skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Even if one of them were elected president - which, again, faces staunch resistance by the olgiarch controlled DNC - a vast majority of congress is bought and paid for by globalist interests.

The Occupy Wall Street movement was probably the last possible chance to correct course. Further attempts need to somehow capture a greater mindshare than the immediate aftermath of Bush's imperialism, wanton greed and corruption throughout the federal for thirty years across four presidents, the desolation of the working class, and the unabased billionaire wellfare that bailouts represented.

We are now a decade later into corporate and wealth consolidation, a decade after Citizens United, another decade of corporate media brainwashing the "average" American into compliance and obedience. And this is a global conglomerate of business that will deter and influence all governments and societies to bow to their interests. The only way out at this point is an internal struggle between these private men and women of influence between those who have ethics and the interests of humanity at heart and the majority.
China is different in that when the government spends on things like the GFW thete’s no checks and balances from an effective parliament.
It’d be nice to have some way to configure exactly how the “draft pull request” works, because there are a couple cases where I think this could be improved:

* Notifying the maintainers might be useful in some cases. Often, I will file a WIP pull request to get preliminary review by a maintainer so that I know I’m going in the right direction.

* Being able to convert a draft pull request into a full one: Useful if the original author has stopped responding and you’d like to merge in their changes (after tweaking them, etc.)
Are we really having a discussion on whether taxation is theft using the most boring possible arguments for it? If you really believe that, live up to your principles, stop using the taxpayer-funded internet, and get off this site. We share no morality in common and I have no hope of convincing you of anything.

Meanwhile, 'SlowRobotAhead has claimed to be open-minded, and I was having a discussion with them before you jumped in saying this was the last comment from you in the thread - another lie, but that doesn't surprise me from someone with your moral code.
Or at least "just like a legal permanent resident."
Oh, OK
The problem isn’t exposing the APIs, the problem is the wasm has what is essentially the C memory model, so you couldn’t trust any point/object you get from wasm land.

That’s why there so much work being put into giving wasm a more typical (for a vm) typed heap. Similar issues occur with lifetime of objects - if you get anything from the dom, you have to keep it live if wasm references it, but wasm has no idea of what memory or a handle is.

These are solvable problems, but you’re not getting dom access until after they’re solved.
You seem to have zero time scheduled for "sit on couch and do nothing". I would have mentally broken down after only a few weeks on your schedule.
Yes.

I know hn don’t like one line questions like that which may be read as an insult. But I honestly cannot tell.

It is obviously a lot of work. But the technology mix and design is just absurd. The choice of web shop with hipster products is tongue in the cheek but so was the pet store of year 2000.
I think some languages you should learn because they make you a better programmer in general, even if you never use it for anything — rust and Haskell, in particular.
I write code best in short 1-3 hour bursts. For Libr (https://librapp.com) I work on it whenever I feel like it, which is most nights and weekends. I'll finish a feature/fix a bug then rest and come back later or the next day.

Like the post says if you need rest or you're not having fun, just rest or do something else.

I still watch tv, while having dinner.
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More like uranium refiners. Uranium occurs at a relatively common rate at or near the surface (forget the specifics). Yes, it’s absolutely the energy we should be using. But our first use of nuclear blew up two cities. It will forever be marred by its first impression.
I honestly thought it was myself until I saw that it was an official GCP repo. Unbelievable...

Sending emails is a one-liner in Django. Am I a sucker for not building my own email sending service?!

Of course being a Google demo they have to include the obligatory ad server service, in Java no less. Nonsense like this is why I'm steering my kids away from considering software development as a career.
I’m most impressed by its ability to answer questions about the text. Why can’t someone built something like this on top of Wikipedia? That would be amazing to ask Wikipedia any question you can think of.
Great Idea...but better make sure it's not hosted on the internet.
Can anyone do an eli5 of how this works?
Yep, the OTCA metacell was exactly what I was thinking of. We know that the game of life is Turing complete, so the only challenge is figuring out how to make the graphics look presentable when zoomed out. Someone must have just implemented a 2d graphics environment on top of game of life.
China now has four AP1000 plants in operation. The US still has two under construction. We'll have to see how the AP1000 works out.
Established markets still need PMF. And existing sites/apps can lose their PMF.

There's a large demand for, say, a more privacy based social networking website. Or a gaming based social networking site, like what FB-Zynga used to be.

Google has a large blind spot too. Yelp is filling one, Pinterest covers their image search weakness, tons of travel apps/sites are filling another. But there's many, many things that can be more localized or made into a niche.

