skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Neil Postman has a chapter about how medical technology ha changed what people expect from medical treatment in his book _Technopoly_. The short of it is that we’ve become reliant on technological solutions that we demand the maximum treatment available land we litigate when the doctor doesn’t order the maximum number of tests or prescribe the maximum treatment, rather than rely on the doctor carefully listening to the patient and meting out more protracted treatments. I think that it’s good that researchers try every possible avenue for research, but I think our obsession with increasingly technological “solutions” is driving an unhealthy environment of mistakes in treatments in the interest of delivering the maximum possible.
The article assumes that time you previously spent idle commuting is now spent diligently working.
They also leave out context. Regular old flu and other respiratory infections are leading causes of permanent damage resulting in asthma. So... How does this compare in quantity and scale?
I'm glad to see that New Zealand is moving towards admitting that lockdowns can't control a virus.

I hope the rest of the world takes note.
One or two kids is not luxury. Having 16 kids, that's luxury.

I'm not saying that FB employees need to have babies to keep society going, I said that everybody needs to have babies to keep society going.
Retrograde Analysis
Energy generation is a national security concern. While all signs point to engineering issues preventing creation of a successful fusion plant, the reality is there are only a small handful of issues left that prevent energy generation from fusion.

The Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird first flew in 1964, the titanium used for its construction was purchased in secret via front operations by the CIA from the USSR. The Soviet Union was the only country that had enough titanium to build the SR-71.

The reason I reference this is because with enough money and resources anything is possible to do in secret. The SR-71 included some revolutionary technological innovations to solve the problems created by super-sonic flight. Energy viable controlled fusion is a little farther than the SR-71 was but not so much so that it is impossible.

Hence the qualifier.
This is exactly how I feel. What I do think you can criticize, however, is the lack of imagination mathematicians have in naming theorems. If only there were more Ham Sandwich Theorems [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ham_sandwich_theorem
Do you understand the difference between precautions, hedging, and FUD?

Pre caution. Pre. You can’t wait for all the data and then decide. That’s postcaution.
Why should they pay money to buy fancy playing cards, dolls, cars, clothing, anything?

What are you railing against? Capitalism?
The native empire you mentioned, Maurya Empire abandoned the conquest through war because of the whole Kalinga episode. Ashoka was far more interested in spreading the morals around after that, so much that his son became one of the messengers.

Though because of this, Cholas rose into one of the most fascinating empires with cultural influence over all of SE Asia. Even to date, the Thai king coronation ceremony is in Sanskrit, a language foreign to the land.
Talk to your carrier about that delay. I bet they don't have any problems receiving 2FA messages etc.
As a counterpoint, I've a Ph.D in math and I largely agree with the article. Frankly, it's difficult enough to keep track of the names in my own field much less interact with people in other fields who would greatly benefit from these results if they were comprehensible.

While I agree that precision is necessary, is it really that hard to say something like a complete inner product space vs a Hilbert space? Should we have an argument about whether we should call the triangle inequality the Cauchy-Schwarz or the Kantorovich inequality? How many years did it take to recognize Karush for providing algebraic optimality conditions long before Kuhn and Tucker?

Anyway, outside of general griping about names, very specifically, I have to regularly interact with technical people in other fields and memorizing names is one additional, often superfluous, barrier to their understanding. Even if it's important for someone credit the (supposed) originator outside of a citation, giving an intuitive name for the context would go a long way in improving understanding. For example, the triangle inequality from Cauchy and Schwarz or the algebraic optimality conditions from Karush, Kuhn, and Tucker.

By the way, I'll also mention that the majority of other mathematicians that I know don't feel this way and prefer using names after people. I understand; I just disagree.
This is broadly true, though he did have an impressive victory at the Hydaspes and establish a series of vassal states in the Indian northwest (modern Pakistan). The historical consensus is that it's unlikely he would have succeeded in a Persian-esque conquest of the subcontinent.
Instead of spending 43 hours to do 38 hours of work, you spend 38 hours to do 38 hours of work.

43 / 38 = 113% productivity
I know plenty of people who have Windows or Linux computers but still use an iPhone. I don’t know a single person who uses a Mac and an Android phone.
This is it, thanks. PAKE. No wonder I couldn’t remember it!
Why should we pander to the needs of Apple, a corporation making a few people wealthy beyond all imagination, but not much else?
My guess is they have a fuel line running to the rotor head, and then some sort of seal which allows for rotation and for feeding the fuel into the rotors.
Thank you for that link. Even back to when this talk was hosted on google video, it’s always had the glitches. And because of the nature of this talk, they take away from Steele’s excellent timing.
While it's a well-known and indeed snappy aphorism, many years after I heard it, I found out that in the mid-20th century, librarians used the term "users" for what they now call "patrons".

