skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Right, by "pushing for" I mean we should be taking the academic discussion into the engineering realm to make it a reality. AFAIK there is no existing off the shelf product that satisfies the requirements.

One example that is working on such a thing is: https://voting.works/
The doc said "don't think of vit-d as something magical" and you are saying "what if it was with k2 and magnesium; that might be more potent and magical" -- I think the doctor's general conclusion still holds that it is not proven that vitamin-d helps with certain diseases. And the fact that doing RCTs is time-consuming and expensive still holds. And without these RCTs, at present, we can't conclusively tell if the combination you suggest will help for those diseases that she mentioned.
I don't get paid to give tech presentations. Preparing for them would affect the work that I am responsible for. So giving tech presentations would ultimately make me look worse at my company. This explains the passiveness at my company.
I agree. Among all the open-source projects I've built, the OpenJDK is one of the easiest and most straight-forward I've encountered — even when cross-compiling for 32-bit ARM. They did a great job rewriting the build system a few years back.
You must be thinking that the button is meant to improve your ad experience. All ad platforms care about are fulfilling their obligation of serving ads. They claim they are targeted. Again, that's not for your enjoyment. It's a way to get advertisers to spend more money. You clicking the button says you're an actual human like the 'unsubscribe' link in spam while being a placebo. Am I cynical, maybe? Am I wrong, ??
The Current State of Economic Methodology and Realistic Assumptions
Brief of Tesla's Master Plan [0]

Part Un: 1) Create a low volume car, which would necessarily be expensive 2) Use that money to develop a medium volume car at a lower price 3) Use that money to create an affordable, high volume car

Part Deux: 1) Create stunning solar roofs with seamlessly integrated battery storage
2) Expand the electric vehicle product line to address all major segments
3) Develop a self-driving capability that is 10X safer than manual via massive fleet learning
4) Enable your car to make money for you when you aren't using it

https://www.tesla.com/blog/master-plan-part-deux
Though Haskell is nice in many ways, I would choose OCaml for a commercial project over Haskell any day. OCaml is ruthlessly practical and the culture around it is was one eminent pragmatism.

Ocaml is designed to get stuff done, and the tooling and ecosystem strongly reflect that.

If something was going to kill Haskell, it would OCaml, not Javascript or some other language.

I would feel very comfortable running a business on OCaml, Haskell, not so much.
The is pretty cool and inherently useful. How do users see what's currently on the stack?
There's an effort to track which functions are modules & what the downstream implications of that are in terms of needing recompilation? Are there any links to technical descriptions? Super interested in reading up on the technical details involved.
> "universality of human rights"
That's a somewhat overcompressed term. Does it mean "the human rights, as they're generally perceived in the beginning of the XXI century in <your country>, are applicable to all humans in the past, the present, and the future, at any place on (or in, or outside of) the Earth"? Or does it allow for some human rights that will be discovered one day in the future to also cover everyone, including you and me today?

And I certainly did not intend "the white man's burden", on the contrary, "the white man's nosiness". The Western people, objectively judged by their own standards, turn out to be better than they generally tend to judge themselves by those standards? Good for them! Now could they please allow other people to judge themselves by their own, maybe different, standards?
Adventures in JIT Compilation (2017)
This is a pretty uncharitable opinion. The Creek Fire exploded to 130K acres in a couple days, definitely not typical.
Sun exposure (and even tanning beds) produces vitamin D, but it also causes other changes in the human body. It appears sun exposure OR tanning bed use (!!!) reduces all cause mortality.

"Avoidance of sun exposure is a risk factor for all-cause mortality: results from the Melanoma in Southern Sweden cohort"
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/24697969/

I think there's some confounding factors in 'outdoorsy' people having other healthy lifestyle habits, but it also seems likely that there is some other mechanism, beneficial to human health, triggered by uv exposure.
The problem with the US specifically is that the intentions of the current team and founders doesn’t decide in the end. It’s entirely plausible for them to be compromised and gagged, against their will.

It’s also not necessarily something that more than a very small number of people in the company needs to be aware of.

This is due to how legislation and the operations of federal agencies work.

Over the past decade, I feel USA has become pretty damn close China in this regard if you put all countries on some kind of scale.

Anywhere in the EU would have had way less of that risk.

I could also add that I had similar feelings with Keybase for a long time; promising team, solution and openness (though not to the extent of Purism). My main gripe was the US location. And then they were acquired by Zoom. This kind of nihilistic dynamic is also more common with US businesses, even if it’s just a cultural thing.
Controling for variables is important to establish causality in observational studies. Many fields in social sciences are developing increasingly sophisticated methods to tease out causal relationships (see Pearl, Angrist&Pischke etc.).

However, many of these methods try to obtain the conditions similar to the gold standard: Randomized Control Trials.

