skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The two reports, released by the CDC on Thursday, show deaths from COVID-19 and drug overdoses, most notably synthetic opioids like fentanyl, were the primary drivers of the drop in life expectancy.

Not entirely surprising wrt COVID. The drug overdose deaths are a sad situation. I remember first hearing about the epidemic of ODs a couple of years back.

There is a bit of a common theme between this article and the other current article about the planned obsolence and inherent crappiness of most modern products. (This one: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34092749).

I have noticed this gloomy attitude from many people my age, a sort of existential despair and belief that we sit somewhere near the end of the world as we know it. I don't personally share this belief (maybe just out of stubborn naivete and optimism), but I do understand why people feel it. The modern media seems to love these kinds of stories, and there's always some crisis being pushed between global warming, economic woes, and the rise of some fairly troubling and extreme candidates in American politics.

Not sure what my point is here, but there's definitely a contingent of young folks (late millenial to gen-z seems to be the main demographic) who seem to have lost hope in the future. I hope we can find our way to a more hopeful collective spirit.

One last comment on this already rambling post: when I recently watched Apollo 11 I was quite moved by the spirit pervading the whole enterprise - this idea that we sent people to the moon with hopes for the whole world. That everyone was watching, hoping, praying for the success of the mission. That is a sort of unity that is awfully hard to find today.
I did not go to jail (2014)
Prompt engineering DaVinci-003 on our own docs for automated support (Part I)
Maybe its time more people learn how to sew.
I kinda think it's neat, but I can't see any UX person in my team approving that, nor do I see this passing accessibly tests.
I'm very anti-nuclear, but not for technological reasons. It's purely political, but I'll try to be as neutral as possible.

The baseline is that the probability of failure is so low, but the effects are devastating, which gives a company (or a state, for that matter) all the incentive to focus on short-term savings, while increasing the tiny probabilities, because in all likelihood, the people taking the decisions today will never see the effects of it.

Yes, from a technological standpoint, we could build safe nuclear, but we haven't found a political system to do it yet.
Rhino 1.3.0 released – RStats/Shiny framework
CRISPR cuts tree flowering times from a decade to mere months
For me the first time we dabbled with SQL was in a 3rd year Software Engineering course where the focus of the class was a single group project that we managed among ourselves by splitting tasks, conducting code reviews and handling the build and release in teams.

I recall one group doing the project login which went much along the lines of what the OP's article touched on. Their code was esseentially

var success = false
var query = SELECT * FROM users
while query.read
{
if query(user) == input_user && query(password) == input_pass
{
success = true
}
}

Yes. They selected the entire user table.

Yes. They iterated over the entire result (even if first returned result was valid)

Yes. That was "shipped" for the project

No. My complaints notion they should be leveraging the database for all the things they're doing wrong were ignored. It was performant! Look! It logs in instantly! YEah, because there's 8 users on the database for this project, what about when it ""ships"" and there's 100,000? More?

---

My first real job dealing with a database wasn't much better. We were using a MS Access database with no normalized data. Our client's primary transaction data was across a table with 70 some columns, many of which were often duplicated values in some form or utilizing very bad practices. Since joining this company I've sped up queries in almost immeasurable ways and done things my older coworkers initially derided because they couldn't understand the syntax.

TL;DR SQL, for some stupid reason, is still treated as second class to core langauges and it is a god damn shame
Right. Egencia charges us booking fees which we expense.
TIL youtube allows à la carte subscription to premium channels like Paramount+ or AMC+ without the full TV package.
Presumably you’d have two counter-rotating disks.
>people who want to be seen as fashionable in a general sense

That's funny. I'm not deep into the celebrity/fashion cult, but whenever I see interviews with various celebrities, actors, business people, fashion people, athletes, etc, they always wear some sort of Swiss/Japanese mechanical watch with their fashionable formal or casual attire, never an Apple watch.
This thread is about parser visualization
They also complained about pyrex not being durable because they dropped it. My pyrex has lasted 2 decades of use and I think it's an example of a durable product.
Ask HN: Do you all get spam in Gmail daily?
It's not just me? I get phishing spam for delivery services daily, I always report it but nothing changes. What's happening to Gmail? How come this has only appeared recently?
> mostly because of working in startups with few experienced engineers

This is an under-appreciated cost of working at startups. It's fun to be the big fish in the pond, but it means that you have less access to resources for this sort of thing.

