skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think it's something else (or perhaps I'm only elaborating on your point)--the proliferation of postmodern ideologies (e.g., progressivism) throughout our epistemological institutions (principally the media and the academy) which explicitly cast doubt on objectivity and put "lived experiences" (as though there is another kind) on par with empirical research. Progressivism often goes so far as to condemn objectivity (including math, physics, biology, etc) as "white supremacist", "racist", "patriarchal", or otherwise "problematic" (this is literally the textbook position on objectivity). This along with the secularization of America largely errodes our trust in the institutions which used to give us a common source of truth.

This gives license to all sorts of denialism and conspiracy theories--the right denies climate change, the left denies biological gender differences, and both sides have their anti-vaxxers and flat-earth theorists. Without common "truths" to counter our tribalist tendencies, we are being pulled toward extremes.
Cerberus buys Remington for $118M in cash and assumes $252M in Remington debt. Except that it wasn't Cerberus, it was a Cerberus subsidiary S which Cerberus owned with stock X. Then Remington borrowed $225M which it transferred to S which then bought back its stock X from Cerberus.

Cerberus is then out of the transaction with $225M - $118M. Remington + S (which Cerberus no longer owns) has $252M + $225M in debt.
If you read the citation I gave in the OP, Gilead is alleged to have withheld the introduction of Descovy for PrEP until their patent on Truvada expires.
`sed` is your friend
Care to elaborate on this point?
Simple tips to improve puppeteer's performance
Kinda off topic.. but does anybody here have any experience with the registrar dynadot?

I have a few domains with them since last year and it's been uneventful. But I was just wondering if anybody else had any good/bad stories about them?
Correct, component base lagged behind in USSR and quality assurance was tricky. Even in 1980s there were 5 rejection classes of bipolar transistors compared to just two in the West.

I counted 3-4 years R&D cycle prior to 1974 and then subtracted a few years to account lag in the technology. However for high profile projects like these it wasn't uncommon to simply source the quality Western components.

One of my coworkers in the 1990s was an older guy who was developing systems like that in early 1980s. A lot of stories, not sure how apocryphal. Once they had problems with one of the copied Motorola chips produced in Estonia. The deadline was looming, so they tried to source original chips. However that chipset was discontinued for years at that point with no stock anywhere, neither original Motorola nor compatibles. So they had to restart production on one of the fabs in Asia, using a KGB shell company to handle transaction.
I started to read it when I college, and read hundreds of pages into it before I started to realize that there was nothing there. The entire book can be summed up as "complexity arises from multiple iterations on simplicity" and, like, you can teach that to a middle schooler in a day, no need for a thousands of pages-long tome.
There might be other companies that have similar penetration, but already have your payment information, they'd just have to expand their markets. Businesses like Amazon, Google, Uber, Lyft, maybe even Microsoft.. seem poised to expand to enable similar scenarios - and they arent suffering such enormous trust issues.

For me most interesting candidate is Amazon in that space. Would be interesting to see if Amazon will make a move at Facebook eventually - just a matter of time.
PDF has been released as an open standard since 2008.
It is 2019 and this site is not mobile friendly!
"This domain name expired on 2019-05-03 08:49:13"

Literally expired last night. How frustrating.
It's a pretty aggravating experience using Prime video, but I agree they have some decent stuff on there now. It's annoying to watch a season of something for free, then have them only selling the next one though.
There seems to be an implication that the outcry is only ever against "shitty ideas". I think there are plenty of cases that prove this untrue.
It's not maximizing "fear response", I'm not sure where everyone in this thread is getting that from. It's maximizing the response of particular visual cortex neurons, in structures where they're shown to be recognizers of specific shapes or concepts.

I.e. it's evolving images that this neuron thinks look most like a monkey, or a person. It's not the only neuron making that judgment, and it's all super nonlinear, so ofc it looks strange and distorted.

