skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, that's an insufficient summary. At the least, you should note harassment as a significant issue, since the author brings it up many times.
> Well, to be pedantic, neurosurgery requires a post-residency fellowship.

Doubly pedantic: further specialization within neurosurgery (complex spine, vascular, tumor, peripheral ...) is done via fellowship, but plenty of practicing general neurosurgeons ended their training with residency. Source: wife is in her final year of neurosurgery residency. Of the folks in her program who have graduated while she's been around, about 1/2 did a fellowship, the other half went straight into practice.

(I hesitate to post this extremely minor correction, because everything you've said in this thread is absolutely spot-on and a very welcome dose of facts.)
Wrong. A respected editorial standard allows for even more trust.

Example: Do you trust Washington Post or Twitter more?
re-reading your comment "This is talking about the cost-benefit from a societal perspective, not from the accounting perspective of the hospital." I think perhaps you do not understand what residents do. Residents handle a portion of the patient workload. They provide direct economic benefit to the hospital by handling patient workload at a lower salary than more senior doctors. There is a hierarchical system by which work is reviewed by more senior doctors but this is used in all hospitals regardless of whether there are residents. The economic benefit to the hospital is that residents do the work for lower salary than doctors. Putting that into dollar terms is what this article has failed to do, likely because the data to do so is not there.
Some security folks tend to have tunnel vision. They are focused on their own little patch and the first instinct is to control and shutdown with zero concern for usability. job done. bye. But that's too self serving and lazy.

And if that's what they want fine, release your own app or distro and let people who need/desire that level of security choose security over everything else without trade-offs.

The worst thing is a kind of entryism and trying to impose yourself on people operating under different constraints. That's why you always need a strong manager to balance interests and this is the role Linus is playing. More often that not with this kind of imposition something comes out of the blue, and you are left squandering hours to fix things and get back up and running.
I think "don't use Excel" is the wrong solution. The answer is to develop some clear metrics around when to migrate off Excel. We use some pretty big spreadsheets, and they're fine for the intended purpose.
Their biggest and most lucrative service is search. What if I click a link in google's search result and my ISP refuses to take me there? Or does it work differently?
If you check out /r/libertarian, there is lots of debate over this idea right now.
The drop out rate for med school is under 5%. Infectious disease is a 3 year fellowship that's done after completing a 3 year internal medicine residency. Oddly, the average salary for infectious disease specialists is lower than that of internal medicine physicians. Economically, it doesn't make sense for internal medicine physicians to spend 3 years doing a fellowship only to make less money on the other end. On top of that, these physicians are missing out on an attending's salary during those 3 years of fellowship.
Just get on with it
Sigh. Tragedy of the commons.
If I understand correctly, they'll drop the server part replacing it with Wayland. But they'll keep their compositor, which any Wayland based DE needs to implement anyway. They don't intended it for the desktop, since they are dropping Unity. It's for IoT and etc.
Sure, but there's like umpteen million terrible accounts...seems like a lot to ask of your users.
> They artificially limit the number of doctors available by capping the number of medical schools,

Also not accepting qualifications from other countries. UK has tons of Indian doctors. Lets get them here too, I don't get why we dont already do this.
net neutrality isn't an essential component, the invocation of Title II is. This is what I think the comment you are replying is trying to say. I don't know what the intent of net neutrality advocates is, but the invocation of Title II puts far too much power in the hands of a historically corrupt & repressive agency.

Personally I am ambivalent about net neutrality. I, however, am deeply opposed to the existence of Title II, let alone it being used to regulate the internet. If advocates want net neutrality to be the governing policy of the internet why don't they advocate for specific legislation that does only that and doesn't give the FCC the ability to become a heavy handed regulator of ISPs?
Yes, IMPORTHTML fetches your csv, but you can have your CSV populated by your server dynamically on each request. You can't push to a Google Sheet as far as I know.

But polling is just as good for these purposes, your data will be up to a few minutes old.

If you want true live data then you should use something else, but that's not what the finance chiefs are complaining about. They want people to stop manually importing CSV data because it's really slow, and causes lots of errors.

EDIT:

I was going off the assumption that there was actually a database somewhere. Turns out they're using Excel as the database.

I'd still argue that one person who codes can fix it. Take your Excel sheets, put them into an SQL database, and dump to CSV for importing to Google Docs for graph/display purposes.
The issue comes from trying to DRY the code before the requirements and functionality are well defined. If you're doing major refactoring before you have something in production it's just premature optimization.
I get where you're coming from, but in reality more people voted for Clinton than Trump. More people voted for Dems in the House than Republicans. More people voted for Democratic Senators than Republican Senators.

