skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The doctor shortage would be lessened if medical resources were allocated more intelligently. As it is, doctors have a tendency to make work for themselves. The system needs lots of doctors simply to keep their charade going.

We all get to a point where we need less doctoring, not more. During the 'obamacare' debates some stupid politicians called this transition in the goals of treatment "death panels" [1], but the realists on the other side of the aisle didn't figure out how to intelligently point out that sometimes letting people die gracefully is kinder than subjecting them to every possible medical treatment.

My brother works with old people in Arizona. He's paid a salary, and makes a game of trying to spend his employer's resources efficiently. On a recent visit I noted his comment about how he's just doing palliative care. Most doctors aren't on salary, and are paid via the standard medicare "fee-for-service" (FFS) [2] model, which is a good way to make people profitable to their medical providers.

[0] My earlier comment about my mom's elderly friend's predicament: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20224523

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_panel

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fee-for-service
HN is slowly becoming like reddit, people are downvoting a factually correct comment because they disagree. Because they don't know the topic they're disagreeing about.
An alliance without a definite enemy is a sad state of affairs.

Russia was an existential threat to the United States in a way that the PRC simply isn’t. They’re more of a threat to their immediate neighbors than anything, and near as I can tell they just want US to back off and let them be, let them have Taiwan, do what they want with Hong Kong and Macau, and let them assert a local hegemony. I don’t want to see Korea, Japan, Vietnam, or others to fall under a PRC hegemony, and Americans don’t necessarily want that either, but it’s a tough ask of my countrymen to continue to allocate resources to maintaining the world order in a sort of stasis when that proposition is increasingly expensive, bad for business and we we have strong isolationist tendencies. The post-WWII order was the exception, not the norm for American sentiments.

Charles Krauthammer wrote in the wake of the collapse of the Cold War when we weren’t sure what the hell we were going to do as a country that it was actually pretty obvious: we would move from a bipolar world to a global order of American dominance, and if we were lucky, it would last about 30 years or so. Krauthammer[1] hasn’t lived to see how that turned out, but we’re creeping up on the end of that third decade.

[1] Krauthammer 1) has about the coolest name for a Jewish man to have and 2) was a guest on Bill Kristol’s podcast “Conversations with Bill Kristol” where he gave an excellent interview in 2015. I highly recommend giving it a listen.
by drafting 2/3 of the distance in an 50km endurance race against 2014 Tesla S
patents don't mean shit. if it's safe, effective, and profitable I'll be able to custom order it soon enough.
I can't find 2.4GHz as a GSM band: https://www.spectrummonitoring.com/frequencies/frequencies3...., https://m.gsmarena.com/network-bands.php3?sCountry=HONG+KONG, https://www.frequencycheck.com/countries/hong-kong
I winced at this as I've only ever used expect for dirty hacks like wrapping ssh (or telnet to strange devices without real management). I wouldn't discount it though, it's a decent tool when heavier machinery isn't viable.
How and where do you do this?!
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One of my favorite outcomes from this was Dan Mclaughlin's attempt at becoming a pro-golfer[1] which he called "The Dan Plan".

What I found really interesting was that how you practice is so important and how we often get it wrong. When I think about things I've picked up mastery in over the years and things which eluded me, I see a lot of similarities. Mastery for me comes from varying the activities, not from rote repetition and "muscle memory."

[1] https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:NH2YUq...
Re IE11 - https://caniuse.com/#feat=same-site-cookie-attribute says that IE11 supports it on Windows 10. Still leaves W7+IE11 but that's a much smaller (and shrinkin) set of users.
Show HN: Control Audience's Mobile Device Torch and Screen with Visualz
Important things that are actually accomplishable.
labs in India and China.
Lithium-ion test results to be used as benchmarks for new battery technologies
>We literally had a conversation about how, on the off chance that they’re not there by choice, we could maybe help them.”

Oh I'm sure that happened! /s

It is worth noting that this person not only resigned in part because of the ties to Epstein (according to her) but also knew about said ties before she took the job.

