skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From my experience, other countries are even worse.

I'm transgender, and everything the top-level poster said about incompetent doctors, gatekeeping, and having to read literature and teach yourself about your own medical condition absolutely 100% applies to me and nearly every other trans person I've talked to (I remember printing out the Endocrine Society guidelines and taking a highlighter to them in order to convince a doctor that what I'm asking for is standard practice). I also have friends who have other chronic medical conditions, and their experience with doctors is pretty much the same as my experience and the experiences of other trans people.

And everything I've heard from people in Europe is that over there, it's even worse. At least in the US it's possible to doctor-shop and find someone who knows what they're doing—or who at the very least is willing to listen—but in European countries with single-payer healthcare you are entirely at the mercy of whatever doctor gets assigned to your case (yes, this isn't as bad in multi-payer countries such as France as it is in single-payer countries like the Nordics). And in some cases, the barriers aren't even the competencies of your individual doctors but institutional requirements doctors are legally required to follow even if an individual doctor is competent. Mind you, there are some exceptions: in parts of Spain and in much of Southeast Asia, for example, a good amount of medications that are Rx-only in most other countries are available over-the-counter, so at least you can self-med if you've put in the exhausting effort to research your own condition and figure out what you need (and even then, good luck getting blood tests to confirm your dosage is appropriate).

This isn't an endorsement of the US healthcare system, just an acknowledgement that the shit sandwich offered in the US has slightly less fecal content than the shit sandwiches offered in many other countries.
So money losing Uber should get a negative fine?
Thanks for the feedback! I thought about using markdown but ultimately I felt like it didn't lend itself to making lists easy to write. There are also a lot of different flavors of markdown and a ton of features that I didn't want to immediately think about supporting or removing from an off-the-shelf parser / renderer.

Creating a simple spec was easy to write, easy to implement, and I can cater it specifically to parsing and rendering lists.

I am thinking about creating a more traditional blog platform with markdown support using the same SSH app techniques. Is that something that would interest you?
Question: Are vulnerabilities found more often in newer or older libraries?
I'm looking for studies or references looking at how/when vulnerabilities are more likely to be found in libraries. This relates to allow vs block listing of third party libraries.
>Medical decisions need to be made outside of cost considerations.

It's really jarring to read an otherwise reasonable comment that drops a whopper like this. Nothing exists outside of cost considerations. The NSA has cost considerations. The Space Shuttle had cost considerations (obviously, not great ones!). The design of nuclear submarines involves cost considerations, however unsettling that may seem. You're telling me that my broken hand needs to be judged outside of cost considerations? Give me a break.

The problem is that there is a lack of "trustworthy" parties to evaluate cost expectations in medicine. The patient often doesn't understand their condition or its treatments, the doctor has a clear perverse incentive to inflate costs, and the insurance company may actually be better off if the patient dies. At least that's the conventional picture. Leftist pundits often complain that the American economy is based on "greed", but a more precise criticism is that there has recently been a trend away from expecting benevolence and for-its-own-sake honesty from anyone under any circumstances, or equivalently an increasing cynicism about human motivations. It remains to be seen whether a medical system can function when nobody expects to trust anyone.
"What would you do for a Klondike bar?"

"It is? What would you do for clone drinks?"
> And even if you set everything up properly and host your email with a responsible host, Microsoft will still mark your mail as spam.

I did some experiments back when I ran my own mail. Sending from my mail server to my Microsoft account it not only marked everything as spam, it continued marking everything as spam after I marked a bunch of them as not spam.

After that, I tried also answering several of them and composing several new mails to send to my non-Microsoft email to see if Microsoft's spam system was smart enough to figure out that if I'm actively corresponding with someone their incoming mail should not be marked as spam. It was not smart enough.

Then I tried whitelisting. Nope, still spam.
Personally, reading that headline, I would think "oh wow, this guy learned enough computer science to get his degree in 3 months, he's either some kind of super genius or has some crazy learning hacks to share", when really he just Game-Genie'd to the end credits as a formality since he already knew computer science and just wanted the piece of paper.

