skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's too simplistic. There are large differences between countries in the East and the West. Western corporations have had a field day in the EU's Eastern members precisely because of the relative economic advantages they have built up over 50 years following WWII and the massive restructuring of the economies of the Eastern members following the fall of communism. Free trade really only works when countries have some kind of parity (something Friedrich List argues). However, to the East's advantage, their economies are much more dynamic and the West is increasingly stagnating.
Best April Fools jokes this year?
If you go to specific stack overflow answers, today, you get a "90s look". Complete with glaring signs, and a glitter trail following your mouse. See, for example, https://stackoverflow.com/questions/7153659/find-an-integer-not-among-four-billion-given-ones?rq=1.

What other ones are worth catching before they are gone?
> My point exactly.

Well, exactly the opposite, but sure.

> Yang's assumption that we'll be able to scrap welfare program if we give people UBI is a fantasy. Because UBI won't change the fact that many people are still going to need welfare, UBI or not.

No, your idea that we will be compelled to double cover against because some people might not use their first-line benefits ideally is fantasy, because people not doing that happens now and we are fine not double covering.
"What exactly you want me to ask assuming I know salary and position?"

"Who are your most important customers?"

"What is your monthly recurring revenue?"

"What is your best selling product?"

"What's one thing you like about working here?"

"What's one thing you don't like about working here?"

This isn't very difficult. Just requires a slight interest in the industry you plan to work in.
Literally the next sentence I wrote:

> They can only create the possibility for happiness for those who need some extra help.
It seems the motto is “nobody ever got fired for prescribing more stuff”
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Agreed. This is leaving 50% of total comp out of the equation.

-e- not to mention, it's the portion that varies the most with experience and internal performance.
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There are no platform APIs for networking exposed on the NDK, beyond plain old POSIX sockets.

The alternative would be some JNI boilerplate to access Android Framework networking APIs.
eh sounds like all these people’s lives are significantly better. Also, it sounds like we aren’t shipping oil all the way across the world to be refined into gas nearly as much if we are getting directly from Texas. I could even imagine this being co2 net positive
Everyone should be skeptical about medications.

I had suffered a reaction to an antibiotic, it is now documented by case studies, FDA, and EMA. I still have some side effects years after last dosage. I have seen maybe 30 docs over the years, ONLY ONE agreed that my symptoms appear to be a direct reaction to that medication. Few refused I even after I showed that information. Said "it doesn't really matter at this point"....

Imagine this:
You know arrays start at 0 in C#/Java even though you don't program but you saw a meme online. Now, you want to have an application developed. During the first conversation with a dev he says, ah "no problem we can use arrays and those start 1".......This has been my experience, the amount of doctors that just are ignorant, relying on knowledge from 80's when they attended school is saddening. Entering the medical system has been eye opening for me, I feel that developers could do a better job treating people with just google (obviously surgery is different, I am talking mainly about prescriptions)
Kinda the other way around. NIMBY's prefer, and advocate for more single-family housing which tends to consume drastically more energy (per person) then more efficient multi-residential buildings, which they oppose.

No need to limit population growth if we were allowed to allocate population density more intelligently.
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Shale is not going to last for much longer. Halliburton has already started the layoffs.
194 comments, and someone didn't read the article
The flaws with eCWs system aside, the larger problem with EHRs, and the fact that to date they have not improved outcomes in any significant way, lies with the fact that they are primarily designed to “optimize” revenue cycle management. Everything has to be documented correctly - or else it can’t be billed for or may get rejected on audit.
Hospital staff, including physicians, are responsible for the accuracy of this documentation, but that’s a big responsibility to bear.

The only way this may change is if we change how we pay for our care. This is not on the horizon at this time. Even the value based programs that CMS has implemented are really fee for service with a look back and adjustments to payments made based on savings that were encountered.
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I can assure you that I am never trying to "own the libs"; I am often the kind of person such people would want to own. But I do care about unstated assumptions about what is "good," when I fear those unstated assumptions are rooted in some form of magical thinking.
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JS is not backwards compatible?
Where?
Two Scoops books about Django have awesome tips and tricks about many topucs and architecture is one of them.

