skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
#1) Psychedelics/psilocybin for mental health. Cost basically $0 to produce but the US Mental Health industry was a $225B industry in 2019. Now though big pharma sees the writing on the wall, so is inventing patented variations (https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2020/12/09/9445723...) because otherwise these natural substances that people have been taking for thousands of years wouldn't be "safe".

#2) Oxycontin. We have far better cures for short-term pain management. A 1996 internal email from Sackler: "get an audience for our patent infringement suits so that we are feared as a tiger with claws, teeth and balls, and build some excitement with prescribers that OxyContin Tablets is [sic] the way to go.15" (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5234149/)

#3) Unnecessary procedures (440k/deaths year from medical errors -https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5234149/)
Adding an extra point, one thing that makes this difficult is that a lot of this kind of research is not about applying existing ideas but coming up with something that has never been done before, and neutral networks are a lot worse with creativity than with pattern matching. It's also hard to get enough training examples, especially since you'd either want these to be in strict logical language or train a system to recognize whether a hundred page proof in natural language is rigorous or not. So it's like a very long maze where noody knows if you're getting closer to the exit or not, and in most rooms you have to come up with something original or discover a new dimension. And there's the aspect whereby a lot of significant research is: create a new abstraction, realize and convince others that this abstraction is useful and gives you new intuition that lets you solve new problems.
Thanks, will have to make some time to do the switch, but at least I will sleep well at night knowing that Google doesn't own my life.
it shouldn't matter where it's published

But it does, there's a limited amount of hours in the day and an infinite amount of papers. You need someone to pre-screen the torrent of crap that has an occasional jewel floating in it, and traditionally journal editors have served that role.
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FDA is doing exactly what’s in their statutory responsibility and authority. ie: what congress told them to do. (See my edited addendum to the parent comment.)
i3system is based in South Korea, and I guess shipping thermal imaging technology is PITA due to various restrictions, not profitable enough to sell to individual customers. There seems to be EU reseller (thermalexpert.eu) but they sell only to companies (likely because VAT accounting when selling exclusively to companies is much easier).
> Soon, you won’t be able to use Hangouts for SMS/MMS text messages, voice calls, or voicemail.

Well that's frustrating. What should I rely on now? Can Twilio do this for me as a consumer, or is that mostly for businesses?
All of the details but with none of the heart. I would much prefer a ‘wow’ example utilizing concurrency than a primer on how to write a function
Banks typically would react overnight to OFAC list updates, through a sanctions list service.

If no DOB or similar is also provided, though, scoring should not be too high - and if a match with Mohammad is enough to trigger an alert, the overnight alert delta would be either manually processed by Compliance, or bulk closed as false positives, depending on how much time you need to unblock the clients and similar risk considerations.
> There is nothing to report until there is an experiment that people can hold up saying "see! we found it! This part is deterministic not probabilistic!".

To add a bit more on top of my earlier comment: I believe Deutsch would point out that all experiments that have ever been done do corroborate the determinism of quantum phenomena.
Experimental tests are only ever understood in terms of theory, and quantum theory, which Deutsch identifies with the many worlds "interpretation", says that the world evolves according to Schrodinger's equation. Other "interpretations" of quantum theory are actually rival theories that fall at the first hurdle of being worse theories. To Deutsch, a bad theory is one that is easy to vary -- in this case, for example, the "Copenhagen interpretation" says that QM -- i.e. Schrodinger's equation -- is true, except when you measure something -- and then it says that you're not allowed to ask what that means. Why not? You're just not, OK?

This may sound like sophistry, but it isn't. Consider a closely analogous case:

Denying that experimental tests of QM have corroborated that theory -- which is a deterministic theory -- is like saying that dinosaur bones are not evidence of dinosaurs because none of the experimental tests distinguish the theory that dinosaurs really existed from the one that says that God put the bones there: true, but that theory is ruled out because it's a bad explanation (easy to vary: why God, for example?).
Interesting read... but kinda came off as two articles in one, with an attempt to piece them together... The first part around the behavioral implications of defaults, and the second, which was a reaction to the state of pandemic response around the globe, free-speech, disinformation, and the perceived failures in roll-out of Moderna's mRNA vaccine, and how if we somehow retrain our "defaults" we can somehow overcome these issues.

I enjoyed reading this, but it did seem a bit disjointed.
I want it back.
IPv6 doesn't have anything to do with multicast - it works fine on v4. For some definition of works - the only industry where I've heard of it being used extensively is finance.

