skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Manditory relevant Dr Cox rant: (Scrubs - s07e06)

https://youtu.be/RK8dMRLVWvg

I'd type the quote, but I'm on a tablet and cannot find anywhere from which to cut and paste it.
Actually the proper way to handle is to use protocols. They provide already SupportsBytes type, and you can similarly create custom SupportsStr, but IMO it is silly to do that. This approach increases chance of bugs, and it's just easy to use str type and for developer to wrap such value in str(). I believe that's why SupportsStr was not introduced.
Thanks, that seems to be exactly what I wish !

Already using sqm (and I love it) but it's for use cases like when a laptop that hasn't been used in a while is started by someone to charge before watching a movie and steam/dropbox/windows on said laptop start hogging everything. In a residential area where we're still depending on ~10 Mbps adsl, identifying the device can be a need.

> downside is: iftop as far as I know can't filter multiple interfaces, so you'd need to check them separately with -i eth0 / -i wlan0.

Since I care only about lan <=> wan, doesn't that mean I just need to check on wan ? And all clients would be there, no matter if they're connected to the router through lan or by wifi ?
Assuming that ID gets logged in a database accessible to customer service people, it seems like a database check for IDs and IMEIs would be workable as a way to confirm "sorry, we can't port that number to your new SIM card, the ID card registered to its IMEI doesn't match your old phone number's ID card". You could still do it over the phone, then, since an ID was logged against your sim card when you bought it.
uhh guessing it halves the % of failures is what they actually mean

30k deaths / 4 million procedures is 0.75% death rate

going from 99.25% to 99.6% survival isn't doubling anything

also 'success' doesn't appear anywhere in this article, guessing '30 day mortality' is the thing they're measuring
Maybe it's because surgeons on average tend to put off more difficult surgeries to a later day in the week. They don't want to come into the operating theater after a weekend of hard drinking and have to do a complex brain operation on Monday morning.

So they will organize their schedule so that they only do routine low-risk operations on Mondays.
Anything that is scheduled in advance (i.e. not imminently life or limb-threatening) is elective. That includes most transplants, coronary bypasses, removing a tumor from the brain etc.
What I hear from others if that it isn't up to par with encryption standards that Signal and WhatsApp use since Telegram rolls their own. Also, you have to explicitly start a e2e chat with a given person, otherwise it's through, and stored in, Telegram servers.
I think you mean magnate; a magnet goes on your refrigerator.
Whoa, great description of this dynamic. Is the desire to drink consistent, or does it vary? Does it vary with the cycles of healthy / unhealthy consumption, or with a different period?
Used it for DJ visuals and it's quite nice. Recently switched to PureData though as that can run on non-windows too.
> That said, I've seen two family members die from terminal cancer and in both cases, they would have been better served by hospice rather than spending the last year of their life in chemo. I felt like it was a money grab by doctors. Their end of life oncology treatment cost the insurance company a couple hundred thousand dollars each

On that subject I very strongly recommend Atul Gawande's "Being Mortal".

> I felt like it was a money grab by doctors.

I don't think that's what it is, and Gawande's book (where he speaks as both a surgeon and having had relatives — including parents — go through this) comforted me in that opinion. Rather:

* doctors generally are not trained in this sort of end-of-life care recommendations

* it's easy for a disconnect and misunderstanding to occur between, or for doctors to present alternatives but fail to notice the patient or family doesn't really understand (especially the implications of the various alternative)

* it is common for families to try for survival at essentially all costs (including intrusive and uncomfortable), and hard for doctors to disagree, sometimes at the result of (2) above but not always

* doctors are human and tend to get blinkered by what they do know, and what they do know is usually treatment

One interesting item (of many, the book is barely 200 pages but full of stuff) is Gawande's mention of Ezekiel J. Emanuel and Linda L. Emanuel's "Four Models of the Physician-Patient Relationship." which basically identifies a range from "paternalistic" (doctor knows best and takes all decisions) to "informative" (where the doctor is provides facts & figures and possibly options but no insight).
This is finance. "Innovative" means it puts more money in a banker's pocket.
At least in the Netherlands, the word "loser" (in english) is used quite often.
Path to Confusion
If they are accessible, then yes, and I don’t see why that would be controversial.

Normally enjoyment of the art making process for amateurs is just that, enjoyment of the process. If I want to enjoy literature, I’ll read the work of professional writers. If I want to enjoy the task of writing, I’ll write myself.

For most people, art making as a hobby is occasional, simply by the time & resource limits of regular jobs, family obligations, etc. While consuming art is much more accessible.

Some other things can be closer to a gray middle area. For me, that is cooking. I expect myself to be able to make really world class food even in my crappy apartment kitchen with limited time and a normal grocery budget. So when I can’t do that, due to time constraints generally, I won’t whip together something quick just ‘cause.. I’d rather simply transfer the grocery budget to restaurant budget and eat better made things.

