skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A recent occurrence I will share related to this was having to convince my doctor that I had Lyme disease. I Googled the symptoms, saw the trademark bullseye, and of course concluded that I had Lyme disease. It was right where I got the tick bite, 8 weeks later.

My doctor refused to believe me. He told me to see a dermatologist about it, thinking it was some skin rash, even though it was exactly where the tick had bit me and it was a bullseye. I shortly thereafter went to an urgent care center where fortunately an RN happened to be from Maryland (I live in the South, where Lyme disease is not really a thing) and she immediately saw my rash and prescribed me the appropriate antibiotics.

The reason my doctor did not believe me? It took 8 weeks for the bullseye to develop. I had gotten the tick bite in Europe (which of course I informed the doctor of very first thing). Typically American Lyme disease displays symptoms much faster (days instead of weeks). The doctor did not bother to do any research to discover what I had found in a few minutes of Googling: that European Lyme disease takes much longer to display symptoms (and I had told him as such as well). He was happy to simply assume that all Lyme disease takes only days to display symptoms instead of weeks, because that's what he knew of, and since mine had taken weeks, well, I just must simply be wrong.

My doctor did have a small redemption: once he was confronted with evidence and did the research himself on what I was saying (after the RN had already treated me), he did call me and apologize. But still. This is a daily occurrence, especially for people that are of underserved genders and races.

I realize this turned into a bit of a rant, but in essence I just want to affirm what you're saying. A lot of doctors, especially PCP, are often not much more than glorified technicians. Combine that with the ego problems that typically accompany being an MD and you get a recipe for people getting subpar care, especially women and minorities.

In the end, unfortunately, only you are responsible for your own medical care and getting the best outcome. It is not sufficient to just trust someone else because they have the words MD after their name.
Why would you want a virtual fireplace?
If there ever was a media organization guilty of gaslighting, it’s the Daily Mail
I'd actually posit that this sort of post shuts down discussion even more.

It doesn't provide any sort of useful information that complements or refutes the point in question.

It's useless naval-gazing that doesn't actually actually add anything to the conversation-- as there is nothing that we perceive directly, and anyone seriously discussing it should know the limitations of inference.
> currency (a standardized medium of exchange)

That's a pretty recent innovation, standardized coins didn't appear until the 600s BC, barely 100-150 years or so prior to the Greco-Persian wars. Widescale international trade existed for 1000+ years prior to that as far as we know, you don't necessarily standardized money for that.
> healthier than the farm villagers.

I would like to see some data comparing modern, fit worker against average hunter gatherer.
Exceedingly well-said. Thanks!
The murky math of someone trying to write about the New York Times bestsellers list and getting it wrong by a factor of 100
My BMW’s adaptive cruise’s sensor was once covered in snow, causing the feature to be unavailable. Luckily, regular cruise control remained available.
> the average small business

Will also be impacted due to higher interest rates on their credit lines. Perhaps not as much but still.

> dump trucks full of cash going in to stupid businesses that don't really have a path toward solvency but have really nice marketing

That's what I meant by startups though. Startups that aren't doing that are just regular small businesses.
I've been told the Bay Area is the only place where there are more men than women in the social dance scene.
> but that doesn't mean they won't work for a different company

The title didn't imply otherwise to me.
Paul Graham's Submarine article talks about this: http://www.paulgraham.com/submarine.html
How do you even know about the other person's history? I have no idea how many partners any of my dates and significant others have had. Could be one, could be one hundred, I don't care. I never ask, I got never asked about it, and would find it both weird and concerning if my current partner wanted to know.
Still seems like a waste of time if your MVP fails tho.
Typescript and CSS are orthogonal. I think you’ve misunderstood what typescript is, or had a brain fart / typo.
SBF ran traditional centralized companies, it has nothing to do with crypto
"Only a sith deals in absolutes"

Science clearly works because humans have a genuine curiosity to find truth. While every person is flawed and prone to error, the curiosity points in the same direction, rising above the noise.

