skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm a freelancer, so I've worked on a lot of stuff. I charge a reduced rate to nonprofits, which has gotten me some genuinely rewarding work, and my software has also had some small part in keeping innocent people out of jail. So I really have no regrets about my career, at least not from a "was what I did meritable?" standpoint. I don't feel like my comment is asking anybody to make me feel better about what I've done with my life. :)

But I'm still going to stand firm on my stance that a doctor, even if they only save a few lives in their career, is providing a more valuable service than I am. There's just no way the time I've saved people has added up to even a few lifetimes.

If we look at the software industry as a whole, it's just very obvious. We're an industry that likes to think we're saving the world, but the reality is that the results of software have been a very mixed bag. Facebook, for example, is pretty much just bad, and there isn't a major company out there that I wouldn't look at as being in some grey area, where it's hard to tell if they are a net positive or negative.
Watching a 70 year old John Chambers pitching his new $230mm+ funded cloud business the other day... had the same question/thought.
Never read the book, but I'm a fan of his blog! I keep an excerpt of one of his posts pinned on my notes app:

"The only reason coders' computers work better than non-coders' computers is coders know computers are schizophrenic little children with auto-immune diseases and we don't beat them when they're bad."

https://www.stilldrinking.org/programming-sucks
Percent of tested baby foods in U.S. contain toxic metals, report says
Why do other life-or-death markets --- the markets for food, say, or for housing and clothing --- manage to function effectively as markets? Why do we give section 8 vouchers to people to afford private housing instead of continuing to build housing projects, and SNAP benefits instead of government cheese? If anything, those other markets are more critical to life and death than health care, which is needed situationally.

Because message boards are a fertile breeding ground for fundamental attribution fallacies, I'll lay my cards on the table here and point out that I'm an activist Democrat and health care is, after public schools (which I am not in favor of privatizing), one of my most important motivating policy concerns. My problem isn't that I think conservatives are right about health insurance; it's that the countervailing arguments don't cohere.
Reuters broke this story: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-ethiopia-airplane-boeing-...
>Got a DUI? Pretty much eliminates flying for life.

Not true at all, most of the ATPLs in my class were foreign and as such would be well beyond the reach of such rules.
Yes, because wanting to be treated well, means your a bully????
Are you sure that we should be going after hospitals rather than the insurance companies? I've been told by a doctor friend of mine that the price of treatment in hospitals are often affected by how much insurers are willing to pay. They bill an insurance company X, the insurance company only a fraction of that and the hospitals just have to deal with it. So suppose they get more leverage and they increase how much they charge--is that an increase in how much insurance companies pay or how much patients pay? Or both? And how does this compare to the actual costs of treatments before and after such an acquisition?
I love that one as much as you, but if/when it comes time to purge Olin Shivers from any position of respect within academia or computer science, this will be used as Exhibit A against him and evidence of his "violent tendencies". It will go nicely with one of ESR's pro-gun screeds when painting a picture of "why tech has a gun violence problem".
what if you think it's racist but someone else thinks it's fine? Who gets to decide?
Does the Wayback Machine have a long term plan that anyone is familiar with? Is their goal to preserve the web indefinitely? Is the hope the storage and compression improvements over time keep up with content creation?

And just to be clear, I think the Wayback Machine is great and the fact that I can lookup my personal, basically zero traffic website from 15 years ago and see it is truly astonishing to me–I'm just curious what this look likes in 10, 20, 50 years.
Quick update, there have been 13 people who have gotten in touch about joining.
Thanks for sharing. Wishing you the best.
I didn't say that was the only goal.

The politicians, the newspaper editors, the online trolls, etc. are all people too and probably want to see everyone get good healthcare at good prices but they're so busy advancing their vision of how that should happen that we can't actually have productive discourse because nobody can change their opinion on any detail.
It could also be kidney failure. My weight ballooned by 30 lbs when I was progressing towards it. Even the doctor was saying the usual "you need to exercise and eat healthy" until he got my blood test results.
To pharaphase Tuomo Valkonen (creator of the tiling window manager ion), most of these should not be called window managers since they make you manage the windows.

I use ratpoison and GNU screen.

These wikipedia lists can be quite helpful, even if they are often out of date and incomplete.
There's too much money to be made by doing business in China for Western society to be willing to take a principled stand.

"It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it." - Upton Sinclair

On a not-unrelated note, I'm thinking about buying some South Park DVD's. Just a small way to vote with my wallet on the China issue.
It wasn't all work. Look into why he was ushered out as HP CEO.
Sacrificial Architecture
The problem is not the raw number for how much profit is made; it's how much waste is generated in pursuit of that profit.

For example, the entire concept of "negotiated rates" as they apply to the US healthcare system is based around various entities trying to maximize profit, rather than maximize provision of care.[1][2][3] This results in patients being stuck with enormous bills, and services not being provided, or being provided at unreasonable costs.

