skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Cuban doctors' don't seem to be very happy with that, according to the NYT and BBC:

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/29/world/americas/brazil-cub...

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-48214513
>> If you look at most good and great novel drugs and madical devices, they mostly are designed and made in the US or Europe. Mostly US.

Citation needed!
Forty-three here. It takes longer to learn things mainly because I have a young child and my time is chopped up and my sleep is less/worse than it would otherwise be. One thing that has improved with age is intuition, which helps immensely with debugging. I can debug most problems much more rapidly than I could as a younger developer.
I recommend "The Introvert's Edge". The premise is to break down sales into a process, measure then iterate.

For me it removed a lot of the sleazyness feeling I had associated with selling.
Last week an Argentinian news(/infotainment) program covered a Cuban TV PSA for a vaccine they'll soon be administering to kids. Besides the nationalistic bent (which I'm personally OK with, given the circumstances), one of the tidbits I found interesting is they mention it requires three jabs.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vqUq6kO8DyA
> But the thing is, what if you produce feta with the exact same ingredients and recipe in Australia? The customer gets the exact same thing, only made somewhere else.

Just give it a sexy, Aussie-sounding name and Bob’s your uncle. No need to pass your product for something it is not.

There are also many marketing opportunities if you are not constrained by the traditional or old-fashioned image associated with PGIs.
Perhaps see my reply here (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27654225).

I think you may be misunderstanding what is being stored here. Now as a caveat I'm not familiar with this language, but I am familiar with the concept as described. They are not removing source code, rather source code is stored after some processing; in this case it appears to be after lexing, parsing, and type checking. I'm not sure exactly what is being stored, i.e. an AST, but it sounds like they're basically moving this stage of compilation/interpretation to be much earlier in the process.

I'm assuming this database can be queried and the result can be rendered back to a textual presentation as well. Presumably this opens the door for syntax being divorced from language semantics since how the syntax is parsed into the database and how the database is rendered into text can be a client side decision rather than set in stone inside the compiler/interpreter. What is set in stone is the semantics of the database that everyone must agree to.

Again, there's the caveat that I'm not familiar with how this language in particular is implementing this concept.
https://fee.org/articles/the-myth-of-cubas-glorious-health-c...
The fact that it is a different type of vaccine seems quite significant
The Lancet published Andrew Wakefield's study on the connection between vaccines and autism, and the recent study on hydroxychloroquine based on entirely fabricated data.
You should teach others how you did it. Alcohol (in big amounts) is the worst drug people can take. Much worse than cannabis and such.
Every year for the last 30 years or so the UN General Assembly calls for US to end Cuba embargo. Every single year the US along with Israel vote against it, being the only 2 out of nearly 200 or so countries.
> [At] Bell Labs I came into a very productive department. Bode was the department head at the time; [Claude] Shannon was there ... I shared an office for a while with Shannon. At the same time he was doing information theory, I was doing coding theory. It is suspicious that the two of us did it at the same place and at the same time - it was in the atmosphere.

-- Richard Hamming
Che Guevara also killed innocent political rivals by a firing squad, and put gay people in labor camps.

What about their health?
Correct. It looks like your submission got swooped on by a bunch of users/friends/fans who decided to "help" and didn't realize that on HN this kind of "help" actually hurts.

This situation typically pattern-matches to the submitter being part of the ring, so I assumed that was the case here. Sorry! The "you guys" part still applies, of course, to the ones who actually did the voting and commenting.

(When I say "ring" I don't necessarily mean a conscious ring with the intent to manipulate. Sometimes people just haven't read the rules and are assuming that behavior is ok that isn't ok, or sometimes they pass a link around without considering the likely consequences of doing so.)
It's widely known. No citation needed.
> To Washington, Brussels' insistence on protecting GIs smacks of arrogance and greed.

Would you like some whine with your Camembert?
40 is likely the average age programmers start to reject the concept they need to be available 24x7x365, and realize the SV or startup mindset pays off only in a small number of cases. Odds a bit better than a lottery ticket.

