skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is this such a bad thing?

IMO echo chambers are underrated for psychological support. If you can be aware of the effect, that's ideal. You can come here when the world is just way too off-kilter for your taste, and have your entire info-person past reaffirmed.

But if you turn away from certain types of echo chambers just because they're echo chambers, you'll naturally and more frequently find yourself in an unnatural stance, psychologically speaking. You'll more freqently find that your perspectives, brought forward from your own past, are untenable. That could be disastrous and possibly exacerbate conditions like anxiety.

So, culturally we teach ourselves that echo chambers are "bad" but I think they're doing a really helpful thing by providing a baseline layer of community-knowledge feedback with a subjective effect which is moderated by the individual's own experience level. It could be something like the informational equivalent of someone saying, "yeah baby I know" when you're crying. You know they know, they know you know they know, etc. But if you chase the echo it starts to look like blaming a support structure, and that's a poor point of access to solutions in the context.

I also don't think it's ironic that you're asking that here. This should happen naturally as members of a community compare themselves against their perception of the community itself. There is sometimes a lot of emotional content in this kind of setup. You joined N time-units ago, you've changed since then, and now look--the community is still doing this thing or that? A perspective on one's own identity as an "identity of productive change" can reinforce this differential perspective/judgment.

I wonder if it could be though that an expectation of creative or cognitive variety may have been violated. Maybe that's worth exploring--how do we get more of that. It's more like it's the community system's own qualities that raise this kind of echo chamber discussion periodically, and I'd offer that this happens more frequently the less
meaningful traction is perceived. (I think the chamber effect could be easily moderated by moving away from the up/down voting dichotomy, among other things)
I think that's an incredibly uncharitable take from this thread. Almost none of the people here are medical professionals, nor do I think most people here are familiar enough with usernames to target you in particular. You opinion is just as valuable as any others here.

If anything, at least in this case I can see that providing a Quora page as "supporting link" works against you - because of the low quality of most Quora content. You mused about a possibility, and the comment engaged with your point at face value with a very reasonable response. They did not ask you to meet a "higher standard" or provide evidence for your idea. You escalated the discussion from there by suggesting that the Quora page is "supporting" - which it really isn't. Making conversation is fine, but if you're going to try to back up your ideas with links, its natural that people will engage with the validity of the source. If you'd linked to a publication, for example, they'd have to engage with the science of it. In this case since its Quora, what's there to engage with? Anecdotes tell us nothing - perhaps 99.95% of people who tried it had no improvement and just didn't talk about it. This is not gatekeeping, nor are you being targeted, at least in this specific case. If you'd shared your own experience, that would give us something to discuss. For example, my ex is living with HIV, and it was a long road of treatments before he was out of the woods. His health was pretty poor when he was first diagnosed, and he was unresponsive to the first line of antiretrovirals (his particular strain was resistant) and it was upto me to manage his health on a daily basis. I can't speak to your specific personal situation that you speak of, but I can appreciate that sharing them on a forum doesn't offer us any extra cred with online strangers.
I will buy X, if I need X. And once I buy X, it's done. For example, I wanted a cordless drill last week. Did the "site:reddit.com" thing (I actually have been doing that almost subconsciously now, as Google results are all trash), chose a drill, and ordered one off Amazon.

Then, after that, what's the point in showing drill ads to me for two weeks?
> You have to want more than financial gain to engage in high risk high reward engineering endeavors

I think it's more likely that people who are purely motivated by financial gain are likely to lack the imagination or drive to realize anything significantly innovative. Maybe we're saying the same thing?
Fine, but the government has no special power over Bitcoin in this regard. If they hadn't found the key, they wouldn't have been able to issue that transaction, and any common thief who found the key could have done what they did.
The umbilical cord blood storage industry is under-regulated and untrustworthy, much like another freezing-related industry, cryonics. Both are full of examples of amateurs, bad actors, and mundane issues like bankruptcy resulting in things that were promised to be kept frozen for decades or centuries ending up in waste disposal after 5 years. Like this example from Canada:

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/cord-blood-bank-of-ca...

Also, from the same article, does anyone has more information on this:

> there's a very low probability that someone's own stem cells can be used to treat them, according to Health Canada.
I agree with your point of view even if I wouldn’t have phrased it like that.

I’ve read / posted / shitposted stuff on here that would get me ratiod or yalled on other social networks, and would definitely lose me friends if I publicly repeated it, or family if I pushed it politically.

