skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When you look closely at developed countries, you will see that they actually cut funds for healthcare and education.

Healthy and educated ppl are too hard to manipulate..
It's true that groupthink also afflicts the hard sciences and engineering as well. This caused the foam strike, disintegrating a space shuttle, when NASA engineers knew of the problem, but their ideas were considered.

But what the social sciences lack is the scientific method. No testable hypothesis. Not science.
>It is getting increasingly difficult to guage what's native advertisment and what's not. It is not just social media or e-commerce websites but the enthusiast blogs, review sites, and YouTube channels doing sutble paid pieces.

It's getting even tougher to find reviews of uncommon products. I had a family member ask me suggestions for a car DVD player. I got a fair amount of hits for different brands and players, but when I looked for reviews on these products outside of commerce sites, they were all lists with affiliate links with little blurbs likes, "10 in screens, 6 hours of battery life, headphone jack, and plays media via USB." Gee, thanks for the product description.
A firsthand look inside Travis Kalanick's new CloudKitchens
That's interesting because I frequently add Reddit to the end of my searches. Particularly when it's a niche topic and increasingly for regular topics. Apparently a lot of other people who are fed up with search engines had the same idea. It's a very unfortunate development but nowadays Google search is almost unusable for some topics.
Handling Unplanned Work
If you believe that then the billions of dollars corporate interests spend on think-tanks to produce messaging is probably working.

The original concept of free-market economics, as envisioned by Adam Smith, was defined in opposition to entities governments and guilds using their power to impose artificial rules in the market to subvert natural market forces like supply and demand. Pharma companies use regulatory capture to do exactly that: they set up a legal landscape for their own benefit and everyone else's detriment. Rent-seeking is anything but free-market.
iPhone Apps Surreptitiously Communicated with Unknown Servers
Investigating Biases in Textual Entailment Datasets
Open Source Gantt Chart by IBM
I was victim of a fraud (a shop factured me twice, then they refused the pay me back the money) while paying with N26. They helped me to get my money back, so from my point of view they help fraud victims.
Valve Killing Steam Support for Some Ubuntu Users
If that's an issue, there are several other browser-based volume renderers with unrestricted BSD/MIT-style licenses:

- https://github.com/maartenbreddels/ipyvolume

- https://github.com/Kitware/vtk-js

- https://github.com/FNNDSC/ami (~successor to the excellent XTK: https://github.com/xtk/X)
HN-Gopher: Hacker News over the Gopher Protocol
This is fantastic. Incredibly helpful, and really really cool animations. Great metaphors and art style.

Love this - if you're reading the comments and on the fence, it's worth going through if for no other reason than to appreciate how well this is put together.

Works flawlessly on Firefox on Windows.
Yes, 13.8Gy is the approximate age of the universe and yes the researchers used that number. But it's not like they made this up ("phony", as you put it)!

Turns out the biggest decay factor is nanograting and the biggest contributing physical quantity is temperature. They plotted what decay would look like on an Arrhenius plot. They both computed estimates and measured to confirm: the measurements are quite accurate. The specific claim is that they computed that it would last 13.8Gy at a some reasonably high temperature (462K). They could've picked any other point on the time/temp scale, like "here's how long it would last at room temperature" or "here's how hot you could store it if you only cared about it for a billion years".

They did not, however, simply make up a number with no justification, let alone commit straight-up academic fraud, as you're implying.

The paper is here: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/297892219_Eternal_5....
That's good news but didn't they just finish putting more CO2 into the atmosphere then all developed countries combined over 100 year in like the last 10 years?

https://www.forbes.com/sites/rrapier/2018/07/01/china-emits-...

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/25/business/china-davos-clim...
Indeed and we saw that as a cause recently for a major Google outage. However that likely possibility of a bad config or edit doesn't fit the narrative Cloudflare is spinning here - that Verizon is simply dumb and lazy.

