skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Are you really so arrogant to think that other people are too lazy and stupid to think of your brilliant idea and that you are simply more intelligent than everybody else?

Not OP, but yes, I do.

I've had some runins with the health system. At least the parts that I've seen are worse than the dark ages. Especially endocrinologists have absolutely no clue what they are doing.
The ones I met don't even have superficial knowledge about their full-time job which they've performed for ~20 years.

And yes, this sounds arrogant. I've tripple checked whether I'm just tripping. Their knowledge is not simply outdated, but never correct to begin with.

I think it's a cultural problem which shows in a lot of areas. Medicine doesn't value human life as much as f.e. air transport
This article doesn't take into account that maybe the kids didn't all get sick because closing the schools helped stop the spread of COVID in kids. It's like saying I exercised and lost weight so clearly that exercise was a waste of time, I would have lost weight anyway.
Even though the author is using all sorts of fancy graphs, the fundamental fact remains that the US is spending a lot more on healthcare than almost any country, while expected life span of its citizens is lower than that of similar countries.

The author mentions several possible causes for the higher morbidity such as obesity, smoking, drug use, car accidents and violence. Other countries spend a fair deal of their healthcare budget on prevention. This appears to be pretty inpopular in the US, because many regard it as a waste of government money. I think this is one of main reasons why the US is doing so badly.
My point is I shouldn't have to do that.
Clojure is frustrating and it is a good thing
To support creators.
YC Is CRISPR for Startups
I have a feeling that star citizen will also release in 3d the same time as time 2d release..
They made a plea (which you support), that simply because they are from there, that they therefore know the history better than someone from outside.
That does not follow.
It is naive to claim you can tell which part of Linus is and which isn't contributing to the success.

For one, I think it might be possible Linus's no-nonsense attitude is for the better of the organization as people who can't work with it are leaving causing Linux developers, on average, to be more no-nonsense and also able to coexist better with other no-nonsense people.

But, it is my conjecture only. We would never know how Linux would fare if Linus was another guy.
It's already division
I love how a bunch of the "headline features" of Hey are effectively replicated with taking the time to make a few rules in another platform. I tried Hey at the peak of it's pre-release hype, but just like Basecamp, it's just a really mediocre experience in a sea of options.
Lol, there never was a commitment to the truth on the right. Only what keeps us in power.
Sametime is/was great, it had all the functionality teams/Skype/slack are still working on implementing. It was just tied to a dying email client.
Is any one aware of a language (or dsl) which will compile to recursive CTEs?

It'd be helpful to see queries at the domain level to understand how they fit into a problem; rather than this weird embedding of some implicit idea.
Researchers create artificial tactile skin that mimics human tactile recognition
Would you agree that 2020-2021 was a more interesting period of time than 2018-2019?
Got it, that makes sense, thanks for the clarification.
I went through a bit of a roller-coaster reading this thread.

First I want to say, good for this guy! He noticed himself getting into a bad place and made a change. A change that he seems psyched about. That's legitimately great.

But as I was reading it, I couldn't help thinking "That's not burnout. WTF is this guy talking about???". Taking a few deep breaths, the rational take is more like "Wow, burnout hits everyone differently. This guy's experience seems WAY different than mine."

When I hit my breaking point, I couldn't do anything. I couldn't THINK about doing anything. I was so burned out that even the thought of starting something new sent me into panic attacks. There was no optimistic story I could tell myself (or anyone else) about the future.

To me, burnout felt like there was a gear in my head that's supposed to turn at 100 rpms and it had gotten sped up to a million rmps, and it was stuck that way. And it was throwing off sparks and teetering and threatening to fly loose at any moment. When I finally left my job, it took a solid 6 months of doing nothing for that gear to START feeling like it was slowing down to normal speed. It was the worst.
You're missing a step. There are several responses saying basically the same thing (testing kills), and more or less randomly I'm going to answer yours. All have the same step missing.

Testing doesn't kills by itself, not in numbers worth mentioning. Treatments - sure, a whole different ball game, they're positively dangerous. But between testing and treatments there should be a specialist that crunches the numbers and comes to a decision. Which, like in the mammogram example above, is not always going to be more aggressive testing.

What testing does is give you more information, which in a remotely sane system should lead to better decision making. Of course, I can imagine insane systems where, for example, the patient decides, the insurance pays and the doctor can be sued for discouraging treatments. In this particular combo you probably want to avoid doing mammograms to 20 yo, because the chance of a false positive is 1%, the chance of a true positive is 0.01%, and you end up with perverse chains leading to healthy people doing chemo. Like I said in the original comment, I GET the phenomenon. What I don't get however is how it can get even close to conventional wisdom that you want to avoid testing, as a rule. That's a particular fix to a particularly insane incentive combo, and common sense should make everybody rail against the insane incentive combo, and not act like the niche fix is actually a goal.

