skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Now the people I work with seem to wear ignorance as a badge of pride. They think that not knowing something means that thing is not worth knowing. As if somehow not knowing something is a good thing.

That may be the case, due to attitudes encouraged by pop culture, etc. but it's a disastrously incorrect understanding of the comic (and parent comment). They're celebrating learning, which is the exact opposite of 'wearing ignorance as a badge of pride'.

> When I was young, it was considered shameful not to know things.

Shaming something discourages people from admitting it. A child who's ashamed to ask questions will not learn as effectively. They may learn to avoid admitting their ignorance, but that may cause problems later (struggling alone rather than asking for help, possibly leading to damage or injury, etc.).

> there are such things as cultural memory and institutional memory. As a member of a group or society, you are expected to have a certain baseline amount of knowledge of that culture and history.

How do you think the members of those groups have that knowledge? We have not (yet) evolved a genetic predisposition to grow, in utero, neuronal bundles encoding Unix shell prompt escape sequences. That's the point; everyone has all need to learn!

Still, it's better to air and discuss such takeaways!
Like most proverbs, it only seems insightful and true if you don't think about what it is claiming at all.
I really want to have an electric truck as my next vehicle, but with all the technology and phoning home that's being put into them - I'm going to be driving old ICE trucks for the foreseeable future.
Hey, I'm also from Slovenia and wanted to do the same thing for my private collection.

A month ago, a guy in Maribor had (maybe still has?) a non-working DEC VT101, a working Gorenje Paka 3000 and some terminal printers, but he didn't want to sell anything separately, so I didn't buy anything from him.

I have a feeling you know of him.
EGA... the instagram filter of the '80s.
> That is very different than what both you and the WaPo implied.

It is not. There was no evidence to support the belief that there were any votes that failed signature verification.

Put another way, Trump was asking the SoS to apply a higher than usual level of scrutiny only to Democrat-leaning ballots in order to win him a state that he lost.
> This was a company privately deciding

That was my point. Risk mitigation IMO
quicker shipping when you return your artificial appendix. :)
I think the "Djangonic" approach would be to make this configurable, but with defaults that give you convenient magic for the simple/happy path. For example template paths are completely configurable (indeed you can plug new lookup strategies in addition to just overriding the default paths), but the defaults are "look in this well-defined location".

This is more of a DX gripe than a reason not to use Django, it should probably not be in my list if I'm being fair.
Title sounded like a password https://xkcd.com/936/
I think it would be really cool if there was a VS code extension where you could embed dot graphs in your .md file within a triple back tick block.

Then when you hit the preview button, it automatically renders it. Something like this:
https://markdownmonster.west-wind.com/docs/_5ef0x96or.htm

But as a VS Code extension.
there might be something on this list that interests you:
https://github.com/ciconia/awesome-music

reaper is another DAW that is not free but its only 60 or something so its practically nothing compared to others. i used it for 3 or so years without paying and the only drawback is you have to wait 5 seconds for the nag screen at the start to close.

i don't want to sound like im on commission for reaper but i really love how fast it is to open a project and get started (once you have a licence that is), it has no bs logins that need to connect to a server before it will work. its insanely customisable and its also portable so you can run it from a usb drive. you can also have different versions that can run side by side and be set up in different ways with different settings etc.
there's really nothing like it!
Software engineers have the privilege of being at or near the top of the food chain when it comes to job mobility.

I follow a very simple rule - if I hate something about my job and it can't be fixed in the mid term, I look a new job. Overthinking this easily leads to burnout and frustration.
> FreeBSD NVIDIA desktop.
Any links to guides/docs? My GPU is really the one reason I haven't yet at the very least tried FreeBSD on my desktop.
How is that relevant to preventive care? That's what Amazon Care appears to be...
It’s been basically “power to the individuals” (one person, one vote, this sort of things), as opposed to “power to the elite” (long live the kings etc) since the beginning. The elite makes do without a king, but the aristocratic class reflex is still there.

