skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"I don't have the proper tool to whisk a bowl of eggs.
What should I use instead? Choose between a goat, a weasel and a pair of elephants."

"a pair of elephants"

Unwieldy but I guess less sticky than a weasel or goat.
The wealthiest 10% of Americans own a record 89% of all U.S. stocks
Desert to Power Initiative
I actually work at a software/services company for commerce. Don't get me wrong, this is a big space and there are many challenges but they often tend to be more vertical than technical. Lately I've been making a monolithic app behave less so with decoupled async notifications. Also spend some time prototyping things for future adoption for if/when that's feasible. I'd like to be using something functional like F# but for some reason not being in adtech/fintech drastically lowers tech appetite of companies.
Nobel Prize if true.
It's wrong.

Breeder reactors can make fuel during use.

We only need enough fuel for one reactor.
Palm is definitely the one company that made me hesitate and add the qualifier "major" to my statement.
Serious question, more out of curiosity on the state of PHP in 2021. Because of the advent of such things as Python (which I see a lot of comments in this thread about) - is it still relevant as a tool? I use it for minor projects internally to prop up a website on a Pi here and there, for ease of use - but curious what the state of the language is.

Anyone have stats on this?
I'm curious if Uber/Lyft is going to last in SF. It does not take more than one $90 for 3 mile ride experience for me and my friends to never want to count on Lyft again.

The way it works is, you think I'll just Uber/Lyft to meet my friends. So you order one say 20 minutes before you're supposed to meet only to find an extremely high price. You pay it so you're not late but then you also vow to plan ahead so you never have to take it again. I haven't taken one since I was burned in June. Another friend got burned last month and I'd guess he's likely to not take another either.
when you move a large amount of cryptos to an exchange it is seen by the market at large as a sell signal

when a large amount of cryptos are moved off of an exchange, it is seen as a bullish signal because it means that they will be chillin' for a bit and not actively traded.

a bunch of weird Tether IOUs being moved off exchange might mean they plan to redeem these for dollars (idk how this even works) or they might be doing a bunch of OTC trades, or stackin NFTs or something
It creates a theft nuisance, they attract shoplifters to nearby stores.

In that way you don't want a Walgreens or CVS in your neighborhood in the same way you don't want a 24 hour liquor store in your neighborhood.
That doesn't explain why it's available cheaply in other countries, even privately.

E.g. in the UK a quick check shows me I can buy a pack privately online for $40.

(UK online pharmacies can sell a number of prescription-only drugs privately if they have a doctor carry out an online consultation, which means you basically fill in a form and a doctor will look at your answers and provide a prescription as part of the sales process, or you can send them a prescription you already have).
Also the FDA makes it incredibly expensive to compete even on off patent drugs.
> It's also worth bearing in mind that the socialized healthcare system the US does have - the VA - does not have a uniformly good track record. This does a poor job of making the case for a larger socialized system all on its own.

> Which is to say it's not just propaganda.

No public or private system anywhere in the world has a uniformly good track record.
I think it's more that coal is insignificant in the UK's energy mix.
"Recent work has recovered the gene sequences of this unusual strain, so that the 1918 pandemic virus could be reconstituted to display its unique virulence phenotypes."

What could possibly go wrong?
This is fantastic progress, great to see

16x smaller = 41.5GB though

More research needs to be undertaken in model compression imo
The US has states that are larger than countries in Europe. This may or may not contribute to the problem, but it is tiny in the big picture of US healthcare issues.

The issue in the US is that the system is hugely inefficient compared to the models in Europe. There is an absolutely massive administrative layer between care providers and payers, price negotiations aren't transparent or efficient, the whole system is hugely complex, and the vested interests are incentivized to keep it that way.
Previously, Xi says they were heavily focused on growth and didn't worry about inequality. Going forward they are claiming they will be a lot more concerned with the latter
It sounded to me like the answer for the author was "because it's fun!" and then turning around and figuring out how to arrange his career in a way that lets him continue learning, which ends up benefitting his career anyways, almost as a side effect.
Would that be the Treo 270, Treo 180g, Treo 180 or Treo 90 (all released in 2002)?
The Aristocracy of Talent: How Meritocracy Made the Modern World
Honestly, is 140 MB really a problem anymore?

