skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For prescription drugs this wouldn't make sense. Only a doctor is qualified and legaly allowed to prescribe a drug. They have a tough job of making difficult diagnoses, weighing pros and cons for each treatment and dealing with a human in their specific life situation.

A patient that walks into a doctor's office asking for a certain medicine they heard about on TV distorts the process. After all the patient needs to believe in the treatment and might shop around for the doctor that gives them what they want.

Learning about a product in a medical context can't really happen in an ad. A doctor would have to go to a conference or read journals to figure out the latest science on treatments, and can then go and then choose an appropriate drug. They would probably look for the one that has 20mg of X in it, regardless of brand name or hype.
Well.. I don't know what to say, I guess you should report those bugs to the appropriate vendors then. I don't believe a memory leak means we tell people to buy more memory :)

>"Primarily because any modern OS will throttle crazy runaway threads to ensure UI responsiveness" seems like you have a particular OS in mind, and I would be interested in hearing more.

Sure. You should read up about thread scheduling and how an OS scheduler works. I don't think I can explain that in a comment, and I'd do a poor job anyway.

>I do not observe that behaviour on Debian 9 (and other Linux distros), Mac OS X, and Windows 7/8. I regularly bring any of those to UI stuttering/freeze from various workloads. Webapps only really breaks the lesser ones singlehandedly though (most of my other systems are 4+ core with 32GB+ RAM).

I don't observe that behavior. Just for fun I ran a CPU Stress test (https://silver.urih.com/) as I'm typing this comment. CPU pegged at 100%. Not feeling a thing... https://imgur.com/a/J0l9VaP
TIL: Meteors don't just burn up in Earth's atmosphere. Some explode.

https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/76045/why-do-met...
Consumers who care enough about the medicine they’re taking to request certain prescriptions want to understand them. Mass media like TV ads drives searches and visits to more detailed official material (websites, pamphlets, etc.) Without providing useful information, the manufacturer would have trouble convincing more engaged patients to switch, and similarly to other product markets, engaged customer word of mouth is vital to growth. Word of mouth is bolstered by the more familiar mass media. It’s not perfect, but it’s far from axiomatic that the communications from the entire marketing campaign are valueless. It only appears that way to TV viewers with no medicinal motivation to research the drug.
Whereas, like many wars, it should really be taught as a mutual loss: a useless conflict that neither side needed.
I mean, I think the parent's position is generous, considering what I think many others would agree would be fair: That a company that has wronged a country's citizens as deeply as the Facebooks and Googles of the world have should simply be terminated, executives jailed, and assets seized and either auctioned or redistributed. For companies built on societal harm, they should have to fight for their lives to remain in business.

If we want these sorts of businesses/behaviors to stop cropping up, we need to make societal harm a huge risk factor for investors.
"You are not a product.
Why use a browser that treats you like one?"

And that's why I use Firefox. At the end of the day, Brave is another for-profit browser: you are still the product, but with extra steps. I'd rather trust an open-source add-on to block ads and trackers than a web browser (much harder to make sure that it's doing what you want).
I have a feeling that most critics used to be fans. Five years ago Elon was my favorite entrepreneur.

Today I think the limp wristed response to the $420 fraud is a black stain on the justice system.

I'd still prefer Tesla succeed of course, and there's an undeniable impact it's had. But any warm and fuzzy feeling I once had is very much over.
This exactly.

But to be honest, maybe this is an opportunity to create some kind of maturity level standard, where content shouldn't be above a set threshold, regardless of source. On YouTube For Kids, it would be lower than regular YouTube, which would be lower than RedTube. Advertising would be compelled to build in functionality that checks a page's threshold and serves ads that match.

I'm not saying I agree with the idea, just putting it out there.
If you play with a Monotron, you very quickly learn what those five knobs do. You might not understand on an intellectual level what terms like "LFO rate" and "VCF cutoff" mean, but you develop an intuitive understanding of what they do to the sound. If you then go out and buy a Volca Keys or a Minilogue or pretty much any subtractive synthesiser, you already know how to use several of the most important controls.

