skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm curious who is actually using Hack etc. outside of Facebook.

Props to HHVM, though, it really did seem to act like the swift kick up the arse for PHP that it needed, demonstrating just how unnecessarily slow PHP was and spurring them to deal with that.
I have a boss who would treat the subject line of his emails like SMS. The body of the email is often blank. I have adopted that. It makes BLUF look slow and awkward.
Just to pile on about how ridiculous medical costs are:

After giving birth my wife was offered Ibuprofen. On the bill we were charged $80 for the 2 pills she took. This was before Obamacare.

After Obamacare I twisted my ankle and the doctors insisted I wear a cheap fabric boot with stiff plastic plates while it healed over the next couple weeks. I asked how much it cost and they said $280. I took it off and refused it while they gave me dirty looks.

A medical facility is basically a monopoly. The switching costs are high and there are no prices on anything.

Unfortunately getting everyone insurance was only the tip of the iceberg of the actual problem. We still have a long, long way to go before we have real, competitive medical pricing with high quality care.
I strongly disagree. If your manager is being unreasonable, it's wishful thinking to try and reason with him.

Considering the barrier to entry for software engineering is a lot higher than most industries, the notion that our managers are less capable of understanding than in other industries seems misplaced.
There are things like that in the hospital, sure. For example some surgical tools are glorified versions of construction tools (hammers, chisels, drills) but you are paying a premium for materials (have to be autoclave-able) and QA.

However for a lot of other things though are literally the same product, so it really isn't equivalent. If you are paying more for an individual (regular) Tylenol than you would have regularly paid for a box of them, it's hard to argue "value".
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In the UK, Cineworld has a £18/month deal for unlimited movies. Based on discounted/special offer ticket prices of ~£8 you need to watch about 2.5 movies a month to make it value for money. Having used it for 10+ years now it’s still good value for me.
It’s hard swipe 17,000 students twice during a game, we use beacons to do it automatically in the background.
The last time I enjoyed PHP was in the 4.x days. I was never a fan of how classes were shoehorned into the language and I really dislike how PHP became a worse version of Java.
How are you defining generations?

Myspace and Facebook are 1st gen, but so are LinkedIn, Twitter, Pinterest, Reddit, Tumblr.

We're in the 2nd generation now, with the rise of smartphones being the rough delineation, putting Vine, Snapchat, Instagram, WhatsApp in that cohort.

By that definition, is your project 2nd gen as well, or are you more ambitiously seeking to go a generation further?
I agree. That is why Heidegger says that dasein, which roughly speaking means human being, is being-in-the-world, rather than a metaphysical substance outside the world that posits ideas about the material world.

The people who think Heidegger's philosophy is compatible with the Dartesian ego are reinterpreting his concepts to fit their own ways of thinking.
This wouldn't fall into the category of AR because the primary defining technologies across AR use cases aren't involved. For example you don't need any kind of SLAM, Visual Odometry or otherwise for backup cameras to work seamlessly. It's not 6DOF. There is no 3D rendering. Camera localization isn't required etc...

So calling this AR means you're casting too wide of a net from a complexity perspective.
Hack isn't dead. At least Facebook uses it for everything backend related still. I'm not sure how they would steal anyone's IP by using it. Lots use React for example.
Reading this in Europe.I'm sure if I'd go with article alone to my American colleague on Monday, he'd defent the system even if he'd have to die for it. Knowing he's a healthy 20something man with affluent parents that could potentially bankroll even a year's stay in a private hospital- I could understand it to certain degree, however I fail to understand why nobody really is up for changing this system,where millions upon millions left woth no choice but to struggle anything but basic medical care.
agent and under protection are two different things.
When I was a student, I was required to buy a little clicker that I used to answer mini quiz questions at lectures. Professors used that to track attendance. Yet there were no breathless NYT pieces about how Professors were tracking student locations...

