skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I work as a data engineer in an academic medical research institution.

Most electronic medical records (EMR) systems are really about billing. Yes, there are clinically relevant data fields available but a large amount of what we were after as researchers was only available in free-text. Data abstraction is still mostly a human-expert driven activity. It would be fun if that could be better automated but there is significant ambiguity in clinical notes and pathology reports.

And don't get me started on data-ownership "turf wars." We often got significant pushback and simple refusal to have regular data feeds of IRB-approved data fields for collection with patients who were consented to studies.

Nothing was more annoying to me to get shot-down when trying to get data from our hospital EMR (again, data that was specifically approved for research use by IRB for patients already consented to studies) only to hear later about private enterprise "partnerships" that had full and unlimited access to all EMR data . . .
This reminds me of something I have been wondering. If my goal is to programmatically create beautifully typeset documents (on par with modern high quality books or magazines), are there any great options? I don't care about mathematical notation, which is a big focus in LaTeX. Every time I've started going down the LaTeX path, it has felt like I'm swimming upstream by not wanting it to look like a standard CS or math academic paper. There is a very distinct "LaTeX look" that I don't care for.

I want to be able to use any OpenType or Postscript font, tweak leading, kerning, and so on. Basically all of the controls that I could get in InDesign or Quark XPress, but generated by code. Is there a good way to do this?
Lottery based savings acc? Scam?
Came across this - lottery prizes in savings acc seems to be trendy now. Would you sign up? I'm personally not sure the capital return rates make it worth it.
If you don't actually know you're looking for a radioactive substance, poisoning someone with polonium might not be so "in your face" after all. They may have been going off previous successes (which, by definition, we wouldn't know about).
We are all mistakes that sometimes make humans.
I'm not visually impaired but have been doing some work at a local institute for visually impaired people and did setup some phones for WiFi there. I have never tested these accessibility settings on smartphones myself so I have no idea why but ever single phone I saw there were Android phones. Now I'm curious why since it seems people here see iPhones as a better choice.
You've made some very good points, all of which I agree with.

I suppose I somewhat despise the Common Lisp "way" of things so much so that it distorts my perception of it. A lot of old JPL stuff was written in Lisp, and what you said about resilience strikes a chord with me.

I think the things that really stimulate me the most are things that a small, refined, core language can provide. I've always considered it a benefit that R7RS has become smaller and also that history will not look favorably to R6RS, I thought it was the wrong move. The projects that matter the most to me and to my sensibilities for scheme are abstract and academic. Check out namin's staged-minikanren repo on GitHub. (On mobile, else I'd link you) That is one of the most fascinating pieces of technology ever produced by humankind, imo, and it's written in a simple, common scheme. I think it actually evaluates on Racket, but you can see most of the code tastes like regular Scheme.

If I said that Common Lisp wasn't good, I surely regret it and can admit my wrong.

I wouldn't call Racket the best scheme, but certainly the most well known, as you say. It evolved in parallel to it's vision of meta-languages, and that's something I would argue entirely catalyzed by having a small, simple, functional core of Scheme. Racket could just as well have been Lisp, and it'd look and feel different, but the same magic would be lurking beneath the surface. It'd probably execute a lot faster these days too!

Anyhow, thanks a lot for your insights.
Btw, Google does create a lot of content on web development (ex on webrtc.org, web.dev, html5rocks.com etc) including on various youtube GDG channels and release quite a bit of OSS reference implementations too.
Let's Encrypt started in 2014 to address HTTP overuse.

In 2011, I (in-house corp app dev) was still stuck with HTTP services (behind a firewall, accessible only via VPN).

In 2014, public facing mobile apps using HTTP was prevalent enough to prompt name and shame campaigns. [1] My fuzzy memory suggests some banks were still using HTTP.

[1] https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2014/08/new-w...
Immutable doubly linked lists in Haskell
My first kid in 2008 in Chicago wasn't like this, my second in 2012 in Portland was. I'd say America is adopting the approach; maybe it fully has by now.
No examples, no sale.
> sometimes it's just easier for me to understand something if it's being read along to me while reading it

Doing exactly this right now. I use a bookmarklet to make anything I click start speaking, on any website. It even shows the progress by fading away read words. I've been doing this for at least 7 years, always using Alex from MacOS, at 1.3x. I used to have it work on PDF's as well, but that went away when Chrome's PDF viewer was changed from PDF.js
Making snarky comments about a common development methodology but not interested in debating the merits of the underlying complaint? I believe that’s called trolling.
https://www.ribbonfarm.com/
Exactly. The question was about where to incorporate a company, not where to run it from.

