skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm also familiar with the industry. At what level are the cure being limited? Are Pharma scientists not looking for curative potentially approaches? or maybe ditching promising candidates precinically? are Pharma ClinDev folks designing studies for cures to intentionally fail maintaining demain for their chronic drugs? Did GIlead miss the opportunity to break cure they spent all that cash on? the I'm having a hard time understanding the specifics of how this strategy is executed.
There is MUCH wrong with the pharma industry.The noise of conspiracy theories can dilute legitimate criticisms that could lead to corrective pressures.
> But it annoys me when a billion dollar company doesn't seem to either.

It is literally not their responsibility, nor should it be. If girls aren't interested in battling or racing or "winning", then giving them competitive battling and racing games might not be a good choice.
This really says it all:

>It is still not entirely clear, even to some members of the consortium, how the coin will work or what their roles will be, people familiar with the project said. Regulatory hurdles in the U.S. and elsewhere are high.

You have to love when corporations and people are so FOMO they will put money into something when they don't even know how it will work.
The notification goes away if you click anywhere in the background where the page is dimmed.
Monzo launches its ‘bank of the future’ in the US
The only reason those targets were engaged is because they were thought to be combatants. Do you think the gunner/pilot are happy about it? It's collateral damage in a warzone and horrible but it's not murder or a warcrime.
But, also, Clippy was using suboptimal tech, when they could have had a better version: https://machinelearningagents.com/2009/08/31/lumiere-project...
Even if they end up implementing Apple-style simple blocking, they said at the beginning that they would adjust the limits. Most recently, they said the limit would be 150k, which is three times the number Apple allows. https://blog.chromium.org/2019/06/web-request-and-declarativ...
I would say that fossil fuels are very important for a lot of our battery technology. I believe that a large number of important chemicals and materials like plastics are derived from oil.
Actually, no. Given the state of the tech at the time and our knowledge about pollution and the effects of various types of exhaust gases on the atmosphere it wasn't true 'all along'.

There were levels of vehicle use that were perfectly acceptable. But now that transportation is a world wide commodity instead of a luxury those effects are inescapable.

So there was some point in time where the balance shifted, and then it took a long time for the reality to set in (and some part of the world are still in denial). And it will take some time still to shift to electrical vehicles, but those too have their own waste and risks, some of which will only become apparent when their adoption rate crosses certain thresholds.

Crystal balls are in short supply.
Pretty much any fermeted food is going to be an acquired taste and take a while to get used to (if ever).

I happen to love French cheeses but I know some of my foodie friends won't find them enjoyable.

I suspect this to be a natural distrust of the body regarding fermented things, slowly easing the taste into things that the body can recognize as safe. But I don't have any evidence to back that up.
Most of the world's developers earn less than $50 an hour.
And then you switch to Go thereby removing the metaphorical pebble, but you have to relearn how to walk efficiently. See how pointless this is?
What are you really going to realistically do with just 3mhz of spectrum that will benefit more people than it does now with its existing use. Serious question.

I suggest reading up on how it’s used before making assumptions.
that’s true, we have been handling trust transactions for centuries, but they’re largely enforced by the government of a country. blockchain allows us to extend certain kinds of that trust out indefinitely, across national boundaries.
To be fair, being designed like a theme park isn't necessarily a bad thing. Many great sandbox type games use similar techniques in their design, and a lot has been written about how designers created open worlds to incentivise exploration/encourage people to go off the beaten track (like in this talk about The Legend of Zelda Breath of the Wild):

https://kotaku.com/breath-of-the-wilds-biggest-design-secret...

And in the olden days, a lot of this was basically necessary due to technical limitations. You couldn't get Breath of the Wild size worlds running on the N64 or PS1, so games like Ocarina of Time and Majora's Mask had to use careful design to make the worlds feel a lot more complex than they actually were. Same with 3D platformers like Mario 64 or Banjo-Kazooie.
Extracting campaign finance data from gnarly PDFs using deep learning
I agree with Slack's position on this. Muting or blocking a co-worker is not a long-term solution. These types of issues in a work environment need to be resolved, not ignored.
I see no reason why that should be a problem. And yes, AMD has thunderbolt too.
This was brought up in discussions at the time as being a potential smear campaign against him. I personally didn't really buy this as being the most plausible explanation -- though I will say that the US government has definitely done things like this before (the FBI tried to manipulate MLK into committing suicide by threatening him with "evidence" of sexual misconduct[1]). And if I was a spook, it's probably the first course of action I would take to discredit someone.

Personally though, I think the more obvious issue in the Appelbaum case is that he was held to "trial by social media", which is a very common pattern these days. In the end, there was no legal action taken by ether Appelbaum or the women accusing him (and the veracity of some -- though not all -- of the stories was challenged by other women in the Tor community). He's now back to doing crypto-related research as a student of Bernstein and Lange (recently publishing a paper about improving WireGuard's security).