I did not start to put limits on my dedication to a job until I was 50, and now at times feel I could have better used the last decade - more living / less toiling.
Not shocking for the managers, just sad. Shocking that executives don’t get it so consistently.
> Your app will always communicate with the Amazon Appstore client when it starts

One of the consequences of this is that apps refuse to start if they haven't been able to connect with the Store in the past `x` days.
Ask HN: Smartphone As Exclusive Word-Processor Device? (& Pinephone)
there’s times i prefer writing longform writes on a smartphone -

is there such a thing as a smartphone shaped/sized electronic that prioritizes a Word Processor App?

is this a good use case for a Pinephone?

have read about them here on several occasions & was wondering if anyone on HN had a personal review on how a Pinephone may double as a “mini-mac” to type notes/outlines/stories on?

i.e. is interface nice?

thanks for reading
> If keyboard keys were small e-ink displays, easily configurable and accessible by programs, programmers would have come up with a lot of interesting stuff already.

I have a QMK based keyboard. The most interesting thing I did was to have an APL layer on my keyboard. I wouldn't say it's "a lot of interesting stuff"
Importantly CS:GO runs better on Linux than on Windows on my hardware (and that is after tweaking Windows for max performance.)
> That you can only say things such as "forced down our throats" and "duress" says enough. Not capable to actually hold a discussion, let's be emotional and without any actual facts.

Does this sound any better? Red Hat used their influence over GNOME (and other programs) to add a hard dependency on systemd to it. This forced other distros to either switch to systemd or drop support for GNOME. I suspect that had Red Hat employees not added hard dependencies on systemd to any other software, that no distributions other than Fedora and RHEL and its clones would require it.
While I don't debate the efficacy of their healthcare system (wether it's a myth or not) I am surprised their medical research is on par. I would have thought these are two different fields without much overlap. Is it not ? And if it is not how can we explain a country with decades of embargo has an efficient and healthy research medical field ?
> Not sure if you're being serious, and while it hasn't been tried AFAIK for the flight software specifically, but cost-minimization and outsourcing has been credited as the major sources of Boeing's safety problems for the last decade (737 MAX, 787 Dreamliner, 737NG). Doing more of it would be neither a change of course nor an improvement IMO.

I hear you, but I suspect aperocky was criticizing that exact approach.

I.e it felt like sarcasm.
I completely agree with your points there and that is probably the issue.
Book Review – Unix: A History and a Memoir
You can say the same thing about renewables. Gas and coal are just a tiny bit cheaper than renewables because of subsidies.
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-00251-4

Cleaning for an airborne illness is just theater. Upgrading air handlers, increasing airflow, and spacing people further apart matter. Cleaning stuff randomly just makes people feel better (but can make good business sense because of this!)
To avoid going through the grueling day-long interview/whiteboard session, when it was obvious to everyone in the room that you weren't getting the job from the moment you walked in.
This entire thread explaining how to properly "secure" your crypto is a great example of how crypto will not go main stream until these problems are solved for the layman. The fact that the top comment says "not your keys, not your crypto" shows a fundamental disconnect between hacker news and the general public. Until crypto is centralized and utilized more like a utility will the masses ever move significant amounts of their wealth to the "blockchain".
https://www.reddit.com/r/ShitHNSays/
> "exorbitant profit" in critical areas may not be that different from corruption, nevertheless.

I agree. In a capitalist country an "exorbitant profit" for a long time is a failure of the system. Why nobody else is producing the same service if there is so much profit to be gain? And, if there is competition, why is not shrinking that margins to compete?

Capitalism is great when there are many small competitors that need to push quality up or prices down. If you only have 1 big corporation dominating each market, that's just communism with extra steps. The economy is just a planned economy and no competition nor capitalism is happening.
https://www.who.int/bulletin/volumes/86/5/08-030508/en/

structurally, it's a good target model. materially, capitalist embargoes have prevented import of drugs and equipment that isn't already manufactured locally.

https://theconversation.com/is-the-cuban-healthcare-system-r...

they also provide medical education for free, even to foreign citizens.

notably, che guevara was a doctor before he was a soldier, and this probably informed the cuban communist party's healthcare policy.
That has no relation to vaccine production at all.
Nah. You can get a 4 port 10G switch for about $100 from a known vendor.
But couldn't they just tell people about the uncertainty? (like "90-98% effective"?) Or underestimate the efficacy (in some objective way, like "at least 90% effective"). Or something else, as long as they're ultimately measuring what matters and what people actually care about. It's not like that 100% with their sample sizes would realistically ever suddenly turn into 50%, would it? It seems just inherently wrong to measure the wrong thing and convey it with certainty than to measure the right thing and convey it with the associated uncertainty, does it not?
If you are a construction company and anticipate a possible/likely disruption in one of your critical raw materials and have the funds to protect your business, what else would you do? It doesn’t sound predatory; rather it sounds eminently sensible.
I'm not sure if these are opposite ends of the spectrum.

