skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Spot on. And further more, any appeals to safety from politicians should be shouted down as the misdirection that they are.

The root of 99% of crime in the US is poverty. Not private communication.

Trying to solve poverty by spying on everyone’s data is like trying to cure cancer with Tylenol. Even if you temporarily prevent a symptom from occurring, you're still dying of cancer.

So much of political thought in the US is focused on the futile efforts of treating symptoms, and not curing underlying causes.

And the worst part is, if you look at statistics in the rest of the developed world, poverty in fact has a cure! Like in most things, the US is the head-in-the-sand stubborn outlier here.
Muse is our first commercial spin-out from the lab, a spatial canvas to collect your thoughts: https://museapp.com/
Well, I see what you did there, if it's any consolation.

But I think it's also a good and underappreciated point you make.

> Where does this holier-than-thou attitude come from?

Do you mean that literally?
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I have yet to find a situation where using a native datetime format made more sense than using a unix timestamp in integer fields.
The "colorized" version is very brown. Is that a limitation of the AI or is that really what it probably looked like?
Protein. The systems engineering body synthesizes and structures the protein into amino acids and polypeptides as required.
nice visuals, but these polls and simulations were wrong in 2016, and are likely wrong now.
Because there are a lot of fans that think BC was peak. And they’re willing to pay for it again.
Wait but can anyone confirm if storks actually deliver babies?
I wanted to support and use Plausible, mainly for the drill-down feature, which Fathom doesn't have yet.

But, I had two main concerns about this product from my trial:

1) Slow response time (~300ms) of the script when using a custom domain.

2) I liked its simple design and features, but looks like it's already starting to bloat up with trivial things like UTM tracking.

Some small UI bugs (like time range buttons not working) also need ironing out.

Waiting for Cloudflare Web Analytics to compare.
Weirdly enough no, and Amazon is normally so good and consistant in their naming of products.
Guess who started the union-interest mailing group when working at Amazon HQ.

Guess who is banned from ever working at Amazon again.
I remember that at least in the past you could copy books (and sell those copies) as long as you did not automatically copy the content. I.e. Copyright would not trigger in this case. Re-typing a book was expressly allowed.

Is that still the case?

A site like this could then used to make legal replicas of books.
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Yes, this is why Asians and Whites are the dumbest races. They had traditions of religious celibacy, which while not always honored, caused lower birthrates among the intelligent, whereas Africa, the New World, and the Middle East did not.

Joke explainer: That was sarcastic, but the point is anyone can make up a plausible just so story about anything by picking some factoids to support their prejudices.
Indeed! The multiple balls may be thought of like ballots/points, leading to the wrong intuition that “more balls one side, that side wins”. But that’s exactly the misinterpretation of probabilities/multiple-trials such demos are trying to fight.

Perhaps, whenever many balls shown at once, all but one should be faint/outlined or even X’d out?
Pro tip: Set your hint characters to keys you can hit with your off-mouse hand. (e.g., being a right-handed qwerty user, mine are asdqwerzxcvtgb) Now you can keep one hand on the keyboard, the other on your mouse (or coffee, or whatever).
This was my favorite plant database when I was more actively involved in permaculture: https://pfaf.org/user/plantsearch.aspx

One search for "plant database" on google turned up a number of other options.

Have you checked out any of those?
In that time, it was thought that rapidly building a nuclear deterrent against the soviets was important enough that the environment could be sacrificed. You can see this effect throughout the defense industry throughout the cold war, probably most viscerally in the example of the Rocky Flats Plant in Colorado.
It is, and tons of people do it. Although they go to Mexico/India/SE Asia. There are entire medical tourism packages offered by hospitals in these countries - including airfare, surgeries/consultations, drugs, hospital stays, recovery at fancy resorts - all still working out to a fraction of the cost of treatment in the US.
This shouldn't be allowed to happen. These people need this to live and your extorting as much as inhumanely possible from them. As a Canadian this disgusts me, I hope that there is change to allow people to get medication they need.
It's gatekeeping regulation under the guise of "quality control". Drug companies don't want competition from the bottom, they're happy with a regulatory framework that keeps small companies from entering the market.

Insulin itself would be simple and cheap to produce, but getting through the approval process is so expensive, it wouldn't make economical sense to then sell the product near cost. Insulin isn't the mass-market product it once was, because it has fallen out of favor for Type II diabetes and Type I diabetes is relatively rare.

The way other countries get around this is price controls. They just tell the companies what drugs are allowed to cost, so profits are limited not by competition, but by fiat.
I've seen a ton of it in the field. In general the ram stability is so bad that large operating systems fail to boot from corruption, so most of the time it doesn't get to the data corruption phase.
I don't think that's true.

