skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Can these areas really be optimized on the code level? Aren't serious computation algorithms already implemented the best way known to computer science and optimized to the hardware architecture? I agree most of the software is bloated but I don't know if scientific computation software in particular is.

And by the way I believe the software code is not the only place which could be made more efficient. What if we removed all the legacy stuff from the x86 architecture - wouldn't it become more efficient? What if we designed a new CPU with a particular modern programming language and advanced high-level computer science concepts in mind - wouldn't it make writing efficient code easier?

Also, what are the actual tasks we need so much number-crunching power for, besides things of questionable value like face recognition, deep-fake, passwords cracking and algorithmic trading?
Interesting. So in Japan people inmigrate more uniformly?

In Spain is just a matter of opportunities. It's easier to find a job in big cities.
The days of everything being hand-optimized assembly are behind us. It still has it's niche, but for anything outside hot inner loops or extremely frequently called functions (like malloc), straightforward C++ will be just as fast.

Meaning there's no point in optimizing an expensive function if 99% of your program's memory and run time is spent in a different function.

This means the absolute most important skill to writing efficient software is not assembly language skills, but profiling so you know where to focus your efforts in the first place.
How exactly is wastewater distributed throughout the 500 acres? Article says a system of pipes. Is it percolating throughout the entirety of the pipes or are there just a few endpoints with massive ponds? Really interesting read.
> There's a reason about half of physicians nationwide (https://www.medscape.com/slideshow/2019-lifestyle-burnout-de...) are burned out. HALF. That's what happens when your ability to do your job is constantly fucked with. Perhaps you should consider what that means, and how that relates to what you're saying, rather than asserting doctors are just too damn self-important to change.

Paywalled, but nonetheless, I wonder how that rate compares to other industries. And how much has to do with physicians usually being unable to switch industries without a massive pay cut.

Dunno if doctors are particularly too self-important to change than anyone else, but if someone was, I could see that inability itself leading to burnout when things even slightly change around you.
It's hard to believe you made such a comment without including more doubts in your claim. I will leave one link, I hope it changes your mind and people mind if they agree with your comment. But there's more science supporting that a good nutrition help the brain: https://www.health.harvard.edu/blog/nutritional-psychiatry-y...
The footnotes are once again missing in this article (as in, the notes appear, but are not linked to from the text). I think this is the third or fourth article for which this is true - hope pg notices and fixes this.
Absolutely you can dismiss valid criticism as "haters", and absolutely it's a bad thing to do - you don't hear truth that you need to hear.

But I think most of us here have never actually experienced haters. We aren't big enough, famous enough, successful enough. We may have seen people who were haters of someone else, but we've never been on the receiving end. And I suspect that, as PG said, when you receive it for the first time, it can be confusing. I think it's a valid thing to note, and to mention to people who might become big, important, or famous. (But also mention not to use this to turn off all criticism.)
Yes, I’m sure they have their reasons and their own priorities and constraints. Just like the doctors who decline to use basic authentication. See my point? Hospitals are notorious for passing the buck around.

As it happens there is a single web property for accessing a remote desktop, not multiple systems, and the hospital down the road funded by the same entity has implemented TOTP authentication.
Virtual reality and augmented reality
> But it kind of bugs me that someone not having the same views is branded in such a way, as if somehow clearly you know the truth, so anyone who isn't automatically on your side must be delusional/evil in some way.

That's not what I believe at all. I've had plenty of discussions in my life with people from all kinds of sectors and the tech industry, in particular, FAANG employees in my experience stand out in this way. If you talk to someone from the Big 4 like PWC I never exactly got the impression that they're overly attached to their companies point of view.

Tech companies have very cleverly fostered some sort of ideological atmosphere among their employees that makes them defensive about their wrongdoings, and they have long pushed the idea that they're not just vehicles to create profit for shareholders but on world-saving missions.

As another example, remember when Uber essentially spammed mayor DeBlasio's office through their app in an attempt to undermine regulation and to effectively get ahead of the law through a harassment campaign? At that time I talked to Uber employees and a good chunk defended it.

Can you imagine any ordinary industry acting like this?
Maybe check out PEG parser generators, they are easier to reason about compared to older things, but are less capable, though often sufficient
Some people avoid merges like plague because they hate their commit history looking like a train station. Then you cherry pick and/or rebase.
You're a cardiology fellow, so you're likely much better versed in this than me, but take a look at the paper cited here:

Sure looks like they were doing multiple comparisons until they found a happenstance significant subgroup. : |

"Several studies have supported a potential link between irritability and statins, including a randomised controlled trial – the gold-standard of scientific research – that Golomb led, involving more than 1,000 people. It found that the drug increased aggression in post-menopausal women though, oddly, not in men."

https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal...

