skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I honestly never quite understood why prescriptions in the US need to be literally filled, when in the EU, for example, you can just walk up with your prescription to any pharmacy and buy a prepackaged blister pack of the medicine you need.

Not only do blister packs save so much waiting time — you never have to wait for it unless it's out of stock — but it also feels like there's less chance for anything to go wrong when manually handled by the pharmacist, factoring cross-contamination or incorrect filling, even though the pharmacists would either way be liable for it.

Blister packs are verifiably sealed by the manufacturer, you're more likely to tell if they've been tampered with, you don't have to worry about moisture seeping into the excipient and interacting with the active ingredients, and they provide a visual representation of how many pills you have already taken, without needing to count pills in a bottle.
Haii
We already manage electrically powered machines for the purpose of lighting the streets at night and for parking meters. Extending those to provide power to EVs isn’t too far fetched. https://tfl.gov.uk/modes/driving/electric-vehicles-and-rapid...
oh didnt know their client used python! Wow!
Ear training can help with relative pitch, but it's still super hard to tell for instance if your instrument is slightly sharp or flat due to changes in humidity unless you're playing against a piece of music or other instruments.
I always say the Turkish Lira follows the Argentina pattern with lag -3.5 years.
https://www.investing.com/currencies/usd-ars

It is all about bad governance and leadership... Look at Argentina with half population and 3x more cultivatable. Don't surprise to see the parity >= 80 TRY / 1 USD in 2 years!
Eek what a hot take.

He's talking about the pricing model not the way to operate it. AWS bills for egress data. You can't operate it in any different way to stop that.
I never found UML useful at all. A complete waste of time. YMMV.
Um, 20 years ago MMOs were also full of racists, misogynists, and others engaging in harassment and “spewing their shitty political opinions” both in-game and out (e.g. guild sites).
Scrum is the UML of these days.
Lossless jpeg xl could be a good choice for perfect archive copy, if needed. no idea about metadata though
I wonder if Darknet Diaries will someday become the XKCD of security stories: "there is a Darknet Diaries for that" :)
I see people make the error a lot, I've never before seen someone (or considered that they might) argue it's correct!
Archived copy without GDPR nag screen:

https://web.archive.org/web/20221004072224/https://techcrunc...
Environmental conservation laws should be considered a matter of national security. We need to mobilize the military industrial complex on the side of the environment before everything dies.
"which I blame for the annoying verbal tick we all tend to get when explaining things where we say “Basically it’s…”, or “it’s really quite simple…”"

Very true. I notice this in books on advanced deep-dives on graph theory, queue theory or neural nets, where the writers use the word "obviously" about things that are obviously not obvious.
I generally recommend Thich Nhat Hahn's book fear, for pretty much all situations, it comes in useful for most situations relating to change.

I like Travels Michael Crichton for discussing the ups and downs of life.
Yeah, If it has a single authority to consult, there is no need of inefficient proof-of-work bullshit. Just like explained in the article, UUID and simple KVS can detect the dupes.
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New destination sought for axed UK built Mars rover
This idea we could work as little ants on a factory chain still persists to this day, but UML was the bravest most expensive attempt at "no-code" industrialization they've attempted.

Sadly, again and again, it is all destroyed by the client-facing people: "guys, the clients cant see the button can you make it yellow" and its infinite never ending variations, which make our job more akin to a jeweller because no amount of pre-code rationalization will prevent post-production resculpting.
Erm you can definitely make six figures doing physical work. Have to imagine that’s a pretty decent fraction of your salary. You’re not going to do that though, because that work is hard and desk/computer shit is easy af in comparison with banger pay & benefits. Cool story though I guess.
So what can we do? As always , nothing, let's throw our hands up in the air and pretend 'it is what it is'. meanwhile, celebrity scientists keep using funds to enrich themselves
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The set of search results for "falsehoods programmers believe about" could each be a single lesson in "How not to be dumb at coding 101"

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=falsehoods+programmers+believe+abo...
Understanding Upgrade Failures in Distributed Systems
> For example, BMP image format seems perfect for this kind of quines because user can check one predetermined hash, that edit image in any simple image editor and check another predetermined hash.

That is assuming there is only one BMP version, which is not true.
> Writes would fail on multiple disks at the same time. That's why it was data loss.

