skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think it is past time to reform the Orphan Drug Act. It is open to exploitation by bad actors (Martin Shkreli, etc.), and the problem seems to only be getting worse. While we are at it, we should expand the act to try and help address the problem that treatments are less profitable than cures.

We also need to start putting in sunset provisions in laws of this nature. Governmental intervention in the economy should have mandated expiration/review dates.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orphan_Drug_Act_of_1983
I find this weirdly hilarious, because of ad blocking, I'd never heard of this company before this.
Which devices ? They did find a solution for most Android devices, and it is now the default chain provided via ACME.
Some of these declassified videos are almost 20 years old (i.e. much older than Space Force) and the descriptions across various personnel are congruent; after years of corroborations nobody has betrayed evidence of some kind of conspiracy or hoax.

There are people very much freaking out about this stuff. It's a fun subject to discuss and if you do so, you will invariably encounter people who are totally unwilling to grapple with the implications.
What node is AMD IO die now a days? It always felt like they were keeping the IO dia one node backward to honor the GF agreement. Even with this they are able to give 128 PCIe lanes and Better Memory frequency. So when they are able to bring IO die also to leading node, it is going to be awesome.
Spending 190 million once for customers paying 160 million a year is maybe not a bad deal. Often large saas companies have positive net revenue retention.
Monday is just plain bad, it's slow, it's not really useful. Looks like a bunch of solutions looking for problems put together in a frenzy
> One thing that really differentiates it is that the curated playlists seem a lot more cared for than with Spotify.

Completely agree. This was Beats Music’s raison d’etre, and Apple
Not only maintained the playlist curation team/process/whatever, but have made it bigger and better.

My favorite playlists get regularly updated - seemingly by the same person, or someone with extremely similar tastes in music, and I love it.
unlike OPEC, they do not control a commodity.

People will travel to rogue jurisdictions that choose to make money by defecting, some may even invalidate patents like India.
Sadly no, because everything is closely tied to the node. For example, it might take 0.3ns for a signal to physically travel from one edge of the chip to the other on a 7nm chip. On 12nm, it might take 0.5ns. The chip was designed to compensate for a 0.3ns delay, not 0.5, so now the cache is sending data to the core at the wrong time, leading to corruption and garbage data being processed. This, plus a million other things in both manufacturing and design have to change to build a chip on a different node (manufacturing tolerances, clock speed, metallurgy, patterning issues, etc.).
Embassies around the world already monitor the radio spectrum very carefully.

Collecting intelligence is one of the main reasons for international diplomacy to exist.
Mac App Store: Embedding a Command Line tool using paths as arguments
No, you are saying that you cannot be an effective leader using an introverted style. It is not necessary to run around hustling relationships in an extravert way in order to be effective. An introvert leader at their peak looks like the patrician from Terry Pratchet, Havelock Vetinari. He doesn't spin around burning energy building countless relationships, but understand the motion of people well enough to influence with out really being seen to influence. Subtle control through deep understanding rather sheer force of will.
Isn't that kind of thing the responsibility of the desktop environment service? Not an application?
Read a Paper: A Programming Language for the Law
Boom Supersonic: 'Anywhere in the world in four hours for $100'
The idea that there is such a huge difference between nerds and people who aren't nerds is misconceived.

Not only are people who aren't nerds capable of being analytical, but nerds themselves are highly able to be irrational and stupid.

Case in point I've seen nerds who are so stupid they think of themselves as autistic savants who can't "understand" normal humans and must "model" them in order to interact.

No nerds are just people typically on the lowest rung of the social ladder with interests in specific technical topics like anime, chess, etc. They are not more analytical then the rest of the population.

You've been told what you've been told because it's true. There are tons of people like you and it's not people who are analytical.

It's people who like to think of themselves as more analytical then the rest of the population. You think some topic your switching to in a conversation could only have been discovered by your powerful analytical mind but it breaks the flow of conversation and is literally not as intelligent as you think it is.

You are not intelligent enough to comprehend the purpose of conversation. Conversation is a two way street it is not a platform for you to show off your intelligence. Think of it like this, when you go off on your intelligent tangent, does the other party understand but remain uninterested? If they understand what your saying then that means they have the analytical ability to keep up with you. It's just they find it not interesting enough to continue. So the problem isn't your analytical mind. It's your lack of analytical ability to comprehend the situation at hand.

Additionally I doubt you actually are that much more intelligent. Do you have genuine IQ scores to back up your claim? Even people at 150 can be quite normal. The things you describe typically happen at much higher IQ scores, so people who think of themselves this way, by probability are more likely to be deluding themselves rather then actually being that much more intelligent.
If more people learned what "managing," really means, the idea of the business of managing disease instead of curing it would be more intuitive.

