skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One other point to highlight: Many of the doctors quoted in the article couldn't dispute the data (reminiscent of nutrition conventional wisdom) but inexplicably advocated not to get benefits mentioned from sun, but instead take statins/blood pressure drugs.

This is ridiculous, and if one looks into the criticisms of these drugs, mirrors the terrible advice peddled by same doctors as nutrition advice, to the detriment of millions. Why does this mentality persist, always and everywhere take blood pressure drugs? Madness.
I use a calendar called Action Day Planner that is loosely inspired by the GTD method and Leuchtturm 1917 notebooks with numbered pages and ToC.
> If this hack hadn’t been rectified, Bitcoin would likely have died then and there, which would mean the entire crypto space as we know it would not exist.

It would have been impossible not to rectify this hack.
I came here to comment on this. Its probably actually true :)

As a software engineer, I find HtDP awesome. As a teacher, I found it lacking. I think the best way to teach programming is in the context of a domain of interest to the student. Problem is, you can't write an universally usable book like that.
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> sunlight is beneficial beyond vitamin D.

Is it though? Do we actually have the data that says so, or do we have data that has tons of other factors mixed in, where sunlight exposure happens to be correlated with better health?

> So yes do use sunscreen in moderation but don’t avoid the sun.

Using sunscreen (according to the article) is equivalent to avoiding the sun, as it blocks production of Vitamin D.
Also in stupid „triple AAA” economy publishers consider tactic games too niche to be viable product.

They would try to turn it into mobile game or such.
We have more than a 5 trillion dollar budget?
The Senate passed the House bill before the winter recess. Trump threw his tantrum, though...
Indeed. Although maybe don't word it quite like that. The aim isn't to confiscate land owned by someone, just for them to prove they actually do own it.
Agree, and I've been doing this for about a decade with very little problem. (Google do add both a Sender and From, with the Sender being your GMail-address. But that has not been a problem.)
Hah! I do wonder if it isn't simply human nature though, something we actively have to unlearn.
Is it propaganda because of who pays for it? If I had paid to produce and distribute the leaflet that public health clinics do, would that be not-propaganda just because it's not state-produced?
Summary:

1. Research shows the most popular vitamin supplements aren't useful. This turns out to include D supplements.

2. This is strange because "People with low levels of vitamin D in their blood have significantly higher rates of virtually every disease and disorder you can think of"

3. One theory to explain this is that Vitamin D was acting as simply a marker for sun-exposure. This is put forth by Richard Weller.

4. To add evidence, Weller found that exposing people to sunlight for 30 minutes reduced blood pressure and increased nitric oxide levels.

5. Article dispells concerns about sun exposure by pointing that the type of skin cancer one is likely to get from the sun is actually very safe (carcinomas) as compared to melanoma (1-3% of cases).

6. Cites a study 30,000 Swedish sunbathing women and found greater health and decreased odds of dying from a melanoma.

7. Observes the counter-intuitive nature of sun-exposure being harmful to a species that evolved outdoors.

8. Questions the validity of SPF recommendations when they don't factor in race / skin-tone.

9. Observes an example of "common knowledge" being wrong with margarine which was wrongly perceived to be healthier than butter for a long time. Suggests the very thing may be happening here.
Back then we just called it anorexia. Really shows what marketing can do.
It's not unusual that original scientific works are more clear than the later works of people trying to explain them.

The original author has to persuade people, and convince people who aren't familiar with them. The "pedagogical" author later is in a more clear position of authority and doesn't need to work as hard.
I dunno, that kind of starts with the assumption that people live at one address, in one country. This is what I'm pointing out: that assumption is not true.

I accept that I'm an edge case, but a large minority of (for example) Australians have dual nationality, and will have lived in either of the countries that they're citizens of for long periods of time. Some haven't settled on one yet, and skip back and forth every few months/years. All of them (us) have stories of identity systems, bureaucracy and banks not understanding that they moved country.

You're asking for a replacement asymmetry when the thing you're replacing in the first place isn't actually useful.

But, to answer the question: email is the one thing I'm pretty sure that I and I alone can get to. I have two email addresses, from different providers, using 2FA (google Authenticator on my phone). The 2FA bit is probably enough asymmetry.

However, even that, I could lose: if I fall into a swimming pool while carrying my backpack and phone, I'd have a hard time proving who I am to anyone until I got everything back up and running. Even worse, if I fell into a swimming pool while moving accommodation I'd have my passports in my backpack... not a comforting thought at all.
I can recommend Taskwarrior.
Yep: https://i.imgur.com/cgYkQbS.png

I'm drawing the conclusion that some people just need to see arbitrary concrete values to be able to understand what's going on.
Honest labor made possible by the Internet that can’t be automated away, and it improves the experience for the consumer. Some may criticize the user of contract labor, but a lot of these contractors are independents who own their own truck or small businesses that own a few trucks and employ their own people.

