skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Regulation can be both beneficial and serve as a barrier to entry that protects the incumbents. In fact, that's probably the common case. It's worth recognizing that there are these two competing interests, that every regulation bears this hidden cost, and that the benefit had better be enough to justify that cost. I think often this is not true. Regulations could often be much less burdensome while still achieving most of the benefits.
Finally being seen for the jackass that he is.
That's exactly my point. Regime didn't care about science, it cared about using it to further its goals. That's why for example medicine was so abysmal there. Its own population was very low priority.
Nobody is going to regularly let you have 45 terabytes of data for free. It's swamping them, especially relative to other users.
Is anyone else baffled by the idea that discussing something on an intellectual level, even related to a person, has to somehow be a 'defense' or an 'offense'?

I've spent basically my entire life discussing things in the abstract. I'm not a politician, I don't make laws, and frankly I wouldn't want that power.

To me it makes absolute sense that someone would attempt to "defend" even the most heinous person. It's weird to me that being considered a "defender of X" could even be a bad thing. That's the process by which we collectively make decisions, it's the basis behind stuff like fair trials for example; the lawyer acting for a defendant is not a bad person. It's what (rational) individuals do when they make decisions - even some of the most obviously correct ones - take the opposing side and see where it leads.

It doesn't seem to be limited to this case - I don't know if it's a recent thing, having mostly come of age post-Internet. It's just like, really weird. Amongst my real-life friendship groups this sort of "hate mob" type stuff just doesn't exist, pretty much any topic is up for grabs.
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Australian density is significantly less than Asia. In China FWIW on typical mobile devices I often observe connectivity issues with planes landing, trains moving and so forth. Especially near borders (HK/Macau).
What would that look like though? If consumers wanted to go to 20 different stores to shop online, they'd already be doing that.
It doesn't matter, the person or company publishing the work is ultimately liable for any infringement. If the company lost a lawsuit for infringement they may be able to pursue whoever they licensed the images from
If you host large, publicly available data in a cloud blob service, but you don't have a budget for it, one option is to use the "Requester Pays" feature that Amazon and Google provide. This makes the data available to anyone to download, but they need to pay the download cost themselves.

This is at the tradeoff of making your data significantly more irritating to access, as it's no longer just plugging in a URL into a program, plus everyone who wants your dataset needs to set up a billing account with Amazon or Google.
Next Softbank is going to sue the hell out of Neumann for the $700MM and more for misrepresenting in many levels. Definitely does not look good for WeWork. One huge class action lawsuit and WeWork will heads towards Chapter 11.
Although this resignation was absolutely necessary, I wish outlets like The Daily Beast and Vice would stop misconstruing Stallman's email. He said that Epstein's victim likely presented herself to Minsky as willing under Epstein's direction, not that she actually was willing. This is still an unconscionable "defense" on Stallman's part (and only one link in a long chain of dubious statements and behavior w.r.t. these issues on his part), but the misquotes just become grist for his defenders who want to portray him as a victim of an unjustified witch hunt.
It depends where you are. I just did a speed test in the suburbs on a Telstra reseller and got 118MBit, which IME is par for the course around Perth and suburbs.

That speed is just double the maximum line speed of my FTTN NBN connection at the same property (but I keep it anyway as household data usage on 4G is uneconomical).
I wonder how much of this is due to Scott Galloway. He's been brutal on We Company and Adam Neumann for weeks now.
Let sleeping dogs lie, is my advice here.
Apple has a /8 of IPv4 space (plus a couple other small allocations: https://whois.arin.net/rest/org/APPLEC-1-Z/nets ), which contains 16777216 addresses: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_assigned_/8_IPv4_addre...
i can tip if i want to keep congress out of it
Why does it not adress it? It is also about changing the mindset of people. Make it easier -> make it more common to voluntarily pay for thing you value -> more projects are financed that way -> more people see it is a way to make a living -> better content -> more people willing to pay, especially seeing the difference to normal ad madness
So why is this so groundbreaking? At most, I'd expect it to be an interesting anecdote.
North Carolinian here. SC peaches are superior to GA peaches.
It seems like a good chunk of money to help startups get started?

