skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree - goes on still, all day everyday all across the USA. Easiest thing for a doctor to do to not have to deal with a problem patient (i.e. a drug seeker - not saying your aunt was one of them), is give them what they want, and send them on their way.

Doctors should be held accountable - every script they write, is tracked - it would not be hard to find the doctors that are outside the range of normal.

Insurance companies should also be held accountable - they pay for a big portion of these oversubscribed opioids, they know who is writing those scripts, they know when a duration or quantity is out of the normal bounds, and yet they still keep enabling it.

But doctors do not get a cut of the prescriptions they write, not legally anyway, so don't think its greedy doctors - more like doctors who have to see upto 32 patients a day, in 15 min increments, and don't have time to argue with persistent drug seekers, so the close their eyes and pretend they don't know what is going on - and move on to the next 15 min appointment.
Drata has a web application where you can upload evidences of the requirements. The agent just makes it easier. If you are not comfortable, it should not be a big issue.

You can choose not to install it and upload a couple screenshots of requested settings (having disk encryption enabled, having a password manager installed etc) periodically. If the client forces it that is a little unreasonable because drata tracks if you uploaded stuff in a timely manner anyway.

They don’t need to force it.
Fentanyl that you get in an OR and the "fentanyl" on the streets are actually two different chemicals.

The street drug "fentanyl" is actually carfentanil, which is about 100 times more potent that fentanyl (or about 5000 times more potent than heroin). It is favored by criminals because when it's highly concentrated, you can fit ~the same amount of doses in a suitcase that with heroin would take a 20ft container. That suitcase, when bought from a legitimate Chinese pharmaceutical manufacturer, will also cost very little. Then if you can smuggle it into the states, you can run a billion-dollar drug empire from it, and never have to smuggle in anything again.

This is why all supply-side measures against opiates are never going to work again. There are already enough of them in the hands of criminals in the US to cover the demand for decades, if not centuries. It's also why "fentanyl" on the street is so deadly. When the active ingredient is so potent and arrives concentrated, if the dilution process is even a little uneven, a single dose can easily be accidentally a 100 times more potent than you expect it to be.

Even if you use other drugs, never use street fentanyl for any reason.
> Sweden wants to get back into Europe (not successful yet)

SJ (Swedish State Railways) won the Swedish government's tender to provide night train services Stockholm - Hamburg starting in summer 2022.
Languages are not usually aimed at no-programmers. But low-code tools are aimed at them.

They're done by well funded companies, so I assume a lot of work(by very skilled people) has be done at understanding the answer to OP's question, and so a lot could be learned from them.
The advice and main rules were really clear from the start. Do 1) this, 2) this and 3) this. And were repeated millions of times from thousands of people in the whole planet.

But some people didn't liked science and choose instead to go to bath masses, religious massive holidays and parties just to make a political point. Some people even put deliberately the live of other in risk, teared off their masks and spit in their faces.

As expected, they paid a big bill for their own 100% genuine stupidity. Those that don't died look now desperately for a decorous way out to save face and will blame other for it: "You explained it only 5 million times, so I though that it was a joke. Is your fault to not repeat it 5.000.001 times..."
India antitrust watchdog fines Amazon, suspends 2019 deal with Future
I think your comment is insightful but I don't have an answers to any of this. I just wish that stuff was what we were trying to figure out of a society rather than the trash going on these days.

I think you're right that we could definitely be on the eve of something about to happen, especially combining those observations with recent geopolitical updates.
My goodness was defragging really that mechanically loud or is this exaggerated for effect?

For such a long time (as in, well into the tail end of Windows XP) I was stuck with an old Pentium computer that could handle Windows 98SE at most. Had maybe 2GB of HDD to work with which sounded luxurious to me until my father was issued a 4GB flash drive at work. I defragged this every first Sunday of the month to keep things running smooth. Ofc the effect might as well be purely psychological but hey, as I said it did last me a long time.

The mechanical sounds I remember are finer, not like pop snoring no? :)
Also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dopesick_(miniseries)
That's one of the reasons why, according to a friend of a friend, those in the know prefer hardware mouse jigglers to software mouse jigglers. It seems to have spawned a whole new industry, with devices like the Wee Shoogle: https://www.weeshoogle.com/ . Edit: It seems there's a wikipedia page about this too: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mouse_jiggler
I've vaguely heard of Nim in the past and for some reason always thought it was some limited scripting language. But this looks like a pretty serious candidate for a nice backend language.

I'm getting tired of how cumbersome Go is and have had my eye on Crystal. Anyone have any insight on how Nim stacks up to Crystal?
Book: High Performance Browser Networking
I've never gotten a raise from organizing my workforce but I've gotten many by hopping jobs. Can you tell me more about the workplaces you've organized? How did you start to go about it?
I'd put that under the 'Too Bad' category. If a branch is so far behind reality/master then any testing done on it is quite likely to be invalid, and it won't have any hotfixes that were deployed in the meantime.

