skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Just stupid programmers or method?

Likely just stupid. I can easily see:

Manager: "Hey, review kicked your code back. You need to use the foo_s versions."

Minion: "But the foo_s versions are in libsecure and the system doesn't build and link that. I need someone with the authority to add it to the build to do that."

Manager: "Not my problem. Get your code clean by the end of the day."

Minion: <decides that renaming the function locally looks pretty good right now>
Sure, some number of such people surely exist, but do we have a particular reason to believe that it's actually a significant number? On these sorts of major issues of policy a couple hundred people here and there are a rounding error. There's no end of controversy about the various methods of counting what percent of homeless people in high cost of living areas are "non-native"; everyone running such studies has an agenda, but the impression I've gotten is that there is consensus that it's upwards of 50%. It seems implausible that a significant number of people have been driven from a stable life to mental illness wracked visible homelessness by the skyrocketing cost of housing in a small number of major cities.
Yes but what I really mean is that if people are in crisis we've already failed. We have to create support networks that keep people out of crisis.

Lifting people out of crisis is tremendously difficult and I actually don't know how we deal with the number of people we have in crisis now.
I don't think the two groups are so easily distinguished. And I think you underestimate the effect of housing pressure on people already on the margin.
Popular antipsychotics cause weight gain and eventual diabetes. I don't think that's obscure or controversial, so it seems weird to say "people with schizophrenia are three times more likely to develop diabetes" out of context. Like, are we talking about a large population of untreated people?
Clippy was a "Microsoft Agent" ActiveX component, that (or rather, who) you could script!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Agent

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/lwef/programm...

Clippy, Genie, Plany, Peedy the Parrot, Merlin the Wizard, Milton the Bear, Oscar the Cat, Max the Search Doggie, and all of their other happy friends were cheerfully retired in 2009, and are now merrily frolicking on a nice farm in the country side with a very loving family. Or so we are told.

http://bellcraft.com/mash/chars.aspx
Yes, but "being creepy" is roughly equivalent to "being rejected". You can't determine if your behavior would be creepy without risking the possibility of being creepy.

The exact same behavior, from two different people, will be considered creepy from an undesirable person but non-creepy from a desirable person.
If you enjoyed this you may also enjoy reading about Piggly Wiggly: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1959/06/06/a-corner-in-pi...
> and only if the interest exceeds the reporting threshold.

That would lead to the bank needing to get your SSN on an existing account when you made a deposit. That seems... messy.
Seriously want to understand: what exactly is wrong with equipping cops with better tech to catch people who blatantly violate laws? I am not talking about tech that itself violates constitution/laws but rather the tech that works within the boundary of constitution/laws while helping cops do their job better.
> The actual paper observes that cloud cover went down at the same time as temperature went up over the last few decades, and so perhaps the temperature went up because cloud cover went down rather than because of anything humans did.

It does more than that. It predicts that for every 1% decrease in low clouds, the temperature goes up 0.11 C. They also used all available data (25 years) of cloud cover.

The correlation is very high. Figure 3 shows this.

> It doesn't ask the question "why did cloud cover go down?" Perhaps they are both anthropogenic.

Perhaps, but it's entirely unproven that co2 affects low cloud generation.

I get that dumping a large amount of CO2 in the atmosphere and hoping nothing will change seems scary. But so is converting a large portion of land into farmland and cities, drilling into tectonic plates for geothermic energy and oil (which seems to correlate with earthquakes forming nearby), etc. And keep in mind it's a trace gas. We're talking about parts-per-million here.

With 8 billion people on the planet, we are going to be making changes to the environment regardless. It's important to understand what we are doing, and not blindly try to stop co2 production, when something else could be much more problematic.
Ask HN: How would you resolve the problem in the middle east?
Cunty faggot.
I don't find it implausible.

Living in a broken society is crazy making.

Doing everything you think and get told you "should" do to succeed and life coming apart at the seams anyway is crazy making.

