skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You seem to be looking at this like "price setting by proxy" but I think a more natural view would be "stopping the enforcement of government mandated price segmentation".

I'm in 100% agreement that the government shouldn't get involved in markets that look anything like what you'd see in an ECON101 course. But the prices of drugs and healthcare in general are set in a way that is so far removed from ECON101 models that I don't think you can call the price of any pharmaceutical medicine a "market price". There are 100's of market prices, the price negotiated between any given oligopolistic supplier of drugs with a oligopsonic collection of governments and large insurance companies(which all set different price). The actual price an individual pays for a given medication and insurance, and the price the oligopolistic supplier sets for a lone individual.

I'm not sure why we call the price set by one relationship(uninsured individual with large oligopolistic supplier) with the largest negotiating imbalance the "market price".

It seems like this policy has two effects.

"Reduce the unit price of drugs to individuals". Good because more people can access medication, and consumers pay less.

"Reduce funding available for drug R&D". Probably bad because this reduces the number of future drug we have.

I'm don't know whether this will be good or bad on net for U.S. consumers in the long run but I think it requires analysis far more detailed than assuming the highest of a 100 possible prices for a medication is "the market price" and any deviation from it is creating an inefficient market.(Which is a good assumption for most near-perfect markets).
Aha, that does make sense. Thanks for helping me wrap my mind around it. :)
Why in the case of writing to the array would you want Array[B] < Array[A]?
That's the problem with saying Coke shouldn't buy so many ads. Coke got all their ad spend from people who gave them money in exchange for Coke's products.

Coke is rich because society likes drinking Coca-Cola and pals.
For most big banks/institutions, important account emails are usually sent from a different domain than marketing campaigns. YMMV though.
Which can be done, because the sail is not just being pushed by the air, it's also redirecting the flow of air. The momentum of the fan pulling the air in does cancel any momentum imparted to the sail as the air pushes it, but there is also momentum gained by the air molecules rebounding back, away from the sail. It's (partially) the same reason you can sail perpendicular to the wind (the shape of the keel is also important), or sail faster than wind. Sailing is not air pushing on a sail, it's air rebounding away from the sail.
The US govt (well the FTC but its pretty much the 'US Gov' in this situation) has just put a value on your personal and most sensitive data. And its about 5 cents.
People also eat meat because it's a lot more energy efficient. One real burger lasts me for 7+ hrs where a veggie burger maybe 2.
Cool! I didn't knew of your work. I've been working in the service table, just that it isn't ready yet because I want DS to handle filenames and ES the buffer but currently the segment mangling still is destroying the directory. Almost ready ;)
some readers may be interested in this video which discusses the impact of accommodating cars in cities >> https://youtu.be/0lvUByM-fZk
It's a pretty big jump in mobility and utility from the Mac laptop to the iPhone. It's a much, much smaller jump from the iPhone to the Apple Watch.
If I'm understanding correctly, contracts are a way to implement compile time duck typing? If that's the case I think its a pretty neat twist on generics.
How old are the days you're talking about? Archeologists have found commercial messages going back to ancient Egypt, Greece, and Rome. According to some historians, the first printed advertisements go back to the Song dynasty a thousand years ago.

I just don't buy the argument that all kinds of advertising for anything at any time are intrinsically evil and must be stamped out. Even in a post-scarcity utopia, writers, artists and other creators would very likely be promoting their creations in an effort to reach people who might not otherwise hear about them.
No it's more that I'd your product fulfills a real need, people will find you. The fact that people don't without advertising says it isn't a real need.
> Advertising offendees will always be offended no matter where advertising sophistication is at.

People won't be less affected if advertising is less harmful or pervasive...?

You aggregation function is broken. The impact of advertising is a not a boolean value.
What was an actual case? "expecting users to hate the start menu"?
This doesn’t make sense to me at all. Can you clarify what point this is intended to make?
It’s fairly difficult to come to terms with an “everything was going pretty well until...” moment and doubly so when it can be personified.

