skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think that 30,000 is an exaggeration, and if so, I just don't like when people sensationalize figures and bend facts to their liking.

The problem would lie in this report [0], which is cited by the article and by the person tweeting about it.

Happy to be proven wrong; but I know the area quite well (I grew up in Italy), and I immediately thought that the satellite picture of Siena depicted in the article, and in the tweet, does not contain 30,000 people.

The entire "Comune" of Siena (roughly equivalent to a "County" in the UK or US) is ~53,000 people [1].

However, I would be surprised if the part of Siena depicted in the article, the city center, houses 30,000 people.

See for yourself. Here's Assisi, roughly with a similar density as Siena, which has ~4,500 people living in the city center [2].

Here's Siena [3]. Just by approximation, I'd say that Siena's city center is in the range of maybe 15k? Not more than that.

Also, it would be unfair to consider the fact that Siena's city center is also house for students, which live in different conditions than normal people. In that sense, even Harvard's dormitories have a high density, compared to any road structure in Texas.

Anyway, just trying to make you reflect on the numbers - I hope my calculations are correct; or at least, the reasoning behind it should be good enough. As said, happy to be proven wrong.

[0]: https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/...

[1]: https://www.comune.siena.it/Il-Comune/Servizi/Statistica/Pop...

[2]: https://www.google.com/maps/place/53100+Siena,+Province+of+S...

[3]: https://www.google.com/maps/place/53100+Siena,+Province+of+S...
Without any of the founders and Elon Musk there would be no Tesla Model Y. Doubt there are very many engineers about whom the same could be said. In totality the individual contributors are more important but Elon Musk is the person without whom the enterprise is dead on arrival.
And TV. Real life lawyering isn’t nearly interesting enough so writers have to zhush it up by having lawyer characters operate in the grey area or completely cross the line as a matter of course. It’s more exciting that way!
First of all thanks for the book, it was a formative read for me as I started out in healthcare data and programming.

Second of all, I can’t just upvote, this is so so accurate.

The thing to remember in US healthcare is there’s actually not a single entity that has an incentive to be efficient. There are some incentives scattered through the system to pay less or to not get sued, those are not the same.

To a first approximation nobody spends money in healthcare except insurers and the government. The government just says what they’ll pay, and where they can’t, they have limited negotiating ability. You’d think an insurer would care about paying less, but they actually don’t. They care about predictability. How much are costs going to rise next year? If you’re right, you make money. If you’re wrong you lose money. That’s not really an incentive to reduce costs in the absolute because the people who pay for insurance are not patients but employers.

As an employer I care about my health insurance plan’s cost. BUT I also have no clue about what one plan vs another really means or how they’re maybe gonna save me money long term. I simply don’t have the time to understand that, and I’m probably more informed than most on the subject having worked in the sector. I too care about predictability more than cost.

Crazy part of the pandemic, during a historic health crisis many medical systems were facing bankruptcy. Why? Most of the money being paid with a good profit margin into these systems is for “elective” care. This includes cancer treatment, because surgery can take place today or a week from now and it doesn’t matter that much. Contrast to a heart attack, which is non-elective. When a pandemic rolls around, all elective care gets shut down, so hospitals lose money despite being needed more than ever.

The whole system is a zombie with none of the right incentives, no clear way to even measure the right outcomes, and worse: nobody is driving the ship.
If it is caused by the App Store, why do we see the same distribution in every single vertical where there is a platform?
Its crap software, I can use the vim version just fine, no restarts, no problem.

Aside from that, I don't need typescript, its being forced on me.

I do want typescript, because it has advantages.

