skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Maybe, but how many people actually read the whole thing? Personally I'm almost exclusively here for the comments and rarely ever click into a link. Maybe that makes me a bad internet citizen, but I don't think it makes me unusual.
The only medications on the market that can prevent the transmission of HIV in people who don't have HIV costs about $2000 a month in the US. In the UK, they cost $40 a month. That's a 50x markup.

HIV transmission could be virtually eradicated within the US if at-risk populations had access to the medications at the same price as people in the UK do.
half this examples are not scary or awful, just too based; ai is superior
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Prolonged fatigue following severe infections was common even before COVID: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chronic_fatigue_syndrome#Viral...

Ironically, one of the challenges as a CFS patient is communicating that your fatigue is abnormal. Try telling someone you have a disorder that makes you always feel tired and too many people respond that "Hey, I'm always tired too!". It gets old fast, so most patients just quit talking to other people about it.

Trust me, post-viral fatigue is on a different level. The parent comment is likely feeling quarantine-related negative effects on top of the COVID recovery.
This year has been the most stressful time probably since the World Wars for a majority of the world. Besides the dark cloud of covid permeating everything, (in the the US) We are also are dealing with widescale civil unrest unseen since the 1960s, maybe even more than back then. Unemployment which for a good portion of the year tracked close to the great depression of the 30's. To top it off on the west coast we have had fires that have been on a level not seen in modern times with toxic smoke preventing any outside activities and contributing to misery to millions for months now. Oh, its also an election year with one of the most divisive presidential candidates in US history. Its ok to feel a little worn down, these are crazy times.
I wondered what was up a few months ago when I heard he was selling off his car collection. That and the news he had been flying back and forth between the US and Germany for treatment had me concerned.

After I heard the first Van Halen album my Kiss records went in the closet, and I got more serious about music. Never did anything with it, but it was a fun journey, listening to him along the way, wondering what he would do next. A true rock guitar hacker.
Abuterol/Ventolin rescue inhalers are $70 here, but like $5 everywhere else. They managed to get them repatented by claiming that the old versions were a major contributor to global warming. I guarantee you that thousands have died because of this price change.
If you do it on and off you'll be much slower. I switched cold-turkey to Colemak and could type reasonably after a month and quickly after 3 months. The hardest part was retraining my muscle memory for keyboard shortcuts (but it wasn't so bad because in Colemak many are unchanged)
Note: while Walmart has potential antitrust concerns, it's due to how they impose pricing demands on suppliers, and possibly for their online marketplace.

The fact that they sell store brands in their retail locations is immaterial, as that has been a part of retail since before third party brands existed.

See, e.g., the Sears case, in which it was Sears' ability to fix prices due to its market dominance that concerned antitrust regulators. They didn't care that Sears sold store brands alongside competing products.
Just the other day, I was reading through the platform of Craig Keller (Rep-D7) in my wife's copy of the official Washington voters' guide.

I've learned that apparently, H1B visa-holders don't pay any social security taxes. This is news to both me, and the IRS, since I've payed tens of thousands of dollars in social security taxes over the years of being on an H1B.

This raises an obvious question - should I invoice the candidate making this claim, his donors, his voters, or his party leadership, for a return of that money?
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This is AMAZING !
Close! In math lingo, you can only have a bijective function for domains with equal cardinality.

In other words, you couldn't have a bijective function between an integer and a boolean, because there are fewer possible boolean values than integer values.

Demanding bijective functions is probably more restrictive than you want to be for building real-world systems. We discuss this a bit in the paper -- I think look for "convert".
How is it possible to miss the point this hard? The website was specifically designed to teach people not to make the mistake in understanding that you are making.
It's not as ubiquitous as Ruby is currently either, despite Ruby declining quite a lot you can't really compare the 2.

There are a lot of happy devs who can find Elixir work, it depends a lot on location, past experience etc. I do think the number of jobs advertised is fairly low compared to demand. SO on one hand it could lead to high salaries. On the other hand it could lead to not all people landing a job (which if you look at the comments some people here are complaining about).
> Twitter hid the same message behind a warning about "spreading misleading and potentially harmful information

Trump is a buffoon, but the tweet didn’t say anything untrue so what is the misinformation? To a large part of the population the flu is deadlier than COVID. More children and young adults have died of the flu than of COVID since the start of the pandemic.
Seems more like "studying things I want to learn" (quite normal stuff) than "remembering everything I read" (magic).
Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24699562, which was posted earlier.
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because it wasn't until like 1888[0] or the early-mid 1890's[1] that a "movie camera" became something real.

