skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> it is expected that the practitioner is competent and stays up-to-date on the latest tools and techniques in their field.

Even when the tools themselves suck?

The thing about our profession is that anyone can build better tools. Just like Linus took a week or two to sketch Git with some C code and a bunch of shell scripts (seriously, that was what happened - but he had the BitKeeper design in mind and how to improve on it). There is not regulation that says that in order to build a tool for millions of people to use you need to have a certification or anything.
In my opinion (physician/radiologist) we're going to see higher mortality and health care costs for a while as we are just starting to feel the effects of covid/prolonged lockdowns on missed screening.

As one example, at my large tertiary care centre we were doing around 80% less screening mammograms during the pandemic and we are seeing ~2-3x more females presenting with locally advanced breast cancer than we were pre-covid (I believe the breast division is publishing a study on this in Ontario).

Locally advanced at presentation means you now also need systemic therapy (chemo) with its complications and possibly an axillary lymph node dissection (fair bit of morbidity with this) instead of what would have been a lumpectomy+radiation+sentinal node biopsy.

Beyond the direct patient morbidity and mortality effects (higher rates of metastatic disease and death go hand in hand with advanced presentations of all cancer) the strain on the system will mean we're busy/spending on dealing with these very sick patients that will undoubtedly impact other care we can provide (only so many $ and human resources to go around) and there will be some cascading effect (how much, I'm not sure).

It will take 3-5 years to fully capture what the human and financial cost of all of this would have been, versus what was saved with prolonged lockdowns (particularly post delta when Covid stopped becoming very deadly).
Similar: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Hallowes
It’s easy to lead in good times. Your main goal is simply not to rock the boat. Maybe every now and then you do something flashy to avoid complacency. Google’s had enough capital to more or less do anything and everything the team wanted to do for the last 15 years.
Thanks, that's a good point. I've only used Celsius in technical situations, so it always felt technical.

I wonder if that could be part of why Americans don't tend to dislike metric -- we associate it with technical work. Without a forcing function none of use grow up using it in common daily usage, sort of like how emotional words in second languages tend to not be as impactful. They just never match your first language's import.
> They're looking at a massive demographic crisis because of their misoginy, and not helped by their xenophobia

I’m not sure we can attribute it to either. They were arguably more mysoginistic and xenophobic in the past, and they didn’t have any issues keeping population levels up.
It seemed like Google's hiring filters were about what a Stanford student might think is important (that socioeconomic class, had learned what Stanford students do, thinks whatever they don't know is less important or follows naturally from what they know, preferably recent grad (again, student thinking), with affluent lifestyle expectations, etc.).

Wall Street, OTOH, is about making money. They might also not fully know how to hire the people they want, but it seemed they valued scrappy more, especially when it leads to real results (which are maybe easier for them to see, when it can be pretty directly quantified in dollars).

(Though the Wall Street recruiter I talked with, back 2 decades ago, when I first wanted to work for Google, did ask about my GPA. So I told them I had a perfect GPA, like most of the other students in that grad program, and that that wouldn't tell them much about someone's potential. Then I told them I didn't really want to work on Wall Street, which had a bad reputation from the preceding decade, though the $400K to start was maybe 10x what I was making at the time. Then Google gave me some asinine brogrammer student nonsense in the interview, before that was a thing, and before wannabe companies mimicked it. So I ended up going to neither company.)
I hope they block the merger because our local Krogers all suck and are "ultra-filthy."
> Christian churches face the East

I should have been more specific, it's about praying to a specific place. Jews face the western wall in Jerusalem, Muslims face Mecca. And they do this in or out of the synagogue (or mosque as far as I know). I've seen people get out a compass!

> Christian clerics and devout laypersons pray the Liturgy of the Hours daily.

This might be more analogous, but the "devout laypeople" seems less analogous, as it's got the status of a commandment in Judaism and Islam.

> Finally many Christians observe religious dietary requirements involving fasting and abstinence from meat.

