skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Bloomberg wouldn’t, however publish a story about a chemical attack based on an anonymous source. They’d have independently verifiable evidence and not just some dude saying so.
> I scratch my head at a society that makes its members memorize such useless information.

Such a weird perspective on language and on the agency of societies. There are tons of "useless" things in any language. For instance, why not get rid of all the tenses in English? Do we really need the past progressive?

To make English spelling more "logical" (so people need to remember less useless information!), we should again look to Mark Twain:

> Fainali, xen, aafte sam 20 iers ov orxogrefkl riform, wi wud hev a lojikl, kohirnt speling in ius xrewawt xe Ingliy-spiking werld.
(http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/twain.htm)
> The physician couldn't order 160mg of Bactrim because per kg dosing was required.

Not quite. The article suggested that, yes, they could have ordered it in just mg. But they needed to change a dropdown from "mg/kg" to "mg", which is easily overlooked.
It's quite similar to being a senior programmer and assisting junior colleagues instead of doing their own work. Though in this case I suppose the blame falls on management for not allocating time properly.
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I also have 45 systems in my racks from different CPU generations. Mostly 1U two core systems. We really would need more I formation at this point.
> Afghanistan was well understood as the official point of origin for the attacks.

Except for the large (15 of 19, plus OBL), percentage of Saudi nationals who perpetrated the attacks?

Sure.
What is the difference between that and using vim?
I recall reading somewhere that these separate written forms were devised fairly recently (like the 18th or 19th century), in order to accomodate translations of Western novels. Same with Japanese (彼/彼女). Sorry, I don't have a source for this at the moment.
Microsoft already has a version of docker that runs Windows on host and guest
Outkast on hn?? I love it. Southernplay..., Atliens, aquemini were in constant rotation in high school. Them southern boys are like the Beatles of hiphop... their albums are front to back gold.
Ooh aggregate, I didn’t know of that. Seems like overkill for my use cases. And as you know, there is no kill like overkill
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Absolutely no problem -- hope you found some of it useful!
You can get many, many excel sheets and examples which highlight problems and provide solutions. You can dowload a 3D graphics engine in excel if you so desire, as well as more mundane examples and videos.

It’s not couched in engineering terms, but effectively a body of work and reference does exist to help people use excel - I’ve constantly used it to improve myself.

It is definitely not made by engineers and coders, but by normal people and excel jockeys.
A 3 pin chip could talk over i2c:

1 pin for GND, 1 pin for CLK and 1 pin for data.

Where is VCC coming from? Via pull-up resistors connected to the data line and capacitance.

I’ve seen MCUs run without direct VCC connections under these circumstances.

Either that or the chip is connected to VCC and a PCB ground plane on the other side of the chip.

Edit: boards are often sandwiched between VCC and GND layers. One could have a functioning device with just a few obvious “pins”/“leads”.
Someone needs to build nmap-style probe hardware that could be connected to the SPI bus and scan every device on it.
I recently started learning Khmer (Cambodian). It's an awesome language. No tenses (all assumed from context... if something happened in the past, you say it happened "already", and there's a single modifier to all verbs to indicate they will happen). No genders, at all (there's no "he/she/they" problem). The numbering system is simple adn consistent, and it's applied to months and hours ("one month" is a measure of duration, "month one" is January). I reminds me of reading good code; simple, elegant, with no unnecessary cruft.

It's given me a new perspective on (as you say) all the useless crap we have in English.

Oh, and I started learning German, too. TFA made me laugh.
Typically there are photos of the drug seizure.
Order of magnitude errors aren't that hard, it is improbable that a hospital will need to prescribe enough drugs for a small horse.

Doctors seem to run too much on autopilot, they leave discretion to laboratories who give recommended ranges for various hormones/vitamins/chemicals in the blood.

I won't disagree that medicine is hard, but this looks like a UX design flaw, the UX should factor in drug company recommendations for dosage per patient weight and present a graph, there should be some method of compare and contrast to recognize an error happened.
You do have validation: that Bloomberg has in the past been reliable and that it would be harmful to Bloomberg to publish such a story falsely. It's literally what editors are there for.

Certainly I might not believe "briandear" writing an article with only confidential sources (and really, that should be the term, not anonymous), but you don't make your living by being a reliable source of news.
There should be a "bug bounty" program for taxes. If you identify a loophole or scam which was costing the government $100 million you get $1 million.
He was fairly open about his ground depression as well.
I have found it interesting when I learn of a new trend or convention, which I think is a superset of patterns, only to realize part of the way into learning it that I’ve already used it in places before.

