skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I guess this site should be sent to anybody saying javascript should be blocked in web browsers... In the end whether a technology is used to track and exploit or educate and delight is entirely up to us.
Jen Oneal leaves Blizzard co-leader role, Mike Ybarra becomes sole boss
I would argue that all deployments (no matter how small) should have configuration management.

In the simplest case, a deployment consists of:
1. Install packages
2. Install configuration files, possibly from templates.
3. Configure services to start on boot.

This kind of automation is trivial to do with almost any tool, but there's no reason not to use something like Ansible that's designed for infrastructure automation, because you get encrypted secrets, templating and idempotency with zero effort and the result can be stored in a git repository somewhere.

The Ansible playbook is as fast to write as installing and configuring things manually, and after some practice, it's faster and the resulting system is of higher quality.

Even if you end up using the automation you write only once, it still has value because it doubles as a formalized description of what you did, and can be stored together with additional documentation. Over time you will also accumulate a library of bits and pieces that you can copy over to new setups, further improving your speed and quality.
CIA & Pablo. Exactly.
I don't understand this line of reasoning since it assumes inclusion training actually promotes inclusion. My experience has been that it usually means racial/gender intersectionalism training that everyone gets to swallow regardless of culture or belief because it's what white people in the us tech industry are passionate about right now.
Well no, it's still not entirely clear to me what Devuan does process-wise that is actually different from Debian. I understand that they have a different set of base packages but so does every other modified version of Debian, of which there are several, it's not like Devuan was the first group to split off. What makes this one special? Why are these reasons any more important than any other time somebody shipped a Debian derivative for niche purposes? I honestly don't want to hand wave it away but I've never received good answers for this from Devuan people that themselves weren't hand-wavey, and you don't seem to want to discuss it either so... I guess that answers my question? I don't know, you tell me.
No it's not, but everyone selling their house for 1 million dollars in California is indeed going everywhere and outbidding the locals.
haha, yeah, no her name was in fact Emma though (it showed her name in text later on). It's not the first time I totally misunderstood a word due to pronunciation! haha
bezier curves helped me connect simple (geometric) ideas like repeated middles to polynomials.

it's a crime that kids don't get to see that connection, it's as fun as profound (and it blows every lesson about solving quadratic polynomials with a closed form solution out of the water IMO)
I know, I know.

I tried to do a clean install on my 2012 MBP to get a feel for what would break. Unfortunately the 2012 is out of service and Big Sur kept powering down randomly. It runs Ubuntu 20.04 just fine tho.

I think OSes shouldn't atrophy. So I'm super-testing TimeMachine.
I use this locally as well, simply because I know and prefer tar's behavior to that of cp. For example tar cf - . | (cd /some/where/else; tar xvf -). It's possible to do this using cpio as well but it always seemed like cpio needed so many more switches to do the same thing.
Cavemen would be able to conclude that the safe way to navigate through uncharted territory without sonar is the have a mini submersible drone out in front via cable (if needed) to make contact first and relay a DEAD STOP alert to the sub behind it.
I would bet $100 that all of the companies you've listed also have numerous Excel spreadsheets that should really be databases (if only for the sake of data integrity)...
I live with someone who experiences auditory hallucinations. These hallucinations are always telling her deepest darkest fears to her, and she's unaware that its coming from within her. It makes her a little agoraphobic, but even if she doesn't leave the house she hears these voices through the walls and thinks the neighbors are talking about her. I believed her once, but everywhere we move, the neighbors always have the same very intimate things to say about her. I try to point out that logically it's impossible for all these unrelated people to know these things and to talk about them using the same exact language, but it doesn't help. Maybe in the moment it does, but the voices are too persuasive to overcome.
I had one running OS/2 and it had a PCMCIA modem card I used to dial into the bank's token ring network. That thing was the bees knees back in the day!
> Some of my most interesting thoughts I don’t have the words for at all.

That's a really interesting idea, I wonder if leaning so heavily on language can limit our available thought-space. Certainly a Sapir–Whorf tie-in there!

I find when I over-do it with coding I can't stop thinking about everything in terms of coding related concepts and it drives me nuts because I can tell it's gumming up my clarity of understanding
Ask HN: Why is medical software so hard to use?
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This is coverage of electronic medical records by The Times, in reverse-chronological time, at the clip of about an article a year:

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"Do Electronic Records Help or Hinder Patient Care?" [1]

"Our Hospital’s New Software Frets About My ‘Deficiencies’" [2]

"Broken, wasteful, inhuman, expensive, deadly" [3]

"Why Health Care Tech Is Still So Bad" [4]

"Tech Rivalries Impede Digital Medical Record Sharing" [5]

"Doctors Find Barriers to Sharing Digital Medical Records" [6]

"Doctors complain that the electronic systems are clunky and time-consuming" [7]

