skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Your example, while potentially leading to a lower salary, is not actually an argument against public salary information, unless you assume the goal is universally higher salaries... Which, in your example, you explicitly state is not the goal of the worker... The prior is, in my opinion, generally the safer assumed goal.

Regardless, yes, more information yields the possibility of incorrect analysis, but I don't think that it's obvious that the information in this instance, the salaries of one's peers, would be of such complexity that knowing it would result in frequent misinterpretation to the detriment of the worker. In fact, given the stated goals of the worker in your example, even they use such information to their own (personal) moral, if not their financial, benefit.
>Under that model, providers bear much of the financial risk.

Actually, practices currently bear the risk already, because they are subject to reimbursements unless they are cash-paying. Remember, the patients are regularly not the bill payors - the Payors are actually insurance companies/medicare/or, rare HMOs out of the area.

> They might receive a single bundled payment for a joint replacement including all follow-up care, with penalties for failing to meet clinical quality measures

Certain medical interventions like cancer treatment or joint replacement may require a long tail of treatment, counseling, physical therapy, aftercare, global periods, etc.

The applicability of that is fairly limited since many things do not trigger a global, and don't fit into this definition.
I don't think that vicious cycle exists. I was immediately productive with Rust, but OK, that's just an anecdote. Surveys such as Stackoverflow's Developer Survey show Rust usage growing rapidly.

If I met someone who took years to be productive with Rust, I would conclude they lack aptitude for programming. Maybe harsh, but probably true.
I don't think you can put this genie back in the bottle. The US is a corporation cooperative and the banks are already in crypto and only raising their holdings.

Even if the US bans it, it just moves the market more into the dark. Ransomware will still happen and still require crypto payment. The only difference is the hoops companies will do to acquire this crypto in a semi-legal way (probably by using multinational entities to route payments).
> Very few individuals are responsible for key advancements of civilization.

Is this true? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heroic_theory_of_invention_and...

Another example is the Finnish education system aiming to raise the floor instead of increasing the ceiling.

I can think of counterexamples in Hungarian mathematicians: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Martians_(scientists)

A lot of them knew each other growing up, but you could argue they would've succeeded anywhere.

If this question were more carefully explored I think it'd do a lot for the author's argument as a whole.
I'm surprised I hadn't seen this in the list, but my money is on Response to Second-Wave Crisis.

In the first wave of COVID-19, we saw which companies could handle the work-from-home crisis and which did poorly. Ultimately, though, a lot of people didn't feel like they could move jobs because suddenly they needed job security as well.

In the current wave of COVID-19, at least in the US, we saw the same crisis management play out, but now the market has adjusted to remote work. The idea of going through an entirely remote interview process didn't seem as foreign after a year of Zoom meetings. People were more willing to look, and with vaccination more willing to explore.

Potentially as well, a lot of folk might just want something new. Novel experiences are lower right now because of safety measures, so the idea of staring at a screen with different problems is a little more exciting.
That's honestly really scary and I never thought of that.
Yes, the entire business model is Google offering a service to everyone, hiring the bare minimum number of moderators, automate most moderation, and treat the <0.001% of people caught in the cross-fire as as a negligible loss.
I don't disagree with you, I use Apple gear (plus one nice Chromebook and 2 Linux laptops) but I use iCloud, Google Drive, and Microsoft OneDrive. For sensitive backups, I ZIP + password protect my financial records, consulting client work materials when they ask me to keep copies for future support, etc.

I love messing around with my Linux laptops (and Chromebook with Linux container support), but for my main digital life, the integrations of Apple Watch + iPhone + iPad + MacBook Pro are the best option for me.

I would like to see a wider ecosystem and I keep hoping that Microsoft keeps improving the Windows experience and Linux distress keep improving.