Intuitively I managed to figure out the patterns, but didn’t realize it at the time I was doing it. Once I found that it was considered a pattern, or a best practice, it became concrete.

I think this speaks to patterns as being a mechanism for validating student code, but I don’t think patterns should be the method for conveying problem solving to students.

Instead, much of what I learned from coding patterns early on came in the form of intellisense hints from Resharper. I would write nested loops and it would suggest the alternative LINQ query. Then Visual Studio started doing the same thing and automatically refactored my code. This meant I deconstructed the problem first, and understood the problem, and now I could simply figure out the translation.

Perhaps a better way to instill patterns for new programmers is to build more robust code convention and anti-pattern recognition into the IDE, with code rewrite capabilities.

For example it should be relatively trivial to recognize when local variables are clustered around certain regions of a method. When the IDE intellisense compiler recognizes this, it starts to suggest breaking out a new private method, or at least an internal function. Perhaps include a more robust hint with details about unit testing and why small methods are easier to unit test.

Patterns are a broad concept though so I’m not sure how well this idea would scale.
I think an overlooked aspect of the German-English comparison is the system of tenses. In German, you can get by with basically just two tenses: the present and the perfect. The past tense can almost always be replaced by the perfect when speaking. When you want to express something that lies in the future, you can just use the present and it will in most cases be clear from context.

Compare that to English, where the mastery of the tenses (i.e. when to use which tense) is essential. Distinguishing the use of the simple forms from the progressive forms can be tough for non-native speakers. And then there are all the different past tenses: simple past, present perfect, past progressive... in many cases it sounds really strange when these get mixed up. Think of something like: I have gone to the store last night. Or: He never was in New York. (When the speaker means that he has never been.)
Except one of those is, you know, illegal...
Even before I got to part 2, my immediate reaction was that having two types of inputs, dosage/weight and absolute dosage, would easily lead to confusion and seemed like a really bad idea.

It would seem to me much better to require the person to put in just the absolute dosage and have the computer show the actual nearest pill rounded dosage as well as the effective per weight dosage of that.

Additionally, instead of a routine alert, why not have a reactive red highlight/warning while the person is filling out the form? The person would actually see the issue while entering it, instead of just seeing an alert that they reflexively close out.
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My question, and my extremely lucky answer. Posting here in the hope that this helps others avoid the same situation.

I mean ideally this wouldn't happen in the first place. It seems far too easy to totally screw your system.
Considering Apple just released a $1k+ phone that doesn't charge when plugged in with the screen off, I wouldn't bet on it. (Just search on YouTube)
I don't use Digital Ocean currently, but I have before and like to know what they're up to.

If not many people find it interesting it won't stay on the front page for long anyway.
Surpass is a subjective term, and an opinion. In what way will we be surpassed?
I'm very thankful for Rustdoc. Every library's documentation has the same, easily searchable format. The syntax for writing documentation is easy to use and standard across all Rust projects. You can easily generate HTML documentation from your source code and standalone markdown files. crates.io will generate your documentation and host it for you when you publish a library. Your example code in your documentation can actually be compiled and tested so it stays up to date. It's been a joy to use and a major reason I like programming in Rust.

I don't know about localization support, but it addresses most of the other issues outlined in the article.

https://doc.rust-lang.org/beta/rustdoc/what-is-rustdoc.html
It's not necessary and as a native german it is something i can totally live with if foreigners get it wrong in conversations. Even people with years of being fluent in germany still ocassionally screw them up. In a similar way i always struggle pronouncing words like "caffeine, beard, deteriorate" etc after years of speaking english at work.
Sorry for my low quality comment, but reading this in Snoop Dogg's voice is wonderful.
Actually much earlier in 2012, when Excel first shipped with xVelocity branded PowerPivot. It supports a new data model that reminds me of Microsoft Access in some ways (drag & drop relationships etc). This is a whole different beast from copy/pasting data into sheets - in fact, the data doesn't show up in sheets by default and you usually have to add other things (like pivot tables) to take advantage of it.

Microsoft is a sleeping giant in BI self-service right now, and the things they've been "quietly" adding (only if you don't follow them) are actually very compelling. I actually run a Windows VM on my MBP just so I can run Power BI.
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This doesn't really mean anything, though. For all we know the "person familiar with the matter" is the same source Bloomberg used in their report. There's still not acknowledgement from Apple in 2016 that anything like this was actually happening.
"Solar With Batteries Cheaper Than Gas in Parts of U.S. Southwest"

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-09-17/solar-wit...