Why is it hard to simply tell everything as it happened without trying to embellish one's picture in vain?
Most likely Google accessed Census data with an AI and found your parent living with them way back when and you living with that parent later on and added them together for scary results.
>> Electrons leave characteristic marks on a photographic emulsion as they pass through a cloud chamber, and dinosaurs supply us with clues to their former existence in the form of fossilized bones

A ridiculous comparison from a book published in 2019. For one, Dinosaurs have left far more than fossilized bones, from footprints and droppings to actual preserved tissue. Dinosaurs also left us their living DNA, in birds. We draw scientific conclusions about dinosaurs from all sorts of evidence beyond museum bones.

Similarly, our understanding of electrons is a bit greater than cloud chambers. We use them to do work. To suggest that their existence is somehow nebulous because we cannot directly see them is needlessly dramatic. It is like saying this book doesn't really exist because all we can possibly learn about comes only from our interpretation of light reflected off its surface.

Does being able to take a picture of an electron make is more or less real than dinosaurs?

https://io9.gizmodo.com/the-first-image-ever-of-a-hydrogen-a...
It's difficult to evaluate nuclear using reason alone, because a large part of the equation is a moral issue, and we all have different morals.

Many of us believe it's immoral to leave behind nuclear waste for future generation to care for. Not only do you have to store it somewhere, you have to secure it so that it can't be misused, for thousands of years.
It's either that or "shut up and meditate"
> NYT, which then buried the story. /.../ Many papers and media outlets killed Epstein stories.

So, I imagine many editors from NYT and many other papers has resigned from their jobs and their memberships in whatever professional organizations, boards, etc. they have been on, because of that? Or the press is not supposed to be held to ethical standard because... well, because they are The Press, so they are above scrutiny?
Plot a graph:

1970 to now: US Population (or US senior citizen population)

1970 to now: Medical schools

1970 to now: Medical school graduates

1970 to now: Medical Resident spots for "shortage" specialties

I'm willing to bet the shortage is due to these plots not growing proportionally. Also, you cant increase medical school graduates w/o also increasing resident spots, otherwise, graduates go into other fields.
I like the idea of a coop for many reasons, one is that’s it’s not tied to the “must have a huge possibility for growth” any VC backed venture would have
I'm skeptical if some mastery of skills need an order of events in life that's fundamentally important. I assume youth is another important factor in the equation. The 10k hour rule is too hopeful for everything but I can see it working for many skills.
It will be shared over here (not much content yet and ugly, but release early etc.) Translations to come. http://cirkularodling.se/
There's a book coming out (advert at end of this video), which has probably sucked up his writing time / attention.
Oh I've not tried anything sweet at Le Crobag, just the ready to go sandwiches. The sandwiches were along the lines of a bocadillo/flauto with some veg, cheese, and a bit of meat like you might find in Spain. I much prefer the mini baguette to the pillowy white bread you might find at a train station sandwich in London.

If you are looking for really good backery stuff (in Germany), you won't find them at the airport/train station at all, as these are nearly universally only served by large chains, none of them especially known for being above the standard.

Sure, that's true nearly anywhere though. Relative to train stations in other countries I found Le Crobag sandwiches to be consistently fairly light compared to what I've found in London stations (e.g. really starchy pasties, hamburgers, and other sorts of things that just looked like gut bombs). Pret must have some presence at tube stations, but I haven't see any.
All I can say is imagine the Nazis or some American government hell bent on kicking people out of the country had this level of data on everyone.
People trained in the "hard sciences" seem to place a lot more rigour on numbers than the social sciences can really accommodate. Much of the scientific method can't really be applied to humans in a longitudinal study so there's going to be some leeway and larger scope for variation than when performing tests on inanimate objects or lab rats for example.

