skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It provides evidence that a diagnostic approach to healthcare misunderstands that good health is a complex expression of a million factors, and not a function of the number of healthcare interventions.

A diagnostic approach to healthcare can be easily bureaucratized (come collect your stamp after your colonoscopy!). A touchy-feely "million factors" approach cannot.
Related:

WebStudio: Open visual development for the open web - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36345645 - June 2023 (72 comments)
I really wish schools would teach compiled languages before scripting languages.
responsibility for restaurant sanitation falls on the restaurant

if you're going to mcdonalds, with your children, with the view that they will serve you and your children spoiled, contaminated food, and kill you and them, unless a little computer gadget physically prevents them,

you might either have poor judgement,

or you might be a contrived plot device in an implausible hypothetic scenario dreamed up by a HNer
I thought water from creeks and streams was drinkable anyway, without any filtering. Purification is supposed to be required only for still water, like a lake or pond.
I've heard so many people say that Ruby is really easy to pick up and work with and for some reason I've had the exact opposite experience. I have tried to learn Ruby at least three or four times and I bounce off it every time. There are a bunch of other languages that I've learned and worked with effectively, but for some reason my brain just refuses to grok Ruby.
Hey man if I run into the same people again I hope they either understand what my situation was.

People try to do their best.
That looks like a great ThinkPad. Had an E14 Gen3 which was great and I loved it dearly, but panel was %75 SRGB (imagine most colors are wrong) and practically invisible outside. Although it'd be very easy to replace, finding spare parts was very hard here so I sold it. Z13/32gb/1tb is around $2000 here where I live, and M2 14" 32gb/1tb is $3500.

Man, I miss my Arch Linux sometimes.
Man, xBase was what launched my software dev career, loved it so much back in the day. But Windows really killed it--I know there were Windows versions of most (I co-wrote the first book on CA-Visual Objects)--but really MS Access, MS Visual Basic, and then Delphi really took all that market.
There are actually some stoves out there that can use two phases for one large pot, reaching 7.2kW. For example, Miele stoves with the "PowerFlex" feature do this (that is quite the big brain name given the context).

Since it is possible to do for two phases, why wouldn't it also work for 3? More power!
I worked in a lab doing cancer detection via image AI (mammograms, mri, etc) back in 2008 or so, and even then we knew that mammography didn't save lives.
for privacy reasons? Afaik github is gdpr compliant ... or is there some other problem?
It's unfortunate that these are the same issues I had 18 years ago.
That’s three years, not months, and consider that it’s possible that how we develop software as a field might have matured over multiple decades. The edge case you’re referring two didn’t even affect most packages in the 2000s so it’s quite a stretch to say that something which happened in 2006 embodies how Python is developed now.
It's not like they haven't done this before (but for salaries) [1] - they got off with a minuscule fine ($415M - better than the cost of doing business as usual) why wouldn't they do this again?

[1] https://www.npr.org/sections/alltechconsidered/2015/01/16/37...
I may be wrong, but I thought this "exemption" wasn't required in the first place.

DMCA 1201 applies to copyrighted material, and even then, only to measures that control access to the work. The Chamberlain v. Skylink case in the court of appeals for the Federal Circuit (which is binding in all other federal courts) established that the prohibitions can't apply to software the user is already entitled to use. The Court put it this way:

"Consumers who purchase a product containing a copy of embedded software have the inherent legal right to use that copy of the software."
Yup, I ended up purposely buying an old Roomba that doesn't have WiFi. Unfortunately the newer ones are dependent on an internet connection for many features. If you turn off WiFi scheduled runs don't even trigger! I had to return it and get an older model that I can set up a schedule with the buttons on the top and it runs reliably.
OMG they fixed the ctrl/Fn problem. I literally returned a Dell laptop because the ctrl key was on the left edge and the useless unprogrammable Fn key was in ctrls rightful spot.

Edit: Wait. Now I'm not sure what you want.

