skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Google was built heavily on authority, not just popularity.

Otherwise you could easily buy your way above Wikipedia, a non-profit organization (Wikimedia) - which ranks at or near the top for every query.

Quora, or some other VC backed knowledge service with a couple hundred million to vaporize, would overtake Wikipedia through the direct purchasing of popularity. Then others would quickly follow, entirely wiping Wikipedia from the first pages. That can't be done. If it could, private equity via Answers.com and other such very low quality sites would have already done it, seeking billions of dollars in return on such positioning.
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Dope vid!
Do we really need to deconstruct all of economics here? The market consists of those individual buyers and sellers. But they set the value together. No single buyer can set the value of the items they want to buy in the supermarket. They buy them or they don't buy them. In response to that, the seller adjusts the price. If not enough people buy it, the seller lowers the price, if he runs out too fast, he raises the price. That is "the market" determining the price in a free market.

So if a potential buyer sees something 70% discounted, that implies that originally, the market determined that higher price as a fair price: a price that at least some buyers would pay for this item. The buyer trusts the market that that is apparently a fair price, but today the buyer is in luck, because it's been discounted to below the usual market price!

If the seller advertises with a fake discount, he's betraying the buyer's trust in the free market by intentionally lying about what the market is willing to pay for this item.
You can produce the drugs but very hard to get anyone to buy it, as your product is not recognized by pharmacies and insurance companies as legitimate. Drugs doesn't get bought in the US unless it is carried by pharmacies and pharmacies won't carry your prescription drug unless insurance covers it.
It's so much more lucrative to just slice the orphaned drug catalog up in a cartel structure.

You charge robbery rates for drugs A, C and F and I'll take B, D and E.

We both make lots of money and don't have to worry about each other.

Competition assumes sellers don't collaborate and negotiate but they do all the time.
I was on R and L for 15 years or so (it's been a while, so I may be off by a bit, but it was a long time). Sure, it's not as good (as noted by others, you need to be more strict with your diet because it takes longer to work in your system and you can't take it reactively), but it _does_ work. It's certainly better than being dead.
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It was a mistake to try and make it a moral argument to begin with. We need to frame the discussion as "if we all want to survive, we're going to have to do {blah}". Drawing an arbitrary line and calling everyone on one side of it "bad" is creating an artificial division that gives those on the "right" side something to be smug about and those on the "wrong" side something to ignore.
We need to hold these people accountable for their actions. Life sentences or if necessary capitol punishment sentences for the players and actors who are responsible for hiking up prices on drugs for no better reason than increased profit margins, enough is enough. It doesn't matter if its diabetes, ms or cancer if the the drugs aren't affordable then the people producing the medication should immediately be taken to court and if found guilty of price gouging should be punished accordingly.
Kaiser Permanente is doing that in California. I was very happy with their healthcare when I lived there.
1 in every 5 posts on IG are advertisements. Go check for yourself.
I used to do customs compliance for UPS during a break I took from tech. The only way to 100% "police" international shipments is to open them, and look at what is inside every box. Even ignoring the logistics of that, that seems like a privacy concern to me.

FWIW, at UPS we were allowed to open the boxes if needed (no other UPS department had that permission), but we normally just trusted that whatever description they put on the paperwork matched the contents of the box. We'd open it if there was no paperwork. If we knew the description would stop it at customs, we'd look inside and re-write the paperwork after seeing what the contents were to speed it through customs. But I'd estimate we sent more than 95% through without opening a box.
>Maybe maire's sister does not have half a mil lying around to kickstart the experiment

The set of people with the condition probably does. I wonder if a kickstarter for generics would be successful?
CVS owns Aetna, for one.
These are made up numbers, but I use this to explain the scale to people. If it costs $1Bn to reach 80%, it'll take another $100Bn to reach 90%. There isn't enough money to reach 100% for two reasons. 1) You can't get to 100% and 2) It will take so long people lose interest. You can't sustain the hype that long.
Former board member of Bob Moog Foundation. Can confirm Bob himself obsessed with knobs for same reason.
They are, which is why I called it the usual solution. A lot of trams and subways use too tight curves (which can't really be avoided all the time) but then there's the BART which uses cylindrical wheels for no good reason except it's expensive to change now.

It's a tricky problem for sure, and I didn't intend to solve it with my comment, just shed some light on what the problem space actually is to people less familiar.
>the hidden layers are there precisely to extract 'meaning

That is just wishful thinking, no? I mean, there is no particular reason to think that the hidden layers will actually do this with any high degree of success.
Aetna owns with CVS.

https://prospect.org/article/why-aetna-and-cvs-merger-so-dan...
> Any one warehousing my data needs to tell me what, how, why.

