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> One thing that's important to be mindful of is that this on-campus experience many of us remember is in many ways evaporating anyway.

I read here that you're not talking about the pandemic specifically, but of the increasing digitization of society as socializing, work, entertainment and education all go online. and you're right, this is a huge social issue that connects to mental health, social cohesion, political life, social skills gaps and how we relate to each other. It's a change we are crashing into without any idea of the consequences. And yes, maybe digitizing our formative coming of age experiences is a step too far, or maybe we just need VR tanks.
The New Weapon in the Covid-19 War [by Michael Lewis]
UML is usually a bad smell rather than a best practice.

I've seen good sequence diagrams and good high level architecture diagrams, but nobody decent uses UML. It's far too cumbersome and at the wrong level for an explanatory diagram.
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Whilst I can’t speak for your particular circumstances and will assume you know exactly what is wrong with you and what you need, this assumption cannot be applied more broadly.
In many respects the family practitioner’s role as gatekeeper to further medical care is anachronistic; perhaps we will be able to solve this with better technology. Until then, it provides a important centre for coordination of care and the prevention of unnecessary care (however imperfect this is at present)
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GP's really should go away. We need specialists and technicians to perform tests when necessary.

Medical training for everyone but surgeons should not take more than 5 total years including undergrad. Arbitrary number, but it should be significantly less time than it takes now.

Technicians who can be trained on specific technologies (x-ray, ultrasound, etc) should be able to handle most cases.

Medical treatment in the US today is a horribly inefficient hybrid of old and new.
There is nothing special about this deal. I can name of list of a dozen of apps that are “reader apps” - view only that force you to subscribe out of the store. Even the major apps from Adobe and MS offer some type of functionality without subscribing.
> functionally the same terms

I think his point was that the only way to properly come to a conclusion around "functional sameness" is reading it again.
It's really hard to envision exactly all the problems parallellization might enable in a given system, as it'll all depend on exact implementation and execution details. The safe assumption is whenever you introduce concurrency or even event-handling, stuff might implicitly FUBAR, unless explicitly designed not to. This is a tough pill to swallow when people can't envision exactly all the problems parallellization might enable in a given system (circular argument).
TC == Technical Competence?
> "eating the rich"

Thats an unfortunate side-effect of a weak justice system. I believe the "eating the rich" attitude is very unhelpful. We need entrepreneurs, we need startups. If rich people are the problem, that would mean that every time a new business is founded, the world becomes a little worse. This is obviously not the case.
In my mind, the missed cancers could be a problem.

But, there's a lot of "health care" that doesn't really need to happen. A few of my family members have chronic health issues that require medication. These are typically prescribed 6-months at a time, requiring in-person bi-annual follow-ups. That's a waste of both parties time - patient and doctor - as 95% of the time, the result is "here's another 6 months" and 5% "here's the same drug, with an adjust dose".

Those appointments should only occur if there's an issue that requires new dosing or a change of medication. The rest of the time, it should be either completely automatic, or at most a simple phone call. I assume this doesn't happen, either because it's a CYA maneuver by the physician, or because the physician wants to bill for the appointment.
So they rely upon the external grid and pass the externalities involved in being being able to dispatch power when you flick the switch to some non-renewable plant elsewhere. Gotcha.
That one also taxed artificially sweetened drinks like diet coke as equals to drinks with sugar, like if the goal was to reduce sugar consumption you would want to tax things with less sugar differently. But the fact that everything carbonated that was even a little bit sweetened was taxed the same made it confusing.
>And, let's be honest, games that try to teach you math or science are just not as fun as Fortnite or Minecraft.

Only if you try to do it very naively. Most of the time, these "games" are "lets put blinky lights around match equations."

That's definitely not how you turn math and science into games. You turn them into games by making engineering games.

There was a really great paper I ran into a decade ago that looked at the theory making by players of World of Warcraft. Players were coming up with complex mathematical models for how to play the game most efficiently. THAT is how you make math a game.

The goal of the game shouldn't be "let's solve these math problems."

The goal of the game should be anything but that, and then you setup the game so that the best way to reach that goal is to use math.

Science opens the door even further, because hypothesis and experimentation is a fundamental part of playing games.

