skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nothing with any scientific rigor. Of course I, like I'm sure everyone else, believe I have a decent "placebo detector" and to that end CBD isn't behaving like a placebo for me.

But I'll try to add a little more strength to my claim for CBD not being a placebo at the original comment's supposed "low doses".

I've used it in balm form to treat physical pain. I use it at ~50mg topical doses (again much lower than 600mg) to treat carpal tunnel, TMJ, tweaked back, etc. It's been many times more effective for me in that regard than anything else I've tried previously, which includes placebos. I've tried everything from "real" treatments like NSAIDs and menthol rubs, to Chinese "medicines", to snake oil off Amazon. Nothing has worked as well as the CBD balm. So if CBD is a placebo at these doses then it's the best placebo I've ever found.

I had no reason to believe that CBD would be any more effective than my previous snake oil attempts, and indeed I had every expectation that it would be snake oil because of the many comments on HN saying as much.

Besides that we know THC, a related cannabinoid, is effective at these doses (e.g. 5mg). Why wouldn't CBD be? Most drugs that interact with the CNS are active on a wide spectrum, and in fact have different overall effects based on dose. Even in extremely low doses, for example LSD micro-dosing which we've seen a few studies reporting as effective. Is CBD the one special one that cures epilepsy at 600mg but nothing else at any other dosing?

So my general argument is that, though we lack concrete evidence, everything else from related chemicals to anecdotes to weak studies points in the direction of CBD being effective at doses as low as 15mg. So, why would we assume that 600mg is somehow an absolute minimum? And why would we assume that my claim of being able to detect the application of 1mg is entirely placebo? None of this precludes the absolute necessity of rigorous scientific study and deferring to said studies when possible. But I see absolutely no basis for claiming that anything less than 600mg dosing is bunk.

EDIT: I'll add the addendum that most of my CBD usage is "full-spectrum", which highly conflates my personal anecdotes. That doesn't negate any of my other arguments, though. In fact I think all the "weak" studies that we have on CBD are done with pure CBD. I do have CBD isolate that I've tried a few times. I can feel that at low doses as well, but I've never assessed it for pain relief or anxiety so I can't personally make any arguments for or against pure-CBD. Sibling comments suggest that it has effects at low doses though, just like all the weak studies show.
Very relevant: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21747424

Can this be an API leak which Chinese MSS used to track Chinese users?

It may well as be if we believe that API wasn't implementing discoverability restrictions from privacy settings, and only hid users on the UI level.

> Basically Twitter got pwned big time, and now denies it because GDPR will ruin them if breach is proven.
Here is what Doubi's online followers figured:

> State security got all phone numbers used for Twitter phone verification up to May 2019 and possibly till July.

> Twitter haphazardly closed the breach in complete secrecy.

> API hole explanation is excluded as people with 100% private accs got police visits.

> People with foreign SIM cards also got into trouble. So the explanation that China compromised Twitter's SMS providers is also excluded, as its improbable that they did it in 4+ countries.

> 2016 breach is also out of question.

> The only explanation is that they got hold on a big piece of their user DB, or, worse, they have an active infiltrator in Twitter, or Twitter voluntarily cooperated.
I don't think so. Maybe in the rural areas or well connected outskirts, if you own the housing. No chance you're living in Amsterdam on 30k and support a family without any problems.
Good on these guys. The French also are massive exporters of this garbage - Sydney is lousy with billboards inflicted on us by JC Decaux.

Amusingly enough, the JC Decaux trucks are entirely festooned with Australian flags, which is a totally conventional for a 100% French company to use as visual elements and not deceptive at all.
It really should be https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdfl/pr/fort-lauderdale-father-..., because he was convicted a few days ago.
>Any kid can see that Uber is a 2 sided market place with typical market place network effects

Uber is not a two-sided market place at all. Two-sided market places are characterised by increasing gains from size, because it improves the functioning of the marketplace and discovery.

For ride-sharing businesses, this is only true for very small sizes, as they grow the size of the platform doesn't deliver any significant additional returns, whether you wait 2 minutes on uber or 3 minutes on left is largely immaterial. So its an asymptotic marketplace, which is vulnerable to competition.

Even the characterisation of a marketplace is dubious because there's no price discovery between drivers and customers or much other interaction, it's more like a matchmaking site, so there isn't really a lot of unique features to differentiate one from another.
HN's fault for not having a quote format like every other platform, using ">".
I don't know what are you using but I've built apps using Spring (known as a resource hug) which take up 10MB of memory and start up super fast. You only need some fine tuning to get these numbers. Alternatively you can also use things like Quarkus: https://quarkus.io/ which are hilariously cheap to operate and can work with Lambda as well.
And how does it compare with million dead Iraqis?
I have my own todo list independent of the bug tracker.
That's too bad they removed the bad circuits. I found those extremely useful when first starting out. Sometimes my first guess at how to do something was explicitly noted as a bad circuit, which i suspect was the intention. After reading about a new component, students often wonder "can i just do x instead?" and the bad circuits section did a great job of anticipating these kinds of questions.
How the Nobel Prize affects book sales
Show HN: Seen, a CLI lookup of your hypothes.is annotations
How did he sell all of his stock twice? When did he re-purchase?
OP here!

