skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the best reason this keeps coming up is that entanglement with the West never stopped. Britain passed the economic and military reins to the states, but any useful summary of Saudi Arabia's economy/politics/culture today is going to have a disproportionate amount of text about Western relations (and where they come) compared to, say, popular opinions inside the country.

Reducing that to a question of "blame" I would agree is kind of an irritant 80+ years on... but it does serve the purpose of challenging other even more oversimplified views, such as assuming that the culture is predisposed not to thrive.
I checked this for you, and what appears to be the best meta study I could find shows that the only correlation found was that long sleep duration increases the risk of one type of cancer:

The present meta-analysis suggested that neither short nor long sleep duration was significantly associated with risk of cancer, although long sleep duration increased risk of with colorectal cancer.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3762769/
It should be up to the team to decide the process that works best for them. FWIW that's what agile manifesto says also. Agile is not equal to scrum btw.
Unreal 4.23 just integrated a beta implementation of "Chaos Destruction" - pretty crazy stuff.

https://docs.unrealengine.com/en-US/Engine/Chaos/ChaosDestru...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u3ktiewcLpo
I have a non technical friend who did this citing CNET. It felt like kind of a shit thing based on how it was being advertised, but I couldn’t actually see anything that warranted saying nord was bad.

How would have expressed this in laymen terms (before this compromised thing was revealed obviously)?
Zuckerberg aligning with Pete is not surprising.

https://www.currentaffairs.org/2019/03/all-about-pete
A red left arrow is just the state/municipality telling you you're too stupid to make the decision yourself.

I'm a big fan of the "green for a few seconds then flashing yellow" arrow.
I hold office hours: Two meetings a week with (usually) no agenda, and anyone can call in and ask anything.

Sometimes someone will email me the day before and suggest an agenda.

Other times, when there are newcomers, I'll set an agenda for a few meetings. Usually I discuss design patterns that we use, libraries that we use, ect.
well i had high hopes for him in 4-8 years.. now i'm rethinking his choices
Good to see a UMB alum here. Who uses Tachyons no less! Thanks for the tips.
> because the great people actively looking for jobs are likely to be bad at getting them.

Why do you estimate it as "likely" (i.e. more probable than being average/good at getting the jobs)?
It’s really sad how tribalist politics have pervasively overtaken rational discussions. I dream of discourse that doesn’t devolve into conversations about leftists, conservatives, and various interest groups.
EDIT: I said I used IPVanish mostly because the EFF endorsed them, but someone pointed out below they got caught logging. I suppose that would explain why they're not endorsed on the EFF VPN page anymore. So, I guess time to find a new VPN. :(
Sexuality and Gender [pdf](2016)
"Most people in the cancer field" seem to be pretty misinformed then. See [1] and [2]. At a minimum, health/diet habits have increased cancer risk in young people over the last 20 years, and probably other environmental factors/exposures as well.

[1] https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanpub/article/PIIS2468-2...

[2] https://www.cancerresearchuk.org/health-professional/cancer-...
I can imagine it's because it is very easy for corruption to absorb the wealth. The government has full control over the mineral rights of its land so authoritarian governments spend all of the money on foreign goods because they don't care about their domestic economy and simply trade the goods in USD [1] or some other stable currency that isn't tied to their country.
The reason is also that when the camera captures such an event an actual person gets to look at it and take the final decision, instead of just acting like a robot and dispatching the fine. They will use common sense to decide whether it was a punishable offense.

This is also the reason why it's never a good idea to flip off the camera. A court decided that looking at pictures of people showing the finger would have an emotional impact on the person analyzing them later so the fine in this case is much greater.
Behind each level of abstraction lurks a programmer ready to drive a stake in the heart of your vampire.

Who writes the algorithms? Again, you default to magic. I say engineers.

Besides, algorithms are constantly being tweaked to get the outputs needed to charge more for ads. And who is doing that tweaking? Engineers, with direction from executives.
Well, I suspect that the help is not disinterested. Nor do I think it's done in a 'personal' capacity. How could a plutocrat like Zuckerberg possibly disentangle his private interests from those of his company?
How does this implement full-text search?
Upvoted you, but as much as I hate Facebook, at least they fall into the major influence that has difficulty evading media attention. One wonders about all the big conglomerates "fundraising" for candidates and "advising" them who are not under the big spotlight, and how that could change.
It is different. This is talking about Amazon Marketplace sellers. It would be more similar to if Walmart set up a flea market with tents and stuff in its parking lot and let anyone rent a booth and sell whatever they wanted. Walmart would also provide a centralized cash register at the end of the parking lot where people could pay for the items they got from the individual sellers. Walmart would then settle up with the sellers at the end of the day for the sales they rang up for them, while keeping a cut to cover the cost of the transaction and logistics for setting up the tents and keeping security guards on site.