If a payment system can't make money or raise more funds, they're probably not getting anywhere.
Can you explain what a named pipe .plan would do?

In college, if you would finger me, you would see an ASCII-art animation of the iconic motorcycle jump shot from Terminator 2 for 10 seconds.
Prob not using 5Gs fastest modes
I recently had a bad reaction to a (non-narcotic) prescribed drug, and it got me thinking about how we could improve use of pharmaceuticals.

1. We don't measure the patients metabolism of a drug at all. Individuals bodies process drugs differently and have different side effects. It seems that differences in reactions could be related to different metabolic pathways being used, resulting in more or less toxic byproducts. Could a urine or blood test a few hours after the first dose be an effective mechanism for screening for likelihood of side effects based on the metabolic byproducts detected? Could this test be effective at detecting these byproducts at dosages below what would cause side effects? Could this be incorporated into a "home drug test" style urine dip that patient could do themselves at home without returning to doc?

2. Dosage is too one-size-fits-all. AFAICT, the drug I was given is usually prescribed at the same dose to slightly-underweight me as they would a larger patient double my weight. For these fixed-dosage drugs, it seems like lower-weight patients will have higher risk of side effects and higher-weight patients will have higher risk of dosing at sub-therapeutic levels.

3. Drug half-life is assumed to be nearly constant across the population. Even more than dosage, many drugs have a constant X times per day, but only dosage is adjusted. For people with atypical metabolism of that drug, the effective duration could vary drastically. Patients with slow metabolisms could develop side effects at low dosages if taken over a long enough period.

I'd love to see pharma move towards a model where patients are started at a sub-therapeutic level to test for allergy, then have a urine test to screen for toxic metabolites, then pills are portioned in to small enough increments that the patient can gradually titrate up the dose: start at 1/100th a dose, if no problems go to 1/10, then 1/5, then 1/4, then 1/2, then 3/4, then full dose. If at any point the patient feels like its 'working' they pause dose increases. I really wonder if I had been on half the dosage or frequency if I would have had all of the therapeutic benefits without the gnarly side effects.
"Android seems to be designed to run in "I'm an island" mode"

Not at all, if anything it is more flexible, as it syncs cloud first, making what's on your phone accessible through a browser on any device, although with numerous sync programs available on the desktop as well. Scan docs into Google Drive (or dropbox) and the file appears in a synced folder on your laptop. Photos can drop straight into Google Photos. I use Android Messages on the web, can drop a chrome app to the Mac desktop if you want, it is seamless with the phone (and Hangouts still works too). I don't have any need for a shared clipboard, (maybe I use things like Google Keep for that?), but I know you can use pushbullet or the like.
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Yes, but apart from the camera even a $20 phone can do almost all of those functions.
Not to mention that if Cloudflare CDN was in front of it this traffic would be free.
> Basically, I have a wrapper script deploy.sh that is run on macOS:

I do the same thing on Linux.

build.sh, deploy.sh.

But, I also use a run.sh which runs tasks that I may not remember to run if I come back to software after a while on a certain machine.

Like 'git pull' or 'bundle install'. Then ./dev-setup.sh or whatever for starting up tasks.

I use multiple machines and having these two simple commands saves me so much frustration.

You sit down to began work. You just run ./run.sh and it will setup a dev instance for you. No sudden alerts that your gem is out of date... or worse... no warnings at all and hard to diagnose sudden bugs that steals half a day from you.
> I'm not completely against eventually moving in together, but am kind of unsure when or why we usually consider it to be some sort of inevitable goal of a successful relationship that is progressing.

The reason for this is that a successful relationship produces children, and you (and they!) want both parents around.
Forget micro-payments. Ban web advertising at the browser level. Create a browser that thoroughly and intentionally integrates ad blocking and has a statements of how it renders HTML with UX constraints (think Google AMP but actually good).

