skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> If your goal is to make money the optimal path is to manage symptoms but keep customers (i.e. patients) reliant on your treatments, ideally with their life depending on them.

I have no love for the pharmaceutical industry, but that logic is wrong for so many reasons.

1) Corporations on the public stock exchanges aren't constitutionally capable of maximizing profits with such long-term strategies. Stockholders want fat profits _now_, not a trickle of profits over decades. The industry is already high risk.

2) Because all the low-hanging fruit is gone, what big pharmaceuticals care about is stuffing their pipeline full of as many lottery tickets as possible. They don't have the luxury of only focusing on such narrow strategies as you describe; in order to hit the jackpot more often they need to play the field in all its dimensions. This shotgun approach is why we see so much less-than-revolutionary research. If companies only aimed for the stars (i.e. cures for high-profile diseases) all of them would quickly go bankrupt. They want scratch-offs in their pipeline, too, not only the Mega Millions.

3) For serious ailments the sick person isn't the consumer; the healthcare and insurance industries are the consumers. Substitutes are easier to find or develop for management/sustaining therapies, including none at all. And for such therapies, there's less pressure from the sick because such therapies are less high-profile. A possible cure? They'll be beating down their doctors' and insurers' doors.

4) As much as I hate patents, the effective patent life for a treatment is something like 15 years or less. Which means even if you could corner a market (and they sure do try), you only have 15 years maximum to dominate and reap huge profits, not a lifetime. Again, because it's easier to find alternatives and supplements to therapies like you describe, it's important to front-load as much profit as possible.

None of that is to say that there aren't pathological problems with the incentive structures driving the pharmaceutical and health therapy industries. Or that there aren't counter-veiling and counter-counter-veiling forces at play. But cynical, conspiratorial theories are really unhelpful. They're not realistic and ultimately rather fatalistic, I think.
This is fantastic news. It's absurd that it's basically impossible to have a successful career working a bit less than full time. This is way overdue in the modern world and hopefully becomes an option in more companies going forward.
If movies are correct, judges during the pre-volunteer military days would tell someone their choices were the military "to straighten you up" or jail.

I think that's the better comparison than your comparison to the modern military.

How often did that work back then? Because I get the idea that the answer is "not much", or at least, not worth it for the military. The regulations are clear that the option of "military or jail" is no longer permitted.

Volunteers might be in the military for the greater cause, certainly. (Though some are in it for college money or other reasons.)

Draftees often have a different goal - keep your head down, do the time, and get out. What they believe in is getting out.

FWIW, even after the draft finished, marijuana use in the military was also pretty common, eg, http://www.nytimes.com/1981/06/19/us/navy-reports-6-of-14-ki... reports that 6 of 14 killed aboard the USS Nimitz had used marijuana, in 1981. This guy from Cracked might have fit right in to the pot scene among the enlisted men.
While that's the common understanding, general relativity tells us that the spacetime curvature is dictated by the stress-energy tensor, which is accounts for all different types of mass and energy. For example, if you have a crystal at very low temperature it will gravitate less than the same crystal at a high temperature (though for familiar materials it is a VERY slight effect).
Thanks, that was insightful yet down to earth, terse yet well-written, and contained further reading and references.
This boils down to (1) don't use your computer and (2) if you have to use your computer don't do anything in it.
Meanwhile, on the other pole, a huge crack is spreading across Antarctica.

https://www.thestar.com/news/world/2016/08/22/a-huge-crack-i...
"Amazon is a sweatshop"

I wouldn't agree with this broad generalization. I work in Alexa and the work environment on my team is pretty awesome. Lots of freedom to try new things, good work life balance, and generally a high level of respect for engineers. I turned down Google to come here and I have no regrets (though not to imply that Google isn't equally awesome).
Self-Driving Cars: From Research to Road, with Karl Iagnemma
I've used https://tokbox.com/ in the past.
> Mac OS/X

Why the slash in the name? Some kind of OS/2 mix-up?
I don't think anything in your post makes the least bit of sense.
Well, just think about the Dark Scientist who says "OK, we make up 27% of the universe, and there's a missing 5% we don't see because it doesn't interact with us."

