skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I see on page 3 of the paper it says 118 studies were excluded for "Wrong Outcomes" but I couldn't find any elaboration on what was meant by this. Were papers tossed out based on arbitrary criteria? This would suggest a bias, no?
Sam's Club has this really crazy-understated product (imo) that I like because it contains fish oil and 2000IU VitD in a fish gelatin capsule: https://www.samsclub.com/p/mm-fish-oil-dbl-d3-200ct-fish-gel... .
Stanis.jpg :D
Ah, I misunderstood. Thank you.
What a great answer. Thank you so much!
Some do (employer contributions).

https://www.google.com/search?q=401k+vesting
I have been a very happy 1Password user for several years now, finally switching to it when they released 1PX on Linux. I now use macOS, but this is still great to see! Don't let the haters get you down, keep up the great work
Sure you do, try to implement a Gtk-rs application without the Rc<RefCell<>> dance for widgets state.
yeah, I've corrected the data and the claim in the original comment
Then you have to introduce another system (SABRE) and integrate it with your system instead of just using the same Raptor engines being used in the second stage vehicle.
I love the look of this, I cant even remember all the times I’ve run across applications out in the wild that were built without any thought about testing until long after the original devs are gone. All you have is production traffic and reverse engineering. It’s a real pain, and I would love to have more tools to attack this problem when it comes up.

So how open is that alpha? I’d really love to try this out.
Nim has a type system that is heavily inspired by Modula/Oberon/Ada
I found angle #8 the most abjectly terrifying of these. :-(
For me the takeaway of this talk is that in our race of making UI design more and more consistent our websites and apps lost personality. This has gained us a lot (improved accessibility, cheaper, more performant), but during our path to optimize all UIs become so homogeneous that they lose personality.

It's a trade-off, however sometimes it might be better to be bold enough to explore and innovate to try to find something better than to stick with what is known to be working and copy whatever everyone else is doing.
I wasn't trying to take a dig at NYC with this, rather the prison island and geography reminded me of NYC and I should've quoted that part of the grandparent to be more clear.
Move Jira modals with this Chrome extension
people are talking about pensions and what not. honestly, if you want a pension, go work for your local city or county government. in florida, frs is probably the best pension system out there. there are a ton of government position available right now that fall under frs benefits.

https://www.myfrs.com/

https://www.usajobs.gov/Search/Results?l=Florida
Sigh. 99% of socialist want to expand democracy, not establish another dictatorship. Yet, people like yourself dogmatically focus on that other 1% that are authoritarian and paint every socialist as such.

71k people die every year in the US due to lack of healthcare. You need to open both eyes.

I should read a book by the some libertarian god that unsurprisingly dismisses socialism, while your own knowledge about socialism is obviously paperthin? If it's so clear and obvious then you should be able to explain it in a paragraph or two?
sure but I always love seeing people's book lists :)
> then shutup

You aren't new here. Whatever you said, I stopped reading here.
Alternatively, only 1/3 of Firefox users that also do not disable telemetry have any add-ons at all.

More than a handful choose that browser for privacy, including keeping stuff private from Mozilla.
What!? Dope :)
GPT-3 has finally reached the level of idiotic human! That's actually quite a large step forward from any previous language model.
These arguments against reproducible builds are very provincial, temporally.

Which is to say, they assume a user now downloading source now to compile and use now.

One of the things I like about reproducibility is that someday, in the future, when the project is closed and the website is down and the author is dead ... we can take the source code and compile it and compare it to our own notes (or to the wayback machine, or whatever) of the checksums, etc., of the binaries and gain some confidence that we have what we think we have.
I still don't use an ad blocker. I know all the arguments for ad blocking and I agree with many of them. I know what difference it makes in terms of performance and annoyance.

But I just can't bring myself to indiscriminately block all ads, knowing how important they are as a funding source for the websites I use.

There's only one thing that destroys privacy even more thoroughly than ad targeting: payment.
There will be lasting consequences of that lie for the rest of the pandemic probably for decades to come. There is a sizeable anti mask movement that gained significant ground because authorities told people masks didn't work despite the science saying the opposite, they even fabricated it as a scientific position further hurting belief in science itself.

Many governments of the world created an anti vaxxer like movement around masks just to protect supplies. They had to do so because they failed to act early enough and to follow their own recommendations for stockpiles of protective equipment. The consequences of those lies will be here for a long time.
You can detect each digit like this:

For example, take 999 (N). Using only math, how can I determine the value of each digit?

(be sure to take abs(N) and record value of N/abs(N) for later)

res = N - (N - 1). Digit = res + 1; If Digit == 10, Digit = 0.

So, given that function to find each digit, you can build a loop using 10^i to detect each digit (subtracting the sum of all preceding digits and dividing by 10^i to trim the lower order digits you've already resolved).

