skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How long do you wait for medical stuff? In Poland wait is sometimes >1 year

Depends on what you're looking for. A few years back I was told there was a 6-9 month wait at UCSF to see a GP that was willing to accept new patients. Non-urgent stuff like ultrasounds were around a 3 month wait.
The CDK is pretty easy to use. It's a set of tools for creating cloud formation templates.

The problem with the console is that some options might be missing. For instance, when creating a cognition userpool, any auth0 standard attribute may be set to immutable; however, this option isn't available in the console. Serverless might be missi g options, but it allows that to be supplemented with writing raw cloudformation in the serverless document.

I enjoy the CDK because it's one less layer of abstraction to deal with compared to serverless, and what's actually being deployed isn't hidden behind the yaml. It's programmatic, maintained by aws, and the documentation is pretty stellar. The only downside is that it's not complete, so sometimes raw cloudformation will have to be written.

Another thing to keep in mind that serverless and cdk allow for you to recycle time spent while just using the console does not in lost cases.
I'd be interested to also see material talking about the social basis for belief formation. We are primarily emotional and social creatures, and our brains seem to be adapted to forming beliefs that may or may not match the world, but certainly do match what we are socially expected to believe.
Ideally you’d do air sampling over a period of weeks, multiple times across the entire year. Reliable testing is hundreds of dollars. No, those little test kits don’t count.
There is a lack of engineers in almost every engineering field in Germany. That's the main reason why if you are an engineer, your salary limit is low for getting a blue card. I don't think that EU decides those limits based on hot startups.
Don't focus on the literal meaning of the word 'secret' too much. Secret can be used colloquially to mean 'unseen' or less commonly 'that which is not widely known but not technically secret'.

It's a dramatic way of saying such a thing, but that's to be expected in a newspaper headline.
> Google strongly values collaboration and teamwork.

So, except where it's to help other employees organise themselves for better pay, better conditions, and trying to influence company direction for the better?
This is actually a clever idea. I've been using NFS for years for their transparent and reasonable pricing and I doubt they would have been raking in profits over this. If anyone from NFS is reading: might I suggest adding the costs saved for not having to play whack-a-mole with these sites on top of the donations?
So you would make a thing called "Cargo" that was almost the same as Cargo except for some custom patches? That sounds pretty confusing to me.
Those bots are expensive and complicated to operate at scale. Some topics are there to make them look legitimate, others because you have large clients supporting a change in opinion and willing to spend social-media agencies to promote it — or discredit it with a ham-fisted campaign.

It’s hard to sort them apart but that example, for me, echoes a BBC documentary/sci-fi speculation from 10 years ago about cannabis legalisation and more generally licensing psycho-active molecules for entertainment purposes. The title was “If drugs were legal” or “When” as most specialists had little doubt this would happen soon.

Both cigarette and pharmaceutical companies came out as very ready for the idea, with teams dedicated to lobbying for it, of course, but marketing, products ready for the day. Overall, they were clear large players with established industrial assets and experience in large-scale distribution would completely take over.

They even speculated that some tests on new drugs were done without permissions. A couple of years later the “Bath salt” craze and the mention most of those were molecules no one had seen before also echoed quite loudly.
I'm curious how Dart2Native would fare in this test, if it would be more or less the same as Go or if it would be more efficient.
I look at it as a simple trade of goods. Hiring a Software Engineer from India is like an Indian buying a German car.

If Germany can export cars to India and France can export wines, then India can export their talent.

So, if you are confident of your skills and what they are worth, you should naturally go to the USA.
"Modern" URIs don't have to be unusable. Discourse is a good example of this done right. If HN used discourse style urls, the example you gave above would look like this:

news.ycombinator.com/item/21867994/Kutt-a-modern-open-source-URL-shortener/

Further, several redirects are created, so you can access it at any of these uris:

news.ycombinator.com/item/21867994

news.ycombinator.com/item/Kutt-a-modern-open-source-URL-shortener/

news.ycombinator.com/item/21867994/arbitrary-text-here

The last form means that when the title changes, the canonical uri can be updated without breaking links to the old location. The only unstable form is the second, without the id.
Thank you for responding. If I ever get far enough down in my book pile I will let you know :D
The Android One releases from Google turned out to be less than stable. OEM realized they need a lengthy testing period to ensure proper quality.

(Writing this on and Android One phone on A10 beta program)
I kind of agree. I'm not really swayed by arguments that consumers shouldn't have information because they'd use it to make mistaken decisions. Let them; that's not my business.
My thought too. There was some years ago a trend of doing business card that could fit in a CD player.

