skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The peer review often happens by unpaid peers

Do you know of an example of paid reviews? This would seem like a big conflict of interest and I have not heard of any but predatory journals doing that.

Historically, a large cost was typesetting and print publication. However, print is used less and less in favor of online subscriptions and typesetting is mostly using the publisher's LaTeX style file.

The "value" provided by journals seems to be:

- communication with the editor (unpaid, mostly senior peer researcher)

- review (unpaid peer)

- software to manage submissions, reviews etc (commercial)

- proofreading for typos and some fine tuning for figures and layout (useful)

- prestige of having published in an important journal (very valuable for your career)
Another good short story along these same lines that was on HN a while back: http://nautil.us/issue/53/monsters/the-last-invention-of-man
Show HN: Eleven – A web experiment of AI voice agents and visual interactions
I read the premise of the article, chuckled and thought "wow! this is common sense". Even with networking so ubiquitous nowadays its not like you compute everything in the cloud. Compute locally (on the edge) for control where required and perhaps hoist your monitoring and analytics in the cloud with an appropriate division of labour.
Spotify and the Power of Defaults
It is served from github using the "pages" functionality. According to an article from 2009 they are using nginx to serve.

https://github.com/blog/530-how-we-made-github-fast
I'm a low-level systems person (writes the libraries you speak of). Just complaining that it is a pain to get all the details. This also hinders optimization/scalability analysis.
What constitutes "acting at their behest" that Milner did and Saudi, Chinese, etc. foreign investors did not?

I suspect that this Red Scare is trying somehow to present doing any business with Russians as a crime, while a) avoiding to explain how it is different from doing business with Saudis, Chinese, Pakistanis, Qatarians or any other countries with centralized power structures and questionable records in freedom & human rights department; and b) trying to expose specific dealings as nefarious while neglecting to mention same dealings in other areas at all and explain why those are OK.

Since it is in fashion to bash SV now, here is an article how SV is basically owned by Putin. Do you want to look at other Russian investments, maybe? At all people getting investments linked to Russia or lobbying for Russians or having business linked to any part of Russian money? Nah, that probably would upset to many people. Let's concentrate on Silicon Valley now.
My sister's path was getting an unrelated Ph.D. in chemistry, getting a postdoc at Lawrence Berkeley Lab in battery chemistry, and then getting a job at a startup in the field that's commercializing and extending its founder's university research. That company appears to hire chemists, ChemEs, and MechEs/industrial engineers right now.
MasterCard Announces That Payments Can Now Be Made on Blockchain
When terrorists call one another, do we shut down AT&T? After 9/11, do we shut down AA and United? They are the medium not the problem.
Thanks! That's awesome of you, but when I try to use it (as "hackernews") on the Enterprise Edition, the payment form's telling me it is invalid. What's up?
Malaysian Police: North Korean Diplomat Seen with 4 Suspects in Kim Murder
Haha thanks for providing that! :) I should eventually add some gifs/png showing the editor working.
Sorry, this may be a silly question, but is it possible for PyCharm (and other IntelliJ IDE products) to define a specific working folder / path for the file index-the-world feature to stay within or does it always permeate through the entire computers hard drives, just in case?
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Thus, it is impossible to disprove that the company is really controlled by lizardoids from planet Nibiru, since if it would be, they certainly wouldn't tell you about it, so any behavior can be interpreted as caused by lizardoids, while no behavior can be interpreted as refuting this.
So?

Why is this a political discussion all of a sudden?
A mixed-methods study of meditation-related challenges in Western Buddhists
“Don't trust time” [video]
Sophisticated technology allows bigger mistakes, but the most important difference between 1998 annoyances and 2017 annoyances is malice and submission to external interests becoming standards and replacing, to a large extent, innocent carelessness and ignorance.
For example, a self-hosted banner ad was an abuse of client bandwidth and an issue between webmasters and their audience, while a modern banner ad from Google is an attack on user privacy that a Google serf who wants a little money perpetrates against another Google serf who wants convenient "services" for the benefit of their common master.
Hmm, there's no mention of error rates / mistakes.

24,000 operations without error is quite possible.

If the robot reduced the chance of catastrophe by 5x (to pluck a figure from thin air) it may well pay for itself even at an extra $3k per patient.

Would you trade $5k for a 5x reduction in never waking up ?
Hey gfodor, I actually do agree with your line of thinking all the way up to and including logic gates with qualia—however, when you say:

> I'm don't think that is a sufficient argument to explain subjective experience,

—I have to agree with that, and I haven't seen anything which makes me think a better justification might be forthcoming (from anyone, not just Tegmark), so I kind of stop there.

