skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Yep, as a gamer there is no chance I would willingly upgrade to this.

It's not an upgrade for existing general-purpose (or any other) editions of Win 10, it's a new OS edition available only with new hardware; it's basically a successor to Win 10 S and Win 8 RT. And, while no doubt Microsoft thinks they've made the tweaks that will make it more attractive to some market this time (from other stories, they expect it to have enterprise and education market traction, which it's at least remotely plausible that virtualization for Windows API apps would provide a good enough solution for), it may suffer the same fate.
Except that nobody believes SCO's male cow droppings any more.

And, in fact, if I understand the current state of play of this suit, Linux is no longer under threat. Linux is completely in the clear. The one remaining issue is a contract one between SCO and IBM over Project Monterrey.

(Also, I bet the comments here will be, on average, better than those on Slashdot...)
WW1 happened, not because of the assassination of the crown prince of austria (which is something different from "just a shooting" though) but rather because allmost everyone was eager for war.
Cheering people happily boarded the trains to the fronts.

In WW2 less so and so the other main reason for no WW3 was WW2. At least for europe. People were sick of war, therefore the EU.
But soviet Russia and US would have still very like fought(and so whole NATO as well), if not for the shared fright of nuclear holocaust for everyone.

Also, back then, war was normal. If states had a big problem, they fought it out.
Today this only works against small, weak states, but the big ones simply can't risk a war, as it becomes too disastrous for both sides. Because of technology. So yes, nuclear bombs were used twice, but then people really considered ... this is something new. This changes the rules, so maybe we have to find a way without war ...
Is there anything to the notion that the Trump administration putting a 30% tariff on imported solar panels is an attempt to bolster the coal or other fossil fuel industry?
I would think that the orgs / people holding Tether would be the ones to suffer the most, not the holders of BTC.

And who is holding the Tether that was exchanged for BTC? Probably Bitfinex, right? So, if Tether does turn out to be not backed by USD, they would be left holding worthless Tether. The BTC is already transferred out and gone.

I think this is much more realistic assessment on the risk to Bitcoin:

> Julian Hosp, co-founder of cryptocurrency payment service TenX, has listed tether as one of four big risks, with a 10 per cent likelihood of a crash this year which could pull the market down by 15 per cent.

So, 10% chance that Tether is a scam, and if so, it would hurt BTC (and probably other coins too) by 15%. That seems much more realistic to me.
Is there a way to get a nice helpful popup telling me which applications and services to restart?
You already know which one.

Halliburton share prices from 2003-2005: https://i.imgur.com/UgPNCBg.gif

NY Times article about the division of Iraq oilfields: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/15/business/energy-environmen...
"Better Angels"—and presumably this book—cuts against the grain of popular discourse, since claiming the world is in decline and a state of moral depredation has always been an effective way to agitate for change. Which is understandable on one level, because so much in the world is still obviously suboptimal. The reaction tends to be: "How can you claim the world is getting better when [insert bad current event stuff here]?!?"

The problem is that so much of this lessening of horribleness came about via imperfect systems. We become focused in our opposition to the system's flaws, and (in some circles) that opposition morphs into opposition to the system as a whole, which is a dangerous kind of thinking if it becomes mainstream.
Are you sure it is not you that has made the uncharitable interpretation?

I read the peanut gallery comment as an agreement that the guy knows what he’s talking about.
“Dry drowning” is not a real thing: https://www.google.com/amp/s/offspring.lifehacker.com/read-t....
You missed my edit I add safely, because in these states that's what's missing.

Yes, if you are actually having a heart attack or a bone is sticking out then sure they cover you. The problem is in situations where you don't know and need medical experts to chose if this is an actual emergency. And no this is not hyperbole, that's the exact situation people in these states are dealing with.

This is not call them up on the phone and they say you can go to the ER, this is you go to the ER they preform tests and then the insurance company uses those results to deny clams.
If you apply this standard (requiring a control) to all history, one is forced to conclude that all conclusions about the cause of all historical events is bunk.

I think I actually agree with that.
How do you feel like Homo Deus compares to Sapiens w.r.t. being hand wavy and having a solid grasp on what the potential futures are that we are facing?
This should be simple - either Bitfinex has ~$2.4B USD sitting in banks somewhere, or it doesn't. It should not take too much auditing to figure that out.
> The danger isn't (or isn't yet anyway) that AI is going to develop will and agency and oppose us.

I agree about this for the foreseeable future, but it seems off topic. The article doesn't suggest anything like this, does it? I'm worried you might just be responding to the title.
You're assuming you need to scan the entire IPv4 space, and limiting yourself to a single 10ge uplink. Neither of these are required.
> This assumes the data sets of the criminal punishment system are not inherently biased, which is of course a false assumption.

It doesn't even require that assumption to go awry.

