skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When I say that you're underestimating the number of people who have these types of anxieties, I don't mean it in the way I might say, "you'd be surprised how many people have PTSD", or "more people than you think are homeless." What I mean is that there are a lot of completely normal people that you probably meet every single day who feel this way about social interactions.

The reason you find that hard to believe is not because those people are wildly uncommon or because they're hiding, but simply because you don't personally know how to recognize them, or that (ironically) you haven't been in a position yet where one of them talked to you that openly about their feelings.

What I'm trying to get across is that people like me are not aberrations, and our personality traits are not debilitating character flaws.

To try and get across how weird your perspective feels to me:

Imagine that one day you showed a friend Candy Crush, and their immediate reaction was, "but who would ever install this? Sure, occasionally even I get bored, but when I do I just sit silently and motionlessly like an adult. I don't need constant distractions."

Imagine trying to convince your friend that:

A) Installing Candy Crush doesn't actually mean that you have undiagnosed ADHD, and that

B) It's actually not that big a deal if people occasionally pull out an app to keep themselves from getting bored during long flights, or train rides -- that the fact that some people get bored sometimes is not a big societal problem that needs to be addressed by altering their personalities.

Phrases like this stick out to me,

> act like a human

because from my perspective, I'm not sure I can think of many things more human than caring a lot about other people's preferences, even occasionally to the point where I dismiss what I want to do. And I don't see how using an app to accommodate someone else makes that accommodation suddenly robotic.

I'm seeing a bunch of people on here who (as far as I can tell) have a view of introverted relationships like they're this completely impersonal thing that comes down to never wanting to see another person's face or deal with conflict in any way. And the reality is that of course introverted people have conversations and conflicts. In reality, what these relationships often look like is just friends accommodating each other a bunch and going out of their way to make each other feel comfortable via tiny, almost invisible gestures.

My proposal: in moderation, maybe that kind of relationship can be nice sometimes, and you don't have to be frightened that society will collapse if more people do that -- even if that involves using an occasional app?
It is only a poisoning if it is not true.

Nature is not the problem though, they just happen to be one of the most prominent and selective publishers - many/most? people hate them because they can't get in.

IMHO the entire process of scientific review is wrong. Once millions of dollars in research grants depend on a paper being "accepted", once getting a grant is a zero-sum game, the scientific review is irrevocably corrupted.
I'm mostly surprised poultry is worse than red meat. I realize the supermarket chickens most people eat are a far cry from their ancestors (ridiculously overfed, grain diets, selectively bred to grow faster and fatter), but cattle have many similar issues.
I like namecheap.com — it's straightforward and more user-friendly than godaddy.
Yes, but if we are talking strictly numbers, we have to consider opportunity cost. I do love cooking, but I can make way more than $10 in 1 or 2 hours.
TLDR: The Emus won ...
I was shocked by how poor the HBO show I just watched on Amazon Prime looked on my 2019 TV. Visible banding in backgrounds like 16 bit color from the late 90s. For all the flack you hear about Netflix streaming compared to 4K BDs I very rarely notice such visible encoding artifacts.
Start with PostgreSQL as database and PHP/NodeJS/Java/<popular language> as web server. It doesn’t sound sexy but leaves enough room to grow your app if need arises, and it’s much easier to find people who know the stack. Firebase is a mistake in my eyes because when high bills come in, you are locked in. Either the bills or the migration to another stack will kill you.
Sounds like Ron Swanson
because this site is full of stuck-up idiots LOL
How not to die.
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I don’t publish or review too much, but I do a little. One of the recently frustrating events to me is that I got comments back from a reviewer that made an incorrect factual statement along the lines of “it’s against government policy to share x type of data.” And then discounted large parts of the conclusion as impossible or inappropriate. That was the only substantive comment from the reviewer.

We responded back to the editors refuting it and showing the relevant policies and regulations showing how data sharing for x was allowed.

The next message back was from editors declining. So further feedback.

I would have really liked to learn more about why the reviewer thought what they thought and why what seemed like clear evidence to my co-authors and I wasn’t to the peer reviewer and editors.

I’ll never know and I don’t spend many cycles contemplating it, but this new trial in Nature would help me understand the criticism better.
All of the conservative commentators are comparing this application to the launch of healthcare.gov. However, that was lengthy piecemeal code. I have yet to hear anything about this.
Because, as a human being, it is hard to ever justify using one?

Also, if you know the middle east will be potentially be glassed if you use one, you might have second thoughts.

I have very little doubt that the great leader would happily order nuclear bombardment if the US was ever terrorized by a nuclear warhead. And I’m fairly certain most citizens would cheer him on.
"Is there some way authorative source that I can use to verify which company owns which?"

