skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Really? That's an interesting example to choose, since John Carreyrou didn't have any medical training and almost singlehandedly brought Theranos to its abrupt end.

Later, because it was bugging me

There's also distinctions to be made between a "generalist" and a "practitioner". Beat reporters are specialists, not generalists. They've cultivated sources and, over their careers, expertise. Roger Ebert wasn't a filmmaker, but he sure as hell knew more about films and their language and idiom than a WSJ business reporter (who in turn knows more about collateralized debt than Ebert). Extending the analogy further: I'm capable of critiquing cryptosystems and finding/exploiting vulnerabilities in them, but I'm not a cryptographer and am not qualified to build them myself.

Do you need an example of a non-programmer tech reporter worth reading? Happy to provide one.
Completely coincidently I've heard it today first time starting with Angel-dust and flowing with YouTube's suggested. I'm completing my GSH education as we speak.
Interesting! Terminator 2 used the Atari Portfolio as the portable computer with hackerly qualities.
Wow. Is no one spared?
Something like Barliman?
Sorry but that is just not true. Vaccine use applies the same selection pressures as [people existing and having immune systems]. The things you are comparing are totally different and not comparable.
> GCPs customer support is light years behind AWS’s business or enterprise support. I’ve yet to hear anyone say anything positive about any part of Google’s customer support.

I‘ve heard positive things. But yeah, that‘s not really something you can measure easily.

> And that‘s a minuscule part of the market.

Yes, for now. Eventually everything might be containers and serverless.

> But as far as I know, AWS has never outright abandoned a product. They may make it unavailable to new accounts.

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.
Truthfully building and maintaining relationships with those who are more successful can always help you become more successful yourself. I've come to realize many of the people I was "trying to keep up with" have different and potentially complementary objectives in life. Learn from everyone especially those more successful than you instead of trying to tear them down, frequently a rising tide lifts many boats.

I did really well for myself early on (not as well as some, better than most) and I realized it didn't make me happy intrinsically. As such, I've started investing in myself, in relationships, and in figuring out what does make me happy. It's great seeing my contemporaries do well. I've let go of a lot of things and people who weren't making me happy lately and it's really nice, actually.

Perspective matters, and in some ways, comes for us all in time.
Cynicism? It's right there when you visit any reddit page on mobile. "This page loads better in the app" modal etc.
> What happens if new customer wants his tenant - is automating of provisioning of an entire new cluster feasible?

This is doable through various provider/vendor-specific APIs. Pivotal's PKS has an API. GKE has one, EKS, AKS and so on have them too.

In the longer run there's meant to be a full Cluster API, which I presume will take over for that role: https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/cluster-api
You absorb the heavy metals and other harmful components that the deer have been absorbing by drinking landfill leakage, which is kinda not good for your body.
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> I see parallels with the legalisation of same-sex marriage. I saw somewhere that there is a correlation between support of same-sex marriage and actually knowing that a family member or friend is LQBTQ.

> It seems to me that once people can empathise on a personal level, new approaches become acceptable (/ enter the Overton Window).

I 100% agree, and believe the significance of this general phenomenon is very underappreciated.

I would generalize this phenomenon as "From a psychological perspective, once individuals can empathize on a personal level with a given topic, it opens their mind to being changed".

As we saw (so it would seem) with same-sex marriage, and general acceptance of non-heterosexual relationships, once a critical mass in society reaches some tipping point, what had looked like an unbreakable impasse suddenly started to break down, and a wave of widespread and willing (eventually, mostly) changing of minds took place relatively rapidly. Cultural evolution in action, via normal evolutionary forces.

My question is: why can we not accelerate or bypass the "normal evolutionary forces" approach. Fields like math, science, and engineering evolve at a far faster rate than we seem to be able to achieve in sociology and psychology, for obvious reasons (the former are far, far simpler) - but are we utterly helpless to improve things? Is there no way? Have we tried everything we can think of? What have we even really* tried, besides arguing in the political (and now social media) realms.

I believe the answer lies in epistemology, and epistemic humility.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epistemology

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epistemic_humility

If we could achieve widespread understanding and competence within these fields across members of a group, might it be possible to get people to realize how so many of their beliefs are in reality, little more than an illusion? That the facts they think they are working with are actually opinions?

I think it can be done.

But how might we go about this? How might we perform some experimentation to test this theory, in smaller population than than the entirety of the world? Is there a smaller, segregated population, preferably of higher than average intelligence, upon which we could test this theory? Where, oh where, might such a population be hiding? Right in front of our noses perhaps?
> Corporations actually have a reason to be pro legalization.

There are lots of corporations that exist in market niches that benefit from or even exist entirely because of the drug war; they obviously have reasons to be anti-legalization.

