skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You trust the current companies that made up the current healthcare situation in the US more?
I used the free version of Tabnine and beta tested Copilot.

I actually really liked Tabnine but sometimes the tons of suggestions got annoying. I upgraded my IDE and forgot to add copilot but didn't feel like I needed to. Maybe that's a mistake... but sometimes it felt like it was getting in the way and I did encounter a few times it would create "bugs" which I would have to spend time going back and fixing.

Not trying to knock these though. They're both very impressive tools.
You can't because they will just buy whatever you use to get back into your life.
Black Magic also makes hardware for this that starts in the few hundred dollars prosumer range and goes as high as you can imagine on the broadcast side.
Just imagine a world where they revolutionized healthcare as they did with advertising!
I'm not sure what your definition of smart polling is but there is no polling going on here - the query only reruns when the data dependencies change server-side due to a subsequent mutation.

Another key distinction is that "query" here doesn't refer to a database read, it could be a complex function containing multiple reads, relatively-arbitrary compute, etc.
Got it! Then I’d be happy if you could let me know if you ever open source it :) it’s something really missing from the ESP32 space
AD researcher here (late to the thread). As much as I loath the 'cabal' mentality, I personally think amyloid-beta is the cause of AD. Just because a few treatments focused on Abeta haven't cured AD isn't convincing in the slightest that Abeta accumulation is not a causative mechanism. (1) AD is a disease of the elderly - a group not particularly receptive to treatment, (2) AD pathology is likely due to a sequelae that took decades to manifest into symptoms; undoing tens of years of buildup is not going to be easy, (3) even if the treatment could clean up a large portion of Abeta accumulation (and that's a big IF) it wont restore lost memories.

With regard to evidence, the article mentions APP gene variant causes early onset AD; but there is another variant in the APOE gene that is the strongest genetic risk factor in late-onset AD. This gene too is in the Abeta buildup pathway.

With that said, I think that NIH study sections allocating AD research funding should not give preference to a particular molecule or theory. If the Abeta hypothesis is indeed the most compelling, grants focused on Abeta topics should naturally be stronger. They shouldn't need any additional bias to stand out.
A lot of marketing fluff and exaggerations but the core of is very interesting. Combine this with a real serverless Postgres like https://neon.tech/ and this could indeed change a lot the way mainstream apps are build an deployed.
I found Bionic 10% slower than Literata.

But I also found I am a verrrry slow reader. My reading speed came to 147 wpm. Any recommendation to improve this?
Nothing else at the moment, even as opt-in. We're considering this in the future, but want to make sure we do it right.
I propose that religion incorporates the most accepted science of the time it was established.

We haven't had a new popular enough religion that incorporates the current state of accepted science.

It benefits the leadership of any organization to give its members a reason for its existence. The better the reason, the greater chance of growth. Religions aim to provide the complete package - rules for society and the individual and rules for life and what comes after it.
> You want norms that don't fuck you when you draw the short end of the stick.

Not necessarily. You’re claiming your worldview as universal.

It’s easy to imagine an ethics where strength and power are virtues and weakness is a moral failing, and the strong owe nothing to the weak.
lots of good points, let me sell my FB stock
"The digitization of friendship as a signifier of the friendship replaced the latter forming a simulacrum - the signifier replaced the signified". We've moved our lives onchain and exchanged real connections for a social media nft.
Does anyone know where this metaverse crap came from? Was it just straight out of Zuck’s mind? It’s so funny and bizarre to watch him torpedo the company like this. Not that I’m complaining.

https://www.cnbc.com/2022/06/21/mark-zuckerberg-shows-early-...
According to the article, this is how you load messages and their users from a DB via Firebase:

const querySnapshot = await getDocs(collection(db, "messages"));
const userSnapshots = await Promise.all(
querySnapshot.docs().map(async messageSnapshot => {
return await getDoc(docSnapshot.data().creator);
})
);

Phew!

Thanks, but no. Never. I will keep doing it server side:

$messages = DB::select(
'SELECT * FROM messages JOIN users ON users.id=messages.user_id'
);

It is amazing with how much cruft developers are willing to deal with these days. And how much CPU cycles get burned for nothing, as the Firebase example fires one query per message to get the user. This would be bad enough on the server. But with the Firebase example, it would also create a client-server http roundtrip for each message. Mind-boggling.
While you may be right (FFI fatal familial insomnia, not foreign function interface) is an amyloid disease and the amyloid seems to cause insomnia, not vice versa -- there are some real proposed mechanisms suggesting that lack of sleep prevents clearance of junk in the brain, that then cause the cell death associated with Alzheimer's.

