skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My job requires me to both create and provide PDF order forms and receive, complete and return many forms.

Our healthcare-related clientele is both slow to adopt technology and, understandably, still have a need to print and complete forms by hand – at least partially – because of the settings they find themselves in. We still get a ton of faxed in! So we can't exclusively create web-based forms. But I have used Adobe Acrobat Pro to make them fillable digitally. It works well the majority of the time, but it is not without fail. In fact, it has gotten worse since many browsers open a link to a PDF in the browser window. They don't tend to have full compatibility with all form fields and many people don't realize they are looking at a PDF, but thing it is a "web form."

On the other side, I have always looked to streamline completing redundant forms as much as possible. I have gone as far as emulating, as you suggest, in HTML, CS and JS. It's a bit of a side project, as well: businessformsplus.org.

It offers the familiarity of a paper form or PDF and allows printing to use the final product as needed. And most have a feature to allow saving/caching info that may remain unchanged from form to form.

Do some searching on HN or the web for PDF APIs. There are some really nice ones that allow you to upload a scan of a paper form and create a digital version with fillable fields either directly or through API. Some allow you to build forms from scratch or utilize a more traditional web form to later fill out the PDF form.

In my personal life, the beginning of the school year is torturous with the paper forms that have to be filled out for each child, even though you did the same thing the year before and the majority of the information is the same for each child (household info, emergency contacts, etc.) Getting schools to adopt would be the hard part, but offering up a service that would carry information over from previous years and share between siblings would be huge!
Congressional Democrat IT Scandal After DOJ Files Document Under Seal
> Minor detail: services cannot be restricted if you don't agree to share your private data. But that doesn't touch sharing the data that was signed away with a contract.

That's not minor, it's major. It invalidates any sort of "let us use your data in order to use the app" profiteering clickwrap nonsense, and any kind of "contract" derived from that would be void.
It’s not “offensive language” if it’s legitimately part of someone’s name (and I don’t mean the obvious bullshit cases, but cases where someone has had the name since birth).
> SapphireDb should serve as a self hosted alternative to firebase and also gives you an alternative to SignalR.
These stories are too common.

I would guess that the median* wage on HN is probably around 5x what your brother-in-law makes. And I would also guess that many of us are perfectly content with old phones, old cars, and generally reduced consumption. Hell, I buy clothes at thrift/resale shops when I find something nice that fits.

What are people of means (relatively) seeing? Is it because we have more leisure time and can afford to filter the media we consume?

*I'm consciously using median because I would guess that FAANG and the coasts skew the mean.
This is consistent with other research that found that vegans live about 10 years longer on average. It seems no-milk is even better for longevity than low-fat milk.

https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-families...
“Fake” Chips?
Right - Tony Stark's AI algos are prioritizing and optimizing customer service 24 x 7
I would expect the signatures to start failing after you update and restart.
I did not cherry pick the worst examples, just the most common. Only one of your examples could possibly lead to a good aspiration in people, charities. Even that seems like a stretch though as many advertisements for charities are scams or to charities that only use a low percentage of the donation for the charities cause. It could push people to look up a list charities and donate, which is why it could be positive.

We don't need ads for schools or politicians a person should make their own choice based on impartial data and public debates. Movie trailers in and of themselves are not bad, but as advertisements they only drive people to consume. I can't say that they give positive aspirations.

Why do we need to be socialist or a utopia to ban most advertising?
China Is the Next Superpower by 2030
I'm sorry, how is that post pretty graphic?
But the difference between 1% and 2% milk is the fat content, not the sugar.
It's gotta be case-by case, but upon shallow reflection I feel like 1 layer of abstraction is the sweet spot. I've worked on code where I have to "Go-to definition" a dozen times to figure out what is going on, and I hate it. And I have seen code where it's just a big wall of text hundreds or thousands of lines long, and I hate it.
Is there an available method to acquire some of these marked-up dead trees?
Can anyone confirm it's this easy to make the purchase?

