skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I personally agree that you're not being anti-intellectual, and that your original question was valid.

That said, I think there's huge value in studies that scientifically validate things we believe to be true to 'common knowledge' (because often common knowledge is totally wrong), which justifies this study being at the top of HN.
Yes sorry I missed that, I read the article several months ago. Pretty scummy of them.
Would you like to exchange a bit on your work? We're building an internal (for now) machine learning platform for our team (play version in bio).

We've added features to suit our needs. Examples: near real time collaboration on notebooks with user cursors for when a data scientist colleague has a problem implementing something and we need to pair-program.

Automatic logging for parameters, metrics, and model to take the cognitive load off.

Multiple checkpoints for our notebooks.

Ability to turn a notebook into an AppBook: we automatically generate a form for parameters without the author tagging cells so you can train a model with a form or an HTTP request, without changing the notebook. Also useful when we want to allow a domain expert to train models by tweaking parameters that matter to them (no need to have Jupyter). Then click to deploy a model, or click to build its Docker image if they have a developer team that wants to send data to it.

Again, not all scenarios are handled but adding features that we needed in our projects.
I once worked with a biochemist that works on diets and he told me that the body "forgets" how to process carbs after a couple of days. If you only indulge in carbs once a week it won't be able to process it, much like the cheat day thing from Tim Ferris.

I don't remember the exact technical mechanism he described and quite frankly I don't know if it's true... but there you go.
It really depends on the programming culture. Game developers and many enterprise software developers almost universally develop on windows. I’ve had conversations with some people from those areas who have been shocked at the idea software developers use macs - they personally don’t know anyone who does.

But web development shops (especially node/react/etc), consulting, and SV startups seem to pretty consistently use macs.

It’s hard to intuitively tell how popular any of this stuff is in absolute terms because we’re all individually trapped in filter bubbles based on the kind of programmers we interact with.
Graphs are the work of Zach Goldberg: https://twitter.com/ZachG932/status/1133440945201061888
Yes, here it is: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d63Q0oID8S8&t
that's at best a very contentious claim. Midden heaps tend to preserve bones longer than carrot-tops, though, which certainly skews the record.

Certainly the vast majority of humanity throughout written history -- numerically, the bulk of our ancestry -- has subsisted primarily on non-meat foods, be they wheat, barley, maize, or whatever. Peasants were not regularly eating meat; often we have the written record to point to for that, as well as archaeological evidence from grave finds and the like.

and my usual critique of "paleo" holds here, which is that it ignores evolution. As a species, we've evolved the persistence of digesting lactose at least twice, in independent subgroups, through two different metabolic pathways, so it's not like we're incapable of getting used to dietary shifts over the span of human history.
This "doctor" has never been in the same room with a 15 year old who hasn't showered for a week. The "body odor" of that magnitude should be prohibited under the Geneva Convention.
Doctors are required to get a doctorate for their career. This has two major consequences. For one, research standards are lower because many doctors are only doing it because it's mandatory, and there's a lot more people doing simple medical research than in most other areas of inquiry. This causes a lot of underqualified opinions to surface for prestigious-sounding doctors.

As always, be skeptical of claims that go against consensus. Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.
Show HN: Declarative React clone with size 1.4kb + router and fully reactivity
That sounds awfully close to antisemitism. Perhaps you'd like to expand upon your statement?

What makes Judaism as a topic more heated than Christianity, Islam, and Buddhism, all of which also have their own Stack Exchange sites?
What I meant was that you can guess the motivation by working backwards from the results.

If I come home at 3 AM it is not accident. I wanted to party hard and I did exactly that.

This is a useful simplification, like "Follow the money" or Occams Razor.

Somebody has probably coined up the principle and I picked it up from South Park or something :)

It might be around here somewhere: https://fs.blog/mental-models/

Something similar has been used in a Game of Thrones.

> Petyr 'Littlefinger' Baelish: Sometimes when I try to understand a person's motives, I play a little game. I assume the worst. Sometimes when I try to understand a person's motives, I play a little game. I assume the worst. ...
> “finding people sharing your company's logo in social media posts”

that seems very different than your comment describes.

I agree hobbyists may use these services. If a business is looking for spending “a couple hundred dollars” on a significant ML problem, that business is living in a fantasy and needs a reality check.

There is really not a market for low end cost but high specific task accuracy business problems.

Also your comparison with hiring a team is a very false dichotomy. Hiring a team may cost you $1MM but it’s amortized over all the work and projects they do. It’s not $1MM just for the in-house equivalent of this one AWK Rekognition task.
Isn't that trading one failure mode for another? While vinyl records won't rot over time, they do wear down, and thus the sound quality deteriorates each time you play it.
Also few animals sweat like humans do.
1991 Macintosh Quadra with Mac OS 8.1 as an Electron App
> don't put anything on your skin you wouldn't put in your mouth and swallow

I'd ask this lecturer to join me this weekend as I wade in a giardia-infested river, toes feeling the silt and mud, but I'm a bit of a prude and I can only assume they're naked.