Just also be prepared to deal with the massive headache of a company is one jurisdiction and living (and paying taxes) in another. This can be a headache even if you live in the US if you’re split between states.
Personally I blame the entire Iowa Writers' Workshop for this. The publishing game for a long time now has been you go to Iowa and get a six-figure advance from a major publisher, putting out a technically solid and utterly boring work of literature. Then a bunch of those graduates go and teach at all the MFA programs and here we are.

I'm always reminded of Toni Morrison:

"I tell my students; I tell everybody this. When I begin a creative writing class I say, 'I know you've heard all your life, "Write what you know." Well I am here to tell you, "You don't know nothing". So do not write what you know. Think up something else. Write about a young Mexican woman working in a restaurant and can't speak English. Or write about a famous mistress in Paris who's down on her luck."
It was mimicking GPT3's writing style in AI Dungeon
What about those non volatile RAM technologies (IIRC called 3D XPoint) Intel is using for their Optane stuff ?

It seems to be kinda in between RAM and flash spec wise.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sayre%27s_law

"Academic politics is the most vicious and bitter form of politics, because the stakes are so low."
The EU should definitely contribute to the Open Web Docs org, which seems to be the financial body for the MDN Web Docs specifically. The EU has been paying grants for less useful projects than this.

Mozilla, though, not so much. Given the ridiculous paychecks its C-level management has been caching in the midst of the massive layouts that cannibalized most of its most promising projects (including MDN staff), I don't think funding is the primary problem holding them back right now.
Thanks, you replied to what I was indeed implying.
What I'm wondering is how a legally registered union can be ignored at all, especially when a certain amount of workers claim to be represented by it.
"After decades of investment, oversight, and standards development, the space program is not closer to light speed travel than it was in the 1970s."
Can you provide proof on even just 1 similar, genuine statement?
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella just teased the biggest Windows update in a decade
NAMD flash cells themselves can't charge/discharge faster
Just did a double-take seeing this comment. My first exposure to the Well in any form was seeing Kurt's email address next to the autograph on my sister's copy of their first 12".
WOX, except transmuting user code pages to data pages (reading its own code should be fine since it was loaded from a user binary anyhow) or a supervisor-level JIT helper to check and transmute user data pages into user code pages (check that user-mode JITs aren't being naughty).

There's often two kinds of loadable data pages: initialized constants (RO), initialized variables (RW), so some will need to be writable because pesky globals will never seem to die. Neither of should ever have execute or that will cross the streams and end the universe. I'm annoyed when constants or constant pools are loaded into RW data pages because it doesn't make sense.
Hijacking the plane was not really a tought. But what happens if Vienna airport needs to close its runways (say it's blocked by a broken plane or an accident) and the plane needs to be diverted?

Bratislava is just 55km from Vienna. It's an obvious choice if the plane needs to divert to a different airport.

It's not an unreasonable fear.
I was wondering if we have some early investors here that have held the whole time and if they would like to share some stories.

Going from $1.73 to $100 and back down to $5 after the 2000 bubble must have been quite the wild ride.
Here's a post on relative latencies that may be useful: https://danluu.com/infinite-disk/

There was another post I saw recently comparing the increase in disk SIZE over the last 30 years vs the increase in disk SPEED vs LATENCY (so size in GB, speed in GB/s, latency in IOPS) - and how size increases far outstripped speed which outstripped latency, though all had improved.

Found it! The key is IOPS/GB as a metric.

https://brooker.co.za/blog/2021/03/25/latency-bandwidth.html
But that is the whole point of the parent. Who is to say it is a "propaganda effort"? FB/TW/YT? Why? How would they know (unless they were part of that effort, ironically)?
they've received plenty of feedback from the PL community.

Beads is a fun an interesting project, but the over the top marketing language and hype is a bit silly. The author really is a rare mix of driven PL engineer and overly grandiose personally.
Thank u master zucc, now please take my data as an offering.
Hi, I'm Richard Brain, a farce for good in this world, and I want to shovel piles of my new POS CraptoCurrency "HOAX", the first high interest blockchain certificate of despotic (CD) offered to “stalkers”, into your centralized div laundering company!
Right, it was trying to keep them upright. Northerners' bodies aren't designed to work upside down...
I have zero interest in a 6 inch e-ink device, and I don't think I'm alone. If it was 10.3 or A4 it would be interesting.
>Excellent. Either you got this training at some point or you figured it out yourself. The point of such training is to make sure that all of us white men understand that benefits we've gotten from systemic racism.

No. No training about this except more than fifty years of living in this world.

I'll summarize in a negative way as that's generally better understood:

There are assholes *everywhere*.
They are men and women.
They are of all ethnicities, creeds and levels of
melanin content.
They are also a pretty small group compared to the
larger population.
But they are well mixed within the population and
appear with some regularity.

