skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One of the stories I provided for the documentary that didn’t make it (but is one of my favorites) relates to an early 2015 discussion I had with Brian Grant (googler / architect / worked on Omega / also in the documentary).

Brian writes very succinct and clear descriptions of problems encountered inside google, breaks them down to “what worked, what didn’t work”, and then would summarize a design seed in a github comment (of which several such subsystems subsequently were implemented that have been fairly successful).

I would keep mental track of some of these comments and assign a score based on how much R&D investment at google was compressed into a 200-300 word comment. I guesstimated some at being valued at upwards of $100k a word, and jokingly asked brian if he was authorized to share $10M worth of google’s secret sauce. He laughed, but reminded me of some of the same things mentioned in the documentary (which we all knew in the project at the time) - paraphrased:

“if you can seed a community project that includes some of these patterns built on that research, and that enables $10 billion of application team value, and google can capture $1B of that in google cloud, that’s a pretty good return on investment.”

And definitely among the key contributors I worked with from google was the very human and very relatable (for HN) desire to build that shows those internal ideas off and “do a successor to borg that really takes what we’ve learned and doesn’t just copy it”.

Even if it was a business strategy to help catch google cloud up… the beauty of open source is that you can benefit from it regardless, and it moves the industry forward in a meaningful way.
Why would capital gains be paid for a transaction?
> My personal experiences involve requiring step therapy (trying a cheaper, possibly less effective drug) before approving the prescription.

FYI, Mark Cuban's pharmacy only deals in generic medications. Most of the "step therapy" programs exist to gate the non-generic medications, so you wouldn't be finding them at Mark Cuban's pharmacy anyway.

Also, you don't need insurance to use a traditional pharmacy. You should still cross-shop online regardless.

I think too many people have misinterpreted Mark Cuban's PR as having solved all of the problems with insurance, but it's really just another retailer of generic medications like countless others online.

They said they plan to do their own manufacturing in the future, but at the moment they're buying from the same wholesalers as all the other online discount pharmacies. They've just attached Mark Cuban's name to this one.
Just checked again, and that option is not displayed - maybe not available in my country, or not possible for some other reason.

We could maybe just make an invoice and I pay it whatever way is possible for both and preferable to you.
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I've been frustrated with the 'Mark Cuban Pharmacy' for weeks now as well. At the end of the day, it is a way to capitalize on a lucrative industry and as you've pointed out, doesn't always work out in such a way that consumers will be better off for solely going through this new pharmacy venture.
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PDF isn't paywalled.

This is not a reviewed scientific paper; this is a short letter citing a couple studies that didn't see much of a difference in infection rates between unvaccinated and vaccinated people. Conversely, we have a bunch of data showing the opposite.
A transformer architecture does not change whether you use word tokens, musical chord encodings, audio waveform samples, image patches, or video frames. You can change a number of layers or attention heads, but the architecture remains the same - it does not care what is the nature of sequences it encodes/decodes. That's kind of the point - to have a universal algorithm. Human neocortex does not care which sensory receptors the signals are coming from, there's evidence that it processes all of them in the same manner.

Any prior information about the domain can be encoded in a way you prepare the input samples, and this would be equally useful and relevant regardless of the DL architecture you decide to use (RNNs, autoencoders, GANs, transformers).

Using raw audio samples has two advantages: First, you provide all available training data to a model, and trust that it will learn to extract what it needs from it. Second, unlike any other music representation formats, you have huge amounts of training data. So essentially all you need is a huge transformer and many thousands of GPUs to train it on, using all mp3s you can get your hands on, and you can reasonably expect a similar level of quality as the quality of text generated by GPT-3. What do you think?
This isn't a reviewed article, btw, but a "correspondence", which per The Lancet: "Correspondence letters are not usually peer reviewed (we rarely publish original research in this section)".
Telling investors you need to invent something new called an "L2 protocol" lets you ask for more money.

