skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When I had a case of Man Flu I used to walk right past the OTC PE crap and ask the pharmacist for the pseudoephedrine ones from behind the counter. Had to show ID and put my name on a list so they could see I wasn't Walter White. It was like once or twice a year max so not an issue.

But then the war on opiates happened and they removed all OTC codeine. I understand the evidence on codeine's efficacy as an antitussive in the amounts used was mixed but the tablets seemed to work for me. Alternatives like dextromethorphan probably work as well or better but the pseudoephedrine containing cold and flu meds seem to have disappeared instead of being reformulated. I am guessing the market was getting too small and higher volume OTC placebos make more money.
Yep, so that way you have the option of one or the other
If there are humans in space habitats and (better) on transit with colonisation ships to other star systems, the climate of our homeworld doesn't really matter for the survival of the species.

Still, it's much better to solve both. Especially since space technology is still in its infancy. Abandoning either would be a folly.
I'm not a lawyer but the first amendment argument is a separate concern than antitrust violations. You can exercise your first amendment rights while still breaching antitrust law.
If, and it is an impossible if, the big nine or ten AI companies (mostly in USA and China) could be split into smaller companies like Judge Green did to AT&T so many years ago, then, I think that would overall be a good thing.

However, it is not right for the large companies in just one country to be split up.

Piketty in Capital in the 21st Century makes good points on how mass amounts of capital earn more money than mass amounts of labor. It is the same winner take all situation in high tech.

It is easy conceptually: governments just need to apply the law fairly. But in my country (USA) corporate interests have almost totally co-opted both main political parties and control most of the regulatory institutions.
>I have used at least 100 personas over the past decade. But I've gone out of my way to avoid associating any of them with my meatspace identity... I wouldn't [disclose them]. Because I'm confident enough that they couldn't be associated with me.

Do you realize that publicly stating you plan to lie to border officials could, in itself, be grounds for denial to enter a country?
On that note, even Internet Explorer (IE) was bundled freely, Microsoft never charged a dime for it. Why was anti-trust pursued against Microsoft then?

Honestly, I see no difference between that scenario and this. If anything, Google has been a lot more guilty than for just monopolizing on a browser here.
more comments here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20065153
Maybe, but it’s definitely worse than lightning when it comes to retention. Usb-c comes loose with very little force.
Your desktop and monitor would better survive being dropped on the pavement than your phone?
> I'm fully expecting linux userland tools to go away, to be replaced by custom 'distributions' with only a kernel and a docker API soon.

They're already here!

- CoreOS Container Linux (now owned by Redhat)[0]

- RancherOS[1]

- Kubic[2] (more focused on running Kubernetes, but same idea)

There are also tools like Linuxkit[3] which focus on helping you actually build images that run the containers you want and nothing else @ startup, which is pretty cool I think.

[0]: https://coreos.com/os/docs/latest/

[1]: https://rancher.com/rancher-os/

[2]: https://kubic.opensuse.org/

[3]: https://github.com/linuxkit/linuxkit
The thing is that there's really little benefit from this. Anything performance critical will be written as a native extension anyway, even if Python speeds up by 10x. If you're doing that, you can lift the GIL anyway and run as much in parallel as you want.
>But if an immigrant has identities that would get them kicked out, disclosing them would just keep them out

It's perfectly possible they'd be allowed in, but either due to a malicious insider or a data breach the information will leak, and someone from the old country will come looking for revenge.
Not exactly.

Most (all?) rich people will leverage their capital by purchasing assets with debt. The value of the assets increase with inflation while the debts typically decrease (both in real terms and as they are paid down).

Now, this works for the middle-class homeowner too by increasing the value of their largest asset: primary residence. However, wages typically won't keep pace with higher rates of inflation.

I would argue that the total amount of debt doesn't really matter to most working-class people, it's actually the monthly payment. Most are constantly comparing their monthly take-home pay to their obligations and looking for additional opportunities to consume.
Shrug. Windows 10 keeps nudging me to use Edge.
Depends on what's being investigated here, if the government would actually want to compel Google to alter their search results then it's a first amendment case.
There being an Apple patent [1] involved doesn't help.

[1] - https://patents.google.com/patent/US7311526B2/en
> Intel and others are years behind

Not clear anyone other than Intel is trying, but Intel's situation is much more complicated. They tried for a purely optical for its life "10nm" node more aggressive than TSMC's initial "7nm" node and catastrophically failed. There's clearly some top level management issues there, a big problem for Intel for decades, and it's extremely worrying they let them destroy a generation of their crown jewel.

