skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think you massively overestimate the costs of ER care for the uninsured that do not pay their bills. Charity costs are around 2.3% of operating expenses for your average non-profit hospital. 2.3% loss is not how you end up with bills that are 6, 10, or 15 times inflated.

Poor people in the ER isn't what is driving health care or hospital costs.
I'm about ~300 pages into it and it's been really enjoyable. "Pure functional programming without fear or frustration" is so right. I've started to look forward to the couple pages I get through each day after work, it's legitimately relaxing.
Yes, the original NES games were written in assembler. However, the source probably didn't look quite like this. I'd guess the assembler of the time didn't have as many features or things like long label names.

Here's some actual Atari 7800 (a less popular console from the same generation) code that was found on disks in a dumpster when some Atari offices closed. They both use a 6052-based CPU but have very different sound/graphics chips. I'd bet the NES code looked a lot more like this - https://github.com/OpenSourcedGames/Atari-7800
Neutron Stars Collide and Astrophysics Feels the Ripple
Threadripper is segmented as a workstation processor - Epyc is the server line.

Real-world energy efficiency is extremely complex, because it's hugely dependent on workload. If you're the kind of customer that is highly sensitive to efficiency, you really need to perform your own evaluation.
An Analysis of the Structure of Bowlines [pdf]
There's around twice as many european countries with a lower percentage of homelessness than the US on that list compared to those with higher. Though, those where to a larger degree more populated. You could probably cut it how you want it, but framing it as Europe having lower homelessness is too simplistic and that was my main point.
Provider licensing restrictions isn't the major issue. Other countries have similar restrictions and don't end up with the same problems.

We are already seeing Nurse Practitioners and Physician Assistants delivering more basic care. This saves a lot of money compared to using Physicians for every little thing.
Or you could, stop, check the intersection and proceed safely like you are legally required to do.
Author here. For CapnProto see the answer to the other comment above.

Concerning dill, we have been using it for serializing function and classes (and then switched to cloudpickle because it supports some Python functionality better and the community around it is very active responsive); cloudpickle/dill are great in that they support a very wide variety of Python objects, especially concerning code (functions, lambdas, classes); it is less ideal for large data, because there is no zero copy mechanism, the format is not standardized and serialization/deserialization can be slow, sometimes it is slower than pickle. We do fall back to cloudpickle for objects we don't support like Python lambdas. We also use it to serialize class definitions, so the data associated to classes is serialized using the solution presented above and the code/methods are serialized using cloudpickle. This combines the advantages of both solutions.
What would a good social network look like? Most of them are used for making friends, not connecting with existing real world ones, but the interests of users and platform are not aligned.

Perhaps it would charge high profile users and aim to satisfy readers and posters, not advertisers or shareholders?
If I'm remembering the analogy in the livestream correctly, if you applied the laser's precision to astronomical scales, it would be the equivalent of measuring the distance to the moon with a tolerance the width of a human hair. And in the scales they deal with, a tolerance one-tenth the diameter of a proton.
Meet the new class traitors who are coming out as rich
Sorry, I was not aware of that. But the article is pretty good and shows a research to prove why walking helps to improve the creativity.
I disagree that it's forcing learners to use advanced concepts. It's giving them syntax sugar and a fairly clear introductory explanation (IO is done only with the `IO` type for safety reasons) and giving them all the capabilities of IO in other languages straight from day one.

Forgetting about types for a second, can you really say that `putStrLn "hello"` is harder to understand than `console.log("hello")`? Trust me when I say this, plenty of people have taught Haskell to kids and the result has always been that they pick it up easily. Programmers from other backgrounds worry away too much of their mental capacity thinking about monads. Stop worrying about it and just hack away.
To whom do they sell the IOUs?

There's a limited number of Bitcoin in existence, and with each one you buy (issuing an IOU in return), the price goes up and people doubt your ability to pay back more and more.

