skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A lot of people with chronic conditions are on constant small dose antibiotics. I have a daughter that contracts pneumonia from every little common cold. She’s on small-dose antibiotics every day now with good results.

Her doctors say a very good reason to keep the use of antibiotics down in the general population is just because those people would be extra vulnerable to resistant bacteria. Doctors here have effectively stopped prescribing antibiotics for things they prescribed it for almost always just a few years ago, such as regular tonsillitis. That’s the sort of thing that helps. Obviously a total ban on antibiotics in healthy livestock that the EU adopted is even more important. I wish we could see that in China/India soon.
I tried to see if I could make a keyboard with slightly larger keys for my upcoming live music performances and I was thoroughly disappointed:

https://old.reddit.com/r/MechanicalKeyboards/comments/9g0e24...
Isn't there something extremely wrong about the math in this blerg? Surely 12 million hectares produces a lot more than 20 tonnes of grain annually. Did they mean 20 tonnes per hectare? Otherwise it's low by a factor of ten million. Either way doesn't make sense.
Requiem for “The Cable Guy”
I use syncthing across various devices and organize a group of folders with markdown files in them, then view / edit them with a markdown editor.

Super simple, free, and the best note system I've used so far.
I'm not going to specifically address Fabrice, but one thing I have noticed is that people who develop almost purely in one language, within a constrained application space, are able to become extremely productive because their knowledge and experience is very focused.

Consider for example someone who does nothing but C programming on a Linux platform. Say for example they build compilers. And say that's pretty much all they do. That person can become incredibly productive because they know the language and the tools extremely well.

Or maybe someone who writes computer games in Java. The only thing they need to know, and the only thing they have done, for many years is write graphics/games code in Java. That allows them to become extremely productive at writing games in Java. I've wondered about this in regards to Notch (Minecraft developer).

Now consider the modern full stack developer - there's a constant, never ending need to learn new things. New languages, new frameworks, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, ReactJS/VueJS/whatever, SQL, some backend language/Python/PHP/Java/C#, cloud operations EC2/Azure, Linux along with the many related toos like debugging etc etc. This sort of developer rarely comes up to mega expert level because they can't - they need to be very good at learning just enough to get the job done in a wide range of things. Likely they will have expert level in some of these technologies, but the point is that being able to dedicate your entire brainspace to only a few major technologies allows super productivity. The full stack developer is unlikely to be incredibly productive in one particular area.

The other thing that destroys my productivity as a full stack developer is hitting problems/roadblocks in some new thing that you need, but don't know well. This sort of thing can take days of problem solving, where an expert in that particular technology might be able to recognise and fix the issue in seconds. A good full stack developer must be very very good at problem solving because if you can't fix problems then you'll never get to write much application code.

On the other hand, a really good full stack developer should absolutely amaze you with their ability to build every single aspect of a large system including back end, front end, deployment and operations.
Ben, everyone here understands the model. It isn't sophisticated and it isn't particularly special. You have a lot of [encrypted] sensitive data. On your network. On servers you own. You are a target. Once the bad guys get the data, they'll worry about the individual keys and whom they want to target.

I'm one of the many people who are both dropping 1P and advising friends and family to do the same as a result of this episode.
A dozen threads but no real big ones: https://hn.algolia.com/?query=epigrams%20programming%20comme...
That may be the summary of the linked page, but Henrik, the writer, has been testing voltmeters, battery and USB chargers for years. He's crazy methodical about it as well. I only buy chargers that he or Benson Leung tested.
> Why people claim 10X developers don't exist surprises me

Personally I’ve observed HN to have a pretty strong culture of tall poppy syndrome, which would explain that.
A blockchain is just trading one walled garden for another.

The true vision of the decentralized web is reduced friction by having no gardens.

Sites like notabug.io (p2p Reddit) and d.tube (decentralized YouTube) are doing this, no need to login, no pay wall.

