skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I remember taking adderall and working 16 hour days for a few weeks at a time. Every once in a while I would message my friends with the word "helllppp" but I was too high generally to care about my predicament. That is how I dealt with loneliness in the aftermath of about failed wedding engagement
I don't think you know how tax write offs work...

https://youtu.be/XEL65gywwHQ
It carries an OS/Desktop, not just files.
PHP has a sort of middle-ground now, which is runtime-enforced type declarations, which you can check offline with a separate utility or an IDE if you like.
Yeah, your explanation is consistent with my understanding.
Most medications at the patient-level are in amber vials in the US (all pills loose). BUT there are still plenty of meds still further up the supply chain that are in tamper-evident packaging and could be donated if short-dated.
The mac application company, they are the reason I started programming!
Are you seriously trying to brush off and dismiss a $150m charity donation?
Open source projects are guaranteed to be maintained forever?
$765B is their estimate for all waste, not just wasted pills:

ProPublica has been researching why the U.S. health care
system is the most expensive in the world. One answer,
broadly, is waste — some of it buried in practices that
the medical establishment and the rest of us take for
granted. We’ve documented how hospitals often discard
pricey new supplies, how nursing homes trash valuable
medications after patients pass away or move out, and how
drug companies create expensive combinations of cheap
drugs. Experts estimate such squandering eats up about
$765 billion a year — as much as a quarter of all the
country’s health care spending.

Later on they say:

Tossing such drugs when they expire is doubly hard. One
pharmacist at Newton-Wellesley Hospital outside Boston
says the 240-bed facility is able to return some expired
drugs for credit, but had to destroy about $200,000 worth
last year. A commentary in the journal Mayo Clinic
Proceedings cited similar losses at the nearby Tufts
Medical Center. Play that out at hospitals across the
country and the tab is significant: about $800 million
per year. And that doesn’t include the costs of expired
drugs at long-term care pharmacies, retail pharmacies
and in consumer medicine cabinets.

This isn't estimating the same thing as the GP's $330M (hospital waste instead of consumer waste) but $800M is on the same scale, suggesting to me that the marginal cost of drugs might matter some.

(I do agree with your point that most of the cost, and especially the most egregious examples like the wasted epi-pens, don't represent real costs because of monopolies.)
This is an amazing idea. I want one.
Yello?
Any way to add SMB? I don't see it in the list of options and I need to copy files to a Windows server.
Hardware terminals had this feature, ish.

The vt220 had a 'slow scroll' speed which would buffer text and scroll it at a viewable speed, limited by the quite small memory on the screen. It also had a 'pause' key which would pause the display and then continue the output (again limited by the terminal's memory). See also PC 'scroll lock' key.
Replying to myself since we hit max comment depth (probably an indicator it's time to move away from this thread anyway). but to address the sibling reply by hudon, yes, a blockchain is a form of a distributed database (maybe highly replicated data base is a better term since every node has the full working data set).

The key trait of a blockchain is that each new entry cryptographically verifies all previous entries. At the end of the day, yes, a blockchain is a distributed db. It's a distributed db that never forgets.
Life at MIT (1969)
That’s definitely one signal, but it can be refined by tracking whether the search led to click-throughs, conversions, a different search, a bounce, etc... The conversion is the most important event, but there are a lot of important features aside from that which we'll use to improve results over time.
If you're interested, our behavioral api (https://constructor.io/docs/#behavioral-data) goes through some of this as well. We've done a lot of work to figure out which signals are the most important, and are continuing to develop this feature all the time as we acquire more data.
Not a dumb question at all.

Various tools can and do deal with the spew though. Ofhand, script (typescript), screen, and tmux. If you're running a session through a serial terminal emulator (e.g., minicom), that would be another instance.

