skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't know about "outranks" in any formal sense. But, yes, most professors I know tend to go by professor rather than doctor.
does anyone really believe anything pseudoanonymously contributed on the web anymore? I don't. For all you know, the person you are "debating" on disqus is a bot. Or a sockpuppet. Or someone real who is only taking a contrary position to alleviate boredom. Now to go to Yelp and review some restaurants I've never been to...maybe after that, go to reddit and tell people my parents died of covid so I can be angry for karma
You belive that he is forcing himself to "be productive" and to "work so much".

What you have missed is that he loves what he does.

It's not that "he is so disciplined": it's that he lives for this kind of things that is why he can do so much things and in such "extreme" manner.

But only an outside observer would mark these as "extreme".

You say "to just let go": the mistake on your end here is that you are projecting your own disinterest in the things he does on him.

He is not like you, and I'm not saying that you should be like him.

It's just that that is his natural tendency. Yours is different.

So he doesn't need to "let go" because he is not suffering: he is most likely enjoying his life much more that you are yours since he lives, breathes and makes money of his hobby.
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You can create custom types to communicate semantics to the type checker. Whether that's always a good idea is arguable though, but the tools are there (e.g. there's a wide field between weak and strong typing, and an overly strong type checker can be quite a hassle to work with while an overly weak type checker isn't much better than duck typing).
Have to agree. If Mao and Stalin can be disqualified as being left-wing due to the contradiction between their actions and the leftist values of equality and universal solidarity, then, by the same token, Hitler and Mussolini must be disqualified as being right-wing because of the contradiction between their actions and the values of limited government and rule of law.

Critical race theory has more in common with National Socialism than with the leftist values of equality and solidarity, because when you get past the verbal subterfuge which ostensibly denies that race exists, you find a deeply racist ideology of racial collectives locked in a struggle for supremacy, with one particular collective singled out as evil beyond redemption and in need of destruction. We have seen that before, and it is undeniable where it must lead. Critical Race Theory is Nazism barely disguised by a light sprinkling of leftist pixie-dust.

The common factor between the extremes of left and right is collectivism. Totalitarian demagogues, left or right, favor collectivism as a tool of control because it detaches people from their moral obligations to other individual human beings and transfers their loyalties wholly to an abstraction controlled by that demagogue.
Unfortunately it’s very occasionally wrong, making it almost useless for me.
Anecdote time: I spent the academic year 1980/81 as a visitor at the University of Toronto. I stayed at Massey College. They would add letters behind everybody's names on doors and the list of residents to indicate their academic degree. But they couldn't make any sense out of my Norwegian degree (cand.real.), so they used esq. instead.
it's not the most objective grading system, but it's something!

https://imgur.com/KJDyvbz
My first eBook – results and feedback from “Serverless For Everyone Else”
Really nice. It needs a style that is suitable for a terminal with white background though.
> And no state can offer housing for homeless, for the same reason as the above.

I thought Utah had housing for homeless?
I second that. I see it as something to build intuition for "complex" problems. To make this more concrete: If you want to study the brain you can go the "biology" approach and describe neurons really well and build mathematical models for all the neuron types. Or you could do it the other way around with the "psychology" approach and put people/monkey/rats in an MRT. Both ways you learn important stuff but it will be hard to connect both worlds because simulation of enough neurons to predictive power over the outcome of an MRT is probably far fetched (although there are the human brain project or its US counterpart, the brain activity map project which attempt to do something like this). Complexity theory might help to learn how to close this gap. Things like synchronization (http://www.scholarpedia.org/article/Synchronization#Chaotic_...) or Self organized criticality (form the critical brain theory) could help distinguishing which parts of neuronal dynamics are due to biological restrictions and which form the function of the brain. With this knowledge one might be able to "dumb down" neuronal models enough to make large scale simulations without loosing to much of the processing dynamics.
You might still not have predictive power then, but then again, complexity theory might help you to understand what the limitations of your approach are.

The same intuitions could be applied to other things. Large scale power grids are also often hard to predict when not moving into a sure fail state. Being able to analyze how you stabilize these systems without basically dumping a lot of money on them is the way to go (Looking in the past, the money will probably not be spend).

You could study the behavior of crowds and maybe make estimations on the safety large conventions build a "panic index" that calculates the risk of having something like at the Loveparade https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Love_Parade_disaster . Again - you would not be able to make a precise prediction of whats gonna happen but I'd say it'd even knowing if you have like a 0.5% Chance of a disaster would be worth knowing. (Of course, there are effective methods taught to prevent this disasters anyway. But sometimes you have new configurations that didn't occur in the past and you might catch these things with a simulation. I could be an additional approach)
Political screed not up to AOs usual standards.
Point-free function passing is only valuable from a stylistic point of view. In any dynamic language I don't think the downsides make it worthwhile.
Hacker News often celebrates wins big and small - from large VC-backed companies to teeny SaaS companies.

