skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hey, sorry for getting back to you so late but I had a full weekend :)

I am not an expert in the pharmaceutical space so take everything I say with a big grain of salt. I would think it could be possible to have some agency like NSF or FDA be tasked with financing studies to develop medicines and do medical trials, etc. I don’t think it would need to look much different what there is now, maybe higher and more long-term grants for applied R&D. Manufacturing could then be outsourced, Apple style. I guess the main challenge would be to have reporting and grants be distributed effectively and fairly. There should be some level of friendly competition/ cooperation to ensure that progress is being made. But I think, in principle this already works pretty well through peer review and on some level metric tracking for individual researchers (although I would argue we still often track the wrong metrics). So it’s all about designing the right incentives work work to get done, profit is but one of the possible metrics to achieve that.

This of course does not change that the work itself is incredibly hard. The benefit of doing it in a more „structured“ and nonprofit way is that it is possible to create a more specific/ tailored/ guided set of outcomes given the ability to align the incentives with societal goals. Everything you see going on in blockchain is work in that direction. How can we design economic systems where incentives are aligned to create an overall desireable outcome for individuals, the community and society at large?
Or they realized that there isn't much value in building their own CMS.
Break your dependence on Javascript and third-party ad networks.

If the ONLY way you can make money is to sell your user's attention span, you're doing it wrong.

Furthermore, people are willing to PAY for quality, but you also have to be willing to kick the 800 pound gorilla in the nuts.

Google is actually one of the leading reasons why, from my understanding, normal news outlet's paywalls can't actually work. If you have to leave the barn door open because otherwise no one will find you... Yeah, you're in a bad spot.

It's one of the reasons I'm increasingly moving in the direction of thinking that the ad subsidized web has pushed us into a situation where 90 percent of sites are mere aggregators\repeaters really only intended to grab ad revenue. Way back in the days of yore, it was more about getting your content out than doing a bunch of traffic with the rest of the world to facilitate botnet and monetizable surveillance.

Use the tool for what it was designed for, (information dissemination) instead of stateful information gathering, and it's amazing how much you can get done with so little.

Web 2.0 wasn't for Users. It was a breakthrough on the road to "monetizing" the Web for service providers. Further efforts to push implementation specific optimizations is just a Goliath throwing it's weight around, and trying to push the infrastructure toward a business favorable direction. Which is anti-competitive. Which is not okay.
No, sadly. Just a vaccine for varicella.
I confess I'd never heard of the "Artificial Intelligence Conference" before, so I had a look at their "about" page:

AI is finally moving from being the province of university labs to being a critical part of the software developer's toolkit and a focus for mainstream companies. There is a growing—and urgent—need for information on applied AI, as opposed to the kind of research presented at academic conferences.

That's why we created the Artificial Intelligence Conference.

So it's, um. Some kind of industry "conference" on ah, "applied" AI. Actually, it looks more like a few days of tutorials and perhaps workshops, rather than the kind of conference were people present research.

I'd say it sounds like complete toss, but Peter Norvig is one of the program chairs so it can't be all bull.
He actually ended up with close to 400 by the time he died :-)

If someone offers you a nice fat check to talk about science and make jokes for an hour, would you turn it down? No matter how many books you'd already written?
I don't find this surprising. When I started podcasting in 2005, even doing a weekly 'cast with my friend and co-host was a lot of work. We also had day jobs. But the pressure to create content was still there. These full time youtubers must feel in 100x more, particularly if they have Patreon people to keep happy. We derived no income from our show, and in fact it cost us money to produce.

In some ways I wish some of these monetizing platforms existed when we were around. It would have been fun to see if we could have gone anywhere with it. But then we might have succumb to these issues, as well.

I guess it all comes back to "Be careful what you wish for..."
Assume the latter. In that case the next question is, how many people are obsessed with social media?

The average rich-country adult checks the phone umpteen times per hour, right? I've heard different numbers, all scary. And all suggestive of social media obsession.
If WWII policies seem to be evidence that "tight control of the economy worked just fine to stabilize the system," consider that centralized economic decisions (German war finance, treaty of Versailles, war reparations, Weimar Republic hyperinflation) paved the way for WWII. Early 20th century Europe is an odd example to choose to demonstrate a stable, well-controlled system.
There are some viruses that basically everyone gets that then lay latent for the rest of your life. So yes if one of those were a cause then epidemiological data wouldn't be much help.

Not a crazy thoery, one of the complications of measles is a fatal encephalitis that occurs 5-20 years later.

Be nice if they figured it out, Alzheimer's Disease means years of suck quality of life for everyone.
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Security Q/A are de facto passwords. Treat accordingly.

