skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That is one hilarious and fascinating documentary. Considering when it was made, I found it incredible how there was a niche of society that had managed to come so close in capturing time in a bottle.
That's the part you fastened on to?

I reiterate: most of us are not served. So I choose to quit going. Good for the rest of them; I harbor them no ill will. Yet I believe there are other facilities to house the homeless (I'm sure of it; my church sponsors one) and educate the young. Why warp libraries to serve this role? How can that help them justify their existence? Doing something badly that other public institutions already do?
On the other hand, having lived most of my life in varying states of depression and having seen doctors when it was at its worst and I was diagnosed with major clinical depression, it is my considered opinion that treating depression is one of those things that doctors are really crap at. The problem seems to me to be that they have a high confidence in a model that isn't very good.

Which isn't to say that drugs can't help, just that they're very much treating the symptoms and not at all the underlying cause.
The problem is sometimes mistakes happen in exam questions, from simple typos to impossible questions, etc. How is the student to know that this was a genuine question vs. a mistake?
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With respect to Woz, it seems he increasingly spouts these contrarian opinions simply to remain relevant. His contributions to discourse are sniping at large organizations from the outside.
My sample isn't particularly large, but RHEL and SLES still appear to be the popular choices. CentOS is also sometimes used. Maybe someone else has a better overview?
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That's not unsolvable: https://www.symmetrymagazine.org/article/the-deconstructed-s...

See also: https://www.sciencealert.com/this-is-what-the-standard-model...
There is the eu for Europe so I think it's reasonable to think Africa being a possibility.
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That's correct, they are testing in those cities, but AFAIK, only specially trained Waymo contractors are involved in those locations who can intervene during a failure. (Some parts of) Phoenix is the only place they're currently allowing passengers, where they conveniently, do not need to disclose any information about their safety record.
I got that it's enjoyable for OP - but it would bug the hell out of me. I found this difference surprising.
We'll use the blockchain to do a rights payment when a tree using our patented DNA grows.

There are also milestone payments: survives for 1 year - a small payment; survives for 2 - another payment...
People commit horrible crimes. That's one of those things that happen. It doesn't actually mean that everything they did was a lie or a crime, even if they are a horrible, detestable human in many senses of the word.

I'd nearly argue that it would be in his worst interest to participate in defrauding something since it might have revealed his horrible offenses.
yes we're based in South Africa so are pretty aware of this.. we group by larger areas for certain functionality, including 'EU' as guessed by someone in this thread.
Buffet decoupled investments from insurance, because he thought (IMO rightly) they should be different products. And his companies only win to the degree that consumers choose them.

That’s a great thing.
No, there isn't. Please quote what other information is provided.
Be careful about defining "high coverage" as 30x. Many applications (especially cancer) really require 100x or more to overcome purity and ploidy, or to identify subclonal populations.
Agreed, reminds me of those stupid Head First books. I like clear and concise information laid out in a consistent and logical manner, not LOOK OVER HERE every 3 paragraphs.
Elon's a funny animal. 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-- but maybe not quite as amazing as promised and never as quickly.

In /r/spacex they joke about "Elon time." Take "Elon years" and triple them.

Of course this is typical for engineers and Elon is an engineer. I do it too. "Oh this will just take a few weeks" == months later...
He once said there is “way too much hype” around the company. Like it's not totally the case for Apple?
> the reason it turned legacy in the first place was because insufficient resources didn't allow proper maintenance.

I want to get that on a T shirt, a placard, an ad campaign, and a billboard.
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> and somehow survives it all ends up getting tortured and killed by Russians a few years after the war.

Check out Raoul Wallenberg (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raoul_Wallenberg), who saved tens of thousands of people from the Holocaust in Budapest, and then ended up killed in a cell by the KGB.
I think in healthcare, there is a problem with profit as a motivation, at least insofar as the ability to receive care. I think healthcare professionals should be paid, and paid well. But a for-profit company (or whether or not one can pay the premiums or deductible of any insurance company) should not be a gatekeeper to whether or not one can receive care at all. Inevitably, someone will be left out in the cold, or will end up paying inordinate amounts to receive care due to bureaucracy (or malice), as has been experienced by people elsewhere in this thread.

This is why I believe single payer healthcare is generally the best solution.

However, in the current situation, I think this idea to create a healthcare company dedicated to serving their employees, "free from profit-making incentives and constraints," is a great idea, one which I hope others will attempt if it ends up a success.
This is just a puff piece. He's not saying anything.
That's a popular theory, but not supported by the testimony of those involved at the time. For example Hitler ordered that tabun production be continued as the highest priority even though the precursor chemicals were in high demand and very short supply.

https://www.quora.com/Why-didnt-Hitler-use-his-extensive-sto...
I had the same unfortunate experience that in angers me to even think about it.

