skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As someone represented by Feinstein - there is no much more hope as well.
Society cannot function without privacy [1].

[1] https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/1203230
Corruption in the British NIH seems a non-problem. The newspapers would be full of it if it were.
You are obliged to have healthcare before visiting EU.
What driver stack is Google using for ChromeOS? Is it proprietary? I assume all the Chromebooks have decent touchpad functionality, can't that be mainlined or whatever?
I'm a non-native English speaker and I used to struggle as a teenager to read e.g. Harry Potter in English with a dictionary by my side. Literature is full of words you will never encounter in a casual or professional setting and that ESL learners won't know from having been schooled in English lit. So some way to quickly open en.wiktionary.org for a given word or some option have that in a tooltip on hover or when pressing a special key could be helpful, but I'm just guessing.

Very neat website, and very well made, congrats!
Setup a import company in China, label these pigs as rural free range pig hunted and butchered by American farmers in their backyards.

Start counting money and proclaimed a national hero and the icon of mutual dependency between us and China...

Sounds like a good idea. And this is free for copying.
Being able to significantly alter public perception and influence the political process is one of the most important advantages of scale.
This was mentioned in other comments, but retailers are not platforms. They purchase their inventory.

Rather, eBay, Comcast, phone networks, Amazon Marketplace, financial market makers and similar are what people refer to as two-sided or multi-sided markets.

Without the existence of a platform the market would fail to exist, in many cases.
Honestly, I claim no expertise here at all, just my experiences driving around Northern Europe have informed this idea that there are far fewer suburbs and sprawl. Maybe it’s not at all close to reality
If we were in 1930 and discussing a bunch of independent locals, I would agree with you. In this case, we are talking about vertically aligned retail giants producing store brands as a form of further vertical alignment.

Amazon/Walmart/Target know how much of a given product sells off their shelves. They use that data in order to develop store brands in order to further monopolize profits from their position as a distributor. This behavior is clearly anti-competitive, as numerous complaints from merchants on Amazon marketplace or from vendors who have to deal with Walmart's predatory purchasing teams can attest to. It is effectively a monopsony or oligopsony.
Being aware of specific marketplace corruption isn't the same as being smart, and vice versa. And there's no reason to believe that the set of people buying these devices is the same as the set of people not buying memory cards.
I've (miss)used excel as a web-service testing platform once. The test data (input/expected output) was anyway in the Excel sheet, so why not. We did not have other software available at the time, so Excel+VBA it is.

It was one of my nicest testing gigs ever. A test session would take only minutes, all results documented to the t. And fiddling around with the test data was so easy. Would be interesting to know if this thing is still in use.

Not sure the customer liked it that much, I regression tested the 6 previous - still running - versions of the service, something no one had cared to do for years. We found bugs both in the Spec and in the Code for nearly all old versions...
>Any value that something this large has, is in its ability to exhaust resources from the ecosystem, control the market, the workers and the ability to resist changing its behavior when better things come along. Companies exist in a system that should serve everyone and when an imbalance occurs the whole system morphs around them. They are no longer players but dictators, willingly or not. Their sheer size forces rules of the game in ways even they do not control.

This isn't really the whole story. Large firms don't just exist because of power, but also because to manage an increasingly complex environment (scientifically, economically etc) large institutions are required to hold the necessary knowledge to function effectively. The concentration towards larger firms is thus not just a power grab, but a necessary condition for modern production.

This was Schumpeter's basic insight. Monopolistic competition is more dynamic than the free, small-firm dominated market. Size gives companies the ability to earn surplus profit which is turned into long-term innovation rather than short-term fighting for market share.

The central dynamic around data collection in the information economy even amplifies that trend. Smaller firms are not going to reap benefits on the same scale as large firms can, and the primary economic case for break ups, which is that large firms are unproductive due to being unable to deal with complexity, has been turned on its head. Information now functions as a way to make centralisation more efficient, not less.
Eddie Van Halen, Virtuoso of the Rock Guitar, Dies at 65
Teardown of an IBM 9121 TCM Processor from a System/390 ES9000 mainframe [video]
Along the same vein, I made a vi-like editor for editing webpages - not to minimize mouse usage, but to increase productivity with tons of shortcut keys and commands. https://vivpage.com/
How to analyse influencers before shoutout advertising
I've not tried installing Element, but I imagine the app could gain the feature of automatically generating a password for you. Asking a user to select a username when joining a chat network seems like a reasonable UX, although having to pick a server is an extra burden.

Perhaps the creators of the app could partner with some big providers to allow the app to try creating your account on one of these providers at random (and keep trying different providers if your intended name is already taken on one that it tries).

