skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is a transcripted podcast interview with one of the authors, Emily Oster. She again makes the point that the problems seem to come before birth and postneonatal (one month to one year after birth).

http://www.econtalk.org/archives/2014/11/emily_oster_on.html

> Russ: ... So, we started off by saying on the surface, the United States despite its relative wealth is something like Croatia--it's 51st in the world in infant mortality. Which is somewhat appalling. And we're double the countries in the world that are doing the best at keeping infants alive. Which is Finland. Given what you've looked at now, how would you summarize what we know about that picture?

> Guest: I think that what I would say is that what we get out of our data is a recognition that the issues that the United States is having are not issues about the kind of medical technology part of this, and I think that's--in some ways surprising that [?] I think [?] we think of infant mortality as kind of being special and about things that are happening in hospitals and [?] and how we're doing with very small babies and it's true that that is an important part of infant mortality, but it's not a place that the United States is falling down. Instead the place that the United States seems to be doing worse is in the more mundane issues of what is happening before birth, most of which is going to be about things that are happening in people's households. And then what's happening after people are home with their infants. And both of these are not unrelated to broader issues in the United States, like we in general have a higher mortality rate among children, among adults, than most other places, and sort of thinking about this a little wholistically and thinking about how we can support women with infants when they are at home, if they do something that might be of some significant policy value.

A scary quote: "So, for example, among, like, black women with less than a high school education in Cook County--which would basically be the South Side of Chicago--the infant mortality rate in this period is about 16 per 1000."
The benefits of portable units at a non-devastating price have more implications for democratization of quality of care than anything else. WebMD and Google have already let the other genie well and truly out of the bottle.

Edit: By the way years ago I read an article which talked about the price of ultrasound devices, and the bottleneck was the price of the transducers. Obviously that’s changed, but when did that change? Does anyone here know?
> An interest in SaaS and ML

Maybe try a match matching endeavor?

ML might be useful in some specific niche where it isn't being leveraged.

It sounds like you have generic contacts and expertise in "ML".

Find a promising business niche leader and pair them with one of your ML contacts. The business niche people won't know ML, but they'll know the unsolved problems.

Like, for example, an airline centric niche company that does not currently leverage ML. Or maybe healthcare, or whatever.

Make the marriage and fund the ML part.
I think you're looking at it from the wrong end.

Usually a dentist prescribes painkillers without finding out if you'll need them. Most people go "Oh, hey, vicodin", and take it because they have the prescription.

This dentist was, by the sounds of it, actually taking an opt-in route - you have to say "Yes, I am in pain" to receive painkillers. Seems more responsible to me.
For an example of how much people care, look up all the outrage that happened when Chrome switched between two very similar Windows font renderers (GDI and DirectWrite.) Example:
https://www.change.org/p/google-inc-bring-sharp-fonts-back-i...

If anecdotal evidence counts, I've heard lots complaints about font rendering, even from people in real life and non-technical people. (I like the fonts on X. Why does Y look so bad? Why can't it just look like it does in Word on Windows?)

It turns out that if people spend most of their lives/jobs looking at text that appears a certain way, they will get accustomed to it. If these people are using LoDPI monitors where they can perceive each individual pixel, you'd better hope your custom font renderer replicates your users' favourite renderer down to the exact pixel layout of each glyph.
> You don't want computer to erase human input

I will contest that one too :)

As long as it is interactive enough, and the history is well marked, there is no reason not to rewrite human code.
This reminds me of the Devil's Staircase [0], a continuous function that is flat almost everywhere and yet still spans the range [0,1].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cantor_function
Is there a reason why solar arrays wouldn’t be a better investment in the same regions? Or a hybrid approach?
For now, this isn't a consumer device
[0]

0. https://twitter.com/matthewherper/status/923897406776889344
I see, I also look forward to Three.js / WebGL stack to become a suitable replacement. These are exciting times.
Or, just exercise their right to not serve you? If you order something and then are unable to pay in the manner they request, they can just throw the drink away and move on. This would also happen if your card was declined.
These are single-family dwellings, for an extended definition of "family". The top floor is a lounge for men, the bottom levels are kitchen and storage, while the middle levels are sleeping quarters segregated by sex. Part of the reason for the tower construction is to help cool the structure by pulling air through it.
As always, "kinda". In "well to do" areas, for sure [1]. But it rural areas, farmers get a chunk of cash each year as a lease payment from turbines cited on their land. I have yet to meet a farmer who wasn't a fan of wind farms cited on their property, and even know of two cases where farmers fought each other to have a wind project developer put the project on their land.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cape_Wind#Controversy
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Indeed; for crypto trading, your unit of account matters a lot. I'd recommend using BTC as the unit of account, so you aren't counting 100x+ USD increases.
That would penalize startups, giving only large companies access to the foreign labour pool. It's rare that a problem like this has a simple solution.
The statistics are about Latin America.
I usually stop reading reading when I read "Contact Us For Pricing". I would much prefer to see a straight number.
Cheaper, more portable, battery powered ultrasound would make the technology more accessible to developing countries. This will save lives eg from childbirth complications.
You're treating it as two separate problems, but in reality they're intertwined.