You don't need a blockchain to decentralize, just stuff like WebTorrent or GUN.
I was actually rather pleased that Haskell is omitted. It suggests that Haskell is now mainstream.
I'd recommend reading "The Laws of Human Nature" by Robert Greene. It talks about this.

My interpretation from the book: it's a perfectly natural feeling, but it doesn't mean you have to act on negative destructive instincts. There are ways to channel this energy into more productive behaviours (e.g. by using it to challenge yourself).
"At the apogee, if you thrust in the direction you are moving, your perigee will increase - the orbit will become even more eccentric."

I don't understand this. If your peri(something), which is by definition less than your apo(something), increases, then isn't your orbit becoming more circular and less eccentric?
> Traps on what? Access of an invalid representation?

Yeah - certain bit-patterns are just "invalid" rather than representing any given value. It's much nicer to debug, because you get an immediate failure (at the point where your code tries to access the uninitialized variable) rather than having a corrupt value propagate through your program.

> What if such representations doesn't exist?

Then you can't implement that strategy (other than by emulating it with considerable overhead, e.g. by having an extra marker byte for each variable in your program and checking it on every access). Hence why the C standard doesn't require you to do this.

As originally intended, C left the behaviour undefined so that users on platforms that did have trap representations would be able to take advantage of them. (It's very hard to rigorously specify what accessing a trap representation should do without impeding the compiler's ability to reorder memory accesses). Unfortunately it's ended up being used to do the opposite by modern compilers - not only do they not trap on access to uninitialized values, they abuse the undefined behaviour rules to propagate unexpected behaviour even further from the code that caused it.
>The list seems rather arbitrary

As opposed to what list? An exhaustive one? The quality he asks of the languages in the list is "interesting", which is by definition rather arbitrary itself.
Good point. I've more often been frustrated because I feel I'm the smartest in the room. I acknowledge this may be because of my own pride, but either way it sucks.
This is an eternally frustrating topic. The 10x effect is very real, not mysterious ... and also somehow very overhyped.

The original research in the 1970s didn't claim some programmers were 10x average, just that some were 10x some others. That is directly observable in any shop with more than a half dozen people.

There are "10x typists" too. I type 65 words a minute, sad as a typist but fast for an engineer. Our admin types something crazy like 170 wpm. People who never have a typing class can be 15-20 wpm. 170/17 = 10x. I'm sure a real typist would say 17 wpm people "can't type." From that person's perspective it's true.
"paper" is a broad category of garbage.

Newspapers are worth recycling, because they can be turned into new newspapers again, removing the ink and the metal can be done fairly efficiently.

Cardboard can be recycled fairly efficiently, and can be turned into new cardboard.

Plastic-covered/glued/glossy/window envelopes/food containers/other contaminated papers can't be recycled. Just incinerate it, or turn it into pellet fuel and incinerate it.
225/8-231/8 were reserved for future multicast use and never allocated by iana. As near as we can tell by grepping the entire world's source they are entirely unused.

128m addresses....
Somewhat OOTL but why was 10x engineers trending on twitter? I've seen a few references to it but no idea why it started trending
Just install over HTTP!

One-liner

You can download and setup Monday binary by
running the following command on your terminal:

$ curl http://composieux.fr/getmonday.sh | sh
Well the 10X developers I have know have mostly been pretty normal nice people.

One of them wasn't even super interested in development outside working hours - he just came to work, seemed to knock it out of the park and go home. I'm not saying he wasn't interested at all - he was mildly interested outside work.
In many developed countries the population is decreasing.
our industry mainly uses javascript, we aren’t focused on performance at all
Dart is designed to be uninteresting! But certainly Kotlin deserves a mention if Elixir makes it onto the list.
Envy is scale-free.
I know I've used it myself, but from a sample size of one, I can't say whether http://www.hyrumslaw.com/ or http://xkcd.com/1172/ is more relevant.
There's more than GPS. Human spaceflight has produced many valuable non-invasive wearable biomedical devices because sending up a doctor to monitor the astronaut was not an option. NASA research into nutrition has given us better infant formulas. Research into protection of astronauts' eyes has lead to UV-blocking sunglasses. Etc etc.
Permaculture is not, it's actually enriching the soil (in terms of living organisms) and the local ecosystem, it's a sustainable farming method gaining popularity with the decreasing productivity of common intensives monocultures
Can‘t recall GCP ever abandoning something. Regardless, all the providers have the same deprecation policy I believe. Announce at least one year prior to deprecation.

