skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I work in healthcare but not as a nurse. I'm in a somewhat obscure field that became pretty important during the pandemic (infection control). No one outside the hospital knew we existed before the pandemic. Then the pandemic hit, conspiracies' started to float around and we had to take our contact list off the public website as colleagues were receiving death threats.

I can't even imagine what nurses have gone through being front line staff interacting with patients (and their families) all day. We need a zero-tolerance policy for families that verbally abuse front line staff, but instead they are often let off due to "stress of a family member in hospital" or the need for "family centered care".
indeed, my ISP only recently closed their open relay for all customers

I remember back in the day having to change your SMTP settings whenever you travelled to whatever the ISP was where you were staying. then you could finally send email from your @homeisp.example email
I totally agree that system design questions can be silly sometimes. When I do system design interview questions for senior engineers, I ask a really broad and complex questions and let the candidate drive us towards the system. The point of the interview is evaluating if the candidate can complete those soft skills in a reasonable way. I try to answer basic questions such as these:

Did the candidate just go for design without asking questions?

What questions does the candidate ask?

What areas are they asking questions about?

Can they take critical feedback on their design well?

There is a little bit of discussion on technology choice, but typically if they can justify an out of the norm choice it is fine.
I had a big interest in RIA at the time. The big players were Adobe AIR, Microsoft Silverlight, Eclipse RCP, Netbeans, and I also considered JavaFX--I might be forgetting another one.

Silverlight had the best performance/fit for my purposes and sadly was the first of many to go away, largely due to the popularity of iPhone and these platform/tools being excluded. Too bad Apple only promotes Apple's innovations and actively suppresses others.
I was trying to be as charitable as possible, since "goldbug" is basically equivalent to "crank". I suspect there is a lot of overlap, though.
I had all of my wisdom teeth removed with just local anesthetic and nitrous oxide. It is certainly an interesting experience as you listen to your teeth being broken up by what amounts to a large ice pick. It didn't really bother me though.

The worst part of the entire procedure was that they wouldn't call my prescriptions into the pharmacy in advance, so I could just go home and not run errands after the procedure. I guess people will schedule fake wisdom teeth removal so they can get a 3 day supply of Tylenol with codeine? I remember being very annoyed waiting around for a half hour in some grocery store with my mouth full of gauze and the pain setting in. Would have preferred to be at home in bed. Sigh! At least I don't have any more wisdom teeth.
I feel like quitting receiving healthcare when a provider switches their records systems or adds a new one and I have to input all the same shit yet again (what the fuck is even the point of digital medical records? They can't keep even the most basic info straight anyway!), so I can only imagine what that's like for the people who have to work with it daily.
> Chances are, the next developer will not come on in 5 years, but in 15 years.

That doesn't seem likely to me at all. More likely in the next 6 months than in 15 years. Why are you planning for 15 years out? The company you are working for might not be around in 15 years. Code might not even be recognizable in 15 years. All of our programs might be written by AI in 15 years.

Optimizing for the short term makes way more sense to me. 2 or 3 years out, not 15.
I agree, this product is unnecessarily overengineered
Keep a robust emergency fund on hand, always be networking, just be prepared for the separation call. Low burn rate + emergency fund + unemployment insurance = safety net during a recession. If you have any health issues you’ve been putting off having addressed, do it now while you have insurance.
This just reminded me of Sun HotJava, which was genuinely one of the worst pieces of software I have ever experienced.
Huh?

There have multiple structural changes in the fundamentals of the economy over the last seventy years.

The problems the Fed faced from 1945-1975 - with explosive growth, the services share of employment relatively low, wages following productivity - were entirely different from those faced subsequently.
> On my first day, I completed 4 courses in the span of 4 hours. At a traditional school, it would have taken 4 months. It made me realize…I had underestimated how much knowledge I had gained from previous schools, jobs, projects, books, papers, and talks.

This passage underscores how, for this guy and whoever he was selling himself to, a CS degree was just a credential. He did not have much intention of actually learning anything. That’s (I believe) fundamentally different than most people who seek college degrees.
Legitimate SMTP servers will try your domain's MX records one by one, in order of priority, until they reach one that accepts the message. Spammers' scripts usually don't bother, they just try the first one and move on to the next address on their list.

Of course, this is not 100% reliable, as it's not too difficult for spammers to adapt and improve their scripts. Of course, vast majority of spammers are either not sophisticated enough, or do not care enough to do so, so if you don't mind your incoming mail to be slightly delayed, it's kind of a low-hanging fruit, as it cuts off a huge amount of low-effort spammers.
> Absolutely no one I have met believes 1 and 2

Admittedly I am a little confused by your comment. You made the above statement, and then follow up with this statement:

> As for 3, "average observable differences" in mental ability can largely be explained by socio economic factors

If we are to assume you are being earnest here in your first statement in that you believe there ARE innate ability differences between humans and social factors don’t explain everything, can you explain how much innate ability differences are a factor in intelligence differences (using it since you brought it up)? And how do you determine it? What methodology are you using for that, and if you aren’t basing it on anything, what methodology should we use?

