skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To me he is a character like Gates, Rockefeller or Carnegie. Ruthless, ever greedy businesspeople who get as much as they can out of business at any cost. Then they give a big part of it away. The question is whether the health care thing is part of the making money activities or part of the giving away activities.

You can always hope for the best so let's see what happens. Looking at the American health system I am not very optimistic.
Still not an HN quality article IMO, seems light on content and borderline gossipy.

The only interesting part was his experience with the self-driving features and comparisons to BMW/Audi, but regardless he still continues to use it, so it must not be that bad.
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Waymo employees are still Googlers effectively. They ride the same buses, eat in the same cafeterias, go to the TGIF meetings, etc.
Buffet seems like a good-hearted person, but nothing about Amazon or JPMorgan leads me to believe this will be an altruistic enterprise. Also, Buffett is 87 and not likely to be involved for too many more years.
Yes, people are consuming more services.

Look at cancer outcomes. People that live 5 years with cancer consume a lot more medical care than people that die quick.

And all sorts of other things are similar. Trauma care is better, etc.

It's clearly not the only factor but I'm pretty sure it is a factor.
But now, in response to a thread about under-served poor people creating their own public lending library, you're:

1) arguing that public libraries are unneeded because you have enough money to buy your own books (and asserting that 'most of us' can similarly afford our own books, and therefore are not served by public lending libraries)

2) complaining that library collections are 'well-thumbed', while complaining that your favorite book got culled.
The answer can't always be "a sufficiently-expressive language", same as the answer can't always be "a sufficiently-smart compiler". It looks like Red is a minimal programming language, with a purpose-built DSL ("dialect") for UI programming, which handles the "standardized" part. The final result of this line of thought would seem to be that everyone should use Lisp with layers of DSLs for whatever their target functionality is. Which works great, as long as those DSLs are complete, standardized, and mostly not leaky. In the spirit of your comment, I'll let you discover for yourself why that doesn't seem to happen.

EDIT: As an aside, the Java 1.1 JVM was only about 15MB.
Stock market seems to confirm that theory. All the other healthcare stocks opened down this morning.
Cool! I didn't know this was a thing, but I came up with the same solution independently when asked this question.

It also makes a wheel that has a constant tangent from the ground (not a constant axel point) as it turns.
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Presumably because that's what most people actually read?

Why should your particular taste in books be privileged over others?
Or it's the eternal struggle of a community whole trying to overcome ruthless selfishness of those in power.

Your naked partisanship is ugly and unhelpful.
> Charge what the market can afford and is willing to pay for your services.

The concept isn't complicated, it's obtaining the information on what the market can afford and what someone specific is willing to pay for your services.

Markets aren't magically adjusted to the one true price. It reflects a collective information distribution, and can consequently be manipulated through information asymmetry.
r/futurology

(blech!)
Google are a private company with no requirement (barring legal strictures) to allow anyone onto their campus. If they want a list of undesirables, they can have one. Same as you've probably got one for your house.
> Then there are the questions that, at first sight, do not seem to have all the information, yet they do.

I love the following problem, in a similar vein:

There are two chosen natural numbers x and y, both between 1 and 100. Two smart people, Alice and Bob, are told this fact, and Alice is secretly told x*y, and Bob is secretly told x+y, and they are also told who knows what. Then the following conversation happens:

Alice: I don't know the two numbers.

Bob: I knew you wouldn't know them.

Alice: Now I do know the two numbers.

Bob: And now I do know them as well.

The question is, what are the two numbers?
It seems pretty evident that people thought this was private, and Strava did a bad job of communicating that it wasn't. There is also the issue of people in rural areas where they are potentially identifiable.
> The boomer generation is going to be extraordinarily expensive from a healthcare standpoint.

When I log in to check my 401(k) status, there's a button that will tell me my projected income and expenses down the road. Today, I'm 47 and spend very, very little on healthcare. However, when I'm 87, they project I will be paying more than $10,000 per month for healthcare. How is that possible?
I suspect there's some outsider effect happening here (basically, you're not using the right VPN providers).

Plenty of tech companies use a companywide VPN for a variety of reasons.
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I don't know how to explain that still.
"How about I park by this bakery so you can get some still-warm croissants"? Say 'OK Google please do not park in this bakery' 5 times to stop me. "

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Ask HN: Learning Go?
Has anyone found a great online program / course / resource for learning Go? Coming from a complete beginner level.

I found various one-off beginner videos, but nothing that is all connected, and nothing of particularly great quality. Is there something more structured that some HNers can recommend?
Jail is a powerful motivator.
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.

