skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Does anyone else think technology has a lot to do with this?

Recall the experiment where a rat is placed in a cage with a "pleasure button" that stimulates reward centers in its brain. The rat proceeds to never stop pressing the button.

I believe that things like social media act in the same way. Not to mention smartphones, "clickbait", video games. Machine learning algorithms that increase a service's abilities as a pleasure button.

The philosophy behind HN is that popular community websites have lower quality content. In my view, this is simply a "regression towards the mean" of people wanting a dopamine rush.
Right. And "here's a thing we make available to you but it's horrible and you should never use it" is terrible messaging.
Do you have a concrete example of this?
Does Monsanto's Roundup cause cancer? The difficult nature of scientific 'proof'
We had plenty of other social events, including birthday celebrations and even holiday parties for our small teams.

But when it came to something for the whole company it was tied to company events.
Yep, same experience. I use Thunderbird for many years, and tried to migrate my calendar workflow to it many times, and it just does not work. I really like it as an email client, and I'd like to use it as scheduling tool too, but currently it's way too clunky to be of any practical use. Sync issues, UI issues, all kinds of issues. Hopefully they'd get their act together sometime.
LightStep | Software Engineer, Product Engineer, | San Francisco | Full-Time | Onsite | https://lightstep.com/careers

LightStep makes understanding distributed systems simpler by providing visibility into the entire application stack, from web and mobile clients through all levels of the application and data storage systems. We help people understand why their systems are broken and slow, in real time.

We're looking for a wide array of software engineers: distributed systems developers to improve our scaling story, product engineers to develop robust and useful data exploration & visualizations, open-source specialists to help instrument frameworks and infrastructure components, and API specialists to help our customers build great things on top of our insight.

Please feel free to email me if you're interested in learning more: joe.blubaugh@gmail.com / joe@lightstep.com
I guess the way I see it, the drugs are incidental. Historically they haven't been, and for now the mix of drugs is changing - less weed, more opiates and meth - but I don't think just getting rid of the drug war would end gang life in Chicago.

Let me be clear that I think the drug war is a terrible idea for a million reasons and should be ended tomorrow, or like, yesterday. But I don't think its end would be the end of gangs in places like Chicago, where the supply of young men is abundant and has no other alternative. Gangs will just find some other criminal activity, as the cartels themselves have started to do.
I speculate that the author created an expectation of a "quick, simple, sketch". Even an artist might prefer that plane, if they are expected to draw quickly.
Alex Jones has been around for a long, long time.
> s/offer new services to users/increase revenue per user/

Well, in theory, offering "more aligned" (eyeroll) products to users is technically 'new services', but ugh.
I’m sure they will change to something else when subscriber growth is no longer driving the business. But they still have a long way to go there.
2wd on a bicycle is just plain silly. Weight and friction are such huge disadvantages to overcome. Even on a mountain bike extra traction from the front seems like a very limited benefit. I think Yamaha and Ohlins made a hydraulic motorcycle 2wd prototype. There the loses and weight aren't such a big deal.
My understanding was that the extra material you have to add to strengthen the suspension sort of negates any weight benefits for telescopic forks. On motorcycles a single sided swing arm has the same issues, but at least there is a practical benefit when you need to change a tyre quickly.
fastparquet https://github.com/dask/fastparquet
Or maybe it's an argument in favor of diversity:

"The male doctors in their study were better at treating women with heart attacks when they had more experience treating such patients—and especially when they worked in hospitals with more female doctors. This suggests that whatever female doctors are doing that’s better is also transferable."

https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/08/women-mo...
From Wikipedia:

"The InfoWars website receives approximately 10 million monthly visits, making it more visited than some mainstream news websites such as The Economist and Newsweek."

This bothers me. Say what you like about his content, but it is not fringe. He is the preferred "thinker" of a significant fraction of the population. If you think the solution is to deplatform him, you're thinking about the problem wrong.

He is an opportunity. By becoming a lightening rod and focal point for a large fraction of a country's misguided thinking, he has made that misguided thinking more fragile. Easier to dislodge. Because now you just need to find a combination of words that helps his followers see him for what he actually is.

