skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm currently using the Foam extension on VSCode. It allows me to take all my notes in markdown and can see a kind of starmap of my notes which shows the link between related concepts. I tried Zim (a personal wiki software) and org-roam (same thing as foam but with org files instead of markdown and much more terrible "starmaps"). I still have to use it much to retrieve my knowledge, but I really like how it allows me to take quick notes so far and forces me to think of connections between things.

The problem I had as a programmer working on legacy systems intermingled with new stuff is I had trouble finding my notes about stuff. Confluence's search is basically unusable and there's quite some overhead in using it to take notes in the first place. Using Zim/Foam lets me easily find the information I need when I need it.

Basically, I'm just not gonna remember everything that might become useful months/years from now so I dump everything in my own personal wiki and make sure it's easy to navigate/find stuff I need when I do remember I saw something similar before.
> It turns out that the CPAP contains a cellular modem, and it phones home and reports in real-time. I had no idea this thing was recording any data at all. It wasn't verbally disclosed to me by either the doctor or the equipment technicians. I imagine there's something buried in the fine print of the (long lost) documentation, possibly even in the fine print of some form I signed, but I was caught off guard and none too pleased.

I should think that perhaps the legal requirements should be:

1. Its capability of wireless communcation, and a brief description of what it does, and the power and frequency it uses, should be clearly marked on the package.

2. The included documentation should need to describe the details of the wireless communication, including whatever is mentioned on the package.

3. There should be required it can be disabled without disabling its other functions, and this feature must be documented.

The other things that you mention too, should be applicable. I agree with you that "I don't agree with the undisclosed enforcement mechanism, nor do I agree that treatment should be contingent on monitoring" and that "This is insanely invasive, even with disclosure, and ought to be illegal without explicit, obvious verbal and written disclosure".

The medical devices should not be doing such surveillance (and medical devices should ideally not require a computer, either).
Don’t rewrite your project in Rust, or at all
Thousands of similar examples to this, whatever spooks run these jobs are obnoxiously sloppy - almost intentionally so.

"Sure, you caught us. What are you gonna do about it?"
Looks like it might be getting hugged, here's an archive if you can't load it:

https://archive.is/MS2lJ
rather than being so dichotomous and partisan, my actual position is that we focus on the wrong problems because of biases and fallacious thinking, both individual and systemic. death by car is a real problem, but we’ve long accepted that and similar risks to our lives (as an aside, cardiovascular and pulmonary diseases are more pressing, to which auto pollution does contribute). covid is comparable to that level of risk and yet there’s no constant uproar and heightened emotion around car deaths. we need to couch novel threats in relation to existing risk tolerances developed over millennia rather than the other way around (because those exist already for good reasons, à la chesterson’s fence).

the “hospitals filling up” narrative is mediopolitically-motivated justification, not grounded in deductive reasoning nor meant to drive effective mitigative policy.
Huh, I doubt cars is a good example. If I see the Ford logo every day as I pick up my car keys, and then it's under my nose as I hold my steering wheel, then when I buy a new car I'll probably consider Fords first (and maybe a terrible experience will make me avoid them).
Step 1: Require commercial IoT to meet software compliance

Step 2: Ban IoT that doesn't meet software compliance

Step 3: Pray that the compliance standard makes any sense and that the NSA don't require backdoors or suspect CRNG.
What solves everything?
Found in Warp's landing page:

"Private - All cloud features are opt-in. Data is encrypted at rest."

Wait... was this even under question? Why would my terminal not be private? :/
Doesn't seem like a major win if Apple is allowed to ban them from the app store
The rate might be higher, but we have our share of anti-vax people - including some violent protests at the Prime Minister lately, causing him to cancel rally events.

In our office, we have a number of people I know aren't vaccinated.
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Reading articles like this has the surprising effect of making me wish for something analogous to the Java Community Process. Improvements to the language can be proposed by organizations or individuals. Here, Chris (or -- more likely -- Shopify) could introduce object shaping as a proposal. This would trigger a set of steps [1] that would allow for the proposal to be more carefully studied, an initial implantation put into place, and eventually have it become part of core.