This spectrum is limited and one-dimensional, but it still is meaningful. The people who claim it isn’t are usually con men after your vote. “The third way” always turned out to be a scam.
In the event of a stroke, you can hardly take the time to shop around the local hospital market, compare prices and review scores.
The rich aren't, but the companies they run practically are, from a political standpoint.

Basically all large, multinational corporations now make their company logo rainbow for pride month, and all release the same sounding official statements about racial inequality on a regular basis, etc. etc.

It's almost impossible to find a large corporation that doesn't do this now. And their statements are so bland and generic that they are almost all identical, and completely interchangeable.
The phrase's meaning is the issue; it's an oversimplification.

I encourage you to learn what a thought-terminating cliché is before getting defensive.
>docker on freebsd to get any traction

Yeah no thanks....run bhyve..with buntu and than your docker...have (no) fun.

That's "docker" for freebsd:

https://bastillebsd.org/
Hypothesis: Meditation substitutes for sleep to some extent. They sleep less because they need to sleep less.
I for one want to see a Security section.

I am the PITA security guy that never has good news.
Is there a problem using Sandstorm today? I followed it some years ago but never actually tried it, always too busy. :(
And in the one country where healthcare is a consumer-driven commodity (Singapore), it's 1/6 our cost, and better outcomes!
1473 comments, 2656 upvotes in 10 hours.

Well, seems ycombinator is poisoned now. It was a good time. Time to go further.
How many LoC?
Author here. Thanks and welcome :)

Dynamically Redefined Character Set (DRCS) was introduced with DEC VT200 and even though online information is scarce, there is enough there to make it work on a real machine.

Even more interesting are the Yugoslavian/Slovenian video terminals with their own custom graphics modes and features - it is a lost art but we at the Museum are working on bringing it back!
The tools are there for SMS too.
I think it depends on how each org or company defines its team structure and the responsibilities of the different roles. We don't have a separate tech lead role in our team.

Even so, wouldn't a tech lead be focused only on technical aspects. Say if I want feedback on some customer interaction I had or maybe regarding a meeting I ran, it is not the role of the tech lead to do so I think.
Github isn't eliminating any words from anyone's vocabulary.

This thread has demonstrated that plenty of people are committed (har har) to calling their repository's je ne sais quoi branch `master`.

While I'm with you that I don't understand how this will move the needle on racial equity, I'm uncomfortable with how visceral of a reaction a group of technology professionals is having to what is essentially a library changing a default value.

Like, vocabulary changes all the time. Technology changes even more frequently. Why y'all so scared to use a different label?
French watchdog rejects request to suspend Apple's App Tracking Transparency
> If the goal is to change minds and open hearts then where appropriate, we should endeavor to communicate in ways that will be well received by those who need to hear the message.

As another black SWE - I have to ask which hearts are we trying to open? Some are far too gone and it would be a waste of time to try to convince them to let go of their bigotry. The very same will feign engagement and argue in bad faith while being energy vampires. Why should I supplicate racists before I have my dignity as a human? Fuck "hearts and minds" - I have no way of definitively knowing those - I'll take changed behavior instead, that's all I truly care about. If I ever have kids, I can't have them live like this.

> we should endeavor to communicate in ways that will be well received by those who need to hear the message

I agree, but you need to consciously consider who these people are - if it's everyone, then the battle is already lost.
in short, yes. he's been there long enough to understand all the stacks.
Kinda weird to bring the Neanderthals into it in the last quote. First, the timeline don't quite fit, there seems to still have been large prey around when the Neanderthals disappeared. Second, I thought the modern view was that they merged back in to the homo sapiens line rather than outright die off?
First of all "board certification" is completely meaningless in the context of nurse practitioners. They are "board certified" by the nursing board, with standards that are completely paltry compared to the standards set for actual medical doctors. Secondly, even for medical doctors "board certification" is largely an extortion scheme.

