skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A lot of countries do not do “yearly physicals” like the American healthcare system recommends. This is because in countries with universal healthcare, patients within the country go to their GP/Primary Care Doctor far many more times on average than the typical American. So, in many countries, this practice is non-existent, basically because people just go to the doctor whenever they feel it is necessary—and far more often than the typical American does.

The average American sees a doctor 3 times per year. In France it is 6-7 times per year. In Japan, it’s 13 times per year. This statistic is directly linked to the cost of care.
> You can't just not have a CCW in the position he holds.

How so? Unless you mean to claim Apple expects anyone hired for that position to knowingly break the law as part of having that position.
Good point, it is usually the leading indentation that matters most. I guess since I use Clojure mostly, I like to be able to line up pairs in a map, or a let binding. This could potentially be achieved with tabs, but I'm a spaces guy so I think variable-spaced fonts would be problematic.

> but I do use a monospace font in the terminal because many command line applications align their output into columns using spaces

Ah, makes sense.
I was trained as an EE so control theory, feedback systems, adapters, ports, connectors, buffers and impedance matching, transfer functions all stuck with my way of approaching designing systems, including human systems/organizations.

The way I describe it as "receptors" as in neurotransmitters is because this fascinates me. Both nicotine and acetylcholine bind to nicotinic acetylcholine receptor (nAChRs). I found that to be amazing.
3D-printed glass enhances optical design flexibility
I launched an assistant that does tasks on your behalf
Can you guys be one of my first customers? I do believe this will be big in the next couple months
Looking at the Books section of Amazon: very, very ignorant.

But then some of those books I never read are manuals on dowsing... so maybe they count with a negative sign?
I think that there's a reasonable argument to be made that we can place an expectation of agency and intent upon corporate executives that we can't place on a virus. So the coronavirus might not be expected to be a psychopath, just inconvenient.
That seems very likely to me, and would explain this seeming blind spot in his otherwise brilliant career.
Well, the dude specifically chose MIT license. People who choose MIT licensing are generally comfortable with people taking their work and incorporating it without recompense.

It's a deliberate choice. I'm not surprised that his response is more mind-blowing shock rather than anger.
This article seems to be less about CCW permits themselves and more that a state agency is soliciting bribes for various permits when they realize the wealth of the organizations seeking them.

> Requested $75k of Apple tech to issue a CCW permit to the head of security, etc.
Ping dang or send them an email through the contact link at the bottom of HN.
Quantum tunneling pushes the limits of self-powered sensors
That is not actually true. German army behavior in Eastern front was literally genocidal. Death camps were only one part of project.

There was no discipline preventing Wehrmacht's or SS war crimes at eastern front - because those were not seen as breach of discipline. There was nothing of that sort that would cause trouble to soldier, per policy, because the place was meant to be living space for germans and germans only in long term.

And when you add SS batalions literally composed of basically uncontrolable convicted criminals and literally tasked with removal of civilian population, your thesis becomes even more absurd.
Alternative names:

- Batching Queues

- Friend Queues

- Group Queues

The name 'Israeli Queues' is unacceptable to many people because of the country's institutionalized racism [0].

[0] https://www.btselem.org
I mean, aren't dolphins, whales and orcas already have pretty much close to human-level intelligence?
United Nations: What is a Refugee?

A person forced to flee their country because of violence or persecution.

https://www.unrefugees.org/refugee-facts/what-is-a-refugee/

Brookings: Violence drives immigration from Central America

https://www.brookings.edu/blog/future-development/2018/06/26...
> There's a lot that goes into being a bodyguard

No. There isn't.

I used to work for a company that fielded body guards as one of their many services. Basically just have a pulse, don't have a criminal history, pass a fairly trivial interview that's designed to filter out people who think they're gonna be billy-badass or that it's gonna be an exiting job. There's a reason it doesn't pay well. Almost anyone can do it.

Driving a floor polisher was more lucrative and sucked less so I did that.
I’m on NixOS and had the same feeling when first debated which to use.

If I was running some security sensitive app or scientific computing I would probably choose guix and they tend to be pretty rigid about reproducible building from source and signing changes to to the OS. But my day to day OS I use NixOS as I get tons of packages and basically all the same features with the trade-off of expecting some weird behavior on edge-cases and reproducibility (which I have yet to run into but know I will eventually)
So, why not LibreOffice? Works great in Suse, reads and writes Word docs, pretty good spreadsheet.
Even when I worked for a large defense company which built systems to kill people at war, there were good aspects of it. There was one group that was building systems to monitor the rainforest. Another group was supporting the antarctic scientific missions.

