skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Here in Australia, melatonin is prescription only. A lot of people in my family buy it over-the-counter when on trips to the US (I often go there for work, plus my brother lives in Oregon). However, this year with COVID nobody has been able to get to/from the US. So I went to the doctor to ask for a prescription. He told me just to order it online instead from a grey-market supplier. Being the intense rule-follower that I am, I was stressed out about doing that, but he reassured me that there was nothing to worry about, the police aren't going to smash down my door over melatonin. Since it is over-the-counter in the US, you can buy so many different brands and formulations, and we've found one we all quite like (cherry-flavoured sublingual tablets), and all you can get on prescription here is expensive slow-release tablets that the kids can't swallow. (Compounding pharmacists also offer immediate release in capsule or liquid form, but sublingual tablets are still easier.)

2-3 years ago, Australia's equivalent to the FDA, the TGA, asked for public submissions on rescheduling melatonin to over-the-counter. The sleep specialists put in an objection, arguing that insomnia is a serious medical condition and requires professional care not over-the-counter treatment, and in response to their objection the TGA kept it prescription-only. The real world reality is that people's insomnia often has complex causes (including psychosocial factors) and a sleep specialist isn't necessarily the answer. Our son's paediatrician told us to give him grey market melatonin, he didn't refer him to a sleep specialist.

EDIT: Actually, I learn today they are going to make it available from pharmacists without prescription, but only for people aged over 55 – not going to help us this decade – https://www.tga.gov.au/book-page/13-melatonin
Of course. It's clearly visible e.g. on https://speed.pypy.org/ that it doesn't show equal performance on all benchmarks. The factor four corresponds to the geometric mean of all benchmarks. And as you say there are benchmarks where it even performs slower than CPython.
Curious to see if people think that ideological imbalance is something we should seek to counter, much like there are attempts to counter gender imbalance presently. What about age imbalance in companies for instance? It seems that things will get complicated quite quickly if we take this approach, but how do we decide which imbalances we need to actively counter?
Ask HN: What does it take to work at an Early – Mid stage startup?
What skills do you need to be impactful as an early engineer at what could be a high growth company?

Examples such as early days at Airtable, CockroachDB, Figma Dropbox, Stripe, Docker to name a few.
I don't understand why it needs to be formalised like this, what if people are working on something for a bit longer than one day and got no news to tell or talk about? I think each company and product got its own rhythm and meetings should be adjusted to match that, we are human beings, not robots.
The experience playing on 4g was about the same or even better than local install with Geforce 1050.
I like your ideas but without dexterous extremities it at least a very versatile mouth it seems you'd be very limited in your capacity to control or shape your environment.
I find it interesting that the cost of water is pretty close to the cost of Desalination. 1 acre foot = 1233 m^3. Hyflux has contracts [1] in Singapore (on a multi-year committed contract at volume) back in 2011 for Desalinated water at $0.45/m^3 or $554/acre foot, which is roughly where the spot market right now is for water.

I wouldn't gave guessed they would be that close, but it bodes very well for inexpensive energy / improvements in desalination technology being a source of water.

[1] https://www.eco-business.com/news/hyflux-to-produce-worlds-c...
This post should be evangelized like gospel! We MUST make App Store rules _even_ stricter. I hadn't thought about the nefarious patterns particularly targeted towards kids apps until I read this.

Heck, after hearing about Zoom's debacle with the Facebook SDK, I feel like Apple should make it impossible for 3rd party devs to use non-Apple approved SDKs.

but sigh, I know I'm afraid this viewpoint is not shared by many in the developer world.
The opposite could also be true:

Our brand of intelligence - the combination of brains and dexterity and environment that let us quickly advance from sophisticated tool building to a global industrial economy - is precisely the rare Goldilocks combination of features that allows a civilisation to spread throughout the universe.

Because that combination is incredibly rare we might very well be the first to be poised to attempt to do so.

This is the strong anthropic principle at play, which of course could be taken with a grain of salt. Still, this scenario nicely answers the question "Where is everyone?", too.
IMHO there would be a large market for local stores that promote local apps. It would usher in an era of local discovery and decentralization. I think it would be a huge win for everyone except companies abusing the monopoly like characteristics of demand aggregation.
Who leaves an open can of beer in the fridge? THIS is the real crime.
Aw yes, thank you :)

We do write these posts (and as other folks at Timescale will attest, we are also notoriously picky editors for other peoples' posts)

We've been writing together for a long-time. One of my favorite memories at MIT was working on a joint 6.033 paper with Mike 20 years ago (some of you will know what I'm talking about).

Probably lost to the early Internet dustbin tho :)

UPDATE: I found it! http://www.scs.stanford.edu/~mfreed/docs/6.033/smartcard.pdf
> it's justified because we are of a lower technological level?

