skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think people who talk about "over regulation" should be excluded from serious discussion. "More" or "less" or "no" regulation is never the answer.

I don't think we have ultra safe drugs. I could be just paranoid, but I don't think the FDA is that good at monitoring the manufacturing of drugs. And I know I've read about how sometimes they approved a new dosage without actual testing and it turned out in at least one case the delivery mechanics didn't work properly.

Deregulation is like reform. Enough people think it's automatically good, that it's completely meaningless, and because it's meaningless the worst people pick it up as a slogan and run with it.

As someone that could really benefit from new drug approvals, I don't see deregulation as my savior because if it's executed by the worst people, then it will just lead to more snake oil and less ability to differentiate.
I've been thinking about this and Shakespeare's King Lear may be an example of this as well.
How much experience do you have in oncology? There are millions of breast cancer survivors that might disagree with you. There is also the false assumption that we haven’t made much progress in infectious diseases when, in fact, we have. Tamiflu was launched in 1999. AIDS drugs are light years ahead of where they were 25 years ago. We have effective vaccines for some of history’s worst killer diseases. Gilead has been working on remdesivir since 2016 for Coronaviruses. Hepatitis C is now curable (also thanks to Gilead.)

There is a lot of significant work happening in infectious diseases. However, curing cancer is the holy grail and a pursuit of that is on the same level as pursuing manned space flight. Flying people into space seemed frivolous at the time as well. After all, think of all of the hungry kids would could feed if we redirected Apollo money! However, space flight gave society countless advances that we didn’t foresee at the time. Perhaps we should argue that studying quantum physics is a waste of resources. Or studying astronomy. Or any number of fields where societally-useful breakthroughs are few and far between.

It’s ridiculous to imply that developing cancer drugs should be ditched in favor of developing more infectious disease drugs. We can walk and chew gum at the same time: this isn’t guns or butter.

If we want to apply pure rationality to drugs: let’s stop cancer drug expenditures so we can save more people from malaria, then we could apply that logic to social programs as well: why bother helping the mentally disabled when instead we could direct those funds towards something that provides more economic value to society? A kid with cerebral palsy isn’t going to contribute as much to society as a healthy kid — so why waste resources on that research? Of course it isn’t a waste when it’s your kid. Following that line of reasoning and we ultimately end up with eugenics and society would become a very nasty place indeed.
For those annoyed by the ad on this morioh.com blog post, the official Python website offers a succinct description of the same feature: [1]

Dictionary Merge & Update Operators

Merge (|) and update (|=) operators have been added to the built-in dict class. See PEP 584 [2] for a full description. (Contributed by Brandt Bucher in bpo-36144 [3].)

[1]: https://docs.python.org/3.9/whatsnew/3.9.html "What’s New In Python 3.9"

[2]: https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0584 "PEP 584"

[3]: https://bugs.python.org/issue36144 "bpo-36144"
With the "specific fd" approach, if openat fails, then read and close will harmlessly fail with EBADF ("Bad file descriptor"). Once you process the failure of openat, you'll just ignore the failure of read and close.
Honestly, I really fail to see how washing hands frequently will keep you safe from the virus.

The alternative idea, is that you should just tell people to wear gloves.

This will prevent them from touching their eyes, nose, and mouth. Because ideally, they won’t touch their mouth if they are wearing an outdoor glove.
The Brave browser is brilliant, but probably not for the reasons you think
Torture makes for a convenient plot device. It allows a way for an antagonist to help the protagonist without lessening tension or creating any sort of reconciliation.

A lot of writers are faced with “so how does the good guy get the bad guys minions to turn on him in a short amount of time?”

A common trope in movies is “working your way up the food chain” ... getting low level guys to flip on their bosses.

There aren’t many ways to do that, and the alternatives create distraction.
> I'm really curious now if there have been other transplants like this before with similar results?

Sometimes the results are not so good:

https://time.com/4419959/double-hand-transplant-surgery/

This link describes a transplant patient who did not achieve a similar level of success.

However since his surgery dates back to the very early days of this medical procedure, I suspect over time the process has improved and current surgery patients end up with better outcomes.
I love what you wrote. Everything except the using fear part.

I also love the honesty of using the word 'frightened by it'. That's what people are feeling and it's absolutely real. I can feel it in people when they talk about it. Being frightened is no joke, nor would I make fun of the feeling. My whole point was to highlight it being irrational. I don't share it. And I don't share it not because I'm special, but because I'm disconnected. When people are happy in a group and the feeling is contagiously moving through a room, I have a hard time getting 'in with it'. So I'm not taking credit for being disconnected, nor am I bragging about it, just explaining that I am, and therefore less likely to become infected with the feelings that seem to virally move through communities who are well connected.

