skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Okay, so instead of charing someone desperate $300K for this unapproved treatment, why not just relax the rules for clinical trials for end of life treatments? This still matches the intent of compassionate care, still collects structured data that can be explored and gives people the right to try anything.

I also think the "word will get out" argument doesn't really wash. If every other option says you'll die, a miracle is worth a shot.
> Blowing up semi-random farmers on the other side of the world

This crude propaganda cliche doesn't offer anything for the discussion. If you take an emotional snapshot of a complex situation and assume that's the whole truth of a situation you almost always are pretty far from the truth - even if in some subset of reality this snapshot is true.
read: Why India doesn't dominate soccer
Insurance companies don't make getting drugs covered and to patients easy. Newly created drugs are pretty useless if neither doctor nor patient has heard of them.

Ergo hookers and blow? I don't buy it.
Please quote from the linked article where they imply causation.
Mistakes teams new to Chaos Engineering make
No, it is not purely on a personal level, it is also a deterrent towards other employees.
The EU “Link Tax” could have a chilling effect on fact-checking
Alzheimer's link to herpes virus in brain, say scientists
I wish these "highly skilled engineers " had been employed by the TSB or Santander in the UK. The TSB had a Charlie Fox migration to a new banking system written by a Spanish bank.
Greed and selfishness based politics are the enemy of public transit. They stand against anything that is for the good of society unless it directly provides them profit.
>Edge is the most resource efficient

No it isn't. According to this independent test not only did Edge lose to Chrome, but it was also wildly inconsistent.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q0112lYQBPE
Also, the cost associated with running a company is a lot lower now than it was in the past. So it is also easier to last longer than 2 years.
After they actively pushed people in to houses with little and even no income and the sharks that targeted minorities with little understanding of contractual law.

And only the taxpayers and the global market felt the consequence.
It's funny, a few years back after I realized New York was "over", I went to Baltimore and _loved_ it.

Parts of Baltimore are actually extremely nice places to live.
It's not going to be a short time before they improve.
"Now yeah, I stayed at the architecture contract for a long time, and that was contrary to my beliefs too. I had no business doing defense contracting in any form. But that was a boring, actuarial, technical evil; the biometrics stuff would've been a constant in-my-face reminder of the wrongness."

He had a price to tolerate a lesser encroachment on his beliefs. Sounds like there's two dimensions to explore: what price, and what personal compromise you're willing to accept.
It's just as valid for people with first-hand experience to post stories about when they refused to cave to the increased reward. I think many here would, rightly, not want to share stories about the times when they had compromised their own morals and ethics for money.
I responded to this point in somewhat more depth in another comment:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17367375

What bothers me is not the idea that another animal could understand language, but the very poor evidence being presented for it in the case of Koko.

That coupled with how much coverage Koko got from media and celebrities can skew people's view of the scientific process and standards for evidence.

And very similar kinds of pseudoscience have been used with humans with non-verbal autism, in something called "facilitated communication," which has turned out to be entirely based on the facilitator's thoughts. This has caused real harm to people, with parents being accused of sexual abuse of their children, when it was all just imagined by the facilitator.

So what bothers me is the extreme carelessness of scientific process, and heavy amounts of self-promotion and publicity with extremely little skepticism, as that can lead people to not properly evaluating other similar claims like FC.
i didn't remember, but searching around it looks like it was something he mentioned in an interview with Bryan A. Garner.
Cool story, I donate to St. Jude’s as well as it seems like they have a pretty solid mission.
Straight up: If recycling things was valuable, recyclers would be paying people for their recyclable goods, independent of what trash collection does.

Recycling may be the best option for the environment, but economically it's somewhere between a wash and a cost. Cities should budget appropriately
With fee, do you mean that you have to pay a yearly fee for simply registering as possibly collecting taxes for that jurisdiction? Not sure what most is, but ~30-50 pay-to-play fee's a year will certainly hurt the small businesses.

I think it's good to start harmonizing the sales taxes, but such a fee (if I understand you correctly) should be removed...
Despite what other posters have said here, the US has a strong soccer culture and a ton of talent. With MLS academies picking up steam and more youth players training abroad, we are producing more talent than ever. The international competition in soccer is intense, and there is a lot of parity among top nations. If the US had adjusted tactics in the qualifiers, we'd be there instead of Panama. We're definitely stronger than a bunch of other countries at the WC.
Similar situation with my wife and I: I was working in IT directly out of high school (late 80s), and met my wife at the same company. Fast-forward a bit, and I'm married with my first kid at age 22, we started our first company when I was 26, and then started our current company when I was 28 (by then we had two kids and a new house). I see "kids" today that are 30-32 and just getting married, getting a house, and say "what took you so long ?". :-)

Edit: downvoters, it's a joke, okay ? I have many close friends that are in that situation (I'm not that old), and I understand the forces that are conspiring against people to prevent them from "starting" their lives earlier.
Let the man live!
Here in Uruguay we don´t have cheap energy but we do have a ridiculous number of both professional and amateur leagues and coaches (and a lot of grassland to convert into soccer fields)

For a population of 3 million:

- Pro league with 30 pro teams (each with a youth system with 7-8 teams) + 80 semi-amateur teams (with promotion to the pro leagues)

That's between 10.000 and 20.000 players in the pro system. 100 (or more) each year are sold overseas.

