skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It looks like the interview excerpt refers to the following passage in the book "Why We Sleep" by the interviewee Matthew Walker:

"The irony is that many individuals experience only a slight increase in “sleep” from these medications, and the benefit is more subjective than objective. A recent team of leading medical doctors and researchers examined all published studies to date on newer forms of sedative sleeping pills that most people take. They considered sixty-five separate drug-placebo studies, encompassing almost 4,500 individuals. Overall, participants subjectively felt they fell asleep faster and slept more soundly with fewer awakenings, relative to the placebo. But that’s not what the actual sleep recordings showed. There was no difference in how soundly the individuals slept. Both the placebo and the sleeping pills reduced the time it took people to fall asleep (between ten and thirty minutes), but the change was not statistically different between the two. In other words, there was no objective benefit of these sleeping pills beyond that which a placebo offered.

"Summarizing the findings, the committee stated that sleeping pills only produced “slight improvements in subjective and polysomnographic sleep latency”—that is, the time it takes to fall asleep. The committee concluded the report by stating that the effect of current sleeping medications was “rather small and of questionable clinical importance."

The study cited for this passage on the book is a meta-analysis (or a study of multiple studies, as you might already be aware) [0]. The relevant excerpt from the study is: "All 13 studies included comparisons of at least one of our primary outcomes. Ten studies (22 comparisons) assessed polysomnographic sleep latency and seven (11 comparisons) assessed subjective sleep latency. The eight remaining secondary outcomes appeared in fewer studies: four studies (seven comparisons) assessed subjective total sleep time, two (two comparisons) assessed total polysomnographic sleep time, four (six comparisons) assessed subjective number of awakenings, three (four comparisons) assessed polysomnographic number of awakenings, two (four comparisons) assessed subjective sleep quality, three (five comparisons) assessed sleep efficiency, three (three comparisons) assessed polysomnographic waking after sleep onset, and one (one comparison) assessed subjective waking after sleep onset."

Polysomnography is defined as followed by the Mayo Clinic [1]: "Polysomnography, also called a sleep study, is a comprehensive test used to diagnose sleep disorders. Polysomnography records your brain waves, the oxygen level in your blood, heart rate and breathing, as well as eye and leg movements during the study."

TL;DR: It looks like the meta-analysis of multiple studies, included studies that examined "brain waves, the oxygen level in your blood, heart rate and breathing, as well as eye and leg movements during the study."

[0] https://www.bmj.com/content/345/bmj.e8343

[1] https://www.mayoclinic.org/tests-procedures/polysomnography/...
It's funny money to begin with. Even if you were based in Gibralter there would extensive licensing to get approved to run a gambling site.
For those coming from say VS Code is there an opinionated “flavor” of Emacs that comes pre-configured with batteries and everything included.

A place to test drive it’s power and use of as a daily driver before being confident to properly “roll your own”.

Curious.
I agree. GDP is the new religion. All must be sacrificed to increase it.
+1. Have seen this play out repeatedly at several financial institutions. Just enough value to sell it, just expensive enough to avoid using it as much as possible.

Everyone ends up rolling their own Elasticsearch cluster to get as close to parity as possible at a lower cost.
In fact, the heating is produced by the gas going through a shock. This isn't heating by compression. Adiabatic compression is a reversible process; going through a shock is irreversible. Entropy is generated at the shock.

In more detail: at the shock, the conditions of the gas change over a distance on the order of a mean free path. This means that, locally, the gas is out of thermodynamic equilibrium, with fast molecules running into slow ones. The extremely high gradient of gas conditions causes extremely rapid relaxation to an equilibrium state, a process that very rapidly produces entropy.

As Mach number increases, the density jump across the shock approaches an asymptotic limit, but the heating increases without bound.
I appreciate the direct reply and unequivocal promise, thanks!
Even if the things you say about lsp-mode are true (which I don't think they are), lsp-mode has many features that eglot has no alternative to at all.

