skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Right. See the PDF of the paper at [1]. They're mapping Boolean logic into a kind of analog system.

"SOLGs can use any
terminal simultaneously as input or output, i.e., signals can go in and out at the same time at any terminal resulting in a superposition of input and output signals ... The gate changes dynamically the outgoing components of the signals depending on the incoming components according to some rules aimed at satisfying the logic relations of the gate. ... A SOLG ... can
have either stable configurations ... or unstable ... configurations. In the former case, the configuration
of the signals at the terminals satisfies the logic relation
required ... and
the signals would then remain constant in time. Conversely,
if the signals at a given time do not satisfy the logic relation,
we have the unstable configuration: the SOLG drives the
outgoing components of the signal to finally obtain a stable
configuration."

This is sort of like supervised training of a neural net. I think. Test cases with both inputs and desired outputs are needed, and applying them to the network pushes the parameters towards values that yield the desired outputs. It's kind of like deliberately over-training a neural net to encode some explicit function.

The paper is vague about how you train this thing. It seems like it has to be driven by test cases, but they don't say much about that. It's not clear that this scales. It ought to work for small numbers of gates, but for large numbers,
does this process converge?

[1] https://arxiv.org/pdf/1512.05064.pdf
I think it's worth noting that even for someone like Gruber who often defends things about apple others attack, he still craps on the notch in landscape mode.

I have an X, and i have very few complaints about it. It's an awesome device pretty much all around, and i wouldn't trade it in for an 8 or any other phone. They did a bang up job on performance, display quality, battery life, and i think the updates to the interface are spot-on.

But holy shit is the notch annoying in landscape, and so many apps that are "updated" for the X still handle it HORRIBLY. Especially games.

They really screwed this one up, and they need to be way harsher on developers who want to use the "ears" in-game to actually take the shape into account. I find myself actually wishing i could force thing into the "letterbox" non-updated app mode sometimes.

Fortunately this is something that could be fixed later, because it's software, but right now it's so bad. It doesn't even bother me in videos, just when i need to actually interact with crappily thought through games and apps treating that area like usable display
As the MOOCs found out, you can't just "replace" certain societal services - especially those beset with volumes of regulation and numerous groups of powerful stakeholders happy to reach out to politicians and the public (AARP, Insurance, numerous govt entities, drs groups, nurses groups).

2/3 of healthcare is paper pushing, the easiest thing the tech community can automate is boring old CRUD paper pushing. I hope one day we as consumers have the chance to get a USB stick to store and retain our own medical records. Walk into dr's office / hospital, hand over device, boom their is your whole history including previous surgeries, allergies, etc. Whatever is done gets imprinted on device, walk out with an updated history. That is some seriously productive low-hanging fruit.
> For example, Germany had to pay citizens to consume power because there was a glut. Another example recently was in California where the state had to pay Arizona to take their excess capacity.

One off events that happen because of an alignment of several external factors are not good markers to plan the future from. Further, you can't assume the Bitcoin is the only sink for excess energy and that other markets/systems aren't in a better position to take advantage of it.
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So.. 'tup' means something, uh, specific, in certain vernacular Englishes.
You can vouch for alexi23's comment (just click on the timestamp beside the comment to find the vouch link).
You have to see it from the inside to be sure that this (rather than some other pathology) is going on, so I will give an example from my own work.

I wrote a design program for [thingys] that were basically rectangles, but could have circular arcs instead of straight line edges. A user could fake a circle using two semicircles joined by zero length edges.

The PM saw this and wanted a circular [thingy] feature. He could not understand that it was only a fake circle, such that when the user started changing things, (literal!) corner cases would crop up. Over time, he kept demanding new features that implicitly relied on non-fake circles. And of course this just kept throwing up more confusing corner cases that he kept trying to paper over with new features.

This is one example of a HUGE class of problems that come down to managers just wishing away a mismatch between the way data and code actually work, and the features that they would like to have.
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Compassionate use concerns drugs not yet FDA approved. The doctor needs permission to treat a patient with an investigational drug outside of a clinical trial.

Doctors can use anything already FDA approved off label but they don’t... unless there’s compelling evidence.
Oregon Country had government (or governments) long before it formally became part of US and Canada, respectively, it just happened to be an ad-hoc one that grew organically out of necessity.
Agile requires flexible features since the deadlines are fixed. The point system is there to give an idea of how much you can cram before the deadline and negotiate with the client about what to axe from the release

Easy bullshit scrum test: go to a manager and ask what feature will be in the release and what will be axed.