I'm not sure if it is harder, as technology has significantly improved. I think we're at the stage where less of the effort is building/designing an app, and more of it is in better product development.
I'm looking forward to computers generating short clips from these stories. I wouldn't be surprised if some of them get viral (especially if A/B testing would be incorporated by looking at when the users stop watching the videos).
Because this is a bank, not the Ron Paul campaign.
I had heard about them doing some study of using an inflatable heat shield and testing in earth's upper. I guess it could be used for Earth or Mars. Neat!

Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ojgDZZIsWA4
I hate this "fun is inefficient" mentality that permiates HN. You're perhaps not wrong that most entertainment isn't optimally generating utility (for some definitions of "utility"), but this position is really hard for anyone the HN workaholic culture to empathize with.
Seriously, I have a 2.20% rate in my savings account.
Unless this magically doesn’t apply to every other developed nation, how do you explain why it’s only extortionate pricing we find in the US specifically? Even with creative and generous accounting pharmaceutical giants make a literal and figurative killing, even accepting high R&D costs. What’s galling is that in plenty of cases the R&D budget is less than the marketing budget.

Still I’m sure there’s a solid scientific or medical reason why a year’s supply of something in Canada or Europe costs a fraction of a month’s supply in the States. I’m voting for “greed” and “systemic forces which allow it.” It sure as shit isn’t R&D...
I'm not sure I parse your comment well. I think I've seen enough UI/GUI/UX paradigm to know when something is near the sweet spot. It seems you agree ?

The flat trend was a reaction to abusive skeymorphism; arguing that visual information should be reduced to a minimum.. but somehow ~serious interaction requires a little bit more than layout and font to be enjoyable.
Many HN readers seem to be perpetually surrounded by non-talented engineers and all other sorts of mediocre people.

https://xkcd.com/610/
Maybe Deliveroo should consider about removing their IP ban for this subdomain. Not everyone has a VPN readily availiable.

I'm traveling in Uruguay. I get:

Error 1009 Ray ID: 4a945b112e23c577 • 2019-02-15 02:31:00 UTC
Access denied
What happened?
The owner of this website (deliveroo.engineering) has banned the country or region your IP address is in (UY) from accessing this website.
The first sentence describes most people who go to casinos, though. And the second sentence might be correct, I don't think it's something you can just assert without a source.
That thing clocks a 400MHz out of the box and has coprocessors .. I'd also guess that risc-v isa is more performant than esp32's one (super wild guess). Let's say it sits in the middle :)
You know how in most languages you can write "hello world" in a single line, or maybe a couple, but sometimes someone writes it with multiple classes that have some sort of inheritance, and maybe a factory?

That's not satire, that's trying to show you how to make classes and factories in that language.

This is showing you how to build a full website with microservices on GCE/Kube.

It's obviously overbuilt for what it does, that's not the point. The point is to show you how to build something complicated with simple examples.
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I don’t know... it’s not as though we’ve put a stop to people selling snake oil and patent medicines. My drug store sells homeopathic cold medicine for kids right in with the real stuff (such as it is). Maybe it’s just the worst of all worlds. People selling unsafe, ineffective “remedies” can do so cheaply, but anything real costs a fortune to test.
The US would have gone down the same route if WhatsApp or Instagram had happened to be acquired by a Chinese company (and hence under control of Chinese govt). Having your citizens data and communication under control of a foreign government is not something any government would be ok with in the long term. It will be interesting to see the reaction of the US government(and of Silicon Valley) when the next TikTok becomes the major communication tool in the US.
I dunno bout the graphical glitches but I run it on a machine far less beefier than yours (MacBook Air early 2014) and it runs fine for web dev on blogs and static sites and writing blog posts and small scale projects even with a bunch of plugins installed.

The only time vs code got unbearable to use for me was on this iMac late 2013 with an HDD drive I got on Craigslist a month ago but once I upgraded to SSD it was like a whole new computer, even running VMs and Kubernetes, VScode runs real nice working on large scale enterprise apps.

But yeah your computer sounds strong enough to handle any IDE so specs not the problem.
There are actually pretty straightforward reasons why it's not necessarily optimal to be first-to-market. Someone else has already tons of research into product-market fit and made mistakes along the way that you can emulate and learn from respectively. They've also jump started demand in the market for a similar product that perhaps has different features/quality/pricing
Yes, that's easy. It would have been just as easy for you -- it's not like criticism of Trump's policies is hard to find.

https://www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/17/17-965/41835/20180...

> The Bill of Rights consists largely of structural constraints that limit the power of the federal government

> The text of the First Amendment does not limit its applicability based on either territory or citizenship

> The original understanding of the Bill of Rights does not set territorial or citizenship status limitations on its applicability

> Under the Establishment Clause [doesn't apply to freedom of speech, but the other arguments do] of the First Amendment, the proclamation is unconstitutional and void even as to foreign nationals abroad

Can you explain why you think it's a good idea to be so vocally opinionated on a factual issue you're obviously not familiar with?
Ask HN: Is going to conferences as a freelancer worth it?
Without an employer to sponsor a pass, the price of many conferences is fairly inhibiting. When I can watch the videos after the event, the idea of spending that kind of money to be there in-person doesn't really add up.