It seems simple, but only if you know it. Managing means you have at least two factors that form a 'dynamic,' so that there is a differential between them that you can extract variable levels of value out of. Managing a team means you have different people whose work is like cylinders of an engine firing at different times to create continuous motion. Some people have a knack for maintaining the equillibrium that produces power. Managing a product is a dynamic of market demand and feature cadence that produces sales.

From this perspective, a disease is a dynamic, however dubiously ethical it may to treat it as one, whether as a business making money or a government effecting policy.

However, curing patients is only a business model insomuch as you can produce cures dynamically to create a cure-machine to rent out. From a business perspective, curing diseases is zero-sum and destroys long term value. If you cured covid, the ~$100bn+ of value you created would be a one-off, and it would remove a powerful dynamic from both government and industry, and just be another relatively small capital management problem instead of a long term growth disease mangement problem, like say, periodic booster shots.

Solving problems collapses uncertainty and in-effect, destroys opportunity for people who use the dynamic to manage the world. Viewed this way, disease management is not a conspiracy, it's just a lot of people with a certain skill set who respond to the same incentives. It's truly a banal sort of evil.

(edited to remove digression)
It doesn't really matters that all salaries don't jump the same way. It matters that someone whose salary jumped can still pay more for a house.

I've never claimed that rent control works. But house prices would not keep rising if no one had the salary to afford the mortgage. People still do, they're just all concentrated in the one profession, and due to bumper results they can demand more.

You probably couldn't negotiate SV level salaries in, say, Tulsa, and pretty much every large company I have heard of expanding remote work is doing so with geographically adjusted pay downwards from SV. (I never really got the angle of people who thought they would get to have their cake and eat it too with SV-level salary and dirt-cheap COL; employers aren't blind.)
Hey, late reply. I agree with your general point, and would add that the highest logical/precise human-readable text is more likely to be specs, e.g. RFCs, ISOs.

A Technical Manual would need more attention to the human experience than a spec, IMO.
AMC cashes in on Reddit-trading frenzy with $428M share sale
I agree - though open source does allow for a major fork if the users don't agree with the developers (or project leadership) on how it should be fixed.

Project leadership is the most significant aspect - look at Linus's absolute declaration that the kernel can "never break userspace" meaning that once an API is exported to userspace it never gets removed.

This is actually similar to Microsoft's philosophy though theirs is more "business oriented" (nobody will buy Win95 if their DOS and Win 3.1 programs won't work). Another example of this is Knuth's TeX code.

Open source developments seem to lean (in general) more toward "rip it out and replace everything" (see for example internal kernel APIs not exported to userspace) because access to the source means they can fix the things that touch it. Closed source programs more likely just die and get entirely replaced, otherwise they roughly try to keep working as is.
Physical engineering is a much older discipline and has/had (this is 7 years ago in my company) much more respect as a "real" career socially in corporate life. Makers of physical things tend(ed) to get more respect.

I don't have any special insight into Toyota outside of some anecdotal stories from friends though.
Belgian ambassador's wife claims diplomatic immunity over Seoul slap
Yes, it's a bummer that Apple has a deathgrip on 5nm and after that 3nm.

Zen2 would be incredible on 5nm. IMHO the improvements we saw with geforce 30XX series and zen 2 were 80% the switch to 7nm tsmc. I'd fully expect another jump if nvidia and amd were able to get their hands on 5nm, but it's apple exclusive for now :(.

Well, at least we get huge investments in chip manufacturing thanks to apple throwing money at tsmc.
Can you post a link to the basics of wim’s method?
Not just PowerShell by the way. Most of their CLI offerings (compilers, shells, ...) that I've used have opt-out telemetry.

> Silently enables telemetry

Iirc most of them tell you about that the first time you use them, or they did back when I still used Windows.
> A/B test by actually hiring a quartet

That's easy. The one with room echos, washed out highs, and missing bass is the live.
An alternative is having bills that are for a single issue that a layperson can understand. It is not just the politicians that need to understand what they are voting on. The people need to understand them too so they are aware when their representation is voting against their interests.
Thank you for the links! Do you happen to know where Facebook’s Scuba, Google’s Procella, Google’s Dremel on Capacitor and Snowflake come on that list of benchmarks?
By combining the request's IP, user agent and OS to create a unique session ID: https://github.com/mikecao/umami/blob/f8ac987bfc0df581721bd2...

This will undercount some visitors and overcount others, but it should be good enough for most purposes.
In this case, it is private criminal enterprises originating in Russia or former soviet satellite state. They're not state sponsored so much as they are state sanctioned as they turn a blind eye to it so long as they don't target any homeland targets.
Metallica's Death Magnetic is going to sound like shit whether you play it with lossless or lossy audio. You can't fix a bad mix. The other extreme are things I would love to hear in lossless audio and Dolby Atmos but it would have to be re-mastered and there's limits for what was captured on the original audio tape. Pink Floy'd Dark Side of the Moon is one example.
I can ELIP (Explain Like I am a Programmer) statements and consequences of both incompleteness theorems and two related problems.

