skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Either you're completely broken and it's so obvious what's wrong with you that you barely need a doctor, or you're partially broken in which case doctors know very little and rely on experience, murky clues, and their gut.

> This made sense once I realized doctors know much less about the human body then they pretend to.

I find myself agreeing with this so strongly. Couldn't have put it better myself.

Further - I've suffered way worse harm relying on the medical system than the disease (mycoplasma genitalium infection) I had to arduously & painstakingly diagnose on my own (and even treatment was botched by my doctor, I had to insist that I be treated with the CDC recommendation as opposed to his outdated prescription).

I don't mean to say they're useless, far from it. In acute care they're the best we've got and they often perform miracles, but for chronic issues (by definition something medicine doesn't have the capability to fix) it's so often a horrible situation.

And there's such a strong force to silence criticism of the system.
Aside from everything else already mentioned (which is true and accurate and discussed in the article), it’s important to also remember that tails skew your percentiles quite heavily. So fixing your max could easily drop your 95%-ile by a good margin on its own. So if that doesn’t improve the experience of most users, why do you choose to believe that the 95% number represents the experience of most people? In fact, isn’t it possible and likely your entire 95% number is a virtual artifact of your common case vs your max as opposed to it being its own mode with its own root cause?

In practice, what you really want to focus on is solving the modes of your system but identifying them can be quite hard (aside from the obvious one of max). %-iles are a useful tool but don’t mistake your tool for the truth or accidentally mistake the measure for the target.
"So if there was anything I was considering doing where if it became public I would be hurt, I wouldn't do it."

Good boy.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-censorship
What does the app (which is a website inside a copy of chromium) do that the website can't?

I've been using linux for work since when I started working. I also do daily zoom calls.

I tend to dismiss comments from people that clearly didn't run linux in the past decade but still keep complaining about the same things they experienced when they last tried it for 2 days in university.
The key to enjoying leisure is realising that it, properly done, is not just frittering away free time.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leisure#Serious_leisure

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leisure#Project-based_leisure

> ... there is a third class of men, more respected than either of the classes of workers. These are men who, through ownership of land, are able to make others pay for the privilege of being allowed to exist and to work. These landowners are idle, and ... their desire for comfortable idleness is historically the source of the whole gospel of work. The last thing they have ever wished is that others should follow their example. — BAWR
People in this thread seem to be confusing copying an idea vs. copying actual IP.

There is nothing stopping anyone from creating a TikTok clone, but there sure as hell are laws stopping anyone from directly ripping the UI (which Pixelfed did in this case).
Product pitch - an app that appends "now wash your hands" to the end of every article linked from HN. Subscribe by spending a penny whilst you, er, spend a penny.
Ask HN: What can I buy that will make life easier?
The Amazon issue is kinda a unique issue you created by generating a bunch of cc numbers and adding them all to your amazon account. That’s kinda what fraudsters do who buy cc info in bulk.

Did you try contacting amazon support and explaining the issue?
Another pattern I hear people use to justify their laziness is "Why should I hide every detail of my life from Google when the government already knows everything?
They must also make money, right?
so that they can continue to provide their services for free."
I don't mind if someone wants to give up their privacy; what I find ridiculous is people arguing for others to do the same.
This would have been somewhat funny piece of sarcasm but I fear you are being serious.

Next step: force customers to submit to a full cavity search upon payment
Co-sleeping has much more of a basis in human history. The challenge is transitioning.
We need it more than ever before because the cost of breaching it is dropping all the time.
Yeah, my dark theme is broken right now :( I’ll try to fix it later today
Kindle Unlimited + real books for reference.

Also British Council and the ACM have excellent ebook facilities.
You can ban them and they'll stay banned. Today they'll come back or switch to one of the other dozen accounts they post crap on. The counter argument to that is that places like Facebook are mostly not pseudonymous and a lot of crap is posted there.
Real money borrowed using Tesla shares as collateral (IIRC).
Well there's a dozen types of categories. First report took me 5 minutes, then I was down to 1 minute. Instead of writing a comment/justification I copy&paste a screenshot. Got a reply within 30 minutes and all spam got handled. I think that's faster and more straight forward than other platforms.
The devil's interval (a half-diminished chord is built on the "forbidden" tritone)
Ironically, finding just the right type of specialist is its own kind of luck.
Suicide results should probably have a “don't do that” widget like Google
I went to privateemail + k9. It's been fine.
> "So if there was anything I was considering doing where if it became public I would be hurt, I wouldn't do it."

So, no online banking of any sort, because if your account number and passwords became public, that would be bad? No use of credit cards for the same reason?

This however is interesting:

> "Applicants with very little information available might come to be the ones that employers and schools worry about: what are they trying to keep us from finding out about?"

