skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is just amazing to watch people in the US defend the price gouging in healthcare in the US.

The medicine prices are MUCH lower in other parts of the world - including in places where the cost of living is much higher than in the US such as Norway and Switzerland.

The cost of Insulin is 8x higher in the US than in comparable countries around the world.

https://pharmanewsintel.com/news/insulin-prices-8x-higher-in...
Radioactive elements for diseases like thyroid cancer.

mRNA based medicals (probably, or the base inputs like PEG)

raw materials for plastics, metal fabrication (not all things can be made of recycled inputs)

Lithium batteries

Carbon Fibre

(Tropical) fruit out of season (greenhouses have limits) So Bananas, Mango

Survivalist? Sure. 5000 is enough, heaps of isolated communities of smaller scale persist for a long period.

If you want to eat teff and can't grow teff, you have to import teff. Recurse, for anything you "want"
And many more sales occur during holidays like Black Friday time frame as well.
So is obedience, Sheeples! Mä-ä-ä-äh...
I recall some recent codec or project that addressed anime compression, something similar to the following:

https://github.com/nikitaa30/Image-Compression-using-ML-and-...
I actually tried shopping on Amazon.com from AWS just to see if it was something local to me. Nope! I couldn't see any products or add them to my cart from AWS.
There was apparently always some kind of mix (AWS did start from internal requirements, though it quickly diverged). The OG services like S3 and DynamoDB power a lot of Amazon for sure. There’s been more bed of Amazon moving to AWS, most recently talk about shifting their main DBs.
Lower crf will lead to higher bitrates, everything else being equal. It makes no sense to compare this figure between different presets.
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Almost nobody argues that Web application is easier option for developer. As a user I don't want 500M program to do the same what 30M program did before. It is a real example my company is replacing WebEx with MS Teams. And it is not a single program, more and more like those. Electron is "bloated software".
Usability is another issue: web UI elements appears from nowhere, there is no single way to find where is settings button...
I've done a few different drugs from alcohol to weed to LSD and the real benefit to the truly mind altering drugs is that they kinda throw a randomness into your mind and you make connections you normally wouldn't that might be useless 95 percent of the time, but by the end of the experience that other 5 percent had helped you too understand something more clearly or from a different perspective. Something like DMT will only take 15 minutes to trip with but it's more risky vs. shrooms which is more prolonged but less intense. Used for different things, each is.

For drugs like weed or alcohol (alcohol being the more dangerous of the two, so you have to be careful), the benefits are much like any medical prescription and vary for each person. I use it for sleep and to focus because it turns off the random stray thoughts when I need that and I'm ADHD and autistic, so it also keeps me off disability and harsh ADHD drugs.

I understand your pov very well because at one point in my life I thought much as you, so don't take insult, I'm just trying to tell you another pov. I'm not saying drugs are great for everyone, or everyone is mature enough to handle them, etc., but for those like me who treat them like tools or a medication that deserves respect and careful consideration, they're invaluable. If they weren't illegal and sketchy to source, it would be easier to teach others, who are going to do it anyways, the safe methods and doses for different drugs.

Anyways, nothing you probably haven't heard, so I won't bore you anymore!
Many did or would accept the collapse of the towers, but WTC7 people could never be convinced. That was maddening to debate, because there was no there there of a conspiracy. Why create a false flag taking down the towers to start a war for oil to cover up taking down WTC7? Never got even a crazy answer the that question. Just blank stares.
Why is this being down voted? It's fairly standard practice for a large company isn't it?
I’m sure someone’s already asking “Is the COE done yet?”
1. Even before the past few weeks of articles, anecdotes from people I know have always indicated that Amazon is a pretty brutal company so I am surprised by that.

2. Is it just a matter of delayed impact on you? Would it come up in reviews later?
> It's all about which company can screw the other out of engagement and eyeballs.

Well that is kind of how media companies compete against each other, but the key question is: is it beneficial or harmful to the public?

You could argue that Apple is acquiring users who they then lock in, sell to advertisers and developers (for a 30% cut on the App store) and monetize with service subscriptions, but you can also argue that half of Apple's profit is still from hardware sales, that apps and services are a big reason for buying that hardware, so Apple is still beholden to its hardware customers to some extent.

And Google has https://wellbeing.google as well as associated features in Android, and Apple has also implemented "screen time" tracking and limits.
It's not an extraordinary claim.

It's legal in many states. The federal govt doesn't interfere.
>Presumably an economist who runs a profitable business has demonstrated more economic understanding than the average academic economist

No, he hasn't demonstrated any understanding of economics the same way a bird doesn't demonstrate understanding of physics just because it can fly. I think you've misunderstood Karl Popper if you took away from his work that selling gold on the internet makes you an economist or a scientist.

