skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
2-4 months? Try at least a year. Google search results are now that creamy scum that floats between an industrial wasteland and the tidal flats it was built upon during the changing of the tides.
Would have a link or something to look up about Scotland's land rights being a mess? I realize I'm veering a little off topic here, but I'd be curious to learn more. I'd never heard that before
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>> ban on re-importing cheaper drugs which our companies produce.

Good. Keep that ban. I'm in Canada. Allowing Americans to import drugs at our drug prices, the prices that our "communist" government negotiates on our behalf, would put undue pressure on our system. If the US ban were lifted Canada would probably be forced to ban/tax drug exports to protect itself.

A single payer has far more negotiating power than a free market. Higher prices are the flip side of the "freedom" that is US healthcare. Don't like high prices? Do the hard work of setting up a properly unified nation health system. Don't look to piggyback on the national health systems of others.
This was my first thought. "Neat, wonder how long before it gets shuttered".

For me, Google has clearly demonstrated that I should not use any of its services until several big movers are on board.
That’s too bad. Looks like they had some emphasis on African ex-pat communities. Wonder why the focus wasn’t more on Africa itself?
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They are only doing this because of the optics. If they really cared, they would go back in history and pull all the degrees handed to people that cheated their way in.
This is a medically sound use for benzodiazepines.

Long-acting benzodiazepines like Klonopin for general anxiety will get you addicted, make you fall down, etc.

Short-acting BZs for situational anxiety are mostly safe and effective.

As you will see at airport lounges, many people self-medicate with alcohol when they fly, Xanax is a healthier option than that.
> You're not distinguishing between propositions and sentences.

Because it is not a useful distinction for the topic at hand. Propositions are in the same category as sentences, as far as their dependency on representation is concerned.

Take a random proposition that you think would have evaluated to true in the past, before humans existed, if an entity capable of evaluating the proposition had been around. Now, subtract from the concept that you have in your mind everything that is simply the (physical) world as it is (i.e., the "testable"/empirical aspects referenced by the proposition). What do you have left that could be considered to exist in any meaningful sense, absent a (physical) representation expressing the abstraction?

> What evidence do you have that establishes this as true?

You are shifting the burden of proof. If you think that that is a reliable method, that is up to you to demonstrate. If you prefer, I'll rephrase to "It has not been demonstrated that you can use the testable patterns to demonstrate the existence of untestable abstract ideas."

> To have objective reality or being.

And how would you define "objective reality" and "being"? Those seem to me more like synonyms than definitions!?

> I did not define "potential" as "possible", I defined it as "possible state".

So ... where you wrote "potential state", you meant "possible state state"?!

> I did not say "a state can not be actual and potential at the same time", I said "Potential states of the universe are not actual and potential at the same time".

Except the latter implies the former? When I resolve your definitions, your statement reads "possible states of the universe are not current and possible at the same time". Or more formally: For any state that is possible, the state must also be either not current or not possible at any given time. A state that is possible obviously can not be not possible. Thus, to fulfill this condition, a state that is possible has to be not current (i.e., if a state is possible, that implies that it is not current). From that it follows that a state that is current hast to be not possible (i.e., if a state is current, that implies that it is not possible). Or in other words: a state can not be current and possible at the same time. What did I miss?

> Morality: Principles concerning the distinction between right and wrong or good and bad behavior.

Well, as above: How would you define "right", "wrong", "good", and "bad" (in this context)?
> Do you really think the majority of women are happy with the recent societal changes in dating? It's not hard to find thinkpieces written by women lamenting these issues.

Lemon markets are solved by introducing competent gatekeepers.

What people actually want in a dating market is for somebody to vet their dates. People are more willing to take risks (i.e. on somebody less physically attractive, lower income, etc.) if a trusted source certifies that a candidate is emotionally open and physically safe. Similarly, that such a gatekeeper will exclude you from the market if you show signs of poisoning the pool, working with you on whatever issues until you can be "recertified".

It's a great idea for a startup. Except that the certification process doesn't scale and the privacy concerns surrounding the reasons for exclusion beg Murphy's Law to get creative.
Deadbedrooms are a thing as well. Being married limits your (ethical) options if for any reason your partner suddenly decides to no longer engage in physical intimacy.
I agree with the general sentiment, but I think it's often abused to obfuscate a very destructive idea. Companies should follow the law and behave ethically, even if that doesn't maximize profits. On the other hand, behaving ethically shouldn't involve an obligation to take over charitable or government functions.

To give a very simple example: I think it's really important for everyone to have access to a smart phone. That doesn't impose an ethical obligation on smart phone makers to release subsidized cell phones for low-income people. Indeed, that would be a bad thing--it would effectively create a cross-subsidy where cell phone buyers are shouldering a special tax to pay for a government welfare service. That is distortionary, and hurts the cell phone market relative to other industries. To achieve the result of universal cell phone access, the government should pay market prices out of general tax dollars.