Is it only "Orwellian" when GPS is involved?
The USPS exists to serve the public good rather than to enrich shareholders. Why should the USPS pay taxes when non-profits don't?
they lasted a lot longer then I anticipated
When I read the headline and saw the source, I assumed this would be about GraphQL. I know Instagram utilizes GraphQL, for example on the web client, so now I'm wondering how that fits in.
> The argument is that doing a delivery with intention to save the mother's life is good, even if it has the consequence that the fetus dies, since the death of the fetus was not the intention, and thus would not be called an abortion, since the fetal death was a secondary effect and not the primary intended effect.

This description, unlike the quoted material that precedes it, is an inaccurate application of the principle of double effect on a number of levels.

The principle of double effect does not make an act that results in death through intentional acts with the actual and known-in-advance-to-be-likely effect of necessarily licit (even if done with good intent) or even not-homicide (nor does it make them not-abortion if it involves termination of a pregnancy and the incident death of the embryo) it makes them indirect homicide (and indirect abortion) rather direct homicide/abortion. Indirect homicide (including indirect abortion) is (as the material you quote before your summary notes) only licit when committed for proportional reasons (which would apply to termination of an ectopic pregnancy where there is a moral certainty that both the mother and embryo.)

That is—critically to the attempt to justify the videos creative definition of abortion and thesis that abortion is never medically necessary that depends on that definition, by using the principle of double effect—under the principle of double effect, termination of an ectopic pregnancy (with the accompanying and certain, but not actively sought as either an ends or means, death of the embryo) to save the mother’s life would generally be a licit (in part because of medical necessity, though that alone would be insufficient to make it licit) act of indirect homicide and abortion, not not-abortion or not-homicide.
> Last year, I bought a MoviePass t-shirt from the company’s merch site in anticipation of just this event. I’m going to wear it tomorrow.

You can probably sell it to the HBO prop dept for next season of Silicon Valley for $$$$$
I went to the ER last year. They ended up making me stay overnight.

I was hit with a bill for over $10K, with much of that falling on me.

I also used to work in corporate finance and I have a good intuition for how billing works.

Before I even got the bill I mentally prepared myself for it by telling myself that it's going to be a long drawn out process.

I waited and waited and received an initial bill a few months after my hospitalization. It was for the aforementioned amount.

I called and politely asked to have it itemized. Naturally,that took several more months.

The bill was reduced, but the itemization was incorrect, so I asked for a correct itemization.

I went through a few more iterations of this. Each time the bill got lower and lower.

Eventually, I had to pay something like $1.5K out of pocket, which would have been a lot less if I didn't have an HSA.

The whole process took almost a year.

If you ever have to go to the hospital, just assume that it will take forever and nitpick the bill (within reason) and continue to challenge it. They will often give up and reduce your bill. Whatever you do, never pay a bill that is not itemized. As a former finance professional I am shocked that hospitals can get away with this, this would never fly in the B2B world, professionals always push back against "mystery bills" that show just the bottom line number.
The article addresses what the news is. it is quite notable that anyone would move $1bb out of the US while facing the possibility of HUGE civil judgements. Moreover, my reading is that this money was routed in such a way that it looks like obfuscation, a key component of money laundering.

More concisely, here is a quote, directly from the article:
"But the attorneys general of a majority of states, including New York and Massachusetts, are balking at the proposed deal, contending that the Sackler family has siphoned off company profits that should be used to pay for the billions of dollars in damage caused by opioids."
Are you saying that single-letter variable names in maths is "bad notation"?
If history is good at predicting the future, I will guess that Microsoft will get it almost right just like with Kinect. Somewhere along the way, it will be mismanaged enough for an Amazon or Google to make a similar system that just works. Hopefully, I'm wrong since Nadella is at the wheel now and he's done things very different from his predecessor.
The problem asks to find k cards (integers) out of n, in time O(k) and O(1) additional space — this means additional to the k required to store the output. So while holding n items wouldn't fit in memory, it is implicit that k would. But we still want to avoid Ω(k log k) time, or more than a constant amount of additional space.
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Cool site! Good write ups.

