skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> An engineer's impact on a single person might be low, but at scale, it can add up to a lot.

> As noble as being a doctor is, their individual contributions can never scale beyond a few people.

Nonsense. If you only scale into saving hundreds of users a few minutes each, you're maybe approaching one lifetime, and that's assuming that your time saving actually improves those users' lives. The vast majority of engineers don't scale beyond that.

Meanwhile, some doctors absolutely make contributions that scale, such as finding cures or vaccines, preventing spread of infectious diseases, or discovering ways to detect diseases earlier. Looking at percentages of world population, the black death killed more people than any of the FAANG companies have users, and that's only one of the diseases cured by the discovery of penicillin. If antibiotics resulting from penicillin didn't exist, it's quite reasonable to guess that more people would die of bacterial infections than FAANG has users.

The smallpox vaccine? A test for detecting HIV? Quarantining the Ebola outbreaks? Each of these saved millions of lives.

And let's not forget that the highest-scale engineers are pretty hit or miss as far as whether the way their work touches lives is even positive. Big pharma isn't innocent, but I don't think anyone would argue we should get rid of them entirely. In contrast, it's pretty unambiguous that the world would be better off without Facebook, and each of the AANG companies has some pretty large negative effects on i.e. small businesses, worker rights, attention, privacy.

In short, you're just comparing the highest-scale engineers to the lowest-scale doctors, and assuming that what engineers are doing is as positive as what doctors do.
I'm not attributing the failure of the Mac Pro to OpenCL, I'm attributing the failure of OpenCL to the Mac Pro.

If they wanted OpenCL to unseat CUDA (or even compete with it) for professional GPU compute users, they needed competitive GPU hardware, and they didn't have it.
The actual quote from who?
That sounds like something that was retroactively added - like how people say the full version of "Great minds think alike" is actually "Great minds think alike, small minds rarely differ." It's an aphorism. There is no definitive source.
Most cold marketing emails I get are spam and in violation of CAN-SPAM. Unfortunately pursuing it isn't worth the time.
OT, if I may ask, in what field eare you working exactly? I study bioinformatics and I always love to hear stories from someone with experience in the field (it is really hard to come by those people).

I have an email address on my profile, if you’d like to contact me more directly.
Sorry if I don't know the background of every website on the Internet. There are a lot of people who use an Apple computer because they were the best choice at the time they purchased the computer, and might even have non-Apple computers they'd like to use also, not because they've been baptized at the Church of Jobs to fight in the Cook army to defend the motherland and conquert the rest of the world.
Ron Gilbert who wrote SCUMM has a blog. It’s kinda fun

https://grumpygamer.com/about

He also wrote a new adventure game and blogged about its development

https://blog.thimbleweedpark.com/
You don't need sorting for VSAM or DB2 or their non-IBM equivalents.
Amazing how he got the clouds to stand still for an entire year :)
SSN Generator – The One Generator
Mozilla has done some work on text-to-speech and the other way around too (I think).

[https://github.com/mozilla/DeepSpeech]

Not so surprising that they want to stay on the cutting edge. The best way to shape the future is too invent it (misquoting Alan Kay)
Yahoo Groups shutdown affects critical UK Oftel number assignments
>There is no premise that men are inherently better...

Well, you explicitly contrived a premise that suggests women are excluded from hiring for some other reason. Why are you only choosing from 10 women? And did you not consider the point about the benefits of diversity not needing to manifest in every individual?
iPhone has some serious UX problems with its SOS system
They tell me they don't have to worry about humidity causing rust because carbon fiber doesn't rust.

[They == people who once worked in aerospace]
Sisyphus may disagree. :)

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sisyphus
> Not really. You can mix them in Haskell too.

True, but it's not particularly syntactically convenient.
Those towers sound pretty cool. Has anyone else tried the spiraling or even just tapering floors idea?
You’re really comparing “unlocking bootloaders” to the right for a gay couple to get married, make end of life decisions for each other as the next of kin, be on family insurance, etc?

