skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
All of Buffett's companies are pretty lean. They actually let go of a lot of people, he just doesn't wear it because he doesn't run the companies directly.
The major difference is that the CLR is aware of generics rather them being a compiler trick as they are with the JVM. Don Syme (father of F#, who also worked on the implementation of generics in the CLR) did a talk explaining the history and how they almost shipped with erased generics like the JVM. On the other hand, it's been claimed that erased generics have made things easier for implementing other languages on the platform, so there are tradeoffs I guess.

Having used both I would take the CLR implementation any day.
If it's constructed as a temporary rvalue but never stored or passed as an argument, I think there's places where the compiler can elide the code entirely. Whereas you might prefer it have the system side effects associated with construction and destruction.
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Which insulin do you think they sell at Walmart?
For what purpose? That’s like suggesting that if people keep jumping your fence and trampling your roses because it’s a shortcut to a public park (in this case, the county records office) that already has public access roads, that you should be obliged to build a sidewalk through your garden, at your own expense, when the real answer should be that the public road should be improved.
ToS aren't signed. They are terms of service, not license agreements.

ToS merely need to be disclosed, and the site cna decline service if you violate the terms. A license agreement may subject you to penalties for violating the agreement.
For anyone interested in the growth of CDOs (and the composition of them) leading up to 2008 -- here's some charts:

http://fcic.law.stanford.edu/resource/staff-data-projects/cd...

Basically, by 2006, CDO originations were ~$250B. It took about 4 years for originations to get that large, and by 2008, there was probably less than ~$600B total.

GDP was ~$14.7T.

If history repeats itself, this is the beginning of the end. Not the end. But anything can happen. Who knows?
I don't understand why so many large companies use platform abstractions. At a certain size you're big enough to have an iOS team that develops natively in Swift/ObjC and an Android team developing natively in Kotlin or Java. Developing directly for the platform, with expertise in that platform, is a proven long term bet. Screwing around with platform abstractions seems much riskier.

The situation is a lot different if you're a small organization (or individual) and just don't have the resources for platform specific experts.
Are contracts allowed in your worldview? Contracts must be signed by individuals, but when they act as representatives of a company, they are legally binding for that company. If they only have individual rights, then all individuals who didn't physically sign a contract cannot be held to it.
It still won't display in Safari. I wasn't familiar with WebP but it sounds like maybe Safari just doesn't support that format at all: https://caniuse.com/#search=WebP
> According to the information I read, you want to bring your body temperature down for a more restful sleep.

I've heard the same thing, except the suggestion was for a hot shower, because supposedly the heat makes your body work less to stay warm and the end result is actually lower core temperature.
Thanks for the kind words, Sam :) Unfortunately, I don't believe there's any third-party offering on iOS that supports downloading music within the app from Apple Music or Spotify, I'm fairly certain you'd need to kick off downloads from the first-party player itself. If any folks here are aware of a third-party player that does support this, I'd be interested to know as well.
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Cesium is a competitor/replacement for on-device library playback on iOS. Spotify competes for streaming. Not clear what you mean by "can't make apps that compete".
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What many people seem to miss in the "only 8% of prisons are private prisons" claim is that large amounts of services and functions are run by private contractors and companies even in "public" prisons. Just because the land and building are owned by the state doesn't mean some CEO is raking in the money off of pseudo-slave labor, extortion for basic things like phone calls, and profiteering.
This is a website run by a startup incubator. Seems like the wrong place for no wealth worship. Essentially, I don't understand why you chose this place if you sort of don't like it.
The podcast app is trash too
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No one is confused about why State Farm wants the data. The reason you're not hearing about why they want the data, is that why they want the data is irrelevant. That's not "the other side of the story", that's irrelevant information that doesn't justify State Farm forging signatures to fake consent for privacy violations.

There aren't two sides to every story, and this appears to be a case where there is only one side to the story.

Do you think that anything you've said justifies State Farm forging signatures to fake consent to violate clients' privacy? If not, why are you polluting the conversation with irrelevant information?
My son (10 years old) wants to learn how to make games so we sat down together and went through the tutorial from the beginning. Very enjoyable.
Absolutely this. Native apps are just so much smoother, and I say this as someone who really wants the web to win, and who used web apps almost exclusively because my 16GB iPhone 6 had very little space for apps. Also, the quality of native apps was much higher (e.g., Twitter feed doesn’t abruptly jump all over on mobile) although this could just be due to more budget allocation into native apps for whatever reason.
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If a website is popular and does the basics well, it doesn't matter how 'shitty' the technology is.

