skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> This is probably also the reason USA is doing so badly. If you're in the bottom quintile, the quality and availability of medical care is awful.

I've read several times that medical outcomes across the board are worse in the US than in European countries with national health systems - i.e. even for the richest, privatised healthcare doesn't work (on average).
Yeah, my current project is using an internal / external api gateway style. You run into so many issues... You kinda want to run away (beside performance) it is super hard to actually manage / govern etc..
That's when Jai (if it ever becomes real) hold promise: fast compilation is a first rate goal, not a second rate goal where you decide language features first then try to make the compiler "not too slow".
Socialize where you can. I say this as someone who is looking at putting together a wedding party and deciding on a best man. I had some good acquaintances in high school, then I had some good acquaintances in college, and then professionally. But no one that can really hit that "like a brother" spot that stuck through each major change. Beyond all the socializing and carefree stuff the one thing I wish is there was at least one person who I knew throughout all the big parts in my life.
2006 - https://www.the-scientist.com/uncategorized/are-we-training-... - "Are We Training Too Many Scientists? A glut of postdocs, too few desired positions, and a faculty invested in the status quo point to a need for change. Who will take responsibility?"

2013 - https://www.chemistryworld.com/opinion/too-many-scientists/5... - "Too many scientists? The proliferation of PhDs is unsustainable and damaging, says Paula Stephan."

2010 - https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/does-the-us-produ... - "Does the U.S. Produce Too Many Scientists? American science education lags behind that of many other nations, right? So why does it produce so many talented young researchers who cannot find a job in their chosen field of study?"

2018 - https://www.jamesgmartin.center/2018/02/science-discontents-... "Science and Its Discontents: Too Few Jobs—or Too Many Scientists?"
I hated high school. Spent all of my time alone. Flunked. Repeated the tenth grade. Flunked again and dropped out. 5 years later, got e GED and went to a state school. Found a passion for math and CS. Got good grades for two years and transferred to Stanford. Found my tribe and discovered a career that I love.

High school was an oppressive environment.
Second this! It is still rarely used. But it's usage is growing.
Singapore and Switzerland both have privatized healthcare, but it is extremely regulated at the same time.
It bears saying, despite being obvious: You can't have all the experiences the world has to offer. And the ones that are in media are both constructs of a prior generation - media is selling the aspirations of the experience - and inevitably romanticized, with clearly defined characters, conflicts and firm resolutions. Most real experiences feel ordinary in the moment, with lots of room to ignore, withdraw, disengage, or disbelieve. Even violence can feel quite ordinary. I can assure you that most of your classmates are not feeling their experience as anything but another weekday.

So it's not the experience itself, it's what you get out of it as years tick by, and perspective can help. Real stories are subtle, with a lot of ways to retell them differently.

"Carefree" high school life is not innocuous - or rather, like a toddler who breaks their toys, it's innocuous right up until it isn't, and the friendships are only lasting in some cases. As a lifelong thing, what will help the most is bringing a balanced skillset and mindset to the scenarios you find yourself in. But the skills and attitudes you get from full engagement in high school life are also some of the most common ones you will encounter among people of your generation, and they are relatively undirected. It can feel good in the moment without doing anything to help you down the line, because doing the most common thing puts you up against a lot of competition.

So, "normal" can just mean setting yourself up for a completely different set of regrets. It's something that young people cling to desperately in their adolescent years by way of setting a baseline, but there are a lot of good reasons to grow away from it and focus on life more pragmatically as an unending series of opportunities and threats.

College life is more illustrative of the different paths you could take, because there's more specialization, more extremes of behavior. Some college kids break down moments after getting there because they discover they are, in fact, extremely underprepared for life away from their parents. Others can really thrive and define themselves.
The array in a struct is still going to be continuous in memory. All you might change is allignment.
I bought an older version of this for a student of mine to get her started on her dive into optical measurement. It’s a nice simple kit and helps demystify some of the technology.

She ended up building a nice polariscope for measuring microfluidic flows of viscoelastic fluids.
Indonesia’s Volatile Child of Krakatau Collapsed, but Now It’s More Explosive
"Rechargeable" prepaid credit cards are also a thing. Essentially all the functionality of a "secured" credit card, with only the set-up requirements of a gift card.
I've gone one step further and have built a simple CRUD app for all the things I'm tracking.

I find this easier to update from my phone than a spreadsheet.

I'm a big believer in 'streaks' as a form of motivation and I've got simple views in my app for representing this for habits.

I use the same app for more general tracking of my life, it's not just for habits.

