skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> But you can't see how proactively spending all of this money helping people instead of marginalizing/imprisoning people

Oh, we can spend an unlimited amount of helping people and it only lasts until they get out and get their next fix. How do you help people that don't really want help? And all of the "help" they want just goes to enabling the destructive behavior, the money we throw at the problem right now just allow them to do more drugs.

> instead of marginalizing/imprisoning people might be a viable solution?

So? The other approach is just enabling their behavior with compassion: let's make sure they have housing and open shelters so they can don't die while continuing to do their drugs? We are already spending untold billions on that, meanwhile ignoring petty property crimes (because junkies need legos for what?), and we only go OMG when they bash some poor girl's head in with a baseball bat because they are having a crisis.

Why have any sympathy for those people at all? So we are already spending around $60k/year/person on these people, how much higher do you want our one city to go? $200k/year? $1 million/year? How do you help people who don't really want help but will gladly take your money? Supply of those needing help (even if they just want drugs) is also basically unlimited since it is more of a national problem, while big cities are expected to provide compassion on their own.
It seems like you don’t and don’t care to, understand.
The problem with empowering people medically is that 10% of people will benefit from it but 90% of people will get info from Facebook and infomercials and fall victim to quacks. Hence everything being gated behind credentials and prescriptions (along with some good old regulatory capture).

I disagree with the characterization of medicine not being able to treat so many things. Many things are incurable but a lot of medicine/public health is so effective we barely think about it. Of course we are going to notice and pay more attention to the things medicine sucks at treating, because they’re real problems that inflict a lot of pain due to the lack of treatment.

But medicine is very good at treating plenty of things like infections (of many different kinds), traumatic/acute injuries, and many disabilities. Most of the chronic issues that medicine fails to address are simply lifestyle issues that medicine tries to alleviate the symptoms for. Yes there are certain conditions medicine doesn’t begin to fully understand like Alzheimer’s or various chronic pain conditions, or where treatment is still pretty middling like Cancer, but a lot of the biggest things are treatable very well - we just don’t notice them much because they are treated so well.
Well for everyone's future reference, youtube links are 43 characters, short youtube links are 28 characters, and HN leaves URLs alone up to 60 characters.

Also HN will apparently expand URLs that are 61 or 62 characters, ha.
Note: This is not a new window manager for Linux.
Wirefraud? Identify theft?
Argentinian senators to tax citizens with undeclared assets abroad to pay IMF
Since when is "evidence based medicine" defined as ignoring patients with currently untreatable conditions. There are enormous amounts of funding and effort constantly devoted to developing new treatments. I'm not sure how else you want to practice medicine other than "evidence based".
Fastmail is much cheaper if you need many gigs of storage, but you don't get the encryption Proton offers.
I was confused what /e/ was; it's https://e.foundation/
There are lots of good resources in this area:
The programming language of the transputer https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occam_(programming_language)

Bluebottle active objects https://www.research-collection.ethz.ch/bitstream/handle/20.... with some discussion of DMA

Composita components http://concurrency.ch/Content/publications/Blaeser_Component...

Mobile Maude (only a spec) http://maude.sip.ucm.es/mobilemaude/mobile-maude.maude

Kali scheme (atop Scheme48 secure capability OS) https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/213978.213986

Kali is probably the closest to a distributed OS, supporting secure thread and process migration across local and remote systems (and makes that explicit), distributed profiling and monitoring tools, etc.
It is basically an OS based on the actor model. It doesn't scale massively as routing nodes was out of scope (it connects all nodes on a bus), but that can easily be added.

Extremely small (running in 2mb ram), it covers all of R5rs, and the VM has been adapted to bare metal.

I feel that there is more to do, but a combination of those is probably the right direction.
I could think of the Brexit: Britons lost the access to the .eu tld. But there was a really long sunset phase. More than two years I think?

I'd sayx it is not really probable that you'd would immediately be nuked off your tld. And I also can't see the Swedes pulling this move.
> "computer says no"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0n_Ty_72Qds
> maybe for very predictable workloads.

Predictability has nothing to do with it. Volume is the key factor, specially its impact on cost.

> arrogant of you to say adopters haven’t done their homework

Those who mindlessly advocate lambdas as a blanket solution quite clearly didn't even read the marketing brochure. Otherwise they would be quite aware of how absurd their suggestion is.
> You can write one last Jenkinsfile that runs Dagger

I'm very confused by this sentiment. This approach loses the best of existing CI tooling does it not?

Jenkins users lose understanding of what's actually being executed, what stage they're in, and how long it took. It might provide convenience, and the a (great) benefit of running locally the same as in your CI environment, but it seems to me this would make it difficult for devs to easily understand where/why their build failed, since it just has one megastep.
It's hard to be scientific about this because there's no control group. If we clone your team and forbid them from using pair programming, in 5 years, which team will allow new developers to hit the ground faster? Which will have greater velocity. Which will have better code quality?