I can’t think of any examples off the top of my head because I read hundreds of stories per week on here and only notice it when I see a (not downvoted) comment that makes me go WOOOOOOW.
1. Because technology to clone an existing human (not just the body) doesn't exist, especially into a more durable substrate

2. Because ai doesn't have biological scaling limits. There's nothing particularly special about human level of intelligence.
I think you're grossly underestimating how much is needed to replace the ad revenue that feeds today's Internet. Remember, majority of people wouldn't pay for getting rid of ads, because they don't have the disposable income. So they're also not really worthwhile to advertisers. You have to divide the revenue by some small fraction of current users.
I don't think I'd feel a lot of joy if all apps were like like this.

My personal set of properties might be more like:

Correctness
Just-works
Robustness
Standards-compliance
Performance
Encapsulation
Keep in mind that the alternative to sending an email is not sending nothing... it's usually to send a text, or a Slack message, or something else that is even less thought through. We try to consolidate all of your communications in one place and give you the tools to write thoughtful things.

Don't be confused by the fun examples. Everyone likes cats (those are my actual cats) so we put them in the post, but you certainly can send more important emails :)
NES 64 – Commodore 64 Kernal and Basic ROMs Ported to the NES
I've conditioned myself to think if something is worth saving then it is worth spending time to give it a meaningful title, tag it and put it in the right notebook. Without these added details I agree it is pointless.
What’s Behind the Fascination with Shoplifting?
* I want to have good health insurance for my family without paying thousands of dollars.

* Running your own business takes much more time than being a "working stiff" and I don't want to spend 95% of my awake time working.

* If my business fails, I don't want to incur huge debt or losses, I want the security of a steady paycheck.

* Once my business gets larger than just myself, such as if it takes off hugely, I don't want to deal with the politics and other bullshit that will take me away from the day to day building of product.

* I'm worried past a employer would try to use my time there against me to steal my business, since I signed NDAs and stuff, even if my ideas are fresh and unrelated to the specific business of that employer (that employer treated me poorly when I left).
Let's swap "bitcoin" for "cash" here, since the mechanics remain the same but there's less emotional baggage.

If someone tried to make the argument to me that cash doesn't have finality because your shoebox-in-the-closet-full-of-cash can be stolen from you, I would say they're stretching the definition of "transaction finality" in order to make a banal point.
I used to think this way but honestly, given how poorly nature does in terms of creating genetic material for new people, I've come to believe that we have a pretty big margin for error. The harm done by a gung-ho attitude toward gene editing has to be compared to the harm done by allowing the "natural" course of events to continue.
IMO, no for the most part. There is a great deal of opinion as well as technological diversity represented here. For these facets it's a great place to be. @dang and friends do, IMO, a pretty good job of keeping most things sane. However...

The not so great facet is the amount of obvious wearing-your-politics-on-your-sleeve, but that could easily be said for society in general right now. If I had the time I'd love to pull the top X links and their comments for the day and do some sentiment analysis just to see how quickly it goes from "X technology" to "Y political leanings".

Another not so great facet is that a lot of stories are very coastal. It's admittedly not HNs fault because if you're not in CA or NY you kinda feel left out in some respects. I wish a lot of tech companies would go to other places to A/B test new products and services.
What do you mean by "theft by wire fraud"? As far as I understand, "wire fraud" has almost nothing to do with wire transfers.
The nuance this misses is scale. FB wouldn't just need to block people who are reported, they would need to have a team to manually investigate all claims. Otherwise it's just another tool in the harassers' arsenal.
Their automated systems (which exist) haven't caught this, or they wouldve been disabled already. Alternatively, the number of people needed to investigate every reported account is absolutely massive.

Source: Used to work in this exact team at FB
This is not a cryptographic problem. The relationship between ciphertext and plaintext is nothing at all like the relationship between a text and its meaning or translation.
You’re at least the third person to point to that paragraph while failing to acknowledge an important paragraph further into the article. :)

> The overriding design goal for Markdown’s formatting syntax is to make it as readable as possible. The idea is that a Markdown-formatted document should be publishable as-is, as plain text, without looking like it’s been marked up with tags or formatting instructions.

So a text-to-HTML conversion to with the overriding design goal of being readable as-is… that’s the Gruberian spirit, and the basis for my original post.
Except if your UA reports Firefox on Linux, where calls and huddles remain unavailable to this day.

I wouldn't call that a success.
And on you for not taking it too seriously! Cheers.
What does finality mean?

When I get paid by credit credit card it's "final", because that transaction can't be cancelled, only a new transaction can be created to undo it without my consent.

Patrick loves to write coyly, but his point is simple: If the government can find the money they can take it back from you.

What he misses is that it only works if they can find the keys (or the next best thing -- your body).
This is the exact angle of discussion I'm saying we should try to avoid because this behavior from Google is an effect of an underlying problem with the entire web.