It's literally just doing this but with a real neuron instead of a virtual one:
http://yosinski.com/deepvis
The $3k/yr number mentioned is not the cost of transportation via car in Houston, but the premium you pay for Houston's sprawl. In other words, commuting in a low-sprawl city is $3k/yr cheaper than it would be in Houston.

Car ownership is significantly more expensive than $3k/year.
Go Team seeking developer feedback
Corollary: You also had people that were very fine people on both sides.
> ability to both symbolically and numerically solve advanced mathematical systems of equations.

I mean, python, matlab, julia, octave, sage, and maple would all fit that definition I think. I do think Mathematica's CAS is the best in the business but not the only player for sure.

I'm sure Steven has something in mind that sets Wolfram Language apart, just not sure what that is.
Sure, the only things in life that are certain is death and taxes. Nothing else is really that black and white.

I still don't believe that a founder doing what's best for them and their family is "wrong". Absolutely, employees should be a concern and a founder looking to be acquired should do whatever possible to ensure a successful future for them as well. But to say that a founder must own a company forever and ever with no chance at ever exiting is not something I can agree with.

No hard feelings, but I hope we can both take away here that there are nuances to this topic (and every other topic) and to say that "selfish behavior is wrong" is too extreme a statement.
It’s a different software entirely, but QubesOS has an interesting way of removing malicious content from a pdf. It basically opens the document in a throwaway VM, then the host takes a high resolution screenshot and makes a new pdf from scratch.

The digital equivalent of physically printing and re-scanning the document.
Listen to yourself man. By closing the door to debate you open up the floor to hostility. Some conservatives have demented ideas, but that doesn’t mean ALL do. If we are going to heal our divisions it’s going to take more than each side calling the other ‘Snowflake’
Selective Blank Slatism and Ideologically Motivated Misunderstandings
I'm not disagreeing with you but that does not take away from its importance. There are lots of crappy important things :)
Among other reasons is that HIV is extremely bad at replicating itself without error. Which means, especially combined with the long-term nature of infection, a lot of genetic variation within a single person's viral ecology.

Generally, it's much easier to develop a vaccine for more stable viruses.

We might be able to target some sort of antigen on the virus that's highly conserved even with that mutation rate, but that's a big if.
> Today, I piped the output of some process I was running into grep. Neither of these programs knew about the existence of the other.

Only because "an unstructured stream of bytes" is the way for Unix processes to communicate. It allows for composability, but a very fragile and unsafe one, requiring programs to spit out and read free text, with all the crazy filtering and guesswork needed.
Be sure to avoid IRQ7. That conflict with LPT1 and/or LTP2 can be brutal.
They already did this in 2016: https://www.engadget.com/2016/10/05/shopify-in-facebook-mess...

Next step is getting anyone to care, which probably means providing a more useful shopping UI instead of trying to shoehorn it into a chatbot.
It is a piece of bloated app that adds all your FB friends to your messenger friend list automatically and constantly spams you to contact them on anniversaries etc. I deleted it the same day I downloaded it.
And many things which does not get done, no matter whether Republicans or Democrats are in power, like reform of the Prison System.
The idea of Facebook becoming even more ingrained into society than it already is gives me serious chills.

Saying Facebook's plans are to become the "WeChat of the west" makes me even more wary. The first thing that I think of when I think of WeChat is "ubiquitous surveillance", especially governmental surveillance.
Project Libra: Facebook to launch stablecoin-based payments network
The only thing that has been working for me was following traditional Catholic teachings to a "t". I know religion is taboo in scientific circles, and educated people think of it as just another psychological tool, but it's actually the other way around. Catholicism encompasses everything about psychology, but while remaining grounded in the philosophical truths and principles that make up objective existence.

Without that, we have no anchor, and so psychological principles change regularly as the leaders of the field "learn more" about how they were previously mistaken (and then wipe their hands clean of the damage done to innocent people by their incorrect teachings, as they cover it up and move on). Saint Frances de Sales and Saint John Bosco were called masters of human psychology, and secular psychology is only now catching up to them in agreement.

