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The article repeatedly quotes statements to the effect “this was supposed to show what a truly free market looks like. Instead, it’s a shitshow.”

The word “instead” doesn’t belong there. Really.
I'm really grateful to Tesla/GM/Nissan and the people buying their cars. It seems like even with all the missed milestones (mostly Tesla) they're still dragging the industry forward by leaps. I wonder what it would look like without them. Remember, the original cellphone cost $4000-something, before inflation.

I don't even like cars, I like trains and walking and hate what cars have done to our cities and villages, but electric cars are the first tech in a long time that has given me a sense of optimism for the future that I've only ever felt looking at old advertisements[1] from before I was born.

If there were Beatitudes for technology, maybe they'd go like:

"Blessed are the early adopters, for they allow the meek-pocketbook'd to inherit the earth."

[1] https://imgur.com/FRKdZ2o (Have you ever seen an advertisement this positive? Ads these days mostly seem to fall into categories like glib humor and narcissistic 'buy this because you deserve it/you're the best/you can't be the best unless you have it'.)
I have trouble understanding how p-bits can speed up computations. Can't they be emulated with deterministic logic plus a random number generator?
The people I was asking were ambulance drivers, paramedics, nurses, etc. They weren't prepared to answer questions about the nuances of insurance agreements the hospital has with random insurance companies. I can't blame them. And it's completely possible I was not asking the question in a precise enough answer to get the information I needed.

My main point was that your basically screwed before you arrive, and you're just gonna have to cope with it after the fact. Expecting a patient going into an emergency room to understand, or have the capacity to, navigate "the fine print" stuff is not realistic, yet that's exactly what they expect that patient to do. It is quite lame.
Here’s a masonry like layout with grid from Rachel Andrew https://gridbyexample.com/video/series-auto-placement-span/.
I think this is a very good point that needs to be explored more.

"The college-for-all mentality has fostered neglect of a realistic substitute: vocational education."
> It boggles my mind why more people are not involved in this direction.

Because only a vanishingly rare amount of the incorrectness in compiled C programs comes from a bug in the compiler.

Also, some code coaxes a desired behavior out of the object code while bending the rules of the language.

The compiler being proven over correct code (i.e. free of any undefined behaviors) is useless in that situation, unless the prover actually works with an extended language definition (specific to that compiler) which defines those behaviors.
AlphaZero plays games with (1) perfect information and (2) well-defined winning conditions. Neither of these hold for most human-learning scenarios.

I can imagine that a healthy dose of probability theory (and probably more advanced stuff I don't know about[1]) might improve (1), but (2) is going to keep computer scientists and philosophers and ethicists arguing for quite a long time. :)

[1] get the joke, eh? eh? eh?
I like it too. If you want to be a runner, act like a runner. To me this means, dress like a runner, eat like a runner, and get out of bed and run every day like a runner. When your are educated about what it takes to do something and you match those behaviors, you will be well on your way to being exactly that... And when you are actually doing those behaviors, there isn't any more pretending.
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There isn't a standard between what is a 1 and what is 5. There is a standard that they in fact exist in the first place and charged accordingly. But what one hospital considers a Level 5 and another considers a level 5, is based on the amount of competition the ER has, because there isn't another externality keeping it in check.

The article touched on this, and I also discovered this through my own research when I attempted to dispute what in fact a Level 5 was. Add to the fact, that by entering into the hospital you are asked to enter into an arbitration agreement.

Compound this with the monopoly nature of an ER, and the only thing keep prices from spiraling out of control is the sheer benevolence of the hospital employees.
That's Windows. F5 doesn't do anything in Mac browsers.
> As someone who works in healthcare and understands the economics of the system your perception cannot be further from reality.

As someone who's also worked in healthcare and also has an actual degree in economics, I stand by my point. In general, the CoN requirement doesn't have much of an end impact on prices for patients.
Why are you assuming that we are not reading the documents?

In the initial September 3, 2014 email where Järlström says he is doing related work, he specifies that his engineering degree is Swedish and that his expertise is in motional feedback of powered speakers. He is anything but misleading.
It only now occurs to me that the line of thinking I follow here is sub-consciously inspired by section 3 of this Marvin Minsky talk (https://web.media.mit.edu/~minsky/papers/TuringLecture/Turin...). If you're at all interested in the intersection of learning and computer science, I highly recommend taking a look.
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its the same thing as "dress for the job want not the job you have" ... or "I think therefore I am"

its a positive mind set.

