skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
These kinds of metrics are almost not interpretable, for two main reasons :

(1) as logicallee has mentioned, we're getting better at treating patients and preventing death due to disease. The better we get, the more different treatments patients get, the higher is the risk of a medical error happening.

(2) it is very difficult to know exactly what proportion of "medical errors" are preventable. For instance, the seemingly "simple" case of healthcare-associated infection is far from simple, and except for a few cases (infection associated with elective surgery, and so on), there are NO known intervention to reduce risk further. I will give you an example: a patient needs a central catheter in order to survive. If we don't put it in, and he dies, he'll be classified as a "death due to primary disease X". If we do put a central line, and he acquires an infection (and a certain baseline rate of infection IS inevitable, because the catheter is indwelling and gets colonized by the patient's own flora), and dies 2 months later due to sepsis, it will be codified as "medical error". Adverse drug reactions are also codified as medical errors, even if the drug was administered in a life-or-death situation, when even the patient's ID was not known, even less his full list of medications (and thus, the error could not be prevented in any way). I could go on and on.

That being said, I also see stupid preventable errors like quietly giving the drugs to the wrong patient going unreported. Hospital stay is certainly dangerous.
This is irrelevant. You may be just a new comer, or not a professional developer, and still want to use yarn. A clear website seems a basic requirement to me for any project.
>How can a forum that is open to all and used in mostly anonymous fashion, so effectively police the race of users?

By being targeted at programmers and startup founders, that is, two predominantly white (ok, and asian) fields?

It's not that HN does anything special, it's the actual world that does.

Most programmers are middle class (so could afford university in the first place), most founders are upper middle class, and most of both groups are white. There are of course exceptions, but not enough to skew the majority.

The most open and diverse "forum" in the world is YouTube -- you can find everybody there under a cat video or some such (which is also why it has the nastier comments, but that's life outside an echo bubble).
"Registration renewal", as it is known in the United States, is the equivalent of renewing one's motor vehicle and license plate registration in one - Fahrzeugausweis / prometna dozvola / etcetera. This is trivial to do in the United States, and is as simple as paying around $30 per year to the department of transportation of the state one lives in (it's an extra income for the state). In some european countries, it's a bureaucratic nightmare. I'm purposely not mentioning which ones, so don't ask. I will mention that some european countries do not have registration renewal at all - a Fahrzeugausweis is forever and does not expire, and there is no such (idiotic) concept as a "license plate renewal".
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It's not complicated, just hard to digest.

Anti-white racism. It's identical to the antisemitism of the far right in the 30s and 40s, except it is with whites.
And never will. How would anyone be able to judge someone else's "intelligence"? The simplest thing might be by proxy, testing how knowledgeable someone is. But knowledge is highly diverse, and I'd have a hard time to judge someones knowledge about something where I am not an expert myself.

I've more than once witnessed people impress others with their deep "knowledge" about subjects where I was in a situation to discern that they were spouting superficially informed hogwash.

It's one of the central societal problems: How can I know who's expertise I can trust unless I have that expertise myself?
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Well, if we had the vote counts, we could test your conjecture.
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I wish there was more research in moderation systems. I think it is a fascinating topic, because it can make or break an online forum. And perhaps it even has applications in political decision making.
Some expressions cannot be evaluated without knowing what people think about them. The truth is not determined by popularity, except from the perspective of the person who chooses to believe in the falsehood. I think it's relevant, but not sufficient, to know what other people believe if you want to understand the world.

Of course, the whole problem is that this reflects back on itself. Such that a highly upvoted comment will be upvoted by a person who values popularity too much, whereby he thus alters the very property he used to judge whether or not he should alter the property in the first place. So some people's over-reliance on popularity destroys the usefulness of the reading for everyone else.

Classic observer effect.
Indeed. And Python 2.7 csv module had some terrible issues for years despite being one of the best modules around here. CSV is not simple IRL.
I wish ISPs weren't allowed to also be media companies. Sets up a terrible conflict of interest.
Frustratingly I put in the "may", because the current title is both link baity and inaccurate.

Mods edited it. :-/
>I went to DuckDuckGo to check out what yarn is.

And DuckDuckGo (mentioned twice in the comment) is relevant because?
just be glad it didnt store random integers as floats (happened to me when storing integer timestamps into webstorage)
I am not in France; there are other countries in Europe which have the byzantine stamp system of paying for fees; several of them in fact.

As far as Japanese bureaucracy goes, I've only had the "pleasure" of dealing with the process of obtaining and converting the voucher for the Japanese Rail pass. "Interesting" procedure, to say the least, and I think it offered a view into the dealings with Japanese bureaucracy.

