skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
FYI, all of the numbers you listed are close, but not totally accurate. See my other comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23733575

That being said, the overall point is correct. There is a HUGE opportunity cost to becoming a physician. People would rather ignore that because it doesn't support their argument. It's much easier to cherry pick point-in-time data without looking at the larger picture.
It's pretty gruesome to watch someome go out of their way take casual pot-shots at someone trapped in a torture cell just because the person used wording that isn't the peak of diplomacy. HN has basic standards of human decency; it's not a 100% free speech zone.
The problem is ownership. Google is “stealing” or caching content for what they consider a better web.

I don’t support ads but I also don’t support Google serving a version of the page that steals money from content creators. So, therein lies the problem: choice.

I can imagine a future where amp is ubiquitous and Google begins serving ads on amp content. Luckily, companies have to make money and amp is not in most people’s or company’s best interests.

If amp was opt-in only, this would be much more ethically sound.
I don't think that is relevant to the education system still. That is a very small share of Indian student population. 15k/37.4 million.

What do you think about reservation in those institutions?

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reservation_policy_in_Indian_I...

2. https://theprint.in/india/education/iits-take-womens-quota-t...

3. For 10% poor all catch reservation which will be implemented soon - https://www.hindustantimes.com/india-news/10-reservation-for...
We Need More Charter Cities
I get the desire to convey the significance and nuance of the issues described, but the usage of collapse felt out-of-place. Something like fold, reduction, consolidation, or even condensation would have been more communicative as a takeaway from the spirit of the article.
Neuromatch Academy forced to forbid participation of Iranian students and TAs
Why would a nationalized R&D program not need marketing? I can assure you that the doctors who are aware of new drugs in development is a very thin slice of all doctors.

Even if run by the government, you’d still need to market (educate) about new drugs.

And R&D in the big pharma firms is spread out across the entire population. That diabetes drug that sold $1B last year is paying for the cancer R&D this year.
> Disabling aero on a win7 machine does wonders to its responsiveness.

Tragically, it seems the only way to completely get rid of tearing in youtube is to re-enable Aero :( (at least with nvidia hardware). RIP classic.
Grit: It's the Climb
I thought about this a lot while cavern diving in Mexico. It would likely need to be fully autonomous. Radio penetration is just about nothing in caves and lines get tangled. There are also dry sections in some caves, so you'll need a robot that can climb or fly. Super interesting challenges. I'll take a wild stab that human exploration of underwater caves will be over in 20 years.
Of course there isn't any compensation. The owners are simply run off at gunpoint.
Wayland support still isn't considered complete: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=635134

Though, in 2020, its working pretty well for me.
Good point. And $ focused on exponential growth communities consuming content paid for by the attention of the content consumers. Rather than $ focused on long tail communities and deeper, more expensive, more difficult to monetize (per unit cost) content.
1. Journalists are not innocent little bringers of truth that are being oppressed by orange man. They have lots of power.

2. Both nazis and marxists are a danger to our society. As far as body count goes, marxists are a bigger danger. Both should be allowed free speech.

3. You're personally attacking a journalist who happens to show things you don't like seeing. The irony is hilarious.
what about port knocking?
If you want to know why DTC is allowed in the US, you should read the FDA studies on it.

https://www.fda.gov/drugs/drug-information-consumers/impact-...

The FDA identified several benefits of DTC ads.
> My understanding is that acceleration gets exponentially more expensive at higher speeds

Asymptotically approaching infinity as you approach light speed, not merely exponential.
There’s also the access control feature of this approach. You can give someone temp access to a host.
Not in Denmark where his family came from.
I wonder what about Zuckerberg, a wealthy white man who went to an expensive school, makes him think that this is a good idea
Maybe brave can use this?
I would say that YouTube is a notable exception here. There is a lot of music to be discovered and I personally rarely watch videos there without sound.
Knox's letter seems clear to me that he was complaining about theft by the bakers.

