skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
HIPAA doesn't prohibit the collection and sharing of health data. It provides a framework for how such activities must be performed, describes standards and practices for data security, limits whom the data can be shared with, and, yes, requires certain disclosures. But there's no HIPAA violation if your doctor, medical equipment provider/manufacturer, and insurance company share data within those parameters.

I'm sure I signed something authorizing it, in the giant stack of paperwork I filled out along the way, but who reads every word of that nonsense? It's practically designed to overwhelm the patient. I read a lot more of those forms than anyone else I know, but I still have to skim a lot and they're always presented in a high-anxiety environment. No one can or should be expected to pay that much attention to legalese in a doctor's office.
> but even if you believe you’d be more productive in a private office, you’re not going to be 15-30% more productive.

15-30% is probably low for quite a few individuals. It could be as much as 2-3x. I have experimented with it and it certainly is for me.

The problem is that on average you may be right, since there are also a lot of people who barely benefit from it.
Author here, surprising to see this blog post of mine trending, but it has held up pretty well! Happy to answer any questions about my time at Stack Overflow.

I've since moved on to Heap (https://heap.io/) and we are hiring. We're virtual first so we don't have private offices, but we have the same values about treating developers well and giving them the space they need to do deep work. We're hiring for basically everything https://heap.io/careers/departments/engineering-product-and-...
That's great! Thank God there is open source.

It's funny how open source started as "the manufacturer is too lazy to support my use case" and now is becoming "the manufacturer is too greedy / cannot be trusted"
The problem with MAD is it requires perfect decision making or perfect luck with no graceful failure if things go wrong.

From the Cuban Missile Crisis portion of Fog of War

"Lesson #2: Rationality will not save us.

I want to say, and this is very important: at the end we lucked out. It was luck that prevented nuclear war. We came that close to nuclear war at the end. Rational individuals: Kennedy was rational; Khrushchev was rational; Castro was rational. Rational individuals came that close to total destruction of their societies. And that danger exists today."

https://www.errolmorris.com/film/fow_transcript.html
I use a Smart TV as a monitor. I also have a walk/run treadmill where the guards fold down to work as a walking desk treadmill. When I want to get a run in I switch my monitor to the TV side, pull the treadmill out a foot, pull the guard up, and run a 5K.
It wasn't much better if you reached adulthood. Seems like mid-forties up to the 1400s, and early fifties up to 1600s, for the nobility in England. So, you know, not the people getting on those boats probably.
Serverless Cloud: Next-Gen Serverless App Platform
Parsing logs has a performance ceiling that locks you out of ~most of the value that good observability systems should be delivering.
And those ancestors would switch places with us in a heartbeat. You are romanticizing.
Walls are cheap. Depending on who you ask the HVAC is enough cheaper as to be worth it. (open offices are a nightmare to heat/cool: there are always temperature gradient across large rooms)
This is a bit different. First, the type of vaccine is different - the COVID vaccines don't stop you from getting COVID or -- crucially -- transmitting it to others, whereas the ones that school children require to get do so.

Second, two of the three available are still under EUA, and the one that is approved is of a new type of vaccine that became approved through a very unconventional route, which has some folks cautious. Those other vaccines you mention are well-established and have been proven over time and through clinical testing to be safe and effective. COVID vaccines have proven to be only effective at reducing reactions, but not very effective at reducing spread.

Note that a typical clinical trial lasts years[0] - phase II usually takes 2-3 years and phase III takes an additional 2-4 years. We've had these vaccines for less than one year; if this was a typical vaccine, it'd be only part-way through phase II trials.

And now it's mandated by the government; get this shot, some of which are using new technology, that has had shortened clinical trials or lose your livelihood (because, at $14k per infraction, I don't see many large companies bothering to offer testing as an alternative unless it's for the CEO or other executives; it's just too much liability for an easily-replaceable lower-wage employee).

> but the unwillingness to acknowledge precedent is bizarre

That's because your precedent isn't an exact match, and has had easy alternatives and ways to opt-out.

