skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm sorry about your family. But extrapolating from their uninformed use of essential oils to say that the psychiatrist's recommendation is always right is just swinging from one extreme to another. As podgaj said elsewhere,

> I literally have the metabolic and genetic proof that I found out what was causing my mood disorder.

We aren't talking about essential oils, or anything close. podgaj also says pretty clearly that the psychiatrist's recommendations were doing him no good at all. Don't let your personal grief harm others -- in this case, by denying that there is any alternative to using the antipsychotic medication that a psychiatrist would recommend.

> Ask any psychiatrist.

Only if the evidence is totally conclusive, as I mentioned elsewhere. Otherwise, asking a psychiatrist will only get you 10-20 year old data from the textbooks they read in school, and whatever they've learned to try and keep up to date since then. That's great when you have a fairly normal problem with a straightforward solution and no strange factors in play.

People seem to think medicine is more or less solved, like physics or computer science (ha) -- it's not. We don't even know why people tend to get colds in the winter! Even for that, the best we have are competing theories.

Here's an example: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/22340278/. It's about schizophrenia, but as a psychiatric illness it's close enough to illustrate my point. There were even bipolar patients included in the group, though they didn't contribute to these conclusions. A 20 year longitudinal study of 139 psychotic patients; here's a key quote (SZ is shorthand for schizophrenia):

> At the 2-year assessment there were no significant differences in severity of psychosis between SZ on antipsychotic medications and SZ not on any medications. However, starting at the 4.5-year follow-ups and continuing over the next 15 years, the SZ who were not on antipsychotic medications were significantly less psychotic than those on antipsychotics (p<0.05).

> In addition (see Fig. 1), starting at the 4.5-year follow-up and continuing at each assessment over the next 15 years, a significantly larger percentage of SZ not on medications experienced a period of recovery (p<0.01), which also requires adequate work and social functioning.

Dependence on experts can cause irreparable damage, too.
I don't see how. The people buying the shares are not related to the market makers so as far as I can tell there's nothing illegal about that.
Not necessarily. I'm not suggesting to throw reason and common sense all along.

I'm just suggesting that, in the absence of scientific evidence, you can rely on plausible intuition and stories.

As an example, suppose you noticed that whenever you don't sleep well you are more forgetful. And suppose there were no studies, research, whatsoever linking sleep to Alzheimer's (like the one posted earlier: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24365546). Then your own experiences which could also be echoed by others, are enough to make this a hypothesis worth considering, and act upon it (=pay attention to your sleep quality) until there are rigorous scientific studies confirming (or disproving) it.
>Otherwise, it quite literally states the opposite - please do play your music for your friends, so long as it is yours.

where do you read that?

Cuz when I read the BOLDED statement

>You may not use videos on our Products to create a music listening experience

Your take is not my take.
The docset was large, but it was not as large as a VAX.

I had to learn VMS in a hurry in the last two months of 1986. I had the full binder set on a shelf in my toilet (Cambridge, UK). You could not have put a VAX in there :)
> he can create what he does only because he’s developed a ‘knack’ for it that can’t be wholly conveyed in words.

Industrialization has demonstrated that, at least for wheels, this is untrue.
There are things that powershell does well, but I wouldn't say that it's really all that unixey. It relies far too heavily for the user to have an understanding of the windows object model, which frankly a lot of sysadmins don't have and refuse to learn. In unices the pipeline is just that, a way to send a stream of bytes from one place to another. In pwsh it's more complicated than that since it passes an object along with the preceding command's metadata.

In my personal experience, powershell is fantastic for writing scripts and tooling, but not really so great for actual use as a shell. What makes a good shell is speed and 'muscle memory', imo.
Steganography is cooler for sure, but can't PNGs already store arbitrary data in the header? IIRC, the game Spore did that so you can exchange creatures by sending images.
Good stuff, nice work!
About the author of the piece: "Charles Murray, a fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, has become one of the most influential social scientists in America, using racist pseudoscience and misleading statistics to argue that social inequality is caused by the genetic inferiority of the black and Latino communities, women and the poor." - Southern Poverty Law Center

Every now and then the stench of Ross's writing wafts up unexpectedly into your day. At this point it's a pleasure because Ross gets it so wrong you remain in awe of how warped his mind has become. Even a fool can tell you America is in decline, but only a special fool--"doofus" is really the best word--will try to sell it to you the way Ross does:

“The sexual revolution created new winners and losers, new hierarchies to replace the old ones, privileging the beautiful and rich and socially adept in new ways and relegating others to new forms of loneliness and frustration.”

Of course there's a perfectly reasonable materialist explanation for the miseries Ross and his ilk enumerate upon, but it's for their total mischaracterization of the obvious that institutions like the New York Times pay them handsomely.
NPR and PBS both receive the majority of their funding from private sources, so I don't think its a valid comparison.
> but I wouldn't expect anyone to write a brand new queuing system or database in C or C++ anymore given the alternative languages available.

