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I've been on accutane 3 times in my life.

My family has a history of severe nodular acne. My grandfather, mother, and my siblings all suffered from it.

My brother had it the worst, but I still had it quite bad. I have facial scars from it.

It can be quite traumatic, psychologically. My parents and doctor were reluctant to offer me accutane - so I spent a couple years really suffering, trying all kinds of treatment that had little effect (I believe it was benzyl peroxide -> antibiotics -> some other stuff). I turned into a social recluse, I hated looking at myself in the mirror.

Accutane was the only thing that worked. It was truly a miracle drug for me. I ended up doing two courses as a teenager which knocked it into remission, through my university years.

It came back in my mid 20s moderately, so I tried the benzyl peroxide (the acne.org regimen). But it was a pain to apply regularly, costly, and it stained all my clothes. I could only wear white shirts. After a year of that, I went and did another treatment of accutane and it knocked it out.

I still suffer from mild acne to this day - in my late 30s. I keep it under control with salicylic acid pads, so it's very manageable. I also avoid touching my face/neck, which seems to exacerbate it.

Accutane can have a few reported permanent side effects. One is IBS. I was diagnosed w/ IBS after taking my last course of accutane. It's hard to know if it is the cause or not (my mother also suffers from IBS, so it may be genetic). It sucks, but the acne was far worse and I'll never regret taking accutane. The IBS is relatively mild - only gets bad when I'm stressed.

Treatment used to be much more draconian. In the 40s-70s, doctors would x-ray your face to eliminate severe acne. My high school physics teacher had this done, and unfortunately passed away in his early 50s due to throat cancer (having never smoked in his life).
I am not advocating for criminalization.

Demand for tobacco id down specifically because there is ample activity and messaging to influence people away from interest in tobacco. If this same level of influence were applied for all drugs people would be generally much healthier.
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Conversion rates precisely controlled by the government?

I think some people have great (and not fond) memories of that in Poland since 50s till 1993... Only the final phase worked somewhat.
I think the browsers in various game consoles (PS4, Switch) are usually WebKit (via Access NetFront NX)
Wind turns stone into sand though! Either make a tornado with your mouse, or a large dust explosion next to a mountain :P
Subscribe to a real, physical paper. Use the internet less. So many easy, practical solutions here.
They broke company rules and damaged equipment, no duh they are going to have a bill for it.
How does one know when they're in a filter bubble?
Also where the momentum is at is using Linux. More are moving from proprietary solutions to using Linux. Suspect that will continue to happen.
Yeah but it's like cable tv. You would pay a quarter to watch an episode but they want $10 a month. There is no piecemeal solution yet and crypto is not a real solution yet.
Ask HN: What are your expectations for refund policies for online courses?
Hi HNC,

I've launched a product which I would categorize as 'online program' because it is not really a tech product and it's not a self-guided online course per sè, because it includes human guiding you throughout the whole online program, day-by-day.

Context: it's a program to help you build a 15-min morning routine in 8 weeks. My avatar is someone who doesn't have a very strong discipline and tends to procrastinate, therefore would benefit the most from a structured, guided program.

Now, I want to have some sort of the refund policy and make it as fair as possible. I am torn however between these options:

- Be super user-friendly (my preferred choice in most cases) and provide no-questions-asked refunds before the program starts and within the first 1 or 2 weeks of the program.
- Be more firm and offer no refunds at all, because in this particular case, my avatar might have a tendency to "chicken-out" last minute and come up with an excuse to procrastinate again. But by not offering a refund, a user might end up getting into "loss aversion" and "sunk-costs" thinking - "oh well, if I paid for it, I might as well do it" and in a result, actually complete and really benefit from the program. So not offering refund might actually do good for tahe user. But then again - I can't assume there will be no legitimate reasons for refund requests...

As an online-citizen - what is your preferred choice?
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I think you might be right on incentives, that's why I said it might lead to no-one producing anything.

What about a limited period for exclusivity? Do you think, say, 3 years would work? I would be happy to wait that long... in fact I only just recently watched Person Of Interest on Netflix and that has been out for ages.

As to other differentiators like quality of service, I think there is a lot of scope there but channels currently have very little need to innovate because the issue of what content they have dwarfs all other considerations.
The problems really begin when a browser doesn't want to wait for a standards body. I realize the situation is different with WHATWG now than how this played out in the IE6 days. But when the dominant rendering engine decides to start adding features where the standard hasn't caught up yet, you're arguably no longer doing web programming, but rather Chromium programming.

