skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Alex Jones purposefully tells harmful lies to vulnerable people in order to get them to distrust the institutions

He tells his share of lies. But he also tells his share of truth. No different than any other "news" organization. If he is telling lies, then point it out, debate them. Don't censor them. If lying is grounds for censorship, then every newspaper needs to be shutdown. They all lie or fabricate from time to time. Did we forget about the iraq war and the media lies that allowed it to happen? Or brian williams or the recent florence weather channel farce?

> around them so he can sell them harmful junk

How is that any different than CNN showing pharmaceuticals ad on their network to their vulnerable elderly viewership? Or news putting gambling ads? Should MSNBC or Foxnews be banned because they have soda or potato chip ads? I'd say alex jones is responsible for a minuscule amount of the harmful junk in this country compared to the mainstream media.

> And he didn't even get censored, he got kicked off some platforms like twitter.

That's called censorship.

> To compare him to an actual victim of censorship who was trying to get the truth out is an example of bothsidesm that is attempting to masquerade as rational thought.

He is a victim of censorship. You may support him being censored, but to say he wasn't censored is an outright lie. You can censor people telling truth and people telling lies. It's both censorship.

My god stop watching so much CNN. It's great that you distrust alex jones. Everyone should. But everyone should distrust all media personalities. Skepticism is a very healthy part of citizenship and democracy. And censorship is evil in a democracy. Nothing more harmful than censorship and the people who support it for their political agenda. Nazis, fascists, communists and all extremists love censorship for a reason. Democracies love free speech for a reason.
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Because grad students need to publish papers.
It's really interesting to see $100M+ exits that have resulted in trivial sums for founders and early employees after multiple rounds of dilution and/or VCs with preferred shares taking home the spoils.

I have always optimised for salary although I can see why a young engineer with no dependants might opt for the gamble of a big payday instead, likely without really understanding their true chances.

Too much industry focus is heaped on 'unicorns' when these kind of companies really are a drop in the ocean.
could also be that your gut microbes are emitting toxins which affect the whole body.
To add an anecdote, when I was a teenager I was on varsity track which meant 8 mile warm up runs, followed by 2 hours of practice, with 1 hour of weights afterwards.

Then I would head over to theatre which gave to more hours of backstage construction work.

Despite all that 'exercise', I still stayed up till 1am at a minimum, and sometimes didn't fall asleep till 3am.

So anecdotally, what worked for you, didn't work for me as a teenager.
Have you had physical therapy?

Do you engage in regular exercise that stretches and strengthens your hands, wrists, and forearms?
Across the entire animal kingdom? I'm no expert, but that seems obviously to not be the case.

Edit:

Just look at our close relative the Bonobo for an interesting example of what human sexuality might have looked like in the past:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonobo#Sociosexual_behaviour
Agreed, seems like a nice theory but without sources of any kind I could come up with another ten such plausible theories
In [7]: round(2.575, 2)
Out[7]: 2.58

Umm?
It’s not necessarily that they become failures but rather that they are being deprived of the mental capacity to reach their full potential every day.

They would be more successful if they got more sleep, so it makes sense to give teens a couple more hours to benefit society as a whole, even if only marginally.
This isn't one C object spanning two symbols - it's two C objects, and reading one object from a pointer to another object.
My 15 year old son has had incredible difficulty going to sleep at a reasonable hour until recently when he started running with me. Now his problem seems to be gone. Go figure.

Teenagers are near their peak physical capability, yet most get very little physical activity.
And a NPR Planet Money episode: https://www.npr.org/2018/03/22/595967382/why-the-graphing-ca...
They give their children story books with pictures of a tyrannosaur trying to dog-paddle with its pathetic little forearms, while the ark sails away in the distance (because that's why they don't exist no more).

Source: my childhood.
IIRC there was a study on octopuses which blinded newborns and the blinded newborns could not change their color/patterns to match their background, the blind octopuses did what appeared to be random color/patterns so they do need their eyes for something in the process even if its just training. Also the recent Atlantic article talked about too high a MDMA does caused the colors/patterns to go haywire.
The incentive structure in "science" is completely fucked, and it's a well-known dirty secret.

Of course there is great research being done. The problem is that the cognitive load of evaluating which research is useful has been shifted to the end "consumers" of that research.
It says so;

Dölen designed an experiment with three connected water chambers: one empty, one with a plastic action figure under a cage and one with a female or male laboratory-bred octopus under a cage.

Four male and female octopuses were exposed to MDMA by putting them into a beaker containing a liquefied version of the drug, which is absorbed by the octopuses through their gills. Then, they were placed in the experimental chambers for 30 minutes. All four tended to spend more time in the chamber where a male octopus was caged than the other two chambers.

"It's not just quantitatively more time, but qualitative. They tended to hug the cage and put their mouth parts on the cage," says Dölen. "This is very similar to how humans react to MDMA; they touch each other frequently."

