skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think there's a valid discussion around how do we compensate pharmaceutical companies. But bringing in terms like fair and market price into a discussion around a industry that doesn't even come close to resembling a market seems strange.

If market prices are too low than we have an inefficiency where we're not properly incentivizing drug research but if prices are too high then for twenty years we have a situation where some people are not getting a beneficial medication that could be provided at a very low marginal cost which is also a market inefficiency.

It seems like one solution is a bounty system where the government in addition to paying low unit prices writes giant checks based on the value of the medication. With larger checks for medications that work through new pathways and generate higher quality adjusted life year gains.

We need to also address the cost of FDA approval which is a very large portion of research costs.
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There are other circumstances in which you might not have had the vaccination, such as when undergoing chemotherapy. In those cases, herd immunity would provide protection for those who can't be get the vaccination themselves.
Software development?
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About half the ex Google employees I've spoken to recently talk about projects starting and getting cancelled frequently and often with little warning. It would be suspicious if these events were limited to the people that protested, but that doesn't seem to be the case. Not to mention, while raising complaints about sexual assault would be protected, criticizing Google's decisions to do military contracts and open in China are not. If the company doesn't like what you're saying, and it's not specifically in one of those protected categories, then the company can fire you.
The law does.
Please explain how you got there, because I'm at a loss. Both examples involve using the CLI. The GitHub version I ran through actually includes more CLI steps. How could that possibly have been my intention?
No, some people are immunocompromised, or can't get vaccinated (because they are newborns).
Children receive the MMR at 12 months of age, and the immunity they got from mom may lapse before then. There are also others who are unable to receive regular vaccinations for health reasons.
>Where SJWism seems to now be about dividing up people into groups. Refusing to engage honestly. Labeling anyone who disagrees

I want to have a spirited genuine conversation about this, but I have a hard time wrapping my head around arguments like this - isn't your comment doing exactly as you have described, dividing and labelling people?
no. young children who have yet to be vaccinated and others who have developing or compromised immune systems are at risk.
We built an API for carbon offsets. How will you use it? We'll find out
That's on the law.
> "I expected them to do the refund because it was their fault," he said. "It's their application. If it's not secure, they should take responsibility."

The internet has been retelling some version of this story forever: company system screws paying customer, and company refuses to help or even admit a problem.
I wonder how far you could go with a language game Zachtronics - style before Nintendo would shut you down.

I'm betting it would probably be all good until you allowed interfacing with some more basic underlying systems to the language (such as network for example) to the language. They can't be against custom map making for example right? How Turing complete are you allowed to make your custom map editor?
By doing what? Pulling the curtain open on psychological findings? Your idea of human decency is to keep science secret if it has politically inconvenient conclusions? He was trying to support Google's goal or hiring more women. What riled people up was that he proposed doing it by making the company more attractive to them instead of forcing women into a system designed by and for men.

Also, politics is human decency. It's a way of imposing our morals onto everyone else. Some people (protesting Googlers) think killing people in wars is against human decency. It is, and it's also political.
Who gatekeeps the front page? How does inane crap like this get up here, with only 11 upvotes?
Meh. If we had German style unions or even guild sure.
But unions otherwise would destroy the current advantage of paying highly productive workers their due share in favor of seniority and other bs.

Plus like this example:

>In the email, Stapleton said that she arranged a meeting with Google’s human resources division after flagging changes to her job. She was told to go on sick leave. When she replied that she wasn’t sick, Stapleton wrote, the HR director said: “We put people on it all the time.”

Just drop a line to your state DoL and they would be all over that instantly with nail filled baseball bats.
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At least compared to losing the harvest, obviously the answer is yes. At $5/lb, 400lbs of cherries pays for the helicopter.
I don't think so, since people could have received the vaccine years ago, and even those who received vaccine recently are not 100% effective.

Also, the anti-vaxxer who is affected can argue they were misled or misinformed, or if they are children of anti-vaxxers, not anti-vaxxer themselves. Many possibilities..

Disclaimer: IMNAL.
> Aren't you only affected by the measles outbreak if you're an anti-vax in the first place... ?

No.

(1) There are people that cannot vaccinate for a variety of medical reasons; and

(2) Real vaccines are less than 100% effective (I think current measles vaccine is 93% after the first dose, 97% after both), but approximate 100% effectiveness when you have sufficient immunized population because you have a combination of direct immunity and herd immunity, the latter of which is just “you are less likely to get exposed because the people you come in contact with are largely immune.”

