skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's maybe the truth for urban aeras but suburban and rural areas in most of europe had no or really restricted broadband access until the last 5 years. Standard upload speeds are still 20mbits or even lower. We are not speaking about consuming we are also speaking about creating content or contributing to communities. If you are a family of four with two children with your children engaging in gaming or online communities, it's very hard to come by with just 100/20.
The grand demonstration of Watson playing Jeopardy ended with the question to an answer about U.S. Cities being "What is Toronto?"
The problem with this approach is that if you use your Google account for anything else (docs, photos, YouTube), you then lose all that. There are some things you can't re-import on the new account, like photo album sharing settings. And even if you meticulously set that all back up on the new account, your sharing is now coming from the @gmail.com account, not your personal domain anymore.
I've heard this from quite a few people, and I believe that it's an experience they're having, but I'm having a hard time understanding it. If you could try to give some impression of what you find difficult and how, even it's subjective or fuzzy, I'd appreciate it as a way to get a better understanding.

(Exception: Rust's syntax for closures is terrible and I don't know anyone who defends it.)
You can't cherrypick the worst couple of results on the page and say it's "50x slower" when for most of the other benchmarks it's only 3-5x slower.

Yes, tight numerical loops are going to benefit from JIT compilation, this isn't surprising. It's also not a very typical workload for either Python or Javascript.
but you're conflating amoral with immoral; they are not the same
Consider you are going to hire 10 mid-career SWEs this year (as a generic pool) and you set aside 2 slots for females, because the current org of 50 is all male.
The entire "online manipulation" research field is deeply compromised and unserious. Because there are enormous political ramifications to it. You can't just come out with a rigorous & factual study of the "Russiagate" hoax or Julian Assange defamation campaign. That would be career suicide if it ended up anywhere but a right-wing or Russian blog.

One of the most glaring flaws of the research is the lack of effort put into verifying attribution. Some suspicious accounts are pushing barely-literate propaganda in support of Country A? Case closed: it's a propaganda campaign by the government of Country A. These "studies" virtually never test whether the suspicious behavior was orchestrated by an enemy of Country A to generate bad press, that is, propaganda against Country A.

This still happens even after the Vault 7 leaks revealed that the CIA actively plants "false flag" strings in Iranian, Russian, Chinese languages within CIA malware.
I would make another programming language, some kind of rust typescript ruby mix.
The brake could be designed to lock the wheel when power runs out. So as power drops, the brake starts gradually slowing the bike.
Sorry, I dont understand. You're saying that because Switzerland is a heavily armed country also that means the US is a third world country?
I think the person was suggesting using the results of the AI to inform the doctors, not replacing them. Which is something I would like as well
How would we eliminate poverty?
The short answer, in my experience, is 'no'. For a company-to-company level comparison, levels.fyi is usually what I use to try to infer title usage. But, even within a company, responsibilities for high-tier IC levels can vary dramatically between teams.
my understanding is that the space the ferrengi operate in doesnt operate much with federation space. ds9 is in deep space. and you cant make gold pressed latinum in a replicator. so it is a good trade item for working on a frontier and as a currency as the federation cant just print it.

but dont quote me.

its also a plot device to let them talk about economics.
Because smoking was banned on airlines in the, US at the end of the 80s...so if it's due to a safety related ban, there would have been a decline in the number of emergency landings due to cigarette smoke being mistaken for an uncontrolled fire.
I think geothermal is greatly under appreciated as a heat and electricity source for this century. It will likely be far cheaper than nuclear, yet has nearly identical energy characteristics.
Congratulations on being the exception that demonstrates why I said “most people”.

The great thing about our current era is that you have more choices in languages and compilers than you have hours in your life to learn them all. So you can be as fussy as you want and there will still be an ecosystem out there for you.

There wasn’t nearly this many choices when I started out in IT. And most of the options that weren’t even free.
Well, the article is literally doing that math.
I wonder if we could deal with sunlight by using mirror panels on the internal walls. As long as the internal place is not formed of curved walls, it should be fine.

If it is formed of curved walls, it could be a nice place to put a solar-thermal plant.
> Name one Indian company that ever reached 1/10th of what ibm had so that it's a candidate for seeing it on the way down.

I'm not sure what your point is here, but based on Forbes 2000 for 2020 via Wikipedia [1], by market cap Tata Consultancy Services and Reliance are both larger than IBM. Both have grown faster than IBM since 2020. In terms of companies overall a number of other Indian companies are larger than IBM.

