skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> But the question is not "whether they will accomplish great things," but rather, "whether they will make the best use of the limited care we can provide."

Maybe I'm being dense, but I don't see how these aren't the same thing. What does it mean to make the best use of medical care then?

I was assuming best use meant something like return on investment of resources (which is certainly a cold way to look at human lives, but I don't know how else to read that). I can think of a couple potential metrics there - years lived after, "value" added to society - but I don't see how vaccine status could be reasonably expected to predict those metrics.

I'm also taking your word that we choose transplant patients this way, since I have no knowledge there. Reading about it a little, it sounds like its not so cut and dry. Are we really disqualifying these people because they have specific conditions, or are we doing it because of some metric like years lived after or odds of the procedure working?
I was very puzzled by your argument until I skimmed the video. You are associating functional programming with avoiding side effects. That’s a very Haskell-ish view of things but that’s not the heart of it.

The key idea of functional programming is that it’s easier to think of program as a composition of functions rather than as a list of statements and therefore functions should be first class values. That used to be controversial but frankly the idea won. We have seen lambdas go mainstream in most major languages and programming is more and more functional by the day.
I deal with this every day. Personal fully controlled server. I don’t conduct business over this server, have only one email, a personal email, associated with it.
I took a major "downgrade" last year and went from a Kia Stinger (2019, all the latest tech features) to a 4Runner (2009, almost unchanged since 2003). For how ancient the 4runner is, it's become my favorite car I've ever owned, and the biggest reason it's just how dumbed down and ancient it is.

No onboard wifi, no remote start, no infotainment, no over the air updates. The simplicity also makes the parts super cheap. When I bought it, the headlights were very foggy and I considered taking it somewhere to have them re-polished. I assumed new headlights would cost several hundred dollars each but when I looked i was able to find a pair of headlights and new bulbs for under $250 (for comparison, one enclosure for a Stinger is like $600).

I think what I like most about the old SUV is the idea of self-reliance. Get into a modern car and you're reliant on the towers for WiFi, servers for OTA updates, service centers to work on your car, I could go on. My 4Runner is the opposite, it's not reliant on anything except my attention to it's care.
I love everything about this. Happy times to all.
I wish he would fix Tumblr first. They just permabanned my gf's account for no reason at all. Another victim of AI-banning.
This publication, which has Takeo Kato as author, might be useful (it's about a curcumin derivative):

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34894926/
I am not entirely sure your premises are correct, but it certainly boils down to personal opinions so no point in debating.

Just for fun, I went back to my 1040 tax statements for the first three years of my career, about a decade ago: $35k, $65k, $89k.

The fact that you are starting with $200k is fabulous and not to be taken for granted imho. If you are able to put the majority of your after tax savings in the market, compounding over a decade might surprise you even if we are at an all time high.
I tried to do this, didn't get past validation stage. A lot of developers were hostile to the idea. This was around 2010 though. I didn't expect Steam to survive with that kind of hostility but it did. It's not even a shitty incumbent like WhatsApp, it's genuinely changed how we purchase and own games.

You'd probably have to do the Epic approach to even have a fighting chance: give out AAA games every month. Or the itch approach: lower the bar completely.
Why Do We Need Transpilation into JavaScript?
I've been filling a tiny gap in Microsoft tooling with https://www.versionsql.com/

It's something that seemed small and simple to implement, but has filled a not-insignificant portion of nights and weekends for over six years now. Then covid came around and dried up most of my consulting income, so I figured why not really prioritize it and see how far it can go? Still small, but growing nicely now.

Also reluctantly abandoned the flawed "build it and they will come" mentality and started splitting time evenly between development and marketing. This has probably contributed more to the project's recent growth than several thousand hours of dev time. Take heed, o ye ambitious developer-founders! :-) Recommended resources: Product-Led Growth, Developer Marketing Does Not Exist, 80/20 Sales and Marketing, BusinessOfSoftware.org talk videos, Microconf talk videos (on YouTube).
Yeah, I’m an immigrant like the other replier too, you kids need to dump your books and travel the world, outside Americanized liberal cities.
I agree with all that, but thats not really what the argument is. As crappy as the Instagram web client might be, at least Instagram has a proper API, that accepts both authenticated and anonymous requests.
Exercise May Affect Our Alcohol Consumption
Fundamentally, the original post is simply cherry picking data. Once you cherry pick, you can arrive at whatever conclusion you like.

For example, the data distortion caused by having younger asians in the United states is an example of Simpson's paradox. These can be eliminated using survival analysis

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Survival_analysis
> Normies gotta dream about something though, I guess.

Huh? So as a privileged business owner, you’re calling 9-5 workers as “normies” for desiring more fulfillment?
Much more needs to be said about the extreme advantages of paying someone vs. using a free service.

