skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hasn't GiveWell known this for awhile? More study is always good, of course!

Evidence Action "Deworm the World Initiative" is one of GiveWell's top charities https://www.givewell.org/charities/top-charities
> It's unfortunate

Saying that is normative, not descriptive, especially if you recognize the phenomenon is real.

Anyway, what is it unfortunate?

Hackers hack. Finding an investment with a 1,000x ROI is a great hack.
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So you do what is in your long term best interest at all times?

I live in Las Vegas and it feels like my entire city was built on the backs of people who are unable to think in accordance with their long term plans.
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I agree, but I think this also applies more to infants -> children.

You can waste money on schooling or get proper care to infants in the first place.
In the case of masks, you have a big change in human tradition. There are very few societies that have ever required all people to wear masks all the time. I can't think of any examples. A small handful of modern societies require it for specific subgroups, but that's it.

Generally, extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. In the case of masks, I want to see very strong evidence that masks are very necessary, and other approaches wouldn't have similar or better results with lower change to human tradition. So far, I haven't seen that at all. The scientific evidence that masks are effective or necessary is weak. Alternate approaches (eg. wearing a mask if you're symptomatic, staying at home if you're symptomatic) may be just as effective.

The examples you cite have roots in human tradition, and have been established for many years, mostly with strong evidence.
Okay, follow up then: Given a high-end arm chip, what would be a comparable intel x86 chip with similar performance, without either chip using any emulation? Is there a high-end ARM chip you could recommend I lookup and find benchmarks on something like Geek Bench?
They're not talking about that - you could do:

struct vec_int vec = VEC_INT_EMPTY;
vec_int_push(&vec,1);
vec_int_push(&vec,2);
vec_int_push(&vec,3);

even in C. They're talking about things like:

Foo foo; // Foo::Foo allocates
z = x + y; // operator+ allocates
w = x; // operator= allocates
foo += *bar; // operator* allocates

Rust can do most of those things, but it's not encouraged and significantly less pervasive, especially in the kind of code you'd want to use in a kernel in the first place.
Game engines very much do understand efficient rendering techniques, and if they don't, you can usually easily extend them to have that capability, sometimes without even writing any code to do it.
>I specifically cited an industry that was forced to change by customer behavior

Did they really change? [1] When you rely on public outrage as a motivator, the changes are only as permanent as the public is attentive and motivated.

[1] - https://www.forbes.com/sites/siminamistreanu/2020/03/02/stud...
Yeah it's a little unnecessarily complicated with the many worlds bit.

The main idea is a clever arguer can start with any conclusion and then retroactively select the points that support their conclusion while ignoring any evidence or points that contradict it. If you do this then the points you bring up don't inform much because you've already decided the conclusion based on something else (in the example it's whoever paid the most for their arguments).

It's better to start with trying to understand things and then using what you learn to inform a conclusion.
It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.
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What would happen to people who started to publicly protest for the firing of everyone involved in the suppression of Dr. Li Wenliang's warning about COVID and his police detention and orders to stay quiet? Would it be possible to agitate for change, or would the movement's leaders be arrested and/or have their lives ruined?
Steve Jobs wasn't really conventionally attractive (and to my knowledge didn't get any cosmetic surgeries) and still managed to make billions and a massive impact on the world.

Additionally I wonder what bald Elon looks like. Jeff Bezos put on some muscle and looks a lot better afterwards despite losing his hair
Veritasium is a great channel for such content. He has a degree in online pedagogy, IIRC. So he's particularly good at teaching complex concepts through such a medium. Having a degree in physics helps him too.
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This from yesterday:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24032305

Tl;dr: C++ is now and will remain the near-exclusive choice for essentially all of the highest-paid, most demanding work in medtech, fintech, CAE, HPC, telecom, and aerospace, for decades to come. Rust code will never be able to call into the very powerful libraries these applications depend on, because they are based on language features Rust will never have. No language other than C++ and Rust targets these applications.

Very noisy Rust advocates here are inaudible elsewhere; many more people start using C++ in every week than the total who touch Rust in that week. That will not change soon.

Rust is a much better language than C, Go, Java, C#, Visual Basic, Delphi, COBOL, Nim, and Dart, and much faster than Python, Ruby, and Perl. Advocates would better focus recruiting there than tilting at C++.
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Kettlebell.
> Obviously it helped that the Manhattan lawyer was very quick on her feet, but my wife commented at the time that "even from the way she was dressed, the Long Island lawyer didn't have a chance".

