skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Reminds me that raw capitalism isn't the answer to every problem.

Kind of like the current healthcare debate in the U.S., where the problem seems to be "how do we allow insurance companies, pharmaceutical companies, etc. to make maximum profits while providing healthcare for the maximim number of people at minimum cost?"
I really like the comment at the bottom which mentions the structural flaws in attempting to democratise the web while client-server architecture is still king.
Other than optimal temperature, what does the human skin need to feel "comfort?"

Would the below work?

[ Body | A layer of comfortable fabric that is only a few atoms thick | Pockets of air | A layer of light+strong magic material like spider silk ]

and nanobots embedded throughout the clothing that sense your skin's temperature and heat/vent the air pockets accordingly.
These are instructive to look at now. Important to recall the '1989' date of course, but with hindsight...

I love Rule 5 ("choose the right data structures and the algorithms will almost always be self-evident"), especially when combined with STL and strong typing. There is a degree of irony in taking this advice from Pike, given the design of Go.

Much of the material on complexity assumes you are hand-coding things from scratch. I am happy to take on complexity (as long as I understand what I'm getting into) from well-designed libraries rather than building something "simple and robust" from scratch. The statement about binary trees vs splay trees is illustrative; unless I need to see the bare data structure again I would much rather take on something from the STL, complex or otherwise.
If it's not specific to the healthcare system, price increases should mirror inflation.

The underlying cause being high material standard of living? Because that is why it's circular logic to me.

I still have a problem with using the end economic result data.

It _automatically_ assumes that price increases are called for based on the market.

If all firms in an industry can raise prices at the micro level, then no firm stands out at the macro level, which means macro analysis is kind of useless.

An analysis of healthcare companies COGS and profit margins would be more illuminating.
Uber is fighting legal cases all over the world and in so many jurisdictions. That all costs a lot of money for lawyers and management time which could other wise be more gainfully applied.

The Uber business model is easily copied, e.g. Lyft, so they are subsidizing drivers to keep them from defecting.

The biggest secret is that managements (and Uber is not alone on this) don't really care about costs, it is only investors' money.
There seems to be a lot of antagonism directed at Google and Facebook in this piece, making it sound as if those companies knowingly stole or forced people to fork over data.

I know sometimes it's easy to play the evil mega-corp card, but we need to ask ourselves the question: what is the goal here, to take down Google and Facebook? 'Cause if you're worried about an internet with extra surveillance and restrictions, taking down Google and Facebook doesn't really solve things.

Plus, even in a world with Google and Facebook out of the picture, there will still be political trolls hired by other companies and nation-states. There are also alternate-Googles that can just swoop in and fill the void you create if say you do take down Google. They are not necessarily better than Google today.
I was at work so unable to watch video, the GitHub[1] page was quite informative though =)

[1] https://github.com/LiveOverflow/lo_nintendoswitch/blob/maste...
It's quite plausible that brexit won't/couldn't change anything - depending on how exactly brexit is handled, UK may stay as a part of the relevant treaties so the licencing of financial institutions across EU/UK border will stay the same.
Internal combustion engines are 20-45% efficient. That means a 150 hp car dissipates 55 KW at peak. Assuming half load that's over 25 KW to dissipate continuously. Cars usually dissipate heat by way of a ~100 kg radiator, ram air and a couple of 20W fans. Brakes dissipate far larger amounts of heat in short bursts, and are passively cooled by ram air. For EVs, I'm not sure, but I think 100KW li-ion pack will continuously emit something between 1-5KW in heat when charging or discharging.

1KW is a small fraction of a typical car's heat budget.
>The flipside of this is the reactionary multitudes who spout 'sjw' or 'virtue signalling' or 'socialist' when someone on the left questions the status-quo.

A fair point, however, I think the only way to reverse the trend on the left is for the right to employ the left's own tactics back against them, in spades. The right needs to destroy the lives and careers of, for example, some university presidents who allow this sort of brutish behavior to go unpunished, sometimes even making excuses for it. Or go to war against companies who cave to the SJW demands. It has to be mutually-assured destruction, not one-sided.
There's also Privoxy, which can block ads based upon URLs, as well as doing other clever stuff like blocking cookies. It falls back to host-level blocking for SSL, unfortunately.
The 3DS was hacked multiple times via pre-existing WebKit exploits, you'd think Nintendo would have learned to keep it up to date by now. Apparently not...
>> "3. I cannot tell you how many angry pissed off angel investors [..] they own a LOT less than they thought they did."

>And here we get to the crux of the issue, investors own less. If investors own less, who owns more? Founders do.

