skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Money is itself a measure.

Money is a measure of wealth, it is not wealth itself. Much as a ruler is a measure of length, not length itself.

The ability to measure 1,000 km does not equate to the capacity to travel 1,000 km.

The ability to measure a hectare of land does not equate to the possession of a hectare of land.

The ability to measure a year's worth of labour productivity, or industrial output, does not equate to the realisation of a year's worth of productivity.

And financial units absent the goods and services that they can access ... are worthless.
Musk can put a topping bid. 20 times the other top. He can then ask the party balloon people to pay 100 times = kill that waste business dead dead dead, - deserves that sort of death. Then he can meet the science demand at a variable spot price. The 10-15% from other small gas wells will be rendered economic = re-vitalise helium extraction from these small fry = there are a lot of them this procedure would render economic = assure a long tern supply. It would also liberate He from being a market pawn.
They call this - 'a cat among pigeons' and boy would they scatter....
Inelastic supply is a well-known phenomenon. The usual reasons are "it's hard to add supply" or "suppliers are working at full capacity"

The medical field has both. Suppliers are working at capacity - there's a limited amount of residency spots[1]

Increasing supply is also incredibly hard, because it has a decade+ of lead time.

Neither one of those "our modern economy" can fix. The latter requires loosening training requirements. That's why we have Nurse Practitioners, which folks are loudly complaining about a few threads above.

The number of residents is capped because new residents cost money. Hospitals used to make up for that by relying on Medicare, but that funding hasn't been increased. And so the economy works exactly as designed, the expensive good of "residency slots" is only offered to a limited amount, where it makes financial sense.

It doesn't matter that additional doctors would make sense, the hospitals can't make money of more residency spots. Existing doctors don't complain, because it drives their salaries up.

All of this very much makes the eloquent point that our modern economy is not the right tool for education or medical services. It can't work, given the forces around it.

And so it goes.

[1] https://www.medicaleconomics.com/view/match-day-2023-a-remin...
>One of my weird hobbyhorses is how dumb the name "nurse practitioner" is; they should just call them "associate physicians".

Well, there are "physician assistants", PAs, which are the same rung of the ladder as NP but via different path. Areas tend to somehow converge either on NPs or PAs, but not both so often.
Japanese astrophysicists suggest possibility of hidden planet in the Kuiper Belt
Urgent care is just a doctors office. I had to go for some stupid thing and the person at the front door would not let you enter if you had anything like chest pain.
Medicine in the US has become a game of billing for the most number of procedures possible. For those doctors that don't want to play, well, they go concierge.

In primary care especially the fees are low, and to be any good you need to explain things to the patients - which takes time. In the current medical billing culture it's about throughput, so taking time to explain falls by the wayside.

This is industrial medicine.
Which tons of systems? The US currently does not qualify as capitalist by that definition, we currently have a statist system with an unelected 4th branch of government, etc.

Ref to definition: http://aynrandlexicon.com/lexicon/capitalism.html
Do you have an idea what the difference is in cost? A subscription clinic opened up by me and their price was shockingly reasonable to me after years of insurance deductibles and whatnot.
There's a good documentary about this that came out last year.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt16317380/
Not news proper. I have a pile of programming-related RSS feeds I follow, including HN. And some fun hashtags on Mastodon (like astronomy, geology, history, etc.)

If something is newsworthy, it makes it through one of those sources. I follow a subreddit for my town, as well, to get local info.

Someone here on HN asked what actions someone has taken based on the last 10,000 news articles they've read. I realized I couldn't name one, so decided news was a waste of time. By comparison, I can name a quite a number of actions I've taken from my current feeds, e.g. from learning more programming stuff to jumping on EFF action alerts, etc.
I appreciate you taking the time to do this, explain that the existence of these policies itself is not in doubt, and clarify the difference between asking for proof of their existence versus proof of their effects on society. Because I had started to respond, but I decided it was bad for my mental state to engage further.

It sounds like you and I are actually quite close in belief that systemic reforms are necessary but that undertaking them by prosecutorial fiat is a mistake. You'd probably appreciate this analysis:

https://harvardlawreview.org/print/vol-132/the-paradox-of-pr...
Whatever happened to the concept of receiving a legal-order, having your lawyers scrutinize it and complying afterwards? None of these high-stakes data handoffs coordinated over insecure email.
You're proving my point while disagreeing with me? I'd like for that to be a new one.

We want this. This is us.
Primary care makes up a relatively small percentage of all medical spending, especially considering how important its role is in our system.
I mean that a bit sarcastically to be clear. It’s a ridiculously good income. If you read Blind, there are a lot of L5 that are so upset about not getting L6, I think it lacks perspective.

Yes I realize I’m saying this and I make a lot more, but if I was “stuck” at $400k I don’t think I would be upset.

