skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, and she bought into the “fake it till you make it”, “no one knows what they’re doing”, “all self doubt is impostor syndrome” mentality that’s so popular on this site and which inevitably leads to idealistic people doubling down on fundamentally confused ventures where they should have realized they’re out of their depth.
Programmers don't actually believe in such falsehoods, nor do they just decide to be lazy about implementation. In fact if anything programmers are generally more aware of such things. A better name for these lists would be "falsehoods businesses insist on despite their engineers warnings".
Reddit's standard seems to contribute more directly to quality discussion than the haphazard result of pg's opinion, authoritative though it may be.

When voting is applied with no real guidelines or standards, it ceases to be an effective filter for anything but the immediate emotional zeitgeist, and this goes against HN's stated purpose of bias towards quality.
Yeah, if you parse out the words, that is all they're actually saying.

"There is no proven clinical benefit" and "there are risks associated with the use of any [...] product".
That may help in some cases, but cancer specifically represents a broad class of diseases and treatment isn't always that simple. Blood-based cancers and later stages (having spread to multiple parts of the body) become more challenging to treat. Additionally, the disease can mutate even with a patient so you might need different treatments depending on how your disease has changed.
A few of these were new to me. I think people who come to phone numbers before Internet knew about the ITU decision to adopt a semi-efficient distribution by size model, so the numbers +x[y[z]] were given out for volume, not order-of-application. +1 was 'North America' Not the USA in this model.

the +88 and Taiwan is an interesting situation. The phone companies agree to do efficient routing to the TW IDD but China refuses to formally recognize it in the ITU. So, its routed optimally, even if the prefix routing should honour Chinese (mainland) intent according to the model (thats how I have heard it. I don't know how accurate this is)

Telefonica runs several mobile operations in LatAM and I am told that numbers can be somewhat mobile (sorry) across borders.

I also know of AT&T subscribers who are domiciled in Canada and who are flouting some rules to get the phone roaming behaviours they want.
https://wudewasa.blogspot.com/2017/05/altanonymousmessages-n...
The First Congress passed the Sedition Act, which was an extremely broad set of laws that would have essentially nullified the First Amendment. The first several Congresses passed extremely broad laws regulating commerce that were ultimately narrowed by the courts. This all despite having numerous members of the Constitutional Convention among their ranks.

It's pretty clear from the laws the First and Second Congress passed that they had an even broader definition of "broad powers" than we do today. (And by the way, the Federal Papers have no legal authority in US law. They're interesting from a historical perspective because they documents an attempt by one politician to sway the opinion of the general public, but they don't form any part of the corpus of American jurisprudence.)
who doesn't want blue pool water?
Rejuvenating Performance of Hand-Vectorized Programs
Hi Hacker News,

Recently we developed a compiler pass (https://www.nextgenvec.org/#revec) in LLVM to retarget hand-vectorized codes to use newer vector instructions. We reinstate Performance Portability back to hand-vectorized codes. I am happy to answer any questions regarding it!
No one who won the lottery invested the money they spent on the ticket. That doesn't mean that "buy lottery tickets instead of investing" is sound financial advice.
Fair point, that does address my hypothesis.
Github: https://github.com/revec
Agreed I don’t know people who plan to go to the theater as a general destination rather than to see a particular movie. But I’m not an avid cinema visitor.

I think you’d have to be comfortable seeing big budget mediocre films if that’s one of your hobbies. There's a ton of bad movies out at any one time. Or rather a ton of mediocre (at best) ones.
For what it’s worth, it’s my understanding that they’re ‘only’ transferring plasma which other companies are already paying people for.
The user logs into his Gmail account on his own and uses the GMass extension, which operates within the Gmail UI, to create/schedule campaigns. On the back-end, GMass connects to the user's account over standard Google OAuth 2 to then send the emails.
It's slowly happening. Look at how tennis can have challenges now. But I think a limited number of challenges per match? But I think people like having the human element a bit, and the accompanying controversy. Entire industries are built on discussing this stuff.
My Unconventional Attempt to Go Solo in 2019
I think I last bugged you about it, 2ish years ago. So, I'm happy you've got it on the backlog.

