skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've been very frustrated in my attempts to raise this issue with the local health department where I live. I was brushed aside, and was told "correlation does not imply causation". I doubt that the person on the phone wanted to get into a conversation about dynamical systems or nonlinear data analysis, so I didn't even go there.

Instead I sent a letter full of references to published research, and citing other letters (peer reviewed) urging public health officials to recommend safe levels of supplementation. I received 0 engagement. I should really send the letter every day until someone responds.

Aside from all of the promising anecdotal evidence and population studies, there is plenty of established theory to understand just how Vitamin D might help lessen the load of Covid-19. Decades of published, reviewed research have shown that Vitamin D:

- helps regulate calcium metabolism and ionization... disregulated calcium levels are also linked to poor covid outcomes

- downregulates some of the same inflammatory cytokines involved in the positive feedback loops seen in bad covid cases

- directly regulates the expression of ACE-2 genes

- regulates the renin-angiotensin system

- regulates circadian rhythm

Other supplements that work with Vitamin D to help regulate calcium metabolism and ionization are also promising, including K2 and magnesium.

https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.06.01.20112334v...

A friend of mine who's a doctor also told me that a lot of people with bad covid outcomes just have general electrolyte imbalances. To what degree is this pandemic just a manifestation of basic malnutrition on a massive scale?

At this point, I've come to the conclusion that there is a systemic conflict of interest in many health systems around the world. It's most blatant in the US. Specifically: It seems that there are certain "neo-Malthusian" individuals high up in the chains of command who simply have no interest in implementing low risk, low cost measures that prevent loss of life, and instead use their power to further cater to the already privileged groups of people they deem fit for life. This goes beyond covid-19.
> but somehow, news sites have a video that plays

This is so annoying, engaging in such obviously obnoxious UX patterns should be regulated and punished with fines when user-intent tries to be circumvented.

The "just dont visit that website lol"-trope really doesn't cut it anymore; operating a news paper organization nowadays is such a cutthroat business that you simply can't not do it if your competition does it, there really needs to be regulation to level the playing field to stop this kind of bullshit
I've asked in an interview for people to implement a multiply function using just addition, and a surprising number of candidates struggled with that one.

Of course if they struggled with that one, there was likely no way the would get the question where we asked them to write a function that takes an integer and return an integer that is the result of each of it's digits being squared.
You could tell the same about (many) other languages or plattforms (e.g. .Net Core, maybe Java)

Maybe only python2 will match your expectations.
Shrug I thought it was wonderful and hilarious. I think people who aren't impressed are probably in denial.
As to the why: New posts get on the front page for a little while to give them a chance and the URL isn't similar enough for any automated filter to know it's the same story -- yesterday's was the press release and today's is the product page.
What's the point of being an expert if no one will listen?
Terra looks really interesting (Halide is another language along this meta-approach - https://halide-lang.org/). It's too bad it never made it further than being used for a few PhD theses.
> But it strains credulity for me to accept that being nervous makes half of software engineers forget how to do a loop, conditional, and modulo.

Which is more improbable, that programmers who tend to be socially awkward and work alone in front of a computer and are not stage performers get "stage fright" during interviews, or that people with many years of experience getting paid as a programmer can't do anything? To me, the latter strains credulity.
>There are 6 levels to your process above

Hit options -> Click dropdown of "new tab" field and select "Blank page". 2 steps.

If the parent post is being disingenuous with their point, yours is as equally disingenuous by being an incredibly over-complicated deconstruction of hitting options and reading 2 fields down.

If they have to be walked through finding the options menu (half your paragraph is about opening the options menu, really?), they are going to have difficulties with every browser and every option -- including understanding what a "custom URL or set of URLs" is.

>"Oh a URL? That's the address thing you see at the top. Oh but it's not shown completely in some browsers. And, if you want multiple URLs you have to use the pipe operator symbol. Oh, the pipe operator? Look above your enter key. No, not the one on the number pad, the other one near the backspace." Etc..
I find them to be intrusive, and end up ignoring them in the same way I end up not noticing things that look like ads. And sites that overdo it lose my attention altogether - I just move on to greener pastures.

Mind you, I used to mute the television when ads came on. The constant repetition drove me nuts. Radio is even worse, which is why I haven't used one since I was a kid.

Its not that I try to avoid any and all advertising. I think Twitter actually does a good job of it - at least in my feed, as the ads I get are directly related to my interests, and have actually resulted in purchases from me.

It's the constant unwanted disruption. Remember when people hated the <blink> tag in the 90's, or those ads that jiggled? They are all different variations on how to annoy people into thinking about one (generally unwanted) thing all day.