There was a recent post on here regarding the best ways to learn electricity. One of the top replies was to use some minecraft mod. I don't know anything about that mod, but that fact that it was one of the recommendations really said a lot to me.
Thank you :) For the portraiture I’m using the iPhone Pro’s True Depth camera via an off-the-shelf app called “Capture” by Standard Cyborg.
To be honest, I'm more interested in an easy to acquire "On-Switch" than anything else.
Oh, well, sorry I got confused, but vocational has a very specific meaning in academics in the US and I guess its on my mind these days since this has been one of our big problems. I'm still hoping that there will be some industry acceptable solutions.
>You'd see a massive reduction in sugar prices and a lot of U.S. farms go under.

An honest question, why is this a big issue? If US farms are not competitive producing sugar, why are we incentivizing them to do so?
I wondered about that - the cost to the environment (is that what you mean by 'impact'?).

I guess this is off topic. But not travelling - check. Ordering all the stuff online from different vendors, consuming more (because, more idle leisure), doing more home projects cost something.

Heck, construction is booming. That's an impact too. I wonder what it'll all add up to.
1. Launch MVP

2. Perform basic SEO

3. Founders made initial deliveries themselves

4. Market to a nearby, reachable customer base via email

5. Pass out fliers

6. Capitalize on their email list to encourage repeat customers
The tax worked amazingly well in the UK.

Right after it went into effect. Ribena cut sugar by half in all their drinks, to fall under the floor of the higher tax rate.

I'm saying Ribena because that's the free drinks we had the most of in the company fridges. All other vendors of artificial drinks did the same overnight.
At the time, DE was mindblowing and revolutionary. There had never been anything like it.
When media rely on what police say, they miss key truths about crime
I know it might sound like a minor ding, but the signup form doesn't allow apostrophes or accents in the name fields. Many people (myself included) have these in their legal names. I know this is US focused, but for an org that's all about data, this feels like a big oversight.

For starters, _most_ data-hoarding websites allow these characters these days, so it's just one more obstacle when trying to match and verify "my" data. I guess let's hope I signed up to every website with the same e-mail address?

On a similar note, it also rejected my 5-digit valid zip code as "invalid", so I'm unable to sign up at all.
NYT also has the counterpoint:
"Vaccine Rates Drop Dangerously as Parents Avoid Doctor’s Visits"
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/23/health/coronavirus-measle...
Saying it's a bad idea to invite racists to speak publicly about their racist ideologies on university campuses is human subjugation?

ok pal.
My thoughts exactly! And apparently they won many contracts over several years. From the article:

> Netsential, a web services company used by multiple fusion centers, law enforcement, and other government agencies across the United States
Is this an argument against the rules? Apple in that case is more lenient than most other retailers.
And younger people's health is going to be generally better right now just because they're not getting colds all the time.
Yeah, with the high dead weight of nuclear propulsion, it's not clear cut where it's advantageous and how much.
My experience is that Rust advocates often go well out of their way to specify the limits of Rust’s protection, and will even rush in to correct someone who over promises what Rust can give you.
You'll learn how to solve problems using recursion and by passing functions around as variables (because you'll have to). Which is useful, because sometimes those are by far the most elegant way of doing things. That's the main practical pay-off I've found. Before going through parts of SICP I found understanding Python code that used lambdas and recursion hard to understand, now I often end up writing such code myself.
"The unstated assumption of this premise is that some people (never us, always others) cannot be trusted to make good decisions, and thus need to have their decisions made for them, for their own good."

You can make good decisions if you have full information and you put a lot of time into it. I hope you're aware that not all racists are dedicated to the search for truth. Sometimes they tell partial truths, mislead, and lie.
Well, things like much larger dishes on comsats could benefit Earth quite a bit.
I think OP chose ants because of the scale involved. Ants form full-fledged civilizations which occupy relatively small volumes of space compared to human civilizations (population size non-withstanding) and even when building around man-made structures, they might not be able to recognize these structures as non-natural.
UK, home of Prince2, a way of project management so bad it failed to have a single success in the UK to its name.
> Name one retailer lets you hock your product in their store without paying anything?

Apple. Google. Microsoft. Samsung.

> Who wants an app that you can’t do anything with when you download it?

People who want a client for their email service?

