skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Very cool, as a side project I've started programming an esp8266 to plug into the back of a Minitel and act as a telnet client, and consume the reddit & 4chan API's.

The documentation is a bit difficult, I'm having quite a bit of trouble with the block drawing mode. All the literature is in French and reading it is slow going.
It's a fact about deflationary currency in general, and why it's a bad idea. It grants that for some reason we suppose Bitcoin is worth holding - i.e. some government or entity accepted Bitcoin (or another deflationary currency) as payment for taxes. Maybe someone builds a seasteading community and decides to try this.

The reality is, with nothing backing it (i.e. no government accepting it for taxes), it's not actually worth anything in the long run because eventually everyone has to cash out.

Which isn't to say it's not worth anything now - but the market is exploitative. The goal is to convince everyone to buy in, so those who are in can get out, hopefully taking a profit (not in Bitcoin) along the way.

My point, is that anyone looking at Bitcoin and wondering if they should enter it should absolutely not. Deflationary crypto is a rigged game in favor of those who got in first, and you can never catch up (barring their irrationality). Bitcoin's highs are not going to be repeated, and anyone asking you to buy in wants you to do so so they can get out.
my understanding, perhaps incorrect, that in US medical bill payments can negotiated, to be stretched through 10 or 20 years.

So, in US -- unless a person cannot afford 100$ a month or so -- they are likely not going to get bankrupted by medical bills regardless of their size. Perhaps also they will have hard time getting credit/loans.

And also, my understanding was, that a US medical provider cannot refuse service to a person without insurance or without a credit card.

These above understandings are anecdotal.. so not sure if that's correct.

From the responses I am sing that Australia, Italy at the age of 50 and after -- people have same problem finding work.

It is saddening to see that there seems to be no way out besides trying to start consulting or other self-employment opportunities.
For a forum like HN not to regress to the internet mean is unnatural, so we need users to control some of their natural reactions here. I know it isn't easy!

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I'm have the desire to make an attempt of developing a new type of EMR system, putting special focus on the documentation part of things.

Is there any health care practitioner around here with time for a 15-minutes phone interview or willing to exchange a few emails so I can better understand his/her needs?
Also, if they end up being highly reliably reusable, wouldn't that slow down the production of new boosters, thereby making them much more expensive to produce?

Only if you assume the market demand is constant. We already know that's not true.
#3 means the company will purposefully put very useful features out of scope of the core, while in #1, people expect everything that's not very custom to a specific use-case to be open-sourced eventually - which is usually the reality.
Drivers in Linux live in the kernel. Whenever the kernel is updated a reboot is required (in most distros). Hence your assertion that Linux updates drivers without a reboot better than windows does is questionable.
Platinum Carbon ink is supposed to be waterproof as well.
For those interested, "L7 engine" seems to be the "application layer" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Application_layer in the OSI model https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OSI_model

So communication protocol such as gRPC and HTTP.
Thread per request works because the GIL is released during blocking IO. You only need one process per core and each process runs multiple threads. It saves a massive amount of RAM compared to trying to cram 50 (g)unicorns onto a server.
> no longer run by people with any commitment to any sort of brand or design integrity

Or they mean really well, and tried their very best, and this is what they came up with. Or too many people had a say in it, and it averaged out at bland.

The thing that I found worse than the boring fonts is the change from "London, England", to "London England". I would "respect" "London, England" written in Comic Sans more than "London England" in any font. It just gives off this "the lights are on, but nobody's home" vibe to me.
Which ironically is literally the case with amazon-sold “Apple” headphones and chargers.
Then AI it to scale.
A very interesting fact is that, even with vastly different cultures, there is a trait surprisingly common in both Spanish and Japanese cultures: family. Both cultures have parents and kids stay together until the kids mid-20s, and both take care of the parents when they become older. It feels very weird when watching USA movies for most Spanish people as there's almost a business relationship between parents and kids (and don't even get me started with the military "yes sir" style).

Now I don't know if it's related or not to life expectancy, but it's a very curious common bit in very different cultures otherwise. This probably also affect to many other parts of life/politics in more subtle ways (safety nets, depression, health culture/care, etc).
Indeed I’ve updated many a drivers on windows (including graphics as you mention) without a reboot required. Always needed a reboot to do the equivalent kind of updates under Linux.
The problem is that it may take 2 seconds of CSS, but it is a software change that then requires the product to be revalidated, along with the matching paperwork (functional design doc, software design, technical design, customer support documentation and training material) and validation evidence to be submitted to your official document control system. And this process can take days, weeks, or months, depending on how complicated (due to extreme CYA) your compliance department makes the process. And the company compliance folks want to go overboard as they want to make sure the FDA auditors are happy the next time there is a surprise audit.
Man. If they “don’t currently have programming,” then there is a straight up lack of data.

