skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is probably more than most people are willing to accept, but if modern medicine keeps going the way it is, I think we're going to have to have some frank conversations about this.

We're pretty good at preventing people from dying young, and we're pretty good at keeping the elderly barely alive. We're pretty bad at extending how long someone can take care of themselves. I don't think we can sustain a society where people work for 40 years and then are retired for another 40. Quality of life will need to drop substantially, or we'll need massive birth rates.

You can start to see it with that new Alzheimer's drug, Aduhelm. Was originally $56,000 a year, and is now $28,000. The average prognosis for Alzheimer's is 8 years, so we would be talking about an increase of $224,000 in cost of care for an Alzheimer's patient. That's between 4 and 5 years of labor at the average wage in the US. Add in nursing home care, and it won't be shocking if a lot of people's end of life care exceeds their total lifetime earnings.

I don't have a great solution for that. If insurers reduce coverage for end of life care, the effects are going to be mediated by personal wealth. The wealthy will be allowed to retire since they can pay for their own treatment, and the poor will only be allowed to die. You can tax the rich harder, but it's only going to delay the effects for a while.
If you post it unaltered, then date of writing seems fine to use as a date on your blog as the truth and as historical context. If you update it, then I think you can’t date it in the past.

You can always date it in the past and include an intro paragraph in italics that explains that this is an essay from the past that you are posting online for the first time now.
Post about it on HN, free publicity to a relevant audience that won't feel like advertising.

Kidding. Just look at it as a sign that you've made it. You're now on the radar. Get back to work and stay ahead.
The container would only be able to record the screens or key presses that occur in the same xserver, right? I never thought about access to localhost services. I'm guessing there's some xserver configuration that could prevent that.
I wrote some software with two other guys for a restaurant in Copenhagen. I did the backend for an automated seat allocation system, while other guys wrote a web app for browsing and ordering menu items. The restaurant insisted that the orders be printed as paper slips, while the guys had imagined a PC running the ticket system software (that the chefs would interact with). In the end they did exactly what the linked post describes (but for another ticket system — Zendesk IIRC): an RPi connected to a thermal ticket printer, using some open source library for converting from the ticket data fetched from the API to the format required by the printer.
And so does Google Play Store. Even windows has the settings buried somewhere
matplotlib doesn't score highly on usability.

jupyter notebooks encourage disorganized, unprincipled programming; chaotic re-running of cells in the face of global mutable state; and prevent budding programmers from learning to use version control because the JSON format was designed without version control in mind.
I once got a phone's speech-recognition system to recognize another's text-to-speech system, just to see how accurate they'd be.
And I know one game that has a speech-recognition system to post in chat and then other players can use text-to-speech to read the chat aloud. Fun times.
Washington state bill sets a target that all vehicles from 2030 be electric (EV)
>>For economic indicators at least the data is available, and IMHO clearly shows Sweden was not unusual, e.g.

Economic indicators over shorter time spans can't reflect long-term harm.

Tens of thousands of business closures, and elevated deficit spending to make up for the loss of private income, is going to show up in GDP statistics over a very long period of time.

You're correct that sheltering and social distancing behavior manifests in a lockdown-free society as well, but it will be 1. less prevalent (if not, what was the point of the lockdown) and 2. more intelligently applied based on the diverse set of circumstances found in the population.

With respect to point 2, a lockdown is a one size fits all solution that treats an elderly person and a young person the same, despite COVID posing a 1,000 times greater risk to the former than to the latter.

A lockdown precludes creative ways of minimizing COVID risk, like having social gatherings in venues with better ventilation, or only with people in a low-risk demographics, because again, a one-size-fits-all solution cannot be adaptive/intelligent the way individuals can.

A lockdown rule, being rigidly preset, can't know when a young person is facing drug abuse problems, and faces far greater risk from social isolation than from COVID. The US saw a massive spike in fentanyl overdose deaths in 2020, showing the steep cost of social isolation - which lockdowns exacerbate - for public health.

People when left to their own devices are able to make judgments based on their individual circumstances, and this latitude is impeded by lockdowns. The potential harm from this is simply ignored by the authors.
Okay. So it seems women’s birth control should be banned until it’s up to the safety standards of men’s birth control. That’ll help end the “patriarchy”, surely.

There are loads of birth control options for women. Various pills. Injections. Patches. IUDs. Implants. Research for better, safer methods is constantly ongoing. Why even pretend that no research is being done and it’s just oppression? It’s weird. Men aren’t actively trying to make women sick. The warnings are pretty clear—women choose to accept the risks and the risks of current treatments are chemical factors, not something to do with “patriarchy.” There are loads of women working in the medical research industry as well.

