skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My first reaction was the same, but further down he mentions a team of 50 people involved in the procedure itself, including a couple of other doctors. This implies that the whole thing was a huge team effort, and not just a one man show for the thrill.

I do wonder how much effort it took in total to prepare this procedure. CT, MRT, research, rapid prototyping of bones and other structures for analysis and practice runs... it seems they used all the tools they could.
lol no.

> set -o vi
You're not running your own mail server without rDNS and that requires your ISP. This guy is talking about running a dynamic IP, he's not getting rDNS for that. Without rDNS, your mail is assumed spam and does not reach destination.

Also, not available without business class, at least on my ISP, is port 80. You won't be hosting many web properties if Joe user types in yourdomain.com into a browser without the leading https://, which nobody does anywhere. If browser makers defaulted to https, I'm sure the ISP would fix this glaring hole in their non-business class plans promptly.
Our teachers are, in many cases, very poorly paid. (Administrators, on the other hand...) If US teachers are paid better than in other countries, that's pretty appalling.
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Ha ha ha. Not falling for that one, Illinois. You just want to take my money and find some way to never pay it back.

If I really want that bond yield, I could just follow whatever investment strategy you had in mind on my own, thanks. Any tax advantage is more than offset by the additional returns that I'll get to keep for myself instead of handing over to retirees, and my expectation that the fund administrator will be as crooked as the boundary of a Julia set.

Suck it up, accept you're "Detroit bankrupt", and amend your constitution now, or wait until after the state is "Puerto Rico bankrupt" and all the responsible parties are collecting their pensions from prison.

The smart move here is to not be able to touch Illinois with an eleven-foot pole. Do not buy these bonds. Do not move to Illinois. Do not keep your money where Illinois can get to it. Maybe even get some vaccinations to avoid unnecessary illness.
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As far as I can tell this challenge would not require a twisted cut.
I think the whitelist on what you can register as protocol handlers is a security measure. E.g. if Paypal uses "paypal:" links which are handled by a OS native application, you can't write a extension that hijacks those links.
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IL is a bit distinct in how it funds things: At the state level its per-pupil education funding is the lowest in the nation. Medicaid rolls are also lower than the national average as well. If you are looking at the state level, it's a fairly lean operation, ranking quite low in terms of government employees per capita (see: http://www.governing.com/gov-data/public-workforce-salaries/...) -- just 49 FTEs per 10,000 residents. There are deep-red stats with nearly double that figure.

So how does IL do it?

For starters, local property taxes pick up the slack. We have some of the highest in the nation. Further compounding this, we have hundreds of local governmental layers like townships that fall somewhere between a town/city and a county that provide services, have elected offices, pay employees, etc. It's services are all heavily localized because the state's involvement is limited. It's also grossly inefficient.

IL needs a progressive income tax, pension reform, and needs to consolidate services at either the county or city level. Even Chicago, with all its graft and political machinery, was smart enough to jettison townships decades ago. I honestly have no clue what the redder, more conservative, more tax-conscious part of the state cling to them.
Yay it's time for HN pedantry!

Bankrupt can also mean insolvent, it is not limited to the legal definition[1]. But more importantly you know what the person you're replying to meant. That they think Illinois is essentially out of money and pretending they're not.

You could have furthered this into an interesting discussion on the financial health of Illinois, but instead you found a way to feel intellectually superior without actually having to engage in discourse and without having put forward any ideas that could be challenged.

Your comment illustrates a common theme on sites like Reddit and HN, where people want to "win" the conversation as fast as possible. They find a easy and superficial way to call out another comment or article as "incorrect" and avoid putting forward anything of substance or actually worth talking about.

[1] - https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/bankrupt
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Advertising is always a race to the bottom.
California's pensions are in trouble as well: http://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/politics-colu...
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> Insolvency means your liabilities exceed your assets, or you can’t pay your debt as it comes due. If you’re a state like Illinois that has a constitutional restriction on reducing future pension obligations through a change in the law, then you’re cooking the books if you don’t count them as liabilities. And if you do, Illinois is almost certainly insolvent under the first definition.

You seem to be discounting assets, like taxation power (now, the politicsl consensus necessary for the state to use that power may not exist, but that's unwillingness to use an asset, not lack of assets.)
The US is not bankrupt or insolvent: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Financial_position_of_the_Unit...
US Federal debt is in USD term so it can always repay its debt with printed USD. Technically it is not insolvent.
That full excerpt is an extremely ignorant representation of postmodernism, marxism, and Western culture, and the part I pointed to tops it off by saying he's completely justified in his ignorance.

