skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well..yeah?

I mean it’s human biology we’re dealing with. Most medicine is “we think is the best approach” with varying levels of data from “best guess” to “a few anecdotes” to “suggestive data” to “robust, well designed clinical trials”.

If we only ever treated people with data from the last bucket most of the time your doctor would recommend “just wait and hope it gets better”
I don't disagree with anything you've said. I'm not trying to argue that all commercial art corrupts artists. So many of the artists I look up to are commercial artists themselves. I'm more attacking the idea that an artist who learns to code is something to be sad about, because it will presumably sap them of their creative energy. My counterpoint is that an artist who has to turn their work into a commodity is at risk of losing their creativity as well.
It obviously is. First and second generation immigrants from Asia don't get fat, despite eating much the same Western food. It's extremely shameful for them.
The horses that used to pull carriages were slaughtered for meat or glue after the advent of the car.
Adding the editing of posts is a good feature addition, in my opinion. I wonder if posts that have been edited display that they've been edited, though.
Clojure really is probably one of the best languages for application programming out there, and pairs beautifully with Java when you need to go some levels lower.
This is a fantastic example because your manager did essentially the opposite of what this author would have wanted. The author wants managers to have no tolerance for people who perform poorly, moving to do something to get the poor performers off the teams of the high performers.

Yet that's short-sighted. Teams and expertise are built over time. It may not be ideal for people like the author of this article who believe themselves to be high performers who shouldn't have to ever put up with low performers. However, the real high performers are the ones who can accept that no team is perfect and nobody starts out as a superstar. They make the effort to work with people, mentor, and lead by example.
Even retrofits still run into many issues. Delivering gasoline to gas stations for example requires hooking up hoses etc. Training people on site to do it is possible, but it’s a huge shift for an industry and unlikely to finish very quickly. The same applies to delivering cement or wide loads etc which require different behavior while driving.

On top of this retrofits for every existing model is a non trivial problem on it’s own.
My wife is foreign-born, but was in the US as a non-resident when our hearts turned proximity into much more. Since she was already here the whole application process took place in the US. It was just under two years from when we married until she had a green card. (And note that there is also a delay from being granted a green card to actually having one in one's possession.)

Foreign passport and non-driver's ID were her only options--and passports are a nuisance to carry around and a PITA if lost/stolen.

(And, yes, I think that just under two years bit was not by chance. They were definitely looking for signs of fraud and I'm sure they finally approved it just before the point where they would have had to issue a permanent one rather than a conditional one.)
It's refreshing to have an analysis of Schumpeter's views based on real-world data.

I know very little about Shcumpeter besides this introduction to his thoughts on "elite overproduction": https://youtu.be/SYUgTzT79ww
A lot of us young people live far enough down the slippery slope that it doesn't seem like a practical concern. I wouldn't find it remotely tolerable to be cut off from online payments - no Steam, no Netflix, no Amazon? So rather than making sure there are good cash-only options, I want to make sure everyone has the right and ability to perform credit card payments or some kind of similar electronic transaction. (This is where a lot of cryptocurrency enthusiasm comes from, and while I'm a skeptic in general I wholeheartedly endorse this motivation.)
> Good design can handle changing requirements, otherwise it isn't good design

Only if changing requirements are a requirement :)
Doing RCTs of a treatment tells you if it works. Without random assignment (or some clever experimental design) tracking outcomes really doesn't tell you anything.
As a guy born in the 50s, I can state unequivocally that nearly every decade will have something you’ll like and a lot you won’t. Thus far, since 2020, it’s mostly been bad. The 80s started rough, coming out of the Carter malaise, the Iran hostage crisis, the misery index, gas lines, etc. By 1984, things in the States were improving rapidly. The PC and networking helped launch a revolution and an economic boom that is still expanding. Unfortunately, the caliber of our political class has decayed precipitously. Hopefully, we’ve reached the absolute bottom of the barrel. My advice is to not lament times past but seek better days in times present. Turn off the news. Quit buying into the crisis of the day. Ignore the inane memes like gender identity, pronouns, etc. Carve out your own identity. If you are defined by the group to which you think you belong, you aren’t living. Trust me you’ll be much happier.
That's not democracy, as it's actually conceived. Democracy isn't mob rule, but is about individual self-determination and rights.
I don't understand. Do you mean you have to do boring chores on the weekend (because they simply have to be done, e.g. laundry), or do you mean that you choose to do boring things?

If the latter... just don't do boring things? That's never been an issue for me. I cycle between many hobbies: Electronics, signal processing, my 90s record collection, video games, watching TV shows, aviation... sometimes it's clear that my body just wants me to lay on the couch and consume. Sometimes it's really the opposite and I ache for something "productive" and stimulating. Then TV shows seem boring, so I work on my electronics projects or learns some maths. Sometimes I hit the road in my car.