So I don't think we'll ever know if the allegations were true or not, but it probably means he won't work as a journalist (or for the Tor Project) again.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FBI%E2%80%93King_suicide_lette...
On my opinion, the most prolific organization of such type in Europe is OW2: https://www.ow2.org/
Early models of Ford's Model T had adjustable carburetors to run on ethanol with gasoline as an option.

Not electric, but renewable, sustainable, and I'd assume (maybe wrongly) mostly carbon neutral.
Or more public transportation.
If they can find a way to make each cycle profitable, why not?
You are entirely entitled to your own estimation of the value of lego parts, while I would agree that lego is in an absolute sense way too expensive on a relative scale it is cheap compared to most other toys given the amount of use it gets. The only things it really competes with are musical instruments and digital gizmos.
I've tried rollup a couple of times so far and would always get stuck on certain modules like react and react-dom. I would always have to set up namedExports using the commonjs plugin, which seemed tedious. Not sure if anything has changed recently.

I've never understood why webpack got so much attention either. Both rollup and webpack are much slower than browserify, so I just keep using browserify. And I can get tree shaking with browserify by using a plugin too!
It's not a combustion engine, but a burner, not unlike a grill or stove. To your point they could also be electric.

The earliest ones were coal or wood burning, we're also talking 1880s
isn't in the public's interest

I, for one, would be very interested to see how that plays out. :P
> You have a warped view of world politics if you think countries are incapable of making their own decisions and need to be told what is best for them.

We don't know what the "training in the US" requirement looks like, though. I wouldn't be surprised if it was just "you need to use Danish planes to train" + "we only have training facilities in the US, and if you want to bring your own that'll cost money". It has nothing to do with "Denmark can't make its own decisions", because as far as I'm aware that hasn't been alleged anywhere.
$CURRENT_YEAR and people are still making fun of hipsters?
During emergencies, those amateur radio operators provide serious public service communications. When the cellphones go down - or are overloaded - ham radio comes to the fore. There's a surprising number of hams who organize local and regional communications networks.

Tiny community? 630,000 licensed hams in the USA ... about 2.5 hams for every thousand adults. Very roughly, about the same number of hams as there are police officers in America.

These hams often provide communications to such events as marathons (where people are spread out across a city), regional bike races (which sometimes happen where there's no cell phone service), as well as back-up communications during such troubles as forest fires.

Those hams who check into 2-meter emergency response networks are the people who your community will depend when the phone system croaks.
Not with the same characteristics. Either they are limited on power, limited on range, equipment is very expensive, or are heavily impacted by solar / weather.
This is why:

https://www.law.cornell.edu/cfr/text/47/97.1

47 CFR § 97.1

(a) Recognition and enhancement of the value of the amateur service to the public as a voluntary noncommercial communication service, particularly with respect to providing emergency communications.

(b) Continuation and extension of the amateur's proven ability to contribute to the advancement of the radio art.

(c) Encouragement and improvement of the amateur service through rules which provide for advancing skills in both the communication and technical phases of the art.

(d) Expansion of the existing reservoir within the amateur radio service of trained operators, technicians, and electronics experts.

(e) Continuation and extension of the amateur's unique ability to enhance international goodwill.
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With HIPAA, it is always better to be safe. In the case of requesting medical records, they generally want proof that they released it to you and not your fictional younger brother who looks almost like you but will give your information to a boss.

I honestly would rather have this.
There's quite a few, but since they're set aside for esoteric weirdos who should just go on IRC, they're presumably on borrowed time as far as you're concerned.
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I would argue that an open 2M ham band is of more civic utility than just about any of the other amateur radio bands. It's very useful in emergency situations and for two way comms it remote regions without telecom. The radios can be extremely portable and with local repeater network have a good effective range.

The comparison to IRC would be more apropos for the HF bands.
Because C guys keep spreading the false arguments that C was some kind of language sent by god to solve all performance issues, while we in the trenches when the language sprung into existence know it wasn't never the case.

Not to mention the fact that other programming languages, on the mainframe and workstation space, were already starting to collect the benefits of whole program optimizers.
And now Instagram is having an outage
That's probably not as stupid as it sounds. Well, actually it is, but if horses can drive their carriages autonomously, could we teach gorillas to do the same for cars?
It is much easier to relate to a known quantity than an unknown. I would say the vast majority of people here are either programmers or at least have enough knowledge in programming to relate to it.
tar has two blocks of zeros at the end.