If you play with a Pocket Operator, you don't learn very much of anything except how to use that particular Pocket Operator; the interface is too idiosyncratic, the details of the synth engine too effectively concealed.
What? A war. What the actual fuck. How about you just wouldn't be salty about what other people think about cartoon drawings.
There is a "color-interpolation: linearRGB" option in SVG, which seems to be implemented by browsers. See http://tavmjong.free.fr/SVG/COLOR_INTERPOLATION/ for a more detailed examination.
Sounds like the boss was visited by the Good Idea Fairy
The incentive to keep deforesting is to provide cheap beef meat mostly for western countries which can pay the most.

By reducing the amount of meat consumed in the west, there would be no reason to keep chopping down the forest, it's expensive.

In the west we would need a meat tax like it has been proposed in several countries, this alone we would reduce demand for beef and reduce the rate that the forest is getting chopped.

Only if it hurts on people's pockets will anything change, if it doesn't and it goes down for long enough, and the climate keep changing like it has it's going to end up as it as always ended when multiple groups of people are competing for resources: war.
It's not just loans and credit cards - it is also for insurance (home, auto), some utilities, and employment.
From their GitHub page: "ChaiScript is one of the only embedded scripting language designed from the ground up to directly target C++ and take advantage of modern C++ development techniques, working with the developer how they would expect it to work. Being a native C++ application, it has some advantages over existing embedded scripting languages:

It uses a header-only approach, which makes it easy to integrate with existing projects.

It maintains type safety between your C++ application and the user scripts.

It supports a variety of C++ techniques including callbacks, overloaded functions, class methods, and stl containers."
Thanks, I like to see the other side when I believe something.

I once read Dennett's critiques and I remember I didn't find them very convincing. But right now I don't remember his arguments. I won't analyze them right now as to be able to comment in this topic. If you mention Dennett's main argument against what Harris says about freewill I'd thank you.

Marvin Minsky said we are 'meat machines'. What does Dennet say against that? (considering machines as deterministic).
I highly recommend Kurzweil's "The Age of Spiritual Machines" for many predictions like these, with a detailed timeline. According to him, being able to simulate human-level intelligence on a computer is simple matter of having enough processing power, which he estimates at 20 petaflops. He also predicts we'd be able to buy 20 petaflops for US$ 1k around 2009, IIRC. (Edit: had to check - he actually wrote 2020. Looking forward to it.)

(It's a fun book though, I like it. Except for the creepy bits on cybersex.)
Well, my point is that it's O(N), regardless of the constant factor.
> I'm aware of the difference between the colloquial use of the word 'heat-pump' and the technical one, on the off chance that you really did not understand me I meant the ones where you use an in-ground heat source or sink to cool or heat a building by the movement of a working fluid.

I really did not understand you, thanks for clarifying. I've heard of below-ground heat-pumps but have yet to see one in real life. A friend of mine who lives in a less temperate part of the US investigated it, but it was too long of a payback time due to the much increased installation costs.
Infowars being buried so deeply in the "Alex Jones" results is highly suspicious. How can Google's results be so ineffective compared to other search engines?

The "Pelosi drunk" results are also markedly different from DDG. I just now tried this one because the results were being manually short-circuited the day after the video went viral, both by DDG and Google (but not Bing). It appears that DDG has reverted to delivering actual results for that query while Google's appear curated.

During the election some fuss was made over auto-completion for "Hillary" vs. "Trump" searches ... apparently embarrassing for Google because these were soon "fixed".

I could go on and on.

Do you at least admit that Google restricts searches for the Christchurch shooting video? Maybe your definition of "political reasons" is very narrow.

I don't actually have a problem with burying Alex Jones. The only reason I have enough interest to engage in this discussion is that Google continues to deny these things.
Thanks, I'll pass it along.
I'm in agreement about jail, but also with the despair that causes the desire.

