skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What is an expediter?

I just assumed that small-businesses aren't shut down en-masse because the flip-side to impossible red-tape is lax-enforcement.

I suppose that corporate retail establishments have lawyers retained to do this stuff. Are they doing something different?
Sorry, I didn't express that well. I don't want to make rich people richer while they are actively trying to suppress my income in order to make their margins bigger. Because that's been my experience for the last 15 or so years.
This was my feeling too, and so I always found a way to weasel out of groups. In the decades since though, I have come to think that it was a mistake.

In the ways you describe, academic group work is pretty similar to being a professional developer, unless you're in a solo project. The experience of dealing with people would have been more instructive (for me) than whatever ostensible subject material we were covering at the time.
It would be awful to write every test using Copilot, but there is potential there for a certain kind of test. If I'm writing an API, I want fresh eyes on it, not just tests written by the person who understands it most (me). For example, a fresh user might try to apply a common pattern that my API breaks. Copilot might be able to act like such a tester. By writing generic tests, it could mimic developers who haven't understood the API before they start using it (most of them).
Most of my work isn't copy-pasting snippets. It isn't even typing code. It's understanding user needs and the existing system, and then figuring out how to making things better for the user with also improving the system. So this does not do my work for me.

I can also imagine clueless bosses mandating Copilot use and that's what scares me. The real costs of most code aren't in the first writing. They're in the long-term maintenance. Copilot does not and cannot understand the whole system, or what makes for maintainability down the road. So it can't make that better, and will likely make worse. In the same way that code generation tools and code wizards made things worse.
I have. 25% increase.
Trying to blackmail the government by threatening to leave the market suggests phrases involving noses, faces, and spite. It's apple buyers that would be hurt by apple leaving the market -not the government, which would look weak if it capitulates to blackmail threats.

The government doesn't care about apple users. They don't care about any citizens. And anyway, the apple users can always buy their devices in the EU.
I think forbidding a competitor to advertise on the main video network would be seen as an anti-competitive practice, Alphabet and Google probably don't want to give more arguments to people who want them to split their activities in smaller companies.
> This one is particularly prickly because the high cost paid in the US funds medical R&D and extremely expensive clinical trials

This is what pharma wants you to believe because it's a positive spin on their pricing. I suggest watching Rep. Porter grilling these pharma CEOs if you want to understand the true costs:

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wpdhD4ZLBxc

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n0L0XbnvJ6I

TLDR: marketing alone outweighs R&D investment, and stock buybacks often account for more than both combined.
Just taking a picture of anything static, and deriving a random number from the inherent noise of the photography is not enough?
I can see that came out wrong. I'll try to rephrase...
This is probably naïve, but my initial thought is that if he already renewed his license a year ago, he should be all-clear to ignore the warning message, right? If someone says he's in violation, he can point to his renewal receipt.
Please stop summarizing articles you didn't write. It isn't helpful or convenient. Just post the link you found interesting with a comment about why you found it interesting.
Apparently Intel shipped a transpiler for 8080 to 8086 source code in 1978.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Source-to-source_compiler#Inte...
Turning off JS/CSS helps when disabling cookies. The Bypass Paywalls browser extension might also help:

https://github.com/iamadamdev/bypass-paywalls-chrome/
Asshole Astrology: Week of 12 July 2021
Big Tech’s small biz squeeze
I've always been a somewhat active person (at least 10 hours spent walking/cycling every week). Did it just because I liked it, but it never helped with weight loss.

Switching cardio for resistance training (5x5) helped immensely with no changes in diet. My weight has dropped slightly, but my body composition changed a lot. Cardio became much easier after building some muscle mass.

There is also something addictive to increasing the weight you can lift, fits right in with gamer/nerd mentality.
if you use wealth, we are a back at why americans spend more on per captia than any other countries: because they can (because they are wealthier).

Healthcare, especially in older population, starts to behave like a luxury good at upper ends of cost / care.
I started that book long before the controversy around the reproducibility of some of the sections was widely discussed in public.

I got to the section on priming and immediately thought "what ridiculous bullshit", looked up the original paper and saw that my suspicions we absolutely justified. The statistical analysis of the results is garbage and the experiment design doesn't pass some basic sanity checks.

If this were some sort of purely pop-psych book I would have just brushed it off. Journalists often have to write to a deadline and don't have to time to dive into the details of everything, especially if it makes a good story otherwise.

However I was completely put off by the fact that this was written by someone who made understanding how we reason his life's work. In the book he even says something along the lines of "this sounds unbelievable but you have to accept it!"

