skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The club card acts as unique id to track you.
The credit swiped at the machine has a unique id that they can use to track you.

The club card works across multiple credit cards and cash. That’s the main difference. And you might possibly track 2 people who control the household (wife gets one, husband gets one)
The advertisers paid for advertising. No money changed hands with consumers. That's the normal definition of "free."

You might not like it when someone records your behavior, and there might eventually be other bad consequences. I'm not saying it's a good thing. Free stuff can be bad for you.

But you didn't pay for it.
This is not good... Haven't tried it yet, but it's a big security hole in "sudo". Patch up your Linux systems now!
Exhibit A: Vimovo. One pill, consisting of two drugs that have been around for decades, and are available over the counter at any pharmacy. If bought separately, a month’s supply of these drugs would run you maybe $40, at most.

Vimovo, on the other hand, is routinely charged to insurers by pharmacies at prices ranging to over $3,000 for a month’s supply. And somehow insurers are willing to pay for it, to the tune of nearly $500 million a year. More details here from ProPublica: https://www.propublica.org/article/horizon-pharma-vimovo-com...
There's a fine line, though. Even keeping a list may interfere with feelings of clarity and direction if you become swamped by feelings of obligation. I once heard someone refer to Marie Kondo's "Magic of Tidying Up" as a philosophy book, and I think that's true for things like this. If keeping a big list is useful and makes you happy, for sure, go for it. But make sure it doesn't just create feelings of shame or incompleteness.
And also they had to pay taxes on their income now.
I believe the idea is that they make minor changes to it and apply for a new patent. Possibly also covering the original patent?
Online courses may be helpful, but I recommend applying for a junior development position and seeking immediate employment. Professional experience will impart far more technical knowledge than coursework.
the one which is actually running things?

and which isn't written down, they monkey patched it
The compiler cannot use the contents of an `UnsafeCell` for temporary storage. In general, `UnsafeCell` is how data can be shared across threads without synchronization.
You're responsible to your partner, regarding acquired assets, whether you are legally married or common law.
But HFT made the trades take longer, making them less efficient. By buying up the stocks while the trade was still in route, it cause the trade to fail and to make the brokers try it again at a higher price, wasting their time and money.
The paper is irrelevant. It's about the discovery. And a person who makes a Nobel-worthy discovery is generally not going to go "Dang, didn't get published. Guess I'll move on."

Extreme success tends to involve some extreme personalities with a very high frequency. Einstein, as one of the best examples, wrote his initial revolutionary papers in his spare time while working as lower tier assistant inspector at a patent office because he could find no university that would take him on as a researcher. Even at the patent office he was passed over for promotion due a perception of inability. Suffice to say, he wasn't especially concerned with what other people thought about his capability.
I’m not sure I agree that the “west” is a monolithic bloc re: the general population vs shareholders/CEOs. Especially not in the current wave of popularism.

Also, from the HN guidelines - “ Please don't comment about the voting on comments. It never does any good, and it makes boring reading.” (And I definitely agree when it is some anecdote like this)
Definitely. I think we are, too. I worried that your original comment could be misinterpreted.
OTOH, there's plenty of experts in every field who can and do say "I've been doing this for 30 years, and I know that ..." and then mention something they do which statisticians have since shown isn't effective.

Sully is worth listening to here because the facts are on his side, in terms of blaming the victim versus analyzing the system as a whole. Sully is getting a lot of airtime in the media because he's a famous public figure, but a new pilot 6 months out of flight school would be just as correct with the same facts.

He's a smart guy who is obviously familiar with the safety research done in his field. His own decades of experience do not constitute research on their own, though.
Probably pretty difficult to pull off in a fully staffed building with a doorman, security and all that.
Why get married if you're not doing it for better or for worse. I'm not asking sanctimoniously, I'm actually asking. Literally just date, it's fine.
tbf, on the TdF by nature you're often staying in small and medium-sized towns with a huge mixed bag of accommodation choices. Air conditioning was often not even a given.
I'm curious. Did you have the same reaction when Overwatch removed the ability to play duplicate characters on the same team? If I remember correctly, that change happened between seasons 1 and 2.

