skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think explains a lot of the polarised reactions people have towards Perl. It's trivial to understand the difference between the scalar var $foo and the array var $foo[0] if someone explains it to you or you read it; but if you're trying to Google-as-you-go, you don't even know what to search for. Those in the former group are more likely to find Perl delightful, while to the latter it's just frustrating.
> It's distinct in how it presents it and normalizes it to children.

Bullshit. You think other cultures don't normalize violence? Please, violence has been normalized since there were people.

Certainly since we've had states, those states have had an interest in promoting the glory of fighting, indoctrinating the youth and such. The West is no outlier in this regard.
You should look at the http server benchmarks before writing this.

Hint: tokio based web servers are the fastest.
Sublime is very much alive, they had another update at the start of October. They also have a second product now, Sublime Merge.
I would hate reading that this would actually make the babies healthier for some obscure reasons that nobody had anticipated.

(This might be a writing prompt)
Yes :) I've heard of some of these mechanisms, I think they're a decent balance. All of these issues are fairly complex, it's helpful to have context.
> Linux 2000: it is very difficult to find a laptop with more than two USB ports.

Was this really a Linux problem in 2000?
This is at least a shift from your earlier position. At this rate, we might be able to take action when we have closed only half the remaining distance to the iceberg.
Two things:

1) The largest private insurers in the US cover more people than many single payer countries, like Canada for example. They don’t get better prices.

2) As someone who works in the drug industry, Trump is actually the first President in recent history that is freaking out the pharma companies. His “international price referencing” proposal is being taken very seriously as it would have very negative consequences.
...Vipin Narang, a nuclear expert and political scientist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, said removing the weapons would not be straightforward. “Extracting them under these circumstances may be incredibly risky since it would involve removing 50 nuclear weapons from the vaults, moving them on a Turkish base and flying them out of Turkish airspace,” Narang said. “They could be vulnerable to accidents, theft or attack.”

Yikes.
> monopoly concerns aside

Scaling up usually increases efficiency up to a certain point, more scale then starts decreasing it, as larger and larger bureaucracy tends to make the organization less and less able to adapt. This is one reason why monopolies in the free market, unless propped up by the government, tend to be pretty short lived.
Serverless Deployment Best Practices
I'm sure the prostitution portion of the work will still be best described as "independent contracting" and not part of the dancers' employment at the club.
I remember phone numbers and long digits of numbers by their position on a number pad. Don't know why this is easier for me, but remembering the pattern my finger would trace tapping in a sequence of digits just pops in my memory with ease. So I have to mentally retrace the pattern to figure out what the actual digits are.
Based on the description in the article: probably.

I at least believe it is plausible, though I'm not sure of the economics relating to if it would have been a good expenditure of resources.

I also get the feeling that this might be a "CompSci" style answer: the customer asked for X and Xn was proposed. In reality the customer's needs were actually Y0..Yn which would have been better served by Z. This doesn't change the fact that Xn is a good answer to the problem of X, it just wasn't really what the customer actually required.
Ask HN: How to Process Millions of SVG to PDF
We’re building an API in Django that’s responsible for converting millions of SVG images to PDF. The current implementation is slow where tens of thousands could take hours and I am wondering if you have experience with a low level library that could improve the performance
If a browser offered a user a way to edit immutable fields, or blocked users from editing mutable fields, the discussion should be "is whatever reason they're doing this for strong enough to outweigh the presumption that following the web developer's request is the right thing to do". Not "the spec prohibits it, no matter how good your reason may be".

For example, you can use the browser's devtools to edit an immutable field, because "allowing someone to develop the site" is a strong enough reason.
>why would it make sense to de-incentivize it by capping its profits

Because like most publicly traded companies all they start caring about it profit maximization over everything else.
I made a website about this! No longer available, but maybe one day...

In the mean time, I've found /r/weirdwings to satiate my "crazy airplane prototypes" addiction.
I think that what happens is that when people were wronged in the past, they don't get amnesia. They talk about it when topic becomes relevant or associated.

People have memory.

When people were wronged a lot in the past, they remember it bitterly a lot. Which again, makes them even more likely to recall it and talk about it when those who wronged them are talked about and suddenly not untouchable.
That's a frustrating article.

Figure 1 shows that recent neuro/psychatric drugs don't have dramatic effects. That's true--but it's not for want of trying. People have been bashing their heads against the brain for decades, but it turns out to be a really hard problem. Biogen lost $18B of market cap on its aducanumab trials early this year. Eli Lilly, AstraZeneca, Roche, Pfizer, Merck, and Johnson & Johnson have all also had big Alzheimer's trials go sideways. I'm not sure that throwing more money at the same amyloid hypothesis will help. Maybe share buybacks—which get taxed and thereby fund the NIH--might not be the worst idea.

