skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The argument against counting it is that extremely risky surgeries are generally only performed when the patient is going to die otherwise. Those risky surgeries have a much higher rate of mistakes, but that's generally deemed acceptable, as long as that risk is properly communicated to the patient's family.

The doctors most commonly sued for malpractice are those doctors with poor communication skills rather than the doctors who make the most mistakes.
Depression I guess, I see most activities as fruitless given countless attempts to lose weight or strengthen my muscles. I recently met with an accident that destroyed my only healthy knee (ACL + Meniscus tears). Had an ACL reconstruction a month ago and for some reason I'm actually hopeful.

I've charted out a diet and a fitness routine and have surprisingly kept up with the rehabilitation process fairly well. I guess this is one of my last opportunities to lead a healthy life.

Also, not having a social group to aid in activities could've been an issue I guess. I'd like to learn the social aspects of sticking to a routine (Gym buddies, mates who take part in a physical activity, learning some new tech with a similar group of friends, etc).
An error is an error.

It would be different if the procedure was executed properly but the patient died anyway, but if the death is a result of an actual mistake by the doctor that could have been prevented, then it seems pretty straight forward.

Edit: I should add that the tricky part is deciding if the mistake could have been prevented, and if so, the level of negligence in play. Doctor was drunk during surgery? Easy. Doctor had a spasm during surgery? Harder to decide.

People aren't perfect, so I could see this causing many doctors to just avoid risky situations all together in fear of making a tiny mistake.
Again, hate to be a hater on this guy, but I can't take anything seriously after "the blog post" about 42 Floors interview process: http://web.archive.org/web/20140618142018/http://blog.42floo...

And that domain name - HumbledMBA.com? Sounds super humble.

The whole blog looks like fodder for the next season of Silicon Valley.
It sounds like you've had a bit too much to think. Calm down, take some Soma.
> Women have given birth for a long time without medical intervention

And they were dying in droves: http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm4838a2.htm (Figure 2); http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/00054602.htm (Figure 1).

Maternal mortality decreased from 700-800 deaths per 100k live births at the turn of the century to less than 30 in 1967, and 5-10 by 1996. Hospitalized births is one of the, if not the most astonishing triumph of modern medicine. It's bigger than the advances in cancer treatment and HIV put together.
Have you benchmarked it?
I learned this lesson through my boss who passed away awhile back after years of liver problems. If you want to survive complicate or life threatening health issues you need to learn as much as you can about what your treatment options are, which medicines are safe, at what dosage, and in what combinations.

My favorite story was his stopping a nurse from administering 700 units of a medicine that in that volume would have killed him. The doctor had written 200 but the bottom of the two landed on the line of the form near perfectly. Fortunately the nurse went to verify and he made it out that time
Interesting, I had Madden on the Genesis and enjoyed it a lot. Shortly after that I got into stocks, too bad I didn't put two and two together.

Now that I think of it, I just played the game at home and had no idea how popular and financially successful it was.
> Isn't there a danger that if not enough people actively manage their money, the market won't 'correctly' set prices?

If this stuff interests you, I recommend reading the previous post (http://www.philosophicaleconomics.com/2016/05/passive/), which discusses this exact topic.
It seems the internet is rewarding more and more those who can manufacture outrage, with clicks, likes, karma, affirmation, etc.

It's no wonder then that it pervades into peoples lives, shaping their world view and even their presidential candidate selection.
It's clearly not just a design error. A conscious design decision was made: build the building with supports in the middle of the sides instead of the corners. This, in and of itself, was not a bug. In addition, a conscious implementation decision was made: hold the thing together with bolts instead of welds. Similarly, this alone was not a bug.

The two taken together hit a corner (heh) case and give rise to a bug.
Your assumption about who writes libraries and who uses whose code is broken.
It's kind of the de facto escape hatch for some and a baseline analogy many can comprehend because of decade long conditioning. It does not surprise me one bit.

What's always rather surprised me though is that no one seems to have realized that the decades of collective shaming of Germans for having gone through the national socialist dictatorship and war, has led to a deeply lost and self-loathing society without pride, dignity, or healthy identity. The society is in rather advanced stages self-destruction and decomstruction. The question is really only whether German culture and society will at all survive it's suicidal tendencies.
Based on the commit comments, it sounds like it has always been C++, just that this is the first time it has been exported from FB's Mercurial mega-repository to the open source GitHub project.

I'm not familiar enough with React Native to understand what this commit is really doing and yes, this HN post doesn't seem particularly informative either.
Can someone explain to me what this is for? The article explicitly mentions that it is not intended to emulate a machine like bochs/vmware or running windows on linux...