No, it isn't. Just like killing dolphins isn't justified. But it probably means that the interstellar empire in question is very likely to be more intelligent and/or advanced than us.
It doesn’t really refute my claim. For one thing for most developer, Android is an afterthought in terms of profitability because of iOS, and for another, secondary app stores don’t function on an equal footing with the play store, which is why Epic is also suing Google.

Android just isn’t a model for what would happen on iOS. Obvious really, because Android has never had anything like the same success in app sales.
Most of the world doesn't have toilets, running water or democratically elected governments either. But in the west those are still considered "necessities".

I'm not equating the need for a smartphone with the above things, of course. The point is that "necessity" in this context is relative to those you compete with, and is not a binary black or white. It's a scale of grey.

In my opinion, having an informed, engaged, educated, and well connected populace is indeed a necessity. The smartphone (+ the internet) facilitates that better than any invention since the printing press IMHO.
> My introduction to standup meetings was a bit after I screwed up my ankle. I spent a lot of time thinking in that meeting about all the injuries and disabilities that would make the forced standing still for 15 (or let's be honest, 30) minutes an imposition

We have "standups" without physically standing up. I've worked places where actually standing was the norm, but they definitely wouldn't have made someone stand if they had a medical reason not to (use some common sense!)

The basic premise of a quick meeting to make sure everyone is aligned, and that any blockers are communicated seems sound to me.
That’s like saying humans aren’t intelligent because they can’t avoid car accidents in the rain.

Even if you were super intelligent, i bet you’d get fucked up in a net if you had low visibility in the water, you were traveling at high speed, and you didn’t have opposable thumbs to untangle yourself.
> Wishing to keep the change he received after going to the store, Camus’s adolescent alter ego tells his grandmother that it had fallen into the latrine pit.

Words fail me.
Do the hawks create or aid the spread of fire? One could say Redwood trees are similar for having evolved to take advantage of fire.
DiffWave: A fast, high-quality neural vocoder and waveform synthesizer
Making big revenue and having best teams doesn't mean they do everything most efficiently and don't ever go the way of the lowest friction. I am really curious whether someone really tested it and found it unfeasible from a technical or psychological standpoint. The autoplay stuff I clearly understand but the recommendations' - don't.
> I'm not advocating for keeping the so called "war on drugs" up, but let's be real here, people.

So what would you have us do? Throw them in jail and pay for that?
> (Not many people like salty licorice, given a choice.)

That's about as sensible as saying "Not many people like salty popcorn".
So they're either censoring for political motive or censoring to levy a tax.

Kind of throws the facebook defence against the idea that they should have to pay actual news outlets into a pretty stark relief.

Facebook are just a horrific company that should be heavily regualted with a very heavy hand. We can loosen it some later when we're comfortable. Facebook are unelected - I tend toward libertarian but their power clearly must be curbed.
Instead of complaining to one company, why not start supporting existing alternative platforms and products that support their vision? Why not support open devices where developers and consumers will have freedom from exorbitant pricing?
Ah, I was thinking of using the Commerce Clause to justify controlling rental property, not to justify controlling disease prevention. Yes, that might pass muster - depending on which side of the bed the Supreme Court woke up on that morning...
Taken in itself anonymous feedback can be more honest and thus more useful. But I think the culture it creates can be quite toxic. If people respect each other, then they can give honest feedback face to face. And if they don't, it won't be long before they're misusing the anonymous feedback mechanisms.
I'm all open to suggestions on how it can be better worded to not cause any misunderstandings; let me know how I can improve it.
My suggestion is to take something like the Northwind database from Access, and use that to demonstrate how everything works. Add lots of screenshots.
That's a pretty silly argument considering Steam launched with a 30% fee a full 5 years before the App Store was even a thing.
Across the bay in Poulsbo, there's a little store with quite a few varieties of licorice, including some very salty stuff.
We are running a AI/ML/HAL/Watson stack on Oracle Clouds to empower our evangelists and enthusiasts to make that choice for themselves before they know they have made it.

Pre-decision-decision is one of 3 to 15 things we have have identified that we will consider caring strongly about in the near future.

Thank you for your feedback, and would you mind filling in a short customer service form here: http://oracle.dev-enterprise.tech.ai/customer/"backpack"-sta... ((copy) copy 2).pdf?

It really helps us to know something (I think somebody said it was NPS or CRO or something called "W/E")
Royalties for self publishing an ebook on Amazon top out at 70%.

https://kdp.amazon.com/en_US/help/topic/G200644210
You can't make it fool-proof.
>Stop chasing ghosts

The flipside of ghosts is 'This time will be different'. Eventually you get tired of watching the same avalanche play out in slow motion over and over again.

There's a lot of reasons people stay, and a lot of reasons people leave. I may argue for things I don't even care that much about, because I want or need the people who do care, and if they're hamstrung or quit, then I'll be in the same boat soon enough.