I'd rather enjoy discovering that Nicholas Taleb was bullshitting here...
I knew my grandma who spent her life drinking 4% whole milk should have lived another twenty years!
It’s not a spreadsheet, it’s a mobile app builder that can use a spreadsheet to access data.
I'm curious about their dialysis system. I'm presently on dialysis myself. Some of the technology is straightforward. Its mostly making sure everything is sterile or you get a massive infection. The simplest technology is literally a bad of sugar solution that is fed by gravity and a second bag to drain out the solution. No power needed except to heat the solution to body temperature but you can manage without heating in a pinch. Again it all has to be super sterile so lots of one time use of plastics.
It is definitely not state intervention alone that explains the culture within the medical profession overemphasizing hierarchical relationships and deemphasizing direct patient care
Main problem with the style is lack of overarching structure and cohesion.

Preferable state is high internal cohesion and low coupling.
Most code is opposite.
Ravioli is when you trade high coupling without introducing cohesion, which is structure. Typical state after dumb refactor rather than rework.

Simple extraction of functions does not get you anything (if done well within a module, maybe increases cohesion), while making them reusable modules trades reduced cohesion for increased coupling, which is bad.

If you deduplicate too much you suddenly cannot change anything simply... As every place that got deduped is now coupled to one implementation. Once you need some special care, you get to replicate it again oftentimes.

Only true primitives are really worth it to not replicate and parts of code that won't change. (Ask the crystal ball again.)

See if deduplicaton gets you any of useful high level designs, like MVC, event-driven, reactive, message based. Without overarching design, you end up with a mass of locally useful ones that together are incompatible thus requiring lots of different, unique glue code.

The big mistake people do is to equate design patterns with code patterns. Which is what the silly GoF book did a lot. For example "fire and forget background parallel tasks" is a design pattern. Reactor (executes Strategies to deal with Events) is one while Singleton or Context are not. Event also is not. Etc. Generally anything that doesn't actually structure anything is a code pattern.
Minimum Wage Raises Could Lower Suicide Rates, Study Says
Climate change means the US must start building big things again
I don't know enough about chemistry to say, but does steaming milk (like for a latte) have any effect on its health properties? I ask because for milk based coffee drinks you really want to be using whole milk. There are no taste and texture options that get anywhere near it.
Seems pretty cool. Not sure where I personally would use it, but when interacting with legacy this could make things much easier.
>Maybe it's the communal roots of open source culture

To be sure, this sentiment is being pushed out of the industry by people with little interest in those communal roots.
I'm gonna go on a limb without looking at this study and propose the following connection:

The people drinking 1% typically would exercise more and watch overall diet.

Shocking.
The large scale China Study had negative finds on human's drinking milk intended as a baby cow growth hormone as well: "Dr. Campbell says that in multiple, peer-reviewed animal studies, researchers discovered that they could actually turn the growth of cancer cells on and off by raising and lowering doses of casein, the main protein found in cow’s milk." Ref: https://www.wellandgood.com/good-food/china-study-cheat-shee...
> "If someone asked me to put together a presentation on the value of drinking milk, I could put together a 1-hour presentation that would knock your socks off. You'd think, 'Whoa, everybody should be drinking more milk.' If someone said do the opposite, I could also do that.

Pretty much sums up the state of nutrition science.
So because it can be changed it’s not a problem systemd is changing the default behind the distributions back?

And because there are worse things it’s not a problem?

Systemd does not get to set the defaults to Lennarts preferences. And if it tries to, it deserves all the vitriol that results.
Please lobby the AMA to not artificially limit the supply of doctors by creating regulations around residency. I personally know of many people with MDs from India who don't work here as physicians because they could not get a residency 'slot' in the Bay Area where their family lives.
Relevant thread with links on StackExchange: https://skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/4561/does-the-a...
Uh, he found the exact opposite...

