skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Eli Lilly says its monoclonal antibody cocktail is effective against Covid-19
Never. It's a dirty myth older people can't learn - they usually just lack time.
https://hubs.mozilla.com/
I'd like to know how much learning a second language as a child has impact on this.

I'm a native German speaker and English is my second language. I was very bad in English at school and just got better in the last 5 years and I'm 35 now.

On a side-note, I'm learning Spanish right now with Duolingo (as some kind of social media detox) and I like it. Every now and then I can understand more Spanish Tweets and the lack of grammatical explanations in Duolingo often helps to get "a feeling" for the language instead of really learning the principles. Wouldn't have imagined les explanation could be better.
Horner’s method for polynomial evaluation is used because of numerical stability, not speed.
It's weirdly great that you had enough misplaced conviction to motivate you to write a simulation which ended up proving you wrong.

It's actually an interesting, possibly general story, that kind of makes me think. Perhaps for certain personality types, misplaced conviction will put you on a higher velocity trajectory toward truth than honest confusion.
I've been wanting this kind of thing, but for Minecraft (Education Edition in my case; I think there is/was a mod for Java edition to do this, but MinecraftEdu is not based on Java edition). I can easily get a list of users and their in-game co-ordinates, so need a spatial conference system that has an API rather than it's own game. Any suggestions?
It still doesn't even make sense. How does something that "induces long term depression" have a separate effect of "reduces evidence of tinnitus"?

Are they saying this stimulation that apparently cures tinnitus also causes depression?
> Even if an adult is in a foreign country 24/7 without any speaking his native language, the adult will still hear his native language in his own head; that is, the adult will think and talk to himself in his native language and will always be a competitor for the external voices he hears.

Not exactly. One of the first signs that you have made substantial progress in a foreign language is that you no longer have to translate your internal monologue when speaking.

If you are by yourself, then reverting to the native language can happen. That's assuming you can even 'hear' your internal monologue, that's not a given. Would this impair language learning?

What about children exposed to multiple languages from an early age? Surely the external voices wouldn't always match what's in their head - they still learn very quickly.
Show HN: Covid-19 Leaderboards for States, Counties, Countries
> I also dont believe the original intent of the question was ever meant to be ambiguous with regard to whether he had knowledge of the goat door or whether he chose at random.

That’s extremely obvious! The entire reason to phrase the problem as a game show with a game show host is to make it abundantly clear that the host “knows the answers.”
> Rebooting is so fast these days it isn't an issue

Rebooting still means you can't do both things at once. And even if its instant, losing all my state is annoying. Sure, a proper window manager can restore state, and a good tab manager will preserve those too, but its a freagin pain in the ass. Plus the pre-boot sequence is slower than the actual OS booting, so I still consider that a pain.

Maybe I'm petty (to each their own), but rebooting once a week would drive me nuts, nevermind once a day.
Mount Sinai, School of Medicine | New York, New York | Full-time | Remote-to-onsite (after all this dies down) | Senior Data Engineer (2 Positions available)

Strength Through Diversity
Ground breaking science. Advancing medicine. Healing made personal.

The Mount Sinai COVID Informatics Center (MSCIC) aims to translate and unify data from the Mount Sinai Health System (MSHS) into actionable information and insights that can be mobilized against COVID-19 and ensure that MSHS is ready for similar public health threats in the future.

We're hiring two senior data engineers:

Senior Data Engineer with a focus on ingestion, QA/QC, and staging: https://careers.mountsinai.org/jobs/2664488?lang=en-us

Senior Data Engineer focusing on modeling/data warehousing: https://careers.mountsinai.org/jobs/2664490?lang=en-us

More about us:
MSCIC is hiring a centralized Engineering Core that will build an Informatics Crisis Response Platform. This platform will include two components: (1) a Critical Informatics Consultation Service that provides MSHS clinicians and researchers easy-to-digest answers to pressing clinical questions (2) a Rapid Clinical Intervention Toolkit that facilitates the practice of evidence-based medicine in the MSHS by feeding insights from data science into the daily workflow via the electronic medical record.