> and often times more, as they put as great a proportion of water as they please, there being no person whose duty it is to superintend them
"whales" is the free-to-p(l)ay/ freemium games industry term for this sort of power user, who will spend vastly more than the average user and carries the lions share of the profit for the developer.
I think the first strides in interstellar travel will probably occur once long-term habitation and manufacturing in space have been mastered, because then it's feasible to construct ships that are either too large to drag out of a planetary gravity well and/or too dangerous to build in the gravity well of an inhabited body (nuclear propulsion).
Hancock was far removed when he first came onto the scene in the mid 90s, and is slowly finding his theories more and more supported.

I'm the one that mentioned him elsewhere in the thread. It's sad to me that he gets so much shit in scientific circles when he's quite reserved with making truth claims, instead making hypotheses that are unfortunately misaligned with current theories and so derided as pseudo-science or bullshit.
You can edit the ssh/config file to create/define aliases. For each alias, you can configure the host, port, username, etc.
By calling people suspicious of powerful individuals anti-semitic you are protecting those powerful individuals in a shroud of identity politics despite evidence and survivor testimony - while simultaneously lowering the reputation of an entire religion. Also the Hillary Clinton conspiracy theory [0][1] is not a modern retelling - she's not even Jewish. I'm not sure what your point is...

[0]: https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/15893
[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3EsJLNGVJ7E
Thanks, this confused me greatly watching the graphics, I'm no mathematician... OK if we can just push the sphere through itself then yeah I guess you can invert it...
Diamond's particular brand of geographic determinism was outdated by the 70s, let alone by when he published GG&S. I'm not sure Hancock has ever been in the same zip code as consensus, let alone ballpark, but criticizing him brings enough people out of the woodwork that I'm trying to word things more carefully.
Compressed air has only 10-15% efficiency end to end.
Best case is compress with electricity - about 93% efficient. Then cool the hot compressed air to reduce the pressure to get more in the tank. This cooling wastes about 10% we are now at 73%. Expand in a 3 stage expansion engine to get rotational power.Compressed air expansion is a carnot type engine andhas about a 30% efficiency that falls to zero as the tank expands the air and the internal pressure drops to local pressure and the engine stops.Total efficiency 10-15%. They are used as factory jitneys where the use compressed air and it intrinsically safe - no gas/diesel spark or flame. The idea is 150 years old or older. Diesel/gas and batteries killed it and keep it dead
It depend where the (carbon in the) methane comes from. If it comes from the ground, the exhaust contributes to global climate disruption.

Venting methane is worse, but that would be wasteful, too.
The issue is that regardless of Google/Bing caches, there are sites like Pushbullet that archive ALL comments and posts that were made on Reddit, with APIs that savvy people can use to check deleted/edited comments. Awareness of these archives seems to be spreading through Reddit.
The music industry have undoubtedly contributed to that. You can't put music in video content without risking takedowns. Or have it in a stream. You're not allowed to have a music culture in fixed recordings.

(I'm a long way from youth culture myself, but I get the impression that what we have now is not "culture" but "cultures"; rather than a single convenient for historians "scene" per time period, all sorts of scenes exist at once. You can't tell me that kpop stans aren't a global youth culture, posting their fancams all over the place. Now wondering if that contradicts what I said above..)
Isn't it just regular OpenSSH, where you enter settings and aliases for hosts in ~/.ssh/config?
It's a bit different here on the East Coast. While there are plenty of options in the suburbs - the number within an individuals commuting radius drops.
Good point. It wasn’t immediately obvious that your first part was a quote from the site, but you’re right that it’s unclear. I don’t see how this could possibly be GDPR compliant.
> most experienced people turn off and ban in C++

Sure, most experienced people dislike exceptions, except for Bjarne Stroustrup, Herb Sutter, everyone else who designs the 3 popular C++ compilers, everyone who designs some of the the most popular C++ libraries (Boost, newer Qt), Java, .NET, Swift, JavaScript, OCaml, Python, and a few others.