A frustratingly broken workflow is far too high of a cost to pay though.
My wife is an attorney, family law, and it's clear from the years of stories and discussions on what's she has dealt with that most attorneys lie with impunity ... and so do the litigants going to court! The judges generally don't hold the liars accountable, the attorneys don't hold the other attorneys accountable, and no one holds the judges accountable ... and with no real accountability, it's a free for all. If the State Bars would hold their own members to their own supposed standard we'd be in a much better place.
>Would that have worked though? I don't know much about nuclear deterrence, but I'd imagine if the USSR already managed to evade the defenses and other obstacles and destroy the city center in a nuclear strike, it wouldn't be a lot of additional effort to send multiple rockets instead of only one and also target the suburbs.

The USSRs guidance computers were quite bad, and reentry would have scattered multiple payloads without those.

Having talked to people in the programs from before the iron curtain fell they got around this problem by building larger bombs so the radius of destruction was larger than the radius of uncertainty around a target, to the point that dead-reckoning was viable.

The maximum bomb size the USSR designed on top of Huston: https://nuclearsecrecy.com/nukemap/?&kt=100000&lat=29.7589&l...

In short, were the USSR serious about dealing with urban sprawl it wouldn't have taken much effort to build weapons that could vaporize Huston sized cities.
The Boston Camera
In a clinic or hospital setting, there's always going to be someone on an initial learning period. So while discoverability may be "useless" to you, it's not useless to everyone.

The issue is also what's important for one use is not important for another. The person dispensing medication may not be the same person taking vitals, etc.

And it might be the common use case for that nurse, but another nurse may have a different workflow. What works for cardiovascular doesn't work for ophthalmology.

And all these people think they're equally important. They all want the same priority.

Not to mention, most people are bad at UX design. So while they should have opinions, they should not be the only consideration.
The current version of pip automatically goes to --user mode if it detects it doens't have permissions to access the system pip dirs aka not being run with sudo
Malls usually ask for a percentage of revenue now...

https://www.thebalancesmb.com/average-percentage-commercial-...
Drone Delivery? Amazon Moves Closer with FAA Approval
Sure thing-

Model code: 20QTCTO1WW

The main customizations were CPU and soldered RAM, and the 4k non-touch screen plus the Quadro card. I have some 1TB PCIe SSDs around and am fine installing additional RAM (max of 64G).

Copied from my manifest-

● 9th Generation Intel® Core™ i9-9880H Processor with vPro™ (2.30 GHz, up to 4.80 GHz with Turbo Boost, 8 Cores, 16 Threads, 16 MB Cache)

● 32 GB DDR4 2666MHz

● 256 GB PCIe SSD

● 15.6" UHD (3840 x 2160) IPS, anti-glare with Dolby Vision™ HDR 400, 500 nits

● NVIDIA® Quadro® T2000 4GB GDDR5

● Fingerprint Reader

● Backlit - US English

● IR & 720p HD

● FHD Black Paint/UHD Woven

● Enabled Discrete TPM2.0

● 4 Cell Li-Polymer, 80Wh

● 135watt AC

● Intel® AX200 Wi-Fi 6 802.11AX (2 x 2) & Bluetooth® 5.1

● vPro Certified

● 15.6" UHD (3840x2160), IPS, Anti-glare, 500nits, No touch, IR-Camera, Mic, Woven

● Retail Packaging

● Publication-English

● 3 Year Depot or Carry-in

Total cost after discounts pre tax about $2700. Base machine as I recall was about $1800; the CPU added about $300, screen + card about $400, RAM about $200. Also paid the Windows tax, but maybe the P1s now ship with Linux.

Good luck!
I am looking for a hero to test that 280TBs limit of SQLite.
I agree that you don't own the email where the domain is not yours, but for the majority of people, setting up your own domain & mail is a large technical challenge. Even moving to a different email address may pose an insurmountable challenge (different interface, different workflow, etc.).

I think it's commendable that Apple is keeping the @mac.com for so long and not just simply cut off people's access to it.
The size of the (potential) user base matters.

Back in the early 2000's, I did several workshops on Ardour (DAW) in the same context that Ton and others were doing workshops on Blender (sometimes in the room next door).

Without fail, the Blender workshops had 10x more people than the Ardour one.