Having all the data in a database makes querying and understanding this data easier for me.

I'm not suggesting this is for everyone. It only works if you know a framework pretty well. I know rails and it has a pretty good scaffolding feature to bang out forms and basic views in minutes making it faster than creating a spreadsheet for me.
Join a group, any group.

Close friendships come with time, make the time for that friend and do things together even if it's dumb. You're not there to impress them or vice versa but just the best of them and the best of you sometimes meet up and show the other person that there is something admirable, in morals and values or skills like your programming. You have something to share and time is the most valuable. So make some time with the people you want to be close to.
https://outline.com/WyH9FB
We need to amend https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maslow%27s_hierarchy_of_needs and include life expectancy
Unless the grocery store doesn't accept cash.
I have very fond memories of the UK equivalent of this, Prestel, which I accessed on a 1200/75 modem from a BBC Micro. In terms of simplicity and reliability in many ways the modern web is s step backwards from those old systems.
don't read any comments on hn - just click the links that look promising.
That feels like something the compiler should fix, not the programmer. Then again, this is C where simplicity is preferred over costless abstraction.
I was under the impression irradiation changes flavor.
This is not primary about static checking. This is mostly a guarantee to the implementation so it has information at the target function so it can generate better code without having to resort to derivations or complex data flows (to optimize, basically).
Thanks for finding the formatting issue, fixed it!

You don't need to specify all dependencies "the bake way". If you want to link with a non-bake C library (like pthread or dl), you can configure it like shown here:

https://github.com/SanderMertens/bake#can-i-link-with-non-ba...

It is also possible to wrap existing libraries in bake projects. This section of the README describes how:

https://github.com/SanderMertens/bake/blob/master/README.md#...
Rich people live longer, simple as that.
The China Study is garbage and mostly detected hidden variables. People eating more meat were often living near (polluted) cities, smoking more, etc.
School does not require 24/7 internet access, so even if they have their own computers on their desks, just shut down their internet access except for the express purpose of doing homework, for which you re-enable it for a limited time.

They might still have the machine then, but since today's kids have never gotten into "downloading digital stuff locally" but use streaming and online-only services for practically anything, the machine without internet access is nearly useless for entertainment purposes.
Show HN: Behind the product – Open sourcing the designs of all my products
It also seems to be the third most popular dev environment overall (behind VS and VS Code, ahead of Sublime Text and Vim): https://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/2018/#development-...

It's not a very interesting target (most of these are not), but it's safe to say it's a valid target.
"My advice to OP is - go to a university that does have people like this."

Sorry, but that's an unactionable advice. You really can't tell what your classmates interests will be before the uni starts generally.

Go to the best college you can is a better one.
Feeling extremely kind this holiday season, I decided to make the different iterations, assets, illustrations and designs from the different products I released on 2018 open source, so you can use them for any purpose you want - either for your own projects, to learn or get inspired, I don't care!

Hope you find it useful! <3
When I went to school during the same time period fountain pens were more of a fashion accessory. You didn't have to have one, and the school didn't teach you how to use one, but everyone wanted one. We used to like brands like Parker and Sheaffer.

The ones the school provided were those "Berol Handwriting" pens that I've never seen outside of a school.
In Spain most Chinese Euroshops will when you pay in cash not give you a receipt until you ask and then they will give excuses why you don't need one.
The China Study is famously biased and scientifically dodgy [0, 1].

It was great for opening the topic and provoking discussion though, which is much needed.

[0] https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/the-china-study-revisited/

[1] https://chriskresser.com/rest-in-peace-china-study/
We already have highly effective weapons that can lob nuclear or conventional projectiles at countries on the other side of the planet with little to no warning: ballistic missile subs.
They wrote a book based on that course and notes.
https://www.cs.ubc.ca/~rbridson/fluidsimulation/

It's for computer graphics. Fluid simulation for, for example, simulating air pressure on an aircraft in development is more precise and numerical methods are more complex.
Windows also requires rebooting for the actual upgrading process. A Linux update might need a reboot to take affect but the reboot is still a normal reboot, it won't take longer because it's trying to install something.

Both Windows and macOS suffer from this. Big updates to both systems can render the computer unusable for 30 minutes while they are installing.
As another data point here: I had to add a TKinter-based loading screen to a PyQt5 app I wrote for work because the app - which takes half a second to start up on Linux - takes nearly a minute on Windows the first time around (and multiple dozens of seconds on subsequent runs) and I know firsthand that my end-users are unlikely to wait that long unless they can see something loading. I suspect it has to do with the sheer number of file accesses for each of the Python libraries and underlying DLLs and such.
I have never seen that happen anywhere in the EU.
This is a fantastic technique that didn't occur to me for an embedded project that I was developing in C and where passing arrays of known size was a frequent thing. Also it was desirable to save space by avoiding the padding that a "array+size" struct would contain.

