skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah surgeons make multiples https://www.physiciansweekly.com/2018-physician-compensation.... That doesn't include profits from owning their own biz.
That's good, doctors should be paid more. 15 years for a license.
It's not. There's a good breakdown that compares what drives healthcare spending between the US vs Germany (and others).

https://www.healthsystemtracker.org/brief/what-drives-health...

The vast majority of the difference comes from just the raw cost of inpatient and outpatient care. Even if you were to completely zero out the administrative costs per capita, you'd hardly make a dent in bridging the gap.
Well, there exist rack consoles for datacenter use which can be found used on eBay. However, you might need a video converter since they are VGA only; rackmount servers only have VGA video outputs.

The least expensive option would be to buy a second small monitor.
This is a good time to remind people that there's a huge backlog of stable, middle-class Americans desperate to adopt. This persists primarily because of huge regulatory and legal burdens placed on the adoption process.

The most despicable of which is a constellation of bigoted state-by-state policies on "racial matching". The end result is that black foster kids on average spend twice as long in the system as their white counterparts.[1]

[1] https://ij.org/press-release/institute-for-justice-challenge...
"It Is Difficult to Get a Man to Understand Something When His Salary Depends Upon His Not Understanding It"

- Upton Sinclair

(related reading: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Katie_Taladay/publicati... )
Also lack of shame and, greed.
"Learning styles" are a great example IMO of non-scientists taking an idea with some merit and running away with it, to the point that scientists stop investigating it pretty much altogether because it's been branded "pseudoscience". Yeah the term learning styles itself is probably at this point a red flag for education pseudoscience, but the idea that different people may naturally solve the same problem in different ways is still very much an open question. It is probably true to at least some extent (as can be seen in certain extreme examples e.g. non-verbal vs verbal specific learning disorders).

Another example of this broader phenomenon is galvanic skin response. People ran with the lie detector BS and then the whole field basically died for a few decades, only to eventually be rebranded "electrodermal activity". Probably your smart watch will be collecting EDA in a few years.
Yeah the trauma is really hard to quantify. My mom was a 3rd grade teacher for years. One of the kids was a foster child. He was a good kids, a good heart, but had self control realated issues.

On the last day of the school they were drawing pictures of what they'd do that summer. His photo was of him being sad. He told her.

"Some of us are sad because of summer vacation because we don't want to be at home every day."

Just brutal to hear.... some kids have the deck stacked so far against them....
>Why are the prices so insane?

Because up until a few weeks ago, people weren't allowed to see what hospitals charged until AFTER getting their bill. It was a ridiculous system, and I'm glad Trump got rid of it.
No-op :)
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I think that in general foster families are better than group homes. The problem is that most children shouldn't be taken away in the first place.
That's their right to spew whatever they want. Just because it's worthless doesn't mean we should stop it. I personally think every single conversation in Twitter is absolutely worthless, maybe even has negative value. Does that give me the right to shut down Twitter? No. I value free speech so if people want to waste their time spewing nonsense, that is their right.
Hug? 2020 was year of political violence. Stop lying. Hot girls don’t like crazy politics people. Step back, unplug and leave Hacker News if you are sycophant to corrupt US government.

CIA and ODNI are friends but I never take money from government. My government friends hate government employees just as much as me. Especially fake fedhackers like Chris W Tarbell who commit felony hacking with NSA powers to imprison my friends.

NSA is military. US government is civilian. I defy all federal prosecutors and US Attorneys. I have 20+ wishing they could investigate me now including FBI and US Attorney over AG Ken Paxton.

I am AG Paxton’s investigator he was sending to Austin. FBI gets nowhere except to ODNI’s door.
> How fast would you be arrested and sued if you left those companies with a spreadsheet of customer data on a personal device?

Plenty of companies, and especially government bodies, fail to clean devices correctly when employees leave.

This could be nothing more than an undeleted email that was part of her work. Or something mistakingly sent to the wrong employee that she failed to delete.
I think the article is correct in that Romans created a system where honor was, at the beginning, not fungible with anything other than public service. There should always be a reward gradient. The problem is when power becomes fungible with money.
That wouldn't work, the characters in ace attorney aren't that passive aggressive ;)
Oh my god! You got me, bro! You’re so smart.
“The radio was a clue. You can’t really think hard about what you're doing and listen to the radio at the same time. Maybe they didn’t
see their job as having anything to do with hard thought, just wrench twiddling. If you can twiddle wrenches while listening to the
radio that’s more enjoyable.”

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance.