An example of a non-clickbait title for this article:

"I already knew computer science; here's how I got the piece of paper in 3 months"
Wonder how many cattle or other related species are also at risk. Although the vector might be people as I suspect deer aren’t fond of free range cattle. Hope the overlap of hunters and vaxxed is larger than I think it is. Wonder whether birds can get it or it can transmit via poo?
Cool. Am fascinated with the Greco-Buddhist Revival in Art History. Also looking for online resources related to Indian Classical Music ;)
They haven't sold them selves as 'just code hosting' for some time. I almost wish they did. They've negleted basic stuff yet their marketing sells them as an all-in-one solution. A thousand dollars per seat per year (no fractions!) for the WHOLE organization just for nested Epics? No thanks. This 2 year old thread just keeps on giving:

https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/213185

I'd join many participants in advising anyone to think very carefully before adopting GitLab.
But you cant turn off your fridge at the wall so what's the point in measuring it?
This has been a product in Japan for decades because they live in such close quarters and are very polite.
For stuff like games, it probably does it well enough. If you drop a frame every minute, that's not a major problem.
That's nothing compared to the joy of dealing with legit emails that are flagged as high confidence phishing.
I wouldn’t say there’s a sense of different ethnicity, quite, but there’s definitely a view of inherent superiority. Behind closed doors, you’ll hear terms like “plebs” and “proles” and “chavs” thrown around frequently, to refer to everyone from the working classes - which from the perspective of the aristocracy is practically everyone who isn’t part of the aristocracy.

There’s also a distinct disdain for the “nouveau riche” - they are seen as well-to-do merchants (urgh, how bourgeois!) - but will mostly forever be on the outside - mostly, because there are exceptions, but you don’t get into the circle due to wealth, but due to class - which is something you pretty much have to be educated into from birth, as what you see from the outside is not how it works on the inside, and if you try to enter being all polite and humble and ever so nice you will be seen - as an imposter. The aristocracy are not polite - they have no need to be - you demonstrate that you are “one of us” by putting your feet up on the kitchen table, lighting a cigarette, and getting smashed (but not obviously so) before supper, and then throwing the croquet set in the reflecting pool.

So… it’s not so much ethnicity as it is culture - and it’s a pretty closely guarded and distinct culture, which I think your hypothesis of being Norman in origin is absolutely spot on - it’s even in the language - beef/cow, venison/deer, mutton/sheep, pork/pig and so-forth - the words of those who consume the product versus the words of those who produce the product. The proactive disdain for niceties is distinctly Norman.

Perfect use of Graeber, and I couldn’t agree more. If you’re interested in the topic of manufactured reality, Hobbes and Baudrillard both had some pretty stonking insights into it.
Testing TypeScript Definitions
I'm currently working as a web developer, partly so I can afford to go back to university! I didn't have the discipline/maturity to pass the first time, and now I don't qualify for student loans anymore. I'm genuinely interested in the material, and want to get a solid footing in every major part of the field.

I just really like computer science, and if I didn't have to work for money, I'd probably spend a substantial portion of my energy learning and playing around with it.

(You're probably right about the average person though: most of my ex-classmates don't care much for computer science, they just wanted well paying jobs—or else didn't know what else to do and went, "Well, I guess I'm good at computers, so...")

I'm not very good at formal education though, so my approach is basically to learn everything before I go back to university, via https://teachyourselfcs.com/

Though at that point I question the value of the actual university, especially as the ones I've been to do not really teach the things I'm interested in, let alone in the way that suits me... heck, even MIT (my benchmark for "a good university") dropped SICP! So I might just get one of those online degrees instead.

If teaching yourself everything before going to university seems odd, consider that university expects you to self-teach anyway -- the university just provides the external motivation (you paid a lot of money and people will judge you if you fail), along with its own complications (poorly designed/scheduled courses, depressingly unmotivated classmates/project partners, sleep-inducing (and sometimes) mandatory lectures).
I used to not be able to pee (shy bladder?) if a bathroom had even a single other person. But then I was in a situation where I had no choice (regularly) and I simply had to face my problem. It took _years_ and constant mental practice, but I simply got better at dealing with this and I am better off for it.

I hope this works out for you, as I know most people will simply not be able to deal with their discomfort in the same way I did. And telling people to "face their problem" is not the same as saying "face your problem, and also I will make your life a little easier in the mean time."
So, former WGU student here, though I hadn't completed my degree.

Many WGU students HATE these types of articles, because they undermine the legitimacy of WGU.

WGU was not designed for traditional students, it was 100% designed for working professionals, where WGU will only admit you with a reasonable amount of experience in your field.

WGU is regionally accredited, not nationally, and it's a non-profit. So it cannot be compared to University of Phoenix, ITT Tech, DeVry, etc.

It was founded by a group of governors out west, hence the name. They realized that there were many working adults who possessed a great depth of knowledge, from long working in their fields, yet they had no paper credentials to show for that knowledge.

Their model is competency-based, so you must demonstrate you posses knowledge in any given domain. If you can prove you do then you can test out right away, if you fail to then they offer a variety of resources to allow you to get up to par. In many cases classes are tied to obtaining industry certifications.

