skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you know enough to do your own vulnerability scanning, code auditing, and testing -- and, have the human capital/available time in your schedule to do it yourself -- then the answer is probably "no" from an actual security perspective.

However, there are many teams who either don't have the knowledge/expertise, or the available time, to do the testing themselves. This is where "buying it off the shelf" can come in handy.

Then, there are teams that are completely clueless when it comes to application security, and even the most basic scan by any of these pen testing vendors will find very obvious security defects, which is absolutely valuable for them to learn about. This is the minimum bar that we should hold software application developers to, and there are many who don't even meet this without the assistance of reports from pen testing vendors. Scary, but true.

So, YMMV.
There are a lot of problems with the NHS. The GP booking systems are diabolical at the moment, as you point out, and GP receptionists are up there with post office staff for aggressive service. I personally use Babylon GP at Hand and am very satisfied, but that's only available in London I think.

That said the reason we don't do as much in the way of screening and yearly physicals of young healthy individuals is because there's very limited evidence that it's even helpful and sometimes even evidence that it's harmful.

That isn't to say they don't sometimes save a life, but they also cause unnecessary medical procedures and needless medical anxiety. What kind of early cancer detection is really happening at a yearly physical? You could argue that a doctor telling you to lose weight might help reduce obesity or diabetes, but so far that doesn't seem to be working.

Even if you do catch and treat a cancer, was it a slow progressing cancer that never would have caused an issue for the patient? This is particularly significant when you're looking at someone in their 80s.

If you have any health conditions, have a family history of disease, are taking repeat prescriptions or are above 40, you will start being offered regular checkups and screening.

You can also book a private GP or checkup if you want, or even just pay for a periodic blood test. The NHS/NICE has decided the evidence base doesn't exist to support it, but you're free to decide otherwise if you wish.
I guess because adding full support would be a pain and the average consumer doesn't use it anyway
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It's almost as if YouTube can distinguish between the type and quality of content when choosing how to weight distribution.

(I'm sure it does, and I'd like to know more about the algorithm.)
We have a shortage of doctors because the government artificially limits the number of residency spots which are required to become a doctor. Double the number of residency slots and med school spots will follow. Even if you halve doctor salaries I guarantee you we will have twice as many new doctors per year. The cost is not even close to what is stopping people from becoming doctors.
> having an off-switch on a smoke detector is a very bad idea

Not at all! You might reconsider your opinion when one of these things goes off at night for no reason and you find out its battery isn't removable.
Yes. Companies are legal fictions and all people buy goods and services. Some people buy those services through those legal fictions so they consume the fraction of them corresponding to their to ownership fraction. Ultimately a person pays all taxes and all people are consumers.
You need only peer across the globe. Take your pick between Germany, Singapore, Norway, etc.
The NHS is about the only thing this country has that I am even remotely proud of. It is far from perfect—made substantially worse by the last decade of Conservative austerity and piecemeal attempts at privatisation—but the idea that you’d be so disparaging is crazy to me.

I had cancer five years ago, spending the better part of six months receiving inpatient treatment, during which I couldn’t work. I had recently moved jobs beforehand too—I have literally no idea what I would have done under an American-style system.

It’s bursting at the seams (through no fault of its own), and yet still we never bankrupt people with life threatening illnesses, we don’t bill people for ambulances, we don’t force seriously ill people and their families to do battle with blood-sucking insurance companies over byzantine coverage terms.

It’s the last damned thing this nation has actually feels like it exists for the common good of the people. I would recommend it to other countries—wholeheartedly.
I really can't say I have understood, what exactly org-mode is supposed to be. I have seen the website and had an ardent fan explain it to me, but still don't get it. How is it better than having another text file open in another tab? Or using a jupyter/pluto notebook?
This is fantastic, do you have one of these for VP9, H265, and H264 perchance?
Not as much as the people getting retirees to send 5-figure sums to them in cash...

In a better world, we would have law enforcement action instead of YouTube pranking. But, similarly to ransomware, we don't seem to see any legal response proportional to the damage done.
They definitely work better for short text, primarily titles and logotypes. If you only have a few instances of, say, lowercase "a", then it's going to be fine if you only have a few alternate glyphs.