GNU tar uses entries where other tar implementations will overwrite previous files on extraction, AIX tar uses special four character names for binary blobs (plus xattrs as names, both after the affected entry), Solaris cpio uses another mode bit for sparse files, ACLs, and xattrs (I actually really like this, it extracts as a simple to parse text file[0] on other implementations), and most pax commands on Linux can't read/write PAX archive files.

FWIW I make use of TRAILER!!! to let me know in a pipeline that everything worked (imagine a command earlier in the pipe fails early and not every entry is processed but ends on a boundary), but here the two pages of zeros that tar uses makes more sense (about the only thing tar does better than cpio).

0: https://www.mail-archive.com/opensolaris-arc@mail.opensolari...
Too heavy? But the skateboard puts all of the weight as low as possible
Marketing data

The referred by string in the request tells them what page the user is loading which requires a script from this CDN.

They could have other business angles as well, but user tracking is certainly one possibility.
Can radio societies compete against Thales, the French military aerospace company?
Didn't for me.
> Wow, that's so different from my experience.

I'm an outlier. FWIW my worldview is self-consistent.

> It's like saying only world-class weightlifters should work in construction carrying stuff.

No, I'm saying only world-class engineers should design the cranes, so that regular folks can use them with minimal risk.

> The world around me seems to be constantly screaming: here's yet another thing that could be made easier with better software, no stunning virtuoso performance required, just plain old hard work.

With respect, I think that's bias. Ask an Amish person how much software is required to live a successful, fulfilling life.

> Why do I have to lift my eyes from my phone to know whether or not the bus I'm waiting for is arriving?

Wow, that's so different from my experience. In all seriousness though, if you're attention is so consumed by your phone that you have trouble noticing if a bus is arriving I'd say that's a personal problem.

Given the fact that our civilization is rapidly stuffing radio-connected computers in everything, I'd say that it becomes more imperative that we ensure that only the best quality software is deployed, eh?

> Scrolling is nice and all, but can that menu with a hundred items take up all the space available to it?

That's a problem caused by bad software, a symptom of what I'm describing.

> The pharmacy cashier the other day asked me for the same information twice because two systems won't talk to each other.

At the pharmacy there might be an good reason for that, but if not then you're describing another symptom of what I'm talking about. System design is hard, it takes really good people to do it right.

We are fortunate that, once written, high-quality software is just as cheap to use (actually cheaper) than crappy software, and we should take advantage of that. (E.g. use Elm-lang rather than JS flavor-of-the-month et. al.)
You'd be surprised. A lot folks hopping between companies in SV are happy to throw away their values to work there for the money.
There are millions of 2m transceivers, some of which have appreciable power output. Attempting to operate drones on this band would be seriously stupid, even if other uses (which are historically solidly entrenched) would be banned.

Forgive the pun but I don't think this will fly.

Here is a better article:

http://www.southgatearc.org/news/2019/june/france-proposes-1...

And without an irritating ad-blocker detector, if you want your stuff to be read don't block it with this sort of nonsense.
It's fairly complicated because it is geopolitics and international law. Why? Because that's what the government's have worked out between each other. Usually between representatives who were put there through Democratic means.

I'm hoping that he is extradited and stands trial because I can't think of an alternative. It will settle the issue as best as we humans can.
And now a Facebook branded error message: https://imgur.com/18mC5FW
To be fair, you probably could have simply waited to pay for the medicine until after you spoke to the pharmacist. If Rite Aid's system is like the pharmacy I worked at in the US, it was impossible to pay for a prescription until you sign.

The vast majority of folks picking up prescriptions do not talk to a pharmacist.
A better option might be this https://syncthing.net/. I'd like to have a play and see if I can get this to sync with a backblaze bucket. Then it would do everything I want. But not for work :(. Dropbox has been certified as secure so we're allowed to use it and nothing else.
For an expensive US city with a "tech" concentration, only the article's "BLUE" category (6 figures) is usually viable, AFAICT. If you look at their chart as everything except blue being red, almost nothing is viable.

You can scrape by on some 5-figures in such a place (assuming no trust fund, and that parents didn't buy you a condo), especially if you have roommates and a hope in growth of circumstances (e.g., startup founder or equity-heavy employee, or the academic postdoc situation), but that's not a good plan for open source work.
There is a limit of 30k rules though, which isn't enough to contain even uBO's defaults. While it looks like they are moving to a 150k global limit, even that is less than my current uBO setup of over 200k.
“Just go do $OTHER_THING” implies the commenter already has the solution figured out, and wants to know why others aren’t implementing their solution. It’s the antithesis of an “honest question“.
Maybe I should have added the /s at the end of my comment.

I am aware that the change to the webRequest API has not been implemented yet.

However, I just could not resist having a bit of fun when I saw this headline.

And yes, I actually did switch to FF in light of this announcement from Google.