You've identified something that you think is high value to you, and should reasonably be supplied by your employer as part of your job -- access to a mentor. This is something to consider when looking at jobs.
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any indication of whether this introduces aliasing? which clipping alg is used?
This is probably more about the drug use epidemic and the increase in suicides. A teenager dying has a much larger impact on life expectancy than a 75 year old (around the median COVID death age).
Best thing I've discovered is an ice cube on the sinuses. Don't need a doctor for that.
> Be aware that survivorship bias may fool you when comparing the quality of new and old items.

This is true, but there is an area where newer products are not able to live up to older products: repairability. There's far too many products that simple cannot be maintained or repaired - laptop computers from a particularly successful maker of Unix powered machines comes to mind.
wrt Eve Online, I've long thought that game economies could support public discourse. Just like how SimCity informs debates about land use.

Of course "real world" games, which don't nerf winner-takes-all, wouldn't be much fun to play for the non-winners.
You should try SharpestMinds - https://www.sharpestminds.com

Our mentors are mostly in the data science world, but many are senior software engineers.

Most of our mentees are 1st time job seekers (who appreciate our ISA model), but we did just launch more flexible payment options (e.g. pay by the hour) for folks like you!

Though you do have to pay, mentorships on SM often result in long-term relationships

Disclaimer: I run the company
It is ok.

I don't know if you have every been to Scandinavia, but I can assure we have lots of firs or pines to choose from.

So it is not meant to be snarky. It is a curious question.
I’d originally hoped to run my own, but I’d been expecting to see a variety of implementations to pick from and only found the official Ruby server.

Am I missing something, and there are other implementations out there that interoperate? Or is the reference implementation of this standard the only implementation?
you might have another known-good source of the hash.
Ask HN: How to build a SCIM server? From scratch or use tools?
TL;DR: Have you built a SCIM server/API? If so, did you do so from scratch, or did you use a tool/library? Which would you recommend? Anything a new-ish dev should know while building a SCIM server?

I'm trying to build a SCIM (https://www.simplecloud.info/) server to handle user provisioning from various Identity Providers (IdPs; Azure AD, Okta, Workday, etc.) into our application.

I've familiarized myself with the SCIM spec (RFC 7642, 7643, and 7644). But, as a relatively new developer, I'm still on the fence about whether (1) to build our SCIM server/API from scratch (in Java) or (2) to use a third-party tool/library.

Right now, I've got my eye on Apache Directory SCIMple as a possible tool to use. But (1) it's not on Maven Central yet and (2) it requires Java 17+ to build (and also for its spring-boot module), which might be a problem for us.

Maybe I just need to dive-in and start putting something together without relying on a third-party SCIM tool to do so. But I'll admit that, again, as a new-ish dev, I still have the gut reaction that "surely the stuff that other people have built is going to be better than what I can put together"!
Cool. Was just going to say that something like that should be made if doesn't exist.
215 actually has more bass than the 425

The Aonic 3 is my daily, although using the cable that came with the 425 (EAC64BKS - more pliable than the transparent one)
Whenever I see someone talk about The Dawn of Everything I like to link this series of video critiques.

https://youtu.be/oJIHWk_M398

The person critiquing generally agrees that humans are cooperative but he takes issue with the author’s general position that people kinda just decide to organize culture in a certain way. Instead the video creator offers a materialist perspective that I find a lot more compelling.
And yet the cost of healthcare continues to skyrocket
I'm actually super glad forms is separate from models. I've never liked the forms setup. Especially now that I mostly just use DRF.
I have to wonder if the code review process wouldn't be as big a deal if they hired a proper DBA. This problem would not have been an issue if the DBA had been told "we need to do X," and the DBA would craft a stored procedure for X.