I sometimes listen to music while coding, but for me it only really works with something like Aphex Twin or Autechre. Something that puts me in a meditative state - almost like white noise. And usually the purpose is to help block out surrounding noise. I’m with Persig on this one — when it comes to deep concentration, I tend to prefer quiet.
Perhaps I'd agree if bitcoin was useful for daily transactions like the classic cup of coffee. If its just a tool for speculators, money laundering and generally just people trying to get rich it is a waste of energy.
You can play with GPT3 in a custom world at AIdungeon.io The responses are biased towards giving you RPG second person narrative, but the corpus of data, mastery of syntax and more uncertain grasp of events and relationships is all there

Example with the prompt You are Donald Trump. The recent election results have been a disappointment to you.

https://pastebin.com/dSYZypCw

Props for turns of phrases like "Your opponent is a typical liberal. He hails from the right wing of the Democratic Party, but has been trying to appeal to the left to gain more support.", but poor marks for apparently not having grasped how elections work. (There's a joke in there somewhere)

If you don't pick a custom world and your own prompt, you get something more like this:

> You are Donald Trump, a noble living in the kingdom of Larion. You are awakened by a loud noise outside the gate. You look out the window and see a large number of orcish troops on the road outside the castle.

I'd like 'orcish troops' better if I thought it was inspired by media reports of Capitol events rather than a corpus of RPGs.
Ask HN: Do designers have access to GitHub?
Some companies require designers to have access to source control. Not particularly for pushing code, but for convenience.

For example: Access to the latest build of an application or the URL of a branch specific QA environment. Or are there workflows that require all team members to have GitHub accounts purely for the sake of SSO?

Other companies have zero need for designers to access source control.

Personally, as an engineer, I'm kind of shock when a new designer joins and doesn't even have an GitHub account.
Good observation; should I remove it? I'm also learning that's hard to detect click bots, one approach might be to identify all clicks with the same frequency, but that's can be easily bypassed by using writing a bot that click the button with random intervals.
Here is a medical editorial which makes the same point and cites the relevant research. Routine annual check ups are probably a waste of resources in most cases.

https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMp1507485
Framework for Dealing with Feeling “Blah” When Writing
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Ask HN: What are up-to-date methods for software development?
I know that waterfall and spiral are both old. I would like to know the more recent methods and its step-by-step guide. What is the best software for small projects?
Yes, CVS MinuteClinic.
Not sure the original screenshot is true. Some people mentioned a Jarod but he's not listed on Parler's LinkedIn page.

More informations :

- line 1 : the Scylla DB Cluster would cost 59 000 USD according to AWS Calculator. Scylla DB is the C++ version of Apache Cassandra. It's a database.

- line 2 : this sounds like a bunch of postgreSQL server. Estimated price of 250 000 USD. Might be cheaper than Amazon RDS (?)

- line 3 : 400 instances 16 cores 64Gb -> 136 000 USD

Grand total 446 000 USD

We heard that it was around 300k USD on the news, so who can tell if it's true or not... anyway.

I don't see any wordpress nor specific technologies requirements.
It is intentionally overboard, they are attempting to make an example out of her. Fortunately(?) they seem to have picked the wrong woman to mess with
I'd be all for banning discrimination based on nationality. But we need to start with the biggest discriminators - governments. Why is an American allowed into America, but a Syrian isn't?
I don’t think this particular conjecture is that sensational and backs up what Amazon has already claimed. This list of moderators overwhelmingly are Republicans/conservatives and some of them make concerning assertions in their bios.
"officially at least claim that they will move away from it once the country is sufficiently developped"

This is very bold claim, can you give source? I'm Vietnamese and never hear about that before.
This is a really neat result.

I bet Euler or Gauss already thought of it and the solution is somewhere in a book full of such solutions.
Data Scientist Rebekah Jones, Facing Arrest
Thailand.
> The most common I've encountered is the stereotypical tale of "mountain madness" [2] where an injured or lost climber receives help or guidance from an imaginary being (who presumably seemed quite real to them during their escape from peril).

From the article you linked:

> the researchers believe that lack of oxygen and simply being completely dependent on oneself could trigger it.

Hypoxia can have bizarre effects on the body, but especially the brain. Anyone with chronic sleep apnea or who has dealt with hypoxia in any form can attest that the brain starts behaving in weird ways when it's deprived of oxygen.
I assume they were referring to countries where you can pay out of pocket for care at private clinics and hospitals, as a visitor. It's called medical tourism. India is a major destination.
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Why add additional steps, government should open hospitals and provide healthcare directly.
I would think you could do a scaling of sorts, like if your map was 100x100 you could reduce it to 10x10 with "clear", "fully blocked", and "partially blocked" based on the contents, and work a general path at that meta level first, then focus on each grid map at the full scale to navigate around local obstacles. You could do multiple scales depending on your needs and where the terrain makes sense to categorize most into clear or blocked.
This is made possible thanks to the current administration’s CMS price transparency rule which went into effect Jan 1,2021
http://www.cms.gov/hospital-price-transparency

Edit: By “current” I mean the Trump administration.
Yes but the weapons "improving" didn't translate directly into armies winning, and it still doesn't today. The US is right now retreating from Afghanistan, where it spent 20 years losing to a much smaller, much less-funded, much lower-tech militia (the Taliban).

