skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I remember HN getting up in arms about free speech when porn was banned from some sites, and a few years earlier when rape fantasy was banned from another (sorry, poor memory so I don’t remember more details). But banning pro-Trump is fine. Where are the SJWs now? Trump is an idiot, but this reveals some true bias in this (HN) community. It’s disappointing.
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Yes, it is an explicit strategic policy of the Chinese government as part of "Made in China 2025" with state support (political and monetary).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Made_in_China_2025
Why the downvote? This is a real thing that contributed towards the 2008 financial crisis and still exists today just not usually called a CDO.
Yeah, but solar farms are typically located in areas where there is abundant sunlight through out the year, not the same for cars
> Best to get started.

Started taking it out, or started not putting it in the first place?
As far as I am concerned, the people engaged in price gouging for insulin are essentially committing mass murder for profit. It is so far outside of any kind of moral standard, that I have no problem in categorising it as just straight up evil.
It was touched on - there's the "official list price" (which has gone up) and the "price actually paid by large providers" (which has gone down).

My best guess is that the price rises were to bring in some immediate profits in the short term ("this quarter isn't looking good") and them these were shortly followed by the compensating discount you have to give to your pissed off customer.

Problem was that nobody gave a toss about the profit margin on the lone guy paying $1000 a month (or $1300 a month) at retail.
If you want to learn how to program synthesizers, I suggest reading some of the DSP code by Emilie Gillet (Mutable Instruments)
https://github.com/pichenettes/eurorack
Question: All of "learn synths" tutorials I've managed to dig up are really "sound creation" tutorials.

I have not found a good tutorial or paid online class on how to _play_ synths. Is taking a traditional piano course the best way to do so? Observationally, the play style seems quite different, even if some basics are the same. Most practically, I see synths typically played with right hand, left hand is on the modulator or knobs.

Basically, I'm finding it hard to find resources on how to play and make the most out of your synth (as opposed to piano), once you have dialed in the sound you want...
From what I understand, the US culture is one in which it is generally considered the fault of someone for being unable to pay for their own healthcare and living circumstances. Because there is the sentiment that it is possible to not be oppressed through one's personal power, cleverness, and considerate behavior, the people who claim to be oppressed are actually lazy, stupid, and inconsiderate.

You can see this whenever someone claims that they individually were able to climb out of poverty but know other people who, through their own stupidity or ignorance or bad luck, were not able to- and therefore less sympathy should be garnered to the whole of impoverished americans as there exists a subset that is comfortable leeching off the extremely poor social safety net that exists.

In short, a poor person egging a rich person's car would be seen as an aggressive, unprovoked action on the poor person, and the poor person should focus their efforts on being less poor instead. That the egger is focusing instead on protesting is an evidence of their screwed up priorities.
Excellent, I did similar experiments in the past.
RealAudio (ACELP) with Helix is also an efficient option, but Opus is the best. For more quality you can reformat your floppy with 2MF 3.0, it gives you 2 megabytes on a floppy instead of 1.44. I used it to get the bible on it and a stripped down bootable dos+win3.1.. unpack on a ramdrive and start the app. People next to me were still stuck in the University provided dos wp 5.1 wordprocessors while I could do WYSIWYG editing with true type fonts!
Answering “How Long Will This Take?” and Other Impossible Questions
Not surprising at all, considering that Western nations have been leading the walk on the path of technical development, from discovering the benefits of things like coal, to the discovery of downsides of things like coal. Therefore I would call this comparison anachronistic in the literal sense.

One can of course always say that developing nations have a right to emit just because rich 1st world countries emitted in the past. But the outcome of this is huge emissions. And China is building a lot of coal.

In any case, I don't expect the efforts to limit CO2 emissions to make much difference globally. Coal that can be easily burned will be burned. What we need to concentrate on is how we are going to deal with it.
I relate to your comment the most in any discussion about notes. Although I don't follow your method always, since I know I will throw out my notes and never see them again, sometimes when I was bored I would do my notes intentionally cyphered and illegible. I wrote over every sheet fully two or three times, in the nooks and crannies and in the spaces between words. Somehow the learning outcome was better because my boredom was lifted.
> La Mazzocco GS3

Holy moly $7k?!
Leaders don't create more followers, they create more leaders
I would argue with evidence (personal experience) that you would be right :)
Restaurants Are Arm-Twisting Delivery Companies to Lower Fees
I was speaking more to learning synths, learning how oscillators sound during detuning, feeling a filter sweep. Feeling out what each step of the subtractive process does with knobs, I would suggest, is a better way to learn.

Those are some pricey synths you’ve rocked, not really a learner’s set-up, especially the Elektron sequencer.

For me, the ms-20 and the feel of tweaking those knobs is what made the feel of really playing a synth come together. Jamming with a friend on drums.

