skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A fundamental difference between medicine and flight is motivation. When pilots screw up they die, when doctors screw up, someone else dies. Medicine idolizes heroes, a single doctor doing everything and saving the day. In air travel the heroes tend to die. The origin of the airline checklist is when Major Ployer P. Hill, one of the best test pilots in the Army, forgot to release the elevator lock on a B-17 prototype before takeoff and died as a result.
https://filippo.io/CVE-2016-2107/#ycombinator.com
Could you simplify that a little? Apologies, the issue is not with you but with me, but I just don't understand :-(
Since you don't want to just Google the answer for why they're not already doing this, I'll do it for you.

http://www.sidem-desalination.com/Process/FAQ/

Second question down.
The entire point of UBI is to get rid of 19th century style notions of worthy and unworthy poor people, thats a huge part of the inefficency and waste of the current system.
Sure. Anyone pro- or anti-wind will say whatever argument they can to try to convince people.

All I'm saying is before we decide to build more wind turbines, we should have an honest accounting of all of the benefits and costs laid out. There are locations where they make sense and places where they don't. And there are levels where some government support might make sense, and some levels where they don't.

Even if people support one form of power generation over another, there should always be a limit.
Unless things have changed in the last 4 years I've been abroad, £50 notes are basically unused/deprecated anyway. In my entire 25 years I was living there I had never received one from an ATM, and even when I withdrew large quantities of cash from the bank branch itself it was always denominated in 20s and 10s. I've seen people trying to pay with them (usually foreigners, having exchanged the notes in their home country) and getting denied because cashiers are unfamiliar with them and couldn't tell a fake from a real note to save themselves. If you put a gun to my head I couldn't tell you what a Bank Of England 50 looks like without googling it - pink maybe? Only reason I know the Bank of Scotland one is because it won some award a couple years back (if you're into pretty banknotes take a peek here http://www.theibns.org/joomla/index.php?option=com_content&v...)

That said, removing them would be kinda silly IMO. It may solve the awkward "tourist buying a £3 beer with a £50 note" scenario, but you have that pretty much everywhere. I kick myself when I forget to hit the "Select bankotes" option at ATMs here because a 2000 CZK note is pretty tough to spend. That's maybe more because Czech bars/shops are awful at stocking their cash registers with enough notes for the day and the cashiers just simply do not have the change available.
You should be worried less about traceability, and more about negative interest rates turning you into an economic slave in the pursuit of unattainable growth.

A lot easier to chip away at your savings if they're bits in the bank versus notes under the mattress.
Very apropos link. Thanks for digging it up.
rofl guy predicts 70% drop to $200
Parsing is just a small part of an http server. You can check the links I posted to see how much work is involved in validating http headers (after parsing), and creating http responses.
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Cost. Synthetic fuels are very expensive. The ethanol industry sucks - it's just a fancy crop subsidy.
These are also all hospitals in higher-income areas that can be considered part of the larger NYC metro region, as it is home to many of the bridge-and-tunnel commuting workers. I would not be surprised if this demographic has a statistically significant deviation from the national norm when it comes to seeking certain medical services and attitudes on desired level of medical intervention during childbirth.

This is purely a hypothesis, however.
rofl guy predicts decline to $200/share
Advertisers don't bear the costs of fraud. Intermediaries don't bear the cost of fraud.

Fraud is priced in. It drives down the value of all ad inventory in the market.

The costs of fraud end up being borne by legit publishers (who have to compete with fraud for the same ad budgets) and with copyright holders (whose work gets copied onto bottom-feeding sites.)

http://blog.aloodo.org/posts/thank-you-for-supporting-fraud/
He may have skimmed the text and missed it. His comment does not imply that he read the sentence I quote.
Vanguard total stock market fund (VTSMX) has over 3000 stocks, right?
I'd argue that this rule too, has an exception: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2KdYEHsXk1k
I read about half of SICP and thought it was OK. Not great, but okay. The programmers I've met fall largely into two groups, those who like systems level programming, knowing how the OS works, how it interfaces with the hardware, what the memory layout is like, etc. and those who like abstraction and the things that SICP values. I'm definitely in the former group (but I certainly appreciate people who prefer the SICP approach).

There's room for both of course, but for people like me SICP was really a slog. Some of the exercises were hard sure, but more than that the material just wasn't that appealing to me. I don't have any comment on whether MIT's decision was the correct one, but liking SICP or working through SICP is by no means a prerequisite of being a good programmer.
True, Hackensack Medical Center is actually one of the best hospitals in NJ, so I wouldn't be surprised that people who might experience complications would go there.

