skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's not how competition works.

How do street drug dealers compete with each other? Not by lowering prices. No. They actually attempt to monopolize their territories by either eliminating or merging with their competitors, until a stable state is reached.

They then set their prices to maximize margins and profits. This continues until something happens to destabilize the market, at which point there is some kind of struggle or even war, which stops when another stable state is reached by eliminating or merging the competitors.

Without regulation to prevent the creation of monopolies and cartels, this happens in legitimate businesses just as much as street drug dealers.

Competition by lowering price does happen, but when it does, it is part of the unstable phase that ends when another stable monopoly or cartel forms, at which point margins go right back up.
I haven't seen anything official about this failed landing, but I know in the past boosters have made last second course adjustments to water crash in order to save the drone ship/landing pad. I would provide a link, but Google is overwhelmed by this morning's crash and I can't pull up anything on previous incidents.

Edit: Walrus01 reminded me about how it's actually done.
> Another is maternal age.

See: Geriatric Pregnancy/Advanced Maternal Age Pregnancy (Pregnancy after the age of 35).
The government doesn't pay any bills whatsoever! The taxpayer does.

In this case, should all taxpayers foot the bill, or should only exporters?
I didn't notice this problem until recently. Whenever I found myself looking for an opinion, I would search: "{phrase} site:reddit.com".

Far from perfect, but it's been a habit I've been taking more and more in order to avoid all the garbage SEO / Lead Gen / Promotional content out there that's diluting searches.
The newer insulins are definitely better. Just the fact that they act faster allows one to take insulin reactively (blood is high, take a bit of insulin to bring it down). This is a large QOL boost in that it allows more flexibility in eating.
I lived in Minnesota for a decade and bought individual insurance on the state exchange for a couple of years. I went on the same exchange today and searched for insurance plans available for 26 year old single men (the same situation I was in a few years ago) and found two $750/$6000 plans for $328 and $368 per month. There was also a $1000/$5000 plan for $375 and a few others in the neighborhood.

When I looked outside the exchange a few years ago I found a plan I liked more than my other options which I chose (didn't look today).

Quirks and or better management in MN gives it relatively favorable prices.
20 years ago (is it so long??) we looked at Oracle for our start-up but the prices they wanted were ridiculous. We went with Informix instead which was acquired by IBM soon after. So can confirm, startups in the first dot com boom were looking at Oracle or IBM.

I wanted us to use PostgreSQL but was overruled by management who thought they knew better.
article from 2016 https://petapixel.com/2016/02/16/glass-disc-can-store-360-tb...
TLDR; machine learning == "AI", just as much as colocated servers == "cloud"
Thanks for making me aware of the response. I’ll go check it out and see if I can help in any way.
That is somewhat unfair. Most of the time, it’s a naive consumer on one side, and an army of UI experts and behavioral scientists on the other. That consumer is hopelessly outmatched, and the company will absolutely find a way to hack his or her psychology.
Helicopters are hard as hell to fly. Just look up vortex ring state: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vortex_ring_state

It's basically the rotors losing power because of their own turblence. Helicopter pilots amaze me.
Wouldn't the worry be that generalizing to real world tasks involves enough variation that the same issue could arise naturally?
Does it support VR?
I use the terminal on a daily basis, but not too much with shell scripts anymore. Will I notice a difference?
They also sorta-kinda-fund research via tax credits. As far as I know, startups do take advantage of this.
Really nice idea, you should add https://www.reddit.com/r/mealtimevideos/ to the list of videos too.
That's awesome! I think this is the first successful catch, so they must be quite happy over there right now.
You keep using that word ...
You know, just stop functioning in the world economy. Geez, what's so hard about that.
Uh, interesting Easter egg in there, Europe's The Final Countdown...
I think (and it's possible I'm being too charitable in the face of bad science reporting) it's a reference to the number of independent variables that affect a read operation, and not a statement about new spacial physics.

To clarify what I mean when I talk about what I think they mean (yes that sentence is confusing), consider the following example:

The pits on a DVD are subject to one-dimensional analysis because every position targeted by the laser for a read operation can be in one of 2 states (i.e. 2^1)

The pits on a dual-layer DVD are subject to two-dimensional analysis because every position targeted by the laser for a read operation can be in one of four states (i.e. 2^2, because there are two layers and each layer can be in one of 2 states independently of the other)

If I understand the article right, this technology uses 3 physical layers, and adjusts the size and orientation of each air pocket in the glass. So on each individual layer, a dot can be categorized in any one of 8 states (2^3) and there are 3 layers (2^3) of dots. That should give 2^6 possible states per read operation. So why do they say 5 instead of 6? There could be any number of reasons, such as certain adjustments to size and orientation at a higher layer affecting the ability to read from a lower layer, or error correction built into the decoding algorithm.