Poor nutrition because you have can't make ends meet after paying your ridiculous student loans that were supposed to propel you to a better life takes its toll.

Etc ad nauseum.

We've created a society that chews people up and spits them out. Then we act like it's a personal problem when they crack under the pressure.
I share your concern, but they may have become smokers if it weren't for e-cigs. I started at 15 and smoked a pack a day and some of my friends smoked double that. That's 50 cigarettes a day and not even 20.
I hope the data turns out to be good news, but I really don't like how people are treating them as risk free or safe when we really don't know.
I wonder if Wellbutrin/Zyban/bupropion is underutilized. It's well known that people with chronic mental illness, particularly schizophrenia, tend to smoke, as it seems like nicotine helps somehow. So I wonder if a "quit-smoking" drug is really a good treatment, because it enhances the sensitivity of the brain to whatever normally stimulates those receptors.

However, I know a lot of times this and similar drugs seem to stimulate impulsive, almost manic behavior when they are first started. A family member of an acquaintance took Chantix to quit smoking and nearly wrecked his life through uncharacteristically reckless behavior.
That depends. If the malware (and to be clear, "malware" here includes various anti-virus vendors and other gray-hat software that is nominally providing the user a service but _also_ attempting to insert itself into Firefox) is only running with the privileges of the user, it can't modify the Firefox install itself, if that install requires administrator access (sudo on Linux, etc) to modify.

That gives you a trusted place to bootstrap from. The addon database is stored in the user's profile, so _can_ be edited by such malware, but that's where the the trusted code could try to verify integrity in some way. Which is how we got where we are now.

Disclaimer: I work on Gecko, not extensions and the "things injecting into the browser" situation, but have overheard a bunch of discussions about it.
A longer outtake from the paragraph I was quoting:

It is well known that people with schizophrenia are three times more likely to develop diabetes. A common debate in the field is whether the antipsychotic medications, which are known to cause weight gain and diabetes, are to blame. Recent research suggests that this is not the entire explanation. Even people newly diagnosed with schizophrenia appear to already have insulin resistance, even though most don’t yet have diabetes. This means that their brains may not be getting enough energy from glucose. Other brain studies have found metabolic abnormalities, such as higher levels of oxidative stress and inflammation as well.
>Sure, some number of such people surely exist, but do we have a particular reason to believe that it's actually a significant number

I would say, because places with affordable housing have far less homelessness. And while correlation is not causation the correlation is very compelling right now.

I can't say how many homeless people are mentally ill but stable people who lost their housing but I will say this. Every mentally ill person that experiences bouts of psychosis and whom doesn't have a strong support network is one missed dose, one lost job, one episode away from homelessness.
With seawater extraction and breeders there's enough uranium to power the entire world many times over for hundreds of millions of years. Thus, just like the fusion fuel in the sun, uranium fission fuel is effectively as renewable as it gets.

http://ansnuclearcafe.org/2016/10/03/nuclear-power-becomes-c...
FYI sf built shared database between homeless service providers now so they aren’t coming in as an unknown.

https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/San-Francisco-ro...
Firstly heat from inefficient low temperature solid-fuel reactors can't be used directly for many applications. So consider electricity. Cars/planes/kitchen-stoves cant use uranium or nuclear heat!!

All 4.5 billion tons can't be extratcted. More we extract, concentration decreases and harder it gets. I keep asking this question: If seawater extraction of metals is practical, why aren't we extracting other costly metals now?
https://twitter.com/AchalHP/status/1011661441412337665
Yup. Just like the finite but immense fusion fuel in our nearest star.
Watch Ward's video on fedwiki's design goals:
https://www.infoq.com/presentations/federated-wiki/ Some of the goals mentioned in the talk is providing tools to aid in journalism, and a chorus of different perspectives on a given topic.

