skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I guess the point is that they're largely technicians drawing from "the literature" (doctoring books, research, as well as user manuals for drugs and instruments). With a ~first year grad school level of understanding bio/chem pretty much anyone can be a competent technician in 90 percent of cases, and literally anyone can implement a cure so long as they can read the instruction manual (and it isn't tricky surgery).
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But Fiber doesn't do this now, correct? Neither does Loon?
I totally agree. I just started hosting all of my static sites on Netlify, and it's so much better than the custom deploy script I had written. I registered a domain with Namecheap, and was hosting a simple index.html on Netlify within 5 minutes (including SSL.)
I've been waiting for one to include seamless sync with GitHub Issues, and haven't yet felt enough itch to scratch that project together myself.
Alternatively, use Google Sheets :) Centralized, single source of truth spreadsheets.
There Is More to Programming Than Programming Languages
the pricing seems high for this service.

$30 for a computer generated logo.
$990 for a professionally designed logo.

I'm pretty sure you can get a computer generated logo for free from a variety of services, and professional logos for much less than $990.

The UX on the site isn't great, so I wouldn't really pay for a premium service.
Netlify is fantastic. It works great. I'm usig it git GitLab and it's a pleasure.
>The number of bugs are proportional to the lines of code, this is undeniable from empirical data.

Do you have a link to this undeniable data? I haven't seen many empirical code quality studies that are not littered with possible confounders. It's very difficult to do these studies.

I do believe that bug density is roughly proportional to the size of the codebase if you average over large corpera of code. But the bug density of different types of code within those corpera varies a great deal in my experience.

So I think the important question is what sort of code is duplicated and why it is duplicated. Removing duplication means creating dependencies. If we create the right dependencies, i.e. the ones that enforce important invariants, that's a good thing. But that is a big if.
You can have the choice as a patient. Im sure lots of patients would prefer to pay 1/4 for a nurse to do a procedure than full price for a doctor.
No security person is likely to argue that DOS attacks aren't a security issue. They get CVEs all the time! A patch that denies the user the ability to use the service introduces a security issue. Bad usability IS a DOS attack.
on firefox nightly. literally cannot scroll / see any of the page if window is only at half height of my screen....
Definitely cost me my personal data!
what kind of problems?
Sorry, I just don't agree. Strict liability is where it's at, because the reality is that standard practice in these matters is very risky, so you're never going to be able to pin negligence on anyone even in a civil case. Making companies fully internalize the expected cost of data breaches will actually solve the problem, even if it doesn't make you feel as good. What you propose will most likely be totally ineffective, and even if it does anything it will just be to create some kind of wasteful butt covering behavior totally orthogonal to actually solving the problem.
Do you think hold/unhold is anything like masking in gentoo? Me neither...
Objective-C Programming Cheat Sheet
> Instead of complaining about how terrible excel is, the community here should be providing alternatives.

Yeah... like I'm going to compete with MS by writing my own Excel replacement. That just isn't realistic.

What would be realistic is for MS to acknowledge that a large proportion of their customers use Excel for a particular purpose. And then tailor their software to the needs of their customer base.

But why would MS care? The researchers already bought Excel. So why "fix" it?

On top of that, no one is aware the the published papers are crap.

The real solution would be for journals to deny publication of papers based on shitty Excel analysis.
Is my NODE_ENV correct?
Isn't the important statistic when break even with someone who makes less but started saving earlier with less debt (say only college debt). I haven't run the numbers but 250k in debt doesn't seem so bad if you make 300k after you finish at 32, compared to making $100-150k with 50k debt starting at 22.

You could also compare the opposite, if you have 250k at 19 is it a good investment to go to medical school or take a less lucrative job and just invest the 250k in index funds, I'm guessing medical school still comes out on top, maybe after 20 years.
> What point are you trying to make?

Drug tests are completely arbitrary, unrelated to job performance, and employers who use those drug tests don't deserve any sympathy when it comes to labor shortage.
I'd also love to know if there's a solution for this problem!
They're converting Bitcoins to USD and back again, which is HFT activity. People are not using it to make payments to people but converting it to/from other currencies, which is speculative and not currency behavior.
Driverless trains have been here for a while. They're great. With platform-edge doors, nobody can fall or jump onto the track, not to mention that they increase brake cooling efficiency and decrease air resistance (less air to push).

But of course you weren't talking about trains.

I see this sentiment a lot on HN that self driving cars are going to fix everyone's transportation woes, but I'm not convinced that they will. For example, they're never going to be particularly efficient at really high speeds, due to tyre wear (due to heat) and air resistance (which can be reduced by driving in a convoy, but not enough). Rail (or maybe hyperloop, who knows) will still be much more efficient for high-speed travel, not to mention much faster. So maybe the cars will all be going 40% faster on highways than nowadays, which is nice, but still only half of what rail can do, and even less for hyperloops.

