skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a baffling mischaracterisation of the arguments.

People don't say that opioids are a placebo. They say that people taking opioids develop tolerance for them and the meds lose effectiveness over time. This means that people are still in pain, but are now also taking dangerous and debilitating amounts of opioid meds. Their function is worse because of the opioids.

Providing talking therapy to these people isn't saying that the pain is not real. You saying this causes harm and you need to stop saying it, because you clearly do not understand what's happening.

When people have long term pain they lose function. They stop doing activities they used to enjoy. Their quality of life plummets. This makes their pain worse. (We know this, there's plenty of research.) Talking therapy aims to get people their life back by helping them regain function. They start to learn to live with pain. They get back to doing activities they enjoy. This doesn't eliminate pain, but it does lessen the pain and it improves quality of life.

You seem to think that "pain free but on opioids" is possible. For most[1] people in long term pain that's not possible, because opioids don't work like that.

[1] most, not all.
I think its just the beginning. They are testing the market for their own silicon and reception from market. They are also going to need a userbase for Graviton products as well so portability in the beginning is important. This is true in any product. In the early days, increase market and mind share. So you need to make it as easy to adopt as possible. Then, add differentiation, so you product stand out from the others to continue attract users. Then slowly add some barriers for people to leave your product for a competitor's product. You want to increase moat and protection against competitors.

I don't think Amazon will throw in the resources to build a chip just to offer cheaper prices than competitors alone. Pretend you are Amazon. Remember, the cost of building a chip is similar between you and another guy. And if you are getting less return on investment compared the other guy why bother? It has to be that getting into chips will give you more return on investment than the other guy. But return on investment comes from many forms. For example, using graviton to run VMs is cheaper and leading your customer to use AWS more and less likely to leave AWS is another form of return. In this strategy, you need to build up the barrier for customers to leave. You could do it by making the stuff customer use with their VMs have lock-in effect, for example databases or storage that only runs or works better on AWS. Or you can directly make sure things customers run on Graviton cannot be run on anywhere else.

By the way, a better hardware performance is hard to maintain. If everyone uses the same instruction sets and the same manufacturing process, the only way you can be faster than the other guy by better circuit design. But there is only so much you can squeeze out of a circuit design and its really hard to maintain a sizable lead for many many years. Look at how AMD designed a better circuit and Intel's competitive position is gone. Changing the way software interact with the hardware is next easiest thing to do, and especially easy if you have a lot of leverage over software, OS, APIs, programming languages and developers. Basically what companies like Amazon, Microsoft, Google and Apple all excel at. See the addition of matrix operations for ML significantly increased performance. And how Apple can use their control over iOS APIs to build CoreML, get developers to use it, and have add special instructions and function blocks to their hardware to accelerate core ml. It will be interesting to see how this develops, but it would be only natural for these companies to explore this direction.
Google could have forced them to be fast by using the same lightning logo if a page met speed criteria

They instead pushed a proprietary page format

Web pages adopted amp because of the seo carrot

That carrot could have motivated page speed without the existence of amp
Thanks. If the victims were in the US, that makes more sense. Though it still leaves a question mark over what happens when other countries do the same thing...
I remember reading during my neuroscience MSc that there are two distinct areas in the brain activated during pain, one which is to do with the feeling of pain, and the other which is to do with the mental anguish caused by that pain. It makes sense to me that there are non-medical ways of diminishing the anguish aspect of pain (although of course whether something "makes sense" doesn't automatically mean it's true). It also matches the different psychological responses to pain of soldiers in battle, where the pain is not as intrusive, vs a sportsperson who's injured during a game and who's in an otherwise safe space where they can ruminate about what the injury means for their career.
I suppose the obvious answer to that is - and what do you think the second best IDEs for Java, Python, and JavaScript are? Because the longevity of SaaS defines its value and JetBrains has zero rivals and a very big moat (a polished product beyond any other IDE I’ve used).

