skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's absolutely true. We work with a lot of technical founders who are turning their research into a diagnostic medical devices. One of the first questions we always ask is: how will the information produced by your device help clinical decision making? More data is _nice_ but if it doesn't alter the course of treatment, it's pointless. Sometimes it's okay if the doctor doesn't know if the problem is A or B if the treatment for A and B is the same.
I think I can agree with that viewpoint. Although I might say that a focus on long term profits needs to be combined with building an economical and sustainable business that invests in the community (community is vague and can mean a wide variety of things). I think businesses need a wider viewpoint that encompasses the system in which they operate.
A great migration will happen soon as more cash/resource-starved countries will open their doors like this to international talent.

It will start a competition amongst countries to get the best talent in their borders.

For Iceland this will be a net win. Even if the people coming in don't pay taxes, their mere presence in the local economy for a few extra months per year could mean the difference between Iceland building another road or not.

Very impressive step from Iceland!
Agreed. "I think therefore I am" is still foundational, last I heard.
From the language reference

> Constant expressions may contain only constant operands and are evaluated at compile time.

and a "const" can only be defined with a constant expression.

So the difference would be that a "val" can be assigned a value that is evaluated at runtime.
Just do it in Bash, of course! Take the poll andcopy/paste it directly into a file called 'hnpoll', then run

sed -e ':a;N;$!ba;s/\n/ /g' -e 's/points/,/g' -e 's/point/ ,/g' -e 's/,/\n/g' hnpoll | awk '{ print $2 " "$1 }' | sort -n | grep ^[0-9] | tail -n 20

12 Finland

12 Serbia

13 Norway

13 Romania

15 Belgium

15 Israel

15 Spain

16 Austria

19 Switzerland

20 Italy

21 India

22 Australia

22 Denmark

26 Brazil

26 Poland

35 Netherlands

36 Sweden

41 France

124 Germany

132 Canada

See- easy!

And if you want the US states, even easier:

grep US -A1 hnpoll | sed -e ':a;N;$!ba;s/\n/ /g' -e 's/points/,/g' -e 's/point/ ,/g' -e 's/,/\n/g' -e '/^$/d' | sort -r |cut -d: -f2 | awk '{ print $2" "$1 }' | sort -n | tail -n 20

15 Arizona

16 Michigan

16 Minnesota

16 Ohio

16 Wisconsin

17 Maryland

18 Georgia

25 Florida

28 Jersey

31 Virginia

32 Pennsylvania

35 Oregon

39 Carolina

42 Illinois

47 Massachusetts

51 Colorado

59 Texas

103 Washington

110 New York

265 California

And people say Bash is a terrible language...

BUT WAIT THERE'S MORE!

Get the total number of US results:

echo $(grep US -A1 hnpoll | sed -e ':a;N;$!ba;s/\n/ /g' -e 's/points/,/g' -e 's/point/ ,/g' -e 's/,/\n/g' -e '/^$/d' | sort -r |cut -d: -f2 | awk '{ print $2 }' | sort -n | grep ^[0-9] | paste -sd+ - | bc)" United States"

943 United States

Combine them a bit...

sed -e ':a;N;$!ba;s/\n/ /g' -e 's/points/,/g' -e 's/point/ ,/g' -e 's/,/\n/g' hnpoll | awk '{ print $2 " "$1 }' | sort -n | grep ^[0-9] | tail -n 20; echo $(grep US -A1 hnpoll | sed -e ':a;N;$!ba;s/\n/ /g' -e 's/points/,/g' -e 's/point/ ,/g' -e 's/,/\n/g' -e '/^$/d' | sort -r |cut -d: -f2 | awk '{ print $2 }' | sort -n | grep ^[0-9] | paste -sd+ - | bc)" United States"

12 Finland

12 Serbia

3 Norway

13 Romania

15 Belgium

15 Israel

15 Spain

16 Austria

19 Switzerland

20 Italy

21 India

22 Australia

22 Denmark

26 Brazil

26 Poland

35 Netherlands

36 Sweden

41 France

124 Germany

132 Canada

943 United States
Reading the terminology being thrown around here, where could I go to get a basic understanding of what you’ll are talking about?

