skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Phase 1 studies don't test the efficacy of the drug, just what kind of side effects are observed. Phase 2/3 is where the drug is tested to see if it actually works.
Alternative data offers a lot.  Just be careful
Dogwhistles work because they are not obviously false.

The statement is not racist in its text, but in its subtext and context. The statement is only raised for the purpose of preventing action from being taken or change being made, in regard to investigation into and prevention of unnecessary deaths of black people. The statement that lots of white people are killed by US police is similarly both true and a distraction.

It's a bit like turning up to a 9/11 memorial and saying "all plane crashes matter". Or somebody responding to a bug report by closing it WONTFIX with "all bugs matter".

(There's a separate debate as to whether "X lives matter" should be considered a descriptive or normative statement!)

(I should probably stop refreshing this and watching the wild upvote/downvote swing too)
You could be very right -- I suppose if someone thought COVID was a hoax and was asked if they wore a mask, in a hospital setting, they would be more inclined to say they did, just like how people say they voted for the winner in an election in a much larger proportion than the actual results show.
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As a pedantic native English speaker, the name "WhatsApp" has always irritated me somehow. It's just not nice. There's an apostrophe missing, it's two words with intermediate capitalization and no space, "App" in the name of an app is redundant, the "pun" is a bit dumb (does it even really qualify as a pun?)...

But it's clearly worked out well for them, so I guess it's a good thing people like me weren't involved in their naming. shrug
Progressive statements from 2006 can today be considered dangerous.

People don’t care about context at all. But, interestingly, they’ll also gladly ignore massive taboos (from their POV) if it’s in their favor. For example because Bernie makes some good arguments for progressive causes that he was against immigration undercutting wages many years ago, is ignored today, but if someone else had that history as a politician they potentially would be brought down, if they were more moderate (in either party).
No, because someone claiming they hear a noise doesn't affect anyone except them, and the people they directly interact with. An equivalent example would be someone claiming they hear a noise, and demanding that everyone in the world acknowledge that the person hears the noise, whether or not they ever interact with the person who hears the supposed noise.
Zoom is now leasing hardware
It seems to me that Boy Scout Manual told one how to make a "solar still" to condense water from the air. But it has been a while since I had a copy.
"For example, how can it be that a large number of reasonable, intelligent people worry about something they call "cancel culture," while other reasonable, intelligent people deny that it's a problem?"

I'm not sure the other side of this issue are reasonable and intelligent. It seems to me that anyone who swallows the orthodoxy of the day wholesale is unreasonable and unintelligent.

They seem like the kind of people that have always led mobs.

What seems to have changed is that now they have a voice on Twitter. They finally have a modern platform on which to organize their mob behavior, and cancel culture is the result.
Some irish background:

About 30% of Irish GDP is "leprechaun economics." Funds that transfer through ireland without touching anything, and "would disappear if you tried to touch it." If you look up financial statistics that rely on gdp (eg oecd stuff), they're nonsensical.

This isn't a normal "bidding for jobs" situation.

We recently had an election that upended political norms. The two major parties (like US republicans and democrats) now have <50% of parliament seats. So they now collaborate, almost like a single party. They even negotiate with third parties (recently the greens) jointly.

What tipped the balance was a "left wing wave." The largest party in this wave is Sinn Fein, a nationalist-republican party. Their campaign focused more on left wing issues than republican ones.

In any case, this whole leprechaun economics thing is rarely mentioned. Ostensibly, the political turn should have turned on leprechaun economics. Almost no one mentioned it though.

The benefit to Ireland isn't clear to me. Apple, Google, etc do have real operations here. They employ people and such. But, it's not clear how these relate to the tax evasion. I have never heard an explicit articulation or quantification of benefits.

Politically, I think people just assume that it's beneficial because it's sneaky. A weird expression in irish chitchat is "say nothin!" It's part of a whole dialect (or kant) of gestures & phrases to communicate collusion. It's a part of irish culture, and it plays here.

The upshot is that no one really understands why we have this system, but no one wants to give up the game by talking about it.

$13bn is a lot of money here, about $3-$4,00 per person. It's shocking how little political debate we have on this... not even from those who want to spend this money.
Not necessarily better, different. Folders management for instance : https://help.passbolt.com/assets/img/help/2020/05/rc1/folder...
It's both obviously true AND a racist dog whistle.

Stripped of context, it is obviously true, and utterly harmless.

Placed in the context of BLM, it denies that anything unfair is happening to people because of their skin color.
Isn't that... more or less exactly what happened? Many companies are / have already replaced those terms
Mark Twain thought along the same lines: "Thousands of geniuses live and die undiscovered — either by themselves or by others. But for the Civil War, Lincoln and Grant and Sherman and Sheridan would not have been discovered, nor have risen into notice." --Mark Twain
>World debt is about 69 trillion with a population of 7.8 billion. That's under $9k USD per person.