Further, they're often a sign that a human employee providing support can override and manually authenticate a user. Whether or not that is really the correct user. Treat your entire account with them accordingly.
We should take this with a grain of salt because your reputation is tied to his. This is the cascade effect that occurs when someone very powerful behaves inappropriately-the people below them must defend it to protect what they have.

Having come from acedemia, I disagree with just about everything in this post. People do care about conflicts of interest and when very powerful people are being reviewed, they get greater leeway because of the power of retribution.
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then you can add a layer of Kay "Lisp is the maxwell equation of computing"

I do agree that lisp being super tiny and quite mathematical at heart is probably less a social invention than the rest.
> It’s not about “values,” but the plain meaning of ordinary English words.

It's plain to me that the call records are 'my' data. I don't see why your interpretation has a superior legitimacy to mine; we both know that there are many serious arguments on both sides (let's spare HN from repeating them). Honest question: Why would your position be 'plain', and the other an imposition of values?

Also, I would appreciate if you would provide some expert context: The comment reflect an approach to the law that is one philosophy among several leading ones, or perhaps rather one position on a continuum between 'strict construction' and interpretation.[0] But I'm not an attorney and I'm hoping you can provide better context than my amateur attempt at it.

Also, clearly we do not and cannot follow the 'plain meaning' of the law. For example, even in something so prominent as the U.S. Constitution: The First Amendment is treasured and protected, but exceptions are (and must be) made for slander, fraud, significant threats, etc., and none of that is anywhere to be found in the text. The Second Amendment's text doesn't make exceptions for regulating more dangerous weapons, but we must not allow anti-aircraft weapons or nuclear bombs in private possession. So among real practitioners and experts, how are simple algorithms such as 'the plain meaning' squared with those realities?

I really do mean them as serious questions, not as a debate; I think the heart of these issues is in the nuance on that continuum, and we can't understand them without understand it.

[0] As an aside, I think that strict construction appeals to many HN readers because it is familiar, the way the compiler/processor interprets code/instructions. But consider that strict construction can face the same limitations in real-world applications as code, and while we sometimes must say 'computers can't solve that problem', courts don't have that luxury - they must output a solution, even if the code isn't up to the task.
You are right regarding the dynamic language, well, dynamic. I haven't put any thought into it and I can't come up with a viable solution of eliminating nil without some type system strategy (Maybe/Either Monads in Haskell, Option in Rust, etc). It's kind of a bummer, because I love the Lisp dialect of Clojure, but really appreciate software projects that I've written in the past that don't crash due to a forgotten potential nil value handling.

You do have a point!
The word “trespassing” doesn’t occur in the fourth amendment, so your last paragraph is “rewriting the text”. Your car was neither searched nor seized by sticking a tracker to it. Unless you mean to reinterpret “search” to mean “know the location of”, which is certainly not the plain-English meaning of that word.
It's not different. A bespoke BBS server is not an option; the whole point is to run an existing piece of software for which there is no source code available. Suggesting a bespoke BBS server is like telling a person running Super Mario All-Stars in a Super Nintendo emulator that they should upgrade to a PC game.

I have implemented (wrote C code for) what you refer to as "a special emulated serial interface" and thus "the DOS VM would have one already baked into it". That is my code and it works fine, and I do indeed "have the BBS listen on a couple of COM ports".

I mentioned PTYs because I don't want them. Most terminal emulators will only accept data from a PTY, with themselves on the master side and a shell on the slave side. This alone makes these terminal emulators essentially worthless; to use them I'd really need to have my emulator act as a telnet server and then ask the user to telnet into the server! Perhaps a really screwy $SHELL could perform that automatically, but it still doesn't solve the replay/snapshot issue.

An xterm is very special because xterm supports the -S option. With this, my emulator can fork off a process and then exec an xterm with a file descriptor that I can feed data into. This works OK until I want to load a snapshot.

There may be "terminal emulators out there that will restore the scroll back session from a previous instance", but this gets unusable. My emulator supports multiple named snapshots. Using a terminal program with distinct snapshot functionality would require that the user save/restore snapshots both in my emulator and in each of the terminal programs. I have a case (other than a DOS BBS) where my emulator has dozens of serial ports, so this would place a heavy burden on the user.

Suspending a server is good for debugging it. I can go back to before a crash. I can load a snapshot to bypass slow and annoying start-up.
You are arguing based on outcomes you like not a clearly separated limitations.

GPS trackers don’t provide information that’s unavailable to high altitude drones/aircraft/somone following the car. Their advantage is how cheap they are not that they provide non public information.

