skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The reason you get "attacked as an antivaxer" is because you are using weasel words to come to a conclusion that is not supported by any evidence, and presenting it as basic fact.

The claims that all of these vague areas you point to might be issues are clearly just designed to put doubt into people's minds. They sound like they could be reasonable concerns, but I have never seen any evidence to back any of these up as real issues, despite intense scrutiny of vaccines.
I've never slept on a bag full of rocks, but have fallen asleep on a rock beach before, because it was incredibly comfortable. Figured it was just position i got into, but I guess there's something to it.
People often point to social media as to why personal blogs died off, but I'd wager comment spam had just as much of an impact. Blogs were huge just 10 years ago, but eventually the sheer volume of spam comments with links to "Air Jordan, Gucci, Givenchy, work from home", really took out the communal feel of the comments section.

Wordpress and Disqus didn't act fast enough to auto-detect this spam and prevent them from being published, and it wasn't long before conversations started moving to FB, Twitter and Medium.
I don't know if it's a power move, but I like to reiterate all verbal communications in a follow up email to the person(s) I was conversing with, prompting them to ensure I understood everything correctly. While it's more of a CYA thing, the power move comes into play when they try to feign ignorance on the topics of the conversation, and I can use their written words to set the record straight (or just have a record of what I may have understood, but they failed to clarify by not responding to my follow up).
Surely everyone who ever gets asked these sorts of questions just says what they think the person asking wants to hear?
If you think the entire discipline of climatology is a fraud that's fine but mainstream climatology says that the hockey stick graph was accurate.
I Am Declaring War on STRESS! Denholm The IT Crowd | Series 1 Episode 2

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Yep, i'm actually painfully aware that that is my problem, the issue is that my natural brain is to be a problem solver and I say yes by default to most things, but i am trying to shut down the amount of streams of things that i'm dealing with but i need to finish them rather than abandon them. I'm 1-2 weeks away from not having to worry about 2 streams of things and then i can shut down the other things as i go on. Its just a stressful time.
> On a mac, to actually grab the scroller for scrubbing, you need to scroll a bit to make it visible and then manage to bring your cursor into a tiny area using the trackpad

This complaint looks disingenuous to me. If you're using a trackpad, you already have scrolling built in and the scrollbar is there primarily for visual feedback.

The reason that scrollbars can now be invisible by default is exactly _because_ of the ubiquity of touchpads and mice with built-in scrolling.
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Thank you very much CrazyStat. I was convinced that "x-bar and s are independent for data coming from a Normal distribution". So the conclusion is for my example, p(x|mu) is normal distribution, p(x-bar|mu), after derivation, is also normal distribution. If p(x|mu) comes from some other distributions, p(x-bar|mu), however, might not be normal.
Thanks for providing the proof, and I will only be convinced by the proof :) Will update the post shortly. Thanks for the great conversation and suggestions.
> It's hard for me to believe that another job won't be the same thing

Most people also are too lazy for this level of sadism. Even if your next boss is a bigger asshole (which sounds completely unbelievable), it'd be more profitable for them to let you work rather than waste all that energy abusing you.
The way I see it, a bit of time in a slightly more boring workplace, especially with a better manager, could really help to find stability in your life and recover from all the verbal abuse.

I hope you find a job that isn't the same thing, they really do exist! Most of all, I hope it works out for you. Best of luck!
Norway's bold plan to tackle overtourism and climate change at the same time
And pretending to be just as eager and passionate as a CS grad who knows how to reverse a binary tree on a whiteboard but has no idea how to humanely extract actionable requirements from non-technical stakeholders.
I tried a few of the open source available assistant-like systems on my RaspberryPi and found that none of them is even half as good as Google's or Apple's, which is expected.

After thinking about it though, I found that I don't need the voice recognition at all really. What I really wanted is a device that can help me do a few things well, mainly for my case, listen to the radio, announce calendar events, and train time (Stockholm in my case), so I just built that into a raspberry pi with a tiny screen and a few buttons. This little device is more than enough for my case.
What is "nth-ing"? Do you mean, like, "mee too"?
A brief glance at history would seem to say otherwise. Uneducated masses are easy to control. It 'doesn't want to die' because it shouldn't. It's a vast improvement over how people loved their lives for the majority of our existence.
It cites 3 former senior administration officials, which narrows it down to thousands of people who may or may not be privy to such info. It’s the same as saying, “according to 3 human beings...” . The sources won’t be burned so we’ll never know- it’s the same as making it up.
Multiple scrollable areas in a window is pretty annoying in my experience. Depending on what you last clicked on and where your cursor is can result in different areas being scrolled.
This is insecure thinking of a post-Communist person gasping at those born with wealth and at those who never really made an effort to earn even a fraction of their wealth. Had two our preceding generations think this way, Nazis would never lost, Communism would never fall. You will never earn their respect, Ionuç.
I was in Doah recently, and people live almost their entire lives indoors. We even went to the main street market after dark and it was too hot to stand without sweating. It's hard to imagine what would happen there if the temperature were to increase by even a few degrees.
Wholesome corporate power moves, also known as being a good leader:

