skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Common Misconceptions: Neural networks work like brains. In fact, real neurons are much more complex than the simple units used in artificial neural networks; there are many different types of neurons; real neural connectivity can change over time; the brain includes other mechanisms, besides communication among neurons, that affect behavior; and so on.

I really have to disagree with this statement because it's actually broad and misleading. Yes, real neurons are more complex, but that doesn't mean that artificial neural networks are not capturing the important functional/computational properties or real neurons. In fact, you might even say that real neural networks are approximating the computational properties of artificial neural networks via a somewhat Rube Goldberg like process. If you actually look at the mathematics that functionally describe artificial neural networks it's the same math that describes gene regulatory networks. This is not a coincidence. This mathematical abstraction like a platonic computational system. In effect, evolution converged on this computing paradigm twice using the processes available at its disposal. The first was a chemical reaction network, the second was neurons. Moreover, if you actually study the computational properties of these networks you discover that most of the implementation details are actually irrelevant to the functional output and it's the topology of the network that's primarily driving the function. Not unlike how an engineer might recognize the A 8-bit added from the circuit-logic diagram. The problem that people have with artificial neural networks is that they're not spending enough time reverse engineering the salient properties of biological systems and instead they're trying to brute force AI with their mathematical brilliance. A lot of these questions disappear if you study the network architecture.
The C64 SID is generally considered the best soundchip made.

But with a DSP you can do not only sound, but this (Atari Falcon demo)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_cKRZ8QgH5o
That's a ridiculous statement, many people do. I personally wouldn't, sure, it's an expensive city to live in (I have lived there), but €50k is I think a little above the median salary there. You could easily survive on half that if you needed to, I know many people who do. Not everyone lives in the privileged world of tech salaries, think through all the jobs people do in Paris and think if they're all being paid 50k or more..
Thanks for that, I'll add a link to the blog from the Halley page, always fascinating to see stuff from the earlier days of the scientific era.
Isn't insurance already paying for others, if nothing happens to you?
Second backdoor in a week in firmware of Chinese low-cost Android devices
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_Capacity_Color_Barcode
> would a more liberal system improve the average quality of hospitals? Are US hospitals and doctors offer better service that the french ones?

I am not sure it is a liberal vs non liberal. But doctors like any profession need to have a way to be evaluated. It is a fact that there are good, average and bad doctors (like any other profession). I understand that in the US, insurance companies play this role. They are maintaining detailed statistics of acceptable success rates and will apply pressure when they see physicians underperforming.

On careers, I come from a family of doctors, so it's rather a long succession of first hand anecdotes than articles. Careers in public hospitals are very much driven by these things at a more senior level. I'm afraid no tinfoil there.
I am not sure that this is true. Many countries in northern Europe such as Iceland, Sweden, and Norway eat quite healthy.

Using body mass index as a (arguably quite bad) proxy for a healthy diet we find [0] that many of the southern countries such as Spain, Greece and Portugal are more overweight than many countries farther north.

[0] http://apps.who.int/bmi/index.jsp
You can also use lvm snapshots, which work with any filesystem.
> Gavin MacFadyen

Was his lung cancer announced previously, if yes, his death is a coincidence.

Also, could you give some more details about the "WikiLeaks blockchain" please?
Got my first phone in 1998 - Nokia 5110, since then:
Siemens c35i, Nokia 7210, HTC Touch, Samsung Galaxy Note 2 which I use still today.

I never understoon the need to upgrade every year or even every two years, just to have the latest model. I upgrade only when the old one stops working or when new model offers some fundamental improvements like "colorful display" or "android operating system" :)
Speaking of 'care of public places', at my office, there's someone who is hygiene-minded enough to put paper all over the toilet seat, but not enough to put it into the bowl afterwards, and so just lets it fall onto the floor where it can get all manky. I've always thought that that was a very specific level of hygeine-OCD.
> and the voice announcing trains at the station might be a real person holding a microphone.

