skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sure. Go look at yourself in a mirror. Observe that the thing you see in the mirror looks very similar to other things around you that you call "people" or "humans". Observe further that the thing in the mirror behaves differently from other humans. You can control the behavior of the thing in the mirror in ways that you cannot control the behavior of other humans. Observe that when you try to touch the thing in the mirror it feels different than when you touch one of these other humans. It will feel cold, smooth, and hard, like glass, not soft and warm like flesh.

Now, go find another human and ask them to look in the mirror with you. Observe that you can now see a second human-looking thing in the mirror, but this second human-looking thing has yet another set of properties. For starters, this second human-looking-thing in the mirror doesn't look like you, it looks like the other human whose assistance you have solicited. If you try to touch the second human-looking-thing-in-the-mirror you will find that you will not be able to. The first human-looking-thing, the one whose behavior you have direct control over, will thwart your efforts and get in your way. You will find that the control you exercise over the first human-looking-thing-in-the-mirror is constrained in a way that makes it impossible to touch anything in the mirror other than it.

Now ask the other human whose help your have solicited what they see. You will find that their perceptions are similar to yours. They will (almost certainly) tell you that they also see two human-looking-things in the mirror, and that one of them, the first one, looks and acts just like you. You will find that your assistant will agree with you on many other observations as well. They will agree on the location of the mirror, the fact that it feels smooth and hard. If there are other objects nearby they will agree on the location and appearance of those objects.

Now turn out the lights. Observe that you can no longer see the mirror or any of the objects in it that you could see before.

From this and a whole lot of other similar observations you can construct the following theory: you are a thing that exists in space which has three dimensions. In this space there is this stuff called "light" which moves in straight lines (more or less) from sources and ultimately enters part of the space that you occupy that you call "eyes". When this happens, you obtain information about other things that occupy the same three-dimensional space that you do. Some of these things are very similar to you. They also have eyes and other body parts, all of which are things that exist in the same 3-D space and occupy particular subsets of that space. The particular subset of the space occupied by things changes, and this is an indication of the existence of something called "time", which is a radically different kind of thing from the kind of thing you are and the kind of thing light it. You and light exist in space. Time does not. Time is some seriously weird shit.

Do you need me to elaborate further, or are you getting the idea?
I am interested in how you manage your work journal. Do you use a physical pen and paper or do you use a digital tool? Online or offline? Do you archive or throw away old notes or do you revisit them?

Info about your checklists could be handy too.
pizza, you can just put anything on it and it's still good
If it is anything like Pentadactyl was, the difference is mainly that Vimium changes very little in Firefox. You, your spouse or your co-worker can still open Firefox and use it, as used to. Yet with pentadactyl, everything is gone: the addressbar, back-button, menu's etc. This might be what you are looking for, though.

That was one reason for me to ditch Pentadactyl (and also vimperator), and use vimium instead. It allows you to keep using Firefox as normal, gradually sliding into the habit of using the keys.
You mean the regulations that limit competition in the US and restrict manufactures and grant monopoly rights? These are the regulations that are good right?
I'm waiting for it to switch. I liked the interface and your general way of doing business, but being unable to track outbound links or conversions was a deal breaker.
I imagine that this would actually be a selling point for some buyers
I disagree. I've been interviewing heavily the past 3 years and I've noticed that at least for the major US tech hubs (say, SFBA, Seattle, NYC, as well as LA, and from my understanding, London in the UK too) pretty much all the companies I would rate as "decent" or better to have a career as a SWE are gatekeeped by leetcode interviews. Difficulty and selectivity varies of course.

There are exceptions, but they are getting fewer and fewer. i.e. some companies that did not leetcode when I got my current job (5 years ago) are now leetcoding. Even companies in that famous "they don't whiteboard" list will leetcode you from my experience (I reckon its really a team by team basis thing).

You might be able to find a good company that will not leetcode you, but if you are trying to maximize your potential to get a good job at a good company, the best strategy is to grind leetcode, as opposed to hunting for a White Whale.
the author did not take zoning in consideration. Public housing usually get built near transit centers where there are lots of business. The mix use zoning contribute to the higher revenue number.
Increasing supply relative to demand results in lower prices.
i7-4790k and 16gb DDR3-2400 from early 2015 here, really can't wait to upgrade to something newer with DDR5
Your comment is a mess. You essentially "throw a rock and then hide your hands" by stating that the rest of the world has wildly different quality controls, and then you state that you aren't going to argue about it but leave that point to other readers.

