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Seems like some folks have missed the point. The idea isn't "hey let's infect doctors because it's their fault!"

It is self-evident that enough care is not currently taken on washing instruments. Or else we wouldn't hear about these kinds of things. If instrument washing was 99.9999% effective there wouldn't be a problem needing solving.

So what kind of feedback mechanism would be strong enough to get the doctors and hospital administrators to really be interested in the absolute level of quality of the cleaning and sterilization process? I don't know for sure, but I can say that anything that ties people's own personal outcomes to those of the folks they're supervising tends to get better results.

I (obviously?) don't want doctors or administrators to get horrible diseases for fun. What I want is for them to exercise an appropriate level of oversight and care.

I went to school for Electrical Engineering and while doing so I heard stories about people that went to work for GE designing things for MRI machines. Those people then were the first ones who had to test out the machines as people before they were allowed to be used on other people. I can't help but think that this kind of a policy makes people willing to double, triple and quadruple check their work when their own lives are on the line.

Similarly by making the people who should be exercising significant oversight (but seemingly aren't) subject to the results of the processes that they have designed it's very, very likely that they will do all the things that they need to do in order to ensure that their outcomes will be what we all expect: boring. That might mean that pay has to go up, or that minimum cleaning times need to be specified or that better inspection methods need to be utilized or any one of another dozen things.

If a doctor wouldn't be willing to use an instrument on themselves that they're going to use on another person I have a hard time understanding how they are adhering to their oath of "first do no harm" and I can't help but feel that anyone managing doctors should be similarly bound.
Serious question, not trolling, how is XML not a more restrictive version of YAML and why does XML get bad rep?
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I had surgery to remove impacted wisdom teeth around 10 years ago. I recall the surgeon telling me at the time that he used new instruments every time because of the risk of prion diseases.
Prescient reasoning from 1973: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosenhan_experiment
While I think I am biased to agree with the results of this "study", I have a big problem with using the language of scientific research to describe what this is about:

> The study, led by researchers from the University of Liverpool, involved a detailed analysis of five key chapters of the latest edition of the widely used Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM), on ‘schizophrenia’, ‘bipolar disorder’, ‘depressive disorders’, ‘anxiety disorders’ and ‘trauma-related disorders’.

So, basically, they read the DSM and gave their opinion of it. Which is fine, but calling this some type of "study" is ludicrous. It's a bit rich to use statements like "the main findings of this research are" when the "research" just literally was Reading The F*ing Manual.
If you want to show something, usually you preface it with "Show HN:" and add a link. Is this something you made?
Awesome. Svelte's on my todo list.

Should've been in the title.
They announced it back in may: https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2019/05/building-s...

That article is also linked on the fourth word in this article...
Because the doctors are unable to influence the policies and procedures of the places they work? If anyone can affect change in a hospital it's the doctors.
With we you mean you?

You should read "Zen and the art of motorcycle maintenance", it a autobiography of a man who develops a meta-physical system existing of the holy trinity of a thing, the representation of a thing and the essence this representation is missing. Don't read it for the theory but the slow decent into madness.
It's important to me to measure my own intellectual growth. Which opinions have changed? Which opinions have stayed the same?

A simply example: Back in 2008, another era of the Web, I wrote "How Much Do Websites Cost?" For years, this was the most popular thing I had written. It is interesting for me to look back and see which parts of it have gone obsolete. The types of websites being built has changed dramatically, and the focus has shifted to phone apps, but the stuff at the end of the essay, about how to build a startup, and what kind of leadership is needed, remains true.

http://www.smashcompany.com/business/how-much-do-websites-co...
I'm sorry, but I don't agree at all.

> if you are just trying to create a transformation for existing Python codebases, the decorator approach is a good shoehorn.

For transformations that need to modify the code, decorators are insufficient. Decorators have their value, and I have built good interfaces using decorators, which would have been rather difficult without them, but all of that was because decorators help _wrap_, not _transform_ code.

When I had a need to transform code, I looked for the right tool, and the takeaways of my searches are mentioned in my original comment.

> you can also interpret the difficulty of AST transforms as a signal from the language designers (had van Rossum really never heard of Lisp?) that they hurt readability and their use should require a little ceremony.

Nobody's claiming Guido had never heard of Lisp, or any non-lispy-language designer for that matter. Language designers make languages for varied reasons. Guido's reasons actually happen to be documented, and the only reason Python isn't homoiconic is because Guido didn't have a need for it, not because he explicitly wanted AST transforms to "require a little ceremony".

