skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
While this is an interesting subject, the article is very ambiguous abous the causality relationship:

> Soon after Sean found out his cancer had returned, when he had decided he was rejecting chemotherapy, the pair found themselves watching countless YouTube videos

It seems to me that he had already decided not to undergo chemiotherapy, and clinged on whatever it was available, or at least, more subtly, he deeply wanted to find any other cure that was was not chemotherapy.

While cancer conspiracy theories are certainly damaging, if the reading above is correct, such theories correlated to his death, didn't cause it - he may as well have turned to religion, drugs or anything else.
Comparing YouTube logged in vs logged out... it's no contest really. Logged in is far more useful, even when not including Premium (no ads) and other features.

Logged out I'm seeing mostly useless viral videos that I have no interest in. By default it appears to me that YouTube recommends pure sugar. Whereas logged in you can steer it away from that.
https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/switzerland-election--2019-resu...
I'd argue that SARS-CoV-2 is very far from the Pareto optimal trade-off in infectivity and virulence. There are viruses that are both more virulent and more infectious.
Meanwhile we have been compiling the same C and above code for mips, arm, power, x86, and riscv for decades in portable ways while still getting performant code.

Now to be fair GPUs have a legacy of slowly becoming generic processors whereas 10+ years ago they were largely fixed function hardware. Writing generic code for a GPU today is totally sensible because it supports most arithmetic, primitive types, branching, etc.

But there is nothing stopping you from optimizing your compiler for glsl any more than optimizing your platform specific custom vendor compiler for C.
Fascinating to see that airport codes are used as datacenter names. I know at least one other company which does that but I thought that's something peculiar to them.
Exactly my point. The third-party app is not nefarious, but the SDK is. A server side API would have a better chance of doing the useful bits without the nefarious parts.

I doubt many competent server operators would be willing to run Facebook-supplied binaries on their precious servers, especially given Facebook’s track record of SDK crashes. (Not to mention PCI requirements, etc.)
> They promote it heavily but actually nobody uses it inside, and it's up to the community to go through all the bugs.

Large chunks of macOS 11 and iOS 14 are built with SwiftUI, and it's the only way you can build the newer style of widgets on both platforms. They're actually pretty aggressively dogfooding it.

They were slow to pick up Swift internally because they needed ABI stability, but no such barriers exist for internal adoption of SwiftUI.
Similarly I knew about Ctrl+U delete from cursor to beginning of line but learned of (or had forgotten about) Ctrl+K delete from cursor to end of line many years later.
Exmormon and former missionary here. Pretty much, makes sense. And that's all that I can charitably contribute to the conversation, IMO.
CA has most of these already. They just instituted a requirement for a background check for ammo purchases.

One of the biggest problems is your last point - non-compliance isn’t really enforced. If you ask your friend to buy a gun for you because you’re not eligible, the dealer might stop the transaction, but there is a very low likelihood there will be any police follow up.
3D printed latex rubber breakthrough
It's not difficult, it's just different. It's the difference between predicting that a truck might crash into a data center and building concrete wall around it, and designing a system in a such way that users only ever resolve to servers that are currently available regardless of what happened to some of them in a data center that had a truck crashed into it.
> Did the majority of people paying for AOL really pay for it for access to AOL services

Yes, they really did. Before the web grew, AOL had far more content in its services. There were discussions, communities, even early MMORPGs. They devolved into an ISP and email later.
Nevada casino company gets approval to become gambling giant
The woke openly embrace evil and fascist tactics like censorship and book burning. Woke means to be an uninformed idiot while pretending to be a do-gooder.
The Next Frontiers of Search
This is a cool exercise, but there's a broken assumption. Or an assumption of no outwear I missed:

> Where is there enough support to prevent items swinging around uncomfortably?

He answered this with a box basically around the thighs, but I'd also add the torso and maybe even the upper arms.

A personal bugbear of mine is jackets without internal breast pockets. When you have one on each side of a jacket that isn't ultra lightweight, it fits a wallet and phone perfectly, it's super accessible, and it doesn't change the appearance. In San Francisco where you never really need to zip/button up your jacket, it's perfect. This is the hill I will die on.
What TikTok Got Right
I can definitely see myself using it when creating an MVP, but longer-term I'd probably set one up myself.

In terms of the pricing, it may be worth considering a cap (e.g. 5% on successful payments up to a maximum of $Y a month), otherwise, you might find that your entire userbase ends up being comprised of early-stage projects that are making little to no money.
I've heard this "you can choose one but not the other" argument for years, and it reveals some incorrect assumptions about religious beliefs. Ask religious believers (or non-believers) if they can just up and choose the reverse. They can't, at least not while remaining true to themselves, which is the same threshold that is used when celebrating a person's coming out.

