jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
> If you die of Covid-19 you were already dying. This illness was simply the straw that broke the camel’s back.

People with covid-19 need ventilators and intensive care. This isn't just old people with severe comorbid illness, it's younger relatively healthy people too.

If we ignore for a moment the old people who were going to die this year with or without covid-19 we're still left with huge numbers of younger people needing intensive care and ventilation. This has knock-on effects: many healthcare systems have cancelled almost all elective healthcare. You might say that a cancelling a knee replacement doesn't matter, but these kinds of surgeries transform life and allow people to live independently for longer.

Covid-19 is flooding our hospitals with very ill people, and some of them are going to be pretty poorly when they're ready to be discharged, and some community care or care homes are going to have to deal with a larger number of ill people.

The jargon word for this is "acuity". Increased patient acuity increases costs of healthcare, increases risks of harm, increases rates of HCP burnout, decreases access to health care etc etc.

Covid-19 is going to have long lasting effects on healthcare systems even though it's mostly killing people who would have died anyway.
This advice does not work.

I have been "giving it another week" for 3 weeks now, trying to figure out which direction it is going to go.
I didn't accuse you of anything bad or call you names -- I just pointed out the irony in the situation. It was intended as an illustration of the difficulty of following your own advice, not as an insult.
That's what I thought too: Since you are using the iPad to display the feed, does that make it commercial?
I kinda hate to say it, but isn't it a bit late to try and push a new technique to mass production? This is the type of thing that should have been done last year. I'm sure this is a good technique, and it might just be the best method for cleaning up the oil that is present in the water. However, it's one thing to do this in the lab or in a small scale. It's a whole other issue to do this at the scale of the Gulf.

That being said: I'm pretty sure his funding chances have increased. Perhaps the oil companies will start (or be forced into) spending more of their money funding this type of work now.
What would you do with the liquid Nitrogen you generate? What is the hello world app of cryogenics?
You're picking a language based on a single library?

Look out, world.
What is the hello world app of cryogenics?

Making ice cream.
ActiveX is pretty cool, and gives you a "desktop" experience. You should look into it if you like letting one corporation lock you into their proprietary version of the web.
From the nostromo's comment:

>The biggest selling point was not only the short commute, but that you went through security at the helipad very quickly, rather than waiting at the airport.
I should have been more clear. The problem is that zbackup won't work for large data sets. For example, I used to use rdiff-backup for a samba filesystem at work that had a few terabytes of files on it. The problem was that whenever someone would rename a directory all of the data in its subdirectories would have to be backed up again.

Backup software that deduplicates solves this problem wonderfully, since it doesn't make a difference if the files have been moved or not.

The problem with your approach is that I can't send several terabytes of data offsite every night. I could use the rsync trick I mentioned, but now I've got to store two copies of the data on the backup server.
CISO budgets are exploding at large companies; in '98 most of these companies didn't even have a CISO.

Firewalls have proven to be ineffective and companies are willing to pay for solutions that are more effective. Attackers have also gotten a lot more professional and sophisticated.

There's certainly been plenty of billion dollar security companies been built outside of the firewall space in recent years (FireEye, Varonis, Lifelock, Trusteer, Cloudflare, etc) and there's undoubtedly going to be many more.

Security also has played out in mobile the way you suggested can't happen. Companies like Lookout and BYOD management companies are well on the way to building billion dollar businesses in spaces traditionally controlled by entrenched vendors enabled by the shift to mobile.

(incidentally the security section was written by Scott Weiss who founded IronPort and later ran Cisco's Security Technology Group; so not someone unfamiliar with the security space)
Restaurants, perhaps?
Is there any research as to whether racist attitudes correlate more with perceived superiority or with fear? I wonder if this varies, e.g., by country.
Food suppliers, possibly restaurants.
Good point on virtualenvs, but it's a python specific fix (which does work). The problem is often you are tying in other kinds of tooling.

