skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Importantly we need to understand that we can't require first to have that agreement and only after that start addressing the problem itself. Just like with space exploration, where we can't postpone it till there will be no hunger on Earth, we can't postpone acting on climate crisis until we agree on how to act.

We have to act without full agreement.
Opening price is different from the IPO strike price. Institutional investors and rich folks already bought those shares before they rang the bell for the market.
I bought theranos.online last year for basically this purpose. It sits unused but I want to either have a fuckedcompany 2.0 type of thing or just sell assorted fucked company adjacent shirts.
Doctors have been and should be prosecuted.
Well, that's my own little dealio where I make/sell electronics kits and resell used equipment. That's not involved in AR at all and it's just a little side-thing I do.

I have a separate full time job and I'm not totally comfortable with sharing who I work for, my apologies.
If I had multiple billions of dollars in one country like the Sacklers, I certainly would move a few billion out of that country to shield against country risk. Yes, the US is one of the safest places to have assets, but it's also got a runaway spending habit. Moving less than 10% out just to shield you from the off chance that the US does something that hurts your wealth is just common sense.

As someone pointed out elsewhere, a lot of this money was moved out almost a decade ago, well before there was the possibility of huge civil judgements.
Prison is for serfs and peasants. Lords pay fines to the sovereign. Why be wealthy if you can't buy justice as a product?
The is the flip side of the green revolution, which basically bred plants to grow big and fast if you dump a lot of fertilizer made from fossil fuels on them. More carbs and less of everything else. I know people love Norman Borlaug but not everything is as nice as you’d like it to be.
And the AMA? The FDA?

Should doctors not be allowed to prescribe OxyContin?

Very weird to me that the focus is on the people least responsible. Doctors, FDA, AMA all have to approve the prescription of OxyContin. The whole point of the FDA is to evaluate drugs using science instead of marketing.

If one accepts that Purdue is the party most responsible for the opioid crisis then one must consider doctors, the AMA, and the FDA all incompetent idiots, right?
Once, on a hiring committee, someone said their definition of a "decent [American] college" was "You've heard of their football team".

I suspect that's a pretty prevalent opinion, wrong as it may be.
Why is manipulating users OK for profit but manipulating votes for power isn't?
How, or why, do you distinguish a difference between goose-stepping your users into providing their email address vs manipulating mass opinion?

Smaller scale same result - the instigator gets what they want.
I met a potato farmer whose primary crop is for a large chain supermarket. He produces almost double his required yield, doesn't use fertilizer nor pesticides... and has been so for a decade. To use his words: he's a potato farmer, but spends most of his time preparing the soil for the next year. He's right into cover crops (ie not leaving the soil exposed), and several 'rotational' crops that assist in root and nutrient management, as well as pesticide control (yes, plants to control pests). These rotational crops are generally 'terminated' early by finely mulching them back into the earth while simultaneously seeding the next preparatory crop. His biggest expense, fuel, is reduced with a smaller tractor, which also assists in minimising soil compaction.
Sorry, I'm not comfortable with sharing that. I'll just say that it's a company that manufactures high-end industrial converting equipment.
So what are you supposed to do in the US if you agree that climate change is a problem? The democratic party is not interested in solving it in the time-frame required (i.e. anti-nuclear) and the republican party might be okay with nuclear but isn't really that interested in solving the issue.

Which party do you try to participate in to affect change? Both have effectively given up on evidence-based policies.
Purdue knowed about the drug was highly addictive in 2003. The raw components in Oxycontin were known to be highly addictive before the drug hit the market. Oxycontin was supposed to "solve" the addiction problem, thus it got special drug labeling saying it was less addictive than other drugs of its class.

They had data that it did not solve the problem but they massaged the data, and hid the data that showed it was addictive, and then later hid the data that after the drug was on the market of the ways it was being abused.

Misleading Doctors and the FDA since 1996

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/29/health/purdue-opioids-oxy...
> You argue that this it is childish for us to force the issue.

No, I don't argue that at all. I argue that it's childish to say China is forcing us to do this.

I also said it's foolish to only look at the cost of continuing to subsidize Chinese imports, and not ALSO look at the cost of leaving the global postal union. Your post shows that you continue to only look at the former costs, and have yet to even acknowledge that the latter has cost.

Incidentally, looking at ALL the possible outcomes to choose your action is exactly what game theory about, so don't cite game theory as if it proves your point when in fact you're refusing to actually use game theory.
Yeah it's nuts.

Someone I know sprained their ankle. They recommended that he should use a cane for a while and said they had one to give him. When the bill came weeks later it was $200 for the cane that looked really close to what you can get for $20 at Walmart.

