skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Very cool. I tried it on Windows 8.1 and it works with some issues. For instance, I downloaded the SQLite sample DB (http://www.sqlitetutorial.net/sqlite-sample-database/). For some tables (albums, artists), doing a select * from table results in :

'charmap' codec can't encode character u'\xe3' in position 2052: character maps to <undefined>

Feature request: allow for snippet expansion. For instance, when I type 'ssf' + tab, it should expand to Select * From and show the table dropdown.
> Docs aren't magicians and House (the TV doc) is fictional.

House (the TV doc) wasn't, IIRC, a particularly-strong example of an intelligent/clever/omniscient/"magical" doctor. House was:

1. willing to do non-therapeutic experimental procedures for the sake of differential diagnosis. (I.e., he was willing to do small amounts of harm to patients in order to get their bodies to tell him something, where other docs would only ever try procedures in DDx that had some likelihood of being ameliorative in-and-of themselves.)

2. good at synthesizing a true patient history from relatively little—and much of that potentially-false—information.

Other than that, he was just a regular doctor (who was a specialist in infectious disease and nephrology) who was good at team-building by hiring experts of complementary specialties, and then focus-firing all that group expertise at the problem at once, rather than doing the standard medical specialist-to-speciaist chart handoff.

Really, any doctor could be House, if they set out to do so and practiced the skills involved. The real fiction was a hospital willing to set up the kind of "diagnostic medicine" department that House headed, where you've got five experts working on one patient at a time.

> That said, my sense was most docs favored their (subjective) optinions over what I presumed would be known best practices, etc.

My impression, from having a few doctor friends, is that "best practice" is generally either old news or p-hacked hooey. There are many therapeutic approaches that very obviously work in clinical practice, even though—according to medical academia—their effect-size is "neligible." (For example: https://slatestarcodex.com/2018/11/07/ssris-an-update/)

Ideally, you'd collect statistics on what doctors believed from informed clinical experience, and then teach other doctors that as clinical best-practice. Right now, though, we just teach them the stuff we've "proven" in academia, and then let the real world slap them in the face later on.
I know but ff startup is still slow, including warm.
I wish they had more of those at busy pedestrian-auto intersections like busy train stations, etc., so that peds could cross at any time rather than having to wait for a light. A nice kitty-corner to kitty-corner X above an intersection. I think a compromise could be have these but not require ADA if the street level crosswalk is ADA compliant. Otherwise these get prohibitively expensive and don't get deployed at all.
<quote>The canonical example is to interfere in telomerase and ALT telomere lengthening. That can't be evaded, and all cancers do it.</quote>

Yeah, and so do adult stem cells. As long as your patient doesn't need intestinal walls, skin, or blood, this will be a totally successful treatment!

Have you entertained the hypothesis that people studying cancer might know more about biology than anti-aging cranks?
Managerial positions need more of understanding humans rather than data. Balancing a team, showing a path, leading teamwork are some of the many attributes one should possess to be a manager.
It's nice to read an article like this that doesn't try to invent some controversy. It looks like a supernova could cause a disruption large enough to cause an extinction. No, there's not enough evidence to say it actually. Yes, it is an interesting idea and if anyone has anything to add go for it.

A good story has some fight in it. Not every theory does and that's ok.
I remember the Seattle vote back in the mid-90s, we clearly rejected it but they went ahead with it anyways.
I definitely agree that most VPN services are a cash grab, and can be nefarious to the unsuspecting user. Would definitely encourage the OP (and others) to do diligent research before signing up for one. And TOR would definitely fall under #6 in my answer, gonna go back and add it now
I believe it's not exactly correct to separate browsers and non-browsers this way.