One example I can think of is running an EC2 instance (VM) in AWS outside of VPC. That’s been deprecated for almost a decade, you can’t do it in new accounts, but AWS still supports it for old accounts.
Secure Privileged Active Directory Management with Pam and JEA
The author of res actually works for Reddit now. I have no idea how much say they have over the project though.
Electricity was never free. It was a tradeoff between the cost of the bulb, vs the cost of the electricity used to power it.

The cartel tried to set the efficiency figure such that it wasn't worth it to run the bulb at lower efficiencies for longer life.

As much as they are criticized they seemed to have calculated exactly the right figure: Bulbs today at still 1,000 hours. No one wants a lower efficiency bulb, and shorter lifetimes are too annoying.

If you really want to know more, read the wikipedia article someone else linked, then read the sources it's based on.
I just finished building my first design. It doesn't include a trackpad but it has curved keys like the kinesis, a thumb cluster that is better then the ergo dox or kinesis (but not perfect). People are building crazy custom keyboards.

https://imgur.com/a/hNcGCwf

My next build will be more ambitious. I want to include a USB hub, a raspberry pi zero, a small screen, and a track{pad,point,ball}.
You make some good points. I think you are even too sanguine about Einstein. In terms of bringing people back, even if they extraordinary, it still might not be worth it. For example, Archimedes was undoubtedly brilliant. However, if you were able to bring him back now, I think it would take years if not decades to try to catch up with the learning before he was able to contribute to solving modern problems. In addition, chances are that by the time humans are able to bring people back, they would have made great strides in using genetics to make people smarter. Perhaps in the world where bringing people back is possible, Einstein is at best average.

One thing that cryogenically preserved people might be good for however, is as a ready source of organs for transplants. Likely the cryogenic company has info on the blood group, etc of the people that are cryogenically preserved and if someone needs an organ, they will be able to find a suitable “donor” for them.
[a critique, not a request for help] I found it relied too much on faith: you can ignore this small quantity, but not this one. What's the threshold? Why?

Fractional and negative powers are assumed to work as a generalization of positive integer powers, without proof.

But, TBF, all maths education requires a lot of faith. e.g. the unique prime factorization theorem is assumed in high school, not proven.
The same person might be a 1x or 10x developer, depending on the rest of the team. You also need to include politics, experience, processes and many other related bits which can have an impact on how much a potential '10x' dev can actually contribute (indeed - how is the 1-10x measured in the first place).

I had an 18 month period where I was, essentially, a "10x" developer, and a "1x" contributor. My skills didn't radically change in that time period. What changed was the environments and teams I was in. I wouldn't be a '10x' in every team/environment, and I'm not sure that anyone can.
Totally agree. Ping me on connect@tautvilas.lt if you would like to discuss this idea more and try to develop it :)
If you want to keep going back in time why not go all the way back to Science that was founded in India and was taken and adopted by the West? How about we go all the way back to the numeral system (which originated from the Brahmi numerals) without which there would be no foundation for any future Scientific discoveries? It is ridiculous to keep going back in time to justify something that is happening today. Every race has contributed to Science in its own way. To ridicule the efforts of the present day Scientists by continuously invoking the past is absolutely uncalled for. No matter how much you try to hide scientific discoveries it will eventually find its way out of your grasp. That is how it has been since time immemorial and will never change just because you wish so.
If you think you browser is fast, you'd be blown away by any decent application.