See http://health.usnews.com/best-hospitals/area/nj
The writer probably (ok, definitely) has never managed an adwords campaign
What I think is the crucial missing component is: how does your intelligent system define goals?

Right now goal-setting is something intelligences do not, and cannot, do for themselves. Humans must define the bounds of a problem carefully before a robot brain can perform useful work (some kind of numerical optimization).

The preliminary problem, then, is: how do humans define goals?

And the final problem: construct an intelligence that is able to efficiently set and achieve goals that are broadly in line with human goals.

I think this statement of the problems neatly sums up my difficulty with the notion of "strong AI", or "AGI", or Robot God or what-have-you and the possibility that it might be somehow useful in the world.

Because the way humans set goals, I think, is through vague heuristics that are represented as narratives carried by culture and society; we hold these narratives and pass them back and forth to each other, through various tongues and modes of fashion.

This means that human desire is the product of a constantly-shifting stream of socialization, which we are all drinking from and pissing into at once. The only meaningful way to accurately represent this, I think, is for engagement in it. You must participate in culture to "get it". Where this participation breaks down ("let them eat cake") we get strife.

Where does this leave the poor robot mind? It can only be "intelligent" in the way that we want when it can appreciate the horror of losing its daughter to a prison camp, when it can come to feel the memory of an inherited tragedy as both burr and serious weight. At this point we're just raising children again.

At any other point it's simply a dumb slave, doing exactly what we tell it - or a capricious, self-serving monster to be fought.
No there wasn't a lot of evidence because back then the human intellect wasn't being outcompeted by the machines.

This is what is happening now. Machines are gradually moving further and further up the abstraction ladder.

So unless you are aware of another human ability used to do a job it kind of stops there.
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Thanks for this. I'd say these are reviews taking place in a clinical setting and geared toward generating a care plan with a time frame of some length. Under these conditions, we could expect a patient to be laboring under the fewest possible distractions and as such be the best candidate for supervising one's own care.

But it is seriously wrong to assume the patient will continue to act akin to a corporate employee bloodlessly toiling on a project at work. It is far more likely that the patient will at some point begin to act like a person with discomfort, with all the accompanying bewilderment, skepticism, confusion, hypersensitivity, etc. This reality needs to be honored, not waved away.

Again, I do advocate for educated and engaged patients, but I totally reject the idea that systematically these patients are to be depended upon for engagement in their own care to the degree that any medical errors can reasonably be precluded by such engagement. Not only does it fly in the face of psychological realities of patients, it appears to me to be an ugly slippery slope toward the direction of general victim-blaming and "externalization" that the corporate ethos is so well known for.
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To your last point, I think it's less of a factor of the person in the lead or his ideas, and more about what was expected of that person.

Sculley was more of a manager, Jobs was a dictator. Once Jobs was back, he was somehow able to lead the company in a near-authoritarian way, and despite many flukes, it allowed the company to try many things that would not be readily accepted by an all-powerful committee.

One authoritarian that is wrong half the time is better than a committee that is not-wrong 100% of the time. The former tries a bunch of stuff, the latter doesn't really try anything. (And to me that's what got RIM and Nokia killed).
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11630375
Novelty account names tend to have references, just saw one the other day where not only did a commenter have the username of "Hitlerly Litler" or something to that effect, but someone pointed it out with the /u/username syntax because they thought it was funny.

If they're doing naive string searches, does every thread that guy shows up in get counted? What about robot_hitler, MeinFurher, and all the others?

Did anyone control for the topic very well? Many of the current news stories deal with fascism, or things people might worry to be fascism or totalitarianism or genocide.
Given that Solar power is the fundamental source of energy leading to petroleum based energy (starting with photosynthesis), it's surprising that we still rely on petroleum to the degree we do today. In 100 years this would perhaps be something people would find shocking (like how we are shocked today at how mainstream slavery used to be 150 odd years ago).

Solar Energy is unlimited, cheap and clean. My guess would be that energy will eventually end up being near free.
I feel miserable doing the kind of programming I do
nowadays! I wish I could go back to simpler times, where
I actually had to reason about algorithms, data
structures, hardware, etc...

I don't subscribe to the school of thought that values engineers lower on the stack more than those higher up, especially since there seem to be a lot more new jobs of the latter sort and we all need to make a living, and there are plenty of cool problems in those spaces (algorithms, data structures, performance... it's all there).

