skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They say her 3 month supply was $3700. Branding and "format" will affect the numbers. Pen? Vile? Pump? Humalog? Novalog? did the somewhat vague "3 month supply" include both short and long acting versions in the price tag?

I don't doubt the numbers, but I do detect some omission/simplification to make it seem extra stark.
Depends almost entirely on how they are spread out. It takes at least 30-45 minutes to get into a task that requires deep thought and concentration.

Even for tasks that don't require deep thought, there is prep work.

Working out? Gotta commute to the gym or at least get changed. Gotta make sure you're not hungry but not full at the same time. Gotta make sure you're hydrated. Gotta make sure you have music ready to go.

Woodworking project? Don't even get me started on that one.

Whoops, you just lost 75% of your 'free time'.

I don't mean to sound pessimistic, but a lot of projects require a lot of prep work and people vastly underestimate the amount of prep work required. At least anything that's complex and sufficiently rewarding to warrant working 365 hours on.

Basically 365 free hours != 365 hours of working on your project.
As you say, the Ringworld is unstable. This was always something I had known, and accepted, but never really knew why. This article came from the problem Bill presented, and then in understanding that better, and making the connection with the Shell Theorem, meant that I can see why it's morally true, and not just a result of "doing the sums."

As lmilcin[0] says[1], the Ringworld was kept stable by artificial means, and that's the major plot point/device in the sequel.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=lmilcin

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19165894
A 4 day working week could improve gender equality
The priority queue sounds like a great idea. But, certain factors (COL of area, pay discrepancies between CS and other branches and lower pay in some challenges jobs (JPL)) must be taken into account.
rather than making them pay income tax why don't we make it so nobody pays income tax?
Much has been made of the ways a four-day work week could increase productivity and worker satisfaction. But the shift could also be a huge win for gender equality.

The gender pay gap starts to expand after women have children. At first, both parents’ incomes take a knock, but men’s quickly recover. Women’s never do. The “motherhood penalty” is reflected in a woman’s lower pay—and often lower status at work—throughout her career.

This is due to factors such as working fewer hours due to prioritizing child care, cultural norms meaning employers look more favorably on women taken parental leave in countries where either parent can, and that men are often already in higher paid jobs so the mother taking more time off is financially advantageous.

A four-day working week could help reduce these factors, as well as reducing overall stress levels for all employees.
Well, information apps. Is not to far from your examples but I would like a way to monetize them.

Also, do you plan on adding or integrating a service (not sure if doable) for push notifications (for new content, reminders, etc)?
Do you consider copying software equivalent to hijacking boats by deadly force? I was only arguing against the sensational term, not for the act or any particular licensing.
Don't confuse capitalism with corporativism.
Capitalism is only free market and private property respect. The today corporations are much more state than market.
Socialism is the denial of human being, it's decivilisatory. The collectivism does not works because there is always individuals in charge of the decisions.
Why cant a domain
That's the case in other countries, like France.
I'm closing on a new house tomorrow. The builder has a business arrangement with Sunstreet Solar and they have a ~4KW plant on the roof. While researching the details of the sale, I discovered that Sunstreet owns the panels and has an easement. They get 80% of the generated power and give me 20%. This did not seem like a good deal to me. I negotiated the purchase of the system from Sunstreet as part of the sale, and I got the home builder to reduce the price. This way I can claim the federal tax credit, and I get 100% of the generated power instead of 20%.
We need to subsidize these poor drug manufacturers. It's hard times at GlaxoSmithKline.
Does it seem like there will be any way to go backwards from the sample to the prompt?

From a safety perspective, it would be useful to see what prompt a piece of text might have been generated with...
See e.g. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2015/02/11/big-p... - it’s improved a little since then but it’s still nowhere near an explanation, especially since it’s not like drugs produced by non-US companies are massively cheaper in the US.
Coming from middle class in France to upper-middle class in the US, the quality of care in the US is so subpar it makes me sad.