Third - there are about 28 states where nurse practitioners can work independently of any supervising physician. Also, in many cases "supervision" is a joke, with the supervising physician hundreds of miles away and simply signing charts without reviewing them.

> It isn't like they can go to Bob's Online College and then it's a free-for-all after that.

It actually is, though. You would be very, very surprised.
For obvious reasons (targeting embedded devices with limited flash) it's not the default, but for devices which can support it, HTTPS is easily enabled.

opkg install wget ca-bundle
sed -i "s/http/https/" /etc/opkg/distfeeds.conf

Done. And now packages have cryptographic signatures verified and are downloaded over HTTPS.

Are there other things pfSense can offer me? :)

(Thanks for giving me the push, btw)
Wow. You probably have high dev turn over rate or extremely complacent ones. Mistake many pms and execs make is assume dev is only worth they’re coding skills. We are humans who also have a non technical creative side. But the assumption is someone has already done all the high level thinking so we don’t have to.
For the same reason Alphabet named their division Google Health. The brand has baggage but people do trust it to be a world leader in AI and big data (which is what you want from health-tech, right?)
Should we assume that "fake news" is anything where the opinion of the other side is not provided?
> I'm also 1/32 Native American and feel the same way about those mascots too.

Just because you don't take issue with it, doesn't mean it's not offensive and a big deal to other people (who are often more than 1/32 Native American). The Redskins is a racist name, anyway you slice it. Try to replace red with brown or yellow and it's immediately obvious. I don't think every single case is as cut and dry as that one, but it's not fair to call these issues inconsequential.
This is the true insight, meditation is just a means to realize it.
- Awareness is not happy, it is not fun, it is not calm, it is not exciting, it is not an emotional feeling. Awareness is just awareness.
Yes, but when someone mentions LTS many think ów like Ubuntu LTS or like Linux kernel LTS versions - that is free of charge long support.

And many Java devs employers don't pay for LTS.

So ad 1 and 1 and you get a false claim that any java 11 version is an LTS, which is not true.
I dare say that Ecto does a lot of things quite differently. From my work with SQLAlchemy I never saw anything similar to changesets.

I love working with Elixir but I would probably say that I found building queries in SQLAlchemy a bit more straight-forward than in Ecto. While I'd rather do basically everything else in Ecto.

I think most of the similarities is because they are both providing abstraction on top SQL, which tends to lead to a similar enough API surface. I don't know what primarily influenced Ecto. But I think it was quite intentionally not Django ORM or ActiveRecord. Working with Ecto and SQLAlchemy at different times I don't find them very similar beyond all the SQL terminology and API surface they share. So yeah, maybe superficial, and yes an older pattern, SQL ;)

SQLAlchemy + Alembic cover a very large feature set for ORM, query building, migrations and all of that stuff in a way I think works pretty darn well. It simplifies building SQL queries piece by piece but gets very complex for certain queries.
Even if # isn't / wasn't special, it's still exceedingly unlikely to be a valid program name, nor is it likely for a valid program name to begin with #. The practical effect should be the same as it having been special.
Almost four times worse, $945B vs $258B. References:

Cybercrime: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/12/07/cybersecu...

Climate: https://yaleclimateconnections.org/2021/01/world-hammered-by...
And is happening at a rate that is hard to fathom...
iOS UX is so bad that to clear big attachments off the phone you have to individually select each item in a huge, multipage check list. There's not even a select-all option.
Love that 40hex was "raw" with little editorial (aS wELL aS pOSTS wITH iNVERTED cASE). E.g.

XOR is a matamatical function that can be used to cifer and decifer data with the same key.

Some of the code comments are pure gold.
That wouldn't be too strange because in many languages including English (though I typically use singular they) the male pronoun is also the ungendered pronoun.

Edit: looked it up to confirm my suspicion; English alai traditionally uses he for the ambiguous pronoun.
Yea, I'm realizing now that isn't immediately obvious from the headline.

