skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I doubt that is anything to be concerned about, as we can reasonably expect that, among scientists, there will be a number following in the steps of Einstein and Bohr, taking a philospohically-minded approach to science - there's David Deutsch, for one. Ironically, many of the people objecting to Hawking's dismissal of philosophy offered, as counterpoint, the claim that Hawking's own work had philosophical components!

And there are a few philosophers, such as Tim Maudlin, who know the science well enough to persue its philosophical questions. Despite these exceptions, I think it is not unreasonable to ask if 21st. century academic philosophy has chosen to turn away from the philosophical issues of 21st. century fundamental science.

No-one is stopping philosophers from contributing to science.
> In Canada the title "engineer" is a legally protected term. You can't legally call yourself a software engineer without going through the Engineers Canada accreditation.

Same in Texas. [0]

[0] https://pels.texas.gov/downloads/eb17.htm (search for "Software Engineering")
My first question to a potential new employer has become "what are your health insurance benefits and how much do you cover?" rather than "what's the salary range you're hiring for?" (although this still comes second). If it's anything less than 80% employer-paid coverage or they don't offer traditional PPO plans, it's an automatic withdrawal of my application.

I've recently found I now need to add another filter to this: "WHO is your insurance through?" because apparently even 90% employer paid health insurance through UnitedHealthcare still sucks compared to inferior coverage through BlueCross or Aetna.
I had to switch primary care doctors for everyone in my family (me, wife, kids all had different docs) because none of them were in network with United. Confused by this, I called around. I found out doctors offices loathe dealing with UHC due to UHC's reluctance to pay or the generally obnoxious claims process. Their "in-network" providers is contained to a much smaller list of providers that put up with their bullshit. I'm seriously considering leaving my current employer (which I'm very happy with) for this reason alone.

Lack of reliable (or any) health insurance is the #1 reason I don't take contract jobs even though they're more attractive to me.
I suppose it makes sense if we assume that the chip shortage has caused chips to become too expensive for the already depressed demand - thus making the economics of keeping a plant open untenable.
gitlab is just another company; you probably mean a self-hosted gitlab server?
I doubt any engineer at Boeing will go to prison for the engineering of the very deadly Boeing 737 max.
Original post from January 2020: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21947551
Do my thoughts have feelings? If I imagine someone being torture to death, has someone actually just been tortured to death, all the while feeling excruciating pain? Crazy implications if true!
How to Fly the SpaceX Starship
Ethical Control of Unmanned Systems
Well I also prefer a brand that has consistency on his tone and narrative across all his communication channels.
Afraid so. That reminds me: IIRC in the Dune universe they eventually abandon all technology. I wonder if we're on that track for real.
This is basically what has held me back from purchasing Divjoy, so sounds cool! :D
> First, it is good that software [GUI/UI/UX ,- edit.] feature ideas aren't copyrightable.

I may agree from FLOSS dev side (as I'm itself!), BUT there already was a lot of cases where UI/UX features "was copyrighted".[0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Computer%2C_Inc%2E_v%2E_...
It may be an important question because answering it requires dissecting the similarities and differences between software development and the jobs that people usually call "engineering".

In doing so, we see what lessons there are to take from each other, and gain a better understanding of both fields. For example, the author cites that version control is an innovation that traditional engineering could hugely benefit from.
What's fascinating here is that tunicates (like sea squirts) are thought to be the closest relatives to vertebrates, closer even than amphioxus. They just went down a radically different path, perhaps because their chemical defenses against predation are so effective, so they could brutally optimize away things like brains.

https://www.nhbs.com/across-the-bridge-book
That’s why the Russian government hacked into a vast amount of US computer networks. No ill intentions there.
When I heard the original report on vitamin d deficiency and getting seriously ill from COVID, my first thought was people who have sedentary lives tend not to be outdoors been active.

I’ll add an assumption that this may also follow with another correlation that diabetics suffer more from COVID for perhaps the same sedentary reasons.

Might be nonsense but correlation doesn’t have to mean cause - arguing against myself and bad science.

Any opinions from a clinician?
Check out http://docs.divjoy.com for a changelog and roadmap. Tailwind is coming this year. If there's anything you need that's not on there feel free to shoot me a message. And yeah I was really excited to see the Stripe CTO sign up! He's used it to build a bunch of side project, including this one which is in use at his kid's school right now: https://bonjourmaclasse.com
As a sports fan, I can see why Clubhouse solves a real need.

After a major sporting or political event, a lot of people tune into News to listen to expert opinion. For sporting events, people even want to see what other fans are saying. You can see an explosion of activity in related subs on reddit: For example, r/tennis during ATP 1000+ events, or r/soccer every weekend.

There's always drama and there's always an urge to find out what others are thinking right at the moment; or in a few cases, the urge to share what you are thinking, as well.

