skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Be careful what you mess with in Windows regarding these folders. The WSL does not react as one might expect to changes made to its files using Windows (ie you can easily screw it up and have to in reinstall if you make changes to important WSL files via Windows).

The folder for WSL Ubuntu is usually here:

C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Local\Packages\CanonicalGroupLimited.UbuntuonWindows_79rhkp1fndgsc\LocalState

Your root directory should be here:

C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Local\Packages\CanonicalGroupLimited.UbuntuonWindows_79rhkp1fndgsc\LocalState\rootfs
Precedent fundamentally is the law.
> it is a priming study

Wasn’t the original study which claimed to “discover” priming recently debunked as not replicable?
I'm sure there are tons of people who would say the same thing about whatever it is you do. Different strokes for different folks.
Please don't use HN primarily for nationalistic or ideological battle. We ban accounts that do that, as the guidelines say: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
> when the underlying paper isn’t publicly available?

Search with the DOI on SciHub, you'll get a PDF of the paper.
Sites do this because 90% of users don’t leave over modal popups and doing it increases engagement in enough cases to warrant keeping it.

It’s completely reasonable for a product to advertise for a newer version. How else would you know there’s a new version that you might actually decide you want to buy? And you don’t have to buy it.
So how do you explain the results:

"Results: From 2005 through 2011, for the 24 anti-VZV vaccinated patients, the average number
of herpes relapses decreased to 0, correlated with an increased anti-VZV antibody level and
clinical recovery of all patients, whereas no improvement was observed for the 26 nonvaccinated
herpes patients."
Myers-Briggs: The personality test that conned the world
I use WSL on a constant basis. I haven't had any problems with it so far. As others have noted, it can take a second or two for the terminal to start up. That's probably my only gripe so far. I usually leave the terminal running for long stretches of time, so that start up time is ultimately meaningless.

That said, I'm not doing anything unusual with it, I haven't installed anything out of the ordinary. As such I can't speak to the depth of compatibility.
“A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.”

“A properly run business, being necessary to ensure profit, the right of the people to keep and bear suits, shall not be infringed.”

Its not hard to use "word algebra" to see the equation.
Unlike liberal democracies, Beijing has also mostly absolved its people of moral hazard, creating a situation where they have to act and fix things up because they have basically taken complete responsibility for the health of the economy. In a liberal democracy, one can just vote the turkeys out when something economically bad happens (whether or not it’s their fault), but that is obviously not an option in China.
Show HN: NewsBlocks – A decentralized platform for trusted news applications
>People love to complain about work, but in reality if they become unemployed, many people's lives are destroyed.

That's only when they have been raised in cultures that teach them that their work is their ultimate purpose, and have them structure every aspect of their lives around it.

Nobody dies from not having to work in Mediterranean culture's for example...

>A ton of people work to make everything I enjoy. The food, the buildings, the vehicles, roads, appliances, etc. Millions of people who get up in the morning and work through the day and come home exhausted make all of this possible.

Besides the food, the buildings, the vehicles, roads, appliances, etc, that people do want and depend on, billions of people are also forced to work to make all kinds of crap they don't care about, that makes no difference, is marked up 5 to 100 percent, for others to be unhappy consuming them, and to kill the environment with externalities in the process.

E.g.:

https://www.monbiot.com/2012/12/10/the-gift-of-death/

http://www.strikemag.org/bullshit-jobs/
Although I broadly agree with the author that we should remember the past, I am sad that his tone suggests we are doomed to forget it.
This, like Cancer, is a multi billion dollar industry. There is no cure because there is too much incentive to make money, and too much incentive to make regulation. Lots of government and private industry jobs depend on these not getting solved. Nothing can fix it, ever.
Yes, there's a real reason for using the word discovered instead of invented. Depends on how webbed in you are intellectually to people around you. Which is often highly dependent on language, logic, and math.

Lambda calculus. Enlightenment. Discovered, not invented. If it already exists somewhere... Everything coming together in the same patterns. Influence.
In which year did social forces that marginalized women in STEM fields become negligible?

