skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You counting the war deaths?
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You forgot that in America, the punishment for lending someone money they can't pay back is getting free money from taxpayers.
I've lived in China 15 years on and off. While bookstores with interesting English language titles are rare, I think you have greatly exaggerated the situation. Almost any copy shop in China will happily photocopy 20+ copies of any book your bring them, which makes it very easy to run book clubs... so it isn't exactly all negative.
I believe we have plenty of food. We could put panels in our backyards, but solar panels are rather expensive, and it's usually more convenient paying a power company and forgetting about the matter than setting up our own mini power plants.
No. To patent something you have to disclose it, so patenting a secret key would totally defeat the purpose.
Sigh, teach me to write a comment quickly without proofreading on HN, on a topic of any complexity. As written, my comment is wrong: I meant to write "vector space functions"[1] but left out a word. What I was getting at was the unintuitiveness that arises from thinking of vector space elements as number-like things (in the sense that we're familiar with them from basic math: numbers or coordinates) to being "anything that meets the definition", including functions. Seriously though, thanks for pointing that out, part of what I still love about the HN community is getting called out for even esoteric incorrectness.

[1] which was my concise but imprecise way of expressing "the set of functions from a set over a field to a vector space over the same one", with + and * defined as you'd expect.
This is without question my favorite Quora post of all time.

I find myself rereading it every once in a while.
> This is a truly big ask.

From the article: The technology for an all-robotic car fleet is probably already available... if we take all the non-robotic cars off the road.

Many of the challenges in autonomous vehicles (maybe even all the remaining ones) are related to modelling/predicting an uncertain world. Will a pedestrian jump out at me? Will a truck do a left-turn across my path? What in the world is that bicyclist doing?

Take all that out, and things get vastly easier.
It's a judgement call. Which is why we have judges.
It supports both PV and HVM installations.
Chatuchak ('JJ') markets outside of Bangkok have a section with a very similar street. Many places in India also, particularly Calcutta. As these are both neighboring countries, it's not surprising to find Myanmar with a similar model of retail.
Estimates of Stalin's body count range from 14 million to 70 million, so he's at least a close second. And Pol Pot might hold the record for rate of mass killing, wiping out over 2 million people in six weeks.

Some people scoff when I ridicule them for saying "Communism has never been tried." No, the communists have never been tried - in a court of law.
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It features in some of Vinge's other works. I suppose particularly A Deepness in the Sky.

Alistair Reynolds Revelation Space novels riff on it quite a lot, to the point of several characters that exist more on the augmented side of the reality than in the real world.
Probably. Wiki estimates WWII deaths at 50-80 million, and Mao's deaths at 40-70. Given Japan's role in WWII, it's pretty likely Mao has a higher raw death count than just the deaths caused by the Nazi side of the war.
> chip cards do nothing to secure internet transactions
While not today, NFC-enabled cards may change this (using snartphones as networked readers). Probably with much less effort, than needed to fix the offline stuff, because 3D-Secure is already a thing and adding physical card possession doesn't seem to be a hard problem (again, only for NFC-enabled cards)
It should never be a law to compulsory lend money to anyone. Aside from being morally reprehensible, such a law would almost certainly be met with either A) widespread noncompliance or B) widespread closure of lending institutions.
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> 50 million years is a very long time. In not much more time than that, Hawaii will be part of Japan.

And in another 50 million Japan will be part of China! Isn't it easy to make stuff up?
That observation is circular and incredibly dangerous, though, for self-evident reasons including this thread.
When you subtract the casualties attributed to the Japanese out of the WW2 numbers, Mao appears to come out well ahead

http://necrometrics.com/20c5m.htm
On what charge? "Being banker during a financial crisis" is not a crime.
So that's communication over 8 nautical miles, or 15 km, presumably line-of-sight. Consumer equipment (5 GHz wimax ac) can do that with a 20x20 cm directional antenna. Have a look at a Ubiquiti NanoStation, for instance. Sticking up a pole with a 20x20 cm fiberglass antenna on it won't give a radar return distinguishable from wave noise even at calm seas.
Well yes, it's the same sort of argument that teachers jokingly make, saying school would be so nice without all the students.

It's been suspected for some time that a mixed environment of autonomous vehicles and human-operated everything else (including pedestrians) will be the worst of both worlds, as like you said, those algorithms will be face with un-anticipated inputs.

