skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
its high time we stop pretending that science can be divorced from politics and economics
This is the problem right here: "Although Keveyis is actually a decades-old drug, its federal approval for periodic paralysis came with a seven-year period of exclusive marketing rights."

A decades-old drug should not have any IP left.
Austin is a mostly suburban city. Just look at the map.
I can't, but if you're the FNG on a project and see SprocketFactoryFactoryFactory, you may have a quick and easy path to a better solution. Just make sure that that better solution names its patterns well so the next FNG can make your code even better.
We don't literally use make, exactly as it was forty years ago.

> Here is a very beautiful, readable, portable makefile: https://github.com/git/git/blob/master/Makefile

That's a GNU Make Makefile. It's portable to installations where you have GNU Make ported already.
This reminds of the story Stevie Yeggie wrote about teaching a Chicken to play the piano.

He had the chicken peck at the piano, and everytime it hit the correct key, someone would give it pellet. By this method, the chicken could memorize how to play a simple melody. But, one day, the chicken introduced a random foot kick along with a correct key peck. The pellet still needed to be given to the chicken to reinforce the melody. Ever since then, the chicken kept pecking at the keys with a foot kick.
Why would that not include bitcoin, given that there are technically better alt-coins than bitcoin? I am just curious because I have seen similar analogies elsewhere.
capitalism is easier to fix than AI gone rogue, probably
I have one and it’s pretty impressive how fast 3.7kW can heat things up (apparently you can even get 5kW models). I ditched my electric kettle as it was too slow in comparison.
Indeed. One of the reasons disqus and the like are popular is that they take care of hosting the comments.

And having user content on a separate domain isn't a bad idea from a security pov.
Agreed. I only want to pay for the advertised price. I hate these unwritten rules.

People should just do their job because they're being compensated fairly.

Maybe this will be one good thing about robots.
I like typing and I don't think it slows me down too much, so I pass. But it's a good idea.
Wow. Great idea. I’ll look into that
One reason generating YAML is so easy is that there are libraries for it. Are there similar libraries for manipulating makefiles?
This is really cool. I didn't know about CoinHive. It looks like it's a sort of profit sharing setup with CoinHive, who provides all the technical bits.

Another option is to build your own. I published one of the more unapproachable aspects, which is an Emscripten-compiled implementation of the Cryptonight hash function [0]. One could slap a basic WebSocket proxy on top of existing mining server, and the adding the coordination logic in Javascript in the client.

[0]: https://github.com/noahdesu/xmonarch
> Yet I’m clearly making an error, one that reveals a deeper decision-making bias whose cumulative cost is sizable: Like most people, I conduct relatively few experiments in my personal life, in both small and big things.

I think this is related to learning. Once you've learned a particular task (say, writing a unit test) you don't "relearn" it every time you want to execute the task again. Instead you "reenact" it - it's more automatic and can be done more quickly and with less focus and concentration. Each unit test is unique - but the tooling and concepts that surround it are already there.

Reenacting vs. learning may be one reason behind brand loyalty and habit. It simply takes more mental effort to re-evaluate and re-learn than to coast off a previous decision. It's more work, even if it's something minor like trying a different brand of soda. We can only "spend" so much attention and care during our waking hours.

The value of a habit is that you make a decision once and project it into the future as an automatic response. The notion that these automatic responses are somehow flawed or need to be optimized away, or optimized to produce some economic advantage, is suspect.

What _is_ valuable is understanding that these automatic responses are as much a part of human cognition as our deliberative attention. We should be re-evaluate them periodically and try to understand the effect they have on the trajectory of our lives.
I stopped drinking alcohol when I was 18 (I am 33 now) as I could see it was effecting how well I could study. Poor sleep, hang overs, etc. made me want to take a break for a few months to concentrate on other things in my life.

6 months later I realised life was way better without alcohol. I was more motivated, I slept much better, I felt better, I could study and retain things much better than before.

I wasn't a super heavy drinker, I am from the UK so started to drink with friends at around 16. Over the past 15 years binge drinking has become a big problem IMHO. I feel I am lucky to have avoided that!

So here I am 15 years later and still not drinking at all. I would recommend taking a year off alcohol and see how it changes your life. Maybe it won't make as big a difference as it did for me but I would be shocked if it didn't make some noticeable differences to your brain.
exciting to see opportunities [0] popping up for community based networks, it would be interesting to see a rewards based approach to hosting access points for others.

[0] https://nycmesh.net/
So what I'm asking is how does a quantum computer solve quantum chemistry problems? To make it concrete, say I want to calculate the band structure of a crystal using a quantum computer? What do I do? What kind of algorithms can the QC run that solves this problem faster/better than, say, a DFT code?