If it's chores, then for many of them there's ways to make them more enjoyable. Lot of chores don't require your full attention, so you can listen to a podcast, an audiobook, or even watch a movie or TV show while doing so (works well for folding laundry, or doing the dishes if you have an iPad).

I really place importance on the fact that what I watch or listen to has to be fun, though. No podcasts that are work-related, or about "serious issues". For podcasts, it's mostly about video games for me. Audiobooks are novels, i.e. fiction. Movies and TV shows likewise. Otherwise it isn't relaxing.
For reference, I am a student so my computer is mostly used for personal things, games, homework, ect.

I would imagine many jobs require handling somewhat sensitive information, and at that point I could probably reassess. Regardless I think there are better ways to go about security than anti virus programs, like being mindful of what you click on, proper firewall setups, ect. But I’m new to all that so what do I know
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Interesting read! Apparently its concepts were taken over by https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_Taler but I've never seen that in use before so idk of it's the dreaded never to be done micropayments thing or not but hey, it's a start, and less dead than mondex.
I know someone at waymo, maybe they can file a feature request. Jonny Cab here we come.
Mislabeled supplements can be very dangerous and some people require supplements due to diet choice or health issues such as pernicious anemia.
My questions weren't rhetorical. I was not attempting to make any points. I'm genuinely curious as to what your answers are.
I wasn't born or raised during that era but it's something I take an interest in. I'm well aware everyone's lives are different. Your best days in country towns might likely have been someone's worst in the inner cities.
> Do you have an example where half the parking lot is covered in ice, or trying to break on a road with unpredictable traction so that they don't end up halfway through the intersection?

If the car is "smart," maybe it will simply refuse to travel (because the calculated risk of traveling over an icy parking lot is above some maximum threshold risk).
There's always been endless third party websites, and I believe they added first-party discovery for public community servers a while ago. Community servers have been getting some serious features, too. They really are rapidly (and successfully) becoming something more like traditional social media.
I doubt it caught people. That wasn't the purpose. Rather, it deterred them from buying up a bunch of it and thus got rid of the meth labs. And I think that's a good thing--while I am solidly on the side of drug legalization I don't want amateurs making hazmat sites all over the place.
AV1 HW encoding is coming.
> I've recently had to deal with the medical profession a lot more than in the past and I'm finding this sort of thing everywhere. OTC medicines that by current standards would not be made OTC

This comment reflects a common, but mistaken, believe that OTC = "essentially medicine, but safe enough to not need a prescription". In most cases, nothing could be further from the truth .

OTCs of course do include useful medications such as acetaminophen (eg Tylenol), ibuprofen (eg Advil), Aspirin, and so on. However, OTCs also include miscellaneous and assorted nonsense, such as the heroic quantities of vitamin C that many companies like to sell as somehow beneficial, and the assorted concoctions that fall under the banner of "natural health products".

In the United States, a product can pass as an OTC "medication" if it passes under the generally regarded as safe (GRAS) exemption. This basically involves sending documents to the FDA that suggest the product should be safe in humans, without necessarily having to prove it's an effective treatment for anything. Couple that with the fact that manufacturers do lie about how well they tested the safety of their products (many are fly-by-night operations with little to lose), and you end up with the situation described in the article.

You can probably blame the pharmaceutical companies for some of this confusion, as it is their wont to mix actual medications with miscellaneous nonsense in the pursuit of profit.
Tangential but Alec Watson of Technology Connections looked at a studio monitor that worked on the principle of cycling an LCD overlay over a monochrome CRT.

When I was growing up in Toronto, I want to say that I remember seeing these in use by “LiveEye” crews of CityTV whenever I went by an on-location shoot.

(1) https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=z-q8ehzHeQQ
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Hip replacements? Cataract surgery? Disfigurements (cosmetic surgery)? - just off the top of my head. My own mother had "cosmetic" surgeries to re-set her toes which had been deformed by decades of fashionable shoes, and to remove varicose veins which are painful. Occasionally one reads about someone's hearing, sight, or power of speech being restored also.

Maybe only a few things, but still affecting millions, if not tens of millions of people.

I also think that medicine is a victim of its own success, in two ways.

One, how many funerals of people in their thirties to fifties does the average person go to, these days, compared to say the 1920s? It's hard to see things that don't happen.

Two, success breeds hubris which breeds a sense of being right whatever the evidence may say.
I dealt with neighbor noise in 3/5 apartments I rented.

It is why I will _never_ share walls again.