That's a bizarre way to cut it for a number of reasons. For example, half of the world lives on less than $5.50 per day [0].

The more relevant statistic is the US national debt is $26 trillion [1] and the additional unfunded liabilities dwarf that. There are 143 million US taxpayers. It's something like $160k per US taxpayer [2]. Much of it can/will be printed away but not without other consequences.

[0] https://www.worldbank.org/en/news/press-release/2018/10/17/n...
[1] https://www.usdebtclock.org/
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_debt_of_the_United_St...
Yeah of course those things are out of control. My point is that the things you can control have a huge impact. Maybe you can never be a 10/10 because of some specific flaw, but you could likely be at least an 8. Also flaws tend to be seen more as quirks in more "attractive" people.
because if everyone is asking whatever they want there is no way to compare one candidate to another.

Most companies require interviewers to pick a question from their internal 'question bank'
If you work with Java now you will probably not do so well on HN, especially if its for a new product. Yet we ought to know mature reliable platforms are a better place to be than the latest hotness that is still changing and evolving and missing major libraries and features. After all its about the product not the underlying technology. You don't see Java talked about much on HN anymore yet its everywhere running the modern web.
Hahaha thank you for making me laugh so hard
There is an awful lot of people who go on TV or their popular youtube channel to promote their book and speaking tour in which they complain about being silenced.

> I feel like a lot of 'privilege' talk sort of leaked out of good / valid ideas and areas of academic study and now are sort of used as a magic wand (or sometimes a baseball bat) that really don't solve anything

Yes, unfortunately.
We have a bunch of services which orchestrate long running workflows so temporal is quite interesting to me. I've been lurking in the temporal slack for a while (and before that in the cadence slack).

Would be interested to know what kinds of things you're using it for/what scale/which language client?
Agree - just with the trial you will have a 100 percent chance or being exposed directly to the virus. Not saying the risk isn't worth taking, just that the only risk is not death.
Seems GitOps discussions often miss the security and compliance value. How much time do security and compliance teams invest in identifying current configuration state? Are those practices antiquated if configuration state is immutable and validated once, at the repo level?
Sneaky use of orthodox. There has always been the problem of finding words so that the targeted group doesn't know they are talked about.

I don't really think the solution of being polite is working for anonymous internet comments for obvious reasons, but for other places it has been the classical solution.
I’d venture to guess that a good indicator are people in America who are comfortable using “call the police” as a solution to certain common problems.
Is there any concensus at all on how global corporations _should_ pay tax? These sort of cases illustrate how institutions think they _shouldn't_ handle tax, but it's not clear to me how we apply tax to a globalised economy? It's seems to be a hugely complex issue with many different stakeholders. Where is the nuanced discussion about these issues that falls somewhere between "Corps are evil" and "innovation is vital"?
Professor solves 240 CS exam problems in a row
In the western US, a canvas water bag works nicely for this. I remember my disappointment showing up for work one summer to learn that my employer had discontinued them for fear of spreading disease.
I believe you're missing the point.
To add to this, Phillips screws are designed to cause the screwdriver to cam out. This is done so you can’t over torque the screw hole. This also makes them really annoying sometimes.
Thanks! And wow this is cool.
This is such a strange post. Mr. Graham speaks in vague generalities, then finally hones in on a specific idea seemingly out of the blue:

> For example, how can it be that a large number of reasonable, intelligent people worry about something they call "cancel culture," while other reasonable, intelligent people deny that it's a problem?

Why “cancel culture” when there’s any number of issues this is equally true for? Why is it only “reasonably intelligent people” oppose it in this example.

This post just seems intellectually lazy. Making sweeping generalizations and then throwing in some appeal to popularity is not a well made point.
Has anyone ever experimented with totally sanitizing identities when reading news? For example, if there were a browser plugin that would cleanse pictures, associations, academic credentials, and especially names from news, would that make a difference in the way that we as humans process information?

Deepfakes create an "adjacent identity" to trick people into aligning their opinions with someone who is in the same group. But, if we were aware of this, and removed the identity to strictly review the information, it might change the way that information is received.

This would only work if a majority did this, so it would never work, nevermind.
‘Paedophile hunters’ do not violate right to privacy, UK Supreme Court rules
>Sorry, no, no way.

Denying someone's lived experience is obnoxious. Excusing that obnoxiousness by introducing a false slippery slope seems like an excuse to not be conscientious.
Yeah I forgot people want flawed backed-up statistics to support their claims... just go on WorldoMeter and look at how many recovered versus to how many died. It's just a fucking flu.

