skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I, for one, don't forget. I suspect most stories in the paper are bullshit. It isn't even because the paper is agenda-driven, it's because the journalist is either lazy or simply has no idea what he's writing about and mangles what he was told about it, or he asked the wrong questions, etc.

Sort of like me being assigned to write an article about culinary arts :-)

P.S. For more decent articles about airplanes, Aviation Week is far better.
They don't even need to be "neutral", just to have written rules that apply to everyone. eg: no spam.

That rules could include biases like "no news that favor Trump reelection", but they should be in their terms of service explicitly.
I by no means want to invalidate your experience, but from someone else who also grew up in a rural Christian (European Lutheran) community, I can’t recall churchgoers talking or caring much about each other’s beliefs - there was the whole range from secularists who were in it for the local community through devout fundamentalists and AFAIK (left as a teenager so it’s possible I missed things) it was never an issue.

That being said, there was definitely a “fear of the other “ with people being extremely suspicious of the few handful of outsiders who moved in and didn’t have any connection like relatives, existing connections, or children going to school there.
The European Spreadsheet Risks Interest Group (EUSpRig) runs an annual conference [...] — and there’s also a Yahoo Groups mailing list, where members offer tips and tricks, share links to resources and pick apart press coverage of the contact tracing debacle

When Yahoo Groups shuts down, no more excel repair for governments?
> a modified version of section 230 that required sites to have a contact email and made them liable if they don’t address certain issues in an appropriate time period.

So recreate the DMCA Takedown process but for speech? Do you think the DMCA is working well for copyright holders and users?

The abuse of this would be massive. Let's say I don't like the comments you wrote so I email the host of the forum they're on and say they're defamatory. Now the host has to decide if they are defamatory (which is often a tough call even for lawyers) and also weigh the risk that I might file a costly lawsuit anyway. Or they just delete the comment.
Filtering Statistics on Networks
I would do something similar to the raku version and have an extra bit in the grammar. Don't know racket or brag, but maybe something like http://ix.io/2AXE
An Analysis of the DOL H-1B Wage Rule [pdf]
> As [one] math major to another, there are interesting problems everywhere and literally all people are interesting and full of problems.

Add me to that list as well. I originally started graduate school with dreams of moving to California and working for a FAANG company. Early in the program I got a graduate assistantship that basically partnered with a large company to be a half-time intern. I didn't really see myself working at long term.

Over the last five years, I've come to appreciate the fact that I'm not using my knowledge of statistics to keep people addicted to their phones or serve ads. I just took a full-time position there while I finish the tail end of my PhD.

Everyone has an interesting problem to solve. It's just not everyone is slamming down their "achievements" down your throat trying to recruit.
Explicit deliberate bias is protected speech.
I think a good middle ground here is audio, with transcriptions.

I'm making a chat application for this called heysync, which is similar to slack or IRC, but with embeddable auto-transcribed audio messages as a primary feature. You can type messages out as normal, or send audio, and people on your team can scan/read it, and decide to listen, or listen by default. It's more human than text, way less stressful than sync video meetings, and enables asynchronous conversations over several days or across timezones.

I'm nearly done building a first version, so if anyone would like to hear more or try it soon, there's a website and mailing list signup at: https://heysync.chat
It's only "a pretty easy call" when you cherry pick extremely easy, outlying examples.

What about more nuanced cases? Who will be arbiter of "neutral" then?
You can quantify, perhaps by simulation, the amount that it's less solid.

What's balancing against that is continuing the trial means giving patients a placebo when you have evidence of a better treatment.

It's a really complex issue both scientifically and ethically.
automated form for me.
> I've also heard people say hot sauce is just as hot coming out as going in.

Depends on how much you eat, leastwise based on my own experience.

There was a point in my distant youth where I thought it was amusing to put as much spicy stuff on a meal as I could manage. Red pepper flakes, cayenne powder, tabasco, etc. It absolutely did burn going out--but only for about 5 minutes. I apparently ate enough to--err--make things go numb.