If you are going to dodge the question and suggest you were talking about averages between groups (for which the question does still apply) and that between groups are a special case, then please share how much of a factor innate ability differences are in intelligence within groups? And how you determined that?
Coming from marine and aerospace contracting, I'm always shocked by the cavalier attitude The Rest Of The Software World has about pulling in third party dependencies. "I have a problem to solve. Let's Google for: [problem] [language]. Aha! This library on GitHub has 12 bajillion stars! Pull that one down, build it, and YOLO!" No in-depth look into what other things the dependency does, how it increases the attack surface, what user data it gobbles up, what license it uses, what is the update cadence and how often do we need to pull from upstream, what is the contingency plan if it ends up not being suitable, nothing. Just git push and close that JIRA ticket!
It would be interesting to see data on this by state. Nursing, unfortunately, is much more difficult in states without unions. In California, the strong nurses union has ensured somewhat better staffing ratios and much better pay than in other states.
My kid's pediatrician has a guy that does this. The job title was "Scribe." A little bit crowded in the exam room but you get used to it.

The Scribe had a laptop and could look up whatever info was needed while the doc was doing his thing. If a scrip is needed the scribe types it in to the system and then the doc had to read it and approve.

Just keeping the docs hands clean from not having to touch a dirty laptop/iPad all the time has a health benefit I bet.
Especially since I kinda doubt said sprays are good for our health. At least they're not better than what they're covering...
Why do you need motion detection, can't you just hook it up with the light switch?
I'm not sure I see the contradiction? I'm just saying that if regular health care only covered something like wellness visits and a cast every other year they would probably be more likely to try and sell you additional services to drive their revenue.

And by upsell I just mean convincing you the financial burden is worth the proposed extra treatment. Right now as long as I have health insurance I don't care abut the extra cost of extra treatments beyond a health check because I don't directly bear the cost.

I mean pretty much every other health related thing that's not covered by insurance has the same dynamics; eye care, cosmetic surgery.
Active noise cancellation would make for much more amusing how-to videos.
They're paid alright (generally speaking), but most devs wouldn't even consider a job at that rate. And the bar for entry is way higher: years of competitive and expensive schooling.

And that's ignoring the other factors that GP mentioned. I don't get assaulted on a daily/weekly basis. I'm not getting coughed on by COVID-infected patients who want to kill me because they don't believe that COVID is real. I don't endure a regular drumbeat of patient deaths and the constant second-guessing "what if I did X differently". I don't need to handle people's bodily fluids. And then there's the politics, internal and external (the conspiracy nuts, the fucked-up pecking order in hospitals, unions, insurance- and pharma-driven policies, politicization of healthcare, etc). I could go on and on, and I only know one nurse personally.

Nurses are not paid anywhere near "pretty well." They're treated like shit and the pay isn't anywhere near fair compensation for the service that they provide.
Of course you can. Just try it, and you'll see that the problem isn't "I can't", but rather "I don't want to deal with this shit"
Also anecdotal, but we’re looking for home healthcare for a parent. There are zero in a 50+ mile radius.

One of their neighbors used to work for a home healthcare company in the area.
The travel nurse market is growing due to supply and demand problems.

The demand for nurses is increasing as people are leaving and there are more from the boomer generation hitting an age where they need more care.

The supply has stayed the same. Schools local to me have not increased output for various reasons (lack of instructors, lack of space in local hospitals where nurses train, etc). The supply is too low.

So, we have a supply and demand problem. Travel nurses get paid a lot more because of this.

The solution is to produce more nurses. Something few are talking about.

One of the local schools, to me, turned away half of applicants because the program isn't increasing capacity.
Instead of white-noise or music, why not play the sounds of people using the bathroom? You know like, peeing, pooping, farting, chatter, moans and groans. This way our own noises become indiscernible from the background noise.
The "only physicians should run hospitals" doesn't make that much sense to me. Reminds of the technocratic argument you used to see a lot on the internet that instead of politicians we should have scientists and engineers in legislature.

The issue is if you have someone with a scientific background doing politics, what you have at the end is still a politician. Same thing here. An MD doing hospital administration is an administrator.

Which is not to devalue specialist expertise in these roles. I definitely think you want people with these backgrounds in those roles as well. Just not necessarily exclusively. A career administrator has different skills than a physician, you want people with both, and other, roles working to run a hospital.

