skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You are making an amazingly important point. If one accepts "all models are wrong, some are useful" then it fairly directly follows that cognitive dissonance is essential and irreducible and when one encounters it maybe examine one's models? Aka how and why one thinks and feels?

Zen shout-out: This is non-dualism in another guise, and a key Zen practice is to confront irreducible dissonance and batter yourself against it until you are forced to develop and internalize higher-order cognitive and emotional models that can represent contradictions and reason/feel over them to produce useful results.
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My understanding is that "healthcare" in the sense of going to the Doctor doesn't impact life expectancy all that much. Public health on the other hand - think drinking/smoking/driving/diet/exercise/suicide - has a bigger hand to play. Somewhere else in this thread there was also mention of the potentially large effect of the way that you measure infant mortality.
cPanel could probably included, it's nearly on all web hosts.
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Virtual presentation from Tony Seba to the Council of State Governments on the occasion of the CSG East 2021 Annual Meeting.

In-depth exploration of the upcoming changes over the next decade.
Any mainstream news article that just discusses vaccinated and unvaccinated status but also ignores natural immunity is a great reminder that big Pharma has extreme power.

Un-scientifically ignoring natural immunity is a key difference I see between European and American media. (then I’m reminded that pharmaceutical advertisements are mostly what comprises advertising segments on these news stations.)
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Salaries are always considered the cost of doing business, so I'm not sure what your point is here. What is important is that many people can't wrap their head around the fact that this additonal 1200 PLN which is labeled as "employer contribution" to social security is in fact part of their salary. So people do not realize that their tax burden is 40%, they think it is just 29%.

Also, to make it worse, once you get your 4300 PLN salary into your bank account, you pay on average 16% VAT on every purchase (8-23%, depending on the item bought). So in reality your net salary is 4300*0.84 = 3612, making total tax burden almost 50%.
On the other hand, wherever you had a compatible bios and processor it was easy to run DOS and CP/M on it. This made both systems very popular until ibm-compatible became the standard and apps wouldn’t run on anything else.
For the same reason you don't have a compiler already installed on commercial UNIXes, it is extra revenue for the platform owner and regular users don't need it.
While everyone else was saying learn Node, PHP is dead, and all that stuff on here - I ran the other way and learned PHP.

No regrets because the last few years, never has an ecosystem been so bright.
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Previous thread from 2012: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4969041
F# and Type Classes
Grml had a bit of a gap between the december 2018 release and the june 2020 release.
well, sure looks like you've grasped it. I'll certainly ponder it. But for the record it did not immediately help me in trying to solve the central riddle of the axiom: that the speed of light from a single light source is supposedly the same for all its observers irrespective of their respective speeds relative to the source. I.e. that the observed speed of light coming from our sun would be observed to be e, and an extremely fast spaceship travelling away from the sun would observe the speed of the suns light to be e, too.

Here is one aspect of the conundrum: a certain photon travelling at the speed of light from the sun reaches the earth, which is relatively stationary vs the sun, in approx 8 minutes. It will obviously reach our rocket (which at the moment the photon was fired from the sun was at the same distance as the earth from the sun) some time later, depending on its relative speed to the sun. However, once the photon hits the spaceship it supposedly has the same speed as the speed of light hitting the earth.

I realize this axiom seems to have been experimentally proven, and that I probably just have not found the right key for me towards the understanding of it. Looking forward to that day, which might also lead me to understand how to fit the fact that the blueshift/redshift observed in light allows us to actually determine relative velocities. As well as understand how the expansion of space is a different kind of speed than normal speeds, allowing for the speeds greater than light that it does.

In the meantime I find some solace in the fact that I'm not the only one to find this bizarre - hence that whole linked article as I understand it. But thanks for your effort.
In my case, I was referring to developer productivity. In my experience, this is, by far, the most important limiting factor in any software project
Have you heard of the Arian heresy [1]? It was THE major debate in the early church and it was centered on whether Jesus and god were the same substance (Homoousia) or somehow on a different level (as advocated by Arius). The Nicene Creed (325 AD) established homoousia as a necessary principle on being Christian. This was very political — the emperor Constantine got personally involved.

So, in the context of this recent event, imagine Jerome translating the lord's prayer and dealing with a word that appears to imply multiple levels of substance. Rather than encouraging more heresies, he used a colloquial translation.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arian_controversy
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I am guessing that market share is defined such that each domain backed by a wordpress instance (wordpress being written in php) is counted as one share, and gmail.com is counted as one share (or worse, because the survey cannot programmmatically determine what language gmail.com is written in, it is not represented at all in the count).