In an ideal world, you create a voter ID policy in order to ensure the integrity of the vote. You figure out sensible policies to ensure that every eligible voter can vote, and enact them. Separately, you create an ID system that all citizens can use.

In reality, voter ID policies are often created with the intent of making it more difficult for certain groups to vote. They figure out policies to ensure that voters on the "right" side can vote, and voters on the "wrong" side can't. For example, they might accept a form of ID commonly held by one group, and not accept a different form of ID commonly held by the other group. Or they might restrict hours or shut down ID offices in areas populated by the "wrong" side to make it more difficult for them to obtain acceptable ID. Both of these have actually been done in various states.

Voter ID laws and making it more difficult for certain groups to obtain ID are two sides of the same coin here.
Changing careers at 37yo to become a software developer
os.makedirs() gives it away as python as well.
$20K-$40K (about the price for ultrasound machines nowadays) just isn't that expensive for a piece of medical equipment. Your consumables are probably more expensive than that over a year.

I suspect this would be more useful for veterinarians--especially in one-horse towns. :)
Your citation is that Apple’s marketing group thinks OLED is a better term than AMOLED?

PPI is not a fixed number determined by generation and isn’t relevant. Brightness is an interesting point but my Nexus 6 was AMOLED (oh my) and <400 nits so significantly dimmer than the iPhone X.

It’s very possible, even likely, that Samsung’s latest flagship phones use newer display tech than the iPhone X. It is exceedingly unlikely that the iPhone X is using first generation tech.
As someone who just had an ultrasound, I think this is the right direction. I had to goto a diagnostics center where they specialize in scanned imagery. I go in, paperwork, wait, wait some more, get scanned, and leave. The technician just had me hold my breath while she put some jelly on my abdomen and moved the device around. Once in a while she would take ultrasound pictures. Snap, snap, move, breath, snap.

My GP had me go in order to troubleshoot a blood test. Now, if the GP had this device it would have saved me some time and effort, not to mention the external factors such as gas, taking up space on the road, and an appointment.

So yeah, please, GPs everywhere, load yourself with these devices as they become cheaper and cheaper.

edit: GP's to GPs
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The Wikipedia article gives Weierstrass's original condition, but it was later improved to just ab ≥ 1 (as noted, not very visibly, at the end of the article).

However, the Nautilus article also says that "Conventional wisdom held that for any continuous curve, it was possible to find the gradient at all but a finite number of points", which is clearly not true, so I'd be cautious about its technical correctness.
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24th, passed in 1960. Democrats were liberal in many areas at that time, but accepting blacks was a late move by them.
making your hiring decision based on their comment history is not effective at testing operational development skills, and is demeaning.
> Would they fill them at a similar level of quality? That is to say, if you forced similar wages on both

Forcing certain wages on American workers is not the way that H1B is intended to work which is basically the point here. H1B is ostensibly intended to allow employers to fulfill roles that cannot be filled at any salary by US workers.
You don’t see more than 10%-15% of live births in a large population requiring cesarean for medical reasons. In the US the rate is over 34% of live births via cesarean.
Along the same lines, where is the code from? Curiously, "RT_CHAIN_EVENT" also exists in this Portuguese magazine - http://www.cmuportugal.org/uploadedFiles/news/Media_2017/688... .

It also has "item_RICname" while the Cray image has "flagCheckRicname".

RIC = "Resin identification code"? "Reuters Instrument Code"? "Routing Identifier Code"?
Awesome stuff. Are there any debugging capabilities? Being able to inspect variables and step through code is massively valuable, particularly for education, but also for devs.
I think that trumps Parsons.

I have a tremendous degree of regard for mcuban, and I think his advice has merit. But I wouldn't say either "trumps" the other. These pithy sayings are handy, but there's a lot of nuance to both of them (IMO) and the devil is in the details.

Should Google have decided not to pursue search because of Altavista, Dogpile, Magellan, Northern Light, Yahoo, and DMOZ? Should Facebook have eschewed social networking because of Friendster, Myspace, Livejournal, etc?

Sometime just being better than the other guys really is enough.
Names for enemies weren't always exact and rather name general directions of the wind instead of particular tribes. From the dead sea, canaan and egypt seem close enough to be confused.
I believe the expensive part is the array of piezo sensors.

