skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To set the record straight, I have not ever nor do I currently work for microsoft. If you have IP tracking skills you can probably figure out where I work from these posts. As a matter of a fact, I don't like a lot of things about msft, this just isn't one of them. I dislike that msft is getting a disproportionate amount of hate about this stuff and yet Google and Apple don't seem to get the same level of flack. People seem to get more upset at them related to privacy. I wanted to offer a different perspective that acknowledges that this is the state of things across the board, and this one thing is less harmful than it's being made out to be. Microsoft embraced open source when it was friendly to their business and shunned it when it was not. They may very well shun it again, but with the proliferation of cloud providers and the dominance of AWS in the space, they just don't have a real choice. Windows simply isn't enjoying the dominance it once had in the server space. What I am trying to say is that this incident isn't evidence of anything except that Microsoft is like every other company that will use any advantage it has to push its product. Google and Apple do it too. Let's put our energy in things that pressure companies to behave properly like lobbying governments to step up their anti-trust and privacy enforcement.
I can't tell whether you're saying Semmelweis was merely superficially disrespectful, or whether you're saying I'm being disrespectful. Can you reword this? I don't understand the point you're trying to make.
Sorry to hear about your experiences with Alzheimers.

That gene, presenilin 2, is part of the amyloid processing complex and plays a role in the amyloid hypothesis (which is highlighted by the news article and the paper itself, https://science.sciencemag.org/content/269/5226/970,) meaning that the very study that this hacker news thread is about, as well as hundreds of other studies and trials, are all investigating this hypothesis. Unfortunately, while the article you've linked says that this discovery helped "solve the mystery of early onset AD," it so turns out that the proposhed mechanism did not live up to scrutiny. Could this protein have different effects (such as a role in calcium ion leakage as later papers suggest)? Perhaps, and it might prove a crucial part of treating alzheimers in the long run, but it doesn't look like that research was in any way overlooked. Research is hard, it's only been a couple decades since new potential mechanisms of action of that gene were identified, and this is a complex disease, but the needle is moving.
The animations are just amazing. It's the exact field in which I still find modern applications lacking, but games exceptionally good (including game UI).

I think UI frameworks should take more from game engines, which I think has happened over the last 2 decades, albeit slowly. My best examples of it is probably currently QtQuick, which builds completely on OpenGL and uses a bunch of game engine terminology in its documentation - but I have also found that it's possible and not too hard to make working application mockups using Godot.
There isn't actually a war. Some Chinese people have been accused of accessing some PII published by Equifax. Even mentioning "war" in these circumstances is a bit twisted. Unlike small nations who can't defend themselves, if we start something with China we'll get our asses kicked. Then your agitation for violent conflict won't seem like such a great idea...
Maybe not a $3 Subway sandwich but the delivery of pizza in particular was pretty widespread before the current VC cash bonfires so I'm not sure it has to be "nonsense."

I expect a lot of people 20 years or so ago would think that the idea you could get many, many types of things delivered to your door in a day or two for a reasonable price pretty out there.
Chain of custody is one tool used to satisfy part of the burden of proof regarding correctness of the evidence. There are others like sworn testimony or corroborating evidence.

This only is meaningful in a courtroom situation, a lot of "evidence" never sees the courtroom and is merely used as information to help the investigation.
Why are you editorializing the title by adding "most likely fake news"?
I find your capitalization choices relaxing to read, and allows for better pacing. The critical parent comment was primarily sharing a perspective shared by a subset of potential readers. You can ignore the feedback, but responding with this tone can lead to you being dogpiled by haters.
> Can you give an example of some improvements you see that are directly obvious from the C code?

Comments and good variable names, to begin with, which should be mandated by any style guide.

If you can't give your variables readable, understandable names you don't understand your code and nobody else is going to, either.
But you have to buy them in 3-packs, e.g. TLA.

QED
There's a post for that one, too :)
https://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2018/05/25/fe...
and
https://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2018/06/21/we..., which concludes:

the next wave will not be just people who have seized on this plan opportunistically, but who have targeted it right from the start. Who will pick out terrible diseases for which there are no therapies at all, the better to insure a supply of completely desperate patients and families, and provide them with utterly useless therapies at stiff, stiff prices. Utterly harmless therapies, though – don’t want to get sued while you’re raking in the bucks. I’m talking polysaccharide therapy for pancreatic cancer, antioxidant phytonutrients for Alzheimer’s: in other words, corn starch and grape juice. What the hell. The customers are going to die, anyway. Why should they die with their money as well?
They're apparently fake rules that you're a sheep for following according to the author:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22293891
I'd buy that if Meena could infer and reason about her own answers.

Human: Do you like Korean food in general?

Meena: It's okay. I like beef bulgogi, but I'm not a huge fan of kimchi.

Human: Ok what should I shop for ?