>..."we should be doing better than second and third world countries, so I'll list them too", that's a dangerous gambit. You're effectively appealing to nationalism and/or racism

Not really, what we're really saying is that with our tech resources, talent, governance and supplier pipelines we should be able to do better.
OK $25 for every 1-3 weeks isn't cheap as I'd like but looks more like I'd expect. The Rand report has a table of different kids of insulin but doesn't list which ones have a patent. Would be good to know if the middle income countries listed like Turkey/Chile have the more modern variants or the original ones.
It occurs to me that even with a self-hosted solution, project maintainers could benefit from having a broader corpus of sample data from various use cases.

One of the complaints about European armaments in the middle ages was that the guys making the plate also made the arrowheads and crossbow bolts so there was never the same arms race you had in Japan, as a common counterexample.

I think it would be cool to see a tool like this one, along with a data anonymizer, playing cat and mouse trying to scrub data versus inferring PID from it. I think that might entice more white hat security folks to investigate this problem space and it feels like we could use more of that sort of attention on this domain.
Either you're trolling or you've actually just compared the state of software engineering (let's be fair, it's not engineering, but application development) with real engineering disciplines.

Unlike software, people actually take engineering projects, especially those that risk public health, very seriously.

Of course every aspect of these systems, in whole and in part, have been tested exhaustively.

There are a number of things that can be proven about nuclear power plants. Millions of man hours have gone into their research and design. They are rigorously monitored and controlled. Their emissions in every form is highly regulated. If one is within 3 decades of failure, we'd know it.
When engineers and scientists say that there isn't a single power plant that is going to fail in the next 40 years. It's not a guess.
In 2001, Acthar sold for about $40 a vial. Today: more than $40,000. An increase of 100,000 percent.
"Medicare is not allowed to negotiate the price of drugs because of a law passed by Congress." [1]

26-year-old recently removed from his parent’s insurance plan, was found dead in his home because he couldn't afford $1,300 per month for insulin. [2]

This is basically white-collar looting. It is sad that this allowed to happen in USA.

[1] https://www.cbsnews.com/news/the-problem-with-prescription-d...

[2] https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/22/well/diabetes-patients-at...
I've been using vi-like shortcut plugins (vimperator, pentadactyl, vimium, vim vixen and many others, currently using tridactyl) for quite a few years now, and its never been quite the smooth experience I hoped for.

Not even talking about interfaces where you'd expect to need to use mouse (javascript components and others), but there is always the page in which the shortcuts will fail, or some input which will be blocked because the plugin is fighting the webpage for focus. Its pretty much what the article says at the conclusion, it helps reducing, but I still view it as a hassle.

Browsers developed with vi-like modes built-in (vimprobable, vimb, qutebrowser) fared better for me, but then there's other issues like incompatibility or lack of plugins which keeps me from fully using them.
I feel that is a false dichotomy: programming ability is strongly correlated with work ethic.
Not mentioned but there is also stabilization, which helps immensely.
The leaking nuclear waste will magically disappear and the ground water will magically deradiate when the nation collapses? I have my doubts...
This thing has been an absolute nightmare since it was released 18 months ago. I've had a few people contact me (note: https://buttplug.io (NSFW) is my project, I get contacted about stuff like this all the time, someday I will write a book about various support stories) with their hardware stuck on.

There have been multiple security issues reported, and the company really seems to have no clue how to deal with the tech. Not only that, they're doubling down on their production of unsafe equipment, including their newest toy (Link NSFW): https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005001341771957.html
Medication for chronic disease is a highly inelastic market. The other such market is oil. Prices react to spikes and sudden drops in demand, otherwise they are stable. No one is going to bring a new plant onstream unless there are certain takers for the output.
It’s too bad we can’t condense all the rhetoric “i use Apple <x> because it just works” into actual useful energy. Something like this may have been solved a long time ago.

Glad to see movement about this. Was just considering converting my XPS 9560 into a full Linux machine next week (I will miss fingerprint sensor support, which brings up another point about just upgrading to a model that supports it). Going to use it as a testing ground for switching over my main rig to Linux and seeing progress like this is really encouraging that I’m making the right decision.

I will gladly install these test packages and help out.
And who appoints the leadership in the FTC?
You are 100% correct. As a manager I would love to test for work ethic, honesty, being a team-player, etc. The problem is I can only infer those qualities based on signals that are inherently noisy. The only way you really know of those qualities is by working with them over a period of time. A solution to this is to hire through your network, especially via someone who has worked with the candidate. But that certainly limits your pool.
I'll be the first to admit that I have very limited knowledge of the pharmaceutical industry, but from what I've gleaned, it's such a tangled, multi-tiered morass of different actors, contracts, and regulations, that it may be a few years before we see any movement on the market's pricing, if at all.

