skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, it is a bit more than that. I would have to remember the field mappings for something that used dBase III as its underpinning for all kinds of preference questions, which I would also have to find the template for. And then there's the decades-old floppies ...

In any case, I think the deletion of the old OKCupid statistical analyses is fairly telling: most people do not want to look at the evidence, and ignore it when it goes against the grain. You will get a lot of pushback when you conclude "men have a harder time dating than women" from what you gather.

I've often considering "doing something" with it, but it is likely unethical and, in any case, wouldn't really change any minds.
Thanks for sharing, looks very interesting from a quick glance!
s/confused/employed
A businessman sells you the hole, marketing sells you the drill.
Most issues don’t have two sides, but a multiplicity of viewpoints and stakeholders with vastly different levels of knowledge and insight. There are more than two sides.
According to the AAMC, it seems like residency slots have also been an issue: https://www.aamc.org/news-insights/medical-school-enrollment...
This is super cool. I've been wanting to add more screens to my MBpro thanks.

I bet managing the cables for this was tricky! I am making very unique desks with built in cabling. I wonder what you think of it and what audience would appreciate it?

Check it out: www.cabletread.com
^^ Thanks for checking!
Openstreetmap economics – maps for a lost Coase
Crypto is still a work in progress. Pls remember that it took nearly two decades for the Internet to become mainstream and highly usable.
Is it the AMA that puts that cap on? I was always under the impression that was really a consequence of the 1997 Balanced Budget Act (?).
If you liked Frances Yates, look up Lynne Kelly. She has two books (The Memory Code and Memory Craft) that trace the techniques back into prehistory, long before Ancient Greece. The Memory Code contains interesting ideas about the history. Memory Craft is about how to apply the techniques.
The US Code is for bribing Federal officials. This one would presumably be the California felony bribery law, CA Penal Code § 67: "Every person who gives or offers any bribe to any executive officer (any public employee who is authorized to use his or her own discretion to carry out his or her lawful duties) in this state, with intent to influence him in respect to any act, decision, vote, opinion, or other proceeding as such officer, is punishable by imprisonment in the state prison for two, three or four years, and is disqualified from holding any office in this state."
See also:

Conditionally Correct Superoptimization https://theory.stanford.edu/~aiken/publications/papers/oopsl...

Stochastic Superoptimization https://theory.stanford.edu/~aiken/publications/papers/asplo...

Automatic Generation of Peephole Superoptimizers https://theory.stanford.edu/~aiken/publications/papers/asplo...
From my experience looking at open source jailbreak repos, I’d say writing commented, maintainable code with good error checking is not a required skill.
As an alternative to Bootstrap, there is also Bulma https://bulma.io/
Seems like a way to upsell their other offerings, one foot inside the door.
I've learned to distrust services with rare/valuable domain names by default.
Am I reading this right that this process optimizes for program length but not necessarily program performance?
Could you expound? Is this something you think possible in 20 years? 50? 1000?
I purchased a Chuwi minibook last year. I have a lot of complaints about the device but I don't think the form factor would be one of them (although the usefulness is very situational)
Maybe sets that relate to real-world interests? I remember fire/police vehicles and race cars being a hit.
I'd argue that a NN cannot have linear activation. I mean, if the activation function is linear, it is not an NN anymore.
> EDIT: Aparently HN is not displaying the eyeroll, facepalm and upside down smiley emoji.

IIRC HN strips out most things not in the BMP.
An interesting corollary of this is that a lot of research has indicated that in societies with polyamory, the profusion of unmatched men actually destabilises society, leading to more frequent civil war.

https://www.economist.com/christmas-specials/2017/12/19/the-...
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It's miles away, but I kind of feel like System76's Thelio tries to inch a little in that direction.
http://infolab.stanford.edu/~datar/courses/cs361a/papers/qua...

