skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why would causality need to be one way?

It's not unusual for (anticipation of) future events to affect the present. For example if I think it will rain, I grab an umbrella. While typically my belief that it will rain is based on something in the past (previously weather patterns for example), does it really change anything if a time traveler claiming to be me from the day after tomorrow told me it's going to rain tomorrow?

We only think of causality as going from past to future because that is the way we live. We also find the idea that particles can have an indeterminate location or pop randomly into or out of existence is weird, because our minds which have evolved to experience and understand the macroscopic world have no method of really processing that, but our intuition is not reality. If we can accept that our concept of position of objects in space is merely an approximation of a more complicated reality, the same for position of events in time should not be much harder.

People get bent up about paradoxes, but we have things like the Novikov self consistency principle [0] which allow us to avoid paradoxes even without one way causality.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Novikov_self-consistency_princ...
This is such a great example of bullshit studies.

Lots of social science seems to be confirmation of stuff that people have been suspecting. Not to take away from such things: It's important to verify with data.

However, the really interesting question: Where does the burnout come from? Is it possible to specifically characterize the source? By starting to break it down like that, we start toward finding a solution.
Safari is used by rich people who can afford iPhones and Macs. Those people are valuable visitors for many websites. And Safari marketshare (with iOS) is not tiny. So plenty of websites do care about Safari compatibility.
When we get into "total population" statistics, we kinda leave the realm of statistics lol.

There's 15 documented adverse events, but we don't really know how many adverse events there were in total. If we simply study those 15 adverse events, then your population study is only those 15 events (with a hell-of-a-lot of selection bias).

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But I'm mostly thinking about how one person I know thinks: "Did you hear about these 15 cases and even one of them died! Clearly J&J is unsafe to take!!!!"

For that kind of conclusion, its like they've focused their mind entirely on 15 cases, as if their "population of study" was 15. Its obviously bad logic, but maybe I wasn't very clear in my original post that I was referencing some bad logic there.

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But there's plenty of 50-person or 200-person studies that ARE properly done, and the science is solid. Especially when we're looking at say Phase 1 / Phase 2 style trials of safety and/or efficacy (the earlier stage trials before a Phase 3 trial is conducted).

Its not a big enough sample to be "certain" of the results, but its a big enough sample to "provide evidence", possibly in conjuction with other studies.

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In many cases: having 5 or 6 studies with 50-random people each and performing a meta-study across them (especially if all 5 of those studies were of high quality sampling) would lead to a more robust conclusion than just one 1000-person study done slightly incorrectly (ex: the 1000-person "study" is a voluntary telephone survey or some other low-quality study)
Sounds like any recording equipment of sufficient age. I get a buzz unless I wedge this piece of cardboard into the jack kind of fiddling?
There's more than one way for the Fourth World War to be fought with stones.
There’s no conflict here. The name of the artist with multiple names is decide for each release, and then the name is consistent within the releases that share the artist name.
This is not a good analysis. Their proposition is that anything that is for Freedom of Expression is banned in China. I think their examples: Google, Xhamster, Youtube, Netflix, Reddit, Bitcoin are examples that that is not what is happening at all. I don't think any of these promote freedom of expression, whatsoever. Especially when you consider that these companies have recently made it a their mission to influence politics and culture in the United States.

This is China wanting to stop foreign influence, and also more importantly protect their own companies. China has video sharing and micro blogging and social networks. Is it really evil intent that China allowed these local companies to form instead of ceding to foreign monopolies?

Bitcoin while proponents talk about how its freedom and the revolution to tech that the blockchain will be, has produced nothing more than something to gamble on in the stock market.
IMHO, they're pretty, but waste quite some space for no gain apart prettinnes.
Apples weather app will never display the number 69
The Triumvirate: Coal, Iron, and Steam
For those that this lifestyle appeals to, it is possible in America to engineer your life so that it happens. Sure the median American is no where close to financial independence, but financial independence is attainable for most Americans given a couple decades of work if they are willing to change their definition of "enough."

Personally, I reduced my target to a mere fraction of the $5 million you mentioned.

Finally, I completely agree that this is privilege, but without any negative judgement therein. Privilege is a thing we should be trying to give to more and more people.
Odd, I was going to comment on how poor the communication with his partner was in the updated post. I realize he'd written the 2021 update after their separation (hard to tell if these individual sections were real-time but even worse if so) but what was happening was so obvious when he first started to mention the issues, and he described her so harshly and without empathy, like she had some bug that needed to be "fixed" and he wasn't bothering to relate.
there's a few other "experimental" courses that he teaches like the guitar amplifier/effects course, it's pretty cool. I was a "beta tester" for that course before it went official, shit was pretty wild and fun.
You must have perfect pitch
To be clear, I was only mentioning vi and emacs together because both have incredibly passionate communities that can be quite myopic to the UX deficiencies of their platforms. I have a lot of muscle memory committed to emacs so I still use it a lot, but I can onboard a dozen junior developers onto vscode in the time it takes me to help someone figure out emacs. And to me, the final missing piece that made vscode suitable as a general purpose replacement for emacs was the remote dev plugin.
The "solution" proposed is often "do what I want, and ignore that it doesn't solve the moral quandary".
> unless they have some extraneous condition/syndrome/etc.

