skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’ve been working in this space for a while now, and this still blows my mind. Patient-reported data is noisy, doctor’s notes infamously confusing and inconsistent in formatting. Even fields you can pull from the health system’s EHR directly will be in disparate formats across different hospitals, or even different departments.

It would be easy to say it all should be standardized (and it should, for the most part), but workflow considerations keep standards from being adopted. What a data standard for oncology data would look like is very different from what one developed for ophthalmology. Not to mention UX - if you’re a doctor seeing 20 patients a day, an extra 15 minutes of data entry per patient could bring that number down to 15 patients or less. UX and data standards really does have a direct link to patient outcomes in healthcare!
> publishing scientific results actually required a dedicated industry (typesetting, printing, distributing)

I’d say that many scholars still want that dedicated industry. Everyone appreciates having a proofreader and editor who is trained in the subject, but now working full-time professionally in editing services, so that this burden doesn’t fall on actual scholars who are already overworked. And in many fields high-quality typesetting is still appreciated (and a quick visual way to distinguish reputable publications from less reputable ones).

The complaint is that mercenary publishers like Springer and Elsevier aren’t even providing that industry any more. They no longer provide proofreading, cutglass typesetting, and all the other benefits which, once upon a time, they used to convince learned societies to hand the running of the journals over to them. Instead, the big publishers put all the grunt work onto the scholarly community and they simply expect authors to simply provide a camera-ready .doc or PDF for publication. These for-profit publishers simply collect charges without providing any value.
Yes, those protocols would be available to any cell phone in the world and old devices to the same extent as any other legally-mandated protocol would be.

For example, if government can order than Nokia release a privacy-harming contract-tracing feature, then the government can instead order that Nokia release a privacy-enhanced version based on the Google-Apple protocols instead (or any other better protocols people have developed).

It would be more effective for the pandemic too, because you want maximum interoperability.

And it would be more effective for the pandemic because you will get better compliance too. If people know they are 100% tracked with full transparency they are more motivated to find ways to cheat, especially when doing something "disapproved" (like seeing your secret lover), which is not good for countering the pandemic. People will definitely find ways to cheat the tracing if they are motivated.
The software was written in Forth language and at a time when there was no memory protection.
No disagree! https://kobol.io/ looked interesting. I'm unaffiliated.
"It's perfect!" she gushed. "You managed to capture my essence with one stroke, in one moment. Thank you! How much do I owe you?"

"Five thousand dollars," the artist replied.

"But, what?" the woman sputtered. "How could you want so much money for this picture? It only took you a second to draw it!"

To which Picasso responded, "Madame, it took me my entire life."
Infinite scroll is great when you're trying to kill time. When you're actually trying to get shit done it's a walking nightmare.

Scroll to the end before you can do a text search. Aaaargh!
Ask HN: Looking for Interactive Online Mindmap
1. Interactive mindmap
2. Ideally just a static pages or self-hosted
3. Or can be shared online with others.
3. Ideally understand format exported from xmind, or some other mind map softwares.
Stability and predictability of the core OS. But then everyone uses EPEL for everything else which throws that all out the window.
You and I agree. Unfortunately most large corporations, and US Government agencies like to be able to see and inspect network traffic. Mostly to prevent the theft of confidential data. The fact that the MITM proxies hoover up passwords and auth cookies still bothers me quite a bit.
This is actually a little bit emotional to see line numbers, gosubs and gotos. Throws me back to wee old me in the 80s, hacking along on my VIC 20 before I even had a grasp of English.
Theranos Would Be Thriving in the Covid-19 Era
There’s certainly a large degree of chance involved in bringing a new drug to market but I read the closing comment of antipaul’s post to mean that it is the amount of human labour and other resources required to have that chance of success is magnitudes greater than that involved in building a tech startup.
Almost as sad as passive aggressive internet comments. The implication that you are only a true parent if you home school or send to private school is laughable.

Do you grow all of the food your child eats? It’s truly sad how many parents wash their hands of raising their children by feeding them something someone else grew or made.

Do you diagnose your children’s illnesses? It’s truly sad how many parents wash their hands of raising their children by passing them off to some stranger to be healed.

Do you teach your children to call the police or fire? It’s truly sad how many parents wash their hands of raising their children by passing them off to police and fire in emergencies.
> The landlord's costs go up, too.

Not if you've owned the place for a long time and seen rent and value appreciation.
Thanks! Will fix the images. Promise.

Imposter syndrome. I feel it all the time as a programmer. But I don't if it's a necessarily bad state. Doesn't it matter how we relate to it? This is my view. Only if we give in, and don't try because we feel imposters it's a bad state. I am not saying it's a good state, but still - it's a state that can very productive! Well, another discussion... but it's a very interesting one.
I have and my point stands.