This means that users won't have to go to the Store to download the terminal - it'll just be included with Windows.
Congrats on the 17,000€ - happy to hear that this change puts that kind of money into "small" app developer's pockets.
OpenJDK provides that for 6 months.
And then 6 months for a 17, and so on.
> Of course, calling this government "communist" is a joke in poor taste, but people from outside Spain may believe this country is the new Soviet Union

Many members of the government (eg, Iglesias or Garzón) repeatedly define themselves as communists, though. And they regularly use the term "social-communist" to literally define the government. So maybe they are the ones joking and deep down inside they believe in an innovative market economy, albeit progressive?

> Instead, I think one of the reasons our economy is so vulnerable is because we are so much dependent on tourism and also there seems nobody can innovate and create a business other than a restaurant. But this is hardly our current government's fault.

Because while I agree with the opinion that the government is not at fault for the lack of innovation or productive model in Spain, I seriously doubt a government that is so left-leaning (and in which part is literally communist, and wants the nationalization of many industries) is going to foster an environment for innovation and entrepreneurship...
ZFS DTRACE and pf....oh and the mantra.
Presumably, Amazon will let you know the price upfront at least.
I would buy a modern , fully supported , freebsd laptop in a heart beat, 11th gen cpu or ryzen 4800 / 5900hx...

However its a pain to find one fully compatible.
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Commoditizing healthcare will only make its quality plummet, seen it in countless cases all around the world

The point is that it's not a commodity, because it's often the product of the skills of a single physician, whether manual or mental.

I want to pay more to choose a better physician if he's going to cut my -something- open, not choose the lowest price based on bogus "Amazon recommends" reviews.
Hey Andy, we'd love to chat. I just sent you an email.
How does it maintain as a store of value if no new people buy into it? The money isn't being embedded into Bitcoin, it's being transferred to an earlier adopter or miner.
Dendron supports mermaid diagrams: https://wiki.dendron.so/notes/eea2b078-1acc-4071-a14e-18299f...
> the lack of X statistics has contributed to problem Y

The term "contribution" implies active impact on a problem. It comes from the Latin "contribuere" which means to "bring together" or to "add". If X contributes to Y, you should be able to measure the contribution, but there's no way to measure the impact of something that never existed in the first place.
Ask HN: Should I invest in learning DL/ML mid- or late-career?
I’ve been a software engineer generalist with a Frontend specialization for almost 20 years. During that time I’ve worked at companies large and small. Most recently I was at Google. I have a BSc in Computer Science from Canada.

After taking a year off mid-career I am considering spending an additional 6 months to learn machine learning before returning to work. I am attracted to ML because I like math and I’m excited by the promise of ML. I also want to shake things up and distinguish myself from other job candidates.

Is it worth the investment to learn ML at this stage in my career? Would 6 months be enough? What would my day-to-day look like: would I actually get to work on choosing and tuning models?

If you are actually working in a ML role or related I would appreciate hearing from you. Thanks!
Holy crap, I spent endless hours back in the 80s in front of this VT220: https://i1.wp.com/www.racunalniski-muzej.si/wp-content/uploa...

They were connected to a VAX/VMS mainframe cluster at 19.2kbits.

Thanks for sharing!
Related: If you are interested in understanding when to use a particular type of chart and the best practice for labelling charts, the following is an excellent introduction to the topic:

Introduction to data visualisation:

https://gss.civilservice.gov.uk/policy-store/introduction-to...
I kind of like it. All the comments saying not to categorize your co-workers are right, but---to an extent, we are what we do. I think it's a useful list of behaviors people can fall into, without making comment on their eternal soul.
Cool. It would be nice to have a feature which can facilitate the logistics of wholesale bulk purchases (example, products from Costco).
I think you're misunderstanding the word "commodity". If healthcare were commoditized, then "what's the closest ER" would be the only thing that matters. You are actually advocating for commoditization.