- Allowing your team to work remotely if they want to

- Assuming responsibility for something that needs doing when it would be easier to pass the buck

- Shielding your team mates from unwarranted external criticism

the complete list is practically endless
My main two feature requests would be:

- Add a way to mute notifications from an individual user

- Add a way to organize threads by topic

For the first one, I believe they've said they will never implement it. For the second one, I'm holding out that someone will realize how crappy the threading implementation is, but I don't have much hope.
The re-org in which dead wood is shunted off to an out-of-the way planning or strategy assignment.

Extra points for dotted-line reporting to another strategy person. Further extra points if the planning assignment is not funded adequately and/or has no personnel authority.
You grounded my fantasy. :(

I thought self-learning CS can be a good way to democratize wealth. You only need a laptop (even Chromebook is fine), internet connection, self-determination, raw intelligence and living cost covered to be able to master CS. But apparently most people are not able to do that. Maybe less than 1% of population can do this kind of thing. Or maybe not.
Red Flag Laws = Gun Confiscation Orders. Just because they aren't using the most accurate terms doesn't mean I am editorializing the article. Look at their implementation in the states.

All of these laws have the same ends, gun confiscation before due process. Maybe the due process takes place in a week, maybe it takes place in a year, in any case, these are gun confiscation orders with no conviction of a crime and in many cases, no evidence that a crime has even occurred.

Red Flag Laws = Gun Confiscation Orders.
Yes: I've worked hard the last years to get the government scholarship I'm on, and moving in this country. I also want to work in academia, get the doctor title and I won't give up that easily. The situation is not as terrible as it could be (I would say 3/10 on crap scale), but the fact I cannot use my wide array of knowledge and skills nor pursue my academic goals and being micro-managed drives me mad. I hate not being given the opportunities to show that my work is good.

I have ton of options, the most obvious ones being developer or translator.
The techniques being looked at only target a single species. To spread, it requires interbreeding between species which is rare, and for the the new species to out compete and spread, which is unlikely since the condition is fatal to the carriers of the genetic modification's next generation.
Vegan and vegetarian meat substitutes could pose health risks
It looks like there are some old Reddit and Quora threads where people discuss this. Some answers there seem to be

* no because of non-human animal hosts for some viruses

* no because everyone would die if everyone actually stayed home for 2 weeks

* no because some people might be long-term carriers of some viral strains (maybe because of compromised immune systems?)

* no because people's homes aren't properly isolated from one another (e.g. within an apartment building)

* no because a virus could slowly spread between unlucky members of a single household and thereby persist within the household for many weeks at a time
After reading this thread, I feel fantastic compared to most of these answers. Thanks HN.
For a second I thought it was about the medical software (epic). Which would have been really curious if the medical data storage was opt-in :p
Just wait until the 20th of september
Unfortunately, while not fair to others, it's sometimes necessary to act petty or narcissistic to get ahead in the real world.
I guess I am doing relatively fine. I am in my early 20s and this is my first job after graduation.

But I have this irritating problem that I keep obsessing over any unsolved problem from work, which seems to affect my personal life as well. Until and unless I complete that(which can be a simple algo or lets say a small features), it basically keeps bugging me. Is this relatable to others? Maybe this is because of my lack of experience, and gradually with time, I can get over it.
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The first meeting of EU leaders after Brexit was devoted, entirely, to discussing the apparently urgent EU army.

Guess how much time they spent discussing that the EU was just rejected completely by the biggest vote in British history: none whatsoever.

The EU isn't even federalising, really. It's just centralising. That's happening despite the fact that very few want it because they aren't allowed to disagree.

New treaties aren't being signed, but that doesn't matter: the existing treaty is self amending and anyway, the ECJ can be relied on to always re-interpret the treaties to grant the EU new powers it was explicitly not meant to have. The Kafkaesque way they decided that state aid rules allowed the EU to control corporate tax rates is an example of that: the Commission was never given that power, explicitly and by design, but they took it anyway. With a corrupt Supreme Court ideologically devoted to increasing executive power, treaties and laws don't mean anything.