The median household income in NYC is something around $75k.
on what, a raspberry pi? with what db? with what indexes? with what threading strategy? with what...
> It’s how society has always worked and will always work.

There are a lot of things throughout history that you could say about. At the time it would have been impossible to see any other way, and yet we have advanced.
Also lack of respect from the medical profession. Hanging out with pre-meds at elite universities, it was considered a bit of a disappointment to only get a GP or internal medicine residency - good students try to get speciality residency. This is of course downstream of the lack of compensation from government or insurers - specialties earn more, unless you're willing to become a physician in a rural hospital.
> To power a house for a hundred hours you need a battery that can power 100 houses for 1 hour.

A battery that is meant to power a single house doesn't need to be able to output enough power for 100 houses.

It's important to not be misleading about that because, usually, the lower the rated output of a battery, the higher the power density can be. Which means cheaper and smaller batteries.
No. Med schools desperately want to expand because they make a ton of money, there are not enough residency slots for them to expand without competent graduates going unmatched.
Ugh, that's a pisser. "We ruined your life, sorry. You can't do anything about it. Ta ta!"
Is that Amazon’s fault? So many once reputable brands have been MBAed to death and are now indistinguishable from the bottom tier garbage. It is near impossible to do real product research on anything, anywhere.
The following document seems to be the definitive source, supports the larger point of speciality dependent results, and was my first google result: https://www.nrmp.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Advance-Data...
They are saying that the spinning disks with helium are old, which is silly. Flash is fast and convenient but a terrible thing to rely on for data storage.
The 'Fail Whale' is not the point.

If Twitter / X went down every week like GitHub is currently doing for years, they would be called out for that, immediately. But here we have GitHub; a centralized service having over 100M+ active users and their record of uptime is far worse than Twitter / X's and it is given a pass each time it falls over every week.

By that standard, we should not be accepting GitHub's ridiculous uptime history and it has been found that GitHub is far more unreliable than most services including Twitter / X but somehow right here, GitHub is not falling apart or seen as unreliable, especially with having more than 5 incidents in one month for years?
Also third party providers and modules.
I completely agree that such a thing should not be US-only. There would need to be a clear distinction between one-gov't backdoor and voluntary regulatory certification, because ultimately the goal would be for other countries to follow suit and provide similar/identical certifications. You could look to standards bodies to provide standard implementation details on what "firmware escrow" is, what exact formats and files must be included, etc. IEEE, ISO, JIS, DIN, and all of them could write or adopt the document. But actually running the service and providing the certification is a little closer to a patent office than organizing standards which is why I propose doing it federally. Think Energy Star (which is a US gov't program based on EPA standards) which has been implemented successfully outside of the US.
Except it’s not just hosting the covered work itself as SAAS that triggers a distribution, but any derived work. If you use (say) AGPL MongoDB in your SAAS bug tracker, your bug tracker now needs to be AGPL too. The virality doesn’t stop at hosting a SAAS MongoDB.
Bullshit, you're just being curmudgeonly. Hades, Horizon Zero Dawn, Baldur's Gate 3, lots of clever little indie games like One Shot, music like Rujnuj and Mana, and way more.
Look at job applications. Some ask if you've ever been arrested or charged with a crime - not convicted even. Guess what, you answer yes for some stupid summary offense like having a dog off a leash and your application is in the garbage.

I see tons of bias in hiring too. What about people that take a break from working due to childcare, medical issues, etc? They struggle. There's a never ending amount of those stories that show up on HN. Maybe some get a second chance, but it might take years if they ever get one.

It seems like many places in Europe have better options for second chances from the legal perspective. Perhaps better from a financial standpoint with the support programs too.
Probably for some feature or astetic that's unrelated to the smart features, but is only available on the smart oven.
I suggest doing some math. Just back of the napkin.
Also see what I said about methi here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37398973
1) Space doesn't help you, it only postpones the inevitable. Eventually the ravenous maw of your exponentially growing civilization will run out of stars to harvest, trapped as it is inside a light bubble growing at 1c, its volume expanding with mere cubic growth.

2) You've just relabeled the discussion from "wealth" to "productivity". In any case, scoring some efficiency wins here and there is once again a game with physics-imposed limits.

I repeat my question: when all humans are fully fed, housed, maximally entertained and satiated, every dopamine receptor firing on all cylinders - and you can't make more humans - what exactly is there left to grow? At all, let alone exponentially?