And then some dark model builder says, "Guys, guys. I bet it's SU(3)xSU(2)xU(1) with 3 generations and the parameters tuned so that..."
A scary clown
I thought Amazon employees were routinely burned out. At least that's the perception I get from reading the news. Maybe this is to help combat it?

What's next? Unlimited PTO? :)
Not in my experience or the experiences of anyone I know or work with.
Time dilation
It's seasonal / semi-annually if I remember, but the Games Done Quick streams are a treat.

https://www.twitch.tv/gamesdonequick

https://gamesdonequick.com
I definitely see your point! I guess there is a place for algorithms at any point on the easy/good trade-off.
Pregnancy predominantly effects women. If I need to argue that women are oppressed, I don't think we can have a discussion. Phobias effect the neurodivergent and your dismissal of this is ableist.

You're inserting your own value system, via the word "basic." It's indisputable that anything is an "aspect" of "being alive," but whether something is too "basic" to warrant consideration is entirely your construction. It is reactionary to dismiss oppressed peoples' self-descriptions of their oppressions. It would be progressive of you to listen to the oppressed and learn how to be a better ally. Do you want to be reactionary and backwards-thinking or progressive and forwards-thinking? How do you want to be remembered?
Newly proposed rules for foreign entrepreneurs will help some founders
Agreed. Thats my problem with pretty much all the jetbrains IDEs. I have a high specced modern MBP and its still slow and the UI locks up. Meanwhile VS and Xcode preform awesome.
Easier and a major performance disaster. You shouldn't ever do this ever. If you are a programmer, it's your job to implement this correctly.
The alternative is locking them up and creating lifetime criminals.

We need to separate criminals and give them new communities to find worth in for the most part. Most people don't commit crimes because they want to. If you can separate them from the criminal element, find worth and independence, that is the solution.

I think putting them up with other criminals is like a crime university, it will be all they know. Prison is supposed to be rehabilitation but it creates hardened criminal elements.

Your better system is taking people and locking them up together and then charging the tax payer 30k per annum, even if they pay no fines they are still causing less budget.

There aren't any easy solutions but that is mostly wrong for non-violent and low level offenses like drug crimes.

This Norway prison has prisoners work on a farm/island as an example of a new community. [1] It has some of the lowest recidivism in the world. Sometimes people in poverty have never been treated like humans, maybe if you apply this to them then certainly a percentage would see worth. The other harsher ways are creating more re-offenders in the US system (the main problem of this article).

[1] http://www.cnn.com/2012/05/24/world/europe/norway-prison-bas...
Perhaps that's the appropriate pay and 40+ hour/week workers should be making more?
> In the latter case, maybe the memory allocator could put off doing delayable requests, and do them in a batch later. (Making it a bit more like garbage collection.)

Amusingly, when I've used an IMMEDIATE/DELAYABLE style hint, it was for the opposite purpose: I had some batched deallocs that I would either delay (to spread out over multiple frames instead of handling as a single batch, to eliminate the framerate hitch we were getting), or perform immediately as a single batch (to achieve greater throughput when switching scenes as delayed deallocation was adding untenable amounts of overhead.)

> We can, but then convincing the rest of the world to change such a basic building block of C code is quite hard.

Changing such a fundamental building block if C is impossible.

However, providing a second alternative interface, for those applications which could really benefit from such fiddly high performance tweaks, already happens a good bit in games at least. Pool allocators, allocators with extra debug information, allocation of entirely different styles of memory (e.g. write combined memory for texture uploads)... lots of stuff out there. Some low level graphics APIs now make you decide if e.g. you want to put shader constants in their own GPU buffers, or just interleave them into the command buffers themselves...
I'll agree on the reason why they're doing this, but I've actually always wanted this deal, or something like it. Less hours for less pay, which as a software professional would still be pretty good money. The challenge is having that be accepted by the organization, which most American companies won't because we're all supposed to love what we do or whatever.

