skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Dutch system is quite similar: 3 years bachelor, 3 years masters, including 18 months coschappen (residency), and then 3 years of specialization to GP (other specializations take longer). (https://universitaire.bachelors.nl/faq/ik-wil-dokter-worden/)

Many specializations come with very low job opportunities, being a GP is very stressfull: low paid assembly line type of work, a GP is expected to see 6 patient per hour, do home visits, follow up with patients and hospitals, and run a practice, manage employees, follow lots of trainings, etc. Having your own practice as a GP is not very popular any more, a lot of GP just want to freelance part time, not having the additional stress of running a practice.
One nice thing about 1) is that it is more falsifiable than 2). 2) basically gives us the ability to explain any almost arbitrarily unlikely event (at least unless we figured out a lower bound on the space time curvature of the observable universe). You might as well say that life is vanishingly unlikely but a series of vanishingly unlikely many-worlds quantum coincidences happened to result in the particular universe we see.
Hiding karma (once over 500) might be a good thing.
I definitely has a consumer addiction on buying used books, discounted games, new electronics, etc. This article is enlightening to me as it helps me to analyze my behavior. I really should only buy an item like books when the Value is > than the Cost. What it looks like right now (using used book as example):

Cost = the amount of money I bought the book
Value = the rush feeling that I have about being a reader/phantom feeling of being a little better

But actually:

Cost = the amount of money I bought the book + keeping/transporting the book + not reading it + fueling to my addictive behavior spiral
Value = none, maybe when I sell the damn thing with a profit - the time and effort = negative value

Overall, the value is far less than the cost. This article value is ++ for me.
leading without authority is literally a course on Google's internal training site. You can just sign up for it. I did. It was good. Later I lead a session on it, which was also fun.

The resources are certainly there at Google, but you do have to dig them up yourself. If you're a manager you're required to do them.
I think we want the same thing, but your suggestion is to accept the large volume of mediocrity and pay for something you strongly believe in. Someone else suggested this too. I think both have value and are operating at opposite ends of the spectrum of the same issue. Paying for display may also have negative consequences, like promoted 'search results'.
Where does one find broken electron microscopes from the 90s?
Hi there, member of Quarto team here. Quarto is actually being created by the same core group that created R Markdown. It's essentially the same idea but implemented in a cross-language fashion. I should also note that it is designed to be highly compatible w/ existing formats (you can render nearly all R Markdown documents as well as Jupyter Notebooks unmodified w/ Quarto).
>because the damage is done by the quantity in the air

Given this is true, then there's no particular reason to think that even 100% reduction of emissions would meet any goal.

I think you've just explained why carbon capture on a huge scale and carbon-free power might be necessary.

But if so, then I don't see "99.9%" as being connected to anything.

>So you only get the “benefit” of 1750s population levels if you’re willing to also pay the technological cost.

Here's a misunderstanding between us. I take for granted that "willing" isn't a factor, that 1/10th of the population would be unable to maintain current technology, that most, although not all, of technological advancement has come from increased population allowing more specialization.

>Those 50 million would be the super-rich of the new era.

It seems like something is missing in the previous paragraph, why do 50 million people have something different, and what is it?
It might prevent some of the spam in /new if you aren't allowed to go karma negative.
I score a lot better than 1 point per submission so this wouldn’t affect me terribly.
> So does the US and every nation that can.

That's just plain not true. IIRC, China is the only country that mandates the use of an obfuscated coordinate system. The US certainly doesn't (and no, selective availability doesn't count, it was an entirely different thing).
Lets credit a karma marketplace and find out.
Putting scores to things encourages system gaming, leading to unwanted side effects. See pagerank for example.
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Student who made millions from his expressionless selfies says he feels confused
While this is great news; I unfortunately have to wonder how effective this is going to be. We need likely a much, much larger subset of farmers joining such a class action lawsuit - ideally from as many states as possible - to get this to change.

Out of their greed; John Deere will fight this with all they have.

I still think the best solution to this is still a startup that can create tractors that don’t require repairs by a first party. I understand the difficulties behind such an operation, but I’m unfortunately not sure how successful such a lawsuit will be in America without the hell of a lot more ‘ooomph’ behind it.
I started by following the advice given in the book "Seeing in the dark" by Timothy Ferris. The advice was simple: on a dark night, look at the sky using binoculars.
Sorry, but EMS doesn’t work this way.
She sold them to marriage so that they don't die. They are still living with her.
I think this makes selling HN accounts much more valuable, since if you have an old account that you don't use anymore you could probably find someone who wants to quickly get their startup in front of a bunch of techies for $100 or whatever. The way it is now, if someone wants to manipulate the front page they have to have a bunch of accounts coming from different IPs, etc.