You think my reputation deserved to be wiped out just for sharing my personal experiences working at the hospital during this covid fad? Ok, dude.
The perp had a suitcase. He was very professional

Some serious conclusions there. Dismembering bodies is typically reserved for maniacs, not hired hitmen.
Show HN: Inquiry – a thought-provoking article, video or podcast per day
Hey all -

I started Inquiry [1] to share a thought-provoking article, podcast, video, or other link every evening that shares a new way of looking at the world.

Simply put, I try to share smart people discussing interesting things, regardless of whether or not I personally agree with them. I think there's a gap in curated content that is genuinely interesting and thought-provoking.

Over the past few weeks we’ve covered futurism, public health, charitable giving, policing, medieval warfare, cancel culture, happiness, investing, finance, geography, math, and much more.

Wanted to share with HN as well!

[1] https://inquiry.substack.com
Doesn't exactly come as news that Apple has Ios in an iron grip. They might not have a monopoly, but they certainly have a level of control that Android doesn't.
No, it is black and white. Just because you have lots of candidates doesn't mean you need to pick sub-par questions.

Interview for the skills you actually need. If the person isn't implementing algorithms and data structures from scratch, it's a shit question. Why would you ask questions that don't match the actual work they'll be doing?

If they will be doing this work, then obviously it's a fair question.

See, black and white.
> Firstly those studies are all in children

Your point? the OP ended his sentence with "especially in children" so I thought I'd share that which was relevant to children. If you are looking for information on adults, here are some possible clues:

https://www.nature.com/articles/pr19971830

It makes sense considering the increase in uric acid, but might only be a problem in children and those susceptible to kidney stones (although when it presents in children, that is some pretty important information in terms of holistic, long-term diet considerations). Still definitely worth mentioning and I'm sure we will get more information as more studies are done on adults (most are on children due to it being used as an epilepsy treatment)
A shrinking, aging population would in no way make this better. It would make it worse.

Aging societies spend more on healthcare, have a smaller working base, and typically don’t have the kind of growth that makes it easy to borrow money to invest in new things. The typical result is slow economic growth, high taxes, and low levels of services for workers.
But neither the Northern European nor Japanese models can cope with negative real growth in consumption. Nor negative real growth in savings.

There is a fundamental issue in capitalism that there must always be growth. Without growth, the entire concept of investment breaks down and the business cycle cannot continue. You could totally replace it with something that isn't capitalism, but that's not a small endeavor and won't happen without massive conflict.

Our current reality is that if the population shrinks significantly, there is a good likelihood that will happen.
Next time EU needs to hire the lawyers that Apple had. Is sad to see corporations milking the planet
Also Uncle Owen, if we go back a little farther and across franchises.
I get what you mean, but I think this can be looked at in a more neutral way, especially if we distance ourselves from the exact Homebrew example.

The expectation of a large engineering company is to hire someone who fits well into their way of doing things. Typically they want smart, humble team-players with predictable skills (AKA solid educational background and possibly industry experience).

However an open source tool author has completely different self-imposed requirements and capabilities. If successful, they have proven that they can ship reliable software, basically on their own, which people want to use. Which is great, exceptional even. But typically not in terms of the metrics of a large engineering company, except they actually do use the tool/library, deem it important and the role of the programmer would involve developing/supporting it.

This also poses the question of: "Why would open source author want to get hired by big company in the first place?"

Wouldn't this mismatch of expectations and skill-sets be a hindrance/waste?

Aren't there much better places for this exceptional open source author? Startups, other open source projects, self-employment/freelancing, SMEs etc.
How would you suggest they broach the point that not every family turns out well?
That some end up with kids watching from the car while their mom fights dad's drunken mistress in the Safeway parking lot while dad himself watches on, smoking a cigarette and having a beer?
People either love Python or hate it.
Experimental Covid-19 vaccine safe, generates immune response
it's next on the list after group E2EE is stable along with key import/exports
Show HN: Spoof DNS queries with raw sockets in Python (includes IP/UDP layers)
Efficiency is the only thing I can think of as explained in the video by thunderf000t here https://youtu.be/aPvXnmBIO7o
UK Truckers Delivering to EU Must Use New (Untested) Computer System
I suppose its worthwhile to make a distinction between "small, private, Christian, conservative, seminary" and "large, public, secular, liberal, university".

I think its appropriate to advocate for gay students at these private schools. But I do question its significance to the economy, society, and public life relative to the university system. And constraining this problem to universities or silicon valley does it a disservice. This is becoming a general, corporate problem.
It's a weird situation:

So many people are a victim of being silenced now.

As evidenced by how many people you hear about constantly telling you about it...
It's disappointing that this is being downvoted, because it's absolutely correct.
There are true statements that are rightly unacceptable because placed in certain rhetorical contexts, there's an implied argument that they're making which has been rejected by society.

