skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Loneliness is a serious public-health problem
> the lowest paid (other than the adjuncts i suppose)

I'm pretty sure there are plenty of employees at UC SC who are paid a hell of a lot less than professor-rank academics.

Like cleaners, cooks, librarians, secretaries, security, maintenance staff.
Thanks I'll give it a try again.
> How many "beautiful young people" want to have sex with 50 year old professors? If you think I'm crass stating it like that, then why did you have to bring up "beautiful young people" as some argument?

Probably not that many (although it happens in grad school all the time), but let's invert the question: How many 50-year-old professors want to have sex with beautiful young people?

> I'm actually tired of this discussion. My entire point is it's a red herring that distracts from the issues around housing.

But it's not a red herring. It's a very real concern, and we know it's real because sexual misbehavior already happens between students and professors, including at UCSC! Do you honestly believe that it would not increase in prevalence if students and professors started living together?
I hate this profit seeking marketing BS and I think it's kind of evil. They must know better. I can't believe they don't have data on actual use of Buprenorphine specifically the number of patients who take it long term and have huge issues tapering off Buprenorphine itself.

Getting off suboxone itself is very difficult. It seems most users describe the withdrawal as harder than heroin because it lasts a much longer time. [1] [2]

I'm perfectly fine with the idea of replacement therapy. And in fact I actually think we should just provide pure morphine to users for free it would actually be pretty safe for long term use (and WAY cheaper).

Long term Suboxone replacement therapy also sounds like a great tool if it weren't for the marketing lies and profit. That's where my huge beef is.

Yet again making big profit by marketing the (at best not the whole truth, I think truth is closer to false and morally corrupt) idea that this is temporary. Maybe after they make a few billion and get people hooked on subs they will pivot to sell another expensive patented drug to 'wean off' suboxone and continue the profits. Of course there are examples of users being able to taper off. But there seems to be far more examples of users not being able to wean from Buprenorphine itself.

1: https://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/17/health/in-demand-in-clini...
2: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5398454/
Is there a way to specify that I don't care?
That's exactly what C undefined behavior is for.
I downvoted because you can't see this situation through anything but your own lens and decided to victim blame. It's great that you didn't get addicted, but it's awful that you're saying it takes two to tango.
In mobile I want/have the bookmarks that make sense for mobile usage. I believe this applies to most people.
Crazy. Sub clinics are sad places. Gray-faced junkies paying $3-400/month to stay hooked. A buprenorphine script is probably $10/month. It's a racket. Capitalism at work.
Ah, fantastic! I've never deployed a PPA so I don't know the process, but how hard would it be to write a tool that would take a few debs and render the static dir to host the PPA? It seems like it shouldn't be as hard as it is?
One thing I’ve been wondering is how to interpret the function types `Void -> a` and `a -> Void`, where Void is the uninhabited type (unique up to isomorphism). The number of inhabitants of those types should be |a|^0=1 and 0^|a|=0, respectively, but what does that mean? In real world, function(s) of type a->Void certainly exist, such functions being those that diverge (loop forever or halt via some non-local means).
It's a great story, I really enjoyed it.

Not sure if it's infringing but I re-read it recently when I searched for the title and found a public PDF of the story.
Love the flipping effect of the links on your root page.

EDIT: Oop, that was on the workshop.rs page you link at the end.
Wormholes could potentially exist; there is even a well-known non-crackpot theory called ER=EPR that roughly suggests entangled particles are connected by wormholes.

What is fiction is wormholes you can send information or people though.
The more acurately the insurance can predict risk, the better. And if they calulate that some profession/gender/lifestyle/whatever carries a higher risk, it's only fair that those people have to pay more, after all they also cost the insurance more.

This is the classic correlation/causation fallacy that is why sadly we have needed explicit anti-discrimination laws in other contexts.

When I added my partner to my car insurance policy, at a time before prohibiting the use of gender to determine premiums, our payments went down quite significantly despite now covering two drivers. When I asked why, they told me that statistically women are safer drivers than men, and since my wife had a good track record with no accidents, that meant our risk together was now lower.

The thing is, at that point I had been driving regularly for many years, while my partner had also passed a test many years earlier but had hardly driven since. We both had clean sheets, but as you'd expect given our vastly different levels of experience, she was not as safe a driver as I was and would have been the first to admit it. However, the insurer's questions hadn't identified any of this, and had reached an obviously absurd conclusion.

Even after the policy change, in practice I was almost always still driving anyway, so clearly whatever my level of risk was before, our combined level of risk was still similar afterwards. But again, nothing asked when we adjusted the cover or since would have picked that up.