In an RCT, if you assign treatment randomly to balanced subgroups of a population you care about (or one that is even representative), then you do not require to controls.

To see that, imagine the treatment being independent of the confounding factors and the distributions across group being the same. It then follows that you can estimate the average treatment effect without bias.
I graduated HS from a mountain town in NE Washington and recently have been developing a property/homestead out there again.

My wife usually remarks how nice the people are out there in the wild west compared to here in Seattle.

Politics is polarized out there too -- with old timers and hippies clashing readily. But, nobody lets it get in the way of being friendly and helpful. One friend remarked that it is because people need each other more so politics is kept in better perspective.

Some counties in NE Washington have formally recognized the "Code of the West".

"The Code of the West was first chronicled by the famous western writer, Zane Grey. The men and women who came to this part of the country during the westward expansion of the United States were bound by an unwritten code of conduct. The values of integrity and self-reliance guided their decisions, actions and interactions. In keeping with that spirit, we offer this information to help citizens of Ferry County who wish to follow in the footsteps of those rugged individualists by living outside city and town limits."

[PDF]:
https://www.ferry-county.com/PDF_Files/Commissioners/Code_of...
Chinese here.

I don't get your worries. Yes your conversation will be monitored. But you know that. And let's face it, 99.9% of your conversation won't be political (I'm just making an educated guess here; I don't know you), nor about sensitive subjects.

If you want to talk about sensitive subjects, you can always ask those friends to get off Wechat and on a different channel, specifically for those subjects.

For the 99.9% of fun, personal conversations that are about cat photo sharing, pizza recipes and the latest celebrities, Wechat is not a problem. CCP really doesn't care about those, they just care that nobody on Wechat causes trouble (by their definition of "trouble").

When do you accidentally say something considered not OK, the worst that happens is that the message gets deleted. They don't go after people unless you're instigating mass protests or something like that.

You won't get advertisements about CCP propaganda. Unless you subscribe to those channels yourself.
> The people who arrived in America and decided to take it one step further by moving away from the crowded cities of the east into the vast and dangerous interior of the continent must have been a special breed.

The consequences of this are not always 'positive' as the book Fantasyland argues:

> In this sweeping, eloquent history of America, Kurt Andersen shows that what’s happening in our country today—this post-factual, “fake news” moment we’re all living through—is not something new, but rather the ultimate expression of our national character. America was founded by wishful dreamers, magical thinkers, and true believers, by hucksters and their suckers. Fantasy is deeply embedded in our DNA.

> Over the course of five centuries—from the Salem witch trials to Scientology to the Satanic Panic of the 1980s, from P. T. Barnum to Hollywood and the anything-goes, wild-and-crazy sixties, from conspiracy theories to our fetish for guns and obsession with extraterrestrials—our love of the fantastic has made America exceptional in a way that we've never fully acknowledged. From the start, our ultra-individualism was attached to epic dreams and epic fantasies—every citizen was free to believe absolutely anything, or to pretend to be absolutely anybody. With the gleeful erudition and tell-it-like-it-is ferocity of a Christopher Hitchens, Andersen explores whether the great American experiment in liberty has gone off the rails.

* https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35171984-fantasyland

An hour-long talk by the author:

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sRqDzEOJImw

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurt_Andersen
Facebook and Google have both bought tens of billions of dollars worth of their stock back which is effectively just dividends that are reinvested for you.
Same here. I moved to eastern Idaho 3 years ago from a lifetime in northern Ohio (born and raised). Oddly I immediately felt more at home here and still do. It just fits me and seems to be the opposite of the industrial / Motor City region of the Midwest. Of course, the coastal elitism that you're referring to is aimed at Midwesterners too, but I think my clash was with the collectivism of the unionized blue collar culture.
If one can give strong proof that everything done in a VM is encrypted, then would it be possible to create a "decentralized cloud provider", in which data center owners agree to a common spec for services?
Tell HN: My HN app is rejected by Apple for showing Covid-related submissions
Apple has twice rejected a minor update to my Hacker News app for iOS, Octal [1], for breaking Guideline 5.1.1 - Legal - Privacy - Data Collection and Storage [2]. For the first rejection, they included a screenshot of the app's search functionality, searching for the term "Covid", which obviously contains HN submissions with "Covid" in the titles. For the second rejection, they included a screenshot of the app's main "Top Stories" view, which happened to have a COVID-19-related submission [3] as one of the top stories. Have any other iOS app developers out there encountered this issue with App Store Review?

Apple's rejection notes:

> We found in our review that your app provides services or requires sensitive user information related to the COVID-19 pandemic. Since the COVID-19 pandemic is a public health crisis, services and information related to it are considered to be part of the healthcare industry. In addition, the seller and company names associated with your app are not from a recognized institution, such as a governmental entity, hospital, insurance company, non-governmental organization, or university.