I have a lot of problems with postmodernism, some of which he raises here, but its motivations can't be understood divorced from colonial politics, which is how he tries to present it here. In many ways, his presentation exemplifies exactly the kind of ignorance postmodernism was developed to combat.

And his claim that Marxism led to the deaths of hundreds of millions of people, and that Western liberal values stand in opposition to that, ignores the hundreds of millions of graves Western society is built on (I don't know where the two World Wars fit into his worldview, just for starters), and the enormous economic pressure Marxist countries were under as a result of the aggressive resistance and suppression they faced from Western countries, from 1917 onwards.
the down votes of truth .... hn is a cult
> Bulletin makes it effortless to put a spotlight on inspiring stories that aren’t being told.

Bulletin will never take off with this as a core objective. Consuming stories and producing ever increasing click bait material is what drove society to social media addiction.

People escape this when it comes to local community. People care about action and real world interactions. A generic feed of user content that happened to be published by someone near you is not a very strong signal, and more importantly, does nothing to push you towards action.

Many comments here lean towards Bulletin having potential to be useful if Google gets this right. Well, I'm not convinced it is off on the right start. We should focus on specific niches, and build software to help them connect. In the process, shape an underlying platform that supports communication for all these niche groups, but without a one-size-fits-all user experience. Bulletins can be spawned for city council, schools, professional associations, family activities, or any topic where people share a common interest and attend events. This has been churning on my mind for some time now, and I hope to pave some way on this in 2018. It is interesting to see Facebook and Google declare local communities and groups as a priority. They almost look incompetent on how to actually serve these needs. They have all the money and resources imaginable to throw at it, but I think orchestrating these products simply run counter to their DNA.
Leela Zero's ELO graph assumes that 0 ELO is completely random play, as a simple reference point.
On the other hand Alphago uses the more common ELO scale where 0 is roughly equivalent to a beginner who knows the rules, so you can't directly compare the two.
1) A major difference is the fact that currently they are generally 'unfunded' in that the money isn't actually invested on your behalf.

2) The next is where the risk resides - even in cases where they are fully funded (ie: some model suggests that the returns on investment will be able to pay out obligations), there's still the issue of the risk models are wrong or investments underperform -that risk will still reside on the state to pony up the difference.

3) Lastly is the highly speculative nature of the obligation - most all pension plans use a subset of the worker's last years to determine the defined payment, so a common practice became to inform your (district, organization) that you intend to retire in 5 years, where they will then boost your pay for your last few years, thus providing a much larger pension. This esoteric issue is possibly dominating Illinois' financial problems as (from a few articles I read) retirees are receiving many times returns-compounded contributions, since their last 5 years are boosted so much over their average pay over the whole career. Gaming the system was not accounted for in the models.
Install Cthulhoid Overlord?
It's not quite the same, but every Shriner's Hospital for Children has a statue out front of a Shriner carrying a polio-stricken girl and her crutches.
Off topic, but for anyone curious what that image is without clicking: it's a hairy testicle in an egg cup. The title reads "Hacker News" and the caption is "A DDoS made of finance-obsessed man-children and brogrammers".
Insolvency is a legal term meaning that one cannot pay their debts when due (see the UCC).

Illinois can currently pay its debts as they come due, so it is currently solvent. It is likely to become insolvent in the future, but that is not the current state.
You clearly have needs that don’t match with the majority. That’s fine! I see nothing wrong with that. Arguing that Route53’s value proposition doesn’t fit your needs and therefore doesn’t fit anyone’s is disingenuous.
This situation was recently dramatized by the television show The Good Doctor.

The ethical anguish there was compounded by making the patients old enough to tell the surgeons that they would rather sacrifice their own life to save their sister, than to be the sole survivor--who would then live only because her sister and lifelong constant companion is dead. The scriptwriters also stirred the pot by putting one in a coma to remove the possibility of explicit consent.

At the time, it stretched my suspension of disbelief.
I would never work for a company that used this service.

> Lots of employers use it. Equifax claims that more than 5,500 have signed up, including over 75 percent of Fortune 500 companies and many federal agencies. The service works by setting up a sort of central line to your employer’s payroll operation, uploading your paycheck information each period. It also records your job title and tenure.
The US can always pay its debt because it is denominated in US dollars - it can print sufficient US dollars to meet its debt obligations. States do not have this ability.
This seems pretty fair. I think that most of the big 4 tech companies are batting about a b/c grade in most areas. Ive an iMac pro and Im pretty happy with it, I skipped a macbook pro update to go with the iMac pro as my home computer. I am aware of most of the complaints about it, but for what I do(write code, play music) its pretty much the perfect machine. Hopefully they will continue improving the mac lineup and cater more to their pro users on the other form factors as well. The iPhone 8 was a good upgrade for me. I dont want to use my face to unlock the phone and I like the home button, so the iPhoneX isnt for me. The iPhone 8plus has proven to be a great incremental improvement from the 6plus I used previously. Apple did, however have a pretty weak year in software, I would call that a d to d-. Lots of bad bugs were released, and I think most people noticed a palpable decrease in code from apple in the past year or two. They have somewhat redeemed themselves with Logic 10.4, as it is a really really really good update.
What's the third interpretation?
Do you understand language?
That isn't much help for running your own DNS server though, since it's is a bit of a chicken and egg problem then. It's also hard to run a mail server on a residential connection because most of them block SMTP.