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roundhay_Garden_Scene

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Movie_camera#History
Fixing issues like this is the primary goal of this project. Unfortunately there's a long way to go.
This is true for me also. It's much easier for me to make connections between things when I have information about them in my head already.
Let's make sure people in their 20s aren't dying because they can't afford insulin before we start worrying about how to promote innovation in the insulin market.
Because your cheaper product needs to be fda proved, which either is extremely expensive or these is some huge cartel conspiracy. Probably the first.
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It doesn't even transfer the screen data on the server, that's p2p. The server just have to serve some JS.
Health insurance company profits are capped at 20% of the premiums they take in[1]. So not only because they _can_, but they actively want healthcare costs to go up, because that's the only way they get to increase their profits.

https://www.healthcare.gov/health-care-law-protections/rate-...
What innovation does insulin production for diabetics require?
Google has come to eat Airtable's lunch.
I think most of us would agree that you don't have to remember trivia like how bubblesort is implemented or which timezone is Papua New Guinea or some specific syntax in a given language that you use thrice a year, but very few of us would fulfill your strawman that you literally don't have to know anything because you can just google it. The very meaning of this sort of trivia, like which element is #81 on the periodic table, is that it's not really a foundation for deeper general knowledge.

I'd be surprised if I met someone who saw themself in your comment.
> I really wish vimium had some kind of modifier for "send next key to website", so I could have my cake and eat it too.

I thought that was what "insert mode" was used for. Hit i to go into insert mode, ESC to get out.
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RIP Eddie

Huge talent and very innovative guitar player. Known for his guitar playing style, dive bombs, tapping, usage of Floyd Rose, custom guitars (Frankenstrat), brown sound, solos, instrumentals, heavy sound and huge music hits.

I cannot think of many influential Rock guitar players as Eddie.
I'm really excited for the runtime configuration updates and the compile time tracking updates.
curl won't resolve dependencies.
Ah, yes, but that's not really the point, is it?

COMPAS points out an uncomfortable trend ("violent crime is more prevalent in black communities...") but applies it in a way that is bad ("...and therefore black people should get longer criminal sentences for the same crime").

We both agree, I'm sure, that socioeconomics and race shouldn't meaningfully impact sentence length. We may also agree that it often does. What a lot of these models do is encode that outcome (that bias, some might say) in seemingly 'objective' systems. That reproduction of bias is why they're discriminatory - not because they look at crime stats, but because they apply them in a way that most people wouldn't.
Discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22151008
Thank you! I guess in absence of that, the lens is the codomain so to speak so must retain the info. Will read when I get a chance :)
"They" is really Red Hat, who are the ones pushing libinput and Wayland in the first place; and I imagine they would have no problem fixing this quickly if they hired more than one person to work on it.
But if the government stopped the factors that lead to crime, then how could it justify its massive spending on a surveillance and selective enforcement regime that it can use against its political enemies (e.g. voters in the wrong demographics)?
Think about young startups that aren't sure when the next round of cash will come and their personnel stay there on average 2, 2.5 years. Spending 6-8 months on getting a new developer productive with a new language is super expensive for such a company. In fact, employing juniors in general is pretty risky for such a company.
How do you imagine this playing out? For example if you were to break up Apple, Samsung/Huawei phones would probably dominate the landscape.
'The Vikings' weren't a people; it's a term. The people who went a-viking were from several countries (Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Frisia, some others), and were (of course) somewhat varied in their genetic makeup. And, they often took wives from other lands, and had children with them. It's a familiar story throughout history--peoples intermingling, defying easy modern classification.

The stereotype of 'blonde Vikings with horned helmets' wasn't perpetuated by historians or scientists, it was perpetuated largely by 19th century artists and others. Yet pop media seems to write false antagonisms like this:

"They also found considerable genetic variety in the ancient remains, indicating migration of Southern Europeans, before the Viking Age, to the area of Denmark, which undermines any idea of a single Nordic genetic identity."
This is not about direct costs. It's about FDA banning competing products so one company can charge astronomical prices.
How does it compare to Terraform, which it is based on?
>that doesn't mean we give Engineers and Researchers free reign to package, publish, and distribute AI software that falls short of its promise

And who is going to monitor and enforce this? You?
> Norway Oil Fund

Used to fund the government pension system.

