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>"I may as well take out a loan and bet it all on black. I was going to kill myself anyway so why not". There is definitely a cold logic to it at least.

Ah yes, I believe this is known as Pascal's Roulette Wager.
Meowly – Cat App with Cat Breed Identifier and Cat GIFs Sharing
Sending a curl to an endpoint from the client is not push but pull. The idea of push notifications is that they arrive immediately.
Can archived content be put on a public permalink? IPFS.
I don't believe you could have looked at the other presentations in this workshop, read the workshop intro, and then read Strumia's slides and truly believe that this was a serious presentation. I respectfully (as much as I can be given what I'm about to say) call bullshit.
I learned machining while in college, as a physics major. That's somewhat of a tradition in physics. Most physics departments have a shop, some are staffed by pro's. Today, there's a small shop at my workplace that's mainly used for custom work, but I use it occasionally for prototyping or modifying things.

In a previous life, I assembled extremely specialized custom CNC's for precise machining of small, delicate parts. We used off the shelf CNC controllers available at the time, which drove large stepping motors.

It's a blast. Be safe.

I noticed the key left in the chuck, on that blog. Oh, my eyes! Granted, it was probably just for taking the picture, but it still gave me the heebie jeebies. ;-)
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What this looked like in 2004: https://www.scott-a-s.com/the-linux-boot-process-of-2004/
Does interviewing outside the Bay Area mean interviewing in places still around north Cali? Or going away from that region entirely? I know SF, Bay Area, and SV are different, but i have them all sort of confused and lumped together.
Great book!!! I'm working through it myself.
Every story about family planning, abortion, IVF, etc. in popular media seems to center around particular individuals and their struggles, hopes, and dreams -- with the end-result of pushing the ethical boundaries further or affirming a particular ethical stance, and without appealing to anything objective. But they're only telling a part of one side of the story: there are many people who chose not to have an abortion, despite genetic counselors advising them otherwise for whatever reason (Down's syndrome, genetic conditions, etc.), and are very glad they did so.

Either way, a long-term trend of telling and listening only to individual stories shifts the discussion away from what the objective moral values are or should be based on principles, ethics, logic, and worldview -- and perhaps leads people to think that objective moral values and duties don't exist.
It's not something me or any of my friends care about. If your shoes are obviously dirty, as in muddy, you take them off, but otherwise it's not something anyone thinks about. Complete non-issue to us.
Also, there's a theory that projects take the time you give them.

There are some deadlines that are too short that can't be hit, but if you have a project your team has done before in 4 weeks and give them 8 weeks, it'll take 8 weeks. The reason is it can always be improved. There are always more edge cases and more automation that can be added. Plus, many people would gladly work at half speed rather than full speed if the outcome was the same (daily compensation, praise, success, etc.).
Specify just US as the thread is about that and it is back to 8%. Still behind Edge. Which isn’t surprising. http://gs.statcounter.com/browser-market-share/desktop/unite...

It wouldn be interesting to see an evening, past work hours, US/Canada browser split. I would assume IE would tank vs being in 2nd. Edge would probably go down too though not as much.
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Oh one more question - do you use walk forward testing? Monte Carlo simulations?
Yeah making that argument would be beyond the scope of a HN post. I've also never seen a good argument that publicly funding drug research and dev would get us to a better place than today

Those approvals are all for new molecular entities. In 2018 39% of those were first in class, i.e. Drugs with a new or unique mechanism of action. The percentage of first in class drugs approved among all NMEs has been trending upwards. My guess would be that most of the rest are second / third in class, not just "lifecycle management" plays

It's actually much harder to do lifecycle management bs in pharma these days compared to 20 years ago. Yeah you can get patents, some may be enforceable, but insurance companies will not put up with that unless the "new" drug provides a real clinical benefit

http://www.hbmpartners.com/media/docs/industry-reports/Analy...
IQ tests are not used as barriers to any institutions in the US (or in most of the developed world). They are almost exclusively used for research purposes.
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Is there any other way at google scale?

I haven't written more than 100k LOC of C++ and yet there are already lots of code (mostly template meta programming) that I wrote that even I can't read anymore.

Now imagine blowing that up to (literally) billions of lines of C++ written by overly clever engineers all eager to prove themselves.
I'm not defending his talk.

I'm indicating that his firing isn't necessarily an objective measure of it's 'offensiveness', rather simply a measure of the political sensitivity of the situation.

Given that it was as other posters have indicated kind of a surprise 'gotcha' presentation etc. - it was obviously out of line.

I would probably have severed relationships as well were I in charge of the situation.

