skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thank you for the feedback regarding how I come across. Next time I will try to include more specific detail in the OP that hopefully does not upset people. I've found that a vague introduction protects me from down-votes, but perhaps there is a way to talk about some details without that happening.

The illness is chronic mercury toxicity and the treatment is chelation therapy. I know a man who reversed his dementia with chelation therapy. He's an older guy that would get lost in his own neighborhood.

Steven Fowkes, a chemist, has done a lot of work in presenting the some of the latest research regarding Alzheimer's and how it relates to mercury toxicity. A good start is his Quora answer here: https://www.quora.com/Why-havent-we-made-progress-in-a-cure-...

Some other good scientific literature is the work of Boyd Hayley with the chelator emeramide. He's in the process of getting it approved through the FDA for treatment of acute mercury toxicity. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3346673/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29444690?dopt=Abstract
> Pilots are trained for how to recover from these conditions and regain trim authority.

I agree with all of your corrections except this one. I've read that this yo-yo or rollercoaster maneuver was described in old 737 manuals decades ago, but then removed. It's not in the current manuals and I haven't heard anyone else claim that it was ever trained for by airline pilots, either back then or now.

I get the impression that Boeing decided some decades ago that needing to retrim without the motor and at extreme airspeeds and aerodynamic load was so unlikely that they didn't need to prepare pilots for it.

This would probably be true if they hadn't introduced a system that makes the stabilizer try to kill you, and then tied the off switch for that system to the off switch for the trim assist motor.

(A reason to be pedantic on this point is that it's important to know whether the lack of having performed this maneuver can be reasonably described as a pilot error.. although in the MAX cases there probably wasn't enough altitude to perform it anyway at the speeds involved.)
I'm glad "they" don't take it out - I remap it to control and "they" would probably use it for something silly.
As a Canadian, I can buy pot from my provincial government. And they'll deliver it to me for free if I buy enough.

Going to the Netherlands to buy it seems a bit of unnecessary effort. Canadians have other reasons that make it worthwhile - we have a very strong war-time connection, and there are a number of tributes to our little corner of the Earth that are absolutely worth visiting. It's really humbling.
Huawei competes with Cisco mostly outside of EU and NA.

Disclaimer: I work in Cisco’s SP routing group.
Is this different than any other illness that became easily testable? Wouldn't this eventually move into something a technician would perform, like a blood test?
I'm no expert but in industry (and it may differ from company to company) coatings is mostly paints and inks are separate. Inks usually permeate (and add coloration to) a medium while coatings/paints bind and coat (to) a medium.
>I think the people who can go through a coding boot camp successfully have great arithmetic skills, great reading skills, and can easily solve 2x-7=11 for x in their head in a moment 100% of the time. (Basic algebra 1.) And can read any generic software manual easily, if the manual doesn't assume too much prior knowledge and is written at a basic level.

Anybody can do what you just described with practice and training. The typical high school education along with programming is achievable by the typical person.

>I don't think the average walmart shopper can do it.

Stop insulting walmart shoppers.

>Do you disagree? What do you think the baseline skills are for people who go through a coding bootcamp successfully? Maybe you have more experience with those people than I do. I think of them as intelligent, educated people with above-average SAT scores but without specialized programming training, who decide to go through a boot camp. They're curious, motivated, smart. But they're not programmers.

I don't even think you need to go through a bootcamp to get the baseline skills needed for your typical "glue code" job.

Anybody can learn programming. People who go through a bootcamp typically have enough skills to do the job but they likely may not have enough skills to pass a coding interview. Coding interviews are, unfortunately, harder and unrelated to the job.
For the people who think chacha20 is cheap, why don't you use chacha40 for some extra security?
> All in all, there is no question that amyloid-beta is a key part of Alzheimer.

You are responding to an article that very much puts it into question. You should read the article, it's not long. But it'll give some quotes:

“The amyloid hypothesis has been one of the most tragic stories [in] disease research,” said neurobiologist Rachael Neve of Massachusetts General Hospital.

