skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Like Comcast deciding they don't want workers discussing unionizing using the internet infrastructure that they privately own. Or financial institutions like PayPal freezing and seizing your money on their "private property" because of speech they don't like. Or when AWS, Microsoft, and the largest and most powerful corporations in human history coordinated to take a separate social network offline because of speech they didn't like.

Or when Twitter and Facebook coordinated to falsely label a true story "Russian disinformation" days before an election, literally preventing people from sharing it with each other privately on the world's largest communications networks. Whether Hunter Biden smoking crack with prostitutes would impact the election, or is even anyone's business, is questionable to me. But so is having billionaire tech CEOs decide what people can discuss through private communications with the express intent of suppressing information related to a political campaign.

The same goes for credit card monopolies like VISA and Mastercard coordinating to destroy businesses like Mindgeek because of moralist outrage from another "side."
I wish this level of extensibility was brought to the mainstream in Firefox, or at least a "userChrome.css" section in the add-ons marketplace, however I have experimented with making add-ons for Firefox and modifying userChrome.css and have found that it often breaks with major updates, but it is totally doable to make everything work
Thanks for sharing this. It was a trip to read all those comments with what we know right now.
I'm a nurse and I find the 7th point on the post especially relevant. I will add a disclaimer that I never worked in the ICU so I can't speak for what happens in that type of unit.

There is a serious issue with the flow of information in healthcare, (or at least in the U.S, I never worked elsewhere to know if it's any different). But If you find something during your shift which will be important to know later on, it will certainly be lost as soon as you are off for a few days, or even as soon as a new nurse comes on. To think of a somewhat crude example, if you find out that it is much easier to obtain a blood sample from the veins on the left arm of a patients vs the right, many nurses will still stick the right arm countless times hoping to get something.

And you can leave a chart note about things like that or speak about it during report, but for the most part few people will think "hm, I wonder what everybody else had to deal with." They are probably too busy handling a thousand different things happening all at once. And, even if that is not the case, from what I observed it's simply not part of how things are done. And very often patients will get (justifiably) angry, saying "I've been complaining of x thing for days!" or some version of that. I think it would be much better for both patients and healthcare staff alike if there was a greater emphasis placed on focusing on the series of successes and failures that happen over the course of someone's care, not just seeing it as a single shift or a single problem happening in some isolated point in time.
As part of a team at my last job, I worked on some core features of https://www.salesforce.com/products/experience-cloud/overvie... -- if I'm tricked into a bragging mood I like to say a book got written about it https://www.amazon.com/Practical-Guide-Salesforce-Communitie... The product is still useful to thousands of businesses and transitively their customers, so it's probably the most impact I've made even if it's a shared impact with many others.

Individually, nothing much. Maybe an old python2+numpy re-implementation of a slow matlab script for radar, specifically SAR RMA imaging: https://github.com/Jach/radar_sar_rma I still get the occasional ping about it. A handful of other things have over the years been helpful to a handful of other people, like a hacky jira-to-github-issues migration script, or a simple ranked choice voting counter using scraped web data. That's always nice, but nothing super impactful. I don't mind.
That's a classical strategy to get obedient subordinates
> However, one should not make the mistake of thinking that the U.S. is, in any way, losing capabilities here

What is this theoritical nonsense of dreams of hot nuclear wars and proceed to chest thump about having better weapons? No nuclear device has landed on US in war time. What do you base those assumptions on?

Do you think a country would face the US head on like trench warfare in the 1700s?

You think a belligerent nation would start a war with tge biggest military in the world and roll up with the trebuchets filled with nuclear bombs and start slinging at Washington?

Holy sh*t.
EFF: The Fediverse Could Be Awesome (if we don’t screw it up)
It’s not that sad.
Laid with firewood? I think for either interpretation "made" is appropriate.
It’s worth noting that the patient’s condition is not an independent variable with respect to the level of care - the author’s father got moved to step down because they got better…and I’m glad to see that they continued to get better in step down.

A UK judge once talked about balancing the “benefits and burdens of treatment” when making medical decisions, I think that’s a good way to think about it. The benefit of ICU care is less chance of deterioration and death - the burden is the pain, medication effects, discomfort, noise, confusion and many other things described in the article.

It would also be less confusing for the family if the doctors could explain their thought process well, but a) not everybody is good at this, b) not every family member can necessarily even understand or remember this when they are distraught and sleep-deprived, and c) the health system (and patients) don’t want to pay for the time - if they paid double, the doc could spend twice as long with them, as happens with boutique / concierge doctors.