As things currently stand in Ruby-land, however, Matz and DHH rule the roost. This has given rise to split implementations. For example: Sorbet (created by Shopify) and RBS (created by Square) are means to add static typing to Ruby. I am sure each has strengths and weaknesses. The larger point is, however, that there shouldn't be two implementations of something so funamental, even if they are mutually compatible. When generics were introduced to Java you didn't have one flavor from IBM and one from, say, JetBrains. There was just generics.

tl;dr: Ruby (and Rails) would benefit from having a structured, democratic process to introduce changes.

[1] https://jcp.org/en/jsr/stage
Great point, thank you for letting me know a hard hat isn't a medical procedure. If my aunt had wheels, she'd be a tea cart. I'm sure I can find someone who died BECAUSE they were wearing protective head PPE - a hat strap got caught and strangled them, whatever.

The more important point that you ignore is people are horrible at weighing relative risk. You're obviously intelligent and aware of the biases inherent in judging vaccination risk. I'm sure you know crossing the street is far more risky. There is a consistent pattern of unvaccinated, dying covid patients claiming they underestimated the risk of the illness and wish they had gotten vaccinated. People are literally unable to make that choice for themselves. There's proof.

What's the point of "freedom" if we're all stuck in our houses hiding from variant after variant because we refuse to acknowledge that our government needs to make a decision that will save lives [1] when our actual survival is at risk.

[1] https://www.healthline.com/health-news/covid-19-vaccines-sav...
Remember that TV is for everyone. Think of the dumbest person you know - the dumbest person that guy knows also has a TV.
Not OP but i find the story part is very useful when I'm in an unfamiliar space. The stories provide insight into how the teller thinks about the problem - this is helpful to make a mental map of the topic. It helps that humans seem wired to understand narative (or maybe just my culture) in a deep way.

Similarly, when joining a new team I like to gather war-stories because when people tell you those, they are also telling you how they work (and allow you to infer a good strategy for working with those folks while also learning about the warts of the system).
Apple prohibited from blocking outside payment in Epic ruling
The study suggests there is discrimination, it does not speak to anyone's intent. You are doing a lot of psychological projection on a large, diverse group of people whom you have never met nor spoken to about what they care about.

You are judging intention based on results. Those are not the same thing.
If you sell something to someone and they use it to commit a crime, you are culpable if you even had a wiff that it was going to be used for something illegal. So if you're selling 0days on the blackmarket, you can bet your ass they will come after you sooner or later.

The companies that immoral & legal, have paved their own way, but since you're not going to be selling to governments directly, don't count on being able to get away with it.
I made an argument like yours and kinda talked myself out of it.

Validation while in production makes no sense, I agree. But automated testing… I bet you can catch some unintentional changes to your JSON output while testing. Not all of them, but some. Maybe even enough to justify keeping the schema current.
Can you share a link to the Italian version?
> which is why it’s app developers who were unhappy, not users

The judge commented on that

>> "Apple created an innovative platform but it did not disclose its rules to the average consumer. Apple has used this lack of knowledge to exploit its position.

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> Personally I probably just won’t buy things that require me to sign up for a new payment system

You, as a consumer, will now have a choice, which you'll get to exercise! You will be able to send a market signal for products (either the service you might subscribe to, and Apple) to get better and attract more developers/users. This sounds like a win!
Apple Pay is a separate system than the normal IAP system, but I expect there are going to be tons of apps with tiny web views hosting nothing but the web Apple Pay button. This would cut down on some of the friction of having the user re-enter their credit card info for every app while still cutting out Apple’s 30% cut.
Oh crap you're right, not sure how I got such a low number.
To be really fair, have you ever seen SQL error messages that don't suck? I do agree that Oracle's are the worst by far though.
Seems like this essentially kills the game console business. If 3rd party Xbox and Playstation games are allowed to sell content with their own payment system, why would anyone buy games through Microsoft/Sony?
This falls into the central conceit of crypto "I can avoid laws" I think you'll find that laws are harder than you think, and less forgiving of clever loopholes like this.