And

Making it worse is that the empirical support for the amyloid hypothesis has always been shaky.
> I live in a Chinese dominated country.

Like some other commenters, I'd also like to know which this mythical "chinese dominated country" is. Why not just say I'm from X, rather than being so cryptic? So many anecdotal propaganda start off with such vague comments.

> I can tell you this is because of the absurd nationalistic view that the Chinese hold.

What "absurd" nationalistic views do they hold that you or anyone else doesn't hold? I think everyone, including you, hold the same absurd nationalist views. I suspect that's why you wrote such a strange anti-chinese comment.

> For example, I know atleast 5 co-workers who sold their iPhones to get a Huawei when the sanction was made.

That's it? In a trade war with the US, "nationalistics" chinese are buying chinese products? In the US, we had "buy american" for decades - even without the trade war.

> "US is evil, I should support China at such times!"

You mean during a US led trade war against china, the chinese are calling the US evil and supporting their own nation? Do you think they should support the US?

> This was very noticeable when Huawei's CFO was arrested. I tried to understand why, so I threw many arguments at them such as Huawei was actually caught sending data back to 3rd party servers in China ...

But your arguments had nothing to do with the CFO's arrest. The CFO was arrested because she allegedly lied to banks in order to evade sanctions on Iran and trade with them.

There are so many vague "anecdotal" anti-chinese propaganda all over social media that I'm having a hard time believing its not coordinated in some manner.

You are trying to make your "chinese" collegues look bad but they are acting like every person would. I'm sure if your "chinese dominated country" were being attacked with a trade war, you'd side with your own nation right?
"Eschew flamebait. Don't introduce flamewar topics unless you have something genuinely new to say. Avoid unrelated controversies and generic tangents."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21911548 and marked it off-topic.
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Huawei is (essentially) a state-owned company - I don't think they are calculating revenue using external auditor and comply with GAAP. It is not comparable with any publicly traded companies.
You are making some good points. everybody agrees the the US system is f...ed. But don't forget how this discussion started. You stated that Trump is addressing things and I am saying he has done nothing and will do nothing other than talking tough. That point still stands.
Just know that, if people upvote you, it's not because they think: "I think this constitutes a plausible explanation of the revenue increase being reported on", it's because they think: "I like the fact that this portrayal makes this outgroup of mine look bad".
It might be, I don't know. In practice (that is, in carrying out cryptographic attacks on real systems), nobody ever cryptanalyzes ciphers, so I've hardly studied block cipher cryptanalysis at all; someone much smarter than me gave me a purely linear block cipher once and I didn't spot it (plus side: now I can break purely linear ciphers! make a bunch of them! put them in JWT!), so this stuff is generally over my pay grade, though I have cryptopals exercises for basic linear and differential cryptanalysis tee'd up.

But I'm just noticing how many named cryptanalytic techniques, like Boomerang, Impossible Differential, even I guess to an extent Slide, are really extensions of Matsui and Biham and Shamir. And that's true of C/C++ software too: most attacks seen in the wild are derivatives of just a couple basic techniques ("out of bound write" is obviously putting my thumb on the scale, but "buffer overrun", "integer mishandling", and "use after free" cover a pretty good fraction of all attacks on memory safety).

Which is all to say: "we've had no good ideas since differential" might not be as meaningful as it sounds? Or maybe it is. Sometimes the best way to get good information into a message board thread is to add bad information, and, in theoretical cryptography, I contribute that ably!
Majority of cases is often a poor measure for such things -- what you're interested in is the significance (in the general, not increasingly fraught statistical sense) of the use.

There are more small businesses than large ones. But large business practices are, for the most part, far more meaningful. Some metric of net financial or revenue impacts might be a better (though much more difficult to acquire) metric.

