skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Even color is a non-local effect. Turning two colored pixels on side-by-side on an Apple II makes them white. I can give you an unbounded amount of detail why :-)

https://zellyn.github.io/apple2shader/
...Except doctors are very busy people who often rely necessarily on drugmaker-published literature to update their knowledge on those products and ailments. They don't generally have the ability to conduct their own research. Therefore, your assertion that all doctors 'knew' that these drugs were addictive is simply untrue.

Now, there is definitely a spectrum of responsibility/guilt that could be applied to all parties here. In some ways, the buck even stops with the patient: it's their decision what to put in their mouth and swallow, and no one was holding a gun to their head and forcing them to take the meds they were prescribed. But that of course is a very skewed view on the subject of addiction.

The crux of the issue is how society decides to assign blame. Collectively, we seem have a hard time dumping more responsibility on patients. Plenty of doctors have been fined, lost licenses, and gone to prison. Heck, my own childhood physician lost his license. But we also understand that many doctors who made mistakes deserve some leniency because they were tasked with helping people in pain.

But the drug companies...it's hard to imagine that they deserve even a shred of clemency. Their only job was to produce a product and represent it truthfully. Their failure mode was knowing, made them vast sums, and destroyed many lives.
The most popular, recently released RTS I can think of is Factorio. It seems like RTS game elements have been splitting into their constituent parts and forming a game around those.(e.g. production to Factorio, or combat to DOTA) It may be that way there’s a greater ROI on smaller/simpler games than building out all the components involved in an RTS game.
Surely he loves it for 17 reasons.
>That's what statutory rape means... rape.

It's not the same, or else they would use the same terms, do you agree?

Thing is, definition of crimes are better left to experts, I.E. Lawyers. It's not an easy task in any way as you can see.

> He's not wrong in what he said, but he could be wrong for saying it.

You can never be wrong by speaking the truth. And this is what RMS did.
Back before the Internet became users' most important news source, newspapers used to do have a hierarchical structure to their stories. The headline would tell you a fair bit, then the first paragraph or two would tell you all the salient points, and each subsequent paragraph would add details.

Now it seems that the important things are buried at the end of the article. The idea seems to be to hook you in and make you keep reading. You hope to find what you're looking for, and in the process stay longer on this page, possibly getting distracted by ads and (intrasite) links.
Can we stop downvoting fair arguments we disagree with? Can't we just "agree to disagree" without resorting to unnecessary measures?
It's a bit rocky and I've been filing bugs to help, but S3 state support is strictly no worse than Terraform's and supports secrets just fine.
>If there is something specific you would like people to do, please do go ahead and advocate for it.

Become involved. I think the minimum you should do is to vote in every election in your municipality. One of the main causes of the problems in our current system is the atrocious voter turnout rate. You can even just submit your entire ballot blank. Politicians can't see who voted for what, but they can see if you show up to the polls. They see which demographics vote, what issues those demographics care about, and they adjust their platform accordingly. This is one of the primary reasons that people say there aren't any politicians who represent their values. We need to break that feedback loop.

>What organizations do you support, and why?

HN is not the place for that discussion.

>Not this content-free guilt-mongering, it doesn't help anyone.

I am simply trying to get people to give up this notion that political neutrality is a virtue or something to be proud of. Refusing to participate in politics doesn't make politics go away. If this comment gets one person to reconsider that stance, I would consider that helping.
> Please consider alternative narratives.

No.

> He acted selfishly, not morally.

No, he acted morally.

> Deep thoughts and intellectual defenses are not so hard to construct, should not be uncritically accepted with significant corroborating evidence, and should certainly not be taken in any way to imply morality, as shown by the growing list of deep thinkers who supported and participated in Jeffrey Epstein's schemes.

No. It's simple. Snowden = Good. Stop trying to "muh Russians!" this.

> With Snowden we have very little corroboration, so best reserve judgement.

No. His documents appear sufficiently authentic to be acted upon. I, and people I know, are not reserving our judgements.

> And if he does wind up dying as many other Russian actors have...

We all will know exactly what sort of people run our government.
Or none of the above. They could just happen to have similar period and phase in the observations for no connected reason.
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I would not go as far to say they're blameless, but you're correct we knew as far back as 2003-2004 that oxycontin was highly addictive.

NPR story from 2005 - https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=506167...
> feels like a maturing industry sort of rolled back into its teenage years

Beautiful description! That is so on the nail.
I've thought about this aspect, but the thing is, how would you ever even show you were refused without a recording? (Say if you're in a 2-party-consent state? Which they would obviously not consent to?)
I don't think anyone considered it a settled issue. Upholding or overturning Roe v Wade has always been a major issue in elections and SC nominations.
This is why I bring my own copies of Alive, Die Hard 2, and others on flights. It actually helps keep me from being so anxious on flights.
>"Did I even really know who Richard Stallman was before those emails? To be honest, not really"

She auto-disqualifies herself. At least she's honest.
Also, transferring money to a Swiss bank account is not against the law. The lawyer quoted says it was moved offshore to "conceal" the source of money...that isn't how money laundering works.

