skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Maybe that'll also be the Year of the Linux desktop I keep hearing so much about.
The worrying trend of game technology centralization
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A number of people, including me, have been building similar things, see http://price.hospital

The problem seems to be figuring out a revenue model, and translating all the medical terms in to human.
Three reasons fungi are not plants
Has anyone found a use for cash outside financing criminal operations? Transactions are slower than sending money electronically, the paper is subject to decay, and if your cash gets stolen you have no recourse to getting it back. The fact that a hundred dollar bill is worth a hundred real dollars is insanity and proof that its value is a speculative bubble that’s being driven by anarchist fanatics and criminals.
> "negative privilege"

I think that is called "discrimination"
Why do you feel that's the case?
>This to me indicates that DNA has hardcoded "instructions" on how to configure a mind to be able to process tokenized information from the start.

>It is entirely possible that every section of the mind is just a huge freeform fpga that is initialized by DNA, but I think it is more hardwired than that.

I agree that it is more hardwired than that. We have too much wetware devoted to various tasks, the most notable of which is visual processing, for it to just be completely freeform. Although it's pretty interesting just how close the wetware comes to resembling an FPGA. People who are blind from birth don't just let all that processing power to go waste [1].

> My thought on it is that there are many subconscious thought streams that we are normally unaware of. People who become aware of them are thought to be crazy, but really I think the normal blocks from their conscious reasoning are just weak.

I think your view is supported by our current understanding of the evidence [2]. It's interesting to think what other processes might be running silently in our subconscious.

> I agree also that some people don't have the same "internal dialogue" and the stream of tokens are not equal to words like we communicate with others. I don't think that invalidates that there is some sort of token stream though.

I didn't mean to imply the token stream idea itself was bad, just that it being in the form of language doesn't hold up. I agree with you that there is some sort of token stream going on.

> The question I've always had is "how much of consciousness shuts down when you sleep" and/or "does staying awake longer mean your conscious thought process gains more access to the rest of your mind". My speculation is that the latter is true, because if you stay awake too long you will appear to be "crazy".

I'm not sure this is a question of gaining access to more of one's mind rather than it is an abstraction beginning to leak. When functioning properly all this information should returned in process when the brain scans its state. But when we lack sleep the summarization process might brake down. If the brain operates in a sleep deprived state for long enough connections may begin to form where they shouldn't introducing bugs in the brain's ability to perform state summary. There is some interesting research into how chronic lack of sleep may contribute to alzheimer's [3]. This research is by no means conclusive and I am not anywhere close to being a neuroscientist, but its interesting nonetheless.

[1] https://www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/how-does-human-ech...
[2] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4059570/
[3] https://www.nih.gov/news-events/nih-research-matters/sleep-d...
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Stripe Connect & OAuth was something we thought about. It's definitely recognised as a more secure method and it's also low friction to integrate.
The only drawback comes into play with marketplace and platform apps. The platform itself may already be using OAuth with their customer.

We could offer our customers both options and let them choose which one is best.
Using gmail means Google still gets to read your emails and metadata
Any link to an HDMI 4k 60hz dummy adapter that support HDR?
Points 1 and 2 describe the jobs of most Staff Engineers (or higher) at large tech companies like FAANG that I know. Smaller companies rarely have these because, perhaps unsurprisingly, small shops rarely have big enough technical challenges to need more than 1 person like this, and they double as management.

3 is likely to be a sticking point however. Once you have responsibility for large projects you are often in a certain amount of resource contention, the chance of avoiding political battles there is small unless you are a known superstar within the company.

If you're ok with that, I'd prepare for a whiteboard interview at one of the big well-paying tech companies.
The 2017 tax reform bill [1] "seeks to address some widely acknowledged issues with corporate taxation, and takes some steps toward broadening the tax base, in part by reducing the incentive to itemize deductions." It was the first substantive piece of tax reform since 1986, and while there are many things to criticize, it at least started to align US corporate tax rates with those in other developed countries.

One of the significant changes that the tax reform brings is an increase in the cost of capital raised in the form of debt. That is a good thing. The deductibility of interest on corporate debt creates an enormous distortion that causes firms to favour leverage, which leads to greater instability in the economy. Should interest be tax deductible? Well, whether or not you think it should be, it is. And so reducing the corporate tax rate makes that deduction less valuable than it was before.

The tax reform is hugely regressive in reducing the top marginal tax rates for high income earners. That is a giant negative IMHO, because wealth and income inequality are a huge problem in American society. So, personally, I believe the only good from the tax reform is on the corporate taxation side by, effectively, making things a little more efficient than they were before.

Other things that I think were a positive:

1. Rejecting Chinese firms' from the 5G network build-out. His diplomacy and trade policy were really random, but this was one move that worked out well.