I think using front languages which "compile" to JS is a fine foonly thing to do. ghc-js and elm come to mind.
have the kids drink a 1/8 of a cup of pool water when they get out (just kidding)
Not sure why this is getting downvoted. It's a valid point. There is a gap between "technically valid email addresses" and "email addresses that reasonable people use".
Pinterest's Perfect Response to Misinformation
"Privacy is a real thing, and worrying about it isn't mutually exclusive with any other concerns"

Sure, but you need to balance things. Having someone on the internet see a video of her, fully dressed, and getting aroused by it, doesn't exactly compare to any number of real issues. As I said elsewhere, if I actually was concerned about her privacy so much, I'd go to a bit more effort to avoid having her wear a skirt or dress when she is playing. That seems like a good first thing to worry about.

Although not many people see the videos I post of her, she was thrilled when a nearby YouTuber (a 7 year old girl who actually has a significant number of subscribers) found her via this video and we'll hopefully get together for skateboarding together. So there are positives about putting them out there.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KuIEW9MCmcg

Meanwhile, I've dealt with my daughter's mother for years, as she freaks out over the most ridiculous tiny irrational fears, while nearly killing our daughter due to her recklessness in other ways.

You may think I have an extreme view, but you know who has to be concerned about being seen as having extreme views on things like this? People who are in contested custody situations, where their ex hires aggressive, unethical lawyers willing to grasp at any straw to tear down their parenting in a court of law. All the more so if that person represents themselves rather than having an attorney.

And that's actually me.

I assure you, if posting YouTube videos of my daughter playing at playground was something they thought they could use against me, they would have. But they didn't. And I won about the strongest decision you're going to find, and was awarded primary custody.

So yeah, I reject your premise that I have extreme views on this issue.
I agree absolutely that corn subsidies to create something that is a shit fuel that destroys engines is insane.

And yes, we can absolutely do better. I agree that we should.

I do believe that farmers today -- and even twenty years ago or more -- are a lot more data driven than you might believe.
> If a snobbish, but highly talented employee builds toolkits/engines that double or triple the production of the average employee, does the same equation used in the study apply?

What if we fire Mr Snobby Pants and hire someone who's both socially and technically competent?
I'm not sure how serious you were, but if you're actually curious, I recommend Alan Jacob's book "Original Sin: A Cultural History": https://www.amazon.com/Original-Sin-Cultural-Alan-Jacobs/dp/.... Not particularly academic but very accessible.

Or for a slightly different approach, GK Chesterton's Orthodoxy: http://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/130/pg130.html, even if you disagree with his arguments, I suspect if you give a read you'll enjoy his delightful prose.

> But all conservatism is based upon the idea that if you leave things alone you leave them as they are. But you do not. If you leave a thing alone you leave it to a torrent of change. If you leave a white post alone it will soon be a black post. If you particularly want it to be white you must be always painting it again; that is, you must be always having a revolution. Briefly, if you want the old white post you must have a new white post. But this which is true even of inanimate things is in a quite special and terrible sense true of all human things. An almost unnatural vigilance is really required of the citizen because of the horrible rapidity with which human institutions grow old. It is the custom in passing romance and journalism to talk of men suffering under old tyrannies. But, as a fact, men have almost always suffered under new tyrannies; under tyrannies that had been public liberties hardly twenty years before. [...]

> This startling swiftness with which popular systems turn oppressive is the third fact for which we shall ask our perfect theory of progress to allow. It must always be on the look out for every privilege being abused, for every working right becoming a wrong. In this matter I am entirely on the side of the revolutionists. They are really right to be always suspecting human institutions; they are right not to put their trust in princes nor in any child of man. The chieftain chosen to be the friend of the people becomes the enemy of the people; the newspaper started to tell the truth now exists to prevent the truth being told. Here, I say, I felt that I was really at last on the side of the revolutionary. And then I caught my breath again: for I remembered that I was once again on the side of the orthodox.