They were obviously substantial in, say, 1963. And I think it's mostly accepted that such forces have become weaker over time. Now, how does one deduce when the work of reducing those marginalizing social forces is done?

Maybe its unreasonable for advocates of increasing representation of women in STEM to take their benchmark as equal representation. Maybe that's too naive.

But what alternative goal do people who say it is too naive provide? No matter which time period you choose, the same cohort makes the argument that representation in their era is just fine, or even overtuned. That's not honest disagreement.

One can come up with hypotheses to explain any distribution in any industry along any lines. That's not constructive.
What you forgot to mention was that you also banned me from replying for an extended period effectively silencing my voice. I’ll let the readers decide where that kind of behavior lies politically.
The same thing happened in Korea and Singapore, however, it isn’t like China was alone in being wrong in how population control can backfire.
> they have Patreon people to keep happy

Reminds me of when I briefly accepted donations from users of my forum. Suddenly it was like my life was beholden to people that had once given me $5. At least when they'd given me $0, it was pretty straightforward to dismiss their complaints and they'd looked silly when they'd demanded more of my free time. But once they gave >$0, the water got murky.

I ended up refunding everyone a few months later and I generally roll my eyes when I see posts like "um why not just take donations?" on HN.

It's just not no-strings-attached money like people seem to think it is. It's more akin to selling a service for peanuts, it rears the same issues.
What's amazing is George Soros profited off these horrific events, and is using his vast amount of cash to keep these horrific events going.
For the APL-family of languages, it's generally easier to write code than it is to read it.
Only insofar as Damore was partially basing his arguments on previous studies with similar results.

In my opinion, Damore's mistake wasn't collecting studies like this to support his point, but that he 1) didn't also collect their predicted effect sizes and 2) didn't collect studies on effects in the opposite direction and 3) didn't compare the so-obtained prediction with the situation at Google to see whether he had the full picture but 4) directly jumped to suggesting changes in the way Google does things while 5) tying himself to an unpopular political platform.

Then citing a bunch of studies in the opposite direction likewise without regard for effect sizes is an equal-effort response and you get a nice little flame war. The rest is politics.

I doubt that this submission will fare any better.
> It’s completely reasonable for a product to advertise for a newer version.

No argument from me there. A notice on the splash screen, even a tool tip at start-up would work fine, but it was a full screen advertisement, several minutes after start-up, which stopped playback (!) without warning. These interruptions are what I find completely unacceptable, and I believe they stem from fundamentally misunderstanding what the user is there for, or outright disrespect.
Could you clarify? This reads as snark.
I do the same thing, I just use different Chrome profiles (don't want to multiply my attack surface by using different browsers).
So Crawford doesn't actually ever assert that MTurk is used directly for Alexa, only that it's one common form of commoditized data labor, of which the internal teams of annotators is actually another good example.

The language thing is even more interesting. If you read Crawford's research, her whole thing is about how machine learning is full of bias, for example about how AmazonFresh availability maps resemble 1930s segregation maps. Yes, it gets kind of philosophical on the discussion, and I'm nowhere near qualified enough to get into a discussion about this, but the thing that I'm curious is, how much does the data reflect the biases of those language engineers?
> Some of the labeling heard today

What do you have in mind, in particular?
To be „chosen properly” means that the sample must have similar age, racial, educational, gender structure as the 350M society it is supposed to represent. Recruiting 2401 college students as the only sample automatically makes any study unscientific bullshit.

Also, if you ask me, 95% confidence with 2% error margin is pretty low bar.
> Importing anything in the US, EU or China is process full of protectionist policies and tariffs that you must overcome.

What is this supposed to prove?

> The right amount of protectionism has proven to work in every successfully developed country.

Every developed country has different amounts of protectionism. I have no idea what you mean by the "right" amount.

> Economics would not be the first field with a popular theory that is complete nonsense

What popular theory is "complete nonsense"?