So again, the idea of "progress" as a totality is very new (and you could argue, still wrong, it isn't absolutely clear that we are progressing as a species or even as a society).
Nodes aren't "responsible" for anything, they can only help if they want. Miners broadcast their blocks to other miners to signal they found a valid block.

Miners can broadcast to anyone they want and nodes can't find or manipulate blocks, so they take the role of passive helpers.
A tool that tidies up your project folder
Thats not right. You can easily get an appointment in Germany, even multiple times. If you have a referral, you usually get an appointment earlier than people who directly went to the specialist. However, if you have acute pain you will quickly get an appointment on the same or the next day.

Source: Me. just made the second appointment with a specialist within a week thanks to pain, appointment is tomorrow
> Has this been the case?

The only one of the three that reached the point of having enough users to plausibly get there was Parler, and they were forced offline almost immediately after that happened. On the basis of a list of misbehavior which was unlikely to have been representative.

They had 10 million users. I have a hard time believing that there are 10 million "insurrectionists" in the country and if there were we have bigger problems. Meanwhile the cherry picked examples weren't anything you couldn't also find on Twitter or Facebook.
> legal systems are different than the US doesn't mean they are inferior

Yes. Indian legal system is very inferior compared to USA. My family is fighting a garden variety land dispute case for over a decade. I cannot even imagine someone successfully suing a doctor here for malpractice while living in USA.
Patients would still decide where to be treated based on those factors, the only difference is the insurance is standardized. Nobody in countries with socialized health insurance seems to complain about lack of choices or any of that, and rich people in those places can still get private insurance to get their nose job done right away from a private practice. For everyone else I get the impression it works just fine.
So the argument here is that bitcoin is valuable so the energy is not wasted. Which I guess is an argument you CAN make.

But doesn't really answer why we need blockchain specifically instead of something that doesn't need energy intensive digital mining.
> This point in the article lost me pretty quickly. My flow state is drastically improved by music, and I have never ever named a variable after the song name or song artist I'm listening to in my life.

Yea, this is highly dependent on the person. I have difficulty in life operating _without_ music. In anything, really. My brain wanders, i start making music, etc.

Worse yet, i find silence while programming to be stress inducing. My shoulders get super tight, and i'll find myself in a trance an hour later, super tense and feeling like i'm waiting for a bomb to drop.

Music is my emotional regulator. It lets me mirror where my head is. Chill, aggressive, grinding, etc.

The only time i find music to be a distraction rather than a method of focus is if the song is too new to me, is heavily lyrics based, _and_ i really enjoy that authors lyrics. I tend to want to focus on the lyrics, learn them, understand them, etc. Most of the time though lyrics are just yet another sound, and they vanish into the fog of work for me. I often even lightly sing while i'm programming (I work from home, lol).

edit: Oh, i should add though - this whole post of mine represents the .. maybe 80% use case. I do turn music down when i'm thinking about a challenging problem. Something i need to hyper focus on. But that's only 10-20% of the time for me. Most of the time i have a clear picture about what the general design is, and now i just need to write out the internals.
> collective parenting for centuries

Could you provide more data here? The only information that I found was traditional families, where the grandparents and relatives take the responsibility for the education too.

I lived some years in South American, and I was impressed how many middle class families have their Nanny taking care of their kids (bringing to the school, cooking, controlling home work, taking care while they were sick, etc).. could be that be seem as "collective parenting" too?

> There's still collective parenting in places of the world that don't have that same desire of individualism.

Would provide more data here? I'm interested to see how they are doing.
A smart way of going about it would be to just implement ratelimits based on human ability of clicking a mouse button - I'm sure no human is able to click a button 100 times a second. And of course ban people that are consistently at the gates of the ratelimit.
You can always write

julia> begin for i = 1:3
println(i)
end end
1
2
3

/s
Absolutely terrible article.

The argument is "Bitcoin uses energy, but Bitcoin does something useful, so that energy is not wasted", only longer.

That argument is incorrect, because there are alternatives to Bitcoin which do the same things, but use much less energy.

I, personally, would argue that those alternatives include normal money. But even if you don't agree, you must accept that other cryptocurrencies are alternatives, and there are are several that are much more energy-efficient than Bitcoin. I note that the word "Ethereum" does not appear anywhere in this article.

The article is longer than this comment because it is padded out with bog-standard crypto-libertarian economic illiteracy on parade, so if you enjoy that, do click through!
Welcome to 2021 Here’s what you can expect from Armory's (YC W17) this year
Postgres Benchmarks: Apple Intel MacBook Pro, 2011-2019
A quote from someone when I volunteered at the IEEE Southeast Regional Conference and wondered why almost none of the authors showed up: "They're students at schools that require a certain number of publications to graduate. We don't care as long as they pay the fee to register."
Here in India. You pay upfront. No payment = no surgery.
She was fired in May of 2020. They claim she downloaded it in November. So either the accusation was she hacked into their systems (which they conveniently aren't claiming), the doc was publicly accessible (in which case I'd question what the crime is), or they planted it and the claim she obtained it illegally is completely fabricated.