Sure, in exchange, you don't have to plan your annual visit to the optometrist 3 months in advance, but I'd rather have a doctor that actually cares instead of useless shiny tech.
you are right, it forces people to stay in jobs they don't like a forego other opportunities like starting a business.
Amazon Will Pay a Whopping $0 in Federal Taxes on $11.2B Profits
> The C# language has never been rebooted and is fully backwards compatible

This is not true - there have been several breaking changes in C#-the-language since 1.0. For example:

https://davefancher.com/2012/11/03/c-5-0-breaking-changes/
This is something I too have learned. Just because some product/feature sucks/is missing, doesn't mean it's commercially viable to address.

Sometimes the market is too small or costs too much to reach.

Users might legitimately want something, but not enough to pay the price required to sustain a business.
I don't think a compelling case has been made that Russia is doing this "aggressively". At least compared to the US, China or perhaps some other countries.
You seem sincere, and I didn't mean to be rude.
I'm just wrapping up for the day and have to leave soon, so I can't give a very complete reply.

> For what it's worth, I have no doubt that trolls have tried to hide behind claims of being oppressed before. But I have never seen a systemic case of it creating immunity from criticism. I have seen a couple individuals who think they get away with it, but only on venues that don't make systemic efforts to enforce good behavior, like Twitter.

If I linked directly to a lot of this stuff, it's probably blacklisted by HN. But yes, entire social justice oriented communities have been brought to their knees by trolls using social justice rhetoric. Check out Atheism+. Trolls pretending to be offended oppressed minorities have absolutely turned communities against each other.

I still remember this one thread where someone demanded that someone else with a "male-coded" avatar respond to their comments first, because they were a woman and deserved to not be answered last or something. And it was taken seriously.
I don't KNOW if that person was a troll, but does it matter? When grievances get sufficiently ludicrous, all trolls have to do is copy non-troll users.

Have a look at some of these Github threads, and you will see unreasonable demands on people's communication. It's especially egregious and unfair to non-native English speakers.

Also, I don't know why you're holding Twitter up as a good example of anything.
I don't think they really want to be legally liable for everything I make outside work, even though they might say that.
I agree 100%! We know what type of problems humans in general are mentally equipped to face. An opaque, multigenerational, slow moving problem like climate change is the worst case scenario category for us. We need to translate these hard problems to smaller nearer term tangible problems we can deal with now.
Nah.. Does the UK have lower standards or more relaxed regulations? What you're seeing here is the free market without government price control, at it's 'best'. Things in general are priced at what consumers are willing to pay. That's basically it.
What is classified as a "means of communication" or a "public utility" and what is "a platform" is itself language that is a consequence of political conditions. If HTTP or email were proprietary and owned by a single entity, they would refer to their ownership of it as "a platform" just as Facebook and Twitter do now. There is no technical reason these services cannot be reduced to mere "means of communication" or a "public utility" by means of breaking them up into separate services that are forced to federate with each other over a common protocol, e.g. Mastodon/Diaspora.
If anyone's curious: Traditionally, lsof on BSD would just open /dev/kmem and read the info directly out of the kernel's data structures! It still does that on FreeBSD, and used to do it on macOS prior to 2006, when Apple added the more sensible (and stable) libproc.h API in one of the Tiger software updates.

Sloth dates back to 2004, at which point parsing lsof's output would definitely have been a more sensible choice than replicating the kmem parsing code. On the other hand, if I were writing something like Sloth today, though, I'd use libproc, because I think it'd be easier overall, and it would also make it more feasible to improve the core functionality (like adding a progress bar or lazy querying).

However, lsof does have a flag (-F) to specify how to format its output, explicitly documented in the man page as being intended for other programs that want to parse its output, implying that it will remain stable. And Sloth uses this flag. Thus, even from a modern perspective, its approach is perfectly reasonable.
So what you're saying is people have options for their VCS? Great! :)
A brief for anyone wondering what Filecoin is:

> Filecoin is a decentralized storage network that turns the world’s unused storage into an algorithmic market, creating a permanent, decentralized future for the web. Miners earn the native protocol token (also called “filecoin”) by providing data storage and/or retrieval. Clients pay miners to store or distribute data and to retrieve it.