Who we are looking for:
MSCIC is looking to hire experienced data engineers who will help build the platform that will enable informaticists, researchers, and clinicians to collaborate in a common environment, bring data into clinical settings in novel ways, and provide practitioners with more information when making diagnoses and treatment plans.

Thanks for reading!

Take care,

Mark
Great website idea spawned from a Reddit subreddit. Similar to what I did back a couple years ago with Roast My Site (no longer active) after seeing /r/roastme subreddit
On the other hand, an adult brain has an advantage in that it already knows another language fluently, so complex words and concepts in the new language can be explained by way of translation, analogy, and deconstruction into the native language. An adult also has the advantage of structured learning and applying the most efficient language-learning strategy: systematic study of vocabulary and grammar, etc.

Adults do have a disadvantage as far as accents and fluency are concerned though. For that, you need total immersion (i.e. no relying on prior language as a crutch) and to completely reset oral posture rather than letting the oral posture of their native language influence speaking habits.
I remember reading of a way to stop tinnitus where you blocked your ears and thwacked your skull with a finger. It sort of worked (I wonder if it just stunned my ears?)

ok, here is a version of it:

> 1) Place the palms of your hands over your ears so your fingers wrap around the
back of your head.

> 2) Set your middle fingers on the top of your neck right at the base of your skull.

> 3) Put your index fingers on top of your middle fingers and apply pressure.

> 4) Now snap them on the back of your head over and over like you’re drumming.

> 5) Repeat it about 50 times.

> Ideally, when you pull your hands away, you won’t hear any ringing, hissing, or buzzing anymore.

https://lifehacker.com/this-weird-trick-might-give-you-brief...
Same! When I saw the really fat UNIX janitor in Jurassic Park, I knew that was my life's calling.
And if you haven't seen or read Planetes, I'm going to go out on a limb and say it's the best anime/manga on the subject.
IMO what helps is to imagine slightly changing the order.

First step is still that you pick a door. There's a 1/3 chance it has the car. Now you can either keep that single door (with a 1/3 chance of a car), or switch and get both of the other two doors (each with a 1/3 chance of the car, for a total of 2/3 chance). After you pick, I'll reveal all the goats.
Hahaha. Manhattan goes underground more than it goes above in most places. Old tunnels from way back are 600ft down. Tons of other stuff too.

https://cooperator.com/article/a-look-at-what-lies-beneath/f...
> So our odds of winning with this strategy are still 2/3.

That’s true before he opens a door. Then either

A) he shows a car and the odds of winning with this strategy are 100%

or

B) he shows a goat and the odds of winning with this strategy are between 1/2 and 2/3 depending on how the choice of door was made

If the choice is random, he shows a car with probability 1/3. The probability of winning is 1/3 x 1 + 2/3 x 1/2 = 2/3

But that analysis is for the unconditional problem and what we’re asked is what to do in case B, after a goat has been unveiled.

If he shows always a goat, the probability of winning is 0 x 1 + 1 x 2/3 = 2/3. Here there is no difference between the unconditional and the conditional problems because A never happens.
> And it sounds like it's painfully slow for now until they fix the networking.

That will depend on the size of the project. If you're dealing with tens of thousands of files, yeah. In JS-land the problem comes around node_modules folder. BUt a few hundreds or even thousands of files would be okay. Reads are actually quite fast (using ack/ag from Linux to search Windows isn't bad), it's writes that are awful.

Also there won't need to be a performant X Server. The solution they're working on is using a seemless RDP window, where everything works (including drag and drop between the Linux app and Windows)
> The day is wasted to travel regardless.

This doesn't add up. At the moment when I fly from the UK to New York I leave my house at 6 AM and could be in the city by just after lunch. With supersonic, including airport and transfer times, I could literally get up at my normal time in the UK and arrive to get a full working day in New York. None of the day is wasted.
Whoah. Not my experience at all, and I suspect not a lot of other people’s experience either.