YMMV
Given the comment I was responding to, I was assuming that only a ban would be attempted on the environmentally unfriendly cryptos.

How would you propose to ban all cryptos? We haven't even been able to ban torrents.
> sect-like "love bombing"

So poetic.
I believe GP refers to the fact that by receiving employee status under law, you also receive a set of entitlements in addition to whatever you have agreed to as a freelancer. This is not about you having to change your preferred way of working, but about the fact that by forcing you to give up that much control, they also assume responsibilities that they probably have not assessed and you could take advantage of.
Oh, but they are:

https://www.wrshlaw.com/blog/medical-malpractice/medical-mal...

The heart of the issue is that it's a legally approved drug. That's where the debate moves into questions like: To what extent can a doctor prescribe a drug before it can be perceived as medical malpractice?

Since the 2010s, states and federal government in the U.S. have started to enact countermeasures against the Opioid Crisis. This includes cracking down on pharmacists and doctors who over-prescribe:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opioid_epidemic_in_the_United_...

Reading into the above, you'll notice that the story is far more complex. It's a "wicked" problem with many in's and out's. On the surface level, fixing this seems easy, until you start digging into this and you see complex interests, countless stakeholders, political tensions, power structures, dependencies on other policy issues, etc. add to the complexity.
Interestingly, and the first time I have seen this, the patient in the case report is the corresponding author of the paper (Goldman).
(Note: I'm Head of Developer Relations at Streamlit)

While I cannot speak to your experience with either project, I do want to point out that open-source doesn't have to be a zero-sum game. Gradio has different goals than Streamlit, which has different goals than Flask and Django.

In the end, congratulations to both HuggingFace and Gradio, Streamlit looks forward to seeing what they end up building!
We just need some proper laws to remove the possibility of interfering with adblocking software
Yes, the uncertainty of what can be known and the arbitrariness of empiricism make a wonderfully powerful hypothesis generator, allowing one to hypothesize against not only unverified hypotheses, but also against any claim that any given hypothesis has been empirically verified. One can, for example, employ it to say that it is a perfectly reasonable hypothesis that the apparent global pandemic is not being caused by a virus, or that homo sapiens did not evolve from other species.
Monitoring your employees' work at their computer is losers game.

This only works for menial jobs where you can actually see the work happening, the widgets being cranked.

But even in a job as simple as callcenter operator you can have people who treat your customers well and you can have people who are there to just get as many calls as possible to get their stats for the day. You can't tell that by looking at time spent and number of calls served.

For people who are supposed to organise their work, think through plans, etc. the work does not happen in the computer, it happens in peoples' hearts and minds. I know a lot of people who spend their entire days with busy work providing no value to the company, because they are only interested in continuing their employment.

It is stupid because it is saying "I can't evaluate the value you provide but at least I am going to make sure you pay the costs (in time spent at the computer)"

My company has very simple vacation policy -- take as much vacation as you want. Come back when you feel fresh and ready to something great. Which makes me want to figure out how to actually be more productive.
I would be interested in learning more - this sounds completely novel to any way I have worked before.
Python Fire is my favorite tool for a dead simple way to create a CLI without using ugly argparse
Credit cards are from an era where magnetic stripes was a novelty. It is just a bunch of numbers and very lax in security.

Visa & Mastercard are just global duopolies, they have used their dominance to keep the cards easy to use but insecure. The cost of fraud is ultimately borne by the merchants, who try to pass on the hefty fee to the card holders.

India is trying to move to digital payments, a vast majority of the people are first time card holders or even account holders. Frauds do not make it easy, and we do not want to make digital payments more expensive than cash payments.

This is not a move against any card network. However, I personally think it is wrong for Visa/Mastercard to use their market dominance to charge 2-3% of every transaction. As we move more and more into a digital economy, this duopoly starts to sound like a New East India Company.
I'm struggling to think of an aesthetic reason why SQL would be "good" yet R, "ugly".
I feel like Web Assembly is hard to understand if you don't have a background in systems programming.

Coming from web dev what are some good resources to get me to a point where i can better bridge the gap?

I just started learning Rust a few days ago (Doing adventofcode in Rust) but i don't really know what path to take to be able to build something useful with Web Assembly
Already exists, it’s called Amazon Transparency.
OK so they pulled up the drawbridge behind them once they were in a good position. Masterfully done...
Take it as you want, I never have an issue with Firefox and it's not a Chrome based browser.
I didnt't even get a quater of the way down the page before I stopped reading.

