skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Losing it? I personally doubt we had it in the first place. Just look at the rich and very not new history of scapegoating.

Blame the victim rather than admit a problem. Leprosy is a result of your sin. Smallpox however is blameless because it could happen to anyone. Lash out at the vulnerable rather than the source of the problem.

Survival bias is what leads to the perception of this lost golden era. Where all of the pioneer's children are healthy without doctors - nevermind the graves of the seven children and two other wives. We didn't have PTSD before WW1 just ignore all of the self medicating civil war veterans. This tendency isn't a moral component so much as a result of exposure and memory. Possibly a survival bias itself that remembering everything would be really bad for mental health.
This would seem to indicate that the results of drug research are unpredictable. Therefore, if you are required to predict your results, you are set up to fail.

My question is: Was the free-range research actually effective? Or, was it "technically-correct effective just so you can't call me out on a failure, moving on..."
> Telstra sold the copper network to NBN in 2014.

Yeah, hence the big cash payout. 2014 is associated with the peak share price by 1-2 years, so they might have been given a big cash infusion, share price jumps, returned it to the shareholders slowly over a couple of years because they specialise in network maintenance which is no longer a competitive advantage.

> They are still using it for FTTC, FTTN and FTTB which will make up the large bulk of the NBN rollout along with HFC which they acquired from Optus.

My parents house was connected to the NBN, their copper landline was disconnected, as was everyone on their street (they had no choice in the matter). And FTTC, FTTN and FTTB all involve ripping a lot of copper out of the ground to be replaced by fiber.
If I'm not mistaken, V1 just takes normal Node apps and wraps them in a Docker container. At least, that's how they handle deploying to platforms outside of Zeit such as AWS. V2 just makes that process explicit and normalized across all languages/frameworks
> one of the many tradeoffs that are hard to decide via objective truths.

Those tradeoffs are "hard to decide via objective truths" only because they haven't been decomposed enough. You have to dig deeper into them, split them apart, ask why do we care about something, and then ask again and again. It might get hard to keep track of the expanding tradeoff space, which is probably why people shy away from digging into things too deep. But if you do the work, you may find out that there is a way to solve the original problem in a way that satisfies everyone's low-level values.

Reminds me of essays of Bret Victor, who occasionally seems to be making a related point - a lot of policy debates quickly devolve into appeals to emotions, because we lack tools to effortlessly decompose and analyze actual problems. See e.g. http://worrydream.com/ClimateChange/#media for a good example.
Not to mention that the actual consumers of the books - the students buying them - don't have any choice in book selection.
Isn't that backwards? If most offenses are first offenses, then firing after a first offense won't help much. But if most offense are repeat, firing after the first offense would have prevented the repeat, right?
IIRC, the TCL interpreter is included in the python one. The baby analogy is pretty apt, just backwards.
Yes, the linked article is saying that researchers used to employ techniques like 'p-hacking' (among others) in order to report results that were favorable/novel. That the scientists and clinicians in charge teased the data too much.
Hm. I can already plug a USB-C to HDMI cable into my Note8.

Does it work if you do that + use Bluetooth peripherals?
> Carpet bombing and a drone strike are not in the same "solution space", its like trying to tighten your shoelaces with your hands or with a 10 ton excevator.

Oh, but they are (particularly because I'm not just including drone strikes, but smart bombs).

Wanna destroy a factory, a power-plant, a bunker, a government office?

In WW2, you'd just carpet-bomb the surrounding area and hope some bombs hit the target.

Today, you deliver a payload to a specific part of it.

Compare the bombing of Belgrade in the Balkan wars to any WW2 bombing run.

There are two discussions in place:

- How we make weapons more precise and limit collateral damage
- How we reduce the need for weapons in the first place

Both lead to a better situation than the status quo.
What are some common use cases for homelabOS?
I commented because ripgrep was specifically brought up as a counter-example to the notion "At the same time, we are seeing Rust pop up in a lot of places that used to be the exclusive domain of C." What specifically, about ripgrep, removes it from consideration as evidence that Rust programs can operate in the same domain as C?

Consider this. If instead of

> At the same time, we are seeing Rust pop up in a lot of places that used to be the exclusive domain of C. People are already re-implementing libraries, popular command line tools, etc. A lot of these implementations have clear merit in the sense that they are faster, safer to use, easier to scale, maintain, etc.

they wrote

> At the same time, we are seeing Rust pop up in a lot of places that used to be the exclusive domain of C. People are already re-implementing popular command line tools, albeit with different interfaces that lack POSIX compatibility. A lot of these implementations have clear merit in the sense that they are faster, safer to use, easier to scale, maintain, etc.