Maybe it's a silly concern, but as more people come here every day it will become more and more of a target.
But then you will have people contacting you for sponsored posts and you definitely don't want to create that kind of environment.
No. Low quality posts is subjective. The story upvoting is sufficient to make sure that interesting stories percolate to the top.
It's probably just random, and/or timing. Making sure you time a post to align in the right magical way with the US timezones helps, but due to the volume, it remains random.
Different companies will fair very differently. Those that have revenue and are (or in a path to being) profitable should be fine. Valuations might take a hit but the companies will be fine.

Those that have crazy valuations but no clear sign of turning enough profit to remotely justify that valuation are going to have a rough few years ahead. There’s a lot that will need to be washed out of the system before things reset and the cycle starts again.
For gun violence, murder, and rape, yes I think it's pretty clear cut for the US as a whole.

I would hazard a guess that there are large parts of the US where violence is more comparable to, say, the average Canadian levels.
> Nowhere on the site does it say: “BTW: We’re selling you a crippled phone because we wanted to get a fanatics approval. But if you study computer science you can fix that yourself!”

Which is good, because it's not "crippled" in any way no matter how technical you are, and having a clear boundary between user's operating system and the hardware with potentially nonfree firmware can be useful even when you're not a "fanatic". Thanks to this boundary, whatever you download from PureOS repositories on the phone is known to provide you the four freedoms, with no exceptions.

Of course not everyone needs to value that, but at least that's the value proposition Purism is offering with PureOS.
I'd like a way to award extra points for descriptive story titles - too many are esoteric/vague as to what they are really about.

There's only so much time in the day, I don't want to be clicking every link to really know if it's worth my time or not (and story votes alone can't do that).
I like the idea, however, there are many accounts on here that have a significant amount of karma gained through auto-posting already, and that greatly impacts the effectiveness of such a proposal.

For the heavy auto-posters, let's say that out of 20 auto-posts, only 1 gets any traction. I would imagine that they would happily still take the hit of 20 points, in order to gain 50 or more points from the one good post.

On the flip side, people with low karma would become increasingly timid to take any risks, and may shy away from posting altogether.

I feel in the long run it would result in the karma-rich getting richer.

An alternative proposal could be more focused on penalising excessive karma farming. E.g. require a gap of at least 20 mins since last post, or subtract 50 points for every 0 point/0 comment story submitted by a user, but calculate this at the end of the month.
How about looking at many vote the user's past post have received. If the recent posts average votes is below a threshold then you can't post. Perhaps with a way to redeem yourself.
Yes, it's being created by the same group that created R Markdown / Bookdown. Similar concept but implemented in a cross-language fashion rather than being tied to R.
Windows 7 went EOL in on Jan 14, 2020.

Are you talking about the Extended Security Update? That ends Jan 10, 2023.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/lifecycle/products/windows-...
Ask HN: How to learn software fundamentals as an architect turned UX designer?
I’m an architect by formal education and I’ve been working in designing experiences in SaaS for the past 3 years. I navigate through technical conversations with developers and stakeholders with the knowledge I’ve picked up over the years, interacting with engineer friend circle. However I’m not satisfied by my knowledge base and I want to understand the science and art of building software from the very basics. Please share any resources that can help me start, may it be books, articles or anything else.
Right on, I'm sure you'll enjoy it.

It might help to start by ranking your interests within the hobby, even if they still sound a bit basic. From "I want to recognize the north star" to "I want to take a really huge, detailed photo of the moon" to "I want to explore astronomy software and learn the hobby from the inside out by reading help files."

If you get a good list going, you can rank the list items by interest level, which is another way of weighting your entrance into the hobby by making sure your most-available energy is used to break into it, and that's generally a good idea for momentum as a beginner.

If you keep it generally subjectively-focused like that, it's also really easy to make new discoveries, because you're finding and learning about the yet-unknown...to you.

For gear, I find that I personally like to make sure I weight all my gear choices on the side of photography, because I really enjoy that aspect. It may be different for you.

Software-wise I like Stellarium for my hobby use. It even has a script that will take you on a tour of interesting items you can see through binoculars.

Here's another good starting resource:

https://skyandtelescope.org/observing/

Finally since we're on a tech site: You can learn a lot about space just by reviewing status screens and tech specs. Keep an eye on what NASA's doing, what missions are being run, and what kind of resources it takes.

https://eyes.nasa.gov/dsn

Good luck & enjoy the hobby.
I didn’t realize there was a formal definition of ‘kicking ass’.
I have used both Postmark and Sendgrid.

