skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I listened to "Believe Me: A Memoir of Love, Death, and Jazz Chickens" by Eddie Izzard base on the last time Bill Gates book recommendations were on HN and it is superb so this is now an automatic buy for me.
They also listed what didn't work for them.
Windows S?
Why would I run a node on something like this? What's the incentive?

It breaks down 4 benefits:

Free up content creators. Sure, or they could, you know, throw it up on youtube, twitch, vimeo, or any other centralized app.

New channels. This is just shit writing. This is 90% the same thing as bullet 1.

Advertising and Free Content. Again, see all the other centralized apps. Also, there would 100% need to be a middle man. Thats what a decentralized block chain is. Hosting a blockchain has costs. Especially something as space consuming as video hosting.

Paid Content. Still a problem already solved by not being on a decentralized application. I can't wrap my head around why someone wouldn't just host their own content if they have anywhere near enough money to produce content good enough to charge for.
"Anyone who has ever built software knows that users rarely read FAQs (maybe 1-5%). Anyone who's ever made ANY product/service/contract knows most users don't read the fine print."

Expecting tools to work without reading the manual reminds me of

"Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?" In one case a member of the Upper, and in the other a member of the Lower, House put this question. I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question."

If the user WON'T read the FAQ, then the FAQ shouldn't exist. So how to educate an illiterate user?
"Anthem has begun denying coverage for emergency room visits that it deems “inappropriate” because they aren’t, in the insurance plan’s view, true emergencies."

Story of America. It is sad and pathetic. Insurance companies have too much power and even the doctors/hospitals are helpless for the most part. Yes, it is an entire system that needs to be overhauled.

The game is rigged against the consumer right now. You are never sure what the actual cost of your visit will be until you start receiving the bills which could be months after your visit. How dare you ask how much the visit could cost ? The "Admins" in the ER/hospital/clinic wouldn't even know at that time. Yes they won't.
Though I did not successfully complete it, this course was very interesting and informative: https://www.coursera.org/learn/discrete-optimization
Is there a metric for justice? I assume convictions are easier to measure, so that's what prosecutors want on their CV.
There are no sources listed anywhere in this article. The wording feels very intentionally vague. Not sure anyone should take it seriously.
UI design is not the same as UX design, important difference and potentially a source of misunderstanding. If you are at the point that you know that a page with a certain purpose needs to be made, then the UI is often not that hard to design and you can make use of best practices, a/b testing, etc.

But for UX design, you also need to figure out the "clear concept of the tasks to be done". Taking the perspective of the persona helps you define the list of tasks to be done. If a hammer is needed, a screwdriver or a phone (to call someone who can build things).

All people in the creation process have an idea about who that user is and what their needs are, by making it explicit you make sure you are all on the same page building the same thing.
How Bikes Will Take Their Revenge on Cars and Help Us Reclaim Our Streets
From the point of view of the australian government, does it matter?
Strange. Ublock is blocking the whole blog content.

TL;dr - Steven Pinker’s Enlightenment Now
Did Google start offering off-line maps with navigation and pathfinding support?
I question the premise. What does it mean to "keep up with the latest tech"? People trying to "keep up" and get the latest buzzword as a feather in their cap has caused a roaring avalanche of stupidity in this industry over the last decade.

Ultimately the corporate entities hiring these buzzword-happy pretenders end up paying the price. If a manager cares about using reliable tools to do a good job for his employer, how does "keeping up with the latest tech" serve that end?
"Sapiens" is another great recommendation by him

https://www.gatesnotes.com/Books/Sapiens-A-Brief-History-of-...
These things are also true of Android Auto. It uses the GPS equipment in your car. I leave a dedicated phone in my car's glove box and it always has a strong location.

