skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ahh yes, with "soberly" being the operative word here. Is there a political variant of Buyer's Remorse?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buyer%27s_remorse
Of course analyzing arguments logically is a valuable skill, but here's the thing: the educational preparation for fields where rational thinking is most valuable is already chock full of opportunities to practice and refine rational thinking. After years of practice, what further marginal gains can be made by further analysis and study of the skill itself? Isn't it overwhelmingly likely that a person with that background has other, more pressing weaknesses they can work on to promote their success?

Unfortunately, the people who gravitate towards rationalism tend to be people who are already good at it and naturally oriented towards it, people who are more likely to lack the skill of turning it off. When somebody makes an argument to you, you want to think along with them, try to inhabit their head temporarily. You'll learn things about them that allow you to work productively with them and even understand the factual content of their speech better. If you're diagnosing the logical structure of their irrationality while they speak, it's going to knock you out of their headspace, like spotting plot holes in a movie takes you out of the film. You've spotted something invalidating, and now you have to wrestle your brain back into paying attention. I would wager that the best movie critics aren't generally elite at spotting continuity errors. Learning to turn critical distance on and off, and to direct it where you need it to go (focusing on emotional dynamics, for instance, instead of logical structure,) is probably the skill that many people attracted to rationalism really need, but by doubling down on rationalism they're making it even more automatic.

That aside, I think the fundamental question of the article is bizarre. Where are the successful "sprinters" in professional football? Speed is a critical factor for wide receivers and defensive backs, and they train for it, but they don't go around calling themselves sprinters or talking about sprint training in their press conferences. Speed is a skill and a quality for them, not an identity. Self-identifying as a "sprinter" would be counterproductive for a defensive back, because it takes one element of success and elevates it above the others instead of balancing it against them. It only makes sense if being a sprinter is more important to them than being successful as a defensive back, and you wouldn't imagine a person with that order of priorities to achieve elite success as a defensive back.

As a skill and a quality, rather than an identity, rationalism might be common at the top of every field; who knows. That's a more interesting question at least.
Well, acquired taste is absolutely a thing, as probably anybody who likes coffee, beer, red wine, or a thousand other things can readily attest to. We're hardwired to like energy-rich food, most other things are learned.
> "1. Create table(s) for raw/user-inputted data"

you can still be exposed to data munging on input/import, due to all sorts of formatting issues (like zip codes losing their leading zeroes or invalid phone numbers due to misaligned formatting).
> If I am unable/unwilling to moderate the comment section of a blog I host then maybe I should't have one.

I completely agree, it’s clear that a successful business model around content moderation cannot exist in the internet’s current form, and there are very few consequences for people who post malicious content.
People are not switching. Serious practitioners always distinguished between pps, bps and rps(or qps), as they measure different dimensions as explained in the article.
FCC Decides to Move Forward with Unconstitutional Rulemaking on Section 230
If you can afford that it breaks stuff, like multiplayer games where a missed patch would make it unplayable anyway, maybe ye.

If Windows only force pushed security updates in secirity labeled patches like in XP it would probably be fine in practice. But I never know what happens when I restart my work Win 10 laptop. Maybe wifi gives up. Or the docking station wont work. Who knows it happened to me and my collegues multiple times.

I actually wonder if the corparate IT is to blame since I don't have the same instability problems on my Win 10 gaming rig, or maybe laptops just are way more sensitive.
I think most successful people would say "of course I'm rational but what's the point of making an -ism out of it?"
Twitter walks back New York Post decision
Yeah, I was wondering the same thing actually...
Excel is a great case study. Turns out, if you give people an accessible and widely available Touring complete environment, they will manage to do pretty much anything with it.

On another note, it's interesting to observe that the problems spreadsheets have are the same problems that plague poorly designed software everywhere - lack of documentation, lack of testing, lack of input validation, among others.
I mean, each new version is separate, correct? So the only change that can happen under you is when something is backported. How often does that happen for a gpu driver, and how far back does that go?
They are indirectly if not legally liable. If they tried something as damaging as Nano Defender here, it would be massive bad PR and they would be forced to backpedal or lose industry trust.
It would be interesting if this technique could be adapted towards treating visual snow.
My own Easy Data Transform software (https://www.easydatatransform.com) does a fair amount of what Alteryx does and is just $99 (one time fee). So cheaper than Excel!
It was the Big Eight for most of the 20th century.
This is a product/project management responsibility, and in some organizations or teams some or all of this can fall on the engineering manager side. Doing a lot of both at the same time is typically a crummy gig, as you don't have time to do both successfully for a right-sized team (you'll be either a bad manager, a bad product manager, or mediocre at both), Uou'll either be overworked or feel bad at your gig all the time.

