbitrary length datagrams and retransmits them out of order then it's still going to be useful for video games and other systems with long lived connections. This is how I imagine how a replacement for TCP and UDP should work. But it doesn't look like there are standalone implementations of QUIC so I have no idea what the API actually looks like. There is only google's implementation which is part of chromium.
> Boring speed is not the main limiting factor for those projects.

It's equivalent to measuring software developer productivity in lines of code.
To clarify, I was talking about traditional subway construction and why changes in boring costs would not change that.
What I mean is that if you run in batch mode they’ll fail a query and happily run the next. Generally, depending on the client, you need to handle begin/commit/rollback blocks yourself. This is pretty common in scripting languages. Unlike, for example Java, where an unhandled error will terminate the process.
That's fair, now that I reread his comment, but he was responding to a comment that was talking about browsers, not apps...
Had adenoids removed, and suffer from runny nose and (fortunately relatively mild) allergies all my life. Never occurred to me before it could be related.
I didn't know them. Thanks for bringing them up!
If we'll need that flamethrower in space I don't want part of it. I've seen how those movies end.
I don't know, it's a matter of definition. What I know is that the article makes a good point.
What a lot of people don't get is that this kind of code is what R is optimized for, not general purpose programming (even though it can totally do it). While I don't use R myself, I did work on R tooling, and saw plenty of real world scripts - and most of them looked like what you posted, just with a lot more lines, and (if you're lucky) comments - but very little structure.

I still think R has an atrocious design as a programming language (although it also has its beautiful side - like when you discover that literally everything in the language is a function call, even all the control structures and function definitions!). It can be optimized for this sort of thing, while still having a more regular syntax and fewer gotchas. The problem is that in its niche, it's already "good enough", and it is entrenched through libraries and existing code - so any contender can't just be better, it has to be much better.
I suggest you don't. Went through that route by going through several mental health specialists and doctors. I have also seen others close to me go that route too.

My advice: Avoid that route like a plague.

The short story is: Their incentive is the complete opposite of yours. They make money from your misery, and continued depression. They are not incentivized to make you better as that will mean less money for them.

Lots of psychiatrists make money from big pharma sponsoring. Their job is to prescribe as many medicines as possible. It is a hell-circle then. The meds keep you in a "cool" state but not productive/social. After a while your consciousness start to realize how bad your situation actually is. The doctors remedy to that is to give you more medicines and stronger doses.

How I did it? You are the best person to cure yourself. Once you are very close to suicide, you realize that nothing matters. So be courageous to make life changing decisions. It'd help if you have the cash to finance such decisions.

Good luck. If you are done and in doubt, take a plane ticket to a 15h far country.
When the judicial system begins working too efficiently is exactly when the legislative branch often steps in. Think "tort reform" (make it harder for people to sue companies), the legislative immunity for gun manufacturers that immunizes them against product liability, and on the other side of the scale in my mind, the legal prohibition against suing vaccine manufacturers for side effects except through a special "vaccine court".

The legislative branch acts like the game designer of a MMORPG - they are constantly looking at the balance of power and nerfing/buffing as they see fit - and often with what we might consider a distorted sense of "fairness".
To be more precise, Fox is keeping the FOX broadcast network and the affiliates it already owns, Fox News, Fox Business, and Fox Sports. The Disney sale includes FX, the National Geographic channel, and regional sports cable channels.
A fan of Dark Tower but in a way, the Dark Tower multiverse is of "lower resolution"
Where could i learn JavaScript?
hello, my names yemper, i'm looking to learn javascript, the very basics. how would i learn, and what would i make when i learn it, what are some projects i could start on with the language to make myself more familiar with it.

i'm planning on getting the 18 macbook pro pretty much maxed out for development and i really want to take this seriously, but it's just harder for me to learn for some reason, if anyone could help, i'd greatly appreciate it.
I agree on the indie games. I enjoyed VVVVV and Doki Doki Literature Club. Out of recent AAA titles, Prey was very encouraging, GTA5 was pretty damn good, the recent Hitman is quite good also. I just think that the time period I mention had a higher number/density of great AAA titles.
Actually, what is the current status of Julia? Can anyone in the know share a bit on the perspectives as they stand?
Ah, but when does it bacon?

ducks
It seems to be partly because they're rarely used in general purpose code even when they are there. Just look at C#.
I recall that I first learned about the Peter Principle at the same time that I was reading Lee's Lieutenants by Douglas Southall Freeman, and there was a weird synergy between the two.

As the war continued, attrition took its toll on the Army of Northern Virginia's officer corps, notably after Jackson's death at Chancelorsville. The two generals that replaced him, Ewell and A.P. Hill, were very good divisional commanders, but poor corps commanders. That tome is littered with other examples of officers excelling at one level of command, but being ill-equipped to perform at the next level.
Such a nice article. But I have to note that the linked (2013) piece is even better: https://youarenotsosmart.com/2013/05/23/survivorship-bias/
The issue seems to be down to your network connection. As Outlook is sending or receiving emails and making other service calls you experience a slowdown. Onsite our connection is very slow and everyone experiences this problem. Additional bandwidth was not considered for the O365 and if you monitor your service calls with fiddler for example you'll see constant traffic to the O365 servers.
Who Will Win the World Cup? A Quantitative Approach
The link at the bottom should be emphasized: https://github.com/awesomedata/awesome-public-datasets

It is a very expansive collection of datasets, some well-prepped for ML and most not (which is part of the fun of it, anyways).
There's nothing wrong with pip for installing per-user packages outside of virtual environments.
An open-source cludge for testing serverless functions for SQL injection