skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The trouble is there will always be a difference in quality. It’s a human business after all.

Different hospitals have different facilities as well. You’re better off having a type of procedure at one place than another for example. And even if you somehow made it so every hospital had the same high quality equipment you still wouldn’t have the same quality of specialists, surgeons, etc. This matters a lot.

There’s probably a baseline we could get to but the experience will never be a commodity overall.
I propose "mistress"
I had a greyscale VGA and Fate of Atlantis looked pretty good too.
> An Uber and a regular Taxi will both get me to my location with similar time and cost

I don't know how many places that was true. I gave up on taxi service in my city (Austin) a few years after moving here, because it wasn't a reliable or quick way to get anywhere. Twice I ordered taxis hours ahead of time to get to the airport (once literally the night before) and after being assured on the phone over and over again that the driver would be there "in just a few minutes" ended up driving myself at the last minute and barely making my flight. I also had a few treats of walking miles home after waiting 45 minutes for a cab to arrive. Uber was a game-changer simply because they would show up.
> but they don’t immediately grok that models, views, etc can be packages with multiple modules

Ah yeah but the MVC/MVT/"SOLID" theologians don't like that
I used to leave my prompt alone until recently, but was inspired by https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26059023 to at least conservatively raise my expectations.

Now my prompts start with the current UNIX time, coloured red if the previous exit code was non-zero, or green if it was zero. This gives me instant feedback on success/failure, and lets me retroactively see how long a command took (without having to re-run it with `time`).
It's implied. I hope you answer the rest of my points instead of seeming to avoid them with this comment/question.
Slaves exist today. What else would you call it when the economic system makes people desperate enough to walk into a sulphur hole barefoot to carry chunks of sulfur out that will be used in all sorts of industry, including the making of circuit boards for switches and computers that power the infrastructure we're using right now?
I don't read any of that drivel, this is a term that Garzón or Iglesias themselves repeatedly use. So I guess I just can't take them for their word on that one, and that they're in fact progressive capitalists who believe in private property and have clear ideas on how to make an innovative market economy out of Spain.
A block of... 0 or more what now? Which wouldn’t need to exist if the ledger was immutable? Ergo... I mean you seem pretty intelligent so I’m gonna assume you get my point.

0 or more transactions form a block, which is mined to facilitate mutations. Mutations in the form of transactions. Nothing more. The block reward is compensation for providing the service of processing blocks of 0 or more transactions. A mining scheme that consistently has 0 transactions achieved nothing. End of story. If you disagree explain to me what else mining achieves.
This is what happens when “left” and “right” are two massive blocks. Your point is a very good demonstration of why a two-parties system is not much better than a single-party one.

There is an optimum in the middle. Governments lasting for a day like several European countries have had in the past is also harmful and alienating. But if there is nothing forcing people to compromise and collaborate, what you describe is the expected outcome: frequent swings from one side to the other, each time with a slim majority, and nothing good happening over the long term.

The problem is not left and right. The problem is that you cannot represent a full spectrum of ideologies with a binary choice.
It's like saying, let there be less biased news. No one would read it. I often thought of storing the world's diaries or journals or sketchbooks or even the mundane blogs somewhere but no one would look at those bits. If the biographer is a great story teller, the subject is secondary to the worth of the biography, so even failures require greatness to tell their story right.
>The problem with failure is there are infinite ways to fail

Do you mean infinite ways in life? I’m trying to reconcile your statement as it would apply to a specific domain rather than something as broad as the scope of ones life.

Reliability engineering would tend to disagree with the above quote. For a specific engineering application there are a certain number of fault modes that can be ideally mitigated and quantified as a reliability risk. Good engineering practice documents these in the form of fault trees, failure mode effects analysis etc. Sure, unknown failure modes still may pop up, but to the point of the article, if they get discussed and documented they can be mitigated in future iterations. While maybe never reaching zero, over time the remaining unknown risks become smaller and smaller probability events.
Has anyone noticed in SF at least that the parking meters now automatically go to the highest-possible time and you have to decrement the meter rather than increment it? Is this a 'Dark Pattern'?
Most recent java version is supported for 6 months and then the next one.

Think of Java versions as patch releases for Java 8. There are minor changes between releases.
Cool!
I'll have to take the opportunity to mention my own charts.css[0]. It got some interest on HN last year [1] and I unfortunately dropped the ball and didn't make any revisions based on the good feedback I got. As people pointed out, I tried to give it a "cute" name using unicode which unfortunately makes it harder to search for.

This version (OP's) is way more polished and almost certainly more widely useful. But mine had the features of (a) being generated from markdown and (b) defaulting to a list presentation of the data under different styles so the data remained accessible.