Meena : You've got almost everything but you need a pear, the steak and some ginger.

The problem with language models as commonsense is that they are collections of patterns and associations, and that they don't have inference models or solvers - unlike my dog for example!
Hanlon = plausible deniability
Author here.

You can try this, but I don't think it'll turn out well!

You don't want to have a bloated, disorganized global store...what you're doing now, moving state into global state only if needed, is the right way to go.
You do realize, that Russia and China are different nations?
Sounds like only 3 shows currently show ads on the ad-free tier: https://help.hulu.com/s/article/hulu-no-ads?language=en_US

Is that not the case?
This is special pleading, and circular, too, in the sense that it says that the irrational response of his fans justifies their irrational response. Either way: leave the guy alone.
Darling, I grew up in the American South with old cartoons on TV and managed to not be a racist asshole too.

I’m not saying watching Mammy Two-Shoes shuck and jive her way through a couple of setups for Tom and Jerry to engage in a few minutes of slapstick comedy is going to turn you racist. I’m saying that times have changed and that stuff falls flat now, and that no matter how hard people campaign for animation as a medium appropriate for adults, there are still a lot of people who think that any animation is appropriate to plop unsupervised kids in front of, and is it such a terrible idea to mark some old cartoons as Not To Be Watched Without Context?

Is “making it hard to acquire eighty year old cartoons that get really racist is a terrible idea” really a hill you wanna die on?

And, yes, I am all for banning the Confederate flag. Assholes would find new symbols to rally around, but depriving them of the ability to call it “tradition” sure won’t help their cause.
What's the disease and what's the resistance from the field? Microbiome stuff isn't as hot an area of investment as it was a few years back, but there's tons of biotech funding to go around (assuming you're in the US) and if you have solid data and an actionable drug, it shouln't be extraordinarily difficult to form a company around it in this economy.
> I just feel like we need a trend change.

Why would you like a change? So you want to see the common UIs constantly redesigned every few years?
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> Humans are not used to things popping up into existence immediately out of nowhere

I'm not convinced of this, humans come with some impressive visual diffing hardware and we rely on this to detect animations in the first place. We also know that the more animation going on the more likely we are to miss things.

We also seem to be stuck in the notion of animations happening before something is shown, a slide in or a fade in or something like that. If animations are really necessary why can't the action be instant with a subtle post animation to highlight what's changed?
Why not Crichton? Too much techno-thriller horror, despite his fantastical imaginings and settings?
"If you ask a Boomer, life is pretty good now..."
You don't get much more delusional than that. Seems divisive and bigoted.
To say the least.
There's nothing inherently funny about entries like this one [1], I mean, there is, as in it is sort of funny how the AI got tricked so quickly into doing incest jokes, but I guess that was not the research team's intended goal.

[1] https://old.reddit.com/r/SubSimulatorGPT2/comments/f1ifp6/my...
Simulating r/StonerPhilosophy[1]

Post: Do we live in a simulation?

Comment: I just realized, we are a simulation, and we are a simulated simulation.

Comment: We're all in a simulation. We're still here. We're all in this little ball together

Comment: The simulation hypothesis states that we are in a simulation. Which means that there is a possibility that we are not in a simulation.

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/SubSimulatorGPT2/comments/ez6qtj/do...
Transition animations do serve a purpose. It's a lot less jarring to have something move away than it just disappearing (for most people, I reckon).
I'd have to say cunnilingus and fellatio. Fewer greater joys exist.

Closely followed by the water-heater and air-conditioner. Hot water and temperature-control are under-appreciated.
As a trans woman I can't help but notice that you rank me being your girlfriend at about the same level of beyond-the-pale-ness as a genocide.

The feeling is mutual
Static websites don’t maintain state on the server. They can be as dynamic as you wish on the front end. But if you do a page refresh you get the same page you started with.
It being a small number of shows doesn't stop it from being ridiculous.
Dear icann & verisign,

If you keep raising prices, expect the decentralized blockchain people to replace /obsolete your organization(s).

Its absurd to charge that much for a database record.

Sincerely,

-the Internet
That's hilarious. They had the best beef and bean burritos...
4/3pir^3
yeah, mercury is dangerous with how toxic it can be at low levels in an organic form. If you have a case for mercury poisoning, is it possible to sue the company responsible via class action lawsuit or the like? Sorry to hear about what you're going through, I hope the drug works and wish you all the best.
GPT-2 X 10 is misleading; this model size is 10x, sure, but that doesn't necessarily mean the output will be 10x better. For r/SubSimulatorGPT2, it did go from 355M to 1.5B recently, but the quality isn't necessarily 4x (although it did improve).

I'm more interested in shrinking models that maintain the same level of generative robustness (e.g. distillation, with distilGPT2)
Hey! Author here.