So the pemise is that you have to write 4 programs, but you can not, they all would fail for some inputs.

1. The first Gödel's incompleteness theorem. A program has to take a set of axioms and a set of true statements about natural numbers. It has to return proofs for all the statements. How it will fail? It would either for some statements return a proof that contradicts itself (so the set of axioms is inconsistent) or return no proof at all (so the set of axioms is incomplete).

2. The second Gödel's incompleteness theorem. A program has to take a set of axioms. I has to return true if program 1 given theese axioms would never retrun a proof that contradicts itself. How it will fail? It would return true for some set of axioms that are inconsistent.

3. Entscheidungsproblem. A program has to take a set of axioms and a statement. It has to return true if the statement is true. How it will fail? It would return true for some false statement.

4. Halting problem. A program has to take a program (in a Turing complete language). It has to return true if the program will ever finish. How will it fail? It would return true for program that would never finish. Or probably would itself never finish. This is also possible for all other programs.
I have some horrible stories about monday.com.
Here's one: Moving from Trello to monday.com was the biggest reason why we couldn't deliver in time a iOS project for a client. People were happy to use Trello and it worked fine and suddenly someone pulled the trigger and decided to move us all to monday.com ("We got a good deal y'all !!! ") - so we did and the people in the team HATED it. When 90% of the team decides to update tickets once a week instead of daily, simply because they HATE the tool that tracks tickets, then you know you're in for an unpleasant ride.
We're back on Trello now.
If you can't innovate, time to regulate.

Every country named in this article (Brazil, Poland, India, Turkey, Vietnam, and Pakistan) scores lower than America in terms of corruption and freedom. It must have been refreshing for their citizens to be able to freely use a platform that had to follow the rules of a less corrupt country.
Standardizing SLOs as Code
Agree. The problem is that Google didn't make any effort understand what people want. It's not just the payment/ownership model, it's also true of the technical decisions.

They aimed for 4K out of the gate, but the sorts of people who care about 4K gaming are going to own their own high-end hardware. Stadia's potential customers don't care about 4K, they care about 1080P working really well. Here, Stadia loses to the competition. 1080P gaming from GeForce Now looks a good deal better than 1080P gaming from Stadia. The graphics settings can be adjusted to be higher than those of Stadia (where the settings cannot be adjusted), and there are fewer compression artifacts, especially in dark scenes which look awful in Stadia.

To return to the payment/ownership model, GeForce Now is better not only in that it doesn't ask the customer to buy the games a second time, it's also better in that the customer can freely switch between GeForce Now and their own hardware, through the magic of cloud saves. Constrained to your laptop for a while? No problem, use GeForce Now. Stadia, on the other hand, has made a conscious effort to separate itself from the PC gaming platform. Cloud saves won't sync between Stadia and your own machine, as Stadia tries to present itself as a whole new platform, separate from PC gaming and from the various consoles.

> geforce now or the various smaller players where it's basically just renting a windows VM with a low latency connection, so they can just play their existing library

Not quite, as GeForce Now will only run officially supported games.

> or a maybe slightly better latency

Not in my experience. I've found GeForce Now and Stadia to both be very good in terms of latency.
Threads arrived relatively late to Unix, long after signals. I think Solaris 2.x was the first mainstream Unix to have threads.
I mean, on Unix it's ncurses, right? If no-one's ever added key-event support to ncurses then that's a(n additional) sign that it likely isn't possible and that TUIs just have to make do without the capability.
Solid-State Lithium-Ion Battery Recharges Fast, Protects Against Fire
The Military's Undercover Army
Kind of a crappy article. The example of Sovaldi is a terrible one.

Prior to Sovaldi, the best selling drugs were Lipitor, then Humira which made ~$10B per year at peak worldwide (peak being a decade or more post launch). Think about the time value of money when your R&D investment hit peak revenue 10-15 years later.

Sovaldi made $12B in its first year full year. What did Gilead make across all its hepatitis C drugs that year? $19B. That blew all records out of the water. And 6 years later it’s pulling in $4B. Note this is in an industry where exceeding $1B at peak is a success.

The hepatitis C cures are an absolute blockbuster by any stretch of the imagination.

https://www.evaluate.com/vantage/articles/data-insights/hep-...
> It seems quite silly to me to enforce a massive MitM attack while at the same time sticking to the FIPS standards.

Well they're two different things. One is an often government-mandated security standard. The other is a business requirement to be able to audit network traffic, which is also often a government-mandated requirement (due to regulations, due diligence, contractual requirements, etc).

People making tech stuff very often forget that the entire world does not work based on "technical best practices", it works on laws and contracts and customer/business requirements. In the real world there is often no perfect way to satisfy all requirements.
"Everything can be explained to the people, on the single condition that you really want them to understand."

