skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You should take a look at the documents I FOIAd from FDA (the parts they didn't redact that is--apparently my appeal will take 3 years to be processed). Median Medical Technologies, Inc. (a Pfizer company that produces and owns patents for the EpiPen) violated numerous safety rules and breached aseptic manufacturing multiple times, and did not appropriately investigate failures.

Here's one of their violation letters, I was told that sanctions were still being considered for the latest inspection.

https://www.fda.gov/iceci/enforcementactions/warningletters/...

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1BgduIfkAL4SaYVQu1yyJ...
This reminds me a little bit of both cursors.io [0] and Place [1] - Reddit's April Fools' social experiment in 2017.

[0] http://cursors.io/

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Place_(Reddit)
To someone (like the person you replied to) who considers slow chess to be "actual chess" and quicker formats to be a different game, this argument doesn't make sense.

Imagine two people of equal ability at ice hockey. You wouldn't say that one is better than the other at ice hockey because he's better than the other at field hockey.

Adding my edit to a below comment here:

Probably the best analogy here is association football -- the normal, standard game can end in a draw. During the World Cup and other elimination tournaments, a completely new rule, not part of the normal game, is introduced allowing games to be decided by penalty kicks. Is the fact that Italy beat France in the 2006 World Cup final on penalty kicks evidence that Italy's team was "better at association football" than France's? Many people would argue that it's not.
$150 with discount or coupon is still way too expensive. Where I live in Europe (Belgium) pharmacies sell the EpiPen for just $50. No need for a coupon, that's the regular price. It's even cheaper for some patients.
Thid is good stuff
While Google (and Verily) are getting a lot of the credit here, the underlying technology was developed by entomological researchers at the University of Kentucky [0] and the resulting company, MosquitoMate [1] partnered with Verily [2] to automate and scale the breeding of the sterilized male mosquitoes.

[0] - https://uknow.uky.edu/research/uk-research-spinoff-company-m...

[1] - https://mosquitomate.com/about-us/

[2] - https://blog.verily.com/2017/07/debug-fresno-our-first-us-fi...
> Named captures means you don't have to count parentheses to figure out which group you want. I don't know whether it qualifies as cosmetic, but it sure is nice.

Agreed! (As a regex-heavy Perl hacker, I loved the day that they entered the language.) I didn't mean to minimise them; rather quite the opposite, to point out that they gave a great return essentially for free (compared to regexes that still have capturing groups, but without names), as opposed to look-behind, which (I think) can slow down a match dramatically.
As far as I can see, Ceres accepts functions which calculate a residual vector, whereas ensmallen accepts only function which accept a scalar error.
This is a subtle but important difference: The vector allows much faster convergence on a number of model fitting problems.
Simplify and Speed Up the Quoting Process with Manufacturers
In general, I am in agreement with you. The whole thing started resembling religious wars in the last years and it's quite hilarious and sad to observe.

This part however I can't stand behind:

> Anyway, let's just take this sentence: "We can measure the ability for systems to adapt creatively, as well as their resilience and their ability to use resources in an interesting way." - This is so broad and universal, that it's either meaningless or false. And there is absolutely no argument supporting this. I highlighted this, because this is what directly contradicts the alarmist thinking. If we were able to measure creativity and resilience in general, we could train AIs to get a higher creativity score, furthermore, we could then control them.

It's true that such generalist statements basically mean nothing. But your rebuttal doesn't take into account chaos theory -- where there's generally accepted that most living systems live on the brink of chaos yet are very stable and manage to swing back even after big interferences. Not sure what a "living system" is, don't ask. :D

I do agree with you that your highlight contradicts the alarmists though. Not everything swings out of control by the gentlest of touches. In fact, most of the universe doesn't seem to be that way. There's always a lot of critical mass that must be accumulated before a cataclysm-like event occurs.

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All of the above said, I don't think it's serious or scientific to discard alarmists simply because the guys/girls with the most PR do ridiculuous or non-scientific statements. Behind them are probably thousands of people who are more systemic and have better arguments but aren't interviewed by mainstream media.

Where do I stand in the spectrum of this? The so-called singularity is possible. BUT, we are a very long way from it. We're going to be clawing our way to it, inch by inch, for centuries, if not millenia. That's what I think is most likely.

And by the time it occurs, IMO we will be living in a cyberpunk-like future -- very well articulated in the "Ghost in the Shell" anime movies and series by the way -- where the line between a man and machine will have already be blurred quite severely.
Yes, we have a few APIs written that no one on our team fully understands. All are about 3000 lines in a single file. It takes a day to make even the smallest changes (which we frequently have to do because of production incidents). All the functions take or modify maps! Its crazy. In particular we have one function that takes in 14 separate maps! And of course there are no useful comments at all.
You delete it. You think there won't be a "I'm pretty sure I want to delete this?" option? you probably have to explicitly go out of your way to do it since the point is not to delete data.