There was a job opening I looked at about ten years back where the whole responsibility was writing bin packing algorithms to allocate batches of medications to countries based on the quality control guidelines of that country and the tolerances achieved in manufacturing a particular batch. [Edit] I suspect the rationale is that both products are fine, and the regulations represent overreach, so we're going to mollify them. But the banking and finance industries were complaining about overreach right up until the crash (as they have before every single crash). The money it costs you to comply also costs you your objectivity.

You might be able to overclock the hell out of an Intel processor that was binned several notches down from the top, but that depends on how good the yields were that week. It's possible you just got a slightly shittier processor.
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I do. This was quite entertaining.
Thanks. Very helpful information!
I approach this from the viewpoint that we have a huge amount of historical media and writings that most people are never exposed to, and altering this historical media in a way that will get it more exposure increases peoples' understanding of the past.
> The final, net prices paid for insulins are likely to be significantly lower than manufacturer prices in the U.S. because rebates and other discounts often drive down the price paid by individuals in the U.S.

I suspect this gives a hint to one contributing factor. Suppliers probably list much higher prices so that they can negotiate lower prices with insurance companies without losing profit. But then the consumer needs to use an "in-network" supplier to get those reduced prices, which removes competition and drives prices up even further.
I wonder if eminent domain laws apply to intellectual property?
It would be nice if projects like this had a page explaining why you would choose them over the 20 other[0] open source analytics options.

[0]: https://github.com/awesome-selfhosted/awesome-selfhosted#ana...
But he was trying to not be funny. To be funny.
The doctor who delivered my son was Dr. Stork.
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One of the most popular growth strategies used by CBD businesses to get new customers, that's easily applicable in other restricted industries.
Would now be a good time to remind savvy technical readers that it's crucial to have a solid grounding in ethics? It can be hard to draw a line when you work deep inside a system.
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Using YAML as a data transformation language? What could possibly go wrong?
Unclear. These upscaling techs are more "this is what it realistically could have looked like" than "this is what it did look like"
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I'd think all the VC money sloshing around should be able to figure something like this instead of another social media platform.

Would be nice , but unless you convinced VCs to invest in a non profit this startup would be sold within 3 years to big pharma.

NHS style healthcare is the only way to go
The problem is not that one company attempts to raise its prices, the problem is that it is very difficult for competitors to undercut them. The FDA has made it very expensive to introduce and support products in the US pharmaceutical market; it has imposed huge compliance costs, and helped drug companies sustain those costs through exclusivity arrangements.

Moralizing about health issues feels good, but these issues are created by simple economics (market and regulatory issues), not ethical deficiencies.
Show HN: Lunchbox Ninja
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24689091

I've found involving my kids in choosing what they want packed in their lunches to be really good for reducing waste and improving the chances of them eating at school. They love ordering their lunches using a picture-heavy online form. Using the recently posted[1] AreYouInterested, I'm gauging interest for a tailor-made solution.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24689091
Yes, this is what I was referring to when I said EB sometimes seems like a neglected stepchild of AWS.

AWS in general follows a paradigm where the target market is generally large, huge enterprises with niche use cases and large IT organizations that don't mind (and often require) taking fine-grained control of things like setting up CI/CD pipelines, deployment configurations, etc. These things are all possible and powerful on AWS but they mostly require self-configuration, which is sort of the opposite of what Heroku/DO App Platform are trying to be.

Beanstalk is in a weird place because it still follows that AWS paradigm of "we want to expose all of these fine-grained controls to the power users at large enterprises" while also still attempting to make it easier for the average developer. The end result is that Beanstalk gets stuck somewhere in the middle.

Beanstalk is a very capable and powerful service, and you certainly can set up a CI/CD pipeline in the way you've described, but you have to set it up yourself using AWS CodePipeline or by using the beanstalk CLI... which is certainly not as developer friendly as something like Heroku, especially if it's just a hobby app that you're toying with on the weekends.

And to muddy the waters a bit more, AWS also has Amplify, which actually does have one-click-setup for a GitHub linked CI/CD pipeline, but AFAIK it's mostly meant for static websites or for mobile apps, so it isn't exactly the same target use cases as Beanstalk.
Yes, this is definitely a useful point of comparison!

We hesitated to mention database migrations too much in the essay for the reason you mention: in some sense, the whole point of Cambria is that you never do a one-time "migration", but rather you just continuously translate the data.

Still, using the system does feel pretty similar to doing database migrations, and we intentionally modeled some of the dev workflow after ActiveRecord migrations:

https://www.inkandswitch.com/cambria.html#developer-workflow
How can a community of people be so aligned with my interests, and yet they are the most unpleasant, unfunny, stuck up people on the planet?