I think the article says it best, focus results in actions. But coordinating, is an action in itself. The act of attending an all hands meeting, or even meeting with a group of people requires focus(e.g. to be fully present in a meeting). Or to prepare for an all-hands meeting a manager has to focus and think of an agenda.

I feel like focus is a supporting act for almost everything and we have a problem with balancing among too many things.
It has been my career experience that 5+ digit employee companies more resemble Chiba City than they do the USS Enterprise.
Cuba's healthcare system is no slouch, but they're not world-leading. The ones who are world-leading started vaccinating their populations last year.

I'm not sure what physicians per capita has to do with the quality of their healthcare system and research. Is Bhutan the world leader in agriculture? They have more farmers per capita than anywhere in the world.
I prefer to save time cooking by just eating all the ingredients.
Also the fifth (and most important and effective, IMO) Habit:

Seek first to understand, then to be understood.
A gross oversimplification is:

- have customers to sell to

- remember that you don't sell, customers buy

- it's easier to sell something people both need & want

Personally I find cost effective lead generation is the harder problem to solve. So get good at lead generation (aka having customers to talk to) & then you can practice converting them into paying customers. Trying practice selling to customers you don't have is like trying to be good at washing a car you haven't purchased yet.
First thing: it's not being recycled. It's being reprocessed. A very expensive process which not everybody does. The US doesn't even have a plant for it and there isn't even a plan to do it because it makes no sense at all since you still need fresh fuel (which is cheaper) and can mix MOX to it and you end up with even more less radioactive waste you still have to store on site.

So no not 96% of spend fuel is recycled. It's 96% of the reprocessed fuel is being reprocessed.

And no, the main amount of the waste is still radioactive for generations and needs to be kept safe and watched over for a very long time. The reason almost all countries haven't been able to find a hole deep enough is nothing to be proud of. This stuff is and remains to be dangerous. It will fall to generations to keep it safe. No matter what and just think about it. Just a decade ago nobody would have taken you seriously if you'd say that Donald Trump would become the president of the USA. We don't know what will happen in the next decade or century. Meanwhile this dangerous dirt is out there. Most of the times on site.

Those "ongoing projects" are a wide understatement. Germany has been looking for decades and the one they've found turned out to be not so good after all because water started leaking into it only a few decades later: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asse_II_mine

And that's just nature issues. Human issues didn't come into play....yet.

Waste is far from being a "solved problem" and it will remain so as long as this lie is being kept alive by the radioactive Astro-Turf.
Normal sails also generate lift, which constitutes most of the thrust. Without it, it would be impossible to sail up wind.
I'm sure it's my naive hubris that makes me think someone should just design a dozen houses, each with a handful of well defined modifications (including to the facade), and do it with enough specificity that it could be turned into very exact instructions and material lists that suppliers could easily fulfill.

Hubris in particular because I'm sure architects think a lot about this and if they don't do it it's for some good reason... or they have done it and it just doesn't effect the market like I imagine it could.

I read about a government research program into building (70s?) that failed to reach its own goals but did advance building standards, and this does feel like something where government funded research could help. Something closer to how highway safety research is done, as opposed to scientific research.
But I would also like to see data showing how often desktop users reboot (on purpose, that is, not because systemd or something says "you should reboot now" because it's shitty software that doesn't just work cross updates).

Like, who even boots their computer anymore? Isn't the typical user on a laptop, and just suspends it?

My workplace even had to install corp software that forces a reboot every N days (with warnings ahead of time) because people just Do. Not. Reboot.

And even for the people that do, at what cost, here? You have a bunch of services and services completely broken, but "they started just fine" (except they didn't start), and only break once you actually need them.

So to me this really looks like it applies neither to servers nor desktop. I'm really not seeing any use case except fetishizing boot times.

And for me this always SPENDS human wait time, not save it. I try to use a service, and nope, it needs to "boot up" first. Could you not have done that already, WTF? (and maybe it fails to boot, which I only find out about now that I'm already in the zone to use it)

Are we really optimizing for kernel developers, here? Can't they just disable the services they don't need, to speed it up?

And we have eleventy billion cores now. Really? You can't start a 645kB gpsd? It takes what, 3ms?
The US is so far ahead of other countries, it invents more new novel drugs than the next 5 countries combined.

And then poor countries enjoy the cheap generic versions of these drugs, basically subsidized by the US.

https://qph.fs.quoracdn.net/main-qimg-1a70c72f3bbb329d1dfee4...
Say the computer writing the log was destroyed, you were able to recover the storage, but the only computer available did not have journalctl.