Everybody knows that to do computer generated imagery you need only a computer, and skill. There's a LOT of need for computer generated imagery. The use cases extend far outside the obvious ones for Blender.

For a DAW, most people understand that you probably need significant musical skill (which may or may not be true, depending on the genre of music you want to create). And if you're not actually making music, you probably don't need a DAW.

The result is that an app like Blender has a user base at least as large as that of several DAWs put together (probably not all DAWs, but several of them).

This changes the nature of the type of ecosystem (development, funding, user community) you can build around the software.
You are allowed to start your own mall. It has a big green robot on it...
That's a different problem. That's not solved through just putting all the functions of the application one click away.
> hunt and peck Pythonistas

The real curse seems to be MATLAB in my experience. No engineering book is incomplete without an untested, uncommented, unindented MATLAB code listing at the back. I don't like Python, but at least it forces you to write somewhat legible code. Luckily it usually doesn't matter, but when you have things like COVID-19 models written in this matter I fear for the worst.
Is this one of the cases where PostgreSQL is overkill and something like SQLite would be a better fit?
If you change your mind, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24337359
So you disagree with the root comment. Raw footage is not enough.

You need investigative work by journalists and to trust them even if you disagree.

This twitter thread proves that there is no such thing as an unbiased interpretation of raw footage of that kind.
I know a lot of lawyers. Most lawyers in law firms are just as unethical just as often as their reputation suggests. There are high-integrity lawyers out there, and if you find one, cling onto them. They're out there, but they're rare.

A much more likely explanation are misaligned incentive structures, combined with a protective guild-like bar organization which lawyers belong to.
Question: Why isn't a one dollar bank note worth more than one dollar in my bank account, since the bank note can be used to pay back the central bank?
I weep for the depths of human knowledge that are lost behind Facebook groups, dead forums, purged geocities pages, Photobucket and Flickr erasure, and the countless other hosted services they have been lost to time and profit.
But I wonder if a book is the best way to address this. I recently tried to find some older books and Amazon's stranglehold on the market has made books with no active publisher terribly inaccessible. I know this is complaining without solution but maybe one day we'll find something.
> being sniped, frontrun, or exploited

All of those and more will occur to you if you try to professionally trade large public markets
It’s funny that the innermost areas of many European cities have designs that go back to the days when everyone lived behind walls.
I am even more concerned about LLVM monoculture.

LLVM is just a proprietary-able version of GCC. And thus compiler authors mostly focus on benchmarks while not caring about other metrics such as compilation speed, correctness and codebase quality / ease of contribution. There appears to be some tribal knowledge requirement to add a new target.

With all the hype and apple funding LLVM gets, it could have been better.
It's funny because everyone in the industry immediately knows you're talking about Epic. And yes, it's a nightmare.
They're not going to pull out of Australia. The market share of English speaking countries is more important. And the loss of revenue from Australia is higher than the cost of paying up.

Why do you think they're behaving in the way they are?

If they could drop them they would.
> The role of systems analyst (nowadays confusingly called business analyst)

Classical systems analysts were, as I understand it, usually the more experienced programmers on a project, and had a role that combined the more recent technical architect and business analyst roles, so they aren't interchangeable with BAs, who often are nonprogrammers, and in any case are viewed as less technical than developers.

> seesm to have largely vanished in the beliefs that either COTS enterprise software would be used as it came, or that users know what they need (as opposed to what they want) and can rationally set priorities and tradeoffs.

In theory, the kind of requirement that is the role of a system or business analyst in other development methodologies seems to be largely shoveled into the responsibilities of the omnicompetent development team in Agile methodologies, though some of it also seems to fall into the product owner bucket in methodologies with that role.

I do think that that the requirements elicitation and analysis skills that go with that role have become undervalued because there is an idea that incremental iteration means you never need to look at requirements in a structured way. I don't think this is even approximately correct, but it seems to be the thinking.
Is this because you were interviewing candidates who were incapable of saying “I don’t know?” That’s a good filter during any interview.
Virtual basic running in some weird instance of something that you can only get through via citrix?