Then you expect wrong, at least about Database Management Systems. New performant ones are often (/ mostly?) written in C++. At least that's what it's like for analytical DBMSes.

Some examples:

* HyperDB: https://www.hyper-db.de/

* DuckDB: https://duckdb.org/

* Vectorwise/Actian Vector: https://www.actian.com/analytic-database/vector-analytic-dat...

And you might also be surprised that many problems originally carried over from C to C++, like dereferencing nulls and memory leaks can be done away with - not by being super-careful, but by sticking to newer language facilities and using some static analysis. Other, like buffer overruns, are easier to avoid with things like spans and ranged-for loops.
I really don't know what you're arguing about here. To repeat myself, if I overestimated how much they paid, then it's even more people whose contributions are incinerated. Yay for my original point I guess?
China is an enormous country. Surely this wasn't universally true?
Uncle Bob's cleancoders.com for some of those perhaps?
Wag wired those $300M back a few months ago.
A Hypothesis Is a Liability
It’s unclear why you’d be such an advocate for unquestioningly seeking treatment if you neither trust medicine in general, nor have had good experiences with it yourself.
>This is a crime, right?

Good question.

On one hand, it's purely mechanical; it just works that way. On the other, it's hard to imagine doing it deliberately wouldn't be considered manipulation.
One thing I've always wondered about when it comes to the temporary nature of US presidential terms and their respective administrations - why does it seem like it's so much easier to dismantle things than to create them in the first place?

Especially for things that took a substantial amount of time and effort to build, shouldn't we require much more scrutiny before considering an action that effectively dismantles/dissovles/destroys
them? Instead it feels more like we are at the mercy of the whims of whoever is the current temp-employee-in-chief.
I very much want to be taught and can afford to pay a reasonable amount of money, provided my time is used efficiently. I’m not rich, but I’ve got a lot more money than time to invest.

I’m getting my money’s worth if you efficiently teach me (the critical elements of) a topic for $250 in 5 hours. The market seems to prefer to pay $11 for 25-40 hours of content. (And I admit to having bought hundreds of dollars of Udemy courses that I’ve never even watched, so in some way I’ve contributed to the problem. Rather than bookmark a course, I’ll often just buy it.)
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Know-it-all AI learns by reading the entire web nonstop
Yeah, even though the platform has some questionable practices the overall content and the depth of the courses, especially the top ones are well worth the money (since the course will be on sale for 80-90% all the time )
The article did not mention that they covered a narrative that Trump disliked. Where did you get that from?
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Why would buying derivatives be a crime? That doesn’t make any sense.

If I buy 10 calls, the MM has to hedge. If SoftBank buys 100,000 calls, they just hedge more. How do you figure this is in any way remotely illegal?

Buying shares also raises the price of shares, should that be illegal too?
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Do you? The entire point of the machine is to read the test to the limits of what the test strip can detect.

It the digital reader can't detect the line, that should be a limitation of the test strip, not the automation. And it should do better than an untrained human.
I wonder if this qualifies as violating the 1st Amendment, since it's basically the government shutting down another voice in the government.
So many good memories, the simplicity of this player was wonderful. I made a skin for sure, but I don't think I ever submitted it.
they used to own 100B of alibaba

i have to assume bytedance has/will work out favorably for them.. maybe im wrong there
I agree in that I have major problems with the article, but disagree that somehow we are in this period of great innovation. I think this kind of argument always goes down two paths. First, someone says "things are terrible right now and it's the end." Then someone else says "no it isn't here's why things are actually great!"

Sure we have access to more knowledge than ever - but have we seen the effects of such? Just the opposite - anti-science sentiment is as high as ever. How many people actually truly learn a language online? Downloading duolingo and using it for 2 weeks before giving up is not learning a new language. We overrate minutiae such as this.

> if you don't understand technology, please stop fucking writing about it.

HN is for openly discussing ideas. Technologists face the same biases as anyone else.
Smartphones are locked down pretty tightly, so I'm not sure how much could actually go wrong compared to what can go wrong with regular apps anway.
I really miss VMS. Adding a command wasn't just simply a matter of throwing an executable on the path, it had to be declared, with two options: One was to declare a command that had its own argument parsing or the better option, there was a way of doing external configuration of the arguments using (iirc) a .cld file which provided a way of specifying all the arguments and options for the command in a straightforward way. I did this for all the TeX programs around 1990 (I think this might have been the first TeX version which didn't use separate binaries for iniTeX vs TeX). It was nice because the OS automatically managed things like abbreviations so you only needed to type as much of a verbose command or option as was necessary for it to be unique. So while the command might have been `DIRECTORY /FULL` one could just type `DIR /FU` to get the same result. The VMS help system was also fantastic and allowed for easy browsing of available commands and their instructions in a way that man+apropos only approximates (not to mention that the tradition of using relatively verbose but understandable commands and options made it supremely usable.
It's a useful aggregator to be sure. Unfortunately, it doesn't solve censorship.

