skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As an Australian, i.e. someone who lives in a country which doesn't assume that being poor is a good enough reason for someone to be allowed to die. As well as the brother of a scientist who often runs experiments involving the synthesis of new drugs, I had a torrent of extreme reactions to seeing that this site exists.

1. My immediate reaction was holy shit no, if a situation exists where your countrymen are trying to hack together potentially lethal drugs and medical procedures because you don't have facilities in place to save them, then whatever political decisions you are making, whatever trade deals you are signing, whatever wars you are fighting: stop ALL OF THAT SHIT AND FIX THIS FIRST.

2. Oh my god what a terrible way to die. I understand that this site is probably well-intentioned. I know that for someone with access to a pharmaceutical lab and who has experience in the small-scale manufacture of drugs intended for consumption by living creatures (experiments) including humans (clinical trials) it may make sense that we could just synthesise our own drugs. But failing to recognise that there are very real and very likely scenarios where people will die because you (or someone with your expertise) are not on hand to help them immediately if they fuck up.

I can't help but think that the existence of this site is a net harm to the world, there's just no way the risk calculation is the same between a chemical engineer and a regular chap who needs medication as to the possibility of just making it at home. Making it seem like this is a thing you think that you should do just sounds like bad advice.

But on the other hand, I'm so appalled by the ability of America as a nation to do terrible things such as let its citizens die from treatable illness, that this kind of makes sense. It just feels like the wrong problem to be solving.

I mean, how about focusing on fixing the broken medical system, avoiding killing all the people who aren't white and making it just a little harder for insane people to get guns. While you're at it, you might even want to try and drop "racist as shit" from the assumptions of the rest of the world about your country.
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Mine me. Please.

If I’m on your site, that means you’re doing something for me, and I want you to continue to do it for me. I don’t expect anyone to give me things of value for free, so if you want to to take my unused computer resources as payment for your services, go ahead.
IMO one big advance would be writing the compiler in something other than C. C is a bad language for writing compilers in (including C compilers)!

Even (cough) C++ is better than C for this use case, e.g. comparing LLVM vs. GCC. But C++ has problems too though -- the TableGen language in LLVM is an interesting example of why a big C++ project like LLVM/Clang doesn't want all its logic/specification in C++. They really use C++ to the hilt and they still want/need a DSL.

Other interesting options would be Swift, Rust, OCaml, or Go. Swift, Rust, and OCaml all have algebraic data types.

I guess choosing something other than C or C++ is a little unusual because there is the tendency to self-host. The Rust, OCaml, and Go compilers are written in Rust, OCaml, and Go, respectively. I'm pretty sure Swift is a lot of C++, but that will probably change as times goes on.
How exactly does this kind of secret mining work? Is it effective at all? Don't you need to race to create blocks? How is the average consumer CPU going to win a single block like this?
The Chinese government is concerned that more people will become concerned about human rights issues, not that there currently are many who care. Otherwise, censoring undesired opinions on the internet wouldn't be enough.

In your explanation of the way the US political system provides stability, the important factor is not that bureaucrats are elected, but that their process is slow. It would be equally stable if they were appointed by birthright or any other undemocratic process.

That voters get input into the legislative process is of course a good thing for them in aggregate, but the progress it creates diminishes stability. You can't just keep running your business the same way when the legal environment keeps changing.

Worse, the number of people who get input means that the outcome will be very uncertain. Maybe the law fails to gather support, or it is passed but later ruled unconstitutional, or it is amended after the next election cycle. You have to account for all of these possibilities. Things would be much more stable if you knew far in advance what will happen.

You have convinced me that a single person being able to influence everything might not be very stable either, depending on how fast that individual changes their mind. I now think that a large body of decision makers, appointed for life by any process (be it democratic, autocratic or random) requiring a large quorum of agreement for any decision, would be the most stable system.

If you really want to argue that democracy causes stability, your last sentence should have been: "All democracies are stable countries ...". But I'm not sure you could really argue that, considering the number of democracies who went through very unstable periods in their history. (E.g. civil war in the US.)
Exactly.

Check this article out: "Xi Jinping May Be Less Powerful Than He Seems" ( https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2017/04/xi... )

The fact of the matter is that the outside world knows very little about the inner workings at the top of the Communist Party in China.
It will be both inefficient relative to bitcoin miners and un-free for you. You'll pay for it in both your power bill and battery life.
He isn't prime minister, but party secretary and president. Li Keqiang is premier, the closest thing to a PM, but not as powerful as a party secretary (the president position is ceremonial).