Water, for example, is a commodity. It doesn't matter where you get it, because water from one tap is mostly indistinguishable to water from a different tap. When you need water, you simply just go to the closest tap and you can be happy that you're getting the same quality water as anywhere else. That's exactly what you want with healthcare, too.
All acquired concepts are built on simpler, innate ones or we could never learn anything. (50k innate concepts)

There uncountably infinite potential concepts in abstract subjects because an additional layer, reduction, parameterization, or generalization can be made.

Some answers might include, but aren't impressive:

- General relativity.

- Quantum computation.

- Derivation of time-dependent Schrödinger equations.

- Tensor calculus.

- Dependent typing.

- Monads.

- Ambiguity. (in general)

- Women. (literal)

A general genius would be able to list things almost no one has ever heard of and fewer could understand without additional time and explanation.
Zdravo :) You're welcome to visit us once we (hopefully) open in the second part of the year.
We are aware of a few local private collectors and admire how they cherish their treasures. The museum does not have a budget for acquisition but thankfully we have already received many generous donations and will make sure as many visitors as possible can experience them!
On top of the survivorship bias I would add the fundamental attribution error, or a close cousin to it. Our stories about successful people tend to attribute their success to inherent qualities and under-emphasize the role of their environment, especially just getting lucky.
>GNU/Linux is an amalgamation of 2-3 of the highest quality IKEA sets.

Depends on the distribution :)
It seems like many companies do a poor job of separating product management from project management—I believe this is actively counter-productive and explains the issues engineers complain about.

On the one hand, we have "product" work. In an idea world, this consists of talking to users, understanding their individual problems, synthesizing this into higher-level problems for users to solve, helping design the solution and managing iterative feedback on all of these. This is real work and it's important work, at least if you care about consistently building products that actually help people!

On the other hand, we have "project" work: schedules, deadlines, tracking who does what, when... etc. This can be important depending on context, but it's as separate from "product" work as it is from engineering. It's also the most common vector for micromanagement, whether from actual managers, "stakeholders" or other roles.

"Product" considerations are certainly important for timelines and product managers are responsible for prioritizing which customer needs to address first, but exactly the same thing can be said of "engineering" considerations except engineers should prioritize which technical systems to build instead.

All of the complaints I've seen in this thread—and most complaints I've heard from engineers about "PMs"—sound like they're about project management, not product management. I imagine this is a symptom of some broader problem (unreasonable/arbitrary deadlines, micromanagement... etc), but conflating that with product management ends up making the product side of the work much harder and contributes to unnecessarily poor relationships between product management and engineering.
12 years might be too short of a time frame for objects that are moving about 1/1000 of the speed of light.
It would be interesting to see a comparison of 50 or 100 years. The center should be rotating faster or slower?
Pretty much all empirical evidence so far shows no statistically significant difference between outcomes and quality of care between PAs, NPs, and traditional MDs.

"A meta-analysis of 38 studies, comparing a total of 33 patient outcomes of NPs with those of physicians, demonstrated that NP outcomes were equivalent to or greater than those of physicians. NP patients had higher levels of compliance with recommendations in studies where provider assignments were randomized and when other means to control patient risks were used. Patient satisfaction and the resolution of pathological conditions were greatest for NPs. NP and physician outcomes were equivalent on all other outcomes."

https://www.aanp.org/advocacy/advocacy-resource/position-sta...

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5594520/

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28234756/
Stellar parallax isn't a big effect. It wasn't even observable until the 1800s. Even the Hubble cannot measure parallax past about 10,000 lightyears, which is about 10% of the size of the Milky Way. For earth bound telescopes at this scale, it's totally negligible.
When you write software, you should only change a default value for a good reason. This was...not that.

I agree that the outrage can sometimes seem out of proportion to the change itself, but I can also understand why people who write software in general would be offended by the silliness of the whole episode.