The paper also complains about expensive drugs and me-too drugs. The initial HepC drugs were crazy expensive (nearly six figures), but produced quick cures in virtually all of the patients. This was still a massive win over slow, ineffective treatments that still ended with liver cirrhosis/ cancer/transplants for half of the patients. The subsequent "me- too" drugs, which mostly target the same pathway, don't work appreciably better (hard to demonstrate improvement vs a 95%+ cure rate) but have driven the price down by tens of thousands of dollars.
Facebook's Libra loses support as major companies pull out
Sorry for the slow reply. My friend sometimes publishes alone and sometimes in concert with researchers from other disciplines; My understanding is that the research team has fairly wide latitude compared to people working in academe, but I don't know their publication history/process in detail.
> If the government can efficiently run an industry as complicated as drug development, shouldn’t it be able to efficiently run every other industry as well? If you could squeeze out Facebook’s 30% profit margins by nationalizing the web tech industry, without any adverse consequences, I fail to see why you wouldn’t do so.

I think the answer lies outside the realm of the economy. Many people seek meaning and purpose in their lives and jobs, and for instance many universities in the world are essentially state-run. You can't really ignore the effectiveness of this arrangement.

I think the same would hold for medical/pharmaceutical institutes, whereas something like Facebook would, in this light, be a totally different thing.
In other words, journals try to predict the future (impact) while the Nobel committee looks at the past (impact).
More specifically, journals like significant advances in known fields (eg, doubling the efficiency of solar panels), while the Nobel committee likes research that opens up a new field (eg, looking for exo planets).

In that light, maybe it's more surprising to see a Nobel-awarded piece of research was published in Nature than to see it was rejected by Nature.
They are raising prices because, uh, wait...what was supposed to stop them from raising prices, again? Oh, that's right. "Nothing".

There's nothing broken here, because there's nothing present to discourage them from raising prices in the first place. No market mechanism, and also no regulatory mechanism. They raise prices because...they can.
What are the different ways in easily subverting people versus machines?
Great Article!

Reading it reminded me (at least to the best of my knowledge at this point in time!) that THERE ARE NO OPEN HARDWARE CD/DVD PLAYERS.

I think some person or people should attempt a completely open hardware CD and/or DVD and/or Blu-Ray player...

I'd be happy with just a completely open hardware CD player...
The problem is that impossible seeming results tend to get rejected out of hand no matter how carefully they were done, or how easy to replicate.

This is an extreme example of that, and should stand as a cautionary tale that data should be believed especially when it is in conflict with theory. Rather than being rejected and ignored.
Wait you are accusing me of trolling? That's offensive. I'm offended.
Miele vacuum cleaners. I got one for my mom. It's so good it brings a tear to my eye.
>It's assumed the current level of safety takes into consideration existing market signals and the economic trade-off of diminishing returns.

Considering the current pharma market and everyone's assumption it's distorted I think this needs a pretty airtight defense. Everyone is aware of the tradeoff, but countries like India, where drugs are easier to bring to market and more drugs are available OTC, has great healthcare outcomes for its poorest citizens.
I on the other hand would be quite smug.
> * No way to adjust mouse scroll speed; official answer seems to be "don't want that". (Or install imwheel and change your mouse scroll to be equal to hitting the down button (!) which breaks other stuff)

Oh yeah, that! Lost another five-ish hours to that, and eventually just decided to live with crappy scrolling.
It needs some tweaking to work now, but here is what I was using (in Python):

https://gist.github.com/danielatdattrixdotcom/bd6a05e3d8c499...

Executed via cron every day at a time before I would make a potential grocery run meant the coupons were already waiting on my account when I went to the store.
Microsoft and NIST partner to create enterprise patching guide
Besides some self-hosted applications, this is some stuff that is very useful to me:

* Nextcloud - your own Dropbox! Amazing stuff.

* VPN - simple Docker service that is super reliable and easy to set up (docker-ipsec-vpn-server)

* Ghost - a very nice lean and mean blogging CMS

* MQTT broker for temperature sensors

* Samba server

* Deluge - Torrent client for local use

* Sabnzbd - NZB client

* Gitea - my own Git server

* Mail forwarder - very handy if you just want to be able to receive email on certain addresses without setting up a mailbox

* Pihole - DNS ad-blocking

* Jellyfin - self-hosted Netflix

It's become sort of my hobby to self-host these kind of things. I use all of these services almost daily and it's very rewarding to be able to fully self-host it. I also really love Docker, self-hosting truly entered a new era thanks to readily avaibable Docker images that make it very easy to experiment and run things in production without having to worry about breaking stuff.
Anonymized DNS over DNSCrypt
The article mentions the Norway bridge. But says it was ‘inspired’, whereas this one is a 1:500 scale model of the original design
I don't understand the point you're making here. You initially said that Linux being arduous is an outdated trope and then admitted that the only people you see using Linux are software engineers and that non-technical users can't even comprehend the install. Who is Linux non-arduous for, then, except technical users and software engineers? Was your argument meant to apply to only the technical users because that wasn't clear, if that's the case.
Sounds a bit like modern-day Reddit.
This won't change men one bit
I worked at Genentech when it was purchased by Roche. We frequently had Roche execs visit to understand "what it was you crazy californians are doing that makes Genentech our most profitable investment."

