skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> individual teams were expressly forbidden from creating their own templates.

Just want to underscore what others are saying, that this is not true and was not true during the time you claimed to work there. I was at Google 2014-2016 and I'm there now. Templates are common and not banned at all. I committed template-heavy non-metaprogramming code to google3 in 2014 and also throughout this year. I have never had C++ readability.

"Template Metaprogramming" is soft-banned in non-library code, meaning that it is disallowed if the readability reviewer looking at your code decides that what you are doing is "metaprogramming".

There are other style guides that apply to small subsets of google3, some of which forbid certain kinds of template constructions (variadic, SFINAE, etc). Maybe you're thinking of one of those? I'm not aware of any that forbid all templates.
It absolutely blows my mind that people try to use Twitter for long-form writing.

Honestly, it blows my mind that people use Twitter for anything at all, other than outrage and anxiety disorders. But if you do want to use an awful platform for long-form writing, then that's why we have Medium.
Totally!

In state terms, a flat model is best. Store as little state in our heads as possible, so the driving, things we don't control have the grey matter resources and capacity necessary to travel safely.

Frankly, I like it when my cars don't do much. Some things, like ABS, traction controls are good. They are just on, and with a test or two, I know what they will do, and when they won't do it, I am notified clearly so I can fall back to more manual mode, no automation driving mode gracefully.
I'd argue to opposite - surfing in the ocean is free, but people pay ridiculous amounts of money to surf at the ranch.
Could mean they are trying to convert them into dollars again, without breaking the peg. Maybe they want to be the first to rush to the exit as they know there's most likely not enough USD backing behind tether (not 1usd:1usdt) to pay everyone back.
What Happens to Author Reputation When Malicious Packages Are Taken Offline?
Did the exact same thing you did, went straight to GoodRx to check.

30 50mg capsules of Indomethacin (generic indocin) is $8.87 at Giant Eagle.

60 75mg capsules of Indomethacin ER (generic indocin sr) is $29.08 at Giant Eagle.

Who is paying that much for this drug?
Three hours to save a space probe
I mean, the $90, 3 mile experience doesn't happen as a surprise occurrence... you agree to the price upfront, so you must have really needed to get somewhere 3 miles away as fast as possible. The price being high is just a function of there not being as many drivers available (its especially bad these days as many drivers have moved on to better jobs or not engaged in the workforce or don't want to do this job during covid times)

To your second point, there are still scheduling options, "wait + save" where they do offer pickup 20 min from now and locking in your price, but... if you are using those features couldn't you also use the bus?

I don't see any of your problems steering you back towards taxis, especially in SF where they were AWFUL (can't say if they have improved in the last 7 years)
I don't have an arab complexion, but TSA has never been that much of a hassle for me. Is it really that bad for you? I just have to take my belt and shoes off and take my laptop out. There are lines, but it usually doesn't take me more than 20 minutes to get through.
> If anything, Apple was way behind at the start on portables, and it even mentions that the famous "yellow envelope" moment was pure marketing ad there were already Sony laptops that could do the same trick.

That wasn’t the start at all, Apple had been making laptops for 20 years at that time. Apple and Sony had been leapfrogging each other ever since the very first PowerBook (built by Sony). The titanium PowerBooks and iBooks (and to a lesser extent the Wall Street and Bronze G3s) were great devices in different ways, certainly not worse than their Vaio competitors.

What Sony had and Apple had not was a broad range of tons of devices, each one with its own special gimmick. And a lot of terrible machines in the dark years between ~1991–1998.
>I cannot imagine living in Canada and being put on a 8 month wait for something important but not urgent...

We have pretty long wait times in the US for elective surgeries as well. Not as bad as canada, but it can take a bit to get you scheduled for a hip or knee replacement.
> What is Godel's incompleteness theorem?

>> a theorem that states that any complete theory of logic is necessarily incomplete

Its often wrong in the specifics in its responses, but gets the right kind of idea.
So if they made a typo, would it be lost to the void?

