skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is crock.

The reason you see the same treatments and basic medicines and panels each time you go to the GP is because your problems are pedestrian compared to what doctors actually train for. Most likely, you're not even being seen by someone with an M.D. - casual checkups are often beneath their paygrade.

Doctors undergo a decade of specialized training in order to diagnose and treat issues far beyond anything that you can Just Google. Determining the factors affecting which treatments to apply, considering the tradeoffs, and making the right call are skills that AI will not achieve in our lifetime, no matter how many VC-funded tech-bro AI startups try.

If you could spend a day in the shoes of an aspiring medical resident, working 80-hour weeks and studying for board exams at the same time, you'd count your lucky stars that we don't license the software profession like we do medicine. Maybe we should.
That doesn't at all follow. People aren't fat and out of shape because health care (aka being able to see a doctor) is private or because it sucks; they are so because it isn't considered a national priority like it was at one point in US history. How many people graduate high school knowing how to take care of their bodies?

For example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fISgKl8dB3M
It depends on the tax rates of the land-value tax. If it's equal to 100% of the excess rents, then that removes the drive to speculate on land. Any appreciation in natural rents has a one-to-one increase in your tax bill.

Granted, any LVT won't approach the 100%-of-rents rate, so it's a proportional thing.

>for the purpose of encouraging building housing how is a land value tax functionally different from a property tax?

A land-value tax is indifferent towards a single-family home and a thirty-story apartment building on identical plots of land. Property taxes aren't, they add an additional penalty on the highly-developed land.
Ah. Thanks.

But I do recall, in the past, renewing ExpressVPN with Bitcoin.
> but you can't improve the performance of your query without altering its meaning

Could you explain what you mean by "meaning"? From my naive perspective, if different queries give the same results, in all cases, I would consider the "meaning" the same (silly shenanigans aside).
A thread from 2017.00000000000: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14018450

2015.000000000000: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10558871
I've been kicking around the idea of a plain-text GUI to demonstrate what a "GUI Markup Standard" may work like. Making a graphics-enabled version is a lot work for a demo.

VB-classic also had a text-based mouse-able GUI option for a short while, but it never took off. It was based on ANSI escape sequences for DOS consoles, which is sort of in-between "pure text" and graphics. A pure-text GUI is also doable, but console approach is probably more compact because it can use colors as cues instead of symbols.

An alternative or supplement to a markup standard is a text-based screen designer. Both a pure-ASCII and console text UI can be defined using plain text for semi-WYSIWYG designing. Rough example:

$ Employee Edit Form
* _thisLine.title
$
$ Last: [#last ] First: [#firstname] MI: [#MI]
* #last:fullname=last_name, required=true; #MI:fullanem=mid_initl
$
$ {#Save} {#Cancel} {#Other}
* #Save:click=_thisForm.submit; #Cancel:click= _thisForm.close
* #Other:click=specialProcedureX(), display="Other Options"

Symbols and conventions:

$ = start of template line
* = start of definition or command line
[...] = input widget template
{...} = button template
# = start of reference name.
"fullName=" = use if actual database name is diff from reference name
; = definition or command separator
"type=" = to define widget type, such as SELECT (not shown)
"display=" use if actual label is different from reference label

Notes: "type=label" can be used to make bold or italics. The definition line(s) don't have to follow the template lines in most cases. One can thus optionally put most definition lines at the bottom. It may make interpreting the template easier for some people.
Mobile development: Go serverless with AWS Amplify, a game changer
Its true, this can be said about any profession, but the difference is that other professions do not have peoples lives in their hands. Claiming absolute authority on a topic that is a matter of life and death, and then providing potentially mediocre or worse outcomes or an incomplete picture of the possibilities is inexcusable in 2019.

The industry as it currently is, with restricted supply of doctors, memory based entrance exams, etc makes no sense
Honestly, yet another CMS that ties your UI to your CMS is not what we as an industry need.

I know it seems nice and it has a lot of nice features (features that have been in other CMSes before) .. but this is just an old school way of thinking.

Any enterprise, before anything else, should be looking at headless CMSes, primarily in my opinion. This is what I advise all of our enterprise clients. (we have no horse in the race)

The benefits of headless CMSes are multiplied by enterprises with very large and rich content needs, and generally, what these businesses need, is less coupling of things.

I'd rather look at something like strapi, which is open source, has a MVC architecture built on express, is headless by default, more than a single db option, has a graphql api etc.

Or if you want to go SAAS, use Prismic.io or Contentful
Thanks for this.

Yep, I've thrown 10,000 round house kicks and can teach you to do one. It's so easy.