I've said this for over two decades: If you have a business, or even just a lot of important stuff going on in email (which is like everybody); it strikes me as insanity to not pay for the peace of mind that comes with "a human you can call up and say 'hey, why can't I get into my email' or 'hey, fix this please"

Versus what SO MANY PEOPLE use, which is "It's possible that your email will be removed from you entirely and you will have recourse because no one has a contract with you to fix it."
My email server is only used as a personal server for a few select friends and family. They absolutely do not send and have never sent anything that could remotely be considered spam. Everything in our setup is picture perfect (SPF, DKIM, DMARC, PTR records, etc). We still can't get email onto Microsoft's servers without it being marked as spam.
The m1 air is the star of the show for me, because it is a machine that overdelivers to such a degree. I got one to replace my laptop, and to my surprise discovered that it outperforms my i5 9600K desktop, by a noticeable margin, without even getting warm. Also, it’s really nice to finally have actual all day battery life. For the brief window that our offices reopened I would leave my charger at home and still have 20% to 30% left by the end of the day.
fiction: project hail mary -- just an all around amazing book.

non-fiction: an elegant puzzle: systems of engineering management -- i'm debating whether to change into management and this one really helped me understand a bit more what goes into engineering management.
And the top half of the results is all ads! I don’t know how people stand Google.
ARM isn’t new and hasn’t been a performance champ for most of the decades it’s been around. The other ARM server implementations tended to be slower but better at perf/watt or perf/dollar — Apple changed that with absolute performance wins as well. That suggests that it’s more the execution by their team than an innate architectural advantage, esophagus given how many other cleaner architectures were wiped out by x86.
How much _profit_ are you making _right now_.

The key point is that timing of expenses vs revenue significantly impacts cash flow. A growing business can lose money on every sale and quite literally make it up in (acceleration of) volume till they grow large/efficient enough to have profitable unit economics.

For a brief example to hopefully illustrate why that matter, a pretty basic business would be to buy stuff, make a thing, and sell your widgets. If it takes you 6mo to turn every $1 into $1.30 in that business then you have pretty amazing unit economics but still might struggle with cash flow; if sales just double in a given year or two you won't have enough velocity of money to build the things people are buying without additional investments or cash reserves. Contrast that with a net-60 payment for your materials and a 30-day pre-order for your hyped up widgets. At any given point in time you'll have exactly (not actually exactly I don't think, I'd have to do the math, this might depend on how fast sales increase or decrease) twice as much money in the bank (because it's tied up in other people's accounts for a total of half the time) and a high enough velocity of money to nearly triple your sales every year (supposing you can find buyers for your product).

Additional money in the bank can have super-linear value for because of the extra options available. If you're struggling to pay rent and wages this month and a great deal on the lathe you need crops up then you might quite literally not be able to take advantage of that cheaper machine at the moment and be forced to pay more later when you can actually afford it. Or if you're able to efficiently utilize cash to grow your business you can just use those cash reserves to grow more quickly. In any case, cash flow is typically a good thing to have.

That isn't to say that profits and whatnot don't matter (especially on sufficiently large timescales), but they don't impact the day-to-day functioning of the business directly like cash flow does.
A lot of good would come from being able to personality search companies, especially by career level.
I've seen enough failures exactly because "Perfect was the enemy of Good enough". It's a good mantra.
Like Chesterton's fence [0].

I get annoyed when other younger/new hires come in and just start bashing and saying how stupid this is that is/was and that the person that did it was dumb or an idiot or incompetent without them first learning the history, context, and environment the decision(s) were made in. And they're typically not wrong. If the decision(s) were made today, I typically agree 100% with them.

[0] https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/Chesterton%27s_fence#:~:tex....
Unfortunately, network effects are in play. Lots of people use facebook for things trivial and important. Local municipalities using it for events, etc. If you're not on it, you don't have a voice.
> Automattic itself doesn't have to abide by GPL terms for whatever use they want to make of Wordpress

Yes they do. Automatic doesn’t own the copyright to all the code. Individual contributions are still copyrighted and licensed under the GPL. They would need permission from all previous contributors to relicense it to avoid having to comply with the GPL.
Or switch to a language more suited for the job and you can add a „k“ to that 1000
I think a programming language should have a very clear goal of what problems it is trying to solve. These general purpose languages then start evolving into different direction with patchworks coming from different teams with a different and sometimes conflicting visions. Like what is currently happening to C++.
It must be a bit strange for Andy Weir. He wrote 'The Martian' as a serial online, originally, and later published it on Kindle as a bit of a 'why not?'. (I bought the Kindle self-published version for $2!)

Fast forward a few years, and Barack Obama and Bill Gates are posting that his latest book was one of their favourites of the year.
Wish you get a lift of the ban. Meanwhile, I can't wait to see another episode of "vip complains online about bigtech ban and an insider helps him out while the rest of the plebs struggle with their permabans"
You can find a thousand clearly corrupt things Trump himself did in office, but sure, let’s talk about Biden’s son’s history.
That's how extreme shortsightedness looks like.