Helping the team proactively scope and prioritize technical debt work, as opposed to product work, is almost always a critical function of managers.
Excel is a triumph of software. Never before has there been a REPL so powerful, a programming language so widely used, an environment so simple even mere mortals can produce magic - without it what would we have? The power of software would remain closed behind the Ivory gates of the self-titled engineers with development cycles, sprints and countless hours to make a single formulae change.

Fear the excel less world, for without it society is a shadow of its potential!
Correlation is not causation. Maybe nerdiness makes you interested in both software and movements with names like "rationalism", but if the movement didn't exist I think nerdy people would still be making good money in software without it.
>, it felt like the system was robbing itself while making everyone worse off in the process.

More like robbing the taxpayers to pay you (assuming your agency was state funded), the guards, the food supplier, etc. etc.

Thousands of livelihoods are supported by crappy prisons and the war on drugs.
Susan Shore and her team at the University of Michigan are working on a similar device. They have an animal model that they are able to test under. They have reportedly had success in humans as well:

https://stm.sciencemag.org/content/10/422/eaal3175.full
I am not sure how regulation will really solve a problem of incentives. I know that locking up corporate executives is very popular, but I don't think it works. You just end up with a bunch of audits that are technically correct, but fail to detect big problems.

I recently read "The Smartest Guys in the Room", and I'm not sure how you regulate that kind of problem out of existence; I don't think Sarbanes–Oxley really fixed it, but I am not sure regulations really can. Look at Theranos and Nikola; these should have been found out earlier, but their deceptions were not covered by auditors.
N.H. Announces It Will Sue Massachusetts over Cross-Border Income Tax Collection
It's not really Covid that will become endemic but a mostly harmless virus descended from it.
Most interestingly "Research suggests that there is an ongoing reversed Flynn effect, i.e. a decline in IQ scores, in Norway, Denmark, Australia, Britain, the Netherlands, Sweden, Finland, France and German-speaking countries,[4] a development which appears to have started in the 1990s.[5][6][7][8]"
An attempt at an explanation: value is what we in fact act to gain or keep, from the simplest to the most complex objects or relations; what we have previously gained or kept is automatically recorded as a value in our mind; and thus will be emotionally perceived as a preference in the future. Some values can be and are deliberately chosen, but many are not.
Generally one charges a multiple higher for enterprise customers, in exchange for support, SLAs, and other fluff they want. And because they’re not price sensitive.
CTE are no longer definitive optimization barriers, as recent Postgres versions will always inline side effect free CTE.
'We really ought to start officially standardizing the English language and untangling the current written mess.'

Nice idea methinks but I reckon there's not a snowball's chance. For starters, Anglophone countries would have to agree upon some structure or institution to act as a regulator à la the Académie Française, (the Moderator of the French Language): https://www.thoughtco.com/academie-francaise-1364522. Given past and present politics, it seems to me they'd first delare war on each other before ever agreeing to that!
Thinking of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23667506 , I wouldn't be surprised if the "mis-thrown" ball covertly targeted near a group of attractive women wasn't already old in the mesolithic.
> If I buy a vacuum cleaner it's easy to tell if it sucks

I clearly knew what you meant, but it definitely reminds me of the decade(s)-old adage: "The day Microsoft makes something that doesn't suck is the day they make a vacuum cleaner."

I'd argue it's even vaguely on-topic, c.f. Windows 10 updates...
That looked a lot cooler than trying it on brick would have, cmon, who wouldn't expect some embellishment on Youtube? :)
TMJ was the cause of about 7% of my migraine.
Watched a few YouTube videos, self massages for a few days. Found a spot that was super painful. Once it released, Migraines mostly gone.
Yes this is the incredible flimsy cover story that Hunter Biden drove 2500 miles from his home to leave a laptop with a random person then never came back for it.

This after "US intelligence agencies warned the White House last year that Rudy Giuliani was the target of an influence operation by Russian intelligence, as he gathered information he thought would expose the Bidens."

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/giuliani-bi...

Forgive me if i'm fast forwarding past the obvious lies and openly mocking all those who can't do the same.
This is totally fine.
Yes. In business communication, if there a bunch of people who are irrelevant to a subsequent thread, it is okay to put the excess people on bcc and say they can reply if they want to be added back in again. It is a really nifty trick I learned at a megacorp.
Azure is second behind AWS and runs at a truly massive scale for all of Microsoft's services. It's not going to die from MS Teams usage which already has millions of people.

Perhaps if you actually used MS products, you would have a better idea of how they run.
This too is my recollection of the initial clinical trial results — shortened course of disease but no indication of improved survival. The new WHO study reinforces the initial evidence but is not new news.

Edit: The closest Gilead has come to suggesting a survival advantage from Remdesivir was a comparative analysis presented in July [1]. The analysis was highlighted as inconclusive because it wasn’t a double-blinded placebo-controlled study, which is the gold standard for clinical trials.

