skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So "lying to get a treatment that alleviates the symptoms of their medical condition in a system that punishes honesty" is substance abuse now?

I literally wish every time I go to the doctor that stimulants didn't get non-ADHD people high so I wouldn't have to deal with this crap.
I think the only concern around homicide and "serious" crimes, is that maybe society does have a public interest in knowing who the murderers in society are. Who are the rapists, etc.

I'm not a legal expert, and I don't know what categories of crimes are in the vast public interest to know about, and which are trivialities best left between you and the judge. But I can imagine there is a level of crime which is of the public interest to be aware of.

Maybe the line is if you are convicted of a crime with a high recidivism rate, like Fraud or robbery. Or maybe it's impact based, such as violent crimes. I'm not sure, but I don't think I could see it being in the public interest to never publish any information about any crimes that are done by people in society. I remain open minded to evidence to the contrary, though.
Your friends and family might never have had serious influenza symptoms. But asymptomatic infections are very common so it's likely that some of them have at least been infected.
It’s pretty clear this isn’t the case. It was more true 20 years ago, but polarization has been increasing rapidly. How are they playing for the same team if they can’t agree on anything anymore?
They have backdoored our society already. We're trying to export capitalism, they are trying to export communism.
Not with every file but I have a question as to why something might exist or why it's implemented the way it is or it just doesn't look quite right then I'd absolutely go back and read the commit message that goes with the code - "Blame" feature works well here, I use TortoiseSVN.
There's a weird[1] dynamic where people dislike "big tech" but are wildly favorable towards individual big tech colonies: Google, Amazon, Apple all have favorability ratings in the 80s and 90s, while Facebook, Twitter, and Slack have much lower ratings. Interestingly enough, being a monopoly seems to be correlated with _higher_ favorability.

Your assumption about the implications of bipartisan support seems a little Pollyanna-ish about the degree to which politicians represent their constituents on any given issue.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.theverge.com/platform/amp/2... (I couldn't find individual company numbers for 2021)

[1] I guess this isn't that weird, given that similar inconsistencies shows up in all sorts of polling.
Rightly or wrongly, a lot of people in the US consider middle class to be anything between barely putting food on the table and flying around in private jets. It's probably fair that people hiring au pairs/nannies are on at least the upper range of middle class income but that doesn't make them "rich" in typical American parlance.
I get to decide who I associate with. I'm flattered that you believe I have the power to dictate the direction of a convict's entire life, but I'm afraid that's not the case.
Unfortunately an objective comparison with other religions is not possible without going into political territory. There are religions where people feel they are the only truths and the adherents mostly believe everything seriously and there are some where adherents follow what they consider the good parts.
> The Internet never cared about countries

However countries care about Apple and can affect its business, particularly if Apple doesn't obey local laws or regulations.
GANs N' Roses: Stable, Controllable, Diverse Image to Image Translation
I find the anecdote(?) of how the first Parsi refugees convinced the ruler of the port city of Surat to let them immigrate wholesome.

The ruler summoned the Parsi representatives to his court. When asked how would they assimilate in the local society, the Parsis asked for some sugar and milk. They mixed it in front of the ruler and said that this is how they will assimilate, not changing the society but making it sweeter.

Even today the Parsi dialect of the Gujarati language is polite and sweet.
Yikes. Salt Lake City hit 107F (42C) today, setting a new record.
If they are intended to replace professional software, there is a reasonable expectation that it can actually do just that. I'm thankful that there are some really amazing open source projects that allow many people access to applications capable of producing professional results "for free" (while being "free"). They are fighting an uphill battle with less resources for the "professional" users, though.

> I find the worst is with OSS projects that are intended to replace professional software. Software that costs hundreds or thousands of dollars.

The price of software isn't ever really going to be a consideration when it comes to software that is supposed to be "professional." Obviously when you have direction and strong incentives (make more money) products tend to gain capabilities and polish at a rate that an uncompensated OSS project can't match. But none of that matters to someone trying to edit a video or score a soundtrack or create illustrations or whatever else they're trying to do with their "professional" software.

> I've seen some of the most vitriolic and nitpicky comments towards that and other similar software, over sometimes the stupidest things like ui differences to the commercial equivalents or something equally as shallow.

Except user interface is extremely important for professional software. You are committing a lot of time to learning the way around an application that is extremely complex. This is why people get stuck on a particular digital audio workstation or nonlinear editor versus another. There is an extremely steep learning curve to switch. Free software should be trying to lower the barrier to entry which means replicating user interfaces of popular commercial software. UI differences aren't stupid, they're really important, especially for software that you're expected to be using day in and out every day.

> Myself, I'm just happy there's so much professional quality open source software.