And this is just one area where this is the case. Costs for prescription drugs (especially new/non-generic ones) are another great example. Because of the system's desire for profit, much of that $3.5 trillion is being spent to try to pump up that $50 billion -- and it's not even doing a particularly good job, as you note yourself, since other nations with for-profit systems have much lower costs.

I'm not saying that no for-profit system could exist that wouldn't be better. But whether that theoretical new system is for-profit or not-for-profit (or, as it most likely would be, a hybrid as we see in many developed countries), we'd have to rip out a substantial amount of the current system to get it.

[1] https://www.policygenius.com/health-insurance/what-is-a-nego...

[2] https://www.americanprogress.org/press/release/2019/06/26/47... (note: American Progress is a liberal-skewed source, but their stats should be good)

[3] https://www.bu.edu/questrom/2018/12/04/insurers-negotiated-r...
I once met a couple of engineers who graduated from there. They were incredible.
>Do you believe that punishment is an ideal way to learn? How do you imagine this `punishment` to be carried out [0]?

Clearly punishment works to deter both humans and animals from doing certain things. This has been shown to be true in experimentation. Additionally the threat of punishment is by far more important.

However there are many instances where punishment can serve to do nothing or even make things worse. In the general case this is not true, but there are many specific instances where it is true. One example is the drug addict. You cannot clean up a drug addict by punishing him. Or even less clear is how do you stop a career criminal from doing the only thing he has known how to do for his entire life? A punishment will not suffice in both cases. BUT the punishment must exist.

I'm not saying that the American System is the way to go. Clearly from the data it is not. But I am saying that the question of consequences must be enforced. The consequence must be negative as well. Additionally to get to your point, the punishment probably shouldn't be so extreme as to have detrimental effects, additionally programs for rehabilitation can be implemented as well for effectiveness. Even in the danish system, there must be negative consequences for negative actions in order for a society to function.... there is no way around it.

Find me an example of a society that has zero punishment for criminals that still functions and I can probably change my mind.
What’s the implication here? That it’s these pilot’s fault? Surely their job is just to report what they experience during a flight sim and it’s someone else who would have decided to hide that.
Firefox showed me an ad (or whatever you want to call it) for common voice yesterday, so I would guess that's why it's suddenly being posted a lot.
Advanced Vue Debugging: A Detective Story (2018)
I'm only talking about American pilots flying in America, which any chief ATP @ Boeing most certainly would be.
Even if someone's lifestyle is emitting 1/10th the carbon of yours, they should still reduce it to 0 before criticizing you? Sounds like you're just trying to avoid feeling guilty and absolve yourself of any blame.
Sounds like Classpass but the big difference is with Classpass there's no real variable cost per new person added, you're basically just capitalizing on excess space that would have gone unused. With food, most of the cost is variable, each new $6.99 lunch sold costs the restaurant real money. How is this sustainable?
I’d start without the animations, in something like Inform 7: http://inform7.com/

It’s easy to learn small things, reasonable to scale to harder things, and the award winning games regularly publish their sources—so you can copy and tweak and learn.
I don’t understand the American obsession with designing new systems yourselves when there’s already plenty of alternatives out there that have been tried and true for generations. Health care that’s affordable, offers longer life expectancy, costs less as a percentage of GDP and available to even the poorest citizens have already been implemented in countries across the globe, in Europe and East Asia in particular but also in Canada and Australia.

Why is it that if a US politician says ”our system is bad, the system from France/Germany/UK/Sweden/Japan is beating us in almost every metric, let’s switch” is met with boos but someone who says ”I have an completely untested idea that’s our old system with some quirks that looks like it was designed by a committee without a vision, let’s try it” is met with cheers?
> "I suck at flying"

Ironically, after leaving Boeing, this same pilot is currently a first officer (co-pilot) at Southwest Airlines, which exclusively flies Boeing 737s.
I can see how checklists are valuable for extreme high-stakes but routine operations, like surgery or aviation.

But in practice, in the realities that we face in non-life-critical jobs, they're oppressive.

Some project managers cling to the fantasy that work will get done in a predictable and orderly fashion if only they wrote down everything that needs to be done and put checkbox next to it (preferably with a target date). The problem is for many projects we don't know what needs to be done in advance or we don't have a deep bench of experienced talent that is able to even generate a realistic checklist.

What often happens with these "checklist project managers" is that they end up creating excessively turgid checklists for which many items are inapplicable to the task at hand, many important items are utterly missing, and there's no prioritization of which things are truly the most critical-- everything's just an identically emphasized line item.

Checklists are for activities which are _extremely_ well understood, practiced exhaustively, and also critical to the mission.
Bugs in the C library string localisation have previously caused a problem in PostgreSQL as well:

https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Abbreviated_keys_glibc_issu...