But an even better approach would be to address the information in the presentation, because it's going to 'get around' (i.e. the shock value of the presentation means it made the news cycle!).
I do not understand the title you posted here.
Update on Creative Commons Licenses and “In Memoriam” Accounts
borgmatic, a Borg Backup wrapper with a declarative config file, also supports creating append-only Borg repositories. More at https://torsion.org/borgmatic/
I think that’s pretty much the case regardless. Sometimes you just happen to be using your computer when someone hacks your account.
The standard committee one : https://isocpp.github.io/CppCoreGuidelines/CppCoreGuidelines
Bullying isn't that difficult. It has a definition. It's not momentary anger or a general outburst or even a persistent bad temper. Bullying is a persistent pattern of behavior directed at a specific person for the purpose of intimidation or coercion or establishing power over the person.

A supervisor can be generally unpleasant, impatient, lacking empathy, and demanding and not be a bully.
> Drug companies have profit margins of 15% on average indicating there is room.

This seems to contradict itself. 15% profit margin is not that great compared to the opportunity cost. Someone working at a drug company could in theory switch (retraining etc.) to working at, say, Google which has a 22% profit margin. I realize it’s not apples to apples, but that’s not a huge, monopoly level profit.
They expose some general reasons, like the lack of tested libraries, which are applicable to other projects in general.

And regardless this, my point is not showing a rant against Lisp (I'm huge fan of it in fact). My point is simply that the language may be a great choice or a bad one, the outcome is not an intrinsic property of it.
So what they are actually doing is regressing some legacy DNA in birds to make them look like dinosaurs. Which for many would be akin to painting white stripes upon a horse and calling it a zebra.
It's not like it's much CO2 though. Nearly as much is released by the truck driving to my house.
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That patent gamesmanship is part of a strategy of "lifecycle management" where pharma tries to extend monopoly pricing beyond main patent expiry. It used to be much more effective. basically companies could do something like patent for ex a pill you take twice a day vs 3 times a day. Other companies can make generic versions of the 3x a day pill

Unless you provide a real clinical benefit, most payers will make docs write an rx for the 3x a day generic vs new 2x a day patent. So these lifecycle extension games certainly happen but it's not really that effective
Mine tells me to put them in the compost bin.

Still teaching the family though.
No flamebait, please.

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The link exposes some underlying reasons which I think applies to bigger projects as well. Like the lack of libraries.
Comma.ai founder George Hotz wants to free humanity from the AI simulation
I think Push API is an industry standard but there is this W3 draft https://www.w3.org/TR/push-api/

But yes, it's essentially implemented the same across iOS/Android and browsers like Chrome, FF, Edge etc. There are services such as Amazon SNS or Google Firebase that provide a single interface which can talk to all the slightly different implementations.

In a nutshell the device registers to the server and receives an identifier token. Then a server can send messages to that identifier and the message will be displayed on the screen. Some providers allow for Icon, Audio and some Actions to also be sent as part of the message payload.
"I like to bring up black death in discussions when people complain that our current time is "difficult"."

IMO, we can do so much more with the technological advances we've made. We have used technology to tame nature, but are unable to tame the beast within ourselves.

Having to compare our information age society with feudal societies wracked with the plague to prove how much better things are proves my point. Things should be way better, but they aren't outside of the small bubbles that are slowly popping/deflating in the first world.
> So, sure: stipulated. Male h. sapiens sapiens have statistically greater variability, across the population. That in no way whatsoever prevents a woman from being the biggest or smartest, or a man the smallest or weakest, or either the best at one job, or the worst at another.

It does not prevent a women from being the most (or the least) anything. But it says a lot about the probability of that being the case.
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I know the pharmacists you see at CVS and other face to Facebook pharmacies make pretty good money. But those are the ones that only need 7-8 years as noted.
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I'm sorry. Won't happen again
A digital gangster destroying democracy: the damning verdict on Facebook
Yeah I meant to point out that the form of bullying seems to be shame based rather than intimidation. But I count them both as bullying.

Sticks and stones may break my bones but words hurt the worst.
I call them myths because it's not important if it's literally true, just that if the executives believe it's true, then they make the right choice. For example, if you have a home grown internal tool, like a database or a messaging system, it's important that the executives believe that it is a competitive advantage for the company so they don't try to replace it. If they try to cut the maintenance of that internal tool out and switch to something cheaper, then it would probably be terrible for the company because engineering would need to rework the whole system that depends on it and it wouldn't end up being cheaper. Same with switching the language you use to Java. Sure you can hire more Java developers, but rewriting the system from scratch or splitting the codebase is probably worse, so just make sure the CEO believes Elixir is key to their success, whether it actually is or not.