(Having said that, there's definitely a bit of craft, if not art, in choosing the right glyphs and getting the kerning right.)
> want to see how many physicians stick around

Why would they bother to leave? Physician salaries might still very well be highest in the world.
This is from 2021, and I don't see how it's relevant to this site at all.
Kottke is not a blog I follow. I don't know why but nevertheless the domain feels reputable to me. I know I've read a small number of articles there over the years, none of which I specifically recall, but that must have been good enough that when I look at this domain I think "this is going to be thoughtful, not bombastic or trying to sell me something". Now I will look and see if this recollection is correct...
I can say that I went through my period of customization, and haven't spent more than ten straight minutes at a time messing with my config to get something done for at least a year. I admit to occasionally setting up something really fun and complex, particularly in my ever-growing pile of machinery around Org, but for real tasks everything just works. When I hit a pain point I might spend a minute making a simple tweak (most recently adding keybindings to deploy a small project) that just uses stuff I've made before.

There are definitely people who wind up messing around more than anything else, and people who don't blog about the work they actually do since their blog focuses on Emacs, but it isn't hard to avoid that. A new language isn't quite the one click plugin of VSCode, but with lsp-mode it's actually pretty close. Perhaps 4 lines of config, plus extra keybindings you can grow organically.
You realize the only reason rich Americans don’t wait for healthcare is because poor Americans aren’t getting much if any care.
OP didn’t say anything about NYC?
I was about to make this comment. It's horrible. It makes me feel like I have a visual processing disorder. It's like my eyes are being disrespected.
Permission to fail, granted

Which is what I like most about that ecosystem, just do it, accept the consequences, rapidly iterate to something more resilient
In modern YouTube each video is ranked individually in the algorithm. Your past videos don’t harm (or boost) your new ones.

The only overlap is where your subscribers watch the video. This gives the algorithm an idea of the audience your video is applicable to so it can push it further than a video from a channel with no subscribers

Src [PDF]: https://static.googleusercontent.com/media/research.google.c...

If anything you should post as many videos as you can handle in terms of workload and quality. Don’t burn yourself out of course, but don’t hold back thinking an algorithm designed to show people videos wants less videos!
A lot of things can be learnt using books and mentors but as far as selling is concerned you might as well be asking "how did you learn to swim?"

It's the same answer.. you learn to swim by swimming. You can ask all the people jumping into the water on which technique is best and what hacks are the best.. but even after all the advice you will get shocked and struggle with it when you jump in the first time and it will take a lot practice before you do the first lap.

So depending on the type of profession there is no better way to pick up the phone, write that email or start connecting with the right people (irl or online) and just get started to learn it.
I find this less comforting.

https://www.multpl.com/shiller-pe
And I personally know more than a few people who have moved from flyover states to California. Goes both ways.
I'm almost certain I've seen that font on the back of a Transformers toy box.
Any pointers to what MLE means on this context? Or better, any references? Thanks.
If you’re earning 500k-2m from your own business/investments, this might be true.

If you’re earning that as w2 income (as many of the nyc high earner taxpayers are), then yeah you’re gonna be paying >50% taxes if you live in nyc.

Speaking from my own experience.
How would raising taxes on real estate not cause capital flight?
> It's an example that wealth doesn't automatically lead to power.

I don't see how that's the case. Their wealth lead to a degree of power that necessitated a specialised task force in order to keep it in check. That the power afforded by that wealth was curtailed doesn't negate it's existence. Should the task force cease to exist they would be free to exercise that power without restriction.

> I agree that individual people should not have as much power as many of them seem to have today.

I agree but I don't see any reasonable alternative to reducing their level of influence while still maintaining a market based economy.

> I don't agree that the answer is a universal cap on personal wealth. I especially don't agree that we should confiscate the existing (legally-gained and legally-spent) wealth of private individuals, people who are not criminals. (At least not automatically criminal just because they're rich.)

This is where we disagree. I don't think any overall good comes from any individual having more than $1bn in wealth. At that point you can buy pretty much whatever you want and your offspring will still be unfathomably wealthy for generations. As an individual you essentially have the GDP of a small island nation in your pocket.

Personally I believe the marginal utility of more wealth at this point to be effectively zero. Adding a second billion makes no material difference to your quality of life, single digit percentages represent life changing amounts of money for the majority of society.

It's at this point I feel we need to seriously interrogate how that wealth is being accumulated and whether it would be better spent elsewhere. Take our good friends the Waltons for example. In accumulating their fabulous wealth they have successfully externalised the cost of labour to the extent that many of their workers can't afford to food or healthcare without society's help. While a pretty specific case, I don't believe the Waltons should receive a single penny until they've absorbed those costs.

