skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Assigned reading has a bad habit of pushing us into such patterns. Human's seem to treat anything they are asked to do as a cost to be minimized in favor of the things they choose to do. Given options, they will do the things least similar to those that they are asked to do.

It's too bad we can't structure assigned reading and coursework in terms of choice, I distinctly remember choosing to work on harder assignments when given choices back in the grade school era.
The Role That Luck Plays in Our Success
Who is "we" and what is the original freeciv project doing? Also alive?
Wow, this is really interesting. The research in this area, as the paper points out, is almost completely garbage. The Botometer case is especially shocking:

> The
total numbers of Twitter followers they analyzed during
the election campaign was 838,026, which, assuming the
claimed “social bot” prevalence of 9.9%, would correspond
to roughly 83k “social bots”. However, the paper does not
provide any examples of “social bot” accounts and the raw
data was not shared. When we contacted the authors, they
were unable to provide us with a single credible example of
a “social bot”.

> To summarize the result, not a single one of the accounts
in the list was a “bot” in any meaningful sense of the
word, certainly not a “social bot”. In other words, every
single “bot” in our sample was a false alarm; the precision
(positive predictive value) of Botometer on this task is 0%.
Assuming that Botometer does not perform worse than a
random number generator (as we did not check the accounts
rated as human), we can also conclude that the best guess for
the number of “social bots” following the political parties in
Germany is not 83,000, as claimed by Keller and Klinger, but
zero.
Let's be honest. Engineer managers are largely replacable and more easily than individual engineers. The pool is larger and can accept more manager unrelated experience. There is more to this.

As the person senior leadership communicates with this person is seen as more important than they are. Senior leadership wants to maintain a leveling system to separate groups of people. It's a hedge a flat organization which makes senior leadership less important.

You could swap out this person with another without losing speed but it doesn't work as well with an engineer.
Both are wrong, east-const is the one true way!
It's funny to read about a dashboard with TBs of memory and distributed DBs when on HN, people pride themselves on getting Web servers to run on floppy disk based systems.

Joking aside, I liked the description of the dashboard, and generally speaking the UK's government Web sites are better quality, support open data more, are easier to read and navigate than other European countries from what I have seen. This includes this dashboard, which looks clean, simple and functional.

I was waiting for the big SQL Server advertising language and positively suprised that the article is very tech agnostic. I did all seem to be rather over-engineered, but Microsoft needs to make some money and government agencies don't generally have wizards from HN working for them, so I can live with an occasionally over-engineered system as long as important systems are working and remain up.

The most mysterious part for me was why one would put JSON inside relational tables?
Qatar frustrated over A350 dispute escalation as it details aircraft skin damage
For those interested, I’ve been working on an app that applies these principles for the past 3 years. [0] It uses markdown for formatting and a local-first architecture that works offline.

[0] https://mochi.cards/
Heh, imagine a comma "and yes, men, to do anything productive"
> is that absolutely necessary?

When you go to a store, do you expect to know if it's open beforehand or getting there and finding it closed at random is ok?
Watch Record-Setting Lucid Air Dream Edition 70-MPH Range Test
It was just IBM throwing stuff at the wall to try and keep up with big tech companies. They have been in decline for a long time, and I assume this marketing stunt did not fool anyone actually involved in the businesses of healthcare or tech.
I guess one may disable wifi+data if on mobile.

Disconnect wifi of on Desktop, but agree with OP there is no good way to check if processing is actually happening locally.
I use a Zettelkasten system for keeping notes about my work. Every note I write gets put into an Anki deck as a Cloze deletion, which helps me remember what’s actually in my notes files and occasionally brings up new, unexpected connections between ideas.
The gnome aisleriot collection of solitaire games has something similar. Select menu item Control, then Click To Move. It's not quite as visual as what you describe, though. Once you get used to it, conventional drag and drop is a pain.

Another solitaire game did it even better -- more visually -- PySol maybe?

