skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A personal anecdote: had been feeling very unwell all morning with back pain but needed some fresh air so went for a walk, on the way back my chest tightened to the point where it felt like a very heavy person was sitting on my chest and was having stabbing pains. I'd never experienced anything like this before.

My local GP was near by so I went there first, described what was happening to the receptionist... they said 'Call 111' (NHS non-emergency triage, for non-Brits) and shoo'd me off; I loitered around and Googled symptoms and yea... 'possible heart attack, go to A&E NOW' was the general gist. Called 111 from within view of the receptionist in case I collapsed, 15 minutes later I'm still on hold - I figured all they'd do would put me through to 999 after spending 10 mins asking questions.

Got an Uber to A&E, and had an EKG within about 20 minutes of arriving. They said it's not a heart attack, probably isn't myocarditis or pericarditis, then the weird question 'do you suffer from anxiety or any mental health problems?'...

I'm 100% sure it wasn't psychosomatic or an anxiety attack. But that was the point where their concern ended and I was discharged with no follow up from GP or any idea of what had happened. Turns out, it was acute pancreatitis caused by a gall stone - I had to pay privately to find that out because repeated GP appointments they couldn't care less.

Either way, it's an absolute clusterfuck, and this same pattern of systemic dysfunction has been repeated with pretty much every interaction I've had with NHS funded services (both hospitals and GPs), and I'm fairly sure - like in a_c's friends case - if it had've been a heart attack it would've required me to drop dead in the GPs reception for them to do anything more than just pass the buck.
> But expressions don’t mean the thing they evaluate to, this is an ad hoc meaning used in FP circles only. Is `fibonacci 1000` the integer value it evaluates to? No, it is an expression denoting the calculation of that value.

Not sure what you are talking about now.

> What’s missing from side-effect freedom or pureness? That is the property that allows replacing an expression with its value.

I think you are just unfamiliar with the terminology, that's all.

See Wikpedia again:

> If a pure function is called with arguments that cause no side-effects, the result is constant with respect to that argument list (sometimes called referential transparency or idempotence), i.e., calling the pure function again with the same arguments returns the same result. (This can enable caching optimizations such as memoization.)

(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Functional_programming#Pure_fu...)

There you go. All 3 terms in once sentence. Maybe, again, you disagree with Wikipedia and the definition and that's your good right, but I don't see any point in prolonging the discussion over that.
You're referring to the US system of private insurers and healthcare providers which leaves millions without any access to healthcare and can result in bankruptcy as a result of an illness or accident? And which costs more per-capita for worse outcomes?

I'll take an adequately funded NHS, thanks.
Does anyone know what tools can be used to stream the result of a mongodb query into bigquery?
The same holds for Germany. Beside the "no pain no gain" attitude, the pursuit of "perfection" leads to weird outcomes. For example, the music band Kraftwerk dissolved because half of the members wanted to make sounds that looked "perfect" on an oscilloscope and not how good they sounded.
It’s not like you’re in leg irons chained to your desk and being whipped unless working code appears. I disagree with your blanket statement.
> And Perl has the best support for regular expressions.

To me this sounds a bit like driving to a supermarket three towns away because it has the best selection of coffee filters... :)
Obviously crypto companies can get by without any real regulatory considerations for a while…
> To me, this is about the same as suggesting chefs will be relegated to adding flavour to frozen pizzas.

This is basically how most hotel kitchens work. The chef mostly just re-heats food from suppliers. No garlic, no onions because of potential food allergies. To fulfill an order, I remember getting a frozen pizza, putting some more cheese on it (to freshen it up), and serving it.
But it's mainly the ones in the US that get the crazy salaries? Certainly not the ones in Asia, S America and much less so in Europe.
He is suggesting that that vaccines had no effect on reducing spread, which they did not. They kinda like flu booster shot. Could maybe reduce symptoms, but we are not even sure of that at this point.