- Very serious amateur league with 8.000 players every weekend in the capital city, Montevideo (any of those 8.000 players could be a pro in a weak national league) plus 2.000 players in the league for smaller cities.

- Teenagers play leagues much like Americans might play high school and college sports, there are probably 30.000 teenagers playing in leagues

- 140.000 players in all the leagues across all the smaller cities.

So that's about 200.000 active players for a population of 3 million - I was one until a few years ago :)

If China or India could achieve that much sports penetration (imagine 200.000.000 Chinese playing competitive soccer every weekend!), I don't doubt they'd be one of the top ranked teams in the world.

https://www.ovaciondigital.com.uy/futbol/mundo-futbolistas.h...

https://www.referi.uy/tierra-fertil-2017-emigraron-107-jugad...
Huh? Your entire comment is confusing to be honest and misleading.

The platforms you rattled off are far, far larger than Sony. So I don't think we can follow your point on "Sony understands the platform business better than anyone" at all.

The PS'es for a lot of their history were not dev friendly at all. This point also get's thrown at the window sadly [1] [2] [3].

Which then makes "I think it's because Sony knows their customer isn't the gamer, it's the game developer ... Sony's dominance comes from understanding that catering to the developer is paramount." nonsensical as it has been demonstrated that it's not that either.

"I can't think of another platform maker in the last 20+ years who's been better."

Eh, you did a pretty good job yourself listing off far better and larger platforms at the start of your comment so I think one can easily.

[1] http://www.escapistmagazine.com/forums/read/7.870167-Oddworl...

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8167371

[3] https://www.cnet.com/news/sony-ps3-is-hard-to-develop-for-on...
Sony is the king of the console heap so they have no reason to allow cross-play. "Everybody is on PS4, so I need to get a PS4 to play with them" is a huge driver of their sales. That is the moat around their lucrative console castle. There is no way they'd allow a bridge to Xbox or Switch like Microsoft and Nintendo push-- it would only weaken their Sony's position and strengthen their competition's.

Its shitty but the ball is in their court.
I must say that, even if unfamiliar to me, I am quite impressed about the C++ interoperability :)
Isn’t that akin to making people pay to participate in a study? Shouldn’t their payment consist of all the information a company receives from essentially testing their new treatment on a human?
The degree to which this has weighed on entrepreneurship has got to be huge. I've put off efforts because of insurance, or because money had to go into healthcare. I know other people who've done it. I know someone who ran a great autoshop out of his house in off-hours for years... but needed a state full-time job because one of his kids had a condition that only a socialized risk pool had the depth to handle. Wonder what he could have done if the shop was his full-time job.

It seems obvious -- set up a socialized insurance system where if you happen to be one of society's big winners, you'll have to share more of that upside, and if/when you lose big, you get covered. That's what insurance is, socializing it just takes it to its logical conclusion, and even a guy like Hayek thought that maybe this was a place where it might be better socialized rather than private markets. In doing so you help with one of the most common risk factors and costs freeing up attention and small capital across the population.
Ah, I see what the problem is, then.

I've always thought it was something they were going to do sooner or later.

Electron gets a lot of hate, while I think it's a great tech and 90% of the apps I use are available just because of its existence, since I'm on Linux and they wouldn't bother porting them if it wasn't made easy by Electron.
My Struggle with Impostor Syndrome in the Technology World
But go back to forapurpose's post (parallel to vixen99's). If people genuinely believe that truth isn't the point, would you not see the behavior that forapurpose describes?
Ask HN: AI right now – Intelligence or just statistics
The more I learn about AI and machine learning, the more I feel that there's no true intelligence here and it's just mostly statistical probability. Anybody else feel this way ?
Their tone of "unquestionable authority" doesn't count for much here either, though. I've met plenty of PhD-level folks who were actually pretty clueless overall and didn't really know what they were talking about in the end; some of them were even scientists.

