skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think it really depends on the type of game being played. If you're playing a game like Gone Home (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ak4wU8Gp2RQ), where there really aren't many (if any) decisions to make, you can watch the video and pretty much skip buying the game. On the other end of the spectrum are games like LoL or CS:GO where watching the game doesn't really replace playing it yourself.

I enjoy games from both ends of the spectrum, and the story-based games seem to struggle on the financials (from my perspective), and I would hate to see gaming culture evolve in a way that makes things harder for them to keep the lights on.

Consider this - on the extreme end it is the equivalent of someone streaming a movie while putting their face in the corner with their commentary. Would that be ok? (I could see a world where there's a technical solution that allows you to overlay a reaction video on top of your Netflix player. Maybe something similar could happen for video games.)
The Expert Perspective with Fintech CEO, Philippe Gelis
Given trade volumes, cryptocurrencies are not very liquid at all.
I don't think I have heard Cramer's rule mentioned without the caveat "but don't use this for real problems".
How much of this is UN and how much is the new world structure and technology meaning any conflict can diverge into WW2 and nobody wants to end up being Germany again ?

I see this as the basis for cold wars and other international competitions, conflicts are converted into other outlets.
I think the jist is that this was still successful because if the UN didn't exist we may have already had 7 additional multination wars (that is if the first 2 didn't kill everyone). Of course we don't know for sure if that would have happened.
It's a process. The point is that there is far less war going on now than ever before, on a population adjusted basis.
The price they pitch is the price they are paid per mwh. If they can't produce it that cheaply they can choose to either sell at a loss or shut down. People do sometimes sell at a loss - but that is a business decision.

Basically the contracts say - for every mwh supplied, this is what we will pay for you for this period. So it is self governing - no point in lying, as you simply won't get paid any more.
At least two states (Valve's home state of Washington is one) already have their gambling commissions looking into this question this year.
Sorry that I wasn't clear. the DNS services for which I was using dyn for were moved over to he.net, which is also free and easy to use and has specific support for dynamic DNS.

The DNS servers that I happen to run have nothing to do with dyn's pricing, I was already running those and they are for more serious needs as just dynamic DNS.
Yeah, thanks. Fixed.
Urgent care facilities often don't have equipment like a CT scanner, so they can end up redirecting patients to the ER anyway.
The problem is that in the USA the ER and urgent care can be two different organisations. The ER has no economic incentive to route customers to urgent care because that is lost revenue.
Court Software No Better Than Mechanical Turks at Predicting Repeat Crime
Or what are you arguing for?
To reduce or ban nuclear warheads?
Yeah well, I am all for it. But the topic was powerful and therefore dangerous technology in general.

And the more technological advanced a society becomes, the easier it will also get, to just make new nuclear bombs, viruses, killerrobots ect.

So my argument is, we just have to learn to deal with that power. And I believe we are not doing so bad, because there was no nuclear war. Despite all the tensions.

And your point is?
This biodiesel nut never said "algae", "duckweed", or "synergy with aquaculture"?

Your nut isn't much of a nut.
I'm reminded of a quote and I forget the author and I'll probably bungle it; "Any long running business eventually becomes indistinguishable from a scam".
To add a metaphor; when you design a class, you could say 'all i need is to know the purpose of the class, the API is enough'. But how would you define the API if you don't have a deep understanding of what the higher level purpose is of the class? The architecture used, related classes, etc.

Perhaps the class you want to work doesn't actually needs to be built at all because it will be never called!

Same goes with UX, it's first about the knowing the purpose of the program, architecture, the content, how it's related, etc, then you try to define the classes ('pages') and their API's ('what needs to be done on the page'). Once you know that, often the class ('the UI') is probably easy to build. But you'll probably make a better class if you understand why it exists in the first place.
"The market can stay irrational longer than you can stay solvent" is the traditional response to that.
> This is so uncool!

Why thank you :) Being uncool is our specialty.
Thanks for the pointer, I would not have caught that
Unless most of that $12K is used to cover the non-paying customers…

The industry term is uncompensated care. It is currently at its lowest levels in decades, about 4.2%.†

I suspect the ACA has something to do with that, so we might expect to see the uncompensated care rise in the coming years as enrollment in insurance shrinks.

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† http://www.healthcarefinancenews.com/news/uncompensated-care...
Looks like it's blocking some script that changes .mainHolder's CSS opacity property value from 0 to 1.
Better Wordpress Admin API
The thing is, for acute, severe, lower abdominal pain, the ER -is- the place to go, speaking as a health professional.

While the minor issues (constipation, and the like) are indeed resolvable in urgent care, any serious issue is likely to require some form of surgical intervention.

Additionally, the diagnosis of such issues is likely to require sophisticated imaging. While Urgent Care can use US (ultrasound), CT, possibly with contrasts, and such, are still best handled at an ER.

