skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If I recall correctly several studies have shown that phenylephrine has similar blood pressure risks. Combined with having lackluster (if any) impact on the condition it’s specifically designed to treat could actually lead to a worse impact on those with high blood pressure since you’ll take more of it, hoping it’ll finally work.

So yeah, people need to be aware that pseudoephedrine has side effects, but it’s arguably equal to if not better than the alternative that’s being pushed as “safe”.
After a 15-Year Odyssey, Nasa’s Trailblazing Mars Rover Approaches Its End
Mozilla launches Reference Browser for Android, a testing bed for new features
I still get asked to enable web history to set my home address: https://www.dropbox.com/s/ugdx10p8yfm24k8/Screenshot_2019020...
All this tracking is obviously one-sided.

I might not mind it so much if I had access to sufficiently granular data to make it useful, such as automatic workout tracking. I'm sure they have the data and the AI to notice that I'm on foot/bike moving at a higher-than-normal pace and on one of my usual workout routes. Or, to provide nice detailed reports of my commute (min/max, variance, total time, etc.)...

But no, the only data we get is rough, 'you visited store X yesterday, want to review it?', when I actually only visited the much smaller store nearby...

There is already starting a backlash from this massively greedy -- in both data & money -- culture. It would not surprise me to see it overshoot and seriously cripple the industry if the participants don't become a bit more self-aware.
Rand's heros are bullshit, yes. In reality nothing happens from isolated individualistic initiative, everything takes place in the space between people. Howard Roark is a fictional version of Martin Shkreli.

That said, her acute pessimism about mob human behavior appears to be dead-on.
This is fantastic! Thank you
Ask HN: How do you approch going from brute forcing to optimizing an algorithm?
This is related to programming puzzles. I'm a fairly experienced developer and I tend to take to things like CodinGame or HackerRank if I want to familiarize myself with a new language (in addition to other methods, but that's another topic).

I often run into the problem of optimization when I get a problem that expects you to realize that you can make assumptions and capitilize on these in code. For example, you might be able to reduce the search space if you know certain items don't need to be checked or that you can create a linear algorithm for an NP problem because of this reduced search space. Often it's something simple like figuring out the behavior of a spiral matrix so you can derive the value at a specific location without iterating through all sequences.

So, to go about this, this is my general approach:

- Look for search speace type optimizations (e.g. if I'm brute forcing do I need to brute force everything or use binary searches or similar techniques to reduce the problem?)
- Plenty of google/wikipedia time trying to understand the algorithms at play (e.g. how to you figure out primes... ok, what's a sieve.. ok...)
- Give up and look for solutions and then try to figure out how they arrived at that solution

Is there a better approach? Should I skip to other's solutions faster to become more comfortable with this type of work, or am I missing some fundamental process for solving these type of problems? Are there ways to improve on my knowledge that can get me from brute force to optimization faster?
Tough luck, the UK gave up its voice in the EU willingly. No one forced Brexit on you.
Love articles like this, and there's lots of good info here but...

"So, how do you get around installing an operating system on a computer which has no video output nor console redirection? For Windows and most Linux distros, you can’t"

Uh, no.
Better Biomarkers Could Help Us Treat Alzheimer’s
Seems pretty clear that the comment was meant to show a conflict between Schmidt’s statement and his political leanings.

I don’t see how this implies anything about a particular political ideology being more virtuous. Why would you even think that?
"Re-examining" and changing laws is different from not punishing criminals and law-breaking corporations.

You can change the law later as much as you like.

The point is upholding it in the first place and not adding subjective measures like "but it's not a good law!" into the equation when you determine guilt and fines.

Even if you immediately repeal or change the law, you still have to punish those that broke it.
I think the parent means things like, draconian copyright rules, ISDS (investor-state dispute settlement), subversion of customer protection rules (e.g. selling GMO meat in EU), etc.

In addition, Japan and EU are obviously similarly (very highly) developed countries, so "free trade" between them is very close to "fair trade" as well, as opposed to e.g. free trade between EU and China would be (EU companies would skirt EU labour and environmental laws by producing stuff in China and freely importing into the EU).
Freedom of movement and Schengen Area are not the same thing.
People are more willing to pay to have their own views and beliefs confirmed to themselves over factual reporting.
The best part is that tree trade is not contradictory with setting standards!

> For the first time, the trade agreement includes countries' Paris climate deal commitments.

> The text also addresses sustainable development and sets standards for labor, safety, environmental and consumer protection.
> Karl Popper's theory (from which we get falsifiability in the first place) declared falsifiability to be the necessary and sufficient condition for something to be scientific.