If nothing is going to be cut from the requirement docs, all the castle about poibts priority and speed just falls down (or you have a ridicolously lax deadline, of the likes I’ve never seen in practice)
I hadn't seen that abbreviation before, but it's apparently this: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peace_be_upon_him
Unless NY is exceptional, vehicle registration isn't even required for farming vehicles that don't leave the farm or other private property and only cross public roads at right angles.
I would have to second the sentiment in those statements.

I've been at a couple of big tech cos. It's clear there is a preferred political orientation. People feel free to make fun of people of a certain political leaning (not talking extremists here) but don't dare make fun of the accepted political leaning.

So what you get in discourse is one-sided politics and conversation. Florida and Texas, to pick a couple of states, are to be made fun of, CA and MA are the darlings to be emulated (I like distinct things from both side of the spectrum, mind you).

I've also worked at a smaller org and it's the same. From the way people express their views, you'd think conservatives have become extinct, but I suspect that they have simply camouflaged themselves to avoid being on the "wrong side" of a conversation.

For example, make a lightly supported case against gun rights vs make a lightly supported case for voter ID. See which one raises eyebrows more.
If the team had good soft skills, they might have felt comfortable to ask questions about edge cases. And they might have put the work in to make sure they understood the users' goals. Instead they probably just wrote code to pass some conformance test and patted themselves on the back for being very technically correct.
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> How do you get an improved outcome for cancer if you can't afford treatment?

You're missing the point, which is that the number of people who die from cancer that would otherwise have been treatable except for their ability to afford it is actually quite low. And the US does much, much better at treating cancer overall. Which is why the overall cancer survival rates in the US are drastically higher, even though a small number of people may not be able to afford treatment..

(You're also assuming that people are able to receive cancer treatment in countries like the UK, which is actually not a foregone conclusion. Assuming it's even diagnosed properly - the UK in particular is really notorious for cancer misdiagnoses - they may actually not be eligible for having their treatment covered under the NHS, even though their cancer may otherwise medically be treatable, either in other countries or if they can self-fund it in the UK).
I like zooming out and taking a birds eye view every now and then.

From there I start to deep dive on things that are interesting to me at that point in time

Based on those interests, i'll start to look for things or experiences around me that I could start to get my hands dirty with.

IE:
Months ago I was in a low inspiration vibe. When I zoomed out, I realised I was super interested in cheese. I decided I wanted to jump into a cheese making class. I found a master cheese maker in Vermont headed down for a one day one on one. From there the magic happened

When I got home my inspiration for so many different parts of my life was on fire. Sometimes you just gotta deep dive on the things that your interested in and it will pay dividends in non related areas of your life!
We recently created an audio server. Spotify and the like are nice, but we found that there was a large amount of music we like which wasn't on those platforms (or if it was, it wasn't the version we liked, etc).

One cheap Raspberry Pi 3 and large reliable usb storage later and we have our own streaming service. The option to stream is only available locally (didn't want it discoverable on the internet at large).

On the note of you having children, and not knowing their age, I would also suggest a Minecraft server? No idea on what it actually takes to host one of them though.
Again, those only seem like that because you dont understand them:

- Synergy: explained in my other post

- Stakeholders: anyone who holds any power over a decision, even if it isn't formal power

- Everyone on the same page: make sure that everyone has the right context and knows all the important facts to date

- ROI: how much bang you're getting for the buck

- Green Field: building from scratch, without using existing infrastructure (as building a factory on a Green Field), compare to brown field (using existing infrastructure)

- Cross functional: when you're working with engineers and lawyers, aka, people who will absolutely never understand each other

Sure, you could use long phrases to replace any of those, but what's the point?

Don't be confused, ask what it is :)
Rust NLP course sounds super interesting. I am dabbling in Rust. Could you share details/course links when it is available. Thanks
Thanks for explaining my point better than I did :)
Can you virtualize it? Is there a virtualization solution available that supports the Z80 architecture?
So there's truth to this -- I've certainly seen over and over again how non-technical people often try to put people with technical skills in a box (as if we can't have other skills), and it also can be frustrating to watch people stake out some territory as where they add value when you know the activity they're engaged in isn't particularly difficult and they're not bringing outlier skills to it.

But one of the things I figured out a while back is that even jobs that aren't particularly hard sometimes still need dedicated time and attention. Division of labor can help with that. And if you try doing one of the "easy"/soft jobs for a while, you might find that it requires a certain set of subtle skills that don't all come naturally to you.

