skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Introduction to Counterfeit ICs: Counterfeiting, Detection and Avoidance Methods
Please pardon my ignorance. What is the point of this? How does it help?
"Creating, selling, transporting and buying consumer goods such as casual footwear now requires just one significant human—the consumer—plus an individual here and there to oversee assembly and repair robots."

I've said (half-jokingly) to my friends that in the future, recommendation systems will know so much about us and be so accurate that we won't even need to make many purchasing decisions anymore. They will make the decisions that we would have made anyway.
Well as a physician, you can't really force your patient to exercise and eat better. The best you can do is prescribe a medication to treat the symptoms, tell your patient to exercise and eat better, and send them off.

Do you have an alternative to prescribing medication for type 2 diabetes and Crohn's? Do you think doctors should simply withhold care since it's their patients' faults that they have those conditions?
Can we tokenize behavior?
I'm willing to back it up. I've written at length on these things before. But there seems little point when the person I was replying to has already pre-emptively dismissed any reason I could give.
Esperanto media and social gatherings are a good way to expand your cultural horizons. Esperanto speakers tend to hail from many different countries and cultures (especially non-English-speaking ones) so seeking out Esperanto media and groups is an easy way to filter for multicultural content.
Typically in the enterprise HR software space, the customer does not want to buy all their components from a single vendor. If they want a culture fit quiz, they do not go to their ATS (applicant tracking system) vendor for it. They go to an organization that has specific skills in this particular area, and has onboard psychologist(s) who can demonstrate the validity of said quiz.

The code behind such a quiz is usually trivial - the intellectual property not so much.
On the one hand you basically say things will change too much too fast:

> CBRE predicts 50% of occupations today will no longer exist in 2025

But on the other hand, things don't change fast enough:

> whats shall everyone do? skill up . Is that anything new in software development? Nopes

These two positions, change and no change, can't be simultaneously true. If there is change, then there are new applications where humans are needed. If there is no change, then human jobs remain untaken by automation.

There will never be a lack of jobs for people as long as people have desires and needs that are unfulfilled. Even if all our needs today are fulfilled, we create new goals and new entitlements for which we have to work.

Take, for example, medicine and movies - these two occupations existed as pre-modern medicine and theatre even 1000 years ago. But now, that we have automated many aspects such as blood tests, pill production, medical scanning, and in the case of movies, copying and broadcasting - they should reduce the need for doctors and actors, but instead, they increase 100x the number of doctors and actors. Why? Because we want more, much more than a millenia ago.

We have expanded our entitlement more than 100x and we're busier than ever, in the middle of automation. Believe in our desire for more, in our greed and ever raising entitlement! They'll keep us employed.
Before you become "so dismissive" of traditional physicians, you try getting someone to radically alter their lifestyle for the promise of potential benefit in 10-20 years. Even if you can point to a few people that have done it, I can point you to plenty of data that says it's really hard and most people can't. Even technology may not help: https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2553448.

Edit:
Also reversed is a pretty strong word. I haven't seen any compelling evidence that Crohn's can be cured with lifestyle change.
Apple's original graphical OS will be available for free in 2018
Road map to clean energy using laser beam ignition of boron-hydrogen fusion
if I may chime in on the last bit, because I sensesed a sense hostility

> pseudo english terms

isn't that just the english language? A mix of norse, french, latin, alotta patoise and irish and ... just sudo english
How old were you when you made that jump? How much dev experience did you have? Which countries are best for that these days?
Interview with iDST Deputy Managing Director Hua Xiansheng
I think you may be overlooking that in general when a consumer is considering whether or not to go for the "green" product, that consumer is probably not considering things like battery power density, or whether or not the mercury in a CFL is worse for the environment than the energy savings benefit the environment.

Most consumers decide if a product is green or not based on whether or not it is marketed as such, plus some common sense. Whether or not that actually works for identifying the greener product is not really relevant to the research in the article. All that matters is that test subjects (presumably average consumers) believe that the choice presented as greener was greener.

> Note that they don't go into depth about the structure of their experiments, the isolation of variables (eg, maybe men are more frugal and "green" choices cost more, so how do we control for that) nor about the math behind their analysis, which tells me that they either (A) had some kind of length limit for their publication, or (B) didn't feel those details were flattering.

Or maybe that is in the peer reviewed journal article that the research was published in? The submitted article is in a popular science magazine for the general public, where such details are in general omitted.

The journal article is not in a free journal, but here's a copy Googling turned up: https://huntsman.usu.edu/directory/documents/BroughEtAl_JCR2...
>which makes your willingness to let corporations trample on your civil rights even more unsettling.

No... Hacker News' moderation is not an example of a corporation trampling on anyone's civil rights. If that's what you meant.