What do you mean by 'owns'? When answering, please keep into account that this is about Chinese companies, where 'corporate ownership' means something else than in the West (this is not China-bashing, I think it's established fact that cultural norms about what is "ownership" in pretty much every context are different between cultures).

Also I'm not not claiming one way or the other - I'm just asking, for your specific question, what sort of information would convince you of the veracity of the facts you're looking for?
LOL shit coin index... shitcoins are shitcoins. No big market by definition.

However, Its only a matter of time till somebody tries to enable virtual sp500 btc settled futures. Although the cftc might take a more aggressive approach in shutting them down.
This is the "counter" to Russia's addition of similar missiles with the implicit threat to Europe.

It has been interesting to talk with pro Russian folks who seemed to think that a nuclear powered battlefield would somehow tip in their favor because their tanks were "nuclear radiation hardened".

I tried to explain that a nuclear exchange, small or not made no difference. Tanks are meaningless once nukes are introduced as they tip the scales so heavily in favor of "self preservation".

I would echo the other comments I've seen here that nuclear winter/collapse of civilization is vastly more likely as an end to civilization lately as arrogant, fatalist, cynical dictators and at times democratically elected presidents have gotten dreams of being written into the history pages. I'd say disappointing, but honestly it is more pathetic than anything else.
Who is Shadow Inc?

I know who knows...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8JSroiDGJ3E
V8 Adds Support for WebAssembly SIMD
Chechnya is Russian sovereign territory. I doubt Russia would take kindly to the US dropping a small nuke on their territory, no matter how weak, or where, or why.

> What sort of problems can low-yield nukes address that cruise missiles or guided non-nuclear bombs couldn't?

Their sheer explosive power? It would take thousands of cruise missiles to destroy 1945 Hiroshima.
I wonder if he is on r/datahoarder
It is mentioned that the results are barely statistically significant for unprocessed meat; it also states that "poultry could mean plain meat or deep-fried" which makes a huge difference.
Cheap and huge explosions?
Very meager market depth. Can clear out the order book by selling a whole bitcoin.

Also: "For legal reasons, we are not allowed to do business with customers from the United States of America, Crimea and Sevastopol, Cuba, Iran, Pakistan, Sudan, North Korea and Syria.."
I’ve drinken kava myself and I recommend it over alcohol. It gives an immediate clarity in the head and an overall very pleasant music-like feeling. The thoughts in the head get unstuck.

I recommend you to try it as well.
My understanding is that SpaceX built their own ERP system in-house and then shared it with Tesla. So it's possible that "4 months" was really about forking/customizing it for their needs.
Getting better performance than C without using a different algorithm?

Weird.. My hunch: the C functions lack the restrict keywords so the compiler's optimiser cannot generates efficient code.
Like I said, ideologues tend to be the ones who will complain no mater what you do.
It's situation dependent for me. If I've made plans with a friend to grab lunch/dinner/drinks on a particular day, we often won't decide on a location until less than 24 hours beforehand. So in that case, I'll usually open with "Hey, are we still on for lunch? Where should we go?" Even if a location is already set up, if the plans were made more than a few days in advance, I'll likely confirm.

But if I've made plans with someone for only a few days in the future, and we've already picked a location/activity, I'll assume they'll be there unless they reach out to cancel.
Damn. That's worse than anything I saw so far... Hope nothing was actually shipped, or if it was nothing serious happened.
Why legislate it? Why not make a thing that doesn’t need advertising and charge people money for it. The way to “end” the industry you don’t like is democratically — using dollars as votes.

The idea of using government to crush an industry is a bit totalitarian — it “the people” agree with you, they should be happy to pay you for your product. If they don’t agree, then there isn’t anything democratic about using a government to shut down an industry you don’t like — that’s not democracy, that’s fascism.
We all know that publishers add little value to science, and nature here looks to be striving to add even less than usual. If the peer reviews are not of good enough quality, your editors should be handling that! Don’t rely on the readers to review the peer review. Dumping the peer reviews online is just a way to avoid the responsibility of quality control.
Electricity: It’s Wonderfully Affordable, but It’s No Longer Getting Any Cheaper
For anyone interested in trying kava recreationally (or really any new psychoactive drug), I highly recommend you read up on Erowid before partaking in consumption. Erowid is an amazing repository of knowledge, from scientific articles to dosage recommendations to anecdotal trip reports.

Link here: https://erowid.org/plants/kava/
If you let fly with a Hiroshima sized bomb (what this is) you can be pretty assured that the chain reaction will be about the same as if you let fly with a megaton sized warhead.

I could see the argument about reducing barrier to use if this were a 1kt bunker buster but this nuke is still big enough to be treated the same as any other nuke in the fleet.
Start with this: https://www.coursera.org/learn/programming-languages

Free online course that teaches statically-typed functional programming using SML as a teaching language. Lecture videos are short and to the point. Prof. Dan Grossman is widely recognized as a great lecturer and he gets the ideas across really well.