So what is this for? Everyone I talked about this subject or use it to run windows apps on *nix ( osx included ) or to create multiple servers in a single machine. What else a hypervisor can do?

EDIT: for the people pointing me the motivation section... well, that is the section I am quoting in first place.

I did read it, but the guy is awfully vague.

And I never used a hypervisor before anyway, thus you can't assume I will understand random jargon.
Python module names cannot start with a number.
Go to any Hackers/Founders meetup, and you'll be swamped with non-technical people trying to meet you.
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Arguably, quantum computers can perform supertasks and hypercompute, so I think that there will be widespread adoption in the 2nd or 3rd generation. While Plan 9 itself wasn't popularly used, many great technologies came out of it, like Go.
How does this compare to other countries?
If you have long gaps while traveling, include them in the CV and what you learned through your travels. Things like excellent communication skills, understanding of different cultures and traditions. Believe it or not, these can be very important for a diverse organization or a company that's building products whose target audience is similar.
Interesting, but I'm a bit disappointed the author didn't at least try to filter out things like "grammar nazi" or, as might be found in r/seinfeld, "soup nazi".
I could also add The Night/Day watch books to this list. Even if you have a dark side and a light side actually, not everything is black and white when you dig a bit.
Right, you just buy low, and sell high. It's so simple, I don't know why everyone doesn't do it. In reality, there's nothing statistically inconsistent with a 5 sigma outlier like Buffett.
This won't be a very popular position, especially here, considering the high population of tech people and those who might be running servers this might affect, but I think it's important for people to realize that the simplistic "DRM is Evil" position is misguided.

Imagine an alternate universe where government and huge corporations started using data encryption on its records in the 80's, as a way of defeating the FOIA and other demands for transparency. There is a public hue and cry, and with righteous indignation, people start thinking of "encryption as evil." To help prevent the repeat of such high profile abuses by large organizations, people work to ban data encryption.

That's not how history played out, however. In real life in the 90's, due to the PC revolution, ordinary people outside of academia started to become aware of the potential benefits of encryption over computer networks. There is a fundamental asymmetry of power between large institutions and individuals. What is a public good in the hands of the public can be horrible when it allows organizations to exercise dangerous degrees of centralized control. So it is with DRM. DRM restricting access by individuals to the software we fairly bought and to our shared cultural experiences is horrible. However, DRM protecting individual data against the depredations of companies and other institutions would be a tremendous pubic good.

Imagine a world where companies could no longer say about your personal data, "It got out somehow. Who knows? There's nothing anyone can do about that sort of thing. Privacy is dead." DRM won't be foolproof. Nothing like that can be. (Which is precisely why it's unsuitable for centralized control, in a particular way that it causes lobbying money to request stupid legislation.) However, it will greatly increase the cost and legal risk of companies doing bad things with our personal data. The same asymmetry that makes DRM horrible makes it absolutely wonderful when you reverse it by 180 degrees! That asymmetry is this: Any given company, no matter how large, can't ever match the level of knowledge and man-hours that can be mustered by the internet at large. This precise economic asymmetry that makes DRM an unworkable idea that incentivizes oppression also makes DRM the perfect tool for helping the public to keep large organizations in line. One whistle-blower, one hacker's discovery, and that errant company can be prosecuted under the DMCA. (1)

Why aren't we requiring companies that handle vast amounts of private data to use DRM -- Digital Rights Management -- to protect the rights of individual human beings? After all, the rights of individual Homo sapiens should be the priority.

(1) -- Occasionally, some people will have their information breached, and their information could be disseminated beyond control. However, the bulk of the populace would still be protected.
well the US's next Manhattan style project should be a nationwide distribution and storage system. We certainly have the tech and resources to move the majority of the country onto renewable sources within a decade.

the only question is, can politicians be convinced to do something good for the country which may not keep them in office?
For working as a professional programmer, SICP, sure. But TAOCP? Why?
I think he meant to say "should".
Well it was my first low level experience so a lot of it was new to me - I hadn't even used C before so pointers alone were a revelation of sorts. I was blown away by the idea of interpretation and then once we delved into forking and processes (and zombie processes), well I truly went down the rabbit hole. It was really cool implementing your own system hooks with Minix - being able to press F12 to get a formatted tables of all running system calls was supremely satisfying. I fully appreciated how complicated and yet in a way beautiful OSes could be and it forced me to learn how to sweat the small stuff and build good software from the ground up.
It's sad to me that there are actual voters out there that think a democratic government should be carefully PR managed like a secretive corporation. Personally I'd rather hear from the scientists that my tax dollars pay for then from a media-trained PR flak that I wish my tax dollars did not pay for.
Plenty of medical care, and therefore quite a few medical errors: live until 85.