I don't buy the "it's gonna fix everyone's commute", either, because at the same time it's supposed to fix parking. So now you have loads of cars driving out of the city to park at the same time as you've got just as many driving into it. Sure, vehicle-to-vehicle communication and superhuman reaction times will allow for increased density on roads, but is it enough to offset the increase in traffic? And is the increase in miles driven and resulting road maintenance cost factored into the cost calculations?

Damn right I want cars to drive themselves, and it's going to be fantastic. But I don't think autonomous cars are the panacea that many seem to see in them.
Advance apologies for getting a little off-topic, but compelled to reply in this case.

I'm...not even sure how to respond to this historical misunderstanding, other than Wikipedia:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_killings_under_Communist_...

> there is literally nothing in the tenets against groups of people or violence

Depending on the particular regime and which groups they designate as the bourgeoisie: Scientists, Farmers, Journalists, Factory Managers, Christians, Jews, Petty Criminals, Tartars, Kurds, Ukrainians, Germans, Poles, Estonians, Kulaks, Teachers(who taught the wrong thing), Capitalists, etc.

The wonderful thing about Communism is that if the Eye of Sauron falls upon your arbitrary group and designated as bourgeoisie, you will be (enslaved|tortured|killed).

At least with national socialism you have a chance to get out.
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The lower investment argument seems totally backwards to me. If we kill net neutrality, that gives ISPs a path to further monetize their existing infrastructure without any additional investment via paid preferential fast lanes and such. However, with net neutrality in place, the only means by which they have to compete is overall service quality, which means they have to invest in their networks. It seems obvious that ISPs are lobbying for repeal precisely because it allows them to make more money with zero investment.
Intel Q3’17 ME 11.x, SPS 4.0, and TXE 3.0 Security Review Cumulative Update
"The Deluxe Suite has a private heated bathroom and relaxation directly connected to the bedroom."

https://www.icehotel.com/hotel/rooms/365-en/deluxe-suite-365...

Also... you sleep ok if you've had a few drinks... but yeah, you are basically sleeping on a block of ice.
The best macros are the macros you don't even know exist. Take a look around [0] where thing like if, def, pipeline (|>) and common "base" entities are defined simply as a construction of the Kernel special forms (the parts that won't be expanded by macros). Using the language you'd not know that they were macros because they're in the language of the problem, and do not leak their abstractions. A macro is just a tool and like other tools should be used when it's the right one to use, not because you contorted the problem to fit the tool.

[0] https://hexdocs.pm/elixir/Kernel.html
Is this an advertisement for create-react-app and create-react-native-app?
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Humanities majors score the highest on the MCATs out of med school applicants and matriculants, followed by Math/Stats. In last place? Pre-Med.

https://www.aamc.org/download/321496/data/factstablea17.pdf
Man, pro tip- always go with a PA over an actual doctor for most general purpose visits. Doctors are waaaaaaaaay harried and checked out of the process. PA all the way. Honestly, even for hard problems I'm half inclined to go with a PA first, just because getting through to a doctor is so difficult, and there's always an easier solution they're going to try to make you prove won't work (to save themselves a little trouble).
Is he pleading for actual censorship though? It sounds more like he's saying that the platform should help people avoid content they find offensive.

So someone is free to post their racist and misogynist memes but someone who doesn't wish to see that content just wouldn't see it.
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> The number of bugs are proportional to the lines of code, this is undeniable from empirical data.

Including unit tests? A code base with unit test is likely to contain less bugs and more lines of code. And what about code golf?. This just does not seem right and I believe the original saying is related to languages with/without rich stdlibs and/or the NIH syndrome.
The Technical Solution to Identity Fraud
Ah I see what you mean, that makes sense. I took quickly jumped to assuming ignorance regarding the Libor thing. I definitely agree with the concept.

This reminds me of potential VIX options manipulation. Not quite the same thing, and probably not as susceptible to manipulation, but a similar concept nonetheless: https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2017-05-24/vix-tradi...

My experience is equity options, btw.
That's an interesting theory. It seems to parallel the situation in the legal field. Unlike in medicine, there's no shortage of JD graduates--there are about twice as many graduates as there are legal jobs for them. But the bottleneck for the supply of trained lawyers is the number of opportunities to get real-world experience, which is limited by the underlying economy (the number of trials, the number of mergers, etc.).
I don't see how handing one company a monopoly over all internet traffic is going to be better in the long run.

What the US needs, is competition. Monopolists can afford to screw their customers, competitors in an open, transparent market can't. Let ISPs advertise that their connection to Youtube/Netflix/etc is not throttled like it is with Comcast/etc, and chances are many people will switch.
Uber Me to My Airbnb? For Wheelchair Users, Not So Fast
This guilding is done at the cost of other doctors and at the cost of patients.