If you look at infotech alone, Tata Consultancy Services is the one bigger than IBM, and Infosys (>50% of IBM market cap), HCL Technologies and Wipro are all larger than 1/10th of IBM.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_largest_companies_in_I...
The rise and success of many of today's tech giants has simply created a fertile environment of mature technologies that a future class of deep tech companies replacing them will use. Value is cyclical, the worth of FAANG and their ilk will pass.
This is one of those ‘well actually’ type of statements that assumes that there is a single correct definition of a concept and it is defined by a consortium of researchers 5 years ago. The the term already had common definition and widespread use for 50 years. Saying people don’t know what the concept means because they were taught a different definition since the age of 6 is not going to move the discussion forward.
Switzerland is 75% Swiss and about 90% European.
From what I've seen, there's indeed very little consistency in titles, if any. As you mentioned, a few places consider senior to be higher than staff, some have a distinction between senior (SWE), staff and senior staff, and some don't have staff level at all. Even among those companies that do have staff level following Google's hierarchy model (this seems the closest to a norm if there's even such a thing), the actual cross-company "value" of that title might only equate a L5. Then you get random weird outliers like Uber's L5B level, which, for all intents and purposes is a "staff" level (in terms of responsibilities and comp) except the title itself.
If you're learning React just to get a job, you're doing it wrong, since recruiters are always changing their requirements. They will add `proficient in Svelte` just to annoy you, (after having learning React) and now you're no longer relevant to them.

That's why I say: stick to the baseline of HTML, CSS, & JS. Learn to write vanilla JS for common things, maybe learn UmbrellaJS[0] for syntactic sugar and manipulating the DOM.

Oh and learn some APIs to do back-end stuff too. And for forms, there's loads of projects out there to automate that[1]

[0] https://umbrellajs.com/

[1] https://www.producthunt.com/search?q=forms
Here is a submarine Wired article on what Watson promoters expected it to do -- which supports what the parent commenter thought, the focus being on "bottom-line": https://www.wired.com/insights/2015/02/what-can-watson-do-fo...

Here is insight into how non-profit and community health programs are funded: https://www.parklandhospital.com/financial-summary

Here is a section of Healthcare new dedicated to AI/ML implementations and other related events: https://www.healthcareitnews.com/topics/artificial-intellige...

Here is CMS's directive for hospital price transparency: https://www.cms.gov/hospital-price-transparency

The parent comment assumed that everything in healthcare is profit-motive driven. However, there are large portions of the healthcare industry that are non-profit, that are transparent in their funding and their costs, and that are looking to implement AI to improve healthcare outcomes. Parkland Health and Hospital System, Harris Health System, University Health System are some that I am more familiar with that run with this (PHHS recently achieved HIMMS Level 7 certification, for example). These are social safety-net hospitals and healthcare systems -- they care for everyone regardless of ability to pay. They focus not only on emergency and inpatient care, but also ambulatory care, primary care, and even fund (at arm's length) community (non-profit) medicaid insurers.

On a more subjective side, I've seen a lot of folks out to make a buck, but the non-profit healthcare side has been much more focused on patient outcomes.
Just a note that right now might be a rotten time to try figuring out bike pricing, because of the shortage. If you can wait for prices to come back down to earth, you might get a better indication.

Also, there are folks who expect a flood of used bikes to hit the market. As with conventional bikes, the pricing of cheap bikes is affected by the pricing and availability of used bikes. A new bike has to be priced cheaper than repairing an old one.
I agree with that, but we have to agree that that is different than just saying the entire country is third world.
It went downhill since its launch. Some things that I enjoyed when it came out.

1. it had any easy way to bring on board a collaborator to help out with a draft article (without them needing to create an account, for example).

2. it had a clean and minimalist UI, and better editor experience than tinyMCE and other popular editors at the time

3. while the curation process wasn't open (as far as I recall), I was expecting it to lead towards a centralized blogging platform (a la reddit) but where personal submissions are front and center.
> A website might serve a different code every time you use it. It might even serve a malicious code specifically for some users.

Desktop apps can do this little trick, too. Also, many desktop apps can enlist the help of other desktop apps using the three decades or so of various ways our OSes have made to lett apps talk to each other. Bad actors were using macro languages in desktop apps long before the invention of the web browser. Now, it's just as easy for a desktop app to hit an endpoint, grab a script (shell or macro language) and then execute it. The browser is just another desktop app - one with much more scrutiny than that MP3 tagging thing with a built in Lua interpreter that Bob in sales just gave local admin privileges to...

Oh, and most desktop apps have some level of access to your identity - or outright have you confirm your identity when you activate your license.
I mean, I'm not at work right now. My interactions with my coworkers aren't like this.
> I have a hard time following this article because it's so obviously one-sided and ranting.

Same. The author also discloses his own biases against privatization.

Given the other reports here of well-operating metros run by MTR, could it be that this one failed because of french technology and involvement? (side questions: are these other MTR metros also join ventures with french companies?)

