skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The numbers were very much a part of the comment, and thus it is quite valid to guarantee you're still operating in reality when you make claims like that. Your 32 years to get $30,000 makes a lot of assumptions. One, that in 32 years $30k is going to be a significant amount of money, still. Second, that the person investing does not have an event in their life that would drain away any investments that they have, like an illness.
I’m not I agree. The first reason is that many medications carry significant risks. For instance you mention insulin. For someone already prescribed insulin, yes it should be easy to access in case they should be able to get more (and that is the purpose of a repeat prescription). However, to provide insulin over the counter to someone never previously prescribed it could be incredibly dangerous, and indeed fatal. This is Similarly true for some cardiac medication.

Second, i think such a system makes pharmacists de facto community doctors, but without the time, training, or patient medical data to function correctly. Community doctors can make better decisions when they see the same patient multiple times, and have access to blood pressure readings, a list of other medical conditions etc. Buying over the counter makes a lot of this difficult and inefficient.

Third, I think it leads to a risk of encouraging patients to manage conditions without valid medical advice. For instance, depression is often treated best with psychotherapy. By buying antidepressives OTC, it prevents patients getting the holistic care needed. Similarly, patients may follow quack medical advice and do themselves significant injury by taking medications not needed (in the short term or long term).

Ultimately doctors offer a lot of value more than just prescribing medication, and often medicines need oversight to ensure the benefits outweigh the risk.
I would not have guessed that there were automatic ECG analysis in 1970! Was it good? Are today's methods any better?
I don't think I can agree with it. We completely ignore our biggest mistakes and failures, for example it's still not acceptable to admit that the Iraq war was a total disaster and our biggest foreign policy mistake in decades.
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+1 for using three sensors. Visual only neural nets can be cracked with a sticker.
answer: because all the files are in the same, single data center which has a lot less nines
Intercepted by The Intercept is great. So is the sister "Deconstructed" podcast
If you don't have high wages, you can't invest enough to expect more than a very modest retirement. You can buy some stock, and lots of people do—America has a fairly large number of people who own some stock, just very few who have accumulated enough to live off their investments while still growing them.
"Tools used by a small minority of users to find performance issues," != "Go programmers have a habit of microoptimizations to avoid heap allocations." You are being disingenuous.
> ME is removable.

With proper hardware tooling and care, perhaps. (Side question: even for latest gen chips?)

For the vast majority of people, ME is not removable. For the AMD users, AMD's ME equivalent is not removable.
This isn’t true: at various periods during world history, China has been one of the richest and educated countries in the world. The potential of its people was already there and all that was needed was a peaceful environment with an enabling government.
I think you missed the year in Shab's account start date.
> This seems to violate
> the classic startup maxim
> to 'focus on just one
> thing and get it right'

And who said this maxim works? Lots of startups do a lot of things in common. Doesn't mean those are all good ideas
Didnt seem to work for me, unable to find trucks or buicks on my searches.
Depends on the domain. .us registrations were done by emailing a filled-out template to a hostmaster.
In the case of Riot / League of Legends, these are still potentially customers willing to pay for skins etc, which is their income stream.

I wonder if cheaters are as likely to pay for that stuff as non-cheaters?
> Yes, why hasn't this arisen naturally?

Why would it arise naturally?
> sometimes shitty

I still have to do .stream() and .toList() (or .collect(Collectors.toList())) back and forth in Java all the time just to get reliable access to map/filter lambdas while still having a valid return value.
OK, so how do you address the spacetime argument? An "atomically perfect copy" is not a perfect copy of the spacetime object. Because they diverge at the moment of copying.
That's correct. The primary performance benefit of generational GC (in terms of throughput and maybe also latency) is that it can reclaim the memory (backing the young generation) without marking or otherwise processing the vast majority of the live data (contained in the old generation).
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Our lovely residents of Binary Town keep their average birth rate at 2 through enlightened and fair methods.

Then Professor Gemini discovers a cure for cancer, which doubles their lifespan.

Unfortunately very soon they are having an unexpected housing shortage.

How did that happen?
When it started to take 1273 words to say one sentence of information to attract readers.
I didn’t realize Bill Gate’s dad has Alzheimer’s.

I’m not sure why this disease gets relatively little funding. If Gates’ funding leads to early detection, say 10-15 year early, maybe it’ll raise awareness so it gets more government funding.
That’s a good, simple example demonstrating a problem.

I also think pharmacokinetic effects are likely underappreciated by the general public.
>The sub result for 4 simultaneous drive failures in 156 hours = 1.89187284e-13. That means the probability of it NOT happening in 156 hours is (1 – 1.89187284e-13) which equals 0.999999999999810812715 (12 nines).