Anti-vaxxers jeopardise everyone.
Your references to clicking repeatedly, and the general fact that github.com's innovation is the GUI it puts on top of a git workflow.
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Hah, the Freudian slip there of "Android and Google" instead of "Apple and Google" amuses me noticing it days later. It's probably increasingly accurate, too.
An old high school friend of mine died a few years back and I am still getting birthday notifications on Facebook. His profile just sits in limbo, a record of his activities the last few weeks before he died.
It was the deception by the developer. He chose to hide it from all reviews and gave a false description of what the product to sell on the platform was.
I wish HN had a “Report comment” feature or something similar. I feel the mods do a good job of catching stuff like this, but it’s still kinda frustrating to not be able to do anything about bad-faith comments.
I think this is inconsistently used across different activities and geographical regions. I'm thinking of instances where things like "lets go play in the dirt" for doing off road motorsports were common. Also very common usage for sports, people "play" some sports, "compete" in others.
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My guess is something to do with needing to have a user prompt certain types of cross site javascript actions.

It also needs to seem legitimate so people click it but don't report it.
I think I might try to make a contraption with a 33 foot fan that sort of hovered over the trees.
I guess I just treat Netflix as a sort of cheaper alternative to basic cable. I don't expect every movie (or a good chunk of movies) ever made to be available at all times. That's more the realm of specific digital rental options like Amazon or Google, etc.

But when I am just taking a break for an hour or two in the evening and want to "see what's on", I fire up Netflix and flip through newly added movies/shows or skim through the familiar category listings.

It's certainly not perfect, but for (now) $13/month, it serves the same purpose as basic cable used to serve for me and it's about as much as I used to pay just for the stupid cable box rental.
Why do you prefer berberine to metformin? Even if it is as effective (and the research on this seems to be quite sparse and uncertain), metformin seems to be less expensive.

The berberine I'm finding at assorted online sellers seems to be around $20 for 120 capsules of 500 mg.

Metformin is $4 for a 30 day supply or $10 for a 90 day supply at Walmart [1]. Same price regardless of whether the prescription calls for 1 pill a day or 2 pills a day, and regardless of the pill size (500 mg, 850 mg, or 1000 mg), so that means if your doctor will give you the right prescription you could get 180 1000 mg metformin tablets for $10. That's something like 6 times as cost effective as berberine!

[1] This is the cash price. No insurance or GoodRX coupon required.
Err 100's of years of history would tend to argue against your position.
Reminds me of:

https://steveblank.com/2009/12/21/the-elves-leave-middle-ear...

(Slightly startled to learn that was published nearly a decade ago!)
In chemotherapy you probably would have had the vaccination, but the vaccination works by training your own immune system against it, and chemo wipes your immune system out.
I think looking at other solutions won’t limit your creativity when you are conscious about this potential framing. It might even give you a new perspective, a requirement that you neglected, it could have a synergetic effect.
Just like a todo list might constrain you to thinking about lists if you don’t question every assumption you make.
I really like the book „thoughtful interaction design“ by Jonas Löwgren
SJWs are lip-service virtue signalers who ironically preach unity from their watch towers.
It's shocking to me that Googlers are using internal/workplace email to organize. These discussions should be moved to a place that is outside Google's reach—have them on Signal, Slack, ProtonMail, whatever. This in is the 0.1% of cases where it's really ill-advised to be using Google tools for organizing.
I disagree, Apple products are popular because they just work (for most people).

I was a strict Windows user for a long time, and I remember the days of reinstalling Windows every few weeks or so to get performance back. Microsoft seems to acknowledge this (but not fix!) with the feature of resetting your PC.

I stopped using linux when the system completely broke after updates (on a slow connection) and spent way too much time trying to fix it. (This was last year on Ubuntu)

When I was younger I'd just deal with them, but now I just use OS X.
>If you can own a context, even with a lifetime parameter it's possible to leak it using the Box api.

The `std::pin::Pin` API prevents you from doing this (callbacks would receive `Pin<&'_ mut CallbackContext>`).

>The problem with that design (which is a great design given what I presented in the article by the way!) is that it doesn't allow you to share handles across callbacks

But how does sharing handles between callbacks look like? Is it something like "callback FooCreated provided me a Foo handle" and "callback BarCreated requires me to have the Foo from the FooCreated callback" ? So your FooCreated callback needs to save the Foo handle somewhere that it can be reused later?

If so, why is it not enough to have a `fn CallbackContext::set_foo_handle(&mut self, Foo)` (or `Pin<&mut self>` based on the above suggestion) ?
What, specifically, about the protests are Google have made you believe the participants can't engage in objective debate or truth about issues? What, specifically, have led you to believe the Google engineers assigned to weaponized AI projects are not knowledgeable in the subject?
Erm, Linux?
Technology is proliferating in home sales. Does it work?
God, I'm amazed it's still exactly how I remember it!

