skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's called persuasive writing. If I couched everything with "I think" my 4th grade English teacher would come out from behind a bush and swat my hands.

The fact that you can identify what my opinion is and still not address it, preferring to have this semantic argument, is a great example of someone avoiding the conversation because they know they're in the wrong.
It's important to note that institutions respond to outside forces, not the will of the people in those institutions. I'm sure plenty of the top bankers donate to the Sierra Club, but they still invest in fuel pipelines and oil projects.

No one can blame the drug companies for operating as an institution and it's hard to pin that blame on the individuals operating in it, too. You're right that the incentives that form these companies haven't been around forever and we should seek to find ways towards a better solution.
> It doesn't create more room inside the phone […]

> They put the Taptic Engine there instead.

It sounds like it created the room for the Taptic Engine.
It's not Google's fault this time.

The problem is that Blogspam is now a (legitimate) industry much bigger than Google can manage.

Google Search became a playground for marketing firms to dump content made by low-paid freelancers with algorithmically chosen keywords, links and headers. It's SEO on large scale. Everything is monitored via analytics and automatically posted to Wordpress. Every time Google tweaks its algorithm to catch it, they're able to A-B test and then change thousands of texts all at once.

Personal blogs can't even dream about competing with that.

In fact, those companies are actively competing with personal blogs by themselves: via tools like SEMRush and social media monitoring, they know which blogs are trending and use their tools to produce copycat content re-written by freelancers and powered by their SEO machine.

I know a startup that is churning 10 thousand blogposts per day on clients blogs, each costing from 2 to 5 dollars for a freelancer to write according to algorithmically defined parameters.

Just wait until they get posts written via OpenAI-style machine learning: the quality will be even lower.

Not only that: there's no need for black hat SEO anymore. Blogposts from random clients have links to others clients blogs, and it is algorithmically generated in order to maximize views and satisfy Google's algorithm. They have a gigantic pool of seemingly unconnected blogs to link to, so why not use it.

The irony is that companies buy this kind of blogspam to skip paying AdSense. Why pay when you can get organic search results? So not only they're damaging the usefulness of the SERP, they're directly eating Google's bottom line. These blogs also have ZERO paid advertising inside them, since they're advertising themselves.

That's the reason Bing, DuckDuckGo and Yandex still have "old web" results.

That puts Google in a very difficult position and IMO they're not wrong to fight it.
Bot Based Appraisal
Hi fellow HNer’s,

My company has started a new system wherein our appraisals will be decided by a bot.

Is this system present in any one else’s company? Ever heard of such a thing?

Any big company anywhere does this?

Also, how does the algorithm work?
Does it take into account self graded KPA and KRA? Or only managers?

Any feedback would be highly appreciated.
Tax savings, no doubt. The motivation behind the reduced taxes is to bring economy and ethics in balance, so they're working as intended.
There is one bright spot on the pharma horizon and that is the industry's discovery and pipeline crisis. There has been a marked slowdown in the discovery of novel drugs over the past decade, a trend that has remained resilient even in the face of enormous R&D spending. Whether you think big pharma spends too much on marketing in comparison to R&D doesn't dampen the importance of the sheer volume of dollars being spent. The pipeline for many pharma giants is practically dry and only getting drier with each passing year. Many have tried to offload the risks involved in massive R&D efforts by letting small companies develop the drug and then obtaining their IP through mergers and acquisitions but even then, the pace of discovery for novel drugs has still slowed meaning the number of M&A opportunities are also shrinking.

Maybe the pharma giants simply played themselves, greedily focusing on exorbitant short term profits and naively assuming R&D would always deliver something at their existing levels of funding while ignoring the long term effects this would have on their business model. Maybe we've simply reached "peak pharma", running out of easy discoveries that are best treated by applying a chemical and entering a world where biotech and immunotherapy will drive the future of healthcare. Either way, the patent cliff looms and we are rapidly approaching the threshold where enough profitable drugs go generic that the industry can no longer afford to buy out, bribe, and cheat their way to maintain their position.
Note:

- We are currently accepting only US-based developers.

