skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Back in 1917 Switzerland used to use majority system in the parliamentary elections. This led to a situation where the Liberal Democrats got only 40.8% of the vote, but 54.5% of the seats in parliament. The absolute majority allowed them to pass the laws, regardless of the will of the 59.2% who voted for other parties.

>Needless to say, Liberal Democrats torpedoed every attempt to replace the majority voting system by a proportional one. If the instrument of popular initiatives was not available, it would be a dead end. The voters would have to wait until Liberal Democrats lose some of their voter support. But even then, thanks to the majority system, an absolute majority in parliament could be won by another party, who would again find it difficult to abolish the system that brought it to power.

>General dissatisfaction with the state of affairs led to the launch of the popular initiative "For a proportional system of elections to the National Council" in 1918 which succeeded with 66.8% votes in favor.

>In 1919, elections were finally held using the new, proportional system and Liberal Democrats lost the absolute majority.

My theory is that the success of radical political change (peaceful or revolutionary) decreases with population size. The population of Switzerland was around 3 million in the late 1910s. The population of America was less than 3 million during the entirety of its revolutionary war.
You can be Mormon and also not engage in MLM. Nothing about being Mormon means you have to be stupid enough to fall for such scams.
Scanning the paper, it looks like it does discuss the impact of prior missionary experience on MLM growth.

Having seen it first hand, the relationship between pausing college for a couple of year to go door to door discussing religion, followed by returning to college and paying for it by going door to door selling security systems, solar panels, kitchen knives, etc. has always been obvious.

Don't get the wrong impressions. Only a minority of returned missionaries go into sales. And most quickly become disillusioned because it's harder to stay dedicated to flogging a mediocre kitchen knife. But it only takes a fraction of a fraction of the population.
I agree but because I don't think those at the top would ever let the transparency be complete. Unless the company was started that way and managed to keep it while growing. Which experience seems to show is hard or unlikely.
Condor flies 106 miles without flapping its wings
The "bootcamp"/"student filter" culture is strong in the medical field. The bad conditions on residencies is only part of it (long shifts, low pay, attrition, etc)
This is, in large part, because of you. You're quite lucky, but the algorithm is designed to keep people watching Youtube, it's not designed to enrich people's lives, and that means that if someone who isn't you, and who is susceptible to clickbait titles, starts to click recommendations, the algorithm silos them and their recommendations are effectively forever at best drivel, but more often than not, active disinformation or even horrifying (plenty of stories on how the algorithm is very much not interested in making your life better over on https://foundation.mozilla.org/en/campaigns/youtube-regrets/)
Yes exactly. There have been others like Farrah Fawcet and Andy Kaufman (although Fawcet did it in combination with traditional treatment).
I find it interesting how so much of the article was concerned about diversity. It seems like SLC is punching above its weight class when it comes to startups even though it's not as diverse as the writer would like it to be, which raises the question as to whether diversity is necessary in order to succeed and grow even larger.
/r/LOLHackerNews
TL;DR: https://sambleckley.com/assets/images/pants1.jpg
I like my conspiracy theory.

The reason we have such a bad problem tackling cancer, both medically and socially, is because it is just too damned profitable to get rid of it.

The cure for cancer? A lifetime of eating a nutritious diet, don't eat lots of carbs, eat absolutely no refined carbs, eat enough meat, avoid almost anything that's pre-made or shelf stable, don't smoke, don't drink. Do research into anti-inflammation lifestyles. Exercise for the point of reducing those markers, eating for the point of reducing those markers, getting enough sunlight because Vitamin D is necessary for these things (the sun/cancer risk model made popular in the 90s is not without its massive dose of irony).

You can't 100% keep yourself from getting it: if you live long enough, eventually your body's ability to eat cancer cells (the process of autophagy is amazing) just ceases to work... but you can put it off as long as you can until something else kills you first. I'm pretty sure if 90% of the garbage the average person eats every day just vanished off store shelves, we'd see a ten-fold decrease in cancer rates.

Nobody wants to have that discussion. Nobody wants to talk about how a little diet modification here, a little diet modification there, a little more exercise of the right kind, would see a ten-fold decrease in many things, not just cancer.

My conspiracy theory is, fundamentally, we don't care about other people so strongly that it bled over into we don't care about ourselves, too. What is it that people our age are saying? 'We're here for a good time, not a long time?' Yeah, what happens when you're still alive past 40, everything you did is going to hit you like a freight train...

... and big Pharma is here to help (their bottom line).

If you try to dodge big Pharma, but don't keep your wits about you? You get taken in by scammers, you forget to use your cognitive skills to weed the facts out from the bullshit. That guy got taken in, and it killed him. This was his second pass through that meat grinder, he got to see how big Pharma cures you up front, he wanted a second opinion, and he got it from a snake oil salesman.