It sounds like different modes of taking (or interpreting/visualizing?) an MRI.
I don't see how this poll determines this. I'm in LA but not silicon valley and had to pick California.
It's fairly hard to uniquely fingerprint iOS devices, there aren't that many configuration options, most people use the stock browser etc.

Actually I suppose this may have changed since the introduction of safari extensions on ios? I haven't looked into this since that released
I don't mind it being a filter, but I think them sorting them like that by default could be an issue. Would you equivalate it to developers paying for higher search ranking? Apple favoring their own services over others definitely could be an anti-trust issue.
It's both, what's the problem with what he wrote?

It's a bug that results from the developers incorrectly assuming that argc is always at least 1.
At that point using C is the footgun.

It's always been the case that argc is not-negative which means it could be zero. It's always been the case that argv[argc] is null. People who assume otherwise are poor C developers.
If we are sure people like so much apple services and integration, should be no problem at all to have alternatives not even directly managed by apple (so that it won't cost anything to apple to support it, except for opening some "store api"), still most users would keep using only the integrated apple services...

or not?

Maybe users would like them even more!
Do you think it's sustainable to raise your entire dev team's comp by 20% or 30% year after year after year? I just don't think that math makes sense after a short period of time.
Fainting works in reverse for me. Everything becomes harder to understand, sound becomes muffled like in low motion, vision starts to fade until you are in total darkness. And it's not similar at all to fall asleep, it's quite scary.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reflex_syncope
Looks like we in the West should redouble efforts to migrate off gas to renewables such as solar and wind, possibly tidal waves.
Can’t fully recall the landscape of things back then, but I think you’re right.

I remember needing to navigate between BuckleScript and ReasonML docs (which were terrible at the time) to make sense of the available standard library.
Iceland is an incredibly expensive place with nothing much to do. I wonder what kind of remote worker would even consider it.
so that tweet was right, eh?
at the time of this writing, I'm seeing:
California 274
Canada 137
Germany 127
UK 116
New York 110
Washington 104
...

So yeah, "Silicon Valley".
Yeah it certainly uses pwm with about a 1 second period, and most of our pans are a good weight. It's effective though. The hob is a fairly fancy neff one, but I wouldn't necessarily recommend it for other reasons (the low and boost buttons stopped working after <4 years).
Good idea but why 1m isk monthly salary? Strange new world if only the ultra rich are welcome. Im sure Iceland would benefit also from average income remote workers.
They’re charging the apps for distribution, which is a lot of infrastructure and a lot of human-driven process that doesn’t come for free. There are good platform reasons for not allowing alternate distribution methods.

There are no wholesale prices for digital goods so they get tacked on as fees. All Apple is really doing is asking developers to give their customers an all-in price that they’ll display. You as a developer are free to raise your prices 30% on iOS, and many in fact do.

Every segment of every market does not need to be relentlessly competitive. Apple’s App Store rules are obvious, and if you don’t like them, you’re free not to develop for their platform (which itself is the product they sell to their consumers; not your app and of which the iPhone is only one component).

You are not entitled to be profitable any way you want; you have to find a niche in the market that’s profitable and if you can’t make money on iOS, the market solution is to just do something else. Countries — especially relatively small ones — that try to legislate around this are just as likely to be seen as more trouble for Apple than they’re worth to have an official presence in.
> force a certain amount of attrition each year

Common experience, someone is told shortly before review time that they are doing an acceptable job, then two weeks later they are signing the PIP.

The assumption is their boss had to fire someone, and the PIP victim just happened to be the one who came up short. For whatever reason: short tenure, doing OK but not spectacular, their tasks of lower priority, said something that pissed off a Director, I'm sure we can think of many more possibilities.
There was a great tweet today: https://mobile.twitter.com/kevinroose/status/148927407968513...

