skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah when the shit hits the fan, you do this deploy, and at 5:00 am you realize that you forgot that your prepro macro was supposed to be a pseudo function and you shouldn't have put a semicolon in there what do you do?
For me, the remaining power of optics (what you call 20%):

1. let the compiler reason about my code to catch errors when the requirement changes (say, when some record fields change their names or types),

2. thus lower my cognitive load, and

3. allow me to reason about more important aspects of the project.

At work, the use of a powerful and expressive type system allowed me to work on multiple projects at once, achieving at least 2 times boost in productivity (definitely more than 20% gain).

Moreover, if optics is not well-known to everyone, I can just link to this blog post as a documentation, and give more examples if needed (I think people underestimate how coworkers could be productive without completely understanding everything).

It is hard to explain the experience of “pair-programming with the compiler”, but such complication is worthwhile for the productivity gain (and developer happiness).
> "If you don't value diversity, maybe just say so..."

Personal attacks are against HN guidelines, no matter how well intentioned your cause.

Implying that Asians, Indians, and so forth are "privileged classes" and not "marginalized races" too and suggesting the diversity they bring is of no "value" is probably why this cause has negligible support among Asians, Indians, and so forth, beyond a bit of token lip service. Why work so hard to alienate and denigrate the very people whose support you ought to be courting to bolster your side?
It sounded more disparaging than I meant it

I just have no idea what is Google Colab, I don't do Python/TensorFlow/jupyter, I don't know what "notebook" means in this context.
The plastic industry is basically Capitalism metastasizing: pure make-work / make-capital, the system feeding itself for no good exogenous end.
The Internet Book of Critical Care is a collaborative effort by front-line docs to share information about promising therapies and approaches to COVID.

It's really interesting, and broken down by bullet points.

Check it out, and get an idea of how actual doctors in the field are approaching this thing.

https://emcrit.org/ibcc/covid19/

Joah Farkas, an associate professor of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine at the University of Vermont who runs IBCC isn't bullish on Vit D.

https://covidprotocols.org/protocols/therapeutics/

Neither is Brigham and Women's Hospital, which is Harvard Medical School's teaching and research hospital.

https://hms.harvard.edu/affiliates/brigham-womens-hospital

Neither is U Penn academic medical department.

http://www.uphs.upenn.edu/antibiotics/COVID19.html

Neither is the American Thoracic Society.

https://www.thoracic.org/covid/covid-19-guidance.pdf

Neither is anyone at my academic teaching hospital.

A lot of really smart people with decades of experience in the field, and a direct clinical role have collected a variety of approaches that seem to work. Unfortunately, none of them have characterized Vit D as a 'game changing drug.'

I think it might be wise to hold off on phrases like 'game changing' with regards to Vitamin D.

Not to say that it may not eventually play a role as part of a multifaceted approach.
While Romaji is convenient for casual learners who have little interest in actually learning Japanese, learning the kana is easy to do and much more natural for parsing Japanese - I think that if this material is for a serious learner then they should not include the Romaji.
From what I have heard schooling in Vietnam is the opposite. Good grades make you popular. I think culture has a lot to do with it.
that is one hell of a heat sink
Yeah, though a solution is in the works, and looking pretty likely to happen. Here's the official draft design for generics or "type parameters" in Go: https://go.googlesource.com/proposal/+/refs/heads/master/des...
I would have to find the paper again, but CPU caches can mask the error rate. The cached values also can overwrite any corruption with correct values. This has interesting side effect of protecting commonly accessed data structures and function pointers from causing out right crashing. Same applies to commonly used values in a computation.

Unless you get a bit flip in data structure pointer or function pointer, it just adds an error to computation, but does not just out crash.

Also we are talking only a handful of errors out billions of calculations.

-Edit
Also swap space may keep very rarely accessed data from corruption on the other end of spectrum.
Sure but what happens if you try to think of a word you haven’t learned yet?
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> How do I read user input and spit something back out?

I don't actually use Pharo though I've toyed with it; reading files is well documented (e.g., in the free book Deep Into Pharo). While I think there are convenience methods for standard input and output, but you can at a minimum use normal file access with /dev/stdin and /dev/stdout.
If you think this is the problem, the solution is not racism via restricting the opportunities of children because of their race.
> This show changed my perspective and has made me want to redouble my efforts with regard to my impact on the environment.

At this point, the only effort worth making is reducing consumption. Reducing travel, reducing use of everything across the board. Of course, our whole society is setup so people need others to consume more and more so they can feed their family, because all the debt has that growth baked in in order to break even.
Bought my wife's engagement ring used on eBay. (With her knowledge and full support!)

