jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Do you have a source for this? Interesting if true!

1. Where are the high costs coming from? Distribution? Storage? People? Most of these seem shared for other drugs.

2. Blood transfusion seems to be one of the most common treatments there is (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blood_transfusion#Frequency_of...). Safety concerns seem to stem from so far unknown pathogens that are not tested for in the blood of donors.

3. Production facilities are every hospital. Nothing needs to be produced or what do you refer to?
> Why don't we just ban advertising?

Newspapers would need to be subscription-only or patronage-based.

Distributors become kingmakers. If the incumbent's product is in the grocery stores and the upstart can't advertise, there's no path to entry apart from winning over a distributor.

Niche products become nonviable. If you can't reach out to your customers, they have to reach out to you. That requires they know (a) they have the problem you solve, (b) you exist and (c) you solve the problem they have. That only happens organically for problems with scale.
I remember back in the day, 3 or 4 years ago now, when Yahoo tried to buy Twitter for $25 million, and twitter demanded $100 million. They couldn't come to an agreement, and the deal fell through. Funny how the longer they wait, the more pricey Twitter becomes.
back in the 1960s, USDA drew up several sets of plans for ag facilities, and homes, that contain fallout shelters. LSUAgCenter has a few of them still posted...

Three Bedroom House with Emergency Shelter
http://www.lsuagcenter.com/en/our_offices/departments/Biolog...

Bunker-type Fallout Shelter (for beef cattle)
http://www.lsuagcenter.com/en/our_offices/departments/Biolog...

Stall Barn & Fallout Shelter
http://www.lsuagcenter.com/en/our_offices/departments/Biolog...

Fallout Shelter, Dairy Barn & Family Center
http://www.lsuagcenter.com/en/our_offices/departments/Biolog...
Hiroshima and Nagasaki were relatively tiny nuclear bombs. The results were absolute devastation of the sort that most nations rightly don't want to endure.

It isn't world-ending apocalyptic if North Korea launched its entire arsenal, but it would be incredibly devastating, which is exactly why the world treats it with such kid gloves. No one is overstating the concern regarding that, and a nuclear attack on Tokyo or, less likely, the West Coast of the US, would be horrifying.

Just to go back to Japan for a moment, note that in most world conflicts the decision to be aggressive or not is a very selfish one from the perspective of leadership: Leaders and peoples who feel that they and their family are impervious, or at least reasonably impervious, are far more likely to engage in and prolong conflict. To talk terrorism for a moment, as that has come up, NY city residents, as a general rule, tend to be against US oversea actions, whereas people in rural states -- where the risk of so-called "blowback" is dramatically reduced -- are far more emboldened.

The world faces incredible peril if the people with their finger on the button, so to speak, can do so with any comfort that they themselves will ultimately be okay.
I was going to say much the same thing.

The NJ town I live in has something like 4K residents. It's almost entirely zoned residential or residential/agricultural [1], but for a tiny corner where there's a single strip mall having a Chinese restaurant, a video store, and an auto parts store.

Because the laws so thoroughly prevent non-residential uses, the people of the town have nothing to bring them together. I think this is the reason that, of my 4 neighbors, I've never met 2 of them although they've both lived there for about 2 years.

Really, the only way in my town for people to meet is when they've got children sharing classes in the schools. I don't have kids, so I'm effectively not a part of whatever community there is.

I wish that there was a nearby little grocery, or something. For practical purposes I'd like it, because I have to actually travel two towns away for anything I need to buy. But also for community purposes: if there were some place that I could bump into my neighbors occasionally, they'd be alot more like ... neighbors.

But as the article notes, this is forbidden.

[1] "Agricultural" doesn't mean a farm in this case, it means somebody who can pull off the fake farming requirement of generating >$500 of income from agricultural activities. I have one friend with a big lot that sells some firewood every year in order to lower his property tax by being agricultural.
It's more common in Scandinavia, though. In Germany we use dubbing instead of subtitles.
It's just like "Replacing the blog software with HTML file I created myself with Notepad". Sometimes it will work, sometimes it wont.

If you will need two or more encoding jobs running in parallel, or to push video properties for each file to the site, you will get into trouble very soon, and 100 lines will grow to 10000.
You do realize that two years also costs money? The other thing is that fact that there's a company with a working solution in front of you. What if you build this team and then a year later you realize that you screwed up and you can't build it the way you thought.

The other reason you sometimes pay a premium is to get them off the table for a competitor. So even if you could build this solution in two years for 8MM. What if your big competitor decided to come buy them and then starts expanding their business. In two years you come out and say, "Hey look, we have that product from a couple of years ago!"
The various hiking and biking trails that I use are likewise far better detailed on OSM. They also have better maps of neat stuff like train tracks. Down to individual tracks at trainyards/stations in some cases.
(1) Building is more expensive than you think it is. For instance, if you're not staffed to build something, you have to recruit. Recruiting is dreadfully slow and painful. "Go hire 10 engineers" could take a year.