A couple of other ones:
-Dont strike when the irons hot but make the iron hot by striking.
-Law of Attraction

guys, comeone , this is hacker news ... can you get a point simple point with out over complicating it.

We are supposed to be good engineers here, we are over engineering this idea
Traffic signal timing is not a simple as it may appear. Yes, a signal that is all by its self may be easy to time. However coordinating a system with multiple signals and phasing plans can be complicated. Could any technically minded person learn how to do it? Absolutely. However, the same goes for almost any professional service.

>Saying someone must be specific about what kind of engineer they purport to be is quite unreasonable, and unnecessary.

You are essentially saying that any discipline of engineering is the same as any other. This is simply untrue. Do you want me as a traffic engineer doing the job of a chemical engineer? Probably not.

Simply calling oneself an engineer does not make it so. Just as I can't call myself a race car driver because I can drive a car fast by pressing the gas peddle further down. There must be enforcement of titles that effect public health and safety. Traffic engineering is one of those protected titles.
I came to the article to find out how whale watching tour companies were making most of their money from a few customers. This likely comes from growing up in the pacific north West of North America. It wasn’t until Zynga was mentioned that I caught on.
NN would be more useful maybe for "recognize this song by me humming it, da-na-na'ing its main riffs, or badly singing a few words".
2 things:

1. This is probably not appropriate for HN because of its political nature.

2. Socialism is a broad movement, containing everything from the worker cooperative movement and democratic socialism to anarchism and communism. This article is talking about welfare states, which are not an example of socialism. Social democracy is capitalism.
The derivation idea isn't too difficult to understand, because it is rather elegant.

The problem with derivations is that they are like a library without a reference

The functions that are to be used in derivations aren't documented clearly, at all, or in an obvious place.
that has an implicit assumption that apple music on android is a nice app. spoiler: it isn't. it hardly works. it will often sputter and think and try to play a song, as if there is a bad internet connection, EVEN when i have the song downloaded locally. and apple often tweaks the UI where it is musical chairs with common actions.
This is a ridiculous thing to write a blog post about. The point of the saying is to mean "Try new things with fake confidence until you have attained enough mastery to have real confidence."

As with life, the saying works great for some things, but not so great for other things. If you want to be a comedian, some times it's better to just go up on stage and pretend you've already mastered it, until you do eventually become a master. Self-doubt will kill you, so fake yourself out and just go for it until you're actually good.

If you want to be a doctor, then obviously it doesn't work as well.
Ah I see, from this angle I can understand - the unnaturalness of new conscious behavioural changes. But overall, that is just discomfort. If you have internalized the values and your actions align with those values, I still do not view it as "faking" it per say.

When learning how to swim for the first time, it may feel unnatural. But you are not faking it. You are trying something new, and you have the chance of failure (the source of the discomfort, possibly?) - but you are being true to the task at hand
I dunno. I've encountered a few students who approach it like you say - they are young, energetic, driven, polite, humble, and don't exaggerate their qualifications. They are delightful to talk to, and I've really pulled for the few I've met, to the point of writing a job referral to Google (I worked there at the time) for one young woman who cold-emailed me over the alumni network.

When I look them up on LinkedIn, though, the actual positions they end up in never seem to be as impressive or lucrative as the folks who say "You're looking for a CTO? Sure, I'm 24 and I got a couple years of experience in React and microservices, I'll totally do the job for you." Some of this may be information bias, i.e. the people who are willing to exaggerate their qualifications to get a job are far more likely to keep exaggerating their qualifications on LinkedIn. But I'd also be wary of the opposite cognitive bias, the just-world fallacy, where we'd like to believe that nice & honest people get ahead and so discount examples of blatant bad behavior getting ahead with a confident "They'll get their come-uppance later."
A lot of government funding goes towards Microsoft products. I think Microsoft should open source their products.
Did you ever try it? This app works so terribly on Android (really, one of the worst apps I've ever used) that I just assume Apple makes it bad on purpose to somehow make naive people believe Android is somehow worse.
ok so now the title ... is just useless at this point.

This just in : the sky is blue
> any act of planning, designing, composing, evaluating, advising, reporting, directing or supervising that requires the application of engineering principles and concerns the safeguarding of life, health, property, economic interests, the public welfare or the environment, or the managing of any such act

In plain language, doesn't this pretty much cover everything? A CFO, or even just an accountant or bookkeeper is probably using things (accounting software) that "requires the application of engineering principles" and "concerns the safeguarding of ... property, economic interests".