Even if the latest version is for 1.11, the concepts are relevant.
The whole platform is around the major threat and consequences of automation and how UBI can help. He's far too smart to think he's going to pull of a Trump type miracle. The message is the goal.

My assumption

1. Yang knows that he little chance to win the nom

2. Yang is running so that his ideas enter mainstream convo (successful already due to JRE's massive influence) and the eventual nominee may incorporate them in their platform in some manner

3. He possibly gains enough early steam that he could be a VP candidate or in the administration which helps accomplish goal #2
I'm curious how they're going to manage the legal side of that project. It's free many people are going to abuse the system.
This is attractive because I trust Cloudflare more than all of my local mobile providers.
I am most certainly biased since I work at PayPal and am responsible for APIs that you might end up using but I would without hesitation encourage any small/medium size business to have a PayPal Checkout enabled - it doesn't take much to put the PayPal button and you can see the results for yourself and be the judge. For a broader question of credit card processing I think there are quite a few comments already.

I completely empathize with some of the concerns around using our APIs and more broadly around some of the operational policies, pricing etc. I cannot claim to speak for all of it but since the last 2 years we have been paying serious attention to how we can surface our capabilities in a way that's more understandable, approachable and meaningful to developers.

https://medium.com/paypal-engineering/launch-v2-paypal-check... is one of the first things we have launched and more interesting stuff to follow.
I think it's possible - yes. But I kind of qualify those employers as "elite" here, and very competitive to get into - not average.

And if you want to count my pre-teen years coding BASIC games, total experience jumps significantly!
In fact this is false. Even though in verbal speech they are the same, in written they are different. I have known people who didn't understand something written because the wrong word was written, once someone read it out loud they understood it.

Of course there is no reason the above people couldn't get used to one spelling if they changed the rules. We just need to have universal agreement to change the rules. (I have no clue how you would do that)
We'll need a new toolchain -- wasm debugger support in the browser, especially. (I love your username.)
In a very long article he seems to be mentioning unwanted side effects only as a small side note.

I find this rather harmful, and think journalists should know better.

I took LSD when I was 18, lured by stories of Steve Jobs and others and I had the worst time of my time. Bad trip doesn't begin to describe it. It left me with psychosis lasting 4 months and making me fail my first year at the university.

I only began taking antypsychotic medication after one year, when my psychosis was triggered again by marihuana.

Would I suffer psychosis without drugs? My psychiatrist doesn't believe so, but it very well might have happened. But why risk getting it triggered while being under influence of powerful drugs and risking killing yourself?

(Under psychosis caused by Marihuana I almost jumped out of a high construction building)

Sorry for stupid rant, just wished journalists had some integrity and would not lightly promote illegal substances that have real social cost on users. (From my talks with psychiatrists in psychiatric ward, a lot of users come with psychosis triggered by marihuana/amphetamine/mephedrone use)
Wow! Can you share, if you know, what kind of programming your grandmother took part in?
Utility is maximized for society as a whole when the workforce grows. However, my utility is not equal to society's. In fact, selfishly speaking, I would be better off if h1b was shut down, licensure roles introduced, etc etc.
I never quite got Serpy working, but swapping to uJSON and the DRF renderer[0] helped quite a bit in some cases.

[0] https://github.com/gizmag/drf-ujson-renderer
In fairness, the times this happened was 2015, so about four years ago. Still, even by then it was getting to the "it's not ok to not know this" territory.
I know the Google SWEs in Boston tend to get paid (net comp) much higher than that for senior positions, though I am not very familiar with Boston.

On the west coast you'll usually get paid a significantly higher salary in Seattle/SF than most of the other cities with any tech presence (e.g. Portland, LA, San Diego, etc).

Salaries are tied to cost of labor/employment, which varies by city. It is generally correlated with cost of living, though (otherwise people move away), so it balances slowly minus network effect adjustments.

