skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The company that "owned" the plane they used had the same address as a small law firm in Dedham, MA - a town that borders Boston:

https://www.upi.com/Mass-lawfirm-linked-to-extradition-jet/2...
The JPEG file formats are nearly as bad, especially once you get into camera vendor extensions. It was common practice back then. Just take a bunch of C structs and dump them from memory to disk.
If they didn't do that, everyone who wasn't rich would be forced out of those cities, or would have to live with their parents and not have any kids (in Singapore's case). It has more to do with the unregulated market that public housing was necessary (and in Singapore, it really isn't the public housing you are used to).
This will get to consumers through ride sharing services well before buying a car with the capabilities. Transportation will just become more of a service.

The last numbers I have seen have Google still well ahead of everyone.

https://www.wired.com/2017/02/california-dmv-autonomous-car-...
Autonomous Vehicles Makers Report Disengagement Numbers in ...
Coincidentally, some insurance companies that are fed up with hospitals are starting their own.
Pretty confident you're in the extreme minority on that one
Not sure about this.

Workforce? Arguable. You may have a point.

But universities?

The Research Triangle has 2 really good schools: Duke and UNC. State is OK.

The Greater Toronto Area has the University of Toronto, Waterloo, McMaster, all of which outrank State. Waterloo and Toronto are especially strong, and beats Duke and UNC in technical disciplines.
Unfortunately, I don't know. I'm an outsider from the USA. So I don't want to get much deeper into the details and pretend I know a lot about Venezuela.

But clearly, they're doing something wrong down there. They are a very oil-rich and resource-rich nation. So they should have the money to do this correctly, even as Oil Prices have dropped.
Paying journalists to promote brands in articles
The problem is that even the smarter person can't compute and analyse all the existing data and factors to make a decision. Most big decisions are made on some conviction or a hunch because reality is too complicated and nobody is a prophet. Therefore being slightly smarter doesn't give somebody such a huge advantage, for example many smart people supported communism, many others didn't because honestly nobody could predict the outcome of the communist movement.
Build a revshare API.

I assume the people that can't afford it are using it for non-revenue generating purposes. I don't know that I'd care about those people if they aren't taking away from my bottom line.
Any source, example, etc.? Your comment reads like one of those click-bait advertisements.
Because you'd presumably need to authenticate (and have a paid account) to access the data.
Hello! Really exciting stuff. I've worked at the school and college level (now working on blue collar skill development / training).

Am I correct in understanding that as of now, the teachers have to set the goals individually for each student? Would the next step be analytics so that the platform can predict / recommend specific goals for students based on profiles that they or the educators can select?

Perhaps an "in the weeds" technical question, but are you using the tincan / xAPI for tracking and integrating such data? Or some other custom development?

Thank you! :)
> "In other words, gravity would be asymptotically safe if the theory at high energies remains equally well behaved as the theory at low energies. In and of itself, this is not much of an insight. The insight comes from realizing that this good behavior does not necessarily contradict what we already know about the theory at low energies (from the early works of DeWitt and Feynman)."

But what are the actual expected changes at high energy that would differ from what is seen at low energy?

I kept waiting for her to explain what differences would be observed if this theory is correct, but she never did.
Some private facilities don't, but in general it's cheaper and easier to provide preventive care than it is to try to collect from these patients after they admit to the ER with a complication (where you are mandated by law to treat them).

One of the reasons hospitals accept discounted rates for insured patients in general is ease of reimbursement vs trying to chase the patient for money.
To use a metaphor as a counterargument, if there were a 6 foot spider in my shower you'd better believe I would talk about it at least a few times a day. That doesn't mean the spider has charisma, just that it's a clear and present danger weighing heavily on my mind.

If anyone is exercising political sleight of hand I'd say it's the legislators and executive staff who are getting in all their unpopular actions while the getting is good, like a looter in a riot. Trump doesn't have to be politically savvy or even aware of what they're doing for that to happen.
> The insurance companies only pay x% of any given item,

The hospitals negotiate those rates. If they're not happy with them, they need better negotiators.
It still baffles me why groups of people can't see this coming for them, time after time. (I have even seen it even be apparent in very small groups of 6 people where people in the minority actively voted against their own best interests only to be saved by a benevolent dictator.)
Actually, they did. Times Square was not some place you wanted to take your kids to as late as the mid 80's. Cleaning up the city was a big campaign promise for several successive mayors.
And San Francisco is NOT in Silicon Valley, it's 50 miles north of the actual valley. All of the major tech companies were setting up shop in the South Bay and peninsula 15-20 years ago. Successive SF mayors have lured tech companies north with various incentives.
This is awesome. Could this be extended so that new CSV uploads can be added at a later date and deduplicate?
Think about a PCB except at micro-chip scale. If you don't have semi-conductor technology you can still lay down layers of metal using photolithography, and thus making tiny circuits. I'm not sure what the limits are of such technology but it seems interesting.
Apple to Let Users Control CPU Throttling on iPhones
The grandparent is describing a separate issue - note that not all hospitals will serve Medicare-receiving patients beyond their federal requirements.