Listen to Steve Jobs describe object oriented programming. I'm not sure he even knew what it was, but it worked out for the company that he sold it so well. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2kjtQnPqq2U
The argument is obvious: the presentation itself is intellectually (mostly) valid and not offensive. The perception of it might be, by some, ergo, he was dismissed.

His dismissal is not an objective nature of the inherent 'offensiveness' of the presentation.
If they faced issues in a one-week project, I ask myself what would have happened in a project big enough to speak to something
Johnson and Johnson invested $10.8B in r&d in 2018 compared to $34b nih budget. Merck spent $9.6b. Pfizer spent $8b. Bristol Myers spent $5b

Yes NIH is biggest single spender but pharma industry as a whole spends much more
Elizabeth Warren wants to break up Apple, too
Seems like - https://functional.works-hub.com/jobs/?tags=ocaml
For those looking for more documentaries, here's a similar thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18271167
I wasn't referring to DTC marketing. DTC is a small percentage of the marketing companies do.

Any yes, you can outsource running a trial, but you still need someone to design it, process the data, put together an NDA and submit for approval.

I can only imagine the complete clusterfuck that would be if it was all done by public employees.
IQ tests have been used as barriers in some circumstances - for example, people who are "too smart" may be at a disadvantage should they want to enter some police forces in the U.S.
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In the future, kids might learn about scutoids in geometry class. Lots of ideas get stripped of their context in math classes as if they are all ancient and there was never a time when we didn't have them. But really, a phenomenon will just look like a mess until someone plays around with it to see if there are rules in there that we can understand. If you want to watch this process of a new mathematical idea getting invented right now, check out this video.
> The tools the development team has for combatting the deadline are unsustainable

This misses the key power of the dev team in Scrum - to say "no":

"Can you do that quicker?" No.

"Can you cut corners?" No.

The dev team may not be able to change features or scope, but they absolutely can tell the product owners to either change things, or accept what the dev team says they can do in the allotted time.
I find it interesting that in other building projects, like in construction, almost all of the pressure and responsibility for meeting deadlines is placed upon the project management. Not the ones doing the direct labor.

The reason for deadlines in software, they way they are used today, is simply to get more hours out of a week from a software developer. Unlike in construction, software developers do not get paid hourly, nor do they get overtime pay. Abitrary micro deadlines coerce developers to work extra hours which makes their cost per week for amount of work to go down.

In construction, if they made up an arbirary micro deadline that was too short, the workers would get overtime pay at 1.5x their normal rate. Plus the additional hours. So for them, a too short deadline makes their cost per week for amount of work to go up.

We debate endlessly about all these estimates becase we're all pretending its about things that its not. Its almost completely based upon getting more hours per week per developer, as it makes the labor less expensive.
I agree (great definition BTW) but in my experience, in the real world, I suggest the term gets broadly and crudely applied.
Unless/until we revert to an agrarian society where your livelihood depends on the amount of land you have to farm, I'm pretty sure there's not much to ponder here.
> I grew frustrated at teaching 16-bit real mode programming and decided to change to 32-bit protected mode. However, I soon ran into a problem. I could not find a textbook that covered 32-bit protected mode assembly programming!

I skimmed through the book a bit and there is an explanation of what protected mode is in chapter 1, but the actual teaching assembly part of the book seems to be all 32 bit real mode. Is that correct?
Or just use ZFS and send/recv over the network? It's super simple, guarantees reliability, and very easy to replicate, e.g. offline backups.
Not Invented Here Syndrome, level: over 9000

Since he mentioned wanting some 3D/gaming stuff, I randomly checked out his vector3 class. It's not usable, due to the usage of float8. Games use float4. And since it's not templated...

As for matrix4 multiplication, a core operation, it's beyond bad:
https://github.com/DeanRoddey/CIDLib/blob/master/Source/AllP...
The US and Liberia are the only countries that use Grand Juries for preliminary hearings.

I'm quite appalled at the juxtaposition in your response. You claim to not support the direct action used by activists, yet your suggestions for "alternatives" to Grand Juries are far more violent and combative than anything the activists are doing -- even going so far as to suggest to line them up against a wall and execute them.

