skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Independents (a majority of physicians)...

Is this still true?

It seems like the days of the independent physician are drawing to a close. Many independent practices have become physician groups which in turn have been bought by hospitals. (Perhaps specialists are still largely independent, but general outpatient medicine seems to have become largely corporate.)

Many physicians I know have a boss, and have to meet metrics about how many patients they see ever year in order to get their incentive bonus. Physicians who work for hospitals are viewed as "loss leaders", and find their appointment times squeezed to twenty, fifteen, or even twelve minutes per patient. (The idea is that for every n visits, a patient will be referred to a profitable service provided by the hospital.)
I always wait until a particular study has been reproduced at least once before I take it seriously.
I get why Microsoft did what they did.

I just still wish they would have at least OSS'd EdgeHTML instead of just shoving it in a closet somewhere.
As much as I despise chromium controlling the browser market, having microsoft in the game should improve the situation, so kudos to them.
I'm really interested in how you benchmarked that? Is there a "simple" way to specify the physical location on a HD data should be written to?
>I can afford to get the new iPhone every year or two if I wanted

Maybe that's what the difference is. Being able to afford these things means you might not feel a similar need to posture that you can afford a certain lifestyle that you really can't. I'm guessing that at minimum wage most would struggle financially especially in a large city like NYC, so being able to pull the newest iPhone out of their pocket might be their way of assuring themselves and people around them that they are doing alright financially.
If they were selling ads themselves that might make sense. But since they were planning to rely on the platform for ad revenue, I'd think they'd want to know others revenue experiences first.

Ad revenue and eyeballs don't correlate well across different platforms, as some are better at selling ads than others.
The hottest new thing in sustainable building is, uh, wood
That's a failure of the tools, not the regulations.
Your solution is to use punitive tax rates on people so they'll lobby the people who actually decide how many slots there are?

Really?
I apologize fo the comment about the tech industry. I was going to edit it to simply take it out, but that wouldn't be terribly honest of me. So it stays. But I can't in good conscious say "hey, please don't be a jerk to me for being in advertising" and then turn around and mock the entire tech industry. That's BS on my part.
The ACH issue is why Donald Knuth no longer sends out his famous checks to people who find errors in his books but now uses mock check-like certificates. Typically people didn't cash the checks but put them on display for bragging rights, and apparently somebody used the numbers to scam his bank account.
I think the superorganism perspective is more reasonable than it seems on its face. We manage to digest our food and regulate our endocrine sysyems with almost no conscious intention, and likewise its unlikely our autonomic processes have much knowledge of what we believe ourselves to be thinking about. Most of our cells arent even human. An individual ant doesnt need to grasp what the colony is doing any more than a particular neuron needs to grasp what a person is doing. It seems that the components do have their own awereness, its just much more limited in scope than that of the whole system.
> But what is the minimum size for a business to "get so big they have taken over control of regulation"?

This is sort of like asking, "What is the minimum weight you can put on a seesaw before it tips?" The answer depends entirely what's on the other side.

One way to look at free markets is that they provide economic stability in the same way that tensegrity [0] structures provide physical stability. They work not because any element provides stability, but because — when very carefully composed together! — the elements exert opposing forces which all balance out leading to a stable system.

The "brilliant idea" of markets is taking advantages of forces that already exist — human selfishness and the desire to profit — and harness that to produce a system with some level of efficiency. The downside is that there's no real way to evaluate market participants in isolation.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tensegrity
When I was very young and didn't make much money, there didn't seem to be any point in saving it. It could have been just immaturity on my part, but short-term thinking and the availability of unsecured debt made it too easy to spend. It was a defeatist mindset. In my mind, the amount of work involved in scrimping didn't justify the very small payout.

Now that I make more, I spend even less than I did before. The reward finally justifies the work. It doesn't bear out mathematically, only emotionally.
Check out the Either monad in Haskell. It has an implementation in the JS library funfix.
How The New York Times Verified the Iran Missile-Strike Footage
How does that increase the supply of doctors, which is what's actually being discussed here?
nope - the loss in velocity is not worth using it unless you're a massive team. TS is for Java programmers who are mad at Javascript for existing and don't know how it works well enough to grok overloading etc. plus you get a lot of the benefits of TS in an IDE like VSCode without actually having to use types at all. if you're a javascript native, typescript is constricting and eliminates one of the best parts of javascript - no types!!
I don't think the fact that the author does recyclable (re-editable) code on top of reusable code is relevant.

What matters is what you choose to keep under your control. If you use a black-box library you lose control over the semantics of the operations you invoke. When you are doing it yourself, you know way better what the semantics are.

Recyclable code is like throw-away code, except with some extra care to avoid making it write-only.

