skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Charities work with the premise of preventing suffering, but most developed countries can point to a "great suffering" that made them quickly turn their shit around, akin to an addict hitting rock bottom. I would liken charity in Africa to the enabler who always features in morbidly obese people's lives, constantly bringing the person food out of a misplaced sense of love, where perhaps the truly loving thing to do would be to let the person hit rock bottom and change themselves."

Coming back from rock bottom isn't something I would read into the history of developed countries. And I don't know what rock bottom is, it seems like things can get unacceptably bad, and stay that way. Is famine rock bottom? Genocide? Child armies? The hole is too deep, you don't want to go there.

A cycle of incremental improvement from within seems like a better bet. But some of the critique remains: external support does not build up self-directed incremental improvement.

Where in Africa are things going well? Where have people found and created their own prosperity? Their own stable, peaceful civic structures? I entirely believe these places exist! But I have no idea where, because all the discussion is about what's going wrong, and the focus is on where things are the worst. But the answers aren't there. And I think you are right, charity can feed the dysfunction.
Roundabouts are simple to navigate. You simply go around them.
Even those passive cooling systems need a intact medium cycle or rely again on pumps for replacing the medium.
You need a thorium salt reactor for real passive safety.
I wonder how much this is a result of the distribution of minorities in Islamic and Christian territories, respectively. The Ottomans conquered huge swaths of predominately-Christian eastern Europe, so perhaps they were disinclined to crash the economy (their tax base) by _extreme_ persecution, so they settled for a more mild form. There isn't an analog in Christian territories.
Does anyone know of a study that finds an actual placebo effect?

As far as I can tell, there are two distinct effects, and both are meaningless. The first "placebo effect" is observed everywhere, and is simply reversion to the mean. Nobody studies a treatment on healthy people, because treating people for a condition they don't have makes for a very expensive study. But some of those people get better spontaneously, and some weren't even sick, but had the right symptoms. Their improvement without actually being treated was originally called the placebo effect.

The other "placebo effect" is the one where treatment with a placebo (preferable an expensive placebo labelled "forte" and administered by the chief of medicine) is more effective than no treatment. But that effect only happens where the only way to measure the outcome is by asking the patient. A human is a very unreliable instrument. A human may report that the irritable bowel is gone because he doesn't take the symptoms as seriously anymore after the treatment, or maybe because he just wanted attention and there had never been an irritable bowel.

So, does anyone know of a study that finds a placebo effect that isn't explained by "bad instrument" aka. self reporting?
Visualizing AWS Storage with Real-Time Latency Spectrogram
This book was so effective on changing my views about placebo effect. I very much recommend it.
Ask HN: API Wrapper Ideas?
I'm learning some newer languages like Rust and Go.

In order to practice using it, I'm thinking about going with building API wrappers around those languages.

Are there any APIs that people use and need wrappers for Rust and Go?
VBM and compulsory voting is basically the only way to get turnout > 90%. You can try to get people fired up about elections, but we're well past diminishing returns on that front. You can try to lower barriers to voting, but even in states like Oregon with auto-registration and VBM it's still lower than 70%.

If you look at any place with > 90% turnout, they have compulsory voting. And once you have that you have a strong impetus to make voting as easy as possible, so you get stuff like holidays, VBM, early voting, etc. The fixes are obvious, simple, and they'll save money; Republicans just want turnout to stay low so we won't get them. End of story.
There is configuration though. Pretty much any map app has a place you can switch between map/satellite/other views. And toggle overlays for traffic and other things. Stick a slider in there if you must hide your shame at not being able to make your tool all things to all people, this is where you’ve already admitted that people have different needs.
> There's no falsification mechanism in psychology...

This is simply ignorant and untrue.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Experimental_psychology
In some ways this applies to everything we do that we think might be helpful. Sure we could get patients to loose weight by locking them up and only feeding them 1300 calories of veggies, but for some obvious reasons that isn't really an option. We can encourage them to take medications, but they still have to take them.

Atul Gawande talks about how much we have discovered in medicine in the last century, but that the next century is going to be about how to effectively implement that knowledge to help people. This applies to both the first world and to the developing world, though the challenges in both are different.

(also we probably wont stop discovering new treatments that we will them have to deploy...)
From the ICO Report:

>> During the course of our investigation, we obtained information that the Liberal Democrats had sold the personal data of its party members to BSiE [Britain Stronger in Europe] for approximately £100,000.

>>Both the Liberal Democrats and Open Britain denied that party members’ personal data had been sold. Instead, both confirmed that the In Campaign bought Electoral Register information from the Liberal Democrats.

