skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> receiving faster or better care because you can pay more is fundamentally unfair

It's considered fair exactly the for reasons you have mentioned: you pay more for a premium product.

> there's no room in a just society for a "basic service" which does not provide the best possible care.

A regulated market that denies individual differences and enforces the same salary for different talents is incompatible with a "just society". In this case, healthcare workers with above-average talent would emigrate to a country where they can get a fair salary.

If you are worried about fairness, please consider the other side, the healthcare professional who provides the service.

Patients who pay basic fees are not entitled for the "best possible care". The provider of the "best possible care" can raise the price anytime. There is no economic justification for price rigging.
Not only do we need to make them stop, we need to make them purge.
> Morality is how people react to what is done

That is a loose description of one sense of the word, but not the sense associated with “moral facts” in its usual use. “Morality” can refer to either “what ought to be done” or to “beliefs about what ought to be done”; the elements of the former (if they exist as facts, a point which is a matter of substantial dispute) are “moral facts”; the elements of the latter are “facts about morality” or, more clearly, “facts about moral sentiments”. The latter indisputably exist and are normal material facts subject to empirical inquiry, but they aren't the same thing as the former, nor (even assuming the former exist) do they have any necessary relationship to the former.
Isn't Solomonoff induction optimal if the target is learnable?

The connection to Kolmogorov complexity is interesting. It implies a perfect learner must have infinite KC or increase KC, neither of which an algorithm can do.
Your blacklist becomes someone else's favorites list.

Changing a single byte changes the entire hash, so blacklists aren't a great solution if censorship is what you're after.
New ribbon has very discoverable keyboard shortcuts, opposed to the old layout

Paste as values: alt h v v
Yep, and even the content you've explicitly accessed, it's garbage collected unless you pin it. So that helps further mitigate the issue, in case you mistakenly stumble upon undesirable content.
Addressing root causes one key approach would be for someone to develop a better alternative to google analytics. I'd hazard that the usefulness and ease of use for webmasters to install analytics tracking via google analytics is the number one reasons that 76% of sites include google tracking. Develop a mass replacement for GA and you'll directly hut that number.
> "(Image and prediction(s) from: https://projectpiglet.com)"

From the site...

"Experts' Opinion Score, is a score representing how experts feel about a given stock, product, or topic."

With all due respect, I don't think that's a very sensible metric to base investment decisions on.
> I don't remember any othe philosopher adopting that stance.

Peter Unger's book "Ignorance" (Oxford University Press, 1975) is probably the best modern defence of extreme skepticism.

Also, Unger is pretty fun to read.
Solomonoff Induction
That trend seems to be over. China's antitrust regulator has put the DRAM cartel on notice, and they're willing to stand up state-sponsored fabs to deal with it if necessary. Coincidentally just after that, Samsung announced production is going up and prices are expected to decline over this year.

http://www.china.org.cn/business/2017-12/23/content_50157479...

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/12/21/china_memory_insour...

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-samsung-elec-chips-outloo...

Pretty blatant market manipulation here by the DRAM cartel - and China has enough downstream manufacturing at stake here that they're willing to go to the mat over it.
False dichotomy. Spam and impersonation is bad. Anonymity and pseudonymity and tweet interfaces to bots that provide useful services are all hugely beneficial.

Twitter’s main strength is its low barrier to entry, for end users and developers alike.
The need for exponential growth will force all big players into making more money and doing shadier things more and more. I am especially concerned about Google and Facebook since they haven't figured any way for making for making money other than selling ads. Apple and MS at least have products they sell.

I think we really should start making it difficult for companies to grow beyond a certain size. I think they are a big net minus for the whole economy.
If the time comes when you are ready to move on from Gmail, I can recommend Fastmail and ProtonMail. Both use a webmail interface that is very similar to a desktop client. ProtonMail is free for a single address with low volume, Fastmail is $50/year. ProtonMail is based in Switzerland and Fastmail in Australia.

I'm not affiliated with either company but I've evaluated both and settled on Fastmail as my Gmail replacement, mostly because of the added features like file storage, static web hosting, and notes, all of which I've used extensively.
~$1 trillion of real estate is on the move … here’s why
You might be interested in the podcast Offices and Bosses, in which fantasy-world characters improv their way through a D&D-style game for our everyday world. (a spin-off of Hello From The Magic Tavern, which is pretty funny itself).
LibreOffice should shine in customizability but it is not the case for intermediate users.

Anecdotally I was trying to set up a simple keyboard shortcut to change color of a row of the selected cell in a spreadsheet.

Neither Excel nor Calc offer this functionality out-of-box except for user defined macros.

On LibreCalc 5.3 custom keyboard shortcuts are awkwardly defined but once I figured shortcuts out I got stuck on recording a macro.
There was a choice of Python,Java and I think VBA lookalike. Very nice, except it was not immediately obvious on how to proceed.
I'd love to use Python to script Calc but I did not have time to hunt for the API.