Hu Jintao served two terms as party secretary, but never consolidated his power base (Jiang Zemin protruded a lot into his reign), so was not very powerful, even compared to his premier (wen jiabao). Xi, on the other hand, has completely consolidated his power base and sidelined Li Keqiang. His competitors and apparent successors have been hit up on corruption (they are all corrupt, but who gets prosecuted depends on power plays).

If his successor (maybe another Hu) isn't apparent at this congress, then there will be a lot of talk of him staying passed his terms. If the successor is named, which is probable, then that talk will stop. However, he could totally pull a Jiang Zemin and retain some powerful poets (e.g. Head of the military commission) to keep more influence afterward. But in reality, all the retired leaders retain power behind the scenes, and it's just a matter of how much (him putting his protégés in power and kicking out Hu's will help a lot).
Mobile carrier consolidation has been one of the major failures of antitrust regulators. Looking back to the Sprint/Nextel merger, plans and pricing both declined in customer value severely in the months after the merger closed, with in-plan minutes going from the thousands down to the hundreds for the same price.

I would strongly prefer that any consolidation such as this be allowed only if one of the firms return all of its spectrum licenses to the FCC to be re-auctioned. It's fine to merge to consolidate infrastructure, but the unfair aspect of market power is derived from the natural scarcity of spectrum.

The hardware cost of launching a mobile carrier in an urban environment is falling rapidly, so only spectrum scarcity is preventing upstarts from disrupting the most lucrative urban markets.
If I'm reading this[0] correctly, it looks like you're right.

[0]: https://github.com/rvirding/lfe/blob/develop/src/lfe_comp.er...
A kid on Ars Technica did something similar.

[0] https://arstechnica.com/civis/viewtopic.php?f=26&t=155929
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Obama made Xi look like Winnie the Pooh. Xi must be much happier with Trump, as unhinged he is.
Here's the list of websites that have Coinhive JS installed: https://www.datanyze.com/datanyze-coinhive.csv
Shoutout for including the bit about constants in O(n) notation, 99% of things I see cover it gloss over it.

I've seen radix sort walk all over quicksort for common datasets many times. Knowing your dataset is at least as important as knowing the right algorithm.
It does no such thing. If the miner is not paying for the electricity, then they can costlessly use it to attack the main chain. This lowers security.
My laptop battery disagrees with this idea.
This is because it resets the default mode network. Luckily other things do as well.
It's all probabalistic; you could in theory mine a block by hand if you got absurdly lucky. Think of a machine with 8 GPUs being like dropping a million balls into the bingo jar, and coinhive like dropping 1 or two balls in for each visitor. If you get enough visitors, some of your balls will get drawn occasionally, making you money.

The reason GPUs and ASICs are used isn't because they have a better chance per se, but because they are more power efficient. With coinhive, the person who benefits is not the person who pays for the power, so that's not at issue.
It's extremely rare for mining to not not contribute to a pool nowadays.
you should not wait more than 4 hours between some kind of consumption

That runs exactly contrary to current research. Did you read this paper? (This paper is from 2014, but it is consistent with other recent research I've seen in favoring intermittent fasting for obesity/NIDDM.)
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You "race" by computing lots and lots of hashes until you get a low number. (Exactly how low it has to be depends on the current "difficulty".) So you distribute hashing code in the JS, and you get sent back a ton of hashes. The more hashes you get, the better your chances of winning the next block.
Assuming that psilocybin is effective at treating depression, I find myself wondering whether actual conscious experience (that is, being high) is an essential part of its effectiveness or not.

To put this another way, imagine someone takes whatever dose of psilocybin and then is rendered unconsciousness until the perceptual effects wear off. Will there be any difference in its effectiveness as a treatment for depression?
It would be cool if it evolved into something mutual between content providers and users. You have a bitcoin/ethereum/whatever wallet associated with your browser, and when you're on a website it spins up a mining process where you take a cut and they take a cut. It could be built on a platform kind of like AdSense where there's a basic agreement between parties on how things should work.

I make most of my living off of the donation economy. There are a lot of people out there who want to support good content. They just really don't like ads.
http://nbviewer.jupyter.org/github/hchasestevens/posts/blob/...
I'm on Buproprion as well. I'd recommend ketamine, tianeptine, possibly MAOis. The latter are remarkably effective but underprescribed for a number of reasons, including an overblown fear of hypertensive crisis.
As a kid, I had this vintage science experiments book[0] that had that and helicopter-parent-forbidden chemistry experiments (ahh, the era before abuse of torts). Inverted test-tube semi-submerged, filled completely with water, over each electrode to see progress IIRC.

