skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As I understand it, a combination of a few things.

One was a change to quality-of-care measurements. Lots of entities in the US health care system are evaluated on metrics around patient outcomes, and some of those look at management of physical pain. Changes to metrics for pain effectively pushed doctors toward a target of zero pain, and doctors began prescribing more medication to achieve that target.

Another is the allegation that pharmaceutical companies downplayed the risks of their newer formulations for pain medication, or even outright lied. Purdue, Endo, Allergan, Johnson & Johnson, Teva and others all are facing or have faced lawsuits over this. To take an example: Purdue marketed OxyContin as a breakthrough long-acting drug -- they claimed 12 hours of effectiveness -- which would reduce the risk of addiction. In reality, patients reported the effects wore off after as little as 4 hours, and Purdue's marketing and sales arms pushed doctors to prescribe more and higher doses. This naturally led to... addiction and overdoses.

Still another factor is that pharmaceutical companies seem to have been perfectly willing to overlook obvious abuse in order to move product and make money. It's not terribly hard to spot the patterns; there were cases of small (couple thousand people) towns where the local pharmacy would handle millions of doses of hydrocodone or oxycodone. And there have been lawsuits over that, too, with the drug companies mostly trying to reach settlements and avoid trials.
I think it's less the subject matter and more the depth and quality of the article on the subject.
This page shows that some countries produce electric power in cleaner way than other.
This projects only one point of view, and congratulations for countries that are shifting towards green sources.

But, title is misleading: This map doesn't show consumption or total production.

Moreover an option "Show wind" emphasis that countries with less green electricity poison other countries. Which is false. From this map it looks that Europe suffers from Estonia and Poland being there. If we'll consider total production from http://world.bymap.org/ElectricityProduction.html we have following data:

- Estonia: 12900000 (tons / year)

- Poland: 108750000 (tons / year)

- Germany: 228717000 (tons / year)

Without having total numbers there, my feeling is that this page tries to manipulate.
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It also behaves as ugly as sin.

This app is on most parts pure gargabe. Most things are just hacked together as pet features to satisfy urgent needs on the spot, and then forgotten as things "work". And those things have grown over the last 20 years, while the dev has no real clue about modern software development or UX, leading to the mess this software is today.

But if you reach the point where you accept defeat to this monster, and ignore all features, it can become quite useful.
I think the point is that just because Snap, Inc. [or insert unicorn here] had rapid growth over the last few years doesn't mean it's a better or stronger company than those it outpaced.

Past stock prices unfortunately are not guarantees or even good predictors of future success.

I think the other point is that Apple started decades before Amazon. I'd be curious to see a year 1-24 side by side comparison (adjusted for inflation). So, '76-'00 for Apple vs. '94-'18 for Amazon.

Companies grow slower as they age so saying Amazon's 24th year outpaced Apple's 42nd year isn't really apples to apples.
It all makes sense to me. You received Master's online, because it Cybersecurity. Hacking between you and the mentor would be much of fun.
TLA. Three letter agency. Johnson, Bush and "his son" Clinton. As opposed to 2LA.
And Amazons entry into retail foreshadows an awesome and terrifying hybrid online/real-world juggernaut who can use its drones & delivery fleet to get your cheapo purchases to its stores as you're finishing up shopping, or bring it all back to your place along with your groceries if you want to go out for dinner, all under the umbrella of an integrated subscription service.
You can't defeat something if you don't understand it.
There is more responsibility than this, I think.

A lack of laws allowing for paid sick leave, for example. It is easier to sit at home and not take pain meds than it is to have to go to work. If people cannot afford to take time off, there might as well be no sick time.

There is a fault with doctors, but I truly think that for most doctors, they shouldn't have to be the gatekeeper for such things so long as they are prescribing for medically necessary conditions. The responsibility is that they should talk about addiction and symptoms of it with the patients and be prepared to work with patients if there is trouble. This should be without treating them like criminals 5 years later if they have a real reason to have medication (like surgery, for example).

To a lesser extent, yes, it lies with a few doctors for prescribing strong pain killers. But if they are the medical norm for the sort of pain you are dealing with, they aren't being irresponsible either. I'd much rather folks be able to manage their pain than to suffer.

Pain centers are horrible places and not convenient enough for everyone. The ones around where I lived (the first 30+years of my life) generally drug tested people, treating folks with chronic pain like criminals. They would treat folks like an addict for having pot in their system, for example, and were likely to kick folks off the program for such things.

A lack of medical based treatment centers for additiction and to an extent, for mental health. This falls squarely on insurances and government.