I've found Greenwald-Khanna to be a lot more accurate, and also quite suitable for turning into a visual PDF representation
There isn't any competition in the free-ish space, no. But there are some big-boy options: Incapsula/Imperva, DOSarrest, Akamai, SiteLock, Radware, and a few other smaller players. These are complex setups where you at minimum need to be running an AS and own your IP space and infrastructure -- you get all sorts of cool solutions like sending (router) flows to them to monitor your traffic, and when an attack is detected they'll automatically advertise your IP space for you, scrub traffic via witchcraft and GRE-tunnel your clean traffic back to you. But don't bother contacting them if you have less than four figures to spend monthly -- if you don't have at least a few cabinets of gear (if not your own DC) you're not the target market.

Cloudflare is dominating the "consumer-grade" market, but not really past that.
Agreed—there are times you definitely need to specify the type. I have them every week, but still find it the exception rather than the rule, and easier to adjust for those, than adjust for the more common case.
> America is so close to Europe

s/America/the Caribbean/

He never managed to set foot on either continent.
My 2c - It’s basically a smaller NYC, decent tech scene, not quite as pricey (but still pricey), and the winters are coooold and windy.
For-profit hospitals are not that important (~20% of the hospital system). Edit: But if lawyers can make it to that list hospitals can as well (including not-for-profit hospitals paying huge salaries, just because they are not “for profit” it doesn’t mean they are not profit-driven).
If this was your last Thanksgiving, would you spend it in quarantine?
I'm fairly amenable to the interpretation that something like prokaryotic-to-eukaryotic jump is a real high barrier.

I would be pretty unsurprised to find prokaryotic life at least sometimes. I would be much more surprised to find eukaryotes possibly at all, and probably at any high frequency.
This is not turned on by default in my tenant.
Omg, it was there the whole time?!

I forgot where I have left it years ago ...
Two things:

1. Unicorns are lottery tickets. People dream of being rich.

2. Unicorns represent Big Wins: an idea that was worth a huge sum of money. It makes the world a richer place, figuratively and literally. The person who had it (and more importantly, the people who run it) are Big Heroes.

Companies like Facebook and Uber aren't just big companies. They change the world, making value from something that wasn't valuable before. That may be a Good Thing or a Bad Thing, but it's a Thing in a way that ten thousand smaller companies don't.

As with celebrities, we probably talk about them disproportionately to the value -- in part because they give us something in common to talk about. But there's usually some kind of "there" there, as well.
Using purely historical price data it is harrowingly difficult. There are 130 anonymized features, so that's unlikely to be only price data. It could include information on the order book, correlated assets, fundamentals, vectorized/embedded text, etc.

Besides, I bet you can train monkeys to do (slightly) better than blindfolded random throwing. Even with public data (replace satellite images with Youtube mentions, or number of links moving into a company website) it is very possible to do better than average guessing on quite a lot of assets (especially smaller and newer markets).

Most hedge funds, even with specialized expensive non-public data, are not magical unicorns. Their quants really may just run a gradient boosting machine and leave it at that. Some hedge funds even prefer linear methods, because this lowers risk through lower variance. Such models can be beaten by experienced Kagglers for sure. For one, I did.
The AMA lobbied in the 90s to limit federally funded residency slots. This served to restrict supply of doctors because medical schools base acceptance on available residency slots. The AMA has pushed for more funding of residency slots in more recent times, but their lobbying behavior in the 90s clearly shows they have an interest in controlling the supply of doctors.
You could just send an actual image as an attachment.
I love the old school pixelated desktop GUI - especially with an HD video stream embedded in it. It's like a classic car with the engine swapped out for an electric drivetrain.

It would have been awesome if windows were movable, too.
The NRA does not represent the entire gun community by any means. The Second Amendment Foundation has a better reputation among 2A absolutists, for example.
I think you mean the NeXT vs. Sun demo, here it is: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UGhfB-NICzg&lc=UgidKu1gsNhVQ....
> there are large, mature codebases out there in Backbone and Angular.