Vaccinating kids or anyone under 40 for that matter was wrong, period.
Given that the US healthcare system is similarly failing, I wouldn't be so snarky.
If that looks "suspicious" to an employer, you don't want to work there.
This is kind of cool, but it all makes sense if your app is a very simple CRUD that spends 99% of time just passing json around. I have this feeling that when you add some more logic there you’ll start noticing that you’re not in a compiled language any more. Your requests will get slower and your memory usage will explode.

Saying that Python is faster than Go with this as a proof looks like overreaching for
Me. It only proves that wrapping C code in Python is fast. It’s an achievement, sure, but your app probably won’t be faster when you add thousands of Python lines between request and response.
Did Elon Musk Buy Google?
The "code of conduct" is also quite offputting.
Have you read the article?

"The difference in 2022 - compared with 2020 and 2021 - is that Covid deaths were one of several factors, rather than the main explanation for this excess"

One of the other factors is the crisis in the NHS:

"At the start of 2022, death rates were looking like they'd returned to pre-pandemic levels. It wasn't until June that excess deaths really started to rise - just as the number of people waiting for hours on trolleys in English hospitals hit levels normally seen in winter."

So, I don't think people's propensity to go into lockdown is particularly relevant here.
That little experience makes it hard to judge applicant quality well and means they probably aren’t answering questions accurately. It’s a dead tell of a company which has a shortage of experienced staff and is growing too quickly — very strongly reminiscent of the dotcom bubble where people had the same “number go up!” mentality & some would openly say they were just looking busy until the IPO.
Right if you asssume your case will be mild then there is virtually no risk. There is also no risk from mRNA if you assume the vaccine won't give you any side effects.

However to judge the risk you need to account for every potential outcome. And on myocarditis it still seems like the risk is greater with covid: https://www.heart.org/en/news/2022/08/22/covid-19-infection-...

There is one combination where the risk of myocarditis does come close to Covid-19 and that is with Moderna and men under 40. However myocarditis isn't the only potential side effect from Covid and you can just opt to get Pfizer instead if you're under 40.
Visiting niche Linux sites often enough to take part in such a poll is probably introducing a very strong selection bias here.
I guess the point is to give cute names to things that will last years and have a large scope, not to every variable in your code.
From what I read it’s not the equipment, but a bloated layer of bureaucratic management on massive salaries that is the real issue. The front line staff get pittance in comparison.
There's a lot of regulatory capture going on there. It's not exactly a free market.
We live in the age of the bullshitter
If any startups want to put me on payroll just to increase their headcount for the purpose of raising more funding I'll happily take the money.
> Names are hard to change.

Brands are hard to change. Is your thing a brand for your company? Probably.

You need your "cute" name (branding, differentiation, trademark) and a descriptive name. "Marmaray" tells the reader nothing. "Marmaray Tunnel Service" is more informative. Of course, once your fellow conversants become accustomed to the vocabulary, "Marmaray" is going to save time during speaking. Until then, you're just going to have to be aware that you'll need to educate folks along the way.

I find it outright pretentious when I hear anyone using strings of "cute" names with no attempt at actually explaining the stack.
Anecdotes unsupported by research are not scientific evidence.
Says names should be cute. Does not offer cute name in article.
> Those running crypto networks are accountable legally.

How? Aren't 99% of cryptocurrencies unregulated, ergo Ponzi schemes, pump and dump, trades by the same (hidden) identity? That's also a feature why a lot of people and finance institutions are drawn to them.

Plus, did anyone take to account Ethereum, for example, for forking it?
Wrong. This has nothing to do with NHS because a similar surge of mortality has been seen in other countries. Surprising the BBC journaliste didn't think of checking this out.

Example with France: https://www.leparisien.fr/societe/mortalite-autant-voire-plu...