[0] https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/vaccines/timeline
Sadly Lazarus and Delphi don't get the attention they deserve. Writing even a sophisticated app in either of these platforms is a pleasure.
So you confirm that all these talks about "innovation" and "stimulating collaboration" and all is just BS. It all comes down to cost to cram as many workers as possible in the available space.
I have a Thinkpad X200 with libreboot, and with it, I install the intel-microcode and such so I have the updated protections on then.

I personally feel that is a practical solution, as I have the FOSS bootloader, and I don't think Intel has backdoors in their microcode, it would much more likely be in Intel ME.
No, it really doesn't. Japan doesn't have the capacity to deploy enough air power to affect the invasion. If Japan made the strategic mistake of getting involved militarily before the US, the Chinese would use ballistic missiles to strike Japanese airbases and supply infrastructure and carry on.

I agree it would do no good to have a war between the US and China for anyone. I want Taiwan to stay independent and chose its own destiny. But the reality is that China has an overwhelming advantage in-theater over anyone and it's only getting worse.
My building has a lot of "private offices" but due to overcrowding, you end up doubling or tripling up in offices meant for one person. These are traditional offices with a window and solid wood door. Honestly, I'd rather just have my big cubicle from before the last time I got moved around. I don't need an actual private office, I just want some sort of semi-enclosed space where I can't hear my neighbor on the phone and just enough room for my desk, some boxes of hardware, and maybe a guest chair. If that means a cubicle with great soundproofing, so be it. A window would be great but I'm also content with just some natural sunlight somehow entering my space.
But who is tracing the trackers tracking the tracers?
I've been thinking about getting one, but ultimately decided the price was not worth it, considering I'd probably hit a brick wall when trying to bring it up.

What convinced you to get not one but two of them? What do you run on it, was it hard to bring up the system?

hat convinced you to buy not one
Open ticket is ambiguous in English anyway. It could mean the ticket to which this refers is of type open or click here to view the ticket.

I have a different complaint than most others here and that is that most UIs require me to mentally translate from software developers English to real English. It's no surprise then that translating to a completely different language is difficult and error prone.

Edit: mismatched asterisks.
I hate medium
My own theory is that it takes a few years to develop the mind muscles connections, and for all the neglected muscles to be correctly worked and reach a whole body equilibrium. After that you know how to use the exact muscle group for a specific activity or movement, and every muscle is trained. Weight lifting or Yoga can both get to that, or any activity as long as you are mindful about movements and muscles involved, and every muscle is worked. It seems obvious but a lot of people don’t know and feel their muscles and their relative action when they do a movement like getting up or grabbing something.
well, that's not how it's suppose to work.
I want a better shell but only in that I want a Bash-like language (with builtin Linux userland programs like mv, cp, etc.) that works across macOS, Linux, and Windows. (I cannot reliably get Bash for Windows installed on every Windows device I own.)

I want this for cross-platform build scripts. I build a desktop app for Windows, mac and Linux. I don't want a different set of scripts in a different language for each platform.

And I don't want to write in Python or JavaScript or Ruby or Perl because they're all so much more verbose than Bash.

But Bash on its own isn't enough either. I need the same Linux userland commands to work the same way on Windows. Powershell has mv and cp but they don't work the same way or have the same flags.

I hacked together a version of this language in Python that operates line by line and massages the differences between things like mv and environment variables in Windows, macOS, Linux.

https://github.com/multiprocessio/datastation/blob/master/sc...

Here's a sample script it can run:

yarn
setenv UI_ESBUILD_ARGS "--minify"
yarn build-ui
prepend "window.DS_CONFIG_VERSION='{arg0}';" build/ui.js
yarn build-desktop
prepend "global.DS_CONFIG_VERSION='{arg0}';" build/desktop.js
yarn electron-packager --overwrite --out=releases --build-version={arg0} --app-version={arg0} . "DataStation Community Edition"
zip -r releases/{os}-{arch}-{arg0}.zip "releases/DataStation Community Edition-{os}-{arch}"

But this is a massive hack. So I'm starting work on a real language that supports a reasonable subset of Bash on Windows, macOS, and Linux and brings a reimplementation of the few key Linux userland commands (mv, cp, mkdir, rm plus new programs like append, prepend, replace, etc.) built into the interpreter.

