skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm a linguist and my personal observation is that the Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis (in its stronger form) is mostly thriving among non-linguists; it's usually psychologists (but there's also at least one instance of an economist) that make these "revolutionary" discoveries that have been considered disproved by linguists for several decades. Lera Boroditsky who's referenced in this piece is among those.

Linguistic determinism (aka. The Whorfian Interpretation, aka. strong linguistic relativity) hasn't been "a thing" among linguists for a long time but the light, bidirectional version, "linguistic relativity", has always—more or less—been in play. Here the issue is mainly answering the questions: "To what degree do language and thought affect each other? And how?"

One of the scientists I respect the most, Paul Kay[0], has been working with that in particular. He went from being a full-on universalist in the '60s to a relativist (now) because of new discoveries. He's done a bunch of research alongside Terry Regier et al. on linguistic relativity in the color domain (several great articles linked in [0]). Anyone interested in this topic would probably find those articles interesting.

[0]: http://www1.icsi.berkeley.edu/~kay/
> accounts on HN peddling anti-western conspiracy theories? There’s a kernel of truth here

It is a sad day when providing facts is described as "anti-western".

> we just get inflammatory rhetoric

We? Inflammatory? The facts speak for themselves. If the truth hurts, then perhaps the problem is the reader's attachment to invalid notions.
> Hunnington's Disease

Assuming you mean Huntington’s, there’s a whole bunch of very promising treatments being trialed.
The good one, dark, very dark.
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Please tell us more.

High dose of NMN are supposed to be helping develop some cancers.

angular chelitis is totally new to me. Are you on retinoids by any chance?
The point?

Eric asked me: "...what do you make of this chart shown on the nasa.gov page? It shows the cycles that you're talking about, but then it shows how our situation is incredibly different from any other cycles over thousands of years. https://climate.nasa.gov/evidence/
So given evidence like that, what is your reaction?"

I responded that based on my assessment, this is not good evidence to support a claim that climate change (e.g. global warming) is 'real' and is human caused, and I specifically laid out why.

That's it. That was the point.

If you want to respond to any or all of those specific items, and show where I might be mistaken, great.

Note that I did not make any claims as to whether climate change (e.g. global warming) is or isn't 'real', nor whether humans are or are not involved or the cause. If that's what you got from my reply to Eric, then you're reading more into my response than I wrote. I think we should be analyzing and challenging all evidence, supporting any claims and any position. That's what science is supposed to be about, IMO. I made that clear:

"First, I want to be clear about the context for my challenging that slide you pointed me to located at https://climate.nasa.gov/evidence -- I am not challenging whether climate change is real or not, and I'm not challenging whether humans are or aren't the cause of it."

I do think we should be working on renewable energy sources that are cleaner, reducing environmental pollution, and so on, because that really makes sense regardless of what's going on with the climate.

In response to your other comments:

I'm not a climate scientist either, but I don't think you need to be one to analyze data and evidence. Read the study and the NOAA data that the evidence Eric pointed me to is based on, and see for yourself. As for whether most people have the time, I agree, most probably don't, but Eric specifically asked me to look at this data; I think it fair to ask him to do the work to analyze it as well.

Your comment along the lines of "most climate scientists believe X" doesn't really say anything other than that most climate scientists believe X. So? Most experts used to believe the Sun revolved around the Earth. As I've said prior, consensus is not evidence. That many experts believe something is presented as evidence may be very true. But that doesn't say anything about whether what they believe is actually true.

"An argumentum ad populum (Latin for 'appeal to the people') is a fallacious argument that concludes that a proposition must be true because many or most people believe it, often concisely encapsulated as: "If many believe so, it is so. Other names for the fallacy include appeal to (common) belief,[2][3] appeal to the majority,[4] appeal to the masses,[5] appeal to popularity,[6][7] argument by consensus,[8] authority of the many,[8][9] bandwagon fallacy,[7][10] consensus gentium (Latin for 'agreement of the people'),[10] democratic fallacy,[11] and mob appeal.[12]" (From WikiPedia I think).

As for the consequences being dire, we'll see.

I recommend you watch the Michael Crichton talk I gave the link for.

/s.
4 times is not enough. maybe post it again?
Shame Pascal is not being taught much these days. turbo pascal was a very easy stepping stone to the hard stuff you ended up having to use.
Just my opinion, don't mean to be inflammatory, but if the user has to know and manually manage stack vs heap objects, then I wouldn't call it "High Level" language.
In the past 20 years the number of people who go to church every week has declined by 30%. That sounds significant to me.
Honestly I don't think FreeBSD should focus on desktop story at all. Resources, as limited as they are, should be spent on making FreeBSD an obvious and compelling choice for the servers.

Although FreeBSD looks cleaner and more consistent than Linux, it's not really clear why should one use it over Linux.

