skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Quadrant is biased in the same way that Jacobin is biased.

It should extremely obvious to everyone who reads it that it takes liberties when picking and choosing sources, that most of the authors have an axe to grind, and that it's exactly the kind of rag that would publish climate change denial just to be contrarian. It also has a reasonably high standard of writing, cites sources, and digs up some fascinating things in its attempts to wage war on the left. It's an interesting propaganda machine, which elevates it above boring propaganda machines like Breitbart or the Daily Kos.
That's good feedback - I've added installation instructions to the readme!
What is the quantum measurement problem?
Do the eggs taste good?
>Perhaps there is a difference between Opium overdose and Opioid overdose?

Opium has three primary constituents, morphine, codeine, thebaine. An opioid, roughly, is anything which agonizes opioid receptors, which are mu, delta, and kappa. mu-receptor agonists specifically are usually what people are referring to when they use the term 'opioid'.

Morphine, which is an opiate (an opioid, but one that is derived from opium), is what usually produces death during an opium overdose (it also happens to be alkaloid which produces most of the desirable effect).

You can look up morphine ld50 numbers to get an idea of how much morphine it would take to kill somebody. While morphine is the principal opioid at work in opium, it is still only a tiny % of the opium's total volume.

>When I think consuming opium, I conjure images of old chinese artwork where they are smoking it in a hookah type instrument.

It being smoked also makes it considerably safer. Users pass out before overdose.

>The Opioid overdoses are mostly Fentanyl and other extracts from opium.

Correct. Morphine is a somewhat strong opioid in its own right, but it doesn't even hold a candle to the more powerful opioids science has discovered. Not even close.

The strength of an opioid is often described in morphine equivalents, that is how much of x is comparable to the same amount of morphine.

Fentanyl is roughly 50x as powerful as morphine, which makes it a rather dangerous compound for untrained people to handle, especially to inject. That being said, as long as the dosages are measured correctly, fentanyl is not significantly more dangerous than any other commonly used opioid. It's the black market dynamics which make it particularly prone to kill users.

Fentanyl is also nowhere near the most powerful opioid being sold on the street either. The literature has opioids that are, roughly, several thousand times as powerful as morphine.

Meaning if it takes on average 1g of pure morphine to kill a human, less than a single mg of some of the stronger fentanyl analogs can be sufficient enough to kill. Much lower if injected.

This is what is killing everybody. Some fentanyl analogs are close to chemical weapons in terms of potency, and drug dealers with a 3rd grade equivalent education are handling it like they would cocaine or similar.
I sometimes wish the effort that went behind QML went somewhere else. That to be said, clearly other folks are finding benefits in it, just not for the app I have to support (yet).
that's not a hacker but also an agent.

and a bit of trivia - person who plays him is Marc Anthony (musician, ex-husband of Jennifer Lopez)
I don't see much of a difference between these companies and the person in the article. Both are taking advantage of a vulnerable population for some personal benefit.
Some might argue "ponynote" is a great nickname... ;-)

Also not a physicist FWIW <3
I am also been interested for the longest time - even with a degree in Mechanical Engineering - to understand mathematic like Calculus or the equations you see in neural networks papers.

My longest problem has been I have no idea what is going in the formula or fundamental questions like, "why is there a square root there". It is hard to describe my issue, but I've been very horrible with math anyways. Can't do gas station math anyways.
OK how are we supposed to spin this one?

https://www.cnn.com/2019/10/18/politics/hillary-clinton-tuls...

"Former Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton said Thursday the Russians are currently "grooming" a Democrat running in the presidential primary to run as a third-party candidate and champion their interests."
Working in aviation probably puts you in a mindset that makes it harder to parse. It's not being used in a way that is related to flight or aircraft.