It seems you're primarily interested in steering this subthread into an uninteresting political tangent, so I'll leave you alone with whatever point it is you're trying to make.
It's OK if they don't go away. We just end up looking better (and having more fun doing so) in comparison. :^)
Well, this can be a fruitless discussion without a shared understanding of what a microservice is.

To Martin Fowler:

> In short, the microservice architectural style [1] is an approach to developing a single application as a suite of small services, each running in its own process and communicating with lightweight mechanisms, often an HTTP resource API. These services are built around business capabilities and independently deployable by fully automated deployment machinery. There is a bare minimum of centralized management of these services, which may be written in different programming languages and use different data storage technologies.

Assembling HR ecosystems from separate apps certainly meets all of the points above.
Sorry, dude, but I think you fell for it. These entities try to make you think they're open, but really they are keeping entrants at bay.

Here's an interesting episode of the weeds podcast that gives some context by exploring why the fax machine is still so prevalent in US healthcare.

https://player.fm/series/voxs-the-weeds/fax-reform-bonus
Hopefully the indigenous market for these skills develops for those affected to develop a career into.
well, thats cause its easier to introduce a new thing bit by bit than all at once, init
Find a local Esperanto group and go to their meetings. We're all pretty welcoming and most will be glad to help you boost your conversational skills.

Also, if you are in the States (or not), check out NASK (Nord-Amerika Somera Kurso). It is a week-long course which takes place across July 4th weekend each year, currently in North Carolina. That is how I built the bulk of my ability. I highly recommend it.
how do you explain the anamoly of indians in virtually all top jobs from ceo's of microsoft,google,pepsi etc. to pulitzer winners? while i agree with you that culture does impacts work but may be its not "indian" culture and more of a "company"culture.
Having said that i don't see any contribution of india in sports, i don't know why.
Agree. My dad, also a physician, blames himself for being overweight. But if "everyone" is overweight, can it really be their fault? Surely "the system" has as much or more blame to share.
I grew up in an ex-socialist country and we got our first McDonald's in the mid 90s. It was an exciting new thing, a new taste, a new model of restaurants and consumption. My family took us on multiple road trips to the McDonald's, which was in a different city. Nobody thought about whether it's healthy, because eating there was a privilege. 20 years later, fast food chains are everywhere, and if my attitude hadn't changed from the 90s, I'd have a serious health issue.

I feel like the Internet, and social media in particular, are going through the same period. What was once exotic and a privilege, is now instantly-available, algorithmically-optimized junk food. And it's not healthy to use it as your main source of nutrition.

The good news is that, just like McDonald's didn't kill good, healthy restaurants, so has social media not killed good, healthy sources of information. Most of the blogs I followed growing up are still active and rediscovering them - and setting up an RSS reader again - has been a great feeling. News sources that give you thoughtful context, instead of a dopamine feed, like The Economist and The New Yorker, are also thriving. Replacing podcasts with audiobooks on my dog walk listen has also gave me pause and perspective.

So my New Year's resolution is every time I open Twitter or Facebook, to ask myself whether I would eat at a McDonald's today.
Yes, they absolutely do. Without inflation, it would be almost impossible to borrow money from a bank. No borrowing = no new investment. Most super-wealthy people are constantly borrowing money because the rates they borrow at are lower than their return on investing that money.
Healthy work/life balance and career/personal development as well.
Accusing physicians of being dismissive of nutrition by being dismissive of technology is sort of ironic, no?
GOAL 1:

ERADICATE EXTREME POVERTY & HUNGER

Target 1.A:

Halve, between 1990 and 2015, the proportion of people whose income is less than $1.25 a day

The target of reducing extreme poverty rates by half was met five years ahead of the 2015 deadline.

More than 1 billion people have been lifted out of extreme poverty since 1990.

In 1990, nearly half of the population in the developing regions lived on less than $1.25 a day. This rate dropped to 14 per cent in 2015.

http://www.un.org/millenniumgoals/poverty.shtml
>Couldn't this be solved by just encrypting the email itself? Even the headers could be encrypted along with the body.

Yes, but that's typically more cumbersome as you have to trade keys with everybody that needs an email. I wrote an emailer for a medium sized company and it sent about 500K emails and 500K faxes a month. That's a lot of key management.

You could use symmetric encryption, but then you give out the shared key to so many people, it tends to lose value, especially when you don't control how your recipient organizations protect the key. (it could be in a file on a shared folder named Email-EncryptionKey.txt).

On top of all that, each client will have to be taught how to decrypt (and encrypt) emails, either at the employee level or at the network admin level. Most provider organizations are small. Typically a doctor or two with a nurse and a couple people working the schedule and regulatory. In summary, it would achieve the objective but it's not ideal.