Too bad all apps are now electron.
The bulb is basically a space heater, not a light. It glows red and doesn't give off much light.

Like the coils in your toaster basically. And that's also why it's lasting so long - low temperature equals long life.
https://www.nrcs.usda.gov/Internet/FSE_DOCUMENTS/16/nrcs143_...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bushel#Weight

A hectare is ~2 ac.

Wheat looks like 2-5 tonnes/hectare

Looks like 20 tons per hectare is pretty high, but
Spoken from true experience! I, as most MDs will, totally agree.
> Pretty sure what you're describing is jealousy and not envy.

Homer Simpson and I are both pretty sure it is indeed envy, not jealousy.

https://youtu.be/Tmx1jpqv3RA
Ok. Minimal or No till/non chemical farming then.

There is no need for chemical Ag if we have automation. Chemistry removed the need for hard labour. It is still possible to use mechanization to replace toxic chemicals because weeding is all about timing, but even with mechanization, labour costs add up. Automation is the solution. And we have the capability and tech to do it now.

I suspect that there will be some resistance and possibly nascent tech will be bought out to die in a dark vault after being acquired by the big players whose market share will be threatened. But it’s only a matter of time when the transition from tractor to Ag bots happens seamlessly..I feel the big tractor companies are just trying to time and manage the transition. They certain have a massive market share. Chemical Ag is certainly out. Automation will be the new paradigm.
> Dutch roll isn't a stability problem in the same way the problem that MCAS corrects for is a problem.

It's still a stability issue that has led to fatal crashes because some pilots were unable to correct for dutch roll. Successfully countering dutch roll is an ongoing process, and a pilot may know all about it in his head and still be unable to correctly counter it with properly coordinated stick & rudder movements.

Dutch roll is no joke and the yaw damper is required and is critical equipment.

On the other hand, dealing with runaway MCAS is literally just turning a switch off on the console.
You can also be a 100x programmer, since it's all relative. That's not a very fun way to work though (depending on your personality of course) - you just end up relegated more to mentoring and training than actual development.

That being said, there are definitely people who have a knack for it and can learn fast, and also people who are just not cut out for it, period.
Ah, I see. It's the recreational drug use that must become open and accepted for us to be able to deal with the drug addiction part. That's the "radical drug policy" that Portugal is pursuing so I thought that would be clear.

But here's a suggestion: Stop policing the "tone" of allies, especially "tone" that only exists because of uncharitable interpretations, and focus on the enemies of the LGBTQ community. There are many enemies.
It's not really a light, if you saw it your would think it's a space heater.
Cipro does far worse than rupture tendons.

It has two black box warning labels on it, the other is for nerve damage (causes peripheral neuropathy).

It has been implicated in retinal detachment, kidney failure, heart damage, brain fog, and some have tied it to fibromyalgia.[1] Which makes some potential sense given the rate at which women have taken it for UTIs.

With the damage that it is now known to cause, veterans groups have been looking at Cipro as the cause of Gulf War Syndrome.[2] Soldiers were forced to take Cipro as a guard against anthrax during the Gulf War, with little evidence at the time that it would do anything to protect against it.

There may be no drug more vile - outside of opioids - that is being very routinely given to people in the US than Cipro.

It strips magnesium from your body and leaves necrotic damage behind (the only partial counter to it, prior to taking it and after, is supplementation with something like eg magnesium citrate). In addition to tendons, it can also destroy cartilage.

And if you make the mistake of taking it with NSAIDs or steroids, watch out (there is a warning for that, but one can imagine many people ignoring it in regards to something like Advil). That can amplify the damage dramatically.

[1] https://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/09/10/popular-antibiotic...

[2] https://www.militarytimes.com/2013/11/01/new-fda-warnings-on...
I'm sure you have questions, so I thought I'd answer them (using the platform in question): https://faq.dhol.es/@Soatok/public-beta/what-is-faq-off

I previously submitted this to "Show HN" a few weeks ago, but I didn't receive any feedback, and I released a new version.
>'Western' medicine though as opposed to what? Nostalgic prescientific systems such as Chinese, ayurvedic, etc don't do anything at all.