It's a bit late, though, to complain about a consequence of lockdown now.
I think it’s unreasonable to pin the mistake on the pilots for not running all the checklists. This is where a flight engineer would come into play in my lay opinion. The pilots were tactically focused; they were trying to keep the plane in the air. You need someone on the flight deck who is looking at the bigger picture, doing the fuel calculations (even if the automated systems aren’t warning about certain fuel-related variables), running the checklists, etc. Perhaps a flight engineer role (perhaps filled by a spare pilot) should be required for all ETOPS flights?
I bought an Aeron 2 years ago and absolutely love it. I coupled the purchase with posture improvements and have nearly eliminated my back pain. As noted above, an ergonomic chair is only one part of the equation.
It wouldn't need any more tax. There's a black hole in the budget caused by inefficient tax collection, almost entirely to the benefit of large corporations and very high net worth individuals.

There are also some quite ridiculous cash handouts for little or no taxpayer benefit. Like the notorious £37bn that failed to provide an efficient Covid test and trace system. Or the >£100m in the Michelle Mone scandal, which seems to have been just one of many. Or the £45bn in tax cuts in Kwasi Kwarteng's recent budget, which were supposed to "promote growth" but have done the opposite.

The UK is one of the richest countries in the world. It has also become one of the most corrupt.

A penny or two on tax is not the problem.
The NHS pays doctors in money. It's not communism.
You probably wanted to post this on https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34321937 ?
A sequence of inputs that can beat Pokemon FireRed time with no Feedback [video]
Ask HN: If science cures aging and disease, would you be much more risk averse?
Would you stay in your home as much as possible to avoid dying from an accident or violence?

Would you still drive?
I could not agree more... with you. On top of that, good luck onboarding new recruits or people that move departments.... Cute names are just like abbreviations, they are jargon and are an unnecessary hurdle to become effective.
>According to the World Health Organization, US per capita government spending on health care is the fourth highest in the world.

https://fee.org/articles/the-idea-that-the-us-has-a-free-mar...
I’m excited for these tools like a poet would be excited to get their first rhyming dictionary.

At this point GPT is utter garbage at writing lyrics or poetry. Words distilled to their very basics, where sound and meaning intertwine, places the most subtle of emphasis on every minor word choice.

My rhyming dictionary from the 1930s remains a much better writing companion… for now!
Oh my god. That's straight out of Stalin's playbook. Erasing Boris Johnson the way Stalin did to Trotsky.
Then you don’t live in the real world. I’m not turning down a job in an industry that’s just as silly as any other and provides me a livelihood that gets ever harder.
Actually uWebSockets and uSockets will perform better than this (2x at least in my local tests), I need to do a lot of copying, instancing and crossing Python GIL.

Yeah this test basically shows that Python backed by uWS is crazy fast, but is not an direct comparison to uWS to Go.

This test is just an troughput test, with is very useful to measure raw performance.

More tools like caching tools, a better database client etc is need to construct an complete scenario, and i'm working on it! (Maybe in 1 week or 2 weeks will be done)

https://github.com/TechEmpower/FrameworkBenchmarks

https://www.techempower.com/benchmarks/#section=test&runid=1...
What specifically in that section do you take issue with? Do you think excess deaths would be lower without vaccines?
There is no NHS in France or Germany, yet, the same phenomenon is observed. So, yes, deal with it, the common point is the COVID and the lockdown. Does it really require a high IQ to understand that closing hospital and doctors appointments for 2years will result in undiagnosed/untreated diseases ?!
So you'd be an immediate no hire because I wouldn't want to have someone with clear lack of ethics - literally stealing people's life savings - working for me.
I worked for a company where everything was cute names with a particular outdoors theme.

All of the conference room names had the same theme. Starting out it was impossible to navigate if we were even talking about a product or a conference room etc.
they run an exchange that is open 24/7. 5 engineers couldn't even handle the operational load.
Author here: Yes, that's what I meant. I agree it's not the most appropriate adjetive to describe the editor. But one of my intentions is to keep the UI as clean as possible (I'm not a fan of cluttered editors with several panels on screen all the time).
Anyone else notice that Coinbase changed its price trend in your assets from “beginning of time period to now” to “lowest point to now”?