The number of users you lose by doing that is smaller than the number you gain as long as you don't have enough users (and spends enough on publicity). This is also the one thing that limits the number of users a company will ever have on most cases.
I’ve made sure to delete or render inactive all social media accounts. Yes, even GitHub. And you know what? Life continues.
Speaking of which, how long before it won't be possible to host your own web server?

Maybe its just a matter of time for some. For me personally, I could not possibly care less if all the free mail providers blocked me some day. If something is important I can call people and tell them to go to https://mydomain.tld/theirName/ to grab files. I have used this method with non technical people including lawyers without issue. They prefer of course to use their own secure portals. I do acknowledge that running my own mail server may get more expensive with time as I may have to use providers that and more vigilant about keeping abusers off their network.

As for web servers why would I not be able to run my own servers? I can rent VM's, physical servers, racks, cages.

I am just speaking for myself but I will never give in to the bully anti-competitive behavior of the likes of Google and as for ISP's I will not use one that blocks ports or protocols. If there is any blocking to be done it must be done by me. I would never fund an ISP that uses CG-NAT or rate limits something by protocol or port. I realize some people have limited options but at least in terms of blocking and rate limiting, those ISP's are shooting themselves in the feet given that providers like Starlink and various 5G providers will be more common place soon.
Happy holidays, merry Christmas. The link is kinda unrelated thought
This is awesome. Great idea, great execution, and great story. You scratched your own itch and turned it into a business. Thanks for sharing the project and background.
I won't feel like that. I don't feel like that. I have felt like it licenses lesser moral transgressions though. "They got away with that, so I should be able to get away with [thing that is wrong but also considerably more mild]."

That isn't right, but it is a feeling. It's a feeling I dismiss. But, still, if it's a feeling I feel then I imagine it's a feeling others feel and I imagine that not everybody dismisses it either.

Corruption of that kind happens very, very slowly.
The Xiaomi Mi 9 SE had exactly that
I think you misunderstood. If you fire up a mail server on your Linux box today and try using it for mail the big mail servers are sending your mail to spam due to a bunch of spam rules. These days, you need an organization with a known reputation for sending good e-mail to handle your e-mail so you don't end up in a spam folder. It's how the big players stay big.
Sure, barring contributions made without contributor agreements in place.

They seem to track "copyright holders" for wordpress core and it's not a huge list: https://codex.wordpress.org/Copyright_Holders
I agree. I know people who avoid conda because of long install/update times, but I am more than willing to occasionally have to go outside for a walk while packages I rely on get properly managed and installed.

BTW, sorry for being off topic, but Lex Fridman has two great recent long form interviews with Anaconda founders Peter Wang and Travis Oliphant. Good discussions!
Magic Lasso is what enabled me to finally stop using Chrome on my personal devices and just use Safari. I’ve been a happy (and paying) Magic Lasso user for over a year since I heard you advertise on some Mac podcasts.

Thank you for building this awesome product
Fast food is both cultural and economic. Many immigrant households are very traditional and the woman take on the duty of buying and preparing foods. If you are single American, or single parent, working multiple jobs economically it's more convenient to eat fast food. I have rarely seen immigrant men from non-western countries in any type of grocery store shopping for fresh produce.
> If you're not on it, you don't have a voice.

Depends on what you’re trying to say doesn’t it?

But I’d challenge this overall sentiment. I haven’t had Facebook since 2010 or so. Nothing bad happened. I have a large and loving family and lots of close friends that I spend time with. I didn’t lose my voice. If I’m angry I call my representative or show up at their office. If a company does something I disagree with I don’t buy their products and I leave feedback on their website.

It’s an illusion that we need Facebook or any other company as a conduit for feedback. We are choosing that path. It’s not one we need to take.
I run mail-in-a-box on a $5 Linode. Very usable, never had an issue.
Even with TLS, that is usually handled by issuing STARTTLS on TCP port 25. I can't find anything in the RFCs mentioning server-to-server smtp delivery happening on anything but port 25? Do you have a reference for that? In fact, even the MX for google domains (aspmx.l.google.com) does not listen on TCP port 465 or 587, only 25.
the traditional "lower risk" portfolio as a function of age is to decrease allocation from stocks in favor of bonds. As previously mentioned, extremely high prices for bonds coupled with substantial inflation means that bonds are no longer less risky. What's risky isn't so much a question of the asset class, but more about the price paid. Trillions of dollars are reaching for yield and it is not clear what a low risk asset might be in late 2021.
Having your project picked up by commercial users is entirely the problem this heuristic is intended to avoid. It’s also the central problem from the linked article: commercial users take from open source projects and often don’t give anything back. They also tend to externalize any costs they have from use of the project onto the project maintainers.