I’ve found that Postmark gets stuck in Barracuda spam filters used by large organisations.

We do however continue to use Postmark.
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I’ll second how misguided that view of hospital care is. There is ALWAYS a treating team, always an admitting consultant/attending
Does anyone know the author's source is for determining various marketplaces' monthly active users?

I doubt that Facebook has exceeded Craigslist in overall marketplace activity in the US. Perhaps it's exceeded Craigslist on a world-wise basis but that's because Craigslist's user base is primarily North American-based.
> The article notes that his dad is a very successful engineer...

The Wired article? Where does it say that? I only see reference to the skeptical engineer consulted by the father.
You really should edit your comment to have a link in it...
I use github stars with https://github.com/abhijithvijayan/stargazed for bookmarking. It really makes easier finding something by keyword.
It might sound easy but that would be a critical component of such a rewrite. Python's standard library is implemented using the same API so much of that would need to be rewritten. You then have the risk of introducing bugs, etc. This post is doing something similar. They're rewriting the internal implementation through progressive refactoring and will then look into more long term incompatible changes that can be wrapped in a translation layer. These projects are difficult as a lot of python code exists in the world and a minor change in behavior can have large unintended consequences due to Hyrum's law.
You can already do it. If you find a very cool post you can send a mail to dang to get it into the second pool chance
I know of some trusty Monero wallets, but this thread is about Bitcoin, so maybe the Electrum Bitcoin wallet that comes with TAILS?
I think the comment above, most charitably read, is that a lot more people would have access to high-quality healthcare if you could put this work on robots instead of people, because computers excel at storing data and looking it up accurately and following predetermined rules. There would be fewer cases of people going to their doctor and being told "oh, it's nothing" when it actually is a specific, rare, and urgent problem. And then they would end up going to a human specialist to figure out how to fix that problem.
In a nutshell, there's one budget for annual salary increases, and another budget for pay increases that result from promotions and competitive counter-offers. These budgets may be controlled by different people.

Companies that have a lot of money, tend to manage that money by dividing it up into different "pots" that are controlled by individual managers. This is just a straightforward way of managing a business, but what's not obvious at first glance is that moving money from one pot to another is hard. If a higher power has decided that the merit increase budget is 2%/y, that could be hard for an individual manager to budge. On the other hand, if you promote someone, you get the full 2% of your new budget in the next annual cycle, so your salary budget has increased by more than 2% for that year.

Another thing is that if you bump a junior up to senior, and that person leaves, nobody will bat an eye at replacing them with another senior.

What I did as an IC was that I articulated my interests to my boss in fairly plain terms. I asked: What's the process for moving up a level? What do I need to do? What goals can we put on my performance review? A lot of people are timid about this, especially as the answer might be No. One of my friends was told by his boss: "You are topped out at your level." Ouch. What I can't tell anybody is what risk they're taking by adopting any particular approach.

I don't think I engaged in any skullduggery or politics. I am in fact enthusiastic about the business, and committed to improving my own knowledge and work. Something I've told my bosses, which is completely sincere, is that I have a lot of mental flexibility, and am happy to be guided by what they think is the best for their department and the business.

It might be that my experience as a manager gave me some cred, since it was clear that I understood the process from both sides of the table.
> I would however love to be able to bump up a post of my choice to the front page for every, say, 1000 karma points earned.

But that would make karma valuable though, leading to bad behavior we could all imagine. If you could boost an article with karma, startups would farm karma for free marketing. I like how karma are valueless, meaningless Internet points. I think it improves discussions by not rewarding groupthink-repetition.

EDIT: I’ll also point out we have 12 users[1] with more than 100k karma at the moment. 100 “boosts” each is an enormous amount of editorial control to a dozen users, even if you don’t assume ill intent. Let’s Keep Karma Useless!

1: https://news.ycombinator.com/leaders
The COO at my last job kept touting the aphorism "Data Trumps Opinion" to the point where he had T-shirts made with that (facepalm!)

I'm just glad those just sat on his table and never made it onto anyone's back.
Is it their business model that they charge for derivatives? I find it weird that there is no bigger adoption of open source in legal documents. I find 'pull requests' on our contracts always interesting.
I used to see this in our country, where 10 people are queueing outside doc's office ( this is public health system) when some well dressed man goes straight into the office not even bothering to ask if there's anyone in there and fast forward a few min and the doctor is 'on break', whilst drinking coffee with the sales rep, while all those people sit and wait. Eventually it got outlawed.
Capitalize on the "machine learning" hype with a unique name sold as a developed product?
Funny, similar thing happened to me.

