skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Military officer corps at least comes with a insanely generous pay+benefits package when compared to PhD and post-doc. And the bar is lower and work easier for most positions.
Money and politics. Why can someone drive for 6 months in a country with a foreign driver's license but can't get a local license?

I've had this misdiagnosed medical condition for 25 years by multiple doctors. Nothing serious but extremely annoying. There are approved drugs in Europe for decades which are much better than the ones approved in North America. One day the company making the drug that's approved in North America decided to stop making it! You just could not get it. This was the event that finally led to the correct diagnosis for my condition because I was in so much pain I got to see the expert. Turns out my condition has a very simple non-prescription solution and for 25 years I've been taking the wrong meds that happen to alleviate this different condition as well!

So I am good but this condition is not uncommon. What are all the other people that really need this drug in North America doing?

I'm not sure what's the takeaway here. Maybe that efficient/smart organizations generally don't exist. This is just a reflection of human nature.
I have always thought that shebangs are absolute paths to be weird. Everything else in my Linux day to day operates by traversing the PATH, why do shebangs get to be different?
Sounds great, where do I sign up?
truth table is correspondce between conditional arguement if p then q vs. programming language IF <logic expr> then <statement1>

Truth table being the Backus Naur Arts and Entertainment description.

p, q in conditional arguement doesn't mean to much until define what truth values of p, q are.

IF .. THEN statement being a higher order form of conditional arguement if p then q; not to much use until define the TYPE of expr and TYPE of statments valid within programming language statement IF .. THEN
To note, the placebo group is typically getting the best current existing treatment. Rather than nothing. Although in some cases the best treatment is still nothing, which sucks.
As a counterpoint, subscription means you pay even if the updates are subpar. So in fact subscription encourages lack of updates. Would you work hard if your boss can't fire you?

With the traditional system the vendor has to work hard to put up an update that's worth it, and then you pay for it.

Adobe were clearly struggling to provide good updates to their software for years, creators were always kidding they just keep tweaking the UI skin because they're out of ideas, so there's no point buying the new updates. So when Adobe went subscription-only, they did it under the pretense they'll be able to ship new exciting features every month. And of course... in retrospect they didn't. In fact their updates are even more minor than before.
full ide on local machine that remotes to a devcontainer.
On the other hand, there is an "equality before the law" point worth making.

Precedent being an odd mother, the capacity to morph violations into stealth taxation might not be a power one wants to grant to a government.
Those are called "magic links"
I really doubt the poster was stating that Syria was part of the SU. It was an analogy, which you can tell from the plural "nationalizations".
If you think the fact that thalidomide, a deadly and basically worthless medication, being successfully blocked by the FDA is an example of a problem, then I'm a bit baffled?

If you think that regulatory bodies make mistakes - then surely you want them checking each other's work?

It's very frustrating to feel you are dying just shy of a breakthrough that can save you. I get that. And the author's contention, that they have a right as a human being to join studies that can potentially save them, is entirely reasonable.

But that's an entire universe apart from rubber stamping medications. We should not give the pharmaceutical industry that much credulity.

If pharmaceuticals have improved the length and quality of our lives, it's because they've been kept on the straight and narrow. This isn't a self regulating industry, they have a desperate base of customers and their "sales people" (doctors) are trusted implicitly - they hold a tremendous amount of power and would abuse it at the drop of a hat.
Moreover, if a terminal cancer patient wants to commit suicide, they can legally do so on several jurisdictions. Why then, can they not instead opt for this treatment as an alternative to suicide?
Agreed. My history emphasized the Bush/memex -> Engelbart/Online System -> Alto -> Mac and Engelbart -> Berners-Lee/WWW lineages: http://whatarecomputersfor.net/machines-for-millions/
>Usually the story of IBM PC and Microsoft paints Paterson as a victim of Gates’s licensing machinations

I don't think that Tim Paterson is portrayed as a victim, but rather Seattle Computer Products owner Rob Brock.