What happens?

Most content sources dry-up and stop. I no longer see that as a bad thing.

Out every every 100 content mills that are re-aggregating and summarizing someone else's original reporting you can wipe off 90 of them and still be fine.

Those that have a foot-hold, brand, or better reach survive through affiliate marketing (see WireCutter), donations, or subscriptions (NYT, WaPo, etc.)

I'm not saying there won't be casualties in this approach but you lose the alt-right and other reality-bending publishers pretty quickly.
I think it's got a decent chance to leapfrog VDSL for last mile in many places (as is already case with 4G in more advanced places).
That tweet will get attention! Finding the right person is everything...
As someone who has worked in the pharma industry, most doctors are very skeptical of anything a drug rep says, not in the sense that they're lying, but more that they're trying their best to make their products look good.

One shouldn't underestimate other factors in opioid prescribing: 1) the idea that pain is the "fifth sign" and should be aggressively treated and 2) that good pain control leads to positive customer experience.

It's not as simple to say "jesus those docs are stupid to believe Purdue". Some maybe are, but most probably never even saw their rep.
Coda does have "quick open," with ^Q, doesn't it?

(Ironically, as I get more deeply into Vim, I've found the :find and :buffer commands to be faster and just as useful as the CtrlP plugin, even if they're not quite as forgivingly fuzzy.)
I mean, this certainly isn't the first time that he's publicly said that he thinks "consenting pedophilia" is 100% fine, and it's not the first time that people have told him "Hey, don't say that, you're gonna get in trouble."

At a certain point it stops looking like ignorance and stubbornness and more like he's got a horse in the race.
Hey wenbin (and any others pursuing indie-hacking), I run a virtual meetup about once a month you might find fulfilling for meeting like minded people.

We just made a Twitter recently, but it has all the links: https://twitter.com/ih_worldwide
16.7 million or so.

IPv4 is a 32 bit address space, so it tops out around 4.2 billion total.

17.0.0.0/8 is locking down the first 8 bits, giving 2^(32-8) variable bits, or there are only 256 possible first octets and this is one so it’s 1/256th of 4.2 billion addresses.
Addict or pseudoaddict, the solution is the same. Give them a supervised dose as necessary and provide support and encouragement for them to stop if they wish. Anything else and the patient will turn to the black market. It's that simple. You want to stop people dying, provide them with opiates so they don't get fentanyl laced garbage from some street dealer. Anything else is, frankly, just torturing the patient, often in the name of morality when this is not at all a moral issue. One day people will realize this. Until then, addicts will die by the thousands. Some places have already realized this (Portugal, Switzerland, Vancouver BC, and even the US before the war on drugs started early last century).
This has been attempted so many times and they all end in obscurity of failure.

Might be about timing. Maybe this time it could be different.
There are 26 million software developers in the world, virtually all of them own a work or personal laptop (many both), and they have a much higher percentage of owning Macs vs the normal distribution.

Apple "only" sells 18M laptops a year. Software developers likely account for 1/4th (or more) of their MacBook sales.
2006: https://www.stallman.org/archives/2006-may-aug.html#05%20Jun...

> I am skeptical of the claim that voluntarily pedophilia harms children. The arguments that it causes harm seem to be based on cases which aren't voluntary, which are then stretched by parents who are horrified by the idea that their little baby is maturing.

2013: https://www.stallman.org/archives/2012-nov-feb.html#04_Janua...

> There is little evidence to justify the widespread assumption that willing participation in pedophilia hurts children.

Wading in with commentary on the Epstein case with those quotes on record is simply not a good look.
Uneconomical because 4G doesn't compete in price for data allowances, once you are using more than 50 GB or so per month?