What i’d love to see is a commercial business having vertical integration. Insanely cheap basics like X-rays, mris, and other checks. Heavy use of AI based diagnosis confirmed by doctors, and a big insurance pool where profits go back into scaling healthcare.

Basically current American healthcare is not scalable. Period.
Why would it mention the pyramids? It is not a tourist guide.
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> The court of appeal ruling on Tuesday said the powers in the Data Retention and Investigatory Powers Act 2014, which paved the way for the snooper’s charter legislation, did not restrict the accessing of confidential personal phone and web browsing records to investigations of serious crime, and allowed police and other public bodies to authorise their own access without adequate oversight.

This was such a massive power grab by the authoritarians like Theresa May and David Cameron and they were so transparent about it. Of course such powers should never be allowed in any democrat. But they thought they'd get away with it anyway, because "people don't care about privacy". But this is going to end up badly for UK citizens if they're allowed to operate mass surveillance at a policeman's or taxman's level.
I too would love to hear a long-form answer to this. Erlang seems like a good fit for this problem, besides maybe packaging up the client in an easily usable fashion.
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> I'd tend to assume that any genetic trait that improves intelligence without significant drawbacks would spread rapidly through interbreeding...

I would agree if we were confident that greater intelligence was always worth it, no matter the metabolic cost.

Brains are expensive! Making them bigger incurs additional metabolic costs (and potential complications in the developmental phase). It's very possible that another 20 IQ points wouldn't have really made humans better hunter-gatherers, but would've meant they had to eat more.

Granted, there are likely other ways to get smarter, but it's possible that there would be other systematic tradeoffs required.
"How two mathematicians came to the aid of the Met."
Why more cautious? Good enough driving should be good enough.

Empty driving seems inevitable in any use-case except "my precious". Fleets, yes. Deliveries, yes. Go pick up the kids, yes.
Just because you disagree with the rest of the market doesn't make the rest of the market irrational. How do you know you're not just wrong?
Laws can change things. That's why many countries were in a hurry to legalize what Snowden revealed afterwards.
Everyone focuses on the wrong problem - the insurance. Why do doctors and hospitals charge exorbitantly? 10 - 25 times for the same quality, equipment elsewhere in the world. There are just not enough doctors and they take advantage of that. Let qualified doctors get in the country. When they undercut these blood suckers, prices go down.
Why do statements like this from Wozniak get any press? Steve Wozniak was a brilliant innovator early in the PC revolution days, but he hasn't been influential in the industry for many decades now.
Given that there are people out there killing themselves by eating Tide Pods, DIY genetic editing really may not be the smartest idea ever.
The forensic field moves very slowly in adopting new technology since they have to do a lot of re-validation every time anything changes.

This idea already here, but with technology based on older/simpler methods. One example is Intigenx:
https://integenx.com/rapidhit-system/

The FBI has plans for implementing them:
https://www.fbi.gov/news/testimony/fbis-plans-for-the-use-of.... The laws just need to catch up (or prevent it).
It's a classic nonsense word problem, first appearing in 1841: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Age_of_the_captain

It's also been used to examine how students react to nonsensical word problems, and this is to some extent backed up by the school's statement. However, given the reputation of Chinese schools, it's entirely possible the teacher preparing the test simply threw it in because it looked like a word problem and the school is just saving face.
It demonstrates poor exercise of judgment, which would render them partially unreliable. Then there's the question of whether they're your "peers".
Handcuffs for legislators are just as rare as handcuffs for CEOs. At a certain point one is left to conclude that handcuffs are inversely proportional to the amount of capital you control.
If it is a random number it is not an identity hash function. It is just a position. And in my terminology this makes no sense here, as you normally hash the id/content of the thing you want to store, which is not happening if you return something unrelated to the object. What am I missing?

Edit: https://github.com/multiformats/multihash/issues/13 suggests this is a replacement for using the content of the object, which is not available, to replace the step of hashing something. Is that it? Then it would be a replacement for a replacement of a hash, and not a hash anymore.
Relevant XKCD: https://xkcd.com/1831/
But isn't that OP's point? By nature of your specific disease/condition you are a bit of an outlier no?

Obviously the ideal would be you have a system that accommodates "my kid has a fever/fell out of a tree and broke their arm" majority of medical issues who could be helped by basically anyone trained in basic medicine while also accommodating people who need a rapport with a highly trained/expensive specialist.

That's how I took the comment...apologies in advance if this comes off as insensitive to your condition, definitely not my intention.
Hi slc! I walked around with a monocular hmd for a while in the first decade (until the cable broke), reading was a problem as the text was going up and down in a sinus wave - not really suitable for following the lines.
I thought about two solutions; using a hmd and overlay the text on a camera feed background with low transparency OR use RSVP for the words to stay in one place, or use both but the latter is simpler to implement.
Cycling with a monocular was not a problem, worked great, and the are now several AR ventures for cycling. These can be used for using android RSVP apps... and you look a bit more normal :-)
https://www.wareable.com/headgear/the-best-smartglasses-goog...