In espionage-thinking, this is a known issue and calls for the creation of a cover story, i.e. spies 'hide in plain sight' by constructing apparently normal lives that raise no red flags even upon extensive background investigations, and conduct all their covert activities using offline channels.

Keep on with this and you end up with Gestapo/STASI run societies, in which even family members and neighbors living side by side view one another with distrust and suspicion - because everyone is doing something or other that might be construed as illegal under a system of selective political prosecution.

As the head of Stalin's secret police, Lavrentiy Beria, said:

"Show me the man, and I'll show you the crime."
>Sometime around middle school I gave up on privacy. [...] So if there was anything I was considering doing where if it became public I would be hurt, I wouldn't do it.

This is great when you're in middle school and your biggest concern is maybe how to talk your parents into buying you a videogame or ask out your first crush.

But in the world of grownups we are sometimes pulled into serious situations and we have to do these things. Sometimes we can only choose the lesser evil. And then privacy is all you have.

In today's world where basic human rights are questioned, abortions aren't legal everywhere and some people lose their minds when confronted with different opinions, privacy is about the only thing you have to protect in order to get through life without being constantly troubled.
>Funnily enough, it's possible to remove this DRM protection, but it's also not something completely legal, and makes me question why did I decide to legally buy the e-books in the first place.

Did you seriously stop yourself from saving your books, that you'd bought, from erasure by these shitty systems because of some silly DRM laws that are to begin with grossly unfair in this context?

Please, next time, strip that garbage and be done with it. Regardless of some silly regulations, consider it a basic assertion of concrete and very fair, paid-for ownership.

Or just pirate them.
Graphile (https://www.graphile.org/) and Prisma (https://www.prisma.io/)
A key point is how they do routing - https://www.ajot.com/news/southwest-air-faces-gridlock-with-...

> Unlike competitors that use a so-called hub-and-spoke system to funnel passengers to large airports, Southwest is focused on point-to-point service, flying the same aircraft — Boeing Co. 737s — on trips that may hopscotch around the US.

With a hub and spoke system, all the planes go from A to HUB and then from the HUB to somewhere. If the route A-HUB gets saturated, they can put more planes on that, and those planes can always be found at the HUB. This applies to crews too.

You'll have something that looks like this: https://www.airlineroutemaps.com/maps/Delta_Air_Lines/North_...

This comes at the cost of having oversupply at some spots and its harder to offer the "ideal" routes as everyone needs to transfer to another plane with a layover somewhere... and your baggage is more likely to get lost. There's a bit not to like as a passenger on such an airline unless it's a nice one leg route - but then who wants to fly to Detroit?

Southwest is different - they go from anywhere they want to anywhere they want with non-stop flights and picking the most lucrative routes they can. This lowers the effective cost per flight and are likely non-stop flights. Everything that a customer wants.

Southwest routes from 2001 https://www.flickr.com/photos/erussell1984/15863298679 - you can see the lack of hubs there.

This is done through some crafty constraint programming to try to make sure that all the capacity is where it needs to be when it needs to be there.

However, when the capacity hits "holidays - everything is at max", along with "big storm prevents flights from going to where they need to be for the next leg" this system breaks down and planes and crews are out of position or need to sleep. Their software was able to handle this constraint system when it was a smaller company with fewer routes - there were fewer constraints.

The "reset" is not "shut down the computers and start them back up" but rather "let all the crews get their required sleep and then go to the spot where they need to be in order to handle the load - not where they currently are (out of position)".

Hypothetically, this is solvable if you have enough compute... but that's a lot of compute that needs to be recomputed each time something changes (weather, crew gets sick, passenger load changes) and that ends up being impractical and expensive.

---

Related reading:

NYT - What Caused the Chaos at Southwest : https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/28/travel/southwest-airlines...

WSJ - How Southwest Airlines Melted Down : https://www.wsj.com/articles/southwest-airlines-melting-down... --- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34165791
This isn't fine, because the language used in the purchase is "buy", not "rent". People buy these e-books thinking it's the same as buying a physical book, except they can read it on their e-reader. It's deliberately misleading on the part of the sellers.
And worse still: giving up the privacy of other people. Every time some idiot family member uploads a bunch of photos and tags them they're doing just that.
This is a really interesting idea to me. I've considered a site where you can only post once per day or per week, something like that - but this seems like a better approach. One interesting feature to add later might be the ability to see change history on other people's posts.

I wish pg or John Carmack had a page here so I could check what their post was.
Generally yes, it includes anything whose production involves animal exploitation, but the more you look into things, the more impossible or impractical it becomes. So many vegans pick and choose what they're able to avoid as far as products which don't actually contain animal products. Of course, the items which are suitable for some vegans but not others are generally still considered "vegan" (often with caveats)

For example, sugar might be bleached through a process that involves bone char (but isn't always), coconuts from thailand are often harvested by enslaved monkeys who are forced to climb trees at penalty of pain or death, coffee and chocolate that isn't marked as fair trade is often harvested by child slaves. Some vegans might boycott entire companies like Nestle because of their exploitative practices.