Seen is a command line lookup for hypothes.is annotations. Reduces context switch. Search for annotations right from your terminal. When you find the right one, select to open in the browser.
Open source isn't eating all proprietary software.

Open source is enabling proprietary software to be more profitable, because it makes free all the commodity pieces that are needed to make proprietary software work.

Customers would otherwise have to pay for these things (in an ongoing manner) leaving less of their $$$ to spend on your payload.

Open source powers SaaS which is so closed and proprietary that the user doesn't even get to execute the binary code on their own hardware.

Of course, if your business is selling operating systems, development tools, databases and other infrastructure stuff, then, yup, open source has eaten your business.
In one particular case when a process will live for a second or two, it's indeed a visible delay. But it's just one of many scenarios and it's definitely not the top priority one for applying all those engineering resources. When you build a server application, you just don't care about startup time much - in situations where it matters, green-blue deployment will do a better job to reduce downtime (and, anyway, it's not always the platform startup which contributes to the delay before full availability).
I thought it was documented that Kenyans and Ethiopians benefited from steroids and EPO. It was all over the news the past decade or so.
> TED "everything will be solved with our optimism".

At lot better to have dreams and plans and goals than "We've done nothing and we're out of ideas" which is the mentality in a few countries lately.
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This is the kind of news story that can be so incredibly misused once it gets into public discourse.

I would expect that while the study comments on an interesting data point for academics in the field, in reality the variance that you'll experience interacting with any one multi-lingual person or any one mono-lingual person will simply mean that it's trivia in day-to-day life.

Even in designing curricula for a large group where anything of significance in this study would be worthwhile considering, you'd still want to know how this compares to other fields of pursuit on some sort of outcome basis before yelling, "language programs for the win!" The thesis of the title and the short article (no I didn't watch/listen to the media) doesn't answer the relative merit question.

So maybe this research points to further study or is nice knowledge for knowledge's sake... but unless there's something more revealing in the linked YouTube video... I wouldn't read into it any more than that.
What kind of commitment? Can you give concrete examples?
Yeah, App Engine would have cost $0 since that traffic would fit in the free tier.

Cloud Run would be the slightly more general and newer way to do this too, and the free tire there is 2 million req/month. I _think_ he could have migrated containers directly from GKE.
That meta analysis can't be more biased itself. Just from the first few lines it sounds like they are offended there are benefits to knowing multiple languages.
Is this what you mean by "log normalization"? https://www.spec2000.net/08-normalization.htm

I haven't read much further, perhaps you make it explicit later on.
(Must resist urge to post "this thread is offensive to me")

Merry Christmas and happy Hannukah!
Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21872216.
Finns and Poles are history.

And I'd bet Iraqis would choose Russian-style 'invasion' over American one which cost them about million lives in total.
I built Hyperscan with my team in Australia (we've since moved on, or been moved on, from Intel). There are no shenanigans to prevent Hyperscan from using AVX2 on non-IA processors, although we didn't have any high performance examples of same when we were last at Intel (2017).

The mechanism is trivial to control IIRC and would not be difficult to patch. It is, after all and unlike MKL, open source.
There's also https://github.com/TimelyDataflow/abomonation , which is very fast, but ugly.
Ok. So don't move there.
I've found that, to some extent, the reason that I tend to roll my own implementation of various things is that I don't have the authority to add dependencies to our codebase.

Some of the transition from rolling your own to just using something else probably comes naturally from gaining sway over a project to the point that you can actually make the call to import a new package.
Article quoted 2500 person years, over a period of a couple of years, to move from a Lloyds system to a clone of an existing Banco Sabadell system.

Does that seem like a lot of effort for 5 million accounts? Maybe worth it since they were already paying EUR 100 million per year to license the old Lloyds system.

I’d bet they moved from one big honking RDBMS to another. Curious if old and new were different DB vendors, if anyone here has insight.
For anyone interested in embedded JavaScript but wants broader hardware support and/or modern JavaScript support[1], the XS JavaScript engine is microcontroller-independent[2], and Moddable provides supported ports for ESP8266, ESP32 (the successor to ESP8266), and the Gecko series of processors. (They also sell some hardware kits for folks who want that: https://www.moddable.com/product.php)

[1] Espruino supports ES5, XS supports ECMAScript 2018
[2] https://www.moddable.com/faq.php#microcontrollers
I know the material inside and out, but then make dumb mistakes on tests (2006)
Industry wide, it's about sanitizing a highly toxic substance from the supply chain. I've met a child whose father worked with lead, and would hug him after coming home. The child ended up with permanent brain damage from ingesting traces of leaded dust on the father's clothing. In this case, it's more likely about keeping lead out of something likely to get crunched up in a parent's wallet and then shown to their child.

