skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why attach all of developing and marketing, when it's only the advertising that's in question?

Doctors/hospitals can learn about new drugs through dry, informative leaflets - TV ads or salesmen talking directly to doctors distorts the demand.
I typed up a big spiel about the difference between "expected in business logic failures" and "infrastructure failures", but then I looked at the wikipedia page for HTTP error codes and it does look like some HTTP 400 level errors are intended for cases like clients sending data that fails business logic level validation and the like.
Senate Intel Committee Unveils Election Security Report
Pretty strong opinion to posit about 1000s of people without any supporting evidence.
Would love to hear your feedback on https://booxia.wensia.com , which handles both books and web content.
Wouldn't the read latency be insane? A quick search say the Q1D1 IOPS for sd cards is between 1000 and 2000. That's 0.5 to 1 ms of latency. A wifi/4g uplink's latency would be orders of magnitude higher, making it unusable.
So there are — effectively — none.

And even the hypothetical solutions nobody wants to commit to are being disputed in the style you can witness above.
My thoughts on Chris and his big idea, below. At least he's giving them names. But how many lies and utopian promises did he spin to the press during his time there?

http://www.aarongreenspan.com/writing/20190509/my-response-t...
See my edit, I think I was a little unclear with what precisely each adjective was referring to...
> Now the government both has the power and incentive to hinder private companies with rules and regulations.

What incentive? In the scenario you describe, I don't see an obvious mechanism for the government to receive additional tax revenue as a result of funding OSS, and that's the usual mechanism for such an incentive.

I mean, I guess you could argue that tax revenues will tend to increase as the economy grows, but that seems like a case where the interests of the government are aligned with the interests of the nation(s) as a whole, which is generally considered a good thing.
Apple acquiring most of Intel’s smartphone modem business $1B deal
Is Apple finally going to build significant presence in Silicon Forest?
Alphabet Announces Second Quarter 2019 Results [pdf]
He was lucky not to have seen "theses" written in my home country Turkey. 90% of them are copy pastes. I saw many PhD theses quoting wikipedia. Ridiculous.
What's interesting here I think is how often these other founders of FB or companies FB gobbled up react when they get in contact with Mark Zuckerberg..

It seems like an awful lot of people he was deeply involved with have turned against him and FB.
It's the second most perfect food, next to The Sandwich.
> Why was management pushing for it so hard? Better (existent) salespeople for microsoft vs OSS?

It's not clear to me. But it seems to have been part of a vision to "servicify" everything. Where everything should be a service "maintained" / "paid" but never "developed" to reduce costs.

Something that backfired beautifully
My hope is that this is taken as an opportunity to change the logic of our society's organisation away from endless growth and to end the calous, brutal exploitation of people and resources for the singular goal of profit.
IKEA Symfonisk review: affordable, fun Sonos speakers
Marketing can provide information to aid in an information-based evaluation of the best course to take. IMO, that means it’s not inherently unethical, only that done wrong it can be unethical.
I do think they get credit for not killing it off, as they often do to other projects. Are the YouTube losses equivalent to loose change to Google? Probably, but that won’t stop me from being thankful someone had the vision to keep it alive.
This all seems like an elaborate effort by Hughes to get back into the good graces of the blue-check-mark crowd after they soured on him for what he did to The New Republic.
However, Google does have legal liability for damages. If you hire me to do a task, and my ineptitude costs you a substantial sum, you can sue accordingly.

Google users have reasonable expectations for monetization, and the shockingly arbitrary & rapid demonetization without notice nor recourse, usually during a narrow window of opportunity, certainly is actionable.

Would be easy for Google to simply withhold payment subject to review, rather than deny payment altogether for the contended period.
> Neuromorphic chips have been ever present within HBP

What kind of neuronal / plasticity models do these chips implement? If they are anything like what others are doing with integrate and fire neurons, these do not seem to align with the goals of the project. You need detailed, compartmental biophusical simulations and not abstracted, approximate models of neurons. Otherwise, we are already able to run such kinds of models with a large cluster.
Amazon.com Announces Second Quarter Sales Up 20%
I walked around downtown San Bruno recently and it's honestly pathetic how this city is squandering their potential. Even on el camino real itself a lot of the property is being wasted on auto repair shops and fast food places, 2-3 story buildings, etc. This place could be way, way better given its proximity to the airport and SF.
Why do you think advertising promotes innovation? I would see it as the other way around, why innovate when you can just invest more into advertising an inferior product?
My hot take is that physical correctness for graphics is very much in vogue right now, but this is coming at the sacrifice of psychovisual and physiological properties of graphics.