This is one of those veeery subtle class things. People don't realise how much they signal to establishment institutions that they don't belong through through things like how they dress. And because they don't realise it they don't even know they're being disadvantaged.

I've seen people turn up to social events with what is very clearly to an insider the 'wrong type' of suit (wrong fabric, wrong cut, buttoned incorrectly, wrong shirt, wrong tie, wrong type of shoes), with people silently judging them, but they would have absolutely no idea how much they stand out and how they're being disadvantaged by it.

Hard to tackle because it's all silent, the victims are oblivious, and there's not really any concrete action you can point to and criticise.
use it almost daily.
* debugging
* seeing how tables are defined
* seeing what enums are defined in the db
* seeing what the composite keys of the table are
* testing if my failure is because of missing data or because the data doesn't match table spec, etc...

it's an exceptionally good language for querying data. One of my favorite languages ever. focused, easy to understand (except the really complex stuff but that applies to all languages).
Veritasium videos are pretty darn high quality. Fun to watch and learn from, sometimes mindblowingly. Definitely recommend subscribing. One of my favorites is Derek's video on compliant mechanisms: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=97t7Xj_iBv0
Try "Naked Economics" by Charles Wheelan [1]. In my opinion, he does a good job of providing examples both of failed regulation and also situations where regulation is necessary and beneficial.

[1]: https://www.amazon.com/Naked-Economics-Undressing-Dismal-Sci...
Being a human means that we are constantly at battle between the calm logic of our neocortex and the chaos of our primate origins.

It's all too common for people to forget that we are still very much sub-Saharan apes underneath our Calvin Klein suits.
> all Android devices running at least Android 9 have the option to save images in HEIF

Can you tell me how I'd enable this on an Android 9 device? I've looked everywhere, even in the developer options, but I can't find it.
When people picture a disparate nonphysical entity, it's usually a map-territory effect. Ie. in this case their model of themselves.
At the expense of how many Asian admissions?
I don't know, touching the fingerprint reader as your passenger holds the phone doesn't seem any more distracting than changing the radio station.
If the loans weren't used to cover payroll, then they'll have to pay the money back to the government.

And, they may have decided that covering e.g. rent was actually more important, since unfortunately without a location there's no business either. As I said, the program was not expansive enough.
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Modern businesses regularly use dozens of software systems woven together to accomplish their tasks. Which makes it difficult to even see what can/should be automated.

You really need an overarching view of the business workflows and how they interact...

Maybe a high-level directed graph of all the processes within a business would help find opportunities for simplification and automation
Citation needed for “That level of death would plunge the US into far worse than the Great Depression.” 3 million Americans die every year. The risk of COVID-19 is also highly stratified by age, so looking at a single number like 0.8% lacks important context; the median age of death from COVID-19 is above life expectancy. Your 800,000 number (which is up for debate) also doesn’t take into account what part of that would be mortality displacement (likely a considerable part of it).
Ask any girl and they will say that people who wants to be friends with them greatly depends on the current attractiveness of her. I think it is less true for males, but nonetheless I feel like there is correlation.
Say I have a Google Sheet with customer data. One column is status. When I log a new customer status is new. When I close a deal I want to change to status active, but:
1. I do not want to type "active", I want to select it from some options.
2. I want to check that customer has paid, so I need to hook this to a payments sheet or service.
3. I want to validate all input is valid before activating a customer, for example, I need a scanned image of a document to have been uploaded.
4. If all is good, I want to change the customer to active, but when I do it:
5. I want to create a log so I know when and who sold this account, so I can later automate sales commissions.
6. I want to send an email to the new customer, including login credentials.
7. Things I have not yet imagined but will surely pop when my business grows.

Can I do all this with Stacker? Merely using a couple of Google Sheets as my back-end DB?
I wonder what happens to Alarm.com. Do they get bought out by a competitor (possibly Apple), or will their revenue slowly dry up? The ALRM stock price dropped sharply right as this was announced.

Alarm.com has built some of their own hardware, but their operation is obviously much smaller than Nest. Can they still compete?
Another think that affects justice system is blood sugar.

Court rulings depend partly on when the judge last had a snack
https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2011/04/14/...

The paper: Extraneous factors in judicial decisions
www.pnas.org/cgi/doi/10.1073/pnas.1018033108
Different things work for different people.
The only way to completely remove it is to present and rule on cases blind.