I think in this case there are just "more investors than the earlier investors expected to exist".

In any case, if there's a subsequent convertible round after the round you were in, of course there will be more dilution for the angel! And honestly if the subsequent noted were raised at higher caps comparable priced rounds, then the dilution to the earlier angels should be less anyways. This just sounds like optimistic angels not understanding the equations they are a part of.

Frankly said angry Angel should recognize that any subsequent round dilutes them and the founders in similar fashion, and any instrument that is "founder friendly" is existing investor friendly as well by definition.
^This. I know people who use FB, but I'm not friends with anyone who's using it as a tool in their daily lives. I've never seen the strong appeal, and always seen many downsides.
Then don't exist. My wife and I dropped our accounts. Been great. We don't get involved in the SJW or the almost alt-right furors. We text our immediate loved ones. I call my mom.

In their place we have actual friends. Real people that we play Cards Against Humanity with. Who understand that IBS means me dashing off and having my wife play my hands for a few hours. Then we go out and have a good time.

If it's a choice between virtual existence and not-existing virtually, but living, as Moses said, "Choose life."
Thanks for the feedback - I'm looking into both. WRT physics I think the elasticity of most of the table is too low, so you lose your lateral momentum whenever you collide with a wall. Needs some tweaking.
Uruguayans invented the mammogram and the birth control pill
> It never was 7 tps. 7 is the theoretical maximum

Wow, you mean Bitcoin fans were prone to exaggeration and unrealistic claims two years ago? I wonder if they still are.

Speaking of which, this graph you're showing me definitely has not quadrupled over the last two years. What went wrong?

> Investing x megawatt in a system that produces investments and jobs is hardly a "waste".

It is if the jobs never produce any actual value. Moving money around is not a good in itself. In fact a lot of Bitcoin companies have moved money in ways that are distinctly bad. Would you be celebrating MtGox as part of the Bitcoin economy if they still existed?

Of course whoever is currently holding the money is happy with it. Doesn't mean it's not a waste. People have profited from waste for as long as civilization has existed.

(edited out an ad hominem, sorry)
I learned this lesson years ago when I was 12 and selling some software online. Paypal for no reason froze my account which still had 300$ in it (which is a ton of money at that age!). All appeal attempts failed, and they just didn't give a shit. I vowed never to ever do anything related to Paypal again (hence I don't use ebay). They're a scumbag company.
Housing is very far from free market, from zoning regulations to building codes to property taxes and school districts to rental regulations. Banking is also pretty much the opposite of it, from the Federal Reserve dependency to Fannie and Freddie loan guarantees.
First you have to implement DF in GOL.
> for elective/ non-essential medical needs, private healthcare is good. but for essential care, what price can someone put on their life? it's a means to extort if life saving procedures are private!

Only of the provider is a monopoly. One provider can't charge $5000 when the other will do the same thing for $50.

Same reason a can of beans doesn't cost a thousand dollars even though you have to eat to live.
In my 40s with two teenagers, love living in a city (Pittsburgh). They can both walk to school (2 blocks to elementary school, high school is farther, though, about half hour).

I love that in the summer they can hang out with friends at the local pool, or play ping pong with friends at the local rec center during the winter. Point being they have a lot of activities with in walking distance where they can meet with friends and we don't have to drive them. My son in high school has discovered he can hang out in one of the many many restaurants around his high school with his friends.

I don't think they would have the same freedoms or independence living in a cul de sac somewhere, at least not before getting a driver' license.
I learned working with Visual Studio and, yes, I think that helped. Even jsut being able to press "." and see what methods and properties were publicly available on something was helpful
I have not. I had discussed a theoretical len(CT) == len(key) system with a friend for about 30 mins as a thought experiment, but we immediately poked a number of holes in it -- not the least of which being that we couldn't say anything about the security of the system on which it was deployed. Other questions: what to do with the key material files (their remnants would no doubt be left intact in NAND by opaque eMMC and SD controller implementations - and if not, some signal processing on the charge of the cells themselves combined with the regularity of whatever language was being used would give it up anyway - encrypting the key material might solve this to a degree). Also: where to get quality key material in the first place, and how to exchange it (NFC was discussed). I'll certainly take Claude Shannon's word on the security :)
That would only be reasonable if you think that only poor and middle-income people should pay taxes. Everyone else would be able to opt out via a series of corporate shells.
That's the very long view. There are probably better civilizations on other planets ;-)
Yep, same for Australia - taxes are withheld automatically from your pay and then at the end of the year, you put and extra income and your deductions into the free web app that the tax office provides. I don't think I've ever spent more than an hour filing my return.
A good friend of mine is from Uruguay and Alejandro Zaffaroni was his next door neighbor growing up.
I'm pretty sure we're being paid in USD to a USD account based in Australia with Stripe payments for FastMail.