Before we can get rid of negative problems in ourselves or others, we must first understand the nature of ourselves, and of the problems, because if we misunderstand these true natures, we're going to be remedying it the wrong way. And thinking of life or the mind as merely effects of the material world is already starting off on a bad principle, and leads to things like over medication, presuming that the mind can be fixed by changing things in the physical brain, which is really only a telephone by which the soul interacts with the physical world.

I know enlightened minds will scoff at these ideas, assuming religion to be for the ignorant, and maybe I am an ignorant fool, but anyone who agrees that there are absolute and objective truths will see clearly that the world is going insane. Parents proudly teaching their children that they can choose their gender, encouraging safe spaces where intellectual growth is supposed to be sought by mature young adults, grown men and women spending all their free time chasing every physical and mental pleasure as slaves of their passions without ever accomplishing anything of value, left wondering why they feel unfulfilled at the end of each wasted day.

Anyone who recognizes these truths and is frustrated by the world going in the wrong direction, especially with how it has been addressing (or rather enabling and encouraging) mental health issues, should not scoff at the ideas, principles, values, and beliefs that produced men and women who were willing to give up every good pleasure on earth for the honorable and noble goal of selflessly doing good for others in this life, that they may reap rewards for themselves and others in the next life. The Catholic Church has produced so many saints like Saint Benedict, Saint Francis of Assisi, Saint John Paul II, Saint Mother Theresa of Calcutta, and so many more that you'd do well to look further into what biases and inaccurate beliefs you have against its objective, intellectual, noble truths.
Compose Conference for strongly typed FP program announced
I'm not sure there has to be a lower level at all, aside from asm and machine language
Petition to abandon United States as a venue for computer science conferences
Reddit has quite a few blind spots when it comes to obvious advertising. Disney properties get a free pass, for example.
Welcome to Our Baby’s Personal Brand Reveal Party
I imagine at the very least it will have hard to find settings making it as least secure as possible so they can get your data only become secure if the end user specifically sets certain parameters just right.
> genuine, if provably false, concerns about vaccines.

Does not compute. Genuine, but provably false statements are negligence at best, fraud at worse.

Not just lies, because the homeopatic suplements he peddles on the store.
At least for NVMe SSDs that is already solved, there is a standard that all NVMe SSDs implement and you only need one driver for all of them. If you want you can use SPDK or one of the few other drivers and you get the full speed block access.

What you don't get however is sharing the disk between multiple processes.
The main advantage of this approach is that you can use any C++ compiler and the library (in this case Eigen) will work.
The disadvantage of this approach is that the code is incomprehensible to average scientists, you must spend a lot of effort to become a C++ expert.

The advantage of Fortran is that the code is simple and comprehensible to average scientist, and yet fast, because the effort goes into the compiler itself. I would also argue it is easier to implement an optimization pass in the compiler than implement optimizations on the template level in C++.
The disadvantage is that you need a good Fortran compiler. If your compiler can't run your code on, say, GPU, then suddenly there is not a good path forward. While in C++, there is always a way forward via template metaprogramming: perhaps ugly, but at least it gets the job done.
So the round trip is 35?

Must have got my tickets mixed up
C isn't hipster enough for HN.
Price per unit area is the thing that's more or less fixed based on similar homes. You can definitely see a 3000sqft home next to an 800sqft home, if the neighborhood grew organically. The price difference in that case could well be that stark.

In the US, many neighborhoods (esp. newer) were constructed all at once by a single developer. This is how you get the "sameness", and finding a significantly cheaper home is not possible in these places. In other places, it can be.
JavaScript (and TypeScript by extension) is making incredible inroads these days - no doubt about that. Imagine if Perl had been used in early browsers instead of JavaScript -- it would have become ubiquitous in the early 2000s. But I predict the pendulum will begin swinging the other way as new toolchains around WebAssembly appear and grow in popularity. We'll see a resurgence of interest in novel/niche languages, and eventually another language (with a WebAssembly target and a small JavaScript runtime for the web) may come out on top.
>like a millennial projecting

Well, I am almost 40, so not really a millennial at all, but a gen x'er. And I remember being in college and going days, maybe weeks without checking email. I also remember my university giving me an a .edu address, which I was technically supposed to use (supposedly there was important information sent to it from professors), but never logged into once.
No offense taken at all.
How does this comment facilitate discussion?
I let my membership expire, I often find items cheaper at local stores that offer in store pickup.