Frankly, I don't know why less regulation on most people's largest purchase is considered a good thing.

You also don't really understand the cost drivers. The escrow company should have cost maybe 1%. You didn't have to do that at all. You could have offered to skip escrow, given cash directly to the seller and recover from them if the contract goes sideways.

You also don't understand real estate law.
>Default on the mortgage is now a much simpler and faster eviction process since the homeowner is legally just a tenant of the DAO.

It is easier to evict a foreclosee than a tenant in most jurisdictions.

> one of the massive frictions that existed n 2008, where foreclosures went slow as molasses because formal title and liens got lost in byzantine county clerks across the country.

2008 moved slowly for two main reasons. 1, politically, no one wanted to move fast. 2, the mortguages were all chopped up, sub contracted, etc, and it was unclear who had rights to forclose on the house because of teh mounds of subsequent obligations.
"Demagogues decide how to distribute it, makes the society a hellhole"

Fortunately corporate management and promotions are so different frin politics, no way would a demagogue or someine incompetent be in position of power and decide how to distribute wealth
I love how the post is a demonstration of the practice it describes.
> I think there's something about having distractions in your peripheral vision which speaks to this.

That's exactly what I never liked about open office plans.
Oh sorry, that's just an article. Here's the full documentary:

https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/film/trafficked-in-americ...
Selling to agencies doesn't make you less of an arms dealer. It's up to you if you're ok with that or not.
> Yes, if you're learning arbitrary lists of items such foreign language vocabulary, or a medical student memorizing the Latin naming for all the various bones of a human body then spaced repetition is what to use. I've just never had an analogous situation in programming.

The only case I can really think of is learning the useful shortcuts for your IDEs, especially if you're switching between multiple IDEs for multiple languages. But even then I would rather just note them down and look them up when I need them. I tried Anki to learn emacs shortcuts and it's just such a slug. I don't want to spend time daily to maintain a mental database of senseless shortcuts.
> "...war is obsolete between technologically advanced states..."

That's what they said after WW1, the "war to end all wars", yet we had another and (in my opinion) rather narrowly avoided a third between the '50s-'80s.

A foolish belief that no-one would dare start another large-scale war allows nations to indulge in grand posturing and ever closer brinkmanship which will inevitably to (surprise) another war.
Thanks, I appreciate the feedback.

Well, it's hard to pinpoint the right "customer profile" because they tend to vary. I think we have 2 "main customers", based on what we see in our data for the app and the brick and mortar version:

- We definitely have a decent ratio of one-shots who just want the app on the moment (it's more impulse-oriented as it's something you'd use with friends when chilling at home or when you have a small party).

- But we also have some "die-hard" fans that do tend to be frequent users. So, a 3 months pass may not be the best, but maybe you're on to something and a "X days per year" version would make more sense. Although from a technical perspective and user experience perspective, that'd be hard to get right I think.

Still, retention is indeed an issue, but I think bad retention because "your UX is bad" and "your UX is bad in relation to the price you pay for it" could be a factor in my eye. As in, I'd be fine paying a Netflix-equivalent subscription for a niche product that I use a lot, but would I pay that much for something I will use in bursts of 2-3 hours for 2-3 times a month at most (as opposed to the uncountable hours of movie/shows streaming)...? I don't know.
That's where I think our repeat customers tend to go over the line of "meh, maybe I should just subscribe whenever I need it, and then let go".

(I know comparing to Netflix probably isn't the best idea.)

And for sure, the product itself can be improved to increase satisfaction and help with retention. No doubt about it, but that's a longer game and I have this feeling that right now we're pushing people away even when they're sufficiently happy.