(we also use Paypal and a couple of other providers - spreading billing between multiple providers is a good thing)
I'm one of the students of Brad Miller, creator of this platform, and worked on developing it for a summer. Feel free to ask questions!
Yeah, no. Bitcoin eliminates chargeback fraud by completely eliminating the whole idea of chargebacks. You can tell your customers that if they don't get what they paid for and you don't feel like helping them, then they're basically screwed. Let's see how many people buy your product once they realize that. Talk about the cure being worse than the disease.

This in addition to it being virtually impossible for ordinary users to even get bitcoins. People here are talking about losing double-digit percentages of their purchases from Paypal forcing users to create a Paypal account, which takes like 30 seconds. What percent of your customers do you think you'll still have after you force them to do a wire transfer to a moderately sketchy exchange website, wait 2-3 days, set up a Bitcoin wallet somewhere, figure out how to do Bitcoin transfers, etc?
#DonateTrumpsHate
The short answer is that clock rates are plateauing. Once you pass 2GHz heat, electrical characteristics, etc start becoming very big issues. As far as I can recall there are hardly any CPUs around that go much past 4GHz.

So if you want to increase throughput you start running multiple CPUs in parallel to increase the throughput. If you were to have discrete CPUs then the wiring between them, memory and I/O becomes another serious issue, so they try to integrate as many CPUs onto a single die in order to reduce the electrical delays, etc.

People often forget that in 1 ns (i.e. at 1GHz clock rate) light travels about 1 foot and less than that in electrical conductors. So keeping conductor lengths is a very big issue.
Really like this piece: https://ar.al/notes/the-nature-of-the-self-in-the-digital-ag...
Upvoted the op. I'm learning Java so if anyone has some particularly good and idiomatic Java (Java 8 preferably) that'd be awesome.
Freedom of speech is a general principle and most consider it a bedrock principle of western / modern society. The US constitution provides that it won't be abridged by the government because the constitution is a document that is binding on the government of the United States. Just because it is legal to abridge someone's free speech does not necessarily make it a good idea - people are usually quite wary of platforms who place content-dependent restrictions on the type of speech that is allowed (with some notable exceptions for particularly unpopular opinions).

Note that I am not really taking a side on whether the actual theft of the flag was admirable or not here, I just want to make clear that just because it's constitutional for private individuals to do most anything (given that the constitution places almost no restrictions on individuals), that does not mean that the broader concept of freedom of speech only applies to governments.
Have any visionaries written what an alternative web looks like I.e we still need the services of Google and Facebook but done in a privacy conscious way.
The article didn't seem to mean in terms of the quality within a drug type. It looks like is more about the value density of a drug. So if Amsterdam cracked down on Marijuana, then there would be more potent cocaine, crack, meth, etc. Even the strongest marijuana pales in comparison to the 'potency' of the hard drugs.
Thanks for the upvote, but a bigger thanks for coming back to answer my question so thoroughly. :)

> If you're using an HTML templater, it might sanitize/encode the HTML for you, but only if it knows that it's supposed to do that and that it's not part of your normal HTML.

Yeah this was my larger concern. I'm never blindly appending user-submitted input into the DOM, but doing it through a templater like Handlebars.
> The US is responsible for ~40% of the world's output in terms of medical research, which is 10x the country with the second largest amount of output, England.

These seem to be academic publications and according to this Quora post [1], it's primarily driven by American universities and research institutes. It is not entirely clear to me how profits within the US would be a major factor here: I would have thought that NIH spending is more important in this context. While it's sort of true that NIH spending is more relevant for the R in medical R&D and industry spending for the D in R&D, the Forbes article seems to be only about peer-reviewed published research.

[1] https://www.quora.com/What-countries-have-lead-the-world-in-...
Also, Interactive python is open source! If you like it, help make it better!

https://github.com/RunestoneInteractive
This, in general, shouldn't affect most folks' ability to have a simple tax filing system.

Your bank already has records of things like mortgages which they [can] report to the IRS. You can figure out two-earner tax rates with a program or chart. People already report their children in the W2's. The IRS already has the information on file and I imagine they use it to filter out folks that might need audited.

Even with tax credits, a complicated tax system, and all that, there isn't a reason why this can't just be done upfront instead of after the fact - at least for most folks.
Container ships also sail at night.
I Can't Hear Anything Below 80 Hz
I don't know that I agree with the fairness points you raised, but from a sensibility standpoint, I like the idea. Corporate income tax is only 9% of total federal receipts, so it seems like we could make that up without incredibly burdensome changes. It would also make the US competitive again as a corporate domicile for multi-nationals (though without taxing them, it's not clear how advantageous that would be).

