skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not the shirts that are the problem, it's a massive I Flux of random Mickey Mouse media that would saturate the market and dilute the media. Do any of us really doubt that there would be a bunch of Mickey Mouse porn?

I'm not in favor of long copyrights, but I think in the case there would be a real cultural loss if there was unfettered access to this particular icon. Does that justify full control by Disney at this late stage? Probably not, but some middle ground with increasing costs (maybe an increasing percentage of profit from that brand?) might be worth trying.

The whole system is pretty messed up at this point, so why not test out some interesting ideas? As a side benefit, maybe Disney and others like them won't fight it quite so hard, as it would be costly but not the existential threat to their core brand they see come up every couple evades.
When I started taking duloxetine, I've experienced most or all of the side effects in the first ~4 weeks. After that they all went away. A friend of mine also had the same experience.

This is a small data point but who knows, not sure how recently you started taking the meds but there is a chance all the side effects will vanish :)
Oh man, I don't think I've ever laughed this much on anything I've read on HN. Thanks for making my day. :)
How to Be Healthier, Happier and More Productive: It’s All in the Timing
Though there is a long way to go, the findings are encouraging. From the press release [1]:

“A drug developed for diabetes could be used to treat Alzheimer's after scientists found it "significantly reversed memory loss" in mice through a triple method of action.

The research, published in Brain Research, could bring substantial improvements in the treatment of Alzheimer's disease through the use of a drug originally created to treat type 2 diabetes.”

1. https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2017-12/lu-dd122017....
What a cool website (and book), I love what you have accomplished.
Is this a template or app I could use as well?
Is it a language and framework for web mainly? Couldn’t tell from their homepage.
No, the hack authors who filed the pull request are actually posting here in this thread.

eg this guy: https://github.com/Kr4ken-9/cathook is kr4ken on HN, there's probably others here who are smart enough not to link their black-hat identity with HN.

This is literally blackhats bitching that they got VAC-banned, 100% legitimately, and then concern-trolling us about what-if scenarios about some hypothetical innocent user who might have been swept up with their script-kiddie customers.

Can't say that such opinions really have any place here, IMO, considering that they are the ones who created the problem in the first place. Maybe it's not worth shutting them down, but they certainly shouldn't be celebrated or legitimized in any fashion.

Scorn is an entirely appropriate community reaction here, and a mod tipping the scale in favor of black-hats is not really appropriate IMO.
Out of curiosity, what technologies are you leveraging to write browser-based 3D games? Lightweight WebGL libraries, something higher-level like Unity, or something else entirely?
More like: "Teach humanity how to fish, and they will deplete the oceans".
I'm clearly not optimizing for karma since I literally have invited downvotes at this point. I'm accepting the karmatic expense of making meta commentary.
Legalization leads to commercialization. Do we really want for-profit corporations working to create demand for heroin and meth? It is already a huge problem that they're pushing opiates when ibuprofen+paracetamol is just as effective.
> But then you're taxing just once. No generational transfer tax

It taxes exactly as many times as with the estate tax (or one more, since the estate tax actually misses virtually all generational transfers.)

> Keep house or car under parents' name forever.

That's a different scenario; but, again, there's a straightforward tax answer to it: treat such vehicle use the same way as it is treated with personal use of a company vehicle using the Annual Lease Value rule; the other mechanisms wouldn't apply.

> The difference comes in when you want to double tax :) If original earner pays income tax and then inheritance tax is applied - tax is paid twice.

Replacing the estate tax by taxing inheritances as income to the recipients would not reduce the scope of funds taxed both when originally received by the first owner and then again when transferred as inheritance; on the contrary, it would increase it and make it more consistent with the progressive income tax system, with the tax rate when inherited based on the total income of the heir, not the size of the estate.
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Same here. Surprised that Digg still exists! Remember the Digg vs. Reddit Wars of 2006?
Well, the article does also say:

> NASA has routinely faced similar criticism from some lawmakers and advocates of commercial space ventures, but seldom in a report released by the agency itself.
> Human beings systematically undervalue their future selves. This is why we have a hard time saving for retirement, exercising and writing tests. Think of your future self and write tests.

This!

What's also worrisome is that sometimes your incentives are misaligned; e.g. when product development and maintenance are handled by different teams, or features have tight deadlines and screw the debt that will be the future and we must deal with now.
I never interpreted her saying focus only on yourself and maximize your own happy. But rather know yourself. To me there is a big differences in understanding who you are vs only doing what you want at any expense.

This is too simple, but knowing I want a piece of cake does not mean I should or will eat one.