But I think the lucky ones are people who get to work low enough relative to their knowledge where it doesn't feel they are dealing with endless abstractions and layer upon layer of magic.

The startup I work for moves so fast that I'm forced to
use other peoples open source projects without even
having the time to read the source.

:( sounds to me that this might be more the problem. And worse is I suspect it's common.
Disappointed. There is a bubble, but it's not the one portrayed in the article.

The bubble I see is that Google's been riding a YoY double-digit increase in clicks for many years...exceeding the growth of impressions. They've done this by yielding more and more real estate (for searches that they can monetize) to ads versus organic results.

I say there's a bubble, because for the most part, there's no real estate left to yield. Which means the YoY growth will now slow down to match impression growth.
> Austrian School economics can't really actually be wrong.

If you can't be wrong, you're not making claims about the real world.
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Air travel also does not overwork their professionals as a rule, and have a clear policy of liability waving from parties that did not practice negligence or willful malpractice (just like the GP is asking for).

On the other hand, any accident carries a huge cost that companies can not wave away, because it is not set by tribunals.

I really don't know what factor it the most relevant here.
One way to improve the situation is awareness. The Leapfrog group has established the "Hospital Safety Score" web site to check a hospital's safety "grade" based on publicly available information. Punch in your zip code and examine all the hospitals near you. The next time you or a loved one needs to go to a hospital, only choose among those that received an A. If enough people start doing this, the hospitals with lousy safety practices will start to get the message.

http://www.hospitalsafetyscore.org/
ECB ends production and issuance of €500 banknote
Waiting for the HN fanboys to defend Tesla.
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This is what co-op programs address. 5 year degree, learn all the fundamentals from silicon to applications, with 6 co-op placements of 4 months each interspersed throughout. That was the Waterloo formula when I went through their CS program and it works tremendously well. Sure, it's a lot to learn in 5 years, and there's always more to learn, but it does give you a very solid foundation to build on.
This isn't true for stuff like the video playback libraries hit by "stagefright". For some reason Google couldn't simply ship a fixed library. I read that it was because the update process doesn't have sufficient rights.
The last thing they had was clarity of message though.

This would have been easily achieved by transparency in the process.

They were also, rightly or wrongly, seen as actively de-funding work that could be seen to challenge policy objectives. They had ample opportunities to resolve such impressions but chose instead to present an arrogant face. I can't have a lot of sympathy for that.

Even if you aren't actually meddling, if you have the perception that you are, you have a problem.
Yes and some people will spend their UBI on weapons and murder people.

Does that mean we try to figure out who's going to be murders so we don't give them any money?

Some people have problems. That doesn't mean you scrap a good thing just because you don't like dealing with problems.
So, really, if one wanted to fix CCS, you would just need to find a good application for CO2, like with peanuts and peanut butter.
If they claim that DRM isn't caused by them, they should apply it only to those who demand it. But I don't buy their excuse anyway. They are a willing participant of this corrupted DRM infested system, and they can't pretend they don't bear part of the blame.

> 0.001% (probably too high)

Studies show otherwise.
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I suffer from severe hypochondria. If I did this test and found out I have a higher change of developing some kind of cancer, I don't think I would be able to sleep well again for the rest of my life.
From the article:

It said the cybercriminal had initially asked for 50 roubles (75 cents; 52 pence) in exchange for the list, but eventually gave a copy away without charge after Hold's staff posted favourable comments about him in a forum.
This problem is the bane of my existence as a css/html guy. However I don't believe the core problem is what you suggest. Forcing designers to just work within wireframes isn't going to work. Assets and wireframes is only a small part of what a designer does when creating a good user experience.

I think the solution is going to lie somewhere inbetween, with designers needing to expand their knowledge and working within tools that are based on how CSS and HTML actually function instead of a program that allows you to just place boxes wherever you want and hope its easy to code.

I've been following what these guys are doing over at BoxBox, they are onto something big I think. https://keminglabs.com/boxbox/
Its a basic fallacy of the fairtax/nonprogressive tax movements that consumption equal to income. It is true, until you have your basic needs met. Go around to your local rich neighborhood - not everyone has the latest Maserati, because their transportation needs are fully met by a cheaper vehicle. If you're well off much more of your income is going to go to investments and savings.
"Automated" jobs language reminds me of the old saw that "Technology is stuff that didn't exist when I was a kid". Entire industries worth of jobs have been "automated" away over the past couple of centuries.