On Excel 2013, within 5 minutes I was able to record a macro then edit the VBA not having used VBA in 5 years. Plus I was able to add a few extra bonus macro commands within 15minutes.

I am sure you can do really nifty stuff when you become a power user in LibreOffice. The problem is that a large proportion of users are casual users like me.

By comparison, I can create and edit nice macros in Photoshop/Illustrator only being a very casual user(maybe once every few months).
Most ISPs are in bed with the advertisers and tracking. That's one reason I don't use my ISP's DNS.
Really looking forward to this feature! I've had Google Home since the first day it became available in the UK and it's proven to be really useful. I love how I can ask Google random questions and it gives me very accurate answers, play my favourite songs or let Google surprise me by suggesting a music genre. Depending on my mood I might ask Google to play anything from classical music to heavy metal.

The best thing about Google is that the more I use it the more I discover how useful it can be. For example last week I was running up and down through my flat packing some stuff and I quickly had to go to a grocery store at 10PM and I thought instead of opening my Google maps and check all nearby stores manually I thought I'll try to ask Google which grocery store is still open near me and it gave me a perfectly matching answer. I was really impressed!
4Clojure Hard Problems Added on Clojurecademy
I'd just like a bit more precision and perhaps more honesty. He says it's about being a more human experience but I don't know what that means and he makes no effort to explain it clearly, instead muddying the waters.

I have a similar problem with people who dress up their criticism of other's behaviour as something "moral".
And, frankly, the new language is doubleplusgood.
As a candidate, the first question to ask a recruiter is: Are you a direct vendor/working directly with the client ? If the answer is No, I don't deal with them anymore. I only want direct vendors i.e. no extra layers.
It's effectively no different than any other part of the US economy. If I'm happy living under the bench, I don't need a job. I decide what I want, I work and charge for it, and I can get what I want as a result.

A city also has property taxes which make up a large portion of my city's budget. I pay ungodly sums in property taxes for a not-that-expensive condo. The city gets away with this because the location is desirable and we have great public-transit.

Because of the property tax revenue, the city does give some companies a tax-break. But also because of the property tax, citizens keep a close eye on things, so most tax-breaks around here end up looking like forced-improvements or other public-goods.

Each city is different and will find the best way to fund itself. Saying they can't pay less for something they want forces the funding problem elsewhere.
Managing multi-environment serverless architecture using AWS – an investigation
Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever has case fatality rates well above 50%, can cause multi-organ system failure, and has a 20% hospitalization rate even when treated.

It's transmitted in many of the same places Lyme is.
AWS: We're interested in longitudinal health records for analytics and pop health
The problem is that in each state in the U.S ,there are different laws. Unless their is so type of federal mandate, very hard to implement.

https://www.call2recycle.org/recycling-laws-by-state/
> I'm confused what you would rather they have done

Other than having more doctors in the world (thus higher availability) and/or lower prices, I don't think this is a solvable problem. My point was not that doctors are terrible, but that people may have decent reasons to suspect going to the doctor for a mild rash (as article had) would not be worth it. Reasons other than stoicism. When I have a cough now, I still don't go to the doctor because the last 4 trips have been "You have bronchitis, just wait it out". I've resigned myself to having a constant low-level cough between Nov-Mar every year.

I do think my allergies should have been detected, but at the same time I understand the reasons they weren't. My goal was not blame, though I can certainly see how my pity-party comment could sound that way.
just freestyle, nice and relaxed. swimming distance isnt the best measure though, some people are more/less efficient than others.
I got the number the same way journalists get any funding number: by talking to some of the many people involved in the deal. Funding terms are notoriously hard to keep secret in Silicon Valley, because everybody talks.
You underestimate the difficulty and complexity of that problem.

I'm increasingly seeing this annoying trend of people hand waving about how a given problem can be solved with data/AI/ML/DL.
> If a philosopher isn't available, a lawyer would probably be qualified as well.

The lawyers are busy explaining to the "smart contracts" people that trying to translate contract law into code is going to produce a whole lot more comedy than it is practical value.
What's crazy is that bots are not violating Twitter TOS. I reported a bunch of fake accounts I found and was told they aren't breaking any rules, even ones just posting spammy links.
Having an simple / easy-to-remember password on your Twitter account is a bad idea if you're a state governor. Or really, anyone.