This is almost exactly what's happening with Puerto Rico's debt crisis [1]. They've sold a bunch of bonds, were downgraded to "junk status" in 2014, and then defaulted on a bunch of them in 2015. Eventually you have to face the music and cannot borrow any more.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puerto_Rican_government-debt_c...
Haha yup, he's edited his message. Now I just look like a jerk :)
>If your opsec is perfect, maybe. See Ross Ulbricht.

The bar is so much lower than many think. Ulbricht posted the first advertisements of Silk Road with accounts publicly linked to his personal email address.

>Bitcoin keeps a public record of every transaction, forever. That is trivial to tie to your real world activity, in retrospect. It has not been important enough to do yet, but the data is there and data is already collected on other selectors linked to all online activity.

Privacy isn't automatic in bitcoin, but it's easy enough in practice to break the public link in the blockchain. Depositing into an exchange account or other bitcoin service and then withdrawing a few days later is usually enough. If you want privacy from the exchange too, then exchanging bitcoin for a cryptocurrency with anonymity built-in (ie. monero or zcash), and then exchange that back to bitcoin at an exchange that doesn't require user identification. (Alternatively, convince your intended recipients to accept monero/zcash directly and don't even bother with bitcoin.) (It's possible that in the future, the Lightning Network functionality for Bitcoin will add some anonymity as a byproduct to transactions using it.)
Judging by how nightmarishly buggy the upgrade to iOS11 has been, I wouldn't be surprised if they didn't test it at all. My phone actually stopped functioning as a phone upon upgrade [0]!

[0] https://discussions.apple.com/thread/8073670?start=0&tstart=...
they swung the telescopes around to look for it shortly after the detection event
It is amazing how little you feel immediately after an accident. Mine wasn't so death-defying, but I did shatter my shoulder in a bicycle accident, and called a friend to come get me and drive me and my bike home. I did not realize I was hurt until he got there, and could not stand up or move the left half of my body. Then we decided to go to the hospital instead of my home. But for about the first 10 minutes, I thought I just was just scraped up a bit...
My understanding is that only the light bulb's traffic will become decrypted. If you see it go from blue to red, without your consent, then you'll know. Otherwise, the Wifi password is still safe.
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TFA points out that it's true that the dollar lost 99% of its value over the last century. "However, if you held your money in anything interest-bearing, including short-term Treasury bills with no-credit-risk, you’ve at least almost doubled the purchasing power of your money!"

I'm not sure I agree with the argument that inflation is theft from the people, or at least we have to define what's "the people". Poor people who earn their salary and spend most of it within the month are not really victims of the inflation unless their wage doesn't increase proportionately with the inflation year after year. And while it's not a perfect match, salaries now are definitely not what they were in 1920. A quick google gives the average salary in 1920 at $1236 although I can't seem to find a decent source for that. Clearly the workforce's purchasing power did not collapse during the past century.

"The people" who are losing money are wealthy folks (or "whales" in bitcoin parlance) who hold onto huge amounts of currency. Those would've lost 99% of their fortune if they kept dollars in their mattress for a century. So what should they do instead? Invest that money to fuel the economy.
Setting up Fastlane with Ionic/Cordova apps
Not involved in this, I'm guessing this is how it goes: there are algorithms that automatically register the image that was just taken, diff it with a reference image of the sky from before, and if there's a significant difference that passes some false positive tests, then there's some notification for human intervention.

Indeed there could be events we are missing right now. Astronomers are building instruments that have larger fields of view (e.g., LSST), so that they can scan the sky ever few days.
No Free Lunch is very real, and occurs in many different guises under different masks. Here is an example constructive instantiation of No Free Lunch: https://blog.acolyer.org/2017/09/12/universal-adversarial-pe...
It’s probably hard to see it this way when you’re starting out (and you may need a certain personality type as well =) but for me, programming in Haskell is a genuine pleasure because it’s so easy to express yourself in it. Things that require a huge amount of code in other languages are effortless and elegant in Haskell, and the compiler is extremely effective at finding mistakes in your code and often even your design, so you start treating it as a partner that helps you write your program. The experience always puts a smile on my face. YMMV, of course.

