skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I too have forgotten about Snowden and Manning, the latter of which has undergone extensive psychological torture at the hands of the US military government.
Interoperability with other languages can be one reason, for example writing a library can can be reused in different languages. The sad truth is that exposing a C ABI is still the most widely adopted approach for that. And that is quite hard with many higher level languages, like Java/C#/Python/JavaScript etc.
saying that masks are more effective than social distancing does not make any sense whatsoever. How would you get the virus if there is no one around you.

Besides how could you be socially distant in the military and on an aircraft carrier...
At $40K/seat, that must be some special software. Simple economics invites competition. Depending on the software, it may not take too many seats to incent the funding of an alternative.

Maybe this is the kind of software that requires huge development costs. But maybe it would be worth 20 seats' worth of customers joining forces to fund a team of 5 people to build you a competing app tailored to your specific needs/wants and completely under your control.

Granted, that could bump your costs from $800K/year to $1.6M+/year. But only short-term. Once your software is production-ready, you drop the costs of your current software. So think of it more like going from $8M/10 years to $6-10M/10 years but having complete control to add the features you want. And perhaps having the opportunity to recoup $millions/year by licensing to others. Or, open source it and give others the same kind of control while benefiting from the features they add. Spread your development costs across more seats to further lower your $/seat.

Or, look at the 100 employees your vendor currently has and lose heart, then hope somebody with deep pockets funds a competitor.
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How does it deal with DRM? I've read that this is the biggest problem for browser adoption, that DRM is effectively locked in with Firefox and Chromium and there won't be licenses issued to other browsers.
Isn’t Firefox at least partly rendering multi core now? Wasn’t that the reason Rust was built by them?
You mean that Intel should invest in something like MPX?
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The problem is that eventually they at least offline find someone. But on apps you can just wait a bit longer, spend a bit more time/money and hope to get lucky.

Most of the problems with online social networks and dating apps are not brand new, just a lot more severe.
I refuse to use them, even when it pushes me back to the default apps that came with the device.
Just last night I read an essay by Galloway where he pointed out that the really huge companies (Apple, Google, etc) have a hard time maintaining growth so have to move into different sectors where there are huge pools of money. Health is the most obvious one.
Yes. Docker builds are not reproduceable. Build steps that define final image layers and also cache layers means that every dockerfile is a compromise towards either goal. Build inputs are "whatever happens to be on the filesystem" and "whatever happens to come down from the network". You can put process around this, but dockerfiles are working against you.

Docker builds are a great tool, a great improvement, and what portability! But I personally think you'll look back on docker builds in 4 years and see them as extremely limited.
Thought of another potential force here [speculative, so please pros out there correct me]:

A lot of the medical system payments come from the government, and I think this may be the force that sets a lot of the prices, more than, say, private companies negotiating, due to both the aggregate $$$ value and fewer negotiating parties in the gov't group. Thus the high prices might result from poor negotiating incentives on the Gov't side:

1) gov't is bad at it
2) they don't have the proper incentives to control their costs
3) capture by private companies (lobbyists for providers etc.)
4) I think their may be some areas where the Fed Gov't is not allowed to negotiate by law. (drug prices?)
There are multiple forms: esketamine, arketamine, and a racemic mixture of both of those. Es type is much more effective as anesthetic than other types so user could experience the hallucinogen effects while remaining sort of mobile.
It's an extremely low bar, but one that hasn't been met by some popular languages.
Well, except that not every language has a word for "yes". If in doubt, search elsewhere in the thread.
Afaik, they have reinstated the accounts
> Maybe it's the french in my talking, but I really have a hard time trusting anything else than the state to handle health data.

I have a hard time letting the state amass more data from people.

> Anytime you associate health with financial motivation, you end up with something twisted on the long run.

Well, the state is not some objective, incorruptible entity without any ulterior motives. You end up with something twisted even when you let the state handle health data. The key is for individuals to decide how, where, when and what they want to share and provide enough control and literacy on why this is important. Unfortunately, too many people get lost in who should or shouldn't get some data and miss the point of maintaining one's freedoms.
Some reflections at 31:
- you can’t buy self-actualization. The most devastatingly miserable times in me & my friends’ lives have often been when we worked at big corporations doing nonsense work. they’re extremely good ways of earning good money whilst becoming extremely depressed, watching your life pass you by, whilst also losing agency & willpower to escape.

- work on projects you actually care about. I can’t stress this enough. If you take a project or a role for the money, make sure 1) you’re honest with yourself about your reasoning, don’t lie to yourself to sugarcoat it 2) you have a plan for leaving (e.g. taking a role with a high signing bonus so you can pay the down payment on a house or buy land, and leaving after the 12 month probation period so you don’t have to pay it back), 3) consistently checking in with yourself about how things are going. Which leads me to...

