skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sounds annoying. However I feel this is a universal problem for anyone who is an anomaly. We all use generalization heuristics, and overall it severs us very well. The "price" is wrong judgement for the rare cases. However it's still a better algorithm than discarding generalizations (if that was even possible) because most things are normal, by definition.

What I learn from your comments is that in your area mums usually take their kids to the doctors, single dads are viewed as more incompetent, mostly women play with kids at the playground, and men Christmas shopping with two kids are more likely to be married than single.

You are the anomaly and therefore are being wrongly categorized. This is not a personal thing at all! Quite the opposite, it's a manifestation of how your peer group is perceived by the general public. I bet that people that get to know you change this perception and adapt it to you, personally.
>Six months sounds like a lot

No, it does not. Learning new skill from scratch takes time. You're trying to master 2 new, orthogonal, in some sense contradictory skills: web development, and self-promotion (to find your place in "the job market"). Take a deep breath.
Yes: free healthcare, unemployment checks, public housing like in various countries in Europe.

So that people can go to work out of personal choice and not out of desperation.
Kind of. As a Brit I don't think the UK is especially socialist. Also we don't generally think of the NHS as socialist more than Americans would talk about having a socialist army or police force. The fact that the above are funded by the government from tax in my view doesn't really make them socialist. It's more just a common sense way of funding some stuff.

The dictionary has socialism as "means of production, distribution, and exchange should be owned or regulated by the community as a whole" and I've never thought of health care as a "means of production". Now if the government tries to own all the factories that's socialism.
This is just bypassing OP's question. You could similarly ask if plumbing, plastering or tiling is still a viable career choice in construction, or whether one should focus on general carpentry.

You'd then try to work on projects where your construction specialty is seen to be more valuable than not, that goes to your comment. But that's an entirety different question than whether a specialty should be pursued, and if so what specialty.

E.g. in this case whether it's still a good move for a new developer to start out his career by focusing on web dev v.s. say native mobile dev, or mainframe development or whatever.
> Can you refuse treatment from an OON provider in a hospital?

In most cases you will not know that it's an OON provider. You may be under sedation at the time.

The practice is outlawed in many states, as far as I know.
I do work in both.

What sort of "benefit" does the EU's own civil service try to take away? There is no technical reason why euro clearing must happen physically inside the eurozone. And why do you think the Commission tried to pass a law that violates the treaties? It's because they know that the ECJ frequently ignores the treaties and laws, and does whatever is most advantageous to the EU's ideological goals regardless of what's written - see their ruling on cancelling Article 50 for an especially clear example.

I'm sure you can see why I might consider a "benefit" that the EU itself has tried so hard to illegally remove not an especially compelling argument.

In fact their position is still illegal. EU regs say any jurisdiction that is "equivalent" from a regulations perspective has financial access sufficient to perform clearing, but the Commission has decided that on the day of leaving, despite having still identical regulations, the UK will not be "equivalent". You don't have to be a lawyer to see that if two laws start out identical and neither is changed, then they are still equivalent, but the Commission claims they aren't. This is entirely predictable given their past behaviour, and this time, the court will take their side.
They already abandoned that idea AFAIK. Liquid lead wall introduced too much contamination into the plasma, making fusion impossible.
Ask HN: Did anything go wrong with HN?
I have noticed time and date changing...anybody else noticed here...???
Categorizing type systems
I watched a movie once where a hostage had been left gagged and tied to the bed holding the tv remote. As he flicked through the channels it came to that channel and some weird looking guy in 70s attire was giving a really dry lecture. As the hostage tried to change the channel the remote fell to the floor.
I went to look at their curriculum and fees and their website and programs are so hard to make sense of. You pay by module and the module consists of 12 credits to take to complete the module.
Chinese kids are beaten all the time if they get a A- instead of an A+ on their report card. Maybe that's why the Chinese economy is on track to overtake the United States.
I agree with you in part, but in my opinion propaganda and lobbying are the problem because this is the source of the disconnect. When people got increased protections from the ACA, nobody complained. The insurance and hospitals deliberately shitcanned the healthcare marketplace and MOST pepole don't put much thought into why the mandated insurance became unconscionably expensinve, they just thought "Obamacare is worhtless" because that's what they were told.

I don't think it's specifically an American thing to avoid much thought about becoming really ill. It's an uncomfortable subject.
Or, if you have any other motivation for attacking either a coin or a person or entity known to be heavily invested in that coin.

You know, in case turning a profit is not the only possible motivation for anybody to do anything. Many acts of war and violence are not profitable, certainly not directly profitable, and yet history shows people will attack each other anyhow.