Regarding the ICU doc disregarding the consult recommendations- the ICU described sounds like a “closed “ ICU where the intensivist makes the final decision, vs an “open” icu where a hospitalist will often be the one making the final decision regarding care. Either way, it seems obvious that someone has to coordinate the care and decide what’s important right now and what’s not - there are many tests that a consultant may recommend that won’t improve the chances of the patient improving right now, and can be done later on the med-surg floor of the patient survives that long. Many of the consultant recommendations may also be contradictory, someone has to take responsibility for picking and choosing a course of action

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Total spending $9T this year, so this $13B is about 12.6 hours of spending. Wow, we spent half a day modernizing the power grid. (Pats self on back)
People who are net-contributors feel like they're likely to eventually be elderly, and unlikely to become disabled, I guess (so the inverse of your feelings)- combined with deception by governments that social security programs are like a savings account for the future, not a tax to pay for today's expenses.

From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs is the only solution for healthcare.
The commoner should have a say, unless they oppose the ideas of Those Who Know Best. The bureaucracy is made of Those Who Know Best. The commoner wants Things to be Better but is worried that changes will make their lot worse.

The commoner has few choices: find other commoners with reasonably similar concerns and use the power of numbers (and perhaps law) to represent their concerns to The Powers That Be (union, HOA, PAC, gang/mafia/mob/activist, some voters); capitulate to Those Who Know Best and hope Things Will Get Better (other voters, slacktivists, Eternally Online people); or, wait for Someone Else to rectify the concern (Enlightened Centrists, anarchists, 9-5ers, mostly everyone else).

Lots of other options and variations are possible, but I can't think of them at this time.

I don't have a point, I just wanted to document a stray thought you inspired.
No, I was saying the idea of using solely LVT to fund the government is exactly what feudalism was. Unless you were in the ruling class, things didn’t go too well. Why would it work now when our public servants already lord their limited power over the populous? I’d rather have a monopolist who is theoretically bound by the same rules and laws as I am own the land than an entity with an army or a monopoly on violence.
I appreciate your perspective as a professional in this area.

Yeah, I'm not really looking for doctors to demonstrate creativity (although House does), so I don't think I'm asking for anything at odds with evidence-based medicine. What I'm saying is that I think you need to get to the bottom of what's actually happening (i.e. why is the program outputting 5 when it should be 4) before you can know what evidence-based medicine to apply in a "precise and totally unimaginative clinical" way to actually fix the problem. As a patient, it just feels like the system, and therefore the doctors in the system, lack the curiosity to figure out what's actually happening. We often get the treatment for the most common issue even though it doesn't quite fit the real issue, or the common issue seems to just be a downstream effect of the real issue.
Three things.

- beadm -----> https://github.com/vermaden/beadm
- automount -> https://github.com/vermaden/automount
- lsblk -----> https://github.com/vermaden/lsblk

All of them for FreeBSD system.
First, I want to clarify: I haven't made a value judgement like "gluttonous" or "evil." We're operating within the same framework, which is constraints (and incentives).

That being said, I think it's overly reductive to chalk it up to the country's size and density. If you take any mid-sized city in the US and wind the clock back by 80 years, you'll see a very different urban structure: dense radial development built around streetcars, multi-family housing next to retail construction, inter-urban and long-distance rail to the next city, etc.

Much of the US, including the extremely sparse parts, looked a great deal like Europe. But where Europe's cities and exurbs were rebuilt to more or less the same character after each war or disaster, the US intentionally razed its cities in favor of (subsidized) personal car travel, commercial zoning, low-density housing, etc.

Cleveland had an urban population of nearly 1 million in the late 1920s, and was one of the largest cities in the country. It's about a third of that today. That didn't take hundreds of years; just a handful of decades.

In other words: we (the US) have intentionally pursued policies and incentive structures that encourage low-density (and correspondingly high-consumption) living, as a departure from our historical arc of development. We don't get to play that off on physical geography; it was a political pivot we made.

Edit: And we don't get to play it off on colonization either: New Zealand is both less dense and younger than the US (and more remote, to boot), and yet their emissions are well under half of ours.
The article discusses issues of privilege and how this is a tool that enables fraud like SBF's. While the title may be a trigger for some, the article itself is well written.
Free startup idea: Use Whisper with pyannote-audio[0]’s speaker diarization. Upload a recording, get back a multi-speaker annotated transcription.

Make a JSON API and I’ll be your first customer.

[0] https://github.com/pyannote/pyannote-audio
Mozilla: Unified Extensions Button and how to handle permissions in Manifest V3
EV doesn't need "gear" in the first place, engine can be directly connected at all times.

There are some EVs that have 2 speed gear box to get max of the performance out of the engine but that's almost exclusively for performance vehicles.
> where a lot of the platform can be implemented from scratch in a few weeks by top engineers

I stopped reading at this point.
The difficult question is who decides what is "negative" and what should be boosted or deboosted, and how to do it at a global scale.
Now, with all the <div><div><div><div>div</div></div></div>s in doesn't look so useful ...
https://drugpolicy.org/blog/nancy-reagans-role-disastrous-wa...