Minor nitpick, this ignores the possibility of more than 4 failures, although this error only affects the fourth digit after the nines. Much more egregious is the following:

>there are 56 “156 hour intervals” in a given year

This is too simplistic, there are in fact infinitely many 156-hour intervals in a year, some of them just happen to overlap. This overlap can't simply be ignored because even if none of their 56 disjoint intervals contain 4 events this does not rule out the possibility of there being 4 events in some 156 hour interval they didn't take into account. In fact failing to take into account even one of the infinitely many intervals creates a blind spot (consider what happens if the drives happen to fail precisely at the start and end of a particular interval). You can still get a lower bound by e.g. ensuring none of the 56 intervals contain more than 1 failure, or by adding more intervals and ensuring none of them have more than 2 failures etc.

Their binomial calculation contains the same mistake.

A quick improved lower bound can be obtained by calculating the probability that any failure is followed by (at least) 3 other failures within 156 hours. For one failure this probability is given by the Poisson distribution and is

Pc = 1 -\sum_{k<3} e^-λ λ^k / k! = 5.18413e-10.

Now we get into some trouble because the failures and the probability of a 'catastrophic' failure are dependent, however the probability that any particular failure turns catastrophic is constant, so the expected number of catastrophic failures can't be greater than the expected number of failures times that constant, this gives a lower bound of

Pc (365·24·λ) = 6.63154e-9

this is a lower bound, but that's still three fewer nines left than their claim.

Anyway let's just hope their data centres are more reliable than their statistics.

Edit: This last calculation can be justified by noting that the probability that 1 critical failure starts in a particular time interval is Pc times the probability of 1 failure in that interval plus some constant times the probability of more than one interval. Similarly the probability of more than one critical failure is at most the probability of more than one failure.

Now the probability of more than one failure in a time interval is dominated by the length of the interval, therefore if you calculate the density those parts fall away and you're left with a density of Pc λ critical failures per hour.

This seems to be an exact expression for the expected number of critical failures, and not just a lower bound. Although it is still a lower bound for the probability of a critical failure, albeit a fairly tight one.
Well I was just in a retail store that had a whole bunch of "koozies" with a big name brand that did exactly the same thing: store a beer can inside to insulate it with a opening for drinking so I'm going to call BS on the "unique" aspect of it unless it's some minor detail difference or they licensed it to the very large company selling them.
Know any good writing that introduces the game item market to outsiders? I am curious about the thought process of people who spend money in this way, and their perception of value.

I imagine a taxonomy of motivations, like the one Larry Harris has in _Trading & Exchanges_. Presumably some people get entertainment value (because surely there is a kick in seeing a game's world modified beyond its normal rules of state mutation); some speculate on price trends (hence the price graph on opskins.com; what are time series graphs for if not to spark idle dreams of avarice), and others getting some sort of utility (i.e., money laundering).
Interesting. Is generating entangled protons so trivial that this is feasible now?

It seems like it would take millions (more?) of entangled protons per second to achieve this. And then these can be sensed, verified, and measured at such speed that it could be used as radar?

It sounds far fetched, but I would love to know if this process is already that quick and easy.
Amazed nobody referenced Pareto's principle (80/20) rule.

20% of the streamers get 80% of the viewers.
If you’ve been taking the same medication for 10 years, then on day 1 of year 11 you need a refill, pretty good chance you know it is necessary. I wouldn’t claim you never need to see a doctor, but it is equally absurd to suggest you always need to see a doctor. My experience has been that I ask for refills, and my doctor unquestioningly gives them. It would save the whole system money and time if I could just refill them myself.
How do you prevent the cheat doing a MITM attack and changing keys?
You're right that this isn't a proven method of success, but the smell test seems to tell me that it's harder to do two very hard things than it is to do just one. They are simultaneously trying to redesign the auto experience AND invent a technology that doesn't exist. If doing one made the other easier, I would understand, but that doesn't seem to be the case. They are solving a problem that doesn't exist yet.
I have been researching data orchestration/versioning tools for a long time and have been following the Quilt guys closely. It is definitely one of the more powerful tools in the ML/AI engineer's toolbox and solves a huge problem that almost everyone runs in to right out the gate. It's still early days in this space but Quilt gets a lot of things right and I'm super excited to see this product develop.

Full disclosure: I run Paperspace (https://www.paperspace.com) and am working with the Quilt team to integrate their tools in to our platform.
Google Cloud instance types are so much easier to grok and simple. I think AWS adds complexity and makes poor user experience decisions on purpose sometimes (tongue and cheek).

AWS T2, M5, M5d, C5, C5d, X1e, X1, R4, H1, I3, D2 vs GCE standard, memory optimized, or compute optimized. Want a custom amount of cores and memory on GCE? No problem, just punch it in.