You’d assume surviving 10 years is guaranteed and a sale is almost certain. Whoever buys JetBrains (ms, Amazon, google, one of the three for certain) will pay through the nose.
Who's trying to destroy JetBrains? Who's even competing with them?
I ran into this same issue with GCP while using the boot disk for some caches. In this case the grace period is a few minutes before they throttle. It was quite a pain to track down.
I completely agree with the advice you got there and I'll add one thing on top.

I give a shit about what I do. I know my employer does not give a shit about me though. My advice: keep a timesheet!

It's amazing how much unpaid overtime people give their employers if the employer doesn't make you fill a timesheet. It's awesome to look at your own timesheet and see that you really really don't need to feel bad about stopping working at 2pm on Friday because even that still keeps you in overtime territory. It doesn't mean you don't give a shit. You gave it your everything while you did the work, you cared about the code you wrote and you still got way more done than the people sitting in the office for 60 hours a week while goofing off on Facebook. The whole WFH thing makes this much easier because you don't have to dread people's turning heads when you leave the office that early.

The other thing is "unlimited vacation". If you have that at your job, make sure you check how much vacation you are actually taking. Companies actually like unlimited vacation policies, which should be enough for you not to like them. People tend to take less vacation under such polociee. Nobody wants to be the one that took the most vacation for some reason and companies exploit that. So keep track and just take the amount you think you should take (within reasonable limits). E.g. 30 days a year is completely fine. If you work in technology in Germany then 30 days is very likely the amount you get, even if you are fresh out of university.
I wish this was true :/ But it was breaking people's webpage where the page won't load (including myself) and the menu you would normally when you click the icon on the bar was white.
StumbleUpon, Geocities, IRC... seems like we have collective nostalgia for old web. I want to see forums take off again. So I'm building https://discoflip.com where anyone can create one quickly.
> Should we artificially put up barrier to stop or slow down this natural tendency before it runs it course

We should always ask: would a project like Linux be possible now? Can somebody become the next Linus Torvalds? If not, then these companies have locked down their devices too far.
Microsoft has done chips since they started making them for xbox since 2003, so they have been in this space longer than Apple.

Can read about another chip they are making here: https://www.geekwire.com/2020/microsoft-pluton-new-chip-desi...
I got all mine out at ~18 for no discernable reason.

Earlier in the year, got a filling despite visible substantial enamel. Was fine before, but I could barely handle drinks colder than body temperature for about 6 months. I think it could've waited.
Stories like that tend to go campy and obvious Hollywood happy endings. Life isn't like that. The good guy rarely wins for being good.
One of the more popular paper wallet generators is https://www.bitaddress.org/. But because i'm paranoid of situations like this, I've downloaded a release from their github and copied it to an airgapped laptop, and generated keys that way- https://github.com/pointbiz/bitaddress.org/releases
I don't think I was making any arguments. Furthermore, if there's a takeaway from my comment, is that I don't think there are arguments to be said in that particular discussion, only opinions supported by one's specific experience. There's certainly a dearth of solid empirical evidence one way or the other.

I was also agreeing with GP's saying that "static typing won't save us". There are many things to say about Go's type system, but it is definitely more static than Python's, which I've also worked with.
This article [1] was interesting to me and applies directly to your situation. Essentially, knowing that something is a placebo doesn't necessarily decrease the effects of the treatment.

[1] https://www.health.harvard.edu/blog/placebo-can-work-even-kn...
I have direct experience in the "doctor's know that under their care it works".

In an earlier startup we developed a particular dissolving mesh that could be placed in situ in a surgical site to prevent adhesions. E.g. if you tear your rotator cuff, the healing of sewn up region will adhere not only to the cuff but other parts of your shoulder, preventing it from moving. The only fix is to (painfully) move the shoulder as it heals to tear those adhesions and form some scar tissue.

Experiments in animals showed that they would recover full motion in their joints with no apparent discomfort.

