skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"I paid $30,000 in health care expenses out of pocket that year for what was essentially a healthy family."

Outragous, I paid $10,000 in fire insurance for a house THAT WAS NOT BURNING!
The Samsung M1, M2 and soon the M3 are all fully custom.
> cherry-picked negative aspects of using other languages and irrelevant details

I don't understand? Why are they irrelevant? They're basically Pony's reason for existing... Cheap, efficient and safe concurrency, coupled with very high level of type-safety, is the main selling point on Pony. It is much better on these counts than many other languages. Maybe I shouldn't have mentioned Python and Ruby, I'll edit the post.

> It's the aggressive tone

I see. Compared with the charming politeness of the OP comment, I must have sounded really rude. I apologize.
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I wouldn't want to listen to anything a child molester has to say, but that doesn't mean their knowledge of something completely unrelated is suspect at all. Just that I really don't care to know what a child molester has to say, on any topic. Although, I agree with the video in that I would question his honesty and character... So maybe you're right.
This is a very important and valid point you are making. "Invisible hands" zealots are at the heart of the problem. Unregulated markets can and do screw up. This fact has been demonstrated and accepted by most economists now [1]. Yet, US policy makers (and apparently tax payers) seem stuck on a deregulation rampage [2]. The consequences of this have been predicted by Adam Smith. Some necessary maintenance tasks will not get done, because without regulations, they will have no immediate return on individual wealth

[1] http://www.thefiscaltimes.com/Columns/2013/06/18/7-Important...

[2] https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/president-do...
Who would fund this ongoing process?
Do not think that the scale and connectivity is different. All those businesses sell your information and extract your information, too. In many, possibly most, cases, they know more about you than Google does.
Not sure that follows - they've built the library three times in my town, and every, every time at great cost and with no room for expansion. And they fill it with romance novels and juvenile fiction.
> I expect that "type stability" - that is, maintaining identical hidden classes - is fairly universal for example.

To go into this a bit further: I have a piece of code for rendering scatterplots in Canvas. For big data-sets it starts out slow, but after one or two renders the JIT kicks in and it really speeds it up[0]. However, I recently noticed that when I switch between input data a lot, rendering slows down again tremendously.

I suspect the main reason is the following: the input data (for x/y coordinates, color, etc) can be any of the various TypedArrays. I figured that all else being equal, using the most compact array type possible would give the best cache benefits. However, this means the shape of the array changes based on the data used as input, prompting de-opts in the plotting functions, undoing the JIT-benefits.

So now my thinking is that maybe, the best option is refactoring the plotting function into a pre-processing function that converts the input data to arrays of consistent type (Float32Arrays, for example), and the actual plotting code that always receives the same type of array.

Furthermore, I wonder how much of a difference it would make if one copies the same function once for each array type, and use a "type switch" to ensure that the hidden class for the input of each of these functions is constant:

function funcFactory(){
return (arr) => {
// do stuff here
};
}

const uint8Func = funcFactory();
const uint16Func = funcFactory();
const float32Func = funcFactory();
const arrayFunc = funcFactory();

function process(arr){
switch (arr.constructor) {
case Uint8Array:
return uint8Func(arr);
case Uint16Array:
return uint16Func(arr);
case Float32Array:
return float32Func(arr);
default:
// Remaining array types
return arrayFunc(arr);
}
}

I'd have to test this, curious to see if it will make a big difference or not.

[0] https://i.imgur.com/Xfzsb2B.png

[1] https://stackoverflow.com/a/36332700/3211791
> Berkshire pays dividends to shareholders

Berkshire has never paid a dime of dividends to anybody.
What about a series of free top notch clinics? Or do these three combined not have enough global revenue yet?
That's a complicated topic. The short version is:

We looked at Erlang. Several of us are friends with folks who worked at Basho on Riak and we talked with them about our performance goals. They were very skeptical that we could meet them using Erlang. Based on that, we moved on from Erlang.
I'd call this liberal-communism. We just have to put our trust in benevolent billionaires to solve our problems for us with no oversight or democratic controls whatsoever. The idea that this is anything but an attempt to squeeze even more money out of the system for quite literally the richest people on Earth is naive. In Ohio, 10% of Amazon employees are on food stamps[1] while Bezos is worth over 100 billion dollars.

[1] https://www.policymattersohio.org/press-room/2018/01/05/more...
There are ways to fix problems other than just throwing more money at them. A librarian is a caretaker of his library and should use his employed time to do this to the best of his ability.
Well certainly a great many died in battle or as prisoners of war, more than any other nation. Nobody can deny the enormous sacrifice endured by Russians in WW2.
That may not be the primary reason, but its definitely an added benefit to the decision.
"Argument from authority" means something entirely different, although your use here is somewhat amusing.

