skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I upgrade when the phone dies or fixing it makes no sense, as in fixing the screen would cost 60% of the price on a two-year old phone.

I use my phone to call, text, read epub, take photos of the whiteboard, and rarely browse the internet. I'm not a "phone person". I use only apps that add convenience to something I find useful (communication, food, transportation, maps, lodging). No social media apps. No notifications.

I also want small phones I can comfortably hold with one hand without straining it. I don't do giant phones that take a palm and a knuckle. I don't want to cater and care for a phone as if it were my child or that take up space in my pocket or have things on the screen, therefore I don't do cases or screen protectors, and I don't do phones that can't stay up for a day. I only have phones I can use, lose, replace, and move on.

These points make it easy for me to enter a store and buy a phone faster than it took me to write this.
Insurtech Openly secures $40m investment led by Advance Venture Partners
My theater troupe (www.rudemechanicals.com) has never done Cymbelline -- the only play we haven't done. We had it on our schedule to be performed next month, but obviously that didn't happen.

I directed Pericles myself, and it was actually a hoot, albeit with a cheat. The plot is such a mess that I literally put the two writers, Shakespeare and Wilkins, on stage, and pretended that the play's bizarre plot twists were the result of the two fighting over control.

Our Winter's Tale was less of a farce. We set it in the 1960s, with the Bohemians as "bohemians". It was lovely -- still not anybody's favorite Shakespeare play, but a worthy project.

We're doing Zoom shows to keep ourselves occupied until we can get back on stage. And when we do I'll finally get to do a version of Midsummer I've been prepping for years, lit mostly with black lights. It'll be beautiful. (I've directed it twice before, and my troupe has done it several other times as well. Audiences do love that play.)
FAA and Boeing manipulated 737 Max tests during recertification
Whoa, I did not know about Firefox 84. I actually have it and it updated and I had no clue it was M1 native now. I was wondering why ublock origin started working again all of sudden.
Downsides of webapps:

1. Webapps can be used without 3rd party involved. It means propertiary platforms can not earn from it.

2. Propertiary platforms can not block and delete apps that compete with their offering

3. Webapps functionalities can be limited by browser developers.

4. Some browsers are developed by the owners of propertiary platforms that earn from native apps.

5. It is a conflict of interest, that can hurt webapp creators.

6. Browser developers can limit webapps making propertiary platform apps look like better ones.

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Webapps are better than native apps. If you like open internet develop and use web apps when possible.
Well, today we have antibiotics, so no, we do not have to fear the original black death anymore.

But what we also have today, to mitigate the bonus of medicine and hygiene, is fast global travel and very, very crowded cities, compared to the medieval times.

So a highly infectious and deadly disease, we can not treat with antibiotics, would still fuck us up pretty bad.

So I agree, covid was a good trial run for a real epidemic.
Perhaps it's a sign that they're suffering disproportionately negative symptoms. South Korea appears to have startling high Vitamin D deficiency rates; that may be part of the problem (if other studies are to be believed).

https://journals.lww.com/md-journal/Fulltext/2018/06290/Vita...
I'm very happy for the team at Jetbrains, they make a solid product.

Back in college in 2002, I was taking a java for programmers class in college, and the teacher was using BlueJ. I had taken programming classes in C++, and had to use Visual Studio for that. I declined to use BlueJ, and decided to find something like Visual Studio. I looked at Netbeans and the predecessor of Eclipse, and eventually found out about Intellij IDEA. I was very happy and used it on a trial basis.

Whenever I've had to use program Java, I've always gravitated towards using Intellij IDEA.
If I were programming Java full-time, I'd definitely buy a license for it.
If there is no distribution problem then what’s there to worry about that requires coordinated action?
I agree, and even if the grace period were a good idea, enforcement should have slowly ratcheted up over the grace period, rather than having full enforcement immediately after it expired.
This situation, in and of itself, feels quite surreal.
I love Intellij and no longer use JRebel, and yeah I knew better than to pick up the phone when their sales team was calling.

But that's not why I stopped using JRebel, I stopped using JRebel because 10 years ago I worked on monolithic code bases that got deployed to application servers where a build and deploy cycle took 30 minutes, if I did the build with no unit tests. Even though it took constant fiddling to keep JRebel working and a hot deploy worked on maybe half the changes I made, it saved me many hours.

Now I work on microservices with embedded app servers where a build/deploy cycle is 30 seconds, no need for JRebel. Sorry sales guys!
> Actually, the ability to respond to never-seen-before threats is the whole purpose of the adaptive immune system [1].