You know who does chat very poorly? LinkedIn. Once those notifications show up on the screen, it's so hard to get rid of them! You have to save messaging to the last on that site if you don't want to see the name list covering the right-edge of the screen, or a chunk out of the bottom when you minimize it.
I don't think it's only third party cookies. But all cookies if you've only visited the site once once in 24 hours.

The article mentions you get redirected to a website before going to your destination, so the third-party cookie is no longer 'third' but 'first' since you (unbeknownst to you) visited the site.
The bezels on this screen are the only reason I would not buy it.
Didn't we just complain about C++ this weekend?
No. That doesn’t follow.

I’m claiming that the App Store solution as it stands is better for most users than just freely installing apps from the web.

It’s not at all clear that the safety of just installing software without vendor lock in is getting better for most users.

In fact it seems to be getting worse.
I registered a 5 ng/ml with a blood test. I wasn't feeling tired or seeing any negative effects at that time from it and most likely it had been low for a decade. However for obvious reasons I began immediately taking actions to move that number persistently into a healthy range.

I've been using a D3 supplement of 5000 IU from NatureWise, for several years. I take one per day depending on the time of year. It's inexpensive, ~$11-12 for a year supply, and it has worked very well. I take it daily throughout Fall & Winter, and then lighten up on it during Summer.
Part of the problem is that the self checkouts are super paranoid about preventing theft. If you put your bag on the output you get in trouble, your child puts their hand on the scale you need cashier assistance, you don't wait long enough after the last item for it to be weighed and you need to start . It's literally impossible to go fast! I don't know if it is justified. But it seems surprising as I could easily just put something in my bag if I wanted to steal it, I don't know why I would bother putting it into the scale.

Of course the cashier will always be faster, they are familiar with the interface, know where most of the barcodes are and have the codes of most non-barcoded items memorized.

But self-checkout could be much faster by removing some anti-features (from the customer POV). I have seen a couple of stores with a better solution where you pick up a scanner at the start and scan your items as you go. This has the advantage of parallelizing most of the process instead of clogging up on big expensive machines. In fact with the ability to check out on that device you could probably get by with just a "Customer Service" desk for when something goes wrong.
It is, but it varies state to state and the coverage generally isn’t great. You have to hit your deductible before coverage starts and then after that it’s usually a 50% coverage. So if you’re lucky enough to find a therapist that takes insurance, you’re still paying a lot out of pocket.

I just searched what it’d cost me here in NYC to purchase and go through the insurance my therapist does take (in-network): The plan costs about $650/month and I’d have to hit a $5,500 deductible before mental health coverage kicks in. Then it’s a 50% coverage after that. I’d pay about $6700 out of pocket with insurance versus about $7350 without it. This doesn’t include the $7800 I’d have to pay for the plan itself.

I wouldn’t really call that a mental health benefit, it’s easier to just find a therapist you like and just figure out a way to pay for it if you can. Most people can’t and it’s a shame because good therapy is transformative. My life is so much better because of it.
Another Hiroshima Is Coming – Unless We Stop It Now
Why lie about what made SARS go away? It burned out like every other virus.
It is a little bit like that.

It would probably be considered a problem if Wal-Mart paid the state/highway department to ensure that major town roads "flow naturally" to Wal-Mart and are better maintained than roads that lead elsewhere.

This is definitely similar to major companies in a specific domain buying the top search result from google for any query within that domain.
Get over it. The modern web sucks.
My 2003 Thinkpad T41 was never a raging powerhouse, but is was "usable". It is no longer usable. Nothing in the hardware has changed, but the software, the browsers, and the web at large have all changed drastically.

I do embedded system co-design. I write software for a living, but I work closely with the hardware teams, including (at my last employer) ASIC features. I have to flop hats between 'software' and 'hardware' all the time. And there are clearly times that I throw the software team under the bus.

"Hey the last product ran in 128MB, but memory is cheap, so can we have 4GB this time? We want to split all the prior pthreads across containers!"

You think I am joking?

Browsers and web content have done the same.

"But look at all the shiny features?"

I don't want the shiny. I just want the content, and fast.
yeah, right, getting graphs from Polaroid photos into excel, nobody would find that an interesting task to do.

on edit: obviously it is also sounds quite a bit like you might need a research team and 5 years to do it right https://xkcd.com/1425/
We used to call "super apps" portals. Mistaken valuations of their stickiness generally led to the first cratering of internet company values.
I remember Food 4 Less back in the day (maybe twenty years ago) having a sort of hybrid system where the cashier scanned your items and rang then up, but you bagged your own groceries.

Are you familiar with any similar systems today? How do they rate on throughput?
What is project mockingbird?
That's just wrong. Is Japan, or Korea, or Germany needlessly locked down to "prioritize a minority population"? No. Those economies are largely open now.