I have a lot of hope for his ambitions to enact a favored nation's policy wrt Medicare's drug pricing, but since his administration's seemingly been lackluster on executing his order limiting insulin markups by federally funded clinics, I doubt his policies are anything other than paper tigers.
I know many London financial companies (big banks, hedge funds) will definitely leetcode you.
The whole “serious language” thing is ridiculous. You are reading this on a web service originally developed using Paul Graham’s custom made-up dialect of LISP called ARC, which runs on top of Common Lisp.

It’s pretty much as far away from “serious language” as it’s possible to get, but here you are happily using it anyway.

Take your Gatekeeping and get in the sea, thanks
Given a candidate is already in the software industry, the odds of getting a high paying job in the Bay Area are much higher than 0.01%. Top paying companies have the same interview standards everywhere but the number of positions are significantly higher in tech hubs. Not sure why you think your chances are better in the Midwest. Self-defeatist attitude will pull those chances down to zero everywhere though.
The anti-monarchist professor who became a living meme
it's not like the original is being deleted though.
What’s off-patent insulin? Is it different somehow?
Kubectl explain
Using firefox on Ubuntu with Dvorak layout, this does not work. As soon as i start typing 'CH' for 'CHAPTER' a new tab opens that pastes the contents of my clipboard in a google search. Something is off here.
10 percent? From where did you get this number?
I'm not sure why people don't see the problem with "I don't want any price regulation in the US, but I want to personally benefit from price regulation done in other countries". It's a whole different level of selfishness.
Why TCP over TCP Is a Bad Idea (2001)
This means anyone implementing and using effective crypto will be flagged for closer monitoring. A jury is made up of twelve people who aren't smart enough to get out of jury duty. It won't be hard for a prosecutor to convince them that going out of your way to use encryption is proof of possessing child pornography. Or terrorist stuff. Or drug stuff. Or whatever else people are terrified of at the time.
I've read both. The first was the most impactful to me personally. The way he uses Gödels theorems to argue against the computability of consciousness is actually quite ingenious and it's presented in such a straightforward way that I could easily grasp it from first principles. I also find the criticisms I've seen against it to be knee-jerkish and flimsy.

Orch OR seems like a shot in the dark, and while certainly an interesting thought experiment I'd like to see more evidence before I buy in to it.
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> ... but our taxes are much higher as well.

Not sure who the "our" is in your comment, but:

"So there you have it, if you are wealthy and live in California you are paying more income tax than people who live in the European Unions’ largest economy. Of course this is only one facet of the tax system. There are many others, like the value added tax of 19% in Germany, but Germany’s corporate tax rate is 15% while ours in 35%. If you live in California and are paying these high rates you can’t even take solace in the fact that you’re working less. In Germany the average work week is 35 hours with 24 paid vacation days and 10 paid holidays!"

http://bvcocpas.com/how-the-united-states-tax-rates-compares...
That's what I came in to say. If it happens again I think we can conclude that at this point, the people voting and the people getting ahead looking polls (say on the internet, random calls, etc..) are not the same people.
For the record, back in the days, Instagram used Celery at large scale : http://lc0.github.io/blog/2013/05/01/celery-messaging-at-sca...
Is there a formal notation for always or usually?
Literally your 2nd-to-last comment before this was "What a tedious and unpleasant person". I'm not trying to "gotcha" here, and I'm sure the parent post to that was unpleasant and tedious, but I am hoping you'll consider that you might be doing some of the same thing you're upset about others doing. Describing anyone as "the socially doomed" to me indicates an attachment to the idea of mainstream social mores as "right". The most socially awkward people I know also happen to have the most friends.

fwiw, the trick I've found for enjoying hn comments is to ignore the pedantic, argumentative ones, and find the nuggets of joy and wisdom. Not saying I always manage to do that either, but... that's the only time I enjoy reading the comments.
I've worked at a private healthcare company for the past 2 years, and worked at a public healthcare company for several years earlier in my career.

Coming from e-commerce, consulting, and logistics where downtime === lose revenue, it's refreshing how many times I've heard "X is down but it's not affecting patient care so is not an emergency."
That discussion happened here as well. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24649770
I like that they interleaved the digits, least significant first, so each digit showed up when it was needed for computation.

I think it means the screen had to be refreshed top to bottom, right to left, so the display could use the digits as they come in.

Edit: looks like bottom to top!
> too many people still look qualified after going through rounds of interviews

Maybe we're not as special as we think and not just a few mythical uberengineers are qualified to do the take-something-from-here-and-put-it-there coding that is 90% of the field...
> Low profits

If its low profits how come other countries' prices are much lower? Either the manufacturers there have lower costs or they're charities.

>and a giant moat

I'd think all the VC money sloshing around should be able to figure something like this instead of another social media platform.
It's a shame that Sphinx, the documentation package that built the book, still doesn't support parts. Longer texts could benefit from parts, but the current developers are still not interested enough to allow it.
From what I've heard, Apple teams have more autonomy in how they conduct interviews for their prospective future team-mates, and (shock!) some actually will not leetcode you (correct me if wrong), or at least evaluate you very differently from say, Google or Facebook.

