skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> One study found that the mere visual perception of diseased-looking people stimulated white blood cells to respond more aggressively to infection (as indicated by the production of the proinflammatory cytokine Interleukin 6 in response to a bacterial stimulus).

I wonder if this is also why many people perhaps showed nocebo effects (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nocebo) at the onset of the covid19 crisis & the many disturbing images (especially from Italy) being shown in the media.
How to (not) implement an unplanned feature
Is greed unique to the real estate market?
Do you have any experience in investigating online child sexual offences?

I am just wondering what basis you are making claims like "the EARN IT act puts children directly in danger".
Unfortunately, patents don't really do that in practice. For example, it is typical for engineers to be advised not to read any patents at all. Plus, most patents are written in a style that's pretty much opposite to how you'd write if the goal was dissemination of knowledge.
>In JavaScript, {} + [] evaluates to integer 0. That doesn’t make any sense, but it makes more sense after reading the ES spec for the addition operator.

It's the consequence of ill-thought mechanics when it comes to type coercion. It's the original sin of many scripting languages: "let's just add a bunch of shortcuts everywhere so that it doesn't get in the way of the developer trying to make a quick script". Then you end up with a bunch of ad-hoc type coercion and the language guessing what the user means all over the place, and eventually these bespoke rules interact with each other in weird ways and you end up with "{} + [] = 0".

> I think in language design there’s an expectation that if an expression or statement doesn’t make any sense, then people won’t write it that way.

That's either very idealistic or very naive. In either case I'd argue that's a terrible way to approach language design. I'd argue that many well designed languages don't make any such assumptions.

>but they have to be considered valid because it’s a dynamically typed language.

Nonsense. Try typing `{} + []` in a python REPL. You seem to be suffering from some sort of Javascript-induced Stockholm syndrome, or maybe simply lack of experience in other languages. JS does the thing it does because it was designed(?) that way, not because there's some fundamental rule that says that dynamically typed languages should just do "whatever lol" when evaluating an expression.
> Working visas allow people to take jobs from locals, which not what “digital nomads” are doing.

This is an important point. What do anti-immigration people in the US complain about? Immigrants taking jobs and benefits. That's it. Digital nomads are doing neither.

That still doesn't make it right, but maybe it's a low priority problem for the government.
“Startup”, for me, means tech and “never consistently made a profit (yet)”. Some might add “and doesn’t really know how to get there, either (yet)”

Most air conditioning contractors and electricians are in a different category. Unless they set their tariffs wrong by an enormous amount, they are profitable almost (they may have to invest in tooling and transport) from day one.
Most questions of importance are not solved by google :)
The real title is

"Oracle faces claims of unequal pay from 4,000+ women after judge upgrades gender gap lawsuit to class action"

just in case anyone was wondering how a judge was able to upgrade gender magically.
The model operates on aggregate statistics. The likelihoods associated with any particular individual are not relevant and do not affect the conclusions.

Unless of course you want to assert that we should care more about some deaths than others. But that is a political statement, not an epidemiological one.
Something I really like in k/q is that operators have no precedence and everything is executed right to left. To take a "fast" 8th power you can just do

c*c:s*s:x*x

with no ambiguity of parsing whatsoever.
sure, it's fairly simple. You can see some screenshots of the pages with a google image search "commercial diver logbook" or "saturation diver logbook".

Has fields for name of ship/vessel, name of project, name of client, type of gear, date, and then time spent in bell or lock-out, and what you were working on, then you would calculate the total time spent in saturation at the end of the decompression (e.g. number of days/weeks etc). there would be signature field for yourself and supervisor/super-intendant:

https://www.subsupply.eu/store/image/cache/catalog/logbooks/...

https://www.google.com/search?q=commercial+divers+log+book&h...

https://www.google.com/search?q=saturation+divers+log+book&t...

ROV log books are similar with the difference that you're logging the time of the vehicle and your experience as the pilot not the diver (so no saturation, decompression etc):

https://www.google.com/search?q=off+shore+rov+logbook&tbm=is...
I don't understand it -- it is amazingly cheap (under $500/year, including hosting and support) and simple to get a great looking online store using a website builder app, including payments (OK, maybe not delivery pickup times, those would still have to go over the phone).