Lead causes permanent brain damage in children. There is no detectable amount of lead in the blood of children which is considered safe. While an adult body absorbs roughly 95% of lead into its bones, children's bodies end up storing lead in blood and soft tissue where it causes damage. When untreated, it can take months for lead to exit a child's bloodstream.

I would never consider reducing the lead used in something I've built to be wasted time.
Electric bikes these days have ranges of 40+ miles, and provide assistance to maintain 20-25 mph, which would solve the "slow, very heavy bike" issue.
And yet everyone with a hobby that involves soldering in any capacity does it without gloves. Because it doesn't absorb into your skin that way. Otherwise we would all be going insane.
Nobody wants ads banned. The problem is that ads are being placed into previously unused places and louder than before. The result is that all companies have to compete with these new obnoxious ads or risk falling behind their competitors that are willing to put ads in distasteful places.

In my opinion, the solution is to clearly define a discrete set of spaces for ads and make sure everyone is able to compete on equal footing. It's not like these companies want to shell out more money for ads - they simply have to in order to compete.

EDIT: Also the US needs to adopt Britain's ban on election ads outside of the election month. We waste a phenomenal amount of time and money on election ads that provide zero real benefit to the US.
Yes, it's basically the same for us as well. And we do group together smaller things into one ticket often.

For us tickets are most important to track what gets included in releases and patches, and to tell QA to test our branches (and we almost always require QA to test our branches before they're merged).
> Uber has virtually no network effects. One driver is just one more driver without any effect on other drivers or users, in contrast to say, user-driven content generation on tiktok or youtube.

How does youtube have a network effect then? Using your language, youtube has a supply of viewers and a supply of creators. More videos on youtube do not beget more videos, and likewise more viewers do not beget more viewers.

In the same way that the userbase is what gives youtube value in the eyes of the creators, the passenger base gives uber value in the eyes of the drivers.
They do it out of fear of conflict probably, or in other cases you're so burned out you don't want to argue anymore. I've been burned out enough to where I didn't care anymore I just wanted it to be over with.
I like how you conveniently don’t mention Afghanistan, which was the Soviet Unions Vietnam, except with more war crimes somehow.
Some tips for you:

Posts without URLs get penalized, so you'd be better off posting this with a link, then adding your text as a first comment in the new thread.

Don't make a marketing presentation. That is, don't present the shiny exterior of your product along with marketing copy. That will bore HN and sound spammy. Everyone does it and it all sounds the same. Instead, show the work from the inside—HN readers want the inside view. Introduce yourself, tell how you came to work on this and what's different about it, and give interesting details about the problem, the project, the implementation. Don't just say what you've made. Include the how and why. Those two are actually the more interesting to this community.

Don't talk to HN like a company ("Team Oneshop") or other abstraction. That creates a feeling of separation from the community. Instead participate as yourself (or yourselves) in a community of fellow builders and entrepreneurs. Then it will feel like you're approaching the community as one of them.

This is exactly the advice we give to YC startups doing Launch HNs (excepting the first bit about links). If you read the blurbs at https://news.ycombinator.com/launches, you might get some ideas. Those blurbs often go through extensive editing to apply the principles I mentioned above. One of these years I want to write all this up as a blog post or essay about how to present your startup to HN—there's nothing there that shouldn't be shared with everyone.
So many people stop when it works, without understanding why it works. Or not caring how ugly it is.

They have no long-term perspective about the future cost of support - fixing bugs, adding features, or just understanding what was done.

When something changes and their snowflake solution breaks, their first reaction is to blame the external change for causing their poor solution to fail.

Top engineers don't do this. They understand why their solution works, they know its limitations, and their solutions are understandable and supportable. This significantly lowers the total cost over time and is what helps projects deliver on time with quality.
It's also way easier to find a Java developer. Go is still in early adoption stage and people don't start programming on Go because they've decided to change their job from marketing to IT. As soon as any platform becomes popular the volume of crappy code increases dramatically.
IMO this points to inevitable consolidation. Uber and Lyft will merge at some point. As long as traditional taxis still exist and/or there is a Republican administration, it should clear antitrust.
Is it disruptive to your daily routine to be suddenly teleported to someone's bathroom anytime they whisper three times "this public policy intervention has an effect"?
(Incase someone doesn't get the reference: https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/87419)
Not really, see my over comments here.
A bit entitled to expect them to take ~3k. You could get more than that for one famous person's phone number from paparazzi.
I live in the US and 5000 sq ft is unheard of even in most affordable of all places. 3000 is more like it - still big but only in cheaper places. As you get to costlier real estate markets 1800 sq ft is not uncommon.
Thank You – Petitie Online
> In other words, companies either purposefully or absentmindedly fail to pay regular employees anywhere close to their real value.