They adjusted for multiple comparisons, and after that even the post menopausal group wasn't significant. The bit about how that doesn't matter because testosterone mechanisms and independent chance seems very hand-wavey to me.

(Moved my broader comment on this from a reply here to it's own reply to the thread.)
I take it you are agreeing with the previous poster that hands-on apprenticeship would be a good alternative to formal study out of books. An apprenticeship (hopefully) implies a good deal of mentorship and guidance.

* * *

Personally I think “schooling” should consist much more of student-directed projects, with scope, difficulty, and autonomy gradually increasing over time.

It’s a real shame that typically the most substantial pieces of work 18-year-olds are expected to complete in school take maybe 10 or 15 hours, and most of the work students do is broken down into atomized and unrelated chunks which individually take <10 minutes with few if any decisions involved.
Paywalled, unfortunately.
It seems like maybe losing all their well-known teachers and jeopardizing every contract they have inked with students by lying publicly about their lack of licensing in California aren't sufficient complaints?
A very large number of early economists railed on rentiership (Adam Smith, Herny George, of course Marx).

With regard to intellectual property, "ownership" is effectively monopoly because nobody else has the right to produce the good. There might be "inferior" or replacements goods with pop music, but maybe not even that when it comes to things like patents.

However I disagree with your assertion that wealth is income generating property. If I store $5mm under my mattress, I have wealth without generating income: the wealth can be used to purchase a large amount of services over a sustained period of time, but it is not generating more wealth.

The argument about "private property" is not hard to understand, it is just confusing for many people because of the way we use the term in modern language. It is not only to be compared with public property, but also personal property: for example, the apartment I live in, or the comb I use to brush my hair. Interestingly, personal property is almost by definition a form of wealth which does not produce income/accumulate value. Here's a good explanation:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_property#Personal_ver...
https://www.seriouseats.com/2012/05/the-food-lab-the-best-wa...

This is the article to read.

In general I can really recommend The Food Lab as the guy who does it has a very scientific approach.
I suggest folks read the cited research. It's eye-opening here, in a way that's very irritiating. This does not seem like particularly good science journalism.

Because of the road rage story in the lede, a whole lot of people are going to walk away from that piece thinking Statins -> Aggression.

The author even repeats it in a troubling way by linking to Golomb's research (their main source for this article I imagine) on statins and aggression:

"Since then, more direct evidence has emerged. Several studies have supported a potential link between irritability and statins, including a randomised controlled trial – the gold-standard of scientific research – that Golomb led, involving more than 1,000 people. It found that the drug increased aggression in post-menopausal women though, oddly, not in men."

You can see right there - it's plain as day. Randomised controlled trial, gold standard. The really astute scientists now know statins make people aggressive!

Except, EXCEPT... the study that Golomb DID found that statins overall lowered aggression... in men, and did not raise it in pre-menopausal women.

Again, the paper the journalist linked to shows the OPPOSITE of what the BBC piece claims it does.

The only reason the author found a subset of people that statins increase aggression in: they sliced and dice their data a bajillion different ways. They looked at age strata, baseline aggression, sleep-status, serotonin status, until they found a group -- post meno-pausal women -- in which the statin appeared to increase aggression. And that was only significant when they excluded one participant who had medically induced menopause!

"Among (postmenopausal) women, a borderline aggression-increase on statins became significant with exclusion of one younger, surgically-menopausal woman (N=310) β=0.70(SE=0.34)P=0.039"

When you adjust for multiple comparisons done (otherwise pretty sure you're just p-hacking) the result for women becomes statistically insignificant --which, given the number of ways they sliced the data, is not at all surprising!

"The sample size for women is half that for men, calculations did not power separately for women, and significance of findings for women would not be sustained under multiple comparison adjustment."

The overall thrust of 'Be a medical conservative, it's easy to cause treatment related harms you're not aware of' is a good one - there are many pharma companies pushing product on iffy claims. And a lot of research that shows how pharma trials minimize side effects and maximize results by surreptitiously excluding unhealthy trial participants.

The research in this piece is neither brilliant, nor awful... but given that the author appears to happily be quoted in a way that takes their research out of context, and seems to be the main source in an article that makes claims that their research does not support, really concerns me that they have their own flawed biases on statins ...
> If you're doing this [..], you're doing it wrong. [..]

This is not 100% true (see my answer to the second part below), but the point of Pijul is that you don't need to "do things right" to avoid the potential problems of your version control system. In the end, a version control system is just a tool, not a way of life or a work methodology.

Sure, there are example projects where the Git way is the best, but they are quite rare (one example is Software Heritage [1]).