>On the subject of fax machines, would they still be compliant if they're connected to a VOIP system?

Yes, as long as no PHI went over an unencrypted channel and all servers are secured (physical and computational) and logged.
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Let's look first at the problem where "the user is looking at item X, what item Y is related to item X".

This could be done on a textual basis by using a tfidf scoring applied to the words in the text for items X and Y

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tf–idf

An alternate approach is to look for "people who looked at X also looked at Y" and mathematically this can be done exactly the same way as for documents, except that instead of having a set of "does word W appear in this document X" relationships you have "did user U look at (up vote/express interest) in document X".

The latter works really well if you have a large number of documents. On a large collection of scientific papers, I found that a paper with 10,000 views would generate astonishingly good recommendations. With 1,000 views it was hit-or-miss, with fewer than 100 views it was mostly missed.

The problem here is that you are sampling a huge matrix, and most cells are not going to get sampled enough to get accurate results. One answer to that is dimensional reduction

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

which gives better results with less data because there are many fewer matrix cells which are better sampled.

Please send an email to the address in my HN profile and I'll be glad to talk more.
Right. And in many circles these days, critical theory is what passes for critical thinking.
Sure, most physicians nowadays will mention to the patient that diet and exercise are beneficial, but at the same time will outright dismiss the critical role that diet specifically plays in curing the disease.

Yes, the alternative is a 10 to 30 day water fast for both of those. I know several people that successfully cured both. Especially Crohn's, the amount of misinformation given by physicians is stunning and borderline criminal. $200K a year Remicade treatments GONE after 2 weeks of water fasting. Why would Big Pharma have any incentive to get this message out there?

High blood pressure for example can be reversed entirely after 5 days of water fasting. Completely gone. I don't know how else to say it. I have first hand knowledge of many successful water fasts, but the medical world has brainwashed everyone to the point that I get shut down immediately in any social setting by even mentioning this. But that's okay. Not forcing anyone to do anything they don't believe in. All I can do is share my knowledge and point people in the right direction when they're ready.
One big problem there is that protocols aren't sitting still in time. As more things change, like moving SMTP to ESMTP, Rebol needed to keep up, but didn't always. R2 was closed source, which didn't help. The protocol schemes were all written in Rebol, so you could hack them, which many of us have done over time, but that was an area where docs were lacking and sorely needed, so not many people could do it effectively.
I used one of these for six months when I moved out of home at 18. I was broke and saving for a wireless connection fee (expensive back in 2005!). When the AP I was using went secure, I'd just point to a different part of the city and repeat.
Machine Learning and Ethereum dapps. I will be taking machine learning electives at school and my employer is looking for ways to make use of blockchains, so I got those going for me :)
Hacker News has a libertarian leaning ideology among both its community and site-runners. As a result, things like deleted posts, changed thread titles, etc could be seen by folks with such leanings as an impingement on their "free speech" by the site's moderators.

Thus folks want a way to check what has been deleted, changed, or modified by the folks in charge. I imagine this exists to help satisfy that desire.

For an example, note this comment and its corresponding thread https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16018978
I used a bunch of Esperanto text sources to make a NLP program (figured it would be easier for a newbie to do since the language is so regular). The code corrected some grammatical errors in the Esperanto Wiki; I did a write-up earlier this month: https://medium.com/@mapmeld/esperanto-nlp-part-3-correcting-...
Wifi-enabled scales that connect to webservices already exist on amazon - I assume the hard part is getting some certification so doctors/nurses can 'prescribe' it to patients when they leave hospital or while they're in hospital and getting the webservice to talk to $hospitalSoftware, etc?
You talk as if the customer already has the quiz content in their mind, and just needs a few web pages to present it.

That's not the way the industry works.

Some exciting, specialised startup develops some kind of cool UI blended with some psych validated content, and manages to get it installed at a couple of large reference clients, and then finally manages to draw a link between the quiz results that candidates achieve, and their ultimate chances of successful employment (maybe just getting hired - maybe their on the job performance after X months).

The customer is buying into this package of leading edge stuff. They don't want their existing vendor to have some junior developer hack something up and put it behind a feature flag. They want the new shiny stuff, and they want it from the new shiny vendor.
I wonder why the better sorting algos are never compared, like for small integer indices counting sort is linear, for larger indices radix sort is optimal and for parallel sorting there exist also special variants.
AFAIK, as a patient with Crohn’s, there is no evidence that any specific diet causes or cures Crohn’s disease. If you know of dietary restrictions which reduce risk of Crohn’s in the same manner as type 2 diabetes, please share it, as I know many people (both patients and physicians) that would be happy to help make lifestyle changes to cure their disease.
Sure. Or those hospitals gamed the system and didn't admit patients who should have been admitted. Or plenty of other explanations...

