skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Realizing it's too much and being brought to your knees are usually two different times.

"Realizing it" happens gradually after an established pattern of behavior. Usually, years. You're like, I seem to drink a lot more than everyone else and maybe that's not good. Eventually other problems kick in like sleep issues, anxiety, possibly weight gain - and the solution is always drinking because you stop worrying about it, or can at least say "well this is one of the last times." You realize that this is a bigger issue and then decide to stop, but something inevitably draws you back in. There's always something. And since you slipped back in, you somehow find your way to drinking as much or even more than you did. And then you realize the issue is even bigger - you've established a pattern of trying to stop and it never sticks, no matter how sincere you were in that moment of decision. No matter how much you poured down the drain. No matter how much you know that being sober is actually the good life and that your problems are much easier managed when staying away from drinking.

And after many attempts of this, trying and failing, but probably knowing that deep down there's a part of you that doesn't want to stop, you hit a point where you feel the worst you've ever felt in your life, hurt someone, or instigated another serious problem. And if you're honest, you know where it all started.

Then you are on your knees. Some people try to fix the problem themselves in earnest, some seek help, some stay in the cycle and break out down the road, and some stay in until the (statistically early) end.
Google Tricorder: Building a Program Analysis Ecosystem (2015) [pdf]
Swift with optional and optional chaining. [1]

[1] https://docs.swift.org/swift-book/LanguageGuide/OptionalChai...
The gratuitous use of unnecessarily gendered language (all male pronouns, "less than a man") in this article was grating and annoying.
It’s worth noting that OpenWRT doesn’t just run on “embedded”/“dedicated” OEM router hardware: it works great on any x86-based system (often sold as “pfSense” boxes, etc.) as well and offers a lot of great functionality.
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You're taking two sentences out of context here. pg's main point is that haters are just fanboys with the sign flipped, whereas your critique seems to just hone in on the two least politically-correct sounding sentences. Both sentences could have be massaged to be more PC but less direct, and the original thesis would still stand.

Your point seems to be though that we need to understand haters more (and if pg's thesis is correct, fanboys). I agree that as social planners, we do need to see why they arise, what their background is, and how social media amplifies it. But that's a big topic and pg doesn't even claim to address that.

By analogy, when you are being attacked by a hater, like many famous people, I don't think social planning is your first order response. Much like if someone were to hold you up with a gun, your immediate response wouldn't be a reflection of the societal conditions of the assailant.

Also, I'm curious whether you'd think this post would be equally toxic if pg only addressed fanboys: "Some fans slavishly love you. It's probably best to ignore them." Is that toxic? Does that generate a similar call-to-action to see why some people are so uncritical?
It's extremely hard to maintain car sized superposition for 8 hours.

The devise itself can be huge, mostly because it's cooled, but the actual quantum state inside is just tiny chip.
On that topic, a tool named f3 exists to test the capacity of that flash drive/card you just bought from Amazon.

https://github.com/AltraMayor/f3/
It's not about being given things. It's about earning them, earnestly.
Define sensitive data.

One of the challenges is that just deleting a name, say, doesn't necessarily fully anonymize a medical record/image. In general, I actually agree with you but anonymization/privacy is a challenging problem.
In what way did your personality change?
As another illustration: that is enough paracetamol to reliably kill a quarter of the human population on earth.
> Rust seems to be the only one that mostly circumvents this problem.

The Rust hype is getting ridiculous here. There are plenty of languages with non-nullable references as first-class, and optionals for the nullable case.

(...And I say this as a Rust fan myself, for what it's worth.)
That is the entire point, they are not "Ubers drivers", that is what most people do not want to accept

You are hiring a contractor to pick you up, and drop you off, not a "uber driver"

This is no different than going to Angie's List to find a Contractor to fix your broken pipe

Now Uber has been attempting to talk out of both sides of their mouths on this topic, but I find it hard to believe people do not understand the reality here.

Maybe I have too much faith in the intelligence of people
These emails are good. They’re only Bad for Boeing. 346 people are dead.

The result of this, unfortunately, is probably going to be management at Boeing and elsewhere to step up corporate email monitoring and in a visible way so that employees will know they are being monitored and punished for documenting it.

Employees will have to resort to non corporate communications, used off hours, with a kill cord.
They focus on visible security more than actually securing things. Example: making it very hard for a user to log into a system “because of security “ but not using security certificates to secure their email servers.
https://www.themattressunderground.com/mattress-forum.html

That’s how i found a mattress that is still like new after 6 years of usage (and I’m extremely satisfied). And no, none of the “big” brand.