Honestly, there’s more safe birth control options for women than there are safe options for men to prevent hair loss. Currently, no simple or affordable treatment exists. Either you’re spending years of income for hair plugs that convince nobody up close or using chemical treatments that have mental and libido risks that often are equal to or worse than birth control pills. Boner pills also carry risks and they were basically discovered by accident.

This patriarchy stuff and pretending “patriarchy” isn’t allowing research into birth control is pure conspiracy theory stuff with all evidence proving the contrary. Those injectables men get have a very high risk of being irreversible and causing harm far greater than any modern birth control options for women—that’s why they’re not common. Dudes would love to know they can’t possibly be on the hook for child support. You’d be richer than Bezos in 5 years if you could find a solution. But it has not happened.
Yeah some racists thought black people are stupid because of brain size. Has less than nothing to do with modern IQ tests. I’m not following your argument that the racist behavior of people in the general study of intelligence invalidate all study of it forever.
I'm sure his code is backed up, he's talking about the Google Play platform. He is locked out and hoping that his plea might reach someone at google and they'll reach out to him. So upvote the story and maybe that will increase the statistical chance that someone at google might fix it.
> HR has 1 job. Protect the company

I see this from time to time and it irritates me. I'm not in HR. I know some people who are and people who go into that line of work often do care about making people's lives better.

Certainly if that conflicts somehow with a a requirement to protect the company, they may have to prioritise the latter. But that doesn't mean that they have 'one job'.
I have to admit I don't love pairing at all as a way of working, but I have to grudgingly admit it has a lot of value -- when pairing a senior and junior, it's the most effective way of knowledge transfer and skill building in the junior.

I don't understand why you'd do pair programming with two new hires!
Seems like it could be a part of OSM. And indeed, there's "amenity=piano" [1], as well as "musical_instrument=piano", with overpass-turbo [2] even finding some pianos using the latter.

[1] https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:amenity%3Dpiano

[2] https://overpass-turbo.eu/
> Every competitor that has signed up for any service I've been involved with has tried to hack us.

That sounds wonderful; hand the evidence to Legal and go tear them to shreds in court!
> Again, the "absence of belief" is identical to "not believing:" "the evidence has not convinced you, so you do not believe it,"

I really don’t think so.

Today you probably have an absence of belief in rainbow colored lions.

That’s different from trying to figure out if rainbow colored lions exist, evaluating claims and deciding to believe that they don’t exist.

Absence of belief = passive default

Belief = active decision making

When someone mentions the words “rainbow colored lions” or even makes a claim “I saw a rainbow colored lion”, I don’t feel a burden to evaluate their claim. I’m more evaluating the structure of their claim: they’ve provided no evidence.

So, I am choosing to believe that they’ve made an unfounded argument. I don’t suddenly feel the need to actively not believe in rainbow colored lions.
I wouldn't expect HR to do anything, nor would I expect them to send out a mail if someone quit or were fired.

I do think the right thing is for the manager to acknowledge the situation and maybe hold some kind of gathering in remembrance. Possibly even pull together something to send to the family of the deceased. But I don't think this means anything coming from HR, it's gotta come from people who knew the person.
Yeah, you could say I am even still 'there' to some degree. Sure, I fix computers for people, but that's kinda easy. I know enough to know when to not do something, essentially. And that can be hellishly important as a skill.

But the fact remains that I have a A+ book from Comptia left unread that I found at a 2nd hand store, a book on Bash that I found at a bar also unread, and a book on Python from O'reily via Amazon; yes, unread. All of them unread.

Why? I dunno. Can't be damned to? I taught myself pretty much everything I know through trial and error. If I want something in a program to do something else, I alter the code and reverse engineer it until it does what I want. This is how I make mods for games usually, when I tinker at all. How do I know what to tinker with? I read, ironically. Yeah, I know. Go figure, right?

But still, those books lay unread in a desk next to me as I type this.

So what am I reading? Well, it's quite simple. If I ever get to a point where my own intuition or knowledge isn't good enough, and I don't see the answer staring me in the face via some comments in the code, or some error code thing, etc, etc...

I google it.
Not infinity, but yeah it's worth more than people generally think. But in the end you don't really lose many clock cycles anyway because everything actually runs in C/CUDA/etc. behind the scenes
Good, looks like our interests align, so there should be no problem then.
I sure hope that these cows can reproduce without the authorization of a mega corporation.

Everyone loves talking about how their genetic engineering technique is the best and that at worst it is only as bad as selective breeding yet they completely dismiss the fact that you cannot apply selective breeding on a lot of these GMOs.
This feels like an odd critique. I would expect that more programs should devote more code to the parts that interact with a user. That is, the size alone isn't much of a signal. Is it?
The specific syscalls are quite new. Theo de Raadt gave this talk on pledge in 2015, and you can see that it was a bit different then. The "pledge path" feature never had a good enough API that didn't slow down the system too much, so they split that functionality into unveil a few years later.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F_7S1eqKsFk
Its more that I am surprised they started these projects in the first place.