Under normal conditions, without MDMA, five male and female octopuses avoided only male, caged octopuses.

Personally, I think they should extend the experiment to see what effect a stack of underwater transducers emitting a structured arrangement of audio signals combined with rapidly changing patterns of lighting, would have on the octopus behaviour.
Satellite delivered internet gives you the internet of the country where the ground station lives. There are some companies trying to push a global coverage satellite internet vision, I don't find the current push very promising, but it's possible.

China, Russia, or the US probably have the clout to demand a global service not operate above it, but Turkey, Libya, Egypt probably can't.
I feel that the culture has shifted from merely partying, to getting blackout drunk as quickly as possible.
I have definitely also noticed strange gut reactions as I endure the flashing-lights beginning stage of my migraines. I always attributed it to “nervousness/butterflies”.
Here’s an interesting series of articles on Risks to the Public by the ACM Special Interest Group for Software Engineering: https://dl.acm.org/results.cfm?query=Risks+to+the+public&Go....
What happened when Boston Public Schools tried for equity with an algorithm
Does it run Doom and Pokemon like its TI competitors?
> It's really interesting to see $100M+ exits that have resulted in trivial sums for founders and early employees after multiple rounds of dilution and/or VCs with preferred shares taking home the spoils.

My unscientific impression is that in 9 figure exits the founders typically do make money, because they typically retain enough equity even after significant dilution.

However, I have heard of high 9 figure exits in which nobody but the founders and VCs made any significant money.
> - Less verbose than HTML / JSX, resulting in smaller file sizes

I always wondered: if you use reasonable compression (what is reasonably expected to be provided by CDNs these days? brotli? I'm so out of the loop..), if you use this, how much does file size actually matter? Isn't it about entropy, rather than size? Say, if every HTML tag required 136 <'s to open, and 136 > characters to close. How would it actually affect different compression algorithms?

My intuition says that we're all on this wild goose chase for smaller file size while it may (should) not matter at all.

For example, I took Wikipedia's page on entropy and replaced each < by 136*<, same for >. I bring you the file sizes for different algorithms:

normal	crazy	% larger
raw 423953	3470903	718 %
Gzip -9 78897	134319	70 %
Bzip2 -9 64286	64441	0.24 % (!)

I don't know what compression algo is de rigeur these days, and 136 <s is obviously not the same as substituting double tags for sexprs. Still, I hope we can put this file size boondoggle in the perspective of entropy one day, instead of just mindlessly chasing the character count dragon.

EDIT: turns out you can convert HTML to pseudo sexprs with some regex. here are more realistic numbers:

sgml	sexpr	% diff
raw 423953	403777	-4.8 %
Gzip -9 78897	76936	-2.5 %
Bzip2 -9 64286	63590	-1.1 %

Less radical, but still following the trend.
Right. I think the appeal was not letting the photographer out of the group picture, quite the polite reaction if you ask me.
Yeah, speaking out against total censorship [1] and AI drone programs [2] is "shallow and negative". Have you not been following the Google political & moral blunders lately?

Work shouldn't be private governments, work shouldn't be authoritarian. Workers do the work, they deserve a say -- not just the shareholders.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/16/technology/google-employe...

[2] https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2018/05/google-employees-res...
> Personally I still think that we've just scratched the surface of the laws of the universe and it's not impossible that we'll have another wave of theories that will make our current understanding of physics seem hopelessly outdated by the end of the century.

I hope that this the case, otherwise humanity will die on this planet. If there are no new physics then there is no faster-than-light travel and escaping earth will be pretty much impossible.
People with health problems are told by their doctors to stop drinking alcohol.

From TFA:

"An analysis from 2007 by an international group of alcohol epidemiologists and addiction researchers, published in Annals of Epidemiology, notes that “as people progress into late middle and old age, their consumption of alcohol declines in tandem with ill health, frailty, dementia, and/or use of medications.” That decline means that, as people become less well—even if they’re not elderly—they will also tend to stop drinking."
Very clever young man, but it's turtles all the way down!
The current crop of leaders grew up through the 1960s and 1970s, and seem absolutely determined to prevent that era from ever happening again.
I think it's an issue with studies funded by someone that has an interest in a certain result, and also a media that is happy to publish a story that is nearly written for them.
Bingo: seems political, and not a pressing business concern.
>More seriously, the amount of security theater going on at airports is getting out of hand.

it has always been out of hand. most of the security theater actually increases the threat surface of transit, making it easier for anyone with malicious intent to kill many people.

the fact that we have not seen attacks is proof that the terrorism threat is very far overblown... and yet the government needs no more excuses. they have their foot in the door.

welcome to our surveillance dystopia, HN -- you built it even when we warned you this would happen. predictably, nobody will volunteer to clean up the mess they have made.
I like how they’ve compared ML clusters to US cities. Fundamentally, it’s still a continuous distribution between the five variables with four “hot spots”.

