skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Here's an underappreciated thing that makes free market's "customers will recognize Bad Aspect X and buy something else" not work. It's not a conspiracy, but it seems like something the market is naturally optimizing towards.

Choice has a cost, and we're all completely DDoSed by issues in our lives.

So yes, the router turns out to redirect NXDOMAIN to a page full of ads. Also, my back aches, I'm burned out at my job, my spouse has a bad mood today, I should've bought flowers in the morning but I forgot (maybe if I leave work 20 minutes early I'll manage to get them on the way back?), I've just discovered my bank is severely overcharging me for my account relative to the competition, the city council has just passed a bullshit increase in garbage collection rates, also the asshole who owns the apartment above has put it on AirBnB and we can't get a good night's sleep now, and .... and yes, my router is redirecting NXDOMAIN to a page full of ads.

There's this belief that people are too whiny these days. I start to feel it's opposite: we're too saturated with bullshit to have time to be whiny enough - enough to turn it into meaningful purchasing choices.
Add moderate exercise 2-3 times a week and there'd probably be even more improvement. I wouldn't discount the importance of good nutrition, either.
For Japanese, I built a popular iOS app called Manabi Reader that has easy access to short-form native Japanese reading material and has one-gap access to seeing the English.

https://reader.manabi.io
"Better" is not only a compiler backend thing. Things like better static analysis could also matter. I believe some optimisations are also done by the front end but I don't know enough about compiler design to expand on that.
Yes, that's exactly what I meant by "Gish Gallop"!

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

More telling is how reluctant he is to defend Rand Paul's indefensible and stereotypically libertarian antics, how not once has he mentioned his name, and how he pretends he didn't read anything about him I wrote.
Brain damage from car wrecks and strokes. End of life hospice. Things really need to be addressed if you do not want to live in a cruel nightmare of a world.

Will and self-determination is a luxury some don't have. They take care of elderly patients, the sick, poor, veterans of horrible wars.

On admission for behavioral care, first thing they do is give you two weeks to rule out street drugs. Habits for eating, sleeping, dealing with stress and even thinking can lead to a series of bad actions and similar behavior to being drunk or high on amphetamines.

If you're drinking or done drugs likely in the past year, no doctor will really talk to you. Too much to rule out.

For childhood trauma, it's not like you are scarred for life and cannot get over it. It's more like the iceberg under the surface. Odds are you are living a high risk high stress life today.

One last stage of treatment is showing the patient the door. Saying something happened, you needed help, you're on medicine that works, and now you're over it. That last part is not bogus. It's really hard to do and involves a lot of suffering, like convincing someone on crutches to get up and work each day.
Those two combined have a population of 1.6B. Obviously one would expect them to be behind but having less than 1/3rd of contributions from Europe alone. That is unexpected to me.
> This is a consequence of the state of current tooling, rather than an inescapable consequence of the relevant math.

It actually is an inescapable consequence except that it's far worse than limited languages: limiting languages doesn't help. In fact, langugage is kind of a red herring here. If a language has nothing more than boolean variables and non-recursive non-first-class subroutines, or, alternatively loops up to depth 2 -- it is already beyond our general verification power, as the cost of proving properties grows exponentially in the size of the program, and that kind of language is well below anything usable; usable languages require exponential space and super-exponential time even if they're completely decidable. It's important to remember that the problem isn't a binary distinction between decidable and undecidable. Almost all decidable problems are also impossible. They can take any length of time except infinite. In fact, undecidable problems are a very extreme and exceptional kind of impossible; most impossible computational problems are decidable.

See my post here for some results: https://pron.github.io/posts/correctness-and-complexity

Rather, what formal method do is try to get a certain mix of confidence, difficulty and scale so that they might be able to check some properties with some confidence in some cases. That is the best we can hope for, and what formal methods in industry use actually do. This is still a lot, but people should understand what the rules of the game are.
There seems to be a bunch of references if you look for it on their site: "corp.com" site:microsoft.com

Example:
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/api/wsmandisp...
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That's interesting by brother and I have both worked in IT (he still does) and came independently to the same conclusion, that for domestic offerings meet.jit.si was the least friction - you literally just go the website and so far it just works.

Yesterday my kids used it for a 4hr call, no interruptions though audio quality dropped on occasions - I think it was the remote iPad's multiplexing that was struggling but couldn't be sure.
A "strong placebo effect that lasts" is not a placebo effect.
You need:

1. A desire to learn it. Learn to shape that desire. Like I want to go to Colombia to talk to hot girls, etc. It can be a straight grind at times, so you want to feel like it's gonna be worth it.

2. Start learning phrases you can use from day 1. Pimsleur is good because it teaches you almost perfect pronunciation from the beginning. Pronunciation is more important in some languages than others, but most importantly it gets you in the mindset/vibe of that language.