We all know this at some level. Nobody expects to be a mediocre violinist at the 59th minute of the 9,999th hour and to be a master one minute later. To me the book read like an extended musing on folk wisdom such as "practice makes perfect" and that famous Coolidge quote about persistence. Obviously talent, genius and education are factors, but persistence and determination are huge.
And yet another problem is that while Ruby classes require you to whitelist attributes (e.g. with attr_accessor) that will receive publicly-accessible getters/setters, Python classes by default allow the caller to "tack on" any instance variables they desire. (I've rarely seen __slots__ used in the wild, for instance.)

So the type of almost any class is really more like Struct{WhatYouThinkTheClassIs; ArbitraryDict;} ... and the temptation to misuse this, say for instance if you don't want to add arguments to function_used_lots_of_places(some_object), can be huge. And more generally, this openness means that there may be discrepancies between what's unit tested for a class, and how that class is used in the wild.
Well there are a lot of confused arguments being made. One of the reasons for my downvote was that you are being rather assertive and dismissive. You speak with an authority that is simply not there and citing numbers to make a point that doesn't survive a lot of scrutiny.

Anyway, you seem to like numbers:
- https://ecotality.com/most-efficient-solar-panels/, So, 20-22% for commercial solar panels; not 16%. That seems consistent with numbers that I've heard elsewhere.

- https://www.dial.de/en/blog/article/efficiency-of-ledsthe-hi... So, 40-50%; with the rest being produced as heat because physics. You need both light and heat in a vertical farm or a greenhouse (which use lots of LEDs because the sun does not always shine). That seems consistent with the notion that I can touch an LED lamp and not burn myself. They are not producing a lot of heat and plenty of light.

Vertical farms are possible, economical, and possibly very lucrative because energy is cheap. Your argument is basically that because of inefficiencies in solar plants (real or imagined) vertical farms cannot possibly be economical.

Well that's a simple thing to calculate: kilo watt hours go in, kilos of produce come out. Either that adds up or it doesn't. For reference, the Netherlands is feeding most of Europe from a hundred square kilometers of wind powered green houses. Billion dollar business. Including in the middle of the winter when the sun is largely missing in action and it is cloudy, dark, and cold. It's been economical and highly profitable to do that for decades. To the point where Italy imports Dutch tomatoes.

Vertical farms are simply more efficient ways of doing the same things using largely the same kinds of technologies. The revolutionary thing is the level of automation and the ability to farm in, on top, or close to where the produce is used/sold. That seems to start making a lot of sense economically in a lot of places already doing this. The cheaper the energy, the more sense it makes.
I think what’s interesting is the question of how powerful people may be knowingly covering for one another. We can’t say from them being at the gathering that they for sure aided in Epstein’s crimes, but it might warrant further investigation.
To be sure, the C&D reference cites the following:

RANK CAR (MODEL YEAR) TIME
136 Mazda MX-5 Cup Car (2016) 3:06.4
209 Fiat 124 Spyder Abarth (2017) 3:16.9
211 Tesla Model S P85D (2015) 3:17.4
227 Mazda MX-5 Miata Club (2016) 3:20.8
241 Mazda MX-5 (2006) 3:29.3

A bit unfair to compare the performance of a ND cup car to the P85D even if it does have a sealed 155 HP factory motor. But given the Fiata bested the Tesla by half a second, I'm confident a ND with modest ~$600 suspension upgrade on OE Potenza S001 rubber at VIR would meet the challenge...or maybe even a stock 2019 ND2.
But what kind of interaction?
Is it a tensor field? Change of spacetime? Particle mediated? Wavelike? Nonlocal string or brane vibrations? Does it interact with other known fields and particles and in what way?

What is its range and speed? Does it work same in very low or very high energies? Does temperature affect it? Does it change at relativistic speeds?

Etc. The tool we have to probe it is currently only entanglement and secondarily tunneling. Maybe some calorimetry and charge detection.
IMO, I have heard no explanation that is more consistent and coherent than this.

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Consider the famous Schroedinger's Cat.

The decayed particle has two states: decayed and not decayed.

The cat has two states: dead and alive.