Having more charting options that don't require javascript to do simple things is a good thing.

[0] https://rbitr.github.io/ChartS.css/
[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23270581
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Adding for emacs users, the kill-emacs command does the same. I don't think it has a shortcut by default, so it's M-x kill-emacs.
Weird how the safestamp Twitter handle has gone away.
The poor guy still needs some love, however I decided to post the photo anyways :) We did a "first pass" cleaning of everything collected since 2004 but have only recently found a permanent home and storage for our collection - so much left to do, but it's a pleasure polishing the milestones of yesteryear :)
AI's response: Thanks, added it to the loss function to optimize for. :D
Perhaps the difference is that I spent a few years studying history in grad school... I'm not saying that "latinx" is analogous to abolition, but that during abolition there were also behaviours analogous to "latinx" that conservatives used to ridicule abolitionists with.
I was okay with master and I am also okay with main. Main is shorter to type so hey we‘re all saving some keystrokes a day.
The parent post is saying that it's pointless to call this bullshit and complain about what other people are upset about. It's also saying that changing team names reduces racism as it stops people from performing racist actions that have been built into showing team support.

It's not misdirection. It's just that these are issues you personally don't care about.
> Meditation in the eastern religion sense is to not think about anything.

There are many forms of eastern meditation. E.g. Vajrayana deity visualization meditation
Truthiness, or lack thereof, is a second order effect.

Algorithms boosting viral content and inauthentic speech are first order effects.

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No, bots, trolls, socketpuppet accounts are not authentic speech. I didn't say censorship. I didn't say truthiness. I said inauthentic.

No, I didn't say ban inauthentic speech. I'm saying create infrastructure for authentic speech. Because currently we have very little. So that consumers have a choice.

Yes, keep your pseudonym account. For your all-important courageous deep undercover reporting which will definitely be recognized with a Pulitzer. To be accepted anonymously, natch.
I don't feel like they're far off here.
The legend piece looks promising, they just need to be able to label both the axes, and I think you've got everything you need.
Recommended. Always use different fake answers to everything, be sure to log them in wherever you keep your passwords managed though.

Funny how my best friend from high school is named yiKooPh2 (not a real value of course).
And TWO scroll wheels!
Generating controversy in support of your cause is generally thought of as building political capital, not spending it. You want to focus energy on what people on your side will agree with, and, crucially, can have a personal impact towards.

You can see this dynamic in Republican posturing in the Biden era. Biden is a much harder topic for Republicans to attack. His Covid relief bill has broad bipartisan support and he's an old white guy just like Republicans like to see in office. So instead of wasting time and effort on trying to attack Biden or Covid relief, they spent the last few weeks attacking cancel culture and Dr. Seuss.

This move is the opposite, it lets those interested in social justice and equality participate in a political action. Any time you can energize your base around something, that's a great boon to your side.

More generally speaking, political battles are fought by people who care, not by people who don't. Actions taken that cause the uncaring to care even less are fine so long as they can get some people to care more.

For no better an illustration of this look to PETA. The only reason we still know who they are is because they've taken this as a holy dictate. We still know who they are because they're fantastically successful at creating absolute zealots.
Yeah, this isn't the HN experience I was hoping for... :-).

If I may, the final ingredient I'll add is that this problem is one where software not only automates but enhances the solution. As a company grows, they'll add additional credit facilities and explore other financing options (like forward flow arrangements). Each agreement/arrangement comes with their custom set of requirements on your various credit products, and the lack of a central data store creates all sort of internal process complexity.
such concepts are not static across a population, nor through time. beyond the author(s) and early adherents, the population itself has a separate conception of such ideas that can be markedly different from the initial conception, and that also changes through time. it's certainly useful to understand this sort of history, but trying to stake a definition in time and defy the dynamism of these concepts is inherently political (e.g., originalism). sometimes that can be done deftly and sometimes hamfistedly.

in any case, the concepts can be relevant and meaningful and still not be useful as identity markers in any meaningful and relevant way. identification principally with a single school of thought is simply a mistake of rationality, and how we get unthinking tribalist extremism. it happens with any -ism: libertarianism, socialism, nihilism, capitalism, etc. the world works as a non-linear composition of all of these ideas and much more. not a single one can be considered "correct" in any meaningful sense.
This is the kind of article that should be at the top of HN. Wonderful!
How do you know that there isn't a disaster plan under which Google routes requests for status.cloud.google.com to some other, non-Google host?
Agreed. But maybe Amazon.com has more potential to "disrupt" the US healthcare industry than any kind of traditional legislation. And... maybe that disruption could benefit actual people? (I really don't know)

But I don't see the US government being able to do anything serious in the near term, with the forces of overpowered lobbying and general insanity working against it.
The most poor people can not afford meat. Or if they can, access to meat is not required to treat malnutrition.
Meat is also unhygienic without refrigeration, and the source of parasites in many hotter climates.