It's kind of the "space aliens land on Earth, who do they encounter" problem. Most people are located in cities, but cities occupy a small fraction (~<1%) of Earth's surface.

By statistical likelihood, your alien is most likely to encounter ... a fish (or plankton). If they find land, they're most likely to find a rural area, and hence rural dweller. Not because that's a statistically accurate sampling of human population but because it's a statistically accurate sampling of human population areal distribution.

So: if you look at like-buying campaigns, you'll find, because there are far more small businesses, many more small businesses participating.

If you looked at other metrics -- say, bought likes distributed among all commercial accounts -- you'd probably find the weighting swinging far more toward at least moderate-to-large sized businesses.

Though: for a small business, some early-stage "growth hacking" might be both a modest budget line, a plausible-sounding practice (not necessarily true, but appearing to be true), and something a likewise ethically challenged black-hat SEO marketer could sell.

Then there's the possiblity of joe-job likes -- buying fake likes for a third party in order to present them as fraudulent. Possibly not widespread, but possible, and given the difficulties in attribution, something that's hard to demonstrate one way or the other.

Big brands:

- Likely have more effective tools.

- Have other ways of promoting online content without going through fake likes. (Paid "influencers" being one widely-practiced option.)

- Might be aware of the potential downsides and hence avoid this.

- Are a much smaller fraction of "like" campaigns, and have a higher "organic" (or at least organic-appearing) rate of user engagements.

There are numerous reports of ... large influencers in the political space ... paying $10k - $100k amounts monthly for social media promotion.
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Hmm. Been avoiding vit D. But really unsure if that’s a good idea or not. Have a bottle of it on counter.

Thanks for the information. Will research that protocol.
I see what you're trying to do here, and it won't work. Because I'll do it for ONE HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS. Go big or go home.
I'd consider writing a json parser in 20 min a tough challenge for anyone. Also being good at algos is not the only way to get hired. I for one am terrible at them and mostly do fine in interviews :)

The most important thing I've found to getting hired is to have your "story" down pat. Every time you are in an interview and you get asked a question you don't have a good answer for, make a note of it. When you get home sit down and compose an answer to that question in writing. Rehearse it. Repeat.

As for tech challenges, the number one most important thing to remember is they want to see how you think. They also want to see how you react under stress. No matter how tough or unreasonable the challenge is. Just take a deep breath and try. You'd be shocked at how often that gets you points with the interviewer.

Finally, most junior roles I see are (for whatever reason) front end heavy. Your vue experience is great but it would give you more options if you added React to your tool belt. Dunno. Just a thought.
We can want what we want but we have to work with what we've got.

Cancer prevention is best, I agree, but it's not always clear that it can be perfectly prevented. So then you have to move to detection and therapeutic intervention to either eliminate the cancer or prevent it from materially impacting the health of the individual. And with cancer specifically, early detection is one of the best predictors of a good outcome. This is not always possible of course, some cancers are very difficult to detect, but some aren't. It just seems like we are making perfect the enemy of good.
Dask groupby example:
https://examples.dask.org/dataframes/02-groupby.html

> Generally speaking, Dask.dataframe groupby-aggregations are roughly same performance as Pandas groupby-aggregations, just more scalable.

The dask.distributed scheduler can also run on one high-RAM instance (with threads or processes)
https://docs.dask.org/en/latest/setup.html

Pandas docs > Ecosystem > Out-of-core:
https://pandas.pydata.org/pandas-docs/stable/ecosystem.html#...

Reading from Parquet into Apache Arrow is much faster than CSV because the data can just be directly loaded into RAM.
https://ursalabs.org/blog/2019-10-columnar-perf/

If you have GPU instances, cuDF has a Pandas-like API on top of Apache Arrow.
https://github.com/rapidsai/cudf

> Built based on the Apache Arrow columnar memory format, cuDF is a GPU DataFrame library for loading, joining, aggregating, filtering, and otherwise manipulating data.