In fact, Python AST transforms do not merely "require a little ceremony". They are actually quite cumbersome. The standard library actually provides no help at all in transforms, making it necessary for libraries like Rope, RedBaron, and Astor to be written.
Before rockets, people thought cannon would enable space travel (think Jules Vernes). And in medieval times, to prevent corruption by unscrupulous cannon builders from building impressive but unreliable cannons (which tended to explode, just like rockets), the cannon builder had to sit on the cannon for the demonstration firing.

The GP's proposal, while a bit over the top, would actually at least change the coffee talk between doctors from flaunting their last acquisitions (boats, cars, ...) back to medicine... if it would ever be put into practice. Suddenly they would conjure myriads of verification systems to ensure for example that their employer or stock manager wasn't secretly recycling disposables and having them repackaged...

Edit: spelling correction, thank you
But it's OK to do that to a patient because "reasons"? Why are the doctors more important than the patients? The harm to patients is serious, permanent and irreversible too. Your argument doesn't seem to make sense to me.
It's complex and unquantifiable, I agree.
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It’s actually fairly uncontroversial between psychiatrists that the diagnoses as specified in the DSM are not biologically valid.

We use them more as a communication tool to give a rough picture of a patient’s symptoms to other providers than as a map onto biology. We simply don’t understand the underlying biology well enough yet to do any better. But there’s a lot of exciting research cracking this area open and we may very well be able to diagnose and prognose based on objective data such as brain imaging, genetics and blood tests.

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When I read a book, in the middle of a paragraph, I start getting new ideas related to the topic, and my mind shifts focus to the news ideas, while my eyes keep tracing the text on the book, and obviously I'm not "reading" now, I'm just wandering in my thoughts. And when I realize that I have drifted from the book, I just go back to the text from which my mind drifted.

Some times this happens a lot, and I take so much time finishing what I am reading.

Am I the only one, or you guys also have similar experience? Just curious.
> If a journalist uses a technical term in a headline, and then goes on to explain what the term means in the article, how is that not fine?

I don't wee where the term is ever very clearly explained, the best I see is:

>> the number of neurons in a clique would lead to its size as a high-dimensional geometric object (a mathematical dimensional concept, not a space-time one)

It is a "network topology" concept, the distinction between "mathematical" and "space-time" is nonsensical.

> That's what mathematicians use, why can't journalists use it too?

Not only is the term poorly explained, but it also appears to be used incorrectly. I don't think it is correct to talk about these structures being created in 11 dimensions, but that as "with 11 dimensions", "having a dimension of 11" or "being 11-dimensional" (which is how the term is used in the paper).

> It sounds like you only want journalists talking at a eighth grade level.

The problem is that the article is talking at about a 8th grade level using collegiate terms that it doesn't take the time to explain at at an 8th grade level. This doesn't help to elevate public discourse, it just sows misunderstanding.

> Why don't you try to re-write the findings yourself then? I think you'll find it difficult to say the least.

This seems needlessly combative.

In terms of accurate and responsible reporting of this science, I think the article that the author cites and paraphrases heavily is much more well written: https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2017-06/f-bbt060617....
So who is best positioned to know which factors are out of the doctor's control? a tax payer? or the doctor? this system would in fact quickly result in attention to these factors out of their control.

a lot of people think increased discussion means bad news

it's not because a measure increases the amount of discussion that it can't be a good measure, if it helps unearth the actual problems
Is this irony or not? After all everyone knows that it's the hospitals that send the fraudulent bills. Right now: ER visit, didn't have insurance details on me. Hospital sends full-fare bill. I send insurance details via certified mail because it happened before. Hospital sends full-fare bill. It's always like that. They do this to prey on the elderly and disorganized.
Paraphrasing George Orwell, the object of outrage is outrage. The object of power is power.
You don't hear as much about developer tools being sunset because they rarely impact as many people and that makes less interesting news.

Examples include: AngularJS (replaced by a rewrite of angular effectively), GWT (donated as 'open source' with minimal continued google involvement), basically 90% of all 20% projects by googlers that weren't official google stuff (too many examples to name, practically all of them), the xmpp api for google talk (and all associated library code, including some open source xmpp extensions, libjingle), tons of chrome and android libraries that were killed/deprecated as part of new versions not using them, ARC (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_App_Runtime_for_Chrome), the caldav API for google calendar and any associated libraries...

I could go on, but the majority of the relevant examples are the 20% projects that never made it, and I'd rather not list any of those since they're largely single-person projects and it's kinda personal to comment on any of em.
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In TypeScript, an upper bound of “foo” and 5 is any. But I wonder what a lower bound of those two is supposed to be in Cue.
If you want to make it more applicable, it would be good to let you enter multiple amounts per person (and maybe a fraction), e.g. Alice and Bob split a desert that Charlie didn't. Also rates for tax and tip.
I wholeheartedly and in ironically disagree!