So while a large voting bloc did vote for these people, it's not the will of the majority. It's just that America's democracy is kind of broken (not completely broken, but it's getting there).
Twitter is turning into a platform for censorship.

Or rather, a platform for nothing. RIP Twitter.
Camtasia is a great product, that if you're using it often/full time I'd recommend.

I'm currently using "OBS Studio" to produce training videos which is free and open source software, it definitely isn't quite up to Camtasia levels but it ticks a lot of boxes and produces fantastic H.264 output. Because it was seemingly designed for streamers who were gaming, the performance impact is also minimal and it does things like picture in picture.
No it is not a universally Good Thing, that is an extremely facile reading of free speech.

Is it a good thing if someone at your job shouts racial epithets at you all day? Should woman have to tolerate being jeered and catcalled at every private business they patronize? Should a restaurant turn a blind eye to a belligerent customer that curses at the wait staff and everyone in ear shot?

Of course not. A private business has a vested interest in creating an environment where customers feel welcome. They could also choose to do nothing and let the chips fall where they may, but if enough bad actors make things bad for everyone else, that business will fail.

You have a right to not face retaliation from the government for speaking your mind. It doesn't mean everyone else has to accommodate whatever it is you have to say.
> the business people can at least modify the Excel

I'm not convinced that's a good thing. If they can change the Excel then they can also fuck up the system, and if you fuck up a system like this then it's horrendously difficult to unfuck. I think systems like this look great when they're working, but the second they go tits up you realise why people are horrified by them.
I agree with you. The only thing that censorship brings in this particular case is a safe space for advertisers. I see exactly 0 harm in sharing a platform with people with alternate views than me.

If you don't like the way a social platform is heading, then leave it. You are not entitled to a safe space.

At the end of the day twitter is going to cater to its biggest and most influential users.

It costs you nothing to ignore the users who are saying things you don't like.
> It’s no accident that it is President Trump’s social network of choice.

This writer does realize that President Obama was the first President to consistently utilize twitter right? Of course President Trump took it to another level, but he is insinuating that President Trump is using to twitter to sway "small minded" Americans, but ignoring the fact that President Obama did the exact same thing on a smaller scale.
> But when you define a function (or a class), you are also inventing your own little dialect/dsl.

No. When you define a function or a class, you define a new vocabulary (a new verb, a new name), but you don't change the grammar. Macros are a different beast because they can change the grammar.
I think comparing salaries across the world isn't really a good way to measure whether a provider is "overpaid" or not. If you're just looking at contribution to well-being and human happiness, that way of looking at things might be valid, but even if well-being/happiness outcomes in different healthcare markets are equal, productivity outcomes might be quite different. Americans work longer hours than in the countries outlined in the article, resulting in significantly higher annual productivity per capita compared to other countries. From a labor economics perspective, doctors in the US therefore might (again, depending on real metrics that I'd like to see) contribute more in absolute terms to GDP than doctors in other countries.

Additionally, it might be the case that, relative to their productivity, doctors in other countries might be significantly underpaid. This sort of distortion happens in many other industries. Software, for instance, is notorious for this. Internationally, people might look at US software engineering salaries and balk at how high they are compared to the rest of the world, and might make the judgment that US software engineers are underpaid. But if you look at the profit per employee at leading tech companies, that figure dwarfs engineer salaries (e.g. Facebook's profit per employee is north of $400,000/year, Google's is similar). So, relative to value delivered, many software engineers in the US are actually underpaid. This implies that software engineers abroad are significantly underpaid, as they often work for the same multinationals doing the same sort of work.

At the end of the day, salaries are determined by all kinds of factors, including competition, regulation, value generated, etc. I think that real value added is the only way to determine if a position is overpaid, and comparing to other systems doesn't really help us evaluate that.
How did having too many doctors cause an decrease in quality of care in the Soviet Union?

And the AMA is lobbying for decreased slots because it increases their salary. American doctor's pay is way out of line with the rest of the developed world.
There are also other ways to successfully lower the death count, but as the recent NY Times column [0] says the American culture is working hard against any improvements based on restrictions.

[0] https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/19/opinion/america-is-now-an...
No, it means to suggest that the number of people who have actually paid anywhere near $500 for a couple Tylenol pills is so small as to be an irrelevant rounding error in the grand scheme of things.

Note I said paid, not billed.
The battle is all but over, and Net Neutrality lost. Republicans control every branch of the government.
No, they can’t. And even if they could the network would just fork to a different hashing algorithm, which means that the attacker would have had burnt hundreds, if not thosaunds, of millions for nothing.
Many journalists are happy to censor opposing views.
I regret that the author mentioned Plan 9; this has prevented my usual smug post about how Plan 9 was doing this 20 years ago.