Myself, I'll not hesitate to put on some sunscreen.
It's hard to tell what's "fascinating" about spamming, blackhat seo, ransomware, botnet/cyberattack/ddos c&c, trade in illicit substances, etc. The article mentions that those boxen hosted petabytes of data, and so much of it must have been this sort of pure garbage.
Given the opposition from our left to nuclear and painting any nuclear proponent as a right-wing science denier trying to defund renewable energy I’m not sure what we can do. Michael Schellenberger has been pilloried by our left despite the decades he put into different approaches before arriving at his nuclear advocacy (and perhaps also deeming for a lot of the climate change doom and gloom as alarmists for the 12 year cliff being cited). But in my view climate change is already here and even if we cut all emissions to zero worldwide we’d be kind of screwed, just not as badly screwed.

Holistic yet science-driven conversation on climate change doesn’t seem possible anymore in public discourse and everyone is angry, which doesn’t make them sound exactly objective either.
Really cute. Makes me a little misty knowing that my little ones are going to grow up so fast. They're younger than the girl in this video. Life is so short.
This is arguably significantly better (if you know how to use it that is) than flights.google, but Google bought them a few years ago:

https://matrix.itasoftware.com/
Also on the topic of set theory:

https://boingboing.net/2012/08/07/what-do-christian-fundamen...
Considering how little we actually understand scientifically about these processes, nearly any good study (not a judgement on this paper) would seem to be worth doing.
It seems like this would be obvious. Why would one instance of overeating damage your metabolism?
Interesting idea. Tim is fine with slow carbs though like legumes.
It seems like long time ago but I was in similar situation. I worked for a startup where I had lots of responsibilities. In the same time I had no control, I could not hire more people, I could not change the product road-map, I could not relax some silly requirements (requirements that users don't ask but management wants to see just because it looks cool).

I was in worse situation than you, when I wanted to quit I was threatened that I will be sued. I would have panic attacks at night, like constant flow of thoughts that would just continue no matter what I tried. Some nights I had weird feeling in my chest, like heart wanted to jump out (or stop).

To leave such toxic environment was healing experience. From the perspective of time I think I should have just left when I felt it's the right time and let them sue me..

Well, I hope you will find the right solution to your situation.
How do you feel about really high quality text only content compared to video content?

Lately I've been finding video content inefficient and not technically deep enough for what I'm trying to learn from it. I think that the text only medium provides a much quicker way for me to know if the thing I'm looking for is in the content.
Search French deradicalization boot camps + radicalization monitoring list. Quick research suggest the 2016 program was only partially implemented before being shut down and rebooted under new program in 2018 [0]. Of course the scale in China is going to be greater and execution more comprehensive due to nature of Chinese capabilities. To clarify, I'm only suggesting conceptually the approaches are similar and do not equivocate the two in execution.

The greater context is, Islamic attacks in multicultural European societies in the past 10 years (particularly in England + France) informed internal decision making in China regarding XJ. I remember French banlieue / ethnic enclaves where radicalization was happening were part of conversation on policy debates to revise minority policy in China a few years ago. The position being multicultural "salad bowl", classic soviet oblast model where minorities had relative cultural autonomy had failed to reign in extremism (and separatism in China's case), so now everyone gets sinicized and the Han treatment, aka blending into the US melting pot model.

[0] https://www.france24.com/en/20180223-france-deradicalisation...
I agree that costs are a major problem with nuclear. It seems to be a problem with all large scale construction projects in the past 20-30 years or so.

On the safety tail risks, IMO it's more of a psychological/perception problem than a problem of actual risk. We've had a number of serious accidents in the history of nuclear power, and none of them have led to anything close to the death toll of a single year of running coal plants.
Without giving a strong opinion either way on whether this particular project is a good investment or not :

Science, as an institution imo undervalues good marketing and good PR. For profit enterprises are under no illusion that they can succeed without good marketing and public perception.

If large expensive projects like this are needed to increase public awareness and support for basic scientific research then I am all for them. Society is willing to spend billions on projects that give no tangible return and are all perceptions (for example, sports stadiums) so if some of that instead is spent promoting Science that’s a good thing.

Any actual discoveries in fundamental science that come out would be a bonus too, but getting people excited about research is an end unto itself.
Yeah that's flour's perennial problem, and 15% is enough to really throw a bake off.
Avoid any baking recipe that doesn't have a nice round number for grams of flour, and even then be suspicious. (baker's percents are always welcome though!)
This, on the surface, seems to be a load of rubbish spread by a mystic who had a motivation to make things seem complex and difficult so that they can reel you in and teach you 'the right way', while parting with your money and/or attempting to recruit you into their cult.