I actually tried to switch a few times in the past but never really had the motivation to do so. Google gave me the motivation, so I guess, thanks Google!
Same here, but it worked the second time, with FF mobile.

I bet there's some race condition somewhere that goes away when whatever file is cached and loads quickly.
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It should be mentioned, too, that Tesla doesn't have an official Nurburgring lap time because they don't want one. They've made several official statements that they aren't interested in such competitions.

There are unofficial times [1], but Nürburgring apparently takes manufacturer wishes into respect on declaring official times.

Multiple EVs have official times at this point. Tesla doesn't seem to care right now.

(VW, on the hand, with Nürburgring in their backyard has to care, and it is fascinating to hear what's going on with their EV race teams.)

[1] An example: https://jalopnik.com/heres-what-a-tesla-model-s-can-do-aroun...
For me, the Cold Turkey app is key. It has a tremendous amount of flexibility for blocking applications, web sites, etc.

https://getcoldturkey.com/features/
But this is just a criticism of extrapolation beyond support, not of any particular class of model. The extrapolation would be equally nonsensical with a linear probability model or any sigmoid transformation, because in reality the problem is only defined within a support (or else is a hinge problem, where everything outside the support has a fixed value). This doesn't make the model useless, it makes it useless for particular out of support extrapolations. This is why inference is both a quantitative and qualitative problem.
I'm no wild animal training expert, but surely there's a risk training gorillas could backfire?

humans training gorillas leads to gorillas being more trusting and less suspecting of humans, including poachers, or some other unintended consequences.
Is this release the one removing the API ad blockers rely on?
P=NP is undecidable (conjecture)
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How Nike sold its first shoes
To be fair, being designed like a theme park isn't necessarily a bad thing.

No, of course not. Sometimes I want a theme park! It's just that I'm sometimes promised a world and what I get is more of a theme park. Sometimes one wants the theme park. Sometimes, one wants a more "natural" experience. This also comes in degrees, which is part of why it's tricky.
GANs are detectors too, so at any point in time they will be right-on-par with the state of the art fakes, but no better.
I don't really like that definition too much, it feels a little off. It feels almost like the tolerance/intolerance debate, in a way.

But I get it. I choose not to call myself an atheist, since it seems to have connotations beyond the simple definition. If asked for a label, I call myself ignostic. It has the upside of being easily mistaken for agnostic, therefore it sails under the radar when the topic of religion comes up. So I can be accurate without getting into what amounts to a political debate.
Electron maintainer here.

Most of the maintainers are being paid to maintain Electron full-time. I've worked in jobs before where you got to do "some open source during work hours", but in the case of Electron, most of our people are specifically paid to work on Electron.

Yes, absolutely, find and use more ways to fund Open Source, but describing Electron as a project below the poverty line is plain incorrect. Yes, we too need funding, but that description strikes me as inaccurate and thus problematic.

"Below the poverty line" means something, doesn't apply to Electron, and saying it because it sounds good trivializes a problem in a world where 1/7 children in the US live _actually_ below the poverty line.
I think news orgs are a special case though. Treating them like regular corporations and letting them profit-seek without regulation is how you end up with Fox News and co.
Cancelled my dropbox pro. I was using 80GB of the 2TB I was paying for. With a price hike, that put me over the edge
The needlessly dismissive "Just go on IRC" is probably what pushed his post over the line.
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> Natural reserves of graphene are few and far between

This seems to imply that graphene does occasionally occur in nature? Does anyone know under what situations this happens?
It seems to me that journalism suffers a "tragedy of the commons"-like situation: since many news stories are available free of cost, there is little incentive for individual citizens to pay for subscriptions that fund the information-gathering necessary for robust free press.

Is there any way that the government can subsidize newspapers without exerting influence? Perhaps the government could offer tax credits (not itemized tax deductions, but credits against the final amount due) at a given rate for newspaper subscriptions, up to an annual limit per taxpayer? E.g., each dollar spent on newspaper subscription yields a tax credit of $0.75, up to a limit of $150. A newspaper could be defined content-neutrally as printed matter delivered daily to subscribers. To prevent abuse (such as kickbacks to subscribers), the government could require that participating newspaper companies limit the benefits of subsidized subscriptions to (1) delivery of a physical newspaper and (2) online access to the content of the physical newspaper.
To my understanding, the idea is to stop training as soon as the discriminator has been 'fooled', i.e. its performance for telling fake and real images apart is just like random guessing. So, in a sense, you always keep on making better fake images, but not necessarily better discriminators (unless you botch the training or the losses, obviously).
You know there's a very famous sci-fi musical about why this would be a bad idea!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JlmzUEQxOvA
Thank you, will try that now.
Suze Orman is to finance as Dr. Phil is to psychotherapy.

Sadly they are in high demand in this age of quick, easy clickbait solutions to complicated problems.