I read on his blog that 2 french companies were involved: Veolia and RATP. During a short 2 weeks visit to Paris in 2019, I was shocked how bad the metro was, even when compared to NYC which has a similar aging infrastructure

I was not expecting something as shiny and comfortable as in DC, but the seats were minuscule, the stench overpowering at times, and the general decay made me feel queasy about health risks (even pre COVID!). I then learned what RATP means for Parisians: "Retre Avec Tes Pieds" ("Walk Home")!

I also note a pictures captioned as "Line 9 employees on strike in 2017, holding the sign “Hold the French corporations responsible!”" so given my personal experiences and the employees signs, I'd first suspect french incompetence over "privatization can't work".
in America, perhaps.
> Do people commonly think types are a solution to most or all problems?

There's certainly a subclass of programmers who believe this, yes.
You’d need to get a running start to make that leap of logic.
I mean, if you can get performance for free, why not? Doesn't mean Ruby was too slow...
What discussion is there to be had?

Every country other than the US already knows how to solve this.
I don't know many middle class families who would buy 10s of thousands of dollars worth of equipment for their kid.
I’m not making a commentary on guns, but there are lots of ways that people can be insanely stupid and reckless and end innocent bystanders lives. Talking about highways made me think of this one immediately: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2017_Interstate_75_rock-thro...
Exactly. I think it is hard for someone who has never lived here and especially those that have never "slummed it" and had very rich friends to grasp the vast vast heterogeneity of this country.
It's a colloid.
I think the more pertinent question is, why would you want to continue working for such a company.
True but why does it also need terabytes of storage and 12 worker nodes?
I like it, but I would describe it as an encoding more than a font. I also think it's 1x5, not 1x8. In that case, it would be more than twice as efficient as the 4x3. In a way, it's a restricted ascii subset.
I enjoyed reading your post. Just started poking around opensea.io out of curiosity. It's simple enough to create the collection and upload, however the gas fee to list or activate is a barrier. I stopped there, and probably will not go back. How do you list 10,000 items without taking out a mortgage? or am I missing something...
> The combined effect on engagement with organisations such as political parties, unions and professional associations was a 6% reduction in participation from 2010 to 2017 for each 1.8km closer to the local exchange someone lived.

This doesn't link to the study for some reason, so it's hard to tell, but it looks as if they are using proximity to telco exchanges as a 1:1 proxy metric for internet bandwidth, which doesn't make any sense for a whole pile of reasons, and then trying to connect that over a time span of 2010 to 2017 while assigning 100% of the change to this as the only possible variable.
>Looking at just the age of founders instead of other substance is stupid.

Yeah, you get mostly founders who were young enough to live with their parents until they get enough connections to raise some capital.

Elizabeth Holmes is another example, emphasizing that the younger you begin, the more of a head start you have.

Some young people are just smarter. Zuckerberg is just not one of them.

Some young people have greater integrity too. Holmes is not one of those.
FortNine did a video about this: Why Electric Bikes are More Dangerous than Motorcycles https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wM8Xli2KTzI
thing is they're often really really bad too. e.g. when i 'explore' albums on youtube music it force feeds me a limited selection of new releases based on popularity, percieved genre preference, and my geographic location, probably some other stuff as well. less than 5% of those recommendations end up being of any interest to me.

meanwhile all i really desire is a full list of releases ordered by date and just let me sift through that myself, but there seems to be no way to get that list, at least not through the regular user interface.

it's very frustrating.
Looking at the Dutch site on my phone (Samsung S10) I noticed it took a little while to load compared to the nigh instant loading of the UK Gov variant. Looking at Page Insights [0] [1] tells a similar picture. Desktop time to interactive times of 0.4s Vs 3.5s and Mobile time to interactive times of 4.5s Vs 13.1s.

The Dutch website seems to spend a lot of that time running the Next JS framework stuff, which the Gov.uk variant does not. It might work quickly on fast computers, but even on modern phones it seems to visibly pause.
No, that means that the idea that deterrents are constructed on is flawed. The fact of the matter is that no matter what "the people" opt to do, is that state forces in America are reactionary and not preventative - innocent until proven guilty.

These people aren't even doing the mental accounting where Z disincentivizes X if it isn't plainly obvious. The most responsible and humane thing to do is to ask why are they able to skip that gap. I think what you'll find is that they're victims to society in many cases - removed from opportunities through any number of institutional or economic processes. E.g. criminal record, or living in an economically depressed area (which itself has many widespread effect). In other cases they're possessed of a genuinely destructive pathology. And in any of these cases they're probably poor. This shit occurs when people are poor. Stop making poor people and violence goes down to the point where pathologically violent or otherwise unstable people are the baseline.
I've been a hiring manager for 3 years and have been interviewing candidates for 7. In all that time, I have _never_ had a situation where two candidates were exactly equally qualified. There has always been factors that we can use to choose one over the other. the last time I had to make a recommendation on a candidate decision, both would have been appropriate for the job. I recommended we contact the one we didn't hire for our next opening, and my hire recommendation was because candidate A had marginally more experience than B in an area that our team was weaker on.
Sorry. Posters here don’t understand. Why didn’t you have FAANG internships? Why didn’t you have an incredible scholarship that overpaid you and allowed you to spend $2000+/month on non-essential expenses cause everything else was covered. Not relatable! Not relatable! Does not compute!