Amazon.com has easily the most hideously designed product pages out there. Because sellers can "customize" the product page, you get their content (usually hero images with tiny text) mixed in with text-only product details, "users also bought" carousels, Q&A and Reviews all jammed together.

And they're still doing better than most large ecommerce stores (Walmart, Best Buy etc.) because the stuff that matters (pricing, delivery time) is better than the competition.

Switching to the Amazon app doesn't fix any of these problems because it's primarily a content and UX issue.
In what way does it make Go "non-serious"? And, why do you care? I care about the suitability of a language for the problem I'm trying to solve, not it's "seriousness". What concrete difference does this make to programs that you're writing?
I mean, anyone can be sued for anything. I can file a lawsuit with basically zero legitimacy to it. It'll probably get thrown out, but you were still sued.

If the question is could someone win, potentially. The argument would basically have to be that the removal of that open source project is akin to other cases of negligent interference.

If this is a specific concern, consult a lawyer - 'cause I'm not one.
Ask HN: What is useful to know about a company and position before interviewing?
They should provide a copy for review, laminated or otherwise, then push the digital signature.
Ask HN: Make an elevator pitch for old languages
If you could try to sell some of the old languages today (Ada, Fortran, Pascal, etc), what would be their elevator pitch? Are there one or two tools that could bring them back into relevance?
fuing unbelievable that my photo to scan app on the phone is sending activity to Facebook!
It’s quite true. A take I found insightful (I think it might have made the top page when it was first posted):

https://intelligence.org/2017/10/13/fire-alarm/
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> If they put my blog posts in a book and try to sell that book, that’s copyright infringement

Actually even if they don’t sell it, but give it away, that’s still copyright infringement.
I was considering moving to ProtonMail (honestly, not being able to send mail to Russian addresses is now a blocker), but if I ever do, I won't give you a @protonmail address either, because I won't have one.

If you want to actually own your email address, it should be on your own domain. Then you can change your mail provider without changing your primary email address.
Presumptively, they can’t do this with an unregistered Kindle, right?

Which wouldn’t be as convenient, but you could buy books from Amazon, and then use Calibre to strip DRM and send to kindle over USB.
I think one of the coolest things that Shopify is doing is this:

We’re sponsoring Software Mansion and Krzysztof Magiera (co-founder of React Native for Android) in their open source efforts around React Native.

and

We are working with Discord to accelerate the open sourcing of FastList for React Native (a library which only renders list items that are in the viewport) and optimizing for Android.

Basically RecyclerView for React Native.
> What's your solution for drugs that aren't out of patent?

Wait for them to get out of patent? The average remaining patent term for newly approved drugs is 10-12 years. So drugs approved in 2008 will mostly be coming out of patent this year.

All this stuff you here about “evergreening” is entirely the result of gaming the FDA approval practices. Patent law is categorical: once you make a thing publicly available, that thing is prior art not just for the patent you file to cover it, but every invention embodied in the thing. So once the first set of patents expires on the thing, that thing itself is in the public domain. You can’t bring that specific thing out of the public domain by making incremental improvements, etc.
Anyone remember Rdio? It was such a beautifully designed app. It's wild that Spotify and Apple failed to learn anything from them. Granted, Rdio did go bankrupt, but I think that had more to do with record label negotiations, and less with their app design. But who knows.
Agreed. I don't mind being a noob since I think it's perfectly ok to be a noob and I have a ton of respect for anyone else who is trying to learn something new.

I got angry recently when I asked a question on amazon about a home improvement hardware item and one of the responses I got was something like, "This job is better left to a professional." They completely dismissed my question like everyone who works in that profession was born with this knowledge.

I just wanted to know if it was possible to disconnect two of the pieces (and someone else confirmed it was possible, so it wasn't a dumb question after all). Not to mention, it was for an art project, so the "professional" quality/safety advice doesn't apply. That's when being a noob feels bad.
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My guess is a few decades, if it can hold until then. libp2p is a huge stack that redefines a lot of what we're doing today, and reimplementing the whole thing is a monstrous task. But if it could become mainstream that would be a very good thing.
Because it depends on human operators using intuition to look for suspicious activity. When the machine flags you as a terrorist you will be sent through the system as a CYA precaution.

I knew a Mexican citizen who was a legal green card holder in the US. Unfortunately his name was a match to a fugitive on the most wanted list. Every US entry involved an hour long interview to confirm his identity.