- We are looking individual developers / contractors; not head hunters, outsourcing/recruitment agencies, or consulting companies.

Sorry for the confusion.
And further, even if he is attempting to "manipluate the algorithm" he really is just trying to maximize his views for his content, which is much higher quality content than the average youtube video.
Kind of unrelated but why are fad diets promoted so much on this site?
Luangjokaj/fuzzymail: Making emails fun again
> Canada did the opposite.

Not "Canada", but the province of Alberta. Norway is a 'monolithic' country, but Canada has federalism where the provinces have jurisdiction over certain areas.

And Alberta did/does have a fund, but over the decades various governments (generally Conervative) have decided not to really invest into it:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alberta_Heritage_Savings_Trust...
In that case, they have a branding problem, and should rename Google Search to Google Answers.
Looks very interesting. How does it compare against sonic https://github.com/valeriansaliou/sonic
I didn't miss anything, and no the doctor didn't do what I advocate. Sure maybe in the local maxima sense he did, but there's a whole long period of time where more can be done.
I was referring to all frameworks/standards that the HL7 org has developed for handling of patient/clinical data.

Patient data is not special other than its security requirements. There does not need to be a layer of standards in this space dedicated to handling/transfer of clinical/hospital data between organizations. Private industry & hospitals can solve this without the need for a standards board or HL7 standards. We have enough standards for handling/transfer of sensitive data.

Engineers have already solved that with interoperable data systems dedicated to managing and sorting through large sets of data. Healthcare data is simply data. There are plenty of other types of highly sensitive data that don't need an entire organization dictating bloated standards implementations that are already highly fragmented themselves.

HL7 is an unnecessary abstraction.
Eh. If it takes two barrels of oil to extract one barrel of oil, where do you get the energy for extraction? Then you're using solar/wind/nuclear to pump oil. At some point, it's cheaper to just synthesize.
croc currently doesn't do peer-to-peer with WebRTC, but I've actually been working on a branch that does. [1] Currently, croc uses a rendezvous server unless you happen to be on the same local network.

Thanks to Antonito (and their usage of MIT license) I'll fork their code into croc so it can do WebRTC with a secure PAKE channel.

[1]: https://github.com/schollz/croc/tree/v5
To you? Nope. Nothing does, you're dead.
Not showing up here. Not even if I add quotes.
> Running Windows Server for the purposes of just AD is ridiculous IMO.

I disagree. The pain of running Windows Server is outweighed by the excellence, stability, effortless scalability, and programmability of AD.

> I found OpenLDAP to be by far the nicest to use.

I've implemented all the same (and others such as Netscape/Sun Directory Server). I strongly disagree. Hell, I even come from a UNIX/C background.

> The moral of this story is: anecdotal evidence is anecdotal.

Pot. Kettle.

> That's not a good thing.

I guess we'll just have to agree to disagree across the board, then. Although I am well used to it now, I find LDAP programming is obtuse and thoroughly not a good setup for modern networks and APIs. There are much better, more naturally scalable ways to do things.

Lightweight Directory Access Protocol is anything but lightweight.
Cancer ‘vaccine’ shows promise in human trial of lymphoma patients
The Taptic Engine, along with 3D Touch is probably the most useless things ever on an iPhone. Some may argue that the home button is a moving part and can fail but personally I've never had any issue with them. I don't think the occasional failures (that are bound to happen no matter what) warrant redesigning the entire mechanism.
Windows 10's new Edge with Chromium browser preview builds drop today
To get a feel for the size of Bleve, checkout this graph that shows commit rates doing into Bleve versus Elasticsearch and Vespa:
http://blog.minimum.se/assets/elasticsearch-open-source-comm...