2. Operation Warp Speed. While Hillary Clinton likely would have done a FAR, FAR better job of handling the pandemic overall, credit is due to Trump for getting behind the advanced purchase of billions of dollars worth of vaccines before they were even approved.

3. Greatly increasing the standard tax deduction for low income earners. "For income earned in 2020, single people pay no income tax on their first $12,400, heads of household on their first $18,650, and married couples on their first $24,800." [2]

Again, it's too bad that all the insane stuff he did and all the things he neglected will overshadow his accomplishments. History will likely judge Trump harshly, which I think is richly deserved.

[1] https://pubs.aeaweb.org/doi/pdf/10.1257/jep.32.4.73

[2] https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/12/the-things...
Next, poor people just should make more money and spend less.

Next, all addicts can just ... stop, except for the opiate addicts who can just ... carefully stop.

Next, criminals should just stop doing crimes!

Congratulations! You solved all societal problems.

...

Sorry for being snarky, but if literally billions people struggle with it, isn't that a sign that this really isn't that simple?
That's definitely one interpretation. Another could simply be diversifying risk by opening up shop in multiple places.
> infinitely cheaper

It's actually the opposite. Static site hosting is so much easier to optimize, that it costs just few cents a month, if anything at all (I never went beyond Netlify's free plan).
The ACA made things better than they were by eliminating maximum benefit amounts, implementing out of pocket maximums, implement maximum age rating factors, and removing all pre existing condition clauses guaranteeing access to healthcare. The individual mandate ensured that all of these increases in access to healthcare could be paid for by forcing young and healthy people to pay premiums. Without the individual mandate, premiums would have had to be even higher, causing even more people to not buy insurance, etc.

That the tax code was not updated to remove the tax benefit for employers, or give it to individuals is a shortcoming (and has long been a handout to big businesses prior to ACA). What really needed to happen was forcing everyone into healthcare.gov onto a single marketplace so healthy lives wouldn’t be locked up in employer sponsored risk pools. Then the costs would truly be shared across the whole population, and sufficient healthy lives would exist to enable multiple insurance companies to compete.

Or we could have gone with taxpayer funded healthcare and made it all simpler. But that obviously wasn’t in the cards.
I mean SETI is literally looking for radio signals so this doesn't track at all.

A lot of astronomy is looking for familiar chemical signatures yes, but it's more in the vein of "looking for chemicals which could not, to our knowledge, have been produced through natural processes". Which is not unreasonable IMO.
We have that now, it's called googling. you could easily hire 100 people to do that job, but you'd have to pay them at least $15/hr now on the US. Say equivalent gpt-3 servers cost a fraction of that. How do you make money with that resource?
Hi thank you for asking.

Yes it acts like luna display, but you can buy HDMI plug from
third party.

The latency depends you how close you are to wifi source. When they are connected with a cable, then it depends on your local network hardware and network cards performance.

The framerate may drop if you move away from wifi or download something huge from internet like torrents, but overall it depends on how beefy the host machine is (where Deskreen app runs). My firend used a 3D modeling software Zbrush on a beefy Windows PC with Deskreen and barely noticed any lags. So it's usable even for creators.

on average it consumes pretty low network resources ~1.5 megabytes per second when watching youtube videos through it.
but overall experience is good if you have fast network cards and fast router.
> doesn't google employ the elite of world programming?

Yes, some of them. But they are few and far between the tens of thousands of devs now that just glue services together with grpc and protos. The Google that produced cool shit just 7 years ago has grown like 10x in employees. Additionally, any engineer that has stayed that long is a millionaire several times over in stock and is very unlikely bothering with anything as boring as the embedded youtube player.

Google is now IBM 25 years ago or so.
IMHO You need to make it legal to open and run a hospital (hospitals are basically local state-granted monopolies like cable companies). You make it legal to offer differential pricing. You decouple healthcare from employment. You allow employers to offer more than one insurer.

Most of what we need to do is just remove the monopoly rules.
I think Rob Pike's commentary on Go is why I decided to go into research. Google hires kilotons of developers and pays them gigadollars every year, then makes them work in dumbed-down languages because they can't be trusted with power tools.

How has our industry gone so far astray that we pay people hundreds of thousands of dollars a year when they can't even understand generics? In what universe does it make sense to design an entire new language rather than offering new hires two months of training? Why are we pretending programming is a skilled trade when the things people actually wind up doing are so easy they can be learned in three months at a boot camp?

Rob Pike is a legend. He is the man who brought us Plan 9. How is this what he wound up working on?
No, I have that concern. It's obviously a fishing expedition, but they caught something. Assuming whatever it is wasn't publicly available it may be enough.
On CPU the latency would be absolutly prohibitive to the point of being useless.
When I used to do employee-side employment law, the story of almost every client or potential client included a visit to HR that preceded workplace retaliation and/or termination.