Thankfully, since most of the very best food is found at cheap or medium end restaurants, and not too much at five star expensive places, this is fairly easy without changing my budget. But compromising to make a mediocre thing myself, either purely for the sake of cooking or to allegedly save money, is not interesting or useful to me.

I could imagine people feel that way about a lot of things.
I am not thinking requirement by rather performance wise.
Everything anti-GMO I see is about it being dangerous. I'd be fine with complaints about bad business behavior, but that's not what I'm seeing.
So has almost every other statistic... if you singled out every other factor such as internet access, technological advancements, health care, medicine and just gave people meat as a substitute for all of that do you think that would suddenly increase their life expectancy by 50%?
I'm skeptical of all of it.

On the one hand, the medical industry is tied so closely to government that they are even granted immunity for FDA approved treatments. A policy which basically assumes nobody makes mistakes.

They have made the requirements to bring a drug to market so onerous that only the very largest companies can afford it.

The regulatory infrastructure is heavily influenced by non-medical industry industries, such as the alcohol industry's non-stop lobbying to make and keep cannabis a schedule 1 drug.

This all stinks so badly my default position is to hardly trust anything coming from the establishment.

Anyone trying to make claims outside of establishment channels is generally a near lone voice that may or may not understand what they are talking about. Gauging their claims becomes very difficult as often it is not even legal for others to test their claims. I would basically have to become an expert, myself, to actually understand either side of a claim.

To make matters worse, everyone in the world is now an independent expert everywhere on everything and they can insert themselves into every conversation. I find most commonly people outside the U.S. commenting on things inside the U.S. while clearly not having one clue about how the government activities make the whole thing look and smell like a waste treatment facility.

Then people come up with the stupid terms, such as "anti-vaxxers". This term is now used against people who simply believe the government has no power force people to receive injections. Government forcing this kind of thing is going to get a bunch of people really screwed up and killed, largely because nobody anywhere in the process is ever close to being individually accountable (e.g., if somehow a court rules in favor of the harmed parties, they just get paid from tax dollars, not corporate profits, corporate assets, individual assets, and certainly no jail time for anyone).

Edit to add:

I remember reading the following quote from a parent who chose chemo for their daughter:

"We basically tortured her for two years and then she died."

It's a very different take, but it's real.
> Listening to that old Steve Jobs interview where he talks about Microsoft

It's appropriate for Steve Jobs to talk about Microsoft, because they were competitors, out in the arena. Steve Jobs himself is famous. So this a different situation than the classic hater scenario, where a person of no fame attacks a person of some fame. Still, maybe Steve sounds like a sore loser, which is basically what Paul Graham said that haters are.

But I watched and listened to Steve Jobs a lot, and I read his biography. And he reminds me of myself, although outwardly I am polite and back down in debates. Basically Steve Jobs says what I think. I like minimalism and simplicity and perfection and beauty. Steve Jobs was rich, but you have to admit he was different than your average mediocre rich executive. I think he was motivated by beauty more than wealth, as am I.

Furthermore, Microsoft is the antithesis of all my values. Whereas I would spend too much time and money to make things perfect, they would cut corners to make more money. I hoped for my product to gain fame by merit, Microsoft relied on advertising and business tactics to run everyone else out of town.

And so my takeaway of Steve Jobs is just what you would think: Thank you for saying what I was feeling! I think he hated Microsoft, but not because he cared about money or fame but because it frustrated his attempts to spread beauty and perfection everywhere. (Lest that sounds way too nice, I would qualify it by saying that someone can pursue beauty selfishly, at the expense of the people around you.)

DISCLAIMER: I'm a fanboy of Steve Jobs.
I don't know what your models are doing, but if you look at e.g. a ten year old Ford Focus, the original price was somewhere around $17,000. With only one mile on it the bluebook is now around $3800, with 120,000 miles it's around $1800. Which implies that being ten years old accounts for something north of $13,000 of deprecation and adding 120,000 miles accounts for only $2000 more.

That may be different for cars bought after they've already suffered most of the age-related depreciation they ever will, but in that case there is only modest depreciation in either event because the car can't lose much value to depreciation if it was already not worth very much when you bought it.
I am happy with Cloudflare, Namecheap, Dynadot & Hexonet.
The NHS does seem to force doctors to follow security rules. But we have a different problem where the government thinks it owns my data and has the right to sell it.
That's not what OP said at all.

Apple _forces_ you to make proprietary changes to your application (and doesn't allow you to publish the source code of that modification). There is no way to have both a GPL-compliant app and have it on the app store at the same time.
Having been through the court system twice, from experience I've seen dockets arranged so that more severe cases are saved for last, and cases with a quick disposition (like probation or fine) are taken care of first.