> cuDF provides a pandas-like API that will be familiar to data engineers & data scientists, so they can use it to easily accelerate their workflows without going into the details of CUDA programming.

Dask-ML makes scalable scikit-learn, XGBoost, TensorFlow really easy.
https://dask-ml.readthedocs.io/en/latest/

... re: the OT: While it's possible to write C++ code that's really fast, it's generally inflexible, expensive to develop, and dangerous for devs with experience in their respective domains of experience to write. Much saner to put a Python API on top and optimize that during compilation.

There are a few C++ frameworks in the top quartile of the TechEmpower framework benchmarks.
https://www.techempower.com/benchmarks/

Hardware/hosting is relatively cheap. Developers and memory vulnerabilities aren't.
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Exactly. It is pretty amazing how developers went from server side rendering to SPAs just to get back to server side rendering few years later. The projects I have been working on never went down the SPA path so there is no need to do SSR in JS and doing it in other languages like Rust, Java or C++ gives you significantly higher base line performance (that you can optimise further).
Tesla Shanghai factory is reportedly making 1000 Model 3s per week
Yes, in this case "security" by obfuscation is the only way to go.

I have a tip for people that don't like to be called by sales people. Buy two simcards, the first should be as anonymous as possible (cashcard or equivalent) then later buy a real subscription one, if you are lucky the subscription one will overwrite the cashcard number in all official indexes and you can use the first in your mobile and the second (that gets all the spam) in a mobile router for internet only.

Works for me and it's a life saver!
I used to have migraines. Then I learned how to relax the muscles in my neck (with meditation). Now I can cure my migraines in about 5 mins. I told my doctor about it. She said yep, nowadays they treat migraines with botox injected into the tensed muscles. Like much of medicine, it treats the symptom rather than the cause. I believe that the root cause of most migraines is emotional tension.

I wish you peace and freedom from anxiety. The bright lights don't cause your migraines. You think they do, so you start to stress out. Then your body's automatic response to stress causes the migraines. Multiple-chemical-sensitivity is the same. I had that, too and cured myself with knowledge and stress reduction techniques. This knowledge is the cure.
> because of the absurd nationalistic view that the Chinese hold

Nothing absurd about it. The US government is trying to coerce the Chinese government. Great time for them to feel nationalistic.

> I tried to understand why, so I threw many arguments at them such as Huawei was actually caught sending data back to 3rd party servers in China and I even tried explaining maybe the sanction is on them because they broke the law/agreement w/ the US.

The core of that argument rests on the idea that Chinese people should accept that the US can dictate how they deal with Iran. And that the US can choose how to enforce compliance to that law. Both of those assumptions are flaky at a basic Chinese-people-should-agree-with-this level.

International rule of law would be nice, but the US doesn't particularly constrain themselves by rule of law in the international sphere - they've invaded a lot of countries on flimsy pretexts. That is much worse than trading with people. After that example, why should the Chinese worry about international rules that are inconvenient? For all the fact that their government is brutal and terrifying it hasn't invaded anywhere in the middle east in the last 20 years.
I wonder if the Japanese authorities didn’t just decide the case against him wasn’t strong enough (or that his lawyers were fighting it too hard) and they might jeopardize their legendary 99% conviction rates, and they decided to look the other way while he “escaped.”
This is fantastic! Nicely done.
And one story will convince you otherwise?
None of that has changed since you pre-ordered your Cybertruck. Maybe you just needed an excuse to cancel??
Lol. You're splitting hairs: confirm/check/verify all mean the same in this context. It was exciting, controversial and thrilling. I was there.

Of course the default mode was skepticism. Even for (3). But you are fooling yourself if you don't think these things were the main topics of conversation. It had a lot to do with the reputations of the scientists involved. Fleishman and Pons were very well respected, for example, so while people question how they lived through the experiments (based on expected byproducts), they were pretty sure something new must be going on.
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2019 Wriston Lecture: Peter Thiel
DDG has an Instant Answer API: https://duckduckgo.com/api
Not exactly, it was used before that as well, I don't have time to find references for this right now as it's Dec 31st and I'm going out in a bit, but will update the article with them later.

