skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think these things have already been discussed to death some time around the year 1700, when they were called something like "mathematical analysis of infinitely small magnitudes" or some such; the difference between an "infinitely small magnitude" and zero was already clearly understood. The notion of a "limit" came only later, in an attempt to put this stuff on a firm logical foundation and was (and still is) seen more of a formality than something aiding our intuition in this area.
> Americans will die needless deaths

First off everyone dies. Who's not receiving healthcare right now that would be ultimately saved by the government?

Secondly let's cut the hyperbole and have a rational conversation about this.
Yes, it's a euphemism for price controls. Which may or may not be a no-go depending on your political bent.

Another issue here is termination shock - if a provider comes up under the current system, getting into massive student debt in anticipation of a highly remunerative medical career, how will price controls effect him?
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yes, people are always motivated by self interest, even for what seems like altruistic actions the underlying motivation is that it makes them feel good about themselves.
Benefit from a policy scrapped which never went into effect in the first place. I'm not holding my breath.
Very nice analysis. A couple of things stand out:

1. The mesh interconnect looks like a big loser for the smaller parts. It's a big jump up in complexity (there's an academic paper floating around which describes the guts of an early-stage version) and seems to be a power and performance drain. I can't imagine they got the clock speeds they wanted out of it. Sure, it's probably necessary for the high-core-count SKUs, but the ring bus probably would have done a lot better for the smaller ones.

2. There's almost nothing in here for high-end workstations (which typically have launched with the server parts). Sure, AMD has Threadripper coming soon, but this looks like Intel's full lineup... so where are the parts? We've bought plenty of Xeon E5-1650s and 1660s around here, and it doesn't look like there's anything here to replace them. That's unexpected. The "Gold 5122" (ugh what a silly name) is comparable, but at $1221 is priced just about double what an E5-1650v4 runs.

Workstations are a bit of an interesting case because their loads look a lot more like a "gaming desktop" than a server: a few cores loaded most of the time with occasional bursts of high-thread-count loads. That typically favors big caches, fewer cores, and aggressive clock boosting. If you're only running max thread count every now and then, you can afford a huge frequency hit when you do. But since these are business systems we try to avoid anything that doesn't say "Xeon" on it (or "Opteron", in years past) as reliability is paramount. To see nothing here from Intel in this launch is discouraging, to say the least. I have an upgrade budget and it looks like it'll be heading nVidia's way at this point.
What If It's All True?
They mention it in their article, as well as many of their other articles. They use "consumer" drives.

For a more in-depth explanation, see https://www.backblaze.com/blog/enterprise-drive-reliability/
But not everyone dies a needless death, which was his point.

It is not irrational to point out the cost of ongoing debate.
Fascinating. And the fact that it's been confirmed by a competing team makes it really believable.
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What you are describing is called PFD (Primary Flight Display). HSI is just a bottom part of it, basically combined heading indicator + CDI/VDI + (sometimes) moving map. But anyway, unless you are on instrument approach (or at least have it tuned in on your avionics), the HSI won't show you whether you are lined up with the runway or not.
It's not just doctors, its drug and health insurance companies, etc... but really? Is the argument is that we as a nation should pay double what other modern nations pay so doctors can be well paid?

Edit: Here's a deal, lets pay for doctor's educations, implement universal healthcare and call it even.
Cost saving measures can also result in better care. We use Kaiser Permanente, and they often use nurse practitioners and physicians assistants to initially screen patients. It may sound like that's a lower level of care than seeing an MD, but in practice, it's much easier to be seen by someone quickly, and every single one of the providers we've seen has been excellent.

Another point: health care outcomes are better in Canada. There may be more than just health care working there (ie, lower obesity), but it's worth noting.
I was recently watching some Computerphile videos and was surprised to learn that several geometric problems have fundamental applications outside the physical sciences, such as geometric sphere packing and error correcting codes. Does tiling research have any known applications in CS or information theory?
No pricing? imo you lose users /w pricing page
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Those of us who have participated in past debates about systemd, I think, would know that there is more nuance here than talking heads give. I have heard plenty of reasoned thought about why systemd is bad and good, so please stop trying to make a holy war where one doesn't exist. Also, Emacs is clearly supeirior due to GPL license alone. Not to mention it's an OS in itself.

GPLv3 is the future
This is the correct answer. Every time I hear that a software vendor needs recurring revenue to survive, I think back to the entire history of the software industry where this was clearly not the case until every recently. Its gotten to the point now where anyone who makes some sort of software believes that are a service that must be paid for by subscription.