I don't think it's a given that just because I want to simulate a quantum mechanical system in some way, that a quantum computer is a useful tool. Or it might be, I don't know. I just don't think it's enough justification that there happens to be the word "quantum" in both the problem description and in the name of the computer.
Yeah, I think the point is that it's a characteristic which makes it very easy for bad actors to manipulate concepts of governance and justice.

People might balk at negative changes at first, even very sharp and sudden ones, but they probably won't continue to fight them over the scale of years or decades as the 'new normal' sets in.
Stories like this help me stay a little bit hopeful that if (or more cynically, when) the time comes, we can roll out independent mesh networks to connect ourselves. If our grandparents and great-grandparents could do it, why can't we?

Hell, ADSL works over a piece of wet string. https://boingboing.net/2017/12/13/rfc-2549.html
A healthy coin depends on a balanced ecosystem of miners and users. If mining becomes unprofitable then the ecosystem will collapse. But if its a coin that miners have significant interest or investment in and they see profitability decreasing due to energy costs, they will be incentivised to find cheaper sources of energy. This likely explains why so many bitcoin mines in china are located near renewable energy sources.
Improving my productivity using Pomodoro: takeaways after 2 years of practice
The artists still produced music in tempos quite within the range of human heartbeats and / or breathing.
This is because alcohol is an anesthetic. And the human body will tend to wake up after an anesthetic wears off. I believe the anesthetic properties of alcohol lasts roughly 4 hours, so if you sleep you'll probably begin to stir and wake up 4 hours after your last drink. Very similar to surgery patients who naturally wake up after the anesthetic used for surgery wears off.
> the reason the price keeps going up is that there is increasing demand for it.

Yes, but I just want to mention demand in this context isn't adoption of cryptocurrencys, but demand to own them. For example if we were talking about a stock, Tesla's stock price may go up because of increased demand for the stock, but that isn't necessarily because there is more demand for Tesla's products, although a predicted increase in future demand could be what investors buying the stock are betting on.

Also, at this level demand owning crypto only makes sense if it's undergos mass adoption fairly quickly. I believe Bitcoin has a market cap of around 3 or 4 times that of PayPal, so that's the kind of mass adoption we'd be talking about here for current prices to make sense.
hn hug on its best
Did you do root cause analysis and did you make sure that same condition could never happen again or did you figure that since the swap file saved you that no further action was needed?

The 'many times' has me worried.
Nothing's stopping you from running a self-hosted solution on a different domain.
so, you mean, Amazon play the price whatever they want?
If they hide real price and show fake price?
I'm 33 and I've definitely lost interest in drinking. I'll do it on occasion at social things, but I usually partake in very limited amounts. (My girlfriend is actually a little sad that she's never had a chance to see me wasted.) It might just be that my body can't handle it anymore, but sometime over the last few years it just lost its appeal.

The thing is: alcohol is a very crude intoxicant, and we seem to have arbitrarily standardized on it as the Socially Acceptable Drug. I know this is obvious, but it really is stupid and it's worth reminding people how stupid it is.

I mean, take khat, for instance. Khat is a stimulant chewed by people in Yemen; it's their socially acceptable drug-of-choice. (It's so popular in Yemen that its cultivation consumes a significant portion of the country's agricultural resources.) But here? It's a controlled substance. Why? I don't know. Our drug laws are just crazy stupid.

I feel like we could do so much better in terms of recreational substances. People are finally getting smart about cannabis, but there are still so many possibilities we're not exploring. The fact that we're stuck with alcohol is ridiculous. Hell, even opioids are less harmful to the body than alcohol is (if taken at a steady, stable dose, which I guess is the hard part).

We should definitely be spending most of our scientific brainpower on curing diseases, but I feel like we could spare a few brilliant minds to work on better intoxicants. The masses deserve a safer opiate.
Threat-model wise, this seems no different from storing the decryption secret on disk (wherever the access/secret keys are stored in this setup), with one exception: remotely-revokable keys.

That is a nice property and a pretty cool way to achieve it.
This is worded like propaganda. War and conflicts between countries have been on the decline for decades, and conflicts between major world powers have gone down to nearly nothing[1].

[1] https://ourworldindata.org/war-and-peace/
Depends, I guess, on what you're trying to get out of it.

I use it as a way to burn time while waiting for the bus or the build without feeling as guilty (or gross) as Facebook would. For getting perspectives I might not have thought of that help me synthesize new information. And for scratching the "someone is wrong on the internet!" itch.

I probably read 50% of the Ask section and 2-3 items per page of results on front page or newest. You could drink from the firehose if you really wanted to spend every moment of your life on this site, but I prefer to be highly selective about what to read and even more so about what to engage with.
> git reset --hard <commit>

Unless part of your surgery involves files that do not yet live in the history, or you're working on a detached HEAD in a mid-merge state, or... git reset --hard is a very dangerous operation unless you're 100% sure of the entire state of the repository. That is a very rapid way to lose work if you're not perfectly diligent.