'Bit' worrisome if your whole concept of finance depends on altruistically greedy actors who can never act out of spite or malice. That would be creepy but nice compared to the real world as it has always existed.
It is viable that's why they are investing in browsers. Hahahha
Love this, space is so fascinating.
The "exploiting xenophobia" explanation rings hollow.

The mainstream media has long been the lapdog and mouthpiece of the elite (deep state)--see Operation Mockingbird, which continues to this day.

It serves the purposes of our masters to keep us divided and fearful (as well as only "bad news" making the buck), but it's not xenophobia they're pushing, it's a generally negative view of reality to keep us discouraged and turning to them for leadership.
If you take a non-relativistic model of your matter content, then the theory becomes non-relativistic. That's trivial. So take a relativistic model for your matter and you have no problem [1]. EM gives you a theory of EM Fields and their interaction with matter. It shouldn't be surprising that EM doesn't give you a theory of matter.

I maintain there is no conceptual problem with EM, the problem is with your electron model which is unphysical. It might seem reasonable to you, but that's because of your intuition to build up matter from point particles, which is only justified by QFT considerations that came almost a century after EM.

[1] A simple matter model often used in GR is dust. I'm sure this would work for EM even better.
Ask HN: Modern CSR stack vs. plain old SSR stack: what to choose?
I am investigating approaches to frontend development for a new project and can't make up my mind on technologies because frontend became so huge in recent years.
Requirements: desktop and mobile website, mobile apps as PWAs, SEO not only for Google, but also for other local search engines which can't render CSR SPAs. Website can be done as MPA except, maybe, chat feature, however it can be dealt with, I think.
I am mostly a manager nowadays, development will be done by a contractor with appropriate skills. However I want to be able to know as much about development process as I can, so familiar stack (right now angularjs, 5-6 years ago Spring MVC) is a big plus.

I see these ways:

1. React/Vue/Angular CSR + Spring.
I'd go this way, but I see problems with SEO. Advantages: popular stacks, rich libraries of components, division to frontend and backend developers.

2. React/Vue/Angular SSR + Spring Rest.
I've got a feeling, that this stack is more complex than it should be -> I will have many problems with it or I'll have to hire better and expensive developers.

3. Spring MVC + JSP (maybe others like Django, RoR, Laravel etc. fall to this category too).
Plain old stack. Not so popular and popularity is decreasing every year -> will have trouble finding java fullstack programmers in future, can't reuse many components (I've searched for jsp tag libs - they are poor and were updated more than 2-3 years ago). I think, java programmers went full-backend mostly. Maybe, PHP programmers still mostly fullstack?

4. PHP Laravel Vue SSR. Don't know much about it.

5. Some sort of hybrid: Spring MVC JSP + React/Vue for dynamic components. It is SEO-friendly, familiar, can use many component libraries. Downsides: it requires full stack java developers who know React/Vue.

6. React SSR + Express.

If you had similar choice what have you chosen and why? Are you satisfied with your choice?
Zero-day marketplace increase payouts to $1M for exploits in WhatsApp etc.
Maybe if you're a team of 30-40 people, you could pay one full time developer to work on a project of your choice, but of course that would mean that developer works mainly for the project of choice and not directly for your company's needs, even if your own bugs would take priority.
There are a lot of talented ML researchers in China. This is a product of (a) the government and major companies (i.e. BAT) investing heavily in fundamental ML research (b) the population size (c) a long tradition of STEM-focused education in China. So, it's not surprising that would be the case.

The interesting questions are if China is uniquely focused on deep learning over other ML techniques, and Chinese research compares in terms of quality. Anecdotally (speaking as a researcher in the field) papers from Chinese institutions seem disproportionately focused on deep learning (whereas, for example, the UK does great work in Bayesian ML and the US does disproprotionately well in NLP). I'm not a deep learning researcher so I can't judge the technical merit, but I was just at NeurIPS in Montreal, and I saw about equal representation of Chinese institutions as South Korean ones. South Korea, with ~1/25 the population, punches way above its weight per capita.
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This misses the main point for me.
The 'openness' is what allowed the pc to succeed. If it had stayed IBMs platform it may well have dominated business for sometime, but something would have popped up to take its place.
The 80s and 90s are littered with superior platforms that never got enough traction because the pc was everywhere.

I wonder when the same thing will happen to social networks.
Gender is a man-made construct. There are only two biological sexes.
2019.01 Wishes for 2019 – Weekly changes in and around Perl 6
Just because politics aren't investing in roads doesn't mean that selling cars stops being a viable business model.
They do sell cars that to over 500 miles on a tank. A Prius should do it. There was also an episode of top gear where one of them went 1000 miles in a jaguar without refueling.
tl;dr: All of my comment is basically agreeing with rndgermandude that the OP's description of German medical care is not accurate.

