skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, that would largely be Purdue Pharmaceuticals misleading doctors regarding dosage and timing along with an unhealthy dose of fentanyl from China.
I live in Denmark, where we lift a lot of the burden of civilisation together, to give everyone access to education, health/elderly/child care as well as a solid security system for those who get unemployed.

And here society is hard enough these days, pressing more and more people beyond their limits. I really wonder how you all do it in America.
Key words: "how many times"

Ammon has done this once. I think everyone deserves a second chance, and maybe even a third. Zuckerberg has had way more than that.
India open-sources its contact-tracing app
>Flash failures tend to be localized and directly related to wear caused by writes.

Flash doesn't fail when it wears out. SSDs simply become read only and get slower over time when they exhaust their write cycles. That's not a failure. A failure is something like your SSD controller bricking itself randomly during a power cut and instantly making all your data vanish.
Sidebar, but I simply cannot figure out how the CDC estimates flu mortality.

I've spent about an hour trying to find the info, and gave up. I was able to figure out how they estimate flu deaths: they take the officially diagnosed deaths, and the multiply it by a factor based on presumed deaths. For example, they assume some % of pneumonia deaths are cause by the flu.

But I simply cannot figure out how they estimate the number of flu infections per year, which is the other half of IFR. It obviously is a statistical model (they don't do millions of flu tests a year), but what is the model? Without this info, it's really not an apples-to-apples comparison when you take flu IFR and compare it to coronavirus IFR.
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I would say yes, if you define success in the political game as being elected to a high office. Most of us consider him an idiot, and in many way he certainly is. But he do knows who to get people to vote for him, which is what matters. He didn't fall into the precidency by accident or by being rich or well connected. He did what mattered to become elected (with a bit of help from Putin).

Many smarter people with more money and better connections failed, see e.g. Bloomberg.
> That’s frankly dystopian. It’s much worse than deregulation; it’s the dissolution of a uniform state. A return to the Middle Ages, it’s warlords and it’s robber barons.

You just described my best guess of the future (at least of the US).

In fact, you might be able to say that we are already moving that direction given how much influence large corporations and industries have over our government.

Note that I am not happy about my prediction, but my eyes are open to what is happening around me.
Well, the title is easy to answer, even many exceptionally talented people are never rich, and there's a significant amount of luck involved in being rich. It's pretty easy to be smarter than many people while never having financial success, or respect, or an audience or whatever.

It's worth picking up the actual thesis from the article though. If for example Hastings is rich, does that mean he's not an idiot (or does not often make idiotic decisions)?

It lowers the chance obviously but on the other hand fame and money is often fleeting. The average S&P 500 company now lives fewer than 20 years. So that means a lot of people who could be considered to have made good decisions in the recent past will fuck up in the near future.

The fat tailed nature of tech investing means that someone can make 30 bad decisions and one good one and be insanely rich. At the end of the day they often just survived the bad ones, but you'd still have been right in calling them out on the 29 bad ones.

So I think on a case-by-case basis net-worth is a shoddy indicator.
The advantage of web apps is in deployment. Developing a stand-alone app in Delphi or Visual Basic was highly productive, but distribution, installation and updating was a headache. And it would only run on one platform.
Money an intelligence rarely correlate.
I know many very smart people that are just not interested in creating the business, though they are working on super complex things just for the sake of science.

Also there are lots of idiots why can become rich. There are so many opportunities.

So you can be absolutely right saying that some guy is an idiot even if he has billions.
Propensity of the public to latch on to celebrity ra-ra (shock jocks, influencers, etc) before they listen to a category expert.

Of course, these Masterclass identities are as much celebrities as they are experts.
previously

https://hn.algolia.com/?query=yurichev%20smt&sort=byPopulari...
Do you have any sources or is this the standard "anyone who disagrees with me is a bot" rhetoric.
> Have you considered the possibility that a lot of non-bigoted views are currently blocked due to trigger-happy admins?

Exactly who is on Gab who I want to listen to? If they're not a bigot and not ok with bigotry, why are they on there?
I think you may have modeled the situation a bit inaccurately. To rephrase, "How many people who don't know what a shallot is and are searching Google for answers would pay $80?"
> I think we should eliminate the corporate income tax . . . and tax income once, when it hits a person.

LOL what? Can't have it both ways, pal.