For example, I tried being an account/project manager and sometimes-front-end-dev for a startup years ago. And I found out really quick that the former is (partly) about paying attention to lots of little pieces of information and trying to push them between people quickly and managing human expectations and keeping everybody oriented around the important next step and a bunch of other things which didn't require years of study but still needed work. Development, by contrast, required a stacked set of skills in dealing with a cooperating set of abstractions and lots of time in singularly focused attention. Doing both at the same time is not something I'd recommend to most people, btw -- dev work is focus-driven, management work is interrupt driven and there's an inherent conflict. So... division of labor makes a lot of sense and you might need someone to do the things involved here to keep the enterprise going as much as you need developers. This stuff "actually matters" even when it isn't rocket science.

It also does happen that there are people who are outlier-good at "soft" tasks. Not as often as people claim, but it does happen.

> trying to hack other people to believe that their skills are what actually matters instead of hard skills ... it actually often works, which is sad.

If they're successful, isn't that more or less proof of the utility of those skills? Being able to persuade people to adopt a given point of view -- or least to be able to negotiate to an agreement -- strikes me as one of the most useful skills there could be. It's essentially hot-swapping code in someone else's brain! :)

I think what most of us technical folks get frustrated at is watching perceived value (and with it, authority and compensation) accumulate outside of our reach. But if this is a perception problem, perhaps the soft skill of persuasion is the answer.
> Milo Yiannopoulos advocates for practices that would literally kill people, in addition to advocating for pedophilia and getting very close to Nazi talking points.

You should be able to post some links illustrating this. I expect he says a lot of things that sound like that but which really aren't on closer inspection. Traditionally the political wings produce fan fiction of the other side and heavily paraphrase whatever the other side says.

Are you aware that Milo Yiannopoulos does not claim to be on the far right and they don't think he is either? His political orientation is best described troll-wing.
For some more details, you can look at there press release[0]. It says the device "can deliver power via radio frequency (RF) energy to WattUp-enabled electronic devices at a distance of up to three feet".

You could also listen to their conference call[1] where they "review the FCC certification details in greater depth and answer questions". I haven't gone through it, though.

[0] https://ir.energous.com/press-releases/detail/596/energous-r...

[1] https://services.choruscall.com/links/watt171227.html
I've been rate limited for... years. The fact that HN rate limits some users more than others has rarely come up in discussion, even when discussing HN's moderation practices. It's particularly annoying because if you don't keep tabs on how many comments in you are, suddenly you just can't submit the comment you just spend a bunch of time writing.

My rate limit is about 5 comments in a given 2 hour period, determined through significant trial and error.

That being said, while these rules are not well documented publicly, from my various interactions with the mods, I've come to respect them as fairly reasonable and fair in their handling of the site.
And you see low numbers. All throughout the discussion here, I see mostly references to the 787 and 747. No. It was the 777 all along that constrained the A380. And the 777X was the coup de grace.
Yet our /glutinous/ gluttonous diets, irrational heating-cooling patterns waste magnitudes more energy.

Let people be wasters, nothing wrong with that. If Bitcoin experiment succeeds it's going to be better than the Internet. I hear no one complaining that Internet servers waste magnitudes more energy than Bitcoin, serving porn, FB, flash games and all other wasters of life.
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777 unopposed.
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Aerospace also has high compliance hurdles. But rockets are extremely phallic. Even urology can't beat aerospace on that axis.

And yes, having been in this space for a while, the fax is a great example, a loophole for lawyers, who still do lots of paperwork by fax, because there's case law to support the practice (not the security mind you, just the practice).

Neither the lawyers nor the doctors understand math. Between the two, the lawyers at least took a formal logic course.

Doctors think most of the software they use is just magic, if they think of it at all. The only other association with computers that they have is the IT guy who comes to replace their tower every other year.
I'm with you on that. For reference I pulled up Google's announcement that "Google Health" is being shutdown.

https://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/06/update-on-google-hea...

I could see Big Tech enter in other areas (Apple Watch and and their research app are promising)
FWIW, healthcare compliance is a solved problem (disclaimer: I work for the company that solved it - Datica.com).

The larger problem is that young companies don't understand what it takes to be compliant, nor the resources to do it themselves. Remember, compliance is all about proving what you say you do. If you can prove it, you're golden.

So it's not that SMS or email isn't HIPAA compliant, it's that the work, controls, and monitoring you'd need to put in place to prove compliance is a massive burden. This is where risk management comes into play. If risk isn't a core tenant of your offering, you're better off building the preferred UX (like using email over fax) and assuming no risk.
> Some Pacific Bell employees wrote to their congressmen about Kroning. Newspapers ran damning stories with headlines such as “Phone company dabbles in mysticism”

https://www.upi.com/Archives/1987/03/24/Phone-company-dabble...