Why do I get the feeling as more information comes out, we're going to find out this "600-700 sheets of paper" is an excel spreadsheet with COVID infection information that someone at the state forgot to sanitize before posting for public consumption? And we'll find out she did absolutely nothing wrong, and they're just grasping at straws to make her look bad in the public, hoping she'll go away.
I couldn't agree with you more including tax law as part of the problem.

> There's a reason societies used collective parenting for centuries and only recently with the push towards individualism that has stopped.

Do you have reference to literature or research confirming your statement?
GitHub’s HR head resigns after termination of employee
Interesting story I feel for the author. However, I think we are prone to hysteria about certain covid symptoms - I and my extended family have all had covid and we can all still smell. A small sample of 10ish people from thanksgiving thru now but these sorts of click bait articles leave many believing covid is commonly very severe (no, even people in their 50s have mild cold symptoms in general) and had a bunch if terrible after effects. I'm mid thirties, over weight and eat ramen noodles for lunch and dinner - I got over covid in a day or two of fever.
Don’t forget AMA antitrust violations but curbing the number of doctors that could get into the system.
Physicians and hospitals have 2 of the most powerful lobbies in the US and have previously gatekept the doctor profession.
I have released a new app that will help you determine when the singularity has arrived
Consider the application of technosolutionism as described to other modern spheres, example climate change, where the economic stakes are extremely high for the ordinary citizen.
Because its winner-take-all in this research, not "winner-take-some".

Andrew Yang talked about this and why breaking up Big Tech won't work. No one wants to use the second best search engine. The second best search engine is Bing and I almost never go there.

Tech isn't like automobiles, where you might prefer a Honda over a Toyota, but ultimately they're interchangeable. A Camry isn't dramatically different and doesn't perform dramatically better than an Accord. Whoever builds the best AI "wins" and wins totally.
And post mail, very efficient to prepare her defense on time.
Thank you. That's what I will do (and write a blog post about it)
…perhaps if Github had a way to indicate directly on the bug that it affects you too. (And yes, most of the community is using the "thumbs-up" on the original issue to indicate that. That's a workaround for a missing feature, not a feature.)
In this instance I don't think calls to violence are really the problem at hand. Specifically, what is the difference between getting on a box on a street corner and calling for the death of so and so and saying the same thing on the internet? The difference is the speed at which the message propagates and the breadth and targeting of the audience that hears it. The technology and its unregulated use are the problem not primarily the speech it facilitates. Facebook and Twitter in how they are designed are the problem. They are the equivalent of giving everyone an information machine gun with infinite advertising backed ammo and then asking everyone to abide by the honor system. We don't do this in the physical space and we shouldn't in the digital space. We are currently in the process of learning all of the old lessons of society building the hard way when it comes to the internet. Thats because Twitter and Facebook didn't intend to build societies they intended to make money. They did both but only really cared about the latter.
A third possibility is one of the stars used to be much brighter for whatever reason.

This is an idea that's been tossed around for a while; it has the problem that ancient Greek discussions agree that there were only six stars visible as long as anyone can recall -- even though the myth said there were seven. So if there was a faded star, it faded prior to 500 BC. (Also, no good candidates for a faded star from modern astronomical studies of the Pleiades.)

Ancient drawings would help locate the 7th star.

Rappenglück (1997) suggested that a collection of dots in the Lascaux cave paintings might represent the Pleiades, in part because it's located above the shoulder of an aurochs (i.e., like the Pleiades is located relative to the constellation of Taurus). But there are only six dots.
Too bad it is an emergency condition, otherwise people could just fly to TN for the same procedure...
The manual is great https://docs.julialang.org/en/v1/manual/getting-started/. If you want something more step-by-step with some simple exercises, check https://benlauwens.github.io/ThinkJulia.jl/latest/book.html.
> I know people are going to worry about rare (expensive) conditions not being covered, and this is indeed a problem. I don't have an answer to this. One good thing about competition though, is that it drives innovation. Provider prices will absolutely be set based on what they know people can pay. If people can't pay as much, the only thing for them to do is drop prices.

I don't think so. If providers can't expect to be paid adequately (in relation to their capital investment, research costs, operating costs, etc) for dealing with "rare (and expensive) conditions", because people don't have insurance (whether private, medicare, or whatever), just a modest amount of cash in any given patient's pocket, do you really think they'll want to stay in that market?
I meant that a partner and kids work very well as resource sinks (and often as founts of joy).