Pretty much everybody else are decent, kind people. As such, I give folks the benefit of the doubt unless and until they show me they don't deserve it.
Ask HN: How to to manage my favorite topics?
I don't know whether others have the same experience or not, but one of the most things that bother me nowdays is the long list of my favorite topics. The vast majority of favorite topics makes me do nothing at all. For example I just loved cryptography, I would spend my time on it, but now after 1 week of learning cryptography I fall in love with compiler design and start reading about that. After 2 weeks I find OS design so interesting and ...
This process not only waste my time, but also makes me more tired.
I want to know how can I find one thing and dig into it without being disrupted with other interesting topics?
Huh, you should never give a newborn water…
TradeWars 2002 is alive and well! Star Killer's server is probably my favorite place to play:

http://www.oregonsouth.com/ice9/

Tools like TWXProxy and Mombot still see frequent updates:

https://github.com/MicroBlaster/TWXProxy

SWATH, despite its age, works great (nowadays I use it for very simple macros and as a front end to TWXProxy):

http://swath.net/

Tournament-level play is incredible. Deep strategy, full automation. You definitely do not warp around willy-nilly unless you want a planet full of photon missiles and quasar cannons dropped on your head. Sure, the ANSI graphics means you have to use your imagination a little more than in EVE, but if anything, that makes it _more_ fun for me.
The very existence of Uber is entirely created by the state.

Uber is a complete legal fiction. Unless the state decrees that there is such a thing as a corporation, and lays down the rules and parameters of that corporation, there aren't two parties at all. Just many tens of thousands of people who all want to engage in some kind of common enterprise without a formal way to do it.

The rules are completely arbitrary, and all of them were created out of thin air, by precedent and mutual agreement and various forms of governmental action.

Which is precisely the same way the rules around unions were created too.

To see a corporation participating in the market as some sort of observed natural phenomenon and a union participating in the market as some kind of artificial creation is to fundamentally misunderstand what's actually happening here.
Fintech Startup Acorns to Go Public in $2B SPAC Deal
That's grim, and yet I laughed.
Well, the bed and room itself is a limited resource of the hospital and it's one of their expenses.
Virtuozzo’s Mature Linux Distribution VzLinux Now Available to Public
They are naming different prices for different people.

You walk into a bar and the guy in front of you orders a beer for $5. Looks good, so you order the same thing. The bartender says, "For you it's $10." Do you feel fairly treated?
They sniff like little piggys on the breast and suck it. It must be traumatic coming out of womb and very comforting when getting the breast.
Having an already-high baseline risk before adding covid is a reason to be more cautious, not less. The point is that this particular vector is so trivially preventable.
No comment on the quality of many IEEE conferences :) I think most people active in a field know what the best venues are.
I certainly don't disagree that there is a lot of randomness to the review process. And frankly picking which papers are likely to be most influential in ten years time is super difficult (e.g. see how often best papers have minimal subsequent impact). Regarding the Ferguson document, I haven't served on a REF review panel, but I think if you can justify it as being influential/high quality through other means that should be acceptable?
I believe it is the case, that when you see your stored payment method is is obfuscated such that it only reveals the last 4-5 digits. Same with bank details as far as I know.

However, showing the card issuer/bank + the final 4 or 5 digits of an account or card number is still extremely distressing. There are some services and vectors out there that can be engineered with just that information for sure.

Combine that with possibly exposed address, telephone number, and you are in very dangerous territory.
They may not be for profit, but they can be inefficient enough.
Written Statement on App Bug
This is a neat idea, but unfortunately I'm not seeing anything super compelling in the premium features. Quality deep-dives exist elsewhere on the web. Browsers already have bookmarks. A customizable compatibility table just... doesn't sound useful.

I'll keep an eye on it, I hope they succeed, but I don't see many people paying for these features as they stand
It's not an IQ test. It's just pattern recognition which is about 5% of the tasks you do in a real IQ test.

When I joined Klarna in 2011, the test was so easy that I joked I could score full marks on it even if I was hungover with no sleep. There was one question on the test that actually had 2 correct answers depending on what logic you applied. This was actually a real issue when recruiting, because there was a hard cut-off to make it into the engineering department, and several times I had to ask "what was their answer on question 12?"

It caused quite a bit of commotion at HR to change the official test scoring to 2 correct answers for that question.

Now the test is like a million times harder and your score at the end is between 0-10 and you have no idea how many questions you actually answered correctly. I would be very interested to know the "true" answers of these new tests to understand what kind of crazy logic you need to apply to get every question right. I'm almost certain it would take me longer to understand the answer than the time you have to do the test.
> Uh-huh. And how exactly do you play chess? Do you not, perhaps, think about future states resultant from your next move?

