skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think that's an important philosophical question.

Sackler was correct by definition. It is evidenced that people become addicted to oxycontin _while_ taking it as instructed. Then they get physically sick when they stop, and have been powerfully psychologically conditioned to seek opioids.

If abuse means succumbing to the physiological compulsion to re-dose a drug you are addicted to, then one is addicted but not an abuser the day before the prescription runs out. But the next day they are either an addict in withdrawal, or an abuser.

Which one would you be? Could you quit a heavy opioid habit cold turkey? Good for you, but apparently lots of people can't.

People who are given prolonged high-dose self administered opioids should give informed consent to the serious risk of addiction. It's easy to argue in retrospect that, in fact, every reasonable person knows about this problem, but it is well evidenced that Purdue marketed it's product as having a low risk of addiction. I have never heard of a doctor saying: "You can take these pain pills for a couple of months. When you stop you'll get really sick for a very long time, and have a pernicious and overpowering psychological compulsion to take more opioids." That's what real informed consent would look like. People are angry at Purdue because they were dishonest.

Returning to the question of personal responsibility for addiction, if huge numbers of people don't quit a drug they got addicted to while using as directed, it is true but not helpful call them abusers. If opioid addicts could just quit anytime, we wouldn't be talking about this in the first place. How large a fraction of the population must fail in a way that is predictable by circumstance before we stop attributing failure entirely to a lack of individual virtue?

Even if your policy position on drug addicts is “kill em all and let god sort em out”, blaming abusers is not getting it sorted here on earth. If we want to make progress in this area we might have try something else.
Why use anything that's not end to end encrypted this day? Why share you data with a server that has no actual reason to have your data in plain?
Why not just use Tor?
I don’t think its rare at all if its a managed security system. Ours came with cameras that are only on when the alarm is on.
>That seems like the height of human hubris - we are stuck on a little rock in the corner of the galaxy, but somehow assume we are authorities on things astronomical.

The basic idea of science is that it's possible to do better than "assume we are authorities..." I don't want to come across as unsocial but in dismissing astronomy without knowing enough about it you may be guilty of some hubris yourself.
The two I've been in in seattle have been basically silent inside our office.
Using you as a 'sidekick' so that they can bask in their reflected greatness.

They prop up their self esteem by surrounding themselves with people who provide them with admiration.

Often narcissistic people are exceptionally talented, successful or intelligent, so they are able to get people to become their followers.
And webdevs develop against local giganet or similar — a lot of devs simply don't see the poor experience their app creates on users with fewer resources or with more than one application running at a time.
Most of the journals I publish in have a checkbox for NIH/CDC/HHS-related funding, and automatically put things in PubMed Central.

Ironically, it's only the CS/Math-type journals where there's lots of people doing OA advocacy where this is more of a pain because I have to remember to do it myself.

And from the researcher end, if it's not in PMC, I can't claim credit for it on grants.
Based on success rates, 1 founder is best. Then 2. Then 3. Etc. One founder that's in their late 30s (ie, 15-20 years experience and effectively retired due to savings).

The trend of having 2+ founders is a compromise and a result of BS mumbled by VCs.
How great data scientists can stop writing bad code
You're pinning THAT on opensource?

a) VirtualBox is an oracle product. That by itself should be telling.

b) High sierra is unsupported as a Guest OS in VirtualBox. You do know what that means, right?

c) You seriously complain about the darth of open source virtualization for an OS, which disallows virtualization on anything but apple hardware? ...really?

If you want good open source virtualization you'll want to use Qemu/KVM. Which obviously doesn't support any apple OS either, because they're not allowed to virtualize it. Take that up with Apple, not open source
It seems to me that a support contract for even one customer might be enough for you to be able to be full time. It also seems to me that you aren't likely to get such a support contract if you tell them that you're part time - nobody pays big money for part-time support.
>This is mostly to ensure people keep trading. In a world were inside-info is commonplace, trading without it is just stupid.

I find this line of reasoning hard to swallow. As an individual I have significantly less info than hedge funds and other professionals but that doesn't change the fact that I want to buy Apple or whatever because I think it will grow over the next 5 years.

Now if you add in the scenario where all of the Apple employees are buying and selling based on unreleased earnings, that doesn't change my want to buy the stock at all.

How does Tim Cook buying some Apple shares right before good earnings change anything for a regular investor?
the non-paywalled first paragraph at least addresses that:

"Hercule Poirot and Tom Ripley. At first sight, the retired Belgian detective and the gentleman psychopath have little in common: Poirot solves crimes, Ripley commits them. Their creators, too, stand at opposite ends of the crime-writing spectrum — Agatha Christie, still the world’s bestselling author, is regarded as the writer of comfort-read whodunnits, while in Patricia Highsmith’s universe morality is turned on its head and the reader actively rejoices with Ripley as he gets away with murder."
It would have to pay a good deal, with a pension. Generally don't think it would be enticing enough right now, which is why the turnover after the next phase in automation is a better opportunity.
Sure, the high salt concentration kills sea life for a couple hundred meters around where the waste comes out, but compared to the total size of the ocean, I'd imagine the affected area would be TINY. Once you get to a larger area it'd be totally diluted by the normal salinity seawater.