A sketch of this more real version implemented in Go is here: https://github.com/multiprocessio/crosh. It doesn't build at all yet but if you're interested you can follow along.
Check out the Nezha D1 RISC-V SBC:

https://hackerboards.com/boards/nezha/

Not sure how easy they are to get ... but $99 is a great price.
> I feel like the world would be a better place if architects were bonused on company project completion.

Be careful of running into Goodhart's Law when doing this.

In my experience, absolutely nothing replaces lots of time (7-10 year time horizon granularity), and conscientiousness. Everything else is gamed into Goodhart's territory.

Where I've seen architects incentivized the way you describe, the definitions of "project" and "completion" are tightly scrutinized, and all other considerations thrown to the wayside. I see developer experience, operations supportability, troubleshooting visibility, observability, extensibility, upgradeability, and so on, all sacrificed upon the incentives altar. Surprised Pikachu face when fantastic company project completions "suddenly" turns into an ocean of technical debt with a particularly nasty Marianas Trench of mission-critical code everyone is afraid to touch but must somehow be tamed to help strategically evolve the company meet new business needs.
In all brutal honesty I would have read "v." as versus, whereas just "v" as in "v 4.2.0" would be version.
As someone who loved Opera up to 12.x, I want to like Vivaldi. However, I've already been burned once by a proprietary web browser deciding to change direction, and I'm not interested in getting burned a second time.
A few studies showing something works does not make an executive comfortable.

They cant go to the board and be like “oh, I don’t know why productivity is down, I did all the things the studies said I should do”
Also seen this - meeting rooms where like gold dust. Had a few meetings that were suddenly cancelled when the CEO came into the office.
No, they wouldn’t, considering that they explicitly set up difficult lives for themselves according to their values.

And no, you can’t read the minds of long dead people either.

Is it really so difficult to consider that we live in a scared, lazy age?
IMO, this type of political nihilism is the natural result of a dispirited populace grown used to delegating its own government to unaccountable managers. I'm not arguing for sovereign citizenship, just regular citizenship. There is a long tradition of political thought regarding liberty and freedom, your cynicism notwithstanding. If you ever find yourself using terms like 'rights', 'free', or 'justice' without quotations then I hope you can resolve your internal contractions.
Apache Hop – open-source data integration platform
They are working on it https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/405302/introducing-...

I don't get this hate on SO people keep spewing.
> A simple fix for the problems mentioned above would be to have slow phase-outs instead of sharp thresholds. Slow phase-outs are actually done for some subsidies and, while that can also have problems, they are typically less problematic than introducing a sharp discontinuity in tax/subsidy policy.

Or just don’t have phase-outs at all. What, exactly, is wrong with giving millionaires subsidies with similar dollar values as much poorer people? They’ll make it up in overall taxes paid anyway.
Whitespace is definitely a legitimate critique of python.

The fact that people have learned to live with it or just ignore it is pretty irrelevant in my opinion.

Significant whitespace means I can't copy+paste without introducing bugs or breaking the code. It means code formatting becomes more complex to automate. It's seriously the dumbest language feature to defend and should be pretty acceptable to admit was a mistake.

I agree that having whitespace sensitive scoping isn't a compelling enough reason in itself to avoid python, but it is hard for me to understand how python programmers insist on defending it as a great design choice that "improves readability". To me that indicates an inexperienced developer who is unfamiliar with the alternatives.

I feel similarly for people who reject (or say they hate) static types and compilers.
Please note that Manjaro Cinnamon isn’t official Manjaro, and is maintained separately - other Manjaro flavors still use Firefox as their default.
I think that refusing the get vaccinated is unconscionable at so many levels.
My competitive side now wants to start a fish farm. Like I'm mass-producing B-52s, except now they're tuna.

