skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You need a car to get a job. You need a job to afford a car.

It's a systemic problem in the US where employers don't really want to hire you if you have no car because our public transit sucks, so they assume you can't get to work without a car.

And cars tend to be the second biggest household expense, after rent.

My brother has been in the automotive industry most of his life. Thanks to how computerized cars are, you can't really service your own vehicle anymore, even if you are a talented mechanic.

And cars just don't last like they used to. If it isn't new, you are probably paying so much more on maintenance that it isn't really saving you money compared to getting a new car.

Americans are prisoners of the need to own a car. It's a huge financial burden and my life works as well as it does because I escaped that trap more than a decade ago. It's part of why I can survive at all while supporting three people on well under $20k annually.

But most Americans can't imagine escaping it. I get a lot of deer in the headlights looks and have largely stopped talking about the fact that it's possible to make other choices because it's just so unimaginable for many Americans and they just act like I'm a loon and out of my mind completely.
and fulfilling market demand is a bad thing?

Some of us don't have access to said 'brick and mortar' as it's on a different continent.
Hey, I checked your website and it seems you also support international payments. Do you offer FIRCs on international payments? These are required legally for service exporters (like a SaaS service), and are very tough to get. Currently payoneer seems to be the only provider which supports issuing an actual e-FIRC without any hassles. But they are not a payment gateway. Stripe issues something like an advice but not an actual e-FIRC. Paypal also only gives an advice and not an actual e-FIRC.
Oh I read your sentence. I didn't ignore it. I just don't see how one thing 'logically' follows another, let alone allows for a 'deduction'. I mean, I can see your sentence is a point that could be supportive of your argument. But to connect them like your doing, implying proof, is to make many assumptions which I don't see as necessarily true. For me you are not fulfilling the burden of proof that your assertion requires. Saying this will have a near 100% infection rate is an extraordinary claim, since I've not known of any single deadly virus that has achieve that.

I won't continue since more fundamentally, I think you and I have a very, very different definition for what 'logic' and 'deduction' mean. To me these words, like the word ironic, have a very narrow definition that many people don't seem to conform to. I guess we'll have to agree to disagree. I do wish you the best and think we can all agree that we hope the new virus has the smallest possible toll on humanity. :)
Forecasting the potential domestic and international spread of the 2019 coronaV
Humanity wins: our fight to unlock 32,544 Covid-19 articles for the world
I’ve been on a keto diet almost exclusively for over 2 years now.

Results have been very impressive for me.

Not just in weight management, but also for fitness/performance.

Anecdotally, cognitive performance/output feels like I’ve moved the needle in the right direction.

Not sure if related, but multiple tests on telomere measurement(associated with cellular ageing) show “genetic age” well below my chronological age.

Despite all of this, I really don’t know.

The low carb and no sugar diet really seems to work for me.

If I had to guess, I’d say there is no single overwhelming factor to increasing longevity.

I think brain health is a mix of:

Healthy nutrition
Hydration
Fitness/activity level
Sufficient sleep
Low stress(but not no stress)
Purpose
People in your life
Traumatic brain injury prevention
Life long education
Reading as a hobby
No smoking

But in terms of mental agility(if not brain aging), I have a feeling that some low level of hunger is a positive indicator of short term mental agility.

I reckon there’s a high performance zone for brain health/performance for both short-term and long-term.

I look forward to more quantifiable research in this space.

Just my amateur 0.02c
I think governments should take charge in this. Look at how much the development of the ebola vaccine bounced around for years. https://www.statnews.com/2020/01/07/inside-story-scientists-...
The infrastructure and expertise exists in India, and they'll gladly manufacture drugs at a cost that the developing world can afford.
"Better" in a niche-filling way, not a "this is very well engineered, but for my use case it's very overengineered" way.
Gotcha.

As an aside, the "netflix model" for drug payments is already a reality in Louisiana. Basically the drug maker and state government negotiated a payment for enough hepatitis C drugs to cure everyone in the state.[1]

[1]http://ldh.la.gov/index.cfm/newsroom/detail/5181
High economic rent corresponds to low risk premium. Utilities are a great example, they trade almost like bonds (not quite; there's still risk in them, just look at the famous Californian one).

Also, "high rents = low risk premium" is the whole idea behind Buffett's moats. He correctly anticipated that risk premiums were far too high for businesses with durable competitive advantage (like coca cola), so he kept buying them even at "high prices", i.e. at apparently "dangerously low risk premiums". And then the premiums eroded even further as the companies proved resilient to competition. That's why, I think, he keeps buying Apple stock despite it being priced so dearly.