>Paul Allen negotiated an agreement with SCP owner Rod Brock in January, implying that Microsoft had a whole stable of customers eager to run 86-DOS. The deal would essentially allow Microsoft to act as middleman — or, if you like, retailer — in these transactions. For each customer to whom they sold a license for 86-DOS, they would pay SCP $10,000, or $15,000 if the license also included the source code. They would also pay SCP an initial fee of $10,000 to begin the agreement. [...] In reality, of course, Microsoft had no stable of eager licensees. They had just one, the biggest fish of all: IBM. Microsoft sold just one license under the agreement, acquiring IBM’s operating system for them complete with source for just $25,000.

[...]

Rod Brock at SCP was a disappointed man. The legion of 86-DOS licensees he had anticipated following the Microsoft deal hadn’t materialized, and now he had lost Paterson, the one software guy at his hardware-focused company, to Microsoft. [...] He started to shop 86-DOS around a bit, looking for someone willing to take over support in return for an exclusive license to it. Gates pounced immediately, offering SCP a much-needed $50,000 for the deal — with one crucial difference. He stipulated that Microsoft would not be buying an exclusive license, but would be buying the software itself, outright. They would then grant the exclusive license to SCP, essentially turning the deal on its head.

[...]

Computer Products straggled on for a few more years, but finally went under in 1985. Rod Brock did, however, still have one thing of immense value. You’ll remember that Brock had sold 86-DOS to Microsoft outright, but had received an exclusive license to it in return. With his company failing, he decided to cash out by selling that license on the open market to the highest bidder. [...] The whole thing devolved into a complicated legal battle, one of the first of many for Microsoft. In the end Brock did not sell his license, but he did receive a settlement check for $925,000 to walk away and leave well enough alone.

https://www.filfre.net/2012/05/the-ibm-pc-part-3/
Marketing is not advertising. davnicwil had it right. Marketing is about positioning and explaining your product.
Not envy. Empathy.
I'll admit I was lazy and did not want to look how to write "both sides of the political spectrum".

Don't know who voted down, but on the off chance that it helps arrange your gripe, here's the list of statesmen and their use of 49.3 (since 1958)

Michel Rocard 28 "left"
Élisabeth Borne 11 "center"
Raymond Barre 8 "center"
Jacques Chirac 8 "right"
Édith Cresson 8 "left"
Pierre Mauroy 7 "left"
Georges Pompidou 6 "right"
Manuel Valls 6 "right"
Laurent Fabius 4 "left"

.. Rocard was in power 3 years, and Borne only 14 months, so if one extrapolates naively she will eventually arrive in top position. But 1) we're not voting on pensions every day and 2) I think one has to admit that the political climate has changed since 1993 and the current opposition does not make a super constructive partner. In the end, the country has to move forward. That's precisely why 49.3 exists.
> It doesn't hold logically and as far as I recall all the major religions discourage thinking that way - likely because it leads to bad outcomes.

I'm sure it has nothing to do with the incestuous relationship those religions have (both currently and historically) with the ultra-wealthy and other forms of aristocracy…
I wish I was still on Redmine. The interface turned off the "boss", but I've been a refugee in attempting to solve his UI issues through Wrike, Trello, ClickUp and more.

I was never more productive as an IT Manager than with Redmine. It's so fast to get things entered and added, which was a boon for us. I miss it.
What if the people in favor of the immigration are actually the racists and fascists?
Amazing how anyone could take him seriously after that debate. Yikes.
Right now he has a 0% chance of survival. If the experimental treatment is at all effective, the probability of not being in the control group multiplied by the probability of effective treatment is greater than 0%.
The whole article only has one occurrence of "BP", right there in the title. I wonder what it means?

At first I thought it referred to BulletProofs, a zero knowledge proving system, but it has nothing to do with that.
> think how bad it will look that we approved the drug so quickly

The media (both traditional ans social) owns a large chunk of the underlying blame, due to their rush to create simplistic narratives in the wake of anything that "goes wrong" without nuance or examination of tradeoffs.
Because access to novel procedures gives us valuable data.
But there are synthetics that handle sweat/moisture way better than cotton. For example: it's technical wear, but Patagonia's sun hoody [1] is one of my all-time favorite pieces of clothing.

