skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> One of the hallmarks of incorrect diagnoses is that a lot of her patients stop the _PAP machines after less than a year because they’re not helping anything.

Without commenting on the behavior of the doctor in question, I'd like to offer a rebuttal to this point. CPAP is the gold standard for apnea treatment, but there are a lot of reasons people don't stick with treatment. It's hard enough to get used to sleeping with something on your face at night, and even harder if your machine isn't configured to the exact right settings, something that requires experimentation and data.

The machine sends telemetry to your doctor, but it's just averages for the night and offers no useful insight. Doctors literally have no tools to help you debug the process. My doctor barely tried. She tossed a few mask samples my way. I really needed support and their office told me that I should see a therapist instead because my insomnia was in my head. I was having less than 5 events per hour with the machine on, who cares if I was waking up choking 3 times a night? I can't fully blame them, because they didn't have any more information to go on.

There is an amazing open source application for analyzing the data from your CPAP called OSCAR. The data available to you is quite granular and useful. I didn't go see a therapist, and instead resolved to get to the root of the problem. From start to finish it took me a year to get a full night's sleep with a CPAP, and that was only through learning to read and analyze the data. It was a tremendous effort, and the only reason I didn't give up was because I had just been tired for so many years that there was no other option.

CPAP isn't a pill that you can swallow and just start feeling better. My point is just that people not sticking to CPAP is very very common. I'd be curious to see a source linking this to incorrect diagnoses.
With bounds checks: game crashes, meaningless error message given to the user.

Without bounds checks: I join a multiplayer lobby, and the next thing I know my computer is part of a botnet.

This isn't an imaginary fear, it has happened many times. Some examples from a brief search:
https://gridinsoft.com/blogs/rce-vulnerability-in-gta-online...
https://www.polygon.com/22898895/dark-souls-pvp-exploit-mult...
https://security.gerhardt.link/RCE-in-Factorio/

I am not claiming all of these would've been prevented by bounds checking arrays, or even memory safety in general. The point is that security is not optional just because it's a game.
At the end of the "It's a small world" ride at Disney, FL, there's a sign in Zulu that translates to "goodbye". But in Zulu, how you say goodbye depends on whether the person you're saying goodbye to is staying or going. The sign at the ride says goodbye as though the rider is staying (implying that the ride is leaving).
The issue is not that the US needs to be stronger than China.

The issue is that the US population has a very low tolerance for combat losses (especially losses defending a foreign country), and the Chinese population (read Communist Party) has a much higher one (especially losses towards what they perceive as country reunification). If in a fight the US inflicts one million Chinese casualties, while incurring one hundred thousand, then the US might call it quits.

The US need not only be able to defeat China, but do it with minimal losses. That's why you need to maintain the huge capabilities gap that currently exists.
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They stopped using hard-PET plastics here for the same reason as glass: Higher cost (even environmentally) for maintaining and cleaning the bottles (min temp of 60c water is required afaik). The plastic is now separated and recycled as-is instead of reused. It's also one of the main reasons they want to get rid of glass beer bottles (as well as that cans do a better job of sealing it) but that is somewhat more difficult culturally.
I know some Spanish and hearing Portuguese does this to me every time; it's like I've almost tuned in but there's nothing there.
> She VERY obviously didn't learn her lesson. See her tweets after the layoff.

Meh. She's saving face. Very high chance she feels like an absolute idiot on the inside but admitting as much doesn't help her maintain social media cred.
This is somewhat the reason I switched careers from data science into data engineering. My experience was that most companies weren't mature enough to really make use of any sort of "real" data science. But there was always some data sources sitting around somewhere that could be copied around, cleaned up, then thrown into Looker. After a while, this collection of data sources will turn into a data warehouse, and a network effect will kick in, making looker (or tableau/etc) broadly useful for other people in the company.

Most of the teams I work with need simple reports to do their job. There's no need for predictions or self-learning classifications. Mostly things like, is the information in these three systems consistent? If not, can an alert be sent to notify someone?

That being said, even my current company has 10x as many DSes as DEs and I'm pretty confident that all of them are like the author of this article. I can't blame them for taking a better paying, far more prestigious job with several times as many openings in the industry.
I definitely share the concerns/thoughts around open core and keeping too many features closed source here; it's a very difficult thing for companies to figure out what the right balance is for public/closed-source features. There's never a correct balance that satisfies everyone but the best we can do is deliberate which features would be more individual/team-oriented and which would be more enterprise-oriented to be charged.

In terms of Infisical, this is honestly something we're still figuring out as we're mapping out our roadmap ahead — We try to get feedback from our community in thinking about this since we all contribute to the codebase (also do feel free to suggest what you think would be appropriate).