From there learn OCaml, which is the ML with the widest industry adoption.
> You sound angry.

I am. I've been around and around this thing for decades, a misanthrope since my teenage years. A lot of us who delved deep into tech and scifi absorbed myths about the future of humans as a space-faring, enlightened and truly advanced race. After the internet and the great advancements in computing, it seemed maybe we were reaching into truths of the universe and would join God in his great datacenter in the sky, cranking pure mathematical harmony and joy in our ever-expanding understanding of scientific knowledge. But we weren't climbing into heaven, or building a space elevator up there. We weren't even making ivory towers or steel skyscrapers. It's still been our base primate instincts at work. Greed. All of that striving after science and mathematics and technology has never been any different than digging up the hills for gold or slashing down the forests to plant our wheat. We're dwarves; we're diggers, miners, destroyers, conquerors, killers, pyschopaths. And that guilt triggers in me because I see the delicate things, the beautiful things, that we have destroyed to get here. And the future just looks like one big highway littered with McDonald's with powerlines strewn across, dusty and dilapidated. We fucked Earth. You bet I am angry.
The numbers in the study are something like 2 servings meat, 3 chicken, 1.6 fish weekly.
Hey HN, so I think that 2020 will be the year of the "GARMENT" stack:

GraphQL / Apollo / React / MongoDB* / Express / Node / TypeScript

(*or maybe Postgres)

Most of the mini-courses I'd watch would build "demo apps" that weren't even remotely production-ready. And I was pretty frustrated by the lack of non-trivial example projects. I wasted probably hundreds of hours trying to figure out on my own:

how to properly use TypeScript and React together,
how to securely add permissions for my GraphQL resolvers,
how to use typings for Apollo requests,
...and dozens of other little details

So that's why we built Tinyhouse - a full-featured, non-trivial, full-stack Node.js/GraphQL server and React app that covers all of the details (and the right way to implement them).
It's possible to make statically linked applications but it's pretty much never done.

And it's against the linux packaging mantra, where you should be able to "apt-get install libqt" for example (noting that libqt package is completely detached from the release cycle of your application).

This leads to a ton of accidental dependencies and they're tied to the OS release. Even the simplest of apps might eventually depend on libc, pcre, openssl, etc...

Windows is simply different on this aspect. It's more friendly to static builds and the system libraries are more stable. If you built against some win32 API or the Visual Studio 2005 SDK, the DLL are still present and working.
Not really, you just need to incentivise the behaviour. Pass a law to make it illegal to show ads based on tracking, with executive imprisonment for violations. Executives will then demand their teams to put controls in place to ensure that no one is using tracking to show ads. Violations of HIPAA have some serious fines, and I've watched executives at all levels take it VERY seriously
This sort of propaganda and baiting has no business here.

PragerU is a fake Canadian "university" to give an obvious and awkward soapbox to the likes of Stephen Harper to gloat about how much a jerk he is.
In Germany it's not restricted to just parents. Could also be the new grandmother taking a few month off.
I have read this comment several times but have no idea what you are talking about, but it sounds interesting. Can you elaborate a bit here?
And risk upsetting Israel?
As far as I remember PFDS is actually written with SML code.
Since Tesla's share price suddenly fell by 20% today, this may be a premature declaration.

https://www.cnn.com/2020/02/05/business/tesla-stock-falls
Lack of explainability is not a bug, it's a wholly missing feature.

There are a whole set of mathematical functions that are beyond the range of a typical human mind to understand. But there are proofs that exist that explain how they are correct.

I don't think it's a big ask for a new model to be able to justify its own determinations.

Of course, that makes things slightly more difficult for all those in research and those selling snake oil and everyone in between. But that's what the difference between science and alchemy is isn't it?
The parent comment is not an empty accusation, but a truth known to everyone in academia. The publishers extort huge profit margins from libraries and universities without providing any useful service. See http://thecostofknowledge.com and the articles linked from it for more information.
Free OpenStreetMap tile library: watercolor, black and white, terrain
George Soros is pissed off
Chrome to block intrusive video ads starting August 5, 2020
That's not what cold calling is but I suppose it's possible the top poster is confused about what that phrase means.
Nukes are expensive. Small size/weight is what you get for that money.

For example, if you want a 1kt bunker buster using conventional explosives that's gonna be a heck of a bomb and therefore greatly limited in where/when/how it can be used. A 1kt nuke could fit in a JDAM sized form factor and be dropped by pretty much any military aircraft. Similarly, if you want to decimate a city with conventional bombs you'll need to deliver a heck of a lot of bombs. With nukes you only need one.
Could someone explain to me how could researchers come to these conclusions if there are different factors at play that surely impact the results? The article states that:

> Participants consumed a weekly average of 1.5 servings of processed meat, 3 for unprocessed, 2 for poultry and 1.6 servings of fish. People with higher intake were generally more likely to be smokers, drink more alcohol, have a higher body mass index (BMI) and a lower overall diet quality.