I hope the team will define strategic goals and try to develop some competitive advantage, even if it means focusing only on certain niches in the beginning.
E.g. encouraging development of the OS modules in a safe language like Rust would probably lead to more stable system less vulnerable to exploits, and make it a more attractive choice for mission-critical deployments.
The fact that it is not a competition doesn't stop the variation in intensity from being both real and relevant in a discussion about the relation between the event and "long-term post-traumatic stress".
> Ryanair is a wonderful example of two extremes - it’s one of the worst possible airlines that nickel and dimes you for everything, it’s not a great employer, and it is rated the worst European airline; however, it’s dirt cheap.

I fail to see how these are two different extremes. More like two sides of the same coin.
Have you looked into alternatives? I'm about to swap out a Pi 3 for something a bit faster and without an SD card, but I'm not sure what. I was thinking NUC but they probably aren't nearly as efficient. Efficiency at idle, more than compute efficiency, is really what I'm seeking.
The "ideological pipeline" is a ratchet effect caused by virtue signaling. A group starts with a baseline ideology.
This baseline is the minimum set of ideas you must believe in to stay in the group. A new idea comes along, some group members discover they can earn in-group virtue points by espousing this idea. Eventually enough group members espouse this idea that it gets added to the baseline set. A new-new idea is now required for signaling. Thus the ratchet effect.
Yep, the postdocs are unionized: https://uaw5810.org
I tried to make sense of it and it didn’t seem to be that much more convenient compared to running iron + appropriate middleware packages (session storage; multipart; etc). They seem a bit “stale” but work absolutely fine. Source: 33KLOC stable rust web project.
tbf, you'd need a lot of time on your hands to do what the OP did with a paper guide. If you just want to know 'can I go to Paris and Brussels and back to Venice again in three flights' you can do that with three queries on Ryanair's website, which is actually less painful than battling through the upsell screens you'll be greeted with when you come to buy the tickets, never mind booking with their callcentre in the nineties...

And if you wanted to analyse large numbers of routes for business purposes then back in the nineties, you'd have probably found it easier to buy OAG's analyser tool or an airline spreadsheet file than digitise thousands of route pairs from a paper timetable, which you can still do if you don't want to write a scraper.
Fair enough, but the article did mention how much worse the Indian troops under their command had it. So seems odd that they wouldn't mention the British troops as well.
It’s my understanding that cancer stems from malfunctioning of our own cell processes, rather than from something that is viral/bacterial.

For that reason it seems wrong to think about cancer as “developing” resistances - I don’t believe that cancer is something that evolves/mutates.
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What’s the story behind your exciting and inspiring startup?
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This supports the case the article was making. Clearly the type system in Haskell doesn't prevent it from handling arbitrary data - it's hard to imagine a program more open to change in the input data than a Lisp interpreter.

You seem to have a set of rules that you think code in a statically typed language has to follow in addition to the type constraints in order for you to consider it sufficiently 'typed'.
Rust is a compelling alternative to C++ for large scale systems software (browsers, video games, etc) but, as of the last time I checked (~2 months ago) it doesn’t scale down as well as C does, or to as many platforms as C does. A lot of this is that C has an unfair advantage from being well established, but an advantage is an advantage .
That is definitely true, however I would hardly classify a private in the army as "middle class".
If you're talking about a daily dose, it is really something a doctor should be aware of and give a stamp of approval. It's a blood thinner, which means if you have any other anticoagulant med or issues it can be dangerous.

Relatively speaking, it also has a fair low LD50. For a person around 150lb, 40 standard 325mg pills can be fatal. In fact you'll almost never, outside of hospital supply, find the 81mg chewable version in quantities higher than 36 in case children get a hold and think they're candy. Even then, a 2 year old downing a whole bottle would still be close to an LD50.

All in all, despite being extremely common and cheap to the point of nearly free ($10 for a year's daily supply) it is actually less safe than other NSAID class drugs. But then none of this stuff, strictly speaking, is "safe" if it is used outside of it's normal use parameters.
Or just use the extraordinary product https://www.kiwi.com
Every label probably has a range of details which can describe it, but in my experience autistic people are marked by their relative inability to understand social cues and other non-verbal (and even verbal) indications of emotion.

Highly sensitive people, however, seem to be given to feeling the emotions of others without even the necessity of verbal indications.

In my experience, they are opposite ends of some spectrum. Perhaps "normal" people fall rather in the middle.
Some of the requirements for a durable beef:

1. The two sides are evenly matched.

2. There is no way to objectively decide the merits of the beef.

3. Each side of the beef has at least one skilled Knight capable of "eviscerating" Knights of the other side.

4. Knights who do not care one way or another about the ideas involved in the beef. Only the conflict matters to a good Knight.