I do suspect that in the near term Idris may overtake Haskell as my favorite language to program in, though. I haven’t had a chance to sit down and learn it yet, but everything I’ve read about it so far has left me very excited.
I was asked to look for an online fax solution. A provider I contacted never called me back. Do you offer subscriptions even if they are not needed? I know next to nothing about faxing - how is the transmitted data secured? Is it?
Fair enough.

I did this when I lived in a rural setting and there were no sidewalks or crosswalks. In that case, I'm talking about rolling stop signs at entirely-empty intersections, where you can see that there are no cars or people around. At that point, I'm not sure I feel so bad about it - seeing a person at all is an adequate cue to drive differently.

I don't anymore, though, because I live in a city. Noticing everyone and working out their intentions means actually stopping.

Which, I suppose, is the sort of difference we might get between a self-driving car and a responsible human driver; the car isn't likely to treat stop signs contextually.
How is your idea different from the current headhunter ecosystem?
I would and have. I've also used then to fill positions I've got open at my current employer. But in either case you need to have a clear idea of what you are getting.

If you are looking, then are going to try to sell you the positions they have. This can open doors and of course, it's free. But they will never tell you not to take a position.

If you are using a recruiter for a position you have, they want you to hire someone, regardless of how well that person will perform.

Nevertheless, they can automate key parts of looking for a position.
This link points a playlist of the EE380 videos that can be found on YouTube. Most talks have abstracts which can be found at http://ee380.stanford.edu/Abstracts/YYMMDD.html where YYMMDD is constructed from the last two digits of the year of presentation, MM is the month, and DD is the date.

The EE380 Colloquium, aka The Stanford EE Computer Systems Colloquium, continues to present talks live on the Stanford Campus W4:30-5:45PM. The talks are video recorded and posted to YouTube a day or two following presentation. The live talks are open to anyone.

The current program and current Abstracts can be found at http://ee380.stanford.edu.
Prebiotic intake reduces the waking cortisol response and alters emotional bias
I'm currently learning Haskell from "Haskell Programming From First Principles"[1] and enjoying it so far (even attending a local weekly study group). I'm absolutely learning functional programming principles and then some. Pretty effective thus far, and I find it extremely accessible.

[1] http://haskellbook.com/
Autonomous cars will need to be able to determine a safe and prudent speed in every state. I'm pretty sure every state has laws saying that speeds must be lower that the limit in bad conditions, and even if they don't, the car will have to do this just for basic safety. It shouldn't need any special casing for California.
How to solve problems in software systems
These are completely classical waves, exactly like a pressure wave from a detonation, expanding in a sphere outwards from a neutron star merger. While a pressure wave is a rapidly moving but small change in gas density, a gravitational wave is a veery rapidly moving but veeery small change in the "density" of spacetime itself.

These gravitational waves are predicted by (completely non-quantum) general relativity. Einstein predicted their existence in 1916, but thought we would never have good enough detectors to measure them.
I have used recruiters in the past and have gone direct as well. I've had good experiences with recruiters especially the ones who are knowledgeable.
Only if you don't like your kids. If you like them, having them around is a lot of fun. :)

Side note that kids start spending time away from parents when they become teenagers. That's happening to me now, and I am slowly gaining extra free time. Half the time I still want to spend my free time with the kids. But I'd assume that the younger someone is post-kids, the more energy and options they have for starting new things with that free time. I'm just entering my forties and glad I'm not starting to have kids right now. It might have been a little nicer to start earlier just so we could have hit this point while we were younger.
Unfortunately the link in the article to HSLuv is down, but it seems it is based on CIELUV. CIELUV is what people thought of perceptually uniform in 1976, a time when computers were not widespread. We have much better color models now.

