skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've been thinking about that since a comment I made a while back. It was made here in response to an article about the CIA black sites.

In that comment, I said torture was unacceptable and more so when it was done in my name.

I have since wavered on this as I've considered some proposed hypotheticals. I've decided, at least for now, that it may not always be wrong but that it is always abhorrent.

Hypothetically, such a situation could exist where it is the right choice but it is still reprehensible. The whole WMD thing and saving a city? Yeah, I guess it's the right choice but it's still abhorrent. If I had every reason to believe the information could be extracted, I'd do the torturing myself.

In the end, I'd hope that I'd be more unhappy that I was forced to do so than I was unhappy that I did so. I imagine it would bother me for the rest of my life, but I'd accept that burden.
On the flip side of things, going into a relationship specifically to try to solve your depression, misery, or loneliness can lead to unhealthy relationships.
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doctors told them they were being rebellious & put them on medications
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I also did a TLDR of the podcast and posted it to HN:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15470216

Best.
What about orphan drugs? It's true that more orphan drugs are being commercialized. But prices tend to be astronomical. Far better would be patent donation, and not-for-profit production.
I've never been on a friend's sailboat, I've never been backstage at a concert through a mate. If missing that is the worst you have to deal with, good luck to you sir.
I honestly find it suspect that the media is full of "russia! russia! russia!", but nobody ever mentions China, which is in a far greater position for war (1.6 MILLION TROOPS) and accounts for like 28% of all known hack attempts.

And speaking of influencing elections... there was this thing in the 90's called... Chinagate. [1] With millions directly found to influence an election. As well as leaked weapons and nuclear secrets as recently as >>2009<<. But I guess 6 years is forever ago and China has completely changed its ways.

p.s. And I'm NOT saying "don't talk about Russia" I'm saying, why aren't we talking about BOTH?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1996_United_States_campaign_fi...
A shared codebase does not a software team make
I think you've misread the tone of the article. It seems to be mostly tongue-in-cheek
That isn't always true. If everyone started eating healthier and started exercising the world would benefit from a smaller demand of health care. If everyone stopped polluting the environment would be cleaner.

I think what is being talked about is something along the lines of if everyone became a minimalist then most people would be out of a job.
This is quite the extraordinary discovery.
Adguard found 220 sites that launch mining when a user opens their main page
California test scores fail to improve despite extra preparation time
Aside from being a bad idea there is no actual content describing how to synthesize anything. Any chemists about? Is it even plausible for the medications he's talking about, like Hep C treatments?
Cute. It's like the plugin that replaces all instances of the world "cloud" with "butt"
Earlier, related discussion on same topic:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15438694

Print edition title: "California students' test scores flatline" (October 9, page D1)
What does this have to do with a lack of self-awareness?
Maybe I'm reading too much into it, but I'd like to suggest that possibly something is seriously wrong in our society if we need to revert to home made drugs instead of what pretty much the rest of the civilized world does: providing them to their citizens by means of a single payer, universal health care system.
I think home made reactors is a terrible idea. As a few comments have already pointed out, many things could go wrong in a synthesis—the fact that are trusting users to make a reactor to begin with is already an awful idea.

In addition, chemists are not just trained to “make stuff”—the average person isn’t trained to handle toxic chemicals. Even if a person is aware of how to handle chemicals properly, accidents really do happen.

A good example is that bromoethane is listed as a starting material for Daraprim on this website—Google for the MSDS for this chemical and you will know what I mean.

Then there are the clean up and analyses after you have made something. No, it’s not as simple as checking melting points.

I appreciate that people try to take it into the hands to fight what I personally consider to be unfair, but I think this is not how it’s done and it’s a terrible idea.
Unpopular opinion: you'll probably find that people who went to college will tell you to take the job, not realizing how college helped them (honestly it sure seems like it wasn't that directly useful in retrospect), and people who dropped out of school will tell you to finish school first. How are those of us with degrees supposed to know what life would have been like if we'd never finished high school?

How many more months would it take to finish high school? Could the company not just wait until your last required day for your start date?
I didn't read that as a suggestion there's some secret AIDs vaccine kept locked away by big pharma, rather that many have died because of lack of access to the treatments that exist.
It might not be positive, but we are making a difference
Like most things in life, moderation is probably the wisest path... I have had a very limited social life for the past 5 years. Working from home, putting most of my energy into my work and family. The work was a success... the company grew and got sold. The family did just OK. Personally, I have no friends left because I stopped seeing them. I stopped going to kung fu classes. I just stopped doing things, like the article said. And 5 years later, I find myself realizing that yes, there were upsides to being at home and working... but I do not think I am a better person for it. I actually think I'm kinda boring and quite stagnant, and it is a bit of a letdown to have to come to terms with that.

