skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd prefer you didn't impose uncharitable inferences on what I said, and use it to imply I'm maligned. If you feel I'm unclear, or think what I said may propose something negative, feel free to politely ask for clarification.

The fundamental reason I suggested that is humans, particularly the type who suffer from mental illness or lack the ability to care for themselves, to the extent they end up destitute and addicted living in filth and on the sidewalk, require some sort of structure imposed on them. In the past that was done by the family, in our current world many of these family bonds are, sadly, falling apart.

Putting people in an asylum, only to sit around on a bed all day and take copious amounts of anti-psychotics is a miserable existence. Having the opportunity, if one chooses, to engage in meaningful work, can provide structure and meaning to life.

I'd prefer to think of it more as a therapeutic sort of work program, where those under conservatorship by the state learn how to live with structure, learn what it means to make something, and could even be compensated for their efforts.

In my mind at least, I am contrasting the reward of a hard days work tending to, say, an organic vegetable garden, with the mundane horror of sitting on a bed in between distributions of anti-psychotic medicine.

I hope my clarification gives you more context to realize I'm not suggesting slavery.
Even Taiwan does not recognize Taiwan as a separate nation. Its position is that the Republic of China still exists, is the only legitimate state in all of China, and that its seat of government in Taiwan.

There is a growing movement in Taiwan to give up on this claim and instead pursue an existence as a de jure, rather than merely de facto independent nation.
Arguably that's a bit different though. If I hire a contractor to do a job (whether construction or software) for a fixed price and they do a sub-standard job, it's really not unreasonable to expect that they'll correct deficiencies prior to final payment. (If I'm paying them hourly and there are no other conditions in the contract, then it's probably on me though.)
This is fantastic - exactly what I've been looking for but didn't know I was looking for it! I've been re-importing libraries by doing something weird like: `import './three.js'; export default window.Three;` so I can use it as a normal module.

I love not having to use build tools for my personal projects anymore - everything feels so light and "old school". Here's my Minecraft-ish clone in native modules and WebGL2: https://github.com/mrspeaker/webgl2-voxels. No dot files, nothin' to build... just view source!
Of course I did. After watching the govt and the FDA in action for 5 decades, detassling corn for Monsanto, watching Monsanto sue farmers into submission, seeing increased rates of cancer autism and other issues. Being told everything is ok.

Then I travel the world eating food in other countries and notice the difference in my health. I see the cancer rates in Africa.

You say I am uneducated and stupid. I say I have experience and that experience doesnt jive with your experts statements.

So yeah.... prove you are trustworthy
Often timeouts work because it separates the kid from the stimulus and gives them an opportunity to cool off and let their conscious mind reassert itself over their emotions. Not necessarily because they think of it as a negative consequence to be avoided.

Often when young kids do harmful things they are not really "thinking" in that moment. Sometimes it is hard for them to even recognize it as something "they did" as opposed to something that happened to them. Strong emotions, to a little kid, are things that happen to them, not things they do. They don't understand why they do things, sometimes.

The heart of raising a young kid to behave properly is teaching them to understand and manage their emotions. We tell our kid, "you feel angry, and that's ok. It's ok to feel angry. However, you're still responsible for how you behave." And we give her appropriate options for dealing with feeling angry. One of the tools we've taught her is a cooling off period, but we don't label it a "time out" like a punishment. As she has gotten older, she gives them to herself sometimes!
IE6 was good until it wasn't anymore.
> The "small GUI change" was the GIMP devs pushing a file format absolutely nobody uses in order to attract professional users that aren't going to migrate to GIMP anyways.

We do not push any particular file format. We push a safe workflow.

Before 2.8, we got a ton of complaints about saving to JPEG and then not finding layers and other extras upon reopening. Doesn't seem to happen nearly as often with 2.8 and onwards. I wonder why... :)

> Meanwhile actual pro features like CMYK support

Done in the backend, will eventually be done in UI.

> tablet support on Windows/Mac (because porting to GTK3 is less important than mangling the UI)

I have no idea what you are talking about. Care to elaborate?

> and cryptographically signed binaries (because nothing screams professional product like getting binaries from an unknown developer).

DMGs for GIMP are signed since version 2.10.10. What the hell are you talking about? :)

> Mangling the save/export workflow was done purely out of spite

In a fantasy world maybe.
I really like these tips. My wife and I have followed a very similar approach, and I like to think we have two well-behaved, considerate, and appropriately responsible 5-year-olds.

We find timeouts to be quite effective, and we use the clear "you need to do X or it's a timeout" and then clearly counting to three. This is often after a few attempts to ask in a regular tone of voice and/or cajole. In fact I have found the number of timeouts we actually give has decreased dramatically, and just counting does the trick now when we need them to respond quickly.