In this Christianity really differs from Judaism and Islam. I'm talking about ritual slaughter and avoiding eating specific animals, not general periods of abstinence from meat.

All in all obviously Judaism and Christianity share a lot too, I'm just suspicious of the claim that they shares more with each other than Islam when my experience is not like that at all.
I like to describe ChatGPT as a highly weaponized form of Gell-Mann Amnesia.
there's so much false competition in America, where upon first glance it looks like there are many competing companies but actually they are all owned by a parent company.
>Suicide is the leading cause of death under 45

What’s your source? Data I’ve seen says that’s not the case anymore. It’s overdose:

the leading cause for people ages 18-45 would be unintentional drug overdose due to synthetic opioids. That number would exceed the second highest leading cause of death (suicide in 2020 and COVID-19 in 2021.)

Source: CDC https://www.statesman.com/story/news/politics/politifact/202...
Nice. Did you code it yourself?
Well, ECC memory is more expensive than non-ECC memory by about 10-20% (according to a quick google search). Part of that may be markup due to people who want ECC being willing to pay for a highly reputable brand sold by a highly-reputable seller (they won't be buying ECC in bulk from amazon marketplace).
Could this be related to Third-Party Cookies and Tracking Protection? I think that's turned "on" by default on Firefox, no?

Some Microsoft products refuse to work on Safari and Firefox for me unless you disable the protection.

It's not really well documented, I found this info in some forum posts.
> The attractions of a new common currency are most obvious for Argentina, where annual inflation is approaching 100 per cent as the central bank prints money to fund spending.

Confused about this one. If the central bank continues to print so much money to fund spending, isn't it obviously attractive for them to keep doing it? Unless their central bank has gone crazy and can't be stopped by any other means.
In the US there are basically 2 forms of ID cards currently, one says “Federal Limits Apply”, the other does not. The one that says “Federal Limits Apply” requires a backup identity document to verify in some cases like buying a gun, or flying. Passports are often used, and while the TSA is going to verify the info on the passport, others likely will just verify if it looks real enough or check that the number actually exists and go no further.
What is Windows (2022)? Where can you get it?
I have used a sort of "UML Lite,"[0] from time to time, but that's about as formal as I get.

Normally, I have some kind of "block diagram," on what I call a "napkin sketch."[1]

A lot of documentation is in my head.

But I also tend to work on my own, or on standalone modules.

When we have a team (and I used to work for a Japanese engineering company, so this goes double), the standardized methodology becomes quite important.

[0] https://littlegreenviper.com/miscellany/swiftwater/the-curio...

[1] https://littlegreenviper.com/miscellany/forensic-design-docu...
This is cool! Makes me want to pull the trigger on an M2
You’re confusing popular and hot. Hot is the same for everyone.
I would love to use this for full body tracking in VR
Japan's hydrogen strategy does nothing for decarbonisation: study
> In fact, surveillance is not an "ethical" concern.

> It is just a concern from the standpoint of potential misuse.

No, those are two separate concerns.

The trouble is, there are other things that concern people (in the movie, catching the Joker) and when you have two conflicting concerns you need to choose between them.
That applies to a single subreddit. It was true even before that change that your and my hot would look different because we subscribed to different subreddits.
Most of my neighbors are Columbia students who pack three or four people into an apartment, while I live alone.

I'll clarify. Again. The rent on most of the apartments in my building is ~2x what I pay in rent. One of a trio sharing an apartment pays less for rent (rather, mommy and daddy do) than I do for rent.

I have other expenses as well.

I don't give lots of detail because I'm not interested in publishing my budget online. If that perturbs you, my apologies.
Interesting, thanks for the information especially on Eastern Germany. I'm not super familiar with many apple/pear varieties but worked as quality control for a pear packaging factory for a summer. The fruit are basically picked hard and processed/packaged the same day. The most common defects are punctures from the short stems and then maybe bruising. I think most defective pears are then used for canning or similar products.