(2) Building (obviously) takes more time; the time you spend building is time-to-market that you're conceding to competitors. When you buy a competitor, that gap is erased; you get the benefit of their earlier time-to-market.

(3) Building comes with enormous risks. Deciding to build a cloud monitoring platform is not the same thing as executing on a cloud monitoring platform that the market will embrace. It may in fact be more likely that you will, on some important but perhaps subtle axis, fail utterly. Now you've made a huge investment in your target market and gotten negative returns.

(4) Acquirees are proven in the market. If an acquiree sucks, you buy one of their competitors (unless they suck on an axis you can readily remediate, in which case you probably get a big discount).

(5) Acquirees come with customer traction.
Funny. For a second I thought this was a public shaming campaign targeting hacker-news members that still work with "evil tools".
I read somewhere about a recommender system for movies (I think) and what they did is force a user to rate 5 random movies as part of the registration process. The movies weren't entirely random, but ones they thought were significant in identifying a user's tastes.

In your example of browsing patterns, maybe you could ask new users if they do or do not like to read certain types of articles. ie: are you interested in technology, sports, entertainment, random pictures of cats etc and seed their profiles based on their expressed level of interest for those things (maybe including dislikes from people who claimed to have similar interests).

But I would think that dislikes are not so important in the beginning. Although I don't know how your algorithm works, if you have a rough idea of what a person likes, shouldn't you be able to recommend things that they might like just based on that? When you end up recommending something that they don't like, you'll get some dislike data and can start factoring that in.
It is probably fair to say that a large percentage of the enrollment at almost any college anywhere is there because that is what one does after high school. Henry Adams says of the Harvard of the 1850s "All went there because their friends went there, and the College was their ideal of self-respect."
This reminds me of an input method I've seen on occasion for GP2x apps.
Thanks for the reply.

One of the complaints with shared hosting providers is they over-promise on the bandwidth and then 'encourage' you to upgrade if you get anywhere near it. I've no experience with dreamhost but is this a concern for you? Do you have any plans in place to deal with this possibility?
The way I solved this was to save a screenshot on my desktop of a web page with instructions on how to take screenshots.
Flashblock? https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/gofhjkjmkpinhpoi...
I constantly use both lambdas and structured bindings; without this feature, I am having to constantly redeclare every single not-a-variable I use in every lambda level and then maintain these lists every time I add (or remove, due to warnings I get) a usage. Here is one of my lambdas:

nest_.Hatch([&, &commit = commit, &issued = issued, &nonce = nonce, &v = v, &r = r, &s = s, &amount = amount, &ratio = ratio, &start = start, &range = range, &funder = funder, &recipient = recipient, &reveal = reveal, &winner = winner]() noexcept { return [=]() noexcept -> task<void> { try {

And like, at least there I am able to redeclare them in a "natural" way... I also tend to hide lambdas inside of macros to let me build new scope constructs, and if a structured binding happens to float across one of those boundaries I am just screwed and have to declare adapter references in the enclosing scope (which is the same number of name repetitions, but I can't reuse the original name and it uses more boilerplate).
I never really explored AFS sufficiently to understand why this was the case, but I was always surprised it (or a similar mechanism) was not available in corporate offices.

"Clear everything off of SharePoint you don't need, we're running out of room."

"The shared drive is full, we're going to purge everything not in one of the special directories. See the list."

AFS, as used at my university in the 00s, nicely reduced this problem by greatly expanding the amount of storage capacity available. It also helped speed up access to data by moving it to the system you were working on (assuming it was also an AFS node and not your personal device, in which case it was exactly like accessing a remote disk). It also helped with the "SharePoint is down again because even though we're a multibillion dollar corporation we're too cheap to hire real IT staff and Bob the Build Engineer tasked with keeping it up is on vacation." Local copies of data remained accessible.
Ahh, the ol' Cisco get-out-of-jail-free card.

Headline would be more accurate if it said "30K unidentified bugs blamed on unverifiable phenomenon each year in Japan".
Wasn't there a story a few years back where an engineer (from a high cost country) outsourced his work to another engineer (from a low cost country)?
Use cash for every day payments - your bank will know nothing.
I hear the tech community regularly bemoan the lack of a micropayment system. So why the criticism when a company tries to do it?
What do your work tasks consist of? It might seem simple to you, but maybe you have unrealized talent.
It's good that you added WTF to the title so I can know in advance how to feel about the news.

Without it I would have actually needed to actually read the article before forming my opinion, but now I can go into it with the right mindset, or even better skip straight to the comment section already enraged. Thanks!