One exec said the right way to think about Swiss pharma like Roche is that they aren't in the pharma business, they are wealthy families who invest in pharma because it's a consistently profitable sector.

If you look, all the pharmas in CH are basically co-owned by each other.
> It doesn't matter

So you don't know. I'll help. The money is invested. Even money in a bank account gets invested, as that's what banks do with deposits - they loan the money out to people who spend it.

The only idle cash would be the reserve requirement put on the banks by the government.

Wealthy people tend to be good with managing their money, which means they "put it to work", i.e. invest it in economically productive endeavors, which is how it grows.
Have you attempted to find it via Wayback Machine (Archive.org)?
> Bullshit. You think other cultures don't normalize violence? Please, violence has been normalized since there were people.

Really? Are you American? Are you aware about how much of the entertainment you consumed as a child is forbidden for children in other countries? Specifically because of violence?

If not, you should consider investigating.
Of course you can be a separatist in Spain and be vocal about it. That will not land you in jail.

What you can't do is misuse public funds and census data to organize an illegal election.

You want to secede? No problem, but you must abide by the existing laws, or face the consequences.

In practice, the first thing they needed to do was ammend the Constitution, which, like in most democracies, requires a supermajority in the parliament and the senate. It's not that hard, there was an ammend a few years ago.
That might affect your health.
> There is currently an ongoing discussion within a W3C Device and Sensors Working Group whether to allow websites access the light sensor without requiring the user’s permission.

Why is this even a thing?

Just make this the same as location or microphone prompts?
I never understood the fear of being transparent or give choice to users.

I hope at least firefox has a setting to permanently disable this feature.
Many companies use benefits like profit sharing, child care, tuition assistance, and gym memberships to both reduce their tax burden and attract top talent. I suspect the clubs will follow suit.
If these places weren't filing 1099s before now, I highly doubt many of these workers were meeting tax obligations.
Wouldn't work as the links are already on the same page. It's just shifting through different links and styling them differently.
Isn't that the equivalent of blaming the first single celled organism that evolved rudimentary flagellum for, as an example, our current climate crisis?
Depends entirely on your setup but this work seems a good fit for a job queue where you can spread the work over multiple machines and processes.

I believe celery has integrations for Django.
To me, the main point of marriage in the present day is to have all your friends and family sign off on your mutual declaration, “This person is now the most important person in my life.” Your parents, best friends, siblings no longer have any standing to complain when you favor your spouse over themselves. More even than the legal differences, I think that’s really the purpose of marriage, and the ceremony itself is a reflection of that reality.
Clicked hoping it was 0F.
They don't get better prices because they are operating in a system where access to key drugs is a key differentiator. Penny pinching on access drugs (as does NICE in the UK on behalf of the NHS) wouldn't be a good look for an insurance company as they pitch for your business. The only way negotiations with Pharma companies will work is is you actually refuse to pay over-inflated prices, again as-does NICE. And the only way this can be justified is to have a centrally mandated $ per unit 'utility' (aka QALY) beyond which you won't pay.

Private insurers aren't motivated to do any of this because high drug prices don't hurt their bottom line.
That doesn’t work because the original pill is itself prior art to every patent as of the date it’s released. So you either claim priority to the first batch of patents, or your later patent is defeated by your own prior art. Same thing with changing the dosage. Even if you can show a new discovery that wasn’t obvious from the original patent, that doesn’t prevent anyone from making a pill with the original dosage.

The way this works in practice is that there is a stream of patents on incremental improvements. Doctors continue to prescribe the branded, patented drug (because they have no reason not to) even though the original drug was fine.

Insulin is like this. If there was a substantial market for the 1923 bovine insulin produced by Eli Lilly, it would be cheap. Instead, insurance is willing to cover the high prices of newer, incrementally better versions. Leaving a relatively small market for a worse, but patent free version.
I remember Bolt.com from the late 90s. It was quite literally 10 years ahead of its time. Think Facebook with a before Facebook. User profiles, chat rooms, "blog" spaces, friending.

