skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The cost of medicine I require to be functional enough to hold down a job has risen so much that the copay is the equivalent of the entire out-of-pocket cost from a few years ago.

The medication was discovered in 1969. The application method, which is the shitty excuse for the patents protecting its $2,200/month price tag, was first approved for use by the FDA in 1979. The drug has been for sale in it's current form for over a decade.
The environment was pretty controlled, and I haven't touched anything of that nature for a couple of years now.

But, the solar cell thing sounds interesting. Cheap or? Got any links you can share with me? Thanks!
Bitcoin now serves the same purpose as digital gold. Some other crypto currency will probably end up as the equivalent of "digital cash", one which is suited for the purpose, people will be able to shift back and forth between the two in the same way they can now with gold and cash.
How does it compare with other modern solutions like https://quilljs.com/?
So what do our popular melodies say about the mood of the people? Is the music you listen to in your headphones while you write code analogous to the songs of peasants in the field?
He has a big heart. A few years ago Steve gave an interview with Patrick Bet-David, which was simply a marketing piece for Patrick's company, PHP Agency. PHP Agency is a financial firm founded on the power of "network marketing". The idea behind network marketing is to turn your social network into pyramid, positioning yourself at the top of the pyramid. I don't like network marketing companies, and I believe they are all sub-par. In this interview, which you can find on YouTube, Steve Wozniak described PHP Agency as a hit.
No, I'm saying just do a switch with four branches, %15, %5, %3, default, and break all of them. That way you're explicit about the ambiguous case and you avoid string concat or stateful stdout logic.
good question, my bet is Bitcoin Cash will be the cryptocurrency that will scale to the masses, it has a larger block size for transactions and large mining rigs support
hsikka is a rising star. Definitely a person to watch. Great stuff here.
You could adjust the error function. The common Root Mean Square error pushes predictions to the average. If you use absolute errors, or even a logistic function instead, you'll encourage the model to commit to a decision on a multimodal distribution.

Alternatively, use a discrete colour space and consider colours as categorical data not implying any ordinal scale.
I stopped many years ago. I was working on it in between sending out job applications, I was happy to gain experience working on a code base larger than I felt comfortable reading and one that is ugly but a rewrite is not an option.

I didn't add too many features, I was mostly reducing the amount of compiler noise and fixing any bugs I ran across.
The day anyone can get dna-programmable yeast and a reactor to grow it- big pharma is goone. What a nice woody sort of word.
One can debate whether or not this is a "true" operating system, but I'd like to coin a (new?) term: "virtual operating system"...not to be confused with emulation or virtual machines, but rather an OS that runs on top of a host OS. One obvious use for such a thing is reskinning an underlying operating system in a non-trivial way, i.e. completely changing the UI paradigms. Another use is allowing programmatic access to virtually everything.
I can't imagine the size of the overlap between people savvy/interested/experimental enough to attempt this sort of remedy and those desperately poor AND ill enough to do so. While the idea of bio-hacking as a hobbyist or proof-of-concept is becoming less and less uncommon, and people generally appreciate efforts to raise awareness toward a broken and inefficient healthcare and insurance system, attempting to "market" that DIY process using a fancy name, logo, and "mad scientist hacker anarchist intellectual" persona seems disingenuous at best, and potentially dangerous.
Yup, Ecto is awesome. For a project this recent, it does a lot of things right and gets out of your way when you need plain sql.

I've been using Django for a decade and there are simple queries that were impossible with the ORM until recently.

If you have to twist the ORM into spitting out the SQL you already know how to build, you know there's something wrong.
IRS suspends contract with Equifax after malware discovered
After reading his autobiography, iWoz, Wozniak has a real passion for education. He especially has a passion for K-12. I believe he is genuine in his desire to improve tech and STEM education.
> The latter is trivial to type; the former is not.

That's why I'm not trying to make it typed. Instead of

Map a (Map b c)

I'm dropping down to something like

Map Int (Map Text a)
Map Int (Map Text Text)
[Map Text Text]
Vector (Map Text Text)

...which is more like what's really going on in Clojure.