Kevin Roose: Can't imagine why this platform is shrinking

Facebook top ten: The top-performing link posts by U.S. Facebook pages in the last 24 hours are from:

1. Breitbart
2. Ben Shapiro
3. Dan Bongino
4. NPR
5. Ben Shapiro
6. Ben Shapiro
7. Ben Shapiro
8. Steven Crowder
9. Ben Shapiro
10. Franklin Graham

I won't touch the platform anymore. It's so out of touch.
Err, wouldn't you look at the source for most of these things? What framework do you use where that isn't true?
"But what if it breaks userland" does seem to be something of a fig leaf. Change would imply there may have been something wrong with the previous code.
Here is a plot https://cdn.steemitimages.com/DQmSYahKij2EKVRCuXEJvLmkvFKLbW...
The link says that a condition for approval is "The applicant does not intend to reside in Iceland for the long term.
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What withdrawal types are there? Does it accept PayPal, Bitcoin, etc?
I don’t understand why so many people find it difficult to imagine ancient people understanding something as finite as aerodynamic mathematics. Their understanding of all other maths was phenomenal. Newton didn’t invent Newtonian physics and he probably wasn’t even as savvy as some of the ancients were. There is far too much inductive reasoning in history and historically science.
I'm no philosopher but feel the same way, the most advanced technology and thinking we have still has to be processed and understood by our own consciousness. It reminds me of the brain-in-a-vat problem. If you ever discovered you were actually just a simulation then the simulation would be paused, the bug fixed, and restarted. There's only so much that can be done with the perception available to us.
> The default max_size of containers is restricted to max 2^32 byte, i.e. 2GB, to avoid DDOS attacks.

Wouldn't hiting the max size be a kind of DoS attack too?
It's the single most irritating interaction I have had with a coworker, and I have had it at least once at every job I've ever had.

"Hey, thing xyz is super confusing, can you (help me use it|explain how it works|rewrite it so I understand it)?"

"Did you read the document I sent? The document (has sample code that does the thing you're trying to do|explains how it works|explains why the simpler approach doesn't actually work in practice)"

"...No."

It's incredible how some devs can learn 15-20 different programming languages, and completely forget English in the process.
True, they mention in the article some possible advantages of reduced noise and downwash.
> now we know it’s 27%

Bah, we most certainly don't.

They pulled that number completely out of their ass, just like the previous 30%. The only rationale behind it is because they could get away with it.
I think that GP is trying to say the following.

In quantum mechanics, probabilities are given by the square of the absolute value of more fundamental quantities called amplitudes. When something happens in two ways that can be distinguished, you must add the probabilities. When something happens in two indistinguishable ways, you must add the amplitudes, which yields a different probability after squaring. For example, .3^2+.4^2 != (.3+.4)^2. Thus, you can verify experimentally whether particles are or are not distinguishable.
You have to take a moment to appreciate that a "Major Computer Company" (Burroughs) made bank selling these systems to large businesses to handle things like their accounting etc. And yet today you can emulate the entire system with all of its peripherals on an ESP32 microprocessor that you can buy for $5.

It was this sort of realization by people in the 80's who were seeing Microprocessors that could do much of what computers could do at the start of their careers, who thought "Wow, we can make a 'microcomputer' that does all that too."

It is possible today to write a full accounting package that tracks an entire families budget for all the things they buy and all their expenses and income that runs on a $2 chip with another $5 in peripherals. If you re-use the family TV for a display, you can build an inexpensive appliance that could help a family manage their budget, wirelessly send required data to a tax calculation service or program, and never need software "updates".

This is the opportunity of the "new" microprocessor revolution (in my opinion), which is basically one computer per program. And the whole package "just works."
Yes, there is information related to that:

"The applicant does not intend to reside in Iceland for the long term."

Mildly similar to the concept of "dual intent" in the US immigration system
I like the concept of voters being an intermediate category between producers/writers and consumers/readers. However, I’d argue that, on Hacker News, the commenters are the actual “content creators” of the HN “community”. It’s easy to submit a URL while it takes substantially more effort (time and thought) to make a useful contribution to an interesting discussion (though submitters are necessary to kick-start the discussions).
Not bothering would be the equivalent of the app store closing in this case, which would mean that iPhones would have to be open. So that would be the ideal outcome (except for Apple).
The meaning of "two doses" hasn't changed.
There are infrastructure agreements which function on revenue basis too.

