skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Literature is especially cliquey--almost all the most famous writers are based out of hubs like New York, London, Paris.

Is this true?

Smith, discussed in the parent, sure, born and lives in London. In general, I have a suspicion this concentration is more true of British authors than American ones, although the most recent one I can think of that came to fame is...

Sally Rooney? Ireland.

Naming a few other famous novelists I've heard of in the last several years, and doing some quick Googling... trying to stick to "literary" ones:

Franzen? Santa Cruz

Knausgård? Sweden + London. Looks like it was only London after he got famous, though.

Ferrante? Heh, well, famously nobody knows for sure, but seems like people believe Italy.

Stephen King? Maine until very recently. Go further into genre content and we get out of the point of the "literature" discussion here, though.

I'm looking at novelists vs columnists both because of the example given of Smith and because novelists are less geographically constrained than someone whose day job is to write for a publication that historically has been based in those cities, to try to avoid "once you're in the club you get the job that makes you move to the city" factors.
> However, I think we are beyond that now. I don't know if there really has been a clinically relevant antibiotic with actual use in the real world discovered in the last 20 years in such circumstances.

IMO, the main reason is IP law. You can't patent a natural phenomenon so there is no incentive for companies to go looking for drugs out in nature. There might be a huge societal upside but there is basically no profitability.
"I don't gripe to you, Rieben. I'm a Captain. It's a chain of command. Gripes go up not down; always up. You gripe to me, I gripe to my superior officer."

I always remember that the best way to succeed is not to do a good job, but to do whatever will help my boss; either make him look good, or take some burden off of his shoulders. It's cynical as hell, but that's how life is in corporate life.
Not sure what you're responding to.

My point is that you can get a BA and go sit at a decently cushy desk job for 60k-80k/year in many parts of the US. Nursing might pay a bit more but at much greater cost to one's health.

> Amazon pays a lot less.

Yes, I wasn't comparing nursing to jobs with much lower wages.
Not sure I follow - isn't making more money than you put in a direct result of a high conversion rate?

But I'm curious to learn what you mean! I have no direct ad purchasing experience
My little project. ;) Surprised and delighted its on the HN front page!

If you use ZFS a bunch, like I do, you will use this little tool more than you may imagine.

Also, FYI, for the trivia/history buffs -- cool bit of happenstance -- 20 years ago yesterday Jeff Bonwick filed the PSARC case for the ZFS filesystem. See: https://illumos.org/opensolaris/ARChive/PSARC/2002/240/onepa...
Yeah, this. There's a gulf between people like Brendan Gregg (my go-to example of a "Real SRE") and those I've actually worked with, who anointed themselves with the same title...

As a side-note, is any tech group more keen on title inflation than SREs? In the time I've been a developer / software-engineer I've seen sys admin, DevOps, Cloud Ops, SRE... it's literally the same people.
> A cop killing an innocent civilian at a nonviolent traffic stop can pretty much happen only because of malice or negligence.

This was found to be by recklessness, which is beyond negligence but short of malice.

> We use the word "accident", but it's never really an accident.

Acts due to negligence, and even recklessness, really are accidents.

> Furthermore, the nurse is in a profession where people die all the time due to reasons beyond the nurse's control, and surviving relatives are not always rational in who they blame.

Surviving relatives don't make prosecutorial decisions, nor are they triers of fact in criminal cases.

> So nurses will be falsely accused much more often than police.

That...doesn't follow from what you’ve described, even taking everything preceding it as true.
Yes, but that depends on if the licensing fees are per board or per device. And even if your contract says “per device”, you could still be taken to court by the IP owner.
But that phenomenon isn’t specific to targeting, is it? That’s just run of the mill propaganda.
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Wow that's impressive. I've been thinking about doing this too.

How do you ensure that you consistently track? Automated pings? Physical buttons/sensors at your desk or I guess computer uptime maybe.