> that whenever tried has only resulted in catastrophe

Which catastrophe?

> Funny how all those economists have not convinced a single developed country to believe their theories and put them into practice.

So not convincing someone to implement a good policy means the policy is bad?
How is this different than using uMatrix / uBlock origin?
In a native app, such modal would be pushed on the activity stack (on Android; I assume iOS has a similar pattern). It would essentially be a native equivalent of a new page. Modern web developers are, for some reason, more afraid of having multiple pages than they are of black death.
STEM vs. STEAM: do arts belong?
Spot Trender Cloud Ad Testing and Brand Tracking
That's very informative, thanks. So indeed, with a good passphrase the drop in security is minimal.
Week 36: Kafka, KSQL, Azure and Durable Functions, and Other Interesting Topics
This is also naive and uniformed. Xi Jinping hardly has absolute power, there are a few very powerful red families pulling strings in the background, a lot of power brokers that are way in the background. Xi has power, is probably the most powerful man in China, but even he isn’t safe.
Thanks. Normally we'd switch the URL to that, but it is a dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17920720.
Would love to play this, but unfortunately:

> This page is not set up to run this program.
Sorry, but you don’t seem to grasp the concept of “opt-in”.

The service is optional. The tracking is not opt-in, given you choose to use the service.
Exploiting the Tiltman Break – Computerphile
> STEM exists because science, technology, engineering, and math don't get the focus they need in the standard US education system.

Pretty much every HS kid in America is required to take at least 3 full years of math and science if not 4. How exactly are they not getting the focus over art? Schools are cutting art programs left and right in order to allocate more resources toward things that get covered on standardized tests.
If they feel burnout then they should just stop making videos for awhile or move on to doing something else.
It's not reasonable, but it's profitable.

Advertising's role is chiefly to create demand and manipulate people into buying things, not to inform.

If one is not looking for new versions, then they very likely don't need them.
Ask HN: What services are the “big boys” using for data storage?
I am building a "notes with attachments" app and I am looking for cloud storage services. What others are using? Apparently this seems to be kind of a secret :)

I know Evernote is now using their own data centers. I am still trying to figure out monthly prices on Amazon Glacier (simple calculator... not so simple) - and having difficulties to estimate a monthly price.

I am looking for a "pure cloud storage" reliable long term solution with simple and easy to understand pricing, where I can store customer attachments.

Would appreciate any advice. Thank you.
Please do, there is sadly not enough stuff related to lisp, specially valuable stuff from people that were working during the AI boom. I for one would more than welcome any thorough project/info from your perspective
TRIVIAL PURSUIT: Dragon Ball Z
right now how it's setup, you only put time for a the whole week. and it's repeated. usual life is pretty repetitive. (work/school) etc.

there would be buttons to "become available" or "set busy"
Raising “Good Humans”​
Slightly off-topic bc the NYT is clearly not the target here, but I'll say it anyway:
the webdev crew at NYT is first-rate. They've even open-sourced some cool stuff. It's a shame other papers generally can't hold a candle to the standard they set.
Generic traits as an alternative to method overloading in Rust
> Near flawless execution is baked in on a manufacturing company likely less than 15 months from being out of cash.

I'm less sure about that. They have risk, certainly, but they could stumble somewhat or have to raise more funding and still ultimately end up doing as much business as Ford or GM.

Their valuation is slightly higher than that because if everything really goes their way they could end up as the electric version of Toyota at more than three times their current market cap. With higher margins because of the simpler powertrain, which reduces both manufacturing costs for Tesla and maintenance costs for customers who are correspondingly more willing to pay a higher purchase price.

Or they could fail outright or become a small irrelevant electric supercar company.

The efficient market hypothesis says their valuation should approximate their risk-adjusted actual value. Which is always wrong by a little, usually not by a lot.

