hgh

Biden administration specifies new cybersecurity requirements for federal software providers

Perhaps? But a confounder is the strengthening or weakening of social ties. It's not clear that what seems to increasing loneliness is doing well by this next generation.

Connecting your comment to another about commercial model, seems the potential win here is selling useful tools to radiologists that may leverage AI rather than to end customers with the idea to replace some radiology consultations.

This seems generally aligned with AI realities today: it won't necessarily replace whole job functions but it can increase productivity when applied thoughtfully.

These seems to dovetail with an existing case involving the SEC and it's authority that is under review by the Supreme Court:

https://www.americanprogress.org/article/sec-v-jarkesy-the-t...

The mechanism that can shift supply to less polluting sources of electricity and shape demand for computation/electricity is pricing.

Measurement, pricing and reducing pollution externalities is a major challenge, but I don't think that's as unknown of a problem as the article seems to suggest.

Timely but I dare ask: I need to rework my thinkpad, still in good shape but with an older ubuntu distro. Reasonably fluent linux user but not expert, primarily dev workflows - what's the recommendation?

Start with goals. “With all this stuff I hope…” or think what you hope to be true in three years. Work back from that. The default (which is great if you like) is I’d like to spend a lot of time shuffling digital resources.

One nice improvement is applying a constraint. Bard will now give a valid answer for "give a swim workout for 3000m" that correctly totals 3k, while chatgpt does not.

AWS gets many things more right, but I think GCP wins on how they handle Projects and Managed Instance Groups for auto-scaling.

A well done (gated) recent FT article on the boreal forest that also speaks to decreased scientific collaboration post-Ukraine war: https://www.ft.com/content/e59c800f-3704-4504-91b0-06e583d9c...

> That whereof we cannot speak, thereof we must remain silent

The debate intensity seems inversely correlated to the precision of the terms. Scrolling through the thread and the related articles, I don't see any clear (and ideally falsifiable) definition of sentience. It's a general concept, but it's not worth haggling about.

We had a scare around Cystic Fibrosis. I admire your courage and compassion - my best to you and your family.

The story of how CF treatments developed (Trikafta) is remarkable. KS seems much rarer than CF, but I recommend studying how the CF Foundation evolved. https://www.cff.org/about-us/our-history

There are lots of good suggestions in the thread. It seems you're already doing this, but I recommend connecting with people (e.g. families of those with KS, medical professionals with an interest, marketing volunteers, ...) and keeping in touch. This can help create momentum behind a movement, leverage networks, and mutual support/encouragement. We also very much appreciated connecting with others affected by CF during that time.

I think the original DynamoDB paper is a good choice - some interesting CS/systems engineering content but relatively accessible.

https://www.allthingsdistributed.com/files/amazon-dynamo-sos...

I enjoyed The Gene by Siddhartha Mukherjee. Depending on what you're looking for it might be relatively light on the science side and includes autobiographical digressions, but overall gives a high-level overview of key developments in the field.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Gene:_An_Intimate_History

Could you explain the principle in terms a 5-year old would understand?

To follow on from your excellent second point - "actually be involved in the conversation"

People understandably don't appreciate if you're parroting back to them what they said (even paraphrased) so that you can appear to be an "active listener".

The reason to repeat what someone said exactly (useful in case you legitimately just missed an important phrase) or paraphrase is because you didn't fully understand what they said and you genuinely want to understand the point. Asking follow-up questions to drive discovery and enjoyment is next.

Being a good listener is about being humble, respectful and present. Turns out that's easier said than done.

Is that true?

Take a look at e.g. https://stats.oecd.org/Index.aspx?DataSetCode=ANHRS#. In most places, people are working less hours, and they have significantly higher standards of living in many ways.

Especially in software development, there are enormous opportunities to work however you like for as many hours as you like. Sure, if you want a mid six-figure salary and try to keep up with the Jones' in SF you'll need to sacrifice some leisure and relationships, but that's not universally true. If your preference is to enjoy meaningful relationships and leisure time outside of work, and you have STEM skills, this is a great time to be alive.