And if you think that

int j;
for i := range someArray {
if hasSomeProperty(someArray[i]) {
filtered[j] = someArray[i]
j++
}
}

is as readable as

filtered = someArray.Filter(x => hasSomeProperty(x))

then yes, we have to agree to disagree.
Because of the sheer performance challenges, and the availability of SGX as an alternative, and also the competitiveness of MPC, I think most use cases struggle to justify selecting homomorphic encryption as the best choice.

To me, who is involved in related fields but not FHE directly, it seems like practical FHE is probably 15 or more years away, even for niche use cases.
"You can't sign a quote", said a spokesperson for the Misuse Of Crypto Bureau today.
You can't buy FPGAs at Fry's and you can't use them for gaming when you're not mining.
in ~/.ssh/config:

Host *
(options)
I think he’s saying that your Google account password is your master password in this case, and was leaked.

I get what you’re saying though, no one expects Google’s password management to be so riddled with holes. Encrypting the view or usage of the rest of your passwords with a master password needs to be mandatory, not optional.

I’ve always used Keepass stored on Dropbox and enter my master password everyday, multiple times as it logs out after 3 minutes.
I do save some passwords in Firefox but don’t sync those, and 2FA through Microsoft Authenticator (SMS only when it’s the only option).
That’s still not perfect but your attack surface doesn’t exist.

This is all really complex for the average person and it took me years as a relatively astute developer to handling properly. A device (something you have) biometric (something you are) authentication should resolve all of these issues in an easy way that you don’t have to think about, and I’m looking forward to ‘sign in with Apple’ to become a universal login for this reason. They nailed this problem, now we need Microsoft and Google to do the same.
I spend most of my time in small spaces - 100 people, max, of who about 10 might be around at any given time. I'm not worried that people are going to miss what I have to say, because I'm talking to the people who are there. The people who aren't might as well be irrelevant.

Have you ever spent any time in small communities? It's lovely to just... not have to care about gaining followers or making arbitrary counters go up or whatever it is people do, and just talk/create for the sake of it. There's no "brand" to care about.
So it competes favorably with the Google Pixel 3, released in 2018.
Where to walk is also a cultural thing. In many places in Asia, groups of people don't form lanes, but walk "through" each other.

A bit like how in some places there is less of a reliance on traffic rules, instead people watch out for each other more.

Friends have told me that in India you can just cross busy streets by foot and cars will let you pass. If you're from India, please chime in ;-) Here in Germany many would stop at the last possible moment just to make it clear you broke the rules.

If I could pick a skill for everyone out in traffic, I'd definitely choose empathy and patience over seeing imaginary lines.
This doesn’t seem to load in iOS Safari.
Other developed countries' public health facilities ration care based on medical need rather than ability to pay. There is always concierge medicine but it's not nearly to the extent in the US. Rationing of care this way means fewer medical procedures on the whole.

I've seen numbers to the effect that health outcomes are 30% genetic, 30% diet, 30% lifestyle, and 10% medical intervention. Frankly Americans don't need as many procedures done as they have done. Medical care is rationed everywhere and there is no way for supply to meet demand. The only question is how do you ration it. Turns out rationing by ability to pay leads to unnecessary procedures with no boost in outcomes.

The hard part to accept is that the system that imposes a 3-6 month wait for non-life threatening treatments is better because some number of cases resolve themselves during that time period and reduce total demand.

Overall medicine has limited tools to improve health compared to diet and exercise. We like to believe an intervention by someone else - surgical, pharmaceutical, etc. - can fix our problems, but that's not the case for many people. Medicine can really help with things such as pain management and trauma, but to an unsettling degree we rely on the body to heal itself.
Wow like the author says, it is nice to leave open in the background :)
I made some tetra-tetra-flexagons for my wedding, and in the process made an ImageMagick script to take four images and turn them into two, one for each side of the sheet of paper.

https://www.timpark.org/making-a-tetratetraflexagon/ (unfortunately some of the external links are broken, I should do some editing)
>The United States does actually have government health care programs for low income and disable people (Medicare, covers approximately 23% of the US population) and for elderly (Medicaid, covers people 65 and over). We also have government subsidies for lower income people (up to 400% of the federal poverty level) who need to buy their own health care plans through the marketplace.