When it comes to large long-historied Angular codebases, I prefer the term "metastasized" over "mature," though now that we're in the 2020s we can almost use "legacy."
See Deep Throat, while you're at it.
No, it doesn't do that at all - I'm just wondering why the difference since Galaxy Watch has only 4GB of total flash storage on board (which isn't filled up by the OS) and provides this functionality.

Health is a significantly larger piece of software, so there must be more to the story.
FWIW, OpenBSD doesn't use PAM; it has been using BSD_Auth [1] since forever.

The other BSDs and macOS use OpenPAM [2] instead of Linux PAM. Both are written in C.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BSD_Authentication

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenPAM
The AMA lobbied for that cap.

https://usatoday30.usatoday.com/news/health/2005-03-02-docto...
What's the best way to incinerate a `pom.xml` file?
Progress bars still lie
The core React design pattern is nice, and the community is great, but the noise in the code.
It is exactly the code that is confusing but seems to work that I fear a junior dev will refactor (with the best of intentions) in a drive by.

To be candid, I am guilty of drive by refactoring as well as refactoring in the context of a bug fix commit as well as being forced to review my own commits that resulted in bugs and had both fixes and refactoring in them. I now "let sleeping dogs lie" as they say, unless my task is specifically to refactor/reimplement.

I try to incorporate this quote into the work I do and the code reviews I conduct/mentor with more junior devs.

Chesterton’s Fence, G. K. Chesterton

There exists in such a case a certain institution or law; let us say, for the sake of simplicity, a fence or gate erected across a road. The more modern type of reformer goes gaily up to it and says, “I don’t see the use of this; let us clear it away.” To which the more intelligent type of reformer will do well to answer: “If you don’t see the use of it, I certainly won’t let you clear it away. Go away and think. Then, when you can come back and tell me that you do see the use of it, I may allow you to destroy it

This may not be exactly applicable here, but I like it none the less. Perhaps more succinctly "If it ain't broke, don't fix it"
Amazon Sidewalk to be Enabled on Alexa Devices by Default
That's awesome. What made the app so hated?
To be fair, check out GP's username.
I thought their actions lately showed that they were willing to risk losing users in favor of what they thought of as civility. I'm not taking a position on whether that's good or bad, but just noting that they knew they'd piss off a lot of people.
have you seen https://poolside.fm/ ?
Probably they hit it with a rock and decided it didn't sound hollow. They may also have noted an absence of seams. Seams could be hidden with welding and grinding, but that would suggest it wasn't assembled on site.
The author doesn't try their own advice on how to send an interesting message, using less attractive men. The presumption here is that the interesting message matters, but I'm doubtful that the bottom two men in terms of attractiveness would have gotten a response.
Careful with that, indie hacker is a term before the website came along. It could also be a misspelling. I'd rather see IndieHacker as a term than IndieHackers as a brand.
> This however, didn't stop party officials...[gaining massive wealth]...

Well, exactly. And you don't think they earned that wealth, I presume? You think they took it from the ordinary working person. So why are you arguing that this exact same behaviour is acceptable under a Capitalist system?

Your other points are worth addressing and you argue well, but there are too many for one post. I don't like the funneling of wealth that happens with Copyright either, so I'd like to see it abolished, if that answers some of your later stuff.
It's opt-out, meaning it will be enabled by default.
You're right; there are certainly worse things happening which deserves our full attention and reaction. But perhaps this type of "surveillance state", or the general loss of civil liberties is a key to eroding everything else to its core. In a true "surveillance state", anything is easy to rig for those controlling it...
Ethereum is getting anonymity very soon.

https://medium.com/aztec-protocol/aztec-zkrollup-layer-2-pri...

