skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I especially like how people talk about the link's contents in the comments rather than just the submission title.
The role of vit D in the prevention of coronavirus 2019 infection and mortality
> In both cases, the end-users and their needs are considered, but ultimately, it's not their names on the invoice and they're not the customers.

And sub-optimal results thus occur.

What happens with crappy drugs that technically work is that patient adherence is bad and the government + doctors say "well those poor people with mental disorders are just incapable of following the rigorous treatment protocol that we know works." (and you literally end up with people dying on the street)

Maybe now and then some innovation happens to try and improve adherence, but progress is slow. You can see this in the glacial pace that drugs in certain areas of the the mental health space have progressed. For mental health disorders where the patient is making a decision on the drug, each decade sees tons of innovation. Meanwhile for drugs that are "assigned" to a patient, progress is much slower and an untold number of people have suffered as a result.

I'm not saying free market healthcare is a panacea or that people should be able to pick any drug they want, but medicine should be designed to make people's lives easier.

And letting drug companies advertise "this drug is like the current drug you are taking but has 1/2 the side effects and won't cause your hair to fall out so ask your doctor today!" isn't the worst thing in the world. It means patients will demand their health insurance covers the drug, and it means patients will force their doctor to read up on the drug.

Without the patient being a forcing function there is literally zero motive (beyond altruism) for those two things to happen.
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>And soon, perhaps commerce will be jammed in somehow?

It already is... About a week or two ago Instagram decided to put the "Shop" or "Marketplace" button where the "Likes" tab button was... And now to get to your likes/follows/etc. you need to go to your profile tab, and find the "heart" button in the top right.

But because the "like" button has been in the same place for the past several years, it's still ingrained in my habits to press where the "Marketplace" button is, so I keep opening the store page...

I can't believe this wasn't on purpose...
What platform are you using?
I once basically spent a summer doing this, not over a parking lot but to consolidate the remaining equipment in a large number of racks into a few new ones - this was a former sales office of a megacorporation that had been built to have its 1970s-era computer room proudly displayed through windows into the main conference room, a very weird setup without the context that in said '70s that conference room was used to pitch prospective customers on business automation.

Anyway, by the time I was there it was still a '70s-vintage large computer room but now massively overprovisioned on space, cooling, etc, particularly with most IT functions having moved to corporate. A decision was made to repurpose part of it as a test lab and move all the actual remaining equipment to three racks in the corner.

I'd do about two servers a day in between other things, taking advantage of redundant power supplies to transfer the PSUs one at a time to extension cords, swap to a long network cable fast enough that TCP sessions probably didn't time out, and then unrack onto a hydraulic lift card and do the same procedure the other way.

I presented this at the start as far from a guaranteed strategy - that it would minimize downtime but there would inevitably be some due to mistakes. None of this was really that critical. There were a few devices that were pretty old and poorly maintained, we agreed up front that if these lost power for some reason and then failed to boot, we would just say they'd lived long lives and purchase replacements.

I guess the point is that this whole situation was kind of unusual and I would generally not recommend doing this, we were lucky that all the equipment left had stakeholders that acknowledged it was legacy stuff and they could tolerate losing it.

The irony is, of course, that it went perfectly. So far as I know there was not a single problem experienced through the whole thing. I even managed to swap the phone lines to the (surprisingly busy!) legacy fax server when each was out of use.
I wish Apple realised that more competition in browsers on iOS is better for the user and they shouldn’t be greedy about it. How wonderful would it be to have proper Firefox in iOS.
I have been trying out different prompts for a week now and this seems plausibly written by GPT-3. There's quite a bit of luck involved since each time you submit the same prompt you can get a different response. Some prompts produce garbage output and some good prompts produce a range of outputs from lame to amazing. There's quite of bit of cherry picking and selection bias involved. No one publishes the uninteresting responses and you don't read or comment on them. Still, I think this is all quite amazing and it seems like it's close to ready for commercialization.
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http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~rpressler/loom/loom/sol1_part2.h...

Yes it can and actually it's quite low-hanging fruit on the JVM. GC safepoints are already there, you just have hook into the mechanism.
Very funny to read through now, comments like 'good points'!
That’s the real “skills gap” tech companies mean. Americans are too aware of the game.

Most office job coding work these days is filling out templated layers of indirection via frameworks and APIs.

Google doesn’t have an information advantage. It has a capital advantage. It’s the same old math belying all those algorithms.