You're also misunderstanding the argument: It's not the powerful politicians that are frightening, it's the powerless. By prosecuting (former) politicians, you're not creating disincentives against abuse of power, you're disincentivising loss of power.

That's the hard-to-accept logic behind the mostly deferential treatment the Nixons and Mugabes of the world today get after they lost power.
Linear Logic is amazing-ly useful, http://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/wadler/topics/linear-logic.htm...

Rust [0] wouldn't exist without it.

Oddly enough, I think the next discontinuity in programming language design will be in making it easier to construct anytime [1], incremental [2] and succinct [3] programs. There is a tyranny of poor tolerancing that we currently have a very hard time from escaping.

Is it that differentiable programs can be made sloppy in a way that a non-differentiable one can't? Have you looked at the research of using DNN for physics simulations? [4]

[0] https://www.rust-lang.org/en-US/

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anytime_algorithm

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incremental_computing

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

[4] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iOWamCtnwTc
Apparently "crypto" means exclusively cryptocurrencies now, like "cyber" means exclusively cybersecurity. Thanks, marketroids.
You might want to look at Qubes OS. It uses Xen as a hypervisor to manage your vms with an easily customizable networking flow (see the whonix implementation) and has techniques for secure data transfer between vms.
Ha, literal rage against a machine! I find it interesting that you enjoy injecting artificial anxiety into your life. In contrast, I try to continuously minimize minor daily annoyances.
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> Getting anywhere near the quality of the Human Genome Project is not possible.

That is an unrealistic and inappropriate metric to use.

The HiSeq X isn't mean for making new human reference genomes. It's meant for re-sequencing at scale, and speaking from personal experience, it does an incredible job in quality, speed, and cost.

Even if we could reach reference assembly quality with a hiseq run, we wouldn't want to use it that way. Having
reference genomes and annotations (hg19 and hg38) means we can compare and contrast individuals from a common foundation. It would increase the cost and time of genome analysis 100 fold if we had to do denovo assemble for each individual sequenced.
The notion that the impact of talk therapy comes purely from the intellectual discourse seems to me severely misguided. It is the experience of being with the other person and their acceptance of your pain that does so much of the work. To reduce it to the intellect divorced from all physicality seems like a travesty that will only alleviate symptoms experienced while alone, and will do nothing to reacclimate you to being open and comfortable in the presence of others.
Exactly these so call "conservative" views are actually hard right ones if not oughtright fascist ones. In UK terms the national front or EDL.

Danmore did not want to say set up a group of googlers into field sports (hunting Shooting and Fishing) did he.
There is nothing wrong with “lining your own pockets” as a motivation. It is the fundamental driver of capitalism and the motivation for most entrepreneurs.
The same thing that happens when a driver runs over a person: the police exonerate the driver on the spot without investigating and file no charges.

http://www.berkeleyside.com/2018/01/12/breaking-pedestrian-d...
Just the opposite if we read the comment again. Its enjoyable, not anxiety-inducing.
I strongly disagree. If that happens then the interviewer is not doing their job.

You don't ask the applicant to solve and then explain, you ask them to solve and think aloud while they do it. If this doesn't come naturally to the candidate, which is totally fine, you must ask questions, suggest doubts, propose alternatives or request clarifications to encourage thinking aloud.

If you realize the candidate already knew the solution and is in fact just explaining it, then you have failed to prepare a sufficiently interesting question, and must come up with another.
Exactly right. Just like producers have decided that all upcoming editors, chat apps etc have to use Electron. They all talk as "Overwhelmingly users have spoken that they want bloated, slow text editors with million plugins for next gen development."

IMO they are exactly like military-industrial complex where increasingly complicated software will need newer and complicated hardware because "customers demanding it".
The problem I have with this question is that it’s based on false pretenses. Plenty of manhole covers are not round.
The author covered privacy zones and hidden activities. Neither are as secure as one would hope: privacy zones can be reverse-engineered fairly easily, and private activities can still be leaked.
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At least it is more mature than rust. And faster and safer also.
I understand why this is upsetting, but libraries are not historical societies. The solution to this is to work with your local historical society, or create one.

Another option would be to make a connection with a local academic library (at a college or university in the area)--these often are more willing to store historical documents indefinitely.

Finally, your town or county might have a museum that would be willing to accession an historical document.