A monetary fine would be trivial. Anything else likely wouldn't create any counter-incentive.

At a minimum though I'd like to see someone convicted, nine if this settle without admitting wrongdoing. Then the next company to hire them would at least have to answer why they are hiring a convicted fraudster.
Somebody is working on fixing the permissions. Sorry.
Logs showed 4 staffers accessed the data (including running more than 20 search queries), and only one was fired (and he was fired, not "asked to resign").

It's not spin, it's what happened.
Long term, this is likely right. It’s very easy to stop looking over your shoulder once the competition seems to have disappeared.
I almost bought Bacon from Costco one time. At the last second I realized it wasn't bacon, it was some soy/TVP thing called bacon. I don't think it was Costco brand but I can't remember the brand. There is marketing, then there is deception, to me this was deception.

While I agree some words change meaning, like hamburgers not coming from Hamburg, it doesn't seem beneficial to anybody to change the core accepted meanings and make things more confusing. Burger = meat, veggie patty = not meat. Sausage = meat, veggie links = not meat.

While I get shaping veggie/vegan stuff to fit buns and bread, I really don't get the attempts to make it look like meat.
> The Americans also captured York (now Toronto) and burned several government buildings there, an act the British reciprocated the following year (1814) in Washington, D.C.

The Canadian version sounds better: "Yeah! We burned down the White House!".
I agree with this concern - one of the most common complaints I hear from my friends and coworkers is that they keep getting extra responsibility handed to them, but never actually see the promotion. There is an incredibly delicate balance between motivating people to take on new challenges and discouraging people by not giving them enough in return for it.

The best way to handle this situation (for the employee) is to just sidestep the problem and offer the increased salary and promotion upfront with the new responsibility. There is the additional benefit of internal visibility - if somebody is taking on extra responsibility, it is able to be communicated to the whole team, dodging the common issue that engineers face of not knowing who in their organization they should go to for help/mentorship.
> "aren't those ads targeted to the viewer (you) rather than the content of the video?"

That shouldn't matter; youtube should not be showing adult ads to an adult when the adult is watching a children's show. Did nobody at youtube consider the probability that the adult's account is watching a children's TV show because there is a child in the room and the adult put the tv show on?
I am a reformed criminal, I have done jail, and probation, stuff I did, I would like to give back to the real and perceived victims, families and friends, Coulple of problems I came across,it is hard to get even the worst kind of job,i would like bypass this recurring problem cycle of failure very high excon like my self, i want to start a new invention and start a small business nonprofit at first and who no knows I may have to continue to pay for past sins God will be my guidance, it will be Advanced facial recognition on a cellphone, i got a 8g touch windows base android. I got extensive ideas to real and perceived problems will have to build proof of concept, There is no single data base on criminals, veterans, ICE, my it would have the combined mugshots from all, offsite website able to store, safely, large data, and be stable, I have found off shore bootleg video host hypothetically "Putlocker.com,
Nobody is arguing against data privacy. It's how that's done which is the problem with GDPR. If you call every criticism of bad regulation as a defense of "abuse of personal data" then it's nothing more than an emotional argument.

Adtech powers the internet and lets 99% of the content exist. Let's avoid the endless conversations over it. If you want every company to be treated the same, then every industry should be too.
Agreed. This is especially problematic when pressure is put on managers to limit promotions. One friend works at a company where there's some sort of promotion quota. He put one deserving person up and was told other people deserved promotion more, so hopefully the promotion would happen in 6 months.

Not only does this serve to underpay people ready for promotion, but it makes it harder for them to move elsewhere. If they're working at level X but have the title/pay of level X-1, then they'll have a much easier time finding a job at X-1, which effectively resets the promotion clock.
Ransomware Attack Cripples Power Company’s Entire Network
This is a peculiar comment. Why would you think readers are seeking a balanced 'view of the industry' here? HN is much less bland than that. The guidelines have a view on what's relevant content here: If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity (https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html).