I mean probably not since they control the blockchain and they can fork it to undo the transaction, but still. That's a lot of money to move in one go.
I noticed this too. When I was in the bay area previously (temporarily) before moving out here permanently, about 2 years ago, I was able to uber places like the grocery store due to not having a car. Flash forward to today and I actually opted to buy my own car because uber and lyft have become ridiculously expensive
The original drug was approved in 1965[1], and there are more than a hundred competitors[2], and the average price is somewhere around $2/day [3].

https://www.accessdata.fda.gov/drugsatfda_docs/label/2021/01...

https://dailymed.nlm.nih.gov/dailymed/search.cfm?labeltype=a...

https://clincalc.com/DrugStats/Drugs/Indomethacin
42 x 2, can't be a coincidence.
Full information about the BigScience Project is here https://bigscience.huggingface.co/
I think that's part of the plan to accelerate Python that the Microsoft team has.
Your comment on Boring Technology (tm) made me smile... At Timescale as you'll see in this blog we are happy to celebrate the boring, there's an awful lot to be said for it :) https://blog.timescale.com/blog/when-boring-is-awesome-build...

For transparency: I'm Timescale's Community Manager
That just makes it feel like a proprietary layer on top of the internet.

Or, to draw it further into the scale you mention, a single-party replacement for the internet.

Neither of these things sound like a long-term win.
My issues typically with layering an event system on top of a db is replication and ownership of that event. Kafka makes some very nice guarantees about giving best attempt to make sure only one process works on something at a time inside of a consumer group. You have to build a system in the db using locks and different things that are poor substitutes.

If you are having trouble debugging kafka you could use a connector to put the data into the database/file to also debug, or a db streamer. You can also use the built in cli tools to scroll along. I have had very good luck with using both of those to find out what is going wrong. Also kafka will basically by default keep all the messages for the past 7 days so you can play it back if you need to by moving the consumer offsets. IF you are trying to use kafka like a db and change messages on the fly you will have a bad time of it. Kafka is meant to be a here is something that happened and some data. Changing that data after the fact would in the kafka world be another event. In some types of systems that is a very desirable property (such as audit heavy cultures, banks, medical, etc). Now also kafka can be a real pain if you are debugging and messup a schema or produce a message that does not fit into the consumer. Getting rid of that takes some poor cli trickery when in a db it is a delete call.

Also kafka is meant for a distributed system event based worker systems (typically some sort of microservice style system). If you are early on you more than likely not building that yet. Just dumping something into a list in a table and polling on that list is a very effective way for something that is early on or maybe even forever. But once you add in replication and/or multiple clients looking at that same task list table you will start to see the issues quickly.

Using an event system like a db system and yes it will feel broken. Also vice versa. You can do it. But like you are finding out those edge cases are a pain and make you feel like 'bah its easier to do it this way'. In some cases yes. In your case you have a bad state in your event data. You are cleaning it up with some db calls. But what if instead you had an event that did that for you?
I had come back from a trip. Wife had put a mattress in a spare room, on the floor due to a project to upgrade our room. Me, and the phone were low to the ground, and I believe the cat was pissed at the change and expressed it on my phone.

Still pissed about it. That was a great phone, and I did lose some data I value.
1 main point to this: true "insurance" could reasonably cover edge cases, including frankly some insurance covered by the state. The US "insurance" market is not really that, it's a price negotiator/health care provider/strange thing that honestly doesn't resemble any other "insurance" product. Even though we use some terms that resemble capitalism, health care is in no way a capitalist market. It's a different beast.
Sorry, I don't know when you last tried out IPFS, but IPNS does in fact work: https://docs.ipfs.io/concepts/ipns/

Again, I'm not sure when it wasn't working, or when it began working (it's always worked since I've been around), but IPNS has made huge strides, I use it every day. Even https://ipfs.io is using IPNS, it's very popular.
I picked the VA because it's an attempt at a thoroughly integrated system in a way that Medicare and Medicaid are not.