After the initial confusion, next time I go to Japan, it won't be nearly as confusing, but it's pretty clear that the Japanese society is pretty bureaucratic.
You used to die at 50 from cancer or heart disease. Now you die at 80 from cancer or heart disease or medical error.

I think that's an improvement.
You would for definitely need to for the Magic Toolbar if it going to be usable whilst the main computer is asleep. It is also going to be touchscreen enabled and need to support CoreGraphics etc. It's very similar to a long, thin Apple Watch.

And for TouchID I imagine it would be easier to lift/shift working platforms from iOS rather than port to OSX.
Well, the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antikythera_mechanism is arguably pretty computery and is thousands of years old.

To build something we'd consider a 'computer' requires a huge amount of conceptual background. Boolean logic, binary arithmetic, memory, Von Neumann architecture... and to be useful, it really has to exist in a society with lots of things being recorded and tallied on paper.
Having only experienced it from the outside (observing perfectly functional flocks if "Erasmusses" not making local contact here, seeing friends join such flocks abroad) I even feel tempted to say "you learn a lot about all kinds of countries, except for the one you go to". The intensity of socialising inside those groups is staggering and part of the lack of contact with the local population might well be that those just can't compete in being as interesting: answering "here" to the conversation starter "where are you from" instantly makes you the least interesting person in the room. Kind of like the backpacker hostel vibe.
>A clear website seems a basic requirement to me for any project.

Well, you can't always depend on that, and in the end of the day, nothing beats actually researching and asking around.

The GNU tools have some of the worst webpages -- and yet they are some of the most useful, and commonly used, packages.
It's not an all-or-nothing. It's an extra piece of information.

There might be valid reasons to remove it (it hurts the community, it leads to negative behavior, .... I forget why they took it off).

But when it comes to trying to assess the quality of the comment, more data is better than less. Then you have the option to weigh it as you see fit, including ignoring it.
Not everyone have the time.
How does that apply to tipping? You eating out at millions of places every week? Also, tipping is not charity, it is recognition of work well done.
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That attitude is so Javascript-shallow.
I often find my self searching through old HN comments for all kinds of things. Just off the top of my head I've searched for comments on: Redis, ZFS, Raft, SQS, ZMQ, message queue, RDS, connection pools, ECS in the last few days. I've learned quite a lot of things from reading comments by people with way more experience in these matters than I have. And that's probably less than half of my searches. A google search might give me some good stuff, and Stack Exchange too, but HN comments are indeed underrated.
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If these are connected by cellular, they are given a private network that does not connect to the public internet and are in-accessible from the public internet unless the app provider explicitly chooses to do so
Relay modules from finder, custom pcb modules with current outputs for switching relays and optoisolators for voltage detecion, some custom expansion module for all signals interconnection. I will prepare some appendix to the blog-post with more technical data.
I didn't declare it dead, far from that, it can only grow for the Mac only user population. I said the direction it is going for years does get further from what I need, year over year.

Can you please elaborate what are 'high barriers'?

'Very little reason' - really?
But would it be better for the patients if they didn't work that extra? Waiting months for surgery is not good either.
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And now systemd is spreading this behavior to other distros that has adopted systemd?
> ...many comments are not ill-intendend but come off as unhelpful or negative.

Unhelpful to whom? Pointing out bad examples as bad examples is helpful to the inexperienced; they may learn to avoid some pitfalls.

People who publicly push back against popular bad schools of thought provide encouragement to others in the minority who might give up the fight out of fatigue instead of conceding on the merits.
We have them in other forums -- e.g. Reddit if I am not mistaken.

Do they work that well there, or do they make the forums a competition for points and popular comments, in other words a popularity contest?
Private networks is something that we're working on (track it here: https://github.com/ipfs/notes/issues/146) but it would be private-private, only access+upload between your nodes. "Accessible by anyone - upload only by you" is not gonna be supported since it doesn't really make sense. If someone has a hash of a file, they can rehost it because they can access it. In IPFS you're not locating files based on WHERE they are but their name rather.
This may very well be true in organizations where the sarcasm exists in an established context of mutual respect (or at least, the knowledge that you'll have to keep working with the other person).

But it's very different when total strangers communicate by text over the internet: sarcastic comments breed aggressive replies, and threads degenerate into arguments very rapidly. I think good conversations online need more restraint and empathic effort than good conversations IRL.
That's why the good lord invented egress filtering. No excuse for ISPs not to drop packets with spoofed src.
Are we still safe using Tor?
It thought UNIX originally belonged to AT&T and they sold licenses. See the UNIX history.
Of course everything has risks, but I'm just advocating not taking risks with extreme downside when the positive upside is small. Eating is necessary for life, but taking a pill to reduce the risk of acid-reflux symptoms is not.