I do worry that it would raise other forms of exploitation of loopholes though. There would be less pressure to report payroll expenses (decreasing compliance and decreasing payroll taxes as anyone you pay off the books is cheaper out of pocket for you per dollar they receive) and I suspect we'd see a lot more people not taking large salaries at companies they control but rather funding their lifestyle needs with perks and loans from the company, the repayment of which would not be taxed.

Payroll taxes are 1/3 of federal receipts; any significant decrease in compliance there would perhaps be more damaging than losing the corporate tax income directly.
Ya, but for the first few years, at least, it doesn't feel crowded.
Your characterization made me grin, as someone who is on the other side to you.

>That intellectual ideal is seen as something by and for the powerful old white men who control power structures, including and especially academia.

Lets be real here - academia until only very recently in world history - was virulently exclusionary to people of color and women. Before we dismissed eugenics as pseudoscience, it was perceived as just science. It is easy in hindsight to say it was flawed and a tool of oppression - but at the time it was very much an active area of academic inquiry. Given that in the past pseudoscience was seen as science, what evidence do we have to believe that we haven't made some of the same mistakes in classifying pseudoscience in the present? Given that academia in the past was corrupted by bias against women, what makes us now think it's truly objectively academic, now?

It takes a lot of faith to believe that this is the one period in history when bias hasn't tainted "objectivity"/"science"/"academic inquiry".
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13798130
The Facts Are True, the News Is Fake
I found the concept of unit testing useful even when you don't actually write test code. Just thinking of making your code testable will already make it better, because you start caring about the clarification of specs and separation of logic, and so on.
Immigration law is a matter of non citizens rights in the US. The federal government has the responsibility to protect citizens constitutional rights. Any law that discriminates against one person because of another persons religous beliefs is prima facie unconstitutional.

Should the states have had the right to keep laws against miscegenation because someone objected to interracial marriage? What about states right when it came to Jim Crow laws?
Government which stays in power based on people's anti-government sentiment, isn't that something.
It all went wrong at the firewall. As soon as peer-to-peer was over and NAT became a security layer as well as a technological construct to put more than one host behind one public IP it was essentially game-over.

If you want to reboot the web then you need to reboot the internet first, solve the insecurity of privately hosted servers first and convince ISPs that symmetric connectivity should be the rule.

After that you have a fighting chance.
That sounds very good, but now here are your real-world constraints.

You have a network of detection systems which you give you (optimistically) 15-40 minutes of warning before everything and everyone you've ever known and cared about ends. In that time you have to make the decision to launch a counter-attack. Your decision needs to be something which can be rapidly acted upon, but also needs to be something that absolutely cannot be interfered with by any adversary launching the first strike. If you delay, your ability to counterattack will be forever lost. If you're wrong, you'll be setting off Armageddon.

Now... describe how you make that work.
As strange it may seem, a portion of people/corporations are always pro-privatization and anti-nationalization.

This helps explain why there is an anti-net-neutrality faction. It's not just because people don't understand. And it's not just because people are bought and paid for. There are actually legitimate arguments for privatizing things and then regulating them rather than nationalizing and trusting the government to manage effectively.
Not true at all. If a chargeback is filed with the card issuer first, Paypal takes the money directly from your account immediately, pending "investigation". I've personally experienced this several times (I have well over 10,000 transactions with Paypal).
Or, as with any website without Api, you can use tools like Selenium or Kantu that automate a system via its web interface.
Can't comment on Linux - but curious if the location was discovered as well if the erase process had started? And if so, did you report it to the police?
Even scarier we're starting to see Carfentanil, which is many times stronger again than Fentanyl, and is only used for sedation of large animals like elephants.
"Sherpa" isn't a generic word for porter, it's an ethnic group. They originated in Tibet and migrated across the Himalayas. While in decades past most high-altitude porters were Sherpa, today it's more common to see Rai employed in these roles.
They probably have two algorithms, one for x amount of profit and one for y amount of trouble. As long as x > y, they'll find a way to work with you. Ironically your slowing down the business probably had everything to do with their decision; x dropped faster than y. They have basically told you we don't need your business anymore, so F.U.

I hope you at least get your money back after 180 days. Good luck.
...And of course Amsterdam is also serving much of the world (pretty much exclusively, until really recently) in terms of breeding new strains. The demand for high strength was global, even though the nexus was small, and in a legal haven.