Another way of putting your point is that 91% of Americans have medical insurance, whether through their employers, or government programs like Medicare/Medicaid. That's compared to 95-97% in other developed countries because there are always some people who fall through cracks, like (say) a Canadian who doesn't get a new provincial health care card after moving, or a German who neglects to buy into a new sickness fund after changing careers. The only such systems with actual 100% (or as close to it as possible) coverage is something like the UK NHS, which does not have a requirement to show a membership card (because, well, there isn't one) to receive treatment.

PS - Obamacare did not greatly expand coverage. 85% of Americans had medical insurance pre-Obamacare.

>Again, it’s not perfect and I agree that improvements are necessary, but the reality of the situation is a bit different than many of the reductionist comments you read online.

Indeed. There are things I'd certainly improve about the US system—decoupling primary healthcare coverage from employment, for one—but the way people online lie^H^H^Hexaggerate it's not surprising that so many non-Americans believe that every American is one hangnail away from bankruptcy.

Speaking of which, another common lie^H^H^Hmisrepresentation about Americans and health care: Only 4% of US bankruptcies are because of medical bills (https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-partisan/wp/2018/0...). A tipoff that [insert large percentage here] of bankruptcies aren't actually because of medical costs is that only 6% of bankruptcies by those without health insurance are because of that cause. The biggest cause of bankruptcies is lack of income, which health insurance doesn't affect.
2:1 is quite common, because it's simple, despite being not great, especially as amount cooked increases.

Rice isn't speherical, but it isn't a perfectly packed crystal either.

Unless you think air fills up inside each grain, the volume from "air" is the packing volume.
So... this would be a good iPhone 6S upgrade?
Come now. Why would whether income is median or mean affect expenses?

My larger point is that, contrary to your and others' claims, income rankings that show the US at or near the top do not suddenly greatly change the US's position once healthcare expense is included. See mdorazio's comment elsewhere regarding median disposable income.
Man, he was asking a rhetorical question. You're (most likely) preaching to the choir.
> Programmers had to introduce intentional latency

Hmm, perhaps if you replace the word "latency" with "duration"?
Valid: from 2020-06-24T16:53:03 to 2020-06-24T16:03:03

Um...
But the highest COVID death rate in the western world! You gain some, you lose some I guess :)
Great essay. This guy nails it, although I think his scholarly approach misses some key ramifications. (I'm also not sure I like "content collapse", since there's nothing unusual happening here, just everything all at once, but that's a fight for another day)

I've been kicking around this problem since 2009 and I keep getting back to different physical devices for different social contexts. It's not just that the contexts are different; it's that we need to use our bodies to show ourselves and others that we are moving into some different context. Otherwise the "programming" doesn't work.

The fundamental error here is thinking that all human communication can collapse to data. That's wrong in a ton of ways, but the idea has a helluva powerful following among us nerd.

Cool stuff. Thanks.
Hmm, this site might help: https://www.theearthawaits.com/

Generally, you want to live in a place with a low disparity between rich and poor. They'll usually have lower crime, lower social problems, better maintained infrastructure, lower corruption, better culture. Scandinavia is probably the best you can get, if you don't mind the cold ;-)
Loads for me on iPhone. Click into the page to enable audio. (Autoplay is not allowed without interaction with a site in most browsers.)
I never got ads in any of the Samsung apps, I keep hearing this but never saw it in my lifetime using Samsung phones.

Also don't know what are people's problem with Touchwiz. It's a launcher, why are people so anal about a launcher? It does what it's supposed to do and stays out of the way.

I chose Samsung because of the value it brings in software, particularly Knox and support for app containers. Their hardware ecosystem is also quite fleshed out, although I haven't buy into it yet.