But when we interviewed doctors we discovered that they knew this was a terrible problem but blamed it on the techniques of other doctors. "When it's my turn on call I get these calls from patients, some in terrible pain. I am very careful and my patients never have this problem. This sounds like a great idea though I'd never use it myself." Of course we sometimes talked to multiple doctors in the same physician's group and they would say this about each other.

We ended up using the technology in a different (medical) application.
I remember when those books came out and puzzling over them, especially the Modern C++ Design. It's hard to describe what it felt like back then, the promises that these techniques were making, how exciting it was and how differently software development practices have evolved. That's what I love about writing software, even after 30 years in the trenches. There's always something new to discover and then draw conclusions about how it's different from what you thought 5 or 10 years before.

I don't know if I would recommend these books today but they are undeniable classics.
WPNI?
Can you describe in more detail exactly what you're looking for instead?
I don't get the automatic dismissal of graphs with offset axes.

Yes, this one is better because it starts from 0, but there are plenty of reasons to offset a graph. For example, when you want to look at curves correlation (you may even want more than one offset at the same time), or study the change behavior.
"A CPU for use in space must first be MIL-STD-883"

Is this just for NASA craft? Are there any regulations for private craft or international standards?
Occasionally I'll see an headline making a marvelous claim about 'Gravity Waves'... something like 'shrimp synchronize reproduction to gravity waves'. I always read it as gravitational waves, and for a split second I think there was some revolutionary physics discovery. Of course, they're simply talking about waves driven by gravity... or, in other words, everyday normal waves in water and air.
I always get nervous when stories about Selenium reach the front page of HN. If at any point in the past Selenium has kicked your dog, please accept my apologies.
Once it's finished indexing things it feels darn instant to me. What hardware do you use? Also which programming language? I've used IntelliJ with Java, Scala, Kotlin, Groovy, Markdown, and many file types and it's really snappy.
Offgrid
> Iframe is a security trainwreck

That seems like it should be relatively fixable. For example, iframes could be visible, clearly marked (including the URL), and sandboxed like any separate page. One could go further by insisting that they are display-only and can only be displayed rather than interacted with. Then an iframe would basically be a glorified jpg with a URL.
Do you see Nvidia offering ARM based CPUs in the near future? And maybe a complete unit with a CPU and dGPU along with unified memory?
You have a box with random garbage in it. I have a box with a football in it. We entangle the football and the garbage. You stand far away from me. If you randomly open your box now, you may either see a football or random garbage. If I call you on the phone (classically) and tell you to open the box tonight at precisely 8:12pm, you're guaranteed to find a football then and hence, I will have the garbage.

There's no parsing; it's all or nothing.
> Browsers already have "alternative" APIs to make totally non-DOM interfaces, such as canvas (2D) and WebGL (3d). Nothing prevents to come up with alternative layout/UI libraries written on top of them. I'm sure such a libraries exist.

I believe Figma renders like this.
It was also fine for me at the time. However, I've found it to be increasingly unbearable with each subsequent OS update and each XCode update. At this point, XCode is not useable on my 2015 8GB RAM Macbook -- it could work, but productivity would be so low it isnt worth doing. I was planning to make a mega-upgrade up to 64GB, but the chatter of "16GB w/ M1 is the new 32GB" has me intrigued.
US Treasury to Apply Bank Secrecy Act Rules to Crypto Wallets
I assume this is in the SRE book, but a tier one product like the identity service will have global SRE coverage (i.e. at least three SRE teams so that there is always an SRE group for whom it is daytime holding the pager). Devs are often involved in diagnosis, but are less often required for mitigation, as the mitigation is almost always to revert whatever change caused the problem. This is a simplification of course, but it gives an idea of the general pattern.
So, it is interesting (from a U.S. perspective, anyway) that such a post does not appear to mention "student loan" even once. There is a saying that "things that cannot go on forever, won't".