I guess it's all moot until a lawyer argues, and a court accepts, reasoning along these lines.
Additional article of how “decentralized” cryptocurrency is:
https://news.earn.com/quantifying-decentralization-e39db233c...
You may be confusing making arguments with providing testimony as an expert to a tribunal or court.

Expert testimony is evidence, not argument.
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Is the structure of care delivery different for good reasons or is it different because ERs don't make accommodations in their care delivery for the many non-emergency cases that walk into ERs?

(and of course they don't because they aren't going to bill insurance companies any less than they can consistently get them to pay)
not to trade stocks necessarily but to trade commodities
Hacker has switched around a few times. In the Comp-Sci/academic/programmer world the semi-original use of 'hacker' was in reference to the pranksters at MIT's Tech Model Railroad Club and the MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, then for those that hacked into computer systems not just at MIT, leading to the thief-like image down the road. HN's name is out of the MIT prankster heritage of those people that can 'hack' something together or find novel pathways in systems (not just computers).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hacker

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hacks_at_the_Massachusetts_Ins...

http://hacks.mit.edu/
It was alright advice back in the day of factories where jobs generally fell into one of two camps... either you worked the production line with mindless repetitive labor, or you worked the office side which was just a contest of extroverted bullshit. Nowhere was it important for anyone to actually know anything. Worst case scenario is a quota slips by a bit.

And everything was built based upon that being the dominant economic form of every company. Almost every single aspect of how modern companies are organized and work was designed to facilitate that factory mindset and we don't seem prepared to revisit it any time soon. The fact that now the assembly line is gone and the office has consumed it all and the only thing that matters at all is people knowing the right thing, making good judgments that can never be captured by a 'standard operating procedure', etc, doesn't seem to bother those in a position to do anything about it.
According to this [0] with the current mining rates of lithium it was last us 365 years. However, given the exponential rate that technology has grown at, we will hopefully have figured a solution to this, either with different battery technology or some other way of getting lithium.

[0] https://www.greentechmedia.com/articles/read/is-there-enough...
"Cyberbit Solutions offers its products only to sovereign governmental authorities and law enforcement agencies," the letter, headed "Re: Your Letter Dated November 29, 2017," stated. "Such governmental authorities and law enforcement agencies are responsible to ensure that they are legally authorized to use the products in their jurisdictions. Cyberbit Solutions products greatly contribute to national security and law enforcement where its products are used."

How much tech originating from universities / OSS projects are in those products?

An interesting moral dilemma.
Eventually, yes. It took more than a year, and I eventually had to ask Gavin Newsom, the Mayor of San Francisco, for help. I highly recommend never having to negotiate how much you owe to multiple healthcare providers, unless you enjoy red tape & misery.
Lisp seems to take the exact opposite approach as Go. The power of languages like Lisp appeal to me, so I have a hard time understanding why people want a language that intentionally limits itself. Read Graham's book and he's talking about how macros are great for writing maintainable code because you can make it both short and very readable because it's close to the domain.

But then you hear the arguments in favor of Go maintainability, and it's about copy/pasting being preferable to abstraction and not having too many ways to do things, so everyone's code looks familiar. Also that the extra LOC are more readable to Go maintainers than powerful abstractions. That surprises me, because languages like Lisp, Smalltalk, Ruby and Haskell are all about powerful abstraction capabilities so you can express yourself exactly as you need instead of writing a lot of boilerplate.
I bet the stream operators paying the bandwidth bills don't appreciate that too much.

What does this company need an "in-house Shazam" for?
I remember this patent threat http://royvanrijn.com/blog/2010/07/patent-infringement and lost any respect I had for them.
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I was going to ask the same thing. But also why are people still using Google? I've been using DuckDuckGo for years and only use Google when I'm forced to (like in Chrome on iOS).
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Ad fraud. Mobile video gives high CPMs.
I wonder just how big those increases would be though. I've seen several informal surveys of my Facebook friends with respect to the cost of their health insurance, and numbers range from $400-$1200/mo. And keep in mind that many of these are subsidized by their employer. That seems like a lot of money that could be taxed. (i.e. you'd pay the tax instead of a health insurance premium)
Just out of curiosity what need do they have for in-house Shazam?
Why are all the relevant changes for a point release alpha? Why do you reckon this isn’t 1.9-alpha?
The Threat of Bitcoin Futures
Most billionaires are neither Notch nor JKR. Those are certainly distant outliers. Most billionaires started with huge advantages conferred at birth and/or required large organizations of under-compensated people to get their billions.
Don't force it. It will come at the right time. Enjoy your spot on the programming map, it's no use to learn Foo if it means you'll suffer your day job or can't get enough value out of it.