There's probably also an option for not keeping history for data that it doesn't make sense to have history for.
This beautifully written New Yorker profile is what first got me hooked on Ricky Jay. It was clipped for me by a kind coworker at Harvard’s Cabot Science Library, who thought I’d like it. She was right. I bought and devoured Ricky’s book Learned Pigs & Fireproof Women, and later delighted in his brilliant show (recorded as an HBO special) Ricky Jay & His 52 Assistants.

A few years after the profile was published, I got curious about Ricky’s website, rickyjay.com. I discovered that not only was there nothing on the site, but the domain itself was unregistered. Concerned that some squatter might snap it up, I registered it myself.

Over the next few years, I made several attempts to track down Ricky so that I could give him the domain, to no avail. Then I had a stroke of luck: while attending a performance of Michael Moschen (whose remarkable “juggling” skills were featured in the movie Labyrinth) at UC Irvine, I happened to recognize Ricky standing in the lobby during intermission. I introduced myself and got the ball rolling on the domain transfer, which later resulted in the site you can still see today.

A few years later, Ricky himself was performing at UCI, and my father and I had the good fortune of joining him onstage for a demonstration of card control and three-card Monte. After the show, Ricky was kind enough to sign my copy of Learned Pigs & Fireproof Women, as well as give me the card he’d cut neatly in half with a pair of giant scissors.

A few years after that, I learned that a young woman I was acquainted with knew Ricky well. When I told her the story of rickyjay.com, she insisted on setting up a dinner with Ricky and his wife Chrisann. Ricky recognized me from the Michael Moschen performance, and we ended up having a lovely time talking about magic, history, and various other subjects.

The last time I saw Ricky, I distinctly recall thinking that he didn’t look particularly healthy, so when I saw his name trending on Twitter I feared the worst. Alas, it was the worst. And yet, what a joy Ricky Jay was to all who knew him and his work. RIP to one of the all-time greats.
Has anybody in the world said that Caruana was "dead to rights" in game 12?

That's not what the controversy was about. It was the fact that white had "winning chances" in a completely unclear position with most pieces were still on the board. "Winning chances" isn't winning.

Magnus's reputation is he's a guy who will usually press on in a (seemingly) flat endgame where a lot of GMs will agree to draw and occasionally will squeeze out a win in those circumstances. It's antithetical to that image for him to offer a draw in a position _no_ GM would offer in typical circumstances. He did it for strategic reasons, and given his performance in the tiebreaker today, it looks all the more justifiable for the purposes of winning, but some people don't like that attitude from a champion.
Probably the same as when the actual data is leaked.
It's easy enough to store sensitive data externally (e.g., in a key value store) and simply store a reference to the data along with its hash in the ledger. When data needs to be removed, delete the data from your KV store and add an entry to the ledger noting that it was removed.

But you probably wouldn't store sensitive user data in this kind of database anyway. Not ever use case is well-suited for a ledger like this. In most applications, this would be pointless overhead.
I think it's worse than just losing the data. If you operate a public cryptography ledger with users data in EU and do it under some company name, you won't be able to comply with the "right to be forgotten" or how it's called.

I'm currently working on this problem in application to blockchains. The plan ATM is to implement cryptographic snapshots of the data, where the old transactions are erased but their proof is available.
> That's ridiculous that Dropbox has never thought that someone might need an upgrade to their account before their next "open-enrollment" style system. Just off the cuff thinking would suggest applying whatever money has already been paid for the existing account, prorating it for what has been already used, and then subtract that from the fee to be collected for the upgrade. Then flip the switch in the database. Sure, it might be out-of-bounds for normal workflow.

Seriously, I implemented this in a few minutes on my crappy little side project.

If you want to downgrade, it's "contact support" so we discuss any issues and sort out a refund or credit as appropriate - but if you want to upgrade and pay more, that should be the fattest, shiniest, most automatic button available and give a fair, prorated deal with no hassle, those are customers who have experience with your service, like it and want more of it. The kind you want to keep the most. It seems like the most basic business sense.
That’s why tools like gosec complain when user input is used to access files - specifically because ‚..‘ allows one to „escape“.

Gosec: https://github.com/securego/gosec
Oh, and there’s probably just be a new working group for hpc; we’ll have a process for spinning up groups early next year.
Reminds me of this pretty cool music generation talk at StrangeLoop. I can't find his own site, but here's the SL page: https://www.thestrangeloop.com/2018/making-machines-that-mak...
key rotation, disclosure, generation, storage, escrow, regulatory jurisdictions - there are a lot more issues than what you mention.
Dogs like to roll and play in filth. They shouldn't be around where people are eating.
The first and most important question is, why does nobody on the team understand it? One possibility, which should not be overlooked, is that it was not quite important enough to spend money on maintaining a team of people who understand it. Just as the Big Rewrite is often not as good an option as it seems, the Big Refactor is often not a good option either, because the software may in fact not be valuable enough to justify the many hours it would take to do that.