No medical care, and therefore zero medical errors: live until 62, die of something trivial.
Defensive medicine isn't just about being careful though, it's about ignoring the medical necessity/utility of tests and ordering them because they might be useful against a liability claim.

In the extreme, complications from tests ordered due to a defensive mindset could drive both costs.

I like this quote from Peter Pronovost, from the wikipedia article I linked in another comment:

The fundamental problem with the quality of American medicine is that we’ve failed to view delivery of health care as a science. The tasks of medical science fall into three buckets. One is understanding disease biology. One is finding effective therapies. And one is ensuring those therapies are delivered effectively. That third bucket has been almost totally ignored by research funders, government, and academia. It’s viewed as the art of medicine.
> the variation you get between Summer and Winter levels of insolation

The obvious thing to do is just size the solar array for the winter insolation levels, since the solar part is likely to be so much cheaper than the storage part.

Also, don't forget wind, which is also super cheap at the good sites. It will balance out some of the seasonal shift, and also a good amount of the night time needs.

This all depends on cross-continent interconnects, and energy markets. The entrenched interests are going to resist mightily to anything that might cost them even a cent, and they control the laws to lock out competition.

I view interconnects as important an issue as the interstate system. It will enable so much innovation and drive down costs quite a bit.
That clarifies it a lot for me. I hadn't considered how that phrasing just removes the morality component from the question. It seems like a worthwhile skill to be able to detect such comments and point them out for what they are - I'm definitely going to develop that skill.
this is going to sound crazy, but in eighth grade I took a CS class where they had us create an interpreter in lisp. It was amazing, and I haven't done anything quite like it since (though dan boneh's crypto class on coursera was close).
I suppose that reddit threads with 1000+ comments will mention a lot of things. Seeing how they have so many comments and so much text and all.
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Wouldn't that be true iif all investing was zero sum game? As far as I know it isn't, at least not in equities.
also being able to look at the source code for a kernel and saying "ah ha! so that's where the process table is created" is also a lot of fun...kind of like uncovering ancient artifacts and learning to read the glyphs
"Our filter"? Are you a Tesla Motors employee? If so, question, how about changing the filter after a biological attack? How is that done?
Perhaps if there were some sort of party that could rise to prominence on a platform of making Germany great again?
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That assumption comes from experience, by which I mean in my experience almost every single time I have seen the word 'privilege' used it is used as a weapon to turn a discussion from a thoughtful, respectful one to hateful screaming about the personal lives of others, and to tell people that their opinion is irrelevant because their life experiences don't match the currently approved life experiences (some collection of socioeconomic disadvantage, minority ethnic background, female, LGBT). I don't really happen to meet the textbook definition of 'privilege', though I think that's pretty irrelevant here.

Do you really think it's important whether this particular poster is 'privileged'? If it came out that she were actually a poor trans orphan who grew up starving and had a severe physical disability, would it change the discussion? What if he were a 22 year old tech bro with a rich dad who chugs beer and red bull and harasses women in his spare time? Are the points he made less correct now? If you think so, you should reconsider how you evaluate arguments, discussions, perhaps words themselves. Does it matter for any real purpose of the discussion other than to help you condescendingly armchair-psychoanalyze him (as you have with me) and tell him that his background is why he believes what he believes, and that he just doesn't really understand and never can?

The beauty of discussions online (and there are plenty of drawbacks as well of course) is that you can express yourself, state an opinion, have a thoughtful discussion with others without people hating or dismissing you for who you are; only what you say. That's why most forums don't have a "real names policy". That's why most forums don't have a 'privilege-meter' next to usernames that uses a sophisticated algorithm to measure how many disadvantages a person has been through, spitting out a final number that tells us how seriously to take her posts. This kind of unsolicited digging into a person's personal life is generally frowned upon in any online discussion forum.
It's interesting that the highest non-history subreddit is /r/european, which is a neo-nazi forum. Cool dataset at least.
This is such a one sided article. I'm sure that technical co-founders make the exact same mistakes when looking for a co-founder, and the solution would not be "learn to be a business guy, and appreciate the business guy more"

Co-founders are a team and should have complimentary skills. There are far more roles in building a startup that just "idea guy" and "tech guy", so if you are a non tech founder certain that you need a tech founder i would strongly suggest learning other skills that as a team you think you might not possess.