To apply your reasoning above, removing that ability was a "short term" (rules based) solution to a "long term" problem (balancing the hero roster to make duplicate heroes work in a competitive environment)
Lol, don't worry about the downvotes. Just a handful of enraged unionists can make your comment almost disappear. No big deal. It is actually quite funny to see them scared like that.
There was an attempt to implement just such a tax in New York City but it failed.

https://ny.curbed.com/2019/3/27/18283292/pied-a-terre-tax-re...
That's pretty dated:

> Much of your internet requests (email and web links) are sent over an unencrypted connection. Somebody with a malicious intent within this public system can easily listen and steal essential information, like passwords.
> and throw some games strategically

This would be fascinating and hilarious, especially if some of the hard core bettors got wind of the strategy.
To be clear, the impossibility of perfection is no excuse for reckless behavior. For example, if your system cannot reliably detect stationary obstacles blocking its path, and you are relying on the driver to save the situation, you should be using all the available technology to ensure that the driver is, at all times, alert and paying attention to the road.
Pedophile who abused up to 200 children found dead in prison
> It's something ridiculous like 40% of all pharma spending being advertising, so you'd also have a lot of advertising workers who'd lose their jobs.

Not sure where you got that number from. The industry spends about $30B in total on marketing, of which about $13.5B is for free samples and $9.6B is for direct-to-consumer advertising: https://www.biopharmadive.com/news/pharma-dtc-spending-outpa...
> You’re such a mans man.

/flex
Back in the '80s, Grant Callin wrote a couple of pretty decent hard science fiction novels. In one, the aliens had a magic quantum mechanical technology that enabled flying cars and such, but generated very large amounts of heat as a side effect. (A Lion on Tharthee, https://archive.org/details/lionontharthee0000call)

"What do you do with the heat?"

"We store it temporarily on the vehicles and then radiate it into the ocean."

"Doesn't that cause an ecological problem?"

"Hah! That's the joke! We could do this for hundreds of thousands of years before we raised the ocean temperature 0.1 degree."

My question: How do you distribute gigawatts of energy uniformly through the ocean? Or are you simply boiling a bay somewhere and calling it good?
what replaced Schemaless?
That was what it was for the US and EU polities. I think there is a throwaway line about China just doing it because China. When this happens in US and EU it will be because of terrorism, linked with technologies like amazon's drones, or uber's cars, or some other thing.
Here in Norway there are some significant legal benefits from being married. Things like special beneficial tax rules and inheritance.
no, data analysts as in the ones who take data exports and excel files and turn them into meaningful insights. Analyzing retention for various cohorts, analyzing revenue, engagement, etc. Data analysts mostly use SQL and maybe some Python to extract insights.

data scientists is a step up from that, and typically requires a PHD and will utilize more sophisticated statistical models.
This story cannot die fast enough. The simplest solution is to pay moderators.
I truly do not understand the purpose of a free market for food. The demand for food is almost completely inelastic, as it is driven by the biological need for sustenance. This makes central planning remarkably easy compared to typical consumer goods.

A nationalized food industry that provides food at cost seems like it would be a tremendous boon to our society. It's time we give Washington full control of our nation's food market.
Same with Uber.
Good point. That is a lot of why I'd be okay if the thing had a vote before the full house.

What I'm seeing though is a pattern of flexibility that benefits the institution over individuals. This is horrifying at the local police department level, where we time and again bad actors protected to protect the department, or police union. Same thing with prosecutors offices, etc. Seeing that pattern targeting the executive of our country is worrying.

I'm also really sympathetic to the argument that the white house has advanced about due process. This is particularly important precisely because Trump is so obviously corrupt and self-serving. If we can't do it right when it's obvious how can we do it right against someone sneaker?
>This makes central planning remarkably easy compared to typical consumer goods.