Edit: Actually, time fogged my memory a bit. She didn't know I was buying it beforehand, but we knew each other well by then, and I knew she'd be on board with it, and in fact wouldn't want me to waste money on a big retail diamond. And indeed, she loves the ring, knowing it came from eBay!
And what lag from Nixon was this again? The rhetorical quality here, is that "eventually" isn't good enough. The dependency on inside behind-the-scenes is tainting journalism. Yes, they get deep inside knowledge. They also get fed a line.
The observable universe would have to be a conservative system for Poincaré recurrence to apply to it. I don't think that's possible; isn't it leaking matter that looks like it won't come back?

I don't understand all the properties a system must have so the Poincaré recurrence theorem applies, but as long as we don't know whether the (entire) universe is finite, that's sufficient to show that Poincaré recurrence may be impossible. In that situation, we can either find information that makes it impossible for sure, or otherwise we know that we don't know.

‘Nothing else can affect us‘ doesn't contradict that, because ‘us‘ would cease to exist at the Poincaré recurrence time (if not earlier).

N.B. I'm just pointing out some basic things, while having no clue how much merit the idea has in the first place, even if the universe has finite state space and infinite time. (I mean just the idea of trying to apply the Poincaré recurrence theorem to the whole universe, not Penrose's work.) AFAICT the proof only says that almost every state recurs infinitely often. So if you picked some state at random as your starting state, it's essentially guaranteed that it will recur, but when it comes to applying this to the universe, isn't it presumptuous to regard the big bang as such a state?
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The problem is that it's so cheap to make new things that recycling is almost never cost effective. I think I lost faith in the concept (at least in the current economic climate) right about the time I found out that old glass isn't re-melted for use as new glass items, it's just smashed up and used as aggregate for road beds.
Interesting. The "neural hack" sound sound they mention there is quite similar to what you get using the "tonal tinnitus therapy " android app.

There is some research that playing sounds "near" the frequency of your tinnitus stimulates the ear system and helps reduce the tinnitus.

That app produces pulsating sounds around your tinnitus frequencies.

It's the only thing that had helped mine.
When it comes to clothes and worn garments I'd really like a fashionable rating as well. If I'm not in a life or death battle against the elements I'd consider something less durable if it looked significantly better.
Compilers such as clang/LLVM and GCC do support a memory-safe mode (e.g. AddressSanitizer) which is not what you want because they add large overheads and thus are not intended for production use.

There's an ongoing effort to design extensions to C that allows efficient enforcement of memory safety, Checked C from Microsoft Research is an interesting and current effort in this direction.

For all the challenges of getting comfortable with Rust (which I 100% acknowledge), it does provide a very interesting tradeoff between performance, safety, and compatibility with C.
> the actual costs of trashing it are externalized

Does it really cost that much to bury things in the ground? And how much of that cost is externalized? Where I live garbage collection is done by for-profit companies that charge for it.

Seems more likely that the costs of producing things in the first place are what's externalized by producing in third world countries with lax environmental standards.
I regularly haul pipes, skis, boards, furniture, or other long and awkward objects that would destroy a touchscreen, or at least render it unusable for the journey.

Physical buttons are so much more durable.
Bach wrote for “Klavier” which is a generic definition that may or may not include the piano. We know that early in his life he hated pianos, but later on he changed his mind and even started selling them (he worked as an agent for a piano maker). So, at least for his later works, we could argue that indeed he did write for piano.
Especially if you walk through what that would look like. You choose door #14. Monty then goes from door to door, opening every single one except door #67. What's special about door #67? Either you picked the door with the car behind it at 1/100 probability, and Monty picked it at random, leaving it closed. Or, with 99/100 probability, Monty is skipping opening that door because it's got the car behind it...
The tech population need not reflect a similar proportion ever. It depends on people's individual interests, who different cultures follow as role models etc.

This question somehow only arises in tech. No one cares about making races equitable in other industries as much. What about farming? Or similar proportion of dentists, farmers, chess players?
About on par with the Midwest and Northeast by every metric I'm familiar with. The stereotype of the South as an atypically racist place is outdated.
There is a lesson here which you may apply in many other places.
Paper recycling is much in the same vein.

It requires a lot of harsh chemicals to remove the inks. The output paper is substandard. The whole process is energy intensive.

And, the messed up part about the whole thing is that throwing away paper is one of the best things you can do for the environment. It is natural carbon sequestration.

We are far better off tree farming for paper.
>So straight up, do you believe that the government is infringing on people's rights by banning child porn, yes or no?

According to U.S. law some kinds of child pornography are legal. Do you believe, therefore, that it is against the principles of freedom of speech that the NZ government has banned them. Yes or no?
I absolutely agree with this, especially with being kind with ourselves and with shopping around. And don't limit the shopping around to only people with important sounding diplomas on their walls. Some are awesome, some aren't. The person who helped me the most on my path had no formal qualifications, just deep innate wisdom and compassion.
Who cares about security by obscurity
>That trial has several issues.

