skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have had my own frustrations with traditional medicine, so I understand where you're coming from. And I have effectively used "alternative" medicine, like skullcap for anxiety, which has actually shown to be effective in studies.

The problem is when people advocate treatments that are completely unproven, when a more effective treatment is available and hasn't been explored (I realize that he'd already tried chemo, but he was in remission from it previously, so it was definitely effective). That's what happened here - he had a 50% survival rate, which became 0% because of misinformation people shared with him online.
No, but it doesn't mean they aren't intelligent either. Being surrounded for a long time, by people of a certain thinking has a strong effect. Regardless of how smart you are. Theranos investors, for example.
As with their previous videos, no reason to believe they aren't fake. (i.e. in earlier videos the "Task Manager" somehow didn't quite look like it does on real Windows machines...)
I usually agree that "brain drain" arguments are nonsense, but the United States really badly overpays for medical care because of our horribly dysfunctional system, so I'm a bit more sympathetic to them in this particular case.
Show HN: The average HTTP response code
I can only give you my take on it and I might be quite a bit off with it but here we go:

It's good buisness and that's why it's popular. In germany (at least in the west, in the GDR no such thing existed) there is a special job below a physician: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heilpraktiker

These are hugely popular, you can become one pretty fast with just taking a test (they basically test that you are able to know when to call the real doctor) and all of them I've known make their money with quack cures.

Pharmacies also making good money selling and advertising that stuff because of higher margins.

Also real physicans have very tight budget limits since a few years back - if you have a problem that's not a broken leg the physican can't get money for talking with you - or it's something like 20€/3months without further diagnosis. So people - especially middle aged, rather high educated (not scientists but usally buerocrats, teachers, etc.pp) are very prone to this. Also the anti-vaccination movement is i.e. popular not in the poor parts in Berlin but instead where the well educated, good earning people are living.

Take the rise of the internet where you can read up almost everything and convince yourself that you have superiour knowledge and probably a healthy dose of skepticism against anything "non natural" whatever that means...

But there are real economic incentives that make this popular and even major parties are in support of this (Green pary for example).

There is a movement to fix the payment of doctors and reform the medical system to better accomendate for the patients and forbid this insanity but it works well enough as it keeps patients aways from physican offices.

But the quack theory spreads and not everyone recognises their own limits and delegates patients to real physicans.

It's something that should be fixed but it's working well enough for everyone involved that it's seen as the lesser evil. As you can imagine I think it's a huge mistake but voices like mine are really a minitory.
The svelte creator talks extensively about this on a recent Software Engineering podcast:

https://www.se-radio.net/2020/03/episode-402-rich-harris-on-...
Human Resources Culture Change Metrics?
For anyone in the human resource felid, what are metrics that are important to you when thinking of organizational culture change?

I am looking to gather any information that you think is important to include, for instance, employee mood, etc.
Maybe. You have a massive capital outlay, so it becomes a tradeoff between saving money on electricity by running only when it's below a certain price and running all the time.

Usually electricity cost doesn't dominate the equation, so it makes sense to run 24/7 (or as close to that as you can get).

Aluminium refining is different, but usually those plants buy dedicated electric capacity from a hydro station at special wholesale rates. It does not lend itself to starting and stopping.
> big diversity problem

It's not a problem.

> antiquated attitude toward the role of women and the gay community

There's nothing antiquated about this, it is a widely accepted cultural value.

> its absence of people of color

There's nothing wrong with this.

> and the overwhelming cultural dominance of the Mormon faith

This is a strength.

The cultural imperialism of so-called "progressive values" is insulting and provocative. The homogeneity of its population and its devout religious principles has driven the success of "Silicon Slopes," any imposition of values contrary to this will only serve to retard or reverse its success.
this looks amazing! (beware on mobile for giant gif size)

SwifUI is a breath of fresh air compared to xcode builder, that giant unmergeable xml and the constraint madness where really clumsy to work with.
From the README:

> The Average HTTP Response

> As calculated from the most recent daily batch of telemetry data from the Firefox nightly build.

> But y tho?

> I was looking over some logs, trying to see if a new feature I had made had resulted in an increase of errors/non-200 responses as a quick and dirty "Did I break something" metric. I decided to throw the data in a spreadsheet and do stats at it before trying to do anything Python-y or whatever, but forgot to turn the error codes into strings, so they were treated as just values, meaning I got back things like averages and the like. I had just learn that Mozilla puts out public telemetry data, so I threw that into a spreadsheet, texted a friend the entire story, and he responded

> > Wow! That is AGGRESSIVELY useless!