For example, JK Rowling's statement that "there used to be a word for people who menstruate" was essentially true (menopause aside), but had a hefty implied message about the legitimacy of transgender women, one which is rightly considered offensive to most of modern society.

Edit: Since people are nitpicking, here's an even starker example: Can you imagine contexts where it would be rightly offensive for an African-American to be told the true statement "My ancestors used to enslave people like you"?
The concept is not overused. Privilege, and the abuse of it, is _that_ pervasive.
Nobody cares about private christian colleges. The fact that you have to speak of "private christian colleges", rather then naming any, is revealing. No one even knows their names. Harvard is the most powerful institution on earth. Try to name a more powerful one, and ask yourself where the people running it come from.
What makes VRBO more ethical/sustainable than AirBNB?
An avatar; placeholder for identity.
what we currently call “liberal” is another form of conservatism. It’s just that it’s conserving a slightly different set of principles.
From what you said then, we should all be living in air-bubbles for the rest of our lives like Bubble boy. There's your evidence.
That's the real problem with any policies that would actually significantly fight climate change: our unequal society has people who would be disproportionately impacted by increased prices and laws against carbon emissions.
Because it's not sincere, and only sanctimony and bullying. If the people who claim to be triggered by magic words were sincere, then surely they themselves would avoid doing things that offend other such emotionally fragile groups e.g. religious conservatives. If they did, then at least I could take them seriously, but as it is, all I can manage is contempt.
Trivia: Kent M. Pitman (also known as kmp) is the father of the condition system as it exists nowadays. The code in the book is based on Portable Condition System - a library that I have created, and Portable Condition System itself is in turn based on the original implementation of the condition system available at http://www.nhplace.com/kent/CL/Revision-18.lisp

After a wee bit of massaging that code to compile it on modern Lisp implemenations (the above code is CLtL1, which is an old version of Common Lisp from 1984), it still works!
We've called the city and consulted with a friend who worked in planning. Basically they said they have no structure of vetting and dealing with Airbnb. I don't think it's even on their agenda.
better to have the option of working for 12.5/hr than being forced to be unemployed.
If I'm understanding correctly, the private interview still entails the candidate presenting their solution once it's complete. I've never interviewed a candidate via this method, but I've been interviewed this way.
This sentence really sticks out to me:

> I suspect the statements that make people maddest are those they worry might be true.
I wouldn't say that they are uninformed, just that they are informed by the literature. And unfortunately the literature surrounding diet is awash with special interest groups, small sample sizes and dodgy statistics. While clinical trials involving pharmaceuticals are often more rigorous. It's near impossible to do randomised double blind controls for diet, and energy levels and feeling great aren't as easy to measure empirically
This is a UI trick, I couldn't imagine doing this for backend services but then again, I've never been asked to demo those!
I guess I should have been more specific, how about 95%+ of the population? I just more often than not hear this line of thinking from people who definitely could look better but choose not to put in the effort to do so. In general I do agree its a problem, but its one people have actual agency over.
While hosts like that do exist, that's surely the exception and not the norm. It used to be like that many years ago, when it was less popular.

Right now it's ripe with places (sometimes entire buildings) dedicated to AirBnB, to the point where they put a dent in the local renting market.
Serves them right for taking a risk.
Sleep Paralysis and the Monsters Inside Your Mind
> It's safe for them to express their opinions, because the source of their opinions is whatever it's currently acceptable to believe. So it seems to them that it must be safe for everyone. They literally can't imagine a true statement that would get them in trouble.

It seems to me that this stems from two interrelated issues:

1. People defaulting to their tribal position (red/blue in the US) without thinking deeply and engaging in rational discussion of issues.

2. A lack of empathy.

What is "currently acceptable to believe" is determined by your ingroup. And rather than trying to understand why someone in the outgroup would hold a different opinion, the ingroup paints all of them as crazy/stupid/X-ist. While the red tribe is generally more criticized in this regard, the blue tribe is just as complicit (look at the smug superiority of John Oliver and other political comedians).

While this tribal fighting occurs, power is consolidated. The people with keen insights (that may be construed as controversial) will make them privately, rather than take on public risk. In the words of Jessica Livingston, "I don't have time to fight with people who are trying to misunderstand me." [1]

I hope that there is a solution to this problem, so that the internet can reach its potential to democratize access to information and data, rather than becoming a mechanism to virtue signal acceptable tribal beliefs.

[1] https://foundersatwork.posthaven.com/the-sound-of-silence
That's why I really don't like the "white privilege". Poor white people are just as fucked as any other minority in the US yet they're being lumped with the rich white people as if they have the same privileges

When you're poor as fuck and having a shit life and everyone keeps telling you how privileged you are, you stop believing those people and turn to alternative sources for information