Quote: "Somewhat surprisingly, he also found that milk abstainers had shorter telomeres than adults who consumed low-fat milk."
Yes. Steaming milk degrades lactose into glucose and galactose, and coagulates some of the proteins.
How many corporate Centers of Excellence produce excellent work?
Ive always felt quite the opposite: comparing myself to those better off than me motivates me and to those worse off makes me grateful for what I have. This started pretty immediately after I entered the workforce. I don't know what accounts for me ending up on the win-win side of the coin, but I'm evidence that you can't take for granted that the lose-lose situation you describe will happen.
Except there is no organization limiting the number of software developers. In fact, I can't think of another field out there with so many free resources for one to educate and prove themselves a capable programmer.
Another solution is allow more doctors to be licensed so they don't need to be as overworked.
On come on, this is nonsensical click-bate. How can you declare with a straight face that Baidu

>which controls two-thirds of China’s online search market, appears to have been active in suppressing information about the 2019 pro-democracy protests.

Is a less evil company than Airbnb

> some investors were purchasing New Orleans properties, evicting their tenants, and converting them into short-term rental spaces, aka Airbnbs

You might as well insist that glass bottles manufactures are evil because their product is used to make Molotov Cocktails.
There are several software-unlock 'upgrades' they sell, like the $2000 'boost mode' [1].

[1]: https://www.roadandtrack.com/new-cars/a30294938/tesla-model-...
I think Valve takes a 30% cut on Steam and Steam predates the iOS App Store.
Is this a Brave New World reference?
Thanks! Mapper 1 is since done as well as battery-backed RAM support, and I'll be implementing mappers 2-4 in the next couple days. I just read your blog post and the audio section caught my eye: I went through the exact same struggles with trying to queue 44,100Hz to SDL, including trying to implement dynamic sampling, but it was never quite right and I got quite frustrated with it. So eventually I took another pass at using the callback method instead, which I thought wasn't possible as you can't exfiltrate a reference to the struct that you give the audio device, but I got it to work this time with an Arc<Mutex<Vec<u8>>> and it's wayyy better.

The APU sends all of its samples to a staging buffer, then between video frames, the Mutex for the SDL buffer is locked and the staging buffer is emptied into it. The SDL callback also locks the Mutex 60 times per second, takes evenly spaced samples from the raw data, and truncates what it consumed if it had more than it needed. Now the audio keeps perfect pace with the emulator, whether it slows to 58 FPS or goes too fast, and there's no popping and clicking. If you're curious, here are the relevant spots in the code now:

https://github.com/spieglt/nestur/blob/master/src/audio.rs
https://github.com/spieglt/nestur/blob/e49921541d493b3616352...

I just beat the first Zelda dungeon last night, saving the file afterwards, and it was indeed really satisfying.
They would be lower lactose and a lot of humans are lactose intolerant to some degree, so there's that.
Same here..

I've been working with IP networks for over 3 decades. If I can't see why ouroboros is better, what hope is there for the future of the project.
I was interested in medicine in high school. I was able to shadow a few physicians and talk about career options. At the time I was shocked that most of the physicians I talked to said they would take a different career path if they could do it over again.

The common theme was that they felt it used to be a respected profession but now they’re broadly just cogs in a healthcare system that given them little freedom for professional discretion and lots of paperwork.

I ultimately didn’t pursue medicine.
This is awesome! Thank you for sharing your story and congratulations!
You could just add a good faith clause that forbids it.
An analysis of the Hippocratic Oath and its application in the modern day will turn up the same results as any other ethical standard. Selectively applied on criteria that would rarely be tolerated if openly stated, requiring unstated assumptions to avoid internal contradiction, and powerless to change human behavior as those who commit to upholding it will do so only for interpretations in their own image. While I do admit my view of ethics as a whole is quite cynical, I think one only needs to consider how many ethically bound actors have caused significant harm with unquestionably wrong actions to see that such cynicism has solid foundations.