I also feel that lsp-mode's features are higher quality overall, with the downside of depending on packages and features not built into emacs itself. An example of such a feature is lsp-mode's project integration, it uses projectile which is much more powerful and useful than the built in project.el. Another example is using flycheck instead of flymake for on-the-fly diagnostics.

I would not say either package is better than the other because they are so different, and have such different philosophies. Eglot is much more minimal and tries to use native emacs features when possible, preferring minimalism over features. lsp-mode brings in a lot of features and prefers to use third party packages instead of built ins.

I used eglot for a little while before trying lsp-mode and decided that I personally prefer lsp-mode overall, with both being great options. I would recommend anyone curious to give both a try and decide for themselves.
NATO is an anti-Russia alliance, so, Putin is right. I miss Trump, honestly - he was the most peaceful US president in recent history!
Its "Show HN..."
Among the many things to hate about LC: in most circumstances (in Python land, now) you wouldn't be too happy with someone for mindlessly cranking out a full-fledged class (with some apparent confusion thrown in about the nature of the first argument in what is apparently a class method) when clearly a pure function would do -- and with a Java-style camel case method name, no less?

But in the LC universe, you are required to do exactly that:

class Solution:
def trailingZeroes(self, n: int) -> int:

The impracticalprogrammer site is kind of fun though, and accurately named.
Honest question: What are you trying to achieve by being more productive? What is your end goal?
"CTO" in particular is almost a running gag in the consulting arena as nearly everyone over 40 seems to be a former CTO somewhere.
I use Doom Emacs, it's great.
The U.S. doesn't even respect Citizen@s data half the time. Remember, the Courts ruled that expectation of privacy, and therefore 4th Amendment protections are waived as soon as you engage with a Third Party.
Doom Emacs and Spacemacs are the most popular two. I recommend Doom Emacs although Spacemacs is what I started with and I find it to be more user friendly.
Doesn't the article say basically this?

"The diversity words are new (new-ish). Anything else newish would be inversely correlated with cosine distance too. For example, I repeated the same experiment with "tech" words like Google, YouTube, iPhone, browser, and so on. Those tech words correlated at -0.6 with cosine distance"
This is great! Placed a couple of wagers and created a market.

Have you read Shockwave Rider? John Brunner envisioned a network that placed odds on everything, just like this.
"These people were not very well informed about the changes technology was about to inflict on warfare."

It's hard to say how accurate that statement is but in all probability much of it is likely true. However, any reasonably well educated person of the day would have been well aware of the new highly industrialized nature of warfare from both the Crimean War and the American Civil War, both of which represented a new kind of 'advanced' warfare (especially so the American Civil War). Moreover, it wouldn't have been difficult to project that new developments made in the intervening 50 or so years since the Civil War, would likely make warfare considerably worse.

Right, 50 years is sufficient time to forget a war but nevertheless many veterans of the Civil War were still alive at outset of WWI. (Remember, Buster Keaton's Civil War film of 1926, The General failed to gain universal popularity as it was perceived by the many Civil War veterans who were still alive as biased in that it told the War from the South's perspective.) This 'corporate' memory should have had a substantial effect in preventing war but clearly its effects weren't nearly enough.

No doubt you're correct when it comes to considering the less well educated. However—as with many wars—I'd maintain that whilst they didn't actually start the war, that national hubris combined with young male bravado played an important if not overwhelming role in perpetuating it, especially so at War's outbreak before the grim and tragic reality of the trenches became fully apparent.
Interesting. At the time I was picking universities that wasn't an option they offered.
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Looks useful. Vega-Lite is TypeScript (?), how does that distribute/integrate with Plost in python?
Great place to lurk: https://old.reddit.com/r/AskEconomics/
The underlying problem was that the Shuttle made no sense, and the agency twisted itself into a pretzel trying to pretend it did.
Thanks! I skipped over this one but looked at LizardFS, which was forked from Moose in 2013. The comments I found online about lizard weren't too great. I'll give moose a look. 2013 was a long time ago.
Set for retirement can mean different things. Personally, I run the rat race so that I can retire as soon as possible. Few people actually fit the bill of “self worth = wealth hoarded.”
There are a few. Fuzzballs in string theory. Holographic /Firewall theories etc.
https://lobse.rs for tech discussions

