skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It's still entirely possible that it happened as reported, but that the (properly) confidential records were destroyed/lost.

Did you read the article? This isn't possible at all.

> the distinguished psychologist Eleanor Maccoby, who was in charge of assessing Rosenhan’s tenure file, reported that she and others were deeply suspicious of him, and that they found it ‘impossible to know what he had really done, or if he had done it’, granting him tenure only because of his popularity

True, this is just circumstantial.

> At various times, Rosenhan had proffered sometimes contradictory biographical fragments about pseudo-patients 2 through to 8, but even with the assistance of a private detective, these leads led nowhere.

Hmm, it'd be hard for everything to have happened as reported, given that what was reported contradicted itself.

> In a larger sense, it scarcely matters, because Cahalan uncovered so much other evidence of Rosenhan’s malfeasance and lies.

Hmmmmmmmm...

> He claimed, for example, to have carefully coached his volunteers before sending them forth. Bill Underwood and Harry Lando emphatically denied this.

OK, now we know it didn't happen as reported even in cases where there wasn't an internal contradiction in the reporting.

> Lando appears to have been dismissed from the study, not because he violated protocol, but because, as Rosenhan incredulously noted about his confinement, ‘HE LIKES IT!’

The "throw away any data you don't like" school of research.

> Most damning of all, though, are Rosenhan’s own medical records. When he was admitted to the hospital, it was not because he simply claimed to be hearing voices but was otherwise ‘normal’.

Note that this is what he reported he had claimed.

> On the contrary, he told his psychiatrist his auditory hallucinations included the interception of radio signals and listening in to other people’s thoughts. He had tried to keep these out by putting copper over his ears, and sought admission to the hospital because it was ‘better insulated there’. For months, he reported he had been unable to work or sleep, financial difficulties had mounted and he had contemplated suicide. His speech was retarded, he grimaced and twitched, and told several staff that the world would be better off without him.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Database#Database_management_s...

>Connolly and Begg define database management system (DBMS) as a "software system that enables users to define, create, maintain and control access to the database".[24]

>The functionality provided by a DBMS can vary enormously. The core functionality is the storage, retrieval and update of data. Codd proposed the following functions and services a fully-fledged general purpose DBMS should provide:[25]

[x] Data storage, retrieval and update

[x] User accessible catalog or data dictionary describing the metadata

[x] Support for transactions and concurrency

[x] Facilities for recovering the database should it become damaged

[ ] Support for authorization of access and update of data

[ ] Access support from remote locations

[x] Enforcing constraints to ensure data in the database abides by certain rules

Under this definition SQLite - the library - clearly is an RDBMS that leaves out some common features that do not make sense within its niche but is otherwise fully functional and under this definition the files that SQLite manages are the database, not just merely a file format.
Suggestion: add a field for HDMI or Thunderbolt video. I have devices that will only work with HDMI like ChromeBooks and Samsung Galaxy phones (you can plug them into a screen and use them like a computer). I also have devices that will work with thunderbolt like my Mac and Dell laptops.
>It also has a network effect - the more you add the more useful

This kind of seems like saying 'the more microservices you add, the more useful it gets' which only works up to the point where services don't encounter any integration issues.

What happens when your thermometer starts sending messages that cause your door to unlock when the temperature gets too high? Or if your TV ends up shutting down because of malformed packets being sent across your home network?

IoT is an integration nightmare that only gets worse as stuff fades out or ends up receiving no more support from the manufacturer. Those items you bought from 50 years ago will still work just fine even if the company goes under. But the same can't be said for modern technology we're filling our homes with.

And that's even without talking about the privacy issues. I'll take dumb items that I can make smart over smart items I can not make dumb any day of the week.
Already done: https://www.redrocktech.com/products/scsi-drives

There are also Fibre Channel adapters for these if you have the XIO-PCI card cage. Can boot from it with some special magic IIRC, but a local SCSI drive is fine for most things.
stronger version of this -- every piece of hardware that can't run linux will be bricked or degraded by its manufacturer when they release the new model

whoever controls the buildsystem controls the hardware

the constant FBI-apple push-pull where the FBI wants apple to release a custom update is a version of this too
Right? It's baffling.