This doesn’t sound like data loss but rather a fault preventing writing… it would be data loss if confirmed writes were lost.
Yes, but CUDA algorithms are part of MAGE[1] which is licensed under Apache 2.0 license.

[1] https://github.com/memgraph/mage/
I wonder when companies will move to more adversarial tactics like banning accounts to try and stay ahead in the jailbreak arms race.

We’ve seen similar tactics for gaming anti-cheat purposes for quite some time. Companies like Tesla have threatened to disable services to discourage reverse engineering and software modification.
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You don't "find what you are good at" - that is backwards.

Instead, you do what you are interested in, and initially you are not good at it, and with enough time, effort, working at learning and practicing, you will become good at it.
How come you compile your app on your deployment platform? I know Heroku does this, but wouldn't it be easier to compile your Rust app on a beefy CI server and then just ship a binary or container image to your deployment infra where you can size the server according to runtime load.

E.g. I use Fly.io for one of my apps. I build a container image as part of CI on Github Actions and then just push that image to Fly as part of a deploy. Fly never deals with a build step (although it can do that as well).

$5 is very cheap for the Hetzner server you describe though.
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I have 4 apps running on fly.io for most of this year and can recommend them.

2 are elixir apps that have been created on fly, 1 was an elixir app I had running on heroku, and 1 was rails app on heroku I recently migrated. I used their heroku migrator and it worked pretty much automatically. I had a few steps to follow to move the DB, but their docs covered it - https://fly.io/docs/rails/getting-started/migrate-from-herok...

I didn't want a self-hosted flavor of Heroku, and I value an opinionated and active community around the platform. I'll mirror another comment here:

> Everyone wants to be the new Heroku, but that should be table stakes. Fly is innovative in the same way Heroku was when it launched.
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Oh okay, cool.
Related:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32441911 ("VLC media player banned in India", August 2022, 168 comments)
When going somewhere does a thing: on links and buttons
Nobel prizes most often go to researchers who defy specialization
Yeah, even regular well known grocery stores and pubs are shut on a Saturday afternoon. It's quite eerie seeing almost everything closed.

There was one bonus - there is a shopping mall with lots of stores which stays open during the weekend, and is really quiet - I used to go there for last minute Christmas shopping at the weekend. When the rest of the country's shops would be packed, this entire mall was still very quiet, and open! I think it was near Cannon Street (One New Change, maybe?)
>It's not just some geek with python going gdp[country] = bright_pixels * 0.18

With respect to this study, it more or less is. Go read Martinez original study from 2017 and lol at the methadology. It's rudimentary application of Henderson et. al. original work on predicting economic activity with nighttime light as proxy with all the caveates parent comment highlighted - not expert estimation. Martinez updated his study occasionally with newer data, for click bait articles like this (started with Washington Post in 2018), with no modification in methodology as far as I'm aware (have not tracked down latest revision to compare). As someone who follows PRC development closely, NBER released a paper using light data with more sophisticated analysis also from 2017 stating PRC growth being understated. NBER is one of the most influential economic think tanks. To compare credential wank as proxy for expertise, author of this paper Martinez, is assisant prof at Chicago Harris School of Public Policy. NBER paper was conducted by two current staff economists at the FED and a titled prof of economics prof at Columbia. But guess which study gets repeatedly posted in western MSM.
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Pretty cool! I notice that Kudasheva herself doesn't have a wiki page - care to start one?
My issues with UML:

It's too bound up with OOP, specifically C++ and Java. It is hard to represent entities that are not simple classes.

Things that are idiomatic (in 90s C++, cough) look very verbose. If you have a base class, a derived class, and an interface you have a lot of duplication. It makes things like polymorphism look needlessly complicated.

And finally, it is ugly and unintuitive. The inheritance arrow goes the wrong way. I know it is supposed to say "derived IS SUBCLASS OF base" and thus goes upwards, but in my mental model it is "you start with base, and then go to derived (get more specific)" so it should point down.
UK hits Russia with British IT services ban
Equilibrium price is capitalist excess? Help me out here: if they can't meet market demand at 35/unit, doesn't raising the price mean they can make more units? Then, they are easier to find and so there is less unmet demand to support scalper prices at $150-300, ultimately making it cheaper for end users who don't 'get in' the first batch of orders?
The money for devs in Switzerland is in:
1. Electronic Trading - Java / C / Python
2. Pharma

If you are trying to optimize your take home pay, first stop is changing canton to one with lower income Tax ie: Zug, but would look into getting out of the Pigeon hold that is Android especially if you plan on staying in Switzerland.
No preliminary rough, just pen to paper? Pretty impressive if so. Especially if he wasn’t sort of bashing in the overall shape first and going back in to add details.