FWIW, I thought the SF numbers in that article were low for mainstream companies, but high for startups.
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I bet you had one engineer who claimed that the real problem was that the users were stupid and not that the deployment process was error prone.

I've heard about this case many times before but somehow in the other renditions they downplayed or neglected to mention that the deployments were manual. As this story was first explained to me, one of the servers was not getting updated code, but I was convinced by the wording that it was a configuration problem with the deployment logic.

Performing the same action X times doesn't scale. Somewhere north of 5 you start losing count. Especially if something happens and you restart the process (did I do #4 again? or am I recalling when I did it an hour ago?)
I am in a pizzeria right now and reading this. Looking at the pizza being prepared and thinking... Can we already have ham-like meat, like those slices they put on pizzas ? Or is it only beef-like meat for now?
For small projects, I usually have two apps, the frontend and backend apps.
Really looking forward to an expedia-like ad featuring charleton heston
I also gave that comment the benefit of the doubt before I actually looked at the article.

"Very condescending" is a stretch. The most suspect thing I could find was the "fortnite" comment. It's a throwaway joke that won't amuse everyone.
>Our next big change came in 2011, when we moved to all-digital publishing, because newsstand bookstores were dying (goodbye Borders), and the cost of printing became impossibly high.

Gah. That brings back bad memories. When I moved to this area in 2011, there were five Borders within a 20 mile radius of me. They all closed within six months of my moving here. B&N and Books-a-Million are pale imitations.
I'm glad this finally made it to the front page because it is an important story of how culture and true customers shape software development. Notice that government incentives spurred hospitals to quickly adopt software that physicians (and a whole host of other clinicians and supporting actors) use. Hospitals/Health Systems/etc != Physicians.

Some reactions to the article I sent to my team:

Bulletpoint summary: [1] “The article includes a brilliant comment from WellSpan SVP/CIO Hal Baker, MD: ‘Physicians have to cognitively switch between focusing on the record and focusing on the patient … I have yet to see the CEO who, while running a board meeting, takes minutes, and certainly I’ve never heard of a judge who, during the trial, would also be the court stenographer. But in medicine … we’ve asked the physician to move from writing in pen to [entering a computer] record, and it’s a pretty complicated interface.’”

EPtalk by Dr. Jayne 3/21/19: [2] “The piece hooks the reader by opening with a story that details a patient’s death from a brain aneurysm, with the lack of diagnosis being influenced by failure of the head scan order to be transmitted by her physician’s EClinicalWorks EHR.”

Reader Survey Results: How I Would Change EHRs: [3] “There is no perfect technology. Our ability to acknowledge data integration is key is tantamount.”

Not related, but also interesting: [4] HIStalk Interviews Grahame Grieve, FHIR Architect and Interoperability Consultant: “A lot of doctors I talk to think about this as a technology problem, but it’s not a technology problem. It’s an information problem, and so technology can’t solve it. It needs clinicians to make clinical agreements in order to get clinical interoperability.”

1. https://histalk2.com/2019/03/19/news-3-20-20/

2. https://histalk2.com/2019/03/21/eptalk-by-dr-jayne-3-21-19/

3. https://histalk2.com/2019/03/24/reader-survey-how-i-would-ch...

4. https://histalk2.com/2019/03/25/histalk-interviews-grahame-g...
Purely based on my 'gut' (though I've been around):

1) SF/NY/Seattle salaries are skewed by really rich companies
2) Yes, there a big uptick as it's more competitive, FYI cost of living is much more.
3) The salary I think has a selection/sample problem that probably over estimates.

My bet is $150K for an experienced dev at a normal company in Boston is probably somewhere in the league of normal.

Consider that salaries are not as an efficient a market as we might imagine. If Boston area companies can get away with paying $140 instead of $180 they will! Most people don't move across the country for a pay raise. Worker mobility in the US is down over the last 30 year (weirdly).

SF has a lot of people moving there which creates a different kind of frothy market.

Boston is established and so everything gets established, including salaries.

Consider the situation: imagine if you had a company making ok profit, with 50 Engineers in Beantown. Do you think you could all of a sudden get your Eng. to the 'next level' by paying SF rates?