Hemingway agrees:

"I had learned already never to empty the well of my writing, but always to stop when there was still something there in the deep part of the well, and let it refill at night from the springs that fed it." -A Moveable Feast

From Stroustrup of C++ fame: There are only two kinds of languages [frameworks]: the ones people complain about and the ones nobody uses.

Nice, missed that. Thanks!

Article itself is pretty light on the details, but good opportunity to ask the HN community -- which podcasts really fire your neurons?

If you try to read all the words, just faster, you won't get much farther. The trick is to take a more active approach and optimize how you spend your time towards the goal of comprehension.

One thing that worked well for me was shifting from "reading" to "interrogating". Don't just try to read through a text, think carefully (and jot down) what questions you need to answer from the text, and jump around the text as necessary to answer the questions. If you don't have a sense of what questions to ask, do a quick skim of the text and any other relevant material to get the questions first, then dive in. Iterate and refine your questions and answers.

Zoona | Cape Town, South Africa | Full-time, onsite, relocation, remote for the right candidate

Zoona provides access to financial services to the unbanked in Africa through a network of entrepreneurs who run agent franchises. We reach over 1m people every 90 days, and have created business and job opportunities for over 3000 people. Zoona was recently chosen to join the Girl Effect Accelerator as one of the top companies taking young women in developing countries out of poverty. On the one hand we are focused on expansion across Africa, and on the other we are testing hypotheses for the next set of services we can offer to our customer base.

We are seeking talented and mission-driven individuals to join the team. We have roles available on frontend, backend, engineering management, data science and product.

Take a look through http://www.ilovezoona.com/video-gallery/ to get a better look at what we do, the impact we're having and how we work. This a terrific opportunity to join a great team and leverage your skills to create real impact.

For more info please feel free to get in touch with me - hans@ilovezoona.com

Michael Pettis is one my favourite China commentators, with a big focus on the shifts necessary in the balance sheet and composition of growth, and whether that can be done smoothly or necessarily through some catastrophe. Not to mention a broader view of the political economy of the change.

Here's a recent post he did that's worth a read (at least through the nine point summary): http://blog.mpettis.com/2016/01/will-chinas-new-supply-side-...

You might appreciate this article about passing the buck back to your people:

https://hbr.org/1999/11/management-time-whos-got-the-monkey

Alphabet earnings report coming up: http://www.nasdaq.com/earnings/report/goog

Well said. A mentor of mine once told that to be a child is to be dependent, to be an adolescent is to reach for independence, and then to be an adult is to recognize our interdependence.

There is definitely still room on liberal arts side of most engineering degrees regardless the institution.

In my engineering degree (University of Toronto), we had about 4 free electives and humanities courses over the whole degree. I believe there would have been a lot more value in having more free electives whereby students could take more courses in the humanities (or for those not so inclined, whatever other topics that interested them).

You might have come across them before, but the Feynman Lectures are a wonderful tour of undergrad-level physics, which combines the math with intuitive narratives. And it's now online: http://www.feynmanlectures.caltech.edu/

Zoona | Cape Town | http://www.ilovezoona.com

Zoona helps people send and receive money when they need to most so that communities can thrive. We have built a network of local entrepreneurs in Zambia and Malawi that manage 1000 retail locations providing services to over 400,000 consumers every month. We are now looking to continue our expansion across Africa and diversify our product mix.

With Zoona you'll have an opportunity to join a great team and create real positive impact through your work. You'll be able to live in beautiful Cape Town, and if you're not from here, we're happy to support relocation.

We're looking for:

* Frontend Developer. Build out our client side using React and Backbone, while keeping a sharp focus on the customer experience for our agents and consumers.

* Java Developer. Contribute to and scale our core transaction platform and data analytics infrastructure.

* System Architect. Take a lead role in defining and implementing our technology development plan across the stack.

For more information, please get in touch and I'll be happy to answer any questions - hans@ilovezoona.com