skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The US military has been doing studies on caffeine for ages. There's a huge body of research confirming effects like this -- as a rule of thumb, caffeine can improve many simple motor functions under sleep deprivation and can't do much for most higher cognitive functions. Other factors (e.g., typical dosage or how recently you slept) impact the details substantially.
Rundown:

- dated @boop

- friends with @devonko_

- @ljmacfadyen is random twitter interaction

- dated @saskiakeultjes
Do you think that belief would make any sense in that case?
The majority of people are not malicious and would not make this stuff up. Some obviously are and will but my feeling is that these people are the minority.
> the author notes that it is well-known that the quality of the work has little to do with its odds of acceptance even when the system is 'functioning' as designed

I think this is a little more pessimistic than what the piece says. The NeurIPS (then-NIPS) experiment said that about 60% of papers accepted by one PC got rejected by the other. That doesn't actually mean "the quality of the work has little to do with its odds of acceptance". It may just be that there's a paper has to cross a quality threshold, and once it's past, then the outcome has a lot more variation.

My personal take on NeurIPS specifically is that there's a fraction of bad papers, maybe 40%, that probably shouldn't and won't get in. Then there's a minority of very nice papers that probably should and will get in, maybe 5-10%. And then there are a bunch of middling papers where a lot of it is luck and drawing friendly reviewers. But these aren't bad papers, and you can't really just churn them out, they're just not very good papers.
Posting this because most people in HN have a warped view of what homelessness is, especially in california. First of all, when most people think homeless they think "fentanyl addict out of his mind living in squalor" and while there are certainly a bunch of those people in the homeless population, they aren't even a majority of the homeless.

In general, about 2/3 of the homeless are transiently homeless. They will be homeless for less than 12 months, they are likely employed while they are homeless at least in a part time capacity, or they are in college. These folks generally refuse to get services and spend their time sleeping in their car, crashing on friends couches, and in a pinch, sleeping in tents outside away from the wild areas. In general, these people are on hard times due to bad luck more or less, and are struggling to get out of it.

Another 1/3 of the homeless are people who used to be in the prior group, but are now "chronically homeless". They may have gotten into drugs or developed a mental issue in the first 12 months that they became homeless. These people are the "out of their minds" camp dwellers we think about when we think about the homeless. The biggest risk factor for being in this group is becoming homeless in the first place, and the best way to prevent people from becoming transiently homeless is to prevent them from losing their stable housing or getting them into stable housing within the first 12 months of them becoming homeless. It is much harder to "rehabilitate" someone who has been homeless for 12+ months than it is to rehabilitate someone who has been homeless for <12 months.

One issue we have now is that is very easy for people to move from "safely housed" to "transiently homeless" and one big way to prevent this downward trend in quality of life is to build more cheap housing so people in the precarious spot have alternatives to living in a tent. Its not going to be an immediate feedback loop but its the only sustainable way to prevent the growing numbers of homeless in US cities.
Who Killed the Recumbent Bicycle?
I think the problem is that you're pitching the value too low.

It's like...$1 for a DRM-free song right now, and tbh that's not unfair.

Even if I could buy movies DRM-free right now for $10, older movies for $5, that'd be fair; I think. :)
Which would get more and more expensive to maintain every year, and if maintenance stops, that would be really, really bad news.
This is exactly what we built at https://assembl.net with blockchain timestamping (and it really worked/works)!!! We had many researchers using it but sadly failed to commercialize.

We called it Assembl Chronos. It’s now available here at https://provenance.cerebrum.com. Please give it a try, I’d love to hear your thoughts :)

(More info: https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/assembl-chronos-a-b...)
For what it's worth, and this is perhaps super light spoilers for the whole series, the "bleak hopeless future" is not a running theme for the series.

The authors have said they approached each book in the style of the characters and story they were telling at that time.

The first book is a noir detective novel (that happens to be set in space and in the future) so I can definitely see how it comes across as bleak..