And sure, you shouldn't have to back up .git or your workspace, but sometimes, it's a hell of a lot easier to ripcord out and say "screw it" if you have a complete workspace from before you decided to launch down the rebase hole or whatever.
There's a VR webapp that was shared recently that shows live btc transactions. Just thought i'd share that for the 10 minutes I watched it the other day I saw numerous 10M+ transactions
I think between a horrible application of a pattern that has a good chance of being implemented properly and a horribly named class that leaves no potential to intuit its behavior, you might fare better with the former, as a new dev. But at that level it's all subjective.
Note he didn’t say Jews but Zionists so it would be ok as long as there won’t be too many brackets in his tweet.
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Thanks, I’m aware of how the city works since i lived in Austin for a couple of years. I feel like the demographic information that’s available out there can give more information then looking at the map. If you’re talking about APD, it’s fairly urban.
Austin is more than the "core downtown city." And I am not talking about Round Rock or Cedar Park or Buda which are majority white.

The downtown/near-downtown is one of the priciest places in the state of Texas as far as real-estate costs and the attendant costs of a matching lifestyle. It's only out in the middle ring of the suburbs of Far North/East/South Austin that it starts getting affordable. That is, until you get back into the affluence again in the northern bedroom communities of Round Rock, Cedar Park and Georgetown.
This references the study showing that people eat more when using larger plates, but I think wine drinking is the one instances where those results aren't easily transferrable.

Wine glasses today are usually filled to about 1/4, where (judging by the painting in the article, and my guess) glasses 1/7th the size of today's were filled to the rim.
4 hours for me like clockwork after a few drinks before bed.
Because you like everything else about the static blog (static files are easily hosted and trivial to move to other hosts or CDNs, many devs like the integration with git, you like the workflow of doing everything locally until the push to publish, good hosting solutions that scale a lot are really cheap).

If something goes wrong with the server you host (suddenly tons of visitors, some failure), only your comments are down, not your entire site, assuming the static hosting is on other infrastructure (and even if not, it's easily moved again).

Maybe you used an external service before and want to get rid of it, like the example in the article, but do not want to completely change how your blog works for this.
> also there exists a possibility that there is economic or racial bias in the processing of rape kits.

There were 11,000 untested rape kits over 2 decades. This hardly sounds like a mistake related to some bias. There is obviously a much bigger issue here, it wasn't individual cases being ignored based on some parameters.
How Do Machines Learn? [video]
Not in the US, but these have happened to me in my last three jobs (mostly in Dunedin, New Zealand):

* steal from their employees by not paying them when they quit
* intimidating employees into not reporting wages under the minimum
* refusing to pay legally mandated overtime
* refusing to allow legally required breaks

I'm owed between $20,000 and $40,000 by two (New Zealand) employers in particular, who refused to pay for or record my extra hours worked, and one of them threatened me with physical harm if I went to the government watchdog.

One of them was a small business, the other a multimillionaire. It was the latter who paid less than the minimum every day I worked, and demanded I work as many free hours as he could force me to. It's not just physical harm with him, because he also promised to destroy my reputation around town if I so much as stepped out of line.

Yeah, I'm a sucker for not resigning on the spot. I know.
Show HN: Open Source JavaScript Web Miner for Monero and Electroneum
I use plex locally 99% of the time and the UX beats Kodi hands down. It has so many more nice features and works so much better.
Sure, but then you have to run a self hosted solution on another domain. It's far easier if someone else is willing to do it for you at a low cost (or even free).
The web is heavily abused because many developers are not aware of its misguided history or even what the web is for.

To be extremely clear the web is a document (markup) delivery/rendering application. The design goal of the web is to deliver documents that contain hyperlinks, where those hyperlinks address content extension. The web had no intention to be anything else.

That said the web was hijacked, for lack of a better term, by early web browsers that intended to do things that the web was never intended to do. This is how we got JavaScript. Fortunately, it also resulted in a universally standard architecture (the DOM), and additional technologies, that extended the web's original vision.

To be completely fair the Internet was not a spontaneous miracle, but went through similar growing pains. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Internet

The problem today is that most developers have no idea what the web is or really how it works. Now, if you ask a developer about this they will claim otherwise and will work really hard to down play their ignorance. If you are not deeply aware of coding for the DOM, lexical scope, accessibility, asynchronicity, presentation separation, and so forth you are ignorant of how these things work. These are not expert qualities, these are the basics. This largely explains why so many people think HTML is the easiest thing to learn and then written really shitty HTML.
Good business model when you can announce attacks and then also be the solution.
Ask HN: Would you subscribe to 3 business ideas a day?
What would you pay per month to receive 3 startup ideas in your inbox every single day? I have been consulting for large organizations and have and constantly see problems that need solving. Was wondering if people would want to pay for such a service?
Constituents support it from both sides of the aisle at very similar levels.

https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2017/06/06/new-mozilla-poll-am...