My personal view on it is that qualia/subjectivity are just what it's like to actually be a thing ('on the inside' is kind of an approximate way of saying it). Considering the sorts of things that go on in human subjectivity (this time referring to objects appearing in it, not the medium itself), I suppose it is what it's like to be the part of the reality where a human brain is (actually I think it's only certain parts of human brains, probably related to executive function). In that case, I think a bunch of logic cates linked together in certain ways could end up having interesting 'internal aspects' (of course 'interesting' here is human-relative: who's to say the the parts of reality comprising trees aren't internally more interesting in some objective measure? (not that I think there is an objective measure for that.)

But I qualify the above as just how I guess that things are, not an assertion that it's really the case or anything.
Adblock is opt-in. If the browser misbehaves because of an extension, the browser nor website is to be blamed.

Chrome cannot decide on a whim that old websites should be broken. It is not how the web moves forward. Take for example Firefox that kept breaking extensions with every update, now they have few compatible extensions.
I definitely agree. Not to mention that there is a limit to what a human surgeon is capable of without some sort of augmentation. If this technology is going to improve it needs to be used in the field.
Need to read the article, but after recent occasional experiences with an associate's, I've been wondering whether the flavor profiles I experience with K-cup coffee servings are due to flavoring agents. The flavors have that kind of uniformity and intensity. And I am rather suspicious of their coming from a package of pre-ground coffee with a shelf life of months or years and manufactured/sold at the price point their are finding.
1990s Neal Stephenson was incredible.
The article claims error rates were comparable:

> However, the two approaches have comparable patient outcomes and lengths of hospital stay, the study showed.
US levels of wealth disparity are not entirely out of line with other very large countries or regions.

The US is better thought of as an empire. It is carved up into a large number of territories (states), 50, as compared with Australia's ... well, it's complicated, but let's look at the six principal states: NSW, Victoria, South Australia, Western Australia, Northern Territories, Queensland, and Tasmania.

Each major Australian state is comprised, largely, of a single principal city, and ... everything else. Australia has, unlike the United States, relatively little inland settlements: the land tends to be arid, there are no major river systems. The result is ... a rough parity between Australian states, though you'll find a tremendous variance within them.

If you consider other large countries: Russia, Canada, China, Brazil, Indonesia, or India, you'll find that there are in fact large variations in wealth across territory. Or the EU, if considered a single state, ranges from Germany and France to Portugal, Greece, and the Balkan states.
They said the outcomes are comparable.
There's good news and bad news
> I am arguing against the idea that the computation (i.e. the math part) carried out the physical process—not the other way around.

Ah, I see. But that follows directly from the computable universe hypothesis.
CalSTRS (CA Teachers' Pension System executives) awards 53% bonuses to CIO, CEO
I started doing my CV in Pandoc Markdown for this reason. I usually produce a nice-looking CV PDF via LaTeX, but if I need Microsoft Word or plain text I can convert to that too.

https://bitbucket.org/hoffman/cv
Sorry. I realise that I combined words that will sound frightening to some. I mean non safety critical systems in an industrial environment. For example, mobile robot health and KPI monitoring.
here is a site I built to teach people how to code and draw with p5js: http://www.pushpopchallenge.com/
The article says "However, the two approaches have comparable patient outcomes and lengths of hospital stay, the study showed."

So it looks like the answer to the question "are doctors doing better work" is "No".
Why not? There's only so many use cases for a relational database - "everything old is new again", and all that.
> I think I've seen reports of Tesla batteries only losing 4-5% of charge capacity after 100,000 miles.

That one is easy to do with overprovisioning - similar to SSDs and I believe even HDDs do this to account for inevitable degradations during operation.
Initially ludicrous mode was not just a software update.
You could get it on your (already delivered) MS P90D, but had to bring it into service. They changed a fuse and activated ludicrous mode in software.

Of course, today all Tesla P100D get built with that fuse already in place - so it's "just a software upgrade" today.

There's quite a bit of electrical magic going on for a fuse to be able to handle insane current bursts while retaining a good response time in case of a catastrophic fault.
It's more of a cost per kWh or total volume advantage they were hoping to secure, I think.
Is the supercharger network really all that big of a deal for the average electric car user, though? As of 2016, there were about 13k charging stations with 30k chargers in the US. 613 of these, with 3600 chargers, were Tesla. And the US is behind the curve here; there are 5000 stations with 14k chargers in the UK. Even most fast chargers are not Tesla, either in the US or worldwide. In the US, Tesla’s network is arguably better distributed along interstates, but this is mostly a US-specific problem.

The superchargers are arguably a big deal for model S and X users, who I believe often have free charging. As I understand it, Model 3 users wont have this, though? So what’s so special about the Tesla ones, especially outside the US?
It depends on what you mean by viable. Plenty of projects have fixes and features that live in forks and solve real issues for real people. Plenty more have bits and pieces copy-pasted into other repos, forming the basis of a new project. Rather than focusing on the expected viability of a fork, the real value is that it's possible at all to have one.