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Please note that I am complaining about the headline baiting. While I believe that crypto is the future I agree with the sentiment that the way Signal went and did it was poorly handled at best and shady at worst.
>(which means that the hardware is irreversibly unusable).

In my case that would in effect be a distinction without a difference...
I've used Spacemacs then Doom Emacs then Vim and now Neovim. Tbh just experiment and choose what suits you. I spent too much time looking for the "best editor" but, spoiler alert there's not such thing. I've seen people make awesome things with either Vim or Emacs. Just experiment, choose one, stick to it (at least try to master it) and don't get too religious about it.
1. I'm just repeating what I was told by the guy that temporarily saved me from homelessness back in 2010, who lives in the country in question, instead of "Conservative Britian." Whatever that means these days.

2. Obama did what the "international legal system" told him to do and it funded two entire new fronts in Iran's war with the Sunnis, leading to hundreds of thousands of deaths.

(And at this point they use their "legally in the right/wrong" argument as if the deaths it led to don't matter.)
Alas, thats a relic of a bygone era.

More recently, our politicians simply “don’t recall”, or worse directly lie to us.

For C-level folks, its simpler. Take no responsibility ever, unless forced to by the courts. Even then, taking actual responsibility is so rare that I have no examples.
I'm a novice JavaScript game developer and I'm currently using OOP for my entities. E.g. each NPC is an object with an update method inherited from a base class that gets called every tick. What benefit would ECS actually give me? Isn't the NPC data still just an object but instead of using a shared prototype update method on the object it would be a separate component function? What is the actual difference?
Trading stocks in America is state sponsored gambling. All of the game is based on the assumption that the stocks will (on average) always go up. They dont. Check the European stock markets that have been stagnant for 20 years.

Selling lottery tickets with the promise of getting a pension. Disgusting.
I am super interested in these other shells. (I think they could add a lot to my productivity but I wonder at what cost?) The thing is I am reticent to learn/invest the time into them when I know for portability I will have to stick to bash or the more common shells found on many *nix systems.
No, we're all mostly just distracted by so many problems and failures throughout our society. Someone commented the other day mentioning how it doesn't take a genius to see the West is degenerating. To me it's obvious it's the industrial complexes involved in regulatory capture - fuelled by bad actors, greed, targeting the richest nation in history - leading to bad policy for people, individuals, for too many decades now; including policy allowing the duopoly to exist, thrive, and the tightening and expanding conglomerates of a handful of mainstream media companies also then perpetuating the two main narratives of the duopoly, along with whatever other for-profit interests decide to influence/manipulate us through shallow, cheap advertising. Thank Goodness for the internet, technology, to allow anyone with a voice a better chance at gaining a following and a communication channel - so we can bypass the control of those systems to educate people, and share different narratives - truths.
Is it Tesla's fault if the electricity is generated from coal?
>NFTs are blockchain-based records that uniquely represent pieces of media.

There is a jpg of an artwork on the internet that anyone can view and copy. There's also a non-fungible token that's linked to this jpg. I just don't see how NFT proponents want to make the actual connection between the one and the other in a way that's both decentralized and unique.

- You can have some authority that says "THIS artwork belongs to THIS token". Then, you don't need blockchain, because you have a central authority.

- You can encode the relation on-chain by e.g. taking an md5 of the jpg. How do you know which token claiming to be "the unique token for that jpg" is the real unique one? Even if there is a class of token that preserves uniqueness, it can only do that internally within the class, we're back to the previous point of needing some centralized allocation to say which class of tokens is the real one.

Edit: for the last point, you can take the one with the earliest timestamp of course, as per another comment.

Anything I missed? Has anyone even thought about this in-depth? Are a16z's crypto dabblings just empty hype chasing?
Thankfully Google is not (yet?) a nation, so this analogy is facile to the point of absurdity.
"Don't get high on your own supply" is a widely known rule.
They obviously subscribed to work calendars in order to follow the work activities of those people. There is no other technical way to do that.

There isn’t a way to separate out personal events — which shouldn’t be there, or at least should be marked private.

That this information was included, does not indicate that it was a target; it does indicate that it was a useful way for Google to attack their actions.
I think the part I’m not getting is why event details would be open by default in a work environment.

If you need to schedule around someone’s times, all you need to know is if they’re busy or free. At my office this is what is displayed if you look at others’ calendars, but not details unless you’ve been invited yourself.
But only for a short while. If people message you (even if they are paid to), the algorithm will determine that you're not so ugly.
This appears to be the default for G Suite settings, though. I can set up notifications to receive emails about work calendar entries for anyone in my company.

