skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think Windows is a pretty good example of why backwards compatibility is great and why is also sucks.

On one hand, you can probably still run your Windows software that you bought 20 years ago. That's the good.

That bad is that many things in Windows still work the same way that they did 20 years ago even if better solutions have been developed because they want to maintain the backwards compatibility. For example, programs are responsible for installing and uninstalling themselves. So if you have a program that doesn't ship with an uninstaller (or the uninstaller is broken) then there is basically no official way to remove it outside reinstalling Windows. There's no sandboxing and apps can do whatever they want to your system. You also have quirks like not being able to add more than 26 drives (because you run out of letters) and having to deal with multiple different settings apps.

I think if it weren't for its massive software catalog (which it has because of backwards compatibility) basically nobody would choose Windows over any of the less clunky operating systems out there. This is the reason that I attribute to the failure of every Windows version that Microsoft has tried to release that didn't have 100% backwards compatibility (Windows RT, Windows Mobile, Windows for ARM, Windows 10 S, Windows 10 X, etc).

So just to be clear, what I'm saying is that maintaining backwards compatibility at all costs will produce a clunky operating system that is not pleasant to use.
There's not really any substance in this article and this person doesn't have enough insight into the healthcare industry.

I disagree with the premise that the issue lies in accurate diagnoses from inaccurate data. There is value in second opinions and maybe some very specifically applied machine learning, but modern medicine is far too primitive benefit from large amounts of data per patient. The bigger issue is the complete corruption of American healthcare. The whole system's gotta go.

The only good thing in the current system is that HIPAA allows you as a patient to access every single of your medical records from any provider you go to. You won't be able to do much with these records, but it's still nice.

Problem: EHR companies like Epic have corrupt leadership and are purely profit driven and intentionally make it harder to share data between provider networks. The Epic CEO Judith Faulkner is evil and directly profits from this. Same with Cerner and Brent Shafer. They have no desire to make data easier to share.

Problem: Same for hospitals, many of which are corrupt and make millions despite maintaining non profit statuses. They have an incentive to make it harder for doctors not in the hospital network to access their records. Forget about record sharing and easy healthcare data access.

Problem: Most hospitals only care about profits, not patient outcomes and efficiency. This runs deep and leads to inefficient hospitals, including reduced doctor availability. Hospitals also profit from things like billing errors or intentionally sloppy billing. Optimizing for outcomes is irrelevant to hospitals.

Problem: Doctors have conflicting evidence of what to do for health outcomes. For example, some doctors still incorrectly think lowering cholesterol will improve cardiovascular disease, and think people with high cholesterol should be on statins. Giving them more data isn't going to help fix their poor training.

Problem: There's corruption among doctors who care more about profit motives than patient outcomes. They have figured out how to game the system (there are many ways).

Problem: No one in America wants to see a doctor because of cost. And doctors and hospitals and everyone else in healthcare has gamed the system to make everything as expensive as possible, so the desire not to see doctors is more than warranted. You probably know health insurance companies are totally corrupt and the cause of this, but it's also doctors, hospitals (the biggest enemy), the government, medical device manufacturers, non profit health awareness groups, consulting groups like Deloitte, physical therapists, there is corruption at every level of healthcare.
> You know how poorly programming is represented in movies and tv series makes you realize how wrong they probably are about every other topic?

Michael Crichton put a label on something related this:

> Briefly stated, the Gell-Mann Amnesia effect works as follows. You open the newspaper to an article on some subject you know well. In Murray’s case, physics. In mine, show business. You read the article and see the journalist has absolutely no understanding of either the facts or the issues. Often, the article is so wrong it actually presents the story backward-reversing cause and effect. I call these the “wet streets cause rain” stories. Paper’s full of them. In any case, you read with exasperation or amusement the multiple errors in a story-and then turn the page to national or international affairs, and read with renewed interest as if the rest of the newspaper was somehow more accurate about far-off Palestine than it was about the story you just read. You turn the page, and forget what you know.

* https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Murray_Gell-Mann#Quotes_about_...

The talk in which Crichton mentions this was discussed:

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20803989
Ask HN: Anyone scraping in the user's browser instead of the server?
I was recently trying to help a friend working on a project that scrapes a well-known ecommerce site, and they were worried about their server getting blocked. (Probably a valid concern.) The data they're trying to get is super simple and actually helps drive sales to that site, so I don't see an ethical problem, per se. I suggested that maybe it would be possible to put the scraping logic in JS code that runs on the user's browser, so that the scraping operations, when they happen, just happen from different places in the world.

Anyone know if this is feasible? Apologies in advance if this is a stupid question, but I'm finding it impossible to Google.