According to the article that's not the case. It says:

> But falsifiability alone is not sufficient to make a prediction scientific. (And, no, Popper never said so.)

Looking around at quotes of his, I see that he maintains falsifiability is necessary, but nothing that indicates he thinks its sufficient. Do you have a source by any chance?

> He was obviously wrong on this point (plenty of good science doesn't start from a falsifiable hypothesis, and plenty of pseudo-science is falsifiable).

Eh, I'm not sure I'd say he was obviously wrong. I still think that good science has to be falsifiable. What's a good counterexample? Or are you drawing a distinction between "is falsifiable" and "starts from a falsifiable hypothesis"?
Is Ubisoft’s blockchain experiment the future of gaming?
Historian Rutger Bregman berates billionaires at Davos WEF over tax avoidance
Benefits of free-trade? You mean like a devastated blue collar class? Keep British products manufactured in Britain.
Well, it's the UK's obligation to preserve the Good Friday Agreement. You can't blame the EU for that obligation.

I'm pretty sure that fifteen years ago, nobody would have thought that "let's keep the bombings" would be a coherent and respectable opinion.

Things have changed.
Something similar was proposed back when 3d printing as we know it today was getting started in the 1980s. Two lasers were shined through a photocurable resin so that the resin would cure at the interesection[0](see figure 9). In practice it never worked and the resin cured before intersecting leading to nasty blobs rather than parts. It seems that now that we understand the kinetics of photocuring better and that we have massive amounts of computer that we're able to use these approaches. Processes that cure resin have a lot of potential because resolution can potentially be on the order of that of the wavelength of light.
[0]https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/4716/c69f0b90a158589e54248a...
It still benefitted from freedom of movement (which is defined as the ability to live, work and study abroad, and lack of discrimination between EU citizens and locals).
GDPR does not allow you to trade services in return for using your data for ads. A website can't deny you service if you opt out of tracking, so EU has decided that business model should not be viable even if both parties agree.
I refuse every time, but the message is made to look like GPS is disabled. Definitely a dark pattern.
I keep all my addresses as "starred" I don't set anything as home or work. I figure it will protect from a cursory db search, but anyone interested can figure out both trivially.

What pisses me off is that everytime I turn on my phone gps it defaults to "high accuracy" mode which scans all the wifi ap's around, among other things. I have to manually set it to gps chip only every time.
Apple Stands Up for Privacy. Does It Matter?
Currently there's a good chance there's nothing to test.

The real problem in physics isn't lack of data, it's lack of direction. The Standard Model has been a thing for decades now. It's good at what it does, but there are a lot of fundamental things it doesn't do.

The proposed Future Circular Collider will cost at least €24bn.

That would fund any number of research programs willing to take a bold look at fundamentals from different angles.

Currently there's superstring theory and various attempts at quantum gravity, but none of them are moving much.

A number of less mainstream possible leads have been discarded for what are really political reasons - prestige and funding - not because they're poor science.

Imagine if we'd never had quantum theory or relativity. Physics would seem incredibly backward. But realistically, in today's academic climate Einstein would never be published.

€5bn a year for five years on open fundamental research with fewer political and academic constraints has a better chance of generating a breakthrough than spending €24bn on a big machine that will most likely produce no breakthroughs at all.

Of course it's a gamble, but in international terms €25bn is pocket money.
I'm now trying to use OSMAnd wherever possible. If there's a location I can't use it to find, I'll revert to Google Maps (and click 'no' to the opt in nag). When home, I'll make sure to update OpenStreetMap to make their map more useful.

I'm convinced that open data is the better option. Certainly, I'm happy to volunteer my time and effort to contribute to things like OSM (and Wikipedia), but I'm loathe to part with my personal data for 'free' to a huge advertising behemoth.
Looks like charset is some kind of a shortcut for meta charset: https://github.com/ntrupin/linescript/blob/bc625c92ff5cccf3b...
> Hell the TGV should have been everywhere

The TGV is one of the crappiest trains ever. It was made for businessmen/bureaucrats who travel with a satchel, they never realized that folks would actually go in it with suitcases since there is so little space to put them and they had to modify the inside of the trains after the fact to accommodate some space for it.

Also, they never considered that people with disabilities might want to board the train as you need to climb stairs even at the first level.

And let's not mention toilets are always broken and are washed like once a day or something which makes it look like you live in a developing country or something.

Compare that to the shinkansen in Japan and you are in for a good laugh.
Google Podcasts is the same. No subscribing to a podcast without Web History turned on.