Top level comments need to be sourced and verified and mod-approved on these, but great places to lurk and learn:

History: https://old.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/ – also has an amazing weekly newsletter that you can get DMed to you!

Economics: https://old.reddit.com/r/AskEconomics/

Also, a subreddit exclusively for experienced devs, but nice to lurk for everyone:

https://www.reddit.com/r/ExperiencedDevs/
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Humanities student complains that math class are not run as humanities classes
Yes. There are two major "flavors" I know of: 1. doom-emacs and 2. spacemacs I've only tried spacemacs and after a brief stint with it I was able to roll my own init.el by use-package'ing the things I liked and tinkering with it. glhf

1 https://github.com/hlissner/doom-emacs
2 https://github.com/syl20bnr/spacemacs
If they had not died from hypoxia, the accelerations as the crew compartment tumbled would have battered them to death. They were dead by the time the crew compartment itself came apart. And then the forces of the hypersonic airstream dismembered the bodies.
tbh too many comments here are 'excited' about a business that is rather commonplace everywhere around the world, and is considered ethically ~dubious, since there are few cases where these cells are being used. Plus in past few years there were major advances in reprogramming live cells to back to various stages , and it seems that this is the future (partly the reason why investors invest in anti aging startups).
Unfortunately, this reads more like an advocacy piece than an actual scientific paper. It's not fair at all to pieces of the picture that might well support the pro-transition side of the argument, e.g. the fact that transitioning seems a lot more likely to be beneficial when initiated in middle-age, as opposed to youth. If psychological fragility was all there was to it, there would hardly seem to be any reason to expect this.
It looks like Benadryl and other sedating antihistamines count as sleeping pills. The interviewee Walker appears to be referring to a passage from the book he wrote (mentioned in another comment I wrote in this thread), which references a study called "Effectiveness of non-benzodiazepine hypnotics in treatment of adult insomnia: meta-analysis of data submitted to the Food and Drug Administration." [0]

According to Encyclopedia Britannica, non-benzodiazepine hypnotics include antihistamines: "Hypnotic agents (nonbenzodiazepines) include chloral hydrate, some sedating antidepressants, and sedating antihistamines, such as diphenhydramine (Benadryl) and hydroxyzine (Atarax)." [1]

[0] https://www.bmj.com/content/345/bmj.e8343

[1] https://www.britannica.com/science/nonbenzodiazepine-drug
How do you plan to protect stem cells from ‘bit flips’ in dna induced by cosmic rays?
This.

Having seen how quickly MySpace became irrelevant, I am certain FB is acutely aware of how tenuous the position is as the king of social media. It is no wonder they behave like they do to capture and keep users.
I mean, some might cringe, but Reddit can be pretty amazing. They tend to be more QnA based, but you can still learn a lot.

/r/PersonalFinance for not-super-technical-finanace. I'm more familiar with PersonalFinanceCanada which has single-handeldy taught me how to think about money and finance. Can definitely get a bit toxic sometimes.

/r/Guitar is surprisingly small but still fun, and /r/Frugal is another favourite of mine. I also frequent the many FIRE subreddits but I don't think those are as popular as other forums about FIRE.

In a similar vein, Stack Exchange can be VERY interesting. I often casually sift through WorkplaceSE and TravelSE, though I supposed that is more entertainment than educational.
Aka Institutional Gatekeeping.
You're absolutely right. Unfortunately, the little guy is more easily accommodated for with lenoency during onboarding regulation-wise, and the bigger actors can never be brought to heel if something doesn't go down on paper.
I agree completely. I love the idea of Air Tags, but we all saw this coming a mile away and Apple should never have been allowed to release these.

