skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Relying on more original content would actually be more expensive if they were trying to maintain the same quality. Having to develop a new IP and new story from scratch, plus new assets and models, plus the major chance that it might not actually succeed... it's a risk-averse model. Everyone knows that CoD will sell, or Madden, or GTA. It's guaranteed money, even if it's a relatively small profit. Small profit is better than maybe zero maybe negative.
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My dentist in California said he had several patients from Eastern Europe and Russia who had dental treatment like this, and their teeth were all mangled from treatment without anesthesia. He had done numerous re-drilling’s and re-fillings and root canals on these patients to deal with decay in teeth that had already been treated in their home countries. They had decay underneath fillings because the original treatment had essentially only gone as deep as the patient could stand. The dentist would drill until the patient screamed stop and then fill the hole, even if that left continued decay underneath.

I can only assume that the second round of treatment in their home countries would be either another round of drill torture or tooth extraction.
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I completely agree, but your comment had nothing to do with that. As the saying goes, you can sue a ham sandwich for being too delicious.
You can contract for people to tell lies even. That's what celebrity endorsement contracts essentially are, for example.

I don't think this has anything to do with free speech, but more about fair business practices.
Look at how the watch’s community failed to grow beyond certain limits, and how small the community remained, despite insistent proclamations that the device is well-designed. I think that speaks for itself.
Not to put a fine point on it, but you don't know what you're talking about. Have you ever seen someone who is in so much pain that they're projectile vomiting just because of the pain? I have.

There is pain, and there is PAIN. If you can get by with some NSAIDS, then you're just in mild pain. This is not likely to interfere with healing. This is the kind of pain the person is talking about in the article. It's scary for most people because they're not experienced with pain.

I was with a loved one who underwent a very serious surgery. This person has a very high pain theshold and thought that they would ignore the doctor's advise and take something a lot less strong than what was provided.

They ended up back in the hospital on a morphine drip to recover from their pigheadedness. Not taking the prescribed opioids had let their pain get out of control. Severe pain is very serious and can greatly interfere with the healing process.

By way of comparison, this same person had a minor surgery (a couple of years after the very painful one) and the doctor was shocked at how they didn't seem to really be any pain, because their pain threshold was much higher than before.
What types students are you mentoring? I've observed that groups of the best-performing students look down on those "addicted" to their phones and some have switched to flip phones.
I just went and read the wiki page to try and evaluate your statement, but I still don't get it. I mean, I like the distributing computing concept, but what makes Plan 9 especially interesting?
> Much of this research originated from the correlation between chronic pain sufferers and un-treatable (or difficult to treat) depression.

How do you conclude from results involving chronic pain to the effects of temporary pain?

I think there is a pretty obvious difference.
But Tether is traded on other exchanges outside of their control, this wouldn't work... plus. if they did this, then what people are suspecting is true. They just print tethers willy nilly without proper USD backing.
They sell both but are good about clearly labeling things so you can know what you’re buying. This contrasts with some other manufacturers who bury it more.
Nice also to see:

You can do
cat /sys/devices/system/cpu/vulnerabilities/spectre_v2
and if you don't have a compiler that supports the retpoline mitigations, you'll get:
Vulnerable: Minimal generic ASM retpoline
because only the assembly code (not the C code) will have the retpoline mitigation. So keep that in mind.
Vanilla Minecraft without guidance isn't especially educational. But my impression at least is that players often add mods, and then might want to make their own. And there are opportunities for programming inside of Minecraft. And some of the more impressive "creative mode" constructions rely on scripts to automate much of the grunt work. For instance: https://nostarch.com/automateminecraft

My inclusion of Minecraft is about the ease and support of modding/scripting/botting rather than the vanilla game. There's a certain subsection of professional developers who got their start by modding their favorite games.
> and quickly learned that while the field is dominated by males, there are many rad communities of women

Like the way this cunt sees men as "males" but women are "women". Oh and she ended up at a "gender queer" coding academy, hello!
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawthorne_effect
Perhaps the original post was not saying atheists are monsters but to encounter a massive challenge to their world view at a young age, may disrupt the comfort of children? Children are wrapped in the bubble of comfort by the boundaries they're raised in. When you mature you question those boundaries and find your own way in the world. But during your early years you may lack the maturity to challenge the foundation of your world view. Being exposed to other ways of thinking may lead to anxiety. It's only a recent thing that people have been so easily exposed to ideas from outside of the creed they were raised in.