Although I am not a programmer, I "wrote" a program to allow rebar detailers to create bar lists and cut lists for bills of material for rebar fabricators. For moving whole line items, I required the user to:

* Highlight some portion of each of the lines to be moved.
* Click a target line.
* Enter A or B to move the selected line items above or below the target line. This allowed me to paste above the topmost line.

Now admittedly, while this is a bit clunky and woefully unconventional, I did this because I didn't want to stop and learn the drag and drop protocol for Tkinter -- again, I'm not a programmer. But there was also concern on my part that eventual users could misplace some line item in the middle of a big group of lines inadvertently, and not be able to easily reconstruct what had just happened.

Conventional drag and drop is seemingly designed to increase fatigue and error, and diminish patience.

I just wanted to make something I could use and perhaps polish it later for use by others. I scratched my immediate itch, and the secondary itch hasn't flared up for quite some time.
First result is Wikipedia entry for "Subjectivity" which says...

- Something being a subject, narrowly meaning an individual who possesses conscious experiences, such as perspectives, feelings, beliefs, and desires.

- Something being a subject, broadly meaning an entity that has agency, meaning that it acts upon or wields power over some other entity (an object).

- Some information, idea, situation, or physical thing considered true only from the perspective of a subject or subjects.

The third being the only obvious applicable one.

It's also hypocritical to demand an adherence to an anti-common-sense physics-based formal definition of "time" while refusing the same courtesy towards formal definitions of "subjective."
This is a proposal.
A typical user might not be able to easily be sure, but using dev tools (or network monitoring tools), it’s definitely possible to know.
It’s still useful to have the source open for reference even if you can’t redistribute though.
IBM is such a shadow of what it used to be. Hopefully newer health+genomic+ai startups or initiatives at less dinosauresques companies will make the next leap happen in our lifetime.
Is Lidar on its way out? The business case for saying goodbye
Funny how such little details that don't fit The Narrative get omitted from this sort of article.
It is an extremely thorough walk through of a lot of browsers. But in reality it is only very very very few browser users that has the skill and patience to follow all these very good advices.
So I think a better way was to go in the same direction as with GDPR where you should give consent to being tracked. And if you had not - the tracking company should be fined. Some of the fine should be rewarded to the user. This would have the effect of possessing user data could be very expansive and a thread to the company.
I probably messed up the title,
I mean you need to be online to use webapp, but app won't sent any images to remote server for processing.
Conflict-of-Interest Disclosures of Physician-Authors in Medical Journals
What happens to all the people they paid up for the hire at the slick Astor Place office?

https://www.businessinsider.com/ibm-watson-office-tour-2016-...
It wasn't a product. It was a business unit created by the acquisition of (at least) 4 separate companies that had wildly disparate products, data sets, and consulting teams. The only thing they had in common was the focus on healthcare (and even that could mean anything vaguely related to providers, payers, or life sciences). "Watson" in general evolved into little more than a branding that was applied to anything remotely related to AI, analytics, or data management.
Nope. That is the opposite of what I just said. I said ignoring the state of my relationship, the odds are vastly in my favor. Average is not your friend.

First marriages have an average divorce rate that is 20% lower than the average rate. Marriages in my state have an average divorce rate that is half the US average.

You can do much better than the top level average.
Your comment reminds me of "those that can't do, teach". This is just a jaded insult. You know nothing about who you're replying to.
Ask HN: How do I go about buying Bitcoin on a Mac in the UK?
This is going to sound very naive, but I don’t actually know how to buy bitcoin and store it on my own personal wallet.

I want to download Bitcoin Core (https://bitcoin.org/en/download) but it’s blocked here.

My actions are to:
- Sign up for Coinbase and buy coins ther
- Download Bitcoin Core via a VPN
- Move my Bitcoins to Bitcoin Core from Coinbase

Does that sounds like a legitimate way to go about this? Or am I missing some very obvious steps? I tried asking similar on Reddit but it ended how you’d expect.