The caveat to all these is the same as for the public library: shelf space costs money, and budgets have limits. But sometimes a shift in emphasis is all you need to preserve old things and not worry about new things.
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Given that Buffett pledged to donate 90% of his wealth to charities, I'm not sure you can characterize him as "mainly interested in lining his own pocket."
Looks like something they can integrate into Google Maps, once it's successful enough. But because nobody will ever find it again there, it will be removed 3 Years later because of lacking usage.
Ironically, in the case of the Dragster record, his exact time does match the nature of Dragster's clock being only precise to 3/100ths of a second:

> Despite Omnigamer’s claim, as previously mentioned, Activision supposedly had created a machine-assisted run that determined 5.54 a perfect score, which is .03 better than Koziel’s model, thus making it impossible in his determinations. Crane explained to me that the “Dragster timer is .03 seconds per tick, so the difference that is being discussed is one tick of the game clock in a record set 35 years ago.”

http://www.twingalaxies.com/feed_details.php/87/dragster-des...
This is my favorite unsolvable exam question! (Single page pdf)

http://nuclear.ucdavis.edu/~tgutierr/files/sml2.pdf
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This is the job of the national library. They keep every book printed in your nation for unlimited time. In the US that seems to be the Library of Congress, so they should have the book you miss.

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Library_of_Congress
My son and I went 2 days home from Pittsburg, with the gps trying to get us to turn around and return to the waffle house just outside town. We enjoyed imagining behind its polite exterior, it colorfully swearing at us inside for systematically ignoring it.
I certainly sure that they've read something about this in the U.S, and they thought it would be a good idea to try the same thing. I'll bet it was a direct copy from the U.S.
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Extradition typically only applies to things which are crimes in both jurisdictions. Since these things aren't crimes in the US extradition is very unlikely.
While they are different people, they are still the same money, and so Google's top managers still should be shamed for not investing enough in car safety.
Who knows, but I think the most logical move for Apple would be to converge into a universal OS with the same architecture for all their products. If that happens it would also make sense for Apple to move all their hardware into their own chips.
Ads for Amazon is like Walmart choosing what product to be put on display and where. It is an established business.

I echo some of your sentiment. If Amazon is truly as customer obsessive as they branded themselves, they would avoid putting cheap ads out there. Since their click rate is going to be so high, those ads will be very expensive indeed, which I would assume to be quality ads as well.
I would use the memory address, if the GC is a non-moving collector. With a good hash function it should be fine. However, given most GCs are moving, including V8s, I can see why they chose the implementation they did.
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I read the article. The question is stated to be

> "If a ship had 26 sheep and 10 goats onboard, how old is the ship's captain?"

What 'clue' did I miss? The only other information is some speculation from a Weibo commenter who thinks that 26 sheep + 10 goats = 7700kgs.

I supposed you could argue that these 5th grade students should know the minimum age required to have a commercial boat licence, but I couldn't tell you that answer for my country (and we don't know that this is a commercial ship, could just be someone taking his livestock for a jaunt around the lake).
I'd say even more than ever. Knowing all is not that interesting past some point. Imagination keeps providing pleasure.
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If this cynical point-of-view were true, why would they even bother with laws such as the one discussed here?
Clickbait - here's the original sourced article - http://www.siliconbeat.com/2018/01/29/steve-wozniak-dont-bel...

TLDR: He likes the car (2 of them), but not the hype.

I think
I had something like this in mind https://i.imgur.com/HUOlpqD.png

As a designer, sometimes all I work with sometimes are images (e.g. when working on a moodboard), and this would enable me to work much more efficiently.
If you can stomach it, you can read this:

EDIT: removed link due to questions about author's truthfulness
Bitcoin is a poor store of value too. It requires a lot of power simply to maintain it. It's a dissipative structure. Gold on the other hand can be buried in the ground and can just sit there for free. There are costs associated with moving and guarding or hiding it, but they're less than the cost of maintaining a vast network infrastructure and lot of energy-consuming hash computers.

To me the whole "store of value" thing is goal post moving. It was originally intended to be a currency but it's not very good for that, so people have decided to punt on that goal and redefine its objectives.

I also forgot to add that Bitcoin in its current incarnation is not quantum hard and will die when practical QC arrives. It could be rev'd to support post-quantum crypto, but the way it's dealt with scaling issues so far does not inspire confidence that it will get ahead of the curve.
Maybe he has trust issues since his story with Steve Jobs :|
And over something of a comparable size to Pinker's fishing rights example!
Discovery of Jesus on french toast in mexico ignites local flames of monotheistic debate has caught the attention of the nation, and potentially, the entire planet
Can you do that everywhere across the globe, simultaneously?
Just because it is a fundamental whatever of capitalism, doesn't make it 'not wrong'.
> 3: Arguments-from-extreme-upside sometimes do work

I have seen a bunch of less wrong articles on pascal's wager and variants so I assume they are familiar with them:

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pascal%27s_Wager

- http://lesswrong.com/lw/kd/pascals_mugging_tiny_probabilitie...

- http://lesswrong.com/lw/h8k/pascals_muggle_infinitesimal_pri...

