skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The U2 spy plane, quite an engineering marvel, was about a million bucks to buy.

Yes I know the fed reserve's been steadily devaluating the dollar (and some standard inflation), but I think it's still telling.
This would be a personal attack if it was wrong to be stupid... But it's not. Everyone acts this way sometimes.

I don't even suggest they are stupid all the time, just acted so in that moment, which again is completely fine but responsibility should be shifted.

I'm sorry the use of that word is too much for you to handle, and I probably should have used another method to call out someone's mistakes. I'm also slightly disheartened that hackernews thinks the default use of stupid has to be cynical.
That's my mistake and I will adjust to the fragile culture here.
"For Mac users, burp is available in Homebrew. See the quick start page for more information." - https://burp.grke.org/download.html

Also, I can't imagine how something could be for Unix-likes and not target Mac OS, since it is literally a certified Unix.
Makes these stories more relevant.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/23/business/johnson-talc-can...

Almost as if the “free market” doesn’t regulate itself and generate ethical results...
You can batch 1000 writes to the same socket into a single syscall, but you can’t batch writing to 1000 different sockets into one syscall. (And it is actually a common occurrence to write the same message to 100 sockets at the same time - e.g. in an IRC server with 100 people in A room)
Measurement-based quantum computation is a special case of gate-based computation, as a model. Do you mean that the report does not give enough emphasis to photonic quantum computing experiments? For better or worse, this is largely an accurate summary of the current state of experimental physics approaches; there's been progress but LOQC is still a dark horse. I don't think it undermines the report.
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This is promising, but for dedicated high-performance I/O I am much more interested in how the SPDK is progressing. Avoiding syscalls is great, but without any benchmarks I wonder about the benefits over mmap and vectorizing. You still have to contend with locking, interrupts, copying, and ring 0 abstraction impedence.

[1] https://spdk.io
Even some granite countertops can emit radon.
https://www.reddit.com/r/scala/comments/a5sov6/scala_pattern...
People are. But it doesn't address all the issues if CO2 production, like ocean acidification and will have it's own unintended consequences. Moving to carbon-free sources of energy is still the best option, and we should still be treating that as plan A. It's also not a permanent solution on its own, it needs to be done in conjunction with CO2 reductions.

So I really don't think it should be hogging the Limelight, now that we actually making some progress, even if it's clearly very late.
Strange to see others having trouble running netsurf; I've used it for years as a "super-light but renders slightly better than dillo" option, and I don't recall ever having any significant problems with it, aside that its interface was written with slightly different interaction models that I'm used to.
I think the key is to figure out a way to demonstrate that:

- you are not set in your “old” ways

- you can learn new tricks

- understand fundamentals of CS

Note this is the same list as for any candidate (imho) that I’d be interested in. The challenge is you don’t have “common” languages and frameworks to use as a signal of these characteristics.

Make sure your resume shows what problems you solved. Don’t emfasize the tech stack if future employers won’t recognize it.

Also consider staying in the same industry but other employer. The tech stack won’t transfer but the domain knowledge will.
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In the article it says the system was programmed by a highschool student 30 years ago. Now the replacement cost is 1.5-2 million.
Big corps who can do anything to capture market share and have some sort leverage over the Government cannot be trusted.

I guess people just forget about all ethics when huge debt / investment / incentive is involved. Leverage over media and governments along with an army of lawyers and bean counters just makes this whole thing possible.

Meanwhile globalisation has arguably made it more difficult for SMEs to market / sell products in industries within which big corps have huge interests.
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From the interviews I've seen, Einstein and Feynman spent far more time discussing philosophy than physics. And going by Newton's papers, every worked-out fluxion could be accompanied by a dive into theology or the occult.

That being said, I doubt that's the missing element. I'd blame it on the fact that most researchers are not free. They need the job; their peers also want the job. The brain only has so many cycles. I don't see how anyone can do their best work in a state of perpetual vigilance--so much backstabbing!
> Marketing is a larger cost than Reseach for major drug companies.