The other thing to remember about roll your own is you can get efficiency that frameworks can't, and that time difference adds up fast. For example, we designed a worker distribution system, rolled our own worker management code on top of a framework, and reduced compute times from ~1-2days to ~4 hours. That's a huge increase in productivity that no tool or framework could give us.

There is power in roll your own, I would just say whip your programmers into submission regarding good commenting/documentation though.
Thanks for the links! At least I am not going crazy ;)

> Have you considered pay-what-you-want pricing, with a suggested anchor?

As of late 2014, I am working on this full-time. Scary, but I think I can pull it off. I am shooting for a $12 monthly subscription fee (auto-renewing), that will give you blanket access to everything for 30 days. My thinking is that, I am targeting sysadmins, devops folks, and developers who want to learn about ops. So, if I can save you even 1 hour per month, then it more than pays for itself. I am hoping to push this out in a few days actually, so I will have more data soon! I don't think it will be an overnight success, but hope to build it over a couple years. At least that is the plan.

> Or creating (for pay) screencasts for commercial software?

I have looked at this. Even brokered a deal, but ended up backing out. It just takes way too much time and I needed to focus on putting out my own content. I just need to get some funds coming in rather quickly, or go get a job again. So, I am putting everything I have into this. Once I have some money coming in, then I might look at this again.
Greenwald also used cryptocat at a time when its crypto could have been broken by an NSA intern in an afternoon. "Greenwald uses this" is perhaps not a ringing endorsement of a product's security.
Wait it was from UIUC? Damn I never knew. Which lab was it from?
Simple mirrors and stripes could always be expanded (and reduced, too). RAID-Z has been special.
The Controlled Substances Act really just needs to be entirely rewritten or thrown out altogether. Same with the DEA.
Xanax is terrifying. Psychedelics I can handle.
This is not subject I know anything about, but I just realized that "betaphenethylamine" is (I think) the drug Case is taking in Neuromancer because normal drugs can't get him high due to a modification in his pancreas. Maybe not entirely accurate vs this list, but William Gibson continues to amaze me with little details like that.
Honestly don’t know why people don’t AES/GPG encrypt the keys and send a message to alt.anonymous.messages.

That’s 30+ years of storage for free.
I hadn't ever considered that.

I'm also not sure I want my desk cat walking across the flattened screen.
Please don't speak for all of us. I for one think Facebook being involved with React is absolutely a good thing.
You can just buy the microcontroller and do it yourself from there. Here is a nice example someone did of a simple LED flasher [1] with just 6 parts:

1. An ATmega ATTiny85 microcontroller

2. A socket for that processor

3. A coin cell battery

4. A holder for the battery

5. A resistor

6. An LED

and some wire and solder.

What going with an actual Arduino or Arduino compatible gets you, from a hardware point of view, is a bunch of ready made attachments. For instance, suppose you have some sensor that needs an odd voltage and has weird timing requirements. It will be a lot more convenient to get a shield that has that sensor, and a voltage converter, and something that deals with the weird timing and presents a simple I2C interface to your code than to have to do all that yourself.

There are some EdX courses that you might find useful.

From UTAustinX, "Embedded Systems--Shape the World" [2]. This is a lab-based course where you do 13 or so labs using a TI Tiva Series C Launchpad. That's an 80 MHz ARM Cortex M4 board. Cost for the hardware for the course is $35-$55, depending on if you want to do a couple of the optional labs.

From UCBerkeleyX, "Electronic Interfaces: Bridging the Physical and Digital Worlds" [3]. Another lab course

From MITx, "Circuits and Electronics" [4]. The online version of MITs 6.002 introductory electronics course.

[1] http://forum.arduino.cc/index.php?topic=200590.0

[2] https://www.edx.org/course/embedded-systems-shape-world-utau...

[3] https://www.edx.org/course/electronic-interfaces-bridging-ph...