- go to therapy regularly, even if you don’t think you need to. and journal regularly. like...on paper, in the morning, with a cup of tea, about your feelings. don’t let things fester, don’t live with regrets or sacrifices.

- have creative hobbies. don’t let your guitar gather dust, don’t let your paint dry up

- enjoy having a lucrative job, but don’t let it turn you into a yuppie. I’m a terrible person to take financial advice from, but I could never do the “high paying job, save 95%” thing - it’s soulless and you want to have fun whilst you’re young or you’ll just be old, financially independent, and bitter about all the things you missed out on. Have fun, eat at fancy restaurants, travel as much as you can. But don’t waste your wealth on expensive yuppie materialist goods either - especially if you end up in London, NYC or SF it seems hard to not blow your money on all of the trendy expensive things that everyone else in tech buys. Spend money on experiences.

- live in community as much as you can. live with lots and lots of roommates because you’re excited about living a life together, and then invest your time in them. Cook with them, hang out with them, do wacky art projects with them, put on events, raise kids with them, build something greater than yourself. Isolation is a disease. The Bay Area has an excellent co-op community - imo no one in the Bay should be paying $3500 to live by themselves in a nice-but-boring studio apartment. It’s SO nice to come home to a house full of people who care about how your day was.

- party more - your 20s will go extremely quickly and I promise you won’t look back wishing you spent more time in an office. seriously. go to that party.

A motto I picked up from a dear coworker at the one Big Corporate Job I had: “tell good stories”. Live a life where you amass interesting anecdotes to tell at dinner parties, or to your grandkids, or to your roommates when you’re stuck in isolation because of a pandemic. “And then I spent 5 years in an office” isn’t an interesting story.
Sure but just like a web browser, it’s the application’s responsibility to sandbox or verify the code, not the http library’s.
Rust makes sense for replacing C++ user space programs. I don’t see how it’s relevant to the Linux kernel at this point.
Dave Ramsey is Really good if you are starting from a bad place financially (eg credit card debt, no financial plan).

He looses steam when you’re in the actual wealth building phase. Boogle head and other resources are better there. Tax law is hardest and for that it’s probably worth paying someone (once you have >$200k in assets).
Yeah, with some parallax too
And hedge funds are uniquely positioned by having a bunch of economists and traders working for them.

The point is it's not considered insider information.
A whistleblower being disappeared or psychologically tortured is perhaps a fairer comparison to what goes on under Freedom & Democracy.
This seems to be a challenging subject to search for.

Can you point to any sources to learn more about this phenomenon?
There is a CSS media query for that: prefers-reduced-motion

Now whether any sites actually make use of it is another matter. Also I don't know how the user would enable it. Perhaps an OS-specific, system-wide setting like dark mode.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/@media/pref...
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There are already a couple gc libraries in rust. I wouldnt say Go is strictly "pluggable gc" since...well you can't get rid of the gc. You can try and keep it from doing meaningful work but thats quite different than "RAII managed memory with a fallback to a gc library that targets my particular use-case"

Fully agree with you that GC should be abstracted away and used for where it shines: cycles and graphs!
I should clarify: most americans think everyone is entitled to some right called "free speech" but there are philosophical justifications of this that cut across the boundary between ideas and acts (kind of hard to summarize it) that exclude a lot of speech acts from "free speech" [0]. I was trying to say that it's not inconsistent to apply a single framework for free speech across national borders or despite companies like twitter blocking trump's tweets because there are theories of speech rights that work that way.

[0]: There is an interesting paper on this called 'A Theory of Freedom of Expression' by Thomas Scanlon that can do a better job of explaining it. https://www.jstor.org/stable/2264971?seq=1
Private peering agreements usually have NDAs & are not listed anywhere. The big clouds are a magnitude larger than Hetzner as well.

Google didn't start out as a cloud. Especially with YouTube, they no questions have private peering with Telekom.

Azure? Windows Update, Xbox, & more. Tons of data coming from the Microsoft network with their immense market share. They no questions have private peering as well.

Amazon? That is the only one that may not have private peering with Telekom, but considering they reign #1 in the cloud wars, it is also likely.
I work in embedded software for network switches and almost everything is written in C. And most of the code is pretty new.

C++ fired back because integration was ugly (the SDKs are designed for C usage) and a lot of C developers that doesn't understand C++ well.

Go is used a bit, but again, training people for using it correctly is hard. And using the C SDK from Go is an obvious NO.