Other that the words being more precise for pedants, does the central point of the statement change? No, it doesn't.
Yeah! A lane for bikes! Why has nobody thought of that?
If the advice is good, then why shouldn't he present it confidently? Wouldn't you take it less seriously if he had a disclaimer of "i have no idea wtf i'm talking about but here are some thoughts"?
We have that still when called for - it is called rehab. Medicines fix things as well in many cases - at times far less gradual.
Seriously? You're one of those people who believes experience and wisdom solely comes with age?

But for real... does he still live at home with mom?
Having a drink in the workplace aftera day of hard work works great for morale.
Sundar Puchai's response to employee sexual harassment protests
You would have become like the friend who bought them, I guess.
Sounds like you'd be a good candidate for additional training.
Fantasy is a mental computation as well. Fantasy AI ftw!
Why would that be a reasonable response to this policy? It largely seems childish, and reactionary, in the face of a policy that is (clearly!) intended to improve the world.
> Who rob banks? Robbers. (i.e. I don't think 'Robbers robs banks' is right.)

“Robbers robs banks” is certainly wrong (it should be “Robbers rob banks”), but so is “Who rob banks?” (it should be “Who robs banks?”).
>>Deploying thousands of military troops to intercept a caravan of asylum seeking refugees? That’s yesterday’s news.

That's part and parcel to what this whole thing is about.

I'm just going to keep posting this in here.

-A major news outlet had one of their major White House reporter's press pass revoked.

-The President's press secretary cited a doctored/edited video as evidence of the behavior that resulted in this revocation while using pointedly misleading language about what most people objectively agree happened.

-The President of the United States has been on a 3 year long campaign to sew distrust in media sources he doesn't feel portray him favorably.

-The President of the United States has blatantly and openly lied about information he felt was affecting his policy making, causing many people on both sides of the aisle to distrust his ability to objectively lead the country. This interaction occurred during a press conference in which the President was again repeating blatant lie, as well as the less offensive ignoring and misdirection of unfavorable questions.

It's possible people are fighting about did he hit her (he did not. he did not hit her. Oh hi Mark) but I'm also seeing plenty of people, possibly even MORE people, discussing the implications of this behavior and attack on the 4th estate. I have opinions about who's trying to shift the conversation to the attack/not attack on the intern, but that's just speculation really.

Point is: there's plenty of useful discourse going on, and throwing up some whaddaboutism that there are bigger world issues seems unhelpful.
Hi, user here because I’m not about to let someone squat on my globally-unique username. That, and with a couple of filters, it amounts to Twitter with a nicer UX.

Go ahead and add me to the “dangerous person” list then?
(EDIT: LPT, TLDR removed) If you're approaching 35 as a male and haven't had kids yet (or have had kids and might consider more), put some reproductive tissue in cryo. There's also a paper floating around that chronic stress from fathers can be passed genetically to children (which you might be able to avoid using tissue banking) [1]. Cost is ~$1k for collection and 5 years of storage, $2k for 10 years of storage (prices are for the US based on my research).

[1] https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-dads-stresses...
Clickthroughs, presumably.

I assume that taruz is saying that journalists should be required to say what they're investigating before publishing an investigative report. Right now, they start investigating, and if there's something outrageous (even if it wasn't what they were initially looking for), they publish. Sometimes they even skip the "start investigating" part and just put up a tip-line for anyone who has a beef to get a story out there.

This is great for manufacturing outrage and hence clicks, but it gives the public a hugely skewed perspective on how the world is. Imagine that 0.01% (1 in 10,000) of all peoples' actions are outrageous and will piss off a large portion of planet. Most people, by those numbers, would say that the majority of folks are decent, law-abiding citizens. Now imagine that a news outlet is allowed to freely go over someone's life, and they end up evaluating 1000 actions. There's a 10% chance that they'll find something outrageous. Now imagine that 10 such reporters do this to 10 people, and if any one of them finds something publishable (= outrageous), they go to press. Suddenly there's a 64% chance that one of them will find something, and you've likely got your news cycle for the day.

With the millions of people looking for something bad that a tip-line can generate, outrage is virtually assured. And that's where journalism is today. The world isn't actually a worse place than it was in 1980; in fact, by most metrics it's significantly better. But we've increased the amount of unpleasantness that people can be exposed to by 3-4 orders of magnitude and then implemented a selection filter that ensures that only the worst stories go viral. Of course we get only bad news; that's all that's economically viable, and we have such a large sample size that we can surely find it.
I think it depends on how you define fun. For me personally, does a workplace need to have alcohol, video games, bowling alleys, and ping pong tables? Probably not. It does need to be interesting though. And my co-workers/team need to be enjoyable to be around, both professionally and personally. If I'm not consistently having a good time at work, which could be construed as having "fun", there's very little reason for me to stick around. Especially in the tech scene, there's always a better place to work, so it's competitively advantageous for companies to have "fun" workplaces.
That too. Not much good comes from efficiently "solving" what turns out to not be the real problem. You have to start factoring in the human element at the very top, at the level of problem discovery and definition.
Is there a hosted version of this (or similar) that persists IRC connections, with a good iOS/Android app?