In reality, it will be super awkward, possibly hurt, and you'll fall on your ass one or more times trying to do it.
Notes on the Curatorial Challenges of an Emerging Media Art Form (2018)
Amazon seems to have missed the in-house opportunity to build quantum, so are partnering widely. It'll be interesting to see how Google squanders their tech lead in this space too...
IEEE is deterministic and (IMO) quite well thought-out. What specifically do you not like about it?
Currency handling is almost never done with rationals (numerator and denominator) and is frequently (and correctly so!) done with fixed or floating point decimal types.
I agree with this view, there's nothing more disgusting than non-determinism. The way computers rely on assumptions for the accuracy of a floating number is one that's contrary to the principles of logical thinking.
Except when, you know, you can’t.
Or in my case, I’ve armed myself with enough knowledge to prove that the mechanics at the dealership are either incompetent or lobotomized flow-chart followers.

Like, I already told you I swapped the coils and spark plugs around. The problem didn’t move, so they can’t be the problem!
I'm curious how you use Standard Notes for 2FA?
"The Housing: San Francisco has deeply conservative tendencies for such a liberal city. Its housing supply isn't growing fast enough to keep up with rising demand."

Restrictive housing is more of a liberal phenomenon than a conservative one, wouldn't you say?
What a huge validation of Rust. Here’s to hoping this improves Windows.
I mean, that's how we felt about a coming nuclear apocalypse in the cold war era. What's your point?
Thanks for the response.

> I chose this team because I thought the work would be interesting and I liked the people on it

That is fair! I guess most people would make that decision if you already know people there and you think you'll enjoy the work as well.

> none of these countries would go to war targeting civilians

Not as if people in the army are somehow exempt from tracking though?

As for whether Google would share it in the first place: I don't think the government cares much what Google thinks if they're willing to kill (us) over something. Laws can be made by the same people that decide on this. I don't mean to pose it as a simple matter, but I'm pretty sure that's how it works in principle.

Now that I think of it: aren't "national security letters" exactly this? "It has something to do with the safety of the country, just give us that data [e.g. Lavabit private key]"?

Of course, the chance is remote in the first place. Much more likely, if it is ever used for this kind of purpose in the first place, it'll just be posturing and threats, and people will protect themselves better before it ever gets to armed conflict. Just imagine, though, if you're not in the USA, China, or Russia, and one of the three (the most democratic one of the tree, it is fair to add) has the rest of the world's data. That's kind of uncomfortable when I pause to consider it.

> how well that is mapped to the kind of identity the military would care about.

While not readily available, I expect that it's not hard to find a few datapoints to filter them out. Following someone for 10 minutes as they go through traffic and matching the coordinates against location history data is probably enough to find a subset of 1-5 possible accounts. But I doubt physical following is even necessary to find enough datapoints to find them in the data.
What kind of engineering? What is the standard of "good"?

I've worked at startups that have collectively made great decisions for a period of a few years, and people left or changed their minds, and some of those decisions didn't hold up. Some of those assumptions shaped code that too difficult in the short term to change, and there was no political will to push it through. Short term leadership was great, long term was less than great but still good. For the particular company I'm thinking of, new engineering leaders joined and things seem to be trending back in the positive.
I started with Oxide a few weeks ago and I promise I've spent a number of work days in the garage! Until we get some furniture in the new office building it's been a good place to get together.
The community built around Django, coupled with the sheer amount of documentation and the stability of their APIs has done enough to forever ruin my expectations for any other coding project out there. Ostensibly everything else feels disorganized, poorly documented or rushly released.

But the most commendable value of the DSF – which I believe is a model to be replicated – is how effectively it has managed to both attract new developers and also mentor them so well that they have gone on to become core developers who maintain the framework later on.

I'm still subscribed to the django-developers mailing list, even if I have had no free time to contribute with more than a couple patches over many years, simply because I enjoy watching how incredibly smart and efficient developers collaborate.

Kudos to all of you guys, and congrats on achieving this big milestone!
Depends on the field. 99.9000000001% of the time, the stuff I do is entirely insensitive to anything after the third decimal point. And for my use cases, IEEE 754 is a beautiful stroke of genius that handles almost everything I ask from it. That's generally the case for most applications. If it wasn't, it wouldn't be so overwhelmingly universally used.

But again, there are clearly plenty of use cases where it's insufficient, as you can vouch. I still don't think you can call it "disgusting", though.
The number I heard was that tech was somewhat less than 10% of the employment of the Bay Area. This includes non-programmers and non-engineers working in tech companies, too, and is a broadly constructed number.
Did you read the article? Sandy caused billions in damage.

