skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am willing to accept bias, but Why would Monday surgeries be statistically different from Wednesday? Clearly weekend surgeries might be different, but the effect is still present Monday-Thursday. I don't work in healthcare so there might be a selection bias that I am blind to, and I am curious if you have a bias in mind. Also they did track specific procedures and for all but one (with a low n) the procedures tracked the results.
Great question!

It's not safe to grow veggies and grains with human manures.

For safety, the human manure should be used as an input feedstock for growing and expanding forest.

Then we use the forest's outputs as feed stock for grains and veggies and fruits and trees.

The forest outputs are leaves and wood, both of which may be processed into composts, or used as mulches for veggies, orchards, and grains.

This is what I practice.
The Math Behind Successful Relationships (2019)
If you like this you might also like Groasis, a company that produces boxes that can be placed around young trees so they can grow from condensation the first years. They also have a lot of success in deserts and mountain areas.

https://www.groasis.com/
Why more young Americans are cyber-bullying themselves
Or the path of any success rate. Yoga won't help you one bit if your apendix is about to burst. Acupuncture has never set a broken bone or de-clothed a crainial artery to relieve a stroke. Scientific medicine is a mirical we should all appreciate every day. Without it, half the people reading this probably wouldn't be here.
And those accidents didn’t cost any money at all, and if they did, all costs were carried by the owners of the plants. And you believe the fantasy that the only deaths caused by Chernobyl was the firefighters and a few people working at the plant. And as usual, you ignore the question of the waste.

And there are other alternatives than coal, which are much more economical than nuclear when each producer carries their own costs, including environmental and insurances.

I don’t have a problem with people disagreeing with me about nuclear, but I do have a problem who are so narrow minded and lazy that they group everyone that have different ideas than themselves together.
The Fed
Do you even maximize your grey matter volume, bro?
I think he's buying the publishing (mechanical royalties).
None have multi week battery life. All the ones that do sleep stages are equal in sleep tracking. I think Charge 3 has the best battery life. Again, I don't speak for Fitbit. But this page does: https://www.fitbit.com/campaign/compare
> Your mind and your body are the same thing.

That is incorrect, but unfortunately a very common misunderstanding.

The mind is highly correlated with the brain but it is not the brain. It’s easy to see this is the case because the brain is made up of a qualitatively different material than the mind. While the brain is composed of biological cells / chemistry / atoms, the mind is composed of things like sense-perceptions (like colours, smells, sounds, etc), emotions, etc.

Which is to say that the mind is composed of material that is fundamentally different from the brain. Of course they’re highly correlated but they are in fact separate entities composed of different materials.

You may say that the fundamental materials of the mind are reducible to the same things as the brain, but that would be confusing correlation for the thing itself.

Take for example the colour red, which is present in the mind but not the brain. Yes the brain enables the perception of red but it is not red itself. Eg a photon with a wavelength of approximately 620-750nm is often confused for red but in fact it’s just a photon which, when it hits the back of our eyes causes a chemical cascade from the relevant cone cells. So it’s abundantly clear this photon in itself is not red because it just causes a specific chemical cascade at back of our eyes. So is this chemical cascade red? No it’s just a chemical cascade that is highly correlated with red appearing in our mind.

The right answer, I believe, is simply that red is highly correlated with specific pathways of chemical cascades in our brain. The point remains that the brain and the mind are separate and distinct entities made up of qualitatively different material.

If you disagree with this assessment, please tell me what is red?
Jeffrey Epstein: How Complicit Was Silicon Valley?
It sounds like it can be used as a radiation shielding material. Similar to the lead filled vests they use for x-ray scans.
How Will Autonomous Vehicles Impact Cities?
Thanks. The project is new. I hope this month to get a better idea of how receptive people are to the idea.
No. Yes? That's what I mean, my whole life is a way of dealing with them by using escape mechanisms. HN is one of them. Lesser one.
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It is possible to have a moderate debate over strongly-held opinions, so long as everyone is capable of and willing to distinguish between facts and opinions, and agree to differ over the latter. In discussions over which is the 'best' programming language, you can find examples going this way, and examples turning into flame wars. Only the former are worth following.
> You know that magic pill that can get rid of your approach anxiety ... wondering if anyone more in the "know" can comment on it.

BLUF (bottom line up front):

Try biofeedback to regulate level of emotional arousal before an anticipated stressor or critical decision or event.

COMMENTARY

You may be referring to “Propranolol”

“Propranolol is occasionally used to treat performance anxiety... benefits appear similar to benzodiazepines in panic disorder with potentially less side effects such as addiction. Experimentation has been conducted in other psychiatric areas... Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and specific phobias...”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Propranolol

It is a beta blocker:

”Beta blockers (beta-blockers, β-blockers, etc.) are a class of medications that are predominantly used to manage abnormal heart rhythms... also widely used to treat high blood pressure (hypertension), although they are no longer the first choice...“

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beta_blocker

HYPOTHESIS

When taken before something like a Ted Talk, perhaps what’s happening is pre-treatment of not anxiety but indicative symptoms of anxiety, damping your biofeedback signals.