But yeah, that's my lukewarm take on their silly buzzwords.
GitLab Community Advocate here. Thanks for the feedback, I am happy to hear that you like our product. Since you are still evaulating GitLab, please let me know if you need any assistance or help regarding other features.
Gotta use Nukes, they're the green bomb. No CO2 release.
culture and ideology basically. Capping drug prices is the norm in free market havens like Singapore to Scandinavian welfare states.

It's not just prices as well. The US stands also out as being one of three countries that allows direct consumer drug advertisements.
Plans announced to retire 32 bit support from Ubuntu, lots of ranting over the weekend, plans changed.
Latest amusement from Instagram: my comment was removed as it violated their community guidelines (no threats of violence), and if I make more comments like this my account would be suspended.

In my comment I said I would rather see 100 lab mice euthanised than see a single child suffer from cancer.

Does Instagram just employ the world's stupidest people or what?
I feel like reddit.com has taken up a lot of this slack. Now with millions of "micro-communities" about sharing the specifics or appreciation posts for specific games and topics. Replacing the traditional PHBB forums we used to have for each community.
Ok, we get it. No need to copy-paste the same comment multiple times.
That's a two-way street. Reality also follows from ideas.

Perhaps most people can't tell good writing from bad, but the HN crowd is more able than average to distinguish the two. Yet the attitude here boils down to "writing isn't a real job -- if you don't like working for peanuts, then STFU and get a real job!" HN members actively find ways around pay walls, more aggressively than most use ad blockers etc. Most people here are well heeled and can afford to pay for subscriptions, but the dominant attitude is "fuck no to that -- writing should be free!"
Gas is no better than coal from climate PoV, and it is much harder to source locally in many countries.
Also, I have been thinking to launch with a basic plan and then, any new additional feature will go into a new pro-plan. So, people that had signed up will not witness a price rise but will have enough incentive to upgrade.
"Room temperature" is a pretty meaningful rough measurement for storage of anything.
>... or make more regulations, fewer people will sell drugs - at a higher price.

Which just doesnt happen in countries with stricter regulated medical markets. Quite the opposite, it happens in the US, thats what this article is about. Its a nice theory but not something that can be observed in reality.
The disincentive to new entrants is that the existing market participants can always drop prices enough to make the new entrant unprofitable. If you're in a control of a monopoly or oligopoly, you monitor for signs of new entrants, and when they begin to raise or deploy capital, you offer to buy them out or drop your prices to unsustainable levels and wait for the new entrant to run out of capital.
A new route for plant nutrient delivery
Becoming pregnant isn't a qualifying life event, but having a baby is. So if you time it right with open enrollment, you certainly could switch to low deductible if such an option existed for your insurance plan.

The insurance options (4 different providers over the years, 3 BIG players in the game, one self-funded) I've had so far in my fatherhood haven't offered a stepped plan, either (they were all or nothing).
>"All I am arguing is that if you prosecute people from selling drugs, or make more regulations, fewer people will sell drugs - at a higher price."

Looking at the other drug market, not only does this not stand up, but also the quality is a crapshoot.
There's construction right now at the street corner, so they moved the bus station, unfortunately. I hope that they'll be done soon!
> That's how you end up with dead people.

We already have dead people, friend.
>d is just such a pleasure. it's like it was designed to make the programmer happy.

IIRC, Walter has said somewhere (likely on the D site or on his site or one of his articles for DDJ) that it was designed for that, actually, or something to that effect [1]. I've felt that myself while using it. I think he also said something like the code should look good on the page.

I agree.

[1] Or at least, make him happy :)
Whatever human intelligence is, there's clearly some part of it that can do things like design computers and build houses. That part, at least, people would like to be able to match in performance using machines. It's 'intelligence' in the sense of being able to do things like think up clever strategies in novel environments that people want to put in a silicon box.
Sounds like you know ML then. Anything non-trivial on a spreadsheet is usually best ported to a DB, that's a pretty good rule of thumb.

I don't understand about your configs being in json, nor why that makes it more suitable for mongo. If you need to store semistructured blobs of data, relational DBs can do that fine (in BLOB fields), but IIRC postgres supports json, including indexing into individual json subfields. <http://www.postgresqltutorial.com/postgresql-json/> but to repeat, I've never used postgres so speak to someone else first who has.

If you can do ML as it seems you are, install postgres and just get started on this tutorial stuff here - best of luck!
I probably think this is true for school, that using laptops is not as productive for taking notes, but I didn't find writing down notes on paper in classes particularly pleasant either.

Past my school life into employment life, the situation is much different. I take digital notes on many tasks, I search through them like in a database when I need to recall something. I don't get distracted for note taking in environments that sitting through long lectures encourage. I still take notes on paper sometimes, but write a lot less down.
Only if it's too long to fit, or a clickbaity headline. :-)
How judges added to the grim toll of opioids
I wish I could automatically append your comment to each similar statement people tend to make nowadays.
> Why not Bunq?