Hurricanes are real, they aren’t something imagined by the media or scientists. They’ve been causing massive damage for centuries, not just because of climate change anyway.

Climate change is also real, even deniers usually just say it isn’t man-made.

Either way, sea levels are rising and hurricanes will keep hitting us even if climate change is an exaggeration, so being prepared for extreme weather is smart and hardly something people will look back on as silly.
Kind of and after some digging, I think the difference is this: https://www.nutanix.com/products/hardware-platforms#nutanix

Notice how the hardware is actually sold by IBM, Dell, etc.

The difference is oxide is building and selling the physical hardware themselves. When the customer needs more capacity, they could just order 10 new, let's call them "blade" type computers from Oxide and pop them in a rack at much lower cost than a blade from IBM.
Remote SSH user can force fake screensaver execution through dbus / systemd
Same! I saw someone post this originally to twitter and thought it sounded neat. Coming here, the reaction has been really weird/negative.
I haven't worked in fintech but I've read that money is often represented (at least in storage) as plain integers, since for example US currency only ever goes to two decimal places. But I guess once you start operating on it you run into potential truncation unless you use rationals.
It’s usually okay if you work at a hospital with academic affiliations.

Even if you aren’t, you do get access to the university’s library if you take some students.

Usually.
"There's a group of people I don't like. There's a policy I don't like. Therefore, the group of people I don't like are responsible."

I'd say that's the extent of deep thought and analysis on this one.
I worked with a guy who wanted to pivot every week, then every month.

Basically, he just didn't have enough follow through on specific ideas to either validate or disprove them.

I should have walked away sooner than I did, because we went nowhere.

In general, a pivot needs to come from evidence that it will increase sales, and stay within your core competency.
Having the right culture at the company is hugely important. Also, one day per week is extremely challenging.

I just started a new role where video calling is engrained in communication. If you're going to be hashing things out on Slack for 10+ minutes, you might as well get on a video call for half the time.
I’m curious about one thing here. And maybe someone has ideas.

Both China and Soviet Union (probably others too but I don’t know), pre-liberalization were your typical socialist state with lots of means to control people, so they did but... but people didn’t engage in much petty crime or gang crime.

Those types of crimes were more or less very unusual. But in those same states today with more tools to control people, petty crime and gang-related crime (as well as corruption but that kind of always existed), are through the roof.

And it’s not like either are soft on crime.

So what has given a rise to that criminal activity which for practical purposes didn’t exist before. Is it opportunity? That is there was nothing to gain from it before?
+1 for this. Been remote ~5 years or so now and it's lonely. There are weeks where, outside of work calls, the only people I talk to are clerks at a checkout counter.
The concept is this could perform much better than local Chrome - the cloud has much lower latency to CDN's, a much bigger pipe, and a much better CPU than my phone/laptop for all that javascript.

But the reality (for me at least), is I get a far laggier experience than local Chrome. Hopefully a bit more performance tweaking will flip that.
Great! Glancing at it, I suspected it wasn't actually used; looked too "Buck Rogers," but maybe I am old and set in my ways.

Do you have a pointer to setting something like a ticker plant up like in the old K3 manuals? Maybe over here?
https://hobbes.readthedocs.io/en/latest/logging/hog.html#on-...
"Doctors" are an enormous field of work. Are you talking about primary care physicians, which are widely being augmented/replaced by nurse practitioners? Are you talking about specialists who are able to work out treatments plans for conditions you have that are definitely more complex than you can self treat, or are you talking about surgeons, who have an insane amount of training and stress in their job and you definitely cannot perform your own surgery.
Interestingly, there is another post about a tangential topic about privacy and data collection. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21684708
(totally speaking out of my ass with no evidence here) I feel like there's probably some bureaucratic enterprise software company out there that's put more man hours into a horribly architected CRUD app than most OS kernels.

Although that was somewhat your point. Doritos are much better than CRUD apps too.
> Fixed point always has been and always will be an option

Not really. It would be really cool if fixed point number storage were an option... but I'm not aware of any popular language that provides it as a built-in primitive along with int and float, just as easy to use and choose as floats themselves.

Yes probably every language has libraries somewhere that let you do it where you have to learn a lot of function call names.