As soon as the author started listing things like k8s as needed for microservices it shows they havent stopped to think out side the box. there is no reason you can't run your set of microservices as 3-4 docker containers on the same host, no load balancers, no k8s, no log aggrigation, etc etc etc.

If your application makes sence as microservices you don't need to start with all of that, so including it all in the cost of startup makes no sense at all, as your application starts to scale out and need them, add them at that time, your going to need most of it for a monolith application as well, and some of them you may NEVER need (k8s for example, there is no reason you can't run your application on just plain old compute infrastructure, you don't even need to look at the "cloud" that old box in the corner of your office might be all you need for the project)

if you stop and remember that "microservices" just means small single function services, not things like k8s you will probably find that you can actully do a lot less work if you go down that road by letting other exsisting projects so a whole bunch of the work for you and save you re-inventing the wheel to get your project finished and out the door.
> have someone really familiar with SOC 2 certification working for them?

Not that I'm aware of.

I don't know the details. My interpretation is that some manager hired some company to help them with this certification that the sales people says that they need.
Did I miss it or did that article not give any real reason for choosing Flask? I don't want to bash on Flask, but I really don't know a good reason for choosing Flask in the first place. The only reason may be that it is slightly simpler to use as long as the usecase is very simple.

For a minimal microservice, something based on asyncio really is preferable. Flask doesn't do async IO. I don't really care if it is as fast as Go or node, but non-blocking matters. On the other hand, what Django brings to the table also matters. I much prefer using the kitchen sink offered by Django rather than bolting on bits and pieces to a Flask or FastAPI solution.

One notable exception is OctoPrint, which uses Flask. It's designed to run on Raspberry Pis with limited resources. Maybe it would be better off with FastAPI now but it started on Flask when FastAPI didn't exist, and Django would probably have been too heavy and opinionated in that scenario.
GCP is pretty pleasant overall. The API, command line, and UI are all pretty good. Vast majority of functionality is supported in all three places too. Like all providers, they have a few services that suck but overall Google has done a great job at developer experience.
Components in bytecode format with support for C++, where have I seen it?

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/standard/clr

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/cpp/dotnet/dotnet-programmi...
Your laptop? No, it is not normal and say “no” to this. Their laptop that they are going to ship to you - yes, it is a normal, acceptable, and reasonable practice for many clients with strict security and/or compliance requirements
I've got to say that I am pleasantly surprised, since it was pretty obvious that the fix was in.

The Feds and forty-three states had already approved a settlement that that only required the family return a fraction of their ill-gotten gains, and stripped the victims of their right to seek redress in the courts.

If ever there was a case that called for piercing the corporate veil and clawing back all of the ill-gotten earnings, this would be it.
Zig has a work in progress C backend so it does not only generated llvm IR. Also to ve more specific Zig is macros are awesome but best implemented as C++'s comptime.
You might be confusing mean goal and end goal. Nobody needs to write a linked list, except when interviewing.

What you need (a feature, a performance improvement, etc.) is usually better served with other structures, especially in languages which don't heavily favor heap allocations (in a GC based language you've already paid the allocation cost when creating the object anyway).

I think there's now some evidence that Rust prevents developers neither from making efficient applications nor from efficiently making them.
I would also argue that it's quite hard to determine from a Wikipedia article if a person were a good programmer at the time of creating a certain thing about 40 years ago.

If my memory serves me correctly, Leslie Lamport [1] created TeX because he wanted to write a book on math but there were no good systems to write math, so he made TeX. So to me, it sounds like he were a math teacher at that time, I have no idea if he actually knew programming when starting to work on TeX.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leslie_Lamport
I don't know Drata but to me this is very common. And I don't see the problem.
I usually carry ~3 laptops provided by my client or use remote citrix machines.

In the rare event I have a customer that let's me work on my own hardware, I use VMs.
VMs make it easy to segregate and backup work.
OP says:

"Then I successfully bullshit my way through our next stand-up to hide my lack of production."

and

"I often don't understand the technical details other engineers discuss in meetings."

The implication that I took away is that OP is not productive.

I have no problem with a productive team where it happens that some (or all) of them work best by letting issues sit in the back of their head until their subconscious produces results. My work always has unpredictable interruptions which need to be addressed at various levels of urgency, so we need to have the capacity to address emergencies, then settle down and get back to projects. I encourage everyone on my team to allocate time during the workday for education, current events in the field, and discussion with other employees about what they are doing. That last has been particularly difficult over the last eighteen months...
Racism isn't the same thing as colourism. Eastern Europeans and Muslims are both groups that get racialised in Western Europe.
It’s also hard to measure environmental factors like air quality is better now than in the 70s (thanks unleaded gas).

The challenge is when specific areas that are worse off (wages) are lumped together with a general negativity (we’re worse off).