The networking aspect is attractive - but I imagine that these kind of connections would be more valuable to those in the startup / "salaried" landscape.

If you're a freelancer and have gone to a tech conference, what has your experience been like? Did you feel like it was it worth it?

In my case, I'm thinking about attending the GraphQL Summit later this year. My clients tend to be small businesses or early stage startups that are looking to put together an MVP - not necessarily the kind of people you'd meet while discussing the architecture of your API.
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It's been the status quo for milennia.

Just be glad they're bidding wars and not real wars (for the moment).
Balance of power makes those less negotiations and more fiats.
Have you actually read the article? Do you have any worthwhile to say in direct response to the article?
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Most drugs are expensive because it costs a lot to develop them and it's getting more expensive. It costs a lot to develop them because it's hard to predict what drugs will work until you test them in humans. It can cost over $100-200M just to do human proof of concept studies, and almost 70% of drugs fail at this stage

Most r&d is done by pharma companies, not academia. $200B spent by Pharma in r&d each year, probably half of that is early stage. NIH spends $30B or so, and most of that is basic research that will never lead to a new drug. Without patents there would be zero new drugs developed

r&d productivity is approaching 0% by some estimates (deloitte, McKinsey and a Novartis analysis). Pharma cannot generate enough new drugs to sustain growth. So they increase prices. Over 60% of revenue growth of major drugs came from price hikes the last few years (per 2018 year in rev presentation by atlas venture)

This is bad. There are many instances of egregious price hikes for drugs that are quite old. But payers have been fighting this quite effectively of late and have restricted pricing growth to the rate of inflation the last couple years

There are 3 PBMs that control most of the market. They extract rebates and don't pass them along to consumers. Copays for drugs are often more restrictive than for medical procedures. There's an argument that access, i.e. High copays, is a bigger challenge than price in some cases (but not all)

There are also just greedy people like Martin shkrei and epipen / Mylan. But they are outliers exploiting a few FDA loopholes

Over 60% of drugs today are developed by small companies (as opposed to big pharma). These companies are an order of magnitude more efficient than Pharma at r&d. The medicines they develop will be expensive but in many cases are designed to be cost effective at ~$100k / QALY.

There is a certain point where it will no longer be cost effective to develop new drugs. We are probably approaching that point barring either technological breakthroughs or a reduction in cost of developing drugs (i.e. Looser FDA)

Drugs are expensive. They are also only 10% of national health expenditure and like 80% of prescriptions are generic. They are a pretty great tool to fight disease

It's a really complex issue
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Not true in California:

https://law.justia.com/codes/california/2011/lab/division-3/...

This supersedes anything stated to the contrary in employment contracts.
Ask HN: Finding marketing co-founder
There are different variations of similar questions that people ask about all the time -- how to find tech or business co-founder.
I have decent tech skills (I can build software with my own hands).
I do have reasonable understanding of product and business principles.
What's lacking in my case, a very special skill -- ability to promote the product to masses efficiently.
I can do basic web promotion, solicit links on social media and cross reference on different web sites. However, I do believe, it does take a very unique and special skillset, in order to do it fast and right the first time.

Any suggestions or ideas would be highly appreciated.
Why would you need nulls to do metaprogramming?
This won't be the case with modern reactor designs. Previous designs were based on an approach that is fundamentally unstable and thus requires a huge investment in safety critical systems to keep things in line.

Newer designs are fundamentally stable and fail in an inherently safe manner. Much, much less surrounding infrastructure and a greatly reduced need for system level fixes to problems since the catastrophic issues have been designed out.

It will take some time to turn the ship, but it is our best chance for producing 24 hour scalable power that is also carbon safe. Just search "modern nuclear reactor design" and start honestly reading the literature with an open mind.

A couple of random articles (plenty more available):
https://www.technologyreview.com/s/512321/safer-nuclear-powe...
http://science.time.com/2013/08/05/amidst-economic-and-safet...

Plenty of great information out there for anyone interested in letting go of their preconceived ideas and exploring the amazing work that is happening now.
also not helped by the fact that recent plant construction wasn't superbly handled.. delay, additional cost, failure of quality control for main parts..

Sadly I think nuclear energy needs a branding motive. Something that pushes everybody to make it clear, fast, precise and shiny. To instill trust in the eyes of people (that would require 10 years to educate on the physics)
What is your real headline behind the clickbait?
Maybe an RV64GC[V maybe] ESP64, with a bit more RAM. :- )
This is the first time that I heard of ASMR. Verrrry Innnnteresting!