IBM along a few other behemots pitched for a serious project at a company I worked for as enterprise arch. All companies brought their top salespeople, and all tried nasty things, but IBM was by far the worst. Their top guy started their pitch by saying he chatted with our CEO over the christmas holidays. He mentioned - and I am not making this up - that he should be talking to people higher in the org. (The most junior person in the room was me, the rest were board-2/-3s). It soon emerged their thing could not work, and I killed it in the first round of pitching. What followed was my bosses' boss, the CIO of a very large company, called me and gave me an earfull since he himself has to explain to CEO why we had the audacity to not choose IBM.

I'd not touch anything IBM ever. Bunch of assholes.
Your comment should be on top. You really helped me.

I also transfered to Migadu today (before I saw your comment) and was just looking for a tool to transfer the e-mails to an old free Gmail account. It's really a scandal that Google doesn't enable this in the Workspace migration wizard.

You also have to enable access to less secure apps on Gmail to be able to use imapsync.
karma farming is a thing

if somebody wants to put something in new, then he will

maybe not the day you enable restriction, but kinda later.

this is not technical problem, you cannot solve this with tech.

you gotta have strong community an mods
It'd be pretty good for everyone who does international payments like remittances or the few billion unbanked people or if you're stuck in a country like Japan where banking is hell.

But yes overall it'd be boring and mundane which was honestly my point. Improving the boring stuff that everyone uses in the real world is actually what's interesting at the end of the day.
As someone doing a CS degree now, I seem to be the only one who doesn't want to have anything on my resume to do with "AI", blockchain, ML, NFT, chatbots, etc... all I see is overhyped product after product, one-size-fits all solutions that frustrate customers and create problems for humans to clean up, hugely valued companies that have very little real improvement over conventional technology, etc.

An "AI chatbot" is far inferior to a real user interface. A real user interface allows discoverability (looking through menus to notice functions that may be useful later), experimentation, and puts the user in control of the program.

For example, my bank apparently only supports viewing the reason for card declines through the chatbot--something I never knew, because I took the time to go through the menus when I first got the app and learn what functions existed.
It was both funny and scary as if I was reached by demanding aliens who were watching me :)

I didn't know what to do, so I simply start marking it as spam and moved on. I guess they had a sales pitch based on the stuff I looked at.
> Most people in the hospitals for Covid are vaccinated.

Again, the fact that the numbers don't reconcile still stands, and without clarifications, that table and any references are meaningless.

From page 7:

- Rates Admitted to Hospital per 100,000: All adults, Fully vaccinated: 39.0

- Northern Ireland population: 1.9 millions

Expected admitted in the whole N.I: (39 * 1900 / 100) = 741

- Total admissions: All adults, Fully vaccinated: 493.

The numbers 741 and 493 don't match.

The rest of the table is inconsistent as well; for example, the proportions between fully and non vaccinated, between the rate per 100k (right), and the absolute values (left), are inconsistent between each other.

Futher, on the second page:

> During this 4 week period there were 790 hospital admissions, 36 (4.6%) of which had received a third dose.

The number 790 and 36 are other two who add to the pile of inconsistency. Until everything is explained with exactness, that report is essentially garbage.

> And I'm sorry, I thought this was a thread about Ireland?

In absence of correct data about N.I., the CDC report is a reasonable source, also by mean of being considerably larger scale. It can be acceptable to refute it when referring to Northern Ireland, but in this case valid data is required.

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Additionally, about this:

> Most people in the hospitals for Covid are vaccinated. This is not an indictment against the vaccines, they prevent hospitalization, but the sheer number of vaccinated people still means they're the majority in the hospitals and ICUs, and the unvaccinated are a minority across the board.

This is a common mathematical mistake; see conditional probability notions.

To explain the mistake using extremes, if all the population except one was vaccinated, and one not vaccinated, hospitals would have 100% of vaccinated people, but the conclusion that because of that being vaccinated is less effective than not being vaccinated, is wrong; one needs other variables to make this conclusion.
Worker threads aren't share-nothing, you can share data through SharedArrayBuffer which lets you share arbitrary binary data.

If they were share nothing, we probably wouldn't have shipped them.

Source: I'm Node.js core and one of the people who worked on them
> During college

And living alone? If you're under the same roof as your parents you don't have such expenses.

Even more so if you're underage.
Yep, using positional-only parameters makes calling the API tougher when all you've got is a `**kwargs` dictionary. But I think that for well designed APIs you'll be able to avoid the scenario of "having" to pass down arguments this way.

I have an article in the earlier stages about what I call the "keyword arguments blender" and how to avoid it, I think it's a common anti-pattern in lots of Python code (including my own, guilty!)