Here a rule of thumbs, avoiding a brand that start by “s” is already a good start. Then there is a few more to filter out.
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“Some age” doing a lot of work here. Yeomen in 14th Century England who made it to 20 years old still had a life expectancy of just 48-52 (depending on when in the century).

Source: https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/standards-of-living-in-...

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For now I'd be happy if techcrunch was blocked so people had to submit other sources.

I've not been able to find a way to read content on that domain for months now.

Edit:

PS: unlike many here I've little against ads as long as they aren't tracking me, but the "consent screen" on techcrunch is less "consent" and more "strongarm".

PPS: as others are mentioning it seems the whole thing seems to be compliance theater since they seem to set a tracking cookie before even displaying the consent screen :-/
Some people feel one’s essence is fundamentally different from one’s body, including the brain as part of the body. Not saying I support this notion, but to brush it aside as stupid or unjustified seems a bit hasty in view of the huge literature behind these issues. Moreover, doesn’t the notion of reincarnation in some parts of the Eastern world show it’s not restricted to Western culture? I’m sure there plenty more such notions outside the West.
Under funded...just like the IRS.
Wait, in the second case you can or can not force them to take medication against their will?
Metabolism. How the chemistry of your body interacts with itself.

I know for sure I have 'episodes' when I've got acid in the wrong parts of the gut. I also 'feel' the stages of stool composition, and there are definitely relics of unhealthy eating in my mood swings.

One thing though, is I never take pharmaceuticals, as I wish my body to be a picture of my life balance, which I believe are two separate realms completely (body/life). Instead I do everything I can to eat well, and give my body the sport it needs. This isn't easy, but everyone's got their own body, and its own needs. If you pay attention, it'll tell you what it needs.

The brain, or at least my brain, is a nice soft spongy joystick for controlling the rest of it. It feels good to throw around a bit, but you gotta take care of what its attached to, as well. A good day in the surf is how I charge my mind up, anyhoo...
i believe we are talking about different things. my point is certain markers are easier to test for and more objective than others.
Seems straightforward, all these phone companies have endless kiosks and offices. Legislate that a phone number can only be transferred by making a confirmation call to the old phone or in-person with a salesperson who is checking ID.
Usually nauseatingly so, at least in my unfortunate court-ordered brush with the organization.
Love of life is not the same as fear of death. If the latter is what drives the search for longevity then it will never be enough. So long as longevity isn't used to find peace with life and death, and transcend our limited perspective on life then I see it as just a frantic attempt to delay the inevitable. Resisting death at 150 will be just as painful as resisting it at any other age. If on the other hand it will give people more time to gain wisdom and perspective on what life is about then that's a whole different story.
Related: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Security_theater
I past 30 now. Most of my friends are managers but I love building things and chose to be an IC.

I think tech is very fast paced. You gotta constantly be learning. Terraform, k8s, docker, rust, js frameworks, other language paradigms, deeplearning etc

It’s a lot to learn on your own.

Places you interview may ask “have you used React / Some X tool”, the best response you can give is “yes, I’ve dabbled myself and built X prototype”. Or for core things “yes, I’ve had my fair share of experiences and contributed Y to their open source repos”
The gross margin of manufactured consumer goods with lots of competition isn't usually 50٪. But you're right marketing is needed to maintain it. I'm stunned by the high general and administrative costs.
I remember tracking down the null silent message failure issue in the early 1990s on NextStep. Then again almost 2 decades later on the iPhone. Personally, I’m not a fan of silent failures.

IMHO, allowing for non-nullable variables is a huge improvement in language design. Adding boilerplate annotations is an ugly way to handle it. Optimize for the common case and make variables non-nullable by default.
I'll wager it was a beta blocker.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beta_blocker#Anxiety
I'm with you in that these tools are incomplete and insufficiently abstract - what would you like instead? Just a sufficiently robust GUI or CLI surface area?
Re: blood pressure meds; this is common knowledge. Look at beta blockers; they're commonly used for people with presentation anxiety for e.g. exams. Some people can barely speak without taking them.
> this is also the case for their online banking Apps, but you can just use their website instead.

...unless their website also has 2FA, and relies on an Android/Apple app for auth. Or you pay them money to lug around a USB device for 2FA.

For both people who have dumbphones or run custom ROMs, despite the security risks, there should still be an SMS-2FA option.
i can upvote you for 40$ /s
Everything in Python is a reference, and there's no null pointer issues.
Not only is transport security mostly lacking in DICOM, but there is little to no notion of access control for records. And I'm not just talking DICOM, but the apps themselves. It's no surprise though, when the DICOM standard has sections like this:

The DICOM Standard does not address issues of security policies, though clearly adherence to appropriate security policies is necessary for any level of security. The Standard only provides mechanisms that could be used to implement security policies with regard to the interchange of DICOM objects between Application Entities. For example, a security policy may dictate some level of access control. This Standard does not consider access control policies, but does provide the technological means for the Application Entities involved to exchange sufficient information to implement access control policies.

http://dicom.nema.org/medical/dicom/current/output/html/part...