A wealth cap also acknowledges that society plays a huge part in providing the framework for that wealth to exist in the first place. In my opinion a low degree of inequality is a requirement for a harmonious society. Without hundreds of years of societal investment none of the resources that billionaires relied on to amass their wealth would exist. Try creating a tech startup without literate workers.
I took it as "I think the reasons given are not legitimate, and are poor excuses for 'maldesign'.".

Where 'maldesign' is my dad's favourite word for every seeming design flaw or 'unreasonable' limitation. (-:
> - the main value of vi is editing speed

If it is purely mechanical type changes I would just use sed or find and replace, otherwise I think scrolling with a mouse and clicking tends to be fast enough. Could you explain a bit more about how it could be faster?
It needs to be explained that it's not using ableist language, meaning that every time it's shared a discussion like this one will take place, regardless of what you think about it.
After watching it all play out, I’d find it hard to have convinced this person to do that. They grew up in a world where debt wasn’t a thing that could send you to poverty, rather a useful tool. When they inherited the land, there wasn’t much, if any debt. Today, most people have debt as a means of survival vs. a tool. This makes setting up a trust harder in their eyes because they might need the assets for more debt.

No idea how any of this works, just 2am shower thoughts.
A tool, any tool, has an intended purpose and a sweet spot. Try to pound nails with a screwdriver and you're, well, um, screwed.

Webflow has a place. Shopify and WordPress have a place. Artisan crafted React has a place. Rail / RoR had a place. They all end up existing in a browser. But just like being at the zoo, they are different animals.

As long as you're insisting on pounding nails with a hand saw...yeah, you and/or your clients are going to have complaints.
I’ve lived in this city my whole life. News cycles notwithstanding (there’s a “crime wave” article every single year, using whatever cherry-picked month-to-month statistic proves the point), it’s only gotten safer with each decade.
I suspect that there are people who would rather die than burden their families with crushing debt but that's a slightly different issue.
Regarding the "I wrote it in bash so it doesn't add a dependency". I've been thinking recently that it might make a lot of sense for these kind of tools to be written in a compile-to-native language (e.g. Go or Rust), and embed a lightweight scripting engine (for example quickjs or luajit).

That way they could write everything in a much nicer language and still not require a dependency. For such simple scripts the relatively low performance of these embedded scripting engines would be a non-issue, and you could even provide domain-specific utility functions (e.g. for shelling out, sending http requests or otherwise interacting with the system) implemented in the the host language (Rust/Go) with full access to their library ecosystems...
Would they though? The profit margin on replacing a gearbox is pretty good, just like Dba wages
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I see this argument made often on HN. I would imagine if we compared software engineering salaries in these same countries you would see that similarly software engineers in the US are also "overpaid".

Software

United States of America $95,879

United Kingdom $68,664 = 72% USA

Germany $61,390 = 64% USA

France $47,617 = 50% USA

Medicine

United States of America $313,000

United Kingdom $138,000 = 44% USA

Germany $163,000 = 52% USA

France $108,000 = 35% USA

(I believe the software salaries I've sourced are somewhat conservative)

[0] https://www.codingame.com/work/blog/find-developers/average-...
BLUF:

* Follow common privacy tips (browsers, VPNs, etc.)

* Take care with what you say if you communicate over anything that could be logged (such as SMS)

* Not included, but if you're using an app to track your period, stop. Switch to a moon calendar or a (heavens forbid) IRL whiteboard calendar to track this. Companies already use this data to market products to you at certain times of the month and could detect pregnancies as early as 10 years ago (https://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/19/magazine/shopping-habits.... - apologies for paywall). The data on an app like this is even more reliable.
The most (in)famous font that's chock-full of character alternates is Zapfino. Whether it'll look naturally hand-written is up for debate -- once you recognize Zapfino, you're going to recognize Zapfino -- but you can get some pretty expressive variants. The downside of recognizing Zapfino is always being permanently disappointed in how few people actually take advantage of those alternates, though.

You'll sometimes find them in other fonts, though; Hoefler Text's italics have a whole bunch of "swash" alternates, for instance, which can be a lot of fun for titles. (Both Zapfino and Hoefler Text are standard fonts on macOS.)
> What we don't do is spen d all our money on a military industrial complex

I know it's a bit of a meme, but military spending is far from our only problem. We could cut military spending to $0 and not even make a dent in the defecit, let alone be able to cut taxes. Social security, Medicare, and medicaid together make up 42% of federal spending. (Not to mention food assistance, housing assistance, unemployment, or the dozens of other programs). The US spends a lot on social programs! We just don't get much of anything for it.