I felt somewhat validated that years later this became a more widely accepted criticism but the popularity of both that book and the unquestioned esteem that Kahneman commands really repulsed me. The biggest value of that book is as an object lesson on why we have a reproducibility crisis in the first place. If even prize winning economists/psychologists won't ask the most basic questions about what they're being told there's no hope for the field.
> They have the advantage of pushing through Clinical trials without much oversight.

This isn't an advantage. What you end up with is a lack of clarity on what works well, what doesn't, and why. It makes it easy to go from A to B, a hypothesis to a drug, but it clouds what C, D, and E should be, as that lack of oversight turns into a lack of deeper insight.
I'm not surprised to see your comment in the grey even though everything you're saying is absolutely true. I've lost >150lbs and kept it off[0] and I can assure everyone that the one thing that absolutely 100% works for losing weight is eating less. It's also the most difficult thing, which is why everyone wants to believe bullshit marketing that says otherwise.

[0] put about 30lb on during the pandemic period that I'm working off again.
Agreed. "The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing."
Leaving the UK market won't save them licence fees. They've already been incurred. It would be less like relatiation, more like flouncing off in a huff.
The state wants you to believe this, and wants you to talk. You should never talk before you've met with your legal counsel, especially when you're under the pressure of being served a warrant.

Almost always, if a federal agent is asking you questions while they are executing a warrant, they have built a prosecutable case against you – potentially absent any evidence they anticipate from the search. A United States attorney has certainly looked at the case and may have already obtained an indictment. The government has expended hundreds of hours investigating you. How much have you thought about defending your actions to the feds?

When a federal agent asks you questions they are looking for you to either divulge facts that they can use to strengthen their case against you, or they are looking for you to lie. You don't even need to intentionally lie: you might simply misremember facts that your investigator has reviewed intensively, you may omit something that your investigator already knows, etc. But if you do, you've made a false statement to the federal government which is a felony on its own.

Your lawyer can help you explain your motives without divulging things you shouldn't. More likely, your lawyer will tell you to say nothing because "explaining your motives" is another way to say "providing a confession".

You have nothing to lose from invoking your sixth. It's the only safe thing to do in this case.
Agreed. Sue the city. That will get someones attention. Well, maybe not in NYC. I honestly don't know.
Most agricultural chemical products are profitable in the way a loan is profitable. You get higher yields now, but you're disrupting the environment and making it more vulnerable to pests, drought and erosion in the long run. As these problems start to become apparent, your only solution to maintain yields is to use more and more products, until the land is so marginal it collapses.
In the past, yes, bribes were a thing. I went to Edison HS in Jamaica and our shop teacher told us stories of bribing clerks to get permits faster. E.g. in-ground pool permits took years to get through so he said a crispy $100 would get your paperwork moved to the middle of the pile.

I used to work with a truck driver who knew how to properly grease the guys running the loading docks at the Javits center (slip a $20 into your paper work.) Though he said it only works with "older guys who've been around and know the game." That saved us 2-3 hours of waiting, we go into a dock right away, truckers watching us were pissed we skipped the line somehow. This was about 15 years ago though.

Though nowadays I hear those practices have mostly gone away. Of course we have no real way of knowing.
It helped me a lot. It was very easy to use, and by not having any off-limits foods or similar, just a calorie target, it helped me find meals that I enjoyed while keeping me full.

It also was a nice perspective to have in mind for me. Calories in, calories out means it doesn't really matter what I do today, it's what I do each day that matters.
California has been destroyed?
Not literally, but is that really true? Your cat could meow in a very different way, gesturing to the milk, then looking at you and scratching. It's not referencing the past communication but obviously the communication has escalated, and this could be due to the first dismissal and not that the cat is that much more hungry. It's not about the milk anymore--what's the difference?
This would mean only mega corporaions capable of funding hundred million dollar FDA trials could have drug patents, and people who came up with novel drug mechanisms would all have to work for these companies rather than specialize on early stage innovative research and sell to them.
New York (the state and the city), Chicago, and California are the reasons why I will never live in a state or city with only one strong political party at this point. All of them are kleptocracies (and effectively dictatorships).
The sad part is, there exists some tight-lipped 90+ year old former Philip Morris chemist, who moved over to General Foods and discovered/invented some chemical that inhibits satiety, just to increase their bottom line. And now every big food company uses it.
Organizing all your notes, email, and chat with Spike Messenger
Vaccines Are Pushing Pathogens to Evolve (2018)
If you can find an example of Copilot coming up with a test you wouldn't have thought of, I'd be very interested to see it.

Even if that happened, which I am not expecting, I think the need is much more easily solved via means that are simpler and more effective. E.g., a good tester writing up a list of things they test about APIs: https://www.sisense.com/blog/rest-api-testing-strategy-what-...
Medium has a lot of great articles including this one which you just submitted and that trended here on HN.

https://arnuldondata.medium.com/julia-and-the-reincarnation-...