Money laundering "works" through a chain of actions whose intent is to conceal the original source of said money. Some or all of those actions might be legal in themselves, it is the intent that counts - if you know the state is after your assets and you knowingly transfer those assets to a place the state can't find them (or even, would have trouble finding them, whether or not it could technically find them), then a pattern is fairly evident even if the transfer itself is legal.

Generally, playing games to make the state's job harder once it's investigating you is going to be a crime in the US (and many other places I believe). This is because the law has never been "blind" in the sense that it only considers actions - the law has always considered intentions and efforts to get results. Putting poison in a cup by itself isn't illegal, for example. Leaving that cup anywhere someone might drink from it on the other hand winds-up in crime.
In our organisation, developers have need nor clearance to access live customer data. This means they stay out of production and we have to deal with breakage.

Usually I can just revert to an earlier version and file a bug report, sometimes I have to cherry pick.

Having developers "fix" things in production under time-stress at 3am without proper code review sounds like extremely poor practice.
First, I take issue with the cited article because the study referenced in the opening paragraph because they do not provide any discussion over limitations of their study. In particular, that members of the "Biggest Loser" show may have also been more extrinsically motivated by money and fame than intrinsically motivated to become healthy. Thus, when they failed to earn said money/fame, they returned to their normal behaviors.

> people who aren't willing to massively restrict their diet and live in discomfort for the rest of their lives

I also take issue with this statement. Many fitness motivation images on the Internet talk about rejecting temptation to work towards your goals. As I was thinking about this comment, I was reminded of Ben Stiller's pizza scene in the movie Dodgeball [1]. Jokes aside, the scene is a hyperbole to how even fit people are susceptible to temptation and take actions to not giving in. Not to Stiller's degree, but I can distinctly remember times where I just stare at the ice cream aisle with grocery shopping. It is my own mental discipline to not buy it. Quitting World of Warcraft to get in better shape is also a part of my past. Shifting to an active lifestyle is hard, it has a difficult initial start, but persevering through it has helped me become the healthier person I am. I also recall Jesse Shand's transformation [2], where I believe one of the phases of his weight loss was simply reducing the number of fast food meals he'd consume in a single sitting (instead of 8, only eat 7, etc).

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PPmX2gNIqE8

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jpy1FlGKYz0
People would quickly learn how to abuse that system by just waiting to purchase tickets.

I think the theater+restaurant combos would actually be ideal for the Moviepass model since they can offset the cost of the ticket with food/alcohol sales. They could even limit it to 3 movies/wk like AMC and probably do well. The theater+restaurant near me offers a $5 ticket Tuesday promotion and most showings throughout the day are full. If they charged me $25/mo I’d definitely pop in 1-2 times a week to watch a movie while I eat a meal.
Show HN: BlockStudio, an Online Environment for Children to Learn Programming
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Obviously you would fear that, Stallman is being called a pedophile and his jobs is in danger, all without a single iota of proof, just because the internet mob made him his next target.
Depends on where in the U.S. where I am currently adult tickets are $11.
> Last month, Amazon joined a number of other tech companies and Fortune 500 firms in signing a letter outlining the purpose of a corporation as something not just designed to return shareholder value, but also to serve employees and the community. “Each of our stakeholders is essential,” the pledge read. “We commit to deliver value to all of them, for the future success of our companies, our communities and our country.”

lol!
Wouldn’t have to be a plot point. Could just be a funny in-joke for the right character.
There's nothing wrong with the title. It's a direct quote from the interview. Also, the article literally has "Interview with Edward Snowden" above it with a picture of him. Just because it entices you to read doesn't automatically make it clickbait. I do think that the subtitle "Interview with Edward Snowden" would be a much better title for the HN submission. The current title without any context (picture + sub title) doesn't provide any information if it just appears in a list of text links.
It's not just unfair; it's also bad for the environment. Shipping stuff from the other side of the world costs more in transportation and thus fuel than shipping domestically or locally. If we want environmental costs to be transparent, the real environmental cost (of shipping and other products or services) needs to be reflected in the price, which means it shouldn't be kept artificially low.

I may disagree with Trump on almost everything, but this might be the one area where I actually agree. I have no idea whether this is the best or most effective approach, but I do agree that this is an issue that needs to be fixed.
This would have been a PR stunt all the same, though.
He has endured this before, thing is, the guy's old, alone, and not in the best shape mentally, and this might get him.
[Show HN: BlockStudio, An Online Environment for Children to Learn Programming]

Hi folks,

I've been working on this project for a few years now: www.blockstudio.app

BlockStudio is an online environment for learning programming.