If you try to dodge big Pharma, but do keep your wits about you? Maybe you change your lifestyle now, decades before its too late; maybe if your destiny was to get cancer in your 50s, maybe now you get it in your 60s or 70s instead, or maybe you don't get it at all.

We perform preventative maintenance on so many things, our little community on here HN certainly appreciates that more than most, so why, collectively, is it so hard to imagine preventative maintenance of the human body? Cancer for most people is the end result of an entire lifetime of avoiding the truth; only the truly unlucky did everything right and still got it, or got it at an unimaginable young age before they had any choice in the matter.

I realize that I'm probably going to get a lot of downvotes because of what I wrote, and I don't care. I'd rather be downvoted for saying the truth, then keep my points through silence.
Insulting people is a bad idea in general, but there is an obvious difference between religion on one hand and sexual orientation/race on the other: you can choose (and change) the former but not the latter.
see also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venetian_Patent_Statute
A sufficiently complex immersive VR with enough resolution could take up that kind of memory, but it's very much in the realm of science fiction right now.

When I'm dead and my mind is uploaded to one, a machine like this may prove comfortable.
I'm "quick to anger" when quackery is involved, but I don't think this is correct. Often the conspiracy people think they're well informed. And they are, but only informed by misinformation.
The article says that people who like cargo pants are unemployed idiots.
As a non-mormon Utahn that lives in California; the reason things are so well in Utah has nothing to do w Mormonism and more to do with a focus on value creation as opposed to social issues, regulations, and taxes.

California has been working very hard to kill it's golden goose for a long time. Reasonable people are going to other states.
Redo: A recursive, general-purpose build system
Agreed. He designed something that, by comparison to cargo pants, trades a little usefulness for a little bit more of a certain kind of fashion. Sometimes that's what design is: re-evaluating an existing solution to address a different set of requirements, and making small changes. Absolutely nothing wrong with that.

The following is not exactly relevant to the article, but it gives me a chance to add the most useful quote I know about fashion design:

>When cuffs disappeared from men’s trousers, fashion designers gave interviews explaining that the cuff was archaic and ill-suited to contemporary living. It collected dust, contributed nothing. When the trouser cuff returned, did it collect less dust and begin at last to make a contribution? Probably no fashion designer would argue the point; but the question never came up. Designers got rid of the cuff because there aren’t many options for making trousers different. They restored it for the same reason. (Ralph Caplan)
As cloud native computing rises, it’s transforming culture as much as code
Rather ugly, of course.
You joke, but supercomputers often have elaborate, decorative racks and vinyl decals.
The objection several posts up was "there are all these reports, but nobody captured video?" And then somebody pointed out that in fact witnesses did capture video, but it's as predictably terrible as one would expect given that smartphones are terrible for filming remote airplanes at night.
One example what you can do with it:

https://redo.readthedocs.io/en/latest/cookbook/container/
This... isn't news? He was already involved with Ethos Capital from the start of the .org debacle, which was one of the problems people flagged.
Why people are abandoning YouTube
Very sorry to hear about this experience. Wishing you and anyone else reading in similar circumstances good health for the future.
No.

Devise is pretty simple to set up.
I got a used Aeron for $240. Best chair ever.
Smoking Prevalence is Low in Symptomatic Patients Admitted for COVID-19: https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.05.05.20092015v...
I'd expect that this pandemic actually put a brake in emission acceleration. What happened?
IIRC, you can get E980-based VMs on IBM cloud running AIX or i. Also, IIRC, under PowerVM, these cores run 4 threads each.
Tmux and Vim for me - they are tools and not exactly commands.
How much are you willing to bet they don't even know that's one of their thousands of investment vehicles?
Or to lower the requirements. Doctors with no experience but a medical school are still much better than no doctors. I don't need a doctor with a fancy license, I need a doctor who has a scientifically adequate (and up-to-date) idea of how does a human body work and what has a good chance to be a reasonable way to cure my sickness.
> IIRC Steve Jobs also went with alternative before turning back to mainstream

Yes, he did. Then again, pancreatic cancer, even the "milder" form he had, does not have a great prognosis, and he lived another 8 years after the diagnosis.

> I've run into doctors who believe in homeopathy.

Hope you ran out on them as well…
FYI you can use ffmpeg to encode gif as h264/h265 mp4 videos of varying quality or convert to webm which can be played from an img tag, all of which will be orders of magnitude smaller.

Simplest form: ffmpeg -i foo.gif -c:v libx264 -crf 22 foo.mp4

You can vary crf to change the size to quality trade-off.
I have a similar pair from Duluth Trading[1], but what kills me is having the 'extra' pocket on only one side - I am sure that works perfectly for some, but for me, I very much want my phone on my left leg, it's like trying to unlearn a common key combo to have to look for it on the right.