Android Auto also has access to the car's wheel speed and steering angle sensors so it can use dead reckoning when underground. GPS units can't do that.
Bigger display, better UI, faster GPS fix, data costs on mobile, doesn't want to unnecessary charge the mobiles battery in unnecessary intervals (other battery issues) is what comes into my mind.
This really feels like the 21st century Warhol Vs Campbell's Soup battle. Until the courts rule, both sides are going to say "obviously we're right because...". It doesn't matter what makes sense, only what has better legal precedent.
I have yet to see an UWP app that wasn't horrible to use on a desktop, and hence I regularly use exactly 0 UWP apps. And this OS would be all UWP?
What I don't really get is how an ER visit can cost 12000$, did she leave with a lamborghini's door or something?
Also stating the obvious, the US health system is a joke.
Yeah you probably should.

That's not how purchasing decisions are usually made outside of big ticket items, and even then.

Thanks to all of our basic needs being met there's only real emotional and psychological ones left. That's what all advertising targets, promise of fulfillment or some other emotional rewards. In our consumerist society you buy things not because you need them or because of their specific functions but because they promise to fulfill some imagined emotional need.
So according to you, why hasn't it happened yet? Not trying to flame, I'm genuinely curious.

I would think that the economic incentive to do exactly this would be pretty high.
Kindness at Work. Are You Up for the Challenge?
I guess I can only give my opinion from my own limited world, but I feel to an extent that "reason, science, and humanism" are at need of advocacy today, more than usual. This book might be well timed.
Wind + batteries came out cheaper than solar + batteries so I guess the chinese subsidies were not that critical.
How can you know where the money is going when they've never had to pass an audit?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Government_Accountability_Of...
Call me conservative, but what happened to the dust collecting right below this crystal-clear case?
I hate breathless articles like this. No, this isn't going to save the world. At best, it's a marginal less wasteful mechanism. Stop doing science by PR!
It's basically how the Xbox One already works.
Thanks for the insightful comment.

I might be missing something about the part regarding unpaid internships. Is this because those internships do, or can, pay so well (my former roommate IIRC was bringing in a couple thousand a week over the summer)? I don't really know the content of what those interns do but it seems if it's something that someone would be paid to do as a job that they should be compensated. CA has strict rules about that stuff because they have been, and still are, abused (see the entertainment industry).

Overall though, whether lawyers or other professions, our move away from apprenticeships and other sorts of on the job training or investment in employees has most likely been detrimental. When you read complaints about us Millenials job hopping and 'having no loyalty' a quick peek behind the curtain should reveal that it's not only economic (esp. given student debts) but you learn rapidly how merciless companies can be.
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Many phones with data service switched off, which might be the case when driving abroad.
Microsoft is the one who said it will be called Windows 10 when it's done. They've repeatedly stressed that Windows 10 is the last numbered update to Windows. That's not to say that the underlying technology won't change, even radically -
it's just that this will be done through Windows Update as an upgrade to the existing OS rather than a new OS that you won't have access to without purchasing an upgrade.

They realized at some point that they had several concurrent versions of Windows out there that they had to support, and many customers had no apparent incentive to upgrade to new versions. So going forward they ostensibly have a single version that auto-updates, and they provide the OS "as a service".
Where did you got single-handedly from? Of course multiple people cooperate on those patches. That is it was possible for Linus Torwalds to join their discussion, it would all be much less public if only one institution or person worked on it.
Good on Bill Gates to not just choose a feel-good book for sake of "virtue signaling", but a book with real substance in it. (The fact that this book happens to be optimistic is incidental)
Hanoi's train street
The more likely scenario is that nobody will end up using those APIs, especially if there are alternatives like Vulkan that work on older Windows versions.
..on laundry, that hour and a half is spent washing a lot more clothes than the eleven before. If we had the limited wardrobes of those people, it'd probably be down to twenty minutes.
New vulnerabilities in ASUS routers
Only technical people have a clue what virtualization even means. Generally speaking, gamers haven't even heard of the word. Thus whatever virtualization soulution is used must be pretty much automatic. However if Windows already automatically handles this, then why mention that there's no Win32 support? Either people can keep launching their games on Steam or they can't. If they can't, then this new Windows won't win any fans among gamers. Even if there's automatic virtualization in place, as soon as you're losing fps, gamers won't be happy.
USER/GDI haven't been removed, which is a big problem as they make proper UI and application isolation impossible. Removing this dependency is one of the major goals of WinRT/UWP/OneCore effort.
> We're not going to get sentient, self-replicating, anti-human robots with weapons anytime soon.