The US isn't making the wrong decision about prioritizing hard choices, it's simply MAKING THE WRONG CHOICES. This was a largely solvable problem. We just failed.
Test-time data augmentation (TTA) tutorial for production
How to properly use data augment to improve a model's performance during inference in a production environment. With Colab notebook for experimentation.
IIRC the iMac and the PowerBook were among the last computers to get an update after Apple announced that they were switching to Intel, and they were also the first computers to get Intel processors.

So this probably doesn't mean anything in that regard.
So funny, the fake news and armchair quarterbacks here.

Tesla Model 3's have 2 ways to activate the wipers:
- The screen
- The physical button on the left stalk on the driving column

End of story. Get your short shorts now.
I don't see the direct connection to out mental health crisis in this issue. None of this addresses the mental health care crisis in terms of patient outcomes and patient well being.

Instead, the article talks about how individual therapists are losing out as ad prices rise and newer tech-mediated therapy platforms are gaining attention & market share. (and working for those platforms doesn't pay nearly as well) Also google has a near-monopoly for online advertising, so these therapists have few options if they aren't born natural marketers, and Google customer support is bad. In short, it's bad for therapists.

Nothing much said about this being bad for patients though. It's possible patients have greater access to care with these new platforms.
When there was more competition for Google, and when ads and links for other Google products didn't take up half the page of search results, there was much, much more eye ball space, even though there were many fewer eyeballs. I'm not going to make the case for causation vs. correlation here, but this is part of the often mentioned general deterioration of the Internet.
brazillian churrascaria rodízios[1] tend to have that too, for when you want more meat, and when you're "taking a break".

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rod%C3%ADzio
That remembers me Joe Rogan's "What is it Like to Work for Elon Musk?" [1] When Garrett Reisman who previously worked with Elon says: He's a very that BROAD engineer and can talk at the same table with their top engineer employees. So totally discrediting the blog post. I think it's actually the last refuge of the "title" mindset. Engineers solve problems using engineering principles; period. If you have a Engineer's degree, PhD or you build pyramids it doesn't matter.

[1]: https://youtu.be/GNG6ZzDh9C8?t=391
As of January [1], it looks like Firefox enabled fingerprinting protection by default. Expert users may have overridden settings in various ways that could prevent those protections from being active. To verify, at Preferences > Privacy > Tracking Protection (about:preferences#privacy), make sure you've selected an option that includes Fingerprinting protection.

[1] https://blog.mozilla.org/firefox/how-to-block-fingerprinting...
Not sure why you're getting downvoted as this is the real answer.

In countries other than America, healthcare is not for profit. It's not to maximize gains, it's to maximize care and allocate available resources for the public good.

Doctors are the ones who prescribe. Imagine: doctors don't even know what a drug costs, and nether do patients. The customers are government health systems, who study the value of a drug, negotiate prices and make it available iff the negotiated price is less than the value it provides. Its true facts that in Europe, healthcare is not a free market. This is how Canada works too.

Patients receive care as needed and don't need to be advertised to because they're not the customers.
Pinning doesn't solve the problem of cache L3+ thrashing.
Acquiring an app from a Chinese company and slapping the Microsoft branding on it without doing some sort of vetting would be absurd.
I’m continually amazed - flabbergasted - by GPT-3. I’ve read stories, articles and HTML written by it and each time I am shocked at how good the output is. This essay made me laugh!

It’s practically indistinguishable from a human. Not a creative, insightful and unique human. But an average human? Yes, I cannot tell the difference.

I must repeat that - I cannot tell the difference!

This can probably completely replace or supplement most online content that I see including news, certainly on the vacuous side of things of which I think there is a lot of content.

Those online recipes with irrelevant life stories before them? Replaced. Those opinion pieces in news? Replaced. Basic guides to tasks? Probably replaceable.

I know I probably only see the best output, and it would be nice if I had more context, but the peak performance is amazing

The twitter video showing GPT-3 generate HTML based on your request? I think there’s a lot of potential. I don’t knew whether it can, in general, live up to these specific examples though.
It's actually a pretty boring technology. The script looks for some keywords in the tweet (replies included), and then we manually go over the potential book recommendation tweets. It does not include screenshots. I removed "every" from the title here, since I can't be 100% sure this includes absolutely every recommendation.
Associate professor in fluid dynamics here. There is typically a split between the people who want good looking simulations for movies/games, and those who need accurate results for engineering. For engineering, you need more effort on how you resolve the complex geometry and how you model the turbulence in the flow. This adds significant complexity both for problem setup and solution time. The only product I’m aware of that is built for real-time, 3D flow design is Ansys Discovery:
https://www.ansys.com/products/3d-design/ansys-discovery

OpenFOAM is high quality, but as you’ve seen complex to use. There is a web-based GUI that can lighten the burden to get started somewhat:
https://www.simscale.com/
I think they give you ~3000 simulation hours for a trial.
How do you evaluate the credibility of anything in life? I'm not being facetious, it's a question I've been asking myself a lot lately after making decisions based on the information from a medical doctor, who, turns out, was not competent to make certain affirmations.
That sort of selfish asscovering attitude is exactly why it is becoming endemic.