For examples: from 1952, "A public library user is defined as an individual twelve years of age or over who used either a branch library or bookmobile during the thirty days preceding the interview." (Quoting "Rural reading habits; a study of county library planning, Prince Georges County, Md.", https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015034569759&vi... )

From 1931, "This was the first complete triple asyndetic dictionary catalog. It became a favorite with town and mercantile libraries, the idea always being that the user was searching for some book he knew about ..." ("Outline of the history of the development of the American public library", https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015019970162&vi...)

From 1928, "Consider the User of Bulletins", title of a letter to the editor in Science - https://science.sciencemag.org/content/67/1724/40.2 .

Maybe it wasn't specific to library science either. I just did a broader search for "user" and found, for example, a 1905 ad for a book of tables for surveyors and engineers: "The computations enable the user to ascertain the sines and cosines for a distance of twelve miles to within half an inch, and this by reference to but One Table, in place of the usual Fifteen minute computations required. This alone is evidence of the assistance which the Tables ensure to every user ... " https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015063579133&vi...
I can't possibly imagine why people might be upset by the "utterance of forbidden words" like "<insert slur>s like you deserve to be murdered by the state" and want legal protection from it.
Is there any replacement for squashfs? I don't know of any other format on Linux that captures the state of the file system as fully as squashfs.
Always wish we talked more about Employee Stock Ownership Plans (ESOPs), in the US. Maybe there is a startup idea in making this type of program easier to implement, like Stripe Atlas for employee ownership. Imagine, further, if our tax law incentivized this type of ownership structure instead of incentivizing dividends and capital gains.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_employee-owned_compa...
This is not a fair criticism. The author attributes herself as the author to her piece because that is relevant information. But nowhere does she try to name the idea she raises after herself.
I think, personally, that it's because only the most iconoclastic individuals are willing to put in the effort to make truly free software (like MIT licensed, for example) since they have the raw, unfettered drive (based on their hatred of the mainstream) required to work through the years of programming for zero monetary returns that it takes to produce a feature-complete software project that does something worthwhile.

I believe we could partially solve this problem if we could better support the work-a-day developer with a great idea, who either doesn't have the risk profile to quit their job or doesn't have the free time to slave away in their home after their normal job. These people tend to be the programmer/engineer who worked in one or several companies in a similar industry, has seen the mistakes and insights from each, and can visualize a better data structure for a common operation in this industry, or perhaps even a new operational model that works more efficiently for optimizing some common problem.

However, those developers just don't have the incentive/drive/motivation to do it, and usually that's because their method of survival is to sell their time to another person/corporation in exchange for money that can be used to buy food, shelter, etc. and thus they are too tired, too demotivated, or perhaps they just want to spend some time with their family and friends. Whatever the reason, if you allow them some more of their free time to work on other stuff, these developers will come up with amazing things. There is an argument that some make about the "laziness" of developers who can't do a job and become a CEO of a startup and have a family, but why insinuate or argue that they're too lazy and unworthy when we could un-block their "laziness" and get great results for humanity? (My view is that no one is "lazy", just that some people have a higher "activation energy", but once they are "activated" most people will work as hard as the next.)

Also, I personally think software serving the interests of one person is going to be generally better than software serving the interests of greed, but I have no evidence, just a feeling from my life experiences.
It might be the study discussed in this article: https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg15220571-700-why-time...

But it's actually saying the opposite, 3:40 passed while the older subjects counted 3 minutes.

edit: oops, this was already pointed out elsewhere https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24381550
C and R turn up top results with the single letter, D works if you add "language", F is more niche but not hard with some Google Fu, same with the other examples. Not everything is easy to Google, but I find those to be very niche or technical topics, e.g. a random linker error that has many other similar terms with another set of related errors.
RIP Jack Rickard, founder of Boardwatch magazine
The colour of the bubble is there so you know how the message is sent. It’s a useful feature.
A nice read and a good reminder that presentation and knowing your audience counts for a lot, in court as well as the workplace. It's not the facts or your deliverables, but the way in which you sell them to others.
I think in many ways it's impossible to have this discussion with a U.S. audience.