Once we broke LSP, a cascade of similar ideas started showing up with regularity, especially in J2EE. I used to be able to go on at some length but now it’s more “I hope I never meet this guy because it’ll be awkward as hell.”
they probably paid 30 millions in bribes to politicians to make this happen
Settlements tend to be “no backsies” by the time they get to the “file your claim” stage.
There are whole businesses that exist to do this. eg Marketo, Eloqua, Responsys, Cheetah, etc.

And they send (and inbox) millions of emails by having reasonable open rates, not spamming, and respecting opt-outs.
As I've noted before, PII is not, in fact, toxic.
> But warming temperatures creates a negative feedback loop increases the rate of C02 release from soil.

Elevated shade decreases local soil temperature.
Online is just too easy for people to follow up. Most class-actions require mailing in a form so probably have much lower participation rates.
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I mean, if we're going for multiple attributes anyway, this has worked since long before flexbox:

On the parent:

position: relative;

On the element to be centered:

position: absolute;
top: 50%;
left: 50%;
transform: translate(-50%, -50%);
That would be a "photon rocket" which is an existing idea, but requires a lot of energy, whereas this uses free energy from the sun.
You aren't free to ignore them. To even look at them to identify whether they are advertisements takes time. Even if it took a millisecond, with a billion people looking at it that's 12 days of man-hours lost on every advertisement.

Pamphlet distribution is peer-to-peer. People have to distribute them to other people. However, Advertising is usually lopsided: typically a group of people working together, like a magazine corporation, or a machine, like with Facebook, is distributing content to people. And again, receiving ads from these places is not voluntary. You cannot engage with the activity but refuse receiving advertisements, unlike my experience of walking around on university campuses and refusing pamphlets I am offered.
Ultimately, you can't. Space is really, really, really big and empty, though. Unimaginably so, which would make an incident be some really bad luck. In something like the lightsails, you'd just launch multiple simultaneously.

Space is so big and empty that even for something like the asteroid belt you could pass through any point randomly and on average be thousands of kilometers from the nearest rock. Perhaps even tens of thousands.
Infochess "is a chess variant designed to simulate the relationship between what is known and what remains unknown in conflict, and to stimulate a deeper appreciation of the interaction between the informational domain and more traditional military affairs." It includes abstracted psyops and electronic warfare.

https://calhoun.nps.edu/handle/10945/48155
As I recall, there were no jumps or branches that there would not have been anyway in a single-architecture binary. Every time there was a jump or branch, it simply had to go further, since it would be skipping over unreachable binary code for the other architectures. The real complexity was all resolved up front, in that blob of magic at the entry point.
Depends how much time you have...

Fifteen minutes: “How to Choose a Database” by Ben Anderson (https://www.ibm.com/cloud/blog/how-to-choose-a-database-on-i...)

Three hours: Jepsen analyses of distributed systems safety. Kyle tests software ranging across the database spectrum.

One week: Designing Data-Intensive Applications by Martin Kleppman.

Disclaimer: I work with Ben and think he takes a really nice tact on this subject, while it may be orthogonal to your immediate question regarding trade-offs.
If a photon hits the sail and is reflected, it must transfer two photon momentums to the sail. The energy should be less than before it the sail. Is it redshifted?
The S400s were deployed in response to the downing of a Russian intel aircraft that got mixed up with Syrian aircraft and shot down by Israel. It was deployed to protect Russian aircraft, not Syrian bases. So the Russians had no incentive to expose the operational capabilities of the S400 systems to the West. Just as the US limits how it deploys the F-22 in the area.
Agreed. I usually leave my voice mailbox 100% full as well.
Oooh I can't wait to have my blender rot!
> Where do you go to plant trees such that you can be certain the trees won't just be cut down in a few years

Your own property, literally anywhere trees can survive.
big pharma spends more on marketing than R&D:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2015/02/11/big-p...
I'm really looking forward to their fibre rolling out in my neighborhood (for an entire year now). Last week I saw one of their trucks installing cable on the street right perpendicular to me.

