skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
don't forget ED drugs! america: take all the dick pills you want through a shady phone app (sponsored by VCs) but don't expect to have have your life threatening illnesses treated affordably!

edit: i'm getting downvoted. in case you weren't aware the subways in NY are plastered with HIMS and Roman health ads.

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/ne5ndb/erectile-dysfuncti...
> Except that I already pay for Apple Music, I don’t use these tabs, and I’m considering leaving Apple Music for Spotify

Stop ranting and do it. Vote with your wallet. Your $10 tells Apple that everything is fine.

I don’t subscribe to any music, personally. I use the Music app with Apple Music disabled (Settings > Music > Show Apple Music (Off)).
> we cannot provide every child in the world with the same standard of living as that had by the average Norwegian,

That's a straw man - that's not what we're talking about. We're talking about much more achievable aims, such as children not being hungry and not living in unhealthy housing. Many interventions to reduce poverty are relatively low cost. We’re certainly not talking Teslas & Scandinavian design for all.

On zero sum games, you’re talking about economics here and if anything is an example of non-zero-sum game, it’s economics and monetary theory. Large amounts of wealth and economic potential are created pretty much every minute.

Your example of sending your child to a better school isn’t really accurate for a few reasons. There is a practical, real world limit on school fees. At a certain level of income you would have been able to afford the best school possible, hired tutors, etc… and any further earning would not make a difference. You personally might not be at that level, but a lot of the progressive ideas for taxation target those who are exactly in that situation.

The wealth taxes being proposed by a couple of the US Democratic nominees would kick in at the level of millionaires, who are far removed from scraping together every last dollar for the college fund. Other tax changes would certainly not have “dramatic” negative impacts on tax payers, many might see gains.

The preschool/school example is great, especially as you brought up Norway! You have a problem of having to pay to send children to school. That’s the problem, not that any tax changes might jeopardise that. So let’s solve that problem!

In Norway you wouldn’t have to worry about affording preschool as they are all state funded, even the private ones. You pay a small additional contribution at most, if you can afford to, but that’s capped by the local government and about $350 a month. The schools are free (you pay a similar amount for after school babysitting if you need it) and all roughly a similar good standard. University is similar. So your problem of having to afford 20 years or so of education disappears entirely. Which is pretty awesome, plus your healthcare costs also don't exist and you have much more money for discretionary spending. A lot of Norwegians have cabins in the mountains and boats in the fjords, and it's not because they pay low taxes and ignore child poverty.
One can argue they’re attempting to capture more value than the social contract intended, and that contract will be updated through legislative action.

We reserve the right as a society to update the social contract at any time.
Isn't that much harder to do with Go mod than with Maven?

With Maven, you can define your own versioning scheme and easily include the branch as a component of the version "number".

In Go mod, as far as I can tell, you have to have a Semver vMAJOR.MINOR.PATCH version, which is much more difficult to adjust for short-lived branches.
Enterprise Mobility Strategy Guide (2020)
Airbnb said the same back in the day. Guess what happened then? https://medium.com/airbnb-engineering/sunsetting-react-nativ...
And in a couple of years, "Why we are moving away from React Native at Shopify".

Not slamming React Native but the sensationalistic headline. Anyone with a bit of experience in software should know better than making this kind of silly proclamation about the future of your software stack.
Honestly I think the future of mobile will just be... mobile websites.

What's missing until regular websites have parity with mobile apps in functionality?

- Accelerometer and all sensor support (some of these are already supported on various browsers on various OSes)

- Background support

- Bluetooth

- WiFi

- Better notifications

- etc.

Sure there will always be a need for native, but 99% of apps don't need any of that stuff, really. Though I suppose both Apple and Google have an inherent interest to gatekeep.

Looking at my own most used apps:

- Messenger

- Mail

- White Noise

- Teams

- Google Maps

Literally all of them could be implemented as responsive pages with acceptable performance. There are a small number of companies that don't bother with mobile apps, Craigslist being the most notable of them until a few months ago. Part of the issue though is that the app stores give you a lot of visibility and to get that visibility you need to be in the app store. Sure you can use a web view, but in some ways that's even worse than just a responsive website because now you have to deal with the abstraction of your site that is a WebView. Not to mention the temptation to try for "best of both worlds".
> If I asked my GP for a specific medication they'd look at me like an alien.

He shouldn't. They're not all knowing super genius specialists who keep up with all the drugs and research.
Emirates NBD Bank app and CAREEM app are sharing info with Facebook.

It was very surprising to see ENBD in the list.
Why do we have this editorialized title, @Dang? Why not the actual, neutral, title: "US court fully legalized website scraping and technically prohibited it"

BTW: This title is still not factual, but at least it's more neutral. It seems to be an injunction, which doesn't really mean "fully legalized" but what do I know....
Why can't I have terms on my website that say how you can use my information?