The message says its needed to get personalized recommendations.
Mutable locals in Wasm prevent optimizations
I've been staring at a surface go for a while now which I think meets all these needs. The one thing I'd like is a case with an attached keyboard (like the old clamcase) rather than the soft keyboard/stand.
I think collaborative editing/remote pairing is useful but I wouldn't abandon my current editor for it. Some approaches have used plugins that they've developed for each popular editor.

https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/CollaborativeEditing
Is it bogus? “Facebook Business: try Facebook Ads with a free credit”
When I got an email for $15 credit. I decided to give it a try and boost a post on my Page for free.

After Ad customizing and entering my card information which was required in order to claim credit. It just conventionally failed to claim $15 credit at the end.

Now I am constantly getting the email to "Finish boosting your post ...". While opening Ad (draft) it shows no sign of free credit. However, FB successfully ends up with my card information.
Could one say that meritocracy is not meritocracy? No matter what skill you measure, a population with adequate nutrition since conception is going to be far better than a population where malnutrition impacts both pregnancy and children.

So what is the take away, especially with applying this to all areas of our lives? We can do something to try to equalize the workplace, the chess tournament, or the tennis court. But what about equalizing the stage or the bar?
"At Dropbox, Kafka clusters are managed by the Jetstream team, whose primary responsibility is to provide high quality Kafka services. "

And this is why AWS's "Managed Kafka" service has a place.

I get why Dropbox moved off S3 - storage is their core competency and they thought they could/should do better/cheaper. But I'm surprised they would be wasting valuable dev time with this kind of overhead.
Good for you. If you ever change your mind, you'll realize that you don't really have a choice in the matter anyway.
>There are still so many things that are ridiculously expensive in Canada for no rational (long term) benefit to either party assuming it was a real market.

I cannot find the link but no surprises when there was a report (from one of the EU organizations) that we pay the highest cell phone fees.
This cancellation via phone seems to be a common practice with all subscription newspapers.
It's very stupid to me, just as a policy, and I would love if someone could explain it to me. I would understand completely if they didn't let users view traffic data or have their routing done based on traffic data if they don't share their location; don't put in your data, you don't get to take advantage of the rest of the dataset. But tying two unrelated features together like this is confusing, aggressive, and downright illogical as far as I can tell.

I think they would get back a good amount of goodwill if they did so, and would keep a large portion of the userbase on board without looking like (and being) assholes. Plenty of people use read receipts in WhatsApp, for example, in order to see others' read receipts.
What would the Japanese need from the EU besides Airbus planes. Looks like a one-way street to me.
> Having a knowledgeable shopkeeper to talk with on the other hand is really a fantastic experience for me !

This is a fairly rare experience for bookstores in some of the U.S. geographies I've lived in.

The shopkeepers I encounter aren't widely-read or intellectuals. They're either college students working at slightly above minimum wage to pay for school, or ex-hippies with lots of used books in their garage who figured they could make some money selling them. They have no sense of the intellectual pulse of today (they don't know what ideas are popular), don't have a good mental semantic tree of authors and their works, and worst of all, aren't readers themselves. I don't expect bookstore owners to have the omnivorous interests and breadth of Tyler Cowen, but they should at least have intellectual curiosity and a love of books.

The only exceptions are bookstores near great universities, where the owners tend to be stragglers who loved their university town so much that they stayed. They're usually former English lit, philosophy or other humanities majors who continue to read widely. You can tell a bookstore is good by the quality of their curation -- really good bookstores understand space is a premium and don't stock junk.

That said, you also need someone with a mind for business. Unfortunately this confluence of skills doesn't occur regularly so we live with what we have.
If that's the case for OTC cold medicine, it makes you wonder how it is for prescription products like ADHD medication or, God forbid, opiate-based painkillers. My sympathy is stirred up for anyone in chronic pain who happens to exude lower-class status signals!
They were being ironic as we wont be in the zone in a few weeks
> The right thing to do when taking a cc for a trial is to send reminder emails that they will be charged.. Which not enough do.

> Wouldn't the "right thing to do" be to not auto-renew the account?

I suspect we sometimes conflate "right" and "convenient". I am curious, don't most people (especially those with technical chops) just drop a calendar event as a reminder?
In my observation (completely unbiased, mind you,) brains come from the mother. Therefore it's vitally important for the future of the human race that smart women have children. Certainly the stupid ones are.
Where can you buy beverages with pseudoephedrine added?
For values of 'soon' that would be unfamiliar as such to most people.
Saying asterix and tintin are well exported to demonstarte bd are a success outside france is like saying Saying being on netflix shows the total success of bollywood outside india.