Most likely this patient would have presented at Urgent Care and be transferred, likely by ambulance, to ER anyway.

Now, do I think there is massive reform required to the healthcare _model_ in the US? Absolutely, including the use of more urgent care models.

I work in the system as a paramedic, and I definitely agree with that, and I realize that your question was more broad, but in this instance, ER was the right place to go, even if the final diagnosis was benign.
I have not followed all EPR nuclear reactor project, but it seems some project have a hard time to deliver. So is there somewhere an example of catastrophic failure ? or on the contrary, wind/solar project tend to be completed on time, with the expected cost for the provider ? Naively I would think that latter kind of project are much lower risks.
Izzard is someone with quite astounding levels of determination - I had no idea until I read the book that his childhood ambition was to join the SAS, which he may well have been quite suited for.
>Why the second sentence?

Because it's true.

> The article states that frictive losses due to turbulence in pipes could be reduced by up to 90%. That’s a massive efficiency gain in energy transport.

Yes, that's true. But it's a tiny gain in overall energy consumption, and that's what matters if you want to save the world.
> What is a little surprising is people still haven't learnt to a) distrust all MarketingSpeak…

I hear you, it’s frustrating that companies keep getting away with this. On the other hand: people don’t live forever. There are many thousands of new people each day. Each of whom have to relearn all the unwritten rules of society, while tribal knowledge withers with every changing of the guard. This is an inherent inefficiency in a market free of regulations, where consumers learn whom and what to (dis)trust.

I think, at some point, it’s more zen to accept certain behavioural quirks of the market as axioms and focus on how to work with them, instead of against them.

Sorry for turning this into yet another anti libertarian rant :)
The Rohingya crisis comes to mind. I can't think of another time in my life I've heard of a million people being ejected from their own country in less than a year. It's not worse than the Holocaust (although maybe it would be if you look at rate instead of sum), but this is supposed to be peacetime. The army didn't need AI for that; it just needed to hand out weapons and give the order. And let's not even discuss the actual stories the refugees are telling. What's going on in Congo is probably even worse, but we don't hear about it, yet the numbers of refugees are comparable.

Stuff like that is what worries me in 2018. Not AI.
Man dies after being sucked into MRI chamber
Yeah. It seems to me that it's not so much that "war is illegal" as "certain countries have declared a monopoly on force and have the means to enforce it." Or at least try to. That's probably a good thing, but it seems useful to me to approach it with a more accurate perspective.
Introduction to USB Type-C [pdf]
> an effective deterrent to wars between nations

Is this false? The last time I looked, the percentage of the human population afflicted by war has been shrinking.
Javascript is modeled on Scheme. Can you create DSL's in JS? (Legitimate question, I'm not familiar enough with JS to know for sure. Theoretically, it seems possible.)
There's still a long way to go to do that: With that market cap, Apple is worth nearly 1% of the world’s GDP according to the latest estimates from the World Bank that peg the world’s output at $74.2 trillion. That also means the company is valued at close to 4.4% of America’s $18 trillion GDP.
https://www.investopedia.com/news/apple-now-bigger-these-5-t...
NChain Invests in South Africa's Bitcoin-Cash Wallet Provider, Centbee
I agree. This sounds great, and people keep citing "older" software as the reason they don't want virtualization, which makes no sense. Old software is exactly where you won't see a performance difference.

Do people think that "virtualization" only means running a whole other desktop environment in a window or something? You can run virtualized and native apps side-by-side and most users wouldn't be able to see the difference.

This seems like a good way for Microsoft to free itself from legacy while maintaining compatibility, including for games, for people who need it.
Jeremy,

I'm having trouble finding the (old) 2017 material. I would like to see it for my reference. Do you know where this is located?
Hi HN!

I've been meaning to post this for a while. It's very basic and I have tons of pending improvements for it, but it's proven useful to me quite a few times, so... here goes :)

There's another tool in there I called "google-grep", which does (pretty badly), something I'd like search engines to do, which allow you to easily search the content of search results the same query, and output a few lines of context.
> 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?

Social Darwinism has been a running trope with the Cs. The problem is, Social Darwinism is fun until you're on the chopping block...... and so we now see some odd backpedalling in the 2010s now that some have gotten old.

I'd rather pay more to ensure everyone's livelihood is okay.
I can recommend this presentation if you want to feel a bit more hopeful about the world:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1s2qyYQIRQE&feature=youtu.be
> you wouldn’t need to patch it up to the latest version, just run the image with the latest code

.. what? You have to get this image from somewhere, and given the size of modern games that's going to be an awfully large image.

> it’s hapenning and you should probably get used to it

Words that start customer rebellions everywhere.
How does politics prevent electricity companies from building solar plants.

