skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I've never seen a doctor in the field ever recommend any of these, [...]. There is a disconnect between what we know and what is practiced.

The disconnect has been present since the 1800's (ref: Mad in America [0]), where the Quakers got much better results in their Asylums [1] than the medical asylums. The Quakers were pushed out of the asylum business by doctors, who by the early 1900's thought their patients benefited from getting lobotomized and electrocuted.

2 days ago I saw this article from 15 years ago in /newest:

Diseases of the Mind (2003) (newsweek.com) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17975716

Someone noticed a link between cortisol and psychosis in the 1950's. Scientists have known since the 1970's that so-called "mental" problems are related to the metabolism, that stress impairs the metabolism, and that "mental" problems resolve with appropriate metabolic interventions. Infections are a type of stress - I think emotional stress is a more important factor for most such patients than actual infections.

[0] https://books.google.com/books?isbn=0465020143
[1] http://qmh.haverford.edu/
"Cannabis Use" is a highly overloaded phrase to use for Musk's baby puff and statement about disliking anything that interfered with his productivity.

TSLA stock swung back up ( I watched it nearly every minute as I bought options on the rise )

I believe many who watched the whole video rather than just responding to the screenshot, would come away with renewed belief in his passion and possibly surprise at much of the tesla models capabilities and possibilities.

But the article says most of that, not really much of a read, not sure why it deserves highlighting on HN.
“Works best in IE” has been replaced with either “works best in Google Chrome” or “works best when you allow us to assault your computer with every tracking script under the Sun”, usually represented by a blank page when JS isn’t enabled, and especially notable when you were probably only expecting text and images.

The revolution has been glorious. Can’t wait for the next one.
I find that lobste.rs has a higher rate of "skill" articles. They also don't arbitrarily censor comments, which is nice.
LED backlights are current controlled. LEDs don't like having current through them all the time and that's why they are PWM controlled unless it's a crap consumer product.
There’s no Netty type thing for Erlang? Netty is so nice to have on the JVM, I don’t know much about TCP and it lets me be dangerous, asynchronously.
And - referring back to one of the reasons why /e/ was created - Samsung has crappy, horrible privacy practices.
Why Do WordPress Websites Get Hacked More Often?
https://blogs.oracle.com/theaquarium/opening-up-ee-update

Oracle is in the process of moving Java EE completely to open sourced foundation leadership.
Topic: terminal
https://www.pxlet.com might be one option to get updated.
A bit of a nitpick: the first and third bombs ever detonated were plutonium weapons. Uranium bombs were developed in parallel, mostly as a backup plan in case the much more complicated but otherwise superior plutonium bomb ended up not being workable.
> Feel free to exploit young underdeveloped brains to addict them to gambling for profit

Games are designed to keep you interested and engaged-- that's just what a game is. Children's games have included gambling since toys have existed (dreidel, jacks, marbles, to name a few). Children learn about the real world through play, and gambling is a part of that. Risks give benefits or consequences that are often unpredictable. I don't see the explicit benefit of excluding these gambles from children's games.
The danger of target=_blank and opener
Nuclear reactors were. Nuclear power plants didn’t show up until a decade later.
Family businesses since markets inception 2k years ago and small-to-medium businesses in the late 20th century were the norm everywhere in Europe, that’s also why the EU started well as a common market. It is going tits up right now exactly because surrendering its roots to the US neo-liberist approach has killed the middle class. Many thousand businesses moving €500k/year and using money locally is much better for local communities than 5 unicorns moving €50b/year, draining that money out to fiscal havens and employing a few elite thousands people with millions left unemployed and getting more and more angry.
Height is measurable. Intelligence really isn’t.

I’m naively confident that we’ll find gene patterns for height soon.
> this is a keyboard for hackers, who I'd venture to guess routinely use several computers, right? :)

This brought me back to the old days where the sysadmins had a physical knob that would switch their keyboard+CRT between the several different boxen in their office. Thanks for the memory.
Love /e/ .. waiting for it. Loved eelo better (I know: the name clashed). I guess naming your phone e is one more way to become untraceable by Google (or DDG for that matter). Luckily there is also the 'foundation' part to search for.
Sigh, listen man. Just learn about how it works or stop commenting. You're wrong.
Empress Myeongseong
I would love to hear from the engineers why they work for companies that track and addict kids.
i feel like where i live, they don't fight wildfires, they just watch them burn and do structure protection.
jfc, you have no idea what you're talking about. You know that's ok right? You don't have to know about everything. Maybe instead of commenting when you don't know, you should learn first.
Yes it is. Learn about how the system works, and you will understand why.
I sometimes wonder why don't SV companies hire more in Canada and/or Europe just by offering slightly higher than average salaries.