It's generally known that after 3 or 4 days of total sleeplessness there is permanent psychological damage which is probably physiological in nature. IIRC There was a radio show host who hosted his show for several days straight as a stunt and it really messed him up.
I did it by blocking out time to read the manual pages. Yes, it is slow and tedious. But the manuals make a lot more sense once you already know how the tools work at a basic level.
Regarding (A) and (C), this is the obligatory reminder that:

* The US spends more public money on health care, per capita, than other wealthy nations, while also spending much much more private money than other wealthy nations

* By many measures, the US gets worse outcomes (e.g. life expectancy)

The conclusion that many draw from this is that perhaps a single-payer health care system in the US could dramatically lower private spending, also lower public spending, and perhaps improve outcomes. I don't personally know if that follows, but it's not implausible.

This is counter-intuitive to many, thus comments like your (A) through (C) are common, but might not be correct.

That said, I'm not aware of evidence that your (B) is wrong. That might be part of the trade-off.

As a non-American from America's hat, who has had a few (bigco-insurance-funded) run-ins with US Healthcare, my observations were that

* emergency health care at the no-expenses-spared level in the US was nicer than emergency healthcare up here, and I wouldn't want to pit my doctors vs those US doctors in a quality competition

* US doctors seemed really eager to waste money, like really eager, like it was creepy
DRI is great! I am [CEO at a hydrogen startup, and] very bullish on hydrogen in the power sector, at least in North America. I should also say, I agree that batteries and "electrify everything" will play a much larger role in the electricity sector vs hydrogen.

You've noted that temporal storage is a value prop of hydrogen. I'd like to add on that this is a real value prop driving real $B-scale spend at utilities in eg Los Angeles [1]. Depending on the researcher, hydrogen usually looks like the cheapest form of seasonal energy storage (vs eg iron oxide or flow batteries, excluding pumped hydro in ideal sites).

Hydrogen can move electricity around cheaply in space, and is arguably cheaper than HVDC for long distances [2].

If hydrogen can move electricity in time and space, that is kind of the holy grail for wind and solar. As you may know, there are endless square miles of CA/AZ desert and OK panhandle we we can produce power at insanely cheap prices, but we do not, because there is no cheap way to move power around in time and space. (And, because America can't permit those HVDC lines. We're much better at permitting pipelines.) If you believe in consensus cost curves for solar/electrolysis, you probably think that hydrogen will get cost-competitive with natgas @ $8/mmBTU in the next decade or so, then keep dropping. That's basically yesterday in utility years!

I'd also list "reliability" as a unique value prop, which is a key goal for grid operators with mandated zero-carbon timelines. This is a one of the things driving Los Angeles utility's acquisitions and cost/risk modeling. (There are other major factors: Utilities own lots of turbines and are building more, and can mostly start using hydrogen today alongside natural gas, and turbines fit their business model and operational expertise.) For these reasons and others, models of zero-carbon power systems are usually more expensive without hydrogen. That is, wind/solar/geothermal/hydro/nuclear/etc, plus 4-12h storage/batteries, tends to be more expensive than the same mix plus hydrogen. Example study at [3].

"24/7 clean energy" is another related concept, and is the holy grail for corporate energy buyers like Google. I haven't even brought up wind/solar interconnection yet, which is another problem which I see driving momentum for hydrogen, but that'll have to wait for another rant.

Thanks for reading!

[1] https://ww2.arb.ca.gov/sites/default/files/2020-07/ladwp_cn_...
[2] https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2211467X2...
[3] https://www.nrel.gov/docs/fy21osti/79444-ES.pdf
Just when I was getting irritated reading a rather PR-like wikipedia entry I hit this gem of a title:

> Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now (2018)

The irony of posting this on HN isn't lost on me (though hopefully HN avoids many of Lanier's criticisms.)
>something that happened in the late 80s and 90s

There was a strong sense that AI was around the corner. Marvin Minsky gave our commencement address and expressed anger at us that we hadn't solved the problem of copying his consciousness onto a computer yet, and expressed the urgency that this problem be solved before he died (it was 2016 when he died, and we failed).

Goatishness was in the air, but it smelled like techno-optimism. Remember also that this was a brief, bright period between the fall of the Berlin wall but before 9/11 and well before climate change seemed all that serious, so we felt free to speak like this because it helped us convince ourselves and each other we were tackling big challenges so fearlessly we couldn't help but speak gibberish.
Timely - I discovered OBS only last week, and am consistently amazed by it. Only thing missing is the ability to draw crop areas prior to a screengrab/video.
I've kinda always hated real estate in general... but I see it as a necessary evil.

I hate the idea of trying to find a "great place" and then haggle for property and then find problems with the house, etc. Apartments solve a lot of these problems but then they come with their own cons.

Sad fact is there's only so many beach houses, someone has to own them. Same applies all the way down to a "typical house."
Correct, our service integrations are reliant on CEF and the browser source features. Our Flatpak is an option if your distro's repo doesn't have it compiled for some reason.
IMO the real killer app here is porn. So much internet tech has been heavily influenced by porn (video streaming, payment systems, etc.) and VR is the holy grail of porn.
> Most projects are 90% BS glue code and 10% actually interesting code. I don't mind only having help with the 90%.

