skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Patients do not need to be informed of new drugs, and never were until pharmaceutical companies lobbied Congress to remove the ban on direct advertising, which had been put in place as a consumer protection law due to 19th century "snake oil" salesmen/con-men. For doctors, a monthly publication of drugs currently in development, their status, and their uses would be adequate. It'd be much better for doctors to get their information from a published journal than the advertisements in some trade magazine or attractive reps handing out free samples.

Regarding You're just running a wealth transfer or insurance program in addition at that point. Yes, that would be a major purpose of nationalizing drug R&D and manufacturing. You could say the same about every public service.
Here I think aging is far easier to tackle. Aging is a discrete set of biological processes that we understand more every day. The bounds we need to make in science are not so extreme to defeat aging, a process we have a pretty good view on now. Interstellar travel requires significantly more leaps. Light speed travel, or some big fraction of light speed [and slowing down from light speed]. It requires a huge amount of engineering and physical resources to even contemplate. It will take a concerted effort by a nation state. Aging is something that can be tackled collectively by the nations of the world, and just gets better understood every year naturally. Just spit balling this some, but that's roughly how I see it breaking down
I think the part that turns me off to it is "Look we can flip a sphere inside out" followed shortly after by "You can't do this in real life".

So what's the point then? Who cares?
You can't really show the math beyond personal experience and even then it's all relative to your lifestyle.

Living in the city near the office also depends on the area. I can get out off my town in ~5min at any time of the day. There's no traffic on my street. I've got a creek and walking paths nearby. I have time to cook at home and save on takeaways and potentially improve my health. I wouldn't exchange this for an extra $100k and daily commute.

Living in a smaller city will be different. Having different hobbies will have an impact. I don't see any way to show this makes sense in general. It will be make sense for some people though.
The results that Uber gets will depend on exactly how they execute. If they're serious about their goal to "shift engineering innovation to India", then it might be different from what the FAANGs have done.

In my experience working with the India team at (one of) the FAANGs, it seemed like they were offloading the work that people didn't want to do in SV to the Hyderabad office (e.g. testing, maintenance of legacy systems).

But it could also be the case that there are innovative things being built in these India offices that people just assume were built in the US.
Part of the issue is that the supply of doctors is kept artificially low in the US. Another part is: why the heck do you need an office visit for this? Why can’t you go directly to the lab?
The people i have talked with that are concerned with the loss of personal liberties are well aware we have to give up many liberties to live is a society. The part everyone ignores is that most of these people want the legal process followed and to not have rules made by non-checked executive order. They want to know that new rules are based on law and granted powers to rule makers. Just because this particular rule might make sense to you now (“i agree we should wear masks”) does not mean you will agree with the some future rule later. And for that, we have a process that makes new laws and gives powers to make executive decisions.
> But it’s not because it would hurt revenue since price transparency benefits buyers, and price obfuscation benefits sellers by allowing them to price discriminate and charge each seller the most each seller is able to pay.

Are you against a monopsony in healthcare? If you care about having a fair-shake for every consumer, then that's the most consistent way of wielding power against would-be price gougers.
Random pedantry... Ham is not an acronym, so it isn't capitalized.
There was a revelation a while back that instantaneous UX can be detrimental. If the action occurs so quickly that the users can't see it happening, they have a tendency to assume it didn't happen. Programmers had to introduce intentional latency through elements such as the file copy animation.
These are some expensive brands of “zero gravity” or “anti gravity” chairs. They might not be what you are seeking exactly.

http://www.ergoquest.com/

https://www.stressless.com/en

https://altwork.com/

https://www.humantouch.com/
How would you reply to the Kochen-Specker Theorem [0] (or its consequence, the Free Will Theorem)? The main problem with treating subatomic particles as tiny spheres, rather than as waves, is that we immediately have problems with entanglement and Bell's inequalities. I would be interested in hearing how you're going to handle that.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kochen%E2%80%93Specker_theorem
Most of the properties of materials are from the charged pieces that make them up -- the protons and electrons. Since adding neutrons wouldn't change the number of electrons or protons other isotopes would be almost identical for the purposes of chemistry, light, etc.