5. Mooks on each side are plentiful and eager to please the Knight they serve.

6. Knights view their own Mooks as a necessary evil.

7. Mutual dislike between Mook clans must be real.

8. Knights seek balanced matches with no clear outcome. Only the conflict matters.

Remove any of these elements and the beef loses its appeal and participants.
On a related note, I was surprised to see a recent thread on HN about recommending a mobile development platform. Most of the recommendations were for Flutter, which I would expect is not mature enough to be a solid platform yet. A couple of years ago it might have been react native.

The HN crowd is the other extreme, mostly being young, they are mostly only exposed to what has been promoted recently.
It certainly doesn't help with transitioning to alternative layouts. I found my touch typing improved dramatically when I started using ortholinear and vertical stagger keyboards that force you to really use the "right" fingers
Plus, its not a taboo at all; its been intensely studied, and there's no evidence that having an abortion increases post-traumatic stress compared to being pregnant and not having one, while miscarriage does increase it.

Now, there are people who very much want that not to be true for political reasons, but wanting something to be true for political reasons doesn't make it true.
Thank you for sharing your experience. Do you use a more or less well-known toolset like MPS or Xtext or it is some kind of a custom framework? Any lessons learned and best practices regarding external DSL design and development?
This makes 0 sense. Firstly, if you're rounding to the nearest 5c, you can round up both $x.x3 and $x.x8, and get fair rounding. Perhaps you are thinking of the slightly more complicated deal with rounding to the nearest 10c, where you round down $x.05 and up $x.15.

And Benford's law applies to leading digits, not the least significant digit. It's right there in the first line of your link.
Turns out I’m wrong! Cancer does undergo natir selection and develops resistance:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Somatic_evolution_in_cancer#...
Not just that, but the interface is both clunky and godawful. I'm not really in the mood to categorize all of the flaws I've observed, but just seeing my parents (and myself) use it (on the PS4 and the laptop) have convinced me that it was not designed well. That's not to mention the fact that the tech stack they chose to use meant it was incompatible on a lot of android devices (Basically, anything that wasn't one or two specific devices, or using completely up-to-date android (when the majority of phones in the mid-range market were using the previous version)) at the time of release.
I've posted this article because it highlights an obvious fact: the cookie law has dramatically worsened the user experience. As much as I am against dark patterns, punishing companies or providers for implementing them is just pointless.
The GDPR rules have been designed by incompetents bureaucrats, mostly lawyers who know nothing about design. The result is a mess. The cookie consent banner per se is worst than a dark pattern. Privacy should be controlled at a browser settings level, and it's incomprehensible to me how they could come up with the idea of doing it at a website-per-website level. Pure incompetence.
That raises a question, would you call C# a "High Level" language?
Should be "observe".
I maintain a handful of forks of node.js libraries that the original authors were unresponsive or uninterested in maintaining. Some people did the same to some Ruby gems I wrote ten years ago.

There was absolutely no drama involved. As long as you credit the original authors and isn't passive aggressive about forking, all is good.

In fact, one of the authors of a library I forked noticed the attention my fork was getting and wanted me to merge back. Everyone won in the end.
Can you give a few examples of what you mean by jerk, and how exactly did you clash with your ex bosses?
Agreed. Learn something well and if it isn't broke don't change.
Curious, coming from a user named 'glofish' that they are unaware of GOs pervasiveness in the zebrafish model organsim world. GO is everywhere in the genomics/model organism world, and only growing in use. Also funny that the user is looking at labels, when concepts are the core of an ontology. Take a look at how many terms in GO are deprecated, it has evolved over time, I know very few scientists who get things right the first time. Sure there are issues, but many FOSS principles apply throughout. Also, NIH would be to differ that OWL/OBO isn't important- https://monarchinitiative.org/.
In terms of reducing DALYs, I agree. Depression and anxiety disorders are the most common mental health conditions[0], and most respond quite well to psychotherapy.

But, we also need better access to addiction treatment (decriminalization would be a huge step here), more drug research, and a huge push to remove the stigma of mental health conditions in general.

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[0]: https://www.nimh.nih.gov/health/statistics/global/global-dal...
I'd say (as a former RTOS lead) that it scales down as well as C, there just aren't as many backends yet. XTensa, AVR, and 8051 are the notable ones missing.
There's an interesting clojure library called 'Tawny-OWL'[0] that is designed for building ontologies like this. It allows one to define a set of entities that follow patterns and logical axioms.

[0] https://github.com/phillord/tawny-owl
Is AlphaFold 1 or 2?
How does a chain of second hand bookshops succeed in this day and age? Is it because manga are more like magazines in size and regularity of purchase than novels? I'd love it if there was something like that in my country.
Oh shoot, yeah, I guess I accidentally mixed up Colorado and Oregon there. Can't edit it now, though, unfortunately.
> Potential caveat is that cancers typically find a way to generate resistance

It's randomness. Theoretically speaking every possible combination could happen. So you should be able to have a Cancer cure, a cancer resistant to that, another cure, another cancer, etc.. at least until you cover all of the possibilities.