Examples where this is allowed:

- Images/media (Creative commons)

- Code (Open source licenses)

You say it isn't allowed for:

- Personal data

Unless I'm misunderstanding your philosophy (which seems to say copyright is OK, but public information must be public to all): You believe that it's morally OK for me to prevent a company selling my book, but not morally OK for me to prevent a company selling my name, job title and employer as a marketing bundle?

Edit: An aside, it's really confusing that you seem to be editing your previous replies minutes after I responded. I thought HN only let users edit during the "no replies" period?
Does this support log aggregation from multiple pods?
Suggested Changes in Code Reviews
The testing regulations are not onerous. They are necessary to ensure that new medications are both safe and effective.

I often see vague complaints about the regulations, but no one seems to have specific suggestions about how to lower drug development costs while still protecting patients.
For majority of the year, you're not wrong. Assuming you can have a forest of concrete.

[EDIT ADD] Yes London does have some parks, though you could look at those as Oxygen watering holes in relation to the local environment.
The 2% that goes back to the credit card company is what ends up paying for all the rewards points and cash back discounts—which work as mechanisms for you to get that money back so long as you actually pay your credit card bills.
If you do not have a Facebook account, or you quit / deactivated your account 4 years ago, how would one go about erasing the history without reactivating/creating an account?
This is pure crank nonsense.
This course finally made me understand the WHY of FP. Comparing and Contrasting the major programming paradigms at a high level, but also actually writing code was a great combination. Before that I just thought it was only used for people doing math and finance (which wasn't even close to right, lol)

SML is kind of like the lisp of FP. It's just the minimal core of parametric polymorphism and hindley-milner type inference, so as a beginner you don't spend thought cycles language-specific features (that would make it more useful as a general purpose language) - you just learn and understand the core concepts and techniques (such as building intuition for how to replace different kinds of loops with recursion and pattern matching) that will apply to all FP/HM languages.
just fyi, signing when using a card is very uncommon except in america. Most other countries have long since moved to pin/contactless/other things.
This article is 2 years old and rather misleading. The battery electric vehicle itself is much less efficient than both the fuel cell electric and conventional vehicles. This is because of the weight of the batteries that need to be transported. If you also take into account the energy used to produce the vehicles, in particular, the batteries, the BEV becomes the least efficient of the 3.
It also doesn't account for on site hydrogen production and PEM or Alkaline technologies, which reduce the losses in transport, production and compression for an 86% efficiency.
>The problem with drilling is, you have a bore hole connecting your cavern to the surface.

Is that actually a problem? What kind of events could occur that would make it a problem?

>And the bad actor potentially does not care about being noticed.

Presumably this hypothetical hole in the ground would be in someplace like the US or Western Europe, under government control, and relatively heavily guarded. In that context, if a bad actor truly doesn't care about being noticed, we probably have bigger problems to worry about, like the collapse of modern civilization.
Not everything outside the overton window is noise. It sure isn't all signal, though. It almost certainly has a higher proportion of noise. But it's also where the new directions for society are going to come from, for good or ill.
Written language can be used to overturn history as well as reinforce it.

In this case, the article mentions "meatier yields", and that two-word combination by itself is something I would bet on in a fight against any article-length analysis of the 2008 crisis.
This looks quite nice, thanks for the recommendation.
I code perl and I code TCL. I like both.

Perl has the magic and TCL has the voodoo. Add both together you get voodoo magic which is quite fascinating.
Wow, I just looked up what hiQ does and have to say it's pretty scummy in my opinion. Why do people create stuff like this? Don't they know it will likely come back to bite them one day?

For reference:

"There is more information about your employees outside the walls of your organization than inside it. hiQ curates and leverages this public data to drive employee-positive actions.

Our machine learning-based SaaS platform provides flight risks and skill footprints of enterprise organizations, allowing HR teams to make better, more reliable people decisions."
>law of unintended consequences

otherwise known as the lets-keep-the-status-quo-because-i-can-afford-it argument.

>It’s no coincidence that the US has the best pharma companies and develops some of the most effective drugs in the world

lol best pharma companies according to share values or according to how many people they help?
There will be sacrificial lambs though. People will die because they can't drive out of state to get insulin. It might take a long time to force them to sell it at this cost, and they might win a lawsuit saying it's unenforceable, all while people die because of this legislation. Trust me, I don't like the companies doing this, but only passing the law setting a price ceiling without a secondary law requiring any company who was selling at the time the law was put in place to continue to sell is short sighted. Way too many situations where this ends up killing people.
Shoot, it doesn't have to be neolithic.

How many people know how to do stuff like change their oil or brakepads without watching YouTube?