Come to think about it, assoc-in is a great example of why I want static types. It's very hard to figure out what that function does from reading the documentation. There's no type signature to help me, the description doesn't give me much more to go on. Reading the examples leaves me wondering whether I actually understand what it's doing or if I'm missing some corner case.

> it will generate and run tests for all functions that have specs

But you have to write the specs. And that's the code I'm talking about. Fundamentally the generator can't just know what behavior you want and what you don't want. You have to tell it.
I find this project by Endless/Matt Dalio to be a real life manifestation of this video:

What do the Rich really Want?
Imagine if oddly, wealthy capitalists didn't primarily want money; but something odder and more hopeful: respect.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KcUkgR4Op00

Would love to get people's opinion on this video.

Here's a set of videos of the Endless founder.
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLUrqcWVF3uekfwjPrNpoq...

If you think of how he could have instead utilized his wealth (investing in non-renewable energy projects, high ROI defense/gun stocks) this definitely seems like a less bad alternative.

Also its way better in my opinion than the alternative of using public tax payer money being used for this effort. It needs to be designed to be self sustainable. OLPC seems to have diverted money away from other developing world causes.
You don't have to be a team player. You just have to pretend to be a team player. Big difference.

It's surprisingly easy to pretend. From my experience, a lot of rich people are surprisingly bad at seeing the difference between fake and genuine... If everyone around you is fake, you get used to it and it becomes the norm. You don't notice what is normal.

The richer someone is, the nicer people will be toward them and the more easily they become offended when someone is not nice. Being offended is not the norm for rich people so it hurts more when it happens.
I think that this is an unfair criticism of someone who said in their very post, "economies of scale."

One person who wishes for governments to do more for the poor can't be held responsible for the entire homeless population in the nation. That's absurd.
Why not just always run git under memory limits?

For example:

% ulimit -a
-t: cpu time (seconds) unlimited
-f: file size (blocks) unlimited
-d: data seg size (kbytes) unlimited
-s: stack size (kbytes) 8192
-c: core file size (blocks) 0
-m: resident set size (kbytes) unlimited
-u: processes 30127
-n: file descriptors 1024
-l: locked-in-memory size (kbytes) unlimited
-v: address space (kbytes) unlimited
-x: file locks unlimited
-i: pending signals 30127
-q: bytes in POSIX msg queues 819200
-e: max nice 30
-r: max rt priority 99
-N 15: unlimited
% ulimit -d $((100 * 1024)) # 100 MB
% ulimit -m $((100 * 1024)) # 100 MB
% ulimit -l $((100 * 1024)) # 100 MB
% ulimit -v $((100 * 1024)) # 100 MB
% git clone https://github.com/Katee/git-bomb.git
Cloning into 'git-bomb'...
remote: Counting objects: 18, done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (6/6), done.
remote: Total 18 (delta 2), reused 0 (delta 0), pack-reused 12
Unpacking objects: 100% (18/18), done.
fatal: Out of memory, malloc failed (tried to allocate 118 bytes)
warning: Clone succeeded, but checkout failed.
You can inspect what was checked out with 'git status'
and retry the checkout with 'git checkout -f HEAD'
Right away, i will state that i am biased in favor of decentralized/distributed/federated styles of platforms, such as mastodon gnu social, etc. Having said that, i still think your needs might be best met by one or some of these non-centralized platforms (and not twitter)...Here's one way you can test this quite easily and painlessly (using mastodon as an easy-to-onboard example):

1. Visit https://instances.social and walk through the choices. This will help you choose a mastodon "instance" which would be most relevant to you.

