skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Companies have no obligation to allow hate speech and incitements to violence on their platform. And because of how media bubbles work, it's very easy for people to get in a part of the internet where all they see is Alex Jones-type content, and constant exposure to that can change a person without them realizing it. I've seen it happen with people I know, who started out fairly reasonable and have since descended into raving lunacy over the course of several years.

We expect corporations to help fix this problem because they're in part the cause of it by creating systems which recommend content people want to see and in the process trap those people in a bubble of content that reinforces those positions.
More than "saturation", my key takeaway is the crash was triggered by "quality". With the apocryphal example of E.T. being such a travesty to the art of video game creation that unsold copies would wind up in a landfill in New Mexico. And Atari posting a half a billion dollar loss for the quarter.

It also helps to explain the rise of Nintendo. Just few years post-crash you are starting to see SMB2, Zelda, Metroid. With the sheer joy Miyamoto-san had in the creation process, evident in the final result. By the end of the decade a Nintendo device could be found in virtually every US household. And even Tetris for the GameBoy enjoyed a certain veneer of polish and infinite playability that lasts to the present moment.
Oh, "email addresses" as in "an email which addresses"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garden-path_sentence
This is not the same thing. What these guys doing is, for snatching some free money from government, they hid facts.
I just assumed it was because if the memory location ever changes it would invalidate all the pointers to it. It has to have a fixed memory location
http://archive.is/3qiUo
Cannabis can make underlying mental health problems worse. I guess it's important to note people should not self-medicate with any drug.

https://scholar.google.ca/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C5&as_vis=...
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Honestly, I think that's Elon's long game. The ultimate gated community.

Of course, he could just copy Petey Thiel and the rest of wretch and move to New Zealand.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/jan/29/silicon-v...
> I hope this helps to decrease the costs of medical care in the US to some extent as it removes one pressure for doctors to earn extra money charging for things that might not need to be needed.

Physician earnings account for about 7% of total spending on healthcare. Of that 7%, the fraction due to student debt specifically is significant from the physician's perspective, but negligible from a systemic picture.

This is, of course, assuming that physicians are charging for services that are not be needed in order to boost their earnings, which happens in some cases, but is not as systemic or widespread as people often think, due to the shift away from fee-for-service payment models and towards capitated care, and the opacity of the payment model to the physician at the point-of-care in many care delivery situations.
I always like to point to the Julia package TwoBasedIndexing (https://github.com/simonster/TwoBasedIndexing.jl/) which is IMHO provides the very best way to index an array. Yes, Julia defaults to 1-based indexing, and allows zero-based indexing (https://github.com/JuliaArrays/OffsetArrays.jl) or indeed whatever sort of indexing you want, yet I think the world is going to eventually come around to THE ONE TRUE indexing scheme of being two-based.

:-)
> You're advocating for admission to a graduate program without an undergraduate degree. It doesn't and shouldn't work that way.

There are BS/MS, BA/MA, BBA/MBA, and BSL/JD programs (asking others) that do not require a prior undergraduate degree but instead incorporate a same-field undergrad degree into the graduate out professional program, with typically less total coursework and tone in residence than separate programs would require because of right integration.

> Possession of a masters degree indicates you have completed a prescribed course of study.

Yes, but there's no reason that a bachelor's degree needs to be an admission requirements for that to work; it may be a completion requirement, but that doesn't mean it needs to be an admission requirement.
Yes, down for us as well.
While I was working at a blockchain forensics company (we built one of the first AI backed block-explorers both for Bitcoin and Ethereum & our service was also used to identify the DAO hack), both myself and my boss were targeted multiple times a year with this kind of attack even though we held no crypto through the company. It seemed that just since my name was on the web with the word crypto I was a target.

To this day I have a personal phone and a revolving burner I only use for non-SMS 2FA with an unlisted number, which is kept in an EMF proof bag while not in use.

Security for this kind of thing is an absolute joke.