The interesting thing here is that they're a rather large company that nonetheless has potentially high volatility, which is actually pretty unusual, and invites speculation (and therefore drama). And if a $45B valuation is a result of a 40% chance at a continued $45B valuation and a 15% chance at a $180B valuation, the valuation is correct even though some people may lose their shirts. We just don't know which people yet.
I do no longer think that people actually learn from history. They do so if they percieve to gain a advantage from that, but the advantage of something "normal" like peace and prosperity in europe, is only visible in hindsight.

I think, people must be vaccinated against radicalism, again and again, by experiencing the outcomes for themselves.

If you are discriminated and robbed in your favorite online game, for no other reason then who you are or your name- without any success when appealing to the "state", you begin to understand what it is like to have been a jew in europe.

Another difficult fact remains- only the prosperity of the past and the nuclear weapons kept these dark tides at bay.

The politics, the memorials and the activism did & do nothing.
> quick turnover and higher profits

Why would turnover increase profits for a nursing home?
Monopolies are rents, in the sense that a network effect isn't something that the company built, but is surplus value it's gained access to and can extract. The situation is exceedingly path dependent and often rewards little other than luck or ruthlessness, with monopolists retaining value not by continuing to innovate, but by choking off, buying, or outright killing competitors.
Say what you will about Scalia (adopting Wickard's reasoning wrt Raich was deeply disappointing), but he was very strong on the Fourth Amendment.
And you don’t have to care about disaster recovery, backup and upgrades? If I were half-serious about my bookmarks, I’d pay that much. I am not though and pinboard free account is enough.
Sorry, I thought it was obvious that for a guy like Asimov, talking science and telling jokes were both enjoyable activities :-) . Yes liked doing it - it wasn't forced on him by economic hardship.

> Depends on whether the audience and the participants are any good.

Presumably anyone that books a talk by a renowned science, mystery, and sci-fi writer knows exactly what they're getting - and wants exactly that. It's not like getting a pop star to make an appearance at your event.
Notice on the splash screen, a tool tip at start up, a popup at startup (anyone remembers "Tip of the day" dialogs?), a modeline/status bar (like e.g. IntelliJ IDEA does), ... there are plenty of well-established UI patterns for placing such information unobtrusively. As you said, firing up a modal in the middle of your work is unacceptable, and outright disrespectful.
Does the 1 tcp connwction notnrequire the radio to wakeup to receive pushes?
I took a class in college that only covered genocide, and if there is one single lesson I took away from that, it is that all of the worst atrocities in the history of the world grow out of a seed of convincing people that there are other people out there who are (for whatever reason) less than them and should be defeated. If those people are less than us, then the normal rules of decency surely don't apply and we should do all we can to win.

In the time since I took that class, I've made a giant effort to never attribute what I believe are wrong opinions or bad behavior to some inherent trait. No matter how reprehensible I think someone's opinion, I try to remember that they are a human and deserve decency. That doesn't mean we shouldn't fight for things we believe are right, but the second we start believing that we are fighting monsters, we become willing to do monstrous things.

In the US, there seems to be a growing urge to attribute most political opposition to some sort of ingrained difference and it seems impossible that this attribution could ever lead to any sort of resolution short of armed conflict.
The Great Giana Sisters
>I recently visited the famous Seattle public library and was shocked by the nature of the guests.

Perhaps you should reflect upon the nature of your city and the massive changes it is undergoing, with a particular focus upon on the distribution of resources like shelter, before taking your animus out on the public library system. That the libraries have taken on this role serves as an example of the failures elsewhere in your civic society.

If who you consider "normal" people don't use libraries, consider what that means about what has been normalized.

