skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What I really wanted to understand about this study: (1) whether they accounted for the number of years out of residency the physician was, and (2) whether they accounted for cumulative physician experience in some more rigorous way. I skimmed and searched with keywords rather than reading exhaustively, but I don't see a good description of these features.

Re: (1), if the guidelines are correct and effective, I would expect women to score better because of the probability density of older men. That is, the average woman is younger and "closer to the data".

Re: (2), if experience is helpful, I would expect those with more experience to do better.

A priori, the person least likely to do well is a person who is far out from residency but who hasn't practiced a bunch. That person is more likely to be male than female (based on the above, basically, the historical consequence of systematic discrimination against women in medicine), and is less likely to have been trained to recognize symptoms uncommon in men.

In their tables, they describe "Physician experience control." I don't see a rigorous definition of this. They have a section in the supplement on variable definitions where they do not describe this. What does this mean? From Table S2, you can see that the men have accrued a mean of ~14 physician experience points, while women have accrued a ~mean of 10, a tremendous difference at this sample size. Does this score refer to (1) or does it refer to (2)? If it refers to (1), then I'm not surprised that men do worse. If it refers to (2), then this is all the more surprising.

Supplementary Table S2 also has incorrect labels (they seem to have duplicated female-physician / female-patient and left out the female-physician / male-patient). More confusingly, in the male-physician / male-patient section, the label appears to say that 10% of the male physicians are female. That can't be what they mean - but can anyone else interpret this? Edit -- I think this is referring to the average physician at that hospital. Not well named in the supplement, but that's OK.

Finally, 25% of their data is with physicians with names that preclude gender assignment by their algorithm. If we assume that to be a mix of men and women, that group should perform somewhere between the male and female physicians. Why exclude this data from the analysis, rather than analyze it to confirm the trend?

Study is here: http://www.pnas.org/content/pnas/early/2018/07/31/1800097115...

Supplement is here: http://www.pnas.org/content/pnas/suppl/2018/07/31/1800097115...
I terminated my contract early because my s8 was a piece of crap. Full of lower quality Samsung apps.
Who gives FB the right to even ask for such information in the first place? So they don't see any legal challenges could arise from such request? Seems ridiculous to me.
I don’t see why that bubble was different than the previous crypto bubbles.
Or a brute-force attack guesses your app password.

One of the major benefits of TOTP is that you have only a certain time window (usually, 30 seconds) to guess a password before the thing you're trying to guess changes and you have to start over.

With HOTP, you only get one guess before the goalposts move. The downside is that it's more vulnerable to DoS attacks when configured that way.

An app password has no brute-force resistance, so it lowers the security of your otherwise-2FA account overall.
> But given the opprobrium currently attached to labeling someone "SEXIST" in our society, personally I'd like to see a bit more evidence, and some alternate explanations explored and ruled out, before we start wheeling that one out and tarring people with it.

There's opprobrium attached to being uniquely sexist / otherwise bigoted, but I think there is relatively little opprobrium in saying that most men, statistically, behave in the following way because of social conditioning since childhood, and no man in the relevant population is specifically intending to be sexist. That's where the whole idea of "unconscious bias" comes from. (Arguably, the entire idea of "unconscious bias" training is to provide a way for companies to address these types of issues precisely without having to label their employees sexist and bring out the tar.)

Also, even if it did require tar, I think we would need to have a hard discussion about where the tradeoff between "more patients die, but doctors have good reputations" and "fewer patients die, but people think doctors are sexist" is. It does not seem obvious to me that we should choose the former.

> because there's just no way you're going to go to doctors and make them precisely 10% less sexist than they are now.

I don't see how this follows.

For instance, you can imagine pretty direct ways to work around both potential explanations: if it's social conditioning on the part of the doctor, have patients report pain on an objective scale (i.e., not "1-10", I believe there are studies that women statistically report lower scores than men; instead assign specific comparisons like "stubbing your toe" or "unable to focus on work" or whatever), and ask doctors to respond in standard ways based on the response. Again - assuming that this isn't doctors consciously choosing to ignore women's concerns - we should probably assume doctors are actually interested in giving their patients meaningful care. If the social conditioning is on the side of patients not reporting pain, make sure there are enough women medical professionals around and have a practice of women reporting their symptoms to a woman. (Since nurses are something like 90+% women this shouldn't be too difficult; it would just require asking male doctors to calibrate their responses to nurses' notes instead of asking questions de novo.)