Say, 150 years ago, you needed to move a ton of rock a hundred yards. How was it done? By hand. You needed to harvest an entire field of grain. How was it done? By hand. A couple of centuries ago, virtually everyone was employed in farming. Now, hardly anyone is. Powered vehicles and hydraulic lifting wiped out more jobs than computers ever have.
Fast food vendors are already now starting to look for ways to automate as they continue to push the prices down on their products.

Prices that needs to keep going down in order for them to 1) survive the competition, 2) deliver affordable food from the majority of their customers who are making less and less money.
Supposedly they were nicknamed 'Bin Ladens' in some places, due to the association with money laundering. I have no idea how true that is.

Something we do actually know, though, is that Osama himself had two of them sewn into his clothing at the time of his death.

The €500 note was one of the world's most valuable banknotes. There's no denomination anywhere near it for, say, dollars or pounds or whatever.
To what extend can the decreases in cost be attributed to the subsidies? The subsidies shift the demand curve enough to incentivize R+D... or is my Econ 101 viewpoint missing something?
It is, but the cost of better targeting gets exponential more expensive.

Also people complain about targeting and tracking and delete cookies so there's that whole situation (which really only hurts them by giving them worse ads).
The problem with that analysis is that you're expecting quality conversation from threads with 1000+ comments in which comment threads themselves are largely insulated from each other. There are very rarely reference to another comment thread within the same post, which leads to isolation and localized groupthink.

Generally speaking, threads of that size imply that they are posted on a very popular public subreddit, which requires no special qualifications to post in. Invariably this leads to at least _some_ comment threads being low quality.

I would not be surprised if the majority of such highly commented posts contained isolated comment threads with racist remarks.
The issue is the products that you can't choose because they don't get made because of DRM.

DRM means that you need permission to have interoperability. If you are starting a new product from zero market share, if you were allowed to achieve interop by just putting the effort into writing code, you could make something awesome without anyone's permission and gain some market share if users want to your what you made.

If you have no market share, a DRM-requiring service might not see your platform/device/whatever as worth supporting. And if users want the service to work before they want to use your product, then you don't get to build the market share to make your bizdev case and DRM means you don't get to engineer around bizdev.
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Sure, but that doesn't sound like an impossible thing to deal with. There are many activities we undertake that are far more complex (collecting taxes for one!) and not every process is hard, you could hit the easy ones first. It's a question of will.
Really? I run a lambda dynamo scaler that I wrote on a 128MB container and it rarely runs more than 300ms. Anything less that 100ms is a wash with the way they bill so a 2GB container would be 5x more expensive if it managed to stay under 100ms.
Please stop accusing others of being trolls.
huffington post is probably as far left as you can get in an online publication
When I was in middle or high school the town where I grew up put a wind farm in, despite lots of opposition. After a while you don't even notice the wind farm anymore and now no one even comments about it.
> The entire point of UBI is to get rid of 19th century style notions of worthy and unworthy poor people, thats a huge part of the inefficency and waste of the current system.

Well, not the entire point (there's lots of different reasons that people advocate UBI), but its certainly one of the points.
For us its that the common part of the building doesn't use a lot of power. Individual units do use more than we can generate. So we have to plug the solar into individual units, which can be problematic and kind of a pain.
Very interesting. How do I know what I value as an employer?

Edit to my own question....

The 7 genome dimensions looks really reasonable. But hypothetically thinking I still want it all!
I've been sort of in favor of UBI, but these discussions have made me realize it can never work. Let's say we give everyone $50K. Why not $50 billion? I'm being serious - the same effect ends up happening -- prices increase proportionately. I'm basing that on the idea that 90+% of work that happens today really does need to happen. That means that 90%+ of those working today will need to be enticed to keep working by giving them more money. Now almost everyone has more money, but the same limited supply of goods and services are available. Prices will rise -- simple supply and demand. Those on UBI will fall behind if they don't work.
I assume the (very broad) criteria listed on the blog are supersets of very specific sub critera. Maybe if you could elaborate on what exactly those sub critera are, it would make things clear.
Good old protectionism.
American companies are all for free trade when it suits them.
For this to be a concern you'd have to believe that there are currently a significant amount of people that would "fall into various addictions" if only they could afford to...
I will give the obligatory "why is this article on HN" comment. This is inside baseball and tabloid type infotainment. It certainly doesn't "gratify one's intellectual curiosity" in the way that the guidelines on posting most likely intended.