These days, yeah, I actually do most my noodling using the IOS Korg Gadget with my analog keys as a controller/filter bank.
Are you referring to Guantanamo that existed under Obama? Easy to spin things both ways. Trump is an idiot but this is just another form of bigotry if all politics aren’t banned.
Why hasn't Amazon declared war on their customers? It doesn't have to do the market, and it certainly has nothing to do with capitalism. It has to do with rent seeking on behalf of lobbyists are the corruption of government. Imagine a world where drugs go off-patent in 5 years (or if you really want to be radical, no patents at all) and every drug was available without any prescription whatsoever. I guarantee you prices for pretty much all drugs would be 10-100x lower. How do I know this? Because I moved to a country (Tanzania) in which no one has health insurance and there are practically no controls on any drugs at all.

Medications that had costed me $500 with insurance per month in the US I can buy for $20/month. One of my friend's father is diabetic, and he spends maybe $40/month on insulin.

The patent system in the US combined with the 3rd party payer system has created astoundingly bad incentives for every party. And the result of all of this is sky high drug prices.

People seem to think that the defective US healthcare system is an indictment on free-market capitalism. But there's nothing free-market at all about our system. What it's really an indictment on is cronyism, corruption, and rent-seeking.

The question becomes, what do we do about it? The tangled and corrupt web of healthcare will be almost impossible to undo. I'm a staunch neoliberal but even I don't think it's going to be possible to go back to that in the US. It pains me to say/think this, but maybe the only solution for us is single-payer.

Single-payer has pretty terrible incentives too, but probably not even as bad as the current system.
I bought some archival CD-Rs 15 years ago and backed up a bunch of personal documents and photos. Different brands of CD-Rs too. Tested them, all worked fine. 7 years later not a single one works. I tried different drives.

It was a painful loss. I learned my lesson. Now I back everything up into at least 2 different methods: cloud + HDD. Cloud has been the most reliable so far. Some HDDs have failed (humidity killed the circuit boards).
New York on 35MM Film
I think the problem has more to do with human nature. I've read statistics that 1 in 25 people have strong sociopathic tendencies; the percentage could arguably be higher for high-ranking jobs in media companies.

There will always be people who want to make use of the power they hold for personal gain. I'd imagine this is especially true if they're unable to empathise / audit their own behavior due to their personality type.

No amount of process improvement can stop this type of exploitation as far as I can imagine. If the platform is built, we should probably accept that it either has—or will—be exploited .. or put measures in place to stop that kind of power existing in the first place.
That's why the Oculus VR intro with the floppy's is also so nice, it has a nice haptic/tactile feel to it.
I have no problem with stating undisputed facts. The point is the claim about Trump is portrayed as undisputed, when it clearly is disputed. So if someone said "It is undeniable that the Earth is flat and anyone who supports the idea of spherical Earth is evil" then yes I'd say that person is stuck in a mindset and unwilling to consider alternatives.

Those arguments you copied are for different claims and were made by a different person.
A light field is typically 5D: 3D position + 2D angle. The concept dates back from 1936 according to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Light_field

And it looks like it is the idea behind that storage medium. I haven't read the paper though so I can't really comment on whether or not it is justified to call it 5D.

Also note that 4+ dimensions are relevant even in a 3D world. For example the Lytro camera really outputs 4D light fields (2D position + 2D angle). Of course, there is nothing extradimensional about that camera, it is just a microlens network in front of a regular CCD, with processing that converts a high resolution 2D image into a low resolution 4D light field.
They sell a $25/vial of Regular insulin; its an older style, and can be fairly dangerous to use, as it has quite the different action as the newer 'fast-acting' insulins.

With that said, if tight on money, its certainly better to use it, and monitor it closely, than not be able to afford the $225+/vial novolog or humalog.
I've bought every board that comes out since the 2B. Most of them get gifted to relatives as Kodi boxes. The three I currently use are a 3B that runs the [0] LivPi CO2 and environment monitor, a zero W that has a noIR camera pointing at my plants under lights, and a 2B+ that runs piHole.

I recommend the odroid [1] XU4 (desktop) or [2] HC1 (nas) if you have anything that requires constant read writes. Pi SD cards do go bad over time unless you set it to run the OS from memory. Odroid made a smarter choice going with eMMC early on. The con of odroid is you have to hack everything that was already done on a pi to work.

[0] http://www.livpi.com/

[1] https://www.hardkernel.com/shop/odroid-xu4-special-price/

[2] https://www.hardkernel.com/shop/odroid-hc1-home-cloud-one/
The reason is that there is demand for the newest drugs and insurance will pay for it. In the US, doctors quickly switched patients from vials to pens, from Lantus to Tresiba, etc. The price goes up because insurance/PBMs negotiate large discounts. Most full-blown diabetics have two insulin prescriptions and after insurance pay $50-100/mo in out-of-pocket costs, so the increases are hidden from them—hence the need for articles like this one.
To raise awareness they should reshoot the rescue scene from Castaway with Tom Hanks.