Fun fact: Not too far from me is an infamous "green energy" project which turned out to be a massive and expensive failure. A considerable amount of the money lost here was taxpayer dollars, too. An after-the-fact analysis showed that one big reason for the failure was having too many clueless PhD-level types running around making mostly empty promises, and not enough experienced Joe-the-welder types running around who know how things really work. All is not lost, though, because after having shut down and written off the green energy aspects of the project, it's now just a plain old fossil fuel plant which is doing well enough for itself. A very expensive plant, of course, but at least one that actually works.
You don't even need SDCs for this though. You can have smaller, more personalized vehicles driven by municipal employees or by privately owned companies. The point is why have a MASSIVE bus carrying 1/4 capacity on average? You should only have massive busses when you need them, since their downsides are much higher than a van or a minivan.
Something like ten years ago now, Washington State changed their sales tax requirements in a way that required the seller to look up the four-digit rate code of the buyer, both for determining the rate to charge and later for remitting to the state. The quarterly file they provide with this information is ~150000 rows. Prior to that date, you just reported for the jurisdiction in which the business was registered.

Between this and similarly far-reaching laws (e.g., GDPR), it's becoming increasingly burdensome for small players to the point where secondary services like Avalara are effectively required.
"weakly typed" is not well-defined, however, I don't think that Rust is, even in unsafe. If you can provide a C or C++ example, I can tell you what that looks like in Rust.
Avalara just went public and is benefitting from the ruling: https://www.geekwire.com/2018/avalara-stock-soars-following-...
What happened to all the people Dershowitz is criticizing? Why does Dershowitz need to agree with the mainstream Left?
That's correct. Supply and demand does set the price of coke.
To be fair, it used to be called European Champions' Cup when those teams were playing.
This license is non-free and shouldn't be used for the same reason that the JSON license is non-free and shouldn't be used.
Everything is more expensive and the real gutterscrape hipsters have been pushed out to Canarsie and Rockaway
My understanding is that it just hides them from the UI; if you upgrade your plan, you get access to all your old messages and files that were previously "gone".
Stuff like this always reminds me of:

https://helix.northwestern.edu/blog/2010/02/when-science-goe...

I'm guessing they are being as careful as they can in regards to selection bias.
If you wanted to preserve your maximum reputation score for a potential future job as a CEO...

Would you want to be fired for...?

A) Being a bad CEO who can't produce profits

B) Having an inappropriate relationship with an employee

For Mark Hurd, he was able to transition from one great job into another, CEO of Oracle, even after the embarrassment of (B).
Qt creator for c++,

sublime for javascript, python and everything else.

gdb for debugging

mongodb for database

ec2 for hosting
That's a "devirtualization" optimization. Suppose you have a C++ class with a virtual method (or something similar coded in C), which only has a single concrete implementation. Clearly, every place which calls that virtual method through any pointer to that class can only be calling that single concrete implementation, so the compiler can call the function directly instead of through the function pointer, perhaps even inlining the called function.

Yes, that EraseAll example is silly, but how can the optimizer distinguish it from non-silly examples? Perhaps there are other alternative functions which also set that same function pointer, but they were all hidden by some #ifdef; in that case, devirtualizing when there's only one option left will be a performance win, and can expose other optimization opportunities.
The youngest boomers are currently 54. Perhaps they are starting to think about retirement now, but what money did they have in 1990 (when they were 26 years old) to invest in a 25 year old?
Or if you’d rather have typeclasses: https://github.com/purerl/purescript
The Billion-Dollar Business of Operating Shelters for Migrant Children
suddenly the EU VAT system looks awesome :-)
One approach to coping with quantum is to run 2 (or more)
Firefox profiles, one for the old, or ESR, or pre-quantum
executable; and the other for Quantum:

/usr/bin/firefox53 -P esr

/usr/bin/firefox -P quantum

and if you want access to the same saved bookmarks,
just use Firefox Sync to match them up.

It won't help with Pentadactyl, but folks with other use cases may find it useful.
In my last 3 jobs I've stated "References provided upon request" and never actually been asked for the references. All these companies had established HR organizations and processes, and they had the resources to check references if they wanted to. I put a dash in any box that asks for references, current manager, etc in online applications.

That being said, if somebody I enjoyed with working with (even if it was 10 years ago) called and asked me to be a reference I'd be happy to do it. I think everybody understands that references are a necessary game that has to be played when hiring.

So don't worry about it too much. Reach out to old collages and ask if you can use them as a reference. They're probably not going to be contacted anyway.
Kids in other countries play soccer in tight spaces. This helps them develop ball control skills. And with a soccer ball, you can practice juggling, shooting, or doing moves by yourself. For me, shooting hoops by myself was always very dull.
No I was goaded into it by nationalistic, racist, war mongering, pro military family members who spent most of my life telling me blowing shit up and killing people was the best way to solve conflicts because they hated (well really feared) everyone other than their own race.