Thanks very much for you help.
Absolutely, until there is evidence for it that's my stance. Different compounds interact with different proteins due to differences in electronic structure, sterics, and varying topology. We simply cannot jump to conclusions.

There is evidence for CBD causing activation of ER stress pathways in conjunction with viral infection, if you can point out studies of endogenous compounds doing this I'm more than happy to read and consider them
Relativity is still objective. Objective does not mean constant.
Yes, I thought the same thing in finding it easier on my eyes/quick perception of the site.

I do think the UK and some other countries do a better job of presenting data compared to the CDC.

It's pretty much agreed that the rate of unvaccinated people vs. vaccinated people winding up in hospital beds is several times higher, however, all the CDC data presented is only rates. I want tallies or counts, and I cannot find them. For instance, on Ontario, Candada's site[1], the vaccinated are 74% vs. the unvaccinated's 26% of COVID hospitalizations. Most non-technical people think the hospitalizations of COVID patients is like over 90%. It's because more and more people are vaccinated, even with a lower rate of hospitalizations, the numbers are higher. Also, it's interesting to see on the Ontario site that COVID hospitalizations consist of 56% directly for COVID, and 44% were admitted for other reasons and then tested positive for COVID once hospitalized. The case is more telling for ICU with 81% admitted for COVID, and 19% for other reasons.

I am trying to play with raw data more for refreshing my munging skills than making a point or fodder to add to the COVID noise. I have been coding since 1978, played with neural nets, GAs, and GP in the late 1980s, but I don't code or do data analysis for a living right now (other than buisness strategy reports that require some basic analysis). There's a lot of data out there, and it can get very confusing. I am back to using R/RStudio from a brief stint using Julia/Pluto notebooks and previously using Python/Jupyter notebooks. I even did a toy DSEIR model in J back in April 2020 based on previous work by a couple of people, which I plan on updating to April[2]. I am going to try and do some Lisp work, and I think I will settle on RStudio and Lisp for more genomic/bioinformatic stuff (yes, I know biolisp has been supplanted by python, however, Lisp is having a renaissance in symbolic-related areas of ML again like NLP). BTW, in what language was GPT implemented, not API languages, but what PL(s) was used to create the code - C++, Java, Go?

I may be bad at navigating the CDC website, but I can't seem to get the dataset of numbers of hospitalizations by vaccination status, only rates or pre-filtered data. I do remember downloading raw data that seemed to have it (over 1.8gb, I think), but I can't seem to find it. I'd appreciate a link if anyone has it.

[1] https://covid-19.ontario.ca/data/hospitalizations#hospitaliz...

[2] https://github.com/phantomics/april
End-to-end testing: challenges, lessons, implementation
Customizing Web Search
I thought we'd have banned Dr lobbying by now, even without a technological revolution.
Turns out advertising at every tennis major can't make you a leader in analytics, ML and basic managed services.
If you have the option go for https://www.vugu.org/ and use the go language. Much better language started by google in 2006 vs JavaScript which was started in I think 1995?
American Medical Association (and other medical/pharma/health workers associations) > IBM
Article is paywalled, but this story has evolved over the last few weeks:

- 2022-01-05: "Scoop: IBM tries to sell Watson Health again" https://www.axios.com/ibm-tries-to-sell-watson-health-again-...

- 2022-01-07: "IBM reportedly shopping Watson Health just as healthcare gets hot" https://techcrunch.com/2022/01/07/ibm-reportedly-shopping-wa...

A lot of the hope seemed to be in document summarization from the latest medical literature, plus integrating patient data from electronic medical records.

The autopsy of this could be interesting. Some of the critiques against using electronic health records previously was that many of them were designed for medical billing (I don't have a good link, but Eric Topol's "Deep Medicine" has some notes on this problem https://www.basicbooks.com/titles/eric-topol-md/deep-medicin...).
You’re sort of agreeing with the point of the article, which is that our internal sense of time does not always agree with externally imposed schedules. You just seem to be in a position to resist the external schedule.