Their runway will be a bit longer. They will easily higher more people especially if they let people know they offer higher than average salaries, it will attract the best engineers in the area, and I don't see how the product will be any worse.
You should, yes, but it seems as though open plan offices and the trappings are close to 100% in some areas. Remote jobs now seem to be the main alternative, but not everyone loves that setup (especially those who want to keep the work/home distinction super-clear).
This is different. If you'd bothered to understand how the system works, you would understand why that is so.
I just got a Blackberry KeyOne, with a physical keyboard. It is no longer a PITA to write short text messages or emails of a few sentences. I still wouldn't write anything substantial with it.
Europe is also a lot more fractured than the USA in terms of culture and languages and laws. Something that works in Germany is much harder to make work in France as opposed to Texas/Cali.
Or you could not support the company because of their practices.

Literally, don't support Amazon and get as many people to not support it.
How Apple tells a story
The logs in LogDevice also have an independent lifecycle, which your solution doesn't allow.
I've never used ESC in vim. I learned ^[ first, and it's less travel.
Our Shared Reality Is Fraying
Review: Mega-hit boardgame Scythe goes digital on Steam
But overall it _did_ capture most of the structure. Other than a few adjectives, everything it required was real, and most of the combinations were exotic but good.

However, thanks for sharing the Kazama paper, that looks really interesting.
Is It Possible to Cure Stuttering? – The Truth Revealed
No, because NaN is a valid floating point number in rust.
My TLDR/alternate title: "unsafe Rust retains most safety benefits of Rust (including the borrow checker)"
That's not a useful question, because it's a shared resource. I'm on Verizon Fios, and so I'm "subsidizing" everything every other Fios user is doing over their Fios connections... and they are "subsidizing" my usage as well. So what? That's how paying for a shared resource works.
all of the threads on hn are garbage

democracy is a garbage algorithm
> Games are designed to keep you interested and engaged-- that's just what a game is. Children's games have included gambling since toys have existed (dreidel, jacks, marbles, to name a few).

You're not wrong, can also point to baseball cards, magic the gathering or pokemon cards. The key differences today are

1) Instant-availability of the secondary market and third party sites that allow you to gamble with virtual currency you've won.

2) Devs/Publishers hiring psychologists and cognitive behavior specialists to design these loot box experiences to release the perfect amount of dopamine to get users addicted, with frightening efficiency. In comparison your examples are extremely mild.

You could say it's the parents responsibility to educate and protect their children from these practices - but would you say the same about the tobacco industry advertising to children? For me this is the same addiction from profit motive the tobacco industry exploited for many years until they were rightfully regulated.
Apple might offer better privacy than Google or Facebook now, but it can change easily because privacy is not their core product.

I have high hopes for Librem 5 where privacy of user is the core product of the company.

https://puri.sm/shop/librem-5/
>We can’t simply be. We feel compelled to always do.

>We can’t allow ourselves a moment of self-inflicted boredom.

>We’re scared of where this boredom will take us.

>Of what we will hear in our heads if we lapse into true silence: hopes, dreams, shame, embarrassment… Fear of failure.

>We want to be entertained, constantly. The alternative — introspection — intimidates us.

I don't know about this one. I'm sure it's different for everyone, but boredom to me comes from "being entertained". My inspiration to "do" rather than to "be" comes from introspection. I'm rarely satisfied unless I'm learning about something or contributing to something-- and usually I like to do this alone, because I know what I like to learn and contribute and only I can do that best. Everything goes wrong when I seek out entertainment, so I usually don't.

These lines are kind of patronizing, or feel that way. Not everyone seeks out online psuedo-connection because they're afraid of being alone; some of us, most of us, have an idea of our direction in life, know what we're doing and why.

Maybe the article is a message to those who actually feel lonely. I'm not sure. But I disagree with a few sentiments.
It is not new and rarely mentioned in advertising or product information. The memory LCD I've seen are too small for a normal e-reader but if you are doing a large production run you can have something custom made.
Yes, but they generally have less comments and most of the comments that they have are from a small number of top users. (Source: I have lobste.rs account and used the site for some time).
Facebook to develop AI accelerators with partners
$30 of that is for an iPhone contract, so really only $405... $145 for office, $75 for home, the rest is for mobiles.
I think it's a running dialogue in the mind that I need to quiet. I have specific problems, but if I solved them a new set of things would arrive to my mind.

I appreciate reading your thoughts, I think there are a lot of universal problems there. With so many things to learn, I just remind myself of the Joel Spoelsky essay, fire and motion.