They’re trying to sell the idea they possess an information advantage over less developed nations as Americans/westerners don’t buy their story anymore. They’re bored and gonna charge more to fill in the new templates of indirection.
Sure, I think the point was that there is a market for customers with subprime credit. Sometimes it is fairly profitable too.
I use the RSS feeds here ...

https://edavis.github.io/hnrss/
The natural follow up question is "Are Hacker News Comments Bullshit?". It seems easier to post GPT-3 comments than create a blog, so I wonder now if it exists, but what percentage it's at.
Persons who upvoted that original article should be flagged in the system or at least deducted 500 points. Ditto with the responding commenter.
I think the writer wrote it because he thinks titles are important, and that you have to earn it. Get some stamp of approval.

But in the real world titles don't matter that much. They are just a tool to organize the world, to categorize.

In my opinion, if you start painting today. You're a painter. maybe not a good one, but a painter nonetheless. Because you paint.

Don't focus on titles. focus on actions, on doing. making the world a better place.

Titles don't matter in the end.

I think Elon Musk tackles problems from an technical point of view. First principles. He identifies himself with an engineer. But in the end his actions are what matter.
Twitter to be fined $250M for using 2FA numbers for ads
Maybe we should go back and up-vote the poster who recognized GPT-3. Seems a little unfair now that we know they were right!
Not only that but the machine learning models on those ARs are so successful that judging from our context (of non-Chinese apps we're normally exposed to), I'd be semi-surprised that we can algorithmically apply makeup so correctly with ambient lighting on a single still frame on a compute server, much less locally, in real-time on a low powered phone.
OK. But now it sounds like you're just disagreeing about the cost of the panel. That's fine. I certainly don't know how much the panel costs. But it's completely different from the previous point, right?

I'd also point out that Tesla is hardly the only automaker that is increasing its use of a single touchscreen for these functions. And, before that, manufacturers were already combining features into all-in-one units that were very similar in principle but controlled in different ways--such as with weird knobs, and other things. I expect it's a combination of consumer "wow factor"--which will probably wear off very soon--and streamlined manufacturing that drives this. But I'm no expert.
> That said, it could still be correlative and not causative with some different underlying health issue.

On the other hand, maybe Vitamin D deficiency is the cause or one the causes of those underlying health issues.
I disagree - I frequently see comments about politics that are reasonable and not downvoted to death. There are also many comments/articles that do get flagged/killed, and a few of those seem like they were trying to speak in good faith, but the proportion of rational, surviving political content is far higher than in other places that are not explicitly devoted to political discussions.
That's really insanity to me. 10µs is a goddamn long time for a modern computer. That's 30000 clock cycles for a 3Ghz CPU. Each clock cycle can handle multiple instruction. It should be trivial to handle most light computations in this time as long as you ensure the data is in cache.
How does this tool compare to lspci?
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https://apps.apple.com/us/app/wipr/id1030595027
Or like, any similar app. There's hundreds of them.
Four examples of bad science? I see a trend in these comments that people here are pretty anti-science. I would like to remind us all to just take a peek around us, and look at what was not even possible, not even imaginable, a mere fifty to one hundred years ago. We are speaking to one another using faradays laws and discoveries, teslas fascination with wireless and countless physicists and engineers that build practically everything you see. Computers, the internet, wireless... does anyone here remember polio, or how the flu used to kill far more than today (with the exception of the COVID)? I find it fascinating how easily we beat down on science and academic scientists in general. Are there bad scientists? Sure. Are there bad people? Sure, but the narrative I find myself reading more and more is all scientists are bad, and all research should be stopped, as it is somehow costing everyone else money or the money is being used wrongly. I think the percentage of that is incredibly small. I only hope we are still educating our children enough in the future to realize the tiny bad percentage of people we hear about (be it in science or the general population) is not representative of all.
"the recipient announces their public key"

A typical threat model is that there is a "warden" who can selectively block messages, so this would not really work since the warden would block the announcement (in theory the warden is not going to block all messages, although a formal security definition should only focus on whether or not the warden is more likely to block stegomessages than innocent messages, which is trivial if the warden blocks everything). Thus out of band communication is needed to distribute secrets; likewise, the stegosoftware itself has to be distributed out of band.

"indistinguishable from uniform"

Actually you need to be indistinguishable from the "background noise" (the thermal noise from the camera sensor) of the image, which is not uniform. In fact, the noise is correlated with the camera itself and can be used to identify which camera took a particular photo.
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That's what PhD fellowships like the NSF fellowship are supposed to do as far as I know.
I don't think that's true though. I have recovery codes for my MFA for Azure, Google, Fastmail, and many others. I'm wouldn't count on being able to convince support to let me into any of these accounts if I lost my MFA and my backups. They might, but as the article mentioned it'd be hard to do in a way that doesn't defeat the purpose of MFA in the first place.
I agree, it's simply blunt.