Purposefully. your comment is spot on, so i’m surprised you don’t get this aspect. It’s not the burden of companies (in capitalistic society) to pay employees their value. Companies are practically obligated to extract maximum value at the most competitive (ie, market) rate. And after all, you might do the exact same job at Google as you do at tinyCO but because it’s google (network effect and all that) you just arbitrarily happen to have more impact. You aren’t actually bringing that value.

If employees want to be paid for their value, they can take all their otherwise excess income and join the capitalists by buying the stock.
Actually, Jeff Dean is an idiot now. I think that's what happens when you get to level 11.

> Jeff Dean: That’s obviously a very broad space, and there’s a lot of potential for using machine learning to help tackle climate change-related topics or mitigate some of the effects. So we’re pretty excited about this. I think Google and the [AI] community in general [are] excited because it’s a serious problem, and also … one that has a lot of technical meat behind it. Like, how can we actually apply machine learning [to] some of these subproblems?

That answer contains zero information. It's word salad. So ya, smartest guys at Google.
The alternative is a system like Google's infamous autobanning. Being jailed because the IRS AI / software says you owe them millions and have refused to pay. All due to some software bug.

Great read:

https://idiallo.com/blog/when-a-machine-fired-me
Do startups even bother hiring people not in their 20's or early 30's, though?

32 is one thing, one if you're 35, 38, 40? You come back with your financial cushion, ready to hit the startup circuit, but who will actually hire an older guy (or gal) with salivating 25 year-old grads waiting around the corner?
Except you can fully understand this topic in a lot less than thirty minutes - I agree that people making half-reasoned arguments is a problem but at the same time you can comprehend the contents of this conjecture and the disproving of it via a few simple statements about graphs or relational algebra.
Uber is literally having the same business model of subsidizing rides, which loses them a lot of money. This is not even tied to simply being competitive with Lyft - its also to incentivize users to choose them over taxis. You really thing that upping their prices is going to a simple decision and people will just keep using them because of what? Just out of habit?
Lots of places in America have severe restrictions on advertising. Hilton Head, South Carolina; and along the Garden State Parkway in New Jersey leap to mind. I think along some of the toll roads in Houston this is also true (It's been a while, I might be remembering that wrong).

Billboards are banned in downtown Chicago, so big companies rent storefronts in tourist areas and put in stores that are not supposed to make money, just to be billboards for their brand.
If you do the soldering yourself it will almost definitely have lead unless you go out of your way to buy lead free solder. Leaded solder is still the standard solder to get as a hobbyist because it is much nicer to work with and the risk from handling it is pretty much 0. Just don't eat it.
The Machine Fired Me (2018)
I will fly a 737 Max after it’s been on the market three years without incident.
very cool. but I would never plug your card into my machine.. Especially if it's a work machine.

Perhaps if I have a dedicated sandboxed machine. Is that setup common for embedded folks?
Maybe that IS what happened?
Most startups I see pay at 50% discount to wages compared to top public companies not 20%
> Ridesharing will become a race to the bottom.

Ridesharing has always been a race to the bottom, it's just been VC money keeping it afloat longer.
I'd say it's debatable if it's really easier than puppet/chef/systemd

For something really simple, sure. For something that goes beyond a simple web server, you might be touching on similar competencies to those needed to run your services "the old way"

It might be easier to manage, sure, but to get started, and have an efficient deployment, not necessarily

Examples: your system needs a special service or library that is not available in the distro, you need to deploy a cronjob or similar periodic service, you need multiple services running at the same time (either in the same pod or separately), etc
The big questions with the ride sharing business model are A) what is demand once prices are no longer subsidized, and then B) how does that compare to the current valuations? I think whoever wins the race will have a nice business as a taxi replacement, but these investments were sold as the future of transportation, not as a replacement for taxis.
I don't think the best way to evaluate a study is to read the first few lines and guess at how offended the 8 researches are who wrote the paper.

Also I would describe the following as skeptical more than offended.

> Because of enduring experience of managing two languages, bilinguals have been argued to develop superior executive functioning compared with monolinguals. Despite extensive investigation, there is, however, no consensus regarding the existence of such a bilingual advantage
> Does that seem like a lot of effort for 5 million accounts?

It's… close to a person-hour per account… At that point you might as well migrate each account by hand.
The IRS is starved for funds. The powers at be (wealthy) wouldn't benefit from aggressive enforcement of tax law.

https://www.propublica.org/article/how-the-irs-was-gutted
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