I get what you’re saying, but I think you miss the point, which is that currently - contrary to superficial thought - data offers little creative power.

Identifying underserved domains through data or a lack thereof is not the same as “using data to create art.”
At a previous job we integrated with Vocera. Fun easter-egg with them - ask it to "Beam me up".

https://www.vocera.com/solutions-support/easter-eggs

> costs of providing handhelds to nurses were too high for 2007

Perhaps you should have looked at integrating with the Ascom handsets.
Elon founded x.com which merged with confinity. The combined company was renamed PayPal [0].

Doesn't that mean he co-founded PayPal?

[0] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X.com
> Singapore is known to have a great medical system, even for those not well off.

You're spot on with respect to diet. I believe Singapore has the highest rate of diabetes in the developed world.

With respect to supposed excellent medical care, some problems in Singapore that I noticed:

- There is little access to preventative medical care. If you do get preventative medical care it tends to be very expensive (scan all the things!). In my home country, I would get a yearly test for glaucoma as my grandmother was affected and it's genetic, but in Singapore this is quite unheard of (I tried once and was subjected to a battery of tests that cost hundreds of dollars). In my home country most people get yearly dental care, but there's no such thing in Singapore.

- People change doctors a lot, which I think is problematic. However, you're kind of forced to change doctors every time you change companies or if your company switches to a different health insurance provider.

- Strong drugs are available over the counter, no questions asked. GPs also happily give out way too many drugs for minor issues.

- People in Singapore can end up losing all their money if they get a serious illness.

- Strong promotion of pseudo-medicine, such as TCM. It is legitimized even by otherwise respect universities, which may have TCM research centers. After a GP visit, it's also common that you get some pseudo-scientific medicine from the secretary handling your payment (e.g. 'don't eat chicken').

I'm not so much arguing against your hypothesis. However, I worry that optimizing for life span might not mean that people are healthier.

In fact, in some countries, death is sometimes chosen over necessarily prolonging life:

- Euthanasia

- Getting very expensive, painful/dulling medical procedures that end up prolonging your life is discouraged by doctors in some countries
I do remember, but correlation != causation. The major improvements that have made software so much more secure are not AV, they are things like ASLR, non-executable stack, stack canaries, a shift to less-privileged code and having more functions in user space, memory-safe(r) languages being more common place, and an increase in general security awareness. If anything anti-virus is much less useful now that polymorphic shell code is commonplace, as well as the fact that user error (such as falling for a phishing attack) is by far the largest cause of security failings.
They just patched Vim to work correctly with systemd, and it now runs its own DHCP daemon and custom log format.

That's not separated.
As someone who started a project to FIX the scaling problems of Ethereum, I have one metric I’d like to ask about:

NUMBER OF TOKENS USED FOR ACTUAL EVERYDAY PAYMENT IN AN ECOSYSTEM ON THE MAIN NET and not just pre-buying for speculative purposes.

Has there been a single one? Cryptokitties is the only one I can think of and that has nearly brought the whole “world computer” to a halt.

Projects like Kik Messenger which raised hundreds of millions even say in their whitepaper that they will get off ETH as soon as they can, because it can’t handle the volume of transactions they have.
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The sad thing is, as a service manager, it's halfway decent. It has stupid technical aspects, but in general it's more useful for admins that want to manage services on Linux than older solutions.

But then there's all the other crap that systemd's developers cling to religiously that hold back both the project and the development of complementary software. Their single-minded obsession over total control of a system, and having everyone (even kernel developers) bend to any crazy idea they have, resulted in a bad relationship with both users and developers. I don't think people hate systemd as much as how it was forced down their throats.

The really funny thing is how it's now basically just an overcomplicated init script. You don't use systemd in anything resembling modern service architectures (cloud-based, decentralized, etc) except to start some other tool that actually deals with those things.
Bid from Lampert, not surprised there. This man has been bleeding Sears dry for years. Sears most valuable asset is its real estate, and Lampert has been positioning himself as the prime benefactor of an engineered downfall. I know brick and mortar has been on the decline, but if you go into a Sears in even a half decent mall its like walking into something you would see in a Zombie movie, empty shelves and dead-eyed employees.
Starlink hasn't succeeded yet. Is Elon now getting pre credit for things he hasn't even done?
One thing to bear in mind with these kind of DIY spectrometers is that typically you only perform a wavelength calibration (e.g. you can transform from pixel number on the detector to wavelength). That's reasonably easy to do with a CFL bulb and some known spectral peaks.

What's much more challenging is accurately measuring colours, or the relative intensity of certain spectral features. The problem is that your image sensor has its own spectral sensitivity which you usually don't know. This also means that you can't really quantitatively compare spectra between spectrometers because the sensors will be different.