"Reagan's presidency marked the start of a long period of skyrocketing rates of incarceration, largely thanks to his unprecedented expansion of the drug war. The number of people behind bars for nonviolent drug law violations increased from 50,000 in 1980 to more than 400,000 by 1997."

Indeed the "drug war" began before the private prison industry, but it has directly and indirectly influenced drug policy to protect and expand its business. https://justicepolicy.org/research/gaming-the-system-how-the...
In my career to date, a web application developed at breakneck speed (3 weeks for functional demo to stakeholders, which included members of CDC on Operation Warp Speed advisory committee) by myself and the CTO at the time to facilitate applications to receive and distribute COVID-19 vaccine in late 2020.

This is when the official option afforded by the CDC was a 7 or 9 page, non-fillable PDF that they expected hospitals, clinics, and your primary care office to print, complete, sign, scan, and return to the public health agency you fall under -- who would then transcribe that into a massive CSV for import into one of their immunization data systems.

The application was demoed before multiple PHAs, ultimately becoming the sole solution for an entire state, and one of the largest PHAs in the world. It has since become a showcase project for ongoing data modernization initiatives within these two large PHAs.

Tens of millions of vaccinations were made possible by this effort, and it's still in use today.

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Outside of my career, the persistent browser based game (PBBG) I made when I was 13. Several years before I would enlist in the military myself, I received a message from two players -- brothers, one of which was deployed to Iraq at the time, the other in school stateside -- who were able to maintain a higher degree of connection with one another, given limitations of communication otherwise.

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OP, great thread. I always knew there were amazing folks in this community, but it is incredibly inspiring to see the many other responses in this thread.
Also: IIRC, a fair number of the people with long sentences for (say) drug possession are there as part of a plea deal which allowed them to avoid more serious charges. If we legalized drug possession, they would still have gone to jail, just on a different set of charges.
The people you are imagining that can make things exist wether it not Mozilla exists. And no one is successfully making a browser project to rival Firefox. So no, I think that isn't the best thing
She just happened to piss off important people, like the grandson of George Schultz who was working for her, that called his buddy in WSJ. What she did (fake it till you make it) is very common, but she didn't understand the flip side of having real American establishment on her board- she myopically only saw the upside, like an entrepreneur probably should .
> I’m a tech reporter, I generally understand how to use things on a computer.

> Wrong.

> First, I downloaded the Mastodon app from the Apple App Store. I have since learned (maybe?) there’s more than one app, or something?

Maybe "tech reporter" and similar jobs should be regulated and you need to get a license demonstrating a fundamental understanding beyond "my mac usually turns on when I press the button".
Seems not enough - "misdiagnosis" / fake results also fucked over average joe.
I agree that lying to people wealthier and more powerful than you is a dangerous endeavor - it has alway been.

If you're suggesting that SV culture encourages lying more than, Wall Street, Hollywood, Shenzhen, Bengaluru or any other place where large amounts of money moves to high risk ideas, then I disagree. It's at most the same, if not significantly less corrupt.

If you're suggesting that SV culture enourages lying to rich people more than other places, then I think you're misinformed about rich people.
There was talk of REMOVING a second soon because the Earth's rotation had sped up a bit. Physicists havent figured out the cause of the speed up. The previous slow downs were attributed to tidal friction and global warming (expanding seas and atmosphere).

https://www.forbes.com/sites/jamiecartereurope/2022/08/03/do...
Using a hardware watchdog is an alternative and it covers the additional case where the system hangs without panicking.
If the sign up process filters out these kinds of people, then that's a feature.
Yep, Section 230 is built to protect big tech platforms. Unsurprisingly, everyone who writes articles claiming otherwise has a financial influence from a large tech firm.

A lot of the extremism, radical political shifts, and domestic terrorism can be placed squarely on 230 and it's defenders. Big tech platforms aren't worth this much damage.
He also pissed people off by insisting PayPal runs on Windows instead of Linux. Hey, I have fond memories of coding for the Windows platform for fun, but especially back in the day we kind of scoffed at those who wanted to run mission-critical systems on a Windows server.
Perhaps the Twitter code is convoluted and messy, but really, you think to such a degree that even a small team of highly-motivated, skilled engineers could not figure it out and keep it running?
Such bullshit, I might as well do shady shit too if all it means is 11 years…

Let me guess, Sunny gets 20
According to Galactica's paper, Meta AI researchers believed this purported high-quality data would lead to high-quality output.

I had a good chuckle at low-key stiletto of 'purported' here.