How is this any different than SRS? You can call it a condition or whatever but it results in the exact same state.

> In addition I often wonder how the cocktail of female hormones including estrogen (versus mostly testosterone in biological males) play a part in neurological development and influence as a prepubescent.

It does play a significant part however it plays an even bigger part in the actual operation of the brain itself. So people who transition find themselves much closer neurologically to the sex with which they are hormonally equivalent to than their original sex.

Now take in the consideration of trans individuals who attempt to transition during or before puberty. Is there a difference now? The lasting effects (of which none actually disqualify you from the sex you transition to) are lesser so it should be even harder to differentiate now.

The point being, a MTF individual with SRS and HRT is of the female sex and vice versa for FTM individuals. They may be their sex with additional caveats or medical considerations but they are that sex. If we want to be scientific about it there is fundamentally no difference between a transitioned individual and any number of individuals of that sex who have some disorder or circumstance that gives them the identical physical characteristics.
MTS is owned by Bell
I think one of the biggest factors for dev burnout is processes and lack of ownership/input devs are subjected to.

Most teams look at developers as just ticket takers and rarely involve them in the product or the decision making. Eventually you just tire of implementing the same stuff over and over like a code monkey.
> Then why do governments feel they have to force men to take time off?

Instead of arbitrarily deciding the reason is “feminism” and then trying to invent attributes of feminism that make that make sense, tou could probably do the minimal research it would take to find the actual reasons cited by any one of the governments in adopting the rule. I feel safe in the assumption that it is “men unfairly push to women while they go off to have fun at work” in precisely zero of them.

> Show me a "proper feminist" article arguing for the benefit of men, rather against the exploitation of women

Uh, okay: “Yet, the proportion of men who take more than a few days off work when their child is born is tiny.

Most cite fears of being discriminated against professionally, missing out on pay rises and promotions, being marginalised or even mocked as reasons for not taking time off. Academics consider these concerns to be the effect of deeply ingrained and highly damaging stereotypes around gender” [0]

[0] https://www.bbc.com/worklife/article/20210712-paternity-leav... (yes, the article we’re already discussing in this thread.)
Awesome thanks for the paper!
And I would wager that only a very small percentage of Broadway audiences have ever picked up a play in paper form either.
If you install any auxiliary dev tools on the remote, it will work just as seamlessly. Git, lsp, etc.

I confess that you need a solid ssh connection. But for the most part it has been great for a long time.
The best way to illustrate how absurd prices in Canada are is that oftentimes carriers in other countries offer better plans to roam in Canada than the plans Canadians get to use on their own native networks.

There really is no excuse for this when a country with similar metrics like Australia is able to have way more affordable service.
The thing to do is not be an asshat and fuck up something that was doing just fine before your asshattery.
The first sentence is false and the second is whataboutism.
I'm late to the ballgame, but what does "Sec-" mean as a HTTP header prefix anyway? I am failing at googling.
Loopop is frequently updating his "In-Complete Book of Electronic Music Ideas, Tips and Tricks", which covers the basics of analog synthesizers and way beyond. https://www.patreon.com/loopop
Lachlan is a pro racer and no hes not the best or anything. The whole point of Alt Racing challenges is he is doing something that you or I could do. Gravel races and such are supposed to be relatable for every day joe like us.

Furthermore I would just add that you will never find a human being who is "just faster" than everyone else. There are many factors at play but UCI has rules about the shape of the bike and human beings can only push so much air out of the way.
A Chemical Hunger – Part III: Environmental Contaminants
> it was rushed and the longer term implications are certainly still not fully understood.

It was not rushed.

We have 250 years of experience with vaccinations and when their side effects happen. And longer with viruses and their autoimmune effects.

After a day or three the vaccine is completely gone from your system, all that remains is the immune effects, the possible side effects are all autoimmune conditions. Those autoimmune conditions will either manifest in 90 days or they will not. There's nothing that hangs around in your body for 3 years and then randomly pops up. By running a trail for 6 months post-injection you will be guaranteed to capture all the side effects from a vaccine study. This is the same with virus triggered autoimmune effects which either pop up in 3 months or they don't (and I've actually had viral pericarditis that affected me about 4-6 weeks after I recovered from a bad cold).