And if you succeed, everyone who sees will get a lesson in thinking more clearly. They will be more resilient to a future charlatan.

So if Alex Jones makes your blood boil, then put that emotion to work. Raise his platform. Discuss him. Debunk his ideas one by one. Use whichever tools appeal to you. If youtube wants to help, then youtube algorithms should be tweaked to encourage people to view both sides of the debate.
Rainway should fit your use case just right. You can use whatever controller you'd like out of the box and stream directly from your PC to your Mac.
What do the BSDs use to organize out-of-order segments?
AMD says Threadripper 2990WX is 53% faster than the Core i9-7980XE
Climate change: 'Hothouse Earth' risks even if CO₂ emissions slashed
Yes, it took me a moment to identify the omission because the chain itself occupies nearly the same space
By the way, the initial point I was (perhaps inartfully) trying to make was that "more guns === more shootings" in part because there are lots of types of shootings. Accidents and suicides, mainly. Those are incredibly common, and simply reducing the availability of guns is a fabulous way of decreasing both.
Ask HN: What websites can save you time/money when starting a business?
As an example, there are Terms Of Service generator websites, which save me from having to find and pay a lawyer to create a ToS for my product. What kind of things like this can you recommend?
I wanted to look at the actual numbers and see how close the findings were, but I don't see the study linked nor the title of the study (I do see a different study, but it isn't the one those numbers are from).

A different article someone else linked seemed to have the study, but it is behind a pay wall.

http://www.pnas.org/cgi/doi/10.1073/pnas.1800097115

This seems to have the actual numbers though.

http://www.pnas.org/content/pnas/suppl/2018/07/31/1800097115...

I'm having trouble grasping how to read the tables (especially given it seems Female Physician Female Patient is repeated twice on tables S2 and S3, but I think that is just a title error.

Here are the numbers, best as I can grasp.

S2 is full, S3 is matched

Mean then standard deviation.

M/MS2:.881/.114
M/MS3:.870/.124
M/FS2:.854/.353
M/FS3:.861/.121
F/MS2:.887/.120
F/MS3:.867/.130
F/FS2:.857/.116
F/FS3:.862/.112

Figure S2 looks interesting (M/F and F/F seem equal while M/M seems better than F/M), but I'm not sure what the real axis are.

Edit: formatting
>Conspiracy theorist and online troll Alex Jones

>The decision comes hours after Apple and Facebook made similar moves

So I guess Mr Jones will have to report on this particular conspiracy elsewhere. I for one would like to hear it...
SF's housing market is so out of control, 60% of tech workers can't afford homes
https://youtu.be/2_NZ1ql8B8Y
A nice video that explains it.

Basically you have a pentagon and hexagon parallel with each other, and connect 4 of the corners straight down and the fifth, you split halfway down to join up with the last two corners of the hexagon.

It’s a prismatoid that they just gave a new name too.
I can tell you that if you tried that out my way you’d just a quizzical look (-:
What I especially like about this is getting the infrastructure needed to implement copying GC in early. This is really important to add at the beginning. It's very costly to add it later once you have an entire production-quality engine built on top of non-moving or conservative GC.

(In fact I only know of one project that successfully made the transition from conservative to precise moving GC after many years of deployment: SpiderMonkey.)
Michael Jordan in a recent seminar talked about how they were developing a trade-off parameter that modelled privacy. By treating the trade-off parameter as a knob, you can control the trade-off between data quality and privacy compromise.

Similarly Google has started using methods like federated learning to learn from ML models without ever sending your data to the cloud.

The idea is certainly gathering traction, and it will be very interesting where this is going to from here.
> Or do many of these companies have commitees that guides such decisions?

Whatever the case this doesn't make it any better. I imagine Johannes Gutenberg pondering whether to publish the whole bible or censor the parts he didnt like. Whether he decided on his own , or in a party of 5, it's equally evil.
To be perfectly honest, it depends on the game. There are very few twitch games now where 2 frames would make a difference in competitive outcome. E.g. games like overwatch, paladins, smite aren't really twitch games so that delay doesn't make a huge differences. Or rather, other elements of skill far outweigh whatever small difference that delay makes.