It's like if people were discussing where to have a conference, and one of them proposed a hotel. Then another person suggested a resort. Then a third person floated a cruise ship. Cruise ships do float, but it has nothing to do with anything. They are floating the idea of the ship as a venue.
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It's disappointing seeing such behavior from individuals from what I've always considered one of the most respectable institutions in the U.S. There'd be no surprise from me if this sort of thing came from any one of the other myriad startups scattered around the company selling empty promises and snake oil. But scummy scam-like behavior? From MIT?? I was shocked when I came across the claims saying that researchers were made to use outside plants with the PFC during demonstrations.
I'm unconvinced that metal smiths of the iron/steel age did not "understand how it worked." That certain smiths and geographic regions produced consistently high grades of steel suggests they did have an understanding, albeit it an understanding grounded in a world model that differs substantially from our own modern framework. If, for example, an alchemical world view sufficed to describe and predict the results of forging a particular metal or alloy then it was sufficient for understanding within the constraints of what was needed. Plenty of modern bladesmiths have no deeper understanding of metallurgy than "this is good for X, this other is not according to experts or experience."

Aristotelian physics was sufficient in the time and geographic area in which he operated (friction as primary) but was insufficient in a larger domain compared to Newtonian physics (force has primacy). Both served to bring us to and through the industrial age, but then the domain expanded and quantum physics was needed.

Don't discount the genius of our ancestors regardless of archeological age. We may feel smugly superior playing with our tools of the silicon age but get magically transported to the stone age naked and with no access to external knowledge and try and achieve in the basics of food, clothing, and shelter... let alone tools such as hand axes, skinning knives, arrow and spear points, etc.
Well, another dimension really isn't something you can probe for it's existence. Einstein only thought of space-time and time-dilation by the effects on the 3D world.

Non-local consciousness is certainly a well-known hypothesis. I do try to convey my ideas in the opening screen but the link to autism is something that I have thought about only because I am in contact with many autistic people who have incredible skills.
Great point! It makes sense in the context of what these algorithms would generally be tasked with.
I meant if he were tried, he should be found not guilty.

Separately, because what he did is prima facie for the greater good, he should not be tried.
Gamer communities are fickle things prone to outrage and shitstorms.
God didn’t write the Bible.
Three more examples

The rideshare industry famously doesn’t make a profit.

Neither does the electric scooter industry.

The meal in a box industry has retention problems, because eventually their customers learn to shop and cook.
So this is why uni keeps getting cheaper
If the Jquery authors said ‘if u don’t like sizzle selector, feel free to use standard dom functions to grab your elements’

We’d all be pissed if the sizzle selector wasn’t awesome and well thought out api.

What I keep seeing with React is really bad api design with things like hooks (because classes are so complicated, someone link that documentation post) and redux is horrific boilerplate to manage global state.

Ok no problem, don’t use it. Discourse ends there right?

No I’m sorry, reducers, hooks, ‘suspense’ stuff is not intuitive. This needs to be properly discussed.

Can I possibly even start the discussion at why the hell these things are being named in this way? Is that not a start? Functions and Classes are stupid? A debounce function that’s possibly a promise, stuff we know about, is suddenly like the ‘suspense’ api? Does any thought go into this anymore for how average developers have to approach this horseshit?
Tires burst, kids run out in traffic, human drivers make mistakes, bad weather happens...
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Not dumb at all and probably a major challenge when developing benchmarks.
Is it just the normal difference between e.g. an engineer's approach to real analysis and a mathematicians (but complex analysis swapped in), or something else?

I can think of a lot of fields where a decent grasp of complex analysis concepts would be very helpful even without being able to do rigorous proofs.
and yet now i receive dense boxes of cat litter from amazon.
Hi Dan, this is great and I really like this. But, I think what made me appreciate this is mostly your algebraic effects blog post. My issue with the examples in the reactjs doc pages is that it compares a naive and (intentionally)buggy implementation to a working implementation, so to evaluate the benefits I have to mentally fix the buggy version with existing react and compare that to the working version. It would be easier to see the difference if it could have a working implementation with current react to compare to the implementation with concurrent react.

