skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Personally, I think that on balance, nuclear energy is a positive thing. It generates a lot of carbon and pollution free electricity. When containment is lost, the consequences are at least mostly localized.

With this GoF research, the potential downside is extremely large. COVID was really bad. As it is, it's responsible for 3.5 million confirmed deaths so far. This is several orders of magnitude worse than Chernobyl.

This isn't even the worst case scenario though. GoF work has also been done with enhanced flu viruses that could have IFRs above 10%. With something like that you could be looking at upwards of 100 million deaths. Those are really extreme consequences, on par with a total nuclear exchange between the US and USSR.

And then, what do we get out of all of this? For all of the Coronavirus GoF research they did, how did any of that help us at all against COVID?
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Is this trying to correlate people who eat mushrooms specifically or adding mushrooms independent of diet?

To me, these clickbaity headlines always say "do X, not Y, and live Z years longer or get W% less cancer."

PS: Mandatory - 2 mushrooms a day keeps the Goomba and oncologist away.
> the process for upstreaming it was significantly more involved that writing it

It's not very different from the way things work today, where many projects insist on doing everything through GitHub, and if you aren't on there, then it's a massive PITA. It truly is the Facebook of the programming world, down to how oblivious everyone inside the gates are about anything outside of it. ("What do you mean you can't RSVP because we're using Facebook to do that? Isn't everybody using Facebook?")
Came here to bring up FogBugz having this if someone else didn't already.
I’m interested in understanding it too

The whole post is about how to reconcile the adversity of neighbors and philosophy about them, and integrate into a world that doesn't have the toxic relationships after growing up in a toxic environment
I addressed the fact that there is little to no quality content on Reddit anymore with the exception of a few niche subs (and they tend tend to be quality for long.). This was actually the main point I made.
I read on HN that they found islands over the horizon by looking at patterns in the waves and navigated by memorizing the position of stars. Yes to the harvesting of rain water.
>I have no evidence to believe the statement "meowface is a Chinese hacker" is true, but I shouldn't assume it is false? Accusations need evidence. This isn't science, it's criminal justice.

Yes, you shouldn't assume it's false. People should simultaneously assume I'm not guilty of any accusation until conclusive evidence is produced, and also not prima facie assume any such claim is false. Purely as a standalone statement, you can't assume it's either true or false. You shouldn't assume it to be true, but that doesn't mean you should assume it to be false.

To use an extreme example, let's say someone you know tells you they were assaulted by some individual, and at that moment you have no other information besides that. Should your immediate reaction be to assume the statement is false?

This is why one should simultaneously give both accusers and accused the benefit of the doubt. You should simultaneously grant victims the presumption of not lying and grant the alleged perpetrators the presumption of non-guilt. A victim makes an accusation, and the accused says they didn't do it, and you have no other information besides that. Do you simultaneously assume both statements from both people are false? No. You assume both are indeterminate at the present time, given you have no other information.

The burden of proof is always on the accuser, but there's still a difference between "not assuming something to be true" and "assuming something to be false". This is also why courts never find someone innocent; they just find you to be guilty or not guilty. Not guilty means the prosecutor/plaintiff failed to conclusively demonstrate guilt. Innocence would be a positive claim rather than a mere failure to accept a claim.

There's an exception if a claim is particularly extraordinary. If you have an extremely low prior, it's fine to assume the claim is false. "This person talking about security stuff online is a Chinese hacker" is a big claim, but not an extraordinary claim like "telekinesis is real".

Also, in this case with the MTA, it's not (yet) criminal justice. It's some private firms saying they believe they have evidence that indicates the perpetrators are likely affiliated with the Chinese government. If they were standing trial instead of just having some company making some claims about them, of course the standard of evidence would be much, much higher.
Yes, and the sooner the better.

Bitcoin is causing massive damage in so many parts of life. Environmental damage, ransomware, fraud, semiconductor shortages.

End it now. Stop the madness.
I agree with you (for some values of "exist") and furthermore think this is a good reason why "imaginary" is a terrible name for the number set they refer to.

(I prefer "pure complex", but that's got its issues too, of course.)
I think the real question is, can ads change in response to Apple?

Because Apple has already implemented do-not-track, and from what I read, CPM is cratering. That leaves the ad industry with three options:

1. Adapt to the new, anonymous normal. Targeted ads will no longer be a thing, so ads will have to be based on the content viewed, not the viewer.

2. Invent a new way to track users. I suspect many are hard at work on this already, and is definitely Google's plan. In Google's case, the tracking will look more like aggregate data than a fingerprint, but the end result is still targeted advertising.