We've only recently had to even discuss this after the deployment of large scale truth poisoning making the errors non-uniform.
This is incredibly myopic and ungrateful.

Thanks to technology, we don’t have to try and have eight kids—losing half of them at a young age—just so that we don’t lose the farm and starve.

Thanks to technology, millions of children are protected from diseases that years ago they would’ve died from.

But sure, blame technology for your lack of self control causing you to stare at your phone at bars.
Link https://archive.md/zsVL7
The news page indicates a new release on 2023-10-26, which is impressive diligence.
Interesting. Something like 'spirit' is tough to define. WWII could be categorized as a nation's spirit and revenge, but would Hitler had been able to whip up the nationalism required if Germany had been overflowing with resources and was prosperous?
> Why in the world are there only two?

You may have missed "there are only two people on the uBO team dealing with YouTube" rather than "on the whole team".
Exactly. Just because a company sells something doesn't mean the majority of users want it that way. I would love for Apple to sell a laptop akin to the 2006 MacBook and MacBook Pro but with modern components, complete with removable batteries as well as user-upgradeable RAM and storage. It doesn't need to replace the existing Apple laptop lineup; it could supplement it (let's call it the MacBook Pro Max or the MacBook Extreme or something to that effect). Of course, Apple doesn't sell this product, and so I have to choose between two compromises: dealing with non-replaceable components so I could use macOS, or dealing with Windows or Linux so I could use something like a Framework laptop. In other words, I must choose between macOS or user-serviceable laptops, and unless Apple experiences noticeable declines in sales, this won't change; in fact, even PC laptops have largely moved toward the Apple model; even many ThinkPads have soldered RAM these days.
> That fact alone increases the value of your attention.

OK, but does it increase my value to more than $150/year? I mean, just how much are people willing to pay for me to see ads?

I mean ultimately, if someone is paying $5 to show me an ad, either they're going to go bankrupt, or it's going to be pretty darn good. If paying $12 once means I'm on the "costs $5 to show this person ads" list, then that's probably still worth it. :-)
You won’t need a lot of effort to scale even with a Go backend deployed on an EC2 instance in the majority of cases.

Serverless is cool when you start with 300 users and you’re still in the free tier plan. After that, it’s going to cost you a fortune when you really need to scale, and I’m not even thinking about the time that you would need to waste writing everything back to a monolith/microservice, because that is what’s going to happen most likely.
If it is my money/time then I'll choose Django, Rails or Phoenix.

If it was a big corporate with deep pockets then I'll (or they'll force me to) go with React, Angular etc.
I was just thinking including Anki as part of it. Ship with it. That's all. Not rebuild.

I'd probably focus less on the content recommendation. But I'm not seeing the big utility as specifically a language learning app. Unless it is purely about language learning content, not just youtube and netflix videos.

For ML, as an ML person I'm glad to hear you say this. I hate when it's hamfisted into bullshit things. The ideas you have seem good though but most are probably handled better by other products which you could integrate. But I am not aware of a good product that helps with pronunciation (at least to any passable degree), though I am aware of ones that do this for singing. I'd see this as a killer feature but it'll cost you some compute to get there.
iPhone batteries can be replaced for $89 from Apple and last for years. This is not the problem you think it is
What kind of logic is this? Just because you think it's correct does not make it actually correct. I can think 1+1=3 but that is not so.

Now that I look at your profile, it's more obvious that you are simply trolling, given your other comments. Even your bio alludes to this irony.
Solve the classic CartPole Problem with a mixture of Deep Neural Network and Reinforcement Learning
I agree. It made no sense after the excellent first half.

Apple has designed the Mac to become obsolete in approximately 10 years. That’s when you lose official OS support. And yes, you can get your battery serviced but nobody’s going to buy a $200 battery for a laptop worth $500. Adding it back wouldn’t be a blue ocean, it would just be Apple ceding profits to nobody.