>>We are still looking at how the Remain side of the referendum campaign handled personal data, including the electoral roll, and will be considering whether there are any breaches of data protection or electoral law requiring further action.
No, Illustrator is a vector drawing program. Inkscape or Corel Draw (if people even remember that) are direct competitors.

Krita has to to be compared to Photoshop because both are working on rasterized images. While Krita emphasizes drawing tools in its UI while Photoshop exposes manipulation tools more prominently, both programs aim to cover both sets of features. And Krita's core is actually much, much more advanced than what you would expect from a drawing program. I would actually love to see a UI for Krita that focuses more on manipulation, just to placate the "it's just for drawing" crowd.
For everyone else who may be similarly confused as I, due to associating this with Golang or the direction of a startup: take this title literally.

Subtitle is "Neuroscientists discover a mechanism for brain-wide communication when selecting a route toward a destination."
They say Stuxnet featured nothing very new or technological but I don’t recall anything else infecting PLC’s and using ambient temperature sensors to define behavior. That is just one techno. aspect I found original. The fact that this wasn’t anything new to Symantec researchers is kinda frightening of itself.
I thought it was pretty blatant TBH.
Then people would create browser plugins or greasemonkey scripts to always optimise for things the viewer cares about (time to start, likelihood of switching providers mid-stream, likelihood of getting full resolution for the longest subset of the video, ...) and disregard the prioritisation set by the provider (which might care about costs, which depend on contracted minimums, overage tariffs etc.).

Then providers would need to combat this by dropping the most expensive CDNs, causing a race to the bottom in which everyone loses: users have worse streaming experience, providers lose customers, good CDNs make less money, margins for bad CDNs are squeezed.
Wow.. so the body somehow chemically "flagged" the salt water as morphine? That's bizarre.
it is a huge waste of energy
Maybe you aren't the intended audience? Did you even read the article? It's clearly pitched towards researchers and people testing their software on RISC-V
Marijuana used to be illegal for safety concerns. Now thanks for the ability of people to break incorrect laws it's slowly becoming more and more legal.
Just curious, why do Americans always talk about making it a holiday, wouldn't moving it to a sunday create similar effect, while being much simpler? This is how we do it here in Poland.
https://avogadrocorp.com/ immediately came to mind:

> David Ryan is the designer of ELOPe, an email language optimization program, that if successful, will make his career. But when the project is suddenly in danger of being canceled, David embeds a hidden directive in the software accidentally creating a runaway artificial intelligence.
A possible explanation could be that the body gets the "hint" that morphine blocks pain, and starts to make its own; then when you administer the morphine blocker, it doesn't react with salt water but with the body's morphine (or equivalent).
Sunday does free up another set of large buildings that are often even government owned - schools.

A lot of polling stations in Europe are schools for that reason.
I think there are lots of Newfoundlanders on HN ;-) Your app sounds interesting, many people only seem to be aware of the ceremonies at Christian's.
Vermont, Alaska, Hawaii, and Maine have banned billboards altogether, and I hope more follow their lead.
Why Do Women Earn Less Than Men? Evidence from Bus and Train Operators
Have you seen California's ballot (they have a lot of referendums)? It's like half an inch thick. Almost no one has time for direct democracy, and even if you do have time to go through the ballot carefully, you're still underinformed on basically all the issues unless you spend days researching. And this is for relatively wealthy, educated people -- imagine all the (majority of) Americans making < $50k a year, many with multiple jobs, many with children or elderly relatives, many with health issues, having to stay informed on the finer points of ethanol refining or what have you. Direct democracy is a super bad idea.
Yes that would be great. Imagine a git-like web, where browsers could fetch the difference in chunks of a cached file when there's changes on the server side.
“There’s a reason you separate the military and the police. One fights the enemy of the state, the other serves and protects the people. When the military becomes both, then the enemies of the state tend to become the people.”
Busy snoring? They were prosecuting Bill Clinton. So he was very distracted. The kill order for Bin Laden just sat on his desk.
off topic: the cookie banner is completely hiding the navbar/logo/navigation.
except when it is selling dangerous levels of poison:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/brucelee/2017/01/28/fda-toxic-b...
> I can't tell you how _not_ offended I am. Just take my word for the fact that I couldn't really give a shit, I'm here to have my world view opened up not force my opinions down anyones throats.. unless it comes to systemd. I get offended by systemd.

This is an extremely normal thing for a person who is not mad and not offended to write. Your self-imposed nihilistic stoicism is cracking.