3. Go out of business.
It's not just political suicide, it's a game theoretical non-optimal play because any one country doing this only hurts themselves while not actually solving climate change. It only works if you have some large number of the top emitters agree to cap all together.
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p-values always seem to get swept under the rug too.
Teen Vogue has been doing some surprisingly good reporting these past few years. They successfully pivoted somewhat from fashion towards journalism, cultural issues, and politics: https://abcnews.go.com/Business/teen-vogues-evolution-high-f...
> The attraction of the city is its rich social life.

Ok, we agree then?
The construction is fairly easy but requires some fairly hefty background knowledge to make formal. In brief, though: an ordinary real number can be implemented as a sequence of rational numbers, with two sequences considered to be "the same" if they eventually get, and stay, arbitrarily near to each other. A hyperreal can be implemented as a sequence of real numbers, with two sequences considered to be "the same" if they are equal at "very many places", for a certain strict and formal definition of "very many places". (Formally, fix a nonprincipal ultrafilter on the naturals; then the requirement is that the sequences be equal on a set of indices which is a member of that ultrafilter.)

A standard real z can be viewed as a hyperreal, by taking that sequence to be z, z, z, …. Another equivalent representation of that same hyperreal would be the sequence 0, z, z, z, … because that's equal to the first sequence in "very many places". There's an infinite hyperreal, implemented by the sequence 1, 2, 3, …. (In fact there are tons and tons of infinite hyperreals.)

You can prove that the space of hyperreals is a field, and moreover with some model theory you can show that actually a lot of structure (in fact, all first-order structure) transfers directly over to the hyperreals from the reals.
Unless you have a lot of tabs. The larger font size makes it harder to read what the tab is without clicking on it. Makes you scroll more to see which tabs are open
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To be fair, we don't know who made the decision to reassign him. It might have been a HR decision in preemptive fear of bad press instead of an actual demand by any group.

Also, solidarity for palestinians is pretty widespread among progressives and left-wings in general. I think a push to cancel him for this entry would more likely come from right-wing, pro-Israel groups if anything.
"Working our butts off" for the future hope of a payoff after retirement and after our bodies have lost all our vitality is as big a scam as all religions. It keeps the coffers lined, keeps people head down, and it's nothing but a lie. All people should be able to live free of slavery and not be duped into believing all this office work 50 hours a week ends in some magical, mystical payoff. It doesn't. I've known a TON of people who died right after retirement, and who can't do anything they wanted to do after retirement as they're too damn worn down. The entire working for another company to make them profits in return for a paltry little barely livable wage, is a scam.
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Is this the app-equivalent of the Facebook pixel?
China vs the Uighurs and Tibetans? India vs Pakistanis? Pakistan vs Indians? Russia vs Chechnya? Spain vs the Basque people? Canada in the 80s vs native people (we had an article just the other day)? The US vs black people?

Plenty of countries get criticised for their treatment of minorities when they do something wrong.
When we get to "experiment with large double-blind randomized sample shows that..." , then this will be interesting.

"study finds" means very little. You can quite easily make a "study" in all sorts of ways to "find" basically anything you want. It's so easy it often happens just by accident. Particularly in meta-studies like this article references. But that didn't stop them from coming up with a biochemical mechanism. Note to scientists - the theory comes before the conclusion. Otherwise we have Post hoc ergo proctor hoc.

But then why is an unlikely, unverified result put into an article? Who would do this?

"South China Morning Post" ... "For Centuries, Chinese Medicine Practitioners have used mushrooms...."

This article can be safely thrown away.
You say yes, but can you explain how it is different? As far as I can tell it's the same as it was a century ago. The only change is the subject matter.

Do you think you'd keep your job after saying something anti-Christian in the 1950s? Look at what happened to Sinead O'Connor in the early 90s after she spoke out against child abuse in the Catholic church.

Maybe the biggest difference is that now we write when we communicate with peers, so there's evidence of our speech. I'm not convinced the mechanism behind cancel culture itself is new at all.
Indeed, and as others have stated it is really hard to allow `[-1]` without breaking old code.

Also: `[1, NaN, "hi"].indexOf(NaN)` is -1 but `.includes(NaN)` returns true as expected.
Its very expensive right now. Expect that to change
General purpose computing seems to be the real issue here. Might as well ban it while we've got the chance. If people want to compute something, they can use their brains!

In seriousness though, banning cryptography would appear to have many more serious consequences than the elimination of Bitcoin. Free speech would take a big hit for starters.

If the concern is regarding the waste of electricity, then why not apply a tax on energy equivalent to the associated negative externality? That way everyone who wastes electricity will be charged equivalently, and the government won't have to determine which use cases are "useless." (Personally I think mining gold for jewellery is almost as useless as mining Bitcoin -- both certainly have an aesthetic beauty to them.)
> For those indigenous people that remain, I definitely support greatly expanded rights and territory.