Filecoin is a project of Protocol Labs which also created the DAG based hypermedia protocol IPFS.
Building the Amazon of Africa Put Me on Interpol Most Wanted List
After wake up routine, school run, a full day of work, the few hours the kids are up after work and the bed time routine? That 2 hours a night I'm half-dead exhausted.
The funny thing is that I just wrote a blog post about people who make pedantic side-comments and act like this defeats the over-arching argument.

You began by suggesting that the cities I mentioned weren't in the Midwest. In other words, you began by ignoring my point. Now you're pulling sentences out of context to still rub against the point.

My point, now as then, was that places such as the cities I mentioned are increasingly attracting the best tech sector job applicants, and that New Yorkers ought to take the time to ask why that is. No matter what other pedantic problems you can find with my basic phraseology, my point stands. Ask yourself, why are places like Nashville growing so much? And why are there multiple such cities? And why are companies like TD Ameritrade shifting their employees out of New York and into Omaha and Dallas?

I don't live in Nashville, but I think it's a nice city. Low taxes, low cost of living, slow pace of life, no urine smell in the streets, and for the price of a NYC shoebox, you can have a 5-bedroom house with a nice yard. It's tough to argue against that lifestyle once you've lived it. I don't know many people who move back to NYC.

So, as I said, New Yorkers ought to think about that. If New York companies want to attract the best job applicants, then they ought to think about what else they can offer, seeing as how they can't offer 5-bedroom houses with nice yards and low tax rates.
This is a good point. I think some people treat facebook and twitter as their main news source which is why I drew that correlation.

The twitter blast out by politicians is a new thing, that hasn't really existed before from what I can see. It's common to try to draw a parallel to something that arleady exists (like I did). I think you're right that my example was a miss.
Amazon Won't Build Its HQ2 in New York City
I can already see this coming in handy on our private team repo as I was not far off from revoking someone's merge permissions for abusing PRs, this will be a nice little way to 'jail' the offending party.
The downside with this is the "regulatory moat". If this hypothetical regulation becomes hard to meet, then only a few companies are able to comply with it and it inadvertently reinforces their position.

What I would like to see is a requirement for platforms to be open, so they can't take data and networks of people hostage by locking things down. An analog is portability of healthcare data: one hospital or EMR vendor can't lock up data for themselves, they must make it open to others (though they still drag their feet and don't always make it convenient).
Working Remotely – Learning to Flourish on Your Own
The simplest form of a wheel is a wooden log. The prototypes were readily available and supplied by nature.

Now to make an actual wheel, with spokes and mostly 'hollow' inside and to put it on an axle - would have required better tools, so the wheel was probably created/invented quite naturally alongside the advances in metallurgy.
In 3 Americans Suffered Severe Online Harassment in 2018
> Why should millions of perfectly normal adolescents, not all of them ghettoized, resist being educated? The reason is that they know deep down that due to the color of their skin, less is expected of them

It's not just race, it's also class.
Maybe, yeah. I'm not a cultural relativist: Democracies are better than dictatorships; freedom of expression is better than repression; pluralism is better than chauvinism.

Every major technology platform in the West exists as result of small-l liberal enlightenment values. Maybe I wouldn't name the current United States as my ideal champion for those values, but I don't have any problem with the general suggestion that Western tech companies should be promoting liberal values around the world.
With a law.