The drug business should be the same way. It is a high-tech, risky, capital- and talent-intensive business, and should produce profits and returns comparable to similar industries. We shouldn't use ethical obligations as a way to force drug companies to accept a lower return just because they make products that are important to society. That is also bad, because in the long run it drives capital away from this socially important industry into more lucrative, but less important industries.

So while you're right that profit-seeking shouldn't be an excuse for engaging in illegal or immoral conduct, at the same time, holding companies accountable for ethical behavior shouldn't become a tool for extracting hidden concessions and subsidies from industries. And a lot of folks use "ethical behavior" as a cover for demanding exactly that.
> I'd have to adopt a whole bunch of infrastructure above and beyond the couple of semi-managed VPSs I have now, not to mention paperwork and self-audits and so forth. (Or at least that's my understanding.)

HIPAA isn't that complex, the hard part with cloud hosting is the need to find somebody who is willing to sign a BAA with you since (contrary to the argument of some) they are, in fact, business associates if you are storing or processing any ePHI through their services. DigitalOcean can't seem to figure their shit out, Linode appears to have everything in place based on their compliance page but they don't have any detail on a BAA (so contact support, I guess). The big cloud providers like Azure, AWS and Google are willing to work with you on this, you just don't get the nice cheap servers like you do with DigitalOcean/Linode/Vultr/etc.

This is actually the most infuriating part, hosting providers should all have the bare minimum to operate as a business associate in place if they want you to trust them with any commercial workload in general - auditing, access control and breach notification. Yet so many don’t want to sign a BAA, because compliance/legal has no idea what it actually entails I guess. PCI has a more rigid technical standard than HIPAA for fucks sake.

All of the regulatory stuff beyond that is pretty easy - and most of the framework is rough guidelines instead of "you must do X". You need to have access control and auditing in place, properly secure systems, and deal with the breach notification rules in the (hopefully unlikely) event that you detect an intrusion or accidental exposure.

People make way too big of a deal about HIPAA compliance, it's not some certification you must obtain or a huge audited ordeal. Just don't take this to mean you can be lazy, you don't fuck around with PHI because the CMS will come and smack you upside the head.
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> Bluetooth more than covers my use cases.

That is great for you. But when Apple designers decide that everyone should be forced into your category, they are actively deciding not to have empathy for the users for whom Bluetooth does not cover their use cases.

Good product design starts with empathy for every user. Apple has written off entire categories of users. I assume it is not because the don't know how to gather user data, it is because the actively DO NOT CARE.

For me, someone who: a) still has their hearing, b) has been listening to classical music for decades, c) has a collection of carefully and critically chosen wired headphones, the lack of a headphone jack is a gigantic FU.
Then why’d they forbid it?
There's a case for programming being a subset of literacy - like art, music, science, literature, and knowing how to make and post popular videos on YouTube.

You don't have to be good at software for the learning to be worthwhile. There's a major potential lightbulb moment for anyone who gets to the point where they realise just how complex the technology that keeps us all alive is, and just how unwise it is to take it for granted.

But there's also no point in trying to relive the past. 70s/80s computer culture was partly driven by the fact that computers seemed to be expensive, room-filling, and mysterious. Now computers are ubiquitous, tiny, and absolutely mundane. So the mystery and inaccessibility have disappeared, and kids need a more direct motivation.

Saying "You'll be able to get a good job" is not a valid approach, because for all anyone knows in 10-15 years AI will have automated away all those well-paying jobs.

But someone who has some curiosity about how things work, and some experience of making them work, will always be able to ride the future better than someone who has never tried and never understood why they might need to care.
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We also have drug expiration dates set at the end of the span proven safe in clinical trials, and a requirement to throw them away after that. Even if the government has paid millions to prove the drugs stay good longer, that's a government-only decision the FDA won't let hospitals use. That's a solid billion dollars per year, just in Congress (via the FDA) forcing hospitals to throw away known-good medicines.

It's sort of hard to fathom writing "despite Congress" in a headline like this.

https://www.propublica.org/article/the-myth-of-drug-expirati...
Depends, personal freedom or more of an ethical freedom?

At some point, unlimited personal freedom begins to look like taking away the freedoms of those you're targeting.
Give Mubi a try: https://mubi.com/
> nor charge an iPhone from a Mac using the cables that come with the devices.