Again, the point is not just to send a text to people. The point is for the authorities to get the people's details in order to enforce a public health procedure from testing to self-isolation, as well as getting epidemiological data.

The libertarian utopia does not work at all in such a situation.

I mentioned Korea and Taiwan. You could read up about it...
Ask HN: Examples of sole founder without capital founding a successful startup?
I've been working on a start-up alone for half a year now. I have very limited capital and unless I get a loan or something it will only make sense to start hiring after I have secured seed investment.

And things ain't going great. Burnouts happened much easier than I initially expected. I got a chance to pitch to some investors and screwed it up.

I have been thinking whether I've cornered myself into a unbeatable game here. Perhaps I should get back to work, save up, and do start-up again when I have enough capital to hire people without outside investment, or at least do it with a co-founder.

So I'm wondering: what are some examples of sole founder without captial founding a successful startup?
If the site's yours, add a setting for button text color or automatically flip the text color to black if the the color goes too light.
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/898489/what-programming-...

Most languages have context-free syntax, which is what the article refers too. There really is no reason to sacrifice that. Even modern PHP recognises the value of having a parse tree independent of an entire compiler.

Context-free semantics is an entirely different matter, and I'm not even sure what it'd mean...
You’re confusing static with serverless.

Your content is indeed static but your search is not: It’s handled by a service that parses your requests and produces output.

Static content on the other hand are files being served straight from the filesystem.

As for Disqus, they’re not static either, they’re just “a service for static websites”
>After an interview in 2017 went poorly — mostly due to me floundering at the more difficult SQL questions they asked me

Could be you dodged a bullet. A company with advanced interview questions may have some ugly SQL code. For jobs that lean heavily on SQL, I expect candidates to know things like windowing & dynamic variables, in SQL & an ORM library. For SWE's, I feel basic SQL is fine.
Powerful House committee demands Jeff Bezos testify after ‘misleading’
And you are naively thinking that all workers are registered in the government database.
Ultimately most modern cars are fairly reliable, however apples to apples Nissan has the worst CVT transmission out of all the Japanese automakers. Even Subaru overcame their CVT transmission issues eventually. If Nissan has done anything to fix it we'll have to wait till the 2017+ cars get up in their miles to find out.

That bad reputation is the reason used Nissans go so cheap these days.
What episode is the lab grown statement from?
Actually most of these corporations have plenty of controls on their networks preventing the random plugging in of devices into networks. Most of the time they are using something that involves 802.1X.
1. This is a fair point right now but it is only temporary. There's a SAFE Network App which will be the key to the network, providing a single point of contact, installing other things, seeing up a vault if you want to farm, create a wallet, updates etc. Most people will just download that and go from there.

2. Is also a reasonable point to make, but the nature of the goals here means it has to do a lot more than just sit on top of the existing protocols. It's a secure, decentralised, autonomous network/platform, which needs to be built from the ground up in order to solve the many problems we have with the existing web.

I'm not sure what you mean by monolithic. The ideas are new and can take a while to grasp but it's worth it.

3. The community have had long discussions about this so many will agree with you. But the best response I've heard to this point was from Tim Berners-Lee when he and David Irvine were at the Decentralised Web Summit in 2018. Someone said something similar to your point 3 to David and Tim jumped in and answered that it wasn't necessary by saying: and what was the killer app when I invented the web? Or something along those lines.

I'm not dismissing your point and many of us aren trying to come up with ideas for such killer apps.

Personally I suspect we already have some - take a look at the SAFE fundamentals for example. But it may well be something nobody anticipated. It's fun thinking them up though :-)
There's a difference between working from home and working in your home office.
Apparently, you don’t understand how everything works, and how everything is tied together.

What the Fed is doing, and what they have done for the past 13 years, had significant ramifications across the board.

Like, have you noticed your rent increase? While your salary remained stagnant? This is the result of the Fed. They have distorted all markets for everyone. This is the hidden inflation for everyone, that the government refuses to acknowledge.
New Spanner features – local emulator, query optimizer, foreign keys, C++ client
ACAI 2020
Remember the era when people couldn't figure out how to make footers work with infinite scroll? Even Facebook messed it up. Try to click something and the next page would load and off the footer went half way down the window.
Indeed. As this tails off, it's going to be the official spot to check the prediction[1] linked here against.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23028036

Also: https://mobile.twitter.com/johncardillo/status/1256577527662...
To the commenters: this article explicitly wasn't meant to be exhaustive or even introductory. The two links he embeds near the beginning were:

- Linux distributions without systemd (https://web.archive.org/web/20190208034948/http://without-sy...)

- Operating systems without systemd (https://web.archive.org/web/20190208034948/http://without-sy...)

Then he adds, "Here I’m just going to mention a few operating systems that I personally have found interesting." So these few are just ones where he thought he had something fresh to say. He did not aim to compete with the more objective lists he just mentioned.
Here is an example of engineering SARS to be deadlier in 2015[0].