So far whenever I’ve wanted something from amazon I’ve been able to qualify for the free super saver shipping.
If Amazon were to take a swipe at FB, they'd be taking on the title of troll-regulator. I don't think the payoff is worth the headache; see the flailings of Jack Dorsey.
>In-memory databases are not economically scalable.

SAP HANA is widely used for very large data sets.
I can't actually update the number - though I wasn't peddling some "ridiculous sterotype of Africa". I work in infectious disease prevention in Africa - and I got that number, as mentioned elsewhere, through the Ugandan MOH. That there are extreme constraints on funding is just true, and does impact a lot of decision making.

For that matter, if you'd like me to talk about the way non-African healthcare systems are broken, I'm happy to do that as well, that just happens to not be what this thread is about.

Also, the programs we are talking about rarely go through non-governmental sources.
Did Lactose Tolerance Create the Wealthy in Europe?
I don't remember seeing that predicated as a low-level I/O savings — it was always things about being easy to cluster or avoiding the performance overheads of ACID. The pitch was usually “it's easier and you don't need a skilled DBA”.
Honestly, those users were using the site even when porn and other such content was allowed, and clearly weren't bothered by existence on the platform overall.

"Someone, somewhere is thinking thoughts I don't approve of!"
Formatting matters in many cases, and PDF respects that better than any other common format.

I have policy and legal documents from 2005 in PDF/A that can be rendered identically in 2019, and likely in 2105. That isn't the case for HTML, Word or almost any non-plaintext format. If for no other reason than the US Federal Courts require use of PDF, the format will exist and be somewhat vibrant for many decades to come.

I can wholeheartedly will agree that Adobe Reader sucks, but the format solves lots of problems that are difficult to solve otherwise.
I'm pretty sure regardless of the lies that companies have told (obviously bad), the thing that is directly tied to climate change is the increase in the volume of greenhouse gasses. Now, I'm sure a lot of those executives are hot-heads, but I haven't seen evidence that their off-gassing actually accounts for a meaningful portion of harmful emissions.

Of course a time machine would make things easier, and of course it would be easier if there hadn't been systemic lies and cover-ups. But we cannot control that. In the context of what we're discussing -- it doesn't matter if you completely eliminate all 100 of the cited companies overnight, the demand will still exist for the services that require energy that renewables cannot currently supply the demand for.
If this really is their goal, it’s weird that they are shutting down peer-to-peer payments via messenger. I was under the impression that was one of the main use cases of WeChat.

https://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/3074222/facebook-d...
AMC inadvertently exposed 1.6M subscribers from a MongoDB database
Are you talking about general opinion pieces or the Times regular columnists? The Guardian does have a pretty diverse Comment section [1]. As far as the regular columnists go, it's true they don't really have a right-wing Owen Jones, but for instance, Matthew d'Ancona is conservative, and Larry Eliott is a Lexiteer.

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/uk/commentisfree
My theory is that social media, the internet, and these manufactured communities trick our brains into feeling like we belong to actual communities -- when in reality, we do not. I work remotely and I'm no stranger to being "alone" -- and as an experiment, I did a "social media" detox for about 6 months -- I deleted all social media off my phone (FB, IG, dating apps), I blocked all "social" forums on my computer (HN, reddit, etc.) and even though throughout my entire adult life I've considered myself an introvert (which I probably am), I randomly started to interact with people around me. This was actually pretty surprising.