Critical patents have some limitations, but only because of agreements which were reached in the establishment of specific standards.

If you own the IP, you get to decide how you're compensated for it.
It turns work into a war of all against all.
According to the link, a prerequisite for the visa is explicitly not intending to stay long-term
Worldwide contains a lot of places without personal computer friendly economics. The corresponding stat in the USA is about 47% by way of comparison.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/683082/share-of-website-...
Is that not about £6k a month? It’s a lot but hardly the ultra rich
Project Hamilton Phase 1 Executive Summary
Interesting idea, but how can you guarantee the people giving you feedback have any idea what they are talking about? I mean, even the linked landing page is a bad example of a landing page (no contact details, no email policy, doesn't say what happens after you click submit, etc.)
Its nature is unparalleled. And I'm sure the people are lovely.
That’s a feature not a bug, I think.
It's last commit was on March 2021. Is the project abandoned?
At $20k estimated cost, you are getting into territory where the TAM of non-medical uses may be higher.

Sports physio / trainers would kill to be able to do regular MRI on their athletes. Being able to do pre/post workout imaging, and the kind of training programs this level of visibility would unlock, are quite exciting.

Assuming you can generalize from brain to whole-body, I think you could sell one of these to every major sports team in the country, and making it a non-medical device (ie skipping the FDA) would let you iterate much faster. A couple more halvings in price and this is accessible to every sports physio office and gym in the country.

Very cool!
App Store has been a >$1B business for at least a decade.
So to summarize, standard model theory predicted that the radius of the proton would be 0.84 femtometers. High energy electron scattering experiments from the 90s and 2000s suggested it was more like 0.88 femtometers, which was a large discrepancy that causes some consideration that the standard model would have to be revised. These researchers performed a reanalysis of the data correcting for some confounding phenomena (might have been neutron formation) to suggest that the old experimental data was consistent with the 0.84 femtometers predicted by both theory and by newer lower energy scattering experiments.

I’ll leave it as an exercise for the reader to decide whether the title of the article is clickbait.
The point is not in comparing cryptocurrency with anything, but showing, that the the structure of your argument admits absurd consequences thus showing that the argument is invalid.

> the usefulness and popularity of crypto shouldn’t be related to its value in relation to fiat

Are you sure that the usefulness and popularity of crypto are related to its value beyond some reasonable correlation?
I qualify and I consider myself a regular person living in a flyover state. Certainly neither average nor particularly rich.
At least it’s not YouTube Games. Yet.
Something will most certainly come out. You're just not defining the system. If I define the system as "one programmer is responsible for looking at the desired product and writing specifications" and the other programmer is to translate specification into programming code, and never shall one do the other's job, I assure you, the best programmers in the world will produce shit over time.

Randomly swap in two new actors with different life experiences into the same spots to do the same work, and you'll still get shit. If in the unlikely event, you get amazing work, it's not that the people doing it were special; it's just anothe outlier in the data stream. Add in the emotional toll of working as hard as possible to succeed but never being able to meet prescribed quality levels?

A system is perfectly tuned to produce the results it does. Want different results? Change the system. That is Deming's point. We have a tendency to blame variance in a system on the human actors immediately proximal, instead of paying attention to the actual significant constraints. This is an important lesson to management types, as they are to process/system what a programmer is to a computer.

The planners cast the dice for downstream long before downstream can do anything about it, and in many corporate setups, top down works just fine, but bottom up never gets any attention.
Cold, too. It's worth a visit, but I don't think I'd stay for six months.

I'd love to see this from Japan or Korea. I'd definitely go and spend my money.

Incredibly smart business decision on Iceland's part, though. I'm sure they'll get some takers and enjoy that extra "long term tourist" income.
lol unparalleled? Ask any Norwegian visiting Iceland what they think...
Analogies are a good thing to convince people. When equations match, it is even good to introduce new concepts for people who already know other areas. Other than that, analogies are very rarely useful to explain anything.
1m isk/month is not ultra rich, just high income, right?
Good solution for when I have to have a real flame. That'd let me do the handful of things I can't practically do on induction. I like it.
It's still blame for being non-technical. People rightfully don't really know how a lot of these highly complex products work.