I'm also thankful for it. Not everyone is a professional who can afford the high prices of commercial software and having access to such powerful tools for free is incredible. When I was a kid I pirated a lot of software. Macromedia Dreamweaver and Photoshop were really important to me at the time but nowadays exploring interests is much easier (and safer).
Those symptoms may or may not occur depending on the influenza strain and the individual patient. Many influenza cases are entirely asymptomatic.
Yes, because urls are part of UX and should be as readable and meaningful as possible. It is not just about SEO.
Of the two other responses to this thread, one recommends "don't be a jerk" and the other recommends "complain enough".

I wonder if there just isn't a negative feedback loop here (everybody gets helped) so people just assume their way is the most effective.
Several months ago a study came out showing that pacific islanders not only made it to South America 800 years ago, but sailed back to Easter Island and other pacific islands after genetic mixing.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/08/science/polynesian-ancest...
My EC2 Wishlist
Shortage of air conditioner parts expected this summer
Let's see Safari/Chrome market share on macOS.
I think it’s actually shocking how few people seem to agree with this. In particular, the speed with which most of the left pivoted to reverence for the “intelligence community” simply because it was politically expedient after 2016.

How many times did we hear breathless tirades about how the president wasn’t “respecting” the recommendations of intelligence agencies, or leaking classified intelligence. As if democratic representative of the American people was responsible to the unelected agency heads instead of vice versa.

I voted against Trump twice, but when you get to the point where not even POTUS has the right to challenge the CIA and NSA, you’re no longer living in a democracy.
Steve-O wanted everything filmed. There’s a pretty intense documentary about his descent into and rise over drugs on YouTube.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i1ulzP2XUOg
Hard to imagine what motivated them to keep sailing all that way with no guarantee they would find anything.
Perhaps horseshoe bats and/or pangolins may be animal reservoirs as well.

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/laninf/article/PIIS1473-3...
Make sure and say your nightly prayer to the lawyers.
Relevant link: https://youtu.be/q8LaT5Iiwo4
You’re missing under what conditions an error is thrown. I used your method now I got an obscure error code. I’ll change it - whoops a different error code. Documenting it would let someone know what values of set_point are valid and what context states work/don’t.
I think those interested in history and skeptics find it interesting to learn about how early Abrahamic religions were potentially influenced by Zoroastrianism
Stock buybacks are (generally) done by companies when they think their stock is undervalued.

Stock buybacks destroy the quantity of shares that are bought by the company. E.g., if a company had 1,000 shares outstanding and bought back 100 of them, there's now only 900 shares outstanding. This benefits shareholders (assuming they didn't sell into the buyback) because each share is now a larger holding of the company (1/900 > 1/1000).

This decrease in shares outstanding normally corresponds to a share price increase.

I'd speculate that tech companies do buybacks as a way to keep employee remuneration high (via stock) without necessarily needing to pay them a lot of cash.
That's great. I expected it to have been published on April 1.
You can afford condos on both sides of the bay.
> I'm a European, living in Europe, developing software. Lack of imagination is not our problem. It's so good that we supply our best talent to the US

But that’s just a rephrasing of the same problem. If all of the top creative talent is leaving then Europe has a talent problem.

Europe needs to make it attractive to innovate there. It will let the locals stay and, if it’s working well, attract people from all over the world.

The language barriers are a lame excuse. It’s 100% all of the bureaucracy and anti-business experimenting mindset.
Differentiation is a function that takes a function and spits out a different one. (This may fail at points, but wherever the function is smooth enough, you get a corresponding point on the derivative). It is relatively simple to define, if somewhat laborious to make precise (real analysis etc).

The most straightforward definition of indefinite integration on the other hand is “the inverse of differentiation”. Like a lot of functions, inverses are much more complicated. Even in the case of matrix-vector multiplication, the inverse function (the inverse matrix) has an expression in terms of determinants in the original entries of the matrix - much more complicated than the original problem.

So I think that it’s the more simple theme of: even if the function is easy to describe, its inverse may be extremely complicated.
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Hitting the population limit of your island, and strong cultural norms around exploration.
http://www.5z8.info/toosexyfortv.mov_m1n9qd_peepshow
In almost total ignorance of the Navy and its affairs, the news coverage over the past few years sure paints them as utterly boned. If the problems aren't as severe as they seem then it must have taken some effort to look so fucked up. Paranoia might suggest its a sucker play; they're waiting for an excuse to reveal the hovercarrier tech [1].