I've been on r/tennis many a time to know how much redditors complain that the expert analysis post-match or the commentary during the match wasn't any good, and that they'd rather prefer some other commentator who's unfortunately not employed by the Network that owns broadcast rights in their country.

I believe clubhouse is an interesting clone of Reddit, Twitter / Instagram, and YouTube.

I imagine Clubhouse Live where folks listen to experts chime in real-time as events unfold; Clubhouse Roundtables where experts invite themselves and aren't beholden to the Media companies selecting the panels; Clubhouse Stations where folks tune in to listen to "Networks" broadcasting high-quality content.

The key innovation is Clubhouse is voice-only: Voice is faster and substantially low effort than text. With voice (unlike with video), there's substantially less pressure and more comfort.

You're right that as the community grows, it'd keep getting harder to surface quality content, but that's a good problem to have and almost every major Social media has that but are doing just fine. I hope Clubhouse doesn't turn grow to be as disappointing as Quora has.
So party lines are back?
From Glacier, it's a very short mental route to Titanic. So, yeah I'd say naming your product that brings up thoughts of the Titanic is not great.
The readme doesn't mention it, but I like that it seems that anim.py is pretty standalone so you could potentially use it not just for Reddit comment threads, but pretty much any conversation at all.

Also like that it seems fairly easy to modify to use another prosecutor as the second main character. I know who I'd use!
It is an electron app. We just have to live with it.
I would definitely look at antidepressants on GlacierMD, because I think I want to take one but the options and side effects are all over the place
Show me examples of these amazing enterprise programs. I'll wait.
I haven’t read the book either; it’s on my list. I do hope it gives fungal networks their due—other research points to the fungi being the ones who decide how to share the resources, in essence farming the trees. It’s a mutualistic relationship that upwards of 90% of plant species participate in. The book Entangled Life, which I haven’t read yet either, looks at things more from this perspective.

The answer probably lies somewhere in the middle. Rather than viewing trees as a hive intelligence, I think it’s plausible that we’ve been missing the forest as a whole organism. Perhaps “ecosystem” just means “an organism that is bigger than any one of us.”
The Wisdom of Surrender: Samuel Beckett and Quietism
Failure is a tricky thing.

There is a story that Microsoft Word was a staggering failure in terms of actual time and cost to implement versus its estimates.

It then went on to be among the most lucrative ($ billions) pieces of software ever created.

Was Microsoft Word a failure?
Yes they are.

You didn't lock people up for giving your Grandma the flu even though it may have killed her.

That you think you can enforce or shame people into giving up freedom of movement (what's more fundamental then being able to leave your house?) is beyond reasonable or rational.

You could extend this reasoning to all viruses that are deadly to some population of people, including the flu and the regular old cold virus.

Where do you draw the line? Even government officials can't keep to their own policies. Look at Newsom dining out.

"Do as I say. Not as I do" that's the message.

You are free to shut yourself in your basement for the next two years but you can never hope to force other humans inside and shame them into doing so.

It won't work. It's absolutely impractical in a democracy. And if you try to make it work you will do so at great costs.

Fear. What a great motivator.
#define ever ;;

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On (Mozilla's) bugzilla, feature requests (in local jargon, "RFE", request for enhancement) were filed on the same bug tracker and were indexed as bugs, too, long before GitHub existed.

Of course, that led to the same problems, and they eventually allowed customizing the term "bug" on your own bugzilla installations.
Well you can count a second complaint here. Of course it's much smoother on Chrome.
> Even houses always go over time and money and that is fairly straight forward.

This is an incredibly important point. I was "raised" in commercial software at a time when there was a lot of condescension internally towards ourselves as an industry because we couldn't do estimation and planning, and building was the favorite comparison. A $100 million building couldn't run late or over budget. That would be unimaginable, and it doesn't happen because those people are too serious and professional to let it happen, not like us unserious, immature software doofuses. Turns out that was a complete lie, but at one time it warped the profession, because it made people believe the answers already existed, right around the corner, something you would figure out pretty soon just like last year you didn't know regular expressions and now you did.

The problem with that was that when somebody walked in with a button-down shirt, oozing confidence and saying they knew exactly how to consistently deliver software on time and bug-free, those people weren't laughed out of the room. Elaborate heavyweight processes, and their "lightweight" (hah!) cousins, could sell themselves as proven, established solutions. We could believe that bullshit because we had been fed the lie that other industries had conquered these problems.
That was a fun read. I wish the author mentioned how much he was trying to sell the service for. It could have been $59 a month or $599 a month and with doctors you could potentially expect the same answer.

I'm not a psychologist but some of the author's quoted text came off extremely demeaning in written form. If the author happens to read this, did you really say those things directly to them?