She is railing against the types of people that are so goal driven to a point where it becomes an obsession. She seems to think that over doing(which is what that is) stems from a poor understanding of who you are, and/or surpassing your own needs. For instance opening a local store. It's successful, makes enough money, but instead of being happy(your needs are met) you open a chain, take over the state, then the country and so on. Or the empty nester that now has no children to focus on has nothing to do, no skills to do anything, and no idea what they actually like to do. Since their entire world was built around someone else.

Also, never let the worst of a group define that group. If they are the worst they probably aren't following the actual ideology.(clearly this thinking fails with Nazi's or other extremists)
Design of a low-level C++ template SIMD library [pdf]
These are my 10 favourites:

- Total Freedom by J Krishnamurti

- Wit and Wisdom from Poor Richard’s Almanack: Benjamin Franklin

- Principles: Life and Work by Ray Dalio

- The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius by Marcus Aurelius

- 10% Human: How Your Body’s Microbes Hold the Key to Health and Happiness by Alanna Collen

- Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values by Robert Pirsig

- What I Talk About When I Talk About Running: A Memoir by Haruki Murakami

- Damn Right!: Behind the Scenes with Berkshire Hathaway Billionaire Charlie Munger by Janet Lowe

- Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Harari

- The Complete Adventures of Feluda (Volume 1) by Satyajit Ray
If it’s pretty easy, where are all these soft real-time garbage collectors?
SRAMs can have pattern sensitivity too.
I’m curious if you’re tracking your blood pressure? Both before and after starting the medication. Did you see any change? I’ve wondered if there’s a relationship between blood pressure and headaches.
I guess so far they are just a VM. Still needs to port Linux or some OS to WebAssembly to make it whole. Having the C++ compiler working is a very good start.
Like so many startup founders, he expects everyone working for him to share his passion for his vision. It's an unrealistic expectation when your business depends on being able to scale rapidly and by orders of magnitude.
This sounds distinct from the similarly-named "Open Trace Format (OTF)" [1]. Though it's a big bonus that this one has libraries for so many languages.

[1] http://www.paratools.com/otf/
I haven't looked much into WebAssembly, but regardless of the native language that you use, your app will be cross-platform without having to put any extra effort, won't it? This solves one of the biggest pain points of native GUI development. While it's pretty amazing what QT has managed to accomplish, I still hear incompatibility problems between OSs.
No, not really. Tesla + SpaceX have ~25,000 employees. While Musk is without a doubt a hard charger, always pushing his employees, it's a pretty big leap to suggest those 25,000 employees are all working 80 hours per week, sleeping under their desks, and can't walk their dogs in the afternoon.

Here's the actual reality: 99% of those 25,000 employees are on normal work schedules, with normal work expectations. There are no organizations of that scale in the US where the employees all work crazy hours and sleep under their desks; quite the opposite, organizations that large always drift toward the middle by necessity (they can't attract tens of thousands of workers in a highly competitive labor market otherwise).
It comes from within.
Hey OP, how did you feel when your 12 year old said she wanted to make a game that starts with the phrase "Aaron deserves to die"? Some people would be concerned, but clearly you've been very supportive of the endeavor.
Everything so far hints at a microarchitecture bug, not a ISA specific.
And this: "Noon laid off at least 200 employees out of a total of 700 as it readied itself". That's quite insane for a startup taking on Amazon.

I'm giving it 0.1% chance of outcompeting Amazon locally, zero chance globally.
This question makes it hard to believe you’re of adult age. Just about any adult should be able to imagine reasonable circumstances in which they could make “six figures” and still struggle to (e.g.) make rent.
I hope others will share if they find this totally silly. It’s more of a response to observations.

I am from Portland, OR writing from eastern kentucky, where I have family. This region is feeling the hurt. I put a lot into a hobby of media and culture studies, and am unconvinced of many platitudes from libertarian or liberal academics, but am open to all perspectives. In so many words, impacts of culture in a broad sense continues to undermine nearly any efforts like these listed. Whether the measurements are misled, or new problem is exacerbated, or the effort just completely falls flat, I am going on what continues to stand in the way: problems in broad cultural discrepancies that amount to fear. I can’t overlook the cultural fabrics of religious communities (I am far from religious myself) and the lack of any counterpart in contemporary American life. How can this help us now?

I think it’s no secret rural communities are being ‘left behind’ but the last thing they (seem to) want is your charity. They don’t want urban education and they don’t want urban food, but they are all addicted iPhones. So what do we change if we can’t change them?

Urban/Coastal America can change itself. Our efforts to boost lives we look down on are well-intentioned but continue to fail.

I don’t have a quote on hand but Tyler Cowen suggests we ‘mix it up’ closer to home. Defend weirdos and affect your own culture for the better, in sometimes uncomfortable ways.

Off the top of my head:

MBAs, start investing in young artists, like in the Renaissance. Unapologetically enforce your opinions and even politics on them. Have fun with it. Anything could happen.