This is the trouble with almost any profiling based on personal data, from insurance calculations to targeted police actions to screening job applicants: in principle, it might be a reasonable thing to do, but if your model doesn't properly incorporate all relevant facts, it can actually be worse than nothing because not only does it give an incorrect assessment, it also instils false confidence in that assessment.
Isn’t the purpose of journalism to inform on these ideas. I assume there is no idea if the Times did an in depth piece without describing the idea.

This is because the Times is well resourced and basically competent enough to not fuck up the point of a story.

If I read the paper and find the great idea not in the article then that makes me think the author of the article is not so good.
Ask HN: Remote vs. unpaid sabbatical period
Question for you all, as I respect your opinions.
Here's the scenario (as a software engineer):

1) For personal/family reasons, need to take 3 months away from where currently living, in another distant location.

2) Year of salary saved, in addition to usual retirement accounts, etc.

3) Option to work remote for same company been at for around 7 years, or leave job and do self-funded sabbatical involving loss of current job then find another job.

4) Not learning much new at current job after this many years though it's comfortable and know what to expect.

Leaning more towards taking a 'sabbatical period' to learn & hack on some fresh stuff, take a break, get a new perspective, & come back recovered to a new employer. But remote would be better financially, not really for any other reason.

What would you do if it was an option?
Can we please stop this "only artists are allowed to make art" nonsense? The lady of the lake didn't come out and bless special individuals as "artists" and the rest of us as foolish undeserving heathens.
Science fiction futures exist in a two-dimensional space; one axis is the time the story is set in, and the other axis is the time the story is written. You just have to get used to the fact that "2000 as written in 1950" is different from "2000 as written in 1990".
I honestly think the best way might be the method advocated by Sal Kahn. [1] Basically, instead of students going over a lesson in class then taking home work to do to master it, they reverse that. They watch the lesson at home the night before, answer a few questions as an "exit slip" and then sleep on it. The next day they go to class and work on problems/ask questions with the teacher present to help them.

While it does have its issues, such as making sure students actually watch the videos, I think this is the best approach for certain subjects, especially math. It allows the students to do the problems where they can get feedback and guidance, instead of struggling with something they're failing to comprehend, which just leads to demotivating them. It also allows them some time to come up with questions related to the topic that might further their learning. There will likely be abuse from students who don't pay attention, and there are plenty of other issues (internet access being a huge one), but I could see some hope in this method.

[1] https://blog.blackboard.com/why-salman-khan-thinks-students-... is a nice write-up about it.
Smart auto-tagging.

Related links.
I mentioned CrossFit specifically because that's where I observed this. It's been a while since I've spent time in a traditional gym, but when I did, the men and women seemed largely (self-) segregated. Men on free weights, women on yoga mats and cycles, with some occasional crossover on some weight machines. I know women can get strong in traditional gyms, it's just not part of my experience. CrossFit has done a lot promote the idea of strength as a key component of fitness for women (as opposed to slimming). And if the price of that is having to suffer a few bros bragging about their WOD times on FB, I can live with that. Hope you can too.
Rule of law*

*Terms and conditions may apply, contingent on wealth.
Ah, well that's fair, and I think I'd generally agree with that. I don't have an alternative proposal for handling TLS failures in general, but I think it's silly to arbitrarily make HPKP's UX a special case, and then cite that special case UX as a reason for deprecating it.
Why do you like Vivaldi?

I'm using it but am fairly ambivalent.
Good question though obviously asked assuming the opportunity to judge and belittle judging by the "...you can't just complain online in your little bubble."

I actually did and ended up with a purely political answer blaming the difficulty of regulation and consumer-beware-ism. Even though in this particular case there really is no opportunity to beware - its either go with the banks that are all part of this or live on a commune singing about flowers -- and it is way too cold here in the winter for that!
I think drivers tend to be more problematic than hardware, I'd actually expect more issues with driver implemented support for ray tracing APIs running as compute shaders than with the hardware accelerated support.
> Tax dollars for education should not subsidize expensive real estate markets.

How can that be avoided? Should we build every university in the middle of nowhere, and then move them around every 30 years because the university drew in enough people to cause housing to become expensive?
I don't use Ubuntu or Debian. I honestly have not much idea about how any of it works. Like I said, I looked into it and balked. The Linux distro I use has a much simpler build system. It had ripgrep in its repos in a matter of days from the initial release IIRC.

ripgrep's releases do include binary debs, but there's no auto-update:

$ curl -LO https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep/releases/download/0.10.0/ripgrep_0.10.0_amd64.deb
$ sudo dpkg -i ripgrep_0.10.0_amd64.deb
Such functions can’t exist.

The “C” void is expressed by the unit singleton.

So it is |a|^1.
Ideas worth nothing. Talk to potential customers, try to learn they problem, see if they like your idea of solving their problem. Use "paper and scissors" to build quick and dirty prototype — this is possible while having full time job.