I spent hours late into the early morning on it. I don't do that any more, be it from age or what online alternatives are currently available, but Bolt has a place in heart and mind for me.
if you're in the US, doctors can do this. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Off-label_use

What's preventing them? Safety, efficacy, and fear of litigation.
> More confusing is that a situation with such an obvious defense is what has triggered this instead of the mountain of other issues.

Abuse of state apparatus for partisan political purposes has been a major tripwire in modern US politics. It was a central reason in why Watergate became an an issue of impeachment (though resignation stopped the impeachment from preceding), and also why a number of other post-Nixon reforms, including FISA (the criminal limits on domestic surveillance, not the weakening of them that some people now associate the name with in the post-9/11 FISA Amendments Act), were adopted.

The fact that there is an obvious defense which, if true, would justify the conduct does not mean that the defense seems likely to be true and the conduct thereby justified.
Right, for those who never used Friendster, you could only see friends-of-friends (to a certain degree of separation). So people would friend the profiles of bars and etc to see more people.
Google Cache, since jwz is re-directing that link, now. :-)

https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:G9nZNd...
> As a hardcore book lover, I have the deepest hatred for all lists of books. They are pretentious wastes of time

How do you keep track of the books you want to read?

There are many books I've heard of, and heard people recommend, that I would really like to read. The only way I can keep track of them is by noting them down in lists.
Conflict and violence are distinct things. I'm arguing that specifically realistic PvP violence is a regrettable focus of modern competitive gaming, and it didn't used to be that way.
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That is supposedly one of the keys to the Success of Team Sky in cycling, but cycling also has a long, long history of doping and making up bs reasons for the unlikely rates of success. So I don't know how true that idea is.
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This is my worst nightmare.

-Just as I was finishing college, my father, who only had a high school education, worked for GTE Sylvania for 25+ years. The company was sold, then closed the small plant he worked at. The best he could find after that was stockroom work at a department store. That triggered depression in him and a big rift in my parent's marriage.

-20 years ago my brother worked for Xerox, and was laid off/downsized. He and his wife had a third child on the way, had just built a house. It took him a year to find a job as IT support for a law firm. That traumatized him so much he's overworked for the company ever since.

-I worked for Kodak for many years. The last 2 years I worked there in the early 2000's, my department was under constant layoff threat. At that point, I'd decided I was moving out of NY, and wanted the severance package (but didn't get it)

-After moving to WI, 9 months into my new job there, our department had a round of layoffs. I was terrified since I was the last hired, and now was hundreds of miles from my support network. I survived, and went on to work there for 10 more years.

-My partner, after working for a financial services company for 26 years, got a boss who didn't like him, and frankly I think did not like LGBTQ folks, and maneuvered him into being a "displaced worker". He got let go, 5 years before his pension and years of service would have put him in a place to be able to comfortably retire.

So I haven't ever been laid off, but I have seen how much damage it can do to people I care about and their futures.

I worry about this every day, especially seeing what happened to my dad and my partner. I have been saving for retirement, but I really need the next 5-10 years to let that build to be able to comfortably retire.
Apologies - on mobile, it was tricky to get the link without losing context - and I thought that the info was relevant.
That's right. The system is working as intended. As guaranteed by lobbyists and big donors having undue influence on public policy.
Lambda School is SV big bet on reinventing education but students say is a cult
Different large companies do things in different ways. Some companies do things very top-down to the point where "execs getting the right info" is merely "some report down the chain seeing something or other has to be delayed". Other places are a bit more open. Depending on the exec in particular, they may spend a lot of time reaching out to random individuals/reading planning + update docs/etc.

In general, I'd say it's part of the exec's job to ensure that the right sort of culture is set where individuals feel empowered to surface relevant information. This includes trying to make sure that people feel safe enough to surface issues, getting rid of people that aren't good about responding to feedback, etc.

As a corollary of this, you can tell when an exec is bad since not only do people snark, but the same topic of snark lasts for years and years.

There's also a part of their job to have the right organization structures in place such that if a piece of information should really get resolved at a lower level, it does. If a lot of information is having to be resolved by an exec, it probably means an organizational refactoring should probably be happening in the first place.
That's exactly why I think more companies should be pursuing this strategy.
Why? I actually make a point of going to an affiliate link before buying anything from the big river. Just doing my part to reduce their profits as much as possible. (My current go-to is kottke.org although I wouldn't object if people wanted to go to http://don.dream-in-color.net/books/ instead)
I see a lot of comments that amount to "he's not literally threatening violence, he's only using an idiom that, historically and culturally, heavily implies violence."

Which...I guess is a little better, arguably.
Cartels Are an Emergent Phenomenon, Say Complexity Theorists (2012)
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