Once again the free market finds new uses for labor rather than eliminating the net total number of jobs. It’s a wonderful thing!
> a bunch of stats saying psychopathy is apparently more common in business leaders and politicians

How do you know that being a business leader or politician doesn't induce psychopathy?

Furthermore, how do you objectively assess whether someone meets the threshold for being banned from a position of leadership?

If you're not opposed to watching anime, you might be interested in Psycho-Pass. It describes a future in which society persecutes people based on such assessments.
Happy to see this here again. Input Mono has been my favorite programming font for the last years. This is saying quite a bit, as I tend to be very picky and regularly test other programming fonts.

There is nothing else that is as readable and comfortable to use in the long term (my next-best font, and previous favorite, was Inconsolata).
Thank you so much! I opened an issue here: https://github.com/disconnectme/disconnect-tracking-protecti...
Define easy anyone who works on such technologies is on some FBI database somewhere and likely more than just one.

SpaceX doesn’t hire non-US citizens due to how hard it is to get the security clearance needed for them if they try to go to China they will likely get caught maybe not everyone, but enough to prevent any real knowledge transfer and more importantly the first one that will get caught is going to be made an example for the rest.
Always they say take pills. People should seriously look into criticism of massive overprescribing of statins. It's crazy this advice always comes in place of natural substitutes (low carb keto diet, prudent sun exposure. No.. just take pills that's surely healthier). Here's a reference for alternative viewpoint on statins & cholesterol if anyone is interested:

https://www.amazon.com/Cholesterol-Clarity-What-Wrong-Number...
The House has already passed a couple bills funding the government, in whole or in part[1]. They haven't been taken up in the Senate.

One of the bills passed this week: https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/house-bill/21?s...

[1]: https://www.cnbc.com/2019/01/04/house-passes-bill-to-end-gov...
I can recommend taskwarrior.
Reading You Don't Know JS really made me appreciate certain aspects as features and not whimsical bugs.
"Indeed, the course did upset people. I remember how people constantly complained how shitty this decision was, how "people in the 1st year engineering classes are doing real Java programming while we do this shit no employer asks for", some noted how the language was stupid, or in the best case just a toy, useless in "the real world". Thing got worse when some people realized that, contrary to their expectations, they did not know how to program, since they could not do eg. graph traversals once that was stripped of its OOP or Java-like envelope - "I will fail the year because of the bloody scheme!", they would say."

This is a perennial problem with computer science programs everywhere. The irony is that the department will have employers banging on the doors trying to hire graduates while the students complain no one will hire them because they're wasting their time on "toys"; no one seems to notice the relationship.

Hopefully, the problem will go away with the removal of things like SICP and the introduction of Python as you mention.
I'm curious about the dominance of bikes in the Netherlands from a different direction.

The primary reason there's no system for handling abandoned bikes in the US is not that nobody uses bikes. Bikes aren't especially common, but the issue of an abandoned bike isn't going to come up -- ever -- because of the extreme frequency of bike theft. An abandoned bike will quickly be stolen, just like a non-abandoned bike. Bird's scooters don't have this problem because they're tracked. But the background reality of bicycles may contribute to jzl's (false) impression that you should be legally able to just take scooters that aren't locked down.

How much of an issue is bicycle theft in the Netherlands? How long would you expect to be able to own one before having it stolen?
I disagree with this article. There's no such thing as "this losing context." Its simply changing context, and you can easily maintain the context with bind/call/apply/arrow functions. It's a very useful feature of JS that, like special features in all languages, must be treated with care so that other developers can reason about how you're using it.
Everyone on here is very excited about HTDP. You are mostly very smart people, and not representative of the typical CS student starting off. Many of you are driven and have rich STEM backgrounds that you draw upon. Therefore, I want to point out that there is no substantial evidence to prove most of the claims of "success" that the HTDP community claims, with regards to novice learners. There are certainly people who HTDP works amazingly for - I have met many brilliant folks who it resonates with. But I have met far more students who it does not work well for (I would describe them as having almost low-key PTSD from their CS1). The curriculum is too artificial and disjoint from the rest of their CS degree. I have met instructors who make it work fabulously, and their students apparently really buy into it. But overall, the claims that HTDP leads to better students is not proven by any literature I can find.