Resolution is driven by the number of piezoes. Previous low cost ultrasound sensors skimped on the number in the array, which limited effective resolution. Aside from the piezos themselves, you need enough real time inputs to process them.

It seems like this one does better, though details are scant.
Lmao imagine somebody saying this about cash
14 Effective Ways Tech Companies Can Ensure Success
We're on to something here:

1) A great early product ( SaaS, ML, AI ), made up of a solid partnership and early paying customers.

2) We have investors interested in funding this product but only managed to raise six figures seed.

3) Cash is running fine but we need more to grow the team and product to win it all.

4) An big interest in scaling a SaaS product for enterprise and a ton of customers waiting to discover the new enterprise.

-Things that we don't have:-

1) More cash and a winning team to bring home the trophy.

Email me so we can change the world together:
tohk1@hotmail.com (my old active hotmail)
I don't see how by only blocking firms will help clean this H1B abuse. The H1B visa abusers and spammers should be screened out before the applications are put into the lottery. Having this process in place, companies like Infosys, TCS etc. can't misuse it as all the 'real' and 'well-deserved' applications are in lottery.
If the GP had the device, it would have taken them as long as the sonographer (or longer) to acquire the same high-quality images. In fact, it's so impractical for physicians in the US to routinely do their own ultrasounds that they hire sonographers to acquire those images. I don't think this device would have changed your experience, I'm sorry to say.
I'd argue that the largest factor in the decline of boxing has been the runaway success of MMA and companies like the UFC, Pride, etc...
Some context:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15589393
I feel that hard to believe, if anything, I would say foreign workers are more expensive than local talent, in big tech firms they are paid just the same as Americans, but they come with added expenses due to international relocation, visa feeds, etc.

* I might be biased thou, since I work on the US under a work Visa.
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First, we do really. But also, can you look at the website... You should spend some time explaining better why would I bother learning your product. It is a shame if has nice features, not to put them out, as I couldn't figure out at quick glance.
I have hired a few H1-Bs, and here is how the first step goes:

Before you file for a H1-B visa with USCIS, employer needs to get Department of Labor (DOL) certification. Employers have to advertise the job in local media for 30 days. Jobs have to offer median salary for the given skill based on DOL numbers (Roughly $104K per year).

All resumes received, and interview notes must be included in DOL application for labor certification. If a qualified American applied for the job, DOL rejects the certification request.

I would love to hear where you see a material flaw in this process. To me it signifies there is a real talent shortage.
That approach sounds like a hobby.
Tata is probably the worst, but InfoSys etc... totally right.
Yes, there's a shortage of qualified software developers, at least.
It's a side-point. If somehow there aren't Americans that could fill generic roles like "Project Manager" then sure, bring in somebody that can. But before doing that you should be doing work to do on the job training, or finding some other way to bring an American into that job. If your company is located here, your executives reside here, and you make use of our government, taxpayer funded infrastructure, university system, etc... then you should be doing what you can to ensure your fellow Americans have access to jobs from your company. If you don't want to do that, that's fine, just move your company out of the country, renounce your citizenship, and relocate your executives and other workers.

I get that there can be trouble filling specialty roles, jobs like data scientists, cancer researchers, university researchers, etc... but project manager? Nope sorry. Analyst? Nope sorry. Those jobs just about anybody off the street could do with the right amount of training, experience, or motivation. And before somebody says "oh but the poor corporation will have to pay or spend time training somebody" yeah that's just too bad.
I believe the parent means writing your game logic in pure C# and avoiding the need for Unity entirely server side. For some types of games that’s doable, but when you start needing physics or nav agents or even animation driven logic a headless Unity binary is the only real option.
Weren't the countries from the travel ban already identified under the Obama administration as being failed states incapable of verifying documents or nations refusing to do so?

It makes sense that he would do business in nations with functioning government.
Sure, but what you do is provide a response that shows the amount of times it's been checked. If it's more than once, then you can be sure it's counterfeit.
Humanity is on a sure collision course with ecological disaster and potentially billions of deaths. Do something about climate change. Anything. Every new startup should be addressing the fact that we are on the Titanic and the iceberg is getting closer.
I really, deeply, do not understand the issue here.

It is beyond me how anyone can be technologically savvy with an engineering mindset and look out on the world as it exists today and not see innumerable ways that it can be improved.