I'm not going to claim these are particularly mainstream uses (though I've made use of each of them, and been grateful for the ability to do so). But they do exist, and I suspect there are others.
Social Analytics Deciphering Financial Markets
Not an expert, but basically 'text mode' entails something like directly putting the text characters into a memory buffer, and the monitor rendering those in hardware via onboard fonts.
Was just reading about a book on hardware concurrency today and wondered "what is up with the Mill CPU"..
They're easier to fork.
>Swipe on a few Tinder profiles and see if you can strike up a conversation.

I would strongly advice against that. Research has shown that the use of Tinder decreases the self-worthyness of in particular male users.
As a Julia developer, and for the benefit of someone (me!) who doesn't know anything about such matters, are you in a position to respond to ScottBurson's post (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14801186) on efficient collections with functional semantics?
The one hackathon I've been to, the emphasis was way too heavily on not only making something "useful" but something that could be turned into a business. It wasn't advertised this way, and my group went in just wanting to have a bit of fun, making something quirky in a hurry.

We ended up scrambling for ideas, then when we finally found an idea or two that we kind of liked, we were talked out of it by the industry-rep mentors that were supposed to be helping us. One even took our idea, and twisted it into a really weird financial solution for a totally different problem to what we were thinking about. After spending about 5 hrs trying to make it work, and struggling with the basics of the concept, we just gave up and walked away.

Best part of the whole thing was the free RasPi 3 that I got because one of my group went to one of the talks.
Friends & I 'invented' unsociable socializing. At the weekend we'd sometimes meet in a coffeeshop, bring our books and just read. Stopping occasionally for a chat & refilling the coffee, but the main focus was reading.

Was perfect way to spend an afternoon without draining too much energy.
The Ethereum crowd sale participants?
I mean.. it describes that Inverse Kinematics is and is used for, but literally none of the math that makes it work. More than a little disappointed.
To me, "blockchain" implies the individual nodes don't trust each other, while "distributed database" does.
Otherwise nobody would want to work on open source projects if they were to be always liable for the damage their software causes its users...
> Create better native apps for iOS and Android with a new breed of development tools.

Does no one understand what native means anymore? UI wise, native means using the platforms widget toolkit which this does not seem to do. I'm not sure if it's even possible on android unless they are calling into the java stack for rendering the UI. Notice how in the MacOS screenshots they give a giant middle finger to the current OS theme? Doesn't look like it's using cocoa/carbon (whatever the current mac toolkit is) underneath.

I'm not sure if I'd even consider it native code on android, which would be ART/Dalvik byte code, for better or worse. I also think transpiling from c#/javascript to to c++ would rule it out as being considered native, but that's debatable.

Never trust a project that will lie to you in the elevator pitch.
SIRUM Co-founder here! Super pumped and happy to chat with anyone!

We help orgs donate surplus meds that are often short-dated. We're tackling the $5B of unused, UNEXPIRED meds that go to waste every year in the U.S.
I'm sure there is some degree of companies wanting expiry to be like the dates on grocery items that are really "taste best by" dates but in speaking to manufacturing and development people their are some layers of complexity. Compounds do degrade over time in many cases and things like light, temperature and humidity play a role. In pharmacy warehouses they aren't just required to control climate they have to log temperature 24 hours a day in an auditable format. Because of these factors the target is a moving one and while many things would likely be fine, for prescription medicine the tolerance for risk is so low that it pushes things in a very conservative direction.

There is a great comment farther down about how complex label changes can be. Getting a revised label, or packaging through FDA is an enormous undertaking. This why sometimes dosing seems very weird. If research says we need a 2mg and a 4mg but later in the process patients need a .5mg it's a big mess.

Suffice to say it's a deep rabbit hole.
The two easiest/best ways to establish strong social connections are 1) a shared interest and 2) being introduced by a mutual friend/acquaintance.