Thanks for commenting this.
That's cool, I have thought of building this exact thing.
Can confirm. I usually have to turn off windows defender whenever I'm doing anything with docker, or node modules, or something similar. If I don't, my computer slows to a crawl.
This.

I had half of my face stop working and had recently moved (and not yet registered with a new GP.)

I went to my previous GP and they turned me away (no longer in the catchment area) so I eventually ended up in A&E.

It doesn't help that the local ones near me at the time seem to live in the past... No call queuing or online scheduling, have to call within a 1 hour slot for appointments (so that's an hour of busy tones, oh well let's try again tomorrow)
The lack of generics kills Go for me. I know it's an old rag and they'll never add them, but I just can't get over it. Maybe I should try Rust...
Providence is under Vancouver Coastal health. The authorities aren’t competing with each other (well, not really) as they have their own geographic catchments.
not if you calculate it based on deaths from current year
Sounds like NHS could open more local surgeries and save a lot of money. Or at the very least, add a wing to every A&E to allow stupid stuff to be handled by nurses and trainees.

In Australia, ambulance rides are not free unless you have a membership plan or private insurance.

It is absurd that the UK could not at minimum issue fines against abuse of ambulances. (Not to mention abuse of 999 calls!) The fact that this was an issue for more than five minutes is absurd and cannot be used as an indictment against public systems.

And even if the ambulance issue was unsolvable (ha!) it would still represent a fraction of a percentage of the waste occurring in the American system.
Didn't attend US highschool, but from the movies and TV shows I've seen about it, coolness and popularity seem to be commonly put on a pedestal, I can only say it's just 3 years of your probable 70+ years' life, so what's cool and popular for kids in high school maybe isn't as important after it.
But that’s not the case. The root cause is the MFT and NTFS architecture. People fail to mention that because the problem is harder to fix. It’s almost that there is a “do not speak bad of NTFS” going on.

You can demonstrate this by using a third party file system driver for NT. when NTFS on its own is eliminated the performance is much much better. This is a neat little differential analysis which is conclusive. I can’t remember the product I used when I evaluated this about 8 years ago unfortunately.
While I don't know...

- if you already have a job and are happy with it

- if you already have a career and are happy with it

- if you have any debt or other financial obligations

- if you have a family or other social / personal obligations

- your definition of "invest"

...I'll go ahead and give my nontraditional "dream big" answer. Chase your dreams and invest in yourself. Master your desired skill. Turn it into an income source. You've got 4 years to do so.

Just for the sake of argument, let's assume your monthly expenses are $2,000 USD. If you're a guy/gal in the western world with little/no debt and no major familial obligations, this is plenty of money to live very comfortably basically anywhere in the world, other than the top ±100 most expensive cities. Skip Tokyo, London, NYC, SF, Hong Kong, Oslo, Vancouver, etc. Go for Lisbon, Berlin, Budapest, Hiroshima, Vienna, Mexico City, Buenos Aires, Bangkok, instead.

At $2,000 per month, $100,000 gives you just over 4 years in runway. This is conveniently the exact amount of time to achieve "mastery" according to the 10,000 hour model. 50 hours a week X 50 weeks per year X 4 years is 10,000 hours. Personally I find the Mastery model put forth by Robert Greene in Mastery to be a good guide.

No matter what your passion is - painting, photography, writing novels, making movies, being an actor, building a startup - there's a pretty good chance that you can figure out how to make a living from it in 4 years. People that have enough time, focus, and financial resources to dedicate toward mastering their craft for years are extremely rare, especially in this day and age.

Of course, if you're already happy with your career choice, then you can ignore all of this advice.
Re 3. our UK bank charges us to deposit any cash not just coinage.