There are lots of potential corporations that do not exist because of the drug war whose interests would be served by legalization, but the potential investors in those potential corporations are largely instead invested in actual corporations based on the incentives in the actual status quo situation.

> There’s lots of industry to be made around medicinal and recreational uses of drugs.

Much of which competes with existing medical and recreational business, and would open fields around which incumbents have moats to new competition. Which is why existing corporations with lots of money have reasons to oppose, rather than support, it.

> It might even make jobs in rural America in the form of additional cash crops.

That's a reason for people needing jobs and living in rural America to support it, but a reason for corporations employing those people currently to oppose it (as the additional competition for labor would drive up labor prices.)

> Further, imagine the societal impact of removing the money for cartels. I think Mexico and central and South America would become dramatically less violent over night.

Yeah, and pretty much every powerful moneyed and political interest in those countries is invested, on one or sometimes both sides, in the continuation of the drug war and associated conflicts.
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Would you please stop posting in the flamewar style to HN? That includes name-calling like "fetish", which the site guidelines also ask you specifically to avoid.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Edit: alas, your comment history indicates that you've been using this site primarily for ideological battle rather than curiosity. We ban accounts that do that regardless of what they're battling for, because these two things aren't compatible, the one drowns out the other, and HN is for curiosity. If you'd please review the guidelines and use the site as intended, we'd be grateful.

You might also find these links helpful for getting the original spirit of the site:

https://news.ycombinator.com/newswelcome.html

https://news.ycombinator.com/hackernews.html

http://www.paulgraham.com/trolls.html

http://www.paulgraham.com/hackernews.html
I worry that doctors are still WAY too prone to prescribe antibiotics.

I take my kids in as they've got respiratory issues that when they get the flu heir airway starts to narrow. A steroid fixes that just fine.

But man most doctors will still offer an antibiotic too ... like dude, I know that won't help, it's a virus...
You can, but the problem with using old.reddit.com is that clicking on reddit.com links (e.g. from reddit comments) will take you back to the new design. With the opt-out, you get the old design no matter what.
That is something I have been thinking about too. I imagine this could work as a distributed decentralized db where you publish some link and sign it with your domain key. A client could easily select the most submitted urls from DB and also 'follow' certain domains(users) that submit the most interesting urls. I would love to discuss and validate this idea more.
You really think endocrinologists have no training in diet and lifestyle?

Well, what can I say. No?
Whether it's insignificant in cost depends on how you look at it.

Amazon prime costs $119 a year, which is about equal to the interest from $5200 in a money market account. So it's not that $10/month seems like that much to me, but when I think about giving Amazon over $5K as a lump sum, it seems outrageous, like a sleazy trick, or a too-clever arbitrage.

And, you know, whether any amount paid is insignificant depends also on whether it gets you anything.

After I cancelled Prime, I noticed that Amazon was still shipping things just as quickly for free, even though they try to create uncertainty to get you to sign back up.

I've never used any other benefit of Prime.
Listed under "what I believe" the author writes:

> Productivity is not strongly correlated with experience.

This seems contrary to my experience and expectations, although maybe the word "strongly" is what makes it true.

> The inherent traits have a lot to do with intelligence and other thinking patterns that we can’t (or don’t yet know how to) identify and teach.

This also doesn't really match up with my experience. I've had employees start as net negative contributors, and then grow into solid positive contributors over time as they learned and developed their skills.

Either way, the explanatory factors seem like the most interesting thing to talk about: what makes one engineer more productive than another?
> No. It's pretty clear, even if the anti-vaxxer lunatics were not wrong (which they are, they are wrong, they are perniciously wrong, in the face of all evidence they are wrong), that vaccines would be a net benefit.

Are the "anti-vaxxer lunatics" arguing that vaccines are not a net benefit? When you refer to "anti-vaxxer lunatics", who is it, exactly, are you referring to? Are you referring to specific people (everyone within the "anti-vaxx" "community"), or are you referring to an abstract mental model, of questionable accuracy, held in your own mind?

> even if vaccines did cause autism (which they do not)

These sorts of comment lack epistemic humility/awareness. We do not know that vaccines do not cause autism. Science does not say this.

However, this isn't to say that science says vaccines do cause autism.

What causes autism is unknown. The final knowledge of an association between vaccines and autism is unknown.

To some degree, the "pro-vaxx" message is based on propaganda (here I am referring to the lesser pejorative meaning of the word). Many within the "anti-vaxx" community can see this, and it is used in various ways as leverage. Which is, of course, also propaganda (the more pejorative kind - typically, but not always).

This approach has been sound in the past, but there are increasing signs that it is becoming less effective. Time will tell if that trend continues.
Oh, sorry, that was tongue in the cheek. They are cloud providers, and as such they provide costumers with separate cluster.