I’m thinking something that can compete with Slack for usability that runs over standard IRC networks
> The environmental situation with beef is a little more complex than "less beef eaten -> fewer cows -> less methane -> less climate change."

I'm not aware of this, and would be interested in knowing more; as I understand currently, that flow really does apply.
Hybrid tracking maps VR on top IRL location for 100 users in same physical space
Yes, I would. I'm actually arguing something a bit more though, that if the future can not be perfectly predicted, people can not have an entirely free will.

I'm claiming that non-deterministic action would necessitate that we are at least partially subject to some external, truly random, processes that we don't control, and that in that case that process is what would ultimately causes our actions to be non-deterministic, not the individual themselves.

If my actions are not deterministic in the sum collection of my prior experiences/knowledge, and current perception, which at any given instant could be exactly known, then there must be an additional random source of input that is not 'me' that at least in part drives my actions, and thus such actions are not entirely driven by me and my "Free Will".

Imagine a deterministic entity, in a otherwise deterministic universe, rolling non-deterministic dice to decide it's actions. Does the non-determinism introduced by those dice make those choices more or less an act of that entity's will?
I guess they like hiring more devs to do less work.
From this other comment https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18408733 it sounds like a really nasty UI design that practically guaranteed the autopilot ending up in the wrong mode sometimes.
That gave me a chuckle.

I watched that series out of sheer boredom. It was a very strange blend of Harry Potter + Heathers + so many other movie plot tools... Seriously, you can map every character to a character from Harry Potter. They conflated Wicca, Shamanism, Satanism and Voodoism.

That said, if they continue the series, I will watch it!
> How mature is this project? For some reason (possibly just scars from years past), I'm pretty wary of IRC clients that aren't mature, due to concerns around security.

I've reviewed this from a security perspective and was pretty pleasantly surprised. It sets a sensible Content-Security-Policy, doesn't leak the Referer etc. JS is written properly to avoid introducing DOM-based cross-site scripting vulnerabilities.
The term "village" is used repeatedly. If you think that--when there's an explosion in a village--it's reasonable to assume that the only people who rush to assist are terrorists, then you need to provide proof of that, not ask me to prove the opposite. Extraordinary claims demand extraordinary evidence.
I have a s9+ and want the same. I signed up - have yet to get any more info.
I have one of these on a toilet in my new home. I was a skeptic for a bit, and finally gave it a whirl. It's remarkably effective. My wife and son now love the thing too.

The key is to use it BEFORE you apply any paper. My experience is that the paper is basically just used to dry things off now. It's life changing.
I recently purchased my first non-Mac laptop, after owning a few MacBook Pros since 2007. My most recent MBP fried its discrete graphics chip, and it just didn't really make sense to pay what Apple wants for the current confused lineup. I ended up with a Dell XPS 9370, which has turned out to be a really nice little machine. Windows takes a bit of getting used to, but even Windows isn't nearly as awful as it used to be.
and what if they still do not take the training, fire them ?
Just because the interest structure is different doesn't make it any less of a loan.

If you don't need the money, and don't even have a visible source of revenue or business plan, throwing away $2k USD + 5% revenue on the chance you might need credit someday is not the wisest of decisions.
No, it’s not. But it comes with Tkinter, since Tk is a Tcl extension.
Agreed, further:

>every significant clinical study of drugs and dietary supplements for the treatment or prevention of cardiovascular disease between 1974 and 2012

There is room for a lot of bias when selecting which studies are 'significant' and on topic. Not to mention deciding which metric to report from the study.
I don’t see how the presence of alcohol excludes others? Most places that serve alcohol are perfectly capable of serving juice.
They didn't isolate possible confounding variables, father's health and mother's health, which I guess are more important than age, and probably also heavily correlated. Also, as I understand it a lot of studies show that epigenetics has a larger effect than we previously thought. That means those two variables are even more likely to effect infant health.

edit: removed "mother's age", since they do account for that

> "“Studies have shown that advanced paternal age is associated with negative health behaviours such as smoking and frequent alcohol consumption, obesity, chronic disease, mental illness, and sub-fertility,”."

> But Eisenberg stressed that the increased risks for individuals were small. After adjusting for the mother’s age and other factors such as education and whether she smoked, he found that children born to men aged 45 and over were born less than a day earlier on average, and weighed only 20g lighter (just over half an ounce) than those with younger fathers.

It seems like there's a lot more data there that could be interesting showing how education, smoking, and age interact, but all we're not getting that out of this article.