I think I discovered a very subtle dark pattern in one of my favorite games of all time... Rocket League.

I don't care for the loot boxes and aesthetics or anything like that. It's actually a very simple game of car soccer.

But the music seems to have some subliminal messages that must be intentional.

Some of the lyrics I've noticed this with:

"I've been putting in the hours, hours, hours..." because people put lots of time into this game.
"Playing with the boys" obviously hits with the target audience of the game to play with their friends.
"Don't pause, press play, don't pause, press play, press play, press play, press play."

Maybe it's not subliminal, but sometimes I get in the zone and then I hear these songs and I think to myself that I'm falling victim to their song choices.
I wonder if they knew that it would never work and were just feeling "philanthropic"
always reminds me of one of my favorite plants, the succulent fenestraria, that basically has a super cool adaptation to survive in dry spells by using leaves that are basically fiber optic cables to deliver light to chloroplasts underground.
It's a different issue than the valsarten issue. Valisure is suggesting that ranitidine breaks down itself into NDMA, which, as an organic chemist, I guess could happen to a small degree based on the structure[1], but it would be hard to mimic the conditions inside the body in a lab.

The Valisure petition speculated that the source of the NDMA was the result of the “inherent instability” of the ranitidine molecule, which can degrade under certain conditions, such as when it is digested, to create NDMA.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ranitidine
I don't play games much anymore, but when I did, I always had an affinity for RTS games(Command and Conquer, Age of Empires, Warcraft, etc), and Action RPGs (Diablo, Torchlight).

It's exhausting to find games nowadays that don't nickel and dime you to succeed. I like the Kingdom Rush Tower Defense games on iPad when I'm traveling. Any other suggestions?
Politics tab will make it worse. We will have people coming to HN to engage in politics, which will foul up the discussion on the "main" HN.
This is a terrible title, which would be better as "Interview with Edward Snowden".

"You can be sure I was pushed" is an aside, and has little of the connotation the title has (that Snowden truly believes he's at risk of being assassinated); rather, it's a tossed-off comment about the fact that he's not suicidal, despite reports that he's been depressed.
The author is a huge Laravel guy so this project has a Laravel feel to it.

His About page is also the "Please donate" page. =\

https://php-plus.com/funding.html
The ad hoc but exceedingly purposeful collaboration between Wikileaks, Russian military and civilian agents, the Trump campaign and other actors is documented extensively in the Mueller report. The Report[1] podcast does an excellent job of making it more accessible. Longtime US intelligence community players eg [2] have made explicit claims that Wikileaks is in part a Russian intel operation. Those claims should be taken with some salt, all is not spy novels and deep state games, but it seems clear that motivated and intelligent "transparency" actors like Assange and Snowden can- want to- cause asymmetrical chaos, so are useful to support.

1. https://www.lawfareblog.com/introducing-report-podcast-serie...

2. https://www.google.com/amp/s/20committee.com/2015/08/31/wiki...
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Pretty much worldwide, since there's usually only a few manufacturers of the Active Pharma Ingredients supplying the whole market.

Scale matters.

In this case, the manufacturer came up with a new technique for manufacturing the API. They failed to account for these very small molecule impurity side-products in their model/testing.

They probably filtered out a lot of it in their purification process and still met USP standards, but 99% or 99.9% pure still leaves a risk for potent side products.

Sometimes these side-products are tested for, but you have to know what to look for. A tiny blip may not be elucidated.
Salgado is a great storyteller. In this [1] interview, he describe his most memorable experiences, including the Reagen shooting (about 44min). The interview is in Portuguese but there is an auto-generated subtitles.

Salgado was with the Reagan entourage in the day the president was shot. A while after the event, he removed those pictures from his catalog to avoid been only know because this event. (Yet, I'm here bringing this up).