3. Structured lessons. Duolingo is alright just to start. Assimil is good once you're around A2 or higher. It would be good, as another person mentioned, to learn the general grammatical structure. You don't need to be a wiz, but you will have enough to infer the correct way to construct what you want to say.

4. Natural exposure. Go to a language meetup, have a regular Skype tutoring session twice or 3 times a week. Or of course go live in the country. This makes speaking it part of your life.
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> Corp.com was (is?) the default example domain in many applications from Microsoft.

This seems like Microsoft in a nutshell, when example.com has been the official standard example since at least 1999.
TCP doesn't work, but the multicast version is a real classic of IETF engineering, and I am really just looking for an excuse to post it here

http://ccr.sigcomm.org/archive/1995/conf/floyd.pdf
That is what was implied. The person needs help until time has chance to work.
> so ubiquitous that it would be almost impossible to operate in modern society

In "modern _US_ society".
Very Cool.
I enjoyed Fun Fact 3 quite a bit.
firefox also removes 'www' and 'https' in drop-down search results from the address bar[0]. it's a subtle change, but worth knowing. 'http' urls remain in long form apparently (haven't installed yet to check it out).

edit: min(), max(), and clamp() for css looks useful too.

edit 2: honoring 'nosniff' on mime types on page load is neat too [1]

[0] https://www.ghacks.net/2020/02/28/firefox-75-address-bar-res...

[1] https://blog.mozilla.org/security/2020/04/07/firefox-75-will...
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How Apache Kylin Is Rapidly Changing the Way We Approach Big Data
New research suggests industrial livestock might be origin of Covid-19
Oh please, come on.

There's an entire "field of study" that seems designed to prove that through the age-old mechanism of twisting logic into absurd pretzel knots that don't hold up to scrutiny from any but the most casual observer. It's called antipsychiatry.

If you want to get a taste of how shallow most of it is, check out https://markroseman.com/antipsychiatry/
> This is why I use foo TLDs in the documentation. To make sure it won't work in a copy-paste situation

You're describing the exact methodology that led to this problem.
Defeating Coordinated Inauthentic Behavior at Scale
Zoom has clearly focused on UX above all else. This explains both their popularity and the security issues that have recently been uncovered.
> no matter what anyone says, DevOps was objectively born of replacing the operations discipline and career track with a poorly-understood tool economy and ongoing opex to a cloud provider.

This is abjectly untrue with regards to the origins of the term - though it is the current state of the world, and your assertion about job reqs for "DevOps Engineers" is spot on.

"DevOps" as a term was coined by Patrick Debois and Kris Buytaert to succinctly refer to the concept of operations teams and development teams collaborating in a more appropriate manner than the "throw stuff over a wall" which is still common in many enterprises. It was unrelated to tooling.

We must not let vendors co-opt terms in such a way as this.
Every part of the problem bears scrutiny. Both can be done. There is no 'vs'.

So often arguments seems to assume some kind of scarcity of resources; some poverty of intellect that must be rationed. That's a sad viewpoint, and unworthy.
Good news! Everybody wants to just write a docker compose file and use that in production. Deploy on ECS or k8s or heroku, it would be awesome. That's the simplicity most people want for small projects.
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There's a very interesting post Slate Star Codex about internal perception of wellbeing vs external behavior. TL;DR: there is a paper about people who claim to have experienced enlightenment, but often there's no changes in their behavior (that people around them, e.g. their friends and relatives, would notice). Scott warns against dismissing these experiences as "fake", arguing that we similarly don't dismiss claims of depression in people who are still "functional" and living their lives as usual.

https://slatestarcodex.com/2019/10/21/the-pnse-paper/
Any suggestions on simple auth methods to avoid running an open Jitsi server?

Last time I tested it, it seemed to be very open by default, letting anyone create meetings. I got lost when digging deeper.

If I install-and-forget, I want to avoid situations where strangers are using my Jitsi server and overloading the system, or pretending to be our company. Last I checked, it was not possible to have simple auth, or monitor/list calls.

I also run an Asterisk VoIP server with a WebRTC bridge (because most Linux SIP clients have terrible usability). That can make one pretty paranoid :)
Why some people of color say they won't wear homemade masks
I've watched all of Seinfeld and I don't get this reference :D
Bill gates is profiting off the vaccine what's your point? Lets make both free and make the 1% pay for it since we just bailed them out.
I'm legitimately curious if anyone has any clues as to how they handled this with cloud providers.

Technically it doesn't seem that hard -- just spin up a ton more servers. Unlike Facebook or Twitter or Reddit there isn't massive communication between all users at all times -- just one-off video calls that are "relatively" trivial to distribute among servers. (Sure there's cloud recording and stuff too, but the point still stands that this is certainly among the way easier products to scale.)