"least bad" is not saying much, they're all pretty bad.
The way real lawyers are unethical and the way TV lawyers are unethical is completely different.

Real lawyers will mostly do things like inflate hours, inflate conflicts, exaggerate expected outcomes, and generally blow things up so as to maximize billable hours rather than acting in the interests of their client. That doesn't make good TV either.
It doesn't matter. It is still anti-competitive. And in the USA anti-competitive practices are illegal in the US,

Yet and still console makers have been doing just this for 30 years.

Yes physical games still have to be approved by the console makers and the practice has not been eliminated.

Which is more likely, companies have been breaking the law for years or HNs understanding of the law is flawed?
How does an attorney sleep? First he lies on one side, then he lies on the other.

Source: An attorney told me.
I agree, I don't think they'll gain much traction in the west. However, they'll still have access to, and be competitive in, the massive markets of China (of course), south east Asia, Africa, and Latin America. Combined that's over 3.5B+ people.
What is this "destroy a person's entire livelihood" thing? For prosecutorial misconduct, it's nearly impossible to sue the prosecutor. They have the same qualified immunity police officers enjoy, and incidents of state bars punishing prosecutors for misconduct are nearly nonexistent.
The third scenario is about a lawyer - the prosecutor.
> Hence, “apoculamus” might be defined as “hauling your posterior away from” something.

we've found the latin term for "haul ass". brilliant.
hardly limited to the 1960s, you can still do this in 2020 even in an expensive place like los angeles. pandemic aside, people living cheaply with many roommates and getting by on the wages of a bartender or minimum wage film set production assistant aren't even rare - the old pabst brewery on the eastern fringe of downtown LA is an entire campus of it. it just requires compromises on things that one is less likely to make if $2000/mo/bed is an option.
Interestingly, some of the newer commits seem to have come from John Carmack.

While it's not quite related to consoles, I've noticed that the non-GUI interface to a lot of operating systems often don't get a lot of love. Linux has had a fairly nice boot scroll, but I think part of that is because it's become an icon and as such is part of the public face of the OS; but on macOS for example it's an tiny awful experience because the text doesn't scale to 2x (you'd think Apple would be the first one to fix this…) and the output isn't well formatted at all–it's just the various subsystems spewing text as they start up. And a lot of modern systems use kind of old fonts that in many cases seemed to be picked as an afterthought…
Saying as someone who has to run several different EMRS from 10 different hospitals in a weird hellstew of citrix and VMWare Horizon clents...I would kill for someone to write a stripped down front end that runs natively in iOS/Mac OS or the web (assuming a good recent web app library)..
Have you ever tried filing a misconduct compliant with a bar association? You'll get just about as far as a police violence compliant with the local PD. The bar is there to serve the lawyers, like any guild or union. For the most part, there are no checks on lawyer ethics.
Don't forget tmux, cwm, openbgpd, and openntp. The OpenBSD guys consistently make very high quality tools.
I, for one, am glad that you chose to comment as I had never heard of ATS before. Thank you.
Apple Accidentally Approved Malware Disguised as Flash, New Report Finds
I do not know if this is anything close to what you want, but:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19245898

and

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23609499

might be of use.
Instant Apps was out since 2017. In the 3 years since, I don't think I've once seen a prompt to install an instant app out in the wild, ever.
Ask HN: What’s the story behind your username?
Personally, I only talk about what the courts do...

And the courts have yet to interpret what is illegal in the same manner that HN “lawyers” do....
the epidemic has been a boon for the digital transformation of doctors here in Italy.

turns out you can do take appointment at the gp, it wasn't impossible

turns out you can request exams trough email, it wasn't impossible

turns out you can have a pre-screening via photo and messaging apps, it wasn't impossible

turns out you can safely deliver prescription trough digital channels to both the person and the pharmacist so that you can just show up with your healthcare number and take the drugs home

it has been dragging medics and other professionals around then into the present kicking and screaming
This is patently false; the default python3 on Ubuntu 20.04[1] is 3.8.2. A separate package python3.8 is also available in built-in repositories for all supported versions of Ubuntu going back all the way to 18.04[2].