Clearly Verizon has inbound prefix filtering in place otherwise this would be a common occurrence for AS 701 and it is most certainly not. And it's quite surprising and sad to see how willing people are to just blindly parrot Cloudflare here and pile on. This of course was the desired outcome of the blog post.
Who wouldn't choose to learn how to use a syringe well instead of paying a third of their income for auto pens?
A while ago I recorded two songs (inter alia) that each used a Logic / Garageband synth. I can't perform these songs live without using my laptop. Currently my setup is with a Nord Piano 2 (which does not use Apple synthesisers and there does not appear to be a way to convert to Nord's file format).

Is it possible to go from first principles, starting with a sound that I have in mind (an Apple Logic default synth) and build a similar sounding (digital) synthesiser in some (hopefully open) format that can cross convert?
Colorado's snowpack is 40 times normal after rare summer solstice dump
I created demo video for this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dlDJMxemm3M
What are you hiring for if you don't mind?
people "printing" Tether have been manipulating BTC price for a very long time. I have personally benefited from this!
> Who SAP? They are not quite as bad as Oracle but in the same league.

Of course not SAP. However I know that the 3 biggest French banks use postgresql more and more.
I know it's a data point but I think it's telling.
Also, Microsoft sql server is still growing.
Hey Luckylion! Cheers for the thoughts!
People I had asked claimend that they really wanted to read the article and I had also limited my research to long articles from sophisticated news like NYT. However, I can't say for sure that they really wanted to read the article or just said so.
The summary idea you brought up is actually an interesting one: Getting an automatic summary (or some key sentences) so that I know at least roughly what the article is about. That's what you mean, right?
There was a simliar idea recently on product hunt: https://www.producthunt.com/posts/i-lazy-to-read. Worked medium well for me but the idea is quite cool
Whenever someone mentions a brand on social media you should assume it's an ad. At that point you should unfollow them. There are millions of others you can follow who aren't shills.
Do you think mainstream search engines someday will provide a “commercial search” and “non-commercial search” buttons side-by-side? SEO/ad gamed and non SEO/ad-gamed?

I dream of the day, but unless the government makes it a requirement I don’t see them doing it as it could undermine their business model to some extent (although I think people who want to buy will make use of the “commercial search”)
JS land and Frontend in general changes fashion every 6 months (tops)
How would hard limits work? Do all your ec2 instances shut down? Do your s3 buckets and their data get deleted? Do you snapshots and EBS volumes get deleted? There's no way to pause these things since they still costs AWS money.
> Additionally, there may still be a certain social impact where people feel that you’re “paying attention” when taking notes on a physical pad, vs they feel they’ve “lost your attention” the second you start to type away on a device.

Never mind what people feel - I care more about the fact that I do actually start to lose attention when I'm working on a laptop! (And I don't even need Internet for that, there's enough other things to distract me.)
I think expecting a seller to make sure they have the lowest price compared to other sellers is ridiculous.

It’s not a seller’s job to make sure the buyer is getting the lowest price. It’s not possible for a seller to know every single other seller’s price so I don’t see how anyone has a reasonable expectation to that in the first place.

People like to THINK they are getting a discount. They don’t care that the actually are. Clear evidence is JCPenney trying to offer people the best price without discounts:

https://www.priceintelligently.com/blog/bid/152018/lessons-f...

It’s how Kohl’s and Bed Bath And Beyond survive. Consumers rewarded sellers that offer 80% off ridiculously marked up items versus JC Penney who tried to offer an “honest” market price, and they forced JC Penney to engage in “deceptive” sale pricing again.
Adjusting your lifestyle and behaviour in line with climate goals is not about making a difference. It's about being a decent person. You don't throw litter into the street even though it's a drop in the ocean. You don't bully somebody just because everybody else does, even though it makes little difference. You do the things you do because you are a good decent person.