It is liberating in more than one way: you know the semantics because you defined them or you can in practice read their definition. Not having to care about reuse means you don't have to think about extra parameters or extra functions to satisfy a larger user base than you or your coworker(s). Recyclable code aims at staying small, simple and stupid. It does not need to scale.

And of course, just like portable code is not portable until it has been ported, reusable code is not reusable until it has been reused. It is not uncommon that the parts written for the sake of reuse do not work because the author actually was not interested in them, and as a result forgot to test them.

I think it is interesting to note that recyclable code goes straight against the open-closed principle: reusable library code is designed to be extended, built-upon, while recyclable code is made to be easily edited.

I have written a lot of throw-away scripts like many programmers. Some parts of them I actually kept and they became reusable parts that I keep in separate files to be included in other throw-away scripts.
Obviously, at some point some operations you do often (like reading a CSV files or whatever), you don't want to code again and test each time, and perhaps more importantly if you discover a bug in one script you don't want to update all of the other scripts that do exactly the same thing.

So the motivations for reusable code are still prevalent, but the mindset for creating it is slightly different than what the "API-first" paradigm promotes. Recyclable code can become reusable because of ad hoc reuse. This is what keeps code size and documentation size, human-sized.
Also don’t forget about resistance to becoming employees, but then complaining about the protections/advantages afforded to employees.
I agree about the power balance but I don't think it's in Tesla's interest to have customers that were burned by massive accidental purchases and never buy a car from them again.
Advertising is an attack on your psyche. Its very existence is an assumption that you should be dissatisfied with your life, and any advertising 'tricks' (only showing happy, beautiful people using it etc, aka 95% of the content of most advertisements) beyond purely factual statements about the product are explicitly designed to hijack every possible unconscious bias in their target audience to make them want it.

Sure, if you are concentrating and paying attention to the effect an ad has on you and the tricks it's using to manipulate you, you can pretty easily analyze and counteract the effect. But can you keep that up for every moment of every day, ever vigilant resisting the imposition of another's will onto yours, wriggling into your mind one tiny crack at a time?

Don't blink.
The first example is basically find a successful person and take a menial job sucking up to them and doing their laundry.

Welcome to America 2020
But the "manufacturing and shipping a new one" part is temporary until the majority of cars are replaced. The reduced emissions from more efficient cars will be permanent.

Yes, retrofitting would be better, but if that's not possible, what else would you do to get converters into cars?

Also, I think GP was talking about removing a converter from a car that already had one. Literally not doing anything would be better for the environment than that.
Even in retirement, people have trouble spending time how they want to
There are both amazingly good and amazingly bad things about Japanese culture.

The shame of being seen to be not honest or respecting people's property leads to amazing responsibility and kindness.

But it also leads to people being depressed and feeling constrained not to be able to break out of societal expectations.

The very things that make us love Japan, would make you go crazy to live there. So enjoy the privilege of being able to visit and experience the benefits, while not having to deal with the downsides.

And maybe it causes you to reflect that, in the US -- the very personal freedoms (i.e. lack of guilt on being disobedient or trying new things) leads to a society where it's more likely you're not getting your wallet back if you leave it somewhere...
Hearing some sad news out of Mozilla today
LIDARs for Robocars Are Everywhere at CES
Given Microsoft's recent telemetry "features", I don't really think Microsoft's idea of "needed" and mine intersect...
“Fusion of an established identity and information we know about allows us to decide and act with greater focus, and if needed, lethality,” the DFBA’s director wrote in presentation notes last year.

It also opens up the possibility of weaponry optimized for an individual target's physical and mental weaknesses, personalized propaganda, and attacks on people's social connections, including noncombatants.
Offtopic:

> to commit to Svelte, it seems like it will be the "next big thing" in the JS world

How long does it usually take? In the JS world? Serious question as I am not in the JS world but reading HN/Reddit I would believe that things change quite fast. Someone told me over 1 year ago Svelte would be the next big thing and I see ‘no-one’ using it besides some hardcore enthusiasts; it is even hardly ever mentioned here or on Reddit; if it was a the next big thing, I think it would be?

Sorry for being uninformed, I am just curious.
So, about 10 years ago, I'd seen a few articles on the prevalence of the "squat-down-to-your-feet" stance in Asia, and the ease with which this stance could be reached by those who'd been doing it their whole lives, and its benefits as a low-energy sitting-position where chairs are unavailable & the ground is unappealing. But, I could get nowhere close without extreme ankle-knee-hip tightness & then, if I pushed, pain.

I thought, well, maybe I can gradually get that range-of-motion back for my adult body, with occasional tries/stretching.

After a few weeks of trying squats for a couple minutes most days, I was playing a typical game of basketball with friends, and landing from an unremarkable jump for a rebound, when my knee ACL snapped.