It was a very weird sensation and something I never did again given how unpleasant the whole experience was.

I'd imagine the people who--for whatever insane reason--participate in ghost pepper challenges experience something very similar if they can keep them down long enough to partake of the journey to completion.
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i have a copy on dropbox, a backup of that folder on onedrive with arq backup. For easy viewing I also upload them to smugmug and make sure they are tagged correctly.
It works mostly in that we can find photo's most of the time and have not yet lost a single one.
Other people are saying this, but AWS is taking a reputational risk here. If things get bad enough, we could end up with no-Amazon clauses in OSS.
Not sure if this is satirical, but HN aims to prevent clickbait and other 'spam' - see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6572466
Smaller Docker Images Using Multi-Stage Builds
Work from home tips shared over a beer [video]
Gilead signed a billion dollar deal with the EU Commission for Remdesivir on the 8 October.

However, Gilead apparently received the WHO study on 28 September and so were aware of the conclusions of the study before they signed a deal with the EU Commission.

This naturally leads to further questions, as discussed in this tweet thread:

https://twitter.com/kakape/status/1317042940825436162

Edit: Martin Landray, professor of medicine and epidemiology at the University of Oxford and leader of the UK-based Recovery trial also has a good summary of the WHO trial:

https://twitter.com/MartinLandray/status/1316989951297396736
I don't see how the disagreeing students in Varoufakis's classes are irrational. There are at least four reasonable explanations I can think of for their behavior.

1. They perceive a tail risk that at least one student is willing to spite the others. Possibly a student that has less to lose from bad grades than their classmates do, but that's not the only context where it could happen. While an assumption that everyone has the same values and will make the optimal choice under those values often leads to an effective approximation, modeling human behavior isn't always that simple... especially when only one person has to deviate for your model to make a catastrophically wrong prediction.

2. Grades aren't quite on an absolute scale; at least when pushed to extremes like "everyone in the class gets an A+", the most sophisticated readers of the transcripts will interpret that A+ differently than an A+ in the same class where the distribution of grades was more typical.

3. Getting yourself to behave in your long-term self-interest isn't always trivial. People do things like publicly commit to donating to a cause they hate if they don't achieve goal X, to try to increase their chance of reaching that goal when they've wanted to but failed in the past. Meaningful grades can be better than their absence if you struggle with self-control and trust the professor enough.

4. If you have a clear interest in seeing your classmates put effort into the course, you might vote against this.

Note that, in some of these cases, the student has an incentive to be quiet about their primary motive and instead give the cover-story explanation Varoufakis heard. I don't think those cases are likely (I think it really is mostly #1), but I wouldn't rule them out.
UNCG has a donut that's lasted over 40 years.

https://news.uncg.edu/celebrating-40-years-uncg-donut/
But GE isn't paying engineers to put out new lightbulb filament designs to the public (and other companies).

Facebook, Amazon, Microsoft, and many, many other companies are literally building tools for their competitors.

That's so outside the realm of possibility in any other industry that a copyright lawyer (or executive) in any heavily-patented field would laugh you out of their office for suggesting something like that.
It's always seemed to me that a company that both audits and provides consulting services has a conflict of interest.
> I don't believe I'm saying this, but I honestly think an Australian-style mandatory voting regime would do well in the US.

Forcing people to vote is a seriously bad idea. They have no reason to vote responsibly, and likely will vote maliciously, carelessly, or randomly.

Having the right to vote includes the right to choose not to vote.
i think the reason consultancies (legal firms, accounting firms, etc) do it, and not traditional software companies, is because the worker hours translate directly into billable hours. Partners are incentivized to bring in more business, which the associates (and the partner him/herself) can bill against. I think partners are usually expected to bring in a certain amount of business to justify their profit share.