At a constant 118 MBit/s I calculate that you'd go through over 50 GB per hour, so the usefulness is limited.
Pointless didactics, but latency determines who is quicker, not faster :)

Medium (wireless vs copper vs fiber) defines who is faster.
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He was dancing on a tightrope. Whether or not his statements were taken out of context requires a mind-reader to intuit what exactly he, uh, meant by them.

It's not an interesting defense, and given his prior statements on the subject of statutory rape, I'm having a hard time taking it seriously.
I am reading this and enjoying everything up to this point, so far:

“ When men desire things they are “passionate.” When they feel they have not received something they need they are “deprived,” or even “emasculated,” and given permission for all sorts of behavior. But when a woman needs she is needy.”

I’m not sure why people insist on thinking things like this. My male brain tells me I am being needy if I am wanting or desiring things, and I would assume others also see me as being needy when I am doing so. Certainly not confusing passion with need just because I am a male. Of course, people love to promote their feminism in 2019, or at least portray an appearance of doing so.
Sarah Mei and Richard Stallman appear to be attached to MIT, making them "colleagues".

Morals are rules we inherit from our parents and our society. These rules are not shared by everyone since we are all brought up by different parents and differing society influences.

Sarah appears to disagree with Richard on moral grounds. This is perfectly reasonable. It is also reasonable to quote public statements by Richard to highlight and debate why she feels that her moral rules are superior to Richard's. Every academic and every public figure can expect debate.

I take no sides in this debate. Sarah and Richard are starting from different moral rules and reaching different conclusions. Richard defended his friend and Sarah objects to his defense.

Sarah admits to never having met Richard, even though they seem to be "colleagues" at the same university.

However, Sarah publicly attacks Richard PERSONALY, an Ad Hominem attack. While it is reasonable to attack a colleagues' opinion, it is a unprofessional conduct to attack the person in public, especially without prior discussion. Her unprofessional behavior has caused a public scandal for MIT. The ad hominem attack on her twitter feed
https://twitter.com/sarahmei/status/994010501460865025?lang=... has become so vitrolic that we find this quote:

"I am increasingly convinced we just shouldn't allow men in software at all" -- Tamzin Blake

If I had created such a public storm at any job I held based on such a personal attack on a colleague, I'd be fired.

The obvious remedy for this unprofessional behavior is for MIT HR to fire Sarah.

This isn't a question about "who is right?", it is a question of professional behavior.
There you go. In general Bluetooth provides lower-quality audio. In addition, in my experience Bluetooth is pretty much always laggy, which is a problem for conference calls. Finally, I feel far more confident about the security of wired communication, and rather dubious of Bluetooth security. There are already many well-known serious Bluetooth culnerabilities, and I expect that there will be more. I keep Bluetooth off as much as I can... it's hard to exploit when it's off.
With "philosophers" like Bernard-Henri Lévy, who keeps getting invited to TV shows despite being considered a phoney by pretty much all his colleagues: yes.
> I'm not really sure what people are paying for when they get those $800+ beasts for phones

As someone with a painfully expensive phone, for me it was mostly down to the combination: 1) full radio support for us carriers (which also pulls along a decent chunk of europe gsm), 2) SD card support, 3) a headphone jack, 4) some level of waterproofing, 5) enough popularity that I expect to be able to root and install patches once it stops getting official patches. In that order.

That list narrowed me down to a very tiny selection of phones.

Edit: There are now many more options (and cheaper) than when I bought my phone. :sadface:
I have a .vimrc like this in some of my projects

set makeprg=./build.sh

set autowrite

I've found trying to figure out complicated build tools to mostly be a waste of time unless you really need them. It also encourages you to not do things that would require very costly builds.
You know he's also recanted that shit, right?

> and more like he's got a horse in the race.

Has the mob now progressed to insinuating that he's a pedophile himself? Is that what the 'horse in the race' idiom means in this context?
Everyone: the planet is on fire, can we do something about it?

