skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> and today the country has 40,000 nursing vacancies

Mainly because the NHS requires degree-level qualification for UK & EU nurses, but those hired from outside the EU instead have a skills-based assessment. And there just aren't enough UK candidates willing to slog through four years of study and placement for what is a high-stress, manual-labour, high-stakes job with mediocre pay.

I have three friends in the NHS and they are very much in favour of treating nursing as an apprenticeship rather than an academic qualification, so until the rules change they have no sane option but to hire from abroad. But that's a slow process and has lingual and cultural challenges.
The article keeps talking about "Danish" this and that.

The only one of the so called Danish physicists quoted in the article is Andrew Jackson who is American. I believe this is the paper it all relates to: https://arxiv.org/abs/1706.04191 None of the authors are Danish, but most are related to the Niels Bohr Institute.

Andrew Jackson probably has a lot of Danish colleagues at the Niels Bohr Institute, which of course is in Copenhagen, and many of them might agree with him and some might have been involved in the study. He probably also lived in Denmark for many years and he might even have gotten Danish citizenship, family and he might even speak Danish. The same might apply to some of the other authors.

But you wouldn't call Einstein a Swiss, Austro-Hungarian or American physicist although he did most of his important work in those countries (and actually obtained both Austrian and American citizenship), would you?

I am aware of the Copenhagen school quantum physics/ the Copenhagen interpretation, and that the article might try to play on that old thing in the hopes that we might see a new Danish school in physics. But why?
This fact comes from history. There were mass famines at that population level around 1000 AD. The reason why vikings started to travel to other countries murdering and pillaging.
Yeah, this was one of the headline changes in Plan 9 (the second OS made by the Fathers of Unix).
I'm not sure how accurate this is, but one thing I have read is that ancient writing was in some ways used as an aid to memory, rather than a means of communication. Imagine you have your cultural sagas and songs that are memorized and passed down from generation to generation. When writing arises, you use it as a way to make it easier to recite. You might not really care much about the "missing" vowels and you save parchment. Once you start down this path, you might go quite far before it occurs to someone to add vowels.
> Commentators called this taste Gothic because the interest in ruins and castles called to mind the Gothic architecture of the Middle Ages.

This is somewhat backwards. Gothic is an old word for "medieval" (named for the Goths, a tribe which was considered to be the cause of the fall of Rome). This is why the medieval architectural style is called "Gothic style". The Castle of Otranto had the subtitle "A Gothic Story" because it claims to be be a found manuscript which is literally from the middle ages.

The middle ages were the perfect setting for romantic horror, since it was considered a particularly brutal, romantic and superstitious time, in contrast to more rational ages before and after. Later the genre transcended the historical period, but this is the origin of the name.

Modern Goth subculture is inspired by romantic horror, but the connection to the middle ages is only in name.
Clarification: He only lost his faith into Enterprise Common Lisp. He didn't make his Lisp into Space (the Mars Rover), only as simulator, and then he had to write the Google Adwords program in Java.

There are still plenty of successful but very small Enterprise Common Lisp companies, many of them being bought later and converted into something worse: Viaweb, Ithaka, Nintendo, NaughtyDog, ...
KTI, Bentley or Grammarly still doing strong.

https://lisp-lang.org/success/
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> Firstly because the web does work much nicer when you just turn scripts on and say 'to hell with the privacy and security concerns'.

OTOH, web works faster with uMatrix. You can probably get an extra couple years of your computer if you're aggressive about disabling ads and superfluous JS.
"Instead it’s rote learning some particular IDE without real understanding."

The reason for this is that very few of the people doing the teaching of computing concepts in high school understand themselves and all they can do is follow the script in the textbook. Teaching degrees focus more on the concept of teaching than the content of teaching. I have first hand seen teachers with years of experience "teaching Word" get lost and come to a full stop the second something doesn't line up exactly with the book.

Using a computer does not translate into understanding a computer. I know very intelligent teachers, some with advanced degrees (Master's and Doctorate's), that have trouble navigating to a website that doesn't start with www and are unable to distinguish between a url and an email address. All of the letters and symbols (real strange ones like :, /, ., or @) might as well be part of a magical incantation that teleports words, pictures, and videos to their screens.
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Aw, it wasn't meant to be shade! Just the best assessment I could make.

They are definitely comparable in the sense that they are both creators of categories.

Edit: Tolkien is also dead.
Atom is slow even on a fast computer.
Happens weekly to my Sears account.
Interesting. Any insight into what comparable projects might be in other roles at that level? Is that more like "launch a new product globally" territory?
It’s possible the ones from the 80s are nicer, I don’t have one of those. The modern one seems acceptable to me, but maybe my standards have gotten weak in the face of many truly atrocious modern books.
The code is not yet presentable, but it's open: https://github.com/jmiskovic/arbo
What the Red Hat acquisition means for Kubernetes (and OSS as a whole)
If you want a readable Springer math book, either buy an old edition from >15 years ago, or pirate an ebook.