Before the privatization attempts, the Deutsche Bahn used real announcers on the major train stations.

Now, after decades of cost-cutting, it's pre-recorded audio pieces played by a computer. They sound broken and mismatching (because it's no TTS engine), they fail to be played half the time (and frequent rail users would claim the failure rate at 90%+) and of course the stuff breaks down when something unexpected happens (like emergency rail closures, due to people on the rails, med emergencies, police action, ...).
Im not using a different account. I deleted the story after I saw that it was not showing up. Do you know how to bypass my low point account. Furthermore, I think that some services (youtube, google, ...) are blocked by default.
Couldnt the US Gov just use Medicare as a private health insurance option that runs not for profit and offers a lower cost than private insurers? It could then negotiate low rates with pharma companies and hospitals on behalf of its customers and eventually justify tax assistance. That would essentially let the 'free market' stay in effect and be a shortcut past the lobbiests.
I used to get about 10 hours of battery life from my IBM ThinkPad 240X [1] running Windows 2000 way back in 1999.

I did this by using the extended battery (which stuck out from the back), and by buying two of them. On long trips, I just swapped the batteries.

[1} Ultra-portable model with no floppy drive and no CD-ROM, but a wonderful IBM keyboard.
> but it is not ok to do that to young healthy men

It is not OK at all to force someone to work. And especially not if all you offer to refugees is menial cleaning work.

That's a highly racist opinion you have, and IMO you deserve the downvotes.
The US finances private research, technology development and more using public money more than any other country by calling it "military budged".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_military_...

...but maybe that doesn't count as "socialism" because most of the profits ends up in the hands of private companies?
Oh, that's easy: Code, by Charles Petzold [1]. One of the best book I ever read, that teach you about how computers work. The best thing is that it doesn't starts with any assumption and it gets you from the very basic - how a CPU works, how memory works - to fairly complex things (how video graphics work, how color video works and so on).

[1]: http://amzn.to/2g6Lcfo
Using: http://chartsbin.com/view/1445 and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_infant_mo...

births out of 1000 that are stillbirths:

France 3.87

UK 3.50

USA 2.95

Germany 2.43

Infant Mortality (under 5) per 1000 live births

USA 5.87

UK 4.38

France 4.30

Germany 3.70

Combining the two for a birthed (Still or not) and didn't make it to 5 rate:

USA: 8.8

France: 8.2

UK: 7.9

Germany: 6.1

Obviously the studies aren't matched, but it does suggest that the variance isn't as great as either statistic shows, and there likely is a very strong ranking.
let's take that this is not another time when a providers fails to update their canary (which is one of the reasons eff's canary watch stopped working)

> As of August 16, 2016 [1], riseup has not received any National Security Letters or FISA court orders, and we have not been subject to any gag order by a FISA court, or any other similar court of any government.

This would mean riseup has indeed received a National Security Letter OR FISA court order OR another similar request. As they can be under a gag order they cannot speak about it. That this mean compromise? It can, but also it's not really tied.

If we take the word of riseup.net as valid, such as why they are not updating their canary, you can take as valid their statement that they will kill riseup in case of a possible compromise. But if you don't take that, well, you shouldn't be trusting their canary on the first place.

And if they are really under a gag order they cannot talk, this is probably moving on a lawyers level.

Now, they already have failed to update their canary on time. Let's keep checking to see how this develops.
Photoshop on Linux?
Economists Duped Us into Attacking Capitalism Instead of Parasitic Rent-Seeking
The Anarchist's Tool Chest by Christopher Schwartz is a great book for understanding the basics of woodworking using handtools.
Nice test, but I wouldn't use #4 in an aptitude test, as it assumes familiarity with specific mathematical terminology. 'Continuous' is high school math, 'locally constant', I think, is guessable by those who have a mathematical mind, but 'almost everywhere' (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Almost_everywhere)?