> At that point I knew I must tell the world...
It's probably easier if your odds are not as good as 50%.
Passes the sniff test. I spent a good deal of time in SLC when I was 18/19. This was the 90s and I remember even back then that almost all of the classified job ads were setups to entice you into a MLM presentation.
A teenager’s apparent clumsiness foreshadowed a shocking diagnosis
>"We are making the following changes:

Introduce a maximum-prefix limit on our backbone BGP sessions - this would have shut down the backbone in Atlanta, but our network is built to function properly without a backbone. This change will be deployed on Monday, July 20.

Change the BGP local-preference for local server routes. This change will prevent a single location from attracting other locations’ traffic in a similar manner. This change has been deployed following the incident."

It should be noted that configuring prefix limits for your BGP peers is kind of BGP 101. It's mentioned in every "BGP Best Practices" type document.[1] It's there for exactly this purpose to prevent router meltdown and resource exhaustion. For a company who blows their horn as much as these folks seem to about their network this is embarrassing.

I think it's worth mentioning that it was this time last year when Verizon bungled their own BGP configuration and brought down parts of the internet. When that incident occurred Cloudflare's CEO was front and center excoriating them for accepting routes without basic filtering [2]. This is exact same class of misconfiguration that befell them yesterday.

[1] https://team-cymru.com/community-services/templates/secure-b...

[2] https://twitter.com/eastdakota/status/1143182575680143361?la...
There’s invidio.us to avoid YouTube as much as possible.

Also, strongly disagrees with

>> While logged in, my YouTube recommended feed is doing a great job of serving me interesting content - but is that a good thing?

I see one related item and then a barrage of the worst of humanity.
> The problem both Google and Facebook have is because of their attempt to maintain the illusion of impartiality, that they refuse to just say "we decided these sites are just better" like they should.

Isn't the problem worse than that, though? These 'SEO hacked' pages probably have google ads on them, and that seems like an even better reason for google to not lowering their ranking.
For Seattle’s protest zone, tech is revolutionary asset and disastrous liability
I didn't downvote, but I suspect you ran into two things here:
#1 yea duh, there's a lot in common. it comes off as "iamverysmart"

#2 imho you have the order backwards. MLM is what happens when the profit motive, "consumer capitalism" and hustle-entrepreneur culture gets mapped onto religious communities/social-structures. Other religions arent a form of MLM, MLM is a new form of religion.
Mormons are a vanishingly small percentage of all religious people. You asserted that MLMs are correlated with religion (with no qualifiers), and instead of backing up that assumption with data, you went right into sociologically theorizing of why it might be true. With even more unsubstantiated claims about religion. No downvotes from me, just pointing out flaws.
The Intel 8086 processor's registers: from chip to transistors
Yesterday’s thread on the RC release: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23875541
I'd be curious to know how other people are handling this problem without employing cargo pants or custom clothing like this. I'm a guy who likes wearing skinny jeans and agree that stuffing a wallet, too many security keys, a knife, and a huge phone into the pockets kind of distorts the aesthetic. Do other guys / girls just carry their stuff in backpacks?
Google Invests $4.5B in Indian Company Owned by Asia’s Richest Man
Agreed. You may find the documentary Betting on Zero, and how Herbalife gets into communities.
> I dunno, "fashion-as-pretend-occupation" feels like a negative connotation, sort of a "stolen valor" for professions the supposed person imagines as more prestigious or moral than what they actually do, adventurer or craftsman vs, say, insurance claims adjuster.

I mean, the OG "fashion as pretend occupation" are just pants in general. The purpose of pants is a piece of clothing that lets you ride horses comfortably. Everywhere people started riding horses (and hence wearing pants), it became fashionable for non-horse-riders to wear pants as well.

The world is full of people who own objects that help them project an image, essentially the essence of jewelry.

IMO, that's not really a bad thing (unless your highest value is authenticity) it's just what people do.

This isn't to say that there aren't people who actually use the objects for their intended purpose. But what percent of people who drive trucks regularly haul stuff or drive off-road?
> the character chose alternative therapies before finally trying conventional medicine, but it was too late & she lost her life.

Isn't this the same story as Steve Jobs? I recall reading that on this forum
This may be true in your experience or elsewhere, but it's patently false in my experience. There's 'standard of care', very narrowly scoped clinical trials, and everything else is "fringe". Some treatment proven effective for cancer? OK, but it wasn't proven effective for this cancer. Oh, it was proven effective for this cancer? OK, but it hasn't been proven effective after partially effective cytoreductive surgery. Oh, it was proven effective there? Yes but it hasn't been proven to be effective after disease recurrence. Oh, it was proven effective after disease recurrence? Ah, but it was only proven effective in germline mutations. Oh it was proven effective on somatic as well? Sure but not after immunotherapy has been tried...

