skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wonder how much of that is down to better/earlier diagnosis \* ? My experience with the NHS is that diagnostics in general isn't great because it's essentially a money-sink, you have to push very hard for a diagnosis a lot of people get a diagnosis privately before going back to the NHS for treatment.

Once diagnosed however I've never had any problem getting top quality treatment. This is an anecdote, of course, so I'd be interested to see the statistics.

\* Or even over-diagnosis? It's "easy" to have a high 5-year survival rate if you push removal of tumors that may well have been benign.
That's a cherry-picked stat. Most health outcomes are worse in the US than other rich countries with universal healthcare. There are many studies and charts you can search for, here's one: https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/article-abstract/26746...
There's tons of bullshit from the media: https://i.imgur.com/QDU9OGE.jpg
> You are missing something important: they are storing enough heat to last for a couple weeks of no wind (or a cold snap). Enough DC batteries to heat a house that long are expensive and dangerous (fire hazard). A large water tank (10 tons of water or more!) is a lot safer to have around the house.

Why would you use batteries? That’s silly, you’d simply heat water in both scenarios.
What you describe feels a little like a water treatment facility: stuff comes in, you deal with it, and materials come out (and still some waste). Water treatment is a little simpler since only water comes out... but then it's more complex because the inputs are all literally mixed together.

It probably still requires some pre-sorting. People used to just pour paint down the drain. Some things can poison the system. I suspect we don't fully know what things will be problematic until we really try reclamation.
I'm not sure I believe this.

Find a random research university near you. It is chock-a-block full of people, most of whom are very smart and many of whom can code. Since everyone other than tenured profs has a precarious, low-paying job, this should be a fairly easy pool to recruit from.

Nevertheless, I, a staff scientist in a computational field, get messages from (maybe) 3-4 recruiters a year, all of whom are from huge companies. It would be good to hear from more places and it would great to hear from places that are willing to consider my actual experience (look at my code, hear about my data analysis) instead of asking me to dredge up half-remembered tricks from my undergrad data structures class.
It's probably worth referring back to the comic that Google produced as an introduction to Chrome: https://www.google.com/googlebooks/chrome/

I think the focus was technical-- stability, speed, security being the main focuses. There is an element of breaking away from proprietary software in the comic too. (Rather ironic, to my mind, considering that it's Google's Internet now... >sigh<)
The FAQ question I linked in my previous comment directly addresses most of your complaining: https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep/blob/master/FAQ.md#pos... --- In particular, note the statements about what it means to "replace" grep.

> So in cases where the new "improved" tool departs from old standard [1], it just add one more thing, that can screw you, especially if it comes over as a replacement.

The solution to this is so stupidly simple. If this is a problem for you, then _don't use the new tool_.

ripgrep is not a replacement for POSIX grep.

Repeat after me. ripgrep is not a replacement for POSIX grep. I've never once marketed it as such. Others might. Why? See the FAQ for an explanation.

> grepping for settings in dot files is not exactly a corner case for me.

It's not for me either. Why does everything have to be black and white? Just because it isn't covered by default doesn't mean anyone thinks it's a corner case. It is precisely because it is not a corner case that ripgrep makes it very easy to disable "smart" filtering.

And once again, of course, if you do not want to be bothered by this, then don't use the tool.
Yup. The real issue is a lack of disability insurance, not failings of the health insurance system.
Well I can't speak for all countries, but here in the UK I haven't paid a penny toward my cancer treatments.

I also kept my job despite being off work for nearly a year going through chemo, and I even got sick pay for all of that time. (Not at full wage, but still a very generous proportion of it).

Post-treatment I went back to my same workplace, doing the same job, and found out that I had even acrued annual leave at full rate during the 9 months I was off sick, so had 25 "extra" vacation days that I wasn't expecting.

Yes, this is more than the legal baseline, but even the legal baseline would let me keep my job, acrue leave, get some sick pay (although the statuatory sick pay isn't huge), but most importantly, have completely free treatment, so I wasn't spending the little energy I had worrying about medical bills or insurance.
That's living in a bizarro fantasy world where any meaningful number of people evaluate anything on technical merits. Even the speed argument below is suspect. People can't tell the difference between their browser and their internet connection.

Chrome was widely adopted because it didn't suck and because google--a brand they already learned to trust for search--was constantly beating them over the head to upgrade.

IE wasn't just bad on technical grounds. It genuinely sucked for everyone. It was constantly getting infected with toolbars, popups, and generally crashing all to hell. It was confusing for people to use even when it wasn't any of those things.

Chrome was adopted by the majority of users because it worked at all. IE just didn't.
1994 hands down
Is the report out already? I must have missed it.
Nice high DPI monitors at proper height, Kinesis Advantage 2 keyboard, and a vertical mouse.
> Only in America and New Zealand are pharmaceuticals permitted to be marketed directly to consumers.