It would take government initiative and there would be some public pushback, but there could also be a national (or even state by state) digital medical system that includes prescriptions for these (and all) drugs. This would help doctors and pharmacists catch folks shopping around for different doctors. I hesitate to deny treatment to such folks, though, but instead refer the same folks to medical testing to see the cause of their woes and/or treatment for addiction.
To build taller buildings, you would need much wider streets than what you have now, unless you want half of the city to be in a permanent shadow. This would not solve the housing issue. The density of Paris is close to the maximum possible already.
>entire industries

They dominate e-commerce and cloud hosting. But have they really had much success elsewhere?
Amazing story, incredible work by the doctors.

The second level of the story is exposing the all-too-common issues of American society: Katie's rushed suicide attempt using her brother's unsecured rifle and the donor being an amphetamine overdose. It's horrifying but at least it fits together this time.
OTOH, it's more likely that tweets are being read than long boring text of wall blog posts.

One advantage of tweets is that you can link better to a specific part you want to. We still can't link to an arbitrary location in a HTML document if the author hasn't put down anchor links.
I'd prefer they do a pilot out in the desert or something, or from e.g. the tesla megafactory to the nearest bus stop, not under city ground - it'd cause problems (or maybe provide a head start) if the city wants to build a metro there.
Have you used it? It can lag like hell on the simplest things. Just because it's written in Python and Qt instead of Electron and Javascript doesn't mean it performs well.
No not really, just playing about (and learning about window display). I use KDE for 'real work'
just in time and expense

Chinese intelligence executed 30 operatives? Good thing we have a decentralized unaccountable police force larger than ALL national armies to carry out summary executions to the tune of 1,000 citizens per year and save us money.
Even better if you don‘t wait until you feel ill. Doesn‘t even have to feel like doing sport. Bike to the supermarket, talk the bus and walk more. Going everywhere by car is bad for the body and your mood.
>No they don't. There's no insulation for underground tunnels for subways; just steel liners and reinforced concrete, at least according to NFPA 130. No sprinkler systems. So no difference here.

Not sure where you're getting that info. I just looked up NFPA 130 and it specifically calls for multiple types of insulation (for cables as well as concrete and steel) as well as automated water sprinkler systems, and even standpipes for firefighters.

>Correct me if I'm wrong, but to my knowledge, Tesla has removed LIDAR-based cameras in their lineup.

Tesla doesn't use LIDAR but they do use ultrasonic sensors. Tesla's existing autopilot systems works just fine on completely dark, unlit roads. I don't see why these skates would be any different.

>Yes, I know. And those trains communicate via access points placed on the tracks, each of which are run with fibre and power cables. Now that bare tunnel is no longer bare.

Even with fibre and low voltage power for access points (if even needed), you're still leagues away from the cost and complexity of a full tracked third-rail system.

>Sure, it's more flexible. It still doesn't address the claim that this will help make those tunnels cheaper.

I'm not sure what you mean. Flexibility is cheaper. Being able to use a tunnel that is 500 feet long at a 10% grade is cheaper than having to build a tunnel that is 1500 feet long at 3% grade.
Just using WithStack() from "github.com/pkg/errors" on any error that originates from outside my repository has been my go-to rule for any Go project. It has never disappointed.
Hi,
electricityMap author here. When clicking on a country, just click "Emissions" and then you will see total volumes (tCO2/h) instead of intensity :)

EDIT: It's actually by minute.

- Olivier
It will be darned hard to compete in the high end markets that whole foods serve. But big players like Walmart already have a strong hold in the lower end markets that won't be affected by whole foods.
Can you go into more detail about specific situations, like the gun shooting people in the future, or door opening in the past? The idea is very intriguing and I'm curious to learn more. I'm also wondering how to ensure that there's always a way to outplay your opponent, and not end up with degenerate strategies, like constantly killing your opponent at the start?

I guess when I think it through, it'd go like this: you seek your opponent out asap. You shoot him. He goes back in time and changes his path so that I don't find him. Or maybe he ambushes me, knowing where I'll be. And then I do the same. Wouldn't games end up being heavily weighted towards early actions? Or are there other mechanics that open up more options?
> 72hrs max for an RV in my neighborhood

You can rely on this being the longest possible time limit, for any vehicle, not just RVs, on any public street/highway anywhere in California.
Not the OP or author but for anyone interested about it this video expends on the implementation of Benthos https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NM7X4PIUQB0

As someone who is getting into Golang quite a bit I found it very interesting to peer into the thought process that led to Benthos and how it was/is implemented.
I find in STEM that's not such an issue.

I mean I studied Physics at a good UK Uni but it isn't like one of the best in the world or anything.

Then I did Neuroinformatics at Edinburgh which is really competitive due to their reputation in AI etc.

It was fine, ultimately linear algebra etc. are the same wherever you learn it. I think in less objective and more qualitative fields the reputation of the University etc. counts a lot more.
This comes with some pro's and cons. Some of "plastics" that is used for food and beverage is very helpful for some people with disabilities and sickness.

