skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm also in favor of being excellent to each other.

I think discussing this topic is quite difficult because there is no agreed upon definition of "fat shaming". I'm pretty sure that there are people who would count any measures to reduce obesity as fat shaming (i.e. "cancelling fat culture" or something ridiculous like that), and the discussion tends to get emotional very quickly.

I think we have fairly strong evidence that gay shaming doesn't make people less gay (there are homosexuals even in places where that carries the death penalty). I don't think we have equally strong evidence that telling people they'd look better and reduce their risk for cardiovascular disease if they lost weight doesn't help (at least some of them) to actually do it. At least I'm not aware of any and I believe the confounding variables with anything related to nutrition are so numerous that gathering solid data is extremely difficult.
The numbers start going down quickly once infections have been so prolific that crowd immunity is present.

I live in Texas, but I'm sure I personally infected no fewer than 10,000-20,000 people last March, including the sorority that purportedly brought it back from Mexico during spring break. No doctor wanted to listen and no hospitals would test me even after I begged some of the best providers in the region. It wasn't until almost 9 months later that the mistake was acknowledged, and it's highly likely that community spread existed even in the US in November 2019 or even October 2019 just based on retrospective serology studies.

Places with poor hygiene controls like India have likely had far, far more infections than anyone even can imagine. That might be one of the first places to be immune.
I disagree. The product is just that cool, that's why there are so many positive comments.

The website and product look sexy, the promo video isn't cringe and their "overdub" functionality looks like black magic.
I think you misunderstand - you don't always play black in chess. So on average white wins 50% of the time (modulo first move advantage and draws as the article states).
It looks like there’s cool stuff in there but I’m not sure what.

I don’t think this does a great job of selling itself.
Looking quickly at the code myself:

> - The API supports GET/PUT/DELETE (no range queries).

There are range query on keys:

# list keys starting with "we"
curl -v -L localhost:3000/we?list

> - There's no handling of errors from the volume servers

If a GET/PUT/DELETE fails it is communicated to the master server, who doesn't write anything in its own database

All in all I believe it does quite a lot for less than 1000 lines already. Knowing its limitations I'm curious to see how well it handles production usage
While it’s very tempting to say that (especially since Farage said something like “52% would be unfinished business” shortly before the result), IIRC the distribution of Leave voters was much more politically relevant than it merely being 52% – from what I remember it was such that, under the FPTP/constituency combination, it represented an overwhelming majority of constituencies if it had been a GE.
How Useful Are Learning Curves, Really?
I am stuck in this state https://imgur.com/8tbkQt4 didn't create any data in my profile so can no longer edit it!

Edit: I have a masssssive screen so didn't see the edit in the bottom left!
While you may not be wrong with your conclusion, you're likely wrong withe the argument behind it. Something being done "like this" in the past is not an argument for or against continuing.

Counterpoint: Throughout all of human history people warred, raped, pillaged, and enslaved.
I don't think of colorspaces as "historical burdens". I don't like that CRT monitors are brought up every time sRGB is mentioned though. I know it has historical relevance, but it's not relevant anymore, and it's not needed to understand the difference between linear and non-linear colorspaces.
Can AI Lead to Pregnancy?
Indian govt sites leaking patient Covid-19 test results online
I'm translating this as "don't you dare to joke with me"
> We need to be able to dedicate resources to theories that do not provide better predictions, but that provide new perspectives.

You are talking as if this isn't the case already, for instance: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physics_beyond_the_Standard_Mo...

I don't think that the usefulness of alternative viewpoints is contested by anyone, the problematic part of the article is the vague, ill-informed critique of 'scientific rigor'.

What other way is there to judge models than to compare them with experimental results? Grounding theories to experiments is literally the only thing that separates science from crackpottery.

It's also pretty weird for the article to criticize "logical positivism", when the most common contemporary views on the topic of philosophy of science (e.g. Popper, Kuhn, Putnam) don't actually agree with logical positivism.
That's addressed in the article:

> A primary argument against using devices in bed is that it can further erode the boundaries between work and home, and disrupt your sleep cycle.

Basically the adjustment is to rebuild routines and habits surrounding the new use cycle of the bed.

So, it's not trivial, but not a biological limitation nor something that can't be managed.
Another fresh take on the issue I recently stumbled across by accident.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_will_theorem
So we should throw away public spending because people can't be bothered to check on their politicians once in a while?
"cleaned up" still means an endless series of WTFs and gaping holes in the documentation. Session ticket caching is broken out of the box and you still have to implement a callback with arcane details.
See green text in bottom-right at https://www.openstreetmap.org/ linking to https://donate.openstreetmap.org/

There are also popups during part of the year, but someone with axe to grind ensured that they were added to the adblock filter lists.
“Fool parts with money?”