You might have a case if you're talking about esports teams at the top tiers, but if you're that good, then you'd likely be able to make a living from it and would have your own gaming machine.
While this looks cool isn't latency going to be a big problem?
They throw a dongle in the box. Just keep it hooked up to your headphones and now they're fancy Lightning buds. No big deal.
There was more than that. There was the match and the non-match division, and there was the case where they couldn't determine the gender of the Physician. Also, some of the data doesn't look exactly indistinguishable.

Look at Fig.S2 here http://www.pnas.org/content/pnas/suppl/2018/07/31/1800097115...

It looks like male and female doctors result in the same probability curve for female patients, but male doctors result in a higher probability curve for male patients.
I don't necessarily like this action.

People are quick to point out that FB and Youtube are private entities and such but the reality is that they've become so ubiquitous in our lives that if they start censorship based on the company's preferred politics, beliefs, etc. than it will have an effect on all of us.

Can mobile apps (like WhatsApp) inspect messages and decide to boot users if they're saying things that aren't in line with the company's positions?

Can ISPs do that too?
Too true, I've had to write a good few meta-interpreters in the last nine months or so and Markus' page is permanently open in a tab in my browser :)
Pardon me, if I misunderstood you.

Jones is already mainstream. He is not going to get smaller if you give him bigger platforms.

Unrelated question.

Can somebody explain to me, how he went from "9/11 was inside job, police are jackbooted thugs, anti Bush, anti Obama" to being pro police, pro government?

I want to understand the logic behind this.
Most wealthy people worked their asses off to get there. Persistence wins again.

It's sad, but this is a fact that so many people discount. It's much easier to think in terms of "the rich asshole" who got all his money from Daddy and didn't have to lift a finger.
Ask HN: Quantum optimization solution to solve the Max-Cut problem
BOHR.TECHNOLOGY is a quantum optimization company. We recently participated in the QML hackathon organized by Creative Destruction Lab in Toronto. We worked on Xanadu's software suite and tried to use it to solve the Max-Cut problem.

You can learn more about the results here: http://www.bohr.technology/yellow-submarine-1

Looking forward to your comments!
You're reading a developer blog.

The Android.com page is more similar to Apple's:

> App Actions predicts what you’re about to do, so you get to your next task more quickly. If you do something like connect your headphones, the playlist you were listening to earlier is front and center. [1]

[1] https://www.android.com/versions/pie-9-0/
Next: Hacker News is blacklisted in Safari.
I was asked to generate fake data from renewable energy sources. Solar panels, wind turbines, heat pumps, all in EU project. Company needed to prove that estimations (about energy production provided in application) were correct in order not to return money.
I was pulling data from weather api and "scaling it to power", and making monthly reports of energy balance (electricity, heat which was bought, produced, lost)
Fun part was when guys from committee saw those reports, they told: "Finally somebody made right reports. Let us make a copy and show it to others as example" :)
If you want to draw a line-drawing of a hand vs a bicycle, the hand is much easier - four parallel fingers off a palm, with a thumb off at an angle.

The bicycle is much more complex geometrically - wheels in tandem, triangular frame, relationship with seat, handlebars, tire forks, sprockets and chain, pedals, brakes & brake handles if you're picky...

A photorealistic hand is hard to draw/render because of the complexity of the materials and curves, fine texture like hairs, freckles, pores, fingernails, etc., but you wouldn't expect or get those asking your 30 people to take two minutes and draw a hand.
"Raise his platform. Discuss him. Debunk his ideas one by one. You use whichever tools appeal to you"

You are assuming this would actually have an effect. Given recent history I am pretty sure people would

A) Not see your debunking because it isn't in their little echo chamber of targeted fitlered online news and content.

B) Wouldn't believe you or critically think about any debunking anyway.