It's not irrational for people to look at the risk of making a worse system and judge for themselves if they think it's a risk worth taking. Examining a worst case that's within the scope of possible outcomes is a reasonable part of a good-faith process.
So you’re saying someone who is producing a niche product a minimal units should be forced to charge a low price? Regardless what their cost of goods is?
When it happens, it breaks a lot of the internet, but "so many" is stretching it - the entire CF network has only gone down a couple of times in the time I've known about them (~6 years).
> If someone could do Managed NAT Gateway next I'd appreciate it!

Yes please! Such a useful networking tool, but so expensive to run as a managed service.

Yes, you can run your own EC2 instance (searching turned up this guide, which looks useful: http://evertrue.github.io/blog/2015/07/06/the-right-way-to-s... ) but it'd be great to have this run by a cloud provider, yet be affordable.
You don't need 10kg of gold, but you do need about 5g of platinum group metals for the catalytic converter. Not sure how many tonnes of rock that is, and how it compares to electric car batteries, but it's not nothing.
Google rolls out ‘Data Safety’ form for apps on Google Play
Well, Sweden of course. Niether USA nor Russia have the Offentlighetsprincip as far as I know.
I wonder what this looked like in the 20's right before it really hit the fan
If you carefully craft all incentives to create the strong impulse in all participants to do things everyone benefits from without actually phoning them up and saying (let's do it this way), it's not illegal. This describes the why for a lot that is wrong with the world.
so if the rest of us took a hit and just crashed the market we could even the playing field?

asking for a friend who is into stonks. :)
Intel CEO blames predecessors for manufacturing woes
The results presented in this paper are for "true" zero-shotting in the literal sense that the model has never been explicitly trained on the tasks presented, nor do we cross-validated on the prompt choice.
You don't start by building something general in a base library. You start by solving your local problem, and if that turns out to be a general problem it should then be promoted to a base library. Battle-tested set of libraries started out their life as random utilities in "leaf nodes" - otherwise they wouldn't be "battle-tested". See also https://blog.codinghorror.com/rule-of-three/
this runs great on my modern gaming PC. The polygon count will always be lower than a current game, but it plays very well. Additionally, from a gameplay perspective, this got the scaling and scale right, it stands alone as a fantastic RPG I will definitely replay again.
I encourage everyone to get vaccinated if they can, but even without vaccination only a tiny fraction of cases among healthy people in their 20s and 30s get on ventilators. The CDC estimated the hospitalization rate in the 18-49 age group at 2.5%.

https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/cases-updates/burd...

The majority of those hospitalized cases aren't really "healthy". Most suffer from serious co-morbid conditions such as obesity or diabetes.

https://www.wfae.org/health/2021-09-30/novant-says-9-of-10-c...

https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/need-extra-precaut...

And only a small fraction of hospitalized cases are treated with mechanical ventilation. It's considered a salvage treatment when all other treatments have failed.

https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/covid19/nhcs/intubation-ventilator-...
it is not impossible to bring water through pipes, or invest heavily in desalination
...outside of extremely remote areas I don't think anyone in modern US culture would express distaste about a mom being out with children. You see women with infants in wine bars, etc.
Full disclosure I'm totally not versed in crypto at all, but I do recall reading something on HN a while ago that teather is audited but one of the big 5 auditors (not that it means much, look at 1MDB etc)?
Yes, it's incredibly frustrating to hear people assume everyone has high speed home connections. I operate entirely off cellular. 150 MB is not chump change and it certainly does not download in 2 seconds. If it's not a problem that affects the developer shipping the software it's not a problem that gets noticed or cared about, unless it ends up on a PM's radar or sentry.
A fair comparison does, I agree, need to look at the actual costs paid by people, and not just the number they see at the doctor.

But even taking that into account, the US still pays more:

https://www.rand.org/news/press/2021/01/28.html
Interestingly, it answered every one of these right:

"What should I use to whisk a bowl of eggs? A fish or a fork?"