Anti-human is the easy bit, and that fact terrifies me when I let myself think about it.

Self-replicating… well, eh. Do corporations that employ humans count?

Sentient. Hmm. We wouldn’t recognise sentient robots even of they built a neon sign and marched en masse through Washington demanding their rights — if that happened, we would tell ourselves it was a clever hack by pranksters or $disliked_nation.
I watch what the USA is doing with healthcare, and I see this type of model being foisted upon the UK, and it's terrifying.

I recently got into a twitter spat suggesting that it was foolish of the Conservatives to be reducing spending in social services and the NHS as this was directly attacking their voter base as 70% of pensioners vote Conservative and a poorer NHS directly impacts pensioners more. There have been some articles indicating an extra 120,000 people have died in the UK due to austerity measures. http://www.independent.co.uk/news/health/tory-austerity-deat...

So the question is, is this a deliberate unwritten approach to try and kill off 'costlier' members of society? Is it better to encourage people to be fat and die off quicker, than to exercise, eat healthier, live longer, and create a long term social care cost?

I suspect epidemiological analysis the impact of this sort of policy has on a society demonstrates it kills the weak and infirm as well as the financially 'weak' members of society.

Think Norway got it right. Find a resource, tax it and place the tax in a pension fund. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Government_Pension_Fund_of_Nor... Every resident of Norway is now a millionaire in terms of the social care available to each individual.
I read Pinker's previous book, "The Better Angels of Our Nature," and found it eye-opening; it changed the way I perceived the world. Highly recommended. (Here's a review: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/09/books/review/the-better-an... )

This book, his latest one, is now an automatic buy for me.
This is a misleading way to write an article. ER overuse is a thing; ER usage has been rising much faster than the population over the last couple of decades. It’s nkt unreasonable to put policies into place to tamp down in that. But here is the thing: any policy you apply to millions of people will have false positives. Picking out a single instance of where the policy triggered when it shouldn’t have doesn’t do anything to help the reader understand the underlying trade offs.

I had a nurse hotline tell me to go to the ER because my daughter was coughing after swallowing some river water. My insurance company paid the bill. Can I get Vox to write an article about this wasteful use of resources?
In a virtualization container perhaps?
Blogspot? Now there's a TLD I haven't seen in years...
I'd take it even one step further and apply this to literally anything on the internet! Whether it's news (doesn't even have to be true these days), data (omitted/modified or not), opinions (externally-motivated), research (funded by god-knows-who), literally ANYTHING you view is in some way processed, designed, delivered, or created by a human being.

And even when AI becomes practical, no more than 1000 people can realistically be involved in its design and implementation. Our supposed 'objective machines' will in fact be designed to the ideals of those designing them: a generally non-diverse group of people. Food for thought!
An industrial control system that crashes when it receives an unexpected network request isn't built for someone that knows exactly what they are doing. It was built by someone who wanted to expend the minimum effort possible and make contingency-handling someone else's problem.

This isn't just about hacking. A device that crashes hard when it receives a POST with an empty body may do the same thing if there's a physical glitch with its connection, or if a cosmic ray flips a bit somewhere. Devices that control industrial machinery should be more reliable than that.