Huh? What expanded rights some tiny resorts? Give them everything back - it's theirs. Even if there are only 1 million of them left make a referendum and ask them if you are allowed to stay.
Also California is Mexican!
Boy we have a lot of fixing to do!
But basically I can infer from what you're saying this isn't about morals at all but about how strong you are. The U.S is super strong so no one calls for it's destruction (at least not seriously). Israel is tiny and weak and surrounded by enemies that want to see it go down. That's what this is about.
We also have a unix timestamp issue coming up.
SNL also famously made fun of Smucker's Jelly, but they're still doing $8 billion in annual sales nonetheless.

("Smucker's" sounds like the Yiddish "schmuck", derived from the German word for "ornament" or "jewelry". It's a slang term for male genitalia)
4 popups before you can read the article, new record
Because it is such a common case?

To invert your argument, why would you want millions of developers to have to waste their time writing this sort of thing for such a common need?

Yes, it's clear that you could write the function correctly.

Could everyone?

What about bugs that aren't obvious? The runtime errors that result?

Why would we want to waste so much developer time and effort globally, when we can just add .at() to the language?
I do not see how 1E shows existence. The definition of the natural extension needs the hyperreals in the first place. (reading on mobile, maybe I am missing something here)
Easy, but then don't pretend that people calling Israel criminal are antisemitic.

(Also, let's not pretend there aren't a lot of non Israeli Jews defending Israel whatever it does).
I think their point is more that people probably shouldn't get fired for saying something offensive as easily as it is done nowadays.
I guess you didn't read the article, as it directly refutes your claim.

>We found about 616,000 potentially feasible PHES sites with storage potential of about 23 million Gigawatt-hours (GWh) by using geographic information system (GIS) analysis. This is about one hundred times greater than required to support a 100% global renewable electricity system.

Maybe someone on HN can convert 23 million gigawatt hours to terawatt hours and compare it to 60.
I believe he currently is? At least, his foundation is.

https://www.obama.org/diversity/
Yeah, it’s an artificial number. It does not reflect the true profitability of MS. As another commenter explained (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27380998) the figure contains money from selling two subsidiaries. That would also explain the steep rise of the profit.
Before releasing a script, it's always a good idea to fix the errors reported by Shellcheck. There are several here. Also the script has a /bin/sh shebang and README says it's POSIX but it has bashims (for example "echo -e" will fail in default /bin/sh in Debian).
Read the timeline, so he shared it on a forum, he persisted with it through the month via various channels (who were all seemingly dismissing him, and I'd say that in itself is a huge failing on their end considering his autism), then he shared it another forum, several days later an anonymous source leaked it. So his legal testification of events isn't at all far from the Guardian's one paragraph summary.

Meanwhile, your initial summary of it was that he sent confidential feedback to the diversity team after a training session which pissed them off so much that they leaked it to screw with him.
I actually hadn't considered this, and now I'm curious if some of the new F1 regulations (there are lots of new regulations fairly regularly, so I don't mean to say this is like changing the rules of basketball which happens every decade or so) have anything to do with Lewis Hamilton's total dominance, who happens to be the first black formula 1 driver.
I will only agree with you after exploits are declared to be munitions
https://taibbi.substack.com/p/aaugh-a-brief-list-of-official...

I'm sure most hacker news folks can find the right-leaning fake news easily so here's some left-leaning fake news to balance things out. Most of these include citations as well.
The big thing I think that needs to happen for this to stick is for the UI to make sense. There has to be some obvious and convenient way for me to provide the things the application needs, without it being a pester-box with an OK button.

Some of that already exists on desktop OSs but seems to have been abandoned. Drag and drop file loading is commonly available but applications still seem to insist on file dialog workflows. Drag and drop saving even exists in RiscOS and ROX-Filer. But how do we abstract other resources like cameras, keys, contacts, network ports, or money? Is it as simple as having drag-and-drop-able representations of those things? Do I drag $5 out of my virtual wallet into Steam? My bank password from a virtual keyring? Connect a virtual cable to the application window from an icon representing my camera?

Sadly, the desktop metaphor itself is out of fashion as everyone went insane when the iPhone came out, so I expect it will be a lot longer than 5 years before any of this is explored in any depth.
There was one particularly bendy Russian strongman who was able to game the move by leaning backwards so far that he was almost doing a standing bench-press.

For fear of breaking their backs, no-one else dared to try this and the guy just dominated this event.
Yucca Mountain was a idiotic nonsense idea form the start

Can you elaborate on that?

As far as I can tell, the main reason Yucca Mountain never moved forward was "Nevadans didn't want it". Which seems like a good enough reason, and that should suffice.

But in terms of the basic idea, if you're going to store nuclear waste anywhere, Yucca Mountain was as good a place as any. That's a big "if", of course, but it's kind of independent of the idea of Yucca Mountain in particular being "idiotic nonsense".