Back in the day my first tech job was at a startup. The VP of Engineering was the first person to tell me to never be loyal to a company. This came up in a one-on-one meeting where we were discussing a pending merger with a larger corp. I began to mumble something about wanting to be loyal to the company and he immediately cut me off to tell me to never be loyal to a company, including the one we both were in at the time.
He’s qualified to offer an opinion on the issue

> I also approach this problem as a regional economist specializing in migration, so I also think of the American population issue through the lens of population density comparisons.

Here’s the same view from Matt Yglesias, solidly left-wing journalist: https://wdet.org/posts/2020/09/24/90064-vox-matthew-yglesias...

Also Scientific American: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/why-malthus-is-st...
The incentives are different. Apple is after your wallet. Google is after someone else's wallet.
The fact that not rotating questions makes it trivial for someone who’s been through the process to tip off future applicants. Sites like Glassdoor and leetcode already do this, but it’s tempered by the fact that most companies rotate these type of screener questions regularly.

It sounds like some of these questions are bad screeners anyway, but it makes them even worse if half the people going through the process are feigning surprise at the tricky question then quickly developing a “brilliant” solution.
Indeed, bringing down the cost of med school might also have the effect of attracting people with a working class background, who see it as a form of labor, not as a return on an investment.

I'm not sure what the impact of tort reform would be. It's possible to look up how much is paid in premiums, but we don't know who owns the malpractice insurance industry, and I've read that it's doctors.
It is under reported in media and public service campaigns about climate that we can no longer mitigate the problem merely by cutting emissions- we have committed ourselves to carbon sequestration which is the unproven brainchild of technosolutionism and most of us never got a vote.
> Has anyone found a use for cash outside financing criminal operations

Buying groceries.
> Has anyone found a use for cash outside financing criminal operations?

That sounds like a restatement of 'who needs privacy if you have nothing to hide'. I use cash because I don't feel like making my purchase history available to anyone with deep pockets. If someone wants to figure out what I buy, I'd rather they just go ahead and hire someone to follow me around.
Just to pick on one player, California prison workers’ union have immense political power. They have many members, and their self-interest is more prisons and more prisoners.

To go further, when you warehouse a bunch of people who can’t vote in a geographical area, you create a situation where few voters get to wield disproportionate power at all levels.
I've found for this reason I can never listen to new music I'm excited about when coding (i.e. a new album release by an artist I like), but I can listen to the radio and music I'm already familiar with without an issue.
Giving money to homeless people.

And as a general principle I don't like having all of my transactions logged and tracked. That's the same fallacy of "if you have nothing to hide, then submit yourself to complete tracking"
So-Called “Consent Searches” Harm Our Digital Rights
No, but you can always google :)
An Invidious instance is a good solution.
IMO the best way to do it is change the contact info in all the accounts you still use from your old gmail to your new address. Tell the people who do email you to use your new email instead
Hmmm there are two things here:

1) Marking inactive issues as stale and eventually closing them automatically.

2) Locking old closed issues so they don't get comments.

Many bots do these things and do them badly. I maintain a bot that I think does (1) better.

The key is that an issue is only stale if a maintainer has asked a question of the person who filed the issue and that person is not responding. That's the only condition.

An issue is NOT stale just because there's been no activity recently. That could just mean the maintainer is on vacation or has other things to do. Repos which have bots that close issues for lack of maintainer action are getting off to easy.

I’m a bit more torn about locking old issues. On the one hand it saves you from a lot of low-value “me too” spam comments and lets you focus on only open issues. On the other hand you will miss legitimate regressions.
Checkpoint is not shared with customers, you only get access to an API endpoint.
I think cash is a failsafe against potential tyranny - so if you value that then there's a need to maintain the cash system and requiring accepting cash as an option.
Can you explain what you mean by "the now "rogue" MuseScore" ?
If the intro paragraphs are correct, this is a great illustration of why so many subjects in math, stats and science are so much more difficult and unapproachable than they should be. Often there are no clear explanations of why fundamental principles make sense or actually work in a way normal people can understand. In this case it seems to have gone beyond that, in that there wasn't even an unclear explanation apparently.