The problem begins when you assign a ridiculously low risk premium to something that's so obviously risky, like the recent Silicon Valley "tech" startups, which have no moats, no profits, no margins, tons of competition. But the issue goes well beyond Silicon Valley.
Stanford cancels in-person classes for rest of the quarter
Cancer is an extremely complex disease and we are making real progress on it. Only because we don't discover a powerful medication like antibiotics that eliminates multiple types of the same disease doesn't mean that we aren't making progress.
It's a gimmick. Over 90% of the system doesn't do anything because mechanical imperfections overwhelm the theoretical gear behavior.
Rats avoid actions that cause pain to fellow rodents – study
Bus errors, core dumps, and binaries on NFS (2018)
Yes, slavery, really. Rational actors today engage in slavery. https://venturebeat.com/2020/03/02/apple-foxconn-and-81-othe...

And you can construct a "rational" argument for it: the slaves are living under an oppressive government anyway and apparently nobody is going to intervene, so if they're stuck in internment camps, may as well give them something to do with their time. Sure, they don't have freedom, but they weren't going to have it anyway, so it's still rational. Right?

In seriousness - if you don't take into account the economic reliance on slavery that jurisdictions with legal slavery (e.g., the US South in the 1800s) had, and you claim it's solely that irrational slaveholders saw certain people as less than human in the abstract, you've missed a good part of the explanation and risk inaccurately understanding how to prevent it from happening again. People had a strong economic incentive to come up with justifications for their objectively immoral actions.
Considering Rust [video]
The problem is that regulation is so expensive there isn't any financial motivation in researching does that are unlikely to generate massive revenue.

The reason for this is FDA is fundamentally extremely conservative. The people that run the regulatory system are just faceless bureaucrats and are risk adverse. Their pay is based on seniority and there isn't any financial motivation for them to take risks or stand out. FDA is nothing more then a collection of individuals so the motivation of the agency is a mirror image of the motivations of the people running it.

To put it bluntly:

When diseases like cancer or influenza or <insert name of any disease> kill people the diseases get blamed. But if a drug makes to it market and ends up maiming people or killing them then the FDA gets blamed.

So from the FDA's perspective it's much more important that we have ultra-safe drugs then it is to have new drugs to cure and treat diseases.

The regulators are going to take the default position that more testing and screening and expenses are good. While allowing consumers and doctors to take risks to treat diseases is bad. And over the decades it has just gotten more and more and more and more expensive to get the drugs out to the public.

And since it's too expensive to make new drug companies because of the regulators then you will never see any smaller nimble companies come in and compete with them and force the big companies to behave themselves.

This is why you see all the generic drugs being bought up in the past couple decades. During the Obama administration they signed regulatory changes that rose the cost of validating generic drugs considerably. It wasn't so expensive that it would drive generics from the market, but it's expensive enough that you can't make new generic drug companies. So the big name brand drug companies just buys them all up. And because of that they no longer face competition from generics. They own both the name brands and the generics.

If it was cheaper to make generic drug companies this approach wouldn't work. People would make new companies for the sole purpose of getting bought. It would make buying companies up to kill competition unsustainable.

I've worked in heavily regulated industries before and it's a pretty obvious pattern. Regulators regulate. Costs go up. Competition goes down. And then the big companies become isolated from competition because it's just too expensive to compete with them. Then the government has to bend over backwards to ensure the profitability of these dominate corporations because if they were to go out of business there would never be any replacements.

It's a form of market lock-in. Over regulation effectively becomes a license for these big pharma companies to do pretty much whatever the fuck they want. They love it.
SXSW 2020 Canceled Due to Coronavirus Concerns
Slides:

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1Ckv7qiUWXn8cFWYX6Ydz...

https://jon.thesquareplanet.com/slides/considering-rust/expo...
Why is the third in place cloud (GCP) making their offering worse than the second place one (Azure)? DigitalOcean also doesn't charge per cluster. Not to mention how behind the Kubernetes releases they are...
Before io_uring there were many failed proposals for a general purpose, asynchronous interface to wrap blocking syscalls. One of these, "syslets", was literally a mechanism for batching arbitrary syscalls: https://lwn.net/Articles/221887/

> Syslets are small, simple, lightweight programs (consisting of system-calls, 'atoms') that the kernel can execute autonomously (and, not the least, asynchronously), without having to exit back into user-space. ....

> Syslets consist of 'syslet atoms', where each atom represents a single system-call. These atoms can be chained to each other: serially, in branches or in loops.
...as they develop a vaccine for Ebola.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ebola_vaccine
There's also Qwant. I've been using it a for a while on PC and found it to be not bad. On Android I kept running into no results a few times, I don't know what that was about.
You can monitor existing viruses in wild animal populations and give them treatment before it mutates and goes to humans. This would be relatively cheap compared to solving the problem afterwards. We now know that bats are prime suspects for carriers of these diseases because they them selves don’t get sick much from them, live is close quarters, fly and are mammals.
...and that's why modern pop music is such boring formulaic stuff. The only interesting life I can discern exists only in underground-ish electronic music.
I unfortunately can't find it, but there was an interesting chart that showed overall survival in metastatic colorectal cancer.