Example:

I was trying to research the current events in Kenosha. Naturally, there's a 'diverse' set of views on the subject matter, so I tried to just watch the videos of what happened and judge for myself. When I tried to send what I found to someone else, some of the videos magically disappeared. Of course, the (very) edited versions of those videos with commentary added on top are still available.
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Maybe we can agree that there's concerns on both sides. You shouldn't join a college without researching it, and colleges should try their best to represent themselves as transparently as possible.

Personally I also hold college administrators to higher standards than high school students.
I too hope for this- I mentioned it in another thread about UX, but basically it would be great if the web was just data and some metadata, and our browser would skin everything appropriately. A lightweight web is pipe dream though :(
Some access patterns brought the API to a crawl. Seems to have stabilized now. I'm monitoring.
SoftBank seems to have an uncanny ability to lose money. Just taking the opposite position of SoftBank would probably get you a pretty good return. (I realize that's not possible since a lot of their investments are in the private markets).
That's what I thought about as soon as I read this. Seems like a great malware installation vector.

Just print out stickers and put them up at restaurants, stores...
> There was also an article about this in which the author said that "unsafe zig is safer than unsafe rust".

This is the wrong conclusion to derive from one example where Zig checks alignment and Rust chooses not to. (Nor is the conclusion particularly profound or useful: comparing languages by an attribute in cases where they have said they explicitly do not guarantee semantics of that attribute-safety in this case-is not useful.)
In the context of options, delta is the change in the option price divided by the change in the price of the underlying stock (i.e., the first derivative w.r.t. the stock price).

Gamma is how much the delta changes for a change in the underlying stock (i.e., the second derivative w.r.t. the stock price).

Market makers hedge their options positions by buying or selling the underlying stock so that they have no exposure to moves in the underlying stock (they are "delta neutral"). So if the delta at the current stock price is 0.50 and the market maker is short 100 call options, he will buy 50 shares. But options are non-linear and the delta changes with the stock price (again, this is what gamma is). If the stock moves up so that the delta increases to 0.60, the market maker will need to buy another 10 shares so that he owns 60 shares and is again delta neutral.

In this way, buying begets more buying and this is what people mean when they talk about a gamma "meltup".
Would an open source app like Lockdown [1] help you? It can block requests and it also has logs. I haven’t used it, but you could check it out.

I’d love to have something like Little Snitch/LuLu on iOS and by default disallow outgoing and incoming connections to all (or at least new) apps.

[1]: https://lockdownhq.com/
No, it isn't nothing. My point is you can't wave away these numbers just by putting them next to a much larger number. These bills ultimately have to be paid, and asking whether a propaganda rag is worth >31 people's lifelong tax contributions every year is a much better framing than "we already incinerate cash, what's a bit more" - that is just utterly terrible reasoning. Try applying it to your own budget and see where that gets you at the end of the month. Things add up quickly.
How to know if you live in a multiverse
Haha not quite, but I chuckled nevertheless. Thanks for showing this to me!
I'll take a wild assed guess at it, what follows is pure speculation. Many of Softbank's portfolio companies are not doing well (e.g. Uber, WeWork), and they're starting to get a bit anxious about whether they'll be able to show the returns that investors are looking for.

So they've turned to risky strategies which, in the short term, could show a high return on investment to keep their investors happy. Of course, when/if this unwinds, they could be in serious trouble, but that falls into "problems for another day"

I'd usually say that no serious investment company could be this shortsighted, but after seeing what Wirecard did, I'm no longer so sure :)
This list with no context is bordering on useless. Here are some channels i've watched and enjoyed:

1. interviewing.io - they do tech interviews with big5/6 tech co candidates and step through them: https://www.youtube.com/c/interviewingio/videos

2. CS Dojo - ex-googler who steps through CS topics (data structures, algorithms) at the intermediate level and applications in python + javascript: https://www.youtube.com/c/CSDojo/videos

3. Academind - Heard of tech x and have no idea what it is? Chances are there is a 20-30 min video on this channel explaining it clearly. He also does longer form "build x app" videos: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCSJbGtTlrDami-tDGPUV9-w

4. comma.ai / George Hotz - ML + AI livestreams from geohot: https://www.youtube.com/c/commaaiarchive/videos

5. Lex Fridman - ML, AI, python and tons of awesome interviews with luminaries: https://www.youtube.com/c/lexfridman/videos