So close.
(another ksp'er here...)
I think the problem is atmospheric drag, which increases when the sail is open. If you're looking to increase apogee, the most efficient place to do so is at the perigee, which also happens to be where the atmospheric drag is the worst.

So setting the mission, you get to choose the orientation of the sun relative to your orbital ellipse. If the sun direction to the sun is perpendicular to the long axis, then you (presumably) want your sail wide at the perigee, where drag will also be greatest, but will also provide the most efficient raising of the apogee.

OTOH, if the sun's direction is parallel to the long axis, you can try to avoid drag at the perigee, and then rotate into position to get more thrust during the journey from perigee to apogee. But this is a less efficient way to raise the orbit, and will deform (circularize?) the orbit. I might have to fire up KSP with 'cubesat' with an ion thruster to simulate this...
Not really my place to judge how your system is built, but double-checking an email is still subscribed just before you push it out from the queue isn’t impossible. At your volume, this will end up around 20 primary key requests per second, which is a decent database load, but then again for a company that needs to contact 2m customers per day it sounds like this wouldn’t break the bank.

Not letting people unsubscribe quickly is a conscious, commercial choice/tradeoff, not some kind of hard technical limit. Legislation can push this easily in a different direction.
Some of the older Soviet era SAMs have optical guidance/cueing as well to fall back up on in the face of jamming, or wishing to avoid SEAD attacks.
Dgraph's writes are actually very fast. The one-time bulk loader loads at millions of records per second. With recent optimizations [1], the live loader can load 21M records in 5 mins without indices and 20 mins with tons of indices. Note that all live data load also does WAL, consensus and disk syncs before every write call finishes to ensure crash-resilience.

[1]: https://github.com/dgraph-io/dgraph/commit/d697ca0898f0ac951...
After careful consideration, the decision of the committee is that the cat should be downvoted.
There are so many other ways to escape, something virtually everyone needs to do at some point, that don't require someone else's time and effort to do. There are even productive ways to escape, like sports (can keep you healthy). If your escape detracts from essential efforts, it is counter-productive.
Is this really what is causing the impact? Or do hospitals that care enough to budget keeping up nice appearances tend to care enough to manage patients' health better as well?
As mentioned, it should be pronounced "rung," but in any case, removing the i and suddenly making it a word and pronouncing it in a very unexpected way is really pretty stupid. I think, if one's really insisting on using "ring" but without the i, at least call it "rung" not "rng" so that its pronounciation is clear.

If it's so important to have a "rng" instead of a "ring" then using its name in some example of its usage should probably be better.
Those numbers are a shame. I really like how well-researched and informative the LAT articles seem to be.

Could the case be made that finance and politics grip the nation far more than tech and Hollywood?
The science is in picking the isolates. They don't market that science, but it's the reason their burger is so much better than other veggie burgers. The Stanford RNA scientist (and some colleagues) helped them figure out which proteins to focus on and how to modify those proteins based on ph and other conditions to create the taste/texture they wanted. What they are doing is much harder than it looks from the ingredients list. This is one of the scientists who helped: https://profiles.stanford.edu/joseph-puglisi
Going from a network dependant API to a completely offline service
A patent does not need to teach you or any other actual person how to make and practice the invention. It only needs to teach the hypothetical "person having ordinary skill in the art" how to make or practice the invention. See, e.g., MPEP 2163.02 [0] and MPEP 2164 [1].