TL:DR; I'm skeptical, and don't think adding a quote in this manner with no other context/insight is of any value to the overall discussion of this thread.
The problem shouldn't be thought about in this way, or maybe I'm misunderstanding your position. There is no single technology that will solve the issue of climate change (and in this case just limiting our conversation to the production of electricity). The landscapes in large geographical areas like the US are not homogeneous. Solar and wind work great in the Southwest, but not as well in the Northeast. Hydro works fantastically in the South, but not in Southwest (yes I'm aware there is hydropower in the SW, that's not the point). There's questions about base load, storage, peak and intermittent demand, transmission, and so on.

So I dislike these conversations because they seem to be framed as Solar/renewables VS nuclear. When really the conversation should be "should nuclear be part of the solution?" I do believe that the answer is yes (because above factors), but the phrasing matters. This is because it leads to the next obvious and more important question: "If yes, how much?" Clearly a fully nuclear grid is not a smart idea, just like a fully solar grid wouldn't be. But the framing matters. It isn't a "OR" debate, it is an "AND" debate.
can confirm. I was suffering from atopic dermatitis for years, to the point where my bedsheets were covered with bloodstains every night due to unconsciously scratching my eczema while asleep. I was prescribed topical steroids to control it during flareups.
Then I moved from home and stopped daily showering, and the eczema resolved by itself. No lotions, no steroids, no bathing solutions! Imagine my relief. Since then I’m only showering twice a week with plain water (except the groin region where I use a bit of soap) and have been fine.
There may be exceptions but washing your hair less frequently will absolutely make it last longer between washes and subsequently wear out less.
Interesting perspective. As a software engineer it is unlikely that the world will ever lack satisfying work for me for very long (recessions notwithstanding). If it does, as a reasonably smart and academically successful person, I think I could transition to whatever is next. Maybe it helps that I saw both my parents change careers via graduate school while I was growing up. But you’re right, it is a gamble, and if I were more risk averse I might want stronger insurance against the possibility.
You can buy mineral based sun screens that don't contain the chemicals found in traditional brands. They aren't as user friendly as the traditional types but they are popular among surfers and others power users of sunscreen.
It’s so good to hear so many others feel like this and it’s not just me.
I suspect that the idea is that you shouldn't need a programming language to interact with a computer. I think that fits with the other comment about the computer becoming part of the environment.
Anyone have a recommendation for replacing hipmunk? I haven't found anything that shows as much information so visually and intuitively.
Fascinating as an intro something I know nothing about, but frequently have wondered where and how these things exist?

hearing the phrase Mirai-botnet on the dark web and wanting to know where/how it exists is different than saying, "this is a totally great and brilliant idea"
Ten Years of Tokamak Energy: rapid progress of a private fusion company [video]
> you don't see other animals obsessed with hygiene

Ha, tell that to my cats!
This appears to be a problem that is solving itself. Developed countries have birth rates below replacement and more countries are becoming developed (with the same trend happening as those countries develop).
I see, I really see the value in the examples you just gave and the goal behind the channel is to go deeer into similar issues.

For the moment I think the content can still be improved, and I will try to do so incrementally over the next few months by doing longer form essays that go deeper into marketing issues.

Thank you for your message, I appreciate it a lot! :)
I would like to argue C# is a well thought out language with great tooling, libraries and performance (not C(++) performance, but do we really need that if we could iterate 10x faster?)

The type system being static with dynamic support and reflection enables me to think about real problems instead.

I used to dislike GC languages, but working with C# changed my mind. (not saying refcounted systems aren't nice, I'm following rust from a distance)
I agree with a lot of this, but I think there is a consistent pattern of AI announcements playing on humans' intuitions to create the impression that much more has been achieved than can actually be proven -- in fact, not even trying to prove anything. Part of this is that the researchers are humans too and may be misled themselves. But a rigorous research process would at least try to prevent that.

For example, people once thought playing chess was hard. So they thought that if a computer could beat the world champion, then computers would probably also be able to replace every job and so on. If you sent Deep Blue back in time to the 1960s, they wouldn't understand how it works so they'd probably assume that it since it could beat Petrosian in chess, it could probably drive cars and treat disease.

But then we built Deep Blue and realized that you don't need AGI to play chess; a very specialized algorithm will do it.

So we're like people in the 70s who've been handed Deep Blue. It's irresponsible, in my opinion, to over-hype it when we have no idea how it works.
Statues of Augustus don't actually depict Augustus. Did this practice change for later emperors?
There are multiple issues to choose from here.

All 3 of your points lack supporting data.

For 1 & 2 specifically;
Doctors receive an itemized DEA report each month for each patient who's prescribed controlled substances. The reports contain all controlled meds prescribed to that patient, from every Dr.