You can't make other people do stuff for you for free. Sometimes, as you've relayed your experiences, you can't make them do it even if you pay. At least open source gives you the option of fixing it yourself, or paying a third party of your own choice to do so.
I had the exact same experience recently. I was credit-card-in-hand ready to pay $500+ for a job posting on their site, but there was no way to do so. Then when they finally called me back, they gave me this story of how they were "didn't want to be thought of as a job postings site as they were far more than that" and said the only thing they would sell is subscriptions of multiple job postings a year. I ended up posting on some competing sites - I'm surprised they're willing to lose out on willing customers like this!
But they make up for that with volume.
This was offered/done around 2004-2005, with the proviso that it would be a one-time deal.

Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me.

Investigate. Confiscate. Incarcerate.

I'm done with the "business" line of rhetoric.
Well until the republicans realize that no one gives a shit about Clinton anymore.

I think history will be more kind to her. Hell, GWB has a positive approval rating among democrats now.
I don't think it will happen anytime soon. I can see autonomous car mode enabled in " controlled" environments like highways and advanced cities but there are a lot of countryside roads and trails where even cell phones don't work.
AI hasn’t replaced anyone’s job yet, even low skill workers. Speculating the impact of AI on overall employment is slightly speculative.

I mean there’s a whole generation of CS graduate students focusing their attention babysitting machine learning algorithms.
I’ll answer your question after you tell me how many hours you’ve spent behind the wheel of a Bolt.
We'll take it out.
> It's ridiculous how democrat Hacker News is.

Why?
And I'll suggest that your response above points strongly at a probable explanation: the U.S. government as a single "consumer" in this case, was able to force standards adoption.

Hardly the first time that's happened. Look to the establishment of the US Bureau of Standards (by Herbert Hoover, as Secretary of Commerce), the standardisation of fasteners, plumbing, railroads, electrical components, and transmissions, among other elements. The US Navy's transport needs in Vietnam resulted in the marine shipping industry standardising on the "20 foot equivalent" standard cargo container (the concept itself had been kicked around for decades).

There are numerous other document, data, signage, fabrication, materials, commodity, etc., standards established by the US Federal (and at times, state) governments.

It's a very powerful role. One that seems lacking of the past two decades or so.
> It baffles me that people ignore the fact that they have subjectivity when making these claims.

The author does not ignore that but states his assumption on the first page:

The foundation of my argument is the assumption that
there exists an external physical reality independent of us
humans.

EDIT: Clarification: "external physical reality" means to me that we can rule out subjectivity here.
In a number of European countries it's common/required to include a headshot on your CV. Birthdate is also often included. But I agree that, whenever possible, don't include this information.
I still don't see what actual harm is being done here.

I agree that screen/device time is generally bad, but this goes whether it happens to be YTKids, Netflix or games.

What specifically is "wrong with the internet"? I still don't see the issue here.
How about outcomes? At the end of the day that should be the benchmark we should use.
I bought it new. It was used by me in a prior filesystem (ext4) to attempt backing up files, so the drive had actively written user sectors on it before trying out a linear log filesystem for the same backups. If instead I had used such a FS on the drive in its new state, there might have been a possibility of better performance, depending on the internal drive management software. The notion of returning it to a state where it considered sectors unused is also dependent on that software.
Funtion overloading in a weak typed coersive language like JS seems like a bad idea.
Anesthesiologist friend confirms this.

Robots are nowhere near making a huge impact on outcomes yet.
Ok, great. This isn't a commercial risk (MIT license) nor a money sink (free). So time sink remains, and whether it is a such should be reasonably quick to work out (give it a spin, see what happens).

No, I don't think we have the same goal, and you certainly do not come off very pragmatically.
No claims on that, just that Tesla’s battery certainly is and Toyota is going after the source
You are arguing using a hypothetical. Translate to Latin and become profundis.
Sorry about that, just fixed it!
Salesforce, Google form cloud partnership
A Guide to Debouncing (2004)
There's more here, with a bit more detail on the circuits: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aXVUoT_objA.

These are interesting talks. Sutherland of course is the genius who created Sketchpad, described by Alan Kay as the Newtonian leap of software. But these talks go into his decades of work on asynchronous circuits. It's fascinating stuff with historical context, such as his anecdote about how clocks came to be added to digital circuits. They needed them because they were clamping wires together with hand tools and couldn't do it the same way every time, leading to noise in the circuits.
interesting. wasn't aware of the breaking of sighup behavior. thanks for the comment
1) Intel does not ship GPUs on high-end CPUs.
There are so many factors here that it is difficult to assess the article. The key for me, which doesn't seem to be discussed, is asking why did the doctors opt for a slower procedure?