I can see a mom & pop store having some trouble doing that (but even they probably know a high schooler who could do it in a day). I wouldn't expect a serious fine dining restaurant to have trouble with something that basic, especially when takeout just became their only business.
Ask HN: Recommendations for simple performance monitoring infrastructure
We are looking for recommendations for a simple, maintainable solution for monitoring performance in our Node web app hosted on Heroku.

Our needs are simple: an API that we can call from anywhere (in-app, from external test agents, etc.) to report/store a measurement according to our own custom structure, and a web-based dashboard where we can view the data (with history).

Is there any solution (preferably open-source that can be self hosted) that offers these features? Alternatively, is there a service that allows to run, store, and analyze ongoing reports from Google PageSpeed Insights or WebPageTest? Or would it be better to roll our own solution?

We strongly prefer the most simple software that meets these requirements. There are a huge number of (mostly too complex) commercial solutions out there, and it is tough to sort through them all to see how they provide these features in a simple way.
Privacy Concerns? Some Personal Data in the UK Was Not Even Password-Protected
Salvaging Old CB’s for QRP Parts: Part 1
> To me, this article is so drenched in loathing that it's hard to read

Actually, it's kind of fun to see the lefties attacking one another.

More please.
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This font is gigantic. And the text is a bit too wide. It feels as if I had to do a marathon from left to right on each line.

I wish the web didn't have the possibility of styling its content and would only use standard options which would be customizable by users. E.g. as a webdev, you wouldn't be able to set the font face beyond "serif", "sans-serif", "monospace" and then everybody could just set those to what they like. Similarly, there would be no "font-size". You'd have to use semantically correct HTML tags and the user would choose the font size for these tags. I'm tired of 99% pages being unreadable. Reader mode is a hack.

EDIT: To clarify, the text on this page renders on my 4k screen with 170% scaling as ~31cm wide and each character is ~1cm tall.

And sure enough, the CSS responsible for this part contains "font-size: 22.4px;". That's beyond reasonable for normal body text.
This. I got asked an interview question that involved writing two list comprehensions in python in an interview. The guy then asked if I could do the same without the intermediate variable - basically nesting them. I had a mental block for a bit before I realised how simple the task was. It just that I would never think to nest list comprehensions because I find it horribly unreadble.
The article is about reducing R and maintaining it at or lower than 1. Yes, the article does not have sliders for age, CFR and IFR and what not, but the fact remains that people reading this must understand how to reduce R. I found it very informative and entertaining.
I wonder where Julia has been. I know there's been the pandemic, but the podcast was already done remotely. Her last tweet was back in November. Hope she's okay and will eventually bring the show back.
It's not a music service. It's a service for artists to sell their stuff. Period.

If you want playlists, social networking, or whatever crap, you have to look elsewhere.
What's an example of a well differentiated restaurant?
32-bit hardware has never been dropped. All your Macs are capable of running 32-bit. In fact, they can even run 16-bit operating systems.

It is software support that was dropped in Catalina.

"Simply recompiling" for games is impossible for technical, legal, financial and other reasons. Some companies do not even exist.
Tesla shares fall on Elon Musk ‘stock price too high’ tweet
I really like this idea of monitoring people like we monitor servers.

I wonder what useful information you could extract from this. Like a very slight downward trend in blood pressure over a day. Could this be used to detect something like a slight internal bleed after a surgery?
Deconstructing Yourself: interviews about Buddhism, meditation, neuroscience, ... https://open.spotify.com/show/4oG8x34GxVEKakCTNalxDh?si=-oCw...

Some episodes of the Tim Ferriss show.
So we can use this to build a web app for the local farmers to set up a delivery service? I live in New York. USA.
Waking Up by Sam Harris and Uncommon Knowledge with Peter Robinson. Lex Fridman and Eric Weinstein's podcasts are also pretty good most of the time.
Errol Morris' documentary on McNamara, The Fog of War is well worth your time to watch.

The parallels with Donald Rumsfeld's time as Secretary of Defense are remarkable - it seems Rumsfeld was making all the moves and mistakes that McNamara made. I fully expect Eric Schmidt to suffer the same fate.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fog_of_War
Building a Community Around a Podcast
Someone looked into the permissions quickly - https://paste.gg/p/anonymous/b7c95d3967514e78a652840b5b666d5...
A lot of tools in ML might be used in other places with other interpretations, and the intuition for L1 and L2 that you describe is not wrong at all, but (1) ML/DS is usually done in a statistical context so I would argue that it’s a good idea to understand that formalism, and (2) that intuition doesn’t sound like it would help you build more complex statistical models, whereas understanding where L1/L2 come from in a Bayesian context definitely would help you understand what you would need to do to form a regularization term for e.g. a probability, or how to edit your loss to learn uncertainty. It also helps you understand what not to do and why not.