> Christianity spoke again and said: "I have always maintained that men were naturally backsliders; that human virtue tended of its own nature to rust or to rot; I have always said that human beings as such go wrong, especially happy human beings, especially proud and prosperous human beings. This eternal revolution, this suspicion sustained through centuries, you (being a vague modern) call the doctrine of progress. If you were a philosopher you would call it, as I do, the doctrine of original sin. You may call it the cosmic advance as much as you like; I call it what it is—the Fall."
I think it's more fear of doubt than being wrong. I'm sure if you come with a ready made solution they won't resist nearly as much.
Show HN: Saltshaker-Crypto, NPM to Sign, Verify, Encrypt and Decrypt with Nacl
Lyft Plans to File for IPO as Soon as Next Week
Pretty much all of HN is the "haphazard result of pg's opinion", no? That is an interesting way to describe creating something. I see no reason to mess with how HN has always worked, at least not where there's no obvious problem.

I know people have strong feelings about downvotes, but those feelings are rooted in something other than discussion quality. Everything I think I know about how to keep HN from deteriorating too badly tells me that the downvotes here serve a critical purpose—even though they're a crude weapon with a lot of downside.
It's up to each country.
Still, we’ve got to go through the medieval era to get to the enlightenment and modern era.

Hopefully these big companies wasting millions on this mostly mediocre returns will find some gold for the future. Eventually it will be very useful in a more general sense, but it’s going to take time to get there.

All we can hope for now are mainly niche wins for an ever expanding set of problems. Who knows if big budget films will be one. I’m not yet convinced by this article but at least they are trying and have the R&D budgets to fail a few times.medieval
She was almost 20 and was told repeatedly by her professors at Stanford that they don't think it would work. If you don't know by the time you're 20 that using off the shelf machines to do blood tests and telling everyone that you're using some new revolutionary method is fraud, then I dont know what to tell you. And no she didn't start with 200k, she had 6 million in venture capital the very year she started which ballooned to over 400 million.
Ask HN: How Do Services Like PythonTutor and Repl.it Run Code Safely
I'm super curious to know how these services work under the hood. Are there any good writeups about safe execution of unknown code? Are they spinning up isolated VM's per user / connection?
Laws have to be objective.
Kind of like how there is a atmosphere of stench around rotting food.
You don't even have to be an Excel wizard. Just a competent Excel user.

A previous company I worked at made YouTube videos for content marketing purposes. For some reason that no one could explain by the time I started there, the first couple videos in the account were random, basic Excel tutorials. Nothing fancy. Just things like using the Cell Formatting dropdown or doing a VLOOKUP.

Those videos were 5+ years old by the time I left. And in their worst week, a single one of those Excel videos got more views than the entire view count of every non-Excel video combined. It was crazy.
Because it has been very well demonstrated that almost all active investors, fund managers etc... virtually never beat the market cumulatively over decades. There are some exceptions, but not more than you would expect from random chance due to large sample size (a lot of people playing). So given that information why should most of us spend the effort trying to beat the market especially considering the low expense ratio on some really solid ETFs. Generally speaking if you expect the economy to continue to grow for the next few decades than index funds are a pretty good option.
They're also not saying "Ambrosia Medical must stop administering this treatment". They're just saying "we don't approve". So this thing on the Ambrosia website:

> In compliance with the FDA announcement issued February 19, 2019, we have ceased patient treatments.

doesn't quite make sense, because the FDA hasn't publicly asked Ambrosia to stop, and the FDA never did approve transfusions for the purpose of life extension or anti-aging. They're not complying with anything, because that announcement wasn't a 'cease treatments' notice.