But I do think we've accepted fear when we shouldn't. I love the stoics, who seem to think we need to accept fate more than our society seems to view it. In terms of using fear, let me quote one of histories greats, who said it better than I could ever say it:
https://youtu.be/nHFTtz3uucY?t=25
Will the millennial aesthetic ever end?
Is it really possible to remove the side channels? Even if you formally prove that it does not access memory outside of authorized regions, that doesn't prevent it from speculatively accessing unauthorized memory.

We've seen Spectre exploits through sandboxed Javascript. Unless you separated the eBPF VM address space from the kernel address space, I suspect you would have the exact same problems that browsers have had. But if you did put them in separate address spaces, then why bother with eBPF? You could run a normal userspace program.
No Place to Hide: Colleges Track Students, Everywhere
"It really doesn't change all that much"

In your toy example, it's a huge difference. You have a 1/3 chance of losing all your money without it, but a zero chance if you own all three.

With the stock market, it's not clear exactly what diversification gets you because nobody has the future correlation matrix, but it must be worth something. I think millions of people are implicitly assuming the whole market can't go to zero.
First thing, try to defuse it with humor. It's free unless the IRS gets wind of you practicing unlicensed silliness.

If you want to stay calm in a high-risk situation, try tactical breathing first.[0] Worry about playing with "mental models" second.

Another technique soldiers use in war is to assume they are dead until the war ends. It's much less stressful and more survivable. Also, there's no point worrying about things that are actually far beyond one's own control.

Another point to consider is the calmest individual typically has the most power in an interaction and has the advantage of clearest thinking.

Beware the fury of a patient man. - John Dryden

0. https://www.med.navy.mil/sites/nmcphc/Documents/health-promo...
$150K+/yr. OOF. On the positive side, 20 years from now these drugs will be dollar a bucket as generics. Thank god for capitalism.
Google is the worst product management company. Being the GCP, they don't really care, but this will move many SMBs to DigitalOcean.
It really hurts to read an article with 10-minute intro. I can't even tell by the 20th paragraph what's going on.
I have (c++) code from the early 1990's that compiles and works fine. People like to crap on c++ and Windows, but for just getting things done and maximum compatibility, I have yet to see better systems.
FYI: 300 TB egress at standard GCP pricing is already more than $17k.
Apologies, I linked the wrong thing. This can be extrapolated from what the American Hospital Association is projecting:

https://www.businessinsider.com/presentation-us-hospitals-pr...

As the article also references, Marc Lipsitch at Harvard projects the same.
You shouldn't use Show HN in the title of it's not something you've made. But a cool find!
I think insurance is uniformly horrible when it comes to CPAP machines (or any other long-term medical devices).

You might want to try a "boil and bite" mouthguard to see if that helps with your sleep apena instead of cpap.

If you decide to go back to a cpap, try a "nasal pillows" mask. Also the cpap devices have gotten much more sophisticated.
A bit tangential but related: has anyone else noticed an increased frequency in the desired result of a Google search being the first one on the second page?

Particularly for things involving reviews or booking, I have noticed an uptick in the (subjectively) “right” result being kept off page 1... it seems almost like some post processing logic to favor specific sites/companies. The fact that the “right” result in these instances is almost always the first result makes me think the true Ranking function knows the result’s actual value.
The Machine in the Ghost
> since I've not known of any single deadly virus that has achieve that

The flu.

I didn't say SARS-CoV-2 will achieve nearly 100% infection rate in a year, but over the lifetime of most young people today, certainly. In the next year, it will have infected enough people to dwarf the flu over that year, however much we hope against it.

Specifically, what assumptions am I making that are erroneous?
I'd go further than damning with faint praise and say that it is more than good enough for regular use.

Common wisdom is that it isn't as good as Google, but whenever my results are bad and I fall back to a !g search, those results are also bad.
They have 670 cases so that's quite interesting. A lot of these cases are relatively new. I wonder what's the hospitalization rate.
The whole example is just the fantasy version of the meeting as the author replays it in his mind while taking a shower.
I hate Slack, Telegram, WhatsApp and all of this new shit. I was very happy with just my email and Pidgin ;) Slack is just business, making money with stupid people, it's the new/old mode.
The emperor's new clothes, aren't they wonderful!

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Alex: The name of people who recombine words into meaningless jargon.

Player: What is an "I cannot say this on TV," Alex?

Alex: Correct. And we thank you for not getting the FCC involved.
We’re releasing a cluster version soon. It is a persistent graph (so not limited to RAM).