EDIT: Okay maybe not so impossible to Google once I realized the challenge is primarily with CORS. Leaving this up just in case anyone has additional insight.
> You think rich people are paying those kind of taxes?

Judging by the amount of wealth in New York and California: obviously yes.

> Why wouldn't they leave if this wealth tax were suddenly imposed upon them?

Because they want what the taxes get them.
Selenium is great, but seems to be easier to detect and block.
> For Java you need people in operations who are good at things like JVM tuning working. Just a fact of life, speaking from experience working on teams that do that.

You really don't. Anything you could do it, say, Go, you can do in Java without doing any JVM flags. The only time you need to do JVM tuning is when you have performance requirements that are simply impossible in most languages.
They have a handy upload site for your requests!

https://lers.google.com
> What about the fact that they haven't announced a single new product category since the Apple Watch in 2014?

AirPods (2016) are pretty popular.

(edit: I listed some of Apple's recent new services here, but removed since the AirPods make the point by themselves. Apologies to user optimiz3 for leaving your comment dangling.)
just use a proxy
executeScript()

https://www.selenium.dev/selenium/docs/api/java/org/openqa/s...
So it seems adopting masks as they did in Asia for decades must become the norm.

'Got sick - put the mask on' has to be come cultural thing. Just like we don't spit and (for the most part) far around dinner table.

Govs need to hire good marketers to create effective ads making people proud to wear masks. A bit like they did with Donald Duck and taxes.
That's one of the effects we model in fact, "social media laundering" is the term of art.

Various detectors are more or less thwarted by it. It actually surprised me how strong the artifacts from some GANs are - they can survive several passes of re-encoding, but accuracy does suffer.

But I still need the raw 720/1080 stream for training.
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That’s fine but what neighborhood in Kalamazoo is $400k?

And if $400k is too much for a house, how do you make Seattle work?
Thanks for such a well written TL;DR!
What’s the difference between this title and the previously posted one? https://middle-out.io/posts/genghis

Just a title change? Noticed the subtitle and graphics were similar. IMHO, the “genghis” title was much better.
Small? I guess the set of people who think that a lumpsum of 15k is better than higher salary, might actually be big? 15k is more like a rounding error when it comes to tech salary. I am not even sure this would make any difference if they paid you 15k each year for life. Then maybe it becomes attractive again :D.
Would buy but it’s expensive for me.
India is not alone. Brazil and several other countries have resorted to the same measures.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compulsory_license
This may be the first time since I've built that app that I've interacted with someone who may understand the level of fear and anxiety I've felt when thinking about releasing it. Many people have told me, "Oh, don't worry, just release it!"

I feel grateful that you've not only built the tool and put it out there, but that you took the time to share with me a little of your story and that it sounds like you have also felt the weight of such a decision. I'm sure other people feel it as well, I just rarely, if ever, have heard someone articulate the saving a life vs taking a life aspects of such technology.

Thank you.
> the electoral college was touted as the best thing since sliced bread prior to the 2016 election by Democrats because they were confident in the "blue wall" of the rust belt.

In the time that I've been eligible to vote for president, the Democrats have won the popular vote 80% of the time, yet won the Presidency 40% of the time. And the Presidents we've gotten that didn't win the popular vote: they've been terrible, bottom of the barrel presidents. So it's not just the disparity in voting vs. outcome, it's the garbage that we've ended up with in the White House as a result.
I think we need to get rid of the condescension, but otherwise I agree.
I applied to them, and I'm currently at the final steps. Not confirmed though.
Household name companies routinely get owned because a pen tester finds a network drop in a conference room, or a smart thermostat that merely needs internet access becomes a beachhead. There's apparently a whole generation of IT that believes security is about what is and isn't allowed on "the corporate network."

In my tech career the office WiFi has never been more privileged than the coffee shop across the street, just faster.
I agree (Ruby + Selenium is a great combination), but for situations where I was forced to use Puppeteer, switching to the context of the browser and executing native Javascript is quite easy, since you can write the code first in the browser console.
Companies schedule news releases for after the markets close, so the change in price is reflected when the markets open the next day.

News that happens when the markets are open is generally unexpected, which is most frequently bad.
hnrss.org - it’s amazing
NSQTracer to watch published NSQ messages (Utility)
Those criticisms of Epic and Cerner are rather unfair. Both companies participate actively in HL7 interoperability standards development and expose fairly complete APIs for accessing patient charts.

https://open.epic.com/
https://code.cerner.com/
Uh eight days before the election. Not two weeks.
Maybe so, but I absolutely don't believe that anybody on 4chan was discussing covid prior to December 29. People can pretend it gets the "scoop" all they want in their little fantasy world, just want to call out the veracity of those claims when I see them.
I think probably a lot of self selection. I would guess most people get involved with open source so because the technical problems being solved are interesting. I would guess the people who choose to work on emacs don’t necessarily care about web design. I think most open source web frameworks have pretty decent design!
woah, big tyme hater
Mass Slaughter and genocide are the same thing. You claim I'm denying genocide, so the according to you I'm actually setting the bar LOWER then mass slaughter.