There is a reddit bot that tries to post alternative news sources to subreddits for a given story to encourage a balanced news diet which is a laudable step in this direction.

https://www.reddit.com/user/alternate-source-bot

Just have a look at it's log to see which subreddits it is banned from: https://www.reddit.com/r/alt_source_bot_log/
Occam's razor is pretty clear here.

Before the other million possible but less likely considerations, we should first consider/investigate whether male doctors work with unconscious sexism that is affecting health outcomes for women.

It is important that we consider the implications of the most obvious case, rather than deflecting away from it.
Parkrunning - www.parkrun.com

Community organised free 5km runs every Saturday morning. A great way to get some exercise for all abilities. Even if you walk the route - and plenty do - you'll get support from other participants and the marshalls all the way around. You can make it as competitive as you want.
Side comment: Open AI's design is excellent and it doesn't get in the way of reading their articles. They've taken a Stripe-like design approach without getting too overboard. Well done!
There is a lot of assumptions made in this article, and it's interesting that we never see publications on the superior performance of male surgeons ETC. I guess those facts would be offensive to some though.

Here is the most likely reason for this statistic. (Of you can call it that since it is objectively statistically insignificant, being that male doctors treated 150X more women overall).

The male doctors are better doctors (all factors such as age and experience being the same), and its well documented that they can handle higher stress levels and make Less emotionally influenced mistakes. So they get the tougher cases to begin with. This is a plausible of an argument as any in the article or mentioned here.

Is funny that those who fight gender biases the most are some of the most biased.
Swift has a lot of goals, but having a small compiler isn't one of them as far as I'm aware. Swift has always leaned heavily on compiler heroics :)
Can I borrow your highlighter please? (2010)
You already have an example of a city with HSR to Boston: Providence. Amtrak does this run in 38 minutes, Acela a few minutes faster. Providence is seeing a recent uptake in tech activity; GE Digital is hiring downcity, and other companies like Virgin Pulse and a small startup scene. Still, there are a lot of people who ride the rails between Boston and Providence every day.
https://datasociety.net/output/oxygen-of-amplification/
Actually. I think it's the opposite in this case. That is, these are heart attacks that end up in __ER__ not all HA's. The bias is that women don't have HT's so __if__ they end up in ER then it's likely to be bad.
Perhaps the most interesting part is all the things Walmart is doing to play catch-up. They should honestly work really closely with Google to upend Amazon.
I guess it's considered history now: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judith_Miller#The_Iraq_War
Wildcard certs suddenly make auto renewing a challenge. For now, I just manually do it by updating DNS when monit tells me certs are getting old.
I don't see how Lua is easier to sandbox.

I'm a bit surprised at the use of Lua, given that JavaScriptCore is already there. But I wouldn't be surprised if Lua was just something that the team was already familiar with. Lua is tiny, so it's not like it adds a significant dependency.
Here is a link to far more specific data from the main study in the article. I suggest people look over the data themselves.

http://www.pnas.org/content/pnas/suppl/2018/07/31/1800097115...

The data appears to not be in the friendliest of formats (tables with an axis labeled 'X'? No way my professors would've let that slide).
On the internet, the roads, electricity and water are private utilities.
Offtopic but I recently went to a Barnes and Noble after 5+ years of never going to one.

They sell toys and legos now. Things you would have found at Toys R Us. Maybe this isn't new and I'm just slightly out of date on these things
I've rode a design similar to Lefty on the Mobike bike-sharing program in Germany (Dusseldorf, but they are around in many cities).

The difference wasn't really noticeable (bike-share bikes are already hefty enough that this is a minor difference).
If you can't persuade his base, then I guess you're not the person whose job it is to persuade his base. Be patient. One will come.
Once someone figures out what you're doing Apple can flip the remote killswitch and disable your app.
I agree that we should investigate it, but without that investigation, Occam's razor becomes more of an undiscerning broadsword.
Money. Laundering. Bitcoin lets one convert power bills paid with renminbi into cryptos sellable for hard currency. Switching up the crypto makes it look less suspicious.
No, this was in a small village in Canada.
I’m not really sure anyone should be surprised that much of the smartness is rule-based with maybe a bit of “AI” to help with speech recognition and fiddling with the words a bit. I think this is good because it tends to lead to misunderstanding being biased towards not doing anything instead of doing something particularly wrong. The downside is that the rules never seem to cope with enough inputs.