Also, I'd love to read something about why throwing promises was chosen over other possibilities.
Seems to work for Chewy.com & Amazon.
Yes they must feel like fools, believing that multiple national politicians would associate with an organized pedophilia ring, for instance even flying on a private plane that had been nicknamed "The Lolita Express".
>That may be what the OP was thinking, but it's not the case. You can very much OD on regular Opium

Read above. Orally, it's a strong emetic. Unless a user takes vastly more than a normal dose for their body weight, they will vomit and be fine. Opium, when smoked, is even safer as users pass out well before overdose.

It is easier to overdose on acetaminophen, and many other things you can pick up over the counter at your local pharmacy.

> It is even easier to OD on its extracts (specifically morphine)

Yes, but this is why I am using the word opium, and not morphine.

> its synthetic analogues (fentanyl).

Fentanyl is not an analog of anything found in opium, it's an entirely different molecule with no relationship whatsoever to the traditional opiates.
See “bunch of assholes” above
All the map items link to full videos. I'm sure there's more than a few California's Gold fans here.
Both. I finally feel useful to the society, I don’t regret academia though, a lot of random project that I coded for didn’t go anywhere but trained my coding skill.
Try http://www.math.smith.edu/~callahan/intromine.html which is a very conceptual and simulation-focused calculus curriculum, without so much symbol twiddling.

The concepts of calculus (the mathematics of motion and change) are absolutely fundamental across science, but being able to get closed-form solutions to tricky indefinite integrals (while an enjoyable puzzle) is only marginally useful per se.

> work through khan academy

YMMV, but I don’t find KA to be especially pedagogically enlightened. I think of it as roughly an average-quality high school lecture videotaped, plus a big pile of mindless exercises. It’s still nice that it exists: it makes a quality floor for students with below-average teachers, and is free for everyone in the world, without any forced schedule.

You’ll get roughly the same result from just reading a standard introductory textbook and working the problems.

For better results, if you can afford the time, hire / find a private tutor to meet with regularly face to face.
I think that those who are down-voting people suggesting Rudin are missing the forest for the trees. The level is not as low as Feynman's lectures, but if you want a text that has the hallmarks of a true master at work, Rudin fits the bill. I personally always felt that what made Feynman's lectures what they are were, was that the man actually understood the subjects on such a deep level that his mind was able to hone in on those little simple thought experiments and ways of looking at things that gave you huge insight into what he was lecturing on. Rudin comes at analysis with the same level of understanding and that's why Real & Complex and Baby Rudin are still the gold standard for analysis texts. It is impossible to convey the sense of elegance that mathematicians speak about until you've seen it and been blown away by it. Rudin will do that and leave you speechless, he's the master. I can tell you that my first encounter with Real & Complex leaving me thinking that Rudin was on a fundamentally higher plane than any author I had read before, it was like watching a magician. If you're looking for a real Feynman in mathematics, IMHO Rudin is your man.
Sure, but I think it's just one local optimum. The price is so high that few people will pay it, which means the price has to be high. But if the price was low and paying was painless, far more people might pay and generate the same or better revenue.
Given this just happened, I don't think it is over yet.
Smaller than most pickup trucks though, more like station-wagon sized.
I mean...my bio has a link to my github which shows I work at Microsoft.

I spoke out against people moving out before I joined them. I certainly don't try to hide where I work :)

Thank you though, I'll add it to my bio.
Presumably you’d want to look for a comparison in the context of the state’s needs. Googling for floppy disk reliability won’t tell you much by itself.
That’s great, because our children will have no preconceived notions of a world with plentiful drinking water, food, and a variety of different species. To them it’ll just be normal, and they won’t know how bad our generation fucked them. It’s all about perspective. /s
In looking through many of the replies to this downstream, it appears that the system is actually correct in that there's an obscure use of 'land' at play in the second sentence.