Yea, that makes sense, I agree with that. If your use case is skewed more towards "BS glue code" as you say, you'll find more use out Copilot. Then $10/month can be fair, cheap even.
18% faster with Literata
Go is as good as V8, no?

[ disclaimer: i was a V8 contributor 13 years ago, and it is good, but it is not the only game in town ]
The author of the musl C library has a very poor opinion of the POSIX shell, and has published his "tricks" to force expected behavior.

This is very useful for those who are stumped by a failing script.

"I am a strong believer that Bourne-derived languages are extremely bad, on the same order of badness as Perl, for programming, and consider programming sh for any purpose other than as a super-portable, lowest-common-denominator platform for build or bootstrap scripts and the like, as an extremely misguided endeavor. As such you won’t see me spending many words on extensions particular to ksh, Bash, or whatever other shells may be popular."

https://www.etalabs.net/sh_tricks.html
You should probably compare it to the Citroen Ami instead of the Dacia Spring.
I was an early developer at Firebase. I think we made Firebase so easy to use and never spoke on about the technicals that the whole software ecosystem now underestimates the complexity involved. I see various Firebase competitors asserting various "mistakes it makes" without really understanding what it delivers, which is understandable because we never marketed it like that because we spoke only about how it can help you build easier.

The idea that n queries instead of a join is slow is not as true as you would think. Firestore supports streaming and pipelines at its core, and can reuse cache across operations. At the end of the day, the data goes over a narrow network channel. If you can saturate the channel, and don't leave any gaps, what's the performance difference if the data comes from a single query or many that are back-to-back. The data is transferred to the client either way. Both Firebase databases are pipelined, so this "many round trip" argument is not a decent argument if the client can issue the queries without waiting for responses (such as the code in this article).

The other is consistency levels and correctness. I constantly see devs call Firebase an eventually consistent database which is wrong, its causally consistent [1], and this makes a huge difference when trying to do OLTP. The offline capabilities are built on the consistency primitives, and it's the only way it can work. So while this convex article is banging on about "End-to-End Correctness Philosophy", they miss the most important quality of correctness, and if they are not careful, will miss the required engineering, and then be unable to deliver an offline cache over real-time streams. I see this playing out with Supabase, I warned them personally before they got into YCombinator that what they were building was not causally consistent. Since then, they have had to rearchitect their real-time features after shipping them. (I have not reviewed their latest design yet so I have no idea whether they have it right yet).

Many things sucked about Firebase. The bespoke security rules and the lack of views. So Convex is on the money shipping functions on the backend. I think Supabase is shipping competitors' mistakes with row-level security language. Personally, I think Firebase's mistakes can be fixed with the addition of an open-source Firebase server [1], as the clients are already open source and the mistakes are all to do with just the server. The real tech was always in the clients anyway (offline cache, connection management, operation queues).

It will be interesting to see if building expressly for React is a good idea. Firebase shipped many adapters, like https://github.com/FirebaseExtended/reactfire, using the "thin-waist" principle of not over-fitting. But Javascript technology moved from callbacks to async while Firebase was in the field, so the current API is not now idiomatic. But convex is setting itself for even more ecosystem fragility, what if React changes API or falls out of favor? This is a big risk! I hope they can roll with whatever happens!

[1] https://observablehq.com/@tomlarkworthy/redis-backend-1
Thank you for the snark, but what you probably don’t know is that MonitorControl for M1 wouldn’t have been possible if I hadn’t open sourced Lunar’s code and my reasearch on that.

All the work on MC after Apple Silicon is done by a previous Lunar user (@waydabber) which I helped for months on Discord until he got the implementation right, and then eventually got to do his own paid implementation called BetterDisplay.

Lunar is my full time job, I can’t have it fully open source and still earn money from it. I would still be working at some corp on gluing web APIs if I hadn’t done this.
Artificial Intelligence in Education: A Review
rclone already provides such a client and it is fully open source. In general, to have a zero-trust system, you need to have client and server developed by independent parties.
>and a container port is not an easy thing for smugglers to keep hidden.

This is one of those things that sounds obvious at first, but the intuitive answer turns out to be false. They (the containers, not the port) are very easy to hide in plain sight. There are simply massive quantities of them and it would grind trade to a halt to be inspected en masse. Therefore in US at least shipping containers are laughable easy for smugglers to "hide."