It covered the last 30 years. Each new therapy improved survival by only 6-12 months, but each new drug was more effective than the last. Over those 30 years, the median survival went from 6 months to over 5 years.

People shouldn't discount incremental improvements because that's often how medicine progresses.
If you bought a hammer 8 years ago and the hammer company had a way to "deactivate" certain uses of the hammer so it only worked in a few situations, would you say "8 years is long enough for a hammer, it's perfectly reasonable they force you to buy a new hammer in order for it to work properly." ?

Philips has the resources to keep this up and running.
Buried if unmarried, cremated otherwise. I don't know if it's only our tradition.
Shutting off the lights should be a local operation, you don't need to connect to their server to do it.
By reliable in this context I mean robust against hardware failure. (Including the failure of entire storage sites.) The OP explains the math and associated assumptions for how they derived that "99.9999%" figure, and acknowledges that since the calculated chance of data loss due to hardware failure is so infinitesimally small, other failure modes outside of what they modeled are likely to dominate.

As for the relatively small number of hosts at present, 895 is more than enough for 10-of-30 redundancy to work "as advertised". You really only need 30 hosts technically. The bigger issue I think is the relative immaturity of the software. Sia is still pretty new compared to most other data storage systems; and although I've never heard of any software bugs in Sia resulting in data loss, that doesn't mean such a bug will never be discovered. Be cautious, keep backups, and never rely on any single storage medium to store your data.
So there you have it.

Late Stage Capitalism Failure.

No ability to make a bajillion dollars in rent-seeking profit. So F it! Let the people die.
I would say you could ballpark it as something north of 10^100 Nm or ft-lb

If you want to make these figures a little more reasonable, we could try to spin the slow gear only once in 100 years, in which case you can take about 5 whole powers of 10 off these numbers
You have to compile it yourself, which sucks. For some reason PyTorch aren't agreeing to upstream ROCm, yet.
I am sure this is useful, but I feel python is moving further and further from its zen ("preferably one way") in each version.

Also, the ads in this website are terrible.
Depends on the drug. Small molecules, sure? Complex biologics? Even other large pharma companies can have challenges making those.
The real question is why did Iran get hit so fast? Maybe Chinese companies have been breaking sanctions.

Im pretty sure thats why the CEO of Huawei is being held in Canada soon to be extradited to the US to face fraud charges based on breaking Iranian sanctions and lying to banks about it.
Awesome, I love spectograms!

Why did you implement your own FFT instead of using WebAudio?

http://arc.id.au/Spectrogram.html
If this is about the sun moving because of not being centered, that doesn't make any sense at all to me.

Most of the wobble would be Jupiter, so shouldn't Jupiter's orbit be the approximate period of the wobble? Which is 11 years, which is obviously way too short to be in a discussion about global warming.

I found a picture on Wikipedia that seems to confirm that the barycenter takes about a decade to go from near the center of the sun to roughly the furthest away that it gets.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/0c/Solar_sy...
>but we don't allow slavery because its wrong and immoral

No, slavery is not allowed because the pro slavery people lost, they are forced to stop the practice. It certainly ain't wrong or immoral according to the pro slavery people.
Understanding the global decline in the labor income share
Ask HN: Is your office experiencing a flu outbreak?
My office in SF is. Everyone is sick. Please mention your city and if comfortable company.
I only read the negative reviews, because they seem more objective.
I own a coffee roaster with eshop and over 100 corporate customers. I love coffee.

At the same time, I believe none of the "studies" claiming health benefits of it.

One only has to study what it does to your brain to make a sound conclusion. (or read some of those studies and look at the bogus methods they often use)

It also affects sleep in a negative way, with poor sleep being at the root of most health problems including cancer ... (lookup stuff on sleep by Matthew Walker)

Likewise, I don't know what to think of all the "coffee is good for your heart" studies that surfaced in the past decade. It used to be that coffee was clearly bad for cardiovascular health then with the rise of Starbucks and global markets it became huge business and suddenly studies making ridiculous claims (like "10 cups of coffee a day is fine, science says") started to appear.

I can't see how something that unnaturally raises your adrenaline, cortisol and blood pressure (on daily basis for most) can be that great for your heart.

Finally, most people drink coffee on empty stomach, something that can easily lead to ulcers or even worse. Caffeine irritates it and high acid doesn't help either (reason why we add milk to coffee - it neutralises the acid) ... I find the rise of the hipster coffee brands pushing highly acidic brewing and roasting methods problematic.

But the fact is, nobody is telling you the full truth. Take top 1000 google results for coffee, it's 90% sellers, affiliates and journalists. People either make money from coffee or are addicted to it.

