skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’m not sure what you are responding to. “Gives nicer looking gradient” than what?

CIELAB is a very simple model, which has been very successful but also has various deficiencies. In particular it specifies a broken method of white point adaptation (this can be swapped out), and involves a nasty blue-purple hue shift at constant CIELAB hue which can have big impacts on images put through a gamut mapping algorithm in CIELAB space, e.g. for printing.
I strongly recommend these two books. They are amazing!
LIGO may or may not turn up "new physics," but I for one think it's already plenty exciting to (i) confirm the predictions of GR (not a given), and (ii) be able to "see" the state of the universe through this new instrument -- there's more to (astro)physics than just the relevant physical laws.
Oh noes! I got downvoted!
I see so many entitled, selfish pedestrians downtown, every day it's not even funny. People keep acting like drivers are the only people causing problems, but if pedestrians would quit crossing after the DO NOT WALK, a ton of collisions would be avoided there too. Pedestrians forget to check for, or blatantly ignore cars all the time. I can't count the amount of times I've avoided hitting some pedestrian, because I had to take the responsibility to look out for them.
It seemed to accept my request (didn't error on entering the serial - but I uploaded a picture instead of giving OTPs) - perhaps because it was sold by Yubico; fulfilled by Amazon.
If it helps, you can call it things like non-standard.

We don't actually tend to follow all the rules of the road. Like all changes in traffic, we will adapt. It takes time. Something like a rotary can take 18 months before traffic fully adapts. I can't speculate as to how long this will take.
Wag, the ‘Uber for Dog-Walking,’ Is Drawing Uber-Like Scrutiny
Sure, but you can take some relatively easy actions to significantly reduce your chance of injury by a crazy driver. I don't come to a stop at green lights, but I do glance both ways to see if there's oncoming traffic. Occasionally there is: I've seen people blatantly run red lights.
I honestly don’t know. I struggle with a somewhat depressive outlook, but horrifically reality and that outlook have been slowly converging. I hope that I’m wrong, just a cranky guy, because the alternatives are genuinely terrifying me.
Fortunately the quickest way to get people to agree with you is to call them stupid and insane. You should become our spokesperson.
> Midicare is often providing a disproportionate amount of funding relative to the amount of care being provided. In other words Medicare may be 70% of the fund but < 70% of the costs.

Except that's not the case. Medicare's standard reimbursements are significantly less than COGS, and that doesn't even account for overhead.

This is pretty obvious to demonstrate, because other payers are generally required by law to set their reimbursement rates above what Medicare offers for their services. So there's mathematically no way that Medicare could be providing a disproportionate share of fee-for-service reimbursements.

And I'm not sure what point you're trying to make with the link you provided. FORHP is distinct from the critical access stipends that Medicare provides, which is what's relevant here (even though critical access hospitals may also receive funding through FORHP programs).

> But, that's frequently not enough to keep the doors open so the government added some back doors to hand out funding without strings attached.

There are plenty of strings attached. One of those strings is that the hospital's payer mix must exceed a certain threshold of Medicare patients. Again, that's not accidental - the whole point is that hospitals who don't exceed this threshold of Medicare patients will use their privately-insured patients to subsidize the costs of care for Medicare patients.
9-10h yes
This is awesome! Just out of curiosity, who (or what) do you use on the back-end? Is there like a Twilio for faxes?
This is cool - will definitely use it next time i have to send fax to the city!

Had a similar idea/pain point and I built a similar tool for sending postal mail - http://simplepostal.com/
The problem with Fulfilled by Amazon is that while you think you buy directly from Yubico, you might end up with a device from a reseller. Who actually ships your device is entirely random.

That's what happened to me, and it's infuriating.
It's amazing how little governance there is in the sky for general avaiation - aka small planes flown by private pilot license holders. When I studied to get my PPL it was the one thing I learned that shocked me.

There are NOTAMs (Notice to Airmen) that tell us about new structures that have been erected that could be problematic. NOTAMs also tell us if parts of the sky are off limits, for example if an airshow is on.

Other than that, and I am generalising a lot, there is no air collision avoidance in the majority of private planes here in the UK. Your two best mechanisms of defence are your eyes, and keeping one ear on the radio to get a feel for where everybody else is. If they're not too busy air traffic control will warn you about other planes in your vicinity, but it is not mandatory. There are also TCAS (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traffic_collision_avoidance_sy...) systems you can bolt on to your plane, or might come with new planes, but they're not mandatory and I've yet to fly a plane that comes with one.