> _Medications have a particularly strong impact, but are also highly controlled. You can judge the probability of various outcomes very well, which makes it a lot easier to come to a clear conclusion about using them or not._

This is the main point where we disagree. You say medications are controlled, but I see alarming numbers of recalls of drugs [1]. Controlled studies only show a small part of the picture of the long-term impact of a particular drugs' use.

> And I'm going to assume you didn't intend to say that merely going to the doctor should be avoided except in life-threatening circumstances.

All I'm saying is that going to the doctor has risks that need to be considered. And when a doctor recommends some treatment, ask what he would do if he was in your situation, or what recommendation she would give to her brother.

1. http://www.raps.org/Regulatory-Focus/News/2014/08/11/20005/N...
is this the real life

is it just PHP

caught in the UNIX

no escape from the grasp of C

Open your eyes: Rust's how to avoid UB

I'm just a programmer

I need no sympathy

Because I write in Lisp, write in Scheme, write in Haskell and in C

Any way you choose a lang, doesn't really matter to me, to me

Init

just killed a proc

put my keyboard in my hand, kill -9, now it's dead

Init, bootup had just begun, but now I've gone and thrown it all away

Init... Ooh oohooh ooh

Didn't mean to make you segfault

if the system's not back again this time tomorrow.

fresh install, fresh install

as if nothing really matters

...And this is the point where I run out of ideas. Go read GLS (aka The Great Quux), he's better at this than me.
Not really. If you're American international roaming fees are usually pretty steep so many times if you want phone service you get a local number. WiFi is ubiquitous, especially hotel wifi.
I really disliked this season. It's too sanitized, not anywhere as visceral or cringe-inducing as the previous ones. Hell the first episode actually had a happy ending instead of a deeply depressing one; the endings in Black Mirror always had that appeal in that they always uneeringly hammered in that there's no escaping, there are no happy endings and it can only get worse.

It just felt too "plasticky", that conclusions about the worlds displayed were being forced on me, instead of giving some room for thought.
You also find a whole lot of echo chambers, fanboys and wannabe-intellectualism. This because anyone can set up a sub-reddit, and thus also moderate them.
There's more to racism than just not liking someone's opinion.
So if you add a file to IPFS, it's not gonna be automatically picked up by the network. Only people who request it, will have the file.

In the future, there will be hosting providers that allows you to upload a file to their IPFS "cloud" either as free hosting or paying for it, just as today. It'll just be easier for everyone to pass around a hash of the file rather than the file itself.

Maybe there will even be an API that you can hook up into your application, so content will be seeded that way.
This has been true for years. It remains unlikely because keeping suppliers independent offers more flexibility – and Apple's buying power already keeps costs low.
I feel the same. Most often, the comments are way more interesting than the links they're commenting. This led me to calm down on commenting all the time, coz I felt like I needed to try to make good quality comments in order to compare favorably to the rest of the discussion, and to contribute to the community. I wonder if others feel like this and decided to restrain on commenting?
I work with IPFS so it would be very handy to know what you feel is slow exactly. We're working our hardest to make it as fast as possible but sometimes we fall through, so more information so we can fix it would be wonderful!
I want to learn more about Bit Torrent and want to build a client, to learn more about protocol and networking. Any resources to get started (other than Wikipedia page and official spec)?
> For example, the recent DDoS attacks were just a bunch of skids with Mirai, but it was discussed as if it was the end of the internet.

Couldn't it be both? What's your proposal for stopping DDoS from skids with Mirai?
s/bug/big/ in my previous comment
You need just one node to send you the right data. No need for the majority.
On most things that aren't programming (and some things that are) HN can be the same way
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I lost faith in HN crowd when hyperloop started. California can not even replicate 40 years old TGV, but somehow it will build space-like technology for fraction of price.

And than there are politics. Entire world should accept millions of refugees. But SF is different, and should not even host 400 homeless who arrive every year.
> That's like saying "How we built a Smart Office system based on Electricity"

I'm of the same opinion. But the Pis come with HDMI and audio-out which is convenient to plug TVs and speakers to. At least for the TV outputs, one could use ChromeCast, but you'd have to figure out a solution for multiple audio outputs. Would a single beefy Linux PC support several USB audio outputs?
As a most awesome MD, really at the front lines told me once after a 36 hour shift:

1. 50% of the patients are in this hospital are here because of medical errors.

2. Don't get sick.

But if you do get crushed by a car, you really are going to be damn happy I'm here.
Doesn't this also mess with tactics such as being able to hear someone coming? I don't play CS:GO, but I do play Enemy Territory (id Software, 2003) and hearing when an enemy is coming is a crucial part of being able to get the first shot and kill someone.