In a traditional software company, like a SaaS business, I don't know how it would translate. A developer fixing bugs might be important for the business, but ultimately is hard to translate to the bottom line. It's not like hiring a high level executive will have a guaranteed ROI in the same way.
That's what Donald Trump received and look how fast he recovered.
Failed State's Christopher Brown on techno optimism and building utopias
> Please understand that airborne has a scientific meaning, and that is the terminology that scientists use. There is no actual clinical evidence of the airborne transmission of COVID.It is spread through large droplets.

At this point, it's expert consensus that airborne transmission of COVID is a significant if not the major route of transmission[1].

https://www.pnas.org/content/117/26/14857

> If it was airborne, those cloth and surgical masks that people wear would be useless, so you might as well not wear them.

Not quite useless, but nowhere near as effective as people would like to believe them to be.
From the article: "They measured how long it takes for a photon to cross a hydrogen molecule: about 247 zeptoseconds for the average bond length of the molecule. This is the shortest timespan that has been successfully measured to date."

Incredible.

Where the mind truly starts to boggle is remembering that a zeptosecond still falls incredibly short of the Planck time/distance at 5×10−44.

It's certainly exciting to speculate how much closer to an actual Planck /measurement/ we may yet achieve.
It is not clear to me in what way you are refuting the first two points. The citations that you are giving seem to indicate exactly what you are trying to refute. I am very confused, and left wondering about your agenda here. :)
I'm really eager to try this out -- I've never heard of it. I'm curious how it compares to Source Connect, Cleanfeed or Riverside.fm
Chemo can be both curative or palliative. This means it can be used to cure the cancer, or simply prolong the life of a patient. Chemo can also be used in combination with surgical or used alone. Just because chemo affects most dividing cells doesn’t mean it is not a curative treatment. Targeted chemo therapies have less side effects and can be tolerated at higher doses.
That was quite funny, thanks. Welsh however is very much a different language, not a dialect of english.

Iechyd da i chwi yn awr ac yn oesoedd!
it's no longer around? talkorigins.org seems to work
It’s Time to Drive Change
wasnt whatsapp built on 2000s technology (in fact much older, Erlang)? The 2010s were a net negative to technology, it's big corps sucking up everything to their "cloud" monopolies, and the deterioration is very visible in lots of older products (whatsapp would now need 4000 growth hackers and a gazillion dollars in AWS credits to boot). AI is keeping the hopes up though
Hi Jose, thanks very much for working on this!

My girlfriend had breast cancer twice already, and actually I was quite scared that she told me that she would almost rather die thank go through chemotherapy again, it was so bad for her (she's been through more than 15 operations, but she doesn't care about that). Currently it looks that she can't ever stop taking anti-estrogen drugs ever in her life even though it has lots of side effects.

My question is: most of the drugs fail at one of the trials with much more than 90% probability. What is the chance you give your drug to be succeeding, and how did you get failure rate probability under that 90%? Also what's plan B?
history starts at 1700 when columbus discovered indians?
> Not if you have a 6-3 majority on the court... 1A is whatever SCOTUS says it is.

That's true. Like much of the Constitution, the text is pithy and doesn't specify its definitions. The current legal interpretation of the First Amendment and free speech rest on a particular philosophical traditions that the court adopted in the last century, and especially after the 60s.

A lot of people have absolute faith in the functioning of a "marketplace of ideas," but it's not at all clear to me that a such a market can work well when it's flooded by disinformation, just like a market of goods can't work well when it's flooded by counterfeits.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/13/magazine/free-speech.html
In Europe, much of the economic growth is concentrated in the countries with colder weather, while the pleasant weather countries (France, Spain, Italy etc.) struggle with high unemployment and economic stagnation.

"Nice weather implies good economy" does not seem to pass even the basic correlation test.
It was raised to 12'4" in 2019 but people still hit it.

http://11foot8.com/
I would happily see all of those things go away to make sure Silicon Valley can't control who sees what.