[4] https://www.edx.org/course/circuits-electronics-mitx-6-002x-...
A lot has changed since 2014, and this might actually be possible now. It could be tough to do this right and figure out what to do with the edge cases like importing a WA conversation that overlaps with an existing Signal conversation, or handling things like quoted replies, but this could be a fun project if anyone here wants to take a shot at coding it up.
I think in all the time I have been contracting (and full time employed too for that matter) I can only remember one recruiter that was any good: He was knowledgeable about my field (I was an AD/Exchange consultant at the time) and I didn't feel that he was trying to make a pay cheque off me... but I can only remember one.

All the rest are just salesmen: I get emails from them these days and the first line is now "If this isn't your kind of job (paraphrasing here) then please pass it on to someone who you think would want it!" - Great pitch guys!

I don't like them and I don't actually know a single person in the tech game that has had decent dealings with them.

So for the last couple of months, at night, weekends, on the train etc. I have been working on Instajob (https://instajob.biz) to basically skip round the recruitment agents.

Only just went online so it's early days but I think they need a shakeup!

Anyway, my $0.02

Mick
Todo: Blend hq4x and the kopf techniques in a post processing step.
Or better yet, use PM2 instead of forever. As someone who has spent years with forever, I was ultimately happy to drop it into the trash after discovering PM2.

https://github.com/Unitech/pm2

It's significantly more advanced. Create a "process.json" file in your project directory (As you would a nodemon.json), like so:

{
"name"	: "someApp"
,	"script"	: "./index.js"
,	"node_args"	: "--harmony"
,	"log_file"	: true
,	"merge_logs"	: true
,	"exec_mode"	: "fork_mode"
,	"ignoreWatch"	: [
"\\.(css|styl|log)$"
,	"static/.*"
,	"views/.*"
]
}

This will show logs intertwined just like forever, merge logs from seperate forked processes and you can even throw in watch rules like nodemon.

pm2 start process.json

Then to make all of your processes always restart do this:

pm2 save
pm2 startup centos

Replacing centos with your distro. Couldn't be easier. There are a lot of other features I don't use (such as deployment, which I suspect will be significant for some big websites), but definitely consider dropping forever/supervisord and even nodemon in favor of PM2. They merge pull requests quickly it seems, too.

The only issue I've had is that for some reason using the "watch" functionality on a lot of files causes massive CPU overload, or at least it did, it may be fixed by now. If you're going to use the watch functionality (to reload stuff like nodemon), consider whitelisting and not blacklisting files.
Pardon my ignorance and zero background in this, but, taking advantage of this fresh thread ... could someone explain

What is the degree of relevance of mice testing and humans gaining insight from such tests?

Almost all threads of this nature revolve around mice. As a layman and the "HN effect" I seem to be drawing enlightenment for self-improvement from such threads. How wrong am I?
Both are required in the US to turn over user data and logs to the US federal government without a warrant, pursuant to FISA orders.

Apple compromised over 30,000 of their customers in such a fashion in 2019, as documented in their own transparency report.

The F in FISA stands for foreign, but at least one person who worked on the program has told us that it is used to obtain the data of Americans without warrants as well.
This is what I came to see. I've been using wireless gaming headsets and the problem with them is comfort and battery life. I like that the Jabras allow you to walk really far away; almost the entire house I've heard.
Yes. The file is the concept about owning your data and not relying on some algorithm controlled by a 3rd party controlling access to it.
I wish this were true. While the networking value of WWDC can't be ignored, I heard something like 60%+ of WWDC attendees this year were first timers, probably because the balance between iPhone and Mac in previous years shifted drastically over to iOS this year, and it's a hot and newer platform than Mac OS X is.

Or, how a lot of these new developers were coming over from other platforms, and the value of networking with them is not as high as networking with veterans, many that didn't bother to show up this year because it was so iOS heavy. Assuming, of course, that a large part of "value" is the person's depth of knowledge, interests, and involvement in the community.
They are lagging behind at the moment, but I wouldn't say they are out of the equation yet. They just have to come up with one decent device (hardware), then the things you mention are in their favor.

Also, I don't think there will be only iOS and Android in the future. iOS limits you to Objective-C, Android to Java (JVM languages like Clojure seem to run not well on Android). So Nokia might be the only one allowing real freedom to pick the development tools in the end. Since it has native apps, all sorts of languages should be possible.

