skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This was a $2000 deductible/copay, which is capped annually. So it's not $2000 per treatment, more like $2000 per year where you need services beyond the basics. And meanwhile, having that high deductible keeps the monthly premium expense low
How to Position the Solution in a Pitch Deck
> The highest carrier frequency occurs in Bangladesh, where more than half the population (63%) carries at least one copy of the Neanderthal risk haplotype and 13% is homozygous for the haplotype.

As a Bangladeshi now living outside of the country, I am not sure what to make of it. We didn't have any proper lockdown AFAIK. In a country with huge amount of poor populace, it's almost impossible to do mandate people to stay in home when they don't have means to live. Thus COVID is very widespread, although not reported because of lack of testing. Even with all that, COVID didn't cause much harm to the population. Albeit, all of it is ancedotal.
There's a lot to respond to in your post, but let me address a single point:

In-person public school education is an essential service because our society is not setup to allow every child to stay home all day with a parent or caregiver. 64.2% of married-couple families with children have both parents employed.[1] That's 33.4 million families as of 2019.

It's not an issue about alternative education models or indoctrination. It's about who is going to stay home with the kids and help them with their remote learning. Which parent is going to quit their job, and how to deal with the financial impact of that. Closing a school means that everyone in that district has to immediately adapt, and that hits some people much harder than others.

Additionally, 22 million children rely on free or reduced-price lunch at school.[2] Many schools made those same lunches available for pickup earlier this year, but they're not going to be able to reach all of those children.

[1] https://www.bls.gov/news.release/famee.nr0.htm

[2] https://www.businessinsider.com/free-school-lunch-kids-summe...
Realtime requires low-latency. In trading, they require real-time, not low-latency.
This is why I qualified with "general-audience" -- I have no doubt that different industries/companies etc worked out vocabularies to optimize costs, or even that there were some common shared codes. But did the vestigal telegraph codes you saw look anything like the stuff in this book? I might well be completely wrong -- I have no dependable intuition about the period at all -- but I somehow can't shake the impression that this is mimicry rather than the real thing. Sort of like mongodb successfully convinced countless naïfs that it was some sort of google bigtable style technology that would simplify their lives, handle their scaling and save them lots of money (whereas in reality it was vastly inferior to existing free RDBMs offerings in all metrics save marketing and ease of (unauthenticated) installation).
Virtualization doesn't always play nice if you're doing performance intense/measurement work, although I wouldn't even try doing that on Apple hardware to start with
How many ex-Googlers are there in the world now? There must be a few hundred thousand.
Pro :

1. It is great to hear Brian Kernighan's account of the early history of Unix.

2. It was wonderful to hear about his interactions with one of my personal heroes, Richard Hamming.
Hamming's book on error correction (Coding and information theory) is amazing.

3. It is very kind of Adam Gordon Bell to make these wonderful interviews available. These interviews are oral history that will never again be available once the interviewees are gone.

Con:

1. The interviewer talks far too much about irrelevant trivia and often talks at greater length about than the people being interviewed.

2. It has the feel of Adam Gordon Bell interviews Adam Gordon Bell.
A little less Bell and more of the interviewee would have been less irritating and easier to listen to.

Despite my caveats, I intend to download and listen to many more of these interviews on my commute to work.

Keep up this historically important work, but please let the interviewees talk without continually interrupting.
I think there's a degree of affluence at which the question changes from "how much can I give while still attending to my needs?" to "how much can I give while maintaining my social position?" If you're just getting by and you give all you can, there's a good chance that the community you're nourishing will pay it back in kind. On the other hand, if you're rich and give away most of your money, you're not going to get that lifestyle back. And I think that's where a stingy mindset begins to set in.

I also think more affluent people are often socialized to expect that generosity will be taken advantage of, which leads them to favor formalized charities where their responsibility is clearly and legally defined and limited.
I just tested my laptop with the Ubuntu benchmark tool on the partition editor. 3.5GB/s read on 100MB chunks.
This popped up recently on the news: https://www.transportenvironment.org/press/plug-hybrids-new-...
Haha, people want to make money off their knowledge and people want to pay money for said knowledge.
It didn't for me, but.. there's nothing to do but click play, so why not?

I agree when there's content to read, especially if that's the main purpose. (YouTube for example might be more debatable.)
If I'm reading right, the two groups can only breed with each other. That is, white-striped males and tan-striped females can breed, as can white-striped females and tan-striped males. (And the offspring are about half white-striped and half tan-striped.)

So it's not speciation, any more than sexes themselves are speciation.
This concept is explored well in the book Blindsight, by Peter Watts.