Some small differences might crop up in things that depend explicitly on the mass of the nucleus (e.g. sound propagation, density). But given adding a few neutrons in heavy nucleus is a change of order a percent or so in mass it isn't likely to be dramatic.
Slap OpenBSD or NetBSD on it.
I really enjoyed the audiobooks of these, which on the face of it ought to have been tricky, voicing dozens of copies of the same person.
A huge factor is multiple insurance companies add a lot of overhead to the system as they all try to negotiate lower prices. It’s common for a doctor to spend more time dealing with your insurance company after a visit than you. Which clearly means they need to dramatically raise prices to cover that overhead.
Animal Crossing: New Horizons Island Save Data Transfers to New Nintendo Switch
I socialize with my neighbors and the people at the brewery. Social distancing is pointless.
For people asking: you can create a resetfw.sh script, for iptables:

#!/bin/bash

iptables -P INPUT ACCEPT
iptables -P FORWARD ACCEPT
iptables -P OUTPUT ACCEPT
iptables -t nat -F
iptables -t mangle -F
iptables -F
iptables -X

chmod +x resetfw.sh

and add it for ex to /etc/cron.hourly directory

This way you can test your iptables rules and they'll get clear at every hour. Once you check they are OK you can delete this cronjob.

(NOTE: I'm typing from memory, haven't tested this)
As far as I know it’s not even true of Mussolini though.
Nostalgia:

At my first software development job in the mid 90s, the "cool" basement room with all of the smart/weird developers in it had a a mix of Sun SPARCstation 10/20 and Sun Ultra 1 workstations.

There was also this one weird SGI O2 they had just bought to port their software to the IRIX platform, but noone wanted really wanted to use it, because of IRIX. So I picked that workstation, just to be in that room. Smartest decision of my life - what I learned in there defined my career.

The Irix Interactive Desktop (based on Motif) felt so incredibly responsive on the O2, compared to Motif/CDE on the Sun workstations. It was almost BeOS-like in that regard. It was the little touches that mattered. A random example: the CPU usage monitor updated at like 10-20 Hz, instead of like 1 Hz on the Sun workstations.

Not that anyone really used CDE in normal work - other window managers were far more efficient. I ended up using http://www.lysator.liu.se/~marcus/amiwm.html on this O2.
The Next AI Hardware Frontier
Except that then 99% of people reading your page will be using Firefox, so it's not that big of a deal to just say fuck it and not do this whole SafeHTML thing any more when you want that one extra feature in a year. The 1% of readers who cared are just a minority.

The entire purpose here is to build a community of people who care about this sort of thing, who write content for that community, where taking your content away from that community is not an easy decision of adding a <script> or <style> tag.
Happy 4th of July Create United States Flag with HTML and CSS
I agree with you, if I understand the signed exchange proposal correctly the trust model is effectively similar (NYT explicitly opts to let Fastly pretend to be them through their DNS config in the same way that a signed exchange would let them explicitly opt into letting Google pretend to be them).

I'm still opposed to the change, I see this centralization of the web through CDNs as a bad thing, I don't want to make it easier.
Please post a citation
Hello there, from an employee of a major health care network which still has a ton of Windows Server 2003 servers in production!
Even storage of helium has largely been solved, and that is far more tricky than hydrogen. It’s just expensive.
This might sound like a naive question, but what is the driver behind this? Economic factors? Is it cheaper to keep people in smaller spaces, in privately-owned prisons? I am genuinely curious why we hear so much about solitary confinement in American prisons specifically.
Or you could store signed exchanges on platforms like Dat or IPFS and get real decentralization.
Thanks for alerting me to Evan Chen, what a wonderful person and skilled mathematical educator!
If tobacco products are still legal, then banning other carcinogenic products seems questionable at best.
This is a book I keep recommending as well. It is very fun (and also includes a sphere eversion).
> mpv ... youtube-dl

I thought that was a fight club type secret that we're not supposed to share.
I worked with an Indy for some time and what was really cool - besides the smooth and fast reaction to user input you mentioned - was that the UI elements were scalable. If I remember correctly they were vector and not bitmaps. Back then I thought that this will soon be the norm. I'd never imagined that we would still be struggling with this more than 20 years later.