Most sites that include the exact phrase "gulp admzip" are empty spam of regurgitated word lists of every build tool or dev package designed to attract errant clicks that help boost ad metrics. That is why Google can't "just grep the entire internet".

Incidentally, I agree with Google here that whatever problem you're trying to solve is more likely to be an issue with either gulp or admzip and you will be better served by content specifically about one or the other.
> because too many people asked me to add stuff, and now I am forever stuck maintaining it, and cannot start a new project

It seems a good time to start again to launch this company, isn't?
> I really don't understand how you can say the rate of infection is higher in vaccinated using this data?

It isn't right now, but it was in Ontario up until January 27th. Scroll down to the section "COVID-19 cases by vaccination status", and look at the graph.

Note: This data is true but misleading! Antivaxxers are claiming that this is evidence that the vaccines make you more susceptible to infection, but that is probably not true, because all of this data is missing information about previous infection. The unvaccinated cohort is more likely to have natural immunity than the vaccinated one, which skews the data.

> It points to the complete opposite, with the smallest percentage of population 15% accounting 2x to 3x more in hospitalization and ICU.

You started the paragraph talking about infections, and then switched to talking about hospitalizations. The rate of hospitalization and ICU patients is higher among the unvaccinated, yes. And at the same time, the rate of cases was higher among the vaccinated, in January, in Ontario.

> It's because we fear that without restrictions they'd create a sudden surge in cases needing hospitalization and ICUs which the healthcare system might not be able to handle.

Yes, but that fear was completely unfounded, as evidenced by the peak numbers. Canada passed the Omicron peak in cases over a month ago.

And again, you're blaming a minority of infected, a minority of hospital and ICU patients. The majority of patients are vaccinated, and yet you assign zero blame to them.

> Based on the data, it is likely to create a surge to the healthcare system that it couldn't handle.

Denmark lifted all restrictions two weeks ago, despite having the highest number of cases/capita in all of Europe. They already had much less restrictions in place then, than Canada has now. Denmark is fine. Canada will be fine. The Omicron wave has followed the same pattern in every US state, despite wildly different amounts of restrictions. No-one was overwhelmed, and now the wave is over.

There might be future waves, in the fall, because the virus is highly seasonal, and they will be even milder, because there will be even more immunity among the population by then. It'll be fine. We'll be fine.
Smartphones have airplane mode and you can download from Apple Music (and probably other streaming services) to play offline.

I don't own a smartphone but carry an iPod touch everywhere and downloading to it works fine for me.
(I'm an engineer at DeepMind, and I work with JAX daily)

It's a somewhat fair comparison; in my experience, highly optimized JAX matches highly optimized Tensorflow. However, non-optimized (but JITted) JAX beats non-optimized Tensorflow, as Tensorflow requires a lot of architectural changes to make it perform well. JAX, on the other hand, tends to perform well as long as you just JIT it. So it's much easier to get to, say, 90% of optimal performance. In Tensorflow, it's much harder (in my experience- maybe I'm just bad at Tensorflow).

The JIT compilation that JAX does is really, really good, as it combines operations together in a highly performant way.
The vast majority of Firefox users never used an extension outside of an ad blocker.

Chrome was eating their lunch without those deep extensions because they were slowing Firefox down, both in performance and in development.
Thank you some much for your feedback!

1) We are working on 12h format atm 2) can you elaborate on why you would like to be able to change the color scheme? 3) what feature would you like as a widget?

If you mean recurring reminders with “custom repeat” we offer that to our premium users.

Thank you for your time, it’s much appreciated!
How does JAX's JIT compare to Numba?
Most people don't have enough knowledge to form a relevant opinion on the things that matter to them, and to be fair most people really don't have the time to become experts in everything. For example, before most people understood the harmful effects of smoking, only the people who actually looked at health data were concerned, and their voices were also drowned out by the people who stood to gain enormous amounts of money by having a population addicted to cigarettes. The average person was probably happy to smoke, it makes them look younger after all like the ads they were exposed to tried to demonstrate.

I think in time social media and hostile web will be seen as a similar public health concern. It's already recognized in the data the ill effects on mental health that these dark patterns have on people, and the unprecedented power of manipulation made possible by social networks. It's hard right now because Facebook et al today are what Phillip Morris et al were then: powerful beyond belief due to extreme profit, lobbying, and regulatory capture.

I'm an optimist, so I hope eventually we have our surgeon general moment for social media and the hostile web, and expert voices are heard over those of the monied interests who lobby solely for the continuous growth of their cash cow.
>White American inventors are typically just referred to as "inventors," have you tried searching that?

when I search "inventors", 7/39 images are from articles specifically about overlooked black inventors. all searches relating to inventors are poisoned by american (i.e. foreign) culture war topics.

