skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Germany has it, but not for things like parking tickets[0], speeding tickets, etc.

But criminal law (Strafgesetzbuch, StGB) makes extensive use of it. Every time you see the StGB talk about a fine, unless explicitly stated otherwise, it will be a scaled fine based on the daily income of the convicted party (Tagessatz). Courts can estimate the income if need be.

A court may e.g. find that somebody committed minor battery, and issue a fine of 12 Tagessätze. If you make 3000 EUR a month (net), that's 3000EUR/30 = 100 EUR for a Tagessatz, and then 10 Tagessätze is 1200 EUR.

However, it's not fully scaled, as it is capped at 30,000 EUR per Tagessatz. E.g. a football (soccer) player was recently convicted[1] of battery against his former partner, and fined 60 Tagessätze. He makes (or used to make) significantly more than the 30K cap, so "only" would have to pay 1.8M EUR instead of the probably 3-5M EUR he'd have to pay if there was no such cap.

Personally I'd welcome if traffic and many other fines were scaled fines, too. The reason it isn't is probably because fine issuance would not scale itself: too many violations and each violation would then involve a court deciding what the net income of somebody is and therefore what the scaled fine will be. With a flat fine you can avoid involving the courts most of the time (most parking tickets will be uncontested).

[0] The parking violation joke was common, indeed, but not so much anymore, as the fines for parking violations have been drastically increased this year, from 15 EUR to 55 EUR per violation or even 110 EUR if you obstruct traffic, including pedestrian and bicycle traffic. Obstructing traffic also earns you one point in the traffic register now, so even people who still think a ticket is cheaper than paying for a proper parking space will not like it when their license is suspended eventually due to too many parking violations.

[1] The sentence is not final yet. The defendant, the prosecution (state) and the accessory prosecution (victim) each appealed the decision.
Both my mother and sister were nurses and disenchanted with the profession (in Switzerland) long before the pandemic hit, as the hospitals got completely mba'd during their careers.
Whereas in the past they could actually take time interacting with patients, now everything needs to be Lean and it's just about shoveling people through the system with minimum resources while extracting ever more money. I don't see how this can end well.

My mother switched to an administrative role internally, 10 years before she got retired and my sister went from nurse to anesthetist and now in the progress of moving to IT as a domain expert for medical software so she can work from home.
There are no limitations to characters per line or number of items in a list. I might have to revise that later if I start noticing abuse.
These "nursing crisis" articles are a semi-annual feature, likely a PR stunt by the hospitals for more subsidies and guest nurses.

The nursing crisis is 57 years old now: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/14252064/ (1965)

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WHY THE NURSING SHORTAGE PERSISTS.
HALE T. N Engl J Med. 1964 May 21;270:1092-7. doi: 10.1056/NEJM196405212702105. PMID: 14121489 No abstract available.

STUDENTS' DISAPPOINTMENTS IN PUBLIC HEALTH NURSING.
HANSEN AC, THOMAS DB. Nurs Outlook. 1965 May;13:68-72. PMID: 14291737 No abstract available.
Actually, that’s exactly how unfettered “free market” capitalism operates. The end game is big companies end up controlling everything, including the regulations in order to tip the scales in their favor.
We’re facing some massive generational crises at this point, and it feels like the only solution is to wait for the current leadership to die off, and hope the gen x’ers fix it.

The WWII generation fixed the ozone hole, but their kids didn’t lift a finger for global warming.

Subsequent generations are scrambling to pick up the pieces for our kids, while crap like this, and our rapidly collapsing democracy keep sabotaging our efforts. Heck, in California, we’re actively causing psychological harm to an entire generation of kids (with masks) because of a tiny minority of anti-vaxxer school teachers.

Of course, progressive boomers exist, as do idiotic younger people. However, the current generation of leadership in the US has completely failed us.