The problem is, while cars we can automate way (given enough time), pedestrians we can't, unless we're willing to expend even more money in re-engineering our infrastructure to segregate road traffic entirely, keeping the contact surface to as minimal as possible -- only every home, every workplace, every commercial establishment, every rest stop, and every place vehicular maintenance is done. While this goal tends to appear in 'next city' brainstorming, it's easy to see why it's a challenge.
And now you're hearing them from another member of the same team in the Cold War.
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Care to elaborate? I love online / e-signing, so would like to know what you're talking about and how it is differentiated...?
Universal cancer test to pick up 95% of disease on horizon
The problem with that approach is that it is training the classifier to solve a different problem than what is claimed. It assumes that there is no difference between how people write when they are identifiable and when they are not (since it would only train on identifiable samples that are anonymized after the fact). Further, it would require solving the problem of identifying authors between different media--which would be a huge achievement on its own.

A great test set for anyone trying to do this: look at the Scott Adams sock puppet controversy on Metafilter [1] and see if you can train something on his public writing to match the "PlannedChaos" commenter's posts and Adams' own tweets. It is probably the closest you could get to a "pure" training set in the sense that presumably Adams didn't think he'd get caught. (And if he did, and therefore did alter his stylometrics, then
it's even a better challenge.)

[1] http://www.adweek.com/galleycat/scott-adams-caught-defending...
I recently did a remote interview via webex (not with FB, but with a big-ish tech company) so they could see my screen. It was for a full-stack-ish type job, although they asked me to do some questions in javascript. They said to "do what you normally do."

So I switched screens and googled it. Same for the docs for a few libraries that made things work (like the python csv module).

I not only got an offer, but I was told right up front "your google fu is strong."

I'd almost want to be looking for someone who does research on these problems. Reinventing the wheel is the classic engineering mistake.
Bhyve not being mentioned under their virtualization section is a pretty big hole, too.
I did read the article. Bruce Schneier didn't mention financial influence or the Clinton Foundataion anywhere. His entire post is, as would be expected, focused on network security, hacking and the vulnerability of our infrastructure.

Given that your comment exclusively refers to Clinton, when it could just as well apply to Trump or any number of candidates in either party and still be relevant, it appears your purpose was to polarize the topic for the sake of pushing your political bias. I agree with your comment in the general case, but derailing the thread into a discussion of how corrupt Hillary Clinton and the Democrats are is not on topic.
I am a bit surprised that no one else has mentioned the "warrior diet" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warrior_diet, explained in more detail in https://books.google.com/books/about/The_Warrior_Diet.html?i....

Basically, the idea is to divide into undereating and overeating cycles, eating a single big meal a day (or in more extreme instances, one large meal per 2 days).

Unfortunately, the book linked above does not have a lot of scientific backing. This may simply be due to how it deviates from a lot of conventional diets at the moment.

Nevertheless, personally I rarely trust "scientists" who work in the field of nutrition:

1. They tend to change their views drastically over time.
See e.g the whole sugar vs fat issue.

2. They are often heavily influenced by corporate funding, and as such incentive structures do not align well with the goal of rigorous science. One personal anecdote: my extended family uses a lot of coconuts and coconut oil in cooking. Coconut oil was presented in many "scientific" publications as being one of the worst oils, and olive oil as the best (often by olive oil company funded research).
Things are much more even now.

Basically, I believe in the following:

1. Following a particular ancestral diet is a pretty safe bet - it has been tested and refined over hundreds, if not thousands, of years. There is often accumulated wisdom in certain practices. See e.g. https://www.amazon.com/100-Million-Years-Food-Ancestors/dp/1... for a detailed discussion of this.

2. Intermittent fasting has been practiced in various cultures to different extents, often due to religious beliefs. Again, something that has persisted that long is likely fine.

In short, true science is usually lacking in nutritional work. As for anecdotal evidence, there is some, detailed in the book above. I also am skeptical about the extent of its benefits, but see no serious downside to the "one meal a day" idea.
Sure, the individuals committing crimes with easily provable signatures were small fry. But the instructions, incentives and 'wink wink you know' practices were coming down from the management. Nobody believes that all the mortgage brokers in America spontaneously began lying on their loans, or that management at e.g Countrywide was blissfully unaware of it happening. They were doing this in the company's name and a company that allows (/encourages) this to happen should be liable. IMO it's a very similar case to Zenefits except that Zenefits was just one company and not an entire industry.
So, we should have a structured way to represent that one study reproduces another? (e.g. that, with similar controls, the relation between the independent and dependent variables was sufficiently similar)

- RDF is the best way to do this. RDF can be represented as RDFa (RDF in HTML) and as JSON-LD (JSON LinkedData).

