skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why do people think it's unsafe to visit Iran?

The British Foreign Office, advise against all but non-essential travel there, and advise against travel all together to large parts of it.

The US State Department simply advises do not travel there at all. In fact their advice includes 'make a will' if you disregard their warning.

Is there even a US diplomatic or consular presence in Iran at all? If you get in trouble, you are on your own, or maybe the Swiss will help you.
I also know 3 people that went to the doctor after some time of belly aches and the doctor telling them: "You probably had an inflamed appendix but it's ok now."
You do awesome work Compiler, I'm sure people will continue to fund you for more open source work in the future (if that's what you want)... that said - you are young and have so many opportunities after your studies, keep an open mind as to what _you_ want and good luck with everything.
Absolutely. Childhood trauma shapes adult behavior, can induce psychosis, and greatly affect health. [0]

But even before we even get to overt trauma, simple resentment is pretty powerful in my opinion as well. Resentment can build in lots of ways. Parents perceived to not treat children equally or to restrict child from persuing a particular interest including love interests.

If parents don’t respect a child it has consequences.

Edit: to add that resentment is normally a reciprocation. Meaning, parent resents child and therefore behaves in a manner that causes child to resent parent. Snowball that for a few years / decades = not good.

[0]- https://www.ted.com/talks/nadine_burke_harris_how_childhood_...
I often find modern psychology heavily resembles ancient life philosophies. For example, CBT (Cognitive Behavioral Therapy) is, effectively, applied Stoicism. If you were to explain CBT to an ancient stoic they would just nod and agree, understanding the approach intimately.
.net core would be a better sideways step IMO
The Rise of Data-ocracy
I agree with you, but GP was citing studies where the control variable you describe was adjusted and no effect measured.
It is indeed progress, all that time spend among the sick and not moving around is very hurtful to the human body. It is mainly that realization that causes the difference, and not better surgical techniques I think.
Applying physics to understand human behavior is same as applying human intuition to explain physics. Any correlations found, which are anyway "fitted", are bound to breakdown.

Firstly we don't understand physics fully. We have only more breadcrumbs but no answer to the ultimate "why", and are basically unable to answer a pesky kid who keeps repeating that. Now, we are applying this to explain another equally intractable problem, that of understanding human behavior. It is a strange case of reductionism. I wonder why people engage in such futile activities. May be this line in the article is the answer.

> Results like these have obvious value for corporate marketers.

A bunch of maths equations and charts presented in the form of a paper that promises to crack the human behavior with further research is too good for the corporates to let go. Ergo funding. Well done. I won't be surprised if all this started out as a joke that the corporates lapped up.

To be clear, there is nothing wrong with trying to quantify an observation or a phenomenon, and in fact is always welcome, but bringing in incongruent things into the mix reduces the gravity.
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I agree with your sentiment.

But, as someone who understands that not all people and companies use the same moral set as myself, this is why I've never set up 2fa using a phone.

Why should I give some company my phone number? Increasingly it's become a single point of metadata to uniquely describe myself (just as my email addresses have).
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> Theoretical computer science isn't science, it's maths, just like theoretical physics.

Yes. Theoretical physics is theoretical. But physics is not. Computer science is purely theoretical. It's math. Adding a theoretical designation to computer science is being redundant.

> But there are plenty of empirical studies in computer science that are certainly science.

Plenty of "empirical studies" that you failed to name one? There are engineering tests for computers and algorithms. But there isn't a "science". What natural law is postulated within computer science?

You can use computer "science" like any other math to do science, but it isn't itself a science. It's a mathematical tool.
One would think they’ve learned and will stop. On the other hand, they’ve been getting away with this type of behaviour so WHY STOP
Thanks for this.

There was also a PDF published by some university on Hardware required on DL operations. Must be somewhere in my submitted posts here
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What about having a variety of different possible ranking functions? With people being able to select one they prefer or defaulting to a random selection/aggregation of them? Just an idea.
Because Patrick Stewart signed on for another Star Trek reboot. This would obviously feature the bridge of the Enterprise D.

A few years ago, CBS shut down the fan film Axanar, because it told the story of the Star trek universe about 10 years before Kirk, during the Klingon war. Last year, Discovery aired, which tells the story of the Klingon war.

Take this as a sign of what the new Picard series will include.
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I struggle to believe that it took
over 30 minutes to get this thing
back down after the incident

If your inferring that a 30 minute offset was introduced, in order to dump the stale audio buffer, before permitting access to the CVR instrument on the ground, I'd offer the idea that there were 4 other planes on the taxiway, waiting to take off, and that the intervening 30 minutes could be eaten up by letting those planes depart, based on an array of other factors.

