skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It might reduce prices, but I wouldn't trust pharma companies to put safety over profit. We've seen time and time again that pharma companies will do the bare minimum to prove safety, which has lead to a large amount of harm (see Vioxx, Thalidomide, etc). I don't think reducing what safety measures they have to prove will make therapies safer.
I would try to understand why you can't sit for the task for long. Maybe it's too boring, or too hard. Maybe it's unclear what the task even is.

A somewhat spiritual take on the whole issue is Steven Pressfield's "The War of Art". One of my favourite books, and I'm as non-woo-woo as you can be.
I default to C. It's fast, runs everywhere, works with everything, and has few surprises. It's standardized and not captured by any individual or organization.

I can't think of a language that comes close to any of that.
> Because greens don't have the political capital to institute a zero tolerance policy toward fossil fuels, and probably don't want to implement such a policy as it would mean their standard of living would regress 80 years.

So you agree that the power to stop it didn't come from the greens but from general political will and the complete lack of any economic or practical viability? Good.

> My understanding was that breeder reactors are already producing surpluses and the only issue being that they're not economical because they have higher capital costs and it's cheaper to just enrich or use more uranium.

Give me a single example of a breeder reactor running a full load of fuel without prolonged shutdowns for repairs or to deal with it catching fire in breeding mode and coming out with more. It hasn't happened. A reactor that could, in principle, breed if it was operated completely differently like BN-800 whicb has the primary function of destroying plutonium doesn't count.

> I know this is not true but I'm open to seeing any credible source that proves me otherwise.

Phenix, Superphenix, the french MOX program (which existed only to serve Phenix and cost even more), IFR, the BN series.. the list is very long. They cost tens of billions each.
My daughter discovered this music genre a year ago and ever since we're listening to vocaloids in the car. It's alright but being non Japanese speakers, we don't really feel what the true experience this genre really is. Maybe that'll change in future when more people make music.
Yeah, but Silicon Valley tech companies are already pulling in $2M per employee per year.. if spending 0.5% of that on better offices increases that revenue by 10%, you can probably bet that they'll want to do it

Presumably the higher ups legitimately believe that the open office plans are better for the company, which fits with how insistent most of them are to get butts back in seats now despite almost everyone hating the commute and the office life
At this point I think it is unnecessary or even harmful to teach young people C. The language is needlessly complicated. Not to mention Arduino C is somewhat different from regular C in some weird ways
I live in Japan, and this depends completely on your perspective and expectations.

The OP would disagree with you.

In the US, it's normal to have a server hovering around your table, and frequently "checking up" on you to see if you need anything. They frequently will interrupt your conversation to ask you if you're OK. Some people would find this annoying, but Americans like the OP love this kind of service.

In Japan, no one is going to come around to your table to see how you're doing, or to take your order. You need to flag them down: raising your hand, pressing a button on the table, yelling "sumimasen!" etc are all pretty normal.

Also, in Japan the service is extremely professional and courteous. The server will not tell you how their day is going or anything else about their life. Americans don't like this: they want the server to act like their best friend and chit-chat with them for several minutes. Japanese servers will never do this: they take your order and then go do other work.

Overall, the amount of service in a typical Japanese is much less than in America. It's one of the reasons it costs less to eat here. Instead of a huge waitstaff standing around ready to attend to customers, there might be just one server in the whole restaurant, and he also mans the cash register, and does various other things while not doing those. That doesn't happen in America. So of course the hourly labor cost to run a restaurant in America is huge with all these people, whereas in Japan you might only need 2-3 people to run the whole place.

Americans like the OP simply won't be happy with the kind of service offered here. It's minimalist and highly efficient, and not at all "warm" or "friendly" like they're used to in America.
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> nothing to do with crypto, it has to do with people sending their money to a con man

You've just described 99% of crypto though.
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Rituals.

There’s one highly specific genre of music I listen to while I code. Nothing else. If I take a break, I turn it off. If I get distracted, I turn it off. I only listen to it when I work.

I use the sandwich method of booking meetings; only at the beginning or end of the day. Also the times when I look at my emails. Slack is harder to turn off because ops so I let that one slide.

When I need to concentrate, flip on my playlist, and go to town.
If I understand correctly Saunders vs UK, if you killed someone and hide the body you have to show the body when you are asked to, even if you are just suspected and not confessed. The phone and the body is the parallel here, they suspect there is something in the phone so you have to produce proof of guilt - that is exactly self-incrimination.
Assuming your remote allows you to force push. Also you need to specify where to reset to because 'git reset --hard' will just reset you to HEAD, so you actually need to do 'git reset --hard HEAD~' (usually I don't use --hard for this either because often there's some work I want to keep from the commit).
TLDR: When the means become the end, things start going downhill fast.