If you know about climate change and you still fly, invest in fossil fuel, consume extravagantly [edit: or anything you know has a large impact and you could reasonably do without (no, I don't know how to define reasonable in this context)] you are just a bad person. Sorry.

edit2: I am just saying this because I am desperate. And scared.
Beyond Amazon
A teacher can only test on the topics they covered. I take notes of everything. I can tell the teacher what they have covered.

An ounce of analysis is worth a pound of law.
And also an inferior solution.
But it does work. I was on 70/30 when I was a kid and, while not as flexible, it will keep you alive. You have to be VERY strict about your diet and exercise regimen when you're older, while doing blood sugars on the regular, but you don't fucking die. (Well, far less likely, I should say)
Follow https://twitter.com/sinequanonh He sometimes posts revenue numbers of his https://hyperping.io/ service.

With the low price point you'd attract users who bail at any price increase. It leaves little money for customer acquisition and support cost. Spending 10 minutes on a customer email ("do you plan to add feature X?") or dealing with failed credit card transaction (month 6 fine, month 7 "insuffient funds" error) already wipes any earnings the customer might have brought.

I'd try doing only yearly payment like https://servercheck.in/pricing
The story Radicalized in the recent Cory Doctorow collection of the same name is about a forum on which victims of insurance shenanigans get radicalized. When I read it the biggest surprise to me was that it hasn't happened yet. I've never had any issues with health care or insurance, but can easily imagine the impact it must have on someone.
Why not Bunq? It's smaller but good.

Bunq also has an impressively good API. Way more things to do than with Monzo or Revolut.
Indeed, the article is most certainly pro Tether/Bitfinex and handwaves the accusation of doubt from Bitfinex'ed (with the old "yeah but other people do it on other platforms (that are a little different...) so it's all legit!"

The best line is "Harborne said it was more a matter of bull-run optimism than cynical market manipulation"...except the transactions come first...
> I agree. If a bank has physical branches to fall back on, they can squander the online/phone story

And meanwhile First Direct has a mediocre website and terrible mobile app experience when compared to the likes of Halifax, TSB, RBS, Barclays, all of which are sub-par compared to the likes of Monzo or Starling as far as the app experience goes.

Then again, Monzo and Starling don't have a desktop experience, so good luck if you wan't to do anything more than just looking at a few transactions on the go.
> For some highly-specific performance scenarios, Oracle still cannot be beat.

Can you elaborate on this please? I do not think this statement is correct.
It's impossible for a carrier to check every package, nor is it legal in many cases. CBP can't check every vehicle at every point of entry, no one can.

You can make whatever regulations you want, but some impossible things are impossible.
I take notes on a
laptop for school and what I have learned is it
is very valuable to reorganize notes after readings or lectures. My goal is always to make a document that I can review later that is structured. Restructuring online without rewriting entire pages is pretty efficient. Also, with some discipline you can tag sections and grep them later.

A disadvantage over writing is not having multiple columns if you are using plain text. Tools like onenote solve this, but I find it too distracting to use in general.
Some people are very good at organizing and reading & working on the material before the lecture. This seems ideal, though I'd never been able to do that.
There's also no good way for most services to support it since storing data costs money and presumably you don't want AWS to wipe your data when you hit your spending cap.
When you say they aren't permitted to use it, do you mean it disqualifies them from insurance for other diabetes care or do you mean that the insulin isn't covered by the insurance?
Phenological Mismatch
Yes, they had this before 1997. There were no registrars. The InterNIC / registry was it...
Bitcoin is priced at $11,000 now https://www.coingecko.com/en
Is this largely schemed by a few individuals having tether influence?

But what's more strange is how fast the price has gone up in the last 30 days based on the chart. I will put that this wont hold water for too long
What about the quantum blockchain?
> Backpropagation, which most researchers will agree is an AI algorithm, is a "simple algorithm".

As time rolls on and we see more articles like this one calling out the "AI BS" - which I agree should be called out...

I worry that a new "winter" will set in, and funding will be cut, and research towards how biological neural networks actually work vis-a-vis artificial neural networks will suffer.

