skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is a problem with how we diagnosis illness today. We diagnose off of symptoms and symptoms only. The reason this is a problem is there can be multiple different things that cause identical or nearly identical symptoms. Today we think of those multiple things as one, but they're not one thing, they're different things. If they were the same, they would have the same cure.

Parent knows he has a BH4 deficiency. Instead of calling that bi-polar, we could instead call it eg, 'bi-polar type 5' out of, say, 12, where 12 is the number of cures we've found for bipolar. Eventually, as time passes, we can map all if the cures, mapping all of the types. However, we can not do this if we think of an illness as a singular thing. This person has one specific type of bi-polar, and just because it only cures a subset of bi-polar patients does not mean it should be dismissed. It should be documented so we can have a list of cures.

Once there is a list of cures a doctor can walk through this list and eventually find the correct cure for the patient. Once everything is mapped it becomes possible to have a 100% cure rate. This is something no single pill can do.

This is why we should not force a one shoe fits all approach. It is toxic behavior to dismiss a solution just because it only works on a subset of patients. If I had bi-polar I'd be glad to know their story, so I could try it and see if it would work on myself. Dismissing psychological solutions is a toxic behavior we as a culture share. Let's do our part to make the world a better place and end this behavior.
Good question :).

Yeah Shakespeare is a great example.

The King James Bible might be the ur-example, as I’ve heard it said that it’s so influential it basically shaped the English language.

As another poster said, the phrase “product of its time” in this case is talking about if the language holds up over time or ends up sounding dated and thus loses its luster.
The U.S. Is Saving the Financial Sector, Not the Economy
Quite a few of these packages have undergone significant backward-incompatible changes over the years and are intertwined with specific version ranges of other packages. The churn complaints are caused by the cadence of this happening and how difficult it is to stay on a combination of stuff that actually works together. Babel may have been released in 2015 but nothing written back then would work in babel today. Same with webpack. I can't write something and then come back in a year and expect even an ounce of stability in my project. It's good that things keep improving but it's also exhausting having so much time spent performing upgrades and re-learning best practices in tools you were previously comfortable with.
Kind of. But realise when this starts happening at-scale, every news anchor, celebrity and politician will be talking about the dangers of deepfakes. The layperson won't be ignorant for long. Already I see non-techie friends talking about deepfakes.
WebKit is Apple, not Google, no?
Erm, I quite like American tech. Google is an unbelievable resource. Provided for free. You want to ban it? I wonder how much business it drives to British companies. Also I couldn't do my job with out it.

Amazon taking over all our businesses? That's a bold claim, any stats to back that up. A family member of mine runs a business on Amazon. You'd like to kill her business? There is literally no other platform that does something like fba.

Also the reason Amazon and Google are successful here in the UK (and everywhere they are allowed to operate) is because they are way better than the competition.
At least in Chinese cuisines, alot of seafood and other foodstuffs are still preserved with salt. But you normally soak it first, like with salt cod in European cuisines.
Judge Sets Internet Archive Tentative Trial Date for November 2021
That's exactly what I'm saying. Move to land on a hill. Travel north. Buy up some tundra that will be futile farm land in 50 years.

We should also pause for a minute and not the silent beauty of this consensus. No major leader, no scientist, no religious figure ever said Fuck it, let's not bother. But that's what our species have decided...
To render all sort of dynamic information:

* visitors counter

* request IP

* game stats in forum signature (implemented this with gd and ruby)
To expand a bit, a union is supposed to be democratic - the workers themselves organize to promote their own interests. But many unions that remain these days have become professionalized. They have their own well-paid administration and lobbyists, and their levers of power are political contributions and signing restrictive long-term contracts with employers.

