skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>>The pharma/medical industry is getting away with murder and few are critical of it.

I think many people are critical of it. The president is even putting out initiatives to combat it. I agree that it should have happened sooner, and the response should probably be more severe, but it does seem like the culture of "you broke your toe, he's some oxy" is starting to fade.

As for the alcohol industry being "not that bad"...eh, maybe? I think there's a lot less stigma around alcohol abuse because of how much normal, healthy consumption is a part of many cultures. There's a lot of problems with the alcohol industry and it's toll on society, and I would say it seems that US culture's lax attitude towards that is more troubling.

I don't understand why alcohol and prescription drugs can be advertised on TV while cigarettes are banned. I'm pretty strongly in the "do whatever you want, but we don't need to advertise vice" category. Advertising the products equates to direct cultural approval of these things which helps encourage abuse. I'm not saying take away the drugs and booze and smokes, just don't let them put ads everywhere if you feel they're a societal problem.
Well, if you stretch the definition of self-driving cars to include cars driven by robots instead of humans, I think many of Asimov's stories count.
Isn't this kind of financial engineering SOP for all sorts of large assets since decades?
Small correction, the CFL did have some flicker, just small enough I didn't notice on first look.
SoftQuad Software – A Canadian Publishing Company Spinoff
1 basis point of $10b is $1m. It's pretty easy to see someone paying him well over that to buy GumRoad at some point.
Does anyone have any good resources for someone with reverse-engineering and security CTF experience looking to get into fuzzing?
I call it the Flytanic!
Oh yes, the multi-trillion dollar vegan food lobby... /s
I bet that China has more people alive than your country.
> I totally understand why big aircraft (A380, 747, etc) are disappearing commercially but I will miss them.

Just curious, why do you think they are disappearing? I thought they still have lower cost/passenger, especially for long haul?
Move fast and oooh shiny!
"but that's socialism!"

Ok fine, give us socialism.

"but those countries aren't socialist"

Ok fine, give us what those countries have.

"but that's socialism!"
Is it that big of a deal? Most places have Comcast or similar. It takes maybe a week or two to set it up.
E-Scooter Ride-Share Industry Leaves Njuries and Angered Cities in Its Path
Thanks for sharing this. It's really important not to give too much thought to hypotheticals as they're purely that: a hypothetical.
The ones that I've personally read were manuals written by old time boxers and strongmen.
Just fyi: I believe (but haven't gotten to try it myself) that this command will turn off the power chime when you plug in a USB-C charger.

defaults write com.apple.PowerChime ChimeOnAllHardware -bool false;killall PowerChime
> Do you really want to eat poison-free pufferfish there?

I'd rather eat the poison-free kind there than the poisonous ones.
A two inch trench was cut on city streets, that fiber added, and then covered by a flexible rubber seal.[1]

I can't imagine anyone would want to touch that "dark fiber". It was in terrible shape six weeks after they put it down, before winter hit the city. The picture on this article looks like it was taken relatively soon after installation [2] - I've seen streets where the rubber seal has expanded and curled up over top of the groove that was cut.

[1]: https://9to5google.com/2019/02/07/google-fiber-closing-in-lo...

[2]: https://www.wdrb.com/news/google-fiber-announces-plan-to-fix...
With one flying over my house right now I don't believe they are heading for the boneyard any time soon. For London Heathrow there is no better plane for the operator with not that many slots.

Nowadays there are budget airlines using budget airports with very long taxi rides to somewhere useful. You can't argue with price. Yet right now we are in an age of cheap oil that facilitates this. Had we not had the taps fully open and the fuel taxed then maybe the A380 would be king and it be hard to justify the budget flight model.

Brexit really is not helping the A380 cause. The wings are made in a part of England that was changed to be Wales so that an EU development grant could be obtained. In the post-Brexit world where nobody in power cares about jobs it is likely that Airbus rationalise production and give the formerly United Kingdom the heave-ho. They can make all the A380's the world really needs and call it a day in Blighty.
If markets were efficient we wouldn't see such enormous and consistent outsized returns from value investors of the Graham-Buffett school, as mentioned in another HN thread today: https://www8.gsb.columbia.edu/articles/columbia-business/sup...