> Per section 5.1.1 (ix) of the App Store Review Guidelines, apps that provide services or collect sensitive user information in highly-regulated fields, such as healthcare, should be submitted by a legal entity that provides these services, and not by an individual developer.

> Next Steps

> To resolve this issue, your app must be published under a seller and company name of a recognized institution. If you have developed this app on behalf of such an institution, please advise your client to add you to the development team of their Apple Developer account. If your client does not yet have an Apple Developer account, they can enroll for one as an organization through the Apple Developer website.

[1] https://apps.apple.com/us/app/octal-hacker-news/id1308885491

[2] https://developer.apple.com/app-store/review/guidelines/#data-collection-and-storage

[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24384308
I live in SF. Between the fires and the quarantine, I'm not out much the last few weeks.
I'm thinking California East of the Sierras. Mono County, Inyo County, San Bernardino County, slivers of Riverside County, and Imperial County.

If you're in Amargosa, Shoshone, Tecopa, Wonder Valley, Lanfair Valley, Kelso, Amboy, Cadiz, Fenner, etc., it's a long way off from anything.

Pop open Gooogle maps and try to find the nearest dispatch location for an ambulance to Fenner, and then put that into perspective with the amount of traffic on the I-40 corridor. CHP can call an airship, but I've seen burn patients sit dying for an hour while waiting for a helicopter to become available for dispatch.
I don't have a definitive answer, but I've always assumed so.
I don't think it's too unlikely that the cost of producing the CGI for a film like "The Avengers" could go from ~1e7 USD to ~1e3 USD over the next ~10 years. Seems like that could have some creative uses.
I’ve done the same to at least a dozen “Daily Show with Trevor Noah” ads on YouTube. I’m pretty sure there is no algorithm behind it. A switch connected to nothing that exists only to provide an outlet for user frustration.
Shit, this is a comment that doesn't deserve to be hidden on hacker news, this is amazing. Thanks for sharing this.
Wow I figured Google quietly changed this in shame when it was publicized years back. How are they still running this scam?
Domestic Abuse Can Escalate in Pandemic
The L1 Lagrange point is not perfectly stable. Anything we put there would drift after about a decade. So it requires constant upkeep but also means nothing you do there can be catastrophic.

Both technologies are not “one-shot” but rather are things which are deployed along a spectrum measured in “gigatons of CO2 extracted” or “tons of diffractive material deployed”.

You don’t put one big mirror in place as a binary thing. You deploy thousands to millions of tons of “mirrors” overall, ~100 tons at a time. Imagine a payload of carbon fiber snowflakes which get dropped off, coated in such a way that they self orient broad-side toward the sun.

I wonder what the effective carbon offset of 100 tons of diffractive material at L1 buys you. Given that you could draw a direct cost/benefit comparison.
Could you say more about this? Is this an initial screening flow that formalizes customer support requests, a self-discovery tool, etc?
>> 30 minutes from the nearest EMS

In even the most developed inner cities of the US, a 30-minute response time is not unusual. A car crash with injuries, blood on the street, would certainly be top of the 911 priority list other factors like traffic often mean delays.

"In July 2019, it took the NYPD more than 20 minutes on average to respond to all of its 911 calls. This July, it was about 18 minutes."

https://www.ny1.com/nyc/all-boroughs/news/2020/08/25/nypd-re...
Sometimes it's just priced in. If partner A has a 10% fraud rate and partner B has a 5% rate but partner A is 10% cheaper than partner B, while you'll probably complain to partner A it's still the sensible choice.
GitLab PM here. We will enable view of previous months' usage in this issue: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/246844
I replaced our aging infra with AWS, oversaw replacement of a mishmash of C#, C++, PHP, and Java1.4 by a concise Java 11 based app, and I'm about to deploy our first PWA with a Postgres/Vert.x/OIDC backend. Legacy is still running Apache2/PHP5+MySQL.

I would describe the tech stack I've inherited charitably as "nearly pure opportunity."
And virtue signaling.
It's surprising, but you can't argue with data - there were cases associated with Sturgis but not with the BLM protests. It kind of makes sense - that one thing Sturgis had and BLM didn't is bars. People catch COVID when they spend time in an enclosed enviroment next to an infected individual. Why bars and nightclubs are still open is a mystery from a public health standpoint.
Andrew Zisserman: Beyond Self-Supervised Representation Learning (2020) [pdf]
Or, their sickness depletes their Vitamin D.
I think the article addresses those by saying they are the result of publication bias.
I lived in the Santa Cruz Mountains for a while and had a tolerable commute into San Jose. A 911 call would yield a response no sooner than 30 minutes. So, not very far out at all, but definitely a set of circumstances that encouraged self-reliance.
> It's a document presentation format

Not it's not. That's what it was created for, but clearly it's not anymore. People are not publishing just documents anymore, it's a fact that HTML is used for all sorts of things from simple sites to complex applications.