The real problem as I see it is probably the incentives, constraints, and pressures they work under, or towards. A physician forced to run a for-profit hospital maximizing returns is going to make a lot of the same decisions as someone with a business background in the same situation. The thing is to change the situation, not put different people into that role and expect them to do it dramatically better.
> How else are you solving this problem?

Working from home.
Yes, but I think that's why you're confused. The distance between the individual speakers would be d, not N*d. Because your original comment was about this spacing, that's what I addressed in my answer.

Obviously a larger effective aperture (either physical or synthetic) would be more effective at beam steering.
I work at a startup* trying to tackle nurse burnout, and two of my family members are nurses. Here are a few things I've learned:

- Nurses were getting burned out before the pandemic, and the US has a nursing shortage that's been going on for about 90 years (it started with an infrastructure buildout in the 1930s).* So it's a secular problem, with chronic as well as acute causal factors.

- There is a ladder of nursing credentials, and the shortage effects them differently. Hiring for roles like CNA and LPN/LVN has exploded because of the shortage of RNs and above. CNAs get trained in 4-12 weeks to do the heavy lifting of care; RNs get ~3 year degrees to perform much more complicated tasks.

- Burnout, and the nursing shortage, are in a positive feedback loop/downward spiral. That is, the more nurses burn out, the more they cause other nurses to burn out. Short-staffed facilities have a very hard time pulling back to normal staffing, because nobody wants to join a skeleton crew. (I know of long-term care facilities where the scheduling nurses (the bosses) are working the graveyard shift because they can't fill it.)

- Many nurses work rigid schedules on 12-14 shifts, and a lot of medical errors happen at the end of those shifts. **

- The hot US job market (Great resignation, great reshuffle) is hitting nursing especially hard; it is very sensitive to external shocks. There are paths to easier work and higher pay.

- Many healthcare facilities and systems don't give nurses flexibility or the possibility of advancement. (One family member will need to quit her current job and come back in a year or two to her current employer if she wants to move up a pay grade -- which is like some tech companies -- but slower moving and lower paying.)

- Many facilities are run entirely on foreign staff (the H2-B visa allows that). And many nurses are imported from the Philippines.

* https://clipboardhealth.com

* https://www.nursing.upenn.edu/nhhc/workforce-issues/where-di...

** https://www.nytimes.com/video/opinion/100000008158650/covid-...

(plug: if you're interested in this problem, we're hiring: https://culture.clipboardhealth.com)
>Don't forget that (in theory) it is possible to get any email server to relay a message for you.

That would be an open relay. That is simply not something that mail servers do anymore. If one was to deliberately set up an open relay, one would find that their email server was blacklisted pretty much immediately.
As you noted at the beginning of your comment, the issue is the pay to quality of life at work ratio being too low.
I have to admit I've never watched an Elon presentation. Now I'm going to. But:

One thing I always tell people like you is: concentrate on your content. Anticipate every possible question, and have an answer for it. Don't think about hand gestures, eye contact, and all that Toastmasters stuff at all.

Have little note cards with reminders to yourself on what points to hit.

You can only think of ONE thing while you're talking. So let it be this:

I know the stuff.

They don't.

They want to know it.

Maybe that's three things.

"hope that some people will still listen" : Yes, they will, If those three things are true.
I hosted my own email server from 1995 to 2010 (Solaris on a Sun IPC, sendmail and IMAP compiled from source). What finally drove me to move my domain to gmail was the spam.
This seems like a world-wide pattern, and it was already an issue even before covid.[1] I'm curious about what alternatives they have, may be joining newer tech-enabled companies with nursing services, or going fully independent and work solely by their own terms with some patreon-like app... ?? Or is it the case that they are really sick of nursing and might prefer changing professions or even unemployment?

[1] https://www.icn.ch/system/files/2021-07/ICN%20Policy%20Brief...
Statistical mechanics on solid state networks
Fedora starts to simplify Linux graphics handling
> Go is efficient, easy to learn, and freely available, but we believe that what made it successful was the approach it took toward writing programs, particularly with multiple programmers working on a shared codebase.

A discussion on the factors that make Go successful that doesn’t include the fact that it’s designed, dogfooded, and marketed by one of the largest software developers in the world is… incomplete to put it lightly.

I mean just the name of the language proves this point. Golang was a decade old PL project when Google Go was released. But Google, enamored with the name, steamrolled over that project and claimed no one would be confused. Clearly, because overnight Go came to mean Google Go to 99% of developers, and Golang might as well have never existed.