But I think that it might have something to do with the near-religious reverance with which Americans view absolute property rights. If you frame it as a contest of "freedom and liberty" vs "get off my property or I'll shoot", then it makes a bit more sense. There's a certain segment of the population who are just itching for an excuse to shoot a 'bad guy', which is one of those things that makes exploring this nation so... interesting.

Still, I like to think that there's a reason why 'property' got replaced with 'the pursuit of happiness' when Locke's basic rights were enumerated in the Declaration of Independence.
I opted into the insiders thing, to try to help MS make Windows better. I had to opt out of the beta channel, because every update takes a ridiculous amount of time 10+ minutes easy. Multiple reboots. No way.
I tested the text-to-speech and it was acceptable, on pair with the robotic voice many screen readers use. For me it's not that important that it sounds like a real human, it's more important that it's accurate, and that you can hear what it say.
Also pre-processed examples is not really any useful, as the author will likely pick examples that turned out good. This API testing page was very useful though! As it was very easy for me to test myself.
when using right ssml formatting, output quality is not so bad. but it cannot compete commercial engines, thats right.

i guess thats for the same reason that google is dominating the speech recogniction world: they have tons of training data available. not smarter algorithms, just more data.
Exactly nowhere in that post did barrin92 say that we should make everyone poor. You seem to be reading into it something that is not actually there.

In another post, you refer to this comment and say that it said that we should go back to being hunter-gatherers. That is even less there.
> Lot of yelling here today about the block - guys it was lifted. After a ruling by a court.

Sure, after 2.5 years. And after being blocked in the first place.
Word of mouth marketing can be strong. For example I have purchased many apps because of a recommendation IRL, mostly music-focused (musicians love to talk about their kit). The point is to make something truly excellent, and if possible, conspicuous.
> To access the student intranet, they need to enter the URL (and you ain't finding it on Google) and that's a huge struggle for many of them.

Sorry, copy and paste or clicking on a link they were emailed is a huge struggle? How are they receiving these URLs that they aren't immediately usable?

>Not understanding URLs also affects their ability to see through any bad emails that make it through the spam filters.

I've seen too many people who ostensibly understand URLs get phished to think it much matters.
This. If I’m renting tech then charge me the rental rate. But don’t try and ask me to buy something and then tack on a subscription at the end. I’ve never paid retail for Android phones. I have a drawer full of them that have reached the end life far too soon.
There are no negative kelvin values in the article. 10^-30 is a positive number.
It can be a dumping ground of sorts for your ideas and research projects.

I don't think so. I mean, yes, there's some pretty obscure things in there. But to be part of the mainline kernel means that you're code must pass all sorts of gatekeepers. The code has to meet a number of quality and appropriateness checks. A good number of eyeballs have to sign off, or at least no object.
Probably not quite, because the order in which you carve seams matters for every variant that I'm aware of (forward of backward energy seam carving). That is, if you reduce a 200x200 image to 100x100, you get a different result if you do that in order 200x200 -> 100x200 -> 100x100 than if you do that in order 200x200 -> 200x100 -> 100x100.

But if you constrain it so that any reduced resolution is carved by stepping through the path that represents a straight line from the original image, and pre-generate all images, you might end up with something that looks smooth.
To get into mobile sooner. I was tired of the web and burned out needed something different. I’m getting way more work and enjoying myself a lot more. I hope to have a long career programming so maybe I’ll change platforms again one day.
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Yes because firstly, you didn't design the experiment for that reason, so you didn't consider what inadvertent biases you introduced for the "new" way of looking at the data. Plus on top of that, because of false positives, you're going to find a LOT of false positives by accident.