The original DICOM TCP protocol requires that every device connected use an encrypted tunnel, and it's not easy to get all the device venders to agree on which ones to use, and then update their software. DICOM Web Services are a thing, and at least they would get HTTPS basically for free from their choice of web client and server.

HIPAA has been out since the 90's so we need to get more fines against the providers to make them implement confidentiality and access controls. It's actually the GDPR which is now driving access controls rather than HIPAA.

To be fair though, the DICOM folks are busy constantly trying to standardize new image data coming from innovations in the modalities (scanners).
Yes, lock-in is a big problem we have with Onenote in my company, since Microsoft decided not to offer offline notes anymore. Lots of people have their notes locked-in that format and we cannot store that data on a third party server.
Well yeah internet is full of bots scanning for vulnerabilities, nothing new here. Am I missing the point of this post?
in languages like c, rust or go, where you can put arbitrary data on the stack, it seems to me as if such issues are less common because you dont have to worry about initializing pointers and allocating memory unless you actually want to put something on the heap. Thus if you make everything a reference in your language its no wonder you run into issues like null-pointers more often
I’m sure they did. All of Baremetrics lawyers and investors know who it is. Investor circles are small - word gets around. Same with lawyers. The number of times I’ve heard “yeah, we know those guys, I wouldn’t recommend working with them” in board meetings is high.
Embedded hardware isn't difficult with today's SoCs. Manufacturing is easy when using expertise centers in Asia. I expect a write-up on HN of how easy it is to create a similar product before the end of the year, which will cover everything from electronics to injection molding to manufacturing.

If this trend continues we're doomed.
The argument has pretty much nothing to do with dynamic languages.

Single file dependencies are getting more and more popular because integrating with build systems is a major pain, particularly in static languages like C and C++, but also in the mess that is modern Javascript.

Some languages do manage to do this better than others, but the type system has nothing to do with it.

Lastly, having one single statically-linked binary isn't the norm even for static languages.
pfSense is a completely different product and not related to OpenWrt at all. It even isn't based on Linux, but on FreeBSD.
That statistic isn’t even adjusted for population increase?
Sure, that is definitely a justification one can use. My point is that you need some reference point to compare your own behavior with. There are some people that should have never started drinking in the first place. That I agree with. It's a nexus of genetics and environment. A lot of it is influenced by cultural norms.
The most interesting trend in alcohol of late is that a lot more of the abuse is coming from women than has historically been the case. Endless mimosa and bloody mary brunches and drinking a bottle or two of wine every night seems to be the main punctuation in the lives of most 20-something professional women that I know.
I used the Ashton Manual to get off benzos. https://www.benzoinfo.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/Ashton-... It's probably best to find a doctor too who specializes in getting people off the stuff. It's worth trying, and it may take years to do it, but it's worth it in the long term.
I generally agree but I'm heading back from a trip to Russia and I was surprised by how good Keenetic's [0] equipment was. It's a brand that apparently only operates in Russia, Ukraine and Turkey.

I was impressed because of how clean and workable the stock web UI is, as well as how many features it has. They have some of the more obscure normal things like IGMP proxying (with a very user-friendly UI for configuring it) but what really impressed me was that it even had WireGuard support as an official installable package.

I'll stick with my UBNT gear at home but still, for a consumer brand Keenetic is pretty nice.

[0]: https://keenetic.com/global
Not sure why this is comment is being downvoted. This is literally the point Uber is trying to make. They are a platform to connect drivers with passengers.
Free markets push everything to the level of just bearable. Bad, but not quite bad enough not to use a service you rely on. Seats are tight, just not tight enough to make people in general seriously consider to not fly because of that. Food is bad, just not bad enough for people not to eat it.
>>Contractor or not, if a driver agreed to drive for Uber, then they tacitly agreed to drive to any destination in their set range. I think that's fair.

This is a difference of how people view the platforms, I dont believe that is either fair or correct.

If I sign up for say a Freelancing site that offers a wide range of services I have not "tacitly agreed to" offer every service the site offers, I have not "tacitly agreed to" do the same thing that everyone else on the site offers

That is what uber is a Freelance Driver site, where a customer can select a Driver to perform a service (take me from a to b), just like when I take a Freelance programming job I have (and uber drivers should also have) the ability to set the terms of who they accept as clients, and where they want to go

That is the very nature of Freelance work.