They do ripen really quick and turn from hard green to yellow/brown in a few days. A perfect pear is so good..
Freakonomics Radio had a really good (two-parter?) episode about whether ads really work, and one of the people they had on was someone who cut eBay's ad spend a ton, and they said the one of the biggest wastes was advertising on the word "eBay". They removed those buys and sure enough people just scrolled down to click on the actual link to eBay.

https://freakonomics.com/podcast/does-advertising-actually-w...
I think the OP is making the point that mysogyny is good for birthrates, which seems to be what you are saying too?
does it thouuuugh?

I understand that references to 1984 are meant to convey an aversion to the potential of government surveillance, unavoidable totalitarian control, and a society that exists far after this has already occurred

but there aren't any phrases in that 73 year old book like that, kind of overused and dilutive
Here's a few of my favourites.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8902739

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7120102

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=469831#up_469940
Do you have your own IPv4 allocation? How does that work financially for a side project, if I may ask?
This is horribly reductive.

Put aside the sample size of one for a moment. The fact you've only dealt with the police when genuinely committing crimes, and their response was proportional to the crime, is most likely down to your skin colour.
I guess we'll just keep rolling the dice until someone stumbles on a planet-killer technology. Sound far fetched? So did disinfectants to people 200 years ago. And nuclear weapons to people 100 years ago.

I admit I am bit fatalistic about all this, but perhaps that explains why we haven't encountered aliens yet. Too many landmines in the tech roadmap and they inevitably blow themselves up :-)
It’s tricky - companies with high margin businesses are loath to scale into low margin businesses. It makes the firm look more like a commodity than it is. Meanwhile startups in large enterprises are often desperate to grow revenue to show relevance.. leading to low margins.
Seems to still work for me, but given the nature of Software-as-a-Service.. it's possible that there is a feature that is being A/B tested.

It's also possible, as others have mentioned, that this is a policy enacted by your admins.

I would be interested to hear why this is the case from their perspective.
The Three Sides of Risk (2020)
> This should all just be a single boolean flag in the database config telling it to use huge pages which it gets from mmap dynamically. Why is any of the filesystem, permission, static allocation malarkey necessary?

FWIW, those bits shouldn't be necessary with postgres. If huge_pages is try or on, we'll specify MAP_HUGETLB (or (shift & MAP_HUGE_MASK) << MAP_HUGE_SHIFT if huge_page_size is set). If mmap() fails we'll error (=on) out or fall back to non-huge allocation (=try)

However, you do need to allocate huge pages on the system level for this to succeed. But it's indeed just a /proc (or /sys if you want more control). /proc/sys/vm/nr_hugepages, or /sys/kernel/mm/hugepages/hugepages-kB/nr_hugepages.

One of the more awkward bits about the kernel config is that they are calculated in pages, so you need to do the conversion yourself :(

echo $(( (32 * 1024*1024*1024) / (2 * 1024 * 1024) + 1)) | tee /sys/kernel/mm/hugepages/hugepages-2048kB/nr_hugepages && cat /sys/kernel/mm/hugepages/hugepages-2048kB/nr_hugepages
the point of the above comment is that it's often beneficial to take a solo trip, rather than to take the trip with someone who wants to "guide" or "control" the subject through a certain kind of crafted experience

you're focusing on the particular means of the solo experience, which misses the point
Can you give us an example of the kind of phase you're talking about?
Under your definition, humans don’t have world models either. If you just gave someone the move sequences, and no other knowledge of Othello, they too would have no way to be 100% sure that other moves won’t show up. It’s not a very useful definition.
> other societal effects of Covid could also play a role

There’s also a large section of the population that’s now generally anti-vax and anti-medicine. (I’ve seen it in my family.)
I was interested. Thanks!
>Then your recall is terrible. Do you remember a certain presidential candidate that got publicly declared 'under investigation' days before the election in 2016? It arguably turned the election in favor of the Republican.