I had the same thought back then !
The landing page has big links for executables for Mac, Linux and Windows - the windows build is completely broken.
I feel stupider for having read this, but I get solace from the idea that fools are giving other fools money. Keeps the fools from bothering me.
That also seems like a great way of some more bomb testing coming your way.
This kind of requires a Toyota "stop the line" button: https://leanbuilds.wordpress.com/tag/stop-the-line/

As it says there, in the short term productivity drops, as you'd expect - in the long run, quality and productivity increase.
Another tradition is that Jews eat Chinese food on christmas. Don’t find that bizarre at all.
In Italy it's, for low urgency, ~6months in public hospitals, 3days - 1week in private public-affiliated clinics paying the same as in the hospital (which are the main used solution to not overcrowd hospitals), <1day in full private clinics paying a bit more (eg ~ 80euros for a low abdomen eco, instead of ~ 15 in the public and affiliated)

If you have an high priority you get served by an hospital the same day.
> You could make an alternative compiler under a different name than rust or rustc with this trademark restriction

But would you be allowed to call it a Rust compiler, even if it compiled a slightly modified version of the Rust language ?

There are many C/C++ compilers, often they have some compiler-specific extensions, but they still call themselves C/C++ compilers. Would a similar situation be possible for Rust with the current license?
I wonder if tiny solar cells covering the entire surface of the card would be enough to power it. Not sure if the wifi module can be powered with < 1 watt of electricity though.
[..] There is no known physical mechanism by which astrology could possibly work.[..] - So this is your only stated reason why astrology is phony.
Clients in the cloud. Essentially running your dev environment, terminal + IDE + VCS + entire isolated copy of prod, as a web service. This way you can deploy, curl, and tinker to your heart's content.
The haight outside of the street itself is fine though.

Erm, no. At the very least the panhandle is like two blocks over.
The GP thinks its about "getting even", as if China and India were naive, noble backwaters the devious Europeans pulled the wool over and secretly exploited in 1700s.

When really, they got out competed in trade and on the battlefield by the Europeans.
>But you can easily live in the Western Europe on even €30k.
EASILY! And happily, and stress free.

Yeah, please take me and my family to this magic lala land. You can also survive on the streets with no money. That doesn't mean it's a lifestyle you should aspire to.
Ah, thanks for the precision. How do distributions typically handle that? And why does GNU feel the need to patch rustc, is it for things that can't be upstreamed?
I'm very curious as to why this is being downvote so heavily. They're not wrong.

Among other reasons, the healthcare situation is one reason I would not consider taking a job in the US.
... they changed the handwriting to anonymize the author.

Or to make up a complete load of bullshit? We have no proof that a card with the original handwriting ever existed. Hence my original comment that my bullshit meter was off the clock.

https://www.skeptical-science.com/bullshit/detecting-bullshi...
In projects like these, I think the only thing that ever exists is a virtual ability to roll back. I’ve never actually seen that happen successfully.
The Paradox of Karl Popper (2018)
Interesting list, I would definitely add

5) Fake news and the rise of regulation

I think all major platforms will be regulated cough Trump cough

Interesting product, I signed up because during my solo travels It's hard to meet people that speak English, so this may be good for other travelers?

Hope this helps
Important points to consider, I'm open to updating my views here.

> You seem to doubt that governments made decisions based on facts,

It's actually the reverse, I've become more skeptical because so many recycling programs are now just landfilling plastic because the costs no longer justify recycling it.

The price of oil should tell us something about the relative efficiency of recycling plastic. It would be weird if there was zero relation.

Oil prices being consistently low for a decade probably contribute to shifting efficiencies here.

I worry more generally about reuse and recycle heuristics since early environmental impact studies showed they frequently produce bad results. But that doesn't mean they always do.

Maybe you're right and those input factors haven't changed enough to affect the total cost math.
Then you haven't met many people who like to call themselves "CEO".
I’m curious if the money collected promoted one idea is comparable to the money needed to compensate for the progress of that idea.

For instance, I’m not sure you’d be OK with ‘Drug trafficking is OK, as long as the money goes to rehab clinics’.
Obviously the invisible hand wants to destroy the environment.
> The F5 load balancer (hardware commodity) could've slowly cut over the traffic 10% at a time to the new migration site to get a feel for user experience.

I doubt an F5 load balancer would work in this specific case. But there definitely should've been a software router-adapter that routed requests to two systems and converted their replies to a single format. This would've let them migrate their customers in batches instead of a big bang cutover.