"The Cost of Electronic Medical Records" [8]

"Usability is the single greatest impediment" [9]

"An Unforeseen Complication of Electronic Medical Records" [10]

"Most Doctors Aren’t Using Electronic Health Records" [11]

"Doctor-Patient-Computer Relationships" [12]

"The Computer Will See You Now" [13]

"There’s no way small practices can effectively implement electronic health records" [14]

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/20/opinion/letters/electronic-medical-records.html

[2] https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/01/health/epic-electronic-health-records.html

[3] https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/31/opinion/doctors-nurses-and-the-paperwork-crisis-that-could-unite-them.html

[4] https://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/22/opinion/sunday/why-health-care-tech-is-still-so-bad.html

[5] https://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/27/us/electronic-medical-record-sharing-is-hurt-by-business-rivalries.html

[6] https://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/01/business/digital-medical-records-become-common-but-sharing-remains-challenging.html

[7] https://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/09/health/the-ups-and-downs-of-electronic-medical-records-the-digital-doctor.html

[8] https://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/27/opinion/the-cost-of-electronic-medical-records.html

[9] https://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/17/technology/assessing-the-effect-of-standards-in-digital-health-records-on-innovation.html

[10] https://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/22/health/22chen.html

[11] https://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/19/technology/19patient.html

[12] https://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/11/opinion/l11medical.html

[13] https://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/06/opinion/06coben.html

[14] https://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/01/business/01unbox.html

My favorite is "An Unforseen Complication of Medical Records", despite the several articles before it about the complications of medical records.
Why is it that every time I see an amount of money like that I know they've pulled it out of their asses?
To be fair, Ubuntu did that a couple of years ago with Ubuntu One, and iCloud and Google storage are also integrated with the respective OSes, and you can buy subscriptions with a couple of clicks.

Windows is basically freemium now, I haven't spent money for windows licenses in years, neither privately nor has the company I work at. We get 100 or so licenses as a MS Gold partner, but pay a lot for services around Office 365. It's strange, but this is the new industry status quo apparently.

Now what I find really offputting and weird is that MS Word had a banner the other day - something like "Looking for a new job? Download these templates to make a great impression!" after I opened my CV. I really really hope MS is not scanning the content of my files because that would be a big no go...
There’s a lack of this inner thought which is an actual condition people have, but I’ve discussed with people before who thought they lacked it… and really it was a misunderstanding based on how it’s described. I have an inner voice and can picture things… but it’s important to note this is “mind’s eye” stuff… it’s not literally equivalent to seeing or hearing something.

When I picture something in my mind and close my eyes, it’s not equivalent to sight… it’s a representation of my a priori knowledge of something. Kind of a mental mirage.
Isn't this just called user testing? Also this is in the context of a fucking dataset. If data needs to go through DI in case something blows up on Twitter, I guess it's sad state we're in.
That's not quite the same thing. Can a server or some other service provider refuse for any reason they like? What about protected classes? Should there be a whitelist of "good reasons"?

Purpose and person are hard to separate too. Like if you will sell cakes to anyone, except that nobody will be given a cake if it's for a gay wedding.
Are there GIS / mapping software where you can fly through sea mounts with water off? Maps of ocean floor would be amazing to explore in MS flight simulator.

http://onemanz.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/ocean_floor_ma...
Aren’t there maps?
CDE had some great concepts. It was super consistent, dtksh allowed programming the GUI, fantastic built-in help. If it were not for the probably security-holy code-base, the missing creature comforts like anti-aliasing and dated look will keep me away from it.
> At a very young age, mortality from vaccine side effects (~200 to ~700 peri/myocarditis per 1M) is greater than mortality from covid itself

Do you have a source for that number? All I have seen indicate that the cases are mild to intermediate, but no actual deaths directly linked to myocarditis.
Yes! I've also had similar experiences during episodes of sleep paralysis. Interesting.

When I'm awake it happens during periods of deep day-dreaming.
And the people on it seem to think it's the place where the intellect & highly productive hang out (some of them do, along side with everyone else).

They think twitter is the paramount of humans' open discussion, democratize/revolutionize politics & finance or something.
Agree 100%... I'm astonished that a large corporation trying to get into this business, would "bite off more than they could chew". Don't they have MBAs and financial models to assess this sort of thing?
Not better alternatives, even if it has been the direct cause of death in some patients with rare genetics. Not everybody is able to stand it
Tasking is supported by the Ravenscar runtime, which has not been merged upstream yet.
https://github.com/AdaCore/bb-runtimes/pull/55
Now you can read the book in the metaverse!

Kidding. Kinda.

Obligatory Futurama:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C6eRqMiAxQ0
You do bring up some great points.

Yeah, I guess it is still FLOSS. It's just my personal opinion that having a paywall (or the appearence of one) for the majority of your users is a huge barrier to success and openness, no matter how small that paywall is. Not that it's a bad business model, it's just one that I don't want to use for my projects.