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4l3bZVZSZPI
Oh, gotcha. Thanks!
Through something like Soylent maybe? That is supposed to contain the recommended daily intake of everything.

I'm not seriously suggesting we all move to 100% cardboard-tasting goo, but if you are worried about one or more of your daily intakes, this could be an easy way for some people to get a good dose every now and then (for example for lunch on weekends, I notice that I'm often in the middle of something fun and will neglect to have lunch).
Post-industrial capitalism and a new type of big data will save the planet
Does it really need AI, or can't they just do a regular every day scan and compare at an appropriately high definition.

I'm guessing someone has an "AI" product they're trying to sell to the art industry. And like so many others, it's probably not even AI.
The problem is that big pharma can (and do!) change their chemical synthesis process for its APIs. Without going through all the same testing again.
Florida has all of these, but doesn’t have the same economy

Edit: actually, let me get into more detail on why I reject this hypothesis that I hear all the time "California is successful despite its govt / regulations etc.". I reject it in the simple notion that if the regulatory environment was bad for business, it will BE bad for business and it will play out over a time period on actual outcome. It is almost like a product manager saying that "I have the best product, but my users hate it". The fact is that the regulatory environment created the most successful economy in the US is the only thing that matters. Now let me get into why the regulatory machine works - first of all California legislature understands that we live in a knowledge economy - which means a low value regulatory relief like tax cut is unimportant. Rather, what people in the knowledge economy are looking for are safety nets, equality, worker protections, anti-competes, accessible healthcare, acceptance etc. The same arc that provides the strongest LGBT protection in the nation also passes AB5, with the sole intention of protecting worker rights. California laws provides volumes of the above - resulting in global talent willing to move here. Couple that with strong environmental protections, which not only provide recreational opportunities, but also spurs alternative industries. Looks the explosion in solar providers, electric car companies etc.
Are they not able to pay the fines?
Wiring money to yourself isn't fraud.
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You can buy potassium citrate in bulk and measure out your own dose.
it's self evident if you ever been trough schooling, but since you want to play the evidence game let's start from a systemic study about team sport, socialization and psychological health

https://ijbnpa.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/1479-5868-...
That I can understand and I’ve seen that too. And now Scaled Agile Framework is coming in hot as the enterprise version.

I’m actually proud of the parts of agile we work with, which primarily enables us to react changing needs and priorities quickly (unlike heavy waterfall).

After 22+ years in the industry I’ve come to realize that any new concept or concept that gets traction (CQRS, Event storming, AI) will produce a religious following. It’s kinda sad, because causes as lot of noise and friction.
Exactly!

I've talked that this idea of "devops" is terrifying. It turns a whole bunch of devs whose security mindsets are in "eh password1! is great" because of convenience. And it turns them into domain admins. Gates are good... Although that means in having "Dev" and "Sysad" as 2 different groups. And I as a sysad can and will actively say "NO" with a reason, because something didn't pass a sniff test.

And with the whole AWS push on everything, do you know what else it does? It gives the devs an unlimited line of credit that company has to pay for. Nowhere before did sysads, devs, or other non-manager and non-C-level have unfettered access to the company wallet. And right now, if you have IAM access in AWS, you do.
I didn't say that. You're moving goalposts anyway. Calculating pi isn't the only use for big ints. The more practical application is maybe crypto or something.

But some users want to do it.
The article suggests but does not claim that the money movement was any kind of laundering (and unlikely to be structuring, just in terms of the sheer number of transactions required to send $1 Bil at 9,999$/pop).
“The news here” is in the first paragraph:

> ... suggesting that the family tried to shield wealth as it faced a raft of litigation over its role in the opioid crisis.

If you are not aware of the reporting on Purdue and how they directly contributed to the opioid crisis, start with this fantastic exposé from the Los Angeles Times: https://www.latimes.com/projects/oxycontin-part1/
No, I didn't say that's your position, I asked.