A lot there think that Rust would be in a similar situation that C++. Nice to have, but too much low level dependencies (hardware SDK) and high level (developers proficient in the language) to expect it to happen. Also, calling the SDK would convert everything I'm unsafe, so we are like in C, but with a language that nobody understands.

So, there are technical reasons, but also human resources and economic ones.
Author of the article here.

Significant changes will indeed make your forecast not come true. But mostly people are not asking to predict for situations with significant changes.

Incremental changes will just be incorporated in the forecasts over time. The forecast continually adjusts to new information becoming available.

It's interesting to know that after about ten work items completed the number become pretty stable. So it's easy to reset or adjust the forecast in case of a big change in the team.

I was personally surprised to learn how stable the output of a team is if its composition doesn't change. Tools have some impact on productivity but so big that you have to throw away your predictions. No one is complaining anyway if you over deliver a little.
^^^ Yes.
I see LOB apps and web-services being (re-)written in Rust from very high-level langs at great cognitive cost but little runtime benefit.
Rust by all means should be treated as a better C(++) for applications where is is necessary -- but it rarely is.
And most Rust code I see is simple and context/request-bounded - basically it amounts to a overly-complicated version of creating a private heap for the duration of a request, and then throwing it away, as making Rust happy with even mildly interesting data-structures that are expected to be long-running is a chore.

C# (per your example) is not orders-of-magnitude away from from C++ perf like Python is, but is w/in a very small constant factor, and often even faster for poorly-written C++ as GC is more efficient than calling copy c'tors where they needn't be called, for example.

And if you introduce features such as Span<> (and friends) and ref returns into your C# where you need them, you now how have safe GC-free/reduced code with perf that rivals Rust in the sections of code where you need it, with full GC as a backup.
From people I know working Data Center Ops at Google. They were super pissed about the NSA tapping at the time and steps were definitely taken to further encrypt their data in transit.

Of course executives at Google may have handed over a set of keys to the NSA after this was done. If I had to bet I would say that the NSA has more than one way to get whatever data they want from any of the top tech companies. Either via stealing, insiders or coercion they have many options.
Ask HN: Why is my healthcare data not more protected? Epic Systems installs
Many major healthcare providers use Epic Systems (https://www.epic.com/) software to manage patient records. At about half a dozen independent institutions, I’ve watched receptionists and Drs go from logging in to Epic (which contains all my and other patients health records, clinician notes, test results, etc.) to Facebook or email or general internet browsing. This smells and seems to be one phishKit or rootkit away from putting people’s health data at risk.

Why are these systems not airgapped or at least run on dedicated, restricted devices and networks that only allows Epic Systems activities?!
> The Rust community really needs to take care not to become an echo chamber.

Exactly. The language has been proven to be stable, however a valid argument is the unsoundness risks of a project when they begin to depend on lots of third-party crates.

The moment one imports a crate or third party dependency into their project, unless the dependency explicitly specifies the lack of unsafe{}, all bets are off on the 'safety guarantees', especially when 'that crate' is used in multiple projects.
Yes, I used to get it in VFR, IFR flights are heavily restricted in my country (they are completely forbidden for light planes, same as night flights).
> And in C++ 23 something similar to what is not even thought through in Rust today is also planned.

I'll believe it when I see it. The C++ committee consistently fails to deliver on safety features.
To put this into context - I met with a senior tech person there (one layer below the group CIO) a few years back and he said they had something like 40000 distinct IT systems globally. So replacing 65 of them with one MongoDB instance is something like 1/8th of one percent of their systems.
Needs ublock origin and a cookie auto-delete feature and I will gladly switch.

Used to be that developers would decide between different browsers (or any other software really) and the rest would follow. Chrome/Edge/Safari bring built in to devices and being super hard to remove has changed that. All while not offering a better experience at all.

Big tech needs a couple anti-trust passes real bad.
It's definitely also important for road / track bikes! My observation is just that it usually isn't described by that name (or even necessarily that specific measurement). (In my experience, YMMV, etc.)

For example, Look publishes Chainstay (sometimes called "Rear Center") and "Front Center" (BB to front axle) measurements, separately, for their frames, but does not publish axle-to-axle / wheelbase measurement.

Sometimes it is described sort of qualitatively as "cramped" (on the short side).
Show HN: Progressive Web App Timer for V60 Coffee
An ISP tech? Just learn to code and then bounce from job to job to job until you find one with a good manager.