So, first off, try to make a realistic estimate for your higher-ups of how many hours it will take to refactor this, and phrase it as "at least...[x]...and perhaps much more". It is quite possible that you will get back the answer, "it's not worth that". Then, you are in the uncomfortable position of being the Bearer of Bad News.

Depending on the ability of your upper management to accept bad news, you then either:
1) gently and politely insist to them that the situation really is this bad, or
2) start looking for an exit

But, before setting yourself up as the person who brings bad news, get a gut check from some teammates as to whether your estimates of how much would be required, are more or less on target. It takes a while for organizations to accept bad news, and you may need to let people who say "it won't be that bad" win the argument for a while, and then circle back to it in a month or so.
Well, that depends on what you consider cheap. Hiring someone to manage a time series system like graphite or prometheus is going to cost you a whole lot more than $26k a year
You’re aware that race doesn’t mean “white” vs “black” right?

While obviously these systems were used to justify treating non-white races as being fundamentally inferior, it was also used against other groups (“proving” that the Irish and scots were predisposed to drunkenness, etc).

The idea of racism being purely a skin color concept is relatively recent. Look at the historic treatment of the Irish, welsh, and Scottish in Britain over the last few millennia - or Italians up until the the mid to early 1900s. The treatment of people from Eastern Europe, the polish, today.

All of these races can be distinguished genetically - or even through external features.

Similar discrimination occurs other countries among people with the same skin colour- I’m sure countries like China and Japan could point to “objective” measures like genetics that can be not related to negative aspects of groups they discriminate against.
That list is not useful, for two reasons: one, the quality of the list isn’t great, because it’s by no means exhaustive, is subject to the ethical whims of the maintainer, and is too general (e.g. “violence (except when required to protect public safety)”-what is this supposed to mean? Can’t every government say they only perpetuate violence to protect public safety?) The other part is that you also need to prove that I have been doing the action, which hard: if my company sells computers and some of them end up going to the NRC so they can send email, is the company suddenly in violation of the license?
Check your email
Sure, the mechanical components don't scale up. I wasn't referring to upscaling a toy drone. But, if - and it's an if until someone actually solves all the problems - someone comes up with an electric airframe that works well enough for personal transportation - then I think it's more likely than not to have economies of scale to kick in and drive the cost down together with commoditization of personal flight.

Sure, there are lot of if's there. But mainly my guess "an electric 'quadrocopter' will be cheaper for personal transport than helicopter" is based on two things:
* it will become popular, hence driving unit costs down
* the vehicle will be cheaper to operate than a combustion engine powered helicopter
My first real foray into the new postgres that this article states is with JSONB. I needed to create a specific output for a client in JSON format. The formatting options available were pretty good and allowed me to create something quick and dirty without having to write custom code to support the output that I needed.
I was specifically referring to drugs, medical devices are a completely different animal.
BBEdit was probably the first editor for Mac OS X, though SubEthaEdit may have been first one native to OS X.
Yup, i remember this happening frequently in India in my town. Especially during monsoon.
They are wrong. World championship is not a battle, it is a campaign. At the present time Carlsen's best bet for winning is to play tie breaker games because he is much better at rapid fire games than his opponent, which is exactly why he took it there.

It is, in essence, a standard chess taken to extreme - the difference between a 1900 player and an IM is that IM would play to win while 1900 player would play to attack.
Mathematical model shows autonomous cars can reduce traffic congestion
This is basically Peano numbers, hardly invented by Church. Not to discredit Church for lambda calc, of course.
I don't know but with a service worker you could possibly reduce that 0.5 in your MPA further by caching likely next pages ahead of time.
Good idea. I would take it one step further. I would use a ML-based language detection tool which should return a list of languages and a confidence score. Whichever language has the highest confidence score wins. The FastText project has a good pre-trained model available.
Yes, that is exactly what I mean. The majority of people developing software are doing it inside of Visual Studio Code or similar tools, where their only exposure to the command line is when they do "create-app"
AWS OrbitalNuke - one way physical hashing service
>Remember: Companies that have great responses on social media don't have great support, just attentive marketing.

On other side may be they just streamlined the operations and the social media is the [only] customer case support database. If you look at various bug/case/issue databases with issue voting, discussions, etc - they do start to look like social media. So there is some convergence here. And may be Twitter can pivot and add issues/case priority/severity, release fixed in and other fields :) Imagine Periscope allowing to observe developers fixing your issues...

