skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The article had no point. It was flowery rambling.

It’s absurd to see a doctor before procuring a corrective pair of lens? The ability to see right changes with age, life style, genetics and disease. It absolutely does require a diagnosis. Some random guessing is not sufficient to determine which number you would choose for eye glasses. Especially in a country that is dependent on cars and we still need proper vision for driving.

There would have been some point to this rambler of an article if the author had bothered to explain why it’s a hardship. It’s the expense, of course. Which directly ties to the cartel like system of Essilor Luxxotica frames company. It’s really cheap to produce but it’s sold at super high mark ups. This is a problem.

The last part of the article was pure dumbass’ery. Appalling!
Is there any attempt to normalize the time available to the human and machine players? Seem inherently unfair to give the computer player the same clock time to make a move.
Medical paternalism was the norm until surprisingly recently. See

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medical_paternalism
Hate is as natural as love for humans (perhaps more so) and is adaptive. Consider:

1. In-group bias, which shows up in babies

2. Pecking orders/social status hierarchies, which arise pretty much everywhere from birds to humans; they create a somewhat stable social structure but encourage animosity between those who peck and those who are pecked

3. Communities defining themselves by excluding others (see 1)

4. Scarce resources leading to fights for survival; people who threaten your very survival are easier to hate

5. It's hard to fight people you empathize with, so demonizing/dehumanizing them is necessary if you want to win/survive
Seems like IGG doesn’t have the best reputation...
It's bizarrely "hip" or "woke" or whatever right now to anthropomorphize "AI". "AI" is light years away from being anything more than a tool. AI doesn't "play Go" in my view as much as people play go, via AI. Is it really shocking we've built a tool that we can use to play Go better than somebody without said tool?

If Lee Sedol says "Okay AlphaGo, let's play!" and sits down at a board what happens? Nothing happens! AlphaGo has no agency. AlphaGo is an extension of human agency. AlphaGo isn't better than humans at Go. Humans with AlphaGo are better at Go than humans without AlphaGo.
If all IPv4 addresses cost that much, it would be a $24B industry.

I don't think there are enough people willing to pay that price to make that a reality.
You say:

> Each of [Bing’s search partners] have to show bing ads, forward the users' IPs as per Bing's terms of service (to fight ad fraud etc).

But DuckDuckGo says:

> [W]e never share any personal information with any of our partners. The way it works is when we call a partner for information, it is proxied through our servers so it stays completely anonymous. That is, any call to a partner looks to the partner as it is from us and not the user itself, and no user personal information is passed in that process (e.g. their IP address). That way we can build our search result pages using these 100s of partner sources, while still keeping them completely anonymous to you.

https://help.duckduckgo.com/results/sources/
This pseudocode reveals another truth: it can be surprisingly hard in many places to get lenses for rarer eye conditions. If you have e.g. mild astigmatism (actually extremely common!), you can expect to be persuaded to leave it uncorrected.
Did you actually see a quote from Kx before making that decision?

I've first-hand seen the cost/proprietary argument thrown into the face of KDB, to then see companies proceed down a path of other technologies, with a 10x spend in hardware and dev effort.

KDB is insanely tuned.
I bought my latest glasses from eyebuydirect.com. Read the reviews first and saw a couple of people lamenting low-quality frames, so I added a spare pair of frames to the order.

Overall, very happy. Shipped quickly, frames are pretty good, lenses are just right.
Bingo. I've made this comment several times on Hacker News in the past as well and in my opinion it's the number one reason I've seen ML projects fail to have impact at companies it's deployed: the operators (typically higher level Math/CS types) simply don't understand the domains well enough and so frequently end up making absurd recommendations/suggestions (often to the detriment of other business areas).

The successful application of ML requires a deep understanding of the domain it's being applied in.
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Related: condescending words in ads and software/tech product pitches:

Condescending? You mean sales and marketing BS. Try asking a perspective hire to explain what they did without using the words simple, environment, simply, just, experience, like, to not start sentences with the word "so". Most can't start. When some clown says the same cookie cutter bs "at (company name) our goal is simple: we just want to (moon shot or moon shot squared near impossible goal) by a single click ... What's the listener supposed to do?