Perhaps it’s not doing anything direct for your anxiety, rather damping the racing heartbeat and increased blood pressure you usually experience in anticipation of stress (PTSD style association), and without that biofeedback sensor, your metacognition of anxiety doesn’t ramp up as much.

No citations, pure anecdata from 5 years in hedge fund sector.

CONTRAINDICATIONS

More than a few contra-indications:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Propranolol#Contraindications

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beta_blocker#Contraindications

ALTERNATIVE: BIO-FEEDBACK / MINDFULNESS

Bio-feedback mindfulness exercises are likely to be able to have the same effect after practice, not just in general, but in the immediate short term preceding an anticipated stress:

”Financial decision making : Financial traders use biofeedback as a tool for regulating their level of emotional arousal in order to make better financial decisions. The technology company Philips and the Dutch bank ABN AMRO developed a biofeedback device for retail investors based on a galvanic skin response sensor.... financial decision makers can learn how to effectively regulate their emotions using heart rate measurements.”

”Stress reduction : A randomized study by Sutarto et al. assessed the effect of resonant breathing biofeedback (recognize and control involuntary heart rate variability) among manufacturing operators; depression, anxiety and stress significantly decreased.”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biofeedback#Financial_decision...
> With songs though, they'll generate revenue while you're sitting on them.

How, exactly? I'm fairly certain most of a songs revenue is made by the first year. To go beyond that, you've got to get your song back in the public mind.

> Silver doesn't do that.

You can certainly borrow against the value of the silver to fund low risk investments.
What do visitors expect Paris to be like? What do they find instead? The article is missing this critical piece of information.
I feel sorry for your father. Dialysis is not fun, this is not irrational behavior, it's pain avoidance. My grandfather used to call me when he was going through dialysis - sometimes crying. It was heartbreaking.
Are there open source equivalents to Honey using APIs from existing websites for more common vendors?
They aren't measuring the mortality rate of the procedure. they are measuring this:

"Death in or out of hospital within 30 days of the procedure."

If I am already on my death bed (for lack of better word), the procedure's mortality rate is probably not swaying it much. Also, couldn't find if they would include something like a lethal car accident 28 days after the procedure or not.

> An elective procedure was defined as “elective: from waiting list,” “elective: booked,” or “elective: planned”

High risk procedures seem to be cancer related and specific excisions.
Diet. Exercise. Music. Yoga. And doing something different.
> Choosing Monday for a surgery increases your chance of success 2 times

The title seems poorly worded. The researchers studied mortality rate, not success of procedures. Since these were elective surgeries, I assume the success rate was high. If your surgery has a baseline success rate of 90%, what would it mean to increase that 2 times?

The conclusion of the study was instead that the odds of death were 44% higher on Friday compared to Monday, and 82% higher on the weekend compared to Monday. Basically, there was a gradual increase in the odds of death from Monday to Thursday, but a big jump up on Friday and again on the weekend.
A brand new account posting scathing anti-government anti-regulation content?
HIPAA and HITECH and the other legislation that you're likely referring to pushed a stagnant industry in the right direction. Yes there is pain with growth but patients are far better off for it, which is what the end goal was.
This is one of those cases where I try really hard to set my preconceptions aside. I'm not famous. I'm not a thought leader. I don't maintain a "public persona" on social media. If I have a couple of twitter followers, I figure they're just some kind of bot or spammer.

PG is likely dealing with a phenomenon that most of us have no personal experience with.

All I can do is try to embrace his understanding to get an insight because I have no idea what it's like to have some stranger obsess about me for good or ill.

I notice some people commenting here who seem to think that trolls and people who dislike you casually are the same as the "haters" PG is writing about. I don't think they are.
I’d say calling a stack-based VM terrible is overstating the case a bit. In [1] the number seem to bear out that converting from stack-based to register-based yields an average, adjusted performance increase of approx. 25%. Also the transition results in an increase of code size of approx. 45%. That speed up is a non-trivial amount, but so is the code size increase, which is a valid area of concern for embedded/resource constrained engineering. Also, while I tend to STRONGLY agree about awareness of hardware at the language level (although I don’t think this should be limited to just embedded environments) the methods in [2] are automated and simple ways the Compiler can take stack-based code and create optimized register-based instructions.

As an aside, there is probably a different argument to had about whether a stack-based VM as the mental model of a language is beneficial, but as a said, that is a vary different argument than discussing the technical ability to transpire a stack-based VM to a register-based one.