On desktop systems, a malicious program typically can access most data from the other applications. Personally, saw a few non-browser programs that had an "extra functionality" that swept the drives and phoned back home - and never saw a browser with malicious extras (except for third-party browser extensions). Not saying this couldn't happen, just that I feel that direct approach is somewhat less likely.
10 AI failures from 2018
Author here--some extra context to add:

The post was mostly written to point my students to, so I don't have to keep repeating myself. I get a not-insignificant number of 1st, 2nd, and 3rd years (in a 5-year program) believing C is some antiquated language and believing that they're getting held back in some way by learning C vs C++. One even suggested the department was incompetent for not teaching C++.
Because I work in an engineering department, many students have not had a great deal of time learning programming fundamentals early on and regardless, they are eager to learn more advanced tools than they are ready to use. It is a bit rambling for the purpose--I have a tendency to...erm, overwhelm...with information to make my point.

I haven't blogged much so I originally submitted it at lobste.rs[1] for any advice on the writing and visual style of the site. I welcome any constructive feedback. E.g. "I hate that side-nav! It keeps popping in and out!"

Also to clarify, I am not anti-C++ is anyway. I am a firm practitioner of Chesterton's fence[2] and believe in nuance. That cuts both ways. C++ is the way it is because it filled a specific need. It's greatest flaw is trying to appease everyone and, recently, trying to catch up quickly to recent QoL features in other languages. This fortunately gives it a lot of features other languages don't have, and it unfortunately gives it a lot of features other languages don't have.

Once again, the greater point being a warning, that C++ can easily become a time sink in language-specific knowledge instead of domain-specific knowledge. Of course sometimes that's what you want, e.g. when trying to optimize for performance.

[1]: https://lobste.rs/s/tul188/initialization_c_is_seriously_bon...

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Chesterton%27s_fence
Take a look at the kryoflux, https://www.kryoflux.com/
Oh, what issues?
Is the author actually trying to say that taxpayers paying or stadiums is socialist?

As a Seattle sports fan, I am evidence that a lot of major American sports practice is not a democratic socialist exercise - we had a team and community anchor taken from us with zero recourse. And with what's happening in Columbus right now with the Crew has basically been a hostage situation for over a year.

It's funny that Americans love to throw around 'socialist' and 'communist' when it comes to parity and quality of play in the NFL/NBA/MLS/NHL with salary caps and strict team rules, but these clubs act like cartels. The fact that teams can at any moment be stolen or moved entirely negates any argument of social or economic return to the citizens. Now if only Bloomberg writers would wise up to the 'economic development' scams that companies like Amazon exploit, we'd actually have a better society.
The address is public, you can use a dynDNS easily. Relying on fixed addresses never works.
Four ways jobs will respond to automation
I use it everyday and find its features and compability !
i appreciate what you are saying about these immutable data libs, but i wasn’t aware they parsed and manipulated json directly. it sounds horrendously inneficient to me, but i’ll do some further investigation. thanks for the heads up
There aren't enough hours in the week for all that.

- one partner has a startup

- the other has a full time job

- and goes to school

- apparently you also have a kid

- and you want to go on dates

- and you want to do stuff with a group of friends on the weekend

I seriously doubt that the choice of calendar software is going to make a difference here.

At some point you are going to have to set priorities. I'm not saying you should work less, because you seem to love it. But maybe just accept the fact that you're going to meet your group of friends only once or twice a year, or that date night is going to happen less often.

I meet some of my best friends only once or twice a year now. It's not what I imagined, but when everyone has a job and family and doesn't live in the same place anymore.... I don't think changing to a different calendar app could fix that.
I've been using Syncthing for a few months, and it has been bulletproof. Truly set and forget. I was extremely apprehensive when I started, but it convinced me. I wholeheartedly recommend it.
> Biology runs on the same physics as anything else

Paper planes and fighter jets run can be modelled by the same physics. That doesn’t mean they’re the same thing. “Nanobots” implies greater degrees of freedom and function than purely biological techniques can manage. (For example, by incorporating digital circuitry and novel materials into the mix.)
5mph is obviously too slow, indicating that perhaps that speed bump was poorly designed. But practically it is impossible to design something that forces cars to slow down without risking vehicular damage. Speed bumps, speed tables, and chicanes all carry the risk of serious consequences should the driver not slow down. Without those consequences some drivers can and would ignore them.