The cash (notes) is deposited by putting it in a machine at the bank. I guess withdrawals of cash are so small now that they want to restrict inputs of cash to avoid their own handling costs.
I think it's based on elo scores.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elo_rating_system
Last time I asked what is largest integer factorised using quantum computer. There are multiple answers depending on the algorithm, but for the one that can scale into cryptographic levels, the answer is 21.
Venn's diagram between people who can achieve this supposed attack and people dumb enough to use their own IP (or any IP from their own country) is blank.
All that you mention points to lack of proper UX design process as part of SDLC. Observation is part this process, it is important and better not to be skipped, because it can provide very useful insights, but it’s just a single stage of research - there are more techniques and methods to solve problems that you mention.
Study your body like you would a machine or a program or a puzzle. Understand how your muscles respond to stimuli. Figure out how your nerves transmit intensity. Discover what forces your body to move against your will. Given your submersion in the hormonal hilarity that is puberty, you're going to spend a lot of time on autopilot, so step back and observe your body being commanded by primal forces.

Once you build this map, you can begin to monitor and track how external factors drive you. Memes, TV, movies, music, conversation... all signals designed to persuade and hijack your behavior. Spending time here will give you much needed clarity of self and begin laying the foundation of empathy for others.

Friends appear once you have this map as you will have unintentionally filtered out those who will exploit the unexplored regions of you.

Good luck.
My lessons learned from high school:

High school performance is not an indication of real life performance. I graduated class rank 380 out of 386 because my personal goal was to see just how close I could cut it without missing the mark. That means I was at that time a risk seeking personality. I also hated high school, because my high school is one of the top high schools in the country and is certainly not a reflection of reality. I was happier isolating myself from the competition politics parents imposed on their children and I achieved that isolation with far too great of success. I still got into college just fine and now I make more money than many of my teenage childrens' friends' parents. This is solely because I pursue my personal interests far more aggressively than most people.

Many years ago when I was at Travelocity I was a young senior developer. Somebody I graduated high school with (top ten class rank) came in as a junior vice president. Her education and life goals were centered around management, but she had no product or technical goals. She left the company before I did and is doing very well. It took me later in life to discover my personal goals and I have been less successful as a result. I suspect there is greater demand for me in the marketplace and I likely have greater job security and her though.

You are still a child. Your brain has not fully formed and so you lack the observational and emotional stability that comes with being an adult. That said remain calm and don't anything too seriously. Focus on learning all things from academics, inter-personal relationships, technical things, human behavior, and so forth. Don't confuse who you are with who you want to be. Be yourself and do it well.

Use your time in high school to prepare the personal behaviors that will carry you through the rest of life. Consider things like self-reflection, work ethic, a lust for learning, written communications, and so forth. Discover your interests and personal passions and have the courage to share your interests with others.

Set personal goals. Its ok if you don't achieve your personal goals at that age, because your interests are subject to change. Goals give you something to work towards and what is important is that you are working towards something intentional with great focus. If you do quit your goal prematurely do so deliberately with a great reason that you can speak to out loud.

You never get your time back. Don't waste your time on frivolous things. Any activity that contributes to some degree of self-improvement, listening/communication skills, or social behavior is important.

Fun is what you make of things. It is a matter of perspective. Beware of people trying to define this for you.
Ask HN: Which tool do you use to create beautiful diagrams?
For instance what they use for stuff like

https://git-lfs.github.com

Or I don't know how to describe it, because right now I can't find an example, but more "comic" like maybe. I know that Venka Subramanian once had such a nice article about Akka with beautiful diagrams, but can't find it either :(
Wait, what's the problem with Red 40? Besides it being bug-juice, if course.
The "Red Sparrow" series was written by a former CIA operative. There are some good books by ex-CIA people. They get censored somewhat, but the general concepts come through.

The field people in HUMINT are called "case officers". Their job is to recruit and manage spies, not spy themselves. It's a strange combination of sales, human resources, and counseling. Dulles was from that world.

The big difference today is that the targets are smaller.

Back in the Cold War era, I worked for a company that built stuff for the three-letter agencies. They were all focused on the USSR; anything else was almost a spare time activity. It was a huge culture shock to the intelligence community when the USSR went down. First there was a big downsizing in intel. Then all the little players who had been squelched by the superpowers started asserting themselves, and the US intel community struggled to figure out what to do. The agencies had the wrong expertise and capabilities. And the wrong speed. The USSR was a very slow moving opponent. The little players moved much faster.

During the Cold War, huge efforts were put into finding out very general things about what the Soviet Union was doing - how many bombers, how many missiles, where the air bases were. Big attack surface. Today, it's trying to find some tiny terrorist group and getting someone to talk.
The Martin's Beach issue involved a long-existing easement (a road across the property to the beach).
It also helps to have them as a conduit for your communications to other doctors. It’s sad that you have to pay someone a lot to (partly) forward your emails, but it works.

If responding to internal emails had a billing code, I think they would fight over who gets to respond.