skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Without the U.S. subsidizing the drug research R&D, who pays for it?

I wish we could stop using this tired trope once and for all in debates about medical care.

Most medical care is routine and does not require cutting edge drugs. Things like insulin, epinephrine, anesthetics, antibiotics, antihistamines, vaccines, most of those things have been developed in the 1st half of the 20th century.

How much do the cutting age drugs account for in the scope of the total health care costs in the US? Even if it was higher than 1% (I'm willing to bet money that it isn't), the marketing budgets for drug companies far exceed their R&D spending.
I already behave this way. I'm not sure what I would gain from the pledge you suggest. I don't think the advertisers would care.
Intergalactic spreading of intelligent life and sharpening the Fermi paradox [pdf]
Wouldn’t the ‘valid’ values in such a table be relatively sparse, creating a high likelihood of cache misses? The guy’s agonizing over 4 cycles, but a cache miss is far more costly.
It would be nice if they supported an anchor with a noscript tag inside containing the image
Yes. And it was made even worse by the ACA which effectively required employers to be feudal lords, whether they wanted to or not.

Before, the possibility of sane choose-my-health-insurance-like-I-choose-my-car-insurance was at least on the table.
Some context: https://bitcoinmagazine.com/articles/satoshis-treasure-the-c...
Pedant: All fungal infections are antibiotic-resistant, because antibiotics kill bacteria. Antifungal-resistant fungi have long been a problem for anyone who spends time in hospitals, though.
That's a great model that even helps running algorithms on FPGAs.

Are there researchers working on finding the theoritical communicication limits of classical numerical problems?
System start is indeed a synchronization point, and for limited resources like here, painful and now clpser to the vernacular

Thundering herds can cause escalating and successive failures. That is very much an issue with service start/restart. A bad restart will cause a timeout, another restart, and eventually, restarts on further layers. Imagine all this running above k8s. So yes, this pattern is indeed about one of the failure modes that happen with thundering herds.

Though if your cache needs another cache, that feels like a bad cache. The promise pattern can be done transparently by the cache, coalescing GETs, instead of requiring a user protocol. We do app level caching to stay process-local because latency is fun in GPU land and we are a visual analytics tool... But that is not for the problem shown here.
Seems to me like this problem: https://xkcd.com/1217/
I know this isn't exactly related, but as someone interested in numerical analysis, what is the difference between working on Sage, Octave, and Julia?
Any more horrific than resource depletion?
Range is too limited, it's front-facing (can't see what you're scanning), and the OS-provided SLAM system isn't available (so tracking error accumulates.) Issues that will disappear in the long-run, of course.

One startup taking that approach is https://standardcyborg.com. Apologies if linking to a business is unseemly - they are YC-backed at least.
I think the case of 737 max is they game the checklist approach - use the guy who should be checked to be the guy to check it. Hence the argument to remove an item is so dangerous. (But then it is also may be bad blood. Life is more complex than a checklist. )
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FFT requires (matrix) multiplication, but I assume it's only being used with relatively small chunks of the input numbers, which would be billions of digits long. This algorithm is not optimal for multiplying 3x4.
I've come around to the idea that stocks have an intrinsic value as collateral/store of value.

I saw that with a family that owned a condemned property. They couldn't rent it but they sure could borrow against the land price (ever rising) minus the cost of demo'ing the old building.

I also think stocks tend to keep up with/beat inflation and thus are better than cash as a store of value.
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Seeing lots of issues with auth right now. Gmail is kicking me back to the sign in page repeatedly.
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I read in this New Yorker article that Spain introduced checklists in 2007. Does anybody know the results of checklists there?

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2007/12/10/the-checklist
Live by the sword, die by the sword.

The CFPB is an extra-constitutional body. It's creation and whatever happens to it just showcase how off the rails things are.
> Whilst I tend to agree, it's pretty shocking how easy it is to access high fidelity extreme content.

It's a lot less easy to do so accidentally than it was 20 or so years ago, unless you are just defining “high fidelity” narrowly and are more concerned about comparatively mild but high production value content than, say, 240p video or 800x600 still bestiality, child porn, etc.
I've always found people declaring a particular position on any current event "on the wrong side of history" to be incredibly arrogant.

Nobody knows how history will portray (if it will record it at all) a particular current event in the decades to come. What gift of foresight do these proclaimers have, that allows them to so confidently make that assessment?
Ah yes when the Nakamoto Scheme (name courtesy of https://prestonbyrne.com/2017/12/08/bitcoin_ponzi/ ) begins to run out of steam, of course those with stakes need to do something to get the scam back on track. And HN fell for it, hook line and sinker.