So a few weeks or a month of that sounds fine. But again... moderation in all things. (Don't be like me.)
I'm guessing that none of their workers making subminimum wage[1] got fired.

[1] http://extras.mercurynews.com/silicon-valley-imported-labor/
Yep, I'm talking about the content.

I use Swift and Objective-C, but I've consulted InterviewCake content for every other language except PHP at some point. The sample data structures and question answers are nice code samples when I need a quick reminder for how to do basic things in languages that I don't use on a regular basis.

Not having Go or Rust isn't a big deal, if I could choose one it'd be Go. I want to learn Go for myself, and asking for a friend for Rust.

I also never use the editor on the site, I write/run the code on my machine. I never liked using the editor the few times I tried it. I see in another comment you made in this thread that a new one is coming soon, so I'm excited to try it. Any chance I could beta test? :)
Sure, here's 45,000. Did you actually Google your snarky response before calling bingo?

https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2009/09/new-study-fin...
I can swear I came across a study I found, I believe, on Erowid, which noted this link had a lower instance of increased mental illness than religious "meccas" do.

In light of that evidence, it's entirely possible the human experience itself, and not some more mechanistic action or first order effect of the drug, cause the increase in mental illness.

I'm trying to find this source, but am coming up short and on mobile, but will look into it later.
Top-Notched?
It's not the wanting to know part that makes someone seem entitled. It's the way they go about obtaining the answers to the questions they want to know. Dealing with humans sometimes requires tact, regardless of what you have to bring to the table.
A beautiful, amazing, and informative set of knowledge.

Sadly, an experience tarnished by the three, full page prompts for email subscription, right in the middle of the information flow.
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It's also important to note that, unlike the movies, most bases don't actually have a lot of people walking around armed. Combat gear is stowed and firearms are in the armory under lock and key. Most jobs don't actually require carrying a weapon while on duty. Even those that do need some sort of weapon don't require such at all times.

The only time I regularly carried a weapon was when I was a transportation officer/chaser. I carried a .45 and a 12ga and only when I was performing duties that required such, namely while actively participating in the transfer of detainees.

Keep in mind that my first four years was in the infantry and included combat. I probably carried a weapon a smaller percentage of the time with that MOS than I did while working at the brig.
To lament the loss of these things that most people never have the chance to experience might be interpreted as flaunting. Or perhaps I'm just bitter, don't take it to heart.
i tend to read "life" as the experiential aspect of existing, and pursuing my desires.

"failure" and "success" are notions relative to goal achievement, and biology doesn't have goals - it's a mechanistic process.
Can someone explain to me why Xi is considered to have "consolidated his grasp"? This seems to be a well accepted idea but I don't see what substantiates that. He starts his second term as prime minister of China, and serving two terms has been the norm in recent times.

I did not remark China becoming more authoritarian under his rule. I do not see indications that he may stay after 2022, his scheduled depart. What did I miss?
Actually, I think this is more a risk of marijuana, which in the US, is prescribable in several states, legal in a few, and decriminalized in most.

Which is not to say that I encourage recklessness with psychedelics, but that forasmuch as that is a concern with LSD or psilocybin, we're got bigger fish on our hands. Marijuana is much more available than either of those.
Does anybody else find the wording of articles on this site to be really odd, as if it was run through a translator or written by a buggy A.I. algorithm?
I'd definitely advise anyone thinking about this to do their research but the risk doesn't seem to be as large as often suggested. There was a large US study that showed no correlation between lifetime psychedelic use and mental health problems.

"[...] lifetime use of LSD, psilocybin, mescaline, or peyote, or past year use of LSD, was not associated with a higher rate of mental health problems."

https://www.nature.com/news/no-link-found-between-psychedeli...
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3747247/
Lisp is popular? Where?

It was almost mainstream in the 1980s when there were four Lisp Machine companies (Xerox, Symbolics, Texas Instruments, LMI) and symbolic AI, particularly expert systems, were used. Not so much now.

I still use it. If you know it you can be much more expressive and productive in it than in other mainstream languages, and when there's something you need that's missing from Lisp, you can extend Lisp to include it.

There are reasons it's fallen from favour, some of which lisper has given here. It's a mistake to languages necessarily succeed or fail on their merits.
> it attracts the type of people that focus on gaming those rules

Can you tell me how you know this or what makes you think it is true? It sounds like a readily available stereotype.
Haha, I wonder if the Chinese premier in Veep is based off of him.
Very interting, my dream too.