Assume there exists a stereotype, say "people with freckles are more likely to be criminals". It doesn't actually matter if the stereotype has any basis in reality, just that it is widely believed.

People will, on the margin, be less likely to hire freckled people. This reduces the legitimate employment opportunities available to a freckled individual, which tends to make the illegitimate opportunities more attractive by comparison. So the stereotype becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy: by assuming that freckled people are more likely to commit crimes, society actually causes freckled people to be more likely to commit crimes.

An expert system will notice this and begin using "has freckles" as a weighting factor in predicting recidivism. It's important to note that the expert system is not wrong. Freckles are in fact, at this point, statistically correlated to recidivism. But the expert system can't know why the correlation exists. All it can do is tighten the vicious feedback loop, noticing a statistical correlation that strengthens the existing stereotype, which exacerbates the real world impacts, which increases the statistical correlation, which strengthens the stereotype, and so on.
I feel like people in this thread would also enjoy the excellent podcast How it Began, which is an optimistic take on the history of technologies by Dr. Brad Harris

> The overall theme? Celebration! We are privileged to be descended from men and women who dared to dream big and even die for the cause of progress. Their work is unfinished, and some parts of modernity are even worse than before. But most are better, much better. And we have more tools than ever to fix what’s still broken. How It Began celebrates that progress, and presents a history of the modern world to help inspire its long lasting continuation.

Link: https://howitbegan.com/
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I would guess that it’s actually that staff are more interested in avoiding the liability when they don’t order a required test.
Like all big problems there are many parts to it.
So torn. I'm generally a Pinker fan, but almost detest Peter Singer's thought to the core. Singer recommending that book makes me really second guess the recommendation. But I respect Bill Gates immensely too.

Maybe the idea that Pinker could write a book so loved by both Gates and Singer is a testament to how good it is?
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"The Internationalists" makes the case that the 1928 Kellogg-Briand Peace Pact to outlaw war was what started the paradigm shift against war [1]. (Of course the thesis is controversial, as you say.) You might enjoy the book; here's an Op-Ed the authors wrote in summary [2], and a podcast interview with the authors [3].

[1] https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/30753784-the-internation...

[2] https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/02/opinion/sunday/outlawing-...

[3] https://www.lawfareblog.com/lawfare-podcast-oona-hathaway-an...

> From 1816 until the Kellogg-Briand Pact was first signed in 1928, there was, on average, approximately one territorial conquest every 10 months. Put another way, the average state during this period had a 1.33 percent chance of being the victim of conquest in any given year... The average amount of territory seized between 1816 and 1928 was 114,088 square miles per year...

> Since World War II, conquest has almost come to a full stop. The average number of conquests per year fell drastically — to 0.26 per year, or one every four years. The average size of the territory taken declined to a mere 5,772 square miles per year. And the likelihood that any individual state would suffer a conquest in an average year plummeted — from 1.33 percent to 0.17 percent, or once or twice a millennium.
Not a comment on the book obviously, but just seizing on the five points enumerated in the review, 1 is pure fluff, 2 is not a very strong point, 2 and 3 are both more first-world applicable, 4 is again more first-world centric I'd imagine, and 5 is entirely irrelevant given that most countries still manage to go to war (unjustified) with total impunity, especially the biggest of them all. What is the use of declaring war illegal? The only thing world nations are afraid of is nuclear war, but never-ending conventional war can still retard humanity's progress significantly. It is not something we can just dismiss.
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The problem with requiring a plaintext password is that it may slow down attacks when a device is simply connected to the open internet, but it is trivial to defeat in all other cases. Modbus RTU is broadcast, so you would just listen for the password. Modbus TCP can be defeated with ARP stuffing and man-in-the-middle attack (I've seen this automated for taking over SCADA systems).

A better solution would be a shared symmetric key that is manually programmed into all devices. However, this complicates install and maintenance. Its a hard sell when your controls are installed by contractors paid by the hour. Pretty soon everyone is setting their 128-bit key to 0x12345678 so nobody forgets it during emergency maintenance.
Similarly with Ghostery
Accepted and “what choice have I got?” Are not the same

IMO most people would say the latter.

America is a ghetto in any ideological sense you can offer
this is true for Signal as well, but I think this is a design feature: your phone becomes a 2FA token.
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You could easily argue that most of the conflict the US is currently involved in - and there are many! with boots on the ground or otherwise[0] - have some motive involving petrodollar or other resources.