I've seen this line of thought expressed a few times before, and it strikes me as disingenuous to hold that a corporation is a person... right up until the moment that idea puts slightly less money in your pocket.
It's an intelligence to realize that in order to make a lot of money, you have to be ruthless at business. In order to be ruthless like that, you need to neglect being a good and reasonable person, even to those closest to you. Such is the cost of money. Money doesn't buy real friends or happiness, and so the smartest among us are deliberate in not accumulating wealth needlessly. Whilst everyone else assumes their stupidity for not accumulating wealth, in truth, it’s a Dunning-Kruger situation.
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Unbelievable. Just when I think I've seen it all in tech, how can someone like this take their title seriously having peddled their spyware to the highest bidder. Hope the cognitive dissonance keeps these execs with a broken moral compass up at night, if not for what they've done for themselves, then for contributing to making the world a worse place for their children and beyond. Thanks for sharing, wish there was a database full of these snakes and their slimy legacy they've left behind.
My app is currently built on top of Firebase but I’m keenly aware of the cost of lock-in as traffic escalates.

Is this a replacement for the whole suite of Firebase offerings (hosting, auth and data store) or just a subset?

What’s the migration pathway for someone currently on Firebase?
This is why when investors replace founders the companies stop innovating. Obvious ideas don’t have any value. You need deep domain knowledge to see how things really are, and not how things seem to be.
It's a site that they run, they are the source for those numbers.

A quick google says somewhere from 20%-40% use adblockers. 60% sounds high, but depending on the website, I can see it. For example, I bet at least 60% of visitors to gnu.org are blocking ads and/or trackers.
What you describe is not luck, but different rates of probability. Luck is I would say when you have 50% of chance of winning.

Otherwise by definition it is not luck, but a high chance of winning.
Ease of deployment does not preclude ease of development.
One of the key solutions is that good people must reward other good people. Nurture the young good ones. Reward the good behaviour.
I've encountered a few individuals fairly well off and where they think of everyone as idiots. These individuals came from an upbringing of lower class and they eventually had the right opportunities happen for getting ahold of some money. Example from something comparable to bitcoin happening. Nothing in anyway of were these persons were contributing to society in how they gathered a good portion of wealth.

I've also encountered people from wealthy families and these individuals typically don't comment on what they think of others less fortunate in society. They also stay out of politics or anything where people get disgruntled about. I'm unsure if it was how they were raised and or they know the game of life is rigged. In any case, I respect this group the most which is sort of odd because everything was handed to them.

Anyway, the first group of individuals probably would have been better persons if they were just born into money as well. They have a fallacy in their head of they earned their success and wouldn't have had it any other way in life. In reality they just had a worse path to eventually becoming financially independent and sadly these individuals place their ego around wealth because of it.

I don't necessarily believe in the traditional idea of luck. I think everything is predetermined at birth. But wow does it help to be born into a wealthy family with somewhat decent genetics. Quality of life will be so much better. It's so noticeable that I sometimes wonder how others don't see it as well.
>>> Han Chinese don't go to prison just for criticizing the government, they just lose opportunities.

>> This is verifiably false.

> I was speaking more generally

That response is meaningless (the classic 'nebulous response' to an inconvenient question) and thus sidesteps addressing his point. Also please elaborate on what 'losing opportunities' means - I hope it doesn't extend to eg. the right to eat food does it?

> In the cases you're referencing, are they still locked up?

It's irrelevant if they are still locked up or released, they got locked up for political reasons. Right?
12 years later, players somehow keep Team Fortress 2 alive on the PS3 (2019)
Yes and no. Like lottery ticket - you can get one, or you can decide not to buy any in your life, or commit to buying 1 ticket a day for life.
This. I guess if your router can install their software, and it maintains a local DNS cache, then it'll go further. But without that, it's repeatedly hitting their servers for the same entry, racking up queries.
Looking at examples of successful people is classic survivorship bias. Smart people who lucked out on their businesses do not get to write biographies.

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Maybe I am rich but realize that admitting it just brings me annoyance from lazy people.
Same question, but for C++?

I’ve struggled to find a well-supported command-line argument parser that supports subcommands.
A good thing to keep in mind for avoiding pride.
Riiight...

Verizon's phone network is a platform that is privately owned and financed by the owner.

I think you're failing a litmus test here, unless you really believe that Verizon should have the right to drop phone calls that are politically offensive to Verizon executives.

The same goes for FedEx's logistics/transportation network. It too is privately owned and financed by the owner. Imagine that it were run by an executive who decided that the terms of service would include disposal of democrat campaign materials. Send a box of Biden yard signs, and they go into a dumpster. The tracking number just disappears from the system.