I haven’t been able to find a view that shows a downward trend since…
That's the opposite of true. And I think you know that. It's absolutely insane that HN of all places is arguing against the concept of locality-of-reference.

Given the Option A (letting DoJ prosecutors only have to carry around Title 18) versus Option B (letting lay people looking up a topic by subject matter see what crimes and penalties pertain to that subject matter in the title for that subject matter), which one is friendlier to lawyers? Which one is friendlier to lay people?

Yeah, a DoJ official in 1982 probably found it inconvenient that 17 U.S.C. § 506 and 18 U.S.C. § 2319 aren't in the same deadtree volume for them to lug around. But if I'm a lay person, I'm glad that the criminal penalties for copyright infringement aren't invisible from within the chapter on copyright infringement in the title on copyright.

If I were to perform a code review for a junior engineer, and they had structured their source files so that all the constructors and destructors for all of their classes were in one independent file, rather than co-located with the classes to which they pertain, they would not pass code review. The argument that it's difficult to even know how many constructors and destructors they have, and therefore memory management is too complex, would be distinctly unpersuasive. It baffles and frustrates me that HN seems to come to the exact opposite conclusion with regard to the law.
Discrimination based on life choices is called consequences. The Unabomber, while a genius mathematician, will never be offered a position in my company.
Well, most FAANGs would like to disagree. But they must all be wrong.
I had almost the exact same experience. I was very into Buddhism for a time, to the point of seriously considering becoming a monk. I ultimately left the faith because I realized a) I was using it as an excuse to avoid facing my demons and b) rebirth underpins the entire philosophy. If you don't believe in rebirth, the whole thing falls apart.
I wasn't disagreeing with your point that there are plenty of rough edges. I was just saying that a lot of common problems are really more Bashisms.

Though to address your $PATH point directly, in the literal decades that I've been using Linux and UNIX systems, I can't recall a single time when I've ran into a problem with $PATH values being colon delimited. And the reason it is structured that way is again, to work around a limitation of the shells of that time (ie they didn't support arrays).

Though if we are going to talk about problems with environmental variables then $PATH would be somewhere at the bottom of the list while the structure those values are stored at would be top (you think it's a pain parsing $PATH, trying parsing raw env var "structs" -- I've seen far more bugs introduced there) along with the fact that it was never intended to be secure yet that passing secrets seems to be one of it's primary use cases these days.
In other words, craftsmanship is valued over profitability.
"Finally, figures up to June 2022 looking at deaths from all causes show unvaccinated people were more likely to die than vaccinated people.

While this data on its own can't tell us it's the vaccine protecting people from dying - there are too many complicating factors - if vaccines were driving excess deaths we would expect this to be the other way around."
i did not say that Python is faster than Go, i say that this Python Framework outperforms Golang Fiber framework in troughput.

I used https://github.com/TechEmpower/FrameworkBenchmarks and in the future i will write fortunes and other benchmarks with have more things going on!
Nice to read this, I had a similar type of assignment 15 years ago, visualize the rollout of the fiber optics network across the city. But we had a lot less data to deal with.
Your sarcastic reply was unnecessary, if you read my post you’ll see I carved out the case you’re talking about. Time will tell.

If you can’t see literally any axis along which Bitcoin and gold are comparable, then I can’t really help you. It’s obvious there are some ways the two are comparable, even if you think these comparisons are weak or ultimately insufficient to hold up the price.
What safety net? (I’m Polish)
This is no different to other tech companies and startups that have over hired during the low interest hype and have aggressively raised money. It is essentially the VC hype cycle and are meant to dump their holdings on retail once the stock is publicly listed.

We're all just see how tech startups and other companies are getting slaughtered over market conditions and NOW need to cut costs, spend less, hire less and turn a profit rather than continued losses.

The era of "Lose money for decades just like Amazon did and so can we" is over.
Sorry, my real name as a username was taken.
Nope, edn uses square brackets and doesn't have a `list` keyword. This is some custom representation.