>probably it is keying to the second half of "African-American"

I refuse to believe that google can be so stupid as to do this after over two decades of development in natural language processing.
The response from Toronto police seemed highly effective. The response from Ottawa police was selfies and gaslighting, which ultimately resulted in the police chief resigning.
> low and behold

lo and behold

https://getproofed.com/writing-tips/idiom-tips-lo-and-behold...
USB went from 1.0, to 1.1, to 2.0, to 3.0. 3.0 got renamed 3.1 Gen 1, and 3.1 Gen 2 got introduced. Then 3.2 came around, which renamed 3.1 Gen 2 into 3.2 Gen 2x1, and introduced 3.2 Gen 1x2 and 3.2 Gen 2x2. USB 4.0 introduces USB 4.0 Gen 2x2 and USB 4.0 Gen 3x2.

This is ignoring the battery charging, alternate modes, etc. Just the main USB versions.
I have some projects I'd love to make my primary. I love the idea of starting up good tech, particulalry good tech with an open source benevolent core.

But it feels like it takes so much money to make even a small team. I want a long run way, to get really far on, with good people. I dont see myself as having a fast road to profitability. It's so hard to imagine how to start.

And it feels so much more daunting to create an interesting & engaged environment. I dont mind training & boosting promising folk, but it just feels like even that takes soo much money, & more-so that it's going to be so much harder to bring out genuine geekiness in people. As much as an idea, I crave a good culture- intense & chasing something new & exciting & good for the world- but the pure geekiness of computing feels so diluted, so underwater. It feels so improbable that those around me will have that old obvioushbut-secret geek-club feeling, that getting great at computing is radical & empowering & ennobling.

I want so much to care about & believe in my employees, but it's so vastly probable it'd become just another company of deluded/decoupled spin-based management & another detached workforce. We all deserve better, we all deserve realer, we all should have real things to care about & apply ourselves to, but there's no practical way to ask for that kind of commitment. Unless I can really make the work fully obviously clearly sell itself.
I know this isn't true because I've used google for nearly two decades with good results. That information hasn't evaporated, it's just buried.
Lottery tickets and options trading are less effort and easier to unwind for similar statistical windfall outcomes.

https://danluu.com/startup-tradeoffs/

> For a more serious take that gives approximately the same results, 80000 hours finds that the average value of a YC founder after 5-9 years is $18M. That sounds great! But there are a few things to keep in mind here. First, YC companies are unusually successful compared to the average startup. Second, in their analysis, 80000 hours notes that 80% of the money belongs to 0.5% of companies. Another 22% are worth enough that founder equity beats working for a big company, but that leaves 77.5% where that's not true.

> If you're an employee and not a founder, the numbers look a lot worse. If you're a very early employee you'd be quite lucky to get 1/10th as much equity as a founder. If we guess that 30% of YC startups fail before hiring their first employee, that puts the mean equity offering at $1.8M / .7 = $2.6M. That's low enough that for 5-9 years of work, you really need to be in the 0.5% for the payoff to be substantially better than working at a big company unless the startup is paying a very generous salary.
This is kind of a tangent but I recently watched Wolf Warrior, an over-the-top Chinese military action movie that is also basically wall-to-wall propaganda for the PLA (not that this military-entertainment complex stuff is unique to China of course. You don't get to put all the latest shiny military tech in the new Transformers movie unless you play ball with the DoD). In a climactic scene[1] after our heroes are attacked by the bad guys (a bunch of American ex-special forces mercenaries), while a voiceover speech is laying it on pretty thick ("To a soldier the most beautiful place in the world is the border of the People's Republic of China, because it is what they fight and die to protect"), they rip off the patches they were wearing for the wargames they were participating in before the attack and slap on patches with the flag of China which say "I fight for China" in English. Thought that was kind of interesting.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SCc0DWSZHCs
>Let's be blunt here - almost no consumer consciously chooses to use Google search anymore

Do you have anything substantive to support this? I highly doubt it is true given the fact that the verb "to google" literally means "to search the internet".
Interesting. In most non-technical hacker news threads I always scroll to the bottom to find out what the unpopular opinions are on a topic. HN should have a sort by controversial feature like Reddit does.
Just because the money itself was legitimate, doesn't mean something shady wasn't going on. The buyer could have been laundering money, with your friend actively helping him. For his sake, I hope he verified the other person's details and saved them, because if he deposited >$10k cash, it was reported to the government, and he'd be responsible for saying where it came from, and they may not like the answer.