- I leave my last employer on July 21, 2017

- My old employer rols me off system on last day of July 2017

- On June 2017, they switch HR providers from TriNET to Namely and now the payment processor is Discovery Benefits and the Dental/Vision are now in Guardian. (So it went from Aetna to Aetna/Guardian and two other companies).

Since my wife is high-risk and I have thyroid issues, our best bet was COBRA ($1,000 / mo) because the new startup I joined did not offer group health coverage.

What followed next was this:

- The HR person who was handling my COBRA papers left during all of this. Switched jobs.

- Thanksgiving break

- Weeks of "the system will update this weekend with your information."

- "They were suppose to process your dental, but they never did"

My wife and I tried using our new AETNA IDs once we had gotten them and they still told us that it did not work. I had to have an expensive thyroid blood test pushed back. Multiple dentist appointments postponed. Everything.

FINALLY, once I got my SSN and ID for my coverage on AETNA, I had to pay back premiums all the way back to August 2017 just to keep using my coverage. So that's $4,000 USD for services I could not essentially render. $4000 of my hard-earned money. Gone. For nothing -- basically.

They had the gall to tell me (AETNA did) "Sir, if you paid for anything out of pocket during the time of your retroactive coverage, we can pay you back any cost you incurred."

The whole reason we get insurance is to avoid those high prices.

I'm so spent. I'm not an angry man but these health insurance companies really drove it home for me.

I feel taken advantaged of and it really stinks.
The contractors’ feedback is certainly considered a high-signal dataset. I am not directly familiar with that aspect of the company (I worked on things somehow related but not this) but I suspect there are several ways of training and assessing estimations that certain content breaks certain rules (gore, direct threat, child endangerment, etc.). There could be challenges (legal, quality issues) of using automated decision to block or not block different types of flagged content.

One thing that, as a data scientist, I noticed: none of those reports complains about seeing the same image repeatedly. I understand that posters are often tempted to spread new content, so I would expect there to be many repeats. It could be because they see so many similar and shocking things they don’t recognise. Or companies could use techniques to pool together content that is identical or similar enough.
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I wonder if the FCA plan to be the platform for Google's self driving AI, instead of trying to develop their own AI like other car vendors are doing, make sense. In some way it seems very hard and costly to build your own AI, even Tesla appears to be lagging behind Waymo. On the other hand I'm not sure how much replaceable the position of FCA is. Currently trivially replaceable, but maybe in the future as they develop more and more skills about building the platform for autonomous driving vehicles (minus software), it could be a good position to be in.
Yup that's .africa for "the African and Pan African communities and users" and the African Union. Technically .eu is for the European Union, not the continent of Europe.
Niche uses where long-read sequencing is required (denovo assembly, reference improvement, bacterial genomes, whole-isoform transcriptomes. Nanopore is starting to eat into that market, though.
I think there is another psychological factor at work, which is that people feel more critical toward, or at least more free to express criticism of, very successful people or orgs.

When Apple was struggling for success against Microsoft a decade ago, it seemed like a lot of tech folks gave them a pretty big benefit of the doubt. OS releases had problems then, but the reaction was usually balanced by a sense of, "this is progress though."

Now that they are the most valuable company in the world, there's not really any benefit of the doubt anymore.

I think a similar effect was at work in the 2016 U.S. presidential election. The widespread assumption was that Clinton was by far the stronger candidate, so there was very little benefit of the doubt for anything.
How can it matter? If its unanswerable, its unanswerable for everyone.
Oh no, now the government won't have access to my browsing history.

Apart from GCHQ as part of TEMPORA & NSA as part of UPSTREAM.
Personal anecdote, as someone who has been on Twitter for 8+ years and is very active (80k+ Tweets) I've noticed that the bot follower spam is much better now that in the past.
You’re right, but respectfully, in the long term, “I want this specific provider at any cost” is somewhat of an edge case. A lot of (most?) people just want good healthcare and a low cost. That’s a complex but solveable problem.
> The worst customers I've seen, everywhere I've worked, are the ones being under charged.

Totally agree, saw it over and over again. Worst customers are those that get something for free. They are also the most illoyal (not really surprising).

I made the following observations across multiple B2B startups:

- Paying a high price triggered a behavior à la "we're paying dearly for it, so we better use it properly and frequently", which meant that stickiness (# of seats, hours of daily use) increased.

- Down the line, the customers who paid the highest price were the most loyal (in terms of churn & avg. contract period signed during renewal -- often signing for 5 years with a small discount when minimum was 1 year).

- Customers paying high prices had less support inquiries.