Don't be those guys, have a good long hard think about why you deserve that recurring revenue and if its not immediately obvious, chances are you are just chasing the dollar rather than trying to solve a problem.
This is why US antitrust law focuses on harm to consumers, not companies. I don't see much harm to consumers if Google refuses to do business with websites that annoy consumers. Google already has a lot of rules that websites have to follow in order to be eligible for AdSense.
I don't disagree except for the fact that college students are supposed to be at least semi-adults (though perhaps young and silly ones) and getting through a 50 minute class without giving in to digital temptations is really something that people ought to be capable of well before college.
> "The most important source of cost savings under single-payer is that large government entities are able to negotiate much more favorable terms with service providers. In 2012, for example, the average cost of coronary bypass surgery was more than $73,000 in the United States but less than $23,000 in France."

A more useful comparison would be the average cost of coronary bypass surgery for someone with a employer-provided health plan versus the cost that Medicare, Medicaid, or the VA pays. And then compare the average wait times of each along with recovery time/effectiveness.

Out of pocket is only one "cost" in this picture.
I've had the same experience - teaching math for a short time at a State University. I think the basic situation is that by the time students have reached the university level, the habit of looking for a set algorithm for completing a class is completely ingrained and moreover, the average student has little-to-no free time so they feel a panic concerning anything that will take an unpredictable amount of time.
Well you are right... But at least the business model of users being goods is a new take on capitalism.
Sure!

America did it twice: native genocide and African slavery.
While your argument makes sense,

I just want to point out that laptops for maths, engineering and science are not useless if you type sufficiently fast [1] and "master" [2] LaTeX.

And I know of one person who actually does it in chemistry, his notes are stunning and complete (which makes him love to look at them and improve them).

As for myself, I use pandoc (Markdown + LaTeX + a long set of custom commands accumulated during lectures) to take notes of mathematics (and it can get ugly sometimes with matrices, which require me to resort to SAGE generating the good LaTeX instead of me.)

And, the advantage? I can actively listen and participate to proofs while taking complete notes quickly.

As for the spatial problem, I agree that for certain topics, it makes sense, but the cost / quality provided by a laptop was a lot higher, though I take the time to do some sketch on paper and work my drafts on paper because it's a lot faster than on a computer.

Second point regarding spatial organisation: You can use mental maps to build spatial representations, along the way, there should be some tool to build any kind of spatial representation.

tl;dr: It is actually possible to take notes on laptop for subjects like maths, engineering and science thanks to tools like Pandoc and LaTeX, though it's still preferable to use paper for drafts and problem solving or to organise spatially your knowledge.

[1]: depends on your lecturer's speed, in fact.

[2]: mastered for the stuff you have to type (e.g. diagrams, advanced maths, etc…).
Moving companies is the only way to get a promotion or a substantial raise in the current business climate. Had I stayed at the same company I'd be the highest paid developer but making 40-50% less than what a competitor has paid for my skillset.
thanks for reminding me about team services. I've been looking for low cost CI solutions for .net core. I'm going to give it a try.
> complaints about its creator
I've read many complaints and analysis about systemd, however it seems if they mention "Lennart Poettering" they are usually valueless rants.
I'm a proponent of declarative init systems, and I'm against systemd.

I don't think getting into the specifics is going to be productive here, but I just wanted to point out that the debate shouldn't be framed as "systemd" vs "non-declarative init systems".
Anytime one person saves money, it is also costing someone else money (the person or people that money was going to). Saving money on healthcare will cost money for people who are currently making money from the excessive costs of healthcare.

This is not a secret, and not really a conspiracy; the groups that make money from the current system are always the ones opposed to change. It just sucks because there aren't nearly as many of them as the rest of us, but they just have more to lose than the rest of us have to gain - a classic example of concentrated benefits and diffuse costs.
But Google is also 22 years younger? Google passed $100b market cap at age 7 and Apple at 29. Google other as in non ad revenues in 2016 at age 18 is greater than all of Apple revenues when they were the same age. Plus Google grew income by 29% last quarter and Apple earnings have declined over the last two years.
You might have missed this: https://lkml.org/lkml/2017/7/6/577

Ted Ts'o:
https://plus.google.com/+TheodoreTso/posts/EJrEuxjR65J

"For me a lot of "good taste" is about adding complexity when it's needed, and avoiding it when it's not needed. And if you do have complexity, making sure you have the tools so you can debug things when they break. And for me one of the things that I don't like about systemd is that it has added a lot of complexity, and when it breaks, trying to debug it can be almost impossible."