I doubt more than 25% of the hours spent by programmers on software that runs on web servers is spent on PHP code.
I don't think "ritual punishment" is a fair way to describe what's happening to the cheaters who did not expect to get caught but now are. As described in the article, few people face actual punishment even after being called out for egregious cheating by these services. People who cheat at the scale required to fake a doctors thesis or fabricate data are extremely damaging to society.
Legitimate question, will Uber shut down it's Dutch operations now? Will this cost them more money than it's worth to operate there, and would they shutdown to send a message to other nations about there intent should similar rulings be made?

Uber's margins have always been super thin, I would imagine this makes them squarely unprofitable in the Dutch market.
>When the deep value creators are fighting for attention/views against "view efficiency optimizers", the deep value loses out, making it harder for them to make a living.

I understand that, and like you said, it's a hard problem to solve - and it's not a new problem. TV networks experienced the same thing, and that's why part of their models are successfully replicated by Youtubers.

Edutainment is a good example of it, where you could engage the audience into learning while they have fun. So it seems like there's a mid term where education and entertainment feed off each other and pleases a wider audience - and back then the only algorithm was zapping.

Because for the vast majority, probably, deep value is "boring", and that might even be amplified by the motivation behind using Youtube (which I dare to say is mostly for entertainment).

Even for those who find entertainment and extreme value from "deep value creators", they might need to set a bit of time to be engaged to consume that content, and in the end if their "CPM" is not as valuable as other audiences "CPM" (because they engage less with ads, use adblockers, spend less money after engaging with ads, etc), the creator will get less value from those views... and that's just one of those things: it is what it is.

You can't "blame" the audience, or the content creator, or even Youtube.

In the end this revolves around value transactions. Maybe a solution is for the content creator to try to harvest the value from his "deep value created" directly from the audience since Youtube might not be getting that value out of them.
You'll typically hear it referred to as 'curved grading'. It's not uncommon, and it's typically justified as many students would fail if the class wasn't curved.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norm-referenced_test

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> I was just talking about if we were working kids too hard or something

We are, the internet isn't helping. If you haven't read it, [0] is a fantastic piece showing the anxieties of modern studying. I see it as similar to how gaming has changed over the past ~20 years, the 'best' strategies have been democratized, and the general bar for skill is much higher. This is fantastic if your goal for education is a better educated workforce, and destructive if you're using academic success as a differentiator.

[0] https://every.to/cybernaut/caught-in-the-study-web
Does zipapp automatically bundle dependencies, or do you need to specify that somehow? Also, how does this handle native extensions?

Edit: Answered by first question: https://docs.python.org/3/library/zipapp.html#creating-stand...
This is a meaningless argument, because the same could be said for any currency.
why tho? there are credit cards that give you 2% cash back. might as well just use a credit card, get your cash back, liquidate your litecoin and pay off your bill.
I am speaking as the citizen of a country that is the source of immigrants for western Europe, Romania. According to Wikipedia we have the fifth-highest emigrant population in the world, I would estimate a fifth to a quarter of the population. The criminals are extremely over represented in the emigrated population - mostly pimps, prostitutes, thieves, drug dealers. I will not make an estimation of percentage, but they are significant. Please do note the difference between "significant" and "majority".

Now coming back to your comment. Firstly it is not about racism, we are Caucasian. Secondly we are discriminated abroad and while it is unfortunate for me whenever I travel or work I completely understand it. Our criminals did a lot of harm. That is why I said a filter would have been better for them and us also.
Solidity has very very little in common with javascript other than they were both quickly put together languages full of weird spots, and both fairly successful.

Solidity is much closer to being C's mentally challenged grandchild than is to javascript.
A search, right now, on Upwork does the following:

PHP - 12316 jobs

Ruby - 1175 jobs

Java - 5902 jobs

Python - 10051 jobs

.NET - 2353 jobs

Adding a few of the others:

C# - 2562 jobs (I suspect those .NET also can be interchanged with C#)

C++ - 1711 jobs

Go - 3925 jobs

Rust - 382 jobs

Feel free to double check my results. Like it or not, Upwork is the largest freelancer site.
Which is why I refuse to use it, and use vcpkg.
Pretty irrelevant. They could hire one trader to manage the inventory in real time and have effectively no market risk.
Note that the specification (what you prove correctness of the implementation against) already grows with the number of interactions.
There are all sorts of things you could blame, but saying 'we have no choice' when you do have a choice is disingenuous.

As for not requiring a nursing mandate, if the need is great enough, I could see bringing nurses-in-training to work, or putting on nursing boot-camps to allow someone to do the lowest-level nursing things. I don't claim to have thought about this deeply or to really understand the ramifications, though. I also think that the nurses who say "I'm dead tired, but I need to be back tonight or your life is on the line" need to take a break anyways -- it is like in airplane videos when they say to put on your oxygen mask before you put one on someone else.