The closest thing I can find for good evidence is Fisler '14 [1], which did indeed suggest that HTDP teaches Functional Decomposition in such a way that CS1 students are better able to tackle short-but-complex problems by the end of their CS1. I find this work compelling, and I look forward to applying the ideas inherent to my own courses. However, in the decade-plus that HTDP has been around, I have not been able to find any long term studies that back up the slew of claims made about how we "should" teach CS1. Language and paradigm arguments in general have not really born out any evidence[2].

I'm not saying HTDP is bad or Python is good or C++ is ideal. I'm saying we don't know much about any of this stuff. Relying on theoretical arguments is dangerous when it comes to pedagogy. For every positive experience you can share about HTDP, I can share a negative experience. It's great if you found a curriculum that works for you. But be very, very careful about whether you believe that curriculum should work for everyone.

[1] https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2632346

[2] https://www.researchgate.net/publication/329544316_Introduct...
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OOP is scary, might have to learn stuff.
I had basically the same problem as OP some years back. Then I wrote down, for each and every task, how much I'd value having already completed it (including how much I'd value having experienced doing it), and how long I estimated it'd take. This immediately gives value / hour. Add some categorization (e.g. to only work on work tasks during the week), and voila: Auto-prioritization. Helped a lot with getting the actually important things done and get reminded to do useful long term stuff when idle time arose.

FWIW, I'm currently rebuilding it as a web-app, if you want to try: https://quuxtodo.com/
The author is arguing for a mental model in which all joins are just cross joins with a filter added, and that Venn Diagrams are a bad representation because they depict set differences, which is not what SQL joins are.

Say tbl_1 has 5 rows, and column "A" is the numbers 1 to 5. Then tbl_2 has the numbers 1 and 2, each repeated 5 times. Now how many rows are in the result of the query below?

select tbl_1.A from tbl_1 left join tbl_2 using(A)

The fact that the result has 13 rows (more rows than either of the tables!) seems like it would be pretty surprising to someone using the left-join venn diagram as a mental model. The Venn diagram depicts a left-join as a set difference, which it clearly is not.
I think that's part of the problem, there isn't really.

I suppose you could squat on it, and wait for someone to evict you.
I think Invision has templates you can start with...

https://www.invisionapp.com/
Well, I’ve come to see it that western primary care doctors main job is to try and match your symptoms to a pill that can help.

I’m not trying to disparage all the doctors or say they do nothing else.

But if you look at it like that, then a lot of the behavior makes sense. “I don’t know about sun exposure, but I’m confident this pill will help you, so avoid the sun and take the pill.”
> The parking spaces for cars are specifically marked by the city.

Is that true in the US?

In Ireland, by default you're allowed park on the side of the road. There are exceptions, ie you can't cause an obstruction to traffic, block an entrance, park where road markings prohibit it, or within certain distances of a junction. However, if none of the above apply, you don't need to find a marked parking space - you can just park.
On https://teachyourselfcs.com/ CTM is recommended if you find SICP too easy
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Interesting. According to the article that’s the “bad” UV. I wonder if there’s a market for UVB lights?
Noob here, can anyone explain who are in these pictures? http://imgur.com/a/DyA3sdr
Yep, pruning is essential. It's the HR equivalent of code refactoring.
Working through SICP my main issue was the almost unbounded time commitment- like it will take you between a month to two years. I remember there was a trivial problem that took 5 minutes then apropos nothing the next problem bascially required you to invent the concept of numbers as functions in lambda calculus and required a two day diversion just to understand the answer. Even the best programmers I’ve known who’ve done it have said its been a multi month process and without a teacher its so easy to get bogged down.
Some people may read those stories and when the time comes and they learn that their unborn baby has Down Syndrome they won't abort. And then they will learn the harsh, harsh truth.

Fortunately, in practice, for the quality of life of everybody involved, most babies with Down Syndrome are aborted. This is the common practice. This is not a controversial statement. This is why we screen for it. Children being born with Down Syndrome are the exception, not the norm.
I think it's some sort cognitive dissonance.

I think it's emotionally hard for doctors to recognize the cases when the product they peddle (medicine) is actually worse than the solution they have no control over (a more natural lifestyle). I think this leads to systematic bias towards intervention.
Is there any substantial argument on the idea of silicon valley being an absolutely pointless concoction of a few clever minds? Meaning, would there really be any adverse effect if that earthquake did wipe SV out in the near future?

I feel sorry for people who sell their creative energy for the sake of money and popularity. At the end of the day, you only become popular amongst pricks and clowns who pay your bills.

This emphasis that we are saving the world with tech is so far-fetched and dumb it grinds my gears to hear anything about it. We have learned so eloquently so as to avoid looking at ourselves, and instead hope that tech is going to solve all of our problems.

Funny how that works -- solving problems with the same mindset that created the problem. I think Einstein had something to say on this.
The mainstream view amongst whom and where?