Granted, this guy should've known better granted the value of his holdings... Most also don't know that accounts such as Authy and other non-SMS 2FA authenticators can still be stolen if your mobile number is stolen.

However, I'm still waiting for a carrier that creates a system that can't be trivially socially engineered by bored Chinese scammers...
Fermentation and alcohol for consumption are quite different, as you’re probably aware. My kombucha is technically fermented, but good luck getting drunk on it. There is also a sizable difference between more traditional forms of alcohol and cheap high proof spirits harm wise.

Plus since this is a counterfactual, we don't actually need alcohol for preservation anymore. We have refrigeration.

The bit about Germany and beer is merely observational bias. You can’t imagine those countries differently because that’s the way things are for your lifetime. I’m sure in an alternative universe there’s someone talking about German weed culture, or German poppy culture.

Either way, alcohol clearly isn’t going away, and trying to make it go away is foolish. The point is that we’ve normalized a very dangerous compound due to historical reasons, and it’s fascinating.
I can have a beer every night for the rest of my life and experience little to no permanent effects. Long term MDMA use on the other hand has been shown to cause "marked neurodegeneration in striatal, hippocampal, prefrontal, and occipital serotonergic axon terminals. Neurotoxic damage to serotonergic axon terminals has been shown to persist for more than two years."
It's funny because it's true.

That said: is there a status aggregator anywhere?
They don't have a very focused marketing message but I think they intend to support people who want to make websites like builtwith.com and don't want to run their own indexer. $49/month for that would be quite reasonable.

I'm unaffiliated and guessing of course, but the first two features are 1M search results and an API for integrating in other websites, which would be of limited use for the average web researcher using the website frontend.
When I was learning QBasic some billion years ago I recall that I was happy with arrays generally starting at 1 (even though this is user specified in Basic). When I learned C I initially wasn't thrilled about re-learning arrays, but eventually grew to only like 0-based arrays.

I'm thinking this is like people who drink coffee will cite studies saying it is good for you, and people who hate it will cite opposite studies.
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I see the advice not to use SMS for 2FA comes up a lot on HN, and understand the reasons why that is true. But I find that recommendation comes up short. What are the alternatives, and how can they be widely deployed for little cost?
I can agree that's intuitive, but I'd like to point out that's not quite the same thing as numbering a sequence.

If we have a sequence a_1, a_2, a3, ... we can talk about a_3 by calling it the third term. If we have a sequence a_0, a_1, a_2, ..., the third term is actually a_2.

Whether or not we should index starting at 0 or 1 is probably dependent not only on intuition, but the application at hand. For most analytic purposes it's generally more useful to talk about the nth term, and we don't need to know a specific number to reason about the distance between any two indices. For other purposes, such as programmatic ones, it is useful to know e.g. the traversal distance between two items in a list.

In my opinion it's best to first consider whether you're working in more of a mathematical or programmatic context, and then secondarily who will have to read it later on.
That notation is ambiguous. It doesn't cause a problem for humans since we can infer the correct meaning from the context, but it would for computers.

For example, does 3, 5, ... 11 mean the odd numbers between 3 and 11 inclusive, or the primes between 3 and 11 inclusive?
Changing how compensation is structured, would probably be the most effective way to discourage things that might not be needed.
"Yes its a big number, however I don't see anything wrong here."

You don't see anything wrong with a CEO taking home insane amounts of money while his average employee can qualify for food stamps?
It's still absurd to me that it's nearly impossible to prevent BofA and other institutional banking companies from sharing this information.
This is great. I have been planning to install some LED strips for a while now, but software has been holding me back.

This submission comes in just as some others are planning to order strips in bulk.

Thanks!
> formalized system of getting people out of the environments in which they became addicted as part of the treatment.

Isn't that what going to rehab is about? For those who can afford it atleast...
This is awesome! So many medical students are kinda forced into more profitable healthcare practices than ones which people need more desperately (e.g. plastic surgery vs rheumatology).