The aks-engine repo let you peep to what goes behind the scenes, but this is not the kind of beast you will grow at home - it is a public cloud provider with global scale, with the expected level of complexity and engineering. It is available on: https://github.com/Azure/aks-engine
I.e., The Popium.

I cannot bring myself to click through to the article because it cannot possibly live up to the title.

If you have read it and disagree, please reply and say so, or why.
That is nakedly not true at all for yields and shows a massive ignorance of history, trophic layers, ecology, and economics to declare it less productive. Less biodiversity by definition but that is essentially the whole point of agriculture - producing what you want.

Permaculture really seems to be the new Lysenkoism. They keep on making grand claims about their sustainability and output and how it is the only sustainable way yet their yields aren't even any better than conventional farming with crop rotation.

If you want to preserve nature your best bet is unsexy density - scales better than local and distributed. Even solar and wind which benefit from being spread around are still clustered.
IIRC c. auris is sometimes a culprit. And now that there's mycotic-resistant strains and very few antimycotic drug classes, it's not a good trend. We need more antimycotic drug classes.
I don't understand why this project is accepted into GNU. They can cite their $10K fee in their forced EULA where the sun does not shine.
I am pleased to see no one coming at us with pitchforks and torches ablaze.

240/4 already works in many idea also. 127 and 225/8-232/8
can be reallocated as unicast also.
Modern engineering is a social endeavor.
I've worked with many developers over many years.

I am a developer, but only a 1X developer.

But I can say without a doubt that I have met a small handful of people who are many, many times more productive than ordinary developers. Call them 10X if you want, or dismiss the idea that 10X exist, but fact is there are developers who are simply streets and miles ahead of others in terms of productivity.

Why people claim 10X developers don't exist surprises me. Maybe they haven't met any or weren't able to recognise such productivity.

One important thing to take into account when considering extremely productive developers is context:

happy personally productivity +1

unhappy personally productivity -1

deep experience with language/framework/tools/tech productivity +1

average experience with language/framework/tools/tech productivity +0

little experience with language/framework/tools/tech productivity -1

inspired by the mission productivity +1

ho-hum about the mission productivity +0

skeptical about the mission productivity -1

likes the boss/management/fellow team members productivity +1

dislikes the boss/management/fellow team members productivity -1

not impacted by organisational politics productivity +0

impacted by organisational politics productivity -1

provided best tools for development productivity +1

inadequate tools for development productivity -1

knows the codebase productivity +1

does not know the codebase productivity -1

etc etc on and on
Since it usually comes up in this discussion, Fabrice Ballard: https://bellard.org/
"Comparison Is the Thief of Joy" -- Theodore Roosevelt
The Oberth effect is interesting. You want to get as low/fast as possible (converting your fuel's gravitational potential energy into kinetic energy), and then do a burn to harvest that energy, dropping the exhaust into the sun while the spacecraft zips away at high speed.

It's basically the "tennis ball on a basketball" trick, with rockets.
The prominent examples are:

Russia, Turkey, Kazakhstan, Belarus, Poland, Slovakia, Czech, Hungary, South Africa, Mexico, Brazil, Argentina, Chile

There are several other nations in Europe and Latin America, that have been stuck in the middle income trap for some time (such as Uruguay, Paraguay, Peru, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, Panama, Serbia, Croatia and Bulgaria).

Albania and Macedonia have been stuck in it, with little further progress, since the early to mid 2000s.

Africa has a few others besides South Africa, such as Gabon (trapped since the mid 1970s), Botswana (trapped since 1990) and Algeria (since the early 1980s).

Lebanon has been stuck for 20 years. Jordan has been stuck since the early 1980s.

Portugal may just be outside of it or at the ceiling, at $23k per capita; however in inflation adjusted terms they've seen close to zero per capita growth since 1992. Greece is an odd case, hard to say whether they ever escaped the middle income trap, or whether the good years before the crash were entirely fake. On an inflation adjusted basis Greece has also seen close to zero per capita growth since 1992.
They've just been slower for a long time and the impression is hard to shake.
EU's GPS satellites have been down for four days in mysterious outage
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Oh yeah, of course! Startups and tech are so much more honest than big pharma and clinicians...

The reckoning will not go the way you think it will.
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"There's no upper bound on what a brilliant engineers can do, I've known people that you could not replace with 1000 mediocre engineers working for 10 years and they would't produce the same innovation, creativity and automation."

