skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
IMO they're working to construct a grey market here. As far as I can tell, the "opiate crisis" has become a thing because vested interests wanted to build out a lucrative specialization in "pain management". Florida enacted a law last year severely restricting the ability of ordinary doctors to prescribe opiate medications, legally requiring anyone who needs more than a 72 hour supply to seek it from a separate specialized pain management clinic.
One of the businesses talks about praising people who go above and beyond

>for example, workers who take their laptops home and work after hours.

Stealing time from their families to give to their employers gratis.

If you are hourly especially this is no more ethical than taking property from your employer.
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> The company rarely uses the tool to discipline workers, Mr. Dauer says. Instead, it lets managers spot patterns and praise employees who go above and beyond by detecting, for example, workers who take their laptops home and work after hours.

How healthy.

I actually do that myself, but I know it’s wrong, and I’d probably be even more inclined to do so if I knew it would be noticed. Although to be perfectly honest, I’d probably quit if my organisation did this. It’s not like it would be hard for me to find work somewhere that isn’t the gestapo.
Whoa, you just convinced me
Stanley is a loser. I was totally wrong because I forgot Stanley’s job title. You’re right. No one reports to him. He’s a loser.

I was right and you were wrong. Learned something new today. Thank you!
Exactly. The reasons we have giant centralized power production is that it's cheaper to fuel and maintain one big electrical power station than it is to do so with many small ones. If a new technology doesn't need frequent refueling or maintenance and doesn't become dramatically less efficient when scaled down, it's probably better used in a distributed fashion with the power grid just helping to load level.
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I learned I do have a case of mild autism (thanks to someone here posting a relevant link) and maybe ADHD-ish.

While this isn't a great news in itself, I'm grateful that I've been able to benchmark my oddness. Now that I know, it's easier for me to be more self aware and prevent my weird half to do stupid things.

I still trip and fall, and probably will keep doing that forever, but I'me better at falling without hurting myself too much. Sometimes it does drive me to a light paranoia but still working on the tuning of the feedback loop.

I haven't fully digested this yet, a bit tough to swallow at nearly 30 yo but hey that's life.

Also, as a result, I don't fit too well into corporate environments and therefore, for the sake of my own baseline happiness, should keep them at bay.
I’m glad for you. You can tune it out. Some of us can’t tune it out, no matter what.

Well, not until we either put on our maximum NR headphones and play our music at hearing-destroying levels. Maybe by the time we are completely and totally deaf, we will be able to tune it out.
It's all Greek to me: Thoughts on code readability and aesthetics
What are the disadvantage of this approach?
I do understand why not Pipenv/virtualenv/venv (though some are under the hood)

I don’t understand why not conda. It’s so much more fearureful and useful than every other python package and environment manager i’ve used.

That said, looks great - I do like alternatives, and I likely missed a use case in which it excels.
I'm not sure the drop retains half the serial number? GP claims the drop rips the bill in half, and hands the part with the (full, I seem to recall US dollar bills have the serial number on the bottom left) serial number to the courier. The courier can prove they delivered to the right drop, and the bill being ripped in half will ensure it won't be used again.
> How is it a gift to the government?

The parent is wrong that it's a gift of $1 to the Treasury.

It is a gift to the government however, as you note in your own explanation. It just increased the government's USD purchasing power. The US Government is an epic scale spender of USD (millions of employees, $4.x trillion budget).
thanks, I wasn't arguing that using ES as primary was good. Just don't necessarily see the GDPR argument as being a reasonable one. Although I've seen some startups using Mongo as primary and have to wonder if there would be that big a difference in using ES at that point (not a Mongo dig as I've kept away from it for various reasons)
As long as all supposed consumers of JWT are on my infrastructure I prefer to make all tokens revokable. Tokens TTL is smaller than 1 hour so I keep 1 hour worth of revocations on all servers (pushed via queue). If key is on list it is refused (without database hits)
I got one of those letters. It seemed like a cruel joke to me. "We're sorry that we leaked all your personal data. But we have a great opportunity for you today! Send us some more personal data, and we'll monitor your file or something. For free! Trust us, it's gonna be great!"
I would agree, but then I found this: https://vim-bootstrap.com/ and it is sooooo nice. I no longer have to think about configuring vim or managing plugins because it is done. Esp for golang.
I agree as an immigrant i noticed stories told in country I came from and in USA are limited to certain types and different from each other. They follow cultural norms so rigorously that no matter the topic overall it looks like it was another event in the same city/country/culture. Even historical reanimations are very influenced by current culture to point they are simply false depictions. So yes, no matter how much writers try they have lived a life very similar to each other. Maybe I should write stories.
This is a little weird. Why would you use a Tetris like game for this? There is only one bit sent.