Perhaps one saying that they cannot ban or block anybody or their content, except for content already deemed illegal by a governing body or upon receipt of a court order.
The actual price the manufacturer charges hasn't been going up much. Novolog list and net prices show Novolog vial has gone up 36% in price since 2001 (less than inflation) and Novolog Pen has gone up 3% since 2001.[1]

[1] https://www.drugchannels.net/2016/12/novo-nordisk-sheds-new-...
It seems kind of obvious in retrospect. I used to envision "the singularity" as somehow organically emerging from distributed technology and that would make it benevolent. But that was so naive. The singularity was always going to require massive investments of a scale that only monopolies or militaries can provide. That it currently looks like it will come out of ad-tech monopolies comfortable with psychological manipulation at a global scale is the most terrifying possibility of all.
That’s not the one I don’t think. It was listed on 1k projects 3 days agp for $950. And that’s not OP posting.
Ok, that's totally fair. No parrots were harmed in the making of BitTorrent.
> Other businesses can move into those spaces and will end up paying more in taxes

The first is likely, the second is very unlikely. For the simple reason that Amazon would not plan such project in a market that is so hot that is able to generate tax income at the same rate as concentrated investment project of the Amazon HQ size. Surely, it won't turn into a barren wasteland, but I would not expect it to produce more in tax revenue than big development like Amazon HQ would.
Pretty sure the Tibet was invaded before the Dalai Lama even had a chance to show what sort of ruler he would have been. The only people who speak negatively of him are Chinese.
I'm still unconvinced by the modular nature of the ISA. Are we going to end up shipping fat binaries with a dozen binaries for all the different variants that are allowed?

On x86-64 there's a reasonable minimum supported set of instructions, and you only really need runtime CPU detection for the newer vector extensions.
Cough Trump Cough. It does look like Amazon tried to stir the same soup as Trump, and it doesn’t work (Note that I won’t defend that it worked for Trump, it’s just that it may have made it seem ok to pull money from cities using newspapers, because of that precedent).
Research reveals damage that depression inflicts on brain
Looks like no. All the citations generally go to OP. It appears to have originally circulated as "IBM technical report GE20-0752-0"; one book in Google Books notes it as 'available from the author at IBM'. There might be an IBM website somewhere which has it, but if so, Google doesn't know about it, and the one IBM research database I checked didn't turn up anything for that ID.
Yeah, this is huge. Hardly anybody I know ises Tinder. Even though it doesn’t cost money, it’s behavior is blackboxed and it has all the gimmick features that ruin the whole experience.

Dating is an intimate personal thing. I would rather not do it at all than give up my dignity.
Wouldn't any advocate of the efficient market hypothesis argue that he's simply part of the market?

Alternately, any person profiting off of arbitrage disproves it. :)
AFAIK nodes get paid for serving data and they can set the price to be higher than their bandwidth costs, so refusing to serve data is refusing to make money.
I'm not sure that I would call something with about 40 screens of man pages "lightweight".
Anybody who just blindly "trusts" any government, facebook, Google, or any large organization is a moron.

You have to consider what you're trusting them to do.

I trust organizations to act in my interest so long as our interests align. It is the difference between allies and friends.
Do Java programmers find mutable variables in general horrifying? That was not my impression - certainly, the language doesn't make it easy to make everything immutable. If so, why the special distinction for lambdas?

The official rationale was that they expected lambdas to be mostly used for parallel sequence processing, and wanted to avoid race conditions. Of course, in practice, lambdas are very useful in many other places, where there's no concurrency issue at all - async continuation callbacks, for example, or pseudo-custom language constructs implemented as functions with a lambda for a body.
My mistake, I've been too generic. What annoys me most is the GDPR cookie consent requirement which worsens the internet browsing experience for me.

I agree with you that it's great to be able to request your account deletion.
Totally agree. In my neck of the woods one county nearly bankrupted a neighboring one by offering an existing business a deal that led them to move a few miles away. The old county was stuck with sewer bonds and other costs while the revenue vaporized.

It’s difficult though as it’s a prisoner’s dilemma type situation.
the genius of consumerism was to turn latent wants into newfound needs.
As someone who doesn't use Facebook, Twitter, or their subsidiaries, the debate is kinda laughable. Sure break them up for antitrust. Write privacy regulation. But regulating the content shared there? If you don't like it, it's so easy to opt out, and it feels great. People write like these are utilities necessary for a good life, which sounds crazy from the outside.
I'm torn.

