skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This looks like a very narrow definition of "assets". Just because US & other nations outsourced everything to China – doesn't mean they now get to keep only the assets. Factories, raw materials, technology, manufacturing – all those are as much core assets as USD accounts or real estate too.
So despite 12 years of elite education, doctors still prescribe Tylenol, even though current science says it basically does nothing except screw with your liver.

Chiropractic is bunk. Audiology is a tool of price gouging hearing aid cartels. Every doctor that played along with the Sackler playbook directly perpetuated the opioid crisis. Optometrists are a front for cartels of glasses and lens manufacturers.

Much of what is qualified as medicine is exploitative corporate fuckery.

Toxic incentives abound, but god forbid we question the integrity of the system.

There's a lot wrong with the institutional role of "doctor" in the US. Part of it is that there aren't enough of them. Part is that the institution is granted a veneer of authority over things it has no claim to (see: psychology.) Part is corporate pharmaceutical corruption and bad incentives.

There are many situations where self directed research is going to be much better than what you'll get from a brief visit with an overworked, irritated, often arrogant and egotistical doctor without intimate knowledge of your unique medical situation. It's infuriating to get those half-assed "best guess" diagnoses or prescriptions.

I would trust an earnest high schooler with Google over a doctor from, say, 1920, with almost any medical situation except actual surgery, and maybe not then. I trust my own understanding of scientific evidence and research over doctors from 1970 or maybe even later.

How much time is needed by modern, educated doctors to exceed the quality of advice gained by self directed, appropriately conducted research, using the best of what the internet has to offer?

Obviously the doctor's advice will exceed what the patient can accomplish on their own, given sufficient time. Absent sufficient time, a person spending 4 weeks researching online could, and probably frequently does, exceed the domain specific knowledge and assessment by a doctor making a 5 minute "best effort. "

It shouldn't be combative, and doctors should be willing to investigate information brought by patients from legitimate resources. The gap between "civilian" and doctors available information and education is not nearly as great as it once was.

Dismissing the situation as "don't believe what you read on the internet" is a shallow and ignorant stance. We have the sum total of human knowledge available to us via Wikipedia, specialist sites, forums, scihub,arxiv, and so on. Everything, including the good stuff, is online.

People can and do use rational, scientific thinking to engage with that information, and in that situation, the doctor's 12 years of education only means something if they can spend an appropriate amount of time acquiring evidence and information from the patient. There's not enough of them, so unless a situation is serious and demands immediate attention, doctors often won't be able to provide sufficient time to make their expertise relevant.
You misspelt Stonks.
I found https://sourcemaking.com/design_patterns to be quiet interesting, as it has a description of the patterns and examples in several languages, including C++.

There is also http://gameprogrammingpatterns.com, which can be read online or bought - The book is excellent, didactive and very funny
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I've been wondering the same. Apparently, where I live (HCOL) people don't care about ever paying off the full amount, as long as the monthly installment is low. Regulations only require that you paid off 33% of the house value after 15 years.

You do need to start at 20% capitalization though, which at current prices means they need to own assets already (market risk), or have bonkers amounts of currency sitting around (inflation risk). I understand the FOMO some people must have.

I wonder if ultimately there is a cascade happening, where increased valuations lead previous owners to either take new mortgages, or sell their old house, and pay more for a new one. Which creates a cycle of ever increasing prices? I've never read anything though whether such an effect exists.
With multiple data sources requiring authorization, which don't support it on their own, it indeed makes sense to handle at least some of the authorization in the software accessing them all, and then it's indeed more complex. I just doubt it's commonly needed, to the point of listing it under things making authorization in general hard.
Q: What's the difference between a contractor and a consultant?

A: A consultant knows the difference.
> And it is great that we could reason about our rules in that manner.

That's what I've been missing as well. Node-RED comes close, but is event based.

I've been thinking of implementing this kind of system. It has similar principles to functional languages or a reactive system like Mgmt[0]. But I foresee a few issues that would render potential simple formulae into complex ones. Things like keeping state on event based inputs (push-type wall switches), time based decisions and outputs that don't provide feedback on their current state.

If I ever find the time to get practical with the idea and work out these issues I might put it into a Show HN.

[0] https://github.com/purpleidea/mgmt
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Well.. You kinda can. Demand and supply, they basically say :until 2030 demand will be higher than supply. Germany is building way to slow and not enough.
lol who cares
I always understood electricians did have to be registered and qualified https://www.competentperson.co.uk/

But I don’t know for sure.
Also it is very likely that the people with most comorbidities where vaccinated earlier, so have had the longest period of post-vaccination.