In short, we should treat doctors no different than any other human in regards to how they operate and how to protect society from bad actors. One practical example is that doctors should follow the same rules and others with regards to child safety such as ensure a child is always accompanied by two unrelated adults and that patients and their parents should be willing to seek second opinions on anything a doctor does that they do not feel comfortable with.

As for the issue at hand, we should not assume doctors will behave more benevolently than any other industry with regards to self regulation and rent seeking(-esque) behavior.

Also to clarify, there are many selfish doctors who do their best to help others. I'm not questioning our doubting that. I'm speaking of groups in general and not of every single member.
Shroedingers autopilot which is and isn't an autopilot depending on time of day and who you ask. If you're a regulator you have to say its the law.
Also, Tesla upgrades are universally either software unlocks ("boost mode") or promises of future hardware/software upgrades ("full self driving"), as far as I know, and so should all be entirely reversible in an automated way.

I think of Apple, Microsoft, and Steam for comparison, each of which have software stores that allow refunds for purchases, some of which could potentially be pretty significant. For example, Train Simulator has about $10,000 in DLC [1], and a single bundle purchase of all of it would still qualify for Steam's two-weeks-from-purchase/less-than-two-hours-of-play refund policy.

[1]: https://ganker.com/train-simulator-game-all-dlc-total-cost-a...
The easiest way is negotiating at your current job. I realize this hasn't worked for you, but it is possible.

The next easiest way is negotiating at new job. You don't tell them upfront you want part-time job, you just get an offer and then negotiate for hours. If you tell them upfront they won't bother interviewing you, if you can negotiate once you have an offer you have much stronger position.

Here's someone who has been doing this for years: https://codewithoutrules.com/2018/01/08/part-time-programmer...

(Also don't use the phrase "part-time", "reduced hours" maybe, especially if it's 30 hours a week. Makes it sound bad.)

I wrote a book about the process, based on doing it myself multiple times, and a bunch of research and interviews like the one above: https://codewithoutrules.com/3dayweekend/

Happy to answer any questions!
What is "Bullshit correlation" Alex?

Seriously, there are probably so many lurking variables in that study...

As far as vegans go, same thing. You know the #1 thing that probably extends your life? Not drinking alcohol. So if vegans are also teetotalers, or just into fitness, there you go. Nothing at all to do with milk.
I've been noticing the same thing on Amazon a lot lately, although it hasn't been 100% consistent. Sometimes there is a "1 click" button, other times there is a "buy now" button which requires a second click. Maybe some A/B testing thing, or gradual rollout of the new mechanism.

This annoys me, but it's not my biggest complaint about what they've changed recently. A while back, it seems like they quit putting any kind of "buy now" or "1 click" button on used book listings. They make you add them to your cart first. Sadly, in my case, my cart is used as a staging area and is always jam full of stuff, so I'm never going to buy anything from Amazon by adding it to my cart and then going through the normal checkout flow. Now, when I want a used book, I copy the ISBN from the Amazon listing page, jump over to bn.com, and buy it there (where I never have items lingering in my cart).

I suppose Amazon would say I'm using their system wrong, but from my point of view it doesn't matter. No "1 click" or "buy now" means "no purchase" (from Amazon). shrug
> My brother-in-law is overall a smart guy, but he works at Taco Bell full-time, making minimum wage in NYC (~$15/hour). He decided that he needed the newest iPhone 11, presumably because of some good marketing, spent over a grand (through financing of course...ugh), and he'll spend the next year paying it off.

