skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I cannot wait for this to happen. I dare, I double dare GAFA/FAANG or whatever acronym you want for them to make such move. I want them to flex their muscles to see who wins. My guess? DuckDuckGo, Linux and the likes. Maps? OpenMaps. Social network? I don't give a flying fly, definitely another in a year will rise. As for costs for not paying? Like all those companies don't have distributed offices to make local caches in each country? Rally them all up and auction baby. Get some money against those fines. I bet in 2 years all those companies will either disappear like Kodak when refused to change with times or they will comply with GDPR big time.
I have news for Ben Longstaff, the article's author, GDPR is new times; your "My guess? Not long." is shortsighted.
Open source licenses derive their power from copyright law, so everything that is open source is protected by copyright.
anything right of the center is now considered extreme right wing views
Blush. I hardly ever change my lancet. Maybe every other month (about 100 sticks per month).

I'm using Freestyle 14 day and yea the waste for each sensor is pretty amazing. For a tiny sensor the size of a fat nickel I end up with a box of waste that's huge. Reminds of Amazon shipping. 8-)

I've been pretty happy with the accuracy compared to blood sticks - within 10% so far for each reading.
> DoorDash outright deceiving me by prominently saying 100% of the tip goes to Dashers every time I checkout

This is the biggest part that is misleading and makes a good service a bit shady.

I tip well because I wanted my food to be handled well and the driver to get a nice payment out of it. I also want the driver to make sure the order is good and correct, I am willing to pay extra for that. Now DoorDash is telling me they decide that for me and the driver. I think they should do something to change that or at least remove that message.

I have also read on reddit in the subreddits for these services like /r/doordash/ that because they pay low for some routes, even if people tip well, that dashers double up on deliveries. Sometimes the service asks them to and knocks their acceptance rate if they don't, or offers really far deliveries for cheap. I wanted to tip enough so they weren't racing or doubling up.
Right, and CPUs could, in principle, fix this. Eg. they could speculatively fetch the cache line, and only commit it to the cache once they know what branch they took. This still lets you do the slow memory access before you know if you will need it, without causing globally visible side effects.
No matter how hygenic the macros are, you'll still end up with the problem of a million different DSLs, five for each codebase. With partial-stack languages, different projects can share the same language for each level of the stack.
> Remember our friend Shkreli? How about insulin formulation, and Truvada (PREP) that’s $200 a year generic, and $1300 a month in the US.

Those are prices, not net margins. How much did the research cost, including the failed attempts before they found one that worked?

This is why "research" is a necessary qualifier. If you just find the occasional schmuck who got a good deal on a patent that was worth more than the seller anticipated, that isn't telling you much. The likes of Pfizer and Merck are public companies, you can go find their net margins from their financial statements. They're not 99%.

> There are many more, their credit pharma companies have accountants thst would make Hollywood blush, so it takes some digging past the claims of R&D (dwarfed by marketing budgets in many cases) being the cost driver, and not record profits.

The marketing budgets are a byproduct of insurance. Typically to make $100 in revenue you have to convince a customer to pay $100 for something that provides $110 in value to them. Throw in insurance and you make $1000 in revenue because the patient pays $100 for $110 in value while the insurance pays $900 more, which makes it much more valuable to advertise, so they advertise much more.

Insurance and patents are basically incompatible. The idea of patents is that you give someone a temporary monopoly and the market (i.e. the customer) decides how much the product is worth before they refuse to buy. The idea of insurance is that there is a low probability high cost event that the insurance pays whatever is necessary for if it comes to pass. But if the insurance pays whatever is necessary, and the seller has a monopoly, the seller can charge arbitrarily high prices. Or the price is limited by the patient's copay percentage, i.e. the insurance does nothing but raise the price by the exact amount the insurance covers, because the patient discounts the price by that amount when choosing whether to purchase.

People would pay a lot less in total, i.e. about the same amount for drugs and far less in premiums, if insurance companies would stop covering patented drugs whatsoever.
I can’t corroborate it except with another anecdote, a medical researcher told me the same thing in passing. She had worked in academia and in industry, and said that industry doesn’t remotely trust any academic work, and that this had been valid in her experience as well. For example that at the university lab that she joined there was a measurement device which had been regularly used, but which no-one understood how to calibrate properly.

I suspect as you say it’s partly down to a lack of expertise, being thrown in at the deep end without much guidance on how to get good measurements, both practically and in terms of avoiding statistical traps like cherry-picking, allied to the pressure to find some exciting results, and journals’ lack of interest in negative results.
Aqua-Field: Artificial Gill System
We got web hitler over here
I think you're viewing the book's thesis through a very limited, modern lens.

True or false, I'd frame the hypothesis as "first came language, then came consciousness". Language was shared, something "arose" when people were together. So "the gods" were to point of origin of language.