A Taxi Service however would be different, as it would be if Uber was a "Car Service" that employs the drivers directly, and to be clear there are Car Services out there with company employed drivers they are $$$ but they exist
You are what you eat? But this is no different than hard drugs
So you've apparently just proven that no discrimination exists in the business world. South Africa's native population was just too stupid to work any job, until Nelson Mandela was freed, instantly improving their skills to make them eligible for employment.

Nobody would forgo a good bread, so Germans writing "Germans don't buy from jews" on bakery windows were just making the case that the bread had, within a few years, become intolerable. Hollywood studios stopped hiring communists because communists just aren't very funny. etc...
Yes but you are not a traditional Private Equity if I understand correctly.
OpenWRT has communication problems. Sometime ago I tried to report a bug in the build system. It took them about two weeks to recognize that there's indeed a problem and went over like this:

/me: Bug in the build system. This is how to reproduce.

/they: Bug in Linux kernel. Not our problem.

/they: Bug is closed, upstream issue.

/me: No, toolchain bug. Here is proof.

/they: need logs

/me: here's logs

/me: here's a clumsy fix

/they: that's so stupid

/they: and your linux installation is broken

/me: no it's not, see here, working as intended

/they: you don't understand cross-compiling

/me: look here, you are setting up the cross-compilation all wrong

/they: kernel bug, fixed upstream

/me: not that again

/me: here's build logs, cross-compilation issue

/they: you are stupid, your linux installation is broken

/me: linux installation is just fine, but you are relying on a debian-ism

/me: here's patch

/they: ok, send to mailing list for review

/they: IRC says patch stupid

/they: we've merged our patch

They really need to work on being not hostile and clannish. Never had any issue on other mailing lists, and those weren't the Kumbaya-required kind with a code of conduct.
Architecture of photoreceptor PDE6 elucidates mechanism of visual excitation
An odd line from the article, wherein it states that security researchers don’t blame vendors, but the physicians and hospitals that fail to properly secure the software.

I have never, in all my years of working in healthcare, seen a hospital or physicians office directly install and manage PACS. They pay a third-party - usually the vendor - to install, configure, and walk them through it. Maybe a behemoth system like Northwell has the IT bench to do it themselves, but that would be the exception.

So allow me to rephrase slightly: “technologically inept organization pays vendor to make machine go vroom. Vendor leaves keys in ignition. Damn that technologically inept organization.”

To take a 10,000-foot view of the situation, though:

Healthcare-related technologically was largely pushed on the industry via legislation. Said legislation was almost entirely stick, no carrot. The result was healthcare organizations with a gun to their head to buy from a handful of vendors, with no real ROI to be seen from it - aka, the government outsourcing its costs to private industry, and throwing pork to some major health IT firms along the way. When a technology is forced on you at a loss, from a vendor with little incentive to optimize ease of use or utility, you get a terrible piece of shit that no one wants to invest more time and money into than absolutely needed. That’s going to show itself in a myriad of ways.
Drummond is black. I'm not one for political correctness, but there is pretty conclusive evidence that a lot of non-blacks people think black people give off creepy vibes. The in-group favoritism bias is a very real thing and it is very reasonable that it manifests as a vague unsubstantiated feeling.

Somebody saying they ran into him at a coffee shop and got what amounts to a feeling of bad vibes is literally not evidence or conformation of anything about the man's character. It is quite likely to be run of the mill background racism. We know nothing about the commentator, nothing about the situation. And it looks like the standard outcome of racism. Even if it isn't the commentator can do a lot better than that with minimal effort. Now if there were any evidence of any kind proffered that would be a different story. You are fabricating some notion of some sort of 'active ... disdain' here that isn't mentioned in the objectionable comment. If they don't mean unsubstantiated they shouldn't be saying unsubstantiated. They should be substantiating their claim.

The standard should be higher than that comment.
Dreidel: A Seemingly Foolish Game That Contains the Moral World in Miniature
I an supprised that there could be much controversy over Roman sewers. There are preserved Roman streets across Europe and the sewers still exist today for us to inspect. The physical evidence is there in hundreds of sites. Of course their standards of cleanliness were different than ours. They had a system of collecting urine from each home so laundry services could wash clothes in pee! (It was a good source of ammonia.)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanitation_in_ancient_Rome
Hinduism (Vedism) and Zoroastrianism purportedly share the same roots and have many similar rituals of fire & nature worship. Interestingly the Yazidis (made famous by the persecution by ISIS) also have very similar customs.