I work in a similar field. Inducing weird feelings and related trippy stuff. I tend to the other end of the spectrum tho. Crass strobes. Full saturation. Lots of throbbing.

https://vimeo.com/308956882

If we can do drugs via digital audiovideoetc then.... a very important field of development is suggested.
Because that's when it became clear that's what was meant by "animal cruelty" in the first place, at least by the person I was responding to.
Part of me wonders what kind of person pays for these types of videos. $1000 a day is also quite disturbing. First it starts with paying for ASMR videos. Then it becomes paying for underage cam models. I can’t help but see the parallels in the business model here.
you may not be thinking about market systems in the whole in each jurisdiction -- specifically the relationship of insurance and nation-wide health care monies, applied to the costs of medications to consumers, in non-US markets.
Neural nets are not better than regression, they're far worse, but the sample size for statistical significance is the deal breaker.
Because they were bad politicians?
I work in the energy industry and find these kinds of articles frustrating. Rather than arguing the facts, they paint a caricature of "the other side."

Many environmentalists, particularly those focused on greenhouse gasses are very supportive of nuclear energy. The strongest argument against nuclear is not environmental. It is economic.

New nuclear plants take over a decade to bring online, last 40+ years, and cost $20 billion plus. In an industry moving towards distributed generation and decentralization this is out of place. We can't predict our energy needs 50 years in advance.

Furthermore, nuclear plant construction tend to run 100%+ over budget and those costs are passed onto the ratepayers rather than borne the utilities.

The levelized cost of wind and solar is already cheaper than nuclear. They can be brought online in months rather than years, they can be deployed at whatever scale is needed and we can use market forces to do so.

What's not to love?

However, as many informed environmentalists will point out, it will be almost impossible to get to zero carbon emissions in the next 50 years without nuclear power.

The truth is far more interesting and much less confrontational than these kinds of articles lead you to believe.
This xkcd comic is not the case - I also consider myself as a mediocre people
Ok, that is one interpretation that logically works.
We're killing it!
I hope this doesn't ruin the kid for real work.
Jean-Marc Jancovici, engineer in the energy field and pro nuclear, said that the math on renewable is bogus. And that if you don't want nuclear, money should be spent on energy saving measures like heat pumps and building insulation.

I do understand how tempting are renewables, low risk, low entry cost..
Who said anything about CPython? Pypy can get close to C speed, so I doubt it can't get anywhere near Rust.
In a way that's the power of capitalism. I don't think any central planning committee in a centralised economy would have ever thought there was a demand for that stuff!
Yes, I dispute that, if we are talking about Australia. As a farmer (both meat and crop), the better you look after your stock, the more you make from them. There is no incentive for cruelty and it will cost you money. Admittedly, we don't have feedlots on the same scale as the US and the majority of beasts go pasture to plate fairly quickly.
Also 1992 had nothing like wikipedia (and 2000 had it only in its most embryonic form) though 1992 did have the Free Online Dictionary of Computing.
Find something that you know is profitable and do a better job at it. Ignore any intuition that says that you could never compete with an existing service and that it would be better to come up with an original idea; not only are original ideas very hard to come by, but most ideas are also just bad.
You are omitting the whole next layer, which is all the plants that were run in "risk-enhancing mode" but just by chance didn't have a catastrophic accident. Davis-Besse's corroded pressure vessel head, which was covered up for 6 years before being reported, is a good example.
The article conveniently ignored the legal aspects of Self driving. Waymo legally needs a driver to be present at all times.
Republicans and Democrats have both conspired in equal degree to remove everything the new deal stood for in the last 80 years. Were that not the case you wouldn't have the worst homeless epidemics in the bluest cities. The only choice you get is if you put the stars and stripes in your Hummer or the rainbow flag on your Tesla.

It's sad that my generation who made fun of the culture wars of the 90s has taken the culture wars of the 10s seriously enough to vote for Obama not once but twice.
> Having your citizens data and communication under control of a foreign government is not something any government would be ok with in the long term.

I do agree, but note that currently, the US is having control over more grand area citizen's data/communication than other nations have control over US data.
Wow, I'm just learning about these scandals (I left NYC a year ago) and they are very disturbing. The fact that these employees haven't faced any civil/criminal charges and haven't even been fired is despicable.

You're clearly right in that the NYC taking ownership wouldn't magically solve the issue. There's a bigger systemic problem here - piss poor management and complete lack of accountability. The fix isn't as simple as changing ownership since clearly these organizations are being misproperly managed regardless of whether NYC or NY State are in charge.

More drastic reform is necessary. I don't know what that looks like. Maybe we can start by giving politicians more direct control and oversight over these "public benefit corporations" that they're bankrolling.

If your property appreciating in value by 20+%/year? That's insane.
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