Can't find the post, but someone in the indiewebcamp community had a reflection on how so much of our contributive information gets pushed into comments now, instead of direct contributions of information. There's seemingly a chasm between very large wiki sites like Wikipedia (where the there's more resistance in the contribution process in the form of editing guide), and Personal documentation tools (traditional blogging, gdocs/quip/etc., notetaking platforms like evernote/etc.)
I think you have a good thinking about journalistic practice here.

It might mitigate hypothetical undesirable effects, in this case, to articulate some of the effect of the article on readers for whom the article was intended.

For one example, for me, as a citizen of the US, where this article was published, I enjoyed this article, and it fostered a favorable impression of Cairo, by humanizing one of its people. In a movie, he would be a beloved character. I realize he is of humble circumstances, among a diversity of people in Cairo (we have such diversity in my own US city, too). I am glad he exists, and that his society permits him to find his own greatness of role, in his way. This gives me an impression of Cairo as good people, with whom to feel fellowship, a desire to travel there and to otherwise learn about and appreciate their culture, and with whom to have good international relations and engage in business/trade. I would be troubled to ever hear that any harm has come to this person, or that he has become unhappy.
It's debatable how much antipsychotics help, but people do become ill in the first place, and do develop brain damage over time independently of the drugs. Psychosis is natural and not healthy.

The problem I see is not that there is a vast conspiracy to push useless drugs, but that the drug industry inherently is geared towards developing the "minimum viable product" which means anything that has a just barely statistically significant effect in studies. Which means everything new is just possibly useful, but quite possibly not.
Blockchain.
I hear you but as an immigrant, I can’t relate. Maybe immigrants are grittier and scrappy, but when the going gets tough, we get out of Dodge and go anywhere else where we can not just survive but thrive.

Oh my goodness! America is huge and you don’t need to apply for a visa to go to another state. And you are free to move around anywhere and enjoy certain fundamental benefits that is available to all. When I first came to this country 22 years ago, I first lost my shit and then my mind when I found out that libraries are free! And anyone can checkout handfuls of books. I remember paying a monthly fee for a library card in India and can get only two books at a time. Standing in line outside American embassy and British council after school because you can’t fins Time magazine or Nat Geo elsewhere because they were expensive publication. Non vernaculars were not widely available. The Russian consulate had second Saturday chess matches and my mother would take me by bus and if I had a good play, I would get treated with ice cream. I rented a computer for a month when I found out what TCP/IP was and then had to get a phone connection for which the deposit was as much as our monthly rent.

I would hazard a guess that most immigrants would call the above problems mentioned as an uniquely first world complaint. Poverty, lack of opportunities..poor nutrition? It’s all crazy sounding to most of us. I remember when I studied for my college exams under candle light because the power grid in my Indian city was unreliable. And it’s not like I am quoting a Monty Python skit.

I won’t even get started about nutrition. It would literally sound like a MP skit. Student loans? My mother went into personal debt to put me through school and college. And she was a single mother. I can’t wrap my mind around what I see here in America. It is entirely unrelatable. It’s like..the country is a gazelle that has never been taught survival skills to be alive in the wild. And then...boom!!.. life happens.

I hear you but I want to let you know that for majority of people in the world, this would sound utterly bizarre and they’d gladly swap places with you.

No disrespect. Just a different perspective.
One thing that really bothers me about America are the folks who are clearly suffering from severe mental health and substance abuse, yet are roaming the streets unable to take care of themselves. I can't recall another developed or even underdeveloped country (including where I grew up) on this being the norm. Is there research on why this is a uniquely American problem ? Is this due a stronger adherence towards civil liberties here ?
Out of curiosity as someone less mathematically inclined but very interested in mathematics: what do you do with the equations in books like this?