I get that stored procedures aren't a cure-all, and sure, they can get out of hand, but doing this stuff in code is often worse than letting the DB do its job.
Those articles and our experience about modern obsolescense and optimizing the last cent of products out increase... yet I'm not seeing really the counter trend, but maybe it is yet so hidden I have just not found it? If anyone has..

Why are there no companies claiming robustness / longevity above everything else? Really (my wife might have a say still), I would give a shit about the design and looks of a product if it guaranteed 10/20 years or even lifelong usage, and I would also pay double price at least for true guaranteed and proven quality.

And also why are not more test reviews / magazines focusing more on this aspect? I barely find anything about that. (Yeah, I know one part to this is you will often only find out after 10 years..)

But still, it seems so many peope would be interested in such products, longevity, repairability.. but from multisockets over fridges to cars, every company is just releasing a dozen different products a year (and often you cannot even figure out the difference between SuperDuperRaido1080 vs SuperDuperRadio1085+) that will break soon.

Besides it just making sense would also be very nice and important ecologically.. but where, how? HELP!
I have gone on daylong web/magazine researches for all kinds of products, you get lost in advertisements, and usually you are still disappointed by quality 1 month or latest 3 years down the road :(
Absolutely fewer graduate students. The market just isn't there. There are exceptionally few professorial positions and commercial positions benefiting from graduate degrees available relative to the number of graduated students. This is true in every single field. The whole system is a giant scam against the students who are lied to aggressively by their schools for cheap labor.
But you can't keep building ... that's not good for the environment!

It's society enforcing these restrictions, and we absolutely do not want to let go of them. Compromising at all on any of them is considered evil ...
You are missing the forest for the trees in your blind defense of everything nuclear. There is no problem with the fact that the civilian nuclear programs came from the military ones.

The point is that we have come full circle. For a nation not the size of the US, you today need to have a civilian nuclear program to have the industrial base to enable the military ambitions.

Look at Sweden, a country once capable of building nuclear reactors. Today you can not even study nuclear engineering at any of the universities at the graduate level. The demand does not exist, so the programs died out.

That is why you need to civilian complement. Otherwise, it is simply too costly.
I don't consider myself an expert at anything, but yes, I use these languages on a daily to weekly basis at work. We had some Go code, but replaced it with Elixir.

EDIT: I'd also like to add that Elixir and Rust aren't "exotic." Crystal may be, but it's basically just compiled/typed Ruby.

I've been using Elixir professionally for seven years across multiple companies:

1. Divvy.

2. GoSkip.

3. Podium.

4. Actiphy.
In my student home, we own a stubborn cheap, little coffee grinder. I estimate it has grinded over 100kg of coffee beans in over 10 years time.

Expected one of there parts to fail:

- The motor
- The cable
- The button
- The safety switch that detects the lid

I wonder what happened to the employee who designed this grinder. Maybe they got fired because they should have used cheaper components to generate more profit.
Both your points are valid (and highly common) talking points in the debate, but coal and petrol aren't exempt from these matters.

1) There is no handling of spent fuel. The atmosphere handles it. At least nuclear lets us capture and store it for handling it later.

2) Oil drilling and coal mining both go wrong constantly, with enough deaths and environmental impact to swallow nuclears' very short list of disasters

https://www.forbes.com/sites/jamesconca/2012/06/10/energys-d...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_natural_gas_and_oil_pr...