You could look for groups to participate in that involve some established interest of you, such as a book club. You could also put the word out that you are looking to widen your social circle and find some means to signal to existing acquaintances that you would appreciate it if they kept you in mind or pointed you in the right direction. Just letting people know you are open to introductions can help foster them. Introverts are often basically giving off "Go away!" signals without really being aware of it.
What's a humblebro?
Not just flash, I'm a die-hard fireworks user and was still using it up until a few years ago, much better than PS for quick web stuff (99% of what I was doing). Was a sad day for consumers when Adobe bough them out, before they had to compete with improvements and new features for market share. I still use Adobe Fireworks regularly over Photoshop.
I feel as though the author missed talking about Flex, which really took flash to the next level. It was short-lived, as it came a few years before the end of Flash-as-we-know-it when Steve Jobs decided to block it - but it was a great way to build sophisticated SPA's before the javascript ecosystem was able to catch up. Thanks Flash!
Still faster than a hardware terminal...
I wouldn't be surprised if it was meant to emulate these to some degree..
Musk's comment were intended to demonstrate that powering the US on solar is practical - you don't need to cover the whole country in panels, you actually only need 10 square miles.

You wouldn't actually put all these panels in one place, because of transmission losses, putting all your eggs in one basket, etc...

The point being, that you can power the US with a reasonable, practical amount of panels.
This is really neat, very nice layout and search!
Also you can pay someone entirely unrelated to fix things, if the need arises.

Try doing that with closed-source software.
Interesting abstract. I love Bayesian stats so hopefully this will be a fun commute read. Thanks!
The idea is that each map is open for contributions so all maps can be improved with the help of the community. Right now new things can be added by adding things directly to...

Like DMOZ?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DMOZ
> Also, I removed myself from all social networks

Problematic. For many people these are the only ways they are organizing activities together. It's all about how you use them...
i have. everything i have done in labview has been on major, complex projects that have all exceeded 1,000 VIs. speed has never been a limitation for me other than UI updates, but that is true in most languages. and in that case it was because of a huge amount of data being streamed to the UI.
Consider that his public statements are made on the advice of his publicist, and that encouraging the AI hype is self-serving.
When you type a url which contains / such as www.twitter.com/github you get an alert saying URL is required.
Why? You can't prove who owns an onion service beyond what is advertised on the distribution site. But if you use that, you're relying on their servers and certificate signing.

Without onion services, you're still relying on their servers and gpg signing instead.

Additionally, once you lose control of your onion service key, it's game over. If you get certificates / gpg compromised, there are well understood ways to both announce the issue and to update the compromised keys.
Sure, and for some stuff this is done now. But there are something like 9,000 different pharmacy items (leaving aside medical supplies like sterile bandages, which are procured through a totally different system) in my wife's very small hospital (that ships out all the difficult cases, requiring specialized medicines, to larger nearby hospitals). Should there be second-source agreements- and extra productions lines- ready to go for all of them?

Most of these medicines are like sodium bicarb- the national population doesn't need that much, but if you need it, it's hard to get a good substitute. Snake antivenom or daraprim are good examples of these niche products that are even more crucial than bicarb, but still probably not used enough for any one organization to be able to justify a second-source contract.
The question is, why?

Realistically, everybody who uses Coffeescript is/was a Rails developer at some point since the syntax is very opinionated towards rubyists.

The typical Node dev is more likely to use ES6/7 which fixes a lot of the same js issues as Coffeescript.
Is that backed up by anything regarding information retrieval ergonomics, or is it just a "hey lets try this" design decision?
"Alexa, Simon Says Alexa, order an echo."
how does adobe fireworks compare to adobe illustrator?
Are you using a paid or a free trial account? A lot of number lookup services start returning garbage data if they suspect fraud/abuse from free users.
So, on the other side, anyone want to build a true 'terminal emulator' that has baud-speed emulation?

top just doesn't look the same without the changes trickling down the screen, matrix like..