If you idea is too grandiose that is not possible to launch while working full time — find another, smaller idea. Bootstrap, sell - make money, then you will have funds for your big idea.
Just because Google has “editorial control” over their platforms, that doesn’t mean their editorial decisions are beyond reproach.
It would have an interesting affect on the next college community that refuses to allow building permits. It would very much be like these pro-sports teams in the US and how they treat cities. It could really go either way, but I guess it works for the NFL.
Here it depends on how you want to use generics. For map<T1, T2> this isn't much of an issue, since whenever you use it you'll probably be using a concrete instantiation.

Your point still stnds though, which is why proper generics aren't something you 'tack on' to a language. You have to be prepared for it to be used pervasively. This is probably why templates are deep in the C++ StdLib; as an attempt to ensure templates really are 'part of the language'.
Sadly, in this case it really expanded the language.

Having a lot of code go through generics isn't necessarily an issue. The potential issue comes from having a lot of different concrete instantiations of your abstract code. That issue might be solveable by smarter compilers.
It can't be avoided. You should always be willing to evaluate the ongoing viability of a campus, regardless of location, and not consider any a sunk cost you could not possibly dispose of. Where does the requirement come from that a campus remain in the same location in perpetuity? There is no such requirement, just as a company might close a satellite office if the business requirements change.
So you would rather that if a bunch of people happen to come to agreement to do something immoral, that that immoral thing be done?
Even trying to learn autodidactally, there's still need for a teacher. Especially if you can work in smaller class sizes where you can ask for personal help and clarification. It's nice to have a teacher work with you in person over problems and other things you're unsure about. Stuff that a one-size-fits-all computer program (or educational system, like we have) can't do.

I've noticed that when trying to teach myself advanced math. I wish I had a teacher for those topics, where I could ask questions and just make sure I'm understanding things correctly.

Also, you'd have to address on whether they need to do this at home, or if there'd still be a school building they'll need to be at each day. If the former, what do you do for those whose parents aren't home during the day, or who sometimes only get to eat the two meals they're provided at school? How will you deal with kids interacting with each other, and making sure they're not isolated, etc. etc. There's a lot more to think about than just "Online == less time wasting" (and even then, I think it highly depends on the student)
Educational material that covers basic facts without controversy is rarely sourced.

The Feynman Lectures on Physics is not well sourced, but people eat it up year after year without any skepticism :)
I am going to guess that it means there is a thirst for more artist submissions. There is not enough color in the links submitted these days - so the slightest bit of color grabs the attention.

I upvoted this because I want more that is in this vein, though I also don’t think its algorithm is worthless - it is good to start somewhere. (Personally, I find it ‘wrong’ that the Equifax article right now is first! Not that it is unworthy - just that I don’t care to read it.)
The large heavy strip curtains would restrict airflow, especially ones that are attached top and bottom. Yes they wouldn't stop people falling on the tracks, but a least they could be installed without costing billions.
Git grep feels pretty much instant to me. Cant really understand the need for something faster unless its for searching through data files...
> It has no legal [...] construction

That must be a real conundrum in countries that have laws against it. Presumably clearly defined. I think you're onto some paradox here...

Hate speech is not about hurt feelings. But if that's what you understand from it with almost the entire human knowledge available to you a simple internet search away I'm sure no comment here can provide you some relief.

Telling me my shoes don't match the belt is not hate speech. But instigating people against a whole class (race, religion, ethnicity, etc.), usually suggesting violence or some otherwise harmful methods, is. And it ends up with people hurt, lives and whole communities destroyed. You'd understand a lot better if you were at the receiving end of it. Things are very easy to overlook when they never hit close to home.

But just in case, lmgtfy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hate_speech
Hate speech a political weapon. Amazon banned the selling of Hoffman's 'Judaism Discovered' under the guise of 'hate speech' [1] You can't critique the Talmud because it offends a protected class. Denying the Holocaust is considered 'hate speech' even if you legit think its atrocity propaganda. Rejecting Vatican II is considered hate speech. Just a phony baloney political category that largely benefits people on the left so they are inclined to defend it.

[1] https://revisionistreview.blogspot.com/2018/08/judaisms-stra...
Nut Benefits Promote Good Health Perfect Snack
Reverse Engineering Firmware Primer (2012)
Your company doesn't allow unpaid family leave?
Almost a decade working in a large firm where the top 2 to 4 layers of the company (depending on where you are) are almost exclusively people with business degrees. It is no joke. Most don’t keep up.
YouTube shuts down official Syrian government channels
Quite the contrary. They lose passaporting rights with Brexit

Not to mention all the EU nationals they employ

> special tax-heaven status as EU was moving toward more banking regulation.