My hope is basically that many more rules will be written and they will slowly move towards handling more general problems as well as a very large variety of specific cases.
> With the crypto market cap down 70% since January

Jan 2017 it was $1k. It'll be back up by december
I know how to read Mississippi
My G900 (mouse) supports 1000Hz wirelessly; whether it really hits that I do not know for sure, but wired USB should easily be capable above 1000Hz as you mention.

I do know that I had to tweak MS Office apps in the Logitech G software because dragging an Excel window recalculates rows on window drag and the refresh rate of my mouse was so high that it caused noticeable lag, I'm confident it's easily hitting at most a few ms over wireless usb.
This affects pretty much everything running a modern Linux kernel (4.9+), not just AWS. It looks pretty bad. While there's no public POC yet, the kernel reassembly code path looks very expensive while small TCP packets are very cheap to produce. Hopefully everyone gets patched in time.
Is it just a steaming service? Or do they perma-press too? ;)
interesting, might be able to use this but i have to find a free bare server to host it.
I was worried my S5 was doomed to Lineage 14.1 forever, but some saint dev ported it to 15.1 last month.

LTE doesn't work, but hey, 15.1.

Whats really scary is that the official Samsung Touchwiz ROM stopped getting updates two years ago and is stuck on 5.1 I think. Ain't it great when hobbyists support a device for over 3 major revisions past when the billion dollar manufacturer that made it stopped updating it less than five years after it was released.
Meh. Yeah of course, most people don't need to buy exercise equipment but I feel that these newer products are filling a religious niche that were not filled prior with normal exercise equipment.

I could not specifically compare the two but I think you are buying into the workouts not just the bike. But just on initial view the peloton looks better. Magnetic vs flywheel. The workouts on peloton are night and day difference with a much higher level of quality as their are live streaming daily.

Is it an expensive bike? Yes
Is it for everyone? No
Do people need to buy exercise equipment? No.

Disclosure, I don't own a Peloton but own bike trainers.
A good bike trainer is going to cost $400-$1k and that does not count my road bike.
When I see peloton I don't blink at $2k if it was something I was going to be using on a regular basis.
WhatsApp can do that, yes! People are talking about "the line" society would draw, and I expect you just found it!

ISPs should not do that, it violates net neutrality.
Higher Order Functions in JavaScript
Ask HN: What resources do you use to lookup salaries?
Anyone can create a "fake" account on glassdoor and record a salary for any given company. Linkedin Premium feature is as bad as glassdoor. Sometimes you see the salary mentioned in a job description so you can compare with linkedin's suggested salary. They're off by $40k sometimes!

So what do you use to get an "accurate" salary range for a given position/title at a given company?
will see on trying to find a host for this.
It's nigh impossible to rationally argue an opponent acting in bad faith out of their deeply held conspiratorial thinking.
How do Russia's actions in Crimea fit into this model? In fact, I'd argue they invaded exactly because they had close close economic ties to the area. This is kind of what I'm referring to -- the rest of Europe wants to avoid war and Russia takes advantage by making aggressive military moves.
I think you're right, though 2wd eBikes might be different.

Our local trail association currently uses a Rokon: https://www.rokon.com/ - for trail maintenance, and it's just about perfect for that application. I could imagine them replacing it with a 2WD eBike at some point.
It appears that you had an utterly miserable experience living in Boston, and that's unfortunate.
> Because Linux APIs were never really intended to be called by NDK developers

But pretty much all the "unintended" uses of Android APIs (undocumented or not) have been the most original and best-integrating apps I've seen. It's a pity.
real bikes exist with just a seat stay, and with just a chain stay, and they work fine.

of course the stays are beefed up in these cases.
If that's possible; but just limited to referrals. IP collection to determine origin is not my concern.