Maybe this is the solution to American "elite overproduction": less "I'm going to be a brand consultant in Manhattan" after one-too-many Sex and the City episodes, and more -- I'm picturing a Rosie the Riveter poster, except now she's holding a giant salmon (Excuse me, I'll be in my bunk).

Maybe we can even get the Pope on board, like in the good old days of Filet O' Fish on Fridays?

I have a whole cultural program now laid out in my head. Musicals, Lin-Manuel Miranda, the works. All in support of our brave new aquacultural future.

I mean, it'd be more useful than all the coffee shops and dog groomers.

Our motto will be a taunt to our challengers:

YOU CAN'T TUNA FISH

BUT YES WE CAN
How to round to two decimals in Python?
> Modern high speed links are very finicky, to the extent that various parameters (timing, etc.) on each end of the link can't be hardcoded. The link training is part of initializing the link where the FW on each end of the link try out various parameters in order to enable full speed operation.

Exactly. Initialising DDR memory in any kind of system is a bit of a black art for this reason, even when the chips are soldered to the same PCB as the SOC, let alone when there's two unknown PCBs and two sockets in the mix.
interviewing.io watch some of their videos on github
Because talking about it here completely misses the point. Yes, Electron has a number of problems, so what? This is an app that you open and close within 3 minutes. Open Video Downloader is a very usable software that doesn't have any direct alternatives right now to my knowledge. It's actually a good example of how a great, easily accessible UI framework can enable the creation of cross-platform apps that nobody did in those other "leaner" frameworks until now.
`self` is not a keyword. It is a variable.

You can use `this` or `banana` or `x` if you like!

…and it would be incomplete to point this out without, as the author suggests I should, an obligatory:

lol
5) people can't afford the unburdened tech so they will go for the lowest-priced/highest reviewed option and nothing else matters
Fascinating read, I really enjoyed the parallels with Smalltalk and Self.
Nitpicking here but O(4) is nonsense, that simply means “constant”, and would be written O(1).
TrueCrypt has other forks and implementations like tcplay.
Isn't Manjaro the distro that previously planned to drop LibreOffice from its installation and include the proprietary word processor FreeOffice instead? [0]

I guess my point is, this is kinda par for the course.

[0] https://itsfoss.com/libreoffice-freeoffice-manjaro-linux/
i was surprised how close this gets
https://sanana.kiev.ua/index.php/yad
The additional risk is nearly-zero and vaccination provides additional protection even in cases of prior infection.
For those who have lots of videos on your computer (cross-platform), I built Video Hub App to browse, search, and preview videos (works with external and network drives). Hope you like!

https://videohubapp.com/en/

MIT open source: https://github.com/whyboris/Video-Hub-App
I do not share my account with anyone and this was my first and last ever car related purchase on Amazon
My Apple whistleblowing saga
Never had to learn the intimidating XML stack in depth but it seems clear that the (superficially definetely more digestible) JSON way of notating data must slowly and painfully reinvent the wheel. Reaching the same level of logical complexity (if it solves the same set of problems) seems unavoidable, no?

So if the main advantage of JSON is human readability (not a machine oriented attribute btw :-) might be possible to JSON-ify the XML stack, essentially focusing on appearances and preserving the substance (a bit like the JSON-LD approach)

In the end of the day these are frameworks for public data / metadata exchange and removing these frictions would be enormously beneficial to everybody...
Zig's thread on the topic is interesting reading - it has gone from open to closed several times, and includes interesting examples from the stdlib where resources were not closed properly: https://github.com/ziglang/zig/issues/782
I suspect it was my comment, probably flagged for comparing the ID mandates to jim crow laws, but I'd say your response question reduces to, "we are an elite, how do we deal with these ignorant proles?" which is begging the question.

The connection between data and policy is mostly fictional, other than it is used to support chosen narratives, and not to illuminate truth. I look at the resistance as a human instinct, where some can convert it to articulated objections and clearly, and others have limited tools, but what they have in common is a clear and united desire.