Fortunately there is another alternative, which is to get your public address from somewhere other than your local ISP. Some VPN providers offer a static IP or you can set up your own VPN to a VM on any cloud host and forward incoming traffic back over the tunnel.
This article is based on the assumption that the internet is slower than it measurably is.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14998421
different strokes for different folks. I did not know about those insert mode keystrokes. Thanks!
These are two different financial devices. A taxpayer funded defined benefit pension (usually referred to as a public pension) is legally obligated to provide a set amount of money according to the formula in the pension plan to the recipient after they retire, on a monthly basis.

A 401(k) is a tax advantaged account where an individual does not have to pay taxes on the money in the account until they start withdrawing from it after a certain age. Once the money is deposited into the 401(k), there is no guarantee how much will be there when the account holder retires, all of the risk from whatever it's invested in lies on the account holder.

Theoretically, a larger fund with professionals investing it would be able to achieve higher returns, as in the case of a taxpayer funded defined benefit pension. However, due to corruption and ineptitude, it actually ends up costing taxpayers an incredible amount of money. There's a reason why non-taxpayer funded entities stopped offering defined benefit pensions. Public pensions are sold as being cheaper, but that is using false promises and lies of excessive returns. If they were held to the same standards that regular defined benefit pensions are, they would have ceased to exist also.
Sure, but my comment was supposing a hypothetical. Say you're a new state, Zion, and you have the two options available to you:

1) Simply let your employees invest in their own retirement via a 401k.

2) Pool everyone's money together and invest into a super 401k.

What I'm asking is if (2) is better than (1), or not. Surely someone has tried a variant of (2) before.

I agree though, that funded pensions are awesome. Since some organizations clearly have trouble with that, I was just wondering if there was a simpler way to ensure liquidity in the fund.

I'm aware that money is already pulled together with a pension, however my understanding is that pension funds are generally "managed" where most people who use a 401k put it in some sort of index fund where it's pretty passive as it tracks the market in general.
I think you can actually do this without having a YouTube Red account - it's under youtube settings and then under playback (there's a checkbox for annotations).

I'm using the Red free trial (it's 3 months) and it's actually pretty nice to have more control over the experience and not have to deal with ads. I found the ublock origin wasn't perfectly effective on YouTube anyway.

If only FB offered a $10 a month no ad subscription it'd be a lot nicer to use too.
https://github.com/storybooks/storybook

Open source (MIT license)
To get around this you can disable the inclusion of the referrer. In firefox set `Network.http.sendRefererHeader` to `0` in about:config. Of course this only lets you avoid it. But, yeah, I agree. That's pretty rotten behavior and worth avoiding linking there.
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As a user I love all of those features. Every single one of them makes my adblockers more effective, not to mention they drive more people to use adblockers. :)
I think iCloud cheated on its end of semester tests! It didn't deserve such high grade... the only thing it can always do correctly is iPhone backups, just that, like someone said there. It's slow, expensive and clumsy.
Individual retirement plan can be inherited when you died. Public pension that pool resources take over the remaining fund once you and your spouse died.
Still, it seems that the current API couldn't really support that use-case if tabs with active audio or video can't be hidden. At least there will be some random tabs hanging around that don't belong to your group.
Actually they can't. They currently have somewhere north of 5 billion in unpaid invoices. Their slow payment on contracts have driven some organizations into bankruptcy themselves. Many small business owners I know now refuse to do business with the state because thay can't wait years to be paid.
Bankruptcy is an English word that just means you are insolvent (unable to pay your debts) not a legal state. There just happens to be a legal state named after it in the US.

And a state can go rid itself of debt similar to a normal bankruptcy. Since they have sovereign immunity they can just declare that some or all of the debt is void and won't be paid back and not face any consequences (other than lenders possibly choosing not to lend them more money - just like with a normal bankruptcy).
I've worked on software that controlled servo driven lathes and mills. I still know the e-stop function of that code by heart 30 years later, not because it was such an elegant or beautiful bit of code but mostly because I realized that any kind of fuck-up there would likely mean someone would lose a finger, a limb or even worse, and so I kept on re-reading it and inventing new ways to test it to ensure that it was solid. It definitely raises your level of awareness when you are working on stuff that has real-world consequences.