The fact that this post from Apple even EXISTS is direct acknowledgement of this being a horrible, dangerous mistake.

I know what they were trying to achieve, but it isn't worth the misuse by a long shot.

People will think it's not a problem until someone is tracked with one and killed.

The only thing I can think of (besides not selling them) is to open them up so they can be used with Android, and work with Google to add support for them to Android's OS.
omg, my least favorite thing in the education literature:

Prof does a 'study' where they teach a class with both hands vs with one hand tied behind his back. Each class has 200 students, and he finds that the one-handed class outperforms the two handed class with p=0.045 with N=200...

And I'm like NO! This is basically an N=1 study because the teacher is common across both classes. Have you never heard of pen-effects?!?!?!

Unfortunately, fixing the problem in the study design means convincing a bunch of your friends that one-handed teaching might be better and engaging in an experimental study together... But that's obviously way too hard.
I absolutely loved 2049. Haven't seen the original, yet. hides under desk
I've seen company's with Glassdoor reviews similar to your description while job hunting. You see the high star rating and look further, but then start reading and it sticks out like dogs balls. At least I thought so. It was exactly the pattern you described - lots of short pure fluff reviews giving high stars, with long detailed reviews giving low stars. The impression was enough to put me off - but the grapevine later confirmed it.

It was so obvious, I don't see how anybody doing their due diligence during a job search could possibly miss it. Speaking for myself it was the nail in the coffin. A company could get a lot of low star reviews for any number of reasons - maybe they went through a rough patch and had to let go of a lot of people. A company that holds all their best people might not get many reviews at all. In other words, if there aren't hundreds of reviews, I'd take the overall rating with a grain of salt and perhaps go to the interview anyway. But flagrant manipulation like this leaves no doubt. Not only are they prepared to blatantly deceive new employees, it confirms no one likes working there.

Which means the people who do end up being employed there either didn't bother putting in the work, or have a low EQ. Just as painted by the article.
Offerup, while filled with dark patterns, is something I recently discovered. And it is just as viable, available lots of areas and seemingly less filled with scammers. (By no means empty though)
What percent of people who have banked cord blood who are not explicitly susceptible to specific genetic disorders known to utilize them for treatments have ever ended up using it?

IIRC, this entire business is a scamola with the the major players going as far as giving kickbacks to OBGYNs to pitch their services to impressionable soon-to-be parents. They feed on the fear of parents who want to “do anything they can just in case” when in reality the statistical chance of using it when you’re not predisposed is next to nil.

Or is this entire pitch that maybe someday you’ll be able to use this for some unforeseen solution that would require you’re own stem cells? Which still seems like quackery.

And yes the prices are at least 3x the established players. Displaying the monthly pricing ($35) rather than the standard annualized rate ($35 x 12 = $370) is a good marketing gimmick, but the big names in this space charge closer to $125 for what I’m assuming is the exact same fedex box that gets shipped out after birth.
Great question! Right now, Manifold Dollars (M$) is just internet currency. The reasons for doing this were:

- Much faster for testing out new market systems

- Lower barrier to entry for new users signing up

- Less regulatory risk for everyone involved

But we're actively looking at both the crypto space (for stablecoins), actual fiat like USD, and alternative withdrawal mechanisms (e.g. sending your Manifold balance to 501c3 charities). Attaching real value to these bets is very much something we're interested in!
Missouri prosecutor declines to charge Post-Dispatch reporter
Missouri prosecutor declines to file charges against reporter who disclosed vuln
i m pretty sure if you ask people about something like the relativity of simultaneity , 100% of people who havent studied relativity will call it counterintuitive
No, we don't care if someone is "conforming to liberalism", we care whether they're conforming to the HN guidelines. It's common for people to think that we're secretly siding with their opponents when we do this kind of moderation (https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...), but that sort of perception isn't based in fact.
I have two phones: personal and work. On the personal phone, I'll waste their time and string them along as long as I can. On the work phone, I don't.