Hell, fastmail is even an email app, that has no in app purchases, and doesn't work without an account. (and is in the app store)
And they also are “reader apps”. They offer view only functionality for content. That exception applies to all sorts of apps no one ever heard of that force you to subscribe outside of the App Store.
> I don't think that's terribly useful.

The entire overclocking community would disagree with you.
What I mean is something that receives more of the cachet of universities. As you say, we've had MOOCs and similar for a long time, but you're still going to have a hard time being employed with just that, especially for the best-paying jobs. They connote somebody who can do mechanical work but without creativity or communications skills.

My suggestion would be to promote those "soft" skills without the overhead of overhead of buildings, a football team, dining halls, etc. You can discuss literature, history, writing, etc. online almost as well as you can do it in person. Those are the things that differentiate a prestigious 4-year degree from a vo-tech or 2-year degree, and it's the prestige that has ultimately driven people's willingness to pay so much for university. (Well, that and some dishonesty and poorly-thought-out policy when it comes to student loans.)
You want "Save to my calendar" but we still don't have full support for date inputs. Chrome has supported the main features since 2012, Firefox joined only in 2017, and we're still waiting on Safari to make a move.

https://caniuse.com/#search=input-date
A less cynical analysis would be that there is a risk of changed conditions that it is good that the doctor notices.
I agree the longer term studies are going to be fascinating.

Anecdotally, in Australia (where I work/practice and have many colleagues completing their specialist training currently) presentations for chest pain and total heart attack presentations are down significantly. No studies yet. Will be interesting to see if we will see deferred cases present later and with greater morbidity or just what the hell is going on, but my incoming assumption would have been that heart attacks would be something that someone is going to present with anyway.

As an example of how COVID has changed our approach in hospital, telehealth clinics are now replacing many outpatient visits (your other commenter below hits on the wastefulness of this). 10 years of IT change came to healthcare in about 2 weeks. It’s been wild.

It’s also caused us to get much more efficient with referrals. My colleague is a Plastics resident and had to trim his 500 patient referral list into must see and defer piles. He trimmed it to 100 by ensuring that, for instance, skin cancer referrals had tissue diagnoses before coming into clinic to be booked for surgery (something that the GPs should have done anyway) - so everyone is being forced to polish up their referral pathways and pull their weight along the healthcare chain, rather than what I often witness which is everyone just picking up slack wherever it lands.

Will be interesting to see how far this holds as life returns to normal here
IIRC, in some places the govt is the collections recording and credit rating agency.
It's also how you end up with cargo cult optimizations for things that may have been solved ages ago in the VM. I've met Java devs who still insist on using StringBuilder for everything without empirical evidence.
This is a wonderful comment, thank you.

The most valuable part of college for me (I can say now a decade later from graduating) had nothing to do with the content and everything to do with the experience and connections I made.

My professor helped me land my first job. My classmates ended up in the industry and helped connect me to opportunities and some became (so far) lifelong friends.

This would have been much less likely if I took online courses while living with my parents.
I’ve found the Sennheiser RS series of wireless headphones much better than any Bluetooth headphones for connectivity for watching movies.
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I may just be under-knowledgable of App Store practices but -- how much of this could charitably have to do with how can Apple confirm / accept apps that they can't test? With onboard payments they could fake charges and get into the app functionality, but without it and without any free content how can they do that? Or if you're Hey, are you able to specify credentials for Apple testing?
Necessary or not is subjective. For example, at the collective level, lung cancer screening costs outweigh the benefit. At the individual level, early detection gives the best chance for survival.
This is great advice, weed can exacerbate anxiety or paranoia. Thanks for sharing!

I’m a habitual use and I don’t experience those affects any longer, but plenty of people do and it could make a trip worse.
The people who "got" the community on SO and how it worked have long since left or had their ability to advocate get squashed in the corporate structure.

The people who are there with influence on direction have a very different view of what SO (and the rest of SE) should be. Most employees at corporate do not use any of the public sites in any way, shape or form and are disconnected about what the users and curators there need.

And so, you get continuous improvement - on a vision that the unpaid volunteers who maintain the sites feel is wrong or counter productive.
And BaseCamp was free to offer in app purchases at a 43% markup to make up for the 30% cut. BaseCamp is not a non profit anymore than Apple is.
Those are great topics of research. But platforming racists as just people with different ideas is a false equivalency.
If you look at it another way, groups that have a handle and understanding of a particular tool may have insight into how that tool can be used to answer a biological question. I don't think there is anything really wrong with that, but grants should be denied if they aren't proposing ways to move the field forward.