Some downsides to pair programming I've noticed:

1) People can tend to jump to the first solution they find, in order to not look slow or stupid. This doesn't allow for time to refactor the solution.

2) It can promote a culture of "spoken-word documentation" where all information about the system is conveyed via word-of-mouth, and nothing is recorded. You can see how this isn't scalable...

3) Not everyone has perfect internet, desk setup, comfortable chair, microphone quality, monitor resolution, etc. and it can lead to one person mumbling and another just going "yup uh-huh yeah"
Honestly, it's sounds kinda insane. Mob programming certainly is a tool with its good use cases, like maybe tracking a bug, onboarding a new team member or making critical changes to core stuff.
However, I just can't imagine having three engineers making 100k+ sitted together everyday on a single laptop to write yet another REST api or whatever.
I have 10+ years of clinical experience in academic hospitals, and have worked in Boston at Brigham and Women's. From this experience, I can tell you 2 things:

1. Being a lecturer at Harvard does not correlate with being a skillful clinician

2. Your view of the clinical system is very skewed, and will bring you more risks than benefits.
Or rouge updates?
Good design and getting everything right up works right up until the requirements change and the design no longer meets the ask. Unsurprisingly, teams might not even know all the requirements when building something new. Having everything orderly up front is a pipe dream.

That said, there are definitely cases where sitting back and thinking through a design is a really good idea. In my experience, it's 1/10th of the job.
Thank you. I do rely on medication and note taking apps (though mine are a bit scattered).

One of my issues with motivation is what you mentioned: I really really struggle to get invested. Things that are "work" seem to live in an anti-motivation bucket, regardless of how organically interesting they may be to me outside of a work contest. I'm in my 30s now, and I've been doing this my whole life and it is killing me. It takes a tremendous amount of effort and an extremely imminent deadline to get me to start anything. This (ostensibly) runs completely contrary to my self-concept and value system, but the motivation problem permeates every fucking inch of my life, and always has.

I can read this back and recognize a defeatist attitude, but I don't know what else to do.
I simply don't think the number of installs is a compelling piece of information, not the least because it is gamed everywhere. To me it says one of two things: "someone installed it," or "developer spun up a zillion micro instances to juke the stats." Nothing personal, it's the reputation of the data itself.
Why can't you shop around? You aren't forced to go to a specific doctor. It certainly might be challenging but that's also the case in the USA.
That escalation has happened with me as an individual developer so it’s not at all only for a few chosen companies.
Very cool. I get the vibe of those old HyperCard games (Myst, The Manhole, Inigo Gets Out). HyperCard was simple enough anyone could hack a game together, lowering the bar for creators. I bet something great comes from this. Kudos!
There is certainly a resemblance [1].

[1] https://www.therpf.com/forums/attachments/107e65287a72a2732d...
> It does, but those issues manifest themselves in ways that humans have been trained to operate.

Not really. If you do computations like "convert Fahrenheit to Celsius" or "pay 6 days of interest at this APR" or a million other things, you run into the same basic faulty assumptions as ever
> I feel like this is one of the few applications where it could shine.

Read “The Alignment Problem”, a very good just above pop sci level book about machine learning. They have one example where ML determined seniors with COPD were at reduced risk from pneumonia, and obviously non-sensical result. Patients with COPD wound up in the hospital at a lower rate than average because doctors know they need careful attention right away.
Google did something even worse with old Google Drive links.

I published a link to some documentation back in 2017, and set the permissions of the link to "view".

Google, in their infinite wisdom, decided that somehow this link wasn't secure enough and now send notifications to my tablet every time someone clicks to manually authorise access.

This would be a pain in the arse at best, but they've somehow managed to fuck things up even more. By default, the permissions I'm granting to the user through these notifications is set to "edit".

Just to reiterate, they've "improved security" by spamming me with notifications to grant random members of the public full edit permissions on document that was intended from day one to be publicly accessible.

I just weep sometimes.
2 included the phrasing "for 80% of the US population". That matches (roughly) the percentage with no itemized deductions and (I believe) the similar percentage with no income to report other than W2 and 1099 transactions.

And yes, i use FreeFileFillableForms and have done for many years now. It works, but it's a bit clunky.
Nothing in Russia is in any sense a "great threat to Western society".
> To me all parties involved seemed pretty reasonable, the previous administration was favourable to the project, but got subsequently voted out of office. Now they just want time to make sure that they didn't get voted out because of that project. Facebook seems to understand.

I'm assuming your comment is in good faith, and you're not from Facebook's PR team.
I don't think you're aware of the history of the case. Local opposition to the project is nothing new - starting with how Facebook hiding its identity with the locals.