People on HN love to point this out, as if it somehow implies that companies are wasting money.

Marketing is how companies secure their revenues from the drugs that do make it to market. Without marketing, they'd have even less money to spend on R&D.

(And yes, marketing takes place in countries besides the US. Marketing is more than just consumer advertising).
Thow every best software practice out of the window. It is administration growing more administration. Peer programming is just dividing productivity by two.

To be productive: start vi, code, run the code. No source control. No planning. Just do until you reach your objective.

My way is to iterate and improve. I get in one day what a team gets in a month if they are lucky

And when I don't feel like working, I don't. I wait until I feel the need.
You realize that the FDA (regulator) was award of these results and still didn’t pull it off the market?
Double posting. It was just on HN yesterday.
Why think of this as outsiders inferring, as opposed to insiders asking how they should coordinate their activities?
The thing about many of these environmental factor diseases is that they're long-term. You might get repeatedly exposed to some cancer-causing agent like talcum powder containing asbestos as a baby and then not develop the disease for decades later (e.g. and you die at 50 instead of 80). It's still shaving decades off life expectancy; it's just not killing immediately.

That's actually why these are so insidious, because if it were killing immediately then J&J would have had to address it long ago as it would have been obvious. Instead, they've continued doing it for decades, affecting who knows how many people, because the effects are divorced from the cause by time.
I felt like looking to google drive of an ancient man. I really would like to read about the meanings of the objects found in those walls.
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تواصل الان معنا مع افضل العروض المختلفة التى تقدمة الشركة الان حيث اننا نعمل على تقدم افضل شركة تنظيف خزانات بمكة المكرمةة الان وباقل الاسعار الرائة والمختلفة التى ىنقدمة الان حيث اننا نعمل على تقدم افضل شركة مكافحة النمل الابيض بمك الان وباقل الاسعار الرائعة

http://www.el3nod.com/5/company-anti-insect-termite-Pesticides-mecca

http://www.el3nod.com/1/company-tanks-isolation-cleaning-mecca
Don't forget to include the regulators in your argument, since they were also heavily involved. So much for "the free market".
As interesting as Alpha Go is, for me studying Go as a game and my interest in AGI (fusion of classic symbolic AI with deep learning, and deep learning in general) are separate interests for me.

Advice for learning Go without an instructor: buy a Go playing program (I like CS Pro on my iPad) that can analyze your games, showing you what your bad moves are and showing an alternative.
The article proposes a concrete solution to a problem for media makers: if you need to protect your files, here is a tool you can use, and here is how to use it.

Your response is 'I don't trust this tool'.

The next question from the target audience would then be: 'OK, so what are we supposed to use?'

What would be your response?

Keep in mind, these are users most likely running Mac or Windows to do various media production tasks. Telling them to fire up your pet distro of choice and set up LUKS is not a pragmatic solution.
The whole purpose of cryptography is that we do not need to trust in people.

In crypto we trust.

Veracrypt is open source and has been audited by OSTIF. It would be best to review code before accusing someone of such a heinious act. :/

When someone attacks the messenger or developer instead of the facts or the code, there could be some kind of agenda. Hope that’s not what it is.
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And Infocom's Z-machine is from 1979:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Z-machine
No idea why this was downvoted. I don't have recent experience setting up something like this but 10 years ago BackupPC was the answer, and I guess it is still good.

Does anyone have a different experience?
This often quoted number includes the investments in failed drugs (an outstanding majority) and 1.5B of an 11% cost of capital "opportunity cost" (i.e. money not gained by investing in other stuff).

It is therefore highly misleading when quoted out of context, as it is not the real amount of money that is spent on a single drug.
Discussed here before in 2015: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9705830
You are missing a major point. Lots of people who have rare disease are not even aware they have them, or not even diagnosed because their local doctor has never seen it before and mistook it for something else.