So we don't really know why Ambrosia has chosen to stop.
Quite recently, we have had two Presidents claim that non-citizens had no right to challenge their imprisonment by the United States

No, the argument was that foreign terrorists and other non-state enemy combatants were not "subject to the jurisdiction" of the US legal system (because they weren't on US soil when captured, and as non-state combatants that weren't covered by any treaties to which the US was a party) and thus also not afforded its protections.
However, as a matter of international law, a country generally has legal jurisdiction over any person physically present in the country, whether present legally or otherwise, excepting specific diplomatic personnel (as defined by local law or treaty).

This was the reason for holding them indefinitely in an military facility located in another country. However, under US law, military facilities are considered US soil, and so persons being held in US military facilities are subject to the jurisdiction (and protection) of the US legal system.
Any scientist/researcher with Theranos on their CV should be viewed as complicit in the fraud, not exempted from it.
Having cloned organs ready for transplant won't extend life as much as you think. A lot of this doesn't mean much if you can't replace a faulty circulatory system, which will inevitably cause organs to fail even if they are brand new.

Unfortunately, a circulatory system is practically impossible to replace. It would cost tens of millions of dollars and you'd have to already be in great shape to survive the very long recovery time. And then you do all this, only to die eventually, all the same.
Amino: Live CSS Editor for Chrome
So reading this article made me have a bit of an epiphany: What is being described isn't CSS-in-JS. Instead, this is style properties in JS.

This is the equivalent of inline styles. We don't call it "inline CSS" because it isn't CSS. Nothing cascades with inline styles, just as they don't with "CSS-in-JS". And you don't have to worry about specificity with either implementation.

In other words - all the things that make CSS the powerful language it is are stripped away to just a listing of arbitrary properties.

So, CSS-in-JS, do yourself a favor and stop calling it that, because what you are coding is nothing even remotely close to CSS.
Any scientist who compromised his or her ethics by continuing to work for Theranos after seeing how they operated from the inside was not "good", by definition. Their reputations will be stained forever.
Yup, spent my time in front of judges. Self represented, up against nasty lawyers, solid week long trial. If this was a thing that could be used against me, I assure you, it would have.

It wasn't, and I was awarded primary custody.
No, you are suing for both. So removing the potential punitive will lower the incentive to sue. Especially for class action law suits.
Lavabit Tried Giving the Feds Its SSL Key in 11 Pages of 4-Point Type (2013)
...by feeding upon material which is already limited in availability for providing treatment to people younger than you are.
OAuth is supported, so you don't need a new account. If you have a Google/Github account, you're good. I'll be adding more providers soon too (Twitter/Gitlab).

Alternatively, you can choose to post anonymously, if you've enabled that in your website. All it requires is checking a checkbox before posting the comment to reduce friction to engagement.
First, to my knowledge, there are two alternative ways to recover my account within the Facebook system.

1. Correctly identify some personal information about your Facebook friends, or ask them to provide some information about you. However, I have abandoned my account for years, and clearly I no longer have personal contact with most of them.

2. Provide your National-ID document to Facebook. Obviously, I'm not comfortable with it, but I assume my identity is already public information on Facebook so I may have to do it. Unfortunately, the bigger problem is that, personally, I'm in the middle of some tricky paperwork problem with the government bureaucracy, just like my Facebook account. I may need to go to the court to sort it out, but currently I don't have time to bother.