And yea thanks for the suggestion regarding product comparisons with competitors. We have that on the TODO list in addition to other tasks all related to enriching product information like providing more granular product pricing breakdowns!
Pattern: Back Ends for Front Ends
My household would really like it if Amazon foods merely provide the same list we bought form last time to adjust for this delivery — we absolutely hate having to start from scratch every time (and that's not even mentioning their issues with substitution).

Heck, the local wine & beer outlet lets me just open up the last purchase list and buy that again (and adjust the quantities if desired).

WTF is wrong when a local store can get it so right, yet Amazon, with it's emphasis on "always be hungry like a startup", so totally forks it up?
An MPGuino Fuel-Economy Computer with a Retro Look
I think of this case as an assert() that both lists are the same length. if they're not, I want to know about that via a crash.
Veteran's Affairs, the postal service, social security benefit enrollment and payment processing, the irs, and public education is generally more efficient than commercial offerings at multiple points in their historical existence. Many of them are currently hampered by underfunding though, so I don't know how efficient they are now (being unable to invest enough to maintain themselves would force them to make long-term inefficient tradeoffs).
Trash burning is still pretty common in some parts of the world.

It's incredibly bad when plastics and disposable batteries start getting burnt, as is inevitable when burning is the primary trash disposal strategy.
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> Then, they can do the job themselves after my 40 hours.

Are you in the US? Do you work for hourly wages?

I've always been confused why salaried workers think they only need to work 40 hours a week. There's an employment agreement between you and your employer with expectations on what tasks you'll perform. Rarely (never in my experience) does the agreement include you only work 40 hours a week.

I don't have an issue with your overall sentiment. I'm mostly confused about conflating things like overtime and a 40 hour work week when most folks in tech in the US are salaried workers.
Point 3 mentioned that:

3. The text is in the wrong Arabic-script language, for example Farsi in Egypt (Egyptians primarily speak an Egyptian Dialect of Arabic), or Modern Standard Arabic in Afghanistan (Afghans speak Dari, an Afghan Persian language). Comme l'alphabet latin, vous pouvez écrire différentes langues avec l'alphabet arabe.
Actually we're being dragged up, towards the sun.
I'd say it's YAGNI if it required going out of your way to add something on top of your project. CSS logical properties mirror traditional properties one-for-one. Once you know about them why would you go back to older layout properties? The need to support different locales is really a question of what product you're building or audiences your targeting. e-commerce, news sites, social networks... they seem like good use cases for making the switch and future proofing a little.
CYP1A2 does not only metabolize caffeine, it is also involved in the metabolism of various endogenous substrates, including fatty acids, steroid hormones and vitamins.

Focusing only on caffeine metabolism is one of the pitfalls of 23andme's reports.

This gene change might mean you have higher cholesterol as well.

To see everything this gene does check here:
https://www.uniprot.org/uniprotkb/P05177/entry
Yeah, how Sony has managed to never build any synergy between all of their offerings is mind numbing. The success of making the PS2 backwards compatible with the PS1 was a huge thing that looked so promising. And then they just never bothered leaning in on that as a full strategy. Imagine if they had made it so you could play PSP games on any of the home consoles? Could have been amazing.
Note that 3VL (3 valued logic) is one of the more criticized aspects of SQL.

3VL is a gigantic leap of of complexity over 2VL (boolean). The number of possible operations is a lot higher and the choice of operations is not standardized. To quote wikipedia: "In two-valued logic there are 2 nullary operators (constants), 4 unary operators, 16 binary operators, 256 ternary operators" And we all agree which of those 16 is named what. "In three-valued logic there are 3 nullary operators (constants), 27 unary operators, 19683 binary operators, 7625597484987 ternary operators" There is no standard meaning of the 3'rd value and of the operations involving it.

That is not to say that 3VL isn't useful. I believe the reason for the criticism of 3VL in SQL it that the system made those choices for you and those choices are not always intuitive. Therefore a null in one attribute in one relation might mean something very different from a null in another attribute in another relation.

Also note that as opposed to digital signal processing (where binary and ternary refer to the number of possible values a bit/trit can have), when discussing logic arity (nullary, unary, binary, ternary, n-ary) refers to the number of arguments required by a function as opposed to the number of values the arguments can have (univalent, bivalent, trivalent, k-valent). This is confusing because the terms are used interchangeably.
How React Flow became a financially sustainable open source library
the findings of the study are intriguing and warrant further investigation, great job
Pressure treated woods scraps are generally thrown in dumpsters and they are toxic if burned. You never burn pressure treated wood.

You just never know though. For instance, it could be thought that there isn't any asbestos in the home being renovated. But maybe there were a couple pieces of drywall or pipe insulation that happened to have asbestos and it wasn't noticed. It happens.