You don't need to put the username of the logged in user into Redux, but if multiple components across different pages need to access this data, you should make it globally accessible.

You can choose Redux/MobX for this, or you can roll your own solution with context and hooks.

I'm actually learning more about the context/hooks approach myself.

Kent C Dodd wrote a great article on this topic I'd recommend:

https://kentcdodds.com/blog/application-state-management-wit...
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Someone changed the title. The original submission title matched the article title [1]. Feels like an intentional re-characterization to place the blame on the ones purchasing the data, as opposed to the ones harvesting and selling. This journalist is the same who exposed Jumpshot [2] for similar tactics (selling highly-sensitive user-level data), and a few days later the entire company (~230 employees) shut down.

I asked about a similar problem [3] on a "Who's Hiring" last week to a YC-funded company and dang was quick to detach that comment, as it was off-topic for the context of the thread.

[1] https://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Anews.ycombinator.com+...

[2] https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/qjdkq7/avast-antivirus-se...

[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22229267
This site has some gdpr-violating we-want-it-all compulsory tracking wall it seems, but from the comments, do I understand correctly that a "downtime fire alarm" is a monitoring service that alerts sysadmins at home when a service is down?
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You might be responding to the wrong post.
I think the most telling thing in that clip is his statement, referring to the Microsoft phone software that "... it'll do internet." That was how companies viewed phone software before the iPhone; "do internet" was another box to check off. No concern about whether the browser worked well, or any remark about the walled-garden search results, etc. Could it usefully display most web sites? Could you browse sites for more than 1/2 hour before recharging? Who cares - it does internet.
because nimby boomers
Unrelated fact: Tom Swift is why tasers are called tasers. Their inventor, Jack Cover (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Cover), named them by acronymizing "Thomas A. Swift's Electric Rifle" (TASER).
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They were invented (I believe) to "relay" telegraph messages over long lines so it was indeed a digital amplifier.
(Former Western Union employee)
if author saw my previous comment re adopting a "proper case" toggle view, they could have given me the benefit of the doubt. i definitely want people to read in a format comfortable for them. i also know which rules don't matter
> with no JS on the main thread

Why?
I really liked my time using Elementary OS. It had a good and consistent design scheme, and shipped with a good default tool set (I would be willing to put my parents on it). I’ve yet to have a “great” Linux App Store experience, but out of all of them I think elementary’s was the best. I really hope the OS draws more people to the Linux ecosystem.
Imagine getting this mad over a blogger's stylistic writing choices.
The non-talking was a big advantage for us non-native English speaking kids; it meant we could enjoy them fully in their native versions.

In fact, my favourite Looney Tunes cartoon was always Roadrunner vs Coyote, for the same reason.
I live in Fiji and know a few pilots. Fijian pilots have traditionally sat ATPL exams out of Australia (CASA). To get this ATP License, one needs to pass 7 gruelling theory exams within a 2yr period.

For some pilots this is too difficult, so recently more pilots have been choosing instead to fly to Hawaii and get an American ATPL. Getting an American Air Transport Pilot license takes a single o̶p̶e̶n̶ ̶b̶o̶o̶k̶ theory exam.

The EASA (European) ATPL involves 14 theory exams.
> The data shows that reducing amyloid-beta load is not sufficient to confer a clinical benefit.

No, this trial was designed to test whether preventing amyloid plaque formation can prevent Alzheimer's. To the extent that it does not (which appears to be the conclusion), then it's safe to say that amyloid hypothesis is wrong.

In other words, if these patients do not acquire amyloid plaque, but still acquire Alzheimer's at the same rate and severity, then amyloid plaques logically cannot be the cause of Alzheimer's.

This should no longer surprise anyone. These studies, coupled with the existence of people who have been found to be loaded with amyloid plaque and yet do NOT get Alzheimers [1], should be plenty to change the direction of research.

1 - https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2019/11/colombian-woman-s-ge...
Feels like I’ve heard this tune before. Actually, I think it was first played in the 1950s.
ahh the plot thickens. maybe a lot of people leave SF because they support Trump and want more of that. (doesn't exactly explain high NYC frequency, which is also liberal), but i like it
This is probably the best description of how Tor uses guards: https://gitweb.torproject.org/torspec.git/tree/guard-spec.tx....
Ask HN: When to use „conventional“ monitoring (Nagios-like) and when to not?
So I am wondering when it makes sense to use the „old“ monitoring solutions like Zabbix, Nagios, Icinga, etc. and when to use the „new“ monitoring solutions, like Prometheus and Netdata, or if the aforementioned are just deprecated, so to say.

I get that it almost always makes sense to have some kind of „metrics gatherer“ to have historical data, but what are the other pros and cons? To my understanding the old monitoring applications are best when there are a lot of if-this-then-that checks needed and the new kids on the block are best when the only thing you need is metrics, metrics, metrics.