It's probably hard to see that Google is very much like Verizon when you happen to like Google's bias.
Don't worry, eventually the web development will be figured out and it retrospect we'll look like cavemen rubbing two sticks together.
What is employer branding and why is it important?
Re: YouTube video you linked below. The table shown by that Dr in the first few minutes was enough to discredit her (claiming Covid-19 is not transmitted by air, only kills 80+ year olds, etc.) All falsehoods.
It's YYMM.ID I believe

Last year may was 1905.xxxxxx
Scale this up to anything and you will want to be governed by a benevolent dictator. Not even senators themselves read the full bills they vote on, and I don't blame them with it being hundreds of pages of reading that could easily be parted out to aides, but the electorate certainly doesn't have this advantage. Maybe 1% of voters are truly informed.
Can somebody elaborate on what the bluebook or greenbook is? I tried googling but nothing useful turned up. At least nothing related to programming.
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Disagree, this is a systemic issue in China. it started in the 90s: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organ_harvesting_from_Falun_Go...

and even if it's not state-sanctionned anymore, the triads lead human organ harvesting in SE Asia and at least take part of the trade in India and east Africa.

The same way the human sex trafficking is a real issue in China. The eastern european bride cliché that do happen sometime in europe (and in the US too apparently) is way more pervasive in china, as even middle class people takes on foreign involuntary brides as the gender imbalance among sexually active people grows (and it is still growing).
How much cheaper than Firebase do you expect to be when you launch?
It looks like a way to turn Postgres into a Firebase real-time database alternative, so not Crashlytics, Auth or file storage AFAIK (and I'd suggest making it more obvious on the website if I'm wrong!)
If you're in the UK and your family like watching Channel 4's 4oD, I had to whitelist *.fwmrm.net for it to play.

Otherwise 4oD think you have an ad blocker enabled and the video refuses to start.
What would the numbers look like without mitigations? There are certainly some flu seasons that are 2x worse than average. I imagine that the cutoff between no action and hard mitigation would be a 10x flu event. It seems plausible to me that this would have been 10x the flu with business as usual.

That still doesn’t do accounting for the negative effects of mitigation. The truth is that this is an open-ended ethical question and it’s not fun to participate in.
I'm sure that you trust your security and speed to be good, but for a random Internet user, your website is just a random website on the Internet, without any special deviation from the mean.

Those who consider the average JS website slow/insecure/tracker-ridden will just skip it if they see no content. Ain't nobody got time to do audits just for one article, and the leap of trust to drop the shields needs to be earned too.

I don't necessarily consider this a good argument. It eventually depends on how important those people are to you as the audience.
All of that plus the unknown end of it. Sure its been 2 or 3 months but its not like its ending tomorrow. Any one who wanted to make a major life change in the next two years is probably rethinking it.
Luck is when ability and preparedness meet an opportunity.
ExtJS was pretty close, but its license model was never good enough for mass adoption.
While unsafe memory access can have consequences for stability, it has much broader implications than that. A system can keep running reliably while being heavily exploited.
While the titular premise of the book is compelling and contains (and in part inspired) many of my opinions on the subject, I also found it baffling and infuriating biased version of (at the time) recent history it presented even though I am generally politically aligned with the presented bias. It seemed in extremely bad taste to write a book about media bias containing so much of its own biased version of history. I had to put it down several times and never finished it. At the same time, it is 32 years old and the landscape has changed very much.

Still quite good.
I want to emphasize especially that it's okay to take medication. It's not "cheating", you're not going to get graded at the end on how you beat the depressive episode. They're far from perfect and you may have to try multiple times to find one that's working for you. I know how uncomfortable it can be to get off of SSRIs (brain zaps aren't fun at all!), but imho even considering them as part of the package, it still beats being down at the bottom by far.

If you don't want to take medication, that's okay too. But make sure it's not just your depression making you not want to.

And the usual advice applies to depression as well: don't worry about telling your doctor. They won't judge you, they've heard it before, they can help you. It can feel like a personal failure and as if "it's not like other people's depression, they have real problems, I don't, I just can't figure out what's wrong with me", but that's part of it.

And also don't beat yourself up if you're self-medicating. That's pretty normal. Get help, get more effective medication. You're not a lazy alcoholic, you're depressed and you're looking for any straw that can offer some support. And if your doctor tells you to stop self-medicating before they will help you, talk to another doctor, they have it backwards. Don't give up.
Grandma wasn't on usenet...
Corona prediction from sewage sample [pdf]
It's strange we eventually reached a place where things go unproductive...

Similar to Smalltalk, and Common Lisp are super fast to develop things. Maybe it is they were relying too much on their superior environment? So that other languages cannot easily replicate so that more generic but not so productive technology stand to the last?
Aren't there universal measurements for leaders/counties?