This would be an equivalent analogy. Does THAT seem different than going into Walmart and buying from inside Walmart?
"I haven't even expressed a position yet, other than "logical fallacies are bad" and I'm pretty willing to stand by that one."

Your fallacy is the "Fallacy Fallacy." If you can actually stand by your words (nobody in my nearly 40 years of life has been able to) you'd explode from the sheer paradox.
No, I don't think it should be. Companies are afforded protections and benefits under the law. They owe society something in return for that. One of the things I think they owe is a responsibility to act in certain ways with respect to the general public, which includes their own employees.
That’s all correct, but you’re choice of starting point is a bit misleading. FDR was not a center right neo-liberal. There was a brief interregnum during which Clinton and Obama governed as center-right economically and center-left socially.

To someone who grew up during that period, the allegations of socialism from the right never made any sense to me. It was only recently when Democrats started fighting to distance themselves from Obama that I understood the criticism from the right. I would also argue that you’re understating the profound shift that has happened in the last two years. The Green New Deal is an openly socialist document, and every Democratic candidate has committed to supporting it. It’s again the party of FDR, not the party of Clinton or Obama.
This is interesting, if an Apple laptop failed that often then passive aggressive posts would be made on HN explaining how it’s needed repair too much and the owner would like to switch to something else and would like recommendations on what to buy.
Unpopular enough to invite him to an embassy for a discussion?
I quit being a developer, to develop full-time
But at that point, can't we blame European colonialism on the Mongols too?
It's... more complicated than that.

Yeah, a meta analysis is only as good as its inputs. Unfortunately many meta analysises read like "we found 20 studies on the topic, but 19 of them are crap and the one good study didn't really ask the question we're asking, so we really don't know". And yeah, there's considerable wiggle room for a meta analysis. But I don't think you'll find any serious scientist doubting the usefulness of a meta analysis per se.
Perfect Privacy is pretty good too.
>I for one don't understand how it won't cause mass inflation.

America already gives away vast sums of money to various people and programs, over $2 trillion annually. UBI is just a way of saying, "here's your share, spend it how you wish".
My layman explanation is:

You have to take your choice of VPN seriously. When you use a VPN, they can read all of your internet traffic, so choose a company you can trust with that information. If they screw up, like NordVPN did, then anyone can read all of your internet traffic even when you think you're safe. You're often better off without a VPN than with one.
What would make even more sense is to progressively change the lights to give the driver a better sense of the timing.

For example, in 2s intervals:

Green -> Green + Yellow -> Yellow + Red -> Red

This way, you not only know from a glance how stale the yellow is, but also you get a better indication of the timing. When a light simply goes Green -> Yellow -> Red, you have no frame of reference from which to gauge how long it will stay yellow, especially since every light has different timing.

You could even go one further, using blinking lights:

Solid green -> Green + Yellow (yellow blinks 3 times), Yellow + Red (red blinks 3 times) -> Solid red

And to improve traffic startup, you could do the opposite (Red -> Red + Yellow -> Green), as is done in many European countries.
Religion aside (it wasn't my point), yet, everyone deservers fair chance to repay their bad deeds. I admire The Last Mile program, as it can pull out of from the claw of criminal past, and show them what they never had a chance to see, a chance for a better life.

Internet is such a tool that can empower all kind of people all over the world to make something meaningful. We should encourage this and not ban it on moral grounds, showing that they can earn a good life without a crime. Something that wasn't so obvious 25 years ago.
Amazon's sold and fulfilled by third-party is basically like buying on Ebay.
Yes exactly. But it works very well in practice.
Meta-analyses try to find the unknown common truth by reviewing multiple studies and their methods and weighing them accourding to their percieved (really, calculated) quality.

By combining the results of the best studies and giving us an overview of them, meta-analyses really are the best studies we have.

"In addition to providing an estimate of the unknown common truth, meta-analysis has the capacity to contrast results from different studies and identify patterns among study results, sources of disagreement among those results, or other interesting relationships that may come to light in the context of multiple studies." - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meta-analysis
Is that why he's doing so well in the polls. Zucker you PR master.
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Indeed, how can anyone? Maybe one could build some models to counter for internal biases, but at this point that's probably the very best one could hope for.
“The story so far: In the beginning the Universe was created.
This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.” - Douglas Adams
Interestingly enough, I think that Category Theory is more of a saviour here than anything, reason being this: most of the harm from over-using type classes comes from the cases when their usage can be avoided, and a general rule of thumb in the Haskell world is now this: if there are no laws that your type-class is bringing, avoid using it. Thus, Functor is ok, but "HasStatsField" stuff is not really.
"Is Harvard Medical School an institution you recognize and trust?"