So we are likely looking at a sub-group that both has multiple comorbidities _and_ has had the longest period of post-vacination. Even assuming that the decay of effectivenesss is small over time it may be a contributor.
I spent close to 20 years doing freelance and consulting work on my own as an individual that focuses mostly on smaller businesses (1-50 employees). There's a lot of truth to this article.

One thing that I really like about it is it's not just coding coding coding (I do this too), but you get a chance to really break down the domain of a company and work with someone on how to solve bigger picture problems. It's not just empty bs recommendations either, it's things that get directly implemented and in my case often times I got my hands dirty with the implementation. If not doing the implementation, at least doing the research while ironing out and documenting a step by step plan for someone to do it.

I would say I spend about 60% of my time coding and 40% of my time chatting with developers / CTOs, getting paid to do R&D and write documentation. For the coding bits it's everything from building web apps to doing ops related things like provisioning infrastructure and making it easier for other developers to release code changes.

With that said, for the first time in my life I took a W2 job this week. I'm only bringing that up because if you decide you do want to transition into a W2 job later often times you may get fast tracked through any hiring hoops if one of your contract clients wants to hire you full time. In my case I didn't have to do an interview because I had worked with them for 10-30 hours a month for the last 3 years. It was an instant hire where all I had to do was let them know a start date.

In a bunch of longer term contracts I was involved with there were always hints or offers to join them full time. Up until recently I never had an urge to pick one but this role is interesting and you only live once so I decided to try what life is like on the other side of the fence.
sorry I meant for thinking about math foundations as in the philosophical questions about math (is it constructed, discovered, a priori etc.) not mathematical foundations as in concrete theorems.
They want it illegal but widespread, so they can jail people arbitrarily. (Though I'm not sure that's what the GP meant.)
Were there discussions? What is the general impression, is there hope?
Best is hard to say. Depends on what you want. I have 4 Temperature sensors (2 Aqara temp & humidity sensors, and 2 Hue motions sensors that have temperature sensing included) connected via Zigbee (using Deconz) to my HA on the PI. No issues at all.
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This wouldn't prevent the recording from being used as evidence. It just helps limit the spread on social media due to the resulting DMCA takedowns.

You see police use this tactic a lot in "First Amendment Auditor" videos. It makes it very difficult for the auditor to monetize the video.
They don't need an excuse. Thanks to the idea of the Great Reset, everyone with enough money is trying to have a house they will eventually rent away, or live in it themselves.

There's zero reason for prices to go down. None. I've read that plenty of houses are being bought even above asking price, so cost of building isn't a real factor.

Sure, I'm not counting the crash where all the clueless dumb money will try to sell their houses.

When the bubble pops only the idiots will try to sell, and the smart money will grab whatever they can. ROI in terms of "old money" is irrelevant. What matters is getting rid of old money and investing it in something that brings in new money post-crash.
Most of the factors he points to are external, with a couple of internal ones added. In my opinion, the most important one isn't mentioned at all, but has been a long time coming. I had big hopes for Linux back in the days, I was pretty confident that Linux would own Windows and from a technological standpoint, it should have been a walk in the park - Windows being the worst OS ever made.

The problem is that same community he speaks so affectionately about. Instead of coming together and making the most awesome OS in the universe, everybody went off and did their own thing. Some would argue that this is a feature of Linux and not a problem, but look where it got us. We didn't get the Microsoft killer, we got a thousand distros. One thousand different Linuxes. Every one started by someone having a beef with all the other ones. That's why we lost.
In Germany they are in full throttle marketing campaign how cool it is to work for them.

The anti-Union attemps over here made no friends.

It is all over the place, TV ads, subway, bus stops...
Duolingo can be a good compliment for regular language study.
If it is you who voted down without replying it must mean I am right. Long live NAP man. There are many of us who are civilicized people. We do not want to harm anyone or have excuses all the time to do it.

The closer to that ideal, the better.
Most developers at the consultancy I work for work a normal work week, don't make reports, have normal (meaning neither ancient nor state of the art) dev practice. And there is nothing fraternity like about it, nor is there a climb the ladder idea. It's super boring. You're right about it not being amazing for those who want to work on interesting technical problems. Clients tend to be big, technology tends to be firmly in the legacy category. I think they mainly hire consultants because employees can be expensive to fire under Dutch law for institutions that are financially secure. Which makes it different from consultancy in other countries.
How about Brian Chesky (son of social workers), Marc Andreesen (son of seed factory worker), or just Jeff bezos with a pretty shitty family background:

At the time of Bezos' birth, his mother was a 17-year-old high school student and his father was 19 years old.[18] After completing high school despite challenging conditions, Jacklyn attended night school while bringing Bezos along as a baby.[19] After his parents divorced, his mother married Cuban immigrant Miguel "Mike" Bezos in April 1968.[20] Shortly after the wedding, Mike adopted four-year-old Bezos, whose surname was then legally changed from Jorgensen to Bezos.[21]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Bezos

We can all pick examples to fit our narratives
Some months ago I contacted them and requested they remove a domain I owned. I was ignored.
Hunting around I found someone who said to send a DMCA formatted in a certain way. That was ignored.
I sent another DMCA. They replied and wanted a list of every url to be removed. I got back to them saying it was .example.com/

They said they would get to it.