I also agree with you about discovery of friends being hard unless users provide their phone numbers to a central server, so perhaps there should be an option for that when creating your account. This central database could run by an independent, audited, third party service. I'm not sure who could be trusted in that role (perhaps Let's Encrypt?), or how much it would cost, but it's an interesting thought experiment.
I live in CA and have type 2 diabetes, and I need to inject insulin once per day; on average, I use 1 insulin pen per month. The cost of 5 pens box at local pharmacy is about $33. The price used to be $40+ per box two years ago and recently dropped. So the insulin cost for me is about $7 per month.

I usually only care about the “real” price, which is the price I actually paid, rather than the prices from an article.

Maybe there’s difference between a type 1 patient, but this is my personal experience.
> This is not the case in real, actually used Java code.

But is the case in its type system, which is what I said. If you want to argue that the python developers are less prone to typing things than the java devs, then say that. Don't claim wrong things about the type systems. They're functionally equivalent.

The type checkers have all the same information, however much the users choose to give them. There are actually a few ways in which python's type system is fundamentally more capable than java's (literal types, protocols).

Literally all a static type system is is an assertion (and tooling to assert) that types must validate before you can run the code. That's it. If you provide a presubmit check that types must validate before you run the code, congratulations, your code is statically typed.

Put simply: enabling mypy + no-any gives you all the same static guarantees (and arguably more) that java does, so in what way isn't it statically typed?
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On the scale of a market in the many many billions, the costs imposed by FDA aren’t even a rounding error. That’s not why drugs are expensive.

Generally, Pharma companies charge a lot for medications in the US _because they can_ - because no one stops them.
Lots of other countries have systems which limit price, or set drug prices according to value, or similar.

Why doesn’t the US? Fundamentally, it’s got to come back to allowing money and thus big business to influence the US political system so directly. Until this is fixed, sadly little is likely to change.
You have presented a false choice.

Saying negative things is just negative, full stop, as already stated. You can make this positive by suggesting a solution or asking someone qualified to suggest one and then helping them achieve it.
From my brief time in research, the team that developed the tech often gets royalties for the work that gets commercialized, which pays salaries for future projects. The University where the work was done taxes that revenue, in exchange for having provided facilities (old hand-me-down facilities may have their value considerably overstated), and so they are dis-incentivized to encourage any changes to the status quo, because there's money involved.

You'd have to break that supply chain, and I don't know if there's any easy way to do that.
Are there any natural predators? Wolves or something?
One example:

>The second reason, the authors noted, is that there isn't significant competition in the U.S. insulin market. Price competition typically comes from the introduction of a generic drug that directly competes with a branded product.

>But the authors said that current insulin makers have blocked the entry to such products by getting new patents based on things such as a new delivery device.

https://www.usnews.com/news/health-news/articles/2019-11-07/...

Patent reform would help bring generics on the market and reduce prices.
Given how ludicrously wild medical billing is in the US, chances are you'd still come out ahead.
do you really think the Eu and Canada have worse medicine? (seriously). Their stuff is probably better than the one here, as the EU does have tighter controls in substances and what is allowed during manufactoring of medicine, food processing, and beauty products.

They effectvely operate in a 'white list' basis, where a product has to be shown to be safe to be allowed, while the US operates in a 'black list' basis, where anything can be used until it is shown unsafe, and banned, which usually gets banned too late.

That's why you have so many cancerogenic products that are banned in the EU, while they are still used here in the states.
I typically enjoy Dave Jones' videos but this one was really neat. Looking at old processors is a fun rabbit-hole to go down on YouTube if that floats your boat.
It's undoubtedly true that these companies' actions suppress wages at the margin. The first order effect is some level of harm to the impacted employees.

I can understand the argument you put forward about second order effects but I don't agree with it, underpriced labor will lead to overconsumption compared to what is optimal.

I'd also like to note that the soft cap is the outcome of laissez-faire policy, it's regulations and law that is attempting to remove it.
Not just have ethics, but also speak from facts that you know are true, not sensationalized stuff that you read on a blog post.

The reason why Amazon is likely anti union is not because of any "evil overloards" that believe that workers are slaves to be exploited, but the warehousing/shipping business runs on very narrow margins, and any restrictions in this regard means they stop being #1. This is simply an economic reason in a capitalist framework, not anything out of malice.