Apple’s blue ocean is stacking ecosystem benefits. If you have an iPhone it makes more sense to own a Mac or an Apple Watch. If you own a Mac or Apple Watch it makes more sense to own AirPods. If you own AirPods it makes more sense to own an Apple TV.
Which distro are you using currently? Have you tried Debian, RHEL or FreeBSD?
> My experience with product managers is that they wedge themselves between the business and the technical teams and then wield political power while doing very little.

There's a large number of companies where the company is the one wedging the PMs there.

My view is that a PMs job should include (but not be limited to) diplomacy, negotiation and facilitation. But if your heart isn't in that (and it can be easy to become disheartened), then it easily becomes "politics", and the worst parts of politics, at that.
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It's a crypto exchange. It does have something to do with crypto.

Just as banks eventually emerged from absolute anarchist cavemen trading stones, centralized applications emerge from the alleged true freedom of the crypto space simply because people use their freedom to purchase convenience.
Epic very much is poised to take over and every week it appears a new large healthcare center makes the switch to it.

I think the hard lesson everyone must learn eventually is that they have to take control of/become deeply involved with their healthcare as much as possible, because dragons are everywhere. For the average person acute care is not needed when they're thinking of reaching out to the doctor, and they shouldn't because elevating level of intervention can quickly result in shit: got a headache or a hip injury? The doctors will give you a plethora of CT scans and you end up with cancer. Got pain? They'll give you opioids so you end up with crippling addiction.

It's true on a national level: https://www.wesh.com/article/us-health-care-worst-outcomes-h... and at a local level iatrogenesis is seen abound.

Indeed, of paramount importance for us is to learn how to take care of ourselves by going back to the basics (avoid processed diets, increase fibre-intake, etc, exercise (for the strength gains, for the endorphins and cardio/conditioning, for better bone density so that the body can whether through injuries better), cultivate your link to a positive community so it is there for you in your time of need). And download Epic and learn about healthcare/medicines and take charge as much as possible of your own fate. But when faced with a truly acute problem, see a specialist doctor and follow their commands.
I think you might have some mathematical gaps, they are not overspecified. It is impossible to fully specify 3d rotations as 3 variables.. if you want a nice algebraic structure. R^3 is not isomorphic to SO(3). All the representations have tradeoffs, quarterions are the simplest algebraically.
There are reasonable levels of supply chain integration, and then there is user-hostility. With Apple we've seen both sides of the coin, so you'll have to excuse the people who accuse them out the gate.

It stands to reason that a company as large as Apple is capable of making decisions that impact large amounts of people. It's not just Right to Repair enthusiasts that care about that impact, it's extended to regulatory bodies that are tired of meaningless standards competition and arbitrary market separation. Apple can excuse these base truths with whatever feature or novelty they choose, but it doesn't overwrite the insidious functionality of their choices.

You're basically describing the situation in reverse, from the perspective of foreign markets and regulatory watchdogs:

"Another special, licensed connector for data and power? Why do consumers need that!"

"An App Store? Why give Apple complete control over a feature as basic as installing software?"

"Only one browser engine? How are new technologies intended to compete on a platform that doesn't acknowledge newcomers?"

So on and so forth.
I've often wondered if it would be possible to spin Venus faster to shorten its day. Possibly by firing millions of large asteroids past Venus at just the right angle.

Added bonus is that you can mash all those asteroids together to give Venus an Earthlike moon.

Plus I wonder how such large scale gravitational engineering would affect the rest of the solar system.
> Coinage enabled transactions with strangers and facilitated trade over larger distances and among larger groups of people, where personal credit relationships were not feasible.