Here is an article I found that goes into this: https://www.labornotes.org/2002/06/corporatization-unions
> Accident caused by Communists who did not care about what happened to Ukrainians

There were many such RBMK reactors spread all over the Soviet world that had the same flaws . There are many problems with your summary so can I just recommend that you watch the HBO mini series "Chernobyl" instead? It's a great watch.
You are aware that the business judgement rule[0] allows company directors wide latitude in how they run the company, right? I understand expecting companies to make strong efforts to be as profitable as possible, but there is literally no need to do so at the expense of both employees and the company's public image. Rather than trying to "minimize that perception," the simplest way to deal with this type of scenario is to just not do the bad thing.

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[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_judgment_rule
99$ for 50,000 hours is a steal. You could barely rent a dedicated server for that amount of money, let alone the maintenance.
> Go is like a rusty old hammer that will just work and there are not too many ways to hold it.

And there are non-rusty hammers that also "just work" and don't exactly introduce an insurmountable dilemma when it comes to holding them, as well as having pretty basic variations to the hammer head that actually make it easier to "get stuff done" (such as a claw or a peen).

But the people using the rusty hammer like to pretend as though anything other than the most basic form of a hammer (double flat head on a handle) is just "fancy feelings" driven musing about "beauty or correctness".
Paraphrasing a home brewer on the topic of how/why we've had alcohol for so long:

We carry a chemical testing laboratory around with us everywhere - our noses - and it can detect all the ways beer can go wrong and become harmful.

We made it, we could tell by smell if it was going to kill us, so we kept making it.

Sometime later horrible odors became a hallmark of Progress, and has been paying dividends ever since.
The second one is an amazing close up photo of a lunar mountain.
What a bummer! As an iOS user, I was eagerly looking forward to this feature, wanting to tell others about it and how the upgrade to iOS 14 would be worth it just to clearly expose apps that want to track users.

I already have ad tracking limited in my settings (Settings->Privacy->Limit Ad Tracking), but that was something I had to explicitly turn on, and there’s no notice on which apps use the ID for advertising.
Bullshit jobs is a bit more light-hearted and not as deeply researched as Debt. It is based mainly on observations from hundred of replies to his original article on bullshit jobs.

I found both books insightful and enjoyable to read and would highly recommend them to anyone.
The West is quite familiar with the concept of the "Philosopher King." I agree that if you assume a perfectly moral, incorruptible dictator, then they are a perfect government. It's certainly better than democracy.

It's also impossible to achieve, though, which makes it a bit moot. No single person is guaranteed to stay free of corruption, especially when granted tremendous, unchecked power. Creating a system that relies on this not happening is not a good idea. It's just too huge a gamble.

Also, comparing Ayatollah Khamenei, a formerly elected politician who controls around $100 billion of quasi-private wealth, to a council of ascetic monks, is a bit of a stretch.
Is Bill Gates an investor in NuScale? Or am I thinking of another modular reactor startup in the PNW?
I have been interviewed twice for articles in Wired and once for Chemical and Engineering News. I was a first hand observer of an event reported in the Portland Oregonian when I was in high school.

I was not misquoted or otherwise misrepresented in the first three cases. In all of these cases I found the reporting to be accurate.

I do notice mistakes when news publications write about topics relevant to my expertise. But these mistakes often (though not always) would not change the conclusions of the article when corrected. A lot of the mistakes I notice are elementary ones like confusing units of energy and power. They indicate that the writer lacks a subject matter background but they don't invalidate the whole article. When an article says "The new wind farm will generate 180,000 megawatts per year, enough to supply 10,000 Texas households" it's clear enough that "180,000 megawatt hours per year" is what should have been written.