Gamma-correct compositing is one of those things that is actually quite difficult to detect, by most viewers, in most situations. For that reason it does not deserve to be put at the top.
With this aquisition, this will be apple's second or third office in Munich.
Qualcomm is a leader in this space. It’s not clear yet that Apple will be successful in the fight.
Multiple FEC laws where companies are barred from electioneering in kind, which is exactly what is alleged to be happening here.

Political activity by companies is regulated. A petroleum company cannot offer in-kind donations of "unlimited" gas to a candidate, without flouting FEC campaign contribution and electioneering laws. Likewise, Google cannot artificially prop-up, or suppress a candidate without breaking FEC regulations
yeah, I worked it out in the end, but the Ux design is so bad there is no way I'm taking their recommendations for software seriously. Given the upvotes my original comment is getting, seems others are having the same issue.
And yet these consultants created a plan so successful NYT is writing about it.
"...the style of the company’s products — playful, a little rebellious, definitely strange — does indeed evoke the slouchy insouciance of teenagers."

_insouciance_: (noun) lighthearted unconcern; nonchalance

This is off topic, but it's always nice to learn a new word while reading up on tech.
This study tested kids but it supports the argument you made, and it's pretty reasonable to assume it applies to adults as well. https://www.cbc.ca/news/kids-think-food-in-mcdonald-s-wrappe...
> For humanity to continue growing as a species

I'm pretty young.

Since my birth, the population has expanded by over 40%, and we've increased global temperature by approximately 1 degree Celsius.

The inevitable conclusion of forever-growth is, indeed, that everyone piles in to microscopic communal living spaces, that everything becomes factory farmed, that everything has to be as efficient as possible because we'll be (already are to a large extent) forced into doing it.

We can't go on like this.
"It's almost like these people were addicted to this stuff. Oh wait, they are!"

Was an actual quote from distributors...
> Microsoft, the open source company.

I'm curious what makes you think they're an open source company. As far as I know, they have only open-sourced things that will attract developers back into their ecosystem. And only out of desperation that developers were leaving in droves. They only open-source things that benefit them. Have they ever open-sourced anything that benefited others before themselves?
I love Cable TV. I think it's all great. Never been better in fact. I love the variety of offerings and how approachable it all is.

What do either of our opinions have to do with this article?
I don't think denial is apathy or a response to dealing with other problems. Denial is a product of a massive disinformation campaign. There is a reason the rest of the world (in places with worse problems than in USA) doesn't have the same level of denial.
Heh, ok. I think we're agreeing then. :)

Definitely some variation from state to state.
And definitely some restrictions due to things like FERPA and other privacy laws.

But I think it's good for state university employees to know that this kind of thing can happen at all. I think that many of them would be surprised to learn that the general public can make any kind of request at all for copies of what they consider private emails.

I know that my wife, who does some work in areas that can be politically charged, was when she took a job at UNC and someone told her this.
Is this true on Android too? Can someone just lift your phone number via you merely having your Bluetooth/Wi-Fi/etc. running?
That's right.

And let me say it's totally valid to just ignore that advice, and say that here, in this company, we use 200 OK for everything that isn't a parse failure. And that's not totally wrong! It won't break anything. You're not really leveraging any of the power of your transport but maybe that's fine for your situation.
I find the argument that humans will stop studying pharmacology if they can't monopolize their results quite unconvincing. Current pharma co R&D and innovation only effectively investigates the benefits of drugs with recent patents (with enough years remaining to monetize).

There is moral validity to profit-seeking investment in drug trials which find effective treatments, but the current system enables this only with great amounts of inefficiency.
Mods: it's "Hughes", not "Hughers".
The vast majority got their start in academic settings. Most of the R&D money (in particular the expensive phase 3 clinical trials) is spent by pharmaceutical companies.
So how is them 'being in it for the money' any different from any other type of repossessor? I'm not aware of any tow truck operators that do the work as a charity or public service. If the scooter companies had any sort of plan to reburse people for moving the scooters to appropriate parking places, then I would feel differently, but AFAIK none of the scooter companies operates such a program.
This may come as a shock to you, but marketing pharmaceuticals is really no different than marketing other products. It really comes down to educating consumers about your product.

Doctors as decision makers are not some monolithic block of individuals who are super educated about every product on the market and every piece of data. Just developing awareness of new drugs is a huge job. I'd say less than 5% of doctors are cutting edge enough that they require no additional education on new drugs.

The best story I can tell was from a friend who worked at a drug company that sold a hepatitis C drug. Once Gilead's drug came out, this company basically decided to discontinue their drug. Incredibly, there were doctors out there still ordering the old drug. The company had to send reps out to these doctors to tell them to stop ordering it. Continuing to use it made zero sense at all.
For better or for worse, consulting companies exist to:

1) Enrich their partners

2) Lend credibility to their clients

Consulting firms are hired based on an "appeal to authority" fallacy. Companies don't want to make hard/unpopular decisions, so they outsource them to consultants. Data point: management consulting is one of the industries that is hit hardest by a recession. [0] If consultants truly provided value, this is exactly when they would be most needed.