All of this is opinion for the most part, and if you feel there is more to learn from alternative interpretations, fine, but the suggestion is to understand the fundamentals of what you’re doing, and you’re usually doing statistics in ML/DS (whether you know it or not). Also, understanding Bayesian stats will make your life easier and it will make it easier to understand lots of other ML concepts in a unified way rather than in an ad hoc way: “minimum length solution” or “sparse solution” is what I mean by ad hoc. Both of those things are true and important, but they’re ad hoc.
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Julia also do this:

julia> 2<3<4
true
I'm taking data from the small company I used to be associated with. It covers a range of people who skew older, but are still very definitely working age.

No fatalities among the 200-odd employees. But around 2% became very ill indeed, and they still can't breathe properly weeks later.

Deaths are not the only problem. They're the most visible and the most shocking, but there will be 5-10X more serious illnesses, and it's not yet clear if these people will ever recover fully.
> Dealerships themselves generally markup 2-5%

Sounds very different from the UK if true.

Here in the UK, I've got 8-12% off every new car I've ever bought, by haggling hard.
Show HN: A web app that charts any TV show's IMDB ratings, by episode
That idiot ordered to kill president Ngo only to complain later:

> By the mid-1960's, Mr. McNamara says, it was clear that "political stability did not exist and was unlikely ever to be achieved"

You can not call this just an incompetency. He is a type of a person who can not be entrusted with lacing his own shoes, let alone statecraft.

People must stop decrying types like McNamara, Kisinger, Dulles as some kind of "smart calculating types." They were top idiots at the apex of power, and their coming was a prelude to what America got itself in now.
The author probably using 4k monitor without scaling (eg 100% scaling)

I am doing that too, with EasyRes on rMBP 13" 2017, because I don't have external monitor laying around, screen real estate becoming important...
I thought Aurora was flawed in one major respect. The novel suggests that galactic expansion is impossible for civilizations because foreign star systems will have alien pathogens or other environmental factors hostile to human beings. So far, so good, an enjoyable explanation for the Fermi paradox and a contrary view to the optimism in KSR’s earlier novels about terraforming planets.

But in Aurora KSR also decides to make the generation starship’s quantum computer evolve to become sentient. Now the obvious question to resolve is that machines wouldn't be susceptible to all the biological challenges that KSR listed, so why can't civilizations expand to other solar systems in machine forms? But KSR doesn't grapple with that at all, it is completely passed over.
I'll be honest that I'm not a Clojure user, even with context I have no idea read that. Like every other language you have to be trained to read it correctly and is not intuitively obvious to everyone.
> Yeah, but I don't generally sit down and drink 3 cokes in one sitting

Do you generally sit down and drink 3 beers in one sitting?

> It would be very rare for a customer to drink 3 cokes with dinner but not uncommon for someone to order 3 beers.

At home, I drink much as I'm thirsty for, be it soda, beer, wine, tea, water... I certainly don't drink more just because it's alcoholic. I might drink less, or switch to something else, if I'm starting to feel drunk and it's not an occasion for such.

At a restaurant, I order less when alcohol is involved. I prefer to have my senses about me if I'll be driving home...
Steven Strogatz's "The Joy of x."
Nikomat FT2 review: Because photography isn't complicated enough
I'm not an idealist over here, but It's really weird to me that when he looks at all of the US government's tech problems, he singles out the military as the part that it is really important to improve. But I guess it doesn't satisfy his ego to try and ensure the IRS' website works properly when addresses don't work unless they're all upper case.
Progressive Web Apps vs. Accelerated Mobile Pages
On my laptop 15" screen it displays just fine, very readable. It's a nice layout.

What has to be fiddled with to get a good design here is the line spacing. The lines need more space between them.

> I wish the web didn't have the possibility of styling its content and would only use standard options which would be customizable by users.

We in the design community now this standpoint, it is as old as the web and prominently defended by Jacob Nielsen.

The majority of design professionals do not agree with Nielsen.
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There are quite a number of costs here relating to the "why not buy an apple computer" point. I know because I paid them in both previous jobs and as a sole developer.