I know that other people have different experiences, where they find that their first hand knowledge of events has been completely twisted by news reporting. Or where their subject of expertise is reported incorrectly in mainstream publications all the time, not only in details but in the major conclusions. I wonder if these howlers are prevalent in online discussions of news accuracy simply because the howlers make for more vivid memories that will spur people to share their experiences in comments.
TLDR;
Vacation rentals |
Pet adoption fees |
Mental health subscription |
Digital well-being experiences |
At home "concierge” services |
Childcare support?
They can only give away so much for free
The Making of the “Good CIA”
I didn't know any other ML-based open source transcription engines existed? I can't seem to find them on Google.
Should there be a law that you can't use unrelated laws or violations in order to compel otherwise legal behavior?
This thing of spending like an hour setting up a runner is one of the things I wanted to address with https://boxci.dev - A CI service I’ve built with a similar bring your own runners model but where “setting up the runner” consists of just installing a package, literally done in seconds :-) You should check it out.
Previous Discussion 2 days ago

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24345288
It probably joins all the rubber coming off the tires, settling on or near the road and then washing into the waterways.
I often need Dataflow, Spark Engineering, NoSql and Sql datastores, enterprise security and hybrid cloud with my datascience https://docs.cloudera.com/machine-learning/cloud/product/top...
They are rebuilding a concrete highway next to my house.

A thing I thought was really interesting is that they broke up the old concrete (which surprising to me had no rebar in it), and then ran it through a rock crusher and used all that rock to build up the road bed and I assume also used as aggregate in the new concrete they put down.

I thought that was neat because I've read a bunch of places that old concrete isn't really ever re-used for anything.
>"Double-masked" is usually synonymous with "double-blind," because "masking" sounds less violent than "blinding."

This is literally the first time I've heard of "double-blind" being interpreted this way.
To be fair, Coinbase is not a trustless system, though it provides access to trustless systems.
I'm genuinely happy that SF is seeing peaceful protests, but I spent 2 weeks driving through National Guard checkpoints in my city due to violent unrest, and I'm aware of at least 5 other cities who were similarly affected. Minimizing the presence of violence on either side is wrong. The "few bad apples" narrative doesn't work for cops or protesters, or we wouldn't be seeing what we're seeing.
Thanks, I'm glad you find it useful :-)
The economics are yet to be borne out. I believe the NuScale cost (feel free to correct me if this information is wrong) is still above the cost of renewables and storage [1] but below that of traditional PWRs (684Mw @ $3 billion [2], ~25 cents/kwh [3]), which is competitive in places like Hawaii (which is still relying heavily on diesel fuel for what solar isn't providing) and geographies with limited land or renewables potential, but not elsewhere (storage aside, you're still competing with renewables around 1-3 cents/kwh at utility scale).

Congrats to NuScale for making it through to the other side of US nuclear regulatory purgatory. Optimism is warranted ("all of the above" to replace fossil fuels), but cautious optimism. It's not real until a commercial reactor is generating. Vogtle is still not done [4]. I hope I get to see a factory churning out prefab reactors ready for shipment.

EDITs (to not pollute thread with replies): A carbon tax in the US is very unlikely, and you cannot count on economies of scale until you have arrived at scale.

[1] https://www.lazard.com/perspective/lcoe2019

[2] https://www.nuscalepower.com/benefits/cost-competitive

[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24346808

[4] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24061448
>All hospitalized patients received as best available therapy the same standard care, (per hospital protocol), of a combination of hydroxychloroquine (400 mg every 12 hours on the first day, and 200 mg every 12 hours for the following 5 days), azithromycin (500 mg orally for 5 days.

Fascinating how hydroxychloroquine is routinely used and considered standard of care in most countries where the drug has not been politicized.
The Lead Said No. Now What?
Please list specific actual links where people say that classes are better.

I love hooks.
For the most part, yes. Were you confused about something?
I have read both of these great books and I agree, they are very inspiring.
> also a syntax for a new one inspired by Ada

I suspect that you wouldn't agree about the desirability, but I've long thought that doing a simple substitution on some of the terminals in the Ada grammar to turn it into a curly brace language would do a lot for adoption. For someone to do it the right way would mean a tool capable of also doing the reverse substitution on a curly brace text, which would produce output that could be consumed by "legacy" (non-curly brace-aware) compilers. With the rest of the grammar and semantics all staying the same, this would mean a level of fluidity that would allow existing Ada programmers and the programmers working in the hip new "Attica-B"† dialect to work together on the same projects with no more friction than the way that a lot of people already use gofmt.