But the poster I was responding to was claiming that our immune system should have evolved the ability to not respond to those threats, but anticipate their specific forms without seeing them. That vaccination as a concept is hogwash because if it was useful, we'd have done it through evolution. But that's plainly nonsensical - we wouldn't need a system that functioned by random variation if we evolved the ability to know what the real targets would be, but we couldn't do that without specific knowledge, which we can't get without being exposed to the things, by which time ... it's too late to have then already built the specific defenses.
One of the reasons I enjoy hacker news is that the discussions on many posts are often richer than the post content. This site has managed to maintain consistent, high quality discussions unlike reddit and twitter. Without strict moderation however, is there a proven way to incentivize or gamify rich discussion?
It is worth noting, for context, that Linus post lists 'West Lafayette, IN' as the location...home to Purdue University, and headed by Mitch Daniels of

'Black Scholars are a rare creature' [0],
Profits over meaningful innovation [1],
and
War in Iraq will cost $50b [2]

[0] https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2019/12/05/purdue-p...

[1] https://www.jconline.com/story/news/opinion/2019/08/29/purdu...

[2] https://www.newyorker.com/news/george-packer/mitch-danielss-...
Fuel costs for a Falcon 9 launch are around $150,000, or about 1/3 of 1% of what SpaceX charges for a reusable launch.
Anecdote.

I had undiagnosed Familial Mediterranean Fever for years in my early 20s. Terrible, sickening abdominal inflammation attacks every few weeks.

After about 5 years I was desperate and one doctor said my gallbladder did show signs of low functioning, and recommended taking it out.

I did go into “remission” for about 8 months after. It eventually came back, but then faded soon after. It wasn’t until a few years later with a DNA test that I found the cause.

But I did always wonder if the surgery, along with my desperate hope to be better / not be wrong, had such a strong placebo effect that it actually did help me out.
"The same standard" as in double-blind studies would clearly present issues when it comes to surgery. I can see the argument for a higher standard than is currently held to, but "the same" seems impossible to do in an ethical way, or even just practically.
Alternative alternative theory, the chipmakers are stuck.

Chipmakers have been crawling forward with progress for years. Meanwhile in house chips like Amazon's and Apple's have been coming out that seem to be miles ahead.

The general theory for this seems to be the chipmakers just don't get how to design their chips to work well with the real software being ran on them. So the mega-corps are just taking matters in to their own hands.
Agreed. It's perfectly fine if you don't get all the mythological and historical allusions when you're watching a Shakespearian play. Just let the language wash over you. By all means, if it's your thing study it afterwords but I'd definitely start with a good performance rather than painfully work your way through an annotation that explains every reference in the text.

There are also tons of Macbeth productions, although the best is probably Polanski's which some will have an issue with.
Maybe there's interesting things to see if you change the parameter settings a bit? One thing that can be particularly interesting is using an exponent other than 2.0, regular Mandelbrot is quite interesting (dense and full of 'cuts') on a power of -1.55 for example (I call it 'negandel'.)
Does anyone have any examples of surgeries that are done today in modern medicine that are basically placebo? I'm surprised the article didn't give a single example.
> They know wtf they're talking about
because they're the ones looking through the evidence

Show me it then.

> I gotta admit though, they have apparently really honed their English grammar.

Maybe that's because what you're insinuating is false and you refuse to believe it? Also, you've still not outwardly said what you are insinuating. You're still beating around the bush. So I'll say it for you: "anyone who asks for evidence is a Russian shill." That's what you're getting at, right?
I usually try to avoid "first gen" Apple products. There usually seems to be a big jump in quality with the next iteration. Did that factor in your decision? do you think it is worth the wait for their 2nd try?
Absolutely, The Decameron by Boccaccio, written in 1353 just a few years after the plague struck Italy in 1348: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Decameron

Rather than a novel, it is a collection of 100 short stories of people during the plague. Enjoyable to this day.
IBM didn’t have its own silicon in the PC; it picked bog-standard parts to get to market fast.

Having commodity hardware meant anybody could buy a motherboard and parts to build a competitive computer.

What is different now is that the big players try to de-commoditize the hardware.

Result is that you can’t build a competitive hackintosh anymore, as you cannot buy the M1 chip (you can still build a x64 hackintosh, but even that is getting harder, with Macs having various custom chips)

If enough other large companies go the same way, there might eventually not be enough market left to warrant development of competitive commodity parts.
I think it's as simple as a case of the Mondays; you wouldn't roll out a migration like that on a Friday or the weekend, and rolling it out on a Monday gives you the least chances of problem occurring on those dates.
I wish we had a new Design Patterns book in 2020.