This is what I learnt writing and publishing an eBook - something that I had heard could earn me money to support my open source contributions and software.

Hope you get something out of this - and note the blog post is not for people who would buy the book, but people who are curious about going independent or building wealth.
It’s no more or less fraudulent than the holder of an Ed.D. using the title. Just because it’s a jumped up Bachelor’s, like an M.D. doesn’t mean you can’t choose to use the title.
“Black Mirror Did It!” is the new “Simpsons Did It!”
I think it depends on what we're talking about, right? My suggestion is that largely nobody cares or looks at these disclosures, not that they aren't important. I think institutional investors probably do, but they're certainly willing to invest in SPACs as well, it's not like it's only retail investors who buy shares of SPACs.

Your point about the business plan is interesting... it depends on the perceptions that investors have that the company can achieve a business plan, but it's not necessarily accurate right? Uber was going to do all this autonomous taxi stuff, and had it outlined in their business plan. WeWork was punished for having a crappy business plan before it filed, Uber has a crappy one (or at least one that turned out to be crappy in my opinion) and went public anyway. The disclosures certainly didn't help much - they aren't a guarantee. Things like Adam Neumann leasing his own properties to WeWork came out before any of these disclosures. If WeWork went the SPAC route (and it actually looks like it will at a $10bn or so valuation), it's not like you really hide all that stuff any more than you hide it in the normal IPO process.

If you don't like that Social Capital Hedosophia is taking SoFi public via IPOE SPAC, you can dump your shares. It's not like you have to hold the shares. It's a speculative position to take. Hell, at least you can actually dump the shares before the listing even happens - for IPOs there can be lockup periods where you wind up losing money because the IPO was way overpriced. Banks get their fees either way (which is fine).
NordVPN disables features when you turn off auto-renew
Yes. I meant specifically just the "too many args" issue
There are a lot of stars. Maybe enough to go around.

Anyway, its commonly been theorized that waging war across unimaginable interstellar distances is unlikely or even impossible. Hard enough to seed another system with a spore, much less export capability to wage war.
Fair point. But what would happen? Even if you accidentally opened that site, most probably nobody would have noticed. Or it would have been just a short awkward moment.
DreamCoder, a system that learns to solve problems by writing programs
while one can postulate that this level of civilization doesn't need planets as habitats, planets with biomass would likely be an important asset as they ease the supply logistics and act as a trampoline for further, faster expansion.
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Only concern is having React also be part of the notification integration
Yeah, TypeScript sounds great, but I quickly became a skeptic. JavaScript is a lost cause. There cannot be a JavaScript++ that will be reasonably safe.

I'm not a frontend guy, but I truly don't know what I'd do with a frontend project. ClojureScript? Elm? OCaml? I would even do JavaScript with JSDoc comments before I'd bother doing TypeScript.
Legit question, what is Wolfram, who uses it and why? I used the equation solver a few times but I had no idea they have VoIP!
Non-mobile link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dr._Dre
When talking about the prison population in America, keep in mind that America has the largest prison population in the world both in absolute numbers and per capita.

So when you talk about the percentage of people locked up for X is small, this is skewed by the vast amount of people we lock up in general. If X is small compared to the prison population as a whole, it may still be an awful lot of people.
Or to hide in the Dark Forest instead of announcing yourself to the cosmos.
How big do you consider the market to be today and in the future? To me this sounds extremely niche for a YC startup.
The difference between a real and substantial piece of original research and a double length Master’s thesis is not nitpicking.
One more thought regarding the censorship and banning of social media users I have, concerns the rules and laws surrounding private companies running sweepstakes contests on these platforms.

At one time it was required that any contest run by private corporations that offered prizes was also required to offer entry to the draw through a "No purchase nessisary" scheme, otherwise it is just gambling.

It now seems it is perfectly fine to require the public to have an account and in turn enter a contract with another private for profit entity in the form of a social media platform user account.