If I go to a restaurant, I don't typically inquire about the status of the coconut milk, but I might only purchase cruelty-free coconut milk at home, or check for a fair trade symbol or status on the food empowerment project (https://foodispower.org/) before purchasing chocolate.
I was about to say “but this one is!” and realized I had confused PostgREST with PostGraphile. If you’re interested in GraphQL, you can check out PostGraphile here: https://github.com/graphile/postgraphile

It’s interesting to me that PostgREST and Hasura are written in Haskell, but PostGraphile is not. Given the complexity in parsing arbitrary GQL queries I think I assumed that Haskell was a better fit for the job, hence the mixup!
That’s the point…
Of course Manganese dioxide is not a salt.
I clicked, not really sure what it was about and started reading the first paragraph, armed only with my STEM-derived knowledge of the alphabet and I got it instantly. So it seems to work. Very interesting concept.
Yes indeed. Attaching below a couple of references from my exploration:

Transactional outbox pattern:

- https://microservices.io/patterns/data/transactional-outbox....

- https://softwaremill.com/microservices-101

- https://brandur.org/job-drain

A pattern similar to the one I mention using cache:

- https://masstransit-project.com/articles/outbox.html
Safer exhaustive switch statements in TypeScript
But… why bring in a political leader when he is not unique in regards to this aspect of the faith whatsoever? That just seems distracting
For most services (I'd assume even Amazon) they likely wouldn't be able to tell you what would trip their fraud detection. Most of the time fraud detection happens at the payment processor or issuing bank level, and even if it is detected directly by the service, usually the support department doesn't have much access to the fraud department, and fraud departments are usually very protective around details of how they detect fraud.
If that's somehow relevant to this thread why do they have plenty of shops selling food products of various types (including some amazing candy) in Japan? I've had the best cream puff in my life from a conbini.
You can employ those techniques but real people will get blocked as spam. And the better AI can evade the closer to the bone you will have to cut. Then what? AI is interacting with your algorithm to silence voices.
Maybe you picked being gay as a hypothetical out of a hat but it's a terrible example. Unless we're talking about extremely repressive societies where there are literally no professional options available for LGBT people, almost no LGBT person would recommend going back into the closet to find work with a bigoted employer. LGBT people regularly run away from home as teenagers and become homeless to avoid bigotry, that's how serious it can be for LGBT people to live authentically. A key part of the emotional growth involved, what a lot of it goes back to is, as I said, having confidence in yourself and being willing to enforce boundaries.

Leaving aside this particularly bad hypothetical, lying about yourself to get a job probably won't set you up for long-term success. What's the end game of claiming you don't want kids when you really do, after you get the job and then become pregnant? Now you need the job even more and your employer both resents you being pregnant and for having lied to them.

If you're really saying it's okay to lie to employers if you're truly desperate, then sure, why not. If you're actually starving then a lot of things become options, but this isn't really good long-term career advice.
One nitpick about the responsive design—between width 1535 and about 1920, the Comments box appears in the left rail but it’s partly obscured. Seems like you should either adjust the media query to keep it at the bottom until there’s room to show it, or make the box itself a variable width.
Ask ChatGPT whatever questions you have about React.
> Most of the time I don't even bother to read the usernames of people I'm interacting with

This is interesting because I never really noticed that I have no idea who wrote what unless somebody else points out "hey, look, John Carmack just replied!" or whatever.

Whatever is written on HN stands on its content alone. It is meritocratic in the best way.
The Easiest Database to Use
It's a combination of three things:

1.) Not wanting to be 'fat'.

2.) What you said, where they don't want the unwanted attention. In the case of women who are over 40, a lot of them also lived most of their lives in a culture where a woman with large breasts was considered to be 'asking' to be sexualized. Books, TV, movies, etc. In addition, if they're from more conservative communities there's a focus on not 'tempting' men and the knowledge that if they're harassed their communities will just be like 'well you didn't hide that you have large breasts well enough, of course that happened.'

3.) A desire to be 'normal'. This group calms down when I mention that the current sizes that are carried in most stores were determined back in the 60s-70s and that their size is normal, the major American companies just like to coast on bad and outdated data. (Because why change if people still buy them?)
Why Everything Takes Longer and Longer in Growing Startups
I didn’t know this. I’m sure they chopped a half dozen episodes out. Did the network edit and re-release more than that?
"Albany is where good legislation goes to die." -- Quote from a personal friend

It's takes decades to change policy, enact legislation. A very readable intro is the Waxman Report. https://www.amazon.com/Waxman-Report-Congress-Really-Works/d...

My unsolicited advice is:

- Convert this outrage into action. Do fund raising.