The next book and beyond are written in different styles.

Thanks for the Schimatrix recommendation! I'd never heard of it, and I looked it up.. Added it to my reading list!

I might recommend The Inverted Frontier series by Linda Nagata to you, that I've only just started... It's pretty good and I think falls under the hopeful sci-fi category (at least so far). :-)
If Joel Spolsky and Paul Graham had a baby....
Not an expert or anything but I'm partial to Cormorant
Preprint servers for the win!
Also the shooting in Cali today. No one is talking about race. Let’s see what race he ends up being.
Are you suggesting that this is fair characterisation of Republicans in a general sense? I'm not sure that all Republicans would agree with this. And I definitely consider myself on the liberal side of the political spectrum.

I can empathise that it's difficult to have a dialog with some individuals who are only interested in convincing you of the correctness of their world view and not understanding others, but inflamatory rhetoric like this doesn't help.
Duke has a really amazing and world renowned satellite medical school in Singapore.
>more homeless people show up to take advantage of the great services.

I've never heard of homeless searching for the best place too be homeless! Is there a source for this?
Regulation CF [1] is a kind of mini-IPO. You have to work through a funding platform/broker, file with the SEC, confirm the net worth of investors, and such.

The most active funding platform for this is Wefunder.[2] This is sort of like Kickstarter, but with equity.

[1] https://www.sec.gov/info/smallbus/secg/rccomplianceguide-051...

[2] https://wefunder.com/
Wyoming, Nevada, South Dakota, or Delaware.
Here is my favorite roundup on the subject:
https://project-evidence.github.io/

In my own amateur opinion, either natural crossover or laboratory escape theories are plausible but we'll almost certainly never be able to prove it either way.
Who knows, maybe that's exactly what happened here. Could be a vigilante trolling the copyright trolls. (Not all copyright firms are necessarily trolls. The ones that recklessly automate things so heavily that they'd make this mistake probably are, though.)
Why wouldn't be a good thing for academia drive out unethical actors?
So digging into the report that is linked from the article and other commenters here (link below, search for "Pilot Safe Sleep Site" in that article), some relevant points:

1. The "$2600" number is calculated from the $1,491,410 total cost / 70 spaces / 8 months.

2. Regarding staffing, "The staffing plan Urban Alchemy recommends for a successful program is a minimum staff-to-participant ratio of one (1) to 12." So included in the price tag is at least 6 paid staffers, and I'm assuming 24 hour coverage is needed (or at least 16 hour coverage).

3. Regarding the price, "Given the program’s high cost, we recommend that the data outcomes/effectiveness of the program
be reported on by the CAO and LAHSA before initiating additional sites. "

I think this all highlights what a mistake it was regarding the basic shutdown of federal mental hospitals in the early 80s [2]. If it turns out that the cost for dealing with homeless is this high for a simple tent encampment in a parking lot because of the cost of support services, why not provide that support in a more permanent medical facility (obv. not all homeless are mentally ill but many/most of long term homeless are).

[1] https://clkrep.lacity.org/onlinedocs/2020/20-0841_rpt_cao_03...

[2] https://sites.psu.edu/psy533wheeler/2017/02/08/u01-ronald-re...
Downside: another founder's transformational angel might be your malicious angel.
Australia is where Murdoch honed his craft before coming to the US. What makes you so sure that the anti white narrative you perceive is genuinely a left creation, and not a media figment to keep everyone furiously engaged with media. In my years in the US I spent time with Oakland anarchists and Texan republicans, and in neither place met the mindless automaton monsters the other side loathed. Murdoch always amplified and distorted to generate fear and disgust. There’s no shortage of idiots ready to talk stupid, or good people who can be edited to sound dumb and dangerous. Murdoch’s trick has always been to elevate these people as spokespeople, or representative of a wider group, and by doing so inflame.
It doesn’t need to be part of a plan to rule the world, it could emerge just from a desire to capture viewer attention, but the end result is we focus on the stupidest things say as the thing that defines them and the cause they advocate, and as a result we are made shrill and unintelligible to each other.
I try not to care if a BLM person says something stupid. I try not to care if an individual cop is not prepared to testify against a colleague, but the worst impulses human impulses in me really want to jump in and be inflamed, redirecting all my energy to the stupid and trivial, away from the collaboration and cooperation that actually solves problems
Her initial claim of harassment, which kicked off the whole mess, was based on assuming malice from a meme twitter account which was actually run by a random guy in England. Personally I'd rather not assume malice for any of the parties.
In order to eliminate taxes on the homeless, the state and local sales tax needs to be eliminated, and permanently set to 0%.