Also, as usual, there are a few "with a beard" that people may just know the answer to (the cake one, for example). On the other hand, knowing the answer to some of these may be enough to show mathematical aptitude.
Actually, you do, and rather comfortably. (Sources: me, 22k/year after taxes. Or my parents who raised two children in a big flat in paris, both 35k/year)
A few years ago I talked with someone that make and test high temperature superconductors in a lab (at very high pressure), and my impression was that the research community had a good understanding of what was happening, something related to flux pinning.

I just read the Wikipedia article about this, and it's clear that the explanation is still not clear :(, so you are right.
I like their choice in name: GOES-R.

Ghostbusters reference:
http://vignette1.wikia.nocookie.net/villains/images/7/7f/Goz...
Social media for digital nomads
Well, Medicare (health insurance for people 65+) is not that different, and is essentially a federal single pay program. (Though they don't pay salaries, but on care provided like regular insurance).

The military health system (for veterans, the VA) mostly have their own facilities, but don't have the best reputation (and have had some scandals recently... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veterans_Health_Administration... )

Medicaid (for poor people) is managed at the state level, and is 50% federal funded (and each state has different income limits for who is covered)

All three of the above make up roughly half of all US health care spending. At the state level, some states have additional programs and subsidies, like
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massachusetts_health_care_refo...
and Obamacare tried to create something similar for all states with uniform availability and coverages along with subsidies (and penalties for people who voluntarily decline to purchase health insurance).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patient_Protection_and_Afforda...

So yes, it's a complex kinda mess...but there are too many stakeholders in the current system for it to be easily changed.
In addition to being cool tool in itself, the evaluation copy wobbly mode made a fun little reverse engineering challenge :)

Of course I advise you to buy it if you use it for more than RE exercise.
Participate in discussion.
It seems to me that, as a society, to choose for a longer waiting list and uglier waiting room it's a small price to pay in exchange of healthcare for everybody.

About the decreasing quality: there is a clear pattern where, you cut financing of public resources and, then, you can show how bad they work and how best a private system would be.
https://berniesanders.com/issues/medicare-for-all/
I decided to read a book a day this year. So far I'm ahead at 336 and here are my counter opinions.

"* It’s much better to read the best book on the topic 5 times, than to read 5 different books on the topic once."

Flat out no. Unless you're a freaking machine. Reading different books covering the same topic keeps me interested more. I don't mind the repetition then because I get the warm "I know that" feeling.

"* Eyes that pay read better than eyes that don’t. Eyes that pay more read better than eyes that pay less. In other words, when you pay for a book or a course, you’ll dedicate more to it, so you’ll get more value from it."

Total nonsense. I'm not paying my friends or the library to borrow their books. Next you'll be telling me hardback books transfer ideas better. Well, my e-reader has a hard case. And I paid 300 quid for it.

"* If you read ~1h (almost) every day, you’ll be able to read 60-80 books per year."

If you use all your idle time you can read a book a day. Cooking? You mean reading and cooking. Commuting? Reading. Sitting on the toilet? You get the idea. Waiting for the kettle? Seconds add up!

I agree with the rest.
Yes.

* https://blog.mozilla.org/addons/2016/08/02/multi-process-fir...

* https://developer.mozilla.org/Add-ons/Working_with_multiproc...
> It is fine to force 70 year old pensioners to clean toilets

No one forces these 70 years olds to work there. I honestly believe that the people who do are happy to be able to earn some money (because they may not find a "better" job).

In Germany no one is really forced to accept a job because of the reasonable good-enough social benefits / welfare systems (not saying that you can live a good life with it though).

Anyway, you probably didn't want to discuss a real issue but rather spread your, umh, questionable ideas about the "army" of immigrants. :-/
Still better than when the train driver makes the announcements, which are often hardly intelligible, because they're either too far away from the microphone, or because the cockpit is too noisy. It gets even better when they have to speak English as well: Then their favorite technique is to speak so fast that they skip every second syllable, hoping that it will be over soon.
Frustration after 500-1000 ban shocking video
Look at infant mortality for college educated people in the two countries. Much more interesting. The US has massive population segments on drugs and other segments here illegal that dont get medical care.

