skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
50e per dosis would be a great price, until you find out someone else already got much better price for the same thing from the same company. Hint: US pays ~16 EUR, and US is the one that usually overpays healthcare.
so potentially the result is a complete rewrite not involving the original authors in a language the original authors may not be current with, by a contractor code publisher / producer.

given the potential for security theater and general fud and the potency that appeals to authorities such as sponsors like Google can create in the minds of the public, how has this been evaluated in terms of the possibility for widespread disintermediation of the open source software community at large?
Bonuses for high level people? You cut a ten thousand pay from 100 lower level clerks and you have saved million. Time to get that 100k extra...
I think there is an element of naivety ON Robinhood with how the clearing house (DTCC) could demand deposit money from RH. I feel like RH might have been bullied to shut down buys on those securities and the absence of the clearing house involved in this hearing is a huge miss.

RH could have done multiple things to avoid this: stopped sign-ups, delayed trades on all new accounts or simply exceeded required deposit ratios so that the clearing house couldn't demand things of them.

There were significant shorts that were essentially unfolding. Ryan Cohen became involved with GameStop and the potential for a new direction of the company possibly raised the price up to the $20-40 range. Over-shorts would have corrected themselves with the skyrocketing price that day and then GME would likely have returned to the $20-40 range it was in prior. That is just things playing out on the market, not manipulation.

Some of the research I've been doing over the past few weeks has revealed that for all retail trading, there are conflicts of interest from the retail broker all the way up the chain to the clearing house. Similar concept in social media where the user is the product. There is a former investment bank trader/portfolio manager that has some videos on this - caveat that he also sells classes now. Search for 'anton kreil retail trading' for some insights.
"Hart reports that more than 70 percent of drug users—whether they use alcohol, cocaine, prescription medications, or heroin—do not meet the health criteria for drug addiction."

One would hope that would be well over 99%, given how many use asperin/acetaminophen/etc, caffeine, alcohol, nicotine, and so forth.
One of the coolest technical aspects of early Infocom text adventure games is that most games weren't actually written using native assembly code for the platforms they ran on, and were instead compiled down to "z-code", a bytecode which ran on the "z-machine" virtual machine architecture. Z-machines are pretty niftly little bits of tech, as while they have a lot in common with regular 'ol machine code, the z-machine spec also includes dedicated instructions for fetching text input from the user, outputting text to the console, saving/loading data to disk, etc...

Having games target the abstract z-machine platform made it incredibly easy for Infocom to port games across platforms, as instead of re-writing every game from scratch, they could simply write a z-machine interpreter for said platform, and immediately gain access to their entire adventure game catalog!

A happy side-effect of all this is that it's super easy to run these classic adventure games on modern platforms, as instead of emulating the UI/UX of a 80s microcomputer, it's possible to write a z-machine interpreter that takes full advantage of modern GUIs.

One of my personal favorite modern z-machine interpreters is `encrusted` [1], which is written in Rust that runs on the Web thanks to WebAssembly. As a fun side-project, I ended up forking the project and making `embcrusted` [2], a z-machine interpreter that can run on embedded platforms without a full C-library. In a weekend or two of hacking, I was able to port a z-machine interpreter to my mechanical keyboard, in order to get the "authentic" experience of playing a text-adventure game through a teletype :)

[1] https://github.com/DeMille/encrusted

[2] https://github.com/daniel5151/embcrusted
It’s also remarkable that the NASA workforce is 99% women, as evident from this broadcast.
Unless your /dev/sda wants a fsck. :-)
Interfering with the hydrologic cycle can impact soil quality and may result in bunch of biome effects. It can also have good effects instead of bad effects, though. It really depends on the local dynamics.
I love how Americans just think there is no other country that might have, say, higher minimum wages or socialized medicine. It's just impossible they say. Not sense in comparing or seeing other places approach, America is just too exceptional.
Anyone who was waiting for the revolution, now is the time.

No more bullsh*t. No more compromise. The sun does not revolve around the earth, and the overwhelming evidence shows the ideal duration for patents and copyright is zero.

#EndImaginaryProperty #LiberateIdeas #AbolishCopyrights #AbolishPatents #BringBackNapster
Mirrors take up space too.
Isn't Uber a German word meaning "over". Can you trademark a valid word?
Solar panels can be more efficient, but if your comparison is between “sunlight -> plants” and “sunlight -> solar panels -> electric lights -> plants”, you have to include the actual efficiency of e.g. photovoltaics and LEDs in your calculations.