Also, historically, we have seen examples of people becoming less sexist and less bigoted. The idea that women just do not have the mental capabilities to vote, for instance, has become an extreme minority position. It may take generations of change, but it's still a change that we can effect.

Also, even if we're talking about populations, it's not really the case that every person is equally sexist. If you want to make doctors precisely 10% less sexist, measure them for sexism and reject the ones that exhibit abnormally high levels of sexism.
AWS: Linux Kernel SegmentSmack Issue
Tianrang Intelligence Gets $26M in Series A Funding
Most people don't do this check though.
> Liberalism is based on the assumption that you have privileged access to your own inner world of feelings and thoughts and choices, and nobody outside you can really understand you. This is why your feelings are the highest authority in your life...

I'm not an expert on the humanities, but that's sure not what I think liberalism is.

BTW, the headline is extremely misleading. The quote from the article is, "The idea of free information is extremely dangerous when it comes to the news industry." Well, yes, it is.
Didn't catch this while skimming.

Why not just charge a "Nile Fee" to keep the network running on top of each sale? Sure you pay a premium but you know you're contributing back to a supposedly fair network. If this got to the scale of Amazon, it seems like the fees from that volume (especially if fees scaled as a percentage of order size) could more than cover costs.
Digital Marketing Masterclass is useful and great for an introduction.
You should sell it. Or use it.

I purged all but a few fun pieces I do use. Most of that use is entertainment, learning projects.

Others will find homes for that gear, they just need to know about it. Post in the relevant forums.
I think it's because the organizers want to make sure the bots will have a good performance here. Ofc OpenAI is awesome but it's impossible to cover such a complicated game as DotA within just 1 year. What they have achieved though is still awesome.

I'm just slightly bugged by the fact that the developers didn't take action execution into delay consideration. The response time is 200ms but humans also need some more time to drag the mouse and click to perform the action. Their insane reactions actually make me less impressed.
I am willing to bet once you account for other things, such as geography, the effect goes away.

Look at the map at the end. It clearly shows women being higher percentage in areas that have better mortality rates for heart disease which are both heavily influenced by access (response time) to medical care and other socioeconomic factors

this is not perfect, but it shows that other factors are probably more likely to be the reason other than jumping to conclusions about which sex is a better doctor.

https://www.kff.org/other/state-indicator/medical-school-gra...
Why does Snapchat need to run at all when you’re not using it?
>Get an injury leaving you unable to work? You died.

There have been institutions taking care of the disabled and the poor for millennia.
Somehow plenty of countries are doing fine while even consuming less of GDP than the US. As far as I know Medicare doesn't consume 100% of GDP either.
(Even in the short scale, 327,142,857,142 is ‘only’ 327 billion, not 327 trillion)

More importantly, those trees will capture that amount every year. So, once you have them, you only have to replace trees that get lost. Assuming a 10 year lifespan (many will die young), it’s only 100 a year to plant. That’s doable (trees you plant will be tiny)

However, 1,000 trees at, say, 10 meters average distance cover about 0.1 square kilometers/25 acres. That way, the USA would support about 100 million people (I think 10 meters distance is a bit conservative, but there also will be areas where trees won’t easily grow)

⇒ Americans will have to (at least) halve their energy use. I think that is doable.
Dewalt DCB1800B – 720 watt hour portable power station
I am on vacation right now and going through a series of saved HN discussions that I wanted to read in full. One of those saved discussions was this one, titled "Show HN: Build A Personal Power Plant for $200"[1].

The top comment proposes a much more portable (but more expensive) recipe, which includes the "Anker PowerHouse to store the energy. 400 WH which is about the same capacity"[2].

However, I think a much more interesting option for a big portable battery that you can charge from mains power and later use as a mains power source is this dewalt battery charger.

Assuming you have dewalt battery powered tools anyway and you, of course, need to charge them, this allows you to charge four at a time while giving you the added utility of a backup residential power supply. If you populate it with the 9 amp hour batteries, you get 720 watt hours, as opposed to the 400 watt hours of the originally suggested (Anker Powerhouse) device.

Hopefully this is useful to anyone who was looking at a recipe like this ...

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15216650

[2] https://www.amazon.com/Anker-PowerHouse-Generator-Alternative-Rechargeable/dp/B0196GQAKM/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1505144286&sr=8-1&keywords=anker+powerhouse+120000
> more guns lead to more shootings

If only it was so simple:

> Switzerland hasn't had a mass shooting since 2001, when a man stormed the local parliament in Zug, killing 14 people and then himself.