The man who specifically chose to announce that investigation, former FBI Director James Comey, was appointed by President Obama and fired by President Trump. He also (quite rightly in my opinion) pushed back against Trump's attempts to exert undue influence on the Justice Department. He testified against Trump before Congress. Calling Comey a conservative partisan strains belief.

Had Comey chosen to delay his announcement, it would've made the list in my comment above. As I understand it based on his public statements, that's exactly why he chose to go public rather than keep silent. He was caught between a rock and a hard place. I'm glad he opted for disclosure over concealment.
Also discussed today:

Show HN: New AI edits images based on text instructions

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34474270 (184 comments)
There are 50% more us residency spots than there are us medical graduates. the situation is likely the opposite in countries that send their medical graduates to U.S. residencies. License to practice in most us states only requires a 1 years internship and passage of usmle step3. Most residencies are 3-4 years, but those are required to pass board exams and usually required for hospital credentials. But you already have a license to practice while in residency (where in fact you are already practicing medicine (although with some supervision)).
Do (or did) you struggle with two products in very different areas? I think like most folks here I have ideas for products in very different niches and part of the analysis paralysis for me is deciding which one is "best" to start with.
I cannot tell if this is a chatgpt or someone with mild bad grammar.

EDIT: I see post comment, the parent i responded to has thus rewritten their comment.
State machines sounds great in theory, but, and maybe I am unlucky, but often code that starts out as a nice state machine ends up degenerating into spaghetti code.
I think I described it but if you’ve been to these places then what you see is:

- many things are gated. Armed security that is clearly present in places you wouldn’t expect is fairly common.

- shanty towns abound. All over the near outskirts of Johannesburg for example are established shanty towns where housing is thrown together with sheet metal, etc. Favelas in Brazil aren’t much better.

- pockets of great wealth and prosperity surrounded by disorder and heavy violent crime. This has become very common in these places.

- inflation due to populist government policy. This has now started happening here. Too soon to know if it’s a trend or a blip.

Singapore and Malaysia are different places. Since Singapore left in the 60s and went under new management they have thrived.
That's great to hear. Link?
There’s equality of opportunity and equality of outcome. Just because everyone is treated equally doesn’t mean that the end result isn’t biased. Truly: there is no such thing as apolitical technology.

I recommend MIT books Building Successful Online Communities. Also I’m reading the updated version of “Code” which has a bit about online communities I quote a lot:

Lessig (1999) identifies four elements that regulate behavior online: Laws, norms, markets, and technology

- Code/architecture – the physical or technical constraints on activities (e.g. locks on doors or firewalls on the Internet)

- Market – economic forces

- Law – explicit mandates that can be enforced by the government

- Norms – social conventions that one often feels compelled to follow

Regarding the case at hand. I think getting rid of 230 is a really dangerous idea. However I completely reject the “we have no sway over our users” argument and think we should hold online institutions socially (more) accountable for not doing more to encourage and promote high quality non-toxic communities.
The DEA is another organization that is infamous for doing this. Or rather infamous for being handed such broad decision making authority. Like ATF though, it’s by design - it allows politicians to continue to make unpopular decisions without having to be held accountable for it.
I use it every day. It is really good at succinctly explaining concepts that might require a Google search and sifting through things to find what you're looking for. It is imperfect, but still incredibly useful to me.

If you go into it without the mindset that you're out to discredit it and nudge it along with the prompts to find what you need, I think that is the most effective way to use ChatGPT right now.
Curiosity question for those answering here. How many unique visitors a month do you have to get your income? I am working on monetizing via a site that is growing in terms of visitors, and wonder what scale I will need to reach to start having things make sense.
Salesforce owns quip a pretty reasonable office competitor. This should only be a matter of time.
Things have never looked bleaker for first-time homebuyers
That's great that it worked out for you but ask mixed-race Japanese folk like Ariana Miyamoto what it was like growing up (or Naomi Osaka what her Japanese grandparents had to say about her mother loving a Black man), they will tell you eerily similar tales and are quite the opposite of being treated as a person despite the fact they were born there, are culturally Japanese, and have spoken Japanese their entire life. You can also check out Yuya From Japan's channel on Youtube where he interviews mixed-race Japanese folk.