>>>Revelle likened the types to the location and population of cities. More people live in New York, Chicago, Los Angeles and Houston than anywhere else in the country, but most of the country doesn’t live in any of those cities. And although you can easily lump someone in Newark into New York, a person in Pittsburgh is harder to classify because they are equally close to New York and Chicago.
Social media hate crimes could lead to six years in jail
I'd be all for that, as long as there were negative penalties as well. E.g. Disturbing class = no points. Failing homework = no points. Failing test = losing all accumulated points. Failing end of year exams for the subject = lose all money for that subject. I.e. Attendance is only part of the equation, actually fostering learning/growth is what you really want, even if it's semi-artificial. Otherwise you're just making another perverse incentive for kids to keep their butts in the seat and not really engage.

And then further on, only give the money back in the subsequent year, month to month. Make it a long-term commitment with a pay-off.
Right, I mis-summarized the article. A more accurate summary would be: non-drinkers are more likely to have pre-existing health problems than light-moderate drinkers.
> easier for teenagers to socialize among themselves without adult disturbance

We've also disrupted this with younger kids. They never really get to play without adults in the mix.

I think this is actually one of the reasons why Minecraft was so successful, especially with kids. It gave them a way to explore the wilderness (also rare these days) and a way to interact without adult supervision. They got to be masters of their domain and learn how to cooperate and resolve disputes among themselves.
I don't think the concept of what a bifurcated/multiple internets is has really been clarified.

China's internet is the most split, but it is still technically connected and operates on a blacklist system.

I think what we're really seeing is a reenvisioning of where an internet services is considered to be operating, and governments are saying that, even if your servers are in the US, you may be considered to be operating in the EU, which is new, but also doesn't imply that we're going to cut the cables, because governments are usually ok with post-hoc enforcement efforts, rather than preventative measure. This could change if people try to undermine the laws.

As with many things on the world stage, the results will depend on how powerful each negotiating entity is. Russia has it's own search engine and could probably just turn off Google, etc. Turkey not so much; they don't need to roll over and take what Google provides, but they could find themselves aligning with Chinese or Russian service providers if Google refuses to do what they want. So I think this sort of power blocks model is more likely than a national borders model in any case.
“Rainbow” weevil could hold the secret to generating nature’s colors in the lab
> Campus lore has it that Senior House residents used to burn kittens in the house furnace.

Ok, I'll bite...

Let's say I sent a message to some FSF/Gnu info mailing list that reads, "Hi. Someone on HN has said that the AGPL is a viral license and can end up infecting non-AGPL-licensed software running on the same machine. I've never heard this before. Is this true?"

Past experience tells me that someone at FSF/Gnu sends me back an email either full of relevant information, or with relevant and helpful links where I can read valuable information.

And I don't hold FSF/Gnu to be some bastion of social grace.

Now, let's say I walked into Senior House after hearing this myth, and I say, "Hi. Someone on campus is saying that Senior House used to burn kittens in the furnace. Is this true?"

What would have been the likely response to me in this case? A social response with relevant and useful information like Gnu/FSF, or an anti-social response?
Popular science. It answers its own question in the name of the publication.

Not the best way to get your ad revenue up.
Sorry, I just copied from my phone, I didn’t notice. Now I can’t edit the URL :/
Oh my God, this is a horrible mess!

Others have already addressed the incorrectly implemented algorithms, so let me instead point out that there is an ebook about prehistoric humans in the “ciphers” folder: https://github.com/TheAlgorithms/Python/blob/master/ciphers/...

(Robert J. Braidwood - Prehistoric Men)
Also: there is a huge range of “alternative” medical practices. Some are straight up quackery, while others are actually interested in science but aren’t following the standard party line.

It’s why I put alternative in scare quotes.
>correlation without any strongly proven causality

How would one really prove causality or does it even matter. When I think of science, I try to think of it like how I think of physics, where we create a model that best describes the evidence but which doesn't have any guarantee of being how things really work.

Take Newtonian gravity. It is a pretty good model that describes a lot of basic interactions. Given a state at a given moment in time, it lets us determine things going forward or backwards (though for more complex physics, backwards stops working because of assumptions and estimates in the model). But at the same time, it is wrong. More complex physics shows there is a model that fits even more experimental data which contradicts what we thought was happening in the Newtonian model. Mass doesn't attract mass. Mass bends space time and impacts objects traveling through it in such a way that it appears mass attracts mass (though even this may end up being wrong and something else entirely is at play).