Monero doesn't have many users (the daily transaction count is also maximum daily user count), so achieving a larger anonymity set should happen very fast. It's also going to be much more scalable. Not to mention anonymous dollars are a unique value proposition in itself.
Your sensitivity to honesty and ethical behavior is strong. There is no requirement to hasten a decision. Perhaps speeding up the response would generate a "no". Investors will prefer to invest in companies that know how to sell.
I haven't used it much lately but LunaNode is a smaller player but with a very solid service offering, with attachable storage &c &c.

Their small m1s instances are $3.5/month or 0.0045$/hr. 1GB ram, 15GB storage, bandwidth is a little harder to understand exactly but "1TB". No affiliation but they've been around & had good low price tiers for a while now, easy to use, worked great, all with APIs for on demand. I think it's all openstack based? Maybe? Love to see.

Lot of great "lowendbox" providers these days. And some not so great ones! Few offer the array of services you expect from a cloud provider (attachable storage, networking, ipv6, &c). Great to see folks who do!

These days I'm mainly on by-thr-month boxes but I appreciate having some short-term load providers I respect & trust.

https://www.lunanode.com/pricing
I have the world's biggest car key and the world's stupidest use for an M1 Mac
Do all doctors need residency or is it another barrier to having enough cheap doctors?
> This is not true of Apple, one can build a business and completely ignore them.

These days, there is a very, very large class of "potential businesses" that are only realistically realizable as smartphone apps. In my country, iPhones that can only run Apple-approved apps account for over half of the installed base for smartphones, as far as I know.

Making and selling a better smart phone is not as simple as making a better hammer, and there was never such a thing as a hammer that would only work with nails approved by the manufacturer of the hammer you had. This is really a new situation with no pre-tech analogies. We cannot rely on pre-tech laws to cover it. And it's clear that consumers and small businesses are not being protected very well, if at all, from Apple. I should not be forced to be spied on by Apple or Google to park my car, but this is the situation we are in, since there aren't meters in all places in my city, only an app. A lot of supermarkets are developing their own apps for scan + pay, how long before I can pick between Apple and Google when I want to get food? There are more scenarios like this by the day, and in my mind there is no question we will need regulation to address it.
It was not possible because FIPS mandates use of certain crypto systems (and to NOT use others), and our application domain—bitcoin private key management—required the use of non-standard cryptography. According to the lawyers we talked to, we couldn’t meet both needs.

In my experience with the government, a waiver is probably possible though. But none of our customers were demanding FIPS certification.
I have a lot of doctors in my family, and while it's not surprising that they've fully swallowed the bizarre fetishization of doctors we have in this country[0], it's really shocking to me the degree to which almost _everyone_ I know has, including those with no ties to the medical field whatsoever.

To be extremely clear, I don't think there's anything wrong with appreciating doctors for the hard work they do, nor the special feelings that people have historically always had towards healers[1]. If someone said they respected a person more for choosing medicine as a career, I can't say I'd disagree. But for some reason, most people seem to model doctors as incorruptible angels, incapable of making decisions that are suboptimal for others or for society. This makes it uniquely difficult to have a conversation about the problems of the devilishly complex healthcare system, since it's impossible to talk about one of the most important groups of stakeholders and their role in healthcare economics.

I remember talking to my sister shortly after her med school graduation about a topic that involved influences , and she said with a straight face "doctors don't do things that aren't in the patient's best interest". My (Ivy-League educated, MD-holding) sister isn't the sharpest tool in the shed, but even for her, the idea that an entire industry full of people are immune to incentives is an especially pants-on-head stupid model of the world. She's since unlearned much of the creepy indoctrination that med school drilled into her (and that her much-smarter doctor husband was never fully taken by), but the same messages have trickled down to many of the friends and family I have that are unconnected with the medical field, without any of the ego-protective incentives that my doctor acquaintances have.