For example the Bible has a lot of wisdom like: 'If a kingdom is divided against itself, that kingdom cannot stand.' This was already written some 2000 years ago and has been proven true over time.

So I would argue you could measure the amount of unity a leader tries to create.
I don’t really understand the point of the article. It seems to be challenging an assumption that being “smart” has something to do with being financially successful. But why would we start with that assumption? Why would we conflate being “intelligent” with being good at making money?

To me, this seems as preposterous as asking “if you’re so smart, why are you so bad at playing the violin, or why aren’t you a Hollywood movie star, or why can’t you run a 4 minute mile, or why don’t you have a million Twitter followers?”

Even if we make the questionable assumption that the very concept of general intelligence (something like what an IQ test purports to show) is sensible, why would we assume that it correlates positively with success in any conceivable discipline?
How does this compare to Postgraphile or Hasura? Or rather, how is it going to compare once you've had some time to get it out of alpha.
Facebook's dominance was earned. Remember Myspace? They were huge when Facebook started. Now they're tiny by comparison. Google tried and failed several times at social networks. Zuckerberg figured out how to manipulate humans in quantity through subtle programmed social cues. That's an achievement on a par with that of Hiram Maxim.
It depends on your application. I'm working on an application in Node right now that keeps hundreds of megabytes of configuration in memory since each model can take seconds to generate, and due to recent changes the # of models doubled.

It's not a good design. I've been trying to get buy in on using an LRU cache...

Also, I've worked in a few environments (Java and Node) where a spike of requests come into the system and prevent the GC from running - and then you run out of memory. I think that mostly went away with G1. We had a lot of stuff that ran on our customers sites and was prone to traffic spikes...

I've learned that if you're not thinking about GC it usually bites you later. Better to think about performance, at least a little, up front.
For moving past referring to a cheat sheet, I've found https://learngitbranching.js.org to be a great help with learning on how to work with a tree.

FWIW, `git branch newbranchname` does create a new branch. Run `git checkout newbranchname` after to switch to the newly created branch. Or run `git commit -b newbranchname` to do both at once.

The staging thing has to do with git's origin as being used for kernel development. Each patch is (ideally) meticulously constructed, and stands on its own. In order for that to be possible, git has the staging area in order to assemble pieces of a commit until it's perfect (aka `git add -i`). That large areas of software development doesn't have (and doesn't need) that level of attention to detail to each individual commit, is a function that most project don't look like Linux kernel development. For better or worse, Mercurial/hg does not have a staging area.

Unfortunately, I know git too well to reason if auto-stashing would help, rather than hurt (beginning) users. Personally I'll often commit my in-progress work (dumping plenty of mental state into the commit message to make it easier to pick up when I get back to it) and then then edit that WIP commit before submitting the PR. Your tools are there to support you, and one of git's strength is that it'll support pretty much any workflow due to all the low level plumbing available. Unfortunately, the cost of that flexibility it's learning curve.
Regarding sports. Unfortunately, let's not discount the politics and human nature involved in fielding a team. Some players get to play because of their salary, some players get to play because of their relationship with the coach, some players get to play because they're trade bait, some coaches really are wrong, etc.

https://ca.sports.yahoo.com/blogs/nhl-puck-daddy/maple-leafs...

Coaches are human too. They are just as fallible as the rest of us. They may work with better information than the fan, but this doesn't mean that they should never be questioned. And good coaches allow themselves to change opinions if criticism makes sense.

For business... for every Netflix, there's a WeWork that everyone can see is insane and they're not wrong.
They could delete almost all the data in your account, but still hold onto your email address?
One key thing about the game is the definition of "being ahead", and in a way, the meaning you want your life to have.

If the definition of being ahead is to work in upper management, or at trendy FAANG making a large amount of money then you are kind-of forced to play the game in order to "get ahead".

However, if your version of getting ahead is to have a loving family, or to spend time on the hobbies you like or traveling or <insert other non-monetary thing here> then you can (and sometimes even have to) spend less effort on the game.

I'm still working on finding my balance, but I've learned that I enjoy life much more when I'm doing something where I can spend less time playing the game, even if that comes with a large decrease in income and "prestige".
Doing the math is an input but it isn’t the solution itself. The question of what to do is a policy decision which doesn’t have an objective right answer.
I've found Rust to be more interesting for CLIs than go. Especially when using https://clap.rs
He means for Business (and i hope your IT-Department cares about secure communication).

And no, most people USE encryption, because they don't use Email, but Whats-App.
The magic of Fibonacci numbers – Arthur Benjamin