Or more click bait-ish:

“Car runs out of gas on hillside, then this happens”

Or just wait for the Damned Interesting version https://www.damninteresting.com/
Leaving the EU, Brexit was ~4 years of political negotiation that resulted in not being in the EU.

Leaving the USA, the Civil War cost many lives and resulted in still being in the USA. That didn’t stop Puerto Rico wanting to join the USA.
Decentralization is the future. Any sufficiently popular walled garden will have a problem: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25520200. Consider Matrix instead.
Have you watched the video? I disagree, it seems to sell itself pretty good. The promotional video isn't very long and it's pretty well cut (which is a good sign, for what they're trying to sell.) And it shows plenty of interesting features too, like overdub.
What is coded in that video is the python version of it. The actual version is written in Go.
Well that's a catch 22, chicken and egg problem.

Few things that come to mind... Obviously have some cash aside for this type of "sabbatical".

Another possibility is to get someone you used to work for "invest" in the idea, as a sponsorship of some kind, in which they have some skin in. This can work because presumably you're solving a problem related to your career path.

Another option is some seed investment from an accelerator of some kind, but your chances are really low unless you promise them a unicorn shitting gold on a platter.

Finally, family can help for this sort of thing, but again they have to understand that it's throwing money down the pit 90% of the time.

You can also try to take on a part-time contract to sustain yourself while helping out someone else. Like a 3 day week affair, where you work the remaining 3 days on your project and take a day off. Worst case is take a mind-numbing job which doesn't get you tired mentally, and focus your mental efforts at night on your side projects.

Another final idea that pops to mind is the Patreons and gofundme type options... They can work if you're pretty on video and can sell your idea to the common people. Most of us are too shy to even fathom doing this... I would have impostor syndrome personally, then there is the constant answering to people pain...

A lot of us are in this boat, so don't feel like you're in it alone or crazy doing so. The reality I suspect is 90% of us go back to work to fund their night/garage project; until we can finally live in a utopia where humanity could actually focus on advancing itself rather than spinning a wheel in a cage.
Underspecification: The Dangerously Underdiscussed Problem Facing ML
The disappearing history of the Bay Area's themed Fry's Electronics stores
Either you make poor decisions on your own or pay someone to make poor, or deceptive decisions on your behalf. Pick your poison.
Here's a twitter thread about someone who lives in South Korea returning home from a trip abroad.

https://twitter.com/koryodynasty/status/1345210393715564544?...

People should wear masks, but there's so much more they need to do as well.
The Everett/Many Worlds interpretation cannot reproduce the predictions of quantum mechanics without extra assumptions (e.g. the Born rule) that don't have any physical basis within the context of MWI.
It should be hysteresis, to jump to another cell you have to be pass some threshold of distance from it's border.
This way if you live on the border you will just stick to some of cells.
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Show HN: Foli – Dribbble for Data Scientists
It's almost as if "absolute security" was not the only, or even an important, consideration for most people.

This should be obvious if you look at most popular chat apps:

* WhatsApp

* Facebook Messenger

* WeChat

It's like... a who's who of the worst privacy violators.
You can use a separate dumbphone for the sms verifications. It's at least much better.
I wonder if they are working on a VBA to WASM compiler because they will need a way to replicate existing functionality or they are going to frustrate power users.
To avoid some confusion, this is only the "distributed" part. The actual store is handled by the https://github.com/google/leveldb library.
I watched a youtuber go through the whole flow of producing a video using Descript and it doesn't do anything in terms of real video editing. It's useful for removing bad takes out of a longer video, but then you need to export the chopped up product and spend a lot of additional time fixing it up and makeing it flow seamlessly in a tool like AfterEffects or DavinciResolve.
What Is a Medical Chronology?
Medical chronology is a document that presents relevant details of medical events on a timeline. Telegenisys creates hyper-referenced chronologies sorted by event type, provider type, ICD9 & 10 codes and common drugs. Below are some features of our medical chronologies.
Our Site : https://www.telegenisys.com/
I’m a bit surprised that nobody has called attention to the Pepe the Frog meme. Given its association with the alt-right at worst, and trolling at best, this seems out of character for hacker news.
This guys' articles are wonderful. I was experimenting with compiling C to WASM[0] and Surma's was really helpful.

[0]: https://surma.dev/things/c-to-webassembly/index.html
Fix your links to projects on your GH web: https://mvolfik.github.io/
Normal procedures for emergency cardiac care are going to vary depending on where you are in the world.

The general dichotomy is "stay and play" vs "scoop and run".

https://doi.org/10.1007/978-88-470-2215-7_31
I accept your own experience but realise that this isn't necessarily the whole truth.