So you're staffing costs are way up, but is productivity? Surely, you might be able to bring on the best hires, but will that make all the difference?

It's such a big bet, and the inclination is always to make (or save) money 'now'.

It's a little bit like the 'open vs. closed office' calculation. The CFO can make a direct and measurable compelling case for open office: it's 20% cheaper. Those in favour of a nicer office can't provide the hard numbers on how much the company would increase productivity.

I think salary differentials are a crazy interesting subject and suspect there are a lot of weird and interesting things going on.

I'm from Canada, where any good developer can double their salary by moving to a choice job in the US. Why the hell would young talent stay? Which implies, how the hell can Canadian companies even remotely compete on building great companies of the top tier talent leaves?

Obviously this depends a lot on a companies specific need for hyper-top tier talent, those that don't would maybe be better off out of the Valley.

I also wonder a lot on what would happen if a well funded Canadian startup actually started paying super great salaries. Sure, they'd be able to get the best talent that comes through the door ... but then there's the other paradox: most Canadian cities are not destinations! Toronto, Montreal, Vancouver are regular cities, if you start a company there, most of your applicants will be local. It stands that local talent may not be all that spectacular (good but not great) thereby not justifying really big salaries. And can you really have 'regular salary' for the 'regular, local talent' and then inflated salaries for the international hot talent? That might be hard!

So SF, NY and Seattle have the advantage of being destinations, i.e. cities where people are willing to move, meaning that their quest for talent is really a not a function of the locals, but the top tier of a much broader pool of talent.
I know a girl who works for United Airlines' "blue team." It's a small (5-8 people?) inward-facing operations consulting group that reports directly to Oscar, the CEO.

It's composed of engineers and they analyze existing processes and create new metrics all day long.

They do worry about their own careers/promotions etc but the group is too small for there really to be any opportunities to "game" anything beyond basic politics.
Power must always be exercised to be retained, yes. But I doubt power must be publicly exercised in order to remain viable. And rulers never rule, they hold court, and they must retain the favor of the court to be viable. See "Rules for Rulers": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rStL7niR7gs

I believe one example of this was how Napoleon III lost the favor of Alexis de Tocqueville, and hence was toppled as Emperor of France: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexis_de_Tocqueville
> I think the position is that whatever fraction of that $3T that gets spent at the bottom of the economy will contribute more to the economy overall than it would have sitting in the bank accounts of whoever "paid" the tax

Which is fantasy. It's not people paying the taxes it's a VAT that Yang's advocating for. This is money directly coming out of economic activity.
Worse, they've tried to motivate people with pathetically small amounts of money

>I gave you a 25 cent raise over minimum wage! Why aren't you happy!
First bacterial genome created entirely with a computer
How do you know if you have "inflammation" or not?
A combination of tax and regulation to redistribute income, cover the cost of negative externalities, and encourage activities with a positive externality. I’m grossly oversimplifying, and obviously it’s neither 100% efficient nor effective.

I’m genuinely intrigued by distributism, so please don’t think I’m making snarky comments.
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Even 2-3 hours is pretty high, expecting me to spend $100-150 of labor for it.

16 hours is kind of insane and you have my sympathies. My record is around 10 hours.
A new study shows what it might take to make AI useful in health care
I think in terms of strictly engineering after 8 years you start seeing diminishing rates of improvement.

I would imagine a lot of people in this group start transitioning into other roles in management
That's the headline. The actual content of the article consists in discussion of various instances in which male/female brain differences have been exaggerated.

The brain is a bit of a red herring here. We know little about the brain -- far too little to be able to draw any conclusions from whatever differences there may be between average male and female brains. We do, however, have reliable behavioral evidence of small cognitive differences between men and women on average. My point was that there are few if any people who deny the existence of such differences.
What do you mean by nesting apps? Like group them into domain folders and have multiple apps within a domain folder?
Second galaxy found without dark matter ironically suggests substance exists
Don't modern amps also have coil transformers?
Your video looks dope. What a difference 8 years makes. https://vimeo.com/16396416