These are your words:

>You are sadly in good company when it comes to the history of denying genocide.

So now you're claiming we aren't even talking about genocide? That there is no mass slaughter? Seems to me ur changing the subject.
I know that when I personally say immortality, what I mean is the ability to live for as long as I want. I highly doubt I would want to live as long as it would take to get to the heat death of the universe. I expect somewhere between a 10’000 and a few million years would feel about right, but for all I know it could only be a few hundred, or maybe billions.

But yes, all signs point to the idea that death is inevitable. I would just personally like to be able to increase my time in this universe by a few orders of magnitude.
A few points you might want to consider:

* youtube-dl is not just for Youtube (ie. google). It supports heaps of sites, and youtube is probably less likely to have the sort of content I'm referring to than twitter, pornhub, liveleak, who knows.

* I am in Australia, so for a subpoena (or similar) my friends would need to issue an MLAT request, which would indeed take a very long time. In fact, this often does happen, but in the meantime a formal preservation request (to the service provider) and a local copy (via something like youtube-dl) are important steps.

* Many investigations don't go to court, for a litany of reasons (that's a pun I guess). In such cases, a subpoena isn't in context: law enforcement have to investigate what has happened, to figure out if it needs to go to court.

* Some investigations are important but do not meet the 'serious crime' threshold for forcing companies or parties to provide information. If you can imagine being the victim of a minor crime, that someone filmed and put on twitter, I'm sure you can imagine the local police may want a copy of the video before the tweet gets deleted - but also know that there will never be an international cooperative justice process. It's just a local issue.

* Publically posted video is very common and often important, and it is not surprising that the police need a tool to download it. There are so many sites and web browser technologies, and the cops are not efficient spending their time coding youtube-dl equivalents.

I feel quite strongly about youtube-dl being taken down for copyright infringement by the RIAA, but have tried to answer in an informative way. Sorry if it comes across harsh - no ill will intended :)
For me, the way it should be is as simple as:

- Take notes in markdown format

- Commit to a private Github/GHE repository
so I guess apple has reached or passed peak innovation...
Best internet I ever used was the municipal fiber in Wilkes County NC (a mostly rural mountain county in NW NC, it does have one larger town which is economically struggling). It was actually better performing and more reliable than the gigabit I used in a skyscraper in Seattle.

That's about the only thing Wilkes county has going for it though. Well, that and housing costs that are much more affordable than most of the more touristy mountain counties nearby.
A credit card is a bit of a stretch. Virtually every enterprise in existence has tried to get me to sign up for their in-house card since the mid 80s.
> They constantly, if unevenly, exercise their right to ban hate speech and what causes it.

And what causes it??

What if censorship itself causes hate speech?
>With the extreme H1B conditions at the moment, it's unlikely people will take extra steps to just get to the US when they can try setting it up in India.

Would those interested in H1Bs but who are struggling to get one not simply go to Canada instead?
They started with that student evaluation crap in Germany as well? Country's going to pot.
Samfundssind is another recent one:

https://nypost.com/2020/10/24/danish-word-samfundssind-may-b...
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Thanks, that’s a really great article. It does change my views significantly.
Nobody has had “months.” The longest early voting period in the country is 46 days. Most states have much shorter windows, 15-20 days.

Three days is a reasonable amount of time to wait, especially since the post office itself has announced that there will be slowdowns.
The later the class is in the day the lousier the students and the less inclined to learn. Can't expect a half-literate teenager to give you good ratings when the class is about writing coherent English. That's an observable fact. But the abstract in the paper is talking about follow-on classes, not a section of the same course that's given on a different hour of the day.
You mentioned a wife. I'm not going to presume that children are for sure in your future, but if that's something you and your wife have considered I would _strongly_ suggest you research the schools for those areas. I can comment via a previous teaching colleague that Benton Harbor was not a district you would want a child in if it could be avoided.
Good luck, Jim.

You sound like a decent chap. I like “martial art for an open heart.”

We can use as much of that as possible, in today’s world.
To be fair the smartphone was a once in a generation event. I think Apple still has a lot of structural advantages when it comes to inventing new product categories. Coming up with another device with the same impact as the iPhone is going to be very very difficult.