The idea of force and violence being the solution to everything is deeply, deeply ingrained in U,S, culture. Simply suggesting that reason and cooperation can solve some of the problems we in the U.S. attempt to solve with more violence is usually met with the "starship troopers" ideology that violence is the actual source of legitimacy of all government.

And we do treat everything this way. We have a problem and declare war on it. War on drugs, war on poverty, war on obesity. That might sound like a tongue-in-cheek way to state a problem is serious, but consider that mindset an entire culture must have to make "war" be the perpetually used shorthand for the ultimate solution to every social problem.

And a large portion of the U.S. apparently has no concept of a social contract and a sense of cooperative action or "doing my part."

It's like violence and force is the only tool we have in the U.S. so every social ill is met with the further application of it, way beyond what is reasonable.

And it seems to be a one way trip. You can never suggest that we have gone too far. Apparently there can never be too many police, too much military spending, or too many people in prison. They only right answer is more of that, please.

We are teetering on the precipice of complete authoritarianism because of our culture and it's scary.
Yeah here in South Africa an iPhone 7 will cost like $200 2nd hand and $300-400 new. They’re not cheap here, they’re outrageously expensive
I am currently making one. Check out this thread: https://twitter.com/CadenSumner/status/1301254072859684864
This article appears to be a summary of the original paper. But, it leaves out some critical points - i.e.:

- The papers "Discussion" section concludes with: "MIS-C is rare but the potential long-term sequelae from this disease are currently unknown."

Also, the fact that it says:

- ”Children might have no symptoms, no one knew they had the disease, and a few weeks later, they may develop this exaggerated inflammation in the body.“
and then a few sentences later
- "...100% had fever, 73.7% had abdominal pain or diarrhea, and 68.3% suffered vomiting."

Seems contradictory.
>> most young adults don't have a roof over their head sorted out. Statistically few people have the opportunity to live with their parents

"The share of 18- to 29-year-olds living with their parents has become a majority since U.S. coronavirus cases began spreading early this year, surpassing the previous peak during the Great Depression era.

In July, 52% of young adults resided with one or both of their parents, up from 47% in February"

-- Pew Research, https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2020/09/04/a-majority-...
Another open source, WebRTC-based chat - https://brie.fi/ng

Also open source. Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23523830
I know Snap isolates dependencies... But does it share them if they are common at all? I think this would make the sweet spot...
To expand on that, "random logic" means that it looks random; it's not actually random. This is in contrast to circuits that have an underlying structure to them, like a PLA or ROM.
The article is based off someone scraping all the Cochrane reviews and doing ctrl-f for the phrase "high quality evidence"... unfortunately the headline makes great click bait but I think it's misleading as most people are not versed enough in medical evidence and come away with an incorrect impression as to the evidence supporting medical interventions today. Even an intervention with "moderate" level of evidence supporting it has already passed a bar far beyond what most people would imagine.

As to your claim about antidepressants, psychiatry and psychopharmacology is abound in RCTs, many on treating depression with antidepressants. You are perhaps mistaking a common clinical approach (outside of clinical studies) for finding the best medical management for single patient with how clinical evidence is procured in the first place. There are more Cochrane reviews under "mental health" at 679 than there are under "orthopedics" at 478.

Also, when RCTs are proposed, no matter if they placebo controlled or not, they are reviewed by IRBs and ethics committees.
I mean, do you like that those people get off now if they’re powerful? Or if a cop decides to do that either nothing happens or they get let go with a million dollar pension?

At least in a flat society you’d have an equal say to advocate for w/e you thought is just.

Personally for me, and many others who lean left, prison or death doesn’t sit right because it doesn’t address the root of the problem and it’s often used to quash dissent. This is perhaps what you find unsatisfying but if you were magically placed into an anarchist community you’d have more ability to advocate for what you thought was fair.
This example is made even sillier when one realizes that that "complex" and "symplectic" actually mean the same thing, but the former is Latin and the latter is Greek. It is essentially the same "everyday" description being applied two to quite different mathematical objects.
How many cases do you need to get a statistically significant sampling? Somehow we know what SARS does to a human with just a couple hundred cases. At some point we’re going to have to say we have a pretty good idea. India alone has 4,000,000 cases.
Neat, thanks for sharing. I'm currently in Chanakyapuri near Chandragupta Marg. I now understand the significance of those names a bit more.
I Disagree with you, in Computer Science we have things like: "Quick Sort", "Merge Sort", "Map", "Hashtable", "LRU", etc... etc...