"Surprisingly, a simple, valid explanation of the
exothermicity of combustion reactions has apparently not been
provided, [1−5] not even in textbooks on combustion [6−9] or in the
be provided in conceptual general-chemistry terms and results in a simple, predictive formula for heats of combustion.
The heats of reaction of a few specific combustion reactions have been explained in terms of bond energies, [5,7] but this has not revealed why all combustions of organic molecules are exothermic. Most bond-energy analyses have remained opaque since double bonds were treated on par with single bonds. We count double bonds as two bonds since the total number of electron-pair bonds is the same in reactants and products; only when the number of bonds remains unchanged is a general analysis per bond meaningful. On this basis, it becomes apparent that combustions are exothermic because of the unusually small bond-dissociation energy of O2 (per pair of
technical literature on heats of combustion"
Let users decide what painting is better given the topic! It's like Hot or Not for painting using GPT.
That's largely because the authoritarian governments have stronger controls over the press; trumpeting their successes and hiding their failures.

Mussolini didn't actually make the trains run on time; he only convinced people he did.
In particular CEOs
We should not ignore the attempt to relax restrictions on Association Health Plans in 2019, which would have made it easier for small businesses to band together to negotiate insurance terms using combined group numbers on par with that of larger corporations. This was struck down by a federal court[0], but would have moderately improved one of the biggest barriers to small business ownership/employment - unobtanium health insurance. This was a huge loss of something almost great.

[0]https://www.shrm.org/resourcesandtools/hr-topics/benefits/pa...
Taxation in the US is significantly more progressive than in most (if not all) of Europe. In Europe, bulk of tax revenues come from high tax rates on middle class, while in the US, most of the tax revenue is paid by the wealthy. In concrete terms, Americans in top 1% of income distribution pay nearly 40% of all federal income tax, and top 10% pays 70% of all federal income tax. That’s significantly more progressive than all large European countries.
Wouldn't you need this model to be in GPU RAM instead of regular RAM, though?
Agreed. I am not at all against people learning how to do it. But if that's the purpose then it's probably better to present it as such (like the resources at your link does). But the claim that all you need is 100 LOC to make a proxy server work is a bit bogus when you rely on Ruby's standard library. Look at the code at https://github.com/jamesmoriarty/forward-proxy/blob/main/lib.... As expected, it doesn't parse headers but uses stdlib's code to do that. Good, less likely to have bugs. But that means that you can claim that you implemented an HTTP header parser in one line of code:

req_headers = Hash[req.header.map { |k, v| [k, v.first] }]

It's good that you figured out how to do that, and it's useful. But that is not a 1 LOC HTTP header parser. It's an invocation of an opaque header parser that you do not understand. You might not even know what an HTTP header looks like and still write and use the above code.

Interestingly, above that code they write headers by hand. Those at least to me don't look right: they don't escape header values or handle multi-line headers. Probably should have used stdlib to write that part of the code.

I really don't mean to pick on this particular project. I just don't really get impressed with "X in Y LOC" when all it's doing is invoking the services of a standard library. I guess when you are coming from the NPM world where you need 1000 dependencies to concatenate two strings it seems really cool to only do something with the tools included. But better ecosystems allow you to do a lot more with the batteries included, which means your LOC will be really low until you do something more interesting.
Intel outsources 15-20% of its non-CPU chip production
Twitter is bringing Moments to Indian social app Dailyhunt
QML is commonly used on <1 GHz embedded devices. Equating QML to bad Electron examples doesn't make sense. (Although Electron/Chromium also have a large range depending on how they are used, in my experience they have a way harder time scaling down to smaller devices)
VSCode isn't as flexible at all though. You can't even create a keybinding that executes multiple commands (macro). There aren't hooks. You can't just write a function in a file and execute it. There isn't the same level of introspection.

In a lot of ways, VSCode is more convenient, but its extensibility doesn't come close to matching Emacs'.
> because the interviewer expected you to know how to find a duplicate in an integer list by using xor

Maybe they expect you to come up with a solution right there. This way they can see that you're curious and trying to solve a problem even if you don't know its solution beforehand. (And by looking at your attempts they your mind is even working in the right direction. They could give you small hints and observe how you process them.)

I never conducted interviews myself, but some years ago my supervisor asked me for advice on interview problems for his interns. He wanted something that will help spot a person inclined to algorithmic thinking, but the job was not 100% algorithmic, he needed programmers. If he asked me the same today, I would have advised him to look at these xor search problems.
Free as in the five eyes already mutually spy on each other and then share the data, that is pretty much as invasive as what Vietnam added, to get around the rules on not spying on their own citizens.
> that a few GDPR fines later they take privacy more seriously

Their current GDPR consent flow is still not compliant (because you can't decline) so I guess the fines weren't enough.
Your product looks good!

Using Stripe Connect is something we are going to add.
Everyone knows who the current administration is, assigning a name of a bobble head to it doesn't mean anything.

The bill [1] was introduced by Mike Braun and others. None of which have anything to do with Trump or his "administration", these are voted governs who did this all on their own.

1 - https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/senate-bill/410...