No other phone manufacturer comes close in terms of value.
Can you name 1 important medical discovery that has NOT come from animal testing?
> It's right there, entirely unseen.

I doubt that. I've never heard of an ancient discovery offshore. A thousand years of salt, life and waves will turn most things to mush. These caves do a special job of preserving things. They have little movement, little life and freshwater sections.

Edit: I didn’t do a great job of expressing myself. I’m sure that offshore ancient discoveries have happened (as some replies have pointed out). The comment I replied to seemed to be suggesting that all of our ancient history is just waiting to be discovered off the shore. It’s not. In all the diving I’ve done around the world, in all the treasure hunting stories I’ve read, no one has found anything ancient offshore. (And then I learned about some today)
> Other countries followed suit.

What other countries? The US is very much an outlier. The only one I can think of is maybe Australia?
I was merely being descriptive, clarifying that there are not uncommon situations where requirements have changed and yet nonetheless one of your options is aptly termed a rewrite.

If I am to move into making recommendations, then I think the whole thing is ultimately situation dependant, but that your advice is correct for the most common cases.
Off topic irony:

A web site focused on visual quality uses #777777/#FFFFFF for its main content, rendering a FAIL for text readability on WebAIM.

https://webaim.org/resources/contrastchecker/
Actually it’s a joke about concentration camps and it’s in bad taste and offensive.
People are always doing the snatch-and-run in Berkeley. Very common. It used to be that robbing undergrads was pointless but now they all have a macbook and an iphone so it's worth it.

https://www.berkeleyside.com/2019/03/19/berkeleys-caffe-stra...
Masks don't halt aerosol transmission of the virus. Every breath you exhale is an aerosol. What you feel passing through the gaps in you mask when you exhale is aerosol and, if you have Covid-19, it is Covid-19 infected aerosol.

Nothing except an airtight seaal can stop it.
Ah, that's cool. I pushed AWS to give better ways of getting the host key for new EC2 instances a few years back. The whole start an EC2 instance, SSH in and blinkly trust the host key on first use thing seemed terrible!

EC2 docs now include that detail, although its labeled as optional.

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/connecti...
we often discuss AI in terms of “smartness” which is thought to be inherent to the architecture. But maybe we should talk in terms of “experience”. When will AI surpass human beings in quantity/quality of lived experiences?
Ahhh, fantastic. Somehow I was never aware of this. Will try it out, thanks!
Unlock Your Memory Load
Maybe, although I've noticed that the group I'm in can influence my thinking and reactions.

I think it's possible a group can form a sort of "exoself" and allow you to believe and perceive different things than you usually might.

Not a sociologist, just anecdata. I suppose you could still consider this a lensing effect (aka your whole self includes this subset) but I'm tempted to see the group as a sort of extension or prosthesis.
I get the impression archeologists are incredibly resistant to pushing history back or otherwise enlarging it.

This resistance seems to go beyond appropriate scientific caution and into the realm of unscientific dogmatism. There was a thread here a few days ago about Graham Hancock. I do think he's a bit of a crank, but I get the sense he gets a lot of traction because he's one of the few who will even talk about certain things.

(Reminds me of how the alt-right and even worse ideologues get traction because they are the only ones who will talk about the economic collapse of the American center. Their ideas are bullshit, but everyone else pretends it's not happening.)

Other fields of science seem to have no problem with discovering that things are much bigger than they thought. Astronomers discover that they were undercounting the number of galaxies by two logarithmic factors? Neat! Archeologists don't seem to greet enlargement of their domain this way.

Maybe it comes from religious and cultural chauvinism or residual religious literalism. Deepening the historical narrative might mean the Mesopotamians were not "first" or that history vastly predates the historical accounts of many religious texts.

The fact that entire cultures rose and fell so long ago might also make us uncomfortable. It reminds us of our collective mortality. I see this with many Americans wanting to pretend that native Americans were just the most primitive hunter-gatherers, not that they had sophisticated cultures with history and ideas... that could vanish in a very short span of time and barely be remembered.