It might cause you to fix the insurmountable problems with a blockchain, insofar as it's just moving back to regular databases. But also it's now just something else you have to trust.
I bet they're easier to sue than AllDayChemist (not that I've ever had a problem with AllDayChemist.)
My pet theory is that modern western civ is a sub-product of advertising, as started by printed pamphlets.

Google and Facebook just took it to this century.
IP address by itself is not considered PII (at least not yet).

Context matters. IP address along with other information could be considered PII.
As I described: the requirements do not list enough. I use the word 'layers' as a loose term to describe anything from APIs between code written in different languages that needs to interact, modules within languages, frameworks, libraries, package managers and other 'things' that end up in your development lifecycle that can all introduce vulnerabilities, incompatibilities and other maintenance tasks.

If you want less maintenance, you have to reduce your dependencies, and to do that you might need to (partially) re-implement some of the features in your dependencies to be able to discard them, thus re-inventing the wheel.

Most of your other replies are not really up to you, and can only be answered by mouzogu.
Depending on the source, debezium might be useful.

Otherwise, there are many ETL solutions.
I follow a very simple formula nowadays.

1. Always be reading.

2. Teach everything you know.

3. If you don't know, learn enough to start teaching.

4. Take notes when you feel compelled to.

5. Use sleep as a memory tool. One nap during the day, and before going to bed each night think about what you're learning or want to learn more about. You'll wake up with more clarity every time.

The best book on this topic is probably "Learn Like a Pro" which came out last year.
Literally just returned to my rental after snorkeling Molokini. Hearing whales sing while listening to fish munch on the reef was incredible.
Useful things get adopted pretty fast.

Except when it's too early for eg. The hardware ( tablet and ml come to mind)
This one is an LG OLED55B8PUA
Ownership as a concept is backed and secured by law (and enforcement), an inherently political system in democracy. It's the most ideal system successfully practised around the world today.

The next best thing is securing one's property by practicing personal violence, and as I've no interest in shooting anyone for mere robbery, I'll take political ownership any day of the week.

If my very countrymen (and women) collectively decide I can't have my domain, then so be it. The obvious upside is that while they do uphold my ownership, it's as secure as any of my earthly possessions. Stealing my domain amounts to stealing my mail, which is a crime.
I think at this point we should relent and find a different word for the actual, technical meaning of the word monopoly.

It seems like any time there is an article at the top with the word monopoly in it, one of the first few comments is always someone trying to educate the author/other commenters on what a monopoly actually is.

If we do this, then we can all be on the same page when someone is intending to say that a service has become so mainstream/successful that it might feel like there are no alternatives.
> Can you elaborate on how this works? Are they giving you 30 days' supply of drugs for only $4, even if you have no insurance?

Yes, the 30-day supply of those drugs is literally just $4 whether or not you have insurance.

Many (but not all) generic drugs are actually super cheap to manufacture. Certain chemicals are basically pennies for a dose, and the production at scale is essentially automated away.

For the cheapest drugs, you're paying for the pharmacy to inventory it, dispense it, call your doctor if something goes wrong, and so on. Mark Cuban's pharmacy cuts costs by refusing to do any of the legwork with your doctor or insurance company. Your local neighborhood grocery store pharmacy doesn't mind doing it because they can sell you groceries while they fill it.
That’s not how kickbacks work.

A doctor could easily tell a patient “if you go to this hospital for surgery, I’ll give you $100”

That’s still a kickback.
Someone else already commented on this, but doesn't _everybody_ just realize that this is way too complicated and error prone? Signigning a token (whatever that means, I never saw so much nonsensical jargon in my life) gives a random person possible access over _all_ of your money??!! And this _by design_ can't be audited by a central authority that guarantees against scams.