And now that I think about it, trying to do this on a regular basis sounds like a pretty good way to boost one’s ability to hold a whole drawing in one’s head and “trace” it onto the paper, rather than doing a rough. I would not be surprised if this ability started as a game he played with himself when he was sitting in the back of his least favorite high school classes, doodling away.

(I am an artist; I can’t do this particular trick but I have definitely had moments when I was totally into a drawing and it felt like I was tracing it onto the paper from my mental image of it, with the hand of a dead artist I’d been studying guiding mine. I was also pretty high at the time; there’s some strains of weed that artists favor because it can give us a boost to this sort of ability.)
Also loving Coolify after using CapRover. Very much enjoying the simplified interface.
The entire Bay Area is less than 50% homeowners. The suburbs are full of low-rise apartments with street parking or asphalt lots with no power and no security. It’s not impossible to put in four million public chargers, but we’ve barely started.
But you still can play UO in UO Outlands server, made by people who actually understands original concept, not like OSI-UO devs which turned UO, over the years, into care-bear themepark.
Designer Creates Jewellery from Bacteria
Strange.

Sometimes I'm glad I live in the UK (not often, mind)
...by which they become documented features and behaviors.
Great that you can still play very good UO servers like UO Outlands.

Because OSI UO turned into care-bear themepark, which is unplayable.
The question is when? Surely , with passage of time, it s more likely scams will be revealed. But if the professor has already retired, the damage and lost effort is irreversible.
Yeah I could but it's another hassle to figure out where to build and store those container images as I believe neither GitHub container repository nor Docker Hub are free for private images. I'm also not sure whether Coolify has Docker image support, so I've just been building and deploying on my server. It also does zero downtime deployments and queues builds so it doesn't bother me if the builds take longer than strictly necessary, because I won't have downtime anyway.
No, the poor library of the Switch is not due to it being ARM, as game engines, APIs and SW tooling have come a long way to make the HW agnostic, it's purely due to it being severely underpowered (it has the SoC of a 2016 Android phone).
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open in 'reader' mode to get around the paywall
I've had good results with this PPA for using later versions of ZFS on earlier Ubuntu versions (though it's only at zfs 2.1.5 at the moment, but it should be updated in not too long): https://launchpad.net/~jonathonf/+archive/ubuntu/zfs
Because all things are not equal, unfortunately. Per the article:

> As Linus recently put it, “kernel needs trump any Rust needs”. The kernel is simply not an environment which will bend to accommodate a language; it must go the other way around.
UML is not dead at all.

I cannot fathom developing software without UML. How can you even design a system without diagrams? It's simply impossible.

There isn't one software component that my multiple teams at Amazon have designed that didn't use some diagrams from UML. And I'm sure you can say the same for any team in any FAANG.

Sure we aren't gonna do a class diagram the vast majority of the time, but there will almost always be some component diagram, sequence diagram, activity diagram, etc.

Some of the parts of UML are dead because they're not a good time investment, especially when working in Agile (class diagrams), but I'd argue that 90% of the people that say they never used UML after school have used it without realizing.

Just look at this thread, 100% of the responses are saying that UML = Class diagram.
A little off-topic rant.

I started my career in the early 2000s in a big company on a big industrial project where several generations of contractors had already had their hands in. UML, rational rose, auto-generation of code that you had to manually correct, CORBA, manual tests, proprietary tooling...

It would take weeks to onboard newcomers, have them create unix account managed by some IT people in India so they could have access to the license of the proprietary point and click software to manage all this.

I think it was a time where decisions on tools were made by managers in the procurement teams. Selecting technology based on what they heard while golfing with their buddies or depending on kick backs they would get from providers.

Sorry, a little bit of a rant but to this day it still irks me to think how unproductive we were because of obvious bad choices. There is a silver lining though because during those years I learned more than any moments of my career. It taught me all the things that you definitely should not do if you want to be able to produce something useful at a reasonable cost. And one of them was to rely on UML for anything more than informally communicating simple designs with local team members.
> UML was the bravest most expensive attempt at "no-code" industrialization they've attempted.