We'll need a place to store each digit, such as an array.

Of course, this assumes integers in base 10. If they are another base (8, 16), replace the 10^i above with the base.

It's also ambiguous as to if the function should just return a concatenated version of the results or some possibly a sum.

In any case, using a cast to string would be way easier.
I believe a majority of YC founders apply multiple times, often across multiple companies. Personally, I started 2 companies, applied 4 times, interviewed 2 times, across 4 years before getting in with BaseDash.

Definitely try again, YC is worth it.
> In Germany, judges are supposed to apply existing laws, not to amend or alter them based on their "clues" and "interests".

They are also required to honor the original intent behind the law and that was to prevent distraction from mobile phones and similar devices, not from vehicle controls.
Just to add clarification, Falcon Heavy uses the Merlin engine, not the Raptor engine.
How do you know if you have won? Or is it about avoiding checkmate in all possible timelines for all possible time travelling moves?
If only old hardware/phones could get OS security updates by any mechanism.

I have a growing drawer of old hardware that is perfectly functional but no longer updateable.
Perhaps at an expert level, but given theory debt of even normal chess I hardly see how this could be an issue at very expert level but that's not for some years (assuming it gets a community but it clearly has a good start). It actually looks really fun, hopefully there isn't a way to cheese-win as white, but barring that it looks really fun and creative.
That's a different use case than the one I'm criticizing. The use case I'm objecting to is "You, as a writer, are no longer relevant. We are replacing you with a bot to save money."
> SMS 2FA is still superior to nothing.

It's better than nothing, but given that it's trivial to go from that to just an authenticator app, I would personally not have any of my accounts set up to accept sms 2FA.

Of course, the best thing would be for people to use actual passwords instead of "Watermelon23", but that's easier said than done.
I think that by Ada 95 they were already available, were you still using Ada 83?

Yeah, just check the list of features for C2X, WG14 isn't that keen in innovating that much, nor in fixing C's flaws.
I would never have known what this button did.
Get em'

For a supposed site for hackers you guys have been eerily quiet about support this completely victim-free hacker.
Meh, comments like this are cringeworthy. Let people enjoy what they enjoy.
I've been spending close to a day trying to figure out how to respond to this statement. It's like you're saying, "From what I can see, the 2020 Volkswagen Golf is just another flightless bird, but it needs a new name because calling it a duck doesn't sound fancy."

It's not a design pattern, and the element of it that uses one (React) usually implements Flux, not MVC.

As for "no new ideas in computing since the 70s," are you actually proposing that we go back to building websites like we did in the seventies? Um, sure. Brilliant.
Transparent face shields might actually be nicer to wear than masks, if that's all you needed, because you can still see each other. I saw someone on the street using one once.

Unfortunately, they haven't been studied much, and I've seen a couple reports that face shields alone are not enough and they are best combined with masks.

Still, a face shield alone would probably be better than nothing.
Absolutely relatable!
It's a subnet, yes. GP declared it to be approximately the same as an end customer.

How do you know that the ISP replacing it often is "unusual, to say the least"? Or is that something you know?
I was taking 50000 IU a week. Checked multiple times over periods of months.
I don't know about MS or IBM specifically, but often pension payouts will increase over time, e.g. when you hit a certain age (or years of service) your pension increases from 50% to 60% of your salary. So laying someone off at 54 wouldn't cause them to lose money per se but they wouldn't get that 10% bump (which is a lot of money multiplied by 20-30 years).
What’s absurd is thinking Microsoft doesn’t have anyone who can read source code.
No, your analogy is inaccurate.

A billboard ad is not an explicit and direct "physical" connection to the product the way that a search result is.

Dedicated bandwidth and throttling, to extend my original analogy, would be like the roads going only to Wal-Mart or being difficult in some significant way to take anywhere other than Wal-Mart. It is the same problem only more pronounced.

The first search result you encounter when executing some search is much more similar to the first store you encounter when searching for some store (by taking the easiest or "most natural" path into the shopping district) than it is to viewing a billboard.

Edit -- To clarify what I mean about billboard ads:
A billboard ad is something you see that is unrelated to whatever else you are doing. Yes, a digital "billboard" ad is still a direct connection to the product being advertised but it is also distinctly separate from whatever content or activity it displays alongside.

A search result is the content/activity you have sought out by searching. There could definitely be a grey area if google's design made sponsored search results stand out more or be distinct in some way that causes them to read as some content other than a search result (either by position, border, size, color, etc) but that is very clearly not the case of their current design.