Why don't you just build a pipeline to put the dead spot a couple miles away from shore, far away from economically important beaches, fisheries and reefs?

Maybe have an additional pump to send fresh seawater into the areas of highest concentration, basically set up a countercurrent exchange gradient.

I'm sure there are trivial, low-cost engineering solutions to this problem.
Characterizing all grievances against Electron as a religious dispute not based in fact is a sweeping, broad characterization of a group of people, and substantially inaccurate. That's what people object to about the README statement.

> What if I am religiously opposed to using Electron for any and all purposes?

> Then you are not the target audience of this program. See mps-youtube (link above) for a similar program that will not taint your machine with a library you happen to dislike.

> On an unrelated note, highly polarized opinions about languages and frameworks are characteristic of people who lack real-world programming experience and are more interested in building an identity than creating computer programs.

The phrasing of the question is unnecessarily offensive, but whatever. The Q and A stands alone just fine. They really didn't need that second paragraph jab at Electron-dislikers to make their opinion of such people clear.
This guy got me into Bitcoin in 2013, on freenode. I helped him diagnose a bug using git-bisect, and he paid me in btc. Had to create a coinbase account to receive the bounty.

Best of luck Drew, and thank you.
Reading Proust in the Gulag
But given a long enough time and an object with a low enough ballistic coefficient I'd expect it to come to rest with respect to the interstellar medium, maybe. I don't know if that works out quantitatively in this case.
Key West moves to ban sunscreens that could damage reefs
in general i'm skeptical that the medicalization of these kinds of idiosyncrasies is helpful. implicit to that process is normalization (defining the normal and the abnormal), and that by itself causes psychological and social pain for the so-called abnormal. we each have our crosses to bear (in all kinds of abilities, including mental and physical) and medicalization can give a false sense of understanding, treatability, and absolution of personal responsibility.

tangentially, on a population level evolution happens on the margins and medicalization can only dampen that process (not that this is important on a personal level).
This is the cost of doing business, and indeed is the entire point of interviewing candidates for jobs. Would you have preferred to pay full relocation for the guy and give him the job without any interview, and then find out a week or two after he starts that he's incompetent or has misrepresented himself?
There's also Ardour, which I use after starting in Ableton and going through Bitwig. I love Bitwig and its modular approach, but I really wanted to make music with open source software.
Chemicals in European Waters: Knowledge Developments
All mental disorders are made of up behaviours, and mental processes that are common to everyone, just taken to an extreme.

It usually starts to be considered a disorder when it starts to interfere with functioning, or maintaining healthy relationships.
A little more info on Dr Berg: he's a chiropractor doctor not a medically trained doctor. He has a lot of good information, but it's also wise to verify any of his info from other sources.
You're absolutely right to connect terms about work for competing clients with terms about confidentiality. You're also right that the value of many independent consultants---including attorneys---derives directly from diverse experience within a competitive field.

However, the desire for experience with competitors doesn't exclude valid concerns about ongoing, concurrent relationships serving competitor-clients. To borrow from legal ethics, it's one problem to have information from one client that could be useful to another, and a distinguishable but related problem to face a conflict of interest, with both sides expecting undivided loyalty. Terms about work for competitors assume, practically, that confidentiality obligations will break down when the contractor works for both sides concurrently. We can't build Chinese Walls in our minds, or in small firms of a handful of people.

Back to the terms, note that "Early Termination" gives each side the power to terminate early, with a given number of day's notice, for no reason at all. The main effect of "Conflicts" is to require the contractor to notify the client of potentially concurrent work for a competitor. If the client has concerns, they can terminate immediately, instead of with n days' notice. It's fundamentally about ensuring the client the information they need to make use of their termination right.
Each person who was a member of the board of Purdue Pharma at the time these policies should be charged with a count of manslaughter for each documented case of non-intentional overdose death that can be linked to their product. Bring home to them the body count their reckless decisions have wrought.

Let them rot. Make an example of them. Otherwise, bring out the guillotine because apparently the robber barons of the Neo-Guilded Age need to be taught a lesson in noblesse oblige.
I miss the octothorpe (#) -- it was a clever reminder of Slack's origins in IRC, where channel names start with the same symbol.