[1] ‘Virtual Machine Showdown: Stack Versus Registers’. Ertl, Gregg, et al. 2005. https://www.usenix.org/legacy/events%2Fvee05%2Ffull_papers/p...

[2] ‘Implementation of Stack-Based Languages on Register Machines‘. Ertl, Dissertation. 1996.
After Soleimani’s death, Instagram shuts down Iranian accounts
There is a recent take on dark energy though.
The article mentions a theme park at the telescope. I’d think there is a radio quiet zone around it.
Pro tip: if getting a colonoscopy, always always get the first appointment of the day. I work in med devices and ummm those scopes still have poop left over between procedures. Its not harmful, but still...
Indeed, in hindsight it should have been obvious. It's less obvious at the moment itself.

In life, many things are hidden in plain sight.
A Scheme Interpreter for Notebooks
If I were a surgeon, after a few days off of leisure to rewind, I certainly wouldn't start with my most risky, potentially problematic cases. Instead, I would try to pick operations that were the most straightforward. These would be almost like "warm ups" for more complex surgeries I would do later in the week.

I'm also not a surgeon...
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Ask HN: Are There Generalized Transpilers?
I have a client who has tens on thousands of legacy Base SAS programs for calculating Current Expected Credit Losses (CCEL) models. Base SAS is a commercial, interpreted language used widely in financial services for reporting and risk analysis. New hires coming into the firm mainly know Python and few know SAS. They would like to convert their exusting SAS programs into Python 3 scripts.

One obvious approach is to recode by hand the existing logic into Python. However, this is not a scalable approach.

I would like to know if there are existing tools, like a generalized transpiler that parses language X into language Y.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Source-to-source_compiler

I have a reasonable understanding on mapping common Base SAS language constructions into Python. See:

www.pythonforsasusers.com

Absent such a generalized tool, what advice do you have to help automate such an effort?
New version of tus-PHP v1.2.0 released with the support for PHP7.4 and Symfony5
> Many of the visitors come with a deeply romantic vision of Paris - the cobbled streets, as seen in the film Amelie, the beauty of French women or the high culture and art at the Louvre.

> The reality can come as a shock.

> An encounter with a rude taxi driver, or a Parisian waiter who shouts at customers who cannot speak fluent French, might be laughed off by those from other Western cultures.

> But for the Japanese - used to a more polite and helpful society in which voices are rarely raised in anger - the experience of their dream city turning into a nightmare can simply be too much.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/6197921.stm
Interview with Money Gang Music (MGM), Founder Carl “King Crazii”
No if you believe vague handwaving.

Yes if you see they have an open bounty
Toyoda: We have decided to build a prototype town of the future
The article discusses it:

"On a typical workday, they commit 16,000 changes to the codebase, and another 24,000 changes are committed by automated systems. "

That was years ago though. We don't know if automated or human commits have grown faster. It also doesn't mention whether machine-assisted large-scale refactoring is counted as human or robot.
>Now, why would a smartphone need so much RAM, you may ask? Well, Black Shark, Black Shark 2 and Black Shark 2 PRO are some of the fastest gaming smartphones on the market and Black Shark is a niche producer, aimed primarily at gamers.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but more RAM shouldn't increase gaming performance, only multitasking performance. I'm guessing this is only a gimmick as there's only so much they can do in terms of hardware (ie. the fastest commodity chipset is SD 8xx and everybody's already using it), so they're resorting to this to differentiate themselves.
Don't forget ADOM, though it now has graphical tiles too.
The problem is that nuclear "oopses" effectively become forever problems due to the half-life of the materials involved. When the worst-case scenario makes a location a permanent hazard / permanent toxic pollution generator, it's reason enough to say no.

Every other form of pollution can at least be cleaned up in a human timeframe. This kind can't even be approached by machines without them breaking down.

The only way I'd ever support nuclear power is if the nuclear industry were to develop an actually safe reactor (and by safe I mean that it's literally IMPOSSIBLE to cause a nuclear hazard, not "we have safety protocols in place"). But so far that hasn't happened in any meaningful way, so I'm all for dismantling everything and forbidding any new reactors until they can actually prove their safety (this is where I applaud Merkel).