Two or three weeks passed, nothing changed. I got in touch asking why. They said my request was scheduled and would be completed soon. More time passed, no result.

I then sent them an email which listed their upstream provider. I said I felt they had adequate time but had failed to act in accordance with my request. I told them they had 7 days and then I would go upstream. Then they deleted what I had asked for.

This very much soured how I feel about IA.
Firefox UI is incredibly frustrating,so I made it like the old days of Chrome
Or, you know, they're smart problem solvers and don't need to rely on memorizing.
They're the ones with nothing, I guess.
Are there any useful books on actual tradecraft up to contemporary practice?

Most of what I've seen on the intelligence subject are mostly about history and culture rather than technical info, with hints as to techniques scattered randomly around fiction some of it timeless, but a lot of it probably out of date.
I believe it. I am actually more worried about a deflationary spiral and an actual depression when the covid punch bowl gets taken away than moon growth for ever.

Things were shitty before covid happened, and many were expecting a recesion in 2020 before covid existed, markets siezed up late q3 19, and needed help then. The world has since been living on vast quantities of high grade heroin dished out all over the world, quite rightly by various central banks.

Only once the covid tide goes out we will see who has been swimming naked.
The CL 1994 standard has close to 1400 pages; the C++11 standard had the same size and doubled the number of pages compared to C++03. In comparison to that, the original Oberon language specification in 1990 had less than 20 pages. CL might be "small" in terms of syntax; but the number of constructs to take into account in practice is still large.
Italian here.

Don't get your hopes up, Italy is a very peculiar place, there are 11.5 million workers that are members of one of the tree major trade unions, not counting smaller ones, it's half of the total work force.

Nothing moves in Italy without an agreement with trade unions when a company the size of Amazon starts hiring en masse.

That's both good and bad, but generally more good than bad.
My understanding is that anybody can do any type of electrical work (in homes), but certain type of electrical work needs to be certified. If your electrician isn't certified then a third party certifier has to certify the work after completion.
Employee vs. consultant aren't mutually exclusive right? Were you thinking of employee vs. contractor?
Fizzbuzz is one thing. Balancing binary trees, is another. I've learned that if I see a binary tree question, I might as well stop the process, as they have no intentions of hiring me. They want someone fresh out of college, and I'm really just an EEOC checkmark.

I've said it many, many times, here. If a candidate has a portfolio, you'd be absolute idiots to ignore that portfolio.

Or deliberately ignorant, as the decision has already been made, not to hire the candidate (for reasons that have nothing at all to do with their tech abilities), and no one wants to waste time, reviewing a portfolio.

I'm biased, here, of course, as that's my strength. I have a fairly substantial portfolio.

A portfolio makes it much easier to evaluate real world skills and capabilities. If a candidate sends a link to a sample project or OSS product they've worked on/developed, it's not particularly difficult to review the example, and then ask the candidate a bunch of questions about it. I've found that the conversations that arise from this kind of thing can be amazing.

But this won't work for managers that have a hundred résumés on their desk, and have maybe five minutes per candidate. As that was never my own experience, as a hiring manager, I can't speak to it. I rarely had candidates that had significant portfolios, and treasured the ones that did.

In my experience, it usually took about two minutes of casual conversation, to figure out if the candidate had potential, or was simply a jargonaut.
Yup, exactly that.

I think the use cases for field-swapping a (part of the) battery pack are the same as for carrying extra fuel canisters with you, which I can only speculate about, because I've never been in such situation with an ICE car.
They think they can, until they don't.

https://www.expatica.com/nl/uncategorized/uber-loses-dutch-c...
What is called MVT here is really product strategy. Jobs to be done, value propositions, etc. That's what you base your business strategy on, and product is a tool to implement that strategy. This is how you know what to include in your MVP and how you evaluate its performance accordingly. So this piece is basically just saying, don't forget to have a strategy before you build your minimum viable product.
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If they legitimately cared instead of faking it they could probably do better. Especially if the target is a maintenance-style machine setup rather than a 30 second gas station rival setup.
Then maybe you should do a stint in consulting -- you'll learn something new every day!