The people actually doing the work on these deals are 22-25 year olds. They are highly incentivized to make their firm look good (thus enriching the firm's partners). Anything else is gravy. Anecdotally, I have many friends who worked in the industry, and when asked if they would hire consultants for their own hypothetical businesses, the answer was always "No".

I highly recommend this article on McKinsey's work restructuring Puerto Rico's debt - it pulls back the curtain on the industry: http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/04/mckinsey-in-puerto-ri...

[0] https://www.ft.com/content/1a229d54-4548-11de-b6c8-00144feab...
Why Are Fees on Sovereign Bullion Higher Compare to a Generic Bullion?
It's what about an hour to calculate the SHA of all 10 digit numbers in the US?
Which is sad, because you don't need deep deforestation to introduce grassland for grazing. Also, I'm consistently curious why other grassland ruminants aren't more popularized, some of which imho taste better.

As to another comment on going vegan, it's just not an option for me... that doesn't mean I don't want more responsible means of farming.
The same is true of the government using proprietary software thus funding it against open source. The work can be outsourced to open source companies, etc. as well, just like it effectively is with proprietary.
Project Veritas has a long record of collecting large sums in judgement against those who make such libelous accusations without proof.
Yes thats true, unfortunately GSM radios are all proprietary still
>how do we set up an incentive structure that encourages R&D and innovation?

Well, there's disease, death, suffering and injury. If you need more of a structured incentive than that, then I am not sure really what to suggest.
Fluid Concepts and Creative Analogies
There are at least two currently-running candidates who do seem have the balls to directly confront the pharma industry! Why do you think there aren't?
20-year-olds are also quite good at selling addictive drugs.
When Copernicus mathematically determined that the sun was at the center of the universe rather than the earth, was that "actual comprehension", or "perceived comprehension"?
Which of Tulsi Gabbard’s views don’t align with the “political values” of Google? Sorry if I’m misinformed but from what I’ve seen Tulsi seems like a very reasonable politician. She may be somewhat of an outsider in terms of foreign policy but overall she has pretty standard left-leaning positions and I’ve never heard her resort to extreme rhetoric (a rare quality in today’s politics).

If I’m buying into this logic I would expect Google to take similar action against other presidential candidates like Elizabeth Warren or Bernie Sanders, who are much more vocal in spearheading policies that are against the corporate interests of large tech companies like Google. Have either of those candidates been censored?
It feels like it is what happened with TV and cable. At first there were 30 channels. Years later there are 900 channels. It gets harder to separate the good from the bad and the majority is garbage.

Now you also have all these services having exclusives to get lock in. But to get all this top exclusive content, you need to pay for 12 services which is basically back to cable.

We really need a new model. Customers would prefer micro-transactions and providers and producers want recurring locked in revenue. Something has to give.
I would like to see a compromise where new drugs are allowed to be advertised to the public for say 1 year following their release then never again.

People need agency in their own medical choices, and knowing there is a drug for your medical condition is very empowering. Especially as we talk more and more about moving to a single-payer system, it's important to make sure patients have the power to question their doctors and explore their own health instead of essentially being dictated to by the state.
The intuitions about Malthusian limits are basically correct within car culture. Further scalability is of course possible, but it requires lifestyle changes and a lot of expensive infrastructure building, sacrifices incumbents would rather not make.
Serum is an absolute marvel. I'm amazed a super small team of people managed to put that all together.
It worries me that this effectively ends up behind the Apple wall and everyone else is stuck with the status quo.
> We can't go on like this.

What is the stopping point? Why is now the stopping point?

> The inevitable conclusion of forever-growth is, indeed, that everyone piles in to microscopic communal living spaces

I mean, or we become more efficient _now_, buy ourselves centuries more time on the planet, and then figure out a different solution, maybe involving terraforming other planets or something.

Progress isn't linear and it's unfortunate that everyone views it as such.
Considering how awful Intel modems are, this is disappointing. I was hoping they would stick with Qualcomm.
Which is still not illegal.