But I don't really know, just playing the devils advocate.
There should be a health warning to the effect of: “Objects seen on instagram are faker than they appear.”

They may be beautiful, they may be on a yacht - but the thing has been chartered for an hour for an instagram shoot, they’re staying in a backpacker’s hostel, that methuselah of champagne was bought empty and filled with water, and they’re not actually called Montague Herostache, but rather Duane Dibbley. It’s all artifice.

Source: I watched gaggles of instagrammers faking the lifestyle at Royal Phuket Marina during a yacht show last year, paying to pose on megayachts. It was rather sad - like caged birds primping their plumage.
That's not true, it's very desirable to have something that spends like a crypto-currency (fast transaction time, low fees) but doesn't fluctuate wildly. Nobody's going to send a $1.00 ACH transfer to tip a web comic artist.
This is why you could only buy OTC codeine at pharmacies after you talked to the pharmacist about your condition and they checked and recorded your details in a database to see if you had been buying excessive amounts of OTC codeine.

We are moving from a system where we recorded who was buying codeine and making sure they were not needing help, to a system where there are no controls. The GPs in Australia lack any database on who has been prescribed codeine so it is now possible to doctor-shop around and abuse the system where previously it was regulated. About the only “winners” out of this change are the GP’s as they will now get more business from people like me.
I wonder what's with the id?

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http://newsroom.inter.ikea.com/gallery/image/ingvar-kamprad/...
Definitely read using an IDE rather than a text editor if you weren't already. Scala is the first language I've seen to really make intelligent use of the GUI - not in a dragging-boxes-and-arrows way, but with implicits that are visible subtly (green underline, expandable by mousing over) but not there by default. The way I see it, it's a novel middle ground for things that you don't want to be completely invisible, but don't want taking up a lot of space either, e.g. error handling (exceptions are completely invisible, go-style explicit error handling is too verbose) or access to mutable state, or async operations, or... (the for/yield sugar is similar, with a lightweight "<-"/"=" distinction between effectful operations and not, and then you mouseover to see what the specific effect is). Working with inferred types is also easier when you can mouseover or hit a hotkey to get the type of any expression.

Having different syntax for different kinds of effect as Kotlin does could be seen as more explicit I guess, but I find it actually makes it harder to work with - you have a lot more syntax to keep in your head, and you can't write generic code that works with multiple different effects. Other than that I don't think there's anything more explicit in Kotlin, and some things - error handling in particular - are definitely less explicit.
> Good-vs-evil narratives are not some progression, rather the inverse.

This Good-vs-evil narrative also tends to infantilize whole mediums—say Film or Comics, but the same is true with Journalism. There is no way this is a progression when nothing could be further from real life experience. A good story should respect the audience's intelligence more. Don't assume your audience is stupid, but always paint a more subtle picture with facts. Let them decide afterward, with more than one point of view, what is right and what is wrong. Or perhaps there is no need to root for one side but rather understand why things happened and encourage some form of empathy.
I think you're taking it the wrong way. Perhaps they feel hopeless and desolate because they are stuck in the religious group after learning about other things.
< In Germany the health care system is based on 'Beiträge', i.e. membership contributions to a health insurance.

Is it mandatory? If so, it's a tax in my book.
I work for a tech company in Atlanta, and my starting salary was your "5-8 years" salary. In under four years, my stock options made me a couple million dollars.

Atlanta needs more "hipster" startup jobs. More real tech jobs.
@all who have done it:
How noticeable was the impact on your children with the particular mental model?
The article says that about the effects of smartphones. We're talking about the effects of the housing market right here.
The article seems weirdly insistent on dividing things into "left-wing vs right-wing", but I guess the takeaway is: many companies claimed they weren't hiring because they couldn't find talent. Recently, these companies began hiring ex-convicts, a policy which they presumably weren't exercising before. Presumably these workers are cheaper to hire, while still having the necessary skills. So the conclusion is that companies weren't hiring not due to a lack of available skill, but due to a lack of available _affordable_ skill. I'm not sure what's enlightening about this - supply availablity isn't usually presented as a binary exists/doesn't exist thing, but as how much exists for a given price (especially given that workers can often be trained, for a price). So when companies claim there's not enough supply of talent, implicit in that statement to begin with is "[given our budget]". As might be obvious, I'm not sure what this article is trying to get at.
I knew kids with huge houses and rich parents as a kid and I didn't feel more strongly about it than "this house/pool/whatever is pretty cool". Maybe "gee I wish I had every video game console too" at most. In high school too mosy people I knew were materially better off. It never gave me a complex about it. It's just life, almost everybody can find examples of people with more money.
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Well thank you for that. Noted. I'm going to give you an upvote just so I can have the satisfaction of seeing other people downvote you for being an asshole.
Highly recommended: byobu, a screen+tmux configuration that works well and is available on Ubuntu and in other places.
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DST in Europe has a bit of a history. The European Community, consisting mostly of countries in the southern parts of Europe, decided in 1981 that DST was a good idea.