So I'd argue if you can't see it happening you're not paying attention.
> why write a wiki when you can just make a repo full of markdown files?

fyi: github wikis are just a repo full of markdown files. you can clone down your wiki, make changes, write commits, etc.
Private companies and Israel defense and intelligence agencies have deep ties, and the article shows. For instance:

> Mossad Director Yossi Cohen told the paper that the Mossad’s partnership with civilian companies in Israel is “excellent” and that the agency will continue to strengthen those ties.
> The point is that society can address more than one problem

Can it? It often seems like nothing really ever get addressed fully, while there is a barrage of half baked debates.
As far as I know, Clojure usage is on the decline at Facebook. It was only used by an acquired subsidiary (Wit), and lack of internal support meant migrating to another supported language.
I did some work on a Python JIT in the path. The two biggest challenges were:

- Python is much, much, more dynamic than Javascript. You can override just about anything in Python, including the meaning of accessing a property. You have overloaded operators (with pretty complex resolution rules), metaclasses, and more. And they're all used extensively. There's some Javascript equivalents to those things, but either there are fewer deoptimization cases or are features that aren't commonly used in practice (e.g. Proxy objects).

- Python has a ton of important libraries implemented as C extensions. These libraries tend to depend on undefined behavior of the CPython interpreter (e.g. destruction order which is more deterministic with ref counting) or do things that happen to work but are clearly not supposed to be done (e.g. defining a full Python object as a static variable).

I guess also economic incentives, there hasn't been an incentive for anybody to staff a 50 person project to build a Python JIT given that it's cheaper to rewrite some or all of the application in C/C++/Rust/Go whereas that's not an option in Javascriptland.
OT: Is there any API out there that implements say a length* prefix in all C strings?

* 2 or 4 octets size
> I hate having eclectic or traditional "nerdy" interests and getting a similar reaction. I've been enjoying Classic, and I have a small online circle for the niche games/music/art I like.

Funny, I feel like I don't fit in, because I've never been a gamer (video or board or otherwise), don't like Sci-Fi, hate Fantasy with a passion, etc etc. I'm not a Trekkie or a Star Wars fan. I don't like anime. shrug There are lots of ways to not fit in.
Paying for software is one thing. Paying for software where the amount you pay may be all but completely dictated by the supplier is another. If you decided to pay for a relational database, you could, with some work, swap vendors. If you paid for datomic, you could not. That makes it a non-starter imo as a technology decision. The business model here is naive and will change or datomic will always be super-niche. Maybe that's be design, but it's a little sad to me as it sounds like the tech could do some real good.

edit: typo
>information dense designs

All well and good for you but our author here is working with 40-50% whitespace anyway! Why the hell does he need to hide and minimize fundamental features to reclaim more fucking whitespace? Aaaaargh, designers are from a different species!
GC isn't an abstraction either. By that argument, you could claim that you have zero-cost abstractions even if you have stop-the-world GC.
> The rise of dark-mode popularity seems to coincide with the availability of OLED screens

"Dark mode" predates OLEDs by decades. Pretty much up until the first Macs, turning on a computer and getting something other than green, amber, or white text on a black background was an exception. Even then, code editors and terminal emulators on Macs and eventually Windows systems typically allowed for a dark mode, if only as a secondary option, well before anything other than CRT displays were practical.
Jeff Atwood on building online community platforms, Discourse and more
You missed the point. If the UK gets caught spying on the US president then they're out of Five Eyes. That would be a much greater loss than anything they could gain through such spying.

Germany has much less to lose.
> How do you deal with arbitrary objects being passed around and not know what's potentially coming from where?

Honestly, by trusting that those objects conform to what things are documented to expect and using operations that will naturally raise an error for unexpected cases.

Basically, you don't depend on compile-time or IDE-time checks, you depend more heavily on tests.

It allows for much more of a direct approach. E.g. if something's documented to accept a sequence, I don't care whether it's a list, tuple, some custom object, etc, I just need it to have certain properties like iteration and ability to index.

You write things to expect certain abstract categories of types and do things that will raise errors if they're not in the category you expect. The downside is that nothing is enforcing that in an IDE or at compile time. As a result, you need more integration tests.

In some ways, yes, you're more at the mercy of other developers behaving well. The flip side to that is more flexibility and less duplication.
Nooooo! More plain text and less html. If we need to, lets define a strict subset, lets call it html5-lite and it will only have a handful of tags and two css modes that are not user definable.
Besides the existence of __getattr__, __add__, etc. that other people mentioned, there's also:

- A Python runtime has to support threads + shared memory, while a JS one doesn't. JS programs are single-threaded (w/ workers). So in this sense writing a fast Python interpreter is harder.

- The Python/C API heavily constrains what a Python interpreter can do. There several orders of magnitude more programs that use it than v8's C++ API.
For example, reference counts are exposed with Py_INCREF/DECREF. That means it's much harder to use a different reclamation scheme like tracing garbage collection. There are thousands of methods in the API that expose all sorts of implementation details about CPython.

Of course PyPy doesn't support all of the API, but that's a major reason why it isn't as widely adopted as CPython.

- Python has multiple inheritance; JS doesn't

- In Python you can inherit from builtin types like list and dict (as of Python 2.2). In JS you can't.