Portable Macs, sure. But USB-a charging ports are everywhere now - powerboards, wall outlets etc. If apple included a type-c to lightning cable you/someone would complain it doesn’t work with those.
The Taptic Engine existed because they decided to do away with the mechanical home button, ostensibly for "waterproofing." The decision to retain tactility led to necessity for a larger more precise vibration motor, and then punting the headphone jack out of the phone became the obvious thing to do, with a bunch of post-rationalization externally and internal justification hinged around accessory sales.
Here are some pictures: https://imgur.com/a/A43irYb

I wish I could move the top monitor farther down and tilt the bottom monitor more. The top monitor is still a bit high for me. But, tilting the bottom monitor more isn't great either because of the view angles. I was thinking about grabbing a couple of 4k 17" monitors to replace the bottom 27" monitor with. It would let me bring the top monitor down and the bottom monitors wouldn't have to tilt so much.

Do they make ultrawide 17" monitors? :)
I'm not sure what that gets me. The bottom monitor sits on the desk and moving it would disturb the monitor above it.

Here are some pictures of my setup: https://imgur.com/a/A43irYb
The hospitals are getting kickbacks for offering more expensive drugs. This is fraud, plain and simple. It should prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law: they really need to start going after these hospitals and doctors that are colluding with the drug companies.

"The PBMs negotiate discounts from drug companies and then help determine patient access to drugs. In theory, that is supposed to encourage PBMs to drive prices down on the drugs. But drug companies have very cleverly turned the system on its head. Before they give a discount to the PBMs, they raise the price each year. It is like a department store raising prices before a sale so that the sale price looks more appealing. Then the PBM can claim to have negotiated a great deal, and will pocket the rebates. In return, the drug companies want the PBM to make sure their competitors are disadvantaged."

And once again, the patent system is being abused to no end. The patent office, swimming in money, just rubber stamps the same old patents over and over again: "78 percent of the drugs associated with new patents are not new drugs. They are existing ones. Instead of innovation, we are seeing secondary protections piled onto old drugs over and over again. They make minor medical modifications by adjusting the dosage or the delivery system." Someone seriously needs to sue the patent system for the enormous amount of financial damage they've caused to this country.
The main challenge in building an African Netflix is not technology, it's having critical mass in terms of video content, as well as having at least a couple anchor series that cannot be seen absolutely anywhere else. Netflix has Stranger Things, Marvel series such as Daredevil that creates a lot of social media noise. Once customers watch those, then they discover the smaller series and get hooked on Netflix.
Designing for what a single idiot wants is how you get a Homer Simpson car.

My desire for a headphone jack and an SD card support is hardly going to give the phone three horns.
This one is on Twitter, and in it he also talks with NATO, who contacted him after he posted the first video and sent him a NATO report on platform manipulation. See...

Robotrolling https://www.stratcomcoe.org/robotrolling-20183
From the comments I've read here, I guess a contrarian take:

If the purpose of the decision was to get people to move to wireless headphones, then specifically for myself and my network of folks, this seems to have worked.

Initially I had the Oppo Wired headphones. Soon after removing-3.5mm-gate (and dealing with the adapter), I'm exclusively on wireless: the Airpods and the latest Sony over ear headphones.

Honestly, at the cost of sound quality (which used to be important to me), but gaining noise-cancelling and not having to wrangle with wires, it's such a convenience. Apple was right, and I imagine the trend will largely be towards wireless. That being said, experience still has a ways to go (connect, battery), and die-hard audiophiles will never be satiated.
Yes, the US would invade their close NATO ally to privatize a market they have already exhausted at home.

Makes perfect sense.
Surely you can buy a $10 BT transmitter that plugs into the 3.5mm jack?
You might want to go see a therapist. Might be an underlying anxiety disorder.

I have occasional panic and have a fear of flights and other stuff that stem from my fear is of not being able to escape/relax but I try to consistently meditate and stretch daily to be able to handle the situations. The last flight I took, I was getting huge flares of anxiety and I just keep thinking “1,2,3...” etc in my head so I’m not focusing on negative thoughts. The daily meditation helps get into that “mode” when the stressful moments do come.

But yeah, see a doctor and/or therapist. Better than a bunch of random folks of the internet can do for you.
Of course it wouldn't happen that way. Instead, what if the maker of a drug or medical device found that they were the only ones making it because patents had long ago expired on it and it wasn't the new hotness. They could say: shit, let's increase the price 10x, and if someone else ramps up production, then we can lower our price again, but in the meantime we've obtained piles of cash.

But there is a PR price to be paid when the public finds out that the company is gouging people who have eczema or whatever the drug treats. Some companies obviously do decide to go that route and either are hoping nobody notices, or are willing to pay the PR price. Others obviously are willing to accept a certain return on their boring drug and leave well enough alone.
The crowd-sourced, social media swarm that is betting Tesla will crash and burn
So maybe line up all the US and Soviet Cold War invasions / occupations and see who comes out on top.
No, if you want to think of gravity in analogy to light, you can see every mass as analog to a fully transparent light source. There is nothing in this universe that can absorb gravity.
> they believe it will wear out/break

But does it actually? Because if it's just a belief, nothing prevents the same belief from occurring with the 3D Touch home button. I guess it's going to be a feedback loop because obviously there wouldn't be reports of failures if nobody uses the physical button, but assuming normal usage, does the button fail frequently enough to be a concern? I think the west is a clear proof that this is not the case (unless something in Asia is breaking the buttons - climate maybe?).
Energy is about 50% of Norway's exports, and minerals + energy is about 60% of Australia's exports. These are extractive industries that are structurally similar.

