skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are more physicians per capital now than were in 1980. The population is older now, but it’s also now far more common to see a midlevel practitioner than it was in 1980.

What has changed is most physicians no longer work for themselves or for physician owned groups. Working for private equity will burn anyone out. Physicians also spend more time overseeing cheaper midlevel practitioners. That itself could be a source of increased burnout (got into the job to treat patients not manage midlevels), but the second order effect is that their direct care patient mix has shifted higher acuity (potentially more stressful to handle) patients.
That's your personal take.

I too believe gaming should be more about humans interacting, but there's millions of people out there that disagree and value the story of games.
One of the largest holes in encrypted communication is still the fact that the vast majority of email is still neither digitally signed, nor encrypted. And even if they are, the usual schemes do not encrypt the subject line.

I wish there was something like Let's encrypt but for email. Just make it trivial to sign and encrypt your mail. Also, mail clients should give a huge warning for unencrypted and/or unsigned mail, just like browsers do with web sites. Right now, at least on Outlook for macOS, you only get a happy green padlock on signed email, if you ever receive one.
I don’t totally know where I fall on this question but the obvious (isn’t it?) counter is that cross-jurisdiction telemedicine makes certification very difficult.

IE if I am a New Yorker being treated via telemedicine by someone in Alaska or Nigeria, should New York be concerned that I can be treated by someone it would not consider a “real doctor,” and may not even be a doctor in the jurisdiction they are in?

You can argue that the market would sort itself out eventually because those who didn’t know how to find useful teledocs would die out, but it’s up you you whether you are comfortable with that.
> But everybody looks at the top 0.1%, which fares, at least financially better.

Let's be fair it's at the very least 10% (maybe up to 30-40% if not more) that are doing better financially than they would in Europe under similar circumstances (education, career etc. wise). In certain sectors like tech it's not even close.

e.g. real estate even in SF, NY, San Jose is significantly cheaper than for instance in Munich, Rome, Paris, Milan, London etc. when compared to median income.

Also it's not that obvious to me that Americans are that much less likely to care about 'the plight' of others on an individual level. For instances Americans donate many times more to charity on average than Europeans do (which makes sense if you expect the government to take care of everyone, but let's not equate that with intervening directly...)
Army plans to cut 'unnecessary maintenance' on vehicles and firearms
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Exactly and this means the US bankrolls global R&D for Healthcare to everyone in the world's benefit
Old business proverb:

"Never turn away a paying customer. You will never get his business back again."

China is the largest consumer market in the world today. Bit of a bummer to lose 1.4 billion paying customers, the business will never be the same again.
>Big navy warships are extremely vulnerable to air attack. Plenty of examples in WW2.

That's true. But there were also plenty of British submarines, destroyers, gunboats, MTBs and other smaller ships. Also Germany didn't have much in the way of specialized maritime attack aircraft (IIRC because Herman Goering didn't want any competition from the German Navy).

The RN certainly would have taken heavy losses from German aircraft, submarines and naval mines (which were planned to be sown both sides of the invasion corridor). But it's hard to imagine that they could have landed enough troops and supplies against a far superior naval force without proper amphibious landing ships. Imagine trying to get tanks and artillery ashore from a barge.
More precise topographic charts, I guess.
Why Bitcoin is Different, in 2 Minutes
Atomic Rockets is such a fantastic site. Really good writing plus a great attention to detail. Chung is an Internet treasure.
What you are saying totally makes sense. A phone call is a brief, observable interruption where you can sort of follow along with how close it is to ending.

The issue with getting rid of pagers is that it means people are now texting using a special app, rather than calling. (I should have been more clear about that detail.) I think that staring quietly at your phone is a little bit more fraught than answering a page or a call.
you see someone telling you how many microservices s3 has right above.
I am wondering that too. Do they detect/record location like mobile phone towers do?
Book-films!
Comparing people who don't use someone's preferred pronouns/gender association to Hitler is obviously ridiculous and I don't think there's too much to be gained from discussing with someone who believes such a thing.

However, I'm not sure why this contradicts my point. Those people are simply wrong in their use of the word. Unless you believe that Mastodon woke lefties are representative of the broader American English zeitgeist, I doubt you could say that the language has changed such the term fascist just means evil.
The history of Chiropractic shows it to be snake oil, with a litany of serious injuries along the way.

It was started by a charlatan who was passed the knowledge “in a seance”, was formerly into “magnetic healing”, opposed all mainstream medicine including vaccination, and who was jailed for practicing medicine without a licence.

The American Medical Association describes chiropractic as an “unscientific cult”

Chiropractors are not medically recognised, and if you have a friend who’s been taken in by this quack science, you really owe it to them to explain the facts.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_chiropractic
No, I don't think you are really struggling. I think you're just choosing to ignore the clearly stated context and keep repeating your original point in increasingly whiny language.
I want it to be easier to get initial approval, but harder to keep approval.