EDIT: I am also a fan of Google, with some restrictions: I turn off all data collection settings except for music and YouTube for 30 days, and GCP for forever. PRIVACY IS POWER: you put yourself in a better position vs. corporations (and governments) if you take sensible privacy precautions.
“If you're happy with what you're getting, are you being exploited?”

Yes you are exploited if you don’t know what would be possible.
You said capital investment will be redirected elsewhere (where?). Your links disagree with what you said. The oil majors may restrain spending, they may cancel projects. They don't direct capital spending elsewhere. If oil prices are so low that they pull back on capital spending, they stop spending and cut costs in their operations, they don't redirect their spending. Wall Street redirects industry capital investment in that climate, oil companies do not.

You were talking about price volatility, which I referenced as oil going from $72 to $90 back to $72. What you're now suggesting wasn't mere price volatility, that was an extreme crash, caused by a brief global economic shut-down which sent prices to a multi-generational low. Which is why your links are so Covid era heavy in relation to that one-time event. That's like pretending WW2 is a common occurrence and projecting industrial behavior based on it.

If oil crashes to $20, Exxon doesn't redirect their capital spending elsewhere. They aggressively stop spending.

The oil majors all hedge price volatility. They're very used to dealing with price volatility. It's central to their business operations. What they don't do, is stop being oil companies, they don't redirect their capital investment to becoming farmers or car manufacturers or investing in tech companies just because the price of oil is lower by $20 or $30.
“ Please don't post insinuations about astroturfing, shilling, brigading, foreign agents and the like. It degrades discussion and is usually mistaken. If you're worried about abuse, email hn@ycombinator.com and we'll look at the data.”
Hacker news is not social media. I have never recognized a user/username in between two sessions. And I would probably miss the mythical PG if he showed up in a thread. I don't know his handle anyways. Sometimes I'm made aware that a relevant "celebrity" is present in the thread but that's when people act obviously star struck like "oh thank you for that seminal paper back in '15".

So nothing social going on here, just weird/interesting discussions between persons x, y, z, i, j and k.

Edit: I just noticed that some usernames are green. I don't know what that signifies and I do not want to know.
I don't - all I know is that the bootloader is unlocked and it has a few recommended options. Agree with you that it's neat in theory, but am waiting for the first reviews before I plunk down cash.
No, it's intended that a rewards user can turn off ads. Some users who turn off ads then self-fund (via a custodian such as Gemini) to support their favorite sites and creators, even automatically via private browser-only analytics (so-called Auto-contribute mode).
Ive seen gaming companies missing deadlines over and over and they didn't even have to invent the computers they had to run on
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Thanks, I found what I was wanting to post in my list but couldn't verify it. And that is that WashingtonPost.com is listed as a Brave Creator.

https://bravebat.info/creators/website/31382
do you still have access to support if your account is locked?
The civil war in Yugoslavia was the result of independence referendums after one party rule ended. It was the result of "democracy". This old idea that racial movements should be given free reign to express themselves as an outlet is the exact opposite of what most elites in the current democracies believe, as they are scrambling to reduce populism and ride the tiger of Democracy in diversifying societies while keeping things togther. The outlook is grim.
You’re mistaken. Namebase is an independent registar for HNS domains and it’s not the same as the Handshake project, which did the actual distribution of the coins.

I’m surprised people haven’t heard about this project, they have been linked on HN many times before.

Edit: typo
That second part of that comment was very unnecessary. Please don't do that on HN, I even threw you a bone at the end and said:

> But maybe my next web app I'll take that into consideration.

Your whataboutism comment is also off base since the comment you were replying to was asking about bloated non-browser desktop apps so my comment is very much relevant. And the parent to that comment was about software efficiency. If anything you're the one off topic.

It's fair to say: well actually they are very accurate because of CPU usage. You don't have to agree with me. But to result to ad hominem is unnecessary. Let's keep it civil.
Ditto. And when I felt it was near end-of-life, I just moved it over to a more stable SSD.