If this were a hobbyist project, or a toy, that would be one thing, but these are specialized devices that cost a lot of money. They're fragile liabilities that don't belong anywhere near a shared network.
I dunno how strong it is, but I have a feeling that the virtue signalling you mention is at least tangentially at odds with the "reason, science, and humanism" he mentions.
I experienced this just yesterday, I'm pretty sure it was exacerbated by a website bug, but selecting "All Laptops" took me to just Home laptops, where the XPS line couldn't be found at all.

I ended up forgoing trying to compare all their lines and just selected the XPS section directly.
Although the site is Australian, the cost info is from Colorado, the US already has anti-dumping levies on Chinese solar which will be reflect in bids so yes it does take solar subsidies into account. It doesn't however account for government subsidies of coal.
There's actually this really clever emulation you can do where you don't blindly use two bits per trit, but fractionally pack the trits into bits such that you don't end up with any wasted bits. This has the further advantage that since it produces the same inputs and outputs as binary encoding that you can use the native binary hardware on the CPU to do all your math. Because it is the native binary encoding.

One of the reasons I wouldn't trust IOTA any farther than I could personally throw the entire development team is that writing a strong cryptocurrency requires a deep understanding of mathematics, and theirs is the sort of shallow I'd expect from a high schooler. They appear to be operating under the misapprehension that numbers come with their base built into them, as if they are operating in a mathematics regime where "10 != 0xa != 012(octal) != 1010(binary)", and anyone that confused about mathematics is not someone you want designing your CSS stylesheets ("no, that's rgb(255, 255, 255), you really want #fff. Or maybe #ffffff."), let alone your cryptocurrency.
The riot.im website isn't bad from resource usage perspective. At least doesn't bog down my machine...though I'll admit "a website" may not fulfill OP's request for desktop app.
>I wish Microsoft was content with just keeping Windows working. I'd buy a special "we will only issue security and compatibility updates" version if I could.

Windows Enterprise LTSB is something like that. Without UWP/Store and security updates for 10 years.
TL;DR: it's about a way to reduce turbulence in pipelines. And no, it is not going to save the world.
Whats going on the hospital is charging $12K for maybe 1 hour of actual time spent with the patient. Unless most of that $12K is used to cover the non-paying customers I don't understand how it could cost the hospital that kind of money to provide the care.

I bet over half that money went to people who probably never steeped foot in the hospital much less actually provide care.
I generally agree. UWP may be great tech under the surface actually, but the skin is just not suited for big screens. Too much whitespace, monochromatic colours and everything is so clunky and pared down. One UWP app I do like is the Xodo PDF reader.

I'm sure the UWP will continue to expand, but it probably will never reach the full power of Win32 because MS no longer wants to let app developers get that kind of control easily. At least not regular app devs.
How do you know he isn't virtue signalling?
those "estimates" likely get written as hard promises into contracts in the form of long-term power purchase agreements.

The bidding, assuming it is competitive, drives down the current price in favor of the utilities. The long-term agreements provide stability in favor of the suppliers in case market prices plunging even further than estimated.
A refresher on batch (re-)normalization
I don’t get it. It’s a feel good book?

Something more interesting would be learn how to more quickly improve the world. The world of 2100 could arrive in 2050, for example.

Gates has around $100 billion to improve the world. How to most effectively leverage his money, for example?

Build a better pharmaceutical company and cure some of the diseases on his list? Help to create better economies in Africa?

[UPDATE]

This comment got downvoted fast. I guess I’ll be happy with the improvements and learn to live with the current rate of progress.

Any other feel good comments from the book that I could use at a party?

[UPDATE]

Don’t want to waste fu karma today. So, answer is half the world’s population lives in cities. Perhaps we could increase by making them more liveable. I’m all for reducing the human footprint on the world. Wildlife crossings, fewer roads and cars, less plastic, etc. How about a billion people move one planet over? A lot depends on increasing knowledge and reducing costs. Let’s increase the rate of innovation!
Introducing the 5 Stages of the Intrapreneur’s Journey
But, the cloud!

People are so used to giving up their data, even the ones who know better are complacent.
Does your blood not boil that the original charge is of 12 thousand dollar?