Because countries have successfully contained it by taking it seriously and responding with adequate funding and measures. The far cheaper option long term. Meanwhile short sighted idiots caused thousands to die and then whine "it isn't my fault and it is so unfair that they are blaming me for the consequences of my actions"!
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> you'll have to rewrite the entire thing.

No, you don't, because then you'll be able to lean on Rails' biggest strength, Ruby. You don't know how many times I've been able to just dig into a gem's or even Rails itself, find out what's going on, and simply write what I need leveraging all the existing code.

On the other hand, when we were replatforming our Rails project into Node for no good reason, we wound up having to rewrite a ton of stuff because, well, Ruby is a great server language, and Javascript is only at best a mediocre scripting language, and ES6 is only a marginal improvement.
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Neat. Have you implemented any anti-spam controls? How much does it cost to keep it running?
I only use self checkout in a pinch, in large part as an act of Luddism. Self checkouts take away entry level work. I have a choice to support the workers, so I take it. Not to mention how awful the interfaces are when you're buying fresh veg -- I find that it's usually faster to wait for an available checker. In a lot of grocery stores near me, I do my own bagging and some even have a second conveyer for that purpose.
Enrico Fermi was able to do perform a similar estimate, based on the distance traveled by pieces of paper he dropped from his hand during the blast - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fermi_problem
Heh. I once wanted to dynamite my car. (It was a heap, and, you know, explosions are cool when you're young, and why not?)

I didn't need any permit. I needed: 1) to prove that I was not a felon, so that it was legal for me to have access to the explosives, 2) permission from the landowner, and 3) to inform the fire department in advance (that was exactly the "booms will be here" list).

Note that this was pre-9/11. Current rules are likely more restrictive.
Given the track record of institutional science and the ever-growing list of regulatory failures, moral failures and outright abuses pushed in the guise of scientific expertise, why do so many people seem to think that simply doubling down and bullying the general population into compliance with expert consensus will ever work? What if
institutional science in the US has a legitimacy crisis because it has failed to police its own corruption and failed to address its own limitations and vulnerabilities? What if everyday people can see this more clearly than those striving on the margins of these institutions?

Personally, as a scientist, I am comforted that there are enough others out there who doubt the entire notion of a scientific establishment that the population should "trust" to make decisions without oversight. Our numbers are growing, and I know many people who fight every day to ensure we will never be ruled by unquestionable expert consensus. Anyone who has been inside these institutions knows exactly how petty and arbitrary the hierarchical structures can be. I'd rather be ruled over by elite families than squabbling, territorial, overconfident scientists who can be bought off for nothing and blackmailed easily.

I think the constant stream of these articles just illustrates the massive social blind spot that comes from training STEM professionals solely for careers rather than for citizenship, communication and community membership. STEM training itself has sadly become a hierarchical, cult-like, anti-intellectual system that deprives students of critical thinking skills.
Are you me? This exactly describes my current experience.

You should write more about this!
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It's not open source, how can you trust it?
A more cogent comparison would include total available markets at the time.

75m MAU in 2008 is very different than 2.6b in 2020.
You can try as hard as you want, but there's no stopping a prepared burglar. If someone wants to get into your home, they will absolutely be able to find a way in, not matter how good your lock is.
Indeed. But the scientific approach is different -- it's all about finding patterns that do repeat and making predictions.

The original comment's "theorem" is funny, but unless you are doing a homework problem, you better have a good intuition for when to take a second look at a seemingly simple situation.
Malicious as in doing things outside the scope of what Microsoft wants done.
Indeed am seeing more and more sites that somehow get their videos to autoplay even though I have that explicitly disabled in Firefox settings. I thought user agents had ultimate control over 'mere bytes' sent over the wire but somehow these sites manage to trick the browser and override user preferences.
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I've worked with enough people in both groups to have little difficulty believing either. More than once I've had an engineer on my team that we worked with by confining their work to somewhere where they couldn't do much damage.
Wasn't there a recent study that found that the main things modern interviews test for is lack of anxiety?

And when you're told that your career rests on how perfectly you do in this interview and that any deviations from perfection will make you fail, is it any wonder people get anxious?

I once almost failed the most common leetcode easy problem because my mind blanked and I implemented the wrong solution at first. Interviewer probably labeled me as someone with fake credentials as I didn't have time for their second problem as a result.