I'm honestly thinking I'm going to have to backup my entire G-Drive externally and wipe it (for the security of my Google account). I mean, who knows what will trigger the deletion of your Google account these days... I guess the storage I pay for is just for e-mails.
Concurrent memory safety is definitely a goal. Try the new ‘-warn-concurrency’ flag to see what I mean, it is comparable to rust and quite different than thread sanitizer. There’s also a new runtime sanitizer this year with swift intrinsics, not best effort like tsan was.

That said. Swift is in the tough position of trying to be a lot of things at once to users with competing needs. Applications, systems, performance, education, prototyping, etc. While there’s broad agreement concurrency safety is important, not everybody thinks it is important enough to bury your working build under a thousand errors (though that view is represented)

Ultimately swift’s philosophy is that safety is practice and not theory. Some people do turn on ‘-warn-concurrency’ and fix their errors, others would want to ignore them and find some escape hatch to squash them which doesn’t appreciably improve safety, still others might not upgrade if that was required and maybe the ecosystem as a whole becomes less safe for it. Swift feels responsible for these kinds of outcomes.

It’s a tough problem but it does lead to interesting ideas that make safety more practical and productive. Remains to be seen how much of both worlds you can have, but swift/clang/llvm have a long history of doing stuff like that better than you expect.
My 2016 MPB is in perfect shape, except the keyboard that was overly sensitive to dirt from the outset. Not sure if that counts as modern? My new MBA seems extremely well built too, not sure what you are referring to.

Using my airpods pro at least 5 hours a day since they were released, also perfect shape. Like the AirPods 2 i handed down. I'm sure they won't last forever, but they've already provided a hell of a lot of usage for 200 bucks.
There is a difference between having the potential of access versus actually having software installed that scans keywords to phone home about.

Wasn't everyone just outraged about apples csam because it could have the potential for intel agencies, like china's to abuse it by claiming political photos were csam?
That is correct, and it is correct that remote people have a moat against this sort of mercenary behaviour by their employers.

This moat is a lot less relevant if you are relocating to an industry hub, though. If you are having a hard time getting a new job in Seattle, San Francisco, or NYC, it's probably because the entire industry is contracting, and remote won't save you.
Cost accounting consists of more than just balancing a chequebook to the penny; you need to attribute expenses to specific procedures, which can get a bit tricky. It requires discipline and cooperation throughout the organization, which would likely be a huge change for hospitals (as I'm certain doctors would be loathe to log their time like lawyers do).
Looks really cool. The introduction video was very informative, but on a kinda unrelated sidenote, the way the narrator talks reminds me of a 90s infomercial - the cube-swipe also has a pretty nostalgic vibe.
Python as a backend language might be a bit of a problem for perf?
On modern internet, with some assumption, you can get to like 2x faster(in my case) when sending data over an *already establised* connection.

Example:

A full fresh HTTP connect from client to first byte take ~400ms(I'm in the US the server is in Europe). This includes: resolve dns, open tcp connection, ssl handshake etc...

But if the connection is already establish, it only takes ~200ms to first byte.

If I deployed the server in the same region, say US customer <-> US server, this came down to 20ms...

That means, it's good enough.

Not super ideal but It's a trade-off we're willing to make.
How many people died last year in the NHS because they couldn't get health care?
As a big fan of the idea of manufacturing meat in an environmentally sustainable way (and without having to resort to raising and killing animals), reading this article felt as if someone was throwning a bucket's worth of ice-cold water on my face.

According to the article, the barriers to cost-efficient manufacturing of lab-grown meat at large scale are fundamental, e.g., impossible to overcome according to the Laws of Thermodynamics and our current understanding of cell biology and chemistry.

Quoting from the OP:

> David Humbird, the UC Berkeley-trained chemical engineer who spent over two years researching the report, found that the cell-culture process will be plagued by extreme, intractable technical challenges at food scale. In an extensive series of interviews with The Counter, he said it was “hard to find an angle that wasn’t a ludicrous dead end.”