A concerted effort to dump the recorder buffer would require the participation of more than just the flight crew, since it manipulates the standing traffic pattern. Not an impossibility, and we know that in-group "walls of silence" definitely accumulate in high-intensity industries, but the air traffic control audio suggests a really minor transgression of situational awareness, even if the circumstances are assuredly unforgiving ones.

In the radio audio, the pilot clearly states that he's noticing lights on what he imagines to be his runway, and asks for confirmation as to what they might be. The tower reaffirms that he's all clear. Only then does a pilot from one of the planes on the ground speak up, and complain.

At that moment, both ATC and the plane realize the error. It's arguable that the pilot anticipated a likely go-around, based on intuition that the lights he was observing were definitely other planes, and that what appears to be an extremely close call proves it's own margin of error as reasonable, given that the participants recovered from the error.
Found myself in agreement up until the concept of "semantic CSS class names". If you want semantic markup, then CSS is absolutely not the place to implement it IMHO.
Can you state a single example of a Delphy/Common Lisp/C/C++/C# user who has been sued for developing software with those languages?
You should consider https for your site.
I guess what I am proposing is not really testable. If behavior is the evidence of personality, maybe personality is always just a back-filled hand wavy explanation to describe the behavioral trends. I guess the reason I think that: there is evidence of that subatomic particle (personality) but it is very elusive.
I think it's more like a Moore state-machine, coupled with some invariant functions. The events come in, and they alter the internal state somewhat thereby altering future outputs elicited by similar events, but the invariant functions mean that certain things will never change over time. Of course, as with any real-world system at operational limits unpredictable behaviour can emerge.
S-tui: Stress Terminal UI
So you have a fixed specification and deadline? Sorry, that's not an excuse
I realize it's not a great option for lots of people, but the optimal solution is to choose a phone number with an area code far away from where you will ever have any legitimate contacts, and block everything from that area code.
Many people find that once they have built something to satisfy their original ambition, they enjoy growing and want to keep doing it. And some find they want to stay small and customer-focused, and some cash out and spend their days windsurfing. You can’t be sure which you will choose until you have the choice.
Java can be remarkably bloat-free if you so choose. The problem is that in most places where Java is used, it's used because of its stability, ergo that stability mentality will be pervasive and the code base will probably be huge and old.

But if you have a greenfield project and some decent Java developers, you'd be surprised what you can do with Java if you're willing to avoid the common pitfalls (J2EE, Spring).
So does that mean that Linux is obeying the TDP specs more closely than Windows [which allowed die temp to reach 97C]?
There are brokerages. I read about the codetree sale on HN a few years back (just google “codetree sale”) and signed up for the FEInternational list.
The Constitution guarantees the right to free expression. CBS's strategy is based on threats, not law. A common misconception: Stage 9 looks the same as the USS Enterprise and that matters; nope. Legally, if Stage 9 is an original work, there isn't much CBS can do to stop it other than to try to look scary w/endless litigation. With the ACLU's help Stage 9 should easily prevail.
The Perl6 VMs (Parrot, MoarVM) are register based.
Whoa... so it was around in the open since around 2013, and still not fixed? 0_0
I wonder did this research just look at the "normal range", with these kinds of instances treated as "outliers". I'd expect the results to be strongly qualified as such but these kinds of details often get lost in translation.
Predictably Irrational (book overview)
Sweden’s ads ombudsman say “distracted boyfriend” meme is gender discrimination
I was home the next day after having mine out. It sucked for a couple of days as my body absorbed the gases they pumped my body up with, but then it was fine.
No they don't?

https://www.gov.uk/foreign-travel-advice/iran
Posts like this are often put on hacker news. No one doubts that cherry-picking from hypothesis is real. The same goes for 'spinning' negative results.

However, the solution: "pre-register trials and only do what you say you are going to do" oversimplifies things a lot. Testing and rejecting your hypothesis is a very real part of doing science. But its also a scientists' job to come up with a new hypothesis that explains the data better. I think the real problem here is that writing something up and saying: "our initial hypothesis was wrong, we suggest this and this factor is at play" is not the way science is done currently.
Even in socialized medicine systems, doctors who do more stuff get paid more. 'Single Payer' usually means the government runs insurance not the doctors office. So the doctor bills more in both cases.

Both of those inscentives are maligned though - the doctor should do 'what's right'.

What's also nutbars is that there isn't a standard playbook for this stuff.

There should be specific procedural research on all of this stuff with the 'best practices' updated all the time.

There should be ongoing debate and churn around the practice, but once it's published, the doctors should all be in sync.

Doctors, like judges, have too much leeway. I think they feel that 'every case is special' and they are to some extent, however, I feel that they are playing against a statistical game and that their 'gut' is not right.