What some people call 'ghosts' are dots that they will never connect. I'm sure you know someone who complains about their 'bad luck' all the time, but many in your circle can list all the ways they're self-sabotaging. You've all but given up because the person won't take advice, maybe even avoiding you or certain topics because they don't want a lecture. But you're supposed to clean up their messes because that's what friends do.

Most of us are somewhere on that spectrum, and everyone you talk to has a different narrative about why someone bailed or why a plan failed.
It's no picnic out west under the Colorado doctrine either. The Colorado River Compact was drafted during an unusually wet period, in absolute rather than relative terms. Now from tree ring studies we know that, not only does the amount of water allocated not generally flow through the river, but the river system can experience "megadroughts" that can last for decades or even centuries.

And we're about twenty years into a drought.
How about actual war? The US military is a socialist wet dream: decent wage, housing, grants for education, life-long healthcare even after you're retired. Just as long as you're willing to risk bullets or IED, the government will take care of you!
The main headings break off the viewport in mobile, should be a simple fix :)
Desalination @$0.45/m^3 from Hyflux (Singapore Contracts) would be $554/acre foot - roughly the price we see on the spot markets.
I worked there for a while. They used PHP and had a sort of framework called Alice and Bob which I think was built in Symphony.

It was designed specifically to allow quickly rolling out to many different countries each having possibly different business logic.
Don’t your clients need their own connection pools anyways? Eg if the webserver isn’t pooling connections itself, that’s a problem regardless.
Zoom this, zoom that. Is zoom paying journalists to name drop their product everywhere?

Kinda like how ESPN gets "Twitter comments", instead of calling it general internet comments
30 minutes is a bit of a trite example but if you only have say less than 10 hours a month the dollars/hour for owning your own your own hardware looks a lot worse than the subscription model.
Wow, I'm kinda impressed of all the negative comments here.

What's making a short and focussed daily synchronization meeting (aka: Daily/Standup) useful for me:

* Short and focussed, 15min max, no excuse

* Focus on impediments and try to figure out if the team can help.

* VERY short update on what I'm planning to do today (to make synergies visible)

* And the least important one I'd skip quite often: Short update on what was done yesterday. (Looks like, lot of ppl are focussing on this one)
If this is how they treat investors, how will they persuade investors to invest again? Stupid question?
Didn't they do this in April? After decades of saying "No handouts!", it was suddenly possible! Because the alternative was riots and maybe a November massacre...
Yeah, standups are for triage. If someone raises an issue then you work out who they need to talk to about that and arrange for that to happen. The details get hashed out in the separate smaller meetings (or 1:1 conversations).
Man had always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much—the wheel, New York, wars and so on—whilst all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time. But conversely, the dolphins had always believed that they were far more intelligent than man—for precisely the same reasons.
Our justice system is good at drawing squiggly lines. It’s luckily based on intent and outcome and not exact wording.

There’s no reason the law couldn’t carve out a class of devices as “general purpose computing devices” which would exclude fine homemade / artisanal / hyper-focused kindles, gaming consoles, etc. of course these lines get moved around and tested in many ways. Much like how assault weapons are hard to define, and yet regulated in many places.

But laws like this exist all over, and many do great good for the common cause. Accessibility is one example.

If unlocking general purpose computing devices drove trillions in GDP and innovation, didn’t harm anyone, and generally improved consumers lives, I don’t see why we need a direct precedent. We have laws on return policies, lemons, telephone usage, and all sorts of consumer driven things. There’s plenty of indirect precedent.
> What would you consider the bare minimum act to be judged at human-level intelligence?

Lex Fridman discussed this topic with Françoit Chollet in his recent podcast episode "Measures of Intelligence" [1]. I highly recommend it. Lengthy but really worth it.

[1] https://youtu.be/PUAdj3w3wO4
Solution: don't let your kids use internet-connected devices until they are of the age where they are capable of independent thought. Making App Store stricter won't fix anything.
by that argument copyleft licenses aren't open source either? from a practical perspective this license is strictly more permissive than AGPL in that it only excludes cloud companies rather than all non-OSS companies.
Does it really matter if your death sentence is read over a video call or a phone call or in a room?
Deanonymization of police officers in Belarus could be a game-changer
Why won't anyone think of the children and just ban every single thing that might make their parents work!
I'm very curious what these changes are.