Photovoltaics these days have something around 15-20% efficiency and LEDs have conversion efficiency around 50-60%. The magenta grow lamps are colored for more efficient use by plants, and you can pack more plants in a smaller space, but at that point you’re trying to offset energy losses on the order of 90%.
We also have problems with environmentalists who oppose solar in the desert here in California. I don’t think they have been successful judging by the amount of solar installations I’ve seen here.
I liked this analysis. The one item that is glossed over is that if the Texas power grid was connected to the rest of the United States, then additional supply could be purchased from outside Texas. That would keep the lights on as energy usage doesn't spike across the entire United States all at once.

Since politicians in Texas chose to keep the electric grid separate, the wide spread outages are much more likely to happen. I thought the analysis on voters having wrong incentives was interesting, but also really lacked any type of solution.
So, maybe someone here knows the number -- but what would the cost of a loaf of bread be (or what would the multiplicative factor on food costs be) if we restrained ourselves to growing without irrigation?
Nuking, how? Where do you think you are going to get your cheap bananas? Your bananas are going to go up from $0.29/lb to $0.39/lb and the grocery clerk is going to have a little more rent money.
To prevent possible defamation lawsuits, you're even better off going with a positive sounding name like: Fair Fare Share
Even more to the point- solar panels live quite easily on roofs, deserts, highway medians. Quite a bit tougher to put functioning agriculture in these places!
It's interesting that nobody has yet to bring up all the Cisco startups (ok, ok spin-offs), i.e. Andiamo, Insieme, etc. Yes, typically they were all independent companies but the people there all but wore Cisco badges (they mostly used Cisco buildings, too). Very successful model to bypass issues e.g. hitting quarterly earnings goals, while innovating at startup speed.
If you have lower dopamine levels watching TV can be enough to get addicted. Any opiate is going to grab you. Some people cannot stop watching TV as it bumps up the pleasure enough for them to feel normal or not depressive. Some people get from seeing comments/likes on their FB posts.
And differences can be a magnitude apart living in different parts of the state! I live in a major east coast city, where a small rowhome in my neighborhood is 200k+ in good condition.

new houses in the state capitol 2 hours away? No problem coming in under 100K.

So COL varies wildy even within a state, as is no surprise.
and those productive farms also use copious amounts of water that isn't available otherwise. (IE: piped in from rivers far away causing no shortage of ancillary problems: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/19/magazine/the-water-wars-o... )
Don't be condescending. I'm as sophisticated as any computer user has ever been and my Pixelbook Go is my daily driver, not the laptop I bought for my mom. It's just better in ways that matter. No fan. Epic battery life. Software updates in 2 seconds, not 2 hours. Wakes so fast that it's up and running and on wifi before the lid is even open. Has a terminal and an X11 server and a web browser, the only things I require. Survives being attached to external monitors and audio devices. Does not have useless little software buttons above the keyboard. Better touchpad gesture detection than even a Mac. Can powerwash it in 1 second if I ever want to sell it.

It's a platform with a lot going for it.
Why do antibodies fade after a Covid-19 infection, and what about its vaccines?
The fact that three people independently verified the UI (all highly experienced with this exact GUI) before issuing the transaction betrays the notion this was a lack of training.
Authors tweet with a release announcment.[0]

[0] https://twitter.com/fr_brennan/status/1361501074138554371
The militant Zionism should tip you off he's a Neocon.
>Interfering with the hydrologic cycle can impact soil quality and may result in bunch of biome effects.

Sure but people also need to eat.
Corrupt ISP cronies bribed by monopolists who don't like the idea of someone actually making competitive networks. Why such absurd pro-monopoly laws can be even proposed? They should get jail time for corruption.
Yeah, just tap "DNS over HTTPS" Firefox and watch the world open up.
> My friends on the left tend to blame deregulation. Sadly, not one of them is spelling out exactly what regulation they think would solve this problem.

This is a little rich from an economic analysis which curiously fails to mention that Texas has a deregulated market based option which many consumers use: Griddy.

Griddy is in the news [0] because they actually had to tell customers to stop using them in the middle of this crisis because they had to raise bills thousands of times higher overnight in many cases.

Maybe, just maybe, deregulation is not the answer here.

[0] https://www.houstonchronicle.com/business/energy/article/Tex...
I got them from the trends that have been happening in warfare in the past 50 years.

And yes, my whole point is that this is a marketing gimmick that has no application to anything combat-related.
good. there own fault for hiring a incompetent person.
It makes no sense but you should be grateful that the only thing stopping you from being one of the highest paid employees in the world is a few weeks of studying.
Thanks for the response! Glad to hear it's on your radar and ready to foster those discussions. :-)

> For example, if exp and ln are all automatically imported in Julia, Python, etc, then it is most likely more than enough to justify them being imported in `defn` too.

Matlab and Julia import lots of math defaults because that's their primary target. In Python it varies, and it's pretty common to use `np` to avoid cluttering the namespace. Though partly it's because there isn't a good way (AFAICT) to make a scope with default custom namespace like `defn` gives you! It's a bit of taste really though. I'd suggest it's worth considering.