"Right to be forgotten" and GDPR seems to be a powerful tool to solve these kind of problems,
but I'm not a EU citizen and I don't know much about its regulations, but I also want to know about it. Does anyone know something about it? Assuming I'm a EU citizen, how exactly, can I submit a request of information removal? If it's similar to DMCA takedowns, perhaps it can be used? Or it need a rigorous legal proof of identity like (2)? For non-EU citizens, is there a similar outlet to solve these kinds of problems?
A Beach Nobody Can Touch
Not necessarily. Teams aren’t privy to everything in other teams. It's possible their reps be stained forever, but it's not all deserved. Mgmt can be deceptive. Just because you're an expert in one line of inquiry does not mean you're an expert in another (and can call out fakery, esp if it's kept from them).
Ask HN: Advice for Hosting and Deploying My Side Project
I'm finally starting to wrap up the MVP of my web app which is my side project. Now I'm starting to look at how I'm going to host it, and I'm getting overwhelmed with the number of options. My background is in desktop\embedded code, so I've not really had to deal with this much before. My app is written in Rust on the Rocket framework and uses PostgreSQL and PostGIS.

I was originally looking at Digital Ocean, however I'm thinking that managing that might be too much work for me, and it will be too easy to make a stupid security mistake. I'm currently looking at https://www.clever-cloud.com/en/rust-hosting which seems safe and easy. Are there better options?

Should I not try and ignore this stuff and spend the time like learning something like Docker instead?

Any other tips? Anything I'm overlooking?
Nobody. But US military facilities are considered US soil and thus US jurisdiction.

In the SCOTUS rulings on Guantanamo, SCOTUS went further and stated that they would have ruled the same way if it had been a CIA facility instead of a military facility, so long as Cuba had granted the CIA permission to exclusively use the land for its own purposes.
Requiring people to buy something (insurance) and covering the cost only if their income is below a given level is not the same as providing it directly to everyone.
There is zero scientific basis to expect that this would allow people to live healthily to 100. We have limited resources for clinical trials and those resources should be focused on areas more likely to produce useful results.
I mostly use YouTube for music, and I find that their recommendation system is pretty good at giving me new and interesting releases and bands to watch.
If people value what is popular then the art of making things (appear) popular will always be in demand. Many things can be simultaneously valuable and "bad".

> They don't add any actual value to society, so it doesn't make sense that they should be profitable at all... Why is it that so many profitable businesses these days add 0 or negative value to society?

This is a contradiction. If it is profitable, then it is creating value. Society (or anyone) is allowed to value things you think are bad.
Hackintosh users are rare and a special breed in my experience but one thing definitely ties them together - they definitely love Mac more than Mac loves them.
Do people actually water lawns outside of Hollywood and golf courses?
The company mentioned, Ambrosia Medical, has been on HN before.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14470314

From the Vanity Fair article that the above linked to, it seemed it was run by Jesse Karmazin, with Peter Thiel either as a booster, or maybe providing funding? The article isn't clear on that, although he's mentioned (and quoted) multiple times.
I am a layman so I could be totally misinterpreting things, but based on existing research it seems like the most effective method would be to filter out or suppress the production of VCAM1 which is apparently a protein that is associated with aging effects. It will be interesting to see how the research develops over the next couple decades.

https://www.leafscience.org/the-fountain-of-youth-could-be-c...
Given the limited availability, some (and I hope, many) would consider that limiting the use of blood products to research and proven clinical settings would be the correct moral stance.
The closest you could get to OP's idea is to have a human-readable, non-configurable (but minable) mnemonic that maps to a public key.
It would be awesome to be able to see the up and down vote counts on comments. If you think showing that might adversely affect HN, you could make that super exclusive, like requiring over 10k in karma ;)
An Analysis of Going from $0 to $1m Revenue in 1 Month
Right now, I'm relying on Akismet [1] to automatically filter spam, which is a really good service. It's built by Automattic and they've had years of spam data to work with.

I haven't thought about forum slides, but that's pretty interesting too. I don't think Akismet could detect something like that. Of course, you can do it with moderators (you can make it so that all comments must be approved; or you can auto-approve and delete the offtopic ones later), but an automated way to detect that would be cool.

This is the long-term research plan I have; maybe we can even do away with Akismet. Spam is one of the hardest problems to solve, so it'll be interesting. But for now, I'm relying on Akismet until there are fewer and fewer core features left to implement.

Thanks!

[1] https://akismet.com/