That's what I've always done when migrating data to a new banking system.
One of the most impactful essays I read this year was this one by Kevim Simler on how people adopt beliefs:
https://meltingasphalt.com/crony-beliefs/

It's changed my beliefs about beliefs. I've always thought that people adopt erroneous beliefs either because of logical fallacies, repeated exposure to false information, or by listening to a gifted orator.

His argument is that people adopt beliefs because they appear to be true or because they are useful. Beliefs can provide utility by giving you social approval, or removing cognitive dissonance while you pay your bills.

Chances are that you and I hold false beliefs that are useful that may not be true. If you're in the tech industry, you're probably less critical about your company and more techno-optimistic in general in part because you gain wealth by going along with corporate and industry propaganda.

I'm now more suspicious of any beliefs I have that are conveniently useful to me.
>I look at it as a simple trade of goods. Hiring a Software Engineer from India is like an Indian buying a German car.

That's by far the silliest thing I've read this week. Even beats Trump's tweets.
Sounds like the two were having a conversation about medical benefits. I think his response was reasonable within the given context. Nothing wrong with feeling better about yourself so long as you are not doing so at the cost of potentially harming yourself or others. Spreading potentially false medical facts is risky because not everyone will do their own research.
While the comment may be extreme it's somewhat amusing you're comparing SF to third world countries - which speaks to itself I guess.
Right, and I guess this is in particular a problem that Linux/BSD distributions face, where they want to apply small patches for interoperability and the like, but still want to offer it to their users as "Rust".
Like so many things, it's wise to evaluate the people who are teaching and the methods that they use. I toyed with the idea, but I decided against it because of my shoulders.
Where Have All the Christmas Tree Farms Gone?
I'm just gonna leave this there:

https://sfist.com/2019/12/18/man-photographed-pooping-in-an-...
Particle Life – A Game of Life Made of Particles (2018)
Bhagavad Gita also advocates for varna system which is one of the shames of hinduism.
This is the first answer that seems very plausible. Makes perfect sense as the best of both worlds. Political capital + actual capital.
Privacy and Security Are Different – Round 2
I mainly work in web-dev, but working in embedded systems is kind of my hobby. It's kind of refreshing working on bare-metal, optimizing up-to single bytes of data, when I'm usually working on layers and layers of abstraction everyday.
Is it very different than the Linux kernel? There are thousands of custom versions, old versions, and strange architectures and they're all called "Linux" and it's worked fine so far. Some organizations even backport security fixes without changing the version number. As long as you're clear about what you're doing, why is this any more confusing?
Important safety tip. If you hear any vendor executive brag about the large number of people it took to do an IT project, seek out a different vendor.

I don't get how small-value transactions could turn into large-value transactions on migration, though. Hollerith cards? Wrong column numbers in the COBOL program? Decimal point / comma confusion? Whisky Tango Foxtrot?
This is the most san francisco thing ever..
Would be cool to be able to see some kind of a "geek passenger instrument panel" with this information during flight. This would definitely influence my choice of an airline.
China's has a huge coastline and lots of sand is lost into the Pacific ocean due to longshore transport. They should be building groins and jetties to collect the sand and harvest it from there.
It's not conventional thinking, but this is how trade works.

Most trade treaties now consider the human element too (like in the case of EU, which allows free people movement for employment, just like free goods movement).
In the interest of the people everywhere in the world, there should always be dial-up access points available, in different countries.

The "national interest", for whichever country, should always be the people's interest; and restricted information has never been of any benefit except for those restricting it
I find that business cards are still helpful to get the spelling of people's names right - otherwise you have to either hand your phone over to the other person and have them type their name into your phone, or at least have them text you the spelling, which can be awkward to ask for and anyway has more friction than accepting a business card.

Also, sharing WhatsApp contacts makes me uncomfortable. There's various fields that people can store in their private contacts system which is inappropriate to share without permission - birthdays and home addresses at least. When you share a contact, you have to remember to sanitize the contact before you send it. A business card only consists of details which are pre-approved to share with strangers, so business cards don't have this problem.
This is rad.
If Indians and Chineese can live there with the salary they get. Why can't you ? What makes you different ?

Indians & Chineese are buying foreign products in their countries. Why can't other countries accept goods(human resources) in return ? It's a global economy.
Well probably he does since it's his job? This is more like his art project, nothing wrong with that.
I really want to learn being able compile and solder an embedded system but I don't know where to start. Assuming I have the parts, tools and materials, how can I learn where to put capacitors/resistors etc in a custom design? What kind of simulators are good at testing these ideas without needing to waste expensive components? What was missing in my Computer Engineering curriculum which paints those circuit parts (except the cpu) completely alien to me?
Ask HN: What startups are actively working to educate on climate change?
Greetings Hacker News. I am keen to understand if there are many startups - or just businesses generally - whose core role is to educate people about climate change and its impacts?