The really messed up thing is I drove him to the doctor and I carried some of the paperwork out (wasn't the bill) so he could use both hands to move around safely. When I was outside I held the piece of paper up and a gust of wind bent the paper in such a way that I ended up with a really nasty paper cut. Like a 2 inch slice on the inside of my finger. One of the worst paper cuts I've ever gotten.

So I went back into the medical center and I asked them if I could get a band-aid. They asked why, so I explained. I got a few smirks from them (they borderline laughed in my face) and they told me that they weren't allowed to give away medical supplies and that I should go a few blocks away to a CVS (a local drug store). Meanwhile just to be insured costs $450 / month for the bare minimum (which I don't pay for but I've payed many thousands in fines for not having insurance).
Let me see here what you are saying:

Poor non-HN people, we don't care about those at all? They can die?

If we get widespread war over resources, 5% penalty on anything is not going to suffice. A limited nuclear exchange between Pakistan and India is going to cause corn crops to fail in the US. (Where average HN-ers live, if you care only about your own in-group.)

I didn't mean new diseases. I meant old diseases. If you have no electricity in a big city for an extended time, you will be in for a wild ride.

(The last point I don't care much about, it's not very important. But I think if civilisation died, it would have a huge amount of knowledge and technology for new generations to come to jumpstart from, compared to those generations who had to discover everything for themselves.)
Who or what define "Wrongthink" ?
I've heard the RTS genre described as three sliders.

1. Amount of control over units

2. Amount of control over a hero

3. Amount of control over building infrastructure

By that definition, RTS is still alive and well. It's just that the particular position of those sliders has changed over time. We have MOBAs which set all the sliders to zero except the hero one. Mobile games like Clash of Clans and Clash Royale provide two more popular configurations.

As for what happened to the classic RTS config many grew up with in the 90s and oughties? My best guess is snuffed out by shifts in game dev economics. AAA single player games only work on consoles (where the controller never played well with RTS) and the near-requirement for every PC multiplayer game to present as an esport raises the buy-in too high
Yes, she's a child of 16. Whether her parents supported her early solo protest I do not know. Yet it seems to be clearly important to her, as it continued and grew. So her parents choose to support her - so what? I would sincerely hope that I would have fully supported my kids at that age, had there been an issue they felt quite as passionately for at 16.

She's clearly entitled to express an opinion, and old enough to form them. I had political and plenty of other opinions at 16, and I'm sure you did. You probably still feel the same on some. All political parties have youth branches that are freely permitted without global cries of indoctrination! Though some may verge into indoctrination. Climate's an issue that will clearly affect a youngster's future more than yours or mine - I'm past half way in my life, they have 60+ years ahead. My kids see the climate response in far starker terms than most adults, though they're a little older.

If she were mere puppet or pawn, I'm pretty sure the resentment, insincerity and unwillingness would be clear and bloody obvious.

Being young doesn't discount you from having a opinion, or wanting to change something. So is it discounting the opinion simply because she has proven somewhat successful? It certainly seems that way in many of the media attacks she's received - and brushed off. There was a coal or oil trade body that recently put out a wonderful statement something along the lines of seeing her as one of their biggest threats. Great reason to keep on doing what she is doing then, no? Doubly so if politicians are actually bloody listening.

That some sections of the media paint her as $deity and others as $anti-deity is absurd and wrong.

On mention of autistic, I'm at a loss. She's described as autistic as it's an accepted term for someone on the autism spectrum in Europe. My friend with an autistic child would, and has, called them autistic when the need arises. Why is that a problem? How would someone with autism be properly referred to in the US? How is it inappropriate? She's certainly freely mentioned it in interview in the past. Some sections of the media have tried to use it as a means of personal attack, but surely better to acknowledge her situation than try to hide it?

OK, so you think we should not travel at all if we have an opinion on fixing emissions. That rules out all of us. That seems far too convenient to one side of the argument though. I couldn't go to a demonstration without travelling. So sign an online petition instead or throw up another blog I guess. That doesn't get to influence decision makers though.

We all get to make trade-offs within the globalised system we have right now. Whilst agitating and striving to improve it with the least impact practicable on whatever issue we find important.
It ain't. And likewise, it ain't the app's fault that it's currently useless to the overwhelmingly-vast majority of people in the US. But that's how things go, of course: start in the big cities, then branch out to more and more as the idea catches on.

Also, I'd hardly call Sacramento "the middle of nowhere", what with the million+ people in and around it. Nor would I call any other 1m+ population metropolitan area such.

But what do I know? I'm just some hick who grew up in "the middle of nowhere".
Yes, YC is specifically requesting for startups who can make cheaper pharmaceuticals: https://www.ycombinator.com/rfs/
> Wanna copy a git url from Github to your terminal? NOPE.