But assuming they're using cloud providers, I'm curious what percentage of spare cloud capacity they've wound up taking? If they've had to split up traffic between multiple major providers just to handle it?

Or if the increase is well within the capacity of any single cloud provider to handle easily, e.g. massive daytime spikes are essentially just using the same servers Netflix uses at night?
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The issue is that there is a measurement problem with many depression symptoms. You can have multiple people independently measure the blood glucose level of a patient and get the same result. And this result compares with other patients. With depression, you almost always have to rely on self-reporting or subjective evaluation by a health professional. One person saying they are depression might mean a whole lot more than another person saying it. It's not that you can't make measurements that are useful, its just that the error bars are so much larger.
There is an older paper by Anton Erl that already showing variations in performances for the same implementation technique from one generation of Pentium to another and of course between AMD and Intel.

Personally, I stopped worrying and used the most convenient implementation for my use case (portable interpreter written in C). Your set of primitives and how you code your Forth programs usually have a much larger improvement potential.
Compliance with social-distancing measures in Italy [pdf]
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Ask HN: What are books/biographies narrating the early days of businesses?
Will lazy-loading images avoid viewport jumping? Because that's a constant headache on mobile Safari.
Oh yeah, follow me on the twitter for updates

https://twitter.com/SandMouth

Got a fun series on category theory for python in the pipe.
You're probably confusing science as a top-down enterprise rather than a field that works bottom-up (where "bottom" would be grad students). Evidence emerges and builds from below.
Yup, TCMS is actually pretty good at inducing a placebo (complex technology, high attention) so this is unsurprising.

Very very annoying that the press release over-hypes this.
”any properly educated person within a std.dev. or two of average intelligence will be fine.”

I don’t think that is true even today.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/68–95–99.7_rule: ”in a normal distribution […] 68.27%, 95.45% and 99.73% of the values lie within one, two and three standard deviations of the mean”

So, your claim is that only the bottom (and, possibly top) 2.5% of the distribution need to worry. That corresponds with IQs of below 70/above 130 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intelligence_quotient)

Also (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intelligence_quotient#Job_perf...): ”The US military has minimum enlistment standards at about the IQ 85 level. There have been two experiments with lowering this to 80 but in both cases these men could not master soldiering well enough to justify their costs”.
Sadder but wiser, perhaps. Thinner and hungrier? I'm eating like there's no tomorrow.
I hope those things are much better than they used to be. Last I looked, they were a bunch of APIs glued together to look like a media server. No hard features; no guarantees. Almost a mockup of what a media switching server should look like on the outside; nothing inside.
I figured if the government commits to buying 10 million units with the only proviso being that they meet quality spec that leaves the onus on the manufacturer to meet spec. My worry was that if the government is an investor then there's more risk of misaligned incentives.
Just diving into Docker, and I'm already a bit confused... There's a docker stack (or swarm) that allows me to define containers (services?) and their networking... but then there's also docker compose, which does the same thing? Even the yaml config specs are similar.
Coronavirus – UK scientists were slow to sound the alarm
To be clear, because you have seen other VMs, you are desperate to spread complete misinformation and lies about webasm?

Funneling your own frustrations into lying and spreading false information on the internet is not something a reasonable, emotionally healthy person does. Think about all the other people that do that in other areas of discussion. Those are your peers when you do this.
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There's an interesting post on Slate Star Codex (the author is presumably a doctor / psychiatrist) contrasting psychiatry ("science") with parapsychology ("pseudoscience").

https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/04/28/the-control-group-is-o...
On not caring about your privacy
I thought I read that some vets who received TMS treatment for PTSD still had some pretty severe mood disturbances/personality changes. I don't know if it was clearly established whether those symptoms were entirely consistent with PTSD, or whether the particular doctor responsible for many of the cases was 'doing it wrong' and needs to have his license revoked.

I suppose like most medical treatments, if the cure has a small enough probability of being worse than the disease, we will use it anyway and work on ways to deal with the side effects when they arise.
Ask HN: Self-Host Browser Based Calendar
what do you use for family calendar management?

I realize most calendars are now full of cancellations but I'd like to self-host our current calendar solution. I am looking for open alternatives if available?