This shows Google Go from the very beginning has relied on the clout of Google for growth and adoption. We can talk about the merits of the language, sure, but to hear the authors of Go attribute its success to its focus on the practice of software development and leave out the 5000 lb software gorilla just adds insult to injury.
Insurance companies are awful and should not exist, sucking up a lot of doctor time, but when it comes to nursing, hospitals are particularly awful, cutting staffing levels to the bone in order to maximize profit. People die as a result, and nurses are burnt out.
Meaningful Use, ICD-10, more and more top down "big data" standards and approaches, that focus on qualitative data entry AS care. I mean this literally: thanks Obama.
She should apply for tele medicine. I knew a few nurses that took this on during the pandemic and were making about $50-60/hr from home. I suspect there are fewer opportunities like this now, but it's worth a shot.
“Accidently” — the reason is as old as the time itself: Greed.
Being pregnant was a pre-existing condition before ACA, forcing people to carry COBRA for the length of the pregnancy and some more time to allow for complications. Or, you could not switch work until the child was 3-6months old.
Do you ever feel taken advantage of? That’s the main reason I would never do it. I would feel like a sucker if somebody used my work to make money without paying me for it.
Link to the relevant journal article: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9714188
Until the 20th century, professors didn't make much teaching courses at universities. Lectures were just a publicity platform. Most of a professor's income came from tutoring students privately. The majority of a grade was the final exam, so all that mattered was being tutored for that final exam.
Your last paragraph is so simple and plainly correct, and yet people will argue endlessly against it.
Couldnt agree more. I personally prefer to study alone, and even my MBA i chose a program where class-time(f2f or online) was optional. I did none and still passed.

Have recently watched my daughter respond quite differently in online learning in group environments. One is Wingchun( a martial art) taught by enthusiastic and outright funny instructors. My little girl loves every minute of class. The other is oddly-enough Montessori class where she feels held back by other kids and their chatter. But she LOVES the IRL Montessori classes.

I feel that this form of online high school wont be for everyone but there is a segment of those for whom this medium suits them best due to combination of circumstance, motivation, and personality. Education is not 'one mode suits all'. I struggled to stay engaged at high school. Tertiary wasnt much better until i discovered extra-mural (distance education), and loved it.
It's not expensive at all when run on the edge device. Alexa can identify its name locally. You dont need dictation level accuracy to pick out advertising words, and if you miss some it's totally OK.
Granted, there's a niche for cash pay docs. Example being psychiatry - it's extremely hard to find a psychiatrist who takes insurance, even Medicare. The good ones are all cash pay...
So Long Surrogates: How We Moved to UTF-8 in Haskell
Being a bit of a pedant here, but you aren't "receiving" mail via POP3, you are "retrieving".

The sending and receiving (i.e. transfer) are both part of SMTP.

If you want to self host your own mailboxes (e.g. IMAP/POP3) you will need some way to get the mail into them (mail delivery) which is also (usually) SMTP.

But your point definitely stands - You can handle the inbound side and outsource the outbound mail delivery issues.
In the past, I spent a lot of money on chiros basically "cracking" my back. I eventually taught my partner how to do it and she does it so much better than any chiro ever did.

One thing I will say after having seen ~10 chiros is that the ones who actually x-ray you are the only ones I would place any trust in.
Subtle change. I enjoy the concept and execution.
I agree. At first I thought they would be uniquely positioned for this role, but it really does seem like they need to stay independent to stay objective. As a customer As a customer I appreciate that ifixit serves the customer's needs rather than Apple's agenda or overall bottom line, which might not have remained the case if they had some kind of partnership.
I write code for a living and for my own projects, and I open source the code I write because it costs me nothing extra to do so, and I learned a lot from open source when I started programming so I want to give that back to others too.

Some of my libraries gets used by others, most do not. For the ones that do, I get some bugs reported and if it impacts my own projects, I try to work in fixes. For the ones that don't impact me, I reply to them that a PR is welcome, otherwise it's unlikely it'll get fixed. For the PRs I receive, I mainly look at the code quality and understanding if I can maintain that feature in the future. If it's too big feature, I ask them to fork instead, otherwise I try to merge it.

In the end, the toll for me is nothing of concern, so why wouldn't I open source it? Money has nothing to do with it.
The difference between SELinux policies and the systemd security settings for locking down a service is about integration and where they are maintained.
The SELinux policies are not integrated well with the applications and normally the apps don't think about shipping their own SELinux policy tweaks. With systemd security settings this is much different because the app normally provides the systemd service file and the security settings are part of it and maintained by the app developers.

Edit: With AppArmor it's similar and the app devs normally don't think about providing an AppArmor profile but I think it's at least a bit easier than with SELinux policies.
I was a little discouraged after reading previous threads here, but decided to give it a try anyway.

I tried mailinabox and mailcow which didn’t work out, but mailu did.

Final setup is a pfSense vm on vultr, VPN back to my local pfSense box (with snort filtering) and mailu in an LXD container.
Mailu guides you through setting up various dns records which helped me a lot.
Realizing now I conflated quality of life with standard of living.
Write a letter to your Senator and House representatives. This is an abuse of monopoly position by Google.