Many people don’t have much of a choice, at least during their work week. Employees in hourly shifts usually cannot eat on the clock, so it’s breakfast before you leave, lunch on your midday break, and dinner when you get home.
Chip layouts are typically covered by a separate copyright-like regime with different rules (most notably a much shorter period of exclusivity) [1]. I believe the original NMOS 6502 and the derived Nintendo/Ricoh 2A03 both predate these laws, so Ricoh only had to worry about patent infringement.

That being said, many chips also contain code (e.g. firmware, microcode) that is potentially eligible for copyright independently of the chip layout.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Integrated_circuit_layout_desi...
> Myocarditis rates have quantifiably increased over time as more data comes in. Why would you make assumptions that a booster of the same substance would be any different?

Because Myocarditis rates have dropped on the 3rd shot.

Don't blame my assumptions. Just look at the data. I posted the link earlier.

If you are unwilling to accept the simple reality on an issue this simple, we are done here. You must act on the real data that exists, not in the political data that exists in your imagination.

Inject booster shots into people, then test for Myocarditis. Done. The rates dropped. Therefore, boosters are safer than the 2nd dose (which has the highest Myocarditis rate).

It also turns out that the 2nd shot was necessary to build immunity. The immunity gained from dose 2 grossly outweighs risks.

Since the risk of Myocarditis drops on 3rd dose, it's an even easier decision. Less risk means better idea.

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Data is pending on the 4th dose risks. I expect 4th dose risk to be less than 2nd dose risk, maybe even less than 3rd dose risk.
People care less about cognitive load in cut throat cultures.

They'll simplify things for themselves at the expense of others and justify it with a shallow reason like fewer lines of code.

Do they think that it makes them look better when others have trouble understanding their work? Less replaceable? Use it as an opportunity to deepen their skills?

I've never really understood why but I'll confess that as I gain more experience, I also care less about making things easier (for others), especially if doing so would take away from my own progress.
WeCrashed – Rise and Fall of WeWork – Apple TV+
Introducing the new star-history.com – the missing GitHub star history graph
I don't think English has any plural form for >=3.
As somebody who discovered how effective this was by accident in university (I studied 6 natural languages which is all memorization, so this strategy was key to not going insane), I would use this to, for example:

* Memorize keyboard shortcuts or commands for new programs

* Memorize key differences/things that I get mixed up frequently

* Memorize key details or flow for a meeting presentation/discussion with non-tech people

* Memorize things about your team members/co-workers/organization at a new job

* Memorize important dates or times (this works in one's personal life too)

The idea is that my brain power is finite and by using spaced repetition, I make as many things as possible 'auto-pilot' for my brain in order to leave more brain space for problem-solving and deep thinking.
To be accurte, it's not completely Micrsoft agnostic, it make use case for a PSQL extension citus[1], the company behind this extension has been acquired by Microsoft two years ago[2].

[1]: https://github.com/citusdata/citus

[2]: https://blogs.microsoft.com/blog/2019/01/24/microsoft-acquir...
That's a bit of an old-school language flame war response. It seems obvious that there is no objective criterion for determining when a language is simple enough and when it isn't. Not everybody uses Go for the same hypothetical "design space", and the implicit claim in your post that the same criteria do not apply to Rust or Zig is also dubious, as if they couldn't possibly work as languages in the same "design space." We're talking about general purpose languages. To give you an example, Rust is overengineered and way too complex for my needs, it would seriously hamper productivity. It's important to be aware that other programmers' mileages differs.

The bottomline is that it's never fruitful to argue that feature sets that go into "simplicity" do not heavily depend on subjective programmer preferences, their tasks, and the intended application domains. Programming languages are mere tools, nothing else. Choose the one appropriate for your goals.
Radiometry for Delfi-PQ, Easat-2 and Hades
I hope this is the case. Either way, I'm not taking action unless I'm forced to.