Like yeah, I don't like the idea that everything using Electron includes and runs an entire browser API every time they execute.

But these days 140 MB is chump change. Unless you're on Hughesnet, I get the impression most users have the disk space and bandwidth to deal with a one-time download of 140 MB.

Yes, it'd certainly be nice if it could be 5 MB instead. It's pretty stupid that applications of old could probably do the same stuff with even less than that, but today we just use applications as dumping grounds for imported modules. At the same time, I think we are kind of living in the past when it comes to being concerned about megabytes. Countless people stream gigabytes of video daily.

The reason I am more concerned with browser APIs than bandwidth is because more code running in memory means more things to either potentially go wrong or be exploited.

Even then, that's not really high on my list of concerns.
What do you mean by "Cloudflare isn't a slick Brand"?

I feel like they're the only cloud company that's been doing any real innovation for the last 5-10 years, and in a very approachable and affordable way.

What's un-slick about them?
Right, this is the point that is missed in every hacker news / reddit post that spends hours making fun of how bad the US is and how some people get stuck with $50,000 hospital bills.

If you have good work based coverage, our care is excellent. Fast access, and low out of pocket costs.

I do want to improve it for everyone, but I have 0 complaints about my personal access to health care. I cannot imagine living in Canada and being put on a 8 month wait for something important but not urgent...
Interesting you pick the unpopular one, whereas Medicare (62 million people covered) is widely liked and considered successful. In fact, satisfaction levels of Medicare are considerably higher than most private coverage.

The difference of course between Medicare and less popular plans like VA coverage and Medicaid is that people on Medicare have political power, veterans and the poor do not.

Nobody is arguing that you can run a healthcare system badly, but to only point out the worse case is not arguing in good faith.
Ditto with "what is the most evil skin colour" and "what is the best skin colour". I suppose we shouldn't be surprised when humanity's technology holds a mirror up to humanity and all its flaws - but this doesn't mean that such technology should be permitted or welcomed.
Do they have more outages than AWS or GCP?
Is this model public? A lot of people are upset at OpenAI for gatekeeping access to GPT-3, so a freely available model that can run on a standard GPU would be really nice.
I asked:

"Who would in a fight between a baby and an alligator?"

Answer:

"the baby"
Your model might be comparing an EV versus nothing situation. Since it is going to be EV vs. ICE, the ‘extra pollution’ will be created unless people stop driving, so EV still wins in that case.

It would be better if we had the funds to rebuild our cities to make them not dependent on vehicles, but our hands our tied.
I'd rather my resume go straight into the bin than be analyzed by some glorified Markov chain trained on reddit posts
We recently moved to Michigan and a factor in doing so was being near the Canadian border for pharmacies. The University of Michigan's health website even talks about this as a possible strategy. This shouldn't happen in a civilized country.

https://www.uofmhealth.org/health-library/te7832
> In my experience, most "off the beaten path" places that have Airbnb listings almost always have at least one legitimate hotel, hostel, or homestay. In fact, I'd go so far as to suggest that most places that have Airbnbs aren't nearly as "off the beaten path" as you're telling yourself.

I think that's kind of my whole point, to some degree. In the Age of the Internet, the world is more connected than it has ever been before, which means the path is less beaten by roadways than it is by wires and signals from wireless towers. If a place has any form of reasonable Internet connectivity, it's probably not really that far "off the beaten path", but that's also essential as a basis for any reasonable accommodation. So, no, I'm not visiting remote tribes in the Amazonian jungle, but I also wouldn't for many reasons including ethical considerations. Visiting a rural village in the countryside of a country not known for tourism, but that nevertheless has broadband Internet, is not as far off the beaten path, but it is still outside the awareness of typical tourists.