This prepared me nicely for a career as a cog in the military industrial complex.
I don't think this is the whole story - or at least not the right strategy for Sony anymore. Sony's PS3 was more or less a market disaster and they were able to claw their way back to #1 by selling the PS4 for $100 less than the Xbox One and taking advantage of Microsoft's terrible, self-centered move of pushing for always-on DRM. Now Sony is making the same kinds of self-centered moves with the PS4 because they are the current leader and feel like they can get away with it.

The tech in these platforms is more similar than it's ever been. The consoles are trending towards basically being stripped down multi-core PCs optimized for video and memory bandwidth - especially now with half-step upgrades like the PS4 Pro and XBOne X. For many game developers building on top of engines like Unity or Unreal, they are no longer specifically designing for XBox or PS4 - they are targeting a common engine platform and then just tweaking the game content as needed to make sure it performs well enough on each platform.

Combine this with the fact that video games cost more than ever to develop and it makes less sense than ever for a 3rd party publisher to target any single platform. In order to recoup their dev budgets and make big profits, they want as huge an install base as possible. Epic would want Fortnite to run on toasters if they though people would play it there. Platform exclusives are essentially a thing of the past except in cases where the platform holder funds the development or owns the IP.

Sony may be the current leader in building first-party, system-exclusive action games to sell their platform, but the number of people who play those games is dwarfed by the mass appeal of something like Fortnite. By gaining the reputation as "the worst place to play Fortnite" (literally the world's most popular game), they are turning off a whole new generation of customers who may swap back to Microsoft when the next console generation hits.

In my opinion, this is nothing but Sony taking it advantage of it's #1 console position to try to force people to give them more money in the short term. I'm sure Microsoft would be doing the same thing if their current market positions were reversed. But I don't think it's good for their long-term business.
> There is no real artistic or cultural activity in Lower Manhattan anymore

I live in Flatiron. My neighbourhood has multiple experimental ballet, jazz, classical music and small-style theatre venues. And it isn’t even a hotbed for any of those things!

For the audience it comes with, New York is cheap. Add to that our strong subsidised housing programs, many of which have special vouchers for artists, and our comfort with roommates and lack of a need for a car and I think you’ll find a thriving creative scene, in Manhattan and across New York.
A wider and better public transportation system can definitely help the city grow beyond its current limit (of housing and etc)
A key problem with libertarian thought is the notion that it is possible to erect a hard firewall between economic wealth and the power of the state (or any other entity or combination of them) to initiate force.

In practice as long as the state (or any other force wielder) and economic actors exist in the same universe the latter can use money or deception to influence the former. Money can be used to amplify deception through intelligence tradecraft.

This means that large enough concentrations of wealth inevitably tend to mutate into political power a.k.a. the power to initiate force.

Rand is probably the worst offender when it comes to outright denying this and refusing to examine its implications.
AT&T Successfully Derails California's Tough New Net Neutrality Law
This is a great question but you need to think about it a little differently.

Postmodern thinking doesn't come to a conclusion that an objective reality doesn't exist per se.

Don't think about it as a proposition about how the world is.

Postmodernism shows through ex. deconstruction how language isn't as solid a foundation to talk about the world objectively as we might want to believe.

So, in other words, it's a critique of the idea of the absolute and objective frame of references.

It doesn't say that we can't use classical physics just that the second we start to formulate proposition about how the world is we are ultimately using an axiom to do that.

Now, this axiom is useful enough that it might allow us to build spaceships to fly to Mars but it might be that it doesn't allow us to do faster than light travel to reach Alpha Centauri.

Not sure I answered your question satisfactorily if not let me know and I will try again. It's worth spending time on.
I've always found it helpful to outline my argument and logic. I then write almost all work documents and personal non-technical writing in this format:

Hook/Lead - What's the point and it's importance?
Context - What surrounds the point making it important?
Point of Action - What am I arguing for us to do...
Body of the Argument - Format varies
Suggested Action/Action Steps - List what needs to be done
~~ Collaboration Section (if needed)
Request for Comments - "I realize this might cause problems for x, y, z. Could you please provide input on the resolution of the #{point of the matter}?"

If it's technical, I learned to use the Toulmin Method for arguments. I first learned about it from Purdue's Online Writing Lab in high school.

Obviously, I don't follow it to the letter but that's how I try to "flow" my writing. If you're speaking, the most important thing is your hook and letting people know where you are in your speech as you guide the listener's attention through your presentation.
Edit: The guiding can also be visual, if you've got a visual aid; however, you've still got to point it out at least once.
Sure, such that in my experience users prefer dedicated apps most of the time.

For example, Postman (browser-based HTTP client) has some of the worst UX because it's a Chrome app and not stand-alone. Can't event alt-tab to it. I have to alt-tab to Chrome and then find the Postman window.
Felt more dangerous and looked dirtier when I went in 06. Its still a dirty city but improvements have been made
Universal healthcare, akin to other developed countries, would be one of the greatest boons to entrepreneurship in the US.
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