What I never understood however is that even with the most
advanced models the color difference is apparently never simply the euclidean difference. This is fine if you just want to calculate deltaE, but not so helpful if you want to do diagrams.

Is there an up to date color model that is perceptually uniform and an euclidean space?
Yes, all old NES games were written in 6502 assembly (named after the NES's 6502 processor), and even most games into the Super Nintendo and Game Boy days were written using assembly language.

The source would've looked very similar to this, although I can assume the original labels would've been in Japanese. The difficulty in creating a disassembly like this isn't converting the machine code back into assembly, which can be done rather simply, but instead re-adding all the label names, which are lost when the game is built. It's quite the undertaking, and the author must know the complete game back to front.
Blueberries may improve attention and executive function in children
Let's see: 911 this is an emergency. My husband had a heart attack. Please send an ambulance from the cheapest hospital in our area and send it ASAP.

USA is ROTTEN when it comes to healthcare. How can I be charged $200 for a blood test when insurance pays like $11 ??? I understand bulk pricing, but WTF???

You can do dozens of blood tests in some Eastern European countries for around $50 and get the results 3 hours later at private clinics. I am 110% that the labs came from
Western Europe and maybe even USA. Want to be sure, do them at another clinic!

Young people are better off getting used to paying $100+ in cash to see a nurse that time a year they get sick and have catastrophic insurance.

I am certain that a nice chunk of employees that get paid in healthcare have nothing to do with patient care, but bureaucracy.
Need to start fresh but ...good luck on that. Those making the money can buy Congress several times over.
Building smarter computers by finding materials that mimic biological processes
I love finding historical artifacts that reveal some of what has been excluded from our stories. We can forget how much the internet has removed gatekeeping and resource constraints on who's writings are considered valuable enough to devote paper and archive space too.

Now instead we have the question of search ranking algorithms. I wonder if some day researchers will be trawling through the internet archives looking for old Geocities pages overlooked by the then-traditional scholarship.
The architects of Obamacare (ACA) didn't penalize people buying insurance for themselves on exchanges. In fact low income consumers receive subsidies. Being forced to buy insurance might seem like a penalty to some people who formerly went without, but in reality those people were freeloaders because if they showed up at an emergency room then the rest of us ended up paying for them indirectly. Although there are certainly flaws that need to be fixed, on balance the system is now fairer and more people have access to care.
KRACKs: What They Are and How You Can Protect Yourself
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That makes at least 28 journalists murdered this year that we know about. Others are likely disappeared or not popular enough to get news items.

https://cpj.org/killed/2017/

EDIT: I already sent CPJ an anonymous message mentioning the list sadly needs updating as it’s currently at 27. :’(
New technique scours the genome for genes that combat disease
How the KRACK attack destroys nearly all Wi-Fi security
Chris Allen's and Julie Moronuki's book, to be precise.
Like it or not: Broccoli may be good for the gut
Nepal Police Investigation Found Devices Related to Bitcoin Mining – NEWS
Add to that the requirement of being distinguishable even for colorblind people. Whenever I choose colors for a chart or something, I try to find colors that work even with red/green blindness; but usually I give up and just use different textures or marker shapes and hope that they look distinctly enough even without color.
Depends on the container/instances. There are cold start delays but you can get it down to a minute or two if you really optimize (but... well, most people don't need to).
AI and aerospace models used to optimize blood flow in veins
Nike’s Chief of Design Doodles All Day
Price transparency is basically a red herring.

Prices are largely set by the CMS (medicare and medicaid) and sometimes insurance companies will pay a little bit on top sometimes depending on their clout and competition from other providers / insurers. The hospital counters with the "master charge" sheet which is overinflated fiction. Then they have a giant song and dance negotiating prices / threatening to pull their patients etc... But the bulk of their revenue comes from medicaid/medicare patients so prices basically round down to those reimbursement rates.