I think Netflix is also similar?
Surely this is only a problem if, for whatever reason, a significant number of people are led to believe that the altered footage is an accurate historical representation when that is not the case. People create media that is not an accurate historical representation all the time: fictional movies, cartoons, etc. and presumably historians aren't upset about that.
And there are ways to manipulate RAM access patterns to induce errors as described in the initial Rowhammer attack paper plus later RAMBleed papers. Hopefully this newer DDR version is designed to be resistant to this type of attack.
https://www.inkandswitch.com/muse-studio-for-ideas.html

App is at https://apps.apple.com/us/app/muse-tool-for-thought/id150156...

It looks interesting, but $100 per year is really steep
Zebras All the Way Down - Bryan Cantrill, Uptime 2017

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fE2KDzZaxvE&t=35m40s
What is the situation with Wacom drawing tablets under Wayland compositors? Do they work now?
> Insulin is probably cheaper in Germany (I have no clue since I've never bought any)

Yeah maybe you shouldn't be making opinions out of pure ignorance of the situation at the factual and emotional level.
You are the only commenter quoting the horizontal development. So maybe my idea relates to you.

Are you familar with the concept of the Big O notation [1], which computer scientists use to (more or less) describe the "growth" of their algorithms? E.g. when you compare something that growth quadratically O(n²) to something that only growth linear O(n) you will see, that at some point the quadratically growth will grow faster as the linear growth. Forever! The linear growth will never win.

Comparing this to the horizontal sprawl of a city is easy. The area of a city is planar which is mathematically described as quadratic O(n²) but the average growth of the domestic product is just linear O(n). Assuming the maintainance cost of a planar sprawling city growth quadratic while the domestic product only growth linear then the costs will win over the income. Forever!

The conclusion is to limit the horizontal sprawl of a city to linear growth. This means every new house, street, rail road, pipe system, power line and so on must be build inside a diameter to the city's center with a distance which is logaritmic O(lg(n)) on average. The rest must growth vertically.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_O_notation
[2] https://www.statista.com/graphic/1/268750/global-gross-domes...
This is a sweet idea, great job
The article says 1886, but the caption on the video and Wikipedia both say 1896, which seems much more plausible.
I think everything you're saying is a reasonable interpretation of the behavior you observe, but I don't think it's the only possible nor the only plausible explanation, so it might be worth diving into what assumptions you might be making, especially considering that you're aware of what I think is one of the core issues - we don't know each other.

Text is hard to see through sometimes, and language is often vague. It's not always obvious when something is a joke, and it's not always guaranteed that something said in jest will be received the same way, nor that it's actually funny. Also downvotes are given for a wide variety of reasons (same as upvotes) so downvotes don't even necessarily indicate that a joke was interpreted as unfunny- it might simply be detracting or not relevant. It's best to not take downvotes personally, because they're often not given for the reasons you assume. (BTW I see good jokes on HN getting upvotes all the time, so make sure to avoid jumping to conclusions based on incomplete information.)

> Even your comment is offensive, with the passive aggressive "Let's not do X," as if we're part of some kind of collective, or I'm some kind of child that needs to be gently chided for my remark.

Sorry to say so, but this is off the mark. Your comment is explicitly offensive toward people who are actually autistic. This is a sort of collective, it is a community of hackers, and gentle encouragement to keep things civil and in line with the guidelines is allowed and encouraged. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
It would binary sort weird with negatives < 0 < positives but would put the largest magnitude negative closest to 0.

Also not Offset binary which uses 0111 for -1 rather than MySQL's 0001.
I read through the post, but still am not totally sure: will Wayland eventually be supported? What about wlroots vs mutter? Is that a distinction that needs to be made?
Yep. Last year's survey results: https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5d6fd1b92a7aeb0001796...
At a point wouldn't it be cheaper to hop on a flight to London , and check yourself into a hospital ?

I know if I wasn't upper middle class I'd likely be skipping medicine right now.

NHS style healthcare should be a human right
Maybe it's adequately named 'vapor' as in vaporware? But I agree, surprised it didn't implement its own token or cryptocurrency instead of polluting BitCoin.
One suggestion having just started using the site (AND LOVING IT) is to enable a "don't progress until correct mode" that way you don't miss a string of characters at a time. LMK if this is already a thing or if you are accepting PRs. I'd love to contribute!!!
Why would you take his general statement (musicians) and turn it into such a specific example (_jazz_ musicians)? You make it sound like jazz musicians are the only ones who would transcribe music to study it.