Yann LeCun's tweet about taking it offline reads as quite petulant. The downsides of hype and the high probability of faceplants should have occurred to such an experienced technologist; it's hard to imagine he's not aware of the reproducibility crisis in science, the highly variable quality of statistical inference, publication mills, and so forth. I'm also surprised that it failed on extremely checkable things like not citing non-existent papers, as described in Michael Black's tweet thread.
It sort of worked a bit, although with the risk of total annihilation if something goes wrong.

But now we see Russia invading Ukraine and using the threat of nuclear weapons to reduce NATO countermeasures. The nuclear weapons have made its conventional war possible.
> ...everything is just random chance based on dice rolls.

Not everybody for sure, but some people enjoy just rolling the dice and watching the scenario play out. Along the same line, there was a very popular game based on a WW2 bombing run over Germany called B-17: Queen of the Skies. (https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/1032/b-17-queen-skies)
More precisely, Cozo currently has a RocksDB backend. The development version also has SQLite backend (for easier compilation on mobile platforms), in-memory backend, etc. It now can run as a web assembly module as well (see https://cozodb.github.io/wasm-demo/)

With respect to the SQLite backend, Cozo uses SQLite purely as a KV store with range scan capabilities, with both keys and values stored as bytes. This actually results in faster queries than offloading some stuff to the SQLite engine for the (very few) cases we tested.

Disclaimer: I'm the author of Cozo.
htts://oikolab.com - it's essentially a weather data api but catering more to anlaysts who need historical data for planning and evaluation.

We provided 30+ years of hourly historical weather data for more than 16,000 locations around the world to a popular website that generates free weather files for architects to do energy modelling. Most architects don't know it but if they use any recently updated weather file, there is a very good chance that it came from us.
Why You Should Make Time for Self-Reflection (Even If You Hate Doing It)
But if you lack technology to detect fakes how can you ever prove perjury? Photographer would then risk nothing by lying.
Basically shadow banning, which a lot of the “anti-woke” brigade have been complaining about for years and thought Musk would stop. Unsurprisingly, it turns out it’s more complicated to run a social media site than some people might think.
80 years of peace.
Good points. As rich as he is, he is heavily dependent on defense contracts and the global financial system who can pull his strings. He is also punching down on the regular working class who want a voice against the powerful. A more neutered and sanitized environment seems to be the future of Twitter. The fediverse looks more beautiful every day.
guess she was wrong https://www.wsj.com/livecoverage/elizabeth-holmes-sentencing...
> If you try to "keep them around", then you have to say that these are reasonable ideas.

There is a giant middle ground between mocking an idea and accepting that it's reasonable, which you are ignoring.
This paper is saying they can deliver by x, if y is figured out.

It's a perfectly cromulent way to make a projection.
Or just put stuff on water.
Our tastes mostly come from our distant ancestors. Some of them are clearly harmful in the modern world, e.g. people eating too much delicious sugar leading to obesity, diabetes, etc.

Just as we evolved to mostly eat cooked meat rather than raw meat, we can also evolve to stop eating killed meat altogether.. A more environmentally sustainable & compassionate world is critically important for our future well-being (and possibly survival).
I think parents point was that if you’re old enough a 40 year sentence might as well be a 1,000 year sentence, because you’re never getting out either way.
The laws of the republic are only as impartial as the people enforcing them. Unfortunately charisma works in mysterious ways.
> Not a lot of users on it

How many users? Presumably more than one?
Couldn't these all be part of the plan, though? Make himself look incompetent so that people underestimate him?
I have quite a few people in my life who were convinced she wouldn't be convicted.

I had to remind them she stole from and (more importantly) embarrassed extremely powerful and well connected people. This is the double-edged sword of the composition of the Theranos board and high profile investors.

It really makes the whole thing even more astonishing. Not only are you constantly lying, defrauding, etc but you're doing it to former Secretaries of State, a former Secretary of Defense, four star generals, etc. These facts are why I think this is just pathological for her. I couldn't imagine screwing over people who have literally spent their lives implementing United States foreign policy and managing armed forces who by their intended purpose have killed a lot of people. I would live every day completely terrified. I mean this isn't a Putin opponent but still...

As one example George Schultz considers his involvement in Theranos to have completely destroyed his legacy. Ouch.

The justice system kind of "is what it is" but in this case there were a lot of people with a lot of weight to throw around to tip the scales.
The feds aren't going to get you for possession. That's more of a state level thing. If the feds are getting you for drugs it's because you had massive amounts, or crossed state lines with them. Ironically and sort of counter to your citation, simply possessing drugs while crossing state borders is considered trafficking.
>Would you sacrifice time with your kids over the holidays for vague assurances and the opportunity to make a rich person richer or would you take the out?

This quote right here says it all.