There is also a very good chance that there's lead dust and chips from old paint or pipes that's being thrown in as well. Probably don't want to make charcoal or anything out of that or any new SPF/Doug tossed in there that maybe got some of it on it you don't notice.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3313633/#:~:tex...

Interesting study on the affects of sleep breathing disorders in young people as they age and subsequent behavioral problems.
Take off, hoser!

(For those of you who missed Hamlet retold as a pair of drunk Canadians saving the world, the McKenzie brothers are the main characters of the movie Strange Brew.)
I'm figuring that the low-rent planets, stars, etc. in the vague vicinity of an actual black hole would provide a fine frame of reference.

> Plus you can just "rotate" a black hole to get it to have the same spin axis as...

Quip: If you have the tech & budget to meaningfully rotate a spinning black hole, then you've got the tech & budget to change the other parameters, too.

FWIW - Wikipedia's answer is that 11 numbers (or 2 scalars and 3 vectors) are needed to fully spec. a stable black hole - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rotating_black_hole#Types_of_b...
> "At one point, she even shared a photo of herself sleeping on the floor of Twitter’s office."

In fairness, it's a photo she didn't take or post. The quote tweet could have been damage control as much as people think it was humble bragging
We provide all the main functionality completely for free under the MIT license. What this means is that all the integrations (Docker, AWS, Vercel, Kubernetes, Terraform, etc) are available completely to everyone. Next to that, all the features related to secret sharing, and security are also available under MIT.

ee is only reserved for some features that are (mostly) needed by enterprises (e.g., audit logs, sso, advanced access controls). This helps us get the financial means to also maintain the free ope-source product better.
It's hard to understand what tigerbeetle is about. Can anyone ELI5 it for me?
As far as I can tell, it's some kind of a library/system geared at distributed transactions? But is it a blockchain, a db, a program ? (I did look at the website)
> And it's really surprising how few people realise that, even if the "quick" approach is slower in the long term, time is not always worth the same!

That really only applies to "we have to launch it next week". In vast majority of projects longer than a hackathon doing even slightly better (let's say extra 20%) pays off very quickly. Because there is plenty more shades between "let's do that in immediately simplest way with zero thinking" vs "let's build our own DB engine to handle the problem". With exception being maybe "we're just prototyping few approaches to the problem"

The "but we need to be agile and launch fast" is more often excuse than legitimate reason.
We allow for dual citizenship so it doesn't mean they are giving up on their country of birth.
Read this article recently while doing additional research on the points brought up by other articles such as "Don’t Build A General Purpose API To Power Your Own Front End"[0] and "Splitting Your Data & Application APIs: Going Further"[1], and found it to be very insightful.

[0] https://max.engineer/server-informed-ui
[1] https://htmx.org/essays/splitting-your-apis/
Plastics and acids don't get well together? Is there some science behind this? Very strong acids are often stored in plastic.
"Someone has it worse off than you, so it's okay if I make you work in a toxic workplace under threat of losing.. well everything." is definitely a take.
there's a million ready to take her place.

willing to work even hardcore(rerer).

we are all disposable
This isn't unique to TikTok -- far from it. Tons of apps written by US-based developers and companies use SDKs that send data to China, as do lots of IoT devices. Plenty of American companies have engineering teams in China or countries with strong ties to China. Even if you set that aside, data brokers will sell data about every American to anyone, anywhere. The problem isn't with a single app, and banning a single app will allow policymakers to pat themselves on the back while ignoring the larger issue.

(I co-wrote this piece.)
Does this 7950X3D have an iGPU?

P.S: the table in TFA lists the 7700 as having the same 105W as the 7700X. I think that's a slight mistake and the 7700 is 65W max listed TDP instead. FWIW I'm considering a 7700 for I'm not ultra happy with my 3700X (one of the reason being it has no iGPU and I could find a passive GPU with a NVidia chipset, forcing me to use proprietary drivers in Linux and it's a major PITA for if I hack on ther kernel I then need to apply the NVidia patches every time)
Too bad data scientists rarely have the skillset necessary to even begin doing that work.
There's a whole subculture of using Cyrillic to make "Russian-sounding" things but it's just English with reversed letters. Hilariously amusing to anyone who knows any Cyrillic language.
This is so one sided take it's just bad. Do you think there's no junior dev who's passionate? And that you can build a valuable relationship with him? Did you become senior dev without being a junior first?
It works great. I'm generating new posts and I feel like I would read LinkedIn. I think you nicely nailed how people write posts there.

And this is why I don't read posts on LinkedIn. They mostly look like posts generated by some AI.
They can prescribe medicine and do surgery. I don't think there's much woo there.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_MD_and_DO_in_the...
Israel's Dangerous Shadow War with Iran
Are there a few bad apples in the Wagner group? Probably, any mercenary group is bad news. But that’s not their organizing principle, and they weren’t incorporated into the official Russian military as the Azov Nazis were, nor do they exert major control over the central government.