The full list of reasons is much more than I can comfortably type, I'd recommend reading this wired article instead - https://www.wired.com/story/facebook-dutch-data-center/
The trade off here is that many non tech organisations make MFA at all a political difficulty. I've sat in on several meetings about how we can reduce the difficulty of using Microsoft MFA, with people talking about preinstalling it on people's phones and of course, "let's do away with MFA" comes up quite often.

Many of those orgs looked into RSA tokens in years gone by. The only reason that MS auth got through when those devices were summarily rejected from ever being used, was the convenience.

The security industry needs to be careful here. Too much "Microsoft MFA is bad" and I'm certain many companies will simply revert to password-only, in much the same experience we had with SMS based MFA being bad and as such, web apps going live that simply didn't support MFA.
Thanks for answering Qs. Does this compete directly with Tekton ( https://tekton.dev/ ), or do you imagine a way the two could interoperate? Why choose Dagger over Tekton to power pipelines?
https://www.theverge.com/2014/4/11/5605734/dropbox-ceo-defen...
Rebuilding Social Stamina
They already add a bittering agent to ethanol when it's sold as a disinfectant. It's not toxic, just very unpleasant
And I know which one I think it is…
Data centers are a necessity that I can accept if the services they host offer any utility. Facebook does not. It’s a net negative for its users and society at large.
I run a pretty large NBA blog, that gets crazy traffic. We decided to spend energy and time moderating comments. Basically we go by "don't be an asshole", and while it's onerous, the community that has sprung up around it is incredible. We have people who've been commenting since 2007, and it was worth it if you have the time to spare. My $0.02
Hmm - it was QuestDB, but maybe I didn't see it on HN (can't find it now..) Anyway here is the job link:

https://questdb.io/careers/senior-cloud-engineer/
This type of subtle corporate Newspeak enrages me. It's corporate gaslighting and I wish I understood it's intended goal. For me, the only thing it achieves is solidifying my resolve to end business with the offending company while simultaneously resenting the support agent who's willing to lie to strangers for money.
https://youtu.be/Qe4x2Fv9to4

I honestly can summarize it this way. Savers keep saving even when there is nothing left to save because there is no downside to having too much money but lots of upside to having more even if each single dollar is incrementally less useful. To maintain full employment all savings must be invested. The reason for that is quite simple. When you spend 50% of your income you are working more than you really need to. The extra hours that you are putting in mean someone else does not need to put in those work hours (50% less employment for them). So, you use the money which was previously sitting idle on a bank account by lending it out. Of course, the modern system has no direct connection between savings and actual money being lent out, rather it is the money hole (the money you have saved is not circulating) in the economy which causes unemployment that is driving further borrowing to restore full employment.

One could say that if you are working twice as much as you need, every second hour you are working is actually charity, it's not productive in the sense that you need it to maintain your lifestyle and it is not productive in the sense that anyone else has a need for it. There is no way you are getting a return off that charity when the economy is already saturated and everyone has everything they need. Yet money does not represent this act of charity, instead we pretend that you are still owed the same amount of products and services for all eternity, meaning what you are doing is not for the benefit of society, it's for your own benefit at the expense of someone else.

Probably the worst thing you can do is do what the Germany did before WW2. Do massive austerity programs during a depression hoping it makes things better. Homeless and starving people don't care that all the jobs are done by two thirds of the population if that means they don't get to eat. As I have said, if you are working more than you need to work for yourself, then you ought to work for the sake of someone else, anything else is selfish. If two thirds of the population is doing all the work and only doing it for itself then the rest is going to get angry very quickly.
Yup the general populace have entered the web.
You must have learned a lot of things that might prove useful to other people who might want to do the same transition.

I for sure would love to read a full length article about it.
Best guess I have is that 27 = 9 * 3 = 3 * 3 * 3 and 45 = 9 * 5 = 3 * 3 * 5

No clue if that's it though. Wonder if this "Pat" explained it to OP and OP is just keeping us hanging....
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B005E74U3W/

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09LKLNKZ7/
Apps and well the alternative to Android for me would be Plasma Mobile or something anyway. Many apps I use (Syncthing, Firefox, file manager, emulators) are forbidden or crippled by Apple policy.

While I have a work iPhone 12 so I use both iOS and Android daily, I do actually prefer the Android ecosystem, plus iOS being locked down in terms of installing third party apps is a disqualifier for my personal device. Also bugbears like the headphone jack, though I might be out of luck there in Android in another device rotation.
> Tracing their ancestry in part to the Spanish who conquered South and Central America, they regarded themselves as offshoots of white Europeans.

"In part" being the key words here. As https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Individual-level_hum... shows, they do differ - they're genetically further from Europeans than Middle Easterners (who are still classified as white on the US census, itself a red herring).