That's not really true. Their explanations can be hocus pocus, but their mechanics/drugs/techniques can be as effective as western versions, simply come around by tradition/trial and error/Lindy effect and so on for millennia.
Fluoroquinolones can do worse than tendon ruptures. One possible side effect is neuropathy. I got a bit of this the last time I took levofloxacin. My skins felt...wrong, for a couple of months. I had random painful prickly sensations. I absolutely can't drink caffeine anymore. And my case is hardly a serious one. Imagine the sensation of being on fire--some people have ended up in exactly that situation.

I'll never take another fluoroquinolone as long as I live.
> She talks far too much

I think we must be listening to different shows. Can you link to an example interview where you think she talked too much?

Many other interviewers regularly interrupt their guests, and impose their own (often idiotic) opinions / ideology instead of letting the expert explain. Gross does not do this.
Most of those are already developed countries and about half the rest are “resource curse” (Russia, Nigeria,etc) it had significant war (Egypt, Ukraine, etc). The reason why India is likely to grow a lot is they’re still doing catch-up growth, they’re not primary resource export driven, and they’re industrializing.

Additionally, it seems to me that something important happened to the global economy right after 2007, so that’s a somewhat cherry-picked date.
I'd love to hear the same from people; the internet at an earlier point in it's life had an air of optimism about it - and certainly freedom (probably drawing from less of an obligation to use it for work, school, etc) that it no longer has.
The author implies that missing a touch bar was _a bad thing_... What?
This quote from Naval Ravikant:

“You have to be that person. Do you want to be that person with all of their reactions, their desires, their family, their happiness level, their outlook on life, and their self image? If you’re not willing to do a whole sale, 24/7, 100% swap with who that person is, then there’s no point in being jealous.”
MBA vs. BBA Difference
What is the difference between a top MBA and a tier 1 BBA curriculum (i.e. finance, marketing, accounting, etc.)? I can't see any curriculum differences or am I wrong?
It’s a Medium post of adverts, and it feels bizarre. At certain points I wondered if it was a joke or intended as art.

Things the author recommends you “buy and use” include McDonald’s coffee; airline loyalty schemes (yes, they use the word “schemes”); getting a bunch of credit cards for the signup bonuses, which they even present with the same wording as get-rich-quick schemes (“make a few thousand dollars a year, or $50–100 per hour of work”); and several kinds of medication, including antidepressants:

> Are you not happy all the time?

> Maybe you should look into trying anti-depressants and see if they make you more cheerful.

They do mention it’s serious medication, but instead of recommending you see a doctor, point you to another post (by the same author, in a Google Docs file), were they talk about their own experience with what seems to be (didn’t read past the start) self-medication.
Our assessment was that latency would be a problem for $client. Eventually, it turned out the "just throw ancient hardware at it until it dies" was far more efficient then going along with it.
> Deaths per journey is absolutely dominated by walking

I can't see how you came to this conclusion, I'd expect walking to be the safest by far on this per-journey accounting.
Some of the people I've encountered over the years who were praised for their speed and "productivity" dragged down the project (and/or the rest of the team) by introducing more bugs (and risk) than anyone else. Upfront perception of "productivity" masks the long-term cost, in so many cases.

IMO the true "10X" developer is the one who boosts the rest of the team through mentorship and leadership -- the polar opposite of the "lone keyboard warrior" frequently portrayed as godlike and outweighing any other team member.
So what if rainforest soil is terrible...their main function is to sequester carbon and act as a carbon sink supporting habitat and balance terrestrial ecology.
It is a matter of how you use them like anything. If you do your attribuitation wrong you will get nonsense anything.

If you have a 10,000 horsepower engine pumping water into a very hot large sieve vs a 1 horse power one into a sealed container the 1 Horsepower one and then judge the engines by the water gathered at the end.