I especially love that this was done with private fundraising over government funding. Philanthropy can be effective, often far more so than governments!
Looks like you may have forgot to switch accounts.
That was a large part of it.

Nintendo also didn't try to oversell the systems capabilities or the games, which was a big problem with the marketing materials for older games and game systems.

They also limited 3rd party companies ability to make games for the system (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CIC_(Nintendo)#10NES) to ensure a certain degree of quality. That's also the origin of the gold Nintendo Seal.

The NES also had Super Mario Bros as a launch title in the US and that game holds up incredibly well to this day. It was truly a big leap in video game design, especially considering games like Ms Pacman and Donkey Kong Jr. were winning Best Game awards in magazines the year before the NES launched.

Lastly, the Light Gun and Duck Hunt were also big system sellers. As far as I know, no other console had an experience like that and much like the Wii and the DS, gimmicks like that are very popular among people who don't play a lot of traditional video games.

You should also consider the velocity that Nintendo launched into the console industry with. A year after the NES came out, The Legend of Zelda came out which was another giant leap in game design and the first home console game to allow you to save your progress. Two years after that Super Mario Bros. 3 came out which was an absolutely massive leap over the first Super Mario Bros. A year after that they launch the GameBoy and suddenly you can play Super Mario Land on the go.

Nintendo was responsible for a lot of innovation in a very short amount of time.
The main theme of the article is Twitter shutting down an API, but the article opens and closes with Twitter not banning Alex Jones. This point clearly seems important to the author and is worthy of discussion.

(I would have prefered if the author wouldn't have mentioned Alex Jones, it only distracts from the main message. But here we are)
>high cost of malpractice insurance

results from high cost of malpractice. So instead of treating the symptom - insurance, one has to treat the original condition - malpractice. To continue the analogy - the trial lawyers in case of malpractice is just like the immune system. When infection (malpractice) happens you see the heavy effects of immune system acting like high fever, yet it would be a grave mistake to suppress immune system instead of dealing with the original cause - infection (malpractice).
I for one welcome an early day off!
Less people will discover him. His site will seem sketchier to people wh haven't drunk the Kool-Aid.

I expect corporations to police their platforms. I don't expect NBC to air a documentary on why the Holocaust is fake, and I don't expect YouTube to host one either.

The truth doesn't necessarily rise to the top. Quite the opposite. As Terry Pratchett said, "A lie can run round the world before the truth has got its boots on." We can't just put the boring old truth on the same level as an exciting lie and expect everyone to figure out which is which. The current rise in conspiracy theories demonstrates that.
I think he was conflicted about their plight. My guess is he didn’t see them as Americans (Patriots, sure) and was in favor of a send them back (Liberia) policy. I’m not a historian though, so my thoughts on this are fairly meaningless.
I think both would do the world quite a bit of good...
It is, but I wonder if it is because I trust it for the status or if it is because I am suddenly blocked on what I was working on so I naturally come here.
I’m confused. The ARM toolchain already offers newlib-nano and ARM is maintaining it since several years ago. What’s the relationship between OP and ARM’s newlib-nano?

If OP is a independent work from ARM, then he choose a bad name.

[1]: https://community.arm.com/iot/embedded/b/embedded-blog/posts...
The CEO of my company could give each of his 10,000 employees $1M and he'd still have a higher net worth than all of them combined.
Twitter made a clear choice many years ago to move away from realizing the potential of their platform as an ubiquitous message-delivery system.

Before everyone had a smart phone, I built a site ("app" in today's terminology) that relied on the Twitter SMS API. It was amazing to have the ability to interact with my backend on-the-go. After a couple years, Twitter stopped supporting, then shuttered SMS. That was the first step in directing the platform away from its potential as a utility service, and toward a marketing platform.