2. Then join and use/play around with that recommended mastodon server.

The beauty of mastodon - and other similar platforms - is that you are not stuck to that server only. Mastodon does not have a single, central server like twitter; each of its numerous servers can however connect with each other. (Apologies, i don't know your level of tech literacy, so am purposefully keeping this high-level for ease of explanation.) You can join any peer server/instance and still connect with friends/acquaintances from other mastodon servers. Some of these other mastodon servers focus around a specific community, some do not. You could join one of these servers - maybe the one that helps protect its users to be yes open in their opinion but shielded from hostiles, trolls, a$$holes, etc. I can't say for sure because i don't know, but there certainly could be such a mastodon server out there. (We must remember that there often are people thinking and feeling the same as us at times.) Think of it like email: anyone can send a message to anyone else (provided they know their recipient's address) but each person can have an email address from different domains! Alice's address might be alice@whatever.com, and she can can send a message to bob@bobshop.net...and neither of them "reside" on the same email server...And email - as far as delivery is concerned - has worked pretty ok for several decades. This tech philosophy can work for social networks as well.

I may be missing the mark on what you really want, since i'm only going off of minimal notes...but i really believe in non-centralized platforms. I myself am a fan of Gnu Social, but Mastodon is simply such a powerful platform because the on-boarding is so very simple. (And, by the way mastodon servers CAN connect with Gnu Social servers, so good benefits all around!) There's a reason that mastodon is so extremely popular. Even if you don't believe in or agree with what I (or others) have stated about non-central platforms, I encourage you to try it out and see for yourself, if it meets your needs. Good luck!!!
Ask HN: How do Hacker News articles become “Dead”?
I'm using the public BigQuery Hacker News data to track popular keywords and I'm thinking that filtering out "dead" articles would be helpful, but I want to understand how articles become "dead" first. Does anyone know what the process is?
The world’s first “negative emissions” plant has begun operation
> does that mean that rust cannot optimize for things C could?

Here's my best understanding of the situation. Someone who actually understands the compiler might have to correct me:

- Pointers in unsafe Rust don't do any strict aliasing optimizations, which C compilers sometimes do. The Rust memory model isn't fully specified, though, and the status quo seems to be related to not actually passing type information to LLVM. Not clear whether this will change in the future. There's some discussion of it here: http://smallcultfollowing.com/babysteps/blog/2016/05/27/the-...

- References in safe Rust (the vast majority of code) have much stronger aliasing information than pointers do in C. This is one of the core features of Rust, that references that allow mutation are guaranteed not to be aliased. I think the status quo is that this information isn't passed to LLVM because of some LLVM bugs getting in the way, but that it should start working in the near future. When all of this is working, I think it should produce code that's faster than C, in the same way that Fortran sometimes does.
Here is proof that Rust is unnecessary. Lisp comes from the past to save the future from itself.
https://www.facebook.com/help/community/question/?id=1015383...
As announced, breaking changes are over now. And the interface is written to be easy to type, and [type definitions](https://github.com/DefinitelyTyped/DefinitelyTyped/pull/1698...) are available.
Flash Forward did an excellent (as usual) episode about this, just a week or so ago: https://www.flashforwardpod.com/2017/10/03/piraceuticals/
What do you suggest that I do then? Read each contradicting study and alter my habits? Or just do whatever I want and wait until there is some real, true, conclusive evidence that something other than what your grandma ate is better for you? I'll be dead by then. I eat every day. I need to choose what to eat now.
Looking at Glassdoor for every company I have ever worked at: it's a mixed bag. There are truthful reviews and then there are the really unhappy individuals who can be overdramatic. Unhappy folks are usually not reviewing the company from an impartial position and the stories can be misleading.

For instance: looking at a recent review of my company from a few days ago, it saddens me to read something written so well that is so inaccurate. The content opines that people of color would not be welcome at our organization. I cannot tell you how completely FAR off that is from the truth. Diversity is something we value tremendously. That being said, we are a tech company in the agricultural space that is located in the midwest. The fact of the matter is: our pool of candidates is simply not that diverse to begin with.

Because we are a small startup focusing on survival, we hire the right person for the job, regardless of their background! Ethnicity, sexual orientation, gender, etc... is never part of the decision! When this sentiment was shared with the organization, the reviewer interpreted it as "we do not care about diversity and people of color". Not making a specific point to hire diverse folks is NOT the same as not appreciating a diverse team!