The world being more connected is generally a good thing, and I'd say a net good, but it's not all roses and cherries, and in fact there are many negative externalities to this connectivity as well. AirBnB provides people a way to arbitrage those externalities, but it's not wholly evil either, it also has positive attributes that can benefit both parties.
I think what just happened to the high scores is an accurate representation of what happens to half the things that end up on Hacker News!
Keyboards communicate keypresses, why you can't get a keyboard with an Emoji
Cities have been buying out farms for years now. They can buy a single farm with water rights, then drain the aquifer over the next 10-20 years. Every other family that depends on that aquifer gets screwed, with wells that dry up.

The western water laws are enshrined in states constitutions. It's going to get a lot worse before the laws are changed.

Just one example: https://www.elpasotimes.com/story/news/2016/07/06/el-paso-wa...
Betting your life? Zuckerberg was at Harvard and I assume has well-off parents. FB could have been a total dud and I'm sure he would have done fine.
Survival Planes (Fixed)
Common diagnostic info primarily reports on the device's status, there aren't many privacy concerns in that past transgression.

What I'm worried about is the practice of device reporting done on individual user behaviors unrelated to device operation, which previously required careful measures to not report in software-based monitoring. Rules exist within the US government to protect Personally Identifiable Information, but somehow now not within private companies like FaceBook?

Now that real-time connectivity and information is available, companies have access to data (well beyond what even most governments can collect) that can easily be weaponized against individuals, or even compromised by hackers or less-ethical companies and then also weaponized against individuals or groups in ways no-one has even thought about yet...

"Boogeymen" is perhaps an improper name because they don't even know the devastating impacts that this personal data collection trend will lead to into the future... "Incompetent Egoists" and "Ignorant God Complex" are probably better terms to use in describing the individuals involved in implementing this type of reckless societal behavior monitoring.
Can someone unpack “stackin NFTs” for me?
Way to self host apps using CapRover
The loop can be written using This One Weird Trick that Walruses Hate:

for foo in iter(partial(data.get, "foo"), None):
handle_foo(foo)

So I would only use the walrus operator for the first example (the if statement), which even though it is exactly the same as doing it in two steps just feels nicer as a single step.
Portables cringe
Reflecting telescopes hand ground from a single piece of glass
You are mistaking list prices with cost. Nobody pays list price. List price is an anchor for price negotiation. This works against you as an uninsured individual, because you have no negotiating power. Insurance companies act as the wholesaler and they insist on locking you into a complicated subscription model. They can only do this because drug purchases are heavily regulated.
Open-sourcing the MuJoCo physics simulator for robotics
I agree per Trump. They are almost trying to create an underdog situation again. Sigh
A lot of the people I work with have personal laptops and I think it comes down to convenience and nothing more.

I have a desktop, it takes up space but it's faster and I've a very large screen. There have been several times I've wanted to work from the sofa but I don't think it'd be as productive.
Curated PWA Links
Buy overpriced NFTs in exchange for UST and hold them until they find another greater fool to resell the item to
Enterprise CloudFlare customer here, can't remember a single disruption or outage in the last year.
I used gold as a random example.

Highest grade copper mines 3-4%

Zinc mines and other base metals sit at 2-3%
Is there a way to use Matrix without signing up for it? That’s my main problem right now

You can usually get some use out of Discord by just clicking an invitation link, but for Matrix it looks like I have to create an account with some shady unknown social networking entity
openapi-generator-go – Generate go code from an openapi spec
The 1930s was the Dust Bowl. The 1988-89 drought, while not as severe as the Dust Bowl, was the costliest in terms of economic damage and hit most of NA. As you can see by that chart, it took five or more years to recover from it.

