jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
> The courts don't all agree.

The one case you cite is very fresh precedent in a single Circuit, and it's highly controversial. No other Federal Circuit has applied First Amendment standards to FDA misbranding regulations before. Even within the Second Circuit (three states), is it still illegal under law to misbrand a drug in marketing materials. The decision in Cariona hinges on the question of whether "misbranding" and "promotion of off-label use" are different narrowly defined legal scenarios. The Second Circuit was concerned that, in the latter scenario, doctors may be legally deterred from promoting off-label use, which is a common practice in medicine and research. You should not take away from this case that drug marketing is now a First Amendment free-for-all. Yes, I am awfully certain.
D3 is not a graphics library, so it's certainly not D3 itself making anything look nice. D3 enables you to easily build great visualization, but it doesn't actually draw anything directly or provide you with a theme or anything like that.

D3 pure and simple binds data to DOM elements and keeps the relationship updated, but nothing more. Those DOM elements could be pure text, or tables, or whatever else you want. It just so happens that D3 works well when bound to SVG elements, but that's purely up to you.
No, I'm not missing recent events. Year-old stats are still valid because almost all the release occurred during the accident sequence in 2011.

I'll drink the 4700 Bq/L tritium water too. That level doesn't even exceed the WHO limit for drinking water (10,000) let alone the Finnish one (30,000) or Australian one (76,103). The 4.7kBq measurement was made in the quay in front of the plant, not the open sea. Rising tritium levels there may be a result of leaks of cesium-stripped water from the onsite treatment system, or simply natural variation in groundwater drainage from the site.

I don't want to get personal, but the way your post is written as if it comes from a place of knowledge, is a worthwhile example of a larger phenomenon.
Thanks Dan! :) We'll take a look at the language and see if we can get some VCs on board.
My latest theory[1] on doing things, when not motivated:

- do nothing, stay stably where you are.
- let the 'reluctance' wash off a little.
- keep doing nothing (don't get drawn away)
- make the smallest step toward your task
- do nothing
- make an additional tiny steps
- hopefully[1] steps will get easier, and bigger
- the momentum of overcoming the lack of motivation
and making progress will bring a little joy

[1] Obviously that's only my personal anecdotal experience, based on difficulty in doing physical exercise or learning music. Many times I didn't feel capable, aching, frustrated... Just putting myself into situation and see how things can go has been leading to regular surprises.

tl; dr : long warm up time.
For that matter every restaurant, home owner, bus driver, taxi, parkway, condominium, hospital, school, university or business has the right to remove a person from their premises. That doesn't mean people do or have to do it illustriously and then come back and say: we'll fly with you tomorrow - we'll let you travel on our airline only tomorrow because you're not "safe" today.

When the TSA circus cleared the person in question there is absolutely no reason for him to be prevented from travel.

> I trust you will follow your own principle and boycott every airline.

I hope you'll find someone who buys your ad hominem/bait elsewhere. On hacker news you might want to read up the guidelines [1] on quality of discussions and disagreements.

[1] http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
It's hard to explain a false positive when you're given no context about what it could be.

As explained in other comments, nitroglycerin is found in things as bizarre as desserts.

Unless someone happens to be incredibly knowledgeable about how to make explosives out of common household supplies, it's hard to expect them to say, eg. "Oh, that's because I happened to eat dessert last night and forgot to wash my hands."

(In fact, if somebody does know that, that may be cause for all the more suspicion!)
https://twitter.com/textfiles/status/558625345029820416

> Before I get 1,000 "GIMME DER SAUCE AND WHERE DO I KLIK" - the DOS situation showed me we need something to be really tested to go big.
I liken it to techies running out and buying a Tesla. You can't put your own turbo on it, you can't do much to improve the performance or customize it, you can't repair the engine in your garage, you can't drop in a new transmission when yours goes out, and it's not a manual transmission, so you're giving up a lot of control in driving it.