The state legislature can introduce a legislatively referred constitutional amendment to eliminate state and local sales tax and replace it with a distributive land tax.
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The only appropriate response to that is to go scorched earth and try and get not just those to published the copied paper but the reviewer who linked it fired. And then make it very clear what the journal let happen to others in the field.

Also, a DMCA request to arXiv would likely work.
To me this is a webpage that promises the technology before the days of AWS and GCP with some cool ascii art animation.

Sure, they have a solid team of engineers but what is the value proposition exactly? A blackbox server that we built to our taste (AMD Milan, what if I want Intel Xeon?) to provide you custom software to manage and monitor server health and notify you if you could upgrade/downgrade to a different size? Oh and no cables with lots of aesthetics to make your datacenter look pretty... And?
I've had this come up with composite data formats. If your data formats includes already existing data formats and they do not all agree on an endianness you are basically stuck with being inconsistent about it.
Not sure the math makes sense on that.

Assuming a two-party interaction, for every person that makes a true accusation of abuse, there is one malicious actor (the abuser). For every person who makes a false accusation, there is one malicious actor (the accuser).

Regardless of the ratio of true to false accusations, the number of malicious people in the world remains unchanged.
Building a GraphQL Server Using Node.js and Express
Per usual, it depends :. I am a Catholic who has been told by atheists not to ask questions about meaning because it is “dangerous” (i.e. to run from certain questions).

There are questions that have answers that are beyond the scientific method (e.g. does grandma love you?). They are fascinating to contemplate :)
I remember when Cornell Tech was just a fraction of a floor in the Google Chelsea office. If there sheer growth in presence in the city is anything to go by, it looks they have invested a lot in it. I mean, a lot.
You don't even have to build housing specifically for the homeless. You don't have to build BMR or affordable housing. Just build more housing, period, and the problem will eventually solve itself.
Whenever I see someone who is quite clearly very recently homeless I give them as much money as I can afford to, like $50-100, because I feel like it can get them out of homelessness. When I see someone completely out of their mind I don’t feel like anything I can do will make a material difference, just get them different levels of stoned for the next 3 hours.
Fun story: Pachinko, Japanese gamble machine like Slot, is still enforced to use Z80 for calculating winning chance, to be able to regulator could check the calculating logic.
One of the most annoying things about CL is that I can't get access to compiler type inference information inside compiler macros. This lack of type information cuts off lots of optimization opportunities. Maybe a new CL implementation can expose the type inference engine to macros and enable much better compile time code generation.
It's build-once run-anywhere. I build my software on Linux. I'm the primary contributor so that just happens to be what's best supported. Cosmopolitan is a labor of love that I made to make developers happy. I'm sure over time it'll evolve into build-anywhere run-anywhere. You can help me will that future into existence. You yourself said that something like redbean should become the new normal. When I studied the old code, I saw its merits, and I've used my popularity to help change what popular means.
Monthly rent for a furnished apartment at my university (i.e. already overpriced and in demand) is $1049.