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If we are concerned about the nurses being sick -- they are the ones who understand best what it means and how bad it can get. If we are concerned about the nurses making the populace sick, it is worth remembering that being vaccinated doesn't stop you from catching and spreading the disease.
I had an elaborate batch-file based scheme for swapping in different versions of both autoexec.bat and config.sys, depending on what I needed/wanted to do.

It sucked.
Hmmm...if only I could have rights of a child.
Nextcloud won’t change to the new, go ownCloud codebase. There are two separate and competing companies behind each product now. Nextcloud also has client side encryption as a commercial add-on, that sort of is a big deal.
How does it compare to Nim's Weave thread manager?
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>>You can count number of Perl scripts out there and conclude that Perl is still the most popular scripting/devops tool in the world

Perl is still heavily used. I wrote more than 2K lines just last week, lots of it is throwaway. But hey not many languages make it easy for you to write thousands of lines of throwaway code in hours.

It's still the most useful language in the backend/unix world. This comes from me, who actually writes lots of Python code. But I wouldn't use Python where I use Perl. It would just make me slow and it wouldn't get the job done just as well as Perl.

It's not used as frequently for web dev, or other places where Java is used. But it's very good at what it does. Glue language for the Unix world.
I don’t know, nobody needs more the 640k of RAM, right?

Maybe you have multiple modules, and depending on the configuration the routing changes. Or feature flags, that enable a breaking api change. Or a stupid customer that pays you a million dollar for custom routes.

But what benefit do the attributes bring? You need to learn them by heart, on builders Intellisense can help you.
Just like work from home vs returning to the office.
Holy crud, literally everything about this is terrible, from the motivation/phrasing, to the "market" it's a part of, to the followup research about using VR to torture people, to the technical merits of the patent itself.

Rare to find an article that so efficiently touches on so many simultaneous points of awfulness.

I realize it's only one aspect of the article, but it's tough to talk about patent reform when stuff like this that is so obviously not a real invention is still so regularly slipping through the system. There's a real conversation to be had about how much of a patent monopoly we should be granting businesses for legitimate patents, but there's an even bigger conversation to be had about how we ended up with a patent office that's willing to rubber-stamp everything they're handed. Under the current system we have today this patent shouldn't have been granted, it's not a novel invention. That's not even a reform problem it's an... I don't know, caring problem? A lack of review problem?
If you're so certain that ivermectin doesn't do anything for COVID-19 then you ought to let the NIH know. They're currently running a huge clinical trial on it.

https://www.nih.gov/research-training/medical-research-initi...

You might also want to let these researchers know that you disagree with their results

https://www.mdpi.com/1999-4915/13/6/989
i wonder how much they profit on this announcement alone... probably enough to make it worth to (or pretend to) try anyhow.
The whole point of his book is that if there are proper functioning markets is that these conversations are not actually effective. Compared to a system of mercantilism that he was opposing.
What kind of EEE do they currently do? Outside of GH, I don’t even see them having any kind of position dominant enough to extinguish anything and GH doesn’t seem to have shifted in any way since MS bought them, they were "value add on top of git" before and are still now.
> Freedom of Speech != Freedom of Consequence

This is becoming rather a tedious thought-terminating cliché in some circles. They rarely specify who should determine the consequences and which consequences are acceptable, which is usually exactly what's being discussed.

As in this case, where the discussion is whether losing one's job is an acceptable consequence when your beliefs lead you to action, inaction, or speech someone in power doesn't like.
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> "I really don't get why PHP is not more liked in hacker circles"

To me PHP is an ugly language, with heaps of quirks and weird api's. The way it mixes markup and logic is gross.

That being said, I do like some parts of it. The way you compose pages by just writing "include" is nice. The way the server spins up processes for every request like a micro-service is nice.

PHP does have an elegant simplicity that many languages and frameworks lack these days...
The reason for that though is that it has changed so much that your old experience is hardly relevant because it is so different now. The Old PHP world and the New PHP world are hardly recognizable as the same thing.
Perhaps you'd care to explain why it's such a silly assumption?
...hard enough.

Which often means hard enough to have your eyes shut all the way.
No one outside this website cares about privacy.
Why Litecoin? The bitcoin fork that added nothing and who's creator cashed out at the 2017/2018 peak?