How many HN readers need to search for specific commands for Makefiles -- I still do sometimes -- or how to use an obscure part part of an API?
Anyone interested in this should check out Froissart's Chronicles [0], written at the height of chivalric culture. Some of the imagery and descriptions of battle are astounding even today. The Bal des Ardents is the third image seen in [0].

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Froissart%27s_Chronicles
My wife has been fighting with iTunes screwing up her music library for years. It's a constant pain point for her.
it's almost like different companies make different tradeoffs based on different organisational needs and priorities
click bait.
Dark Energy Skeptics Raise Concerns, but Remain Outnumbered
Man first thing I thought of.

Seems like if you try to proclaim the future you end up eating your words
I think that the "partners" in that comment refer to trading counterparties.
Arguably the biggest concern with React Native is that it is controlled by a single entity, Facebook, and that they are not one of the leading mobile platforms who from a business perspective have strong incentives to ensure the future of their respective app eco systems.

Facebook's incentives with React Native are somewhat unclear. This is a big, yet often unspoken, reason companies are vary of depending on React Native for their mobile stacks. With more large companies such as Microsoft, and now Shopify getting behind React Native those incentives will have to please a larger group and should become much more aligned with mobile developer communities at large - and not just Facebook's desires.

If Shopify manages to play an active role in the development of React Native and expand the project beyond the sole control of Facebook then React Native will become a much more viable option for companies who for political reasons have refrained from using the technology.
Enterprise Endpoint Attacks Avg $9M Cost in 2019
There's a living wall by Old Street roundabout (on a WeWork no less!) that's survived the first year ok.

https://goo.gl/maps/X5h4qrwHQZcmFAxa7

It's grown in a bit since the Streetview was taken, and is still in very good health.
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/insulin-walmart-vial/
Given that closer research is finding that a lot of popular drugs and treatments actually do more harm than good, I don't think it's so easy to characterize the current testing regulations as onerous.

The current regime in the USA didn't happen for nothing. It's well-known now that pharma companies had long been exploiting the file drawer effect and p-hacking to inflate the apparent safety and efficacy of their drugs in their FDA filings. The decision a couple decades ago to cut that off did dramatically reduce the rate at which drugs win approval, and that's a very good thing.
> It is where I live, so weird visiting the US and seeing "ask your doctor for" adverts.

Those ads are a small portion of pharma marketing budgets for prescription products. The vast majority goes to direct-to-doctor marketing.
A Bernie Sanders Presidency Is the Last Best Hope for Humanity
Even better; drill into a subduction plate and have geology take your waste into the planet core.
That's enlightening, thank you. I was unaware that the type of medical care (within a specialty) can change the financial incentives of the doctor. As someone who was just told to get my wisdom teeth removed, this makes me want to seek another opinion.
Which is probably a mistake. We need every tool in the toolbox and nuclear is one of the best we have. It's also worth noting that France has been producing much cleaner and cheaper energy than Germany, which eschewed nuclear.

And that Flamanville is behind schedule and over budget is not a problem specific to nuclear. The same thing happens with building bridges or any big construction project, in many countries. That's a different systemic issue that needs to be resolved.
Anti-nuclear FUD. I wonder who's paying for this stuff.

> Currently, the total global power consumption by mankind is about 15 terawatts (TW) —so the question we address is: Can nuclear power feasibly supply at least 15 TW?

This is a downright idiotic question. Humans use and will continue to use a variety of different energy sources. Which sources specifically depends on economic viability that differs based on the location, availability of raw materials, current energy prices and government incentives.

If you're really serious about preventing drastic climate change due to C02 emissions, you should consider scaling up all energy sources that don't produce CO2.

Recommended viewing:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCKH_iLhhkTyt8Dk4dmeCQ9w/pla...
I agree with this advice. I treat facebook.com like a warez site from the 90s: actively hostile. So far only off-site activity tracking came from AirBnB.
I have to scrape linkedin sometimes for work and it's hard. Normal Python scrapy setups won't work. Linkedin has all sorts of blockers in place. They'll give you 500 errors, log you out if you view too many pages, etc.

Headless chrome + only hitting 50 pages max per session is the key.
I have a linkedin so that I can point people at it. I also want human recruiters who have actually read the thing to send me relevant jobs. If my profile ended up affecting my credit report, I'd be pissed. I expect you would be too.

People put data places for specific purposes (to show recruiters) and want the ability to limit use to that purpose. How that's accomplished is just a technicality most people don't care about.
If enough people don't perpetuate it, that turns down the gain in the echo chambers. That cuts down on the feedback, and the noise becomes a lower fraction of the total.
Huh, machine learning for high quality meshing sounds like a great idea! (RL sounds like turning this idea up to 11 — exciting stuff and best of luck!)