[0] https://www.bitlaw.com/source/mpep/2163_02.html
[1] https://www.bitlaw.com/source/mpep/2164.html
This morning I drove town to Tijuana and bought my "refill" from Farmacia Roma 3 blocks from the border for $15. My US doctor wanted to charge me $200 for additional tests and then $30 for the same meds. This is for a simple bacterial infection.
My first job was doing restock for a small independent retailer. The only report we could print showing inventory was inclusive of all the items we had ever carried, regardless of current status. The software was very limited and there was not much in the way of filtering. The best you could do was break the report up into ranges by vendor.

So my job was to go through the alphabet printing reports (e.g. "every item from a vendor that starts with 'A'"). I'd take this report, which for some letters was over a hundred pages long (about 20 items per page) then, using a highlighter and a ballpoint pen I'd go through the report highlighting the items that had stock available in the "backstock" column and had stock in the "sales floor" column that was lesser than the "restock level". I also had to compute the restock amount by subtracting the items on the floor from the restock level and taking the max of that number or the available backstock. I'd write this number in the margin of the report, then I'd travel to the backstock area, pick the highlighted items, and restock them onto the sales floor. After this was done I'd move on to the next letter. The goal was to cycle through the alphabet at least once a week and during the off-peak season this worked fine, but during the busy season, even with extra help, this system was showing signs of stress.

The first thing I did was to write a small perl script which I placed at the path the POS software was expecting to find a line printer. My script took the print-formatted report as input and simply stripped out the lines with no available backstock before forwarding the remaining lines to the printer. This alone reduced the number of pages printed out by an order of magnitude in most cases (from ~100 pages to ~10). At first I would copy this script to the printer path, run the report, then re-link the printer, but later I modified the script to recognize that specific report and pass-through other print jobs unmolested.

Over the next three years or so I added onto the script a lot. First I made it compute the restock amount for me, then I had it start skipping lines where the restock was trivial (e.g. restock amount was 1 and there were still >10 on the floor). Eventually the script was maintaining its own parallel inventory database, tracking rate of sale for each item and only suggesting restock for things that had very low inventory on the floor or were selling very quickly. I got to the point where I could restock the entire alphabet every morning and have time leftover in the afternoons to help with receiving. By the time I left I had a dedicated terminal set up in the back during the busy season that ran my scripts every 10 minutes and displayed in near real-time items that required critical restock throughout the day.

I heard a few years after I left they had switched back to the old methodology because they couldn't get their POS vendor to support my setup.
An example is Orianthi.

She's a massively technical guitarist - she can shred as hard as any man.

But some of her songs have a high-frequency "girl sound" (I give her male guitar tech equal blame) instead of a "brown sound", and her albums don't sell.

Having said that, her live concert version of Michael Jackson's "Give in to Me" is stunning:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BbB8Eo3NLp4

Another amazing female guitarist is Mel:

Buckethead - "Soothsayer" cover

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0k-7aR1xVdg
By that logic, there's nothing you _need_ generics for.
From a physics point of view it's not like they created an infinite motion machine, the stored energy in the liquid petroleum is being burned, heat from the internal combustion engine radiated into the atmosphere, etc.

It's just converting stored energy (some amount of kJ or kWh in a fuel tank, or battery) into an aerodynamically weird highly inefficient thrust method.
What about milk? The milk industry produces beef as a byproduct. Cows have to calve regularly to produce milk and eventually became beef themselves. In my country McDonalds and other burger producers are the biggest buyers of old milk cows. Their beef might be not good enough for steaks, but still good enough for burgers.
I don't know that it was a lack of money so much as the cost/benefit ratio.

We like to think of all the big chips from Intel, AMD, Nvidia, etc or of bleeding edge mobile processors from Apple or Qualcomm. The reality is that these are a small fraction of the total market for chips. The vast majority of chips are made at 28nm or larger because the cost of production is so much lower.

Supply and demand is another big factor. As supply increases, prices will drop down to bare minimums and if costs can't be reduced enough, there will be expensive fabs sitting around doing nothing. Even if GF has enough money to design and make the fab, that doesn't mean the demand is high enough for them to charge enough to recover their costs.