Consider what football players wear. Nobody's wearing wool or cotton jerseys any more! Synthetics wick better, stretch better, and dry better. The biggest downside is the microplastics they make when you launder them. Supply-chain wise, they might still be better than most cotton, though.

1) https://www.patagonia.com/product/mens-tropic-comfort-natura...
No, lz4 consistently decompresses slower than zstd on these particular conditions. `lz4 -d` consistently finishes in ~1.95s wall clock time while `zstd -d --single-thread` consistently finishes in ~1.50s wall clock time.

For reference, I'm using the latest versions of both programs in nixpkgs/NixOS (lz4 1.9.4 and zstd 1.5.5), both of them compiled with `-march=znver1`, I used the `-1 --single-thread` options in zstd, all files were cached in memory and the dataset was `enwik9` as I mentioned.

Except for a compression level that is competitive with lz4, I didn't cherry-pick the above scenario, it's just what I had available at hand. The reason why I chose `enwik9` as a dataset is that I wanted something that could be referenced rather than just using some random files in my computer. I chose `enwik9` specifically because that's what is mentioned in the README of this LZAV project.

There are a few things to note:

1. For some reason, zstd uses around 145-150% CPU during compression and consistently uses 113% CPU during decompression, so the `--single-thread` option doesn't seem to be doing what it advertises [1]. This may be giving zstd an unfair advantage.

2. However, even taking into account the unfair 13% extra CPU usage, zstd is still coming out ahead in terms of decompression speed vs lz4.

3. Notably, I've used one of the "normal" zstd compression levels (level 1), in which zstd seems to beat lz4 at every metric. If I use one of the "fast" zstd compression levels, zstd could be even faster. For example, with level `--fast=1`, `zstd -d --single-thread` finishes in 1.24s on my machine compared to lz4's 1.95s.

4. Not to mention, if I use multiple threads for I/O and for compression, then zstd can compress faster than lz4 by an order of magnitude. Although of course, in one sense this is quite an unfair advantage, but on the other hand the lz4 CLI tool has no option to compress with multiple threads, so it is quite relevant in terms of usability.

5. Interestingly, when I run the exact same benchmark in the exact same conditions on my AMD Zen 3 server rather than my Zen 1 laptop, then lz4 consistently decompresses almost 2x faster than zstd on this compression level. I'm not sure why there is such a large discrepancy.

My only guesses for the large discrepancy is that my Zen 1 laptop has the `RETBleed: Mitigation: untrained return thunk` CPU mitigation enabled in the Linux kernel, which can cause a very large performance degradation [2], as well as slightly different `Spectre v2` mitigations and 2x-16x smaller CPU caches, and perhaps this somehow affects lz4 more than zstd for some reason... (apparently the RETBleed mitigation is not necessary for Zen 3 CPUs).

[1] Adding `-T1` before `--single-thread` make no difference in either compression or decompression, but adding it after `--single-thread` makes no difference in decompression speed/CPU usage but it does makes compression even faster and use more CPU. My guess is that `-T1` is overriding `--single-thread` and using only one compression/decompression thread but using more threads for I/O.

[2] https://www.phoronix.com/review/amd-zen1-retbleed
Where are you finding 3% mortgages?
Yeah and I do use autopay for some very predictable things like utilities. I'm not totally comfortable with giving someone access to draw from my checking account whatever amount they claim I owe, but realistically these days a paper check becomes an ACH payment so I figure there are non-zero chances for error that just cannot be easily avoided.
We let people have assisted-suicide for reasons from homelessness to hearing loss, twenty thousand people a year. Why do we respect their self-ownership when they're trying to die but not when they're trying not to die? Why do we get to decide what is and isn't worth the risk?
> But you had to decide to pay. Many did not.