But that doesn't tell us much about their "7nm" node very roughly equivalent to Samsung and TSMC's "5nm" nodes, except those companies have a lot more real world EUV experience, but it's not always good to be a pioneer. Intel could conceivably get back in the game in about the same time frame as these two companies exit "5nm" risk production, we just don't know. All we know is that they're buying EUV machines and installing them in multiple fabs.
That should tell you how grad students are paid.
Sounds like an extreme outlier, areas with such concentrated wealth which has crowded out the working class and lower-middle class are rare, most students will never attend a school like that.
Why do we always think climate change is going to be impossible to solve and it's some predestined, doomed dark future. I imagine some sort of new tech will be invented within the next 100 years that will easily solve it. Not saying we shouldn't start now though...
From what I hear they took out all the moderation tools.

edit: ah, here's the commit which does it. https://source.puri.sm/liberty/smilodon/commit/9cae431902a2c...

"- Return error from reports REST API
- Remove links to report in web UI
- Reject reports from ActivityPub"

(which is to say, if you're using it, the 'report' functionality is gone, and if someone on a remote instance hits the 'report' button on a toot from Purism and says 'send this report to my admin and Purism's admin' then Purism will just error out instead of accepting the error.)

I really dunno what possessed Eugen to think that was a good idea. Apparently this commit has been reverted but I've still defederated my instance from Purism because who the hell knows when they'll think this sounds like a good plan again?
Yeah, I have a hard time seeing what value this feature directly provides to the end user. The changes that a web site would have to make to make it work are all well and good -- but those changes are just as valuable if never-slow mode isn't enabled. The only effect that turning this flag on has is to make the web site malfunction if it tries to do something "slow"!
This seems really good, is the code open source?
Starting with the recent EU decisions is probably a good bet. There are three fines the EU imposed:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Union_vs._Google#EU...
How does this do anything to alleviate spectre and friends? Software isolation doesn't work (https://arxiv.org/abs/1902.05178), so the only protection you get is from process isolation, and I assume this doesn't change the OS mechanisms to enforce that.
My point was focused on how shithosts handle abuse, they'd suspend your container, but any other products or services you have would remain available, your account generally wouldn't be locked (short of disputing a payment).
And life longevity research as well, along with medicine and genetics.
Google was also very positively connected to the Obama administration. It was some googlers that stepped in and turned around healthcare.gov for instance. I've heard a lot of rumors that they gave a lot of data access to the campaigns too.
>Juries can be convinced of anything...

Which is exactly why they'd get off.
The old link you keep pasting does not support this or your other hyperbolic assertions. Stop dangling claims of secret superpowers or support them.
At least an Amazon HQ is believable.

Foxcon's Wisconsin plans, tv panel manufacturing, then turned into a spread out series of research centers never seemed believable.

The Wisconsin Republicans stopped bragging about the details the last election....but still tried to make it more difficult for the state to get out of after the election...
Ah I guess I misunderstood your question. My understanding is that settlement can be accomplished the way that TransferWise bootstrapped. They matched up two pairs of domestic transfers, where if I wanted to send money to Canada, they waited until someone wanted to send money to the US, then we'd each domestically transfer money to eachothers recipients. Minimal reserves, and everything happened domestically.
What is your operant model of monopoly and antitrust?
Isn’t it also impossible to prove that your code won’t violate CSP on a rarely exercised execution org?
I should have been clearer. This is exactly what I meant.
> Corporate taxes they pay on profits if you invest a ton you can deduct it from profits. Nothing nefarious going on here.

One's definition of "deductions" and "profits" can, of course, depend on how much one spends on tax lawyers, one's appetite for testing the untested boundaries of the relevant tax laws, and one's willingness to do fun and interesting things with structuring international subsidiaries.

The ultimate result may or may not correlate with what the average citizen would accept as legitimate. Whether you think this is okay is a matter of opinion.
Ironically, Raspberry Pi. Some loose definition of working.

And, of course, not a mention of the Amiga.
Indeed, the gap in life expectancy really makes you think.
Looks awesome, is there an Android version coming?
Why? In what way do we need to even preserve humanity? There is such an assumption and gloss over with space exploration. Why? This doesn't mean humanity is terrible but all of life and simply matter evolves into new things. To attempt to infinitely preserve anything is just our human genetics projected.

Things end. Do not let your personal intuition override that universal truth.
Yes, the first amendment here does not seem to apply, except if the poster above, has something else in mind? That DOJ even considers going to court, hints that they have a strong case -- given how conservative the DOJ is to betting on a court case and not settling.
Because they're an advertising company and it isn't in their best interest to block ads. Of course that wouldn't sit well with their product, er, users.
Hey, thanks a lot for this article. I just encountered the "We don’t want the word to go out that we want to exterminate the Negro population" quote yesterday, and when I corrected it using the context of the paragraph before it, people said "Yeah, but it's consistent with her views". This showed that it decidedly was not.
You cut off the sentence you quoted. Its undesirable to have "health insurance" tied to your employer.
Medical errors are one of the leading causes of death in the US, so male-oriented care may indeed be why women live longer.
Archive.is / archive.fo generally works.
It was an annoying popup for years. I don't see it now when I search, but I've seen it recently.