I could very well be wrong, though.
Read this expecting the AI to be just mechanical turk all the way down, but (spoiler), it was pure vaporware. Nice to read a new angle on the problem!
I have little interest in debating politics, or being told how to vote, but I just wanted to reply to explain it's not like that here. Yes, some crazies exist on both sides. Perhaps more on the R side, probably, but I don't have the numbers.

The majority of both sides, yes even those scary evil republicans you speak of, are reasonable people. To paint one side by their best people, and another by their worst, is not an argument in good faith. I'm sorry whatever media you've consumed has misled you a bit.
It was massively popular in Ukraine and Russia in the 1990s.

I still remember the overcoat, the dog, and Culombo's wife, which has always been mentioned, but never shown.

I guess that's all I have to say for now starts to leave.

Opens the door back again

Now, just one more thing...
> The same thing you do every night: borrow money overnight in the interbank market. If this becomes a regular thing, liquidate some assets.

You don't have any assets in the scenario we're talking about. Nobody is going to lend you money, because you're not a bank, you're a sham scheme trying to start up a magic money-printer.

You can't disburse another institution or to cash without having some assets somewhere to back all of this up. Your balance sheet, ultimately, has to make sense. Your supposed bank here couldn't loan me money to buy a car, because the dealer isn't going to be happy with numbers on a ledger in my account at this bank, they want something harder.
> (Other scientists, Drs. Indy and Pendent):

> Certainly, the jury is out on the spread by children, but CDC acknowledges that vaccinated people carry about the same viral load as unvaccinated people, and that fully-vaccinated people are spreading Covid-19.

> (Public Health Officials Drs. Propa and Ganda):

> ANTI-VAXXER! Denialist! Well, maybe vaccinated people sometimes get symptoms, but the symptoms are way, way milder than they would’ve otherwise been.
Came here to say the same
The problem is running around the factory floor. I tried to solve that problem when I worked at Cutler-Hammer Automation years ago. Problem was no one was able to even conceive of doing things a different way - that's the way they've always done it. Now they're realizing they're too niche for the market to cater to? SMH
What I don't understand is, why has no company attempted to bring back private offices? Every time it comes up on HN (which is multiple times per year), hundreds of commenters say that they're distracted and less productive in an open-plan office.

What's the term for "Everyone thinks it's probably good, but no one wants to be the first to try it"?
There was a period of my life in which I was underinsured (catastrophic only). I ended up burning my foot badly enough that the nurse line insisted I do to urgent care. Three people walked in, looked at my foot, told me not to pop the blister. I walked away with two pain pills and a bill for $4,000 that I negotiated down to about $3200.

You’re sure as hell right that it was going to take something catastrophic for me to walk through those doors again.

Edit: I have a job that offers decent insurance now, but my immediate emotional reaction to healthcare in the United States is very negative (even though I quite like my doctor, dentist, etc). I believe our system is corrupted and abusive towards the poor.
There's definitely opportunity here, but at great - perhaps even prohibitive - complexity.

I'm not gonna sleep tonight, am I?
Trade crosses political boundaries all the time. Farmers want to sell their product, and hungry people want to buy them. This benefits both parties.
> The FSF. Their definition of Free Software is the accepted one.

Anyone can create their own organization with their own list of violations.

I happen to be in agreement with the FSF on most points, but not with regards to non-commercial licenses.
Because traditional authoritative sources that I would look to for guidance are completely out of date. From where I sit it looks to me like they are more focused on milking endowments than discovering what is happening in the real world.
> it would ultimately get taken to the Supreme Court

If the SCOTUS takes your case. Which it doesn't do often.
That is a very impressive demo! However, I don't see this as a job eliminator. I see this as a turbo button for some development tasks, like starting out and scaffolding an application. Notice that they still had to define "functions" that the neural net could then leverage, they had to speak in precise ways in a given order; it is a different way of coding, but still coding.
Alcohol and fast food are not infectious diseases that can spread through entire populations in a matter of weeks.
No, I addressed that. Ideally you stop the trolley or you untie people from the tracks. But if you can't, you have to choose where the trolley goes. Ideally we reopen the floors and have sufficient capacity to treat everyone. But if you can't do that, then you're making some judgment on who to treat.
it sounds like you are saying that a non-100% efficacy is still good enough, which most folks agree with
> Good collaborative travel software needs voting. It needs a way for teams of people to make wishlists and then helps determine which will work out the best.