For political reasons I don't fully understand, Finland adopted the same DST convention in 1981. Possibly there was a need to appear to be in line with other European countries. Maybe there was fear that international business might be disrupted if the time difference between Finland and a given European country wasn't always the same, no matter the date. Certainly the Finnish people didn't need or want DST any more than they need or want it today.

Later, DST was encoded as a (mandatory) EU directive in 2002. All relevant countries were already following the practice, so making it a directive probably seemed like a good idea at the time. Given the amount of international dealings with non-EU states with varying DST conventions, it doesn't seem that useful to force the same DST rules on all EU states.
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Or more recently, when the CHF/EUR peg fell three years ago.

https://www.economist.com/blogs/economist-explains/2015/01/e...
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If it's sufficiently low dose and it's tracked at a level that can detect and alert about potential abuse, that makes a lot of sense to me; thank you for the (much better) explanation.
You're definitely right that technology isn't merely applied science and your examples illustrate that well. Technological advances sometimes happen with blind trial and error rather than any theory. But my point was that nobody would get away with talk of paradigms and incommensurability in the context of technological progress the way Kuhn gets away with it in talking about scientific progress.

And those aren't the same thing, but they are close enough that we should wonder why the rules are different.

For Kuhn paradigm shifts are shifts of largely faith, and paradigms supposedly aren't "really" better or worse than one another. Any declaration that this is so is, Kuhn insists, an anachronistic re-interpretation from within a preferred paradigm rather than an actual insight into truth.

And as the article says, Kuhn frustratingly thinks the whole question of relativism implied by his philosophy is "beside the point." Which is even more frustrating than if the charge were answered positively or negatively. Having that kind of an attitude toward truth is like a banker saying it's "beside the point" whether you have any money in your bank account.
Comp-Sci/Electrical Engineers - I've never seen any of them without a smartphone, or even heard them talk about their friends switching.

Sounds like a good idea though :)
>Never heard of those. What are they exactly? Orange juice?

Psyllium husks work. They make the business more slimy for lack of better description.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psyllium#Constipation
Different concept. Anesthesia for an operation leads to better outcome and more comfortable for the patient. Sucicide was common in people who needed a surgery prior to the advent of anesthesia.
Or in my case, I had the luck of finding the IKEA desk I was looking for - three blocks away from me, second hand, already assembled, on Gumtree.
This is why I love cities. (Sydney isn't even that dense)
I don't think the chicken-egg problem is that bad, the themes are all open source and you can port them. Many exist for a few generators.

A lot of the themes on generators like Hugo are ugly or don't work too.

Probably porting a group of 10 nice ones would be enough.
This is what insurance, credit and contract law are designed to handle.
> You can contract for people to tell lies even. That's what celebrity endorsement contracts essentially are, for example.

I think there are problems with casting it this way. You can get in trouble for making false claims in ads.
No, that doesn't follow at all.
Makes total sense. In the United States, despite their training pharmacists are mostly considered to be pill monkeys rather than meaningful medical professionals--what you get instead is an emoji shrug as the their-definition-of-freedom-lovers (the GP is a good example) froth out at the idea that their medical data should be available to medical professionals, leaving it an ongoing pain in the rear to try to get one pharmacy chain to talk to another (or to an independent pharmacist).

I sometimes forget that other countries have systems that actually work because the incidence of people trying to destroy societal systems is generally less; in that context what you describe certainly seems like an own goal to me.

Thanks!
This is terrible for a hotel. Charge back % spikes is a great way to get dropped by a credit card company.
perhaps you must be thinking of using blockchain just to store the hash of the files so you can check against it using private key, in that case as a one way hash it “maybe” be fine. but then again that wont be a fully decentralized system.

i was thinking of a full on decentralized future where every file and data (encrypted / hashed address) are sitting exposed on the blockchain ala ipfs, etc. where only thing preventing it being decrypted is just a key.

not sure how far we are away from quantum computing but it might make what is considered standard encryption process obsolete. it wasnt even that long ago where cracking md5, sha1 became a piece of cake.
If it can be displayed in any way to a human eyeball, then it can be copied.

