skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was about to suggest the same; Micropython requires a little more flash/RAM (https://github.com/micropython/micropython/wiki/FAQ) than the authors goals but it's certainly no toy language despite the immature (but rapidly improving) tooling and libraries. I'm pushing to use it in more of my embedded projects - and have little desire to return to embedded C!
For the most part, they're more annoying than anything else.

But wow, are they annoying.
Nope, not willing to argue that. Trolling is purely destructive in the way that vandalism is; in a way that theft is not.

I view it as the lowest form of humanity.
You can look at GiveWell's analysis, or look at the work done by GiveDirectly and Watsi.

One of the challenges with charity, though, is that you don't just want to spend the $10 optimally -- you also need to go back and tell your donors what you did with the $10, and convince them that they should give you $20 next year.
It is absolutely a biased perspective to pretend that left leaning communities are more likely to be "rabidly supportive" of fake news that conforms to their worldview than right leaning communities.

Right leaning community discourse is almost entirely oblique references to trigger topics and meme images that use simplistic analogies to pattern match against the audiences worldview.
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We are just ratcheting up the complexity all the time. Moving goalposts (and a bit of complexity-bloat).
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security isn't the only problem. banks do not want the users to be fully informed. if you overdraw your account, they make more money.

personally, i'd love to write my own open source clients you can verify and compile yourself that provide better information and heuristics - but that'd hurt the banks.

there are several kinds of of users: those who make the bank money (the uninformed that do not care much) and those who are actually interested in their statements. the latter are loss leaders. for consumer banks, the latter seem to be in the majority.

an app that informs you with the best intention (warning: if you continue your spending for the rest of the month like you did this week, you'll pay a lot extra!) would shift the balance even more.
Amazon is the only consumer of express shipping and logistics services in North America? No wonder Fred Smith had such a hard time getting people to buy into his early business plans!
I think political correctness is not a symptom of anything; rather, it's a calculated effort to control language and shape ideals. If you can control the way people talk about things, you can also shape the way they come to think about the things they are talking about.

Just look at LGBT scene. In 2003 it was culturally acceptable to ostracize/demonize the LGBT crowd. You could use the word "gay" anytime you wanted in reference to anything ("this pencil is so gay... it keeps breaking") or "fag" if you got annoyed with your friend. Enter massive PC effort where "gay" and "fag" are now pushed into taboo area and you have to use PC terms in reference to LGBT people. 10 years later, mission accomplished, people now think that it's okay to be LGBT simply because you made it taboo to say offensive LGBT slurs.

The problem is that PC is basically censorship-lite and can be weaponized to fit all sorts of agendas, good and bad.
The changes were to add details explaining the 95% "success rate", the sources of data, and the exchange that he was using.

I think you guys are both creating a false dichotomy between "genius who cracked the market" and "liar who is fabricating data", when there is plenty of room in between, e.g. "someone who made a few lucky trades in a bull market over a short period of time," which would describe probably the vast majority of "winners" in the stock market.

It's the equivalent of asserting that everyone who plays a slot machine must break even, when in reality some people win and some people lose.
As a doctor and founder of a healthtech startup based in Aus - well said. I worked in the US for 2 months as a medical student. The mind boggles.
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JSX is a breeze though. The trial-by-fire for me was handing a bunch of ugly components to our designer who only knew HTML/CSS/JS. He picked it up no problem.

And to me using JSX is infinitely better than have to use opaque template directives like Angular and Vue.
You're fine with the time? Move on...
The vast majority of emergency medicine is not emergency medicine, but emergencies are among the most likely things to have a catastrophic impact at the individual level. I cannot possibly treat the entire complexity of healthcare in a single comment and neither can you. That's why I'm offering a limited specific counterexample to your general argument, to point out the existence of fundamental economic problems in healthcare that are often buried by economic jargon which misrepresents the behavior of the healthcare market.

As RAND and Oregon show, free and reduced cost healthcare do not minimize avoidable suffering (at least suffering caused by medical conditions) any better than high marginal cost plans.

Unless you're poor or chronically sick. You have made it abundantly clear time and again on HN that you do not believe in altruism but think that all economic decisions should be made on the basis of self-interest; I think that approach is bunk and so we are not going to agree on a common goal any time soon.

