skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I thought it'd be fun to play with sparklines on Val Town, which is a server-side platform for running JavaScript.

First I did the opposite of this post and used all the libraries (react, htm, and react-sparkline): https://www.val.town/v/stevekrouse.sparklineEx

Then I found a comment below that does it in vanilla js, so I ported that over to Val Town as well: https://www.val.town/v/stevekrouse.sparklineEx2
In reality a lot of them publish priors dressed up to look like evidence. As an example see Flaxman2020.

It's best to model journals as magazines that publish anything that vaguely resembles science (has equations, charts, citations, claims of data). It doesn't have to actually be science. If you want to get a paper published it's totally normal to write 10,000 lines of C or FORTRAN, claim it models some natural process, publish a paper with the graphs it outputs and call it a day. The code isn't available. The input data isn't available. The assumptions aren't documented properly or at all. And the outputs are unvalidated, therefore not even laying the foundations of being evidence of anything. Doesn't matter, it'll get published, in some fields this is the vast majority of what gets published (e.g. epidemiology).
Thank you so much for posting EdgeNode on HN! We're still very early in our journey, but we'd love to get any feedback we can.

If you want more details about the product, please read our Show HN post from couple weeks ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36520406
I hope there is no way to remotely set them on fire.
> Physicians are not advancing scientific knowledge.

Yes, but they are providing a similarly valuable service. And, in fact, almost all medical practice contributes to the development of knowledge as well. Lot's of physicians (even residents) write papers.
This is why I think technical solutions alone to privacy are mostly pointless. There’s 7 billion people in the world—at some point (if we haven’t already reached it) monitoring all of us in real-time will be trivial. Even people who live “off the grid” in a cabin in the woods will be trackable.

What’s needed is an agreement between all of us, in the form of privacy laws, that make certain uses of this data illegal.

In the future if you’re caught committing a crime by data captured in a manner illegal under these laws, it would have to be thrown out and can’t be used against you. Corps would also be banned from collecting, storing, and using personal data in an unlawful manner.

Feels like a pipe dream since there’s so much money in the industrial advertising complex, but I’m pretty sure that’s what it will take achieve reasonable levels of privacy.
Clojure has spent a considerable amount of design work on polymorphism: https://clojure.org/about/runtime_polymorphism
No mention of E4X? https://blog.vjeux.com/2013/javascript/jsx-e4x-the-good-part...
This seems to hit all the high points of a lot of the iOS and macOS interactions, but I think fails to hit any the low points. It doesn't take much user testing to find that a lot of these interactions are frustrating to a good segment of users. The article doesn't even mention discoverability and just briefly mentions affordances, two things that are severely lacking in these interactions.

I had to resize the browser window to read the content of the article and carefully position the scroll bar so I could read the content without being constantly distracted by the looping, unpausable animations.
Well if you care more about the study than the money (which is nice -- though I'm at the tail of grad school), it makes more sense to chase knowledge than chase metrics. Then again, I don't come from a computer science background, so maybe not having that momentum helps.
They sometimes cite data.

> One German study showed that the fewest divorces were in marriages between Jews and that the largest number of divorces occurred when a Catholic married a non-Catholic. In Maryland, twelve thousand young people were asked the religious affiliations of their parents and also asked if their parents were living together, divorced or separated. Here were the percentage of broken marriages found in different groupings:

When both parents Jewish 4.6%
When both parents Catholic 6.4%
When both parents Protestant 6.8%
When religions mixed 15.2%

Also in "People Who Should Not Marry at All"

Also

> While, as you notice, these fiancées felt extremely reluctant to marry a man who had lost his sexual potency, only a small proportion (16%) would refuse to marry an ex-soldier who had become sterile.

But the main text is written with their own opinions and observations.
Is that lack of scalability in hospital services and education completely inevitable due to the constraints of reality or is it mostly artificial? For example, would completely uncapping medical residencies increase the supply of doctors enough to significantly reduce the rate at which medical costs increase?
This can be refuted by observing that the refractive index isn't proportional to density, but is accurately predicted by charge mobility. Also, how refractive index changes with wavelength is related to the resonant frequencies of electrons.
Aw, it's a shame this is an older post, I was wondering if there was a published attack for the relatively newer nRF52. The nRF52 is already a little long in the tooth (there's an nRF53 available, and nRF54 now/soon), but the nRF52 is still what I see most in the field today.
All future deaths will be silly and dramatic
Any chance you can re-enable rss?
I don’t want to trivialize the amount of work that goes into airbags, electrical infrastructure, or plumbing.

However, the human body is much more complicated. Would you trust the life of a loved one who, God forbid, has cancer or needs surgery to a person with a fraction of the education and training physicians receive?