Do you look at them and already intuitively know what they mean so you don't have to dig deeper? Do you slowly go over each element individually and then grasp the whole thing afterwards? Or are you so used to them that you can read them more or less the way you read English? I really want go deeper into this stuff but when I look at these books I feel like I would need years of specialized training to understand them.
Are you saying that lisps are an exception to needing to see some small examples at first when looking at a new language? Why do you think they're an exception?
That seems very odd to me. Maybe Australian regulations or trade situation is different and makes the math different, but in my area (SoCal), TCO for my rooftop solar installation was $0.08/KWh using a Net Present Value calculation, and utility solar is more than 2x cheaper than that. It’s very odd to hear wholesale prices above 10c when rooftop is so cheap.
Don't confuse solid fuel with traditional light water reactors. The highest temperature reactors are triso fueled helium cooled solid fuel reactors like HTTR with outlet temperatures over 1000C. Also, fast breeder reactors with solid fuel are just as sustainable as any fluid fuel breeder.

Molten salt is one of about a dozen advanced reactor techs that has huge potential.

Hard part is economics. Hazardous coolant has been a pain to maintain cheaply so far.

Also seawater uranium replenishes from erosion and plate tectonics so it will effectively never decrease in concentration, even if we pull it out at world scale.

http://large.stanford.edu/publications/coal/references/docs/...
The nerves have a layer of fatty acids called Myelin that act as a sheathing/sheilding around the nerve fibers to prevent crosstalk.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myelin
I wonder how much it would cost per mile of road to do this. I suspect you could get a huge benefit by electrifying major highways to start, for example:

* The 5 on the west coast, connecting Seattle/Portland/Sacramento/SF/LA/San Diego

* Route 94 in the midwest, connecting Minneapolis/Madison/Milwaukee/Chicago/Detroit

* Route 95 on the east coast, connecting Boston/NY/Philly/Baltimore/DC

Meaning that if you drive any of those routes, including a few hundred miles off the highway, you never have to worry about gas or electricity.
I agree it’s not accurate to lump all mentally ill people into a category of having bad brains. And I also agree early intervention is probably the best means to prevention, although I don’t really have any evidence to base that on aside from observing life for 30+ years.

But, I think it’s also counterproductive to pretend that we currently have the knowledge and technology to turn all of these people into productive members of society. Some of them have indeed been dealt a bad genetic hand, and giving them a house isn’t going to fix it. The guy yelling nonsense at the sky and stabbing people needs more than I know how to give him, and it’s too late to make sure his parents feed him his green beans.

So, I’m definitely open to discussing medium and long term solutions, and investing tax money into helping this problem have reasonable outcomes for all the badness involved. But I’m not happy to wait a generation for these to take place, and just hope these violent maniacs don’t kill someone, or throw a five year old kid off the upper floor of a mall...oh wait, that already happened.
That “largest” claim turns out to be pretty squishy when you poke at it: https://blogghoran.se/2019/07/12/on-mastodon-and-nazis/
Speaking of backups, what do you all do for yours? I’m embarrassed to admit I only do a weekly backup to a portable drive for my personal data, and mostly use automated snapshots on aws for database contents.
> (2) Means that a person who emigrated illegally should be able to exist outside the shadows.

This doesn’t make much sense to me. You are saying people who win the lottery of illegally getting in to a country without detection should be rewarded. People who figure out how to beat country’s systems of legal entry should be handed awards of permanent residency. Why? If citizens don’t want to punish illegal immigrants then they should just eliminate relevant laws. But if laws exist then it should be applied uniformly, equally and with due process to everyone.
There's plenty of mentally ill people roaming the streets in Canada as well. I'd guess it's a lack of institutions to care for these people and also a lack of care on part of our municipal governments to do anything about it.
Right. Something similar happens in the R&D departments of every big corporation. Only 10% of the projects become products. But a difference may be that when a venture-capital-backed startup fails the same venture capitalists won't be hiring the same employees? Well maybe
> While not quick as fast as the P100DL's 2.4 second 0-60 time, it still does it in 3.2 seconds

Not impressive. My $10,500 KTM 790 Duke does 3.1s 0-60mph. Nowhere close to the fastest bike, at only 100ish horsepower. Literbikes with 200+ horsepower do low 2's, all at around $20k.