So every study "discovers" something new, but it's not because of biases and false positives.
They still advertise sub-8 second boot, but it seems like that's possible with any decently light weight Linux system nowadays.
I'm not sure I follow you, could you elaborate?
If you're referring to "there will be a cosmological event horizon surrounding each observer, which will radiate Hawking radiation at a temperature of roughly 10-30 kelvin" this is a very tiny fraction: https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=10%5E-30
> It's the absence of a cultural context for liberal democracy.

Which isn't necessarily a bad thing.
> It's literally impossible to write robust programs in it.

This is why I never write shell scripts more than about 4 lines long or with any control flow statements in it -- I use Python for that. The Python might be a bit longer, but at least I'll understand it when I come back to it 6 months later.
You seem to think that all knowledge is transferable to or indicative of different areas of knowledge. That's not the case.
> and the USSR leadership openly admitted exactly that privately.

This sentence is nonsense. They publicly (not privately) thanked the US for their aid.

Besides, your framing of the war is obviously false. The allies had lost the war up until about ~1943, where they started gaining momentum. A turning point I'd like to point out is the Battle of Kursk, in which the Germans for the first time cancelled a major operation. Sure, the invasion of Sicily played a role in their decision, but the battles weren't even on the same scale (14k casualties vs 370k in Kursk).

Also the lend-lease is a false equivalence. Yes, the "industrial might" played a role, but the US hadn't lost 25 million men to the war. Their capacity for production was higher because they weren't sending everyone to their death. The US even saw population growth during the war. The Soviet Union only saw their loses replaced during the mid-50s.

The US played their part, but make no mistake in the difference between 11 billion USD and 25 million men.
I don't see negative Kelvin in the article. I do see Kelvins with a negative exponent, which is just a positive value that asymptotically approaches zero.
"It could be worse" is a bad argument against a possible improvement.
Can't see it being adopted widely. Once EV's become the norm, how else will remnants of auto parts industry parts make money? Asides from brakes and tires.
See here for lots of people having the same issue: https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/forum/#!forum/chrom...
What do you think about SwiftUI? I never liked coding layouts by hand but it seems a great compromise for SwiftUI, so I'm pretty happy to use it later on when more devices have moved on (which should be soon)
Why are these machines so expensive? Is there some legacy software that cannot be ported?
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> I can easily see that.

How? By what methods are you measuring that?
340 of over 600,000 Amazon employees! So around 0.05% of Amazon employees? Probably a higher percentage believe that Earth is flat...
I fully agree that the Soviets were instrumental in helping to cripple the German war machine, eroding its supplies and manpower. That's not the premise floated by the more recent, popular, anti-US WW2 propaganda however that proclaims the Soviets won WW2 while intentionally ignoring all actual historical facts from WW2.

Normandy was June 1944. The US had nukes by August 1945. The Germans signed their surrender in May of 1945. The Germans were done. Period. The war in Europe was over one way or another and soon.

Within one year of the US invading at Normandy, all that Nazi territory in the prior map I posted was gone, whereas none of it had been reclaimed in the prior five years before the US invasion. It's not a coincidence. Churchill recognized that once the US joined on to invade Europe, the war was won.

There's a reasonable argument that the Soviets helped delay the possibility of the Nazis developing nuclear weapons. Historical evidence suggests the Nazis were nowhere close to developing a nuclear weapon though and they had largely abandoned the project in early 1942. Most likely, with or without the Soviet effort between January 1942 and May 1945, the US was going to bring Nazi Germany to capitulation with nuclear weapons.