Ie. 'we approve sale of 1,000 gallons of this product, but if you want approval for more you need to do these additional tests '.

That's because I have a higher expectation of safety with a product that ends up in the food of 10 million people than the food of 1 million people.

Unfortunately thr regulations for food tend to be black and white - something is either approved or not. And that's wrong - the level of effort into verifying something is good to feed to people should go up with more people you are feeding it to.
They don't allow laptops but they allow phones?
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Yeah I hear you. I’m pretty sure though I’ve come across sites that on a timed refresh have truncated the article. So the whole article was there until some process ran to check sign in status. Maybe that doesn’t happen anymore. I haven’t really noticed.
BTW Any self-respecting British ghost hangs out in a castle. Not a pillbox.
It's also possible to cheap out on the meter while still getting a quality product. I like to look here for good reviews/tests of multimeters: https://lygte-info.dk/info/DMMReviews.html
"The T5 supports message encryption using the industry standard AES?128* encryption algorithm. Each device is programmed with a unique key. Messages are encrypted as they enter the Spok network and are sent over the air to the device where they are decrypted for display to the user."

https://pagersdirect.net/collections/alpha-numeric-pagers/pr...

However, there seem to be other weaker links in that chain (like the email that's being sent to the host).
You're focusing on how hard it will be to read but the central thrust is whether it is recoverable at all.

Can't read what no longer exists, by any means.

Paper disintegrates without maintenance. Tape disintegrates. Hard drives lose magnetization. SSDs lose their charge states. Stone erodes. Several of these won't survive fire, water, magnetic fields, or radiation.

Also, I don't see why you couldn't store digital data on this, for example as pits and lands, or base 64 text, or some other scheme, with error correction of your choice. (But if it's as durable as they say, it's not as necessary.) But, that requires additional effort to decode.

I enjoy research into highly stable means of storing data. I think Microsoft Research was developing a technique of storing data in a 3D arrangement in glass. Very fascinating.
> there are many things that kill a lot of people

The FDA doesn't have jurisdiction over "many things".

I personally think the FDA shouldn't exist, or should not have power to regulate (and should be a toothless advisory/certification authority). That said, if they are to exist, they should do their job. They're not. We're paying the bill but not getting the service.

Same goes with OSHA. Every casino in Las Vegas demands their employees work in rooms filled with tobacco smoke. Why? Money. It's pure corruption.

We have the rules, they're just not enforced, because if you have enough cash flow, you get a special carve-out so that the rules that apply to everyone else don't apply to you.

Big Tobacco gets it from the FDA. Big Telecom gets it from the FCC. Boeing gets it from the FAA. It's everywhere, and once you see it, you can't unsee it. We're paying billions and billions for these huge bureaucracies and they're only pretending to provide us with the service they exist to provide.
There is Daniel Schmachtenbergers 'Metacrisis', which comes with its own little spin, but is probably close, and seems to gain traction. Could not find anything about him or the term on Wikipedia though, which I find a bit curious. Maybe just me being stupid and not looking right though
I suspect a lot of folks are under the faulty assumption bug bounty guy works for Microsoft.

Apparently Harvest is it's own company, not owned or operated by MS.
I agree with the sentiment, but I question how useful this would really be. Most people nowadays unfortunately use web clients, so the keys are going to have to be stored somewhere else, since backing up a browser's local storage is no easy task. If you don't have sole access to keys, but rather the keys are controlled by the same entities that control your email, I don't think there will be any benefit.
If I lose my job I lose health care. How does that make any sense? Preventative medicine is cheaper
Absolutely but the point I’m making is that I don’t see cash existing in the near future.
China raids iPhone maker Foxconn as founder runs to be Taiwan president
Sorry for your experience. It was a bad choice of words. By 'fight' I simply meant choose to do everything possible to stay alive (even if that means simply enduring horrendous medical treatment despite the pain that comes with that) rather than deciding it's not worth it and choosing to die.
Startup helps insurers spot cognitive decline in elderly drivers
> Unless you believe that Mastodon woke lefties are representative of the broader American English zeitgeist

A year ago I would have thought those people some weird online-only fringe. But not after travels around the USA for a couple of months last year, followed by time spent in Baja and interacting with Americans who came down there. So many young Americans are very concerned with pronouns and their proper usage, and the attitudes of early-millennium activist movements like Antifa seem to have made inroads into the wider culture. Of course, American society is polarized and there is a whole other camp.