What if bureaucrats are much more risk averse than investors? We may end up with less drugs. The same things happens when taxpayers get too many stories of paying scientist salaries for things that fail. Letting investors and those more knowledgeable of markets and drugs might end up making drugs that wouldn't happen on taxpayer money only.

>all it would take to expand that program to include later-phase clinical trials would be increased funding.

[1] claims ~60 new drugs approved in 2018. [2] puts the cost of a new drug, plus post analysis, at $3B. This is already ~180B, perhaps not counting the ~80% of drugs that fail to make it to market. For scale, the entire NIH budget is ~12B; the money paid by the govt for drug research is a tiny part of the cost to get the drug to market, (otherwise more universities would start their own drug companies)

Raising another 180B from taxpayers is no small feat, and if that could be done, it's not clear this is the best space to spend it.

It may be much cheaper overall to let investors take the risks (and thus also get rewards).

>A nationalized pharmaceutical industry that provides drugs at cost seems like it would be a tremendous boon to our society

Agreed, assuming that it would truly cost less to do this. The govt is not terribly efficient at many things the market provides, from power to package delivery. The most cost efficient outcomes usually come from govt ensuring markets are competitive, then letting companies fight for sales, causing them to develop and fight over efficiency gains.

A better fight might be to find ways to make the current market more competitive while still delivering results.

[1] https://www.forbes.com/sites/bernardmunos/2019/01/14/2018-ne...

[2] https://www.policymed.com/2014/12/a-tough-road-cost-to-devel...
> it's a wider population of students being expected to understand computers

There it is.

It isn't just education, obviously. All software has to be subjugated to an ease-of-use that buries details.
* Counting watts is probably the weakest argument for whether the tech is doing something well or badly.

* A car can spare 100x that many watts.

* Why would we even want cars to calculate the way humans do? It's a very clearly flawed method.
I use similar ones for cinematography. Never occurred to me to use them at home as well :D When I think about it now, studios have huge lights that take a bit to warm up but then it feels like daylight, maybe my 10k lux is a similar tech...
I'm pretty sure i remember your name from Friendfeed era.
TIL.

Would that mean that using progs like `youtube-dl` to fetch videos from Youtube may get your Goog Account deleted?
Yours is the only correct answer. Who made the decision?

Answer: All of them.
Your understanding would be correct, except when there are billions of revenue on the line. Then "the best minds" of the law profession get to work. For example, you cannot make a generic without (legally) having some sample of the drug going off patent. The drug company simply destroys all the expiring patent version of the drug, patents a minor change, and starts the clock all over again. Many other strategies are detailed in this podcast episode.

[0] https://www.econtalk.org/robin-feldman-on-drug-patents-gener...
The most important question: WHY do you want to change?

If it is because you think you might like programming, then take some online courses. There are are plenty of free / cheap ones. If you have trouble choosing - email at hacker AT NOSQL dot com

If you have a masters in mechanical engineering, then you should be able to get a JR dev job after 6 months of practice.
Mr. Buffet will be happy he bailed on his Intel stock.
> I have no doubt Dyson could have made a decent one,

I have nothing but doubt Dyson could have made one, let alone a decent one.
Fen Labalme did confirm Stallman's claim, but could not find the email; remember this is in the days of backups on 9-track tapes, and he was looking for an email he had presumably deleted several years earlier.

> It's important here to note that Stallman does not claim it was his own brainchild, and did give Gosling credit.

This is true in a very limited way, but by itself it is a very misleading partial truth. Stallman gave Gosling credit for Gosmacs, not for EMACS.

Stallman had been working on EMACS on ITS on the PDP-10 for years before Gosling started writing his version, but the inception of EMACS was, as I understand it, a collaboration between Stallman, Steele, and Moon — a set of macros for ITS TECO, which was maintained by Stallman https://github.com/PDP-10/its/issues/1633. Gosling's Emacs wasn't even the second Emacs; Multics Emacs was Bernie Greenberg's reimplementation of the PDP-10 EMACS Stallman was the maintainer of, and it was the first (corrected by trn: second) Emacs to use Lisp as its scripting language, which is where Gosling got the idea. EINE (the first version of Lisp-Machine Emacs, as trn corrected me below) and ZWEI also preceded Gosmacs.