For example, Susan (psychologist) was quoted as saying:

> "Oh sure! I mean, I think in many cases I'll just prescribe what I normally do, since I'm comfortable with it. But you know it's possible that sometimes I'll prescribe something different, based on your metastudies."

To which you replied:

> "And that isn't worth something? Prescribing better treatments?"

Imagine walking into the office of someone who spent the last ~10 years at school and then potentially 20 years practicing their craft as a successful psychologist and then you waltz in and tell them what they prescribe is wrong and your automated treatment plan is better.
To me the difficulty of estimating software projects isn't about estimating the time / effort to build the thing. The biggest uncertainty is trying to estimate what it is we're trying to build in the first place. i.e. the details of the spec. Often times where I've seen estimates really off is when the scope changes, or more details are discovered etc.

To borrow the usual building a house analogy, if during software estimation we're actually given how many rooms, how many floors, where are the doors and windows etc, then I think estimates will be a hell of a lot more accurate. Instead, what we typically get is, build a house that can be used by the family of 4, and we'll discover exactly what the family wants as we build.
Amusingly enough, I've got a document that's essentially a list of ideas where the business model is spurious at best and on that list is a solution almost identical to what was built here.

I appreciate that someone took the dive and then shared the process, pain and failure of seeing it through to its conclusion. The only thing missing is the attempt to raise VC money to scale it to some sort of expert system you can sell to enterprise customers.
I think you're talking about goals, which isn't the same as estimates.

A well run sales team, like a well run dev team do benefit from goals. Like increase X by Y. That's because it can guide your decision process of what you'll spend your time on and what you won't. It can also push for focused innovation around a particular area.

But I think OP meant what if you asked the sales team: How much time will it take you to close the deal with X? Would they be able to estimate that? Which is different from asking them: "Try and close X Y% faster than it took us to close Z last time." The former would be asking for an estimate, the latter would be setting a goal.
Third of recovered Covid patients return to hospital in 5 months and 1 in 8 die
What if you limited the range from I don’t know if it’s poisonous to X% likely poisonous vs is/is not poisonous?
Its called law ;)
I would add,

Fourth, the ability to effortlessly drop down several layers of abstraction: Pointer types, all packages including Base are written in Julia and can easily be extended or patched on the fly, homoiconicity, seamless integration with BLAS and LAPACK.
> According to the affidavit filed with the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, the FBI received a tip from someone who stated they were a former romantic partner of Williams.

> The tipster said Williams “intended to send the computer device to a friend in Russia, who then planned to sell the device to SVR, Russia’s foreign intelligence service,” the affidavit stated.

> According to the tipster, “the transfer of the computer device to Russia fell through for unknown reasons and Williams still has the computer device or destroyed it,” the affidavit stated. The investigation remains open.

That sounds like very concrete evidence...
Iceberg != Glacier. AWS manages to market Glacier without people expecting S3 to sink to the bottom of the Atlantic
I would go out on a limb and say the negative connotations are correct in most cases and usages. E.g.

"I'm just going to hack something together." (usually means do substandard work but with the benefit of speed)

"It works, but it's a nasty hack." (a workaround that might be clever, but isn't necessarily safe, testable, or repeatable).

A "hacker" in the sense that GP is using it means somebody who's default method of working involves doing the above on a regular basis.
Sure if they can get back to family that is fine, but that is a small fraction of the issue, most of my work is in international adoption with special needs kids that rot tied to a crib with the occasional porridge in a bottle shoved down their throat.. honestly leaving them like this is for sure a human atrocity, I have to ask myself quite often if most are better off dying than sitting for years slowly dying. Those are the types of kids I'm advocating for that people pick up the ball and do what you can, obviously i support any sort of adoption or fostering! The reality is, any ounce of love anyone can give is better than what they get, bring them home, feed them 3 times a day clean them! that's like heaven for these kids
Ah, the ToS I’ve never read. So you mean, basically all of them ;)
Apple stepped up its release cycle, way back around the time Steve passed away, to upgrade OS X yearly. I assume that was to better compete with Google and other web-based companies. I think the less technical Apple execs were frightened that customers would notice web services were more modern (being a whole 1.5 years more current).

Now people don't bother writing good Mac software. One of the factors is that you're building on shifting sand: by the time you update an app for Mac OS 20, version 21 is out. So more and more, Mac customers will associate Mac software with unpleasant Electron software.

In retrospect, Apple should have played to the strengths of its Mac software.
It is worthy of note that SpaceX is pitching Starship for active debris removal in space.

It is worthy of note from https://spacenews.com/upper-stages-top-list-of-most-dangerou... that in a list of the 50 most concerning objects in orbit, 78% are rocket bodies, and 80% were launched before 2000 when various mitigation strategies for space junk began to be improved.