[0] https://www.nature.com/articles/nm.3985
Lyft unfortunately does not do monthly vesting. There are strict trading windows as well.
The parent comment link takes you to the full story in a blog post of the OP.
mount the command DOES read /etc/fstab I believe the discussion was a systemd mount unit
India Mandates Contact Tracing App for Workers
Cellular modem that stays enabled despite user "disabling" will indicate itself by a quickly draining battery. Airplane mode and sleep data have much different battery consumption profiles. Indian people are not that stupid, and this will lead to a violent protest unlike China.
The average engineer doesn't pull this much. Maybe ~300-400k/yr but not 600k/yr, even with RSUs.
Shared dependencies made sence back in the day, when the world was a simpler place and there was less variety.

We have long since arrived at a point where its much more sensible to sandbox every application, with a majority of it's dependencies - less things break, less compatability problens, easier updates, greater reliability.
All major operating systems have done this now, Windows, Mac, etc. There is no turning back now.
Confidence will get you everywhere - be confident in your skills! People buy into people - not tech/resumes.

I struggle with the same thing myself... SOME impostor syndrome is healthy and it sounds like you are handling it in good way =)
I agree its a pain. It also makes things like working with other private certificate authorities (DoD Cert authority, other private certs) a pain. I spent a decent amount of time trying to get certain work/project related sites whitelisted from our MITM proxy because it didn't recognize the certificate chain...
Thanks, I appreciate the dialog.

What do you think about H5N1 (Avian Flu)? This is an example of a disease carried by birds, passed to domesticated birds, and then on to humans. What about H1N1 (Swine Flu)? Both of these diseases required culling millions of livestock due to the very real crossover to human populations globally.

Are you aware that there are intermediate hosts in many coronavirus epidemics? Many of those involve domesticated livestock such as chickens, pigs, and cows[1].

E. coli isn't naturally found on greens since it requires an animal host. How does it keep getting there? Interaction with domestic livestock[2].

If we are going to continue our interaction with livestock in the way we are now, we should at least all be aware that this is a conscious choice which will result in pandemics on a somewhat regular basis.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Animal_origins_of_human_c...
[2] https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2018/08/29/642646707/in...
One problem with this article is the number of times the solution involves COUNT(DISTINCT).

One of the best SQL interview questions is "Explain what is wrong with DISTINCT and how to work around it".
Seymour Papert, introducing "The Turtle":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-V_OPfmbbCk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fTO-Ruby-Uo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CJlRGe5QGhs
These are great. Steam Linux's universal rm is too.

https://github.com/valvesoftware/steam-for-linux/issues/3671

Featuring probably the most unflappable human in the history of time as a bug reporter. One day I hope to have the fortitude this man does.
Which doesn't make much sense, because the arguments are used in the decision making process, not the number of comments. This wasn't some kind of vote where you could stuff the ballot box, this was somewhere that you could flag items of concern.

We all know that anyone could fake an IP address, as well. It would take little thought to spam a bunch of nonsense through a random proxy via a script. But, just like every other kind of spam, it would just get ignored by the recipient.

They were looking for legal arguments made by people regarding their plans, not public support. So, screw the spammers, but it's really weird that this is being made into such a huge deal. This isn't a vote, there's no ballot box to stuff. And even in the off chance a Russian made some good legal point about net neutrality, why would that be a bad thing?

It feels a lot like this:

https://xkcd.com/932/

Meanwhile, for those following the Russia stories, there's been huge news in the Flynn case, but I see almost no coverage. Well, we'll have to see how it plays out, sure, but the radio silence is just weird.
Seconding Bleep - who also continue to sell music on physical formats. A marvellous store.
What’s better than awk, are one-liner python programs.

Then, you can even alias it.
Is Flutter what Google uses for their iOS apps?

Every time I try to use Drive or Sheets on iOS, I get frustrated that nothing works right, and after 2 minutes I give up and make a mental note to view/edit the file when I get home. Then a month later, I think "It couldn't have been that bad...", and I repeat the process.

Intuitive and obvious means behaving like all their other apps I already have. That's how you achieve ease of learning. If they acted right but looked a little off, that might be fine. These apps are the opposite -- they look mostly correct, but act different -- which is the worst of both worlds.
Yes. I have a Google Custom Search engine which I dispatch via javascript. It just displays the results formatted from a json list. It is just a matter of preference, since DDG can't integrate search with an API as far as I know.
It's free and you're hiring people at the same time -- makes me wonder about your business model (or other goals?)
> a solution for feature phones as well.

Cell tower triangulation?
I wouldn't describe that as being "absolutely" right. A team is more productive when its individuals' strengths are pooled together, and there's no sense in refusing to make use of a specialist's skills (within reason).