Norway exports about $50 billion USD / year. Australia exports about $120 billion USD / year.

This is probably why the Australian is comparing the situation with Norway.

https://www.minister.industry.gov.au/ministers/frydenberg/sp...

https://www.norskpetroleum.no/en/production-and-exports/expo...
Maybe? Would have to look at side by side of 6S and 8. The 8 is a tad thicker, but that may be the glass.
I feel like LetsEncrypt is a 5-minute burden. Unless I’m being naive - I’ve only used it in personal projects. Thoughts?
You have significantly over-estimated the procreational success rate of men. Consider this research[1] - in the ancient past, the rate of long-term descendants was seventeen women to one man. Note that this is about long-term, multi-generational success, so the rate was higher in each single generation.

[1] https://psmag.com/environment/17-to-1-reproductive-success
The idea of Russia invading its neighbor isn't russophobic, its recent European history.
Fish makes up just 0.13% of Australian exports

https://atlas.media.mit.edu/en/profile/country/aus/

Next time, consider looking the number up yourself and reporting back rather than just asking the question and so forcing me to look up the answer for you (or else look like I'm ignoring the issue).
Power imbalance is directly created by the insanely rich. Bezos bought an entire newspaper. Sheldon Adelson buys his politicians more directly, but same difference.

And rent seeking is what enables the imbalance. Without rent-seeking, it'd be much harder for the gap to widen (because rent seeking captures wealth creation for the benefit of the rent seeker)

And of course, the two feed into each other - power imbalance allows for lobbying, creating opportunities to obtain rent. Which, in turn, widens the power imbalance.

Maybe you could theoretically fix those two without addressing inequality. I don't know. I suspect it wouldn't work - if you truly fixed power imbalances and rent seeking, I'd wager you'd address wealth disparity too.

I'd see all of them as tangled in the big hairy cluster that is laissez-faire capitalism.
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This is good advice. Thank you for mentioning it. I didn't care :-)
Do the "grunts" have different job titles? Are they more junior?

Is your problem that managers give the most important problems to the best programmers? Would you do it any differently?
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For me, it went like this: I read the article, missed the reference to the Jews, thought it was a racist comment, made my reply, downvoted your comment, and flagged your comment.

Then I saw siphor's reply to me, went back to the article, found the reference to Jews (control-F works better than I do, apparently), un-downvoted your comment, and un-flagged it. And I admitted my mistake in a reply to siphor, and I admit it to you as well.
I mean, the internet is on the same level of invention as the wheel, fire, the a-bomb, etc. We should be expecting some pretty monumental changes arising out of it.

Along the lines of sex and reproduction, the real dark-horse is CRISPR-CAS9 and the genetic revolution in general. That's not just readjusting the mating process/markets, it's a wholesale tinkering into heritability and sex as an idea. Eukaryotic sex goes back about 1.2 billion years. Suddenly leaping back to the 'genetic transfer soup' of bacteria is going to rock the boat in way we can't really see today. The entire idea of 'family' and 'child' is up for debate soon.
Not the parent, but I have many t-shirts that are well over 10 years old. Some of them I wear regularly. A good quality fabric can definitely last decades, we're just getting unused to that and assume everything has to break down.
https://www.businessinsider.com/bloomberg-reporters-compensa...

> Bloomberg News has an unusual practice of paying some of its reporters explicitly for publishing "market-moving" stories.

So, yeah.
Sounds like somebody is ripe for disruption.
They're $9 now. I wonder what they'll be next year.
That’s a mass hysteria over nothing. Unfortunately it’s impossible to fix.
The headphone thing is like dropping the floppy drive on the original iMac.

Which as we all know was a terrible choice, because floppies are still in use today..

Also for anecdotal evidence: I’ve gone through 3 or 4 sets of apple earbuds (including a pair of the more expensive in-ear ones).

I’ve had AirPods for about a month and couldn’t be happier.
Too bad the guy who Trump put in charge of lowering drug prices died recently:
https://www.cleveland.com/metro/2018/11/ohios_daniel_best_wh...
The way this works in Germany is that if the company is in trouble and goes into insolvency the employment agency pays insolvency money to cover parts of the salary for some time (financed by a fund into which all (with exceptions) employers pay) Thus in the extremely critical situation employees aren't the one immediately suffering from management failure.