I remember that I was out drinking late with my friend (and now working at google) Orri Erling, he was blind and had a white stick, I held his arm on one side while on the other side I had a monocular on my head and a twiddler in my hand. We got some stares.

What I ended up doing was switching to an audio desktop (Emacspeak) and text-to-speech the articles or books I wanted to read.

I have tried the rowing machine with my GearVR, but putting a monitor in front of it is more comfortable. Even so I could try it with my Oculus or MR for a Bigscreen :-) or 360 view with some rowing video's.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-XCrq6ytQeE
It's of course possible that Bitcoin had less than a 1/10000 chance of hitting $10,000, and we're just living in an extremely unlikely world. But given that it _did_ happen, it's probably fair to bet that it was possible at the time to give it better than 1/10000 odds.

LessWrong is all about the Bayesianism, which means being comfortable with probabilities, even though it means you can never be "sure".
an enterpreneur is supposed to excel at

Honest question, but isn't the whole point (or one of the points) that he doesn't care too much about generating profits for shareholders etc (which I'd applaud - why does everything always have to be held up in the light of economy first?) but rather wants to create products no matter what (even if they are delivered way too late)? At least, that is the image which seems to be created. From heresay.
Cross post from elsewhere on this thread:

Apple's SMB support does indeed suck, but if you need to use macs as SMB clients, tuning the SMB client config ("man nsmb.conf") can dramatically improve performance! It's night and day for me when I force a newer protocol, increase the cache size, turn off signing/verification (if acceptable given my network conditions), and increase the async read/write counts.
Good point but it rarely failed at something that was requiring such financial investment.
People want to believe that their medical condition(s) are a special, one-in-a-billion mix requiring years or decades of rapport-building and conversations. That's not the case for the vast majority of people, even with very complicated medical histories and diagnoses.

"Has seen me in the past" and "has my charts" are not indicative of medical efficacy. There are doctors I have rapport with, absolutely. I still have lunch occasionally with the physician who was my family doctor as a child and still sees my parents. But that doesn't mean his medical treatment is going to be any better than a doctor seeing me for the second or third time.
You can serve web content without storing the IP address of the user. If you need to use it for anonymous correlation of requests, you can hash it first.
Actor style concurrency exists for many other language platforms. See Akka for JVM/Scala or Seastar for C++.

I'm somewhat skeptical of GC pauses being a problem in anything that's not actual hard real time like avionics or manufacturing equipment or similar. What difference will a few hundred millisecond pause even make in an distributed async data pipeline? And that's on the higher end of pauses these days.
>> Most hype artists are full of shit and never deliver anything. Elon is full of shit but then ends up actually delivering something rather amazing--

>> Ergo, by your own logic, Elon is not full of shit.

The way I read what he wrote, he/she's saying Elon is a hype artist that is (full_of_shit && delivers_something) as opposed to being a hype artist that is (full_of_shit && !delivers_something) .
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> but he's terrible at the thing an enterpreneur is supposed to excel at - generating profits.

I think that is a very narrow definition. Elon as of today is worth 20.7b (Forbes), between you, me and the internet I think he's doing pretty well as an entrepreneur. A better fit IMO would be 'value'.

Profits are what you chase if you are a CEO after quarterly returns and job security. See Amazon [1].

[1]: https://www.investopedia.com/stock-analysis/031414/amazon-ne...
"Duke Nukem Taking Forever" holds a sweet spot in my heart.
Let's tear down on the government restrictions on the sell side of the market before we champion the glory of the market.

Repeal EMTALA. No patents. No certificates of need. Make Medicare and Medicaid fully opt in for providers. Create a path for additional private organizations to certify medical schools.

Anyone refusing to do all that stuff and face the political consequences for it just wants to pay less taxes.
No, read it again: Most bullshit artists deliver nothing. Others deliver something, but not what they promised.
I 100% agree that there are many factors to take into account. Liquid templating is a huge benefit of Jekyll, for example. This article was just looking at build times and we'll put another one out soon looking at other factors.
Because the manufacturer was cutting corners. ;-)
more likely, instead of safer precautions, it will take much longer, lower traffic routes.
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The companies are taking responsibility, so yes, they're liable and they must have faith in their code to go forward at this time.