Air force:
Here's one:

"I am skeptical of the claim that voluntarily pedophilia harms children. The arguments that it causes harm seem to be based on cases which aren't voluntary, which are then stretched by parents who are horrified by the idea that their little baby is maturing."
What means CSAIL exactly? What are the responsabilities or goals of this role?
What a little more computing power can do
Woah, I didn't realize ASUS made ROG branded phones. I had a ROG laptop for years that I was very happy with.
Amen to this (from a 50+ yr old).
The problem with HMD-Nokia is that most have a perma-locked bootloader. Otherwise, very nice phones.
>> As C++ Standardization accelerates, with more large features being voted in every year, we believe that accepting major features as open source contributions will be important.

Translation: we believe it will be cheaper to take changes from people working for free/on someone else's payroll than to hire more of our own developers.
Sure. He recanted those comments two days ago (after espousing them on his website at least between 2006 and 2013), and after his comments on the Epstein case started getting attention, which makes it look more like damage control than a genuine change in opinion.

https://stallman.org/archives/2019-jul-oct.html#14_September...
>Taler is a pure payment system, not a new crypto-currency. As such, it operates in a traditional banking context. In particular, this means that in order to receive funds via Taler, the merchant must have a regular bank account, and payments can be executed in ordinary currencies such as USD or EUR.

That implies high transaction costs to say the least.
Exactly. Stores like Kroger use their data, make generic versions of popular items, and sell right next to the brand at eye level.
Amazon just does it at a larger scale.
It's ironic how the author chose to omit one of the last viable smartphones with both a headphone jack and QWERTY keypad that still receives regular security updates[1], yet includes one whose headphone pinout deviates from the rest of standardized industry.

[1] https://blackberrymobile.com/us/product/blackberry-key2/
Should I focus on common or niche skills to get a job?
I can take a year off to learn new languages/skills. Will I have more success if I focus on rare languages or common ones?

I’m an American expat living in Asia. I work remotely as a web developer for an American company, but I want to quit and find a new job.

I am not the most attractive employee because I am 14 timezones from PST. Will learning a language like Elixir get me a new job faster than than a mass appeal one like Java?
Alright, we'll dehackerfy the title above. Please don't cast aspersions on your fellow users, though. hhs is a fine submitter.
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I have, with the best most charitable reading of your post, no idea what you're talking about.

Perhaps some context would be useful with regards to Stallman.

Edit: in my defence, is op defending Stallman, or Epstein? Honestly, I don't know how Epstein and Stallman are related. I don't follow Stallman's every statement he makes. I simply asked for some context and enlightenment in this headline and esotericn's comment.

edit: ok...finally some context from other commenters answering (finally) my question, which I think is this from 11th August 2019:

Jeffrey Epstein appears to have committed suicide in his cell. Or perhaps he was murdered — it is not unusual for prisoners to murder prisoners accused of sexual crimes.

Epstein was accused of trafficking: bringing people long distances on false pretenses and then pressured them into sex or prostitution. He also reportedly raped some of those people. I believe those accusations, and I think he deserved to be imprisoned.

Some of his victims were legally adult. Some were teenage minors. I don't think that makes any moral difference. I don't think rape is less wrong if the victim is over 16.

Ok maybe I'm really thick, how does this cause Stallman to resign? His language seems pretty much on par with newspaper of headlines in his "blog". I really don't have an axe to grind either way. I'm trying to get to the bottom of who said what?

Edit..again: so thanks to: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20990293 , this is the crux of the matter:

https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/6405929-091320191420...

I've not read the full thread so don't have an opinion either way. If Minsky and Stallman were good friends then I can understand Stallman coming to his defence, especially when dead people can't give an account of themselves. That said I kinda feel Stallman's dug a bit of a hole for himself, and may need a bigger shovel to get out.
That's an incredible quote and general piece of advice. It precisely articulated and idea I always found it hard to articulate. Two people could each reject an idea or advice and one would frustrate me more than another. It's because I wanted them to atleast try it on before insisting it wouldn't fit!