6. Joma Tech - data science, big companies / startups as a dev and some funny vids: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCV0qA-eDDICsRR9rPcnG7tw

7. Wes Bos - decent css explainer vids for whenever you're _how do i align the fucking boxes_ + react / js https://www.youtube.com/user/wesbos

8. Rect conf - Sophie and Dan's presentations are great: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCz5vTaEhvh7dOHEyd1efcaQ

9. Nickolas Means - not a channel but two presentations that are good:

9.1 How to crash a plane : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=099cHWSbAL8

9.2 The original skunk works: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pL3Yzjk5R4M

There are tons of shitty tutorial videos and channels to avoid if you just rely on search (the comments are full of what appear to be dev contractors out of their depth begging for solutions)
21st-Century Farming
> If it can be put into a book, it can be put into a presentation.

Would it be fair to say that there're actually a lot of videos on such more advanced topics, but they typically are recordings of talks from various conferences?
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With CMake it's just a matter of setting CMAKE_UNITY_BUILD=1
been trying that on the app and it doesn't work. works on the site but not the app.
I'll tell you, I hate the idea of half-measures like laws that don't get enforced. (I'm not talking about hundreds-of-years-old archaic laws that are ignored by everyone, I mean real current laws that have some implications. )

Why? Because good law-abiding people -- we want people like that, right? -- follow them with inconvenience and cost to themselves, while the people who don't care just go on with the undesired activity the law is aimed at. Think about when you have had to pay extra or buy something, or do something where you found out no one was actually following up on it.

This creates a lot of frustration among the law-abiding. If you can't see that and understand why that's a problem, you need to seriously think about it -- if you're of the opinion "what harm can it do?" or kind of "go with the flow" about it. Just try taking an example from what you would feel at work if this kind of thing allowed to happen. You would not be pleased.

I have to say, that is in no small measure a certain part of why people are unhappy right now in public discourse. It seems like everyone is picking and choosing the laws they feel like following. And the law-abiding on every side are asking, "why are we suckers for wanting laws to be enforced"? Pick the issue and you'll find examples of it. Maybe we should retreat a little from our self-confidence and think "maybe I should follow rules even if I don't agree with them" -- inject a little of this approach for everyone's benefit until we figure out what's wrong with us lately.
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Women rights are equally respected especially in the workplace and in education (a lasting legacy from communism), but the whole Western narrative about socially-constructed gender roles and men oppressing women are just not there. Women are encouraged to act and look like women, little girls are encouraged to play with dolls only. The general policy is to strengthen the family unit and reduce divorces in the first place.
I'm actually not a great fan of the "Human Rights discourse". I would rather phrase things in terms of interests, needs and desires, which should be catered to due to human (and sometimes class) solidarity.

Will read your link; for now, I'll reciprocate with this:

https://libcom.org/library/implosion-point-democratist-ideol...
The best answer to this is probably the fediverse. I don't know how well it works today, but I think that's going to be the way to go now.
I'm actually defining this process for the first time in my current company. I'll explain my philosophy behind performance levels and goals. I'd love any feedback. I'm specifically trying to make this an actionable process.

First, the levels, because I perhaps have a different interpretation of these than I'm used to seeing. There are essentially three levels that correspond to performance compared to expectations. So underperforming, performing, and overperforming. Only underperforming carries a negative connotation [0], because it means that you are not meeting the expectations for your level. In contrast, overperforming means that you are reaching beyond your current level.

So, hopefully we have zero people underperforming. Also, hopefully we have the vast majority of people performing. Because overperforming basically means we need to be finding an expanded role for that person, which we may or may not have. If too many people are overperforming, then we can maybe expect turf wars as people start trying to expand their role without guidance, which is terrible for morale. Hopefully we can balance overperformers with growth, so we are moving people to expanded roles and then filling in below with new hires.

So, given this leveling, there are two types of goals: baseline and growth. Baseline goals apply to the entire team and define those baseline expectations for that team. Meeting these goals will keep the team out of underperforming territory [1]. Growth goals are tailored to a specific individual, and detail specific targets to work on. The idea is to provide meaningful growth to the person and their capabilities, with an eye towards expanding their role. Over time, having and meeting these growth goals will result in overperforming as the individual fills that expanded role more and more.

[0] Caveat: I would expect a junior-level to be growing. So juniors who are not overperforming are worrisome.

[1] There's a bit of issue here in team vs individuals. Generally, as long as the team is successful, I tend to err on the side of overrating individuals. After all, part of the reason we make teams is to allow them to shore up weaknesses and play to strengths. However, I leave in an out by having a baseline goal centered on teamwork and team success. So if someone is not contributing as expected to the team, there's something to call them out on.
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Oh man... it's 2020 and I'm here discovering and installing Winamp skins :)

FEUEREIS is beautiful