- orgasm?

- try to get hired by same?

- find out who's on the board and hope to marry one?

- think "oh gosh they're so vital and awe inspiring"?

- start attending mass again?

- or roll your eyes (correct)
Running a Golang Database in the Browser Made Possible Using WebAssembly
I don't think this is about GO, but about humans becoming useless faster every day against machines in virtually everything and how that is going to affect society and us as humans.
> Thailand is starting to crack down on it because people are stiffing the hospitals with the bill.

Why is that the government's problem? Hospitals can just require payment in advance or the use of some kind of escrow service.
Ahhh found it. uBlock was preventing it. I can reproduce now.
Rent-seeking is the opposite of companies being allowed to operate completely unabated. It's government intervention on behalf of specific companies.
> The app is even better!

What does that mean? I guess https://duckduckgo.com/app is a browser, and a browser extension? The app is a relatively better browser than DDG search is a search engine?
It's not like XR represent the scientific consensus. I really don't know why people exercise their time worrying about what groups like them say. We don't seriously worry about what your climate change denying uncle thinks about climate change so why worry about what non scientists on the other side of the debate think?
Check out this page: https://blog.stevensanderson.com/2019/11/01/exploring-lighte...
If by literature you mean drivel, sure.
I quite agree - in hindsight the title was a bit click-baity :D But I think time in meetings is something that needs more exposure and reviews.

Not all meetings are bad, but every minute spent in unknown areas is bad. I work deeply in tech startups and I was shocked to see that some of my earliest beta users had 80%+ meeting time..

Of course they were shocked too :D
When I was in China I wanted to get a cheap pair of prescription glasses. So I did, in an underground subway mall. Took 30 minutes. They (definitely not an eye doctor, more of a small shop owner) used a small handheld device to measure my prescription and then told me to come back in 30 minutes after I had chosen frames. I paid $40.
Fasting would just make me irritable and hungry. I don't think I'm the only one that would experience that
It’s always great to build relationships with other people in your field. I would mentor someone for free if I felt they had the drive to learn more, but I wouldn’t spend more than 5-10 hours a week if it was completely one-sided.
SSL certificate popup in chrome for doubleclick
VP total comp only 500k-1m? Seems very low
The day after I wrote this, the replication authors came out with their rebuttal rebuttal: http://janvitek.org/var/rebuttal-rebuttal.pdf
Yes, leave it as a locale customization, like how you write your dates.
> a) "drown the fish" does not mean what you think it does, and if anything means the opposite of what you think it does

You're right, I should have called you a freaking troll straight out because this is obviously what you are, I was too polite, my bad /s

> There's no positive interpretation of that, I just chose the most common one I've encountered. Maybe you're just an avid enjoyer of her tape and can't see her for more than that?

No argument whatsoever, resorts to personal attacks, continue suggesting I'm a sexist and I watch pornographic material while you literally keep promoting the career of a pornstar yourself? because that's exactly what it is called.

But that's the only thing you can do after all. You're are effectively a troll. Get on with your sad life.
I don't think those tweets are gone.

The "Tweets & replies" section of your profile (https://twitter.com/eggsome/with_replies
) has two tweets that seem to match your description:

https://twitter.com/eggsome/status/228459378859180032

https://twitter.com/eggsome/status/189888249500680192
> I like DuckDuckGo. But unless they build their own search - I think the fundamental problem has not been tackled. There is no good, independent, private search alternative.

There isn't going to be, because it's really hard and expensive to do that. I don't see how any startup could even begin to compete with their own search engine.

The barrier to entry is extremely high: Bing probably would not have survived long enough to be profitable if it had been a startup. Microsoft put a lot of money into building it.

