skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Also, consoles are sold at a loss.

Which means they're to cheap. Customers need accurate price information or they will buy things that were more expensive to produce than they're worth.
Building Generational Wealth with Accumulated Advantage
Painkillers such as aspirin 'do more harm than good' for chronic primary pain
In the US at least, you typically don’t even meet the owner. (Never mind that it’s not easy to make sure you’re paying the real owner without the aid of the various intermediaries. Nolo Press has good books about buying and selling homes and all the potential pitfalls involved.)
Is the market for “paper like substitutes” this large? What’s wrong with a multi-use tablet (iPad or otherwise) and silencing your notifications for X amount of hours?

I personally hate writing on paper and trying to decipher barely legible handwriting. Seems like this product is just trying to appease the people who refuse to adapt to change.
I would assume that "at the expense of others" is implicit in the article, but not on the paper on which it's based. It's very easy to take popular science reporting more seriously than the quality of the work really deserves.
Banksy funds boat to rescue refugees at sea
How about first trying to understand how the handful of neural cells in a jelly fish of worm can guide the animal to food and allow it to avoid danger, before trying to imagine we could help human beings recover their memory?
Lithium development started 8 months ago and is not yet backed by a company. So it has clearly not a lot of traction yet. Just give it some time.
A while ago, debit and visa payments often had minimal orders and additional fees.
By that logic let's get back to monarchy.
To be honest, I'm not particularly familiar with how a deconstructionist approach to education works, so I won't vouch for or against it.

I do see the rise in single-parent households being an issue, but there's something confusing about that. I would expect kids to "act out" more if there was more psychological pressure on them, but the rates of things like teenage pregnancy and underage drinking is down over the past decade. This is in contrast to rates of depression increasing dramatically, even by 50% (around 8% to 13% in about a decade) in that exact age group (12-17).

Finally, as a young person myself, my (relatively recent) experience of highschool and being a teenager was quite the opposite - it's not that adults aren't holding them accountable, it's that they are holding themselves hyper-accountable. Both in the fact that they are comparing themselves to world-class performers on social media, and that there is now a permanent record of their social interactions online which can lead to politically correct woke mobs going after them. Being young in the US feels like walking on a tightrope while there's an earthquake going on.
I have a GTX 1080 which performs wonderfully under Linux (Ubuntu) but I still have to go into Firefox and Chrome browser flags to force hardware accelerated GPU rendering on. Once that's enabled they work as well as Windows. New users may benefit if browsers prompted users to try forcing hardware acceleration and have the ability to easily disable it, or do so automatically if it detects crashes, e.g. where location, microphone and video settings can be toggled.
> Thus Abraham Lincoln’s famous riddle: “If you call a tail a leg, how many legs does a dog have?” And the answer: “Four – because a tail isn’t a leg regardless of what you call it.”

Enter the kangaroo.
> well I'm sure as hell not using this on any Haskell* code

I think this is literally already a feature in Haskell, except it beeps on GC rather than allocation.

https://downloads.haskell.org/~ghc/latest/docs/html/users_gu...
If a company like Spotify sells subscriptions both in the app and on the web, they have to charge 43% more to the in-app purchaser to get the same revenue, even though the user gets exactly the same experience.

I would call that a tax (informally; I know it strictly doesn't meet the definition) and as a customer I would like to know about it.
Chadwick Boseman dying from colon cancer at 43 makes me think we need better non-invasive testing.

Sounds like he developed his cancer before he was 40.
It is my belief that most people would not use Slack if it did not have the business buy-in it now has. Most people are forced to use Slack.
Another Brit here - wow, I had no idea the NHS was so cheap! The NHS is far from perfect, but £250/m per person seems like a bargain for what it provides. When you put that beside the US system, the US system seems even more insane.
I have nothing against Lithium and I wish it become successful, I just don't understand the point of the benchmark
Swift does implicit allocations, doesn't have explicit monomorphisation, requires a non-trivial runtime. Language functionality like ARC and ivars compiles to a lot of "magic" (compared to Rust's focus on zero-cost abstractions). Swift's standard library is full of dynamic dispatch (e.g. Swift strings are a collection of classes with abstracted-away and variable in-memory representation. Rust's strings are dumb pointer+length).

Swift is much higher-level than Rust. It's at best at Go's level. You'd expect Swift's performance to be good, but in low-level tasks Swift is actually closer to JS/TypeScript than anything else: https://github.com/ixy-languages/ixy-languages
The fact that people are feeding themselves and their families is irrelevant. They're still doing something in a flock like a flock of sheep.
You can even disable javascript by default on uBlock, a la uMatrix. I've turned it on on my lower-performance MacBook Air, and it's made web browsing so much more pleasant.
Natural monopolies are ones where having multiple competing services doesn't make sense. Nuclear power isn't, to the extend NPPs make sense it makes sense to have multiple.
I still hire the best person for the job, which over the years has included men, women, and people of many races. Like I said in the original post, I am an old fashioned type that believes we are not restricted by superficial and unimportant details like our race - all people can succeed and thrive based on their character. It’s crazy that this is now old school, but this is 2020 and I don’t read any critical race theory pseudoscience.

