skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So the article basically says that until there is a crash and someone sues the airlines and/or manufacturers because a loved one provably died when a three point harness would have saved their life, this isn't going to change. The damage award from the lawsuit would have to exceed the cost of upgrading to three point harnesses to change the calculus.

Such a lawsuit is unlikely to happen at this point because air travel has become so ridiculously safe that airliners never crash anymore, especially in the US.
And base64 share urls.
I am using it professionally for a lab. The best bang for the buck right now is to buy their starter pack which includes library prep kit and 2 flow cells. This is limited to one per person. I got two members of the lab to buy two starter kits, effectively getting the flow cells for ~500 each. I am sure a lot of people are doing this too.
Whoa. This is an elegant solution to all the boilerplate that goes into running camera output through neural networks on iOS. Kudos.
It's not insinuation, but a part of history that's overlooked:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zaolzie

"The Zaolzie region was created in 1920, when Cieszyn Silesia was divided between Czechoslovakia and Poland. Zaolzie forms the eastern part of the Czech portion of Cieszyn Silesia. The division did not satisfy any side, and persisting conflict over the region led to its annexation by Poland in October 1938, following the Munich Agreement. After German invasion of Poland in 1939, the area became a part of Nazi Germany until 1945. After the war, the 1920 borders were restored."
UK mass surveillance programme ruled unlawful
I believe OP is talking more generally about insurance (not just health). Insurance covers you for unusual unexpected large-cost events at the cost of regular, predictable payments. They are useful in capping your risk exposure.

But if the events are rather certain, then the insurer can only act as a payment plan on the events. The risk is 100%, so at least 100% is priced into your premium (profits, a overhead, etc take it over 100).
That's right. It definitely helps hiring. In the executive level by fancier titles (rather be one of thousand VPs or CFO of Waymo, it's not even a comparison), but also at more junior levels. The usual marketing spiel there is we are like a "startup" but with the resources of a giant company.
Study: The evolution of modern human brain shape

Citation: Simon Neubauer, Jean-Jacques Hublin, Philipp Gunz. Science Advances, 2018; 4 (1): eaao5961.

Link: https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.aao5961

DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.aao5961

Abstract: Modern humans have large and globular brains that distinguish them from their extinct Homo relatives. The characteristic globularity develops during a prenatal and early postnatal period of rapid brain growth critical for neural wiring and cognitive development. However, it remains unknown when and how brain globularity evolved and how it relates to evolutionary brain size increase. On the basis of computed tomographic scans and geometric morphometric analyses, we analyzed endocranial casts of Homo sapiens fossils (N = 20) from different time periods. Our data show that, 300,000 years ago, brain size in early H. sapiens already fell within the range of present-day humans. Brain shape, however, evolved gradually within the H. sapiens lineage, reaching present-day human variation between about 100,000 and 35,000 years ago. This process started only after other key features of craniofacial morphology appeared modern and paralleled the emergence of behavioral modernity as seen from the archeological record. Our findings are consistent with important genetic changes affecting early brain development within the H. sapiens lineage since the origin of the species and before the transition to the Later Stone Age and the Upper Paleolithic that mark full behavioral modernity.
I'd say that healthcare is just one of the fields where bureaucratic incompetence is horrifying. There are many others, like the legal system confusing two people with the same name in the same town.
It's actually a means to an end, a tool, a method to achieve the desired outcome.

What people are not at all realizing is that the internet has totally change the nature and character and dynamics of basically all things, including to an extreme extent, what migration means and impact it has.

Just as an example, where migration to the USA was for the purpose of populating a territory that was largely unpopulated in order to retain control and the population was forced to conform to and integrate with the mostly English society that had established the civilization in North America. The internet has both created now migrants that would never have made their way to the USA and are even artificially being introduced and imposed upon people, and it has also turned migrants that used to integrate and conform into a common society, into what are essentially colonists that are introducing instability and non-inconsistency and complication and fragmentation that are inherently volatile and detrimental in the long run.

Regardless of what people want to believe in their heart of hearts, all the scientific research shows that what we refer to as "diversity" invariably increases friction and conflict. I have come to realize that it's because it's not really actual diversity at all, but rather imposition and affront and pollution. If you force things upon each other, especially the more dissimilar or even reactive they are, the more likely you will cause a violent reaction. Actual diversity is NOT destroying cultures and muddling and polluting them all, it is shared and mutual respect for each other's differences. Nothing will be gained when cultures have been eradicated and there is no more France or Germany or Italy, etc because it's just a hodgepodge of mixed master race people with no identity and no common value or aim.