700 Science Experiments for Everyone 1958, UNESCO, Hardcover, 221 pp.
You definitely sound bitter. Good luck!
Cool but I really wish they'd add more keyboard shortcuts. Like ability to use arrows and keyboard to select a network request and replay it. Or to drill down a deeply nested json without having to make a series of precise mouse clicks
This is awful in that sense. But maybe it paves a way for viable market entry for otherwise professionally staffed organizations? Ie a knowledge base they don’t have to pay a license to access.

But that’s me groping for an upside. This speaks more than anything I could come up with what’s wrong with the current industry.
N=19 is a very small sample size. I would be careful forming opinions based on this study.
The players in our tragedy of the commons haven't shown any restraint in polluting the Web and bringing my browser to its knees. They won't show any restraint with mining either.
Is there proof that they have a tendency of triggering "latent" conditions, instead of generating the conditions? How can it be demonstated that conditions were latent before the use?

Could it also be the case that people with potential mental illnesses is more likely to try drugs? Therefore being a correlational relationship instead of a causal one?
It's repeated over and over that GPUs and ASICs give you a pretty big advantage over CPUs, but that's not true at all for cryptocoins such as Monero that use CryptoNight, that is why it's one of the only coins that makes sense to mine with a botnet or JavaScript.
If you a few hundred trillion friends and at least a million will respond in the first minute. Either that or you need to make friends with a million robots
but not opportunity costlessly
Would a RamanPi [https://hackaday.io/project/1279-ramanpi-raman-spectrometer] work for verifying that you made the correct thing? It is probably lower cost than getting a hold of an old lab machine.
There's always Taylor Wilson, Colin Furze and others to carry the torch of mischief. :D
Yes, it's one of the benefits they get. Squarespace allows me to provide a turn key product that does not require much maintenance or upkeep. Some know about it but I bring them up to speed quickly with one line: It's like dropbox for your website.

I tend to go for niche markets and own them through a combination of exceptional service and value. Squarespace allows is one of the services that allow for that. Do know that Im not affiliated in any way. They just make me money.
Yes it is much better to enjoy psilocybin oneself.
Better have a way to dump it quick and have already sold put option hedges.

Bitcoin is less risky used as an ephemeral CC and cash replacement.
I don't see any reason the preprocessor couldn't be integrated with the main parsing pass. It's all top-down (things defined before they're used) just like C.
Why do they break out the "2 Meals, No Breakfast" option in the chart and then never use it for any day in any of the 5 plans?
There is a whole industry built around standing out. :)

I go by one rule:

Focus on their success not yours. No one cares about a website. They care about more leads and sales. Dont sell them a website. Sell them thr money they will make from it.
this is the only thing preventing CasperJS / PhantomCSS from supporting Puppeteer, I think. will be cool to see this go in.
Maybe "journalists, marketing types, etc" shouldn't be using twitter engagement metrics to report public sentiment.
Yes, thats it. Enjoy it! :)
Clarifying that I didn't get credit because it wasn't adaptable with public school because it had a unschooling approach.
Well, part of the difference is that now the "beep" program can be considered finished and other people can use it piping it to whatever programs they want, and it will never (or at least rarely, compared to the monolithic approach) need to be updated because all it does it beep.

If and when it does need to be updated it will be much easier to update because all it does is beep, so it doesn't include a calendar library and so on. It won't have to be recompiled when the calendar library is updated, etc.

You have to do the same amount of work overall to get the same end results but the individual pieces can stabilize and be used independently.
Monero is super great but would have trouble scaling to bitcoin levels of transactions. I hope they continue to develop it as people begin to consider it more.
If competition or "customer value" were actually a goal of FCC, they would open more unlicensed space, on more useful frequencies, rather than auctioning, or re-auctioning more rigidly regulated spectrum. This "natural scarcity" is a property of the deployed technology, not of the universe.

[EDIT:] To clarify, the problem isn't so much the portion of the spectrum designated for mobile phone use, as the terms under which that portion is so designated. More of that portion should be available on an unlicensed basis, or at the very least on a non-exclusive licensed basis. The tiny fractions of the spectrum that have been available on those terms in recent history have seen more innovation and less artificial scarcity than more strictly licensed frequencies have.
Or maybe you're overstated the generosity of drug manufacturers.
AFAIK as a Chinese, the 1938 incident is known to many since it was said to be Jiang's decision. As of Changchun, I saw that topic a few times in some forums 10+ years ago.

The things people want to know change over time as well. Now, China is feeling its power and strength like a growing teenager (not very accurate, but you get what I mean), so the glory of the past, now and future is what people want to know. Zhanlang 2 (War Wolf 2)'s phenomenal financial success (close to 1bn usd box office maybe?) is a recent strong signal.
More details. This is from a Fedora 24 machine, where I just tested the whois syntax from above and it worked fine.