If I had to read the source code of all my wire transfers, I'd probably just barter my services for some milk and bread, it definitely seems smarter.
Which makes it distinct from a pussycat how?
No where in Article 3 does it say anything about "targeting" them- it only says if the "service" is "offered", whether or not payment is required. So in broad interpretation, simply serving a webpage to an EU data subject is an act of processing personal data (IP address) of an EU data subject related to offering them a service (the web page itself). That is as long as it doesn't fall into one of the carve outs in Article 2- https://gdpr-info.eu/art-2-gdpr/

It could be argued that such an act "falls outside the scope of Union law;" but that seems to be a matter of contention.
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Plato’s dialogues are clearly literature and they deeply impacted 3 major religions and western civilization.

Xenophon’s Cyropaedia was used by Alexander the Great as a sort of field guide.

Francis Bacon’s New Atlantis was a key inspiration for Hooke and Newton.
It wasn't just giving something. The NFT was given, but this in itself does nothing. The victim was then asked to stake that NFT. To stake an NFT, the smart contract that does the staking needs access to your wallet. This too is normal. Except that the permission prompt asked for approval on another smart contract by means of a misleading name.

There's nothing broken here. A smart contract is just a piece of code that moves money. You better be sure about what it's doing before you allow it to run. There's blue chip smart contracts that are proven and thoroughly audited, but anything else you need to read the code. Same as reading a contract before you sign it.
Wow, that's a fairly elaborate scam.
Which Industry Spends the Most on Lobbying? (2021)
Pharmaceuticals/Health Products: $4,951,696,27

Insurance: $3,212,091,113

Electronics Manufacturing and Equipment: $2,788,778,841

Electric Utilities: $2,739,876,658

Business Associations: $2,622,933,997

Oil and Gas: $2,493,422,698

Miscellaneous Manufacturing and Distributing: $2,014,112,186

Hospitals/ Nursing Homes: $2,013,333,323
Is the lady who didn't want any risky genetics going to buy a generic from Mark Cuban's online pharmacy?
Breaking news: "off-ramps" to centralized currencies is centralized.

It's not difficult if the source of your cryptocurrencies is legitimate, while difficult if you have a hard time explaining how it's legitimate. I think the system works as intended.
Interesting, but the sample size discussed is very very small - 204 households - and, as the researcher notes, there are many confounding variables to consider. To me, this does not at all suggest that a change of public policy is warranted at this time, but it would definitely be interesting to see more research.
We're huge fans of TablePlus but Arctype is free (all features) for most developers. We charge a low price for teams/startups above 10 users in a typical SaaS model. TablePlus is a great piece of software but it charges $79 for individuals (one year of updates) to unlock all features such as having multiple tabs. We're also focused a lot more on visualization and collaboration.
> Instead the offered solution is to sterilize all water in nature

This is not the treatment approach and is not remotely feasible.

The guinea worm life cycle is largely human driven as well. It's like objecting to reducing heavy metals leaching into drinking water out of some notion of keeping it unchanged from its current state, when it's largely put there by human behavior in the first place.
I'm not sure if there's a better alternative, to be honest. Given how large a portion of the time compiler authors will be writing code for the compiler, many of them might not spend any time working in the language they're designing if it isn't what the compiler itself is written in. If the people who maintained Rust spent all their time writing OCaml and little to none writing Rust, I think that would likely cause far more and worse blind spots than writing Rust all the time but only in a specific domain.
"We're so incredibly lucky it's hard to fathom."

But we are not, in UK developers are slightly above average office workers, they have no advantage on lawyers, bankers, doctors, etc.
I copied the index.html and main.js file, threw them on GitHub Pages, and shared it with a few friends. It's an easy and cheap way to keep it old school.
yes. Of course nowadays interesting for collectors because you can get an adapter and then (relatively) easily use a wide range of boards with one setup.
Those writing extensively on note-writing rarely have a serious context of use
Datanomics
Also interested. Pretty easy thing to say without citation
This is not an article, it’s correspondence (e.g. what one guy thinks about some other articles he’s read). Plus, the articles being discussed have very small sample sizes.
Linus on small, trivial patches (2004)
But what rate is my insurance "billing" for the total price of the transaction with my insurance?