The reason I asked is your position that vaccines are of minimal importance for childhood mortality is one the anti-vaxxers take, but I am aware that doesn't prove you are one, so I asked. And I am happy to learn you are not an anti-vaxxer.
As a comparison : https://www.thefactual.com/news/story/214519-Democratic-Deba...

Full disclosure: I am one of the techies who built it.

Comments/Feedback welcome.
And its also written from a very recent perspective, arguably I was formally working in devops in the 80's

I was hired as development team member partially as I was a sysadmin on the hardware we were using, our team both wrote the code but also the entire JCL infrastructure that managed the compilation linking, deployment and the running of code across the cluster of 16 or 17 systems.

On of my friends, an IBM guy from the operations side was shocked that we as developers where allowed to deploy and run our own code.
Not GP, but I also didn't click the link because it goes to linkedin. My motivation is that they are very similar to Facebook in tracking, walled-gardenness, and I can't imagine it being a good source for anything that is not about my personal contacts' achievements. Elsewhere in the thread I read that the linkedin post is just 2 lines and that person linked the paper instead, so I guess it might be updated by mods soon.
That's a really interesting read, insofar as I am able. Thank you for digging it up.

I'm not sure your characterization is quite correct, however. If I'm reading point 10 correctly — and that's not certain, as neither my French nor Google Translate is quite up to the task — it sounds as though the determination that it was an issue-advocacy ad and therefore inappropriate to broadcast was made largely on the basis of its psychological effect on women who had already chosen not to give birth to babies with Down Syndrome.

In effect, then — again, assuming I read it correctly — the assertion made above is essentially correct: the ad was not allowed because it would upset women who had aborted Down Syndrome babies.
> They went through 50k+ studies, found 167 they liked, and only 55 of 167 were of quality.

That is how meta analyses are meant to be performed. This is a heck of a lot better than listening to one study that you like.
If you are a developer using Amazon product feed, you might be familiar with this error message: "AWS Access Key ID: XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX. You are submitting requests too quickly. Please retry your requests at a slower rate."

This happens when your application is submitting requests to Amazon faster than once per second. Amazon has a one-second rule i.e. if you are submitting more than one request per second, it will throw RequestThrottled error. I faced this quite often and built this shared cache to overcome this problem. Sharing it here and looking forward to your feedback!
The whole ecosystem has evolved to loot people when they are at their most vulnerable moment. There is no two ways about it. It goes unchecked because insurance companies cover a bulk of the cost and so most ordinary people don't see it. The poor and uninsured get the bad end of the stick but no one cares about them. Just a pathetic state of affairs.
You are correct, and I should have clarified. There is not enough evidence here for the New York Times to suggest laundering, that is my coloring of the situation.
They didn’t directly contribute to the opioid crisis. At worst they were found guilty of deceptive marketing which is obviously highly political considering doctors ultimately prescribed them. Purdue wasn’t running commercials telling consumers to take OxyContin. Blaming Purdue for the opioid crisis is absurd. They make the drug, the doctors choose to buy and prescribe them, and people choose to take them at the advice of their doctor. How does Purdue have more responsibility than doctors and addicts?

Nobody addicted to opium was “tricked” into it. All legal opium is prescribed by a licensed doctor for godsakes!

Fining them isn’t helping people with opiate addiction. If we were to bankrupt the Sackler family tomorrow nobody addicted to opium is magically going to kick the habit.
It's not a bad thing if your only criteria is the immediate ability to fill one's belly. It's a bad thing in a lot of other ways, including many measures of "wellness".

Don't get me wrong; I'm thankful that we possess this technology from the perspectives of advancement of knowledge and having more tools to avert food crises. But these technologies were all developed recently enough that while our understanding of the directly attributable outcomes is fairly good, our understanding of long-term and systemic effects on society is anything but complete.