The Washington Post had it right in 2015 even though they didn't even use the neologism "hodl":

> - Hey, do you want to hear about the future? It's a digital currency called Bitcoin that lets you spend or move your money online without paying any fees. - Sounds great. How does it do that? - Well, Bitcoin saves you money by making transactions irreversible. - So ... if I get scammed, I got scammed? There's nothing I can do about it? - Yes. - Okay, but is it at least easy to use? - The thing is, I don't actually use it. I just hoard it. I'm waiting for some greater fools to push up the price by using theirs. - Oh. - Yeah. So you should buy some Bitcoins and use yours.
For 30 years, every place I've gone to, I've implemented release process and release day checklists because they didn't exist. I've experienced push back every time: "We haven't needed these before.". At all of these places, release issues were always "bad luck". All of my teams have acknowledged these were awesome and reduced release day stress.

I completely understand why this took effort to get implemented and why it seems obvious in retrospect.
> Shareholder democracy works.

As long as the unsupported assertion is confidently stated in a short, declarative sentence, that's good enough for me.
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Nancy Pelosi Declares a ‘New Era’ of Internet Regulation; E.U. Threatens Same
Extra constitutional? What does this even mean? What is every other government agency then?
I was going to make a joke that they could have found out years ago by talking to biologists, but then it turned out that this article is really fascinating!
> edit: downvoting doesn't make the problem go away.

It does, if the problem is the public perception rather than the reality on the ground.
This looks really good. I would like to speak with you. Do you have an email I can contact you?
Checklists are great. Less cognitive load having to recall things. I use Trello boards for maintaining my personal checklists. Recommend it.
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The delicious irony here is there's no way to contact GSuite support without logging in, and their login system is broken.
Wow that's a great idea to provide a fake admin account, so that you can get usage data. Could be useful even if you don't use prey if you have find my mac turned on.
Yep! :)
One way would be to share the article with them and explain that replies directly in a channel make it harder for you to catch up. Saying that threads make it easier and quicker for you to decide what to read.

I usually start by proposing an idea to a small group of people - e.g. my team or people at the company I think might like the idea. Only after a few people say they like the idea and start using threads, propose the idea to more people and say "look, a few of us are using threads and it works".
Wouldn't this approach be cheaper, both in performance and human effort, than fixing the entire OS to hide the timing information?
I meant that "light" was on the list because it made the phrase roll off the tongue easier.
https://status.cloud.google.com/incident/cloud-iam/19001 says they'll give an update by 4pm pacific
> I have decided to resign. I’m worried about issues of intellectual property; it would be extremely unfair to my employees, investors and customers if I took a 50% UW position, and then later got sued by UW as a result. Having a 50% paid appointment at UW subjects one to a lot of legal jeopardy, which is precisely why I have been on 100% unpaid leave for the last three years.
What would be gain?
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What part of that sentence makes you think I don't know either? Would you say the Bible is particularly accurate or reliable as an historical source or are you accusing my son of being a reliable narrator?
This is a problem with pretty much every type of factory farming. Food can be cheaply imported from any country around the world but the animals still produce feces locally. The factory farm owners do not own any land to use this natural fertilizer on. Therefore it is either stored in lagoons or in case of aquafarms just sinks to the bottom of the water until years later it becomes impossible to farm fish anymore because of excessive algae blooms.
Or is it possible only smarter babies can learn a second language
This comment reads like an application for a Samsung PR position.

The review period has lasted nearly four days and despite the boldness in design and ambition, the folding phone situation has developed not necessarily to Samsung's advantage.

Let's be honest, this isn't "some problems", this is easily one of the two worst smartphone launches of all time, the other one being a phone that fucking exploded.
Illegal it may be, but there are many states in India where the sex ratio for babies is badly out of whack.

https://scroll.in/pulse/834701/one-step-forward-two-back-ind...
This is more from a finance perspective than an economic one. However, and taking the stock market as an example, we can look at what might happen to equity valuations under our current model. Under a discounted cash flow model, free cash flow is modeled explicitly for a certain period, and then a value is calculated for the terminal year cash flow "in perpetuity." This value in perpetuity depends on, in part, a growth rate, which is usually between inflation and GDP growth. It can account for up to 50% of the value at times. Assuming population growth start to decline, and other factors such as TFP don't outweigh the decrease in labor, GDP growth will become negative and it's clear that this will have an immense downward impact on equity valuations.
Was slightly disappointed that none of the researchers' names was Max.
I'd pay good money for one. If anyone does this, please let me know.
Was able to log in (finally)
It turns out to be extremely hard to confirm that this hasn't already happened.
I'll admit I have no evidence advertising to patients increases drug sales. But, considering how often I see drug commercials on television explicitly targeting patients, it seems the drug companies have evidence it works.
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Ah, I didn't get that you were referencing how environmentalism was being abused as a political tool - I thought you were actually saying there was environmental concerns about greater density.
Of course, you don't always get to choose your input. Feeds often come from 3rd parties or odd platforms you have no control over.