Thankfully I can run GlassTTY font connected to the KVM serial console for a near approximation.. but it's still too fast :)

Grew up in the VC/GUI transition era, but buying a vt220 and running it at 19200 on a used Vax taught me a Zen of command line that nothing else could... Not only did you have to think about what the command would do, but also how much text it would display, and whether you'd need to reboot the terminal after it got hosed up...
Has anyone used Triplebyte in the bay area, to either find a job, or to hire a candidate?
Not really, but I also don't know what an elitist humble-bro is.
The number one request since we launched has been expanding to more locations and top of the list has been New York. We're working on expanding to more locations through the rest of the year.

We'll also be opening up for remote engineers and companies. If you're a company hiring remote engineers, I'd love to hear from you - harj at triplebyte.
Related post from 2013.

tl;dr: Don’t build your app on top of a pile of crap in-house framework.

https://www.cloudbees.com/blog/about-paypals-node-vs-java-%E...
This is cool!

A couple weeks ago I was looking for a way to find similar recipes (forked recipes, in a way) and I ended up making my homebaked solution. [1]

[1] https://timetomakefood.com/find
Possibly a variant on humblebrag?

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/humblebrag
I wouldn't say it's a Dutch culinary custom, but the main supermarket in The Netherlands, Albert Heijn (35% market share), does focus heavily on prepared packages with vegetables and indeed even "kant en klaar" (ready to go) meals.

For example: https://www.ah.nl/zoeken?rq=groentemix&searchType=product

Or: https://www.ah.nl/zoeken?rq=maaltijdsalade&searchType=produc...

The real upside with these is that most package are actually have a good ingredient balance; not compromising on the quality to make them sell better. Even the prepared bread you can find in the To Go shop on stations aren't filled with mayonnaise and sugar and mostly use whole wheat bread. Unlike the competitors in that space, which mostly sell cheap unhealthy products.
> it affects processors only

Yes, exactly like I said. It prevents processors from requiring merchants not to have minimum charges. In other words, it prevents processors from making agreements with merchants where "requiring minimum purchases is a violation of the merchant-processor agreement". It doesn't stop someone else from stopping the merchant from having a minimum charge, but it does stop the type of merchant-processor agreement that you described.
I would guess that nerd cred is not the reason for most people.

It's about competitive advantage. Some people just want an edge over other people in their career. Some don't want to miss the "next best thing". Some people just want to be stay relevant and be employed.
Trusting a professional's recommendation is not treating them as infallible, it's called "using the advice you paid for". No I don't blindly trust my mechanic, you shouldn't blindly trust anyone but generally when you seek out a professional's opinion on something it's because you value their expertise.

> You should be double-checking absolutely every single thing a doctor is telling you

Right, because the average person who knows next to nothing on mental health is going to make a better judgement call on which medication to prescribe their child than their doctor.

Guess what, if that were the case we wouldn't have a story here.
> The key trait of a blockchain is that each new entry cryptographically verifies all previous entries

I see what you're saying. Basically: distributed database + signatures + merkle tree = blockchain.

I usually use this definition: decentralized and sybil-resistant database + signatures + merkle tree = blockchain.

So I think the key trait that turns a distributed database into a blockchain is not the merkle tree, but is its decentralized nature. Anyone can be a transaction validator and no one can prevent transaction validation.
Not "private" as in "dedicated to voice traffic". Almost all modern telcos route their PSTN as packets on the same MPLS/IP or pure-IP network as internet traffic.

This network is usually "privately owned" by the telco in the USA, but is publicly owned or subsidized in many parts of the world.