Marketing does not only include direct-to-consumer advertising.

> Does the rest of the world not innovate?

Pharmaceuticals are a global market. As it turns out, European pharmaceutical companies make a disproportionate share of their revenues from pharmaceutical sales in the US.

But to answer your question: statistically, no, the rest of the world doesn't innovate. Half of all pharmaceutical R&D costs in the entire world are funded by the US. That share has dropped slightly in recent years, but not because the "rest of the developed world" has been increasing their funding: it's because India and China have been rapidly expanding their R&D.
Do you pay attention to other cars besides tesla?

What Tesla killers have failed?

> Last I heard they got the price down to $45K, so they are in striking distance of the $35K target and won't stop there

Are they? That's a 20% price drop still to go.
Back in the day, you could reboot some people's routers anywhere you could embed third-party-hosted images with tricks like:-

<img src="http://192.168.0.1/admin/reboot.htm?Reboot=Reboot">
> (turns out he had muscled his way into their gathering and was physically intimidating them, but the press ran with a selectively edited video and didn't bother corroborating it)

Looks like you're running with what their PR firm says[1].

[1] https://www.courier-journal.com/story/news/local/2019/01/21/...
What instruction extensions would you have to add to something like RISC-V to accelerate Lisp Machines?
Whenever Firefox comes out with a new version I try to use it for a week and realize it just doesn't perform as well as Chrome. Theres always one or two sites like twitch where it just LAGS to death whereas in Chrome its smooth as butter. At this point I just go back to it. Sigh...
The model 3 is supposed to be a competitor to the Honda Civic.
I mean outside of your network - people you wouldn't normally get referrals for. LinkedIn in a starting point, then researching an individual (Github profile, Twitter, personal website, etc) to learn more. This will obviously only work if the dev has a public life.
So, Chrome is the new IE?
agreed, I just thought I was missing some hidden feature. Like, I have to do the line breaks myself? I guess?
Microsoft is largely in the PaaS business. Amazon is, too. It helps these companies to grow usage of outsourced hosting for third-party applications, much of which are web-based applications. They're often web-based not just at the user interface level but at the API and data handling levels. Web standards are actually good for business when you're charging all comers for processor hours at your data center.
I'm on the downward side of 50. My best years (physically) are in the past. My kids are nearly adults. I'd rather pass on my assets to them and set them up for a better life than piss it away on medical treatments that don't have much hope of working.
I don't want to pay what I pay for housing, either, but I prefer having a roof over my head. Complaining about it is totally fair, but at some point you have to adjust to the facts on the ground if you want the thing.
Multiple reasons: Lifecycle energy is a big one. We can recycle a lot of things, but if you look at the big picture: because of scale factors some things use less energy to make new from mined raw materials and dump the result into a local landfill than to collect the waste from distributed points.

Note that I said some above. There are thousands of different materials in the world. Some are very cheap to recycle some are not. A large part of useful recycling efforts is good material selection in the first place. If you really want to make a difference you should start there: choose materials that are not so difficult for the waste stream.
I think this is what people are banking on with CI/CD. In theory if the maintainers knew what they were doing, we could just roll new containers same day. Because patching things in-place has ALWAYS been a nightmare.
> how do you keep the senior developer who you've turned into a tutor happy?

Pay them well, and give them a regular chunk of (paid) time to work on something that furthers their growth / is intellectually stimulating / whatever.
>Again, the world is much bigger and more nuanced than you think, non-covertible currencies are a thing and they are due to a country's central bank policy not money laundering laws.

What difference does it make which law or "policy" the users are circumventing?

>No it does not, if I had had ways to pay for a server using my country's currency, I would have used it.

And if it were legal to do so there would be a way.
My point is that your kids might not agree with you, and it is difficult, to say the least, to negotiate that situation. I'm not saying you're wrong, just that everyone has a different answer.
> Gimlet's Reply All

yepp that's what brought me down that rabbit hole too. I've spent the last 3 days reading this story and related court documents.

some interesting conclusions were that TrueCrypt came out and claimed their software now no longer secure[1] because they assumed that Paul Le Roux might be working with the Feds on breaking its security ...

there is an interview[2][3] from last week where they discuss with investigators how they hunted him and what motivated him

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7814725

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MTeonvkHKDk

[3] https://www.vulture.com/amp/2019/02/michael-mann-and-elaine-...
In principle, plasma gasification can be made to work net positive energy output, plus slag for whatever you want to use slag for.

In practice, it's really expensive to set up and operate without a lot of throughput, so it doesn't happen that much.