I haven't found it to make any difference in terms of repeat calls, so I advise everyone to waste as much of their time as possible. My favorite is "ohhh, let me get my grandma" and put the phone down.

For SMS spam, I do my best to get them taken down ASAP. Report to their host (abuse@______, root@_____, etc.), their link shortener and SSL cert provider. I've flooded a few of their links too.
I worry that the combination of the insane lending power of private equity firms and the increasingly narrative-driven tendencies of public markets will lead companies like Uber to "break orbit"--that is, to become so unmoored from fundamentals ("revenue model" is a quaint fundamental indicator now, I guess) that they will only fail when their sponsoring private/public markets do, rather than when investors get unhappy with a company's performance.

If that occurs, it would create a self-perpetuating cycle of ... what's economist for "hype"? And make it so that there's no way to unwind toxic investments in a way that's gradual or gentle for the economy. Everything would be tied up in the same bubble, and would burst at the same time.
> Is this one of those rare masters one can complete with no undergrad done?

No. OMSCS is practically open door compared to other elite CS programs, but an undergrad degree is a strict requirement. It's graduate school.

In fact I don't believe there are any such Master's programs, or at least not accredited ones in the US.
The staying power of Fortran is amazing.
I hadn't, but thanks for sharing! We've definitely gotten inspiration from other sources such as Robin Hanson's Age of Em and Eliezer Yudkowsky's Three Worlds Collide (https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/HawFh7RvDM4RyoJ2d/three-worl...). It's pretty exciting to be pushing forward ideas that were previously only found in science fiction haha~
What you need 99% of the time is insanely easy

The other 1% is impossible. Use Vega-Lite instead!

I really like that as a preemptive strike against the leaky abstraction crowd.
What I like about this approach is where you say hey don’t do that, but if you do, just call me, don’t worry about getting in “trouble”, I just want you to be safe and I’m here for you.

I don’t have kids but my parents were like this and I valued it immensely. They never wanted us to be in a position where we needed help but thought we couldn’t ask.
In Lebanon and Kuwait
Is “the security of the Internet” just a proxy for, “the number of vulns in the wild”?
Google Image Search Tools not staying active with new searches
I couldn't get past 'The Problem' because it omits the simplest solution which would be to rename '.button--facebook' to '.button.button--facebook'.

In fact, you could then remove the duplicate 'color: #fff' declaration.

Furthermore, I'd redeclare '.button--ghost' as '.button.button--ghost'. In some editors, like Visual Studio, when you place rules in order and press CTRL+K+D, it will indent them in the form of a tree.
Tl;dr: [nothing, really.]

"(Anything)-oriented programming" is obviously stupid: the world doesn't conform to your (anything), whichever you choose. QED, an (anything)-oriented programming language will be the wrong thing most of the time.

A general-purpose programming language needs to provide support for solving actual problems, whatever they are. Any program big enough to be interesting addresses sub-problems of different kinds, that each need their own treatment. Most problems benefit from a mix of approaches.

Once in a while objects are exactly the right thing. Then, if your language has stuff for that, lucky you; otherwise you need to cobble something together. Likewise, when any other formalism matches.

Almost always when people complain about OOP, it is because they want their (other-thing)-oriented language to get respect. That does not end well: the same arguments against OOP apply equally well to their thing, given trivial adjustments.

So, nothing to see here.
Awesome; let us know what you think! We're always interested in hearing from new users, especially if there's anything that is confusing that we can fix.
I'm not sure that comparing JS to a potentially catastrophic substance with the capability to destroy all life on Earth implies that OP is angry about JS. It could be a tongue-in-cheek comparison.