Maybe you’re okay with being treated the way the log4j maintainers are being treated right now. The whole point is that you shouldn’t be! People producing valuable software in their free time and giving it away for free should be treated with respect and that’s not happening right now. We need to find a solution!
I think page load times like this are like 30fps vs 60fps in console gaming.

60fps is perceptibly better and for many of us, me included, is usually required or it is palpably uncomfortable.

But for the overwhelming majority of people: they don’t notice or don’t care.
I advise everyone to take a look at the EU Digital Markets Act. This may be a unique opportunity to force large corporations into behaving nicely with others on the interoperability front and kill off their malicious monopolies at the root.

https://interoperability.news/2021/12/eu-parliament-upgrades...
Being FB free, forever, is to be celebrated.
I wouldn’t feel that way. Not paying those loans has a large impact on people’s ability to do relatively normal things like buy a house or get a non-POS credit card. Those effects won’t go away even if their loans are forgiven.

I do think you have a case to feel aggrieved, but at the end of the day you can choose to be someone who lives up to your standards or not. Getting upset about it is as much a choice as anything else you do.
I'm on an M1 (8GB RAM) and it completes my Q/data science stuff faster than my desktop (through rosetta). I use it for fun mainly but wow!!
Because PICUs full of kids sick with COVID isn't "normal", you ignorant fuck?
Boy does this guy have an axe to grind:

> For a long time, people didn’t feel like suckers for acting ethically, they felt honorable.

> Some notable exceptions to this, and their starkness really highlights how rare these cases are:

> …

> All that is required to beat this, honestly, is a few people serving as positive role models with transparency and not abusing their authority.

Sure, he cites some examples (and there are many more) but in my experience people everywhere try to do the right thing (and if they didn’t, nothing would work, which most people understand intuitively). And I say this having lived not just in wealthy countries but poor ones too (I’m an old fart).

Also, his examples are dubious: “flash mobs killing people”, really?

If it’s bad news it’s news (maybe I should learn about a possible threat). If it’s routine good news it’s not newsworthy. The author should put down the remote and go outside.
As a PSA: this book is old enough to be public domain, the audiobook is (legally) available for free on LibriVox: https://librivox.org/the-brothers-karamazov-by-fyodor-dostoy... . The written version is available on Project Gutenberg: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/28054 .

I listened to it while swimming laps. The readers have great, rhythmic pacing.
The fate of the Web will follow.

For example, Chrome & Firefox together will remove FTP protocol support because "stats suggests very few % people use it"
http://archive.today/lDfVU
Give it five minutes. My all time favorite advice on exactly how to do that.

https://signalvnoise.com/posts/3124-give-it-five-minutes
this was true with ac power cables, but isn't with hvdc ones. they don't have the same capacitance issues, and add such undersea cables are becoming more prevalent. a 1400km between Egypt and Greece is expected to be completed in 2023
Ok, I'm just a liar then. Go fuck yourself.
I love "wrong" articles like this, because it's really interesting when someone does the very natural thing of presuming everyone feels the same way they do. The author tells us a lot about himself while believing that some perennial forever phenomenon is something new.
Supposedly we also live longer.
Agreed. But I did learn a lot from it. I needed that because in our large organisation at work the admin rights are highly compartmentalized. And this way I was able to understand what other admins were and weren't able to do.

You can actually get a free test tenant from MS for 3 months but setting up a real production environment is much better than doing some tests.

But yeah I feel lousy about it.
The refractive index is only one part of the story, light does not follow a straight path through fiber it bounces around. I'd assume this to be about the newer inter-sattelite links as comparing fiber to fiber plus some seems obvious.
We live in an age of miracles.

I just don't get it. All the complaining about our society's lack of progress. Wut?

Maybe it's corporate media; cynicism, fear, outrage. Maybe it's growing inequity; hard to appreciative living hand-to-mouth. Maybe people will settle down after we reach the next plateau; Society always freaks out for a few decades when technological progress shakes the ant farm.

It's too bad.

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My one prescription for people (individuals) getting an (positive) attitude adjustment is go find the Milky Way.

Mountain top, away from city lights, cold clear night, no moon. The entire night illuminated by star light alone.

It's hard to not have an overwhelming sense of awe while looking up at the Milky Way.

It's hard to believe we have all the answers when you're just hanging out with the stars.
> If huge tech companies like google, facebook, airbnb etc are unable to make fast websites... then why should we use their frameworks and tools?

You don’t have to at all. Lots of folks do because “fast websites” is one requirement out of many to consider.

What about secure? Stable? Reliable? Maintainable? Reusable?

I personally build excessively lightweight and simple web UIs for my personal projects, but I’m not managing infra that >1bn people use daily and is literally used to answer “does my internet work?” because of its expected reliability.