I made similar OS. ACPU OS run on mobiles/desktop/browsers/bare-metal, with multiuser p2p team development livecoding, time travel debugger, multiple libraries, startup in 30 seconds on iPad in development mode with synchronization, compile sources & symbol navigations, etc. Powered by ACPUL programming language.

Here is OS API:

https://github.com/d08ble/acpul-demo/tree/master/sys

Simple multiplayer DOTA game prototype:

https://github.com/d08ble/acpul-demo/tree/master/dota

Some demos:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pk58kWIAqMM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UsQklNVUDwM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ubNfWarTawI

Follow us: https://twitter.com/ACPUStudio
45,000!?! you should easily be able to point out say 10 specific cases where lack of access to a drug killed someone in the last year right?
Hold on...
I thought due to the C preprocessor, you couldn't have just a single pass. Unless they aren't counting it as a pass?
> Is moving non-digital collusion between big businesses to the Internet really the best we can achieve?

Unfortunately, yes! Thats because the Internet is just a tool and those who use it (i.e. us) haven't changed fundamentally since the advent of that tool. So why would you expect a tool to achieve a different outcomes?

If you want different outcomes, let's try changing human beings; more specifically, let's devise ways to mitigate greed, envy and jealousy.
Saying that is like saying Xerox invented graphical computing, it’s true but misses the point. The Macintosh vastly improved graphical computing and its cost.

In phones Apple hasn’t been first with any technology, but it’s been first making the useful and usable for the mass market a lot.
You're not solving the same problem. You're fixing the keys of the nested maps to a single type, but the difficulty is when the keys are all different types.

In other words, you want to type a general form of:

Map a (Map b (Map c ... z)) -> (a, b, c...) -> z -> Map a (Map b (Map c ... z))

And even that is more limited that Clojure's `assoc-in`, as the type signature still assumes each nested map is homogenous.
There oughta be a list of surreptitious monetization, like the demotivational version HDTMM.

http://www.seerinteractive.com/labs/how-do-they-make-money/
Political observers have called Xi "the most powerful Chinese leader since Deng Xiaoping."[84] Xi has notably departed from the "collective rule" practices of his predecessor Hu Jintao.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xi_Jinping#Consolidation_of_po...

The entire article is a good read, it's amazing how much power he has.
Penguins starving to death is sign that something’s very wrong in the Antarctic
Bentley driver caught littering gets a helping of instant justice
This comes up all the time. Lots of systems are universal without being single payer.

Or look at Medicaid. It has 50 payers (or more, not sure how territories are implemented). ~1/4 of Americans get health coverage through Medicaid.
Contact 1 million people and tell them you will transfer $1000 to them as long as they respond within one minute. Do a test. Probably 10% will respond so pay them the $100 billion. Repeat the exercise until you find 1 million reliable people probably after 10 tries or so. This will only cost you about $1 trillion.
His anti-corruption campaign is the main one. There's a focus on "tigers" and "flies" - high profile targets and a general clean-up of low-level corruption. It seems like quite a lot of the "tigers" were opponents of Xi.

Also, he gets compared to his immediate predecessor (Hu) who was was very bland and worked more on a consensus model.
No, 500 million people aren't mining cryptocurrency in their browsers. Clickbait extraordinaire. 500M monthly visits =/= 500M people, jeez.
One such: https://www.gskforyou.com/
No. They were ballpark the same on everything (+\- 10%) but I didn't look closer than that.
Someone really should make 'Crypto-Blocker' plugins for browsers, similar to Ad Blockers.
That's the best kind of female unit: eat, fuck and hang out a little bit, then bounces (no pun intended).

The goal ought to be for life-partner, eg, only get married to have kids AND been together around 10 years AND (optionally) it would have clear financial advantages. Otherwise, the divorce king of NY has more customers.

Advantages of female cohab (beyond roommate): teamwork, organizing remaining social life and do all/most of the worrying for you.

Disadvantages: "honey do" lists, less sex, more expectations, more changes, more spending and possibly resenting them (and/or blaming yourself) for any/all the previous.
Yea I mean, it's part of a lyric from a song so it's debatable whether it's meant to be taken literally or if he just needed something that sorta rhymes:

A toast to the dead / For children with cancer and AIDS / A cure exists and you probably could've been saved / Sad to see medicine divorce morality / Corporate home-wreckers pimpin' up the salary

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kLBNMhzn8VI
Visual Studio Code seems like a good Electron app, but I've never checked its memory usage. The point is it's possible to create one though.
Hunt for red flags, you can thank me later:

-The person I'm replacing, why did they leave?