There are also people that work to change the organization from the inside out. To be honest, if you want to change corporate culture, that's how it has to be done.
There are unmarked affiliate links in this oddly disorganised list.
Don't bother: I tried literally for years to teach the algorithm that I don't eat fish but it stills offer fish cooking videos to this day.
> Configuration getting messed up sounds more like a k8s problem than anything else. In any case, if you aren't using git and don't know how to at least back things up you really should be asking yourself if a tech company is right for you, as a one man/woman operation. There are countless other ways to make money online. Etsy, Craigslist, Shopify, etc.

I don't know if this was to intended to directed at me, but all of the tools mentioned imply using them with git or other version control, hence Github actions / CI. Kubernetes does not spontaneously mess up your configuration, well intentioned developers do. Willingness to learn new-ish technology puts you in a much better standing for running a tech business.

The snapshot/restore method is fine if you don't plan on updating very often, but this isn't a good alternative to infrastructure as code. I would make a base image that bootstraps your node to a cluster in Packer and then hand off all the deployment of nodes/DNS/Loadbalancer wiring in Terraform. Then just snapshot your database volumes as normal and deploy with your orchestration.
FWIW, Pieter Levels just started using Git last week.
https://twitter.com/levelsio/status/1327451757975375874

This is one-man who made > $1million a year.
Hello HN,

I've been toying away at writing a user-friendly markdown-ish format that lets users to define their own marks and format rules. It's pretty stable at this point, and I'd love to get feedback and ideas before I push it any further.

Thanks!
Gamification: A guide for designers to a misunderstood concept
How do you know it's bad? It looks like it has a chance of being pretty usable.
Lots, but that doesn't have anything to do with my point.
In this app, mostly lots and lots of thumbnails. It may be some unoptimized code.

But rather than get into the details of my app, and parts that need optimization (whether in my local code or in Rails or in ruby), I'm more curious about the overall concept.

Are you sure that most of your web app's time is spent waiting on the DB? My suspicion has become that this is conventional wisdom that is not actually true of most apps anymore. But I could be wrong. Or I could be right only for Rails and not python because Rails is slower than typical python, or something. I am curious to find out.
Enough people know that Wootz steel is possible through mixing wrought and cast iron in the right sort of vessel that we'd have at least some steel with decent carbon content. Or pattern welding will be fine for most things.
I was careful to say 'the DNC media', not 'the media'.

Please see my other response I wasn't taking a political position here on this thread about funding, I am being objective.
Yes. Especially because of covid. I think blogs are going to make a comeback here shortly. With podcasts rising and the like, I believe blogs will become a trend again. People are looking for entertainment constantly.
I agree with you, but I'd wager there was an alternative way to get rid of Stallman that would be both kinder and less harmful to GNU and FSF causes.
> Rich people have no reason to keep significant amounts of currency

Eliminate inflation and they do though (if your currency is guaranteed to hold or even increase its purchasing power, the risk adjusted returns on investing it in productive activies aren't very attractive). Which is bad news for workers who feel they could be productive enough to negotiate for higher wages, if only the rich had any incentive to direct their gold reserves towards creating better jobs.
If I were to attempt a one liner for the key takeaway from this, it'd be "use frameworks as much as possible, use managed services as much as possible".

It's a position I couldn't agree with more. It might be one of those mistakes you can only truly learn from by making it yourself, but honestly, while DIY is awesome for learning its only place in a business is at the core of what your business value is.

One way I think about it is anything DIY is surface area for either innovation, or mistakes. To mitigate the risk of making mistakes doing things DIY you'd better do it only in areas where innovation could actually benefit your core business value and give you magnified upside. If you innovate outside these areas, I guess it's nice, but you've taken the risk of mistakes for no significant upside. Not to mention a whole load of work invested.
Have you preferred Nix or Guix (specifically in writing the configuration/managing the system)?
In my experience the YouTube algorithm is very easily manipulated. Just scroll through your feed and select "not interested" for what you dislike. The type of content changes very quickly.
> For sure OpenGL/DX requires more infrastructure to run unit tests than a generic block of C code. But it's absolutely possible to "unit test" shader code, with buffer read-back and/or vertex stream out, among other options.

Which is what I said, you can screenshot & compare. But it becomes a fuzzy compare due to acceptable precision differences.

And it ends up being more of an integration test and not a unit test.

> Every language has valid-per-spec differences.

They really don't, but that's not entirely what I'm talking about. I'm talking about valid hardware behavior differences, which doesn't exist broadly. How a float performs in Java is well-defined and never changes. How numbers perform in most languages is well-defined and does not vary.

GPU shaders are completely different. Numbers do not have consistent behavior across differing hardware & drivers. This is a highly unique situation. Even in languages where things are claimed to be variable (like the size of int in C & C++), end up not actually varying, because things don't cope well with it. Shaders don't play any such similar games.
Right. If only select people could run the backhoe because of training, but anyone could shovel, then it would make sense that part of the productivity enhancements comes from the employee themselves. But let's just say the backhoe didn't require any special training. Should the worker capture some of the performance improvements that were derived purely from the business investing in productivity enhancements?
>> You mean low income inequality, right?