Though, I've read the US Navy is putting plasma gasifiers onto its newest generations of big ships.
I wish someone from Mozilla or MS would comment on this, to be honest. Were they even considered?

Historically, I've heard from various sources that Mozilla may not work at the same pace as some of the large corporations do in upstreaming patches and releases to the code base. This has (according to what I have heard, which may simply rest on rumor/speculation/heresey, mind you) kept a lot of large entities from getting on board.

I've also heard that in building Quantum this is less of an issue, but their code base is a mess, and chromium's is incredibly well documented and clean by comparison.

Anecdotally, I would be inclined to agree with my second statement up front, after just browsing the two, but please compare for yourself

https://github.com/chromium/chromium

https://github.com/mozilla/gecko-dev
I agree. While the Firefox dev-tools improved a lot over in recent years, they are still not up to where the chrome dev-tools are. Currently, I try to use the Firefox dev-tools as much as possible but keep chrome prepared for some special cases.

From a consumer perspective, the story is very different: Any browser will probably do, but choosing Firefox has the best long term effect on the development of the internet.
hahahahahahahaaaahahahaaaa... ahh... sure, not easily exploitable. Your stuff is totally air-gapped!
You'd have to compute what percentage of the weight of various products is taken by the container, and how energy efficiency of transport is affected by weight of items carried. To be completely fair, you'd also want to factor in how much energy is being saved by reusing containers as opposed to manufacturing new ones. Another thing to keep in mind is that electric vehicles are coming, so this should become less of an issue.
The $2M Urinal: Why Hard Work Doesn’t Cut It (2018)
Moderna Proving It Could Upend Much of the Biotech Industry
This is kind of weird, because if there is anything Microsoft doesn't like, they can patch it and make it work differently. Just like Apple did with KHTML and Google did with Webkit.

I don't really get why people judge source code by politics rather than "stealing" (forking) from the best.
How can I block this so that websites aren't mining crypto on my system?

Is it a matter of blocking js entirely or is there a way to achieve a bit finer granularity?
What are "health outcomes"? "5 year cancer survival" is a definable metric. "Health outcomes" is very vague. Is there a scoring system? Are different illnesses/conditions ranked?
https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10.1098/rspb.200...
From 2017, i wonder if the comments about the nuclear arsenal are out of date now.
Was true for a while. I guess that's no longer the case.
> $0 advertising budget.

uh, what's elons PR budget?

Toyota. Don't know the CEOs name. Instead I "know" that they produce vehicles with extremely high quality that will last me a good long time. I "know" that my F-150 will get the job done. My BMW is a status symbol.
The problem with these articles is that the recommendation always ends up just preaching to the choir: people who already switched away from Chrome nod in appreciation, but people who haven't switched literally get nothing out of these posts to convince them to switch to what is basically the same application made by a different company, with completely different conventions on where everything is, without any concrete perceived benefits (security and tracking are invisible problems, you don't sell someone on switching by saying they won't have them anymore, no matter how important you think that is). And to boot, the switch would almost certainly make things worse because add-ons people relied on won't work and now you've burdened them with having to find new and unfamiliar alternatives to what they were comfortable with.

Chrome's main problem isn't that it's overstayed its welcome and is strangling the web (whatever you want that to mean), it's that it's so pervasive that people have become accustomed to it to such a degree that you're now faced with needing to convince people to give up what they're accustomed to. And that's a _much_ harder sell. Using chrome needs to literally be a grating or even damaging experience before someone will voluntarily switch to a different browser.
Yup, Chrome has the best devtools for what I need and I'll continue to use it until there's a better alternative.
A ton of people use GMail for their crypto accounts.

Claiming that someone at Google stole the funds is quite an extraordinary claim. You should have more proof than just the seed being sent to their spellchecker.
Many here are commenting that you should pay more and that is true. But how about not wasting the talent you already have?

I’ve had several jobs from startups to big companies and I have never been utilized at anything close to 100% of my potential.

Try getting rid of pointless meetings, distracting open offices, insane IT policies, and needlessly overcomplicated architectures. You may not even need to hire any more enigineers if the ones you have are more productive.
+100

You shouldn't have to install Ubuntu or a native Linux app just to be able to write some code on a Chromebook.

If you're interested, I've been working on a Monaco-based editor for Chrome OS (just like VS Code) that doesn't require installing Crouton nor a native Linux app. Works fully offline and performs pretty well on low-end hardware.
Reads to me a descending attitude towards normal users.

I was a non technical users when chrome come out. I was studying civil engineering then in college. I certainly like Google as a symbol of freedom and technology superiority in the more pure sense than msft.
I remember it grew to about 26% and then sort of stalled.