Also:

"Heck, I don't even I want to file bug reports, just so I can get abusive messages from Lennart. At least when Linus flames me, it's because I did something wrong which hurts users and which I d*mned well should have known better, given my years of experience in the community. Lennart just flames you because you're wrong, and he's right. By definition."

And:

"The high bit, in my opinion, is "not being able to admit you are wrong". If someone (such as Lennart) is always right, then it's impossible to have a technical discussion in a post-mortem to avoid similar problems in the future. In a company, if there are personnel issues like that, you can escalate to the person's manager, or use other mechanisms. In the open source world, all you can do is route around the damage. Whether you call the inability for someone to admit that he or she has contributed to the problem a "lie" or just that they were "mistaken" is really beside the point as far as I'm concerned."
It's also worth noting that more than a few Canadians come to the United States for treatment because they can either get treatment faster, or they can get treatments that aren't available in Canada.
> Why on earth aren't non-practicing entity patent lawsuits outlawed?

The NPE category includes universities and researchers. Many inventions can't be brought to market without significant capital, and not all inventors are interested in commercializing their inventions themselves. Just because you're not personally going to build a billion dollar chip fabrication facility to implement the new silicon etching process your research group patented shouldn't prevent you from licensing it to Intel and suing someone else that uses your invention without a license, IMO.
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What makes you so sure the 'proactive approach' was actually better for you, health wise?
Sort of, at least in general aviation. Some of the newer avionics have bluetooth interface. For instance, popular GTN-series nav/comm can accept flight plans from Garmin Pilot software running on iPad.

Now, the iPad part is not certified, but the nav/comm (including software) is.
> The key flaw in this analysis is that the author is only using consumer grade drives from Amazon

? This is Backblaze, a commercial storage company. They buy in bulk in thousands of drives, not from Amazon, and the prices are what they paid. As they say, "The price you might get at Costco or BestBuy, or on Amazon will most likely be higher." It's the trend and comparisons which matter, not so much the absolute price.
But, most exams at that level gives enough time to make them accurate.
Google is reportedly funding academic papers friendly to its interests
Adding a `map` method to every single object is not a backwards-compatible change. That's why those new methods are under the `Object` global.
Props for a fresh, clean design. The docs are fantastic, easy to read, and doesn't contain verbose technical bloat. Overall excellent design and UX execution.
Anecdote time: I was a late bloomer in math too. From about 6th to 10th grade, I was terrible at math. I think it was because of inapplication problems.

Yes, you get a word problem about Jack and Kwanzeeah trying to fill up a pail or something, it was nonsense to me. Why are they filling up a pail? Why are they using a bucket that is 173/9th's the size of the hose? Why do they have to not let it overflow? Why do I have to decipher this inanity, why can't they just ask me to do this stupid problem of stupid fractions? Why the cloak and dagger?

Then you get to 'real' algebra and you start to find roots of quadratic equations and other useless information. Dear Lord! When has anyone ever done this for any reason? Yes, something something eigenvalues something something computational modeling something runge-kutte. But for real though, quadratic equations are just nonsense gibberish to weed out the poor kids from the rich ones. Trig, yes, it's useful when you are building a shed that has to be totally perfect and crisp otherwise the rich white lady will not pay you. Geometry was a bit 'fun' actually, but in the same way that learning that Custer's Men took a poop at this road-side stop on the way to Little-Big Horn.

It wasn't until Chem in my 10th grade year that I actually 'got' algebra. We were doing moles to molarity calculations to get the solution to the right pH and make it all turn pink or something. It was then that I realized that all this mathy stuff was actually useful to me, that I could use it to make things easier and better for myself and my family. Like, I could 'know' what to do then. Before that it was just drill and kill and bad grades and shame. I remember staying after class and into the next one in the room, just sitting in the back doing these calculations over and over. I got kicked out for doing math! It was such a relief! I finally 'got it' when I needed it for something real to me personally.

For me, it was the issue of 'math' being this blunt-shame-thing that made no sense to use ever. But once I needed to use math, it was trivially easy. Learning math for each of us is individual, we each have our own motivations that are unique that need to be met. I know that is not easy to institutionalize, but if you want to do it, you have to find the 'correct motivation for each kid.
> At this point, he looks either 1) complicit, or 2) incompetent.

Well, he obviously had to trust Caldbeck's word a great deal to want to do business with him in the first place, so maybe Caldbeck lied. Would you consider Caldbeck's spouse similarly responsible?

Keep in mind that these new accusations hadn't been made yet so perhaps Teo thought the problem had been dealt with and risk minimized. This is the key point, it's about risk minimization. Teo has nothing to gain by this blowing up and everything to gain by surfacing it early, distancing himself, and being the good guy.