From the Emacs FAQ https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/efaq/Ori...:

> Emacs originally was an acronym for Editor MACroS. RMS says he “picked the name Emacs because E was not in use as an abbreviation on ITS at the time.” The first Emacs was a set of macros written in 1976 at MIT by RMS for the editor TECO (Text Editor and COrrector, originally Tape Editor and COrrector) under ITS (the Incompatible Timesharing System) on a PDP-10. RMS had already extended TECO with a “real-time” full-screen mode with reprogrammable keys. Emacs was started by Guy Steele as a project to unify the many divergent TECO command sets and key bindings at MIT, and completed by RMS.

Gosling wrote Gosmacs in 1981, five years later, as a copy of Stallman's work; Stallman published a widely-cited paper that year describing many features of EMACS which were unusual or unique at the time, but are now the standard way to design text editors: https://dspace.mit.edu/bitstream/handle/1721.1/5736/AIM-519A.... Gosling sold his Unix clone of Stallman's Emacs to UniPress in 1983, after Stallman had spent seven years writing the editor Gosling had copied; Stallman's version had perhaps a thousand users before Gosling wrote a line of Gosmacs.

Stallman tells the story in 2002 in the lecture linked above. Other people like Bernie Greenberg confirm Stallman's version.

I find it quite dispiriting that 34 years after The Great Emacs Copyright Debate was conclusively settled (by Stallman replacing the disputed redisplay code with a better algorithm, three months after the initial release of the first version of GNU Emacs and the ensuing hue and cry) we are still having to rebut Gosling's baseless slander of the man whose work Gosling copied to get rich.
Thank you for the feedback.

No, we never thought about HTML output. However, there are multiple other export options and we also ship Python scripts that can be used to plot the benchmark results. The script is not very large, so far, but we are happy to add new scripts if the need for one should arise. What kind of diagrams would you like to see?

Also, I have never thought about using criterion.rs. My feeling was that it is suited for benchmarks with thousands of iterations, while we typically only have tens of iterations in hyperfine (as we typically benchmark programs with execution times > 10 ms). Do you have anything specific criterion feature in mind that we could benefit from?
YouTube Becomes Popular Side Hustle for Hollywood Stars
‘Oikophobia’: Our Western Self-Hatred
Any tips for staying motivated? I want to see my project through but it feels like a real grind after the 1 year mark, every new signup makes me feel some guilt because I feel the product isn't ready yet.
You can’t look at this without considering the context: yes, there are areas with marginal coverage (I also have relatives in that situation) but if you’re in one of them you are either not watching video over cellular because the experience is unpleasant or you’re used to it being slow and an extra second to start is a drop in the bucket. The number of people who are on very slow connections who are also highly latency sensitive just isn’t a significant percentage of users for most sites, and most sites have many areas for performance improvements before they need to tackle that problem.
> This brought what used to be a painstaking process of clipping coupons from magazines to a slightly less painful process of having to click “Add” on all the coupons every week after logging onto their site.

This is an insane trend in supermarket usability. You want to offer low prices, but only to people who go through a practice round of online shopping before doing it in person?

Why are we doing this to ourselves?
Because strip club owners are mostly assholes? They're going to take as much as they think they can get away with, which is probably a lot.
This Startup Just Built a New Radar System to Track Space Junk
As is typical of these types of headlines, the answer is no.

The phones in China will download a list of URLs from Tencent, phones in the US will get it from Google. When you connect to any server, they may (and probably do) log your originating IP.

Your browsing habits are not shared at all. Safe Browsing is performed on the device itself.
Obviously the effort isn’t worthless, but it’s not a silver bullet which will magically “fix everything” either.
Thanks Nancy.