The goal is to have science become faster than physical mutations. You generate medicines faster than you generate resistant mutations.
I so much agree. I am using FreeBSD on home server (and few others) trying to push it to the limits. I just love it. It seems like order in all the chaos of operating systems (from windows kernel32 getting com objects to all the chaos in linux, from systemd to docker,...).

Please if you are trying to use freebsd TRY jails (to shorten tldr, use iocage). They are just great :)

And dont go desktop. Just isnt worth it. Not enough people troubling with gfx support. Keep it as it is. Server.
personally, without affiliation to a university, I have a hard time downloading the datasets through my slow home connection. I live in a city with a university, I explained the situation but they won't let me download a dataset even if I pay, ... only when I enroll. Instead of just selling the shovel, they want to sell me the wheelbarrow too.

I succeeded one time in convincing the guy behind a desk in an internet cafe, so I could bring my HDD and download a dataset in a calmer time of day, and throttled so it wouldn't disturb other customers. This went without any problems for the other customers in the internet cafe. When I asked again a few months later for a new dataset, they no longer wanted me to do so...

There seems to be no download by mail service (and I only get people forwarding me to google cloud products etc, which as a European is so financially out there with automatic balance deductions and non transparent pricing schemes, I would have no qualms using GCP or others if they ran a prepaid alternative for people who refuse to take on risk)
The gist of it is that you need a keypair (a public and private key), which GPG can generate for you.

Then whenever you insert something into the `pass` database (which is just a directory tree full of encrypted plaintext files) the tool uses the public key to encrypt the password (or anything else):

pass generate --no-symbols shopping/ebay 16

Later, when you want to read a password, you ask pass to decrypt the file using the private key from your keypair:

pass shopping/ebay 16

The difficulty is really all in managing the keys, which can be quite a faff to set up and then manage.
If you're only using gpg for `pass`, IMO it's easiest to copy the keypair (which gpg generated) to all your other machines.

A quick web search brought up a gist [0] which shows how to quickly get up and running on a single machine.

If you want to use it on another laptop/desktop/*nix-like machine you'll need to export both your public and private gpg keys and then import them on the other machine.
When using a phone you have to do something similar. The Android clients were fairly straightforward, but Pass for iOS had a very, very clunky way of getting the keys across.
Regardless, it boils down to this: get the gpg keypair on all of the devices and then get them all using the same git repo for pass.

[0]: https://gist.github.com/flbuddymooreiv/a4f24da7e0c3552942ff
Every now and then over the years, I've considered designing The Perfect On-line Discussion Group software.

Every time, I've gotten a half hour or so into the process and realized I'm re-inventing trn 4.0.
> That's good to hear, but what else do you expect them to say? You put them on the spot and I suspect 99% of the people would be polite.

Did you read too fast or something? I'm talking about people who's emailed me out of the blue.

> If you didn't think it was weird/creepy, why are you here trying to get validation?

Huh? What are you even talking about?

What "trying to get validation"?

I was saying that people who've emailed me don't come across as weird of creepy.

Not sure where you're getting the rest of your ... [I don't even know what to call that] from. It sounds like you're trying to put people down. It's weird.

> That would come off as even creepier unless you are contacting family/friends.

Heh Heh Heh. Well, that explains a few things. You don't seem to understand how to communicate via text, and seem to misinterpret things in bizarre ways, and/or put people down.

Good luck with that. ;)

> ... why not tell them in person when you meet them?

Meet who?

The vast majority of people I communicate with are not people I've ever met in person, not are likely to.

Distributed teams are a thing. ;)

Sounds like your life is lived very differently, and you just can't relate. No worries. ;)
“ I know first-hand most SMBs (IME the only real customers for freelancers) are a tough sell: their datasets are tiny“

Thanks to transfer learning, tiny datasets are not a major issue to developing AI solutions. Fast.ai makes it super easy to overcome that hurdle.
Then just allocate everything on the stack and use the optional garbage collector: http://libcello.org/learn/garbage-collection
It is the result of the combination of path dependency and it-will-be-different-for-me syndrome.
Path dependency because many PhDs specialize in fields and skills that have little value outside of academia – think biology (e.g., all those researchers that spend years in the lab and their only marketable skills without further training lead them to a career as lab technicians; nothing wrong with that, but not what you expect after 5-7 years of Ph.D. studies), humanities, obscure areas of math etc. Then, academia is an environment that tends to infantilize people. And kids either want to become their parents (more frequently) or the opposite of their parents.

It-will-be-different-for-me is self-explanatory and particularly strong when there is some kind of emotional commitment to the cause. Another example is marriage.
Yeah, the foreach macro is particularly interesting to me in that respect. Quite a neat bit of sorcery.