† Get it?
Something along these lines graced HN's front page recently, but I'll repeat my comment from there: Read "Weapons of Math Destruction" by Cathy O'Neil. Truly frightening.
This was the first thing I had ever read by him about the time of the Yale controversy.

Fragments of an Anarchist Anthropology (2004):

http://abahlali.org/files/Graeber.pdf

It struck me as some really original thinking
The LED light that kills 99.8% of the SARS-CoV-2 virus without UV rays
UC Irvine has one underneath the chemistry building
https://faculty.sites.uci.edu/trigareactor/
The University of Florida has a 100kW training reactor since 1959[0].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UF_Training_Reactor
It's definitely a factor!
> Notably, though, diabetes and high blood pressure were substantially more frequent in the control group

How did this happen? Just bad luck with randomization?
Lenovo releases first Fedora Linux ThinkPad laptop
Master chefs have learned to keep their fingers away from the blade — sharp knives cut to the bone.
We could get the approximations quite wrong and still get massive economic improvements from where we currently are!

However the challenge isn't the approximations, but the political difficulties. Even taxing based on mileage would cause an uproar. And taxing large pickups proportional to their economic toll on infrastructure would probably start a violent revolution.
The humor of the request by a /u/rsync for a comparison of two books was not lost on me (or as the cool kids on reddit say "Username checks out")
I don't see how anything would be much more robust than HTTP. Any network based protocol can fail at any time, so you're going to have to have some concept of tracking your progress and retrying failed requests. Both are easy to do with HTTP. Can you give a concrete example of something that would work better than HTTP?
I'd love to know the answer. Also, turns out it's not a river but a "swoop pond":

https://goo.gl/maps/pSZVqNJatFoyY6ge9

https://i.imgur.com/MkFmo5v.png

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=plqEYjIcOow

(bonus blooper https://youtu.be/-rMy8CvHhAw?t=3)
Indeed it would! grzaks, please email hn@ycombinator.com if you might like to write about this.
I think it also depends on CO2 charges if any.

For example, right now we have a pretty serious externality with CO2 for coal and other sources, what are the costs that folks would assign to CO2 to clear to needed target? That could bring comparative cost (with CO2 impact) down a bit.
The Next Decade in AI: Four Steps Towards Robust Artificial Intelligence [pdf]
Charge the asphalt companies a carbon tax, and let municipalities create road taxes based on vehicle weight/usage to pay for the extra costs created for road maintenance
Apple's blog post about their plans:

"We are committed to ensuring users can choose whether or not they allow an app to track them. To give developers time to make necessary changes, apps will be required to obtain permission to track users starting early next year. More information, including an update to the App Store Review Guidelines, will follow this fall."

https://developer.apple.com/news/?id=hx9s63c5
Yes, let us now dump iron in oceans instead, because what can go wrong?
Evil is very good, but moving to Emacs from vim was not quite the smooth ‘just use evil and you get the best of vim with the power of Emacs’ experience that people say, at least for me.

I found it needed some extra configuration before it felt like stock vim.

C-u isn’t bound to "scroll up" by default with evil, for example. You have to (setq evil-want-C-u-scroll t). That took a while to figure out and I expected it to work that way by default.

Then you have to (setq evil-want-keybinding nil) and install evil-collection and evil-magit to be able to use vim movements in other Emacs buffers.

Or you have to learn Emacs shortcuts and just use vim for editing, but that feels awkward for a vim native.

As an Emacs newbie I still find it unsettling that documentation for packages and for Emacs itself all uses Emacs-style shortcuts. Of course it couldn’t really be another way, but I either have to learn those or remap things to vim-style leader bindings. It makes vim usage in Emacs feel a little uncanny at times.