The absoluteness of the efficient market hypothesis also leads to some interesting paradoxes that don't make much sense when you look at the real world: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grossman-Stiglitz_Paradox
I really hope Spotify uses this as a reason to re-work their podcasting section. I think Apple's podcast app does a great job with discovery, and find all the podcasts I'm interested in on Spotify to get totally lost in the shuffle. They also don't really seem to have any sort of meaningful feed, which is how I choose a podcast before any long walk.
One of the Culture novels do include a lengthy descriptions of a party that had lasted a ridiculously long time. Hydrogen Sonata possibly... There are quite a few descriptions of utopian societies partying in sci fi, but usually as an excuse to make one group or another stand out as gloriously debauched to set up the inevitable downturn when someone crashes the party or some character or other at the party is forced to face real life.

But they can be interesting stories in their own right - just probably not easy to expand to novel length.
Pretty much all RPis can handle this, depending on your definition of "sufficient amount of RAM".
Counterpoint: the long term effects of alcohol lead to a decreased quality of life. Sad teen DUI is absolutely sad, but 15 years of bleeding ulcers and the pain caused by liver/kidney problems due to alcoholism isn't exactly sunshine and smiles.

That's not even getting into the links between dementia and alcohol abuse, because I personally find nothing more terrifying than being a shell of my former self as my mind fades out.
Are your dotfiles available anywhere? I'd be interested in trying out this setup.
You mean "lower level" systems, right?

I dunno... Robotics can be very high level, particularly with ROS.
There are many limitations that you need to "read between the lines" with AWS auto scaling.

For example, we have daemons reading messages from SQS, if you try to use auto scaling based on SQS metrics, you come to realize pretty quickly that CloudWatch is updated every 5 minutes. For most messages, this is simply too late.

In a lot of cases, you are better off with updating CloudWatch yourself with your own interval using lambda functions (for example) and let the rest follow the path of AWS managed auto scaling.

There is also a cascading auto scale that you need to follow. If we take ECS for example, you need to have auto scaling for the containers running (Tasks) AND after that you also need auto scaling for the EC2 resources. Both of these have different scaling speeds. Containers scale instantly while instances scale much slower. Even if you pack your own image, there is still a significant delay.
This decision has no impact on our operations in any of our other Fiber cities, where we continue to sign up and install new customers every day.

This is just irresponsible of Google at this point. This entire project has no momentum and isn't going anywhere -- why are they still signing people up when it's obvious that they'll just cut them off eventually as well? In the meantime, they prevent any of these cities from taking control of their own connectivity.

They should help the cities form nonprofits to run the fiber networks, then gently remove themselves from the situation.
Strange, the title felt pretty accurate to me. I had a good sense of what I was about to read (basically guessed it would handle TypeScript from the title), and then was impressed with the additional features.
> if you consider liberty as a social construct

If you consider prosperity as a social construct, you'll find out that many societies have self-reportedly achieved it, even if you would find them oppressive and dirt-poor by your own standards.

BTW moving key notions from the realm of somehow reality-testable to the realm of purely denotational and conventional was the way how the Party in "1984" ruled the minds of people. War is peace, freedom is slavery, etc.
Look, I get what you mean. People should just clarify that they mean "Socialism with Danish characteristics", and all this ambiguity would disappear!
Postmates announces submission of draft registration statement for IPO
User owned projects, your personal workspace
Blockchain Analysis Links Hamas Fundraising to Coinbase Bitcoin Account
"For that, and many other reasons, we are deeply grateful to Mayor Greg Fischer, the City of Louisville and its residents for their partnership and spirit of innovation over the past two years."

That's why we can't trust Google with anything critical. They view the world as an experiment they can quit anytime. Definitely don't buy a Google self driving car or anything else you expect to work in a few years.