You might counter that religious beliefs shift more easily than sexual orientation. The prevailing narrative used to be that sexual orientation is totally static. It was useful and effective to frame things this way in the fight for gay rights; it asked, "Why punish someone for something they can't control?" But now that we're at a point in history where every brand under the sun is comfortable running Pride marketing campaigns, what was once an open secret is now more out in the open. LGBT folks have become more comfortable acknowledging that there is indeed fluidity and spectrum when it comes to sexual preferences, orientation, and gender identity. That doesn't mean that a person's orientation can be forcibly changed, but there is an acknowledgement that preferences can sometimes change organically, and we see that with religion as well.
I made a plugin called Focus.me - https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/focusme/jdkgogfonl... - Although it doesn't automate a workflow, I use it to stay productive during a workday. Focus.me blocks a list of websites in fixed time increments: The press of a button adds time to a timer, blocking sites until the timer expires. I find myself instinctively flipping between Youtube, HN, reddit etc. in a loop, and the plugin helps break this cycle and get the ball rolling quicker when I need to focus.

I made the plugin because I wasn't satisfied with other productivity/website blocking plugins which often contain URL tracking and other telemetry. Focus.me is completely local and doesn't record any information of any sort.
Call it whatever you want, it's fairly standard. Credit card companies hold a reserve for travel agencies, airlines, whatever businesses experience a high rate of chargebacks or have fundamental risks to their business (like being solvent for more than 1 year). Take comfort in that you're not alone.
I suspect diversity is a requirement for growth.

How are you expected to add thousands of jobs if Asians, Indians need not apply?
We can only measure greatness, or the known universe, through the lens of our consciousness, so it seems acceptable to refer back to the nature of the lens as the primary mystery of our experience.
> And I view the gamer loop as about as useful as the coin pocket: purely decorative in nature.

I use the coin pocket extensively: for coins, medicine, chewing gum etc.
Even in Bourdieu's framework economic, cultural and symbolic capital might well be more relevant to class distinction. That would seem to be the gist of his work on distinction and the judgment of taste, at least. Social capital plays a role in that it can be downstream of the distinction created by other dynamics, but not necessarily in "more" social capital throughout a community leading to "more" distinction. If anything, one would expect the opposite.
Computer-controlled typewriter output (2013)
All fashion has symbolism. Just because you ignore doesn't mean it isn't there.
> By the way, tech communities are not immune to it. It might not be MLM, but think about how frequently you encounter tech products and services that seem to be flying on nothing but hype and charisma.

Kubernetes?
Can we have opinions on our clothes without having to give every random person on the Internet a full justification?

Why yes, yes we can.

But, OK, let's answer it. The first answer is right in the fine article: Hip pockets lead to bad posture when sitting. They cause back pain.

The second answer is that if you dress for aesthetic instead of functional reasons, one of the very first concerns is silhouette. And if you care about that, you often care about the torso first, lines second, limbs third. (Note: Since it's an aesthetic judgment, it depends on your preferences)

Hip pockets ruin the look of the torso and lines from any angle except a pure frontal view. Worse, they ruin it for tight and loose fitting clothes (because for loose fit, hip pockets with anything of significant weight hangs awkwardly)

This pocket design addresses the first issue completely, and the second issue somewhat. (You'll still notice a change in the line especially on tight fit, but it's less noticeable because it's not affecting torso, and it's not at the end of limbs - which get more attention than the middle)

Maybe our list of maximes to follow should include "we must assume that people have a reason for what they do, and question somebody else's aesthetical judgment followed by an accusation that they're uninformed or unquestioning is not the best conversational gambit".
I would buy these pants in a heartbeat. I'm fairly slender, like tight fitting pants, but hate the hip pockets. Cargo pants are baggy and everything rattles around in the large pockets. These are a really thoughtful middleground where you don't have to sacrifice style for utility.
Maybe you just run out of interesting content to watch?
> senior citizens and their clients would forget they purchased the service (or their kids/grandkids would find it on a statement and get upset)

You know, I find that many businesses don't do one of the most simple things -- they fail to pay attention to how their transactions appear on the credit card statement line. A simple name and intuitive string + phone number instead of some unfamiliar company name "dba" can reduce the confusion by a lot.
Cargo pants are even better if you complement them with a tool-belt.

/s
That may be true by number of combatants. But the size of an organization is not measured just by number of people involved. It is well known that the US military spends more money than most other countries COMBINED, and has more bases and operations than any other military in the world. It doesn't even make sense to compare the US military with India's.
> The data show same result for female chemical castration of sex offenders

As expected. Why would it not work in females? You'll be easily getting these levels to a very "unnatural" level below the low end for both males and females.