Other thing is did you have any concerns about making this info public, I guess it's not locating you exactly.
I mean things did end pretty bad for the King.
Because all the big players will mark you as spam.
That's probably right, though I wonder whether facts impacting Florida's tax burden wouldn't be exposed by e.g. the Miami Herald - and whether it would matter.
Should work out of the box if they’re using the rust AWS library right?
The whole VFS is an illusion, it's totally possible for the filesystem driver to say one thing in readdir(3) and another thing in fopen(3).
That’s possible. I was wondering if it is typical and I was just attributing it to the new design
Thank the hero of Medicare, Lyndon Johnson. When CMS actually needed to start pricing things, he directed them to his old buddy, the famous heart surgeon, Michael DeBakey. DeBakey sent a couple fellows of his to DC to write up the price list for CMS. Shockingly, surgical procedures got a lot of money and office visits got approximately nothing. This has propogated for 60 years now with increasing precision as the rate of inflation gets applied over and over. A WAG of "10,000 for bypass" is now "57,348.32 +/- 343.43" but the error represents the uncertainty in inflation over time, not any better resolution on the cost of the procedure.
Huh, this is new to me. How does zfs handle regular directories that happen to be named .zfs?

Might this be a security issue as well? What permissions are needed to access this path? If I somehow have a webserver serving static files from a zfs dataset, might someone use this to access old or deleted files?
We probably don't agree on tracking being nefarious.

I'm personally just not concerned about being represented by a user ID in a database with info attached to it. Every service I've ever used has this on me and in general I trust US-run public companies with that level of data.

Tech businesses more than most! Equifax leaked my personal info lol, no Silicon Valley companies have.
> This is the same as paper reviewers for academic journals.

I mean, "this paper does not cite enough of my colleagues" is a common satirical representation of academic journal reviewer feedback.
Very cool. I guess the drawing functions are mapped to Be drawing routines, which means probably using this on say Android would be a big effort.
You may have had more vision than others, because I definitely remember the fart app and the tip-to-pour-a-beer-app and people just kind of laughing at them. I'm not saying that stage lasted a long time, but that was what I saw of it in the very early days.
The problem is that the definition of "hate speech" and "racism" have drifted wildly according to some (mainly on the left). I have seen people on the left accuse 100% of Trump voters of being racist. I have seen people accused of racism for opposing co-governance reforms in New Zealand. I have seen people accused of racism for criticising Will Smith when he physically assaulted a comedian.

So yeah, I oppose censorship of "racism" and "hate speech" because I don't trust the powers that be to maintain reasonable definitions of these terms.
"I can host my own Mastdon server ..."

Is an e-mail provider required in order to run a Mastodon server.

https://docs.joinmastodon.org/user/run-your-own

I think e-mail, i.e., the software, is "decentralised" if one is willing to break conventions and standards applying to how it is used. The way email software is used today is of course highly centralised, for various reasons. However the option of using email software to administer email in a decentralised way, i.e., going against standards and conventions, is not a topic one ever sees discussed.

With every item of software, there was a time before the standards and conventions existed. The software still works without the standards and conventions. Someone had to test it before those "rules" were established.

But an "email industry" has arisen, and a ridiculous number of individuals and organisations choose to depend on mostly unregulated third party "email providers". When people encourage others to follow conventions and standards, such as using third party email providers, e.g., because it's easy, and others follow these suggestions, a decentralised solution can effectively become centralised.
I would say consistently achieving your goals is effectiveness. Intelligence can help you be effective, but it's neither necessary nor sufficient.
> So the states paid the bills so can license the result any way they want.
>
> How can they pay for something and not own it?

Try buying a copy of Adobe Software[1], and then hosting the *.isos on your website. You paid for it, you should get to do it!

The short answer is, it costs more to buy 100% of the rights, and governments rarely do so.