For live events like press conferences or sports this is already solved with broadcasting.
>I suspect a similar story can be told about our slide to defaulting that free speech is bad, that the status quo should be the priority, and that perfect is preferable to good. These are mistakes, even as they are understandable. After all, misinformation is a bad thing, change is uncertain, and no one wants to be the one that screwed up. Everyone has good intentions; the mistake is in valuing intentions over outcomes.

This, I think, is the flaw in this argument. People do not always have good intentions, and they are polluting the informational landscape to the point where it's dramatically impacting society.

The principles he's asking for are indeed happening right now, but in a nefarious way:

"Free speech is a good thing" - Sure, but that means 4chan, QAnon, anti-vaxxers, and the like also get loud, free speech now.

"Status quo is bad" - The previous status quo of large, centralized media groups is gone, and with it basic levels of journalistic ethics and transparency.

"Move fast, value experimentation" - Changes are happening to the way information is produced disseminated much faster than societal constructs can keep up. I didn't have to worry 20 years ago about my relatives treating "Hillary Clinton runs a sex dungeon in a pizza shop" FB memes with the same weight as NBC Nightly News.

Fixing these issues, whether by government, tech industry, or otherwise, will involve some level of "authoritarianism".
The article, when we read it tells us:

The charges against Ticketmaster come 26 months after Zeeshan Zaidi, the former head of Ticketmaster’s artist services division, pled guilty in a related case to conspiring to hack the rival company and engage in wired fraud. According to prosecutors, the former rival employee emailed the login credentials to Zaidi and another Ticketmaster employee.
That makes sense, although I would argue he parent post still holds true in that you may not be able to keep your contract and avoid union dues if your workplace forms a union
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I hear you about the path to end the pandemic, but there's also that scary thing about the virus mutating enough to render the current vaccines useless. That feels like a very compelling reason to at least consider whether a single dose or smaller doses might get more of us immunity more quickly.

Apparently the variant seen in South Africa recently is "concerning" scientists: https://globalnews.ca/news/7553824/coronavirus-variant-south...

Sure, Moderna and Pfizer could whip up a new vaccine to tackle this ... but how much does the new variant spread and further mutate while we're testing new vaccines?
Lets talk again about that in 10 years will you.
May I ask how much you were drinking before you quit?

I drink coffee daily. But when I sometimes run out of coffee, I feel neither the headaches nor the benefits.
Hell no!

In this case Github is just unreliable piece of infrastructure. My phone provider bans me for receiving phone call from wrong country? Nice joke.
I agree.

Go feels like it's aimed at creating applications that run at a level above where C traditionally runs while keeping the pared down feature set of C, and it just doesn't work well imo.

I loved playing with Go, but eventually it feels like you're conditioning yourself to be ok with a lot of "bad" code. Tons of repetition, tons of boilerplate by other names.

It's like the simplicity gets in the way of itself.

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My take is, use Go for a bit, take the "less is more" mentality with you to a language more suited for real work.

ps: I'm not saying you can't use Go for real work before someone flies at me. I'm just saying that Go's strength is the mentality people have when using it, as a language it's not particularly enabling, and that's by design if anything...
I think we need to sound the alarm on the intelligence state:

A recent court case in which the US Government says it can kill American citizens anywhere in the world without even asking a court if the reason is “national security”:
https://www.abajournal.com/news/article/doj-lawyer-argues-us...

Snowden’s 2019 expose in the NYT on election machine hacks:
https://twitter.com/Snowden/status/1155227112099524609?s=20
My 2 cents without seeming harsh with the author.

Articles with a title `Learn <programming language> in 5 minutes` are misleading. They should be renamed `Discover <programming language> in 5 minutes`. Replace the verb Discover by Introduce or something similar if you like.

There is a lot of difference between learning a new programming language and discovering one.

You will not learn any programming language in 5 minutes.

This introduction to Go is quite nice, though.
Leafs and Bolts were sold out (or leased out) almost everywhere they were available before the Model 3 was released.