They just want to (e.g.) make sure their photos of their kids won't get deleted.

The whole purpose of regulations is to protect the consumer against predatory companies.

Companies are showing up armed with a massive information asymmetry. They’re paying thousands of data scientists and marketers to learn everything about you and how to manipulate you into buying.

The customer is the prey, not the predator, and blaming them is blaming the victim.
Users have no choice, the market is a duopoly, and Android app store has all the same problems (because it's a duopoly). You can't feasibly escape platform tax on mobile.
>Which is why you don't have to let a monopoly/oligopoly set the price at will

Even monopolies are generally allowed to set their own prices; it's only the point at which there's abuse that there's a regulatory concern. The argument that Apple is looking to "extract maximum feasible" rent is undermined a bit by some facts I discuss in one of my comments elsewhere in this thread.
I'd rather play a game where free players are subsidized by frivolous microtransactions that don't affect gameplay, instead of having a much smaller playerbase.
Country Votes
US: California 258
Canada 129
Germany 119
United Kingdom 110
US: New York 104
US: Washington 100
US: Texas 56
US: Colorado 51
US: Massachusetts 45
US: Illinois 42
France 40
US: North Carolina 38
Sweden 34
Netherlands 34
US: Oregon 34
US: Pennsylvania 32
US: Virginia 30
I never understood the purpose of languages with unicode operators that can supposedly express a 30 line script in like 2 symbols.

Are they purpose built on the spot for CodeGolf?
How is it not? It’s not even a long-term visa, it’s a 180 day one.

You can buy permanent residence in Costa Rica for $5000-ish.

And all of this is for an activity that most countries would be fine with you doing on a tourist visa. It’s pointless.
So he should destroy his business? Seems like extremely terrible advice.
In addition to what others have said:

- eBPF script: https://www.brendangregg.com/blog/2016-10-08/linux-bcc-runql...

- perf sched: https://www.brendangregg.com/blog/2017-03-16/perf-sched.html

- schedlat: https://tanelpoder.com/posts/schedlat-low-tech-script-for-me...

The last one (written by me) is using /proc/PID/schedstat pseudofile for monitoring % time spent in the CPU runqueue of a single process (not systemwide). I don't always have (root) access for running perf or eBPF scripts (or the old Linux/kernel version don't allow that). But I can still measure how much time a process on a request's critical path (like a RDBMS transaction log writer on commit) spent waiting to get back onto CPU before doing any work.

Like others have already said, the OS CPU queuing/scheduling latency is just one component contributing to the total responsiveness/reaction latency of your app.
For people asking about the 1m isk limit, I'm ok with that limit. I visited Iceland a few years ago and the cost of living is pretty high. Food and petrol are expensive.

I'm not sure if the person is allowed to use country services like healthcare, but I assume that also factors into the high-income requirement.

This is an anecdote, but I remember meals easily being 20-30 USD for basics. A cup of soup (tiny) was 13-14 USD and it wasn't in a tourist area. I'm sure someone will reply with cheap food found somewhere in iceland but as someone from the US, the cost of food in proportion to the amount and quality, it was surprising.

I hope someone chimes in with the rent cost. I'm not sure where that sits.
That is a facetious argument. Just because the majority doesn't care doesn't mean the issue isn't important. We don't decide importance of things just based on a vote - we can use also use reason, logic, empathy, etc.
The're is a huge difference between telcos and social media sites.

Anyone can make a new instagram... just write some code in your free time, get (very lucky, and get) some VC to throw some money into your company, and you become a new instagram... then either get forgotten in a few years, or get bought for some huge amount of money. Instagram had just 13(?) employees by the time facebook bought them (or some other very low number, i forgot).

But a telco? No way... virual operator maybe, but there's no real money in that, but just starting to build basestations is impossible, you need millions and millions to even get frequencies, and you're already late for those, and there's basically no realistic way for a new mobile operator to come to an existing market now.
Does the electrical charge ever reach 0 or does it keep getting less and less and for practical purposes, we have to set a cut-off limit and count the boundary of the proton from there?