[0] https://www.pri.org/stories/2014-09-16/us-now-involved-134-w...
War is perhaps illegal, except in self-defence, but certain people interpret "self-defence" to mean "defence of (national) interests", but also, belt-and-braces, they don't actually declare war any more and claim that what they're doing, killing and maiming people, bombing hospitals, television studios, water purification plants, isn't a "war". Also, Geneva Convention does not apply because the victims are "unlawful combatants" or some such bullshit.
That makes more sense now given the specific context of law. I guess it's a field most that us non-lawyers are unaware of in terms of how it operates internally. Thank you for clearing it up!
In modeling memory discrimination in psychology experiments, people often recommend d-prime from Signal Detection Theory (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sensitivity_index). Other recommend simple "theory-free" discrimination scores (Hits-False Alarms). This is frustrating because all measurement designs carry theoretical distributional and metric assumptions, just because one is explicit (as in signal detection theory: d' = Z(hit rate) − Z(false alarm rate), where function Z(p), p ∈ [0,1], is the inverse of the cumulative distribution function of the Gaussian distribution.) does not mean the simple (hit rate minus false alarm rate) is theory free an unadulterated. The theoretical assumptions are just different.
Important distinction: the notebooks themselves don't do this. The notebook authors, by convention, are supposed to do this.

This is no different than engineers who are, by convention, supposed to write bug-free code. Even with this convention, however, devs still rely on testing to decrease the likelihood of bugs.

No similar tooling exists for notebooks, which is why I recommend moving re-used logic into a tested codebase.
Sometimes there are lawsuits between deep-pocketed entities that get dragged on and on by lawyers and law firms so they can have steady income. The suits get passed from one generation of lawyers to the next as a sort of perverse inheritance. Such was the case in FCC vs RKO Broadcasting. Eventually it bled RKO dry and it no longer exists, since the FCC has virtually unlimited funds.

You have to wonder if that's what's happening here.
Who's going to hire these people? "I got a C in calculus back in school, but I took a deep learning class online and did a few of the assignments". This definitely may affect the market, but I doubt this will have an affect on the hiring bar or compensation for top companies/jobs in the space.
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The thing that I don't like about books and articles like this is that they promote complacency. They obscure shitty living conditions that billions of people are still living under by pointing to statistical averages and fun concepts like "war is illegal" (which is highly arguable in and of itself).

I am all for recognizing that humanity is maturing, but I think books like this actually slow the pace at which it does so.
In my experience, when I went to a clinic complaining of gut pain, they turned me right back around and send me to the ER. And this was for a relatively mild pain. I'm not sure if that makes a difference to the insurance, but...
I watched the video of Pinker & Gates, and I confess my prejudice was 'two comfortably rich elitists pushing a centralized globalization agenda'. I'll read the book but with a large pinch of salt...
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They absolutely used to claim that each tether is backed up by 1 USD in their reserve account, and that’s precisely what the audits were supposed to prove. Maybe they are backpedaling away from that now, but it’s not right to say that they never claimed this. This was the whole point of Tether.
The insurance company didn't pay anything, that's sort of the point of this article.
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> Time spent doing laundry fell from 11.5 hours a week in 1920 to an hour and a half in 2014. This might sound trivial in the grand scheme of progress. But the rise of the washing machine has improved quality of life by freeing up time for people—mostly women—to enjoy other pursuits.

This. I remember following Reddit AMAs of two centenarian women, women who remembered SS troops arriving at their village, who watched live as men landed on the Moon, and witnessed the spread of electric light, cars, planes, radio, TV, phones, mobile phones, internet, etc. and other technologies that in the 1900s were only in the realm of fiction.

And yet, when some redditors asked them which, among all these technological marvels developed in their time they had loved the most, both answered that the washing machine, because suddenly they had much more time to devote to other, more interesting things.
This was first rolled out in 2015:

https://googleblog.blogspot.com/2015/11/navigate-and-search-...
This has details:

https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20160830006294/en/His...

At closing, EMC shareholders will receive $24.05 per share in cash in addition to a newly issued tracking stock linked to a portion of EMC’s economic interest in the VMware business. Based on the estimated number of EMC shares outstanding at the close of the transaction, EMC shareholders are expected to receive approximately 0.111 shares of new tracking stock for each EMC share. Upon close of the transaction, EMC shares under the ticker symbol “EMC” will be suspended from trading on the New York Stock Exchange. Shares of the tracking stock, trading under the ticker symbol “DVMT,” are expected to begin trading on the New York Stock Exchange on Wednesday, September 7.
That looks great! Both the speech recognition and the eye tracking look really impressive. You should make this into a commercial project or something. Is there any popular application that already does this stuff and is as good (I am not familiar with this type of software)?

I had no idea eye tracking could work this well.
Completely side topic question - are there any studies on how much surface of the planet would need to be covered with solar to make a measurable impact on absorbing and/or reflecting enough sunlight to affect some cooling?
Hmm, actually, my (Korean) experience is that East Asian typesetting compensates by adding extra space between lines.