Why not buy these people a ticket and a year's prepaid rent to somewhere with a much, much cheaper cost of living. It would save the city money and these people would have a real place to live (i.e. not homeless anymore, instead of homeless in a tent).
New Map Reveals Gazillion Mile Dark Matter Cosmic Web Between Galaxies
Scott Adam’s says some pretty bizarre things in public on his blog and on his podcast. He wrote about causing his readers to orgasm via his words.[0] The tone was not that of a person with a healthy attitude towards sexuality. I found it unpleasant and gross.

He’s also expressed some pretty odd ideas. From the same link:

> Regular readers know that I used my background in hypnosis to accurately predict nine-out-nine political events in 2015, while most political professionals got zero right. That makes me the best political pundit of the year.

The podcast QAnon Anonymous (which reports on conspiracy theories; it’s not pro-conspiracy thinking) did an episode about him.[1] It’s been a long time since I listened to it, so I won’t try to sum it up because I’d do so poorly. He came off as an unpleasant person who doesn’t seem admirable to me. I wouldn’t link to him in a post about character assassination.

[0] https://www.scottadamssays.com/2015/12/31/hypnotizing-you-to...

[1] https://m.soundcloud.com/qanonanonymous/episode-43-scott-ada...
The thread of contemporary period people totally fell out of my mind. I need to pull it off the shelf and reread it. Thank you for the reminder.
I mean, it's well within possibility for you to spend 20 years as SWE earning six figures, and then retire early to be an independent researcher.

As long as you are happy to explore a field that doesn't require millions of dollars of equipment and aren't competing for fame, there's nothing stopping you.
Ironnically i find r/PoliticalCompassMemes to be most rational sub among those discussing politics. There are some edgy teenagers but you will know who is that.
Tbh, I don't think you're the first person to think that but the trouble with making a "safer C" is that it's not C. Or to be more precise, it looks like C but isn't C compatible. This has ended up killing most attempts. Apparently nobody actually wants an almost-C language (alternatively, nobody has yet managed to successfully market one).

There seems to be an uncanny valley effect with C-like languages. The best you can do is have non-standard compiler extensions on top of ISO C.
Is there profitable business based on GPT-3?
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/06/us/homeless-population.ht...

"Where Does California’s Homeless Population Come From?"

> As the data shows us, most of the homeless people you pass on the streets every day are in fact Californians. Some may have rented an apartment or once owned a home in your neighborhood.

> Several years ago, L.A.H.S.A. added a question to its homeless survey that captured how long a person had been in Los Angeles and where they became homeless. The resulting data dispelled the idea that the homeless population was largely made up of people from out of state.

> “The vast majority fell into homelessness in L.A. County,” Mr. Lynn said.

> L.A.H.S.A.’s 2019 homeless count found that 64 percent of the 58,936 Los Angeles County residents experiencing homelessness had lived in the city for more than 10 years. Less than a fifth (18 percent) said they had lived out of state before becoming homeless.

> In Los Angeles, a renter earning minimum wage ($13.25 an hour) would need to work 79 hours per week to afford a one-bedroom apartment.
Sounds like LA just advertised themselves as pretty high on the list
The knee-jerk reactions are unfortunately because the word "telemetry" has been perverted into having that connotation by those who don't want to call what they're doing "spyware". It certainly doesn't help to see that word along with "GitHub", who is now owned by a company which is doing exactly that.

Other relevant euphemisms that have appeared within the past few years: "analytics", "diagnostics", "usage reporting", "connected experiences", "experience improvement".
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What are the worst things about StackOverflow for you?
One possibility. But the original study carefully controlled for exercise and lifestyle factors. To corroborative the causal relationship, we also have extensive experimental evidence where UV and/or bright light on skin/eyes directly improves systematic biomarkers associated with longevity[1][2][3]. These improvements occurs independent of vitamin D synthesis.[4]

[1]https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0022202X1...
[2]https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S03785...
[3]https://www.hindawi.com/journals/bmri/2016/1934518/
[4]https://academic.oup.com/endo/article/159/5/1992/4931051?log...
< unless you’ve got a rock solid redundant closed loop setup

I do not
I do not even know who I would send it to honestly.
I am obsessed with this work now which is why I am expanding my provider network to other countries.