Thank you for your post, it really helps me a lot.
The ISP take payments from both sides independent of net neutrality. The claims are just bogus attempt
of trying to get popular support for their position. And their positions is that they should have every possible avenue of monetization available to them.
This comment is out of touch with the current economic reality in the US. Unemployment is the lowest it has been in decades and real wages are rising. Meanwhile emerging markets all around the world are crumbling.

Is there always a segment of the population that believe the economic apocalypse is about to happen (or in this case happening)? If you want me to believe your doom and gloom try providing actual statistics that back up your assertions instead of vague hand wavings.

> Many thousand businesses moving €500k/year and using money locally is much better for local communities than 5 unicorns moving €50b/year

Do you have a citation for this claim? Also why should we be helping "local communities" and not simply helping people?
No. They would pay a share equal to their usage. Outsized users would pay the same per GB as smaller users, and would pay more because they use more.

ISPs who were zero rating partner content now have to either zero rate the entire category (therefore putting spotify and itunes and play music in the same bucket), or not zero rate. This appears to be the "subsidization" argument, and it's nonsense, since the ISP could just zero rate nothing.
What are the biggest myths about owning a business?
Here's a link to the article.

http://blog.fogus.me/2011/05/03/the-german-school-of-lisp-2/
Okay this is really cool! I know historically neural nets are hard to generalize to be applicable beyond one subject - using visuals to generalize is a simple idea... Inspired by how our brains work I guess, but it's cool that they got it to work!
Do you mean this lecture: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p20QhBz-Tik ?
Were these birds bigger than dinosaurs?

https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/tetrapod-zoology/the-bi...
I think HN loves these articles because HN's users skew introverted. Like most of my friends, they love sharing articles like this or the "care and feeding of your introvert" which seems to make the rounds of my social media every few years.

If you think things like "Engaging with other people is messy and hard to control." - this is an introverted viewpoint. The assumption you are making is that engaging with people is draining, you need something to push you to do it or... you just won't.

I'm in a weird space - I'm an extrovert, but I functioned as an Introvert for most of my life. I'm transgender, so as a child and a young adult, I put constant and tremendous energy into conforming to my assigned at birth gender. It made every social interaction, especially with strangers, feel like a drain. I would much rather be at home playing video games where I could play characters I identified with or where gender was not a factor at all. It's part of what drew me to engineering to begin with; computers neither knew nor cared about your gender.

I'm not like that at all now. I go to large gatherings where I know nobody and walk out with new friends. I go to clubs, I date heavily, I dress flashy, I'm constantly interacting with new people and even an awkward mess of an interaction is a good story to tell. Even the video games I play are mostly so I can talk to other people about them. Engaging with other people doesn't feel messy at all to me.

What makes this really relevant is - growing up introverted, my choice of career (as an engineer) and historically friends has left me surrounded by introverts. Who totally misunderstand our motivations sometimes.

For instance, becoming a manager - going to meetings and interacting with people all day? That sounds like the dream. But when I say that it catches people off guard; doesn't every engineer hate those parts of management? Isn't the only upside of being a manager the ability to make decisions?

Or when recruiters are pitching jobs to me, all I really care about is the people, the position, how I'll interact with my coworkers day to day. I can learn a new tech stack. I can and have moved anywhere from front end to devops. But the reality is that if I don't like the people, if I don't have a social engagement to the work - ideally with a lot of pairing, mentoring, and other opportunities for social interaction - I'll lose motivation. Remote only is my worst nightmare, and "we split the work up and go off to our desks for a few days" drives me nuts. But the social environment is almost never pitched.

But Engineering is full of introverts, so it is a context where, for once, the extroverts are the rare and misunderstood breed :P.
I think that you have to write it in the about field in your profile page
'World's oldest brewery' found in cave in Israel, say researchers
Whereas what you’re doing is sort of like going after drug dealers and someone else says, “But what about the murderers?!” In fact this is bad, it does violate the law, and it should be called out and punished. Gambling mechanics in games should be too, but part of the problem there is that the laws in most countries haven’t caught up to them yet. Meanwhile tracking children is actually against existing laws.

I also wish that the NYT and other outlets were more interested in covering the worse stuff you mentioned, but in no way is their covering of this other bad stuff anything less than a positive development.
The FAST article mentions how using the ratio of short term seismic activity to long term activity to detect seismic events is prone to false positives. With this approach, you "pick" a discrete time when the seismic wave first reaches a given station, and then using knowledge of the speed of sound in the subsurface you perform nonlinear regression to locate the the point in time and space that minimizes the travel time error. However, this gets tricky when your algorithm picks the wrong arrival time, and picks a truck driving by instead of the actual seismic wave. Now your estimate of when and where the earthquake occurred has a substantial amount of error.