[1] https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-cornwall-56286719
Ioannidis JPA (2005) Why Most Published Research Findings Are False. PLoS Med 2(8): e124. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.0020124
By your logic, your house is a "landmark," so it'd be totally okay to surveil it. I don't think that flies.
> However, if you like Moleskine notebooks and have filled many a year and your shelves are filled with many years' worth, then take a good look

That’s exactly what I like about my paper notebooks. 20 years worth, visible on a shelf. And they never run out of batteries. No backups though.
No science is about truth. It's about falsifying claims through the process. However I agree with what you are saying about China.
> private mode (probably easiest solution)

There is no such thing. I have no problem finding the SSID for "hidden" networks.

> they are doing it at scale and this should not be problematic at all.

In fact it is my entire point that this is extremely problematic. Technology enables a whole new range of behavior not previously feasible, and society hasn't yet developed a way to deal with it. Just because Google can do something it does not mean they should do it.

> yes, it's fine that you collect publicly available information at scale, but if you want to use it for me (or against me, depending on your view), you have to ask me. Otherwise it would be violating my right to privacy.

I disagree. The existence of the aggregated data on me is itself the risk, itself the violation of privacy, not the moment when they leverage it for a particular purpose. This data aggregation is dangerous and needs to be regulated.

I do not believe in a utopian corporate world where everything Google does is for my benefit.
Annoyingly, that list includes companies with Israeli founders that aren’t companies founded in Israel (e.g., WeWork). There’s no need to do that though, there are plenty of Israeli companies! (Oh, I see they have a pie chart of companies in Israel and it’s about 25% by value)

It’s also too bad that it excludes public companies
or large exits (e.g., Wix and Waze) since those are even better retorts to the “can’t build companies” claim.
You're being downvoted, but in all seriousness, I've lived next to someone who was a nightmare for years. I wish there had been a rotating cast of folks who came through, at least that would have given me a break from her.

Crappy neighbors can exist in many different forms, whether they live there full time or their renters do. I see lots of shit raised regarding bad AirBnB neighbors, but I think they're just an easily identifiable target - there is no big company to blame if you just have a plain shitty neighbor.
Influenza was bad. My father in law had a bad case in February 2020, lab verified, and gave it to us. Even with the flu vaccine it was notably worse than anything we had with a kid in daycare.
I’m actually surprised that I don’t hear more “I thought I had COVID in 2019, took an antibody test, and was right” anecdotes. Especially if the false positive rate on these tests is significant.
Crypto, the stock market and startup equity are not the economy. They are far closer to lotteries.
Pretty sure in a few years people will have to name their kids John Notrack Doe as the only way to have FB stop ghosting them.
I guess it depends on what you're building. For me the graphql is one of the most useful features. I've only used Next a little, but much prefer Gatsby. I don't think Next is bad though.
Tell it to the guy's under-developed 18 year old frontal lobe.
What is very wrong? High risk, high reward.
Louis CK bit on Conan about people complaining about flying. Certainly relatable reading some passenger complaints regarding this Southwest debacle.

https://youtu.be/kBLkX2VaQs4?t=133
> explicitly declined to publish the description of the suspects as released by the police so as to not "perpetuate stereotypes"

That rationale is a bit ironic but there's a bit more to it:

The Austin American-Statesman is not including the description as it is too vague at this time to be useful in identifying the shooter and such publication could be harmful in perpetuating stereotypes and potentially put innocent individuals at risk.

https://www.statesman.com/story/news/2021/06/12/what-we-know...
The employees can always go work for tech companies that aren't big monopolies. For example, startups.
The problem with the "consumer welfare" standard is that it traditionally only considers a single variable: Cost. But consumer welfare can and should extend beyond that. But if you try to get customer service from many of these monopolies, you'll see plenty of consumers falling through the cracks. Google abuses people's privacy, eliminates competitors, kills off services people rely on, provides literally no customer service... but because their core services are "free", the consumer welfare standard is often considered inadequate to deal with an absolutely reprehensible and societally harmful company.

And what's really crazy is: Competition tends to force companies to compete on treating consumers well. Protecting competing businesses protects consumer welfare pretty darn well, and it provides room for innovation which stagnates when a single company dominates a field.
Catching Up on Life
+1 for log statements as comments; at least these don't tend to become obsolete. When looking at unfamiliar code i tend to trust log statements more than comments, for this reason.
Noyce
It’s possible it could be a good idea, I suppose I’m just cynical that it could be implemented in a way that doesn’t end up further alienating those who don’t vote — mostly poor people.