The researcher that opens the box has two states: sad and happy.

The waveform does not collaprse. The particle, the cat, and the researcher each have a uncollapsed waveform; i.e. are in both states.

However, these waveforms are not independent; they are entangled. The decayed particle is coincident with the dead cat and the unhappy researcher. And the undecayed particle with the alive cat and the happy researcher.

All states "exist" simultaneously, but not independently. This bifurcation in the wave function magnitudes is a "split" in the universe: every future waveform interaction will be in the context of decayed particle/dead cat/unhappy researcher and undecayed particle/alive cat/happy researcher.

"Many worlds" sounds nonsensical, but it is really just a colloquial expression for waveform entanglement.

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Now this does present a philosophical question on how consciousness functions in light of the split waveforms.

I maintain that science -- quantum mechanics or otherwise -- has no explanation or even language to express "consciousness". It's like asking science an ethics question. And this inability applies to all science, not just quantum mechanics.
Personal gain? He didn't pocket the money as far I know.

Ethics is also a touchy subject, people can't fully agree on whether taking a criminal's money to do good with it is ethical or not. So it's not as cut and dried.

He did however violate MIT policy so that's a valid reason for his resignation or even firing in my opinion.
If you are walking around with 2 girls who look like models and are from eastern europe (there must be some impression about being model from eastern europe which I'm unaware of), what do you think people gonna think?

You are reading stuffs. People have seen this. If they were uneasy at this sight, they must have felt/observed something more than that, so much so that they thought that these girls might not have been there by choice.

People do get suspicious of fishy people and if you ask them why they are suspicious of some people, they would say, "he was behaving a bit different, something was off about him". And people like you will dismiss it.

Even in real life, I see people walking around with girls. Most of the times I feel or suspect nothing but sometimes I do feel something is off or fishy about it but yet I can't describe it fully.

Now you know a lot more about Epstein, what do you think why he brought "2 models (possibly quite young, given the reputation of Epstein) who are possibly from eastern europe" in MIT lab?

Now we know a lot more about Epstein, people must have felt something much more about those 2 girls which you can't imagine.

Personally, I feel like you are arguing for the sake of arguing. I was shocked at your line of thinking.
Yep, everybody and their mother that I went to school with aspired to become a doctor. There should be absolutely no shortage. Getting to more reasonable numbers doesn't seem like it would worsen the already abysmal quality we're getting now with sleepwalking insanely overworked physicians.
That study talks about teen brains. I’m talking about teen hormones. And that study fails to account for the facts that:

Mao’s rise was driven by youthful rebellion in China

Many Islamic suicide bombers are teenagers

The Amish have rumspringa

And yes some western teens are graffiti artists.

Teen rebellion cuts across cultures, that study just doesn’t show it because it is solely attempting to refute the univariate “brain” factor. I’m not talking about brains. I’m talking about hormones and risk tolerance. Teen rebellion cuts across cultures. And no single-variable “cross cultural study” can prove otherwise
Point (1) might be because we already had the Guardian article on HN last month, discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20753311
HttpOnly doesn't really do much to stop an attacker that already has XSS. The attacker just makes the XSS perform the interactions they want directly instead of bothering to steal the cookie.

James Kettle wrote a good blog post that argues that webstorage is probably a better spot for session tokens here: https://portswigger.net/blog/web-storage-the-lesser-evil-for...
Quantum Supremacy II
Everything We Do Not Know
The years since WW2 are a third of all of America's history. Considering America still maintains military bases across the world, surely one cannot call it an exception when it's for that period of time. Either there is a coherent American sentiment over centuries and the one expressed over these last 75 years isn't exceptional or there is no coherent sentiment.
> And do you really think we have discovered the "axioms of the universe" already? That is quite haughty. No we don't have those.

That is also haughty.

It is possible--probable, even--that our current models of physics are incorrect. We should certainly continue to probe them and look for something better. I would bet money that before my lifetime is out, some part of QM or relativity are overturned just like newtonian physics.