Its programming paradigm is different from the more common "code blocks" program construction model.
I recommend going through the tutorial if you are sufficiently interested (you'll need to sign up) -- or just play the game featured on the landing page (made by a 9 year-old kid from WA).

The website has been around for a while now, but I wanted to share it with this community now because:

a) Somebody here might be looking for this sort of thing for their child/niece/nephew/student (I've seen it come up before [0])

b) There's consistent (though low) traffic on the BlockStudio site, and that means there are interesting projects created by children aged 8 through 14, which I thought would be worth sharing with you all.

c) The website is at a place where I personally feel comfortable with a large number of people checking it out.

Please keep (b) in mind, if you decide to leave comments on these children's projects (commenting is unlocked after creating a user account and completing some tutorials). Of course, I trust this community and welcome your feedback on my work -- especially opportunities for improvement in the system/UI itself.

Thanks in advance!

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16764039
That would "acknowledge the debt" or something like that from what I understand?
Can you point out the “collateral damage”? I can’t think of any. He did damage the mass surveillance system but that was intentional.
Same here. My wife and I got MoviePass knowing it was liable to go under at any moment, but the deal was too good too pass up. We lived across the street from a theater, so we went all the time. It was such a trip every time we swiped our MoviePass card and it printed the ticket. Unfortunately, the theater only had 5 screens, so we quickly saw everything we were interested in (and the "reach" movies we wouldn't otherwise have seen, some of which were pretty great!)

We eventually moved somewhere that didn't have a MoviePass theater around, and got AMC Stubs A-list for $20/mo, so it definitely changed our behavior.
Plenty of good subsequent research has shown this to be not supported. Go to google scholar and start looking through Econ papers citing Piketty.
I live in a 58k population US town with a large facility for a Fortune 50 company and a decent research university. We are surrounded by green space and I can be at the beach or in the mountains in an hour. I can bike to work and it’s about 5-10 more minutes to my commute.

I’m exactly where I want to be.
What do you mean when you say the itemization was incorrect? Do you mean that the prices that they list were incorrect, or that the items didn't make sense given the treatment you received?

In either case, what reference do you use to ascertain correctness? I feel like information asymmetry is a problem for a lot of patients. It's hard to tell if you actually need a treatment, or if you're being charged fairly for it.
The 'combined arms' approach where your 'macro' is turn-based and your 'micro' is real-time is doing very well in Total War franchise (briefly mentioned in the article).

Turn-based aspect of settlement/empire management flows much better than real-time base-building aspect of the classic RTSes. Battles being fought in a separate real-time ux means that you can field thousands of troop models while micro-managing tens of 'squads' -- and you don't have to worry about strategic side in the middle of the battle.

Both aspects are richer as a result of separation.
Programming had essentially zero real-world impact before the 1950s. The analogy you’re trying to make is that vaccines existed but had virtually no real world impact before the 1960s. Did I get that right? Because that’s what I understood, and it’s severely wrong.
Coders – Clive Thompson
I've personally known of a handful of vegans and vegetarians who've all reported back after years of being on that diet of being extremely deficient in nutrients. Brain fog, lack of energy, anemia, pale skin, thinness, a ton of symptoms. Doctors recommend them to begin eating at least fish and these people got noticeably better.

Have heard of dozens more of similar cases from friends of friends. I think the vegetarians and vegans are indeed falling ill, it just happens over a long period if time and not very noticeable.
Warcraft Reforged is about to be launched so it's not all lost
Any reasonable company should be taking out insurance for work mandated outings
when the gravy train is running, hop on and ride as long as you can. Sometimes like this it crashes and burns, sometimes like Uber/lyft it slowly Peters out (and it’s still a gravy train, just not nearly as much so as before)
Yeah, I'm aware of that. I wish more journalists put it into practice though.
Can you clarify who the "we" is who knew this in 2003?

I think it's unfair to say that was general knowledge before 2017 or so.
Yeah, that part really breaks down the credibility of the article.
Hiphop -- the Facebook project that compiled a PHP codebase into a monolithic executable, with an intermediate step as C++ -- was more of an alternate implementation than a separate language. But it's dead; Facebook abandoned that approach around 2013, and nobody seems interested in reviving it.

Hack started out as a superset of PHP, but it has diverged from the original language. Some of the features it was created to add (like type annotations and lambda functions) have since been added upstream, sometimes with different syntax; some of its other, stranger features (like XHP) are unlikely to ever be adopted upstream. At this point, it's best described as an incompatible fork.
For a very long time, people have made cheap swipes at Al Gore for using lots of carbon, such as for flying here and there and doing things that rich people do.

And, for a very long time, I thought, well, that's stupid, because global warming is about the total amount of CO2 on the whole planet, not personal behavior and virtue. It's not a religion, after all.