But that's never going to happen, because big projects like this are full of graft, lies, payoffs, and plain fraud (just look at Boeing). So effectively, I don't expect I'll ever be anything but anti-nuclear. And that's a shame, because it has huge potential :/
Still not sure why Telegram cares about the SEC? Russian owners and offshore company, what leverage do US regulators have?
I don't care about effectiveness, 95% of people have no interest in reality in this subject, there is nothing that you can say that will change their thinking.
> Just give me json with json schemas defines somewhere so vscode can give me great code completion and I can templatize as necessary

Is there something that does this in the wild?
This will do nothing to deter malicious SIM swaps. Someone who's happy to take over your number and then steal your money is also happy to present a fake ID and pretend to be you.
Yeah. I think it's even billions at HEAD too, not some metric about total changes.
I recall reading that most of the money came from Russian sources close to oligarchs. So at least it’s not out of the pocket of retail investors unlike some other blockchain scams. OneCoin seems particularly egregious in this regard:
https://www.bbc.com/news/stories-50435014
Office for Civil Rights (OCR)
https://www.hhs.gov/ocr/index.html
I'd be interested to see the comparison against zig[1], which I am eying up as a quite interesting language for embedded development. I think the comparable features would be:

- No automatic magic, anything that looks like a function or memory allocation is, anything that doesn't, isnt.

- Good compile time code generation capabilities including reflection, much nicer than C macros.

- Runtime safety features, such as bounds checking, but not as intrusive as Rust's borrow checker (which makes less sense for single threaded embedded applications). These can be turned off in release builds.

- Very good C interop for use with manufacturer HAL libraries etc, includes a C compiler.

- Better error handling than C, without needing full exceptions, instead the "try" and "defer" macros nicely replace C's "goto" for error handling[2].

- No garbage collection

- Embedded is a first class target, unlike Go/TinyGo

- Working async support on all platforms.

- Sadly not as popular as others, one full time developer currently I think.

[1] https://ziglang.org/
[2] https://eli.thegreenplace.net/2009/04/27/using-goto-for-erro...
Dude medicine has a failure rate as well, it's nothing that interesting. It's clouded in economics and politics, meaning it will never be truly altruistic. It's not much different from thinking software is a miracle. Human error is a leading cause of death in the West.
I'd believe it.

Rushed to the hospital on a Saturday night when my father in law suffered a massive heart attack... and he was held stable for almost 2 hours before a surgeon capable of working the situation was able to make it in and insert a stent.

It seemed strange to me that a hospital would have a schedule like that... where most doctors work 9 to 5 monday to friday, and most everybody goes home for the weekends.

People can fall ill at any time. Although I suppose the majority of people would only notice that they were ill and come into the hospital during regular business hours.

I noticed this because he was in an induced coma for a few weeks.

At night they lock the place up so tight there is literally only one door in the emergency room that is open to the outside. Something about them being worried about narcotics thefts.

That was a frustrating learning experience our first evening in the hospital, I tell you!

Thankfully he pulled through with flying colors!
The Media Lab is sort of an odd duck. They did some "cool" forward looking work way back when (in the 90s as you say) but not a lot concrete ever came out of it and it felt like they were largely eclipsed by the "real world" during the dot-com era.

They did eventually get enough money to build a second building. (Which has a really nice event space--so there's that.) And I assume if I went through their research I'd find some interesting things. But I certainly don't know of anything particularly world-changing off the top of my head.
I agree - I consider the current president both a hater and accomplisher of impressive things.

down-voters should interpret impressive as "making an impression" not "something really good"
Sure, but that implies that surgeons control the operating room schedules. I am not sure that's true (it might be), but it's a contested resource in most hospitals.
> How, exactly? I'm fairly certain most of a songs revenue is made by the first year. To go beyond that, you've got to get your song back in the public mind.

Bass player with a 70s pop star who's still working and making music here.... I know that his hit songs still generate a significant amount of income for him (I'm not giving figures, but I would be more than happy if I had that much coming in for a full time income, let alone as passive income 50 years later). The songs get airplay, and get used in adverts and so on, and that generates income that I'd certainly be very happy to have. (I don't, I'm just a hired hand, very late to the party!)
The problem is that the ID is still checked by the clerk. They could be bribed or tricked by a fake ID.

A recovery code snail-mailed/e-mailed to the account holder when they first open the account is the correct way to go, and if they can't provide it they need to go through a lengthy process where many factors are used to authenticate them (verify their physical address, verify their ID, ask to confirm last call records, billing details, etc).
> Does that really matter when the procedure is non-optional?

Of course it does. If you have time to shop around then you can choose a provider that costs less, and if we had real price transparency it would allow people do to this, which would require providers to compete on price and that would lower costs.

> It's not just price that matters, but also the quality of the provided healthcare, and you're forcing somebody to make a stressful decision when they're already impaired by whatever health issue makes that procedure necessary.

Quality is ensured by medical licensing. If there are five providers that have all met the licensing requirements, maybe some of them are still better than others, but how do you know that even now? It's a completely independent problem. You still need some way to figure that out regardless of whether there is transparent pricing; or you just have to trust the licensing process to ensure a minimum level of quality.

> Basically, most health-related decisions are made under at least some level of duress, which makes all "free choice" based reasoning at least somewhat suspect.

How is this any different than buying food? You have to buy it but that doesn't mean you can't have a market.