Sure, if you ban immigration and dont allow americans to use software from other countries software salaries in the US will surge, at great cost to americans in general.

I'd rather not be in the side that oppresses people.
20% is still a problem. Putting a cap on the the 20% contributes to the solution. If it was 1% of the problem then hosepipe bans would be inn-effective.
Im not extremely familiar with how newspapers categorize their content, but wouldnt this still go under an opinion piece or be labeled as such? Honest question.
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Yeah, if my bugfix was scheduled three months out and had to be figured out, implemented and merged during a half hour appointment without making things worse-- I would read the docs for literally everything, and probably copy-paste from them to avoid typos
They do compete on braking distance right now, isn't that the same?
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The problem isn’t having variables you can’t control. The problem is not recognizing these variables, or recognizing them and being too lazy to control for them, and then drawing unwarranted, overly broad hypotheses.

There’s a reason psych has a bigger reproducibility problem than any other field.
i think one of the most interesting things about healthcare is how local it is. Most hospitals around the country are struggling, but there is a subset of large powerful hospitals that are making money hand over fist. They are basically buying physician networks so that 1) they can charge more for the same services by getting facility fees and higher negotiated rates and 2) they can control patient flow from primary care all the way to the hospital. And often that means treating a patient in the most profitable setting to the health system

Sutter is a shining example of this type of health system -- get huge regional scale, vertically and horizontally integrate, control patient flow, and crush payers at the negotiating table. Their prize is having some very profitable hospitals, including the second most profitable in the nation (almost $300M / year in profit at one hospital). And this profit is after paying their execs handsomely

Hospital spending is the biggest driver of cost, in no small part because of practices like the above
Though not along the same lines as the other stories mentioned here, Seven Years in Tibet was an interesting book, also made into a film.
Comment to me reads as a rant with a mix of false claims and requests for someone else to do the leg work.

For example, the average salary for a Pediatric Neurologist [1] within the US is higher than the average programmer salary [2].

[1] https://www.glassdoor.com/Salaries/pediatric-neurologist-sal...

[2] https://www.glassdoor.com/Salaries/programmer-salary-SRCH_KO...
I didn't think about that actually. I originally didn't have them but I needed something that could say Yes.
"Without those users, your system may be "secure", but all your security work was still just masturbation. You didn't do anything useful at all in the end."

Amen. Linus has been consistent with his views on security, and this is just an elucidation of a process that reflects those views. [1][2][3]

[1] https://lkml.org/lkml/2008/7/15/296

[2] https://www.cio.com/article/2973995/linux/linus-torvalds-sec...

[3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C1EJvDU2Ek4
I think there's a fundamental technical problem here. ISPs theoretically provide you with the shortest, least congested route. Overlay networks either go straight to the same destination (subject to the same throttling), or bounce off some other host for privacy laundering. Then you're dependent on that host to have a good connection to Netflix instead.

It's always going to be worse than going direct.
It is possible that if the AMA or others is intentionally restricting the supply then any hospital that started its own residency could have trouble hiring regular doctors. I am not claiming this is the case, but it is one reason that hospitals might avoid something that the free market would indicate.
DNS outages, network outages, etc.
$140M USD of investor funds still unclaimed since Ethereum's 2016 DAO hack
Yeah, updating these sorts of insurance systems was a huge line of work for Rails devs in the late '00s.
Since when is sharing a platform with people whose political views differ from yours equal to allowing targeted harassment? I don't think many would disagree that someone who threatens real life violence on someone should result in a banning from that platform. But an automatic ban based on political affiliation seems undemocratic.
Mostly agreed. The only real hope is to more substantially disrupt the ISP market.
The Internet Had Already Lost Its Neutrality
It is one of the precursors to loosing net-neutrality i.e. a tax on non FB users who pay with their privacy.
This is especially true on my slow rural satellite connection. 300ms turns into five or more seconds. I did give up, completely.
> The reason why consumer/enterprise software is so lightly regulated is that very few people die when mistakes are made

So few people die because computers are nearly unregulated and mass manufactured. Computers are cheap and safe because we allow the market to function.
Maybe self-driving car companies should be indemnified for anything other than gross-negligence until the technology matures a little.
Something that almost always gets left out of these discussions is how quickly you can spin a new dataset into a highly polished, ready-to-print-for-executive-review report IF YOU HAVE MASTERED EXCEL HOTKEYS. For context, I have meaningful experience doing data analysis using various combinations of SQL, python, ruby, R/tidyverse, and excel with lightning-fast fingers. In a previous role, I regularly needed to summarize new datasets to executives, and I found that nothing was quicker and more flexible than the following workflow: copying and pasting raw data into an unformatted "data" sheet, creating a new sheet from a well-formatted template, and quickly writing whatever "SUMIFS" prototypes I needed then filling out the rest of the sheet by copying those formulas across cells.