I found that things I think are "experimental" are much more common overseas probably due to a lack of regulatory controls but the result is that there are really smart people with a plethora of knowledge about these things as where my western doctors were not that knowledgeable or willing to really listen.

If you have any suggestions it would be awesome if you could email me.
Any compliant USB-C cable must support USB 2.0 no matter what. If a USB-C cable isn't working with 2.0 data, then it's a noncompliant cable.
The investors self-affirm their net worth through their broker.

There were some other rules changes this year that make it easier, though I can't find documentation of what they are atm. I've noticed more use of SPVs which simplifies things for the company.

The main problem with this is it's a bad idea for most investors because the investment opportunities are largely bad and take 6+ years to get any return.
the crazy thing is that there are a ton of "recently homeless" folks you encounter in your daily life without even knowing it. Something like 10% of the cal state university students are homeless. My wife is a doc in the ER and deals with a bunch of folks who are going through these issues. Many retail workers, service workers etc are homeless, shower at the gym, and have been living in their car or friends couches for the past few months and will probably find a place to live in the next few months.
Was Schmidt not the same person who said "If you have something that you don’t want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn’t be doing it in the first place." in 2009?
Throwing money at a corrupt bureaucracy didn't solve a complex problem? Shocker.
Proposition HHH allocated $1.2 billion towards the problem and essentially nothing was accomplished.
Roll a dice with as many sides as there are possible human/bat interactions in the world.

How many land within stones throw of a lab that collects these from a multi-thousand mile radius.

Occam’s razor seems to point…
He says people are using GPT-3 to answer customer questions in chats.. how is that possible? How do you prevent it from acting as an agent and committing you to something you can't commit to, introducing legal liability? Do you just have some small legal disclaimer that everything it says should be treated as entertainment only?
They have a game studio, game technology (including an engine) under the AWS brand, and have a Stadia-style cloud gaming service called Amazon Luna.

* Amazon Lumberyard (the game engine) is a difficult to work with mess that their own devs apparently hate

* Amazon Luna has a tiny library of games, and actually requires two subscriptions to play them all (Luna+ and Ubisoft+)

* The most successful piece of entertainment Amazon Game Studios has produced is this fascinating article: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2021-01-29/amazon-ga...
>"The programme explores China’s increasing use of AI to monitor its citizens.

>"Critics fear the state's dominance in the area could threaten democracy"

As he implies, government will have to regulate the allowed scope of AI and will also have to do without it itself, lest it get enamored with it and do what we fear China will be doing soon to its own citizens.

We know companies will not refrain themselves out of the goodness of their own hearts. We know that from the way they mistreat user data and exploit people's psychology for commerce.

I don't have high hopes because governments will fear being left out of this race and feel they have to participate in order to not get left out of some imaginary bonanza.
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I am in a rough spot with my career, finances, and general well being and feel stuck. I am having severe ADHD issues and don't know what to do. I have a great idea I want to excite on but also am stuck there which is even more frustrating. What are ways you get unstuck?
The first VAX was also made from TTL - I'm not sure how many chips exactly (enough to fill a relatively large cabinet), but that's also a fully-featured 32-bit CPU.
> But then 'nerds' go from people who have insight and opinions on esoteric topics, to people that like Marvel universe movies. Basically it gets popular and then it's no longer a niche group.

I hate how "nerd" came to mean edgy video gamer teens in popular culture.
When I hear about things like Klarna (which I presume is an accurate representation of an 'alternate payment' provider), it feels like there's ventures capturing people on the brink of being financially unwell, and it doesn't sit well. If you can't qualify for a traditional credit card, you probably shouldn't be using alternative payment providers to buy goods you don't truly need. When the bill comes due, that's the problem: ignore the teaser interest rates.