SO to claim that you think he's complicit indicates that you think he was loyal to Caldbeck like a hypothetical fraternity brother, and not rational like an experienced investor.

If there is one person to whom Caldbeck's conduct would have been most alarming (aside from his spouse) it would have been Teo, so I think your assumption of his complicity unlikely to be true.

Similarly, the idea that he handled it incompetently also does not hold up to scrutiny. His firm just blew up, and he clearly didn't want that to happen. My read on it is that he's attempted to act selflessly to preserve the value of the firm for the LPs and founders, and not tried to capitalize on it for his own gain.

It sounds likely that Caldbeck may be guilty of having harassed some founders, and if so I hope he receives appropriate legal consequences in addition to the inevitable reputation loss.

But we should give Teo the benefit of the doubt since I think his actions indicate that he's not trying to act opportunistically.
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Yeah, even with all the inefficiencies added up, the top 5-10% will likely end up pay more for less.

But that's still no reason to let poor people die...
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Because there's a Grey area. As an inventor, you might develop something for the express purpose of licensing it to other companies, or sell it to a company that does that for a business for a nice up front sum.

The problem is when patents last too long or thing are patented that are obvious and should have failed that criteria.
Anti-fraud enforcement is a tiny nit compared to the overall poor performance of US healthcare compared to other single payer nations. We pay roughly double per capita, cover fewer people (which means the people who do pay in our system are paying more than double), and have lagging health measures such as life expectancy and infant mortality rates (2-3x higher in the US!).

https://ourworldindata.org/the-link-between-life-expectancy-...

Anti-fraud measures can be evaluated for cost-benefit in isolation, but when the fundamental cost structures are so completely out of whack then we should prioritize discussion of the fundamental problems - which is lack of single payer universal healthcare in America.
I should point out here that this applies to serious illnesses. If you have a cold, the flu, or a broken bone, you're fine in Canada.
Your president is a mysoginistic, racist, bigoted, dangerous person, but as long as it benefits your precious economy, you're fine with it.
I don't think that most people have a problem with systemd itself. Only some people. Usually it's a minor problem. But then you take it to the mailing list, and if it gets all the way to Lennart, he'll treat it like that's a "You" problem.

I have not personally experienced this, but I've been in enough of these threads to realize that it's a big problem when, on a regular basis, you can't get these little problems solved because the creator insists it's supposed to work that way, to the bemusement of experts who chime in that know it has never worked that way before (and perhaps with very good reason), never in any other related system of the kind.

So we get to have all of the reasoned, technical arguments again. That's how progress works, I guess. In a modern, systemd world, maybe the arguments that led to so many system designers putting their systems together in "this way," for arbitrary values of "this" which are broken in some way by systemd, actually don't fundamentally hold water anymore. Maybe if you drink enough of systemd's kool-aid, you won't try asking these types of questions of Lennart anymore, you can just see it the way he does.

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Awesome resource! I've been playing around with GraphQL on a Node/React+Apollo project and found it very useful and fun to use.

My background with backend is mostly PHP. Any good plans on adding PHP guide to backend section or is there no good GraphQL-server/implementation for PHP?
Google searches for exact match + image classification + text search, and also recognizes some famous images (such as Eiffel tower). E.g. if Google sees an unfamiliar image, it converts it to something like a "red swivel chair", and searches for that (so no way it can find the same object unless it is really unique).

I want to make it possible to just snap a picture of anything and find this object. Try to take a picture and search for it on Google Images.

Although, I should say, image search in Baidu works way better than Google's
Nitpick: "MacBookPro11,1" "Macmini7,1", etc refers to the hardware model: the first number being the machine's generation and the second one being its revision.
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> "Of course, having to pay taxes is itself a mandate of a sort, but it’s one the electorate has largely come to terms with."

Some taxes maybe? The whole "mandate vs. tax" argument was at the core of the opposition to the Affordable Care Act. I would argue that this issue is not decided by a long shot and a great deal of people are still upset by this.

Further, this article addresses aggregate costs but doesn't acknowledge that costs of the change to single payer will impact people in much different ways. Some folks will be asked to pay a lot MORE, and some will be asked to pay LESS, and it may settle out to be cheaper in aggregate, but cheaper to whom? These impacts (especially felt in the short term) need to be considered and mitigated.
There are at least two other tactics that are novel. The article as a whole indicates that this novel approach is effective.
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I think that would have a significant impact on how research universities are funded. The University of Wisconsin recently won a $200m patent lawsuit against Apple, coincidentally (?) just as they were losing $200m of state funding.
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