After their primary university admissions scandal? Absolutely not, not that I ever trusted them in the first place (Memphis has a far better medical program.)
> high price communities where everything works, surrounded by large swaths of shanty towns where nothing works.

This isn't something that's only attributable to CA. Economically depressed towns relatively close to highly concentrated areas of wealth are all over America. Also, the scale of poverty in places like the south, Appalachia, the rust belt, rural America often meets or exceeds that of third-world countries.
"Liberalism" is the "hipsters" of modern leftist politics...
> How much time needs to pass before the British aren’t blamed for the Middle East’s problems?

Are we just going to pretend the UK hasn't almost incessantly meddled in the Middle East for the past 75 years?
Britain as a whole seems terribly underserved compared to our cousins across the water in Holland. The North east of England in particular is a desert!

This site at least explains why I used to get non-personal 'personalised' banner ads for services purporting to be in Slough...
Yeah, but I’d love to see the average JavaScript developer get up and running with Haskell in just two weeks.
I agree entirely with your depiction of the professional class and their displacing of poor communities of color. It’s cruel and callous to the extreme and often dressed up with a veneer of “progressive” values that makes it all the more dark and patronizing.

But I would caution you from contrasting this too much with how class differences and racial disparities manifest in more rural states. How the white working poor are treated by their “betters” (including the middle class) is often as vicious and cruel, but masked by a veneer of racial and cultural homogeneity. And the private, “dinner party” racism among middle class whites in these regions is amongst the most extreme and normalized I have ever witnessed. People do go a lot further to mask this though, hence things like the concept of “Midwestern nice.”

I fail to see how housing in California is centrally planned in anyway. It seems entirely defined by laws that protect incumbent property owners and developers, who then use their resulting wealth to buy off the government and protect this advantage. But maybe this is a difference in definitions because I mean “liberal Capitalism” in its lived, pragmatic, and arguably corrupt sense, not as a philosophical ideal.
Implying the distraction from the game and the tournament is just the 5 seconds.

Having code-pink style protests aimed at disrupting (not raising awareness) is going to backfire on protestors and could end the internet's fascination w/ supporting HK vs China.

Lets not forget that big money interests are involved heavily in pushing the astroturfing online. Many global and HK national interests depend on HK not being consumed by China. The billionaire protesting in the streets w/ people is being held up as an idol, but the reality is that he will become an even bigger target if HK unifies with China and will likely have his empire dissolved.

I'm all for a free HK, but the fact is that's not going to happen. Barring a world war, they will be eventually incorporated as a part of China proper.
> shifted a lot of his positions from before

What are some examples of this?
Talking to Zuck is now a no-no. Cancel Culture sure is mutating fast.
I think this is a reasonable approach in general. Whether it is made in good faith or not is a red herring and does not change anything.

What's more important, since you mention the 'scientific consensus' and his claim that there isn't enough data is: What is the consensus on 5G (I suppose that means mmWave) and what are the studies it is based on? That would allow to make a factual comment on his claims about health hazards.
I get a sharp pain in my head above my ear from my glasses. The skin right there is very sensitive. Just rubbing things (including phones) causes the same senstation.
The rate of twin births in the US is falling
We don't control the climate. The climate is a non-linear dynamic system. There are dozens of natural cycles that control the climate (AMO, PDO, ENSO, solar cycles, to name a few). And all predictions of catastrophic, runaway warming have failed to materialize in the 21st century despite over 30 years of doomsday predictions. We've seen maybe a 0.13C per decade increase in temps. Well within cyclical norms. Our understanding of the climate has to be driven by facts on the ground and not computer models and hype.

We still do not have good models for understanding or predicting global low cloud cover. Clouds are hugely important to our climate system. There is no way to accurately predict the temperature in the future, especially 100 years into the future, without modeling fundamental and extremely complex systems. Our current models do not match reality or even closely approximate it.
But not everyone eats barbecued meat or has barbecued meat near/next to their body 24/7 like people who use cell phones. I can opt out of eating barbecued meat though it carrying a phone close to my body.
Agreed.

> The scientists who signed this appeal arguably constitute the majority of experts on the effects of nonionizing radiation. They have published more than 2,000 papers and letters on EMF in professional journals.