There are tons of mouse labs, however some have specialized mice or mouse systems. There are also other labs that specialize in other animal systems. These systems are nontrivial to switch between for many reasons, which I think you acknowledge. It is useful for the field in general to have access to the results of a variety of research tools that every individual wouldn't necessarily have access to.
I think introducing some sort of "cost on giving opinion" could work. You get to ask a question if and only if you also provide some sort of solution to the problem as stated by OP. The opposite equals downvote.
Also, as Taleb says "be wary on anyone giving you advice which you didn't ask for".
Wow, these were all outside my radar. Thanks for mentioning them!
For apps like Hey, you must provide credentials for approval.
> 90% of apps are free

Is that free free or free up front with recurring revenue because your engagement is profitable for them via advertising or in-app purchases or both? Because those are not the same.
This is definitely not true. A huge factor in govt inefficiency is that nonpartisan competence is completely irrelevant to most voters, who process policies based on what partisan hackery they pattern-match to most easily. This means govt institutions get jerked around by bizarre constraints and lack of constraints that can be traced back to the fact that they're ultimately accountable to voters.
I'm pretty certain that's true for a lot of countries other than the US. It makes sense after all.

Far from American Universities to make any changes to their curriculum to support people's actual objectives though.
I agree with you. There is much place for improvement but the verion you donwload now on AppStore is new user hostile, especially when you figure out that they have a waiting list...
What does table based HTML have to do with functional and web-accessible websites? Especially in the age of mobile which represents ~50% of traffic.

Lots of things.

- Screen readers expect HTML tables to be tables. If there aren't things like a caption the screen reader can inform the user of a problem.

- In a lot of cases the table won't inline in to a logical structure for reading out. A screen reader will read cells out from left to right, which interleaves content from one column with content from another when that isn't the intent. CSS layout will usually read better.

- Table-based layouts use a lot more code than CSS layouts, which is more to download and more to parse.

- In the case of that website in particular, there's a ton of inline styling which is more unnecessary data to download.

- Using tables for layout makes it much harder to develop truly responsive layouts for mobile; doing things like hiding download/battery intensive page elements is much harder (especially if those things span several cells). That site does have some media queries for controlling styles, but it could be doing more.
Show HN: Generate Visual Sitemap from sitemap.xml, just write URL
>Intel’s real money is in high-end CPUs sold to prosperous Cloud operators, not in supplying lower-end chips to cost-cutting laptop makers.

And to make another point. Apple isn't a lower-end cost cutting laptop makers.

Apple sell ~20M Mac per year. Intel ship roughly ~220M PC CPU per year ( I think recent years saw the number trending back towards 250M) That is close to 10%. Not an insignificant number. Apple only use expensive Intel CPU. Lots of survey shows most $1000+ PC belongs to Apple. Most of the business Desktop, and Laptop uses comparatively cheap Intel CPU. i.e I would not be surprised the median price of Apple's Intel CPU purchase is at least 2x to total market median if not more. In terms of revenue that is 20% of Intel's consumer segment.

They used to charge a premium for being the leading edge Fab. You cant get silicon that is better than Intel. You are basically paying those premiums for having the best. Then Intel's Fab went from 2 years leading, to now 2 years behind, ( That is 4 years difference. ) all while charging the same price. And since Intel wants to keep its margin, it is not much of a surprise customers, ( Apple and Amazon ) looks for alternative.

Here is another piece on Amazon Graviton 2.

https://threader.app/thread/1274020102573158402

May be I should submit it to HN.
Not leaving home much probably minimizes exposure to all the usual threats.

Reminds me of my grandaunt who rarely left the house after the death of her husband. But she was very active, and had family members around to help out. She was quite healthy till the end and outlived her siblings/peer group by a big margin.
Well, I wanted "Save to my calendar" when our self-built date inputs still opened new windows with html tables as calendars to pick a date, but I get your point and I lumped this under "forms suck". I still shudder when thinking about implementing multi-file uploads in php.
>In rock-paper-scissors, everyone wins 50% of the time, so everyone has the same Elo rating, so the Elo range is zero.

You would be surprised:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20073703