(Technically, in IRC, they could be prefixed with an ampersand (&) as well, but nobody ever did that. Great for making super-secret channels, though.)
Climate change has affected society for as long as we have records, and even before that. Drought overthrew pharaos [1], the Romans experienced a little ice age that contributed to their fall [2] in the 500s, Mayans form drought in the 1100s [3], and climate affected Chinese dynasties [5]. Even some of the expansions and contractions of viking migratory behavior was climate related.

[1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/20...

[2] https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/how-climate-ch...

[3] https://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2012/11/121109-maya...

[4] https://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2017/09/26/climate-change-some...

[5] https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/monsoon-climate-c...
I dated a high-functioning borderline as well. It was a horrible experience, but in retrospect I'm (kind of) grateful to have learned about personality disorders as a result. I guess I learned a lot about myself too.

I feel absolutely awful for people who date high-functioning borderlines and never learn about it. At least with the ones who are low-functioning, you absolutely know something is deeply wrong with them at all points in the relationship. With a high-functioning one, you second-guess yourself constantly.

I really do think there needs to be more general awareness about Cluster B personality disorders. The occurrence rate among the population is low, but the nature of the disorder means a high-functioning borderline establishes relationships with (and potentially harms) a large number of people. It's hard for victims to seek help when they don't even know the name or nature of what they're dealing with.
I've actually had extremely good experiences with both copy editors and layout, including a journal - an Elsevier journal by checking - redoing a figure.
As far as I know, the exact location of the collider is constrained by geography. It has to fit next to the Jura and around a part of the Alps. And they are probably going to reuse many of the LHC preaccelerators anyway.
The same goes for your comment - you obviously have unsubstantiated gripes against electron. If it was that bad, some of the largest companies wouldn't use it and come up with a better solution (Microsoft, Slack, Discord)
But might they not travel through another star system in this galaxy before getting anywhere near another galaxy?
Svengoolie, if I remember right.
Fair points!

The advertising world's short-term memory is a pet peeve of mine. There's an obsession with "new" and building up individuals as heroes, when it's easy to see that these ideas have been evolving for a long time.

On a somewhat related note, it's also the industry that spends almost all of its money marketing to the demographic who have the least money to spend (debt-burdened youth) and ignoring those with money to burn (retirees).

¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Vices! That could be anything
"Regulating whenever something bad happens" is problematic, but it's a bit of a straw man. You should be regulating wherever people are incentivized to do bad things, which happens quite often when you don't offer any oversight whatsoever. Especially when you are unwilling to even regulate the reporting of misbehavior.
Having used the IPass online payment system multiple times, it sounds like you did not read warnings on the website.

On the online website, it says the search feature does not show the violations immediately and you should not rely on it.

"The optimal timeframe for a successful search is the second and third weeks following the missed toll. Many missed tolls will not appear until one week after they were incurred due to the need to review the images of the license plate."

Instead you should select the tolls you missed manually and then paying them. I have done this numerous time, noting the toll and time I missed and have never received a violation after I paid it online.

I have also used the search feature one week after I missed the toll and all of my missed tolls appeared.

It's unfortunate that you had to pay a fine but you shouldn't blame the state for your errors.
@pkaye are you modeling a person who has poor people skills?
I’m responding to

>Is it necessarily true that our species will not exist when Voyager 1 and 2 fly through in a galaxy far far far away a long long time in the future?
People make money off advance information all the time. Often you can see that in the price action -- take this for example: https://imgur.com/mJq1OcY

Three days before a positive press release, demand pressure beings to drive up the price. Coincidence? I'm too jaded to believe that.
Downsides aside, one thing that AirBnB as a service provides over hotels is heterogeneity of location. Especially remote, suburban, or certain urban neighborhood locations will always be underserved by hotels, while still being desirable to potential guests.
This is actually a really weird claim. We know now thanks to Kepler that many stars have planets just like our Sun does, but so far we've only been able to see large gaseous planets and a few rocky ones that can be as large as 1.5x Earth.

25% sounds way too high. We have not even found many stars like our own with rocky Earths like our own yet. I am certain we will eventually find them, but I think the number of rocky planets with oxygen atmosphere and liquid water is going to be under 1%.

Life is most likely rare but abundant- 1% of 100 billion is a butt-ton of Earths
My mother, I suspect, is some level of narcissistic. She can be generally okay, and even nice to be around on occasion, but if there's a hint of her being in the wrong, she becomes exponentially more defensive.

"Never happened" is one. She'd claim that the the event of her doing wrong – calling others names, sabotaging others' performance, behaving in an immature, passive-aggressive kind of way – never happened. "Yeah, it did" is met with further denial. Maybe she'll admit she did that, but only because it was justified: maybe she felt so bad she could do nothing else, or maybe someone forced her to behave badly.