I love coffee myself, but I don't believe none of the proclaimed benefits. I consider caffeine a stimulant ... it's good to stay off it and use it's power selectively ... at the right time for the right kind if work, not mindlessly every morning.

Finally, I appreciate the cultural aspect ... like hanging out in Viennese style cafe, read something or engage in 'stimulating' conversations.
Stanford cancels classes in response to novel coronavirus outbreak
This is true, but nonetheless you’re supposed to carry a CB. On Canadian logging roads, this is not something they take lightly - at least on the signage!
Nigerian Pastor jailed 34 years in UK for rape
Yes, between immunosupressants, likely limited life time, limited functionality, I would be inclined to go with a prosthetic personally. Even though I think I would be fine pyschologically.

I think, hopefully I won't find out for sure!
Even without that, even 50 of these gears would take the mass-energy of something between a star system and a galaxy cluster to turn at any human-scale timeframe
Then smoke some weed, or eat some ‘shrooms with your latte.

That seems to randomize and reorganize your brain cells, that you start to think of weird things that you would’ve never thought of otherwise.
This is a very good approach. I have become ruthless at removing inbound interruptions from my devices:

I have all notification pop-ups disabled across all of my devices, with the sole exception of an incoming phone call (unless the caller is not in my contacts list, in which case it goes straight to voicemail without ringing my phone).

Beyond notifications, all badges are also disabled across all devices, with the sole exception of text messages (if I unlock my phone and go to the home screen, I can see that I have unread text messages).

This enables me to live largely in a pull fashion, without every communication channel constantly breaking my flow.
We Acquired Hey.com
Look no further than the hacking of Bezos' phone.
https://theopolisinstitute.com/the-chiastic-structure-of-lor...
Maybe. Seems a similar kind of thing. I only have a fleeting grasp of Multics.
This recent drug does better than 3-6 months: Nivolumab . One-Third of Patients With Advanced Melanoma Survive at Least 5 Years After Nivolumab Treatment. (https://www.ascopost.com/issues/may-10-2016/one-third-of-pat...

Here's another recent success : https://hcp.lutathera.com/ ---
https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa1607427
At the data-cutoff date for the primary analysis, the estimated rate of progression-free survival at month 20 was 65.2% (95% confidence interval [CI], 50.0 to 76.8) in the 177Lu-Dotatate group and 10.8% (95% CI, 3.5 to 23.0) in the control group.

Lutathera delivers a radioactive molecule to the tumor.
I think part of this is a cultural issue with older "traditional" companies. I have worked at such a company and, after introducing Slack, people used it in exactly the same way including cc'ing everyone at the end of the message and needlessly escalating every thread if it's not answered immediately.

The annoying thing with Slack is that it's impossible to mute individuals who use it disruptively so I either get all or none of these notifications. It's easy to change people's behaviour in smaller companies but when there are hundreds of people in the workspace it gets tricky.
So just to be clear, we should not trust Chinese designed processors, and other “smart” equipment?
I actually live 90 minutes outside Stockholm, going by public transport. According to https://sl.se it would take me 2 hours to IKEA Kungens Kurva.

It's trivial to both get and use cash here.
This is true..

Until you have a lot of money, and then you become an asshole.
https://youtu.be/Nlreep7UDIc?t=171
Universal health care was almost part of the Social Security Act of 1935 (2017)
Unfortunately, I don’t have the finances to do that or the available time. An investor contacted my University and is interested in acquiring my idea from me. I built out my MVP to serve a hyper-niche market and I’d like to familiarize myself with as much information as possible pertaining to other cities so I can form an understanding of the potential scalability of my idea. This meeting is in a week so I’m pressed for time and don’t have the financial resources to go city-hopping.
Google and Bing both list all three capitals of South Africa. They also write out how they've interpreted your query so you can tell if they're giving you the answer to the right question.
>Giving us a black hole large enough to fit about 112 googol observable universes.

*Giving us a black hole with a radius large enough to fit about 112 googol observable universes stacked end-to-end in a line.

~Triple the number of zeros for the number of universes to fit in its 3D volume. 112 x (4/3) x pi followed by 336 zeroes, more or less.
Long-term, io_uring will almost certainly going to provide more operations than just I/O.
Post Malone’s Fans Are Worried He May Soon Die After Disturbing Footage Leaks
> the obvious violation of privacy would be evident to the average person.

I keep on thinking the violations of privacy we have been enduring would spark some pushback but it has not. I know some very intelligent people who realize the implications, but they eventually just give in.
Service providers such as IT or Marketing companies, for long projects slack is amazing. Every company has its own workplace. We don't email or call. They drop us a message, we add the task to asana if needed, if not, answer briefly and move on.

It is not for everyone in my opinion. Very small companies will waste time (under 20 employees) or very large companies will waste resources instead of using project management systems.

It has a very niche use, I don't think everyone is using it the right way.