[1] It'd have to be older Adobe Software, as modern Adobe Software is all monthly licenses, etc.
Yes. That’s literally the definition of lobbying: getting involved in politics to get your way. It doesn’t have to mean corruption.

From Merriam-Webster[0]:

> lobby (v)

> to conduct activities aimed at influencing public officials and especially members of a legislative body on legislation

“Public officials” have another name: politicians.

[0]: https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/lobby
check if this is relevant to your platform: 64 bit Intel does allow unaligned access, so you don't get an interrupt on misaligned access, and it's acceptable to have one byte alignment. (I guess that's the reason why pahole isn't maintained any more, because it stopped to matter for the dominant platform).

Of course it may very different if you work on embedded systems...
once at Home Depot an employee helped me scan 12 bolts individually as separate items. Why I asked? Because she's scoring points. Welcome to the future.
That is super high. My resting rate is usually 80+, and I think about that a lot.
> How something so common could go unnoticed by the adults and professional doctors in my life astonishes me still today.

A friend of mine was struggling with a weird disease, 7 years and 5 doctors later he finally found the cause -> vitamin D deficiency.
I used to love the A4 Whitelines squared soft-cover perfect-bound notebooks. But they seemed to discontinue them. And their online integration/scanning stuff is horrible.

I'm now using the Leuchtturm 1917 A4 grids (like #55, but not slim).

I am very impatient for a device that can replace my notebooks, but nothing comes close (yet?)
It happens everywhere - executives think they'll save money by outsourcing (mainly to India where wages are 1/6 what they are in the USA).

One most of the projects I've worked on they got what they paid for. However, the executives who'd made the money-saving decision had moved on by then.
Not true.. And your new car becomes a used car eventually.
Former VT employee: It's not just Microsoft. Virginia Tech has a problem with their stuff getting flagged as spam.
thanks confirming,

saw the discussion in another thread for softwares used in medical, not easy to use, one reason someone mentioned is that the purchaser does not use it much, the real users(doctors/nurses)' voice are probably not heard enough.

wondered about some ux inconveniences in teams, if MS use it internally, should have improved it... :-)
I’m not sure I’d call CL lightweight. It’s a large language that also has some very interesting gaps in the standard. It is possible to write very performant code with modern implementations though. One of my favorite examples is the regex library cl-ppcre. Thanks to the nature of Lisp, the recognizer for each regex you create can be compiled to native code on compiler implementations of CL.

And as a practical matter if you want to learn Common Lisp you’re probably going to be using GNU Emacs. Thus you’ll probably end up picking up some Elisp too. Both have their share of idiosyncrasies, but a great deal of what you’ll learn applies to both.
I kinda assumed that one hasn't really started yet, as it was postponed by artificial money.
You usually get appropriate usage licenses in the fine print of the legalese. Otherwise, the whole thing would be pretty useless.
My gripe with gitlab is it's absolutely massive, compare to gitea and you miss a few features but you gain the ability for a lowly sysadmin to manage it.
Correct. The security vetting is indeed more cumbersome. All 3p code is reviewed with the same standards as internal projects, in theory.
My first-ever attempt to create a meme
A convincing sounding, terrifying publication that's almost certainly
total bullshit. Let's hope so.

But for me, it's more interesting for the thought experiment it
demands.

Imagine if something like this were true. What would happen? Suppose,
just for a moment, that highly reputable scientists produced easily
understood, irrefutable, reproducible scientific evidence of
devastating medical problems caused by a common technology.

You don't need to be a "conspiracy theorist", or even very cynical to
suspect from the depths of your heart, that every wheel and cog of a
dozen multi-trillion dollar industries would spring to action and
close ranks to refute, suppress, ridicule and discredit it. That goes
without saying.

So the question is - what are we really doing with science like this?
Isn't such science is Copernican in its nature? Have we reached a
point where unthinkable modern heresies cannot even be approached
without those scientists being deemed a priori "cranks"?