But even then, a lot depends on judges' and juries' emotional variance throughout the day. Did they have a meal that gave them indigestion?

It's imperfect.
Same here. I started running for 5 minutes a day for a week. Then I increased to 10-15 min for about a month. After that the habit was there.
Can't wait to see if they can pull this off.
One wonders how much wealthier Bezos would be if he had the same procedures done.
In part criticizing SwiftUI:

> While you get a GUI inspector panel for your GUI components you are still forced to largely write the GUI in code.

Well yes. The time and experience (at least for me) has shown that designing UIs anywhere outside the code will eventually bite you. Not to mention that from the very moment a second person joins your team you can practically throw your version control system out of the window for UI files. Thanks but no thanks.
Hey HN, ChromeExtensionKit is a side project of mine that includes a bunch of different starter templates for basic (HTML/CSS/JS) and React-based Chrome extensions (with setup and publish scripts) as well as some fully functional example extensions. I originally built the starter templates as I found myself setting up and configuring every extension project roughly the same way and wanted to speed that process up in the future.

I also wrote a short ebook on outlining how to use the kit as well as a lot of what I learned growing a number of extensions to over 3,000 users each.

If anyone has any questions, I would love to answer them!
The only thing that comes to mind as immediately obvious is the absence of amber on the sides, which, if it was ever an issue, I think could be solved. But it has never been an issue.
Hmm. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder?
I'll be honest, this sounds like quite a set of workarounds when one can just... get this phone.
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Strongly agree.

Public health policy and individualised medicine are, or at least can be, vastly different things.

If you tell everyone they must wear a mast at all times, some people still will not.

If you tell everyone a more complex set of rules than masks at all times when out of your usual place of residence then people will fabricate all types of fictions that exempt themselves from the rues.
> You seem to be confusing bit's with stops of dynamic range.

This is correct, they seem to be mistaken. I've seen this mistake many times in this thread. I wrote a comment in reply to one of them explaining in some detail what the point of higher bit depths and "HDR" (as a set of technology standards) is: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24044818
That may be true about Python, but despite of the horrible transition from 2 to 3. That transition is a source of frustration to anyone who had to maintain code across the versions 2 and 3.
> Wouldn't it be possible to get much more accurate temperature readings by having people open wide and imaging the backs of their throats

Old-fashioned oral thermometers warn that they'll be inaccurate if you've drunk a hot or cold beverage recently. I imagine back of the throat thermometers would have the same flaw?
Since you study this stuff, do you mind sharing a description of the kinds of situations in which the 'sharp appearance' or related type of tactic has a negative effect?
You mean his hair?
Not a physicist, but "hot" just means high average kinetic energy ("moving really fast"). So imagine a single particle moving really fast (even close to the speed of light if you want)—why that mere fact cause it to emit any kind of radiation? That would require losing energy for no reason, but from its perspective, it's already perfectly stationary. Losing energy just because you (an observer) happen to be moving with high speed in the opposite direction wouldn't really make sense.

The conclusion being that blackbody radiation isn't just due to temperature, but also interactions between particles. (Which explains why it's a topic under statistical mechanics. It's an emergent property from large numbers of particles.)
Could location tracking have prevented 2011's Great Canadian Maple Syrup Heist?
Interface Builder is all fun and games until you have a merge conflict in a storyboard. It's all XML files so you'd think it'd be solveable, but SwiftUI makes the code representation so much more readable.

And really, you can drag and drop elements into the live previews and it writes the code for you, including automatically wrapping existing components in horizontal/vertical stacks as needed to arrange the layout. So SwiftUI still has some of the visual UI editor benefits, just broken into smaller pieces with a much more useful text representation.
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I've mostly worked for companies that were all in on things like open source and cloud my entire career, but it's easy to forget that there are huge companies that just recently replaced their tape drives.

If I were to guess at the "sea change" discussed herein I'd say it's probably the explosion of tech around Kubernetes and the CNCF, as that created a very sudden and urgent need for better observability tooling.