> If you work this way, you can merge the patch cleanly into all target branches, and this new patch becomes the new merge-base. So you can actually continue to apply new patches without any conflicts.

This is not actually true, and is the whole point of Pijul.
In Git, your suggestion works only as long as (1) there is never any conflict, else you need "git rerere", and (2) 3-way merge never runs into a non-associative merge [2].

[1] https://www.softwareheritage.org/
[2] https://tahoe-lafs.org/~zooko/badmerge/simple.html
The industry term is "dynamic pricing." This article from 2014 links (near the top) to Amazon's admission to the practice. https://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2014/11/03/...
I can't read it but sounds like a good thing. Its always a waste to see our smartest developers working on social media or advertising. Hopefully the teams at Google can improve our healthcare which would be one of the most rewarding things they could work on.
It's called tipping. You go ahead and pay the driver whatever the heck you want for better service, $1M, whatever. Hand cash to the driver if you want.
Oakland Residents Transform Abandoned Lot into Sanctuary for Homeless Women
It could be but I used to look at studies about roid rage and found back then that there was not that much support for increased aggression, at least not when using testosterone and in moderate dosages for bodybuilding (which are very large dosages compared to replacement therapy).

On the other hand I'm pretty sure when we are talking really strong AAS such trendbolone there is so much anecdotal evidence that people get aggressive that I have no problem buying it in that case.

Never done any AAS but been prescribed corticosteroids (prednisone) which is an anti-inflammatory and that sure as hell changes the mood for me and many others. It is on the side-effects list as well I think and personally can get more irritated on it. Not always but it is noticable.
Don't forget the benefits of portability and the need to hire people as factors contributing to the use of higher level, generally less efficient languages: a few days back I read a description of C as a "hard to find skill these days".
https://pijul.org/manual/why_pijul.html#pijul-for-darcs-user...
Which is why attempts to "document all human knowledge" or whatever are always doomed to fail. We don't even know what we know. Yeah, people can print out Wikipedia and store it in diamond or whatever, but that's not what human knowledge really is.
Why though? They get paid a set amount of money per amount of time. Other federal government employees don't get exempted like this.

It seems like an unnecessary distinction to make that "excludes" men from the workforce for no reason.
Hm this reminds me of reading Salt Fat Acid Heat, and the buttermilk chicken recipe, which has only 3 ingredients (chicken, buttermilk, salt).

She says you have to orient the chicken a specific way in the oven because the corners of the oven are the hottest and the different parts of the chicken will cook evenly that way (?) Not quite sure since I didn't try it. But my friend made it and it was fantastic.

So the way I look at it (without much experience) is that a thermometer measures one dimension, while a chicken is a 3D thing. And an expert chef noticed that enough to put the detail in her recipe. i.e. "reality is complicated".

Not sure if that's the problem with sausages (since they're not that 3D) but there's a reason that specific foods are cooked in specific ovens. i.e. why do people obsess over pizza ovens and import them from Italy? Why is clay pot cooking different than metal pot cooking, etc.?

Because temperature / heat aren't just one-dimensional. She says that good cooks look at the food and not at the thermometer. They're looking for signs in the food which stay constant across environments rather than measuring one aspect of the environment.

tl;dr Samin Nosrat rejects the use of a thermometer because it doesn't measure enough reality to cook well.
Use Telegram on your phone, tablet, and 2 computers

Now do that same thing with Signal

It's night and day how much better Telegram works when you have multiple devices
Along with other commenters -- thank you for sharing! -- I've also had psychoactive side effects.

TLDR: Self reporting simply doesn't work. We need better tools, strategies. We need before, during, and after assessments. We need to inform the people in our lives, so we can better monitor each other's mental state and keep each other accountable.

Most recently: Started bupropion after a surgery, in hopes of mitigating impact. Got caught in a rut. Took myself off (all of my meds), just to reset. I felt zero difference on or off the bupropion. The only way I knew something was different was the activity monitor on my Apple Watch. (Just to be sure, I resumed bupropion for a week, and I became lethargic again. Again, I felt zero difference mentally.)

Ages ago: I was very high dose prednisone for a long time. Completely changed my personality. I was more or less completely out of control, a human wrecking ball. I reported mania, suicidal thoughts, etc. My team of doctors completely dismissed such possibilities. Of course, none of them, nor any of their patients, had received as much prednisone as me. Even after stopping prednisone, it took years to find a new normal. I was active volunteering afterwards. I advised both patients and their families what the prednisone (and other drugs like chemo) was going to do to do. Strongly encouraged seeking professional counseling, with their eyes wide open.
This is awesome! See also "Greening the Desert" [1] about integrated systems ("Permaculture" is a school of applied ecology.)