Further privacy is never directly mentioned. So, a pure textual reading suggests it’s not protected rather than say the inconvenience of somone searching your stuff.
In my eyes, Java and Go have very little in common beyond that they are both garbage collected languages. Go has been created by experienced C programmers and the heritage shows. Java is completely object-oriented, based on byte-code which gets JITed by a VM. All complex types have to be objects and are always handled by references - you cannot make an array of objects, you can only have an array of references.

Go is statically compiled into a statically linked executable. Go has structs as complex types. They are handled by value, unless you specifically use pointers. Structs can contain other structs as values, without requiring the indirection and the overhead of references. The same applies for arrays.
You can have methods on any type, including structs, but you can also just have functions.
https://doc.rust-lang.org/cargo/guide/cargo-toml-vs-cargo-lo...
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Methylene blue is also an monoamine oxidase inhibitor. I add it to my dog’s food to boost her metabolism. She blew her knee out a year ago (common injury for large 10yo dogs) but has mostly recovered without the surgery the vet said she’d probably need. (I use a variety of interventions with her.)

Methylene blue should not be combined with the later anti-depressants that focus more on serotonin (SSRIs, etc.), as this can cause serotonin toxicity: https://www.apsf.org/article/methylene-blue-and-the-risk-of-...

> Tau is working on a slightly modified form that is basically putting it in a capsule and they'll sell it for $50 a pill probably, but that's the only way that anyone will believe it actually works.

Patent medicines [1] are still as popular as they ever were. Science made some inroads in the early 20th century, before the hucksters regrouped, with new prescription-only FDA approved nostrums.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patent_medicine
I have it disabled all the time. It doesn't help.

The redirect is done by the server, before it had a chance to learn if the client supports JS or not:

$ wget --max-redirect=0 https://www.forbes.com/sites/gordonkelly/2018/09/08/microsoft-windows-7-monthly-charge-windows-10-free-upgrade-cost/
--2018-09-09 19:07:58-- https://www.forbes.com/sites/gordonkelly/2018/09/08/microsoft-windows-7-monthly-charge-windows-10-free-upgrade-cost/
Resolving www.forbes.com (www.forbes.com)... 151.101.114.49
Connecting to www.forbes.com (www.forbes.com)|151.101.114.49|:443... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 302 Found
Location: https://www.forbes.com/consent/?toURL=https://www.forbes.com/sites/gordonkelly/2018/09/08/microsoft-windows-7-monthly-charge-windows-10-free-upgrade-cost/ [following]
0 redirections exceeded.
2400 people is not a lot, especially for a claim like this.

Also there was a similarly sized study a few weeks ago, and basically all participants were students or faculty at 2 different universities.

If you are going to make a claim like this, you need to have a very large and very significant measurable effect, and the smaller your sample size the larger the effect needs to be to have any confidence of the correctness of the study.

Again, to be on HN the paper itself, and the source data, should be freely available. By allowing them to be on HN as they are we are essentially allowing unchecked press releases that always over state the validity of claims.
>Need magic

Yet 'every sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic'. This presumably applies to fictional tech also.
> Instead, they found this small correlation: The nurses who were least likely to feel fatigued from their work also felt the most in control of their work, and the most rewarded for it.

> Why we need to figure out fatigue

We don't--refer to first quote. Just make our jobs autonomous and rewarding in some way.
I guess you're being downvoted for tone, but I agree with you.

I program professionally in C++. Waltzing into a non-C++ C code base requires a strong mental shift. I work with embedded programmers new to our team who have a strong history of C programming, and for them, C++ is a very steep hill to climb to become proficient.

They are two languages with interoperability and semantic similarities that share a compiler infrastructure and a runtime and memory model.

But modern C++ programming differs in drastic ways from C such that I don't think you can call them a unified language and brush over it with 'C/C++ programmers'
So, besides the many negative things I could say about how bad newspaper sites yes in fact are, I have a question: is there anywhere out there a newspaper site (even local) that IS just static HTML, with unobtrusive or nonexistent ads? Like, we only need one maybe, and we could support it. Does it exist?
I'm a pretty normal person living in San Francisco and I work pretty regularly from the public library in my neighborhood. The free WiFi is nice and the only issue I've ever had is kids coming in to watch YouTube videos after school which is really just a minor annoyance.
Librarians and library scientist have talked about this for a long time. Look up "library as third place" if you want to read more (and get an insider perspective).
For a gene to decay without selective pressure takes a very long time, especially when your population is not on the edge of starvation.
I think there is a reason this is hard. This is a security issue. You are masking the URL of the site, Imagine using an iframe inside the modal.

This code is exactly what you would need to spoof users if you got JS execution on a host that isn't yours.
> Speech is like a weapon. They're not prohibited, and you're free to use them any way you see fit but you have to bear the consequences of misuse.