GoF book is well obsolete, since then OO has faded, JS & Python are the the most common tools, even Java is unrecognizable with Lambdas and functional features everywhere. Meanwhile vast amounts of memory and CPU power mean flyweights and object pools aren't so useful and immutability is now a valid design goal. The GoF needs an update.
Solarwinds, the World’s Biggest Security Failure and Open Source’s Better Answer
With Graviton, it's really just try it for your use case, see if it's cheaper.
Graphile Starter-based stack (Node, PostGraphile, Next.js, Graphile Worker) running on Heroku with Amazon RDS Postgres. Virtually no server maintenance needed: just push the code to GitHub, check it works on staging, press the promote to production button, job done. (I’m the Graphile maintainer.)
Some days as a web developer I think I must be taking crazy pills. Somebody comes along and says _this is the "modern" way to build websites/apps_, a bunch of early adopters jump on board and act like it's the greatest thing since sliced bread, and then somebody else comes along to say _actually this is the "modern" way to build websites/apps_…and you look at that and it's the exact opposite of the previous "modern" way.

So "serverless" AWS Lambda is evolving into what sounds an awful lot like just another Heroku. OK fine…but in that case what was the point of "serverless" to begin with?!
Fwiw I don’t really see a problem with the language the GP was complaining about. It’s pretty common for words to be heavily overloaded and ambiguous in mathematics and while this is often annoying and you may try to avoid this sort of issue, I don’t think you should be obliged to do that.
Norway stopped the funding due to the unilateral dismantling of the board that oversees the (effective) spending of the funds. That was obviously essential for the donations to occur.
Soon we won’t remember when SpaceX wasn’t launching every week.
> In fact, a strong contender for the absolute worst codebase I've worked on was in Go.

So the most notoriously limited typesystem of the century, the one that ignored decades of progress, lead to a bad codebase? And you see this as an argument against type systems?
That would be because the last time DoD did the most workable and approachable solution was one without all those gubbins that you could just bolt on later.

By the way, what you're endorsing are essentially ASICS. They're fundamentally impractical as all hell. The logistics of security causes a verbosity explosion when you actually need to change something. Imagine the world we have now with 1000x the paperwork, and a bigger chunk of the populace devoted to just enabling somebody to go from point A to B to do something.

And even then. You're only as secure as your Users will tolerate.
> I’m convinced that it’s a form of torture.

Ten years later, you will nostalgically think about the good old trainings in 2020 when the web camera yet didn't watch your eyeballs and analyze your face expressions in order to determine whether you need to watch the training again.
> Question: Is physical therapy noninferior to early surgery with arthroscopic partial meniscectomy for improving knee function among patients with nonobstructive meniscal tears?

> Findings: In this noninferiority randomized clinical trial that included 321 patients, knee function that was measured by a self-administered questionnaire improved by 20.4 points in the physical therapy group vs 26.2 points in the early surgery group over a follow-up period of 24 months. The difference between the 2 treatment groups did not exceed the noninferiority margin of 8 points.

> Meaning: These results demonstrate noninferiority of physical therapy compared with early surgery with arthroscopic partial meniscectomy for improving self-reported knee function in patients with nonobstructive meniscal tears.

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2705186
I'm not looking forward to platform balkanization again. I guess the web at least works everywhere. Sorta.
It doesn’t seem that unreasonable to me — bad drugs can harm people at a much larger scale than a bad doctor.
Not really... especially if this is an in-memory database attached to a network, as implied.

It’s only slower if someone can observe the difference, which I don’t think they would be able to in this design.

I’m a strong proponent of using fewer, larger machines and services, instead of incurring the overhead involved in spreading things out into a million microservices on a million machines. But there is a balance to be achieved, and beyond a certain point... synthetic improvements in performance don’t show up in the real world.

Queuing up a few database requests concurrently to make up for the overhead of literally hundreds of nanoseconds of latency is trivial, especially when Optane can service those requests concurrently, unlike a spinning hard drive. Applications running on other machines won’t be able to tell a difference.

But, agree to disagree.

There are probably applications where these mega machines are useful, but I don’t personally find this to be a compelling example.

I readily admit that I could be wrong... but neither of us have numbers in front of us showing a compelling reason for a company to spend unbelievable amounts of money on a single machine. My experiences (limited compared to many, I’m sure) tell me this isn’t the winning scenario, though.
You have got to be f*ing kidding me! If--When--this fails, it's hard to hide bad test data when they're a flaming wreck just off the runway!
I would say that twitter is built around the concept of a vast space into which everyone can equally talk, not as a great listening or discovery experience. This is why out-of-platform fame is such an important way to discover people there. The platform itself offers few and weak tools to discover interesting feeds to follow. Basically you might notice someone's interesting reply in a random thread, and want to check the user's feed.