Trust me, I live in the south. If the chains don’t sell guns, there will always be some local shops that will.
If a tweet declares war, is it treason to take it down?
JEP 349: JFR Event Streaming Targeted (Java)
Well shit :)

I didn't mean it as a gotcha, just that people will mangle quotes to support whatever idea they're trying to argue. Ironically it seems I have accidentally done the same thing.
>He said nothing about women being inferior to men

No, he just clearly implied it.
This is not a comment on Hurd. However, I am not always sure about “working hard”. There are many reasons why c-level people stay at work for long hours and not necessarily because they are “working hard”. How many times have we witnessed CEOs not owning up when things go wrong? I did not know is a common excuse.
Yeah, but it goes a little deeper in the sense that sometimes you feel fear but don't understand it, and you can try to go deeper understandig and confronting the fear, or since you are not sure what is happening, let go the situation and try to hide, escape it, delegate it, distract yourself.
The point is more about the sense of fear that you don't understand where it comes from, and you prefer not to dig deeper understanding the fear because you fear that you will find something ugly. And instead confront it.
Serious: What are you guys saving?
I'd love to see someone bring a case asserting push notifications are electronic mail messages under CAN-SPAM.
I think parent is asking about proprietary software that uses X11 which is no longer maintained or updated.
Index of /Dist
> Actually, that's about the opposite of true. Average age of a CEO is 58.

Most CEOs being older people does not mean most older people are CEOs. "Few old people become peak leaders in their respected field" is absolutely true, almost by definition unless you consider a huge portion of people in their field "peak leaders".
> The hard parts of of life are driving to work, eating properly, flossing, ....

I disagree. Those are simple rituals that makes life enjoyable too. For instance, I know that after flossing, I'm good to go to bed. Or I know when I'm driving my car that I won't get interrupted and I can wander with my thoughts.
I was thinking Roald Dahl.
This is a very good rule of thumb.

Grid is great for the layout of the whole page (header/content/sidebar/footer) or specific gridded containers.

Flexbox is great for everything else, and specifically what you said about in one dimension, like form label/input or a repeating set of thumbnails, or justified buttons.
The Pixel 4’s face unlock works on sleeping people
Ah breadcrumb... there was a time when it was considered good style to show the user each path they took from the top, so that they know exactly where they are and go back one, two, or multiple steps as they want.

These days you're lucky if you can tell which rectangular/circular/animating stuff on your screen is a button.
In JDK 14, Flight Recorder events will be available for monitoring.

try (var rs = new RecordingStream()) {
rs.onEvent("jdk.GCPhasePause", event -> {
System.out.println(event.getDuration());
});
}
Causal Bayesian Networks: A flexible tool to enable fairer ML
After Deaths, Amazon Lands on List of Most Dangerous Employers
This is excellent. Are all the interactions custom made?
I made a (what most people would consider terrible) vim color scheme that has no blue light in it (it's like an old amber terminal). Initially I thought I would hate it and switch back in a couple days/weeks, but I actually find it very nice, and switching to anything w/ blue light or a "normal color scheme" with blues and greens now weirdly feels like an assault. Feel free to give it a whirl: https://github.com/camgunz/amber
Having played most of the Sierra and LucasArts games when I was much younger, I feel, though cannot confirm, that there was a shift in these kinds of games such that you couldn't actually progress too far beyond a fail state.

That is, by about Space Quest II or III, you could still take an action that would lead to your death within a minute or so, but you could no longer take actions that would lead you to dying/being unable to finish many, many scenes later.

Can anyone confirm this?

And I feel like the later LucasArts games (Day of the Tentacle, etc) you could never actually be in a fail state.
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You drop an entropy file in /boot and have GRUB seed it into the kernel.

The file is created (a) when the system is shutdown cleanly, but also (b) when the system comes up cleanly in case of a crash later on.
> I’ve recently realized people misguidedly think GitHub repositories are public space.

I feel it is quite similar to public space. It is open and accessible to everybody. There is a certain etiquette in public space that you should adhere to though. I think that is where the real issue lies. A few people have unrealistic expectations of open source maintainers. I have seen very rude behavior towards maintainers, people get this weird sense of entitlement sometimes.
The pull request was made at the very end of 2017 and much of the discussion happened in 2018 (as did the blog post by the originator of the pull request that is linked elsewhere in this thread.)

I'm not really sure what the policy is when the linked content spans the new year.
Fortnite has reached The End – changing video game storytelling for good
Ah I see. Thanks for sharing that. It’s all so vague to me. There’s so many different analyses and so many experts who will attest to competing facts.

My priorities are just:

1) Ensure universal coverage for all Americans.

2) Structure it so costs are at least as reasonable as those in other countries with similar systems.

So for me, universal coverage immediately is a hard requirement and of course it must be done as fiscally responsible as we can manage. But we can always refine the system to lower cost later. We can’t replace the lives lost due to inadequate coverage.
thanks, that's helpful for recalibrating
Hasn’t done what? Apologies, you’ll have to elaborate. Medicare fee schedules do put downward pressure on costs, which is why they’re under attack, but lack sufficient power to push down prices because they are not universal and exclude drug costs. Japan has universal price controls (and cheaper healthcare) for precisely these reasons.