If you have enough stations for the seismic detection to be over defined (n > 4), one way around this is to consider all spikes in seismic activity as event picks, and then iteratively discard outlier picks until you're either left with an earthquake detection that has a residual travel time error within some acceptance threshold, or you run out of picks to make an over defined solution. This approach ends up being very, very fast.
With all due respect, I think the claim being made by Frontier should be examined first from their statement on it [1], and compare it to the actual bill [2]

Frontier has made a claim that this will:

>threatens to disrupt the incredibly successful Internet system that fuels business, innovation and economic growth in California.

Yet, there is no evidence provided for this claim and nothing to substantiate it.

It goes on to say that the bill will:

> it will harm consumers, impose complex layers of costly regulation and delay broadband deployment in California, especially in rural areas.

Once again without any actual explanation as to how this will happen, especially when Net Neutrality formerly was the standard.

The entire statement from Frontier begins with:

> Frontier Communications supports an open Internet where providers do not block, throttle, or interfere with customers' ability to access and navigate the Internet.

Which is basically what the bill reinforces -- so the question from a simple person like myself is, "If you believe in not blocking or throttling or interfering with someone's ability to access/navigate the Internet, then how exactly will a law meant to prevent such things affect your business?"

To get specifically to the question of "Free Internet for Netflix, et. al.", again, where is the argument? This is a statement made by Frontier without anything to substantiate it.

Frontier is welcome to make an argument, and it would be interesting to hear -- maybe there is a case to be made (I have no love for Netflix, can't even use them in the country I currently live in), but hearing such statements makes me suspicious, regardless of who issues them. And living in a country where ISPs charge far less and offer far more than most US ISPs, these kind of statements from an ISP make me really suspicious.

Frontier may indeed have a point, but they have not made it.

[1] - https://frontiercommunications.nationbuilder.com

[2] - https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml...

edit: formatting and added last sentence to the second-to-last paragraph.
The following is a surprise coming up the horizon. It makes use of the basic IPv4 standard RFC791 to resolve the issue of IPv4 public address shortage. Since it may sound like out-of-the-blue, allow me to state that it has been in private reviews at the highest levels of responsible organizations without getting a shot at yet. So, please enjoy the information.

We came upon a scheme that can expand each public IPv4 address by 256M (Million) fold without affecting the current Internet. A proposal called EzIP (phonetic for Easy IPv4) has been submitted to IETF:

https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-chen-ati-adaptive-ipv4-add...

Essentially, among other benefits, EzIP can establish a sub-Internet capable of serving an area with up to 256M IoTs, from just one IPv4 address. This is bigger than the largest city (Tokyo metro) and 75% of the countries. This can realize the CIR (Country-based Internet Registry) model proposed by ITU a few years ago stealthily even without setting up a CIR organization. If a government is not interested in this resources, private enterprises can make use of it to provide "local" Internet service in parallel to the current "global" Internet model, very much like the Independent telephone companies in the PSTN industry.

The current Internet then becomes the backbone / infrastructure / skeleton for interconnecting these sub-Internets, yet only for carrying inter sub-Internet traffic, very similar as the electric grid supporting islands of renewable energy generated by individual homes and businesses. Consequently, there will be a lot of spare IPv4 addresses for quite sometime to come.

In terms of the IP address length, the basic EzIP header format proposes to double it by utilizing the Option Word mechanism in the IP Header to make the overall system 64 bits. It is just as well to make the Option Word to carry longer bits like up to 96 bits so that the overall address system becomes 128 bit, in the same class as IPv6 while totally staying IPv4 within conformance.

Then, much of the efforts in developing and deploying IPv6 are no longer needed.

Thoughts and comments will be much appreciated.

Abe (2018-09-15 12:48)
Does anyone know if using popular advertisement networks require submission of personal data?
It's true that there's some distinction between opinion based topics and skill based ones. However, I think the more important issue is that there are topics where people are more or less aware of their own ignorance, and topics where they are not.

Politics is a great example. Politics threads are typically uninformed. However, it's not that there are no facts involved, it's that people who don't know the facts won't let that stop them from aggressively commenting.[0] Of course, by facts, I don't mean things like "Democrats/Republicans are evil", but basic facts about what laws have been passed, how the supreme court works, etc.

This isn't a distinction that's about the topics, it's a distinction about people's attitude towards those topics. After all, questions about Java's GCs compared to Go's GC, or Android vs. iOS security are equally grounded in facts, but attract almost as much uninformed commentary.

[0] I don't want to be an elitist. There's plenty of good ways to comment on a subject you don't know about, to ask good questions, etc. It's the certainty of the uninformed that's a problem.