Foreigners likely don't realize they're participating in the same near/far dialectic that informs the way Black American comedians since the 90s have noted that white folk in America treat people from Africa better than they do the people of African-descent who's ancestors were already here well before the the ancestors of most whites in America.
I think of it the way I think of torture, in the stereotypical scenario where a nuclear bomb has been hidden somewhere in the city and you're 99.9% sure the suspect you've got locked in your basement knows where it is. Go ahead and torture him if you feel like that's the utilitarian optimum... but if you're wrong (and if you survive the blast) then you deserve the harshest punishment available under law.

The problem I have is when agencies like the CIA employ torture, accomplish nothing, save no one, and get away with it scot-free. That's monstrous. I'd apply the same reasoning to the use and misuse of mass surveillance.

(BTW, if you enjoy contemplating scenarios like this, check out the movie Big Bad Wolves. It's one of those obscure sleepers that will stick with you for a while.)
> Bezos had dozens with tens of thousands just lying around to buy into his vision.

Bezos didn't come from wealth. Don't attribute his success to nepotism. He was shrewd, clever, cunning, at the right place at the right time, and made all of the right calls.
> Which FBI raided the home of a former (Republican) President over nonsense weeks before a midterm election, after which we learned the sitting (Democrat) President was caught red-handed committing the same offense?

One of them cooperated when he was found to have classified documents he should not have. One of them did not cooperate, denied that he had such documents, and refused to return them, and is still not cooperating even after he was raided to get the documents back.
World's first pure Minecraft redstone convolutional neural network [video]
Nearly $100k/yr in side income at the low end is very impressive. Do you work full-time as a developer in addition to this?
Join #startups on Libera IRC.
How are you able to consistently access it, though? Short of paying $42/month, I can't consistently reach it.
I'd be interested in knowing if there's a link between how emotional an individual is and how much empathy they feel.

I wouldn't want to extrapolate too much from this, but I think this could explain why kids who are beaten or were sexual abused are more likely to go on and do it themselves? My understanding is that to cope with extreme emotional stress people often learn to blunt their emotions, so if these findings are correct, then perhaps this results in a lack of empathy for their actions later in life.

And perhaps same could be true in reverse too. I think most people who know me would say I'm an overly an emotional person and
I often struggle with overwhelming empathy to the point I think you could argue my sense of empathy is misaligned.
YouTube makes money.. because ads.

Cloud they have somehow managed to slip so badly as to be competing for 3rd against IBM & Oracle.

Docs/gmail is rounding error because its feature poor and not monetized well.
Um actually, OS X was a distinct branding from Mac OS X.
National Grid to pay customers to cut power as freezing weather bites UK
They already got rid of private pensions and social security isn’t that livable on alone.
Can you share more on how you do this? Which sites you use to buy the high watches and where you sell them?
I don't understand "komandirovkas" in this context. Was he a Warsaw pact or Soviet intelligence agent working in the GDR? Or was he West German but traveled to East Germany for one reason or another?
> Bill Gates’ father was a founding partner of huge law firm, Musk’s family gem mine is well known. Bezos had dozens with tens of thousands just lying around to buy into his vision. Trump got a meager 1 million kick start.

So what your saying is thousands of people start with the same or an even higher level of opportunity and still fail to achieve even a fraction of what they did?
Did not work for me
Yeah, sadly. Tbh, if you don't have a separate page for your establishment, then you are a joke. Facebook pages are just horrible.
I have been working on getting stable diffusion and image generation working for non developers. It has been really awesome to help non technical people. I'm still trying to figure out how to grow it larger, but its slow and steady progress. This is the site: https://88stacks.com/