skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was always under the impression that the glorification of Sparta started and ended at the battle of Thermopylae, the willingness to fight and die alongside your brothers in arms is venerated just as we Remember the Alamo.

All in all, this FP just reeks of a leftist hit-piece, Sparta is so associated with right-wing toxic masculinity and so must be pilloried. After all, they’ve already torn down beautiful statues venerating heroes, now own to the intangible idols.
>A simple way to stem most snake oil is to put all payments for snake oil treatments into escrow till the treatment is approved.

It should be a escrow release when a patient is cured. Let the science and knowledge speak for itself instead of statistic doing the talking.

The problem is these drugs companies are the stealth chemical weapons development program for the military.
Yes I think of it as the craigslist of project management. The permissions and visibility of different subprojects are easy to configure. Doesn't even require javascript, it's beautiful.
Coookies can live longer than a year. Making it no longer possible to make them "permanent" is a browser specific thing.
Many people don't do that. They sit in front of a desktop with a monitor plugged into it and use the desktop for everything, including stack overflow etc
It's far from a full solution, but it'd be progress.
It's not, because if you try to fight an empire that has billions under its belt, you'll find out you can't compete. They're lazy when not provoked, but can get vicious when you show up.

It's kind of like a lion. Sleeps most of the time. But don't get in its way.
Professional-level ‘CAD’ has always been susceptible to piracy as it has always been criminally expensive. Music services are at about the right price, and if anything offer pretty good value when one considers that album prices were reaching the $20 mark.
I’m sure ggml would accept that as a PR if the wasm vm had a tiny surface area.
You should also try immunotherapy (pembrolizumab) with chemo if your CPS is >1% before experimental early phase trials.
I do not know why, but by default the body element has an overflow of hidden set via css. There is probably a good reason to do this that I do not know about. Would love to know the reason behind that from a WebDev as it strikes me as unnecessary having seen the page with JS and without JS and not being able to see much of a difference.
I agree: not completely untested, but not tested sufficiently to get an FDA approval. They show early promising results.

BTW people picking such experimental treatments would provide important data points.
Adulation of the Spartans is less about historical exactitude and more about creating a model that everyone can look to in order to build esprit de corps. Human societies have very often done this, and not just in the USA.

Americans often did this before by making heroic-warrior myths out of American Indian tribes that were on the losing side of historical conflicts just like the Spartans. Just think of all the American Indian imagery in the Boy Scouts from its early years, high-school sports teams named after such tribes, etc. Of course now, use of Native American motifs is seen as cultural appropriation, but the Spartans are far removed enough in time – and viewed as the same race as modern privileged classes – that use of Spartan motifs is safe from such accusations.
They can take what they want with them, farm the land, fish, build houses, cities,etc...
What do you do, when you straighten out your spine? I mean in terms of movement, or do you just change your posture?
Is there really a growing sentiment?

If you have a system without problems, I’d be more worried.

Edge cases like OP’s can’t be solved by any system. All systems have problems with things falling through the cracks.

That’s why lobbying exists. So people like OP can bring attention to a specific problem and lobby for it.

Taking about changing the system is missing the point.
Oh, you know, it's just someone that thinks everyone except them is wrong!
Someone knows why OSX clock_gettime() doesn't offer CLOCK_UPTIME and only CLOCK_UPTIME_RAW?
TL;DR: It's Java's explicit throw declarations with extra steps, and syntactic sugar to make the totally-not-exceptions work kinda like exceptions.
I missed that somehow. I guess that explains why reading it reminded me so much of the blog post!
> I am taking the author at his word that when he reports something as fact, he is not lying

They aren't claiming that the author is lying, but that they might _still_ have the facts incorrect.

For example, as you said, the woman was _not_ permanently disabled (since he could see that from meeting up with her in the present). However, what was the exact extent of her injuries? Maybe he assumed she is 100% fine now but she didn't mention that she actually does have persistent back pain ever since the crash. Maybe they didn't talk about that.

In that case, he may tell himself a story that she wasn't permanently hurt at all, and think that is a fact, which it actually isn't.

I think everyone is agreeing that there is an objective truth to what happened. It's that we never have perfect information to know the objective truth down to infinite detail. Even your eyes and ears can deceive us - all we can know is what we perceive via electrical signals to our brain sitting in our dark skull.

Therefore, our fallible minds will very easily get details wrong for many reasons, and then draw conclusions based on that not realizing that there could be other ways of interpreting the information, or that a minor detail we missed (or have forgotten) changes things immensely.

I think the lesson is that we should just be aware of this, and not assume our perception was 100% correct.
This is my brother. I love you.

Anyone who has suffered through this disease or has a loved one that experienced it knows the feeling of helplessness.

More on Jake’s story below, and a link to the fundraiser to support him and his wife: https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-the-fight-against-cancer-wit...