Or if you're writing to network storage and would like to analyze the logs from your haiku box.

Text is not perfect, but it's the one thing that is always available.

Also I'm not sure about the journalctl format, but in general binary formats don't handle partial corruption well. Which is something kind of important for logs.
I don't think age bias is bad at non-FAANG corporate jobs. But at startups and elite tech companies it's very real.

My last round I made the mistake of interviewing at a bunch of startups. I could tell I already had a strike against me walking in the door at age 49. It's tough to ace the whiteboard when you know you have to be perfect to even have a chance.
> most CPUs can be cooled by a good tower cooler just fine

Water coolers are definitely still an enthusiast part in my opinion. If you're satisfied with "just fine" then no, it's probably not worth it. It will give you better cooling per decibel but probably worse per dollar, at least on stock clocks.

If you want to mess around with overclocking the advantage seems to become a bit bigger for AIOs as you crank up fan speeds.
Out of couriosity, would Win 11 install on a system with UEFI, Secure Boot and TPM2 enabled, but where you supplied your own keys - or does it require hardwired keys from Microsoft?
There is enough money to be made from knowledge everyone gains through sharing and working together on a project.

Open Source and open knowledge is what has been changing the world for the past four decades.
Show HN: Zanzibar PG – Pure PL/PgSQL Implementation of the Zanzibar API
This was a joke on the TV show Community, but it was exactly what you picture.
No, it's not Push.

As a practical matter if your page requires a large number of resources (say 50+), and you are measuring the time to complete loading all of them, HTTP/2 loads much faster than HTTP/1.1. There are some nice demo sites which show this, with pages full of small images.

This is because all requests can be issued in parallel over HTTP/2 as soon as the client knows what to request, and this reduces the number of round trip times before all resources complete loading.

Even without Push, the client usually knows all the requests after it receives the HTML or sometimes the CSS.

With HTTP/1.1, the client requests are bottlenecked in a queue limited by the number of parallel TCP+TLS connections. Some sites boost this limit by using extra subdomains. But running 50+ TCP connections bursting at the same time is not efficient, even if it does bring down the latency by parallelising. With that many, there will be a burst of congestion and possible packet loss at the low bandwidth receiving end. And the 3-way handshake and TLS handshake needed for each new TCP+TLS means the parallel request latencies are a multiple of HTTP/2 request latency.

HTTP/2 also has request header compression, which makes a difference when upstream bandwidth from the client is limited.
While important to you and me, the attitude of the doctors is not in question here, just the level of Cuba's medical expertise.
Does "this" = low taxes on the wealthy? Or allowing lobbying?
That's not a full picture, apparently that was due to some specific problem in Gentoo: https://blogs.gnome.org/ovitters/2013/09/25/gnome-and-logind...

AFAIK the GNOME Wayland session still depends on logind, but that's more because there has been no interest in getting it to work on BSD yet.
Taking the opportunity to point out, with most inferred type languages (mypy python, go, TS, rust, scala), you often don't have to write variable types at all, only functions. Gone are the days of `Foobar foob = new Foobar`, heck C++ has had `auto` for a decade.

So have your dynamic language functions you have to document (you do document your code right?), why not just use types instead? I'd far rather see

def frob(data: np.ndarray) -> float:
<code with no docstring>

than

def frob(data):
"""takes an array and frobs it to give the frobitude score"""

Like, idk about you, but the former is way better at "self documenting" and you can do all kinds of automatic operations on it. If things are ill-defined and quickly shifting, I can mypy and flake my way to make sure the stack works without bricking something. If I have human docs, that's far more likely to drift out of date.
> It's worth noting this can vary a lot depending on target market and deal size.

I'd go so far as to say that once you hit a certain deal size, it's impossible to compete without treating sales as its own specialized field just like you would management in a large organization. The number of independent variables and people involved grows superlinearly with the amount of money involved and managing that process is its own skill, one that's extremely valuable because it can only learned in a trial by fire. As they grow bigger, they get even more specialized - a friend of mine who was the rockstar salesman at a big CRO that made 8-9 figure deals to run clinical trials for pharma had a lot of trouble moving into commercial jet sales, for example, which might see 10-11 figure deals delivered over a decade.
I read Kurose’s book in college and recommend it as the perfect book for this topic. As a neophyte at the time, I remember really drilling into the details of TCP and just being in awe of how well thought out the whole system was. This book laid such a good foundation for my career as a software engineer.