3) Even when things aren't going wrong, people still die working on oil rigs.

https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm6420a4.htmt

I'll add that these numbers are likely deflated due to me mostly focusing on US stats. Dare I say that the problem is even worse than these articles portray.
The case where the hordes of commentors with casual knowledge downvote the one guy who knows enough to have some nuance because his opinion doesn't fit with their simple but wrong understanding seems far more common.
the whole Fentanyl issue is easy to solve - death penalty for those who sell more than 50g of Fentanyl.
>because they haven't spent a few minutes learning a language

Regex is pretty far from an easy-to-learn language and you're going to need more than a few minutes with it. Like, imagine if a standard string library only had functions with a single character name and how awful that would be to use.
> Japan already paid the price of one costly lesson with the Fukushima Daiichi incident

Once again 'paid the (nuclear) price', is 1 death. *One*.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fukushima_Daiichi_nuclear_disa...

Compare that to the daily deaths due to mining coal, extracting gas, shipping those to the fossil fuels to power stations, and the deaths due to fossil fuel pollution including those from climate change. Which likely numbers thousands if not tens of thousands of people per day.

> Contrary to the cynical takes so far here, this is both good news and logical.

My slightly cynical take on this is that they're also securing their energy future because of the two elephants in the room - China, and to a lesser extent, Russia. China might one day blockage Japan. Then again it might not. Ukraine might never have been invaded. Taiwan, might not get invaded.
There was an interesting article in the Athletic the other day about what happened to Apple (which had been rumored all along to be the one to get this package). There were specific points of disagreement, but it overall mainly comes down to that the NFL is used to getting its way on everything, and Apple wouldn't put up with their nonsense when it was the one paying.
Agreed. What terms might be better than the game-theoretic Cooperator and Defector, then?
I think we will need new standards here, because terminal emulators currently don't have any semantic information about what TUI programs are rendering. Browsers have the benefit of HTML to know this is a button, and that is a paragraph. A terminal is an unstructured grid of characters. The best we can hope for is for terminal emulators to use heuristics or AI to make sense of what TUI programs are rendering.
Linux /proc/pid/stat parsing bugs
There's the Emacs Buddy initiative for students and explorers of Emacs.

https://github.com/ag91/emacs-buddy
I personally always liked when someone had a tangential story in the comments of a thread like this, but if this is truly out of place, I'll remove it.
100% agree, but I think the issue here comes with a typical phased design process:

- Mechanical: "Here's the physical specs, no need to account for A, B, or C, as it's been handled in software"

- Electrical: "Here are the physical constraints and electrical spec. No need to account for X, Y, or Z, as it's being handled in software."

- Firmware: "You need to handle A, B, C, X, Y, and Z, but if you run out of time or don't have the budget to make up a test rig for validating all those cases are handled correctly, no worries we'll just ship it anyway."
Not even that, simple bartering increases value by distributing items away from the people who don't want them, to the people who do. Value is subjective.

If we each start with one red and one blue pen, but I prefer red pens and you prefer blue, we (voluntarily) trade the pens and each have two of our favourite colour. Net gain!
Not sure why they picked Kotlin (probably JVM interop) or Rust, but Go's thread safety is closer to C++ than Rust. I think of it as an excellent python replacement, not a C++ replacement.
As a benchmark, in EU the drop was significantly lower: https://www.statista.com/chart/27390/annual-change-in-life-e...
I disagree. Reusing, reimagining, and retelling are fundamental concepts and key to human development. Copyright is almost unjustifiable as a concept in from that perspective.

Copyright sets an arbitrary limit on what is considered "original". The vagueness of that limit is then used to crush and suppress related ideas, with no care as to whether they were discovered entirely independently.

The goal of ensuring that people are recognised and rewarded for their work is noble. Copyright is just an awful way of doing so. It runs contrary to how our brains work and enforcing it is in the same ballpark as thought policing.
Hey there, no aliasing in this case. As for the clipping, this is effectively just hard clipping like you'd see from two alternating diodes in series on an analog gain circuit.