There are other places on the internet where intelligent, articulate people gather to exchange wisdom and the occasional burst of cleverness or humor is appreciated. For reasons beyond the scope of this discussion, HN isn't it.
The decay chain of most isotopes, accompanied by their respective probabilities are known, as well as the decay products of the given decay (which includes decay energy + mode - alpha, beta or gamma, see e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radioactive_decay).

Thus, for known radioactive isotope composites we can conclude which isotopes will be prevalent in which timeframe, and how much and which radioactive radiation will be emitted.

As such it is possible to conclusively state how much radiation danger for living entities (see e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gray_(unit)) will be emitted over a certain time frame.

Since the composition of nuclear waste is usually known or verifiable, and applying the known decay chains, it is possible to derive the duration and amount of risk.

I trust e.g. climate change and the scientists behind it; but their basis is, statistically, much weaker than the statistics and science behind nuclear decay (which is much easier to measure and to verify).

Also, geologists are - if trusted - also able to predict the permeability of the composition of the underground over a given period. They are able to (to the best of our knowledge) deduce the age of sediments >40k years into the past.
Has that been studied? It doesn't match my experience, I saw them pretty unrelated.
But the worst thing that happens if you fail to implement the best practices is that you lose section 230 protections. If you're and E2E messaging app or the author of device encryption software you don't need section 230 protections to begin with.
> Nothing was deployed. Zip, zero, zilch resources were used month-on-month.

This is like leasing a car, leaving it parked, and then complaining you have to pay the lease.
> That's true but then companies would have a problem where too many people still look qualified after going through rounds of interviews.

Be ready for a surprise. Almost anyone who can spend 3-6 months on solving every single problem at LeetCode\HackerRank can crack these so called high caliber interviews. Unfortunately, a lot of us deny to take that route
but, but... Trump said he's getting Insulin as cheap as water.

Could he be... lying?!?
It certainly fits in nicely with American Civil Religion. The government can't do anything, so you take personal responsibility for your own survival and make the drug run into Canada or Mexico every month.
Why is anybody a modern day conservative/Republican if Democrats want to fix health care and everything that is broken with it can be attributed to Republicans? At least that's the vibe I get from reading here + Reddit on politics.

Seriously asking.
Yep. But what do you do if you can't afford to do that? And even if you can, if you have a chronic condition, you would need to find a job in London (or whereever else you go).
The guy in the article makes it sound like a bad thing, and implies that should targetted advertising go away, so will all the internet properties we love and enjoy. My guess is that Apple (and Samsung) will eventually go ahead with this change, but by then some other workaround will be built, rendering said change cosmetic (without the general public's knowledge or consent, of course).
It's not the auto companies that are bringing Detroit up for tech. They are ancient outdated behemoths working on auto focused things. There are a handful of smaller tech companies that do the sexy work for the big 3 though. It's the places like Quicken or Dominos that are putting Detroit on the map for tech.
Fair points. I have been out of the game for a while so not sure what is currently out there, but a search for "permaculture network" turns up 3-4 viable candidates.

I didn't mean to rain on your parade, too much, but wanted to drive home that information sharing is nice, but creating permaculture businesses is more important. It's the same thing as a CSA directory (I ran one for about 10 years). The CSA directory is nice and scalable and easy, and helpful to end users, but the crux of the economic system is the CSA farm, actually delivering value to others.

To make an analogy, permaculture has too many directories and not enough farms.

If you haven't, I'd suggest listening to Scott Mann/The Permaculture Podcast, as he has lots of inspiring stories about people making a living from permaculture: https://www.thepermaculturepodcast.com/
Here is their promotional video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dWOGbu5BcT0
I would like to know the details, seriously. Thousands of broken packages because of major python release?

As a former package maintainer I can assure you that every update of gcc breaks the build of some other package. And we are talking about C or c++, languages existing longer than Python and having much stronger backward compatibility story. And no one ever said that upgrade to recent gcc is a problem.

Iow there is hardly any up to date system which do not require constant maintenance.
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Is this the same Nick Land famous for his racist views that kickstarted the "dark enlightenment"?
So if you were being sarcastic about Asians and Whites being the dumbest races... are they the smartest? Seems a little racist. Please make use of the edit button.
We also today probably have the best surveillance tools in all of recorded history. Modern phones mean that anyone on the planet can have their location tracked in real time, and if exploited (perhaps by a malicious update to the OS or apps to add a backdoor), the most intimate information about the user can be harvested in bulk, or they can be watched and listened to, without being served a warrant, even in their own home. These sorts of things were not possible a hundred years ago. They weren't really possible only a generation ago.
You are the one who is judging others. There is just an (implicit) rule that there are better places for humor than here and that it's better in the long run for everybody to keep discussions on topic. So yes, as for every other rules, it's sometimes annoying but there is no reason to be so upset about this.
What was the point in time between when the existing myriad failing/failed nuclear installations were designed and now that the engineers started taking risk to public health seriously, testing every component exhaustively, and putting lots of hours in to research and design?