There is a big difference in the stakes however: the US didn't need to win the war in Europe to survive. It could have stepped back, relatively safe with its nuclear position. And the Soviets would have treated Western Europe very differently without the US there to safeguard territorial lines from further Soviet expansion and influence west.
This is standard fare for the source. The Spectator generally pick one of the authors' bugbears (usually Muslims, The Left, or Political Correctness Gone Mad), write a beautifully written and entertaining piece, all the time aggressively mixing and conflating fact and fiction with a slightly sneering tone. For example: https://outline.com/nMzA8N
How would the auto parts industry prevent adoption of puncture proof tires? Do they have some crazy lobby power?
I'm not necessarily saying that I advocate harsher sentencing. However, I think it's possible that both the high incidence of crime and the severity of the sentences could be a result of the difficulty of catching a criminal, bringing them to trial, and carrying out sentences in a time before an organized law enforcement system.
You, like me, might be looking for benchmarks; https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=radeon-g...
Have you ever driven from Amsterdam to Riga? I have. It's not something I care to repeat. Several near misses on such a distance is not something that I care for.
This is cool in a kind of "neat idea" way but please god nobody use this for anything that anybody else might ever use! I feel like it's almost irresponsible to tell people that this exists.
Nice! Unless I'm not seeing it, the only thing it really needs is sorting (by price, by rating, etc).
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>the gap between rich and poor is smaller.

Depends on what you mean...Sweden actually has slightly higher wealth inequality than the USA, despite the much higher income inequality in the USA.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_wealth_eq...
The cotton gin was invented in the 1790s. African slaves were used to work the American south for hundreds of years before that.
TL;DR - the authors of this paper (http://janvitek.org/pubs/toplas19.pdf) tried for 6 months to replicate the results of previous research that showed certain programming languages were associated with fewer defects. They could not replicate the results (or I guess only replicate very small differences in outcomes), and identified numerous statistical and methodological (is that a word?) issues with the previous results.

What's really interesting for me is the in-depth discussion about why the previous results could not be replicated, and best practices for moving forward to achieve reproducible results in general with this kind of research.
Not sure why you're being down voted. Maybe just tone with the 'hmmmmm' and such. Anyway, I agree that there appears to be ample evidence for this conclusion.
Publishing paid Chrome extensions temporarily suspended to combat fraud
Thank you for the kind words! And I mentioned in a sibling comment, I regret not finishing that series...

My plan was to "finish" Oil and then publish them. So people would not only learn something but also have something to try.

I didn't realize it would take this long :) But we've made steady progress the whole time.

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The other posts in this series are about xargs, the "$0 dispatch pattern", and the "run.sh" pattern.

They are very practical, though again more abstract than you might see in most shell scripts. I won't argue if someone says the syntax is ugly -- the point is as you say, that the structure of the programs valuable and not possible or not easy/idiomatic in other languages.

For example the way I run comparative benchmarks is to print a list of tasks to stdout, and then have a loop that consumes it (usually with xargs). You can control parallelism that way (with xargs -P), and you can filter the tasks, or you can even distribute them to other machines. I currently run benchmarks on two machines.

https://github.com/oilshell/oil/blob/master/benchmarks/osh-p...

https://www.oilshell.org/release/0.7.0/benchmarks.wwz/osh-pa...

Also, I wrote this page that shows the whole website is basically a shell script. (And it's not that simple, despite looking simple!)

http://www.oilshell.org/site.html

So yes hopefully I can make these patterns a little prettier in Oil because they are very worthwhile. For example "xargs" is really like "each" in JavaScript, but it can be serial or parallel.

If Oil reaches it goals, then one thing I'd like to do is run a lot of performance and correctness tools (dynamic and static analysis) on open source software, and report them on my site. I think there's a lot of room for this kind of knowledge to make open source better. There are knowledge bottlenecks where people don't understand how code works, so they write a lot of new code, which is better in some ways but worse in others.