So, is it really important to describe why a ball falls to the ground when I release it, or is it good enough to have a system that describes the interactions enough that I can apply it to problems? If I solve a problem, say what angle and what speed I need to throw a ball to get over fence, does it really matter if I think the ball falls back to earth because mass attracts mass or because mass bends spacetime? Or is it just important for my equations to be accurate enough that any error is less than what is innate in applying the solution to real life (measuring the exact height of the fence, throwing at an exact angle).

What does applying a similar mind set in something dealing with vastly more complicated systems, such as in medicine, looks like?
> Financially, based on my experience, startups do not make any sense as an employee.

Absolutely. Also note that you are an extreme outlier for having had a 7 figure payoff.

Most people who spent their entire career in startups will be lucky to see a 6 figure payoff at any point.
Specialist manufacturing remains a very important part of the Italian economy - eg see this article about Beretta and the broader gun industry

https://www.politico.eu/interactive/in-pictures-italian-vill...
Chomsky points this out in this [1] interview.

>Incidentally, there’s an interesting book that just came out finally, says some of the obvious things about this, by a woman named Elizabeth Anderson. She’s a philosopher and an economist. It’s called Private Government or some name like that, but her point is that, which is a major point, yes, there is a government, but governments can be repressive. But most of our lives are under private government, which she says are indistinguishable from communist dictatorships.

>Any business, for example. If you subject yourself to it, you become essentially a slave of the institution with no rights, give away your liberty, and so on.

>....And when the Industrial Revolution came along, everything changed. You could only survive by being subordinate to a major corporate structure, and wage labor became the norm.

[1] https://taibbi.substack.com/p/preface-an-interview-with-noam...
After trying VR (Oculus Go) for the first time, I am convinced VR maybe the future of education.

Being able to watch something in 3D as opposed to just 2D video is like night and day.

Btw, I'm not talking about 360' videos, I'm talking about the 3D stereoscopic ones. When I watch a video in 3D, I can actually totally relate to what I am watching and it is as if I am actually there. It really helps with perception and understanding the subject.
I dunno, there's a 1000+ LOC readme there. Also updated the above link to point to it directly. It's a shame that GH is automatically displaying the readme on desktops, but not in mobile version...
"check out the big brain on brad"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hrm-rPSCIBw

I've always wondered where these images came from.

Your story reminded me of the origins of Resusci Anne.

Radiolab had an interesting story of where the "death mask" came from. It's quite interesting if you have the time.

https://www.wnycstudios.org/story/172693-death-mask
Three Ordained and Signs from God about Relationships
The vagus nerve is know for a long time, what exactly is new?
embedded.fm recently had a great episode with the guy who hacked TI calculator protections. Apparently they could brute-force the keys required to build custom ROMs.

https://www.embedded.fm/episodes/259
If requiring identification to the airport "third-party" is part of the terms agreed to by both parties prior to the sale, then I see no problem with it as no force is necessary and everything is done according to what you agreed to initially. Don't want to do that? Fine, don't agree to the sale and then consequently don't fly. That's how it would work if all these entities were fully free-market and not a semi-right granted by government.

Further, it's not "by force" if it's a pre-requisite for being on private property, which would be the proper analogy if you want to discuss this in an AnCap context.
The real question is if this is meaningful stock ownership or not. If it's meaningful ownership, then the company needs to do the public disclosure. Otherwise it's very hard for the stockholders to have the right information to value the stock.

I think you could do the disclosures, not have a public offering, include restrictive covenants on sales, and be able to give shares away.
I don't think my point is clear so let me restate it. 75% is a majority of people. 75% of people aren't deficient in some way, as far as I know, staying up all night as teens and living a life didn't make them maladjusted or deprived in some sense. Moreover, I don't know or feel like there is evidence that high performers in society sleep more than anyone else.

The whole "sleep more" mantra feels like the "eat less fat" mantra of the 90s which turned out to be not only false but detrimental to public health as fat became replaced by sugar.
It didn’t require zero lines of code. It required a huge amount of backend code to set up the abstraction and make lots of built-in types that adhere to the abstraction. And in cases when the abstraction fails to offer the exact type of extensibility needed (which is most of the time unless you’re authoring yet another highly abstracted library that can tie its use cases to that underlying abstraction, which is never in practice), then it was wasted effort, and “no overhead” is a false description, because you still have to dig into the guts of all the stuff that gets auto-generated if you plugged into the abstraction and change the mechanism of how it gets auto-generated for your special case, or else (usually easier), just write separate data structures outside of the abstraction vortex and have a few small converters or helpers that marshal your custom data type into and out of the abstraction for the really tiny anount of auto-generated features that actually matter to the use case.

The “but it requires zero lines of code” thing is so misleading once you hit real use cases where the choices of how the abstraction auto-generates things end up being unusable for some specific situation.
China is not banning Qualcomm from selling chips in China if Qualcomm doesn’t give up its design, but simply offers a deal that Qualcomm can choose to accept or not. One may argue whether the deal is good for US economy strength, but it is still free trade.