Urge your colleagues/teachers to stop publishing their books with Springer.

https://www.math.upenn.edu/~chai/story/story18.pdf

"""We reported this to Rachel, Heinze and Kölsch. Rachel responded promptly. As regards the material used for the cover, she informed us that

“The word cloth is a semantic term that incorporates many different types of
covers, including this one.”

It was illuminating to learn that Springer can no longer tell the difference between cloth
and paper. Imagine how much money the new owners of Springer could save if, instead
of wearing suits made of cloth, Springer management switched to paper suits; no one at
Springer would be able to tell the difference. On rainy days this could pose a problem,
but we know that Springer has suppliers with plentiful stores of glue. If Springer repairs
its paper suits with the liberal quantities of glue it uses in its books, then board meetings
could turn into stiff, uncomfortable affairs.
"""
I mentioned this in another thread recently but I heard many companies whose CEOs abandoned the Saudi conference still sent representatives in their stead. For PR reasons they distanced themselves but they don’t really want to abandon the Saudis.
Many tech companies that I know actually huge preference to "marginalized" group. I don't know if it is still done but Microsoft used to have a reputation that they would call females in for a second interview as long as the first wasn't terrible.
"Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain"
> that made it clear, from the very beginning, that he didn't like me.

How 'directly' was it made it clear?

How is your day to day contact with him?

It is also possible that misunderstandings at the start between you two can spiral out of control (even into hate).

Edit: formatting and spelling
the article states:

> “But Reitze counters that the complete data from that first run is already available online. According to Shoemaker, this includes the relevant time series data and the programs used, but "it's not a trivial matter to use them." Caltech even held a training workshop on how to deal with gravitational-wave data. That's a pretty far cry from asking the physics community to take its analysis on faith...”

Are you refuting this statement? To me, it looks like the data/analysis are open, but not yet independently verified due to difficult nature of problem space.
It’s not secret anymore. The government has explained what they are. And so called re-education camps are not uncommon in other parts of China at all
A previous report on this outrage https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/resources/idt-sh/China_hidden_cam...
this.
If you are interested in a place with cheap houses which already has sanitization, electricity, and basic internet connectivity, many areas on the mountains in central italy are good.

They are also mostly de-populating, because people want a ton of other things from the modern life, which a small community cannot sustain.
It's a 3 page document that makes a number of false assumptions. They extrapolate bitcoin to having 300 billion transactions and means no lightening or L2 solution and the block size would be 3gigs. Nor do they even factor in the halving. Wasn't even researched properly, just utter nonsense for the papers.

And Joe Rogan was showing how easy it is to publish fake papers in journals. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AZZNvT1vaJg

here is the paper by the way behind a shitty paywall.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41558-018-0321-8
I was directly recruited, for 2 remote jobs at once. The first one was because I hung out in an IRC channel for an open source project. The CTO of that company just offered me a job.

At the same time a recruiter from a fortune 500 just directly reached out to me and it was a great fit. I ended up going with the big established company because:

1. Better offer
2. Long term product area I was more interested in.

This was about 4 years ago and it turns out that although I'm no household name in the community, I am one of the relatively few people who's been doing Go in production since pre-go1.0.

Company 1 was in New York, Company 2 was multi-national but main engineering offices are in the Bay Area.
Linn's exakt system is a little like that - the signal is sent into each speaker in digital form and then decoded and amplified there.
> Query does not rhyme with very

Doesn't it?
Some companies have a higher technical level. Do you think a principal engineer at a non-descript company can find a job as a principal engineer at Google for example? I highly doubt so.

Do you think an engineer at working in v8, Blink, Skia, Chromium are at the same level as an engineer indirectly using those technologies?

Do you think an engineer working on internet-scale APIs is at the same level of a user of such APIs?
How have the English speaking countries reacted to the Wuxia literature and JinYong's works so far? Just curious.
At Amazon in particular it is standardized such that there are only 2 different regions, 1 for SFBA/NYC and 1 for everywhere else in the US.
Thank you. I assume the author lives in the Apple land, and doesn't realize it's not just Windows that doesn't ship with fonts for all possible emojis and alternate characters by default.
Ouch, Go not included in languages Google commonly uses.
I’m a little surprised to read this because Google Mail works fine for me in Firefox (ArchLinux). In fact it’s smoother than some of the Electron-based clients I’ve tried and less painful than trying to get push messages on Thunderbird working (sure, there is always IMAP but that requires regular fetches).
The question is as follows:. How frequent are all blips that might be classified as X overall, and from that, what is the expected rate of spurious correlation? To arrive at this one must have access to quite a bit of comprehensive data collected in an unbiased fashion.
I agree. I instantly IP ban anyone using noscript on my site.
Thanks, this is some useful insight.

