skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Medicare (as in the method of payment) obviously wouldn't, but by only polling Medicare patients they bias the patients, as Medicare patients are predominately the elderly.
> If PornHub doesn’t like it, they can simply start their own credit card processing company.

1) Except Federal regulations make it extremely difficult, if not actually impossible, to "simply" do this.

2) If they did, imagine the thinkpieces on Medium, Aeon, Engadget, etc. about how PornHub is setting up a financial darknet for child molesters and the alt-right. There would then be increasing pressure on banks to cut them off. What good is a payment processor, Mr. Anderson... if you are unable to open a bank account?

> If that’s not hate speech, I don’t know what is, and it should be shut down, permanently.

Except mere hate speech is still legal in the USA; CSEM is not. Howler detected; is this a parody post?
Deus Ex: Human Revolution showed how a good hacking mini game can be done. Besides, hacking is only one instance in a long series of disappointments. Pretty much every single feature of this game is shallow and badly implemented.
did he actually lie?

he also stated that _overall_ score that includes everyone went from 70 to 79.
Indeed, and this finding could at the very least be said to have some plausible underlying (perhaps indirect) causation.
don't get my hopes up!
I agree with you that "identity" is not well defined in Apple's document.

The way I'm reading it is that "identity" is anything that uniquely identifies each user of your app, i.e. something like a GUID or any generated user ID. It does not necessarily mean that you are able to identify the real-world person behind the user record.

So for instance, if you collect the number of steps each user has taken each day and you store that information on your server associated with a user ID, then you have collected that data and you have linked it to the user's identity, even if you know absolutely nothing else about that user.

What would it mean to collect data without linking it to a user's identity? I think it means collecting aggregate or statistical data. If you transmit the number of steps taken by each user to your server, but you only ever store the average number of steps taken across all your users, then you have collected data without linking it to a user's identity.

For email addresses the distinction between collection and linking to users makes no sense. It's always going to be both or neither.

So that's what I believe. What's important though is what Apple actually means. And I fully agree with you that this document needs clarification.
I'm no expert, but the UK implemented the EU's General Data Protection Regulation by passing the Data Protection Act 2018 [1] which will still be in place come 1 January 2021. There could be revised/new legislation in future though.

[1] https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2018/12/enacted
I am running a last gen system (PC) and the game runs fine even with everything on max (except for ray-tracing which I don't think look that good but hits performance a lot).

I don't think CDPR should have released for old consoles, it's going to misrepresent the game no matter what, and just take extra effort.
> The study, which appears today in the British Medical Journal (BMJ), looked at 980,876 procedures performed in US hospitals by 47,489 surgeons. Of those procedures, 2,064 (0.2%) took place on a surgeon’s birthday.

So, only a fraction of the surgeons performed operation on their birthdays. Would be interesting to compare the outcomes using the same surgeon group: surgeries on birthday vs same-surgeon surgeries on other dates.
Launching broken isn’t an unexpected thing for this type of game. Everyone is used to falling-apart-at-the-seams Bethesda games, constant patches, even full-on crashes are now apparently acceptable on a console. I saw some people saying “I bought it, but I’ll wait a few months to play until they’ve patched it,” and they think that’s fine. I totally understand why CDPR made that choice. A console game being broken on release is no longer a disaster.
I work at Ubisoft(in the UK[0]) and overtime and crunch are heavily discouraged, to a point where as a matter of policy, we are asked to report to higher management if anyne is asked to do overtime - it just shouldn't be happening at all. I've worked on two big AAA releases in the last 6 years and my total overtime was statistically zero, I did some extra hours in the last 2 weeks leading to release, but that was mostly to watch over the server infrastructure to make sure the launch went smoothly.

We've had people join from Rockstar, EA, CDPR, and one thing everyone is always surprised by is how good the work/life balance is. I'm personally in around 8am and always done by 4pm(7.5 hours a day).

[0] - now, all Ubisoft studios set their own policies. Please don't extrapolate my experience in the UK to experiences in other Ubisoft studios in other countries.
So, I don't think there is one. At least not one compatible with democratic-like systems.

The fundamental issue here, at least to me, is that the upvote is an "I like this" signal. The instinctive use of an upvote is to see more of what you like. Turns out that what people like is what people already agree with.

Unless you build a strong culture that values the signal/noise ratio (remember that early reddit had much more of "UPVOTE IS NOT A DISAGREE" culture, hivemindy as it was), you're not getting your desired outcome. Worse, if you let in the mobs, it doesn't matter how principled your initial group was as they'll soon be overwhelmed by the crowd. The historical record there is obvious.

I think the only way about this is gate-keeping. You want that culture, you'd better enforce it. If you somehow start with a seed userbase of principled people, you only allow people voting rights once they meet whatever gatekeeping criteria that you've set. I don't think this is that scalable, but smaller more tightly knit communities might be a plus to some.