Firstly, the hardware cost. It's expensive and slow, but for a business it's a justifiable expense. The real cost is in the ongoing hosting and maintenance. Keeping Mac minis or whatever in a datacentre is a costly waste of space. There's zero remote management, and any failure means a trip to visit the system along with a monitor to hook it up to. Then there's the ongoing system administration cost, keeping it updated, keeping the development tools and build dependencies current. This is an ongoing expense.

Typically, if you need to keep clean environments you need to virtualise, and this means using VMware Fusion or similar. It makes a slow Mac mini system even slower. But if you need to support multiple MacOS versions, or multiple environments, what other choice do you have? It's not like there's a containerisation system for MacOS.

Every other platform can be run virtualised on big metal, like VMware and OpenStack clusters. Linux, BSD, Windows, everything we need to care about. MacOS is a special snowflake exception. This nonconformity adds costs.

As for renting. It's bloody expensive for very little in return. That entire market segment exists solely due to how terrible the hardware and software licensing options are. And the hardware and software procurement and management pain is reflected in the uncompetitive pricing. If Apple offered a developers-only generic VM licence for MacOS this market would vanish overnight.
Time to get a nokia. I should probably sell my phone at this point in time.
> It works because people haven't lost faith in it

You clearly have not dealt with the Indian Judicial system, there are some things in life you need to experience yourself to understand it, Indian Judicial system is one of them.

> almost all disputes reach courts instead of streets.

No, lot of people just give up because they know there is no point in wasting 10 years for the court case to finish. Isn't that the definition of people losing faith?

If maby people dont use your software because its buggy then its really an issue not a feature.
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The sources I've been encountering make it sound like ramping down is an option up to a point, and then fluid dynamics kick in and the next flow rate below ~60% is 0%. I'm giving them some credence because they're very obsessive about the oil industry, but a bit of skepticism because they feel a little apocalypse heavy.
I understand and agree with "make the game fun despite computer power", but you got to understand that at least in the current industry climate it means less games are even viable for porting at all.

Basically every triple-A studio banks on having The Latest Technology for their games, so that is a whole nonviable segment.

Sole developers or small indies often can't bother keeping up with the product lineup (XCode often requires the latest macOS version and that means buying a new machine way more often than for other platforms) just to be able to keep building their game. Remember, these are possibly multi-thousand dollar purchases, not to count the actual porting and testing costs. So, another segment made largely nonviable, at least for initial/planned releases.

This leaves us with what's informally called the "double-A" part of the industry: Studios large enough to have a bunch of cash to spare and one or two people who can work on sussing out the multitude of platform requirements and compatibility/performance issues that arise from the Mac platform.

Not only that, but if you are a "double-A" studio that works with a in-house engine, the costs might be increased still due to the required proprietary Metal graphics API, that must be integrated or at least integrating something like MoltenVK (assuming the engine is new enough to have a Vulkan based renderer already).

The only remaining viable projects are on an exception basis, and that leaves very few candidates for porting.
experiments with "quadratic funding"[1].

[1] https://vitalik.ca/general/2019/12/07/quadratic.html
Agreed! String manipulation functions in base R work differently in ways that make data cleaning annoying. Stringr frees me from having to remember that stuff and lets me focus on what I'm trying to do instead.
We're bootstrapping SaaS service as two co-founders for two years already. I would say don't document anything except the code (if you really want to). Don't track anything, don't create any reports of some sorts for the sake of creating.

Only thing you should really care about is how you product solves pain points for the user. Measure user retention and revenue.

As a young enterprise you should only care about how to survive and how to get users. Nothing more, nothing less.
Would I be correct in avoiding "is" for any simple data types, and only using it for objects?
Small integer caching: https://wsvincent.com/python-wat-integer-cache/

The objects for small integers are built-in and static, but 17^2 is too big, and so new integer objects are created when the expressions are evaluated. "is" checks if two expressions represent the same object in memory. "==" checks for equality of values.
Can you add a link pointing at some examples?
You’re right, but in ML/DS (and I would argue, even in other contexts you might not consider ML/DS) you usually are doing things in a Bayesian context (“what can I say about my model parameters given my observations and assumptions”). If you’re only doing OLS with maybe a L1 or L2 regularization, it’s not critical you understand the Bayesian interpretation, but it helps, and as soon as you start venturing out into other ideas and messier/biased data and want to modify something, you’ll need a Bayesian understanding of what you’re doing.
Did anybody ever attempt to load a Dwarf Fortress world into Minecraft?