Yes, as somebody else mentioned, these are things that appeal to developers. But developers mean more apps, and developers/techies influence the buying decisions of non-techies.

Also I think their name has not faded completely yet. If they build one good modern phone, they can regain user's trust.
Sigh, judging from the downvotes, it seems that the famous "Untold Delights of Duluth" speech is mostly forgotten...

http://www.americanheritage.com/articles/magazine/ah/1971/4/...
Yeah, I mean things like this:
https://github.com/brutaldesign/swipebox/commit/235a0c1b213b...

(This was my pull request to Swipebox which turned choppy swiping action into almost-native feel. Their latest release seems to have gotten a bit choppy again though, I'll have to investigate the more recent commits later. You can test drive at http://dheera.net/photos/abstract/dancelight using a mobile device).

Google Image Search on mobile also does a good job of achieving almost-native tracking feel.
No. The purpose is to build quality business and reputation. One of my strategies is to work remotely on stuff I don't particularly love, make sure it's not full-time, and work part-time on developing a reputation locally for what I really want which sometimes leverages other work that I've done.
I just recently signed up for dropbox, and when I did, Chromium asked me if it was cool for them to auto-gen a password and put it in my browser keyring.

Whatever method they are using, I would imagine that'll be the new standard. My passwords are decently secure, but that's hard to beat in terms of both workflow and security.
In the United States articles have been bemoaning the loss of our topsoil since the 1930s. They seem to follow a template. We need our soil; we'll die without it. Then explaining the rate we're losing it at; how much we have left, finishing with dire warnings.

My parents were farmers. We haven't depended on topsoil to fill our collective larder since those 1930s. We add nitrogen, phosphorus, potassium, and various minor minerals.

Nitrogen made from and by the petroleum industry. We use it to grow corn, a heavy feeder, turn that corn into a gasoline additive and pretend it's green. Phosphates are dug from the ground a few miles from where I live by giant drag lines. We use petrochemicals to compensate for massive mono-cropping and now we have gene-splicing. The soil? It's just a grow medium for petro-food.

Anyone who still pretends our modern cornucopia is the fruit of the soil is being willfully ignorant.
Initially I capture it in a notebook/text editor. Then I go through an editing process and then use Wikis to capture an edited condensed version.
Actually, I could much rather believe that 'git' referred to Larry McVoy, Mr. Bitkeeper himself. I've never met the man, but the fact that the license was onerous and he basically took his ball and went home speaks volumes. Also, and again hearsay, but I've heard stories about him.

That being said, I'll take BitKeeper over Perforce any day of the week.
I find Dart to be far and away the best compile-to-JS language. That's more than enough for me.
Someone in the middle (ercot) could also go bankrupt (strategically or not). It'll be interesting to see if TX makes any major structural fixes or just slaps a band-aid on it (e.g., legislate some max rate or maybe special rules under disaster conditions).

It is a mess indeed; entirely anticipated and seen ahead of time.
I've ridden the RAGBRAI (Register's Annual Great Bicycle Ride Across Iowa) three times. Each year, a different route brings you and 15,000 of your closest friends through small towns like Marne and Manilla. The chosen communities always enthusiastically rise to the occasion by providing food, water, beverages, entertainment, fun diversions, historical themes, hospitality, well wishes and much more.

Riding out of town after having a stack of pancakes at the firehouse or a piece of pie from the local Rotary Club, you have plenty of time to think about what it takes and how remarkable it is for some of those towns to accommodate everyone.

The RAGBRAI is a great way to experience the State of Iowa.
Not really.

Google built a super successful ad business on search terms alone, long before they got into user tracking.

Do you have any evidence that Apple tracks users for their ad business - which only sells ads for apps when users search for them?
Wow, crazy to see my hometown news station on Hacker News.

I wonder if it could be Russian cursive[1]. It looks like it's maybe slanted the wrong way though.

https://external-preview.redd.it/_7TECX4LqBnawfANogqhrLPd9vb...
Easy. One app.