Also worth pointing out that the point of these obstacles is to protect pedestrians. Given the extreme lopsided nature of vehicle to pedestrian crashes, I believe that some risk of vehicular damage is a fair trade to prevent pedestrian fatalities.
Savielly Tartakower's take on the distinction:

"Tactics is knowing what to do, when there is something to do. Strategy is knowing what to do, when there is nothing to do."
Every driver that complains when going too fast and damaging his car on such a speed reducer should loose his license for a couple of weeks to get a clear head again.

How bad people are driving is kind of a mirror of the current society. I‘m annoyed by people thinking the world belongs only to them. No buddy, other people have the same rights.
I’m not convinced investment ever drives up consumption, except for the investment in marketing. I see investment tailing consumption mostly, with investors preferring safe bets on goods and services that already have a market. Anyway, it’s just two ways of looking at the same economic relationship. In practice it’s more a sort of ouroboros.

I’ve also never been convinced by the “big money will flee if we tax it more” argument. Nobody has ever tried leaving no ground to flee to by leveling the taxation system so there’s no loopholes. The only way to flee would be to leave the country entirely, but as long as it remains profitable to stay (taxes do not exceed profits) it would be foolish to do so.
It has nothing to do with popularity - it's a feature, not a bug of democratic capitalism: https://ashesashes.org/blog/episode-53-welfare-titans
Different people like different things. It’s exactly how different people like to eat different foods.

For example, I like Cheerios breakfast cereal, but my brother prefers Wheaties.

> work, family, more work. how much time do you guys have?

To stick with the food analogy, someone can eat a different breakfast than another person - but spend the same amount of time doing it!

For example, it takes my brother and I the same amount of time to eat breakfast, even though I eat Cheerios and he eats Wheaties.

Also, people with different interests than you may gain extra time to pursue them by not spending their time on the web criticizing other people’s personal preferences.
You can actually get more than 65k connections per address depending on NAT technology. Traffic coming from 1.1.1.1:80 to 9.9.9.9:12121 can be mapped to 192.168.1.1:3333 while traffic coming from 2.2.2.2:80 to 9.9.9.9:12121 can be mapped to 192.168.1.100:9999. GCNAT devices usually support that.
> build some infrastructure to support this voluntary donation to the government.

He is not asking for infrastructure to support voluntary donation tobthe government. That would be stupid and ineffective. He is asking for the government to change its tax structure to tax people like him more.
Don't they vote on them? In my hometown of Arlington TX there have been two stadiums* built with part public financing in the last decade. Both were ballot issues in a normal election. I thought that's how it was done everywhere.

* Jerry Jones's $1B monstrosity for the Dallas Cowboys was narrowly approved around 2008 and the new Texas Rangers stadium was voted on this past year, not sure the margin or cost.
Isn't it? I thought we were talking about NAT, not about RFC1918.

Even NAT in combination with RFC1918 doesn't give you security. The use of RFC1918 would certainly limit the set of people that could connect to your LAN machines, but it would be hard to call the result secure since anybody sharing your upstream L2 network, plus your ISP and anyone who can trick, force or coerce them into cooperating could still access your network.

And what does NAT add to the situation? Certainly not any security, since any connections that were possible before you added the NAT will still be possible afterwards too. In fact a lot more connections will become possible, so it seems like it reduces the security rather than improves it.
To show people the obvious but ignored fact that abortion is the killing of babies.
The primary argument against consumption taxes is that they're regressive on a percentage-of-income basis, as your spending as a percentage of total income tends to drop as your income increases (it's worth noting, though, that payroll taxes are already functionally regressive, as the percentage of income from non-payroll sources rises with total income). The other is that you generally tax things you want to disincentivize, and since aggregate demand is the primary driver of economic growth, you want to be careful to not dent it too badly. You could make it progressive by refunding a baseline amount annually, but people have to effectively carry the outlay until tax time.