> The doctors in the emergency room did multiple tests including a CT scan and ultrasound. They determined that Cloyd had ovarian cysts, not appendicitis. They gave her pain medications that helped her feel better, and an order to follow up with a gynecologist.

> A few weeks later, Cloyd received something else: a $12,596 hospital bill her insurance denied — leaving her on the hook for all of it.

For a few tests, the hospital charges 12,000 dollars. How is this sane? People should be rioting over this.
Sadly, you're locked into Apple Maps if you use CarPlay—at least, if you want the map and directions to appear on the screen (which I often find indispensable).
Love Pinker but thought this was too funny not to share: "Steven Pinker jinxes the world" on how a lot of the trends that he spoke about started to stall and even reverse since the publication of the book.

https://amp.reddit.com/r/slatestarcodex/comments/6ggwap/stev...
9 Questions you need to ask in new business idea development
My question is, why is the system designed such that she would be admitted to the ER in the first place? Why aren't hospitals redirecting patients to urgent care facilities, or better yet, why don't hospitals have urgent care facilities attached?? If costs in emergency rooms are extremely high - and I can understand why they would be higher to a certain extent - why aren't hospitals employing some sort of dispatch mechanism?
It's literally just peer to peer networking and computation, but paying people to participate by programmatically doling out crypto currency to people who are contributing.

This isn't bittorrent. It's not blockchain. It's kind of a weird hybrid of the two.

It's actually a really brilliant idea, if they pull it off correctly.

The article is completely written like shit, though.

Check out:

https://livepeer.org/

https://viuly.com/
Fitness app releases data-set that reveals location of sensitive military bases
If insurance companies could just get out of this sordid business of paying claims (a.k.a. providing insurance... it's ridiculous, all these darn costs!), they could focus on their core business of collecting premiums like God intended.
Aluminium is great but sometimes expensive depending on the application and the market: one can purchase an aluminium pipe/rod/whatever at a hardware store for a lot less than a stomp box enclosure made with the same amount of the material and sold online. It's a niche market where a couple sellers can easily fix the prices.
It really does seem like Health Insurance is heading in a backwards direction. They cover the small, predictable costs (annual checkups, routine blood tests, etc), but continue to find ways to pay less of the "major" events.

Imagine if your car insurance decided to cover oil changes, but not at fault collisions. That would be asinine.
@dang, can the title be modified to include the programming language/environment? (browser-only JS)
Sadly, a lot of dropdowns I encounter handle only even offsets from -12 to 12... The state of modern web forms is sad.
Mental Health in Game Design (Samantha Cook) – Noclip Sessions
> My other insight was that many UX firms treat artifacts like Personas as the deliverable.

This matches my (limited, anecdotal) experience. They can be used to demonstrate that a set of UX choices will result in a set of results, but don't by themselves say if those results are better than alternatives unless the alternatives are also run through the same test. Essentially they act as benchmarks. Benchmarks are not a good deliverable and have little value if you benchmark only a single option.
Whereas with blockchain you can bring everybody to court because they all share the same infringing material.

There was a long discusion about what happens when blockchain contains some piece of information That Is Forbidden To Possess. You could probably claim you didn't have the intent. But with Pirate Blockchain you sure do.
I have a host of issues with google maps. The routing and the maps itself are certainly great, but I have my phones language set to English and it attempts to use English pronounciation for all road names. In germany, this makes for a moderately hilarious guessing game (what street would that be), but when I cross over to Poland, things get unbearable.
Every time you get into a tunnel, the phone looses the GPS fix, making routing in tunnels worthless. There’s a few places in Berlin where you need to take an on/off ramp in a tunnel or right at the end and a built in Navi reliably routes you, but a map on the phone cannot.
It doesn’t work in regions without good cellular connectivity either.
You mean they want to pull a nokia?

The legacy is their crown jewels.