This is what machine vision will to to everyone with its false positives.
The vast majority of tobacco marketing was to the consumer. That isn't the case for prescription drugs, so the two situations are not comparable.
Your assessment assumes a perfectly rational, 100% transparent market. The market obviously has a distribution of rationality and transparency. The most efficient parts of the market are going to be the parts that are largely rational and/or highly transparent. Making money in the remaining more irrational/opaque parts of the market is not as simple as just identifying it as inefficient, it requires either finding a pattern in the irrationality or a way of unlocking hidden information(ideally legally).
In in cognito mode your transponder sends out a random ICAO ID when you squawk 1200 instead of the personally identifiable one.

So people can see that someone is in a particular place, but not who that person/plane is.
FDA has done research into it and it clearly provides some value.

Other highlights of the surveys include:

Most physicians agreed that because their patient saw a DTC ad, he or she asked thoughtful questions during the visit. About the same percentage of physicians thought the ad made their patients more aware of possible treatments.

Many physicians thought that DTC ads made their patients more involved in their health care.

https://www.fda.gov/drugs/drug-information-consumers/impact-...
Yep! I will get that fixed. Thank you for the feedback!

If you find anything else, issues and feedback are also welcome on the issue tracking @ https://github.com/Saityi/a-tour-of-standard-ml/issues -- I'm primarily a backend engineer, and this is my first foray into frontend; even nitpicks like this are very welcome. :)
Blind app send interactions to Facebook. This defies the whole point of blind app. This is so wrong on so many levels.
Might be a product of the generous bankruptcy system in the US. I.e., investors are rational in their willingness to take big risks because of the asymmetric payoff associated with highly-leveraged investing. It's a great system, but not without negative unintended consequences such as this kind of moral hazard.
I just don't give my e-mail address to anyone. Anyone. Doctors, vets, especially retail stores.

I just tell them that I don't have one. On the very rate occasions anyone has balked I tell them I just moved and haven't set up my internet yet.
Expecting the page to stay open until the tab is closed isn't normally considered to be "working offline". The main point of a PWA is being able to navigate offline, not just continue to exist.
I always thought this was a failed assassination attempt: "Now, now, your highness, don't dwell on the fact that your mental illness has become a major liability to the nobility and just have fun tonight! And by "fun", I mean, allow me to sew you into this highly flammable costume and chain you up to these other dancers, also in highly flammable costumes. It's really the done thing, you know. You'll be fine unless your brother, who is next in line to inherit the throne, happens to show up and start poking a torch at the dancers."

French royal weddings seemed like a dangerous place to be. A few centuries later, over a hundred people died at the wedding of Marie Antoinette and Louis XVI[1], trappled to death fleeing a fire started by a firework mishap.

[1]: https://findery.com/ChiefCurator/notes/tragedy-at-the-weddin...
In the U.S. at least, most people consider it morally outrageous to eat a dog. And yet, many of the same people will eat a hamburger. While there are obvious cultural/emotional reasons people feel this way, I can't think of any logical reason why eating a cow is less troubling than eating a dog.

Put simply, most popular moral frameworks people follow seem full of contradictions like this. And yet, it seems like any attempt to force a different moral framework on people would be a tyrannical force of misery. Any resolution a computer could offer to the contradiction above would make a lot of people deeply unhappy, which is in and of itself a moral problem.

People are emotionally driven, and I'm not sure there exists any logical set of rules that could define a morality people are happy with.
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You aren't going to do well here with this argument.

There exist principles, which are action guiding rules. We use principles to keep ourselves from being swayed away from certain behaviors which we believe hold value. For example, many martial institutions hold some variant of the "death before dishonor" principle; this rule basically implies that you will choose to die before fleeing battle. Even though there are many pressures to change behavior, which may be VERY great in the moment, holding to your principles will allow you to lead a structured life guided by rules that you care about.

Corporations and business entities can also implement principles (to greater or lesser effect); ProtonMail enacts a principle of not sharing customer data. Thousands of companies hold to this same principle, which keeps honest business able to occur. Imagine if every company on Earth decided that they could sell any and all customer data. Banks selling stats on your income to car salesmen, Walgreens selling embarrassing photos of you too the press, etc. The world would be a fucking madhouse, commerce would break down, and millions would die as societies collapsed. A few lives that may or may not expire due to ProtonMail holding to their principles is nothing, comparatively. It would happen one way or another, just with a different email service.
Please unlearn this reading habit. ;)
As much as the erection drug ads annoy me, this argument may prove too much... It may be that humans would be happier and the economy more efficient if all marketing were outlawed?
Can you define what boring here is? How does a boring startup be successful if it is boring? Genuine question.
I have about 30 Android smartphones I am using for volunteer distributed computing (BOINC). Most are running Android 4.x
> All these arguments for "look at Europe" doesn't fly in health economics. There are not subtle differences in the US legally, infrastructurally, and culturally.