The reason that kind of hypothesis is appealing is that consciousness and modern thinking had to arise somehow. Going from animals with no language to a modern human with self-consciousness and language is a big, a huge step. We need an intermediate step between these. An "everyone is generating language but not self-consciously" period is such a hypothetical step.

None of this is to claim Jaynes' thesis is true. But it's a reason it's appealing and generally not put on the level of Erich von Däniken. The way that pseudo-scientists like von Däniken fail is they explain simple phenomena with more complex, more unexplained phenomena. Jaynes, whatever his faults, is trying not to do that.
> You, who do not have to bear the cost of the policy, should be less harsh with the people who do

You should be less quick to make assumptions.

I am the owner of a small business with a handful of employees. I am the that bears the cost of such policies.
Given Uber's history, I'd be inclined to assume the worst.
Basically everyone is desperate to invest money somewhere.

Bonds are one of the safest instruments and often pension funds are legally obligated to invest at least a proportion of funds in safe, not risky instruments.

This will not end well IMO.
Sometimes 'alumni access' (that you can use from anywhere with alumni credentials) is less than the total online licensed resource access for current students/faculty -- because the university generally needs to pay extra for "alumni access" to particular licensed resources.

But sometimes the total licensed resource access is available for _on-site_ public users, even if not alumni, because that may be included in the licenses.

I know you can't enter the medical library, but have you checked if you can get access to the resources you need on-site at another NYU library, that may allow the public to walk-in and use licensed resources from on-site workstations?

There may be resources licensed only to the medical library you can't get access to there -- but there may not be. Sometimes the particular people you are talking to asking questions don't understand the total licensing landscape of the university, especially if you are talking to people at the alumni office rather than librarians (but even every librarian may not, if you're not talking to someone whose job is centered on online resources; it gets terribly complicated, and libraries haven't always been great at keeping track of it and keeping it sane; the vendors' demands and irrational and enormously expensive contracts don't really help).
But I'm not even calling anything equal. I'm merely pointing out that reddit is an authoritarian regime's wet dream already, and the users seem to be quite happy with it.

Hey, they could even get Chairman Pao back.
For me most of the fun comes in making games behave unrealistic or unintended (whether it means modding the game, or exploiting it - single player only games not online games). Like I loved how in either Euro Truck Simulator, I got off the road and got off course, pretty sure a real truck might of blown up by the time I got it back on the road. Flight Sim is another one that doesn't let you crash under specific settings. I do hope for more simulators though. We technically have some programming "simulators" for Assembly programming puzzlers.
And that is why they implement UPnP to punch holes through it to avoid users having to manually configure routers.
Money is also power. And having some people with thousands of times the power as others also erodes freedoms. Perhaps those with the most power should be faced with the most scrutiny? This isn't about some global authoritarianism, but an attempt to mitigate oligarchy, and should only affect those who already have far more freedom then the majority of the population combined.
If they were lying about experiments about sensible things, that would be one thing. They were lying about experiments about insane things.
Doing it by default seems a bit invasive, but I'd be interested in this as a configurable option or plugin!
With that kind of "whatif" and "let's imagine that", what about target assassination of Google Executives by the French DGSE ? I don't think that D. Trump would give a damn about west coast liberals strangely dying in there sleep ... Or what about the French launching nuclear missiles on all google center (maybe except the one that are hosted on nuclear power) at once ?
There are more Zope servers than IIS servers!
This appears to be "What Colour are your bits?": Ethanol Edition.

The original "What Colour are your bits?" essay.

https://ansuz.sooke.bc.ca/entry/23
Building that personal brand.
When I think document driven design, I think more along the lines of "api spec" or giving the interfaces/method signatures. Sometimes this goes into "boxes and arrows" stuff. For boxes and arrows, I usually don't go back and update those. But for the API spec, example usage, etc, I prefer something that is self documenting or has to be kept valid via tests. This is particularly easy in a language like Go (what I tend to work in) as you get GoDoc for free if you comment right, and you can have your examples directory run with tests.
If you're considering following the suggestions of investing in the stock market, hold off until a possible Brexit market reaction passes in March.

Also, wait to see if the S&P can get up and hold steady above $2750. If it can't hold above that mark for a month or so, expect significant drop.

Read up on simple moving averages (sma), relative strength index (rsi), and stochastic rsi indicators. Then read up on golden and death crosses. Follow the readings up with monitoring daily, weekly, and monthly charts.

https://www.investopedia.com/terms/s/sma.asp

https://www.investopedia.com/terms/r/rsi.asp

https://www.investopedia.com/terms/s/stochrsi.asp

https://www.investopedia.com/terms/g/goldencross.asp

https://www.investopedia.com/terms/d/deathcross.asp

Nadaq's site offers a solid chart and indicators at no cost, as does Yahoo and Stock Charts.

https://www.nasdaq.com/symbol/spx/interactive-chart

https://stockcharts.com/h-sc/ui?s=$SPX

https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/%5ESPX/chart?p=%5ESPX#eyJpbn...
The usefulness of having a common structure for which to build types is that you can break them down from code into smaller types, or combine them into larger types, using just the functions `cons`, `car` and `cdr`. This is particularly useful for working on tooling which deals with the programming language code itself.