I should probably do a write-up on how this worked, it was a pretty creative solution to a very hard problem and as far as I know it never failed to work in production. The machines are still in use in some places after all these years, never ceases to amaze me how long lived some of those projects were. Atari ST as the hardware, software in a combination of GFA basic and 68K assembler, just about every port on it used to drive some output or read a sensor.
Tesla employees say Gigafactory problems worse than known
Sequential probability ratio test, it is essentially a test that distinguishes between two hypotheses with high probability.

In the case of Leela Zero the idea is to train new networks continuously and have them fight against the current best network, which is replaced only when a new network is statistically stronger, according to SPRT.
> how would this work if the actor decided to send the vast majority coins to many random, arbitrary accounts? (e.g. arbitrarily sending coins to everyone who has

Then they'd have to take those coins off the blacklist, or else prepare to deal with an increasingly intractable tracking problem. Ethically, that would be the less bad option, since the thief would be deprived off the income, even if it's not returned to the victim.
Who says that Thunderbird can't become a mobile app too? Given more developer power, of course.
> Illinois can currently pay its debts as they come due, so it is currently solvent.

It almost certainly can, if it chooses to, but it hasn't been choosing to, if you consider the pension fund distinct from the state.
This is handy. But it would be far more handy to show _exactly_ where the cursor goes. Moving left-ward puts the cursor at the beginning of the word. Moving right-ward puts the cursor one-past-the-end of the word, not at the last letter as is depicted in the diagram.

Anyway, it's far more intuitive to use arrow keys with modifiers:

* control + left-arrow = alt + b

* control + right-arrow = alt + f

* alt + backspace = control + w

I get super upset (pet peeve) when programs don't support word navigation like this.

What I would like would be for someone to build a web app which allows you to select what modifiers you want for each of the shortcuts, and then has a button which would generate configuration files for various programs (vim, emacs, tmux, gnome-terminal, etc) that you can download or copy/paste. That would be grand.
2) is how most 401k's work already.

e.g. Fidelity has target date funds, and everyone in the 2050 target date funds has their money in one pool which Fidelity manages as a group.

There are 401k's that allow investing in individual securities (or so I'm given to understand) but that's not the norm.
Any specific features you believe makes it better than TB?

First impressions aren't great -- is Claws an "email should be text only" advocate? -- brief look and the default mail format being non-standard; and all the screenshots on the website showing text only emails; tools including a special script to order threads by date (how else would you order them?); and the latest amendments to those scripts being over a year old; most recent theme links to a website that's offline.

...um, the downloads are from a server without a cert (cert is self-signed for a different domain; and their bugzilla is http only too), think that's a nope from me. Not because of the cert exactly but because not getting that write for a group that are supposed to be dealing in internet security seems like an indication of neglect.
The unions simply want taxes to be raised to whatever level is necessary to pay them what they want. It's been a while since I did the math, but my recollection is the level of taxation required to balance Illinois' books is not completely insane (though it is high).
If you modify your .inputrc with the following this should propagate to all of readline as well (e.g. python):

set editing-mode vi
(2) is what is happening now. It just so happens that everyone does it individually in their IRA or 401(k) and then buys mutual funds with it, hence their money is now pooled. Difference is you didn't have to risk a politician or union boss in the middle meddling with the funds, nor are future taxpayers on the hook for when there is a shortfall in the fund (incentivizing diversification by 401k owners).
I would think the company benefits from a purely financial point of view because they don't need to provide an office or any of the other amenities that go with one.

I personally hate working remotely. Most people don't though so it is viewed as a perk. I've interviewed people before who applied solely because we offered remote. Some of them even lived within a pretty easy commute to the office.

And along the same lines, it's not a great idea to respond to "why are you interested in working with us?" with "because it's remote" even if you really love remote work.
I think the intuitive leaps (How was this discovered? How do we think about this in practice? How should we arrange the concepts in our heads so that we can be useful with them?) are as much about the human brain and the way it works as they are about physics. It's no surprise that math isn't the best notation for them - in an alternate universe, perhaps their study is considered to be a branch of the humanities!

If you asked a hyperinteligent dolphin, "how do you think about the universe?" you would receive and answer totally different from what we'd expect and probably involving a lot of fish. If you asked it how to calculate the period of a pendulum, its answer would be equivalent to ours!

So in that sense I think the "profound statements," might actually be a lot less profound than the calculations themselves.
The dirty war over diversity inside Google
I'm on board. As long as the CPU time is standardized and data usage is shared.