Edit: This allows the law officials to remove offenders faster from the courtroom.
That's a false dichotomy: It isn't "Science has been wrong before, so anything is possible" (https://theconversation.com/the-thinking-error-at-the-root-o...)

There are degrees of "wrongness" or likelihood. Pseudo-sciences exists practically as long as there have been sciences. With no evidence, and not for lack of trying. People really like to believe in that stuff. But with that track-record, it is on the rather wrong end of wrongness. Might be true, but on the likelihood of the Flying Spaghetti Monster. But, yes, a reproducible experiment by an independent party would be the way to go,

On the other hand, the discovery of existence of high temperature superconductors while certainly baffling and had people scrambling to explain it, is exactly how science works.
It was not completely out of the blue, we had a reasonable understanding of electromagnetism. But that "detail" didn't fit. It was just one more puzzle to solve, and it didn't invalidate everything we knew before.
Also, there were gradual steps of increases of temperature of achieving high temperature supra conductivity. So, not "theoretically impossible", but rather "practically rather unlikely". A different ball-park then ghosts and visions.

The healthy skepticism to high temperature supra-conductivity (and low temperature fusion) comes from the mantra "extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence" (Sagan), and a lot of pseudo-science people came with the claims for supra-conductivity but without the evidence.
If you had a serious disease that was going to kill you quickly you wouldn't have time to look into alternative treatments. You would take the path of highest success rate, which in case you havent looked at the data, is chemo for many aggressive cancers.
I think the Stratechery article on the acquisition is paywalled, but I liked his explanation that while paypal positions this as a consumer play, its about the demand gen value they could create for paypal merchants. Amazon's opposition seems to align with this thesis.
In fairness to Jobs, he would have known that the surgery was very invasive, came with significant side effects that would reduce his quality of life, while probably only buying time for a disease that would likely end up being terminal.

A difficult decision for anyone, no matter how rationally you look at it.
DF is not commercial yet. Partial list of successful roguelikes with ascii:

- rogue
- (net)hack
- moria, angband, etc
I have talked to cancer patients and treatment really violates people. You go through endless tests, get treatments with horrific side effects and basically are just treated like an object. I have heard several times that they wanted to stop treatment just because it was such a terrible experience physically and psychologically. Not sure how to do better but it’s understandable.
Chemo truthing is not about QoL though. QoL has very much been a concern and debate of mainstream medical ethics over the last decade or so (at least).
You joined the conversation. I mentioned another user. I quickly looked at your account once you became indignant. I scanned your last submissions page and saw you’re karma farming too and picked out the most egregious submission.

I didn’t say it wasn’t ok. I’m sure I do it occasionally.

I’m waiting for the first person to write a karma farming AI. Take great stories, determine a decay time, then repost.

“HN Karma Farming with Deep Learning (in Rust)”
Yes, his definition of "hater" seems to be "a person who always disagrees with him or questions his success", whereas occasional disagreement just carries the "troll" label.

It is not very clever to write an essay like this in the abstract without naming concrete instances of "hating".

If the essay targets certain political activists on Twitter, sure, but pg has a history of calling Arc critics "trolls".
> If I had a serious disease I would probably also look into alternative treatments (In Addition to the usual options) because I think most doctors have a very narrow view on things. What bugs me for example is the focus on fixing things vs preventing. Doctors should put much more effort into to promoting healthy lifestyles than they do now.

My understanding is that doctors receive zero nutrition training, including ones that graduate from Harvard. How they can the be the ones we look to for preventing illness, when they don't even have a baseline understanding of nutrition?
If he’s paying 20x multiples versus 10x multiples than that is exactly what is happening.

His investors take all the risk on trying to make a return on that investment, the songwriter gets paid double up front.
(Brobdingnagian)

Edit: or maybe Brobdingragian, as Swift said the publishers actually misspelled it.
Wait so they own Goodreads and AbeBooks, that is not right.
> On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity.

Given the amount of discussion in this thread, I dare say it qualifies as interesting to a fair number of people here.
thanks, -1 for my hypothesis. Well not totally, the fact that the original English word is used (instead of a Dutch one) is also telling.
Launch day for TEAMS.gg – a tech retrospective from a solo engineer
What a brilliant idea. I wonder if the same method would be applicable for growing rice in dry areas?
Sure. And the pleasure you would get out of this would depend in part on your skill in the relevant medium.

But I think there's a significant difference: with music, as you play it, you are also experiencing ("consuming") it. And that's what also brings a lot of the pleasure to it.