Also asking someone if they know anyhow is not a bad solution to a problem. Maybe it doesn't always work and you have to explore other avenues, but it rarely hurts to ask people as a first move.
Given that both diamond and graphene are both just carbon, what's the difference between the two approaches?
If we couldn't get surgeons to use a simple checklist procedure which was shown to reduce the number of errors, I don't know what will.
Well, considering the scope of the world's religions and that it's a matter of opinion, it would be difficult to give anyone the floor for very long if we were using that metric (least of all atheists and anti-theists).
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That sounds fun! Lisp is great for that because of its code-as-data principle (I use clojure in my day job and it makes dealing with structured data like JSON an absolute breeze). Did you go to an advanced school or something?
Yeah, or "I did nazi that coming", the bigger the thread the more memes are in it.
The US needs a system where victims of malpractice get compensated but the doctors or hospitals are not necessarily held liable (unless it's gross negligence). US doctors spend a lot of time, energy and legal maneuvering denying and covering up mistakes instead of being able to admit them and improve procedures if necessary.

In my view there should be a nationwide malpractice insurance pool and the medical associations should push for better quality standards within their ranks.
As far as I'm aware the state of the art tooling at some studios is far greater than any demos from the Lisp world, though I don't think it's beyond a much smaller number of Lisp programmers to accomplish. e.g. one simple feature being able to take any pixel on the screen and trace back through what calls produced it. Studios also usually support live changes as you edit code/data (often times the code is in a simpler language like Lua when it doesn't need to be core code, I hope no one pretends C++ is anywhere close to as flexible at changing live as Lisp...), and of course all sorts of world / level / map editors with varying degrees of integration with your asset pipeline -- having a "game"/simulation whose purpose is to build your actual game is often nicer to work in than the code such a tool outputs directly, even after a macro treatment. I don't care if object x is at vector v and y is at vector u, I just want this character standing here and that character standing there, and maybe have a tool to quickly snap them to the same plane. (Incidentally this uncaring about absolute values in the coordinate system at least up front is what turned me off from PovRay on Linux...)

Then there's a rich variety of third party tooling for specific things you become aware of when you start to have studio levels of money to buy licenses, and those typically don't have Lisp wrappers.

Still, CEPL is pretty sweet, and in the related bin it's neat to see things like Flappybird-from-the-ground-up-in-the-browser through ClojureScript and Figwheel. For a beginner who doesn't have access to the best tooling in the industry, or even an amateur who just wants to make a simple game, there are a lot of good (and good enough) options. Even behemoths IDEs that force you to relaunch a scene to load your newly compiled changes aren't so bad, given that because the language you're working in probably starts with C it's also a given that state management is harder than with more functional-programming-friendly languages so it's much easier to reason about your game scene when you're always starting with a fresh state. Raw OpenGL with C++ should probably be discouraged unless the person is explicitly aiming to become a pro at a big studio (in which case they might be better off learning DirectX)...
Did SICP at Berkeley. Really awesome course. Thanks MIT for not teaching it anymore. Makes me a better programmer than your new grads now. Hah!
I don't think that'd work well for the reasons others have stated. I do think a balance could be struck. Reduced length of terms (half? quarter?) of protection, and a requirement that a copy of the media be placed in the library of congress, along with some amount of money earmarked for the preservation of it until it's in the public domain. I think something like that would work better as it avoids the problems with the analog loophole rendering the whole thing completely inert, but still makes it less attractive for most cases.
It doesn't matter as far as errors go though.

There should not be any errors, period.

Yes, you can find mitigating factors, whatever. But that the end of the day we want to reduce all errors.
But when the IPO happens, some shares are already owned by investors (founders, VCs, etc). If you reversed the IPO, the company would still not "own itself", it would be owned by them.
So is his extrapolation that at 4k+ it will reach towards 100%?
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So that I can think about this more concretely - what forms of social interaction do you have in mind?
I wish I could just set an arbitrary cap on my liability. I'm sorry I totaled your car, here's 50 bucks.
>>I'd rather know Latin, Norse mythology, Anselm's ontological proof, the Platonic solids, and the major players in the Glorious Revolution than not.

Sure.

But expecting some body to pay you just because you know all of that is tad bit too much to ask.

The right question to ask here is after all that, how employable are you?
The "trade secret" analogy would be only showing the film in a room where you surrender recording devices upon entry. What would be the point in copyrighting what the viewer sees, if there's no way for them to leave with it?
It dates back to the rlogin command from 4.2BSD in 1983.

Technically, the return key isn't part of the sequence. An escape sequence in rlogin is defined as a line where a tilde, or (more properly) the escape character (since it can be changed with a command-line option), is the first character that is typed at the start of a line.

* https://docs.oracle.com/cd/E19683-01/816-0210/6m6nb7mjg/inde...

* http://www.gnu.org/software/inetutils/manual/html_node/rlogi...

rlogin wasn't the only command where a line starting with an escape character was special. When Berkeley Mail was in compose mode, one could do various things with such lines.

* https://docs.freebsd.org/44doc/usd/07.mail/paper.pdf
Concerns raised over broad scope of DeepMind-NHS health data-sharing deal