Tesla built the Hornsdale Power Reserve in under 90 days. Hydro storage is never going to be able to compete with that, and nuclear will never be able to compete with how quickly you can deploy wind and solar. Batteries are rapidly coming down in price, and will continue to do so as EV sales scale up (1 million EVs are sold every six months, and this cadence is increasing). There are no regulatory issues with batteries. You can ship them to a concrete pad and install them, no questions asked.
Starts with R? Checks... retrophin.

Shkreli was one of many finance types who have fully drunk the koolaid. He is not alone, and the others too would be prosecuted if people had the time and awareness to be incensed with the culture.

In his defense, shkrelli didn’t know he was a tool. On the one hand singing praises of the free market and on the other taking advantage of every loophole someone could find.

I mean the argument that “no body has to pay a dime more.” Is so patently ludicrous for someone who works in finance, that it can only be called disingenuous.

The difference between HN and New York is that finance thinks it’s ok. HN was founded by people/culture who saw Wall Street as everything they didn’t want to be. (And now a sad reminder of how money changes perception)
It’s a really bad heuristic.

I evaluate projects by (1) actually reading their source code, (2) looking up their frequency of updates and release packaging, (3) the community interaction of authors and contributors.

The total amount of effort it took to write that blog post could have been spent on submitting PRs to improve documentation of various projects.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18148749 names it as the B1DRi. Looks like some oddball blade form factor, Haswell/Broadwell?

I've got an X10SAE and X9SRA I could check, but I would be surprised if the same thing targeted the consumer market. It seems like looking for redundant SPI flash and/or unpopulated/half-populated footprints would be a start. Although I've got to wonder if the implant was really using a redundant footprint for the flash, why it wasn't just in the appropriate package rather than the custom jobber Bloomberg implies.

Frankly I've got to reread that original article. It gave me a headache with the continual reiteration/illustration of just how small the implant was, and other anti-informative cruft. Wait until they find out about the size of transistors inside CPUs...
Seriously, hacker news is down to links from junk 5 sites by now:

nytimes.com, bbc.com, bloomberg.com, arstechnica.com, techcrunch.com

No one here reads anything else anymore.
Having worked at FAANG companies my experience matches yours. There are people doing good work in the information security teams, but they only tell you about attacks much later, with most of the details removed. One of the assumptions is that a certain (small) percentage of engineers are also agents of state-level adversaries.
I agree that politics has polarized in the last decade, but I would say the primary cause is the wave of populism in the aftermath of the financial crisis, which has overlapped with, and been amplified by, the social media explosion.
Reproducibility being difficult to impossible is not limited to A.I. research.

There is a reproducibility crisis in general in research of all fields.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/quora/2017/02/09/how-the-reprod...
> the project that eventually became the Subsystem for Linux in Win10

Do you have a source about that? The Android emulation on Windows 10 Mobile was actually Hyper-V based. IF you just started your phone, the emulated Android was not ready (started) yet, and if you attempted to start an app you got that message.
Well university hospitals run lots of "experimental protocols" where physicians need the autonomy and flexibility for prescribe all sorts of medications. Just curation of drug-drug interactions tables is a huge butt-load of work, and we do have "hard stops" for all sorts of potentially dangerous interactions.

Ultimately however, you need systems in place to control and regulate these systems (such as pharmacy, nurses, other physicians). Obviously this system had a major failure, but it's why this is the special exception rather than the rule. And for what it's worth, this article (by Bob Watcher, who basically invented hospital medicine) is part of any major graduate level healthcare education.

One of the biggest problems I have seen with tech getting into healthcare is that they seem to forget the human interaction portion of healthcare that mostly happens offline. Yes, technology can have an enormous impact, but you can't just "technology" away all the problems in our current healthcare system.
SPI works by paralleling all of the shared lines, and each chip having its own CS line. So you can't really enumerate like that, without already having enumerated the CS lines.

I2C works closer to how you're thinking, but even there a hostile implant doesn't need to have an protocol-dictated address to corrupt someone else's traffic.
And what did they say then? They shut up didn't they?
You don't necessarily have direct access to the storage system for the software you want to validate.
The American Fuzzy Lop fuzzing tool can use fork to speed up fuzzing by avoiding the overhead of repeatedly initializing processes: https://lcamtuf.blogspot.com/2014/10/fuzzing-binaries-withou...
Not really. The answer is “Yes it can, but politics, legal obstacles, and some slightly valid concerns about damaging the samples might stop them.”
Did patterns really fail? Or did we just out grow them?