I've certainly wasted lots of CPU cycles on EBCDIC to ASCII.

As for this case, I assume lots of people have to parse high volume log files with things like IPV6 addresses, MAC addresses, etc. And no ability to change the things that create them.
Ask HN: What are your favorite guides to giving and receiving feedback?
Hi HN,

What are your favorites educational resources (books, lectures, blog posts, videos, or otherwise) on the topic of giving and receiving feedback in either personal or professional settings?
The idea is to not give them a choice whether or not they take the official port of entry, it's to make it the only option.

Currently the border either has a low height fence that can be climbed over, holes that can be crawled under, or no fencing at all. We should install the proposed wall with surveillance.

After crossing the desert there aren't many people that will be able to scale a 30 foot steel fence. The current design can't be dug under or destroyed in a reasonable time.

The sections that have gone up have drastically reduced crossings.

https://www.dhs.gov/news/2018/12/12/walls-work

"For example, when we installed a border wall in the Yuma Sector, we have seen border apprehensions decrease by 90 percent."

"On Sunday, when a violent mob of 1,000 people stormed our Southern border, we found the newly constructed portions of the wall to be very effective. In the area of the breach, a group of people tore a hole in the old landing mat fence constructed decades ago and pushed across the border. U.S. Border Patrol agents who responded to the area ultimately dispersed the crowd, which had become assaultive, and apprehended several individuals. All of the individuals were either apprehended or retreated into Mexico. That evening, the fence was repaired. There were no breaches along the newly constructed border wall areas."
I wonder if we can engineer a fish that posses plastic eating enzymes in it's gut.
> Please make sure I am supplied with some good books to read, if at all possible.

Seeing as we don't have full eye transplants yet, it seems possible (at lest with near future tech) that they could resuscitate your brain but not your other I/O peripherals, including your eyes. To misquote Harlan Ellison, you may have no mouth with which to scream.

It seems to me that your average case would involve either total darkness or the worst case of phantom limb ever. Or even worse: they might give you eyes, but no one to turn the pages for you.
Is this part of the "Made in China 2025" initiative?
> The incentives aren't there for interoperability and support for client-side customization to meaningfully improve - big names will resist, either because it makes it easier for users to sidestep ads and tracking, or because the kinds of features it would require aren't within reach of the minimum viable user

Yup. Also, because of security - that, I imagine, will be the argument legitimizing the whole thing. I'm acutely aware how interoperability conflicts with security. Every security compromise you make to make the software be more useful is something that can be a way for users to self-pwn when subjected to social engineering attacks. My Emacs is a monster of productivity, but then again it's so niche that nobody is writing elisp malware.

> Not sure what the emacs analogy would be - maybe something like org-mode and Babel being able to generate things using the contents of other buffers.

Your example is actually something one would do in Emacs - (1) open a buffer with some data in the background, (2) copy the interesting parts, (3) paste it into a new buffer in some specific major mode that helps you (4) restructure the data, and (5) show the work; all in a single step you could bind to a key or button.

Different example of Emacs-style integration I'd like to do: run all my IMs in the browser (FB Messenger, Slack, Skype, Telegram) as background tabs, and have a resident piece of code that reacts to new messages in each and aggregates them, displaying a foreground tab with "event stream" ordered by time (and possibly a "reply" button). Kind of like IRC channel unifying all your browser IMs, with ability for you to add new ones without having to deal with OAuth and API calls to IM servers.

Elsewhere in the thread[0], 'zapzupnz says that "data can be available online without necessarily being web first. Heck, most things are — data provided to mobile apps and desktop clients via services that might have a web frontend.". Well, so how come I can't easily do automated queries to my bank to fetch my balance, put it in whatever accounting app I want to use, and display it on my personal dashboard for extra fun? The only way I can do this today is through scripting around bank's authentication and scrapping their page - which risks termination of account for ToS violations. This is less about the browsers and more about API control and problematic ToS - but it would be mighty easier to do if I could easily shuttle arbitrary data between browser tabs myself.

BTW. this thread made me realize that I'm not very clear on what a browser extension can or can't do; maybe the situation is slightly better than I think. Need to check it out.