If you don't need heavy lifting, then "sonic" implemented in rust is a really nice lean alternative too:
https://github.com/valeriansaliou/sonic

FWIW, that graph is from a blog post I published earlier today:
http://blog.minimum.se/2019/04/08/elastic-search-introductio...
Thanks! for sharing links. wiby in particular is amazing!
Yeah, I made similar experiences. Also to dive into some random topic, Google is not really helpful and just suggests only really obvious things first like Wikipedia.

On the other hand, for day to day work at least for me it is still indispensable. Googling a random exception out of an unexpected stack trace works far better than with DDG for instance.
Thank you for theses details. Kryoflux can write back a read raw stream or some common image formats (IFP, ADF, G64 etc.)
>313,661 barrels per day per million people.... Australia produces 12,010 bbl/day/millon-people

Would be way easier to understand the comparison if the notation would be the same on both numbers. I assume bbl means billions of barrels, this means Australia's number is higher by few orders.
I slay her with dad jokes on the regular.
Mysterious AMD 'Cato' RX-8125, RX-8120, A9-9820 CPUs Have Surfaced
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Don't have the data, but I'm willing to bet part of the reason is probably because a lot of people that didn't have an insurance plan before Obamacare now were forced to lest they pay the penalty; that's all the ACA really is anyway: a glorified mandate saying one had to pick private insurance from the government's limited marketplace or they'll be fined. Didn't solve dick...but hey, Obama did it so it must be progress!
So to be clear, you can obviously see when I'm expressing my opinion, but due to semantics of English, you demand I express it in a way that doesn't offend you?

Jesus dude, why the fuck would anyone listen to that level of hubris? What the hell kind of incentives are you giving me here, because right now my only incentive is to laugh at the person who can't actually have a conversation because they're too busy derailing it with semantic arguments about things they did understand, but didn't like how it was presented.
> How often can a junior approach you before you grow tired of them constantly asking you for help/guidance?

Personally, it would depend on if they're learning from my guidance or not: if they keep coming back with the same problems I'd get frustrated that they (seemingly) weren't attempting to learn or improve. On the other hand, it they usually come to me with new problems they've encountered and gotten stuck on, I don't expect it would bother me nearly as much.

Of course, IRL it'll probably be somewhere in between.
My pair of DT 770 Ms sound awful with the lightning to USB adapter, even though they're only 80 ohms. But I guess if you're using high impedance headphones it comes with the territory that you may need an amp.

For me, they sound good driven from my iPad pro and a USB C charging/headphone adapter so I listen from that at my desk.
Just wondering if you can share your stack and what kind of traffic did you get (in terms of requests/second)? Always curious as to how much traffic HN really brings and why some sites stay up and others die.
Bowls of fruit stay untouched long enough for one to draw a picture. Boxes of donuts, on the other hand...you haven't seen many still lifes of them, have you?
Ooohh. What secrets are there in Boston, I wonder?
https://coincircle.com/l/50VVxbObg3
I’ve always considered myself nerdy, but when I was younger I thought I wasn’t that nerdy to play Dungeons and Dragons. Years later a woman I had a crush on was starting a campaign with some mutual friends so of course I jumped in. When she left the group prematurely to go to a university, I stayed because it was just so much fun. These days I get bummed out if I don’t have a weekly game of some sort to play.

The reason why it’s cool is that it’s essentially an unlimited budget, sandbox video game/film of any setting or dynamics you want. Most people think of Dungeons and Dragons as the only game of its type but there are so many more. I’ve played in a futuristic cyberpunk dystopia, an episode of Star Trek, a blasted radioactive Mad Max landscape where different realities have messily converged, a medieval land where dragons are the ruling class, infiltrating a clockwork/steampunk aristocrat empire, and a bunch more that I’m forgetting.

You also engage with people face to face, make food together, catch up on things, exercise improv skills, and goof around too. I once played a female Druid (I’m a man) but used a weird version of my voice and claimed I had been cursed to speak like that).