Anyway, it’s not surprising to me that that crowd decided to shunt healthcare resources away from their (great) grandkids and into elder care.
I can tell you from experience that every company, from Meta to Apple to hell, even 90% of startups, will just accept the CS degree as is. I'd say to working professionals (those with a couple years experience in the industry now) its a bigger win because it matters astronomically less where you got your degree than when you are first starting out as an engineer. It keeps the gatekeepers away and checks all the recruitment boxes across the board.

Its also a good gateway to get a useful Masters degree, like the two year Computer Science and Engineering degree from Georgia Tech, which if I recall correctly is very cost effective and highly regarded
Torrent clients and generally any open source alternative to paid software would be my guess.
People hate change, and this one is very incremental. Without the press release I doubt I would've noticed.
Be honest, you picked it because Tanuki Mario is the best Mario.
Also I just noticed that you used the TPC-C benchmark here

Have you considered re-benchmarking with TPC-E? It's the updated version of the OLTP test that more accurately represents these sorts of apps:

> "In February 2007, the new TPC-E benchmark [7] became a TPC standard. It is designed to be a more realistic OLTP benchmark than TPC-C, e.g., incorporating realistic data skews and referential integrity constraints."

> "We find that (i) TPC-E is more read intensive with a 9.7:1 I/O read to write ratio, while TPC-C sees a 1.9:1 read-to-write ratio; and (ii) although TPC-E uses pseudo-realistic data, TPC-E’s I/O access pattern is as random as TPC-C."

It's a difference between a 10/1 read/write ratio, and a 2/1 read/write ratio. I've never worked on a line-of-business/SaaS app with a ratio lower than 80% reads FWIW.

https://www.tpc.org/tpce/default5.asp

http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~chensm/papers/TPCE-sigmod-record10.pd...
500W/day is a nonsensical unit; I assume you either mean 500W or 500Wh/day (different by a factor of 24)
GPT-NeoX 20B is worse than davinci at writing code - NeoX seems to only really work with C/C++, and even then it's not the best. Just tried to ask it some leetcode questions and honestly I'm not sure what it was doing, but reversing a string included a `temp` variable that was multiplied by the index of the string.
From what I can tell, this is just to keep money in the hands of lawyers and keep prices high.

There are plenty of things that could be done better now by non-lawyers with the help of lawyers (look at Rocket law).
Depends on the luxury level. At the very top the customer base consists of the most recession-proof people in the World. I assume they just carry on with their habits recession or not.
> So we should bankrupt the entire country, spending 10 trillion dollars on a surgery that has a 1% chance to save a 98 year olds life?

This is a pretty wild straw man fallacy, but I'd like to give a good faith response nonetheless.

You may not know, but the US spends more per capita on healthcare than any other country in the world, by a longshot. Many other countries provide unimpeded treatment for all of their patients. If a doctor in Japan wants chemo, the patient gets chemo, and treatment starts immediately. So how does it make sense that we spend more on our patients but doctors are still told no, the patient can't have that treatment? It's because a larger share of our biggest-in-the-world healthcare spending goes to for profit companies, like insurance companies, than anywhere in the world.

So when an insurance company says no to a treatment, it's not because we don't collectively spend enough for that treatment, we do! It's just that the insurance company wants that spending for themselves.
my ip is in the joke blacklist UCEP because "my provider doesn't care about spam". Still no issues sending to gmail.

I'm running a tor node too (guard / middle obviously).
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The Florida State Legislatures and the Florida Executive Administrators disagree, which is why they are removing their special tax exemption status. Disney should not and cannot influence Florida's policies when they (and their employees) are exempt from the very policies they influence. No taxation, no representation. If they want their free speech, they need to pay for it like the rest of us.
In my university, I learned about voltage timing in mosfets using oscilliscopes and programmed ASICS. Really cool stuff! I also took acting and foreign language classes, and even joined a sailing club.

It saddens me when people don't value a well-rounded education. I find curiosity and learning to be a fantastic thing for all of life.
Super excited about the work happening in EdgeDB, totally a project to watch.
> if exclude the political bend of the actions

Yes, if we exclude the thing that people are complaining about, there is no basis for complaint.