Nobody wants the public to understand, they want the public to support their position. So the information that the public receives will always be completely distorted, and people who work will not have the time to untwist it.
If a company is aware that a new drug could cure a previously managed disease, it’s pretty obvious that you’d like to be the one pocketing any available profits before a competitor does. The conspiracy only works to the extent that nobody else in the world could create the same drug, and that every person aware of its existence is prepared to keep it secret and lose out on the money to be made selling it.
The State of the Histogram
Have you worked with setfacl(1), getfacl(1) recently? The agony they inflict makes me want to die. Do you need log dirs read by a non-root logreader? Are there nested subdirs? What are the defaults? Extra crispy boss-mode: is SELinux on? I think the extended ACLs have taken us further into the weeds, and I think the permission architecture needs to be rethink entirely. It was designed for shared university-type computing resources at a time when 30 profs and researchers shared dirs and commingle a set of files, and daemons are users with own places to keep things. No longer. The RBAC and inheritance model, I dunno, they may work correctly but they are so fiddly with so many knobs and intersections that you end up front-loading a huge amount of work; nobody wants to do that, nor have I seen it done correctly, with design and intent.
Yes, but that requires generics and without them code generators (and if you don't use them, a lot of copy & paste).
>> People are terrible at driving in fog and snow and ice

They are considerably better than the AI systems who currently just stop and say "I see no road" or facetiously stick to markings/signs that mean little during winter conditions. The last time I rented an SUV (2020 Jeep grand Cherokee) it wouldn't let me reverse into a parking spot because the rear camera/sensor was caked in snow/ice. In order to be dangerous at winter driving you must first be able to actually move.
It's weird, the only reason I can't use Apple Music is because it doesn't sync between devices. Apple being the company it is, it's just crazy to me that I can't pickup listening where I left off on my phone once I open my laptop.

Aside: Also there's a ton of bugs, very poor job on the QA side of Apple Music

Spotify has designed this feature amazingly. Sometimes, I wonder why companies don't steal good ideas from each other more often, it seems like Apple has just refused to implement this terrific user experience.
Indeed.

* Most software is done in teams.

* If the code is good, it will be in use for a long time.

* Hence if you want to work on software that matters, you will often work with a language that is not your one true love.

Me and my extremely brilliant collegues in my current project write Java, because that's the language the team has chosen. The language, when it's one of the major ones, has no significance.
It is very hard to do it properly in correct way, given how OS specific and underspecified their behaviour is.

The easiest way is just to set a variable to mark the occurrence of a signal and nothing else. Then check for changes from other parts of the program.

Also be sure to check every C library error result and the value that it was interrupted by signal occurrence, and eventually retry if needed.
Can only echo parent. 3 places of work in varying sizes, 4 projects in varying maturity, not a single RMQ administration staff that was competent enough to reliably run the cluster.

Which of course leads me to believe the problem isn't with the people but with the ridiculously high threshold of knowledge, experience and app developer self-control needed to run RMQ successfully.

As parent said, many meltdowns later, I'm now firmly in the "No Rabbit!" camp. Redis pubsub/queues for immediate lossy delivery, kafka / gcp pubsub / aws sqs for less latency sensitive flows that require more consistency guarantees.
In part sure but making anyone focus on something they're not naturally interested in in that moment is going to cause inattention that they'll have to fight to focus; it could also easily be food they're eating causing the ADHD as well.
The Pleasures of LearnedLeague and the Spirit of Trivia
Well, I'm glad I'm not the only one who never gets around to my //TODO#s.

One related tip for devs: I've started adding "You are here" as a placemark for where I'm working in the code. So for example, on friday, if I want to pick up quickly next monday, I add "//TODO: YOU ARE HERE Finish doing foo". Then on monday, I search for "You are here" and pick up where I left off easier. Saves me a few cycles, though if I'm honest, I have quite a few of those hanging out too.
Or even simpler. Let's say you're porting a side scrolling old school Mario-type game. When you release the "move right" key, the guy stops moving right.
It's nice to see those Youtube ads paying off....
Actually, I think the ham-fisted approach like that is easier to spot without paying attention.

The harder ones to spot will always be the ones that align with your own interests and ideals. The best way I've found to get some perspective on those is to occasionally go to the "fair and balanced" site specifically to get the other take on an issue. It soon becomes obvious that there are actually different takes on the issue, but neither side is giving even lip service to the other sides position, instead just putting up straw men to knock down.

It's a lot harder for these sites to claim being unbiased successfully while having a lot of bias when you have more information than they assume you do, so that's one good way to spot it (but it requires a lot of work and vigilance, so is hard to keep up).
If Google wants to let Java developers use their existing skills on Android, what is the point of promoting Kotlin on Android?