I co-founded a company that sells practice management software to primary care doctors in Germany. We work closely with the Hausärzteverband -- something like a union for primary care physicians -- and I speak with doctors in Germany, board members of the HAVG, and so on basically every day.

Germany has three different medical/insurance systems -- KV, HzV, and private insurance -- I worked with HzV so am most familiar with that but everyone has at least a passing understanding of KV as well since it was the only one until recent decades. HzV is more popular in certain geographies -- for instance if you work for Volkswagen you'll be in the HzV system and not the KV system under a BWQ contract.

I've never met a doctor in Germany that doesn't have staff. A quick check of the analytics of all the practices using our software doesn't show a single one.

As rndgermandude says, every single one has at least an MFA (and nowadays probably a Vera as well, since they can earn extra money that way). Our analytics shows 2-3 MFAs per doctor is the average but there are always edge cases.

>They prescribe whatever they want

This is not really true. Every insurance contract will have different rules about what can be prescribed. They can't FORCE a doctor to follow those rules but they doctor is monetarily incentivized to do so. For instance, getting a bonus every quarter so long as 80% of their prescriptions follow insurance company rules. The checks are done at run-time, every doctor knows instantly if a prescription is against insurance rules, and practice management software is REQUIRED to suggest alternatives that meet insurance requirements.

>they're guaranteed to be paid in a week

Doctors are basically NEVER paid in a week. They submit their billing at the end of the quarter (here I'm speaking primarily of HzV contracts; I'm not sure how the third option -- private insurance -- works) and then get paid a while after that.

>no questions asked.

No, this is not remotely true.
I disagree with your diagram of model-view-controller. Traditionally, the view and the controller are both part of the user interface, so should be on the top part of your diagram. In fact the controller is higher level than the view.

The distinction between these two parts is that the view is just a display of the data (model) whereas the controller is a way for the user to edit it. This was more relevant back in the 1970s where these things were more often separate. For a modern(ish) example, think of Vim's separation between the main display of your text file (the view) and its command line at the bottom (the controller). In most modern GUIs this distinction is meaningless, so you would group controller and view into the view and have a simple overall model-view separation.

Now I'm not saying that all of the classes you've called (something)Controller should be moved to the UI, I'm just saying that they're misnamed (at least by the traditional definitions). I think that your interpretation of model vs controller is raw model data vs non-graphical operations that act on them. But operations on the data are just as much part of the model as the data itself. For example, if I have a word processor then my model is a document, including operations on it. If I want to update the document programmatically (bypassing the GUI), for example to add a word, then I expect to call a method of the model. This should do everything to keep the model consistent, such as returning an updated word count. But that still doesn't need anything called a controller.

I just said that I'm not telling you to move your controller classes to the UI (view) layer. But that's a general comment about the meaning of "model view controller". The specific example you present on that page is "MenuModel" and "MenuController". These sound like things that both belong in the UI layer. Going back to the word processor example, your model might have a SaveToFile() method (although it would expect a file name parameter - popping up a save file dialogue box is the UI's job). But it won't know whether that came from a File->Save menu item or the user hitting ctrl+S. It's the UI's (view's) job to create a menu, choose what commands go on it, and map the OnClick events to actions on the model.

No doubt others will disagree with my understanding of the definition of "controller". This is the one thing you can be really sure about with that term! And it's another good reason to avoid it. Everyone agrees with "model" and "view" mean, so if you use those terms then people will know what you mean, but if you describe something as a "controller" then it just causes confusion.
Weeks is not bad... Months is. And as you said, it's for non-critical stuff.

A mixed system - government-managed for important things, with extra healthcare you can pay on top, like the one we have here in Uruguay, seems to work best.

As far as I can tell, we have the best healthcare for anything but special/rare cases which would be best served by a top specialist from the US or Germany. For the remaining 99% of cases it beats any system I know of.
For more, I highly recommend looking at the accepted papers from the NeurIPS 2018 Relational Representation Learning workshop. [1] I really enjoyed the workshop and I hear workshops tend to represent a (rough) frontier of the subfield.

[1] https://r2learning.github.io/
Most cars have greater than 250 miles in range. I think most end up in the 350-400 mile range, with hybrids being considerably more (550-600 for a Prius).
If you're interested in story structure, Dan Harmon (creator of Community, co-creator of Rick and Morty) wrote some great tutorials that you can read here:
http://channel101.wikia.com/wiki/Story_Structure_101:_Super_...