Subscriptions and micropayments would not be a solution for DDG because too few people would be willing to pay. Ad revenue is the only model that has sustained search engines in the long term.
Funny that the 'referendum' was not held until they were under military occupation by the power that forced the 'referendum' and that the results were staunchly in support of said military occupier.

The referendum was boycotted, not subject to external validation, in a land that was already corrupted.

"Invading a country and then holding a referendum at gunpoint whilst avoiding all transparency" I think seriously lacks legitimacy particularly if there was no imperative for the invasion (i.e. Ukrainian leaders were not putting those from Crimea in concentration camps or whatever).
I got mine on AliExpress, titanium, lightweight, lenses with coating and anti-glare. $25 shipped. Got a second pair for about $32. I already had my eye exam paperwork and just sent them an image. It took about 4 weeks each time. Considering sun glasses next. Will be expensive, maybe $45!

The prescription I got at America's Choice, got the cheapest possible (maybe $50), but for $70 got two pairs of glasses (total cost with the prescription), but the quality was nowhere near that of the glasses from China.

And note: you can get even cheaper at AliExpress (under $20 lenses and frames). I just opted for a best seller that was slightly more to play it safe.
"Uses" is a weird word here. Because some people are suggesting that DDG is a reskin of Bing. But if we look at what DDG says[0], they talk about it the same way they talk about Stack Overflow. No one is crazy enough to say that DDG is a reskin of SO. What they are actually saying is that they are aggregating results. Which I don't understand why that would be a bad thing.

[0] https://help.duckduckgo.com/results/sources/
> In particular, human players do none of the extremely tedious, extremely computationally intensive maths that computer players have to do.

This sounds like a Chinese room argument.

Performing computationally expensive maths doesn’t make the computer intelligent.

But that says nothing about the intelligence of the maths itself.
The app is PD Meter from Glassifyme.
It's no longer likely at all, but some years ago my workplace nearly open sourced a serious tool. That would have been big news, with the sudden availability of source for a tool that does rr-like stuff.

Some other company could do it. Remember that we've gotten Navigator (now Firefox), Blender, OpenSolaris, OpenOffice, and the .net stuff. Governments can surprise us as well; the USA did that with Ghidra.

I'm not expecting it anytime soon, but surprises happen.
But lispers are only a small % of programmers. So parentheses have been a success in the sense that lispers really like them, but have been a failure in the sense that they have prevented lisp's cool semantics from reaching a broader audience.

If you are a JS programmer or God-forbid a C++ programmer, you are already living in a world where the transformation from lexical syntax to AST is dozens or hundreds of pages with weird edge cases (e.g. JS semicolon insertion or C++ most vexing parse). If that can be reduced to 1 or 2 pages it's still a massive improvement from their perspective even if it looks like a downgrade to a hardcore lisper who eats parentheses for breakfast, lunch and dinner.
Unemployment has become a bullshit political statistic designed to exclude minorities, which became the racist standard Under Clinton with the introduction of "discouraged" workers (not employed and not unemployed!). A much more meaningful number is the employment population ratio, age 25-54, can you see the big difference Trump made? I knew you couldn't ... https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/LNS12300060
This is the opposite of completely unabated. The government created a regulatory burden against consumers, ostensibly for their own good, forcing brick and mortar stores into complying.

Unabated would imply that such regulations are not enforced or in place, and you're starting to see that with online retailers that will sell you anything eye-wear related with a little warning that you're agreeing you do have a valid prescription, which noone believes anyone will get in trouble for lying about. (I.e. zenni)

The same is starting to be true for cpap machines and other things as well.

You can blame certain companies, you can blame certain politicians and bureaucrats, but you cant blame all companies or that companies are running "unabated". It is disingenuous, facile and simply incorrect.
L5 is 3-400k total comp. Expect to make more outside? Doubt it
What the author is missing, perhaps, is that Elon thinks he will need trucks on Mars, and won't be able to take enough with him. But if the heavy parts can be stamped out by a machine he can take, then he can have trucks there made, largely, from steel plate refined from Mars dust, and glass refined from Mars dust.