1: https://www.duluthtrading.com/mens-duluthflex-ballroom-slim-...
Front End Interview Handbook
Such a requirement doesn't exist. 77% of residency slots are funded by the federal government. But there are slots that aren't funded by the federal government. And this makes sense because residents make residency programs money.
> Are religions another form of MLM?

No. The lowest "tier," parishioners, generally have no interest in moving into leadership. The defining trait of MLM is that people join, hoping they can recruit someone who will generate them more income. This isn't why people join religions.

> we are trading our time, effort, and money for status within a community

I wouldn't call MLM a "community" in the same way, and donations to religious organizations tend to be private, so donating more doesn't lead to a better status.

> there are hierarchical ranks

This is true of most organizations.

> And both MLMs and religion rely upon false premises, mythology, peer pressure, and irrational fears.

These are standard sales tactics.
> Why do we need to be constantly logged in to YouTube, Reddit, Instagram, and Twitter?...These apps all work fine anonymously

Instagram most certainly does not work without logging in. I don't have an account, and it only lets you see at max 1 or 2 posts before prompting (and mandating) a login. Also, I don't know how Twitter is useful without being logged in - you're just seeing the "trending", very little of which is statistically likely to be interesting to you.
vanced is just the normal youtube app with just some modifications to block ads and background playback. It is closed sourced, not to mention, and uses a modified version of MicroG that works in unknown ways to access/sync with the google account, which is very different to the original MicroG (which has been developed to replace Google Services from your phone to minimize google tracking your activities.) . If you don't want unknown apps get access to your google account or if you care about your privacy/security, don't use Vanced, stick with NewPipe.
Question for anyone working on ranking at Youtube:

Recommendation quality got way worse ~March of this year, presumably due to capacity restrictions after a surge in post-shutdown usage. Anecdotally, the quality has not recovered and is still worse than pre-COVID. Is my experience widespread? What's going on?

I ask as somebody working on a similar product, where capacity caused recommendation quality degradation in March/April but recovered soon after.
Does anyone else hate that we have to deal with Kubeconfigs at all?
>Outlawing unproven medical claims, and actually enforce the law?

This is extremely dangerous. The complexity of human biology and our ethical standards don't intersect in a way for any treatment to be 'proven'. There is just statistical evidence of efficacy for some subset of humans who's condition is materially in the same vicinity of any given patient. However, any given patient has zero control over what testing has been done on any given intervention, and therefore may have a perfectly viable treatment left legally outside of their reach because we just haven't got to test their case yet (and may never).
I have friends who live there and go on and on about the cheap cost of living. I’ve visited and it wasn’t a place I wanted to live. To each their own. It does seem absurdly cheap.
People flag my posts too :-/ No explanation.
The whole idea behind resilience is to cover unforeseeable risks, the turkey problem just doesn't apply here. I would even say if the system doesn't solve the turkey problem it cannot be called resilient. And high availability without resilience is not practically possible.
It didn't, it's from a Greek word.
Good article for the most part. I was amazed when I moved here from Santa Monica a.k.a. Silicon Beach at how much startup and VC activity there is. Even down in Provo which I'd probably call the southern terminus of Silicon Slopes I overheard VC pitches at the next table in the restaurants every day at lunch. There is a lot of hustle and prosperity going on out here. Provo is also a very Mormon town in a Mormon state, containing BYU and also their missionary training center. Despite that I haven't found the cultural shift too jarring, though I will say the liquor selection in the state-run stores is a little lacking. Overall it seems like a very healthy and industrious community and I don't doubt it will continue to grow as the previous centers of tech innovation in America start to run into some very hard limits in terms of housing, cost of living, density of young well-educated workers, and overall lifestyle quality.
Yes, because YOU are the real victim, fox news viewer
It’s scary how vulnerable everyone is to this kind of thing.

It makes me wonder what would happen if I watched YouTube videos every day that were misleading but well produced.

Would I eventually end up the same way?

How damaging is just repeated exposure and reinforcement to this kind of stuff? Is everyone vulnerable?

Even being scientifically minded and trying to be a good rational thinker, the way otherwise intelligent people are corrupted scares me.

It makes me extra cautious with what information I choose to expose myself to.

I do take some comfort that I was able to throw religion away even while growing up surrounded by it as a child.

I hope that means there’s a way to be more resilient to misinformation.
Compare the level of violence in the (religiously-motivated) swiss Civil War (mid nineteenth century) with the level of violence in the (slavery-motivated) US Civil War (mid nineteenth century). That's part of my argument for culture.