Edit: sorry I see now you didn’t mean for eating. But for dairy. Yes, access to a cow for dairy is definitely a good thing. :-)
> It actually is, though. You would be very, very surprised.

My Dad became a board-certified FNP when I was in high school. I've seen enough of the books, the reading, the studying, the records reviews, the toil, and the anxiety to know you're wrong about this.
> It's probably just a bad AI trying to help Google manage a massive platform. It's just sad to think about all the developers who can't call on a Twitter following to get their app unbanned quickly.

How do you think that inference works? Through pattern matching "Mastodon" then raising a flag. Who sets the pattern?
> I tried to explain them and failed

You can perhaps get better results by mimicking https://www.wired.com/video/series/5-levels – explain the concept at different levels of expertise. You might change your mind about that a concept you think you could not explain.
Pull on every thread. This is one thread, there is no opportunity cost of this sort of thing.

We all need to get over ourselves
> In reality, however, there is not a single ideology connecting all those things.

I don't claim there was a single ideology underpinning the reasons for the calls for social change. I'm saying that there are usually people (radicals, progressives) calling for social change, and others (conservatives) warning against it, and the rhetoric employed is similar throughout history (e.g. "if you only asked for a little less", or "the previous demands were reasonable, but the new ones are excessive"). That's understandable, as conservatives throughout history sometimes don't like to appear -- possibly even to themselves -- as the enemies of progress so they claim to be in favour of "reasonable progress," but whatever it is that the progressives currently call for is unreasonable; of course, a generation later, the story repeats. Ideas like women's suffrage were deemed outright preposterous, risible, and too silly to seriously consider; in fact, it took actual acts of terror by feminist activists and a world war to get them the vote.

So if you want to compare current demands to previous ones in order to explain the reaction to them, I'm saying that you should also compare current reactions to previous ones. "Previous demands were reasonable, but now they've really crossed a line," has been pretty much the conservative refrain going back millenia to the patricians and plebeians of ancient Rome. All of this is why I reject talk of "excess." It's just how conservatives speak of social change for millenia. You can say that you agree or disagree with some policy, but the "this is too much" line is just a cliché.
> with very limited decision-making power, being the minority members of a coalition

You seem to follow Spanish politics, so surely you must have seen how moderates like Calviño are often put in extremely rough spots? The communist wing of the government is not nearly as powerless as you claim to be.

We'll see what comes out of labor reform, for example, but I suspect there won't be any measures that are conducive to the creation of good jobs, or any jobs at all.
Bring on the axtotl tanks!
Because it's a part of their community and each community needs to take care of its own problems.
Manager of technical people.

I guess we could recast the term "technical manager" as "one who attempts to both do and manage."
Perhaps it's worth bearing in mind that London's latitude is somewhere North of St John's Newfoundland, solar still works but it's not nearly as clear cut as it is in California for example. You can't plan for an average of 99% of days because the whole of December has solar irradiance a tenth that of July.

We already have >10GWh of pumped hydro storage (most of which at Dinorwig Power Station) which is required to balance a grid with a mixture of Gas, Nuclear and Wind power.
> Why y'all so scared to use a different label?

Because you just created a massive amount of tech debt that needs to be addressed in the here and now without convincing people that creating this tech debt was worth creating in the first place and when there is a lot of other tech debt that actually matters that still hasn't been paid off.

Like someone else said here: "On one hand, here I am trying to get work done and on the other hand you have these people actively slowing me down. These people are my enemy"
Broke my build. It appears SQLAlchemy predates SemVer.
This output of this kind of test is determined by the order in which the categories are presented. Put male on the left and humanities on the right first, then put male and science simultaneously on the left side and it will produce the opposite result: men associated with liberal arts and women with science.
The assertion that humans are unable to stop themselves from completely depleting the resources that they depend on rings true to me. I think Jared Diamond wrote a whole book about this.
I was in an organization of 50-100 engineers and we tried several similar systems, but they turned out to be little more than "FAQs" where half the questions were "fake" questions that were preemptively "asked" and answered by the same team. Only on a few rare occasions do I remember multiple people collaborating to address something using the systems. It was rare for an answer or question to get more than 1-2 up votes. There just were not enough people, and people were too busy "doing their job."
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Here is an interesting article with some statistics
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2019/09/meritoc...

http://www.equality-of-opportunity.org/papers/coll_mrc_paper...