I confess I find the notion of infinite exponential growth of anything, let alone things humans value, so patently and obviously physically unsustainable that I am deeply perturbed by these earnest efforts to defend it. I engage in the spirit one might engage Flat Eartherism, as an intellectual exercise in probing the manifestly absurd - except that this dogma apparently pervades mainstream economic thought, an observation that should terrify anyone who wants civilization to survive.
The motivation to "implement" physics in code, is that you can't "cheat." You have to spell out every step in a formal way. The motivating example in SICM is that the usual way the Euler-Lagrange equations are written ... doesn't make sense.

The authors explain: "Classical mechanics is deceptively simple. It is surprisingly easy to get the right answer with fallacious reasoning or without real understanding. Traditional mathematical notation contributes to this problem. Symbols have ambiguous meanings that depend on context, and often even change within a given context."

Read the rest of the preface here: https://mitp-content-server.mit.edu/books/content/sectbyfn/b...

And why not just "code" but "functional code"? Well, it makes a lot more sense to "take a derivative of a function" if that function doesn't have side effects (etc). There is a tighter correspondence between functions in the programming sense and in the mathematical sense.
Many deep wells with impermeable cap rocks would assure a USA supply - these well vent their He because it is 1-3% He.
Here is one:- https://www.firsthelium.com/

there are hundreds like it,
I don't know much about them, certainly not enough compared to what I know about the other two.
It’s hard to tell sarcasm or hyperbole when it comes to this topic. People will straight-faced post stuff like “I demonstrate my expertise in this field by being extra nice to my Hatsune Miku girlfriend to show fealty to Roko’s Basilisk” and get mad if that doesn’t serve as the bedrock for serious discussion
I moved a year ago and still have not found a new primary care doctor. The search is almost comical:

Take a search space of all doctors within 50 mile radius. Now start applying filters: Must be "in network" with my insurance (-A%), must be of specialty "primary care physician" (-B%), must be accepting new patients (-C%), actually picks up the phone when called or returns your call (-D%). A%xB%xC%xD% leaves me with about 3 candidate doctors.

New patient appointments are out 3 months for Doctor X, 5 months for Doctor Y and 9 months for Doctor Z.

Doctor X

So I set up an appointment for Doctor X. 3 months later, the front desk receptionist calls and informs me that Doctor X is unavailable on the day of my appointment, so I need to make a new appointment--a wait of another 2 months. So I make that appointment. 2 months later, front desk receptionist calls and says Doctor X is retiring and no longer taking patients.

Doctor Y

Next I set up an appointment for Doctor Y. 4 months later, I get a call from Doctor Y who informs me he is also no longer taking new patients.

Doctor Z

Finally, I now have an appointment with Doctor Z for some time in 2024. Fingers crossed...

It seems a better strategy would have been to just set up appointments with all of them in parallel and just go with the first one to actually want to take my money.

When people try to argue against socialized medicine they like to point out how the American system doesn't have wait times, and systems like Canada and U.K. make you wait many months for a doctor. Obviously they haven't tried finding a USA doctor recently.
I think, if Terraform was licensed under AGPL, then not only would all of those folks would have to also open-source their products, but also that would be the intent of the license in the first place
When one state had 4M+ in favor of hillz, does this mean 3M in popular is a moot arguing point, since by these maths, she lost by more than 1M in the rest of the country...
This is basically boomerism in a nutshell.
Engineers overcome ‘light scattering’ with full-motion video
How is choosing to take ownership/equity in a company in lieu of cash as compensation inherently immoral? If the complaint is about the compensation structure and not the amount. You'd have to hold some pretty fringe views on ownership in general(re: homes, cars, small businesses etc.) to question that.
> In the long-run, it's worth asking whether a business that doesn't make money once externalities have been internalized is a business worth having.

This is a good question. The short is is: of course it isn't. But it's difficult to know that up front at times.
While not straight up buying a house for their children, in my experience (middle class, PNW) it is, while not common, not unheard of for parents to assist their kids in buying a house, be it by providing some/most of the downpayment, or co-signing on the home loan.
Same issue. Terraform doesn't separate invoker permissions from runtime permissions. It runs with whatever privileges the invoker provides and since it's doing arbitrary privileged things it generally runs with arbitrary privileges.

The only real fix is to run it in a client-server model like a web app where the user has limited permissions and the server gates access to the privileged backend permissions.

Put another way, if I want to create an S3 bucket on AWS, I need S3 CreateBucket privileges, not "run Terraform" privileges.
I never referred to Admiral Levine's sex anywhere in this thread before this comment—you may be confusing me with another commenter. He is in fact a man, because he is a human with male genitalia (optimized for producing sperm). If I were to claim he was not a man, I would be lying, and lying is wrong.
Why do I think, whenever someone male defends artificial diamonds, that it's Sheldon from The Big Bang Theory talking?