Apple has made this (buying, or rather leasing, a new iPhone every year) a lot easier to get addicted to and seemingly cheaper through the iPhone Upgrade Program.
I assume facebook still pays for all views it counts, so there is no downside in terms of ad revenue for publishers.
The study:

https://new.hindawi.com/journals/omcl/2019/1574021/

>Effect modification testing indicated that the milk fat and cellular aging association may be partly due to saturated fat intake differences across the milk fat groups. When the sample was delimited to adults reporting only high total saturated fat intake (tertile 3), the milk fat and telomere relationship was strong. However, when the sample was restricted to adults reporting only low saturated fat consumption (tertile 1), there was no relationship between milk fat intake and telomere length.
Well well, I think most people have financial problems nowadays, it's not a secret that the human world is on the descending slope.
Definitely agree with this one.

The hard way to be outstanding is to go after a niche and learn your way into the 20% of that field (did some copy paste here, lazy to repeat arguments).

For example, if you want to be proficient in radar systems you can learn and read all the books on radar, and probably still become an average research student of radar technology.

If you can find a hard problem in radar and solve it somehow, you will become well-known in an established field without becoming a classical expert like writing book on radar.
Does this study take into account other variables? The article also says that people who do not drink milk have shorter telomeres.

Could it be that people who drink 0% and 1% milk also eat fewer foods high in fat and sugar (or are more aware of their diet in other ways) compared to the average (i.e., those who do not drink milk and those who drink the most common milk available)?
Sadly, it isn't:

> Somewhat surprisingly, he also found that milk abstainers had shorter telomeres than adults who consumed low-fat milk.

OTOH, I imagine this is probably bunk, as sadly was the study with the 10 years figure.

(I do think that being vegetarian or vegan is probably healthier than being a meat-eater, though).
It is not illegal for companies to process the data which you have signed away with a contract.

This isn't true. The actual GDPR text on consent states [1]:

the data subject has given consent to the processing of his or her personal data for one or more specific purposes;

-> So processing of data based on consent is limited to the purposes agreed to.

or

processing is necessary for the performance of a contract to which the data subject is party or in order to take steps at the request of the data subject

-> So processing of data is necessary to fulfill a request made by the data subject.

This is a far cry from "processing the data which you have signed away". The only blanket allowance for data processing is this item:

processing is necessary for the purposes of the legitimate interests pursued by the controller or by a third party, except where such interests are overridden by the interests or fundamental rights and freedoms of the data subject which require protection of personal data

Which again limits the processing allowed under GDPR: processing of data under this rule requires the legitimate business interest to be weighed against the subject's personal rights.

[1] https://gdpr-info.eu/art-6-gdpr/
I wonder, though, how much of both of these are sort of "related group" effects.

That is, the sort of people that drink 1% milk, or have a healthy diet, also have a lot of other healthy habits.
Branching of multiverse on every measurement event is an approximation. The branches aren't fully isolated. I suspect that extremely low amplitude branches undergo merger events, which makes it impossible to have coherent timeline in them. But I'm completely out of my depth here.
It seems reported healthcare quality is highly correlated with physicians per capita, in developed countries. Notable exceptions are Japan and Singapore, but these countries tend to have more efficient infrastructure and populations with predilections toward above average health. Socialized healthcare countries like the UK and Canada, known for their absurd wait times, have comparable physicians per capita to the US [0]. Most of the other European countries with touted healthcare systems also tend to have significantly more doctors than the US.

[0] https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SH.MED.PHYS.ZS
Better: unscrew the antenna and screw in a matched termination/load instead. This will protect the amplifier inside (HF reflections due to a miss match could fry it with overloading the transistor), and be an even worse antenna compared to an open SMA (or such) connector.
> There were a dozen covariates controlled in the present study (age, gender, race, household size, smoking, body mass index, MET-minutes of total physical activity, alcohol use, grams of protein consumed per kilogram of body weight, percentage of energy derived from dietary fat, grams of dietary fiber consumed per 1000 kilocalories, and percentage of total energy derived from saturated fat.
discipline, education and culture
IIRC this is true for PGP but not for S/MIME which was broken at the protocol level.
You might need minimal data yourself, but the tools you use (eg Unity) or the way you monetize (AdSense) do data collection.