Then there is EC2 billing... Google Cloud sustained use and committed use discounts are superior yet again.
On your first visit or every visit thereafter? I think the issue is the overhead of unecessary repeat visits.
It became port 22 because we don't use srv records and we wonder why we have an IPv4 crisis when there's like only 3 ports of 64k used on any server: 443,80,22.
The Crucial M4 SSD had a firmware bug [1] that caused it to fail repeatedly starting after 5,184 power on hours.

Disk failures could also be triggered by datacenter environmental factors shared among many drives like temperature or noise.

[1] https://www.storagereview.com/node/2676
I do not think that this is a good idea, for various reasons.

1) Letting peer pressure and self censorship to police our habits is the end of individuality and freedom. This is exactly what China is trying to achieve with that horrible social credit system. It also inverts the logic behind healthy practices: today you run because it makes you feel good; tomorrow you run because you can't afford to be left behind and lose insurance. This kind of thing really lowers the bar on the respect of privacy and dignity because it is basically large scale surveillance in exchange for cheaper insurance.

Take car insurance: are you willing to give insurance companies full access to your GPS and tachometer data just so you can prove you're a good driver (in their own terms) and pay a little less?

2) What is healthy today might not be healthy tomorrow. Imagine some food is considered healthy in 2020, and you happen to eat lots of it, but in 2050 it turns out it's the other way around.

And 3) this all boils down to the reason why, in general, associating people in groups and then judging individuals accordingly is unconstitutional in so many countries. That group may be gay people, black people, people that voted Left or some other group that you cannot leave or join because of some arbitrary definition. And is also worth considering that the group to which you belong can vote a change on its definition that leaves you out with no appeal, the worse case being some AI deciding that you're done.
Personal experience:

I was getting an annual physical from the doctor who had written a prescription that was expiring. We discussed the condition and agreed I needed a renewal. I was told I had to come back for a separate visit "because Obamacare required it" My translation: because he couldn't bill for writing out the prescription during well-check, and because he wanted/needed to charge for it. Oh, and blaming Obamacare because I live in a predominantly Republican area.
> Luckily for us all the major pharmaceutical companies are public and we can can see exactly where they generate their revenue. Maybe you can show us exactly by how much the US subsidises Europe then. I suspect not by much.

All pharmaceutical companies - including those based in Europe - derive the lion's share of their revenue from the US market, despite the US having half the population.

That's pretty obvious from the relative prices of drugs in the US versus Europe and the quantities sold, but take a look yourself if you want.
In terms of 'distraction from core business', this is in the same category as having logo'ed schwag to hand out at industry gatherings. It just looks cooler and you normally don't announce the formation of 'Stripe Extruded Plastics'. But it's not like Stripe is turning into an actual publisher.
> at various periods during world history, China has been one of the richest and educated countries in the world.

Do you have any further reading on this? It doesn't strike me as too crazy of a statement - but I'd be very interested in seeing how one would go about actually quantifying it.
VC guy urges Elon Musk to calm the f*ck down
Quite interesting is the bit about hiring the "former lead of GNU Radio" who had experienced pain in getting closed/proprietary hardware things to be useful. I wonder if this will lead to more open platforms. If for no other reason, that bit makes the article worth reading.
Just because you can import a library to do something doesn’t mean you should. Why bloat the software even more for a function that is used rarely (i.e. during outages) and by very few people?
"beard oil" is a phrase I never want to read again for the rest of my life.
Assume you want access to files over the next 20 years. What are the odds Google will have bought Dropbox in that time; and what are the odds an automated system monitor at Google ad words will have disabled your Google account in that time span?

Replace with Amazon and/or crashplan as appropriate..
> To take advantage of jets, the programmer has to get the shape of the code right as well as the semantics.

Not true at all, because jets are almost never something that exist in the language the programmer is writing in. They exist in the language the compiler is targeting.

Here's a concrete example (something otherwise missing in this thread): the keccak256() hash function in Solidity.

The keccak256() function just looks like any other function, from the perspective of writing code in Solidity.

But when you compile your Solidity program containing a keccak256() call, it compiles not to an inline implementation of keccak256(), or to a single intrinsic EVM opcode for "doing keccak256", but rather to a call to a keccak256-implementing smart contract at a "known" address, created alongside the particular Ethereum network.

That smart contract does have the plain EVM code in it to compute the keccak256 hash for a given input, and if you implemented a "dumb" Ethereum VM for your Ethereum network node, that's what would happen. It would be very slow and expensive to run, but it would work just fine.

But, instead, in less-naive EVM implementations (including the reference EVM), there's a jet: the EVM opcode sequence for "call the known keccak256 smart contract" is pattern-matched, and instead of actually doing that, a native keccak256() function is called instead. (Or, alternately, the definition of the "CALL" op checks the call address, and in the case of the known addresses, calls the native function instead. Same difference.)