Ya'll are wrong. Mac keyboard is "the way".
My wife's grandpa was diagnosed with prostate cancer. He was 82 and had been a natural food store owner for over 30 years. He said the side effects to the treatment and the surgery was too great for him to endure and would impede his quality of life. He passed away 4 years later from pneumonia unrelated to the cancer. The cancer wasn't easy to deal with in those four years. He wasn't cut up and on chemo or radiation either. I agree with him in that too much can be "done"
Norway opens biggest floating wind park
Best appliance I've ever owned.
Typical executive hubris; engineers can’t wipe their ass unless they spend 6 months gathering data on which TP to use, but an exec wants to upend thousands of employees‘ lives? No data necessary, of course!
Then they see what you're doing and have to act accordingly. Eventually... something about a land war in Asia.
I have the same laptop (with a slightly faster CPU though), bought it for similar reasons to OOP - I needed something light compact, 32GB+ RAM, Ryzen 6000+ APU for some decent light gaming, and excellent Linux support of course.

Like OOP, I would've preferred a Framework, but since they didn't have an AMD option at the time, I chose this. In fact, it was the ONLY laptop in the entire market at the time which met my criteria.

I've been using it for over 10 months now and it's held up pretty well. Running Nobara (Fedora-based gaming distro) and it runs incredibly well, everything worked out-of-the-box, including all the Fn keys and suspend/resume.

I used to get around 40-45 FPS playing Diablo 4 under Proton-GE, and it was more than playable (I don't play it anymore btw). The games that I do play currently are a bit more old-school, like Project Diablo 2, Age of Empires 2, Skyrim etc and some retro gaming on emulators, all of which it handles like a champ.

I'm glad this is getting some attention now. We need more AMD-based and Linux-friendly laptops and end Intel's monopoly in this space.
Shorter answer: "As long as the rent isn't too high... welp"
Just realized I left out the important part, sorry...

I took on a job, the job of finding my next job. Woke up at 6/7 and got to work, took a short lunch then back again full tilt.

Sure, I wasn't perfect, no one is, and life keeps happening and we have to deal with that. But, you know, dead fucking serious 9-5 M-F. After that I could have feelings.
What about managers who simply don't manage? I've had several of those.

One would cover up failures by lying - since the company was a dot-com startup with nepotism and many employees who had all previously worked together, he easily got away with it.

Another one, managing a department of 60-70 people in a large corporation, couldn't even enforce basic professional courtesy and workplace safety. It was at the time an old-style office with hallways, floor to ceiling walls, and 3-person offices with doors. Yet for several years, employees got used to just shoving their old junk (manuals, non-working computer hardware, file cabinets, storage boxes) into the hallway. The manager just ignored it, and since it was the kind of company where employment was close to civil-service style, none of his bosses ever did anything about it either.
In a former life, I wrote light articles about fashion and style, but from an unspoken view that clothing was an expression of how people percieved and aligned to power. We have smarter models for that now in the current century than the last, but fashion is still upstream of politics by a couple of years, and it's a good leading indicator of who the next influential-coalition will be made up of. For example, I suspect the mythology of Beau Brummel's relative minimalism was mainly about the rise of domestic industrial textile fortunes over the colonial fur and silk trade fortunes that sustained the crown and nobility.

Also, ask any follower of fashion, and whether they understand why or not, they will tell you that a resurgence of cargo pants is very concerning indeed.
British English usage would distinguish between the cases when the company as an entity in itself does something and when the people who comprise the company do something.

Here Centrica is regarded as a singular:

"It is the third time Centrica has upgraded its annual expectations this financial year,"

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2023/jan/12/british-gas...
For context (in case anyone thinks I'm nitpicking and all laptops are horribly supported on Linux): Basically everything works on the Thinkpad X1 Carbon [2], even the latest model (Gen11) as long as you buy the right one (no MIPI webcam).

Unfortunately, Lenovo refuses to put AMD processors in X-series thinkpads (its top-of-the-line laptops).