The plan9port plumber is not especially hard to work with; the main problem is teaching Unix programs to talk to it. I think you could use "xdotool" and "xclip" to feed into plumber in the same way, although then the problem becomes distributing just the plumber without all the other associated plan9port stuff.
eh, i sold my 250btc at the hugely inflated price of $20, made out like a bandit i did (bought at $4)! even got my cash out of mtgox before it imploded. a regular uncle moneybags i am!
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That’s a good way of putting it — “psychiatric” vs. “psychological”, being able to know the difference, and treat appropriately.
It's really not that simple and you're confusing things. Sure, we have the right not to be molested or have treatment forced on us, but that's completely different from the idea of having the right to self-harm. There is a common fallacy, that we have a moral right to do whatever we wish with out bodies. We don't. This has nothing to do with anybody else having a right over anyone else or the law (we must distinguish between MORAL rights and legal rights, or I could just as easily say that legislation could change the right you believe you have). Even if you were the only person left on the planet, you would not have the moral right to self-harm. Why? Because we do not have the right to moral evil and self-harm is a moral evil.

Moreover, unless those engaged in genetic experimentation sterilize themselves, it also poses risks to population genetics.
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Oh my gosh... don't get me started on NTLM. Chrome Network Tools doesn't expose it at all, so the proxy was a lifesaver in our case.

We've shifted to using https://github.com/joeferner/node-http-mitm-proxy as a part of WrapAPI Proxy (https://wrapapi.com/proxy), which is a zero-install proxy in the style of mitmproxy and Charles.

The node proxy is really great in that it's fully extensible, allows you to generate certificates, and filter/save the kinds of traffic you get to simple JSON structures. We've found it to be a huge boon in development, but it's clearly inspired by mitmproxy (which predates node), so credit where it's due.
related: I wrote a plugin to do the same for Jekyll, although it does not (yet) do cloudfront invalidation: https://github.com/thom-nic/jekyll-s3_deploy
Paul Starr's The Social Transformation of American Medicine is the standard text on these issues.
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> Resisting this is simple FUD?

There's some psychology at work as well. Say self-driving cars cut the road accident and fatality rate in half but in the remaining incidents, half of those are driver error but the rest are all due to hardware and software problems.

I think a lot of people would have a problem if half of all fatalities are due to system glitches even if the net result is fewer deaths and I don't think that's entirely unreasonable.
I'd say it's more like

CNA = Lower Enlisted

Registered Nurse = NCO

Nurse Practitioner = Warrant Officer

MD = Officer
Sure it can.

It means "intense dislike". If that is directed at an intrinsic property of a group of people, that's hate speech.

Example: black people as opposed to smokers.
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iPod was first released in 2001, with an updated iTunes. On a technical ground, not that much different than the competition at the time (poor battery, not the biggest memory). The message focused on benefits, not on the technical details.

iTunes Store was a (huge) complement to it, released 16 months after that.

iPhone was significantly different, yes. Without 3G, just a barely good enough battery on first release. Those were a basic expectation for other market phones at the time.

As for HomePod, can't say before I see/touch it for real.
Watch for complements too.
OBS is successful because it runs on all platforms most notably Linux. I dont know how long motioncaster has been in the works but if they want a high adoption rate they should consider making it run on Linux. I wanted to try it but since its not on Linux I will just forgo
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> DECENT (DEep ComprEssioN Tool)

That is priceless!
There is no need for a single centralized identifier. Each need for an identifier has its own requirements, things like ensuring a person has been served only once, ensuring every person has been served at least once, ensuring every participant meets some criteria, etc. There is no need for, for example, the social security administration to be able to cross-reference with the drivers license registry. It makes no sense, and would be pretty dangerous, to create a single identifier that invites cross-relation of a persons entire existence into an easily-profileable bundle.
I would start with diagnosing and prescribing (possibly computer/statistics assisted) versus trying to tackle surgery first. I think you'll find that surgery is considered the hardest skill for a MD to obtain. Plus anyone getting cut up will want someone who REALLY knows what they are doing.
Oh god you're right, I just re-read the article and realized what they're doing now.

It didn't even occur to me that anyone would use Excel as the database. Holy hell. Nevermind.

Still, it shouldn't be hard to convert Excel to an SQL database. Then you dump to CSV, and use ImportHTML to have a spreadsheet be your source of information.
Independent journalists who are getting banned from Twitter en masse.
No, because we'd still be, you know, not racist.