See: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28549676
Having 1 button to switch an entire room filled with many light sources between your wife's and your preference is also automation, and exactly at the right level. HA is not going to solve disagreements between people ;). In this case the alternative would be changing many lights manually, right? I mean the face recognition sounds like huge overkill and a pita to get perfect.

I have a Hue Tap, which has 4 buttons to program, we set: 1: Normal on, 2: Cosy on, 3: Cooking on (bright in the kitchen) and 4: All off. Near the couch I have an extra Hue switch to dim the couch area even more if desired. That works well for us. Atm this doesn't involve HA but it would if I had any other brands of lights and I would also want other aspects changed (like room temp, i.e. "cosy on" could also raise the thermostat by 1 degree, because it's couch time) with the same Hue Tap buttons. HA is great at having different brands of home automation stuff talk to each other, so you can pick the best of all worlds.

I just got a smart thermostat, so my "All-off" Hue Tap button may just as well set the thermostat to "eco", of course only at night because otherwise it may just mean the sun being bright enough was the reason I turned all lights off. Or, maybe when I set my thermostat to "away", HA can signal the rest of the house that the lights and the coffee machine can now be turned off, if any were still left on, I'd do that with a 10 min delay or so because I may still be running around the house to get stuff. HA is perfect for this type of logic.

Using a phone for anything is a big No for both of us as well. Home automation for us means having single buttons that do many things at once. We set timers for our garden lighting (dawn=off and sunset=on). And we use some motion sensors. In the bathroom for example, the Hue motion sensor switches the light on, and then HA turns on the fan, through a Sonoff flashed with Tasmota. At night the light also switches on but less bright, everybody loves this automation (more than the previous manual solution), and it's completely in line with Home Assistant's vision for Home Automation: [0]. It's easy to over-do Home Automation, the people you live with are good indicators for when you do so ;)

[0]: https://www.home-assistant.io/blog/2016/01/19/perfect-home-a...
it worked out so great last time..
They do require a lot more water to be put out though.

> "Improvise. Adapt. Overcome." it is.

And here is the problem: most fire departments are horribly underfunded, meaning their machines are old, water tankers don't have enough capacity, water lines are un(der)maintained and the firefighter training has been ... spotty to put it lightly.
One of the birth places of unions during the industrial revolution has turned into anti-union, so I don't expect much.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modern_Times_(film)

I think it is still quite up to date regarding work conditions in some places.
is this just not game theory in practice? If your opposition is not honest, by being honest yourself youre setting yourself up to be exploited, misled or abused in the long run.

As an aside, humans are animals, just smarter ones
The liberation of Paris from cars is working
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It's often the case that reformers (of anything, not just government) lack an understanding of why people are making choices that appear sub-optimal. They make or encourage changes to the visible things, without fixing the underlying hidden causes. Such changes are usually unsustainable.
If I am not mistaken, this is still open to appeal.
How Intel is securing patient data through its pandemic response initiative
I program multiple languages including Common Lisp.

I don't buy that Common Lisp is too large. I would say the opposite is true. The base language is rather simple and what you mistake for language are just standard library.

What is complex is it being Lisp language which means you need to adjust your brain structure to a different level of functioning and focus when reading code.

**

But languages do get too large.

I think the reason languages get too large is because developers, as soon as they get some experience, start demanding more features. Maybe they want to have more functional experience in an object-oriented language, or maybe they want async in one that was not designed for it.

These developers form a core of users that enjoys being able to absorb these features over time as the language evolves.

On the other hand, new users need to learn it all at once.

There will come a point where new users will just look at horrendously complicated language with vast specification and will just say "Fuck it, I don't want to spend so much time to be able to do anything, I will program in this neat new other language that is simple to start and already has most of what I need."
Lol. You drank that KoolAid

> parachuted into complex, dysfunctional, ill-equipped organisations, and trying to work out what in that environment worked, and how to Macgyver

parachuted, macgyver.

An overinflated sense of importance and worth is the only common characteristic of consultants.

0 chance you understood the business or tech r challenges before suggesting whatever tech du jour you were last exposed to as the True Answer© before disappearing out of sight before the duct tape starts to break away.
Those cars still passed the inspection. Which means they were physically sound. A battery isn't going to shift into an alternate mode where it becomes a spontaneous fire hazard.
'Dieselgate' trial opens in Germany without ex-VW boss
> By the way feel free to try to write a sorting algo (preferably not bubblesort) by memory in your favourite language. It will be a good reality check.

Just did right now, what is your point?
We've had a similar media blitz in the UK, luckily we dealt with most our unions in the 80s.

Despite getting an email from Amazon about twice a week i could never see myself working there.