"Open source" probably got coined/invented multiple times independently, which is not surprising since "open" was very common as well, or perhaps the OSI folks simply forgot they heard it before (human memory is not very good).
IoS - Internet of Shit strike again.

Employees can’t leave well-enough because giant mega-corps hire too many comfortable people trying to keep their jobs by remaining relevant to their managers.

Software with bugs equals food on the table;

software without bugs equals “what is it you say you do here?” downsizing-through-ignorance.

Also, the article is definitely true: progress and excellence are neither linear, forward nor assured.. it’s a living “organism” (culture) that has to be struggled-for and maintained repeatedly, without losing touch. Overpaid, vested employees rarely maintain that level of “hunger” and adversity to keep that going. Only the leadership can evangelize for that if they stay real, relatable and grounded in fundamentals (which almost never happens, hence long-term, slow declines and failures).
Their revenue is below expectations. Their revenue growth is lower than a year ago. And they lowered expectations for 2020. In other words, the revenue is projected to hit $122B because of the US sanctions, not despite it. Otherwise, the revenue, growth and expectations would have been a lot higher.

Wish the "news" would just print the facts without the spin for a change.
Perhaps it’s elsewhere in the comments but these same programmers build models that are as capable as a person at diagnosing illness, or identifying relevant case law in litigation.

If you look at it from a value perspective the very best programmers are capable of generating an incredible amount. We’re dealing with a shortfall at least in part due to the rapid evolution of the industry, and the immaturity of the discipline.

I can see a future where there’s balance and incomes are lower but not in the near future.
Not as bad, but there's a nuclear waste dump off the coast of California: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farallon_Islands#Nuclear_waste...
So then you also agree that Chinese govt should not be allowed to dictate how other countries deal with Taiwan or comment on Chinese govt politically?

Also then you agree that Chinese govt shouldn't be allowed to commit genocide against Uighurs?
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Dogpiling onto the well-wishing.
Having recently been through a bit of interviews at various places, can't help but wonder - how does (and is it even possible) a candidate defect this toxicity or the interview stage? With the 20/20 hindsight, were there any tell-tale signs?
pandas can read from a CSV file and then write to SQL. Even if you don't go the SQL route, you'd probably gain significant benefits by working with HDF instead of CSV.

https://pandas.pydata.org/pandas-docs/version/0.22/generated...

https://pandas.pydata.org/pandas-docs/version/0.22/io.html#w...
Yes. That seems pretty obvious from what I said.
Interesting, looks like they stopped in 2017.
Do people call returning HTML/CSS/images from a server "rendering" now? The browser still "renders" the HTML into a visible UI.
Pretty fun. Very easy, but fun nonetheless.
Genuinely curious if any Marshallese prowl HN.
Know it well. Saw the documentary too

No matter how misguided her actions were, it was clear she was doing what she did without those same altruism mechanisms - yet millions think she was a saint. That's the whole point of that anecdote.
The biggest problem with the new Maxmind data is that it requires many MB of dependencies: https://github.com/maxmind/MaxMind-DB-Reader-java/issues/48
> The main set of interests keeping things like this is the American consumers

I concur to a degree, but American consumers have also been so captive to the narrative of large houses that they are mostly unaware of other ways of living. Their only image of denser living is slums and tenements, or Park Avenue penthouses, not middle class townhouses.

However, Americans have increasingly travelled to places that have higher density and transit and seen that those can offer a high quality of life.

Many then seek a different balance of space to transit by moving to areas where they can make a different trade-off than the standard American model, hence the recent urbanization of suburbs and growth of previously sparse cities like Austin and Salt Lake City.
I have SIP disabled, and I'm getting `Error: Failed to listen on network interface: No such file or directory (os error 2)`