EDIT: After googling SGI workstation models I think what I used was actually most likely an O2[1]. Great design, I remembered its distinct look even after so many years.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SGI_O2
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Movie quote database with video clips
It certainly is. Most of the reason modern computers don't feel instantaneous is actually a trade-off: old computers were less adaptive to change.

In old GUIs (e.g. Windows 3.1), many things—file associations, program launchers, etc.—got loaded from disk into memory once—usually at GUI startup—and then the state of those things was maintained entirely in memory, with programs that updated the on-disk state of those things either 1. also independently updating the in-memory state with a command sent to the relevant state-database-keeper; or 2. requiring that you log out and back in to see changes.

Today, we don't have everything sitting around loaded into memory—but in exchange, we have soft-realtime canonicity, where the things you see in the GUI reflect the way things are, rather than a snapshot of the way things were plus (voluntary, possibly missable/skippable) updates. Install a program that has higher-than-default-binding file associations? The files in your file manager will update their icons and launch actions, without the program needing to do anything.

There's ways to eat your cake and have it too—to have on-disk canonicity and instant updates—but this require a very finicky programming model†, so we haven't seen any GUI toolkit offer this, let alone one of the major OSes do so.

† Essentially, you'd need to turn your Desktop Environment into a monolithic CQRS/ES aggregate, where programs change the DE's state by sending it commands, which it reacts to by changing in-memory state (the in-memory aggregate), and then persists a log of the events resulting from those commands as the canonical on-disk state (with other aggregates fed from those to build OLAPable indices / domain-state snapshots for fast reload.) This gets you "Smalltalk windowing semantics, but on a Unix filesystem substrate rather than a VM memory-image substrate."
reading the article made me realize that the combination of dang + the heuristic of “article w/ way more comments than upvotes: might be extra flame-y” is an effective counter-measure

other platforms have much more trouble with this phenomenon
> the meaning of the URL

The issue is that the technical meaning of the URL is very far from what most user think of.

Is the URL an address for NYT's server? Not really because you are actually hitting Fastly's server. So when NYT sets up a magical DNS config, it suddenly is fine, but using crypto to sign the package and serve it on a CDN that way, then it's suddenly "subverting the meaning of the URL"?

We can have a real discussion of what the meaning of a URL is, but I think your interpretation is unfair. I think it's entirely fair to argue that it makes sense for URLs to be an address to a specific content.
If you didn't catch the joke: It is currently unknown whether there are any odd perfect numbers (and the program halts on encountering the first).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perfect_number

https://oeis.org/A000396
Gemini servers don't tell you the size of the file they're sending.
SGI is Silicon Graphics - they were the pioneers in 3D animation especially for the movies, research etc. Jurassic Park was entirely rendered in SGI workstations.

These workstations were incredibly powerful and extremely expensive (think > $250,000 for the higher end gear in the 1990s) but pretty amazing.

