skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Could you expand on that? Isn't clinical data also observational

Generally in statistics there is a divide between controlled experiments and observational studies. The former is how most medical trials are run and the latter is how most anthropologists work.

In medical trials you can make sure all the demographics, lifestyle differences etc are controlled for before you even start the trial. In the more extreme case of experiments in the physical sciences you can often tightly control for everything involved where the only difference between test and control is precisely the variable of interest.

In anthropology you can't go back in time and say "what if this society had a higher ratio of male/female and didn't go to war?", you can only model what happened and attempt to bake some causal assumptions into your model to see what happened. This is why detailed regression analysis is very important in these fields.

Having a test and control group in your A/B test is not really enough to establish the equivalent of a controlled study of rats in a laboratory, or bacteria in petri dishes. In my experience it really helps to include causal models regarding what you know of your A/B testing population to ensure that what you're observing is really the case. I've had concert examples where it looks like one variant is winning and then checking for the causal assumptions find that we were accidentally measuring something else.

In practice you can reframe all of this into being some sort of ANOVA test and fit it just fine into a classical framework, but I find starting with a Bayesian methodology make the process easier to reason about.
"cheesy and hyperbolic"? What would have happened if the coup was successful? Or what would have happened just if those quick thinking staffers didn't grab the ballot box while taking shelter before the legislature was breached? There was nothing "cheesy" about it. It was deadly serious; literally, people died.
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My read on it is that the employees who work at Twitter, when they can work at any other tech company, prefer to work at Twitter because they think that by moderating the world's messages, they are making it a better place.
I think they were referring to the fact that "it's a private company" is usually used in response to any moderation complaints or accusation of censorship. Yes, everyone know the first amendment only applies government to the government but it does not mean a private corporation cannot censor or is immune from complaints on it's moderation policy. But now that it's been used as a way to deflect criticism or excuse any excess on what's deemed acceptable by one side, it will be funny to figuratively see the leopoards eating their faces. At least I think that's what the parent comment meant.
Here is how being wealthy works in US: https://edition.cnn.com/2014/04/02/justice/delaware-du-pont-...

There is a difference though: in China this is changing.

As for the Winnie the Pooh urban legend: I guess you never asked yourself how is it possible that Shanghai Disneyland still features Winnie :-)
Potential personal liability either way, so not a thing.

I wouldn't take financial advice from CNN's Jim Cramer.
What's your opinion on, say, reporting based on the Snowden leaks?
Compound interest is more powerful the earlier you start.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=T71ibcZAX3I
Property rights and the government stepping in to force changes don't interact well, and goes against a free market type system. The government does step in sometimes, but usually when they see what's being done as being anti-competitive and hurting people through reducing market effectiveness, not just because they've made some moral judgement.

Tobacco advertising, pollution, lead gasoline... Clearly we do make moral choices and, as a democracy, pass laws restricting some activities. The world is not encompassed by The Profit Motive.

I'm not quite sure that unrestricted hyper-optimised misery factories are the thing we should be shooting for.
Habits and things I wish I knew when I was 18 (currently 39):

- Exercise daily

- Sleep 7+ hours a day

- If you smoke cigarettes, stop immediately.

- Read a lot of history, avoid the new, self help books. They will be in the 50 cent bin in a few years, and if they are that good, you will hear about them later.

- Learn about compound interest, avoid debt, and live within your means (the money you are saving now will be worth the most later in life, invest in Vanguard funds)

- Travel as much as possible

- Interact with people that think different from you, especially politically

- Realize that (4) applies to knowledge, if you learn 5% more per week than your co-worker, you will many times more knowledgable after a few short years.

- If you're in the US, dont pay attention to the news.

- avoid all religions

- avoid sugar.

- severely limit your use of social media (it's 100% dead time)

- if you're not bilingual, learn a second language

- utilize spaced repetition as much as possible.

- invest in yourself (avoid get rich schemes)

- realize that accomplishing big things takes a lot of time, a lot of work, and a lot of luck. have patience and perseverance, and dont compare your accomplishments to those of others
That works only when nationalism is your worldview. It doesn't make sense to care about the country being invaded if country has no value to you.
Not really in the same ballpark as simultaneously banning an individual or a news story across every social media platform
The few times I got annoyed by Gnome its 'my way or the highway' approach and switched to KDE, I whiplashed back to Gnome within a day due to how buggy and perplexing a lot of the decisions in KDE are.
Make meaningful mistakes
I wouldn't go so far as saying it's blackmail, but when you read in the paper "official familiar with the matter say", it really should read "CIA/NSA asked us to tell you". It's hard to bite the hand that feeds you.
That's right, but I'm sure you agree that there are different levels of "not ready". I was thinking of writing "have kids when you no longer think it completely out of the question", but that's a bit complicated.
Lol, you know an online debate is spicy when people start pulling out dictionary definitions
That hasn't been correct since Feb 2015: https://bitcoin.org/en/release/v0.10.0#standard-script-rules...