Because from what I understand, we currently don't know how such biological networks actually "learn" - because there isn't a "mechanism" for backpropagation to occur.

IIRC, there's still questions on how information is propagated through biological networks; our artificial representations of them are constrained to approximately a single dimension of the real thing (and even that doesn't capture the biology, thus the idea of "spiking neural networks") - but there may be other avenues of information diffusion that are important as well, still to be revealed in the biological makeup.

We know for certain we are missing something fundamental, when even if you could scale up some of today's best deep learning systems to data center scale won't approximate anything close to what goes on in the human brain, given the size and power constraints.

Figuring this out could be set back, when funding becomes scarce once more.
Free on-line vim tutorial book
Nice! If you want to take a look at how someone else approached this, pgexercises [1] also handles interactive SQL sessions.

[1] https://pgexercises.com/about.html
I'm trying to figure out if the cost in Sweden (or UK NHS) is using the older recipe so the a valid comparison. If so the US Walmart product isn't so different. I'm trying to compare like with like.
I'm very glad you liked it! Thank you for your kind words.
I still have a hard time believing the articles numbers. Heres one example that quotes the vials at $137.50 and the manufacturer gave the pricing.[1]

Note the guy died in 2017 and my link below is from this year. It looks like a small amount of progress has been made since his death.

[1]https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.usnews.com/news/best-states...
It wasn't my argument originally, but I'd argue two things.

1) The divide between nation/leader is not a valuable one to make in-so-far as whether it was originally their idea or not, the nations were the ones doing the warring. I think it's dangerous to think of history as caused by individuals (despite the tendency of the textbooks to tend that way). Could the world have been different if Hitler was a better person? Sure. It also could have been different if the people were better too...

2) I can think of many counterexamples to people wanting local things. You might argue that there is a way to fit things like America's current trade war with China into the deep South's degree of fulfillment, but I'm not really interested in going down that hole. I'd rather just say that, as stated, I don't think it's a predictive model of the world.
for A fully static binary that can run on a system without glibc.
Why stop there? Are you currently using solar power? Do you use the bus instead of walking? What's your food habits - do you eat meat? What clothes are you currently wearing? Where do you live? How large is it? Does it need heating or air conditioning?

You're drawing the "this makes an awful person" line at a super arbitrary point.
The original article is pushing the narrative that those new, fancy insulins "offered minimal benefits" compared to that older insulin, that they're just prescribed because of "aggressive marketing campaigns" by the evil big pharma, and that this is what's pushing up insulin prices. The fact that you can buy the older stuff off the shelf with no prescription for $25 is definitely a problem for its narrative, and the fact that there are genuine disadvantages to doing so is an even bigger one.
Interestingly, it's those same healthy, educated people who vote for those changes.
This reminds me of the article the other day about the internet being an SEO wasteland

Basically our business networks run the same way (not a shock at all): sycophants spam aristocratic investors with half assed bullshit solutions to juice the odds of hooking one
Illegal is a classification a state makes about things considered immoral or evil. Or sometimes neither and someone is out to make a quick buck by corrupting the law. I cannot classify something as illegal, but I can point out that it is downright evil. If enough people do this then eventually the law might catch up, that is if the law hasn't been bought out already by the evil bastards out to make a buck. Which it has, unfortunately.
Why are people protesting the advent of 5G in Uruguay?
Hardly Bitfinex PR — the guy calls in rabid conspiracy theorist Bitfinex'ed to counter the guy's claims...
Everyone has the right, not everyone has government protection of the right.
Why would this change anything at all? The "apps"[0] would still be extremely inefficient.

[0] For lack of a better term.
However, it is missing the disclaimers that the article says this influencer insists on using

> Van Ness's posts are clearly labeled as ads, with the caption #advertisement or #sponsoredcontent [...] Altman is diligent about using those hashtags.