You already have all of this from CRAs:

* They are required by law to tell you what they have related to you every year, for free.

* These reports include the source of the information.

* The why is well known, as it's their business model.

Edit: not only that, but the law restricts who can actually request access to any of this data, under "permissible purpose".
Then let's call it US corporate culture.
Unless you believe the Kurzweil argument that we will figure what is needed from reverse engineering the human brain in which case you guestimate a timeline.
HTTPS encrypts the contents of the request. The things requested still happen in plain text.
Not just e-commerce sites—change.org shows "### have signed," where the number is programmed to tick upwards at a somewhat randomized rate. This is simply dishonest—a lie designed to make you feel like you'll be missing out unless you sign.

Example: https://www.change.org/p/target-stop-filling-the-world-with-...
I cant figure out why this is flagged and people are claiming the article doesn't support the HN title. What does this mean if not "tether is being used to manipulate BTC"

> “Bitfinex [a large crypto exchange that operates as Tether’s affiliate] issues tethers to their traders for market manipulation, market manipulators pump and dump, then ‘pay’ for the tethers later.”

The title is literally the core claim the article is making. To be very clear, though, this is not news to anyone who follows bitcoin community drama. Whats funny about the article is that an insider admitted it.
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This is actually something that I've been saying about myself for years - which I discovered through my own observations when I was in high school.

Long story short, I was in a "dual-enrollment" program which allowed me to take classes at a local college at night while going to high school during the day. I was able to graduate high school with over 30 college credits. One of the courses I took was psychology 101. I didn't particularly like this course (just wasn't interested compared to other subjects) and I ended up goofing off most of the time taking some notes on my laptop/iPad.

Needless to say, this affected my grades and I was at risk of failing the course. In order to study for the final, I ended up going through the book and taking notes of key terms and concepts - writing them down. I was able to get a real understanding of the content and ended up getting 100% on the exam and passing the course.

My lesson; my personal comprehension goes way up when I physically write things down. Now I keep a notebook that I use every day (a bullet journal). In many cases, I duplicate what I'm doing in my project management systems, but I am able to visualize what I need to do much more efficiently.
As far as I am concerned, the problem is not with people who make drugs and want to profit from it, but with people who regulate competition away.

If people weren't prohibited from buying whatever the drug they want at their own risk, they wouldn't be forced to monopoly prices.
Why do you listen to all these radio transmissions?
Cool. Have you thought about acquisition channels? Maybe Heroku elements would be a good place to distribute this
scale is indeed the problem. scale has perverted our capitalist society as well, long before the internet. Adam Smith wrote about capitalism but he never envisioned Amazon. Changing a system from a one-to-one interaction to a one-to-many interaction should not allow us to apply the same rules. In math for example, commutativity works for single numbers, but not matrices.
Honestly? Because I see self driving cars as expensive toys for rich people[1], and I don’t feel like spending tax dollars or making other concessions to subsidize that.

I think the analogy to railroads is a bit tenuous. There are immediate benefits to connecting two sufficiently separated points with a rail line. A single stretch of properly marked and instrumented roadway is relatively worthless[1].

[1] Trucking being a potential exception.
Then you know of no sane scientist or engineer, at least any that might have a passing familiarity to n-dimensional data or basic mathematical concepts.

Dimensions are the conventional term when talking about aspects of data. It doesn't just have to be spatial data, although that's the common usage of dimensions.

If you're using the 3d position with two additional dimensions of size and rotation of the object at that position, you're literally processing 5 measurable dimensions of input in order to extract data.

It's not like they're claiming to record data in time and a wibbly wobbly 5th dimension. It's a literal mathematical dimension describing the properties of the recording medium and method.
> The use of force by the state to entrench the position and profits of a particular business

This is a natural and obvious end following from the foundation of capitalism, which is the existence of private property ensured by the state.
They are not saying it's undisputed. That's your interpretation.

I claim "It is undeniable that the Earth is not flat and anyone who supports the idea of spherical Earth is ignorant of the facts."

Am I stuck in a mindset and unwilling to consider alternatives?

The arguments I copied were those used by the authors of the new policy to justify their claims. That they were made by a different person is not relevant. I can point to Eratosthenes to defend my anti-flat-Earth stance, without having to write out his arguments myself.
The system I imagine:

* drug development being funded by government;

* thru misc stages (research, clinical trials, certification, mfg, etc);

* at every stage third parties (public, private, or both) bidding on time boxed rights to license drug and carry drug thru remaining stages;

* licensee paying royalties.

Earlier involvement in the most promising drugs is incentivized by allowing third parties to license earlier, taking on more of the risk, getting a better deal.

Orphaned drugs can still get some love by do gooders. In fact, government can pay (subsidize) third parties when there's no profit.