It's also possible to see that the region never really recovered from the 2002 drought. Droughts are getting ever more frequent and the region isn't getting enough time between them to recover.
Author of the article here: thanks for re-posting this! The article seems to be still relevant to many even 4 years later, which surprises me, given how quickly everything is changing in the field.

However, I personally am now focused (and bullish) on DNN-based semantic search. Having built several search experiences based on it I'm convinced it is the future.
There was an older consultant "StrengthFinder" thing. The idea was to systematically identify strengths and weaknesses and, as I recall, one of the ideas was that, assuming no gross deficiencies relative to career, you may want to focus on the things that you may not already be A+ in but you have some level of skill in.

For example, a very good coder who is OK but not great at presenting or writing may want to spend some effort on those areas.
I am so disenfranchised with American medicine; I'm delaying a easy Chapter 7 bankruptcy just in case I get sick.

This is not the America I raised a hand to.

(Bankruptcy can only be used every 10 years.)
Look at what happened to Jack Ma. He made some measured but pointed criticism of the party's banking regulations and disappeared for a month. His IPOs got shut down and a host of new regulations were added that basically kill his ambitions in banking.

Vs in the USA, Zuck attempted to create his own currency.
Clearly history wasn't something it paid attention to in class. "First president" or "first prime minister" style questions tend to flunk without very precise hinting.

Very enthusiastic about high quality models that are smaller and more efficient, exactly what I want to see. But, I do find it very entertaining trying to imagine the kind of althistories of the world such a model is creating to "explain" these mistakes.

(Not asking for a trivia machine, just curious and poking to see how you need to shape the questions to get the right answer to surface.)
I think what they meant is that Binance may be using the funds to buy NFTs
It can be stopped if we changed social media to be, well social. If there was no public posts on Facebook, no public groups, there would be just your friends and you could talk with them. There could still be private groups, so that you could organize a surprise birthday party or whatever, but nothing would be public.

The issue with social media is that humans are not wired to deal with that many humans in one place, so you end up with disfunctional behaviour.

And, unlike what the media wants to sell it as, these attacks are not, per say, misogynistic. The bully doesn't care what he attacks you over, he finds what he thinks is a soft spot and then strikes. Insecurity over gender, beauty, social standing, racial identity, etc can all be used.

The goal is to get a reaction out of you, and if he gets one he wins. He does not actually care that you are fat, a woman, or whatever.
>They'll just go to Google and type in their search followed by terms such as Wikipedia, imdb, Stackoverflow, YouTube, Bandcamp, Amazon, eBay, Yelp... all sites that spent a lot of time on their search and have done quite a decent job. Oh well.

I'm someone who does this, and I do it because I've found that it either works better than a site's specific search and/or it's so much faster to go to Google and search than to try to find the search functionality of the specific site.
I think your misinterpreting his use of the word need.

He meant "needs it for free" not "needs the drug".
So basically your approach to life is to "not teach a man to fish" ?
Ask HN: Has anyone had memory problems with their M1 Mac?
I bought an M1 MacBook Air last November and it has been just okay. It's a super fast machine, but occasionally I experience mouse lag / graphics tearing. The Apple store techs diagnosed this as a trackpad issue (and have replaced it twice). But, I think it's a memory issue, as it only happens when my device is swapping a lot of memory; it goes away when I turn swapping off.

Has anyone else experienced issues like this?
This is the kind of thing that would cause people to distrust government and major pharmaceutical companies when they say a new vaccine should/must be taken by everyone.
Doesn't it? My understanding is basic, but as far as I know we have discrete detector cells that respond to light hitting them. We have ones that respond to all light as well as different ones that respond to only certain wavelength ranges. They aren't aligned in a matrix, sure, but that's not what makes a pixel a pixel.

We don't see the pixels because our consciousness works at a higher level of abstraction. You won't find pixel a few layers deep into a CNN either, but that doesn't mean they don't exist, the "neurons" at that layer just don't see them because they have no use for them.