But there is in general no "separate" PSTN other than last-mile copper in most of the world.
One thing I recently discovered that is very cool is Adobe's Alchemy (later called FlasCC and then CrossBridge) which is able to generate SWFs from C++. Not too much documentation can be found around it but it certainly intrigued me to realize you could bring your C++ applications to the browser (assuming Flash is installed/enabled)!
Hey thanks! This is a good clarification. I'm happy to modify my criticism from "the author is strictly off by a factor of 1000" to "the author strongly leads the reader to believe the size of the effect is 1000 times stronger than it really is, but he deftly avoids saying anything that's technically false, and in any case the reader shouldn't care about this since it represents an dead-weight loss of about $2 per person per year, which is less than the value of the reader's time spent reading this article".
A Conversation with Curator and Alto Restorer Al Kossow
I would think the next logical step (after metal printing comes down in price) will be to start printing mixtures of metals and plastics, which would eventually lead to being able to print more complicated things such as motors.
Nice.. I've apparently gravitated myself to the fastest of the lot naturally..

Side note: was supervising some kid who absolutely couldn't believe that the reason his 'workstation was locking up' was that he was catting giant logfiles in a second pane of his single-process gnome terminal.. I told him to use Xterm or something else, since they spawned one process per window, and he tried for a while, but went back, and continued to complain, because just couldn't believe that the terminal could get bogged down, and further, missed his pretty anti-aliased fonts.

Sigh.
Flash was the great motivator for browser vendors to improve [their] technology

Flash was the first technology to really compete with the open web. That competition (which went both ways, mind you; recall such late excesses as Flash's Text Layout Framework) ultimately made the web stronger and more versatile. It's hard to imagine what the world might look like today had that fire never been lit under the web standards movement.
I've also been waiting for Google Cloud Storage support for a long time. Please add it, Panic! That's the only thing I'm missing.
On the topic of "likely exhausts memory":

The best search methods allow reversible state updates. The reversibility makes things super-fast -- you no longer need to copy all data structures on path expansion. Instead, you modify only a single representation, incrementally. And when retracting a search step, you "undo" the same modifications again, arriving at the exact same state as when you started.

This is of course non-trivial -- it is much easier to copy everything, then throw away the entire copy when it's not needed, rather than keeping a single state incrementally consistent. But the effects due to data locality (excellent caching), better memory management (no allocations, fragmentation) and less work (only touch and update parts of the state that matter) can be tremendous.

I haven't seen any discussion of DeepMind's implementation details for AlphaGo, but since they come from a game development background (David Silver was the CTO and lead dev at Elixir Studios), where each cycle counts, I have no doubt they're well familiar with all these concepts. But then the TPU throws a wrench into it again...
One minor upside to the rapid change is that I can sit out an entire stack and hop back into relevancy with some totally new stack a year later.
It's easier than Qt in so far as I don't know C or how to distribute a Qt based app with all the necessary libraries.
Is it actually a problem though? I'm not a high volume consumer of numbers, but I've not had any spam on the handful of numbers I have.

The same can't be said for my physical POTS/cellular numbers.

Anecdote of one, and everything, but has anyone actually impactful levels of spam from an insufficiently cooled number that they wouldn't have had from any number in the area code?
> There's been absolutely zero effort to overhaul the core PHP API which is, on the whole, absolute junk.

If you were involved with the internals team at all, you would know this is not true.
The question is, do any of the existing web stacks come close to the beginner friendly aspects of the original flash?

I don't think so.. I can imagine any of my musician friends installing $FRAMEWORK and building a web site full of their own animations, menu's, and music playback..

Flash for all its "evilness" still IMHO hasn't been matched.
Limiting those enterprising disruptors to those with 32 billion dollars to spare narrows the field a touch. :)

[1] http://innovativesolarfarms.com/solar-farm-cost-per-acre/ gives $500k per acre
> C) As I said above: I had a car when I rented the place. I gave it up later. That was not in my plans at the time that I rented the place.

Without commenting on (A) or (B), surely (C) is not a reasonable complaint? If you rent a 2-bedroom, but then your roommate moves out, then certainly it was not in your plans at the time that you rented, but just as certainly you wouldn't expect your rent to go down. (I recognise that it's a different situation, since no-one can readily use the other bedroom, whereas someone can use the parking space; but what I mean is that "That was not in my plans" is not in itself a justification for a rent abatement.)