The problem was that they never made enough of them because their respective manufacturers didn't believe the market was very large, largely because battery technology when they were first released simply wasn't as good as it is now.
This seems like another way of stating "paying for optionality under uncertainty is generally worth it", which seems like a well-established result.
We can't even solve Sonic the Hedgehog without getting stuck in dead-ends in the game :-) https://openai.com/blog/retro-contest/
It doesn't need to be convertible to cash to have economic value. As long as people are willing to trade bitcoins for other goods, they have value. So even if it could never be converted to another currency, that wouldn't necessarily mean it's useless.
The FDA rushing the approval of vaccine that might turn out to be unsafe harms their credibility in the long run. The worst case scenario of a hastily approved vaccine is so high that it probably makes sense to bear the cost and take the health/economic hit.

Also this is the first major use of mRNA vaccine, scientists and experts were not sure how well it would work. Administering it without trials could have led to a nightmare scenario for a few individuals and anti-vaccine stance for a larger chunk of population.

Ben is probably right, the status quo should change, but I am not sure if the 'opportunity cost' calculus he makes is accurate in this case.
Do you have a story about this?
True, and important. However, I suppose it could be argued that if the only results AlphaProof could obtain were long and unreadable proof(s) with no discernible structure, it might suggest something about the epistemic assumptions we tend to make about Occam's Razor and the (so-called) beauty and parsimony.

On that angle, it could be further argued that humans are biased towards 'readable' proofs and that there are many undiscovered 'unreadable' proofs that we simply have no way of obtaining without automation of some kind.

Anyway I assume there are volumes already written on this subject...
A corporation regular committing crimes is a good revenue stream if they pay the fines consistently. So yes, the outcome is expected to be different, this shouldn’t be mind blowing.
Yet most countries allow foreign sims to roam into the country. That effectively defeats the benefits of requesting government id's, since the real criminals will just use foreign sims.
I definitely would not want to have my phone as a key. I can keep my car key safely attached inside by backpack but I use my phone all the time when walking (taking pictures, OS maps, audiobooks) so its much more likely that I would damage/lose my phone than lose my car key.
No, I mean criminalization of mixing services in specific, regardless of their use. In the same vein as KYC laws.

It's currently not illegal to obscure your financial trail as long as it's not in service of anything that is itself illegal, but I could see the legislators saying that any funds from a mixer are to be considered tainted, and made de facto illegal all on their own.
The FDA continues to demonstrate with that they are not equipped for dealing with a crisis. This is the same organization that took 46 days to get a working COVID test at the beginning of the crisis [0], a failure which cost untold lives. They continue to act as if the alternative to action is nothing, rather than continued massive death and a healthcare system that's under increasing stress.

[0]https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/cdc-covid/2020...
But you can't control everything on your device (e.g. let one program kill other programs).
Very true. My ex- was nervous about accepting a vet tech position for about a year before she started vet school.

She was nervous because they "required"/"only wanted" someone who "was going to be there long term".

I asked her: "They want you to make commitments to them that you will be there for a long term. Are they willing to make the same commitment to you? Or are you out the door the moment you are unneeded?"

"Business is tough. But here at BlahCo, like we told you, we're a family. So like we required from you, we're keeping you on and paying you!" - hah, no. At least not the very very vast majority of the time, more like "Come in, close the door, have a seat".
The repository and structure is free here, but I highly recommend the actual course for API development, which is not free but very valuable.

https://github.com/ardanlabs/service
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trend line is badly misleading since 2021Q1 just started and tesla delivers their cars at the end of the quarter
Yes, I call it "focus juice". Caffeine helps me care about boring or tedious things, which means that it's quite helpful for doing my job.
Gutenberg was just too late to the game. Automattic sat too long, let third-parties come in and solve a critical user experience problem, and now they’re reaping those consequences. When Gutenberg shipped, we had to install Classic Editor on hundreds of websites that were all running third-party builders. Some of those third-party builder sites even broke in the Gutenberg release, and we had to rollback core because of incompatibility.

Don't get me wrong, I actually like building in Gutenberg and have done a few Gutenberg projects (using ACF Blocks [1]). But convincing clients/users to migrate from third-party builder that has locked-in content with advanced features like columns, modals, show/hide content, responsive show/hide controls, animation, effects, and a whole host of other various bells and whistles was just a nonstarter. They'd pay in man hours the same as they would for an entirely new, custom built site. And that was for every site.