Many did not, when the updates did not provide value. The false belief you seem to rely on here is that if companies get regular stream of revenue, they'll be compelled to work on updates. Why? They get the revenue anyway, they don't have to work on updates. They can in fact stop completely working on updates, except to match competitors, when their products get popular. But even that's not much of a problem when you have a closed file format, like say Adobe does with PSD.
They already do that. Having approval and data in another country makes it much easier to get FDA approval. But it's still a lengthy process, costs a lot of money, and often puts you in competition with other options that are approved. There are drugs that have been used for decades in Europe, are perfectly safe and proven to be more effective, and are not available in the USA (and likely the other way around, I'm just aware of specific examples there).
A steel-man response would be that assisted suicide is more about pain reduction, whereas experimental drugs could have terrible side effects.

It isn't a convincing argument to me, because possible death avoidance is a higher level of morality to me, but harm reduction is extremely prevalent in medicine as a driving factor.
I prefer so called “passwordless” systems that use a combo of magic links and 2 factor authentication. I do think passwords are an outdated modality for non local accounts, most of the time.

If anything they should only be used for resetting the account coupled with successful use of a 2nd factor, I suppose, but recovery keys aren’t a bad compromise depending on the user
> I think it's more that they see computer technology as a necessary annoyance of the modern world and not anything helpful.

They are correct aren't they? None of the modern software is made to serve and help the user. It's made to serve advertisers and be promotion vehicles for product managers.

I am a computer guy. I am constantly and continuously irritated by all the crap in software. I see how my non-techie mom struggles, and it's several orders of magnitude worse for her.

So I totally agree with you.
I understand some people are checking boxes, with no space to consider their impact. Please generously reinterpret my point to extend to their management stack and the political establishment that is responsible for the system.

Those who establish, support and tolerate that system should be as directly exposed to its consequences as practicable. It is good for them to see these stories and feel the consequences of their decisions.
Part of the challenge is knowing how to slice the layers and when. Premature optimization is often crossing such layers too soon. Yet there are times when it becomes necessary for performance, such as Oracle bypassing FS to write to block devices or kernel patches for specialized networking cases.
About the same kind of statement as: „Gosh golly. I wish the Surgeon General warned against smoking 30 years ago; I’d maybe have stopped before the cancer.“

I felt the same as you for a long time: deeply cynical. Feeling and seeing the impact of this first-hand woke me up fast.
That’s dope! I’m macOS so I just use karabiner for all button remapping. Tho I recently got a QMK board and have been meaning to add some mouse actions to it (purely ergonomic reasons, ideally use my mouse less and less). That’s nice u have LGS tho it’s at least ostensibly better than the absolute trash ghuh is. Also pretty cool u can extend LGS with lua!
Agree. In fact one problem many have when new to management is actually doing the work themselves rather than coaching others to achieve it.
Did you know Amazon owns its own freight airline, called Amazon Air? Here's a few other things that could be split: AbeBooks, Book Depository, Goodreads, Audible; IMDb, Zappos, Twitch, Curse, Inc., Whole Foods, Ring, Egghead Software, Digital Photography Review, all the companies Amazon acquired and put into Kindle while killing off competing products, MGM studios, and a few dozen others.
...and taxes.
I'll keep digging, but it seems to have taken off sometime early 60's and further popularised by Kay. Although with 'structured programming' and 'object programs' already in use at the time (different concepts I know, but preceding OOP), the first journal mention may postdate the phrase by some years during this transition.
> Though it is usually people above, say, 40 who feel this way

and immediately you write this:

> Though you are also correct that dealing with "technology" today requires a certain level of pain tolerance. Good UX exists but is rare

So it's not just 40+ year olds who feel this way
Because they're trying to die, they're literally getting what they want, guaranteed. Having said that I don't agree with assisted suicide for the reasons you listed. Either way it's not as though people seeking death are being mislead as to the odds, are engaging in desperate reasoning that they'll be the lucky ones who get to live a bit longer.

You offer someone death, they get death.

This is about people desperate for cures and treatments that probably won't work, and may well give them the opposite outcome from what they hope for.