Related to that is that I want to write a post about benchmarks/uftrace.sh and several other tools I used to speed up Oil:

https://github.com/oilshell/oil/tree/master/benchmarks

I mentioned uftrace here; it's very shell-friendly: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22089814

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But yes I will prioritize finishing the series since you reminded me of it :) I managed to get 7 posts this month but then I went back to coding. Thanks for the encouragement!
Not bad. Functionality aside, one thing it can improve is UI responsiveness - the UI alignment isn’t displayed nicely in iPhone SE Safari.
Mozilla DeepSpeech has seen significant improvements in the quality of results it provides (and RAM/CPU usage) since early December, the accuracy of transcriptions has substantially improved in our testing.
Can someone explain why “Kobe Bryant has died” submissions seem to all be getting deleted, but the ones that approach it from a tangent (like this one) aren’t?

I have seen plenty of “x has died” posts on HN for people who ostensibly have nothing to do with HN’s core topics. For example, Terry Jones received such a submission with nearly a hundred responses just a few days ago.

Why is this different?
the issue, is what happens when your smart door lock decided that you need to upgrade to v2 of its hardware for it to get the next set of software upgrades?

what happens when it decides that it won't connect with next version of iOS/Android unless you upgrade?
New open source financial API?
> western supported military coups and regimes persist, in South America

Say what? AFAIK, Cuba and Venezuela, the only remaining "military regimes in Latin America" are not "western supported".
How many mental hospitals were closed in the 80s due to this?
> We had lots of techniques to package and deploy things before Kubernetes, but they were complex and inadequate in some ways

They worked very well for 30 years. And the new container-based tools inevitably end up doing the same mistakes, rediscovering the same solutions and we'll go back to the beginning.

> turns out Kubernetes itself is substantially more complicated to package and deploy than the old solutions

Exactly, and you can't solve a problem by making it more complex.
Google colab version: https://colab.research.google.com/github/rickwierenga/notebo...
That sounds like a long-winded way of saying "x86_64 and the JVM are different but neither prevents TCO", which is precisely my point! Unless your point is "it's not TCO unless it's literally an instruction called 'jump' and iteration transforms don't count"?
You are trying to argue about the meaning of the words being used. This is not productive, as what matters is what the author of the argument meant when they used that word.
For sake of argument, what alternative would you advocate? It doesn't seem just for there to be neither restitution nor punishment.
I think the take-away is that speaker technology is largely unchanged from the 70s. Sure, magnets are better, digital processing is better, and for sure, online services are better. But don't try to stuff all that into one box, for one fixed price. I've got 90s speakers, with a $100 hifi-berry, and Roon, and they sound way better than Sonos.

Microservices vs Monoliths. Don't put speaker, amplifiers, processor and wifi all in one box.

Put the slow-changing stuff (speakers, amplifier) over here and pay once for it. Put the fast-changing stuff (pandora! spotify! Tidal!) over here, and pay a subscription for it. I pay for Tidal and Roon. Tidal for content, Roon for updating software as iOS updates, linux updates, and SPDIF drivers need updating. As long as Roon supports SPDIF, I'm good.
MERS had a small R0 and yet killed more than SARS, which had a R0 range of 2-5.
Why? The Gibbs phenomenon is just an exhibit of a finite Fourier series, no?
> tubeless sealants in a tire make sense.

Does it?

They pay constant NVH penalties for the life of the tire, cost more and sacrifice performance, all to soften the impact of an exceptional event.

And it's not like you can't insert sealant into non-run flat tires in the event of an accident.

The overlap between type of damage that won't destroy a run-flat, but precludes you from using canned sealant after a puncture, is tiny to the point of practically being non-existant.

It's pretty much just marketing when they mention being able to run on their sidewalls if the sealant fails, because most impact that does that much damage will also damage your wheels, and even if it doesn't you'll put extreme stresses on your suspension if you take advantage of it.

And there's also the fact once you get to the tire shop, they're much harder to find, and can easily lead to a situation where you need to replace multiple tires if you want to get back on the road in a reasonable amount of time. That's a sacrifice some other tires make as well, but usually in the name of performance, making that sacrifice in the name of convenience is a little bit of a paradox