Not quite. You'd need to look into how people play chess. It has vastly more to do with present positioning and making high-quality evaluations of present board configuration.

> rock will frequently fail to get the to bottom of a hill due to local minimums

Indeed. And what is a system which merely falls into a dataset?

A NN is just a system for remembering a dataset and interpolating a line between its points.

If you replace a tree search with a database of billions of examples, are you actually solving the problem you were asked to solve?

Only if you thought the goal was literally to win the game; or to find the route to the bottom of the hill. That was never the challenge -- we all know there are shotcuts to merely winning.

Intelligence is in how you win, not that you have.
https://steve-yegge.medium.com/

His old blog is also amusing: https://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/
A number of famous people have drifted through there over the years, generally without any kind of anonymity. At the Well, your login is whatever you want, but it's tied to your actual real name. IOW, you can have a handle for sure, but there's no provision for shielding your identity.

ISTR Billy Idol (again, under his actual name), Geena Davis, David Crosby, and a few others passing through there with varying levels of participation/longevity.

(SF author Bruce Sterling was there for years without it really being a Famous Author situation, but I think there's ample precedent for that online among genre writers of that era, so it's kind of a different thing. See also the old GEnie SFRT, where Neil Gaiman used to hang out in the 90s, etc.)
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Core Web Vitals: What Are They and Why They Matters
> The decision will only impact unencrypted incoming and outgoing emails

Given the sorts of proposals that have been made to effectively ban end-to-end encryption, the part where it only affects unencrypted messages (and possibly the ciphertext of encrypted emails) is the critical point. The court ruling requires the email provider to intercept emails they already had the technical ability to intercept, for specific accounts that have been connected to a specific crime by evidence.
> The union's power comes from turning individual workers into a group

Right, and the power of the corporation comes from turning individual owners into a group.

Both are complete legal fictions. But only one of these is seen as naturally occurring in this discourse.
Maybe a notion? Regardless I have the a same issue and would love to collaborate
It's always absolutely fascinating how complicated people can make scrolling and displaying forms.

This stuff was solved in the early 90s and everyone's bored now.
How to configure import alias in React Native
Thanks! Is there a way to see strings nicely without printf?

[cling]$ u.sysname
(char [256]) "Darwin\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0"
Eyes wide open. Media strategies are a thing.

I recall a time where evaluation of this was forbidden, with well-coordinated charges of racism. Talking points are a real thing, intense coordination happens intentionally and not among US media. Orthogonal messages, particularly those viewed as adversarial, are suppressed and discouraged. In China government coordination is explicit and acknowledged. The US and UK simply get the same thing through the corporate-government looking glass.
Share buybacks are dividend equivalents.
Um what system of government did they have before? I guess we have beef against most forms of Monarchies. And before you mention it was a constitutional monarchy that was done by the Bayonet Constitution.... read that history that was basically us. not as bad as the constitution of 1894 tho... that was rather direct.
I wish they’d clarify if the money is used to support MDN or not. I wouldn’t be opposed to supporting MDN patreon style, and if it comes with “perks” like articles, sure, why not. But I would do this to support MDNs core documentation, not because I’m dying for technical deep dives.

That said $10/mo is a bit steep for me. And in any event, if they don’t make explicit that the money goes to support MDN upkeep and development then it’s a nonstarter. I’m not giving Mozilla money to fritter away on another rebrand or whatever else they want to use it for.
I still think massive touchscreens in cars are a horrible idea, so Ford doing better than Tesla at something I hate and wish would go away is not super convincing. :)
Not unique to Arizona. It's rather common throughout the country now.
These controllers are for enterprise drives where SLC caching is almost unheard of and all the performance specs are for sustained performance on a full drive. But the best performance may only be attainable on a drive with higher capacity than you can afford.
Cornell and NTT’s Physical Neural Networks
Have you thought of getting a RSS feed reader so you don't have to check? I use Feedbro which is also a browser extension so its very easy to see when theres a new post.
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Kupczynski is in the list of the reference pointed by OP method.

>The problem is that it is possible to make very careful experiments that break the Bell inequality, so I don't understand what their model tries to show.

Their plausible and local model aim to (and does!) reproduce the QM probabilities observed by experimenters (for all alpha and beta settings) and therefore does violate Bell inequality.

>It generates a pair of (not entangled) photons with the same polarization (actually, +pi/2)

The photon pair is entangled. The polarization is definite (and with a pi/2 offset between the pair) but unknown to the observer which is therefore measuring a distribution, that the key point. It's proposing an explanation of what entanglement is.
And only unencrypted emails, because they don't have access to the encrypted ones.

So the takeaway here is "If you're going to do something that law enforcement is likely to get a court order to monitor, don't sign up for an end-to-end encrypted email service and then send plaintext emails over it."