But agreed, language is a big problem.
Manufacturing has mostly moved to China, not the EU.
I wonder how many Americans know about Buck Danny. This is after all a 50 years old Belgian graphic novel starring a US Navy pilot! « Fire from the sky » trilogy by Charlier and Bergese is unbelievably cool.
> I really like a low priced, almost disposable computer that I don't care about

I use the X220 for that; it's a nice, robust device, great keyboard, I like a trackpoint better than a trackpad, runs Linux well and excellent battery life with the 9 cell battery (which you can still buy on Ebay & Amazon). And it's cheap enough now to just rip everything out and get a new one without even thinking about it.
> storage is their core competency

Not so sure about that. I post in every one of these threads, but they deleted our honeymoon photos on my wife's account and then deleted my account several months later without notice. I wouldn't trust them with a swap file. Move fast and break things is a terrible mantra for a file storage company.
Whenever you tap a link in the iOS YouTube app, it starts nagging you to download Chrome, or continue with the old boring Safari... There's a pre-checked switch at the bottom of the dialog that says "Ask me which app to use every time". Now, even if you uncheck the switch and choose Safari, they will only let you off the hook for around a day; after this cooldown period you're "offered" to download Chrome yet again, ad nauseam!

Just a gut feeling, but I think if I had installed Chrome once, they would never show me this dialog again... :)

Seriously Googlers, how do you look into the mirror each morning?
>It's kind of like operating a post office.

The reason that there is a namespace problem in the first place is that most people don't want the kind of domain name that post office numbering would give them.

When the internet was newer, my school email address was @schooldistrict.k12.state.ca.us, by the time I graduated highschool it was @schoolname.org.
Quote: Google Inc. has blacklisted all CNET reporters for a year, after the popular technology news website published personal information of one of Google's founders in a story about growing privacy concerns for the Internet search engine, according to a CNET statement.

CNET on Friday reported "Google representatives have instituted a policy of not talking with CNET News reporters until July 2006 in response to privacy issues raised by a previous story." That story, by reporter Elinor Mills ran under the headline "Google balances privacy, reach."

Google spokesman David Krane told CNN the company declined comment.
Most people - traveled or not - would be okay with this if they knew the service person was making a fair wage. The problem is that service workers are not fairly compensated in the current system so our options are (a) hurt the service worker by not tipping to make a point, or (b) tip so the service worker is fairly compensated.

The only real way this changes is if we first make sure service workers are fairly compensated, but for most people this isn't a big enough issue to prioritize it - we only discuss it in forums like this when an article this appalling gets posted - but it is a big issue for the millions of restaurants in the US who would have to increase wages so they will all lobby against it.
They're not losing a "piece of the pie", though.

They broadcast in HD and SD for free, funded in part by public funding, advertising, merchandising, and licensing.

Netflix buys CBC content, and they're not the only ones.

While I might not appreciate her crassness, I understood it as a caution-call for new content delivery companies from other countries not conforming to Canadian broadcast law. Much like Uber skirted taxi laws. I'm sure most people here could run with the like examples from there.

As for the CBC site, if you're looking for a pared down version, they provide rss feeds and their site works perfectly fine as a news reader with JS disabled.
what CL implementation ? sbcl ? I don't know what's the leanest CL out there (even if not the most featured, since we're talking about short scripts)
Urler, OSS url shortener / pastebin web app written in .NET Core
I know it sounds sensationalist, but the article "The Doomsday Glacier" [1] in Rolling Stone is a nice, understandable article on the feedback mechanism in Thwaites glacier.

(They call it Doomsday because they consider the worst scenario, when the inflow of warm water causes mass melting, and Thwaites and the ice held back by Thwaites leads to 10 feet of ocean rise. This 10 feet is also mentioned in the main article).

[1]: https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/the-...
Have seen jobs where PhD is "required". (Many data scientists tend to push this view as they feel it protects them and gives them elevated status).

Am also in the middle of training a group of future data scientists. The company is having issues hiring, and believe it is easier to train SME's in data science than the reverse.
The article is paywalled, unless you have access through a university or other library.

The high price you'd pay for paywalled papers goes in large part to the publisher for no real tangible benefit. Most research, and likely the linked article, are funded either directly or indirectly through public funds like taxes. So it is especially obnoxious to see an interesting article like the one linked be locked down.

As for why it's bad etiquette on the front page of HN, the free-and-open ethos common among hackers (at least, old school ones...) would usually see someone link directly to a pdf, instead of this.
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this is a constant talking point amongst politicians trying to push a narrative without having read the treaty

if you'd take the time to read the good friday agreement you'd realise there's nothing about customs controls or a border anywhere in it