Let's suppose the federal government adopted 30 percentage point higher tax rates for everyone who registered as a Republican, donated to a Republican party committee or candidate, or voted in a Republican primary.

Now, particular tax rates are not themselves a matter of right, so by the same logic that there is no basis to complain about the political retaliation against Disney since it is not via something that is a matter of right, Republicans would have no valid basis for complaint.
Ask HN: What should I do if I miss my 83(b)?
I incorporated with clerky in September of 2021 but stopped working on the company until around a month ago. I now realized that I never filed my 83(b) election. I haven't vested yet, and haven't raised or made any money. Do I really have to hire a startup lawyer at $1000 / hr to mend this? Should I just dissolve the C Corp and make a new one?

Thanks!
That makes no sense. I ask a question and you just answer with a non sequitur that doesn't address anything.
The table of contents is on GitHub; I was honestly surprised the individual posts weren't too. Turning t into markdown would be fairly quick, I think?
Mailcow is the solution we use. Reliable since years and feature rich. A ticket to add a dmarc parser exists but no one ever contributed the plug and play solution discussed in the ticket. Works pretty straight forward.

Mailcow, can recommend
I'm in the US and I recall seeing these same deceptive cancellation messages on my app in the last year.
In the context of CS degrees I think that credentials is oftentimes the only major reason why people pursue college.
> roll-your-own degree programs

Can you explain that?

But regarding Study.com, I think that their classes for CS are painful and horrible, but probably the same quality as countless physical schools out there.
> Right, most people are there for the parties and get degrees in underwater basket weaving. But the hard sciences and engineering are usually for the credentials.

Did you intend to include a "not" as in "not for the credentials"? I would think you do a tough EE or Physics (or Classics) because you want to learn the stuff.

That seemed to be the case when I was at MIT, though that was a generation ago. Everybody seemed into their work, despite claiming to be upset by the course load. Complaining about it (IHTFP) seemed to be more of a ritual or social activity rather than earnest protest.
> I open source it under some GPL-family license because I believe that should be the default state of all software

Thanks. What aspect is it of GPL'd code you like? Is it the freedom to use/modify it, the fact the source is available, ideological reasons (and if so what?), or something else?
My motivations:

- Canadians need a bachelor’s degree to work in the USA.

- Graduate programs typically require a bachelor’s degree.
Feel free to send me an email at: chat [at] erock.io
Not exactly gitlab but a cloud provider via https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/topics/autodevops/index.html - bonus is you get feature branch hosting if you want too. I've used it and it worked well, even wrote an Elixir/Pheonix custom buildpack (but most common frameworks supported)
If have a nursing degree it's easy to immigrate to USA, in fact you will be coming in with a green card unlike tech worker. So to your point, US does prioritize nurses over others. Doctors are different and it's incredibly difficult for a doctor with a foreign degree to practice in US. I know this for a fact since I come a place where almost every other house has a nurse working in Europe/US
I'd say JQuery and ExJS were part of the same era. JQuery was used by a lot of people that didn't embrace javascript at all and tried to not use it (e.g ASP.NET coders)

I feel like backbone deserves its own era as it seemed like all the cool kids would exclusively use that for a couple years.

Then Angular and a ton of others flooded the scene.
When it gets hot in India, what are ways people like to cool off?

My grandma in Australia would drink hot tea when the weather was hot, because that cooled her down. I would go swim in the ocean. When I was in HK, I'd turn up the Aircon.

Are there uniquely Indian ways of cooling off in hot weather?
I’m not the person you asked, but your previous post mentioned constant, predictable inflation and threw out 2% as an example. I understand that was just a number for illustrative purposes, but the US performances large amounts of quantitative easing twice in the last 20 years. I could probably find a 4 year window in the last 20 years when it didn’t, but the Covid and 2009 QE events increased the m2 money supply so much that it would be silly to ignore.
I have hired several WGU grads, and will again. You made a good choice.
IMO, that's generally correct but not universally correct. The vast majority of programmers are gluing together pre-built libraries, frameworks, tools and so forth and so really don't need much of a degree. However, the people who are creating those libraries, frameworks, tools, compilers, operating systems need, not necessarily a degree (e.g. John Carmack), but mastery of the knowledge provided by a degree to build those things. That's not to suggest one group is "better" than the other or some other value judgement; it's just an observation of trends.