Fixed, thank you.
A lot of people here are recommending stacks that have worked for them, or cautioning against over-engineered stacks that didn't. All of that is useful, but I'd boil a lot of this down to one simple axiom:

If you're a professional engineer and you're starting a tech side project with the goal of shipping - use what you know.

I do a lot of work with node, cloudfront, s3, and React for my day job. All of my side projects are built on node, cloudfront, s3, and React. This works well for me because my goal with side projects right now is to be productive, not to learn new tech.

An important clarification is that I use the tech that I use in my day-to-day, not what my company uses. Just because I have coworkers who know kubernetes back-to-front doesn't mean I do!

Also, there's nothing wrong with doing side projects with totally crazy/new tech stacks as a way to explore and learn new tech. I just think it's good to be really intentional with whether the goals of a project are educational/process-oriented or results-oriented.
You just don’t understand how things really work at the rest of the world. Yes, corporate would be mildly unhappy, but they know that it happens all the time. Notice that they got on the plane on “stand-by” without available seats in the first place! So while technically it was against regulations, things like this happen all the time in less regulated countries.
Wow, the investigation couldn't even figure out which company was actually making the Jetstream routers. They believe it's Winstars Technology Ltd but they're not sure.

Sounds shady when whoever's making it is apparently distancing themselves from their own product.
Ha! I’d bet the security head did not do this of their own accord, there was almost certainly a higher-up approving it. And what would apple do, replace their head of security (who is willing and able to navigate sociopolitical constructs in order to do their job to the fullest extent possible) with some random fellow who would turn around at the first “no” from some beurocrat and report back to senior leadership that the only people who will be allowed to have guns on Apple campus are the criminals? Highly highly doubtful.

If they do get fired, it will be as a scapegoat, probably with a large severance, and any company in the world would hire them up immediately.
When I worked as a farmhand they gave me a Massey Ferguson 135.
The old one with the round mudguards too.

I used it for most small to medium jobs.

I loved that old beast, I was so mad when I found out they got rid of it.
The guilt is obviously out of professional pride, not a sense of legal obligation.
It's not the same thing. A PC can be patched. Patching the router requires firmware update, which requires cooperation from the vendor (which seems unlikely given the vendor intentionally implemented the vulnerabilities in the first place).

Yes, Walmart should be slammed for this. It's the Walmart's responsibility to protect its customers by sourcing secure electronics--especially when they're advertising the router as a Walmart exclusive. They're explicitly aligning themselves with the vendor.

But Walmart won't be slammed for this. Because the people who buy cheap routers from Walmart typically aren't the most tech savvy bunch.
> Is there somewhere I can find some evidence that it isn't a marginal improvement?

While your story about raw computing performance holds, there are two reasons why apple's M1 release is significant (i.e.: not marginal):

1. This is the first time in decades that we see a serious non-x86 competitor for general purpose consumer-level computing. This is significant in and of itself.

2. Power consumption. These things seem to consume 2/3rds as many watts to offer the same performance levels than their x86 counterparts. This is big in the laptop space.
I think there might be some confusion here. Let me restate my argument to see if it clears things up.

I believe that if you can achieve precision tools you can use those tools to meet societies ongoing energy needs using renewable energy sources. This means that if you have non-fossil fuel energy sources available to advance metallurgy and toolmaking to the point you can make precision tools then you can reboot civilization without fossil fuels. I also think it is very likely that humans could do this but it might take longer than it did with fossil fuels.
I'd like to see Intel make a better product and sell it based on its own merits rather than attacking the accomplishments of their competitors. Smear pieces like this smack of desperation and the lack of a competitive product, or the strategy to create one.

A great product would sell itself.
How weird is Christopher Walken
I’m just realizing this. My mails to outlook are not delivering well I think
You basically delegate tasks, like document preparation, trips to San Francisco etc & a human does it within 60 sec - 60 mins
Ah, I found the interesting bit:

> a remote attacker can achieve RCE via a POST request to adm.cgi. There are several conditions required, including proper parameters and an active session. However, these conditions can all be met without any initial authentication required thanks to several specific exposed “live_(string).shtml” endpoints – so an attacker with the right background information about the device could achieve RCE fairly easily.
What's even more galling is that if I were personally caught in such a situation as an IC, I would have been fired instantly. That he is the head of ethics compliance at Apple makes it even more galling, especially given that the company forces everyone through this kind of training when really only management & leadership violations of these ethics trainings can possibly get the company into serious trouble.