... " #LinkedReproducibility "

https://twitter.com/search?q=%23LinkedReproducibility

It isn't/wouldn't be sufficient to, with one triple, say (example.org/studyX, 'reproduces', example.org/studyY);
there is a reified relation (an EdgeClass) containing metadata like who asserts that studyX reproduces studyY, when they assert that, and why (similar controls, similar outcome).

Today, we have to compare PDFs of studies and dig through them for links to the actual datasets from which the summary statistics were derived; so specifying who is asserting that studyX reproduces studyY is very relevant.

Ideally, it should be possible to publish a study with structured premises which lead to a conclusion (probably with formats like RDFa and JSON-LD, and a comprehensive schema for logical argumentation which does not yet exist).
("#StructuredPremises")

Most simply, we should be able to say "the study control type URIs match", "the tabular column URIs match", "the samples were representative", and the identified relations were sufficiently within tolerances to say that studyX reproduces studyY.

Doing so in prosaic, parenthetical two-column PDFs is wasteful and shortsighted.

An individual researcher then, builds a set of beliefs about relations between factors in the world from a graph of studies ("#StudyGraph") with various quantitative and qualitative metadata attributes.

As fields, we would then expect our aggregate #StudyGraphs to indicate which relations between dependent and independent variables are relevant to prediction and actionable decision making (e.g. policy, research funding).
This talks about 1958, 9 years after the CPC took over China. During that less then a decade, recovering from Japanese occupation and civil war, the US air force was bombing north of the Yalu river in China, further destabilizing things.

There was bad weather in these years. Yet no one says there was a genocide in the 1942-1943 famine, or the 1936 famine, or 1928-1930 famine, or 1920-1921 famine, or the famine from a decade before that. This was the last major crop failure in China. From the early 1960s until now, the modernization undertaken (which is railed against in the article) ended this cycle of famines.

If the last crop failure in the late 1950s was a "genocide", then were the previous famines under the emperor and such genocides as well?

What about 1847 in Ireland when the English government purposefully starved people to death, exporting food while people starved. The western corporate media attitude toward that seems to be it was all the weather and disease, whereas the first and last CPC crop failure in China was 100% government's fault, genocide and other nonsense.

Of course political winds blow to and fro. If Mao was a "genocidal tyrant", why did the US side with him in the 1970s, have Taiwan kicked out of the UNSC etc.? Then winds shift again and Mao is back to being a "genocidal tyrant". Orwell was part of this western establishment, but his comments in 1984 about the "facts" and propaganda changing from white to black to white again as political winds shift seem apt.

It's a joke how white upper middle class people in such a genocidal country as England and the US, where young black men are being murdered in the street every day by policemen, raise their bloody hands and pontificate about countries around the world.
Global installs are fine IMO, what's not fine is lack of versioning. I would say for Node/NPM at least, the lack of global installs is a pretty big burden, you end up pulling in 500MB for a trivial application. The same versioning isolation could be provided globally without issues unless you're tampering with third-party code for some reason.
>At the behest of HUD Secretary Andrew Cuomo, Fannie and Freddie promised to buy $2 trillion of "affordable" mortgages.

That is a complete explanation in itself and it was not caused by the CRA legislation (it merely shared the same motivation). When you let mortgage brokers offload all the risk from writing stupid loans, you have altered all their incentives.
If you liked this, you may like "House of Suns" by Alastair Reynolds. There's one chase scene that takes about 60,000 years.
Schools almost ubiquitously use SSL -decrypting dpi devices with the device root installed on endpoints, bypassing both HSTS and HPKP.
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>It has a section about land value taxes that offers a total non-solution to the supply-and-demand problem of land.

Can you expand on this? I'm not exactly sure what you consider the problem to be.
The problem with mbufs is that they have been around and been extended since the 80s. And Rototilling the interface will break a LOT of hardware. One of the nice things about iflib is that abstracts mbufs away from drivers. Of course that doesn't help much with crusty old drivers, but it does help some.

Having worked on both systems, there are some things I like better about mbufs as compared to skbs. But BSD badly needs the skb frags (eg, attached pages) concept to avoid excessive pointer chasing. We've been using an internal (not shared) patch that puts attached pages into an iovec, but it needs a lot of cleanup before upstreaming.