I can't really explain how this came to be. Maybe people stumbled on an explanation of how extra testing _may_ be harmful, and the idea was so cool that it got stripped of context and became a meme in itself.
Interesting to see the US somewhat following China's lead here. Industry/government/defense cooperation has a rich (and somewhat ugly) history in the US, but seems to have fallen out of favor in recent decades, whereas China has leaned in even harder toward five-year plans that attempt to get every part of society -- academia, government, business, media, etc. marching in the same direction.

I've really started to wonder about how, and how much, government should try to influence a lot of this. In the 60s Kennedy said we're going to put a man on the moon (US) and we did it. There's clearly some role for direction-setting at the national level.

But it's not without costs: corruption, cronyism, wasted money. China's been trying to bootstrap a domestic semiconductor industry for decades and the most they have to show for it is SMIC, which is nowhere near TSMC or even Intel's level of capability. Ditto for internal-combustion cars--they (rightfully) trumpet EVs as a pretty large success story but leave out the part about wasting billions trying to make a domestic Detroit. And then there's the fact that government has a hard time writing sub-$1bln checks so there's the potential for a huge amount of waste if things don't pan out.
I've also been using HEY for a year of personal email, and just renewed my subscription.

I spend a lot of time organizing and managing email at work. I have multiple inboxes, hundreds of tags, filter rules etc.

When I tried HEY for my personal gmail, it just felt like a breath of fresh air. They were wrapping friendly UX around the realities of modern email. It wasn't "work" to manage my email.

I recognize their system is limited if you want to do that stuff - not sure I'd use HEY for work yet - but if you're inundated with email (as I was, having a gmail address dating back to beta), they do a great job of making it manageable without any effort on your part.
The rise of BookTok: meet the teen influencers pushing books up the charts
I once worked with a guy in the early 2000s that did 1 laptop per major client project (this was local workflow type app stuff, so windows desktop clients with maybe some kind of data backend) when he was complete he literally took the laptop and put a label on it and put it on a shelf. He'd been burned once to many times on backwards compatibility and library quirks with windows.
I had a relative who thought the police were mostly fine until the 1960s when all that changed was they had TV cameras turned on their violence. Somehow the "bad apple" meme got corrupted: one bad apple does, in fact, spoil the bunch! It's a chemical thing.
I'm sure there was a research report somewhere that showed .021% more engagement with 'Slams' headlines than competitive verbs or something.

Headline writers run in packs, just like CEOs.
I think it is interesting that high temperature plus censoring wrongthink makes two minute's hate. Calling things Orwellian is something of a cliche, but it is occasionally appropriate.
Yep. I like PHP, warts and all. I know some consider PHP's arrays to be one of those warts, since many other languages would divide their functionality into single element arrays or lists and some kind of key/value structure. I appreciate the semantic case for that, but it seems rare for it to be a significant issue in practice. (Which I've found to be true of many of PHP's warts, particularly once PHP 7 arrived.)
Yeah, I think it's fairly normal to have an officer outside of or at the entrance to a polling location. They're not actually in the room with poll watchers, etc., and certainly nowhere near the private voting booths.

It has never felt inappropriate to me – maybe because I typically vote at a public school, where it's normal to see a crossing guard or public safety officer outside.
Also, for anyone who just wants to fly and shoot without the grittiness and over-realism of No Man's Sky, check out Starlink: Battle for Atlas.

I love that there's this spectrum of space games in the last few years. Starlink is a fun little game, with a bad rep due to the toys-to-life aspect. (Though also, if you like the toys, they're cheap/clearance nowadays).
The democratic system shows its true nature when the media becomes democratic as well.
A surprising number of modern smart meters contain relays that can be used to wirelessly disconnect customers. I don’t know whether this feature is used for load shedding and/or startup, but it certainly could be.

As an aside, there are distressing reports of meter-associated fires. These seem to come in two categories: installation issues (poor contact between meter and socket) and issues with the relay itself. The former is not specific to smart meters per se, but the latter is. A device that can safely switch 100-320A at 240V is not that cheap and not that small, and I suspect that some smart meter manufacturers try to cut costs.
Recycling next-generation solar panels fosters green planet
It will likely be in the lifetime of those who enjoyed dogs at the ballpark. And these young people will look at them strangely.
It does appear Malone, working at the Salk Institute, headlined the earliest published research proposing that mRNA could transfect into cells via nano particles.

https://www.pnas.org/content/86/16/6077.long
He didn't just say "fuck it I'm rich later" but I don't know why anyone would hold it against him if he had. He started a business and does a job that he manage in a healthy way. This is good.
And then there is the feeling of meaning (as well as mythical experiences and the pursuit of "higher purposes"), that which reinforces the none-loneliness of existence. To be able to share your life/work with others, or connect with others at a profound level. That is something worth greater than your accomplishments.
I have this obsession that life should be about play. Make productive outputs playful. I think biology made us aim for this. Individually we optimize for lower energy use and in group it's the same we like when things flow, when everybody is in tune. In those cases it's like playing.. and usually it represents peak performance at the system level.
Yes, sorry, I was on my phone :-(
>Getting a cancer diagnosis is a "huge deal" because getting cancer is one of the worst experiences a human can go through.