EDIT: for completeness - defense spending was 12% of the federal budget in 2021.

[1] https://www.thebalance.com/u-s-federal-budget-breakdown-3305...
Hmm, thery're doing some kerning, right? Looking at the pic in your link, only the final A and R are so spread apart, all the other letters seem to have more overlapping baked in?

If you pushed the R to the left you're breaking the bottom letter spacing consistency...

I'm not convinced it would look better.
> glimpse of 2012:
>
> HTML5 is barely adopted; the web is run by <table>.
> Whatever isn't run by <table> is run by Flash.
> "Does it work in IE6 though?"

Yeah, no, this is definitely not how 2012 was. HMTL5 was not adopted much, but most people used XHTML, and table were definitely out of favour.

Flash was already on the decline, and this was a full 2 years after Jobs said "no Flash on iPhone/iPad".

Microsoft dropped support for IE6 at around that time, some of Google services were already not compatible anymore.
That's how it used to work in the UK with social housing. The local authority would collect the rent and it would be used for upkeep of the properties, with surplus going to other public works. This was set up in the decades following the Second World War as Britain rebuilt, and it generally worked really well.

But then a right-wing government came to power and sold most of the social housing off, while banning local authorities from building any more. So now, we have the situation here where the large majority of tenants are renting from private landlords, who are just pocketing all the rent for themselves and doing the bare minimum upkeep, while holding a rapidly appreciating asset.

Which is exactly what the right-wingers wanted, but of course doesn't help everyone else who isn't a landlord, and just wants somewhere decent and affordable to live.
You can't move a house (or the land it sits on) out of state.
In the mid-early years of the WWW, (think 1999-2003) I taught several different completely non-technical people how to create web pages with straight html.

Not only did they quickly and easily learn how to write straight html code in a non-visual editor, but I also taught them how to interactively log in and manage the pico editor, etc.

These successes were not due to my skills as a teacher - they were due to the relatively simple skillset involved and the ability for normal people to learn something like this. These people were not geniuses. They did just fine. One of them went on to work professionally as a webmaster.

There is no reason to dumb-down web development - it is already as easy as it needs to be.
It’s 0 letters away from bash ‘tard, and not really a stretch to speculate that the name might be intentionally a pun that has both meanings.
Imagine you were working in an industry where you got to decide the number of people you can let in behind you.

The option almost everyone picks is “no one”. Keep supply of your services low and increasing demand means more money for you.
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im adding marginal rates which is somewhat lazy. assuming 1,080,000 as a single earner (married changes the calculation of course):

- 37% federal
- 9.65% state
- 3.876% city tax
- 3% SS and medicare
- ?? disability, unemployment, etc.
- some additional % to cover single payer

so thats somewhere in the mid 50% range adding up. again, effective rates won't be that exact number except for ultra high earners. this also doesn't include property tax or sales tax (8.875%).

crocodile tears for million dollar earners and their tax bills of course, my point being that chasing away a small amount of residents can have an outsized effect on state revenue. (0.3% of returns account for 27% of revenue federally)
good clarifying point, the 2nd one never had a peg?
argument: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dAQP3cPUNtA
Agree,
Mature teams may not need an external report.
Good team may find it valuable.
Bad teams should have to fix issues.

Thanks!
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> the better explanation for the media reaction is: serious media outlets who were repeatedly burned by credulously reprinting Rudy Giuliani and Steve Bannon’s (later proven false) claims wised up and decided to be a bit more careful this time.

Come on man, we all know the reason the story [1] was suppressed [2] is that the establishment, rightly or not, was afraid of another four years of Trump. Then, they made up all kinds of post-facto reasons for it (policy against hacked material, etc.).

[1]: Which, as you correctly mentioned earlier, was intended to swing votes.

[2]: Not only from the mainstream media, but also from social media, to the extent you couldn't send it in DMs to others.
I borrowed $10 from a friend for lunch once and within a year I was having to give out handjobs by the waterfront just to pay off the interest.
> Our school is based on inclusion, and openly displaying Satanic symbols (on a public social media platform) that directly goes against the principles of the vast majority of families who represent the school, is not inclusive.

Religion is federally protected class. It seems like it would open up the district to a lawsuit if the employee were fired based on this.