That's what an automotive-minded person might believe. Why would you buy an electric car that you can't control when you could have a 1989 Volkwagen Golf getting 30mpg that would last you forever with just a little bit of maintenance? You would make that choice because you don't want to have the responsibility of doing something that makes the car unreliable or unsafe. You don't have the knowledge or the tools to fix it when it does. And you can't be late for work, or fail to pick up your daughter from school because your car wouldn't start. So even though you could get a car perfectly tailored to you and controlled by you for just $5,000, you buy a $60,000 electric car knowing that there's hardly any moving parts, so all you need to do is turn the car on and put your foot down and it will work. You plug it in when you get home, and unplug it when you leave for work. That's all you need to know.

That's how I liken the debate between Android and iOS, or Linux and Windows. People say to me "look at all the customization I can do!" and all I see is a maintenance nightmare. I use Linux at work because that's what it's best at. When I get home, I'm playing video games on my Windows desktop. On the weekends, I'm driving down two-track roads in my custom-built 1998 Toyota 4Runner, but my daily driver is a Fiat 500. When I'm playing around with developing apps, I'll sideload them onto my Nexus 4. But when someone calls my phone number, it rings to my iPhone, which I know will always ring no matter what software I manage to install.

As a consumer, it's not that I don't care. It's that I don't even want it. I know it's there. I know it's cheaper and I know it's more powerful and I know it can be customized. But none of those things are at the top of my list. Reliability, compatibility, and simplicity are my three biggest requirements.
Pretty happy user here as well! I actually used your source code as reference to build my personal site https://github.com/wooolfgang/liarolfrrey and https://liarolfrrey.com/, so thanks for open-sourcing!

One issue I have with elderjs (with the version that I'm using - haven't been up to date), is that hot-reloading with rollup seems to cause issues with css. The experience is not as smooth as per say nextjs fast-refresh, but I'm content with it for my use-case.
Yes indeed.

The word for paid work in French is travail, which has the same Latin base as the word torture.
I rather liked Neuroware's Nekomimi ears.[1] They were a set of wearable cat ears controlled by an EEG sensor. They could detect at rest, attentive, and surprised states. Popular with cosplayers around 2013.

They worked, more or less. Watching someone play a video game, the ears would show "attentive" while they played a level, and dropped back to rest when they finished. At an anime convention, I saw a group of girls all wearing them. Someone called out the name of one, and her ears popped up. Only hers, not the others.

They were a bit too bulky (4 AAA batteries), the ears were too big, and the forehead sensor wouldn't stay in place. Someone should try that again in a more compact form.

More fun than the quack medical applications.

[1] https://youtu.be/DK41eqO3wW0
It's really a Googleism that was inherited by Go. I remember their open source C++ command-line library did the same thing.
I wonder, could this be why we saw no March event this year?
This isn't a "freedom" issue. And no, even if the private key on the device is hacked, you wouldn't be able to hack all the cameras (assuming the device manufacturer would embed a different key for each unit ID), you would still have to hack the OS and the User and the Phone's encryption. So the surface area of a hack would be small. You cannot fake all those signatures, you'd have to literally hack all that encryption.

All of this would be optional, of course. People can always edit out metadata. But it would lend credence and authority to a photograph or video. Which would carry more weight in a court of law, for example, where this stuff really matters.
> It's not like you can just push a button on your AWS console and get a new 5nm fab.

I have to admit that I really take for granted how easily it is to spin up additional capacity for projects nowadays. This statement put that into focus for me.

That said, at some point if this continues, the shortages will start to affect AWS, Azure, GCM, DO, Linode, OVH, etc. capacity. And that will get nasty fast.
> who knew material capacity would do nothing for mortal existentiality?

You're joking right? This has been a mainstay of philosophy since before the bible.

To me it sounds like you need a good old fashioned hobby. There's tons to pick from. Find one that lights up your soul.