"Tax haven" status has "nothing" to do with banks, it has to do with taxation rules and agreements. (Some banking rules could have an effect, but in general they don't. Bank secrecy is something that has gone out the window a couple of years now, so it's indifferent)
This is skepticism of the most useless kind. I can feel it sucking away my time and energy.
Newspapers slit their own throats back in 1994-5 or so when they decided to put their content up for free because they could sell ad space. It was a bad idea then, and I don't think anyone's tried to fix it in the past 25 years.
> No, we aren't. The hole isn't formed at infinity. The time that is being talked about for observers at infinity (or more correctly, very far away) is the time it takes light rays, coming outward from the object that is collapsing into a black hole, to reach those observers. The curvature of spacetime near the horizon is such that it takes longer and longer for those light rays to get out to the observer far away, the closer to the horizon they are emitted. At the horizon, outgoing light rays do not move outward at all, due to the curvature of spacetime there, so they never reach the observer far away--hence that observer never sees the horizon form. But, as I said, that is an optical illusion caused by the curvature of spacetime.

I think you have a misconception about GR here. In GR, spacetime isn't just an "optical device" that delays rays cast in an absolute reference. In relativity, the behavior of light rays is actually closely related to interpretation of time and space. You can't separate the two. In fact, the definition of (relative) local time is given exactly by the rate a "light clock" ticks when communicating periodically to a "light clock" located elsewhere. Approaching the event horizon, the rate of clock ticking goes to 0 relative to an outside observer (to the the limited extent that coordinate frames can be defined in GR). So classically you can't say that to the outside observer the BH forms in finite time, I don't think. What matters in the end is what the observer sees, which, according to you, would be (for Bob, far away):

Alice falls into BH -> Alice approaches EH -> Alice's BH evaporates -> Alice finishes falling into the BH

That's not possible! The light rays from evaporation, which happens, in Alice's own frame, after she falls into the BH, cannot precede the light rays from her fall. So she cannot truly go past the EH.
This is cool. I am going to try this out. See also webrecorder.io.

I want a record button in my browser bar that I can leave on!
It must be sexism because 11/12 authors were male. Obviously. If you disagree, you are sexist.

Also, my cat is sexist because she had five kittens and all five are male.

I don’t like discounting ideas because of the flaws of their originators, but I’m likely going to ignore all articles that make such spurious claims without evidence.
I read and enjoyed most of Nozick's Anarch, State and Utopia, however I don’t have the energy to post my full response today. I will write up my thoughts at some point and post them to my blog.
> We have a relationship with the card companies, and they chose to share data with a third party, so the credit card companies are responsible.

When people sign up for credit cards they agree to the terms and conditions, and sharing data with credit scoring agencies is one of them.

Equifax is the one to sue -- they are the ones who let the data become public.

And frankly there are a good reasons we have credit scoring agencies. Getting rid of them would make it more difficult for creditworthy people to prove they are creditworthy in order to obtain credit. If there were not credit scoring agencies, lenders would need to rely on methods of determining creditworthiness that are more invasive of privacy than credit histories. Getting a credit card would be like getting a mortgage, and lenders would demand bank statements, pay stubs, proof of past payments, etc.
yes, the basic model for good education is cooperation, with grades and evaluation just used for feedback to allow someone to improve rather than as a tool for punishment.

However, the competitive paradigm can easily be defended if one regards the education process as simply a sorting process. Suppose different people have different intelligence levels and the purpose of education is to find those with the highest intelligence. Then you don't need to have the education system teach students more than average. Students will learn or not and it is on them. And here, if the "real world" works this way, hey, you giving students a taste of this and in a limited sense that's "education".

So overall, this good, cooperative approach to teaching certainly exists and if you're a student you should seek it out. But there are reasons punitive education remains and those reasons have to do with the structure of this society and society would have to change for this go away significantly.
Maybe I'm biased, but I don't remember breaches like Equifax's or Target's in the EU.

I am in the EU, and I got a letter from Equifax saying they'd leaked all kinds of stuff about me and offering some token countermeasures several months too late to provide much meaningful protection against any additional risks I faced as a result.
Any suggestions on models?

I like the flexible one because it's lightweight and not easy to break. I'd be open to other options though if you have suggestions.
> you can see how network effects keep making Amazon more and more efficient

If we were in court, the argument that you just gave would be used by the amazon lawyers, in defense of why they shouldn't be regulated.

Networks effects are a good thing. Making companies more and more efficient is a good thing. Cheaper goods and services are a good thing.

I have yet to see anyone bring up any arguments as for why any of these things hurt consumers.

In order for me to support regulation, I want to see actual consumers being harmed, and for the things you mentioned, such as efficiency, to be protected and encouraged, instead of discouraged.
At the risk of stating the obvious, Taiwan is not Chinese-controlled territory.

Still in Asia, but I know at least some Samsung devices are made in Korea.