Probably written in Common Lisp? Based on some quick searching I found this reference https://docs.ovh.com/us/en/web-paas/languages-lisp/
Well, in that case, the BBC article is "anecdote unsupported by research".
DNS runs on port 53, so it's easy to remember the name of AWS' DNS service.
>Coinbase loses $1 for every $1 of revenue.

Huh, I would call that ~$2 lost for every $1 of revenue.
Which is exactly how the semi-privatised NHS operates. Agencies have been encouraged to set up as independent service providers who can profiteer by price gouging the NHS while paying nurses and doctors pocket money.

Renationalising the NHS and limiting the private sector to those few expensive services that are essential would fix this.

But both political parties are working for the people who profit from this situation.
I guess there's a reason why Japan is often called the Germany of Asia.
* Predictability and convention are more important than totally clean design. Over the course of a language lifetime, code style best practice is going to change so you almost certainly won't have uniform interfaces. Your Clojure example of functions passing the input as first vs last is actually an example of this -- functions that work on sequences expect the last arg, and functions that work on datastructures expect the first arg. It's an official convention, check out different uses of the -> and ->> macros and you'll always see it.

* Some form of discoverability. Ideally there'd be good docs available explaining the behaviour of the library in human friendly language, with multiple code examples. Bonus points for making the library open source and linking directly to the implementation from documentation.

* No breaking changes. It's better to create a new library than try and shoehorn a significantly different release into semantic versioning for the sake of it.

* "Escape hatches" for effectful functions to override default behaviour. For example, a HTTP client library isn't going to be very useful if you can't override pretty much any configuration property.

* Being explicit about any side effects resulting from the code, either in naming or by documentation.
You missed the boat on that by a year.

What we should all be asking ourselves is “am I on payroll at my current job to act as ballast?”
Linus Tech Tips published the actual power consumption for both X and non-X in their video here:
https://youtu.be/CTiRNnSg0jA
You should be automatically evaluating everything for truth. That includes teachers, blogs, Wikipedia, Google, governments, scientific papers, religious tracts, etc.

People tend to treat ChatGPT as either an oracle or a bullshitter, because they just haven't encountered anything like it yet and try to find a familiar model. But it's just a new form of information aggregator.
They would be better off addressing the root causes that are sending more and more people to the NHS in the first place. Healthy food needs to be cheaper than unhealthy food, physical exercise needs to be encouraged at a grass roots level, working conditions need a massive overhaul, education needs to improve, salaries need to rise and/or rents need to fall, and housing needs to be of better quality, particularly around insulation. At the minute we’re treating the symptoms and not the cause of the disease.
They do so successfully, but wane quite quickly. Few people are taking booster shots so their protection diminishes over time.
Its a state created problem and you expect them to solve it? Private entities are the way these problems are always solved efficiently. Cant wait for lawyers to be obsolete personally.
It’s not just what you eat, but the time of day you eat it
Hard to understand what all the ruckus is about then.

> Of course, but that's not what happens when you use someone else's license at all. And no, whoever used OGL with their project is not at any risk at all - unless they used or made derivative works of existing WotC's content licensed under OGL, in which case they had no other choice than to use OGL anyway.

Other people in this comments section are arguing otherwise! Whose interpretation should I trust? Yours? Theirs? Wizards'?
I'm not sure if we (at least, in the US) have the institutional capacity to do so.

The legal system is interesting because it operates within its own framework.

Industries can be disrupted from the outside. People switch when the next best thing comes along: horses to cars, gas to electric, wired to wireless.

The legal system can only be (legally) disrupted from the inside, from within itself. If AI tech gums up the legal system itself, how will we use the legal system to fix the legal system? Regime change / revolution is probably not ideal.
Every file system I know (even FAT32) supports file fragmentation and could do this (give or take block boundaries), but I don't know if there are any OS APIs to take advantage of that to actually let applications insert or remove data in the middle of a file. I'm assuming it's not in POSIX.