I don't remember where IE was at the time but I remember some websites were still only supporting it.
I'm pretty sure this is a commentary on the laziness of devs/why browser dominance is bad for standards, when taken in context:

> The dominance of Chrome has a major detrimental effect on the Web as an open platform: developers are increasingly shunning other browsers in their testing and bug-fixing routines. If it works as intended on Chrome, it’s ready to ship.

When you're following decently established standards (not bleeding edge), it's usually Chrome that breaks now, not Firefox or Safari. Chrome truly is the new IE.
Yes - it project complexity was becoming unmanageable due to difference in multiprocessing architectures[1] of WebKit and Chromium.

1. https://blog.chromium.org/2013/04/blink-rendering-engine-for...
Soft drinks are usually bottled/canned fairly close to the consumers. For example, Coca Cola has six manufacturing sites in the UK [1].

Sometimes the concentrated syrup will be transported to the bottling company; I think this is probably the usual case for smaller markets.

[1] https://www.coca-cola.co.uk/about-us/our-business
> If you can code in the languages and frameworks we use, it's a step we bypass.

Curious; can you say more about how you judge this? Isn't that sort of the point of the homework in the first place?
Marklish: What English sound like if you don't understand it
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http://www.apache.org/foundation/marks/faq/
> And it's full of false positives, false negatives, only works in some conditions, and it's not a service I want to pay for on every single transaction. That's basically a bandage on top of a shitty system.

The per-transaction costs of this fraud-prevention are miniscule, the false positives don't affect me (I get a phone call, and I tell them everything's fine), and I have recourse, both procedural, and legal against false negatives.

Just because you sprinkle a bunch of crypto powder on a transaction doesn't mean that all possibility for fraud goes away. The median per-transaction cost in crypto for this sort of thing is zero, while the worst-case cost is 'you lose the entire transaction/all your money'. And that latter one happens far too frequently for me to bank my life on it.
> If drug companies are willing to sell the exact same drug in Canada or the UK or Germany or France for less than a percent (in some cases) of what they sell it here for then why can't US insurance companies, hospitals and consumers buy it for that price? There's no reason other than an artificial monopoly.

They're willing to do that because the US is a much larger market than any of those countries. Most pharmaceutical companies - including European companies - make the lion's share of their profits from the US market. If they couldn't, you'd certainly see the costs for essential medicines increase in European countries.

> You'll note that I didn't say "anywhere" and that was deliberate. India, for example, has decided that drug companies largely (it's complicated) don't get monopolies from patents and thus you can buy a lot of low-cost high-quality generics in India because no drug company is getting paid.

India has pretty solid reasons for not honoring drug patents that don't apply to the US or Europe.
> Who is entitled to that?

People whose home is Berlin, for starters.
Is there any bad blood left over from the days that Mozilla supported the antitrust suit against MS?

You'd think a business would do whatever maximized value and ignore past negative interactions, but businesses are made of people.
For non-emergency imaging studies it's worth shopping around. Prices really can vary by a factor of 10× between facilities in the same area. For those with private insurance, most major insurance companies offer some sort of cost estimator on their web sites which allow members to see which radiology centers are cheaper.

(I do appreciate that this is a bad experience for patients.)
You have to pay competitively. If you can't afford to pay FB level salaries then you either didn't raise enough money or you have to be willing to part with serious equity. I think the days of founders retaining as much stock as they traditionally have are over. You'll need to start compensating your developers like you would execs. If you think about it, it actually makes sense. Execs add value by scaling up an organization of people. Devs add value by scaling up an organization of code and machines. In fact if you think about it like that, devs should probably be getting paid more than non-technical executives.
And you don’t think it’s legitimate to write those two pieces, although there are 4 years between them, two different cases, and two different persons that wrote them? I think for this particularly case, you can’t say it’s wrong. It’s two different pieces telling two different stories by two completely different persons with four years apart. Much can happen in four years. I’m mostly impressed that you picked them up, with them written so far apart.
fd wasn't written by me. :-)

The C version of ripgrep is the thing that came before ripgrep, The Silver Searcher.
1. This entire article and thread is about cancer, so I'm not cherry picking. If anything the broad "health outcomes" is a diversion from the main subject.

2. What percentage of poorer "health outcomes" are due to the US's ~33% obesity rate and overall horrid diet and have nothing to do with care or access?
I've come to a variant definition of constructionism, based not as a way to learn, but construction as a way to explore/understand. Especially when being entrepreneurial, analysis only takes you so far. In one of the YC video things someone said something to the effect that in Silicon Valley more people tend to talk about "what if you could?" rather than "why you can't", which sums it up for me.

The best example of a constructionist approach I can think of is complex adaptive systems (CAS)- the way to understand a CAS is to build one, taking one apart only gets you so far.

I see where you are going about the lisp and I like that! What a cool idea! lispercard? :-)