As for finding fault. That doesn't happen in air accident investigations. Air Accident Investigation Reports (https://www.gov.uk/aaib-reports) are specifically engineered to focus on the problem, and find a solution to prevent a repeat of it. They are not designed to apportion blame, but instead learn from the mistake and build mechanisms for ensuring that the same outcome is mitigated. That's not to say you won't be prosecuted but that's a separate process.
> We have the capability to remove wealth from the equation of health entirely so why not?

Do we? I think the world needs at least one private healthcare market powerhouse to drive the advancement of medicine -- right now, it's mostly the US. If you are content with the current state of medicine, then yes, we can shut off the progress valve and more equitably distribute the healthcare technology we have now. Quality of providers will likely decay over time as well, once the incentives are gone. However, even this is easier said than done.

Or we can address how cheap most healthcare expenses ought to be (in terms of cost to administer / raw materials + manufacturing + R&D (much of which was done decades ago, for common medicine)), and ask why are they not?

Well, the reasons are pretty blatant. We have a combination of oppressive occupational licensing (it is too difficult to become a practicing doctor -- $$$ and decades of time), FDA-imposed pharmaceutical monopolies, inability to opt-in to experimental treatment (which also means malpractice insurance is always a major expense), artificial demand via Medicare and Medicaid (which artificially pump up the prices of all things they cover, especially drugs, and because they only apply to part of the population, they distort the market even more than universal health care would), overly broad and long-lasting IP law (patents, specifically), amongst others.

I think a more free healthcare system would advance faster, save lives, and be cheaper. We have one of the most government distorted healthcare economies in a world, including compared to countries with universal health care systems.

As an aside, re: the cost to become a doctor via Medical school, that is part of our expensive US education system, which is expensive for similar reasons (tuition prices are highly correlated with financial aid grants and federal student loan availability).

So basically, the common worldview that we need more government intervention is garbage. We just need government intervention in the right places (and nowhere else), preventing fraud and holding criminals liable.
Lookup tables were indeed a common technique used by games in the past.
Many parts of the UK (including London where I am) had an oddly beautiful phenomenon thanks to Ophelia http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-41635906
At 1% exploration you should already have exponential exploration growth (reasons are spoilers), and would be only a few seconds away from 100%.
In the West we must give thanks to the Irish monasteries, where manuscripts were preserved that were lost in the rest of Europe to the chaos of the Völkerwanderung, and to Charlemagne, whose advisor Alcuin brought the knowledge back from his Islands. Heinrich Böll called Ireland "Europe's burning heart". Nonetheless, the amount of literature lost in Late Antiquity is staggering.
In europe most of intersections that would be all-way stop in US either do not have any signage or signage to remind drivers of the rules of non-prioritized intersection ("warning, yield to the right"). Small roundabouts were to large extent specific to UK, until various european local authorities found out that building roundabouts is good way to meet their EU grant quotas.
Jesus, I can't imagine the type of resolution necessary to make those detectors work!

So the indication that "gravity wave happened" is wavelength change? Freaky stuff, I really have a hard time wrapping my head around all this, even after reading layman intros.
Does TV include Netflix/Youtube? I love watching those and can't really muster the energy to read after dinner until I go to bed..
Best way to do this is wait a few weeks then post your own service :) People will then automatically begin discussing yours versus another one that was posted recently, etc.
Hackernews likes this as a practicable application of transfer learning. Fans of machine learning want to see transfer learning as more than a cool trick.

Unfortunately, there is really no good reason for someone seriously interested in accurate information, like a researcher or journalist, to use machine learning for this particular task. Labeling a couple thousand images yourself or with friends is not that big of a task. Do it over a few evenings while watching TV and drinking beer. You could have mechanical turk workers do it for you for a few hundred dollars. In either case you will get extremely reliable information. If you use multiple judges you will have a good estimate of uncertainty for every classification. There is no way transfer learning can provide this uncertainty information.

The main advantage of this technique remains the ability to quickly label very large amounts of data on the order of hundreds of thousands of rows, or thousands of columns. For smaller data, machine learning can sometimes achieve marginal improvements in predictive performance through model complexity. However prediction in smaller data regimes is mainly useful for out-of-sample prediction. The machine learning paradigm offers limited support for measuring uncertainty for out of sample predictions, which is super important if you are a researcher.

One capability of transfer learning could be to support many many applications from one model, but I have yet to see demonstrations of this in practice. The problem is that knowing how well learning has transfered requires measuring generalizabity and so cannot be done blindly.
Pretty much anything by "Owl City" is fairly heavily autotuned, but not into Cher/T-Pain territory.
For the size mattress it was designed for, I assume.