In general, her negative traits are flung under the rug, and her positive traits are put under the limelight. She would never admit to not knowing things, unless not knowing things puts the responsibility for the failure away from her. She'd also claim how good at <something> she is ("I'm such a good psychologist! I understand people so well!"), and any attempt at countering her positivity assertions are dismissed passively.

I suspect her faking illness – presenting herself as ailing to gain attention and sympathy, which becomes self-fulfilling bullshit – also has something to do with the perpetual-victim mentality that underlies narcissism.
Now that the 16:8 fasting method is becoming more popular, more research is being done specifically for that regimine.
Site is hard to reach, but here's the YouTube video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-wHHbV8Zw4g
Are software titles inflating during the years?
Yeah, because it worked great when Ceaușescu did it!

https://www.nytimes.com/1990/02/08/world/upheaval-in-the-eas...
It was the most recent thing I did (literally this morning) so it was fresh in my mind. I'm also not an expert in virtualization solutions given how I haven't needed to use it until now. But this has held true for many, many apps and their open source alternatives. Paid products generally tend to be higher quality than open source, for whatever reason.
Thanks for that and the business application, great result. This seems like a good method to make the case for serving more quality sensitive markets against the grain; that’s where I am coming from. Have heard the term, imagine it’ll be added to my tool shed soon. Thanks again.
Great post. I used to work with SMS for a living, and still remember the first time I visited a customer's data center and watched one of their engineers send an SMS... by telnetting directly into the SMSC and punching out a command in raw EMI:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EMI_(protocol)

And an old blog post of mine on why MMS failed but still managed to delay actual mobile internet by 10 years:

https://gyrovague.com/2014/06/27/how-sms-set-back-the-mobile...
I think they changed the law a year or so ago so that would now be illegal.
OK I was dabbling in ghoulish overkill. But if you read that article, it contains this:

"More than 127,000 former Pennsylvania state employees or their beneficiaries collect public pension checks each month, and most are comparatively paltry. The average paid out last year was $27,722."

I'm a little tired of people using rare abuses to justify shutting down programs that people depend on. "ODB got food stamps", "this Penn State president makes $500k a year from his pension". The programs are still worth it, and even that level of abuse is beneath the cost of what it would take to combat it. It's also important to note that this guy is an example of "privileged white guy bilking the public sector", as we remember that the vast majority of fraud in social safety net programs is actually by providers of services (medical, food, etc.), not receivers. Guess which demographic most of those are?
If that's all you know him by you should definitely read his actual blog and work, since he's super interesting and actually a really wonderful person.
So at least it's pseudo-refundable, assuming that you tend to rebook with the same airlines and end up using that credit later anyway. Which is still a small incentive to cancel someone's return flight. Although I guess this only steers the motivation away from "irrational spite" to "petty sociopathy".
> running a container that could be run like Cloud Functions

Does this mean we actually run the container ourselves on our GKE cluster or in a VM? Or do you mean a "container" runtime for Cloud Functions? Both would be interesting, but we'd prefer the latter since there would be less to manage. I'd be interested to see the performance of it.
I remember that, it was Target wasn't it and they inferred her pregnancy status because she started buying unscented deodorants and stopped buying sanitary products.

Funnily enough when I'm discussing the dangerous nature of large datasets in the hands of companies/bad actors (sometimes the one and the same...) and the "creepy" effects this is one of the examples I use, I've found that if you know a little about the person and couch the argument in a way they can personally respond to, they understand even if they don't know the first thing about technology generally.

EDIT: https://www.forbes.com/sites/kashmirhill/2012/02/16/how-targ... for anyone who hasn't seen it.
> Yeah, and how well is that going to work out for them? They should have known better than to invest in this company in the first place; companies like that are cults of personality.

So you are saying the investors (who are the current shareholders) stupidly bought into Neumann personality cult.

So now they are paying for their idiocy.

This isn't some failure of capitalism: it's the failure of large, wealthy, sophisticated investors to properly assess their own investment.
Depends what they spent it on
This indeed should not be news. It's OK for you as a developer (even a professional one) to not know about this. You can learn it from your colleagues, debugging poor performance situations like this, etc.

But it's not OK for a company to offer a service built in such a naive way (naive from a comp-sci point of view). To me this kind of mistakes are a symptom of having a poor CTO, poor hiring/dev practices, etc.
> you don’t have to hash the IP address

That's not necessarily slow. Or at least not as slow as multiple potential cache misses while traversing a tree. Once you know how many addresses you're expecting to have, you can make a hash indexing into a preallocated array which will never get smaller - if it fits into a few cache lines, it's great.
Cotard Delusion
This type of pedantry is what gets you posted to /r/iamverysmart

Yeah, we all know what's ACKCHYUALLY [0] true, but given the context and elementary wording of the questions, you know the correct answer.

[0] https://i.imgur.com/jDBr2RI.png