It won't matter so much if they're too heavy, because gravity is less. It will need two or three layers of glass, with a vacuum gap between, for warmth, and to maintain shirtsleeve air pressure. It won't matter how they look, because nobody will ever go outside except for work, and try to send out robots even then.

He needs steel refining and rolling to make rocket body/tanks. I wonder how the thickness of the body panels compares with those of his new rocket thing...

One thing the author got dead right: these things will look very dated very, very quickly.
I’d settle for a modern remake of Hong Kong 1997.
I'm a Vegetarian–Will I Eat Lab-Grown Meat?
I’ve used that before. It worked well, but I found it frustrating that it required you to identify corners on the floor, where they were frequently obscured by furniture, instead of on the ceiling, where they were not.
Cheese soufflé on trial over chef's lost Michelin star – CNN Travel
Honest answer: I don't really search that much but my ddg results aren't crap
Sure, but the point is that federal prison is always a factor in illegal arms, regardless of how you acquire them.

With modern machining and 3D printing, "ghost" guns can just be manufactured from scratch. There are even companies that sell legal components, blueprints and raw material meant to be easily tweaked and machined into a complete weapon.
Request 'vacation raise' instead of pay
Aren't trucks supposed to be about "drive somewhere and do some stuff"?
I'd say jQuery forcing people to actually learn XMLHttpRequest by leaking memory on each request was a killer feature.
Women aged 55-61 had been growing the percent of their daily life spent working from 17% to 21.5% but something happened in 2007 and the growth trend slowed drastically so that today they spend only about 22.5% of their life working. Had the trend continued they would be spending 25% of their lives working, today.
No, your interpretation is incorrect, and that's not how this works at all.

> There may not be a person on the other end of the trade

uh... what? If the executed order fills, then there was someone on the other side of the trade.

Anyways, by providing liquidity in any market as a market maker, you are effectively aiding in the overall process of price discovery. HFT shops are generally market makers, although other strategies are also possible depending on how the operation intends to generate alpha. For HFT MMs, they pretty much only make money by clipping spread, i.e. submitting dual buy and sell orders at the midprice with the expectation that they will make the (ask-bid)/2 on average. They then cancel these orders as the orderbook's structure changes and as prices and markets move, resubmitting at "better" (more favorable) levels.

It doesn't matter if people are buying or selling or both. HFT MMs provide a valuable service to financial market participants - if participating counterparties submit orders and cross a HFTs latest uncancelled order, it will fill, allowing market participants to quickly gain or lose exposure to their security or instrument of choice.

There's no magic here and you seem really confused about the underlying dynamics of trading and market microstructure.
My regular eye exam caught early stage glaucoma. I go to follow-up screenings yearly to track progress, but it's entirely correct to say that going to my optometrist to get my updated prescription probably saved my sight.

All that being said, I always ask for a copy of my prescription so that I have it in my wallet just in case. I've been abroad when my glasses broke and having that on-hand made getting an emergency pair of glasses very simple.

edit I get my glasses at Costco, probably $120 all-in.
He lives rent-free in all their heads
I actually would really like that as the theme for 2020. The perception of an increasingly hostile world pushes designs to reflect rugged and reliable qualities. It would be a breath of fresh air compared to the crappy planned obsolescence of the 2010s. Can’t wait for Apple to create a phone with sharp square corners!
Obligatory The Old New Thing link: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20030822-00/?p=42...

> The time zone map met a similar fate. The Indian government threatened to ban all Microsoft software from the country because we assigned a disputed region to Pakistan in the time zone map. (Any map that depicts an unfavorable border must bear a government stamp warning the end-user that the borders are incorrect. You can’t stamp software.) We had to make a special version of Windows 95 for them.
> It will be curious to see how designs turn around now.

This is exactly what I've been wondering. Can't wait to see how the rest of the market reacts to this new direction.