- Customers paying high prices were overall friendlier on the phone (don't have hard evidence for that).

Question -- in which direction is the causality working? E.g., when we assume that less support inquiries means that the users are more knowledgeable:

- Do high prices overall attract more knowledgeable people?

- OR are knowledgeable people better in estimating the true value of a product for their business, and thus are willing to pay a higher price?

- OR do knowledgeable people rather work in businesses that have higher margins, and thus are able to afford a higher priced product?

It seems for me that charging premium pricing had overall pretty positive effects on all businesses I've been working in.
> There are more trees now than there were 100 years ago.

You may be correct. However, coming from an avid guitarists who looks at this particular industry in isolation from most people; there isn't "old growth" which is a unique problem in my industry. And what trees there are, less of them are considered musical instrument grade.

Also, the types of trees matter a lot (for certain things). We simply can't use Brazilian Rosewood for new builds anymore. It doesn't exist, and what does is heavily, heavily protected (To the point where instruments made before the export ban -worth $$$$$$$- are getting confiscated. Others similar to rosewood have been confiscated simply for looking like it's made from the Brazilian kind).

I think, in general we were aware of our problem as consumers of trees. However, we underestimated (for musicians) how the age and growth patterns dictate what makes a good tree for X. What was untouched for centuries simply makes better wood.

Essentially, the niche markets are really, really feeling this squeeze. So much so that Fender has switched to an alternative Rosewood for most if not all of their guitars, Taylor often uses (and pioneers in this subject in many ways) alternative "tonewoods" and has for years, simply because the wood that exists for these instruments even 50 years ago is simply unattainable now.

Some boutique builders are forced to harvest "forgotten" logs which sunk to the bottom of lakes and rivers decades ago.
As long as the list is used for "people who will/won't be invited to speak at Google HQ", and not used to influence search results, I have zero problems with it.
> The three judges said Dripa was “inconsistent with EU law” because of this lack of safeguards, including the absence of “prior review by a court or independent administrative authority”.

I imagine the government knows exactly how to take care of the pesky little problem of EU law giving people rights.
Playing against an unbeatable computer is not a good way to learn... Same thing goes for chess.
It far outstrips Moore's law :)

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Orit_Shaer/publication/...
> This could be accomplished without using Pony

Sure, but why should it be accomplished without Pony? Languages are optimized for use-cases. This means that some languages are good and some are worse at handling particular use-cases. If Pony is the best choice for their use-case, why would you not choose it? Taking all the risks of a new tech into account, of course.
Why would they have any indication that it wasn't your primary phone? Just say you hate touchscreens and you don't need the distraction of notification overload (if they even bother to question it).
Hard to tell why initially you were downvoted so much. It's actually a very interesting comment for me, and a very clever strategy because if Waymo fails, while the press will say it's Google owned, it will still be felt as a separated entity. If it succeeds there will be a stronger link between the two brands in people's mind, and such link can be made stronger via marketing.
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For those of us not familiar with ML, what are some examples of data that is best consumed by something like this?
The other information, is the reasonable assumption that there is a minimum age limit for getting a license, and an apprenticeship for larger vessels. As mentioned. Even if you don't know the numbers, you can sketch out that thought process for an answer. Not all algebra is done with constants.

In fact my sister ran the data systems for a large trucking company. Her interview questions included "how many ping pong balls will fit in a semi-truck trailer?" She was looking for any kind of process to arrive at an answer. Most folks just flailed around, helpless because the question didn't include the answer in it (like so many test questions in school).
This sounds like a messed up variant of an actual solvable old riddle that goes something like:

"Imagine that that you are the captain of a ship, there are 26 sheep and 10 goat on board... "

... go on for about 2 minutes talking about how the ship stops in different ports and how number of respective animals change... Add another animals as well, make the listener assume that they need to keep the count in their head...

"Now in the final destination all of the animal get off the ship. How old is the ship's captain?"
Then just mark the email as spam. This will sooner or later bite them.
Yep, it does look like Samsung may be in a position to catch up soon. That could make a real problem for Qualcom the other Android manufacturers. Samsung are the biggest manufacturer of high end Android phones. If Qualcom can't sell high end CPUs to them any more, it might make manufacturing any truly high end CPUs uneconomical, or at least drive up costs even further.
That's very similar to something Derek Sivers wrote last week. His post was very short, so I hope he'll forgive me posting it here (but his entire blog is worth the read, and his book Anything You Want is one of my all-time favorites):

One time a college far away in Ohio, about a 12-hour drive, asked what I would charge to do a two-hour show.

I said, “$1500”.

She said, “Oh, that’s a bit too much. What would you charge to do just a one-hour show?”

I said, “$2000”.