It wouldn't be too hard for the FTC to crack down on sponsored content that isn't tagged as sponsored. Of course they don't have the budget to go after everyone, but they can fine one big player and make a heavy handed example of a handful of small ones (who won't actually get hurt, the free publicity will be worth it to them). The cost of compliance is cheap, so everyone will make sure to display the "sponsored content" sign.

That, like the article, misses the point, however: like placebo drugs, ads work just fine even if you know they are ads.
Facebook’s Authoritarian Money Grab
USPS was never privatized. It was reorganized as an independent agency.

> The USPS is often mistaken for a government-owned corporation (e.g., Amtrak) because it operates much like a business. It is, however, an "establishment of the executive branch of the Government of the United States", (39 U.S.C. § 201) as it is controlled by presidential appointees and the postmaster general. As a government agency, it has many special privileges, including sovereign immunity, eminent domain powers, powers to negotiate postal treaties with foreign nations, and an exclusive legal right to deliver first-class and third-class mail. Indeed, in 2004, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in a unanimous decision that the USPS was not a government-owned corporation, and therefore could not be sued under the Sherman Antitrust Act.
I'd be happy to have them highlighted so I can tell where they're being used
Why has no state stepped up to do this yet?
BD-Rom is already pushing sane limits. It's why an important if under reported "feature" of BD-Rom over DVD was harder, more scratch resistant plastic coating.

If you really need the lifespan of paper... http://ollydbg.de/Paperbak/
In that case, why aren't there rules to limit profit margins on live saving drugs?
There goes that nasty evil capitalism, "It wasn't my lack of will power and cognitive short falls that caused me to buy these things ... it was capitalism's fault. I'm completely innocent and would never make bad decisions of my own accord ..."
> Open Source is the worst thing that can happen to the US tech in US vs China trade war.

While the OP seems to have added some level of rant to the end of the post, I do suspect the first part of the post has some merit and is in fact correct.

The reality is 'Open Source' software does reduced the cost of entry for all organisations where ever in the world they may be.

Open Source allows companies big and small to quickly get up to speed at a minimal cost and I'm sure this fact is not lost on many companies outside of the USA including China.
> ...except the transactions come first...

one need to buy a ticket _before_ boarding the train

here the ticket is Tether, and the train are exchanges (mostly Bitfinex)
Mass murder for profit is normal operating procedure. Otherwise we wouldn’t have cigarette companies, mining companies fighting safety regulations or companies fighting tooth and nail to keep leaded gas.
>Maybe its time to change definitions or terms.

Nah, I prefer having something to keep me cynical and disappointed every time another "cutting-edge AI" application comes out. As a research community, we should be held accountable for our failures to achieve the real shit, the full-on Charles Stross vision.
Why would you ever give aid to the dirtiest source of electricity? Coal use will accelerate future catastrophes and cost WAY more long-term than any meager benefits until 2030 or whenever they are banned.

It's simply immoral to suggest coal subsidies. Renewables are much cheaper and far better for the planet and local air pollution. Anyone who is willing to give anything to coal at this point is selling 1000's of years of emissions for 5-10 years of coal-worker and coal-owner subsidy. It's disgraceful coal still gets subsidies.
The only activity I've seen from their crawler is fetching home pages to source the favicons of the site - which they display next to results. They don't appear to crawl the web to index it.
Indeed, as mentioned in the article:

"A large array of promising diagnostic methods have been floated in recent years, from blood and eye tests, to a remarkable recent study suggesting a smell secreted by the skin could signal the presence of the disease."
If having a currency seized in legal proceedings makes illegitimate to you then you better switch to seashells.

Also if you get most of your BTC seized you're doing it wrong.
It isn't that simple, many lost languages have only been restored because of the dual language books.

Similarly, I think what matters here is the higher-order redundancy. A single encoding that can be lost, is not straightforward to figure out, and holds the clue to a massive storage, isn't the most future proof decision; it's a single point of failure.
The Relevance of Data Analytics in HR
You have not benefited from it until you've sold and exchanged for actual money in your bank account. Just making sure you know.