Not to mention: European countries wouldn't be able to negotiate those prices if the US market didn't exist. Pharmaceutical companies - many of whom are based in Europe - know that they'll make most of their revenue from the US, which is not only the single largest market by number of patients[0], but also a disproportionately lucrative market, because the expected per-patient revenue is also higher.

If the Netherlands (a country whose population is lower than the state of New York alone) decides to "negotiate" a few extra Euro off the price of a particular drug, AstraZeneca doesn't care, because they know they'll more than make it up in the US market.

If the US passed a "most favored nation" law with respect to drug pricing, or allowed pharmaceutical imports from Europe/Canada (as has been proposed in the past), we'd see drug prices in the US drop dramatically, but drug prices in Europe would also increase.

[0] China and India are in a totally different category, because of their respective patent laws (whereas the US and Europe have harmonized patent treatment)
PG doesn't have to share anything, he could just be enjoying time with his family. I for one am delighted that he still posts.
To be clear, I think the overwhelming majority of jobs in the US fall into your uninteresting category, e.g. banking, adtech, etc.
I hate the constant misuse of the word "right". How would a country guarantee this right? What if every doctor in the US quit tomorrow? What if I decided to live on the top of a mountain where there is no population? How does the government guarantee my right to healthcare? Rights are around restrictions. I have the right NOT to be killed. I have a right NOT to be silenced. When something requires someone else doing something and giving it to me - that can't be a right.
It can't be overstated how many apps are absolutely dependent on working push notifications (all chat for example) and can't be replicated as websites. And that's not yet implemented for iOS so we're all at Apple's mercy until it is, which may never be.
Fortran is pretty relevant. I keep hearing that the code it generates, in particular for number crunching, is closer to optimal than what most C compilers can generate.
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In addition to reducing regulatory barriers that prevent generic producers, why is no one suggesting altering the pharmaceutical intellectual property system?

Twenty years to hold monopoly production rights is an obscene amount of time.

Yes, reducing that twenty to say five will reduce capital investments in drug research, but it will also alter the structure of those investments.

Investing in improvements at the margin might make sense when you can collect 20 years of royalties, but if you can only collect 5 then it'll more often make sense to fund cures and use that 5 year monopoly to cure as many people as you can before the drug goes generic.
There used to be an interactive version of it on the BBC website. One of the gems lost to the death of Flash probably.

Searching it seems there's a community based replacement:

PuzzGrid
https://www.puzzgrid.com/
Absolutely. I feel it is important to point out, though, given the number of people here who think these budgets are driven by American DTC ads.
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I said carbon credits (in it's current enron-accounting form) is paying someone to do nothing, and that carbon credits and a carbon tax are both types of negative action social engineering, likely to fail.

If you're going for utilitarianism, pick a more politically agreeable utility, like actual sequestration, if you want to be successful.
Ask HN: Custom solutions to manage your finances?
I'm a developer with ideas to implement ways to better manage personal finances. Was hoping to see what others have come up with until now.

One thing I did do, however, was create a spreadsheet that allows me to track all my Chase credit card points super nicely.

Here is the link: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1ciivnpDHQJyC5WJWNj0UfBJY95mnWTFVpYpKk_n9Rr4/edit?usp=sharing
imagine all the wind on the earth's surface right now. that's a vector field or gauge (as physicists call it). there are many units that it could denominated in (meters per sec, feet per second, etc). changing from one to the other is a gauge transformation (unit change, rescaling).

okay now suppose you want to compare the wind at two points. you can't just take the vectors at those two points and take a dot product because they're not in the same vector space (each of them is in a vector space tangent to the point they're anchored at). to figure out the issue with doing this watch this video

https://youtu.be/p1tfZD2Bm0w?t=170

you have to perform parallel transport. one way to do this is to track how much moving the vector changes it (messes with its orientation). that's the connection and the covariant derivative. you can then take a look at how that connection itself changes over the surface of the earth. if it's curl free (recall curl free vector field from multivariable calculus) then you don't have eddies in your wind charts i.e. you can't get faster by going around in a loop.

absolutely none of this applies to currency or equities because the surface of the earth is smooth and curved. neither of this is true about equities or securities or currency.
So it's for copy/move-constructors only?
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