Maybe not all of those people who are enrolled have donated and then got in, but wealth is directly correlated with getting into these schools, not pure skill. At this point getting into a university is just about memorization and going through the rehearsed motions. There are too many good applicants. The only differentiating factor is money at this point and wealth is required to learn how to do the motions to get in. Everything else is just a dice role.

I also think its important to think about the age of the people you are talking about. If they were older, then it was generally easier to get into almost all universities assuming you had the money (which is a HUGE if). The acceptance rates at all these schools was significantly higher. Not to diminish their accomplishments (because they are tremendous accomplishments), but in the past it was in some ways more "fair" from a financial perspective (though probably unfair in all the other ways that things can be unfair).
The last mammoths lived on an island without humans. Or perhaps, without humans until the very moment that those particular mammoths died out.

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/10/191007081750.h...
I think you misunderstand. The person was responding to the person suggesting that Trump was doing something very legal and very cool. He wasn't talking about the Washington Post, or suggesting that it's part of the right wing misinformation machine.
That is true. I don't really refute that there are instances of complex rulesets. I've worked in some regulated markets, but not healthcare or insurance.

That said, I stand by the point that most complexity I've seen has come from infrastructure. Because although the rulesets might be complex, the way they are encoded is usually the source of the problem IMO.

For example, if the rules of the business are encoded in such a way that unit testing them is straight-forward, it puts the business at the center.

But when every rule is testable only in a complex deployment, the complexity of the app is no longer tied to the complexity of the business.

And the latter has been more the rule than the exception in my experience.
I agree completely but I do think we should be trying to make healthcare as much of a commodity as possible.
Which personalities displayed in this article sum up for a developer which is also lead developer, CTO, very oriented on functionalities delivery, strict about new ways (always wants to write an article about something, always wants to do research, to the point where I as a 10 years of experience dev feel like he does not trust me)? And yes he is someone who does not trust if I do not back my ideas, opinions or methodologies with googled articles. He also has no sense of humour, or does not show up with it in the team. I sometimes think about him he is a robot...
Europe's Vaccine Suspension May Be Driven as Much by Politics as Science
Some things to know about Hunspell dictionaries format
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Thank you, I think I've accidentally activated this mode without knowing _or wanting_ it when muscle memory for copy/paste happens while using a windows workstation but E.G. putty. Now I know it's a mode and that ctrl-e can undo it.
Most companies won't ever go close to a trillion in valuation either.
Another potential issue with a change like this, for the reason that they give for doing it, is that it may communicate an inaccurate picture of what black people care about to non-black people. "Oh wow, black people are offended by and 'hurt by'[0] the use of this term. I didn't know this would make them feel hurt!"

Articles like this clarify that at least some black people in fact do not feel "hurt by" this use of this term.

I'm Jewish, if someone said "we have to take all the swastika imagery off this Hindu graphic because it will offend and hurt Jews," that would bother me. I'm not offended, much less hurt, by seeing a swastika in a cultural context unconnected to Naziism. To suggest most Jews would be "hurt" by this paints an inaccurate and extremely unflattering picture of my own resiliency and ability to contextualize words and imagery. I can't speak for black folks but I would be surprised if some didn't feel similarly about being informed that reading the word "master" would or should offend and hurt them.

0: https://sfconservancy.org/news/2020/jun/23/gitbranchname/ (this is the rationale linked to by github[1])

1: https://github.com/github/renaming
There's also other interesting competition in the space. I recommend checking out Forward: https://techcrunch.com/2021/03/11/forward-health-raises-225m...

I think their thesis is aligned with Amazon: to decouple primary care from insurance as much as possible.

Another interesting care provider is Curai which (like Amazon) mostly focuses on tele-health: https://curaihealth.com/

Full disclosure: while I don't work for either of these companies, I do work on healthcare pricing and payments, and adjust claims; so I generally find news like this to be interesting and cool.
Reminds me of the Netflix film, White Tiger. A liberal Indian-American woman comes to India, pretends to care about how the lower castes of India are treated as slaves, but in the end, is just going through the motions and leaves a servant with pocket change. In the end, not treating them as people, but as objects to funnel their morality and values.
These issues happen despite all those things. You can bet that Google has that and more in place. Just like in aerospace engineering, things go wrong when dozens of failures happen across the critical path, not any individual piece.
I'm not refuting that businesses can be complex, but I am saying that most of the complexity I've seen hasn't been inherent to the business.
Many companies want to save a buck and figure their best talent can become good-enough managers and still be that technical lead. It rarely works out.