Is this TLDR too efficient?
Switch off Tor. You are in the dark net.
Bitcoin supports a few transactions per second globally. Please explain how everything would be done on chain?
The technical debate put aside, it’s pretty sad that cities, counties, or even States, and by extension - the people affected, have no authority to intervene de facto on the matter, warranted or not.
> What made FB successful was that it was a platform that other developers could program for, so it filled up with games and quizzes. Farmville, "Which Harry Potter Friends Spice Girl Are You?" etc. was all the edge that it took to kill myspace, a site which seemed to stop any sort of development about 10 minutes after launch.

Even before that, it was a combination of exclusivity and social groups. When people found out there was a social network they weren't allowed into (when it required a *.edu email address to sign up for), they were curious and wanted in. For the people who could get in, Facebook had network pages tied to your email's domain so you had an immediate social group of people going to the same college/university as you, which was used for all sorts of things like planning events, coordination, sharing campus information, I believe it even had a full-on calendar for students to put things on.

The loss of the network pages was when I first started losing interest in Facebook.
So far, the solution that has worked for me has been Focusmate (https://www.focusmate.com/).

It's like Omegle for focus. Pick a time slot and pair up with someone to be accountable together.

You can get more information on how it works here https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-46624137

You can also book a session with me if you like. https://www.focusmate.com/i/nLUDAIR5oh/calendar
I'm mostly with you, except, `git reset --hard` is relatively easy to recover from. `git reflog` generally can fix most `git reset --hard` commands.

On the other hand. `git checkout .` with unstaged changes tends to be the most common way I've seen people lose code via git.
I'm going to go on a rant here. Most times when I hear someone invoke Goodhart's law, it's because they are opposed to transparent and metric-driven decision-making. It's easy to find the flaws with this approach, as the article has effectively done. But what they inevitably ignore is the flaws of not using this approach. Without a transparent metrics-driven decision making process, what you end up with one of the following:

- A totally opaque use of metrics to make decisions. You as a customer-support rep are trying to answer as many customer tickets as possible with a reasonably high satisfaction rate, because you think that's what you're supposed to do. Except that management has decided that you will secretly be judged based solely on satisfaction rates, and not the volume of work done. So you keep getting passed over for promotions and raises, losing out to others who are closing far fewer tickets but with a marginally higher satisfaction rate. And you have no idea why

- A totally subjective decision-making process filled with all manner of cognitive biases. You have an accent, so you get passed over for promotions. Your buddy comes to work dressed very sharp, so he gets great performance reviews. The new guy goes bowling with your boss every Sunday, and gets fast tracked for promotions. Nobody knows or says these reasons. Everyone can point after-the-fact to some piece of data that explains why the guy with an accent would not be a good leader, and why the manager's best friend deserves a promotion. And yet, you keep noticing consistently that some people get ahead far more than their talents would suggest

- No decision making process at all. The guy next to you who spends half the work day hungover? Still around 10 years later. The guy who customers hate talking to because he's barely helpful? Clocks in 9-5 everyday with no problems at all. Both of them have abysmal work output or customer satisfaction ratings? Well, you've heard of Goodhart's law right. We can't just go around evaluating people based on these very flawed and could-be-gamed metrics

Yes, it's extremely hard finding a good measure to optimize for. And yes, there are second order effects where people will try to game any metrics you start measuring. But how does this compare against the problems involved in NOT doing this? To use the article's parlance, overfitting is bad, but underfitting is also bad. Instead of trotting out Goodhart's law every time someone suggests transparently using metrics to guide decision-making, perhaps we should be discussing how to find the right balance between underfitting and overfitting. And what combination of metrics will produce the best proxy for the goals we're trying to achieve, while avoiding the problems of overfitting to a single metric.
When I used amphetamine salts I had a few rules for myself:
Don't overdose, keep to low, clincally useful doses.
Don't drink coffee and take amphetamine at the same time - too much stimulation, plus I don't eat breakfast.
Try to eat and sleep, it's very important for your brain functioning.
Stay disciplined, if you find yourself distracted try to calm down. A lower dose often helps me focus. I couldn't do work on more than 10mg of speed.

Amphetamines worked well for a while but they started having all kinds of messed up side effects so I quit them and I'm glad I did.
Was really hoping you’d share the playlist or even the genre as I was reading your comment.
Maybe that's why there are so
many pair programming zealots?
You can't focus unless you bring someone?

It totally doesn't work for me, I can retain max 5m out of every meeting including pair programming.

Most pair programming end up being someone doing the work while the other browse Twitter and pretend to follow.
People seem to prefer either the window or the aisle. You go and select seats, and it's always the middle seats that are left over. So it might be an issue if these new plane designs have lots of middle seats. They might have to give more space to the folks in those seats to get them filled.
> It is a blockchain failure in that blockchains in general cannot actually support transactions like this.