Your local public library can help you find resources to get you started.
What everyone’s getting wrong about Amazon
ever been to an Episcopalian service? I've been to a few dozen at a few different churches in a few different states. They are a split from Catholicism, so the rituals during service can seem familiar. However, the sermon feels like your father or grandfather (and some cases mother or grandmother) reassuring you for the week, and telling you to be your best self. It's about as liberal as mainstream Western religion gets.
Why We Are Not Heading into an AI Winter
Fairly easy in julia:

julia> function arbitrary_matrix_reop(bin1::Function, bin2::Function)
(m::Matrix, v::Vector) -> [
foldr(bin2, [
bin1(m[row_idx, col_idx], v[col_idx])
for col_idx in 1:size(m,2)
])
for row_idx in 1:size(m,1)
]
end

arbitrary_matrix_reop (generic function with 1 method)

julia> M = [1 2 3
4 5 6]
julia> v = [5,6,7]

julia> ⊚ = arbitrary_matrix_reop(*, +)

julia> M ⊚ v
2-element Array{Int64,1}:
38
92

julia> ⊜ = arbitrary_matrix_reop(min, +)

julia> M ⊜ v
2-element Array{Int64,1}:
6
15

Just a first pass. Function composition (∘) is a predefined operation in julia, so that sohuld make what the author already wants pretty trivial, There are probably smart ways of doing multiple dispatch so that you can do more than just matrix-vector but also matrix-matrix, etc.

Edit: The author actually might want function application (|>), not function composition (I'm not sure). In that case it's doable too:

julia> M = [π 0
π/2 π ]

julia> v = [cos, sin]

julia> ⦷ = arbitrary_matrix_reop(|>, +)

julia> M ⦷ v
2-element Array{Float64,1}:
-1.0
1.8369701987210297e-16
The emptiest place in Britain (2001)
The NYT website has gotten worse and worse over the years. Decreased contrast, JS bloat, hamburger menu, etc.
Sometimes that works, but as a counterpoint: if your stakeholders outrank you in the org and don't care for your process or choose to ignore it, good luck!
I did that quiz. Part way through I figured out to always choose no for priming and yes for anything related to game theory.
I don't use Chrome or Chromium for years now. It's bloated, slow and eat a lot of precious CPU and memory resources.
Gonna watch as this thread accumulates votes but nobody comments because of its unspeakable nature. It’s slightly entertaining to watch SV from outside
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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17942895
The only decent option other than graphviz that I've found for visualizing DAGs is OGDF: http://amber-v7.cs.tu-dortmund.de/doku.php/start

Everything else tends to be force-directed which just doesn't work very well.
You're right, but Congress has been essentially deadlocked into a completely nonfunctional body for years now. On top of that, the republicans necessary to curb trumps power are extremely afraid of his appeal in their base, that they'll lose their seats due to not being either on his side, or being enough like him.
Sexually transmitted diseases make a comeback
> it wasn't forced on him by economic hardship.

What I wondered about! Thanks

> Presumably anyone that books a talk by a renowned science, mystery, and sci-fi writer

With the talkshows lately I'm not so sure, some might just want to look a little more authoritative/persuasive. Nonetheless good point.
This would make sense. HerpesVirus has been shown to cause atherosclerosis as well, in humans. The connection? Herpes binds to the APOE gene sitting on cholesterol-carrying LDL particles ....

https://medium.com/@InfinoMe/cholesterol-have-we-shot-the-me...

I spent 3 years in one of the nations top alzheimers centers. It is still shocking to me how some of the seasoned veteran professors in the field are both unfamiliar with the 20 years of viral literature behind Alzheimers, but that they also completely write it off as being unlikely. Curing alzheimers starts with curing the old dogma pervasive in the field.

Incidentally, the time is now for young hackers to get into biomedicine. We need you.
All these graph layout algorithms should ideally be run on the backend. Most of these js libraries are missing the point in trying to run layout in Javascript on the frontend. If you have a huge graph, you can't view all of it at once anyways and you're viewing a subset of it any 1 moment.

So the ideal library should be running the layout on the backend and the frontend should be plain dummy, simply showing each graph node at the position co-ordinate sent from the back-end.
Are you applying a 0% discount rate to future outcomes above?

No sane investor will pay $45 for a 40% chance of $45 and 15% chance of $180 in 8 or 10 years.

(I agree with your premise, but the numbers need to be larger such that their present value, not future value solves.)