Can you provide an argument why a more efficient medical system - specifically one where patients don't visit the doctor for frivolous/moral hazard reasons - would be somehow susceptible to black swan events?

If you're maximally efficient there's nothing to cut when the shit hits the fan. I think critical systems should include some excess carrying capacity (ie waste) because it's faster to reallocate resources internally than to get additional resources under time pressure.

As a simple example (from which I am not attempting to generalize to the secotr as a whole and which I am not going to get into any nitpicky arguments about), there's a good argument that we have a bit of a doctor shortage these days: https://www.quora.com/Why-dont-we-train-more-doctors

It would be rather inefficient to have a public health system with too many doctors and nurse practitioners. They wouldn't be as busy and wouldn't make as much money as they could at equilibrium, and you can easily imagine various second-order effects of such an inefficiency, and the fact of a cumulative social cost.

But if there is a public-health crisis, would you rather meet it with too many doctors or too few?
Capitalist makes profit by minimizing worker's pay in relation to the value the work produces.

(But if it makes you sleep your nights better the answer is yes!)
Thank you for the explanation. Has anybody tried to estimate the magnitude of this implicit subsidy to Medicare?
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Thank you - that was my entire point in the above post, glad that someone got it!
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Why is a third party negotiating for Medicare

Look back at the last paragraph in my response above. Medicare is required to cover a number of classes of drugs. they can't say "no, we're not paying for it."

As a result, Medicare has no negotiating power. Unless you can walk away from the table, why would drug companies budge?

And if Medicare did have the power to say "no", how would that work politically? I'm guessing the AARP would be up in arms if Medicare said "no, we're not paying for that drug, find an alternative."

And the price you quote are comparing list prices in the US to net prices (that's usually what's published in the EU and Canada).

Humira is significantly discounted in the US. 40 to 50% discounts are not unusual for large payers.

A great example are the HCV drugs. When a 2nd class of products entered the market, the drug manufacturers rushed to discount their products to maintain market share. As a result, the US price is lower than the prices in Europe.[1]

[1]http://www.forbes.com/sites/johnlamattina/2015/12/04/for-hep...
I also felt like this article was very strange, almost too good to be true, not really discussing downside risks associated with each position.

It's possible to generate a highly profitable and successful trading system but it's the expected probability factoring in the worst case downside scenarios that really matters.

After all, you could win 9 out of 10 times but that 1 time is where you blow up.

Right now, I'm putting my wall street hat on and calling this bullshit. A naive software developer will not be able to see the potential pitfall of holy grail systems-they do not exist.

I also question if it's really HFT, the bar is really high to get low latency connection but he's only making 3.5k/month...it just doesn't make sense.

And why would you publish your system and say oops I can't tell you anything about it?
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When you consider the array of different exploits the thieves had to use to steal this guy's bitcoins, I think that this is a rare case where they are accurately described as hackers. But in the more common cases, such as Podesta's email account getting spearphished, you're correct that calling the perpetrators hackers is an insult to hackers.
It's not that actuaries will be eliminated. It's that 2 actuaries and 2 data scientists will do the work of 20 actuaries.

How many actuaries does a major insurer employ? Would they like to halve that number?
Not everyone values privacy the same way.

Or perhaps you're saying that if you value privacy differently, then you're not a True Scotsman?
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No it's WebGPU like it shows in the code. Vulkan is a competing standard and technology.
Came across this site a few minutes back as an email referral. Supposedly pays you in gold. I've never heard of the company, and don't know whether it's legit.
> Trolling, to me, just aggravates the actual problem: deep socioeconomic/racial/sexual inequities.

Do have to bring that into everything? Online trolling is hardly about inequalities if you can manage minimal information hygiene. The authors analyzed CNN comments which I assume have no realname requirement [I don't actually see any comment section on their page]. Which means you can act with out much identity-signalling at all.

Only when people choose to bring their real-life identity to the table others can bring discrimination into the game. If they don't then "trolling" is just a range of non-constructive or self-serving behaviors that may serve as amusement to some parties while bothering others. It's not like it is unfairly targeting any particular group, because anyone can be a troll and anyone can be a victim.

> anyone here willing to argue that trolling has possibly positive transformative benefits, similar to political satire?

