skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Covid Shot from China’s Clover Found 79% Effective Against Delta
I've used LiveView as it was meant to be used in a couple of small personal projects but in my latest (much larger) project I'm using it in a way that (given what I just read in this post) would make Chris' head spin.

Basically I'm using it as a container wrapper for a large React app and keeping all the state on the client. This is only for the app pages on the site, the rest of the pages are either traditional "deadviews" or LiveViews.

Why?

1. I have a lot of state. Its an accounting app and I want the UI to be zippy. Because I don't want to keep all that state on the server (per user connection) I would have to use temporary assigns to keep the server state small which means lots of queries and data shipping when searching/reordering/generating reports. Nothing beats only shipping the data once over the wire. And I do know about all the hacks to update local lists using components - that doesn't help when I need to use/display the same data in different ways.

2. While I love the expressiveness of Elixir the lack of a type system makes UI development/refactoring much slower for me as opposed to React+TypeScript. Note: I have several years experience in both Elixir and React+TypeScript over many projects so I don't come to this conclusion lightly.

3. Using LiveView is much nicer than using Channels since I can delegate common elements of the page to it instead of replicating it in React. Sort of a Russian nesting doll of rendering. Plus the LiveView is colocated with the other pages in the site which makes it more tidy.

4. I don't have to write an API - its just LiveView messages.

5. I don't care about SEO for the app pages (and explicitly don't want it indexed).

6. I'm using Elixir/Phoenix/Ecto for its best parts - supporting lots of websocket connections and hosting the core logic (and the non-app pages). I shudder at the thought of running a fleet of node apps to do the same.

I'm not sure why I wrote this other than to let folks know that LiveView can be used in ways that might not be obvious from an initial look.
While not opting out of most of the convenience the Apple ecosystem gives me, I did buy a GRIII and carry it along everywhere I go - together with an otherwise capable iPhone. The difference in optics and sensor really does show in print or when cropping.
> And what kind of program would your AI write?

I'm terrified of the day when the answer to that is, "a better AI".
> I do miss getting my text messages on my laptop.

I used to send and receive text messages all the time on Linux. I use email, but it works fine.
I think this is far too facile. It's like saying half your taxes go to government waste. I mean sure, OK, but how do you get rid of government waste? So far no one has been able to do it. So this is really an unwillingness to engage in the problem, which is absolutely endemic in the current discourse.

The key problem is that 20% of our GDP goes to healthcare, and similarly 20% of our population is employed in healthcare provision. This isn't just people sitting around doing nothing. It's nurses, doctors, administrators, etc. If you want to reduce healthcare costs in half, so that it is only 10% of GDP, then expect to throw 10% of the population out of work. That will include nurses, doctors, EMT personnel as well as administrators. Sure, you can try to shift that and fire a bit more administrators than nurses, but you will soon discover that's about as easy as eliminating government waste.

This inability to address the core issue arisies from people approaching these difficult problems in administration and systems science from a facile moral point of view. "it's wrong!" they say, to be given a big bill for a snake bite. Well, OK, it's wrong. But that same attitude will tell you "it's wrong" to fire a hard working nurse, or to reduce the pay of a doctor, etc. So now you are left with boogeymen like greedy insurance companies and fat cat CEOs. This is like the person who insists on a tax cut funded by reducing government waste. It's not a serious proposal. And what we have in the US healthcare debate is two sides, the first side is just lying and obfuscating (that is the side opposed to reform) and the second side is so bound in the chain of moralizing that they are unable to make any serious proposals. They can only go after the fat cats, and not the nurses. Thus their proposals will never work.

Same thing for education -- you need to fire most of the university staff and reduce the pay or fire many of the teachers. Same thing for all the difficult problems in life where we complain that things cost too much. It is not shadowy fat cats that are causing these problems, it is too many people employed in the provision of services who are earning too much. Ordinary professionals. The biggest problems of modern life are that professionals have too much power and are extracting too much from the society as a whole. Whether it is hospital workers or government workers or teachers, the issues of skyrocketing costs and bureaucratic bloat are very similar across these areas, and they cannot be solved by getting rid of shadowy fat cats or employees that "do nothing".
Officially the FDA and CDC say there have been 0 deaths from adverse events. I agree, that's way too neat of a number for the real world.
Yeah given Sleep's Dopesmoker is on spotify and clocks in over 58 minutes I'm not sure where this 7 minute limit comes from.
> There's FLStudio (or Bitwig, or Reaper) to match Apple's Logic

Plenty arguments against Logic, but these three are not in the same league.
Couple counter arguments.