[2] https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Lenovo_ThinkPad_X1_Carbon_(...
How does Cody compare to GPT-4 now? They say they just made "up to" 25% better. That could be huge. I wonder how competitive the pricing is.

Also how does Imagen compare to SDXL or Ideogram?
I've been using it recently and I will say it is definitely harder to perform common time series queries than something like InfluxDB.
Speak for yourself. If I only cared about the paycheck, I'd be in SF helping Google build its IoT botnet of Nests and Chromecasts.

Any new technology can be looked at through the lens of evil. I used to write code for stick-on wireless biosensors that massively improved living conditions for neonates and the chronically ill. Some health insurance company could use the exact same tech to institute a system like what the car insurance companies have with those "safe driver" tracker dongles.
> Python ended up 'specializing' in data contexts, thanks to Numpy / Pandas

Yeah it was a success 20 years in the making, had a fair amount of input from science men and that being GvR’s background he responded positively e.g. the extended slices (striding) and ability to index with an unparenthesised tuple (multidimensional indexing) were very much added for the convenience of numpy’s ancestors.

I would not say it had no competition, Perl used to be quite popular in at least some sci-comp fields (I want to say bioinformatics but I’m probably wrong).
Ahem, they were invited to....
Three phase residential connection is also common in India (at least some bigger cities).
How Correlated Are You?
Maybe it all came down to the decision to fuse python's Numeric and Numarray libraries into Numpy, providing a unified "fast" Matlab-like library, which ended up being a great fit to a lot of datascience use cases.
Clicking the link in my email last night immediately forwarded me to a "You have been opted out" page.

I was using Chrome on a Chromebook I was logged into with the account I use for Fi, and the Fi app was installed, though.
How often is Jassy in the office?
The Thinkpad series are a safe bet for Linux and Windows laptop workhorses! Amazing build quality overall.
Linux 6.5 kernel arrives with new features
Your examples with even numbers in feet and odd in meters tell me that is what you’re used to.

I can counter with that saying 180 cm is a lot easier than 5 feet 10.86 inches. No one says that, similar to that no one would say 17.78.

What’s convenient with metric is that there isn’t any difference between saying 180 or 179 cm. You just say, “one seventy nine”, not “one hundred and seventy nine”. Here I am showing what I am used to.
They... have a lot of spoons to give, eh?
Numpy is certainly amazing, but there are tons of competitors in the data/scientific space, which pure "A-type" data scientists tend to prefer: R, SSPS, Matlab...

The difference is that Python doesn't entirely suck as a general-purpose language. Sure, you might have better options, but it's still reasonable to write almost anything in Python.

Other scripting languages like Ruby, JS and Lua are probably a little bit better when evaluated strictly on their merits as programming languages, but they lack the ecosystem.

In other words, it might be inelegant, slow, a mess, whatever, but the concept behind it is basically correct.
This smacks of just dumping 50% of applicant resumes in the trash and declaring "we don't hire unlucky people". Sucks for your team and others who will likely need to disband or get merged into other teams.
Cortisol: The Observability Cost Inspector
You can just install Linux anyway right?
For people who are wandering like me, the big jump in Django searches was the release of Django Unchained by Quentin Tarantino on Dec 25, 2012.
> There was the famous "Win32 Is The Only Stable ABI on Linux"

This has been a common saying for a long time. IIRC even before Valve made Steam available for Linux, the main Overgrowth developer who had Linux versions of some of their games break over time eventually mentioned (in a blog post) that you should just use Wine with their games as it is more likely to be stable.

(this may or may not have to do with the Linux version of their older game, Lugaru, using OSS - though at least the demo did run a few years ago when i tried it with a wrapper... and after removing/messing around with a bunch of .so files)
I’m a cancer researcher and the longer I’m in it the more I think we should put most of our energy and money into prevention of cancer through things we know work- diet, exercise, avoiding alcohol and smoking. Heck pay people to exercise, pay people to eat right, provide them food, I don’t know. It is so much harder to treat cancer after you have it than before. This isn’t how humans think usually- they want to fix it after. We need some new thinking.

https://cancer.org/cancer/latest-news/diet-exercise-and-your...
Yup, I was talking about the Steam Runtime, or whatever it's called, not SteamOS. Last time I used Steam it downloaded and installed all of that somewhere in my ~/.local or thereabouts.
How along until someone patches/builds a firmware and makes a radar out of the dish?
> Due to inflation, this is 99.9% certainly less than market rate today.