With the exception of a trending multiplayer shooter game or two, I generally don’t play computer games anymore. With the right people there’s so much more nuance, depth, and variety with table top role playing games.

I’m currently getting ready to be the GM of a Dungeon World campaign. I really like the variety of community made supplements available to it, and it’s philosophy of player->GM->player feedback loop driving the action.
Drinks bottles now biggest plastic menace for waterways
That is only partially true - real costs of drugs say in Switzerland are properly astronomical (don't know their comparison to US but would expect same or higher).

But we have pretty effective medical insurance - after paying initial yearly sum, insurance kicks in and covers 90% of the costs. No massive incomprehensible bureaucracy and fooling around with various charges. It doesn't matter what your employer is, you pay it yourself, it covers you no matter the age, status or existing state.

It can still be costly to encounter something serious, some other countries cover 100% of the costs (but question is the quality and speed of treatment, because if its free, old people with tons of mostly incurable ailments can easily flood the system). If it can properly ruin you, social system steps in.
I wouldn't want to work for a corp that doesn't have the right political muscle to avoid the charges. Halliburton, Exxon, Boeing, HSBC, etc, won't be charged.
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1953_Iranian_coup_d%27%C3%A9ta...
> And I liked the clicky home buttons.

Really? I enjoy the fake home buttons much more. In fact, the only iPhone part I've had fail on me was the old style home button. Happened twice.
Is the title of this post uptalking? (https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/caveman-logic/201010...) Or is there a legitimate question as to if money was lost? Doesn't seem so from the article.

I suppose there's always just the typo possibility as well.
The Criterion Channel streaming service launches today. This will make all of their library available again, after FilmStruck got shut down by the AT&T/Time Warner purchase.

https://www.criterionchannel.com/browse

Launch lineup and initial rollout plan here:

https://www.criterion.com/current/posts/6258-lusty-pre-code-...
But they are about $10k, and sadly one of the few things where I don't think there are any working DIY ones.
End the time management world. Start the mind management world
Ah so now you rope back around to the actual conversation. Nope, you've poisoned this well too much with your semantic nonsense, you don't deserve to benefit from anything I have to say about death.
This seems like a spam article that doesn't have any real content.
Experience. Again, not talking about a mature project, but a new one in the design phase. Types (like unit tests) are extra work at this point until a good design is discovered. Which takes time to think about.
bbl is market jargon for barrels, not billions of barrels...
Historical Norms for humanity also involve a lot death and misery.
So I'm not sure a discussion about historical norms is needed.

What is concerning is that our current society is breaking apart.
The 6S had a taptic engine AND a 3.5mm jack.
Theresa May did an Op Ed[0] in the metro[1][2].

[0] https://www.metro.news/exclusive-by-theresa-may-we-are-leadi...

[1] pdf about audience - https://d212k0qo5yzg53.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/201...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metro_(British_newspaper)
One Graph to Showcase Steam Proton's Progress to Run Windows Games on Linux
I'm a full stack engineer (7 years experience) turned manager.
I use it almost every day, to listen to my iPhone at work with the studio-grade headphones I've trusted for years (Beyerdynamic DT770). It works great and hasn't failed yet.

Marvel indeed!
I'm writing this on the Dev version right now, and it feels great so far!

The reading list is not implemented in this build, but I hope they add it back...
>> I do wonder sometimes what would be the best way to protect ourselves as maintainers of open source projects.

Well, some of us develop an attitude of contempt towards their userbase (the techincal illiterate and rude part of them at least). "Cannot configure? RTFM! Doesn't compile? Read the damn error messages! Outdated libs? Fork or fuck off!".

It helps keeping your peace of mind, but it doesn't help the situation in any way, since we are just loading up the contempt we receive to other users (even the ones with good intentions). This is neither good for you nor for the project.

So, as I am writing this I am trying to change my personal style when dealing with those issues, but it flares up fom time to time, and that never has solved any issues but created even more.