Which are what?

>It's been shown to not be helpful in severe cases.

That's a fairly strong assertion! Stronger than, "there is no evidence that is helpful in severe cases" for example.

You wouldn't happen to have a reference to back it up by any chance?

Anyway, I'm wondering why vitamin D is held to a higher standard than the polyclonal antibodies or Remdesivir. Where is the evidence that they're helpful in severe cases?

By the way, I'm not advocating for long-term, high-dose consumption (say over 2000 IU) consumption of vitamin D.

Deva Boone (devaboone) 's blog points out that this can lead to dangerously high calcium levels and has been covered on here several times recently [0][1]:

>Eventually we worked out what happened with Shannon: In 2013 she was diagnosed with mild osteopenia, a thinning of the bones that can be a precursor to osteoporosis. Her Vitamin D was low at the time, so her physician started her on over-the-counter Vitamin D supplementation at 5000 international units (IUs) daily. Five years later, she was still on this dose, and her blood Vitamin D level had risen to 79 ng/ml. This level is within what many labs call the normal range, between 30 and 100 ng/ml, but levels above 70 are almost always a result of high dose supplementation, and I have seen toxicity with levels between 70 and 100 ng/ml. (A better “normal range” based on what I have seen would probably be between 30 and 60.) Vitamin D builds up over time, so the longer someone is on a high dose, the more likely she is to develop toxicity. Shannon’s calcium levels began rising in the fall of 2018, when her severe symptoms developed.

What we should be doing now is mass-testing the at-risk population to identify those people with blood levels below 30 ng/ml and then do what is necessary to bring them up into the 30 to 40 ng/ml range. Ideally that could be done with sunlight, or food high in vitamin D - for example oily fish, liver, dried-shitake, ... But for the at risk demographic, in practice one would probably need moderately high-dose supplements, combined with monthly testing until they're above 30 ng/ml, followed by a switch to a lower-dose maintenance dose.

[0] https://www.devaboone.com/post/vitamin-d-part-2-shannon-s-st...

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24261948
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Good grief, what a pernicious worldview.

Fortunately, most people choosing whimsical names for things actually do so playfully and creatively. The idea that out there some grumpy clown with a stick up their ass about "ease of communication" is going to launch into a diatribe about "dog whistles" and "ideology", doesn't enter into that process.

Rather serendipitously my next library extraction is postgresql-related. I was pondering an appropriate name. In the circumstance I think I shall name it Chorale of the Aztounding Relational Pachyderm, and if anyone asks I will point them in your direction for an explanation.
But, he didn't take it. so there's not even an anecdote here.
This was a popular conspiracy theory in the 90's. Another one for the "yup that conspiracy actually happened" book. Ive been called a monster many times for trying to explain this, usually by liberal women. They just hear a bunch of numbers and then their heads explode once they realize I was saying to just put the bottle in the normal trash instead of the special one for virtue signaling.
Basically a federated system à la Mastodon?
Dup: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22741635
A couple of directly related recent discussions:

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24441979

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24454067
Race is very strongly correlated with culture. And many cultural traits are crucial to doing work that companies need. It's just very hard to measure one's culture and it's very easy to measure their skin color.

I don't think forcing companies to be diverse per skin color is a good idea. A much better way could be finding aspiring people from underrepresented populations and removing roadblocks on the way of specific people.
bike/car?
This got me closer to understanding. But, after 999,998 doors are opened, although the one other door is conspicuously closed, my door is also closed. That seems conspicuous, too. In that moment, there are 2 doors to pick from and so 50/50 makes sense.

As some other comments have mentioned, I think this isn't a fully satisfying explanation because it's hard to reason about the difference between a general strategy vs. an in-the-moment choice; why does it matter that I've watched Monty narrow the choices down to 2 doors, vs. seeing 2 doors from the start?
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I've worked at places where I ended up realizing I was hired mainly because I'm black. Not that I'm not a good engineer, mind you, but some of these places just wanted a "token black guy" or they actually had quotas as part of some social responsibility/inclusiveness BS.

You know what? I absolutely hated those places and didn't last long there. I definitely don't want to be excluded because of how I look, but I don't want to be hired or treated differently because of it either. I'm much happier at my current employer where there is no such BS and black people are a very small minority, which is absolutely fine since we are also a very small minority of CS students where I live.

Also on the topic of education - don't create quotas or special programs for people with a certain appearance or ethnic background. Instead, create programs for the disadvantaged.
I wish I could navigate through the introduction audio
Also there is some audio instruction not written down.