My view is a much more optimistic, forward-looking attitude than one that constantly analyzes how hard society has screwed each person based on their labels. Rather than see ourselves as victims who can’t succeed because of XYZ, we should encourage people to thrive despite XYZ. If you wait your entire life for society / the government / other people to save you, you’ll never be happy and you will never be saved.
Do use black. Use whatever gives you high contrast, to start with. Pretty != usable.

Not to mention that staring at a screen that is basically a light bulb pointed at your face is bad for the eyes. Anything that reduces the amount of light you're bombarded with is good.
This is fantastic — thanks very much for finding/posting the link.
As soon as I see Google's sign in I disable javascript for that domain. It's like a glowing red sign that website doesn't care about my privacy at all.
The article actually begrudgingly admits the model works fine. It's nice they are honest for a change, normally they just factoid it away.

And concludes it's politics.

Not sure if I read the same article as everyone else?
> Our society is calibrated with the assumption that you will wake up early. Early bird gets the worm and all that, but everything is essentially rigged toward it. From the time/daylight, to school start time, going by quiet hours (hope you enjoy jack hammers starting at 7am stats, because by most city's ordinance, that's not only allowed, it's NORMAL. And to start at 7, the trucks and crew have to start getting ready long before that).

By what logic is 7 early? Dawn is well before 7 (at least most of the year) so many people sleep in past dawn, but stay up long after sunset, which is absurdly wasteful.
Let's talk about my mom. When her brother died, she inherited a Mac and an iPad from him. I helped my mom set up the Mac for her, and she was good to go the same day. Whereas she spent many months (it may have been a full year, I don't recall) in a battle with Apple to get them to allow her to erase and reinstall iOS on the device. She wasn't trying to get my uncle's data, she just wanted to use the iPad for herself. Apple wanted a death certificate and all kinds of legal crap.

You don't own iOS devices, you're just paying an exorbitant rent.
> more and more manufacturers are creating sealed off engine bays to make working on them harder. It's just physically impossible to block someone to tinker with that type of hardware. If they could find a way, car manufacturers would love to block you from modifying your car.

It's not impossible, it's just not cost effective for them to do so. The cost of sealing the engine bay to such an extent that the end user cannot modify the hardware, while the garage can, adds more cost than the value gained to the manufacturer can justify.

If they could do it in a way that was cost effective for them, there is little reason to believe that they wouldn't be doing it already.
Subtlety and Significance
Nitpick: Browsers on Linux have been using hardware video display acceleration since the Netscape 0.9 / Mosaic days, but video codec acceleration has been spotty.
> the Intel compiler has the enormous advantage of being available cross platform

How does this advantage not apply to gcc? Isn't gcc the most cross-platform compiler ever?
I imagine people that want only the walled garden prefer their isn’t an alternative because chances are some publishers will just stop publishing within the walled garden.
But Apple is more than a payment processor here, they are closer to a regular online store in this regard
If a company sells coffee both in a shop and on the street it would have to charge 43% more to the in-shop purchaser to get the same revenue, even though the user gets exactly the same experience.

Would you call that a tax or would you call that rent?
Well, railroads still exist.
I think time is fundamentally analog, and our bodies are analog too in the sense that we adapt and adjust to the rising sun and bright sunlight. Clocks are wondeful, but I kind of wonder if it fits our analog round-peg bodies into square holes.

I think it would be interesting to embrace the analog.

instead of an hour for a meeting, have a amount of time to talk about something, while people have attention with biological support.

Instead of going to bed at the same time, sort of predict when your body will get tired and have a tapering of the awake portion of your time.

And matching thinking to alertness, and relaxing to its waning might be productive and pleasurable.
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"How dare my corner grocery they charge me a “store tax” without displaying the amount of money they make for operating the shop, handling customer requests and complaints, and so on...

I mean seriously people, do you not realise the words you use also affect the way you think about things and not just the other way around?
I've seen gas stations list two prices, one if you pay with cash and one if with credit. It's not quite what you asked for, but it's an example of passing optional margin related to the choice of payment on to the customer.

(Incidentally credit card companies, like Apple, really hate it; I think some states have exceptions in their laws to disallow contracting out of it?)
While that may be true, its also true that people from all over the world come and pay airfare, stay, and tens of thousands of dollars to get procedures done here.