I think the university (and ancillary) community, whether they say it out loud or not, more or less assumes that the government will pick up the tab when the student loan financial bubble pops. But, while that may in some sense happen, it will bring with it some manner of major change to how universities work, and which ones survive.
I can help with suggesting some good reads on mythological books in Hinduism if you like
https://lobste.rs/ is an HN-like with a tag system and a feature for filtering tags.

https://lobste.rs/tags
These numbers are bizarre. 1062 confirmed new cases (nationwide?) yesterday and 353 cases in Seoul from yesterday waiting for beds. Is South Korea attempting to put every single case in the hospital? Are they only reporting severe cases?
Yes that was the sentence. The expression "minimizes potential risks of genetic transformation" implies that there is a non-zero risk, and I'm curious how minimal it is.
cell surface protiens go through a turnover in similar fashion to mRNA. protiens are chemically and phsyically more robust than mRNA however due to thermokinetic damages etc. protiens must eventually be decommisioned and replaced by new updates [likewindows10]. cell membrane turnover also occurs. this is a recovery of the cell toward its central tendency. in strictest terms the expression of the novel protien is damage, but not to the extent that the cell must be destroyed. Cells have timeline leading to proceedural, and also programmed cell death, this is a case of the needs of the many [tissues, whole organism] outwieghing the needs of the one or few.

there are many quotes regarding ~every Xmonths you are a new person.
They found covid in blood donated in December 2019. It's actually been a full year at this point.
Just pick an "alternative" treatment that is (a) harmless and (b) you consider "could possibly work"

For running pain in a knee someone I know had a course of laser accupuncture [1] with really good success. There's nothing scientific about the treatement, no studies, no data. But it is at worst harmless so, we probably don't need to care.

I can see "I'm aware it might be just a placebo" as working better than "This /is/ just a placebo"

[1] My undertanding of this was that a general practioner (Doctor) shined a low power laser at close quarters on various parts of the knee. Zero chance of burning, completely harmless at worst.
Good job launching. I clicked on a topic and then clicked the "<" button. It didn't go back to the home page.
well you need machine learning to coordinate these robots and they need to take into the effect of this robot shaking around a whole bunch.
Thank you for your work on Graphile!
"Move fast and break things!"

...

"Move fast! ...with stable infrastructure!" [1]

[1] https://www.cnet.com/news/zuckerberg-move-fast-and-break-thi...
I really liked the Zune. Also, it had a streaming service before Spotify was a thing, and you got to keep 10 songs per month permanently even if you canceled your subscription. I think it was much better than it got credit for.
A lot of placebo effects still show up when the patient knows they're getting placebos. It probably has some ritualistic advantage in helping them mentally.
Gmail outage post-mortem [pdf]
Strangely, I think Stadia is one of the more stable platforms for the game. I'm in a similar position, dumb AI when driving, the odd multiple dialog lines being smashed together, but overall its not too bad. 28 hours in and I've been mostly distracted by side quests.
Here's a New Yorker article that I bookmarked years ago that also questions the efficacy of back surgery for chronic pain:

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2002/04/08/a-knife-in-the...

From the opening:

Last year, approximately a hundred and fifty thousand lower-lumbar spinal fusions were performed in the United States. The operation, which involves removing lumbar disks and mechanically bracing the vertebrae, is of tremendous benefit to patients with fractured spines or spinal cancers; more frequently, however, it is performed to alleviate chronic lower-back pain. But how effective is it? That’s a question that many of the doctors who perform the fusions, and the insurers who pay for them, appear reluctant to ask.
Study: Covid-19 virus could enter the brain
Levels of Driving Automation
Depends, but mostly no. No regulations.
The CPU on the Xbox was a slightly customized Pentium III. Microsoft didn't necessarily design it, they worked with Intel to ensure it met the requirements they had in mind for the Xbox.

The CPU on the Xbox 360 was co-designed with IBM, working to integrate their PowerPC-based PPE cores with an AMD GPU.