> Humbird likened the process of researching the report to encountering an impenetrable “Wall of No”—his term for the barriers in thermodynamics, cell metabolism, bioreactor design, ingredient costs, facility construction, and other factors that will need to be overcome before cultivated protein can be produced cheaply enough to displace traditional meat.

Is there anyone on HN with deep expertise in this area who can comment on this article's scientific accuracy?
Insanely....awesome! When I was a kid I wanted to be a hacker because I wanted to be able to make computers do stuff. Nobody said anything about wheelbarrows full of cash.
Your post is assuming a lot of this science is "settled". I don't think science is settled - especially in this field. Acknowledging that your own statements may be incorrect might help you down the path to figuring out a fix.

Hint: as soon as you know you're right, and you make statements based on that, when you're inevitably wrong (not saying this in a disparaging way - making sense and being right through all this is nearly impossible), you will lose all trust.
Your clipboard has a huge attack surface.
Phoenix 1.6 has been in alpha/release candidate for a few weeks now. Just curious, what issues are blocking the stable release of 1.6.0? I've checked GitHub but I haven't found any major outstanding bugs waiting to be ironed out.
I pay for Google one since approx 24 months and have had surprisingly decent phone support with less than 3 clicks.

PS: I tend to avoid google services, but google workplace is too damn superior
Have you seen the TV ads for cloud storage services? They’re advertising themselves as being dependable. We cannot blame average consumers when events like these happen.

We need to stop pretending that software, including free-as-in-beer SaaS, doesn’t have an implied warranty. It does. The implied warranty in Google Drive is that “we’ll host your files for you”. Google screwed-up (an “honest” mistake, it pains me to say) but a consumer advocate (the FTC in the US?) should be going after Google for failing to comply with their own implied warranty.
OK, so I've been doing all this for years, plus chip design, can I claim "full stack plus"?
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This is very disturbing; hundreds of thousands of individuals and companies host their important documents in Google Drive--and pay to do it. Imagine that tomorrow you are locked out of those by a faulty AI, and the company that you have spent years building goes into bankruptcy and the livelihood of your employees goes away, just like that. Google has no business snooping in their customer's data for any reason, much less with buggy software.
Hi Chris,

A someone who's familiar with Kotlin, I can see how Erlang's processes and mailboxes would work. The question I have is, you mention Phoenix maxed out available FDs but RoR would have struggled. I didn't quite get what those fundamental differences are that prevent RoR/Ruby from scaling-up io-bound workloads as effortlessly as Elixir/Erlang, given you point out that sync.rb was built upon a similarly capable event-io lib.

Also, if I may, what do you make of your former employers 37 Signal's turbo (hotwire) with RoR? Does the vision you have for Phoenix with LiveView match what you see them doing with hotwire? How do the solutions compare if you have had a chance to take a look?

Thanks.
Yea. They are calling both the vulnerability and the exploit as "the attack", but they are wrong.

I'll just take a moment to point out that the article requires js for the FAQ. It may use JS for other areas I am unaware.
These are not companies are a cult ffs
I have long theorized that Apple is planning to go fully wireless. It’s why they killed the aux cable and soon enough they won’t kill Lightning to replace with USB-C — they’ll just go full wireless.
>New studies show cultivated meat can have massive environmental benefits and be cost-competitive by 2030

I don't understand the fixation that environmentalists have on meat. Methane farts is a trivially solvable problem with cheap dietary supplementation and otherwise the carbon footprint of a cow is negligible compared to a host of other, far more pressing pollutants. And what little deforestation happens to make pastureland only happens once. What am I missing?
> The last step...

Cute idea.
I'm supposed to believe it's better that a human reviewed this ban?
> It’s telling that every answer is “just deploy servers near your users.”