Facebook is great at discovering people I might already know. Maybe it's important to reunite with old friends, etc, but it's not really important to me. Facebook does a seriously better job presenting communities I may be interested in; there I could encounter interesting people. It also helpfully shows posts liked by people I follow, which is the best form of curated discovery I've encountered so far.

Personally back in the day I joined Google Plus (remember that social network?) mostly because Linus Torvalds and Rob Pike were already there, and wrote something interesting. So I think having luminaries on your network is helpful. Having one's friends is also helpful; often a loose cluster of friends migrates to your platform because it helps them communicate the way they prefer.
The nature of configuration is that it's different for prod and your testing environments. It doesn't make it impossible to test your prod config changes, but it's not that simple either.
> including chips

ARM was until recently a European company. This is part of the dynamic - some companies in the US have huge piles of cash. If a European company gets successful enough, there'll be interest from a large US company in acquiring it.
New FinCEN Proposed Requirements for Certain Cryptocurrency Transactions [pdf]
> Similar to a load of parts spontaneously forming into a bicycle.

For the analogy to be more accurate, the parts should explicitly not be bicycle parts.
> it appears to have solved the inverse folding problem for many proteins

While this is true, DeepFold’s algorithm is only applicable to extant proteins having enough evolutionary information, which is arguably a small fraction of the theoretical sequence space. Fortunately, machine-learning approaches for de novo protein design are being actively developed as we speak.
I was thinking the same myself. He's an entertaining read... or was... but now he's starting to sound like a scratched record
Michael Crichton, M.D.: “Aliens Cause Global Warming” (2003)
This would be for people who want to pay the market price, but who don't want to participate in scalping. If you'd rather wait, then you're not the target market.

I think AMD/NVIDIA are stupid (in a capitalistic sense) for selling their products well below market price, and leaving money on the table for scalpers to collect.
Congratulations! You absolutely deserve it :)
> For ARM PCs I think Qualcomm/Samsung/MediaTek/etc. could easily build a pretty good SoC if there's obvious demand.

No they couldn't. I mean, not from a technological point of view, there's nothing holding at least Qualcomm and Samsung back.

The problem is the software side. Unlike Apple, all three are used to dumping layers of bullshit upon fossilized bullshit and then dropping that off to customers hoping no one notices that the kernel version is years old, the kernel sources and the entire BSP are nowhere even close to upstream Linux quality - ever seen Mediatek leaked Android kernels? Stay far FAR away if you value your sanity, and the others aren't better. Security for all of them is an afterthought.

Apple created everything from scratch, with security in mind. I agree that Apple ain't perfect either, but... the iPhone 4S was released 2011, it took eight years until the checkm8 bootrom exploit was found. The Android world doesn't even come close.
There have been none RAD hard CPUs working in space. https://www.hpe.com/us/en/insights/articles/the-space-statio...
https://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/04/upshot/the-right-to-know-...

https://www.mdalert.com/article/surgery-for-torn-meniscus-in...

https://www.health.harvard.edu/blog/knee-arthroscopy-should-...
> which are much better than C++/Rust's approach of being unsafe-by-default.

Nitpick: Rust is safer than Java by default. You can't ever dereference a null pointer (only raw pointers can be null, not references) or make a cast without dipping into unsafe code.
Medtech Diameter Health raises $18M in Series B funding round
The first thing that occurred to me when I read the title: Tonsillectomies used to be very common when I was growing up, and eventually that stopped. See eg:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5883156/
I think its a step down from Beyond Compare, I've set that up as the diff tool in Intellij before, I might have to do that again in my current environment.
Termux. It is very helpful, I use YT-dl and just Python in general.
Well yeah. If it would be only about all nice and loving saints, who would want to see that?

Because that is not real. Real people have flaws. Or not, depending on perspective and subjective morals.
The Notation
I get that AMP sucks from a "Google control the web" point of view but you make it sound like it sucks from a user point of view. I can't see why though? It's basically only used by news sites and it just gives you the article content faster and with fewer ads. What's not to like about that (as a user)?
There's a balance to it, and finding that is what (I think) you should strive for in software development.
Regarding all that China stuff: that is the result of the world finally beginning to grow some spine against the CCCP tactics.
SolarWinds hacked recursively breached other companies, including Microsoft
IMHO, "serverless" pretty much boils down to "per request/actual resource usage pricing" (compared to "per instance" pricing, e.g. Heroku dynos), some patterns enabled by that, and lots of noise around that.
This article is a great read. It is amazing what scientists have accomplished using mRNA. I have researched on the application of genome editing using the Cas9 protein in cancer therapy. There are many possibilities for utilizing mRNA and proteins. The future of medicine sounds exciting!
clion is honestly the only product I get excited about new releases.

This last one with partial compile, and specific debug loops, it is an awesome product!