It looks like they also make other browsers pay for ads while they post their own ads for "Google's Official Browser" at no cost:

https://imgur.com/a/exzor1l
That's not at all unreasonable on social media
Depends quite a bit on how much the "freelancing" brings in, doesn't it? There's a potential self-contradiction to this view that I'd like to tease out.

Say you're "freelancing" and doing well enough that you can afford to pay not only the extra self-employment tax, but also to pay full market rate out of pocket for every single benefit that a stable employer would provide.

How many clients would you need to make that happen? In my experience, the most successful high-end freelancers - and your comment implies to me, at least, freelancing at a skilled professional level - have a small rotation, or maybe only even one, major repeat client(s).

The dynamic very quickly shifts to one of where the freelancer might as well, for all practical purposes, be an employee of those clients or that one major client, right? Except paying more for everything an employer otherwise would pay for.
If it "costs too much," arguably, our security products just suck. We've seen what people will put up with if it adds value, and security products don't add enough value for people to adopt them unless they are forced to by compliance offices.

It's really on us to provide value, and on businesses to not create privacy disasters.

There are products I think are amazing as a security person (okta, auth0, forgerock, keycloak, hashicorp vault, EFK, jenkins' owasp integrations, authy, iphone's TEE, etc) but if developers and product teams are not adopting them willingly, they suck.

What's great about these products is they provide useful plug-in services (IAM, logging, analysis, data viz, version control, alerting, etc), but it's like there is a piece missing where developers decide, "thank god this exists, it saves me weeks."
I mean I was 15 years old when I started using Accutane, it's not exactly when humans are known to be at peak intelligence. I definitely believe I have some agency and thus some responsibility, but I thought part of doctors' job is to inform patients of potential side-effects. I don't know how government comes into this play, in my mind: doctor explains me the benefits/side-effects of a drug, they claim it will ultimately be useful all things considered, I accept, they write me a prescription, I take the drug. Government's role stopped when they approved this person can work as a doctor.
Want to Send Your Name to Mars?
They can struggle all they want, but what I want is to switch to firefox. Competition is a wonderful thing.
I don't know about data accesse rumors but the fact that a bunch of Googlers did government work during the Obama years is well documented, that said the FTC is an independent agency with commissioners from both parties and they unanimously voted against going to court.
We must know very different people, then, because the ones I know who talk about Dark Mode (and who I recently implemented Dark Mode on gwern.net for) all talk about it for night or similar uses.
Same, but with Apple-branded cables. I fear I'm going to damage them every time I take one out. They're near-permanent once connected.

[EDIT] all Apple-branded because when I've needed one locally stores around here still don't really stock non-Apple USB-C cables. Some A-to-C for Android phones, maybe. That's about it. Shelf after shelf of various cheap Micro-USB cables and chargers, though. I really wish they'd left an A port or two on these things.
I've found my biggest issue is that over many months it gets a thin film of grime deep inside that I have to pick out with a needle to make it work again properly. Micro and C both, but with C it's way easier to break the contacts while cleaning.
YouTube investigating right-wing pundit Steven Crowder for harassing Vox host
Sure. But Mirimir is just a persona. No country that I'd be entering would know the association.
I can only speak from personal experience, but Mini-B female connectors had a truly incredible propensity for breaking loose off the board they were soldered to, and the male connectors bent inward at the slightest pressure.

Granted type-C isn't much better in the latter regard, I've thrown out multiple cables after finding they somehow got squished flat.
I don't think you have to wonder, it's been widely reported that cancer has been cured in mice dozens, if not hundreds of times.
http://archive.is/TsG4K
Indeed. If that's their average ticket-per-engineer rate, their support team is way undersized to handle the load.
Ha! Nudging is an understatement.

* If you type Chrome into Bing you'll get a full page ad urging you not to switch.

* If you try to switch to use Chrome as your default browser it will ask you if you're really sure and you have to click the tiny text to actually switch.

* Edge and Windows 10 will send you notifications about Edge being the recommended browser and it's speed/security/whatever.

* If you install Adobe Reader and check "set as my default PDF reader" Windows 10 will send you a notification saying that "there's something wrong with your default reader app" and set it back to Edge.

* In the start menu Edge gets special treatment by having flavor text that says it's the Microsoft recommended browser.

* You have to use 3rd pary hacks to get the start menu search to use anything other than Edge & Bing.