Based on the fact that they issued statements saying that people should petition government to raise the minimum wage, I think that if all the larger corporations were subject to unionization of workers, they would not have an issue with it. When everyone is on equal competitive ground, Amazon can win against the likes of WalMart and others.
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The author of the exceptional neural net (DeOldify) behind this is Jason Antic. https://twitter.com/citnaj

The funny thing is he has been kind of attacked on Twitter recently for bizarre reasons ... people are pointing out how colorization detracts from the source material, or ruins history, etc.

What this really is, is a hacker making the world's best neural net in the world at a certain task. (It appears to have also become his day job now.)

Let's try to appreciate what an achievement it really is. Pretty much all of the automatic colorization you may have seen online in the last year is some version of DeOldify.
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> [the CCP could] have an "accidental" data breach and disclosure of every TikTok users private communications. [...] So yes? It's a geopolitical thing and not about user privacy.

That sounds like both.
You paraphrased the GP post about space becoming time, but didn't answer the Parent question about time becoming space:

> In what sense does [time] become spacelike? Can one move back and forth in time inside the event horizon?
One cannot import drugs into US unless they get FDA approval for that particular drug from that particular manufacturer from that particular country.
YAML is a convenient stand-in for a better syntax and was chosen for being less tedious to type than JSON itself, while still supporting JSON Schema to make our editor integration work.

Long run, I expect neither JSON nor YAML are really the best solutions.
Transcription is the latter -- create a paper version from a recording. Same as medical transcription is typing up dictated notes.
Very insightful comment.
I also focus on the element of the world we want to live in, and whether the status quo or where we are heading is really it.
Your comment seems to suppose that basic economics do not apply to healthcare; do you believe that it's a 'special case'? I see healthcare as being similar to every other market, and think that the cost issues are driven by regulations and incentives.
Eddie Van Halen has died
2020. Still has a lot of juice left in it.
What about NaN values? Are the runtime errors or do they propagate down the chain of execution? Are they comparable?
The first post's discussion is here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17547817
I suspect there might exist a fundamental difference in the way automated-testing, static-type-leveraging software developers view software design and requirements compared to those who don't.

I have no idea about the commenter here, but in my direct personal experience, the "those who don't" developers tend to regard software design and requirements to be toward the "write-only, then try to never change" end of the spectrum.

I get a lot of "are you crazy? We can't change that!" type of pushback from the those-who-don'ts, regarding functional changes that should be reasonably manageable to my testing/typing mind.
This is largely a result of geo politics and geography. They only need to watch the eastern border, and understanding is that there are occasional hot spots found inside the province there
> I have a hard time worrying about if my wages were lower than they "should" be when they're already more money than I'd see in any other field.

Never get complacent. Always demand more. Give it away if you don't need it, but get what you're worth.
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No, because I feel like there are a lot of background assumptions involved in that process, many of which are either unexamined or necessary for the theory-making process. These background assumptions are reinforced every time the theory allows me to make correct predictions and challenged every time I make incorrect predictions. Incorrect predictions allow me to update the theory or the assumptions.

When scientists do the a formal version of the same process as you have described, they make similar background assumptions. Perhaps you can explain how this whole process transpires without assuming anything?
I feel like everyone right now should be watching the 1995 movie Safe. It is THE movie about ominous psychosomatic illness. Julianne Moore is amazing in it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Safe_(1995_film)

It starts off a little slow but I promise you will never forget it.
I remember reading about the rationale elsewhere. The gist of it was that if you attack a pack, you should not leave any survivors. The survivors learn of the danger of being hunted and adapt to it, making it very difficult to hunt them (and perhaps their descendants?). So it's best to leave hunting them to professionals who would ensure they get the whole pack, rather than amateurs who get one or two, but make the rest a much bigger problem.
Insulin lispro was under $50 a vial sticker price the day it came out.

One price is set artificially and it ain't the one you're thinking of.
Is that because you could move away from the center (a bit) to delay your progress toward the center singular?
Is there any more context available without me needing to watch the whole video? The description on the video alleges that these are Chinese owned tech companies but it does not describe what sort of jobs these are. For example if you are casting a role in an advertisement then it would make sense to have requirements that might otherwise be discriminatory.

As an aside, in my workplace I have observed discrimination in the other direction, where we are explicitly accounting for candidates’ gender and race in a push for diversity.
This would be a great exercise for primary school kids. Touch typing is an important skill and once it's learned it's with you forever. On a platform like this they can also practice reading and comprehension, and the teacher has a way to ensure that the reading material was indeed read. Ideally it'd be coupled with some comprehension questions to make sure the kid didn't go on autopilot.