We have all we need. If you want a full featured language, use that. Beyond that, we have JSON, YAML, INI and more. If you want something more complicated you can create your own DSL for your app.

If you want schemas and validation, use XML!
RSS is back!

Just added it to our corporate 11ty site using a plugin. So glad the open web is on the upswing.
> If a journalist uses a technical term in a headline, and then goes on to explain what the term means in the article, how is that not fine?

If a marketing team uses a financial term in a commercial with an asterisk, and then goes on to explain what the term with an asterisk means in the actual 117 pages long financial contract this commercial is trying to sell, how is that not fine?
Seems like if you tried to use transactions, you'd have the same problem?
I seriously question the value of having this bloat up the kernel and general purpose filesystems. Tapes work just fine with userspace support and there isn't any reason for not having custom FUSE's for this as well.

Put another way, everyone suffers with code bloat and extra complexity for the tiny percentage of users (which are large, and can manage their own systems) this supports.

Edit:

The SMR drives should just support the SCSI streaming command set and be done with it. That way nothing really needs to change anywhere but in the drive firmware.
Yes and I'm uncomfortable that the software to do this is even on my device. It's hard to tell if it's 100% disabled and stays that way with updates.
It's fairness by having to put your money where your mouth is. Do you attest that your car didn't cost more than $5k? OK great! Sell it for that.

Do you as an administrator attest that the instruments are clean? Perfect! We're going to use them on you.

Doctor, would you be willing to have this knife used on yourself? No? Well who better to get to the bottom of the problem than the people who can grind a hospital to a halt?
TOML is extremely verbose for lists. It’s ridiculous. Sure it had less features than YAML but it also looks considerably worse in all the common use cases. Looks like INI
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> It's unsettling to learn that a life-saving surgery can compromised by a tech who didn't spend a few extra minutes cleaning the tools properly.

Why are the devices so difficult to clean? Why are processes in sterile processing units so chaotic? Why aren't decontamination errors being picked up by quality control?

It's never the fault of the guy on $8.50 an hour. The buck stops with management; the buck always stops with management.
>Mysql certainly has some syntactic warts, [...] UPDATE and INSERT both support the "assignment_list" syntax. So they are perfectly consistent.

(I was making generic comments about SQL so not sure why you interpreted my post as criticizing MySQL.)

Anyways an FYI for any readers not aware... MySQL has non-standard extensions[0] to the reference SQL language. Other databases like Oracle, MS SQL Server, and SQLite do not have INSERT with optional "assignment_list" syntax.

>Well "INTO" is an odd case, it is completely optional

Another example where MySQL is a special case because its proprietary extensions makes "INTO" optional. In other databases like SQLite, the "INTO" is absolutely required because omitting it in "INSERT customer" returns a syntax error.

>I would point out that only SELECT (not INSERT, UPDATE, DELETE) can be run without providing a table reference.

Yes, the ability for SELECT to leave out the table name is handy for functions like "SELECT date();" but its optionality would not have violated consistency with table-then-column ordering of INSERT & UPDATE. In cases where SELECT needs to specify table(s), it would have been more consistent grammar by putting the table names before the columns like INSERT & UPDATE. (This would have also greatly simplified editors with intellisense since putting the table first would let the parser know which columns to list as autocomplete suggestions. E.g. in Navicat SQL text editor, to get a list of autocomplete column names, I have to first type out "SELECT FROM customer" then move the cursor backwards to the left of "FROM" and then start typing "mem" to see "membership_plan" as an autocomplete suggestion.)

[0] https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/8.0/en/extensions-to-ansi.h...
> We have all databases in k8s, with physical volumes backed by an NFS-connected storage that's sitting in the same rack.

I'm surprised you haven't seen any major issues with doing this. NFS exercises some dark corners of Linux's VFS, and most people don't run databases on top of it (meaning you could run into a fair few pretty fun issues once you're doing enough transactions). From memory, most database vendors are pretty twitchy when you ask "do you support running $DB on NFS?".
It sounds like you don't understand what the term "system libraries" means. It's impossible to tell what apps people are using by uploading system libraries. You could probably tell what type of phone they are using by doing it, but that would be dumb since Android already tells you what kind of phone it is.
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I like this methodology, it’s like you’re dating a book before deciding to commit!
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You're right, it is, but there's a lot of woo surrounding it and a lot of videos floating around with wild eyed people exaggerating the power of neuroplasticity.
Thanks for the feedback. I agree, the performance table would benefit from better formatting.
I had some rsi-like symptoms couple of years ago. They all stopped when:

- I stopped using an external mouse (replaced partially by mouth)
- I switched to vim
- In chrome I use the vimperator extension
- I learned as many shortcuts as I could.
Engineer here with an anecdotal story. My sibling has a doctorate in liberal arts (teaches at a university and publishes papers) and reads quite a bit and has said similar things on how this aids in critical thinking. They're great in some discussions, but all technology is essentially magic and math is complete gobblegook to this individual. This isn't to say they aren't smart and don't add value to society, but the things this person and many of their colleagues lack (basic numerical literacy) is important and a big part of what separates us from far more primitive cultures over centuries. I understand specialization and how it is vital, but a vast window of the universe is closed off to them.
how does this apply to compiled languages though?
Yeah, I am not sure of the Vodka belt for Norway. Though as others mentioned it may be more historic. Sweden does make Absolut though I'm not sure they are Vodka country either. My memory gaps from trips to see friends in Finland has convinced me they are Vodka country though, Koskenkorva and more.

The second map where Norway prefer Beer as of 2012 is probably true. I am not quite sure why there are two maps.

Though I agree moonshine was quite prevalent when I was young. Gallons of some dodgy near methanol drink bought of some Russian trawler...

My Norwegian family does seem to drink a lot of Cognac and occasionally some Aquavit.

I would say Norwegian drinking habits are not like other beer countries where they may have 1 or 2 pints a few times a week. It seemed in Norway more like once a month 8 pints or nothing for most... Though they are more cosmopolitan these days.
Definitely not bullshit with respect to art—it is used in many aesthetically pleasing and well balanced designs.
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Some things that may help:

1. Clean your keyboard and mouse.

2. Feed your tendons.

3. Resistance training, such as weightlifting.

I suspect one of the hidden benefits of recommendations to buy a different (ergonomic) keyboard is that simply having a new keyboard means it's probably cleaner than the one you've been using. Makes me wish someone would do a study involving three options:

1. New, clean keyboard same as the old keyboard in terms of layout.

2. New, clean ergonomic keyboard.

3. Just religiously and thoroughly cleaning your keyboard.

It would be interesting if we could quantify how much the recommendation for a new keyboard was beneficial simply because it's clean. (Though I guess you would also need to rate the filth level of old keyboards to get more meaningful data.)
> .. skew in the customer distribution routed to subcontractor A instead of B?

provably rolling a random dice is a solved problem, superstition that fluctuations in a cryptographically verifiable random coin flip would correlate with "pathologically dissatisfied customers" is just that: superstition.

> What if you the company introduce a policy or product change that makes customers unhappy even if the subcontractor is doing exactly what you asked them to do?

That would make the customers assigned to the other subcontractors equally unhappy, so the customer satisfaction feedback drop will be the same for the other competing subcontractor, and so the budget division will be unaffected, but still tilted proportional to the gross difference in performance between subcontractor A and B

> Or what if subcontractors realize the only way to make people happy is to do something really expensive or unapproved by you?

What do you mean? reverse engineer a driver and rewrite a better one?
I'd assume Bowie was in platform boots, which he wore a lot in that era.
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Yeah. Developers are motivated to maximize number of properly-priced units in a building. Common spaces are usually not the highlight. Maybe if there were lounges on every floor (just like in dorms), and a bigger common space on the top floor that encourages coffee-shop ambiance but with more opportunities to spontaneously interact, that could be pretty neat.

This way, every unit is still self-contained and you can stay isolated if you want, but you can just as easily go read in the lounge.
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I think that’s a consequence of the profit-center cost-center dichotomy. Cost centers get budget cuts, downsized and off-shored. Profit centers help grow the business. If there’s a way to be a profit center, managers are going to take that route. The consequence is that customers asking for assistance on their existing services are going to get sales pitches for more expensive services.
How to Read a Book is great, and so is the sarcastic response How to Read Two Books: http://scriptoriumdaily.com/how-to-read-two-books-erasmus-ad...

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Just to be clear, they are not discrediting psychiatric evaluation. They are saying that specific labels of syndromes are useless. I don't think that's really all that controversial a thing to say. Treatments are usually prescribed per symptoms which is still valid.
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> It's never the fault of the guy on $8.50 an hour. The buck stops with management; the buck always stops with management.

Not really. Persistent problems are management’s fault. Individual errors are made by individuals.
For those interested, Morning Pages are pretty great as well (3 pages each morning of quick, freeform writing):

https://www.chriswinfield.com/morning-pages/
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Dealing with tabs and carriage returns has sometimes cost you millions of dollars? If so, that sounds like a great story and I would love to hear it!