> The country has about 2 million privately owned guns in a nation of 8.3 million people. In 2016, the country had 47 homicides with firearms. The country's overall murder rate is near zero.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/politics/switzerlan...
Not sure crypto-based business will be a real, lasting gain for the region.
If that is true (which I think there isn't a real reason to believe a priori, but sure, it's a possible hypothesis), I feel like I'd prefer a world where more people live to a world with less segregation, if I had to choose.
That's not true ... after all, that would mean putting MBA type managers in charge of hospitals (like is being done all across the US) is going to lead to disastrously bad decisions as they will institute individual incentives. Giving those experienced doctors little choice : either refuse cases that might die ... or get fired.
I'd argue that it goes beyond tech, but all post industrial industries and ventures benefit from concentrations of talent and other agglomeration effects far more than they do from cheap land and quick availability of raw resources that industrial economies favored.

It's a shame, because if this ultimately ends up being true, even more of our economy than it already has will concentrate in fewer and fewer very expensive cities.
What’s the current status of proof-of-burn for reputation?
Calling something an axiom (when it's not) dismisses any nuance and leads to bad policies, even if it's "mostly true".

"More cars === more global warming" is mostly true, but might lead to really bad policies if taken too strictly. For instance, someone might make new cars illegal, which would prevent us from taking advantage of more efficient or more electric cars thta actually help the situation.
Interesting thoughts.

I agree that students should learn critical thinking in school, but I'd argue that Alex Jones has not gained popularity by appealing to untrained minds, but by appealing to human emotional needs.

I take solace in the realization that humans are extraordinarily hypocritical. Consider the massive engagement numbers from Youporn in the most religious counties in the US. Belief has virtually nothing to do with action, so there is no reason to be concerned about anyone's beliefs.

People act for emotional reasons that are beneath the level of belief. Jones appeals to people for those reasons, and I fear that censoring him only strengthens the emotional meaning of his existence for his followers, and will motivate them to share his messages more actively now that the content isn't as easy to find by accident.
Exactly, the joke was that openai learned "bad manners".
Would love to hear you elaborate on your statement about established crypto players are moving into traditional assets. Do you mean crypto exchanges allowing customers to trade equities? I haven't been following these developments closely. I'm interested in what you're referring to.
Alex Jones spreads absolute hateful nonsense with no journalistic value whatsoever. There isn't a clear border between a dissenting opinion and raving lunatic but there is a border and he is very far across it. Take the US criminal standard of evidence: beyond a reasonable doubt. He is a lying lunatic beyond a reasonable doubt.
Though, nearly all of those diets seem integrate more veggies and massively reduce sugar.
If anyone else is having troubles accessing this link here's an alternative one:

https://www.businessinsider.sg/fintech-college-being-built-2...
I had a Samsung fridge, it would constantly reboot... Samsung products just flat out suck in my experience. They insist on installing shitty software on everything.
MoviePass slashes the number of movies a user can see by 90 percent
How about drawing faces of famous people then? Presumably those results would be even worse. With these bicycle drawings, even the most inaccurate ones are pretty easy to recognize as bicycles. But I don’t think you’d get very many recognizable pictures of famous faces, except for a few subjects with famously recognizable features (like hairdo or facial hair).
Broadly speaking, is Mastodon a healthy, non-addictive, non-abusive Twitter alternative that happens to leverage federation to achieve its aims? Or is Mastodon a FLOSS celebration of federation applied to the domain of social networking?

If it's the former, then I don't understand the problem you're describing. Why can't trust simply be a hierarchy from the Mastodon devs-- who you have to trust anyway-- down to a small, diverse set of the largest and most performant instances (as defined by those devs themselves)? That would cover the vast majority of users and still obviously leave room for anyone who wants to run their own instance.

Even if the vast majority of users/devs think it's unethical to have a hierarchy/centralization, as you point out there isn't any known alternative at present. So the only practical alternative is to punt, which inhibits adoption and hardens the implicit social group hierarchies which you point out are problematic.
In other discussions about this action, I've seen lots of confusion about what the 1st Amendment guarantees. Too many people think it guarantees an outcome: that the government must protect your right to free speech and make sure you have a platform for free speech. When in fact it's almost the opposite: it prevents the government from interfering with free speech, specifically Congress can not pass any laws that interfere with free speech. Keeping in mind that free speech includes the right to not say things you disagree with.