* Microsoft teated a feature on insider builds which intercepted the installers for Chrome and Firefox and displayed a pop-up asking them to use Edge instead.

* Before they got backlash for it, once you switched your default browser to something not Edge Windows would open up your new browser to an ad for Edge.
Idk about traditional gig economy, but something interesting is the rise of coworking companies in NYC that use restaurants as coworking space during the day when they dont serve food. Otherwise unused capacity becoming productive is surely a driving force for productivity, and perhaps this is a force in your uber style gig economy as well.
"84% of apps are free, and developers pay nothing to Apple.

Like any fair marketplace, developers decide what they want to charge from a set of price tiers. We only collect a commission from developers when a digital good or service is delivered through an app."

I believe it is 99 USD per membership year to have apps in the app store.

Not exactly what I consider to be nothing.
Not only is the amount of revolving door between Google and the Obama administration well documented, but Eric Schmidt was literally part of Hillary's campaign staff and personally funded a company to provide her campaign's development and infrastructure.

Suffice to say, they have a lot less allies in DC this year, and even Democrats are starting to look negatively on them now.
Absolutely! Do let us know if you need any specific characters.
I agree, I now have my first laptop with a USB-C and within months I'm terrified of someone coming by and grabbing the cable just hard enough at just the wrong angle to rip the connector off of it's contacts.

I looked into it a little since this seems like a ridiculously obvious design flaw (rely on SMT contacts for mechanical strength against yanking?) and I think at least the reasonable ones use a chassis mount USB receptacle there. I hope. I very much hope.
1080p means, uncompressed, each frame is about 6MB. That is a pretty large message size for redis and the throughput/latency of redis is known to go down.

It may just be a case that redis is not terribly optimized for.
Monopolization requires anticompetitive conduct. To prove this, intent evidence is often helpful. For example, in the recent Qualcomm case the judge cited evidence that Qualcomm executives knew their business model created antitrust risk.

But intent evidence is not required. A corporation doesn't have a state of mind. Also, wanting to beat your competitors is fine (and good). So it's tricky to distinguish bad intent from good intent.
Sewing needle.
No one is reporting that the DOJ is considering going to court nor that they have any "case" let alone a "strong" one if the WSJ reports are to be believed it's very preliminary stuff.
I wouldn't read too much into this. It doesn't prove anything. AMZN has been in NYC for a while. I'm sure this is simply for growth.
Startup Brex Is Raising Money at a Valuation Above $2B
Giving yourself permission to not be a superstar is an ok decision.
Ah interesting. Thanks!

How did you know about that?
I meant "more types of data" and I'm still willing to stand by that. Maybe not more bytes per person per hour.
>> it forces you to reason things through properly

the same could be said for using static types to express the thoughts and formal reasoning rather than english though.
Interesting. I work for Google as well and I have a somehow opposite opinion here. Working here means you gotta fight through extremely complicated, thorough (and sometime bureaucratic) privacy, security and legal reviews by daily basis. Those teams have a real power to block any launches they don't like; Google give them the power not because of good-will but it's more about decreasing a risk of significant revenue impacting consequences. You got a fancy design which may give you a big revenue boost at the cost of compromising user privacy or legal risks? Good luck with upcoming privacy and/or legal review sessions; they don't care about your product since they have no motivation to do that.

I'm not trying to convince you and HN users to trust Google (which seems to be impossible anyway), but at least for more than 5 years there has been a strong incentive structure for not doing something that might make "the rest of America would literally come to Google and kill them". I think this investigation would enhance this structure even further, which might be a good thing since there's still room to improve especially for keeping high level executives in check.
> So there's a nonzero chance at any given time that Linode's infrastructure has been compromised and they know it and have decided not to tell you about it.

This is entirely the roots of my distrust of them right now. Mistakes happen. Companies I trust demonstrate that they've learned from their mistakes. My tolerance for mistakes is pretty low when it comes to security related things, though. If something has gone wrong, let me know so I can take remedial steps. Their handling of both of those incidents suggested I can't trust them to tell me in sufficient time to protect myself.
Interesting parallel to Howard Hughes and the Spruce Goose. An ambitious aircraft legacy. I hope the plane is not destroyed, it is a remarkable achievement.
Well, disclosing them would keep them out. And sure, while lying might get them in, they could be kicked out later.

I was arguing that, in those circumstances, perhaps it's not worth taking the risk.
If your Amazon receipts go to Gmail, Google collects not just all of that data, but from every other site you've bought stuff from: https://www.cnbc.com/2019/05/17/google-gmail-tracks-purchase...
The entertainment value is also a cheap distraction. Poverty isn't so miserable when a little entertainment is available.
unless the interferometer is assembled in orbit from several spacecraft. a frame plus three (or more) robotic mirrors.