skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Right, but there is no concept of "financially successful" hospitals because no-one is paying for anything (success is measured in terms of input/output...the UK also does poorly here because we overpay massively for doctors, and underpay everyone else). The reason why medicine expenditure is low is because the system is managed for cost. Systems like Germany, US, Netherlands, Australia are more effective because there is a huge element of subsidy...the UK is about giving everyone the same defective product.

Also, the NHS is one of the only things on which there is almost no real political debate in the UK. The BMA is probably the most powerful lobbying group in British politics (and this isn't good, they are one of the more sources of stasis, they have opposed every change in health policy...they also opposed the introduction of the NHS). So the problem is the opposite: if anyone tries to reform the NHS is any way then the political opposition is instant (and the only way someone like Blair did reform at the edges, was to pay off doctors...which ended up costing massive amounts of money and leaving the system in a bigger hole). The main conservative force is the NHS itself...it isn't really radical, it is just a system that doesn't really work but Brits have this weird tribalism built up by tabloids telling people that someone is trying to privatize it (and btw, this is the conclusion of anyone with a brain...the NHS doesn't work well, the wealthy and middle-class need to subsidise the system more heavily but people want a Nordic size state with US taxes...and btw, what people don't understand is that we have US taxes with a public health system that is half the size of the US public health system...so we don't even do that properly). I also wouldn't call it "socialist" either, there is no real subsidy, US healthcare is way more redistributive, it is universal but lots of other healthcare systems in Europe achieve universality with large private systems...so universality really isn't the dealbreaker that people in the US think it is. But most people are die-hard NHS supporters, so it clearly isn't "socialist".
> To recap our progress on these goals, here is a snapshot of what VRP has accomplished with the community over the past 10 years:

> Total bugs rewarded: 11,055

> Number of rewarded researchers: 2,022

So each person found an average of 5.5 bugs? That seems really high, no?
> One way to keep that reputation is to not deploy features that enable more professional use cases. Perhaps they want to be more than a casual app?

They do, hence their recent rebranding that resulted in less of a "for gamers" image :)
It's not about wealth, but ability to generate income.
Commercial truck drivers yes, private individuals: not that I'm aware of (reference needed).
The NDR vs Market Cap graph looks like an illustration for how not to visualize data. There's a blob of points plus outliers Twilio and Snowflake with a rising line drawn through them. Leaving out SNOW and Twilio the line would be close to flat, indicating no relationship.

It seems pretty obvious that different root causes are influencing market valuations across these companies.
I'm not certain why you're being downvoted, but you're right. Their recent rebranding demonstrates this.
>dupes - On the bounty side dupes are extremely common and buddies telling buddies about their finds is going to drive fraud up quite a bit. In my triage work I saw very clear attempts at this regularly.

wouldn't looking at the logs of when the reports were taken pretty much clearly show the first person to make the report? how is this a thing that gets confused to be an issue?
> (collapsable and deep-linkable)

I see other major differences. Discord and other chat-apps invite much more real time participation than the other two you just mentioned. Also discord you have to be logged in to be part of a server, not much casual lurking going on.
The explanation I heard was that a bumper sticker on their car outed them.
Used to work on Google Search, used ES extensively for a startup I founded (which was sort of quasi-search...it was built around feed ranking, where the query is constant and a stream of documents is constantly coming in), and have also used Postgres extensively in other companies.

The big problem with all the off-the-shelf search solutions (RDBMS full-text search, ES, Algolia) is that search ranking is a complicated and subtle problem, and frequently depends on signals that are not in the document itself. Google's big insight is that how other people talk about a website is more important than how the website talks about itself, and its ranking algorithm weights accordingly.

ES has the basic building blocks to construct such a ranking algorithm. In terms of fundamental infrastructure I found ES to be just as good as Google, and better in some ways. But its out-of-the-box ranking function sucks. Expect to put a domain expert just on search ranking and evaluation to get decent results, and they're going to have to delve pretty deeply into advanced features of ES to get there.

AFAICT Postgres search only lets you tweak the ranking algorithm by assigning different weights to fields, assuming that the final document score is a linear combination of individual fields. This is usually not what you want - it's pretty common to have non-linear terms from different signals.
Also falchions, scimitars, sabres, cutlasses, and falcatas. Additionally, I have some double edged knives.
There's a pretty good Danish music group who called themselves "The White Album", which sounds like a decent band name.

They've been operating since 2011. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_White_Album_(band)

They are incredibly difficult to find online because when you search for them the first who knows how many results are for, you guessed it, The Beatles' White Album.
Check out They are Billions. It has an RTS-like feel, but the strategy is largely defensive.
Apple has had the price of their stock drop at least 40% on 3 separate occasions, the most recent of which was 2013. So you are right that they have had a strong run for almost 10 years straight. They do frequently post record profits, and you are also more likely to see that head line than when they just have an average quarter, skewing perceptions a bit.