So - while you may be able to get nearish the same price (before the shipping) <-- But am I consuming less of my insurance and also paying less to insurance companies, which are just hedge funds anyway...

So, if Mark Cuban the Billionaire can start a pharmacy model such as this, not dealing with insurance, then what precludes market competition with his pharmacy?

Franchise license with supply chain to open ones own brick and mortar etc...

Serious questions.
In some respects K8s is a bit of a step backwards from Heroku or AppEngine. It's complicated and requires you master its learning curves to deliver benefits. This looks like a lot of cloud products which are becoming more complicated to sell to bigger companies where they have the ops teams dedicated learning these products. You get an 'easy' to setup demo with a lot of copy-paste or bash|sh but you'll need a PhD for running your own apps in production. And each product is a different learning curve and they don't always play nice.

The next paradigm is composability and simplification. I should be able to define an application, its configuration, what it needs to talk to, and level of desired spend for which availability/performance SLO and it should mostly just work. Security should just work and each perimeter is automatically configured - without managing separate configuration for admin APIs, end user auth, peer auth, k8 network policies, firewall policies, etc. I shouldn't have to care about runtime - GKE vs Cloud Run vs Lambda or optimizing Node shapes or whatever new product launched yesterday. If I push a production change there should be a consistent way of simulating, canarying, and slowing rolling that change out across all products.

Ideally, it should basically be a marketplace of commodity network/compute/storage and the providers are dynamically bidding for my business. If you can run my application as fast or as reliable with less spend, you get the business - if not the app magically moves the provider that can.
With some basic SERDES knowledge I wonder what could be done in 2022, now that we have cheap FPGAs. Ronja is limited in that it piggybacks on 10BASE-T Ethernet, which in turn makes in simpler. It wouldn't be easy to analogously piggyback on 100BASE-T due to PAM-3 transmission. An FPGA would allow for a bespoke PHY/MAC to be implemented in lieu of Ethernet.

There are many techniques for pushing bits into a wire faster, like CTLE, DFE, pre-emphasis, to name a few. Probably the best starting point would be Behzad Razavi's "Design of Integrated Circuits For Optical Communications".

For starters, the LED driver could use current switching with some idle current (pre-bias) in "0" state to achieve more bandwidth.
Imagine if we could skim 0.1% of all transactions to some kind of charity.
I think you meant opt-in. But it's actually opt-out in the case of Firefox, which has been shipping with Enhanced Tracking Protection enabled by default since 2019.
https://blog.mozilla.org/en/products/firefox/firefox-now-ava...
Urbanite is a descriptive word, not a epithet. It's called for whenever city-dwellers are being described.
In my case, I use Cmake because it's easier to link libraries in a Visual Studio project through CMake that way than through VS itself.
Yeah, having biodiversity is a mess; there is water and food. And not having any is a Mars.
> You can drive to any local Walmart and get it for $4 and they will bill your insurance
> and they're going to charge an extra $5.00 shipping at checkout

I'd say driving to wallmart and dealing with insurance can be as much as $5 worth of gas and time for some.
> A high value service realizing it delivers more value than it initially thought, and raising prices... is not a monopoly. That's just business, life, etc.

It is not a monopoly, but it is a sign of an unhealthy market.

A simple example: say we have company QualityEars. QualityEars sells budgetBoom ($25), performanceBoom ($60), and premiumBoom ($100) speakers. However, their performanceBoom is so well-engineered, that it performs more like an $90 speaker and thus nearly invalidates the premiumBoom line.

In a healthy market, this now forces QualityEars’ competitors to create an equally valuable product, and QualtiyEars itself to increase the price-performance ratio of its premiumBoom and perhaps even budgetBoom line.

Instead, what I’ve mostly seen happen in the real world (whether it is products or services) is either the price of the performanceBoom and premiumBoom line get raises, or performanceBoom gets discontinued and worsevalueBoom takes its place.