On and on and on and on. The decision tree is so deep and patient communities sliced into smaller and smaller subgroups that we don't have enough people on the planet to 'prove efficacy' for them all (as if such a task is even possible, the most we usually get is evidence of efficacy in similar cases).
So propublica isn’t being pro pubic and letting us know what the real issue is, but would rather present it as their own perceived issue?

They could say this is the quick fix but the long term solution is different.
I get wanting to be understanding of what these people are going through, but I’m not going to support the spreading of quack medicine. It’s unhealthy for society. Ethics don’t go out the window just because science can’t provide someone easy answers.
How can you publish an article about ultra-black fish without putting a picture of a fish in some recognizable environment?

Put it on a lab bench, next to a human hand and some printer paper. Or a banana. Anything the reader might recognize.

"While some ultra-black fish might appear brownish, it’s the product of camera overexposure and editing" Great. You know what does that mean? You need to find a better photo. That's what it means. What kind of lazy caption that is.
I read this book a few weeks ago and can recommend it as well. It's a very good book.
If the goal is the avoid all suffering, like the suffering of chemo, there's much less painful ways to kill yourself than going through the agony of dying of cancer.

If the goal is to survive, then you do what works best. Chemo, radiation, and whatever else the doctor says will give you the best chance at survival. No one says it'll be fun, but you maybe get to live.

The problem is that we are all fallible. We are all gullible. And when we are at our most vulnerable, these snake oil salesmen are at our doors ready to sell us a fake solution to both the problem of suffering and death. And they're liars. The suffering won't be avoided, nor the death, but they'll have your money. It's murder and robbery at the same time.
To the numerous posts in this thread.

"If it becomes ableist to critique those who follow fake medical advice from the internet..."

This is ableist because it claims that sick people are incapable of determining what is good advice and what is bad advice.
This is in the subfield of "neural program synthesis" right? Or do they call it something else usually?
Who is the typical customer for this product, and to what application is it usually put?
> Outlawing unproven medical claims, and actually enforce the law?

Would faith based approaches fall under your definition of "unproven medical claims?"

I get what you are saying, but if someone wants to take their chances on some "quackery," shouldn't it be their right to do so? Obviously this individual knew that he was engaging in alternative medicine that is not recognized by the mainstream.

I don't believe in this particular alternative medicine, but I don't believe established science understands everything in this world and believe individuals should retain the right to explore alternative perspectives.
Looks like there are some issues to resolve with the signup process and billing. I've contacted you via your support channel so we'll see how this works out. :-)
https://twitter.com/eastdakota/status/1143182575680143361?la...
Hey - so I finally got around to this. Details can be found here for getting all the code and running it: https://github.com/afallon02/ottr-deploy-instructions
Presumably most of the subsidy goes toward paying the resident, so most of the value to the hospital of the residency is the work done by the resident.
The number of residencies is set by a board which the AMA controls a majority of the seats on. They blame the lack of Medicare funding for additional residency spots, but that is such a preposterous excuse. American medicine is one of the most lucrative industries in the world, and American doctors some of the highest paid people in the world. They don't need the public to subsidize their training.

The AMA is a guild and the doctor shortage is their fault.
I never knew cargo pants had a symbolism. I love pockets. I carry as much as I can in my pockets so that I don't need to carry a backpack. I was slightly disappointed with the article because I find the pocket they created seems even smaller than the front pocket, so I don't get how they improve anything.
Why does anyone think with the prevalence of "free" VPN that these companies aren't storing and selling the crap out of your info?
Way more debt + years of residency to let that debt pile on makes earning more in the end irrelevant. And you can only really be financially free in a few specialties that pay you enough. If you become a primary care doctor, you're only making 160k a year. You can make more in areas where doctors are in short supply. That's not enough to pay off 300k in debt compounding at 7-8% a year for years before you can start paying into it, especially when you also have to pay 7500+ a year in malpractice insurance costs. You've also spent so long getting tot hat point that you're probably around 31 years old, meaning you might be starting a young family around then and cant fit everyone in a cheap studio apartment anymore.
His second book, The Gene, is excellent too and definitely worth reading if you liked The Emperor of All Maladies.
It would help a lot if popular alternative treatments were studied thoroughly (including testing on big numbers of human volunteers - every person who chooses to exercise their right to deny conventional treatment should be convinced to contribute by letting scientists observe him while he is treated alternatively) with intention to identify and dissect every humble positive effect they might cause in any particular kind of patients.