Have the laws changed to facilitate this? Maybe section 230 provides the loophole?
but the NYT told me it would turn me into a qanon zombie
Chromium is the reason a patch I had recently submitted to LLVM to fix a conformance issue in their preprocessor was reverted: it broke Chromium, because Chromium doesn't just require a preprocessor that offers guarantees in areas the standard doesn't, it specifically requires a preprocessor that does not conform to the C++ standard. No idea on whether they're putting in the work on fixing their code to at least make it valid for some version of C++.
I'm sure people here will recognize that a boring 10-k is easy for bots to parse and enter into computer systems that most users end up using. In fact 10-ks should probably have standardized XML format or similar for this.
OK, digging through recent history, the 12:23, 22 October 2020‎ deletion removed tools like Advanced Installer, InstallAware and RayPack. These are tools that actual deployment engineers, repackagers and Windows software developers use every day to do our job. They are also recommended by Microsoft for MSIX. [1]

I have no idea why they don't meet Wikipedia's "notability" criteria or why such a 10 or 20 years old tool has or hasn't its own page - and I don't care. The list left (other than InstallShield and WiX) is a joke and you can plainly see that none of those editors has any expertise in the field. The end result is that that article is useless or worse for anyone reading it. Which I thought was the whole point of Wikipedia.

[1] https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/msix/desktop/deskto...
The problem is majority doesn't care about tracking regardless of free or paid. And the MBAs will push for as hard monetization as possible.
I agree and will take it a step further: if you didn't use JavaScript, you would not have these problems.
Hell no, this seems a terrible idea
If Dr. Biden wants to be called Professor then yes we should. But she’s made it clear she wants to be addressed as Doctor, a title she is entitled to, so what value is there in not respecting her wishes?
> He probably had $10 million close to 30 years ago, so I'd guess he is pretty happy.

This is the saddest thing I've read recently
It is articles and comment threads like this that make me glad I am not a Javascript developer :-)
US governments seems to serve corporate interests no matter who wins elections. It is pretty easy to start distrusting things said by traditional leaders then and seek out alternatives.

Basically in USA you have all those lies from the left like "Americans don't want what Europeans have, trying to select such a candidate will just let the even worse Republican get into power and we can't have that!". Obama was an extremely popular president, who had so many traits democrats today would argue makes him unelectable. If Trump went against Obama it wouldn't even have been close, so why are democrats continuing to push their corrupt career politicians who people don't really want to vote for except to get Trump out of office?

Edit: To me it seems like democrats care more about keeping corporations happy than winning elections. Keeping a corporation happy is worth a lot of money since it allows you to earn a lot of money in the future as a lobbyist, that is way more important to them than having a bit higher chance of winning an election.
I think one interesting lesson from this nice qualification here is that at the moment ML methods to learn mathematics may look trivial from a professional mathematician (ie the results are unoriginal or trivial) but perhaps the target audience of this method may be for non professional mathematicians or students training to be mathematicians. I could still see this ML tool as a way to automate the work of some more “trivial” (from the POV of an expert) mathematics, although not the work of professional mathematicians.

The knowledge gap in mathematics between professional mathematicians and non professionals is vast, and this tool could narrow the gap.

I would bet the majority of readers of nature would not be able to point out that the outputs of the ML tool were trivial. So there is need to narrow this gap.
How could it break? If `Boolean` (which is basically just a casting function, right?) changed its signature?

That does sound very unlikely.
Outranks isn't the right term for it. "Doctor" is an educational description, that one is qualified to teach on the subject. "Professor" is a job description, that one is currently teaching. If a person retires, they are no longer a Professor, but they are still a Doctor.
Not in me too time.

One good solution - turn on adult content blocking on firewall. Saved me once or twice if you typo, missearch etc. I'm usually like huh when it blocks? Then oh...
There's also a certain portion that _is_ malformed or false, not just seeming that way to the majority.
Amy Klobuchar: Breaking up Facebook ‘has to be on the table’
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How about this? (I am not a 100% about this one)

f = Object.defineProperties(x => x, {toString:{value:()=>'a'}, [Symbol.toStringTag]:{value:'a'}})

and we will change it to:

f = Object.defineProperties(y => y, {toString:{value:()=>'a'}, [Symbol.toStringTag]:{value:'a'}})

Edit: ah you -can- break it actually. A challenge for others to figure out how to break this one.
Ah - in the UK 'Professor' is a rank and you keep it after you retire.
Is she talking with people who “do mean it?” I can’t find any articles describing who she was talking to. Maybe I’m just uninformed. But that seems like the talk that is pervasive in anonymous chat boards (there’s even one for law students called autoadmit—it’s a cesspool). All that stuff is leaking out into real name services now. But I’m not convinced these people are really plotting to kill anyone.
Just wait until you read about 2020.
What are we supposed to take from this? That it's run by conservatives? That seems hardly surprising given the content.
Most likely explanation.

Source: I have a cat.
> When the average person can't write a short story, can't draw, can't do anything creative

I'm not sure where you get the idea that this is the case.

Yes, creating AAA games and blockbuster films is the province of large corporations with massive budgets and many people. But drawing? Writing short stories? That's something everyone still has access to—more than ever, in fact, because the technology (programs like Photoshop, Scrivener, even very simple text and image editors) makes the process easier in many ways.