[1] https://www.advancedcustomfields.com/blog/acf-5-8-introducin...
I don't know, man. My wife's hybrid Rav4 gets 40+ mpg. That's amazing for a small SUV, and it's a fantastic car.
They seriously think "master" is a bad word? That's crazy.
For the record Sailfish OS[1] (and it's predecessors MeeGo and Maemo) had this from day one. You enable developer mode, set root password and it even installs a terminal emulator automatically for you! :)

[1] https://sailfishos.org/
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Note that PHEVs also receive substantial tax breaks, such that the advantage of an BEV over a PHEV is mostly only the 25% VAT

The annual registration, toll road and parking fee exemptions have all been abolished, but there is a goal of it being max 50% of an ICE car

You do have up to 60k SEK *EV subsidy in Sweden:
https://www.transportstyrelsen.se/en/road/Vehicles/bonus-mal...

More details on Norwegian incentives (not updated for the removal of exemption of registration tax):
https://elbil.no/english/norwegian-ev-policy/
They should be nationalized to become an even better revenue stream
Rather than load testing, do red line testing.

That is – gradually increase load on your service with concurrent requests until it is saturated.

Measure how the latency and errors progress with more concurrent requests and understand at what point and how your service starts to breakdown under heavy load.

Based on this you may have to do many things –

1. Can you optimize your service or your service's downstream dependencies or the application calling your service.

2. Can you build in graceful degradation into your service – functionality reduction to get more useful throughput out of your service – with same resources.

3. Build circuit breakers and throttlers before your downstream dependencies so that you don't overload them and cause them to fail or you don't fail totally when they do indeed fail.

4. If you do get overloaded for some reason (say your server pool suddenly became half its size), are you able to recover quickly.

5. Do you have monitoring and alerts for these load scenarios?

If you do this for each of the services in the service call graph, then your distributed service application would be robust.
Yeah, I get: "Fatal error: Uncaught Error: Call to undefined function set_cookie() in /var/www/thespacewar.com/index.php:58 Stack trace: #0 {main} thrown in /var/www/thespacewar.com/index.php on line 58"
> Juspay has hashed the 16-digit debit

This is factually incorrect. It’s more like a DB pointer to salted-hash which in turn gets recalculated once a week or so.

I’ve worked with their team, known their systems reasonably well. I’ve also lead a team that built a card store system that held nontrivial number of cards. Storing card hash anywhere will result in failing PCI audit.

While the data breach is indeed bad please don’t read too much into the media reporting. It’s one thing to report the breach but this article takes it to another level by sensationalizing it.
The low price is an indicator of the low desirability.
Meanwhile the place I work writes all microservices in go and all of my team's (DevOps) tools are also written in go...
I 'member when it didn't camouflage sponsored posts as regular ones... Seemingly at a rate of 1:1 with normal posts
I like C but I would prefer Rust over Go. Go may be simple but I really hate using conventions like init(), comments working like syntax, captial letter means published etc.
I think he meant that "you" can manage (or not manage them at all) them inefficiently because the proxy pool well take care of that for you. It reads awkwardly.
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For what it's worth, I'd do it as a SaaS. 100%. Free to generate PDFs. Pay to print. Take a cut from each printing job, but outsource the printing and distribution.

I suspect you won't find a single mass market for this. The mass market is well served by generically designed notebooks.

Instead, you'll find a number of highly profitable niche markets. (Like the D&D crowd, the design crowd, the hacker crowd, STEM teachers, etc.) Judging by your homepage, it seems you're already on this track.

Because of this, your best bet (once developed or at least in early testing) might be to find a few brand ambassadors from each of those niches: a dedicated gamer, a well-known designer, etc. People who can introduce your product into their respective niches.

I'd also make sure the print quality is on par with Field Notes or Moleskin, to make sure you can command a good price.

Apologies for the unsolicited advice... just really into this idea.
Well, math is two parts.

There is the "prove this conjecture I have" part, which I think will be taken over by machines rather soon (say, within my lifetime). I cannot imagine there is something extra-ordinarily hard that mathematicians do, that is somehow not captured by how a Go player approaches the game.

There is also the "come up with an interesting conjecture" part, which I think is a lot harder. It is extra-ordinarily hard to specify what exactly makes some conjectures more interesting than others. So I reckon this part of math will be much harder to automate in the long run. It will probably require a lot of cross-contamination from AI that manage to write interesting books for example.
In keeping with the original authors description, the aliens can only see the opening move. I'm confused - how could they determine there are 64 fields (nb: I only know the very basics of chess)?

If they could view entire matches, it seems a trivial task to acquire a complete understanding of the underlying game, no?
> we run a business in which Mac OS as software platform is superior

Out of curiosity, what business is that? Music? Video editing?