It's not for everyone, but it is a far cry from a "degree mill." Does it really matter if a person that has knowledge got it from sitting in a seat, paying ungodly amounts of tuition, or if they got it from life experience? As long as a bar is set, and you can meet it, then that should be what really matters.

Just my personal experience, from having attended the university. Unfortunately life sidetracked my completion, but I hope to return one day soon, and complete my program.
> you need the harsh hand of a centralized authority.

What you actually need is reputation information, which you can make your own decisions based on. Unfortunately the cheapest way to gather reputation is with something like a panopticon, where one party sees all interactions and everyone trusts their judgement.

It's at least theoretically possible, though, for individual nodes to securely gossip reputation information to each other, which is the model that the Matrix.org team are working towards:

https://matrix.org/blog/2020/10/19/combating-abuse-in-matrix...
My wife worked bedside at a nationally ranked childrens hospital for 5+ years. She left recently for private practice and loves it. More money, less stress, better management. The list goes on. Bedside nurses are often not paid very well, are treated poorly by patients, and even more poorly by administrators. The hospital’s motto should be “anything for the patient, nothing for our employees”.
I honestly don't give a shit if someone knows I'm taking a shit.
It's a normal approximation of the expected variance (in terms of standard deviation) in the estimate of the mean of the sum of 200 Bernoulli random variables. Each nurses' response is considered an observation of a Bernoulli distributed random variable, and we trying to determine the rate of that variable.

You are incorrect that "n is 1" since, by that logic one survey talking to 100,000 nurses would be the same as one talking to 3.

If you would like an alternate, more Bayesian formulation we can use the Beta distribution which is parameterized by alpha (numbers of 'yes') and beta (number of 'no').

This approach is a bit more intuitive than the Frequentist method since it answers the question "what do we believe to be the expected rate of nurses answering 'yes'"

In this case alpha=180 and beta=20, we'll include uniform prior of alpha_prior = 1, and beta_prior = 1

For Betas the posterior is defined quite nicely as:

Beta(alpha_posterior, beta_posterior) = Beta(alpha_likelihood + alpha_prior, beta_likelihood + beta_prior)

In general for Beta distributions we can compute the expectation as:

E[Beta(alpha,beta)] = alpha/(alpha + beta)

In this case: 181/202 = ~0.9

And the variance of a Beta distributed random variable is:

Var[Beta(alpha, beta)] = (alpha*beta)/((alpha+beta)^2 * (alpha + beta + 1))

Which for our case is:

0.00046

and the standard deviation of this is just it's square root:

0.021

Which gives us the same answer as we get with the normal approximation.
Hey thanks for the feedback. I agree and this is going to be a priority for me immediately after I triage the bug reports.
It absolutely can't. This is a tweeter design. Might be good as that. It's not going to have even enough excursion to do midbass or lower midrange.

Mind you if the description is correct, to hear it properly they need to adhere it to a physical object. Having it dangling in free air like that means it's a lobed omnidirectional radiator: opposite of a dipole, it's putting out the same signal to either side across the whole plane, and the edges aren't putting out anything, and the range isn't low enough to hear it side-on very well: highs are directional.

This is why when he curves it you hear treble louder: it's making a little dish aimed at the mic (roughly). You could easily make a tweeter for 'head in a vice imaging' where the curvature is such that it's aimed only at the ear position, for less near reflections off walls. As described, you'd always want to back it with a physical object.

In a large enough area it's a midrange driver with very high peak output in the highs. You could curve it the opposite direction to make the mids slightly dominate over the highs: slight off-axis will attenuate highs a little more than mids, and the differences in hearing position across the curved surface (it's a smooth radiator without any specific driving points) will cause higher frequencies to cancel, again reinforcing lower frequency stuff.
Why doesn't a roll-your-own degree from Study.com indicate the caliber of the individual in the way a credential from an institution used to?
> 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 directly contradicts what the author said about his intentions and experience:

>> While I had some PAs returned for improvements, I made sure to never fail an OA – even if retakes (up to 3-4) were allowed. It wasn’t a race, and my goal wasn’t to brute force my way into a degree. I came for the piece of paper, sure, but I also used it as an opportunity to assess and fill gaps in my knowledge. As a result, I never came close to failing an exam.
> That’s (I believe) fundamentally different than most people who seek college degrees.