Most expensive maybe, but "bravest" is surely something like spreadsheets or HTML.
Maybe context switching and exploring new things are what you are good at?

Maybe someone with discipline is different from me, but I can't "stay focused", I either "am focused" or not.

I don't think anyone is supposed to look for a single thing to stick with, that sounds sick..

If you happen upon a thing and you can't let it down, you've found it.. But maybe you never will, maybe your talent is not a single thing.
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What I am not sure about is whether this is an effective push by google or more simply it is the amount of web programmers/authors going for the low hanging fruit (or with the "flow"), they simply test the site in chrome (or Edge)[1] and call it a day.

This is a pet-peeve of mine in general, web developers (and developers in general) should also test their software on low power/low memory machines with a slowish connection to verify that what they wrote is actually usable by people that do not have the latest-latest of everything.

[1] possibly the very latest release only, on the very latest OS version, on a very powerful machine, with a stupidly fast connection to the internet (that most other people won't have)
> aren't any vaccinations called the "xxx shot"(US english)/"xxx jab"(UK english)

Entirely correct. Flu jab = flu shot = anti-flu vaccination.

This latter-day line that "if it doesn't provide 100% sterilising immunity then is it a really vaccine, hmm?" is intentionally a wedge statement, the thin edge of the anti-vax divisiveness, watered down so as to not be instantly dismissed.
I've been using it for ages, the "Top 20" and "Top 50%" filters are great. It turned out to be the "true" HN frontend for me.
I'm disturbed by something else: when I do the search, my quite large desktop browser window shows all of two results.

1. Pepper | Better Fitting Bras for AA, A and B Cups

1a. Bras

1b. Shop All

1c. Fit Guide

1d. Starter Kit

2. Pepper - Wikipedia

2a. Black pepper - Wikipedia

Below those, there's "people also ask", of which only the first two are visible because Google spent the entire height of my window to display two results. But if you scroll down, there are two more suggested questions and three more results, interspersed with random garbage ("sample of image results for pepper" [none of them are bras]; "sample of youtube results for pepper"; "related searches"; "suggested searches"...)

The entire first page of results is just five results, and three of them are hidden.
This is me as well. I can remember code snippets down to line numbers. I can remember what, who and why decisions where made (from jobs I last worked at 5+ years ago). I can remember, almost to the exact wording what people said when having discussion/arguments but I have trouble remembering the names of people I've met multiple times, I forget basic facts about my childhood or general knowledge and I forget to follow up with people after meetings etc.

I've always thought of it as having a good `situational memory`, it's interesting you say the same.
I'm lucky I'm a dev, I'd be useless at anything else!
While UML as a sketch had some use, it was a very predictable disaster when people tried to use it to automate away the 'coders'. It automated 5% trivial work that bothered nobody, while getting in the way when things got medium hard.

I wonder if the current crop of low code tools learned from the whole UML story. Any chance things will be better this time?
Like we did those of Atari, Blockbuster, Commodore, Compaq, PanAm or Westinghouse, to mention a few?

I think that a large component of a brand’s value is the low-pass filtered value of the underlying company.
I still miss UML class diagrams being widely understood. At the peak of its popularity, you could go into a room with just about _any_ programmer, draw boxes and arrows on the whiteboard and everybody understood. People knew which arrow was composition, which was inheritance, which way the dependencies flowed etc. UML pictures made it easy to design modular software - just make sure all the arrows point in roughly the same direction and you're set.

When the UML scene began all this "enterprise architect" MDA bullcrap, as this article elegantly describes, it got thrown out en masse. Rightfully so, but with the bathwater we also lost this industry-wide capability to draw software.

Text is great, and in parallel with UML's demise, the industry got amazing at succinct technical writing: the README.md in a github repo. But sometimes a picture really is worth a thousand words and I still miss it.
PCMCIA is still in use for CI+ cards in televisions, or is that only the connector and not the protocol?
I was in university 2004 to 2009. We had a total of 3 UML classes. A whole semester of wasted time. The professor that pushed this got "promoted" to a non teaching role after us. Everyone with some programming experience saw UML as a complete waste of time. The people pushing it at the time had no actual use-case just pie in the sky dreams of autogenerated software. It was doomed to fail.