It's certainly true that there is a lot of corporate-produced content available to consume, and that some people fill their lives with consuming it, but to conclude from that that the modern age makes it impossible, or even significantly more difficult, for the average person to engage in creative endeavors is a ludicrous leap of logic.

I, personally, have been working over the past month on writing something that, by the time it is finished, will be something between a novella and a novel in length. Hundreds of millions of people the world over write fanfic and create fan art—and also write original fiction, and create original art, if that distinction matters to your idea of what creativity is—every day, and share it online.

Just because it's not published for profit doesn't mean it's not a genuine creative act.
google earth?
I'm curious how this epiphany came to you. This strikes me as very similar to the Buddhist concept of the Five Aggregates, which describe five elements that combine to make up our existence: Physical form -> Sensation -> Perception -> Mental formations -> Consciousness
It kind of is a type error, in that the error comes from the programmer incorrectly thinking that the function has type t => r, when it actually has type (t, s) => r. It's not a type error from TypeScript's point of view, because according to TypeScript's rules, both t => r and (t, s) => r are subtypes of (t, s, u) => r. The point of type systems is to detect cases where the programmer is wrong about the types of some value they're using, so it is a limitation of TypeScript that it wasn't able to detect the error in this case (I'm not sure if there's a good way to allow it to detect this particular error while also maintaining compatibility with JavaScript, but it is a cost that's being paid for that compatibility).
I can share some experience about having a treadmill in the office. I built my own using a second hand treadmill from which I removed everything but the lower part (belt, drive and housing). Then I purchased an IKEA Skarsta height adjustable desk. Finally all I needed was a monitor and a desk mount for the monitor. Without the monitor the price was less than 300€.

But the thing is, while it works really well in theory, I rarely use it. I find working while walking very difficult. I cannot concentrate very well and movements get really erratic. It is mainly useable for longer browsing sessions, but long browsing sessions usually occur by accident and are usually not planned in advance. So yeah, the whole machine is right next to me while I write, but I am not using it.

Also, Linus Torvalds has a similar setup: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LE0JtUeyVJA
Looks good to use, but how do i contact you for support? No email address found in the website.
If you attack somebody, then yes, it's an action within virtual walls. But if you simply share a thought with your followers that the platform owner doesn't agree with - your argument falls apart.
Is it reductive to call compensation for work bribery?
To be fair, Apple had one outlet for presentations and Windows had a horde of salesfolks in the ecosystem making different kind of presentations each day. Bill Gates had IBM fronting him and Compaq's actions with the BIOS made him rich.
> arbitrarily avoiding stuff which makes you happy is an irrational cognitive bias

I do not generally avoid that - only when it comes to serious decisions. For a pandemic not seen for the last 100 years, I think this precaution is warranted.

Last time I did was when I was receiving conflicting signals - LW was strongly pro crypto, HN strongly against. HN generated warm fuzzy feelings (if crypto succeed it's extreme selfishness, they can't be right because as a community we find it wrong, deflation is good and more generous to newcomers, etc). I waited a bit too long to my taste to get in. A lot of LW people just didn't. It was quite a fiasco - the calculations clearly made sense, but a lot of people didn't act on the advice they were freely given. The reason is still unclear. Personally, I think it's due to these warm fuzzy feelings - or the lack of thereof.

I vowed "never again!", and now I apply a discount factor to questions that appeal to sentiments.

> in experiments where humans were asked to estimate their level of control over the outcome, depressed people were more likely to correctly reason they didn't have [much] control

Good enough for me! In the case of covid, we have little control - if only about the vaccine formula and access. A homemade vaccine allows me more freedom.

I see that as buying an option for a deadly 2nd wave driven by a mutant selected by the evolutionary pressure of everyone being vaccinated against the same antigens.

$1k isn't much for such a deadly scenario: I estimate the odds at 1%, and the lifetime cost at 1M (average cost of a human life), which means the homemade vaccine option is interesting up to $10k.
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For a real-life example look into dengue fever. There are multiple variants that - to our immune system - look very similar, but antibodies for one do not protect against the others. This means that if you recover from one variant and are subsequently infected with a second you can have a really really bad time.

The reason the second infection is so bad is exactly as outlined above: your immune system 'recognises' the second variant and produces antibodies that it learnt when fighting off the first variant you recovered from. Unfortunately, these antibodies are useless against the second variant, and you have a bad time.

This exact same issue happens with the current vaccine for dengue, which is why it is only given to people who have already had dengue of some kind, or in populations where most people have had it before. For a situation where this did not happen see the section titled 'Phillipines controversy' in the wikipedia article.

There is currently a lot of work being done to produce vaccines that protect against all 4 variants at the same time, with some promise for the years ahead as trial results come in!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dengue_vaccine