So yes, you still need "marketing" to spread awareness for rare diseases, because they are, well, rare.
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تواصل الان معنا مع افضل العروض المختلفة التى تقدمة الشركة الان حيث اننا نعمل على تقدم افضل شركة تنظيف خزانات بمكة المكرمةة الان وباقل الاسعار الرائة والمختلفة التى ىنقدمة الان حيث اننا نعمل على تقدم افضل شركة مكافحة النمل الابيض بمك الان وباقل الاسعار الرائعة

http://www.el3nod.com/5/company-anti-insect-termite-Pesticid...

http://www.el3nod.com/1/company-tanks-isolation-cleaning-mec...
Huh, that's interesting, I didn't know that. The problem is that it might cool the planet, but might cause other issues that we'll have to deal with. It might be a good plan B, though.
Some adults use baby power too, sometimes every day.
It rises up out of the ground, and the (expensive) solution is to install a vacuum system beneath the slab that vents the the outside. I know because my parents' house has such a system. More info: https://sosradon.org/reducing-radon-in-your-home

You can tell it's working because there's a U-shaped pressure gauge attached to the system showing the differential between under the slab and outside: https://www.clutchprep.com/physics/gauge-u-shaped-tube
AVX is 256-bit (float×8 and double×4 vectors), AVX2 is the same size but adds integer operations (and many other things).
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I missed it yesterday and didn't search for it before submitting so that's my bad.

But if it's getting upvotes, I guess it's because other people missed it as well.
This trope is always pulled out but it’s wrong. The analysis looked at S&GA which represented far more than marketing.

Second, marketing produces a positive ROI (or why else do it). So you spend $10M on marketing and get more than $10M back.

Third, you can’t sell a drug without some type of marketing. I know HN is full of engineers who build products that sell themselves, but that’s BS. Doctors often have misconceptions or lack information about new drugs and getting someone in front of them to educate them is necessary.
Preprint, https://arxiv.org/pdf/1801.06194.pdf
Sounds like AX.25 packet radio. So probably possible to replace with more modern hardware. But yeah, a little more than a typical public school building maintenance staff probably wants to deal with.
https://www.reddit.com/r/scala/comments/a5lki3/scale_by_the_...
I am not sure how much of this is not already mitigated with https://serverless.com. I have never used Lambda without it. For me serverless.com is the solution to avoid vendor lock in. However, Lambda is a tiny fraction of the entire stack we are talking about here. S3 + EMR + ALB + EC2 are all there and they are much more difficult to dodge the vendor lock in bullet with. One particularly sticky vendor lock in for S3 is pricing and reliability. Unfortunately it is almost impossible to beat that. My clients just discovered this, it would be significantly more expensive to move from S3 to HDFS or any other storage solution. This has nothing to do with how open the platform is, yet it is a much more serious lock in.
The expensive bit are the clinical trials. They are required for approval, but they are research.
> everybody for sure in the USA got A grades for everything. If you were not then you get extra credit to let you get the A Grade.

that's incredibly inaccurate and naive
RIP Tim. I remember reading his work (usenet) back in the late 80's/early nineties - he once told me of his early days at Intel and later invited me to join the cypherpunks list a very long time ago. Tempus fugit.
Also Perl, ran on multiple platforms fairly well.
But people from the same culture insist on the existence of "systematic sexism". Are they not mutually exclusive? I am genuinely interested in this. I do not understand how you can believe that people value women more than men, and at the same time say that there is "systematic sexism", "male oppression (against women)", etc. And on top of that surprisingly it is only men who are at fault, at least according to the people whom I have asked.

Please if you down-vote, do give me some sort of a feedback. It helps me learn and it helps me to not make the same mistake twice. :)
That would be great. Try keeping a MS-DOS computer with a ‘special’ controller board up for the same length of time. No putting the card in a newer computer since timing is a thing. Boilers are a pain. I guess we will get rid of it finally in a couple of years.
Going in with the mindset that I will probably fail (badly) the first time I try at something. Most people, including an earlier version of myself, are discouraged by it. I now find comfort in it, and I also find I'm a lot quicker at trying out new things and implementing new routines while succeeding at them than before.
If it is targeting UNIX then it must work on Mac. Echoing your words, UNIX has stringent requirements to be UNIX and macOS fulfilled those requirements.