I guess different versions of the whois command handle this differently. I never knew that until now. Every version I've ever used has supported this kind of query.

$ whois --version
jwhois version 4.0, Copyright (C) 1999-2007 Free
Software Foundation, Inc.
This program is free software with ABSOLUTELY NO
WARRANTY; you may redistribute it under the terms of the
GNU General Public License.

Edit: This form might work for you:

$whois -h whois.arin.net "US Senate"
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Nice! Now I'll be able to move in and out of reception twice as often!
Adblock does

uBlock origin’s additional blacklists blocks it

uMatrix blocks it.

Noscript blocks it.
I hate to bring politics into this but I will: how is it some people moan about the "growth of government" while left and right we see merger after merger without the government doing a thing to stop these mergers? Where is the over-regulation I keep hearing about?
Mining is incredibly inefficient and mining this way is insanely inefficient.

The energy cost of a single Bitcoin transaction could power 1.5 American homes for a day. That was in 2015. ASICs are more efficient than GPUs which are orders of magnitude more efficient than your browser. This is an unbelievably stupid idea.

https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/ae3p7e/bitcoin-is...

Edit: yes, this uses Monero rather than Bitcoin. The work required is less and the price is also less. The argument is the same. This is inherently inefficient because if you could remove this inefficiency, the price would drop.
45,000 is greater than 10.

One for the "never thought I would actually have to say this" list.
> would open more unlicensed space, on more useful frequencies

Which spectrum do you think should be reallocated to mobile use?

> This "natural scarcity" is a property of the deployed technology, not of the universe.

What frequencies do you think should be used for mobile voice and data that are not already?
"No. I'm proposing something like what tel described elsewhere in the thread."

tel's solutions are "use lenses" or "assume all keys are strings", both of which miss the point.

Yes, you can work around the limitations of a static type system, either by finding another solution (lenses) or by making functions more specific (assume all keys are strings), but that doesn't mean the limitations disappear. It just means you're working around them.

In a statically typed language the solutions to a problem are constrained by the type system. The question is not whether statically typed languages are more constrained than dynamically typed languages, but whether the constraints that static typing introduces are offset by the guarantees they purchase.

"That's exactly my point. Type signatures can be inferred, specs cannot."

The compiler can infer some type signatures, and if you're not explicitly typing your named functions (which is generally cited as good practice), that does mean you get some checking "for free".

But specs can also test more things than types; they occupy a space somewhere inbetween static types and a generative testing solution like QuickCheck. Depending on the function, a spec might be more or less verbose than the equivalent checks in a language like Haskell.
Try it. :D Just better calibrate it often with whatever stable molecules are used for that and borrowing a known-good, real machine. Maybe record the uncorrected reading to get the drift (both kinds ;) at each calibration so you know if it's wearing out, eg, needs to be calibrated more often or replaced if it's a PITA.
I do a compromise - when I work I am isolated, 100% focused, then I throw a big party with a lot of diverse people (artists, technologists, regular folks) and get my socialization fun as well. I love cooperating with other super capable people (that is very rare due to societal push for stupid competition) but can do world-class stuff on my own as well when no other option is available.
What if I’m on an official ISIS web site (bear with me here) and I mine a block for them. Have I provided material support to a terrorist organization?
Well, in this case what we are seeing is the growth of a regulatory state that exists mainly to help select firms generate profit.

This is known as "regulatory capture" and infrastructure services that the government can justify regulating for any reason are vulnerable to it.

I'd say that you are correct in the broader observation that both parties strongly favor big government that helps their pet industries avoid competition.

And along similar lines, both parties are perfectly happy with mobile carrier consolidation, which is too bad, because the poor spend disproportionately on mobile services and are most likely to be victimized by misleading plans or deceptive sales tactics (which are extremely common).
You’re very welcome.
You may want to research ayahuasca as a depression treatment.
No more than viewing an ad on their site brought them revenue.
I don't defend the status quo. I think this is the right way to resolve healthcare.

I agree with about 95% of this:
https://market-ticker.org/akcs-www?post=231949

We just need smarter regulations:

> every medical facility needs to have a price for each billing code

> every healthcare facility has to publish their prices

> heatlh care facilities must honor their published prices for everyone

> if someone needs car and they can't pay, the government will pay for the care but the government holds a debt and can garnish wages / use tax refunds / credit welfare to cover the debt

If people could shop on price for routine care, medical companies would become more efficient and extend those prices to people in an emergency