It's just sad that the technology had so much potential and is now just a corporate wasteland of noise.
I agree that trying to ban alcohol would be a huge mistake. But to be fair on the feasibility of a hypothetical ban, America has spent almost half a century trying to prevent its citizens from growing a plant.
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Yeah, don't know what they were thinking here. I couldn't parse the title at all.
Yeah, I initially had trouble parsing the title as well and wondered why Twitter's email addresses were breaking things.
Jones' content has been reported by countless users. Platforms finally gave in. Remaining neutral was impossible anyway. The culture war is in full throttle.

It's a silly war, as you already pointed at the laughs, and how the two camps are already seem to have been set in stone.

But politics was always about tipping the balance, disrupting the status quo. There's a new generation, there are always people that just got online. (Look at the murders in India. Proper witchhunts complete with the mob pleasing climax via human sacrifice or execution at the end. All because of some fuckwads started a rumor. Fake news at its best.)

Are we better off? Fuck knows, but the curators of these platforms had enough of Jones, and I can understand them removing his content.
Would traveling to the source of the river Pregel and walking around it count as a solution?
TV series residents don't even have time to sleep

Unless it's with each other...
The concern isn’t that his “followers” would find him more credible. Those followers will follow him to the ends of the earth, regardless if he was banned. Conspiracy theorists never needed to be right - so operating on a model that giving him hard ammo for his theories is worthless. Alex Jones can’t be wrong in the eyes of his followers, so that he can’t be proven right either.

What his removal on these platforms does is limit his reach. He’s completely allowed to, in the confines of the law, to say whatever he wants. That doesn’t also mean he is owed a loudspeaker to blast his asinine message to the entire world. This is about limiting the reach of a deranged individual. If you don’t believe this works - look at what happened to Milo after he was banned from Twitter. The near weekly Milo articles simply dropped off the face of the earth. And it’s likely Alex Jones’ limited reach will prevent from amassing new followers who choose to harass the parents of the “false flag” sandy hook shooting. That, to me, is more than reason enough to ban him.

There’s a huge line between the confusing, but relatively safe flat earth conspiracy theorists and the the one that actively riling up people to harass parents grieving over children.
As an example, McDonald's has a net income of of $4.686 billion. The CEO gets paid 21.7 million of that, or 0.4%. That's net income, not revenue, which was $24.6 billion. Let's be honest, the money is there to pay workers more money, and the CEO's pay does not redirect any meaningful amount of that available cash away from employees.

To be clear, my issue is not that workers shouldn't be paid more, it is that justification for higher worker pay shouldn't be "my boss gets paid more than me."
Still not as embarrassing a flop as Cuil.
I would reshape s since foo would anyway be vectorized.

You could also do

for i = 1:10:length(s)

foo(s(i:i+9))

endfor

With numpy the 9 turns into a 10 by the design choice that s[a:b] only goes to s[b-1], this is sometimes convenient, and sometimes it costs a +1.
Why People are spending $1,000’s on something called an Axie?
Having any serious amount of money and being showy or grandiose about it is asking for trouble...

Only rich morons actually need armed security as a result of their social media habits emanating from a pathetically desperate ego.
We procrastinate because most of the jobs we do are completely mindless, repetitive and boring, and we have to spend so much time doing them. Good luck finding a method to fight that... Unless you're rich and the owner of your own time, in this case you don't need any "motivational" tool.

Edit: lobotomy is another solution of course, using pills or any kind of drugs that massively reduce the amount of neurons in the brain.
finally we can all do some deep work ;-)
> People who didn't watch him still don't watch him

I'm not sure. I think this might be the type of advertising that money can't buy. It puts him and his enterprise, even if temporarily, in front of a wide range of people who would otherwise never waste a single cycle on his content.
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You don't have to talk about memory locations, or computers at all, for the intuition to work. `a_2` is two spaces away from the beginning of the list.