The right answer here is, use a complex password (that you likely won't remember), and/or 2FA, and use a password safe that's available on your mobile device.
I did it to mock his justification of his ban, which isn't at all clear. Wish he'd just say "I've banned phoned because I don't like them". Fine by me, I don't like them either.
Apple: We would never degrade iPhone user experience to drive upgrades
As a free software activist, do you think our effectual software freedoms would have advanced as far as they have without OSI's emphasize on the practical aspects of libre software? Do you think Eric Raymond and Bruce Perens could have made similar inroads with businesses if they had stuck to the (ambiguous, IMO) "free software" moniker?
This is a joke correct? There is a lot of analysis done here when the relevant answer is they are numbered counting down the number of miles remaining going south towards it's termination in Los Angeles.
The creator of ‘Diablo’ is developing an indie dungeon crawler by himself
To Infinity and Beyond – Ethereum Blog
Not really. For example, if the company has assets within EU jurisdiction, those can be seized to pay the fine, or if the company has assets outside of the EU, but with EU companies (e.g. banks), they can be forced to help seizing the assets.

There is countless precedent of the US using these tactics to enforce IP law, and EU countries using them to enforce consumer laws.

It is expected that the EU would do exactly this.

For example, if YCombinator refuses to adhere to the law, but holds shares in an EU startup (and they do in several), then those shares could be seized and auctioned off to enforce the law.
I've been waiting 3 months for them to find my $20,000 I wired to Coinbase, Inc in October 27th. During the 1st month I thought it was ok, 2nd month I thought I was crazy but now is unacceptable. It seems that they stole my money.

I'm not crying over some losses, I'm crying over money I wire to buy cryptos but It got lost. Nobody fucking care. They should put their shit together.

I filled a complain with the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and Coinbase, Inc replied that "they are working in my case" ... hope it help me. BUT Seriously people, stop working with them, you would say ... its ok for me BUT until is not.
scoff how dare you use a mouse. In urxvt I have it mapped to ctrl+u
>We're the best software engineers the world has ever seen

Maybe some of you are, but people like me read HN too ;-)
this is not particularly hard to do with the Python interface: you define structures that are known by the process and the Python module + global variables, then you set an internal (silent) breakpoint on a given 'event' function.
In the program you fill the structure with some queries, and in the Python breakpoint callback, you process it as you need.
This is the way multi-thread debugging work (used to at least), shared library detection as well...
We'll know DevSecOps has won once it's dead
I learned D3 a year back and am reasonably fluent at it now and I'm not sure I would ever pick this platform to learn D3. The easiest way to learn is simply to have a blank HTML file with your D3 code in it. The reason you want to do this is because you want to take advantage of powerful debugging tools that exist within modern browsers (Chrome dev tools, or equivalent from Firefox). ObservableHQ will simply add a layer in between that will make everything more annoying to debug and slow down experimentation.

I think it is really cool, and I have mountains of respect for Mike for his contributions to the field of data visualization/javascript, but my feeling is that this is more suited for sharing "notebooks" that are interactive and also to potentially allow for collaborative notebook building/demos.
In essence, this is a giant evolution over his previous work on bl.ocks.org (https://bl.ocks.org/mbostock)
Facebook rallies ahead of earnings
"I mean... we are the best of the best of the best, top of the class when it comes to technology and especially creative solutions enabled by technology. We have world-leading machine learning capabilities and hundreds of engineers working around the clock for money that, not that long ago, would have been completely unheard of. We have talent. We have time. We have money. We have passion. We have absolute shitloads of data on everyone, whether they use our platform or not."

- now just imagine the speech was pointed at the bad actors. and that's why this is not as easy as you make it sound.
These are very interesting reads and I can see how they can certainly color a conversation against KP. This is a bad look for the origins of KP, but hopefully we can allow that companies, like people, can change from their questionable origins (VW?).
Juniper Square raises $6M for its real estate investment platform
The key part of GPs suggestion again...

"great performance at a fraction of the cost of Intel"

Only two points need to be true for that statement to hold up:

* Performance levels that GP is happy with.

* Cheaper than Intel.

Which point(s) do you disagree with?
Kaiser used to have a bad reputation but they seem to have changed a lot. Most people I know who are in their system like them now. I don't go to the doctor much but my personal experience has also been very good.
CBM .prg Studio – A handy Commodore 8-bit IDE
Would you buy a used GPU if you knew it was used for mining? I'd feel like it was pushed too hard and could be ready to burn out. Makes me wonder if the secondhand market for video cards will tank for a while after mining stops.
No, but why lock yourself in when you don’t need to?
The cars aren't standardized, the chassis is. The electric motor, inverter, gearbox and cooling system are all developed by the teams. This just prevents teams from having to waste funds on developing aero.
It's a design decision, which boils down to AMD loves to "overclock" by default to squeeze out as much performance as possible. I could easily imagine the mirror-universe version of this conversation had they done otherwise "You can gain 5% perf by 'overvolting' AMD GPUS. Why don't they do this by default?"
You would need to be specifically approved for futures, E-Trade definitely supports it (and the BTC contracts):

https://us.etrade.com/what-we-offer/investment-choices/futur...