If you're supposed to still accomplish the same amount of stuff in 75% the time then that's just clearly not going to work. Can't fit 10 pounds of shit in a five-pound bag.

But anyway, yes, I'm sure it's either a PR stunt or bound to fail or both.
That is why I really hope someone netrual, ( Not Google / Apple ) could get a secure cross platform login authentication with 2FA using Biometrics that works across Website AND Apps.

Password Manager only works to a certain extend.
That's right. Quantum mechanically, potentials are generated by the exchange of off-shell mediators (the clearest explanation I have seen is in Zee's QFT in a Nutshell).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_shell_and_off_shell
Official wars between geographic factions and nations coming to an end in the west.

Fourth generation warfare only starting.
> I wouldn't agree with this broad generalization.

https://www.google.com/#q=amazon+sweatshop
Sorry, I wasn't specific enough in my explanation. GP was referring to micro-lensing experiments, i.e. lensing around a star or other such object. That experiment is essentially selecting a bright point light source behind a galaxy, and looking for the sort of distortion that would occur if there was an object near the light's path as it passed through the galaxy. If you see lensing but no object, you've found a dark, dense object.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravitational_microlensing

You're right that all the dark matter in a galaxy would contribute to gravitational lensing around that galaxy, but that's a different signal; you'd be looking for the lensing at different scale, e.g. Einstein Rings around the edge of the galaxy, not inside it.

I meant 'diffuse' literally, in the physical sense, as in sparse, not dense -- the 'missing mass' that we're trying to explain is, under the dark matter hypothesis, spread out more thinly than if it was accounted for by dense dark objects like planets or stars.
* Puts tinfoil hat on *
The demo by Kalman is pretty cool. Over a period of a decade there were many high-end applications for the machines. The base system could cost from a few ten thousand to $250000 for full set up used in the TV and Broadcast industry: machine, console, software, color screen, huge amounts of memory, large disks, video tape recorder, graphics co-processor, graphics tablet, ... That's far away from the home computers from Commodore.

Example: https://youtu.be/T0PFUC4Nuuk
Some good suggestions in this list, but some of this is a bit "tinfoil hat" (reinstall OS X every month? What about resorting data from a backup? Seems so unnecessary to suggest users wipe their Mac each month)

Any reason the author insists on spelling it "OS/X" or is this just their personal preference? It shouldn't, but this bugged me when reading the article.

Edit: in fact, most of this is tinfoil hat. I'm all for safety and security but some of this is pretty extreme. "Don't trust third-party Mail providers like Gmail?" Not sure the author realizes a good number of people they're emailing use these services, so should people not converse with Gmail users?

This entire list of suggestions and "explanations" is straight-up FUD.
Perhaps you could tell why?
He's talking about both actually, even in the first section. The whole review has been triggered by trying to add SSE operations to code compiled with VC6.
> Is this a push that all talented software engineers HAVE TO move to the bay to become successful?

A fresh grad in the Bay earns more than a 40-year-old director of engineering in Toronto.
This is awful advice and you would be wise not to follow it.

> Your first choice of web browser should be the TOR browser with Javascript disabled.

> Your second choice of web browser should be the TOR browser with Javascript enabled.

> Consider using the email client Thunderbird with TorBirdy, which sends emails through the TOR network.

Tor guarantees your network traffic will be intercepted. Malicious exit nodes etc etc.

> Reinstall OS/X every month.

What does this get you? If you're owned, all your accounts will be owned. Re-infecting your OS with malware would be trivial, if that is even necessary anymore.

> Avoid free online email. There is no free lunch. They profit by selling you out.

