skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sure. But only giving users control, in the form of being able to choose between the available providers, does not solve the problem by itself.

Say you sprain your pinky finger and your insurance covers two doctors: Donald Drugmeister who can afford to pay his office staff only by pushing the latest offerings from Pfizer, and the excellent surgeon Carl Cutter who will decide your root problem is in some organ that needs to be removed. You may feel vast relief that you're able to choose Donald over Carl, but in actuality you'd be better off going to your mom who will give you an ice pack (not covered by your insurance!) and kiss you on the forehead.

The US healthcare system, at least, cannot be fixed simply by handing over all control to the patients. That'll just end up with even more strenuous efforts by the pharmaceutical companies to convince of us, the non-medically astute population, of the necessity for various drugs that they happen to make money off of. And even more antibiotic overuse and unnecessary procedures.

I think having choice of doctors is part of the solution, as is having a pretty high degree of control over what procedures and drugs are used in each personal situation. But if the only fix on offer is to allow more control over the choice between mediocre or bad options, then we're all screwed. (And the less privileged are even more screwed than the rest of us.)

I agree that the system shouldn't even bother to guarantee the best outcome for all people, but I don't think empowering people to make their own outcomes is going to get us very far.
It took them a long time to accept evolution for example. Eventually they will come around but they need time.
Nice! He mentioned he was working on it when I met him at Strata last year, but I didn't know it was coming out already.
It's definitely not a dictatorship, it's something a lot more insidious. It's a self-sustaining informal plutocracy that masquerades as a paragon of democracy.

I don't understand how people still believe the US is an exceptionally democratic country even after learning about how democracy is implemented here. The whole thing with Electoral College and two-party system is just the tip of the iceberg. For me, it was the revelation about the existence of riders [0] that was the final nail in the coffin of my belief in democracy.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rider_%28legislation%29
If you think this blog article is lacking, get "Make Your Own Neural Network" by Tariq Rashid[1]. It is way more comprehensive, but still easy to comprehend. It also uses Python to create NN from scratch.

1. https://www.amazon.com/Make-Your-Own-Neural-Network/dp/15308...
> I do make an occasional slip, which is where I need to rely on Instruments, and I do wish I had better tools than that, something more automatic that would catch me in the act.

Xcode's debug toolbar has a "debug memory graph" button that will visualize the object graph for your entire program. Reference cycles are automatically detected and listed in the issue navigator.

https://developer.apple.com/library/archive/documentation/De...
Cooking as a Service
I've actually already thought about that a bit! Apparently there's a hacker still inside me with a penchant for self-torture that really wants to see how far I can take that interface!

Technically you can do text input in the app already, and I believe they have an SDK that allows you to send your own info to the assistant and get responses of some kind. I'm honestly not sure about that, but i'm curious to see if there is something there I can work with. (and if the pricing model of it follows other google APIs, their "free" tier is probably more than enough to handle a single user, and each hacker-oriented "user" could just setup their own project which is how we also used the nest APIs).

I can then find a set of "commands" that I can feed to the "HID" (for lack of a better term), and create an extremely unofficial API around that...

Getting video back is going to be tough, but maybe with some extreme abuse of the chromecast APIs and that same HID->API interface I can get the google assistant to "cast" the camera feed to a faked chromecast and then pull the stream from there...

But as much as I like to daydream about that kind of stuff, i'm not going to do it. I don't need my google account shut down for abuse (imo probably rightfully so in that case, i'm sure that's against all kinds of terms!), and I don't want to support this decision if they do end up going through with this and don't provide an adequate replacement. So I'll probably just sell my Nest devices like I did previously with my Ring, and find another solution that won't pull the rug out from under me.
Yet the industry uses largely the C language, which isn't a model for safety or ease of verification.
What Is Local SEO?
Isn't the wide availability of internet pornography an obvious theory for one potential factor?
Useless idea. Social networks esp FB should come with a statutory warning: Excessive vanity can cause permanent brain damage leading to a dysfunctional real life with real friends/family who may actually give 2 fux about you.
>I don't know why you would want to boot anything else

The privacy and convenience Firefox offers me over Chrome, to start. Containers, etc.

Programs that run as programs but not Chrome Apps (Signal, Email, ETC)
> The main point behind GC is removing the complexity of writing the software

And more importantly, reading it.
Because Red Hat 8 by default ships without an explicit default python version.

See the discussion for the Red Hat 8 release a few days back. It was extensively debated and covered there:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19848965
First, Windows 8(.1) is supported until 2023. Second, Windows 8 drivers will usually work smoothly under Windows 10, and I see plenty Windows 8 drivers for the T420 in Driver Matrix. There's even a BIOS update from 2018-06-25.