> Regarding custom operators, Elixir has a limited set of operators which have historically been expanded on demand. So it is a matter of looking at other communities, find what is the closest thing to a standard, and send a proposal to the language. :)

Well now, you give me way too many ideas. ;) I'll at least post some issues on the Nx tracker. My initial thought would be that perhaps a `<>` operator for "dot" operation would fit in with Elixir's other operators and is comparable to R's `%%` operators so there's a similarity and precedence. If it were low risk to add then it'd be a pretty decent option.

It wouldn't solve the whole elementwise issue though. but with syntax trees there could be ways to use Einstein notation instead [1]. That'd be fun to play with!

> If you are interested in driving this, you are welcome to submit an initial discussion comparing other languages and an initial set of operators on the Nx issues tracker, then we can discuss it upstream.

I'll create an issue on Nx project and basically repost my thoughts there. Then see what other people are thinking!

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Einstein_notation
But why would it? If I call it "HuevoCheats" would it violate some US company's trademark called "Huevo" when Huevo is a valid word in Spanish?
It all comes with age.

If you're under 30, you shouldn't be worried too much. We've all been like this.

I got my math education in a tramway since it was the only distraction free place and I had to be there anyway.
Kraken will sell you some if you like.
This is why Uber/Lyft were so good. They allowed people to dodge the bin-packing problem by allowing someone to convert time and an asset smoothly into cash flow.
Ask HN: What features do you look for when choosing a VPN solution?
I am creating an open source VPN application for mobile phones (iOS, Android) and a chrome extension as a proxy. I wonder what features people expect from a VPN.

My MVP is that the app will functions as a VPN launcher on user's preferred Cloud Provider like Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud Platform, Microsoft Azure, DigitalOcean, Vultr and any other major cloud provider that offers API access.

Features, I envision to add are: Ad-blocking by DNS, VPN Kill Switch, Static IP (if provider has it), IKEv2 IPSec-based VPN solution like strongSwan, and since the server belongs to the user, I plan to add a Terminal right in the app so that the user could connect and do anything they want.

Since the app is an open-source I pushed initial PR to GitHub so that anyone can scrutinize the code: https://github.com/zudvpn/zudvpn
I've found that the best mechanical keyboard is a brown switch with the silicone silencers on it. Rather than 'avoiding bottoming out' which feels weird, they instead create a cushy bottoming out that feels like it bounces your fingers from one key to the next kind of like a buckling spring. I recommend trying it if you never have.
I think a price minimum can be inferred by e.g. looking at economic decrease via GDP. Theoretically you could invest as much money as is the opportunity cost of not being vaccinated.

In Germany that opportunity cost after 3 months of lockdown is huge.
> Just get Oracle, then nobody can blame them when shit hits the fan.

Only incompetent people wouldn't blame the IT manager for choosing Oracle.
I think it's reasonable. If I were lender got repayment early, found another lendee now sometime later original lendee would want the money back. I don't have it anymore and thus can't return it. Should I now be forced myself to lend the sum to cover it? Could that cost more than I make from either transaction?
My hypothesis is that there is always a thin line between drug/substance abuse and doing them in moderation.

> The way a lot of this is phrased, it makes it sound like drugs are fine and there is a conspiracy to demonize them.

Those who cry foul at the imagined conspiracies may already be deep in the throes of an addiction.
May I introduce you to one of my favorite niche youtube channels? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M4VfzMbn28E
How can you farm vertical if the earth is flat? This is the article the libtards don't wan you to click on because it will finally own them.
There's precedents everywhere for this, as long as the wording meets the actual requirements listed in trademark law.

In the past, unscrupulous people would prey on unintentional confusion by naming their upstart businesses similar to established competitors, for example. There was also rampant counterfeiting. You can still see this today in jurisdictions without strong trademark laws.

This is what trademark law originally aimed to protect us consumers from. Personally, I am happy with doing my own due diligence (let the buyer beware) rather than enacting regulatory laws subject to abuse by heavy-hitters, like in this example. This, of course, is my own personal opinion.
Someone probably should look at the kernel, too.
So, burn tons of fossil fuels to mine bitcoin, thus forcing tons of fossil fuels to be burned to build new generating capacity? Nope, can't think of any issues with it.
That may be the reason for bland veggies in the supermarkets, but my personal experience with hydroponics is that they’re noticeable blander than what you get at the supermarket.

If your goal is better veggies, it is often possible to source them just by trying different grocery stores. Some grocery stores rely heavily on larger (national) distributors, and other stores reliably provide a decent selection of locally sourced foods.
With DRAID you'd cut down the time to an hour or so though.

Not sure how much that matters in practice, I've just got a home NAS with 6 disks to play with.
Sure, in an ideal world.