There are plenty more alternatives for a functioning Democracy than Grand Juries.
Kafka. "One day, Gregor Samsa awoke to find himself transformed into a giant cockroach."
A person of color might be afraid to say something like this in case people take it as carte blanche to make their statement a generalization about a given ethnicity.
Cosmicomics is also pretty great.
The "d" is for development. Basically "research" is finding a potential drug (making a chemical that has an effect on disease in animal or in vitro models and has good pharmacological properties) and "development" is testing it in tox studies, scaling up manufacturing, testing it for safety and effectiveness in humans. There is a ton of risk and cost in the "development" stage

DTC ads would be in the marketing budget under SG&A
Erlang and Elixir processes seem like a good model for serverless FaaS. Your code as written could run on one core or scale to multiple cores or servers.
> I think the point is the client might not be sophisticated enough to realize there’s a distinction there

Yup, that's exactly my point. Your car analogy is a good one. I was going to make a similar one with house construction but you've hit on it well.
Damore did not mention the variability hypothesis, but he clearly made his points in terms difference of distributions, implying that aiming for exact parity while using metrics that are biased in favor of males was foolish. At least that's what I remember of his essay.

The whole thing was a bit ham-fisted though...
What objective moral values do you think exist in this case? The abortion debate is really about defining when human life begins, and there has never been universal agreement on the answer.
For anyone else who wanted it: CNN = Convolutional neural network

I somehow mis-parsed that as the news network the first time and became very confused for a moment.
I’ve seen software rejected this at a university as the IT teams (pleural) didn’t like the language it was written in. However the problem was solved by the software vendor withdrawing their quote as we were too hard to deal with.
> what is this project about? Someone subscribed for notifications and then this server sends them?

Exactly that. A device registers with the server and then there's a REST API or CLI binary that you can use to send it push notification messages.
Ah, of course - thanks for clarifying
The cloud browser concept is intriguing, as a quick weekend project I whipped up this simple demo: https://gitlab.com/epitactic/cloudbrowser - using Google Chrome instead of Firefox, but it runs headless on a VPS and lets you browse most websites. Comments/feedback welcome, I'm trying to get it posted as a Show HN soon. Here's a live demo on a VPS: https://cloudbrowser.website/
> This is hysteria

I've taken public transit all my life and I'm scared every time I take the bart :/
Taxes are pretty good at raising awareness, since they're quite controversial. Of course, that increase in awareness isn't necessarily going to result in better actions--there are likely people who will deliberately sabotage such efforts in protest.

If the only solution here is to consume less, taxes could work for the majority of the population. If the cost of consumption goes up, actual consumption goes down. But a significant minority of the population would probably be willing to eat the extra cost, which is unfortunate.

Not all waste producers are individuals, either. Industrial processes often produce a lot of waste, and the products at the end of the chain don't always go to individuals; they might go to the military, for example. Big companies are more likely to have the money and lawyers to evade taxes and fines, which impedes regulation and rewards companies that don't play fair. These issues aren't seen by consumers, so we can't vote with our wallets, either.

Raising awareness via traditional methods seems like a good long-term strategy, but what about all the people who simply don't care?

Ultimately, we're going to need to tackle this problem from multiple angles. It's unlikely that a single tactic will yield satisfactory results. Regulation and taxes are probably going to need to be part of our plan, but they won't be sufficient on their own.
That links a 404 for me but I'd want to investigate the methodologies. The r&d numbers for the industry seem low as do the revenues, I don't know what sample of companies they used

Also don't know what criteria Bentley used to determine how much NIH research contributed to new drugs

This report provides another perspective and highlights the role of industry

http://www.hbmpartners.com/media/docs/industry-reports/Analy...
I disagree with the notion that your edge has to rely mainly on the infrastructure or insider knowledge.
In today's markets you often have the case that very wealthy and high volume market participants have to make ends meet with rather low liquidity markets. This leaves more than enough room for small fish to arbitrate since the price allocation is flawed.
We’re all still constrained by resources of one kind or another. And we all still compete with each other for those limited resources. So it seems to me like the logic still holds.

Or, more concretely, the reason why I get to enjoy a comfortable middle class lifestyle is because there aren’t many people who can do what I do. There isn’t much competition driving down software engineering wages, in other words. I can’t see how it would somehow not be better for lower class people to have less competition for the jobs they do.
didn't work at all for SF.
Every large American city I’ve lived in has buy-back glass milk bottles in the major supermarkets.

I have about $35 worth in my garage right now. I really need to take them back and get my money.
That's pretty neat, but could you add an Open Source license to it? It's gonna make folks hesitant to use it.
Engineers with Java experience and enterprise development are more plentiful (less expensive) than with many other languages and ecosystems.
Chicago is wayyyyyy bigger than Oakland.

population of Chicago: 2.716 million (2017)
population of Oakland: 425,195 (2017)
I would like to know the mass-equivalent of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB). We have a good idea of the volume of the known universe. We have a good idea of the local energy density of the CMB, assumed to be approximately the same everywhere. We know the conversion constant between energy and mass.