The liability-handling is "deep corporate pockets". That's only a risk if there's inadequate improvement.
So soon, bots following bots while we tune in with a tired glance at what the bots are trending today — amusing ourselves to death.
I find it really funny that even though the author of the original article from 2015 turned out to be fundamentally right about price movement, a lot of people here are nitpicking the reasoning to death.

One factor that has contributed to crypto's explosive growth that does not get mentioned as much as I think it should is how controversial it is. I can't remember if it was PG or Mark Cuban or some other VC-related person, but I remember a quote that says (roughly)-

If a new company is based on an idea I like, I want to buy. If it is based on an idea that makes me bored, I don't. But if it is based on an idea that I hate and can't stop thinking about how much I hate it, I want to buy.

Looking back, the "memetic contagion" of people debating the merits of bitcoin has only helped it. The fact that a lot of people hated it (and continue to hate it) and can't stop talking about it has only added fuel to the fire.
I never understood the fear of public funded healthcare in America. An annual premium of $18,000 is insane. My mother in law spent 1 month at the hospital and she had two surgeries. Cost? Zero.
The ads are already there and have been for a while.
do we have a ballpark about the amount of money spent here? they have thrown a lot of money on other projects too i think .
Is he really worth that, or is it just stock options he owns? Those can very quickly be reduced to near zero, as Elizabeth Holmes infamously demonstrated.
But to be real here, the main motivation for creating this new venture is employer cost.

Some people might not be aware that the vast majority of large employers in the U.S. that offer health insurance are self funded (i.e. they collect premiums from themselves/employees and take on all the insurance risk), so anything they can do to lower any direct/indirect cost with plan administration, claims, drug cost (big one), healthcare utilization, etc. will save them billions easily.
And before that Germany and Poland joined forces together to invade Czechoslovakia....
Not really, no. It has been speculated that Akhenatens elevation of Aten above other Gods inspired the monotheism of Moses. But AFAIK this is pure speculation without a shred of evidence. Moses might not even be historical anyway, and the chronology is off. It is much more likely the later monotheism was inspired by Persian religion.
Doesn't it? America is unapologetically a capitalist nation with a few notable and infuriating exceptions (looking at you, ISPs).

I mean if you want to make an anti-capitalist argument on a message board owned by a venture capital firm, feel free. But by definition "profit = good"
I'm sorry but that does sound like the definition of an edge case to me. You have a rare situation that requires a unique solution.
Why does it reflect poorly on TG?

> Todd's "Dragster" performance is one that I have qualified as being one of the top five video game performances of all time within multiple forum posts and in several interviews.

I'd be curious to know what the other 4 performances were.
Of course. But you're paying the round-trip on every page request, you're page-blanking every time--it just feels worse. For some things (where you expect documents--a news site or whatever) that's not the worst thing in the world, but the modern web is increasingly less document-based and more application-based.

And if initial payload is truly that much of a concern, Preact + Redux is under 5KB minified/gzipped.
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More selfies and animogie. No they are not the target. They just make big profits on target.
Americans seldom seem to care about history these days. General Patton himself wanted to patch things up with Germany and liberate Eastern Europe straight on to Moscow, had not Eisenhower stopped him. The Russians were our allies during the war as a matter of mutual need, but communist fears had long been established by that point.
I always do integrator wind-up similar to how you do it -- apply limits to the overall controller output (which are typically necessary for the system anyway), and use that to limit the integrator. Just putting limits on the integrator is too crude, and it's not like it's any easier to program. Maybe the author introduced that because it's easier for a beginner to understand.

However, I typically do not change the state of the integrator the way you are doing here. I just hold the integrator state (i.e. don't update it) if the controller is limited. That way, noise on the P or D signals doesn't cause my integrator state to hop around. I may do it your way if the controller limits are changing over time for some reason.

I also always low-pass filter the D term, as you mentioned. Otherwise, the D term is just too noisy.

I often find that my P and D terms are limited by how much sensor noise I'm willing to let thru to my controller output.
Amazon is in complete control of the ads they show. Quality of ads is a huge goal of anyone working on an ad network trying to compete with Facebook or Google.
Sure; because I observe that most of us are not in the library. Not an argument; an observation - most people don't use it. So they either don't need it, or don't want it, or ?

And thinking changes - I used to appreciate libraries until they screwed me over, left my interests and needs behind, and became a daycare center. I don't want to read romance novels nor juvenile fiction, regardless of how well-thumbed they are.
Google had to split into Alphabet divisions. Executive focus doesn't scale. Arguably, they did it too late, which is why they shit the bed so bad with Google Cloud, a technically superior offering that for years had poor support, no focus, and further fell behind AWS.

The printing press that is advertising there steals all the focus.

I'm convinced that if Waymo was a division of Google, they wouldn't be close to monetizing.