You're mad because you don't find my tone sufficiently deferential. I don't mind.

I my estimation, my mistake was engaging you further at all. You basically admitted to rules violation for downvotes and then defended it as saying, "You were not sufficiently receptive to my backhanded agreement."

But that's an unreasonable expectation. I don't expect you to understand why that is. Just like I don't expect you to understand what usecases systemd is actually dramatically superior for.

In the interests of the integrity of this forum and in not wasting our time further, I'm going to use a user script I have to block further posts by you for 3 months. Perhaps next time we engage each other it'll be over less of a life-or-death issue, and I can approach it with an attitude you find less frustrating. Thank you for your time, all the same.
Huh, the only ads I really notice these days are the ones were amazon tries desperately to sell me a something 15 minutes after I purchase that thing.
So, is "magnetic paint" actually a thing, or do we need drywall with Faraday cages?
To be honest, it's not about what people value. It's about what we have in practice. There hasn't been a war between EU countries for a while now, and that's something that I appreciate, given our history. Sure, you could argue that nuclear dissuasion is the reason why, but we don't even have any kind of cold war going on either, and I think the EU is to thank for that.

What's really good is that this creates a system where it's not only nonexistent, but it's also not even possible at all. It's like what Typescript/a linter does to Javascript: the EU greatly discourages entire classes of problems threatening the life/well-being of its citizens.

The leverage against foreign countries is a real pragmatic thing, though, not some ideology. Why else do you think Trump celebrated Brexit, and actively tries to break up different unions that we've spent years building, like NATO? I'm not saying that he's the devil, even though I'm not a big fan, but I understand that he's doing it to have his way with less opposition. Divide and conquer?
there are small businesses like day care center, restaurant, motel. They need customization and can’t afford engineering
> Sorry, I'm not communicating clearly.

Indeed not.

> there is an undecidable infinite set of correct answers

The term "undecidable set" has a technical meaning, which I'm pretty sure is not what you intended here. The technical meaning of "an undecidable set" is a set for which the question of whether a given thing is a member of the set is undecidable. So, for example, the set of all halting TM programs is an undecidable set.

But the set you are specifying here is not a set of programs, it is (you say) a set of answers. Answers to what? I presume you mean "answers to the halting problem". But what does that mean? There are only two "answers to the halting problem": HALT and RUN-FOREVER, and that's a finite set with two elements. Your set is "infinite" so that's obviously not what you meant.

Maybe you meant a set of ordered pairs consisting of a program P and an element of { HALT, RUN-FOREVER } corresponding to whether P halts or runs forever, where the ordered pair is a member of the "correct" set only if P halts if the second element of the pair is HALT, or if P runs forever if the second element of the pair is RUN-FOREVER. You didn't actually specify it, but I presume you want a given P to appear either in the "correct" set or the "arbitrary" set but not both, so the membership condition in "correct" has to be "only if" and not "if and only if". You also didn't specify whether a pair (P, HALT) and (P, RUN-FOREVER) can both appear in the "arbitrary" set, though I presume the answer to that is "no".

So what about the other direction? Your "arbitrary" set also includes some pairs that meet the criterion for membership in the "correct" set (an infinite number, actually, by your own stipulation). So what determines what goes into the "correct" set and what goes into the "arbitrary" set?

But all of this is still missing the main point: what makes a partial oracle interesting is not that it's allowed to be wrong -- it isn't. It's that it is allowed to give "I don't know" as an answer.

It is actually possibly to define a coherent concept of an oracle that is allowed to be wrong, but these are not called "partial oracles", they are "probabilistic oracles". There's a whole field of study of algorithms that act like probabilistic oracles, called "probably approximately correct" or PAC. There are also "random oracles" which are kind of like probabilistic oracles, and which are useful in cryptography. But that's not what is under discussion here.
I think there are a few distinct ideas to look at here:

1. Historical hubris of "authorities" : This isn't unique to psychology-- authorities in religion, philosophy, medicine have long declared the most absurd things with no observational basis (e.g. 4 humors).

2. Attempt to quantify people in general (personality being one dimension of this). Certainly mass measurement is useful sometimes - e.g. changes in baby birth-weights. However measurement can also be a tool for unjust reductionism.

3. The woeful oversimplicity of "personality research." The most respected model only has 5 attributes. Certainly there are many personality traits beyond just 5.
Any truth to the theory that the banned refrigerants were about to lose patent protection while the "better" ones still had plenty of years left on their patent?
- The lower-level the category the more customers want support on it.

- The more you can commoditize the layers below you, the more the market likes it. Red Hat does this for servers.