Anyone who knows anything about data (let alone govt) knows that data at very best only loosely informs policy decisions, it does not make them. Leaders may hide behind it, but they ignore it just as often if not moreso, and that these people reject data as censored, cherry picked, fudged, fabricated, is consistent with how policymakers handle it.
somewhat offtopic but for those looking to get a 'dumb' fridge (or any other kitchen/laundry appliance) your city probably has a small appliances shop that will sell you most of a kitchen for a bargain.

these are used ranges, freezers, washers/dryers that are fully serviced and in many cases come with a warranty from the shop.
Are you implying OSHA is 'un-sueable'?

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2020/07/23/lawsuit-o...
Docker: From Development to Deployment with Django and Vue
I interpret "celebrating" as remembering something in a positive way. We're just indifferent, he's one of a few dozen important guys we heard about in history lessons, and that's it.
I hadn't thought of it from this angle, thanks for sharing your perspective!
Plenty of motorcyclists would also argue that louder exhausts are safer but the data doesn't bare that out either.

Yes I'm pro motorcycle helmet.
It may be the future, but there seem to be powerful interests working to prevent that future from becoming realized.

(I could probably say that about many kinds of positive social transformations.)
It's not FOSS.
> It means code formatting becomes more complex to automate

No, it means it is both simpler to automate and less necessary, because syntactically correct code is already largely formatted.
Seeing as the author is trying to sell the idea of "Make Exponential Earnings With medium", I'm guessing they indeed were correctly banned from Reddit for being a spammer. It's rather telling that all the examples are theoretical.
tl;dr: a machine with 2 GB of ram that is doing pulling a blog post out of a DB and passing it through Django can do ~50tps
So we cannot talk about a type being monad without also saying under what function?

E.g. Arrays are monads under concatenation. So why people then say easily "Option type is monad" without stating under which operation? I assume Option is monad under "all" and "any" function, but not sure.
There are three reasons I see:

- Open offices are cheaper because they require less material and allow people to be more densely packed

- The C-level decision makers are likely to be extroverted sales or product people who believe that synchronous, always-on f2f communication is better for collaboration

- It makes it obvious at a glance who's in the office and what they're doing, which can create social pressure to work longer hours (and can satisfy a manager's need for control)
The best clothes are hand-tailored specifically to fit your body.

And yet, most people wear mass-produced clothes.
Another reason to colonize the asteroid belt.
Luckily for anyone in the software writing profession, writing the actual code is the easy part. Anyone who watches the video in its entirety will be made painfully aware of this.

That aside - what I'd actually prefer is something that does the opposite of this. Rather than write code, I'd rather it actually help decide what I should be doing, not give me how it's implemented.

Example:

> "Make twitter"

- "OK. Do you mean a short message sending service like "Twitter.com" when you say 'twitter'?

> "Yes"

- "OK"

- "How many users are you thinking this will have?"

> "20 million"

- "Alright, where are these users located?"

> "All over the world?"

- "Will they all be on simultaneously?"

> "Yes"

- "OK, what are your latency requirements?"

> ...

The end of this discussion could be a fully architected design in the abstract, with recommendations on specific technologies to use, the tradeoffs and the costs, if applicable.

A plus if said architecture could be specified in a way that makes it easy to deploy. This logic could be used for high level implementation designs, and even UI/UX.
> I doubt it read any API specs and implemented the code for that matter.

That should be easier than an unbounded philosophical discussion with an eight year old sensemaking vocabulary in-formation.
Implementing Code-Completion for VS Code with Antlr
The difference being that people's general livelihoods are not being affected by these campaigns and requirements. The choice is still available to people even if there are restrictions on use and distribution. That is not the case with the vaccine.
I hope that’s weekly rapid tests, not weekly 2-3-day turnaround PCR tests.

(This presumes that the point is to slow the spread of COVID, not to annoy the unvaccinated.)