But it feels so very slimy. Also, such events seem to happen with alarming frequency. (I'm thinking of people's gmail accounts that disappear when their posts go viral, then get quickly restored.) What if electric utilities were like, "oops!" then claim an "algorithm" shut off the power to your campaign HQ. What if internet providers were doing things like that. In those cases, people could switch providers. In the case of online ads, I'm not sure that's a viable option for a campaign and many others.
Low-latency queries on large data sets
Hot patching is scary but it makes you optimize for the right things like easy to understand, easy to update, detectable early errors, easy to recover/rollback. And it makes you think and understand before writing the actual code.
I wouldn't say management consultancy is unsuccessful by any means. The ethicality of what some of these firms have done? Hmm...
While simultaneously snidely implying that these unwashed peasants will never understand our progressive ways while forcing them to live in environments that needs fossil fuel fueled AC and heating instead of somewhere like the coast which needs neither.
Ooh, I think I know. Is ISIS the political party of which you speak?
Yet Boos.Graph (a c++ library) is a generic library of graph algorithms that, in the spirit of the STL, abstracts away the graph representation. Whether the graph is represented via direct pointers or adjacency matrices (however represed) they can be adapted to work very efficiently with the library.
A couple days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20502437

A month ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20175583

Related: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20365415

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19678498
Liberty University’s ‘Culture of Fear’
What about YouTube Kids? https://www.youtube.com/kids/
To the contrary, non-gamma-correct compositing is very common, since so many programs (both historically and today) simply never bothered to do it correctly--but we get good results anyway. In most situations we wouldn't notice the difference, it usually takes a somewhat contrived example to illustrate it well. You can see that the example chosen blends between primary red and primary green, which is not a natural color combination. If you replaced one of the two colors with primary blue, even then the artifacts would be less apparent (because of blue's lower luminosity).
Use YouTube Premium, one may say!

The problem is that you likely don't want to log in the kid's device to your own Google account (with premium activated). If you want to create another account just for that, you need to lie about the age, and need to link a credit card to pay for the account — and for anything else on YouTube, then.

It would be great to have kid-specific accounts with parental control and access limitations; MS provides something similar.
On one hand this might seem like Google is trying to hurt her. On the other hand, if there was anyone at Google who was actually rooting for her, and had any input or ability to suspend accounts, this could end up actually helping her, as it pits her against the "big tech" and would in the long term help her chances of winning the election.

But, as they say, sometimes, the algorithms is just an algorithm, and it could be just a routine suspension and Gabbard's campaign saw an opportunity to profit (PR-wise) from it.
If by "sufficiently complex things" Stent means "things like consciousness," I found Max Tegmark's hypothesis in "Life 3.0" compelling: that just as information can arise from an arrangement of matter (data on a magnetic disk), consciousness might arise from an arrangement of information.
And if you have young kids, McDonalds is very useful on a road trip. Food that I can at least tolerate, is a known quantity, the kids will eat it, and they have a play area (well, not all, but a lot of them). I won't eat McD's when we're in our home city, but I really appreciate it on a trip.
> They don't want engineers testing code out on real people's lives.

When Tesla pushes and runs code in the shadow mode, it is run in parallel to the "production" version of the software. The actual behavior of a car, even with the test code in, still relies on decisions made by the "production" version of the software[1]. The purpose of such testing is to compare decisions made by the updated code vs those made by the old version, and use this info for fine-tuning the next gen algorithms.

[1] https://youtu.be/Ucp0TTmvqOE?t=6679
It's fair to suppose that in the far-off future, midrise high-density housing (the five-over-ones and texas donuts) built cheaply years ago would become some of the least desirable housing around. Unlike with detached housing, rehabilitating the structure is a package deal, so its quality will likely decline until the entire structure is demolished, likely in conjunction with a redevelopment of its lot.

The likely ossification of such midrises shows why incremental, small-scale increases of density, like allowing threeplexes on small lots, is so useful.
Tulsi is one of the few candidates on either side that believes in servant leadership
Netflix was reported as saying that one of their major competitors wasn't the broadcast networks or cable, but rather Fortnite.

There are lots of companies that are vying for your attention, and back when the choice was Cable or Cable plus Netflix, it was an easier bet to have Netflix. Now, you have Netflix, Youtube, Hulu, CBS All Access, AMC and FX (I think?) have their own streaming, HBO, SHO, and soon the Mouse is going to have a must have service. And that's not even considering the amount of time people spend on "alternative" forms of entertainment, such as video games.

It's all just too much, so I think there will be a lot of churn with Netflix. Instead of getting 12 months of service from Netflix, I think we'll see people hopping around more between 2-3 different services each month.
So your financial history is being tracked and scrutinized. At 41, you might be able to live and die without this being a big problem. In my 20s, I worry about my ability to secure healthcare and other such necessities in my later life based on a social credit score which includes financial credit history I never opted into. Just getting on a lease is enough for a credit pull. It's unavoidable.
I don’t think jail is the solution to this or many other problems that we imprison people for on a regular basis. I understand the anger at watching someone lie and get away with it, but fines and clawbacks are a great fit for those types of crimes. We really don’t want to pay for someone to go to jail and we don’t want the possibility that they’ll become a repeat offender-which seems more likely if you remove they from family and society.