There's no logic involved here.
The UHK (ultimate hacking keyboard) comes pretty close. I can vouch for its high quality, and it's about as portable as you can get for that many keys without switching to a slim profile like in the OP
I'm a medical sub-specialist. When I trained, my primary care mentors were simultaneously some of the smartest and most poorly compensated physicians in the system. I have to master a very narrow body of knowledge to function well. To make a good differential, a family medicine physician has to know a lot about everything. This skill saves the medical system tons of money by preventing unnecessary testing, lab work and specialist referrals. It also saves lives and dramatically increases patient quality of life. I can't emphasize enough how hard this is to do since, in the American system, you can be held liable for any missed diagnosis. You have to be sure that you're correct and it's much easier to just order everything and discharge the liability to a specialist.

Practicing primary care in this era is a nightmare. Like the article says - most clinics are run by PE or hospitals that push 'providers' to see a complex patient every 10 minutes while absorbing none of the liability for rushed, low-quality care. The compensation for these positions is now significantly less than most of the salaries that you see in the "Who's hiring?" threads on HN except with a tremendous amount of liability attached, a ton of customer service and a guarantee that your salary will go down relative to inflation.

The idea that NPs or PAs could just fill in the holes in our primary care system was always laughable to anyone who understands how medicine is actually practiced - to do the job well you need well trained, highly intelligent people. The punchline of the joke is that very few PAs/NPs ever intended to go into primary care and now the market is flooded with "Psych NPs" and "Derm NPs" pedaling Ritalin and botox.

Nothing will fix this problem short of a complete, ground-up rebuild of our healthcare system.
> Scheme lacks the type system, syntax and syntactical "convenience" of curried functions.

The argument is that all of that syntax is a distraction.
> People who have entered the industry in the last decade or two may not realize it, but the sky high salaries, stock grants, benefits, flexible work hours, free gourmet meals, stocked pantries, gym memberships and lots more that you enjoy every day are all thanks to Sergey and Larry in the early 00s wanting to build a Disneyland for nerds. They were so successful at it that the rest of the industry had no option but to emulate them. Being a software engineer was nowhere near as enticing a job pre-Google.

Were you working in the Valley? Because a decade before Google I co-founded a company and while we didn't have in house chefs (we were a bootstrap) we had the rest. And not because we were special -- the three of us who co-founded the company were used to those things from our own prior employers.
I'm not sure what your argument is. At some point, you have to draw a line between a group claiming to be Christian and actually being Christian, and a group claiming to be Christian while not being so. Otherwise the descriptor "Christian" is not useful for categorisation purposes.
This is one of those issues where I have terribly, terribly little sympathy for the businesses. "It will cost the business more" "people might find out they're underpaid" "it'll bring down average comp!!" (Why? By what mechanism? All the author of the article does is bet 10% of his salary.)

In the US, employment is ridiculously one-sided in the benefit of the employer and this has only gotten worse as inflation has returned in force. The fact that they're throwing up their hands and complaining "think of the poor capitalists!!" just makes me shake my head.
That's probably not correct. While the AGPL is a little ambiguous, it probably does not infect other apps. That's why I created the Candid Public License (CPL): https://github.com/candiddev/cpl
I think I’m actually a pretty bad mentor!

I can’t really do the career or manager interaction stuff well because I don’t care about it personally and I don’t have any problems myself with my manager being incompetent or changing all the times.

I think that’s correlated with my somewhat unintentional success, but “have a better manager” or “don’t get reorged by directors playing game of thrones” isn’t actionable advice.

What I am good at is technical stuff, so if I have a person that is 1. technically competent and with the right attitude (IYKYK) and 2. good and technical manager then I and they do very well. But that’s very situational and also the technical stuff is very company specific.
I'd rather have unfinished feature flagged code in master (and therefore production) than have the same unfinished code withering in a long running branch, diverging from master and causing integration problems later.

> Either finish your work or delete the unneeded code.

It's work in progress. We're working on getting it finished.
//It's just that sometimes it's not enough and looks are pretty important for women

An obvious counter-point to that are the millions of short/bald/ugly/whatever guys who are married and have kids.

FWIW, women are turned off by guys who are gross and don't take care of themselves. A guy who intentionally makes the best of what he's got is already ahead.
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I left out the full truth to get my climate change paper studied
Dermatology is playing on a different level now: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6659155/
> one deep mystery with another deep mystery

Neither are necessarily all that mysterious, though.

Meditation has been deeply understood by practitioners in the past, and modern science is gradually unraveling neurological components of it. It isn't a complete mystery.

Neurodivergence is understood well enough to be able to be categorized in somewhat meaningful ways. Sure, causes and neurological differences haven't been nailed down, but again... I'm not sure these qualify as "deep mysteries".
> That is, people will still want to signal their commitment/ability to provide when proposing

I think that's a maybe. It's equally possible that people are seeing through the bullshit of this faux ritual.