Just like airline pilots go through massive 'checklists' ... so should doctors.

I've been misdiagnosed for heart burn (doc thought it was heart palpitation) and for wound infection (was not infected, just a little red) - which is tragic because those are very common things.
I've not been there.
There's a lot of media propaganda against Iran.
But I trust much more what people that visit the country say about it.
You can read this automatic translation of "Iran - the country with the best people?"
https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=pt&tl=en&js=y&prev...
Any potential drawbacks?
There is a british embassy in Iran. https://www.gov.uk/world/organisations/uk-for-iranians
In fact the foreign office advises against all but non-essental travel for British-Iran dual nationals. For british citizens there is only a recommendation against travel to certain parts.
For many other citizens it's, arguably, even safer.
This and many other of OP's submissions are definitely interesting. But I notice all 179 of them - with possibly an exception or two - are BBC travel stories, that OP has never submitted a single comment, and that someone with the same name as OP is a deputy travel editor with the BBC.

This may all be quite in order, I just find it at a slightly odd angle to the general way of things on HN.
It's particularly challenging for people Iran might deem to have Iranian nationality (dual nationals obviously, but also people who were formerly or are eligible for Iranian citizenship but don't currently claim it), but otherwise a lot of the restrictions are more "our government doesn't like their government and wants to reduce trade", not actual safety risk to individuals. Unlike NK, Iran has generally not detained purely US persons who were on group tours. If there were some flare-up in tensions, sure, you could become a diplomatic problem, but otherwise it's probably safer than many other countries as a visitor.
You’d be surprised to learn what happened to the person who suggested it is better if the surgeons wash their hands between patients (Ignaz Semmelweis)
An introduction to swap space on Linux systems
What are these strange directories Launchpad service creates?
And the fact that after visiting, any time you want to enter the US you’re going to get given a very hard time.

I considered visiting Iran years back as it seems like an interesting place, but the potential for issues at the border made it impractical to go through with.
The link you posted exactly supports what the GP comment said. What do you think it contradicts?
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Directories created by the launchpad service in SQL ML Services when executing an external script.
So you were pirating Visual Studio?
I had my gallbladder out in 2010, three day stay as well, and while I took a few days to get back to being able to walk comfortably (this was pre-lifting so I was a scrawny weak guy generally so took longer to recover) it was still amazing how quickly you could bounce back from having an organ removed.
You could test this by looking at whether pairs of fraternal twins are as similar on personality traits as pairs of identical twins. If they are more different, then genes are the cause.
> personality is always just a back-filled hand wavy explanation

This is what Watson would have said (in a roundabout way) [0]. Perhaps it's not related but he's not considered to have been a very nice guy. [1] [2]

Skinner was a lot more fun.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_B._Watson#Behaviorism

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_B._Watson#"Little_Albert"...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_B._Watson#Advertising
On an individual basis, yes. Across a population, not necessarily.

If the false positives result in investigations that carry medical risk then it's possible that on the whole, more harm than good is done.

There's also an interesting consideration around real positives that we've never detected in the past and that never presented any symptoms or negative outcomes. It's possible that we now start detecting cases which previously the patient went their whole life without knowing about and would be totally unaffected by, and introducing medical interventions that have downsides.

How it all stacks up in the end we can't possibly know, but this development isn't automatically "good".
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maybe thats because Buzzfeed and Slate are utter garbage
Ask HN: What's a good history of technology book?
I have read a few tangential books

- The Information
- What does technology want
- Robot Mere machine to transcend mind
- Zero

and a bunch of other books in the realm, most of them are to some extent philosophical which I really enjoy.

But I am looking for a book that takes a more hardcore historical approach and kind of takes us trough
Anyone that used pirate versions to sell software and was caught doing it by the national agencies like BSA in UK.
Font + colour scheme made this article unreadable.
We did this for a project a few years ago and it was alright. In the end we decided against doing it again purely because the DOM became so extreme with one-rule classes that it became a nightmare to read the templates. So much noise.

For building things out and prototyping it was amazing though.

On the plus side our css file was so tiny.
Drop it too low and the machine may crash under heavy load, it won't (with a high degree of probability) cause any permanent issues (it's somewhat safer than over volting).
> who ditches tracking entirely

Problem is, it never stays ditched. It's always a slippery slope.

I just don't want to participate in this anymore.
"Oh god, we have a fanatical fanbase which wants to drown us in cubic miles of their disposable income, what should we ever do?"

"Find out something they like, then sue the hell out of it."
Doing transfers from France to Japan often, regular banks are scandalously slow and the slowness of their transfers prevents a lot of international possibilities IMO. I started accepting bitcoins as an alternate payment method.
Doctor: in your case, kills you in about 24-48 hours.