Someone could make ten million dollars running an MLM scheme but last time I checked that does not turn you into an authority on macroeconomics.
Hi, former hedge fund portfolio manager here (for 13 years).

First, companies with strong fundamentals and short term liquidity issues rarely go bankrupt, because there are plenty of entities willing to lend them money to smooth out their cash demands. This is basically the entire reason that commercial lines of credit exist.

Second, believe it or not companies can go bankrupt without wiping out their stock price. Bankruptcy courts are smart enough to not give away the entire company to the debtors when they owe $1 today but will receive $2 tomorrow.

Third, attempting to actively drive down a stock’s price with short sales is a pretty bad strategy. First of all, the Downtick Rule is a thing that exists. Second of all, and more importantly, if the stock is illiquid enough that (Downtick Rule notwithstanding) a short-seller can manipulate the price downward, that means the stock is illiquid enough to manipulate in the other direction when a buyer decides to execute the same strategy in reverse (and buyers have no stock borrow requirement and no equivalent to the Downtick Rule to worry about - you can absolutely drive up stock prices perfectly legally, provided that act isn’t part of some other illegal scheme like a pump and dump).

Finally, the discussion around short selling almost always focuses on a few high profile speculators and never acknowledges that the vast majority of shorting is for passive hedging (e.g. of options trades) where the “desired outcome” of the short seller probably isn’t for the price to fall. E.g. if you buy a call option and hedge the delta by shorting stock, you are indifferent to whether the stock goes up or down - you are betting on volatility, not price movement.

Think about it this way: if short selling were the act that it is often made out to be we would see every stock driven to zero by these all-powerful short sellers. We don’t, because short sellers don’t have the power people think they do and also aren’t (mostly) interested in seeing prices fall.
I think it more likely that Microsoft continues the ABI-hosting of Linux like it is currently with WSL. It doesn't make sense for them to use third-party kernel when the one they have works well enough and supports a long legacy of hardware and software, and it's something they can maintain control over.

If Microsoft feels competition from Linux, it makes more sense for them to allow hosting of Linux as a user-space application on their platform, rather than have a user migrate away.
FYI Apple does this for $49 each, this website charges you $59.99 a pair. https://support.apple.com/airpods/repair/service#battery

Edit: updated pricing thanks to comment by tanduv
Negative rates become more practical with CBDC.
How can this 300€ 6 axis robot have a static accuracy of and-0.05 mm?
>What I’m more excited about is AV1. AV1 is a next gen codec with members from many tech giants (Apple, Google, MS, etc.) to create a royalty free codec. IIRC some of its baseline is based on VP10, which Google scrapped and had its code donated to developing AV1. Unfortunately the reference encoder libaom is in a very early stage and takes forever to encode. SVT-AV1 is Intel’s (and joined by Netflix) scalable implementation. It performs not as well as libaom, but quality is still better than x265 (SSIM), and encode times are way more reasonable. For now, they look promising, and I am excited to see results in a few years. HEVC took 3-4 years before it was more widely accepted by Anime encoders, and took 5 years until 2018 before I began experimenting with it. AV1 began major development in mid-2018 so by that logic we got 2-3 more years to go.

Well, it's 2021 now, would be interesting to see a guide for AV1 encoding in the same vein. As I understand it, both of the leading AV1 encoders are still undergoing frequent changes and improvements, but it still would be nice to have a guide to help one to get a handle on things.
> I honestly don't know how you can believe this.

Well, it's actually pretty easy.

1) In theory, it can't happen.

2) And in practice, it doesn't happen.

It doesn't get much more cut and dried than that!

> If they drive the price so low that the company is unable to manage its debt

....that's a bit like saying short selling costs lives, because if short sellers drive the price so low that the headquarters catches fire, people might die in the flames.

See, the problem here is that driving a share price down doesn't stop you from managing your debt. Which is a key reason why there are no documented cases of short sellers driving healthy companies into bankruptcy.
I recommend anybody fascinated by this rabbit hole check out the album "The Grey Album," the documentary "Good Copy, Bad Copy," and the album "1987 (What the Fuck Is Going On?)". Or just the Wikipedia articles for them to start. Amazing world.
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I mentioned that work in a comment and realized that it is crazy that this is not more well-known.

It shows how crappy mechanics with tons of backlash can be compensated by a smart control loop. I think it is really an important notions to people who are interested in making their own robotics.
Whomever gets first in orbit first wins. So probably Musk.
Not too surprising I think... for myself and I suspect many/most, the calculus is something like:

A) check back in half an hour when Amazon will probably be working again

or

B) (1) find another online retailer which sells the kind of stuff I'm looking for (2) get the specific items I want in my cart (3) find my credit card (4) make an account (5) re-enter all my shipping information (6) shell out extra for shipping (7) repeat if I could not find a single retailer that sells all the items I wanted (8) curse myself the next day for committing to a retailer with slower shipping, unfamiliar returns process, etc., because I was too impatient to wait an hour for Amazon to be back up.