Insurers negotiate reimbursement rates with hospitals, with both parties being able to leverage their size/social cachet to extract favorable terms. This contributes to the availability of certain hospital chains in the preferred networks vs. the non-preferred networks of particular insurers.
You're right, I misremembered the quote. I looked for the quote and I think I found it. This was in the book "Aircraft and Submarines The Story of the Invention, Development, and Present-Day Uses of War's Newest Weapons" by Willis J. Abbot.

"In 1917, at the time of writing this book, there are probably thirty distinct types of airplanes being manufactured for commercial and military use, and not less than fifty thousand are being used daily over the battlefields of Europe. No invention save possibly the telephone and the automobile ever attained so prodigious a development in so brief a time. Wise observers hold that the demand for these machines is yet in its infancy, and that when the end of the war shall lead manufacturers and designers to turn their attention to the commercial value of the airplane the flying craft will be as common in the air as the automobiles at least on our country roads."

I think what happened is that I was marveling that I was reading a book where it was talking about the history of aviation before there were actual airports and consumer uses for planes, and I was essentially tying that in with 'commercial' in my memory of the passage. Up until this point in the book he hadn't mentioned any real commercial uses, but further investigation revealed that there were actual commercial flights as early as 1914, so I was wrong about that as well.

Nevertheless, most people back in 1917 would not even begin to imagine where commercial flight would lead us to one hundred years later, especially with space flight, jumbo jets, super sonic jets, drones, etc. Give crypto one hundred years and I don't think anyone will still be saying "cryptocurrency is only good for contraband and speculation". Give people the chance to build the infrastructure around it.
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The Nomad executable is self contained and less than 15MB if I remember correctly. It can be used with Docker containers, shell scripts, or just raw executables.

https://www.hashicorp.com/c1m.html

It was dead simple to install and use compared to my brief experience with k8s.
Total wealth of US households = 84.9 T http://time.com/money/3919690/americans-total-net-worth-reco...

Total amount of US currency in circulation = 1.2 T
https://www.newyorkfed.org/aboutthefed/fedpoint/fed01.html

Any way you want to figure it, the amount of wealth that exists does not correspond to the amount of currency in circulation. Both can go up and down independently of each other.
The HP Stream 7, a tablet released in late 2014 on the 64-bit Atom Z3735G, shipped with 32-bit Windows. This was presumably to avoid the memory overhead of 64-bit pointers, as it came with 1GB of RAM, so every bit counted.
I've written software for Intel, Nintendo, Samsung, LG, DirecTV, Applied Materials, Microsoft, and Apple to name a few. My last project was the basis for an entire business line at a 500m/yr company.

I am unemployable because I'm a white male whose in his 40s, has a family, and because somehow, in this industry experience is a bad thing.

It amazes me how intolerant of age and differing opinion tech culture is.
I think they meant, since they can't afford the API, they'd just keep crawling your HTML. Combo move the API and putting your stuff behind auth and you solve a lot of the problem.

You've gotta get that good yummy content publicly accessible for google though, so you'll rank. So, that's a balancing act.
What’s the benefit of writing this in Clojure, instead of in Java and designing it such that calling it from Clojure feels natural? Does it use any Clojure specific features or have strict Clojure dependencies?
Depends on what the market conditions are. If there is a lot of competition from hospitals then the payer may just refuse to include the hospital in network if they aren't willing to play ball, meaning they lose all the prospective business.
Pinboard had a really funny tweet about customers being angered he doesn't send invoices.

When someone asked for one Maciej just sent them a blank invoice template and said to fill it out themselves. If I remember correctly it just made the guy madder.
As usual, the actual numbers don't back up the narrative. For example, significantly more men in the study left due to unfairness than women do: 40% vs. 31%. So either women are treated more fairly or these numbers don't mean anything, yet you would never know it from the text, which is all about the horrible things that happen to women.