We agree it's not great, for all of these purposes but this ship has sailed, we need to deal with it. Either we create something different and good enough to not die in the water, either we improve HTML so that it supports what people are already using it for.
With that kind of attitude, you're not going to learn very much. You should take the opposite approach: be more interested the weirder the thing is.
Another important factor is not just distance geography, but the population density's impact on taxes and funding for Police/EMS/Fire. Maybe from a geo perspective someone can get there faster, but if there are only a couple "someones" and they are already dealing with something else...

Statistically, less people, fewer emergencies, but that's not much comfort when you're the one having a statistically unlikely emergency!
Revolut offers virtual and disposable cards.
I've been (unethically) using them for these 1GBP / month trials a certain online newspaper offers.
Plenty (https://plenty.ag) is trying to scale hydroponics using plant science and automation. (I worked here till a few months ago.) Indoor agriculture is going to supplement our nutrition needs in the future. Plenty is focusing on flavor as its selling point, and after eating Plenty produce, everything else seems like eating cardboard.
Is anybody still using Windows 95?
If taxation is theft, so are the vast majority of jobs.
Discussed a bit at the time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13938935
You put a lot of weight on your morals and work ethic but my point is that those mean nothing to me. I don't care how hard you work to get the job done. Once you're salaried, how efficiently you perform your job is up to you, and what action I take when you don't meet the pace I expect is up to me. When I manage a team, I encourage those on my team to bring up any obstructions or changes they'd want to see to improve the efficiency of their work - past that I don't care as long as they understand the timelines we are working under and if everything is on time, why would I add undue stress to my team?

If timelines become tighter, at that point, and only at that point, would I crack down on efficiency.

>Thought experiment: ask yourself whether you'd hire someone advertising my work ethic or yours, if all other aspects are equal between the candidates.

That's like asking all else being equal, would I hire the person who wore Air Force 1s to the interview or the person who wore chelsea boots. That has nothing to do with your performance of your job and any distinction on that matter is personal preference. The only thing that is important is are you getting the job done on the pace it needs to get done.

At this point you seem like you'd discriminate your employees based on which IDE they were using. If they produced good work, would you care that the most productive person on your team was using Notepad++ to do their job?
This story is pretty-much absent from the UK news. Radio 4's 6pm news had time to report a magnitude 3.3 earthquake in Leyton Buzzard (no structural damage), but a miscarriage of justice unrolling before their eyes? Not interested.
Serious question, whenever I read something about a Vitamin D deficiency, or a huge number of people getting tests back as lacking Vitamin D, I wonder -- what determined what the baseline of not-deficient is, and for which population? How were the baseline expectations set?
Yes. From the Greek letter Chi.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chi_(letter)
You feel responsible for the project, that's normal and i would definitely pick you as a colleague. But you have to let go some of this responsibility; start being responsible for the delivery of the project and the internal goals, leave the technical work to the team. Instead of assigning tasks to yourself, assign them to your team members. Start with low priority tasks and move forward. If the team is competitive and the project is good, they will shine and you will feel better that you have guided them. It's definitely not a walk in the park, and at least you will fulfil your role as a team lead.
It's probably going to take off in cars. Mercedes is including AR features in the new S-class, which is generally where they test new tech before introducing it in their cheaper models. BMW and Audi will likely soon follow.
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There's a town in Alaska where you need to have your appendix removed in order to live there because the nearest hospital is 625 miles away.

https://www.bbc.com/future/gallery/20180810-villas-las-estre...
Is there any place for monoliths in 2020?
Yes, what you call hypothetical situation is my daily life. The country where I live, Argentina, frequently imposes heavy restrictions on buying and selling foreign currencies. There is a hard monthly limit of $200 per person per month and there are talks of reducing the limit even further.

Sometimes crypto is the only way of sending/receiving money from other countries reliably and cheaply.

Other countries are much worse, Venezuela for instance has destroyed the value of their money, so bad that people use it wallpaper.
And yet I find what my employer's prize are the most basic of concepts, having actually nothing to do with programming. Things like, attention to detail, admitting fault (ownership ties into this), regular updates and communication.

I also own code-bases simply because no one else was willing to or interested in doing so. Many times I've been out of my depth, but I've surrounded myself with an incredible team. I've found that in conversations where I was totally out my depth, I was able to contribute simply by asking basic questions or acting as a rubber duck.

Maybe Principle Engineer is a little but of a stretch I'll admit. But I'll still shoot for it and if I don't get it this year, it'll happen next year or the year after that. That's how I made senior after all, and probably why I find myself in roles like interim manager presently.
Isn't this how all of the "Sign in with X" work? It's the same with facebook and google also where you go through the same OAuth flow where it asks if you want to give this third party access to your data.