But if they had said something like, "I suspect this post is written by GPT-3. Consider X, Y, Z sentence -- these are typical constructions of GPT-3 because of A," it probably would not have been down-voted.
Personal anecdote - vitamin D supplements did absolutely nothing for my vitamin D levels.

it wasn't until I committed to getting more sunlight that my levels increased.
I am super-sensitive to smooth scrolling performance and am kind of obsessive about it. I use FF 100% of the time (unless testing something cross-browser) with an extension called "Yet Another Smooth Scrolling WE" https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/yass-we/

If you spend a bit of time exploring the extension's options you should be able to find a combination that hits your personal 'sweet spot'. I've also found that really dialing in consistent smooth scrolling performance can require optimizing other factors including: OS settings, mouse software driver settings (I use Logitech Options), video card options (VSync especially) and even monitor options (often disabling motion 'enhancement' modes) because the end result is only as good as the whole stack.

It can help to ensure your hardware has sufficient performance to maintain your desired scrolling performance even when multi-tasking and the browser loading website with a bunch of JS and assets, especially on laptops and wireless connections. UMatrix helps block a lot of these loads.

If you have intermittent variable results, another thing to check is other FF extensions. I run quite a few extensions to customize my experience and have run across a couple (unrelated to scrolling, screen or visual appearance) that make scrolling performance on some sites inconsistent during background page load, perhaps some rare interaction of threads. Fortunately, none of them were any of the popular ones or ones I find essential.

I don't think it's possible to achieve truly 'perfect' scrolling behavior 100% of the time on all sites yet, at least I haven't been able to on any desktop browser or hardware combo I've tried. Currently, I'm quite happy with my FF configuration as all the sites I visit regularly perform very well and >95% of one-off sites do also.
After a threshold the business value drops off substantially. How often does a consumer pick between competitors and choose based on speed? I would assume that's vastly in the minority.

You see some shakeups here and there. A large push to a new browser once a decade, etc. but features are king most of the time.
The only downside is that product managers who rely on third-party analytics to decide what platforms are relevant will never see Firefox+uBlock users as relevant. I've had to argue this at multiple companies; fortunately at some places multiple developers used uBlock so it wasn't as hard as making the case alone.
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Sounds like an example of real-world Speed-Up Loops[1]

[1] https://thedailywtf.com/articles/The-Speedup-Loop
The funny thing is, besides this one you picked out, pretty much all the rest of these either are continuity assumptions or follow from continuity. I think that's because physicists tend to dismiss discontinuities and singularities as "unphysical," but it does make good intuitive sense.

I suspect that "all equations have one solution" is a lot easier to satisfy when all functions are continuous, or otherwise nice, as well.
> This is also one of the main reasons I use my iPhone so little, since it doesn't really have any way to adblock.

You can block ads in Safari iOS with a Content Blocker. 1Blocker is pretty robust: https://1blocker.com/

Firefox for iOS also has Tracking Protection built in, which blocks most ads.
Writing files 5 to 9 times faster than fprintf
I gave a write-up on my motivations for choosing Gatsby on their blog too: https://www.gatsbyjs.org/blog/2020-01-23-why-typescript-chos...
As someone who spends most of my time at work writing firmware for embedded systems, I learned VERY quickly never to use floating point numbers when I could use fixed point numbers. Better to use an integer number of thousandths of a thing than try to use floating point numbers and have error. This mindset is clearly common, because it seems like the vast majority of microcontrollers have no floating point hardware anyway.

At some point I was listening to a talk where the guy called floating point numbers _"The incredibly misleading numbers that never really work the way that you want them to."_

That's probably the best description of floating point numbers I've ever heard.
MS-Connected CloudGuru Doesn’t Care About Linux and Now It’s Killing the JB
All the vitamin D supplements I see in the pharmacy come combined with calcium. Should that take care of it or does "out of whack" mean calcium could be too high as well as too low?
I have noticed that the downvoting seems to be getting more pronounced and often what I would consider to be uneducated opinions are gaining strength on HN. (IE people who don't agree with me.) :)

I'm a newbie, but the reason I came here was for more signal than noise and several times in the last months I've considered looking for new places because the comment quality is slipping.
Yes, this is clickbaity. Can a mod change the title?
I use Firefox on iOS. It has some tracking protection. Probably not the full-fat version of desktop Firefox, but I find it to be more tolerable than Safari on iOS.
I got it on my Mac laptop. I have an Android phone, but it's running Android 10, which isn't vulnerable.