>For every case that has a great resolution after coverage on twitter/facebook/hacker news/local news station there's a hundred that languished unsolved and customer screwed.

sounds like my BugZilla, in principle if not in actual numbers :)
Been searching for years to a good alternative to postgres for storing gobs of weather timeseries data. So far we have been running postgres system for many years in production and have hired multiple contractors to implement a 'real timeseries solution'. All of which have been utter shit and complete failures. The AWS services are expensive as all hell. With a little bit of imagination we created a unique schema for timeseries data that doesnt require terabytes of space, and processes billions of data points a day, and has blazing fast queries into said data.
Interestingly, he has a wider gap on rapid and blitz, again showing the magnitude of his strength
We switched from Mailchimp to Sendgrid; not hard to switch back. We were hoping to get to a more robust tool but can make do with the basics for now.

Also, I wouldn't value my time at $60/hr right now. When you're barely paying yourself in order to grow, hard to think of it that way ;)
My biggest Dropbox frustration is that it's impossible to simply buy more space on a personal account. I suspect it's because most paying people don't come close to using 1TB, but someone who buys 2TB is certainly going to use more than 50% of it. Still, it's damn frustrating that it's not an option at all.
New feature announcements is not spam.

Especially when it's the biggest cloud provider that many of us depend on.
Interesting idea. There could be a lot of benefits for this kind of matching service. I imagine people who feel burned out at the 80% mark would enjoy working with others to complete their project.

Perhaps the person helping them is also at 80% on their own project, and the act of helping someone else motivates them to push through and finish their own incomplete projects!
Static code IS arbitrary code. Apple didn't author it and didn't vet it. They ran a static analyzer over it (not remotely foolproof) and then trusted the actual security to the process sandbox.

Besides, nothing stops you from still running arbitrary code in iOS downloaded from the web. You're simply restricted to doing that either interpreted or via Apple's JIT. In either case you're still getting arbitrary execution that Apple never statically analyzed, interacting with any APIs that the app wants that code to have access to (intentionally or not).
I was referring to the entire subthread, in which you posted several flamewar comments. You did it elsewhere too. Please don't—it's exactly what we're trying to avoid on HN, as you surely know.

The GP comment wasn't so bad, but the problem is that generic comments about ideological topics usually lead to flamewars.
There are certainly advantages to the more abstract positional Hindu–Arabic number system (or e.g. the ancient Mesopotamian system for writing sexagesimal numbers which also positional). I am not trying to dispute that.

A symbolic positional system saves space on the page. It makes recorded numbers more difficult to falsify later. Doing scratch work on paper leaves a better record of calculations (the position of a counting board is inherently ephemeral) which potentially makes it easier to spot errors. It is easier to describe pen and paper arithmetic in printed books which helps spread knowledge more easily than an oral tradition. It extends more easily to larger or (after the advent of decimal fractions) smaller numbers without needing an inordinately large number of different symbols. It is more easily extended by the use of pre-computed tables of function values, and especially by slide rules and similar devices. Once we start decimalizing our metrical system it becomes very regular to work with many different measurements in a consistent way. Perhaps most importantly the use of writing leads naturally to the development of symbolic algebra and ultimately simpler formulations of higher mathematics.

But we can carefully describe the advantages and historical process of replacement etc. without unfairly disparaging the more direct representation.
Great story, and happy to see SubEthaEdit live on as open source software. Its main collaboration use case is still relevant and unique today. I'm glad they were at least able to get the technology integrated into Coda, and that they were able to make a modest revenue from that.

Unfortunately, as a primary code editor, it was never for me as an avid user of TextMate (and reluctant of Xcode) in the early days, before I finally learnt vim and never looked back around 8 years ago or so.
Not sure if this is bad news for the Robotic Process Automation (RPA) sector or an opportunity to offload the "Robotic" part while focusing on business process...
as an american i'm a bit disappointed that Caruana didn't win, that being said i think Carlsen is definitely a better player.
Parent comment states active ingredients are the same, but the "non-active" ingredients can be different. So there is the possibility that something is different in the generic that could cause a reaction.

I've had to use transdermal medication (patches) before, and one of the inactive ingredients that changes is the adhesive, I've noticed that the "brand name" version didn't cause skin breakouts, and the generic did.
'Ephemeral' was/is the original Lustre design model. It was intended for high performance swap/scratch at Livermore with a short data lifespan - your higher priority bomb sim forces mine to roll out to disk and back in later, and that's it. Lustre, even today, isn't long term stable. The longer you leave data on it, the greater the probability of corruption - even silently.
Amazon makes its machine learning courses available for free
People never used Roman numerals for performing written arithmetic, so that is not a fair comparison. Calculations were done mentally, with fingers, or for anything complicated or serious on a counting board.
I think the "0 of 1 Purchased" text on the ad is even more misleading since it implies that 1 is on the list to be purchased.