For example, Canadians going to https://surgerycenterok.com/

Here is another fact. The above has had transparency in prices since it was founded in 1990

Guess what also has not changed: the price that they charge for every single procedure since they were founded. In fact they technically charge less now because some procedures include additional services that were originally not part of the package.

So why is it that 1 clinic does not need to change pricing in 30 years, while everything else is increasing at 5-10% per year?

Hint: you dont have to throw away the baby with the bathwater. Its possible to have a system that is not going to bankrupt you and also at the same time not make you wait for 3 years for something you need today
The problem is that the cost of environment degradation is only an economic externality to the fossil fuel producers and distributors. That means the poor are already paying for remediation. Moving the tax burden on to the producers is a zero-sum game: the cost of environmental remediation is still bourne by the consumer, but shifting the payments towards the source of the degradation is a governance policy that can shift the equilibrium of the system towards a more sustainable model.

It's a reasonable position and one of the options before those we have chosen to lead us. Then again, the argument "but muh munny" is a strong counterargument among those who own them.
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The wording is maybe a bit off, but the point about a media campaign is spot on. To quote Karl Marx: "The Tories in England long imagined that they were enthusiastic about monarchy, the church, and the beauties of the old English Constitution, until the day of danger wrung from them the confession that they are enthusiastic only about ground rent."

For example:

https://www.theneweuropean.co.uk/top-stories/richard-littlej...
People did this with network utilization decades ago: https://www.usenix.org/techsessionssummary/peep-network-aura...
I see a lot of vacant street-level real estate here in Vienna, Austria. These used to be shops and restaurants that I suppose we already on the brink before the crisis. Does anybody have an idea what will happen to all this space after the crisis is over?
How would you even monetize that? This requires an existing employee access to be able to post a message to the company slack and hope other employees click it.

The vulnerability could do great to pown a company as long as you already have a compromised user account in the company. That's not a wormable RCE, that's not zero click (I'm not saying it's not bad).

Is there a market for high touch highly targeted attacks, maybe, if you can enter in business with the NSA or a ransomware group, those few who can monetize this sort of things. Good luck.
The User Always Loses – How did the Internet get so bad?
Majors forecast: 20% weaker USD over the next 24 months?
> That aside, I think the problem you bring up is pretty much "solved" as the only thing that is missing are training sets. Pretty much like when Tesla just needed a bunch of driving footage to start improving its self-driving AI, and they got it.

That is absolutely not the case, and we are absurdly far from anything like it. We haven't even been able to decode very much useful information from the "brain" of a nematode yet, and there we don't care in the slightest about its health.

Self-driving is actually an interesting example (though it is likely many orders of magnitude simpler than interfacing with the higher functions of the neural system of, say, an insect). We are still much farther away from real self-driving with the skills of an average human driver (such as not hurtling into static obstacles on a road) than anyone was thinking a few years ago. In fact, the CEO of Waymo believes that we won't achieve full, all-condition self-driving in our lifetimes (though he does believe that we will achieve useful self-driving in common conditions).

Regarding the brain, we don't even know yet where the computation takes place yet - to what extent does it happen at the cellular level, and to what extent and the neural network level? Further, the electrical signals are unlikely to be the only important part - there are many chemical substances that impact our judgement and reasoning, so I don't see why we would assume that even capturing all of the electrical activity of the entire neural network would be enough to decode thought patterns.
What’s the difference between changing the time and changing our schedules?
New entrepreneurs will open their little boutiques or coffee shops or whatever else in them
> Anyone who thinks that competition will somehow magically fix this isn't paying attention to how markets actually work.

If you allowed foreign doctors to come and practice in USA the problem would get fixed extremely quickly. Competition is the solution. The problem isn't the free market here, but that the incumbents gets to control legalization and hence stifle competition. I'm not sure why private money has so much more influence in USA than other western countries, but it is the main source of this problem.
This sounds like it might be applicable in the near future - the regulatory barriers to a system that checks if you've missed any areas are probably far lower than any kind of tool that provides an actual diagnosis.
Very few platforms of any kind support it.
Improved customer acquisition cost with Shopware
Exactly that. They could have easily found another renter/sublet it for no money lost (potentially even gained) those days.
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You don’t think they will be replaced by huge chains that are able to weather the poor economy?
Can you do an AMA? of course!

Why did you create lithium?

To see how much C++ can get closer to dynamic langagues typically used for web programming and at the same time make absolutely no compromise on performances.

How long have you been working on it?

8 months on lithium, but I already wrote another framework (silicon, which I rewrote from scratch because of slow compilation time).

What do you do professionally?

I worked for several company, doing different things including, real time image processing, neural nets for photography, web programming, robotics

What are your plans for it?