It's not that I don't understand the value of those things, its that I see the value of not having information in society be controlled by a few companies as having far larger value.
Groundbreaking discovery finally proves rain can move mountains
I'm tired of all of these "masking" type treatments that supposedly help your body to stop noticing Tinnitus. I want to see something that actually stops the problem at the source. Tinnitus usually gets worse over time so at some point, it becomes difficult to ignore. I've been dealing with it for over 20 years and I'm fed up.
"A little?" buried deep in the article is the core piece of info.
> Er, isn't this a common childhood cliche? Aspiring to be a pop/rock star, pro athlete, famous actor/actress, etc.?

All of which require time and dedication to the craft to get good at. Being a internet celebrity (in the sense of being Instagram famous), while something that needs to be worked on to get there, does not in most cases involve as much work and creativity. That is what I am getting at.

Now, don't get me wrong. I am not talking about the scores of people that create on the internet and become famous for it (art, engineering, interesting youtube vids etc).
Only the "hey look at me posing on a private beach while sipping this Champagne and oh look a sponsor" types.

Those are sadly the ones my sibling's kids are looking at and hoping to mirror.
For the trading jobs, would I need experience in trading particularly. Also, for these jobs in general do side projects and the like matter a lot (like they do for SWE)? Thanks sm btw!
High memory usage forces you to only run one JVM process. If you need to do something that doesn't require a significant amount of memory you can't use Java at all.
What wrong with that? My first Linux (SuSE) system had 16MB of RAM. I successfully compiled X on it in just few days. Why I should use outdated software on embedded chip with say 256MB of LPDDR?
Eh.. this will cost me some reputation points on HN, but I have to say this.

Why "Spanish flu" and not H1N1-A-18? That flu is called "Spanish" only because Spain's newspapers openly talked about the epidemic. The actual origin, according to wikipedia, was "likely Kansas".
A galley was a large-ish, primarily oar-powered ship.

However it also refers to the kitchen on certain even larger boats.

So, it's kind of ambiguous what GP meant - either picking a cook out of a galley-kitchen (who is not the best chef, but rather someone making huge amounts of food for a ship's crew), or picking a slave off of the oars in a galley-ship.

I don't know.
>A zeptosecond is a trillionth of a billionth of a second (10-21 seconds).

Wow. Seriously impressive work.

In what situations would one use this measurement?
Betelgeuse neither as far not big as thought. What else could we be wrong about?
For me it was using a nail gun once after forgetting to put on the ear protectors. That was 10 years ago. The ringing in the ear closest to the nail gun is constant and sometimes annoying, but mostly which I can subconsciously filter out.
As far as I understand, that means they went to medical school.

A quick google search shows that Dr. José M. Mejía Oneto went to the University of Minnesota and did their residency at UC Davis. All this was done after their PhD in Chemistry from Emory.

I don't know if there's any other way to get medical training that will give you any level of authority or respect other than medical school (or related profession like PA or Nurse)
I've treated lesswrong as a way to still make terrible choices, just by expressing bias in more complex thinking, which hides it better and makes us feel batter when we still experience the same outcomes.
See it now, Firefox Klar wasn't willing to play it.
But the average person can't shop here.
https://patrickcollison.com/fast is a great catalog of similar issues. It is periodically discussed here.
I was referring more to the newsgroup than the archives site, but I used past tense because I haven't been a regular there in almost two decades now.

[1] https://groups.google.com/g/talk.origins
> You think we can here in this thread all agree to what it means for an algorithm or content-removal practice to be "politically neutral"?

Well, there's a simple answer, but I doubt we'll agree on it. It is impossible for a content-removal practice, algorithmic or otherwise, to be politically neutral. Any such practice will involve (whether implemented case-by-case or encoded into the design of the algorthm) judgements of a political nature and with political impacts.
Brain size does correlate with intelligence WITHIN a species.
I've used Buildroot for the last 8 years and Yocto/OE for the last year.