Instead of spending that money on 7nm, they can spend it refining their 22, 14, and 12nm lines to improve efficiency and lower production costs. With TSMC or Samsung pouring those billions into 7 and 5nm, there's a good chance at GF pulling quite a bit ahead in the slightly older nodes. Once they have done this, those bulk chip makers using 28nm will start moving to smaller nodes. There's quite a tidy sum of profit to be reaped here. Given how every consumer has dozens to hundreds of these small chips for every cutting-edge chip in their home, appliances, or car, there is cumulatively a huge savings to be had in product and energy costs.
In this case it's mainly our understanding of protein structure/texture/taste which is a new capability.
If we went from veggie burgers this year to lab-grown beef patties in 2021, that would be more of a one-time leap.
Depends on if the F-22 was operating in full stealth mode. Also depends on how their (the F-22's) radar was employed, what ECCM was used, etc etc. I doubt the USAF showed the Russians the full monty...
I tried the Imopssible Burger, and it also tasted terrible.

I prefer veggie burgers that don't try and pretend they are something they are not.

The future is vat-grown meat, not ersatz meat.
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There is also the matter of population density. Compare the population density of the UK or Germany to China, then to the US.

If you have fewer passengers per square mile then you either need smaller vehicles or less frequent operation to fill larger ones. People naturally prefer the first option.

But the country isn't a city. It would be possible for an individual US city to have the population density required to support more effective mass transit (at least to the extent that it exists in Europe or Asia). NYC is the highest density major city in the US and largely manages to do that.

To make it work elsewhere would require the same sort of densities as New York, which would require allowing people to build more high density housing there.
We are using it at Discourse (thanks to a PR from Lefthook team) and I love it.

The fact that it is zero setup for every new contributor is a killer feature IMO.
That's because companies have abused the ecosystem and created all this garbage. The irony is lost on them that they're going to be less profitable because they've devalued ads so much.

I truly believe we can find an equilibrium which works.
I would, to the best extent possible, educate my children as to what military service actually entailed, and then I would let them make the decision based on their values and life goals.
Weird. The only other time I've heard of Debord or his game was two chapters in Zones of Control.
Centrism won with Clinton I and Bush. Clinton II lost because Clinton II was a terrible shoehorned candidate—a kind of negative Bob Dole. A Kerry would have won.
Did you drop the "/s"?
What do you want to bet the payment is less than $1 per claimant? $31MM for 150 million affected people. They knew this would be the result, and the FTC went along with it. I’m a free market right wing guy — and I’d have no problem with the government dismantling Equifax over this breach and its fallout. That company is chock full of assholes.
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150 million * 120 = eighteen billion... or about 6x their yearly revenue.

would've put a dent in their wallet and hopefully caused them to go bankrupt.
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Something like Gorgon Stare would be a good fit.
Same boat, but do love them. In fact aside from walking, the trams are my main mode of transport.

Can't stand buses. Buses are slower, comparatively unreliable, from the commuters view they are stuck on rails (that's what a route is), they don't support the increased density trams and rail do, have lower capacity, more disruptive to traffic, slower to get on/get off because of fewer doors. So now we have the contradictory evidence problem :p

(And just for the record, I've lived in both Sydney and Melbourne, and the only thing worse than replacement buses are Sydney buses + Sydney traffic. Of course, that's not to say I don't use buses, I do, but Melbourne's core is awesome partly due to the trams, and people in Melbourne don't know how good they've got it).
They aren't sugarcoating -- they are actively encouraging otherwise and taking a stance on the matter. It's disingenuous to the consumer.
The burning of Sydney's rolling stock was a crime against woodworkers. The same thing happened to old wooden railway carriages in Sydney. Slabs of well seasoned (Australian) red cedar, the length of a railway carriage, inches thick and even wider gone up in smoke. That sort of wood was rare when the carriages were burnt and practically unobtainable now.