This could be through education programs or even software to monitor carbon/methane/etc ?
And just like that, you committed a felony.
Neat to see the altitude over time graph
I watched it on all the Nordic channels, when I was a kid. Couldn't get enough cartoon back then apparently. when it wasn't an abundant "commodity" like today.
Behind Jim Allison's quest to cure cancer
The hype doesn't make sense and is probably just there for click-bait. The CO2 problem is about adding CO2 to the system. Digging up coal, oil or gas and burning it, adds CO2 to the atmosphere that wasn't part of this system. Burning trees that will grow back does not add any CO2 to the system, only just temporary. The trees that grow back will take up the CO2 again.

You could argue all kinds of things however. The toxic dust coming off of it, or the carbon monoxide isn't really good for humans. The wildlife probably doesn't enjoy the fires either. And if there are more wildfires now than there used to be, because of heat, that is a symptom of bigger problems. But the CO2 is not really the problem here in the wildfires.
2019 Developer Rewind / Year in Review: The End of a Decade, the End of an Era?
The Consolations of Rail Travel
The shitty add-on standard v1.69bis for electronic con badges
Had similar experience talking to ... someone at fidelity. I can't remember his title, but we were trying to negotiate some data exchange with them. He asked for our development workflow/process, and balked when he saw that a "developer" would also be the same person who had "access" to the database with customer information.

"Developers can not touch the database"

Umm... someone needs to, and we're a small team.

"Developers can not touch the database"

"Why not?"

"They can exfiltrate data".

"So could someone else who has access to the database"

"Developers can not touch the database"

"If we give a non-developer access to the database, by definition, they have access, and therefore the ability to exfiltrate data"

"Developers can not touch the database"

"Can you provide some examples of how other companies who've passed your inspection are making any sort of database changes/upgrades without someone having access to the database?"

"Developers can not touch the database"

And that ended it apparently.
I still lose bags a very high percentage of the times that I check them (maybe 20%) so I never check them.

It's far from solved.
Just "don't bitch" period.
Steve Jobs's Secret to Greatness: Yogananda (2015)
Why not? I think that wouldn't infringe trademark. IANAL
Somebody with better knowledge of that will hopefully chime in. My impression is that most of the distributions either don't patch upstream besides the build recipes, and upstream maintainers turn a blind eye to that. The ones that do, though (e.g. Debian), take the approach described on the OP and rebrand it (e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozilla_software_rebranded_by_... ).
Any foreigner working in the EU also has to pay taxes, just like a citizen.
> leachate control is nothing but a cost center to the people running a landfill

A lot of these fixes are more expensive to fake to code than to just implement, and isolating sources of groundwater pollution can take a few years, but not decades. Also a lot of these people live there and know the risks to their kids' safety.

The environmental engineers who consult on these projects didn't generally go into the field to poison people.
> Realistically, the what most hiring managers (save for huge FAANG institutions) can do is thoroughly ensure that their team isn't inadvertently (or blatantly) racist/sexist in their hiring process and on the job, and to post the job in enough places that a diverse applicant pool will see the posting.

I have been involved in hiring people before. There was absolutely nothing racist or sexist in the way we hire. Fact was we go two applicants. Neither were women or minority status. Fact is that the industry is full of white men (even here in Europe).

We should be hiring on ability to do the job and nothing else.
Indian and Chinese immigrants don't have family in the EU. They might have one later but they don't need a higher salary to support them when they first move to the EU.
Most Linux distributions apply patches to software they distribute (e.g. for integration or security fixes). That is expected. If trademark forbids that, then it adds problems and confusion (like Firefox renamed to Iceweasel in Debian, until they reached some agreement with Mozilla Foundation).
Yes, EU is the cause of all British ills... </sarcasm>

Or perhaps it was the usual incompetent planning of the owners of TSB - banks splitting up is not a new or impossible thing, you know. And complexity of IT systems is the most absurd argument against splitting up LloydsTSB - why would any regulator consider this at all?
Tho whole we couldn't find anyone in the EU for this job spiel that companies play is just a immigration scam approved with a rubber stamp by the authorities.

Let me fill you in on how it works:

Company puts up job ad with a salary so low no one in their right mind would even consider applying for. After 30 days of no applications(what a surprise) company goes to the local authorities and tells them that no one in the EU applied and that it's already hurting their business an suddenly, BAM!, working visa secured for the next gullible fool who doesn't know the market.

This abuse is so easy, every company does it and the government is ok with it as it keeps the companies happy.
This is one of the coolest things I have seen on HN this year !