The truth is pharma companies had them over a barrel and took advantage of it. For all these years scientists were alerting politicians and the public in general the risk of a pandemic was very real and demanded more attention and resources but were not heard, and now that it came to pass countries do not have any other choice but to pay twice; for the development and for the product.

So sure, in an ideal world, with a population that respected science and not belittled scientists, better prepared countries would have had the advantage to negotiate better pricing because they would have been expecting it. Sadly we do not live in that world.
> No scientist or grad student is going to put their careers or PhD at risk for this.

I would and I urge everyone to do so too.

History will look back on this period and see which side of the line people stood on.

#LiberateIdeas
Well one could add, that other possible options are "COLLAT", "COMPINTSF", "DEFAUL" and "DFLFTC". Hard to believe that anyone could possibly be confused by that or miss the clearly necessary "FRONT" and "FUND".
I'm not sure where I put my pearls....

Perhaps we could also talk about the outsourcing of risk; those responsible for reliability of the infrastructure are also responsible to shareholders to maximize return, so heaters and insulation on natural gas pipes don't need to be installed because there's a very small chance the pipes will freeze.

What's the value of the hundred people who will die from this vs the cost of losing all autonomy by not being interconnected to other grids?

Heads I win, tails you lose. Let freedom reign!
There is a lot going on in that cookie cutter. The “transaction” library for transaction management, wired into Pyramid with pyramid_tm, wired into SQLAlchemy with zope.sqlalchemy. Works nicely for Pyramid, but I don’t know how that translates to Flask.
It will fit in an 8K easily. There was a version of the j1 (that this was based on) running on an IceStick with a 1K part.
https://www.excamera.com/sphinx/article-j1a-swapforth.html
Nothing bad with pharma solving covid, but surely something bad with pharma solving covid using public money and then not releasing the solution to the public without taking another big fee. (Hypothetically — I’m not saying that’s what happened since I know so little. I’m pointing out a scenario in which pharma would be bad.)

And, I would suggest more broadly that profit doesn’t equate with “morally good”. One could argue that under utilitarianism, the ethically “right” thing to do is to give away vaccines, or at least charge only the manufacturing price. Hell, even a dollar per vaccine across even 50% of the world’s population is a ton of money.
Bad Software and Expensive Mistakes
Difference Engine in BF interpreter on HP 15-C Calculator (2018)
Depending on the geography and building design, you can carry light to the plants via optic fiber. They act as a light pipe/optical waveguide. No need for any photovoltaic solar panels. However this design necessitates a skyscraper in the middle of the desert with nothing else blocking line of sight. Great if you are in the Middle East. Not so great for New York or Seattle. For the latter cities, a permanent barge on the Hudson/Puget with a fiber optic connection could be a solution (the losses would be great and it may not be much cheaper than using electricity, geography and land costs will have to be carefully accounted for).

Here are some simplified designs for home use:
https://www.lowes.com/pl/Tubular-skylights-Skylights-accesso...

Some commercial suppliers:
http://www.huvco.com/

The technology is very cut and dry. If you are a well funded startup, it may be more economical to acquire an optic fiber skylight manufacturer instead of ordering OEM.
Show HN: Mhr – URL Shortener Controlled via a Telegram Bot
While I agree that it's not very prominent: https://imgur.com/a/24ooR1L
There have been so many times where I started a new project in a new shiny language and ended up coming back to Python because I love SQLAlchemy (and Pyramid) way too much. It's one of the few ORMs out there that doesn't hate you for liking SQL.
I've answered this in other threads on here. Yes and No. There wasn't much power to give from other areas. So even if they had more transfer capability, nobody had much capacity to give.
This is flamebait, and you know it. Stack overflows in Rust are perfectly safe because they hit a guard page.
Really, you're saying there are unintended consequences to laws?

Perhaps instead of trying to extract as much money out of the rest of the economy we should reduce medical costs.
>No one cares if the net result is using more space if this means farms closer to the city and larger solar farms far away.

Solar energy is highly diffuse, so you need huge swaths of land to collect it, which has detrimental impact on any ecosystem you place them in.
Agreed. First time I published a paper as first author my first reference I put the SciHub url and got flak for that.

My only regret is going soft after that. I should have made 100% of my citations include the SciHub url.
I don't disagree, this is just making my point even more :) And reinforces the original comment that a minimum wage that doesn't take these disparities into account may simply be a death blow for a lot of small businesses in low CoL areas.
A more long term viewpoint would be interesting.
All the affirmations in the article are done with the current state of the art.
Extensive farming has improved for thousands of years.
Vertical farming is very new and room for improvement in a controlled environnement could be huge.
Moreover, the main critic compare solar to fossil energy costs (in dollar and space). What about going nuclear ?

Moreover we always learn a lot when we go sideways. What about useful discoveries for space exploration ?