US gun violence probably would decrease if they adopted the swiss system, but good luck getting people who think a two-day hunting license course infringes their 2A rights to agree to a two-year process involving written, oral, and practical tests.
Thanks for the detail. There are a lot of people in here who are saying "why didn't they just test their changes before applying them?" and I don't think they really understand how hard that is and how rarely it's done.
Off topic: curious.. you submitted this post twice recently. why on top now?
You do all this and then find out that gun violence didn't decrease. Everyone will say it worked, but upon closer inspection it is mostly massaged stats. You'll find things like suicides being counted in the statistics for gun violence.

Then what? Do you think anyone would be willing to roll back something like this?
> Would faith based approaches fall under your definition of "unproven medical claims?"

Yes, I don't see why it shouldn't.

> 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?

The problem is that quackery being around puts people at risk like this man. This man didn't outright decide to do quack, he decided based on unproven claims made by the quack peddlers that this alternative treatment would somehow work and be better than the conventional, modern medicine.

Furthermore during his alternative "therapy" he not only did it for himself but attracted a large following online, claiming that this treatment was working and thus encouraging other people to go down the same path.

> I don't believe established science understands everything in this world and believe individuals should retain the right to explore alternative perspectives.

Established science has never claimed to understand everything. Established science adjusts its understanding of the world based on evidence and is constantly doing new research to further that understanding. I find it very unlikely that someone playing doctor on social media would do better than a multibillion-dollar industry.
Some AI researchers[0] claim to be able to detect the virus by the sound of your voice via speech signals. They took samples of youtube celebrities who were recording videos at a time they were infected, but just before their diagnosis, as part of their positive-case labeled data.

Maybe soon we'll have dogs that can smell Coronavirus too[1]!

[0] http://news.mit.edu/2020/signs-covid-19-may-be-hidden-speech...

[1] https://www.ecowatch.com/dogs-smell-covid-19-2646105814.html
Samsung Blu-ray players bricked because of an XML config file
Upvote for you. People who downvoted him, get a fu_____g life.
Thank you so much for this thoughtful comment! I really appreciate your feedback, and the encouragement :)

I totally agree with you that it feels like this product currently sits in a weird mushy middle – not a great fit for coders on HN, and not differentiated enough in the crowded no-code-storefront space.

I’ll keep iterating!
I've been a big fan of Twitter's engineering blog and how they're able to give historical context for why they made certain decisions. For example this recent post about search indexing could have been a university lecture:

https://blog.twitter.com/engineering/en_us/topics/infrastruc...
Did you mean to say 180 degree turn?
Screen mirroring nearly completely defeats the purpose of a chromecast to me.

It has way poorer framerate, requires streaming to two places instead of one (from source to phone and then phone to cast device), requires the phone to stay awake thereby needing more power and wasting the phone display which I'll not look at, has a way worse interface for whatever app you're looking at, because what you see is a scaled up phone interface instead of one more suitable for a larger screen, ...

I essentially never use it when I can avoid it, and even when I need mirroring if I have a cable I'll use that instead.
I'd imagine going door to door offering X% savings on your monthly electric bill is so much easier than pitching the Native Americans are actually just a 3000 year old lost tribe of Israel. [0]

[0]https://www.bibleodyssey.org/en/places/related-articles/morm...
Running a Ganeti Cluster on Guix
I left the church and have a fairly negative view of it, but claiming that there's no difference between devoting your time to a religion and a scammy company is pretty dismissive of the positive impacts being part of a religious community can have for people.
To be fair, most post-docs dont have an average debt of 200k. When I looked at STEM grad school they paid you if you were willing to do some teaching/grading. I dont believe post docs average 80+ hour weeks either.
Off topic but what would be the downside of having no patents in today’s world? I actually think it would drastically accelerate the pace of innovations.
I am only here to say: Put pockets on all women clothes!! Thank you.
Fighting Alone: I’m a GOP governor. Why didn’t Trump help with Covid testing?
But what is the benefit of logging out? It's not like these websites can't track you and your interests anyway.
The Wild Ride of America’s Most Dangerous Theme Park
What sets HN apart from Reddit are the more articulated comments due to these key factors

* Downvoting is not available for everyone.

* No sub forums, so no fragmentation.

* Less known than Reddit meaning fewer trolls.

* No UI makeover :)

* Great admins.
And the manager peeked in, not peaked in.
This is a long-running project, apenwarr's redo is currently written in Python and will be implemented in C to reduce dependencies. It aims at being "finished" software at some point (similar to, say, TeX).

Redo allows to define dependencies dynamically during the build, which is explained a bit here: http://pozorvlak.dreamwidth.org/179266.html

Previous discussions on this site:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2104803

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18405227