FEMAP Seems a hot topic these days. Some folks at my work are building an interface to it for meshing purposes.
Ok that makes more sense. The word sickness absence is a bit confusing.
If state-controlled healthcare wasn't a racket the cost wouldn't need to be capped.

> “Health care is a right for all, not a privilege and that is why I am so proud that we created an insulin price cap that successfully puts patients above profit,”

Healthcare isn't a right. If it was a natural right it wouldn't be necessary to force people to pay for it.

One day inflation will strike and insulin will no longer be available at that price. Will he be proud then?
I'm thinking of body integrity dysphoria: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Body_integrity_dysphoria

On one hand, viewed through the lens of cold logic, it's no different from reassignment surgery and therefore their desire to modify their bodies is valid. On the other, it's difficult to honestly say that they would not be severely harming themselves by doing so.
Unfortunately, this does not act as a price control. This just mandates that insurance companies cap the out-of-pocket expense; it does nothing to affect the retail or wholesale price of insulin except insofar as insurance companies can push back on drug manufacturers.

Net effect of this is yet to be seen, since it doesn't go into effect until 2021, but one possibility is that insurance companies will only cover variants of insulin that are cheaper than the allowed maximum, or the value that they calculate allows maximum extraction of value. Or, alternatively, the price of insurance will rise to spread the cost among all covered people.

The fundamental problem is that insulin should be a commodity, but it is not. Baseline human insulin is actually available fairly cheaply; ~$25 for a month's supply. But pharmaceutical companies have developed and sell a variety of faster-acting and longer-release insulin analogs of increasing price; and although many of them have technically fallen out of patent protection, generic makers have been slow on the uptake and manufacturers have done various tricks (relabeling, etc.) to ensure that they can maintain their effective monopoly.

There's something deeper that is wrong here that is preventing the market from working as it should be working; that is, generic makers making fast-acting insulin cheaply and driving the price down to the marginal price of production.
Good luck, lol
Why ZFS is not good at growing and reshaping pools, or shrinking them
Is there a reason that the web is not a target of react native?

It seems somewhat insane to have a cross platform approach and leave out the biggest platform of all, the web.

Or - looking at it the other way round - what approaches are there to take a working pwa website and turn it into an app? What advantages over such an approach can react native bring to the table?
Most HFT players are barely making money, theres a few that are actually highly profitable

People in this thread are confusing beta and alpha, alpha is limited and competed for
According to my models there are very few market environments in which you would make less money with a leverage ratio of 2.5x. In order maximize return your leverage should be:

Expected Return/Expected Variance

For example even if the expected return is 1% and the vol 5%, the ideal leverage ratio for maximizing return is 4x!

In short, a 2-3x leveraged ETF is an excellent investment and should outperform the index in almost all market conditions. It’s when your leverage ratio goes over 5x that you start to have major problems a lot of the time.
You will always have the haves and have-nots. You will always have tribal borders.

The haves will gain and use knowledge and technology to make their lives and those of their tribe easier and it will benefit them more than those of the have-nots.

So written language containing the body of science and technical knowledge benefits them always. The effect on the entire species is unimportant to those with comfortable, limited lives.

Other non-technical written language to create a world of mystical morality to keep the other side in check also benefits the haves.

Until the human species changes into something new where competitive behavior is not a base need/instinct, nothing will ever change.

You can't escape this.
The problem I have with protect is I already have a full blown Proxmox setup with mirrored ZFS drives that I can easily expand.

I lose that if I switch to their custom hardware. I've also heard it doesn't scale well to multiple users or larger numbers of cameras.
You should get all the closing docs three days before closing so you do have time to read them
I think it's interesting to look at Tcl's pedigree and compare it with Perl. Both definitely have a strong Unix heritage. Perl's initial use case was scripting where you went beyond both awk and the shell, and regarding syntax stuck to the former. The target audience certainly was supposed to know a bit about programming, but shouldn't

Tcl on the other hand is more shell-like in its core syntax, trying to simplify that. Not really because it's supposed to supplant shell scripts, but because it has a similar target audience, people looking to automate things (or customize them).

At least that's the beginning, and if it would've stayed that way, nobody would lament either language's passing, as they'd be good in their niche. To truly fall, one must rise first. Perl did that with early web programming (CGI), Tcl with UI programming.

I like both a lot. I've had a lot of fun programming with Tcl, and it was interesting how your workflow changes if a UI is really, really close to hand (sorry, TKinter doesn't come close to me, the only other language I'd nominate for that would be Rebol).
Programming with BASIC I always asked for input, programming with Perl/Python I always pass command line parameters, with Tcl I often popped up small Windows.
Anyone know where React Native stands in modern development - especially when compared to Flutter and the upcoming Compose.

All the native frameworks are also React inspired.

I personally love the work done by Airbnb for its Android MvRx framework. Again, React inspired