These systems, properly designed, create the materials needed to build new copies of themselves. They're (potentially) self-replicating. A bit of labor and a lot of intelligence and we can convert deserts into gardens and food forests. And, given time, they will alter the (micro- then macro-) climate.

(I feel like we have all the technology we need to solve our problems now, but we are distracted and incoherent.)

[1] https://greeningthedesertproject.org/about-us/

https://greeningthedesertproject.org/celebrating-10-years-at...

> The Greening the Desert Project started with the purchase of land about ten years ago, and it expanded slowly until that mounted into exponential growth. Things started at the top, literally, with a large water tank that feeds a shower/toilet block just downhill. The toilets are dry composting, supplying fertilizer for plants on site, and the greywater from the showers and sinks goes to a nearby reed bed. The reed bed, still high in the landscape, is then able to send gravity-fed irrigation to many trees throughout the site. It’s all used onsite for beneficial biological cleaning.

> The food forest with stone walls and earth-backed swales moves through the landscape to rabbit and chicken houses, which combine manures in a system that creates a cubic meter of compost every five weeks. That goes to the main crop garden, a shade-covered kitchen garden. The surplus fertilizer (compost) goes to food forest trees and the nursery. The runoff from the nursery goes through to the kitchen garden. The accommodation building has an office, a classroom, and eight bedrooms. It’s two stories high and made with earth brick and straw bale. The roof has a beautiful garden made up of wicking beds.
I got this confused with VVVV

https://vvvv.org/
I don't think the new interest in compiled language reflects anything other than ongoing cyclical changes in fashion. Neither "compiled" nor "interpreted" language families (the terms are vague and the same language can fall in both categories) has a slam dunk performance advantage over the other.

> I expect that programming in the future will be more about getting the AI to do what you want rather than writing code directly.

This is the clear endgame. The question is how long it takes to get there.
I've seen the opposite - someone choose to step away from treatment because it wasn't worth it.

It was a very, very hard decision. They faced a lot of pressure from others (who they loved) but they did it.

Subsequently some of their friends even questioned the proberty of the people involved - the implication was that they shouldn't have died so easily, that there were things that could have been done.

But this was a man in his late 70's, with two degenerative diseases and an advanced hard to treat cancer (on top of a long standing easy to treat managable one).

So - it's always hard, one way or the other.
Yeah, I agree - this is a terrific read, and seems like a nice way to jump into Rust, a language I am eager to explore .. lots of strange new idioms, and from the perspective of a rogue-like, nicely done .. will give me a bit of Rust chops anyway! Thanks!
The difference is there's usually only 1 CEO, but in a medical organization there can be 1000's of doctors.
‘Holy Grail’ digital effects rewinding the clock for actors
Thanks. I'm on a plane and the WiFi gets kinda bad over Greenland. I couldn't get Twitter's search function to work reliably.
> How can you distinguish between x calling y a fraud because x is a hater, and because y is a fraud?

The very premise of this question is broken.

What matters is whether y is a fraud, not why x is calling them a fraud. The way to discover whether y is a fraud is to look at any evidence x provides, and/or think about any questions x proposes.

If x is correct, what does it matter if they’re a hater? If x is incorrect, what does it matter whether neutral opinion agrees with x?

Imagine we applied this logic to barristers. The defence rises to argue that the police exceeded their authority by searching the accused’s home without a warrant.

“Your honour,” the district attorney/crown attorney drawls, “My friend acting for the defence is a notorious police hater. Day after day, all they do is nitpick and question the actions of the police and the conclusions we the prosecution draw from the evidence.”
For realism with anything other than hybrids you want rfactor rather than iracing (assuming the car is well modelled)
I really like the essay but I think there is a form of Stockholm syndrome playing out especially with the following statements:

> using a Haskell package for the first time, and being frustrated by how many annoying snags there were
> If you’re a programmer, you might think that the fiddliness of programming is a special feature of programming, but really it’s that everything is fiddly, but you only notice the fiddliness when you’re new, and in programming you do new things more often.

I think programmers think that the suckiness of their tools is a fact of the universe, when it's just that they don't know there's a better way.

At Repl.it, we built `upm` (Universal Package Manager) to make using packages a breeze with no fiddling. Ever since I started doing most of my scripting on Repl.it I almost never "fiddle" to get a package or a feature of the language to work.

upm goes as far as to guess your dependencies when you import them and will install and generate the spec and lock files. It's a truly magical experience. More here: https://repl.it/site/blog/upm

And we try to do a similar thing with every potential programming workflow. Can you make it "just work"? I think we can, for most things.
Not sure which problem you are referring to and would like to hear more. It’s cool that you can go to a website, spend 5 mins to fill out a form and start getting emission free power. A good step in the right direction.