Oddly, I've had just the opposite experience as you. I've always found contributing to FreeBSD much easier. I was the author of network drivers for an IHV (not Intel) at a previous job. FreeBSD was a million times easier to deal with than Linux. I had a commit bit, and just developed my driver in head. Whereas with Linux, submitting even minor patches was a major ordeal thanks to davem and the netdev cabal. The Linux driver was often lacking features as compared to FreeBSD just because getting patches in was so time consuming.

There is actually quite a bit of public discussion of patches in Phabricator these days.
It directly answered several of them, in actuality.
Ask HN: What would it take to make a great Electronic Health Record(EHR)?
I realize this is a niche topic, so apologies in advance.

In my personal experience, EHRs do not make me feel like I am doing a better job and take time away from interacting with patients (which I love).

Secondly, EHRs have been linked with physician burnout. http://www.beckershospitalreview.com/healthcare-information-technology/mayo-study-links-ehrs-with-physician-burnout.html

There are just so many issues that I just wonder why it is not a richer area of innovation.

As a dermatologist, my gripes are mainly about the provider facing interface, but there are so many things to improve upon in this area alone.

To name a few:

Data entry takes forever.

Coming up with a longitudinal view of any specific problem requires piecing together sequential notes which takes far too long.

Patient access to their own charts without context sometimes leads to misunderstandings. Like documenting a finding of S.O.B. (shortness of breath)

And that is ignoring many other equally important perspectives.

So I ask: what do you perceive as the hurdles of this sector, and what would the process be to come up with EHR 2.0?
> 2. "making loans that had no good faith data behind them", once translated into concrete legal terms, turns out not to be a crime.

Aren't we really talking about junk rated mortgage back securities being packaged and sold as AAA? If so, how is that not straight up fraud?
You don't need to build a narrative
I like the part where they killed all the sparrows and triggered huge famines when insects started devouring crops unchecked.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_Pests_Campaign
As a doc you probably have a better idea of the problem that most of us. Probably the back end has to be universal but can you make a front end tailored for a dermatologist?
Just paste it on pastebin!
then maybe hardware vendors should contribute their code so that API could be changed all along, instead of keeping it paywalled. Though, I doubt they want people to look at how poor quality they are.

And yes, my job was also to "integrate" custom drivers for our appliances bells and whistles (eg. fail-to-wire interfaces, hardware sensors, etc.), in our source tree.
The pot and the kettle can both be black - no amount of "whataboutism" makes this less terrible.
Serious question: Is there a sassy phrase in the hardcore research world for over-hyping discoveries? Like how we can identify "vaporware" as a concept since we have a word for it.

If not there really should be
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I wonder what the downside of desalination is. What does one do with the huge quantities of leftover brine (when operating at country levels) -- surely dumping it back into the sea can't be good for the surrounding marine environment. In nature, there is no free lunch.
newsbeuter is nice and I use it myself http://newsbeuter.org/screenshots.html
The focus on computing power misses the forest for the trees. It's not about available computing power. It's about the intent. If you know decryption is possible, then "wink wink, it's encrypted" is a poor argument that the data wasn't published.
Bhyve's in the second paragraph of the virtualization section. It talks about virtualbox, then bhyve.
Something about this seems slightly wrong to me. Perhaps it's the assumption that users are a thing that is a property of the software? I guess it isn't clear what way the causation goes, or even if it exists - just as the GP points out above. Would you say Windows had _low_ quality users? Or just _more_ users? I think early or niche adopters by their nature have to have a lot invested, and this manifests itself in commitment to producing documentation, bug reports, evangelising and so on. Essentially you are sampling from the far end of the long tail, whereas with commodity software the gaussian distribution comes into play and pretty much everything is normal (pun intended) or at least average.
The odd and even functions summing to 1/(x+1) given in the article have an asymptote at x = 1.

Is there a way to avoid this, and represent 1/(x+1) as the sum of an odd function and an even function which have no asymptote except for x = -1?
Reasonable questions. What incentives would lead a trained banker to rigorously and honestly enforce regulations? What incentives would lead to retaining trained, rigorous, honest people?
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Sometimes I think that, sure, the universe it's huge and it's very possible (in my mind, almost certain) that there are other planets with advanced life forms like we can find here on Earth. If we accept this then it's safe to assume that not all life in the universe evolved at the same time. Most of the time we implicitly assume (probably because of sci-fi) that there must be a more advanced species somewhere but what if we actually are the more advanced species? From what we know right now it's just as likely for us to be the more advanced as it is for, say, the habitants of Kepler-22b. And somehow that feels more disappointing than if we were completely alone in the universe.
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