A pair is just the most basic kind of compound data type. A triplet is just an atom plus a pair, and a quadruplet is an atom plus a triplet, and so forth. For any data structure containing N items, it can be represented as a sequence of N-1 cells.

It's possible to map this to custom data types. Say you wanted a type of `vec {x, y, z}`, then you can represent it as a list `(x (y (z . ())))` where you could define `get-x = car`, `get-y = cadr` and `get-z = caddr` to access the elements by name. Some lisps let you encapsulate the result such that only those functions can be used on the encapsulated list.

Rather then being more powerful to build everything into a language, it actually makes it less powerful when you try to do everything rather than providing the foundations on which other types can be built. See also: "Growing a language" by Guy Steele.
Indeed. If this weren't true, then there would be no basis to shape the culture, since culture wouldn't have a shape.

Two groups can be compared on important values like "honesty" independent of group size. The comparison will look like overlapping normal distributions, usually with substantial overlap. Chinese students were famous for cheating at my school, especially in the pre-med biology track. I witnessed it myself. I also witnessed brilliant, hard-working non-cheating Chinese students in math and physics. Yeah, there's something cultural going on but it's a lot more complicated than "the Chinese are cheaters".
FYI: You don't need an email address to create a Reddit account. They made it look like you do, but you can just press 'Next' in the modal.
Actually, Minneapolis is probably the best lite version of San Fran.

Liberal but not crazies

Economically vibrant

Low unemployment

No real "ghetto"

Reasonable taxes

Assimilated immigrants (i'm indian american and the one thing I really hate about the Bay Area is the large number of culturally unassimilated immigrants)

It's just so damn cold though
No, sorry, didn't mean to imply that. In the case of the acquisition memo, there was no prior (we'd had no previous conversation about the area at all). It was simply something that we thought was clear enough to distill the reasoning down to a very short document. Also, we were looking for a decision on something that was what Jeff likes to call a "two-way door" - we were asking to engage and to conduct diligence, not for a final approval of the acquisition.

The other document, while seemingly a simple issue, had a lot of ramifications and would be hard to reverse once we made the decision. When he finished reading the doc, he initially disagreed that there should be two different names, thinking that it would be simpler from a branding and customer point of view to have only one. our position was that, although that would be true at launch, we needed to plan for success when Alexa, the service, would be available on many different types of hardware, even ones that were not made by Amazon, so we needed to do the work involved in keeping them separate. This type of decision was much more of a "one-way door" in Jeff's parlance.

Hope this makes sense.
As soon as you fetch the cache line, every other core will know you have done that via the cache coherency protocol. You have just disclosed an address potentially derived from some sensitive information.

Edit: to be precise they can, for example, see the transition from exclusive to shared.
Keep in mind that now two states have proposed laws that would require inspection of the social media accounts of any potential gun purchaser.

There's zero specification in either law around oversight into or appeal of any decision to disallow a gun purchase on the basis of what the reviewer finds.
It's not mentioned in the article but unlimited access to the full docket of a case is, or at least used to be, available for free at the courthouse itself using a courthouse computer. Of course, there's no guarantee the printers will be working and printing is not free.
You forget that 'murica can't do tech either these days, hihi. With all the outsourcing these days hardly any tech is there to make anyway.
While terrible customer service, I can appreciate the steward’s care for the equipment.
There are two issues that economists, such as Dean Baker, have identified with the AI story. The first is that productivity growth has slowed substantially. We were increasing productivity much faster in the era of labor intensive extraction, manufacturing and farming than we are now in the era of services and knowledge work. What the AI people are predicting is some kind of rapid, nonlinear productivity black swan event. We creep along at 1.5% productivity growth year after year until all of a sudden we see 10% per month putting tons of people out of work and on the dole. That's fine for a worst case but black swans are, by their nature, unpredictable.

The second problem is that productivity growth has generally been good for wages. A huge concern in the US in 1982 was that productivity growth had appeared be 0 since 1978 with periods of declining productivity canceling out any increases. The problem was that wages would stagnate. At the time, it was probably caused by low investment due to high interest rates, but there was a lot of handwringing about American manufacturing and whether it could remain competitive with Japan, which was experiencing increasing productivity at the time.