1. Delta is spreading because it's more efficient as a virus.

2. Reaching the conclusion deaths are up from a couple small datasets isn't representative of the population.

3. We're under way less restrictions than last year. And too the authors point, vaccinated people are following less restrictive guidelines. But, I doubt he's arguing for more restrictions.

4. treatments are getting better so it's hard to calculate delta's true mortality rate.
Banks make money off fees for trading and loans (and complicated products that end up being a mix of the two). The recommendation business is mostly a marketing effort to drum up business. Their clients will be split roughly 50:50 on views on oil going or down. They don’t care. For every client losing money, another makes money too and has more money to spend on trading fees.

Banks used to be allowed to trade on their own accounts, but that was a massive invitation for abuse. This got at least massively scaled down, if not outright banned.

Sometimes investment banks do find themselves with an exposure they have to actively hedge; maybe they sold some complex product and it backfired on them, etc. But that’s rarer and a lot harder to game.
I wonder how useful The Solitare Encryption Algorithm would be here - https://www.schneier.com/academic/solitaire/
That is usually what password managers do.
Don't forget the long history of "Sherlocking." If you make a utility that enhances the experience enough, they'll simply imitate it and give you the middle finger.

Or a $99/year fee to give away FOSS projects...
Little to none as it's injected into the nozzle. Engines are designed to extract maximum energy from the propellant, so the expansion curve of the nozzile is made to direct exhaust directly aft with no further expansion. When you see a rocket taking off wth a plume bigger than the nozzle, that's lost energy, but unavoidable due to the changing pressure of the atmosphere. Once you're in orbit, you can use vacuum-designed engines. Youd' inject these into the nozzle further enough down that they go directly down and out, not to the sides. You don't need to inject them with very much force at all, just enough to keep it away from the injector and near wall. You can design it so that virtually none of the material ever hits the nozzle walls.
The last line gave me a chuckle.
Based on the Porch Pirate video, I wouldn't even be surprised to learn those squirrels were trained. :(
you can launch your own NFT collection. A link in the original artwork is enough to verify the authenticity.
Fun fact: it was consistently wrong that’d be just as useful.
Let’s hope so. The higher the oil price the less deaths due to cars.
indexing doesn't affect your ability actually write code

What! Of course it does. If it doesn’t impact coding at all, what is it for?
We can discuss that scenario when it happens. Currently we aren't there and it isn't obvious to me that the current algorithm can get there.

> Hopefully, at one point you reach GPT-3 level performances where it is able to imagine programs for tests it never saw.

You mean nonsense programs just like GPT-3 generates nonsense articles? GPT-3 doesn't remember the logic in its sentences, and in order to solve programming competition problems you need to translate logic from human text into code.

I agree that it might be possible to get something useful this way, but until it actually works I'll doubt it will work. There is just way too much coherence required that doesn't seem to be there yet, and from what I've seen the coherence problem gets exponentially worse as you get larger problems.
> sees a legitimate use case for a blockchain

I'm still waiting....
I was actually just searching for this same thing on Google. I recently started a new project that LiveView would have been great for, but the fact that I need a native iOS/Android app caused me to go with Socket.IO instead for the backend. It seems likely to me that there is a way to use Phoenix channels with web, iOS, and Android.. but there isn't a lot of good information on doing it that I've been able to find.

Edit: I realize you could just use regular web sockets with Phoenix to do what Socket.IO does. But my confusion comes from actually getting it all to play nice with a LiveView front end, as well as a native app front end.
This applies perfectly to every HN discussion about "the old web". The gaudy artifacts of that time are now iconic landmarks of a more innocent era that we can never experience again.

- visitor counters

- "under construction" banners

- marquee scrolling text banners

- Sign my guestbook / View my guestbook

- "this site uses frames" / "best viewed on Netscape 4.0"
Yes, the only downside I can think of is if you have an HSA (which anyone that can afford max out of pocket limit should), then you generally cannot have FSAs also unless they are Limited Purpose FSAs and then it gets too complicated for my tastes. I generally do not like the concept of FSAs period, being employer owned, and having to use up funds by the end of the year and all.
Medicare reimbursement levels are sufficient to support most medical practices. They charge more because they can, not because they have to. If reimbursement levels are cut then they'll find ways to improve efficiency, and then cut salaries.

Is there a reason that US doctors should get paid significantly more than their peers in other developed countries?

https://www.medscape.com/slideshow/2019-international-compen...
I worked for a non-profit, and it was largely the same, minus the chasing profits part. The salary was lower, and perhaps the negative impact was smaller, but I did not feel a positive impact at all. It still felt like I was largely feeding and validating the same processes.

I don't know about others, but I just don't feel like I am designed for living the same schedule day in, day out, week in, week out, year in, year out, until I look back on it and wonder, where did all the time go?