Most of this time this isn't much of an issue, but suppose you want to measure the spectrum of some tungsten halogen lights around your house (or the sun). You won't see the characteristic blackbody curve. You'll see the spectral response of your detector with some absorption lines on it. It shouldn't matter much for e.g. differentiating between two species because you'll have the same instrumental reponse for each.

A fairly simple way to do this is to use a tungsten bulb with a known colour temperature. You can use the blackbody equation to generate the expected spectrum and work out the transform between your spectrometer and the calibration lamp.

If you want to do spectroradiometry (measure the absolute intensity per wavelength), you need to know the power spectral distribution of the lamp too. In the real world you'd need to buy a NIST-traceable (or equivalent) calibrated lamp.
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I’ve attempted to use Linux and desktop freezing is the norm even on machines that run fine under windows. Admittedly the machines might be underpowered but that does call into question the commonly held belief that desktop Linux is better for low spec machines.
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For each thing, there's a big question whether he's really trying to fix it or is just showboating. The useless submarine for the Thai cave rescue is a pretty clear example of the latter. SpaceX seems to be doing well, but Tesla's still an open question; they've had big production problems, they've lost execs left and right, they've had just one profitable quarter, and their cars get decidedly mixed reviews. [1]

Also, I think Musk's extensive self-promotion means that public criticism is entirely within bounds. Especially given Musk's dedication to criticizing his critics, like the Thai cave diver he called a pedophile. Or his obsession with people shorting Telsa.

[1] E.g., https://www.caranddriver.com/reviews/2018-tesla-model-3-test...
I don't think Peter Thiel would have given so much shares to Elon if he didn't think about X.com as a serious competitor. Peter still looks up to Elon for a reason.

At the same time Elon is making huge mistakes and huge risks as well (and also has borderline lies that sometimes step over the border), so I'm not saying he's perfect, just the best we have right now.
I’ve used the product to “guesstimate” a few things like quality of life with a higher paying job with longer commute (not worth it!) and starting a business. Love how intuitive and clean the UI is and how it puts probability estimation at my fingertips, in simple, human language.

Thank you!
I think eventually we'll have to sidestep most of this fraud entirely by enabling self-serve early diagnostics and cranking up the doctor-replacing technologies to the max. Machines are good at recognizing patterns in non-adversarial environments not starved for compute. There's every possibility that they could do diagnostics better than a human could. Treatment will be up to human doctors for the foreseeable future, though.

Too bad Theranos salted the earth for much of this innovation for the next decade. But it's still happening, starting with EKG and ultrasound.
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If a Mediterranean diet is responsible for Spain's long life expectancy, then why has it taken them this long to achieve this top ranking? Why didn't they achieve it earlier?
Serious Cryptography is currently avaiable in the Humble Book Bundle if you pay $15 or more[1], sale ends in 1 day 15 hours as of writing.

Would you recommend any other books in the bundle tptacek?

https://www.humblebundle.com/books/hacking-for-the-holidays-...
> when one of the SpaceX boosters will have flown 100 times with between flights maintenance at an economical level, then it will be an actual success

Talk about moving the goalposts! They already reuse boosters, and they already give discounts for doing so! And using the shuttle as proof that reusability is not tenable is disingenuous: we know the reasons why the shuttle was expensive and absolutely could design a version where it was not.

Looking through the rest, it's clear this guy has goggles on where he sees everything around Musk in a negative light. There is absolutely stuff to criticize about about Musk, and there for sure exists a cult around him. But I think this guy is in another cult, where Musk can do no right.
Lampert could get all that mall real estate just in time to find out that malls have become passe, and their real estate isn't as valuable as Lampert thought.
Do any mainstream distro use this?
drink your ovaltine.
Two satellites are in orbit already, and SpaceX employees are playing multiplayer games over that link. It's way past the point of where it was "impossible" for SpaceX to accomplish. I _can't wait_ to ditch Frontier, and I'm sure there are millions of others like me just in the US alone.
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I understand I overdid. I never got any warning you can't ban me even without giving me a warning this is wrong.
I don't think it took much political will to get systemd everywhere. I switched to Fedora, then to ArchLinux specifically because I wanted to use systemd. I've found it to be great the whole time (if missing a little bit in terms of using device units/events in user instances).

It may well be possible for there to be better general solutions to these problems, but systemd has been the best for my use cases (laptop, desktop workstation, server, headless embedded) each time I've evaluated anything else.

Are there problems? Probably (I haven't noticed, mind you); should they be addressed? Yes, certainly; Do problems people see in systemd mean that the whole thing is doomed and should be replaced with some unknown contender? I don't really think so.

If there were a better init system, an easier reliable NTP, better integration with Linux device events, more useful logging, simpler dhcp, etc. etc. etc. I would be using them (whether they were separate or integrated).