My T430 (one generation later) received a BIOS update in February and I expect more to come.
No one is objecting to 20-100 year thinking and even then planning is hard if you look back 100 years and see what has changed. I would be very happy if these people were putting their time and money into solving problems on this scale like the Gates foundation etc. This is just a sci-fi hobby.
> there's no legitimate reason for prescriptions to expire.

It reminds me a bureaucracy of USSR, where there was a developed system helping to people with disabilities -- medical and social measures, -- but to be a subject of that help you need to prove your disabilities on regular basis. System was not bothered by the fact, that if someone miss a limb, than it will last forever. So a person with a missing limb was forced to "prove" his/her limb is missing every few years.
And if they did not take the bribe then the next step would be coercion and again it would happen outside of the store. But my bet is there are plenty of people out there willing to take the bribe for what ever reason. I think they get about $65,000usd salary on average according to glassdoor. Plenty of room to take offers for a better lifestyle.
Seems like it would be fairly trivial to find any instance of a phrase similar to "this domain for sale" on any page and flag it for human intervention. Because that's how squatters get buyers, right, by indicating the site is for sale? Am I missing something obvious?

Additionally, as a web developer, when I see squatting on a domain I want, I will be absolutely livid. Give me a place to report squatters and I'll happily help you crowd-source what was previously a Hard Problem.
prefer composition for code reuse and inheritance for polymorphism
After 2020, European Perl conferences are over
I don't know about Apple II's but some C64's died due to bad power supplies. You can still find working ones, but that doesn't mean you can count on any particular device to last. They weren't designed for that any more than today's computers.

Chromebooks are designed to preserve data. The hardware is presumed vulnerable to failure.
“Dead Malls” Are Still Being Used to Satisfy Consumers: Amazon's Approach
Are any emerging BCI companies already public?
"I'm so rich I stopped getting paid because the taxes were just not worth it."
>I find RAII a lot easier to model and think about than "you drop this reference and one day maybe your object is destroyed, but don't really rely on that"

Heh, I just realized this is what we depend on to remove commits from Github. "Uh, just delete any branches that contain it, and, uh, it'll get removed ... like, eventually." (of course you have to assume any secret data is compromised)
Yep! I flashed my Chromebook and I've been Arch ever since. It's a pretty good experience.
'Not explicitly accepting' is very different from 'rejecting'. For example, the Church has not explicitly accepted the second law of thermodynamics (which is completely at odds with the church's claim that God will recreate the universe, thus decreasing entropy), but you'd be hardpressed to find an instance of the Vatican censuring that. The initial reactions to evolution by natural selection were rather neutral, and mainly focused on the ensoulment of species. The first official vatican encyclical (which is really the first kind of document that can be applied to the whole church on this topic) was Humani Generis, which took a neutral position on the topic. Not accepting every theory is not a sign of rejection. The church does not typically care to interfere in the minute details of every scientific endeavor. As natural selection became more popular and evidence mounted in its favor, the church responded favorably to it.

Can you cite an instance where the church as a whole rejected natural selection and censured the person writing about it? And I mean, an example not in the context of someone arguing that natural selection means there is no God, because that would go back to my original claim that the various censures were due to reasons unrelated to the purely scientific claim.
Haha, is this what it takes to get a fearmongering article into arstechnica? A Wix website and an IDA screenshot that shows.. nothing at all?

Like, that IDA view is literally what you get when you open IDA on a binary or compressed file and pretend it's x86 assembly. Empty functions list and a navigation bar that is showing all white data.
Deleted Facebook a month ago. Didnt seem to miss anything. Still share pictures and memes and statuses on iMessage with friends relatives. And those that are not on ios using whatsapp by holding the nose. Didnt miss a thing.
Maybe we can widen the scope by dropping the diner.
> After reaching out to Google to get my number removed, the company fixed it.

Yeah sure getting unwanted phone calls ruined your life. More like ruined your week/month.
> We really need an entrenched player to fully commit to selling EVs.

I don't feel that this is a problem because of California laws regarding EVs, forcing every manufacturer to sell more EVs every year.
Automating PCB Fabrication Outputs with KiCad and Git
It's completely bonkers that the IRS has been prevented from providing a simple and free filing service for tax payers with basic returns.
You can get well over 2000 years, though. I've been to most of these sites: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_synagogues_in_Israel

The Hebrew Language goes back at least 3000 years (and of course, to the creation of the Universe!)
Wow. That is a really misleading title.