Available for free here: https://rifters.com/real/Blindsight.htm
Good video. And like all good criticisms of Facebook it leaves me wondering, “but what can I do?”
I’m laughing a little bit because an old place I used to work had a similar setup. The SAN/NAS/whatever it was was pretty slow, provisioning VMs was slow, and as much as we argued that we didn’t need redundancy for a lot of our VMs (they were semi-disposable), the IT department refused to give us a fast non-redundant machine.

And then one day the SAN blew up. Some kind of highly unlikely situation where more disks failed in a 24h period than it could handle, and we lost the entire array. Most of the stuff was available on tapes, but rebuilding the whole thing resulted in a significant period of downtime for everyone.

It ended up being a huge win for my team, since we had been in the process of setting up Ansible scripts to provision our whole system. We grabbed an old machine and had our stuff back up and running in about 20 minutes, while everyone else was manually reinstalling and reconfiguring their stuff for days.
It is also a Black Sabbath song.
didn’t say need to be “fluent”, said need “working understanding” in today’s environment. countering that idea is futile.

working on an open source JS framework is great and all, but doesn’t make you a seasoned engineer IMO.

TlDR: take this list and dedicate time in 2021 to learning so you can be productive in real world business engineering teams
This reminds me of David Wheeler's adage:

All problems in computer science can be solved by another level of indirection.

The rejoinder, and I don't know who gets credit for it, is:

All performance problems can be solved by removing a layer of indirection.
It has a 'key' it's just not standard. It doesn't matter though.

What it does is make use of specific scales, or one scale, in particular, the minor scale or maybe one of it's variants.

The problem is actually ... they stay in that one scale, forever. This is a limitation of this music.

This music is: take a scale, and have someone play a very long, intuitive solo overtop in that one key, effectively one chord. The structure is really quite limited unfortunately.
There's 10s of small EV's you can already buy for nearly half price of Model 3 in EU.

They probably can make it cheap enough, especially if it's made in EU to skirt tariffs, but by then there will 100s of competitors.

Right now you can already buy 35k euro SUV when Model Y is something like 60k.
I wonder how much of this comes down to problem selection, rather than effectiveness of the interviewer? Interviewers usually stick to a couple of problems, so their predictive power might depend primarily on the problem set.

I've been going through some technical phone screens lately, and am pretty surprised by how bad the questions are that some people choose. Questions that I wouldn't think would provide any signal whatsoever for hiring
guix-the-package-manager can be installed on any GNU/Linux distribution. It's a great way to access bleeding-edge software on a "stable" distro such as Debian or CentOS.

It has some nice properties such as not needing root privileges to install things, atomic upgrades and rollbacks, reproducible builds, multiple or transient (optionally containerized) "environments" (collections of packages), etc.

Guix System is a full distro built around the package manager. It gives you atomic upgrades and roll-backs for the entire system (you can choose any previous "generation" in the boot loader).
Probably helps that Bangladesh’s population pyramid tends to towards the young. So there just aren’t that many old people to get sick and die. Of course, this disease is just subtle enough that it might fly under the radar without statistics to bring its havoc to light.
The "Innovation in the physical world" section seems to have little that actually addresses the productivity and societal part of the Great Stagnation. mRNA vaccines aren't some massive innovation over traditional vaccines, and the difference between mRNA and traditional vaccines won't have a visible impact on daily life. Clean energy and lab-grown meat are great innovations, but the ideal case for both is that they're indistinguishable from dirty energy and animal meat in use case.
Apart from tokio (which the sibling comment covers), you can use rio [1] which specifically uses io_uring, and can be used as a Future [2] so that you can use it as part of the wider Future ecosystem, with tokio or any other executor.

[1]: https://crates.io/crates/rio
[2]: https://docs.rs/rio/0.9.4/rio/struct.Completion.html#impl-Fu...
Yup, all bad:

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/pfizer-covid-vaccine-effective-...

https://www.nytimes.com/live/2020/pfizer-covid-19-vaccine

https://www.nytimes.com/live/2020/pfizer-covid-19-vaccine

https://www.cnn.com/2020/11/16/health/moderna-vaccine-result...

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/covid-vaccine-moderna-effective...

https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2020/11/16/9352392...
You can get NVME PCIe cards which has on-board PCIe switch.
Random example, here's[1] one with 4 M.2 slots sharing an x8 PCIe slot.

Obviously sustained bandwidth is limited to that of effectively two NVME devices, but if you're doing lots of random I/O I guess it's a win.

[1]: https://www.aliexpress.com/item/4000034598072.html
That's what I was implicitly asking, what is special about TSMC? What are the other parts?
In Firefox, auto-play (for audio) has to be manually enabled on a per-site basis. Ragya.com just quietly sits there waiting for the user to click play. I mention that as a positive because other sites are way worse: I'm occasionally annoyed by a video streaming site where I have deliberately enabled auto-play, but when establishing the connection takes a second longer than expected, it throws up a pop-up wrongly informing me that I have auto-play off — and the pop-up needs to be manually dismissed even when the video is already playing behind it.