If they have a financial incentive to keep the patient in the operating theater for longer, that is a problem and needs to be addressed. If they are slowly learning a new technique (as the article seems to be hinting) that is normal but interesting. If they are using a more precise technique to bring complicated cases up to the average outcome, that is praiseworthy and should be lauded.

This article is interesting regardless, but there isn't enough in it to draw a conclusion.
Bero Shows His ARM Desktop and ARM Laptop
In response to "are the doctors doing [...] more of it?":

The article also said "Robot-assisted laparoscopic surgery to remove a patient’s entire kidney requires slightly longer operating times"

I'm guessing that if the operating times are longer than the doctors can't do more work because the Operating Rooms are still in use.

And that's not even thinking about the possible safety and/or legal requirements that might exist, such as "any active, ongoing surgery must have a doctor actively overseeing it, at all times".
They choose the topic. I'm fine with anything in biology, medicine, chemistry, and even some social science topics. Some of them run into trouble and others don't depending on what they choose.

I've considered removing the assignment a few times, but there's no skill more essential to success in science than the ability to synthesize different research articles into a coherent whole. I wouldn't feel like I was doing my job if I stopped assigning it.
Sequentiality as the Essence of Parallelism
Seagate could release the first 20TB hard drive by 2019
The article says "However, the two approaches have comparable patient outcomes and lengths of hospital stay, the study showed."
So it looks like the answer to the question "are doctors doing better work" is "No".
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EMIB requires that all components can fit on a die that can be connected to the other components like the CPU using an embedded channel through the substrate. Expansion of the substrate to accommodate other components is not without costs.
IMHO two things:

a) "fast charger" is a loose term and is often used for anything exceeding 20kW. Superchargers deliver up to 140 kW (split between two cars) or 120 kW (to one car). That's why Tesla/Elon sometimes refer to them as "level 4 charger", although the specification ends at level 3. Other manufacturers are now getting on that train with (according to specification) up to 400 kW

b) The notion of the "average electric car user" does not take into account that yes, people drive less than 80km per day on average, BUT they go on the occasional road trip. And they don't want to have a car sitting around just for road trips. They want one that can do both (commute & roadtrip). That's where the supercharger network helps
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What's your source for this? The only large court case involving a casino in Australia that I know of is the Crown and Aristocrat case, and the judgement hasn't actually been handed down yet.
Bitnami Is Hiring a Technical Marketing Engineer
Tesla was always an oddity in using such small cells (18650s) in the first place. A Model S has thousands of cells; a Renault Zoe, say, has 192. The 20700 is rather similar to the existing, and fairly old, 26650. Tesla may well have interesting battery technology, but it’s not the cells; they’re nothing very special.
Its inconsistent though. I would also expect Chrome to disallow overriding the context menu for example or breaking the back button.
You will find jobs at different levels, from Intern to Researcher

https://www.linkedin.com/jobs/search/?keywords=battery&locat...

Once you know who does the work, target them as a goal.
"Competing" through fraud subverts the free market.
This is, afaik, the longest article ever published in Wired. It is one of the most iconic tech articles ever.
http://probmods.org/ is a textbook written by Noah Goodman (author of this post & library and Prof at Stanford) that teaches about cognition using probabilistic programming. It is pretty readable but centered more on cognition than the programming aspect.
That's one handset provider who captures about 95% of all the profits in the industry while the others fight over table scraps.

General Motors knows they won't be Tesla and they don't exactly looking forward to fighting over table scraps.
We've also been working on ML collaboration at https://www.tinymind.com. In addition to training models collaboratively, we have free, hosted Jupyter notebooks for both Python 2 and 3 with popular ML frameworks that you may want to check out :)
it's true, Ange is a wizard with the PDF format. Always weird crap in there
>It really should have shipped with 4GB of memory.

Why? The iPhone 8 doesn't even have the 3GB that the X has and it's been deemed the fastest smartphone ever tested. That sounds like a case of valuing specs more than the actual usage.
How a Tiny Error Shut Off the Internet for Parts of the US
A nice collection of simple resources for hardware startups and hobbyists
Jersey isn’t part of the UK. The UK is responsible for the defence of jersey, so that’s something of a bargaining chip, perhaps.
20 years is not soon enough. My mother is aging and I don't want her to lose her mobility.
Would you have thought you were two people, if the people raising you conditioned you to think you were two people? If they had treated you as two persons, would you (two) behave like two persons?

Also something to ponder.

And heck, as disturbing: what about two (regular) twins raised as one person...
A subset can have equal cardinality as the set it is a subset of, if the set is infinite.

I don't think that subjectivity can be reduced to math, but reducing math to subjectivity doesn't obviously imply that subjectivity cannot be reduced to math, as far as I can see right now.
Looks nice. I also like https://github.com/posquit0/Awesome-CV
Well this is possibly the stupidest thing I’ve seen today.