Yet the article contains no such graphs - how deluded must one be to think court cases, census categories, and obscure writings by sociology professors, are better determinants of ethnicity than genetically measurable kinship?
Exactly this is the thought that crossed my mind today.

You do something good for me and I give you $X for that.

Now on top of that for $X I want you to also come to a building I built for you , stay there for 8 hours a day and do the thing I want you to do. All for $X.

However there is Joe who will give you $X for the same job and a little more.But you get to choose where and how you do it.

Which one will you do?
Don't they pay for the energy they use? Isn't there a price for the energy that would make it appealing for the community to have them there?
Simply pretty, I haven't seen an application of that particular expression elsewhere, so I think he was tinkering. Goofing around with curves in Desmos is actually something I do once in a while, while eating breakfast or something.
I'm old and have great difficulty understanding how we got here.
There were interrupts telling you when certain things happened. If anything, it was asynchronous. Big thing is also that you had to tally the cost of what you eere doing. There was a budget of how many cycles you got per line, per screen and then fit whatever you had to in that. With playing sound it was common to draw color when you fed the music into SID so you could tell, like a crude debug/ad hoc printf, how many cycles your music routines ate.
I'd like to recommend the wired article from Jan 22 for understanding why Facebook is getting so much pushback - https://www.wired.com/story/facebook-dutch-data-center/
device nodes are managed in userspace nowadays yes, but they're just special files that identify a particular device id pair and then the OS acts on them in a special way. udev is just the userspace part of things that manages adding and removing them in response to hotplug events. Everything that matters about them is still controlled by the kernel.
I was under the impression that one of the conditions to being listed in the Play Store was that all in-app payments had to go through Google. Am I wrong about that?
Doesn't matter how well you wash your hands, you still have to touch the door handle to get out (they usually open inwards) and some grotty germbags will have poopified that handle 50 times over before you get to touch it.
Looks like another "I'm in a 'safe' language, so can do unsafe things" crossed with the standard object deserialization error of default allowing any class to be instantiated.

The temporary fix that they list seems to imply that the current APIs don't allow specifying a finite list of allowed classes?
This was the first time I had seen this kind of thing as video. I was locked into it for a long ways through the video until I blinked and then lost it. I wasn't able to get back the 3D image. However, I did suddenly become aware that if someone was to walk past me staring deeply into the static, that they might have some concerns for my well being.

Edit: I am impressed that the lossy compression did not destroy the pattern. High frequency patterns like that tend to not compress well. Even more impressed since it was a YouTube compression. Would hate to see it if it was one of the lower quality HLS streams.
Speaking as a creative working with clients up and down the S&P500 in the last years there was a feeling that Facebook got more and more restrictive with creative advertising. In the beginning you could integrate your own apps and interact with pretty much the whole Facebook api you had creative freedom and you could track the effectiveness yourself. After Burger Kings "Sacrifice a friend for a whopper campaign" [0] everything changed. Year after year it got more restrictive even now in their newer offerings you are more and more restricted (Not more than 20% text in ads, no static animations in sparkAR filters the list goes on and on.) AND they are basically just asset flips from other social media or ad networks. Carousel Ads, Stories, SparkAR everything is already there but better from other providers creatives don't like to work on Facebook ads anymore and media companies don't like that they can't sell more adaptions because Facebook Ads are just resells.

There was a lot of hype about the metaverse because everyone hoped that there will be creative freedom again but when talking to their agency representatives it looks like it's even more restrictive. At the moment Facebook is basically the garbage dump for assets you already created for other networks, there is no creative freedom and their AR offerings are lacking behind snap and TikTok. In the 2000s and 2010s you sold whole campaigns because of Facebook, now Facebook Ads are just a chart you spend 1 second in a presentation. I believe it's dying and it can't come soon enough for the creative industry. For us, Facebook is now a waste of time and energy.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kq_SbjxNvc8
Do you remember those giant cell phones? It was mainly because of antennas and batteries. Fractal antenna is one of the most magical innovations that has enabled today's smartphone age but its universally ignored.
I didn't like the safety profile on Strattera nor the inability to take it 'as needed'. Rare, but there were reports of liver injuries on it. My doctor seemed to be unimpressed in it when I asked about options on and said in her experience amphetamines almost always had the best efficacy in adult ADHD patients.
I built Tictactoe in Excel by creating every possible board state and then hyperlinking between them. I fixed the window size to 3x3 so the window would scroll to each state. Later learned AppleScript to automate parts of this process and eventually got in to HTML.
From a bit of reading around, prompted by your reply, it would seem that you are correct. The 4/5-second action can be reprogrammed in many BIOS systems. Ugh.
I would even say that any person of any country with enough financial resources could afford and get the best treatment in whatever country of the world would happen to be offered.
40s are new thirties, my friend. Also, painkillers help.