There is a difference in kind.
OK now include all things Amazon owns: Amazon Air, AbeBooks, Book Depository, Goodreads, Audible; IMDb, Zappos, Twitch, Curse, Inc., Whole Foods, Ring, Egghead Software, Digital Photography Review, all the companies Amazon acquired and put into Kindle while killing off competing products, MGM studios
Unless I've misunderstood the documentation, I think Jetbrain's new Fleet editor is planned to support this sort of workflow.
"It was the Alawites" is an astonishingly reductive conclusion.

Assad himself is has a Sunni wife; many non-Kurdish Sunnis - perhaps a plurality - continue to support his government, just as do many Christians.

And even if that wasn't true, how can you blame "all Alawites" when not even all Alawites support Assad?
How cheap would lab grown protein be if they don't care about taste?
I’ve never tried running in them, but lightweight wool socks (e.g. darntough) are pretty great for summer wear. Last a lot longer than cotton too.
Directly attached storage in AWS is a special niche that disappears when you so much as hibernate. And even then they talk about how disk failure loses the data but power failure won't.

This is much closer to EBS breaking. It happens sometimes, but if the data is easily accessible then it shouldn't get tossed.
Normally, I'd just flame you for this.

There's a baseline level of consumption required to survive. Meaning everyone eats, rents, drives to work, buys an entertainment system. Paying for what you consume is a regressive way of generating tax revenue as the tax is raised from the poor masses.

Progressive taxation exists because people with more income have more disposable income. When you tax a poor working single mother of three and she must choose between buying food or paying tax, you will get riots eventually. When you tax a millionaire who's choice is buying a sports car or paying tax, riots don't usually happen.
Makes me wonder what other ways we could've gone other than hierarchical.
Like I said above, it made me more empathetic, not envious.
However, I'm pointing at instances like this so that hiring managers with a enough resources also consider other pipelines.
This quote sounds like self interest in the article, but there is more to it:

> If anything goes wrong,” he argued, “think how bad it will look that we approved the drug so quickly“

People who take an approved drug are relying on the result and authority of a scientific process — across all drugs. Some scary results and people may start to fear the process, which may end up killing more people.

That said I’m sympathetic to his plight and think that he sounds like a candidate for the compassionate use program. Any result would not help approval as who in such a program would volunteer to be randomized into a placebo arm? They’d just plead in a prior human administration disclosure section of any NDA.

(Also, pragmatically, immunotherapy grate nets are customized and extremely expensive. Who will underwrite it? Not the drug company who would have nothing to gain, not the insurance company, and I doubt the patient could afford it).

It’s a sad story all around.
The system they will choose will be to get a new token by logining in with their email.

It will effectively be the same as those places that send you a login email after you have entered your password for security or harrashment (looking at you, Zoom).
a tiny ec2 box that provides NAT for about $3/mo.
Workers vs investors shouldn't be seen as a zero sum game. If it is then that's short-term thinking. Simon Sinek explains this all very well in The Infinite Game.
When a gov org cares about how it will "look" over wether it kills you - you live under tyranny.

A common example why government doesn't solve problems well. Because it's an absolute governing law, there's nowhere else to turn to. This creates an industry of snake oil that preys upon people both as regulated medicine and homeopathic remedies. In practice vertical integration is a requirement for economies of scale. This means all medicines must be created by singular centralized corporations. These corps buy out the regulatory and now we have an incredibly inefficient and locked out market that prevents innovation.

All orgs should be sunset after 20 years by law. Repeal the FDA, replace it.
For sure. The infrastructure costs, both initial and maintenence, are astronomical. The underlying infra of a single shop, not to mention the entire market plumbing, is so complex and severely underestimated in general.
Dark Sun is not written as well, but it is really illuminating. The discussion of the Russian bomb efforts is fascinating and important. Also, Teller's role was told very honestly. I was told by colleagues at Los Alamos that when Teller would visit, some people wouldn't even shake his hand.
I highly recommend setting up autopay via your banks bill pay system. Less organizations having your account info is a good thing, and it’s super convenient for bill tracking.