I agree that smart motorways are less safe, and there are better ways to reduce demand (like road pricing). Having said that motorways are still very safe compared to other roads, even after being made "smart". I think a modest reduction in safety is an acceptable price to pay if billions can be saved. Invest that money in reducing death from emissions, pedestrian safety, or even our far less safe A road network.
The big one being - when you install just an application, you don't want it to accidentally pull in the wrong dependency and destroy the rest of your system. This is a big problem when you use ppas or .debs directly from the app developer and accidentally update say libc or gtk. Another example: an application you use brings in a python-xyz package that conflicts with the same package you installed with pip install.

Also updating the system shouldn't accidentally break the application you use either. On rolling release distros this can be a pain. You'd typically want the application that the application developer tested properly (as opposed to relying on your package manager's "testing"). The packagers can introduce bugs while repackaging an application for X distro. My Cura was broken for so long on Arch linux that i gave up and started using their AppImages instead.

Depending on your distro, you also have to deal with headaches like XYZ software is only available on Ubuntu 20.04. Tough luck that you are running 18.04 on your laptops. (last week i had to deal with this problem with clang)

In addition to being self contained with all the dependencies, these solutions offer some level of sandboxing too.

On Arch, AUR usually does a nice job of packaging binary only applications, so i rarely need to use flatpack/snap/appimages but on other distros that can be a pain.
Pete would ask to work more hours. He claimed he could use the money. He was a contractor remember

Amidst the loss here, this line stood out to me and brings to mind all the terrible ways contractors are taken advantage of, or at least, treated and compensated vastly different than their "staff"/"full-time" peers who are often doing the exact same work. For fun, google the phrase "permatemp".

E.g. I had a past job as a middle manager where my team interfaced heavily with a group of contractor developers overseas. When the time came to demo new features and place superlatives upon the various teams, I noticed my leadership cadre said nothing about the contractors and did not acknowledge any of the work they had done.

I spoke up about it when the floor was given for anyone else to give kudos where they desired, and mentioned the overseas team and thanked their team lead for working with me on delivering. He spoke up and expressed his gratitude in kind.

Apparently, this got my CTO into "trouble" with "legal" because I guess merely acknowledging contractors was some kind of a "problem". As a result, my boss got in trouble. As a result, I got written up. I was out of that company within six months after relationship with my boss and CTO deteriorated immediately after I opened my darn mouth.

For expressing gratitude.

To contractors.
> Duke Energy had a 12% net profit margin with a gross profit of $4.4 Billion in December 2021.

Having previously invested in Duke Energy (but not currently directly invested in them), that gross profit figure seemed dramatically wrong. Because it is.

For the quarter ending (not the month of) Dec 2021, Duke Energy had a gross revenue of $6.2B, with a cost of revenue of $3.6B, for a gross profit (for the quarter) of $2.7B (figures are correct but seem incorrect due to rounding).

https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/DUK/financials/
In fairness, rumour has it that the station fit outs were an avoidable screw up.

Supposedly the detailed design work was behind schedule so they started the physical building work "at risk". Because it was not well planned, it was done in the wrong order - installing cabling before moving a wall so the new cables have to be ripped out along with the old wall for instance. It was alleged that this was done deliberately by the subcontractors to create additional paid work.

A few years ago, recognizing that the project management was a huge mess, there were a lot of big changes and the project management team have been running a events in london showing off the real time project tracking they've put in place.

Presumably, Covid hasn't heled either.

I remember these radio problems from when I was interviewing for rail automation jobs 20 years ago. They were having this exact problem on the jubilee line. The tunnels seem to be an amazingly harsh environment, and the safety requirements seem much harsher than for self driving cars or human train drivers.
As a rubyist, it makes me sad that python ended up here rather than ruby. And I sometimes wonder why.

> As the name suggests, numeric data is manipulated through this package, not in plain Python, and behind the scenes all the heavy lifting is done by C/C++ or Fortran compiled routines.

So I wonder, was it easier to write C/C++ or fortran compiled extensions in python than it was in ruby?
Same here, also ditched Google Drive when they started to push the newest iteration of their Windows client.

I’ve been wanting to set up a home server, and then I can also ditch Google Photos and Calendar.
You clearly don't know Russia... Reuniting all Russ lands and so on... As in that infamous accidentally published article :)
whereas I generally like people. You say: "The transactional work relationships do nothing for me on a human or social level" perhaps the mistake you are making is seeing any interaction with the people at work as purely transactional - or being absolutely determined to keep it that way.