Not all of the steps in B apply to everyone of course. But it only takes a couple to make option A the winner, which I'd hazard is the case for many many Amazon shoppers.
I partly agree but this can too easily become an argument in favour of the lowest common denominator. I can hardly imagine a language that's easier to learn than Python, and for that reason a) lots of people already know it, and b) those that don't can learn fast. But that's at least partly because it just doesn't have features that are widely regarded as beneficial - a type system, metaprogramming, good functional constructs etc.

Before anyone comes back at me for suggesting that Python lacks essential features, I know there are third-party libraries or core features to do this stuff, but they're pretty far off-meta, so your team isn't going to know them, or having good idioms/consensus for using them, and so at that point you might as well just learn something a little more advanced anyway (Julia would be an excellent choice).
Just a note. H.265 (HEVC) is laden with patents. That's a reason Google didn't add H.265 support in Chrome.
nah a long time ago they moved everything to run as 'nobody' and that was before the move off of those systems and onto things like ECS.

fun fact jeff's employee id is like 72 or something while still being the lowest as they didn't reset the oracle sequence once they got that system working after testing but before making his user.
That hasn't been 100% true for like four years. Most new things in Retail are built on AWS.
This is literally a way to "self-host your shit."
It isn't a 100 year old drug. There are newer formulations that are faster acting, longer lasting, easier to administer, etc. They're newer so they're still under patent so they're a lot more expensive (because the rest of the world makes the US pay to develop the newer formulations). When insurance is paying for it, people prefer the newer formulations.

Then, since most people have insurance, there wasn't enough of a market for the older formulations for anybody to bother making them for the margins you get for making a generic. So the prices were high for people paying out of pocket.
> Every tools takes getting used to and learning it's quirks.

There's necessary differences and quirks, and there's just... unfathomable hubris by the developers, to the level that it's almost an insult to their user base.

Why not alt-drag? EVERY Microsoft tool uses that shortcut EXCEPT for VS Code!

Was it not written by Microsoft developers? Is it conforming to a standard I've never heard of, a standard that nobody else at Microsoft has ever heard of either?

Why didn't they most simply and most trivially just copy the default keyboard shortcuts from Visual Studio? Wouldn't that have been easier for everyone?

Writing something "new" doesn't meant that you're forced at gunpoint to change standards, ignore commonalities, or just do a bad job. It takes the same coding effort to configure "alt-drag" as it takes to configure "middle-drag"! There is no time saved by being sloppy, or lazy. This isn't a corner being cut to save time, this is a reversing of the direction that the steering wheel has to be turned. That doesn't help you manufacture the car faster or cheaper, and it doesn't help drivers.

( I'm not being flippant, the VS Code team literally flips things for no reason. See: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27807085 )
>There is history of short sellers driving businesses to bankruptcy and so yes

Can you list some companies?
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There are rational reasons to be hesitant even if on the whole, they don't fully add up (individual situations notwithstanding).

But the hesitancy I've witnessed is not based on a kind of logic or reasoning, rather just an 'instinct'.

If all you read is weird FB posts, tabloids then the sum totality of the 'decision' will just be 'no'.

Fox News I think illustrates how this can happen. Fox hasn't taken a Covid or vaccine denying position. In fact, you could probably find that officially they have been 'on the side of the vaccine'. But since so much of the coverage is questioning, cynical, downplaying and contrarian - and - they have not actually been overtly supporting the vaccine programs ... it's easy for people to be 'net vaccine hesitant' if that's their information source.

So while at the very same time that a news organization can be '100% technically correct' on everything, the channel might become noisy and the net result is lack of clarity.

My father doesn't have an argument about 'it was made too fast', it's more like 'Oh, there's that goddam Fauci again, telling us what to do!'. He personally dislikes Dr. Fauci, at least in part because of the media he's consuming.

He believes that coronavirus is real, and oddly, has even been in the hospital for some minor things where there were insane protocols he was more than fine with following (i.e. masks everywhere, everyone taking it seriously) - but at the same time, when the subject comes up he says 'Oh it's a bunch of bull**t' , kind of in a huff. Also - he lives in rural area that has mostly not been affected.

Public Communications is not about making just rational arguments - it's about information clarity, emotions, credibility, how much fog and misinformation is thrown about, all of the specious and frankly totally false bits of Social Media etc..

CNN went to somewhere in the Midwest and interviewed a bunch of people in a small town and they largely reacted the same way:

"We just do thing differently here"

"It's not a big deal for us"

"We just don't need it"

While the 'it was made very rapidly' logic (and other reasonable arguments) are sometimes made ... that's really not it.

That's why in a crisis, information discipline is so important.