On one hand, I absolutely see the logic, feel the occasional despair, and tend to agree with you, especially when it comes to economies of scale. I'll never write algos that'll detect the alpha hedge funds can. I'll never write the NLP that my own employer can leverage trivially.

On the other hand, do I really need to? In 90% of the use cases where I want to solve a problem, with some pile of hacks and heuristics I've gotten "more than good enough." And the big companies will keep investing on ways to scale up and optimize these algos, which will only benefit us tiny users too. I did both my last publication and patent using a CPU-bound model and not an ounce of deep learning, with a corpus you could fit on a thumbdrive.

I've watched a bigCo spend _months_ of some of the best engineers I know to optimize a tiny subproblem of a subproblem. (object similarity detection) Meanwhile I had to solve an isomorphism for my home camera system, threw together a prototype in a few hours with openCV and _really_ rudimentary bit-array hacks, declared it "WORKABLE" and have been using it for the last 3 years. There are some areas where what's in open source is pretty much what I'd use given any options. (Pandas, Spark, postgres) and some areas where it's not (pgadmin :P and OS UX (looking at you canonical) to name two). This isn't a one sided battle, to the strength and credit of non-big-corps.

Maybe it's the eternal rebel in me, but I'm a fan of desert kenobi, it's the start of a journey. Stick it to the man!
@andosteinmetz I'll offer anecdata also as a born-and-raised New Yorker (FYI - I finally moved out because the job market did not support the living costs given personal constraints.)

NY is a shell of what it was in 2005/2006. Yes, there are more tech firms, but the 500,000 or so jobs lost after the financial collapse in 2008 have not been made up for. I welcome Amazon bringing in well-paid positions, because as a New Yorker, I'd like the city to support a middle class, not just wealthy foreigners parking money into LLCd condos staying empty.

Much of the gentrification could be due to the free money and ZIRP policy in the US -- it is cheap to borrow and thus people, especially wealthy people/corps, borrow heavily and raise prices and rents. There is little correlation between actual income and rents in NYC because of this external booster.

Wouldn't it be better if the source of rent increases in NYC be the presence of lots of well paying jobs?
In recent years a consensus has developed among the scientists that refined carbs are harmful for a number of different reasons. This article adds one more I was unaware of.
It's not clear and obvious, or simple, to craft legislation that prevents trolling without also affecting the legitimate rights of non-troll patent holders, applicants, and licensees.
I know this sounds dumb, but I found this to be very useful

https://jamesaltucher.com/blog/the-ultimate-guide-for-becomi...

It's an entertaining read, but the premise is

- idea generation is a skill
- you need to practice
- come up with 10 garbage ideas per day (and occasionally one or two are good)
Nvidia's gaming bussiness revenue nosedived 45% YoY in Q4
Experts Say Gen Z Isn't Prepared for the Workplace
That's not the OP, but yeah, I saw it as well. It made me wish that 1k had a "sort by MRR" option. MRR is a very loud positive signal.

edit: and since it's from another HN'r, good work! It's a good idea with a really tasteful/simple execution.
Suggested new title: "_I_ Don't Need to Quit _My_ Job to Make"
Why should Amazon "run out of" Americans? If they want the best candidates and the pools are statistically equivalent, they should be taking Indians, Chinese, and Americans in proportion to their worldwide population from their first hires onwards.

The only reason to prefer Americans is American government intervention. Without a government telling you who you can hire and who you can't - and in particular, in the utopia of John Galt - there's no rational reason for Amazon to prefer extending offers to people born anywhere vs. people born anywhere else.
What's the best alternative way to minimize the number of people in the country illegally?

It's fine enough to say this option sucks, but you have to bring a better one.
Thanks I'll mention it to him, the free one might do the job - I think $100 a month might give him pause.
Yeah come on DO don’t charge me for transfer within your own Datacenter