Quite possibly a coincidence! But even now, long after the recovery from ACL-replacement surgery, I can't muster any interest in trying those particular exercises again. And I wonder if ACL injury rates vary based on people/cultures where this stance is prevalent. (I could believe that actually achieving such squats involves longer ACLs, which might in the end be either positive or negative for sports-related ACL tears.)
The stories I've heard are worse than this. You establish a contract to sell your product for $x, they don't pay you until you believe the only money you'll ever see is from a lawsuit, then they demand you take $y, where y is significantly less than x, and if you don't like it, you can sue them, at which point they'll boycott all your other products too.
I agree, and I've found that WebStorm (and other JetBrains software with JavaScript support) does a great job at it, although I do find TypeScript improves the experience.
Blockchain: Why we should be getting excited about multi chain smart contracts
The company I'm working for has this exact platform as a dream project we've always wanted to do, and we 100% would've wasted a lot of money coming to an inferior end product to what you've created. Keep your head up!
I get that it's meant to be subjective, but the premise makes it clear that it's an ongoing knowlegde collection, but for that some sources would be nice.

Currently my troubles with SSDs in PC/Server/NAS environment are a somewhat more practical, more about compatibility NVMe/SATA, M.2 key types, PCIe port bifurcation support vs PLX switches, none of them are even mentioned. Advice for this is notoriously hard to find, resorting to trusting rare and random forum posts is my state of knowledge progress there.
It's not that hard, and the absolute number is not that important, just that a majority decide to use it, forcing the rest.

I'm guessing USicans just don't realize the world has moved on. Large countries tend to be isolating and the US is no exception.
CudaText – Cross-platform text editor
When you can objectively measure results, you'll often find that the people making decisions in an organization aren't as competent as they seem. It's a bitter pill to swallow when you realize that most of the people you have to take orders from didn't get to where they are through intelligence, hard work and character.
Seems like it would be a good exercise to clone the repo and build the script yourself. Then you could even submit a pull request to put the script in the repo.
> This isn't a problem

It actually is. Abusing exceptions as the normal control flow is a crude anti-pattern. Obviously the normal flow of control is not exceptional behavior. Therefore, abusing exceptions and exception-handling mechanisms to implement the happy path is simply wrong at many levels, from conceptual to practical, and in the end actually cause problems and hard to find buga such as the problems described in this bug report.
Seems to have been layoffs at Mozilla today
Mandated electronic medical records is the problem, not some constrained supply of doctors. (Not the concept of electronic records, but the implementation. Scanned paper records probably would have been fine. Epic and competing software solutions are not.) It means the same supply of doctors has less time for the same (or increased) demand.

Forcing doctors into a workflow dictated by software is what's causing 12 hour days to turn into 16-18 hour days, with no additional pay, and no reduced hours to compensate.

Also results in doctors focusing on the computer instead of the patient.

You didn't see burnout levels increase until electronic charts were forced.
i'm tired of devs that claim that TS and GraphQL are "self-documenting" and don't need to write any documentation. it doesn't fill in the common gaps, it's just an excuse to not have to think about or talk to users.
The actual paper seems inconsistent and contradictory. For example, from Section 4:

> Fourth, adjusting for differences in demographic, lifestyle, and dietary covariates has little influence on the relationship between milk fat intake and biological aging. Fifth, there is no relationship between milk fat intake and telomere length among adults who consumed low levels of total saturated fat (tertile 1), but it is strong among adults who consumed moderate or high levels of total saturated fat.

WTF? Am I misunderstanding something?

Source: https://new.hindawi.com/journals/omcl/2019/1574021/
Certainly, but you're also a product of an environment which values that sort of self-expression. If every time you went and hung out with your friends they shamed you, saying you look homeless, you might think differently. Its certainly a sign of maturity to not really care about those things, but depending on your life trajectory different values will hit. And clearly, a lot of people value a new iphone.

OTOH - its a device that you use for hours and hours a day, for entertainment, organization, communication, and a camera. Having a "better" one is a decent investment if it helps all those areas.
At a construction company I worked for, every time they were done with a computer they took the hard drive out and ran a drill press through it a few times. Not sure how one would recover that data though.

Otherwise a program to 'shred' your data is

https://www.bleachbit.org/

From their website:
Designed for Linux and Windows systems, it wipes clean thousands of applications including Firefox, Adobe Flash, Google Chrome, Opera, and more. Beyond simply deleting files, BleachBit includes advanced features such as shredding files to prevent recovery, wiping free disk space to hide traces of files deleted by other applications, and vacuuming Firefox to make it faster. Better than free, BleachBit is open source.
I think you are significantly underestimating how much a medical residency costs.