Somehow, everything's reversed, but does this mean that Gore is now a fiend? Or were people right the first time, that it's not about carbon being sinful?

A pound of CO2 is a pound of CO2, isn't it? Every time people make a comment about some specific activity, what I hear is "this pound of CO2 is more sinful than that pound of CO2". Or "everyone should get to emit equal amounts of CO2". I don't think these have anything to do with preventing climate change.

I really, really, don't believe it's wrong or contradictory for "liberal elites" to fly around on their private jets and still try to stop global warming.

But that means I also don't see why people have turned to condemning Joe Blow in the same way. It's not flying that's the problem. You ban flying, and economics would allow the fossil fuel to be burned some other way. You mandate electric cars, or anything else, and you're not doing the one thing we need to do, which is to ration all carbon emissions. All carbon is equal!

Maybe we do need to switch to electric cars or stop flying, but I'm saying we can only find that out by first making emitting CO2 more expensive and then letting the market work. It's not that it's a "nicer" solution that's more "free market", it's that there is literally no other option. We are looking for car keys under a streetlight, when we know they were dropped in the sewer.
While that is absolutely true, there is a level of confidence in knowing that the one from a hospital was sourced from a legitimate supplier and that it likely meets some level of quality control standards, legal standards, and supply chain controls.

But this is more of a criticism of Amazon than anything, as those things would be true for a drugstore as much as it would be for a hospital.
Ranitidine has a nitro group which can be cleaved and reduced to nitrous acid and combine with the dimethylamino group to give NMDA.

Whether that’s a reasonable metabolic pathway I have no idea.
It's interesting that Stallman very likely left those weird pedophilia comments on purpose, like a canary to measure how much freedom he has.
This is where crowd sourcing has value over curation. Let me tell you about this awesome little regional jazz ensemble playing down the street that others don’t know about.

You certainly can offer crowdsourced vs curated content, but if all you ever offer is curated then you can only scale so much.
there is no "spiral of a light wave" lol. If anything, I'd think of transversal movement. Ironically I cannot say that nobody has ever seen a photon. But nobody has ever seen an electron. There could be a model in which electrons move transversal (at mm/s), mediated by photons, but I have not looked that closely into it. It's not part of the usual theories.

if you attach a pen to a hoop and move the hoop along a wall, you do not get a wave, you get (edit: what looks like but isn't) sharp discontinuity where the pen touches the ground (https://google.com/search?q=cos%28x-sin%28x%29%29)
E.g. see structuring, and the law related to

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Structuring

Perfectly legal activities. Illegal as hell when performed with intent to evade reporting.
From what I understand it, it doesn’t mean you acknowledge that the entire bill is for the correct amount. Also if you know you’re going to have to pay at least $5 out of pocket anyway you’re not really losing money. But again IANAL I’m just parroting advice I read on Reddit one time
> MoviePass t-shirt [ .. ] wear it tomorrow.

Hah, I did this with my Amiga t-shirt the day Commodore went bankrupt. (Except for the part about buying the shirt it in anticipation of bankruptcy.)
Insurance companies negotiate a lot of this stuff away. The poster needs to call them first, see if they can arrange a $5 payment without addition interest while the itemized bill comes in (honestly, there is legal ground here for not even being willing to honor any of the bill with itemization).

Get on the phone, try to keep cool, but realize you're probably going to yell at some poor customer service rep at some point. Apologize, keep going and get the full bill before you agree to pay anything. Then you gotta do the same thing with the full bill on ever bullshit charge, over and over again.

Honestly, how the fuck can they admit you and treat you and then bill you without telling you what the prices are up front? That's fucking madness right there. Imagine having to agree to having car or bicycle service without an estimate? Imagine the total cost being $2000 over the estimate? Would people pay? Of course not; it's worth it at that point to call a lawyer.
Myth II was my favorite game of the era. There were also a number of community created scenarios created for it. Highly recommended if you can get you hands on a CD for it. Not sure how well it still runs (or not) under Windows but it still runs great on Linux under Wine.

It lives on as Project Magma (http://projectmagma.net/) but the scenarios that shipped with Myth II are what made the game for me.
When my wife was 25 weeks pregnant she started feeling ill and we noticed her blood pressure kept going up. We went to the hospital. Turns out she was pretty sick she so they made her stay for 4 days.

A few weeks later we had our son’s ashes and a $148,000 bill.
Federal law means your insurance has to pay for emergency room care. They do like to try to weasel out of it by saying you actually have a true emergency though. You can push back and get your state insurance regulator involved.
The guy is explaining to us poor fuckers how we should turn off the faucet while brushing our teeth, yet travels the world 24/7 between his private jet and his SUV?
Sure, sounds totally honest and convincing.
You can add many learned things, like driving, riding a horse, playing the piano, and attacking math problems under time pressure to the sort that apparently involve parallel processing.