Extensive trade international trade networks existed during the entire bronze age and the preceding periods without any coins, though. Coins are useful as an standardized accounting unit and are easy to transport but fundamentally are not that different from barter.
Preserving analog data also requires maintenance, except digital maintenance is much easier to do and can be, at least partially, automated, while analog maintenance is specialty work that can’t be automated at all.
I use a mac mini. Have had one for years. Latest model is a $600 M2 CPU and monitors are (almost) everywhere.

I haven’t tried using it headless (as with an ipad or laptop as monitor)
You’re talking like you’re making a strong, principled stand. But, imho, the actual principled stand would be to not consume content from ad-supported platforms. It’s especially unprincipled when a platform offers a paid tier that disables ads.
I think in the modern era a very good piece of advice, particularly for those of us without gorilla-like stamina to comb through a math text, is to go on your favorite video website and watch through multiple videos on the topic.
I was thinking about that but it's only a liquid at those pressures if you can keep it from getting too hot--say, a tank sitting there under the desert sun. And if your pressure relief triggers on ammonia it's a lot more of an issue than if it happens with propane.
Seems like redundancy could solve this. Instead of a single huge magnet you create a constellation of smaller magnets with aligned fields that orbit the LaGrange point.

We're decent at tracking large space rocks, and small space rocks will likely have to be dealt with anyway since some occur randomly.

It's somewhat interesting that terrorism already isn't such a problem for huge skyscrapers. Skyscrapers can be destroyed with just a small fraction of the explosive energy required to launch an orbital rocket yet it rarely happens.
He did manage to brainwash tens of thousands into an abusive insane alien cult that takes away their families, money, and sanity. So yeah. I guess they'll carry the torch of abuse forward into time.
To me, "respect" means only a base level of tolerance that we should give to people believing in things. Respecting someone else's religious belief doesn't mean validating or endorsing it. And it doesn't prevent one from criticizing it. Just because someone's belief is religious doesn't give them a free "get out of criticism" pass.

We should treat religious belief just like we treat belief in other supernatural things or in other types of extraterrestrial life.
I think the model that the film industry has where films have a director and producer is an interesting one, and one that might be interesting to see followed more in software. The 'vision' for a product is a different skillset from the more logistic skills that are also needed to make good software.
that helped! once I went over there and saw it was still showing me things that some users I follow had "reposted", I was able to mute just a few of those power users and now the Following tab is back on crypto twitter

it kind of sucks that everyone has to have a brand that stays on brand now. but its nice that the social media sites encourage having multiple accounts now, so you can have segregated brands and causes.
I wonder if they even do. I'm sure they could theoretically compute it... but is it something that is ever actually computed?

It seems sort of like asking a programmer how many instructions there are in a binary we maintain. We could find out if we decided it mattered.
It works as a tribal marker.

Using it shows you're willing to humiliate yourself to show tribal loyalty.
I don't think remoteness changed things that much.

Google did a hiring spree for its Warsaw office last year because yes, they require people to show up there on a daily basis.

The pay was uninspiring though - something around $75k reportedly.

Meanwhile ClickUp offered close to twice that when it was present on Polish[0] job boards recently.

Remote contracts land somewhere in between in terms of salary.

[0] it's useful to note that these are also functionally Ukrainian boards, considering how the Russian invasion affected businesses.
As mentioned by others, things have changed - I used credit card 90% of the time on my last trip earlier this year.
I think it needs a way to review the contacts (other than the request signatures form), and to edit them (in case I put the wrong e-mail originally), or at least delete and re-create them.
Anatomy and many other highly relevant undergraduate courses in biology and chemistry are mandatory for the postgraduate degrees.
The only explanation I heard was that they wanted to prevent people using consumer DSL for such nefarious purposes as running publicly available servers (nevermind the rather restricted uplink speed machine this hard at any scale anyway), so this was their way of forcing you to get a new IP address every 24h. Of course, services such as dyndns quickly jumped in to fix that problem.
I wonder if part of the gap here is about whether a company is B2B or B2C. In my experience at a largely B2B company, the product managers are people that aren't necessarily technical, but have experience in the relevant domain and meet with customers to find out what they need and coordinate launches etc., with them.