In other words, is there a sense in which we have faith in science but
not faith in science as an instrument of truth to change the world for
the better? And if so, what is that former type of belief really
about?

Anyone who wants to cling to shred of credibility in science today
knows there are untouchable subjects, where keywords like "intelligent
design", "eugenics" will destroy you. Is that circle of untouchable
inquiry expanding?

Though we've seen the battles over asbestos, DDT, tobacco and many
other hazards come to positive fruition, without doubt the
automobile/fossil-fuel camp won against climate concerns. So what
hope is there for a growing body of psychological research that stacks
up against social-media, smartphone use and surveillance?

Are these areas of tech that are live-rails now?
I love Severance but sometimes it's just too close for comfort. CurrentCompany has periodic gifts given out to all employees. Sometimes it's a generic card with an attached candy bar. Or a note that just says "We appreciate you!" Every time we get something dropped on our desks, it's almost a race for our team to figure out how much money was wasted on this stupid stupid tsotchkes.

I'd be tempted to ask for a Waffle Party, but that scene was a bit too creepy for my taste.
MS Windows 10 and 11 has Video Editor

I don't know about layers and stickers, but it does text and fx and add music and so on. It's there already. Click on the magnifying glass and type Video Editor.
Yeah, the implied causation is weird. Do we know with certainty that cortisol causes a mental state?
> It's not torture though, its a fight.

Either way, it's a struggle!

Btw. I've been toying with meditation and mindfulness on and off for a few years now. It's definitely hard work. So far I haven't succeeded in sticking to it for more than a few days at a time.

> It seems you're a beginner programmer; you could do worse than "Eloquent JavaScript":

Oh, sorry for not expressing my thoughts clearly enough. I'm a senior dev, I self-taught myself almost everything from books, starting before I even knew what Internet is, and later from early-Internet-era websites. Again, never considering it a chore, not preparing for a job, it was just a fun way to spend long winter evenings!

I only mentioned JavaScript as an example, slightly ironic, because you used to learn it from a few page long tutorial. The tutorial didn't need to be longer, because JS was mostly used for creating hover menus and animated snowflakes. You could go over it in 30-60 minutes and call it a day. And frankly, there were years when knowledge in that tutorial would be enough to land you a well-paying job. Today you have to push through 21 long chapters (of that book you mentioned), and it's still only the beginning. I feel genuinely sorry for people who are starting these days, web-dev in particular became so complex.
I was just on a 40-person call with Micky Tripathi today. I was on a gov-only call with his minions yesterday. They mean well, but they're policy people, they don't promote by repealing policy (remember, the boss promoting them wrote that policy). No programmer will stoop to a government salary to clean up the mess. Something has to give, and we've decided to break the doctors and nurses until the patients die. Things might change once a few major city trauma systems implode.

Keep in mind, the boomers are retiring and there aren't enough Gen X to replace them. Here's the graph of job postings for my specialty (takes a bit of finagling for it to render, esp. mobile, but suffice to say the system is going bonkers): https://www.pathologyoutlines.com/jobs?jbl=1
Expansion with temperature changes over the length of a plane is surprising large. They put in gaps along the lenght to take this up so the whole is to size
Former Google engineer here. My team used the open source Go B-Tree implementation but I replaced it with a non-interface version over a year ago because of performance issues. The lack of generics at the time wasn't a problem because code generation is quite easy via Google's build system.

Replacing interfaces is only part of the performance improvement. When it comes to the B-Tree, you want to improve data locality as much as possible. My implementation also replaced slices with arrays (again using code gen to specify the tree degree). This means each node on the heap literally contained all the keys and, and in some cases, the values themselves. It also helped to split the key/values into separate arrays so all the values didn't interlace the keys.