There is a significantly steeper learning curve for Yocto when compared to Buildroot. Buildroot is faster for the initial build, but often slower than Yocto after the initial build.

Here's what I like about Yocto:

1. It forces you to be organized, everything has a home and things can't conflict with each other.

2. By using Yocto's shared state cache, you can have one central build server and automatically fetch pre-built artifacts on other computers. With this I can get a developer hooked up with everything that they need to build a full system image on their computer in just a few minutes -- and completely build the image at that time.

3. I am confident that incremental changes are built correctly. If you change a build-time parameter of a package in Buildroot, things which depend on that package are not rebuilt. This is not the case with Yocto. This can also result in unfortunate rebuilds of many packages just because of a minor change to, say, glibc. I know that they do not need to be rebuilt but Yocto does not.

4. Buildroot puts built items in a single staging directory. Package install order differences mean that you can overwrite files accidentally. Consider /usr/include/debug.h in two different packages, or something like that.

If you are not explicit with dependencies, the build may actually succeed but it may not be deterministic. If package A happens to be built before package B, you're golden. This does not always happen, and sometimes this is not found until you do a clean and a rebuild. Yocto forces you to be explicit -- the build tree only includes artifacts for recipes which have explicitly been defined.

5. Yocto can use the same tree and shared state cache to build multiple images for a given product without having to clean the world.

I loved buildroot -- it was fast, nimble, and easy to use. It also lets you cut corners and find yourself in situations where builds would unexpectedly fail after a clean. I am also very happy that I took the time to learn how to effectively use Yocto.
Well, keep in mind that not all conservatism is the result of particular disgust phobias. Someone who just wants less government interference in their own property isn't necessarily suffering from any kind of phobia. And those views tend to be fairly popular in rural America, because it's just more compatible with that particular way of life. There's probably self-selection going on; people who want to be more socially connected are going to move towards the cities and people who want to get away are going to move towards smaller towns.

The connection between disgust and conservatism likely only influences certain specific parts of the GOP tent. It can only explain why someone might spend ridiculous amounts of time complaining about, say, the fact that trans people exist. It wouldn't explain why someone would be opposed to, say, large government spending projects or feel like immigrants bring crime. We call all three of these "conservatism", but one is a technical complaint about how government should run, another is naked tribal otherism with no hint of disgust language, and and yet another is the "pineapple on pizza" meme as applied to whether or not a certain group of people should be allowed to exist.
Best Unit Economics Resources?
I'm preparing to start my venture and my ever over analysing mindset is trying to find the best way to do certain facets .

For finance this is cashflow and unit economics. Now cashflow, and predictions, have tools and pretty decent amount of resources, templates etc but for unit economics I dare to say the resources are limited.

I'm hoping the fascinating minds of this community can help me find more

Cheerio,
Johnny G.
I have mild tinnitus. When I move my jaw forward the sound intensives strongly, and then fades when my jaw relaxes. So there is definitely a connection for me.
Yeah, people seem to be getting denser by the year.
Yep. Good choice for systems with 16-64Mb of RAM.
Perhaps unsurprisingly the used camera market seems to have exploded. The current used price seems to be $600+.
Leonardo Gil fala sobre a história do Vasco e conselhos de GUIñazu
What Everyone Knows and What No One Knows
I didn't keep the sheet, the only one I remember is FreeType which must be for the digital display.
Without divulging any trade secrets, are there any research papers or topics you would recommend learning more about? I'm really interested in learning more about these FSO improvements.
"Anywhere the weather's nice, people flock"

Well, yeah, prior to Covid, Andalusia in Spain was a favorite tourist destination. It really is lovely sitting at 10pm with a sangria in hand on a historic staircase of a palace and watching the nightlife milling around.

But all this flocking is temporary. People do not move there to start businesses. (They do to Gibraltar, but that is a tax haven.) They just enjoy they stay, spend some money on recreation and fly back to gloomy-but-rich Amsterdam, London or Hamburg.