MacOS IS UNIX.

As a side note for fun, Linux is not UNIX and that’s intentional. Freedom is nice. ;)
How does it compare to e.g. an Intel Movidius neural compute stick?
It's not like one person is to blame who maliciously put asbestos with the intent to hurt people. Rather is was just ignorance about the dangers, general incompetence, and possibly some greed. No one person to blame.
> Just go sit somewhere and turn your attention inwards

Perhaps you were born with a natural instinct for what meditation is, what to do when thoughts arise and you go off track, how to sit comfortably, what you’re aiming for and what you’re not.

But I didn’t, I needed to read books to start my development. I absolutely don’t think children should know this.
The 48% difference in code size is surprising. But after all who cares in this world of electron etc.
We shouldn't be surprised that this sort of thing happens from time to time.

What are the incentives?

If you're an exec in charge of some product, you want to sell the product. You don't want to be pulling it, you'll never get promoted like that. And you know more about how to move product than about asbestos testing results, that's for sure.

And chances are nothing will be discovered. And if it is discovered it will take a long time and you'll be long gone. And if it turns out to be really bad, you don't personally pay. The company pays.

Not saying I have an answer. I'm sure there's quite a few people within a company that would know about the findings, and they all have reasons to either keep things going, or you could call it a psychological bias towards diminishing the severity in their own minds.
Huh? Those two things certainly do represent real costs.

If a company spends $2B to develop 5 candidate drugs and four fail, the cost was $2B for that drug. Learning what doesn’t work helps you find something that does.

Second, opportunity costs are real costs, even though most consumers ignore them. You see this when buying a home. People never count the money they could have made by putting their down payment into the market, but that’s still money lost. You can argue 11% is too high, but that’s a different argument.
Is there something similar available on FreeBSD?
You're right, sorry. I concentrate on integer operations, which are mostly restricted to 128-bit on AVX, and had forgotten that it also supported 256-bit floating point. I'm not sure which (if either) would be most relevant to a web browser. I hope this error doesn't distract too much from my overall point.
If people started tossing J&J baby powder at J&J executives would that be assault with a deadly weapon?
HVAC is much cheaper centralized. Things like off peak in floor heating are just the start of optimizations that can be done. Heck, even having one building on something else leads to pain.
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Do you work primarily alone? How is source control slowing you down? No planning?

I would normally never ask this but since this is such a radical suggestion I’d love to see some of your work. I’m guessing no open source without source control. Would you mind sharing some of your public projects so we can see the kind of results to expect from this mindset?
Sons of bitches.

(I realize this doesn't contribute a lot, and I think it needed to be said anyway.)
Oh damn I hadn’t seen that the FDA knew about it as well. That brings this to a whole new level of fucked up.
Impressive compute in a small form and running on 10 watts. Also interesting going after a non-consumer market although I think the chip would be a good fit in a handheld gaming device that supported some inputs from watching the player and had the power for very interesting/fun ‘game AI.’
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98% of meetings are useless for almost everyone in attendance, and the whole meeting could have probably been replaced with an email
You can now download Google's Flutter on MacOS
Being productive doesn't make me happy. Sometimes being happy makes me productive, but certainly not always. I can be very content doing nothing for long time periods of time.

As a result, I generally don't value productivity very highly.
Asbestos brake pads are NOT illegal in the US, according to the EPA[0]. I have not been able to find any evidence that asbestos brake particulate is safe[1].

There are numerous places online saying that most brake pads no longer use asbestos, particularly OEM brake pads. Though I can't find any numbers to back this up. Also, I have no idea how carcinogenic the replacement materials are; I hope they are less dangerous than asbestos.