The insert/retrieval benchmark times compared to the open source version were significantly faster. Since this version relied on codegen, I never bothered to push it publicly. Though, there are tons of B-tree implementations on github, each touting themselves as fastest.
Yeah - the problem is that "a dream fuffilling job" without major filtering like med or law school effectively has a "virtual compensation" from desirability of the job. We see the reverse for (potentially literally) shit jobs or in ill repute. The economy accounts for your feelings but it cannot care about them.
Open relays were a thing in the early 90's. I remember a friend of mine relaying email through 20 different servers, bang-path style. Any open relays today would immediately be used for spam, so they just don't exist, at least not for very long.
Explorer: Dataframes for Elixir
Email would be so amazing were it not for the spam problem. In the early days you’d just send a mail to your computer and your address was yourlogin@yourdomain and mail just ended up on your machine in a folder. Relays were like p2p networks. It was actually beautiful in its simplicity and in a perfect world with everyone being good actors could have been incredible.
My experience has been the opposite, with simple python docker containers showing noticeably slower cold starts than python zips. I've also found the size of the zip package matters (smaller is faster). However things change over time, maybe there have been recent improvements?

Specifically regarding cold starts of lambda instances, I recall this excellent article from Jan 2021 which measures cold start latencies for a variety of AWS lambda runtimes:

https://mikhail.io/serverless/coldstarts/aws/languages/

I would love to see a 2022 update.
OMG. I would have killed for a vim pedal had I known they existed.
Their requirement for it applying to all people make it generally universally true. If you have a dedicated IP with reverse DNS pointing to an A record on the primary domain that server is responsible for, and you have SPF, TLS and DKIM running smoothly, it’s very unlikely any spam markers are due to the fact that you’re sending mail from <regular Ip> instead of <Microsoft 365>. This doesn’t mean you’ll never be in the spam folder, it means your spam reputation is based on the content and frequency of your emails.
why don’t you tell us since you’re the one making the accusation. your comment is basically, “this angers me, tell me why”
No iPhone 11??
Enjoy educating yourself: https://support.apple.com/guide/security/secure-enclave-sec5...
> "I don't want to deal with this shit"

Funny, that is my response to most 3rd-party/hosted email. We all have to pick which bag of shit we want to carry.
> IT systems that they have to use were designed by people who have not talked with the workers who use them. They may have been designed with laws and compliance in mind. Nurses aren't the people who choose or pay for these systems. But, they use them a lot (maybe the most) and it's obvious they weren't taken into account when designing the UX. It's maddening for them.

I can speak to this a bit. After interviewing lots of hospital workers, I can tell you that the hospital quality people love EHRs because the reporting functions actually work. Previously, it was not possible to measure how well the hospital was doing and convince the doctors to improve practices - think washing hands before doing examinations.

EHRs are shitty because (1) the big players are entrenched - they are already implemented and the cost / disruption to switch to a new EHR is extremely high, and (2) the market isn’t big enough to justify the level of investment it will take to break through - Apple made more money from one product (AirPods) last year than all the EHR vendors combined.

At this point my hope is that mobile devices and meta-EHRs are able to crack this.
Correct. Scroll down the page for download links.
"The problem is not that people know, but that expectations form, both within the community and outside of it. Expectations are death. Before something has a full-on, identifiable identity—that’s the exciting time. That’s the time when you don’t really know where something is going, but there’s a feeling, and you can’t quite name it."

It is why I think I am drawn to the pre-Apollo U.S. space program. I don't think anyone knew what was and was not possible. Some engineer decides to make the pressurized rocket tank itself the structural part of the rocket — the thickness of a nickel. Someone calculates velocity and altitudes achievable from staging and then a rocket is put in orbit. Hey, Van Allen belts! We're testing the Saturn vehicle, unmanned with just a dummy cargo — so someone suggests exploding a payload of water high up in the upper atmosphere ... for science. Why not?

You could be forgiven at the time for beginning to believe that anything was possible.

I don't know when or why space travel became boring to the public. But maybe it was when we had begun to know the extent and limitations of what in fact was possible (affordable).