This is only true if you prioritize car ownership. I have a crappy car that isn’t fun to drive, and I’m happy with that.
I know the Jitsi project rejected using p2p webrtc for more than 2 participants a while back due to exploding upload bandwidth requirements at the clients, but I wonder if this video-game style interface would work OK with a single low bandwidth video stream of each participant (instead of switchable low/med/hi res ones), and maybe support 5 or 6 users over P2P instead of needing that server-side bandwidth?
VisualizeValue built an audience and grew to $100k/month and 99% profit margins
much less
I've never seen an ad in Windows 10 aside on blog posts talking about the ads, though I do have the Pro version.

The phone home stuff is likely still there though.
I feel like the thing that really gives it away was the flat tonality across comments, humans tend to become more or less verbose in waves, because of moods, sometimes they'll post long diatribes and sometimes the energy isnt there and the answers are shorter.

those tendencies bunch up across time giving a higher level view of the person. this bot to me, feels "flat" in comparison. it's hard to tell from any one answer but looking at the account posting history as a whole gives it away.

I mean that's the general problem AI is constantly being built to overcome (larger and larger collection of smaller successes) so I see that dissapearing as an issue easily down the line but at least for now that stood out for me.
> But the study also showed that it is best to start by age 10 if you want to achieve the grammatical fluency of a native speaker

Another angle that should be considered is that, while children learn languages very quickly, they can 'unlearn' just as fast.

One of my cousins spoke fluent Japanese as a young child. Then he moved to another country. A few years later he couldn't speak or understand Japanese anymore. I've since learned that this is very common.
Lisp's syntax (or lack thereof) make it much easier to write a macro processor for than something like C, though.

If your position is "They shouldn't have used something with that complicated a syntax", that might be a defensible point, but now we're not talking about the preprocessor.
Can both select the same door? If the answer is no, you've changed the parameters of the game, because the person who chooses second can only pick from two doors.

The subset of games where they close different doors is smaller than all possible games.
Giant fiberglass bathroom?
Maybe include any class action lawsuits, recalls issued, Etc.

Also don't let pissed off people derail product ratings because they are unhappy.

I'm thinking of a Wirecutter product research methodology and wiki below to list breakdown of materials, where they were sourced, changes in materials by manufacturer in later product updates, etc.

Let the users duke it out in the discussion section.

Basically avoid being Yelp and full of amateur reviews and people gaming the review system.

I would love for this to be an open source 'consumer affairs' product quality watchdog/authority. Too many times do manufacturers do a bait and switch where the first version has durable parts then subsequent versions are tweaked with cost cutting measures and you have inferior pieces that breakdown when they've captured a large market share of customers.

Unlike software, there is no 'what's new in this update' readme overview and you never really know if the manufacturer decided to cut corners by using a factory in Shenzhen that mass produces cheapo materials when they were previously made in a factory in middle America with a higher standard of quality, etc.

Thoughts?
Many people find writing a great help here. And you say it works for you! Try to structure your involvement in discussions so you can prepare more. Some suggestions:

Anticipate things that will come up in a particular meeting/conversation and write your thoughts down beforehand.

When you feel really strongly about something in a conversation, don't start throwing arguments at the wall. Instead, describe your high-level concerns as succinctly as possible, and ask for an opportunity to get your thoughts together and email or discuss the next day.

Pay attention to recurring themes, and write about them, the next time they come up you'll have cogent points to make.

These won't work all the time. I suggest trying to move the needle on a few things you care about.
How about, for someone to post a review, you have to take a picture of yourself with the product. But before you take the picture, you get randomly assigned a number. You must post a picture with that number in the photo. Then either do magic machine learning to check, or have a review process. Better, have it be manual. Get more people in the process, not less. I think this is an awesome idea, which would be completely ruined by fake reviews, but I'd feel much safer if there were like 1/10th the number of products but knew with certainty that a real human vetted and cared about that specific review.
Some of the changes I can see a logic behind it. But making electrical engineers not qualify for H1B for a SWE job is just silly and doesn't match reality. Just ask the SWEs in any 1000+ software company how many of them are electrical engineers.
PG addressed the point about envy and he does not argue that envy drives unpopularity. Regardless, I'm with you on your first two paragraphs, but not sure I agree with all of the last one.