I had mine out as well. I was 19. My dad drove me to the hospital. Doc slipped his finger up my bum, said, “you have appendicitis. You need surgery. Now.” I was being operated on quickly after that. It had ruptured. So it goes.
> a lot of pop-science articles suggest that the foundations of natural sciences are so shaky that a new finding can turn them upside-down

Dark matter, Dark energy, The cosmological constant problem [1], Quantum entanglement, Quantum gravity...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosmological_constant_problem

The foundations are shaky. Of course it's an easy rhetoric tool to use by journalists, but often they are not wrong, if those claims turn out to be true.
I found the background colour a bit easier on the eyes personally. The font is a bit ugly though.
Rap video calls for whites babies to be killed
Absolutely, yes. Because if I'm searching about "free speech" I will be looking for information about how it's limited, aka: censorship.
It does not advise against all but non-essential travel to almost all of Iran for people who arent dual citizens.
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I think there's an emerging etiquette around this kind discourse that where "research" conflicts with personal experiences that attempts be made to cross-check and reconcile that. These days with all the bad science around we have to be a lot more careful about what we accept as fact.
Yes, you can :)
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Although Switzerland does have an ambassy there (In 1919, Switzerland opened a Consulate, its first diplomatic presence, in Iran.) the travel advice ((see 1))not translated to English, available in German, French and Itallian only) warns for violent clashes, risk of attacks, avoid mass events (including football matches) and demonstrations of any kind. Be generally vigilant and cautious. Follow the instructions of the local authorities.

Adapt clothing and behavior to local customs as well as religious and national sentiments. Women are subject to a strict code of conduct, failure to comply with which can lead to difficulties with the police, including arrest.

1: https://www.eda.admin.ch/countries/iran/en/home/travel-advic...
I am specifically interested in an example that shows C and C++ users were sued. Please do.
This seems to misunderstand the basics of why we have CSS in the first place, to separate "how something appears" from "what something is", and suggests to mix the two.

The obvious result is that you would end up with similar objects with different styles. A button with "main" role should have a consistent style across instances, not be green in one place and grey in another because you forgot to add the "green" class. Also changing the color of "main" buttons from green to blue should not entail changing each usage of the "green" class to a usage of a "blue" class.
It doesn't seem to me that the author defends semantic class names
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Check this GitHub issue on SwarmKit for more info: https://github.com/docker/swarmkit/issues/2665
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Windows? The MT RouterOS web interface works very well in both Chromium and Firefox on Linux for me.
There's been lots of these twin studies. Most of what we know about genetic influences has been determined this way.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twin_study
The title on HN is misleading by truncating the word "Support" from the original.

Oracle remains the driving organization behind Java and OpenJDK. The change that has everyone up in arms is the cessation of Oracle support for updates to OpenJDK versions 6 months after release (no long-term support/updates of OpenJDK releases)
http://humancond.org/papers/turkheimer00_three_laws_behavior...

The author proposes three laws of behavioral genetics which summarize results across a wide range of behaviors:

All human behavioral traits are heritable.
The effect of being raised in the same family is smaller than the effect of genes.
A substantial portion of the variation in complex human behavioral traits is not accounted for by the effects of genes or families.
Here we go, another HN comment that is quick to insult and dismiss someone else in order to feel smug. If you took as much time to read their comment as you took to insult them, you'd know that they majored in economics, they didn't just take 1 class.
Bridge Crew is basically just a really pretty, licensed version of Artemis (https://store.steampowered.com/app/247350/Artemis_Spaceship_...)
> Given that siblings are often so different between each other

But most identical twins are not so different from each other. Read up on twin studies, where twins were separated at birth. They tend to have very similar personalities and outlooks on life, despite never having had contact until the study was conducted.
Been there specifically few years ago, alone, after climbing Mont Damavand I had some extra days without prior planning, ended up visiting Isfahan and Yazd with some sunset on nearby sand dunes.

Extremely friendly people, all spoke at least basic english, even signs were dual (farsi/english). You can't get much more safe in middle east these days.

Yazd is most important place for zoroastrianism, probably first major monotheistic religion (they have fire burning there for few millenia, and some now-unused towers of silence for scavengers 'burial').

Overall, fascinating place to visit, untouched by mass tourism. Wandering randomly through central maze of mud brick streets, brings some good memories. Just brace yourself for some serious heat during summer, albeit air is very dry which helps (unlike south Iran which is supposedly brutal due to humidity).

The only annoying thing - you probably won't get US visa easily with same passport (with another one for same person there is no issue)
So the score is just the number of people who voted for it? If so then it probably just means that more people are familiar with DDG than Searx, for instance.