This isn't the takeaway at all. The takeaway is we can match or beat SPAs that necessarily have to talk to the server anyway, which covers a massive class of applications. You'd deploy your SPA driven app close to users for the same reason you'd deploy your LiveView application, or your assets – reducing the speed of light distance provides better UX. It's just that most platforms outside of Elixir have no distribution story, so being close to users involves way more operation and code level concerns and becomes a non-starter. Deploying LiveView close to users is like deploying your game server closes to users – we have real, actual running code for that user so we can do all kinds of interesting things being near to them.

The way we write applications lends itself to being close to users.
Try explaining RAID (not just RAID0/1, but RAID6 and RAID10) to an average consumer and expect them to maintain their own NAS - that’s a bit too much.
I was thinking of doing this. I even started a bit, but I didn't end up getting very far. I'm torn between trying to run it as a service and running ads or whatever, or trying to run it as a wiki with contributors writing ETLs for individual hospitals and trying to tame the data set.
it helps debugging and avoid any issue with cache(old JavaScript, unexpected JS error etc).
You know what is a compromise? Running Docker at 1/4 of its native speed inside a VM.
There were only two switches afaik. The current engine has been used since 2013 (https://www.qt.io/blog/2013/04/15/evolution-of-the-qml-engin...), this is likely longer than some of the other engines mentioned on your page did exist
As mentioned upthread, faxes are still in use.
Easily the best browser on the market and continues to produce great features. Very bullish on its crypto token BAT which is earned by viewing their ads ($5-10/mo). If you're going to use a browser why wouldn't want to use Brave with rewards turned on, honestly?
The exact same protocol and route as any normal packets - I'd presume that for a phone it's just as for computer network hardware, that OS is not in full control of the IP stack and the firmware can send extra packets that OS won't see (with the same source/routing as configured by the OS after it does it) and process the response packets without propagating them to where the OS might see them.
> Welp - affordability. It's expensive and arguably less reliable to get an external hard drive.

I think multiply redundant back-ups get expensive, but one external hard drive with scads of space is cheap (at least from the perspective of someone who grew up when you measured space in MB). It won't provide you the security against data failure, but it will provide some recourse for when the cloud provider yanks your data.
That’s the insanity. You are the same person, same procedure, everything same but somehow the hospital can reduce its bill from 49000 to 9000. That is just not normal for a business like a hospital where they have a ton of fixed costs (unlike a software company where delivery of their product often costs close to zero so they can easily give rebates). This seems to indicate that the 49k is an insanely high price with very high profit margin.
For the same reason python is fast for machine learning: because the performant parts were written in C.

Ignoring slick animations (which were written in C, if not in hand-tuned assembly) typical UIs of apps on the original iPhone could have run (a bit slowly and in monochrome) on an original Mac, that is in 128kB RAM on a 8MHz CPU.
The two other related projects I know are Numba and Cython. Worth checking them out as well.
Thanks - the thesis does look interesting.
There is a concept of saturation in Helium network. You can see the effect in real time as rewards are plummeting in oversubscribed areas like San Francisco. Too many nodes --> reward scale goes down --> network deployments percolate towards the perimeter where ROI is better --> Network grows in geographic coverage.

This is the beauty of the proof of coverage scheme. Its an awesome way to distribute rewards to people who provide valuable coverage while simultaneously creating a force to disperse over a large geographic area.
> What specifically in this comment would you penalise?

One comment up from that I said:

> The easier way to attack this is by instituting a know your customer law for phone systems including prepaid SIMs, combined with accomplice charges for anyone who's SIM is used in connection with criminal acts.

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> And how would you address the issue of people being good sams --- making calls on behalf of someone else when they ask, in good faith.

Prosecutorial discretion.

And to be clear I'm not pushing for these laws; I think they're awful. I just see it as a clear direction that .gov is going to go if they feel the need to that's easier than maintaining zero days for general law enforcement. The ability to actually tie phones to personal identity in a way good enough for a court room.