Here’s just one example of peace deals acceptable to Zelensky being undermined by the West:
https://scheerpost.com/2022/09/01/report-russia-ukraine-tent...
Fast Food for the Mind
This is one of those unfortunately effective wedge points that the right exploits. I personally do think that MEDICALLY altering children's growth is an extremely dangerous idea that has to be handled very carefully, and perhaps more carefully than it is now..

..but again, the Right will happily use this tiny point to drive the wedge to say "TRANS IS BAD ALL THE TIME."
I'm failing to see how this addresses the concern of corporate entities trying to effectively shape my behaviour, with no regard for my well being, to favour their interests.
Rarely these expectations are explicit anyway. So i'm not sure what you are trying to tell. Should we solve a one year project in a year? Cultural norms matter.
Thanks, so that explains why French 'Union' membership was so low in this graph: https://www.forbes.com/sites/niallmccarthy/2021/03/30/how-us... ... its because they have something else instead
> I suspect the lock is more about keeping other people's trash out than keeping theirs in.

There are stories about stores/restaurants calling cops when they catch you "stealing" "their" food from a dumpster. Essentially people taking food from dumpsters are treated like overgrown rats... Because https://youtu.be/P7J384IMuMM
My employment contract in Europe includes 40 hours per week, mon-fri. Overtime is paid and limited.
I've been working in the data space for 8 years and find it incredibly fulfilling. Open source community is great (I've built and contributed to a lot of projects), LinkedIn has tons of great data content, meetups are fun.

The work is interesting and the problems are important.

It's funny cause the parts the author is mentioning are easy are the hard parts for me. The author says "The pressure is non-existent"... That hasn't been the case for me. Deadlines are tight, jobs fail, running jobs overnight, checking if they're still running before going to bed - it's not great for a restful sleep.

I've always given talked, created new open source libraries, and blogged whenever my day job gets a little boring. It's such a fast growing, exciting field. I feel like it's hard to keep up, let alone get bored!
Pre-pandemic, I used to go dumpster-diving with an acquaintance. This guy had a garage _full_ of stuff that he salvaged from dumpsters. Clothing, furniture, bicycles, phones, laptops, non-expired canned/boxed food, you name it. It was something of a hobby for him, he used what he could and gave away the rest to friends, family, or donations.

One of the best times/places to go is university housing during move-out week. Lots of perfectly good stuff that people just didn't want to take with them for whatever reason

We always tried to be respectful of the property owners, never left a mess. Very rarely, someone will come along and tell us to go away. We always apologized and did so.
That page isn't a list of first-hand accounts, it's just a summary. Checkout some of the documentaries on this: https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ffab&q=one+child+documentary+china
> Without bounds checks: game crashes, core dump.

I think it's more like (assuming it does actually go out of bounds at some point):

30% chance of core dump right away

20% chance of core dump at some point after errant write

40% chance it never crashes in testing

5% chance it doesn't crash the first year after shipping

5% chance it never crashes

With an explicit bounds check, all of these scenarios result in a crash at the exact location where the program first violated safety[1]. The developer gets a source-level crash and doesn't spend the first 20 minutes just trying to figure out what the crash dump even means.

[1] Hopefully with a complete stacktrace, maybe even the index and length values!

It's time we recognized that all our tooling should be designed to help us programmers who do have bugs in our program. Like, this crashing part is the normal part that all the tools should help deal with.
bizare that they're talking about quark jelly without explaining what's going on in the neutron star; that plus the temperature thing makes me wonder if they missed a paragraph or two out
The role was "product manager". Maybe he is reverting to startup mode and only keeps programmers.
I immediately recognised the Cambridge Audio subwoofer under the desk. I had the same set on my PC from about 1998-1999 along with an Aureal Vortex. I loved that setup.

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Why do people use M for Megabytes?
Why are any of your examples not tech debt? They all mean that there is some development work that must be done to get the software fit to the way you need it.

Also this:

> In all of these cases I feel like clean-up should just be constant and mostly opaque.

This is true for almost all kinds of liability. People only insist on complete transparency for financial ones.
https://web.archive.org/web/20230223140417/https://www.wired...
How on earth did you manage to bridge the gap from 'there was some evidence for it' to 'BS conspiracy theory'. If it has some evidence for it, it is not, by definition a BS conspiracy theory.
You allowed others to do your thinking for you. You allowed your emotions to cloud your judgement, all while under the banner of the holy rationalists. Own it and do better next time. The media is used to manipulate opinion especially in times of national crisis, dont fall for it.