I'm a total noob, and have zero idea if this worldview has any merit.

Also, prohibit advertising and all forms of payola.
I have the same issue with notes. When I have to analyze what I'm hearing, I can't do anything other than listen. It's like my brain shifts between modes.

My intuition is that I would have been an A student if I took time to write notes after the class while the memories were still fresh.
I live nearby and often use this when catching the 55! Sort of surreal to start reading your post and immediately recognize it's something from just a block away!
At that point, he should just book a trip to Mexico or better yet China, and buy at less than 10% of the price.
I am very active in a lot of online tinnitus forums. If that worked it would have been shown to years ago because it gets tried over and over and over and over and over.

Seems like it's a common idea that gets stuck in technically oriented folks heads and they're compelled to some how force it to work.

It doesn't work.
Or the singularity. Then it isn't.
That's not the most convincing of all possible arguments when the problem is dead people - who really didn't need to die.
I don't know the optical storage space one way or another, so I was curious to learn more. As far as I can tell, that Wikipedia page you've linked to is solely about the same work by the same researchers as the article. Am I overlooking something? Has there been work by others using the same term? Or is the idea that the process of becoming a Wikipedia title is what makes it a term of art?
> Seeing the word concentration tramp unironically being used in a current world is obscene.

No, what's obscene is what we're doing to children. THAT is obscene.
In general I agree about corruption being a primary reason for that, but small correction - lack of access to insulin is not due to patent system, but due to combination of companies evergreening these patents, doctors being a gatekeepers when deciding which product to use, FDA being a gatekeeper deciding which product to allow to sell. All of these come from (ab)use of government power, so the core of your message is right - with these three things there can be no free market. You can't pick "old" version of insulin and just inject it yourself using regular syringe. You have to use whatever doctor and FDA approves only in the name of the safety of patients.

https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/news/media/releases/why_peop...
I don't think agentultra is being hyperbolic.

There is a great uncertainty about feedbacks. It may very well be the case that we don't even have 5 years and we have already passed the point of no return.

Even disregarding that, the 2ºC statement is also very probable. See my comments from the other day:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20256598
I don't know if it's your intention, but it comes across to me that you're advocating doing nothing, which strikes me as bad.
But wouldn’t that also be a factor for an service starting up in a region after Facebook enters.

Forgetting that FB is so large that starting a completing service is a hard enough battle by itself, now you got to sign a deal to get at least a low rate if not 0 rate deal with the cell providers.
Thanks, I hadn't seen this article.

And yes, they might save money on snow removal. Downtown Toronto though, I don't see it. Even if 3 blocks have heated sidewalks, the sidewalk plow has to drive over them to reach the next segment. Those costs wouldn't decrease.

Saving on salting and sidewalk damage from freeze/thaw could be impactful.

But the cost of digging up sidewalks (which happens _all the time_) would increase significantly. Then there's the added expenses of maintenance - leaky pipes that requiring digging up the sidewalk.

The installation and maintenance requires skilled labour - union plumbers. Installing concrete sidewalks and plowing requires much lower wages.

Overall, the article makes no solid argument for it saving money, and does nothing more than speculate it could be cost saving. Where's the actual numbers from other cities who have implemented this?
See, it depends. Realstically, as a contractor you'd be billing ~220 days a year.

Contractor: (Devops, high day rate)

750 x 220 = £165,000.
800 x 220 = £176,000.

Employee: (Devops, high salary) + Employers NI.

150,000 + 19,508.78 = £169,508.78

Said contractor would need to bring his own equipment, pay insurance, and deal with the risk of being let go arbitrarily, and won't get a bonus or pension contribs.

Now where the contractor can make out is, he can pay reasonable expenses, and he can act more tax efficent, especially if he doesn't pay himself more than the higher threshold.

For the record, I'm not a big fan of the politics that comes with being an employee, I like to just come in, do the work, and leave, so quite happy as a contractor.
A pseudorandom number generator that is potentially faster than Lehmer's RNG
This is forgetting university students who often had non-dialup access to the Net from computer labs (I even had access to the Net, which was basically just telnet, ftp, and Usenet, in the late 1980s as an undergrad).
Well my guess is that they are planning for a time where they cannot use US tech. They planning on being self sufficient as a country.
A few hundred years ago, we used to call poor people "unfortunates". Now we call them "losers".

Shades of Meritocracy, by Alain de Botton

https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=320002...
-- Then don't export?

That's a real mature answer there.
Paypal need a USD account in USA, with a bank statement from said account showing your business name. I don't think that would do it.
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I've thought this way for a while. Once (if) we start feeling the diminishing returns in transistor scaling, there will be more incentive in the computer architecture side to experiment with the relatively fixed transistor budget that we have.
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Healthpartners, an insurance company in Minnesota, runs their own pharmacies, as well as Virtuwell.
Private security is a better response if they’re concerned about her safety.