Also, isn't the best thing about HN comments when you get comments from someone with actual knowledge? I can't imagine there is anyone on HN who knows more about Medium than I do.
The ACLU selectively deploys their limited resources only on cases which they believe can have a lasting national impact on constitutional interpretation.
Only issue is if you live in California and pay yourself you’re still subject to most of the California specific business laws as a company doing business in California, so it’s difficult to escape by incorporating elsewhere.
> The reality is that calories have never been as available and cheap.

Don't forget addictive. We've become incredibly good at making food that makes you want to keep eating more of it. Once you pop, you can't stop.
#2 on the list by Robert Cialdini. Durmonski omitted the full title from the list, which it is well known for.

The full title is: Influence - The Psychology of Persuasion
We've known for decades that cigarettes are addictive. We've known that opiates are addictive. We know that alcohol in excess can be addictive.

Loads of people took in that information and never became addicted (at least until the medical industry tricked them into addiction). The information "if you don't want to be addicted don't do the thing that is sure to get you addicted" is very good advice. It is irrefutable advice.

Once you're addicted it's an entirely different, much more difficult problem. But it isn't a better understanding of addiction to say "Whoa, look I used heroin at a bunch of parties and now I crave heroin, therefore you shouldn't tell people to not do drugs". It doesn't follow.
There does exist sub-surface irrigation setups. They aren't popular, but obviously would deliver water closer to the roots of tree. Note: I haven't ever seen a tree farm with sub-surface irrigation, only annual fruits/vegetables/crops

https://extension.colostate.edu/topic-areas/agriculture/subs...
I've met Louis in person, he's truly a standup guy with a heart of gold. That said, he needs to pony up and get a lawyer. Making petty arguments on YouTube isn't going to help you with bureaucracy it's only going to make things worse. If government employees (state or otherwise) hate one thing, it's being called out point blank for how they either a) don't do their job or b) are effectively worthless.

To be frank, I don't see why Louis hasn't left new york / the east coast yet. I was unfortunate enough to move to NYC just in time for covid. I still enjoyed my time in New York but I really understand a lot of what Louis has been saying about the city itself. Subsequently I left. He clearly hates the business climate, makes weekly videos about how much NYC sucks. Maybe for his own health it's time to move to another state?
Why would it be a GDPR violation? As I understood it, the point of the GDPR is to prevent people from being tracked without knowing about it and consenting to it. Here the consent button is as obvious as it could be, you really can't miss it.
So they're artificially non-tradeable, not innately non-tradeable like the other examples.
Apple has to be behind all this, since he is so loud about their repair policy and fixing iphones instead of sending people to buy a new one :) !
You used public benefits and commercialization in the same paragraph.

While that kind of semi symbiotic relationship can (and has been observed to) exist, it does so best in an an environment that looks different than what is described here (few large near monopolies, legislative regulations that are best navigated using wealth, a market that has inelastic bargaining qualities).
Sustainable farming is a terrible business as long as giant unsustainable factory farms are a thing. If you want to make money farming, you need to either go the vertical integration or agro-tourism route.
So why do we a accept that VC's invest in software tech but we don't expect them to do the same in biotech (obviously some do I am generalizing) but instead expect Americans (mostly, I live in Canada though) to subsidize Big Pharma through taxes and, in many many many cases outrageous costs for decades old drugs?
I too don't consider psychology to be a science, but I also realize that my operational definition of science is quite restrictive (from your other comments it appears that so is yours). As a result, I think that there are plenty of disciplines that fall outside of the realm of science but still end up being rather insightful, like medicine--I sure don't think doctors work according to the "scientific method" (whatever that is), but I certainly wouldn't discount a good book written by a doctor as being on the same level as fiction.

tl;dr: it not being science doesn't make it fiction
Useless to the general public, but a great way to collect fees from those infringing.

I wholeheartedly agree with the sentiment that you need to actively use the patent in a product or forfeit all protection.
StoreKit 2 Server API
As cloud costs climb, is repatriation the answer?
I kind of see it both ways. 90% of people would call all politicians liars, but every person in that 90% has their pet politician that can do no wrong.
I wonder if part of it has to do with the expectation (and common practice) that the photo will be shared, whereas the other data is often not shared or at least not shared publicly?

I don't know. For me, the photo makes it a discrete moment that I can identify, more tangible, compared to my ISP silently recording every website I visit.

I think there are probably many reasons why. I actually think Apple's new commercial for privacy gets at this well, where it has people literally following someone around and snooping on them, asking questions, and I think that visceral surveillance may few much more intrusive than the hidden forms.
Yes it is. I don't mean to ignore that. Not everyone gets it and its not 100% coverage (usually 50-85% in my experience).