Hmmm...
Health insurance companies have taken to denying almost every claim that hospitals file. This overtaxes the hospitals claims denial departments and costs hospitals millions in lost revenue because they don't have the staff to properly review and resubmit every claim (which has to be done by a clinical specialist).

It's like taking your car to a mechanic, and once it's fixed, refusing to pay, claiming car didn't need THAT repair in the first place. Then getting away with it because you have an arbitration agreement in place with the shop. So the shop needs to employ an entire separate department of ASE certified mechanics that are dedicated to documenting that the repairs performed on customer cars were necessary. But the kicker is, YOU GET TO DECIDE IF YOU'RE CONVINCED THE REPAIR WAS NECESSARY.

Hospitals used to have small (1 person per 10k beds) claims denial departments and use outsourcing firms if case loads increased. Now they are acquiring all the outsourcing firms and increasing their staff to like 100 people per 10k beds. It's insane.

I like to retell a particularly awful denial my partner had to deal with, which was a patient had their open heart surgery claim denied by the insurance company because they determined that the patient's condition only warranted observational care (that's right, the insurance company determines what care you need/get). The hospital eventually won that claim, but they routinely lose $100k+ claims and have to eat the cost.
You've turned the question around. I don't think it's particularly important that people relate to their leaders. However, if leaders can't relate to (i.e. understand) the people they lead, then you might end up with misaligned goals and motivation.

For instance, if the president of the country is wealthy and associates almost exclusively with and identifies as a wealthy person, then that person might consider their primary goal as president to promote economic growth as measured by the stock market. Some less well-off constituents might rather the president focused on programs to improve access to food, health care, and education for the less well-off.

This isn't an either-or thing; a president could do both. However, if non-wealthy voters think the president doesn't understand their situation or have any policies in place to improve it, then to that voter is not likely to have a high opinion of that president.
Auto generated traits? Yuck.

I understand the trade offs and why this makes sense. But it hearkens back to some of extremely ugly parts of older Java frameworks.
HMOs. Direct employment of physicians by payers used to be a popular thing until people realized that the incentive structures were conflicting. More money for providers means less for the parent payer etc.
He means the listener. Another way to put it: the difference between coming off charismatic vs entitled is having the emotional intelligence to predict what your listeners will like.
The easiest way to understand it is to look at the question from a philosophical framework where it makes no sense to claim that there are "more" irrationals than rationals. And then untangle why it came to a different answer.

In Constructivism, all statements have 3 possible values, not 2. They are true, false, and not proven. All possible objects must have a construction. So instead of talking about a vague "Cauchy sequence", we might instead have a computer program that given n will return a rational within 1/n of the answer.

The first thing to notice is that all possible things that could exist is contained within a countable set of all possible constructions. There can't be "more" irrationals than rationals.

But what about diagonalization? That proof still works. You still can't enumerate the reals. But why not? The answer is because determining whether a given program represents a real is a decision problem that cannot in general be solved by any algorithm. You are running into the same category of challenges that lie behind Gödel's theorem and The Halting Problem. It is not that there are "more" irrationals than rationals. It is that there are specific programs which you can't decide whether they represent reals.

From a constructivist's eyes, the traditional proof that there are more irrationals falls apart because you're reasoning about unprovable statements about arbitrary sequences whose logic could have been constructed with the same sort of logic that you're applying to them. Is it any wonder that you wind up concluding the "existence" of things that clearly don't actually exist?

Now stepping back from BOTH philosophies, the differences between them lie in different attitudes about existence and truth. Attitudes that underly the axioms which we use, and cannot possibly be proven one way or another. (Gödel actually proved that. Any contradiction in Constructivism is immediately a contradiction in classical mathematics. But conversely there is a purely mechanical transformation of any proof in classical mathematics which resulted in a contradiction, into a constructive proof that also results in a contradiction.)
Sort of a reverse Dunning-Kruger effect?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning%E2%80%93Kruger_effect
> We reject the idea that it is the “responsibility” of marginalized people to stay in toxic tech culture despite abuse and discrimination, solely to improve the diversity of tech.

It is the “responsibility” of marginalized people to stay in toxic tech culture despite abuse and discrimination because they want tech jobs. Some forms of abuse and discrimination are normal aspects of life for everyone. Other forms are completely in peoples heads. And yes, there are some forms, in rare cases, which are legitimate unacceptable abuse/discrimination. These cases are rare based on all the evidence I've seen.
I think it depends who the user is in your case. In mine it's the developer who has to work with Twirp outside of the standard libraries (maybe different language, maybe just wants to incorporate it in their own code, ...).