Are all cars going to shift this way? That would look cra-zy on a highway!!
It's tough. Last year, after one of my contracts ended, I was looking for work. It took about a week before Thanksgiving to almost Christmas day to find work for the following January.

Lots of hiring managers were on vacation and just the amount of jobs available was a fraction of their normal levels.
I tried both Wayland and X11.

I feel like I'm going crazy because every time I mention the words Linux and HiDPI I have this same conversation, and it's been happening for years.

The my takeaway is always, Linux users have ridiculously low standards for what works when it comes to UI.

The conversation usually goes something like:

"I don't know Wayland works for me with X setup"

"What about the blurriness with fractional scaling"

"Oh I'm used to it/It only happens with some programs <usually all programs using some incredibly ubiquitous UI toolkit>"

Or:

"What about when you move a window from one screen to another"

"Oh I don't do that/Oh it gets a little blurry/Oh just use X11 and <insert Xrandr hack to mess with the frame buffer>"

Or:

"What about the tearing"

"I got used to it/What tearing, I'm not gaming?"

Or:

"What resolution are your screens"

"2k small screen and 4k big screen , I can just run the same scaling on both"

I remember one time I had this conversation in person, and we failed at the, "move that window to the other monitor" step when it blew up the window to 200% size on the smaller screen.

"Why do you expect the window to automatically resize itself and change the font"

"Because the application is unusable when every UI element is twice as big as it should be?"

"But I want my application to be unusable [paraphrase], you just think it should resize because that's what OSX does, stop bringing your OSX mentality to it and it's fine"

I think that's when I should have stopped ever hoping for anything better and stop saying Linux and HiDPI in one sentence... but here we are...
I agree this would be better.
At least I’m honest about it. You try to shut me down by shaming me and insinuating that I’m ignorant. Shame is just as invalid as insults. And I’ve brought a lot more logic to the table than you have.
> But I can't think of any other area in healthcare where your care is held hostage unless you pay them for some unrelated diagnostics you don't want.

Happens to women too for birth control.
Cyborg Soldier 2050: Human/Machine Fusion and the Implications
Why stop at phones, what about x86 too? When does it stop? I side with freedom, and say phones should be more free, instead of making excuses about why they aren't. This is why I fully support pinephone and Librem 5's work, however imperfect. The right to repair, in my opinion, inherently requires the right to root. Firmware in particular is behind, (which is why I have some holdout hope for power and risc/mips architectures in the future), but we can still fight for software freedom at least.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LRq_SAuQDec
Torch-Rb: Deep Learning for Ruby, Powered by LibTorch
Good point. We should probably do it every Monday too.
I don't believe liquidity necessarily has anything to do with efficiency, but more liquidity can never hurt. Even if the price of every stock right now is 100x what it should be, I still want lower spreads.

And to address your concerns about depth, I believe that's where market makers (which are related to HFT) come in.
It's been my understanding since I started getting glasses in the 8th grade in the in the United States that Optometrists have an OD (a non-medical doctorate), Ophthalmologists have an MD from a medical school (with the full rights thereof, such as prescribing medicine), and Opticians are the technicians who fit and order your prescription.

That same Optometrist who taught me that also taught me about diopters (the inverse of the focal length in meters squared) and optics of my negative prescription.
“... no matter what your pickup currently looks like, it will appear wimpy next to it.”

I have to disagree. That is your opinion not a fact. I think it looks like someone who just started out at whittling tried to make a Delorean and used the result as the design for the “truck”. Personally, I think the tesla “truck” looks wimpy. I’m really disappointed by it.
I had this on alcohol + an unhealthy dose of psilocybin, apart from the difference where the only thing I could think was "I don't even know what 'exist' means". Scary but luckily I had some close friends that were comforting me throughout the experience.

For the most part though, my small experiments (LSD, mushrooms, DMT) have had a very positive and borderline revolutional effect on my outlook on life. Only time I've had negative experiences have been on mushrooms, both LSD and DMT have always been positive.