It's basically a distillation of Joseph Campbell, and it's really entertaining and informative.
For a second I read your comment as liberal tears, and had to do a double-take. :)

Speaking to the 500$ charge, are you saying that is a typical cost around the world for a MRI? Is there something about the machine's cost that justifies this or are you just saying that a 500$ charge is typical in the american system?
If it's a book I'm thinking about then it appeared already very dated to me 10 years ago. Too many limitations and there are some weird rules about boundaries between elements of the architecture.
>you need the experience of watching your masterpiece crumble under its own weight (sometimes several times) or have the joy of hunting some obscure bug because you failed to recognize the trap you had set for yourself.

Very good point, but that's by no means unique to C++. Maybe that level of experience ;) in a related language, plus a good working knowledge of C++ would be acceptable?
> Congress and the Senate are full of corrupt leeches, and both parties are equally guilty.

No, the Democrats and Republicans are not the same.
Elimination of All Bad Local Minima in Deep Learning
Yes, it is. I spent 8 months studying web development and I am now one year and a half in on my first software development job. I can see clearly tons of opportunities in the future.

My 8 months of studying were full-time studying (freeCodeCamp and plenty of small projects). 6-8 hours every weekday.

Not sure what you mean about "solid path", but you have to have focus.

edit: these are my tips for becoming a frontend web developer, which was my path.

First, learn the essentials of CSS - don't aim to be a CSS wizard because that won't help you get your first job on good jobs (the ones that are not on agencies where your sole job is to transform photoshop images in HTML).

The most basic and true advice is to focus on learning Javascript properly and deeply. Read books (EloquentJS for starters is a good one), read documentation, watch videos (Fun Fun Functions youtube channel is a nice one), practice on code-on-the-browser platforms (I am a huge fan of freeCodeCamp) and create some projects of your head using Javascript only.

At least 3 (full-time) months on Javascript only. Then, move on to focus on React, because that's where all the jobs are going. And I say this being hired to work with Ember on my first job (and I enjoy Ember), but pragmatically, React is the way to go (assuming you have learned Javascript properly before).

Also, pay attention to good software development practices (The Pragmatic Programmer is a good one) that are not about language syntax (e.g. coherent indentation of your code, good variable and method naming, how to make code more readable and maintainable). Become what in the United States they call "an engineer" with certain glamour on it. You don't need to buy the hype that software engineers are a special breed of people superior to all others, but do make an effort to learn best practices, design patterns, clean code and all that.

Don't get into any tech discussions in forums, flamewars, don't take sides, etc. This early in your career you should focus and be pragmatic.

Summary: Learn the essentials of HTML+CSS. Focus first on Javascript, then on React. Create your own projects and learn what good development practices you should use on them.

I wrote a few blog posts of my learning and career change to web development, you might find them helpful: https://rodrigohgpontes.github.io/
Can confirm. And it affects medicine outside the US as well.

A bit over a decade ago, one very popular modern antidepressant drug used to be citalopram (cipramil). This is the racemic mixture (meaning it contains both the left and right-handed versions). The new one, escitalopram (lexapro) only contains the active stereoisomer. Its dosage is exactly half of the previous version because racemic mixture always (?) occurs in an exact 50/50 proportion.

Both drugs work perfectly well. No statistically significant difference in effect or side-effect. You just don't get the inactive half of the molecules.

Escitalopram wouldn't exist if it weren't for citalopram's patent expiring. Or maybe they were just sitting on the purified version, biding their time.

This is a straight counterexample of the argument that the insane costs of the healthcare system in the US somehow pays for new drug research all over the world.

This industry called "drug research" simply isn't motivated to improve health (not just "find better drugs"), they are just researching whatever is driven by profit.

They will just as happily waste billions of research on a drug that is almost literally identical to one that already exists and is known to work, a copy that nobody needed, only so they can patent it again.

At least they replaced it with something equivalent, instead of something worse. Because they would if they could (and given the state of reproducibility of medical research, probably did at some point or another).

That is not research, that is throwing money into a bottomless pit. Which is what the featured article is about.

Drug research in the US is no exception. You could do so much better research if it was done efficiently (and as a bonus take some pride in your work).

The fact that US drug research dominates the world market is not something that the rest of the world should be thankful for. You waste billions upon billions on such an industry, of course it's gonna dominate. Doesn't mean it's good. Other countries could do efficient drug research but if they don't get billions budgets (because you don't need it), they can't waste it on marketing and push their version of a drug no matter what.

Just because something is expensive, doesn't mean it's good.
I think that warrants a more detailed account of the story... do tell?