What you're really saying is that you are a person who is not bothered by neighbor noise. That's fine, you've self-selected into an environment where tolerating that is necessary. You should realize that most people find neighbor noise to be a stressor, especially as they get older.

Also, as an aside, everyone I know who below the top economic tier and lives in SF _commonly_ complains about neighbor noise. I think you might just be insensitive to it.
Doctors that work on older patients or worse cases will have worse numbers. Usually that effect far outweighs the skill difference between doctors.
It force-pushed to a branch of its own fork, then closed its own pull request without merging it – both things any account can do. No GitHub blessing was ever involved.

And so we move from uninformed speculation to uninformed misinterpretation.
You know what makes life really miserable? Not every having life, due to not being born.

Maybe you should ask these dogs; would you prefer to have never experienced life at all?

(Basically, I wonder how miserable they are. They seem happy when I see them.)
Waymo is solving this for a handful of specific models, they would need to do significant work to adapt their system to say a 2010 Corolla let alone more exotic stuff.

It’s not just physical instillation their models would have to be adapted for different camera placement, vehicle weight, etc.
A few others to add to the list

* reduced income for cities from speeding and parking tickets, and the reduction in people who give the tickets, all the processing that goes along with that.

* availability of large lots of urban land due to lower parking needs (though there are many good uses for this like urban farming)

* significant decrease in the need for auto repair shops. Partly because electric cars have less moving parts and are more reliable than ICE, but also because autonomous cars (possibly/likely) have fewer accidents. This may not happen all at once, but as they improve..

I used to have a much larger list, but I forget what many of those are.
I think your analogy is a bit off here.

Your first sentence would be the equivalent of the inventor of patient history data keeping calling patient history keeping a garbage tool. Which is actually something that would be totally OK to do and say if suffixed with "and unfortunately so far nobody has come up with a better tool and it's not for lack of trying".

I'm assuming you didn't mean "you medical doctors" in the sense it's easy to read in. In any case, what you are doing here is telling one doctor that he is bad at the medical history writing and reading job when in fact he is the one telling you how he is able to spot other doctor's mistakes and trying to correct them. This is like telling one developer that he's bad at his job, that "you developers are the ones writing bad code and hold the decision making power for how it's done" when that developer is actually someone that tries to make things better both through his own maintainably written code (medical histories) and helping others in code reviews to make their code better and not let bad code get into Prod (finding errors in existing medical histories and trying to correct them).

That can be very discouraging, being thrown in with the bad apples. And even good apples can have a bad day or misunderstand something. But I guess you are perfect and have never produced a bug in your life.
It can be a “megastep” in jenkins, but it doesn’t have to. It could be one individual step that happens to run on Dagger. Both work equally well.

In the “megastep” approach, it boils down to which tool can provide the most useful information. Jenkins is more mature but Dagger has more information about the DAG. So in some cases developers might actually prefer using Jenkins as a “dumb” runner infrastructure. It depends on the situation.
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What do you suppose all those officers will do when cars no longer break the rules?
> When I used cash to buy something at the store, I have to take out my wallet, count the appropriate amount of cash, wait for the cashier to give back any change, confirm I got the right amount back.
If I use a credit card, I just insert a piece of plastic into a slot, and we're done. It's more convenient.

> If I use a credit card, I just insert a piece of plastic into a slot, and we're done. It's more convenient.

Where do you keep your credit card, in your hand at all times? How long does the cash exchange take? Moments, in my experience.

> there is the side effect that third party entities might also know what my transactions are, but I simply don't care.

What if they use it to control your society and oppress other people?
These things are precisely defined in accounting terms though. Whatever you bartered away had a cost basis, and whatever you got in exchange has a fair market value. The difference is income.
Yes, that’s right. Especially since you’re probably running the same dagger actions all day long in development, upstream from CI.
If you can access the classloader that's pretty bad, it's likely people will find other gadgets.

It's insane to me though that class.* isn't completely disallowed. What is the legitimate use case for deserializing allowing web requests to call setters in the reflection API?

Also, agree it is impressive to me how much bad information I've seen.
Not alone, thanks for the nice post. Recently my area was very flooded, all govt resources were diverted to the larger population areas including our local volunteer firefighters etc. to an extent that they even locked their doors and were uncontactable. People remember that it was the same “last time” as well. The bigger the problem the more we’re on our own. Food, logistics, shelter, welfare checks, clean up was all handled by people stepping up. No power or phone or internet for 5 days. We’re putting together plans for all that you say but also for ad hoc radio coverage. It’s worth mentioning that there’s a nontrivial amount of 5g causes vaccine people or whatever other ‘evil’ group and other social outcasts as you should expect from being in the middle of nowhere but it didn’t matter except that some welfare checks were done at the front gate haha

It was interesting in that people wanted to help but didn’t know how but once centralised organisation stepped up, say, someone with 10 lasagnes could drop them off and have them distributed. Or say a restaurant 70kms away can just rock up with 100 meals.