I saw my first DEA report 20-odd years ago, so they're nothing new. Each report is a tap on the shoulder to remind Dr.s that every controlled prescription they write is being closely monitored. Patients are monitored exactly as closely as Dr.s, they just aren't informed every month.

So - the volume of prescriptions inferred by #1 & #2, would immediately attract DEA attention. Both Dr and patient would be in cuffs before drug-seeking patterns had time to develop.

What is entirely more likely than 1&2, is that the endless demonization of prescribing opioids - and the continual LEO threats against Dr's who prescribe meds in a way that the DEA doesn't like - is increasingly frightening Dr.s away from treating pain in an effective way.

Your #3 contains a number of assertions that would be difficult-to-impossible to prove (or disprove), when strung together like that.
"It’s one of the few remaining things for which we feel fine telling someone that they’re gross"

Nice variation on the old the last acceptable prejudice... rhetoric.
Yeah anything that can help growth will be well received. I think the key is not just rehashing the well known stories- Dropbox etc
Yeah, apparently there's software that does that to get a rip that's identical bit for bit.

http://www.exactaudiocopy.de/en/index.php/overview/basic-tec...

http://www.accuraterip.com/
Breath and read the next paragraph
I think you're significantly underestimating how well-performing PHP is, in the narrow but important field of serving dynamic web pages. Go (or Java, or C#) can be faster but you might be surprised that it's less of a slam-dunk win than one might expect. Python and Ruby basically aren't in the same league. Nodejs can be said to be licking at its heels, at best. Yes, seriously.

I'd put PHP somewhere under the middle of the list of languages/ecosystems I'd like to work in again (RoR, specifically, though not Ruby generally; non-TypeScript JavaScript; and gnarly AbstractFactoryImpl-style Java are all probably worse than it, IMO, and of course PHP deep in anything like Wordpress is pretty miserable) and I like Go quite a bit, but there's no denying that if performance is a top criterion PHP should probably be on your short list when choosing a language/ecosystem, and if PHP's not going to cut it then probably no scripting languages are on your list, and you're very likely looking real hard at C++.
I do have to wonder if part of it is the way my skin is extra-eager to shed cells on its own (due to the eczema). That could be functioning as a kind of "automatic shower". Which would explain why some people with skin issues can do this without problems, but not everyone can. That's pure speculation though.
The problem with humans is that we like to take things to the extremes when we find out new information. Microbes are bad? Let's use anti-bacterial soap everywhere. Microbes are good? Let's not use soap anymore. The best advice is to live life in moderation, use some soap if you have a dirty job and don't use soap just because you're bored. Play in the sand and eat a variety of things and you'll be fine.
If you’re interested in diving deeper, the SMhasher benchmark suite tests a much more exhaustive list of hash functions (including wyhash) - https://github.com/rurban/smhasher

https://www.strchr.com/hash_functions
Is also a great write up of how some of the classic hashing algorithms perform of various data sets.

https://nullprogram.com/blog/2018/07/31/
is an interesting approach on generating hashing functions automatically.
> I wonder if people who chronically overeat (hello!) develop insensitivity to these hormones, leading to a cycle where it becomes harder to eat the correct amount.

Sounds like Leptin Resistance. [0]

I wonder if I have that. When I see that my rather sedentary lifestyle means I'm only supposed to eat 2,000 calories a day, I don't see how the hell that's possible without constant hunger. Even if I eat a diet rich in protein and fiber, which is supposed to make me feel fuller longer, I'm still always hungry. I can eat a 20 oz ribeye with a large side of broccoli and wheat rolls (A meal that's likely 1500+ calories) and still be hungry in only 2-3 hours. If I eat something in the 600 calorie range, like a 10 oz chicken breast and veggies, I'll be hungry again in an hour, if I ever even feel full at all.

Meanwhile, I know a couple people that say "I eat like a lion and I can't gain weight!" then discover that they'll cook up an 8 oz filet and sides and be full without even eating it all.

[0] https://www.healthline.com/nutrition/leptin-101
Having had some problems with eczema a few years ago, I did start using soap on only the smelliest parts of the body a few years back, and it helped a great deal compared to the "lather up entire body in shower every day" strategy before that. I don't know that I'd agree with "hands and nowhere else", but I do think we have too little information on our skin microbiome and how it works (or malfunctions) to say we know what we're doing in regards to soap. All of which goes double for soap with antibiotic added.
Go is just another "managed language" with some oddities (somewhat better support for concurrency useful to servers and some programming in the large improvements).

Dart goes in a similar bucket even with the native compilation.

These languages are all effectively Java with some makeup.

I'm not seeing much force multiplication. I see no new language allowing me to write something more than what I can write now.

It remains to be seen whether Rust will wind up as a force multiplier or not. But it's really the only current candidate even if it's not a great one.