I don't know if the same role makes as much sense at a B2C company, so maybe people are B2Bs see their value and people at B2C companies don't as much?
A lot of my absolutely favorite books are rated below 4.0. A few examples:

1. White Noise at 3.86

2. Catch-22 at 3.99

3. Dhalgren at 3.77

4. At Swim-Two-Birds at 3.86

5. Midnight's Children at 3.98

6. Омон Ра at 3.90

7. Never Let Me Go at 3.84

Drawing the line at 4 rules out some of the most interesting books.

In my experience, you really have to fall below 3.5 to get consistently bad books, and even then it's not 100% guaranteed.
Love LaTeX but it gets harder to justify because of the faff in processing the files across multiple systems. Pdftex, xetex, xelatex, blah blah blah, adding fonts, packages galore...

Recently:

I've managed to "stablize" a Maven-based latex build by throwing it away and just using Github actions to generate the PDF. Hallelujah, it worked!

I've had to compile my CV on multiple machines for various reasons of expediency, and I've tried to use VSCode, but it takes an age to setup and I can't figure it out, so back to TexPad (now -> Texifier) I go, and fiddle with the settings until it compiles.

Somebody point me to a system that works across Macs and non-Macs please.

If Typst can somehow build that ecosystem of packages (personally, I use it for letters, reports, my CV, and a songbook for the ukulele with tab diagrams) then it'll truly be a killer.
Scarcity is actually an incredibly valuable property. Control over gold production meant control over the money supply. Otherwise, anyone could inflate your currency into oblivion.
If you scored the best girl in high school, you have less incentive to keep improving yourself, so the phenomenon is not altogether surprising.
preserving books is not cheap.

most private collections will end up destroyed, because their value is unknown and the cost to even evaluate what is worth preserving exceeds the value of the books themselves.

just the other day i heard the story of a private collector leaving 75,000 books behind, that the heirs can't even afford to dispose of, let alone preserve. there is no complete catalogue, if there is one at all, and most certainly not a digital catalogue.

they will most likely end up being permanently destroyed in paper recycling, if they keep the house. otherwise it will be cheaper to just tear the house down with the books still inside.

so in the end the only books being preserved will be libraries as long as those are being funded. for less popular titles that means just a few copies of each book. and those that can be digitized before they are being destroyed.

beyond that what will survive are at best maybe a few private libraries that are on privately owned properties owned by a family that cares.

with that in mind it would actually be an interesting question how to bury books with minimal effort so that they have at least some chance to survive
I volunteer with Birdlife Australia. If you are in the USA I think it’s called the Audubon Society. They will have a number of surveying programs running at any given time.
Interesting. To me foreigner is a synonym for non-resident/alien. How do you interpret it?

Dictionary says it’s `a person belonging to or owing allegiance to a foreign country`.
Isn’t this the natural outcome of the American medical associations license cap? A growing country will always need more medical professionals , if MDs cannot be accessed - then an alternative will emerge.
"that compiles projects to JavaScript to make them run really fast." - now I'm scared.
Labelling it fiction is more respectful than labelling it baloney. But if the belief is non-falsifiable or outrigth falsified, then it is baloney.

People should be allowed to belive whatever they want, but that does not mean other should have to belive it.
Bulletproof but not a vulcanoproof solution.
Alas, the joke is "Too Real" and on all of us.
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personally on large codebase, on first weeks i ask people what they're working on, then i ask intricate details on how things work on their end.

how does the auth work, how does state management work, whats the process on the design system, who's working on who, those kind of things.

on the macro scale i also ask the solution architects directly, on the micro scale i ask my colleages of the same role as i am.
> monitors are (almost) everywhere.

Can you give me an example of a place you're commonly at where you have access to a monitor? Personally I can't think of any other than home
Feels like https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UifycM6lBvQ