However, you cannot just assume that that is the case. It is no certainty. We do not have certainty. The universe is sticky; it very well may be that we can never reduce it to something as simple as rule 30. It may be that our current theorems are axiomatic--at least, as far as the universe can be said to have axioms.

(Or, as I think is more likely in the universe where we never discover any more physics, the difference between our laws and 'truth' is smaller than is possible to detect. That is, any instrument we use to measure will inherently produce too much noise to produce a statistically significantly different result.)
The latest news on the compound is from April 2019: https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2019-04/nb-nba041019...

If anyone is interested in a talk by one of the authors (Kevin Strange), he goes into the history of the compound here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6aAr5pKW9Dw

For progress on similar lines of tech, this is a good site: https://www.lifespan.io/the-rejuvenation-roadmap/
HTTPS: //www.uouo15.net/2019/09/blog-post_71.html
Motl is a zealot for his own interpretation and thinks everyone else is an idiot crackpot, including his colleagues.

Carroll does not mention his preference for many-worlds in the article because that's not what it's about. The fact that he has a preferred interpretation is not relevant to the point that physicists should pay closer attention to the lack of consensus on the interpretation of qm.
This is _extremely_ helpful. Thank you!

Do you know what would count as a recognised university? I do have a bachelor's, but at a UC that is not UCLA, and in an area of study that has nothing to do with my current work. I have been thinking about getting a master's in physics or mathematics -- would either count as an "engineering" degree?

I'm currently full-time contracting for a subsidiary of a Japanese company; however, I'm in their motion pictures division, which I'm pretty sure is solely based in the US unfortunately. I don't know if it would be possible to get a transfer to another subsidiary with locations in Japan or how I would even try without stepping on someone else's toes. I'm also hesitant to ask my immediate supervisor for transfer information as a contractor and I'm not optimistic this will turn into a direct hire offer, as it seems like a lot of my coworkers are contractors who have been there for a while.

Do you recommend any cheap resources specifically for the JLPT N1 test? I have some conversational fluency in Japanese due to traveling (and knowing Chinese helps with writing) but nothing academic. I've looked up private Japanese teachers in my area, but they're all really pricey :/
...in zebrafish. Settle down, the answer to all your health problems is still fasting.
Maybe if you're not into motorsport you should not comment on it. You're wrong. Especially in highly aero dependent cars like F1 cars, where you can achieve maximum braking pressure at top speed due to the down force. The parent commenter is also wrong, brakes in F1 cars are certainly not either full on or full off, the drivers trail brake into corners so although the driver begins braking at maximum force, they slowly release the brake as the car enters the corner and starts turning.
'I feel bombarded with to-dos': the hell of life admin – and how to get on top
Is it possible to use fiber optics, conducting the light (and UVs, maybe even screening out unwanted ones) obtained from some dome-shaped collectors installed outside (probably on the roof) to the culture?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Light_tube
> If Hawking Radiation can never be observed till the heat death of the universe

That's a pretty big "if". As I suspect you know, how much Hawking radiation a black hole generates is inversely proportional to its size (it's probably an inverse square function to be precise, I forget).

A consequence of that is that supermassive black holes, the kind at the center of galaxies that we are most likely be able to indirectly (or even directly) observe, will generate almost none and whatever is generated will likely be outshone many orders of magnitude by the accretion disk anyway.

But... small black holes should shine extremely brightly, albeit briefly. A black hole resulting from a supernova will take a stupendous amount of time to lose enough mass (from Hawking radiation) to get this small and the window of time is so small we're unlikely to ever directly observe this.

But if we can ever figure out a way to lase gamma rays we can construct so-called Kugelblitz black holes (that some call the ultimate battery or even the ultimate computer).

Granted there's no theorized let alone practical way of lasing gamma rays, which is a problem.

But nevertheless, the theory of Hawking radiation makes testable predictions so yes, it's unlike Many Worlds (or even, honestly, string theory).