Viewed through the lens of human power, which is more likely?
At Geckoboard we have a Pi hooked up to a thermal receipt printer so that remote participants can print off their retrospective cards through Slack: https://medium.com/geckoboard-under-the-hood/building-a-slac...

(We've upgraded it a bit since that post! - We also use it to ping a Slack channel for when it's standup).

We also use Pis to run some of our dashboards: https://support.geckoboard.com/hc/en-us/articles/36002392437...
If it's a property of an object that defines the object, it's a dimension. Spatial location gives us 3 dimensions, rotation and size give us 2 more. The dimensions don't all have to use the same units.
please add (2016) to this title, old news
"Consume extravagantly". What does that mean? Is that a typical western life style, or flying everywhere by private jet???

"invest in fossil fuel". What does that mean, my pensions invested in index trackers so I guess theres some oil companies in there, but what if I invest in a supermarket that uses plastic packaging and diesel lorries, is that also investing in fossil fuel?

Oil touches every part of our lives, I personally find it exhausting keeping track of all the things I 'should' be doing, without getting judgemental about others.

Ps I say this as someone who doesn't fly, gets 100% green electricity, carbon offset gas, trying to reduce meat consumption, lives in a modest sized house, with one car in the household. I don't throw litter on the street either.
> There is no intrinsic problem with trust. On the net you are potentially connected to everyone on the planet. Nobody can claim the trust of everyone. And I firmly believe achieving this is the wrong goal.

> People need to simple not let their trust be abused and that is very possible. For example not letting ad companies handle your biases or believing the next random spam mail you get.

> Anonymity is a tool to shield you from abuse. Not the only one, but for non-public personas, nobody has found something better yet.

I'm not sure it's possible to distinguish the world you describe from the one we already live in.
Has anybody here read "FPGAs for Software Programmers" (https://www.amazon.com/FPGAs-Software-Programmers-Dirk-Koch/...) ?

Any inputs/thoughts on how appropriate it might be for a Software Engineer to learn and program FPGAs?
You're changing the terms of the debate, we're not talking fossil fuels vs renewables, we're talking why are they choosing specifically coal over all other options.
Has the news industry's economics ever been truly separate from entertainment industry economics? Is the only reason news ever made money was because it offered people a novel form of entertainment?

Did people ever buy news because it was news? Or was this decline inevitable as actual entertainment was always going to eventually be able to offer a better match for what people actually buy?
There's a related Microsoft Research project https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/project/project-sil...

(I work in the same lab but on different things)
Whenever I talk to (privileged) people here in the US about this, I try to bring one point across. As a whole, people are in too much pain and stress to have any appreciation for a climate crisis. Whatever you may think, as a whole, people have to deal (personally and emotionally) with (sometimes perceived) much bigger crisis than that of the climate.

As long as people live pay-check to pay-check on the brink of no health-insurance, the brink of missing mortgage- or rent-payments and ending on the streets, the brink of high medical bills, the brink of 15k a year preschool expenses, the brink of retirement ...
There is always a crisis stressing people out because there is nothing but yourself to fall back on in the event of a disaster.

And since nobody is politically (dare I say globally) willing to provide relief for such kind of warranted fears and concerns for ones individual future, people have to room to spend more on the perma frost, Florida homes or an underwater New York.
this has not been my experience with SBIRs
This is so sweet to read! Thank you!!
Bullet-trains are very fast too, but they need rail tracks.

C++/C/Nim/Rust/D are all terrain fast
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Publicity driven support.

Twitter is too big to care: https://steemit.com/twitter/@genesisre/decentralizeeverythin...

9 years, had to totally rethink my online identity.

Massive blow.
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There is a massive positive, though, for the 'geeks building the future": AI is where everyone else is looking. If you know where you should be looking, you have a decisive advantage over the rest of the market.
Postgres community is very small in China with MySQL dominating.
You're not wrong, but I think the idea that climate change is a problem to be solved on the individual level is the prevailing message. It's bad an individual litters plastic bottles. It's worse that we even choose to MAKE plastic bottles. The problem systematically never had to exist.
Also, the free market can't co-exist with heavy regulations - you can't just make insulin product and start selling it - you have to go through FDA first, and then market it to doctors who is an ultimate gatekeeper for the drug.
After reading the replies in this thread, I just feel so inferior. I can't solder to save my life and here people have made amazing things. :(
Ideas follow from reality. Supply and demand would dictate that infinite supply should drive prices to zero. Isn't that what we're seeing?

The other problem is that most people can't tell good writing apart from bad, but that problem is far older than all technology (apart from writing itself, of course).