I've never been a "good morning, Joe!" bright-eyed-and-bushy-tailed kind of person, but that's exactly what I became. I started getting better at conversations, more interested in people around me, and just generally in more of a "social vibe." I've always been terrible at remembering names, and instead of brushing it off (after all, who cares about remembering random old guy #7 from coffee shop #4?), I started keeping notes of names and appearance in my phone, so I don't forget who's who. It's actually kind of mind-blowing that my personality underwent such a palpable change.

I've since sworn off dating apps and attempting to limit my social media as much as possible. HN and reddit are probably going to get blocked again soon, too.
There was an interesting EconTalk recently that covered some reasons for the rising costs

"Robin Feldman on Drugs, Money, and Secret Handshakes"

http://www.econtalk.org/robin-feldman-on-drugs-money-and-sec...
How the News Took over Reality
Could you be more specific about what's worse on Messenger than WeChat?
off topic, but how come these pretty much text only mail archives adapt so bad to mobile browsers?

I have to zoom and scroll back and forth to read them..
Alright, if I understand you correctly, you're essentially using the HSA kind of like a Roth IRA, except that

1. Money contributed is tax free

2. There is a $3.5k contribution limit

3. Money can be withdraw tax free prior to 65, at any time, as long as there's a receipt for the qualifying medical expense that occurs after the HSA was established

Then, from what I can tell, the drawback to this approach is that there needs to be enough cash flow to cover for medical expenses. Certainly, money could be withdrawn from the HSA, but the real tax benefit comes from pretax contributions and that capital gains, interest, and dividends are tax free. Overtime these can provide a huge amount of savings, but they need time to develop. Sound about right?
General purpose video hosting is very different from porn video hosting. Pornhub uses a ton of dark patterns and outrageous advertising that's accepted for porn but would not fly outside of that.
The story of tumblr is really not about free speech suppression. They had a mix of explicit and non-explicit content, and had to choose one to decide what kind of advertisers to pursue.

Given the events of the past several years, I highly doubt the people with the ad dollars are innocent of free speech suppression. EDIT: Specifically, the people asking for YouTube suppression through "advertising" concerns were tied in with the people coordinating hit pieces against YouTube content.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v0IYzF-zLMw
tathougies was referring to the difference in monthly health insurance premiums. I don't see what their comment has to do with Flexible Savings Accounts.
No. It will include a state-demanded backdoor.
Why is it cringy? It's an easy way to host a blog. I'd rather any company focus on their main business rather than futz around with blog hosting.
Smart move. And if Facebook becomes irrelevant in a few years, he can use all the cash to turn it to a bank
As mentioned in the post: "There are several ways to achieve [serializability] — such as via locking, validation, or multi-versioning."

Deadlock happens under some, but not all implementations of serializability via locking. There have been several database systems developed in my lab that use locking to achieve serializability, but yet never deadlock. Examples include:

(1) Calvin: http://www.cs.umd.edu/~abadi/papers/calvin-sigmod12.pdf
(2) Orthrus: http://www.cs.umd.edu/~abadi/papers/orthrus-sigmod16.pdf
(3) PWV: http://www.cs.umd.edu/~abadi/papers/early-write-visibility.p...

Bottom line: serializability does not necessarily mean deadlock. Deadlock can be avoided via non-locking implementations, or even in well-designed locking implementations.

One of the points in the conclusion of the post warrants being reiterated at this point:

"If you find that the cost of serializable isolation in your system is prohibitive, you should probably consider using a different database system earlier than you consider settling for a reduced isolation level."
I’m pretty sure Django doesn’t actually create a limited char field that way, it merely adds validation. For exactly this reason.
Cloning YouTube is foolish. The future is decentralization. Another example of this is how Gab tried to just be twitter for conservatives without actually doing anything new, whereas the fediverse takes the power away from one company/server and makes it easy to host your own instance with rules of your choosing. On the video side we've got PeerTube and a few others. I'm hesitant to list a bunch without recalling their exact feature set, but there's also DTube and BitChute.