This is a sign of not enough competition. Also known as an unhealthy market :)
But this isn’t even a study - it’s one person’s interpretation of a variety of studies, none of which directly show what he is suggesting. In this case, more research is literally needed to have any sort of answer to the question the author is bringing up.
If I rememeber correctly, in Korea medevac helicopters were marked as per the international conventions (Geneva or Hague, not exactly sure) and they still took fire anyways.
Also, there's another issue that won't and can't be mitigated by any visual means, many aerial engagements on a peer to peer conflict happen outside of visual range and on that case any non visual IFF would have to be radio based and due to the inherent proximity of medevac missions to the forward line of contact would be very susceptible to electronic warfare. So I'd argue that red crosses on front line medevac helicopters aren't that important
> Undertensioned wheels will start to fail in about 1-2000k from fatigue in the j bend of the spokes.

Yes, I've seen a couple of those, typically mail order or equivalent bikes sold without a mechanic involved in the sales process. Guess who gets to fix them :)

> They're a lot easier to build, because spoke windup and nipple galling don't start to be an issue until you get to decent tensions.

Lubrication during build is the key I think.

> The wheel will buckle in a potato chip shape - This is generally something that will happen at build time, and can be recovered from.

Interesting, I've never seen this at build time but I've seen people that build their own wheels crash terribly because of this, so far only (fortunately) rear wheels. Just thinking about having that happen to a front wheel while on the move is enough to give me views of dentist offices.

> The inner wall of the rim will pull away from the side wall. This was particularly bad with the old Mavic MA single eyelet rims, but I've seen it on at least one other rim as well, a lightweight MTB rim laced as a tandem rear. (Completely inappropriate choice of components)

This I've never seen.

> Spokes can be improperly tightened without lubrication in the threads, causing windup which later (when unloaded under tire pressure and rolling loads) causes the pinging sound of the wheel going out of true. This is not a structural failure, but it does cause the wheel to require attention.

This is the main thing I've come across frequency wise. I suspect some manufacturers don't particularly care about what they ship as long as the customer pays and it makes it out of warranty.

> For the buckling limit case, the ultimate load depends on the torsional stiffness of the rim, and a few other minor factors. Box or closed section rims are much better, U shaped rims are bad.

Yes, logical too. Box or closed section rims can be ridiculously stiff.

> Paradoxically, thinner spokes are better, and you need to lubricate the nipple threads and the contact with the rim.

Can you explain the 'thinner spokes are better' bit? I use thicker spokes on the gear side if a cassette is very high so the wheel is almost flat on one side to get symmetrical tension, but otherwise equal on both sides and thicker for heavier loaded bikes (such as tandems). Would love to understand this bit.

> You need to lubricate the nipple threads and the contact with the rim

Yes, this is key. You won't be able to get the spokes properly tensioned if you don't do that (or you end up eating up the hole around the spoke nipple). That's a great way to ruin a rim or to end up with busted spoke nipples.

Oh, and also important: use the proper key! (not those round ones but the ones that go over and on, obviously sized exactly for the nipples you use).
cryptocurrency is fine. NFT, smart contract, web3, tokens, and pretty much anything related to Ethereum isn't
Why won’t we talk about the tradeoffs of the lockdown? (2020)
> - Have a dedicated machine just for transferring money - Only boot from a read only flash drive to interact with the network - Store credentials in a separate place, maybe on paper in a very hidden spot

You're overstating the problem. Companies like Ledger make "hardware" wallets as you're describing and they're not complicated to use. If you're using crypto in small amounts and not as long-term storage, I think a phone wallet or desktop wallet is fine.
If the network grows [1] at 2MB/14s that's:

2/14*3600 = 514MB per hour
514*24 = 12.3GB per day
12.3*30 = 369GB per month

Even if the underlying blockchain is decentralized, I have no practical way of participating without doing it via some centralized exchange.

How many nodes will there be if ETH hits $0? What will happen to the services like ENS?

1. https://www.bitrates.com/guides/ethereum/how-many-ethereum-a...

Is the above accurate? Wikipedia says the whole network is 1TB, so that doesn't quite add up for me.