What is being created is a rather dystopian future of animalistic masses of humans, ruled by demigod like elite as it has been illustrated in so many scifi films. Think a lot more Elysium and a lot less Star Trek.
I have seen titles deliberately damaged so they would end up in the book sale. I think the idea is good, but may not survive contact with the pubic.
AFAIK that only applies to hospital emergency rooms. Your local doctor certainly can refuse service if you can't pay the bill.
I see Drew from our team already responded but I want to also chime in.

> Is it because for most companies the perception is that if someone needs support they are already more likely to be a bad / lost customer anyway so don't put too much effort into it?

This is definitely not the case. Support is an opportunity to win a customer for life because it's a make or break moment during the customer experience.

At GitLab I realized that we need to build specialized support groups with specific focuses: On-prem and Services.

I'm currently on-boarding a Services Support Manager this week who's focus will be improving the Services support experience. Your comments here echo that it was the right choice to continue investing in our support as it's not where it needs to be.

To loop this back to Coinbase the thing to realize is traditionally companies treat support as a cost of doing business not a revenue generating asset.

In the tech support industry rule of thumb is 18 months until burnout. 18 months until someone leaves your support team on average. I'm sure coinbases turnover is somewhere around that or less with a 5 month backlog.

At GitLab we are trying to buck that industry trend, but we are still in the early stages. Time will tell.
It is something we will have to grapple with. Cognitive genomics is already starting to confirm very politically incorrect things, such as the the confirmation of a dysgenic trend in Iceland, which has been implied from phenotypic data but career ending to acknowledge: https://www.gwern.net/docs/genetics/selection/2017-kong.pdf

This is the tip of the iceberg. Once we have a million genomes tagged with cognitive measures, a huge swath of politically-incorrect but factually true descriptive statements will be confirmed. We need to work now to avoid confusing the descriptive with the normative and be willing to consider technological fixes for unfair distributions of economically valuable allies, such as embryo selection and direct genetic modification. Our society is so in denial of biological realities, this may not happen in time. But there will be competitive pressure from Asian (and perhaps Islamic) societies that do not share our tabbos.
Bob is looking at Mary, but Mary is looking at Ed. Bob is married but Ed is not. Is a married person looking at an unmarried person?
a) Yes
b) No
c) Not enough information to say
My comment is about publicly traded competitors to this new company. I suppose I could have been more clear.
I personally think MacOS needs more love in the stability department than iOS, though.
That's fallacious thinking. Even if we assumes that nothing could be done to stop the Soviets (and that is debatable: some have argued that the US was fully capable of pushing back against Soviet domination in the eastern Bloc, but instead caved in to Soviet demands), the result was a nasty occupation by the Soviets. "No alternative" does not mean it wasn't objectively bad. We're not talking about running out of your favorite ice cream topping here and having to compromise for your second favorite topping.
A friend of mine in the drone racing/stunt hobby said something to me the other day that really blew me away, "the real improvement in drones in the last 2 years isn't batteries, it's that the output of the motors has increased so much that we've all dropped a frame size and kept the same output." He then said that it might happen again soon.

I don't know if that means that the real output of the motor is truly increasing that fast, or the effective output taking into consideration the reduced weight, but those little motors putting out a ton of power, very efficiently.

The combo of brushless DC motors and lithium batteries more or less revolutionizes everything it touches.
It's fine for bacteria where even with 10-20% error, you can do consensus calling with very high (200-500X) coverage.
> Single payer healthcare is the best soln. Agreed, However I can’t see it working more than a presidential term. America is too politically unstable.

I'm not too sure about that. It's taken an entire year for the GOP to start to actually succeed at chipping away at the ACA, and they have legislative and executive control. If we could get sweeping reform in a more favorable political climate, something not plagued with the implementation issues the ACA has labored under, it might stand a chance. The next administration might find it politically untenable to take it away if it actually works well.
Quick note here.

I've asked the same question on some of the other forums and was surprised how people want to help each other with such project. Seems like it's the same case here.

I do not have anything to show to the public yet, but I've prepared a waiting list for all the people who would like to see the final effect - https://www.nespero.com/ Please, feel invited to join. Thank you!
VGA textmode. I stopped using X11 many years ago. Theres no graphics drivers compiled into the custom kernel that I use (not Linux). The term "no graphics layer" seemed like adequate shorthand.
I think it may even be worse than Reddit's search.
Skilled migrants protest against UK visa policies
No sequencer on its own will ever be certified. You always need a pipeline from sample to a clinically useful answer to be certified.