As an outsider looking in, Microsoft definitely dabbles its toes into designing chips but they've always done it with a partner already big in the space of chip design. Even with that Pluton "chip", its more about creating a standard secure enclave system between existing CPU manufacturers based on some Microsoft specifications rather than an entire chip design ready to get sent to a fab.
It’s not because the underlying storage is 1 TiB disk, so you’re getting a fixed allocation that’s shared among many other 50mb/s clients (ie assuming flash and overall transfer rates of ~2gigabytes/, that lets them coex roughly 40 customers on 1 machine without over subscribing)?

Isn’t that kind of pricing mode about the only one that would be feasible to implement to make this cost effective? How are you thinking it should work? Fixed cost per block transferred?
No tags is the simplest thing that might work.

Tags tend not to be intellectually interesting? That might not be the actual reason. But it works for me.

HN predates today’s general ubiquity of tagging web content. The reference point is the BBS not social media.

Or to put it another way it can be chalked up to “laziness, hubris, and impatience” unsurprisingly.
I think University of Melbourne is much closer to the 2-4 year degree. This is a 3 year undergrad with a 2 year masters. I went this route and I am glad I did.

Initially, I wanted to do mechatronics engineering but I wasn't entirely sure so I did a Bachelor of Science at UoM, I did some mechanical eng subjects and kind of realized that I hated the math there so I switched into comp sci.

Now I am specializing my masters in distributed computing.
It's really worked out well for me, I have a solid understanding of math thanks to my engineering background and math subjects that I did, this has been very helpful for the theoretical comp sci subjects that I am undertaking.
Astute observation :) but not sure how relevant of a piece of context as I don't study there. I've done some stuff on Purdue campus but I attend UC Berkeley which is an institution with its own set of strengths and challenges.
Does Surface have layers of bullshit upon fossilized bullshit?

The software for ARM PCs is Windows. All the SoC vendor has to provide is some UEFI drivers. Linux will survive on reverse engineering since ARM PCs will have no Linux BSPs, not even shitty ones.
Gotcha, somehow I missed the Beta 1 on the Title!
Rejected twice? When do you retry? 5 seconds later? 5 minutes? An hour? When is the message requeued to send? When do you stop trying, when the remote side has already said "Hey, this user has no account here!".

Meanwhile, the end user sent a message to bod@ by accident, instead of bob@, and your mail server keeps retrying to send mail, even when the remote mail server said "Hey! That account doesn't exist!".

It's a typo, but you've decided to 'make things better', so now, until that bounce happens, the end user won't find out they made that mistake.

Things work as they do for a reason, and the people saying 5xx means bounce! are right.
That has to be the shot, right? Why else would they have bought ARM?

Imagine this: stick an M1-like CPU and GPU combo on a PCIe card. Run the games entirely on the card, using the host system as merely a way to provide data to the card. In one shot, you murder the AMD and Intel processor market - everyone can just buy the cheapest model and still play games, saving their money for the unified GPU/CPU board. It also paves the way for eGPU products for laptops becoming more mainstream, and could work towards a play for the Shield to become a console competitor (if cannibalizing their existing console business is worth it to them).
> The reinvention of the university is inevitable, but a long road stretches ahead

Nothing lasts forever, but Oxford and Bologna have been around a while.

Perhaps one should ask: how can we create an educational (or other) institution which will last for 1000 years?
> And what’s wrong with banning people from setting up tents on public sidewalks all over the city and claiming that public space as their own?

Because first you need an alternate place for them to go, which is the missing step in the bans on the Peninsula, which has also banned sleeping in vehicles.

For those who want to learn how not to do it, watch the Caifornia Insider - Epoch Times interview about LA spending $500,000 per person on emergency housing spaces and basically getting nothing in return. (The non-permanent homeless budget in SF is currently $180 million per year.)

How to Help the Homeless with Edward Ring | California Insider

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZLqqypjBwC8
Basically it said why to bet on Eurasia over the Americas, as I recall.