My wife and I were both classroom teachers in the past, so we've both been able to use some of those tools with our kids. We do of course let them be kids, let them have their occasional freak-out moments, and we couch all of this in a lot of love, affection, and communication.
Why does it need to die? What is the rationale behind that?
That's not true.
Trust is a major issue and is directly responsible for anti vaxxer movement.
Major corporations and media outlet have made bending the truth (PR spins etc) a legitimate common place practice.
Any talking head you see on television /other media is not genuinely trying to convince you.
They are all hired hands which will say whatever it takes to produce the results their employers demand.
The amount of half truths exaggerations and out right lies we encounter daily is staggering.
We thought critical thinking might be the answer, but the overwhelming quantities of adversarial content makes a critical thinker into a conspiracy theorist.
If alot of experts lie and tell half truths to benefit themselves why should you believe any expert?
Wouldn't it be HNES? RES = Reddit Enhancement Suite so RHN would be? Reddit Hacker News? And I have no clue that RFN was supposed to stand for.

Edit: Actually it looks like there is already a HNES [0]

[0] https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/hacker-news-enhanc...
It died with Citizens United, and everything since then from Democrats and Republicans is just parts of the game of keeping the masses content while selling out to the oligarchs. If you didn't notice til Trump, you weren't paying attention.

But it's still nothing compared to the Hong Kong situation, so there is that I guess.
> But some people get more by being untransparent.

Untransparent...mmm...I think I like I that word :)
Billion-dollar Bitcoin lawsuit could upend Craig Wright's Satoshi claims
ex-args
Those people get the documents. I've never been in a job that required me to sign something that I couldn't see. When it doesn't work, you say no. People are too afraid to say no.
One Scottish man's idea to fix the broken world of online debate
Two-hour ‘dose’ of nature significantly boosts health – study
Where is our computer vision if it can't even recognize cocks?
Could it contain a charge or instability that destroys the useful innovations when it strikes the target, to prevent that? Even regular bullets look deformed when they hit something, it seems like if you want to slow down enemy research you could exploit that
I prefer a classic office app. Not interested in ribbons and other unique UI items that are not standard across all apps.
Absolutely. Imagine how much more you can help if you had a team helping to build and grow your website. If you want, don't take a dime for yourself and instead invest it all into growing your business and helping others. If you're delivering something that gives real value to someone's life, and it's priced correctly, they will pay for it.
This is a good argument for government funded R&D, and government owned drugs.

They cost a ton of money and take forever to create, so the product becomes very expensive, and rights to it are owned by the creating company.
The government empowers a body to regulate the flow of new drugs on the market, and once the drug meets regulatory requirements, the government - in many cases - pays on behalf of the patient.

A company is interested in making a profit on their time investment, whereas the government could be content to break even (for the good of their citizens).

If the government instead paid a company to do the R&D, maybe even providing access to approved facilities where the work is to be done, the government could then retain ownership of that product and then create agreements with drug manufacturers to produce those drugs.

This solves a couple of problems, like sole producers of a product arbitrarily increasing prices (it is expensive and time consuming to set up production for a new drug, even if it is off patent), as well as supply issues (I don't think right now the FDA has any rules saying a drug company must be able to supply a certain amount of a drug to get their license to distribute).
I read the original study. I have a few thoughts. My partner is a physician and I am an AI researcher working in medicine. I think a lot about doctors as machine learning models, and RCT results like loss terms in a complicated objective function.

What is the best learning rate for updating physicians (our models) from the results of RCT's (part of our loss)?

The authors reviewed all articles in three journals from (generally) between 2003-2017. They didn't, afaict (please point me if they did), review the time-to-correction (if any correction has been made). It takes some time before the results of an RCT end up in established practice. I'm actually surprised it's so small in many cases.

It's not like there's a database where the results of every RCT are immediately updated and the physician model is retrained overnight on the new data.

Even if there were, imagine if the learning rate (so to speak) were so high that every discipline immediately changed their published best practices on the basis of a single RCT?

Here's a cautionary paragraph from one of the excellent reversal studies they use:

Several limitations of the study warrant discussion. First, because we enrolled only 26% of eligible patients, our findings must be generalized cautiously. The most frequent reason that patients declined enrollment was a strong preference for one treatment or the other. Since patients' preferences may be associated with treatment outcome, our trial may be vulnerable to selection bias. Participating surgeons may not have referred potentially eligible patients because they were uncomfortable randomly assigning these patients to treatment; this form of selective enrollment may also create bias.26 Second, because the trial was conducted in academic referral centers, the findings should be generalized carefully to community settings. Third, we did not formally assess the fidelity of the physical therapists or surgeons to the standard intervention protocols. Finally, our study was not blinded, since our investigative group did not consider a sham comparison group feasible. [0]

I'm less concerned about RCT to Best Practice time than from Best Practice to Typical Physician Practice time. There is a cascaded model connected to the 'complex RCT loss' and it's discipline published practice down to individual physician treating patients. Compressing the time from RCT to individual physician is fraught with difficulties, but could be improved.