We can look at specific examples of AI failing to realize their goals, but if the overall story of AI was one of replacing workers, it would be shown in the productivity numbers. People who predict a disruptive AI event need a lot more than the spectre of all the trucking jobs disappearing overnight.
In these situations, the tips received between the minimum tipped wage and the minimum wage work exactly like the DoorDash / Instacart wages: they are net zero for the employee.

I'm not sure why people keep repeating this like they think it means something.

The tipped minimum wage is $2.13/hour (higher in most states), significantly lower than the regular minimum wage, because tipped workers almost always made more than federal minimum wage when tips were included. To repeat, for emphasis: the federal tipped minimum wage for employees is only $2.13/hour.

In the rare event that a tipped worker doesn't make at least federal minimum wage including tips, the employer is required to make up the difference, but this backstop was added to the law much later. It is the exception, not the rule, and it is wholly inappropriate to treat it like the standard case.

EDIT: This is different from what Amazon and DoorDash do, since they claim the fee they pay the driver is $X, under the general legal definition of "tip", any tip paid should be on top of the $X. They can look forward to class actions and DoL investigations in their near future since "tip" has an actual legal meaning for labor law purposes that you can't redefine in a ToS.
How overcome fear of flying?
I have a huge fear of flying. I hate it. It scares the living s..t out of me.
>If the universal expectation that a user's posted words are theirs and theirs alone breaks down, as Huffman showed us can be done, then platforms like Reddit can become much more dangerous.

Reddit is more dangerous when the universal expectation is that a user's posted words are theirs and theirs alone because Huffman showed that is not necessarily the case. People believing things because they are on Reddit -- which is, again, routinely manipulated by corporations and state actors -- is a problem.

Besides, the core controversy wasn't that the CEO changed a person's post. He could do that to 99.9% of posts and it wouldn't have made a difference. It was that he changed the post after it was a top-rated comment, meaning it had be 'validated' by the crowd. A crowd that has not been vetted to be legitimate in any sense. It could have been upvoted 20k times by bots, by shills, by real people agreeing with the comment... and most likely by a mix of all these.

The point is: hand-wringing about this form of manipulation, to one post for one hour, is really missing the forest for the trees. Reddit is minefield of trust in systems with no transparency whatsoever. It shouldn't be trusted at all, and it certainly shouldn't be expected to live up to the standard of a "free speech platform."
If your html is gzipped, that's in the double digits of kilobytes for most cases. That's nothing compared to images and other content.
This phrase "GET link" I keep seeing makes sense, but strikes me as odd. Is that to differentiate from an "a" tag that triggers JS that makes a fetch/xhr with another method? The only non-JS non-GET request I'm aware of is a form action (POST by default, GET if specified) which can hardly be called a link, unless I'm wrong to equate link with "a" tag.
I hate these anecdotal stories and how they're used as absolute evidence that something like this is happening. Google would never allow the data from their back end recording to be seen by other apps, for the same reason that this article says Facebook keeps the data they collect close hold: it gives away their exclusivity.

Seriously. You met with a friend at some place where you probably sat around and talked for a long time together. Is it unreasonable that FB saw the two of you were together at a place where you might reminisce about previous trips together.

As for saying specific phrases near your phone, this sounds like Baader-Meinhof to me. The writer probably spent a lot longer on FB than usual, which led to more ads (and an expanding category of ads to keep from repeating the same ones over and over), leading to him finally seeing what he was hoping to see.

There's just no way that either Google or Apple are storing the voice recording data anywhere where other apps could see it. Further, I don't think either are maintaining recordings long enough to make sense of a conversation or even full sentence. In Google's case, they've talked ad nauseum about how it's just a voice signature they listen for and they never maintain non-triggered audio (even device-side).
Going back around the millennium or before when I last taught A level maths at college, we had them in over the summer before term started for a two week intensive algebra and basics course.

Seemed to help.

The original author (Tim Gowers, a Fields medallist and professor of mathematics at Cambridge) has a totally hilarious blog post about being asked to coach a teenager doing A level maths...

https://gowers.wordpress.com/2012/11/20/what-maths-a-level-d...
> If you undertake this exercise you will come to know the answer to the question: why has this idea (a vector-based Lisp) not gained more wide-spread adoption?

It's gained incredibly widespread adoption. Clojure doesn't use cons cells at all; lists are trees of vectors internally, and vectors and maps enjoy first-class status, even as syntactic elements, right alongside lists. Clojure enjoys far more business interest than Common Lisp or any other Lisp dialect, meaning that non-cons-cell based Lisp has won.

Furthermore, the C++ programmers, being performance minded, have learned something the Lisp guys still don't seem to grok: on modern architectures where cache is fast and RAM is slow, the big-O inefficiency of using vectors vs. linked lists is usually more than made up for by the speed gains of cache locality, to the extent that for real-world data structures it almost never makes sense to use a linked list rather than a vector.

Anyway, if you represent a list as a slice of an underlying vector, cdr is still O(1).