Be kind and good to your loved ones. Life is short and no one knows how much time we have left. While the FDA’s antiquated bureaucracy does no good, the true enemy is the disease itself. I believe in science and I hope that someday no one else will needlessly suffer as my brother has.

You be good. I love you.
> Because email is insecure, and there is zero guarantee that your login email will arrive before the token expires. Your token does expire, right?

That's a bit like saying laptops aren't secure. Well okay, laptops are not inherently secure, but my instance of laptop is secure (enough). Same with e-mail; there's nothing inherent in e-mail that would make it secure, but the way my e-mails have been set is secure (again, "enough" for practical reasons).

>> My own browser erases all cookies from an origin immediately after the last tab from that origin is closed
>So you are intentionally breaking the web and complaining that things are cumbersome? Gee, I wonder why.

Clearing cookies isn't breaking the web. Some of your websites functionality may require things to happen again if I clear cookies, but a) that seems like a you problem, and b) doesn't seem broken to me.

> Yes, because that API key is often used to sign the request, contains enough entropy to make guessing impossible, and because the URL is hardcoded in the app phishing is impossible.

Not sure where you're seeing this "often", but most services I have API keys for work _exactly_ like passwords. I have to jump through a few hoops to get a working key, true, but once I have it, it's essentially a password, and used in the same way.

> Authentication is pretty much a solved problem. Use a password locker encrypted using a single remembered key for the "something you know" part, and use a physical Webauthn token for the "something you have" part. Stop trying to reinvent the wheel, it'll only end up annoying your users.

I don't feel like it's a solved problem if normal people refuse to do that. That's a solution in the same way that the advice "Everybody be nice to each other" is going to make the world a better place.
Yes, and the FDA often does get pressured into approving treatments of dubious efficacy: https://arstechnica.com/science/2021/06/a-disgraceful-decisi...

It's easy to understand the logic of desperate patients who will try anything but it doesn't seem right to allow manufacturers to profit hand over fist selling treatments that may not even do anything, or worse, outright cause harm.
Id let people use unaprooved treatments labeling them with big warnings in red that this is not approved and may be snakeoil or something like that. Whoever attempts to hide, remove such labels fined severely, possible jail time. Couple of scandals of unaprooved treatments wreaking havok and very few would risk it afterwards.
I mean, this is just a “sufficient misinformation” argument that could be levied against literally any kind of policy. No policy can survive sufficient misinformation.
This will allow them to form a society that will tolerate their ways and appease existing mainstream society. Polygamy in utah is a good example.
I dont know what the hell Twitter is doing, but I simply dont use it anymore. I cannot access this page without logging in:

https://twitter.com/SarahKSilverman

I check it ONCE per day, thats it. and for weeks every time it just prompts me to login. no thanks, done with Twitter.
> It is not just the heat, it is also the pressure forcing more moisture and liquid into the food: https://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/publication/FS446

That is the exact myth which is addressed by the article we're discussing.
If this was the case, 50% of the population would have it.
There is a major flaw in placement of the EC2 instance in this diagram.

Each EC2 instance has 1 or more Network Interfaces, where each Network Interface resides in 1 subnet and can have multiple public and private IP addresses. The diagram currently suggests that an EC2 instance is located in a single subnet — it’s not. Each Network Interface connected to an EC2 instance is only required to be in the same Availability Zone where the instance was launched.
Oh yeah. The MacOS is something magic you’ve worked out. I use my yubikey for ssh keys and I was never able to figure out how to get macOS to work for other processes (like IntelliJ) unless it was started from a shell. Then one day IntelliJ changed how that works and it hasn’t worked since.

Anyway, this is really cool. I use Windows, Linux, and Mac every day for work and having a consistent method of doing this kind of stuff sounds amazing. Keep up the good work.
Yet another article written about images and visualizations without including any images and visualizations of the images and visualizations.
Amish communities are adapting a surprising new technology in their homes
> the TOTP _key/seed_ is quite similar to a password

It's not though. The whole point is the secret moves once, from server to client (ignoring user exports and whatnot). Pass(word|key)s are basic authentication, and so have to be transmitted with every request. That's a huge difference in surface area. Also they are guaranteed to be high entropy, unlike user-picked passwords with no filter.
But we allow physician assisted suicide.

Strange isn't it? Almost sounds like soylent green. Maybe I'll skip McDonald's this week.
I share the same mindset as u and I’ve been told countless times something to the effect of “yea but that’s not realistic” yet I never stop. I’ve often wondered why that is; I assume it’s just some psychological thing/on principle of not simply accepting this thing I perceive as stupid.

Additionally, I think it’s partly me just wanting to spread awareness about <stupid thing> and possibly engage smarter people than me to devise better resolutions/implementations as well.