Can you perhaps talk a little about what your team and the teams around you are working on? What are the problems you are trying to solve? Happy to take this to another forum, if you don't want to talk publicly.
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A No-Frills Kitchen Still Cooks (2007)
What is especially interesting is that this will allow Google to track you on more pages, but that in this case, you can by definition not block the tracker. I've checked, but reCAPTCHA just falls under the general Google Terms of Service.

I don't believe this to be done with that goal, but it is an unfortunate side-effect.
The reading カ derives from the phono-semantic analysis (the same reading as 哥). The origin of the reading セイ is much unclear, the first known attestation comes from IBM's conversion table [1].

[1] http://www.asahi.com/special/kotoba/archive2015/moji/2011081...
I think if ssh is really just "time with a command line" then it's a super valuable exercise. You can remember none of it and still go away with the lesson that the CSI looking thing really ain't that complicated.
Full text here: http://sci-hub.tw/10.1038/s41558-018-0321-8

Data & analysis is here: https://github.com/moracamilo/Bitcoin/

The argument is:

1. Assume each mining pool's users are in the pool's home country, and use their country's average mix of fuel sources, and use the hardware in supplementary table 1 (which I haven't found), then Bitcoin emitted 69 MtCO2e in 2017.

2. Assume Bitcoin's usage increases at the same rate as a sample of other technologies (television, smart phone, washer+dryer...)

3. Assume that Bitcoin's carbon footprint increases with usage.

Then you can multiply the projected usage by the yearly carbon footprint, and estimate the effect on temperature, at 2°C.

A good counterargument is that Bitcoin's mining footprint is not proportional to usage. It's proportional to price * block reward = profitability.

However, this might balance out in the end. The block reward is decreasing exponentially every 4 years, but the price increases faster than usage. And when the block reward drops to zero, transaction fees will become the sole incentive for mining, which are proportional to usage.
I used to build guitar amps for fun and repair them for friends. I have parts of a Sound City, Plush, Harmony, Gibson amps in my storage unit. I have some old heathkit thing from the 60s. I have two different Traynors.

Depending on your budget, I'd get a Vox Pathfinder, AC4, or AC10, and then take him to get a pedal or two after Christmas. You can usually find an AC4 used easily. Some of the digital amps are fun, but if he really gets into it, he's more likely to keep one of the amps I mentioned and buy pedals anyway. An AC4 (especially an AC10) will be something which usually sounds really good on it's own.
That sounds like bullshit of all bullshits!
> lots of money to spare

You can buy stock with just a few hundred dollars ...

You of course won’t have much voting power but you aren’t risking all that much money. If you have little to no money in it ... then you should have little to no say in how they conduct their business - it’s none of your business; Would you want random strangers to get a say in how you spend your time and money?

Regardless, no one buys stock to “have influence”. People buy stock to (ultimately) make money.

If said shareholders and their corporations are doing things that are harmful to society at large ... that’s what the government and the laws they enforce are for.

> has learned to wield its influence to blunt the people's electoral influence over the government.

And how do they do that?
A website for human-centered news using location verification
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I thought Nature was one of the Big Journals that only publish high impact things. How does stuff like this slip in then?
What are these people going to do in 25 years when none of these predictions come true? Who will be held accountable for this?
That's why agent randomizers were invented
try again with noscript allowing main page by default but not 3rd party.
Elon Musk’s Bitcoin and ETH Giveaway
Hey, Thank you for the feedback. I am aware of my poor English skills. I am working on improving it. Can you offer me some tips on how I can improve it?
There have been many great software-related forum posts over the years
How can I make one at home?
How can I make a woodblock print at home
As a Chinese person who grew up with the works of Jin Yong and Tolkien, I bristle a little bit at this comment.

For one, I think the marketing term is really used to explain Jin Yong's scope and impact, rather than a flat comparison of genre. In this sense, Jin Yong is, to Chinese literature, as impactful Tolkein is to Western literature.

It is a tradition within Chinese literature to prefer setting your work within our history. Romance of the Three Kingdoms is perhaps the most well-known in this vein. So to be critical of "creativity" here, is, I think a little bit short-sighted. It's like saying a Ken Burns documentary lacks the creativity of The Avengers, because magic powers and superheroes don't exist in the prior. Or trying to compare a book about the personal relationships of a cancer patient (I'm thinking "The Fault In Our Stars" specifically here) to the Harry Potter series. They are just fundamentally different things where creativity is executed in different ways. Who is to say that it is not equally powerful or creative to create characters that are deeply relatable, like Jin Yong's? In my opinion, his characters tended to ask morally difficult questions more often than Tolkein's.