By the way, I’m reminded of a joke: a doctor called a plumber for a faucet leak. The plumber fixed it in 5 minutes and charged $175. The doctor said “how can you charge that much for 5 minutes of work? I spend a whole hour with a patient and charge less!” The plumber said “that’s exactly what I used to say when I was a doctor.”
The world is cruel and wants to see us all ground to dust. The typical HN denizen might know this at an intellectual level, but few of us have the lived experience. I sincerely hope you never have to learn how much of a privileged perspective you have.
Today’s Twitter has made conservative boycotts more successful
How many of those games will actually run on modern hardware?

And at what point do we tell the authors to fuck off - they’re not getting paid any more! Because that is what you are advocating.
!hn is also for hacker news
On many levels, this would not work well. A quick example: Stories written for children typically do not generate as much revenue per year. They make up for that, eventually (if they are popular) because they are new to every new cohort of children, so that stories like "The Pokey Little Puppy" get sold for decades before falling out of favor.

Your scheme would make writing children's stories less attractive.

In general, overly clever schemes like this often do not work as anticipated.
Replacing QR stickers with a visual tagging model seems like it could reduce the friction of data entry dramatically.
I don’t associate convenience and QubesOS. Maybe convenient security, but thats about it.
There's a firefox plugin [1] that lets you add custom search engines; they will be visible in the settings menu under "Search Shortcuts" where you can set the keyword to trigger the custom search.

[1] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/add-custom-se...
Mine doesn't, and it's not because I deleted it or anything. My current Fx history seems to go back some unspecified time over 6 months.

Actually I started looking and found the hidden history manager view, which allowed me to at least view history as a table that can be sorted. It seems that my history goes back to 2021, which is more than I thought but much less than it should. And that's by "Most Recent Visit" column. There are two more hidden columns that can be enabled, "Added" and "Last Modified", but both have no values for any entry in history.

As for search - I picked a history entry at random (literally dragged the scroll bar 2/3 of the way down and focused on first line that caught my attention), and attempted to find it in the address bar using "^-search" with words taken directly from the page title. The entry I was looking for showed only on the third attempt, and then it took two more before it stopped disappearing when I typed in the next word from its title. This suggests some kind of slow, async background search is going on - which would explain why it never worked for me: I never expected something like this could take more than an instant, especially without any indicator saying "still searching" or whatever.

So I guess maybe it "works", it's just slow enough to be useless.
and not a single screenshot in the readme

edit: oh its only on the website
This is the rigorous basis for a lot of electrical engineering shortcuts like phasors and active/reactive/real/apparent power analysis.

Makes a hell of a lot more sense when it isn't just pulled out of the ether.
This is ultimately due to the general problem of neovim internals being in so much flux. So much keeps changing, updating, and breaking in the internals and plugins. It does take some upkeep at every level, and after a point I think people get tired of it. At the end of the day, you only have so much time and patience.
Why can't it run locally? It may be easier than you think to do the inference on the phone.
Providing safe app experiences for families
Huh. If I own a Picasso and it's not for sale, then you should be able to take it? Strange argument on the face of it.
I would love to know how other HN parents are thinking about postsecondary education for your kids. I started undergrad in 1990, and I have a 12yo now.

I understand financial planning, but I'm having a hard time wrapping my head around how to think about college. Does anyone have insight beyond "Don't pay a tuition amount that's out of line with likely earnings"?
The Big Short also has an earlier explanation of a non-synthetic CDO ("we just repackage it [low-quality risky debt] along with a bunch of other shit that didn't sell and put it into a CDO"):

https://youtu.be/xbiDrzTd8fE?t=260s
Some of my favorite most professional colleges are from San Jose State, which is a part of CSU. Obviously, it is anecdotal, but I do see in them very practical no bullshit attitude, yet strong theoretical fundamentals.
Thank you article, parent, GP. You've saved me just in time from never having read the Deref documentation properly. I have some code to delete before I make this mistake again.
Are adjuncts included in those numbers? Universities use a ton of contract labor to teach classes and those adjuncts aren't actually employees.
This would have prevented every single technology from being made and used. We have never proved that modern selectively bread bananas[1] aren't harmful to health, we have never proved that wearing clothes or being near fire isn't harmful to our health.

[1] https://i.pinimg.com/originals/d9/9e/63/d99e637a2aa93a9b4c88...
IDK that we _need_ to increase state funding, but it absolutely explains the tuition trend. I don't feel particularly bad about people graduating with student debt if they have high paying jobs on the other side.