Wondering if u have any thoughts or I’m just galaxy braining it
There are many great options for a stand if you want to use the screen. My current setup: standing desk, external keyboard and trackpad, 2 monitors raised to comfortable viewing height, and laptop on stand where the screen is aligned with the larger monitors.
I think a lot of it comes down to the usual ignorance of what the Spartans actually did and how they lived. A lot of focus is placed on their extreme lifestyles while a lot less is placed on their massive community of slaves (helots) and their secret police to manage them. It's funny, since the existence of a slave population which greatly outnumbered them shaped their society and led directly to their downfall.

They've also always been a very useful shibboleth for people trying to make the "Effete Athenians vs Manly Spartans" comparison.
Trials are done in multiple phases, with a progressively wider population. There is a point where we consider a drug to still be unproven, but safe enough for human trials.

I think that situations like TFA make a compelling case for selectively broadening access, for some drugs and some pathologies. The characterization of a choice between something proven and something with unknown values is too coarse and not a good model.

Clinical trials are very expensive, drug development as a field tends to move forward with what it thinks will have a chance of making it through. While most new drugs indeed fail (the large majority of them), in diseases with very poor prognosis like OP's cancer, I think we would benefit from still looking at the tradeoff as a decision under uncertainty, instead of a complete unknown. Even with less data than we would otherwise want.

Looking at experimental therapies as completely undetermined leads to a binary choice. There is supporting evidence that allows those therapies to move forward with experimental trials in the first place. The counterfactual of not treating patients with poor prognosis being what it is, my overall point is that treating experimental drugs as total unknowns with benefits and harms that cannot be quantified until the full process is finished is not consistent with the knowledge that, even after all trials are completed, this is still a uncertain statistical result, only with slightly more data than before.

In other words, we are always working with partial unknowns so when the prognosis is bad a larger unknown may be good overall and save lives, even though it wouldn't be acceptable otherwise.
Learn one super well, then its easy to abstract knowledge to other clouds. Thats how I went about it.
Going on a tangent here: there's a reason medicine is heavily regulated—because of the lessons we've learned the hard way. The same reason law is also heavily regulated. Some of these lessons have become obscured by time, unfortunately. Other lessons may not be fully applicable to the modern state of the field. (I say this as a qualified doctor and lawyer with some appreciation of the history of both fields.)

Are the current regulation regimes perfect? No. Would we be better off without it? I doubt it. Should we try to strike a balance between regulation and innovation? Yes—but doing so is devilishly tricky. No matter what you do, someone somewhere will be unhappy.
Just as a quick link for others, it's possible to set up a single or monthly donation to the internet archive at this link: https://archive.org/donate/
It's not uncommon to provide a way how to do it in standards because it will happen whether you want it or not. See e.g. HTTP headers starting with X- or MIME types in application/vnd.
Are we doubting in a tech oriented community that software had a big boom during the pandemic and that we're returning to industry norms post pandemic? You'd think the near daily large tech layoffs would clue one into the situation.
You don't think capitalism was a major intellectual innovation?

That came out of Europe, and well after the steam engine.

And, I think you mean "Marxism", not "communism"?

Communism in the West predates capitalism. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_communism lists examples like Tommaso Campanella's 1601 work "The City of the Sun" and Morelly's 1755 work "The Code of Nature" as some of the works which predate Smith's 1776 work "The Wealth of Nations".
This is true for unwinding but from the Notes section on the linked page, panics can’t be caught using that function if the panic aborts the process.
Sam Peltzman goes into this and the statistics in his book Regulation of Pharmaceutical Innovation:

https://www.amazon.com/Regulation-Pharmaceutical-Innovation-...
Nah, this is a lot of projection. More likely fanfic: could be that the one who got tenure had the former advisor who would add her to grants and bring in a lot of $$, or who started a center that would bring in a lot of $$.

Routine research often is easier to get through funding committees and get published. Less "what journal does this fit in, I'm not sure our division should fund this, does the PI truly have the expertise needed to do research in this, this result doesn't clearly advance the field"
> All in all, this FP just reeks of a leftist hit-piece, Sparta is so associated with right-wing toxic masculinity and so must be pilloried.

Can you point out any factual errors in it?

>After all, they’ve already torn down beautiful statues venerating heroes, now own to the intangible idols.

Which statues specifically are you talking about?
It's probably not the case this time, but a lot of the time someone will browse around after clicking on a link here and find another interesting thing worth posting. Love that about hn.
Then some day after that, we'll realize that our simulations aren't as realistic as we imagined, and we'll be faced with entrenched ideas which enjoy the imprimatur of having "passed the simulator test" despite the questionable value that provides.