Okay, sarcasm aside; I've worked for many different tech companies and good managers are exceptionally rare and there is no pressure from the top to change that, and pressure from the bottom doesn't work. There is, however, a lot of pressure to not fire or demote managers as it looks bad for the management above them.
Hi HN! I made this little installable PWA to help me get a better sense of pour rates when making a V60, and it's really helped me so far.
Since it was mostly meant for an audience of one, feature discoverability was less important to me than a clean UI.
You can tap the water amount to switch coffee/water values.

I am specifically looking for feedback on screen wake locking.
I have a Chrome origin trial set up for that, which means that the screen should never lock (in Chrome) when the timer is still running.
I've found it hard to test if it really works well myself, so I'd really like to hear from people if it worked for them.
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The problem with this attitude is:

* The claims aren't baseless. We've seen for decades already that memory safe languages have fewer memory safety issues than languages that are not memory safe.

* Asking for hard proof is silly in software. There's tons of research into programming languages and their impact on software projects, across a number of areas, and it's all fairly useless - it's extremely expensive to do right, and impossible to objectively measure.

Common sense isn't propaganda.
Definitely! I've been riding road bikes for ~5 years now and have "built" the last 3 bikes I've owned. I've become increasingly interested in frame geometry as it relates to bike fit (as opposed to handling characteristics). After riding a few frames and comparing their geometries I've narrowed down an ideal range of measurements for myself based on how I got along with each frame. I can browse a geo chart and be pretty certain whether or not a frame will work for me by checking a few measurements.
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I think the fact that Rust is very popular in the polls, but still hardly ever used, rather indicates that people primarily want to escape from their current dissatisfaction, but then ultimately don't take it seriously with switching to another technology, so as with Ada or others already available. Besides, C++ is also evolving, and formal verification has been possible for many years. There are also proven ways to avoid memory problems. Rust would have to prove itself first. Maybe it solves one problem better, but ten others worse.
>we're all on board with the idea of intellectual property actually being a thing now

No. Intellectual property is not genuine property. It is a state granted monopoly and is antithetical to free market principles.
There's a great old web comic about the differences between Orwell's and Huxley's anti-utopias and how Huxley predicted the future much better. I bet your question is related to that development.
I’m in Austin/Houston area. But for the right opportunity I wouldn’t mind Bay Area for awhile.
I dunno... English to sql query is probably easier than English to French. You don't actually need to understand that Indiana is a place, just recognize that it's one of those tokens that's getting stuffed into the where clause...

The tough part is really probably the implicit knowledge of what the database columns are called. Is Indiana a "state" field or a substring in an address field? Depends on the database.

This mixing of "soft" ml queries with "hard" requirements is a really interesting space, which I think will produce massive results if we can get it under control. It's similar to the problems in the AI dungeon master space... And probably tutoring, as well...
Again, I don't think that we should threaten each other with total annihilation, but if someone is threatening you and ignoring your requests that they stop threatening violence what other avenues do you have? Fight or flight.

If given the option to run away, you should absolutely do so -- but that shouldn't stop you from learning self-defense in case the 'flight' option isn't available.

We shouldn't have guns, but I don't think that we should disarm ourselves unless everyone else agrees to disarm themselves as well.
Someone talking sense here
have you ever been to a post office?
Your concerns seem pretty theoretical. Several very widely used applications (Whatsapp, iMessage, Apple Notes/Calendar) use sqlite as a file format without much issue.
Rather than go through the trouble of entering a new complicated market building an EHR to unseat some very entrenched players and force retraining of millions of healthcare workers, which would be relatively antithetical to Apple’s consumer-not-enterprise approach, they could focus behind the scenes efforts on data portability and interoperability via EHR customers (hospitals) so that those EHRs worked better with Apple Health.

You really don’t want to build an EHR if you can avoid it.
Currently doing that, not a big fan of 40 hours for some one else.
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I don't really understand why it isn't consistent with the study. It's entirely possible that people spend a lot more not having sex and waiting for a better partner because these huge dating pools have such a high variance.

So people see that there are very favorable targets on the platform, and their perception is skewed, they start to reject the average matches, they want the best.

So less sex, more hoping for the best.

Am I missing something?
One of the governments you mentioned has been under constant pressure of regime change & other geopolitical oppressions for 75+ years, the other is the one orchestrating said regime changes. It's not surprising that one is more defensive than the other in this regard. Is that activist a real Chinese citizen or part of a CIA campaign bent on massive destabilizion? Everything is on the table.

The US is also far more developed in its methods of political suppression. The voice of the common citizen is virtually absent in D.C. yet the population continues to play along. McCarthyism is ancient history in US politics. Such brutish displays are no longer as effective or required. But the US recently got a taste of how seamlessly the MIC can amplify its violent oppression of citizens, even as they struggle to manage a public health crisis.