I'm not an expert in pedagogy though so take that with a grain of salt.
Where are you that you're having your Internet censored?
> Both vulnerabilities (CVE-2020-16250/16251) were addressed by HashiCorp and are fixed in Vault versions 1.2.5, 1.3.8, 1.4.4 and 1.5.1 released in August.

I never understood why people use Vault. Putting all your secret in one place is just the best possible situation for an attacker.
"He agreed with some of the report’s recommendations, such as (...) allowing consumers to take control of their data through data portability and interoperability between platforms."

This is the key. If I'm able to talk with my WhatsApp friends from Signal, or migrate my whole Facebook account to another platform, it would make it much harder for the companies to create and keep their monopolies.

If I were a lawmaker, I'd focus my time on how to do this properly.
Perhaps he'll be too in the spotlight for actually speaking out against his employer's poor labor practices that that is protecting him? Or he just knew he was quitting anyways or already had something lined up.
Which somewhat undermines the original claim that the US market is more free and fair than any other...
I doubt it, and that's probably a good thing.

There's no such thing as "moving" digital information. It's like the transporter on Star Trek, you can only fake it by copying the information and deleting the source copy.

So, I... guess you could transcribe into a pipe which appends straight to a USB stick drive, and sell the drive? Good luck reading the contents though.
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Healthcare is an inelastic market. If the new iPhone is too expensive, keep an old one, of buy a used one. If your insulin dose is too expensive, you die. Normal market rules of supply and demand do not entirely apply to Health care markets.
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They are "teach English to children online" types of jobs (contractors).
> The colorized version was first posted to Twitter by Joaquim Campa, who used the AI-powered software DeOldify to upscale the footage to 1080p

So they started from a low-res scan, because film is not SD, you can do a 4K scan from film too. Of course you wouldn’t necessarily have 4K of useful information, it might just be grain. But it’s interesting to think that many of these videos probably start with subpar digitizations of the source material, and wonder what it would look like when based on a proper high resolution archival scan
Guilty as charged; if I could still edit it, I might remove the word "butthurt."
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Would love to help with small features. I love NextJS and your product. Already using it with some ideas for minor tweaks! Let me know if you'd like any help. My Github is https://github.com/technoplato
In my experience, leetcode-type interviews are indicative of a not-good job at a not-good company.
There have been many responses to the Gödelean argument that miss the point, but I have been persuaded that it is vulnerable on the basis of its assumption that a logical system must be sound if it is to be a candidate for capturing a human's reasoning powers. Minsky, among others, pointed out that our ability to believe falsehoods, and to hold contradictory beliefs, opens the possibility, if not the expectation, that human reasoning is not sound.
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But not true of photovoltaic or wind power stations...
They're available[0], but they're expensive

[0] https://www.digikey.com/en/products/filter/programmable-disp...
I thought the normal population control method was neutering and releasing sterile males into the wild. Has that been tried?
At least some attempts at AIs colorizing photos, that were previously posted on Reddit or HN, tend to break into sepia on many things—and for some reason, also blue on clothes. Even when it clearly looked unnatural. So it seems to be an artifact of current approaches in general, and not of this particular case. (However it might be that this post and those ones were made by the same people.)

Personally, from my completely-uneducated viewpoint, I wonder if this shows the current boundary of what's possible, with the AI not having the knowledge of what it sees. Presumably you need to first teach the AI about all of the things in the old photos/videos, and then somehow show what color each of them should be. Particularly, I'm rather skeptical about the latter part because e.g. clothes have plenty of variability in color, and properly you'd need to guess the kind of clothes, the material and the period to take a stab at the color. Like, no blue in the middle ages, except for rich people.

Conversely, I'd imagine that if the AI is trained on ten different examples of pants of various colors but about the same darkness, it can't pick any particularly saturated color because the choice would be mostly random. But ‘drab’ is always safe.
They get this big by buying up that many successful startups. I don't know about microsoft because it was for my time but Amazon bought Kiva Systems and now it is called Amazon Robotics. This ensures Amazon is the only company able to extract value from Kiva's robotics. Their robots drive the inventory around in fulfillment centers where order get picked on a rate of 300 per hour. Because they had a double frog leap on the competition Kivy would probably have IPOed by now.

All of the technology companies have a specialized VC arm which rake up extraordinary talent before they become a competitor. Whatsapp was build with 12 engineers when they hit 1 billion users. FANG have a talent kartel.
Same. Same.
I haven’t got anxiety at all. It’s very very different.
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Glad to hear you're digging out! Our new revenue, expansion revenue and churn have all been performing well since Covid began. Coupled with results from public SaaS companies, I've considered Covid a boon for the industry, overall. But, I would love to examine a true analysis if anybody knows of one.