There is a good chance that businesses moved to Louisville because of Google Fiber and they are being shown the finger "Thanks for indulging us, we got what we wanted and you can go f... yourself".
I saw it as well, thought it was amazing.

I liked how it wasn’t pushing a narrative, because you obviously come to the conclusion that war is hell.
environment variables allow assignment of different keybindings, according to the readme.
From 0 to 1, Hiring Your First Product Manager
What was the problem? When I click the "encountered challenges" link I get a 451: Unavailable due to legal reasons (I am from the EU).
Go software can exhibit a variety of denial-of-service bugs such as slice out-of-bounds access (since there is no try/catch mechanism, this leads to a panic), excessive allocations, excessive computation/timeout (consider "for i := 0; i < N; i++" where N is untrusted), stack overflow due to unbounded recursion (rare because Go has a custom, large stack).

My bignum-fuzzer project [1] runs on oss-fuzz and tries to find mismatches between bignum computations across different libraries (OpenSSL, Go, Rust, etc). This is one example of how fuzzing can be useful even if the underlying language is "safe".

With some small hacks you can also have Go code coverage instrumentation as a libFuzzer counter.

[1] https://github.com/guidovranken/bignum-fuzzer/blob/master/mo...
I think that's because rather than shutting down, a lot of smaller cable providers are simply acquired, or at least their customers are. Fiber is a different ball game than cable though, as I understand it.
I recommend 3D, I checked reviews beforehand, and the 3D was very immersive. Even the physical act of putting on glasses to let you look back in time put the mind in a different frame.

I look back at the experience now feeling like I time travelled.
You see, China can make a food without it being poisoned when they put their mind to it. /s
It's quite a leap from having an ISP (unusually) shut down its service in an area to concluding that internet connectivity should be a public utility. Surely there must be some middle ground.
Makes one wonder how Global Warming will be looked at 50 years from now when they look back at us.
My direct flight from San Francisco to Frankfurt on a Lufthansa A380 (in premium economy) is a delight. I go out of my way to get that flight on that plane. Room to stretch out and walk around makes such a difference. But I don't know what the economics behind planes like this is - maybe it's not so great an experience for the airlines as it is for passengers.
Like you did when you replied to my question.
Yes but it was a while ago.

These people have had personal experience more recently: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5oQbCOz9nlU&t=28s

Google for yourself.

And then there are the fake vaccines: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wL46TjUaebs&t=48s

Your survival so far is not strong evidence for others.
Except at the federal level it is still classified as a Schedule I drug with huge penalties. Strange times we do live in.
From the DEA website[1]:

"Schedule I drugs have a high potential for abuse and the potential to create severe psychological and/or physical dependence."

Schedule I
Schedule I drugs, substances, or chemicals are defined as drugs with no currently accepted medical use and a high potential for abuse. Some examples of Schedule I drugs are:

heroin, lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD), marijuana (cannabis), 3,4-methylenedioxymethamphetamine (ecstasy), methaqualone, and peyote

Schedule II
Schedule II drugs, substances, or chemicals are defined as drugs with a high potential for abuse, with use potentially leading to severe psychological or physical dependence. These drugs are also considered dangerous. Some examples of Schedule II drugs are:

Combination products with less than 15 milligrams of hydrocodone per dosage unit (Vicodin), cocaine, methamphetamine, methadone, hydromorphone (Dilaudid), meperidine (Demerol), oxycodone (OxyContin), fentanyl, Dexedrine, Adderall, and Ritalin

Schedule III
Schedule III drugs, substances, or chemicals are defined as drugs with a moderate to low potential for physical and psychological dependence. Schedule III drugs abuse potential is less than Schedule I and Schedule II drugs but more than Schedule IV. Some examples of Schedule III drugs are:

Products containing less than 90 milligrams of codeine per dosage unit (Tylenol with codeine), ketamine, anabolic steroids, testosterone