> move overseas.

That's not going to solve your problem as stated. Wherever you go, there you are. Same dude, different wallpaper.
We’re working on a way to import and export models from other formats just by reading the graph into our model representation.
I suggest rereading the original comment. You seem to have misunderstood the statements made as ones the commenter believes and is presenting as fact.
I've done non-forced pair programming for suitable tasks that were really math heavy in a controll algorithm where I essentially double checked the math. Worked that time really well but always doing it would make me hate my job.
Tesla was fooling around with that.

https://www.tesla.com/en_CA/videos/battery-swap-event?redire...

If they didn't stick with it, nobody will. Also, standardizing batteries across companies is just silly. Electric cars basically are batteries. If you standardize the most important element of the car, you will kill innovation.

Superchargers on long trips (~1600 km per hour charging with v3) are sufficient. It's 15 min of charing per 400km or 4 hours or driving. Charging at home/work everyday is actually more convenient than tracking discharge and going to some special place every couple of days. Building chargers at parking places is not expensive. From what I gather it should not be more than a few thousands. In bulk it's probably even cheaper.
all reusability have limits!
usually work is carried out to satisfy a set of requirements. as long as requirements are matching old ones in a different task then the product can be reused but in case there is deviation then alterations will be required to address the differing bits.
we may predict future requirements and address those too through generalization but that must have limits as addressing predictions is by definition not certain, may need refactoring still in the future while using actual resources.
even the stl of c++ needs rework as it does not address certain requirements or address outdated ones.
no code will be reusable completely all the time, in fact only reusable if specific circumstances match.
generally speaking generalization is impossible.
The corresponding AMD infrastructure and most related tools are fully open source. The driver is even upstreamed in the Linux kernel!
100000 / 30 / 24 / 60 / 60 = .03 views per sec.

Nothing surprising here.

But a great blog overall!
The average tenured professor salary in the US is $141k. Star research directors with a proven record of bringing in grant money can easily earn two or three times that. In engineering, physics, med, and bio there are also lucrative consultancy opportunities.

The average scientist outside academia is probably doing grunt work and is paid badly - unless they're working in fintech, or something with an obvious financial upside.

The reality is that the entire research system is optimised for direct and indirect cash accumulation, not for genuine innovation or invention. There's some interest in blue sky funding, but if you're a fresh postgrad no grant body is going to give you a lot of money to go off and design a working warp drive unless you also have the bureaucratic skills to make your project sound like something they want to fund - probably for other reasons.

Researchers with good bureaucratic skills and genius-level scientific insights are exceptionally rare. And the publishing system isn't welcoming to talented semi-outsiders

Newton, Einstein, Darwin, and Ramanujan would really struggle in today's environment. Newton might be okay if he managed to get tenure, but the others not so much.
Any title that gives us a clue why the story is worthy of note. At the moment it's frustrating as you have to click through to find out if you want to click through.

(title at the time of my comment was "CUDA Toolkit Release Notes")
Last year, I supervised a student project that involved writing a Vulkan backend for a compiler that already possessed CUDA and OpenCL backends. While I recall that everything ended up working, it didn't run all that fast. The vast majority of the problems were related to the language used for encoding the shaders, SPIR-V.

Among the difficulties we encountered, I recall the need to use an offline optimiser to do trivial things like CSE and constant folding. CUDA and OpenCL will do this during kernel compilation, but Vulkan implementations seems to be designed as non-optimising (in order for loading to be faster, I assume). This is a perfectly understandable design, but it means it's a little more awkward to use. For direct programming (as compared to a compilation target), it's a lot more awkward.

Another issue was that basic Vulkan is very restricted, as I assume it's supposed to be usable on simple hardware. Additional functionality can be enabled through a collection of extensions. One particular problem I recall is that our code generator assumes the existence of general pointers, for example such that the same memory can be used for different types of values at different times. SPIR-V has/had a very strict notion of pointers, and no way to cast between different types without an extension, and that extension was IIRC not implemented by NVIDIA or AMD. There were lots of these kinds of issues.