A few years ago we built this exact thing for an airline that you have definitely heard of. I believe it ended up being shelved due to internal politics/shuffling, but it encompassed everything that you described except non-travel/lodging scheduling.

The problem with these kinds of systems is that you always end up having to declare one person the de facto dictator/organizer (which effectively mimics reality), and the whole experience is perhaps overkill for groups of less than 6 people who would likely just conduct the informal planning over an SMS group chat.
My best understanding is that if patients use insurance to pay for the device/visits, payment to the Drs office is predicated on the patient following the prescribed treatment.

In our case, we actually bought the cpap out of pocket. But because this is unusual (It cost us about 800 dollars) the doctor we went to pays a company that does treatment monitoring.

This company is paid based on the number of patients that are "in compliance" with their treatment plan, because this makes it easier to bill against insurance for the Drs office.

The monitoring company has a financial incentive to make sure patients are in compliance. The Drs office has a financial incentive to make sure patients are in compliance.

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Ironically - the thing that was actually needed was additional monitoring to tune pressure: it takes several readings over a few nights to manage pressure and keep bloating down and make sure it's not hard to breathe, while still ensuring that apnea events are in the acceptable range.

But additional monitoring is expensive - it requires clinician/doctor time. So there is little incentive to actually do this, in favor of forcing plan compliance.

Basically - My read of the situation is that the whole thing was rotten to the core. It had very little to do with patient comfort or health, and everything to do with maximizing insurance based revenue.
Because it has cloud features:

"#6: Leverage the cloud.
The basics of computing have changed since the advent of the CLI, and no change has been more profound than the rise of the internet. Once you start to think about it, there are a lot of leverage points: why is shell history limited by your local hard-drive? Why doesn’t your shell configuration follow you across machines? Why can’t you transfer a CLI session to the browser so you can keep working on the go? (Don't worry, though, Warp is local-first, and all cloud features will be opt-in. You can find out more in our privacy policy)."

https://blog.warp.dev/how-we-design-warp-our-product-philoso...
Why does everyone writing about this think this is going to force Apple to stop taking their 30% commission? I'll believe it when I see it but focusing specifically on the payments infrastructure seems misguided when what it seems people are really mad about is Apple's 30% cut.

It's just such an odd lawsuit when it seems like Apple can just be like, fine you can use Stripe, but we're still sending you a bill for 30% of your revenue generated on iOS.
It won’t be crazy expensive soon if the remote trends continue. In some cities probably we will see office space being converted into housing. Which, along with remote work, is a good thing on my book.
Deckbuilding algorithm for KeyForge is broken, game to go on hiatus
It renders almost unusably for me in Safari 14.

https://a.uguu.se/khPaNnDA.png
Product: Birch leaves minced - Bulk
Characteristic

Look and color: Green
Flavor: Bitter herbal
Nutrition 100 g: kJ 66 / Kcal 16,
total fat 0,2 g of which saturated fat 0 g,
Carbohydrate 3 g, of which sugar 1,8 g,
protein 7 g

16 kcal seems more reasonable.
Besides not using WiFi? If you want WiFi to work on your phone while lying in bed, then that requires Wifi signals in your bedroom. Also, remember that they are putting "smarts" into every appliance under the sun, including tea kettles. It is going to be a race to sell information about users from every manufacturer. Even if you go to zero smart devices, are your neighbors going to be less enlightened?