For me personally patterns have always been valuable as a means of communication. Before patterns one team would talk about "device for when at rest" and another team would talk about "timber and fabric object for relax position". Now we just call it "chair" and it's common. Just like, singleton, command, proxy, whatever.

Maybe design patterns simply have done their job.
The people behind Windows Mobile were beyond arrogant. They even held a funeral for iPhone: https://www.zdnet.com/article/microsoft-celebrates-windows-p...
Yeah I confirm, I spend so much time fixing bugs for IE11 and Safari mobile.
It is interesting to see how many of the things that could not be done in Google sheets when that video was made are now available.
yet here we are
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fork is a nightmare. On paper, fork/exec sounds better than Microsoft’s CreateProcess. In the real world, I’ll take the latter plus threads any day.

Fork is also stupid. 99.9% of the time (if not more), it’ll be followed by exec/execve. Why go through all the pain of either copying everything or take the performance and complexity hit of setting up COW memory space if it’ll all be thrown away in a few microseconds so a different process can be launched?

Then it leaves as “a trivial implementation detail” to the developer the process of setting up the pgrp, inheriting or negotiating terminal access (and dealing with the impossible to avoid race condition - except by using vfork instead and accepting its limitations) of determining if the child set its own pgrp before the parent did so tcsetpgrp can be called adept before the child can call exec so it doesn’t end up SIGTTIN or SIGTTOU when it tries to use the terminal after exec.

No thanks.
Well on the outpatient side, the volume of drugs a doctor is prescribing is horrendously outpaced by the number of order you're getting as a hospitalist. When you are responsible for about a dozen patients and some need your attention NOW, it's not feasible to do a complete drug-drug interaction check. But that's where A) the modern EHR that has been invested into it by the healthcare system to build drug-drug interaction tables, and B) relying on the hospital pharmacists to modify orders when necessary. It's about building a robust system that integrates human systems and enhancing them with technology.
If it should be on HN is entirely dependant on users who vote, so i guess it's interesting to people.
Of course once the phone breaks you lose all that, but still it will be impressive

You would also have no way to charge it, it’s not like any modern phone has simple inputs for 5v or whatever.
I had HTC HD2 and I sadly don't remember WP7 being smooth at all.
Here's a killer app for a Moon base: telescopes. Optical or radio-telescopes. Right now, we, the humankind, are willing to spend about $10 BN to put a telescope (James Webb) in a deep space orbit [1]. It might or might not get there in 2021, about 25 years after the start of the project. It will have a mirror with collecting area of 25 sqm, which is quite large, but substantially smaller than a lot of existing and planned Earth based telescopes that come at a much lower cost [2]. For example the European Extremely Large Telescope will have a collecting area of 978 sqm and cost about $1.5 BN [3].

A Moon-based telescope would marry the benefits of a space telescope (no perturbations caused by the atmosphere), with the benefits of being able to build on solid ground. Gravity is actually quite helpful if you need to keep a large structure well aligned. But not too much gravity, else it's getting hard to erect the building. The gravity on the Moon (one sixth of ours) may be the sweet spot.

Oh, and half of the time, you have a huge mass of rock between you and the Sun, which is quite helpful to reduce background noise. If you are worried about the light reflected by the Earth, then a quarter of the time you are facing away from both the Sun and the Earth, to get one of the darkest nights imaginable. And no radio polution at all, if you prefer to use a radio-telescope. Did I mention that radio-telescopes have a collecting area that put optical telescopes to shame? For example the Green Bank Telescope [4] has a collecting area of 9300 sqm.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Webb_Space_Telescope

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_largest_optical_reflec...

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extremely_Large_Telescope

[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_Bank_Telescope
The point of insurance is that the customers pay the full cost. (And a little extra). It's just that customers share the full cost of all the customers, not their individual costs.
even when vice is covering it up? there are nuances everywhere. if you don't trust the reporters/editors to be accountable, the whole system of news reporting falls apart
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Yes, and good riddance; a GET request for a given URL should return bit-for-bit identical results[1] regardless of browser differences[0].

0: Explicitly stateful features such as API endpoints or "logged in as" fields aren't browser differences.

1: The resulting file, not necessarily the TCP stream used to transfer it.

2: Yes, there are exceptions (eg http://canhazip.com/more), but documentation is almost the diametric opposite of being one of them.