I firmly believe that if Republican apparatus and media were very committed to vaccination especially with public messaging, then about 25% more Americans would be vaccinated.

Imagine if the President of the USA was using his Twitter to try to get people vaccinated. Imagine if he held 'vax rallies' where free tickets went to anyone vaxxed. Imagine if he asked Country Music stars to support the effort. Instead of 'technically supporting vaccination while publicly being cynical about it'. That's what it boils down to.
German court fines YouTube 100k USD for not reinstating deleted video
Having to write the CoE (correction of error)is punishment enough.
Some semantics are inherently slow though. If you are allowed to add fields to a class at runtime, you have to box all your objects. If you can eval in local scopes, you need to check to make sure you're running the right code. There are many types of semantic decisions with inevitable performance impact.
No "run as written"? Tell that to interpreted C++.
Immediate “no” from me.
Why is this not a neural network?
Do people use these for stock markets?
Economists can argue over the numbers all they want. It was a huge positive feedback loop that lead to the hockey stick growth.

The rapid change in productivity is exemplified by the making of the humble machine screw.

Prior to Maudsley, screws were made by hand, and numbered because they weren't interchangeable. Craftsmanship was required to make a good screw thread. Within a decade, an apprentice could make them with almost no training. Soon thereafter, machines turned them out in quantity.

The quality of material required to be suitable stock for use in a lathe was the result of other similar improvements in quantity and quality of production.

You can follow the causal chain down a million rabbit holes.
> they could not be seen as other than opportunistic and exploitative

I find this a bit hypocritical considering the incredible opportunism and exploitation represented by the WTC, as well as Bush's immediate command to spend money. They're moralizing other people for holding the very same values that America upholds.
imo: yes, absolutely
Either you are controlled by the government, or you are controlled by the captilist oligarchs. In a system where capital speaks louder than the people, only a true leftist could see another way out.
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I'm on the absolute latest build. All of those issues are from this release.

The previous releases were markedly worse, and absolutely unusable for PowerShell. I've never seen anyone switch from ISE to VS Code willingly. I'm forced, because I'm using some modules that are core-only and required PS 7.0, which works with VS Code only.

It doesn't matter if it has "improved" a lot if it is still by far the worst text editor slash IDE on my computer. I have five others, including two free editors that are better. And faster...
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???

That is a... bizarre take on things.

We don't live in a Mad Max dystopia or at the edge of nation-wide starvation. The things I mentioned are normal commodities. No idea why you feel the need to bring prostitution or odd choices like food (which spoils) into it?
I suppose that explains why people wouldn't want to accept payment in cash, but that doesn't necessarily explain why there'd be a coin shortage.
Amazon uses Fastly instead of AWS at a lot of their product pages:

https://www.streamingmediablog.com/2020/05/fastly-amazon-hom...
If the price is depressed, everyone benefits from it. If you can't benefit from it (eg. the price is depressed, the short seller sold it to some hedge fund, and the price returned to normal) then there's no impact. Which one is it?
>Synthesisers typically search a space of programs (a set of strings in the target language) for a program that satisfies the specification.

This sounds like a description of a parser generator.
They use both Fastly and CloudFront.
Saving a webpage and expecting your browser to render this the same way in a few years is only possible if you are saving the browser version with it.

The command line tool will have a longer life
I heard this today:

Walt Whitman wrote, "Be curious, not judgemental."

Strange at first to think of "judgemental" the opposite of "curious", but it becomes clear after a moment of thought. Judgemental already knows, already sees exactly what the truth is, whereas curious is willing to be vulnerable, to consider the possibility that those ideas currently held might be worth dropping, even if they've been clasped for a long time.

Seems a lot to me that conformity of thought leads to judgemental action. Reasoning and consideration are out the window, because contradictory notions threaten not just the idea under test, but the social standing associated with the belief forged by conformity.
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> Never got even a crazy answer the that question. Just blank stares.

Because it never occurred to them, I suspect. It would only have occurred to them if they were checking the conspiracy hypothesis with reality, trying to poke holes in the claim. That's the very opposite of a conspiracy theorist who already has the conclusion and is now attempting to back-justify it.

We all have our cognitive dissonances, but perhaps the hallmark of "conspiracy theory" thought is that it persists despite whatever degree of dissonance it has with the rest of reality (even reality as acknowledged by the believer). Probably because it never gets subjected to such "integration testing" and so exists in its own self-contained universe, free of all the other implied consequences, if it were true. Pointing out such inconsistencies won't do any good. Because such inconsistencies are never seen as actual flaws in their hypothesis (which of course, is correct). At best, you simply don't understand and your argument is seen as a giant fallacy. At worst, well... you're probably in on it, anyway.
Are you certain? As of last year, Amazon was switching to Fastly for their retain images:

https://www.streamingmediablog.com/2020/05/fastly-amazon-hom...
another fastly problems ..