"The #LightningNetwork has a theoretical throughput of 40 million #TPS... Lightning enables #Bitcoin to be a planetary scale decentralized medium of exchange."

https://twitter.com/Excellion/status/1456088664132440069?cxt...
Matt Levine explains why this is worse:

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2022-11-09/bankma...

tl;dr - the bank can't invest the money in its own stock.
i've also been working on a similar tool -- working towards open sourcing it too. would you be interested in taking a look? paul.quenra at conductorone com
> yes the cancer is getting treated BUT now your immune system is hyperactive which can be very dangerous in the short term

Can immune-suppressive drugs be used during treatment?
“Bankruptcy is a possibility”
I've watched the prices of patented drugs quadruple in less than 5 years, to the point where a 30 day prescription can cost thousands of dollars despite the same medication costing $40 in countries like the UK. Drug companies have absolutely no reason to drive down prices of the patented treatments they have a literal monopoly on.
It is called early adopters. As in: in the 80s (??) A random admin wrote a well written email and got what he wanted for free. Now they are worth millions.
Whenever something like this happens, I'm often surprised by the relative lack of outrage. People are too forgiving. I noticed a lot of comments about SBF along the lines of "I know he's a good guy..." or "Everyone makes mistakes" or "Everyone deserves a second chance..."

F that. Society has created an environment where it's better to ask for forgiveness later than it is to ask for permission prior. Our society systematically rewards deception and punishes honesty. There are a large bunch of apologists who keep showing up saying "Oh but deep down, such and such is a good guy" - If we keep going down that path of pretending that people's actions don't define their true character, we will soon run out of actual good guys... Or those that remain will be backed into a corner and forced to fight to survive.
I'm not sure I agree.

The problem with overfitting and inability to extrapolate out of sample is variance. The problem with Goodhart's law is bias.

I don't think a training sample is to the full population what a proxy metric is to the objective -- not theoretically, and not practically. The training sample faithfully represents the full population (by definition, if it was randomly selected). Any difference in composition is down to sampling error, and this is known from theory.

When overfitting we are still optimising for the objective, only adapting more to individual data points than desirable. Goodhart's law implies optimising for the wrong thing entirely. We have no theoretical tools to deal with this and I suspect we never will, because it's a problem of subjective judgment.
If you can already focus on a task for 15 minutes, try using the Pomodoro technique.

Set a kitchen timer for 25-30 minutes (just 10-20 minutes longer than current!) and focus singularly on your task. You can check Reddit, HN, etc after.

If you can get into flow, keep going. Otherwise, keep increasing your timer by 5-10 minutes until you've trained yourself to work for 60 minutes straight. Remember to take breaks though!
This should stop absolutely nobody from vaccinating.

From the article: "People face a much higher risk of developing myocarditis from Covid infection than the vaccines, according to the Department of Health and Human Services. The risk of myocarditis from Covid is 100 times higher than developing the condition after Covid vaccination, according to a recent paper in Nature Reviews Cardiology."
Automakers solved this problem many years ago, by making cupholders that are deeply recessed instead of thinking that cups wills somehow magically stay in place with a very minimal indentation (see the "cup holders" on the backsides of glove compartments in 1970s American cars).
> Maybe you have specific aesthetic goals.

Traditional French (beef) buillon is made this way, it's presentation and taste is specifically light as it's the starter course in a multi-course meal so it's there to just whet the appetite not serve as a stand-alone meal. The way that it' finished is using the egg technique to ensure it's clarified after being passed through a cloth and chinois.

It's the same way in Japanese cooking, in order to get a proper dashi you have to ensure you don't let things get to a boil because the katsubushi or my personal favorite niboshi can break up and then ruin it entirely at those temps and it will become bitter and unusable to make soups, sauces and braises with.

So, yes, it has a purpose beyond just looks.
Ah, thanks for the heads up!

For the record, I was responding to the gp saying

> ... pushing the boundaries of pop music in a way that wouldn't be possible with a real singer

=> I felt it was possible to do what the example does by singing slowly and speeding it up afterwards.
Sounds exactly like ADHD.
I can focus for as much as I want to. I start having lack of sleep problems before I lose focus.

I worked with people with ADHD (not diagnosed and diagnosed) and they all had the same problem of being unable to focus. Pairing with them was quite the experience.

Some of them switched to being product managers to retain a good pay even if they can't code.

I think you have to deal with it but don't stress too much over it (stressing about it will make it worse).
In today's bs corporate world in which nobody does crap you'll be fine. Average performance around medium large companies is terrible.
IPv6 wouldn't fit in a screen. Best way to do it would be trace routing and making some connections.

If you type "how many ipv6 addresses" to google you get this weird number:

"340 trillion trillion trillion IP addresses"
> Are Turing-complete languages a bad choice for pipelines?