Sponsored search results look exactly the same as non-sponsored search results apart from the "Ad" text displayed with the URL. They are clearly intended to look and function the same as the "normal" content of the page and not intended to be an incidental "secondary" experience alongside your search.
What are the current rates? How much below the current rates am I being paid?
"STEM training itself has sadly become a hierarchical, cult-like, anti-intellectual system that deprives students of critical thinking skills"

Engineering definitely doesn't deprive students and practitioners of critical thinking. Other disciplines? Maybe. I can't speak to that.
3d chess is another popular variant: https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Three-dimensional_chess

Lot of games you could spin up in this manner. I wonder if we are going to do that for all the board games with tried and old strategies. HN has any suggestions on what those board games should be?

Game on steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1349230/5D_Chess_With_Mul...

There is a discord linked in the game help menu where people are discussing lot of things including how to create a bot.

For the lazy: https://discord.gg/8kQhp6

Edit: removed mobile url.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24051665
And about 1/270 the energy of a single w87 thermonuclear warhead and a single ICBM can carry up to 10 of those.
Ask HN: Why so many Contact Tracing Apps?
It seems almost every country in the world as well as many states and regions are writing their own contact tracing apps for COVID-19. Research shows that these apps are not useful without significant adoption rates (50% to 80%). I'm trying to understand why so many groups are re-creating the wheel. Why can't they work together and make one really useful app?

https://eclecticlight.co/2020/07/25/smartphone-contact-tracing-has-failed-everywhere/
Maybe like hashing though there can be weaknesses in the algorithm still.
A question from the millions of folks who don't have $50-250/hr (x hr/mo) - could this possibly lead to a genuine chance at therapy?

[a] Five therapists offering 2/hrs per week to the community isn't nothing - it is a drop in an ocean of need, however.

[b] No. Trying to launch an insurance debate won't help answer this question in a helpful way. Thanks for asking tho.
Yes, I'm familiar with this idea, and I think it really does get close to one of the roots of the problem. I hope more people start listening carefully to individuals like Mr. Weinstein before it's too late to change course.

I don't always agree with everything he says on other issues, but we are lucky to have him in a position where he's afforded the right to speak freely. It's a shameful embarrassment to the state of our public discourse that it takes a billionaire hedge fund backing to secure that right.
What number of people who got medical care would've lived/recovered without it? My point is not that I know the answer to when medical care became a net benefit, my point is that it's an extremely complicated thing that there doesn't seem to be a clear answer to.
oh, that's an interesting idea.

I sort of assumed that cancelling bids was a no-no and you would probably get banned, but I don't know the reality of it. (sort of like speeding in your car - most normal people assume you'll get in trouble and are reasonable, but maybe you can do it and nobody will care)
Scanning is also entirely eliminated by using no global heap allocations. With copying and small stack allocations there's not need to scan much, and can easily stay below 1ms.
This is particularly damning given that we're also now being told that a bandanna or any piece of cloth is a suitable replacement for a mask. Assuming that's true, it's pretty hard to justify lying to people about mask efficacy for the first several months of the pandemic. Would people have listened if they were told: masks work, but are in limited supply so use a bandanna and save the mask supply for front-line doctors? Probably not completely, I'm sure many people would still have gone out and bought masks impacting the total supply. Would it have been worth it, looking ahead, to not lie to people and degrade their trust in medical professionals, so that in the future when you decide to reveal the truth to people that masks actually do work they'll believe you? I think it probably was, but who knows.
I would love for MS to get behind Deno as a sponsor to foster growth in a mainstream Node-alternative. (Though I wish Deno would offer shared-mem concurrency, possibly w/green threads as a performant option to workers or clusters.)
Maybe they're running a deep con where they're fooling us into believing they fooled us
It’s a little larger than the Galveston Bay explosion.
I think a lot of these systems should definitely have buttons besides the touch screens so you can physically feel them out and touch them after you glance quickly, cause touching a touch screen involves looking at the screen, unlike pressing a button.
Likely not.

First off, some background. In order to prevent someone else from patenting your idea, absent being the first to file it yourself, you need to disclose it in such a way that it qualifies as "prior art", thereby rendering invalid any subsequent attempts to patent the invention.

Now, what does that disclosure look like? First, let's talk about the Enablement Requirement:

https://www.uspto.gov/web/offices/pac/mpep/s2164.html

Quoting from that section: "The information contained in the disclosure of an application must be sufficient to inform those skilled in the relevant art how to both make and use the claimed invention."