It makes me think that there's going to be many adversarial examples of text that humans parse one way because of common usage while machines parse another way because of details like this.
I’ve seen cases like this where the judges reverse the decision and adjust the scores later. The fact that that didn’t happen in this instance indicates that they agreed the pronunciation was acceptable.

There’s really very little room for Alex to nudge things in a way that last more than a couple of minutes.
The author went on a Christian radio station[1] to talk about White Christians being oppressed by allowing same-sex marriage in Australia. I thought the article reeked of preachy double-speak from the first sentence so this was hardly surprising.

1. https://vision.org.au/radio/2018/03/07/australians-why-aband...
Seems odd that Uni is relatively expensive and rare in the US as opposed to say Japan then.
>If you find on that page you'll see the exact sentence "the enemy landed several of our aircraft" (without the s after aircraft) which it says means "shoot down".

They're not shy about illustrating a military application up front!
Probably because they didn’t have a cd-rom unit and they were trying to push it in the 3 1/2” disk drive. If they had a real floppy disk drive (5 1/4”) they probably would have succeeded, but I seriously doubt that the installation would have gone through smoothly...
I can't agree with the comparison. An accidental & unexpected software bug is not the same as an intentional, calculated, executive level business decision.

I think the officers should be scrutinized more than a lower level engineer. They are the leaders and set the tone fore the company culture

I agree with hn_throwaway_99, this is very concerning as to what path the company is on. But, I'll give them credit for realizing the error & trying to correct it.

That being said, I love GitLab's product. We use it in my workplace, but we self host the comunity edition, so this wouldn't have effected us.

I dont imagine I will ever be more than a CE level user, even in personal projects, but I can imagine the panic this caused for many companies on the hosted enterprise version.
Vue 2 has honestly been my favorite developer experience of all time, but they're basically turning into a slightly different flavor of React with Vue 3.0 in my opinion. The current API will continue to be officially supported, although I don't expect the same to be true for community docs/tutorials/libraries. So I'm in the process of converting my Vue apps to React.
TED talks were never a good signal of credibility.
Because the hosting service and its IP block are all geographically constrained. This makes correlation attacks easier, as well as attacks requiring physical access.
Because college loans are subsidized by the government
Vulture capitalism strikes again, exploiting undiversified, banana republic rustbelt towns who misplace their faith in a single, quick-fix, recovery panacea rather than many different industries that are geared to the needs of today.
Something I found surprising: Some AVX2 and AVX-512 instructions consume so much power that Intel chose to have their chips dynamically slow their clock frequency when the instructions are executed. So naively switching to SIMD instructions can not only fail to improve performance, but it can also hurt the performance of unaltered code executed after it -- even unrelated code running on other cores.

https://blog.cloudflare.com/on-the-dangers-of-intels-frequen...
I agree, don’t look down on these people at all. I’ve been using computers my whole life but UI intuitive usability peaked at Windows XP or OSX. I often require multiple attempts to do simple tasks in Windows 10 because its so goddamn inconsistent. There are like 4 different types of search bars and who can remember which one is searching the internet, just your files (depending on if they’re indexed yet), the internet AND your local files, installed programs etc.
They also murder-rape young seals lol: https://werc.ucsc.edu/Publications/2010%20Harris%20et%20al.p...
I enjoyed "A tour of the calculus," at least the half I read.

https://www.amazon.com/Tour-Calculus-David-Berlinski/dp/0679...
TEDx isn't really about credibility though.

The talks I've seen out of TEDx tend to be more "this is interesting" rather than "this is 100% the truth about ____". I think most TEDx events take themselves less seriously, which results in fewer speakers that think they are the end-all-be-all of some topic. Where as TED events seem to try to get the "foremost expert on ____", even if the entire area of _____ is mostly quackery.