Any experiences/opinions/expansive thoughts are welcome and encouraged!

open to non-browser based but prefer an 'open' solution.

thank you!
Great feedback. Thanks alot
Ask HN: What are best practices to building a developer experience?
We're opening up integrations on our platform so developers can build on top of us. What matters to you as a developer when interacting with a 3rd party API? Would appreciate any pointers to good developer experiences (I like Slack and Stripe) and how to think about implementing them

Top of mind is:
- Comprehensive documentation
- Interactive APIs
- Easy to test
- Easy to get keys, register webhooks, etc to setup OAuth
- Fast approval if needed
- Stats on your API usage
No problem. If you drop support for ie11, those stats become:

Of people who actually order:

44% Chrome
32% Edge
23% Firefox

Unfortunately total orders will drop...
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"And it has to be something unforeseeable by people knowledgeable in the field"

No - this is not true at all.

1) All of the major economic calamities were 'predicted by someone' in the field.

2) Black Swans are 'improbable' - which COVID absolutely is.

"According to Taleb, black swans are events that emerge unpredictably, like a tornado, from a fat-tailed statistical distribution."

What we are seeing is point-blank exemplary of 'Black Swan'.
That is captured in the double-blind design.

Note that with Reiki, it's a little more complicated to properly blind (this is an issue for pretty much every physical therapy, and surgery).
Fact: Only anti trump people say no go.
This is a well-known problem...
We're not dead yet...
Which of the following companies is best with customer's data privacy?
Yup, as a consultant, this was poor client and accounts receivable management.
Comfortably Numbered (http://hardmath123.github.io) is about how you can learn so much about the world just by thinking deeply about the simplest things — shadows, trees, orchards, laundry, fish. The lesson is to keep your eyes open.
But on that note, the fact that there isn't a single cross-platform filesystem that works on Windows, MacOS, and Linux has been one of the greatest detractors for a docker-based development environment. The performance of Docker for Mac is often a showstopper for running a big app in docker for development, especially in combination with other slow and i/o heavy tools like webpack.

Apparently Apple came very close to using ZFS too, instead of building APFS. Oh what could have been.
Yes, and this is why you couldn't update the network. Still, much like how various compression algos have "levels," this standard could be more open in this regard, adding new networks (sort of what others above refer to as versions) and the image could just specify which network it uses. Maybe have a central repo from where the decoder could pull a network it doesn't have (i.e. I make a site and encode all 1k images on it using my own network, pull the network to your browser once so you can decode all 1k images). And even support a special mode where the image explicitly includes the network to be used for decoding it along with image data (could make sense for a very large images, as well as for specialized/demonstrational/test purposes).

All in all, a very interesting idea.
“A Cold War Every Day” inside Apple's internal tools group
U.S. airlines want a $50B bailout. They spent $45B buying back their stock
"This site is optimized to Safari."

There's something I never thought I would see.
> IMO the only way to blind this is to put people in an automated machine that either turns the magnet on or it doesn't (and it makes some noises either way). You can't have highly trained professionals in the loop making people feel valuable by giving them all this attention, as that could be a confounding effect in both the alleged-treatment and the alleged-placebo.

It's fine as long as both the experimental group and the control group get the same amount of attention, right? If both groups show the same amount of improvement, that means it was caused entirely by the attention, not by the magnetic treatment.
Great video. I watched it about a year ago and it really helped me start to grok Datomic. I've built several apps on Datomic since, and it's really nice. For anyone who wants to try it out, I'd also recommend taking a look at Crux[1]. It's a bit easier to get started with. I'm in the process of moving my startup over from Firebase to DigitalOcean + Crux right now.

[1] https://opencrux.com/
It's a copy from the screen for your convenience. Click on the link to see yourselves. I've updated the list to remove the misunderstanding

Extinction Rebellion is fostering Inclusion & Diversity, I think is what he is trying to say.

If you don't like what Julian wrote, please contact him.
The lives saved from reductions in pollution and crashes is at this point larger than the covid19 death toll. We already had a pandemic that got displaced by a new one.
my university' setup has something asking for "host credentials" before starting the session, so I think it's possible. If it's just for internal use, one could just put basic HTTP(s)-auth in front?
It depends on whether they have a radiologist review the results for accuracy or not. If they don't then it is a diagnostic tool, and would need approval. If it's just used to put higher priority patients in front of a radiologist sooner, and the radiologist does the diagnosing, then it might not need approval if they can show that the FDA has approved something similar in the past.
Behind the scenes, private equity angles for a piece of stimulus
Broadly, the world is indeed arguably a horrible place. Within that context, one might hope that psychiatrists can help some with their immediate suffering.

Also, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Depressive_realism
Amen to that! The word "blog" stems from "weblog", and I don't understand why anyone would want a log that lacks timestamps? And for the record, I don't think an old publication date implies that the content is stale. It might be stale of course, and in that case the date will help me figure that out, which is good. It might not be stale despite having an old date, and in that case the date will help determine things like priority and standing the test of time. Which is also good. To me, lack of a date means the article is some SEO-tweaked clickbait whose only purpose is to waste my time.