Now this is almost a self fulfilling prophecy: a person of color might read that post and be completely turned off from even giving our company a shot. It hurts to imagine this scenario.

Long story short: the unhappy folks are usually the loudest and so I think you'll tend to get the 'jade colored' glasses.

Another anecdote: my fiancee was warned by a friend who previously worked at a company she was interviewing at. This person warned her that her manager was mean and grumpy and she'd be unhappy there. My fiancee has been there for months now without any problems whatsoever, and this manager tends to confide in her more than others on the team.

So I think you need to use every available resource you can to gather data points that can feed into your decision... but a lot of it needs to be taken with a grain of salt.
How Many Stars Are in Our Vast Universe?
I think, your truth is your (interpretation of) reality. I believe, any and every thing else doesn't matter.
Because I'm going to trust the kid's medicine down the street with no oversight?

Isn't this kind of like the day 3D printers become affordable, mass manufacturing is done?
Harvard Berkman Center Fellow Judith Donath says pseudonyms make better citizens
Show HN: 1 KB JavaScript library for building applications
I watched Michael present one of the most engaging and exciting talks at HOPE11 in NYC last year. On stage, he proceeded to make Deraprim (The pharma bro's jacked up price anti-toxiplasmosis drug) live on stage and then throw it in the audience. He then called Martin live and said he was his arch rival. Brilliant!

Michael you are a legend and hero for our new dystopian pharma world.
Baidu Sheds Precision Without Paying Deep Learning Accuracy Cost
Got to be a cuckoobird- pretending to be a team-player, placing all those eggs, in foreign baskets.
Well my grandmother wasn't famous. I'm not limiting my experience to famous people, I'm just including them.
There are other currencies out there that have been designed to do that, such as Ripple (it can sustain 1000TPS, I think). Its also 3rd in volume behind BTC and ETH, and its being deployed to banks.
Yay, hopefully no more jankiness. Maybe I can actually use Atom again.
does iota solves this problem?
Starbucks Just Made Your Coffee Experience More Innovative
Facebook hit by controversy over innovation centre in Brazil
the overall affect that Laufer strikes throughout the interview and article gives me a strange impression - it's like a kind of self-parody
I still don't understand the volatility argument. Bitcoin is up 10X since spring 2016.... that volatility is not a problem! You just have to not care about the %30 up down in the middle.
Not op but there are people who I like to communicate with on Facebook and Snapchat and the like who if I got off that platform I would never see again because that is their primary platform for communication.

I have tried to lose these applications for a week or month at a time and I do miss out on the latest happenings with them. I have tried to switch them to different services but for one reason or another they don't like it and want to go back.

Commonly this is the switching cost of learning how a new app works but to lose those friendships are not worth the anonymity that I gain from not using the services.
You mean a homebrew kit and some $100 DNA from Twist? https://www.twistbioscience.com/

Why not start with spider-silk dresses: https://boltthreads.com/
That middle out compression has some fantastic Weissman scores I believe.
> And regular people don't just have an NMR spectrometer at home.

I've only watched NurdRage videos, but it seems like sending samples to commercial NMR labs is pretty feasible as he does that regularly. So that might not be as big of an issue.
Lol. I'm sure random people walk around your house all the time unless you're in the middle of nowhere.

What's stopping a random guy from walking around taking pictures through all the windows when they see you leave? Nothing. Dude just dresses up like the meter reader and does whatever he wants. Even if you "catch" the guy he did nothing illegal. In most places it's totally fine to stroll around on other people's land unless "no trespassing" is clearly marked. Got one of those big signs in your front yard?

If you ever leave the house I'm sure pictures of you with your family have been streamed on countless webcams over the years and probably live TV.

You have no real security unless you've got a cement room with no windows and a metal door. Anything less is just to make people feel better

Your perceived privacy violations sound pretty mundane to me.
In a nutshell: No masters, and no slaves.
Yes, but...