- I typed these words all by myself and they are not official New Relic words, you can tell because they're not terribly well-formed and they aren't surrounded by logos and trademarks and buzzwords. Using the haphazardly spewed opinions of strangers on the internet as investment advice is a really, really terrible idea; like "open source is a virus" level of bad. Don't do it.
I imagine it's probably fairly dependent on the expectations of the people you interact with. If there's no or very little expectation to dress professionally, those doing so might be doing it because they want to, or are trying to compensate for something else, or are trying to signal some other group (e.g. management). If the expectation of everyone is that you will put effort into it (even if it's because it's self-perpetuating by them making negative assumptions about you if you don't), then it can actually mean people that don't either are trying to make a statement, or can't make that happen, which can signal something all its own.
I'm not familiar with how rent control works. If they lowered prices due to the pandemic would they really have to keep them that low indefinitely?
Water beetles stay alive by escaping through the predator's anus
I feel even in that respect attractiveness improves people's confidence and will likely work in their favour.
Collider, happens with lots of good things that correlate. To put it rather bluntly, if they were both competent and sharply dressed, they'd have a better job.
Disclaimer: I've only read the 'Key takeaways' in the article.

Should we consider a system where the judge and jury do not see the defendant (and suer if applicable) in the pursuit of objectivity? I think the bias towards attractive people is quite obvious in so many spheres of life. For employment, for the way people treat you as a customer, colleague or day-to-day, for housing, etc. We are actively fighting many -ism in (rational) societies, but "unattractivism" is more taboo. I am not sure what the solution would be at societal level. My feeling is that a societal movement for this inclusion is more unlikely than the other ones, but that would require to acknowledge an implicit scale of attractiveness which is divisive in the first place (as opposed to gender, sexual orientation, ethicity, religion, etc which are either obvious or self-decided). But I could be misreading the situation obviously.

The judicial system is different, and with radically impactful consequences, you do not have to eliminate human bias (which probably isn't even possible), you just have to make the decision-maker blind just like peer-reviewed papers. While we can't really hide identity for employment or housing, but a judge and juree do not need to know the name or see the person. To go further, please could be read by impartial narrator which would also take care of emotional bias (should a good actor have a more lenient sentence?). In a way, the justice system should seek ultimate objectivity for the sake of fairness. On the flipside however, it would have a dehumanizing effect on the deciders to have zero connection with the convicted and perhaps lead to an increase in sentencing lengths, which I'm not particularly in favor of.
This will vary enormously by field, and countersignaling is a thing. All bankers wear suits. If you see someone wearing a scruffy ill fitting suit maybe they’re just incapable of buying a well fitting suit and keeping it in good nick or maybe they are awesome and know they’re awesome and know everybody else knows it so they can get away with it. You saw the same thing at IBM when they started going casual. If everyone else is wearing a suit, is normal, and there’s one person with blue hair and full sleeve tattoos they’re getting special dispensation because they’re awesome. But the blue hair didn’t make them awesome.
The post said he/she doesn't care about the port and would rather buy one without it. That means it doesn't require to be removeable.
He definitely started eating and exercising better. I personally think he looks great for his role.
This got me wondering whether there is an opposite effect too. Do people that are very moral appear physically more attractive to us?
They already are very successful, and it doesn't require a consulting organization.

Quickbase, for example, was recently sold for $1bn, and is one of the category leaders, with revenue over $100m. Their whole model is no-code business process development. For some reason, Valley types never mention Quickbase in the market, and only think Airtable et al created it, even though QB is the behemoth.
Physics is also a purposefully nebulous term used to capture and group a collection of specific issues that can be measured. God forbid people want to group together racial disparities caused by institutional practices under the term "systemic racism." We could call them "fiddledydoop" for all I care, but there is obviously a good reason to group these things together.

Of course, you seem to be implying that people aren't actually trying to address these issues individually, and you couldn't be more wrong. Academics and policymakers alike are forming and implementing solutions all the time. You might just be looking too closely at Twitter.

It's frankly insulting that, despite the ongoing tragedy of racial inequality and the abundance of experts actively working to resolve it, that you and others are so caught up in such meaningless semantic games.

> It should also be noted that the vast majority of people talking about the sentencing disparity ascribe 100% of the sentencing difference to racism

I'm not sure how you can substantiate that claim.

> it's actually a 10% delta

You say that like a 10% delta because the color of your skin isn't tragic.

> It's not like activists ever cared about nuance.

Are they supposed to? We have a representative democracy for a reason: average people and activists push for change, and experts and representatives try to enact that push a reasonably as possible. I wouldn't expect the average person to approach policy failures with moderation. Most don't have years of higher education or a heterogeneous voter base to appease to moderate them. That goes for all sides. Don't act like the constituency who decry systemic racism approach it with the same nuance as Sowell.
Update: Submitted a copyright complaint to FB. Seems to have made the page go away now.