[1]: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-07-10/gilead-s-...
> It says right in the article that they also include treatments and medicines

Can you please paste the relevant quote from the article? Because I'm not seeing that. The part I looked at was:

"In a statement on 4 April, it insisted that the TCM chapter does not discuss particular remedies. Rather, it is meant to give doctors the chance to diagnose patients using both TCM and Western medicine — what it calls “optional dual coding”. These categories “do not refer to — or endorse — any form of treatment”, the statement says."
Just because it's not been mentioned in the other comments thus far: Car crashes are loud. And it's worse if you don't see it coming (so that you could "prepare" your ears).

See also https://bgr.com/2017/02/08/mercedes-pre-safe-sound-pink-nois....
Thanks, that's good to know! I'm mostly doing Nesper for myself, partly as a way to learn the ESP/FreeRTOS libraries as I'm more familiar with the Arduino ones. However, I'd like to make it more approachable by adding some docs. One nice thing about Nim is that it provides much nicer API mechanisms that are easier to comprehend and document. Though the ESP-IDF docs are pretty comprehensive.
Edit: I stand corrected, there is a specialized CE certification that reviews limited fitness for purpose, although it does not seem very comparable to something like FDA requirements for double blind testing etc., so I'm still highly skeptical. Original comment:

There may be something here, but their presentation leaves a "snake oil" impression. Mostly because of their repeated emphasis on "CE" certification, as though that had any bearing on the effectiveness of this treatment. They even say it has "CE-mark certification for the treatment of tinnitus", which is really misleading, as CE simply means it complies with certain regulations regarding the construction of electronic devices, nothing at all about fitness for a given medical purpose.
Downvote with reason or response, what a great place for discussion.
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We are killing people to save others. It's the trolley problem, except we don't even know how many we save and how many we kill.
Wait, I should be forced to give the state control over my creation, instead of being able to make it free to everyone, forever? Monstrous.
I think it's because these languages really like mono and two syllable words. Shorter words make a shorter "namespace" so repetition is more common. It's also the reason rhyming is easier though.
That's not true at all, this process doesn't happen just in the English language. Most languages evolve the same way, new words are introduced to the lexicon through the spoken language, newspapers and books, and later added to dictionaries. For example, in German the Duden is printed every five years with new recent words added. The same in happens in other countries where academics create new vocabularies based on current usage.
> The opposite is true in English. Does a word have "ie" or "ei" in it? There is no way to know.

They may be complicated, but rules exist, and I find it interesting this was the first example you jumped to - there's a rhyme we're taught as kids that works the majority of the time: "'i' before 'e' except after 'c', or when sounded like 'a' as in 'neighbor' or 'weigh'".
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One of the big issues with spreadsheets is the lack of visibility. It is very hard to tell what is going on in any non-trivial spreadsheet. That something that visual data flow tools such as Alteryx, Knime and (my own) Easy Data Transform try to address.

The other problem is specific to Excel. It just loves to mangle your data! The problem is so bad that geneticists have renamed some genes to stop Excel reinterpreting them as dates.
The Indian government is also unusually (as far as my impressions take me) dedicated to supporting domestic Indian firms in direct competition with international firms. (It's not clear to me from the article you shared that's what happened, though, just airing a possibility.)
At what grade level do presidential candidates debate?
Man, I wish I had that a month ago- had a random hair from a haircut rubbing against my eardrum, and could. not. get. it. out. Thankfully have a physician friend who was able to scope my ear and remove the offender in about a minute, but it sure would have been nice to have been able to do so at home. Thanks for posting this.
I suspect flashing a stop sign sized image of a stop sign for 500ms on a tv mounted where the stop sign goes, at an intersection that should probably have a stop sign, would get most people to stop.
Haha, well I doubt that's turning into malware anytime soon ;-)
While I agree in principle, I don't think many humans are capable of what you want. Without a desperate need to work, most people don't seem to bother doing much even it that would give them great satisfaction. Just look at almost every unemployed person who has a place to live and food to eat but nothing to do all day. Why aren't they spending their plentiful time on high quality of life activities?

This might be hard to imagine if you're well educated, already working, and in your 20's and the world seems full of excitement and opportunity but you're held back by the annoying need to pay your bills. If you didn't have to work, you might start a business or spend all day on your side project or whatever. But most people aren't in that position. Often, their only sense of fulfillment comes from their work no matter how unpleasant it is, and they only work because they have to to survive.
You add them into your trusted contacts, and those contacts can request your current position on-demand. You can either accept, deny or it will auto-accept if left alone. You are always aware if a request was sent, nothing is done without your knowledge even after the fact.