And you know what, that feeling has gone away for me. I don't remember the last time I felt that "time is slipping away" feeling. In fact, I often feel the opposite: Things which happened just a day or two ago feel like several weeks have passed, and time has stretched out.
Then OP is choosing to do that themselves, not a big deal, but yea, sounds about right if you don't have paste or stencils. I've done a 3212 component board in 6 hours with handheld reflow. It's possible.
I would call this a language issue as you need to understand the various abstractions and how they interact which is endemic to almost all languages, ideally a language would type system to express resource usage
> Non profits can be as greedy as any other organization.

The term ‘non-profit’ is one I find hilarious. With the smoke and mirrors of accounting and standard insurance company behaviour it can mean anything.

The directors can get bonuses, the cars can be upgraded and the conferences/holidays can get more impressive. It’s surprising that ‘non-profit’ doesn’t generate an eye-roll in more people.
Oops, yes, LXC.
Epic, Steam, and Framework should team up to build a user centric phone which runs Arch not Android and runs all their games.
I've tried to get into Phoenix a few different times, but I've always been stymied by the unfamiliarity of Elixir's syntax, especially codebases that made heavy use of composition and guard clauses, meaning that the business logic was scattered across a half-dozen different files which had to be read in sequence to understand a single web request. This was a big let-down from the (to my mind) very straight-forward nature of MVC code and project structure that Rails pioneered. Do you have any tips for structuring Phoenix projects or approaching these kinds of codebases?
> How can you possibly know how much you should be paid if you both don't know how much other people are paid, and you don't have access to the books?

Surveys & data on job sites, staying plugged into places like this where people discuss salaries semi-anonymously, getting to the offer stage at other companies and seeing what they propose. It's not a perfect strategy, but I'd rather have individual agency over giving companies an excuse to level salaries.
Not really the same. They switched from a proprietary platform to a free platform. That is a much larger jump than simply switching proprietary platforms with much larger costs and gains. They wanted control and switched to get it, whereas you just swapped out landlords.
Onboarding fees maintain a buy-side for the network token until true network utilization catches up. The original article is an example of network utilization literally catching up.

How did they arrive at $40 I'm not too sure. It seems like a moderate amount?
Funny but that is exactly where my brain went too, it was like "Wow, that is some serious market validation."
Forecasting transformative AI with biological anchors
Then it sure sounds like what they have is a proof of private keys algo, and not a proof of coverage algo. In which case why bother with a blockchain at all if there's a singular central entity that is the arbiter of all trust?
There are lots of ways to do this. Interviews with other companies are certainly a high-effort but valid strategy.

The easier route:

* Lots of web sites report aggregate salary information by profession and location. Often these are not to be trusted because {algorithms and marketing} but can still be a useful data point.

* Look for job listings with compensation information in them.

* In-person networking with your peers in other companies. Every decent-size city has meetups for developers and other tech professionals. Not everyone is going to be willing to share what they make with a near-complete stranger (especially if friends are nearby) but some might. This is pretty much the only time I would voluntarily share my earnings with another person besides my wife. There's no reason for me to fib, and unless I'm being profiled for identity theft or something, there are no downsides.

* Virtual networking, a.k.a. join a Slack, Discord, or other kind of forum with people like you and just ask what someone with your experience and skills should make. Since you (probably) don't know any of these people, there is little consequence.

These are all data points to gather and consider in combination in order to arrive at some kind of ballpark figure. You don't have to show any of your research to your employer, but trust me when I say that it's a crucial step because your employer absolutely does already have a very good idea of what you are worth to them. This is data for you to make sure your number is accurate.
I mean, all recorded music was lo-fi before the invention of hi-fi (which is mostly a marketing term, but you can probably set it some time around the invention of full spectrum speakers, and electronic microphones and amplification)
It's best to just go. Once you've accepted the counter offer you've already indicated to your superiors that you're ready to leave
Google just bought a pretty expensive office though..
Did you self-medicate, or were you under the direction of a medical doctor?
Well said, I'm a big fan of the pragmatic approach as well. But, for some reason we (people generally, including myself often) need to overcomplicate.
The data look fully immutable, which means no cycles, so I'd bet on some form of reference counting being used for garbage collection (though I haven't looked closely). As for memory safety, there are just five well-encapsulated uses of unsafe in the whole repository; you can inspect them and decide for yourself :)
First, you'd be surprised how many people we can support. Like we could likely support more than a trillion people on Earth. The population of a full Dyson Swarm around our Sun likely caps out in the quadrillions, possibly quintillions.

Second, it's entirely valid to ask the question of whether we'd ever reach such populations. This is of course unknown. As a solution to the Fermi Paradox, the idea of reaching a steady state (or even shrinking to a fragment) seems unsatisfying as a 100% outcome. Once again, it only takes 1 to keep growing and become detectable.