It’s also quite hackish. To select yes or no, they have to look at some flashing lights the scientists know are going to generate different patterns in the brain. So it’s not like the guys are thinking “yes” and that’s being transmitted.

Similarly the receiver’s brain is being stimulated kind of randomly by electrical impulse.

It’s basically electrical communication but where the transmitter and receiver are wired in unsual places in the brain...
The FCC is shortsighted for not making all spectrum be leased.

It should all be on 25 year leases, auctioned a few years in advance of expiry.
Planet Discontinues Open California Datasets
Planet Labs used to make their daily satellite imagery of the state of California available for free. A lot of people put it to use, especially during natural disasters like wildfires and the recent earthquake. It doesn't look like there's any mention of the Open California program's termination on their website, but they sent this email out today:

You are receiving this message because you have had access to Planet's Open California, which is coming to an end in 90 days.

Thank you for exploring our imagery catalog. We’ve seen some incredible uses and innovations from researchers, students, developers, and imagery analytics providers alike that have helped push the needle forward for Earth Observation data.

When we launched the Open California program almost 3 years ago, it was an open data initiative and the first time we showcased our data to the world with images from our first Doves. We didn’t have any trials or programs that specifically matched the needs of most of our users (most of you don’t live in California). Since then we’ve created an Education and Research program as well as 14-Day Global Trial that continues to let users see imagery from around the world within our platform.

So what’s next?

We’ll be phasing out the Open California program for existing users in 90 Days. No changes will occur to your program during this time and we’ll be reaching out to you in the coming days to ensure you have ample time to collect the resources that are of interest to you from our platform. Otherwise, please stay tuned for other ways that we can continue to explore together.

Thanks again,
Team Planet
Yeah from the image at the start of the article, it looks like they’re using TMS. You can see the coil sticking out to the right behind the man facing the camera. It’s attached to a blue arm.

Furthermore if you look to the right of the coil, there are 3 little silver balls. These are coated in an IR-reflective layer (silver color) that are used by a camera to track the position of the coil in 3D space. This is more than likely a Localite system if anyone wants to look it up.

My guess is that the people had MRI scans, which were used to find the right place to stimulate. The Localite system uses a pointer with another 3 balls that is pointed at key positions of the head and then slid around the surface of the head. The head also has its own 3-ball tracker. This allows the Localite system to get an accurate reading of head size and positioning in 3D space. This also allows the system to “place” the brain image from the MRI inside the head. Then, using a screen, you get an augmented reality view of the TMS coil and the brain relative to the head to get accurate positioning and angle to place the coil.

The 3-ball tracker for the head was probably removed for the image, but you can see it in the image further down in the article. You can also get a better view of the TMS coil. You can also see the Localite system in action on the monitors and the camera in the top right.

It’s really cool stuff.
That missed the semiconductor revolution which brought us GPS, internet and pocket mainframes.

Weather forecasts have improved tremendously, giving tornado warnings which are useful. Knowledge is instantly available instead of just hoping that the local library has a book on the topic.

The house might look the same now as in the 50s, but life has really changed a lot.
> This is why these universal programs are coupled with monopsony leverage. Healthcare prices have exploded because the government has been intentionally hobbled at the bargaining table, legislatively blocked from using its weight to negotiate better deals for prescription drug prices.

"Monopsony leverage" and "bargaining" is just price controls. You don't even need single payer for that if you want to do it, you can just legislate prices.

The problem is price controls have a long record of being problematic, because everybody wants lower prices but if you set the price too low you get shortages. This is complicated in this case by the fact that most of the cost is R&D, so the thing that isn't supplied isn't pills for already-developed drugs, it's research into new drugs. And then comparisons to other countries fall flat because it's a global market, so as long as anyone (i.e. the US) is paying a lot to create a return for R&D spending, the research gets done and the other countries get access to it.

So one of the reasons we pay so much more than everybody else is that we subsidize medical R&D for the rest of the world. Solving that isn't just a matter of us paying less, it also has to somehow involve them paying more, unless we want a lot less R&D.

Moreover, a lot of the costs basically amount to regulatory capture or drug companies outsmarting the government. It's them finding ways to limit competition for things that should be cheap commodities, or get patents on things that are only marginally better than the status quo, and use that to raise prices. So you have to find ways to distinguish that stuff from real medical advances that are actually worth paying higher costs to get. But if you can do that then you can restrain that type of behavior without actually regulating prices, so that genuine medical advances continue to get the funding they require to be developed. Which is really what we need to do, but easier said than done.
Just a fun little fact: The Unabomber was a victim of Project MkUltra.
How many drops tried to claim they didn't get any money or that the courier forged a receipt before they invented physical nonrepudiation?