Finally, RCT is the gold standard, but it's not perfect and it doesn't always clearly translate to the individual physician's model of practice. Many best practices weren't established from RCT's either.

And an inconclusive result from an RCT is not the same thing as proving that there's no difference in outcomes, but a proper statistician can chime in there.

[0]https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa1301408
On the Netscape side of things innerHTML didn't arrive until NS Navigator 6.0. For Netscape's dynamic HTML model with NS 4.x, it was still a matter of opening a document stream and writing to it (`document.open()` … `document.write()` … `document.close()`), in this case the document of a layer or ilayer element (`document.layers[<layerName>].document`).

There was an interesting bug with `document.write()` in early versions of Netscape Navigator: If you wrote to table cell (td) or row (tr) code containing any embedding elements (like images or form elements) and there was adjacent whitespace around the script tags, the embedding elements (images) would show up twice. This was one of the more obscure bugs in the browser, which likely prohibited a broader use of `document.write()` with dynamic layouts etc at the time.
However, if you knew the quirks, you could load data objects in an invisible frame and render/update regions (frames or later layers) much like today.

What was initially setable: Beginning with NS 2.0 (JavaScript1.0) the state of form elements and window locations. Later (NS 3.0, 1996) also href and src attributes of images and anchors (links), the document title, and you could navigate the history, or call print() and find(), as well as manipulate a few other things, like keyboard focus. Of course there were event handlers, but they were quite specific for a few elements. (E.g., onclick or onmouseover were available for links and images only.) More complex interaction (including playing sound!) was possible via a proprietary Netscape Java/JS-bridge, called "LiveConnect".
Jordan Peterson launches anti-censorship site Thinkspot
Unfortunately I don't know enough to know what's special about the Erlang scheduler (if anything)

Bon appetit: :-)

Appetizer (blog post):

http://jlouisramblings.blogspot.com/2013/01/how-erlang-does-...

Entree (book chapter):

https://blog.stenmans.org/theBeamBook/#CH-Scheduling
> a world-dominating platform built by fitter happier people

... I guess I need an Instagram account.
These are the same themes I've only ever known to come out of Velocity
Nope xxd is fine, read the man page.

$ PAGER='col -bx' man 5 cpio | awk '$1 == "mode" { print; while (getline) print }' | head
mode The mode specifies both the regular permissions and the file
type. It consists of several bit fields as follows:
0170000 This masks the file type bits.
0140000 File type value for sockets.
0120000 File type value for symbolic links. For symbolic links,
the link body is stored as file data.
0100000 File type value for regular files.
0060000 File type value for block special devices.
0040000 File type value for directories.
0020000 File type value for character special devices.
$ echo /dev/urandom | cpio -o | dd bs=6 skip=3 count=1 | od -tc
1 block
1+0 records in
1+0 records out
6 bytes transferred in 0.000025 secs (239675 bytes/sec)
0000000 0 2 0 6 6 6
0000006
Unfortunately, we know that people are literally paid to post pro China activism on the internet. You need independent verification to even be an anicdote.
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is... a reflection of where this technology came from
This can vary quite a bit employer to employer. As a contractor I've always successfully crossed out indemnification clauses, noncompete clauses (except while the contract is in progress), and anything that lays claim to my time or effort outside of work. But I've also been willing to walk.
I attempted to go vegetarian and noticed significant hair loss, very quickly back on the meat wagon. Googling around it seems that anecdotally, this is a very real phenomenon.

Vegetarian and vegan diets, for me, seem entirely too strict. I'm cutting down on meat consumption but my deep suspicion is that the body is better off with protein dense meals every now and then. I would guess even more so for growing children.
So then report them. If you don't, then you're lying as much as they are.
AM and FM radio.

Also, leaflets and posters if it is a prolonged thing.

I’ve heard the kids these days use p2p messaging on their phones (via bluetooth/wifi).

That could work as a way to move large files with plausible deniability.

(Edit: also, you should watch Max Headroom. They have a few prescient episodes on exactly this topic. The couple living out of a trailer, and the copyright crackdown episode come to mind.)
Naive question - why isn’t more open source dual licensed commercial and GPL? If it’s licensed commercial, you would still be give it away for free.
There's far more to building a cross platform app than making sure the UI fits on both screens. I might have missed it but does Apple plan to consolidate things like file system, networking, installation lifecycle, and notifications?
Careful, the surprise may be fake, because it was struck out and you both had to initial--if it was so weird, why did they just not give you a new copy that didn't have the clause?
I'll wager the opposite. Of course it's not legal anywhere, but I don't expect any customs people to be able to tell that a phone comes with an changeable/unapproved IMEI.
You Have to Live It to Believe It
I'd speculate that the certification of hours might be an effort to deny unemployment benefits. The company can fire you for cause and claim that you lied about your hours. If everyone breaks some minor rule all of the time, then prosecution and punishment becomes entirely discretionary, used only when furthering the goals of the authority.