It feels good to be able to apply job skills on the fly in a real way to help real people, excuse me for thinking that though.
Oh it's from a local show (in Cantonese) which is ~2x years ago. Here is the approximate content.

Supposed there is a merchant selling fish balls (in sticks). Then two people (A & B) buy one stick of fish balls. A gets a stick of 6 and B gets 5. B complains about it.

Merchant says: OK I will give you back one more. B: No I don't want one more. I want you to take away one of A's fish balls.

Since then all locals who watched the show would refer it as "fish ball mentality" and kept being used on local online forums/social media groups.

"crab mentality" was never mentioned anywhere (for me at least, until I see it here).
Funnily enough, the whole "Truth Social" is just a Mastodon clone
A PCB in my case can only be used to replace the NodeMCU board but that might exasperate my woes without adding any value, Because any custom PCB solution isn't strong enough to replace the switch(button on 170 point bread-board) which goes under the butt cushion.

A new video is coming soon, There's a old video showing the setup if you scroll a bit. I thought leading directly to the game made more sense, Perhaps I should interchange manual trigger and 'connect to the butt trigger' so that people can try manually first?

Edit: The game now suggests manual trigger first instead of connection to the Butt Trigger.
I can not wait until the day cars no longer break any rules and the police are forced to take a hard look at what they do and justify being employed. How will they civil forfeit if they have no reason to pull you over? I really hope I live long enough to see that day.
99.99% ? How does that statement work? I feel it needs more clarification.

99.99% means 1 in 10,000 "drives" has an accident of some sort?
So 100 accidents per million people/drives?

Not sure how to compare if that is better or worse than what we have now.
The onus is on those who control the popular information streams of the moment to be good stewards concerned with long-term consequences, exercising appropriate amounts of restraint WRT greed and moderation when selling access to their audience.

The onus is not on the buyers of the access. If the steward is negligent and/or careless, there will never be any shortage of ad-space buyers who couldn't care less about the steward's reputation and/or the long-term consequences for the publication and/or audience. If FB is open to becoming a raging dumpster fire, it will happen overnight if that were profitable for someone who could afford it.

A useful metaphor might be a homeowner next door who lets all-night parties attended by random assholes who trash the street and have zero respect for the neighborhood. No sane person blames the partiers, the problem is clearly the enabling, negligent homeowner.
Yeah, I noticed that I'm clearly in different "modes" in my free time and act accordingly.

Sometimes I really only want to lie on the couch and consume. The thought of my electronics projects then seems exhausting. Sometimes I really want to be productive and stimulated, then I work on those projects or read a math or EE textbook, and the thought of just sitting there and consuming seems excruciatingly boring.

The key aspect is to recognize that none of those phases will last forever, and cycling through those various hobbies gives variety.
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You are claiming that the writing in modern Western philosopy is known for clarity? Also, those aren't Decartes' words, which were in Latin (or French?).
How do I use this in docker ? any references.
Yeah, that was how I understood radio.

An antenna picks up all radio signals, but it does a much better job of picking up frequencies that are "resonant" with it (based, I had assumed on length alone — it sounds though like I may have been under-informed in this regard).

The coil + tuning capacitor (the tank?) is the adjustable filter that selects the frequency from the antenna we want to "tune in to". As you say, crappy antenna will still get something.
I remain continuously impressed with everything Will is writing on the blog lately.
This is fascinating, thanks for sharing. Did you use upwork or a similar platform?
Chiming in that this applies to controls engineering as well (think PLCs). Start from the IO, cross-reference that through the rest to get a feel of chains of causality and how it all works. Oftentimes it's critical to go from zero to applying changes as quickly as possible when unfamiliar (and poorly documented!) machinery is down.
How am I enforcing anything on my coworkers? I don’t control the policy at my place of work. I’m merely expressing a preference.
Getting married and worked a few years as a salesman remove a lot of social shyness. I still don't like public speaking, small talks and such but I can drop a few lines if I have to.
Again, "actual malice" doesn't mean "acting maliciously" in the colloquial sense. It's a legal term of art from the aforementioned NYT v. Sullivan case and is explicitly defined as "with knowledge that it was false or with reckless disregard of whether it was false or not." Publications leave up articles they know to contain falsehoods (that were believed to be true at the time they were written) all the time. Unless libel (and therefore actual malice) is shown, I don't know of any precedent that would imply an obligation to issue a retraction.