Wanna teach programming? Rent out a rural community center for your class and make the drive (or flight) each week. The impact will justify the investment. Maybe don’t make it fun for everybody.

Campaign in rural communities against social media use. Use billboards and flyers, like the locals. Use scare tactics (honest ones) that override cultural discrepancies.

Actually hire people outside your “cultural fit” and people from rural areas. If you can’t believe in anyone outside a given character mold, why expect others to?
I have been thinking about why we have ended up here, and why not just native apps.

The obvious answer is that it makes applications portable, which is great. The other key component I think is delivery. You don't ever install anything, it just exists when you ask for it. That is something native applications have never done, and not even something like JVM has done even though it addresses portability too.

It is also nice that it is seamless with the browsing experience, but I have to wonder if it hasn't just turned out that the typical browser interface is a better interface for computing than most popular OS have been? As the OS and browsers start to see parity, are there lessons from browsers that we can integrate into the OS?
THere is little POINT in putting a man on the moon after you've done it.

We have plenty of moon rock to run experiments on.

Any micro/low gravity experiment can be run cheaper in LEO.

There aren't any valuable resources there to exploit.

It's a bit like asking why we don't build a habitat on the bottom of the Marians Trench - we COULD, but why WOUDL we?
Unfortunately the poor people who are usually illiterate are treated as a lower class.

The rich or upper middle class kids while growing up see that they and their parents can order the maids to do almost anything and so when the kids grow up they see the maids as a class of people who are not equal to them.

It becomes a status issue as well if you say you dont have maids then your affluent peers will think you are weird or that you cant even afford a maid.
Really this just points to a lack of vision on the part of operating systems people. There is no reason downloading, possibly "installing" (mostly caching?) and running "traditional software" couldn't be as frictionless as clicking on a link, but that's just not how the software and security model of Windows, OSX or Ubuntu (to name just the household names) are set up.

Browsers probably will win, but mostly by accident and as a result of network effects rather than any inherent qualities. As a platform it's positively awful, though it is getting better in fits and starts.

Ideally we'd have proper sandboxing, proper compilation, proper libraries, proper access to hardware. Alas, all of that good stuff is basically a historical footnote at this point.
Maybe also would be good to have a a better definition of what "helping win means. Is it that he is racist and his voters were racist. Did they become more racist or have always been so and were just waiting for someone like Trump to emerge. And then what did they exactly hope Trump would do for their cause. I haven't seen that explained well in the studies. Maybe I missed it by accident.

> Not that I needed sociologists to confirm what I knew about my friends and family who voted for Trump,

But what is their logic there. They saw the racism in Trump and identified with it? Why not vote for Clinton, her "superpredator" remark is pretty racist and maybe association by proxy with her husband's "tough on crime" policy would make more sense. That policy was more hurtful to the black community than what Trump ever did.

I looked at the first study. Thanks for the link. One thing that jumps out is that they only picked millennials. Doesn't that exclude say auto-workers from Michigan, steel mill workers, and other pre-millennial blue collar workers from key states which Hillary should have kept blue like the Democrats did in the past? Did they become racist in the last 4 years? Besides most millennials voted for Hillary in general. So the premise that they are making an effort to really understand why people voted for Trump is a bit suspect.

Going by what I know about Republicans so far, I can believe that there are more racist people voting Republican candidates in. But I don't think that is the primary reason they voted for him. Also whether we think the president has any effect on the economy or not, he seems to claim to bring black unemployment to a 17 year low. For being elected to advance a racist agenda he is not doing that good of a job delivering results.
> The whole idea was bullshit from the get-go.

The market says otherwise - Amazon is all over this at the moment, so is Nest.
> Once you know what's going on, it totally makes sense

Anything “makes sense” from an operational point of view, so long as you internalize the rules. But does Go's handling of `nil` denote anything you ever actually want to express, regardless of language?

> it violates natural-looking assumptions about algebraic equality

No, Go's handling of `nil` doesn't violate anything about equality: everything (besides floats, but you can't fault Go for those) is equal to itself and to nothing else. But the syntax (i.e. using a single unadorned token `nil`) does a very poor job of reflecting the language's semantics (the existence fo multiple `nil` values, all different from one another).
Holy shit, it's the spike trap from every video game ever. :S
Yet most people don't.

I don't think it's necessarily intended to discriminate by income, but I do think the intent is to avoid political pressure to back off on general screening procedures.
SQL Keys in Depth
It's general purpose but well suited for web, soft real time services, distributed data processing, control plain etc. Erlang VM has unique featureset that no other platform really can match so if you need to build HA fault tolerant apps/services it's pretty good match. Coming from a different language one of the nicest things is preemptive scheduler so you don't have to worry about blocking event loop or process consuming all the CPU etc.
Aaron Patterson recently talked about doing similar work for Ruby, with good technical details - he's quite good at explaning these kinds of issues for people less familiar with them. Explains how and why you want to be copy-on-write friendly and what that means for Ruby's GC - and the impacts of his work.