A statement like "there is no credible evidence that thing helps" really can't convince an alternative treatment enthusiast to give his idea up. "Obiviously" there is no evidence because nobody no scientist for it.

We need to be able to tell them honestly: "we have tried hard, hundreds different people were studied thoroughly for this particular treatment, it really doesn't help or only helps slightly a particular kind of patients you don't fit, please go and get treated the way proven efficient".
Ah yes, you're right. Maybe it's Groovy classes that this doesn't work for?

Still, when a refactoring operation doesn't exist for a code change (even if it's due to operator ignorance) it's nice to have the Problems pane to tidy up with.
I used it that way because I've gotten used to the org-mode syntax. It's much easier to /me/.
Having had 5 others in my life die from traditional cancer treatment I can certainly understand why people look for alternatives. I've seen brain, skin, blood cancer as an adult and I'm not sure what other cancers relatives had while I was growing up.

I've always worried if I would have the strength to fight or cave.
Why don't you simply put back the most recent backup?
The problem is that reading an entire book takes effort, and the whole reason why these quack treatments thrive is because people can't be bothered to do effort (and if they did they would have a very high likelihood of disproving the quack just based on reading existing medical literature) and want a quick and easy solution.
" we are trading our time, effort, and money for status within a community; there are hierarchical ranks, obtained by recruiting more people and proselytizing effectively...and MLMs and religion both seek to answer tough questions, whether that be creation or health, salvation or financial freedom. And both MLMs and religion rely upon false premises, mythology, peer pressure, and irrational fears."

Or is this the University system?
> Sure, it's not like Russia or the CCP and you're not in danger of being suicided if you uncover some high level dirt

Don't they lock people up in mental hospitals for that, though? That's classic USSR tactics.
You don't have a right to live in any country you want to.
It's deeply ironic that the BBC served me this ad while reading the article:

https://ibb.co/CVTw7pT
> Please explain your definition of “neoliberal” to us.

"Everything I hate", same as everyone else.
Not to be daft, but I can't imagine a single reason this is better for you career or labor organization-wise. If anything, it strikes me like that old quote:

Benjamin Franklin said: "Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety."

Not knowing the wages of those around you makes collective organization and bartering harder which is bad for workers in aggregate.
I had a similar opinion as you until I actually travelled to the United States. I went to San Francisco to visit a girlfriend. As soon as I was landed I felt like this version of the experiment is in a whole other gear than Europe. Everybody you meet gives you their elevator pitch and a business card. They make sure you know you can actually call this person next week and he will be there. On the way in the BART from her college to SF we lost all our money while traveling to the city. We asked a business man the way to Alcatraz, he took us to lunch and gave us $100. He told us we should do the same when we have the chance back home because that would make the world better.

This kind of paying it forward never happens outside of the USA. That positive vibe is sincerely ment and it's sad to realize we Europeans take positive signals like a smile as cynical as we do. A smile lights up your brain with an injection of happiness.

Have you seen that sign on your Amazon package? It's not a mistake it looks like that.
Yup, from the abstract: "Successful MLMs require a social capital structure where members can access and mobilize both strong and weak social ties. ... The LDS Church's institutions foster a social capital structure where (almost all) members have access to and can leverage social capital in all its forms. LDS institutions encourage members to make meaningful social connections characterized by trust and reciprocity with other church members in local neighborhoods and across the world." This is the point of this article; not so much MLM itself, but how even something "weird" like MLM can be a relevant indicator wrt. the strength of social ties.

Social capital is a very good thing indeed; it is the foundation of a truly inclusive society where people are not going to be marginalized and neglected in their most pressing needs, regardless of outside factors like income, class or socio-economic status. And we know of very few ways of sustainably fostering this kind of grassroots social capital, other than community-based groups, often based on some sort of established tradition or religion.
> awful hip pocket bulges

Who says they're awful? Why do they say that?

We must be informed and skeptical consumers.
His media team works behind the counter at the pot dispensary.
Alternatively, more pockets on tops. Fall/winter has much more carrying flexibly: anorak with stomach pocket, winter jackets with chest pockets.

Also I find it ironic women's work out tights have phone side pockets already figured out but men's are still limited to a key pouch on the back. Also very functional mesh panels but I suppose that's to close to mesh shirts for most dudes.