Agreed. And there are laws on the books for this; there always have been. The more recent concept of "hate speech" (to return to your original post) is entirely redundant, unless its intended use is censorship.
Bees are dying at an alarming rate. Amsterdam may have the answer
Funny you should ask, modal-window toting Citylab.
> Digital books are far superior in cost and functionality.

Paper books can't be deleted, don't need power, and have no DRM. Once you get beyond just text and start including diagrams, illustrations, or photos, e-ink doesn't hold up.
>That's a laughable argument, they don't sell you unrestricted internet access, that's already given by the fact we have datacaps and SMTP traffic from port 25 blocked.

Some do and I would complain about it. Maybe port 25 has a spam related reason, but every other port has not.

But to come back: crappy networks are not a reason to ditch "custom" ports. Fix the network.
Aren't half the comments on HackerNews basically "I work on a similar project, check out my project"? Although extra suspicious when it's a green user.

Which to be fair, I'm entirely fine with as long as the projects are legitimate. In the world of programming, there are so many cool and useful libraries, services and tools out there that you have little hope to find out about them otherwise.
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While there is some javascript in there, wikinews is pretty much a static website.

https://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Main_Page
Not trying to pick sides here, but the abstract seems to resonate with James Damore's hypothesis [1].

[1] https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/3914586/Googles-I...
2000AD had a go at Croydon too - https://static.comicvine.com/uploads/scale_large/0/9116/3326...
Turn JavaScript off and most of them are fine.
Tight control to produce armaments is one thing. Tight control to compete on cost and efficiency is another.
So is there a way to do this trick without your hand touching the liquid?
How can you tell it works? I've been trying now 5 times to enable it, and testing if it works. If I understand correctly, if I log in to gmail.com (mail.google.com), google.com should be logged in, but google.dk and youtube.com shouldn't since First-Party Isolation should be isolating them, but no matter how hard I try, it doesn't work. If I log in to mail.google.com, I get logged into youtube.com, google.com and google.dk.

Am I misunderstanding how it is supposed to work?

I've tried completely uninstalling firefox 5 times now - including wiping the profile from my machine - but the same thing keeps happening.
I can't name a single issue that I could give 2 shits about that was different before the GOP won the last election. The Democrat's healthcare plan sent my premiums through the roof, there's still virtually no transparency or accountability in the way billing is done unless I lawyer up, medicinal cannabis is still illegal, and my Facebook feed is still inundated with friends going to GoFundMe for healthcare bills because they still haven't bought insurance as required by law. Still in the middle east too. If that's what the Democrats are so proud of, then fuck popular vote.
Also, it’s clear from his biographies that he genuinely enjoyed speaking.
It’s absolutely crazy bonds are being bought at negative real rates but large sums of money must be parked somewhere by huge funds. Plus they often have bond to equity to commodity to fixed asset mandates so they have to enter what they know to be money losing positions.
In the previous century when web technologies were more primitive, modal dialogs were created in new browser windows. We all remember pop-ups and what a horrid experience that was. Developers (and spammers) abused this behavior so much that browsers now reflexively prevent pages from opening new windows in most cases.

I leave almost any site that interrupts me with a full screen modal dialog, especially if it's a prompt to subscribe to a newsletter. This abuse has become the norm. I have even seen desktop software adopting this behavior. A licensed copy of Guitar Pro 6 will interrupt you with a fullscreen ad for Guitar Pro 7. Unforgivable. Respect what the user is there for, and you might earn their business.

Edit: I recognize that there are some positive, responsible uses for this technique (extending forms/controls; search suggestions, assist the user rather than interrupt) and good examples are shown here. Please excuse the Sunday rant.
That will involve some optical alignment considering the actual shapes of the glyphs? I imagine one would get this feeling of not perfectly aligned even when the center of the bounding box of the numbers coincide with the center of the circle.
Also check out Artillery: https://github.com/shoreditch-ops/artillery
I don't know if it counts, but there's lite.cnn.io

Besides that, I just disable javascript for The New York Times, the Washington Post, USA Today, etc.
I've also been very active in my local metro district and HOA meetings. Unfortunately, even at that level the company that began developing the neighborhood will hold majority power of the board for, at their current rate of development, the next 40 years. They have attorney's that advise them not to speak with us, and we pay for those attorneys. Currently a large chunk of my property tax is paying interest on the developer's debt. Those meetings go about as well as you think. I've been to town council meetings and informal meet-the-mayor and meet-the-city-councilperson coffee events, and was referred to email their attorney. The only time I've seen my town council get anything done, it was either (a) due to a massive showing by a think-of-the-children type group, or (b) a company with massive pockets.
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"Democracy" in that sentence is implying the democracy of the nation in which it is in effect, the United States. Other nations, democratic or otherwise, have their own constitutions, their own contracts between the people and the State.