IT allows almost economies of scale to keep scaling longer than ever before. I don’t see a reason apple cannot push into new markets and eye a $5 or $10T market cap in the next decade or two.
I'm reading this on a M1 Air right now and see keys across the bottom of my keyboard labeled "fn," "control," "option," and "command." So I ask, in all sincerity, which keys are home and end?
A hard counter in RTS parlance is a unit or tactic that will win a fight even even if they are grossly outnumbered. A classic example would be a ground unit that cannot hit air units. Any number of those ground units will die to a single air unit.
I can't believe this made the HN front page!!

Bruce W. was so far ahead of his time.

I have used MH since early 2000s and still use it today to fill in some gaps that Home Assistant still has.

The same motion sensor code I wrote in 2005 is in use today. Originally on a spare server but now on a rasp pi.

It's log design and memory leak checker keep it going. Super software design at it's core!!!
> It isn't easy. People interact on social media and at work and so if you're angrily criticizing the plight of the Palestinians on social media, your pro-Israel co-worker may bring that conflict into work with them.

There are many dimensions to this:

1. Is Alice speaking for the company or can be construed as speaking for the company? Like does her Twitter profile say "VP of X at Y" and is a verified profile? Like I know there are certain topics that have been in the news about my employer that I simply won't comment on because I never want to be quoted in the press as "Employee of X said ...". That's just common sense. And you can also be (rightly) terminated if your actions or statements reflect badly on the company or the company otherwise has to spend time dealing with;

2. Assuming the first person isn't speaking for the company and the second person is simply aware of their social media presence, it gets a lot trickier. I can sit here and say "just do your job" but would I be saying that if I were African-American and my coworker was spouting some White supremacist crap on Twitter? Probably not. There are degrees too. Reposting links on your personal Twitter in your free time is one thing. Putting up a Confederate flag in your cubicle is something else;

3. You should generally be comfortable with what your employer does. So let's say you're deeply evangelical and completely anti-abortion. Should you work for Planned Parenthood? Probably not. I mean if you can and want to, that's fine. But there are limits on what an employer should be expected to do to accommodate your views.

> ... and yet their company saw the "disruption" as a bigger threat than the loss of talent.

Obviously specifics matter here but let me express some generalities.

If you express views where your coworkers don't want to work with you because of those views then yeah you've created a problem. Even for an engineer the technical side isn't everything. You will still need to work with people. Supporting homophobic policies when you have a gay worker means you've brought something into work that has disrupted that work (as an example).
I don't know the details, but I'm pretty sure it's tax related. I'll bet companies would love to be able to do that. Because then that company could deduct that capital loss from their income to lower or eliminate their tax burden.
This is part of the advantage of the "Unix Philosophy": many small, easily understood processes that work in tandem to produce a complex outcome. Each individual process is less prone to knowledge decay.

However, this is moot in gamedev. We throw everything away before starting the next project because we don't "own" the IP from the last project.
A Man Does Not Make Poppers
Why are you wasting time on HN instead of watching your kids?
According to Hitchcock it just means Columbo is a Suspense show, rather than a Mystery: https://youtu.be/-Xs111uH9ss
I guess that depends on where you are. I still don't think of geek and nerd as conferring prestige. IMO they just aren't (as) stigmatized anymore, and are mostly neutral descriptors.
Maybe the model T can compete? I expect iPhone to have a longer run though.
"Helping Millennials overcome digital additions"

A lot of millennials go visit their parents and see the parents could use this even more as the parents lack the social reinforcement to standardize or smooth out behaviors. (While younger people may have equally problematic social reinforcement that enables behaviors)

Do you think your messaging can incorporate a broader audience?

Like, an older parent or person might see your site as just validation of millennial problems, while seeing no introspective duty for themselves.
OK, but "original sin" is maximizing it. The truth does not lie in that direction either.
They could just make the top speed 30 km/h and then they would live up to their claims :)

https://electrek.co/2017/08/04/a-tesla-model-s-100d-just-dro...
This reminds me of a practice a recruiter used to boast when I applied for a job - throwing half the applications in the shredder without even reading them because they didn’t want to work with “unlucky people”. Albeit I was mildly curious about what mental gymnastics the person did to end up with such a frivolous way of not doing his job, I never left a building quicker ever since.
Oh ok!
There's a distinct difference in volume, if so.
> I thought the flight time was only able to be 90 seconds

That was just the initial guess before the mission, considering the power budget available for powering the rotor. After completing the planned objectives, NASA attempted longer flights; the last two were about 2 min 45 sec.
Depending on the bumper sticker, that's either absurd and a dangerous precedent -- or perfectly valid. Based on what you've described, I can only guess it is the former and not the latter.