I'd be curious if any legal experts know of other laws that might apply in this case.
RedHat states RHEL6 and RHEL7 also affected. Mitigation patches are currently forthcoming.

https://access.redhat.com/articles/3553061
> MoviePass pays full price for each ticket a subscriber uses, meaning that after a subscriber sees a second movie in a month, the company is operating at a loss.

This is crazy.
You could conceivably sue all involved parties for libel from passing around lies about your wife's medical status. Probably easy to add in some HIPPA violations too. That's why the hospital isn't going to be forthcoming because they know they're on shaky ground.
There are a number of legit politicians who have violent followers. Remember James T. Hodgkinson, Bernie Sanders follower, who shot at members of Congress (one of the latest examples, there are many more in history) - of course Sanders is not responsible for the actions of this deranged individual. I've never seen any content by Alex Jones (and I'm not sure I ever will) but from what I heard, while he is a crackpot of the highest degree, he never advocated direct violence. And if this is true (I may be wrong since, as I admit, I have only third and fourth party knowledge of his content, and I am not sure I want to have a dip into that cesspool) then he should be allowed the same as Sanders - not to be held responsible for the actions of even bigger crackpots than he is, if he did not directly promoted them.
Downvotes apparently!
Not sure why you have the downvotes, it's clearly very unethical & hypocritical for FB to go after all names with "gram" -- even if there's no photo related features in the app.
>I wonder how many of us slow thinkers are of the same calibre as Darwin but never achieve anything because life doesn't afford them the leisure to doggedly pursue their thoughts.

Very very few. Aside from the fact that if one's determined, they can do it (life doesn't allow or disallow anything -- no one is required to have a nice car or a fancy house or whatever, lots of people make sacrifices for their work), there are also tons of leisurely rich people that are slow thinkers, that have nonetheless contributed remotely comparable of Darwin...
Also from Europe. Weird that lenses need a prescription in the US.
Right, but the second sentence says they don't have special agreements with the banks. But the whole article is about how they are requesting new agreements with banks that have been turned down by the banks for vague "privacy" related reasons. It is not colloquial to say "we don't have agreements" when you are referring to a future agreement that hasn't been signed yet. You would definitely say that as "we are not discussing agreements for ad purposes."
This is why conservatives are always trying to convince their base that the largest military budget in the world is not big enough.
That's slippery slope again. You're saying we can't collectively deride Nazism because we're suppressing political speech. We can. Easily. Alex Jones is not a literal Nazi, but he is equivalent. Demonizing groups of people based on absolutely fabricated nonsense. We can safely excise his voice without losing a single reasonable voice.
I think you need to be clearer what you mean by innovation.

If by innovation you mean new technology coming to save the day then I'm very skeptical it will work out. Teslas are nice but not a match for 1 billion Chinese entering the middle class.

If by innovation you mean a drastic change in how carbon is taxed leading to a sensible focus on how energy is consumed then we may have a chance however it means paying $50 for a bigmac and no more flights to Ibiza for 20 Euros.
A parallelogram is missing the seat tube, which is a fairly important part of the bike.
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Error messages should be more clear, and I fix the link, thank you
Individual accounts were a difficult decision. But I think it's good overall. For example, I can just move the folder "ko" to a Korean server and run the typegram. This strange solution (total separation) seems to me extremely interesting
He should just put a .torrent up of the video after the show, have his followers upload it to YouTube, and have a form they can report the URL back so he can embed the video.

He won't get ad revenue, but he'll still get to his message out.
>You wouldn't want your heart,brain,etc operation to be in the hands of someone who isn't that talented but keeps on trying.

If they tried enough that they got their degree and are known for having a good track record, then I absolutely do.

I'd also take them over a merely "talented" doctor any time.
I assumed the forests were harvested every 4 years. That's average for low quality wood, like what goes into MDF.
Note, also from the article:

"In the new study everyone was more likely to survive if they saw a female physician, and a study(1) published last year in JAMA Internal Medicine indicated all patients of female physicians had lower mortality and hospital readmission rates. “It seems that the female doctors practice in a better way or outperform male doctors,” says the JAMA study’s first author, Yusuke Tsugawa, an assistant professor of medicine at the David Geffen School of Medicine at University of California, Los Angeles."

1) https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamainternalmedicine/fullar...
I'm not so sure about your theory of mainstream mortality, could you offer some examples? I feel this might be a cliche among technologists who associate mass adoption with a slowdown of innovation or at least of novelty.
More likely it makes him harder to find and limits his reach more.
So your saying you would want Jones' demagoguery to be mainstream?