Schedule IV
Schedule IV drugs, substances, or chemicals are defined as drugs with a low potential for abuse and low risk of dependence. Some examples of Schedule IV drugs are:

Xanax, Soma, Darvon, Darvocet, Valium, Ativan, Talwin, Ambien, Tramadol

Schedule V
Schedule V drugs, substances, or chemicals are defined as drugs with lower potential for abuse than Schedule IV and consist of preparations containing limited quantities of certain narcotics. Schedule V drugs are generally used for antidiarrheal, antitussive, and analgesic purposes. Some examples of Schedule V drugs are:

cough preparations with less than 200 milligrams of codeine or per 100 milliliters (Robitussin AC), Lomotil, Motofen, Lyrica, Parepectolin

[1] https://www.dea.gov/drug-scheduling
The Six or Seven Types Principle
"Is there a market" has always been a big question for very large aircraft. The C-5A flew in 1968, and there was talk of a civilian model. But nobody wanted a commercial aircraft that big.
I am tempted to ask which school and truly in the post crisis era? In my econ podcasts they keep lamenting how things like this are still thaught, but I was somewhat incredulous. I studied econ in the early aughts and there was more behavioral, industrial and institutional economics than macro in my program. That was long before the crisis and still looks like the proper mix.

And then on the question. Perfect information is false and there are degrees in the definition of how efficient markets are, with the most common one approximating 'somewhat' on the not too short timescale. Mileage varies between commodities, stocks, your staple teaching example of the market for used cars (lemons) going towards the more micro models with network effects etc.

Institutional economics will teach you that no market functions without surrounding institutional arrangements and that there is some relationship between the nature of the product and the optimal 'institutional burden' (my words). Mechanism design is the subject where they try to design optimally structured markets.

Economics is awesome and anyone teaching only perfect information even to undergrads or business students should be fired. Ceterum censeo
This link makes it sound like their installation work was faulty and they were going to have to redo it all: https://www.wdrb.com/news/google-fiber-announces-plan-to-fix...

Since that was only a few months ago, my guess is they decided to just pull out instead.
I'm surprised I didn't see application performance monitoring mentioned here. A lot of applications are complex and in those cases adding containers is only effective until you reach the next constraint.

Having two resources (such as DB and app) scale in concert can be exceedingly difficult.
Better Paths Through Idea Space
Skype can now blur your background, so no one can tell your life is a shambles
Once you go up the chain they make very good money. Just look at the houses of non-profit execs in Northern VA. They are huge.
One of the most common uses [1] for Vantablack is coating satellites so they don't reflect light in to celestial navigation [2] sensors. Of course spy satellites are also covered in the stuff (there is even a variant that is highly effective on visible and infrared light).

1. https://www.abc.net.au/news/science/2017-01-13/vantablack-wh...

2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celestial_navigation
so s/determine most/constrain/
The other half of that particular equation is the dead.
I never wanted to move to Louisville (from Lexington, KY) but fiber was a nice selling point. Now I'm just hoping our own Lexington MetroNet keeps chugging along so I can leave Spectrum when I buy a house.
I recommend taking an Economics course.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phillips_curve
What's wrong with low prices though? Those who are fighting anti-trust try to claim that it restricts free market, while in fact these liars are themselves restricting it through monopolization.
No, all I have to do is to never collude with and to call out crooked shit, which I did and do. It takes much less courage to never kiss the ring in the first place, than to "revolt" after already having kneeled. I don't care if you "buy" that.

In the one really shitty job I had for a short while, I simply didn't do the things I considered crooked. I didn't lie about that either, nor did I get fired for it. I was still better than most brownnosers there, and they were leaking people anyway. Once I told a coach that if the food he eats was prepared as careless as he just told me to do my job to make more money, he would be dead in a month. Hahaha. I did end up quitting after getting sick of the politics and exploitation there, but I didn't have to quit to not take part in crooked stuff, I simply did that by not taking part in it. I simply said "make me", and they didn't bother to try. "The barman reeled for a moment, hit by a shocking, incomprehensible sense of distance."