For example, in Canada I found myself accidentally ordering a large out of habit. What arrived was invariably more than I could eat. Easily one and a half times your daily calorie requirements in one meal.

In Spain I don't even remember a large being an option.
I am genuinely impressed. The author captures Fukumoto's style and tropes perfectly.
Ventilators are highly complicated pieces of medical grade machinery that cost upwards of $50,000. They are not just regular old pumps with tubes attached. "Forced ventilation" does not properly describe the delicate nature of their operation.

If used properly by trained medical professionals, they are better than the alternative — no ventilation at all.
WIth all due respect I'm 49 and I've spent my entire life figuring out how to engage with my own productivity.

> I recommend taking one of the bedrooms in your house and converting into a proper home office.

I have one. I don't like using it.
> Find out why they're passionately criticizing it.

Sometimes this is just "because they're an arsehole" and the criticism is garbage.

> people who are really good at stuff are drowned in the noise

Or people who could be really good at stuff get disheartened by the harsh criticism and we as a society lose out.
pngquant is a FOSS tool designed for that.

https://pngquant.org/
Servers and/or algos undergo some sort of periodical or occasional reset maybe? Same fall happened to me a couple of times, only to pick up again and back to normal in a few days. And it’s not Google only, in case, also Amazon ads!?
To know more about us click here:
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> In their help guide they say you can contact support if you cannot log in at all, but you have to log a support ticket.... which requires me to log in.

I've been burned by that logic at several companies. It's really infuriating. I've even had one where they had a phone number to call for support, but the phone number was locked away behind a support login screen.
I consume one light black coffee late in the morning. It’s about one teaspoon of Nescafé Gold instant coffee in about half a liter of hot water (yeah, I like that it’s instant and am not hooked on to gourmet coffee or having the best coffee ever).

I quit that habit for nearly a year, but it didn’t have any effect on my mildly high blood pressure (monitoring regularly). So I resumed it. I don’t have any withdrawal symptoms like headaches or anything else when I’m off it for a few days or even weeks.

I have no idea how to estimate how much caffeine (in milligrams) that one large mug has and what effects it has.

I do know that the morning coffee’s alerting effect lasts till late afternoon or evening. I have tea in the evening and that also has some effect on wakefulness.

So I’m left with the feeling that whether or not I have coffee in the amounts I’m consuming, it doesn’t make a big difference. Maybe it’d be good to quit it once and for all. But I just don’t have enough information on why I should and how it would benefit me, considering several reports that go back and forth on the benefits and harms of coffee that happen to crop up every few months.
How do you calculate the angle between the persons eyes and the screen, in order to render the parallax effect?
> Why the heck am I writing timeInMs or timeInSeconds still?

Because "keeping track of types" is much more complicated than one would think at first. How many languages are there that can do something like (3A * 4V == 12VA), (12VA / 3A == 4A)? What if you want to use a generic routine that is just about the integers? It will lose track of all the types. I claim that there is still no nice way to do this stuff except scripting languages (dynamic types).

One of the languages that go a little more into types than mainstream languages but still are somewhat close to mainstream is Haskell. Have you ever tried to use it? You get quickly sucked down into a sea of language and type extensions that you have to use, and that are often mutually incompatible, most of them probably the result of a PhD thesis. And you never quite get at what you want (if you want sth slightly differend the card house tumbles and you have to pick a different set of extensions). That is unless you're very, very smart, and have so much investment into Haskell that you know the current limits, so you're able to choose a model that is still within the bounds of representability in the language.

For all of us mere mortals and practitioners, we use simple integers and get our job done.

For everyone still clinging on the idea of types, I strongly believe the type system vs runtime values dichotomy is a dead end. Sometimes you need dynamic computations with types - sometimes types of expressions are known statically, but sometimess not. That's why most mainstream type systems keep it simple and provide escape hooks (like void-pointers or RTTI).
The Secret Life of Passwords
freetube is another youtube alternative if anyone is more of a desktop user, and invidious is web based
Had never seen this site, actually seemed useful. Several of the categories I have bought from recently, and trying to sort through the products and reviews is a nightmare.
1. This is from April.

2. The cited study only measures outcomes and does not claim that ventilators worsen patient outcomes. Covid patients who are hospitalized have a higher rate of death [citation needed]. Does that mean hospitals kill Covid patients?

[1] https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2765184
How can we get medical addiction treatment?
Addiction treatments can be done through addiction treatment centers. It is essential that one stay away from addiction. If your loved one is a drug addict, alcoholic or having some other kind of psychological issues like depression, they should be given treatment in the recovery center.
https://landmarkrecovery.com/life-at-landmark/
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Otherwise, COVID is just a fairly invisible bump in your mortality rates for people with comorbidities and age.