I wasted so much time on that gosh darn site...
I used to get this advice a lot, and I need reminders sometimes. What I only recently figured out is what process means here. I thought it was generic "enjoy your life" stuff, but you really are going through a specific process.

These projects are the process of you growing, maturing, getting seasoned. It sounds like you aren't quite ready for your big break yet, which is fine, especially because you are doing exactly what you should do.

Congratulate yourself for any time you spend creating, you're learning tools and techniques and mental habits and what doesn't work. Soon, maybe tomorrow or maybe a decade from now, you'll start to develop a vision of what your life's work really is.

My advice is to keep following your ideas, doing active creation whenever you can, and most importantly seeking out good people and letting them help you.
> Is it not possible for some of those affected by the recent measles outbreak, and others adversely impacted, to file a class action against the anti-vaxxers?

Against anti-vaxxers as a group? Doubtful. Against the patient zero who got you sick? Maybe. Against those distributing literature? Particularly if they're making money from the enterprise? Probably the best bet.

(Nitpick: anyone can sue anyone for anything. If it's really stupid, it will get thrown out. If it has legal merit, it should win. Asking "is it possible for X to sue Y" is therefore better framed as "would X be likely to win a case against Y".)
About halfway down there's something that looks like the Iron Throne, but made out of cheese.
I'm mystified about what's going on right now.

Both versions involve clicking.

Both versions involve command-line steps.

The difference is that the GitHub version requires more of both, needlessly. That's the point of what I wrote. That's the only point.

I don't understand this context where I'm being forced to defend an argument that's been foisted upon me and that I never made and never even thought of trying to make.
> that women were not as well suited toward engineering roles

While this is, notably, what a Microsoft employee in a non-engineering role reportedly said (in an unclear and unexplained reference to purported "thought patterns") referencing their own diversity efforts, Damore's memo did not allege that women at Google or any other company might be less suited; only that the pool of those who would be interested enough to pursue the field in the first place might be smaller.
I am aware of the Github issue and in fact Matthew has addressed your SELinux point in that discussion. He agrees that if the original font had been licensed under the GPL there would not be an issue here. But the language of the SIL OFL is different than (and incompatible with) the GPL, so the outcome is not automatically the same. And the OSI (the OFL licence's FSF-equivalent) takes the position that public domain and open source don't mix.
No, my idea of human decency is to respect the wrongs of the past and to not try and sweep them under the rug under the guise of equality now.

Awful convenient for the straight white males to be demanding equality now, but not when they were the ones benefiting from the tipped scales before.

And no, politics isn't inherently about human decency.
Didn't overdo it or anything, if anything I underdid it, my workouts, depressed or not depressed, are not particularity intense and the depression takes the intensity down, since I'm feeling so shitty.

Vomiting is simply my body's response to stress while disfunctioned by severe depression. During that timeframe, I was sitting in a room with coworkers discussing specifics of a project and that was just so completely overwhelming to me that I had to run out of the room and go vomit. Later that week I had to take an extended leave of absence from work because I could just no longer function at work.
"and the groundswell of socialist rhetoric in the face of increasing urban gentrification"

true medieval guilds were not socialist - they were christian -
and cannot truly be recreated within a classical liberal / free-market economic system since they were protected cartels with monopoly power over production/distribution within their respective territories granted by the local aristocracy with the blessing/protection of the church.

this is not a judgement or value statement either way -
but a point that painting historical guilds as 'socialist' (with the implicit marxist class progression from feudalism -> capitalism -> socialism this entails), is revisionist, and misrepresents (hides?) the actual historical structure of which guilds were a part, and 'steals the credit' via misattribution to an ideology which actually sought the destruction of the remnants of the guild-based system.

which also is not to say that the idea of medieval guilds and socialist worker cooperatives don't have anything in common from a materialist perspective either...
That is bit like saying people are inherently good..

Just a thought, but perhaps this is just another power play where employee wellness is used as vehicle. The best way forward in enabling unionization and get better benefits is to create more division between employer and employee. If you look more closely that is already happening. In the coming months there will be a lot of rehashing the stories (and even a dedicated movie) where Google employees are deprived of a bigger and better paycheck.
How many articles from history journals have you read? I'm not saying this will be common, but someone will definitely look at it at some point.

For my history degree I actually read a book on ridiculous medieval history - it was an example of history books done wrong (blended dates together, didn't look at historical context), but it's absolutely out there.
well, that's also rent seeking. Some concepts in economics are not as straightforward as you would first think especially if not familiar with macro / micro concepts.
I can't imagine wanting to spend the time to trawl through inane trivia from generations of my ancestors. Just because there's a genetic link between me and my great-great-grandfather, it doesn't follow that he was an interesting person.