Since Postgres 10 they use ICU instead of relying on the C library string routines to give more control.

https://www.2ndquadrant.com/en/blog/icu-support-postgresql-1...
Maybe I should say it dominates for silicon valley tech companies and startups, which is manifestly obvious to anyone who works here.
Speeding Up Your Ruby on Rails App – Daniel Lempesis – Medium
“Fools rush in where angels fear to tread” is probably the closest
> 4. Things We Tried That Didn’t Work

I love seeing a section like this when reviewing a paper. I really wish more authors would include one. (Goodness knows I've chased down enough dead-ends in some of my own research efforts.)
>How can we get coverage to the poorest people effectively?

Reform the entire economy so there aren't 10s of millions of people who can't afford health care insurance. The current medicaid solution for the poor is a joke like all governmental welfare programs for the poor, they exist so that the rich can benefit from this distribution of taxpayer dollars (like snap/food stamps, section 8 housing, etc..), meanwhile it gives the politicians enough examples of success to point at and pat each other on the back. Meanwhile for the poor who need these services, because to these services often function more like a lottery which you may or may not get the benefits, rather than acting as a program you can depend on.
I disagree with this. While it may be sometimes true, it is certainly a good thing that there are checks and balances to treatment. Otherwise providers of care are able to get a blank check. That is part of the problem now- say a physical therapist prescribes 5 sessions a week @ $300 per session but in reality the patient only needs 2 sessions a week. Insurance companies provide a checks/balance system with the ability for care providers to fight back when insurance companies deny care.
why regulation capture is bad in a nutshell
Hacker asked to try and steal a CNN tech reporter's data
Wayland compositors is a more interesting topic.

So far quite a lot of work remains to bring them up to date.
Not the downvoter, but...

I dont think this comment should be here on this post. The only tie-in is layout.

It should be a show in instead.
It makes sense though. I have been thinking the same for a while now. What they need for that strategy to work though is to provide cloud computing offers for Metal, and I don't see that anywhere on a meaningful scale.

A cheap Metal cloud computing offering from Apple would truly be something. Would probably make them better at writing cloud software, too ...
The poorest people generally have public coverage, Medicaid.
> in that post, Swebs was making an argument that UEOS/UEIS has already been settled by observation.

At most that was just being wrong, not having a circular argument.

> In other words, the resolution of UEOS/UEIS was, in fact, the conclusion that Swebs was claiming to have observational proof of.

Yes, Swebs was making a conclusion about UEOS/UEIS. But both the circular and non-circular arguments do that. Swebs was not using assumptions about UEOS/UEIS to reach that conclusion.

> I don't have measurements, Swebs didn't have measurements (though he thought he did), and it has become clear that you don't have measurements either. Maybe someone does, but they have not yet shown up in this discussion.

That doesn't matter.

If I say "A implies B", and I have no evidence for A, then I have not proven B. But it is not a circular argument.

You can have an argument that is both valid and unproven.

The argument "Measurements will/might/do tell us UEOS/UEIS" is not circular.
I have tables
users (id, name, email, password, created_at)
post (id, title, body, favs, created_at)
post_favs (user_id, post_id)

Api should return
post (id, title, body, favs, created_at, is_faved)
And should cache post
Sounds like impostor syndrome and/or self-deprecating humor more than anything tbh
When I was building certification tests at Microsoft, their version was, "We need to determine the minimally qualified candidate, and design the test so that they can pass."

It was horrifying at first, but now I think about it all the time in all my interactions. The person making my burger might be the Minimally Qualified Cook. What's the absolute minimum that I would want them to know for me to feel comfortable eating it?
Clacks drive me up the wall. Having a table mounted mic in a podcast gets to me too. I can't concentrate if I keep hearing elbows hitting a table through a mic stand.

It's more editing work but I like to split out the screen recording, VO, and PTC. Bonus, you can get rid of jump cuts and other weird edits by cutting to the screen recording just before you messed up your line.
Negotiated cartel rates and lack of price insurance sure do seem like a plausible component of our health care debacle. But other countries have for-profit providers and private insurance and they don't have these problems. Why is that?

The prescription drug market is dysfunctional. But what did the last breakdown you look at say about the percentage of our health dollars swallowed by prescription drugs, compared to caregiver salaries, hospital procedures, and long-term care costs?
What op seems to imply is that airplane incidents rates actually have a stronger track record as opposed to the opioid epidemic, road fatality, etc. And that if society believes that this individual/group should go to prison based on this mistake and in hindsight, without account for all the other factors that were a part of the decision making process, then society should start reconsidering the way it treats opioid, road fatality, etc.