Also, most apprentices end up working for/with the company/professional that trained them. I'm not sure there are many doctors who employ "apprentice/junior" doctors to work along side them the way a plumber/bricklayer/blacksmith/electrician would.
CH is passed on! CH is no more! CH has ceased to be! CH has expired and gone to meet 'is maker!
Was working an application written in JS

Converted it to TS. In the process of fixing up types, it found bugs for us. Value demonstrated
Google for:

>Commissioning/provisioning and decommissioning policies
>data retention policies
>secure wipe policy / media deletion policy
Homogenous, nationalistic, small country with high IQ, good education system, high GDP, low levels of immigration, and a culture that emphasizes community.

Oh, and lower levels of inequality, relatively, and a more aligned politics/media system that doesn’t foment distrust.
Cash in the mail will always be king.

(Not literal cash in most cases - postal money order or personal check. Most banks will cut and mail a paper check as part of online bill pay for free. The unbanked and anyonmous can send cash.)
Hard drives generally use a fairly simple linear mapping between LBAs and physical location. Low LBAs are on the outer edge of the platter where transfer speeds are highest, and high LBAs are on the inner edge where speeds are lowest. Unlike SSDs, hard drives don't need wear leveling, so there's no reason to break from that pattern except in the relatively rare instance of damaged sectors.

At smaller scales, the layout of individual tracks can vary quite a bit, but that doesn't have as much impact on overall sequential transfer speed. See http://blog.stuffedcow.net/2019/09/hard-disk-geometry-microb...
How is "this policy probably won't be enforced so don't worry about it" in any way a reasonable approach?
I agree it would be ideal to return a static HTML file for direct requests. I'm working on adding that back in. But I think the /txt version of the site is still valuable. I tried to come up with a way to return it without requiring a separate URL, but short of doing magic on the server (such as detecting user agent) couldn't think of a way to do it without having nasty HTML in the result. Any suggestions?

EDIT: I updated it to HTML-redirect to /txt/feed for noscript users. Still not ideal if you're trying to find a specific post, but it includes instructions to help. I think it's a reasonable compromise.
I'd say it's definitely worth it.

I wrote a blog post recently about my experiences learning and using TypeScript as both an app dev and a library maintainer for Redux:

https://blog.isquaredsoftware.com/2019/11/blogged-answers-le...

As part of that, I listed some of the tradeoffs and takeaways. In particular, I strongly recommend a "pragmatic 80%" approach to tackling TS.
Bernie's Iowa staff are shutting down their Twitter accounts
You don't have to buy directly from AliExpress in Palestine. There are thousands of people that resell AliExpress in your common street market. A huge percentage of everything you see street vendors selling is ultimately sourced from China for 2.34. The issue is that every middleman takes a bit of markup until it reaches the street. So now you're paying 10, cash, and you have it immediately.
$50K is household income.

Average income is more like $32K.
I suspect a big part of what's different under systems used at other developed countries that are significantly cheaper is that they do exactly what the parent proposed.

Another would be that you don't necessarily have the country's largest industry association behaving like a medieval guild and choking off access to the profession in order to deliberately drive up costs.
An integrated circuit is also "just a black box made of plastic".
For those not familiar with these techniques, an American builder visiting DE and CH and learning about them:

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4j_UjIshzMc

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RlplalGNfFM

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zC1axnHV9aA
Ideally you'd do the least amount of browsing and reading email possible on your work laptop and sandbox whatever is left if possible.

Something like Qubes OS (or maybe manually using containers or virtual machines) could be an option. Running snaps and flatpaks also ensures some level of sandboxing if I'm not mistaken. Using a separate user for riskier activities is also worth thinking about.

I think it's also true that all OSes are moving towards more sandboxing by default (permission to read files, permission to start at runtime, admin access, etc.) so it's less of a risk than it used to be.
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I find it just a bit funny that when I clicked on the link to an article titled, "advertising makes us unhappy," the first thing that happened is that an ad popped up to cover the whole page.
I've always kept an eye on this editor because it's free, open source and quite fast ( like ST3 fast ). It has more features every time I come back to look at it.

From their homepage:

CudaText is a cross-platform text editor, written in Lazarus. Open source project. It starts quite fast (0.5 sec with 30 plugins on CPU Intel Core i3 3Hz). It is extensible by Python add-ons (plugins, linters, code tree parsers, external tools). Syntax parser is feature-rich, based on EControl engine (though not as fast as in some competitors).
Meaningless. There are people claiming with a straight face that targeted ads make user experience better. Wholesale collection and aggregation of personal user data will continue unabated.
European here, both a consumer and micro-ISV owner.

As a consumer, I very much like the protections the GDPR provides.

As a business owner, I don't find GDPR to be a barrier to entry - TBH, anyone who actually cares about user privacy at all would have been near-compliant even before GDPR name in. For me, I think it was 1-2 days, most of it spent reading.

It's not difficult to comply with, and I'd be very against exemptions for small businesses - also because larger businesses would use it as a loophole to game the system.