Last I looked at PWAs they would get you 95% of the way there for most things, but a number of issues made the use of them as an alternative to native apps untenable (namely the reliable persistence of any data). If Amazon can pull off streaming arbitrary content, full screen with low-latency touch streaming in a way that doesn't feel janky, that'd be a pretty exciting workaround to the App Store regime.
>The US has engineered and provided support for coups around the world

With the goal of allies gaining power. That is fundamentally different than Russian's initial goal of simply knocking the US out of their superpower role by causing polarization, internal strife, loss of faith in institutions, and just general chaos. I think people associate Russian disinformation as purely a right wing phenomenon because that is where they have had more success, but there is plenty of Russian disinformation targeted at and supporting the left wing too.
I support most of the requirements listed in this article, in addition to removing the 30% cut. I do not support third-party app stores on iOS because I believe that the benefits of increased consumer choice in that regard do not outweigh the concerns of allowing larger companies with significant app ecosystems (or governments) to make their own app stores with different, potentially user-hostile or privacy-compromising apps.
Oof. Making undergrad course project reports available for the world to see! ;)

The third member of that team has also built some pretty cool technology -- maybe behind some of the music you're listening to right now:

https://www.izotope.com/
I think the bigger issue with the dominant social/publishing platforms is not a free speech, but their ability to ruin a business without ability of the business to appeal, go to court, sometimes even without a right to find the reason. They are increasingly becoming a marketplace and, as such, they have to be legally forced to keep it transparent and fair.
Utility companies cannot turn your electricity off just because some clerk inside PG&E decided that you use this electricity in a way he personally does not like. YouTube, Facebook and Twitter do it many times a day.
There is no business there. Plus it's not just YouTube. The UGC world is significantly bigger than YouTube.
Trail running one winter I would often see a coyote and a crow hanging out and sometimes playing together. Crows sometimes will team up with larger predators to hunt. The crow can survey a larger area to spot prey, and the larger predator has the ability to kill it.
Ah, of course. Only in the US.

For a change it would be nice if they started literally anywhere else.
Even if the CDC has authority to do what needs to be done to protect against the disease, it doesn't have the authority to do everything that it can stick an anti-Covid label on. It can't, for example, ban the eating of corn on the cob as part of the fight against Covid. Why? Because eating corn on the cob is not a known (or even suspected) to increase Covid transmission.

A court has to care at least a little bit about effectiveness of the measure... doesn't it?
Cannot upvote this enough. These are excellent ideas for managing work, constantly making forwards progress, and showing to yourself, and the world, that you are having an impact.

I would add that always double check on regular basis that at least one of the things you are working on is a priority for your manager. Use your 1:1 meetings to confirm this and make sure you are aligned, and where you arent, that there is an over-riding company-acceptable reason. The bigger the company, the more this matters.
Even then, it would still be massively more efficient for the game to just stream in the assets in the background while playing, while still rendering everything locally. WoW, for one, has done that for years.

Or you could just start Steam a few minutes before your monthly 30 minutes I guess. If you have the internet connection required for stable cloud gaming, you won't be spending long waiting for the patches anyway anyway.
"Wait…I'm worried what you just heard was give me a lot of balls screws. What I said..."
That still implies you can afford to see a doctor long term. I assume if someone isn't seeing you regularly they might have issues with calling in a prescription and require a visit. Not saying all do...but without insurance and/or research it may be hard to find one which you know the answer for sure.

I personally have never had a major issue getting referrals and at times call in medication for known long term illnesses but in those cases they were medical professionals who I had been using for long periods of time before having a lapse in regular visits.
90% of this could be summarized as freemium has made software worse.

But I don't think I like any solutions which involves giving Apple more power to disintermediate developers from users even more.

I consider limiting the kinds of apps that developers can build a free speech issue.

I think making an "Editors Choice Lite" label would help. I.e. that apps can sign up for an optional extra level of vetting to indicate they are free of some of the monetization dark patterns listed in this post.
Let me guess: Non-Technical manager (as in, couldn't FizzBuzz)?

If so, that's the first takeaway here: A non-technical manager is a red flag that should not be ignored.
I don't think many people are against prohibiting and/or restricting the use of dark patterns, and trying to push back on absolutely horrific user experiences. I don't think anyone is arguing that apps should be able to target and trick children into spending money, especially with the current "The walled-garden is to ensure everything is safe" argument.

There is a difference between "Your app doesn't exactly follow our branding rules and you have a link that goes to a non-app web page", and "Your app is specifically designed to trick people into spending money and to spy on children".
> I'm no physicist, theory was developed while doing Einstein inspired imagination visualization/simulation of the big bang. I know it's probably so wrong in so many ways it's not worth a normal physicist to respond to, just thought I'd share.

Not sure how much more clear it can be... If the single word "theory" misapplied can't be seen through by such intelligences well what else is there to say than I'm sorry and I'll never mention it again. I'll stick to the theories I'm good at.
Don’t show Windows to the author of this article or they will get a stroke.
> The Semantic Web flew in the face of enterprises like Google.

This is a good analysis.

Oftentimes the answer to why some technology succeeds or fails is more than just purely technical. It can be really useful to think in these kinds of materialist terms ("Who benefits?") to get a fuller picture.
That a fascinating story that DPR told the judge (One of many), who did not believe one bit of it.