skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It was pointed out by Bitcoin analyist Tone Vays the other day that such a business account should not be interest earning, as it is not supposed to be put at risk (by being lent out.)

Even zero-risk loans (usually) have a non-zero return. The yield on 1 month US treasuries is about 1% [1]. That is about the lowest risk asset you'll be able to find. Certainly lower risk than a business account at a bank.

[1] https://www.treasury.gov/resource-center/data-chart-center/i...
More and more we see state agencies standing up to regime change in Washington (ex: CA and environmental regulations). Regardless of your personal politics, I wonder how this dynamic will affect democracy in the US.
specifically, do this in the parts of the US where there are multiple providers... even losing 10% of their subscribers would hurt a lot.

Example: at my apartment, I've got a choice of Sonic, Webpass, Comcast, Verizon, AT&T and possibly others. It would be effortless for Facebook/Amazon/Netflix/etc (FAANG) to post ads showing the speed difference, offer me N free months to ride-out my contract, then I'd switch.

5G is also a game-changer, since in theory it replaces wire-lines.

My secret hope is that a consortium of major content providers pools their capital and buys a major telco to ensure open access. They could also do sophisticated things with security and software routing.

FAANG market caps: 2700B

Apple 900B
Google 700B
Amazon 550B
Facebook 500B
Netflix 90B

Telco market caps: 500B

Verizon 191B
AT&T 213B
T-Mobile 50B
Sprint 24B
Regulating them should work too. The problem is a broken political system, exacerbated by Citizens United basically legalizing political bribery, hence leading to regulatory capture like the current FCC.
Sure, but the 90% of problems don't require brain surgery and a consult from a team of specialists.
> So far, in this entire thread, nobody has been able to offer one explanation that doesn't ultimately boil down to either "hospitals don't actually want to increase their profit".

My wife is in med school, here's my argument based on what I see in her education.

Training doctors is fucking hard.

Profits and business and all of that jazz plays a part, sure.

What I've seen is none of that really matters because hospitals can't even get enough qualified staff to support more residency positions. It takes a lot of work for a senior physician to include a medical student or resident in their daily activities. On top of already having a stressful job, dealing with naivety and inexperience of young doctors makes it very unattractive for doctors to want to participate in the process.
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How the #MeToo Movement Spread on Twitter (Data Science)
You're right. Sorry for the confusion. I'll edit it to make it more clear.
RES is not available on mobile and doesn't sync between computers.
LSP seriously gives me hope for the future. It is an awesome project, and I'm looking forward to seeing more widespread editor support for it.

It's still fairly new so most solutions I've seen that use it still have some sharp edges.
> A concrete example: I've had a resident do a checkup while I was in the hospital. If they hadn't done it, a fully trained doctor making a lot more per hour would have needed to.

You're assuming that, in the absence of the resident, they'd be hiring an additional attending physician. In reality, they'd just have a smaller staff, and you'd have to wait longer, the doctor would have to work longer/harder/faster, etc to cover the same patient load.

Hiring a resident doesn't bring in additional revenue. Insurers don't reimburse more per patient just because an additional physician was involved. Hiring a resident doesn't bring more patients in the door, because that's not the bottleneck for hospitals anyway. It does increase costs, because it's an additional person on staff - they have to pay them an extra $51,000/year, plus 25% of the cost of an additional attending physician to supervise them (and three other residents), plus taxes, plus health insurance, plus insurance to practice medicine, plus licensing fees, and so on.

> Did the hospital lose money on that checkup?

Probably not, unless you're on Medicare or Medicaid - in which case, yes, they do lose money on you on a per-patient, per-service basis.
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Does anyone know if the server logs and other info the New York AG requested would fall under the Freedom of Information Act?
Wow. Thanks for that. Sadly enough it does seem like things like this are very common. This is super important because “software is eating the world”. A car/aeroplane/subway system etc all have code powering them. So our lives depend on software that other folks (just like us) write. Yet nobody here has said that the code they work with in their companies is not a mess.