Generally if you are well off, the US is a fine place to be. If you are addicted or poor, it's not so great.
The uk hospital was in North Wales - the most overwhelmingly white corner of the country that suffers from a decreasing and aging population. Most of the doctors and nurses were immigrants, from the EU and beyond.

I'm not even going to venture to disagree with you, I'll just provide those facts.
> Obama was going in the right direction

Can you expand on this?

I've heard many critics of Obamacare (that say it doesn't actually work that well in reality), and in general, it seems that it was only tackling a part of the problem. In Europe, you usually have a single payer, single buyer and single executor (or at least each of those is very regulated, so there's less chance for exploitative monopolistic behaviour than in the US).
The article only mentions that consuming this particular seaweed eliminates methane. I am missing the production perspective. How much more/less greenhouse gasses are created during production of the seaweed compared to traditional fodder? The net total is what counts.
> But it is. Insurance works by pooling money from a group of people where only few are going to use it.

Except not everyone paying the same amount. Most pay nothing. That is, in socialist health care system.

And I am not just refering to insurance but also investment toward better medical education. If there is medical advancement going on then we have to collectively make sure that we all get it at good price. I am advocating more proactiviness toward our own health rather than rely on government to do it. But sadly government interference make this very difficult.
What kind of work and skills would it take? I would be free this summer and am looking to contribute to a good and worthy project (just for kicks and the bragging rights).
Nothing unusual for vendors to certify their RAM for nonstandard speed.
Now refine that down to college educated nonndrug using people. I suspect it would be even more narrow.
> "The C64 SID is generally considered the best soundchip made."

Best for the time, I'd agree, but I'd suggest it's been surpassed since. Of course the SID still has its charm, when I say surpassed I mean in terms of flexibility.

IIRC the designer of the SID went on to design some of the early high-end PC sound cards.
If you're not in the fac mindset, sure. But still, equal access and cheap education is not something to spit at!
The idea of changing the physics of the universe occurs several places in sci fi. E.g. the Heechee Saga has the Heechee hide themselves behond the event horizon of a black hole after they discover that some civilization appears to have made changes to the universe in order to trigger a big crunch followed by a new big bang with physics more to thir own liking.
Hidden Cluster of Galaxies May Be Moving the Milky Way
Maybe the problem isn't Apple's hardware, but 20-50MLOC code bases?

Xerox PARC had, effectively, a simple version of what we consider "Personal Computing": word-processing, E-Mail, laser printers, software development, proto-Internet. Alan Kay claims it was less than 20KLOC, and that's a plausible figure considering the Alto had 128K RAM and a 2.5MB disk pack.

MS Office alone is >400MLOC. That's 20000x the code, or 20KLOC^2. There is no way it is 20000 times better or more useful. However, let's assume for the sake of argument that it is 100x better/more useful (something I'd consider dubious, but it's a good upper bound). That still leaves a factor 200x unaccounted for. Or 99.5% of the code.

TBL's first web-browser was ~5KLOC, took him a couple of months to write, in his spare time IIRC. It included editing. NCSA Mosaic took a team of five one year to complete, was 100KLOC and did not include editing. The current (last time I checked) version of Firefox is 13MLOC. Is it 2500x better?

And if you think compile-times are the biggest problem with multi-MLOC code-bases, you're not paying attention.
That said, even single-payer systems as the ones in Western Europe can have this exact same problem. Like when Region Stockholm / Stockholm County (Responsible for Health Care and Public Transport) in Sweden bought supplies like support socks for 6000 SEK/pair (~645 USD) [1].

I'm guessing - but I do not think it's a good thing when people who make the purchasing and oversight of things are far away from the actual practitioners. It leaves a lot of room for different kinds of shenanigans, fraud and sub-optimal choices. I think that applies regardless if you're for Private or Public health care.