It might be that I don‘t know that much about the Prometheus way of doing things, because I only have experience with Nagios and Icinga 2, or maybe I am not really understanding the use case of Prometheus and the like.

Nonetheless, thanks in advance!
One example: I worked on some software that would allow you to change the hue in one part of an image to match that of a color you selected. Originally this was done in HSL or HSV, can't remember which - but it worked perfectly. Then management got the idea that LAB would be more correct, and everything had to change. If you tried to change an intense blue to intense yellow it didn't work - the yellow was darkened to match the luminosity of the blue, so it bore no resemblance to the color you were trying to match.
"If this were true, that would mean all previous researchers were wrong."

It's poor phrasing, but in a review I would interpret this statement as "I made a strong claim, and my discussion wasn't strong enough to address the concerns of a reviewer who has only interacted with my work via this document." not as "you must be wrong because everyone else says something different".
Reviews are a weird social process though.
The delivery aspect of the pizza business does not need to be profitable as a stand-alone endeavor, whereas the delivery part of Uber Eats does. And it's the driving part that doesn't make any sense. Obviously people have been delivering food in dense and compact cities like New York for decades.
It's unfortunate that in this legal situation the most it seems regulators can do is avoid giving snake oil regulatory legitimacy and hope that people are dissuaded by "these statements have not been evaluated by the fda, and XYS is not approved to diagnose or treat any disease." At the very least though, it would be nice if the FDA didn't then turn around and give legitimacy to fancier snake oil - hopefully they do the right thing with biogen haha.
I don't know why you mentioned Linux when it has a ton of window managers which provide real alternatives to any specific UI design. Window Maker looks different from fvwm95 looks different from IceWM looks different from <insert tiling WM here> looks different from TWM... and all of those window managers are usable, to the extent applications don't care what they're running in and the OS itself doesn't care about window managers at all.

So you can have the UI of your dreams, or at least a UI which is honestly different from what you're railing against, if you just open your eyes a little and see beyond the defaults.
As a counterpoint, here in the US Midwest, I currently have three pairs of jeans, two thermal shirts, and two button downs that I rotate through and wash honestly maybe quarterly.

Other clothing items I go through more quickly, but I'm planning to start giving my undershirts a couple rotations before washing them as well. Same with socks.

The main thing I've noticed is that natural fabrics don't pick up smells nearly as badly as synthetics.

Also just letting things hang and air out seems to keep everything smelling pretty fresh. If I go out of town and leave clothes in my backpack they need washed when I get home whether I wore them or not.

Finally, I think odors are largely based on your skin biome and genetic factors, and fortunately for me, I just don't get that smelly.
I eat a lot of almonds
Plastic 3d printers are not that amazing. Sure you can prototype a bit faster but we have wonderful methods of mass producing plastic parts very cheaply and quickly. 3d printing of plastic is not that revolutionary for the industry.

Metal 3d printing is a different story, if that gets cheap enough it will be a real game changer. It's very expensive to make metal parts from solid and you can't use casting except for certain metals. If you could 3d print accurate steel parts cheaply and quickly it could actually replace expensive deductive production processes.
Author here.

I see the appeal of the simplicity of this approach, and this is how I handled state in my application before I knew what state management was.

But how do you deal with the problem of many of the components in your tree needing to know what theme is set?
There are phones with keyboard and with replaceable batteries. I'm not sure about smart TV, but why does it matter? Those TVs have HDMI input and they are perfectly happy to be dumb. Their chips have extremely low performance and I'm sure that their costs are nothing compared to display itself.

May be you don't have enough choice when you're going to niche markets. I'd agree with you on that.
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I've not objected to the definition. I'm adding nuance that you're still trying to dismiss.

Worker exploitation does result in negative externalities, even if the exploitation itself is not an externality.
My reasons (left in 2019, moved there in 2011):

* Unsafe. 2 vehicle break-ins, 1 apartment intruder while I was home. Fortunately I own a handgun.

* Dirty

* The proportion of creepy weirdos I met got too high. When I first got there, it was something like 1 out of every 20 people I met. By the end, it was something like 1/4.

* Overpriced

* Bad transit

* Corrupt city government

* NIMBYism

Why I stayed longer than I should have:

* Rent control. I'm paying twice as much in rent now.

* The issues didn't appear all at once, they got a little worse each year.

* Cost of moving. It cost me around $15k and it took a lot of energy to pack/apartment hunt/unpack/drive with trailer.
Yeah, that was bad characterization. This was the first half of 2015.
I agree in general (adored Verne as child, and has enjoyed many of his books as an adult), but I would caution against reading Off on a Comet, as that contains pure, unadulterated, mean-spirited anti-semitism.
At least that does not come to the fore in any other book of his that I have read.
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Interesting: https://twitter.com/NASA/status/1226983552987860992