My experience talking with people suggests otherwise. When I became an adult and got a few years into my career, it was surprising to me how few people had anything interesting to say about their line of work even to the point of actual disinterest. Yeah, I know that a lot of people don't like to talk about work, but I'm saying that many people not only avoid the topic of their career but will even tell you they don't really care about or like what they do. I've had so many girls I went on dates with who were completely disengaged with their careers and even admitted they got a degree just to make money. I'm talking girls who were chemical engineers, biologists and so forth. Some genuinely liked what they do, but I think ~70% didn't give a f---.

I'm not blaming people in any way, but I think the reality is that not everyone, or even most, are doing what they do as part of a greater calling. They're just humans trying to get by and maybe have a family. The appreciating value of intellectual work along with the idea that everyone should be well-rounded contributes to this impression that people are doing things like getting degrees for reasons that aren't merely utilitarian, but most of the time I think that's not the case.
> Medical decisions need to be made outside of cost considerations.

A common attitude which may cause:

Health care is extremely costly in the United States. Although the rate of growth in spending has attenuated in recent years, per capita spending on health care is estimated to be 50 to 200 percent greater in the United States than in other economically developed countries. Despite leading the world in costs, however, the United States ranks twenty-sixth in the world for life expectancy and ranks poorly on other indicators of quality.

https://journalofethics.ama-assn.org/article/complex-relatio...
This is great to know about though. Would be interesting to complete such a program for somebody with the knowledge coming out of high school. Makes you wonder how it would affect admission criteria at other 4 year colleges if you can show an entire CS degree on your application.

I wonder how that gets weighted?
> When I got my ADHD diagnosis after a quarter-century, I went in specifically asking about ADHD because I had seen some flags that made me think I might have ADHD. Contrast that with the people doctors screen out who are trying to get a stimulant prescription despite not needing it, and you have a situation where it's hard for doctors to tell who does or doesn't need meds, and where patients with actual conditions have to fight hard for those to be diagnosed.

I told my doctor I had already been diagnosed with ADHD because I had a strong suspicion I had it and wanted to see for myself if the medication helped (it helped massively). I think medicine should be accessible for patients who need it but I don't know how to avoid large amounts of patients then taking medications for the wrong thing, which would probably happen if it was a free-for-all. It kinda comes down to the question of having the personal freedom to hurt yourself doing something stupid, which is a balance (a little of that freedom is good, too much probably bad). All-in-all I lean toward the current system of using on experts to make the final decision. Still, I would be really pissed if a doctor prevented me from getting stimulants for something I believe I need, so I am not 100% satisfied with the current system either.
I can add another data point. One of my mother's friends works as a travel nurse. I don't envy her lifestyle, but she seems to find that the compensation makes it worth her time.
Would you be interested in a more traditional markdown blog platform using the same tech?
I believe this is in reference to Professional Engineering firms, which often requires PEs either as owners or in certain roles. As far as I'm aware software engineers are not required to be Professional Engineers in the US for most tasks, nor are SaaS shops required to be licensed as Engineering firms.

[1] https://www.harborcompliance.com/information/engineering-fir...
I was never a fan of the almost like gemstone like angularity of the old one. For me the new one does a good job capturing the spirit and the silhouette while just feeling a bit... nicer. I don't really know how else to put it, it just feels a lot more pleasant to look at.
Many of those bidet toilets in Japan have this feature built in. I've never used it myself but I heard the sound they use is running water.
I think intellectual property doesn't make any sense as a concept and software should be open source by default. I also think anyone who owns a computer has the right to modify the software that runs on it.

My last two jobs have been maintaining open source software at nonprofits[1], which is great. Regardless, I would open source anything I write that I think would be useful for other people.

[1] My current project is https://github.com/centerofci/mathesar
Before the 2000s-era machine learning revolution, AI was assumed to be solvable via symbolic reasoning. Pure logic, in other words. See: Cyc. Cyc was/is an attempt to encode all of human knowledge using predicate logic. If you have knowledge in this form then you can use the standard rules of logic to infer new knowledge and do reasoning.

TBL/W3C felt like the next big upgrade for humanity would be AI that could understand the web. To achieve that, you need web pages to be encoded in the form of logical triples. Cyc used a custom lisp-ish language called CycL to do that, RDF was the same concept but 'web-ified' i.e. using XML and URIs for everything.

Of course that approach never took off. Even by 2003 Google was starting to master machine learning techniques like scalable logistic regression, the webbiest of web companies just didn't care about this symbolic AI approach at all because in reality nobody was using it. Too complicated, too abstract, no tools or cool demos. Pure vapourware in other words. GPT-3 has now shown that you don't need everyone to learn new syntaxes or predicate logic to train AI on the web. You can rely purely on statistical techniques and neural networks.