[1] http://www.svt.se/nyheter/lokalt/stockholm/landstinget-kopte...
Well the seaweed itself would take up some CO2 during growth... so you have that bonus too. I'd guess the major costs would come during transport.
I'll keep this bit:

we, as a society, are more than willing to sacrifice lives for automobility

Perhaps that's the point we need to reconsider, the cause-not-symptom behind the effect that the OP associates with a simple metric (which, to me, sounds a bit superstitious: why precisely 10 foot lanes, and not 9.5 or 10.5 ones?)
Great article. However, good arguments have never convinced some people. I'm so tired of this hand-wringing over the amount of RAM in a computer. The entitlement of some people is ridiculous. Apple, unlike Microsoft, does not produce software and hardware products for software engineers. It's time for software engineers to accept that and move on. I have.
I agree with you on the train drivers' announcements, they tend to suck most of the time and usually suck most when the train is moving, because the mike picks up all the noise from the engine. Or because the connectors between carriages / the cabling wears down and signal quality degrades.

But on a station it is possible to only put people in front of the mike who speak accent-free German and English, and to properly adjust and maintain the amps, speakers and wiring.
Great thing to know. Hope it reduces fatalities in the near by countries like Haiti too.
With the election in US, I have to say that civilization in the country has been set back for many centuries.. not surprised to see a dog bites dog environment in the States...
Just look at the Shanghai Ranking, some facs seems to be doing pretty good : http://www.shanghairanking.com/World-University-Rankings-201...

While it is true that there are some very bad Facs and cursuses, dissing 'La fac' altogether seems a bit harsh
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The theory is appealing to many because it avoids non-determinism. It's unappealing because it's strictly more complicated than the interpretations that don't have this extra object, but predicts nothing beyond them. By Occam's razor it's not as good as the simpler interpretations.

I'm not a physicist, but doesn't classical QM have the problem of the "collapse of the wave function", i.e. "suddenly" Schrödinger's equation does not hold anymore - a problem that the De Broglie-Bohm theory does not have? Shouldn't this be considered as a strong sign against "typical" QM formulations and for the De Broglie-Bohm theory?
My impression (as a European) of the US system is that in practice what we have with individual states here in Europe + EU isn't possible in the US, since the federal government taxes are proportionally so high, compared to what individual EU members contribute to the EU.

Thus while individual states could implement their own health care system, it would have to be on top of everything that's federally mandated, which they're already paying for. The tax burden would be outrageous, so it just doesn't happen.

It's also odd to see other Europeans dismiss the argument many Americans have for a smaller federal government, while in practice that's pretty much what we have over here in the EU. Could you imagine a EU-wide single-payer health care system? It would be a complete disaster.

So in that sense I wonder if the better solution for the EU would be to roll back all federal health entitlements (Medicare etc.) and just implement this completely on the state levels, then states like California and the like could have European-like single-payer health care systems, while perhaps other states would opt for different systems.
ACA is a step in the right direction. Before US healthcare actually improves for a majority (and not just the uninsured - which isn't a small thing in itself) many more steps is needed.

The best way to move ACA in a progressive direction would be to have a large public player in both insurance and as a provider.
You think the IPCC is not real science?

Why would it be a bummer that something in the "human extinction" category was taken on the "let's make sure it really doesn't happen" side instead of the "oh, those hippies are screaming since the 80s, because they took the scary predictions of some models seriously, and we're still here, so fuck them, and also fuck the 95+% of vastly more advanced and sophisticated models of today, because air quality is improving in urban centers".

It's great to see things improving, but CO2 has not much to do with smog. And that's actually a problem, because people who take the lazy approach to global climate models like you - let's call these people the Peter Wilsons (because an article of his is the [second] thing on Google if you search for co2 and smog) - will insist on having clean air and on doing nothing with regards to CO2.