The studies aren't just on self reported feelings. You're looking at reductions in recidivism exceeding 50%. Yes some studies show a much smaller reduction, but AFAIK every study does show some improvement. Sure as I noted myself it could be self-selection as some argue, but nonetheless there isn't a study out there outright disproving it. There are a few countries where it's mandatory but not sure if there's any data from these.

When you've got studies showing efficacy, to disprove them you'd want something of higher rigor. Say a proper RCT. If one says self selection taints the result then you want a study that controls for that.

Again I'm absolutely not opposed to the notion that there's some cultural/societal feedback loop involved. I'm just arguing that administering strong blockers MAY help with many issues relating to aggressiveness. And that these arguments on just how linear or predictable the relationship is are interesting but not that relevant to disproving the practical efficacy of such a treatment.

I fully agree that one shouldn't demonize the hormone itself and anyone who has high levels. That's what that line of research tells me as far as I'm concerned.

> What is your source for that?

Regardless of what causes violence we have a huge undeniable discrepancy between males and females. If we go with the explanation that violent behavior bumps T up that goes nowhere in explaining the enormous sex difference. Don't remember the exact ratio off top of my head by it's definitely somewhere around 1 to 10 so not buying a purely societal explanation. And if you look at the extremes, say serial killers or very brutal forms of murder it grows even wider apart.

So it would seem logical to me that in these violent high T females either the T does matter or it doesn't but is an indication of virilization earlier in life.

As to the claim that testosterone levels would be a proxy for earlier virilization - for example digit ratios are believed to be an indicator of virilization in utero and studies do show that they correlate with adulthood T levels[0]. Pretty sure there are studies relating it to criminality too.

Personally my hunch is that it's a bit of both. Say if we put everyone on these drugs I'd imagine overall violent crime would drop but males would still be vastly outnumber females.

[0] https://europepmc.org/article/med/21592297
I was always a fan of that. Airport codes are unique and almost never change, even after the city/country changes.
> All that does is ensure no one gets fairly compensated for 12+ hours work, and shifts the complexity down the chain to accountants as people managers try to find other ways to compensate people for their extra effort. People don't stop being sick 12 hours in.

Sorry, but this stance seems like part of the problem.

Doctors shouldn't be working more than 12 hours at a time, for rather obvious safety reasons. People don't stop being sick, sure - that means you change the system so there are more doctors working fewer hours, rather than making doctors work insane hours that risk patients and are terrible for doctors' mental health and wellbeing.
I have to wonder if it would have. Unless you have some kind of route visibility collecting took, or a bunch of simulated traffic sufficient to pop the CPU on the vMX that represented atl01, it would all appear to work. I wonder if you could generate traffic, and scrape snmp counters as a proxy?

Or some kind of tool that processes the resultant routing tables to generate some kind of "route usage" for every given link and device, maybe even feed it with a table of expected traffic to given destinations.
This article echoes another recent article[1], which has more details.

[1] - https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/n7w4w8/trump-sent-the-fed...
Eh what a weasel-y way to deliver that message. “We would like to help you...” Please. Just be straight up with your customers, Stripe. Tell them you’re holding the funds to protect Stripe. Nothing wrong with that, it’s the message delivery.
I just upvoted this person. I have always felt MLM was a fusion of (secular) religion and business. Similar testimonials, group social support, groupthink, and reliance on faith are employed. This is saying something completely different than the connection between MLM and organized religions, which in the case of Hispanic evangelist groups and Mormons, is well established. It is saying that for some, MLM participation confers some of the benefits of a religion.
Oh you have to be kidding. I grew up in the 50's, and things are so much more difficult for young people today. If they are in the upper quarter of society they have to compete so much harder, and if they are below that they are so much less likely to have a good job, like the secure, union factory jobs that were so common. And besides that education has gotten vastly more expensive, and so has housing in much of the country, and also health care. And then there was the great recession of 2007. There are so many young people today who are doing worse than there parents.
In the same way juggling isn't theft. It doesn't fulfill the definition.
There is nothing wrong with adults doing drugs. The USA has a law and morality problem. We, the USA, choose to continue this model despite decades of evidence that it does not work and will not ever work.
Fair enough. My point was that I don't think that's such a big reason for people to wear cargo pants, as I've wore and seen people wearing it, yet that was never communicated to me. It's anecdotal, I agree.
Great. They do look very impressive. Pants are hard. (They look easy but there's actually a lot of construction.)
if you want to grow outside of your domestic market it's a significant help to have as much possible information available to you when you build something, diversity is simply a way of information discovery. One of the most trivial examples being the soap dispenser that didn't detect black hands. If you have someone with dark skin on your team you discover it right in development.
> Most law-abiding gun owners do not end up misusing them.

Well, yeah. Most non-murderers don't murder, too.
The issue is the executives keep the bonus even if fired in bankruptcy. Further, because the money has technically already been paid out, the bankruptcy court can’t claw it back. It’s therefore not pay for work done.