Because each character fills a square block, if you pack characters as close as possible, a paragraph becomes a rectangular array of dense squares, which is tiring to the eyes. Adding extra space between lines makes it much easier to read.

With Latin alphabets, characters have irregular shapes, so you will have enough "holes" between successive lines, which helps the reader follow the current line.
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That's a false context setup. Show me Halliburton's chart where it collapsed down to $16 in 2008 after the commodity bubble burst.

All commodity companies and prices soared at the same time, it wasn't at all isolated to Halliburton or oil. That was due to a debased dollar, which also sent all dollar-based GDP numbers skyrocketing around the world simultaneously. Go to Google and type in: "Czech GDP" or "Colombia GDP" (or dozens of other nations) and witness the incredible spike from ~2003 to ~2008, that's the dollar in action (ie the dollar losing value). Gold similarly soared historically for the same reason. It all crashed simultaneously as well. Those GDP figures almost all have gone down since ~2013, that's the dollar in action again, this time the dollar gained immense strength which sent oil down to ~$26.

Iraq's oil production is at an all-time high, and that oil belongs to them. They're currently directly competing with the vast US domestic oil production.

If the US had started the Iraqi war over oil, it wouldn't have willingly left Iraq when asked to, and it would have used its military to lock up all the oil contracts and supply coming out of Iraq, for itself and its closest allies, effectively annexing the oil. That didn't happen.
ugh, the only thing javascript has in common with scheme is first class functions.

http://journal.stuffwithstuff.com/2013/07/18/javascript-isnt...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6068360
One of the problems is poor primary care and a gap in urgent care. In many cases, patients have no way of getting triage advice over an issue that occurs at 3 AM, leaving with a choice of waiting till morning then going to a doctor (after waiting or scheduling), or going to the ED.

This article is the perfect storm of all these dysfunctions combined:

- no triage available, so went to ED (a sane choice in the absence of medical advice).

- the ED is required to make sure the Patient doesn't have some critical condition, so they will be zealous with tests. It's usually not a motivation for profit, it's a desire to make sure they don't miss some condition that may be less common but could cost the life of the patient. That risk assessment is usually different from what many patients are willing to accept.

- the insurer is trying to curb on unnecessary ED visits which, unfortunately is a problem many EDs face. Having a team of critical care workers tend to benign issues is terribly inefficient for both the patient and the hospital. The hospital passes the bill to the insurer who is then scratching their heads when they see so many resources used to treat something so benign.

Now of course there's the issue of very critical issues that present with very generic symptoms: your head ache could be a simple dehydration or some busted blood vessel in the brain; the ED will have to rule out the latter before declaring it to be a non-consequential headache. This is why traditionally insurers have paid up without much of a fuss. But we need to fix all these problems.

If 24h urgent care were more readily available (via tele-health AND in-person), a lot of this could be avoided.
No the 'cash discount' is simply the reduced paperwork and non payment risks on their side.

That 7 hour surgery could have literally hundreds of hours worth of back and forth with insurance companies before they get paid including a lot of doctor time. For most private healthcare providers, paperwork is by far their #1 cost for providing car.
With a very broad definition of subsidy. By this definition roads are subsidy for cars (turns out, Greenpeace agrees with this one! https://www.thebalance.com/government-subsidies-definition-f...)

"Undercharging for global warming accounts for 22% of the subsidy in 2013, air pollution 46%, broader vehicle externalities 13%, supply costs 11%, and general consumer taxes 8%."
Does anyone know which software they use to roll out so many systems?
I think a better question would be: why does Windows need multiple successive reboots?
Too often my experience can be resumed as: update-reboot-reboot-update continuing-reboot... ad nauseam.

At least on *nix, even when you need a reboot, once is enough.
Try oyster.com. They send their own people to check out hotels, and give you their own photos. This lets you compare the unvarnished reality against the brochure photos.
Jarndyce and Jarndyce drones on. This scarecrow of a suit has, over the course of time, become so complicated, that no man alive knows what it means. The parties to it understand it least; but it has been observed that no two Chancery lawyers can talk about it for five minutes without coming to a total disagreement as to all the premises. Innumerable children have been born into the cause; innumerable young people have married into it; innumerable old people have died out of it. Scores of persons have deliriously found themselves made parties in Jarndyce and Jarndyce without knowing how or why; whole families have inherited legendary hatreds with the suit.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jarndyce_and_Jarndyce
I’ve started wiretapping my kid because he hates photos (2017)
There's nothing more valuable than watching customers actually use a product. Almost never will they do it the way you expect, and absolutely never will they want to do it the way that the designer intended. Nothing points out a painful, complicated, broken, confusing UI as quickly.
For another great book related to your breast cancer example check out The Emperor of All Maladies.

It’s a detailed history of cancer and spends some time talking in detail about how statistics determine at what age preventative testing makes sense given false positive risk.