There is no market rate until the market has made a trade. If I traded an hour of my time for $10 with you five years ago, and I again traded an hour of my time with you for $10 today, $10 is still the market rate.

> You're ignoring the time element.

It is not ignored. It is in there.

> So in a few years when the market rate is $15, he's making maybe $12.

The market rate for the given person in this scenario is $12. Maybe someone else will pay $15, but they have to prove that for the market rate to adjust. Some drunk guy at the bar saying "Oh yeah, I'd totally pay $15 per hour for that guy" does not establish this person's market rate as actually being $15. Talk is cheap, as they say. An actual trade has to take place to prove it.

Perhaps what you are trying to suggest is that people are fungible? If Joe is paid $15, and his identical in every single way twin is paid $15, then Sue – no relation – must also be worth $15, and paying her only $12 is below what actual sales have shown what the market is paying for a person of her kind? We do often talk about commodities that way.

But my experience with people in general, as a coworker, and as an employer, says people are most absolutely not fungible. Even for the same job, no two people are going to fit in equally. I think we can agree that some workers are better than others. In fact, we agonize over resumes and interviews to try and find the best of the bunch. If people were fungible, you wouldn't need to care. Just pick one at random. They're all as good as each other.

Since people are not fungible, the market value of an individual rests entirely on the trades an individual makes. It cannot be observed any other way. Their pay cannot go below their market rate. Any time their pay drops, their market rate comes along for the ride.
(this comment was originally posted to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37312540, but we've merged that thread hither. that's why the comment links to its own thread now)
> Python is very simple making it easy to learn.

I would argue that there's little difference between them in ease of learning. I personally found Ruby easier because everything being an object with methods and no free floating functions felt more natural and easier to look up. i.e.

string.length

over Python

len(string)
That speculation aligns closely with my personal experience.
Yeah, long hair is a problem. Even with 2 cats I rarely had to clean the brushes on my vacuum, but after someone with long hair moving in they get locked up quickly.

However I wouldn't agree that the robot vacuums suck. I don't think they are a replacement for a regular vacuum but they definitely extend the time between when I need to clean myself. Running it regularly on a schedule greatly reduced the buildup of dust. Now I only need to occasionally clean the corners rather than regular vacuuming. I do agree that if you expect to buy one and never sweep/vacuum again you will be disappointed. But if you just want to halve or quarter how often you vacuum you might be quite satisfied.
They lost my business just there
http://cortisol.ai
I've been using linux mint for a while now and the only thing I wanted to play but haven't figured out how to run yet is the twin peaks demo on itch.io. But also most of the games I play are on emulated consoles anyway so usually as long as the emulator works everything is fine.
> You're taking the analogy to a place you know doesn't exist. The police don't have a way to notify everyone that's infected, expecting them to do so before shutting down a major botnet is just silly and arguing for the sake of arguing.

I don’t think I am. If the FBI can remotely execute code on my machine then they could certainly drop a notification with a link to a page explaining the situation and how to remediate. Or they could use any number of emergency alert systems to make people aware of a potentially harmful botnet. Or they could email the owner of the machine instead of running their own malware.

Anyway as I’ve stated I don’t really disagree with the outcome here. I just don’t think your “let the police do whatever they want to people’s property it’s for the greater good” mentality is healthy, especially not in the US where we very carefully limit the power we grant over violence because we recognize property and privacy rights.

I’m not arguing for the sake of arguing. I think it’s fair to ask: “could this have been conducted in a manner where people were aware and could have provided consent or intervened if necessary and still achieved a similar result”?