All models are wrong, some are useful; humanity will be dead long before that changes.
And Trumps choice was lastly confirmed by a Republican controlled senate. No where in the process did Dems have any influence.
> and also is EXTREMELY strategic for logistics routes from the "East" to the "West"

But Ukraine was serving Russia nicely as a logistics channel, until Russia started strangling its own channel by using oil and gas pipelines through Ukraine as a political lever. That behaviour long precedes 2014.

If Ukraine was a vital logistics channel for Russia, why would they deliberately sabotage it? But they did this repeatedly, under cover of various transparent excuses.

The "breadbasket" thing is irrelevant; it was not called "the breadbasket of Russia", because Russia didn't rely on Ukraine for food.
Climate records tumble, leaving Earth in uncharted territory
Tim Burke and lawyers deny hacking Fox News, demand return of devices
> GC only manages allocations. There are no allocations here to manage.

You're missing the forest for the trees. The GC is integrally tied to lifetimes. If you have a `*Foo` in Go, that may or may not be on the stack. It might be on the stack, thus no allocation, if the Go compiler can prove something about its lifetime and usage. Same deal with `[]byte`. Maybe that's tied to an array on a stack somewhere. Maybe not. AFAIK, in order to get guarantees about this in Go you need to drop down into `unsafe`.

> Yes, of course. The point is iterating over the lines of a file given the aforementioned constraints and not “implementing Rust’s Iterator abstraction”. Whether or not Go or C have iterator abstractions is immaterial.

That's why the very first thing I said to you was to point out the closure approach. I even linked you to real code (that I've written) that does it. Yet 'round and 'round we go.
Attention is a finite resource but Hollywood has traditionally been very good at grabbing that.
You're missing the part where the FDA has a revolving door with the biggest pharma companies. To think the FDA is some flawed, but impartial, judge of drugs is the key problem. The FDA is controlled by big pharma. No more, no less.
Working offline is perfectly doable. I've grown not to rely on connectivity when I was living in a rural area with spotty/slow 3g connectivity at best.

Not relying on network connectivity in my entire pipeline is still today a big discriminator in the stack I choose.

The biggest downside was, and still is, documentation. I had a script that scavenged the installed packages and downloaded all relevant documentation packages automatically, along with a local indexing service (I'm still using and recommend "recoll").

There is a humongous gap between libc/posix (anything instantly accessible with "man" with stunning quality) and pretty much everything else. Even python, which has a decent "online" (built-in) reference, is not as convenient and easily searchable when looking at the html manual itself.

A local search index doesn't have the inference power of something like google to point you to the right example you're looking for something in cppreference.

And once you pass the top 10 best documented packages you have on system, you realize how downright bad everything else is documented and how much you rely on the search engine to fill the gaps from unofficial sources.

For me at least, documentation was always THE problem.
IMHO, the solution is not advocacy for policies where people get to choose and take the risk and get whatever results they get. Because there will generally be more people advocating for forced "good" choices.

The solution, I think, is to teach people to understand risk, choices and consequences better. With enough teaching, maybe the advocacy for the forced good will decrease.
Trump got a federal Right to Try experimental drugs act passed in 2018:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7309195/

Not sure how this intersects with the author's reality. It is sad to see article after article spewing nothing but hatred towards Trump --almost purely from an ideological perspective-- when something like this could help so many.

This, in more ways than one, demonstrates how difficult of a problem this is. When people's lives become game pieces in political battles, the people lose and politicians, well, use them to score points towards their own career objectives.

I read in a comment that the author lives in NY, where, apparently, Right to Try isn't available. If find this interesting when a federal law has been in place since 2018.

This is one of the things that can be perplexing about the US system of government. Here we have a state preventing people from having access to treatments that could materially affect their illness when federal laws allow it.

While I do understand the many advantages of the independence granted to states by the US constitution, sometimes it feels like the US has devolved into a fifty regions pretending to be united as a nation when they are actually not and, as a result, end-up conspiring to damage the very societies they claim to protect.

Education is another example of this. All nations with excellent systems of education (and the results to prove it) have national-level planning, management and standards. In the US, not only is our system of education fragmented at the State level. Our schools are run by fucking unions organized as districts, each with their own axe to grind. It is no surprise the results are what they are.

We somehow manage to extend some of this "excellence" (sarcasm) into every level of healthcare.
Hard to take seriously anyone who calls the victors of the Peloponnesian War and the only Greek city-state not subjugated by Phillip of Macedon “losers.” This is just people taking the opposite stance of Spartans being good warriors because they know right wingers fetishize Spartans. Both are people who care little about historical truths and more about “owning” their culture war enemies.
It’s not really a misconception exactly. They are to be used for unrecoverable errors, conceptually. Because of this, the ecosystem tends to treat them as such, even if you can choose to require the ability to catch them, just as if you can also require the ability not to catch them, which is one of the reasons why the ecosystem follows the rule: they can’t rely on the behavior (unless they want to limit their audience and that’s basically never worth it).