The mindset of "quick to imprison" can also run the risk of creating a society that is overly averse to risk taking, which can hinder technology and scientific advances. For example, it may take 10 times as long to get a new, more advanced traffic light implemented in your city because now everyone wants to make sure no stone was left unturned, otherwise someone will get into an accident and a staff/group will be imprisoned. Or a new software is implemented but 3 months later it is found that failure under very specific scenarios has caused over 50 deaths. There are millions of potential scenarios that may fall under similar conditions as exemplified above.

Please note that this writing is not advocating for or against either views, it is simply shedding light on risks that should be considered.
Why NSFW contents became problem for both Tumblr and now Imgur? Anything specific?
No. But that's ok. Why does everyone have to be balanced?
well said imo. the fact that most jobs in health care are administrative (never see a single patient) is telling that the incentives aren't good: we aren't increasing physicians per capita, we're just ... adding admins, very similar to what's going on in US universities.

for example, we know most growth in medical "jobs" are administrative in nature, and thus not helping per-capita physician rate or anything like that: https://hbr.org/2013/09/the-downside-of-health-care-job-grow...

it adds up, e.g. https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMsa022033 where it's 3x cost of canada.

however there's a huge parasitic class of administrative jobs that exist due to this, so it's gonna be painful to excise. that pain will increase every day it's not done, unfortunately.
If you know you’re creating a List (it’s there on the LHS) why not write List.empty()?
This has actually gained mass coverage recently given the current geopolitical atmosphere. However, I would take this with a grain of salt. If you do a bit of research, you will find the claim was made by people related to the East Turkestan Islamic Movement[1](a terrorist organization linked to Al-Qaeda) and the World Uyghur Congress.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turkistan_Islamic_Party
[2]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Uyghur_Congress
At Braintree, we developed a framework for this:

https://github.com/braintree/runbook

One of our biggest use cases is for including ample sanity checks as part of our releases to make sure we don't mess it up.
I think this is a good thing, a fresh start for the community.
Fire! A brief history of theater fires in New York City
You can’t cover up what you’ve done if you step down
> one who falsely believes they are superman

It's worse if other people believe the pilot is a superman, because then the pilot feels intense pressure to be superman, and so will go to great lengths to defend his actions as being perfect.
Well sure, this particular guy almost certainly doesn't have any DUIs.

It's only the statement about DUIs preventing flying for life I was objecting to, if someone really wants to become a pilot a DUI isn't going to stop them.
D'oh! I forgot all about that! I'm not trying to be spammy. I'm just trying to show that there is a completely different way of doing layout.
It's the resume equivalent of Culture ships with silly names/AI personas.

At a certain level, it's boring to just be good. The interesting challenge becomes to stay good while being silly as fuck.

And that's why I'm serious and professional.
An important takeaway from the book I got was that distilled checklists didn't work alone. It took some flexibility within the environment using the checklist to allow for its full potency, such as nurses being allowed to second-guess a doctor without fear of reprisals.

In the tech industry I think we can apply the construction company example more appropriately, which was construction companies structuring themselves over the decades for an immediate rescheduling of work and inspections to meet a construction sequence when something came up.

To be blunt and cynical, I don't believe that today's software management styles and scheduling are realistic in that manner. Whatever calendar flexibility exists is covered in name only. So I feel that too often project management decisions serve the calendar instead of allowing field hands to push back on launch dates.
Do soda taxes work? The global soda tax experiment
The most important rule is not there:
All zombies should be thoroughly justified: why a unit test cannot be written to kill it?
Many people are resilient, but your reply lacks nuance.

Some people are completely incapacitated (e.g. PTSD, Agoraphobia, etcetera) by the various effects of an earthquake (destruction, death, loss of home or job, other hardships). Many more have lower-level permanently ongoing problems that affect their work or life.

Source: friends and acquantances after Christchurch 2011 earthquake.

Edit: startups can be hit particularly hard since they are fragile and a big external event can wipe them out.
I interpreted that as “I may be a bad pilot but MCAS made my trying to fly in the simulators particularly unsuccessful”
> The public rhetoric frustrates me as someone who favors universal healthcare. Demonizing corporations and rich people is red meat for partisans, but it’s not a solution. How do we pay for this system? How do we cut costs?

There are already two pieces of legislation, the Jayapal and Sanders bills, they account for their costs. Tim Faust’s new book likewise walks through all of these concerns in detail:

https://www.mhpbooks.com/books/health-justice-now/

And I don’t think people are “demonizing” corporations, so much as they are being more and more exposed to fundamental cruelty and parasitism of the American healthcare system. As costs spiral out of control and inequality compounds in the US, a far greater swathe of people are finding themselves on the receiving end of its violence and deprivation. I’d suggest you look at the work of disability activists like Ady Barkan to get a better picture.
There is no "European system." Many European countries don't have a single payer, or even a "public option." The Netherlands has something quite close to ACA, for example. Germany has non-profit, but numerous, insurance companies.