What does feel bad is turning qualified students away, like one school I know used to do.[1] Every year they would pick a GPA cutoff to admit more engineering students to the upper level classes you need to graduate, not based on evidence of students failing but on faculty headcount. It's a total bait and switch, and thankfully it seems they ended the practice right before the pandemic.

And it's tricky, we run teaching universities because we think there's some benefit to students being taught by practicing researchers. But the reality is that, especially in STEM, research funding is what matters more than tuition funding. Which in essence means in order to admit more students we need more research labs and buildings, because the 3/3 teaching load of a tenure track faculty member will not yield competitive wages.

[1]: https://today.oregonstate.edu/news/osu-college-engineering-c...
That's not really true imho. If we are going to be pedantic and talk about the pandemic, almost all taxpayers received individual stimulus checks in the thousands. On top of that those with children received a lot more. The vast majority of PPP loans went to small business and it was to make up for the government shutting down parts of the economy (it wasn't simply an economic downturn). I don't agree with how hastily and sloppy it was administered, you'd think we would have plans in place beforehand. But hey it's the government.

As far as interest rates, I had six figures of student loans and they were at 2.88%. Rates today are higher, but that's because they very loosely follow the federal funds rate. This is no different for business loans. But loosely speaking, interest rates on federal student loans are pretty low compared to other types of loans.

In fact, the reason the stock market reacts so badly to interest rate increases is precisely because it increases the cost of borrowing for business.
That's absolutely fair. Would love to see someone try to empirically prove what these defaults are, but I imagine this is hard. If this already exists, someone please link it!
No, I'm saying that the principle underlying those laws is sound and should be respected. We're not entitled to other people's work product!
I wish any of you with the down vtes would at least have a conversation with me...
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The author could be dead and his family could be impoverished, or maybe his best novels were his earlier ones. Should publishers make tons of money off his earlier, better works while his family starves?

Also, copyright isn’t just the original work, it’s also derivatives like sequels, translations, and movie adaptations. Should all of them make money while the author and his family get nothing?

In the real world, limiting copyright like you suggest is a non-starter.
I’ve been enjoying the ByteByteGo newsletter. The content is often very abbreviated, but the breadth of topics touched on keeps it interesting. I always learn a little bit about something new.

https://blog.bytebytego.com/
For high level awards, there are some separate databases that list the recipients and citations. Have you looked at those? E.g. https://valor.militarytimes.com/award/5
If you already understand AD, maybe there's not much point for you. The point may be for others that have some background in linear algebra and maybe rings/modules (so they've seen a few non-contrived examples of categories and functors), and who haven't encountered AD. For them, Conal's description is concise and memorable. Again, it's like describing Fourier transforms as an orthogonal decomposition: for someone who hasn't studied linear algebra, functions being "infinite dimensional vectors" will sound scary, and eyes will glaze over. They might prefer to stick to just working at the level of manipulating integrals and using "clever tricks". For those with more linear algebra background, a bunch of the basic theorems around Fourier transforms become immediate, and you don't need to think about them. The "tricks" turn out to be geometrically motivated.

So the thing it added is a compact and simple (and therefore pedagogically useful) description of AD for people with the target background.
I'm actually confused about the healthcare situation -- is it actually getting more expensive relative to the benefits? I've heard so many times that a bunch of surgeries that used to have really long recovery times can now be done on an out-patient basis, or laproscopically, and that some things which used to require surgery can now be treated with medication. Isn't that productivity growth? Even if the cost per day in the hospital goes up, if the same or better patient outcomes can be achieved with fewer/shorter hospital stays, that sounds like patients are "winning"?
"Please don't fulminate."

"Please don't use uppercase for emphasis. If you want to emphasize a word or phrase, put asterisks around it and it will get italicized."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.
The NWS site may give measurements for the airport, but it'll give predictions for the much smaller area you select. It's the only site I've found I can trust for Yosemite Valley, for example, since I can have visual confirmation that it's actually talking about a narrowly defined area. Today, moving that patch of land around just slightly will show you forecasts that are 10 or 20 degrees cooler than El Cap meadow.
I wonder if the recent news about the background gravitational hum of the universe has any bearing on this:

https://www.sciencealert.com/breaking-news-physicists-have-d...

It essentially means that gravity is always in flux everywhere, at all frequencies of gravity waves, so there is noise in gravity. This is in addition to the background EM radiation in the universe. Gravitational and EM fields are infinite are they not? Maybe this is the source of gravitational randomness that Oppenheim is looking for. Although he seems to be positing that gravity itself has some inherent randomness.
Almost everything you have said here is untrue. Pharma companies still make profits in other countries, they just make much more profit in the US. Much of medical research is in fact funded by the government to begin with.