It wasn't a threat. The Axon employee said:

> "The only cancellation term is Termination for Non-Appropriations or lack of funding. There is a negative effect, however, as it can affect the credit rating of the City"

Read the entire thing. It's actually rather polite.
No it's not. A whistle-blower is someone who's been proven to go out of their way to be a government informant. Why would you knowingly give them access even if you think you're doing everything right? It's all downside and no upside. The original comment is using the exact same logic as "if you have nothing to hide you have nothing to fear". It's just that we don't care because corporate citizens do not get the same rights as actual human citizens.
Having worked at PayPal in the past (and then Braintree), both companies are a total mess internally. Basically nobody knows exactly how the system works, and every new "feature" is just a hack upon the existing system.

In many ways, I'm surprised either company still functions without massive blackouts all the time. That's quite the testament to the founders' code, I guess.
Axon are the guys offering "free body cams for every officer" as a marketing line, which is truly genius. Citizens can demand body cameras saying "well, hey, they're free, you have no excuse". But the money is in that cloud service that the body cams upload to, and the fun part is that once a department is putting their data into it, they might be legally required to maintain it years after they stop using Axon cameras.
This paper merely suggests that a drug used for treating schizophrenia can inhibit some aspects of the experiences that individuals have on psylocibin. The paper does not suggest long term damage and if it did, the study would have been terminated early and psylocibin would not be acceptable for continued research in Switzerland (where the study was conducted) or in the US.
Now smartphones too, please.
And long-term zealotry can shoot you in the foot long-term, too.

There are trade-offs. OSS can shift trade-offs on some of the axes, but that's about a cultural change.

It means giving up on the ludicrous idea that GitHub is bad because it "runs proprietary JavaScript executed in our browsers". It means realizing that "writing code" is a tiny part of creating a useful product. It means giving up on the disdain for all things non-engineering. It means welcoming people into the community who "just" want to write documentation, or work on UX, or any number of other things. It means letting go of overblown rhetoric like "we're the resistance now".

Above all, it's about realizing that it's not about "choosing a fight", but creating a better community.
>I think that's a very sad and hostile way to treat people not as tech savvy as you.

To some degree, agreed. To some degree, this is the way the world works and protecting them earlier increases the risk that they'll make a big mistake later.

Potayto, potahto. The underlying system is still so messed up that safety here is literally impossible, and there's no alternative.
If every payment processor worked like this, this story wouldn't be here.
Medicare for all would do nothing to harm Big Pharma as the government is not legally allowed to use its monopsony status to negotiate prices under Medicare Part D (the section of Medicare that accounts for 85% of government drug spending). If anything, it would be a boon to Big Pharma as it removes barriers to access for an enormous number of new "customers". Interestingly, it was the Trump administration [1] who made the first move to allow the government to negotiate drug prices by loosening the restrictions against such practices for Medicare Part B spending (which represents 15% of government drug spending). I'm not saying the American right wing's approach is in any way comparable to the left's, I'm just saying that the left's approach suspiciously overlooks any solutions that might actually threaten Big Pharma.

[1]: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-08-07/trump-for...
Your example is irrelevant as that’s a civil rights issue.

Either way, I gave the example of organised crime not in an attempt for people to take it as a literal suggestion of equivalence but to argue against the idea that a financial institution has no place being choosey about its customers.
understood, and agree that this is generally the case; however, contextually, it is also presented as the only 2000 year institution of Christianity, and so its behavior can be extrapolated and viewed as representative of a 2000 year religious institution, which clearly is not true.
Good luck op (above) on finishing your phd, nothing else matters at this point. After you finish your phd you'll have to decide what to do. Likely you are a great programmer (thus the computational in your 'area'). If you decide to go into building software the world is your oyster, there will be plenty of dev jobs. It will be harder unless you have a connection with a particular job to find something in your particular area (this is true of any computer related phd of course).
> The prescription requirement creates ample opportunities for logistical errors that turn into life-threatening emergencies.

And logistical errors with prescription medications in the United States happen all the time. My wife has two simple, common prescriptions, and when she comes in for refills, it's a complete crap-shoot of whether they are in.

You'd figure that the free market would find some way to optimize this sort of thing - but apparently, it's incapable of anything but gouging patients.
That is the case now, yes, but I don't recall that being the case at the time. That said, we are talking sixteen years ago.

Regardless, I would not recommend any business accept PayPal unless you are large enough to get their attention. There are far too many stories out there like OP's, of individuals, as well as small and medium sized businesses, getting absolutely hosed by some automated algorithm at PayPal and having zero recourse to even find out what happened. Customer "service" is nonexistent there. In my opinion, the only thing PayPal is good for is sending money between people.