I also like when things are consistent without surprising behavior.
I don't think that's particularly true,

In all societies, there are certain things you can't say and often some of these things are the truth, so sometimes people become so practiced at papering over such things, that they become confused about what the truth really is.

Kids just don't have as much exposure to that.

(Sometimes those there are things you have to say, which the society wishes were true, and people become so practiced at acting as if they're true, people even start to convince themselves.)
Of course experience isn't a bad thing!

You having pesky distractions like children, however... how can you be trusted to put the company's deadlines first in a situation like that? It's just that... the thing is... you're just not a good culture fit.
Agreed, Snap is a big company with high compensations. This could just mean letting bottom 1.5% go based on the performance reviews.
I assumed disallowing background activity in Android prevents this, does anyone know more about this?
"The problem with our healthcare system is that too much money goes to drug companies, medical device makers, and insurance companies and not enough makes it to the people actually providing the care. "

The surgeons I see through work have very nice houses and 100k+ cars so they are part of this.
I've been in SV for a decade now and I am not observing anything cult-like. I haven't worked for companies like Google or Facebook or any other giant behemoths, so no idea how things are there, but in other places it's pretty far from a cult where I am.

Of course, marketing sometimes goes a bit over the board, and each release of version 8.4 is the best thing that happened to humanity since v8.3 was released and before it's time to release v8.5. But that's kind of expected, nobody I know takes it as a literal truth.

And of course there are mission statements that talk about improving human condition and expanding horizons and saving the world. Sometimes it happens, at least to a measure, sometimes it doesn't, but that's not usually what you're thinking the whole day about, and even not something you think about every week or every month.

And of course (almost) each startup CEO thinks his (or her) startup is going to change the world, or at least some part of it. That's how you should think if you're getting into a startup, otherwise it's not worth the trouble, the stress and the extremely high chance of failure. Of course the CEO believes she (or he) found some special thing nobody thought of before and some unique vision nobody had before - otherwise how the startup could take off the ground at all?

And really, describing giving up free gym, yoga class and cafeteria as "something horrible happening to you"... I can't even find adequate words to describe how wrong this is.
Virginia city invests $500K in Bitcoin ‘mining’ facility
Yeah, there are an annual registration fee as well. Spread over to payments a year. It isn't much though, and it depends on how environmentally friendly your car is. I think the lowest rate is approx 200 USD pr. year.
They re not sure when to reduce the tax but sales have gone down anyway, probably in anticipation of changes

'Norway has been hugely successful in introducing electric cars and aims to sell only zero-emission new vehicles by 2025. But critics argue that their popularity is mostly down to an extremely generous set of subsidies that can cut the price of the most expensive Teslas by about NKr450,000.

When and how to withdraw those subsidies has sparked a huge political debate. Some Norwegian politicians point out that many of the early adopters of electric cars were rich households buying Teslas. Bus drivers in the richest parts of Oslo complain that bus lanes are clogged with electric cars, which are permitted to use them'.
What do you mean when you say: "you do not need to mess around with localStorage"? Aren't you supposed to store this token on the client side (presumably using localStorage/cookies), and then include it in the request?

You seem to know what you're talking about, but i'm a bit confused. With JWT I just store the token in localStorage and then add Authentization Bearer header with the token. What's the recommended approach? To send username + token as part of the form data?
That's usually the issue I have when selecting a technology before knowing what problem I want to solve.
Yeah I somehow doubt that’s the reason.
See also: http://andrewgelman.com/2011/11/01/d12/
>So speak up. Educate your fellow citizens as to why these issues are important. Break through their media bubble/snowglobe and have multiple meaningful conversations that go deeper than the talking points spewed out by media personalities.

Have you ever actually gotten that to work? Have you personally ever changed a single persons mind? Not trying to be facetious, but I'm incredulous.
GoCardless (YC S11) allow you to accept direct debit payments across Europe:

https://gocardless.com/
Do you honestly think you'd even get to where you are if you were, say, black?

Do you think you'd want to be a part of such a hostile crowd who assumes less of your ability and that none of your credentials are deserved due to handouts?
'penalize the sender' has the benefit of being very clean; it doesn't work in >1 machine distributed cases, but then neither do go or pony yet. I'm surprised to discover that it's being removed. I wonder what the thinking is for the local case.
It's really not click bait. Kaiser Permanente already operates under that model with a single organization acting as an insurer and owning hospitals. Other payers are moving in the same direction by acquiring or creating provider organizations. In some markets all of the major providers have merged together in order to gain more negotiating power so the only way payers can get some leverage back is by having providers as employees instead of vendors.
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