There is therefore a Pareto principle at work here. We are tracking over 25,000 objects, but only a few of them contribute most of the risk, and we aren't adding as much to the risk as the number of launches would make you think.
Critical NTFS bug in Windows 10 can corrupt HDD/SSD filesystem
Please don't post unsubstantive and/or flamebait to HN, regardless of how strongly you disagree with or feel about something. It leads to significantly lower-quality discussion. Perhaps you don't owe them better, but you owe this community better if you're posting here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Most people tend to be able to differentiate individuals from paper-thin stereotypes. Sure we get exposed to stereotypes all the time, but when you get to know people you see through that.

Most people behave differently too, once you really get to know them.
They don’t need to be 0 or 1. We already know that a ^ a = 0, a ^ 0 = a, and a ^ (b ^ c) = (a ^ b) ^ c, so we must have a ^ b = 0 only when a = b. Therefore in the C convention where 0 means false, a ^ b = not (a = b) = (a!=b) (this equality only holds for expressions that are going straight into a Boolean operation (or test in eg an if statement), as a!=b should always evaluate to 0 or 1.

The compiler may use this by xoring a and b and then jumping if the zero flag was set.
Every successful foster child has a stable adult in their life != every foster child with a stable adult in their life is successful.

The first sentence is saying that a stable adult is one necessary component. The second sentence is saying that the stable adult is the only necessary component. They are totally different claims with very similar wording.
Not quite. It's possible to live in the modern world using only Free and Open Source software. Stallman does this, but I think he's pretty much alone.
I removed it and it really works ok now even with safari.

Uh.. Honestly I did not write a full website and just grabbed the one I found on github.

It is a cool template, though, it is not completely 'react'

and still using some legacy JS libraries, even jQuery (!)
> It's actually, probably better "bang for the buck," although it won't seem like it, on the surface.

A car's primary function is to move its passengers from point A to point B, safely and timely. Both cars do this very well, but the Mercedes will probably be costlier over their respective lifetime (fuel, parts, service).

The only way for it to be a better bang for buck would be to turn its secondary functions (comfort, prestige, signalling) into a primary tool. For instance, if a broker or salesperson finds that owning the car gives them the added confidence to project the image they want during negotiations and thus contributes to their overall success, then it becomes a worthy investment.
How do you think Clubhouse will materialize on its users?
Mathematics departments are known for this. In my experience it is accurate. People take intellectual detours all the time to discuss interesting problems with colleagues, potentially unrelated to their main research focus.
Sure. And it makes a clang as it falls.

Can't quite play tetris, however - i start to lose track of the pieces once there are like 5-10 of them.
FWIW, I mostly think of it as addition in Z_2^n.
You could just write this as

(a is None) is not (b is None)

or

(a is None) != (b is None)

It won't make a difference (and is 1 to to 5 characters longer), but it seems "cleaner" since it's more specific.
Pandemic Argentina
In Argentina before the pandemic, people actually went shopping in Miami because it was cheaper to buy anything Apple (whether it’s an iPhone or a laptop). iPhone 12 is not for sale here, let's take iPhone 11 as an example. In the only "official" store I could find, the price was 184.299 pesos (yes, 184,000). If you look at the "official" USD exchange rate[1], it is about 80 pesos. But listen to me: This country has too few reserves, and the official purchase of US dollars is limited to 200 US dollars per person per month. If you purchased goods with a credit card abroad (either online or in person), this limit does not apply, but in both cases, you will have to pay "extra" tax (purchasing or consuming U.S. dollars is called "U.S. dollars" turista”). The final exchange rate is 137 pesos Let's use 140 as the CC rate for rounding. Considering that the same iPhone 11 is priced at approximately $630 on Amazon, the price of the "dollar turista" is 88.060 pesos.

https://fechadecobro.com.ar/
We need a button to flag posts as "Clearly just responding to the headline and didn't read the article."
I like the author's conclusion and I think a good litmus test for the difference between craftsmanship and engineering is the adage, "If you're not taking measurements, you're not doing engineering." So when we systematically measure and improve performance, security, productivity or what have you, we are doing engineering.
Exactly, you can't really predict what can't be predicted
Cryptocurrency mining could become the new face of energy storage. Here’s how
Ireland also requires a TV license for each home. If you have any device _capable_ of receiving a signal you're required to pay.... even if you only use the TV for games consoles or Netflix.
Clearly you never owned a german car or a tesla. I doubt anyone went to prison for those
The Fever Dream That Was Rubik the Cube [video]
I don't have a Medium account and I don't like running into paywalls but monetization could potentially have very little to do with the motivation to use a publishing platform like Medium over what is essentially an orphaned single public commit.
Customization is a liability. It it practical to be able to work with any hammer, not just your own. Also practical that you can lend your hammer out when the need arises, without instructing the other on the particulars of your version.

Computers are cattle, software too.