EDIT: I'm a fool, and sofas aren't beds.
Not just you're (derogatively named?) hackers but anyone who uses natural language for precise meaning; lawyers, mathematicians, philosophers. People who say what they mean, and mean what they say.
Not much of an effect in Dublin so far.
Twilio do faxes! Not sure if this is what they're using though. https://www.twilio.com/fax/
Show HN: Datapo.com is a changelog for worldwide companies
Chilling video footage of a 1939 pro-Nazi rally at Madison Square Garden
The Twilio for faxes is just Twilio!

https://www.twilio.com/fax
Did you read it? It does quite successfully make the case that Massachusetts' healthcare system has probably improved medical bankruptcy rates. It doesn't make any such claim for the ACA at large. In fact, it possibly suggests the contrary - look at Tables 3 and 4 - their estimation is that overall, the percentage of bankruptcies that are medical in nature has risen, and the distribution of medical bankruptcies in the "basket" jurisdictions - the percentage of bankruptcies reporting medical debt increased sharply post-2010! This paper even specifically calls out the Himmelstein paper (which was broadly used as a justification for the ACA) as having far to broad a definition of medical bankruptcy.

I am very willing to accept that the ACA reduced medical bankruptcy rates (it makes intuitive sense!), but I maintain that there's practically no data that validates the claim, and the way that the statistics are manipulated to support that point via correlative inference makes me especially suspicious that it's not actually happening.
I look forward to collecting more data and will definitely share them once I do.

The US, despite being more "tech mature" than other countries, still fails to provide work/life balance or maintain quality code. I was honestly surprised to see these two things at the top of every list. It seems obvious that companies would prioritize these two things, yet... they aren't the standard.

Just reading the other popular posts on HN today (ie. https://medium.com/@deusexmachina667/you-fired-your-top-tale...), it sounds like these are common stories. You can be well-respected, be incredibly experienced/knowledgable, and still be overworked and pushed to push code we're not proud of. These things lead to turnover. I wonder if the startup culture in the US ("grow as fast as you can, do whatever it takes!") is especially bad, and contributes to low retention. Probably.
That chart actually force me to look at the key multiple times. Perhaps I am tired but I kept wanting to use the top key "female" for the top line within the chart....strange.
As soon as you said this I thought of Peter O. Knight and the Davis Island Yacht Club. I used to watch the planes land as we derigged our dinghies.
Regardless of whether you doubt it, it is an accurate claim. I remember following the development in real time, having used AMQP and ZeroMQ during 2007-2010.

I am not doubting that Pieter Hintjens deserves respect, but the ZeroMQ project was started by Martin. He wrote the vast majority of the code for the first two years, none of which was written by Pieter. Martin's company owned the copyright for the first 2 years, before it was purchased by Pieter's company. The only messages I see on the ZeroMQ mailing list from Pieter in those days are messages of congratulations and enthusiasm. I know Pieter and Martin worked together at iMatix, and that some of the ideas for ZeroMQ spun out of their mutual work with AMQP, but it is fair to say Martin started the ZeroMQ project.

I understand how Pieter presented things, but I think he did so with a revisionist viewpoint. I don't mean to disparage him or downplay the immense impact he had on the later success of ZeroMQ though.
The article compares how difficult is it to ship sofas with shipping mattresses. However you can order online rolled and compressed mattresses for ~60€ that are the size of a thick pillow. Once the plastic wrap is removed it will unroll. Then wait 24h and it will grow to its full size.
I have a little experience with the recording process, having been involved in the production of a contemporary a cappella album, and I think most people wouldn't believe how much stuff is auto-tuned. To my ear, if you listen to something like the Pitch Perfect soundtrack, a lot of it sounds quite obviously pitch corrected, but I will play it to musical friends and they are often surprised when I tell them there's some serious auto-tune going on.

Outside of the a cappella domain, I believe it's pretty prominent in most pop music, but my understanding is that the technology's gotten to the point where 95% of the time you can't tell apart machine correction from good tuning of the vocalist.
Blocking such changes might be an entirely reasonable thing to do. I've seen it a number of times.

CL author implements some feature, touching a library in the process. The changes made to the library help them match their requirements but are awfully specific to whatever feature it is they're implementing and don't make much sense in the context of the existing library API.

Sorry, but NAK. Don't increase the API surface with one-off additions just because it is the most convenient way to implement some feature. If you can't do with the existing API and don't think there's a nice and general abstraction to add to the library, you might want to figure out the absolute minimum API modification necessary that lets you achieve what you want to do. It might require more effort in the user part of the code, but is also that much more likely to be acceptable.
Pressure alone is sufficient only when the substance is below its critical temperature. The critical temperature for methane is 190.6 K, some 107 degrees below room temperature. Gases that are highly compressed above their critical point form a supercritical fluid, which can have liquid-like density but does not have a defined volume.