[0] https://www.epa.gov/asbestos/us-federal-bans-asbestos
[1] https://www.mesotheliomatreatmentcenters.org/asbestos/brake-...
Latticeworks Raises $13m for Amber, a Privacy Conscious NAS Device
I disagree. During this time period was when case hunters were pretty serious about asbestos. You could not watch tv for a second without seeing an “asbestos exposure? We can help!” commercial. Meanwhile, google ads HIGHEST keywords throughout this period was relating to asbestos and mesothelioma exposure.

It was a big thing and well known.

Lastly, a company like JJ not only has a responsibility and cannot feign ignorance, but also in their own words have lots of scientists and PHDS.

So since they cannot feign ignorance, you can blame them. Anyone who chooses their own well being over millions of BABIES needs to suffer great consequences.
You can blame ppl for being greedy. The executives for employing ignorant ppl. Lots of blame to go around.
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I recently used algo[0] and it worked as advertised, pretty seamless.

As someone else stated, the config process is pretty standard procedure so I guess there's not a lot of "improvements" one can do on that side :)

[0]: https://github.com/trailofbits/algo
But if it's on something else presumably it's because the people working in that building have decided that's the temperature they need to be comfortable. Should trust people in the locations to be sensible.
https://www.reddit.com/r/java/comments/a5mi0h/jdpr_java_data...
I just learned about J&J through an XBOX history video. Microsoft said the failing rate was a tylenol moment for the xbox project. And now J&J fails to honor their past. Weird.
He's testing on a 7 year old 8-core server CPU. As irrelevant as possible for your average laptop Firefox user.
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Cystic fibrosis is a "rare disease". A quick search gives me this blurb:

Very rare (Fewer than 20,000 cases per year in US)

My recollection is that I have heard that there are 30k CF patients in the US. I've also heard long time members of the CF community snort at that figure and say "They've been saying the same thing for decades while the list of alleles known to cause it grows longer."

It's genetic and incurable. So you need treatment for the rest of your life once they ID you.

I've seen articles that suggest that standard conventional treatment is anywhere from $100k to $250k annually. I've also seen articles that suggest it's called lot less than that get discussed on CF lists by people going "Where did they get their numbers? That sounds too low. My expenses are x, y, z."

https://www.wsj.com/articles/vertex-gets-fda-ok-for-cystic-f...

Vertex $259,000
Cystic Fibrosis Drug Gets FDA Approval
Orkambi treats most common form of the lung disease

Vertex already sells Kalydeco, which treats a different genetic type of cystic fibrosis and has an annual price of $311,000 per patient in the U.S.

I know of a teenager on Okambi in another country. So the market for Okambi is not limited to the thousands of people in the US who have CF. Granted, you have to get separate approval in different countries and that's a genuine burden.
I'm not sure that is an unpopular opinion, quite the opposite in fact.
I was wondering if one could build an alternative Electron with Duktape and Netsurf's rendering engine and what the memory footprint would be? Most Electron apps don't even use animations and they could be "backported" to HTML4 and CSS2 :-) Webviews are kind of great for portability, but having full blown HTML5 is overkill for most of the apps.
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Probably because it's a public school, so it has to go through a tender process with an absurd number of requirements and paperwork. That'll 10x the cost because of the extra paperwork.
It’s a counter intuitive practical fix to a theoretical solution that is currently considered not to work. Because it’s considered not to work in theory many academics won’t belive it works in practice even after I demonstrate it working.

Once it became a money printer I stopped telling people about it. My plan is to save a bunch of money and build an institution around it to push for influence that way.
Yes, that's why I wrote almost. IOCPs do the other half (receiving results in arbitrary order in a thread pool managed by the kernel). I don't see any particular reason why a batched syscall wouldn't work for it. (Note that Windows has Read/WriteFileScatter/Gather, which is multiple reads from the same handle [as opposed to multiple reads from different handles]).
I guess, but I think a possible solution here would be a pylint plugin to show a warning so you don't have to wait for a runtime exception.