I’ve never been given a cancer diagnosis, but I’d imagine it’s much, much worse to be told you have stage 4 cancer versus stage 1. As the other person stated, the culture would adapt and people would learn to not immediately sell their house and go on a Vegas bender just because a yearly preventative test said they might, possibly, perhaps have stage 1 cancer. If you are one of the people with a false positive, you schedule a follow-up and move on accordingly.

Your position is anti-progress just for the sake of being against accidentally scaring a few people. Indeed, we should let more people develop cancer and discover it at a later stage due to a small amount of false positives. Not scaring a small amount of people is more important than revolutionizing cancer screenings.
It was possible in other countries.

My children (Quebec) were in class all of last year, except for a 10 day period in January - the tail end of a local lockdown at the height of the third wave.

Infection rates were certainly higher due to schools opening, but other decisions - and a population that was mostly tolerant of restrictions - mitigated that. We wore masks, we limited contact and we stayed home to the extent possible. As a result, schools were able to stay open.
That was a shockingly productive and constructive resolution.

Are we doing Hacker News wrong? Should we have a system to encourage models of good and productive interchanges, which leave the participants happy and the product better? I think hostility is easier but I guess it's also addictive, even for us.

I don't want to be shocked by seeing this. I want to see more of this.
If rich people were actually determining the US tax code, the top 10% wouldn't be paying most of the taxes in the US, and the US tax code wouldn't be hyper progressive. The US would have, at worst, a flat tax approach to income taxes, were the rich determing the tax code.

ProPublica had to commit intense intellectual fraud recently - in their recent tax propaganda rush which is being directed by the Biden White House as part of its hike taxes program - to try to pretend the rich weren't paying their fair share. The rich and upper class are the only ones paying their fair share in fact. Everyone else in the US pays extraordinarily low tax rates by and large. ProPublica had to pretend that unsold stock assets should be called income, that we should calculate rich persons income tax rates based on unsold stock holdings (and the con-artists at ProPublica of course invented new terminology to shoehorn the fraud in), and then that we should lambast those rich people for not paying enough income taxes for said unsold stock. What a joke.

All that's going on right now is the culmination of decades of wildly irresponsible fiscal behavior in Washington DC, and the bill is finally coming due, so they have to drastically increase taxes just to keep the government solvent and to keep the entitlement programs from collapsing. To assist with that agenda, outlets like ProPublica are willing to lie as much as necessary to spin whatever message is required to get the job done.
In the short term by moving responsibilities around - in my inexperience I didn't realise that it was okay not to be able to cope with that level of work. In the longer term (eventually) cancelling the project and reorganising.
Swift, SwiftUI, Node/Express - been building a simple stock holdings/portfolio tracker app after getting annoyed with the mobile experiences of all my banks/brokers: https://stocketa.com/

hope to release in a few months
The problem is that you simply cannot "get the facts right" when the facts do not exist. We did not, and still do not, know where the virus came from.

It's very easy to look back and say "yes well of course this thing was just fake news, but they also censored this other thing that we now know was true!". Either platforms shouldn't censor anything in these situations, or we have to accept the realities of censorship under uncertainty.
Oh man! Wait till you go to Penn station and see military/police (the line is blurry) on patrol:

https://i.redd.it/v1qol3qqfoq41.jpg

https://www.alamy.com/stock-photo-jtf-empire-shield-members-...

My understanding re: polling is for "election security" which... was a big deal nationally for better or worse.
Shocking discovery. Really. What's next? Sarcasm is the most effective way to be funny? You heard it here first!
Nice, this is exactly what I imagined.
Doesn't hurt that FNF is a game with considerable polish, swagger and fun, even compared to platform rhythm games!
Isn't the Covid rate in kids exceptionally low? Closing offices only barely slowed the rate of progress in adults but closing schools helped children, who are less at risk, a lot?
Introduction to Mathematical Thinking (https://www.coursera.org/learn/mathematical-thinking/home/we...). A foundational course on mathematical language and thinking, a great refresher course, at least for me after leaving school a long time ago
That is why we have science, math, physics. It provides answers based on observation of physical phenomenon and evidence. The social battle is one of ignorance. There is no “two sides” to confirmed scientific fact. When it does occur, you can bet it is borne of ignorance.
IMO, framing things as "truth" or "falsehood" is part of the problem. Each side dismisses the other side as just not knowing the right facts (or denying the facts), as if everyone would agree if they just knew the right facts. The media dug in on this very hard after the 2016 with the "fake news" and "fact-checking" crusades.