But it would be pretty cool to have a language with it built-in, e.g. for base-10 seven digits followed by two decimals:

fixed(7,2) i;
i = 395.25;
i += 0.01;

And obviously supporting any desired base between 2 and 16. Someone please let me know if there is such primitive-level support in any mainstream language!
It's nice but it's extremely overkill for understanding this particular problem.
Just a note - in 16 states, no license or permit of any kind is required to carry a firearm concealed.
Parents often seem to be the most ardent proponents of remote work, This makes sense, because someone in a relationship with kids spends significant amounts of time with the people they love every day by default. Going to an office just takes away from that.

Single people spend time alone for most of the day by default, so I don't think it's surprising at all that they would prefer to be around people most of the day before going back to an empty home. Most of us crave social interaction. All of the suggested alternatives to the office for socializing (coffee shops, coworking spaces, bars) are in general just worse, more expensive versions of a company-provided office.
That color is mostly a placeholder, and in the actual theme you'll be able to change the color scheme in the site configuration (without needing to touch CSS).

I agree that aesthetics are absolutely CRUCIAL and this will be a MAJOR focus of the project.

You can see this in action here: https://github.com/tract-docs/tract-docs.dev/blob/master/con....
The Decay Chain article on Wikipedia is a go-to favorite of mine: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decay_chain

The graphics for the natural decay chains are eminently-usable and teachable.
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We are an early-stage small team that has raised seed-funding, is producing revenue, and currently in stealth mode as we build and scale our platform. We are looking to hire engineers with an interest in fintech and experience with building data aggregation and analysis infrastructure. Experience with messy financial datasets and dealing with unstructured data is a plus. Our technology stack involves a mix of building our own proprietary solutions as well as integrations with other software.

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Daphne Caruana Galizia: Why Malta’s Prime Minister Had to Go
Title should be "OH bill...", As it refers to a bill introduced in the US state of Ohio.
> except for the whole believing in religion aspect...

I suspect this is not mandatory as long as the protocol is respected.
Those links at the end seem to be dead ;)
>>...since for example US currency only ever goes to two decimal places

That is not correct. Stock settlement transactions often list four decimal places.
From that twitter account, a Xinjiang related bill is up for vote this week (https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/senate-bill/178)

https://docs.house.gov/billsthisweek/20191202/BILLS-116s178-...

With all this laser focus on HK / Xinjiang / Tibet something is bound to come up. If they cut the losses by giving independence, maybe leaders would avoid ICC-esque indictments from all this mess.

Maybe it'd be worth allowing anonymous mandatory polling on policies, that way it's not capitulating to external influences and getting a handle of what people are thinking.

But then maybe it's just better to monitor wechat and QQ. But since people feel their stuffs being read, they'll tone down the rhetoric and "behave good" and feign ignorance. A meaningful way of gauging public opinion is now tainted, so much for that. Now there will pockets of people silently stirring in contempt. The usual suspects and instigators won't be the ones to worry about. It's just too much to handle.

And besides all the while we're daydreaming scenarios China can remain unified, people would feel very strained and be suffering. Where do we draw the line between people's feelings and stubborn pride trying to force far flung regions into submission? Maybe it's best to reframe things into what makes society happiest, easiest to manage, and invent a leadership and organizational structure based on those premises. That'd be the most Chinese thing to do.

If China ever has a prolonged economic downturn and stricter sanctions, what happens then? What moves are left?
I do not fully agree with your claim but the medical profession along with a few others, like lawyers, are self-regulating industries that set their own rules, including the rules to admission to the club.

I really dislike the idea of a club with legal powers over you, such as doctors or lawyers, that both set their own rules and control entrance to the club.

It strikes me as feudalistic and undemocratic. Oppressive. As an American I find it vaguely un-American!
I agree, but also “no disqualifying traits” is more valuable than you are giving it credit for. If you want to use the scarce signals available to judge the prospects of a very new startup, biasing for founders with no disqualifying traits is probably not a bad start. There’s a reason YC, TechStars, etc all explicitly say they invest in founders more so than product ideas.
I'm confused about what plain text means if JSON and YAML don't qualify. They are non-binary and non-proprietary. Is CSV plain text? And the example URL of openfootball has data files with fixed column positions and square brackets. Looks like you're packing semantics implicitly into the parser rather than leaving it explicit. I don't see why that's an argument in favor of plain text.
"From a sociological perspective, you won’t find a more interesting city to study."
"San Francisco has the prettiest natural surroundings of any city in America."

Statements like this make it clear that the author hasn't really seen must of the world or even America.
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I use this plain text planner / calendar every day and I love it, if I can say so myself, since I made it too. I've been using it for a few years now and I can say that it has definitely made me more productive.

https://crushentropy.com/

You can plan and log your day in plain text and it visualizes your schedule.

Markdown for planning, if you will.