Short of filing a lawsuit, and you probably can't even do that because they now have an arbitration agreement in their terms.
I had a multiple VWs, including an 2001 Bora TDI (the EU name of the Jetta) and they were very reliable. Still, some cars are born a lemon.
The police are on NextDoor here, too, but their posts are chiefly "Critical Incident Report," which means they shot someone again. The response is consistently and overwhelmingly "good job, thank you for staying safe." I never would have predicted this as a consequence of social media.
I was going to make this distinction, but didn't. You could read it as "... for purchases" I suppose.
Get a loop of wire, hook it up to the oscilloscope, read
the amplitude of the oscilloscope.

Move the loop and repeat.

I did this in the late 1980s in my high school physics lab. We had a bunch of tube-type Textronix oscilloscopes that we inherited from the Raytheon factory where they made Patriot missiles. When they broke we shuffled parts around between them to keep them working, the way my physics teacher did when he was in the air force.

The preamp stage of the oscilloscopes were good enough that we didn't need any extra electronics to do the work.
If this is true, then this is very disappointing.
> Lustig is a highly biased source. I would be interested in summaries of controlled studies which aren't cherry-picked comparing iso-caloric diets of sugar vs fat.

The very paper you cite asserts "strong ties between fructose and disease," points out that "high fructose consumption is appreciated as a culprit in metabolic disease," and presents a supremely well-researched case against fructose. Regardless of the precise metabolic fate of low-dose fructose (whatever "low dose" ends up meaning for humans), the practical takeaway of your paper (and mountains of research) agrees with Lustig's: avoid fructose.

Also, that paper is a mouse study. Even if metabolic pathways are exactly identical between mice and humans, how much fructose constitutes a "high" dose that they show overflows from the small intestine to the liver? They address this, emphasis mine:

> The extent of passage of unmetabolized fructose through the small intestine to the liver depended on dose. Conversion of doses between mice and humans is not straightforward. Across mammals, total metabolic activity more closely mirrors body surface area than mass. For a typical adult mouse, daily intake is ~12 kcal, versus ~2,400 kcal for an adult human. One sensible way of converting doses of macronutrients is based on caloric intake: a dose of 0.5 g/kg fructose in mouse is ~0.5% of daily calorie intake, or the same as 3 g of fructose in a person (one orange or about 2 ounces of soda). Thus, the doses that we study here are in the range of typical human fructose consumption (Marriott et al., 2009; Macdonald, 2016).

That mouse dose they convert, 0.5 g/kg, is halfway to the 1 g/kg threshold they define as "high dose fructose." So if you drink more than 4 ounces of soda per day, your liver is doing the bulk of fructose metabolism.

What makes you call Lustig "highly biased"? While he is admittedly argumentative and even a bit sensationalist in his presentation, he bases all of his claims on extensively sourced physiology and epidemiology research, and his credentials and career are highly relevant, for what it's worth.

Again, the conclusion from decades of research is abundantly clear at this point: avoid fructose.
If your government respects personal property you can generally do what you want on your own land without permits as long as you don't make a business out of it.
You can use SQLAlchemy Core for SQL generation and execution, without using its ORM. This lets you build queries from reusable Python objects rather than strings, and use Alembic for DB migrations, while still retaining control over the generated SQL.
In case it helps, I also had a go at an introductory neural net tutorial which I probably never shared anywhere:

https://jsdw.me/posts/neural-nets/

I found that I had to read a bunch of these things to really grasp them myself.
Great discussion. Institutions have to deal with continuous changes over long time spans. Most are “made for their time” and thus cannot survive when the deviations are big enough.

Memes can survive way longer than institutions. Here’s some memes that have been with us since the paleolithic: gathering around a fire at night to tell stories; fear of spiders; smiles, hugs and kisses. Any others that are as old or older?
>There's no difference between scientific thinking and careful thinking.

I don't think this can be right unless you have a very broad definition of "scientific". Lots of people think carefully about lots of things. Only a tiny minority of them are doing science.
Hundreds of sites have been brought down for hosting pirated movies thanks to laws against that, don't know why putting down PBns would be unrealistic.
Ethereum Co-Founder Says Tether, Bitfinex Mess Won't Get Better
And sometimes with good reason. If someone comes up with evidence based research that, say, blacks are less intelligent than whites, should that be supported? Science does not exist in a vacuum.
Awesome post, but a very minor nitpick:

> Chromebooks use both, coreboot on x86, and u-boot for the rest.

This isn't entirely true. Coreboot is used on a number of ARM Chromebooks, including rk3288 and rk3399 based devices. It seems like u-boot is used less and less in the space. Libreboot has builds for a few devices that kill the annoying "untrusted os" message, and even allow you to set your own trust root.
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