This sort of thing boxes out other vendors/rendering engines and forces them to have to add non-standard features themselves. Vendor prefixes are not enough. If devs no longer test on non-Chromium platforms, vendor prefixes have to be adopted by non-Chromium engines or risk utter obsolescence. This is also true of Chromium forks. If a fork is a niche player, being open source doesn't buy you much because the Chromium governing body (i.e., Google) still has the lion's market share, and thus the decision-making authority for what the web should look like.
Had persistent mild acne for a long time. Had chemical peels, used antibiotics, BP, SA, removed dairy, didn't touch my face, fasted, used cleanser and oil-free moisturizer, etc. Kinda helped, but not really.

So I stopped using all products. Only water. Face got better over the next few weeks. I also stopped caring too much. About anything in life. Long story short, it was a multi-year self-development process that culminated that summer, but essentially I became much more relaxed and secure with myself.

Have had clear skin ever since, and I feel great.
Are you using Cloudflare's DNS servers? Yeah, it doesn't work with that, for some reason.
You're only talking about the infrastructure cost in that equation of distribution. The issue is that the movie owners want to be paid for their content availability even if few people watch it. There isn't much Netflix can do about that. You're not just paying for how many movies you watch per month (eg 10), or how much bandwidth you consume, you're paying for access to all of the content Netflix offers. It's a communal distribution of cost across the entire customer base to enable an artificially large library for the masses with all their variety of taste. Why? Because they have to pay all the content owners, or they walk. Those content owners effectively get a little sliver of your monthly fee. If Netflix increases its catalog of movies from external owners by 4x, the sliver gets smaller per movie on average (or they have to raise prices a lot). They'd have to convince content owners to give them most movies for free.

Consider the model of monetary distribution based on actual watching of content. If you're a movie library owner, with a catalog of 1,000 mediocre quality studio movies to offer up to a streaming service, are you going to take close to $0 from Netflix based on few people watching the content there, or will you take a lot more from a competitor that needs filler content to take on Netflix? Due to this effect it's impossible to distribute the majority of movies on streaming services based on how often they're actually watched (the demand for them). There will always be some other service willing to bid the bottom quality 3/4 of movies up.

If all of their customers globally were actually willing & able to pay ~$22 per month for Netflix streaming, they could probably technically afford to give you access to nearly all movies ever made at today's licensing rates. Hollywood won't comply with that however, not under any circumstances. Netflix can realistically never afford to pay Disney enough to not launch its own competing service.
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MS could easily shell the bill, but there's 0 reason for them to do that; by leveraging Chromium they get 500 millions USD worth of development for free every year.
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Feynman reminds me of a more material/practical Alan Watts. Also, kudos to the article for the index.
Are you open to remote developers?
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I'd stay super friendly. I bought multiple courses and ebooks in the past I never finished, one never even started. I think those procastenating or finishing (parts only or complete) the course and seeing no results know the course is hardly to blame. And thus won't request a refund.
This is quite cool!
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Yes, it's definitely a grey area. All it would be needed to have it not "displace work of paid employees" would be for a paid employee to have supervision responsibilities to review the final work, even if that would be 0.1% of all the work done. I think that's a valid concern, thanks for raising that point.
Dreadful way to go; addiction (assuming this wasn't a one-off event which also led to his overdose) is a terrible disease and one which runs in my family to a large degree, so hearing of a notable overdose from someone who was seemingly functional always throws me for a bit of a loop. Condolences to his family and apparent s/o.

...which gets to my next question: is there a metric on how many executives (and possibly how many executives surrounding trending bay area startups) either are or end up immersed in the depths of addiction?
This would be great for Tor .onion servers, yes?
Sounds like a great progress indeed! Just take it step by step. Don't start adding the new habits too quickly, because each new habit, actually shakes your current routine a bit, because you're learning something new and your brain is taken from automaticity mode that your habits bring you into.

So don't rush, do the home cooking and cold showers and exercise, but don't add the swimming pool yet, because you will be less likely to keep up and as a result skip few days. Skipping will bring out negative emotions and an urge for escapism and you'll be a lot more likely to revert to your bad habit - weed.

Take it slow and enjoy the ride.
As an European, I would still much prefer U.S. supremacy to Chinese one.
The benefit depends on what part of the system I decide to optimize. If I guess right (and enhance something impacted by many/big requirements in the future) I will reap good results. If I enhance something which stays basically untouched for the rest of the FY I will be considered a fraud or misguided.

Applications developed internally don't necessarily have a roadmap (or might have it and abandon it 2 weeks into the new year because).
Problem is, nobody will consider you a hero for sticking to the (now obsolete) plan.
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My family member has been working at an auto plant for over a decade now. She does not seem depressed. She is grateful for the job (had to use personal connections to get it) and would be scared of the thought of robots replacing her.
Yes, netflix has a tonne of data, but to say it informs and drives their original content more than any other network is wide of the mark.