I don't want to sound like I'm downplaying the acheivements of Ardour. It is definitely impressive, and I look forward to the MIDI workflow improvements! It's just from a workflow perspective (especially from an EDM perspective), Ardour isn't quite my cup of tea. I personally want to create something with a workflow akin to Live/Bitwig/FL.

Yeah, your article on time keeping was a huge inspiration in our time-keeping system. We would definitely love your feedback on this! Currently I've designed it in such a way where we can easily swap out the actual internals of the `MusicalTime` struct if we find that f64 is not good enough. I'm aware it will indeed be a challenge when it comes time to support automation of tempo, time signatures, swing rythm, etc. That's why I seperated it into its own repo to keep it focused on the pure algorithm. (The repo is in rusty-daw-timeline btw).
When I started reading this article, I would have bet 100 bucks this laptop was used in a military / government setting for SIGINT (Signals Intelligence) software.

Solaris, solid metal hardware, tens of thousands of $$ - just screams SIGINT to me.
> I doubt the Ruby ecosystem is the largest out here

“Largest” and “most likely to have what going_to_800 needs in practice” are not the same thing.
I once worked at a tiny startup where we were trying to sell a dataset to GS. Before we could even send a sample, they sent over some boilerplate forms for us to sign. I remember two distinct stipulations - anything we sent them was immediately and forever their property, AND they had the right to drug test any of our employees. We ended up not signing so there was no deal. My boss said it was their way of getting rid of us.
Maybe I am looking at it the wrong way, but at least my way of looking at it prevents me from judging how others speak.

While I admire your want to not have the “incorrect” pronunciation. I don’t think it’s necessary or even really all that important.

Don’t let great be the enemy of good and all that.

I call this a win as it makes me more accepting of others instead of trying to be “right” like so many native English speakers try to be (which is incredibly obnoxious and elitist).
When your rent goes up 40%. As pandemic fades, many tenants see big hikes
Thankfully the population size is large enough that those of us who prefer competency over "personality" can form teams of our own.
I'm tracking on your first paragraph. Your second is a little confusing to me.

I went on opium interdiction missions in Southern Afghanistan. The Taliban runs its own opium ring down there to fund it's activities. I'm not even sure it'd be fair to say the CIA was "running the country". They trained Afghan special forces, whom I only ever saw once and that was near Kajaki Dam. The people who were digging up weapons caches, setting up field hospitals, etc that we fought in the area while doing opium interdiction didn't look anything like Afghan special forces, much less act like them.
This is one of my favorite tools out there. So simple but yet so powerful.

You get the real deal when you pair it with other tools to analyze and monitor traffic.

Worth the note, I sometimes use this front end in case I want to quickly adjust stuff https://github.com/buckle/toxiproxy-frontend
I am terrible at the verbal exercise you describe, so I just end up mapping it out as branches and look for any that trigger a question mark and look for patterns between the question marks and see if anything shows up.
China Accusing US of Cover-Up After Submarine Incident in South China Sea
> This is a regression from the original utility.

Oh...well that's unfortunate.
My experience on reading isn't as dramatic as the person you're replying to, but similar.

I read whole paragraphs and/or sentences in one go. I don't really know "how" I do it, and there are limits (it really, really helps to know the author and their writing style). My eyes hit the paragraph, flick to see the end of it, traverse back up half-scanning each line, then I scan through the lines from the top, and afterwards I know what the paragraph was saying. It takes a few seconds per paragraph.

I can't recite it verbatim but I can effectively describe the content of the paragraph accurately.

If I have to read something word-for-word it's so slow that I tend to get bored or frustrated quickly. I don't find that slow, word-for-word reading gives me much more than by inhaling paragraphs whole.
Sound doesn't transmit well at all between air and water in either direction. It just bounces off. You can't hear what's going on underwater when you're out of the water and you can't hear what's going on above water when you're underwater.
>accidentally exclude certain people?

e.g how? could you provide some examples e.g two?

there's a lot of talk about this stuff when it comes to MAGMA, yet docs still use some auto-generated translations which suck.
When others say they can see images and movies in their heads, and hear voices and play back songs in their heads, I believe I know exactly what they mean. Just as if they were describing itching or feeling cold.

Yet some people respond with “You can see pictures? You can hear voices? WAT?? I see nothing and hear nothing!”

I don’t see how those people could be having the common experience and still be so shocked to hear how others experience it in simple terms.
> Don't they have MBAs and financial models to assess this sort of thing?

All models are wrong, some are useful.

Zillows were wrong, and apparently not useful.
Well, it's true that inflation was largely in check over the past decade.

But keep in mind that in the 1970's, home prices were actually included in the CPI. If this were still the case today, we would actually see inflation levels similar to what we saw in the 70s.