Jin Yong wrote stories that were rooted in Chinese tradition, but his impact among young Chinese minds is greater than what even I can describe in a Hacker News comment. He wrote books that were about strength of self, moral character, freedom, and defiance in a time when the Chinese government strictly punished all of these things. I confess that I know nothing about Tolkein's backstory or history, but I can plainly see his impact. I think it is reasonable to say that Jin Yong's impact is as important and wide spread as Tolkein's.
In 1944 they were called 'work camps'. re-education does sound a bit more friendly so there is progress in propaganda.
Can you expand on this? What makes you sure these predictions won't come true?
How many °C will go up because of wasted power on not turned off computers and AC in bank branches only in US?
> They extrapolate bitcoin to having 300 billion transactions

https://xkcd.com/605/
Sales mistakes that software engineers make
Ask HN: Lua (and community libraries) for web programming
Is it possible to use Lua (and community libraries) for full-fledged web programming instead of say Python or Ruby or NodeJS.

What are the advantages and shortcomings ?
Spoofing location is trivially easy, either using an app or submitting doctored HTTP requests to your API.

I would ask what you would do to stop this, but you just can't.
No one because it's a random offhand comment that will be forgotten. Bitcoin mining would obviously transition to use renewables (it mostly does as it is, cheap hydro is what most large scale operations are using), and no one will care.

Why don't we see articles like this for more important bigger problems like plastic waste that won't be solved by renewable energy? Because making random claims about bitcoin STILL somehow gets clicks. And to the top of HN.
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I eliminated all processed sugar(well, 99%) from my diet as well as a good chunk of natural sugars(Keto diet) 10 months ago.

Dropped 23kg and have kept it off.

All medical testing showing strong positive improvement.

Best thing I’ve ever done.
Well the good news is that changing the startup security preference for T2-featured Macs is straight forward and easily user accessible. Via Recovery partition, it has replaced the standalone Firmware Password Utility located in the Utilities folder and is referred to as Startup Security Utility.

Default installations of MacOS do enable both the Secure Boot option "Full Security" and disable the Mac's ability to startup from external media however via this utility you can change that preference to "allow booting" for the latter and an option called "Medium Security" for the former. Medium Security would allow the Mac to startup from any previously trusted & signed OS, thus allowing the user the ability to downgrade (& without an internet connection) if needed. I can personally attest that if these T2 Macs were ever eligible for a build of MacOS, they can downgrade to it.

The real question is which users or administrators are majorly impacted by the T2 Mac's inability to boot into a network volume. From what I've heard, this is a T2 restriction that cannot be bypassed. This will fundamentally change the way ACMTs can service Macs going forward.

-About Startup Security - Apple Support: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT208198

Off the top of my head, Macs with T2:
2017 iMac Pro/
2018 13" MBP/
2018 15" MBP/
Late 2018 MacBook Air/
Late 2018 Mac Mini
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D'oh, I submitted secondary reporting about this yesterday https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18333353 because this one is paywalled.
I am pretty sure Tolkien books were way less popular before the movies were made. I often see them gathering dust in the library. I will be honest. For someone used to reading fantasy novels from Robert Jordan, Raymond Feist, Anne McCaffrey etc, I find the pace of the books excruciatingly slow. The details are great and the imagination is impressive but it is painful to read... (apologies to LOTR fans)
Apple opening major corporate office in downtown Vancouver
Sounds legit lmao
Why are lie detectors legal and why were they ever used for anything? We know they don't work. And we know this one won't work any better, because now they've just put the work of sentiment analysis on "AI" vs. a "trained expert".
Fundamentally it's a question of fingerprinting the behaviours of humans versus bots. The problem is that it's becoming increasingly difficult to distinguish them, particularly when bots are running headless chrome or similar, and real users are automating their sign-ins with password managers.

I don't do much of this sort of thing, but numerous things come to mind. Aim to identify and whitelist obviously human browsers, blacklist obviously robot browsers, and mildly inconvenience/challenge the rest.

For example, an obvious property of a real human browser is that it had been used to log in successfully in the past. Proving that is left as an exercise for the reader, though it inevitably requires some state/memory on the server side.
The best for me is artmatic: http://www.artmatic.com
There are presets of trees that makes it easy to generate fine visuals and the primitive themselves are finetuned to generate impressive results.
This is catch with that type of generators, giving the right sets of primitives, if you are too detailed it can take lomg to implemente something.
Eric Wenger, the author of artmatic, is both an artist and a coder, there are not many creative peoples like him.
scam as hell