I watched the RubyConf AU version:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nAEt36XNtAE&t=2482s

But looks like there was a version at Rubyconf as well that may or may not be better/different:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Q7M513vewk
My mother had a stroke and was prescribed Clonazepam for her nerves and anxiety from the after effects.
> given keys to the house to maids

I mean, everything is simple when you can pay someone to do it. Of course, if you're paying $700 for a smart lock, you can probably afford a maid.
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Golang, Azul's C4, Shenandoah, Metronome, ...?
There already are lots of random Mickey Mouse media, they just aren't legal to sell in any place that respects Disney's copyright. But Rule 34 says that Mickey Mouse porn is out there, and some of it is probably legal (e.g. using a costume purchased in a Disney-licensed store as a fetish item).
That seems totally contingent on your definition of “well functioning”. Maybe it would be healthy for us to recalibrate our cultural notions of well functioning? That seems to me to be the gist of what many other comments here are saying.
Do you actually know any Tesla employees personally? Because I know one ex-Tesla and two current Tesla employees. Tesla sounds like a burn-out factory once you have a deep conversation about the reality of working there.
Great point. We can start more cooperative enterprises. Are there good templates and software for the founding and unique management issues of a cooperative enterprise?

If you or anyone else has ideas on that, please share them :)
I am also interested in the details. The critics in my comment was basically targeted towards them not releasing the technical details on their progress on Casper.

We already know there were problems with proof of stake consensus algorithms before. I would like to see them telling, that they solved them.
It's awful how the damn mouse is completely poisoning the discussion. There are thousands and thousands of works that aren't entering the public domain. Many movies or older video games are actually inaccessible today because the copyright situation is unclear because for example done doing got used that now world need to get relicensed in order to make the work available and/or it's unclear who to even talk to about that. If non action would move works into public domain a huge part of all those works would be in the public domain and a big part of the problem would be solved. Instead not only is Disney poisoning the well because they care deeply about one particular extreme case of copyright that's still valuable to them, but the entire discussion is hard to have without people bringing up the stupid edge case that's the mouse and derailing the discussion with what's really a very small part of the issue at hand.
It's definitely far behind where web apps are for instant no-install access, but Android has their "Instant Apps" feature providing similar capability https://techcrunch.com/2017/10/19/google-play-adds-android-i...

Disclaimer: I don't have an android phone anymore and I have no idea how available/useful these actually are
Have you run u to latency issues with Postgres?

(I work on GCE)
And things like dropbox allow the OS to go in the other direction, towards being distributed.
Yea, Jeff Sessions is a libertarian. /s

https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/07/20/jeff-sess...
>you have to assume it's a small mobile device and arrange items on a single axis.

Is there really no other way to detect if it's desktop? It seems like screen aspect ratio would be easy.

Mobile sites look terrible on desktop browsers if they work at all. The one I encounter all the time is Firefox's add-on site. Just because I don't have css-grid it forces mobile which makes things worse. I know people like myself are a tiny fraction of a tiny fraction of users but we exist.
One thing that I would love to see is more effective development practices at non profits. Obviously some are doing very well, but others that I've worked with have been heavily encumbered by beauraucracy and a lack of knowledge about how to best build software.

It's tricky, because justice can be a more complicated goal than profit, and being careful and intentional and working with limited resources can all make software development more challenging, but I still think it's possible to do better.

I'm trying in my own small way, having entered the field, but I would love to see some of the experts out there take some time to spread their knowledge in the non profit community. That way existing ventures can be more efficient and effective, and new ones are more likely to succeed.
The author runs the Stanford Poverty & Technology Lab (https://inequality.stanford.edu/stanford-technology-poverty-...) which looks quite ambitious and potentially impactful.

In light of on-going efforts to address bias in AI (Moritz Moritz Hardt's class as a reference https://fairmlclass.github.io/), I was surprised that there was little discussion of the pitfalls. I appreciated the optimism though.
Agreed. The 20% is a bit of a hokey number.

It's basically saying 20% of all opioid scripts are for chronic pain, which sounds like a pretty reasonable number to me.
market share of Netmarketshare.com in Asia is about 0.00%.
> cultural loss if there was unfettered access to this particular icon

As a counter argument look at Snow White. That story is in the public domain. I think you’d be hard pressed to make a case that that has harmed society.

Regardless Disney will continue to have a trademark on the Mouse. So, it will continue to be a cultural icon for the company. We’ll just also have steamboat Willie generics in the marketplace as well.
It's on the verge of being a moral panic!

A few years back it was meth, then before that cocaine/crack and before that? Heroin! We've come full circle!