The problem here is that everything in that pipeline keeps improving at a fast base. Also the reference databases are updated all the time. Whereas sequencing will probably always give the right answer to the precise question it was given, I don't see any luck in certifying these methods any time soon.
I have no idea what you are all talking about, can you translate?
So many mentions of "AI" and "blockchain"; sometimes even in the same phrase... Not a good sign IMO.
Three men and 15 lions [video]
I'm sure you're aware of this, but for others, the ODB-II port generally connects to completely insecure internal networks - so anything that physically connects to it may compromise it.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster/2015/01/15/resea...
Interesting article. For as long as I've been playing games there have been people claiming they did things which seemed unlikely if not impossible. However, given today's cycle accurate simulators and computation power it seems like you could certainly answer the question of whether or not the software would ever get to a certain point.
Kaiser is no longer a low-cost provider. They actually are quite expensive. We go through a very large group to get a better rate but it's still much higher than many of the other options that we have in our plan.

When you look at how Kaiser is structured, they should be cheaper. I think they're just pocketing the difference between the market rate and what their costs are.
They’ve been doing a big ad campaign in WA. Now I understand why.
Blockchain Adoption – How close are we really?
As I understand it, one easy rate-factor is having a focused and desirable skillset. Become an expert at something specific and seeing widespread adoption/need - kubernetes, cloud security, whatever - and you can command a lot more. Web design / simple apps are a lowest-bidder sort of deal.
Depends on the stage of your career. I charge $200 to $400 hourly, depending on the duration of the project.
Hawaii’s false missile alert sent by worker believing attack on US was imminent
Malware Reversing – Burpsuite Keygen
Are we measuring the economy all wrong?
There's also http://emailregex.com/regex-visual-tester/#(%3F%3A%5Ba-z0-9!...)

Edit: Add the missing ) to the url
Formula E’s new electric car looks like nothing else in racing
..depends what you consider this in contrast to. As an alternative to writing a journal (for example), it might be useful.
No problem! It looks like the places that sell the book do their damnedest to make the author look like any other historian.
I'm new to the area and have Kaiser. Are you talking about UCSF Medical Center at Mission Bay?
Wow. This is a very Wrong post. As much as I like crypto and bitcoin (and I'm an early investor), this post gets it all wrong.

Bitcoin is kinda like a ponzi scheme. It can only benefit a few that bought in early. If most of LW readers bought in, the price to get them all in will be much higher thus making their investment less rewarding.

Remember, in crypto we are not building houses but convincing the other guy to buy in. We are yet to have reliable instant and cheap transactions. We are yet to have stable non-volatile crypto. So from a usability point of view crypto is still not usable.
Ask HN: What you have automated with Python?
They have an idea of how many people were required to do the work, and they found evidence of roughly that many people housed nearby who were fed and respected much better than we would expect slaves to be. Also, they found them exactly where they expected to find the slaves.

It's not the strongest evidence, but it seems like enough to displace the presumption that most of the laborers were slaves, unless there's equally strong evidence for that. I would expect the article to have mentioned such evidence, though.
> Medicare is relatively simple compared to most insurance companies and their rules.

As someone who's actually had to deal with this complexity and implement software to facilitate it, I can assure you that Medicare is not at all simple, by any stretch of the imagination. It's not even standard or consistent within Medicare within a geographical region, even if you limit the scope to Part A and Part B, excluding coverage provided under Part C and Part D.

> Insurance companies, and employers, come up with byzantine rules for what's covered, when it's covered, where it's covered, who is allowed to provide care, prerequisites before approving coverage, what brand of products are permitted in treatment, and on and on.

This is exactly what Medicare itself does. The private insurers generally structure their terms in ways that are similar to what Medicare does. They're not identical, but it's not like Medicare is some haven of simplicity by itself that the private insurers complicate. Medicare itself is unbelievably complicated and abstruse by itself.

> There are entire industries dedicated to maintaining rules management engines specifically for validating policies, coverage, and claims.

Yes, that's true. And that would be true even if you only looked at Medicare patients.
Live coverage: SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket set for launch with GovSat 1
Amazin job... thanks for sharing!!
In reading the reactions to the article, it seems like most of HN is onto the game: Feign poverty.

That said, whom are some people that really did 'make it' from rags to riches? What can we learn from them? I'll start:

Andrew Carnegie

Jack London

George Soros

Larry Ellison

Ursula Burns

Ingvar Kamprad

JK Rowling

Sam Walton

Oprah

The only thing that I can think of that all of them had in common was that they were really hard workers that got lucky. That hard work was the price of the lotto ticket. What am I missing here?
Ah, I understand - thank you.
What insinuation are you referring to?

