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According to actual data rather than vague virtue signalling: There were 53,442 women students enrolled at U.S. medical schools in 2023. They made up 55% of all medical school students. Women first became the largest gender group enrolled in medical schools for the first time in 2019. There is still a shift towards men between application and enrollment, one could just wildly assert that that is either/both evidence of and/or a betrayal of meritocracy, but there is no actual evidence of any of that unless you have actually sat on a medical admissions committee.

https://www.aamc.org/news/medical-schools-fewer-apply-class-...

I doubt the fact that you believe this to be true but it is actually false will change much about your perspective. But given the throwaway nonsense I feel like its worth the time to point out.

But my dopamine…

They can sure try though, and I would be damned surprise if this wasn’t related to Sam’s event with trump last week.

“American people”

Including the typos in the first draft they posted

And what plan they have to tell those apart (hint: none).

Doing so is exactly the type of abusive behavior abusive ex partners are known for.

Agree with it in principle or not, this system really belies the stupidity behind these scenes.

Governments and employers don’t do paperwork around hiring for fun - they do it for an auditable paper trail which has real and important value.

The thing with a gold rush is you often end up selling shovels after the gold has run out, but no one knows that until hindsight. There will probably be a couple scares that the gold has run out first to. And again the difference is only visible in hindsight.

Said another way…Elizabeth Holmes product hurt people by failing. Sam’s product may well end up hurting society by working.

Basically what you are saying is that me robbing you, and me making economic policy that might lead to increased unemployment which might lead to greater housing or food insecurity which might lead to increases in crime which might lead to you getting robber are indistinguishable.

Adults can differentiate between direct and indirect causal relationships…it is basically the cognitive development definition of adulthood (c.f. Work by Piaget)

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What makes you think that is the actual goal rather than just what you are being told the goal is?

We just rehired the guy in charge…minor observation I’m sure.

This committee doesn’t make regulations they make expert suggestions.

This is way off the original topic of course…but you can do a quick search of the federal register they you can see the agenda of meetings and such. A recent one reviewed structural failures that led to boats sinking.

Fields learn as new things happen. There’s a reason aerospace industries talk about rules having body counts. Freezing regulations rarely makes work easier or faster, it just makes knowledge sharing worse.

There this large assumption across HN that if one doesn’t understand something l, that must meant it doesn’t make sense. It’s a bad way to operate in the world…independently of ideology…lack of understanding is not unique insight.

I imagine there is a big gap between the things they deal with the most and the things they need to plan for the most.

I send more emails than anything, but if you tried to get me to spend time being trained on sending email they wouldn’t find your body.

Conversely I design new courses rarely, but when I do it matters immensely that it’s done well. Resources and support and structure to help me do that well when I need to is most welcome.

When doing business is a bribe it’s perfect

the amount of random 'stuff' like this that I've accummulated over the years could fill a book that is interesting only to me lol

Thanks for the link!

Can't find a source at the moment but cool side anecdote to this...working from memory

Honeywell was largely the driving force behind developing terrain avoidance systems for commercial aircraft. Those initial systems worked based on comparing the terrain below to the flight profile of an aircraft using a radar altimeter.

There was a CFIT (controlled flight into terrain) accident (I want to say AA in Peru?) where the mountains basically got to tall to fast to give the crew sufficient time to react because of that system. That caused Honeyweell to go back and look at ways to improve the system to be predictive rather than reactive - using a terrain database.

Honeywell bought/came into posession of a russian world wide terrain altitude database to do the first generation of this. I can only imagine the US had the same thing, or more accurate, but this was far enough ago that US Government wasn't sharing.

> I don't see the problem with the comment that you responded to. It's not surprising to me.

The problem is that you provide other examples and then extrapolate from there that the original comment could be true. However, whether or not you believe it could be true is not serious evidence that it is.

Yes, offering alternative wording to offensive language is a real thing. But notice that the OP is asserting that a facially silly example is real without any support beyond a claim of personal experience. What should matter to you is whether it is real or not as opposed to whether it is surprising or not.

Fake silly examples like this are meant to sit on the line between believable and absurd specifically to make certain ideas seem ridiculous. Making up silly examples of real things is a specific technique to undermine them. It is a propaganda tool not a good faith attempt at dialogue.

C.f., people making up stories about litter boxes in schools to try and undermine efforts to protect the rights of gender non-conforming children (https://www.snopes.com/news/2023/01/30/how-furries-got-swept...)

> Who teaches the "<math specialty> for business" courses? IME, it was math professors.

IME its the same...I've also found that approach works less well at generating good learning. It (seemingly inherently) results in decontextualized knowledge and does not get students over the application gap, which is the exact problem that such things are trying to solve.

> That it has “hacker” is seemingly incidental. This place has always had bad takes from rich people - or takes from people who are seeking to be rich by way of tech

Right, but hacker is the culture they have wrapped themselves in, and I'm commenting on that. I'm commenting on one of the markers of validity that matters to how people in this group evaluate the credibility of an argument.

He didn’t even have to build his own strawman. It is a shared strawman - which is more efficient. PG out there disrupting the bad faith argument industry.

I find this highly highly suspect as an anecdote without some supporting evidence

A quick search suggests this is a bit of a running meme used to discredit and poke fun at such trainings rather than something you’ve honestly experienced.

The version of hacking I’ve grown up with for 30 plus years has always had very little space in it for bad takes from rich people.

That’s not what is happening and I suspect you know it.

The comments have quite clearly laid out how to uninformed this perspective is because it lacks knowledge. It’s not because he’s white ir male it’s because he’s talking over people who have experienced this to tell them they are overreacting.

Gender and race are explanatory of why this is dumb but not fundamental to why it is - that is simply him being misinformed.

It’s almost like that is the entirety of the rhetorical and argument station expectations when people comment on too much wokeness.

Vibes.

“I invented a meaning for this word that bears no resemblance to its actual meaning and then am critical of others because I think my invented definition is bad”

>PE for physicists

You meant juggling and fencing?

A more pragmatic answer is who’s going to teach it? Someone with weak skills in the discipline? Or someone with weak skills in computing? (This is a glib answer)

Finding people at the true intersection is surprisingly hard, and those people tend to be busy.

In grad school I took and advanced statistics course in the psych department. The concepts were new to me but not to the folks in the discipline. However the math (matrix multiplication) and basic coding were easy for me and very hard for them.

There was only one person in the department who could teach it, other faculty did that type of work entirely as “clients” which just ran tools and code from others.

> More glad than ever that I deleted my FB account 10 years ago

I hung on to facebook largely because marketplace makes parenting markedtly cheaper. I've used it less and less to the point I forget about it. This finally inspired me to full delete the account.

is there an easy solution for this? I recently found myself looking through old bookmarks from a long previous project and only about 1/3 worked and it made me sad.

while I can imagine the frustration, I'm not sure this is a post you want attached to your name if you have to get into a legal battle with them.

The Colorado Department of Public Health (who by the way are AWESOME) have a sub page on specifically this:

https://cdphe.colorado.gov/animal-related-diseases/prion-dis... (it links to the page you provided)

As noted on the webpage you linked, there is a very clear set of rules and processes related to testing hunting-harvested animals in known areas of concern as well as testing of road kill to manage surveillance:

"In 2024, CPW will require mandatory submission of CWD test samples (heads) from all deer harvested during rifle seasons from specific hunt codes to better evaluate the prevalence of CWD in herds. Hunting is the single most effective tool wildlife managers have to monitor and manage the spread of the disease. By submitting harvested animals for CWD sampling, Colorado’s hunters provide critical information about where and how the disease is impacting deer, elk, and moose herds in the state."