We call readmissions rate a Surrogate Marker. Something that isn't a hard outcome that we care about (that much), but rather an indicator of quality. We need surrogates to assess quality because hard outcomes are rarer. But this paper makes us think that maybe we need better markers.
The Esperanto Facebook group does invite some "interesting" political posts; viewpoints you never see in national language forums (for better or worse...).
Right, but in economies, that's a bad thing. (less spending, less demand, fewer jobs, repeat, downward spiral, economic collapse).
There are much greater issues at play here and IMO the organizational problems within hospitals are far greater than the technical ones. To be successful hospitals will have to become tech companies. They aren't exactly the hottest place for top tech talent to end up.

You could say that about a LOT of organizations. Hospitals are perhaps another level though.
You haven't seen it because your traditional world of medicine does not include that group of people.

I have. About a dozen of them. In fact, each Crohn's patient that I've seen undergo a fast 2 weeks or longer has not had any flare ups since. And completely stopped taking all medications and undergoing their usual treatments.

(they do watch their diet after, mostly fruits and veggies).

Lifestyle change alone will not cure it. It must be preceded by a proper water fast.

Reversed IS a strong word, and very appropriate here.
Paradigm shifts for the decentralized Web
The fact that it has happened over and over, almost without fail, in the entire history of human economic activity?
Taylor Swift’s new app “The Swift Life” was not written in Swift
Yes, if the customer was happy to buy everything from a single vendor that would work perfectly fine. But as per sibling comments, that's not the way that the enterprise HR software market works. There are many, many very specialised vendors that do just one thing.
Why not apply plasmonic nanoparticles for electromagnetic field enhancement via nanofocusing?

(source: http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.7567/JJAP.55.08RG01/pdf)

I've seen this paper floating around for a while but not many attempts at experimental validation.
Yes, look up Shor's Algorithm and Grover's Algorithm.
> sudo english

This inspired me: I'm am now renaming /bin/sudo to /bin/pseudo
What I really don't understand is, I'm 1 guy with a very small SMB. I do everything myself and tried in the cloud.

Except from some maintenance, it just seems to be cheaper to upscale a VM in many cases.

The biggest cost at my work ( full-time job) seems to be management ( development too off course) and planning.

I'm not sure if the scale that cloud provides is required 90% of the times
Disappointing but unsurprising that you would downvote instead of replying. I encourage you to contemplate your processes of reasoning. If you can't refute my points, you are a captive of what you currently think.
So the Fortune 500 company I work for hired Verizon as its managed networking provider and their staff is all based in Manila. While others on my team complain about this I have to be honest, their support is top notch because the language barrier is non-existent. Compared to our in-house Indian IT support the language barrier is a stark contrast, I could only hope we move our corp system's support to the Philippines.
I had one of those too. I remember Wordstar with fondness, which is why I now install the Joe editor on any new computer, and use Joe's jstar mode rather than nano.

Another thing I recall is spending $4K for a 40MB hard drive. Indeed, times have changed. :)
Surprisingly this is actually the reason Esperanto is somewhat popular in China. My understanding is that it is often used as a "stepping-stone" language before teaching European national languages. (I have no source for this, beside anecdotes, and having met someone who taught such a course - among other languages - at a Chinese university.)

(I don't know why you're downvoted, you bring up a valid point.)
I'll throw in a slightly contrary opinion.

I work for a health-insurance startup. And many of the people we cover are on extremely low fixed incomes. It's not unusual for them to be in situations where they have to choose which bill to pay this month and thus which utility will get shut off next month for non-payment. Their premiums are heavily subsidized and they only have insurance at all because of government programs, sometimes only because they're eligible for multiple programs which combine to help them out (and which are also constantly on the chopping block). So any kind of cellular phone, let alone a multi-hundred-dollar smartphone with service contract, is simply an unaffordable luxury for them.

And that's why I worry about these kinds of efforts. More affluent people can benefit from smartphone-centric approaches, but a huge percentage of the US slips through the cracks when you do that.

So solving America's health-care problem is not going to happen by focusing on people who have smartphones. That will just heighten the divide; the people who are already in a position to get good care will continue to get it, and the people who aren't will continue to get worse. If you want to avoid the grim-meathook-future problem, smartphone-centric (and, really, most tech-centric) approaches are unlikely to work.
I also really enjoyed the book by my former professor:

Design Methods for Reactive Systems: Yourdon, Statemate and the UML

by Roel Wieringa, Morgan-Kaufmann Publishers, 2003

This is all about specifying reactive systems though, not about how they are programmed.