Actually, I'm wondering if something like this might have a niche out there somewhere. We know that Digg in the old days had the superuser group, and the strength of reddit was it's specialized subreddits. Would a system crossing specialized subs with hierarchical user privileges (viewer/voter/voter_with_grant_privs) be something that could work?
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Also interesting is "Impossibly Hungry Judges". Many of these correlation effects are paradoxically so strong that they they _cannot_ be the true explanation.

[0] http://nautil.us/blog/impossibly-hungry-judges
i3 along with a few floating terminals with hotkeys is a dream setup for me. I have hotkeys for Guake, Terminator and Tilda and they position differently. I use the i3 scratchpad a lot too.

My current dev machine has been running ArchLinux + i3-gaps for a couple of years now. Very solid, and not a single update screwup so far.
> They also found that some surgeons did not work on their birthdays

Is this partially that better/more experienced/senior/more affluent doctors are taking their birthday off, hence people getting more junior doctors?

It would be interesting to see how many more people die on a particular surgeons birthday compared with the rest of their year, rather than the birthday of the surgeon a patient gets.
I'll just comment it simply - congratulations!
I think they will go away over time.

[RANT] They should never have been implemented that way IMHO -- a different API or IETF-ish agreed HTML meta tag that would inform the browser of the scope, entities etc. would have allowed the browser to offer overall policy choices to the user.

Most would be "I don't care, do whatever you want to me" but those who do care could have been picky. That would also have allowed the browser to generate reports for the user regarding which sites currently have which permissions, etc. This would have put the onus on the browser implementation to get it right, and not e.g. fail to show the messages, but one could argue that any browser could get the random CSS used for these prompts wrong and not show the message.

I'm a GDPR fan and will likely use this jurisdiction transfer as a ceremonial point to close my FB account for good.
There probably exist universes where a shitty test would make things worse. How are you so sure we're in that universe? And how are you so sure that the unapproved tests are so shitty that you're not at all curious whether the FDA made the right choice?

Nowhere in my comment did I say the FDA should just take Pfizer's word for anything.

I'm also not sure why you're trying to use Trump's actions as evidence here. "Trump did a thing and therefore doing that thing was the correct action" is an argument which requires some justification.
Correlation doesn't imply causation but it could co-occur with it

Too long

Correlative causation is more correlated with causation than non-correlative causation

Too tongue twisting

Correlation is closer to causation than no correlation

I like that

Ignoring possible causation is correlated with stupidity

Too cruel

Correlation does not equal causation but they are correlated

Not bad

Anyone else?
Some other studies [1] have shown that N95 valved masks are as effective at filtering exhaled droplets as unvalved cotton masks, and considerably more effective than improvised things like bandannas and neck gaiters. It makes some sense - the valve lets a lot of droplets out, but the rest of the N95 mask is probably a far better filter than a cotton mask.

It doesn't contradict the claim in this article, but it's an interesting thing to ponder about the risk of the general public having seemingly all standardized on cotton masks.

[1] https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/6/36/eabd3083
In case less than 100% of gmail is experiencing this bug.
It doesn’t though. I just did a cost projection on our estate and hiring two engineers to look after it on bare metal VMs is 30% cheaper than using the managed service. Plus it doesn’t require a lot of maintenance so we can use those guys on improving the product as well which actually gives direct customer benefits.
What?? HP is THE center of Silicon Valley. Ok it used to be, but so many things came from HP and the whole culture.
> Your answer kind of misses the point GP was trying to make.

Actually, I don't think so.

> Google's mailserver could genuinely believe that the user doesn't exist, if the user service doesn't fail completely but cannot access part of the data and thus doesn't find a user record.

As a system administrator and/or provider you have to think about worst case scenarios and provide sensible defaults. Your mail gateway should have some heartbeat checks to subsystems it depend on (AuthZ, AuthN, Storage, etc.) and it should switch to fail-safe mode if something happens. Auth is unreliable? Switch to soft-fail on everyone regardless of e-mail validity. Can hard fail others later, when Auth is sane.

Storage is unreliable? Queue until buffer fills, then switch to error 421 (The service is unavailable due to a connection problem: it may refer to an exceeded limit of simultaneous connections, or a more general temporary problem) or return a similar error.

SMTP allows a lot of transient error communication. Postfix, etc. has a lot of hooks to handle this stuff. Just do it. Being Google doesn't allow you to manage your services irresponsibly. If we can think it, they should be able to do it too.
Nice handwavey incredibly broad statement you got there.

It's as simple as plugging a spark gap transmitter into the same outlet as the computer. If you want a guarantee just make computer cables with the jammer embedded.