In my opinion, the "act like nerds" part likely comes from temperamental traits such as social anxiety, higher sensitivity, etc. For identifying with "being smart" (whether they actually are, is debatable) I would argue it is at least partially as a result of intellectualization being their go-to defense mechanism to cope with uncomfortable emotions (e.g., social ostracization/bullying).

In other words, nerds likely become nerds as a result of being unpopular/ostracized, not the other way around.
People argue both sides of this. If Google implements a new protocol on their servers and their clients without standardizing it, they're end-running the standards process or embrace-extend-extinguishing the open internet. If they do standardize it and then deploy the standard implementation, they're.. I don't even know, making billions of page loads faster and that's bad because they're Google?

What's the right way for Google to improve their internet-facing services at a protocol level?
If you swap, monty gives you the best outcome from the 2 doors you didn't originally pick. Better 2 doors than 1.
> I didn't expect you to double-down on "well, it's just the poor anyway" but I probably shouldn't be surprised by now.

Yes, that is exactly the point I'm making. Strictly from a utilitarian perspective, civil war/genocide affects more people, more uniformly than drug addiction. Attacking that from "won't you think of the poors?" angle isn't a constructive argument to be made.

And lest we forget, the original point of argument was that peaceful restructuring of corporation is preferable to violent restructuring through wars, coups, and genocide. "What about the drug overdoses?" is an odd argument because I don't know anyone that would say "I prefer peaceful creative destruction over war, except if there are opioid overdoses, in which case I prefer civil war and violent coups, yes."

> I wrote "over emphasis". Then you just go on about some irrelevant stats regarding the size of the public sector etc.

Isn't that exactly what "free market" means? Economic freedom and the size of the private sector?

> Hence the lack of proper welfare and universal health care (and we can go on to worker benefits if you'd like, or perhaps higher education?).

Yes, and this is a failure of government policy. The US healthcare system is the least free market there is. I write software for claims processing and healthcare pricing systems for a living, and I can tell you right now that the US's healthcare system is a byzantine nightmare. The only thing remotely "market-like" about the system is that there are an obscene amount of profits...but that's all downstream of asinine incentives brought about by policy. It isn't some grand accident of the free market.

I'm in agreement with you that this needs to be fixed. However the fact that these problems exist in the US but not elsewhere suggests that it also has very little to do with "free market ideologies", and your insistence to the contrary regardless of the empirical evidence suggests that your approach to this is purely driven by ideology.
I much appreciate your thoughtful comment. It appears that, speaking about core of the issue, we are on the same page (at least, based on your second paragraph above). Because, in my original comment, when mentioning "grammar", I was referring to formal grammar (i.e., rules), rather than other aspects of a language, including idiomatic expressions.
The article wasn't written by a snobby NY Post journalist, but a Psychology PhD student. And this author isn't any psychology student, but an orphan who failed high school. He has skin in the game.
Whenever I read about the potential harms of social media or targeted ads I think of the imagery from Snow Crash describing our retinas as the only exposed part of our brain, offering a direct neural interface for good or for ill.
Feature requests welcome. Cheers!
> Google didn't copy any of Oracle/Sun's Java source code base into Android Java. Oracle lawyers acknowledge this.

You're saying the textual contents of the interfaces that define the APIs are not part of the source code base? Of course Google copied them, or a nearly identical paraphrase of them.

I'm not quite sure what Google's legal theory is. Listening to the oral arguments this morning certainly didn't make that more clear to me. But I don't think it includes redefining what we mean by copying text.

And interfaces, in common parlance, are certainly lines of code.