There are quotes from organizations that advocate sun exposure which are not linked to Weller:

Cancer Council Australia’s official-position paper (endorsed by the Australasian College of Dermatologists) states, “Ultraviolet radiation from the sun has both beneficial and harmful effects on human health.... A balance is required between excessive sun exposure which increases the risk of skin cancer and enough sun exposure to maintain adequate vitamin D levels.... It should be noted that the benefits of sun exposure may extend beyond the production of vitamin D. Other possible beneficial effects of sun exposure… include reduction in blood pressure, suppression of autoimmune disease, and improvements in mood.”

Australia’s official advice? When the UV index is below 3 (which is true for most of the continental U.S. in the winter), “Sun protection is not recommended unless near snow or other reflective surfaces. To support vitamin D production, spend some time outdoors in the middle of the day with some skin uncovered.”

New Zealand signed on to similar recommendations, and the British Association of Dermatologists went even further in a statement, directly contradicting the position of its American counterpart: “Enjoying the sun safely, while taking care not to burn, can help to provide the benefits of vitamin D without unduly raising the risk of skin cancer.”
I'll just add to what has already been said, that this is part of a broader campaign and is not just imagery used to promote the USSR's space agency. Also, literally every company in the USSR was state owned, so its hard for a marketing campaign to not be associated with them.
That's not exactly true. The main advantage GPUs have is they are not general-purpose, they are accelerators. NVidia made GPGPU successful by saying "throw away your C/C++ code and use this entirely new language (more appropriate for the hardware) to program this thing", and backing that up with impressive performance improvements. Intel failed with Xeon Phi because, essentially, they promised you wouldn't have to rewrite your code to get the performance improvements, but the performance improvements were anemic if you didn't rewrite code.
Other then the fact that musicians have been bullied and harassed for almost every facet of their identity in some form by right-wing movements for most of the 20th century?

Literally everything you're saying should make them sympathetic to free speech was perpetrated, in the west, by the right-wing.

So go figure: they don't like them.
I think email evolved when people had more digital-identity ties to their ISPs though. I remember having an email address tied to your university or your dial-up provider or whatever being pretty common in the 1990s, and pre-eternal-September the same protocols already existed among a more closed crowd (which is kind of like Facebook, now that I think of it).

Then “free email” providers on the early consumer Internet were able to compete on things like storage, because that was something it was still acceptable to expect people to pay attention to. One of GMail's original big draws was “lots and lots of storage”.

Email being in decline for social purposes feels partly related to changing feedback expectations and UI inertia, but I'd guess also some relation to a “mental association with uncool things” including both spam and stressful/boring transactional email; it's become more of a business thing. The spam side of that is related to the gradual federation lockdown, and something similar could happen to Mastodon, but at least there's some discussion about it happening in advance now.

I'm not sure what this all adds up to.
"Brain death" == "irreversible coma," which is technically different from having an organ that has suffered a biological death.
You can use an auto-generated intermediate format when running the tests, that check each member object, give test coverage, etc. Eg. a tool that parses the code and inserts a bunch of checks above each member access. So you start with plain JavaScript, and you ship plain JavaScript.
Not all of them are law breakers. At the end of the day who gets to label you a sociopath? Seems pretty subjective to me.
It has nothing to do with OOP. Off the top of my head, I cannot think of another OOP language where "this" (or "self") works the way it does in Javascript. There are pitfalls associated with it and I can't think of any benefit that would outweigh that.
I meant, how would you prove that more was produced as a result? How do you know that now isn't produced because there are now people in the world in general? Or some other cause?
> Bikes are parked on bike racks, which is to say, in a place designed to store bikes.

Speaking from my experience in Shanghai, where bicycles are common, there's no such thing as a bike rack. (Well, I have seen racks for rental bikes. But none for individually-owned bicycles.)

Rather, supermarkets, university buildings, apartment complexes, and other places which are likely to receive a lot of incoming traffic have bicycle parking lots, and if you're somewhere else, you park on the sidewalk.
It's only relevant in that Satoshi took the proof of work idea for Bitcoin from a spam prevention system like the OP discusses.

A lot of cryptos try to get around proof of work (proof of stake, for example) because PoW takes a long time and uses a lot of electricity, and this is the paper's main complaint -- but so far it's proved quite secure for Bitcoin. The Bitcoin blockchain has never been successfully hacked.
Knuth's math textbook has commentary from his students in the margins. Some of it is hilarious.
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Do I push back? If I care, yes. But I'm asking from the point of view of a team, not an individual on the team.

How do you decide that something must be fixed?
Would a judge that had attended Cambridge, be deemed to be neutral enough to preside over a case involving it?
That might throw a wrench in the works.