Also, for the time it had very advanced user interfaces. SGI Irix was the name of the OS which ran on these machines.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bo3lUw9GUJA
For those not in the know (like me): "SHU" stands for "Security Housing Unit".
I liked the start of the first book very much, but then it started to get repetitive and after the second book I decided to skip the third.
Most of the early image guided surgery systems were powered by SGI's as well.
Forcing an AI to do Leetcode style questions should violate some sort of Robot Geneva Convention
Helium is inert and not prone to explode when it sees the first spark. Also, as you indicate: storing helium is expensive - it is only economically viable because there is no competing product and hence whatever the price for helium storage is, it will get paid.
Signed exchanges make it super easy to detect fraud. You can verify the signature...
High Stock Prices Make Sense Right Now
I'm sure the 16th century engineer realized that too and designed it more because it was an amusing idea than anything practical. There's a reason it wasn't built until now.
I think "just" going for CSS 2 would be a mistake. In my opinion, it would be preferable take new concepts that are simple to implement and simplify life for everybody (e.g. vh, vw units and flexbox, box-sizing). Goal should be to get a minimal deterministic rendering engine for content that's easily written manually with a minimal subset of modern XHLTML+CSS.

Re:XHMTL: as somebody pointed out here, there are rules to "normalize" unbalanced HTML5, but they have to be implemented and add to the mountain of "implicit" knowledge one has to have and implement...
Then maybe we shouldn't be spending billions of dollars leading a bunches of horses that aren't thirsty to water.
The term of art for this is "discretionary income". I think it is a more informative than disposable income, but it is much harder to find for many countries. The US Bureau of Labor and Statistics (BLS) publishes surprisingly detailed statistics on consumer expenditure at decile resolution which allows it to be easily computed.

Discretionary income is defined as disposable income after you subtract housing, utilities, food, clothing, healthcare, and transportation costs based on actual survey data. Roughly speaking, discretionary income is the amount of money available for saving or spending on fun. If you want to know the mean and distribution of how much a person spends on eggs or fresh vegetables in each decile, the BLS can tell you that. It also tracks a lot of non-essential expenditures. It is a great resource.

Here is the combined report from BLS for 2018:

https://www.bls.gov/cex/2018/combined/decile.pdf
Emailed. I think I have an interesting perspective as a pro-hackathonner who regularly uses new technologies to build compelling demos. Haven’t heard back yet from my initial beta application, hope to be able to try it out and explore its potential.
My best guess was Jira, not everything made sense but it was the only thing I could think of.
If you like this, you might also like to check out “John Muir’s Alarm Clock Desk”

https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/john-muirs-alarm-clock-d...
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I think there is a pretty large interest in something like this. But I don't think it will as simple/automated as you would like.

At the minimum, you would need to test/review each product. Provide truly valuable insights, and touch/feel each product side by side.

There are several people that do this in their respective niches, and make a quite a good living for themselves. But keep in mind it took them years of doing it for fun and acquiring taste before anything worked out.

Based on your original post, if I visited the site.It would feel like one of those low quality affiliate link stuff websites.

But if you add some truly valuable insight,data etc. It could be worth it.
I disagree. What you describe is a problem of interaction design founded on bad assumptions; with good interaction design I don't have to show the user that the computer is doing something for the user to be able to tell it happened. This is a problem of the system not showing its state transparently and relying on the user to notice a change in hidden state indicated by a transient window.

Windows Explorer gets your particular example right: When you copy a bunch of files into a folder, it will highlight all of the copied files after it is done, so it doesn't matter if you saw the progress bar or not.
Why is this person talking about how face you face contact is the primary means of spread like it’s news when we’ve known this was the case pretty much the past 6 months the virus has been active?
What is JWST?
You might add a daily task to remove that task just in case you forget. That way you avoid lockout but don't end up opening yourself up accidentally.
As I grow more experienced in life and career, I am becoming more conscious of security. Protonmail looks like a good product -- is it? And what other security vectors should one have buttoned up?
I don't deny that some people prefer living in smaller cities. That's why I initially said "whether the lifestyle differences would be positive or negative is highly dependent on the individual".