Yes, you want people to learn and become more self-sufficient over time, but not at the cost of finishing projects in double the time.
Subverted... In opposition to the IT startup scene, you mean?

Right now, the cost of R&D in the drug market is such that even companies worth billions recede before the task. The classic argument regarding that is too much vs. too little regulation. Unfortunately, no one can decide the truly necessary amount of consumer protection, so you end up with a balance between no innovation vs. Thalidomide.
Also running on the emulator:
PDP-10 Logo,
PDP-11 Logo,
Applle II Logo.

The emulator doesn't support the robot arm yet.
This was in about 2015. Somebody was telling me how great is MaidSAFE and I should check it out, but when I wanted to ask her about technical details, she wasn't able to tell me anything specific.

It was before Ethereum launched, I really liked how passionately Vitalik was speaking on the stage about the altcoin he was making, and what kind of contracts can be created with a few lines of code, it was much more interesting to me than an altcoin with no technical information to tell you the truth :)
I think dual booting is still the way. Gets the best out of linux and eliminates headaches. Boot up times are so fast these days, in and out of the OSs almost as fast as logging in and out.
Or you could just build serverless and use Lambda...
@turnipla Indeed, the Elasticsearch is completely a typical request - response kind. However, the point in the post was showing how we could make sure the search is in full sync with static site - even if we for example rolled-back deploys. That is, even if we rollback to a revision with less content than what we have in the "default" index, search will not show it to us.
If it isn’t really a trend, then it can’t really reverse.

The economics depend entirely on how many people have these “second thoughts”. If it’s “a lot”, relative to those who live in cities, then it will absolutely lead to housing issues outside of cities. Which will lead to infrastructure issues (schools, water, roads, libraries, community centers, etc.). Which will lead to tax increases to pay for infrastructure. Then the cycle will kick off again.
Citation for such lies?
My favorite all time bug was the infamous "Bumblebee" commit of 2011[1]. IIRC this was the first github commit to go viral. Make sure you have 30 minutes to read the thread. It is gold.

I have written variants of "GIANT BUG... causing /usr to be deleted... so sorry...." into commit messages over the years. Such a classic part of history.

[1] Commit thread: https://github.com/MrMEEE/bumblebee-Old-and-abbandoned/commi...

[2] Issue thread (not as good): https://github.com/MrMEEE/bumblebee-Old-and-abbandoned/issue...

EDIT: Github is timing out trying to load it. May want to use archive.org: https://web.archive.org/web/20130613012555/https://github.co...
Sure. You can get application boards with ARM Cortex-R or Infineon AURIX MCUs, there are numerous free and/or open source RTOSes (some which have commercial variants where you pay for the certification evidence), there are certified compiler toolchains that are forked from specific versions of GCC, there are pre-existing safety-critical systems which already incorporated various open source SOUP (software of unknown provenance) that you could use knowing someone-somewhere made a successful certification claim for it (proven in use, etc.), there are approved commonly available languages (C, C++, Java, Ada, etc.) that are spelled out for use at different SILs in IEC 61508, and so on.

That's not to say that the use of any of these things would necessarily result in a qualifiable system (it wouldn't), but you'd at least be in the same general vicinity of what is usually used/required to build such a system.

But, let's consider even the simplest aspect specific to the system this article is about. There are already multiple open source HL7 parsers that have been in-use, tested, and maintained for quite some time. What was the point of reinventing that wheel here, and if one was going to reinvent that wheel, then why not in a way that improves assurances rather than reduces them?
I thought there was much overlap
And you can tell based on how he looks in an image? What exactly makes him look like a creep, as you state?
>participated in or facilitated his crimes

>fired right now, and possibly prosecuted.

I think you've got that backwards there chief. The criminal justice system is what addresses crimes. Firing someone is for when they're not helping your business make money.
Only if you disable JavaScript it's white text on white background.

It's current trend to write CSS styles in JavaScript.
4) They couldn't see a way to make money by fraudulently opening millions of fake accounts in the process.
ZFS differs from ext3/4 in the sense that ZFS correspond roughly to ext3/4 + lvm + luks + snapper.

This is because ZFS is a volume-managing filesystem.

IMHO the best feature is snapshotting: you can take a snapshot of a filesystem, change anything and then decide if you want to go back or continue.

This is invaluable for backup: you can take a snapshot, perform an update (change kernel, update some service, alter a database table or whatever) and then try and validate the update. If anything goes wrong you can restore the whole state of the filesystem to the snapshot time.

This has saved me when a nextcloud update went wrong and basically trashed my installation. No worries: I shut down everything, unmounted the filesystem ("dataset", in zfs parlance) and roll-back the filesystem.
In parts of the world other than the US they use '.' instead of ',' to punctuate numbers. The poster above meant "$666,000".
Night mode or dark theme related maybe?

Some sites don't set a body background color thinking it will always be white.

Might be related.