(The 'almost completely' there refers to operations that do literally nothing and are reserved for future extensions).
I've seen workers operate mowers on hillsides via ropes from the top.

The idea of a little robot mower "mountain climbing" by hooking a spike into the ground and using a pulley amuses me.
Yeah this threw me off so much that I wrote a blog about this: https://wbk.one/%2Farticle%2Fa463c360%2Fthe-ruby-tutorial-i-... It’s weird how not clear tutorials are about this.
The total is about a million nodes, though I'm fairly sure the most interesting data is a subset of about 50,000 nodes. Each node has on the order of 100 edges. Since that's still a lot I'll have to rethink my plan I'm afraid.
It's something I believe isn't a slippery slope. We have ample evidence that denying a platform to limited sets of beliefs (e.g., Holocaust denial or Nazi sympathizing) does not quickly devolve to total censorship the likes of which we see in China and Russia, which was the original argument you made.

If you're backing down from that original assertion I'm happy to argue other aspects of this discussion, but I'm not going to chase you around in a circle while you keep re-framing the argument.
I didn't claim anything is legitimate, I said that there are people who consider that a legitimate view.
Note: You will have no idea when you're ready.
> (it's absolutely true that Ukraine treated those in separatist areas poorly for years).

The “separatist areas” are a product of the first wave of the current Russian invasion; they weren't pure homegrown movements, Russian troops, both regulars and the Wagner “private” military company that is Russian and appears to work exclusively for Russian state interests were involved in the fighting which established them, around the same time as the Russia also seized Crimea.

We’ve know the justifications of the wave of Russian invasions starting with Georgia in 2008 has been bullshit since the beginning, and people who haven't figured it out in the last 14 years aren't particularly like to click over with a new round in Moldova.
>Have you noticed that gas prices generally just sit there at the same price for YEARS at a time. They take various excuses (like this one) and do their 5-10 year bump.

This simply is not true. For example, gas was generally cheaper in the stretch from 2015-2021 than it was from 2011-2014[1].

[1] - [https://www.eia.gov/dnav/pet/hist/LeafHandler.ashx?n=pet&s=e...]
Nanoclusters self-organize into centimeter-scale hierarchical assemblies
I think its related to their efforts to make twitter near impossible to browse if you aren't signed in.
Truly horrendous link. Your appeal to authority is nonsense, it doesn't take long to find someone with even more commas to dispute it.

> Anyone who is still pushing more weapons into Ukraine or tells Kiev to prolong the war is putting more Ukrainian lives at risk for zero potential gain.

Surely life under Russia will be blissful with no Ukrainians harmed.
Not yet, will get there eventually but it's a slow journey at 6 knots even if you are not working most of the time...
“More like somebody at the right place and time.”
The difference between being an adult and a child is that an adult can be relied upon. That's it. That's the whole secret.

Age has nothing to do with it. You won't some day reach some magical age where you decide "I'm an adult." You may reach some day when you wake up and realize a lot of people rely on you to do the right thing. Congratulations; you've completed the only adulthood rite of passage that is consensus-shared in many cultures. Everything else is a lifetime of growth and gaining new skills and abilities through mostly trial and error, and there is no age where those end.

Bear your duties with pride and savor the joys of life.
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Kara Swisher said this 4 days ago: https://twitter.com/karaswisher/status/1513370798815330307

Twitter likely decided to not allow him onboard just because of his constant shitposting about the company, his volatility, and really just wanting Twitter to be his sounding board for whatever offensive things he has to say, so they're trying to ensure he can't try and takeover as we speak.
I had typed out my comment already but it's basically identical advice to this one, so I'm going to move it here as a way of just emphasizing the above advice!

---

If you're on HN it's plausible you're advanced relative to your peers, either in your education or in your career. Don't use that to rush your way into adulthood! You have the rest of your life to do adult things, but you only get ~730 more days of being a teenager in your whole life.

Concretely: if you're ahead in your education, don't skip college, but instead use your aheadness to make time to learn more things. If you're ahead in your employability, don't jump into maximizing your $$$ but instead look for interesting personal growth opportunities.
The tech industry appears to be closer to favoring unionization than we ever have been. I take your point, but the Chapelle outrage is a very small example compared to what's happening here.

Tech workers are poised to leave their jobs far more readily than many other professions.
>kick out retailers who sell below MSRP too much

i've worked alot in a bunch of company's when i was selling NSN's and mostly it works by your volume. You can sell at whatever price point you want but this is your price based on volume.