- Python's dynamic type system is richer. typeof(x) in JS gives you a string. type(x) in Python gives you a type object which you can do more with. And common programs/frameworks make use of this introspection.

- Python has generators, Python 2 coroutines (send, yield from), and Python 3 coroutines (async/await).

In summary, it's a significantly bigger language with a bigger API surface area, and that makes it hard to implement and hard to optimize. As I learn more about CPython internals, I realize what an amazing project PyPy is. They are really fighting an uphill battle.
Thanks for the words, and the song, haha. Yeah i'm aware that the issue is i'm juggling a million things right now and if i was only dealing with one at a time then any problems that come up would be trivial to deal with, but its just the nature of a minor thing going wrong on multile things all at the same time. None of these things i'm dealing with are unsurmountable if they're compartmentalised into 1 thing at a time, but when they're all at once, i get stressed.

I've just gotta keep going, stop anything new coming onto my plate (within my control anyway) and just deal with these things one at a time until the list gets shorter and shorter and i feel better. Its gunna take some time though.
Feels like there is quite a bit of an attempt to sway the conversation in the comments
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That is where one issue where you'll see some agreement between the two parties...unending commitment and funding for Israel...it seems like Israel is making out like bandits from this one-way "relationship"
> It doesn't make sense to have AC preparedness when it's only used for 1 week out of a year.

If that one week a year can kill people, still think it doesn't make sense?
RE-gem5: Building Sustainable Research Infrastructure
I love stories like this. But, what if the hikers would just rather not be found?
My experience with a lot of French people isn’t just “we don’t need air conditioning”.

It’s that “air conditioning makes you sick”.

Even though most EU cars now come standard with AC, my experience is that the French would rather open the windows on the autoroute than turn hit the AC.
Just imagine if he had a daughter instead. I don't know why some linguists are so against the Oxford comma.
:root {
--laptop-content: ...

Huh. Interesting that I never noticed that CSS supported variables like this. I haven't worked on a Web front-end for some time, but I see that this has been pretty portable since late 2017. I remember that one of the big points of using CSS preprocessors like Sass was being able to use variables. Now, it seems they're a little less useful.
You can't sync your photos into drive, which is how I backed them up, using the `drive` commandline tool and then `s3cmd` to make another copy.
Yep I want to stay in academia but I'll probably try to sell my own products one day. I could change lab I think, but I'm not guaranteed that the situation will be better elsewhere. Heck, on the paper this lab is exactly focus on the kind of stuff I want to do.
Looks like they at least followed the IE pattern of having conditional comments. Embedding IE CSS hacks in one place (and possibly degrading the site) made working with IE almost tolerable.
Google agrees to $550M fine in France to settle fiscal fraud probe
>What is "nth-ing"? Do you mean, like, "mee too"?

"I second that!"

"I third that!"

...

"I n-th that!"
When you buy a Fitbit, do you want to opt-in to it checking your heart rate?

Serious question.

I don't know how you draw the line between what would have to be opt-in and what would have to be opt-out.
> Syntax and small API gotchas can be learned by a beginner programmer in a matter of days of using the language, and are fairly irrelevant to your overall experience.

I agree with the first part but not the second. One can only write

arraylist.add(arraylist.size() - 1, arraylist.get(arraylist.size() - 1) + 1)

before wondering if there’s a better way to do this.
Few people can entirely avoid having to work for a living.
yes i agree but this same thing can cut both ways. Source: have spent many years building healthy teams with many directs and direct managers. There is a way to broach the subject of personal stress in a 1x1 but an internet comment box is not the right place to suggest it imho.
Sorry but no. You may be my professor :p
U.S. President Lyndon Johnson used to take this power move a step further. In one-on-one meetings with members of his staff, he would go into the bathroom attached to his office, start urinating, and then call the staff member into the bathroom to continue the conversation. They would then have to either go into the bathroom and literally watch him relieve himself, or risk offending their boss, who happened to also be the most powerful man in the world.
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Because it was HNers wanted it here?
No that's not correct. Have you used the transportation systems in those areas during rush hour?
Very nice! Is the synthesis post ready?
Yep, sometimes the grass is really NOT greener on the other side. You may think you are in a bad spot but others have it much worse. All we can do is help them and hope that they can help us when its our turn to be in a truly bad state.
I can relate.

The existential dread you're experiencing is not your fault: normies will bore you to death 99% of the time.

Remedy: find yourself people like yourself and start spending time with them.
I don’t think it’s idiomatic to do a bunch of unnecessary memory management in inner loops, right?
They don't inflate demand, they inflate pricing. To buy a house you are competing with all the peope + all the companies that see it as an investment opportunity.
As a KDE user, this looks really tempting. The only thing I'd be worried about is that using third-party clients is a violation of Discord's TOS, and I'd be terrified of getting banned for using it. Do you know if Discord has a history of banning Ripcord users, or is it something they look the other way on?