We already have so much information about the past that we need historians to curate and organise it, and present us with the interesting and relevant fragments in a coherent fashion; otherwise, we're just drowning in data. It's only going to get worse.
How do you focus on planning while running? My mind always goes totally blank except for awareness of body and surroundings.
Yeah we sell relatively inexpensive hardware (sub $1000) but combined with powerful software we can do some pretty crazy things at scale. So hobbyists want to play, but enterprise is where we ultimately add the most value and represent the big bucks. Interesting story about basecamp though, thanks!
By that logic, no propaganda could ever have any negative impact. We should therefore put fliers with all sorts of maybe just random text, or even a sampling of the most vile hate speech we can find into every book sold. Then, we sit back and watch the world improve. Because a thousand monkeys with typewriters may not be Shakespeare, but they are a learning opportunity.
Ah, reminds me of something I had to do only two years ago.

Business side would send an excel file with thousands of lines and some columns with some definitions. These we would export to csv and turn into a huge enum using some generator. One definition per line in the excel document, on the form Rule67_Oslo(245, 167, NO_TRANSFER). One day it failed, as the byte count was too big. Managed to strip down the definitions some, but a few weeks later it was impossible to add new rules again. No idea why someone would make that design in the first place, old legacy system. But it was hard to refactor as well, as those constants were littered everywhere in the code as well. I switched teams before it was solved, but I think the fix was mainly that business had to find one rule to remove every time they wanted to add a new one..
How is this news? You buy books on eBay and half the time they come with random crap like that in them. Usually it's religiously driven but I think that's just the difference between the eBay demographic and the Amazon/Whole Foods demographic.
ISPs know IP addresses anyway, even with HTTPS. Same with DNS names.

SSL makes a lot of sense on web sites like facebook and youtube: users enter sensitive data there, servers serve terabytes of available content, not all of which is public, and even for public, the user’s selection is privacy-sensitive.

For a small static web sites, any person in the world can get their hands on all the content, that’s the whole point of public Internet. There’s no privacy-sensitive data in HTTP traffic to these sites, unless there’s google analytics, ads, or some other malware on that site.
Could be. Like I said, I only dimly recall it.

Google employees have made a few really good libre fonts. Oxygen is my go-to font for almost anything design-related that I do precisely because it is a really solid free font.

https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Oxygen
The startup costs are fixed (they don't increase linearly with the number of loop iterations) and for such a small program, they could not reasonbly explain more than 1s of the 20s gap between C and Java. Also, I don't think it's "allocating objects in an inner loop", because Java's allocations are super cheap (bump allocations) if the escape analyzer doesn't keep them on the stack in the first place.

That said, after examining this benchmark further, I don't think it's very good since the sequences returned by the random number generators are not controlled for (each implementation uses its own standard library RNG with their own seeds, so the sequences will vary from language to language). This likely causes more loop iterations, but considering the loop termination condition, the theoretical distribution of RNG outputs, and the trivial work done in the loop body, I doubt that the delta in loop iterations can explain any significant portion of the gap. Rather, I think the gap is simply a difference in performance of the RNGs themselves--C and Rust use a poor man's RNG (xorshift) which performs very well for this exercise but is not a good general purpose RNG (and standard library RNGs are optimized for the general case). When I rewrote the Go version, using the xorshift implementation made the most significant impact (15s), although I'm not 100% sure that the output of the RNG isn't just causing it to run the RNG less frequently. I opened up this ticket against the project: https://github.com/niofis/raybench/issues/15.
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This actually looks like a lot of fun.
> We don't fine banks for being robbed. It's the robbers fault something bad happened, not the bank's.

No, we don't fine banks for being robbed. However, if the bank had clearly insufficient security on their vault, was notified of this being a problem, and made zero efforts to fix the problem then yes they should be held liable.
> His profile just sits in limbo, a record of his activities the last few weeks before he died.

I think there's some way to notify Facebook of his death so they can "memorialize" his profile. Then, according to his settings, it will either be deleted or converted into a memorial managed by some contact he elected.
Typically far-right uses SJW as a slur, with a straw man filling the role as a blue haired non-binary Berkeley student.

I'm curious to see it used here - what about the Google engineers not wanting to do military contracts strikes you as "sjw?" Do you perhaps not use the term as it is typically employed?
I'm sorry you don't understand it, but you don't get to ignore the implications that spawn off of your argument just because they're inconvenient.
Honestly most of my life I didn't complete my side projects. They were more about learning and if they were gonna "take off" they'd show it and that's when you finish. If you're trying to be a completionist just cuz then you're gonna burn out.