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

It doesn't detract at all from the point that it's oil revenue supporting it, not economic activity. It's currently worth $195,000 per Norwegian.

> the USA is a massive producer, far more than Norway

Not remotely 20% of the GDP.

> preferring to give the profits to the few.

The US government, in contrast, is mostly funded by taxes on wealthy people:

"the top 50 percent of all taxpayers paid 97 percent of all individual income taxes, while the bottom 50 percent paid the remaining 3 percent."

https://taxfoundation.org/summary-of-the-latest-federal-inco...

Norway is quite a bit wealthier than Sweden, pretty much entirely due to the oil:

https://www.indexmundi.com/factbook/compare/norway.sweden/ec...
I think there's 4 categories of issues:

- 1. AI that's just not good enough, e.g. it requires 100% confidence not to be problematic (Detecting whether it's a person or a gorilla. Autonomous driving)

- 2. AI that's correctly trained but discovers problematic trends and attempts to do prediction based on these trends (Train on poverty + race correlations)

- 3. AI that's incorrectly trained on inherently biased data and just reaffirms the problematic trend (Train only on male CVs for hiring prediction.)

- 4. Buggy code that spits out bad data.
HN has many different subpopulations and the startup founder subgroup became a small minority many years ago. There are probably more users here now who actively identify against startups than the other way around. Cycle of life.
Why is it unethical? There's no confidentiality agreement covering the questions asked in the interview is there?
Fairness and predictivity are different concerns. Many of my interests, hobbies, and behaviors are strongly predictive of poor public speaking skills, but it would still be very unfair if my company installed an AI saying I can't give conference speeches because I'll probably do poorly.
Facebook removes Trump post calling the coronavirus ‘less lethal’ than the flu
That colorized well, or seemed to, since the original had little color. It had to color "building", "snow", and "skin". That's about it.

Here, though, is a similar technique applied to the Wuppertal monorail.[1] The colors are all wrong. The supports was really lime green, the overhead track was brown, and the carriages were a glossy red. Since the training set lacks data for 19th century supported monorails, it's just guessing.

[1] https://youtu.be/EQs5VxNPhzk
So many seemingly intelligent people are incredibly naive about the number of real world conspiracies that have come to light. You probably would have made a similar comment about MK-Ultra or Operation Sea Spray before the documents were published [0]. Now imagine what a totalitarian government might do.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Sea-Spray
It is funny (and upsetting) how this is on the HackerNews frontpage, and yet this [0] is also sitting on the frontpage with currently double the upvotes. The study in question observes some correlation and then nonchalantly declares a causation (see title).

Not too sure what to make of this...

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24675256
Supported by both parties for decades. The US healthcare is between social and full private in a deep hole of despair and the funniest to me is that people trying to blame it on the other party they support. There are good examples for successful healthcare models in Asia or in Europe, they just need to pick one and go with it.
Being able to add my own text then immediately type it would be amazing. I would use this app every day if that feature existed. Thank you for making this!
> I do think one notable defect with the PostgreSQL docs is that they were designed in a time before modern search engines. They are better understood as a written manual in electronic form. Almost always the information you need is there, but possibly not in the chapter that Google will surface. But there are all sorts of tricks you can use if you update your mental model of how to read the PostgreSQL docs. For example, there's an old-style index!

I think of the Postgres docs as significantly better than most other documentation for this reason. The information is there and it's organized in a way that makes sense.
Perhaps, but modern decks have lots of features that record players don't have like effects and EQ. In this case the patented device is basically played in the same way (or can be) just in a different place. It's intended to be for tapping but that's a common pedal steel technique
> these issues are created by simple economics (market and regulatory issues), not ethical deficiencies

I don't think that "because economics" is a card that can be played to completely nullify any questions about ethics. We can and do make decisions at many different levels (from individual to nation-state) over how the economy works and how markets are regulated, and ethics are relevant any time decisions are made which affect other people.
This is fairly disingenuous. Our online behaviour is driven largely by billion/trillion dollar companies microtargeting people like you and manipulating our emotions and our neolithic era brain parts.
"drug overdose deaths, while sad, are less devastating to society"

How did you come to the conclusions that, life for life, a drug user's death is any better than someone getting shot in Afganistan?