"A fork"

Repeat with "...A spoon or a duck?" "A chopstick or a goat?" "A cat or an electric whisk?"
This looks really cool. I can't find anything on your website about any license that the templates are offered under. I'd love to use this, but I know the first thing that people at my work are going to ask me is how the content is licensed. It's possible that it's somewhere and I'm just not seeing it.

The ToS says:

> Nothing in this Agreement grants any right, title or interest in or to (including any license under) any Intellectual Property Rights in or relating to the Software

Are the templates part of "the Software" and so I don't have any license to the templates? I'm not allowed "to access the source code of the Software...or create derivative works based on the Software" so am I allowed to modify the the source code of the templates and use that?

I kinda know that you don't mean that I can't use the templates. I just know that I'm going to get hit with the "can we really use these". Maybe my place is too worried about stuff, but I'm a little surprised that there isn't terms of use or a license around the templates. Are they public domain?

Bee Plugin looks awesome, but I'd love to know what the situation is around the templates given that I know I'm going to be asked that.

Also, just as an FYI, the editor launches with the copyright notice showing MailUp and it looks like you're now Growens.
(I’m assuming Canada is much like NZ)
If you don’t want to be on a waiting list get the 60usd/month health insurance from a private company, or maybe your job will already provide that for you.
It's definitely not illegal in general to charge different prices to different customers, or to keep the terms of your business agreements private.

As for "should it be illegal", most people seem to agree the healthcare industry should be regulated more tightly than commerce in general, but there's plenty of debate about exactly how far we should go.
Early Musings on “Exit to Community” for Open Collective
Yes, it is accurate that most people don't get that the octocat logo (https://github.com/logos) is not the git logo (https://git-scm.com/downloads/logos)
There is only two of us and limited pantry space so we can’t really do bulk shopping. Instead we buy groceries to be delivered once per week through Whole Foods / Fresh delivery or equivalent. If we want any extras or snacks go ourselves to the store and buy random stuff, but then it’s not part of “official meals”.

I like online ordering because it can save lists of all the needed foods and remembers recent purchases so you can easily reorder same things without making a separate list each time. Also inventory is likely to be available rather then in person. (I hate crowded weekend grocery shopping so I do anything to avoid it.)

Once food arrives, half goes in fridge and half in freezer for the perishables. Once per month, I get extra non-perishables all at once to stock the pantry - like canned chickpeas, black beans, rice pasta, pasta sauce, Couscous etc.

Then we have “approved meals” list that has a same structure and nutritional value and macro ratio and can be swapped out in any way with any combination. Like chicken/fish/beef + salad/veggies/soup + rice/potato/pasta

Over time by using a food scale and charts I’ve learned the amount of calories, macros in different amounts of food. The serving sizes on packaging have no correlation with actual nutritional needs nor level of satiety you will feel. My plans aim to minimize gut inflammation and to keep steady blood sugar - so no processed foods are used etc.

Now I just remember the amount that goes into each “meal” and can approximate without using scale. Cooking is 1-2 times per week and stored in fridge. Optimized so that you can use the oven + stove + slow cooker at once. If you don’t like one meal you can just take another, and everything I cook lasts 7 days in fridge with no issue. Some Sundays I get tired and so those are leftovers / go out to eat day.

Food budget is no longer a driver for this, as we are both high earners, but it helps that it’s predictable at $800/month for groceries + $500 for restaurants/snacks, etc.

I’ve optimized all I could at this point. Boyfriend never has to cook a single day of his life. Although if I could, I’d rather take a daily nutrition pill and never think about this again.
Unless you live in mitte, which basically nobody does, there didn’t feel much difference to me.
Good for them. I'm not envious.
It comes down to economics, whether or not it costs more to add an internal combustion engine, ancillaries, generator etc. than it does for the additional battery cells.
Given the prices at issue, that's most people. Worse yet, who decided the cutoff? When does one make enough money to pay insane life-improving drug prices? How much money is left over afterwards?