Yes and no. If you write “steps” in yaml, you are doing it wrong and might as well be using a Turing complete imperative language.

On the other hand, linear steps isn’t always the best to begin with for a pipeline. Better have a dependency tree such as makefiles but more advanced, that the CI engine can execute in the most optimal order by itself and retry failing steps without restarting from the beginning. Just keep the number of transitions between declarative and Turing complete few, nobody likes templating strings to inject data into a small script.
Launch images (png)

I'm flatly amazed that sort of thing isn't some kind of bitmap/vector hybrid format. Like a high resolution central logo and then rules for defining the background, like "blue fading to white at the edges".
FTT, the fraudulent and insolvent token, outperforms entire daily market
Surely this is a whales effort of some kind to gain momentum or prop up the token for some sort of scheme? This is like Enron getting into the s&p 500 instead of being delisted.
We are interested in a db system that can run adjacent to a CephFS external BLOB store, and are analyzing CRDB for comparable features (specifically data snapshots to offline mirrors, and time-shifting state for forensic auditing).

Transparent tuple salted-hash (like ephemeral seed) signing would also be nice for detecting bit-rot on backups. ;)
Uh, yeah, that's a valid web-page, but I don't see how that counters "html is cluttered" statement. This is cluttered. It… just is. I know some people who suffered some mind deformation in academia and now claim LaTeX is the perfect markup for blogs, but I don't think I've encountered the same for html until now. I mean, does somebody really compose text in html?!

Markdown is deeply limited, that's true, but I often think that there is just a tiny bit of syntax lacking to make it just fine. Some actually is implemented in software like Pandoc or RedCarpet, there are a couple of ways to make tables (some better than others), LaTeX can be employed for formulas, some implementations have checklists, strikethrough, etc. It's just poorly standartized — and the spirit of original proposal (and misleading name) is at fault here as well, since later attempts to invent a standard mean very little when there is a dozen of different common implementations and not a single one is reasonably complete.

By the way, the fact that HTML was supposed to serve as an addition to Markdown doesn't help: you just cannot allow people to submit arbitrary HTML everywhere where something like Markdown is needed. To use it in comments on a forum you need to fully parse it anyway, explicitly enabling or disabling different features of some ubiquitous "full implementation".

Obviously, you cannot make an atrocity like a modern landing page in Markdown+. But… ok, I shouldn't be judgemental and claim such atrocities shouldn't exist — they can, but most blogs, forums (such as this one), etc. — really could have been just "viewer programs" of some standardized format, much more restrictive than HTML+CSS+JS, but a little less limited than Markdown.

All of this isn't very much related to the original topic, but seriously, I dream of some better version of Markdown someday becoming a de-facto standard markup language for all forums, messengers, blogging engines, whatever the general name for Jira is… You know what I mean.

I don't really have a solution, it just really feels like there shouldn't be that many additional features. A couple more of emphasis options, a couple less ways to do the same thing (I mean, it's stupid to convert all of */-/+ to the same <li> elements), colors, better image embeddings (with captions), sidenotes, better ways to handle formulas (there are enough dedicated literals in Unicode to construct most simple formulas without the need for LaTeX, but they still need to be parsed to be rendered pretty) and simple UML-like stuff… I'm pretty sure the comprehensive list of features for 6-σ usecases cannot be THAT huge. Big, yes. Not endless. And most features surely have some "plain-text" (or very light special syntax) representations.

I realize that it was pretty much the intention behind HTML + CSS. But HTML + CSS stopped being that a very, very long time ago. 30 years have passed. By now, we should have a little better sense of what's needed to write & render most texts.
Nice, that would be great!
i want a celebratory animation thing when i complete a task, and i want it moved off my list to some other place that i can still see it, but it's diminished in some way.
For several reasons, but basically I was burned out, and wanted a new challenge. Working in biotech manufacturing was also a way to make something that helps people.
I will remember 2022 as the year that delivered the two costliest tech industry self-goals in my 40-year career: Musk/Twitter and Zuckerberg/Meta tanking because of hubris and god complexes. The billions lost by these two unchecked egomaniacs would make me laugh, except for the thousands of people put out of their jobs because of mismanagement and greed.

I can't even imagine the level of willful ignorance required to buy a money-losing company for $44 billion, do no due diligence and try to wriggle out of the deal, then talk about bankruptcy less than a week after taking over.
Those headaches can be hydration-related. A "life hack" (I guess addy/adhd hack) borrowed from the keto groups was to find a way to intake potassium a few hours in to it, in combination with your likely more than usual water intake. The suggestion I once found was low sodium V8s since they’re high in potassium to offset the sodium but keep a level of taste. Life changing to say the least for those days I would take adderall.
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