I could use a distro like Doom which has it all wired up for vimheads already, but then I’m learning someone else’s shortcuts and system, which takes away from the point of Emacs a little for me (the idea that you make it your editor).

Maybe it gets easier with time. If any other vim users made the move to Emacs I’d love to hear some tips!
Apple order to pay California store workers for time spent
University of Illinois had one for many years in Urbana. My uncle ran the reactor and then babysat the fuel for a decade or so after it was decommissioned. It takes that long to get the fuel disposed of apparently.
Bill Gates is involved with TerraPower, the other PNW based nuclear startup
Free hosted OSS alternative to Zapier/Airflow (now in public beta)
I think picking a few accidents and saying that all nuclear is unsafe is such a disingenuous argument any more. All of those plants were based on extremely old designs and there have been tons of improvements. How about we focus on the "portable" nuclear power that is used by the US Navy for submarines and aircraft carriers safely.
Yeah but why isn't it just HTML?
Right. I can absolutely imagine how midlevel management created this issue, under complicated circumstances (employee variability, store level theft issues, time clocks, performance measurements, standard retail practices, etc)

And sure, not being paid for screening time does disincentivize the bringing of bags (although in a somewhat gender-discriminatory way -- males would have fewer issues than females). Reducing the number of bags to screen reduces the workload of the screener, and reduces the chance that something will be missed, which is clearly a benefit to the company.

But at some point, someone at the CxO level has to step in and do the right thing for employees and for the company. Apple's brand is damaged by this practice, and by this lawsuit, regardless of the decision.
Thing is this kind of design benefits massively from economies of scale, same kind of thing that has drawn the price of PV down and other green energy.
you can force CPU only and also disable MSAA on the GPU renderer.
Enabling the GPU renderer doesn't guarantee that everything will be generated on the GPU. Skia can still decide to rasterize a path on the CPU before uploading it on the GPU.
> establish a Ministry of Truth

I know this isn't simple. However, there are things that are simple. Things like taking statements out of context or editing videos/audio to distort what was said to fit a narrative.

What I would like to see are articles with a full list of references and sources for the reader to dig into. In other words, if you can't provide backup for your claims, don't publish it. The TV equivalent for that would be a process through which viewers could access sources via an easy to use link to the TV network's website.

In other words, we ought to demand more from the press. We have the technology to deliver more. Lies and distortion should not be tolerated. The rule should be something like: If you can't confirm your claims and back them up with evidence, don't say or print them.

The other side of that would be that it would be OK to print and broadcast opinion (which can be unverified, even lies) with a clearly visible disclaimer. This could be like the equivalent of the disclaimers in cigarette packs, something like "THIS INFORMATION IS NOT VERIFIED AND COULD BE 100% INACCURATE" at the start and end of every article and prominently displayed on video.

Probably a bunch of silly ideas. I'll admit that having been the subject of libel has made me sensitive to just how destructive this can be. People without this experience tend to discount the lies the press/media float every minute of every day as unimportant. It isn't, but convincing the masses they should demand and somehow require better is a nearly impossible task.
Article gave absolutely no indication of its dimensions. How "tiny" is it exactly?
You might want to read this. It is short and respectful:

https://pluralistic.net/2020/09/03/rip-david-graeber/#rip-da...
I got really excited that this was an nice open source way to track my physical human health metrics over time. Oh well, I guess this just means I have to make one now.
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This seems like fretting over a term.

Everything is 'safe' until we discover it isn't and improve. Many things have improved over times. Calling them safe seems fine, we can do so understanding the process of learning and advancing.
I would love to have been a fly on the wall in that meeting.

Having already pissed off the advertisers, Apple felt threatened enough to turn around and alienate its power users.

Couldn't have been an easy decision...
This is unfortunate. Adtech is a cancer. We don't need to give it time to adapt, we need to shut it down.