I suspect that “fascism” is increasingly a popular slur even for Americans who aren’t so terminally online, and because a word’s meaning is popularly determined by its usage, that means that it’s pointless to complain that they are “using it wrong”.
> Democrats (and Republicans) need to understand that the majority of immigrants lean conservative but the Dems have successfully captured them

Trump improved among Hispanic voters by roughly 10 points between 2016 and 2020 [0] - and in some areas his improvement was a lot bigger than that - e.g. some heavily Hispanic border regions of Texas saw Trump improve his vote by over 20 points

(Of course, much of the increase of support among Texan Hispanics is strictly speaking not immigrants, rather people who have lived in the area since back when it was still part of Mexico-but I’m not sure if that’s a significant factor or just a quibble.)

Similarly, there is evidence that the GOP may have significantly improved their share of the Muslim vote over the last few years [2]

[0] https://www.politico.com/news/2021/06/30/new-trump-poll-wome...

[1] https://www.texasmonthly.com/news-politics/democrats-losing-...

[2] https://www.newsweek.com/2023/10/20/culture-wars-are-giving-...
Off topic so sorry but concerning roundup.
I was at a trade show / ag convention type event at del mar fairgrounds in around 1987 and roundup had a big display and one of the salesmen were doing thier promotional spiel and this one guy said that this product was so safe that he opened a carton from the wall display and poured some into a cup and drank it right there.
I have always wondered what ever happened to that guy
Outback’s of this generation also have an unresolved battery drain issue where if you leave the tailgate up, like you might while tailgating, the battery will drain even if all lights are off.

The solution is to put a carabiner or similar in the latch so it believes it’s closed.

Completely ridiculous issue with an otherwise great vehicle.
Yes that “someone” was me - a former employee who couldn’t remember whether that information was public or whether it was something I was exposed to from the inside.

It in fact was public.

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/storage/how-automated-reasoning....

I verified that before I posted that little tidbit.
One of my favorite technical papers covers the AMD x64 inception -- it's gold if you're into low-level OS internals: https://github.com/tpn/pdfs/blob/master/A%20History%20of%20M...
It wasn't important for them not to include it, it wasn't important for them to include it. There is a world of difference. And being aggressively ganged up on for something you don't believe is an important detail is an excellent reason to leave a group. It makes it abundantly clear that you have a fundamental difference of values with much of that group.
Is this real? I've been through Union Square 10,000 times over the past 20 years and never heard mention of it.
Way to ensure I visit even less often. I don't think this platform-as-prison model will work out for them, but best of luck.
Yep, "hit by a car" is the perfect example of fetishization, the attribution of agency to inanimate objects.

Note to that it will be the cyclist that will hit the old lady, never the bicycle. The bicycle, even though as old as the car, has resisted this fetishization. It's really curious, which objects cast the spell, and which don't.
Such hubris on the part of the West. Without the profits on sales to the huge Chinese market, where are the companies like Nvidia going to get enough capital to fund research on future development?

Know who's going to get lots of research funding from all those Chinese sales? Huawei, that's who.
> I have never in my life seen an Indian person with a beard and turban

Wait really? I see Sikhs not too uncommonly. Sure they are the minority of ethnically Indian people I do see where I am (Australia), but I see Sikhs with the expected beard and turban pretty often, though admittedly I live in an area that has a decent number of immigrants
I think my only exposure to this tech has been X-Files.
2022 Outback does not use 3G. Subaru have had battery drain issues for about a decade now across more than one model and generation.
Thank you for your kind words. I can confirm that our support team is stellar. Despite being a small team, we approach every matter very seriously and I was personally involved in the investigation you referenced. The miscommunication with the reporter on this thread was entirely my oversight (I explained it on the top response) and I'll make sure it won't happen again.
> Successful people do what unsuccessful people are not willing to do

Love it
The combination of Firefox, container tabs, uBlockOrigin and uMatrix, makes for a far, far better Youtube experience.

I have a container for "I would like Youtube's algorithm to learn this". Everything transient by default doesn't go into it. This is, incidentally, the most wonderful demonstration of the worst aspect of the whole idea of targetted advertising: buy a sofa, and get sofa ads forevermore, despite you not wanting another one for several years!
At the current pace, courses get out of date a bit too fast. I don’t see any reason to take them seriously as long as this dynamic holds. Do a course if you think it has some valuable content or maybe do some and get certificates to get your first job, but that’s the extent of it.
1Password already has it. I'm sure others will implement it soon enough as well.
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Script-based task scheduler with scalable architecture, and integrated dependency management.
> You felt let down by what is generally considered one of the best written shows of the 2010s?

By “generally” I’m guessing you just mean yourself?

I thought the writing was pretty weak. They kept falling back on silly tropes to force some drama into the show rather than letting the subject matter itself be the drama. It very much felt like they “jumped the shark” right from the very first episode.

Very few of those characters were believable, let alone likeable.

I do agree season 4 is better, but and the reason why is because the dialled it back on the writing and focused a lot more on the characters. Which is what they should have done from the start.