Worst case, I may end up paying for a month or two while I make the transition.
Not an expert, but I presume this depends on the use case, and the precision required.

For input to a robot's RANSAC/Kalman filter location stack? Machine vision might very well be fine.

But I'm guessing LIDAR will be used in recording of as-built environment where millimeter precision is preferred for quite a time still.
> bedside manner + being able to remember a lot of things

My impression is that accompanying a patient is super important, it helps to understand illness, to have a plan in case of more complex treatments, etc.

Then my doctor has the ability to know me and gauge my health. She's also very good at probabilities and detecting when something really goes wrong.

I'm sure that being able to do that require a lot more than numbers.

(I'm studying data sciences, I trust them, but my guts tell me that diagnosis is in a whole different ballpark)
It is an overkill unless you need highly dynamic web pages. I would start with server side rendering provided by rails/django. Dynamic components can be added later using hotwire/htmx.
Should be we optimizing society for the education of our youth or our shopping convenience?
I assume that you're from the US?

Those are both people problems. Tech can't solve many people problems, especially something as entrenched as healthcare. Isn't it huge, something like 10% of the US economy?
So WP is really a web-based operating system.

There should be some competing products in this space.
DynamoDB Table Migration Between Accounts
The word seems to be used as an insult equivalent to “NPC”.
It will be interesting to see if self driving cars and the way they've been rushed to market with the same brute force marketing will meet a similar fate.
Sometimes companies use their failed or loss making products to help promote their successful products. YouTube is a prime example
Usually you are in a room with different expertise and culture. How can you definitely say if you are the smartest or not?

What happens with classroom professors or surgeons in surgery rooms? Should they leave the room as well?
Twitter thread from author: https://twitter.com/FlorianGallwitz/status/13761673088345292...
But it's not applicable, because an "observer" in relativity is not a subject having perspectives, feelings, beliefs, etc. It is an abstract mathematical point moving through space. "Reference frame" is really the proper term, not observer or subject. And the proper time that passes in a given reference frame is an objective fact in relativity, even though that measurement cannot be directly applied to other reference frames without transformation.

"Objective" doesn't mean "experienced from all perspectives in the same way". Two different observers of a cube will get two different perspectives of the cube. The cube is still a single, objective, observer-independent reality. The same applies to relativistic time. It's a single reality (part of the spacetime manifold) that is measured differently in different reference frames. The different measurements must be consistent with one another according to a system of formulas. Just as different perspectives of a cube must be consistent with one another based on (1) the cube's objective existence in space and (2) the formulas of optics which determine the perspective each observer will receive.

It may be helpful to think about a more mundane example. Google search results for a given search term depend on who searches, which makes them relative. But they don't depend on the feelings of the searcher and hence are not subjective.
This is impressive and shows a lot of dedication!

How are you hosting the site and assets?
I actually use wasm codecs built by squoosh team. Squoosh is freaking awesome.

Resize to particular size idea came, when online service asked me to upload image upto 25KB. I had to just keep on changing size till image became 25KB.
Prediction markets are one of those things that cryptocurrencies are good for.
The author also made a talk about it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qwiss4qWuTs

May be easier to consume than reading a scientific paper...
Noise is a fascinating topic. It seems a nuisance but if you investigate it you’re bound to find interesting phenomena. “Radio astronomy” is, at heart, a science of understanding and managing noise.

E.g.

* Schumann resonances are spectral peaks produced by radio signals “echoing” between the Earth and the ionosphere. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schumann_resonances

* The cosmic microwave background radiation is a vestige of the Big Bang that was first discovered accidentally while investigating anomalous noise in a communications system. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discovery_of_cosmic_microwave_...

* Even if you can get an instrument far away from other noise sources, there is significant noise from physical processes inside the detector (thermal noise) and even statistical fluctuations owning to the discrete nature of photons themselves (shot noise)