So that leads me to wonder, what agenda does this website have by publishing this clickbait title?
I'd have to agree with this; every news outlet tries to treat a lack of proper controls as a breaking story / massive conspiracy theory to get a buzz going around the topic. I think it's important to inform people but unfortunately, most people would rather buy into the idea that there was malicious intent rather than also evaluating the possibility that, like most evolving business areas, it takes time to build in the proper procedures to attain measurably objective results. This happens in every industry and isn't unique to science, however, in this case, the physicians recommending these drugs to their patients should have been able to read between the lines or at the very least have a managed treatment plan to evaluate the efficacy on those they're treating.
> Then, in 2000, the rules changed. Researchers were required before the study started to say what they were looking for. They couldn’t just mine the data afterward looking for anything that happened to be positive. They had to report the results they said they were going to report. And guess what? Out of 21 studies, only two showed significant benefits.

Why is this considered good? Isn't this just a counterproductive limitation? Significant benefits found without knowing what are they going to be in advance are still significant benefits and if they are observed scientifically and proven reproducible I'm glad we've found them.

> Once they had to explain beforehand what primary outcome they were looking for, practically every study came up null. The drugs turned out to be useless.

Aren't newly discovered drugs meant to undergo strict and targeted clinical trials? How can they even be considered being drugs before this? And how can they turn out to be useless after passing this stage?

Also in some cases when nobody wants to fund clinical trials despite very interesting life-enhancing effects supposed or when it's clear the time to general availability through the fully white research and approval chain is going to take longer than people want to wait some non-approved substances happen to be sold on eBay (or, for more questionable substances, on black market), hundreds or thousands of people buy it and report their experience on reddit and this data can be a source for further clues for research.
I get this is probably sort of done as a "hey neat" type thing, but it could've actually been a useful thing if they'd added a running nth digit indicator in the margins so you could actually use it as a reference. Then you could use it to answer things like "What is the 102,993th digit of pi?"
Which is more valuable, a fish or a person's comfort?

There is no objective answer to that question.
I think you meant “shouldn’t”.
> There is a book on this dichotomy of environmentalists vs technologists, and how one group advocates efficiency/conservation and the other advocates innovation/change. I think both schools of thought are needed to move forward to the best outcome, wouldn't you agree?

Both technologists and environmentalists are subordinate to economics and human psychology. People don't care about the environment until they're wealthy enough to do so and they're deeply suspicious about new technology.
> alcohol in low doses increases cognitive function

https://xkcd.com/323/
That wouldn't happen. You would simply declare, that you want to check if the drug does cause hair growth, and then run a test explicitly looking for that.

Unless you're looking for the effect from the outset, you can't be sure that what you saw wasn't actually random. There's a term for what you're describing, it's p-hacking, and it's explicitly the very thing declaring what you're looking for before you run the test is designed to prevent.

Like many science related topics, there's a XKCD about p-hacking that describes a similar scenario to your example: https://xkcd.com/882/
Despite thorough debunking, neoliberal housing politics prevail in the Bay Area
Book rec: The Body Keeps the Score.

Bessel van der Kolk has been one of the most important PTSD researchers of the last 40 years, and his work on the embodied aspects of trauma and stress is fantastic.
No True Scotsman. In fact, I’m pretty sure this is just another form of post-hoc reasoning.
Object-oriented design patterns in the Linux kernel (2011)
I really enjoyed reading this. Thank you. It relates to some thoughts that have been percolating. I’m actually giving a small internal talk on a few of these ideas.

Thanks!
This title is pretty inflammatory, but I'm not sure what a better neutral title should be.
IIRC they hit the ocean so fast, that death must have been instantenous.

Also IIRC the pilots didn't know what's going on until they hit the ocean.
Hah - I thought this was originally going to run on the S8/S8+ but they've bumped the requirements up to the Note 9/Tab S4.
The poster was suggesting a hypothetical situation where that is a policy. Very few places in the US have 50/50 gender quotas, and I doubt any have quotas which include non-binary people. I believe they were mocking the idea.
> since you had to reject a number of candidates that likely were more qualified for the position in order to reach your equal distribution goals

Your assumption here is that the status quo of hiring is an optimum that must be sacrificed for diversity.

The reality is that every hiring program already uses diversity as a criterion, but unless a measurable objective is set, it will invisibly optimize for the comfort of current employees, rather than job performance.

The purpose of measuring diversity in hiring practices is to remove or control a confounding factor, not to add one.
There is actually a lot of pirated textbooks.

https://booksrun.com/page/on-counterfeit-textbooks

International editions aren't really a "problem" because they are legal, pirated books are not.
This is looking pretty compelling for serverless docker: https://docs.hyper.sh/hyper/Feature/container/func.html
Develop Windy Plugin to Extend Functionality of Windy
I think i’d still rather use irssi inside a tmux session, but this is cool