This is a general requirement both for patents, and for relevant prior art. In particular, with respect to prior art specifically, if you look at 2121 part III of the Manual of Patent Examining Procedure (https://www.uspto.gov/web/offices/pac/mpep/s2121.html
) you find the term "enabling disclosure":

"A prior art reference provides an enabling disclosure and thus anticipates a claimed invention if the reference describes the claimed invention in sufficient detail to enable a person of ordinary skill in the art to carry out the claimed invention"

There's also some rules about a POSITA being able to find the prior art. For example, with respect specifically to publications, in section 2128.2 of the manual (https://www.uspto.gov/web/offices/pac/mpep/s2128.html) we find:

"'A reference is proven to be a "printed publication" "upon a satisfactory showing that such document has been disseminated or otherwise made available to the extent that persons interested and ordinarily skilled in the subject matter or art, exercising reasonable diligence, can locate it."'

So just writing down the invention and sticking it a drawer doesn't count! The inventor must have been able to find the prior art.

Anyway, this is all to say: Simply publishing a hash of a document to prove you have it is almost certainly not sufficient to invalidate a patent application, since such a disclosure clearly doesn't meet the Enablement Requirement for prior art, nor does it meet the requirement for being discoverable.

As a random aside: this touches on why the idea of defensive patenting or defensive publication exists. Suppose you come up with an invention where protection of the invention (either patent protection or trade secret) has no value to you, but where you want to avoid being sued by someone else in the case of independent invention.

In that case, it's not at all uncommon to file a patent application or otherwise disclose the invention in a notable publication (like, say, a journal) so as to prevent someone else from acquiring a patent on that invention. And note I say "application". You don't need to be granted the patent! The application is enough to qualify as prior art (and in fact it's not at all uncommon to see abandoned patent applications cited as prior art by patent examiners in patent prosecution wrappers, which are publicly available to anyone via the USPTO Public Pair system).
There is no anti-science crowd on hacker news. Among other (presumable) intellectuals, we can discuss such ideas without worrying about "giving the [nonexistent] anti-science crowd" here anything.
I think influences, celebrities and other people that teens look up to have a massive effect on these platforms. Look at clothes, streetwear brands that celebrities wear instantly become popular and sell out. The purpose of social media is to interact with your friends but also see celebrities and their pages. Even if a platform is better or cooler than another, nobodys going to switch because none of your friends are on it and there's no point. But if your favorite artist and a couple of popular youtubers get on, you might make an account to see their content. And then you see that some of your friends have it, and start using it more. After a while, maybe people stopped posting on the old social media app and you delete it because the people you follow aren't active on it anymore.
Good adblockers (like uBlock Origin) offer tracking protection as well[0]:

"Out of the box, these lists of filters are loaded and enforced:

- EasyList (ads)

- EasyPrivacy (tracking)

- Peter Lowe’s Ad server list (ads and tracking)

- Malware domains"

[0] https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/ublock-origin/cjpa...
I have heard one rumor (only one, mind you) that Dell/VMWare was more of a reverse merger. If you end up in charge of strategy for the combined company, then of course things go better for you.
I use management focused vs technology focused when talking about this distinction. For me it boils down to is the organization more concerned about choices in regards to process/organizational structures or technology.
Not really, because the interface is separate from the implementation and you can provide multiple interface packages for the same implementation package.

So client A sees mylib-public-A, client B sees mylib-public-B, but both link to the same mylib so to speak.
Thanks for this, great list and PGs context is great to have next to the recommendations. The PG glamour shot may have been what made it come off like you were idolizing him
Mars could be the key to opening up the entire solar system. It's close enough to the sun for solar power to be practical, it's proven to have the mass amounts of subsurface ice and atmospheric CO2 needed for Sabatier-process methane/oxygen production, and it has a very shallow gravity well that would make it easy to lift huge propellant loads into orbit.

I don't think it's a stretch to imagine that Mars-based tankers supplying propellants and breathing oxygen would be commonplace through the solar system by the end of the century.
Halifax Harbor is completely encircled by the cities of Halifax and Dartmouth. The Beirut explosion occurred on the shore so half of the blast's shock wave essentially had no effect.
I think you interpreted this wrong. N95 were associated with higher reduction in transmission than others (eg. the 12-16 layer cotton masks you mention).
The virus had not been well characterized at all, yet they were very certain of the opinions they expressed to the public. I can't forgive this.
It is very easy to politicize this, but it wasn't just the party in power: Supposedly independent healthcare organizations in the US gave outright and easily disprovable safety information for at least two months.

We had studies about similar airborne illnesses that showed mask's effectiveness, and while I am sympathetic to protecting key medical supply lines, they have done long term harm to public trust and mask adoption.

The anti-maskers we're seeing today are directly their fault.

Even now, we're still seeing misinformation about the difference between cloth and N95 effectiveness, particularly as the US has failed to ramp up N95 production after months of seeming inaction. Even healthcare providers are still struggling with PPE, let alone the general public or educators with the upcoming school re-openings.
You may have noticed it a year ago but Google's been doing this redirect in their search results for 5+ years.