Do you have anything to backup this strange idea?
Cheaper insulin is worse insulin, harder to manage, and ultimately will shorten your lifespan. If you've never used it before/are underresourced about its useage it can 100% still mean a death sentence. Still inelastic imo.
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Perhaps by "give free reign to [x]" they just mean "not consider morally liable for [doing x]"?
That would be Junior Brown's patent. . .
The start of this, 3/16 is one of Eddie's most poignant pieces, it was named for the birth of his son Wolfgang:

https://www.vhnd.com/2019/03/16/story-behind-van-halens-most...
What are these used for exactly? They seem like they'd slow you down as opposed to just using a regular keyboard with software macros or a fancy keyboard with macro support.
Absolutely. Just like most of the bad situation in the US, it was created by a regulatory body or the government directly.
You google details, you remember concepts.

Creativity comes from knowing what’s possible. A good clear map is fantastic for creativity.

Google is for implementation. What’s the syntax for strpos in JS vs PHP? How do I leftpad in this project? Stuff like that.

You gain creativity points from knowing leftpad is a solved problem, not from memorizing its details for today’s particular case.
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Yes, Synaptics produces closed-source drivers for Windows and ChromeOS. ChromeOS also uses its own low-level input/graphics stack, not X11, so even if you had the code to it you wouldn't be able to just compile it on GNU/Linux.
Effective? Or at least as effective as manipulative techniques?

Either way, I can't answer that. I'm not an advertising/mass communication/PR person. All I can tell you is what works and doesn't work for me, and manipulation really rubs me the wrong way. But then, I'm probably not the typical voter.

Or, more cynically, manipulation rubs me the wrong way when I detect it. What they may be doing is doing manipulation that the average voter doesn't detect strongly.
Okay, so, for #4 "no grocery shopping" you'd need an acre and maximum efficiency. Noted!

I think there's a really interesting pair of problems here:

1) What's my microclimate? How much soil can I maintain with my available time?

2) What crops can I grow and maintain with my available time?

I hope the framework I sketched out helps you consider those pair of questions. I don't know enough about soil to separate the tiers by 'ease of use', so to speak, but clearly you do and so the idea will be much better off with you than I :)

Thanks for taking the time to reply.
A lot of US-based STEMmers (at least of my era, so late Gen X/early Millenial) had the experience that the rote learning presented through the public education system was tiresome and pointless, and concluded—with some justification—that _all_ rote learning is tiresome and pointless.

This is a really unfortunate outcome, as getting base facts and figures into your memory is actually hugely beneficial. There’s no other way to rapidly pick up a new spoken language, for example.
Yea, I mean there's a lot of strongly-predictive heuristics that are unethical to act on, though (e.g., "if applicant is pregnant, then she will take maternity leave, and therefore be less productive employee year 1, so don't hire" <- obviously immoral).

Why shouldn't automated decision-making processes be held to the same ethical standards as manual ones?
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wait, how does that work!?
And that is why the only innovation large corporations create is through acquisitions of smaller companies, which still have a creative spirit. Then they just consume the specifically desired parts of the acquisition and discard the rest.
There's an interesting book on how learning these tools changes one's political philosophy.

https://www.amazon.com/Myth-Rational-Voter-Democracies-Polic...
very neat. Kind of turn the guitar into an a Pedal Steel guitar
A textbook example is interop in email vs interop in instant messengers. Email was standardized, while instant messengers are left to the whims of individual companies. Normal interop isn't a hard problem, unless there's complicating circumstances (but then you have bigger problems), it's just that companies are incentivized to restrict it for their benefit.
538 et al don't, as a general rule, run their own polls. In 2016, some swing states were poorly polled, so they were flying kind of blind on those.

And, of course, a few tens of thousands of votes different on the day, below the margin of error of any poll, and no-one would be bothered about them. In a way, 538 can't win here; they said "there's a 30% chance of this thing happening", it happened, based on differences below the resolution that they could even see at, and everyone's annoyed with them.
Diverting discussion of criminal activity into nebulous torts is a very convenient direction for those who would have been indicted. The remedy for violations would of course fall on the taxpayers, not the perpetrators.

We need an independent prosecutor, cleared for access to secrets, and free to pursue indictments wherever the evidence leads.

If the law does not prescribe a penalty, that leaves the prosecutor and judge a free hand to determine one.