Though really I think the pompousness is proportional to size and has (almost) nothing to do with TED vs TEDx. Anecdotally, the fairly large TEDxGlasgow had a lot more wankiness than the quite small TEDxUbud.
Who is “making tons of money publishing” anything, let alone “worthless material”?

Sure, Springer is making money, but I never met — nor heard of — anyone in academia making money through publishing. The truth may come as a surprise to you, but publishing articles, reviewing articles, editing journals, all of that is done for free.

You might make some money through consulting, but publishing? No. Not even when you write a textbook.
I think the difference in these sentences is about the way to land. In sentence 1, the pilot of the aircraft is in control. In sentence 2, the pilots are not in control, the enemy forced them to land (whatever the means).

If I read these two sentences in context of some news, they would evoke very different "landing" scenes in my head.
> Answer to both: it becomes 50-50 if Monty was ignorant, even if we post hoc filter out those cases where he got it right.

It's not 50/50 because he is ignorant, it's 50/50 because you've discarded 1/3 of the outcomes, and all the outcomes you've discarded were ones where the contestant initially picked a goat.
"I eat my rice with butter." could mean that you use butter as a utensil to eat your rice with. There is often an unlikely way of parsing the sentence that gives an alternate meaning. The point is to test the computer to see if it can distinguish the likely parse from an unlikely one.
A “bad pattern” is not an “Anti-pattern”
It's still a pattern -- just a bad one.

Why can't people use language correctly?
Why do we have 500 words for everything?

side-car = module affinity (use logical compound words)

hook = plugin (why did hook take off? When we had a good word for it already?)

"Elastic" IP = static IP (lol)

method, routine, procedure = function
After launching 4 products(launched the latest, a couple of months back) in 5 years (1.5y full time Masters). Here is what I realized

1. what is the motivation - a pain killer or a vitamin

2. Decide - Is this to add income to your regular job

3. Decide - If not 2, think of cost to run it

4. Decide - How do you want to manage this, when you wake up next day with another cash cow SAAS idea

5. clarity - time you want to spend on this EVERY DAY, to not regret later

6. Decide - What is that only feature you want to release in the MVP

7. Set - timelines, STOP pressing yourself into the stress; easy goals and relaxed timelines

9. Launch - no better place than HN to release MVP

On top of all these, STOP thinking going fulltime into it until the PROFITS at least match your regular job salary
Media Labs has been a white elephant for long. Refer to OLPC.
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Isn't the "God the Father" used to show the maleness of the Chrisitan God?

While I think you're correct the authors opinions do appear to shine through in that last paragraph, it seems that efforts have been made to show this history without framing.

Does the article make the case that an alignment with Satanism is a bad thing? Many modern western values align closely with Satanism. Satanism in its modern form was a deliberate effort by some to oppose Christianaities stronghold on the western world at the time.

Is the opposition to Christianity a problem for modern Feminism? Even an historical opposition?

To me this article simply reads as early feminists rebelled against a society they felt was oppressive to them by adopting what they saw as their enemies enemy as a mascot. I don't think that is particularly disparaging of feminism is it?

Full disclosure, I’m a fundamentalist Christian.
Hreflang
Apple farmers. Big Apple, as it were. We've got the crispiest, juiciest sins... just don't tell your husband.
Because I'm not the one driving the car, I'm merely sitting in it.

Think of it this way, do you take auto insurance for a cab ride, no you don't, because you're not driving it.
And the downvotes prove the point.
Wow, that's a beautiful truck. I wish American utility vehicle designers would go back to a boxier design.

Edit: I'd kill for a truck that had Land Rover looks with Ford or Toyota truck reliability.
Or maybe humans will just adapt like we always have?
why so negative?
China has some program providing greenhouse monitoring to its poorer citizens, but it does a lot more than this.
Their website [0] was registered and online 4 days after it happened.

As such I don't think they have to rely solely on google docs to publish their stuff.

[0] https://www.gamersforfreedom.com/