When I traveled to India (pre-COVID), it was great that I could just open the app & get where I needed -- even if I wanted to travel via tuk tuk.

It was more annoying when I got to Ireland, had to figure out the app to use was MyTaxi and get it all working (including payments), particularly as a foreigner.
It's not crazy, but it's telling the software that it's an intel GPU, and taking into account no optimizations targeted at the GPU's strengths. I could see this becoming more useful if it was coded to apple's GPU characteristics, but I'm not even sure anyone outside of Apple knows what those are right now and how to optimize mining software on their GPU.
Moving the timeline is not moving the goalposts. But I agree they have moved both the goalposts and the timeline. I'm just not agreeing that Waymo's progress is more impressive than Tesla's progress. The problems are too different.
The language is that of Mordor, which I will not utter here.
"... to kill themselves"? Strange construction for a singular patient.

"... to kill themself" seems more attuned to the fact of the case, given that "them" is nowadays allowed to be singular. But it is not obvious.

Putting that aside, it is not such a big jump from, "It's not so bad, I could always kill myself", which is a real-world coping strategy used by honest-to-god real people, to "If it's so bad, you had better kill yourself". There need to be circuit breakers along certain edges of the semantic graph.
Do you think governments should produce enough secrets per day to fill a library? (made up statistic).

That's a lot closer to the truth than governments having no secrets.. yes, there's probably at least 1 secret worth keeping at any given time, but don't keep your mind so open that your brain falls out :) We're talking degrees, here.
By the way, .?123 is an odd label. You can already type . and ? from the main keyboard.

Minor Note: This is a holdover from the iPhone keyboard which has no punctuation marks on the main letter keyboard. I'm not sure whether it's better to keep the symbols the same or not but I can certainly understand why Apple would have the somewhat redundant symbols on the button.
Gibson does seem like a rewarding conversationalist. I wish I liked his last book more than I did. Everything Gibson said in this interview was interesting and worthwhile. But I found Spook Country mediocre and I am unlikely to read Zero History. I'm trying to come to grips with that. On the surface, I can say that I found it much easier to empathize with Chia or Cayce than with Holly.

My best distillation so far is that he used to write about people, technologies, and their relationships, with some peripheral stuff about brands. Now he writes about brands - and people and technologies have become a means to that end. Also the brands used to be fictional, which helped avoid the Spook Country feeling of reading some company's ad copy. Perhaps as a result of the emphasis on brands, his character are less sympathetic. They have always been out of control of their own lives, but they used to try to take control now and then. In Spook Country they seemed more abject, victims of forces far beyond their ken or control. I have no doubt that he has a valid point of view, and he is somewhat upfront about that shift, in this interview. But his interests no longer match mine.
Perhaps Sony forgot to remove code [0] that leaks new technology [1].

[0] http://blog.deliciousrobots.com/2010/11/27/sonys-changes-to-...

[1] http://www.engadget.com/2010/11/28/sony-fires-barrage-of-tou...
Yeah, that's a really insightful point actually. Open secrets become fair game once another organization has published them.. and importantly, wikileaks doesn't have any "access" to lose by doing so.
You know, when a bunch of people you think ought to be intelligent and extra logical take a moral stance that seems to run counter to their own interests, that should _really_ make you think they're on to something.
But you could make the same argument against any US state that remains cost competitive due to the currency. And it also discounts the fact that Germany did very well during the period when it did have it's own currency. As it is, German economic performance does have an effect on the Euro, being the largest member state.
There are few problems for which unchecked pointer arithmetic is a good solution, and even fewer at the application level. Computers are hundreds of times faster than they were in the NeXTstep days. We no longer need to risk undefined behavior just to get a GUI to keep up with a human. Hell, Eclipse is probably the most bloated Java IDE you could find, and it's only sometimes intolerable on a six-year-old laptop.

ObjC is basically Smalltalk weakened by some dangerous efficiency hacks we haven't needed for a decade.