Honorary mention: Twitter. Every video is muted by default; you have to enable audio every single time. This option always exists, even when the video has no sound at all. Because life's like a box of chocolates.

Sorry about the off-topic rant; the point is that the issue is more nuanced than ‘noise bad‘ and you'll get a better experience when the site and your user agent are cooperating nicely.
int + array has indeed been throwing errors for a while for the basic arithmetic operations, but not for slightly more complex operations such as modulo, and there are plenty more weird combinations that used to work:

https://3v4l.org/IuoGO
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Before Herb Sutter's free lunch is over, not many writes in multi-threading code. Then today, everyone is writing multi-threading code, one way or another; and majority indirectly in newer languages like Go and Rust, or better frameworks like Actors, message passing, coroutines, and some noble souls who are capable enough, in classic pthread and other threading APIs.

Of course everyone is going to program in an async way; that's how nature works.

But it certainly will not be in a fashinon that is repulsive to you, just give it some time. Maybe 10 years.
Average age Bangledesh: 27, USA, 37, also, my bet is the curve drops hard at the older echelons, and since 85% of deaths are among the elderly, COVID just finds it hard to kill a lot of people in those places.
Free market and competition relies on the consumer being able to make an informed choice. How can they if there are no published prices, and then no way for these entities to compete?

It is designed this way like a cartel, inflate prices, nothing free market about it.
That is not true for eBPF, though. That stuff pretty works exclusively out of instrumenting and manipulating Linux itself.

That said, libbpf is LGPLv2+, even though a lot of the stuff you'd pull in to use eBPF at the kernel level forces it to be GPLv2.
I don’t know if there was a future for them anyway. What could they have done that Apple could not?

Did they even have a way for third parties to make apps? Even though the iPhone originally didn’t have that the jailbreak community pretty quickly showed that was the way forward.
I think you’ve been misinformed. The stock market has had a consistently better return than real estate income on a broad basis since the Great Depression. Look at the performance of REIT vs. a total market index.

Real estate is full of success stories because some people are fortunate enough buy specific housing complexes in winning areas. But that’s like picking stocks—there’s a lot more variability and you just hear about the success stories. If you diversify real estate you end up with something like a REIT, which as I said underperforms (by a large amount) a broad equities index.

The tax arguments don’t really make sense. You get write-offs for losing money—whether it is depreciating structures or repair costs. There is no cost to stock ownership. Just buy and hold long enough to get the long-term capital gains rate.
Or just make sure you pass the correct type to the functions. It's easier and probably more correct as well.
There used to be (I'm going back over twenty years) a roadside honor market off of NC 28 in the NC mountains. It was just a simple wood shack with honey, jams, chowchow, etc. You could take what you wanted and there was a slot to deposit your money.

I was in Miami for Hurricane Andrew. A gas station near me, the attendant had to leave. They left the pumps on and a sign to leave cash. There was an article later in the Miami Herald that folks ended up leaving more than the amount of gas sold (this is from memory, I may not have the details correct).

People are mostly trustworthy. If not, society would collapse. Yes, there are bad people. The trick is to not become cynical and more importantly, not to build a society that loses all compassion. Otherwise the bad people win.
This source contradicts yours

https://www.bts.gov/content/estimated-national-average-vehic...
The presence of a Wikipedia page critiquing the worlds most valuable corporation doesn’t seem like evidence of anything much.

It’s worth noting that many of the criticisms on that page, while valid, are true of all their competitors too, and of comparable capitalist businesses.

What that page leaves out is that in many areas, Apple has made more progress at mitigating the problems than anyone else.

I have spoken to activists about this discrepancy, and received the answer that they are aware of this, but it is politically more effective to critique Apple because they are the market leader, than to critique their competitors.

I don’t really agree with this tactic, but I understand it.

Nevertheless why even bring this page up?

It seems like you think it supports a generalized narrative of ‘Apple as bad guy’, which then makes the conspiracy theory more plausible.

This is unsurprising because it is the normal way conspiracy theories are supported: some real problems are tied together with woven together with exaggerated claims in a grand narrative with a villain at the center.

We are asked to believe in the conspiracy because some of the things that are part of the theory are based in fact, despite the fact that the rest is just innuendo and naked assertions.

That is what you are asking us to do here.

See examples:

[1] “Apple seems to be masterful at the magicians' game of misdirection. That's the best way I can put it.”

Take this for example. Here you just affirm the consequent. Of course, as I said earlier for you to be right there must be a deception, and here you say that Apple are masters of deception.

But really that’s a naked assertion. If
there is a conspiracy this would be true, but there is actually no evidence of it.