Where he's floating adrift and have him run into one of this things pylons. They could have him pop-up on a screen in a monitoring lab.
Social Reading list for close friends: Bad or good idea?
Hi guys!

This is my first post on HN - I read and enjoy since years but was so far a passive reader.

Now I have a product idea and I am currently testing this with users and a prototype.

But I would also like to hear your feedback for my idea!

Idea in summary: A solution (App + Web-App + Extension) where people can save cool articles they want to read later. So far so normal.

The main difference to Pocket or other read-later apps should be that I can easily share articles with friends so that they don't forget to read these articles. I validated already that people have the clear problem that they forget to read articles their friends had sent them on Whatsapp/Messenger/email. Eventually, it's a mix of social network and reading list.

What do you think about this idea?

Thanks for the feedback!

* Landing page of project : zuster.me
Just a heads up: https://slicknode.com/docs/data-modeling seems to be returning a 403

https://imgur.com/a/elSjysC
The wrench in that analysis is that Western nation's used to direct burn coal and oil for many purposes that are now unnecessary due to technological innovation. If China had to exclusively use things like steam locomotives, coal furnaces, and oil-fired boilers for its current level of industrialization, it would be putting out just as much per capital as the US and UK 120 years ago.
The seven faces of intention in public speaking
We do not store any info from the users, except authentication info getting at signup that Blockstack needs.
BlackHole is not a social network or sharing service internally, see it like a secure post or a flash drive, whoever use it or post it publicly owns the responsibility, and where the links are shared, could be controlled.
I was around at the dawn of personal home computing and for the commercialization of internet technology so I have seen each of these come and go. Though they are not the cool kids anymore, the sheer volume of code keeps them around, and given that people have those skill-sets, new code gets produced in them.

Java was certainly the fad dejure in it's time, OO was the craze and Java had just been dumped out on the internet, by Sun, for free. In a time when a good portion of compilers costed money (especially if you where not on an Intel based PC), you could learn Java for the price of an internet connection.

c# was the cool kid if you where a Windows developer, Microsoft was looking to update their aging development stack and give themselves hardware portability, so they basically created the JVM for windows in the form of .NET . To ensure that people switched over they kicked the legs out of VB6 and pretty much forced everyone to the new dev stack. They offered a host of language that you could use to write windows apps, but they conformed all of them to the OO style that was popular at the time. With that said, VB.NET did not look like VB6 it looked a whole lot more like C# with VB syntax. So given that developers had to pretty much learn a new language even if it had familiar syntax most opted to just go ahead and learn c# as Microsoft was pimping c#.

Python is the odd ball in your list as it kind of languished for a while. It was not obscure but it was more like Ruby, it had it's devotees but was rather flat, not obscure just flat. That being said, it did have it's cool kid, day in the sun and that was when Google started using it heavily. The AI winter really killed LISP as "the" AI language and there really was no heir apparent, that is until (IIRC) Google started producing some of their machine learning tech and they implemented it in Python. This instantly made Python the cool kid and people started adopting it. My opinion is that Google felt they where too heavily invested in Java and thus needed to diversify into another language. At the time there where not a lot of options that had the combination of mature enough/without legacy clutter/availability of developers, to make the cut, that is why I think Python made the short list.

TLDR: the GP poster is right, popularity and trends have more to do with language adoption than technical merit does.
The difference is that people don't read the titles of press releases with pre-conceived notions of what a degree of freedom is, so it's not as useful for making clickbait.
> C, D, C++, rust, and nim should all have comparable performance; they all go through gcc|llvm, and all have the same optimizations.

That's not necessarily true.

For example language semantics (essentially how much information the optimiser has) such as whether mutable pointers are allowed to alias (or even the existence of non-mutable pointers) can play a huge role in what optimisations can be applied in a given situation and even how effective certain optimisations are. Also default behaviours like D, rust, and nim doing bounds-check can change the practical speed (although not necessarily theoretical speed) of a language. And finally things like garbage collectors can make certain languages faster in some cases but slower in others (again there's a practical vs theoretical argument here, since you could get similar speed-ups using other techniques).

So no they don't necessarily have to have comparable performance, at least not in all situations.
Here in the Netherlands my insulin costs including all other medical necessities are about 1600 euro/year. Do note, this can differ substantially per person.

edit: the cost to the end user is the required 385 euro.