She said, “No, wait, you’ll be performing less, not more!”

I said, “Yeah! Exactly! What you’re paying me for is to get there! Once I’m there, playing music is the fun part! If you tell me I have to get back in the van after only an hour, and drive home, then I’m going to charge you more than if you let me play for a couple hours first.”

She liked that so much she came up with the $1500.

https://sivers.org/pp
I am sure he ordered the flamethrower anyway.
It's odd how little skepticism any of Musk's claims are met with. I can't imagine the situation would be the same for anyone else. (Not to say he hasn't had many impressive accomplishments, but people seem to want to believe anything Musk says so much that they stop thinking critically).
I would say that therapy chatbots (including ELIZA) would be able to work at least the same as Journaling what you do every day. See https://www.urmc.rochester.edu/encyclopedia/content.aspx?Con...

If you make it more convenient to do this or encourage people to participate then having a nice UI would probably work wonders. Also, if the user believes that the system on the other end is human enough I think you could see better results.
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Culturing is the problem, though, right? Many types of bacteria (including some pathogens) really do not like to grow on most media. There's no doubt that sequencing is the future of infection diagnosis. It's just a matter of how long it takes to get there (cost and complexity both have to drop).
> Does anyone really think some "law" will change this?

Having a law which stops it probably won't make a difference, but have a law which allows it definitely will.
What's interesting about that problem is that (for me, at least) knowing that that is enough information to solve it makes solving it a lot easier. If I was just told to make as much headway as I could, I'd get stuck on some tricky geometry, but once you're told that the answer is a single number, not in terms of any variables, the method of solution became clear.
How would this possibly be enforceable?
> The Red Army was indeed a savior. It is thanks to those masses of poor soldiers

Regarding that point, when Soviets were "freeing" Poland after Hitler's fall, it was really common for them to raid houses of polish civilians. They didn't only steal and kill, but also rape women, children, infants alike (even impale them on sticks). I'm living on territories close to the one of extermination camps and soviets really brought us more harm than nazis durning WW2.

Red army was created mostly from really uneducated villagers that lived in conditions similar to those in middle ages.
The problem comes from the drive for increased profit as time goes on, especially in healthcare.
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Ehm, pick a niche programming language, build your client for a complex system. All cool, but it's not the straight line to solve problems in a company in the simplest and most effective way. Good thing if you have some spare R&D time maybe but hardly a sane approach for most.
This will take some time, a few months to up to a year. Sorry.

However there's already one insight: Yesterday I tried out the track pad of the Surface 1 and just tactically it does not feel the same as the MBA. Perhaps Surface 2 is better, we will see in March 2018.
> "Why are sewer covers round?"

Because sewer access holes are round.
The (related) advice that has always worked well for me:

"You know you're charging the right amount when a client complains about the price but still pays you."

Or, to put it another way, if no one complains about your prices then you're not charging enough.

YMMV.
I was logically onboard back then, but the notion of Proof of Work mining seemed ridiculous and wasteful, so I didn't bother. I didn't even consider its purchase, which in retrospect would've been a good idea?

I'm happy to hear the field is moving to Proof of Stake. I would've been on board from the beginning most likely.
> But the end of this story drives home just how brutal Russia was.

> it all ends up getting tortured and killed by Russians a few years after the war.

Is it that brutal? Killing foreign spies is something not unheard of in this historical period (see eg. Klaus Fuchs, who stole nuclear secrets), the only difference is in the torture.
I think we should be clear that for $1k you get something that is entirely different than a human genome. It's just a set of short reads that can be mapped onto a reference genome. You can't de novo assemble it, so you won't be able to see a lot of variation. In fact we can't even estimate how much large scale variation there is because all the studies are based on the short reads.
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I have a hard time imagining any other conclusion than that a person who genuinely, confidently, takes the whole "post-fact" idea seriously is someone who doesn't think enough about the things that are coming out of their mouth.
In the abstract, giving away the proceeds to a cause you support isn't really a tremendous excuse for bad behavior.

I'm not evaluating Buffett either way with that statement, just pointing out that it is possible and probably necessary to evaluate his behavior without giving consideration to his pledge.
Elon Musk is a very popular figure on sites like reddit that "like" technology and science but have very little understanding of it. Every week he says something that either shows what a "down to earth" guy he is, some doomsday prophecy, or announces some pipe dream technology that will never be worked on, and the masses start reposting his every word.

He (or rather his PR team) is very good at creating that "image" and keeping himself popular on reddit, but he's terrible at the thing an enterpreneur is supposed to excel at - generating profits.
I hope this new company has a huge lobbying arm from day 1.
They do but the relief can be short lived. A therapist is basically an expert who can put into practice what you need to do to feel less depressed.
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