House of Cards was made because its based on an excellent BBC series(and book before that) from 1993, is directed by david fincher, and has Kevin Spacey in it.

With that combination they could have made a clone of the big bang theory a success.

There is nothing data driven about getting Cuarón to make a movie. He's an oscar winner, with a load of nominations as well.

What is different is that Neflix has a boat load of cash, and will, within reason, give people a free reign. This is basically what miramax did in the 90s when they had cash from disney. I hope that unlike unlike miramax its not run by sex pests.
“and the war itself is really cool” that is such a weird statement to read. Maybe “interesting“ would fit, but “cool“? I wonder if any of the people who died in the Ypres/Passchendaele region, or Somme, would call the war “cool“.
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yeah, I'm thinking along these lines too. Thanks for the input.
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Some people want you to believe that this sign is in some way a way to represent White Power.

IRL Trolls know this and this is why they do it.
Ask HN: YC companies that were side projects with no revenue and no users?
Which YC companies were 100% side projects with no revenue, no users, and run by first-time founders at the time of YC investment?

By "100%" I mean no one in the company was working on it full-time
This is just awful https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/environment/a250516... .
A ceratain focus on a foreign journalist assassinated in a foreign country says otherwise.
Damn I had such a similar story.. antibiotics, BPO, Isotretinoin. I've taken Iso for 24 months total with 100-120mg per day. I'm still afraid of IBS-like problems from that, but so far so good.
> From that point onwards they have been playing a perpetual game of catch-up, constantly lagging behind other browsers in implementing new specifications and features.

There are definitely examples:

IE8 was the first browser with separate content processes (before Chrome was announced).

CSS Grid was heavily pushed by MS (and shipped, prefixed, in IE10).

Ultimately, being in a game of perpetual catchup in unsurprising when they stood still, with only an absolute minimal amount of work happening, for three years, while other browsers continued to march forwards.
The use of plastics and other oil based products is nothing to do with oil as a fossil fuel, but with oil as a complex hydrocarbon.

I'm not sure anyone is arguing against using oil for plastics, lubrication and medicine productions. Your comment was about energy production, and while I accept that you can burn oil at night and when the wind isn't blowing, the existence of a national grid linking different parts of a country pretty much means that isn't an issue any more. The more we preserve oil for these essential purposes and avoid burning the stuff, the better.

Even if you insist that we need fossil fuel cover for days with no light or wind, that isn't an argument against building wind or solar power stations. It is an argument for keeping some mothballed gas power stations as a backup (not oil or coal though — gas is a lot cleaner and easier to start up at short notice).

In the UK we still burn some coal, but the renewable capacity we have built up has allowed us to turn off all the coal stations for periods during the Summer. And building more nukes will let us close those remaining ones down for good eventually.
Smaller binary enables use of a lower-level cache, no? [0]

My understanding is that profile-guided optimisation is largely based on the utility of small binaries, by optimising hotspots for speed and everything else for space, thereby alleviating cache-pressure. Is this wrong?

> You also won't easily predict the behavior due to reordering.

I wasn't thinking of anything as sophisticated as looking at specific flows, where I can well imagine things get unpredictable with reordering and speculative execution. Won't there will be a reliable pattern of better fitting in cache, if we shrink everything?

[0] https://lwn.net/Articles/534735/
Which was adopted by trolls as a "white power" sign, very much to muddy the waters as to what is or is not an intentionally racist gesture, and to have fun with the idea of offence and racism at the expense of anyone that might possibly be offended.

So when you see people, who are well aware of this meaning, using it in a photo like that, what they're saying is "ha ha look how funny the idea of us being racist is". Which of course is actually just normalising white supremacy, and enabling it to go unchallenged by shifting the line between overt racism and coded racism, and preventing any good faith discourse.

So this is either intentionally racist joking-but-not-really on his part or incredibly crass idiocy that provides cover for other racists.
Yesterday's discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18693689
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> with relatively dense traffic all going 10-20mph above the speed limit; in these conditions, it is objectively MORE dangerous to attempt to go the speed limit

The fix is simple: just make everyone observe speed limit with a bunch of speed cameras. In the meantime, fill the state coffers with fines. If people think the speed limit is too low, put pressure on politicians, make them run studies proving that it's safe to go 10-20mph more on that stretch and rise the speed limit if it is.

> it is NOT any numerical speed that causes issues

It absolutely is and you're just rationalizing. Kinetic energy rises quadratically with speed, and so does the risk of death and stopping distance.