I would argue the pendulum has swung too far with crop insurance. There are acres that have no business being in production and rely on federally subsidized crop insurance programs. Needs to be re-thought IMO
Glad you liked it, @slava_kiose

Hoping for the best
Yes, it is. On the other hand, I thought his most recent book, Noise, could have been a quarter of the size. Ended up skimming the last half and googling for cliff notes. I have no criticism on the topic - it's both useful and insightful. But way too verbose.
> People look at the beta release of the software, and interpret flaws in an early version like a critical fundamental problems.

Maybe because they realize the flaws are fundamentally inherent in the very core of the product. They're using a GPT-3 derivative here. DNN models are not the right tool for this job.
> Your fundamental truth is based on a false premises that the goal is weight loss as opposed to health

I think you're the one with the misconception. Obesity is consistently a contributor to health problems. Losing weight is definitely healthier for anyone who is obese and the way you lose weight is to eat less. Period. Full stop.

There are strategies for eating less that may or may not be more effective for most people, but it when it gets right down to it anyone telling you that you don't have to eat less is a snakeoil salesman.
The list seems very pop-psychology heavy to me. I would put William James, Principles of Psychology in the top spot.

In general William James writing seems full of profound ideas.
I see copilot as something that could be useful for generating boilerplate or starting code. Often when using a framework or library there's some boilerplate code that has to be there for things to work fine, so instead of having to the documentation and find the relevant snippets, maybe copilot can do this for you (although they often come with CLIs that do this for you). Case in point is machine learning code, where you often find lots boilerplate setting up the models, the training, etc. Maybe copilot was developed by machine learning devs for machine learning devs?
I read the whole thing and you're basically right. I enjoyed it still, but it's a book where you get 80% of the insghts in the first chapter. I also heard some of the expiriemtns mentioned in the book fell afoul of the replication crisis.
> Writing tests can be a drag. It’s really a low-risk proposition to have generated code attempt it.

If Copilot can't write the correct code in the first place, you really shouldn't expect a proper test to be written by Copilot.

> Code needs to be correct, secure, performant, and readable.

Most tests should also have at least three of those attributes. Nobody actually wants their tests to be incorrect, slow, or impossible to understand or modify.
I am not the one who posted the comment above.

Whoever downvoted the comment (at the time of me writing this) above - can you add a comment why? This seems like a reasonable comment.

I see more and more reasonable comments simply being downvoted, with no reasons or counter-point provided, which is not helpful.
The typical story of DRM is that roughly the first month of launch, where the DRM still isn't cracked, is responsible for a lot of sales. It's where people who _would_ pirate but also want the game _now_ because of the hype.
Those people become sales because of DRM. Where not having DRM would have lost the sale to piracy.

The nice part of this story for DRM vendors is that it works even if DRM is eventually cracked. It means you can win without being water-tight. Because most people admit that DRM will eventually be cracked.
I don't think people as many people realize this as they should, but when your local government is so incompetent they can't get back to you in a reasonable time, you're basically fucked.

You almost cannot ever meaningfully sue them.

Almost all national governance has sovereign immunity, and only occasionally relinquishes a portion of it to physical damages.
>We should applaud a government for standing up though.

Don't get excited, it's just one Supreme Court justice, who has very little to lose either way. No one has even heard of these guys before. I don't believe that Johnson would have the backbone to do such a thing.
Correct, the President is actually fairly limited in how much control they exert over regulatory agencies -- such agencies are created by Congress, commissioners are nominated by the President and confirmed by Congress, and commissioners report back to Congress.
If we want that to be the case then we need to start differentiating between patents still owned by the original inventor and those transferred through whatever means. Making it so transferred patents lose their protection unless they are actively being used by their new owner would eliminate patent companies being a law office and nothing else while still allowing for people who want to just run a Bell Labs-esque institute without dealing with manufacturing to still run a decent businesses. You could also extend this to disallowing licensing for non-original owner patents too, though I'm not as sure about the second-order effects on that one.
I assumed with the shortages that these went up in price. Or more specifically the link I previously used to buy node d1 mini has gone from $3 to $8. Guess I should have looked harder.

I might pull the trigger and buy 10 of these for all sorts of purposes.

On a side note, these made a bad taste in my mouth for Arduino. It's making me think all Brand names should be a red flag.
He has 14 employees some of which can't move. His point is he doesn't want to screw them.

The problem apparently is that the NYC has a department called the DCA, where you can't do anything without directly interacting with _people_ in the DCA, and the DCA refuses to interact with people.
An example would we the Biotech/Pfizer vaccine - it could never have finished clinical trials so quickly if patents were not transferrable between companies