But it works for me... I selected the the git URL, and then used the middle button to paste it into my terminal (xterm). It works. OK, I can see why auto-selection may be an issue, but it works after the second time (i.e. after you selected it yourself). It would be better if there was no auto-selection upon left clicking, but it is not that much of an issue. In fact, if I left click on the git URL which makes the entire URL selected, I can press Ctrl-C and then use the middle click to paste it into my terminal, no extra step required, so auto-selection is not an issue in this case. shrugs.
My favorite intro CS books. Where do I apply?
I passed N3 level of Japanese Language Proficiency Test (JLPT). Whole life I have been doing mostly technical and engineering work, even hobbies and side interests were mostly technical-oriented.

I would never have imagined to pick up another spoken language to learn. I am enjoying the process of language learning though sometime struggle with it. Even wife has been surprised how seriously I have taken to learning Japanese. The only drawback is that I haven't done anything technology related for a while.
Yeah, our customers find great value in it. It's very nice for our support folks to be able to draw on something and say "try adjusting this control" and things of that nature.
> This is plainly contradicted

No, it's not. Only 14 minutes elapsed between me pointing out that ads made it possible and you pretending that never happened. Is that a new gaslighting record?

> It’s only with the undermining of subscription revenue

That's the world we live in, and will live in for the foreseeable future, so my original questions still stand untouched by your diversions.
The New York Times Has Abandoned Liberalism for Activism
S3 support's free. It definitely works well enough.
That’s a common but false talking point. Hospitals with above average Medicare patients generally get paid more than the general population. It’s also a question of what percentage of a nominal bill gets paid vs sent to collections.
No kidding. In my experience even the most aboveboard DME vendors very aggressively push replacement of consumable components/supplies on the absolute minimum schedule allowed by insurance. They make a performance of confirming that you're ordering things that actually need to be replaced, but it's blatantly obvious (even to me, a person who largely sucks at reading social cues and verbal subtext) that the rep is just reading it off of a script to cover the company's ass.
This is an old argument. In the engineering world, it's been long known as SPOF (single point of failure). SPOF exists in many forms. It can be a physical part but can be protocols or people's beliefs. Google is kind of a SPOF for many people as well as your ISP. A media is a SPOF in many political systems. Some countries have only one national assembly, which is a SPOF too. I would call Euro (currency) a kind of SPOF, but people might disagree, etc. etc.

It's an engineer's job to reduce SPOFs when it comes to engineering, but people in other fields are doing it too. It's just not called SPOF but crafting those systems should be equally respected as engineering.
The paper describes an online one-pass algorithm for which this is not true: as you get each input value you accept or reject it. So you only need O(1) space to store the number of values you've seen, the number remaining, and the number you still need to accept.
Can't believe no one has mentioned Factorio. Programmer crack.
"If she were having sex with all these adults, everyone would call that statutory rape"

Mhm, maybe, but not in native Sweden.
Given that it's a common misconception, would you supply some evidence for your position?
This really isn't a hard concept.

OxyContin is a perfectly legitimate drug and it is reasonable for the FDA and AMA to sign off on its use. What isn't legitimate is doctors and pharmacists prescribing the drug over and over again when there was no reason to.
And Notre Dame is neither northeastern nor urban.
How does obesity prove your point? It's possible (and indeed common) to be overweight and malnourished at the same time. Also, the mass starvation events that I am aware of are actually human-created (results of egregious public policy or breakdown of normal sociopolitical conditions), not caused by traditional food technologies. This is why, for instance, we've seen so much famine in the last couple of centuries. See the case of British-Raj India, for example: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Famine_in_India
Those are some of the things I love about Norway. The culture and people seem much more practical, on many levels.

As a Texan with family in Norway, I’ve often admired Norwegian culture... Everything is just so koselig, you know?
Please stop this. You're just buying into the false narrative, pushed specifically by media companies, that "you can't disengage". This specifically serves their purpose of creating content for the sake of conflict, in order to make money off your attention.

You can disengage. In fact, I highly encourage it, and one's mental health greatly benefits from it. You're not more "enlightened" or "wise" if you follow along the twists and turns of every silly development, most of which can ultimately turn out to have no impact on daily life. Forest for the trees and all that.

Trust the system you live in, and for most HN readers, from developed western economies, things will self-correct. If you have specific ideas and a platform that you feel isn't represented, jump into the political arena yourself, it's certainly your right. But please don't force the rest of us to tag along.
> I usually have a word to describe people who tend to think along these lines: young.

"Ask the young. They know everything."
Most TOSes and privacy policies require a post-graduate level of education and several hours to properly understand - and that's for just one of the many services we interact with daily. I don't think it's reasonable to put that on the consumer.
Yeah, but when you pay for services you don't expect to have to write checks for every subcontractor your service provider users. They do that. You pay them. Everywhere but our messed up Medical System is like that.