Much like any other tool or instrument, a degree is invaluable if you have something in mind to use it for. If not, sure, it's just 4 years of trivia but it's pretty clear that's not the fault of the degree.
In my experience the quality varies wildly, but every doctor has a base level of knowledge that is far deeper than a layperson. The quality of that knowledge is usually very high, and seems to be pretty well retained by most doctors I've met.

The quality of the actual doctor varies on whether the doctor is a lifelong learner, a deep thinker, a good listener, is good at extracting information from people who are bad at introspecting how they feel, and communicating with people whose language skills and mental capacity are far below or above their own. They also leave out their personal biases about "what" the person they're treating might be (drug seeker, hypochondriac, malingerer, etc.).

If you visit a doctor and they don't have the ability or time to execute those non-medical training qualities, then you get a bad doctor.

The main issue is that the good doctors usually go to desirable places to live. This is often not in rural or even suburban areas of the country, and that's typically where the bad stories come from (adjusted for population density anyway - lots of stories from cities too but there are more people in cities).
I agree with your sentiment, but It's not under your control. It's under the registrar's control. I'd argue registrars are way more prone to social engineering attacks than google is. I also don't use Google as my email provider though.
I make this point more thoroughly in another comment, but I don't view it as retaliation, and I think only the people who are fixated on the political motivations view it as retaliation. Retaliation implies harm, and I am making the case that removing an unfair advantage, that shouldn't have ever existed in the first place, is not harm. If it's a neutral action (or neutral-positive), then it's not retaliation.
I don't think that's true. I worked for a luxury retailer right after 08/09 and I looked at their revenues. They were about even, if not moderately higher. I went to work for another shortly after that, and it was a similar story. Now, net sales may go down, but luxury retailers have a pretty wide latitude in what they sell their products for because they're often artificially controlling inventory (similar to the way Nintendo does). I think that's what really affects the bottom line.
Does anyone reasonable and with an internet connectt really believe they can get sonething of substance (e.g., CS degree) for relatively nothing ($5k)? That's not how the world works. Anywhere. Anytime.

Who was that said there's a sucker born every day?
> The notion of a conspiratorial cabal of aristocrats plotting together to sabotage working class education in the name of preserving their exclusive privileges makes for good cinematic content

Except that it's happening in California as we speak... Earlier thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31170431

The "Progressive" model of education was very consciously planned with the intention of keeping the riffraff down, and far away from "elite" studies. It's "Progressive" in the early 20th c. sense of that word.

Of course one can also err in a different direction, devaluing practical education altogether and leading to "overproduction" of aspiring elites that are wholly parasitical on their surrounding society. And the two problems can even coexist, as seen in the US today! Extreme credentialism at the highest end (due to elite overproduction) coexists with the most dismal failure to achieve even basic educational outcomes for the bulk of the population.
Selfishly: Who won the Super Bowl each year since 2022? I could get a pretty nice return from Vegas on that info.

Scientifically: Do you have a theory that reconciles general relativity and quantum mechanics? What does it explain? What does it predict?

Socially: What admissionsguy said. Where did the bombs fall? Where was safe?
Is it accepted overseas? I read most degrees from wgu are not recognized in europe.
It easier to judge if someone sings good than to sing your self. I get your point.
> Clownsantis

> and 4 orange years

I'm sympathetic, but stooping to childish words lowers the quality of your argument. Your statement would have been more effective by just saying "Desantis" and "four years of Trump".
"He doesn't like her, but she likes him" ==> "As a person but you love"
"Globalist network to erode democracy" doesn't scream rational to me...
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Land Value Tax in Online Games and Virtual Worlds
It's been a while since I graduated but for those wanting a high demand major from a dept with limited resources, it seemed normal for one of the 100 level courses to be a step up in difficulty. Pushed out a lot of people from pursuing CS at my school.