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[0] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19680964
If he had sources, it wouldn't be a very good cover up.
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1. Linux (Manjaro i3-gaps)

2. Install/update termite, neovim, git, python3, pip3 and Firefox.

3. Clone config from dotfiles repo.

4. Log in to Firefox Sync and let it install all the extensions.
It is a common term - in the infosec world... outside of that, not so much.
My immediate reaction to satoshis treasure hunt is that it feels like a scam. Is drumming up more interest in bitcoin enough of a goal?

I don't buy that someone spent a million dollars (plus invested time to make the game) for fun with no way to make money back.
Why not? I think it is a fair replacement for a lot of image use-cases. If JS is turned off, users still have the ability to view the image and description, without the image hurting your total page weight.
Yeah, this seems like a design mistake. People stick their phones in their pockets and bags. Over time a lot of dirt and dust is going to get under that top film. If peeling/removing that film causes the screen to die, I assume garbage gettng under it won’t be good either.
Perhaps, but we read it in my high school English class, in a small midwestern town in the 1980's, so it wasn't _that_ obscure.
I think if that happened, something even worse than Facebook would take over. The social media Pandora box as been already opened, it's not going to get better unless there is a sustained and orchestrated effort to rein in social medias and how they deal with personal info.
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I'm going to probably bet my money that it had to do with President Moreno's belief that Wikileaks had something to do with leaking unfavorable things about the new Ecuadorian president rather than alleged feces smearing.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/12/world/europe/ecuador-assa...
I totally believe you that 2.1 is the standard, but I don't understand why based on the explanations in this thread.

Shouldn't "people who don't have kids" be accounted for by lowering the overall measure of "children a woman will give birth to on average"? So if half of women in a country have exactly four kids, and the other half have zero kids for whatever reason, the average number per woman is 2.
Oh nice; good to know that there's an easy way to get around that.
I think it's patently obvious that these services rely on unconscionable contracts - they are literally premised upon financial coercion. However, litigation on the basis of unconscionability is unlikely to be successful due to market realities in the legal field.

Payday loans offer financially distressed individuals a method of accessing financing, despite their risk profile. This is laudable.

However, most studies on the matter produce voluminous reams of data regarding the debt-trap the industry creates. Ultimately, the public ends up shouldering a lot of externalities created by this loop.

Can we achieve the beneficial results while attenuating the magnitude of the wealth transfer from the poor and from taxpayers to the creditors in this instance?

It seems we can - there are other models used in the development world for delivering micro-loans which work better. But could they outcompete the margins generated by debt traps? Unlikely. Another avenue is to regulate the industry - which we already do. The Truth in Lending Act arose partially as a result of people being lied to about the contents of their credit agreements. We could create a schedule of fees for advanced amounts, allow for applications for non-scheduled fees on the basis of exceptional Opex or Capex requirements to serve a given community, etc with supporting margin calculations. This isn't hard - we already do far more complicated work in setting acceptable profit margins in construction, utilities, telecom, etc.

Are these solutions perfect? No. But are they better than the status quo? It would appear so. That's why we've migrated off the payday loan model for producing beneficial results in areas where the profit motive isn't the driver of service growth.
They may not! But there is information asymmetry between the advertisers and us individuals. Also, if enough people signed it, such a pledge could be used as a collective bargaining chip, one that could be used to convince C-suite executives to change how they do things.
I will never discriminate against someone for something they can't reasonably change. But discriminating against them for something they consciously choose is totally fine in my opinion.
This kind of thing has the tendency to paralyze my organization. And these outages happen with surprising frequency. Isn't this terribly disruptive to lots of people?
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I agree with this. At my organization our technical is not that bad and is pretty short. Our process to look for communication, curiosity, thought maturity is much more intensive.

This process has meant that yes, we need to have technical mentoring in place, but everyone is motivated and learns fast, and so technical barriers are overcome quickly once identified.
A curious point, energy is one thing but there needs to be the nutrients at hand to capture the energy in the first place.

The Amazon jungle though does well with its furoius exosystem recycling all it can, and seemingly dependent on wind blown sand from the Sahara to provide some nutrients.

Could birds being so mobile could move nutrients around the world?
Great, thanks for answering.
> The current globalist population redistribution policy, promoted by the UN, literally referred to as 'replacement migration' is going to be a staggeringly impossible thing to implement. [1]

I thought this statement was a little outrageous so I clicked the link and read a few segments of the report.

I didn't see any section promoting specific global migration policy.

The report appears to just be a "what-if" paper modeling different levels of migration to countries projected to shrink, and how it would impact population size, age distribution, retirement age and working age/dependent ratios through 2050. Levels modeled included no migration, an extrapolation of 90's migration trends, and levels needed to maintain varying working age population ratios.

No surprises or policy plans there.
That humans can change their sex.

Here is the scene, by the way:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PObBA2wH5l0
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Oh no! Keep fighting the good fight.