I basically agree with everything you wrote, but for two subsidiary points.

1 - it's a phenomenal development platform. I have on multiple occasions built large systems later deployed, for the reasons you discussed, via C ports. It didn't nullify the work done in Lisp: we learned a lot, and quickly; were able to do quick experiments, etc. But ultimately we needed to join the wider world.

2 - there is / has been a sea change in the software deployment model; it includes web browsers, even more rapid and more flexible development etc. Clojure is a good example and consequence of this change. It's quite possible that the circumstances that led to Lisps decline (though was it really ever "mainstream?") may swing the tide the other way. E.g. "Rapid development and realtime deployment of lisp-based microservices" to agglomerate some popular buzzwords.

FWIW: I was a developer from MACLISP to MIT CADRS, various Symbolics machines (at one point I had two 36xx machines on my desk with color monitors attached) and various D machines. Right now I'm doing my development in C++ though.
Those numbers are settlements, not transactions. Bitcoin has no transaction cap as most transactions can be moved off chain.
I have never once had DHL successfully take a package from one location to another without screwing it up somehow.

I ordered something from Thinkgeek once. It got from New Jersey to Montreal in two days, and it took them a week to actually get it to me. They'd no-show on days customer service told me they'd deliver, then they'd deliver on days customer service told me they wouldn't be showing up. That was the day I learned the value of shipping things to work.

I had a replacement MacBook power adapter shipped out. They left a notice once, and then customer service told me that there'd been three failed attempts and no further attempt would be made. When I asked where the package was, the agent didn't seem to know, but guessed that it was at the depot. When I got to the depot I gave my delivery slip to the guy behind the counter, who came back and said he couldn't find the package. I told him to go look again and this time he actually found it.

I ordered a kit from 23andMe. DHL tried to deliver it once and then returned it to sender. I got them to send me another one (at a $25 fee), which DHL never delivered. I tried a third one, and this one was "at the depot". I went there and waited an hour in a small cement room with nothing but a chair in it while they looked. Eventually they came back and said they'd given up.

Every single encounter I've had with DHL has shown they're completely incapable of performing the core aspect of their business: getting a thing from one person to another. Worse still, they don't really seem to care or even understand that a screw-up is happening.
Are you?

If NYT could switch places with any of the Silicon Valley top companies, it would without skipping a heart beat. Just ask Washington Post.

Silicon Valley has it's problems and advantages.
Newspaper and print media has it's problems and advantages.

Thanks NYT. I promise to keep my guards up as much as I can. Happy?
For people who are interested, it's referenced in the article, but NurdRage did a synthesis of Pyrimethamine "from scratch".

Only took 2 years and ~$22k, but of course, replicating his synthesis would be a little bit easier... for another PhD Chemist.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ddCuWX4vtOA&list=PLU79801KtV...
There's a guy who has a chemistry YouTube channel and synthesized Pyrimethamine recently, check it out:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5kZi3J2S52E
I think the BBC does a good job of being as neutral as reasonably possible. They do it by being equally biased against everyone. Obviously, they’re not perfect, but listening to people like John Humphries it’s not obvious what their political persuasions actually are. Oftentimes, all political parties accuse them of being biased.
> Should hiring decisions be entirely divorced from context?

If by 'context' you mean things not related to the applicants ability to do the job, yes. They don't have anything to do with the ability to do the job.

> Should employers not worry about anything but 'can the person do the job right now'?

No, they should not. Whether they can do the job is your first and only concern.

There are so, so many reasons why someone might be forced to take a less than 'optimal' job. Maybe there are no appropriate jobs in the area available anymore and the applicant is trying to switch fields to one where they can find work. Or maybe they have a family now and can't do the 70-80 hour work weeks for lead dev positions they could do when they were single. Or maybe they've developed anxiety from having the weight of a business' systems lying on their shoulders alone and want a generally easier gig. I've known people in my peer group their late 20s and early 30s that found themselves in all these situations.

These are not the applicants fault, and to reject him on that basis alone makes no sense.