But I think suppressing a viewpoint is counterproductive. Instead, the holders of those viewpoints should be held to the light, and it's a Twitter problem in that such people can be completely anonymous or even fake. Hard to have a public debate when some of the participating citizens are fictional.
I don't understand the delusion that Meg Whitman and Carly Fiorina are under to think they can win election to political office without ever having done so before with the charisma of a wet noodle and a mostly standard GOP platform. I hate Donald Trump who also never won political office prior to 2016 but I can comprehend his appeal to racism and promising the moon on healthcare/jobs being a drawing card. The GOP would have a better chance of picking a conservative actress who at least has charisma and can read a speech like the actor Ronald Reagan (who at least was able to win leadership of his state first). Maybe Sarah Shahi, GOP members would be able ignore her Persian heritage because of the R next to her name.
Maybe, I'm missing some larger point, but it seems like the real dilemma here is that people lack the discipline to give up things that do not benefit them. As per constant discussion here on HN, many of us continue to untangle social networks from our lives.

If Twitter has become a place where users spend more time complaining about the platform rather than actually using the platform, they should quit. Not because I have some utopian capitalist view where each user can just go off and build their own Twitter clone or because of some "don't like it, leave" mentality. I'm saying this because I believe it's conducive to their mental health.

Otherwise, people become quite cynical and make choices they wouldn't normally make - as in limiting free speech for the sake of corporate gains.
Duplication will always be reuse - why are you duplicating if not to use?

Reuse is not always duplication, however, and reuse without duplication is quite often better.
I’ve never cleared that amount of money on an exchange. For ~1M and above you use OTC a brokers. You have brokers in the US that can transfer you $20M per day without impacting the market in the short term. That’s how big ICOs liquidate their crypto millions.
You've been posting many comments that violate the guidelines lately. We need you to stop, read them, and then post accordingly.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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You're replying to an, arguably, "no true Scotsman" argument with a straw man of your own:

> but rather in Lisp plus some half-baked DSL

Why does it need to be "half-baked"? Why do you assume that writing a good DSL is impossible for most Lisp users? Are you sure it's actually the case?
I'm terrified of people who use phrases like "inciting hatred" as an excuse for why we should start ostracizing entire swatches of people from social discourse. Hilariously, I'd say that if anyone is "inciting hatred", it's probably you at your strawmen.

In my experience, they're much more dangerous to the well-being of society than the people they're trying to silence, as they're generally authoritarians of the worst sort without a shred of remorse because they're doing it for The Right Reasons(TM) and are sure of it.

But if I tolerate you speaking, someone I view as an immediate and visceral threat to my society, I suppose I can tolerate just about anyone using words.

It's a shame we'll likely come to violence because you can't show the same tolerance, and use words not force on people you disagree with.
But you could at least use the same automation methods across different study groups within the same study, eliminating potential confounding variables between your groups.
No. An domain-specific SaaS app takes all the power away from the people writing their spreadsheet programs. Only one app is needed, a hosted spreadsheet with backup and versioning an replication. The only domain-specific business is in writing plugins.
If you spend your time around highly-paid software professionals, $30k-$50k may not seem great.

When you consider that the median income in the country is $31,099[1], making more than half the population is pretty great. At the upper end of that range, you are in the top 30%.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_income_in_the_United_...
This is why I keep a bunch of equipment by default on an isolated subnet where the router drops all packets to the outside world. Doesn't matter what the device is trying to do.

Connecting to these devices requires one level of indirect - where I connect first to an internal machine that can send packets to/from the hidden subnet.
Comparing a centralized, unified group like a newspaper writing team with a diffuse, decentralized mob like Twitter makes me question your sincerity.
I work in derivatives trading (well did, recently fx). I see you do too. Fun huh.

I meant libor as in a futures price that was disconnected from anything meaningful not a direct comparison. The comparison was to how libor was easily rigged by those submitting quotes that weren't correct. Libor wasn't just a vote but a collection of informal (and incorrect) quotes.

When financially settled against a manipulated number the standard ways a future affects the spot (by taking delivery) doesn't apply.

Go read the proposed contacts for the future and real time BTC index. If the index is being manipulated the future doesn't stand a chance at correcting it.
Most interactions with the medical system do not require 11 years of training. The vast majority are things like

"Oh you have a sore throat. Let's do a strep test. Oh it's positive here are some antibiotics"
Any public platform is going to have this. You have to first decide what you don't want in clear language and legislate it very specifically and clearly. Or you will destroy diversity and free speech.

Newspapers and TV are controlled so you don't see too much of it. But any public internet site cannot avoid this without heavy moderation which at Twitter, Youtube, Facebook scale are not easy problems to solve.