I wonder what the actual vulnerability was. The article links to an entire bulletin of fixes.
4.5 hours of a consultants billing rate can be much more than 10 hours of your regular hourly rate working a similar job. A good consultant will have a contract. The client saying I won't pay if XX happens doesn't mean anything unless it was in the contract.

Networking/spanning tree loops, arp table mismatch/corruption, the switches at the destination being misconfigured are all realistic problems that would result in downtime here. The normal way you do this is with live migration from hyper-v or vmotion from ESXI. If the initial migration is not successful, you just leave the server powered on while you address the issues. Once the VM has been migrated you can do whatever you want with the original server without worrying about downtime.
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Hi HN

I’ve been a software engineer for over 15 years. I spent some time in academia and then moved into the tech industry. I’ve worked on a few things in the consumer electronics or internet-related services. I’ve worked at startups and I’ve spent the last 8 years at a FAANG company. I’ve spent a little time in a few different countries and cultures so I have accumulated a few different perspectives .

The current world situation has me feeling like my entire career has been a bit... pointless.

The world’s challenges seem to be around climate change and public health and equitable growth and space travel and stuff like that. And while I’m quite happy with the stuff I’ve built I’m looking for something more meaningful. I got paid well to do what I did, and I “innovated”, but I can’t help but feel like my work has all gone towards creating more expensive toys and ways for the world to entertain and distract itself.

I guess I’m at a stage in my career where I’m looking for something more meaningful.

How do I go about doing this? I’m not really able to start something on my own right now. Are there companies hiring for “meaningful” work? Are you doing something that you think is solving an important problem and you’d like to share? Has anyone else felt like this and done something about it?
That study is absurd on its face and was debunked.
https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/are-medical-errors-really-t...

They counted every death the involved medical care as a medical error death if any sort of imperfection at all was noticed in the case. One of their famous examples was a patient who had a stroke or something and then died "because" he wasn't adequately warned to not go for a jog during recovery, who then had another attack during a jog.
> To give a sense of the support matrix, here's what we account for with each page:

>

> - JavaScript being disabled

> - Keyboard-only navigation

> - Text-to-Speech users

> - Cookies/Local Storage being denied

> - A focused mobile navigation design

> - Light and Dark OS mode support, with a user-preference switcher

Now we are talking.

@every_web_developer_and_website_owner : this is the new trend, just trust me. Start preparing now and you'll be ahead of the curve when this Javascript everywhere fad finally goes away early next year ;-)
Not even actual treatments of soft topics. Take this essay. It’s a solid C paper.

So, mostly just Internet forum philosophy.
I've noticed the same issue around calling out “this person does not exist” faces. 99% chance your right, but 1% chance you leave some innocent person wondering what's so wrong about their earlobe that you were certain it couldn't be real.
The people who launched Reels are probably in their 30s and 40s and working against serious organizational biases that prevent them from innovating. So not surprised that they named this Reels.
Are their web services powered by Python at least? I am more surprised I never accidentally went to this site honestly.
I say in this case the evasion is justified. This experiment is insightful, funny, and relevant to HN!
The discussion here is focusing on the highly editorialized made up title, but as a writer I am concerned at the attitude here:

The biggest benefit of GPT-3 is efficiency. All I need to write is a good title and intro. I could write five of them in an hour and publish them all in one day if I wanted to.

The author admits that fact checked stuff can't be written this way. So you can't really produce solid writing this way. Yet it is being proposed as the future of content creation.

As someone who does some content creation, I really dislike this idea that this is "efficient" and "can save money." Good writing is increasingly hard to find as is, in part because we don't pay writers what we used to pay them. Good writing involves research and understanding the topic. It's not just about putting pretty words together.

I don't think this is a good trend.
The free market is the best algorithm for hill-climbing a society into feudalism, one A/B test at a time.
Interactive Visualization of Why Matrices Pull Inputs Towards Eigenvectors
After all, the real target of these kinds of articles is obviously the supposedly right-wing extremist "science deniers" who reject the critical theory stuff even more strongly than scientists themselves do.

We need to clean our own house. I can't even keep track of how many brilliant people I personally know who have left academic research. It's really very tragic and our duty as citizens should be to ignore all the petty distractions and focus on doing what needs to be done. If the institutions are lost and beyond reform, we need to work on building new ones that work for us. The current crises could be great opportunities for this.
Chrome opens up files and slows everything down windows 7.

Using chrome once it loads with everything else shutdown seems fast.

Firefox is overall faster because of those issues. But firefox will use too much memory and kill itself in time. But has gotten better at killing itself without killing everything else.