To my knowledge there's no evidence that Germany and Poland colluded in the annexation of Czechoslovakia but Poland definitely did take the opportunity to annex part of it. And the Germans weren't particularly unhappy about that as it played very well for them internationally.
I see it as their inevitable first step of an iOS based computer. With their CPUs and GPUs being where they are at now I'd imagine it won't be too long.
Writing a cv
I use AMS for my publishing business. Amazon sales were up 73% the first year I started using it, although in the same year I also launched several new products that did well (and did not benefit much from AMS ads).

Yes, the UI blows, there are various unfathomable policies ("One or more of your products doesn't meet the financial threshold established by Amazon and is no longer eligible for advertising" - this for one of our top-selling titles), and the reporting leaves a lot to be desired, but at the end of the day it works.

The same cannot be said for Facebook ads (waste of time and money for what I sell), Google AdWords (hurt by its own popularity and ridiculous policies such as this one: http://www.digitalmediamachine.com/2017/10/google-kills-my-a...), and LinkedIn which is fleecing small-business clients with sky-high CPCs that don't perform.

I fear, however, that the popularity of AMS may cause the same fallout as AdWords - loads of buyers rushing in, driving up rates and driving organic results off the page.
Death is random in naked mole rats
If you add in the heritage of NeXT, you will find more transitions. And while Apple only supported two platforms at a time, NeXT simultaneously supported various architectures: x86, PA-RISC, and SPARC. (And maybe 68k, but not sure if that was concurrent with the others)
That's not what people mean when they talk about a "post-fact" age. They mean facts related to people's perception of the world beyond their immediate perception.

See Karl Rove's quote about the "reality based" community, or Trump's aide ironically invoking "alternative facts" in reference to provably false claims made about his inauguration, or the fake news phenomenon itself. A pound of lunch meat remains a pound of lunch meat even when you believe in Pizzagate, or that jet fuel can't melt steel beams, or that the world is flat.

Fact is no longer relevant in shaping many people's interpretation of reality, because many people are abstracted from that reality by layers of media, by and large mistrust mainstream gatekeepers of truth, and can live in a subjective pocket universe of inputs and acquaintances that reinforce their biases.
Huh? Why do you want the decryption key to be prime?
The way COBRA works is that they can just start giving you coverage whenever they feel like finally getting their act together?
Full-stack bureaucrat: layers of rules
Different speedrun communities define "glitches" and decide which to allow/ban differently. There's always going to be some subjectivity.

In the community I'm most familiar with (Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past), we assume that the devs did not intend for you to wiggle through single-pixel diagonal holes in sloped walls to get out-of-bounds or trigger the flute you may not even have by using a potion on the same frame you go through an east-facing door, and because those techniques allow you to play the game very differently than designed, we consider them major glitches and put runs using them in different categories.

There are several glitches that we classify as "minor" and allow in every category like item dashing and spin speed. Some people argue whether bomb jumps are glitches or not, but they're also allowed in every category.

At the far glitchy end, there's something called the "exploration glitch" that allows you to change Link's sprite's layer to one that allows you to walk semi-freely between map tiles. Exploration glitch is banned in all but a few very specific categories because it completely trivializes the game and lets you walk to the Triforce room within 90-120 seconds of starting the game.

The point of all this isn't to determine the single valid way to play the game (hi Twin Galaxies!) but to allow for sets of rules that make the speedrun more interesting. The same goal (reach the Triforce room) takes 1m31s with no restrictions, 26m50s with the "worst" game-breaking glitches banned and 1hr23m19s with all major glitches banned, and all three are completely different experiences.

Edit: some extra info on minor glitches (https://pastebin.com/zYM6TPmS) and major glitches (https://pastebin.com/bb0vHjcm) as defined by the ALTTP community, and the leaderboard with all the categories: https://www.speedrun.com/alttp
lol, no, they will tell you they can't weigh it because you already touched it, and that would contaminate their kitchen and therefore there is no way for them to give you a refund or straighten it out... while this specific situation hasn't happened to me, very eerily similar situations have.
Bootstrap 4.0 Release: What’s New?
None of Apple's software is best in class - regardless of the segment. Which isn't necessarily bad, so long as it's at least good enough. Increasingly it's not even good enough. Siri? I agree. It's not a joke - it's a toy. I've pretty much stopped using it because it's more an exercise of frustration than utility.

We could continue on with the iWork/iLife software suites which you quickly learn are typically best for casual use. What's sad is Apple has truly excellent hardware, it's too bad they don't have the software to match. That tells me their viewing themselves as a hardware company is deeply ingrained in their corporate culture and in their corporate DNA. Software is apparently a secondary concern.