This isn't hard.
Those that are working on their birthday also more likely to do so under emergency situations...
In Big-O notation, there will not be any difference, because copying the data will just be O(N), and whatever you do in the op will be at least O(N), so no change.

But in absolute terms, it could make a difference. Think of y = x + 1 vs y = x; y += 1. I would expect that the former is slightly faster. But actually I'm not really sure.

Actually, I implemented most of my native ops exactly in this way, i.e. I implemented the inplace version, and the non-inplace version would just additionally copy it and then call the inplace version.
> Services are better in my opinion when you pay for them and you’re not the product.

Services also tend to be better if lock-in effects on customers are low. ... and using your own domain for email does reduce lock-in significantly.

unrelated: the link in your profile does not seem to work.
They can't boot Linux. For a while. In fact, Apple is making it extra hard by not supplying the documentation to make it easier.
The comment you replied to has nothing to do with "correlation does not equal causation". The point was that fishing for results, by trying everything, is guaranteed to find something.

So if, in a study like this, they looked at differences in morality rate between: 1) men and women, 2) younger and older people, 3) younger and older surgeons, 4) surgeries in summer vs winter 4) surgeries in morning vs evening 5) etc etc.... And it came down all the way to n) surgeries on birthday - to find an effect. Then it would be almost guaranteed that such a finding is spurious.
That was a great article! The last paragraph, however:

"By the way, Knuth is interested in these algorithms mainly for the interesting mathematical problems (...) not because they’re in any way efficient algorithms! "

Made me wonder, these kind of algorithms, where there is a lot of comparing and swapping of adjacent records might be more efficient on a tape-based architecture. Or an architecture with a lot of prefetch caching.
12 years. This game is 12 years old.
Sadly Sway is bound to wayland.
Archive link: https://web.archive.org/web/20201212210709/https://www.psych...
Congratulations, you have a clear, efficient and great product which is profitable! Out of curiosity, does your domain get rejected by some sites? I know that some websites reject disposable mails such as mailinator.com at sign-up.
It is great that Amazon is going to provide both Managed Service for Grafana and Managed Service for Prometheus [1]. This will simplify infrastructure monitoring and application monitoring in AWS with widespread Prometheus+Grafana stack. The only downside is quite high prices for Managed Prometheus. They can be explained by high operational and infrastructure costs for the underlying system - Cortex. There are other Prometheus-compatible scalable long-term storage systems, which could require much lower costs [2]. I hope costs for Amazon Managed Prometheus will be reduced in the long run.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25432729

[2] https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/wiki/FAQ#...
You can create custom scalars in GraphQL, which then have shared logic for serialization on the backend and frontend. That knowledge on format does have to be sort of out-of-band but that could probably be added to the standard.
There is no NPC driving AI. They just follow a pre-defined scripted path and teleport if they can't keep up in missions.
Can you paint a clearer picture of the mechanism for federal intervention being the driver of intolerance?
I don't have a reference handy, but I seem to recall that that study on judges' verdicts being influenced by temperature, how close they were to lunchtime and so on, failed to replicate. I wouldn't be surprised if the OP study fails to replicate as well. They have a relatively high number of data points (to get an idea of order of magnitude: mortality of 145 across 2064 operations on birthdays) but only reach a P-value of 0.03 on their main conclusion.
I have been making my living selling software online since 2005. I know lots of other people who do the same. We've almost all tried affiliate marketing and almost none of us have had any worthwhile results from it.

Affiliate marketing also attracts a lot of bottom feeders and scumbags. For example they will advertise an non-existent discount for your product, stuff a cookie for anyone who finds that 'discount' via web search and then take their affiliate commission if they buys later. Also your LTV is probably too low to attract any decent affiliates.

I'm not saying affiliate marketing never works, just that it almost never seems to work for small software companies. So I would put trying it very low on your TODO list.

Also don't bother with Google Adwords unless you are prepared to put in some serious effort and money to learning the system. I have also been doing PPC ads for 15 years. During that time the cost per click and the complexity of Adwords has just gone up and up. PPC works best when you have a high LTV and there are clear, unambiguous phrases that convert. Do both of those apply to you?

Have you tried partnership? Try approaching someone who already has distribution and a complementary product. See if they will push your product to their existing customers for a percentage. Perhaps a VPN vendor. That might be a case where affiliate marketing could work.
The question is, are surgeons that are likely to work on their birthdays any different from the ones that would take day off.
Also Live Composite and friends, focus stacking.
Invisible Pixels
The website is currently unavailable so I can't read the article. However p-hacking, to which I believe the parent comment was referring, is a separate issue.