Republican lawmakers however, have overwhelmingly either not supported or stayed quiet on the issue.

https://www.fightforthefuture.org/news/2017-11-24-breaking-f...
Show HN: Cremeschnitte - Find high quality content creators in Reddit
This old drug was free. Now it's $109,500 a year
Thank you for that correction, that's indeed very different and it's a shame the reporting is so sloppy
Wow - Using stdin as the LD_PRELOAD target seems super obvious in retrospect, now.

Good job to the author(s).
In addition to dealing with London's sewage the Victorian sewer system also buried and redirected several of the rivers that ran through London. To complete the circle on this, the river Westbourne runs through the Sloane Square tube station in an large overhead pipe.
Once upon a time I found a git GUI that I liked (SourceTree). Then Atlassian bought it and pushed their cloud nonsense on me so hard that I just gave up and reverted back to the command line. Eventually I bought the O'Reilly book and figured out how to do the neat things that SourceTree would let me do. Only this time the GUI wouldn't get borked while trying to stage individual lines.

I haven't looked back because I haven't found the need.
Part of the motivation for using a static site (especially GitHub Pages) is to eliminate the time, energy and cost of doing DevOps.

Going full DevOps just for blog comments is not great ROI. If I couldn't use Disqus/FB Comments and was forced to self-host my own blog comments on my static blog, I'd just remove blog comments altogether.
I'm against the idea of private run prisons, it seems like something that should be the purview of the state given the lack of legitimate competition, market fundamentals, and ethical considerations.

But that said, is there any real data to support this claim you're making that private prisons incentivizes harsher sentencing of poor people? Besides maybe one or two "bad eggs" stories about judges. ie, data showing a legitimate correlation between the two as a general pattern...

This gets thrown around a lot on Reddit and elsewhere online but I really don't see how private prisons could influence criminal justice system at the other end.
I'm happy he wrote this, and I'll read it again at home tonight.

But what's the deal with "write the title last" and his examples all start with the title?
That ad was rejected because of a line that was linked libelously untruthful. In the article you linked it says that Twitter would run the ad with the offending line edited out.

I believe that particular decision was probably somewhat about disagreeing with her politics, but moreso about stopping outright lies ("fake news") from propagating on their platform when they could stop it.
Ctrl+F "In case you want to take action on your own" in the article.
>> I heard so many times that JVM is much better than CLR, especially in the JIT area (Hotspot?).

> I wouldn't disagree with this

I would wholeheartedly disagree with this though. There's not even any way to write, say, a generic class (even one as simple as ArrayList<T>) and then let the user instantiate it with a primitive type like <int> in Java. To use generics in Java is to pay the speed penalty of an indirection for every single primitive type on top of the extra per-object bytes of space overhead. There's just no way Java is going to fix these problems without massive breaking changes in the type system or an extremely in-depth & expensive form of static analysis unlike anything I've seen in any real-world compiler.
That website is a monstrosity
Actually, since there is confusion, going back to the very beginning --

For the train route I myself am familiar with, the line between New York and Poughkeepsie, two different train systems serve the route, Amtrak (the company that does the nation-wide train service in the United States) and Metro North, a commuter-rail line associated with New York's MTA, via their Hudson Line.

I started with the Amtrak costs because the New York <-> DC train is an Amtrak train; most daily commuters will be using the Metro North, as it is cheaper.
I've observed these telegram groups in action and have followed the execution of their campaigns. True, they market them for days but the spike and drop in price is indeed quick to the tune of minutes. The organizers load up on the coins ahead of time and are basically preying on their unwitting followers. If you hang out crypto telegrams or slack for long enough you'll see that the organizers spend pretty much all of their time recruiting newbs for the next pump.
Absolutely not true.

You can buy a 1u server with 2 processors / 24 logical cores and 32 gigs of ram off ebay for around $150.

Say what you have is 2x L5640 Xeons (pretty common, again on ebay). You'll be drawing 80-150W depending on load per cpu. Let's say it's on the upper end and you draw about 250W.

Average electric costs in the US are 12c/kwh. That means those cores will cost around $20/month.

In reality, other things draw power, but your average usage will be lower, so $20/month for 32GB of ram and 24 kinda crappy cores is about right power wise.

Look at AWS's pricing and tell me I can get anything even approaching that at such a good price point.
It has been a deliberate decision. The Book of the Runtime documentation states "The goal of the CLR is to make programming easy" and acknowledges there are faster alternatives out there. When I have asked insiders why there isn't a bigger focus on performance, the response is essentially that if performance is really important you should use C++.