Reality is a lot more complicated. Even if we agreed on the facts, we don't agree on conclusions based on those facts. Or even what the right result should be. For example, there is a big factual dispute over whether the border is having a "crisis." But the earnest dispute is really just whether the US should allow illegal immigrants to come here or not.

I think the biggest problem is we avoid grappling with our fundamental disagreements and we don't honestly engage with what the other side is arguing. Both sides have basically labeled opinions they disagree with as, at best uniformed/ignorant, and at worst, evil (racist, communist, bigoted, depraved). Nobody is really trying to convince the other side. They are just trying to whip up a frenzy on their side and shame the other side into shutting up.

I've voted for both parties in the past (W Bush & Obama), but I don't think I could have a real political discussion with someone I meet at party without being attacked personally and viciously. And I know I can't post political views on social media without some psychopath trying to get me fired.

Everyone is addicted to anger.
>The bigger thing is that this particular deprecation is probably going to mean that fewer people use utilities and other programs written in Go. There are quite a lot of open source programs written in Go out there that currently say to install them with 'go get ...'

I can tell you that in the wild, non go programmers do not use tools installed using the go compiler that they do not have installed. It's apt, brew, $WINDOWS_PACKAGE_MANAGER, flatpak, etc.

I imagine precious few people install docker or sysdig using `go get`.
Someone told me a long time ago that this arrangement was due to employment agreements with the so-called "meter maids." They originally wanted to fully automate it, but they didn't want to un-employ their fleet of meter readers, so the compromise was for the meter readers to simply drive down all the streets rather than go behind all the houses. The meter readers' jobs got a lot easier but they got to collect the same amount of money.

I believe a union was involved but don't quote me on that.

This is what someone told me, I am not presenting it as fact. If you know differently, please debunk.
Can ketamine-assisted therapy break through mental health roadblocks?
I started on Clojure a few months ago and I'm pretty obsessed. It's really reinvigorated my love of programming.
Got you. Thanks.

And what in your opinion would be the practical outcome from all this to overcome some case of career related type of middle age crisis?

What the #1 specific thing youd recommend topicstarter to do to be 1step closer to disconnecting with ego?
Eh given it's a current issue there's no surprise that someone might connect the two. It's not gonna be productive of course, but at this point it's just about expected in a area with free speech
lolll I feel you. It's really hard to tell the difference between the Guy Raz kinda story you describe, and stories where someone really did find a better life for themselves where things really are better. They all just sound like hagiography. And often, the story has the role of persuading the person telling it that they made a good call, because... change is scary.

Anyway, I think you're right or at least fair to be skeptical. Chances are, there's more to the story than this. Just like there's probably gonna be a point where being a barback or a bartender is going to be frustrating and dumb for me. But if there's a single lesson I really do believe in, and which this guy's thread echoed to me, it's that you'd be surprised what kinda job you actually enjoy and can survive in. It doesn't just have to be tech work. It might not be in an office at all.
Same, but classical guitar. Less tech in my life please, thanks.
Windows 11 TPM Requirement Surprised PC Builders, but You Can Enable It in BIOS
Show HN: A free app for micro content on programming for quick ref
I've got a book you might like then. I recently discovered there was an 'Astronomy Across Cultures' book, as ethnoastronomy is something I've been interested in for a while (It's always neat to see how other people interact and describe the stars and sky. Shame a lot of this info is being lost as languages die and peoples assimilate). The book focuses on non-Western methods of astronomy, and is part of a series titled 'Science Across Cultures'.

Full reference is: Astronomy Across Cultures: The History of Non-Western Astronomy ed. Helaine Selin and Sun Xiaochun (ISBN: 978-94-010-5820-9, DOI: 10.1007/978-94-011-4179-6)
Fair enough! I work at a robotics company, and I already feel guilt for not putting more effort into my existing homeassistant and networking setup. But if you were wanting to scratch an itch, I could definitely picture this being rewarding.
If this topic interests people, take a look at Joe Celko's book called Trees and Hierarchies: https://www.amazon.com/Hierarchies-Smarties-Kaufmann-Managem...
Did you evaluate Zoho or Office365?
My neighbors basically heat my home in the winter so that would wind it back below zero which they probably would not like. One of them is close to a refrigerator and actually measured heat output but the radiator is disconnected. I got my 60ct of charge back that year.

You might not be able to wind them back (they are digital) but I'm pretty sure you can manipulate them with sufficient heat shielding something like your method to change the value.
> More information can never be harmful.

This is an extremely naive viewpoint and in some situations quite dangerous.