I'm not sure if this theory would actually prevail in an unemployment hearing - it varies significantly by state - but the business loses nothing by trying.
If this were true, how did the drug laws passed in the 70's hang around for so long? If there was no reason but racism, why didn't Obama, who in his first term had super majorities in Congress, simply wipe them away? You take away the agency and voices of people who live in crime ridden poor neighborhoods which suffer the consequences of high levels of addiction.

In the capital of my state, in just the last few weeks, we've had people high on pcp attack cops (after strangling his girlfriend), shoot at traffic, and pick up a child out of a stroller and slam them on the ground, all unprovoked. Those victims aren't racist in wanting to not have to deal with people high out of their minds.
The UK proved that rubber bullets can kill people[0].
The French first deployed tear gas during WWI.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubber_bullet#Riot_control_use
They are however headquartered in China which has much more privacy-intrusive policies/demands.
If you want to be better at parenting, get a dog first, and learn how to deal with dogs. Properly, using modern behavioral techniques. You will find that many rules apply both to dogs and kids (which shouldn't be surprising, really).

Things like consistency (try to set as few rules as possible, but if you do set them, enforce them without exceptions), deciding ahead of time and sticking to it assertively (do not change your decision based on pleading), calmness (dogs do not follow or listen to people who are agitated and nervous), avoiding too much control (do not issue too many commands), enforcing control (when you do issue a command, it needs to be obeyed, and not repeated), and punishment (calm, immediate, understandable, predictable and linked to the transgression) — you can learn all of those while properly raising a dog.

Also, never lie to your kid (or dog) and answer their every question seriously.
Someone who will persist in a racist lie of birtherism conspiracy nonsense for five years, has zero credibility. What this person "legitimately feels" is so totally out of scope because first his assertions of fact are frequently provably not reality based, second there is no ability to assess anyone's feelings. Why must he legitimately feel Canada is a threat? Why can't he be lying about it just to get what he wants, whatever that is?
Well, current medical research is not really science, more of a sort of office politics with added prestige and financial incentive.

Actually you can read all the papers you want, you have no guarantee that what's on paper is what happened. Academic and industrial misconduct and epidemiological ignorance are so prevalent in the field that it's more akin to a religious cult.

No, unfortunately I'm not being pessimistic. This is also the case for the FDA people. They can't know, even by doing good work and to a very large extent, whether something will prove harmful or useful.
They're expensive, but effective right? They seem like the sort of plane we don't need until we are at war with a near-peer and they are the only thing giving us air superiority. The drop in production was due to the lack of foreign 5th gen fighters to fight against, not because the platform itself doesn't do its job well (AFAIK).
I've been using HackerNew [0] for years now (probably 5+) and love it. It does change the style a little bit but I quite enjoy it. It appears to be missing in the chrome store right now though for some reason.

[0] https://github.com/tommoor/HackerNew
GIMP before version 2.8: yell at users that layers will be lost when saving to JPG/PNG/TIFF etc. Actual result: people lost data.

GIMP since version 2.8: only allow exporting to JPG/PNG/TIFF etc., warn if data wasn't saved. Actual results: only a few cases of lost data.

We did the math. Now you do yours :)
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> I'm baffled that the largest airforce in the world is so desperate for a jack-of-all-trades aircraft.

A big motivation was that developing combat aircraft is stupidly expensive and extremely prone to cost overruns, which then make programs vulnerable to cancellation. So the defense industry and DoD got together to make this project very difficult to cancel. They sold the virtues of cost savings by sharing components, then they staked the future of US and allied air power on this one platform. On top of that they spread the production of the aircraft across FORTY-FIVE states. It is not only the most expensive weapons program in history, it is the most politically engineered.

> But the US can afford specialised aircraft. Betting the house on a jack-of-all-trades means you end up with a master of none. The US should be master of everything, and that means more specialised fighters, bombers, CAS, etc.

Yes, but one of the critical weaknesses of the US military's philosophy is that if it's worth doing, it's worth overdoing. The DoD frequently capitulates to the desire to gold plate weapons systems and change requirements to the point that projects get cancelled. So, the JSF is in a way, a response to that tendency, just the totally wrong one.

> If the A-10 isn't good enough anymore, by all means design a replacement. But don't expect it to also take of vertically and perform air superiority. Everything comes at a trade-off. Having an airframe designed for VTOL and then use it for planes that don't VTOL is just wasteful.

I think the STOVL requirement is key factor that really effed up the JSF program. And that entire requirement is born out of an irrational institutional fear the Marine Corps has about being left without air support that they harbor from WWII.