And the norm seems to be that code always turns into a monster that nobody can control. At best we seem to test pre and post release and hot fix things till they work satbly.
What's Accidenture?
Drug interactions and contra indications.

For you example:

> Counselor: Here's a medical questionnaire used to assess depression.

> Yep you sound depressed.

How do you know it's not bipolar? (Your medication choice just caused severe harm).
Why, are you gonna lead an armed march on the FCC office?
8 years of e-commerce lessons you can copy to get more buyers and profits
I started my first online about 8 years ago.
70 percent of what I've sold online has been profitable. The rest has nearly got me into serious debt.

I've sold t-shirts, shoes, jewelry, clothing, candles, smartphones and even furniture. Over the last 8 years, I used platforms such as bigcartel, shopify, woocommerce, shopenvy, tictail, squarespace and variations of the stores available on social media sites.
In terms of traffic I've used SEO, Adsense, Facebook ads, print ads, pop-up stores, affiliates and even some pop-up events to attract prospects. (My top traffic sources are direct response ads, affiliates/distribution and content marketing to a warm list. Any of these could work for you. What matters most is if you're good at them.)
I'm sharing this for those who have some kind of ecommerce startup or online store, are driving traffic to the site but for some reason are not doing as well as they should.

The most successful physical products are sold with relevant offers, remarkable stories, good branding and reliable distribution.

https://www.reddit.com/r/startups/comments/7ekxw1/8_years_of_ecommerce_lessons_you_can_copy_to_get/
Minix 3?
Now that we are discussing facts... please tell us how many doctors you have personally visited that have been required to perform neurosurgery on you? I can't think of a single incident where that has been necessary in my own experience, and yet every doctor I have seen has been required to have residency experience. Rather counterintuitively, most of the time that has seemed unnecessary, and the work was done by a low-paid nurse or technical staff with the doctor waltzing-in at the end to "sign-off" on the results in order to fulfill the requirements of the insurance companies and ensure the hourly-billing rate was well-above what it would have cost to pay a private clinic staffed by the same nurses to do the same work.

So please enlighten me instead of just slamming what seems a fairly obvious point without adding anything of actual substance to the discussion. Because from the perspective of an actual patient it seems rather silly that a nurse can't take a blood test, and a paediatrician-in-training can't study with a family doctor or another paediatrician in a private practice. And it seems absurd that extensive state funding is now accepted as necessary simply to certify someone to oversee tasks like prescribing antibiotics, or signing-off on STD tests, or allowing patients to get blood test results.

No-one is suggesting that neurosurgery should be done by people without specialized training (I would actually think that "residency" is a poor way of measuring competence in that field as well, fwiw). And by reducing the complaints to this rather silly level all you are really suggesting you have no practical answer to the question of why "residency" is a reasonable bottleneck blocking the certification of doctors and keeping the costs of general medical care far above what is actually needed to deliver the vast majority of it that doesn't involve cutting into people's brains.

EDIT: I love the downvotes people, but you would be better off answering the question since I have karma to burn and enough experience with the US medical system to know that "residency" hasn't been necessary for almost any of the medical care I have received.
After building a couple of years of financial systems, I have a hypothesis - if you could build a Jupyter Notebook with an editable spreadsheet view that is backed by a database and has something like Atom editor Teletype's CRDT (conflict free replicated data types) to enable collaboration...that would be an Excel killer.

Incidentally, there are a lot of people who move from Excel to Salesforce ! Because of the ability to program it like an Excel sheet.
Leave Comcast... for what exactly? Take Downtown Boston for example: Comcast is the only residential provider available. You can get RCN in some outer neighborhoods.

This is a situation that plays out all over the country.
> Lastly, as a lifelong procrastinator, I've noticed that waiting until the last minute to do something you need to do OFTEN results in never having to do it at all. You end up doing only things that really needed to get done.