The primary argument for them is that the wealthy have a higher marginal propensity to consume, so it acts as a functional wealth tax, and can't be easily evaded through income restructuring. It would be strictly progressive on an absolute basis, and may marginally incentivize investment over consumption.
Yes but with persistent data structures each operation implies a cost, more or less big. For example most of times you do something with an persistent array you end up with fully cloning it.
What's the point? I know the advantages of immutability, but I think that perform impure operations into pure functions, in a safe contest, is not so bad.
My function can help with this...we could perform those faster impure operations (modifiyng local objects and arrays) and then create full, deeply cloned entities to pass around.
The lack of a widely-adopted precedent implying that some tech is forever poor is a sloppy conclusion to make.

Yes, but decentralized webs of trust have been tried before, and the "flat" ones with no centralization fade away or become hipster tchotkes. I think it's a valuable question to ask. Have we done the analyses for why the previous ones didn't work?
> One can seek out an organization to provides food for the hungry. I believe that the organization best suited to do this government.

Empirically speaking, government is one of the least suited and efficient organizations to do this [1].

“[Government] income redistribution agencies are estimated to absorb about two-thirds of each dollar budgeted to them in overhead costs, and in some cases as much as three-quarters of each dollar. Using government data, Robert L. Woodson (1989, p. 63) calculated that, on average, 70 cents of each dollar budgeted for government assistance goes not to the poor, but to the members of the welfare bureaucracy and others serving the poor. Michael Tanner (1996, p. 136 n. 18) cites regional studies supporting this 70/30 split.

“In contrast, administrative and other operating costs in private charities absorb, on average, only one-third or less of each dollar donated, leaving the other two-thirds (or more) to be delivered to recipients. Charity Navigator, www.charitynavigator.org the newest of several private sector organizations that rate charities by various criteria and supply that information to the public on their web sites, found that, as of 2004, 70 percent of charities they rated spent at least 75 percent of their budgets on the programs and services they exist to provide, and 90 percent spent at least 65 percent. The median administrative expense among all charities in their sample was only 10.3 percent.”

[1] http://mises.org/journals/jls/21_2/21_2_1.pdf
Nasa is planning on building a moon-orbiting space station and a lunar base
With a multi-person household and $60k income, you would qualify for subsidies to reduce the premiums and out of pocket costs.
Here is a study from 2008, where 50% of med students show symptoms of burnout, and about 10% suicide ideation.

It does not say anything about drug use, but the high stress and depression the article talks about seems to be confirmed.

http://annals.org/aim/article-abstract/742530/burnout-suicid...
Yoshigahara’s Puzzle
I don't think the success of IPv6 as a whole hinges on these residential ISPs. I think there is enough momentum for IPv6 already (mobile users especially) that we get a healthy coexistence of IPv4 and IPv6, where new stuff gets designed for an IPv6 fastpath and limited support for IPv4 legacy shims for the "long tail" of adoption.

I guess the ISP space isn't competitive enough that they will ever go "looks like our ipv4 users get shitty latency and more congestion on facebook than the competitor's ipv6 users, so we're gonna upgrade next year!", but their IPv4 setups will probably eventually succumb to attrition too and be replaced by IPv6 gear.
I’m glad you can tell that’s not what he’s asking for. I agree with you - he’s not asking for that.