:)
This list and others of its kind have always felt a little off to me. If you read the most famous single book of three different authors I feel like you wouldn’t get too much out of it. I would rather die knowing I read Shakespeare and Faulkner than read Othello and As I lay Dying. This kind of list format takes what should be an organic exploration of other humans who are praised for their writing and turns it into a checklist of disconnected pieces. Maybe you read half a play and hate it, maybe you devour Shakespeare’s entire body of work?

I guess that is also why I dislike a lot of contemporary stuff, the aesthetic life of the artist behind the work is harder and harder to connect with. This all sounds super elitist but it’s hard to discuss books without straying into that territory haha. The breadth of genre is so vast as well, Roald Dahl and Richard Feynman on the same list? It just really lacks a depth of focus to feel like more than ticking boxes.
CI for Rust can be VERY expensive, given the vast amount of CPU and memory the Rust compiler needs. Good for Amazon to handle this important task.
Doesn't the same argument apply to the elements making any drug? Carbon, oxygen, etc.. are all pretty cheap. But there is significant value in mixing things properly and getting that mixture tested and through the FDA.

If it's trivial to take these cheap drugs and mix them, then why don't people simply do that?
I am an organizer of a Web Engineering Meetup in Düsseldorf, Germany, for > 6 years (https://www.meetup.com/Web-Engineering-Duesseldorf/). We run the event every month, with 50 up to 90 people. Indeed, our no-show rate is something between 40% and 50%. This is heavy, but we know it and calculate it in.

We run the complete meetup non-profit. Never put a euro in. Never got a euro out — everything based on sponsors. Our motivation is to learn, share knowledge, and have fun together. And we want to make it accessible for everyone to learn about web engineering.

Switching to the new cost model will reduce the no-show rate, but makes it 1000% times less accessible. In my opinion, Meetup.com is creating a higher barrier to enter a community. If we, the organizers, would pay for the attendees, we would pay 100$ up to 180$ every month. We have no interest to afford this.

Furthermore, what I don't get: Meetup is charging a lot of money for thousands of groups. The web platform is stale for>2 years. The last major feature was a facelift in design. But no feature that helps the organizers or users. The iOS app had some releases, but the app is far from a great UX. Flaky everywhere. I ask myself: What is this company doing? Where does all the money go?

Friends who run similar groups are thinking already to move away. Many people from the US think the same.

I think this tweet sums it up: https://twitter.com/obfuscurity/status/1183831607821656068
Frankly, the best prenup is not getting married in the first place, and not living in a state which may honor "common law" marriage.

You can't negotiate attraction, therefore marriage (in the legal sense) is at best negligible, and at worst very dangerous. Socially and spiritually, it can still be very positive and important.

Furthermore, if we are to embrace feminism, we must cast aside the concept that marriage helps ensure the wife is financially stable after divorce. They are working and saving for themselves as well, right?

Ultimately, it would be neat if the government didn't recognize marriage at all. Things like permission to make medical decisions, child care, or immigration would be bound by specific legal documents. (This would also have completely avoided the issue some people have with the government recognizing non-heterosexual marriages.)
Did nobody use hi5?
Baseball players play series in various cities. They aren't there just for one game. Also, the sport is the least physically demanding of all major US sports. Players spend half their time sitting in dugouts, and about 80% of the rest just standing around waiting for the ball to be near them.
Verbosity risks people never reading it at all.
Is there anyway he can get the stolen items back though? He should either go to the police and request them to help him get the stolen items back. Or maybe talk to his insurance company, they might help to compensate him for the loss. But a helpful idea; if they've stolen something and then put copies of that on a website that is freely accessible, I would suggest just copying it, so that both him and they have the same thing. That's a great thing with the digital world, everyone can have copies of things. I am surprised they stole something when they could just have copied it. I'm guessing it's some older individuals that don't know the possibilities of modern day technology to make copies.