A single host can probably handle a billion nodes or so. Our largest in-production graph is about a third of that.
We need more Simpsons & Futurama references in the world! Thanks for bringing a smile!
Space Invaders: Why you should never, ever use two spaces after a period. (2011)
totally random because I just saw it an hour ago, but here is one

https://youtu.be/dly3yjYnW6U?t=163
I seems like a clickbait title with vapid, filler content using HN as an advertising platform. If it sinks to the depths of terrible, flagging it at the top is a possible response.
No pay for defiant ASUU members, says finance minister
> the infrastructure needed along with the scientific expertise is sometimes hard to replicate

Then the original developer can be the manufacturer. But no need to add hurdles.
Why not? microservices can also be serverless
Fortunately, the building predates aluminum wiring.
Yeah, it's called single payer and it's pretty effective. We should try it on other diseases, all of them.
Bought a 1600x a couple months after launch (along with an rx580). Other than temperature sensors everything worked beautifully out of the box with a standard ubuntu install. Since then my work has bought a 2990wx and multiple 3950x's all mostly without issues (wifi only works on newer kernels on some x570 motherboards, but an upgrade to ubuntu 19.10 fixes this).
> as there are longer periods of time where they weren't "delicacies" but still tasty parts of a meal.

Yeah that agrees with what I wrote. Why are you apologizing for thinking you are disagreeing
I like that I don't have to stand up and ask my colleague something.
Are there national laboratories with the capabilities to find a cure?

Is there a NASA equivalent for infectious diseases to launch a covid-19 moonshot?
People should be wearing these masks in public. I’m not sure why this is being so actively discouraged.

You don’t know if you’re infected. You may be asymptotic for days. That’s why we should be wearing face masks — to prevent us from accidentally spreading it when we’re sick.
Ruby isn't much better

ruby -e "require 'date'; puts (Date.parse('march 12 2019') + 366)"
2020-03-12
If so, why not stream the demos live to public, i.e. everyone, like Alchemist does?
Poverty and Progress by Henry George.

"Men like Henry George are rare unfortunately. One cannot imagine a more beautiful combination of intellectual keenness, artistic form and fervent love of justice. Every line is written as if for our generation." - Einstein
Simple eating habits changing to reverse hypothyroidism, inflammation naturally
Thanks for sharing. It's encouraging that something at least resembling what I came up with was considered.
Can someone clue me in on the benefit of Netlify over say, S3 bucket fronted by cloudfront? Seems like the cloudfront solution is much cheaper with not much more dev time investment
Sounds like a good time for capital N nationalization! :)
Using BitTorrent with Amazon S3
That's not what they said. They pay more than small vendors, sometimes.

If you are able to take advantage of sales and clearance deals here and there, you are very likely to get a lower price than even the biggest buyers.
Which product? Cloud Storage??
Is there Cloud CDN (or some other CDN) on top? If not, it's not surprising. With a proper CDN setup (say with Cloudflare) that number should be much lower than that of Netlify. Particularly with Cloudflare since your CDN cost is almost 0.

FYI Netlify doesn't work well with Cloudflare. That's the reason why it's so expensive as a standalone option.

https://community.netlify.com/t/how-do-i-use-cloudflare-dns-...
The bottom 50% has almost no wealth to begin with.
> 1) When he "offered" to take over the company, he said he would fire me and keep my cofounder running sales. This whole ordeal also coincidentally started a couple of days after my cofounder said she would be stepping down as CEO (even though he had previously told her he would extend the note). We have the impression he wants to "own" my cofounder somehow (according to an expert in psychopaths that we consulted with, the investor fits the profile - my cofounder is also very pretty and she's had to deal with stalkers multiple times in the past)

This sounds like the basis. The saying goes, "Hell hath no fury as a woman scorned," but let's not be sexist, it applies to men as well. And no less to men who had no pretense of legitimate courtship.

You might get over the legal case by showing it's a vexatious lawsuit, for instance by showing that the monetary motivation is not rational because he turned down offers that would have remedied his loss completely.
OK,though is "filled torus" even a proper name? Looks like Google recognizes that you probably really mean solid torus.
> Discover a new drug for a anti-biotic resistant infection? Great, here is $500M as long as you agree to produce as much drug as needed for free or some nominal cost.

If you were going to develop the drug at your own cost with no subsidy for failure, why settle for 500M? Why not do it on your kwn merit and reap billions instead? And keep all the IP.
Leaked US hospital prep document estimates 96m coronavirus cases, 480k deaths
Don't know why this is getting no attention. It is excellent!
I woke up at 4:30AM, did my things, let cold air at 2°C in, watered my plants, nibbled some nuts and berries, drank some green tea, and thouroghly enjoyed this for about two hours while the first birds began to sing.

I wish i could start every day with something so far out of my field, presented in innovative ways like this.

I am floored. Really.
Hmmm, yes. This would probably be more interesting to me if I could read Chinese haha
I wonder what things they have in common, if guns don’t seem to be a factor.