And it's nonrepudiation without identity, the identifying info is destroyed in the transaction.

The courier could just take a cell phone photo of the drop, but no one wants that evidence trail. One time use serials are perfect.

And despite some characterizations, seems to me like uniqueness is more important than randomness here, which is good, because serial numbers are better at that.
JWTs are designed to be stored in the client that needs to be granted authorization to resources. Nothing wrong with storing tokens in the frontend.
Maybe just use the existing legal system and don’t invent another one inside of the campus?
call c api functions that take pointers.
Ensuring the code isn't reused, to put in a ledger, to avoid some kind of replay attack, having someone pretend to be the courier and get the key to then replay to the real courier. Dunno, probably many many things avoided by making the key not usable but still verifiable.
Melodramatic... perhaps. I don't see it as brain to brain. Eyes are clearly required to stare at the yes or no pulses for the sender's.

Seems like an extremely low bandwidth way to digitise 'thoughts'.

Also a bit skeptical about the receipt of this single bit of information being directly into the brain. Essentialy zapping part of the brain to cause a perceived flash. It's and incredible gap still toward encoding something as complex as a real thought.
Ipv6 adoption is slowly creeping up, and if you were to put grandma's broadband on ipv6 only, she would still be able to use Facebook, Twitter, and all the other major big sites.

I'd say the day some ISP's stop provisioning ipv4 (especially for 'social networks only' plans) might be getting close.
Which is precisely why the fine isn't material.

Government doesn't want to be the force that creates a monopoly of the remaining two companies.

Government also doesn't want a corporation desperate enough to put the government in front of a judge and jury.

So the result is kickback and relax. Emphasis on kickback.
A lot depends on their attitude to disseminating knowledge at the workplace. Do they play their cards close to their chest and not share solutions with others? Do they admit to not knowing things themselves? In some workplaces asking questions is tantamount to admitting ignorance which is punished by losing credibility and respect. I personally never encountered a mentor at a job I worked in, although I have come across helpful people in online forums.
What was the level of detail exposed for the average person affected by the breach? Name, address, age etc?

That stuff has to be worth more than $4.5.
This is years ago, but when I was doing strength workouts, I found that I was burning through my sugar reserves. It takes a while of running before your body moves from burning mostly sugar to burning an even mix of sugar and fat. It does it faster the more cardiovascularly fit you are, but when you first start it can take up to 30 minutes. If you only run 1 mile, you aren't getting there.

I recommend swapping the running and lifting for a couple of months until you get that working better. Once you are running 3-5 miles then you'll give yourself enough time to switch to burning fat as fuel and you won't have so much trouble running after lifting (the first mile is always hard, though).

Or at least that was my experience. Haven't done it in more than 20 years... (stopped lifting -- kept running ;-) ).
This original subthread started off as a response to statement you can't ban an idea and someone wanting a citation on that.

I never said you can't ban a technology or an implementation of an idea, I said that it is logically impossible to ban an idea (point 1 - because you have to have an accurate enough description of the idea for people to reference when they encounter it in order to enforce the ban).

To reiterate an earlier example in as concise a way as possible - you cannot ban the idea of a gun but you can ban guns - of course people will still make guns but at much reduced numbers but the idea of gun will probably not be especially affected by the ban.

Yet in response I've gotten a lot of examples how people can ban implementations of ideas.
Thank you, I've been looking for a good home NAS solution, this looks like it could be it
If those in trouble happen to be a company they will get it from taxes.

Shouldn’t they ask the people for the money like the homeless do? ;) /jk
"Despite slower than expected progress"

I mean on the one hand this is the story of fusion. On the other they should have preempted that by being extra pessimistic, so was extra pessimism built in? Did they guess they were going to be perennially 5 years away when in fact they're 10 years away. Or did they think the project would be done in 18 months, and is still 10 years away? Any bets on what the predicted timeframe will be in 10 years time?
That’s the beauty of their business model — you can only opt out by opting out of most of banking altogether.
In other words, the best delivery receipt is still a bounty on your head--and entire family line--if you try to get cute. But this serves to identify the "cowboys"
Well, apart from Amazon to some extent (we'll find out in twenty years), none of the others have fundamentally altered our lifestyles. Eg: Google -- searching the interwebs is a crazy fantastic capability... But most people aren't really using to live their lives any differently from twenty years ago.

I think YouTube (and possibly Facebook) might be among the only other web services having significant qualitative impact on people's lives. Maybe Uber/Lyft for an American audience used to owning cars.
No, man — they’re “chemtrails”. Don’t you know nothin’?