Details around medical, family etc. are only visible if the employee adds that information to their work calendar.
Complete rewrites seldom tend to work out well. Using a current version's behaviour as a "requirements doc" rather than the code or an actual up-to-date document probably misses out on a good deal of functionality that is rarely used but critical in some conditions. The thing about legacy software is that the software has encoded in it years or even decades of changes to functional and technical requirements, workarounds for edge cases that weren't foreseen, bug fixes, optimizations. Each of those can appear like a mess to the observer but it is foolish to think a new system will not run into similar issues. The idea of starting over to "do it right" is a fallacy because perfection does not exist. This is why the software industry is increasingly focused on processes that reap the benefits of quick turnaround and making change easier to deal with.

Believe me when I say the day you switch the old system off will never come in the vast majority of scenarios like this. The result is either wasted development time or, probably worse, you now have two systems to maintain and keep running.
I like Keybase
Congrats on the product!

Just as a bit of feedback, on the linked site you write:

>Browserless is simply a tiny web-server that “productionalizes” all the stuff about headless browsers and their automation capabilities.

I find that both hard to parse (productionalizes? wat) and saying nothing. How about "a tiny web-server that helps you use headless browsers without the hassle of setting them up on your environment"
If you're looking for a better place to go than healthcare.gov, give us a try at stridehealth.com. Bunch of ex-privacy folks and healthcare folks - can shop from your phone. Pretty shocking to see such a novice mistake by an org I think we were all expecting to take it up a level this year.
And the company I work for, which employees about 45,000 people in 25 countries, mostly in factories building complex electronics, only has a $2b market cap.
The solutions require gaining a deeper understanding of the narratives you tell yourself and your habitual responses to those narratives. Thus, they are often best found out through a conversation because conversation can make those narratives explicit. When you put something into words, that gives you power over it.

Over the past year, through a combination of actually getting ADHD treatment, writing, and a course on Rapid Software Testing, I've learned a decent about this. So progress is possible, but it takes hard thought.

I highly recommend https://rapid-software-testing.com/ by the way. Honestly transformative for my mental health.
my thoughts exactly: policemen and -women are people and citizens too (with kids that probably wont grow to be police themselves), and citizens have an interest in upholding the law. it's NOT an us vs. them situation.
This blog post is really weirdly written, with press-release-style blurbs from other people. I can't tell what genre it's supposed to be: a report of a technical decision by language maintainers? A press release? An advertorial?
Wow. Those are so awesome. WANT!!!
Once you get there, maybe base64url binary blobs are way more efficient and quite compact.
It's pretty far fetched to claim a web program running for 9 years is unmaintained software. It's maintained in the direction desired by the author to keep working, that's plenty.
Exactly yes. I don’t care if 80% of content online would disappear, or the thousands of jobs making that content, or the billions invested in it. It seems irrelevant in comparison.
Oh? So my niche technical website that gets a couple thousand uniques per day has all been a waste of time? Who knew that just concentrating on content instead of wasting all my time on tools and appearance was in fact the opposite of what it seemed...
People brag about getting bargains all the time. That's like one of the core themes of the "digital nomad" community.

The (2) option you specified is not the case. And if people can only afford a $1/night hotel room, then I think there are more productive places to direct that outrage.
> Uh, one that doesn’t exist in the current financial system. I’m sure y’all will find a way. As I said, it’s a prerequisite.

Is that sarcasm? How do you think criminal groups get funded? They use the financial system like anybody else. You should have a look into the history of HSBC, money laundering and financing drug cartels is one of their main specialty.
Yes, althought in the case of wordpress, it's also because it's really badly architectured: no internal cache, so many requests for just one page, comment are loaded even when you don't read them, etc.

It's not optized at all.
How does this compare with https://github.com/mermaid-js/mermaid
I glanced over the article you linked on your homepage, and you said you worked for google.

Google is and was actively fighting privacy laws[1] (e.g. seeking exemptions allowing them to even track people who consciously opt out of data collection), had a CEO that made no secret about his anti-privacy stance[2], was repeatedly fined[3], also also for violating the privacy of children[4], etc. etc.

How do you reconcile this with your assertion that google and yourself are good players?

[1] https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2019-09-04/google-and...

[2] https://www.eff.org/de/deeplinks/2009/12/google-ceo-eric-sch...

[3] https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/21/technology/google-europe-...

[4] https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/04/technology/google-youtube...
If you enjoyed that, check out Ondi Timoner's other amazing documentary: Dig!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dig!
In both cases, it's not quite as unlikely as "1 in millions" since travelers often go to the same places like conventions and museums. I've experienced that too where a stranger I met at a touristy lake appeared again at a convention I was attending, also in a city of millions.
> What dangerous ideas would you say Scott Alexander has propagated?

The idea that the "Gray Tribe" is anything but a well-written propaganda effort targeting midwits to keep them supporting the Blue Tribe (and most importantly, to keep the Blue Tribe in power) as the problems mount and the failures become harder and harder to excuse.
With respect to the products developed, this is an issue where the incentives of business and industry need to be aligned. Resolving the problem can be as simple as paying more for drugs That cure opposed to treat.