People here are incredibly out of touch. $1000 for a poor college kid is a huge amount of fucking money. I had a full ride, monthly stipend, and jobs. Yet $1000 would’ve crushed me in many of my years in college and definitely wouldn’t have been something I would just splurge on for one month. It’s also only $1000 to purchase, doesn’t include transport, doesn’t include repairs, and doesn’t include all the additional work to get it running.

Peak HN out of touchness running in this thread.
in my bit of Non-AWS Amazon, L5 is definitely a career position so “lightly experienced” is not necessarily the case. I worked with L5s with 10+ YOE who actually were a critical to the success of a project.

It depends how you want to grow, and where you want to spend most of your time. (Scope of influence).
> This doesn’t sound right; it’s easy to imagine a terribly inefficient language (replace every letter/phoneme in English with thousands), and probably easy to make a language that’s worse in every aspect to an existing one

Maybe GP was referring to actual languages, which are optimized by use, rather than possible languages.
I am genuinely curious to see how this will turn out.

I understand and sympathise with both points of view, I could see myself arguing for both points of view.

But the fundamental truth is that to "save the planet" we need to pay for the long term cost rather than short term cost of everything we make.

Perhaps we don't need to use more power, we actually need to use less, substantially so say 10x or 100x less. Only then can we reduce carbon emissions.

Making electricity expensive could be the first necessary step - though it is not clear if it is the right step.
Oracle is also arcane, buggy and poorly documented (the buggy really surprised me when I first started using it). And there are much less resources online compared to the other big databases.
Many studies comparing NP and physician outcomes will have the NPs under supervision by physicians, which is ideally how they would be used, but in practice the true supervision level varies widely. I wouldn't see an NP for my care personally, and I doubt there are many physicians who would. The wait time to see primary care physicians is typically less than a week in most places and would be worth it. If you're experiencing something you feel is too serious to wait a week I would visit the ER (and make sure to ask to be seen by the physician also). It's your health. Personally I would only trust mine to the people who are the experts in their subjects, and not those who have less training and can switch between specialties without any additional training.

I don't have anything against NPs when the supervision is close, but more and more doctors are put into positions where they are acting as liability sponges for de-facto independent NPs/PAs.

Here are a few studies -
(CRNA) We found an increased risk of adverse disposition in cases where the anesthesia provider was a nonanesthesiology professional. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22305625

Comparing urgent care visits between MD/DOs and Midlevels. Doctors saw more complicated patients, addressed more complaints and deprescribed more. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11606-021-06669-w

NPs/PAs practicing in states with independent prescription authority were > 20 times more likely to overprescribe opioids than NPs/PAs in prescription-restricted states. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32333312/

Both 30-day mortality rate and mortality rate after complications (failure-to-rescue) were lower when anesthesiologists directed anesthesia care. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/10861159/

Compared with dermatologists, PAs performed more skin biopsies per case of skin cancer diagnosed and diagnosed fewer melanomas in situ, suggesting that the diagnostic accuracy of PAs may be lower than that of dermatologists. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29710082

Advanced practice clinicians are associated with more imaging services than PCPs for similar patients during E&M office visits. https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamainternalmedicine/fullar...

Nonphysician clinicians were more likely to prescribe antibiotics than practicing physicians in outpatient settings, and resident physicians were less likely to prescribe antibiotics. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15922696

The quality of referrals to an academic medical center was higher for physicians than for NPs and PAs regarding the clarity of the referral question, understanding of pathophysiology, and adequate prereferral evaluation and documentation. https://www.mayoclinicproceedings.org/article/S0025-6196(13)...

Resident teams are economically more efficient than MLP teams and have higher patient satisfaction. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/m/pubmed/26217425/
If you want a blog of your own, no need to get a VPS or anything. You can just fork my repo here:

https://gitlab.com/stavros/quicksite

You can even edit your posts right on GitLab, so you don't need knowledge of git.
i mean it should at least be clear, because it’s not like that in most languages. And there could be 2 forms of syntax for default arguments. singletons or each-call
That's really missing the point.
What you don't get is those who will raise the pitchforks are not the 'unwashed masses'. It's the mailman, your 'sandwich artist' and the cart girl from the golf course.