Most of them will run longer, because they don't have a massive worldwide pandemic and they need to prove efficacy so they need enough people in the control group to get infected and that takes time. They were able to speed run the efficacy side of things because so many people were getting infected (we were worried at one point that the virus would largely disappear in Summer 2020 and negatively affect the vaccine trials).

https://www.uab.edu/reporter/resources/be-healthy/item/9544-...
Note if you rescued guys and went through the Stargate, you'd jump levels. This was ... exciting.
There were news recently about Fidelity expanding crypto-related staff by some 70%. I hear crypto is also growing in popularity in Central/South America (the El Salvador Bitcoin move, Brazil's Mercado raising money w/ Softbank, etc). Though, full disclosure, I'm not familiar enough w/ the space to tell whether that offsets whatever is happening in China.
Not every accusation against Assad can be true. Is it not possible to question particular accusations without "supporting" all of his other actions?

Or should we only question things we don't like and give everything else a free pass?
The exam in interview form is called an oral examination (vs written examination) and in my university in the Netherlands they were not that rare, especially for exams in the senior years where class sizes are smaller.
As someone in a similar boat (6 months into not working at this point), I still love hacker news. I am driven by curiosity above most else and this is the best forum on the internet by that measure (as far as I am aware).
A pretty specific and weird, but interesting alternative is PureData, a sort of visual programming language where you can build your own "analog" synths and effects.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s7Gv7SR0Nrk

It's very easy to get started, and extremely powerful. Not sure how well it covers your use case, but it's fun.

There's a great introduction to PureData called Designing Sound by Andy Farnell.
I'm hearing a lot of people say that even if you get the vaccine, you can still get covid. Is that true?
>If they commit genocide, they are executed.

You think vaccine manufacturers are going to commit genocide and you want to execute them? What fascist dreamland do you live in? Come back to reality
> "And I hate being forced into a _team_."

you're not being forced onto a team. no one is making you identify with a party or group. you're doing that to yourself by buckling to whatever social pressures you perceive around you. you can simply stop buckling and still hold the same beliefs.

and science is not a team. that's politization talking. science is a process for generating a working body of knowledge, a body that asymtoticallly approaches truth but is not (yet) truth. for any given subject (medicine, for instance), it can even be very far from the truth and still be the best we have (so far).

this is exactly the perniciousness of partisanship in a nutshell. forget parties and sides. reach your own independent conclusions first (and continuously), and act on that, rather than succumbing to identitarianism.
The default was the same tab until Firefox 88. They changed it to a new tab to match Chrome. And removed the same tab option because they couldn't imagine why anyone would want it.[1]

[1] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1699128#c3
You are considering only anecdata from one person.

Only in one country.

And comparing software development only with stressful jobs.

And if you still think that burnout is not a bigger issue in the software world, go around and look at how many 40+ or 50+ years old work in software.
Others said this different ways, but I think the scenarios where you don't get an immediate segfault at the bad read/write are the trickiest ones--hard to debug, at least. One flavor is, say, writing past the end of a slice b/c you read the pointer from one slice and len/capacity from another. If it segfaults, it might be later when the clobbered object is next used.

A few years back someone at Dropbox mentioned tricky prod-only races were a real problem for them sometimes, for instance: https://about.sourcegraph.com/go/go-reliability-and-durabili...

That's where I start dreaming about best-effort detection of races in production binaries or even just reducing the chances of torn reads. Years back there might have been other options, like explicit private vs. shared heaps with more controls on the shared heap, but there seems to be a more restricted set of choices now.
Analysing an O.mg Cable
One country's saviour is another country's dictator
30 not 38. Also, 30K messages/s not 30Mbps.

"Due to CPU bottlenecks, we were not able to drive a throughput higher than 38K messages/s, and any attempt to measure latency at this rate showed significant degradation in performance clocking a p99 latency of almost two seconds."
My kids have a dinosaur book, and I was blown away at the difference in portrayal of the velociraptor compared to what was in the original Jurassic Park film. Super bird-like now.

https://www.dkfindout.com/us/dinosaurs-and-prehistoric-life/...
All it tells us if that in the very short term, it seems safe. Great.

When we know more about the long term, then people will be more happy to take it?
> "No, humans did not evolve from rodents. It's more like calling humans primates."

Its my understanding humans evolved from a rodent like creature that existed during the time of the dinosaurs. primates did not exist then.

also, humans did not evolve from primates. humans are primates.
Clearly the problem is your measure of success. For the author, success means HODL to the Moon! Who cares about transaction volume or if anybody actually spends bitcoin in everyday life?
Detectives have made the UK’s largest cryptocurrency seizure worth £180M
What law would they use to stop you? Just modify the binary to skip the agreement. If they don't hold copyright over the code then you're not breaking the law in doing so.
Personal anecdote: I have trouble getting enough exercise because of fatigue. And it doesn't do much for helping me sleep.
There are various types of employee pay arrangements other than hourly and salary that do this (even though, some salaried jobs do work the way you describe), like piece work.