Trolling and satire seem closely related to me. If the target does take it seriously and is mislead by the satire performer then it is both at the same time.
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The article doesn't mention which developing country the trial will be in, but South Africa would make an interesting candidate. It has a public healthcare system that's in shocking condition, and a world-class private healthcare system, funded by health insurance, that's becoming more unaffordable (despite being funded and mandated by employers) each year because of high medical inflation. There are clear parallels to the US healthcare system, and the commodities downturn has stymied the government efforts to introduce universal healthcare, so there would be an ideological willingness to experiment.
TickData[1] are cheap and good for US data, I have had bad experience with them for EU data. They have a minimum of (IIRC) $1K but you can get a ton for that.

Some exchanges offer free historical data, for instance BM&F BOVESPA[2], trading in some markets (such as Brasil and China) is often difficult if you are a foreigner.

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[2] http://www.bmfbovespa.com.br/en_us/services/market-data/hist...
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That's true. People complain about being banned, and then it turns out that they called someone's mother a hamster.

Not that there isn't some awful part of me thinks it's a little bit funny to tweet gay porn at the alt-right, but if you do something like that, than don't complain about getting banned: you had it coming.
No, there's plent of offline examples too.

For example, some countries require consent to take a picture of a person in both public and private place.
But isn't there still the step of translating the business logic into a machine readable format, and isn't that what the majority of software engineers do at this point anyways?
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ToS is not a license in and of itself.

ToS is used in conjunction with a license usually. And the ToS in that case outlines how that license may be revoked.

I don't think ToS is a license though all by itself.
Hey Apple, how about developing your browsers to support modern web technologies first?
If you make a million spins of $1 each you will end with $800000 or whatever the state law is regarding payout. In general an index fund will go up since most economic policies are geared toward inflation.
A pregnant women spending a day in hospital after childbirth with zero complications pays about $2000. During this time she sees a doctor for perhaps 15-20 mins total and a nurse for perhaps 30 mins total. There is no medicine or any other procedure cost. It's day light robbery if you ask me by the people who run the hospital and have figured out how to game the healthcare system using political means. I'm surprised by the statement that major component of healthcare is apparently "operational inefficiency".
Anything that's not based on the Vulkan spec is just a land-grab by Apple to push their own technologies.

As someone who spends a lot of time in that space I don't really see what this is solving, WebGL is good enough and anyone serious about performance/compute are going to drop down to native anyway.
A women spending a day in hospital after childbirth with zero complications pays about $2000 per day. During this time she sees a doctor for perhaps 15-20 mins total and a nurse for perhaps 30 mins total. There is no medicine or any other procedure cost. It's day light robbery if you ask me by the people who run the hospital and have figured out how to game the healthcare system using political means. I'm surprised by the statement that major component of healthcare is apparently "operational inefficiency".
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There is a video of Giuliani saying these things, so if you would like to see it, just do a search. In fact, it is a (possibly the) critical argument being made in the legal case this evening.
Yes that's entirely possible, but my main point was that the chart looks really hand-made (by someone who doesn't really know what they're doing). I don't really see how an ascii data visualization tool would spit out such an abomination...
I feel like Apple are just trying to get in early with a proposal so they don't get forced into supporting Vulkan (and wasting all that effort on Metal).

Mind you, it does at least look like they're trying not to be jerks about it (even if the motivation is somewhat selfish). They specifically mention the competition to Metal and how "webgpu" is ideally an abstraction that'll sit on-top of Vulkan, Metal and Direct3D 12.

It'll be interesting to see how this pans out. Vulkan, Metal and Direct3D 12 are all intentionally very low level, adding a wrapper of any kind may be seen as non-ideal by all parties.
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While I agree, anthropomorphizing is still a problem when it comes to relations with animals. I mean we are a wee bit special and we tend to expect too much from other animals. They really are simplier beasts in comparison.

But then again sometimes we can't explain how or what we feel to ourselves, let alone what other fellow humans do. So I belivie it is presumtious to say "animals do not have emotions like we do!" or "they do!". The best we can do is being "optimistically cautious" I says!

Edit: also the article is a great guide on how to drive your cat insane.
If they knew what they had there (and the balance of the wallet was in the blockchain, they probably knew exactly who they were targeting here), you could throw an awful lot of resources at bruteforcing the password. (Lets face it, they had this guy's bank accounts and PayPal - I wonder how much of his own money they spent on AWS cracking his wallet password?)
"The major platform technologies in this space are Direct3D 12 from Microsoft, Metal from Apple, and Vulkan from the Khronos Group. While these technologies have similar design concepts, unfortunately none are available across all platforms."