Two futures exchanges run Bitcoin contracts, CME (trading under BTC) and CBOE (trading under XBT). They're not a lot different outside of size, CME's contract represents 5 bitcoins while CBOE's represents 1. Here's a decent listing of the differences:

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-bitcoin-futures-contracts...

It's definitely worth reading up on how futures work before trading them, but it's similar to stocks in terms of using a ticker[1] and making buy/sell orders. A key difference is margin, but with the volatility of bitcoin both exchanges have really high margin limits so you can't get into too much trouble. The other key difference is you're trading a specific month so you need to be more correct on timing than you would for a stock.

[1] The tickers work a little different than stocks in that the root is XBT or BTC, but the full symbol for the contract includes the month and year. This is similar to options. Your trading platform should make this clear.
Didn't they only encrypt internal traffic after the Snowdon revelation?
Added Link to Wolfram Alpha...
Amazon overtakes Apple and Google to be named world’s most valuable brand
Unpopular truth: because that's where they need to be to ensure stability and yields.

There is a wide variation in the stability of hardware across various different tasks. An overclock/undervolt that is stable in one task is not necessarily stable in others, as anyone who's overclocked can attest. f.ex Just Cause 3 needed several hundred MHz less than I could get in TF2 or Witcher 3.

The voltage is set where it needs to be to ensure that there's no instability in any program, on any sample in a batch. People look at one task and one sample and assume that their OC must be stable on everything, on every card in the batch. In reality it's not, or not to the degree that the manufacturer requires.

Yes, you can get extra performance on any given sample by eating up your safety margin and pushing closer to the limit of that specific sample's frequency/voltage curve.
But as the economists say: if there were free money laying on the sidewalk, AMD would have picked it up already. They're not stupid, they ship the voltages they need.
Done. Added a link.
Congrat, you live in a niche.
> More data is needed, their conclusion is not conclusive.

Do you demand the same evidence from anti-smoking advocates, who focus mainly on the costs, plus a little fear inducing imagined health risks of second hand smoke?
Accepted is debatable: https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=full%20kit%2...
Atari's founder won't receive major industry award as #TimesUp turns to games
I don’t think you really understand what actually makes cars drive differently.
It doesn't have to be better, it just has to be the same. For most people, they pretty much are the same.

Ideally they would switch around every few months, so they can raise users who actually know the general principles behind their tools and don't get completely lost by minor interface changes.
Amazon's Woody Allen deal could cost them a lot of money
Show HN: AWS Lambda and Go and Grafana to perform sentiment analysis of your Company
They also seem moderately good at heart and cardiovascular disease, it being insanely common in the US.
Read on my friend :
https://mobile.nytimes.com/2012/05/29/science/would-eradicat...

“
Diseases like these weed out sick or infirm individuals in the host population”

“Taken with other factors, like predation, “it might keep host populations within the carrying capacity of the land,” he said, possibly by reducing overgrazing and other forms of destruction to vegetation.”
My concern about Google is not so much now, but maybe 20 years from now when they're desperate for revenue. Something akin to Yahoo's position in the last few years, except Yahoo didn't know almost everything about half the planet.
> Why have a healthcare industry at all?

To stop people from dying. I think the point of the article is that the economic factors given in anti-smoking propaganda are false.
> We have absolute shitloads of data on everyone, whether they use our platform or not.

We^W They may have shitloads of data, but I'm very skeptical we^W they can use this data in any meaningful way. At least, for now.

I don't know what's wrong but despite all that data giant AD companies are supposed to have, I never ever saw any relevant ads, even when I've specifically wanted to see one. Unless I've already bought something - then, sure thing, I'm spammed with more of the same (which is, again absolutely useless - I've already made a purchase).

> We don't need a passport or state-issued ID to determine if someone is a real user.

I don't think we are even capable to come to a consensus what does this mean - to be a "real user".

Am I? What about my alter ego, posting about something I don't feel like publicly associating with (like, porn)? What about a whistle-blowing throwaway account I may create if I learn something fishy? Or what about a "thoughts are my own but went through editorial" corporate representative persona account? And that's just the obvious cases.
Why is thunderbolt such a big requirement for a NUC equivalent?
The link in my top post goes into detail if you click the links in the table of contents on the right, especially "Video: I recorded my burpee sidcha".

However, more than what exercises I do, I recommend the process of finding what's right for you. I started with what was challenging but I knew I would do (ten burpees per day), then added more when my abilities allowed. Some addition I kept, others I dropped, based on how they worked for me. In 7.5 years, that's a lot of experimentation to find something right for me. It's evolved since those videos, by the way.

For me, at least, the important thing is to start with something I knew I would do, then to iterate, experiment, listen to others, iterate, and iterate some more.