IANAL but in California, it is certainly illegal to fire someone because they displayed a mainstream political party's bumper sticker on their car, even if it is not mainstream at the state level.
No. Nearly all EUA PCR COVID tests are qualitative. On saliva/sputum samples, that's really the best that can be done. They can report one or more Ct values, but those reflect specific characteristics of the platform and can not be normalized across platforms and cannot be used even to infer things like viral load.
Three things occur to me:
1: I think there is a reason for a cutoff. To take the AI case: I have no doubt that any AI worth its salt could suffer. But that AI will (probably) be build from transistors and I think that it is meaningless to consider the suffering of a thermostat. So there's a cutoff somewhere - maybe it isn't that 'hard' but some things are on one side and some on the other. Flies, I think, are more like thermostats and I value each one of them at very close to zero. But you are right, possibly not >exactly< zero and that eps might add up in some way. Would destroying a billion thermostats be ethically problematic?

2: Scott Alexander has written on this recently and it covers much of the same ground that we are covering here: https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/i-will-not-eat-the-bug...

3: Some time ago I seem to remember the Swiss Government discussing a proposition to recognise the 'dignity' of insect and plants. Dignity was held to be a property distinct from suffering and I think part of the argument was that it was somehow mutual: damaging life in any form was harmful to the dignity of both the damager and the damagee. I have some sympathy with that idea. In other words, we should care about the bugs because we care about ourselves.

Disclosure, I do a lot of scientific work with Drosophila and this is something that I mull over from time to time as I slaughter them in their thousands...
There's different takes on this. To me, the workplace is free of romance or any sexual advance of any kind from my part.

I would never go beyond minor superficial personal interest (how was your holiday) at the coffee machine, and it ends there. Even if interest was shown in me, I'd deflect. Not going to happen.

That said, I do agree with the larger overall point that in today's digital and more sensitive world (don't have a better word), it likely is harder for people to connect that way.
Well, it’s clear now!

TBH, that picture couldn’t give us less information if it tried…
Biles praised for prioritising her mental health
Ask HN: Those who work remote, which U.S. city have you moved to?
I am looking to move, but not sure where. Ideally some place that is not too cold, is friendly to colored people and is not crazy expensive (SF, Seattle and NYC are definitely out).

Would be nice to move somewhere in CA, but high cost of living, fires and earthquakes are scary.

Any thoughts/advice?
If you can't do better than "shitty personality," I guarantee I wouldn't hire you. On the other hand, "Unwilling to respect colleagues they wouldn't personally be friends with" is a valid reason to make a no-hire decision.
If you inflate infections, you are therefore are also inflating deaths, it's a 1 to X correlation.
Something in Patients' Eyes Could Reveal the Presence of 'Long Covid'
Woah, this the entire business built on breaking Google’s TOS and bypassing technical countermeasures. And the author does not seem to understand that what they are doing is morally wrong and likely illegal as well.

I wonder if author also saves money by taking all the free sugar and salt packets at their local McDonalds.
Also, MOBAs give you that team play experience, which reduces the amount of weight/pressure on you as an individual. 1v1 ladder anxiety is a huge under-appreciated issue and one of the things RTS's can do to avoid it is a bigger focus on team PvP.
Lack of oxygen may make it even worse. Evolution of methane from decaying organic matter in soil in an anoxic environment would be much worse than CO2 in terms of global warming.

However, I’m not a soil scientist.
Async views alone might not do much, but ASGI support should mean that request handling is async, which might impact the request rate. Django's core is synchronous[1], though, so who knows.

[1] https://arunrocks.com/a-guide-to-asgi-in-django-30-and-its-p...
They still seem like such brutally overpowered cars for what is actually considered legal or defensive driving. If you buy a GT3 and take it to the track, I get it. You have a place where you drive it unsafely but privately and in a controlled area where you can kill yourself and not harm others. It still begs the question, why are you buying the cayenne turbo if speeding and driving recklessly is illegal, and at safe operating speeds without driving recklessly you aren't ever going to be tapping into those extra horses you paid for. Car manufacturers really do a serious wink wink nudge nudge with these overpowered cars, implying you will drive safely and legally when the speedometer goes to 200mph and the advertisement features someone drifting around downtown los angeles. It reminds me of how during prohibition, budweiser would just sell you all the ingredients required to brew your own beer at home and put on a label that says "not to be used to make illegal beer."

Nine times out of ten when I see an AMG g wagon on the road they are doing something dangerous with a phone in one hand. Usually just ripping the throttle to get to 50mph from a stop as fast as possible, then that's their baseline speed for driving around any and all residential roads in my city where the speed limit might be half that.
Everything old is new again.