In the end, Vulkan is usable for compute - after all, a single master's student (admittedly one who's very bright) managed to implement a Vulkan-targeting compiler backend in half a year. However, at the time I concluded that it's not as mature or as practical as CUDA or OpenCL, for reasons that seem perfectly solvable. However, for direct programming, the SPIR-V that is needed for shaders is completely inaccessible. It would be like writing machine code (not assembly) by hand. I assume graphics programmers have some layer on top to provide a sane interface, but since we were writing a compiler anyway, it wasn't a big deal for us.
My point was rather that discrimination should be incomprehensible regardless of the moral or religious sincerity.
To borrow from Christianity we should love and forgive our neighbor. Or from a secular point of view we should respect the rights and dignity of individuals.

Of course that is a somewhat contraversial political opinion. And the way we speak and the words we us is also political motivated.

But then why should our use of words or their definitions need to be politically neutral? The uncharitable nature of words can be a feature. And really it is amazing how forgiving society has been of homophobes.
Smart contracts are a bad paradigm for developing applications on the ledger, they're far too permissive, the stakes are too high to want to trust your assets to arbitrary turing-complete code.

You can do much better with composable state machines, because everything you do gets the same level of security as the native token transfers https://www.radixdlt.com/post/radix-engine-a-simple-secure-s...

Disclaimer: I work at Radix
valid points, however, do you think it's impossible to have such a 100% on-chain business ?
same answer as what ill be doing in response to the complete idiocy that brexit is, im leaving the UK, im currently touring japan deciding which city to make my home, before 2020 is finished ill be living here permanently
Genuinely non-snarky question.

It looks like a standard calculator and conversion app, and it looks like most of the implementation I could imagine being in a calculator app is already done.

Why would you even think of raising funds? You thought it was a good idea to write the blog post, so it obviously crossed your mind.
http://archive.is/9vwLX
Most xorg drivers have an option to run in tearfree mode.

Another dealbreaker for me (i did the i3 sway journey this summer) is the early stage of remote desktop. With x it is super easy to spin up a nice vncserver. I also miss setxkbmap, xrandr, import etc.

Wayland had some nice ideas and some not so useful ones. I'm waiting for something simple to replace xorg and wayland in the future.
> Aren't most browsers disabling/about to disable cross-origin caching?

Are they?
Each one of those steps is a billion dollar company.
>Feynman

I like Feynman's analogy of physical laws to a chess board.

>"Every once in a while we get to peak at the board," 'but we don't really know the rules driving the game, we're just trying to figure them out.'
Develop useful tech for cubesats. Build a demo/prototype hardware box and go to a space conference after contacting people in the industry beforehand. Get an "in" with a small startup and work with them to build it on a satellite. Through a partnership with them find others, become a satellite builder. Get experience using the launch market and begin to learn about rockets. At that point, my knowledge runs out - but I think you'll need a few hundred million if you want to have a go at developing a rocket yourself, so that's how big your cubesat / satellite company will have to be.
How do you handle progressive overload? Do you have a bunch of different kettlebells of various weights? Seems like that would defeat the space savings. Or do you cycle out the lower weights or put them in storage once you've progressed past them? Curious to see if I could make this work for me, as I also have time/space constraints.
China pulled out several hundred million people out of poverty because of the liberalization. That in itself is worth it.
For more objective data, https://www.livabl.com/2019/03/torontos-condo-more-cranes-th... . Toronto does far outpace NYC in the current amount of high rise construction.
Afaik it was previously in ruby right? I need to check out the source code ,that's definitely an interesting project.

any windows build out there?
Speaking of sandboxing, Reeder 2 for Mac (one of the best RSS readers) was forced to remove the option to be set as the default RSS reader from within the app. This is because a function on Yosemite is longer allowed in sandboxed apps but still works fine on 10.9 [1]

While it's not the end of the world, it's just plain annoying having to remove such a common sense feature. The consequence of this means that if you were to distribute a web browser via the MAS, you will not be able to ask the user to set it as the default web browser. That's just a subpar experience.