That’s a pretty strong group.
That's pretty much what my copy does. I'm grateful the profession has TAOCP as a resource, but the reality for the majority of workaday engineers is that most of the sort of art described in that series is abstracted out into libraries. As fun or challenging as it might be to thinking about developing your own implementation of a fundamental algorithm or data structure, you're probably far better off reusing whatever you have available to you already in your environment. This has the tendency of pushing the work to the boundaries, where engineering is more about connecting existing pieces than anything else. (Which isn't a problem... I'd hate to live in a world where every home that's built requires the builder to cut down trees and process their own lumber, etc.)

I do least take solace in the fact that the contents of TAOCP are a lot less likely to get stale than the majority of tech books.
What to Know about Blizzard, Hong Kong and Controversy over Politics in Esports
the problem here is the rest of the world runs nix (at least in webdev) so if I can’t make it nix then I’m the odd man out. I deploy to linux servers but I’m supposed to make them windows? or more like windows? how does this work?
Not only that, but it weakens Australia's ability to pressure the SE Asian countries that are getting more authoritarian.

Telling Cambodia that it needs a free press and needs to stop spying on its people is now basically impossible for any Australian diplomat.
The low estimate seems to have been on the money.
Particularly when he's clearly motivated to find a viable alternative to Liz Warren, meaning someone who will be comfortable letting the tech oligarchy have its way. Fundraising does suggest that the rich are giving up on Biden and hoping to push Mayor Pete forward. (meanwhile sidelining Booker and Harris, who are pretty well connected on Wall Street).
He worked in D.C. think tanks and as a consultant for McKinsey before becoming a mayor. He was always going to be an "establishment" candidate. He was always "young Joe Biden". People just expected him to be more progressive I guess because he's gay? In retrospect it didn't make much sense.

In any case, if there is going to be an establishment Democrat running against Trump I would still rather have Buttigieg than Biden. If I had to guess, I would think the DNC will not be super excited about the prospects of Bernie or Warren vs Trump, and Buttigieg may get a big boost as a result.
and shifted a lot of his positions from before

This is what happens with a lot of candidates unfortunately - people like Bernie are the exceptions. This is why we need to remove money from the equation in politics.
No, they are not. If they were to go 'right over us', we wouldn't be able to receive the radio station.
Rich Chinese outnumber wealthy Americans for first time
entanglement with the West never stopped.

But isn't that just because they are a single-resource export oriented economy? It's Dutch Disease[1], but hundreds of times larger?

Britain passed the economic and military reins to the states

Why are you bringing up Britain here? They weren't a colonial power in Saudi Arabia. The closest they came was Kuwait.

[1] https://www.investopedia.com/terms/d/dutchdisease.asp
How much fuel does the generator consume? What is the switch-over time?

Would it be useful for service interruptions or only full blackouts?
What is it, and what makes it a fundamental CS book?
>Expired food is generally perfectly safe. The dates are quality indicators, not safety indicators.
It’s just being wasteful.

It's my hard earned money...whether Amazon is selling me expired food that is a safety concern or just a quality concern issue (which FYI is not accurate for all foods), I don't want to be sold shit quality expired food. I certainly don't care to be told I'm being wasteful for not accepting and eating the shit quality expired food. They can separate and sell that for discount if they want, not mix it in with non-expired food at the same price...that's false advertising, fraud and deceptive trade practices.
As long as the protesters don't disrupt the experience that I paid for too much, they can do whatever they want.

After weighing the facts carefully, I've decided that Blizzard was justified in penalizing the Hearthstone player, justified in penalizing the two casters, and truly abysmal at managing public relations.

My position on Hong Kong is unchanged. I'm still firmly of the belief that China needs to grant Hong Kong full autonomy and/or independence, and that China needs to stop trying to extend its morally bankrupt censorship beyond its own borders.
Egypt reveals details about 30 ancient coffins found with mummies inside
Quit drinking and quit smoking.
You don’t really even need real false positives...case in point: My grandma has trouble saying “Alexa,” so we set it to “Amazon.” She listens to the news 24-7...& Amazon’s always all over the news...so there are a lot of stored news snippets on our account.
The interviewee is _always_ more vulnerable than the hiring manager/employer. And the interviewee does _not_ have the luxury of finding out about whether the manager/team/company is "normal" by asking a bunch of euphemistic questions, because the interviewee is judged _even_ on the questions they ask.
FWIW Amazon does exactly the same thing. If we want the buy box for our own brand, we have to advertise.
Waves Platform Releases Data Oracle Tool
This looks cool. It reminds me that someone did a lightning talk at RailsConf 2018 about a Memex app they built and it was pretty mindblowing to me at the time:

https://youtu.be/Ld414EypQzg?t=2709
> It's not even necessarily a bad thing, provided that it's free, democratic and transparent

So it's a bad thing?