1: https://packages.ubuntu.com/focal/python3

2: https://packages.ubuntu.com/search?keywords=python3.8
We don't. For example, Mac software before the Mac app store had a much better distribution.
What a headline...
> If the problem is change then you will always have problems.

It isn't change per-se that is usually the problem these days, but the rate of change, and sometimes the rate of change of the rate of change.
> As an employer I care about my health insurance plan’s cost. BUT I also have no clue about what one plan vs another really means or how they’re maybe gonna save me money long term. I simply don’t have the time to understand that, and I’m probably more informed than most on the subject having worked in the sector. I too care about predictability more than cost.

As an employer, my insurance brokers are able to show me very easy to compare tables listing premiums/deductibles/oop max/copays.

It’s all pretty comparable as long as you’re comparing within the same types of networks (HMO/PPO/EPO/etc), especially with metal levels.

If anything, HDHP PPO plans or Kaiser Permanente type HDHP HMO plans do have an incentive to keep costs down as they compete with each other for my business. I’ve been able to go to my health insurance website, and type in a healthcare procedure or exam and it will usually tell me the cost at various facilities. Nowhere near perfect, but a good start towards price transparency.

This all would work a lot better if everyone was forced to buy health insurance from healthcare.gov and employers were completely removed from the equation.
You didn't mention email confirmation in the first place but figure I'd mention this for others. I recently ran into a similar situation and had the idea of registrants emailing ME a secret code I give them instead of confirming they receive it. Still technically automatable but would definitely throw a curveball to the bots. I confirmed with an Ask HN that this is a secure method: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24116530
A bit late but thanks so much for this work -- I consider myself a late early adopter and your work is going to make it much easier for me to take these phones for a spin.
> https://www.statista.com/statistics/266572/market-share-held...

You're right, according to your source, Apple has 52.4%. Apple also has the majority of mobile app purchases in the US, as well.

Even if they had less, companies have lost antitrust lawsuits with much less than 50% of market share.

Further more, both Apple and Google have a duopoly and are guilty of engaging in anti-competitive behavior.
I've had a lot of luck with variants of a honeypot. Add a visually hidden field and any time it is submitted with content, block the post. Super simple and with some creativity, it's hard for the bots to keep up.
The fact that Apple seems to think it is effectively responding to the mounting discontent with their stewardship of the App Store by offering developers a form to complain into demonstrates how far out of touch they’ve become.

We know from court documents that exactly these sorts of developer concerns have been discussed at the highest levels of Apple's leadership and they have consistently failed to make any meaningful policy changes. What Apple is offering now is merely an official process for disregarding this sort of criticism.

I’m sure anyone who is considering investing significant effort or resources into products built on Apple platforms will be completely reassured by this gesture – especially knowing how receptive Apple has been to criticism of its policies in the past.

This press release reads to me like “Here’s Your Complaint Form, Jerk”[1].

[1] https://slate.com/technology/2010/07/apple-s-condescending-i...
Do you think the court-appointed defense attorney's job is to do anything to get his client free of the charges?
I remember one system whose idea of a backup was to make a copy of the MySQL database directory to another location on the same machine. Another system would transmit everything I wrote to the backend via HTTP with zero encryption. Lawyers tell me to record everything that happens yet all systems I've used don't let me add any information after the consult is finished, exposing me to legal liability.

I wish I had the time to make my own software... At this point I'd be most happy with just a text area where I can write anything I want. I'd love IDE-style features such as autocompletion for medications and tests. An inference engine for simple calculations would also be great. For example, if I write the patient's height and weight, the software should notice that it has enough information to derive the BMI and just do it.