- Set up an organization that can run a marathon. Burnout for activists is very high.

- Someone, somewhere will pass this legislation. Find them. Even if it's just for virtue signaling. Like a city, which can't enforce such laws, passes a measure, to build awareness and demonstrate support for a policy.

- Get politicians on record. Create a candidate questionnaire. Send it out to all campaigns. Publish the answers.

- Encourage various local political parties (congressional districts, state level legislative districts, etc) to include your questionnaire (as part of their endorsement processes).

- Get various parties to include your policy in their platforms. Again, builds aweness and demonstrates support.
> Solana isn't more centralized because of PoS, it's because it has extremely high validator requirements (including a 300Mbps internet connection, which rules out running one in most homes).

High validator requirements are a barrier to entry, but Solana has a Nakamoto coefficient (decentralization score) of about 30 (actually more, but this is a couple of months ago) which is more than most - probably all - fast chains.

https://youtu.be/5NDs3Il2J3Q?list=RDCMUC9AdQPUe4BdVJ8M9X7wxH...
what it looks like: https://imgur.com/a/KGfQzva
how is an open source project asking for donations "shady" ? Is my money going to go to some nefarious ends?

This is Hacker News. OSS is supposed to be a good thing.

I just gave them $50, support creators, especially here where we are all benefiting as creators ourselves.
This is a simplistic potshot.

If you go to your baby every time it cries that could mean a lot of work, so much it ruins your own rest/health/sanity and makes you a worse parent at the times the baby isn’t crying.
I've never heard of them being mocked or avoided professionally. They're not usually the go-to or the most popular, but I've got no issue using them in a professional device.
I'm a similar age to the poster. This December, I've been doing a lot of thinking (and writing, in order to try to clarify things a bit) about how I want 2023 and the next few years to go.

I've asked myself these three broad questions:

1. What would my ideal future look like? Where would I like to be, in terms of relationships, career, hobbies and so on.

2. What does the opposite of (1) look like? If I really let things go, if I truly failed at life and screwed everything up, what would my life be like?

3. What 8 goals, challenging but doable, could I complete this year that would get me closer to (1)? These 8 goals must be measurable and be bound by a deadline.

I can't say whether or not this will deliver results, but I have found it quite motivating to ponder all this carefully.
I’m on day two of converting from LastPass to another service (Keeper in my case.) Canceled auto-renewal, deleted the account, and exported/imported within a half-hour. That part was painless.

Resetting passwords, however, is something that’s going to take days. Too, you need to track what’s been changed or not, what’s no longer needed and so on.

Further if you’re being prudent you need to notify corporate partners of any credentials they own that may need to change. It’s an enormous waste of time.

The lesson: choose your vendors carefully. Take the extra time to make sure you never need to go through this.
How could a CEO let this persist for more than an hour? Is there nobody with the leaderships skills to just give everyone free flights and promise everything will be sorted while having people record who worked and who flew and what services were used as best they can?

The software failed, just Jerry-rig something up to get people where they need to be, let the accountants and programmers clear up the mess after the fact.

[Edit]Software helps optimize things, but as long as the crews and suppliers have sufficient faith that they will be treated fairly, you could run this all with paper and pen for a few days while the software gets straightened out.

Decide which hubs are most important, and have someone work out what goes where by hand. Once those routes are up and running, you can work outward to the less trafficked airports. Just work on getting the most people to the places that help the most.

Crews know how many hours they've worked, and can track that themselves for the moment, or perhaps the Captain could do that. Everyone has cell phones, and could route around this damage.

The consensus here on HN seems to be to give in without trying, which I find disturbing.
>Authors aren't benefited by second hand sales.

Authors should benefit from secondhand sales at least a little bit.

The more demand there is for a used book, the higher sellers can price the used book. And as the price of a used book increases, more buyers will choose the new version over the used version.

It's not as beneficial as buying a new copy, but it benefits the author more than just pirating it. Libby is similarly beneficial in an indirect way.
If anyone's interested in a very accessible look at LIDAR exploration, I highly recommend explorer Albert Lin's National Geographic series Lost Cities.[1]

[1] https://www.natgeotv.com/za/shows/natgeo/lost-cities-with-al...
"get behind it, or else..." is what you're missing. a message that's been sent to the global community since the 1950's. Good read if you missed my point https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confessions_of_an_Economic_Hit...
"Twitter’s owner has now sold $23 billion worth of Tesla stock this year[...]"

Ref: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/15/business/elon-musk-tesla-...

Presumably that went to financing his purchase of Twitter plus paying his taxes (capital gains and taxes on his additional stock grants) and keeping some as pocket change.
I really don't understand why people buy Kindle. I bought Kobo reader in 2015. It still works perfectly and receives software updates. Transferring books or PDFs is as easy as plugging the device into my computer.