At best executives get leverage in their job search and a fallback option should their job search fail to find better options. So, it’s not even an effective means to maintain someone actually talented.
The thing that strikes me as especially interesting about our drive for diversity is that it’s based on the premise that if you hire people who look different, then you will very likely get people with heterogeneous viewpoints, which will make an organization stronger. I think this absolutely makes sense provided you sample evenly from all races, genders, etc; however, what I suspect is happening is that organizations that sort of worship diversity end up selecting from each race, gender, etc only those people who are similarly obsessive about diversity, and this selection bias erodes much of the purported benefit of diversity.

Notably, institutions like academia and media increasingly consider viewpoint homogeneity something akin to moral purity, and consequently they end up with lots of racial and gender diversity but minimal viewpoint diversity (of course the degree of homogeneity is not uniform across these institutions, but this doesn’t detract from my point).
And I'm here to say that phone companies should make smaller phones.
Web developers running RoR
Lying. Occupational hazzard studies show N95 can only block particles 3.0 microns or larger. Covid is 0.125 microns. A human hair is 150.0 microns. Surgeons masks can stop 125.0 micron or larger and home made single layer masks block 300.0 micron or larger particles. Look up the mask ratings yourself. I did. NONE block sub-micron particles. Period.
Well, it’s not hard to mismanage something especially if you want to mismanage it.
Their job is to collect payments, not to insure their clients against chargebacks. A chargeback is, after all, someone - rightly or wrongly - accusing their client of taking a payment illegitimately.

And actual insurance companies certainly don't expedite immediate payments when fraud alerts are set off.
Libra: Fully automated machine learning in one-liners
Random question:

The Cloudflare revolvers definitely went down (1.1.1.1 and 1.0.0.1), do we know if authoratative DNS did?
Any time i see an -est superlative in a sciency article i just inject my own ‘known’ or ‘discovered’ as appropriate. Makes everything more palatable.
Is there any region of the world that respects SAHM besides Scandinavian countries? I feel like this is one of the most important issues we're facing today. Separating kids from their parents for most of the day after three months can't possibly be good.
Interesting, via iOS safari the page was quick to load and scrolled smoothly, no noticeable performance issue (excepting the payload size is excessive).

Maybe safari is more optimized for gifs?
I started a job and within the first 2 days saw a red flag with the CEO. I should have listened to my gut and walked right back out of that job. I spent years in a job I should never have started because the CEO had an odd mix of compassion and abusiveness that kept me on the fence for years, and I'm just recently realizing exactly how damaging that job was both personally and professionally.

If you have a bad feeling about a job shortly after you start, trust your gut and go.
I know very little about life in Utah, but it seems to me that MLMs provide a way to monetize social capital, for those who wield it. It's well known that many MLMs do an insignificant amount of sales outside of the org, and mostly serve as a pyramid scheme, where earlier players are compensated by the startup costs of later players. Most players will never recoup their startup investment by recruiting or external sales.

It strikes me that the mid-level players who make it to profitability probably have enough skills that they would make far more money in something closer to a regular corporate or sales environment. If handy work and piece work were the original gig economy, and the app-driven gig economy is the modern incarnation, MLMs are the intermediate wave.
This is a neat idea and something we've been thinking about.
Illegitimi non carborundum - don't let the bastards grind you down - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illegitimi_non_carborundum

You are doing great. Thanks for sharing. Keep it going! ;)
You don't understand what "opt-in" means or you're pretending you don't.
Wouldnt make more sense to try to describe the brain in computational science terms rather than algebraic topology?
> compulsory military service

You can sort of opt-out by doing civilian service. This consist of general interest public work (mostly work in retirement homes, but also farmer's aide, museum guardianship, and in this time of pandemic, help doing COVID contact-tracing).
The person who was interviewed in this article sounds like a really gross person. She killed her boyfriend, but can only muster blame for internet memes and position herself as a victim. She actively encouraged and enabled the death of another person because she couldn't be bothered to look for good medical information and rather than feel guilt, she feels betrayed as if she's the victim. I suppose I shouldn't be surprised that the kind of person who thinks they singlehandedly know better than doctors despite learning nothing about medicine is also the sort of person who will fail to see their own insidious behavior for what it is.
5) We're talking about a dense urban area ~ 1580 km^2. A _lot_ of businesses and institutions are within 13 km radius from each other. And there are 19 million people in this metro area. So a lot of things should e hapenning in the same city and only few km away, but most of them are not related to each other.

1, 2, 4) are probably irrelevant, because the researchers mostly agree that there was an intermediate host (which one remains to be determined, might be pangolin). So it doesn't matter if the bats were far away or hibernating. Consider also that people often travel, and trade is not limited to one town.

3) It only confirms that we still don't know who was patient zero, and when and where he or she was infected.