From impostor syndrom to proper fake it until you make it impostor :p

About the main point, it's true that most procrastination is often feeling overwhelmed intellectually by a system.

Depending on context and age, I used to drive head first but now it takes a lot more to do so. I try to test approaches (minimally viable x,...) so I can get even minute amount of things done and iterate but that's not very efficient so far.
You will have greatly reduced the number of SLOC, but it is very unlikely that you will have reduced the number of bugs very much.

I agree strongly with your point about potential confounders (and was about to make it myself) but now you are making your own assertion that I'm uncertain about. Why are you confident that switching to a language that greatly reduces the number of lines of code would not reduce the number of bugs?

While I don't know of any hard evidence, it passes my internal plausibility test that if some of the "2 screen" functions become "1 screen" function, bugs might be less likely. There might be some counter-force that would confound this, but I wouldn't eliminate it out of hand. So what makes you say "very unlikely" rather than "not necessarily true"?
Sure. That way they can partner with insurers to offer lower rates to people who buy their tech. Pretty sound business strategy.

I understand that this is a pretty cynical view, and to be fair all the Googlers I've spoken with are true believers in their tech (perhaps a little too much).
But don't underestimate the power of ego and financial incentives to constrain ethical/moral calculus.
I used to work as a corporate financial planning analyst and this hit way too close to home.

Then one executive who didn’t like the story would have one of his analysts pull the same data in a slightly different way and adjust it. The executive would then show it to the CFO and tell him that’s the real story. The CFO would turn to you and ask why his number is different than yours. Then you would spend hours with the analyst reconciling the data and building a waterfall chart to send to the CFO to explain the difference.

Then if you’re really unlucky the CFO says he wants to see the data both ways with a waterfall reconciliation every month.
What's supposed to be the point of your post?

That police can't catch every criminal?
Can states regulate ISP activity within their states? Could the New York state legislature pass a law stating that ISPs who offer services in New York must provide net-neutral services?
Currently, 12.5 BTC are rewarded for each new block and that value is $8154. With a new block targeted every 10 minutes that means that (6x24x12.5x$8154) 14 million dollars is spent each day on electricity and depreciating mining rigs.

Bitcoin could use alternate means of securing the network other than proof-of-work.

Or if needed, nations can forbid the use of utility electricity for mining.
I mentioned a few months ago in a similar thread that I now actively try to recognize when I'm creating an incomprehensible 300-line "abstraction" in order to avoid copying four line of code.
Residency at an ER isn't necessary for someone to become a pediatrician. Pediatricians do a pediatric residency. You seem to be very, very confused.

> Why have you elevated some bottleneck guild requirement into a general license to write prescriptions? Or sign-off on an STD test? Or allow patients to get blood tests? Or to inform them of said test results?

Literally everything you listed here can be done by a mid-level (i.e. non-MD), and commonly is (though the scope of prescriptions they can write is limited by states, IIRC).

> by reducing the argument to this level you are only suggesting you have no adequate response to the actual problem

I have no idea what you're talking about; I posted a minor factual correction to someone else that has nothing to do with this point. Again, you seem to be very, very confused.

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In your edit you say:

> I would actually think that "residency" is a poor way of measuring competence in that field as well

Residency is not a tool for measuring competence. It is the means by which that competence is acquired[1]. You demonstrate competence by passing the written and oral boards in your specialty.

> "residency" hasn't been necessary for almost any of the medical care I have received.

May this continue to be true. If everyone were so lucky, the medical system would be much, much simpler.

[1] Foreign doctors who may already be competent are required to go through residency in the US as well; there probably should be a way to short-circuit that and allow them to demonstrate competence.
His last name is misspelled in the title, only one training n.
I get it, these are specific definitions within a given field. I looked at the definition of both precision [1] and accurate [2] and each would use the other as a synonym, which made it a bit confusing as to what he was talking about.