You say that, but is your brilliant programmer going to produce the same output at each of Microsoft, Google, or Xerox?
> Dragon book is nearly useless

Why's that?
My grandmother received an antibiotic that made her virtually deaf (ototoxicity of an aminoglycoside).
I totally see your point and understand that it's good to break away from work every now and then to work on a fun project idea. The problem I have with these hackathons though is that I feel companies get to promote the culture of working late hours and staying up to build an app. I know this is only 2-3 days most of the time but it often feels like companies treating developers as if we are machines and benchmarking us based on what we can produce and come up with in a short time. I know that not all hackathons are the same and it may be that I should try different ones first.
The "[...]" you deliberately omitted explicitly permits "ignoring the situation completely with unpredictable results".
The reason for a detour to Jupiter is that it's actually fairly hard to get closer to the Sun. Somewhat surprisingly (if you haven't seen it before), it takes quite a bit of energy to drop from Earth's orbit around the Sun to ie Mercury's. In this case, it looks like it would take less energy to fly out to Jupiter and get the gravity assist (which is very substantial because of the planet's mass), and fall back toward the Sun than it would be to drop straight into a low solar orbit from Earth. This type of trajectory was actually considered for the Parker Solar Probe [0], but was eventually rejected because it would take too long.* If you're going on an interstellar voyage, the time to get out to Jupiter might not impact the timeline as much.

[0] - https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Parker_Solar_Probe

* notably, the new trajectory still includes gravity assists off Earth and Venus, underscoring the amount of delta-V needed to lower a solar orbit
Interesting to note how AMD "coming back strong" has been received between their CPU and GPU lines.

On the GPU side Navi looked good, nVidia introduced their Super-RTX cards to compete, AMD dropped their prices before they were even released...
... To the casual observer, these are two peers slugging it out. With each news story or Use Case, maybe one is better for you.

In the CPU domain it's pretty universally "AMD wins" - "What will Intel do? We have no idea."

My entirely anecdotal feeling, is that the entire world has been waiting for a decade to give Intel a kicking - and finally with this release a huge stack of ammo has been delivered to pull the trigger on those pent-up-stories.

i.e. Bit that makes it interesting to me, is that whilst in the "GPU wars", Team Red and Green have had their fans on each side and seem to be duking it out - the commentary is generally "you the consumer are the winner"

In the CPU war, nobody is "Team Intel". Feels like the whole world just wants to pile on.

WTF has the Intel PR dept been doing?
I understand that if you move around a lot you prefer traveling lighter.

But this doesn't mean that a whole industry must drop all of the features (ports, in this case)
Well, one of it's blog management tools: this one was an India-limited beta tool that connected to Blogger or WordPress, but Google also seems to have blog management tools with some overlap built in with Blogger, and with Site Kit by Google for WordPress.
One thing not mentioned often about rainforrests is that their soil is actually pretty damn terrible. Which is also why you see things like carnivorous plants there.
I don't really think it's a caricature.

"Doctors are idiots following algorithms and don't actually have any knowledge or information and just scam everyone for money all the time until their eventual replacement by the first person who thinks of feeding electronic medical records to machine learning algos" would cover about 95% of HN comments in these sorts of threads. You might cover another 2% with variants of "there's no point in going to a doctor for your problem, any decent engineer can just spend a few dozen hours reading up on their problem and figure it out just as well."

It's gotten to the point where I only chime in once in a while when the thread has gone deeply, deeply, off the deep end. But then, HN seems to have variants of that attitude towards pretty much every profession that doesn't have an engineering degree.
Yep don’t publish on Medium, instead publish on your own domain, or if not use github pages or dev.to or similar
Maybe so, but please don't respond with a worse comment. If you know more, share some of what you know so the rest of us can learn. Please don't break the guidelines.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
10X engineers deliver tech debt 10X faster than your average engineer.

If there are some out there who truly are of unparalleled execution ability, focus on testing, testability, reusability, modularization, componentization and simultaneously lifting up the team, I've never met one in my years in the industry. I don't think even if you spent 100 hours a week, you could achieve all of these things at once, so you have to compromise somewhere, and I know where people usually compromise. And that's before factoring in work-life balance haha.

In the early days of your company sometimes you do need people to just bang shit out, and eventually, you'll pay 10 1X engineers to clean it up. That period in a company's lifecycle is limited and the 10X'ers are outgrown very fast. Often they don't understand why but to their peers it's painfully obvious.
This is a really cool idea. I might spend some time hacking on something like this after dweb camp. If you're on Scuttlebutt I can CC you on my progress.
And there's no Dunning-Kruger effect at play here, at all. You're entirely equipped to evaluate highly-trained technical specialists in a field not your own.
In defence of the mobile app, the experience is far, far better. I really like a lot of things about it. It has a lot of polish that makes browsing quite slick.

I do, however, notice that it does tailor the content to you in a way it didn’t before. The “hot” queue used to be the same for everyone viewing the same page. I like to read AskReddit posts, and on my front page I get many AskReddit posts that have very very little activity.