So Apple, the only company not supporting Vulkan on their platforms, is complaining that there isn't a cross-platform solution?
In Australia we have a universal healthcare system for everybody and a private system that runs alongside that essentially gets you a more comfortable bed and the ability to jump the queue for non-critical surgery.
You might like Standard Notes[1]. It's an open source project I and a few others are working on. Focuses on longevity, portability, and privacy. Has full offline support and end-to-end encryption, as well as support for 3rd party extensions like Dropbox sync.

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A drop in real GDP, perhaps.

A deflationary spiral or depression? No need. The central bank can always print enough money and buy enough assets to keep spending up.
Why would drug companies allow it? When a lot of Americans were filling their prescriptions in Canada, the drug companies simply applied quotas to their shipments to Canada. They know how big the markets are, so why would they ship 500% of estimated demand to Canada knowing it would flow back into the US?

As a result, a lot of pharmacies (and some gov'ts) restricted sales to out-of-country patients to prevent shortages in their own countries.
One example might help reinforce my case. Note to commenters, I am not making any judgements on these communities, these are just my observations.

A hard left community which is heavily invested in identity politics is inherently vulnerable to this type of destruction. It is in the DNA of the movement. I have witnessed this in many groups.

Group starts building large number of members for a cause, lets call it "Womans March". Initially all unified behind a common cause. Exploit identity politics to break it.

"Wow, I can't believe ALL the admins are white woman" "smh, these people need to stay in their lane and lets POC take charge" "my trans* friend was just messaged by an admin telling them "men" aren't allowed" "some of the people on this page are too ghetto"

As long as the culture is focused on grievance and division, they will divide and divide with a miniscule amount of pushing. Resentment and infighting grow almost exponentially.

A group of 5 co-ordinated trolls using these tactics collapse massive communities over and over again. You would not believe how effective it is. These are all old CIA tactics, unclassified manuals are studied and disseminated.
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It very much "depends". I'll give you an example.

A friend had a technique that worked very well on the NASDAQ 100 with roughly those BT criteria. One problem was overlooked: The NASDAQ 100 changes over that time. So you aren't necessarily investing in the same securities in year 6 as you were in year 5, even though you're investing in the same "top 100". IOW, backtesting in this particular case had future knowledge that wasn't easy to see.

When he started (paper) trading in the real NASDAQ 100, the returns were negative. In that he was lucky: They could have been positive for some time, until the constituent stocks changed.
Will it be patent encumbered, like Apple's "proposal" for touch events API?

> Meanwhile, GPU technology has improved and new software APIs have been created to better reflect the designs of modern GPUs. These new APIs exist at a lower level of abstraction and, due to their reduced overhead, generally offer better performance than OpenGL. The major platform technologies in this space are Direct3D 12 from Microsoft, Metal from Apple, and Vulkan from the Khronos Group. While these technologies have similar design concepts, unfortunately none are available across all platforms.

Oh, really? And who is to blame, that Vulkan is not available on Apple platforms?
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You fucking nailed it.

Articles like this where proper due diligence verifying the authenticity of the poster isn't in place raises strong questions about how reliable and factual IndieHacker is.

I really feel like they fucked up by posting this article. The other article seemed alright but now I ask the same questions.
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Access to raw text is not the hard part.
As far as I'm aware, it's perfectly fine to link to discussion on HN, but not okay to explicitly ask for upvotes: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html
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To extend GPs point, there are negotiators in the US who are bigger and therefore seemingly have more leverage than several of those countries. Therefore, perhaps it's not just a size/leverage thing.
i'm on iOS but today's IG update just got rid of this problem. been suffering this problem for the past week or so.
That's employment for you. Employees are not treated as autonomous agents. More like untrustworthy children.

For my last gig, I worked at some company on behalf of another. This workplace was quite explicit about intercepting and monitoring everything. I pondered for a second whether I should use this place's computers to log to my employer's webmail. I gave up and did it, because I wasn't going to read or write work emails outside of office hours.

Personal stuff however I didn't dare.