-How much overtime is done and is it paid? Are weekends required? Are people asked to volunteer for a weekend shift? Do you have "deployment days" where people have to stay until/past midnight not accounted anywhere?

-Who is going to be my manager/technical lead? Can I talk to them?

-Is this a full time position, or full time supplemental (ex: IBM) Oh, it's full time suplemental, is overtime paid? Do I have vacation days and health insurance?

-Can you show me the exact spot where I'll be sitting?

-Can I take two weeks to decide on the offer considering I have currently three more interviews in progress?
Wouldn’t ScriptBlocker uMatrix handle that by default?
Is this actually a blog post? I'd read it.
from what I gather this information is for people who can rationally establish their own risk/rewards envelope, invoking an ethical argument. the target audience would be the person disciplined in concepts (from the top of my head) Informed consent, Precautionary Principle, the Hippocratic Oath, the scientific method, and very good at challenging cognitive fallacies, fact based scientific evidence, etc. An argument could be made that if an individual, for whatever circumstances beyond their control, is unable to get the medicine they need, and if they are capable of understanding some key concepts, they should have the right to do this (if they have the means to do it).
What would be the advantage? Why put in all that work just to reinvent the wheel?
Interesting that they've considered whether the mining itself is bad, or if it's just bad form to mine without asking.

> The ethical way for a website to earn money by mining through its audience’s computers is to ask the audience for permission first, and to allow them the possibility to opt out. Actually, such a practice could make mining even more ethical than ads. After all, nobody asks us if we would like to see ads on a website. Mining parasitizes the user’s CPU, where ads parasitize the user’s attention, emotions, bandwidth, and often, their laptop or smartphone battery, and supports an industry of personal data harvesting that is a big headache in of itself.
Unfortunately it'd take 1.5 years to finish, or I would ask such a thing. I dropped out because I went to full high school but didn't get credit for two years of it and was not going to make it up. I was a bit reckless.
adblock already blocks it.
This article seems to imply that Global Warming is at least partly at fault, but the similar 2013 event was attributed to too much sea ice, not warming, in another Guardian article[1]:

"The colony had experienced a similar event in 2013, when no chicks survived. In a paper about that event, a group of researchers, led by Yan Ropert-Coudert from France’s National Centre for Scientific Research, said it had been caused by a record amount of summer sea ice and an “unprecedented rainy episode”."

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/oct/12/penguin-...
Such a campaign would be helpful, I agree.
Gotta bodge together, rent, borrow, steal or buy an old mass-spec that works, otherwise taking untested kitchen drugs shares a lot of risks in common with taking street drugs.
> Any alternative to advertising is a good thing.

If only. This isn't an alternative, it's a supplement. Sites have absolutely no incentive to stop advertising; they will simply continue to show the user ads while also discreetly wasting your electricity calculating hashes.
Ah ok; thanks!
I think a similar issue applies with Epipen. There is an alternative, Adrenaclick (still expensive but not quite as bad), but because the delivery mechanism is different the prescription needs to be written differently.

Transdermal delivery unfortunately seems to be underexplored and very expensive in general. Transdermal estradiol is another one that is much more expensive than the pill form but is better in terms of safety. Generic patches available outside the US are less expensive (than patches in the US, still quite a lot more expensive than pill form). I'm not sure if generic patches are completely unavailable in the US or if they are just also quite expensive.

Melatonin is another case where transdermal delivery can be helpful, but it is difficult to find and fairly expensive (not quite as bad, though).

Beyond delivery mechanisms, drug companies also create modified forms of a drug (prodrug or metabolite or slightly different but similar substance) that have small advantages over the previous version. Again, these can't be substituted and doctors need to know to write the prescription for the form available as a generic. Best for the drug companies is when the origional form is pulled from the market by the FDA right after the patent expires, as happened with the antihistamine Seldane/terfenadine (replaced by Allegra/fexofenadine, a metabolite).

In other cases where out of patent drugs are not available as generics it is because the market is small and the current manufacturer can instantly drop their price to match if a generic appears, making it likely that anyone who attempts to make a generic will loose money.
At least it helps strengthen the crypto-currencies, which is a good thing.

I'd be curious how much CPU is wasted rendering billions of ads, especially video, I suspect it's a lot more than the crypto hashing, and three orders of magnitude more money is made by this "borrowing" of your CPU in exchange for letting you read the site you're looking at.
Not yet!

Edit: but it'd make a good one, right?