The writing for me felt a lot more like they didn’t have confidence that the subject matter is interesting enough on its own. Which is a sign of bad writing, not good writing.

That all said, there were some good moments. But on the whole it just wasn’t great. However there isn’t many shows based around this subject so I guess some geeks try to convince themselves that the show was better than it actually was. But each to their own I guess
Yes.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kama_tank_school

Hitler and Stalin were allies:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molotov%E2%80%93Ribbentrop_Pac...
Maybe direct these questions to a C-level employee at Uber who could potentially answer them for you?
Ask HN: Do you use "please" when writing LLM prompts?
Depends on your definition I suppose. A CRT screen would qualify according to some definitions.
>An assumption here is that attractive men both pair with women at a higher rate and also have more children. I don't see any reason that's the case - the very largest families I am aware of in my extended social circle belong to men who are not necessarily the greatest catches.

Three things.

1. Attractive is not physical attraction. While men are visual women have different criteria for attraction that is much more multivariate. Wealth, confidence, looks, power, personality. Generally, overall social status and height are the two most consistent metrics for female attraction preferences.

2. What I'm describing is a recent phenomenon. A gradual shift that we're seeing in the last decade or so, so relationships established at the beginning of 2010 and before tend to be more traditional/conservative.

3. Birth control changes the game. Evolution manifests procreation as both a conscious desire to have children and as sexual urges from men and women. Thus I may be incorrect here. It may be that thanks to birth control alpha men may not spread their progeny as much and that people in healthy monogamous relationships end up creating the next generation as hook up culture essentially is an evolutionary dead end with birth control.
Yeah, I was expecting the geek equivalent of "How to Draw an Owl in Two Simple Steps" meme. Step 1: Start with some NAND gates. Step 2: Now make the rest of the fucking CPU.

Random reference: https://i.pinimg.com/originals/d4/28/29/d42829227cd7526d75af...
It doesn’t, one-way really does mean one-way. Pagers are broadcast over an entire region. Regions can be as small as metro areas or as large as the continental United States.
“Normal” and “necessary” are subjective and cultural. They are not set in stone or even objective.
Going by the photos on that article, the garage is bigger than the 500sqft ex-council flat I rent with my girlfriend, for the equivalent of $2k/month, in London.
How could a one-way device do that?
The part about that video that makes me resolve to never buy an XBox is when they explicitly state that the user is considered hostile and the threat vector – hence the silicon-level DRM that requires a clean room, electron microscope, and molecular beam epitaxy to reverse (which their crypto algorithms also assume will happen, what with the whole pubkey/privkey root of trust and all...).

I'd like to be treated as a customer, and allowed to play on the hardware I just paid a lot of money to buy!
And what service would that be?
I think the negative sentiment towards passkeys I've seen on HN is about how bad the experience has been setting them up. If you are using a non-standard browser there were plenty of parts of the process that fell over.

> Are they conflating fido2 hardware tokens with “google owns your credentials, and you can’t back them up” passkeys?

Not sure why you say this, but perhaps you are conflating device-bound credentials (which aren't supposed to be moved between devices): https://passkeys.dev/docs/reference/terms/#device-bound-pass...
"Tirelessly" is apt in this case. Please educate yourself about this community in general, and this conference in particular -- which I believe to be one of the best in tech: technically interesting, grounded in reality, relevant problems, terrific hallway track, supportive community, reasonable price!
that's interesting, because it means you can't track the recipient either.
Is there any place where you can't buy it, yet you get ads?
LOL, I just thought the person I responded to was confused.

There are so many TLA (Three Letter Acronyms) that are the same across industries with completely different meanings. I was on the ECE subreddit which is for Electrical and Computer Engineering. Someone posted a rant about how annoying these children were, how the pay was bad, and the parents were awful. There were some funny comments about how some engineers acted like children and others about the new grads. Finally someone pointed out that ECE was also Early Childhood Education and pointed them to a different subreddit.
You want low latency action, and for that you need one CPU with all cores talking to all the memory without locking. Erlang can't do that, and neither can any other language; except C (Arrays of 64 byte Structures) and Java (Concurrency complete rewrite of the JVM in 1.5 that was adopted and failed for C++11 because you need a VM + GC for that model to be meaningful).
Hardware; Pi 4 only used SDR54 or something like that, half the data rate as Pi 5 microSD interface.
Yes, that was their policy. I won’t say their name, but it was the headquarters of a major financial services firm in South Korea

One of my Korean colleagues had this theory-senior executive ranks in Korea are dominated by former military officers, and as a result the corporate culture is heavily influenced by the military - including an obsession with countermeasures against corporate espionage. In practice, I don’t they were doing anything worth spying on, while the extreme security rules were a big burden on developer productivity