With writing and videography, meanwhile, the act of production is usually a lot more decoupled from the experience of consumption. I happen to think that producing writing and producing video are also fun activities in their own right. But they don't fit into social life in the way that playing someone a song does.
> It'd be interesting to be at least able to license most pop music from one place

Didn't Spotify do that already?
For people who don’t understand what he’s talking about, this is a reference to Lambda School. In the last few weeks, folks have been coming out of the woodwork with stories of illegal, negligent, and abusive behavior.

https://twitter.com/brokenimageheap/status/12132089537542021...
It’s not always like that. A lot of this stuff goes on for years and several rounds of treatment.
Yeah, users get their discount codes and Honey gets money from the shops who gave discount code away, then got $4B acquisition. Sounds not right, too sweet to be real.
I think you said it better than I did!
Shallow piece. Tl;dr: haters gonna hate.
This doesn't bother me one bit. I think he's making a mistake though.

Taylor Swift, Timbaland, and Bruno Mars are all arguably homogenous music made by marketing groups for middle American focus groups. They are endlessly replaceable, rather forgettable, artists and will be lost to history by the 'next big thing' that sounds just like it or very similar in a year or two. It has more in common with pop fashion than originally expressive art.

Music made by marketers for middle America focus groups commodifies music so that the next thing can easily replace the current thing.

Who remembers blaque, or 3LW, or All-4-One or the train is boy and girl bands from the past?

This is just the music business cannibalizing itself.

Truly expressive, original, personal, music will always be timeless in my opinion, because its irreplaceable, the style is non reproducible, and it's pretty much unexplainable how it's created.even by the artist...see led zepp, Beatles, Billy Corgan, Mozart, etc. etc.

That's my thoughts and what music I think what he should be focusing on.
He's not really trying to buy everything:

> “We turn down 70% of what’s offered to us, and oftentimes we make the first move in finding writers whose catalogs aren’t publicly for sale,” he says.

> Ultimately, his goal with Hipgnosis — which went public on the London Stock Exchange in June 2018 — is to own 15% to 20% of the overall publishing market.

That's more like someone buying up the silver mining rights across large but carefully picked swathes of land. Then he rents those rights to miners for a fee he can use to buy even more mining rights.
Do you have one encrypted file with all the codes, or do you have one file per code?

I prefer one file per code. When I get a new code, I make a directory named after the account the code is for, save a screenshot of the QR code in there, save a text file with the text version of of the code and any one-time recovery codes the site provided. I then make a .zip for .tgz from that directory, encrypt that, and save a copy in the cloud and locally. The local copy is in a location that is included in offsite backups.

If you use one file per code, I'd recommend using a public key system for the encryption. That way you don't have to enter any secrets to encrypt a new code. You only enter anything secret when decrypting.

This has a few advantages.

1. Less chance of accidentally exposing the key.

2. If like most people you use the same key for all the files, no chance of unknowingly mistyping the key resulting in a file that you cannot decrypt later.

3. If you need to recover a code, you only need to decrypt that code.

If as you suggest you wrap this in shell scripts, you can address #2 there. Have a reference file encrypted with your symmetric key. For encryption, the script can ask for your key and verify it was typed correctly by using it to decrypt the reference file.

Also worth considering is using an encrypted disk image. I believe that all major desktop operating systems provide reasonably easy ways to create, mount, and dismount such volumes. Whether you use one file per code or all codes in one file, the file or files can live on an encrypted volume that you only mount when you are saving a new code or recovering an old code.

The advantage of that is that there is no need to use any arcane commands or install any extra software.
But somehow they still claim to be the guardians of our health.
It may seem so, but I’ve done security consulting work for 10+ of the largest hospital chains and insurance providers in the country and I can assure you it isn’t an exception. Doctors don’t care about HIPAA (“that’s legal’s job”). They don’t care about the company’s finances (unless it’s a small private practice, “that’s the accountant’s job”).

Some of the complexity is caused by the software itself being complex, yes, but that’s not what I’m talking about. In every organization I have worked with, doctors were always the biggest obstacle to even doing something as simple as requiring them to carry around a badge for physical access to the building. As a group, they are very resistant to anything that might add an extra step to their workflow. And yes, everyone hates and is resistant to stuff being added to their workflow, but I find most people are amenable to it as long as it’s a small interruption and it’s for a good reason (security). Doctors generally don’t have that attitude, though.
"The sheer cliffs of the small island of Okinoshima rise abruptly out of the sea some 40 miles off the coast of the Japanese island of Kyushu. Okinoshima’s sole resident is a Shinto priest who serves as the caretaker of small wooden shrines built among huge boulders on its southern half."

For an instant, I thought the article was referring to Luke Skywalker.
There is ZOTAC Magnus that is slightly larger and features everything from 1060 to 2080 for gamers.
> haters are just fanboys with the sign bit flipped makes it much easier to deal with them. ... The most important [technique] is simply not to think much about them.

this reads like a justification for ignoring criticism by attributing the criticizing party to being a hater.
cogmind has done pretty well even if a bit niche. not pure ascii but pretty close, like df. really excellent game, as well.