I find Bunq to be pretty unique. The entire product seems to be design by a hacker who loves to think in numbers: "3 beautiful cards of your choice", "25 bunq bank accounts", "10 ATM cash withdrawals per month". Everything is simple and clear, but also a bit overwhelming. I think it's #1 European challenger bank for technically-minded people with no-nonsense attitude, but other mobile-first banks seem to require a bit less mental overhead and are more intuitive to use for an average person.
This was my study mode throughout HS & (somewhat) through college. It really does work, even though I had no idea why I started that way. And my final editions were just as indecipherable to the outside world.
If you just type commands into a prompt, then no, not really. If you do anything more advanced than that I think you’ll notice the differences quite quickly (I did).
`brew install zsh` and find out.
I was just thinking about this. Also their deals “end” within x hours. The number of sites doing dark patterns is disturbing and the way marketing professionals openly brag about manipulating people is disgusting. People are so wrapped up around the masters finger that they convince themselves their work is meaningful. Sorry, but we are all just cogs in the misery machine.
But isn't the reality that defects are localized and that the rate of defects is more or less proportional to the amount of stuff you're making?

Not all defects are local. Sometimes you have to throw out the entire wafer. The rate and kind of defects is specific to each step in the process and there are many steps.

To make a wafer of modern semiconductor devices is a process that takes up to 4 months! If you double the number of layers you're already looking at 8 months and without some improvement in the reliability of each step you definitely are squaring the probability of producing a defect free device.

Making a device with ten thousand layers would require completely different technology, since we can't wait 40,000 months for the chips to arrive.
I'm the CTO at ad-hoc labs. Thanks for the feedback! We do plan to make Firewall available in the Canadian app store soon. We have to go through the Canadian wireless carriers and build out the support for them one at a time.
the answer is yes.

Everyone (even millionaire) has a right and should aspire to a better life.

How can we afford this and not ruin the planet? The answer sounds simple - technology and human ingenuity. History tells us that it is our only real hope to improve human conditions.

To give you an admittedly sci-fi (for now) example: what if all energy is clean (nuclear + solar + wind) and planes are electric?
Clinic had two days to fix a lifetime of needs
It's also that the insurance and medical care markets don't work properly as markets because of a whole host of factors, eg who has the time or knowledge to comparison shop drugs (if there's even multiple drugs that will treat your condition!) and even for the few people that do have the knowledge insurance disguises the true cost for most people. Combine that with the difficulty of becoming a drug manufacturer and the fact that there's only a handful making each drug we don't even have to have coordinated price fixing, if you competitor raises their prices there's very little reason to not raise yours as well because there's either a) no substitute to that drug or b) patients and doctors are shopping by effect not cost for 99% of the time.
Yes, I use the springfox impl for Java for both server api and client api (mainly for automated tests)
How does glass being amorphous affect the data integrity? What 'glass' specifically is being used?
No, but not everyone is, or will be an American Millionaire, and if they were the American Millionaire will do something different to signal their wealth.

In Victorian times richer house holds had lots of knick knacks, they wore voluminous clothes. Clothes and knick knacks were expensive so they signified wealth. Through the 20th century these things got cheaper, so the rich went for other things to signify wealth, cars, travel, minimalism. Now we're at the point where the masses can afford those, so its 'experiences', au pairs and other things that require human labour, which is now relatively expensive.

All of this is a long winded way of saying that a millionaire lifestyle doesnt necessarily have to be high carbon. Just whatever is expensive/unattainable to the masses.
Most shell scripts start with a reference to the program that should execute them at the top of the file (i.e. #!/usr/bin/bash), so this shouldn't affect most people, especially since this change will only apply to new users.
All taxpayers. We're the ones indirectly responsible for the government that imposes the unreasonably trade-disrupting regulations, and it's in everyone's interest that we be able to export smoothly (not just that of the exporters themselves).
There is an interesting project to connect scientific community and funding organizations - Polyplexus[1]. It might be extended to support private research and development probably, you could suggest that using the contact form.

[1] https://polyplexus.com
It can be crazier than that. App makers who work with important APIs often pin to specific certificates (not signers) so we have an one final absolute emergency measure to kill a version and force an upgrade when we have to.
I'd forgotten that they even let it slip like they did. Last one I used was Flight Simulator X, but I haven't touched it in years. Now if only Microsoft would bring back their excellent and largely forgotten Space Simulator: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Space_Simulator
The thing is they are not spending the millions. The tethers are not backed by those millions. When this is realized, BTC price will crash!
Yes, it works where the protest culture is already in place. You can't ask Americans to do the same, someone will inevitably bring a gun and it'll go south very fast, as it happens almost daily in all sort of public demonstrations, peaceful or not, in the US.