Source code is still up, nothing has really happened there in a long time:

> This branch is 227 commits ahead, 10838 commits behind bitcoin:master.
Double blind technique should eliminate a lot of these confounders, eg if you don’t know whether or not you’ve received the vaccine, your behavior presumably wouldn’t change much. However that is admittedly harder with the MRNA vaccines since most people have some mild side effects after the second dose.
Imo their Lumia phones (and the accompanying OS and new UI philosophy) were also something special, and I say that as a hater of those products earlier on (i.e. before I got to know them better). It's a shame that those phones didn't catch on.
I expect them to hire an intermediary company for handling the litecoin wallets, and converting it instantly into USD on walmarts bank accounts.
Well yeah, this is what Darth Vader did to heal his extensive burns and lacerations in his Meditation Chamber.
Check out https://www.oracle.com/cloud/free/#always-free . I tried to write a comparison https://gitlab.com/ptman/matrix-docs/-/tree/master/free-matr... . Also check out https://free-for.dev/#/
I see Cisco with a few years of 15% net income profit margin from 1998 to 2000 (they do not have any reports before that on their website). And Ericcson is in the single digit ranges around 7%. Cisco actually got more profitable and since at least 2006 has been in the 20% range.

Apple has been in 20%+ range for over a decade, Alphabet in the 25% range, Microsoft is hitting 30% regularly, and Facebook is at nearly 40% for the last 5 years.

For Amazon, I can only assume investors are factoring in huge profit margins for AWS since it seems to be singlehandedly marching Amazon’s profit margins from near 0% to 6% in the last 6 or 7 years.

Feels like a different level of profit than in previous decades.
You can check Awesome lists on github, you can find good content there.

e.g.
https://github.com/vityavv/awesome-youtube
Calling what you describe DRM is pretty deceptive. Can you get access to DRM-ed materials by promising to share them freely under an open license?

That said I'm surprised by what you describe as I'm struggling to understand how that works -- you're saying the Linux kernel has a secret API, surely one can read the source and/or documentation and find the API details. Or are you saying calls to kernel APIs are cryptographically protected? Could you give details of what this system is called, thanks.
I think it’s less that they block this (as much as us powerusers might prefer them not to), and more that they decided they obviously deserve to be exempt.
I suppose a large percentage of this number is related to Wordpress.
“Modernity” is no replacement for maturity and mindshare.
I am not a practitioner, so I have no idea if this is actually plausible, but it would seem absurd to me for an experimental, out-of-left-field treatment for Alzheimers, in a <10 person study, could be denied a control group on ethical grounds. There are tens if not hundreds of millions of Alzheimer's patients not receiving this potential treatment already.
Stefan-Boltmann talks about emission per surface area. So... increase the surface area. We're not limited to a sphere.

The same problem crops up when you're talking about moon bases and so on - you've got the same problem of venting heat from an ecosystem into a vacuum. For that situation, one of the solutions that got designed out was to basically spray an oil mist across a gap, catch it, and recycle it into the cooling system. As a fine mist, the oil has a colossal surface area compared to its mass, and all that surface area can radiate heat off into the vacuum.

So... scale that up? I realise it's a hell of a leap, to go from human-scale to humanity-scale, and I don't know exactly what it would need to look like, but limitless energy is a hell of a springboard.
Given the amount of stuff people keep publishing for UNIX terminals, I would say plenty love to live in the past.
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"Should I kill myself?"

"I think you should."

Some sadists may of course have that "gut response" because they're sadists, but which human would respond that way by mistake?!?
Em... You are very wrong in your own example. Wikipedia, Facebook, and Pornhub use PHP.

Technically though, Facebook uses Hack, a more strictly-typed customized version of PHP for their own uses, but Hack is still mostly compatible with PHP and until recently could process any PHP file directly.
Unfortunate consequence of a legacy legal system. Uber drivers are clearly neither quite like employees nor are they entrepreneurs, and the law should come up with a fitting category that ensures they are protected from exploitation but continue to enjoy some of the freedoms associated with the gig economy.
This guy's terrible conduct and horrifyingly bad science throughout the pandemic should permanently discredit him from ever getting published again.

Seriously, his cherry picking of bad studies in order to intentionally misestimate the fatality rate of COVID 19 was bad enough that every single paper he has been on should be reevaluated.

I know that I will never trust a single paper I see from him again. He has exposed himself as a fraud, openly, and in the public. I have even lost a good chunk of respect for his peers at Stanford for not banding together to denounce him more. He may be incredibly famous in the field, but if enough people work together they could have put a stop to his behavior sooner.
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It is spelled Ethereum.
Under your system, would attempting to sell/license the patent to someone else count as effort-to-utilize?
Or the domain as having PUP so people visiting get a warning and hoops to jump through.
It's even more funny looking at the commit itself. Thanks for the pointer!

Although technically speaking, it's a contre-casse!
Code compilation has saved me so many headaches that would have otherwise been discovered in production, so I can't say I agree with you there. That said the languages I compile also take 15 seconds so I don't experience that 40 minute compilation times some people have and that would probably sour my experience a bit. The language I'm talking about is Elixir fwiw.