LNG is a true liquid, stored at cryogenic temperatures and low pressure.
The entire game in 16,000 lines of assembly code. :-)
Wow, this is a very nice talk. I particularly liked the Q&A, where Guy Steele went back and explained the type checker shown earlier. And I also loved the LISP macro backtick-comma inspiration for using underline to "escape" overline. Brilliant!
1. Spend ~3 minutes stretching and doing light exercise (pushups / situps) upon waking every morning.

2. Skip breakfast. Just black coffee until lunch. The intention is to train your body to get its energy from fat reserves (a more stable source) instead of the sugars in the food you just ate.

3. Cast aside desires, in the Buddhist sense. I found that, with just a little mental shift, I could "let go" of many daily frustrations that were sapping my energy.

EDIT: 4. GTD
I'm pretty familiar with this notation. No, he isn't trolling, it's not a practical joke, and even though it might seem esoteric and trivial to the outside world (hell, what academic disciple isn't?), he has a good point. The foundations of programming languages should use a consistent notation with well-defined semantics. Of course, theorem provers can encode most of these kinds of rule systems, and do have a concrete syntax that is not nearly as concise, but they do force the formalism into an automatic checker. Some academics really hate the "programming" of using a theorem prover, but I find it to be an incredible boon to the field.
> Whatever process you find yourself in, you have to be able to push back and say: "I'm working on X, if you want me to work on Y, what do you want first? What's the priority?"

I asked an ex-manager that once when I had 2 important issues to deal with. His response : "They're both important dude, get going on them."

I don't know how to respond to that. Assholes will be assholes I suppose.
I felt the same way about cigarettes. I would occasionally smoke one, maybe once or twice a year, and couldn't imagine how anyone could get addicted to such an underwhelming stimulant. To want to smoke cigarettes more than a handful of times seemed like a symptom of unresolved life or mental issues.

Anything that has a quick action->dopamine-response loop can be addictive. Facebook is purposefully tightening that loop in its product.
I like that movability is a feature (at least for the chair, sofa didn't mention that?) But it does seem very very expensive.
Wait I thought the quickest way to get people to agree with you was to blame immigrants?
There are many variations. It depends on your region, more or less.

http://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2015/10/was-california...

Google will find more results.
What Elon Musk Taught Me About Growing a Business
What if moving baseline energy from coal to LNG is a greater net reduction in carbon intensity per unit of energy than moving LNG to wind and solar? If you look at the stats on CO2 tonne equivalents from the DoE, the US has been way out front in meeting what were supposed to be its Kyoto and Paris targets. The stats on CO2 equivalents per unit of GDP are even more impressive.

Germany has been heading backwards because their insistence on abandoning working nuclear baseload has increased their need to burn coal, despite their significant investments in solar and wind.
It’s very unclear to me what exactly this is doing? At least here visiting on the mobile site..
Don't fall into the trap of making your product for investors
I am not expert in oil and gas markets, but some things in this article doesn't make sense.

That Mexico benefited greatly, ecologically from US exports is great.

That US exports will diminish the demand for Russian gas and oil, in EU especially and in China/India is ridiculous. Size of how much they are supplying and infrastructure is just several times larger and it isn't likely that US can make a dent. What they are using this as PR push, to make it seem like EU can replace Russian imports with US.

I am not sure this is the future of energy, and I see this as a propaganda push more then anything else.
Apple Says 'KRACK' Wi-Fi Vulnerabilities Are Already Patched in Betas
Very interesting. How is the Elm documentation and examples?
P.S. Trying out a few examples now.
Interest rates would be lower with bitcoin. Again, consider this from the no-arbitrage angle. If interest rates weren’t correspondingly lower for loans denominated in deflationary assets, there would be an obvious and low-overhead arbitrage opportunity. So debtors don’t actually gain anything unless the loan is fixed-rate and the inflation rate increases.
First detection of gravity waves from colliding neutron stars
Strange. I found that my children have caused me to be much more disciplined, productive, and organized. It's just that much of my energy now goes toward raising good kids.
There's a short film on how they made it https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kA7PNQiHT1Q
Maybe that's what they want you to think to stop you applying and getting clearance.
In fact it's a starter. Replacing Chinese or German coal use with natural gas imports, would be a massive improvement. If you could instantly swap all global coal use for natural gas, global CO2 emissions would drop considerably.

That's why US energy-related CO2 levels have been falling for a decade. It's due to natural gas. The decline began perfectly timed to the latest natural gas boom, which has played the lead role in wiping out 1/3 of US coal consumption.

https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/images/2017.04.10/chart2.p...
This is definitely auto-tuned, and I would guess that 90% of auto-tune goes unnoticed as it can be applied a lot more subtly than this.
This blog post explains it a bit:

https://blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2017/10/16/falling-...