That's always been my understanding at least...
rsadas
so they are changing cold wallets, how is this news?
No. Walgreens only has two registers and one self register in the stores near me.
The NY Times and Washington Post also refused to publish the My Lai massacre before an unknown at the time freelance journalist Seymour Hersh broke the story in the western press more than a year after. There are also a great visuals of the massacre in the Ken Burns documentary Vietnam War.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mỹ_Lai_massacre#Media_coverage

Two major national news press outlets — The New York Times and The Washington Post, received some tips with partial information but did not act on them.

Ridenhour called Seymour Hersh on 22 October 1969. The freelance investigative journalist conducted an independent inquiry, and published to break the wall of silence that was surrounding the Mỹ Lai massacre. Hersh initially tried to sell the story to Life and Look magazines; both turned it down. Hersh went to the small, Washington-based Dispatch News Service, which sent it to fifty major American newspapers; thirty accepted it for publication.[157] New York Times reporter Henry Kamm investigated further and found several survivors of the Mỹ Lai massacre in Sou
Study after study has shown that we pay more for medical care + taxes than other countries. As it stands, the excess gets syphoned off to feed the medical industrial complex.
Isn't it maintenance related as linked to in a reply to that tweet? https://www.binance.com/en/support/announcement/27d6afd43209...
Click on the upper right icon that looks like three short parallel lines to open up the menu, then click on About.
I can’t contribute to the discussion about Google’s rules. I just want to mention that simple uses of templates for generic data structures are very different from template meta programming. I can see how a style guide might allow the former and ban the latter.
So you want Syntensity, azakai's main pursuit before asm.js and emscripten became his full time thing.
I know some versions of it, like Feynman saying that if he can't explain it to a freshman, he doesn't understand it.

Likewise, if you write code that only you and someone smarter than you can understand, you don't understand it.

That does bring a risk though. If you write simple code (e.g. in Go) that does what it does without any trickery, a more inexperienced job interviewer may look at it and scoff because you're OBVIOUSLY not a very good developer if you stick to simple code.

But that's a good litmus test, if they're like that, run away. They don't write code to solve a problem, they write code to flex and impress themselves, or to provide them with job security, or CV boosts.
Yes! -> https://huggingface.co/bigscience/T0pp
It's historically sound. The US and Japan followed a variant of this policy in the 1950s and it led to an explosion of growth.
Google had a relatively good chat product, Google Talk. Then they invented Google Hangouts, Google+, Wave, Allo, Messenger, Meet, and Chat.

Now IRC is dead. Who gets the last laugh, huh?!
Yes. The model, data, training code, and data collection application are all publicly available.
Does anyone know about this drug? The generic pill is $10, not sure why the suppository would be $10k. I'm guessing some journalist found some drug that few people use.

https://www.goodrx.com/indocin?dosage=50mg&form=capsule&labe...

https://www.goodrx.com/indocin?dosage=50mg&form=suppository&...
I was a martial arts practitioner for a couple decades, and our answer was "add one at a time". You'd learn the entire system at a basic level, and then practice it all enough to figure out which one technique you wanted to be the strength in your personal flavor of the style. So you'd level that one technique up from just being able to do it, to knowing when and how to apply it to many different situations. Once it became an intuitive response, you started on another technique but tried to find a technique that would cover the gaps where the first technique was not practical.

So a newly minted black belt might have one or two techniques. 10 years later, they might have 5. 20 years later, maybe even a dozen. But it isn't a question of the right number of techniques - it is a matter of constant improvement. The goal is to keep practicing moreso than having a specific end point.
that's the laugh I needed this morning, thanks
>List price is an anchor for price negotiation

As someone who hails from a place whose enormous single-bloc healthcare system can dictate the terms you're describing, I don't think that statement is the explanatory gotcha you intend it to be. Those regulations are there for a reason -- to ensure your for-profit healthcare system makes profit. What if the middlemen were gone and it didn't have to?