The CPI formula has been changed many times over the years, to suppress inflation numbers. There are strong incentives to do this, as Social Security and many other things are tied to the CPI.

There are logical arguments for these changes though. Homes are financed goods, and consumption can be considered the monthly carrying cost and not the value of the asset. However, ignoring "asset inflation" has led to much worse wealth inequality IMO. It would be better to continue to include national average home prices. Nowadays, there's a measure called Owners Equivalent Rents that partially gauge this. But there are tons of methodological flaws in how rent equivalent data is collected for CPI that lead to both underreporting, and a lag of ~12 months. e.g. Rents are up about 20% nationally since the pandemic started, but CPI has shown roughly 3.5% so far. The next few months should start to show the full extent of rental increases.

Now that car prices are causing a large increase in CPI, don't be surprised when they alter the measurement of these factors next year. They'll use some measure like average monthly car payment.

Also keep in mind that unemployment was around 10% post GFC, and took about 10 years to get close to full employment. That was quite a large shock that took a long while to recover from.

The market did fall something like 20% in 2018 as the Fed raised rates to preempt inflation, but they chickened out and reversed course and market immediately rallied back all gains.

And as you said, it's pretty clear right now they are dragging their feet on doing anything post COVID. I'm pretty sure Powell is really optimizing for retaining his job, since his term ends very soon... otherwise they really shouldn't care about market movements to such an extent.

They will almost certainly announce the taper tomorrow, but expect it to be wrapped in all kinds of dovish language to juice assets/speculation further.

Regardless of short term interest rate peg, they should absolutely not be buying bonds to suppress long term rates. They have been continuing an "emergency" bond buying program for a full year beyond what was reasonable to most people. I mean, why are they buying 120B worth of bonds every month, as housing prices have gone up something like 30% nationally? They are terminally afraid that if they can't manipulate long term rates lower through QE, that rates will rise and market or housing will tank. Well, we'll find out soon enough
Reminds me of this urban legend story:

This is the transcript of a radio conversation of a US naval ship with Canadian authorities off the coast of Newfoundland in October, 1995. Radio conversation released by the Chief of Naval Operations 10-10-95.

Americans: Please divert your course 15 degrees to the North to avoid a collision.

Canadians: Recommend you divert YOUR course 15 degrees to the South to avoid a collision.

Americans: This is the Captain of a US Navy ship. I say again, divert YOUR course.

Canadians: No. I say again, you divert YOUR course.

Americans: This is the aircraft carrier USS Lincoln, the second largest ship in the United States' Atlantic fleet. We are accompanied by three destroyers, three cruisers and numerous support vessels. I demand that YOU change your course 15 degrees north, that's one five degrees north, or countermeasures will be undertaken to ensure the safety of this ship.

Canadians: This is a lighthouse. Your call

Copied from here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lighthouse_and_naval_vessel_ur...
> GraphQL responding 200 to erroneous queries is... surprising

To me, both GraphQL (and also JSON-RPC, another weird one for HTTP errors) are really application-layer protocols of their own that are just "spoken over" HTTP, and as such implement their own error signalling standards. In cases like that, an HTTP error doesn't pertain to anything being discussed "inside" the overlay protocol; but instead refers to the carrier protocol.

For example, seeing an HTTP 404 in response to hitting a GraphQL or JSON-RPC endpoint, wouldn't mean that the resource you asked for with your overlay-protocol request doesn't exist, but rather that the endpoint you wanted to speak the overlay protocol to doesn't exist.

Consider, by analogy: a websocket, which actually does speak a formal HTTP sub-protocol. If you make the right request, you get your HTTP connection upgraded into a WebSocket connection. If you don't? Carrier protocol error.
Not all of my compensation is in cash. Giving me time to experiment, learn, or god forbid enjoy myself is part of the cost for employers of software developers.

You obviously can not want that as an employer but you’re either gonna have empty roles for a long time or pay out the ass for the lack of fringe benefits
The Foundation book series, IIRC, has "disintegrators", which are invisible beams that disrupt the charges of the target atoms and cause the target to lose all chemical cohesion. However, "invisible beams" work poorly for video. As a result, most sci-fi video weapons have the huge disadvantage of forming an arrow pointing directly at where you are. Real firearms have muzzle flash but that has nothing on a huge finger pointing right at you.

Additionally, since the audience needs to "see" the beam, most sci-fi weapons have miserably slow firing rates, enough that on the modern battlefield they would be useless.

"Guns in general seem like something that should already be antiquated."

This comes from a mindset that technology is "tiered" and that later technologies are "better" than earlier ones in all ways. This is caused by watching too much science fiction and/or playing too many video games. It is not how the real universe works. In reality, throwing things really hard at your opponent is likely to be a viable strategy indefinitely. The science fiction technologies that would invalidate this, like Dune's shields, do not seem to be things that exist in the real universe.