> "The Californian utility regulator launched a public inquiry, and eventually closed the training course, but not before $40m dollars had been spent."

http://articles.latimes.com/1987-10-30/business/fi-11672_1_p...
I was in the US Army as linguist. While I've been out long enough that I no longer feel like or identify as a soldier, I find I very much cherish the sense of support I always felt while in the Service. I felt as though whatever came, I'd have people around me that had my back. Civilian life doesn't seem to have that. It seems an ultimately selfish culture. No tribe.
Indeed it is as long as you’ve configured your email system to use TLS and not downgrade to no encryption if the handshake fails for mail systems where HIPAA-governed information is departing to.

Source: Not a lawyer, not your lawyer. Sign off provided by non profit bio research orgs lawyer before I set it up.
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I'm a software guy in the healthcare space, albeit not medical devices. We see this problem all the time. Despite the fact that most of the people involved have degrees, often Phd level, in CS, Math, and Physics we see no end of other software folks from typical tech companies coming in and describing how we just don't know what we're doing and that we need big tech to come in and disrupt us.

There's a reason we do things the way we do them and it's not because we're stupid and/or ignorant.
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Sure, but I see no reason not to be able to just re-flash the ME firmware in that case. I guess as an embedded developer, maybe I'm just seeing things from a different POV than most people here.
For completeness I've uploaded last night's shipping forecast here: http://oirase.annexia.org/tmp/Shipping_Forecast_-_2017-12-27... [Out of date - Don't rely on it if you're sailing a boat!]

Of course it's not quite the same unless you put on Sailing By beforehand and listen to it in the dead of night.
God gave us the Earth to be good stewards of. It is sinful to abuse the planet. At least as far as Catholics and Mormons view things.
My main point is not that providing quality public services is easy but that excuses like "we don't have enough population density" are a red herring. The real hurdles are entirely political.

Some back of the envelope calculations:

Length of US/Canada border: 8,890km [1]
Population of Canada: 36,708,083 [2]

Assuming ALL of Canada's population lives within 100km of this border a rough estimate of this area might be 889,000km^2 giving a population density of 41 people per square kilometre. This conservative estimate is in the same ballpark as the US population density of 33 people per square kilometre [3] with the caveat that this population is spread across a long, thin 9000 km ribbon increasing the cost of roads and any other infrastructure versus the US's more favourable shape. And let's not forget that Canada's GDP per capita is $46,437 while America's is $57,467 [4]. This is a factor of 1.24 in favour of the United States.

Given all this, why is the US incapable of providing the kind of single-payer healthcare that Canada does to its population?

[1] https://www.statcan.gc.ca/pub/11-402-x/2012000/chap/geo/geo-...

[2] http://www.statcan.gc.ca/tables-tableaux/sum-som/l01/cst01/f...

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_and_dependen...

[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(PPP)...
Or a job, or livelihood in the Northwest or Chicagoland, or...
If you're going to monitor every aspect of a person's life, you're going to generate so much data that you'll generate almost nothing but false positives. None the less, I don't see why you couldn't just scale your level of significance way up and be a useful screening device. Obviously any diagnosis must be made by a doctor, but that doesn't mean your biometric information wouldn't be useful.
I don't see any real contradiction here. The original pebble was very cool for the time, and the price was reasonable. But the design was a bit cheap/silly and it had serious limitations. The apple watch was one of the first actual full featured ones that continued to be built upon, and is still very usable today having improved with software the entire time. Pebble's were dying within the first year and people got increasingly unhappy. They always had weird bluetooth issues and other thorn-in-side small glitches

I owned both, and i think those are completely congruent takes in their time periods.
Not really: it is a gamble you both are playing.

For your Boss, replacing you will take much longer than the 6 week sabbatical she's giving you, AND it will probably cost her more than your salary in that interim. So if you're quitting today, she'd like to take the gamble that you stay. Her gamble is that you are actually happy at your gig as you say you are, and she can save herself a whole lot of hassle. Worst case scenario she loses a month of lead time on an at-least-3-months headhunt. A bit of a wincer, but you can try to make that easier by letting her know as soon as you know that you're done.

If the job market was different, then I would be much more timid about the open strategy. If you do, in fact, dislike your job and are never going to come back, then you're changing the odds on the gamble and hurting your Boss unnecessarily. This could all backfire if your Boss doesn't value you as much as you think they do, but no one is usually off-base on that.
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