Here it is happening as well: Novo Nordic set the cost of the - the new - Tresiba insulin higher than the covered amount, it simply wasn't offered as there were fortunately enough alternatives available though the stuff actually works better. A few years back they finally gave in and now it is still sold at the premium price but the apothecaries get back the amount not covered by insurance from the distributor (and I guess thus Novo). Which basically tells me they can offer it for that price but don't want to and hope the covered price goes up (not likely).
There's a long and mostly bad history of claims around 3D storage. About twenty years ago I followed a company called Constellation 3D, later Terastor. They made many strikingly similar claims, smaller absolute numbers but a similar multiplier vs. what was already in the market. At least they only claimed three dimensions. I can sort of accept orientation as an effective fourth dimension, but size seems like a real stretch. In any case, C3D/Terastor struggled along for a few years, with more claims and more excuses, before they turned into the predictable smoking crater. I've seen several more just like them come and go since then, so I think I'll wait for more concrete proof that this particular technology can work at scale in the real world instead of just once in a lab.

BTW, if you want to go even further back, who else remembers the promises about bubble memory?
This. The radical progressive's worldview is that our society is itself a white supremacist society - this is taken as axiomatic and a matter of definition, not as something that could be meaningfully argued about, or even be said to depend on anything concrete about the real world! Thus, by definition, any support for existing social structures (including support for President Trump!) can be rightly defined as "support for white supremacy". It's a way of thinking that's lifted straight off of, e.g. religious fundamentalism and, perhaps most significantly, the nihilist politics of the late 19th and early 20th century that ultimately led to fascism, naziism, soviet communism etc. etc.
When the Music Stops: AI and Deflation
If we assume 1) taking notes with a computer is faster (not always the case), 2) lecture time is limited (i.e. fast paced, not recorded), 3) abundant time after to review notes, then taking notes with a computer is usually better.

You are only presented the information once. There is a reason stenographers record court and lectures. I prefer to handwrite notes on my own time, sometimes twice or three times, for my final copy I study from. If you are smarter than me, you can get away with less notes (or get them from me).

In business meetings if you frantically record every detail, people think you might be a lawyer so this may not apply.
What bothers me even more is the precision of time they can keep the data: 13.8 billion years. Not 13.7, not 13.9 - no: they figured out 13.8 exactly. That's fake precision and remarkably close to the current age of the universe...
With 1d data storage I can double the length to double the capacity.

With 2d I can double the length or width to double the capacity.

With 3d I can double the length width or height to double capacity.

That's why 3d storage is interesting.
In the text generation tool outlined above (and indeed many of the convnet-based visual networks), the hidden layers are there precisely to extract 'meaning'. The lower layers (closer to the source input) deal with syntax and feed upwards to hidden layers that extract semantic features, which in turn feed upwards to more layers, each with a bigger overview of the semantic features and thus ultimately the context. That's the idea anyway.
"Where are the SJWs now?" ??

Pardon? Usually the complaint is about SJWs who point out that a site should be free to set their own policies and decide to ban porn, rape fantasies, and white supremacist beliefs.

They then get chastised for being "politically correct" and wanting to "censor".

Opposing that SJW belief are the free speech absolutists who insist that no site should set policies restricting comment practices. Which appears to be the policy you think should happen.
Consider this article:

http://fortune.com/longform/single-family-home-ai-algorithms...

If you read it, you'll find that their methods to value homes and renovations are based on algorithms written to value mortgages in the 80s, 90s, and early 00s.

I'm going to bet that there's not much of what the average HNer would think constitutes AI going on in there.
You can get industrial microSD cards for not that much money. Mouser has a couple models with MLC flash for under 20 EUR. E.g. SDSDQAF3-016G-XI
Beginner as data scientist.
I dont understand why there aren't more generic competitors. If 20 years ago companies were profitable selling at a much lower price, surely a new biotech company could do the same now?

We're all looking for startup ideas with subscription models, this looks obvious.
I agree. I've seen System-Verilog used for simulating such propagation delays, but it's not exactly a language-abstractable concept yet (precisely as it involves the actual hardware gate implementation) in that such black-box simulations estimate average propagation delay as a fixed function dependent upon results obtained from testing specific functionality blocks in specific devices specific gate-counts away from I/O pins, etc.
It would be highly desirable to have HDL level modeling of this stuff in the abstract sense, although I confess to not knowing how that could possibly work, given the above.
And the crazy thing is you also need strips at least, many of us pumps and CGMs because of being super sensitive to insulin. That is easily 100k per year even in Europe. And due to the mandatory insurance, not that much for the user.
On facebook you explicitly provide them information on things like gender, language and basic demographics that advertisers use for targeting. On IG they may need to infer this information from your online activities if your FB is closed.

That said, I don't see this being a data gap for too long.
But in the current economy, people routinely need more than 26^2 subscription services to function!
Logistics Predictions in the 2020s
Elektron have possibly to worst user interfaces of any hardware synths or drum machines that I've used. So much menu diving. I ended up selling my Elektron stuff and will never buy from them again. Most other hardware is much more intuitive and interactive.
I mean beginner as data science.
Yeah I've got that. Your payment details are not towards something in your company's name though.