Other schools make you apply to the major, and that process just weeds out those the dept thinks are not suited for the program.
From my experience, in most states you can order whatever tests you want from Private MD Labs and just walk into any LabCorp location and get your blood taken and a PDF of your results emailed to you within 24 hours.
It’s not just that, some hospitals are outsourcing everything disenfranchising the people that work there. And I mean everything from the doctors themselves to IT to the cleaning lady to the food workers and selling the buildings to lease them back. It’s the fleecing of America.
what? I'm sorry you had such a crappy college experience.
High quality could mean that it produces high efficiency at its optimal frequency, or that it can be cut and bent and shaped any way you want. They're probably not talking about or even understanding 'audio quality' in the sense of 'is this going to replace your Magnepans or electrostatics?'. As designed it will not. It might make for a great tweeter or mid-and-up driver, though.

No reason you couldn't put it ON a big ol' flat panel woofer (or whatever suitable shape is best). Then it becomes a coaxial, and maybe there are big wins along that path. If it's light, just sit it ON the bass driver and that does your excursion. The surface layer adds all the mids and highs.
> started a white noise and music whenever you entered the bathroom to hide these sounds.

If you are looking for music to play, "Let it go" from Disney's Frozen would be perfect.

It is loud enough to cover the sounds, and it is appropriate to the moment.

"Let it go, let it go, can't hold it back anymore..

I don't care what they're going to say"
Thanks for submitting this feedback! We only record the public key that was accepted by the SSH app, but it's true, the logs could show all the public keys attempted for authentication.

I'm also going to update the docs to suggest providing your username for the service whenever logging in, in an effort to avoid leaking your host username unintentionally.
Lol. MIT is in Massachusetts. Bose audio is also in Massachusetts. A stone's throw from MIT is The Electric Boat Company in Connecticut, the people who build all of the Navy's submarines.

>>Used this way, the thin-film loudspeaker could provide active noise cancellation in clamorous environments, such as an airplane cockpit, by generating sound of the same amplitude but opposite phase; the two sounds cancel each other out. The flexible device could also be used for immersive entertainment, perhaps by providing three-dimensional audio in a theater or theme park ride. And because it is lightweight and requires such a small amount of power to operate, the device is well-suited for applications on smart devices where battery life is limited.

>> thin film of a shaped piezoelectric material that moves when voltage is applied over it, which moves the air above it and generates sound. [As it is solid, it likely can also be structural/load bearing such as to stop noise from propagating between parts.]

Maybe that might be used to develop speakers for the next iPhone or VR headset. Or maybe this is the perfect tech for quieting the noisy parts of a submarine. "This work is funded, in part, by..." I wonder which unnamed parties also contributed.
... only in a select set of countries where the regulator is more active.

The money they made with this message grossly outweighs any fine they got from 1 country they operate in.
> During my time at WGU, I focused on a single course at a time and made sure to complete it before starting a new one.

That sounds like a dream come true honestly.
I have not seen this happen extensively, in practice.
I feel bad for people who've had that experience. I learned a lot of valuable, practical information and skills in my time at engineering school.
The US has a uniform set of federal laws and Supreme Court opinions, which is what matters here.
Unfortunately, that's exactly the problem. If it didn't provide value, no one would use it and its lack of security would be a moot point.

The PDF converter is a great example. It's functional, people use it - to transfer potentially highly sensitive documents over an insecure connection. At that point, it provides value in the same way that a Nigerian prince provides banking services.
Works pretty well for lawyers. It's not perfect, but lawyers have to adhere to a code of legal ethics, and only lawyers can have equity in law firms. Seems like this model could be transferred directly to the medical industry. It would not solve every problem ever, but it is an interesting thing to look into.
One might be software substitutes for physical software engineers. Automated QA software instead of QA Engineers, for example.