No big plans yet, just having fun for now, but I'd like to keep implementing the features if the users ask for it, improve the doc. In the more long term, building websockets would be nice too, and other services on top of it.
Won’t be surprised if they just bribed the guard.
Not behavior, motor signals. Major difference, but still, a nice achievement.
High-tech tracking reveals ‘secret world of birds’
I suspect it's a political bias. It could be that you see that the blockchain frees people from traditional controls that you have long internalized as valuable.

As such, the permissionless-ness of it, where anyone can send value to any one or thing, for any purpose, evokes disgust.

It's basically libertarianism, institutionalized as a technological platform and network, and if it succeeds, it means the ideological camp you identify with will have suffered a crushing and lasting defeat.
Generating Cooking Recipes with OpenAI's GPT-3 and Ruby
I think you're confused because Apple is acting as a payment processor (even though there is another one for the card) and as a marketplace.
Is voting acting like a flock of sheep? Would sitting on a Jury be similar? Your view is terribly offensive.
This is super light weight! But, not in a good way IMO.

As much as I like the idea of giving freedom to the teams to build their Microservices with tools and libraries that they want to use. In reality you usually end up to keep many low level parts similar in order to keep things easier to maintain and also easier to reorganize your developers on different teams.

That's where light frameworks feel a bit short to me, unless you do an excellent job on knowledge and library sharing between different teams, which is almost impossible if you have many teams.

That's why many large enterprises end up using Spring framework for their Microservices. It just gives you many things out of the box, and it's opinionated about many low level stuff.

I'd probably choose go-micro or go-kit for doing Microservices in Golang.
In downtown Austin, many uses are placed next to each other and density is fairly high, but half of the blocks are allocated to parking. So somehow the things people actually want to do are moved far apart by factors other than low density zoning.
Psychometrics is fascinating because it might be obvious and clear bullshit, but people are so insistent on classifying and measuring each other that they don't care. The g-factor might not exist, and similarly this new D-factor might not exist.

Honestly, I can't believe that I have to use phrasing like "might" and "might not". The burden of proof for psychometrists is still on them to show that the g-factor is not simply measuring socioeconomic and situational effects. Is there perhaps some correlation between the D-factor and wealth?

This is quite important to the philosophy of law and order. Are people all roughly equivalent in their capacity for crime, evil, and damage to society? Or are some people especially dangerous from birth? Our society needs to assume the former in order to have reasonable carriage of justice, so if it's in fact the latter, then we're operating society in a very wrong way. This is why it's so important for these claims to come with more evidence than just statistical correlation.

Mostly I just want to see an end to psychiatrist-measured thoughtcrime.
It is linux only because it's based on epoll. It could be easily ported to macos and windows but my focus was to get the performances right first.
I'm not sure I follow. Both C++ and Rust allow us to put structs/classes on the stack or the heap. Rust has trait objects which use a vtables. Are Rust traits the same as "classes" then?

When people say "OOP" or "class-oriented-programming" are you saying that they're referring to implementation details such as memory allocation?
How to Make Rational Decisions in the Face of Uncertainty
If it was the only store in town, I'd like to know, yeah.
The huge chains aren't doing much better at the moment; they're hunkering down and closing lots of shops.
Increasing zoning density doesn't help much if it's still illegal to build a grocery store or a coffee shop anywhere near an apartment complex (and the other way around, too)
Nearly every fatal collision could have been avoided by driving more slowly. Human drivers aren't blamed unless their speeds are notably excessive, but a computer system that basically is just turning a knob could always have just taken a bit more time and saved that life. If any "screw everybody" settings arise, the lawsuits will eliminate them soon enough.
Morpheus Space’s small electric thrusters could upend the satellite industry
But this is with a free account you can register for anyone, with semi fake personal data even
Facebook Sues 'malicious' app SDK makers for gobbling up personal information
In a typical web app you probably wouldn't notice any difference but in the niche where you're handling millions of reqs/s even slight improvements there could possibly translate to a non-trivial amount of money savings. On the other hand if you've already scaled to such a degree then those savings wouldn't matter that much. So, what's left is maybe for educational or research purposes, it's good to have an idea where the upper bound limit is while still maintaining a decent API, so there's value there, it's a great feat regardless.
Never thought it'd happen to me, having come across this topic before, but I'm happy to say I can join this club.

It's the same guy, who works in a Eastern European country, where I emigrated from.

The first instance, he was asking his supervisor to use his vacation time so he and family could make a trip to Mecca for Hajj. I chuckled and ignored it.

Second time random picture of some massive metal parts from what looked like some factory he works at.

Third time was this year, very recently and I received a pretty unnecessarily detailed email about how he had to turn back home because he had soiled himself while driving to work... That one made me worry he had gotten Covid.

I guess I'm this guy's boss now.