Author is probably trying to make an implicit pass on Gmail. The only issue with that is Google has a hollow mountain full of security engineers and "name your private mail service" probably has 1, maybe 2, similarly skilled individuals. It's a numbers game: you're safer with Gmail unless you have an explicit 702 risk (ie, FBI thinks you're a terrorist and requests your mailspool via a 702 order from Gmail). Btw, Google has the cutest video that shows how they handle those: https://vimeo.com/108275932

> When sending a private email, consider encrypting it e.g. with GPG. The recepient will have to use GPG as well.

Even the creator of PGP does not use PGP (http://motherboard.vice.com/read/even-the-inventor-of-pgp-do...). I can't tell you how many times people have emailed me their private keys. This is not a great solution 99% of the time. Move your conversation somewhere else.

> Your third choice of web browser should be the text-based Links browser.

lol ok

> Your fourth choice of web browser should be Firefox.

Out of 4 major browsers, yes, use the ONLY one without a sandbox.

> If you need to download an app, get its source code and compile it yourself. (Type ./configure; make clean; make).

Why is this better? You're not reading the source code just like you're not reversing the binary. Waste of time.

> Try to avoid downloading risky files (PDFs, MS Word files etc.) and if you must, run a virus scanner on them first. If the file does not contain any personal or sensitive data, you can upload it to VirusTotal to have it tested by many antivirus programs at once.

Note: Uploading your Docs/PDFs to VirusTotal makes them readable by anyone with a VirusTotal account lol. Also, Google gets a copy. Have fun with that. Much easier to turn off a few features (cough macros) or use a trimmer viewer, like the Chrome PDF Viewer or uploading the docx to Google Docs and viewing there.

> Disable website-provided fonts in your browsers as there have been exploits that use infected font files.

There have been exploits in a lot of things. Let's all go outside and not use computers. Once a trend becomes public, that target generally cleans up its act. There's been a huge amount of effort put into font validation and fuzzing over the last few years and I think we've made it out of the font exploit dark ages.

Here's a list from thegrugq that is far better:

https://gist.github.com/grugq/353b6fc9b094d5700c70
Programmers can suffer from this problem as well as engineers.

The project never fully leaves your mind and often I'll go home and mull over the reasons why things might not be working or how to start another task. No "actual" work gets done, but I'm still working; just as you described.
I have 2 issues with this. First, you could say what you wanted to say in 1/3rd of the length if you weren't speaking in such a conversational manner and interspersing your discourse with irrelevant jokes and stuff like ""OOooooOOOooh soo exciting" right?". I don't read stuff on data structures to amuse myself. I want it to be as succint and to the point as possible and not waste my time kidding around. If I want to kid around I will do something else. But I guess some people prefer this, I suppose.

Second, I don't think the best place to go on lengthy explanations with figures included is in the comments of a source code file. Markdown is your friend.
As long as we're being pedantic nerds: dark matter is not "anything not emitting visible light", although such matter is "dark" in common parlance. Dark matter is called dark because it does not interact electromagnetically at all. No direct interaction with x-rays, radio waves, visible light, UV, IR, etc. etc. etc. It may interact indirectly (eg. by gravitationally distorting spacetime).
More often some problem takes hold of you, occupying some mental bandwidth even while you're away, at home trying to enjoy time with your family or whatever - technically you're still working, your mind is preoccupied, you might not be able to sleep or when you do you dream about the problem.

Oh my gosh, exactly this! When I am working on a theoretical maths problem, there is just no end to the work! On the train home, when I'm eating, when I'm taking a shower, it goes on and on (it's especially bad for maths because it's pure mental gymnastics - not even pen & paper needed unless you have specific calculations). I have to make a conscious effort to stop that - but then I have to clear many 'temporary variables' in my mind (losing time and effort) and the problem remains unsolved for the time being. Plus I cannot work on any other intellectual pursuits in the meantime because my mind is exhausted. It drives me nuts.
This comment is also off-topic.
And he says to reinstall iOS every WEEK. This is painful to read. Plus:

> "When sending a private email, consider encrypting it e.g. with GPG. The recepient [sic] will have to use GPG as well."