What does the age distribution look like for the Wuhan region? I think I read somewhere that the percentage of old (70+) people is a lot smaller than in e.g. Europe, which might be another data point why this wasn't flagged earlier.
The bats do it for free.
Great! I've been wondering for a while if I should do my own but I've been living fine with my StackOverflow CV. Nonetheless I have created a CV there on read.cv/jpic and tried all the features and have a couple of ideas:

- I tried "Print to file" to export a PDF because a lot of times sites ask you to upload a PDF, it turned out only the first page got out, this might be a bug, another thing is that we don't see the picture and there's not much colors

- It would be great to be able to create several CVs, when I apply to a corpo dev job I show a corpo dev CV and when I apply for a freelancer job I show a freelancer CV and when I apply to a corpo management job I show another and so on
The author didn't cover it, but it's common to alternate the direction of error diffusion passes line-by-line. This improves Floyd-Steinberg dithering by a lot in my experience.
Really lovely work, I think it makes for a great digital CV.
More people will die from covid. But the principals of free speech and assembly should not be sacrificed for something that will be and mostly gone in 6-9months. Yes people have died and that is horrible, but a dictatorship like china is not the answer. Tbh I'm more afraid of the governments authoritarianism than covid.

*Disclaimer: yes I wear a mask indoors in public places and outdoors when not able to be 6 feet from everyone. No I don't wear a mask when walking alone outside, that is stupid and just shows how much our messaging on covid sucked even with the middle and upper classes.
> Every large company I've worked for has had recovery plans in place, including scenarios as disturbing as "All data centers and offices explode simultaneously, and all staff who know how it all works are killed in the blasts."

I sat in on a DR test where the moment one of the Auckland based ops team tried asking the Wellington lead, the boss stepped in and said "Wellington has been levelled by an earthquake. Everyone is dead or trying to get back to their family. They will not be helping you during the exercise."
> The numbers are really clear on mask usage.

Do you have sources? Legitimately interested.
This led me down a rabbit hole about the lost city of Merv, the world’s largest apparently 700 years ago.
This may come as a shocker, but the principles that any politician claim sooner or later tend to crumble when faced with the realities of government. In the case of libertarian principles, what you find is that the core of the principles that survive the governing machine is but to relieve the rich of taxation and other cumbersome regulation.

The pretty principles live on in the rhetoric, but any objective onlooker can not avoid perceiving them as hollow to the point of deception.
I wonder if this could be use for better videoconferencing.
Regarding the main point of the article. I do agree that it's very important to not get stuck in local maxima. However, I think the author heavily underestimates/overestimates the chances of the following:

1. The author underestimates the rate of competing ideas coming out of 'learned' scientists.

2. The author overestimates the possibility of an 'internet dilettante' without good knowledge of prior art coming up with something useful.

To me it's a bit like me playing chess with a Grandmaster. Sure, I know how the chess pieces move, I know basic tactics and strategy. But I have never studied a chess theory book, never learned any openings. What's the chance of me coming up with a chess theory novelty that provides a better model of the game and lets me win the Grandmaster? It's not none. But due to my lack of knowledge of prior art the chance is pretty thin.
"Is said to be using"... who is that said by? By you?

"They have already demonstrated"... where? Across what games? I only see one.
I've worked in the space, and I don't know of any robust method in use that is using Schelling points to solve the Oracle Problem (without the help of any "trusted dispute resolution").

It's done to some degree with prediction markets, but the main problems those generally have are that they predict binary events, which just like binary options are prone to fraud. Even when used for continous ranges (like your temperature example), they generally suffer from semantic "fuzziness" if they are expressed in natural language.
The problem isn't tax evasion per-se, but rather logic inconsistencies.

For example, I've met quite a bit of people that don't want to pay any taxes. Yet they all want for them and their goods to be able to use roads for free, roads that are built and maintained with taxes.

That's actually ok: two incompatible goals just means you have to make a trade-off; welcome to engineering.

The problem is that none of them understand why they can't have both. In their minds, there is no trade-off to make, because they want both, feel entitled to both, and having both should be possible.

No idea why they are not able to understand that both things are incompatible. If there is some option that allows both that I am missing, they didn't manage to explain that.
Now I think I understand. So it might be convenient for visually (as opposed to textually) oriented people. For me it's just pictures, pictures everywhere, but I can imagine other people's brains might work differently.
You make it sound like the management couldn't have communicated this to employees and that they wouldn't vote for what is beneficial; like, perhaps you think they're too naive to understand longer term interests, or whatever.

Sure, management have to turn realise they can no longer dictate what is solely in their interests, but in most companies they're probably up to the task.

Plenty of workers have forgone monies owed in order to keep their employees companies afloat. If both parties respect one another a lot can be achieved.