Of course you could expand the limit of when to send data to the point where you can hear someone, but that wouldn't defeat short-range wallhacking, which is just about the only kind of wallhacking that's useful.
With regards to the gender aspect, see any of the threads related to 'women in computing' and the horrible posts therein.
I think that it's interesting that there is an etiquette developing on when which XKCD is appropriate.
> On the other hand, my desktop keyboard happens to have extremely light keys and shallow travel with a good bouncy "cushion" at the end

What keyboard model is this? I've been looking for ones with very short travel.
As far as I know, all states in the United States union have a photographic identification card which is almost identical to the driver's license, except that it is not one.

Some examples:

http://www.oregon.gov/ODOT/DMV/pages/driverid/idget.aspx

http://www.dmv.ca.gov/portal/dmv/detail/idinfo/idcard

https://dmv.ny.gov/id-card/sample-photo-documents

the really slick thing about the States is that a driver's license doubles as an identity card. I can show my driver's license anywhere in the 50 states and immediately authenticate myself, but if I show any of my other driver's licenses in the countries of their issuance, not one will accept it for proving my identity; they all require me to show them their respective identity cards. Such bureaucractic nonsense!

This is what I referred to in one of my earlier posts when I wrote that if it can be less bureaucratic and streamlined somewhere else (I used Singapore as an example then, in this case, the States), then it can work elsewhere too. Instead, people just come up with nonsensical excuses why it cannot work, for example that's just the way it is here, accept it! Such nonsensical arguments infuriate me.
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It seems they can only guess at the contents of encrypted packets.

https://www.endace.com/deep-packet-inspection.html
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>> "Despite the investment success, Nevada only has about 73% of assets needed to fund future retirement obligations to workers."

I'm wondering what they will do about that. Increase contributions to new members? Increase employer's contribution (if any)? <<

Cut taxes which then starts a period of massive economic growth which then will lead to higher tax income?
> comments are often gratuitously mean, and people will often defend gratuitously mean comments by claiming that it’s either impossible or inefficient to convey information without being mean.

> Most of the negative things you hear about HN comments are true.

I think it is interesting how the relatively anonymised nature of the internet has a similar effect on people of all stripes. HN readers, I believe, are among the more intelligent, or at least curious, in our species. The same is true of another popular internet forum, Stackoverflow. Yet there exists an air of negativity that is of much higher ubiquity than in "real" life where people are not anonymous. And this is true of most other internet forums as well where more of the general popular participates. I think it shows in a strange way that people just have a lot of negativity to vent, and the internet has made that really easy and without consequence to the rest of one's life, and that this remains true regardless of one's interests and general intelligence.
I remember hearing about this project quite some time ago. I am not sure it is still active. The last papers about the project are from 2006 - https://www.cs.cornell.edu/people/egs/beehive/paper.php
> Life's what you make it, and society can't offset your own will.

That goes against pretty much everything I've seen (and read) of human behavior. Willpower and choice and good decisions are not somehow magically impervious to upbringing and context. In fact, I'd say as 'herd animals' we're more defined by the latter than by the former.

If you are right, and every individual can somehow decide in the same way regardless of context ('willpower'), the logical conclusions are rather uncomfortable.

We'd have to find a way to explain why large homogenous groups of people (grouped by race, gender, or whatnot) all make the same bad decision. If we believe they have the same ability to choose as anyone else, the only alternative explanation I can think of involve things like racism (they have a low IQ) or sexism (they just aren't meant to be in charge), and so on.
This is known for a while now, hinting that Apple might actually consider building a ARM based MacBook. There is even this hack to run OSX on the iPad Air! [0]

[0]: https://tidbits.com/article/14617
The whole article is failing to point out the biggest risks that the clean-tech companies are fighting against: global warming and lung cancer. Even though all older car companies have the ability right now to take a huge financial and PR risk, they're still not talking about the damage car emissions cause.

Tesla is the first company that convinced me to buy a new car instead of an 8 year old one, as I didn't see enough difference between the new and old cars before (except the price).
Was that the legendary flight that was entirely business class? It was long enough that everyone could get hammered and then sleep off the hangover.
Because DuckDuckGo's index of the yarn's website could be screwed or out of date. Also, because people communicate using language, not axioms.
Most "slowness" is related to content that is either relatively fresh on the network or or rare content.

If my node is the only one seeding the file, accessing it via gateway.ipfs.io is slow but it's pretty obvious why; I'm the only provider.

So while for very public content IPFS is rather fast, if you share a couple files with a few friends, it's a bit slower.

Of course, this all depends on upload/download speeds, mine aren't stellar in both directions either.

Plus I'm rather certain that my ISP is throttling any kind of P2P traffic.
I had a boss years ago who said it best.

Never ask a question of decision maker type people when you don't know the answer already.
How so? The point of a random-four-words password isn't that it won't be hit by existing brute force software, it's that it's easy to remember but impractical to brute force with any software - with a 60,000 word dictionary there are more than 2^63 possible passwords.