Do you have some particular animus against Rust, or do you think it's some sort of general rule that developers should learn only the 'top 5' 'industry' languages?

I've started learning Rust, for a few reasons:

- I read a couple of chapters of Steve Klabnik and Carol Nichols' excellent "The Rust Programming Language" a while back and enjoyed it so much just as a book that I promised myself I'd read the whole thing when I had time. Now I do, so I am.

- Rust instantiates some concepts that I'm familiar with but only at a vague hand-wavy level. Learning it is educational (for me).

- Rust is used in some open-source projects I'd like to contribute to if I can.

- I have a couple of personal project ideas in disparate areas (wasm, embedded) that Rust seems well suited for

It's quite likely I'll never use Rust in a job. So what?
Awesome post, thank you!
Starbucks beats Q3 forecasts, raises full-year guidance
Russian Hack of Elections System Was Far-Reaching, Report Finds
I assume because this is the first time they've heard of it.
How much does it cost to make a betting app like William hill
And the European Commission also does it, see ERC grants. Giving risky cutting edge programs 1 million dollars is almost their definition (except that it's 1.5 to 2M).
And they've been overcompensating since
> Cities do not want apartments because that doesn't generate revenue

Solved:
https://www.investopedia.com/terms/l/land-value-tax.asp
I thought your comment was interesting so I posed this question to my children (10 and 12.) It took them about 15 minutes to answer. Assuming an adult might be twice as fast, that’s still a long time to answer a written quiz. So, fair point. However, they had an easier time answering other questions about extreme state capitals that had more to do with geography, so I don’t think rote memory methods should be entirely faulted.
Philip Morris launches first Africa store to spark alternative cigarettes demand
Designing a killer free trial for your SaaS product
OP meant total addressable market (TAM).
They actually missed wall street expectations on profit, this isn't a victorious quarter for then.
It's down completely now, just going to https://www.t-mobile.com/ gives you a 400.
> An organism refers to any individual living thing that can react to stimuli, reproduce, grow, and maintain homeostasis. It can be a virus, bacterium, protist, fungus, plant or an animal.
That's because marketers ruin everything. It's what they do. Anywhere peoples' attention goes - marketers will be there to ruin it.

Mail, radio, television, internet, email, social media... If a bunch of eyes and ears are focused on it you can bet that marketers will be moving to stand between the two and try and get their message seen or heard. The entire point of marketing is to steal your attention from whatever it is that has your attention so that they have your attention. It's insidious at best and most marketing is manipulative (especially emotionally manipulative).
I think everyone agrees that if it were practical to amend the California tax system then we would just do that.
People in my neighborhood object to every change even if it doesn’t seem to affect them. They’re mortified when a 5-story building (commercial OR residential) is built downtown when we are ten minutes away and not on a major traffic corridor.
Awesome let's do it. I've got a ton of pieces in place. rjbrown at gmail
Not everyone buys the implementations, I specifically listed multiple non-Cortex ones. Cavium/Marvell ThunderX, ThunderX2 (Broadcom Vulcan), Qualcomm Centriq (press F for Falkor), Ampere eMAG (Skylark), all current Apple stuff, are all very different custom implementations.

TX2 in particular has a fascinating history: https://en.wikichip.org/wiki/cavium/microarchitectures/vulca...
Those are actually links, but they've decided to sure them in a way that hides that for some reason
Your comment about SF being young is really true. Take a look at a 1950's picture of the east side of Twin Peaks and you'll see huge tracks of open land. This is ~2 miles from downtown. A lot of SF was built in the last 60-70 years.

And also the trend of people wanting to live in SF is a pretty recent phenomenon. The population of SF in 2000 was the same as it was in the 1950's. People were leaving SF in droves 40 years ago.

Cities can't just turn on a dime.
Strong Towns notes that the real cost of spreading out is all the infrastructure you need to maintain.

Running water? Gotta run the pipes further.
Road access? Gotta pave (and maintain) more road
Power? Same thing

Plus having decent response times for emergency services, quick commute to things like groceries as you mentioned.