Why not make a bill out of it instead of banning those completely?
Thanks. It turns out I was even more confused than I thought I was.
Yeah, if they get it right. Google, Apple, etc. have all stumbled trying to make a splash in a new market. They've of course had wild successes too. Seems premature to portray Whole Foods 2030 as practically unbeatable.

There are so many things that need to go right and for Amazon as a company it'll be their first time in a large scale brick and mortar retail economy.

Sure they could hit a home run but I don't think it's a guarantee.
Why Netflix? MoviePass already has a deal with Landmark and Amazon could buy them for pocket change today.
I know that Netflix is making some pretty nice bank, and has a very high valuation, but I find it shocking that they're still independent and that Amazon (or whoever owns HBO these days), hasn't made it their lifes mission to takeover Netflix and its juice global subscriber base.

Amazon dollars & infrastructure, Netflix's AWS-based tech, combined with Prime content & subscribers would seem to be a highly profitable arrangement for all concerned...
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Shrooms don't cause blindness; the sky causes blindness.
Same experience here. Learned to order "Thai-hot" while working in Frankfurt (Germany) and frequenting a Thai food truck.
Nearby was "Best Worscht in Town". Try it when in Germany - http://bestworschtintown.com
They sell sausages and fries. You have to choose a flavour and the level of spiciness for the sauce/relish. Latter ranges from A to F. I can manage D (333,000 SCU according to web site). For F (short for FBI or Fking Burning Injection, 1,200,000 SCU) I heard that they require to sign an indemnification agreement.
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I am an organ donor myself, but having it be opt-out does not sit right with me.

For me, an opt-in model where it is hard to avoid not making an active choice sounds like the best solution.

Like if you have to renew drivers-license, ID-card, passport etc, you have to fill out an organ donor form. This encourages people to make a choice, which I have no problem with.

The main problem today (at least in Denmark, which is the system I know best), is that people want to be organ donors, but just never get around to opting in. 90% answer that they are in favour of organ donation, but only 22% have actually registered their choice in the central organ donation registry.
Regarding 1, it's one of the things I focus on a lot. I try not to "teach" resilience I think. I let them fail, and I'm emotional support when they fail. I let them see me fail, and I hope the combination will slowly instill resilience in them.
org-mode (as a community) is way more powerful then leo will ever be. But org-mode (as a fileformat and majormode for this fileformat) is of course limited in the abilities it can offer in comparision to leo, because an app abstracting way the content is always more powerful then the raw content.

Anyway, it's not hard to add the missing outline-features that leo offers in a seperate mode. org-agenda and org-brain are already doing something like this. The question is just whether people really want it. Org-mode has a different philosophy from leo in terms of outlines..
Even the colour scale does not really show how big the difference is between countries regarding clean energy. Germany is producing 8x more CO2/Kwh than France, Poland 16 times more and Estonia 24 times more.
Tesla is established in the popular consciousness now and its problems henceforth are production and supply-chain. There are many, many people better qualified than Mr Musk in those fields.
Has the US ever not been involved in a war in the last 100 or so years? They went to Korea and Vietnam and Iraq pretty much back-to-back after WW2.
Apple's wealth is staggering, but I take solace in the fact that the wealth is spread out quite a bit with the largest individual shareholder only having around a million shared.

The largest institutional shareholders are Berkshire Hathaway and vanguard, which are also owned by lots of investors and have minority stakes.

I worry a bit more about large companies with individuals who have outsized control (like Amazon or Facebook).
This is cool. Is there something similar for FF?
You can see the total generation for each country by clicking on the country, then hovering the mouse cursor over, for instance, the "origin of electricity over the last 24 hours".

So you can see that e.g. France at the moment generates (or uses? This calculation might be slightly off due to imports/exports...) 51.5 GW with a carbon intensity of 44 gCO2/kWh. Which means that currently France in total emits about 44 x 1e6 x 51.5 / 1e6 = 2266 metric tons of CO2 per hour.

By comparison, with the same kind of calculation Energiewende poster boy Germany generates 64.6 GW with a carbon intensity of 375 gCO2/kWh, leading to total emissions of 24225 tons of CO2 per hour. Ouch!

EDIT: As pointed out by the author below, you can click on the "emissions" tab and see total CO2 emissions (per minute though, not per hour) directly if you don't want to do the above calculations yourself!
> You seem to be really hung up on the ability of the skates to know where they are. I'm not sure why.

Because the claim is that the tunnels are nothing more than concrete and some lighting. I'm pointing out instances that will require more things in these tunnels.

> You've never heard of a mesh network? Even if AP are needed, it's still considerably less wiring than a full third rail setup and still poses no fire risk.