How do you know if it would be stupid and ineffective? Perhaps he’s representative of rich people who want to pay more tax.
Number of U.S. Homes with Only Wireless Telephones Continues to Grow [pdf]
Far more pedestrians are hurt and killed by vehicles than drivers are hurt by speed bumps. As someone who both drives and walks, I believe it is 100% acceptable to trash a few people’s cars (who ignored the speed limit) to reduce pedestrian fatalities.
To my knowledge, they're not on ballots in most cities.
There is no question that public stadium subsidies are almost always a bad investment. However these type of articles never take into consideration that people generally like sports teams and want them to stay in the same region. It also isn't just people who attend the games or businesses around the stadium. A local sports team, unlike nearly any other private business, provides a huge but unknown amount of utility to a wide range of residents who never pay for a ticket or a piece of merchandise. Is it unreasonable for a sports team to want to benefit from that free utility?

Politicians shouldn't buy all of these stupid economic arguments for a simple fact they are often wrong. But governments aren't businesses. They don't have to make the smart economic move on every single decision. Creating a public park is rarely a smart economic move, but cities do it because that is what residents want. Politicians who let a sports franchise leave town without putting up a fight in negotiations are often quickly voted out (as well as politicians who offer too many incentives for a team to stay). So the people clearly want to keep teams when the cost is reasonable. The problem is what is "reasonable", especially when there is another city a few states over that has a slightly more generous definition of "reasonable"?

TL;DR - It is more complicated than "sports stadiums = bad" but these discussions rarely get deeper than that.
Medicine is still as much an art as a science. Evidence based medicine is expanding and some doctors don't follow known best practices as frequently as they ought to, yet for many areas we simply don't have the large-scale clinical studies necessary to establish best practices. And even when there are established treatment protocols, those often have to be tweaked to fit individual patients. A lot of this is based on tacit knowledge and intuition which can only be gained through experience.

AI diagnostic tools could be useful in some limited circumstances. The problem is in gathering the necessary data (especially coded data) to feed into the AI. So it won't necessary save any effort. The need for human radiologists to read images may decline as pattern recognition technology improves.
Dear Mr. Neoliberal,

investments today are risk averse on a large, almost cultural scale by now. You invest into monopolies who dominate entire markets or even provide them, fonds who own industries where they start to even forget how innovation-the word is written.

This means, that the aggregated money does not go anywhere, witin any industry today, where it creates growth or change. Its all about nailing another board to the fortifications.

What else remains, spills into citys as urban blight by creating empty overpriced apartments.
The trickle-down- economic model you have in your mind, has been tested. It does work as well as socialism.

Which is one of the reasons, the pulbic has turned away from this and is ready to give the likes of marx and engels another chance to fail.

Thank you
Resilio is already a separated spinoff from Bittorrent Inc. You don't have to worry about Bittorrent abandoning it ... just Resilio itself going under! (Which might be quite likely, since it's so small on its own.)
> and the units are in Metric

As they should be. Why is this worth mentioning?
Then why are you suggesting he do something that he is not advocating?
Leaders should create gaps
See the aforism "Privatizing profits and socializing losses". I think the author is saying that the costs are being socialized by having taxes fund construction and maintenance while the owners are making it happen via the mechanism of crony capitalism.
> What changed that I was unaware of? As far as I know, it still makes traffic flow much more efficient in most situations.

Right turn on red was mostly implemented to avoid having cars idling waiting for a timer-only light to turn.

Between modern cars with fast engine stop/start and modern sensor technology which triggers lights when there is no opposing traffic, there are a lot of good reasons to remove that rule again.
Wouldn't you be bound to a specific subnet dedicated to you? Or how does it work? Can you really just propagate to the world at any time "I am now baba:fefe:..."? Don't backbone routing tables get crazy mad verbose that way?

I know next to nothing about ipv6, I'm afraid.
If the car is wrecked, this will definitely discourage the driver from doing it again.

If the driver dies, I put it to you that it was only a matter of time, whether there was a raised crossing in this place or not. This sort of careless driving is vanishingly rarely a one-off, and almost always an example of a pattern of behaviour. Let us hope that they didn't take anybody else with them.
> I also wouldn't want to drive over a speed bump at 35m

... yes, that’s the point.
Heroin Addiction Explained: How Opioids Hijack the Brain