There is no points of comparison between the US and France when it comes to protests. LA riots, black panthers, vs may 68 and yellow jackets...
The trouble is that many of those regulations exist for very good reasons.

Dropping enough of those regulations to encourage competition is a baby with the bathwater kind of situation.
If you look at Google's Corporate Social Responsibility marketing then you will see they have done great things to cut down on food waste in their canteens. They do things like composting their coffee beans and not using plastic straws. The data centers are running off clean energy rather than king coal.

But they do all of this so that the videos that you are concerned by can be watched by millions, if not billions, of people.

The videos I find particularly irksome are the ones where things get smashed up just for likes. How many brand new iPads does it take to stop a bullet? Obviously everyone wants to know the answer to that so a 10 minute monetising video will get 10 million views and ten Apple gadgets smashed to pieces.

But there are also videos of people restoring old computer gadgets that also get ten million views. So it is not necessary for computers, cars or anything else consumer to be smashed to pieces for likes. Ordering 1000 hamburgers for a video will cost $5K in burgers but will bring in ad revenue 10x that so it is cost effective to destroy the burgers.

In some ways it is good to have one person do a video of something expensive and planet trashing so everyone can have that question answered without having to trash their own stuff, so it is 'planet saving'. But when every youtuber is just smashing up or wasting more and more stuff it gets a bit silly.

So there is Google using wind farm powered electricity so that they can have content creators trashing the planet. The advertisers get their eyeballs so it works. But it is against the Google CSR statement.

In the demonetization debate where people critical of the allowed range of political thinking get their oxygen supply cut off we get into issues of censorship and whether Google et al. have too much clout.

I would like to see some action taken against Google so that the planet trasher types get their videos demonetised. So food waste should result in an instant demonetization. Chuck one egg at someone for likes and that should be it, no money. Deliberately destroy new consumer goods, instantly no money. Testing something to destruction, e.g. how high you can drop your phone need not be a problem, that need not be demonetised, but 'how many iPads does it tale to stop a bullet' is a different kettle of fish and easy to identify as 'trash stuff for likes'.

I think that if a little bit of pressure was to be put on Google to pull the monetization levers we could get the lifestyle excesses of the influencers under control.
Wouldn’t a profit maximizing capitalist just invest in these unregulated pharmaceutical companies as opposed to starting an unprofitable pricing war?
I suspect FSX was a pet project for someone at MS and after it sold below projections or MS was struggling with some other bureaucratic bullshit, someone told Jim or whoever that he needed to quit focusing on his video game and get some real work done.

I'm sure this led to the creation of Windows RT and everyone pat themselves on the back.
Installed raspbian then stored it in the closet for 4 years unused
They shouldn't.

But you also have a tiny mass produced machine that is life and death for people. Insuring quality is expensive and the cost of mistakes is extreme.

If you want cheaper medicine you have to also have cheaper mistakes and there aren't many people arguing equally loud for both. (Just one issue of many)
I noted that stripe is an investor for this round. Strategic move towards more vertical integration?
I second this. Struggle with each problem and then view other answers to see how elegantly they solved the same problems. This worked wonders for me as well.
It's a niche product that requires a specialized and no-longer-common controller. Market growth was in other places and Microsoft chased that.

Now the market is gigantic with plenty of room for rebooting beloved-albeit-neglected franchises.
I'm the same way and definitely always did paper notes.

My completely unresearched theory as to why it's better: since your hands map to so much of your brain and it's function. I think the texture of the paper and the dexterity required to write stimulates your brain more allowing for deeper memories.
> Are there any inherent facets of a free market that prevent such abuses?

No, there's nothing about free market which will automatically mitigate this issue. Markets are very good at certain things, like delivering goods and services efficiently if certain conditions are met, but they are not some panacea which can magically solve every problem.

There are certain cases where markets are not very good at serving a majority of people: for instance in the case of monopolies, or when there are negative externalities which are not priced into the market (for instance it can be profitable for a company to burn a lot of fossil fuels to produce products cheaply, and everyone else suffers the environmental costs).

Strict libertarians will disagree with me, but markets alone are not enough. In every example of what we could consider a well-functioning society, the government plays a role in guiding and constraining the market where necessary.

Regulatory capture does represent a problem, and is an example of bad government, but that does not negate the need for good government.
Sam Zeloof [1] is a high school student who produced an integrated circuit in his garage. He says that the gate size is 175μm, but he has produced test features as small as 2μm. Looking at the photos of his lab, he has probably invested tens of thousands of dollars in the project.

So, that's one data point.

1. http://sam.zeloof.xyz/first-ic/
Exactly. Instead of spending 10Bn on R&D, spend 10Mn on lobbying.
I missed that "new user accounts" the first time I read it.