While I agree politics could help enable it more through subsidies. However we are capitalisticish where utilities won't build a coal plant if solar is truly significantly cheaper.
That doesn't make any sense though. The netbook market is drying up.
Within the last ten years we've had solar and wind getting below retail rate of grid electricity, then getting below wholesale rate, now below wholesale rate including storage. There aren't too many 'yes, but...' issues which are left to prevent these technologies actually taking over on a pure cost basis. That is, even if you assumed climate change is a hoax, which is incorrect, the alternative technologies are still better.

I suppose one issue is the length of storage, in the article the ranges they mention are 4-10 hours, I would have thought wind would be variable enough to require longer term storage to guarantee power output, not so certain about solar in Colorado? Presumably the percentage of storage needed would vary a lot depending on the local microclimate. That presumably will be a wrinkle holding up adoption.
Podcast Listeners Really Are the Holy Grail Advertisers Hoped They'd Be
Supposedly cities like New York looked similar into the 70s, but then came a backlash because much of the ads were for "burlesque" entertainment and similar.

Japan, and perhaps also the rest of Asia, has not had such a backlash.
Simplifying Interledger: The Graveyard of Possible Protocol Features
No wonder why Gates said "The Better Angels of Our Nature," was his all time favourite :)
Your Train Is Delayed. Why? [video]
I also first thought this was some smug condescending point of view, but the more I learned about it the more I realize this shit is hard.

And it's not hard because of the mathematical theory behind it. It's because there are so many subtleties in cryptography that in order to call yourself a "cryptographer", you not only need to have understood all the mathematical theory but also have thought about and understand all the subtle edge cases. And once you do get to that point, you become super careful about making certain claims.

Unlike engineering problems where a small error can be fixed somehow through monkey patching, a subtle loophole brings down the usefulness of the entire cryptographic algorithm. So no matter how powerful your next big cryptography algorithm is, if someone finds a very very small loop hole, it's fucked, and the entire algorithm is unusable.

This is so important that the WebCrypto API even named their main API endpoint as "crypto.subtle" (instead of just using the "crypto" prefix) to warn people.

So TLDR: it's not because people don't trust the expertise of a non-cryptographer, but because people trust that an actual "professional cryptographer" is humble enough to not make claims unless they can prove it.

My impression with IOTA is that it makes a lot of mind-bending claims which no one can easily prove or disprove. And also they don't use the proven-by-time cryptographic algorithm. This makes it impossible for anyone to make a trustworthy peer review. (It doesn't help that the founder acts like an asshole so nobody wants to waste their time doing a peer review on it anyway)
I remember reading a post mortem interview of th founder around these lines, but can't find it anymore. They went all-in on the fitness thing when they found out the big market was there, thinking of it as their last chance for survival. Ironically I think that was what killed them in the end. Since they had a very loyal customer base (yes maybe not very big but enough so every kickstarter they launched was a massive success) they probably could have lived aside Fitbit, Apple etc. Reducing their burn rate by focussing on their market segment (productivity watch) and not trying to launch several products every year would probably have kept them afloat.
USB-C is already pretty ubiquitous, but I agree. I don't understand why they dumbed down the mbp - the 'plain' macbook is more than good enough for most consumers and I'm sure they would've loved the touchbar and whatnot.

Obviously I don't want them to make the pro into an ugly thinkpad style thing for the sake of more battery and ports, but I think plenty of people would've been perfectly fine with the new mbp mostly just being an upgrade to internals and maybe the screen. Instead, they dumped the Esc key for a novelty feature pretty much nobody really cares about, dumped the awesome magsafe charging, and got rid of a bunch of ports - not that the old version had a ton in the first place - for pretty much no good reason.

If there were another laptop on the market that Just Worked™ anywhere near as well as the mbp, I definitely would've switched but as it is I'm sticking to my late 2014 model and hoping the next gen mbp is less of a flop.
Isn't that known as a back door listing? Incidentally, these were really common on the Chinese stock exchange a few years ago, which is how I became familiar with the term at least.
I'm also a fan of Pinker's books, but stopping to consider valuable when he writes the preface or recommends a book. I've got 2 terrible flops reading his recommendations. It looks like he'd recommend any friend that ask him.
> A bot today might even have a real insight, just by the luck of mixing two random points together

When playing Apples to Apples or Cards Against Humanity, and everyone puts their best attempts in a pile, add a random card from the deck. In many of the games I've played the deck wins by a long-shot.
meh, seems to me like the richest are biased into seeing a 'better' world because that reflects well on their influence.