> He has overall responsibility for Apple’s ethics and compliance program including Apple’s Business Conduct Policy, governing the ethical and legal obligations of Apple’s Board, executives and over 130,000 employees around the world,

A delivery of 200 iPads as a bribe to get CCW permits makes me think it's more involved. Although this may be with his discretionary power, it's shocking to me that the donation was aborted as soon as warrants went out. I'd like to better understand what happened at Apple.

Beyond the problem of "may issue" permits you raise, I'd love to remove this kind of discretion for discovery. For example, when bringing charges like this the DA must be obligated to initiate discovery of the company documents to investigate how far reaching the problem may be (settlements can't begin to be negotiated until the DA completes discovery).
Or maybe someone told the developer to implement a backdoor and this was the only way they thought they could do it?

Can someone explain what we get by assuming the Chinese are just so inept at technology (they aren't) that we give them the benefit of the doubt that this is a naive mistake here?
why is it loading so slowly
How does yarn affect that number? AIUI, yarn caches the packages on your machine so if you create multiple tract projects (for example), it only downloads react and its dependencies once.
My 4750u (in T14 thinkpad) doesn't go to 4GHz clock in the first 10s of load when on battery. After 10s it jumps to 4GHz+. Which means that for my bursty workloads like running unit tests in python, linters, etc. I get 60% of performance. To circumvent that I often use external powerbank just to make it 'plugged in'. Running kernel 5.9 btw. Annoying AF.
Do you have a source for this chart?
The only time I've ever had a machine owned was through a borken cPanel installation our professor forced on us.

I'm still not sure what it does that I couldn't do with a normal ssh session.
Disclaimer: I'm the owner of a small start up based in Asia, some things may not apply to the US.

My startup mentor has always told me that to observe the trend and play to the crowd. In the age of social media, it is extremely risky to go against the accepted narrative in different parts of the world.

For example, many large entertainment firms display pro LGBT messages in the States. However, they choose to selectively remove those messages in Asia.

It's been established that knowing your audience, their political leanings, so that you can shape your narratives correctly is key. Publicly supporting an incorrect political agenda can often lead to damage to the brand's reputation.
This comment was talking about https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25189673; we've since merged that thread into this one.
Just tried and it works :) .. Nice.
Ok, so your gut feeling vs some scientific research? Could you try to debate the facts instead of a strawman journalist?

Why do you say this journalist is lying, but lack of evidence from other journalists must mean this one is wrong?

Pirate Bay is a big site, and journalists and the population would notice. But they might not know to look for other sites being censored. Just food for thought. I don't know whether to believe it either, but I'm willing to leave it to others to fact check more rigorously.

A perfectly reasonable explanation that obeys all the facts could be that a single telecom blocked access for a short time by mistake, was alerted, and silently fixed it before journalists noticed. I doubt many people are visiting hrw.org on a daily basis, and an outage like that could be mistaken for temporary website issues. A journalist would probably not assume it was a country-wide block and so wouldn't think to write an article about it.
Because I also value developer freedom. In fact, as a developer, I might value it even higher than user freedom. I've had the irritating experience of finding a good library that's GPL'ed and that I therefore cannot use. Copyleft is great for users and awful for developers. As much as some people hate to hear it, there are industries in which it is not viable to release the source to one's product and remain competitive.
Algorithmic Trap
It's good that there are alternatives, particularly those that are outside the scope of US law, where at least some CAs believe certificates can be revoked for copyright reasons [1]. Let's Encrypt says they can revoke your cert if "our Certificate is being used, or has been used, to enable any criminal activity...[or] ISRG is legally required to revoke Your Certificate pursuant to a valid court order issued by a court of competent jurisdiction" [2]. But I'm sure Austria where ZeroSSL is based is still party to a number of copyright conventions and law enforcement data sharing agreements.

[1] https://torrentfreak.com/sci-hub-pirate-bay-for-science-secu...
[2] https://letsencrypt.org/documents/LE-SA-v1.2-November-15-201...
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IIRC, little things like German generals, in their autobiographies, saying things like "if the Brits and French had listened to Liddell Hart, they wouldn't have lost to us in 1940" or "our tactics were based on reading Liddell Hart's early infantry tactics work" when there is little to no chance that they could have known who he was at the time and most of his writings prior to WWII were based on the ide that "blitzkrieg" was impossible. In turn, he wrote several books along the lines of the "clean Wehrmacht" and that German generals were brilliant---specifically, most of the German generals you've ever heard of.

See *Liddell Hart and the Weight of History" by John J. Mearsheimer.
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When a Guix system upgrade breaks something important, you can simply boot up the previous "generation" of the system and get back to work until the blocker bug you encountered has been fixed, at which point you can attempt the upgrade again.