[0] And most countries; if anything, it's way worse in the other countries I'm familiar with, as the US tends to be (on average) more dynamic and less worshiping of formal credentials than the average country

[1] Though I do think it's irrational; I distinctly remember my mom trying to communicate this feeling to me when trying to get me to be a doctor, and my high-decoupling teenage self telling her that she should also be appreciating the engineers whose work powers the hospital and the economists whose work was critical to building the hospital and paying doctor's salaries.
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Scientists identify brain cells that help drive bodily reaction to fear, anxiety
I've wanted to start learning about this for a while but I'm really not sure where to start. I have a degree in CS and Math so I'm not a total layman wrt the maths. Do you have any suggestions?
Peanut oil and lard for frying oil works well for potatoes and chicken (and onion rings im told). The "brine and dry" part and the oil are the thing that really make a french fry; double frying isn't truly necessary but that gives a point where mostly prepared half cooked fries can be frozen and finished whenever, which is nice.

Home frying in a stovetop pot is much harder than real kitchens with gas fired, dedicated fryers with multiple liter oil reserves. You dont keep temperature so much as have a wildly swinging temperature curve over and under the ideal range.
I’d actually argue that they don’t work, and that comes from someone who is pro-labor but has worked in union shops. Unions are intended to give a voice to the voiceless but in my experience they end up promoting a toxic culture that is counterproductive to everything. Management is unhappy not because of wages but because production drops and every incentive is now to do the bare minimum. Employees are unhappy because they’re not rewarded for hard work and instead rewarded for tenure. I’ve seen so many shit employees fired for blatantly disregarding safety practices but were then brought back by the union with back pay. Support staff is unhappy because they are caught in the middle of a culture war when all they want to do is be productive. And the culture goes to shit because both sides are constantly at war with each other. The only people “happy” with the union were the old timers at the top and they hated the company and hated working there but they were trapped there because no other job will have the same perks. I worked closely with the people on the shop floor and they hated both sides, and one stands out in my mind because he preferred the underpaid and overworked Foxconn factory to his current gig in the unionized factory.

If you want to argue about economic trends from the 40s to 70s I can go down that road too. Those unions aren’t around because they clearly weren’t competitive. A great example is the truckers unions that controlled pricing thanks to heavy lobbying and regulation. Those truckers were very well paid and made a very comfortable living but the high costs meant transportation of goods was incredibly expensive. Deregulation in the 70s opened that industry to competition, rates plummeted and now truck driving is more competitive than ever which has enabled other businesses that depend on transportation to be more productive than ever.
The point is you can say goodbye to the S&P500 performance if unions become as popular as in the post-FDR era. You'll experience low to negative real performance for decades.

Find old Warren Buffett shareholder letters or opinion pieces from those times if you want a capitalist's point of view, the guy has been around forever and has seen this particular story play out. Also, he's still for greater wealth redistribution, but that's just his personal political opinion.
There are outlets that do that, but they tend to be trade journals. Simple example: legal cases. Lots of outlets report on them, but mainstream news almost never cites the case numbers and only sometimes links to source material (indictments etc.). Specialist legal websites usually do, but they have more limited reach, can't cover everything, and tend to focus on cases that are legally interesting because they might establish or overturn a precedent. So they're not great for covering crime news where many cases turn on the facts rather than legalities. On the flip side, mainstream news reports often do a terrible job of reporting the details of a case, some just rewriting prosecutors' press releases.

I think trying to come up with semantic mind maps in articles is likely to limit your audience as it's an abstract critical process that's subject to accusations of, er, subjectivity. On the other hand, a service that reliably led people to improperly cited source material would have value; examples like criminal indictments as described above, or local coverage of events that is then taken up and rewritten (often without attribution or backlinks) by larger outlets.

This could solve local news outlets' revenue problem too. I hate following up a story that goes to a small newspaper in Nowheresville which then asks for a subscription; I'm unlikely to consult that paper for anything else in the foreseeable future. but it's not fair to the Nowheresville Times if Big City News rewrites their content without attribution. If BCN articles about events in Nowheresville were flagged as mere rewrites of NT content, the latter publisher would be able to make a strong argument for pass-through revenue to flow their way.
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