My hypothesis for the added restriction is that it might be considered a security hole for an app to just set itself as a handler, for say, http links.

The correct way to have handled this particular situation was to introduce a new entitlement and define what content types an app might want to handle, which will get reviewed by the MAS review team. Unfortunately, the solution [2] is: "There is no solution; it can't be done anymore in the sandbox."

[1] http://stackoverflow.com/questions/26241689/lssetdefaultrole...

[2] https://devforums.apple.com/message/1059008#1059008
Url changed from http://venturebeat.com/2015/01/02/eff-law-enforcement-desper..., which points to this.
There was a period in the '90s when it really felt like no sci-fi was being made (except in animé). I mean, Star Trek TNG (franchise!) carried on, but that was about it. Partly the difference seems to be the BBC (which really punches above its weight in the genre); Doctor Who had been cancelled, mostly because the creators started putting too much effort into politics and too little into telling good stories, and their less-long-running efforts seemed to disappear around the same time. Partly there was less demand for it in an age of political optimism; sci-fi has always been a way to address issues we don't dare tackle head-on (see many post-2001 shows e.g. new BSG) and there was a brief period where we really thought we'd lived through the end of history. But the theory I found most interesting is that fandom itself killed sci-fi; all the people who should have been writing stories and becoming the next generation of creators instead wrote 'zines and participated in the con scene (wish I could find the reference where I first saw this).
So the Mac App Store is highly convenient, yet you always choose to buy outside the App Store when possible?

That's not the greatest endorsement ever.
Bigger than Ruby?
> So unless there is a relatively low limit for total humans on this planet, we won't reach it before we become a spacefaring race, at which point the limit will be the carrying capacity of the Universe.

But even in that case, you can only have at most polynomial growth (human habitat spherically expanding with speed of light) instead of an exponential one.
As someone too young to have used gopher://, I'd like to take your comment half-seriously: from a user POV, how is it different than, say, HTTP ? (I believe it occupies more or less the same domain)
Yes, I've run into this problem regularly.
I agree. I understand that people have issues with being retargeted by ad platforms and hate seeing the same ad follow them around, but I don't really seem any downside to users being tracked by 3rd party platforms like Google Analytics. Platforms like GA, don't track first party information and anonymize who you are with a randomly generated ID. This is the only thing that makes your visit unique from the rest. I don't see any harm in providing that information. How do you expect businesses to get insights into what features users like or dislike in their product? I can easily see users of a tool like this complain about a change in one of their favorite products, but by preventing them from any insights how does the business figure that out?
Twitter is very popular among influential people
Why don't we have one single webpage where all journalists write all their articles without any organization other than a search box?

Content organization is key. And different research disciplines have different practices, different artifacts related to the article, different readership.

We have ArXiv, BioRxiv and MedRxiv which all serve the same broad purpose, but specialised to math/physics/etc; biology; medicine. Then you have several national and institutional archives that are tailored to the needs of those groups. Etc. etc.
I “cherry picked“ no other studies for this thread.

The DAMASK study is literally the only RCT ever run for masks and Covid. You may not like it or what it says, but its much higher quality than any of these uncontrolled, correlative, pro-mask “papers” that have been rushed out since March.

> It did not attempt to measure the effect on transmission from the mask wearer to others at all.

Because you can’t. Short of locking a group of people
in a room with infected people and seeing who gets
it, thats an unfalsifiable
hypothesis.

Fortunately, we know that masks are not magically effective in one direction
only, and if they don’t work in one direction....
> Everything in the label is “bad”.

Shouldn't it be in red then?