Jobber: 500, at $1.30
distriibutor: 1000, at $1.20
wholesale: 10000, at $1.10
partner: 1000000, at $1.00

Sometimes it makes sense to sell some inveentory at a loss to ensure you maintain the 'bucket' and happens all the time.
> so we need centres of credibility

I don't disagree, however I would hold that these centers establish themselves naturally, in absence of any regulation. There is a reason that one's reputation was of paramount importance before this regulation came into being. Well-raised people didn't fall for quackery simply because they were taught only to transact with reputable purveyors.

I personally would very much like to make my own decisions based on the information available, and I don't need the government to limit my options or hold my hand in any way. I also have no problem with letting misinformed people fail to the full extent that their failure implies, including pursuing quackery for their medical ailments. I fundamentally don't think it is the government's job to protect people from their own misfortune or personal failure.

The problem with "the truth" is that it substantially doesn't exist, beyond reproducible scientific inquiry. How do you know, for sure, as a matter of scientific fact, that the election wasn't tampered with in any way? I'm not suggesting that it was, only that it is unknowable. As with any question of the historical record, all we can do is look at the facts available to us and apply our best judgement. These questions are fundamentally ones on which free people should be entitled to disagree.

I don't want an authority dictating what is and isn't the "right" interpretation of history or current events, simply because no authority can be relied on to get this 100% right. Being forced to conform to one lie is far, far worse than hearing many.
If programming is your job you seldom have the choice of the programming language.

There are lits of external factors like costs, available support, availability of compilers for certain hardware, support of the existing tool chain, learning curve, career chances etc.

Python and JavaScript aren't the best but sufficient enough
+1 on the health. At this point, you probably have a lot of time on your hands. Use some of that to learn how to be healthy. Exercise, food, cooking, etc.. are all deep rabbit holes to explore, so develop your baseline of knowledge and habits now so that you can fall back on them when life inevitably takes you away from them.
This part seems unnecessarily entitled:

> "...when I see developers’ time and effort spent on endlessly redesigning and rewriting core apps, I wonder: is that really necessary? How about working on these major issues instead? One of them dates back to 2006. I guess that fixing a 16 years old bug is not as exciting as rewriting the default image viewer in Rust6."

I've helped with bugs that are old enough to drink and they're typically not fun -- I do it because I get paid.

I can't tell whether the author's suggestion for the GNOME Foundation to fund a bug bounty is an offer to contribute to said bounty but even if the author is submitting patches or contributing money it would be worth keeping in mind that this work is typically done by volunteers who have the freedom to choose how to allocate their limited free time and energy.

If the author has nothing to offer but complaints and still expects contributors to stop doing exciting things that interest them in order to fix old bugs then they come off as a choosing beggar.

(It reminds me of when I used to volunteer with trail maintenance -- work would have gone a lot faster if all the people who complained about trail conditions actually showed up to help.)
>That would plummet the stock

From the point of view of the investors, there is no risk. If offer is accepted, they get their bags of cash and walk away with hopefully more than what they paid for those share. Musk could shut down the business to the ground on day 1 and they still get to keep their cash (I wish he would).
In some cases the above is true. But we have many examples of not just the same organ but the same author saying one things one day, and making a 180 the next time it's convenient. Why censoring blah blah is good! Why censoring blah blah is bad! Why sympathizing with blah blah is racist, Why sympathizing with blah blah is actually anti-racist.

You get enough of this and people tune out and don't give a lick any more.
Take a look at this [0] thread, from a 44 year old person. Often, people discuss their problems more frankly anonymously. Many grown adults are also figuring it out.

I have some personal advice, which amounts to:

1) stay in shape/ healthy

2) stay in touch with friends and family

3) try as many new things as you reasonably can - no, not drugs - yes, a new sport, hobby, or travel experience

4) be mindful of how you are going to eat/support yourself before committing to expensive and multi-year commitments

5) discipline is a skill that you can learn and improve and is helpful in daily life

Good luck, I wish someone had told me the above and I had to learn each the hard way.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31028795
Twitter has two subscription models. In addition to Twitter Blue (which you mention), they also have "Super Follow", which is more analogous to Twitch/OF subscriptions, in that you pay a bit to a specific creator, so you get a bit of perks from them.

The fact that you don't know about it should say something about how enthusiastically the feature was received. Most creators are probably happier with their existing Patreon/OF platforms.
I think there is a natural instinct to not believe things that are obviously propaganda, so when confronted by a party telling an obvious fantasy it’s pretty important to get the other party’s version, even if also nonsense and hope to suss out the truth.
Risk management?

I believe a lot of my long positions are worth more than their current price, doesn't mean I'm going to spend all my money buying them up to that price.