Not to mention having critical mass for a commercial district with any sort of variety within reasonable distances of each other to compete and cross-pollinate.
What about anti-slosh baffles?
Photographers, Instagrammers: Stop Being So Selfish and Disrespectful
I grew up in rural nowheresville and went to a good college across the country, but that's not necessary. Every single state has acceptable state colleges, if your children cannot bear doing their own laundry :)
That sounds like a classic example of assuming a sigmoid curve is purely exponential.
> What are some $200B+, publicly-traded companies that the government has "turned off"?

Does the break-up of Bell count?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breakup_of_the_Bell_System
I just avoid YouTube altogether for my child. There are some really good TV network apps like Barnkanalen SVT (Sweden), ZDF/KIKA (Deutschland) that make quality content, have no ads and are free. And no risk of watching something I don't want them to.
Are you sure you don't mean "a quantum computer"?
If only the US had won, then all those canadian programmers in Vancouver and Toronto wouldn't have to migrate to get a decent paying job.
I tried a LSTM model of stock twists and it seemed reasonably good at handling negations (single and double negatives at least)
http://archive.is/0S6Zc
I don't think what you are saying is correct. Isn't an emulator something that takes the same inputs and produces the same outputs? I don't think "bottom-up" has anything to do with it.
NGPVan is a buggy SaaS platform. They discovered and reported a bug in the platform that displayed HRC's information to the wrong customer.

'Snooping' is a biased mischaracterization.
> If a child killer is duly convicted beyond the shadow of a doubt,

I.e. never. Even if killing someone in cold blood for selfish and primitive reasons somehow wasn't murder when the state does it, only killing those who "deserve" it is simply not possible.

> I'm rather sick of how soft the West has gotten in dealing with serious crimes.

I'm sick of how soft the West still is in dealing with people who advocate murder. You should be removed from society. It's not vengeance (what you think is "justice"), it's self defence. Only until you can be resocialized, of course. Because for civilized people, that's the purpose of punishments.
That's cute. I lived in Scotland for a while and regrettably didn't discover this. It's a tad more tasteful than my local 'big' thing: https://www.discoverballina.com.au/visit/big-prawn
That’s unfortunate. As a small business owner, I can understand the business side of things — it can be hard to maintain profitability when someone gets promoted if they aren’t yet able to do all the skills of the job but get paid for it. I wonder if that was part of the strategy — not all the responsibility was added at once to transition?

We handle this a different way - when someone is promoted, they are given a chart of new responsibilities, expectation timeline and a small raise. Once they completely train into the role, which can be anywhere from 3 weeks to 3 months, we give a larger raise. Again this is because we cannot actually afford to pay for work not being done. It seems people like the acknowledgement, clear expectations and reward when they’ve made the cut.
I've used Logic most of my life, but Garageband is pretty great these days on iOS/mac. And you can transfer the projects to Logic if you want to take them further.

A couple of niggles (can't set start/end points for loop playback/recording, no midi learn, relatively few keyboard shortcuts) but for a free portable DAW it's superb. Supports a lot of i/o too, I've used interfaces all the way from 2 track IK duo pro to 16 channel Soundtrack desk with it.
I don't find much bad with GDPR. You can call this an emotional argument, but for me, it's a difference of priorities. I do believe GDPR is right and creating regulatory friction in the marketplace isn't something to be avoided at all costs - in particular, it's desirable when the regulated behavior is potentially harmful.

RE adtech, I don't think we can avoid this conversation as long as all the problems this industry is causing persist. And I don't want to have every industry treated the same. In my books, adtech is right there with selling hard drugs on street corners, and factories polluting rivers; I'm fine with getting rid of all of them. I do not want that industry to grow. As for the "99% of the content", I'd honest to god happily see it disappear. It's mostly garbage that wastes people time; in particular, mass-produced content marketing tends to have negative information value, making people wronger than they were before reading it.