Nor do I think Oracle's argument is that no one else can define interfaces that use the same words as in the Java standard library interfaces. read, write, get, put, etc. did not become Oracle's property by virtue of them being used as method names.

I have a bit of trouble with the concept "the threshhold of too much", too, as it applies to this case. Google copied or paraphrased essentially _all_ of the text of interfaces they used from Java libraries.
rebooting the mac doesn't reboot the T2
....aaaand now I’m buying braille training books on eBay. Thanks. :D

see also: https://www.ebay.com/itm/143224299851

(nick TOTALLY unrelated.)
FB legal action against “Real Facebook Oversight Board” to shut down website
Probe-rs: a modern, embedded debugging toolkit, written in Rust
Maybe... there's some kind of threshold of deceleration that triggers the brake lights when pulling off the throttle but I don't know what it is. It could also be autopilot on.
Vetting it would be hard. Most of it is opinion, slander etc. not so much factual. Even the quasi factual content can be spun any which way while remaining within the confines of 'technically correct'.
> - Bootstrap + Vue.js + Django backend hosted on Firebase, GCP/AWS PaaS

That sounds like a very usable stack. I'd personally use Django REST over straight Django (assuming you're creating a SPA, which I imagine you are based on the backend options).

Depending on your design needs, you might want to review Vue Material (https://vuematerial.io/). It's a UI library similar to Bootstrap with a material design focus.
Names.io – Global Exhaustive Scraped Name Db
I'd like to know if the idea allows for the transmission of information from one aeon to the next? If so, how much information? Enough to write a short message in ascii, or to encode a vast library of the most exquisite artifacts discovered in a search whose genesis lies in the infinitely distant past? What about the mind state of a creature, and instructions for its reconstitution? Is it possible to as it were, throw oneself into the next aeon?
As a consumer device aimed at everybody, you kinda need to account for a large amount of dummies.
A bit off-topic, but when you think about it, it’s interesting how our vocabulary is shaped by gravity.

I mean, why “vertically aligned” and not “horizontally aligned”, right? It’s not like the performance of the battery actually changes if you made it stand up or lie sideways.

Why are we expected to picture “vertically aligned” as |||, but “horizontally aligned” as ——, right? Could we have used different wording that is not influenced by our superfluous spatial perception?
One off tech demo plane, vs their even a prototype of their production plane.
Hilariously enough, my class' Valedictorian is now an ML Engineer on Amazon Echo.

I wasn't answering the question of "what will their parents think", I was just pointing out the reaction of our peers because I grew up in the same community. Parental reaction is typically much more about them as people than any other particular factor.
Are Telsas known to age well? I can't imagine long term build quality is lowly correlated with short term build quality. But the electric drive train is a major complicating factor.
They have the edit all backwards. They should have started with tight shots showing abstract lines and reflections, but instead they showed the whole body outline/shape, dimly, in the first third of the video while the music was still building.

So close, yet so far away. Cargo cult speed ramping.
The Model Y is desirable just because it's a Tesla SUV/crossover that's more affordable than the X.
The ipace competes with the model x, not with the model y.
This Month in Rust GameDev #14 – September 2020
> But I kind of miss the old Google where you DID need to be a genius. I interviewed with Google probably around the year 2000, and there was a genuinely hard ball packing problem. I'm kind of curious what happened. Anyone who could answer that question would find this one trivial -- and not just the dynamic programming solution, but the O(log n) one which apparently no one at Google (or even applying to Google) noticed.

Fwiw this is very much untrue. While this person may not have known the optimal solution, it's well documented within google.

> What I hate about Google is that everyone there still thinks they're a genius. In 2000, it felt okay, since for the most part, they actually were. Today, it's kind of obnoxious.

News to me ;)

There are certainly places where I think Google is a world-leader. But that doesn't require or imply that everyone be a super genius.
there was no other reason to buy sun?
I wonder how Geneva will deal with lowered suicide rates.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-suicide-wages/high...