> A safe fast driver is better than an unsafe slow driver any day.

That's a strowman. The point isn't that just you must go slower, it's that everyone must go slower and observe the actual speed limit. Speed limits aren't imposed just because, they are supposed to take into account tons of data that an average motorist can't possibly have in their mind. If people disregard and ignore them as "too low" instead of observing and fixing when needed, it just slowly corrodes civil society.
Agreed! Headspace was what finally got me to consistently meditate, unlike the other apps I've tried including Calm.

It could be a matter of taste though. The creator/'guide' of Headspace, Andy, has a kind of British bloke-ey voice that I really prefer over the deep, 'spiritual' guide of other apps. Maybe that says more about my distaste of the woo-hoo that is common in this field, but still. I've talked to people who dislike Headspace because of Andy's voice though, so YMMV.
It's great to see people still using C to make web servers !

But can you clarify what are the "state-of-the-art technologies and solutions?"

I just skim the project and think this is not a lot better in term of performance than other servers like Nginx or H2O. There is also Lwan[0], which uses epoll too and has a cool coroutine, router implementation (I implemented a framework for Kotlin/Native on top of it[1]).

Another framework having really fast and fancy technologies in it is Seastar[2]. I think implementing kernel bypass, AIO, DPSK stuff makes it the fastest web server around currently. May be you can try to push the boundary with those things, SPDK, aggressive polling, fast router...?

[0]: https://github.com/lpereira/lwan
[1]: https://github.com/KwangIO/kwang
[2]: https://github.com/scylladb/seastar
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I’d say these are exceptions rather than a rule in Taiwan. They’ve saved a few Dutch colonial strctures too, but very few.
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As others have mentioned, being properly guided with the help of a nice UI does make a difference. I'll add that actually paying for a service helped a bit too, though. didn't want my money to go to waste...
Worth re-posting this comment from yesterday in case you missed it https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18695072
I feel for them, but ads are just too annoying, intrusive, and possibly malicious for me to willingly disable my adblocker unless they are promising curated ads. The web is already a pretty terrible experience these days, but it's downright painful without an ad blocker.
'Dutch' notation can usually be distinguished with enough context (i.e. if the number has decimals), or by comparing it to other numbers found in a file.

But don't get me started on people mixing American date notation and ISO notation. Especially mixing the separators.

If you ever have to work with date notations, use a hyphen as a separator for ISO, and use a forward slash (/) when using American notation. It's the only way to distinguish dates before the 13th day of the month.
What's the total money passing through the web? Billions, trillions?

The amount of money that is spent on browsers is such a tiny fraction of web-derived profit it is, in my opinion, surprising that browser vendors don't have more money.
Why? Performance doesn't matter for that use-case. Maybe less features means more secure, on the other hand established projects (or even the basic HTTP implementations in other languages stdlibs) are probably better covered security-review wise. (edit: unless I missed it, it doesn't even check against directory traversal?)
> I was so mad that I hadn't downloaded the sources before it was too late. So was everybody developing for QNX. All open source development for QNX stopped on that date.

> On that date, RIM stock was worth $69.97 per share. Today, $7.60.

Correlation does not imply causation.
.. no? I mean, is the Microsoft Visual Studio Community license a "wink, wink" license? Or the Sun Community Source License? Or the Atlassian Community License?

FWIW, "Community" in the license name seems to indicate "not free software" and "not open source software". There's only one OSI or FSF approved license with that word in the name.

They write 'Strictly speaking it is “source-available.”' That description has its own Wikipedia page. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Source-available_software points out that it doesn't always meet "the criteria to be called open-source".
Me too, however unless one think there is some magical component to consciousness then couldn't it be as good an explanation as many others?

I am a pretty skeptical person when it comes to these things too (doesn't even believe in god) but it doesn't strike me as such a far out explanation although as I said I have no base other than what is out there. It's at least a contender that should be taken seriously IMO.
at the end of the original post is this statement:

Before commenting on this update

As we wrote at the start of this update, it contains some sensitive information and we're a little hesitant about posting it. In order to be able to post this publicly, we've got to set a few ground rules.

It's perfectly ok to post comments telling us that we were naive and too trusting. We're well aware.

Please do NOT post any comments or speculation about the identity of our account manager or factory or their motivations. Doing so may limit our ability to share details with you in the future. And we really want to be able to share details with you in the future.

"please do not speculate about motivations"

this is important. it makes the factory look bad, and in china that is an insult. doing that is not helpful for their relationship.
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I haven’t tried it but Logitech has one now.

https://www.amazon.com/Logitech-Vertical-Wireless-Mouse-Rech...