My understanding is cursory, so I'm hoping you can fill in some of the details.
first-person slang like "hippies" is most often spoken by those are "are not" and is derogatory IMO

citation: photo-journalistic Life Magazine cover article on San Francisco culture used the word Hippy and introduced it to the mass media (edit: could have been Look Magazine also, one of those two).. people directly involved at the time did not use that word. The word was further popularized primarily by antagonists in media and popular songs
It's not lost, it's gained because it's rescued from the wasteful hands of various bureaucrats.
I'm certain stuff slips through occasionally, there's the random number generator "bug" that made it into debian a decade or so ago. The rate is fantastically lower than pretty much anything else though.
>It's funny how the Damore defenders shed their free speech hucksterism like yesterday's underwear.

No, people are pointing out the racist double standard.
Is that better or worse?

In Damore's case: He was asked to privately(?) provide his thoughts to the company(hence while employed and on company time).

Bobb's case: He decided to write a blog post. No-one asked him nor compelled him to share his thoughts.

My view is that firing people over views and opinions is dumb as long as they are not trying to force their views and opinions on other people in the workplace.

On the other hand, my view is that one's views and opinions are private and don't need to be spewed everywhere, hence why I have a dim view of social media(notes the irony/hypocrisy of posting this on HN).
The ACLU is more of a partisan organization aligned with the democrats nowadays. Good or bad, it has been great for their fundraising. (Of course the same has happened to many other groups which have switched to being partisan aligned on one side or another)

EFF and FIRE seem more similar to the “old” ACLU although both have very limited missions.
You mean the third airline? This has already been tried before, and the financials didn't work out the first time. Maybe everything has changed, but who really knows.

And frankly, I'm hoping for failure. Some of these new super-sonic companies are trying to get approval for continental routes, saying that the boom is only as loud a car door. Like a car door slamming shut for 3000 miles is no big deal. The super-wealthy have enough toys to inconvenience the rest of us and destroy the climate; they can keep hanging out in first class, or on their private, subsonic jets.
It's all good! We certainly rely on it in other ways, like the build system and such. libcurl is so ubiquitous I would have totally believed that we somehow developed a dependency on it.
I find the whole thing offensive in concept, even if he had used "Israeli" instead of "Jew".

If some white dude wrote "If I was a Black, I would find it increasingly difficult to reconcile the long cycles of oppression that Blacks have endured and the insatiable appetite for crime that permeates inner cities", we would rightly castigate him as a virulent racist.

It also wouldn't matter if you replaced "Black" with African, or Senegalese, or Mexican, or any other nationality. You aren't that thing, you don't have the experiences of that culture, you don't get to write from that perspective.
The study: https://academic.oup.com/advances/advance-article-abstract/d...

I can't find a free version of the full text.

> There was evidence of a significant nonlinear dose–response association between mushroom consumption and the risk of total cancer (P-nonlinearity = 0.001; n = 7). Limitations included the potential for recall and selection bias in case-control designs, which comprised 11 out of the 17 studies included in this meta-analysis, and the large variation in the adjustment factors used in the final models from each study.
> It was certainly not malicious, but it was indeed a bad idea which is what the complaining is: that Python 3, or any such backwards incompatible changes should have never happened.

> You wouldn't if Python 3 didn't exist either.

This is a bit of a loony argument. There are so many useful features post py27 that may not have been possible without the breaking changes 2to3 introduced. Especially the horrific bytes/str situation in 2.7.

So your argument is that Py3 shouldn't have happened, despite all of the people actually contributing to the language wanting it so (I wonder how much does company with your multi-million line project contributes to cPython's development?) and it unlocking future improvements that have driven Python adoption and usage into the stratosphere... because your company didn't want to invest any time or resources for ongoing maintenance? Of which upgrades are an obvious and important part?
> "If I were a Jew I would be concerned about my insatiable appetite for war and killing in defense of myself"

This part near the end is the one I find really hard to interpret in a non antisemitic way because it bears the implicit assumption that a Jewish person (whether Israeli or not, whether zionist or not) would be compelled to feel in a certain way because the Israeli violence he describes is unleashed to defend himself as a Jewish person.

That closing argument could have turned the whole point of view upside down simply by explaining from his (or an imaginary Jewish person's) point of view why the society in Israel dictates what he should feel, and how right winged populism in Israel often adopts the antisemitic opinion that Jewish diaspora cannot truly integrate into their countries and therefore must make Israel part of their Jewish identity.

That could have been a legitimate critic that I too share as a Jewish man who live in Israel.

What strikes me even more is that Google were not aware of this post or did not based their decision upon it when offering him this role. Having gone through a full on site cycle recently with a FAANG company (which I didn't pass), I submitted a GDPR request to receive all the data that has been collected as part of the interview process. Most of it they won't really share but one thing that they did share was a file with a list of pretty much all my twitter activity that went through a 3rd party review, and that's just for a simple L5/L6 role.