I wish there were better metrics, but at least we have tools like CPI. It’s just so tempting to use these data for the wrong analyses and conclusions.
No, this is not the new normal and it will never be. I would never accept this. Period.
People that pay the least trust the least - which makes sense, people know they are being screwed and treat things accordingly.
"It's backup day today so I'm pissed off. Being the BOFH, however, does have it's advantages. I reassign null to be the tape device - it's so much more economical on my time as I don't have to keep getting up to change tapes every 5 minutes. And it speeds up backups too, so it can't be all bad can it? Of course not."

So not quite everything he gets up to is fantasy.
I hear the complaint that R is a terrible language mainly from professional programmers.

I'm sure it is poorly designed from a computer science perspective, but there is no programming language out there which makes it so easy to run any model under the sun as does R.
Perhaps something like the node editor in game engines - a visual system for connecting inputs to outputs and transforming the data as it goes through the graph. Non-technical users seem understand the analogy very intuitively.
It's a nice fantasy, but you need to brush up on Amdahl's law and apply it to saving. Our rent is currently 25% of our joint take home pay. It's contractually tied to inflation and goes up every year. Housing goes to 40-50% if we buy, but half of that will be equity and the other half at least won't be making my landlord, who owns at least a dozen properties, even wealthier.

And we're not DINKs by choice. We want kids.

I put 50% of my personal take-home salary in to savings/investments and have been doing so for 3 years. We have decided not go give more than token gifts this Christmas as we really want to reach our spring savings goal.

Meanwhile house prices have gone up 10-15% over the last year. I earn good money but if it's this tough for me then believe me when I say it's fucking hopeless for most people my age.

I've also heard this bullshit before from older generations, including my parents. Sure they faced hardships. Different kinds of hardships. Unemployment. Inflation. High interest rates...but don't think people have it any easier today because they're they spend $30/mo on a phone contract. Spending $30/mo on Netflix and Disney+ today is like spending $4/mo on whatever crap people wasted money on in the 1970s. They did it too.
Unwelcoming for sure.
We have two options. First, Putin is bluffing. This is what most people believe (and hope). In this case giving Ukraine more weapons won't hurt anyone. Option two is that he is really planning some offensive action this winter. In this case sending weapons to Ukraine could help in slowing the Russians down. It could also help in decimating their army - if they unmask as a ruthless aggressor, it is in the interest of the whole civilization, not just the EU, to limit their impact.
>> 'Honestly? No'

>

> The 'No' alone would be enough, but the 'Honestly?' would me want to look for other jobs right away.

Can you explain why one is worse than the other?

(I'm not being facetious, I'd really rather like to know).
Google Play app with 500k downloads sent user contacts to Russian server
I'm surprised I had to scroll this far into the comments to find this obvious answer. Each of my customers has a dedicated VM and I compartmentalize all sensitive data into each environment. In this manner, I can run each customer's goofy VPN client, endpoint scanning, device policy compliance etc without any of it touching my primary system. If there is some security exposure in one of the VMs, it won't impact my primary system or adjacent systems (short of a VM escape exploit).
3. Be relentless, learn all the skills. The cost: have no life. I wouldn’t recommend this though.

4. Learn how to build teams, allow those teams to teach you all the skills you need to at least make an mvp or some similar goal.

5. Do a couple of skills and find a co-founder for the other skills.

6. Get good at selling visions and raising capital (synergizes with 4).

Those are my brainstormy thoughts.
How JavaScript works: Streams and their use cases
Guix – The Big Change
> Trade blockchain tokens for other blockchain tokens. Or trade blockchain tokens for tokens that claim (with dubious, temporary and totally non-cryptographic evidence) to be backed by something else.

The Perth Mint is "dubious" and "temporary" to you?

If you dislike examples of assets backed by centralized entities, then look at decentralized algorithmic stablecoins.

> - Lend and borrow blockchain tokens.

Yes, including tokens that track "real world" assets. Lending and borrowing is afater all an integral part of the modern economy. This bulletpoint stands by itself.

> - Try to launder your blockchain tokens. They have to be really dirty for it to be worth it, since obscuring how you got hold of something valuable is already a crime in itself.

Just because you don't see any value in money laundering doesn't mean others don't. It's a billion dollar industry.

> - Give your blockchain tokens to blockchain casino owners.

If you want to, yes, you should absolutely have the freedom to do that. Alas, some jurisdictions in real life prevent their people from doing just that.
The way I understand it is that time release opioids are in fact not addictive when used as directed by the manufacturer. However, they are also ineffective for most patients. As a result, doctors just up the dosage. This winds up being effective and addictive for many patients.

This is just what I have read, I have never been addicted to anything.
Perhaps like Inform:

http://inform7.com/

Although I suppose in the age of GPT-3 that will probably take over.
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