Discord seems to have executed fairly well so far overall. And its client apps don't seem quite as awful as Electron apps usually are. I wish that Teams did chat channels as well as Discord does. Actually I wish that Teams would just be less clunky and buggy overall.
And can it run Doom?
Can you recommend the specific model of the wheelchair you ordered?
But you don't have to know any of that straight off the bat, because you have other players on a team to rely on. You can play with a friend who'll carry you if need be. SC2's relentless focus on 1v1 is a huge detriment, and it seems like the entire RTS genre has decided "well, that's what we do".
Totally agree! Look at her bike, tires, wheels, the ceramic speed jockey wheels, her jersey, her helmet, her training. It was all set up for that last 40km. She executed what she planned perfectly, everybody else made a mistake. That played in her favor, true, but the strategy was there, using her strengths which suited the course with this tactics. Leaving the break with 40km to go, set up the rest of the break as a bait. She assumed, that the lack of radios may cause a miscommunication with rather high probability, buying her some time. She may not imagined 11 minutes, but she is good at downhill and TT, so it could work, and it did. Brains, guts and lots and lots of power, well done Anna!
You're going against the narrative, your data and your ideas don't matter no matter how legitimate they are. So you get downvotes.
This is an old hiring manager joke that's been around for enough decades that someone was sure to try it.
Burning forests will increase the CO₂ level, but since there is no "local global warming", the effect is diluted over the whole planet, and I'd be very surprised if the feedback effect is at all significant.
I agree, I just disagree that they aren't working for the money.
On the other hand, the internet also makes it possible for someone like me, on the other side of the world, to learn that it exists.
What makes you think I took it personally? I was just making a general comment about how people who make ad hominem comments on the internet are.
> There's no way I would have learned Dota without a friend to pull me along

But that's something that MOBAs can do that RTS games can't. Which is another reason why MOBAs ate RTSs lunch. I'm not sure why you're focusing on win rate when there are plenty of people who play MOBAs who are quite frankly garbage at the game(s).
In the US, you bring your own car for your driving exam... And this is barely a joke !!
What I got out of this was: Everyone knows that the mean and median are different ways of summarizing a distribution, which have different purposes. But did you know there are many different kinds of means too? The one you think of when you use "mean" is the arithmetic mean. But there are weighted means, geometric means, and harmonic means. The straightforward arithmetic mean isn't always the best way of summarizing the center of a distribution, even though it is conceptually the simplest and the way we've always done it.
Is this sarcasm? Large amounts of capital (for a single person) given by wealthy individuals to select geniuses is the opposite of basic income given by government to all.
>"Hydrogen-boron fusion is one example. In principle, the fusion reaction between nuclei of hydrogen and boron could provide a highly efficient, radioactivity-free form of nuclear energy with practically unlimited fuel reserves.

The reaction produces no dangerous penetrating radiation and no radioactive waste, but only stable alpha particles, whose electrical charge even permits a direct conversion of fusion energy into electricity."

[...]

"In the meantime, the situation has changed radically, thanks to the development of laser systems which can generate ultra-short pulses in the range of a few femtoseconds (one femtosecond equals a millionth of a billionth of a second), and the discovery of a method for amplifying such pulses by factors of a trillion or more.

The method is called chirped pulse amplification [ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chirped_pulse_amplification ], for which its discoverers, Gérard Mourou and Donna Strickland, were awarded with a Nobel Prize in 2018. With the help of CPA, it’s possible to concentrate sufficient energy into an ultra-short pulse so that it reaches powers in the range of petawatts (a million billion watts). That is more than 100 times the power of all the world’s electric power stations combined – albeit only for a tiny instant of time."

(PDS: Side Note: There must be an electrical analogue to this idea...

That is, instead of using a laser to concentrate an incredible amount of light energy in the tiniest of points but for briefest instants of time -- do the same thing -- but with electricity (or any source of radiation at any other wavelength) -- instead of light...

Reason: There may be future applications for this in materials engineering / lithography / nanotechnology / other fields...)
Not sure how many people will get the reference, but I was thinking this just yesterday about the Pokémon red and blue games. Back in the nineties many rumours spread about hidden secret in those games, but we didn’t have the internet to verify or debunk them. Like many kids back then me and my friends spent hours trying to move that truck to get a mew, but it was impossible, it was just a rumour that spread because back then no one knew for sure if it was possible or not. That couldn’t happen with the internet today.

Another thing I remember growing up in the nineties was being told orbs in photos were spirts, and again without the internet I couldn’t prove or disprove it. It was a complete mystery which I thought about all the time.

The internet has taken a lot of those mysteries away. Don’t get me wrong, it’s really cool that we’re able to look things up so easily on our phones today, but I do share your sadness that the world isn’t as mysterious as it once was.
Yes, it is pretty irrelevant to this conversation and most everything.

Everyone knew what this person meant, and then you came in and started talking about something that was not what anyone was talking about.