In US whole shipping container full of illegal immigrant arrive. It's my understanding only a tiny fraction of container are meaningfully searched, and whole containers of imported material can enter the country illegally. Perhaps Argentina has much more sophisticated and honest customs and border protection than US. But also take into account profit on illegal imports can be very high in Argentina due to arbitrage against crippling taxation/duties. Example below.

https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna3339957
>so values for things like repairability are going to be different

every time someone refers to these gdp statistics I want to remind them that London and Paris (not the respective countries, the capitals!) are apparently poorer than Montana or South Dakota overall. I don't know who comes up with these numbers but if you've ever been in these places and think your average Parisian is in more need of repair and self-reliance than your average resident of Montana I'd be very surprised

In fact the repair debate itself shows how silly this argument is, given that self-repair, involving no or little economic activity, renders you poorer by the accounting logic of our economic system.
Wine is (almost) always made from grapes because we call it different things when we make it from other fruits. Wine made from apple juice, for example, is called cider.
Sure, as long as everything is configured correctly and you trust the network stack on the host connected to the trunk port.

I use a similar configuration on my three ESXi hosts, with a pair of Ethernet ports on each host LACP bonded to a trunk port channel on the physical switch, a separate port group per VLAN on the virtual switches, and all L3 features disabled on the physical switch, so traffic only passes between VLANs through a dedicated router VM with strict firewall rules in place. Works great.
ApoE is not necessarily in the a-beta buildup pathway. One idea that was tossed around was that increased cholesterol yielded alkylation factors (like 9Hydroxy nonenal or oxidized cholesterol metabolites) that then modify a-beta but there's not really any strong evidence that that happens in vivo.

Iirc there's something about lipid raft homeostasis being out of whack leading to increased likelihood of amyloid nucleation, but our ability to measure lipid rafts in vivo is even weaker.
Yep; I used RTX Voice or what it was called on my old 1080TI. With my 3070 I'll use both voice and video, to just slightly blur the background.
You're conflating scientists and the scientific method. Down this road lies "No true scientist"/"No true Scotsman".
Thank you! It was built incrementally over the past year to reach this state, so I thought it might be a tad too long and in-depth :) happy to hear you find it just right!
Zipf’s Law Applied to Branding (2007)
I'm told that MSDN blog posts were owned by the authors, not Microsoft.

it wasn't Microsoft's content to move.

movement to docs.microsoft.com meant giving copyright to Microsoft, and not everyone chose to do that.
For me, it helped to stop thinking of the shell as an efficient way to accomplish a task (it certainly is), but as a way to express my intent (the way I would in a normal programming language). That, combined with some automated tooling (shellcheck) and a handful of best practices (arrays over strings, avoiding the "cat pipe" pattern[1], etc.) has worked well for me. But I don't know how well that generalizes!

[1]: https://www.linuxjournal.com/content/put-down-pipe
hah - nuance freakin deserves it though. their tech is good for its time, but they _nailed_ distribution
As cool as this is I would be super hesitant to use this, what if it accidentally runs a command to delete the entire file system or lock me out if my own machine. Too black box.
Thank you as well! It’s nice to see I’m really solving problems and saving people time and frustration. That’s the only thing I like to create software for.
"This work is still being done on platforms like Facebook and Reddit. But unlike the sysops who enabled the flourishing of early online communities, the volunteer moderators on today's platforms do not own the infrastructures they oversee."

Volunteer moderators on Facebook. Perhaps I am misunderstanding this sentence. There have been a few documentaries showing how Facebook does moderation. It is done by low paid workers, e.g, in the Phillipines or Ireland, not volunteers. The first line moderation work is contracted out.

There is actually profound lack of moderation because (a) moderators are overwhelmed and cannot keep up and (b) the priority of Facebook is what attracts the most traffic ("engagement") not meeting standards. If some group page is getting lots of traffic then it goes into a special category. The moderators cannot delete it without approval from FTEs at Facebook. The number one priority is traffic,^1 not upholding any standard for content. Any standards enforced are only created in response to complaints. Section 230 shields Facebook from most of the potential legal liability.

1. Under the guise of soundbites such as "connecting the world" and "giving everyone a voice". People can be connected and have a voice and still only "engage" with Facebook periodically/sporadically. Overall, low traffic. But without both high traffic and ads, Facebook's days are numbered. Hence, ever more indignant, angry, extreme content is required to draw "engagement".

Edit: Thank you @LamdaComplex. I think that explains it.
Don't most of these tabloid-tier rags?
Crypto is a _____.
I think a great rule of thumb is to never take away things that were previously free (maybe more for features of a service/startup).

Copilot is such a marvel though. I think they could have gotten away with it if they did like you say and give more of an advanced warning.
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I'm interested if you could have a hydrogen stove, or hydrogen space heater- just as diesel, kerosene, propane, methane, electricity, alcohol, wood, and coal are all viable. What practical problems would arise? For example, gasoline camping stoves exist, but are too dangerous for indoor use.

If hydrogen is widely available, surely someone will want to do this..

This is what the flame looks like:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r-8H5u4YzuY