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

And it's already really common for non-employee contract work to function that way. The guy who mows my lawn gets paid the same amount no matter what speed he mows it.

That being said, there are plenty of salaried jobs where people are assigned measurable responsibilities to attend to and don't have assigned work hours.
I noticed it works fine when the adblocker is disabled.
Would recommend LLC for a sole-founder, beginning startup. (LLC will _help_ protect your personal liability and being sued directly as an individual).

Corporations are needed/good when/if you get investors, and need board members, and stock options, etc.

(Not legal advice, take with a grain of salt).
It's a two horse race, and its Chrome vs Safari. Firefox is non-existent in this race and is so behind that Google pays hundreds of millions to its creator Mozilla, which contributes a significant amount to their entire revenue source.

I hate to be the one to bring in 'the facts' but Firefox itself is becoming more irrelevant and there is no question on that. Microsoft Edge (using Chromium) is used more than Firefox [0] and global Firefox usage has been declining ever since. [1]

As I said before [2] the Chrome ecosystem has given Google the dominance of more than just the web standards and the web developers were happy to live with this.

I'd say the so called 'open web' just exchanged from one behemoth to another.

To Downvoters: So 'Firefox is the most used and dominant browser and Chrome is in second place'? So 'Google is not paying Firefox in the millions'? I strongly disagree and can confidently say that Firefox usage is dying. Change my mind.

I have just given credible sources to substantiate my claims yet no counter arguments or disproving the facts are presented towards my comment.

[0] https://www.techradar.com/news/microsoft-edge-just-left-a-se...

[1] https://gs.statcounter.com/browser-market-share/desktop-mobi...

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27769206
The first groups you mention are all either very small and also threatened by many different kinds of virus (e.g. flu), or COVID is not a threat to them because they're too young.

As for the sizes of the other groups, you'd have to argue they make up more than 30% of the population for there to be real concerns. 30% of the population is a lot of people. There's plenty of room for people who don't want the vaccine in such a large slice.
Half of people released from jail in S.F. before trial allegedly reoffended
This is an interesting perspective. I would still argue that you need the hands on experience, and I cannot emphasise the immediacy and satisfaction of using physical controls enough.

In my other comment I suggested that you won't find a bargain in vintage gear. That's true. However, if you don't want to be financially committed, you might do well do buy a vintage synth because you should get your money back - or maybe more - if you decide you're not that interested after all and want to sell it. Whereas with a new piece of gear, it will depreciate.

As I say, the market for these things is pretty hot now. I'm weeping that I didn't pick more gear up 10 or 15 years ago before it all became so popular. Of course, I didn't have any spare cash back then so there's that.
Yeah I can do a survey too :)
I started using Tree Style Tab to manage them, and I like that very much. I agree, a mobile-style manager would be interesting.
> You need some amount of advertising. If you invented the cure for AIDS tomorrow, how are you going to tell everyone about it? Word-of-mouth works, but only so far. Perhaps over time, people will naturally Google "cancer cures" but will your business still be solvent by then?

This example is actually a perfect example of why you don't need advertising for things people really need. Do you really think that one of the largest advancements in medical history would not be on the front page of every major news site? Do you really think that patients with cancer and their oncologists won't research the latest cures for cancer?

> If you want to talk about leveling the playing field, you have to be more strategic with your legislation. Don't ban advertising. Ban spending on advertising above some limit. No one benefits from Coca-Cola showing yet another commercial on TV other than the commercial producers - society certainly doesn't benefit though. Make companies spend their ad dollars wisely.

Society doesn't benefit from Coca-Cola--on the contrary, Coca-Cola is actively harmful, and there isn't an amount of spending on advertising Coca-Cola that would be reasonable. This is an example of why advertising is harmful: it's propping up a business model that actively causes people diabetes, obesity, tooth decay, etc. Without advertising, do you think people would be googling, "sugary drinks"? Probably not: and the resulting bankruptcy of a corporation poisoning us would be a good thing.
I did all that minus the video games while travelling in south and south east asia for a year and a half, and with a $20 daily budget. Gave up some of the comforts of western standard of living and got a whole lot of new friends and experiences.

I have kids now and when they are old enough to move out, I’ll quit my job (programmer, and I love it) and get back out there because “The mountains are calling and I must go”
It's actually a machine for generating pointless comments on the internet.
As an former open format DJ with terabytes of music, I would have killed for this type of unified, thoughtful, and comprehensive music organization spec.