That said though I think their services offerings so far are underwhelming.
i said "laptop for dev work"
Well, sure, but google/YouTube search does find in it. The GP was talking about their work collecting evidence - they can find it just as well, and record a copy for posterity just as well.

I am not saying it’s as convenient (more options >> less options except for analysis-paralysis). But I don’t understand how it tips the scale to making any archiving or evidence gathering unusable or uneconomical. (I am not saying GP is wrong - just want more explanation so I can understand)
To me this article (frontend developer imagining healthcare data simplification) reads sort of like if a personal trainer wrote a few pages on why we should all stop using plastics. A laudable goal, yes, but the post does not shed light on the extremely entrenched problems or offer a glimpse of a path forward.

HL7 v2, v3, FHIR, LOINC, ICD, SNOMED, RxNorm, J-Codes, NCPDP, Z-Index/G-Standard... Epic, Cerner, Allscripts, etc., all amount to a curious bag of standards and companies that might not be very interested in commoditizing themselves.

The majority of healthcare interfaces I've seen run on creakingly old--and much-abused by idiots--HL7 v2.3. And I've even seen some signed overpunch codes within the past year. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Signed_overpunch#The_codes
Creating Things
Yes all houses are for sale. What's your point?
During an election. We've been voting for days now.
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But the rate of that is slowing is what is likely happening. Compared with low cost of operating in the third world, more ideas are viable than would be viable in the US, because of grossly higher costs in the US.
India has a negative trade balance so still need "strong" currency to buy abroad, same thing for its citizens to travel and its companies to expand internationally. The size of the economy is nothing to sneeze at, but in the same way PPP gdp is more important than nominal for the average citizen, per capita is way more important than total GDP, that's the reason anybody would pick to live in the small economies of San Marino, Luxembourg, Monaco o Curacao over India or Nigeria.
iMessage is a true marketing innovation in America, where the only "alternatives" are Facebook and (barely usable) SMS. It restricts communication and makes life more difficult for everyone who doesn't have an iPhone, which in turn increases iPhone sales. Meanwhile, while holding basically infinite money, they pretend some patent troll is holding them back from making it cross-platform. Pure genius.
Thanks for everyone's input, i ordered the thinkpad x1 carbon, first ibm computer i've ever bought (for you younger folks, lenovo is rooted in ibm), will post on how it goes. thanks again.
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They follow the DMCA process.
supplimentary figure 4 has data at +7 months.
I tried deno on one of my projects. Not a fan of typescript. Also needed a good xml parser. I'm sticking with node for now.
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RSS is great. I'm still using it extensively and taken up maintaining the TT-RSS full feed plugin Feediron for the last few years because it's been so essential for my workflow.

https://github.com/feediron/ttrss_plugin-feediron
> I have a litany of reasons for moving including soul-crushing endless winters, lack of reasonable summer, depressed economy, and a political landscape without an identity and with an extremely short memory (shorter than average in my view).

Cheers from Southern Urals, had a good laugh.
IME these efforts towards interop are rather superficial. They may still be implemented in wildly incompatible fashion, and you will need to open up the ol' wallet wide even to get access to figure out whether it is feasible to build something--anything--to work with Epic.
iCalendar is a pretty nice format to use and well supported, but the trouble that you then need a website to host the iCalendar file. It adds more yak-shaving to the process.
Everything everyone else is saying here is good.

Here's my orthogonal view:

What you're low in is Personality Trait Conscientiousness.

Here's how you raise that:

https://www.health.harvard.edu/staying-healthy/raising-your-...

tl;dr - Heighten your sensitivity to disgust as applies to yourself and the environment you control (i.e. your hygiene, your room, your clothes). Get into a schedule that YOU want. Do not punish yourself. Take care of yourself as if you were someone you loved.

Your mind is your body is your environment. They all interact. Start cleaning one to start cleaning the others.
Thanks for the tip! Seems like Bracket Pair Colorizer 2 and Rainbow Indentation doesn't play nicely with the Vim extension. Bracket Pair Colorizer 1 is fine though, but I don't have a replacement yet for Rainbow Indentation.
Proportion of people in England with Covid antibodies has fallen, study says
I think Prinvoice is great!
Of course. I think the Bobulinski revelations will be a huge news story eventually. Right now the corporate media are doing their best to ignore it. It's not just 'a collection of tweets with a paragraph about QAnon at the end'. Did you actually read it?
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Why use sketch at all anymore now that we have figma? It's browser based, so cross platform and it does everything sketch does for free.
There is another essay on that series from the same author (and linked at the beginning of that one) about this question. Is called how to get promoted but slap converts what you’re talking about regarding managerial vs technical value.