The question is what kinds of copying are you concerned about, and how hard are you willing to work to make that difficult?
In Germany, smaller companies get reimbursed by the health insurance for the salary they pay their employee during the sick leave.
How is theglobeandmail.com a reliable source for anything?
Yeah yeah. And if you've been taking it all your life, that's all whistling in the wind. No way is anything with flavor 'identical'.
Trump team considers nationalizing 5G network
Hey Julia - feel free to email me (msilverlock @ cloudflare) so I can look into this. If you can share the API calls you’re making it’d be useful too!
It's not the same. LinkedIn is a network for recruiters, job-seekers, execs and folks from biz-dev and sales. They dynamics are different. It's very work oriented.
I'm not sure if it exists, but it would be a good idea to implement something like a temporary "ex block" for a whole device - everything posted by a specific person would be filtered out for you ON ALL platforms. You wouldn't see their facebook, instagram, twitter or any other profiles for a predetermined amount of time. I know it may approach a Black Mirror kind of vibe, but still...
Yup. I use this app sparingly, and I feel a mild effect. And actually I don’t care if it’s placebo (likely) or not, since it kind of works as I want
China Unveils Vision for 'Polar Silk Road' Across Arctic
I'm unsure of what this is measuring. Is it wealth? Is it income?

Also, it's unclear it measures what it seeks to measure. Imagine a (poor) rural area and a (rich) urban area. Let's assume there's 0 net migration, but 100 people move in each direction every year. This looks like a migration of wealth given the methodology shown, but it's actually noise.

Thus the point the author seems to be driving "look how bad California is at having pro-wealth policies" may be flawed. Any wealthy area is going to look redder than any poor area (unless there's also a net migration of people too).

Reading the rest of the site it's clear he's just trying to push an agenda, though. He's not asking critical questions, just using words like "unimpeachable".
Subtle accumulative micro attention brain hijacking that turns into detrimental habits. Overtime, it can be catastrophic. Perhaps it's less than 50 percent, but it's happening in a massive scale, so the actual number can be staggering.

http://www.timewellspent.io/problem Our society is being hijacked by technology

https://youtu.be/C74amJRp730 ... tech companies control billions of minds ...

https://youtu.be/nay5w-FC08Q?t=5m ... how we're steering 2 billion people's thought ...
So religious people never get depressed? What a stupid argument! Believing that some (unproven and nonexistent) entity is going to solve all your problems is completely delusional.
I find this low-level optimization and performance tuning fascinating. Can anyone recommend any good resources to get started with solving these kinds of problems?
It’s a risk/benefits balance. Rhinovirus 39 is very low risk, especially under controlled conditions. Loneliness in the developed Western world is a growing problem, so gaining a better understanding of what impact it will have has clear benefits.
I agree with this. "Echo chambers" (i.e., communities with the kind of people and content I like to interact with) are great as long as you know when you're in one.
Incinerating stuff made of particle board or MDF puts a lot of bad chemicals into the environment including dioxins.
Basically like lots of things in Australia we are getting caught up in the US hysteria about opioid addiction.

Yes opioids are powerful and potentially dangerous drugs, but used wisely they are very useful and effective. If there is a problem then the solution is to solve the problem, not just ban everything because there might be a problem.

On the topic of the US opioid addiction the way it has been handled is appalling. Getting millions hooked on powerful prescription opioids and then cutting them off cold turkey with effectively zero help so they end turning to really dangerous drugs like fentanyl is criminal.
I love the part where the engineer suggests naming the company "Vector Graphics" because that was what he wanted to build, but never got around to making it.

Kind of a shame the board decided to fight IBM head on instead of adapting to build clones. It seems like they were just enjoying their fat margins a bit too much to want to change, and then it was too late.
Introvert here. It took me a long time to realise the role that face to face interaction had in my emotional well being. I was awkwardly shy and confused by most social interaction. I'd also get down a lot.

Over time I learnt that I'd feel better if I made the effort to spend time around people and develop relationships. I'm still not great at this and would like to get better. But it's kind of like exercise yeah some people naturally enjoy it and some hate it but most will feel better for it.

Perhaps this is not true of everyone. But I'd be surprised if it wasn't true for a very significant proportion of the population.
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The point is, the mentioned magazine (and its sister) holds the world record for 1st and 2nd most distributed magazine in the world as well as most widely translated magazine. 41 million copies of this article was distributed in hundreds of languages, so many people have already seen this.