With Google Maps you have to share no in-between.
Or kill you faster.
See: Simplified Technical English.
http://www.asd-ste100.org/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simplified_Technical_English
I’d ask the question first, then explain it. Possibly ask the same question again after the explanation. If the question could/would be misunderstood without the explanation, I’d change the question to instead be confusing without the explanation. But you really have to work hard at being able to explain enough things with a very short text.
Show HN: A in browser tile editor with isometric features
Launch HN: Willow Patch Games
Hey HN!

I’m Alex Scheel, co-founder of Willow Patch Games (https://willowpatchgames.com#about).

We’re creating online games that are fun to play with friends and families unable to meet in person during these times. Unlike most other competitors in this space, we’re looking to keep things simple: we’d like to bootstrap the company, we won’t sell user data for advertisements, and we’ll avoid gaudy graphics that require the latest phone as much as possible. We’re trying to be good stewards and provide quality games rather than being just another race-to-the-bottom game company. We’re trying to be as friendly to join and play as possible: joining someone’s game will always be free.

I started this project in August with my brother, Nick, our other co-founder. We’re still in the early stages, but very curious to hear feedback about what we’ve built so far. We have lots of ideas and plans for the future but figured we might as well see what HN has to say!

Some cool things we have brewing are:

- Video and text chat integration

- Other types of games, including some of our favorite card games

- Improving the experience on older devices

- Building mobile apps as well

- Alternative dictionary support

Feel free to email us at willowpatchgames@gmail.com if you have any questions.

Let us know what you think and may the odds be ever in your favor!
It's evidence so incontrovertible and ironcland that the chance it is wrong (or faked) is less than the chance the outrageous claim is true.

This could be close to unobtainable, for sufficiently outrageous claims. The argument I am making goes all the way back to Hume's "Of Miracles".

In the specific case of Cold Fusion and the like, the evidence is further impeached by the lack of progress. What's happening looks just like a pseudoscientific study of nothing that spits out bad results that never goes anywhere.
You’re saying that people should lean entirely on the law. It’s pretty reasonable to have some set of behaviors that you’re willing to legally allow but also will complain about. It’s not like you can carve these things out perfectly. You’re going to either be over-permissive and have some stuff you don’t want happen, or be under-permissive and restrict behaviors you’re fine with.

To say “if you want to restrict use, then license appropriately” is to push heavily towards everyone using more restrictive licenses.
It did.

> The blockbuster correspondence — which flies in the face of Joe Biden’s claim that he’s “never spoken to my son about his overseas business dealings” — is contained in a massive trove of data recovered from a laptop computer.

Hunter Biden email

The computer was dropped off at a repair shop in Biden’s home state of Delaware in April 2019, according to the store’s owner.
I tried doing some joins in Power Query and was surprised how slow it is.
From 2019:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/jamesconca/2019/09/12/its-reall...

“Putting this water into the ocean is without doubt the best way to get rid of it. Concentrating it and containerizing it actually causes more of a potential hazard to people and the environment. And is very very expensive with no benefit.”

“Unfortunately, the idea of releasing radioactivity of any sort makes most people cringe. But that’s the problem, only the perception of tritium is bad, not the reality. And in our new world of anti-science, such a wrong idea might rule over what is the right thing to do, wasting precious resources and time.”
I immerse my head and ears in hot bath-tub. When I get out I put my little finger into the wet ear and then fast pull it out which creates some suction in the ear which sucks the water out and I think also some vax.
Oh why does the whole thing feel like a grifting and a profiteering operation?
>>> code I can memorise

As an aside this reminded me of "benefit of clergy", where one could get a reduction in sentence if you could prove you were literate in court - by reading out a Psalm in Latin. Now, as it was always the same psalm, illiterate people could memorise the psalm and recite it as if reading.

(of course this was a legal fiction to allow courts to avoid handing out death sentences to all comers).

The thing is fizzbuzz is like Miserere Mei - it's a quick proxy for a form of literacy. Yes, anyone already literate could easily swot up that psalm. But anyone not literate could only learn the words off by heart - and any simple test such as read the next psalm, would unmask them.

So the easiness of fizzbuzz is kind of the point - we are not trying to work out if you are Phd or undergrad level. Just literate.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benefit_of_clergy
Here's the source code in case you find a bug or want to suggest an improvement or new feature.

https://github.com/victorqribeiro/tileEditor
> of massive scale

Of even tiny, microscopic scale. Even your personal blog's comments, or the forum for your local club.

And it _still_ won't stop Facebook. It'll only stop _you_. That outcome doesn't sound like the outcome you're saying you may be comfortable with. It sounds like the opposite.
I'd argue that you tend to see that happen in countries where the largest / most powerful speaker of that language is also the source of the language, such as French and German, and not in countries where the largest (in population) / most powerful (in size of economy) is not the originator, such as English (USA), Spanish (Mexico) or Portuguese (Brazil).