That said, lisp is a goldmine / rabbithole crossover. As other said:

- opens for a hackable tool mindset, use lisp on lisp to make it do what you need [1]

- as said in this talk, if you want a dsl, you don't need a parser. Only later if you need others to write it without '(lisp syntax) you can do so. And if all are happy with lisp, you just skip that entirely.

- it's often highly interactive, and value oriented. You get to "touch" the data a bit like material. Nowadays repl's are common, so it doesn't seem special but it was so for 30years.

- lists mindset is different from mutable arrays, saving you immense amount of time in the first phase (by avoiding the vast majority of stupid bugs). When you need speed you can tailor; also lisp implementations are performant (SBCL is in the top 10 of all IIRC)

- functional mindset also open for a lot of new ways to think about problems, leads to other languages like ml/haskell too

- similarly you often get a step in the logic programming world (prolog, kanren) which are very mind opening about "programming computers"

it's not perfect, and if abused you can get stupid code, too cryptic because you used too many weird notation or structure; this is a balance skill you get to learn, lispers are not that asocial, they know when to stay in the human readable most of the time.
Is that actually relevant?
I use sound hound, it has the same thing.
Mobile Smalltalk
It was being abused to bring down local salaries. Good riddance.
it looks more dramatic. but even if you scale it back to 2010, the ascent would be just as steep.
DDG's fine for some kinds of searches, but for search involving you as context (which can be useful) it is obviously not useful.
Army launches direct commissioning program for civilian cybersecurity experts
If you need to support IE11 or older, it's probably a no-go. IE will claim that it's supported, but uses an older, obsolete and frankly useless implementation of the grid system.
Invigorating the malady is not the cure.
I don't understand I think that's my highest rated comment on HN. I gotta admit I wrote it before I actually read the article. I really thought it was going to be about whale watching. I've been trying to figure out if there's some kind of brilliant metaphor in that comment but honestly I can't see one now that I've actually read it.
This is very similar to mineral mining in the physical world: a small number of people create immense wealth while leaving huge costs of environmental destruction to the rest of us.
it’s just a button. and in a perfect world I wouldn’t even need a button
The truth is , some jobs like becoming a CEO require a lot of social networking and socializing. Historically women were not allowed to hold those positions,so when attempting to climb the corporate ladder, existing men CEOs and other C-suite execs either find it hard or don't want to build that trust and mentoring relationship with women candidates. Unlike with a man,there are plenty of issues with a man in power expecting a woman under him to spend private time off work ,after hours,etc...

Back to my point,for women to get a fair shot at being a CEO,they don't need a special exception or favors,the existing system and expectations need to be eliminated (for men and women).
> "Instead, we need to address why there are so few women in leadership positions, why they tend to leave the workforce earlier"

The fact that there are less women in itself is not a problem. Unfair requirements and tests? Sure,those are a problem.

Having less women as CEOs by itself is as much of a problem as is having less men as nurses or not having any women navy seals (they tried hard to get a woman to become a seal)

Has a woman reported a barrier or an obstacle to becoming a CEO? Then let's fix that. But uncomfortable statistics is not a problem. I may not know for sure but until I can explain the cause behind the statistics,I must simply admit that I don't know the cause. For all I know,most women might simply not care much for a C suite job(or not). But like I said, "socializing" barriers might be the problem ,although I can't prove it.
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It is not meant to create a labor monopoly any more than a medical doctors licence. Registration as an engineer is so that one can prove that they have the requisite knowledge and competency to perform the work required of them. Without registration, what legal assurances would you have that the engineer is capable of his job?
Well, don’t leave us hanging, what was the album? :)
Have you read David Lipsky's "Although Of Course You End Up Becoming Yourself" or seen The End of the Tour? It may not change your opinion of DFW much, but it shows what it was like trying to get answers from him on some of the stuff you mentioned (not the ethics stuff as much as what his style means, maybe). It's a pretty detailed account of a Rolling Stone writer (Lipsky) following and interviewing him right after Infinite Jest was published, but it ends up mostly being about the stuff in the last few lines of your comment.
Hm, if that's the case, then it's a bug. If you could file a bug at bugzilla.mozilla.org it would be much appreciated. Even though it already happened we can try and ensure it doesn't happen again.
I tend to voice a lot of upset opinions about Mozilla, but I am still grateful for the work they do. It's nice to see that they have such a big resource pool to work with, as they are one of the few groups that I think genuinely cares for it's users.

It's also nice to be able to show other groups: Yes, you can be a "do good" company, and make a good living.