They are much more descriptive and easy to remember, even though the Algorithms can be complex themselves. Event the name "Boolean", could be changed to "Conditional"... and be even more readable. Also, Dijkstra algorithm can be generalized to "Shortest Path Algorithm" (there can be more than one).

Math, and physics to some degree, have become self-referential to the point that start becoming more esoteric magic black books to beginners...

While CS was born out of Math folks, and unfortunately has adopted some of the same esoteric symbolics, I hope Computer Science doesn't follow that path on the long term, otherwise it will become divorced from day to day real life applications.

Let me give you a clear example:

Now, imagine if we called Double Linked Lists as "Darombolo lists", or whoever invented it. (I made up that name), Double Linked List is very easy to visualize and remember. "Giacomo Darombolo List", is not, and just adds to 'must cram/memorize' things to make things work.....

I personally don't like "cramming" useless trivia in order to work in my field. I hope Computer Science divorces from Math, and takes its own path to more logical naming of things and less useless symbols used in it.

It is like the whole field suffers because the authors' Narcissism, that they must name things after them.
IIRC Jitsi is P2P if you have 2 people.
We also live in a "consumer always loses" economy as well. It could just be "consumer" supercedes "user".

I was listening to Richard Wolff describing to Patrick Bet-David how capitalism creates monopolies and in the end the consumers always lose [1]. As companies get bigger, they become worse actors. I can't think of a counter example.

Patrick thinks everything has gotten cheaper and the consumer is winning, at least today (since history only backs the thesis). Richard couldn't come up with immediate counter examples regarding how Amazon is abusing their monopoly priviledges but FBA pricing and seller fees came to mind. Someone in the comments mentioned prescription drugs.

[1] Heated Debate On Capitalism with America’s Most Prominent Marxist Economist - Richard Wolff
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wj-zFgxCUnY
Which distro do you recommend?
Guided Wim Hof Method Breathing
No, it does not. The compiler knows the pointer type so that it can generate correct assembly, but the pointer type is not something stored in memory past the compilation phase.
There's already a technology that can do that - magnetohydrodynamic generation [1]. A conductive material moving through a magnetic field develops a voltage across it, which can be used to produce power; a hot plasma is a conductive material with lots of energy that can drive movement.

The problem is that most of the energy produced in fusion is in the kinetic energy of neutrons. To capture that energy, you need to slow the neutrons down by collisions with some material, turning the kinetic energy into heat in that material, and then harvest the heat. AIUI, neutrons being neutral, you need that material to be dense (lots of nuclei per unit volume) and have a high neutron cross-section. The plasma in a fusion reactor is neither, so you can't collect the neutron energy in the plasma. Rather, you have to let the neutrons hit some dense blanket surrounding the plasma, collect the energy as heat there, and then harvest that.

There are fusion reactions which don't produce neutrons [1], and so where the energy goes into the kinetic energy of charged particles, which is readily collected in the plasma, using MHD or direct conversion [3] (is MHD considered a kind of direct conversion?). But they are much harder to do than the reactions which do produce neutrons, and those are already hard enough!

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnetohydrodynamic_generator

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aneutronic_fusion

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Direct_energy_conversion
SOA for Internal Shared Libraries
My Ergodox EZ Layouts to Relearn Typing Within Three Days
"Often", here, should be read as "quite rarely".
Exploitation of human psychology. Trading health of others for a few bucks more in your already full pocket.

If that’s capitalism then yes, I’m against that. I don’t agree that is or has to be capitalism, though.
Ruby3 and Beyond: Matz Keynote at RubyKaigi 2020
In this case,I felt it was only needed because of having jury trials. I had the same takeaway that is useful in other places as you. For example, my boss presented a feature that I had worked on better than how I would have done it.
I enjoyed sharing my entire full screen with omen.tv and watching infinity -- just like pointing a video camera at a mirror.
Right, but productivity has everything to do with time spent and work done, so doing the same work with less time wasted on overhead (commuting) means more productivity.
Maybe because SMS became very popular in the US, and iMessage originally was just an extension of SMS from a UX perspective, 2 years after iPhone launched. It added functionality and fixed issues with SMS (multi-part messages, images, etc). This led to the dislike of "green bubbles" because it meant you were forcing a degraded experience on the other person. That started a positive feedback loop for iMessage.

My understanding is SMS never got anywhere as popular in the EU.
Very true. But it’s certainly the same concept and had very significant social effects purely because of artificial technical limitations.