As to your second question, fee for service is too perverse of an incentive. What you end up with is an arms race where healthcare providers try to extract as much value as possible through as many procedures as possible and healthcare providers, in turn, try to make money by denying as much as possible (as well as pushing sick people into the government plans). The result is poor quality, expensive care, as the two factions devote more and more resources to waging this battle and less and less on creating good quality and affordable care.
The USGS has a RabbitMQ broker for distributing early alerts but it's not available to the general public.
But it's difficult. Nobody likes to confront people and tell them that their views on women's biology affecting their engineering skills are sexist. It also causes strife in the workplace.

What I suggest is to just be polite to your coworkers and let HR worry about the hiring process. Don't say anything to your coworkers that could suggest they are somehow inferior or have "bad" genetic traits. This seems like basic human civility that gets tossed out the window when someone has a right-wing view about a minority or women.
When i drink coffee, i can wake up easy at 5am. When i don't -> 8am. Explain that.
Thats swell, we don't think about you at all.
I would love to see a version of 'The Epic of Gilgamesh' written by Neil Gaiman
Alternatively, Camus thought too much and pushed boulders too little. :)

http://existentialcomics.com/comic/301
China Denies It Asked for Moreys Firing over HK Tweet
It's super simple:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buck_passing#%22The_buck_stops...

If the CEO's are held responsible for the deeds of the companies they lead you can bet that there would be an instant improvement of corporate accountability.
Simulators can "break" in the sense that support simulating various failure modes, including presumably sensor malfunctions. It's very possible that they stumbled on the exact conditions that led to the real world crashes, which would be even more damning.
In a lot of these kinds of cases, that's the carrot that the board will dangle in front of them. If they cause damage to the company by not stepping down they can lose that parachute, but if they step down now to help the company save face then they can keep some (or all) of it and possibly avoid further investigations into things.
You'll be in... hot water for biased claims. The school founded in 1636 is 'over' because of what, computers? It's primarily a liberal arts school. What's the basis for this claim?
Waiting for a Haskell programmer to explain why this is an artifact of procedural languages and that making coffee should be abstracted as the death of coffee caused by hot water.
Tooling on databases has been traditionally awful, and I think that has a lot to do with folks' negative experiences with the database taking up more architectural space.

Schema migration is hard. Skeema looks cool. Aquameta's idea with schema migration is to treat the schema as data, so that each table is a meta.table table, each view is a row in the meta.view table, each column... etc. So when version control checks out a new version of the project, if columns say were added, they're just inserted at runtime. Checkout prioritizes meta entities so they happen first and in a sensible order [1] so the migration happens first. This does technically work for all scenarios (I think!), but in the case of say a column rename, it would naively delete all the values and then have to re-set them per row, which could be a big inefficiency. It would still work just fine for smaller tables though. Alternately some kind of optional migration script per commit was another idea.
It looks like you're reinventing Adobe Flash, but this time without a browser plugin and with even less accessibility.
Always pining for more adventure games that remind me of the Sierra/LucasArts games of my youth. Can we start a thread here of great modern examples?

I recently played Machinarium, and enjoyed it a lot. My wife and I played it for many evenings on the couch, and computer games are not her thing at all.

I'm finishing up Infamous Machine on my Android phone. It's a fairly silly, small game, but a direct homage to LucasArts games like Day of the Tentacle.
# Idea 1:
App that collects "tags" from User. Tags can be anything. For example "apple", "avocado", "100 lbs", "90 lbs", or "Training at 6pm", "Training at 6am", "Good sleep", "Bad sleep". After some time. User can select some tags as "Outcome" and run machine learning and get suggestions/results. Like eating avocado, egg, sleeping good makes this person loose weight and feel good while eating white bread, sleeping bad makes this person gain weight. If made universal - Users could use this for diet, sleep patterns, learning what makes them achieve amazing muscle growth, or many other.
You kid, I know, but it was seriously proposed for the U.S. government in the mid-1800s: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Disquisition_on_Government
There is no amount of money you can pay Google for better support, like you could maybe Amazon or IBM for their products. You can say enterprise support is worthless, but if you're paying $1k a month or buy hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of licensing, you can bet their sales and support reps are going to at least make it seem like they're trying to resolve things.