Yes, I know mesh networks. This is how many trains now communicate with each other. Third rail has some fire risk (incredible odds, however, and likely means maintenance regime is not good), and I agree that if they are removed that removes the fire hazard entirely. However, these skates carry batteries, hundreds of them and operating at significantly high speeds. I'm pointing out that these batteries can and will catch fire too, especially if the self-driving component of the skates fail. It is a more credible risk (but cheaper, sure) and more likely to happen more frequently given that the self-driving component is not perfect and relies on cameras (even LIDAR ones) than third rail catching fire.

> You're really overestimating the amount of engineering work needed to be done.

I'm really not. I work on those automated subway systems in Asia that has automated platform gates for those subways to stop at, and the amount of engineering and safety assurance work to ensure those trains actually align themselves correctly is a lot. Why do you think those platform gates have emergency egress doors all over? Have you ever noticed those trains stopping, then creeping to ensure they're aligned right? Those issues are not there not because they're easy, but because substantial man-hours of work have been done to ensure they are safe.

> The concerns you're raising are already solved. The 'magic' of this system isn't in the self-driving vehicles part at all, as that's already being done with automated transport systems the world over. The 'magic' is in the tunnel construction itself.

And I'm pointing out that there's no magic in the tunnel construction. By the time you have added those safety redundancies you end up with something very close to a subway system, just with smaller carriages running on batteries.
How to pin messages and value to any coordinate on Earth
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I get the idea that the title "High Bias, Low Variance" is some sort of reference or pun, but I'm not quite getting it...

I mean, I know that there's a bias-variance tradeoff in stats and ML, but what does it mean in the context of introduction to ML for physicists?

My guess is they mean they aren't going into as heavy detail in ML, which means the reader may lack some knowledge (high bias) but won't miss the forest/wood for the trees (low variance).

Anyone else care to speculate?
Yeah especially because it was a result of a suicide attempt in the first place. If you try to kill yourself after your boyfriend cheats on you, how do you not after this?

Also, yet another reason why America's gun laws are stupid. She wouldn't have shot herself in England.
It's supported by the media as well. The DoD is involved in Hollywood movies, and while they will supply military vehicles and such for movie use, that does mean they have to approve the script.

Likewise, movies aimed at the Chinese market often need to involve Chinese people or Chinese locations - something you can see in a number of big budget action movies recently.
>Good thing we have a decentralized unaccountable police force larger than ALL national armies to carry out summary executions to the tune of 1,000 citizens per year

I'm not in favor of that either.

And its still apples to oranges. A police shooting in the moment is much different from a planned and televised execution.
Great project! The hardware looks pretty simple, but the software side looks like a lot of work was put in, and it shows. Fantastic job.
I've always been annoyed by the parallel control flow introduced by exceptions in any language. They are used so often in many languages where it doesn't feel necessary.

The fact that I don't even have to think if the function call I'm looking at can throw and if I should catch it or not outweighs everything.
> Jerod Santo:

> Hm, like a mineral. Were you playing on the word "light", or were you just playing on mineral...?

> Richard Hipp:

> I was, I was.

It's pronounced as a mineral. It's still a pun on "light". And an obvious one, given what SQLite is compared to other RDBMSes.
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Yeah, only their children:

https://www.aclu.org/video/aclu-ccr-lawsuit-american-boy-kil...
"Coma" can mean a wide variety of things, and a persistent vegetative state still isn't considered "dead", as was the case here. Judgement of death relies on specific tests that establish the absence of cerebral and brainstem functions. See, for example: http://n.neurology.org/content/neurology/45/5/1012.full.pdf When the brain stops functioning systems such as electrolyte balance and internal temperature control often go as well, and we don't know yet how to keep bodies without brain function functional for extended periods of time (as opposed to comas where the patient's brain can still control autonomic processes.)

In cases where a patient isn't dead, they or their health care proxy have the right to turn down treatments, including those necessary for life. Not everyone wants to be kept alive in a persistent vegetative state, even if they are not dead, and for plenty of reasons other than the cost.
Well last time I looked, the answer to question 1 for the Intel OpenCL SDK is actually no.

And while yes, it's expected to be slow compared to the native functions, that's not the problem. It's slow compared to simulation.
First, tmux works fine in WSL. Secondly, if you like both tmux and Windows, there's a fair chance you'll like ConEmu's split panel facility even better. It's basically tmux, but more "windowsy". ConEmu is spectacular.
Do you got a source on your quality statement? Many European universities do quite good in the rankings.
Indians are caucasian, too.
There is still fusion, which seems to be almost within reach (first energy positive reactor ITER which is planned to produce 500MW of power with 50MW of input and the follow up, DEMO, might come as early as 2033)
In my country deer are an introduced species that decimate the local flora. Alongside pigs, cats and other animals that are simply in the wrong place thanks to humans.
Impossible to verify, but they are known as the wumao / 50 cent army
Great work, such a useful hardware and software package. A few months too late for our project, will use for next year.