But is the world really better relative to the progress we've made? I don't think you can use the sort of facts mentioned in the blurb as a case for the increase in Humanism.
I'm going to get downvoted to all hell but come on? All caps? Scales up forever?
Or the $400k/year doctors and the people who don’t pay because they can’t pay.
AngularJS will get one more major release
Yes, that's a great book. I'm now reading "Homo Deus" by the same author which follows up on some of the ideas in "Sapiens".
Murat's blog is underappreciated. One of the most approachable writers on distributed systems. Check out his full archives.
Stockton Gets Ready to Experiment with Universal Basic Income
>We cannot approve benefits for your recent visit to the emergency room (ER) for pelvic pain,

Pelvic pain could be an indication of an ectopic pregnancy, that's absolutely a ER indicator!
Not sure if I'm more surprised to see an article about SCO vs IBM, or a link to Slashdot. Either way, I feel like were back in 2003 again..
Stochastic Computing in a Single Device
"It seems to me that it's not so much that war "is illegal" as "certain countries have declared a monopoly on force and have the means to enforce it.""

In some lines of thought, that's the definition of illegal...
Not really. It's not like we have a trillion solar panels near the surface that we simply have to dig up. Coal is only alive, because the infrastructure is all there, and it's profitable. The mines are there, the electric plants are there, they are connected to the grid, etc.

Solar panels and batteries are not there, they need to be manufactured, transported from China, land needs to be bought, then they have to be installed. New fabs need to be built to match the increasing demand.
I have not tried the video, but I've read the paper. As I pointed out, your description of a measurement in section 4.1 is a textbook description of wave function collapse. I'm trying to understand how do you think that your explanation is different. Or maybe I'm missing your point completely.
It's changed. You do have to explicitly opt into to it, but you can sideload UWP apps pretty easily these days.
>How does politics prevent electricity companies from building solar plants.

By whacking massive tariffs on imported solar panels.

They pretend it's done for the benefit of American solar manufacturers. It's not. It's done for the benefit of coal and gas. If they just wanted to help American solar manufacturers they'd give them subsidies to offset what they (erroneously) considered "unfair" competition from China.
ICO – Decentralized Search Engine
Well the first thing is that there are different difficulty levels and the "story" difficulty level is very common these days for the vast majority of story based games.

And yes the publisher doesn't care for a 5yr old, and we both know it's an emotional argument. I don't have a problem with various snippets being put online, I also don't have a moral objection to the whole game being made into a movie and put on YouTube but I can fully understand why a publisher wouldn't want people doing that and I don't see any arguments for it within the confines of current western ideology, as in one that does not abolish all or nearly all intellectual rights.

As for your second argument, well yes, but that isn't that common Fallout 3 is not related to any other Fallout game in other than setting, effectively every Fallout provides it's own confined story. Sure you might appreciate the easter eggs if you have played other games but the overall high level plot and story points of previous games are utterly irrelevant.
There are various desktop and mobile clients. Matrix is just a protocol.
Absolutely - even if everyone read this and suddenly feels complacent about our progress - what's next? Everyone is scared to talk about population growth - I mean at what point do we decide that we don't want to erase all unpopulated land simple because its there and fill it with humans. What about populations of wild animals - don't they get to share the earth with us? I feel like the movies about aliens coming and killing all humans is exactly how we treat animals on this planet. Just because they don't use verbal communication doesn't mean they should be slaughtered for our food. Why does progress always have to be pro-human?
If hospitals and medical insurers were run for charity, or out of a genuine desire to help people, you may well expect that.

But hospitals and medical insurance are for-profit businesses. If you're running an ER to maximise profit, and today you make $12,000 off a visit, why would you spend money on urgent care facilities that would make you less money?
Pew research did a survey where it asked 42,000 people in 38 different nations how their day was. Respondents could answer 'particularly good', 'typical', or 'particulary bad'. Nigerians are having the best time, with 73% of respondents saying they were having a particularly good day. In Japan on 11% were having a particularly good day. The outcomes of this pew study correlate inversely with studies that objectively measure quality of life.

http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2018/01/02/particularly...

A ship is safe in harbour, but that's not what ships are for.
Of course you mean go public again.

...didn't Michael spend a lot of time and angst going public, for long-term success' sake?
Interesting, presumably the relevance here is you think mobile phone makers are putting 4-core processors in and blocking use if 2 of them, or putting an extra unused battery in? I can't see how it relates otherwise.

Interesting as it is from a "lies marketers tell" perspective aren't they much more likely to lie about 200 hours standby time than 3800mAh of battery power? The latter can be independently verified much more readily.

They can lie about the standby time in a way they can support in a court of law - it was tested in pre-production with no apps running and the best battery they could find that has been made to the specs, say. But they can't really support putting a 20% lower power battery in and labelling it wrongly.

If it tells you the processor, you can compare with other phones using the same, or other devices with similar chips. CPUs with disabled parts are given different courses by the manufacturer.

Hours of use, etc., would only be useful if done by an independent agency, like NCAP car safety ratings.
Startup founders are older, more diverse, and don’t live in San Francisco