Is your roadblock simply that you're trying to look for the easiest ways to make money? Or the sexiest? Take a look at the world and start coming up with problems that need solutions, and potential ways that technology could serve. Imagine things that you, yes you yourself, wish existed but don't yet. Imagine things that you simply wish were better. Keep iterating on those processes until you have a huge list of problems that should be solved and things that should exist but don't. Then filter your list down to only the subset of problems that your team could potentially tackle well and that have some sort of possibility for monetization in the near term, then pick one or a few and run with it.
I feel the same. It’s easy to hate but it’s always a grass is greener between Unity, Unreal, or a custom engine. At the end of the day all three of those are valid choices in the right scenario, but Unity is certainly never a “bad” option.
Startups do not use H1B workers. A startup is actually hiring someone for a role and they can't take the risk that their guy will lose the lottery. Plus, the application is just beyond what most startups are going to have the time to do.
You don't know your a good team until you've built something good. Good teams are defined by their output not by how the members feel, how smart the team is or how much experience it has. That said, output includes how the members and partners feel.
It's a bit rich for the US to be in a huff over Russians buying Facebook ads when 1) US law allows corporations to buy as many ads as they want, because they're "people." Aren't Russians people too? 2) The US government has killed and had killed foreign heads of state to effect "regime change" rather than the comparatively civilized approach of buying political advertising.

We got Trump because we're amoral morons who don't understand our history and who deserve him, not because "Russia."
We visited a few years ago. It really is worth seeing in person, particularly if you were already making the drive from Phoenix up to Sedona / Flagstaff / Grand Canyon and can spare an hour or two. One really can sense both Soleri's vision and how far the implementation fell short of his ideals.

By coincidence, we had visited shortly after Soleri died (had no idea until we got there). One of the people we met described Soleri's last visit to Arcosanti a few months prior. My memory's fuzzy now, but I think they said that he had looked around without saying much, then said something like "I'm done," and never went there again. (My apologies for misremembering the quote, it's been a little while and I haven't thought about it very often.)
In addition to technical skills, there are other considerations:
1. Diversity.
2. Cultural fit.
3. Results.
Companies know better what they want/need -- not some loud random strangers on the internet, and definitely not the government/USCIS.
That said, driving down US wages should definitely be punished as it is illegal.
I'd love a push for more monitoring capacity in the form of cheaper non invasive medical tools.

One of the main health issue is waiting to fix an issue. Cost and exam delay are both factors into letting things sink deeper.

Also, lots of medical tech is IMO (feel free to take me down on this one) stuck into analog electronics and physics of the past[1]. Namely one way information live flow. Today we may be able to compensate through software logic. Think super resolution algorithms used in space exploration. Now just think how neat it would be to make use of these smartphone GPUs for once .

[1] don't get me wrong, they did breathtaking thinking most of the time, but it's a difficult art and not necessarily the best solution today.
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#HN, #notes

I take notes with vim when programming, in this form with a text file. I write them my thoughts. I can search the file by date. I can search it by tag /#notes. It's simple works and the only challenge is that I can't add my doodle. If need be, I'll draw it out on piece of paper. I need to find a simple way to import it. If something simple I do stuff such as A<--->B---->C<----D
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FYI - native americans aren't white.
The Chinese were trying to develop a system that used emissions from cell towers. No idea how far they got with it.
also: search was crowded when google entered.
Many mobile apps do rely on web views. Think about it, it's already difficult to make Android and iOS apps look similar. You need devs for both platforms. Teams are already squeezed supporting web (4 browsers with their own quirks), mobile web (screen size matters), mobile native (android and iOS) without also having to spread their talent thinner across completely native desktop experiences in Mac, Windows, and Linux. It's too bad Java never did live up to that write once, run anywhere promise...but that's the world we live in.
The fact that they've spent the past year toying around without direction supports your conclusion as well. CVs are just one metric by which to judge a team.
If anything, coders aren't the ones who are under paid in US. Their salary are HIGH.

To be the devil's advocate, the H1B visa is created specifically for the purpose to bring down the cost of employers, by opening up to global talent supply, no matter under what disguise. And software industry seems to me is exactly the sector what H1B is intended to apply on.
My dad spent much of his career in public health trying to figure out how to get women in places like Bangladesh to go visit hospitals instead of midwives. He does not find the midwife trend in America amusing. Relevant: http://www.skepticalob.com/2014/09/awesome-dutch-midwives-ki....
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I agree it's a tough problem - especially because you want a combination of 'get up and running quickly' with flexibility. At some point you might want to eject out of the entire system and start coding on your own without wysiwyg, etc. That's why I used the Microsoft and CRA examples because I think they (eventually) got it right... CRA especially shows how one single company doesn't have to create the whole ecosystem. There are so many OSS tools that support CRA and build on it.
This is a non issue IMO, it would probably self correct in a few months. Also you could still take advantage of that.

The patient who made a few ultrasound videos along a period of time and still has pain worth seeing a doctor, can now spare the doctor some time by showing him a bit more data. Could be a data hell too I must admit, but somewhere somehow I'd hope people to learn a bit about biology and physics in the process and 1) know more 2) know when not to panic 3) know how to take care of their bodies