[1] pre·ci·sion:
noun
the quality, condition, or fact of being exact and accurate.

[2]ac·cu·rate
(of information, measurements, statistics, etc.) correct in all details; exact.
"accurate information about the illness is essential"
synonyms:	correct, precise, exact, right, error-free, perfect; More
Yeah, cause that's what's going to happen. Remember the heydays of cable TV when you could pay for just what you wanted!?
I used to be in the camp “oh you know Excel and PowerPoint, ahah!”

But working full time and having to create Excel spreadhseets on a regular basis as an engineer (mainly for budgeting and capacity plannig, but also do some schedule/timeline display), I have to say once you know how to cross reference things in Excel, life saver...

Automating spreadsheet creation has helped save hours of manual recompiling every quarter (do this Python is pretty pleasant). Yes. The scrolling and wrapping really sucks, but nonetheless everyone understands excels. I have been given tours and free trials from SaaS companies to try their AWS budgeting interface. They are great for some (like some prettt graph), but just not easy and flexible at all.
Stunning images! It's amazing what you can do some with some simple linear algebra.
Net neutrality: Portugal shows how US internet could look if FCC ditches rules
Makes me wonder, why microsoft never added a "publish excell sheet as app" for the windows store.
They could try but the FCC would almost certainly contest that the states do not have the right to pass such laws. Additionally there is nothing stopping the FCC from passing rules forbidding states from regulating net neutrality.
> who wants to be past child-bearing age by the time they've paid off their debt, when they can just go into another better-paying field without any of that)?

doesn't matter if the non-debt income is substantially higher.. most would rather take 500k a year with 100k of debt repayment over 100k a year with none..
I hate these text-on-picture-with-music videos. Even the robot-voice videos are better. I know it's using the Super Mario music, but still. It's like a blog post where you can't copy or paste anything, can't scroll back and forth, can't be cached or indexed, etc.
> Their prize is having some very profitable hospitals, including the second most profitable in the nation (almost $300M / year in profit at one hospital).

Yea, but this is on over $12 billion in revenue. That's less than 2.5% margin.
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Censorship isn’t the only concern. The NSA and Big Brother are as big a concern if not bigger in my opinion. Of course, a private company Big Brother (Google??) isn’t that much better. But it’s easier to escape a private company than it is to escape the government, especially if you’re just a normal guy and not being specifically targeted.
wow they really picked whatever letters they felt like picking
I would say a chef's knife is the ultimate kitchen multi-tool. Having one great knife you really know how to use for cutting everything is much more efficient than a bunch of different knives.
Well done. Very responsive and intuitive.
Sure, but lots of real problems require more than the skill level expected of residents, if nothing else to have reasonably justified confidence that the problem isn't one which requires more specialized attention.
I think it's worth pointing out that he did not live 30 consecutive years alone in Alaska - he did stay the first winter, and maybe a couple other winters here and there, but by and large he returned to the lower 48 each winter and stayed with friends and relatives[0]

0. http://richardproenneke.com/faqs
It gets even worse: (1 + 2 ^ 53) - 2 ^ 53 evaluates to 0 while 1 + (2 ^ 53 - 2 ^ 53) evaluates to 1 (the correct result), which means that even the operation of adding three floating point numbers has unbounded relative error in the general case.

This is a great source of frustration in computational geometry, where this turns from a quantitative issue to a qualitative one, since if we get the sign of an expression wrong our data structures might no longer reflect the actual topology of the problem.
Why the Net Neutrality Debate Isn't Actually About Net Neutrality
The issue of federalism is not the settled matter that most people seem to be thinking it is.
This is an amazing site! Great work.
OK, then they are replacing the compositor and changing their client, rewriting it to talk in Wayland protocol.
Should the Social Cost of Carbon Be Higher​?
> FCC Chairman Ajit Pai is a former Verizon lawyer

He worked in their legal department for 2-3 years 15 years ago. All of his other time has been spent has a public servant. People need to stop bringing this up, because it only muddies the actual policy debate.
This is an inaccurate description of the Tesla system. When you use it, the car repeatedly tells you that you have to stay alert, and it forces you to have your hands on the wheel most of the time.
Well up until election 2016, Democrats were vehemently opposed to states authority, and concentrated far more power in Washington during the Obama administration.