I have no convincing answer as of yet, but people who don't even try to be "not-rude as default" are being pushed lower in the "to-answer" queue.
My noise cancelling bluetooth headphones claim 30 hours battery life. I've tested 17 hours straight while flying (including layovers). That's longer than my phone lasts without a charger.
> Also, the can stop drilling now and the annual revenue just stops growing (unless the market). It doesn't shrink.

Actually: if you're taking out 4%, but various investments are bringing in >4%, then the principal will continue to grow.
I asked my dentist, he told me current consensus leans towards brushing + toothpicks being the best, but flossing + brushing is better than just brushing.
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Generously. I'm looking for co-founders and am thinking long-term. I'm not greedy.
Maybe. Cf. every mineral that's mined. Energy expended to extract a resource.
As long as the FDA exists as the arbiter of what can and cannot be sold and the US government defends the intellectual "property" of these businesses, it is unlikely that drug prices will drop in a meaningful way.
What kind of room is there for not optimizing profits in a publicly traded or even a professionally managed private company? How does one decide the morals that the company should abide by when it isn’t their investment/retirement/etc... at stake.

Actually, I’m not sure when this hasn’t been the case. Can you point out any good examples of corporations acting selflessly in the past that wouldn’t occur today?
> You can make improvements to the product, and patent those changes

Yes, that’s exactly what Feldman & the article said. The patent applications for “new” drugs use an existing base drug, modify it in some way that can be called an improvement, and get the drug protected for a 2nd or 3rd time. The point is that the modification is not improving the drug itself the majority of the time, but some secondary component or the delivery mechanism. Do you have any actual evidence that contradicts the idea of evergreening? Here’s a direct link to Feldman’s research: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3061567

> As a threshold matter, no scientist or engineer would say that incremental improvements don’t count as “innovation”.

“Innovation” in this context is referring to research to create brand new drugs, which is what big pharma cites as their reason for needing to charge high prices, and what the patent system requires when filing protections on new drugs. The point is that, despite minor innovations to drugs, they’re not meeting the innovation level that both the companies themselves are claiming they have, and that should be required for patents.

> If the change doesn’t actually result in a therapeutic benefit, then doctors shouldn’t prescribe the new drug over the generic. For various reasons, doctors have little incentive to do that.

Yes, exactly. In theory, generics should easily win when they’re available due to their lower cost. What you’re gently glossing over in your comment is the active incentives big pharma is injecting into the system to secure a place for their higher cost drugs. Some doctors & hospitals & insurance companies are being paid extra, directly and indirectly, to not offer generics.

> But the newer iterations are at least a little bit better, and who wants to give their kid with Type-1 diabetes anything but the latest and greatest version?

Well, that actually depends on the free flow of information. If the new drug is a combination of two existing drugs, you can call it “better”, but in reality it may be 10x the price and no actual therapeutic benefit compared to what was already there. This exists in many drugs, for example existing pain killers being combined with existing anti-nausea drugs, and then a high premium is charged for the combo. The point is that the high premium is completely unnecessary to the patient’s relief.
> certainly better than
> the Android ones that
> just pass analog through
> the USB-C jack

Almost none of the USB-C ones actually do that. Most of them actually also include DACs. the specification that allowed actual analog output through the USB-C port was not widely adapted.
Yes and no. A patent exchanges short term protection for long term commoditization of the invention, which permits not only a market, but an extremely competitive one (because the invention has been documented and disseminated).
The converse of liberal IP laws is that once a company gets enough money and resources, they can just poach smaller companies for ideas, before they get any real traction.

Less innovation will happen because more people will be secretive (since there are less protections) or we will end up with a few large companies owning everything.

You also can't deny the fact that the US is probably the most innovative country in the world and has fairly strict IP laws.

China has very lax IP laws and most companies end up just copying, because nobody wants to risk capital for R&D if it's just going to get copied by someone.
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