/s
Are you sure you are lactose intolerant? That sounds more like a protein intolerance. I don't know that much about it, but maybe it will point you in a constructive direction.
I think everybody knows that joke by now, but also most people know that fusion research has never received the funding necessary to make fast progress. Given the lack of enthusiasm for funding it, it is in fact surprising that ITER is not cancelled yet.
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All correct. However, I think it's important to make a distinction between South Korea's government and the people who are currently operating the government. The long history of peaceful protest makes South Koreans trust in the system, but they are certainly not trustful of the people in power. They exercise their right to protest in a fantastic fashion quite frequently.
Of course it’s hackish. The technology is still somewhat rudimentary. They’re stimulating the visual cortex and the only way to do that (or stimulate brain areas in general) in a non-invasive way is using TMS, which isn’t “pinpoint” accurate. It’s shooting a strong magnetic pulse to stimulate the surface of the brain through the skull. Since TMS doesn’t have deep penetration for the receiver and neither do the electrodes for the senders, they’re limited to surface areas of the brain.

The places are not unusual.

In terms of the senders, it would probably have been easier to simply use an eye tracking camera to gauge which one they were looking at, but it wouldn’t have been “brain-to-brain”. We’re still a LONG ways off from telepathic-like communication. We’re also a long ways from even picking up “yes” or “no” signals from people’s thoughts. It’s still an important achievement nonetheless to get such readings from the senders and to make such manipulations to the receivers conscious visual perception, even if it’s not measuring conscious thought or creating a specific image.
The article viewpoints are probably right, Netflix and Amazon need a few more hits that people trust.

The Office was a big fallback show and Netflix needs a few of those of their own. Stranger Things probably fits that.

The Witcher might change things for quality on Netflix.

Netflix shows have high production quality in terms of cinematography, lighting, sound, color, sets, on location etc. Writing and big draw actors aren't there just yet, though they have a bunch of that going and started that way with House of Cards. Stranger Things was new actors except a couple like Winona Ryder, the writing was better and it was successful. Maniac and Sabrina are also pretty good in this area. Bojack Horseman has a cult following. Dark is amazing. Black Mirror was a great acquisition. I Am Mother was pretty good and premiering Annihilation was a steal. Russian Doll was excellent. Animation like Death, Love & Robots, Voltron, Castlevania and more are solid. Those are all the model to go for. What is missing in most shows is writing and casting/actors draw to make a staple series that becomes a fallback like the article mentions.

> Consumers turn to a trusted source when they don’t know what to watch on their streaming service

> Subscriptions like Netflix and Amazon Prime offer plenty of critically-acclaimed, award-winning content. But the thing is, viewers have to pick which movies and series they’ll watch, and observers say many are getting burned out from all that decision-making.

Now with The Witcher the writing is based on a really solid book series, they have a big name actor Henry Cavill that has read the series and it looks great. It could be their Game of Thrones.

Amazon is also trying this with Lord of the Rings and Wheel of Time.

These shows if they are done right, will get rewatched for a long time and draws in the mega fans that are influencers.

Netflix is doing pretty good with stand up comedy, maybe even the leader now. They paid Dave Chappelle and will forever be thanked for that by comedy content consumers.

Netflix and Amazon need some big hits like the coming epics, and they need some good staple shows like the Office, Parks and Recreation, Brooklyn 99 (Netflix should have bought this), Always Sunny in Philadelphia, Friends, Seinfeld, Curb Your Enthusiasm and more. When they have that they equal the content competition that has that trusted good quality. They need a few more of these always watchable fallbacks.

They are both still chasing HBO, HBO is still the top in consistently good content and shows.

Personally I love the competition, some real funding and creator freedom is being unleashed, some are big hits, some are average and some not so good, but I like the amount of content and like the vibe of where Netflix is headed. Their new intro splash where the N goes into color bands is even great, matches their really colorful catalog.
Well, the Drop can take the bills back to the bank. "The corners fell off. Can I have some fresh ones?"
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No, mostly because the Matrix homeserver still needs ridiculous amounts of memory. Apparently 1GB if you want to join one of the more crowded channels – what for could a chat server actually use 1GB of memory?! That's a billion characters you can store in there, even at hundreds of messages per second (which I suppose would make the channel unusable anyways?) you don't get to a billion characters very quickly.
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They've already shown themselves to be terrible stewards of that data. If it was sold due to their bankruptcy then whoever buys it is going to be much more careful about losing any of it.
Seems like a dev apocalypse.. a barren wasteland where you compete for scraps and only the strongest survive.
Netflix has thumbs down on Roku. That's where I use Netflix primarily, so I'm sure I've used it there.