If that's the case then how is it possible for a cohort study to properly control for all of these? Isn't 7% increase in risk basically telling nothing then?
The other thing is the methodology. The article says that they used "standard food frequency questionnaire" which I think means Food Frequency Questionnaire. This alone seems like it would have great effects on the efficacy of the research making the results even more questionable.
Stack Exchange to deprecate TLS 1.0 and 1.1 services
Some good info on them here from the Australian Museum.

https://australianmuseum.net.au/learn/animals/mammals/drop-b...
Superhuman and Eventjoy founders announce $7M angel fund
Will 2019-nCoV become a fifth endemic human coronavirus?
they're about to start experimenting with Zoom, which should be super interesting especially with primary/middle school students. a lot of the teachers are quite unhappy about it
Good for them, they have no obligation to host right-wing propaganda.
What's a Boing anyway?
I don’t think the developer even thinks this will ever work.

To begin with - this means that both parties must register their event on the service when making the original plan. (How else would you later manage what to bail on and who that affects)

Can you imagine anyone actually doing that? If you are someone who makes such flaky plans constantly, you aren’t also someone who will think ahead like this.

To be honest reading the comments that treat this as something other than an obvious dead end is scary.
> Chechnya is Russian sovereign territory. I doubt Russia would take kindly to the US dropping a small nuke on their territory, no matter how weak, or where, or why.

Isn’t this how WW1 started?

Hey your terrorists killed our Duke!!

Yeah so?

You gotta let us send in the army or at least the police!!

No thanks

aaaand alliances pulled everyone into a gruesome war
> IMHO nuclear winter is a far more likely end of civilization than global warming is.

I think before we get to the nuclear winter stage we'll experience the effects of a dirty bomb somewhere. This is much easier to do for an isolated (non state actor) group and has the same effect. Statistically this is overdue and only a question of time IMO.
The big problems were that:

0. the Iowa DNC rammed this app through without testing

1. they refused to allow the DHS to conduct security due-diligence.

2. they understaffed the alternate backup phone-in system that worked perfectly fine before

3. Oh and Buttigigigig and Biden gave them lots of money.
Here's a pretty embarrassing one ;):

int index = 0;
while (!element.equals(sortedList.get(index))
&& sortedList.size() > ++index);
return index < sortedList.size() ? index : -1;
EW has a PhD but I can't seem to find any academic publications under his name. That doesn't outright mean he's wrong but it does mean that he actually has limited experience with the process. I have several and I've reviewed quite a few papers. I would say that peer review is a pretty good filter for garbage. Typically reviewers want to see shiny new ideas so if anything it over emphasizes innovation and discourages incremental improvements. As for gate keeping, I don't think so. Again, reviewers want to be WOW'd with new ideas.

In general, I prefer papers from peer reviewed venues over the arXiv. Good work does get put on the arXiv though so I can't ignore it completely.
Google absolutely cares about conversions. Customers that don't see conversions will eventually stop doing business. Iirc in the early days of google analytics one of the much touted features was the ability to connect google ad clicks to the conversion funnel.
> advertisement techniques are now so advanced that consumers believe they were not "influenced" in their purchasing decisions.

This isn't a new thing. People have believed that for the entire existence of advertising, and it has never been true.
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As I've understood it, it's more like you can charge (some things) to your phone bill. Like buying ringtones/apps for 00's phones, but not just phone-related purchases.
Good grief. Many of the people in privileged positions to complain about this stuff got to those positions through Sand Hill road.

Telling some poor person that they have to pay $10 per month to use Google or send Facebook messages isn’t democracy. Don’t want surveillance? Don’t use the products the employ it, but some people, especially those that don’t have means, might be perfectly fine to trade privacy for a “free” service. Destroying the ad industry is elitism and tone deaf — ads are imperfect, but they have enabled people to do things that would have been impossible or unaffordable 20 years ago.

This pitchforks and guillotines talk is ridiculous. Build something better if you don’t like the way things are.
Haven't looked at the original study, but from the article

>>>In terms of the actual difference eating 2 servings a week would make to an individual's baseline risk of CVD, the researchers calculated:

processed meat: you would increase your risk by 0.4% over 10 years, 1.02% over 20 years and 1.74% over 30 years

red meat: 0.17% over 10 years, 0.41% over 20 years and 0.62% over 30 years

poultry: 0.20% over 10 years, 0.54% over 20 years and 1.03% over 30 years
For entities whose behavior fit their model, it's called negative selection[1], a mandatory attribute of emerging dictatorship.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Negative_selection_(politics)