Then the ACA keeps costs down by having doctors focus on quality rather than quantity. If patients are readmitted they get dinged on their medicare reimbursement rate. There are also other provisions in there as well to regulate reimbursement rates as well.

The ACA also reduced health care induced bankruptcies. You still may have high premiums but those were addressed by subsidies in many cases. Taking on people with pre-existing conditions was also addressed by subsidies. The expectation is that as these people get healthier, the whole system will eventually converge to a steady state where cost is mostly regulated by the CMS.

If insurers don't want to play ball then the government should just let people buy into medicaid. We already pay medicaid and medicare taxes anyway.
Yeah id say this is pretty accurate. My memory of the event is non-continuous, meaning it is composed of very matter of fact thoughts and images not a continuous video. Overall, id say it is real time, though probably drawn out given the amount of thoughts I remember from what was probably 5-10 seconds of real time.

My direct memory is basically as follows:

1. Whoosh of pole, bang noise.
2. "Was that a sailboat"
3. See/feel the world rotate
4. "I think we are going to crash"
5. "I could die"
6. I don't actually remember the impact just flipping and all of a sudden seeing the ground above my head upside down
7. "I'm still alive...but its not over yet"
8. The glass shatters and we come to a stop
9. My friend asks if I am okay. I respond yes.
10. I quickly feel my face as i'm not sure how injured I am, there is some blood on my hands, but not a large amount.
11. I start to feel a burning sensation as some jet fuel and other chemicals are reacting with my skin
12. I start to panic as I realize the gravity of the situation and begin to call for help.
13. Just as I am beginning to really panic, I feel a hand reach in and the plane lifts up.
14. I undo my harness, as my leg moves for the first time, I realize a sharp pain in my foot.
15. I am pulled from the plane and dragged from under my arms with my legs facing the plane. I watch the plane get farther away as im dragged.
16. I am layed down and am instructed not to move until the paramedics come.
Like I feel like I'm talking to people on other planets right now. It's like you've never seen anyone do a rolling stop before. This isn't someone careening through an intersection at full speed. This is someone too lazy to actually bring their car to a complete, thud, stop and gently roll into the intersection at like 5 miles an hour. You're not risking pedestrian lives, you're risking a slightly more abrupt brake if there happens to be unexpected pedestrian or cross traffic.
About a quarter of US jurisdictions follow the same basic rule as California, where exceeding a posted speed limit is prima facie, but rebuttable, evidence of a violation.

So it's not a 49/1 rule.

And, in any case, 100% of US jurisdictions prohibit driving at a speed above the safe and reasonable speed if that is lower than the posted and/or statutory limit, so you need to be able to determine what is safe for conditions anyway; it's just a minority of states where that is a relevant determination when the results are above the posted limit.
Maybe it's rare where you are, but it's common for traffic to flow at greater than the speed limits in many places. Here in the DC area, for example, if freeway traffic isn't so dense that it's jammed up, it's probably flowing at 5-10 MPH over the limit. I usually drive at 60MPH in 55MPH zones and stick to the right lane because I'll be one of the slower cars on the road. Sometimes the difference is so great that 60MPH is still too slow to be safe and I bump it up a bit more.
Put Humans at the Center of AI
It doesn't define that well what the options do in relation to their moral setting. Say two cars are driving straight at each other on a 1 way road where one side is a cliff drop off and the other side is lush grass: Does the self sacrifice mode mean that car would pilot itself off the cliff, and the self protection mode would swerve into the grass?
I wonder what would happen if a company had overtime pay for developers. I'd be willing to put money on working hours getting reduced to something sane and deadlines pushed back to accommodate it.

Maybe one day I'll suggest a trial for it at my company ;)
> you're just moving the problem to the correctness of the compiler

But it would be a huge leap forward.
Scientists to build machine translation system for obscure languages