"‘My other piece of advice, Copperfield,’ said Mr. Micawber, ‘you know. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen nineteen six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pounds nought and six, result misery."[0]

[0] David Copperfield, Charles Dickens
why? we should forbid arbitrary stuff based on political ideas or opinions?
I love it that completing an XS-size ticket gives you either nothing, or 1 (one) HP. Not even a permanent health increase. Just 1 HP.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Go_strategy_and_tactics#Sente_...

> A player whose moves compel the opponent to respond in a local position is said to have sente (先手), meaning they player has the initiative; the opponent is said to have gote (後手). Sente means 'preceding move' (lit: 'before hand'), whereas gote means 'succeeding move' (lit: after hand').

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Go_terms#Kikashi

> Unlike sente, though, a move is kikashi when it yields a high efficiency in play by forcing the opponent to abandon a course of action.

Kikashi seems rather techincal and quite narrow in where it can be applied.
What this effectively means is, that ten percent exercises majority control over huge portions of the US economy. That ten percent is the group making decisions on how to direct huge amounts of resources created by our economy. Such a healthy democracy.
> We're trying to pretend AI/ML systems will make better decisions, and faster, but they always fail catastrophically at the edge cases in ways humans never do.

The pretense is that AI can handle the bulk, routine cases. Not keeping enough people to handle the edge cases is the real mistake.
Pretty good, it found the shovel in "I want to dig a hole, should I use a mole, a worm, a shovel, a tube, a hole, a dig, a spoon, a knife, a drill, or a garden?"
Schmidt: Exploring Earth’s oceans to reach Europa
People are greedy? The FDA asked that colchicine go through the FDA approval process. A company did so and footed the cost. That’s not greed, that’s a public service.
Oh, I'm sure most people would agree with you, and the idea is kind of out there, but I'm sort of serious. In fact, it seems kind of insane to me that this isn't the status quo already, the technology has been there for a decade or more. I think that's when I first drove a car that had a warning light go off when I exceeded the limit, and I remember thinking "why is it even letting me drive this fast?". I'm less sure about the red lights, which requires technology beyond static maps and GPS, the kind of technology required for true autonomous driving (which incidentally will also respect the speed limit).

We have as a society decided we don't want people to drive faster than a sensibly derived speed, we already license cars to be road legal or not, and exact positioning is already utterly ubiquitous, put those things together and you have pretty much solved the problem of speeding. The only major issue is GPS accuracy -- e.g. what if on the highway your car thinks it's on a parallel slow-moving road. But you don't need perfect accuracy, you only need a reasonably accurate measure of inaccuracy and a fallback to the higher limit (or no limit).

The other major issue (and the reason why this won't happen anytime soon) is current car drivers being uncomfortable with their own property limiting their capability to drive beyond the speed limit, which most of them do as a matter of course, to which I say, tough luck, you're free to drive a non-limited car on private ground.

Note that none of this involves any central tracking of cars, in fact it's less invasive than the current system of monitoring using radar and cameras.
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There is a lot of development work left to do to optimize time-series database designs. They will get more useful as that work gets done.
Unlike oil you can recycle lithium. There is only so many new batteries needed and at some point most of the demand will be fed with recycled lithium.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but most theft at Walgreens/CVS isn't from the cash register being unattended, its from people just loading up and walking out with unpaid goods (which the local store security doesn't engage with due to fear of being sued)
Men outrank women on the privilege stack. A woman adopting a male persona is "punching up"; a man adopting a female persona is "punching down".
The Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit is an appeals court that covers basically the entire west coast of the United States within it's jurisdiction. As a result of that, it covers a lot of copyright cases and has a lot of it's own copyright jurisprudence that doesn't automatically apply in other circuits. (Notably, Oracle v. Google would have taken half the time it should have been had it not included patent claims, which moved what should have been a 9th Circuit case into Federal Circuit jurisdiction.)