I bet his contacts love him.

Sometimes, people wrap the tinfoil around their heads a little too tight.
Your viewpoint, without experience, is toxic to rational discussions regarding remote work (and is ironic, considering your employer).
Well, if you can explain all the observational signatures https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_matter#Observational_evid... in another way, you should write a paper! If your idea is simply "that's all bullshit / wrong" then tone it down some, OK?
I was going to ask if you could pinpoint a more precise problem, but then I read your username rsync, given the amount of ZFS you used this is properly something quite true.
Warren Buffet usually invests to the extent that he has the power to change how the company is run. He usually uses that power.
Shoot sorry about that, I hadn't seen your comment.
I'll revert my post.
I mean sure, if you're manipulating data that isn't textual, you're going to want some non-textual interface to it. Code is text. Editing it as text makes a lot of sense.

As for your points about map scrollbars and completion UI, I can't speak for Vim, but Emacs has had graphical capabilities for a long time and does both of those things quite handily. I don't see the point of map scrollbars and I use code completion only sporadically, but they're there if you want them, as are many other perhaps surprising things, and Emacs doesn't feel a need to show off and get in my way as I've found more heavyweight tools like Visual Studio to do. (And what a world we live in, where Emacs can reasonably be called lightweight by comparison with anything...)
I read it also as "real estate tried the stock market by itself and failed."

But yes, the phrase "strike out on your own" does hang together a bit.
That it happens isn't so hard to believe. The question is if it is a permanent or unavoidable effect.
Almost every statement he makes is pure nonsense.

> dark matter is likely a product of black holes

what product, specifically, and through what mechanism?

> and probably just an even distribution of black holes.

That just contradicts the first half of the sentence, which says that dark matter is a product of black holes, but now he's saying that they are black holes themselves.

We understand black hole behavior quite well. They can't be microscopic black holes because they would evaporate almost instantaneously due to Hawking radiation. So they must be bigger. But we know there's dark matter in our own galaxy, and there certainly isn't a uniform ubiquitous spread of black holes in our galaxy. And if they were so uniformly distributed, they would probably merge and become many fewer black holes. But we clearly don't see that either in our own galaxy or elsewhere.

Then some ridiculous vague statement about "gravity leaking from other dimensions"? It's insane, it's like he used a random grammar generator with physics words.

What he said was so crackpot that it would easily qualify as "not even wrong". [0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Not_even_wrong
> a completely different world-view than the one I experience

No kidding! I'm still bewildered and vaguely horrified by the idea that in some worlds changing your text editor means you have to modify your projects to work with the new one.
Oh you not know the 'vast majority' of Germans but how they live. Awesome, tell my cousin Sven he... never mind, I'll mail him with this new service.

Serious kid, stop talking out of your ass. Germans use cash to avoid a paper trail? Nothing to do with spending and saving? Because that's the first thing anyone would say. But a dishonest person who wants people to think of privacy as your having something to hid would say paper trail.

Some other retard said something about nothing to worry about? Ok, you're 15 and don't remember the STASI but you should heard have heard something.

Look at all the shills... You don't like the branding... and after that, let's talk about another service. This place is becoming Reddit.
I think in many countries companies like Uber and AirBnB are seen to be a challenge to the democratic will of the people. It should be no surprise that we don't care very much for this!

I wonder if Uber could have achieved success in markets with more trusted governments (Germany, Japan) if they started with a softer approach.
Not in the case of the U.S., where around cities with significant black populations most overwhelmingly white suburbs were explicitly created as sundown towns, with the exclusion of minorities enforced by written agreement through "white homeowners associations." That's the entire origin of HOAs.

To say everyone in those suburbs is racist is overwhelmingly broad and unfair. To say that they are full of racism and xenophobia is simply accurate.
What happened to NextBSD that ixsystem propose not long ago.