It's nice to see them coming around.
As far as things you can do, I'd add doing whatever you can to push local broadband, if it is feasible wherever you are. If your local government is trying, push for it! If you have state laws that forbid local governments from serving their constituents, push to repeal those.

The telecoms have many sophisticated strategies they pursue; one is alternating between "states rights" and FCC-friendly arguments to create a ratchet locking out competitors. If you break one side of the ratchet, at least some folks can have first-world bandwidth.
Sounds like their workflow is the problem, not their tool. I'm no shill for Excel, but it is without a doubt powerful and can be quite programmatic. Maybe Excel could get a plugin system like Atom or VS Code or Sublime that could handle integration with centralized platforms / databases.

Just wondering: can you make an API call / ORM query to a database from within Excel macros? How much I/O can you do with macros?
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With the proper treatment, HIV has a negligible impact on your quality of life and no statistically significant impact on your life expectancy. Modern antiretroviral drugs have minimal side-effects and most patients experience no long-term side-effects whatsoever.

Highly active antiretroviral treatment is a goddamned miracle. One pill a day turns a death sentence into a complete non-issue. I can't help but question the mental health of someone who would reject such an astonishingly good treatment in favour of being a human guinea pig.

https://www.aidsmap.com/Life-expectancy-near-normal-in-peopl...
Worth a read if you haven't seen it: “What every computer scientist should know about floating point arithmetic”. This includes a better discussion of all the points in the blog post.

https://docs.oracle.com/cd/E19957-01/806-3568/ncg_goldberg.h...
In Sweden, there's no undergrad degree required for med school, but med school is 5.5 years (followed by 18 months of the Swedish equivalent of residency). Like in the US, most physicians are specialists which requires around 5 more years of training. Their student debt will generally be around 350k SEK once they finish med school which is around 40k USD, but they're paid peanuts compared to physicians in the US (~50k-80k USD per year). That is, unless they work as independent contractor physicians in which case they will make (almost) equivalent amounts before taxes.
I did a similar calculation with my S.O.

At the time she's licensed, she'll be over a million dollars behind where she would have been if she went straight into industry. Break even is something like 25 years down the road - even with "high doctor salaries"
> The entire health system from top to bottom would benefit immensely from free market forces.

lolnope. Free market sooner or later ends up screwed because humans are inherently greedy and will cut corners to make more profit. The corner cutting is bad enough in IT security, I do not want to see this in any health related stuff.

The free market may be fine for most stuff in a society - but the corner stones of society must be regulated as hell: transportation infrastructure, water, electricity, telecommunication, medicine and education.
Besides what the other commenters already responded, APIs don't just fall from the sky over night. And especially the APIs that you refer to, are just not trivial to write at all. Just because add-on developers yearn for super powers, doesn't mean that Mozilla can provide this as quickly as lesser super powers.
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I don't even know where to start with that thread. It is filled with instances of complete misinformation.

I really don't understand how users there can support something that will probably result in them paying more for Internet access and limiting what they can access.
You're not getting my point.

Salaries for doctors are too low for the Southeastern Europe standard. The whole point I was making is that you should not lower it as per your standards. It's good as it is.
The goverment just forces ISPs and companys to hand over data.
It has happened, it is happening, your argument is invalid.
...and user error :-)
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How about, if Uber stores all data across those git repositories (1000+)? Perhaps they use git as a multi-versioned data storage? Perhaps better than Kafka (event sourcing thing?). Just a thought :)