I’m also somewhat worried in this political climate that such a measure could start another civil war, for one thing, and that at minimum there would need to be federal military intervention to enforce it in southern states, as in the 1960s. The Supreme Court would also need to be packed, because the justices currently holding the majority would never support it (they gutted the Voting Rights Act with no pretense of legal argument eight years ago merely because it was an ideological goal).
Speaking as a musician, I agree that there is a level of respect required for the original mix. Though, in the case of Spacial Audio, this isn't a matter of "gimmicky" sound, this is headphones reproducing the effect that loudspeakers already have. This isn't new and has been in audio engineering circles for a long while (https://goodhertz.co/canopener-studio/) but Apple has added 6dof head tracking which makes the effect truly awe-inspiring.
I think the claim in the article that "Our observations to date support the idea that a unified theory of subatomic forces can be achieved" is a bit strong. Instead of "support", I would say that "do not contradict" would be more accurate. It is true that not all unified theory models have been ruled out--but the article conveniently glosses over the fact that the models that physicists were betting on (which are the models that underlie the article's later discussion of group theoretic and coupling constant arguments for grand unification) have been ruled out by data from the LHC.
The AP asked the government for proof that flossing works. The answer: ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
That's not addressing the parent's point about a challenge trial though. A challenge trial could greatly accelerate measuring that effectiveness.
We have the technology!

Louis is right about You're flyiinngg! but also flying is normal now, so we always hope that things get better. Rich people don't even fly anymore, they sleep in a luxury hotel in the sky. Things are possible, it's just that they're not cheap yet.
http://www.5z8.info/how-to-build-a-bomb_l8f8gb_uniqueinvestm...
it's super convenient, but watch out for bugs and performance issues. it's caching mechanism, how it uploads to S3, and how it seeks unseekable files conceal pretty big performance bottlenecks.
> suddenly lose contact with all ground based systems

isn't that one of the more benign scenarios? staying connected but getting fed malicious incorrect info seems much more dangerous.
Hello, does this include the Sumerian and Babylonian religions?

I am asking because Aphrodite can be traced back to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astarte and then to Ishtar / https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inanna
I havent checked how close/far to the correlations we are right now, but the main point is that its not useful to use some P/E ratio* from the 1980s to decide if a particular company or sector is overvalued or not. It would basically be P/E/Money Supply instead

*or revenue multiple, general valuation, etc
> These are people stuck in strange places who are anxious and uncomfortable.

Those people need to relax a little bit.

Just a generation ago they could have been driving down a remote road, in an unreliable car with no cell phones.

What would they do then?

Well they'd start walking and nobody on earth would know where they were.

Being stuck at an airport, you have something in your pocket you can use to inform everyone of what is going on, handle getting your pets taken care of, etc.
Being able to prevent that at all would be a massive improvement
I do the exact same with Google Maps. If I could, I'd stop using Google Maps completely, but I've found no other apps that offer such thorough and up to date information about businesses around me.
My dumb dead-simple trick that you've probably independently invented yourself: when I want to log variables x,y,z I write

console.log({x,y,z})

not

console.log(x,y,z)

Who needs pretty-printing, formatting libraries, string interpolation etc?
The fact that it was written in 2017 and yet today the only use cases for blockchain are still just buying small amounts of illegal stuff and warming the planet lends the author a bit of credit as prescient technologist.
1) You may "go places" by driving your car (that goes 50mph) closer to your target place. Then use your "unoptimized" bike to reach your target at shorter distance.

2) "shorten your distance to zero" is too extreme, because we need some physical exercise and want some enjoyable experience.
Robert Bork had already been Nixon's acting-Attorney General at that point. He became acting AG when AG Elliot Richardson refused Nixon's order to fire Special Prosecutor Archibald Cox and instead resigned. Deputy AG William Ruckelshaus also then refused to fire Cox and resigned. Bork then became acting AG but he did not refuse to fire Cox.

Bork's legal career was not propelled by any singular brilliance.
Think of all the hot felons waiting to go viral that the AP just screwed. I think they will flip on this policy within 5 months.

https://news.yahoo.com/man-apos-viral-mugshot-gets-194100321...
I’m in industrial control and the move fast and break things never ending stream of updates subscription software mentality has taken hold of the big players like Rockwell and Schneider.

Mediocre software is eating the world
well congrats to all the progressives who work for big tech and voted Biden, here is karma completing the woke circle.

"As a man himself sows, so he himself reaps" — Mahabharata
Currently, it's worth noting that the exit plan of half these startups is to get acquired by one of these monopolies, have their products killed off, and be assigned to do mundane bugfixes for core business competencies.
I think the 4 incidents a day is an exaggeration, but each "incident" is also not a rape or murder. Most are going to be for stuff like "the toilet overflowed" or "the power went out". $1k is not at all unreasonable for most "routine" emergencies.
I'm enormously grateful for high quality, open source software.

The haters know what to do: complain on forums, send in angry bug reports, etc.

What should we grateful ones do? I could email the author(s), if their email is available, but I worry that they don't want more spam.