The Solidity programmer remains completely unaware of this. Instead, it's a contract between the developers of Solidity, and the developers of (some) EVM implementations, that

1. Solidity will emit code in a structure that the EVM can pattern-match; and that

2. the EVM devs will ensure that such code is valid on all EVM implementations, with or without the jet (in this case by working with the networks to ensure there's a smart-contract in place at the known address that does keccak256 hashing.)

That's all that's required to get a jet working: mutual knowledge of the jet between the developer of a compiler targeting the ISA, and the developer of the interpreter/VM for that ISA.
The prescription is probably good for some limited number of refills.
Afaik it's still quite complex to run. But JS is quite an optimised language these days, so that might not be far from the C implementation...
The Wealth of Nations. He looked at what Spain, England, etc got out discovery and colonizing America.
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Why should one judge any book by the gender or geography of the author, editor, or blurb writer?
Yes, you are right. That's what I was missing :-)
You should look into Richmond BC or Vancouver Canada. Lots of Chinese and lots of corruption associated with Chinese population, especially tax evasion, money laundering, immigration fraud, illegal business. The only line cutting however is when the fire department is giving away free road salt or there is a sale at the Coach outlet store.
A withering takedown, presented dispassionately
Please see this report by the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists : https://www.acog.org/Clinical-Guidance-and-Publications/Comm...

It discusses a series of studies on the "ability of patients to self-screen for birth control pill eligibility", and determines that patients are good enough at self-screening that the medication may as well be over-the-counter.

It sounds like, from the initial article, that the FDA is taking a similar approach: "Drug companies would have to submit data to the FDA that shows consumers are capable of accurately assessing their need for a medication and their ability to use it correctly."

Obviously we'd need to wait to see what the FDA actually approves/disapproves for these purposes, but it actually seems quite likely the approved drugs will, in fact, be restricted to cut and dry ones, such as birth control pills.
If Google suspends your account for background music playing in a YouTube video, you might still lose access to your files in Google drive / cloud - even if the files are encrypted.
But medicine is dealing with your own body and I would argue that you’re the world expert on your own body.
Indeed. I once had critical systems routed via a large redundant Cisco switch which claimed to be 1+1. Turns out there was a single "supervisor" component which failed (after just a year or two) and made the pair of switches useless. Apparently the designer worked in a team where nobody does anything when the boss is out.
OK, I'm convinced. They had pizza. Maybe with some wild oregano.
If there is no license you have no rights to the software. If they are offering it for download there is probably an implied license to use the software but certainly not to modify or distribute it.
Pure organic is great, but I won't use batteries unless they are vegan.
If you order the regular coffee you get it right away, pretty much while you are paying. The fact that most of the people you see waiting are the ones who ordered the fancier drinks is because of selection bias.
Okay, but my comment still stands: You don't need to make it impossible, just hard enough that it's not worth the effort. This applies whether we're talking about individuals or companies.

As an aside, I don't know anything about the market for game cheats. Do people really pay a significant amount of money for that?
Volcanic lava 'bomb' injures 23 people on tour boat in Hawaii
I'm a little unclear on how they found this database and why it was left without security. It sounds like there is some well known vulnerabilities with older versions of Mongo and these people did some security audits where they found this particular database. Is the explanation for why this database was left vulnerable just a mistake on the part of the money launderers?
Why are you helping spread this white man's opinion? Does he not get enough attention already?

(I'm sorry for this crude comment -- it just seemed like the best way to illustrate the irony and ridiculousness of that tweet).
Keep in mind that the content they pump out is often meant for highly targeted audiences, so naturally over time as they pump out more content you're going to see you won't like most of it, except the stuff made especially for people like you.
All businesses are constantly externalizing costs.
I always thought it was because it was one less than telnet's port 23.
While I'm sceptical of content filters, even with a home search, it seems unlikely you'd end up in cuffs unless a) the filter caught acymtual illegal content, or b) the search turned up something illegal.

You might get killed in the course of the initial police raid though..
Solar activated nanoparticles for heating water.
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The attack surface is not only on the game but on the operating system that the client controls. I mean the game is just a process, the process runs on your computer, you control the computer so you can do anything.
> I think you could name multiple competitive players in lots of areas that aren't your core business. You can't name any others in ad services because Google is a monopolist.

That is totally silly - What in the world makes you think I think about the advertisement industry more than the absolute minimum amount possible?

Anyway, the other options are:

- They run their own ad platform
- They don't run ads
A game with prevalent hacking/cheating is going to go downhill quick and lose it's established player base. Catering to these people in any way does not seem like a wise strategy.