With that fallacy in mind, is bitcoin still a good call? It could've been any other cryptocurrency winning and they all satisfy the same tiny probability with astronomical returns. It doesn't make sense to dump all your resources onto every new coin that pops up. Just like how you wouldn't adopt every religion to guarantee that you will never burn in any hells.
I hope people don't end up using this for AF (as f*)
e.g. www.lit.af
Concurrency = Parallelism
I am picturing your conversation with the insurance company:

“So in autonomous mode, the car takes many precautions, so it is really safe”
“Sounds good. So why do you want to let the customer drive?”
“Because they will be less cautious”
“I am raising your premiums”
Does news matter?

http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/hatethenews
One of the big problems with maintaining public resources like libraries, public parks, public transit, etc. is that some people with money actively avoid and attack them in order to avoid associating with lower socioeconomic classes who depend on them.
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>Any one who is arguing that this is the free market at work doesn't believe that healthcare is a right. You can have access to healthcare, but that doesn't guarantee that you will.

This country has socialism for the rich, rugged individualism for the poor. - MLK
Reportedly, that's just a persona and he amped it up for the King of Kong film. But I definitely get where you're coming from.
> eventually, every hyper-deflation stops and it might become a currency.

That's not what tends to happen though. If you look at collectibles (which I maintain are the closest analogue for Bitcoin), they get rarer and the price climbs, and then people lose interest but the price doesn't drop; rather transactions become rarer and rarer, but those transactions that do happen still happen at the "old" price. And eventually no-one cares about the thing, but the value is still nominally high, and the market never gets more active.
Then there are the questions that, at first sight, do not seem to have all the information, yet they do. Consider the one that opens this article:

http://www.solipsys.co.uk/new/NapkinRingVersusSphericalCap.h...
let's see, in a battle between employers pushing down on insurance costs and the morass of corruption on the healthcare side, who is the least politically organized? it would be a miracle if individuals don't get screwed.
It was a 'vanity press' book produced by an itinerant book publisher in the 1880's.

And its listed! https://lccn.loc.gov/03003442

Still not the same in e-book form, as having the original bound pages from 135 years ago in my hands. But good to know.
Those aren't the problematic areas. its legislation that's the primary hurdle to the curren sitaution we have in the US.

Fortunately they have plenty of lobbyist which can be put to good use.
Maybe I should have just ignored it?
One thing I'm excited for here is targeted sequencing using read-until. In this method, you monitor the current trace coming off of individual pores, and if you determine that the DNA in that pore is not part of your sequence of interest, you can reverse the voltage to remove the DNA and start sequencing another molecule. I think this will open up a lot of applications for human genomics.

If you're interested in Oxford Nanopore, you might also keep an eye out for Roswell Biotechnologies (https://www.genomeweb.com/sequencing/roswell-biotechnologies...). TL;DR: their sequencer involves immobilizing polymerases in circuits so you can measure the current changes that occur as the polymerase adds bases to a strand. This might be a good approach, since it doesn't involve optics (like IonTorrent and minION, keeping costs down) and you get a current event per base (as opposed to per 5-6 bases as with minION), making basecalling easier and potentially more accurate. And it will be fast, since you're reading as fast as the polymerase can work. They want to get up to 10kb reads, and I imagine they could increase the consensus accuracy per read by looping around a single molecule of DNA several times, like with PacBio. Seems feasible too (after all, PacBio has successfully been able to integrate polymerases into very small features rather well, so I see no showstoppers there).
As opposed to something like SNMP that was designed for remote management.
Eliza was awesome. I actually built a variation for Study Swami- and threw in a little CBT for good measure. I intended to update it for more scholarly issues (planning projects, studying certain types of content) but instructors/tutors pushed back a bit worried that it's too distracting for the students.

EDIT: I later learned that I'm friends with Weizenbaum's grand-niece (or something like that).
I have used Woebot to escape the grasp of depression. Multiple life challenges occurred at the same time (health issues, death, divorce, restructuration, etc...).

Woebot helped me change thought patterns that kept me from getting help and it could do so at any time of the day or night. When going to see your counsellor is too hard Woebot is only a ping away and is free.

Now not to discount your point that indeed sometimes you need words of encouragement or humans to understand complex situations but there is room for both in the grand scheme of things.
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Note that many of these high capacities SSDs are able to sell at lower prices due to them not having any onboard dram, meaning the mapping data for wear leveling is either stored on the nand itself or in the system ram which causes random read/write to slow down a significant amount.
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Not only has Berkshire never paid dividends, as another comment noted, Buffett decided three decades ago to give all of his wealth away to the benefit of less fortunate people.

What's your next premise?
I agree, and it also helps that most clinical psychologists try to get you to examine your own life and see what is going wrong in it to cause you to feel depressed or show you how to face the things that make you anxious more appropriately.

That's not to say anxiety and depression are always lifestyle issues, for many people there is physiological cause that can be treated with medication, but a lot of psychological problems are really life problems.
Not sure why this is getting upvoted. Does people actually upvote the "article" or just the title on HN?