I have a family and kids and friends. But I absolutely have friends who I have made at work as well. I quite regularly go out for a beer with people I worked with in the 1990s.
IMO no need to burn this nick. Check my comment history, I'm still going strong ;-)
Probably, yeah. But higher orbits means that dead satellites will stay in orbit for much longer, and that the debris from colliding satellites will stay in orbit for much longer. When the satellites are in such a low orbit, dead satellites will quickly deorbit due to atmospheric drag, and same with the debris produced by collisions.
> largely because I could imagine the tags being used in a way the example doesn't cover: DC/AZ/Region tags.

I'll add this feature to the roadmap then :)

> I don't know that a full parser for Boolean logic is necessary - even having a complimentary `-T` option that takes mandatory tag names might be enough.

I truly dislike command lines with hundreds of arguments. IMHO, A boolean logic would be clearer on the intent than a combination of -t -T -not-T etc...

> so it's multiple background SSH processes.

I'm not sure yet if parallelization should be the default or not. Also I've not yet learned Tokio and Async programming in Rust :P

> some way to have per-host data sent

Yes, just like Ansible evaluates very variable per host. At the moment you can do it manually:

res=$(tricorder -i inventory -- echo "available")
host_ids=$(echo $res | jq "some jq black magic")

for host_id in $host_ids
do
tricorder -i inventory -H $host_id -- echo "specific data sent to $host_id"
done

Maybe i'll make use of the `tinytemplate` crate and add a -D option for data that would be similar to the inventory (TOML static file or program/script outputting JSON).

I'm not sure yet on how it should look.

I mean to keep tricorder KISS so it can be integrated easily in a bash script as a standalone command, and not a full-on folder structure like ansible playbooks.
Embarrassingly, I was not aware that raw milk could carry pathogens such as TB which are spread beyond consumption - I assumed it carried all the localized pathogens as other foods (salmonella, listeria, etc.). I certainly understand your point now and retract that it is a false equivalency.

I’m still not convinced that the answer to local farmers selling raw milk to their friends should be outright jail time - rather than enforcement of testing standards. I’m not familiar enough with the upfront costs of that to know whether it’s economical. You mention it “only takes one” but the reality is contamination in raw milk is rare enough that it is also essentially a long-term risk as well, particularly when consuming from 2-3 cattle.

Again, I dont drink the stuff but i certainly sympathize with rural communities that believe it’s in their rights to do so.
Maybe it's different, but I've known people for a decade without ever seeing their face. Just communicating through text, text to speech software, or through VOIP while playing games. You can build deep connections and know their voices very well to hear when things are off.

Of course at work I've seen people's faces but as someone who grew up online, only voice comms seems normal too.
I agree that there are many holes in the rationales provided. We should be able to say this without being accused of supporting either side.

I'm not sure this would be as controversial if posters considered that it is possible for both 'sides' to be wrong. Of course the article has a way to frame the issue. It exists on one 'side' of the issue.

Similar to how these shortages are largely blamed on the war, rather than the sanctions or the pandemic restrictions.

It isn't just the (perhaps misplaced) controversy that I find interesting here. It is the constant transitioning from one crisis to the next, each one with economic implications. A cynical conspiracy theorist might even wonder if these crises are manufactured to suit these economic ends. Is attributing motive even important? We are here now, dealing with the results.

Just the same, the constant state of emergency demanded by these fear promotions and the short attention span of those who indulge them does remind me of a cat chasing a laser pointer.
Apple was on the forefront of computer Video. They founded ATG (advanced technology group) in late eighties and as a result came out with Road Apple Video codec (Road Pizza) in 1991.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Advanced_Technology_Grou... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Video

https://computerhistory.org/blog/quicktime-and-the-rise-of-m...

Fun facts:

1 Look up S3TC/DXTC texture compression, S3 copied Apple video codec verbatim and patented it for 3D graphics use. Somehow Apple missed that and didnt fight initial patent, resulting in losing couple iphone court cases 10 years later and purging S3TC from mobile.

2 Microsoft fucked up getting caught conspiring with Intel, paying third party contractor to steal QuickTime code https://www.theregister.com/1998/10/29/microsoft_paid_apple_... Thats the origin of the infamous "Microsoft saved Apple in the nineties" myth https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r5TdqfNE1QU
I don’t think that’s quite equivalent unless all bloggers are somehow furthering a scam whereby they make the currently ultra-wealthy more ultra-wealthy at the expense of late-comers while also fueling the destruction of the environment through the intentional wasting of resources (proof of work).
I would have called Russia and China rogue states before at least in the online space. There are just to many state sponsored hacking activities that you have to paint them as bad actors.
Are there any orgs that don’t serve the company?
Surprises me that the NIH isn't doing more to investigate this. Maybe it will turn out that they're basically inert and won't do much but that's not something I want to cross my finger and hope about.