> Everyone else rolls their eyes, especially when it's some sub-200 horsepower shitbox that isn't even flooring it

Sure. Everyone thinks the honda lawnmower drivers are lame, including most every other car guy. But who was talking about shitboxes? I was talking about real performance cars (e.g. Shelby GT350R, Camaro ZL1, Corvette ZR1, BMW M cars (M4 not included - doesn't sound good), AMGs, Porsche 911, etc.)

> . I considered a Nissan GT-R for my next car, but I'm only going to own 1 car, and I don't want to have something that gets 20 mpg as my daily driver.

1. If you can afford a GT-R, why's fuel economy a sticking point? Fuel cost is miniscule compared to the cost of the car/insurance. I get not having to fuel up as often, but filling up a gas tank is an order of magnitude (or 2) faster than charging an EV. Seems like a moot point.

2. Performance EV? Soooo, a Tesla S/X P100D? There aren't even any other worthwhile EV competitors. Audi e-Tron isn't fast. Jaguar i-Pace isn't fast. Chevy Bolt and Hyundia Kona - Same slow story.
Unless you believe markets are completely inefficient I just don’t buy this argument. Think about the reward awaiting the person or company that finally cracks fusion power: trillions of dollars in wealth; the gratitude of an entire planet; instant, everlasting fame, and so on. So, ample incentives already exist. No, the reason we haven’t solved fusion is that it’s a hard problem, and the right genius(es) have yet to come along.
I am not a real engineer; I have never built a working heat engine, unless you count rebuilding a Volkswagen engine. But I'm glad my comment was helpful!
California population has actually gone up by 2 million in the last decade. People leaving California is a myth
Maybe chronic inflammation causes diabetes.

Recently, it's been observed that the rate of new diabetes cases is declining, while obesity keeps going up. Nobody knows what's going on, even though we are bombarded with theories.

I remember (I think) reading a long time ago about how someone had linked insulin resistance to pain nerves (or maybe taste nerves, I forget) found in the pancreas - even though you don't perceive with them consciously. I wonder if anything came of that research.
Any time, and thank you for yours.
Thanks for this! I usually just use the workout app but sometimes use runkeeper for some additional stats (mainly when biking/running with my gf). I was considering looking at Strava since all my bike friends use it...but you've told me what I need to know.
Nicotine is a wonderful stimulant with minimal health risks. The problem with smoking is the smoke.
Same industry, same shameless marketing to kids.
10B over 10 years is really not that massive a contract. It would end up as something like 1/8th of AWS revenue, though more at Microsoft’s cloud division.

It’s also less than 0.2% of all federal government contracts, and assuming it’s the only contract they had it would not even place them in the top 50 government contractors. http://www.fi-aeroweb.com/Top-100-US-Government-Contractors....
After reading it I can't understand how EventBridge is different to just using SQS or any old messaging service? It just sounds like a message system layered on a messaging system. Can anyone elaborate why this is significant?
>I think the dangerous thing is that people who have never smoked are using vapes more and more

I have yet to see any indication that vaping is dangerous, beyond changes in the brain from addiction. There are typically a handful of non-toxic* ingredients, and nicotine is not known to be harmful.

*For consumption, not inhalation. Still, compared to cigarettes, this seems a bit like hysteria.
Stating that it's problematic to promote the idea that "People are simply born with broken brains. Done!" in no way suggests any of the policies you are inferring.
> I've always been curious about how they were allowed even to get started

Laws are created reactively. By default everything is legal, and it is only when there is a problem that a law is made about something.

If you go to the vitamin shop, you can see a whole isle of unregulated substances people ingest. I'm not really sure (legally) how e-cigs are different.
There are mentally ill in every country. Is it statistically higher in America? Is it a heritable condition or is it’s a brain chemical imbalance caused by environmental factors?

Surely, there are mentally ill people all over the world, but they don’t congregate in cities like this and roam around uncared for..not by family..not by society..not by anyone. The sheer numbers...It’s unfathomable.
Palantir protested the DCGS-A award successfully, then won the contract.