By removing the for-profit system, you would actually be removing rampant rent-seeking on something that should be a human right.

> Imagine if the price of insulin, almost completely funded by US citizens paying absurd prices, went up to its US price.

A very strange example to select, considering it was first discovered by Canadians and the patent was later sold for $1. US citizens are certainly not "subsidizing" insulin elsewhere.
Hey, this is Mish from EdgeNode! I'd take it as a lesson :)

We're still very early in our journey and didn't expect it to land on HN today, but here we come.

The pricing is per vCPU + Memory per second allocated during the request. If there are no active requests, we scale the instances down to 0 so you don't have to pay for unused resources.

We're starting a private beta (soon for everyone), so feel free to fill out the form on our website!
How is this legislation a reaction to that movie?

Are you suggesting that Massachusetts legislators watched 2000 Mules, realized that their efforts to throw the election in favor of Biden had been detected, and then sought to make it impossible to catch them next time?
On paper this might be an interesting game, but you have to think of things in terms of crystal structure, what is able to form hydrogen bonds, what ends up being sterically hindered and what that means for the molecule. This is why watson and crick and franklin's work was so seminal, it showed how genetic information was inherited through mechanical logic of these molecules alone. Before the structure of DNA was solved, there were a lot of competing theories over what molecule was the source of heritable information, and how this information was exactly passed down between generations.
it becomes assisted living, like for seniors. they can't live like that, so you get a maid service in every week. it works if just pour money into it, just like rasing children by the government.

the 70's abolition of mental asylums by Regan. We closed the thing with no alternative and expected anything but a disaster?
Yep, I attended a lower-ranked state school for an undergrad in CS and had a wonderful experience. Lots of positive interactions with faculty in CS and math. My undergrad school was also attended by a large population of highly motivated students for historical reasons. I stumbled into this school almost by accident and was really happy with my student peer group because most were quite ambitious.

I also then went to a well-known and ranked R1 university for grad school. I didn't enjoy it very much but also didn't match well with an advisor out of the gate. That colored my experience significantly and in hindsight was really mostly my fault.

Oddly enough, I returned to this school and work a somewhat hybrid staff/research software engineer job and have been here for more than a decade. Go figure.
This is the only way, more or less, to enforce any code standards, whether its refactoring, quality, testing, docs etc.

If it doesn't break the build (or do anything else that stops it from moving forward) there will always be external pressure to get things out "ASAP" despite in most circumstances "ASAP" isn't required. If you can't full on stop whats happening, it becomes exponentially harder to enforce anything.
https://www.archives.gov/veterans

https://www.archives.gov/research/military/genealogy
They don't require you to connect your identities because they can do that for you by heavily encouraging you to add your phone number to all their apps. All metadata about where you are and who you're talking to goes to Facebook.

Imagine if instead of acquiring WhatsApp, Facebook allowed you to install its Messenger app and sign up with a phone number instead of a Facebook account. Would you then consider the Messenger app to be appropriately separate and independent from Facebook? It has end-to-end encryption.
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Yeah, and I immediately realized Nitter was back when I saw 100+ unread tweets in my RSS feed.

I just marked them all as read and moved on. I guess this Nitter outage may be the thing that finally pushes me to find the people I follow on other platforms.
Users should not be allowed to select their treatments; it defeats randomization, which is what allows causal inference.
Assuming that you are using the Standard Edition/2 of the database, this is licensed at $17,500/core. On x86, there is a 2-for-1 core discount.

If you download Enterprise Edition and use it to perform an upgrade from your SE2 database, then you will then be on the hook for the full $47,500/core.

There are two ways to undo this license change. a) Run "catdwgrd.sql" to get back to the SE2 release, then upgrade again with the correct license, or b) unload all of the data in the database (via exp/imp or data pump), then load it into a new database that is created with the correct license.

Staying on an EE database will certainly place you on the new pricing tier.
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> Your scheme would make writing children's stories less attractive.

Honestly, this is fine.

We already have tens of thousands of good children's stories, let those who do it for love of the art or the exceptional ones (like Rowlin make more if they want.
It's not about getting the risk to zero. It's about managing it. Right now anyone can take on massive debt to go to college programs they almost certainly will not finish. There's no risk evaluation for individual students, no qualification process that decides to only give loans to those with a history of performance that indicates they will finish. And almost 40% of student loan defaults are people that didn't finish [0].

Whether they finish or not, it surges the demand for education and makes it more expensive for the people that did perform well in high school and achieved a minimum level of personal organization to succeed in an academic environment.

[0] https://www.wral.com/story/fact-check-how-many-student-loan-...