The fact that our ordinal numbers are closely connected with the off-by-one cardinal numbers (e.g., "third", meaning the element of a sequence in position 2, is closely etymologically related to the word "three") is an unfortunate defect of language.
Fellow MD student here. I feel your pain. I've planning to just do PGY-1, work as a GP at urgent care night/weekends and do software dev full time.
I wonder how Slack internally communicates while they are down.
In context of offer as described in the article.

8 years ago at IBM, my post doc at IBM Research was around $120K (2010). 10 Years prior to that (while still an undergrad) I was offered a job at the LTC in Austin at around 70K a year (i.e. 2000), turned it down to go to grad school. (yes, I took my time)
I can't wait for Mastadon to eat Twitter's lunch. 800k users over 1200 federated instances and steadily growing by the day.
Dat/IPFS are peer to peer protocols. There is nothing that makes them DDoS resistant, you can just locate each peer rehosting content and blast each one off the net.

But more to the point, being forced onto Dat or IPFS is equivalent to being erased, given that nobody would know how to find or access the new location (Google doesn't index such net spaces).
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Stripe seems to disagree though.
Yes. Since you (and I) can't be as productive while Slack is down, here's some fun non-work reading:

1) Story of Paul Le Roux: Former programmer, former criminal cartel boss and informant to the US DEA.
https://magazine.atavist.com/the-mastermind

2) How Anna Delvey Tricked New York's Party People
https://www.thecut.com/2018/05/how-anna-delvey-tricked-new-y...

3) Seven Days of Heroin: This Is What An Epidemic Looks Like
https://www.cincinnati.com/pages/interactives/seven-days-of-...
I _think_ he calls them pernicious because of the ambiguity.

2,3,4,12 is also a "subsequence of natural numbers", but probably not what was meant by 2,3,...,12. You might counter that ... means the complete subsequence, but what do you mean by "complete"?

If I write 2,4,6,8,...,24, you probably want the ... to mean 10,12,14,...[1], not 9,10,11,12,...

Basically by the time you make ... precise, you are better off just writing the mathematical notation.

[1] See what I did there? ;)
Sure, that's some manager's performance bonus. When I briefly worked for Nav Canada our manager decided to buy the cheapest dollar store pens possible in order to pad his performance metrics. We also had to sign them out individually from his safe. Not at all surprised if a CIA manager did a risk analysis and decided lets use the same server(s) and save a few dollars the risk is acceptable.
Or with a stuffed golden retriever
I mean it's fine, except that they falsely claimed it was wholly original.
Why can your workload not be horizontally scaled across multiple VPS instances?
Down Detector: http://downdetector.com/status/slack
Gotcha cheers, I guess I was thinking about patterns which may be too big to fit in the ESP's memory.
Token based 2FA, either via something like google authenticator or a USB dongle like a Yubikey or RSA token.

The point is to prove that you have possession of both knowledge and a physical token (hence two factor). And while sms to phone makes it seem like you are proving possession of the phone, you’re actually proving that you have the phone that texts will route to. That last bit is movable and subject to shockingly little security, hence the issue.
I'd check our channel full of vendor status updates (RSS subs!), but Slack is down
I work a lot with Open Source software (both as a user and as a contributor), and the most important question is:

Who is your audience?

Everything else depends on the answer to that question.

Do you mainly want to tell your customers how you make your product? Then start a blog, hire a photographer, and post on Instagram.

Do you want to reach DIY bio hackers? Then put your recipes on Github.

Do you mainly want to share knowledge with other companies in your industry? Then maybe forget the internet and go meet people in real life at a trade fair.

I contribute to a bunch of different Open Source projects, and they all have a very different audience. Some have mostly users that just want to use the product (nobody is interestedin contributing), while more technical projects see more contributions from users. For the former, website and easy install instructions are more important; for the latter Github and API docs are more important.

So the lesson I would take from Open Source: Think of your audience first, and the best way of distribution follows from that.
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I think that app.net is an example showing that such a platform does not have a viable business model. Granted, it is a very small sample size.