[2] “Apple, quite literally, wrote the playbook for establishing gilded cages and vendor lock-in within the (modern) computer industry.”

Obviously this is fantasy. If Apple had literally written such a playbook, you would be able to present it as evidence.

What they have written and presented literally, is a large body of work on how to produce a secure computing environment that mitigates most forms of security threat and is therefore trusted by consumers as a platform where they can purchase software.

That is literally what they have written.

Again you are just asking us to accept a conspiracy as if it were fact.
> But there are still wild swings of ~10% or so compared to USD or EUR.

Time so switch to a better currency!
A world class VM tied to a dinosaur language in which you still have to escape regex metacharacters.
Some other amazing line rider tracks synced with music:

Super Flu - Selee: https://youtu.be/mpuSi6YooAo (this one's my favorite)

This Will Destroy You full album: https://youtu.be/qasxqKScOfY

Brain Power: https://youtu.be/IMHWsJEG5-0
I am impressed with the level of linux knowledge in this thread. How do people become linux kernel hackers? Most of the developers I know (including myself) use linux but have very little awareness beyond application level programming.
No idea. :-)

I'm guessing the pigments they used on signage back in the day faded more, but in general blue will fade less.
At the absolute very least every single web browser should have the ability to ask:

* if you want to allow the pop-up
* if you want to allow a site to open a new window/tab
* if you want to allow a site to open a new pop-under window

This really shouldn't require special Greasemonkey scripts, block lists or commercial extensions. 99% of the time the user does not want that pop-up/pop-under/modal dialogue.

I'm starting to think that developers at almost all browsers are bribed by advertisers to allow these dark patterns.
I have a genetic disorder that is predominantly Caucasian. My oldest son has the same thing. It is a Dread Disease.

When I was getting divorced, I did not want to date men who were likely to be carriers because it's homozygous recessive, so if the father is a carrier there is a 50 percent chance the child will be a carrier and a 50 percent chance they will have CF. I am incapable of producing a "normal" child (and didn't know that when I was having kids).

My quick and dirty genetics test to drastically reduce the odds that I was dating a carrier boiled down to "No White Men Allowed." Other ethnicities are dramatically less likely to be carriers.

So it doesn't sound silly to me at all that you could take one look at someone and infer some stats about the odds of their genetic risks for a specific category.
We went back and forth on this. Simpler is better.
> It reminds me of bunny hopping and similar "bugs" in old FPS engines that turned out so popular that they sometimes ended up being purposefully implemented in subsequent engines.

Skiing in Starsiege: TRIBES immediately sprang to mind--and the wailing and gnashing of teeth that followed when they tried to reduce/limit it in Tribes 2 (only to add it back in with the "classic" mod).
M1 isn't for sale except as part of an SOC in Apple hardware, so there's no way to compare prices directly.

And it isn't just that the Apple hardware is some of the fastest available, it's that it does so with far lower power requirements. That's the really significant piece to all this.
Facebook comments likely to be the next censorship target of corporate media
This sounds quite exciting. I could use this right away, with all the software I’m used to, and get all the benefits.
> In Canada, pre-covid, we saw the average house price increase in value more than the average wage in the country. That is point blank crazy. That is a weird financialisation of the economy that we don't yet understand - inflation in a fixed asset that doesn't increase productivity.

This is a result of an overly conservative investment landscape and out of control immigration quotas. Housing is used as a way to park money in a jurisdiction that has more predictable laws.
You should read the book Range by David Epstein. He talks about how generalists can make an impact due to bringing solutions from multiple fields together, often in ways that specialists can't see due to being in the field too long (they lack the "beginner's mind") or just don't have such a breadth of experiences. Here's a HN discussion about the book: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20094242

The bigger thing is the convince employers of this fact, however, which most people won't understand to be true. Instead, therefore, of making just one big resume with all of your experiences, make resumes for disparate fields: full stack resume will only contain full stack experience; same for data science, devops, and so on. This will make you seem like a specialist. Don't lie but don't downplay your experience as well.
Don’t get me wrong, I think this is very cool, but is there a way to opt out aside from making a repo private?

Do OSS licenses distinguish between corporate usage of repository source as code vs as data.
Late to the conversation but I wanted to switch the DNS for parents-in-law and found that Comcast has DNS settings locked down (not user changeable) on their router.

Since they're also using VoIP and cable from Comcast, I didn't go any further. I wanted to switch the DNS to AdGuard because my mother-in-law had a JavaScript pop-up that convinced her to call "Microsoft". I put uBlock Origin on Chrome and Edge.

Users can set the DNS setting on their devices to use something else but I bet it's a tiny fraction that do. As somebody who worked at an ISP, I can sympathize a little bit with not wanting customers to f*ck up their DNS.