For me, it makes a huge amount of sense to enable ntp with timedatectl (assuming the upstream NTP is configured properly), to boot with systemd-boot​† (formerly gummiboot), and to configure my simple networks with systemd-networkd. I have never needed to fuss with these things to get the essential benefit they claim to provide; and it has never been more convenient.

If I were starting a distribution today for anything except self-initializing applications or tiny microcontrollers, systemd would be the obvious choice, including most of its components.

† This is going to get even better and more universal as the ARMv8 ecosystem, and the RISC-V ecosystem inevitably continue to rally around UEFI. As far as I can tell, a universal distro installer for IA32, AMD64, AArch64, ARMv7, and every common Linux-capable (within reason, not counting μClinux here) RISC-V ABI is not actually going to be that crazy to make (apart from size restrictions on the install disk maybe) in a couple years.
> If anything anti-virus is much less useful now that polymorphic shell code is commonplace

Source? I disagree with this statement. Polymorphic viruses have been in commonplace since decades. I don't think that diminishes from the importance of AV. AV software isn't restricted to comparing file hashes with known threats, there's so much more that can be done for security.
>> 2. The average amount of time that people spend on the internet could grow 20% in 10 years

> And you think Google will capture all of that?

No, but it's reasonable to think that Google will capture a share of that growth in proportion to their current share.

>> 3. The amount of advertising Google can show per hour might be 20% higher in 10 years

> Why?

See my earlier comment about Youtube and The Economist. There's also the chance that Twitter decides to outsource their ads to Google.

> > 4. Google might improve its ad algorithm 10% per year - ie. 160% over 10 years.

> 10% more profitable every year for 10 years? I'm not going to say that can't possibly happen, but you'd have to walk me through the physics of exactly how you think that's possible. Do keep in mind that Google makes money by showing people ads. They can increase their profits by:

> 1. Showing more ads per user

> 2. Getting more users

> 3. Charging more for ads (to do this, they'd have to improve efficacy, which, by the way, they don't capture all of because part of the surplus efficiency the advertisers will want for themselves)

> 4. Reducing their costs

When I say "improve its ad algorithm" I'm talking about improving the match between the viewer and the advertiser - and therefore being able to charge more for ads. Based on my personal experience with Google ads I think there's a lot of room for improvement. Here are some examples in addition to the cat food example I gave earlier:

(a) Last year I demonstrated interested in buying a Pixel 2 phone, so Google started showing me Pixel 2 ads. Fair enough. But then it kept showing me the ads even after I had purchased the phone and was viewing the ads on a Pixel 2 phone

(b) Last year I wanted to buy a Macbook Pro, and I went as far as configuring it on the Apple website and putting it in my shopping cart. But then I got cold feet and didn't buy it for 6 months. In that time I never once saw an ad on Facebook or Google for Macbook Pros. Apple were leaving a lot of money on the table by not hooking up with Google.

(c) Google shows me sports betting ads all the time, despite the fact that I've never been in a betting shop or placed an online bet. (Google has 4 years of my location history and 14 years worth of my email history)

(d) Earlier this year I was shown an ad for Audible every single time I opened YouTube. I must have seen 20 ads per day for the same product. It was very annoying and I suspect Google would make more money by showing a variety of ads

(e) When I buy an airline flight Google adds it to my calendar but still shows me ads for that flight.

(f) Browsing the New York Times app just now I'm shown a "Quit Smoking" ad despite the fact that I've never smoked in my life.

(g) I read about a Facebook user who is vegan but saw in her Facebook profile that one of the advertisers specifically targeting her was KFC.
Agreed. Few designs benefit enough from a custom font to justify the downsides of not using the standard system font.

As an aside, we will soon be able to use system-ui in place of a manually constructed font stack: https://caniuse.com/#feat=font-family-system-ui
I remember being excited when I went into standard 4 because I could finally use a fountain pen. Then I went abroad for 4 years and when I came back, fountain pens were gone - history.
I have a number of fine Jinhao pens, that I use for all my work related writing.

At around $3,inclusive of postage, they are a bargain.

Their nibs might need some adjusting.
They also do a line of Montblanc clones...

I have had a few Lamys but prefer the Jinhaos.
You could define a macro NOTNULL for this, to make it clearer to readers.

void foo(char bar[static 1])

vs

void foo(NOTNULL(char* bar))

Though I'm not sure whether this can be expressed as a macro, since you need to remove the "*"?
You can buy Dell laptops these days that ship directly with Ubuntu (such as XPS and Precision), and you explicitly see the Microsoft tax fall off when making the selection. It feels so good.
So true. After over 30 years as a programmer, I recently switched to being a nurse in a hospital where half the day (it seems) is spent charting in the very old DOS legacy charting system. No one would write a system like that today, but with thousands of people muscle-memory trained on the old system, what reasonable argument could be made for a change?
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