A lot of things are likely to change in the next millenium, for example:

1. I expect we will live much, much longer than we do now;

2. Automation will increase to the point where labour is highly unlikely to be the limiting factor in any kind of industrial output. That leaves resources and energy as the limiting factors. Well, resources are just a proxy for energy. There are several rocky bodies in the Solar System that could, given enough energy, provide unimaginable amounts of raw materials;

3. Despite the wealth of developed nations, we are still living in an era of relative resource scarcity. Individuals in developed nations are certainly generally more prosperous than those in developing nations but it's expensive to raise children in developed nations the way most parents want to raise them: paying for education, housing, etc.

I'm not comfortable making the prediction than the modern trend of having relatively few children per individual in the developed world will continue into an era of longer lives, far more abundance and being freed from the need to work their entire lives to set up those children.

Lastly, there are some very obvious applications for huge amounts of energy, for example:

1. Extracting resources;

2. Vast amounts of computing power. What would you do with this? We haven't been good at predicting this other than to say that more bandwidth and more computing power has thus far always found applications that people want. One obvious one is I suspect we'll have VR worlds that people will basically live in on a scale we can't possibly yet imagine;

4. Interstellar travel; and, of course

5. Cryptocurrency mining. :)
Having a gmail address is important to not stick out.

https://www.itstactical.com/intellicom/mindset/gray-man-stra...
I agree that the collective opinion on HN seems to be that crypto is pretty much only used for illegitimate use. I think it's great to see a government official directly challenging that assumption.
Isn't the whole point of a primary care that a doctor chooses a 'limited' number of patients for whom they can make themselves available ?

I usually keep myself open to any doctor in my primary care location, outside the one person I see on a regular basis.

I don't see why you'd want to see a different doctor every time, if that means making sure insurances are sorted out, transferring all my media reports over to the new practice and building a new rapport with that doctor.
Well, maybe "constant speed" is a bad wording.

An example:

We have 1000 stars within the 30 light year radius neighborhood. Traveling at Voyager 1 speed, it takes half a million years to do a 30 light year trip. [1]

Given another half a million years for bootstrapping at the destination for ten more probes, we can send ten more probes, 1 million years from the launch of the first one. At two million years we get 100 probes.

How many probes do we get in a 11 million years? 10^11 probes. We have 10^11 stars in the galaxy.

Dinosaurs roamed the earth aleady 200 million years ago, and died in the mass extinction 65 million years ago. 20 to 5 million years ago was the Miocene, when life was pretty close to modern already. [2]

It's really the nature of exponential growth that makes things seem instantaneous compared to celestial phenomena or evolution. Colonizing the galaxy, even with abysmally slow speeds, is possible, because of the magic of exponentials.

(Certainly this has a lot of assumption, like that you can bootstrap, or that the probe survives the trip. Anyway, optimal probes would be a lot faster and bigger, and there would be more of them. This was just to tie in with something concrete that we know we can do, as Voyager 1 really is out there traveling at 15 km/s, as are Voyager 2, Pioneers and New Horizons probes.)

1: https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=+30+light+years+%2F+vo...

2: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miocene
So, this seems like a reasonable upgrade from the Surface Book form factor... where you end up leaving half your laptop behind, or have to disconnect and reconnect it upside down.

It seems like a decent approach, but will be interesting to see if the design takes off for other OEMs, or ends up dying out like the detachable did.
> nor deal with Bandcamp.

Curious what's wrong with dealing with Bandcamp? They seem just about the best place to buy music online. Majority of the money goes to the actual artist and you have a good choice of formats.
No defense was given. I was simply correcting an incorrect statement the way it was written to make it factually accurate.

I also predicated it with

> Not saying she didn't give him info
Facebook's Ray-Ban Stories Glasses have got a problem
Next YC batch to include:

leak-AB-ly:
AB test your emails to see who is leaking.

Secures 10m in funding, with a valuation of 10bn.

Can’t make this shit up.
Non-sterilizing mRNA vaccines are biologics, which have separate regulations and distinct intellectual property protections in national laws and international trade treaties.
Every update I need two reboot twice to get the google drive system extension to load, but that’s the only issue I’ve had like that.

However big sur runs alright on my 2015 MacBook!
I never understood why that sort of list wasn’t just a hosts file. But I wasn’t really involved in the SLFP world; maybe it didn’t support hosts files?

I guess my POV is that before DNS was introduced, the Internet had a hosts file you were expected to keep up to date, and after DNS, if you didn’t have DNS, what you had wasn’t quite “the Internet”.
I agree. It’s worth noting that Epstein was already convicted of having sex with a minor prior to Gates meeting with him.