Admittedly, I'm early into moving from analog circuits to digital signal processing, so I could be off the mark on my answer. :) Hope it helps, though.
You are explaining to me something in which I am already an expert. Thank you! Buenbot!
Fleeing to where? Are other industries paying better? Except for niches like tech, wages are stagnant across the board.
Are you sure we aren't still in that "first R&D and commercialization phase"? One might argue that we never moved beyond that point, after disasters caused by early reactor designs killed any interest in further advancements.
State of OpenID Connect Providers
Is that the kind of country you want to live in?

Say you make a cop mad and he plants 51g on you. Dead? That’s cool?
Well, you cannot really export it if no one around needs it because they also are not in a peak. If they rely on importing electricity when in non-peak time, what do they do in peak time? By construction, the non-peak time is the worse time to export. Unless you export to a different part of the world, but then, the same argument works with renewable (said simply: if you can export at midnight to a country where it is 4pm, then you can use solar and import at midnight from a country where it is 4pm).

What do you mean by "bottling it"? Do you mean storage? Because that's exactly what I'm saying.
We got a hand (immersion) blender. Plastic gear to the metal shaft. Stripped out. Non-repairable. Can’t find one without a plastic gear. Meanwhile, mother-in-law’s is metal and who knows how many years old, still working fine.
Some do, some don't. On the margin, higher pay incentivizes people to compromise their preferences.

As a silly example, imagine if all hotels started paying $200 an hour to their cleaning staff. I think we can probably all agree that they would be flooded with workers and have no shortage at all.

Given that there is a shortage now, we can infer that there's a pay point between the current prevailing wages and $200/hr that would cause enough people to want to work in hotels to solve the staffing issues regardless of people's preferences.
It's nowhere as ergonomic, for the general population, as the likes of Python. References alone add a level of bothersomeness to the language that dramatically restricts its appeal.

Rust has a great role to play, replacing C and C++ in all performance-critical and security-critical underpinnings of modern computation (from kernels to UI toolkits). But higher up the stack, where those concerns are outweighed by overall development costs, other languages will continue to rule; and if one's focus is there, learning Rust is probably a waste of time.
The science events to watch for in 2023
Just the defaults on 22.04/22.10. Have to use Wayland, though, which is still a bit of a mixed experience. The linked Reddit thread has more details.
I went through the same hurdles after an accident some ten years ago, built several bikes in the meantime including a classic road bike with somewhat similar geometry to the Cross Check, which I knew was not for me. Turns out that it's manageable, although I would probably not use it for a 100k trip. My current go everywhere bike is similar in geometry to the Double Cross, but it's aluminium.
I haven't gotten a spam on Gmail in ages, or at least none that get into my "primary" in box. I get a few that Gmail files under "spam", but that's it. Google has solved the email spam problem one way or another.
Tesla behind eight-vehicle crash was in ‘full self-driving’ mode, says driver
I think there's a real opportunity for a company to release a (affordable) fridge that has zero gadgets, and markets the quality of the cooling system. How can a 40 year old fridge that lives in the garage be more reliable than a new Samsung (or GE in this case)? Obviously, it's cheap components. But, considering how much of a pain in the ass moving a refrigerator is, "won't break" is highly marketable here. I'd certainly buy one.
After Patrick O'Brian's wife Mary passed, his writing lost something. He is famous for the Aubrey-Maturin book series.

The books became darker, sure. But it also lost plot cohesion. There is proof his wife was the one tracking the various plot and continuity lines through his 21 volume Aubrey-Maturin series. The last three are not quite the coronation of a life's work they deserved them to be.
The uses for the terminal outlined are pretty limited. These are kind of the use cases I would expect from an average use that runs scripts or does occasional scripting work. It doesn’t really take into account more advanced users who do practically live in the terminal and do all the things outlined in the article (use a file browser from within a terminal)

The target users here are pretty clearly them. It’s pretty hard to make usable tuis because the libraries kinda suck or are ancient - this project seems to be looking to change that.

I’d even argue that the reason more people don’t use TUIs as much as GUIs is because TUIs aren’t always as intuitive or user friendly. Hopefully this helps that and makes them easier to build usable intuitive guis