I agree that the incessant belaboring of the difference between correlation and causation in these types of threads is tiresome, but I don't think it applies in this case.
It greatly annoys me that wayland still doesn't have any solutions for synergy/barrier type software. I depend on it daily for using my desktop and laptop and it's tedious to make the switch as it currently is.
When I was there they had an IRC network for this reason. I hope they still do. Not quite the same as VoIP but fewer dependencies...
I never took the day off on my birthday, but a lot of people do. So it might also make sense to ask why these surgeons are operating on their birthdays. Did they take the day off and went back to perform surgery on a critical patient? Are they overworked? Etc.
It's not necessarily a problem. It's just good to link to any previous discussion.
If the submission was for Sway, it would be equally sad that it was bound to Wayland.

I think projects like this should link each other as alternatives though, to aid in discovery. Since they are for different protocols, I don't think they will lose anything by linking their "competitor".

I can see that sway mentions and links to i3, but I can't see anything similar from i3. Not sure if they haven't noticed it or if they are not fond of it.
This is a very understandable attitude.

Another great example of the overall effect described in the classic https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/07/30/meditations-on-moloch/
Stanisław Lem wrote a story about that. The AI (the term was not used, it was an "artificial brain" IIRC) used the researcher himself to send messages to another AI. I cannot find the story right now but it somehow hacked the researcher's brain, so that he unconsciously tapped the messages with his fingers when visiting the other AI.
Technical debt was accumulated and writing the test did not actually help with removing it.
I love i3 (though would switch to sway in a heartbeat if they sorted hidpi and xwayland together). Its only major flaw in my mind is that you will never be able to use someone else’s computer without feeling a seething frustration that it isn’t running i3 with your config...
No just "interesting" be essential - without it this is junk science.
I’ve been having WindowServer problems for month taking almost 100% of cpu out of the blue. I never could find any solutions and believe me it’s really painful when working when my IDE becomes so slow if takes seconds for every keystroke. So far it seems to fix my problem and I have the same computer setups. I switched to Brave to get back the Dev Tools.
I don’t have a day to take off to analyze the my system deeply without knowing where to start so in my case it’s a welcome fix
Yep. I've been using sway for a year now and I like it more than i3. When I switched to wayland I also dumped nvidia which has generally been great, but I have had several problems with the Intel drivers, unfortunately. I run the stable kernel.org kernel and currently need to patch it so it works. But I'd rather run a system that I can fix then one I can't.
OK and how is this observational fact of any scientific relevance? Well there could be a similar observation like Elderly people are X% more likely to die if the moon is in the fifth phase of jupiter. So by some hocus-pocus astrological deduction this is a Study worth considering?
Show HN: Java operator can be overloaded, do you know?
ObjectiveSQL is an ORM framework in Java based on ActiveRecord pattern,
which encourages rapid development and clean, codes with the least, and convention over configuration.

Features

1. With one annotation your Class has fully featured capabilities of SQL programming

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You can - but it's an arms race at that point.

The question is - is this really the way we should be communicating online? Why can't we set up an anonymous account on a service?

The next step to all of this is an Oauth provider that's built around privacy. Imagine if you could sign in to apps with something other than facebook or google. "Sign In with <privacy provider>" would be awesome. It's all technically possible today, and Mozilla nearly did it with persona, but gave up for some reason.

If anyone wants to fund this, for a mere 10-20 million USD I think it would be possible to create the service and market it to enough devs and end users to get traction.
Damn right. I saw a picture of him recently and he looks like a bum. That’s what happens when they brainwash you into thinking you should be ashamed of what you are.
The Privacy Budget
These tweets have some interesting look at the world AIs: E.g. apparently traffic can't handle disturbances at all and it's "solved" by very aggressive despawning of things you don't look at. (To be clear, every open-world game will do some amount of that, but this is extreme and if the AI can't handle existing for longer they can't easily fix it)

https://twitter.com/JumpOvertheAge/status/133892916630199091...
I was shocked just now reading about this "variation selector", what is next, conditionals and variables??? I thought (still think) Unicode is for text, these are more like control characters in some markup language or a transmission protocol. It seems gross. I obviously don't know, but something tells me this has little real world support and degrades poorly?
thanks! i stopped using keybase when they were acquired by zoom and didn't update my bio.
Taking into account is one thing, but relying on lazyness... I don't know, I'm not convinced
I've been meaning to try out barrier. How do you like it? Is it responsive/fast? I had synergy running across linux/mac machines a number of years ago and it wasn't super reliable back then..
How about "if you find a correlation and want to report this as if you think it's significant, then you should formulate a specific hypothesis and perform independent experiments to test it, rather than publishing junk."
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That conclusion makes zero sense to me unless counting on the nebulous nature of the descriptor, “a large number”. They deliver successfully to my Gmail account on a regular basis so I must want to receive it? Feels like you’re telling me to stop dressing like a slut. ;)
since sway and i3 are pretty much interoperable, I see no problems there.