Imagine if every time you went grocery shopping you had to pay for the people stocking the shelves, putting the carts back if you used one, the cashier, and each wholesale distributor. It's crazy and senseless. Just the way they like it so they can get away with so much more.
> Only 14 minutes elapsed between me pointing out that ads made it possible and you pretending that never happened.

I’m not “pretending it didn’t happen” Literally what I wrote is “If, on the other hand, the organization is supported by a robust mix of sales and advertising”. It’s you who has constructed a ridiculous false dichotomy in which people who are calling for a return of subscriptions must somehow oppose the presence of advertising to supplement sales, an argument neither I nor the person you originally responded to made.

The history here is quite clear: Sales allowed organizations to sell advertising space while also maintaining enough editorial independence to please subscribers and deliver high quality journalism. “Free news”, solely supported by advertising, is a toxic mess where editorial firewalls are routinely nonexistent.
Request for Comments on Patenting Artificial Intelligence Inventions
I was thinking, what is the smallest number not found in any sequence on https://oeis.org/?
Guess you could replace ; with && for many of them. More typing though.
Sometimes when I'm meditating I experience a mini ego-loss. I come out of it feeling like I'm merely a collection of running processes over which I have little to no control. I feel like I get a brief glimpse of 'multithreads,' and it's somewhat emotionally unpleasant.
> Profitability isn't the end-all metric for a company. Amazon famously circles around the profitable/not-profitable line frequently and few people have doubts about Amazon's viability as a company.

This is basically accounting fiction. Amazon is profitable; they just reinvest their profits so aggressively that they’re writing off tomorrow’s expenses against today’s revenues.
Resigning to work in another cattle-pen, or none at all (not working), isn't much choice.

(There are a few who have the option of remote work. It's a very few.)
Hammurabi’s code [1]. “For example, if a doctor killed a rich patient, he would have his hands cut off, but if he killed a slave, only financial restitution was required“

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code_of_Hammurabi
Oh nice thanks
It's a pity to see the downvotes you're getting for a very reasonable comment. This is exactly the problem with the original parent comment, "you're with us or against us". Zealotry for political issues is still zealotry, and has no place in a civil society. It's a shame if the HN zeitgeist has really turned into that.
I agree but isn't that why it's called a bypass.
Doesn't fraudulent conveyance only apply if there are creditors to the debtors.

In this situation, who is the creditor that was defrauded by the conveyances in question at the time of conveyance?
Whoever gets to define what the "right" or "authoritative" answers are.
OK, of the criticisms of Vulkan I've heard, "it doesn't have a function for display text" is the weirdest one. I would be upset if Khronos did include a function for displaying text, because it would invariably be broken in numerous ways.
A good video on writing that talks about similar ideas is https://youtu.be/vtIzMaLkCaM

This video is geared more towards academic writing, but, I've found it helpful even outside of that space.
No one cares the graph has no labels, or is this the state of food science.... All the minerals went down at exactly the same rates huh?

FYI the * means unverified.

The original article is not g eat but does bring up an interesting point on magnesium.
We're in the second inning actually, not at the beginning.

It started with the post great recession, Occupy Wall Street movement. That was the first major populist movement in the US in the 21st century. Even though that largely failed to result in anything draconian (fortunately), the US banking system was brought under far stricter control. The Fed with the Treasury is capable of dictating almost everything about the businesses of the large financial institutions. Today the US financial system is by far the strongest and safest financial system of any major economy. It's due in part to that populist response after the crash.

Trump's election was in fact also a massive populist backlash, against electing more of the same political dynasties (Clinton / Bush) that had come to rule the US. Trump defeated powerful, massively well-funded representatives of both entrenched dynasties to win the Presidency (which tells you just how dramatically voters were willing to reject a continuation of the old). Trump is the first populist President that the US has had in a century. Nearly every organization and individual that was part of the entrenched establishment was against Trump and he won regardless. And no matter what people think of Trump, his election will represent a permanent split with the past when it comes to the US political system. Things will never be the same, to put it mildly. AOC, as one example, is in Congress solely due to this cultural shift, new outcomes are possible (variations of Democratic Socialists were exceptionally rare in the past; they won't be rare in the near future). Obama was also partially responsible for and representative of this process that is underway; it's no coincidence he won immediately following the great recession crash, as the backlash and desire for a different direction is part of what made him possible (Hillary Clinton or McCain win that election otherwise).
I switch from Dropbox to OneDrive for this very reason. OneDrive works fine for me (it even works better for photo and video sharing) and for the same price as DropBox I also get 1TB, Office365 online, for the iOS and Android and two desktop install licenses. And an outlook.com account. Terrific deal.