What I object to is people saying that cheapness of such places will make up for massive salary reductions. It won't.
Sounds like you need to follow Auke on Twitter :-P

He has literally spent the last five years debunking this nonsense. Here's a thread from just 5 hours ago: https://twitter.com/AukeHoekstra/status/1279359481177083904

TL;DR: These comparisons always use too much energy for battery production, too high efficiency for gasoline cars, and fail to take into account that the grid is rapidly decarbonising, even in backwater countries like USA. Your source claims 20 tonnes for battery production, but reality is around 6 tonnes and falling due to grid decarbonising.
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Perhaps you could post a citation yourself before asking it if others.
The Diversity Trap
No idea how much my public insurance paid my doctor, but in Germany these things are free for the patient.
> and can transport themselves at the speed of light.

Since when is this possible? Did I miss something?
> Keep to the right, just like you're driving, and even someone texting while walking won't run into.

Do you have different lanes for people who walk at different speeds? Is there one for runners? Am I still allowed to stop and take in the sights?
James Webb Space Telescope, I guess
Yet Google's own competitor, Bing, is clearly also using it. Isn't that part of the point of open-source? That anyone can see and use your work?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Webb_Space_Telescope
Keep Running
And batteries have a scaling problem - hydrogen complements them nicely for long term storage. When energy is free, make hydrogen and store it in a tank (or in a salt cavern, as the article describes).
I recently got a shock when I went for a tooth extraction. A nurse and a surgeon spent an hour to complete the procedure. It came out to ~$6000. I had to pay for $700 for calcium grafting right then and there and they were going to get back to me for the remaining after consulting with insurance plan. I am still waiting for the call, albeit terrified of the possibilities.

I understand there are many parties in the food-chain. Still $6K for two people for an hour, feels like ripped to the gills - almost dirty.
Though fees may apply, JFYI ;-):

http://www.marriedtothesea.com/030807/dictionary.gif
A subset of HTTP and HTML is not an option if you want to keep existing semantics. Both are by default broken, unsafe and unusable on some systems, so you will need boilerplate that clutters your subsets unnecessarily, e.g. a crapload of headers like "Content-Security-Policy", META-headers ("viewport") etc.
My experience with the ecosystem is the opposite. The ecosystem is so good, and so mature, it's hard to argue for other technologies at my current job.

For any fancy new language/framework, you must show you understand its performance issues, pitfalls, metrics and monitoring tools, etc. Few languages beat Java at this for serious work.
Not true at all (I have team members in India). It is not even close to "roughly the same". For a decent engineer with 2-5 years of experience, you would pay anywhere from 8K-20K USD PER YEAR. That's average. Sometimes even lower than the 8K and sometimes higher than the 20K.

Indian engineers making more than 20k-25K USD Per Year are considered top talent in most companies across India. Are there engineers making more ? Yes absolutely. Are they a minority ? Yes, absolutely.
Quick: without looking it up, what’s the ratio of COVID-19 deaths in New York to Texas? Florida?

It's about 2:1 Florida to New York. 2:1 Florida to Illinois, too.

What strikes me about your comment --- besides the fact that it looks like you somehow have the rates flipped between the lockdown states and the southern states --- is that almost nothing you're commenting here is really the subject of much reporting at all. It reads as if you're summarizing the bad takes of opinion writers, not of reporters. If you want to build a case against the Take Factory, I'm right there with you. But, in reality, very little of newsroom journalism involves evaluating how progressive Angela Merkel is.
Man-made climate change is certainly happening, and happening fast. But To be fair, we'd have to admit the temporal resolution of our sampling of prehistoric temperatures may be somewhat temporally smoothed, hiding the possibility of rapid fluctuations prehistorically. Not an expert, just spitballing.
Netdata – real-time performance monitoring
That was indeed a while back—we had fewer ways to communicate change back then. Given all the fancy technologies in a modern laptop/mobile device, I wonder how much more we could tell the user without slowing down to give visual feedback—instead communicating by haptic and/or 3D-audio feedback after the fact (the same way that e.g. macOS plays a sound effect after-the-fact when you put something in the Trash—but with a procedurally-synthesized soundscape, rather than the static "it went to the bottom-right.")
Try sending someone a link of a PDF you found using google.
how does ban without penalty even work? isn't it called recommendation in English?