This is great though. Thank you for building this.
I think wikipedia, HN, etc. are less suseptible because people don't use those sites as heavily to make purchasing decisions. Any community that helps with purchasing will be targeted by those interested in sales who figure out how to meet the "high bar" no matter what that may be. Even purchase verification isn't high enough these days (see recent unsolicited package scams such as the seeds from China).
All valid points, but at least the perspective I've heard is it's breaking up the "pro-Palestinian block" somewhat, so definitely changing the power dynamics, and impacting the Palestinian situation as they are losing potential allies. And as for Iran, it's pulling countries away from their sphere of influence.

Who knows whether it will be a positive push in the right direction, but it's certainly changing the dynamics of the region.
Business isn't a democracy and it shouldn't be one.
Exactly.
My favorite environmental slogan is “bury the trees”.
How heavy is a stainless steel pen vs a plastic one? A plastic pen could also last for years.
Yep, and now that iirc Vietnam also stopped receiving some trash same with the Philippines th entire system of recycling just collapsed on itself
The problem is that enforcement begets enforcement. Once one is entangled in the legal system, they are more likely to be called in for questioning, have their fingerprints possibly match a partial set left at a crime, have a possible DNA match turn into a warrant that leads to arrest on an unrelated crime. This is true because the web of laws, in the US at least, means that everyone breaks dozens of laws a day. So AI becomes a self-licking ice cream cone. Even worse, it is one that comes with a plausible argument of simply being an unbiased mathematical conclusion.

Of course math doesn’t have an agenda, but we aren’t talking about the actual algorithm having a human bias. We are talking about the application of math by humans to human problems using data sets curated by humans. Using math doesn’t purge the biases of all those humans from the system.
It doesn’t help that tech salaries outside the US are so low. I don’t know if that’s union related but relatively high salaries lead to higher contentment.
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I dont think its enough to matter, but if it was, some places incinerate trash so its still released as carbon dioxide. Wouldn't it rot in a landfill and end up as methane or something?
It drove me nuts when BPA hit the radar and I switched to mostly glass while everyone around me just... bought different plastic.

If this one was 'safe' until it wasn't, why do you think a newer kind of plastic is going to be safe? Plus now you have bought twice as many containers.
This is why I really try to buy glass container products when possible and just wash / reuse. A lot of people over-focus on recycling because it makes them feel like they're doing something, but they forget recycling is the last of the 3 Rs. It's Reduce, Reuse, Recycle, not Recycle, Recycle, Recycle. I don't recycle at home and some people think me a monster, but my calculated home carbon footprint is significantly lower than the average because I shy away from single-use packaging, low quality products, and minimize my wastage.

I wish there was some answer to better educate people, because the marketing around recycling has been so successful and yet people with the best of intentions will absolutely buy tons of single-use packaging covered products thinking it's okay because the packaging is compostable or they will recycle.
That covers roughly how many decades of cars and redesigns of each of those models?
Ah, I see. Thank you for clarifying that. That book sounds interesting, I'll check it out.

Thanks for taking the time to engage! I've also learned quite a bit reading through everyone's responses.
It's not that clear cut. Creating that glass bottle is far more costly environmentally, lugging its heavy weight around is also much more expensive, cleaning used bottles has a considerable cost, and "thousands" of reuses also sounds optimistic since glass is so easily breakable.
That is because it is an absurd waste of resources to use glass canning jars for takeout.
Are you talking visa or permanent residency? Those are very different.

7 days for PR in Singapore? That's not the experience I've hear from friends. In fact, you're at the mercy of the gov't as it's entirely discretional for PR. You often have to apply multiple times if you don't have the "right" profile.
I am very confident this is the case. When we have a well-oiled culture of reuse it will be easy and cheap to just show up with your various containers and do your shopping.
British Columbia’s medical health officer recently gave nurses the ability to prescribe opioid replacement drugs to improve the supply. Many more people are dying from toxic street drugs than are dying from COVID-19. It’s a “shadow pandemic” that has been raging for decades and is only getting worse as border closures make it harder for gangs to move drugs like heroin and fentanyl across borders, leading to shortages of “safe” ingredients and a shift toward exotic, extremely toxic alternatives like carfentanyl.
Changing the scenario is the exactly the point of why I am unsure increasing the number of doors gives true intuition. In the original problem with the original scenario, people intuitively think switching doesn't matter, when it provably does. With 1000 doors and the Monty Fall scenario, again the intuition is wrong. So are we gaining true intuition for the Monty Hall scenario by expanding the setup, or is it just some subconscious Bayesian thinking accidentally steering us toward the right answer.
The best moment to plant a tree is 20 years ago, the second best moment is right now

In 20 years would we be saying the same about how "it is too late to do Carbon tax now"?

There you have your answer, I don't want to be 60 and needing to deal with still not having carbon taxing which we know is one of the best tools in the toolkit to even begin fixing some of these issues and funding solutions
This is exactly how we shipped our JQ-like product feature in 62 lines of Clojure. Just pure functions composed into a single predicate and and a decent grammar to interpret the input JQ.