If I lock in a 20% gain today that's nice, but I might believe with high confidence that it'll rise 50% in the next year. Then Elon's bid doesn't move me that much.
So then the market expects it to happen, which is my point. As it stands it is unlikely that the deal will go through.
If.

Where would you even start to determine if that was true or not?
Ours just opened the boxes of little debbie products so they could sell individually one for the price of a box.
String equality is linear time in the worst case. Symbol equality is constant time. Symbols are strings that act like numeric constants. They're extremely useful in APIs as arguments, return values and generalized tokens. They're also the obvious choice for hash table keys.
Just curious - do you have Lyft pick you up or drop you off at your house/apt or do you avoid that as well? I think of that action as different from payment information verification.
You're clearly trying to minimize what happened. Alone, the amount of effort you are making to discount the words and actions of the President of the United States is damaging to the country. The real damage isn't in the people who died but in the damage to our democracy, our institutions, and our credibility in the world.
This is a fear based on nothing that I keep seeing peddled by people with no experience moderating anything in their entire life, and don't remember early Twitter. Other companies have actually censored theirselves into irrelevance (almost happed to OnlyFans, already happened to Tumblr, Yahoo, etc.) So a model with more fair and transparent moderation would likely be a business boon. Twitter is not at all transparent on why some things are allowed to stay while others are banned entirely.

Also the shareholders would get cash, they would no longer own the company at all and the future of the company would no longer be of their concern. Musk could shut it down and it wouldn't matter to investors, they'd already have their money.
But I am confident that these things are not for any kind of advertising purposes.

When your proof is "I trust Google", it doesn't really feel like you're acting in good faith here.

It costs Google time and money to scan your email and extract and store your purchase receipts --- and you think their only motivation was to be nice? Wow!

But assuming your interpretation agrees with Google's legal team ... where do you suppose they get all the info needed to profile users and deliver "personalized" ads --- which is how they make 90% of their money?
Ask HN: Any solution to smooth line drawings, maybe converts to bezier?
A few weeks (?) ago I came across a website for drawing and sketching which smoothes everything. So instead of an oneven clearly hand drawn result, all lines become smooth. Maybe everything was converted to bezier curves or something. The result could be saved as a svg?

At that moment I did not see a use case. But now I think it is useful for drawing logo's by hand.

I think I saw it on HN, maybe even as a Show HN, but I am not sure and cannot find it. Maybe someone else knows?
Thanks for reference, I didn't realize this was opened up like that.
That's fair. I've never followed something like this before, but what you say makes sense.
I'm sorry you're dealing with this.

Maybe it's time to rethink how you spend your working attention. Impact can drive fulfilment.

https://80000hours.org/
Maybe when life’s good it’s easy to ignore what one’s government is misspending on the military.

But when job security’s low, education costs a fortune and the social safety net barely exists, asking why one’s government is sending billions in help to a country at the other end of the world is not at all a crazy question.

Now that’s the US, but I’m in the EU and I’m still deeply disappointed at how much money the EU is spending on helping everyone except EU citizens. It’s unacceptable to spend money at such scale when we have areas which are dirt-poor in Europe and many children are severely materially and socially deprived.

https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php...
Imo that thread was worse and not comparable. This one is mostly revolving around Twitter and it's moderation policy, there's no veiled racism as far as I can see
> Free speech is dangerous; without censorship, progressive ideas cannot propagate because people can then make them look as silly as they truly are.

By this definition, the US never would have abolished slavery. Those who praise conservative ideas always put those ideas in a vacuum where they can't be proven wrong. Fascinating, isn't it?
Fine, I don't disagree. Either way "harm" needs to be defined before the boundaries of free speech can be delineated.
Twitter is down a whopping 0.33% today.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2019/05/30/twitter-hur...
Collecting personal data is insidious: it doesn't manifest itself until it does. It's no different from having your password leaked, or from having your mortgage application rejected for opaque reasons.

The data is there, silently, stored for a future use which may come at an unpredictable time.
Wapo is a smartly used puppet - if the bias was overt it wouldn't be effective.
I'm on Ubuntu 20.04 with GNOME and I installed Nemo because of type ahead search. It works well.
>is being almost neglected

Not sure whether it's negligence or result of GNOME's vision.
I think the comment was about enterprise/business support, not features.
Alcohol is borrowed happines from the future.
You are trading +1 happiness now for -2 sadness tomorrow morning.
The more you age the more the hangover gets worse.
All those neurons lost. It's just better to focus on other things that make you happy that actually have compound effect instead of compound debt.
By the way, try to have a Mango smoothie or some great non-alcholic beverage next time you go out. It's actually very nice!
They do it because it works, so you must be in the minority.

People often lament the lack of practical training for things like personal finance and media literacy in schools. We should add consumer awareness to that list. We are raising kids to become obedient little consumers.