(Misunderstood you about the lock part, thought you were saying they were locking the premises because it was a crime scene or something and not notifying you.)
Add it to the list: https://extinctionclock.org/#show
I’m sure it helps that Python is perceived as one of the easiest languages to learn (and the perceptions are largely correct), and thus found itself as the default language in thousands of Learn How To Program courses around the world. This constantly feeds new users into the ecosystem, which has grown to a critical mass.
> You can indeed argue it does maintain certain states to help extend its survival.

Not really. Everything you described is a property of chemistry and physics, not biology. Coals smolder under high residual heat and a lack of oxygen, not because of gated ion channels, osmotic barriers or any other evolved structure.

> This is akin to clonal propagation to ensure survival that we see in many species, or the release of many progeny over an area banking on the reality that most will not survive, but some will.

It's really not. Fire has no genome, nor a biological urge to reproduce. Cinders are a result of physics - pieces of organic matter fragment, heat causes rising air, some fragments are light enough to rise on hot air. If they are still hot when they land, fire can start at a new location.
I genuinely think Tu Quoque is misplaced by being called a fallacy, and I firmly believe that calling out someone's hypocrisy to their argument already shows - at the very least - a fragility to their stance, and can help to illustrate what about their argument is going amiss by using the individual's own experience and behavior to prove it.

Someone not doing X indeed doesn't say whether you should be doing X, but it stands ground that X has a flaw for adoption - and talking to someone that doesn't do it is a great way to examine why, and possibility use it to your argument.
My humble prediction is that with introduction of ahead-of-time compilation and JVM snapshots the adoption of Java based microservices will increase.
These upcoming Java features open new interesting doors.
What is Radix?
yeah it's a good enough especially to start poking around

many accounts of people dropping other languages with better perf or semantics to use python as a prototyping++ tool

it was a trend in many dynlangs (php and others) where you'd write the core in it and drop to C for hot loops

python is better than php, it has some metaprogramming (hello CLOS) to mold it syntactically wise, good enough stdlib, low enough semantic warts ..

than and numpy/pandas for non sweng crowds
I don't type passwords. My password manager fills them for me, or I paste them.
Pharlap was doing Pmode ;
Zortech C (bought later by Symantec), were doing X32 which was compatible with Pharlap but like 5 times smaller ; djgpp (gnu cpp for dos/win then) had a variation

And you could mix and match (if u have written good parametrized makefile/s that is), i had like 6 compilers vs 3-4 diff.extenders (but not all combinations possible)

interesting times these were. internet? what's that?
As a self-taught programmer who started learning around 2015, Python was the least intimidating to learn.

Although I'm a proficient JavaScript programmer now, the idea of curly brackets were genuinely intimidating. Just something about that made the program seem more complex than necessary, and Python seemed really clean.

I also think the book `How to Think Like a Computer Scientist` is a large part of Python's success for beginners. In the early days, it was literally the only programming learning book that clicked for me, and it was in Python. Up until then, programming still felt esoteric.
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1696515577442103585.html

For individuals (such as myself) that are incapable of reading twitter threads
But are they authorized? These are McDonalds franchises. There is a contract.

We're going to start limiting what McDonalds can do to control quality of product because the tech community thinks it knows better?

Dairy is not a product to play loose with the rules on.
I think the middle growth was driven by the "second best at everything" meme.

Python is not the best at most things but a close second or third usually (system scripting, data munging, web programming etc), meaning it is easy to get into the language for one use, then continue using it for other things.

Ruby or Go feel like something that ended up specializing in web, so even if they are better suited to it than Python, Python benefits from more cross-pollination.

This will be especially true for small teams, where one language has to cover all bases, and also where "areas" of programming overlap. Need a REST server to serve up MP model results? By virtue of being pretty close to best for both areas, it is actually possibly the top choice overall.
actually it's literally why I use the archwiki no matter what distro I'm on
Oh man relevant bio is relevant, holy shit. Or this is a borderline brilliant troll account.