How did this get resolved? Because WireGuard brought a lot of media attention to it. You can't pay Google for better support. Maybe they'd watch more carefully if your app brought in a lost of sales revenue or ad revenue, but now your app is all dependent on its popularity and maybe its monetary value. (and popularity still didn't save the Tumblr app from Apple on the other side of this).
They almost certainly are safer in principle, but accidents happen. Due to safeguards and small dimensions and mass, I think the drones are safer, but they likely take just as much due diligence as traditional fireworks displays in order to reach parity safety levels.

https://techcrunch.com/2018/09/18/an-intel-drone-fell-on-my-...
What does universality have to do with it? They already cover virtually everyone in the most expensive segments of the market. They're not controlling costs for those patients; Medicare overpays, hugely, both compared to other countries and in historical terms (costs have skyrocketed over the last 20 years). I think the burden of proof is on you for this argument.

"Excluding drug costs" can't be the problem, because drugs --- no matter what their provenance --- are a small fraction of total health care costs.

Your response to my second question doesn't respond to my point. I was specific. You've responded with abstractions. Can you be more specific about what you meant by evidence-based care, and Medicare's unique ability to provide it?
You don’t need to design anything because that already exists in Europe. It’s called public health care.
I remember for some reason Google Analytics had may be some bad press and then we have a new era of analytics, Simple was one of them, but they refused to add aggregate data such as Browsers, Countries of Origin and Devices Info.

So I am surprised to see that have finally done it.

The other one is Fathom [1], doesn't seems to be in development anymore.

[1]https://usefathom.com
Thanks, I wasn't aware of this bot. I'll keep your offer in mind.
more than advice, this is a demonstrates that most users can handle a severely abused m@cbook with about 5 bucks worth of bathroom cabinet contents and a sober head.
My phone got the alert half an hour after the advertised alert window (advertised: 5:15 to 5:45, actual: 6:15), so that’s not great.
With lots of cute details about how the author enjoys alcohol.
There are many meanings, of which you have described two.
Ask HN: Which stack will get my MVP API off the ground fastest?
I have an idea for a service as a side business and need some kind of E-commerce API for it. The main feature is it’s going to produce one-off artifacts and none of the off-the-shelf solutions I’ve looked at really fit.

Basically I need a way to stand up an API with an /price/ endpoint and a /orders/ endpoint that run a bit of logic, put stuff in a database and trigger the payment processor flow. Easy-peasy except I have analysis paralysis over what to build it with and where to host it.

I’m comfortable with “classic” .net and dabbled in Node.js. I’d love to build it as an .Net Web API but the prospect of cloud hosting scares me (plus azure is freakin pricy).
I was thinking more in the line of classical philosophy. You have cartesianism and classical geometry shaped line of thinking on one side and taoist, confucionist, budhist line of thinking on the other.

Modern Japan is reshaped orient with ocidental cultural values, so sorry to use terms that can be misleading because i've failed to give a clear context of what i mean.

And you are right in the sense that some cultures are better than others to face uncertainty with a tenacious spirit.

the US culture is also good at this (despite the mixing of both), but my criticism is more target in the sense we need more awareness of uncertainty and where our tools of measure are limited and cannot reach.

People facing the uncertainty with a brave spirit can be deceived to think people judging them can measure them correctly and that some judgements are final.

Its pretty hard to be the one facing uncertainty, and to be judged by things the other side might not have to right tools to do it right.

Not forgeting, in the context we are talking about, a HN board would probably be the best to understand and to predict a lot of things correctly. But my guess is that we need more awareness and understand more a kind of philosophy that in my point of view, is more advanced to undertand problems that are beyond mesure and pratical reason.
I see a lot of scrutiny in the comments, but the simple fact is that they are actively trying to secure their users data to whatever extent they can. This shows a great form of care from a company and pushes me as a consumer to use them. Yes Iceland has had reports of letting the US pull drives before. No I wouldn't think to plant my servers in Iceland. But the fact that they are considering all of this is a big big + in my opinion.

Most countries who have INTL fiber cables running in/out of them will have a direct link to a "surveillance" country, but as long as encryption is sufficient then the data is still relatively secure. and pulling RAM to inspect the memory is a pretty hard thing to get away from.

I think this is as thoughtful as it gets when considering user and company privacy.
I think the trouble for me is the difference between rehabilitation with punishment as an unintended but ultimately necessary bi-product and rehabilitation _and_ punishment. A difference, to borrow from Mao, in "motive force", where the motive becomes a physicality in that it affects the mental world of the, so called, prisoner.

I can agree to the fact that "punishment" of some form is unavoidable but I think that the rehabilitation serves as a punishment in itself. I fear that "the prisoner mind" is affected by what it itself deems "appropriate" and what it deems "unnecessary" punishment [0].

[0]: You might exchange the words "appropriate" and "unnecessary" with "private" and "public", as in what is done for private benefit and what is done for public benefit.