> 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.

Why didn't we know it about Fukushima? Things happen beyond the control of man, to make claims like the above is impossible.
I didn't see dates in the methodology section for when the survey results were collected. Would be curious how this takes into account budget cutbacks from Covid earlier this year. At my own startup, we saw about a 10% MRR retraction from April - July and have only recently started bouncing back.
While we are all biased toward seeking to validate our own choices I believe it also can be said that some choices are more effective at producing a given outcome than others.
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> The etymology isn't mysterious. The primary sources clearly indicate that the first appearance was the Anglo-Saxon word "wicing", meaning "pirate."

Sure, if you believe that the act of writing something down in one place retroactively causes it not to have happened in another place, this is an argument that makes sense.

Though even then, you haven't actually made a case that the etymology isn't mysterious. Where did the Anglo-Saxons get their word from?
I'm very interested in hearing about some specifics!
Creative Commons generally is better for content than for code. CC0 is an exception. It tries to put something into public domain and where that is not possible tries to grant the same rights.
They did not worry about whether it could be stored safely long term, because that was not their mandate. And, because Hanford had some of the first [large scale] reactors ever built, they did not know much about what the requirements of long-term safety and storage would even be.

80 years later, we know a lot more, and have a different set of expectations for how to store and handle nuclear waste.

It's fair to be skeptical, but not fair to condemn them based on past mistakes which have been specifically addressed. It would be like saying modern cars must be unsafe, because cars from the 1940s don't have seatbelts or airbags. It doesn't follow.

You could also say "well, we know about some safety issues, but what about the ones we don't know about yet?" but that attitude extends to all of science and engineering as well. We have to proceed with caution, but proceed nonetheless.
I absolutely love vimium. Such a great tool.

[Vimium + i3 + vim + vscode/vmplugin] Means that I rarely have to reach for the mouse, have a tonne of desktop real estate that's easy to navigate and is way more comfortable.

Just having search, simple navigation and the 'f-feature' in vimium is enough for like 99% of my use cases.

It's such a pleasant and seamless experience to code in the editor, hop on over to the terminal to do w/e, skip on over to the browser to look something up, and go back to code. The muscle memory just takes over. Not to mention all the other benefits like having to track down small icons, sometimes changing window state (e.g. unmaximize, moving things around), and how much more effort using a mouse is over 2-3 keystrokes.
Can HN really deliver enough traffic to a static site to cost a significant amount? I've had mildly popular posts on HN for my Netlify blog (John Carmack tweeted about it!) and not had to pay for bandwidth.
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What do you use for journalling, especially w.r.t your day job? I was thinking of starting, with the idea that it would help me post-process my days better and remember what I learned, and I'm curious how other people do it.

Ideally it would be a tool that provides basic search and is also backed by something open (eg text files) that I can export easily.
If you're interested in Erlang/Elixir, you might want to watch this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JvBT4XBdoUE (GOTO 2019 • The Soul of Erlang and Elixir • Saša Jurić)

It shows off the power of the BEAM VM -- and kind of makes you stand back and go "whoa.. how do they do that?"
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This is somewhat unrelated, but the things that help me most are:

1. The Johnny File System: https://johnnydecimal.com/
2. The PARA System: https://fortelabs.co/blog/para/

I mix the PARA system with JFS by numbering it in the JFS manner.
For example, I have a note called "Minimalism", so I store it in "02-AREAS" like this:

"2.01 Minimalism"

Now let's say I want to totally change my minimalism list, then I am going to archive that in "04-ARCHIVE" like so:

"4.01 2.01 Minimalism"

Then I reuse the 2.01 for my minimalism list again.

Another side note: Bullet Journaling is something that I am looking into, but I am not yet familiar with it. My take on it is: you are an operating system scheduling tasks out of a task list.

This is what a key in a bullet journal might look like paired with Standard Notes:

• task
x completed
> moved forward
< scheduled task (future)
~~cancelled~~
○ event
- note
! important

Regarding JFS:

https://www.reddit.com/r/datacurator/comments/cucufy/my_pers...

This is what I used as a reference to organize my folder system with JFS.
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