- The lower-level the category the more the market actually “wants” it standardized in order to minimize entropy. This is why low-level infrastructure categories become natural monopolies or oligopolies.

source: https://kellblog.com/2014/11/18/it-aint-easy-making-money-in...
Existence of VC money is irrelevant to 'bootstrapping'. Taking VC money is sort of the opposite of bootstrapping.
Great job building a product people use!

I was curious that given its an JS/Client side app, do you have any plans of porting it to Electron[0] to make it a cross platform app?

The reason I'm asking is coz editing my photos online makes me a bit nervous. For you the benefit may be that you don't have to test for different browsers and handle the compatibility nightmare.

0: https://electronjs.org/
https://gene.meports.com/upload?office=39120b88-e2a9-11e8-9a...

This should tell you if you have the COMT gene and what variant

Sample report: https://gene.meports.com/report/8d489a74-0a02-410e-a278-8238...
I was thinking of genes that are components of signalling pathways that regulate the expression of other genes while a particular condition holds true
looks like a great alternative to photoshop
if you're using AWS then you can check AWS Glue https://aws.amazon.com/glue/

Apache Spark is another option https://databricks.com/session/building-robust-etl-pipelines...
Do people generally know about this option? Nov 6 date was advertised everywhere.
Rumor is that official, cross-platform declarative layouts are coming to iOS from Apple [0].

[0] - https://daringfireball.net/2018/04/scuttlebutt_regarding_ui_...
Doesn't work for streaming Live Events (pay per view), which is the main use case for multi-CDN
Is there some way for us to administer a mind-altering drug that induces suggestibility and alter the way we think about our diseases as a way to combat them?
I think that's just hiding the internals of the non-physical part of us from view, but it doesn't change anything. I already addressed the status of non-material components of a person in my post - if they are part of the person then they are part of their state. Whether you can 'see into' that state or not doesn't make any difference to the fact that it's still part of you and still a precondition of and an input into your decisions. They may be the outcome of nothing in 'this universe' (ridiculous concept, what does universe even mean if the definition isn't, well, universal?), but they are still the outcome of something in 'a' universe and that something has state.

Even randomness or the appearance of it doesn't make any difference. A person's state might very well include a source of randomness, in fact it almost certainly does. See my comments on this elsewhere in the thread.
I attempted to vote in the wrong county. My buddy attempted to vote in the wrong district within his county. Luckily I am a telecommute worker with relaxed hours. He on the other hand was debating whether he should return to work or risk being late.

The reasoning for such extremely strict geographic restrictions, I am unsure of, but surely it would also argue against mail-in ballots (and I would assume smartphone voting).

Side question: How are people temporarily living in distant areas from their registered county (working, attending school, etc) able to vote? I'm sure there's a large handful of people in this situation unable to cast their vote.
Remember: "today is the first day of the rest of your life".

The fact that the rest of one's life is "short" compared to someone else's does not mean that it's less subjectively meaningful.
Information Hazards – when sharing truths causes harm [pdf]
ArtChain had that bug, it was trivially discoverable with automated scanners, someone told them about it, and they did _worse_ than ignoring the report -- so yes, I agree, your example is really more of a counterexample :-D
Existence of easy seed and pre-series-A funding nowadays means people don't even try to bootstrap with 50k in personal 20% APR debt. Similarly in 1998, 1999, a lot of wild dreamers with harebrained ideas got VC money pretty easily after a few PowerPoints and some bullshitting.
Speaking as a lead developer of a leading FR system, in the majority of cases, the FR user is a private organization with large public traffic: department stores, malls, schools, universities, stadiums, and yes: municipalities (cities). The majority of the purpose clients use FR: 1) commercial users such as stores and malls have serious problems with organized theft; 2) schools, universities, stadiums and municipalities use them for public safety, the people in their galleries are people who have made actual threats and active fugitives; The use of FR by police is very infrequent, as they simply (sad to say) don't seem to have access to technical competence to actually use the systems. And then there is the glaring fact that when deployed, the majority of FR systems they go unused simply because understanding how to use the FR system requires more time than anyone there has. Some "integrator" installs with a weak understanding of their purpose, and then it collects dust.
It goes both ways, right? The body can create issues that cause chemical problems in the brain.
The fact that you commented against a proposal made by a parent made me believe that you were in agreement with it. Sorry!
Loads of people do that now. I bet many restaurants/food trucks etc got started with credit card debt.
I didn't know that, thank you. Learned something new today. Still all very nice people.

-Signed, an embarrassed central Canadian
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