People who think everybody in the world is fake, broken and gave in, are proving only that they themselves are. If they weren't, they wouldn't assume everybody just "has" to accept all sorts of things. We have to die eventually, that's all anyone of us has to do. The rest are at best choices, at worst excuses.
I flew on the Lufthansa A340 from MUC to SFO and very much liked their lavatory setup. Having 6 lavatories in one spot solved very much the logistics of selecting the right one and reduced the waiting time. Also, it is nice not to sit besides the constantly closing doors.
Do they offer a higher data cap plan?

It seems like the problem as you're phrasing it is that they are deliberately harming consumers -- it costs them the same to deliver the content whether via Netflix/Hulu or their own services, but they are choosing to overcharge customers to force them into their own service.

An alternative way of looking at it is that their own service is offering a subsidy -- bumping you up implicitly to a higher tier in exchange for using their service.

In the latter case, it's not really abusive; they're offering an enhancement; the "actual" price is the next tier up, but you're getting a "discount" in exchange for preferring their own video service.

Which is to say that this is awful behavior, and nothing is more frustrating than the fact that (the lack of) competition makes it so that it is nearly impossible to switch to another internet provider that does not engage in this kind of monkey business. The other problem is that I think many customers prefer this model -- they're willing to make the sacrifice and get the subsidized package rather than shell out the extra money. I'm certainly guilty of this; avoiding paying minuscule subscription fees for websites even though I hate the ads. The value of my hatred is still lower than the cost of the subscription.
>Star Trek always felt odd to me because the non-utopian elements felt far too embedded in the utopian stuff.

That's because utopias are boring. Gene Roddenberry's vision if actually followed through with would have made for dismal television, so the writers had to back away from it now and then.

To me the flawed utopias are more interesting and even more inspiring. I can relate to people having to struggle to uphold their morals in a violent and uncertain universe, but not so much to people who are already perfect.

>And, yes, redshirts - quite a few people in utopia still get killed because no one knows how to keep them safe.

Despite it being canon that transporter buffers can be used to store a backup of a person's entire pattern and make copies of them. I can understand the redshirts thing in TOS when that bit of technobabble hadn't been worked out, but by TNG it should have been standard operating procedure to spin up new ones when the old ones got vaporized by the monster of the week.
Virtually nobody in security agrees with you. Memory-safe languages do effectively mitigate some of the most critical security issues.

C++ static analysis is helpful, but it is not memory safe. Modern C++ doesn't really help. In fact, in my opinion, modern C++ tends to be less memory safe than "classic" C++, because it adds all sorts of new fun ways to get use-after-free.
That's odd, I read this entire article on Firefox.
Not in California, which at least partially explains why SV is not somewhere else.
That's some kind of hack job on the original. The restored version is better.
> This decision has no impact on our operations in any of our other Fiber cities,

...yet.

Just more evidence you cannot rely on Google for long term product outside of search.
That's true, but is that on the scale of the choice between "cold and hot pizza" or "cold and hot lava"?
It's funny because the best arguments for internet being a utility have nothing to do with government reliability (or lack there of) but rather economic arguments like natural monopolies. It seems like OP just has an anti-market agenda.
If the other ISPs are qualitatively worse (you mention Comcast here...), it's bound to make a lot of people very angry.
What's the purpose of this code in the original decompressor? Assuming c is an uchar, aren't EOF and 0xFF equal?

if (c == 0xFF) {
len = getchar();
c = getchar();
while (len--)
emit(c);
}
Tesla's Solar Business Is Falling Apart
> Of course, not trapping women in domestic servitude is a good thing

Any reason you used the term servitude which implies a negative connotation, when many women were happy with that arrangement? It also implies none of the women received positive utility from staying at home with the kids and it was always a chore, which seems a little ridiculous.

We should be embracing every opportunity for more personal involvement with our children and family, not calling it servitude. It does all families, past, present and future, a huge disservice.
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It would be like concluding that water is best handled by the private sector because Flint, MI.