Maybe we could figure out whatever that is and work on that, instead of focusing on gun ownership, which demonstrably does not lead to more violence, and in most cases, leads to less violence.
Sure, nothing stopping them, and I'm not arguing against that.
It definitely is. What happened is software paid so well that people who can talk more than think, which is the vast majority of people, crowded it out.
The Three Laws of Serverless
Compared to what though? How efficient is a typical data center? Probably way less than this.
I understand that Milwaukee has long been a center of brewing in the US but you're saying it also has a big binge drinking culture as well? Is that a historic relic of the big breweries were a substantial employer in the city?
I got several 3M 1870's just in time then. Heh. They weren't that expensive. It was a pretty good deal actually.

To play the devil's advocate: price gouging is market efficiency because subsidized products in times of scarcity can be over-bought and resold for more. It reduces demand to those who actually need it.

To play the angel's apprentice: price gouging is wrong when people who aren't made of money need a particular product and need to use it now (inelastic demand). The rich can also bid a product up beyond what a poor person could afford, and always prevent them from acquiring it.

I think in this situation, it might be better for the federal government to crack open the enormous strategic stockpile, distribute masks to make people chill out and seem like they're doing something on-the-ground. Even if it's ineffective if worn properly, the emotional support value may make the difference in mood and trust.
Understanding the Universe: Through Code
I’d add Tenochtitlan which is Mexico now. It was a swamp surrounded by mountains 500 years ago. Densely populated.
Backblaze doesn't give you a random read/write like DropBox, and wanting your disk drive back takes some time...
It's sad how low our expectations have become.
The article is correct as far as it goes, but really falls under the umbrella of IT compliance.

And implementing PCI, SOC2, etc. along with GDPR, etc. is a massive and ongoing project.
Sure you do. See speed limits, driving licenses, etc. They were not in existence until people started getting hurt by cars. Before that anyone could drive.

(source: https://itstillruns.com/history-drivers-license-5552087.html )
Hey look at me, I am communicating, I am being seen to communicate. As I am being seen to communicate, people who matter will notice my industry and reward me; never mind that I am actually a net loss to the productivity of the organization. That's slack, that is.
Consider the chain of reasoning in https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1236095180459003909.html
If I could remotely control my hammer then yeah. And the hammer still works either way.
S3 Reduced Redundancy is replaced with S3 Infrequent Access (and another lower tier One-Zone Infrequent Access) so there's still some pricing flexibility available.
I remember it being stressed to me:

"don't call it 'X-Windows'. It is 'X', or 'The X Window System', if you must."

This was in an environment where upper management wanted to take away the desktop workstations from non-developers in favor of X terminals. "We move all that work to the server now; You don't need all that expense on all these desks. Server-side is the future."

Good freaking luck if you were Tech Support or QA.

The fun part: we were spending as much on the X terminals and supporting equipment as we could get more Sparcstations for at our great corporate rate (my desktop was on its third generation by then).

Unsurprisingly, this was merely an early checkpoint in what became a tailspin.
There's a myth that chargebacks are automatic or easy.

You have to make a chargeback complaint, have that investigated, get approval from your issuer, then wait for a refund.
There's a shortage of masks because the production facilities for masks cannot be built and staffed instantly. If you tried to start one up now, the price will likely have collapsed by the time you have it running, leaving you with an unprofitable facility.
> You need a car to get a job.

You don't need a new car though. I've managed to hold down a job for years driving used cars.

> 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

Other than delivery jobs, I didn't think employers even asked "do you have a car?" in job interviews. It seems like such a weird thing to ask in a country where, as you say, pretty much everyone has a car.

> And cars just don't last like they used to.

This is straight-up BS. Cars last longer than ever these days. [1] Buy Honda or Toyota and it will likely last over 200k miles.

> 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.

New cars cost a lot more in insurance and interest than used cars. That's extra money you will definitely spend if you buy a new car - versus money you might spend if your used car turns out to be a lemon requiring a ton of repairs.

New cars also depreciate faster. The minute you drive a new car off the lot, it's worth 20% less than you paid for it. That's literally money out of your pocket, but no one seems to count it when saying "used cars cost more in maintenance."

1. https://www.consumerreports.org/car-reliability-owner-satisf...
> reevaluated our reliance on health care delivery systems that base their agenda on outcomes that are economically profitable for them, rather than what is desirable for our society as a whole

I believe historically this was the general thought process of the Nazi party in regards to healthcare. It leads to the people in charge being able to snuff-out any member of society that would be a burden to society as a whole, physically (i.e. people with a serious virus) or economically (i.e. disabled people). Dealing with big-pharma profit issues doesn't seem bad compared to that.
It worked for Denis Leary, and not just stealing Bill Hick's act. More of a musical thing.
Thalidomide was never approved for use in the US, and the heavy regulation came afterwards.
Vectrex
If a Californian told me a restaurant they went to was "Just OK", I would avoid going to that restaurant unless there were no other alternatives. I think that might be part of the disconnect.
It’s a warning. If they call it that, be wary of signing on.

Unless, you know, you like doing ops work all day every day.