Often excel users are stereotyped as having error-prone, sporadic workflows where they are often mistakenly writing over raw data, etc. And that is often a valid stereotype. However, I believe that there exist scenarios where excel is part of the optimal workflow.
Back end server work, mainly Java, 10 years experience, $150k,no bonus, based in Madrid.
Using the same analogy, when you hire a JavaScript developer they are going to know a ton about JS itself, but nothing about your internal libraries and system, and that's something they are going to catch up on when they can, and for a large enough system, they are going to probably gain domain knowledge in a specific portion of your code base. However, they will know how to make an array, class, subroutine, etc. (I'm not proficient in JS right now, and would probably have to look all this up - in perl I can do it without thought).

Similarly, my doctor _should_ know how human anatomy and microbiology work by default, but the person that they are speaking to is essentially a black box. When that black box is diseased, then it's as if the body has imported a library. They cannot easily check the source code to determine which library they have imported or what calls it is making, so they hunt through a bug database to determine which library they have imported and what the code is doing, and then they have to find a way to get that code out of the system, still without access to the source. Of course, they will probably know some things (sinus infection, flu) by default, but medical science is constantly updated. Still, that knowledge of anatomy, microbiology, etc., is tantamount in being able to accurately use that data for assessment.
I've stated some notes on Floats before, and I think this blogpost is pretty good overall.

The one thing that trips up a lot of people (that wasn't mentioned in this post) is that Floats are non-associative. Try the following in Python (or whatever language that uses Doubles):

>>> 1 + 1 + (2. * * 53)

> 9007199254740994.0

>>> 1 + (1 + (2. * * 53))

> 9007199254740992.0

claytonjy noted a point of confusion, the above statement has been edited for clarity.

The number 53 is chosen, because there's 53 bits in the double mantissa. Which is when "+1" will become too small and drop-off of the Double.

In the first case, 1+1 becomes 2 (which is large enough to be added to 2. * * 53). So you end up with the "correct" answer. But (2. * * 53 + 1) rounds down (because the 1 drops off), and the additional +1 afterwards also drops off due to rounding error.

Therefore, Floating Point math is commutative but NOT Associative. And that's really what makes things confusing for most people, in my experience.

x86 with the x87 coprocessor actually performs 80-bit floats to deal with this issue. So you can afford to lose a fair number of bits under older x86 platforms. But modern C++ / C code typically compiles to the faster SSE2 instructions, which only keep 64-bits per operation. This only demonstrates that rounding behavior is not only architecture-specific, but also compiler-option specific !!
hristov did, at the top of this thread ("The idea of nurses prescribing pills is very bad")
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15757283
Rat Park can only sometimes be replicated:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9148292?dopt=Abstract

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2616610

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/3696469

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18463628

SSC wrote an article about it:

http://slatestarcodex.com/2017/10/25/against-rat-park/
The icons are from The Noun Project, which has thousands of icons and a API.
UC Browser returns to Google Play after tweaks to its policy-infringing settings
Well look at the other things you think the government needs their hands in, health and education and both have been slower to change and more expensive since. So the best way to get less access to the internet is by adding a bunch of government regulation. Great Idea!

Net Neutrality will just make it even harder for new players to compete because they will have large regulations to meet. The only way to improve is to make it easier at a local level for more companies to compete.
> (2) police departments are facing budget cuts, so enforcement probably will not increase.

I would assume the opposite. Speeding tickets are a way for cash-strapped police departments to raise money (or justify their ROI to whomever controls the budget).
A common argument to justify high salaries is that the education is expensive. But its the other way around: education is expensive because salaries are high.

I also dont feel sympathy for how the medical education gets to have people hostage, as a reason to "not lower physician salaries". Its like saying that a slaver paid for his slaves, how can you take them away from him! It cost so much!

In any case, if salaries went down, less doctors would go to college, and colleges will either lower students or lower prices. Easily make-upable if you allow reasonable residencies for foreign doctors. The US could absorb an infinite amount from abroad where the cost of education is not irrational.

In argentina, a cardiologist might make 4000 U$S a month. If he could, he would jump ship to practice in the US immediately.
Interesting: optimized for integration is what I've been doing too. If you've got a minute to take a look at the links in my profile I'd be keen to hear your feedback.
Increasing the supply of doctors will not only lower their salaries but it will alleviate a lot of the issues you talk about which is largely caused by the fact that we don't have enough doctors because it's so hard to get into med school.

Paying doctors humane salaries to work humane hours leads to better doctors.