skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Do you believe hospital Executives/VPs (which are more likely than not physicians) are not interested in lining their own pockets? Take a look at who sits on which boards and the rather obvious conflicts of interest within HC. The entire system is designed for billing. You realize clinicians make bonus on seeing as many patients as possible. See a patient for 15 mins bill for 1 hour.
> all of Apple's talented developers have most likely shunted over to iOS

This gets trotted out a lot, but I have trouble believing it. I don't think Apple considers developers to be in short supply--and if they do, it's very stupid of them and they should reexamine that thinking.

I know that demand > supply for skilled developers right now, but Apple has enormous amounts of money in the bank. They can't use a tiny fraction of that to get themselves more, or better developers? I doubt that shareholders would notice/care if a few millions of dollars went towards a hiring blitz for, say, 100 really good engineers with salaries so competitive that Apple could poach them from wherever else they work.

I'm not saying that "throw bodies at the problem" is always a good solution, but Apple can easily afford to throw really, really talented bodies around, and if short-staffing is their problem, it seems like the solution is obvious.

Am I missing something here? Would adding a bunch of beyond-competitive senior developer salaries dent Apple's numbers more than I think they would? Are there really just not that many developers willing and able to work on this at any price? If not, is the problem with "willing" or with "able"?
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This was what I initially thought of as well. I figured that Christmas Islands made some money from the .cx TLD (from abcdse.cx type domains, a la the infamous goatse.cx)?

My less mature side could imagine something like idg.af selling for quite a bit.
I guess it depends on what you do. For example, if you're deploying to x86 servers and you're testing on local VMs using Vagrant or whatnot, it helps to be able to be using the exact same platform and not worry about unexpected bugs/issues that might be platform specific.
Its card style doesn't follow Material design.
The simpler malevolent explanation is that they just want stuff to write about that will receive clicks.
> By having made their own scripting language it allows for it to flow better with their engine, at least that's my opinion.

It also locks your code into their ecosystem, albeit to a much lesser degree than, say, GameMaker and GML because Godot is open source, and allows support for other languages.

Unless anyone is going to use GDScript anywhere else as a general purpose language, it's as useless to learn in the long term as GML or Boo for Unity.

That said, Godot looks nice and I look forward to trying it out. But I do believe that, in general, game frameworks should stop rolling their own custom scripting languages.
There still isn't an answer to the problem.
You might enjoy this blog post exploring the surprisingly deep (and interesting) rabbit-hole of Java's Object#hashCode() method.

https://srvaroa.github.io/jvm/java/openjdk/biased-locking/20...
ArangoDB 3.4: ArangoSearch – Information Retrieval with ArangoDB
Yeah but those belong to Amazon. It's nothing like the FB pixel etc. and you get much less information than a good GA setup. It also depends on whether Amazon owns your products (Vendor) or if you own the products still (Seller). You get different sets of metrics based on that and also whether or not you pay extra for the fancy suite of metrics.
It's all about that first postmark, when you start the paperwork.
love this quote "An immeasurable amount of scientific and technological progress, like a huge invisible inverted pyramid, converges on this small, toylike point. "
120K is not a lot at all if op lives in a coastal city (NY/SF/Boston/LA). Especially if OP is the sole provider of the family.
>> If you want an investment you can invest, if you want insurance you can get insurance.

Most people used to do both at the same time and it seemed to work pretty well before Buffett came along. And there's a good analogy to your last point - someone who rents an apartment for 40 years when they could have bought an equivalently valued home two times over. They shouldn't complain when they die with a net worth of zero, they had a roof over their head for 40 years!

Also, mutual policy holders don't "overpay" for insurance as all dividends are returned to them. Only a private insurance company policy holder could overpay. Just thinking about it now, Buffett wouldn't be so rich if his policy holders weren't overpaying, as you're implying.
It would. That's why I wrote, that "drone" is "the new sexy name for RC planes and helicopters/multirotors".
I think one of the big ideas that is being tested out there is getting rid of the adversarial economics of insurance in general. The whole industry is basically optimizing towards paying out as little while maximizing what they can get. Such cynicism is being broken in some sectors. Like Lemonade is really trying a radical new behavioral approach.
Introducing kEdge: a fresh approach to cross-cluster communication
Okay, lets start by repealing limited liability for investors.

If the government has no place simplifying the process of buying insurance (by making sure products are available, comparable and reliable), then the government has no place protecting people from legal consequences related to their investments.
Would be awesome to get some examples up on the site, particularly WebAssembly/WebGL 2.0 ones
Didn't the inverse happen, Chess AI made a bunch of seemingly random bizzare moves, which confused their human opponents?
Firefox's "Reader View" comes in handy again
we're talkign about HMOs here, not Insurance Companies. There is a big, big difference.

Also, the companies aren't particularly inefficient, because that gets in the way of making profit.
Didn't Intel start passively aggressively signalling that they'd start enforcing their patents with lawsuits if companies do that?
Not about your demand - about the market's? You can be busy with 2 jobs overlapping, yet the market can be soft for lots of people and you underbid to get those jobs.
Don't forget what Russia did with regards to Poland at the start of the war. They entered into an agreement with Nazi Germany to carve up the country.

Russia had a pretty good track history of making territorial conquests. By the time the allies met in Berlin in was apparent Russia wasn't interested in giving back what they gained.
I had the exact same feeling. I initially imagined a guy finding new clues to build an open source GC library from a pile of old Java reference books.
This is what I never understood in online ads. You're looking to buy, say, a North Face jacket but the price is a bit higher than you're willing to pay, so you close the tab.

Now, you go elsewhere on the web and you see ads for that particular jacket, but there's no incentive for you to click on the ad because you already know the price is too high.

But if the ad says: "hey, 10% off on this jacket in the next 30 minutes with coupon code xyz" then yeah you might click on the ad, buy the jacket and in the end, the customer, the retailer and the ad agency are all winning.
If you profit off sick people, are you motivated to move toward a world with no sick people? If you profit from prisons, then you need to fill you prisons. Problem is, that as a society, we should aim toward not needing prisons at all. Therein lies the rub.

If I profit off of you being sick, then I need to keep you sick.
To be precise, there exists a subset of facts that supports a narrative of epistemological nihilism.
Kaiser is available up and down the west coast, having completed the acquisition of Group Health last year. https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/health/kaiser-perm...
We charge for the project fixed cost and hours. Anything over that by the hour. So if the customer wants to keep making changes, they are free to do so - for a price.
>Already technical users here on HN don't want to use Amazon for the risk of receiving counterfeit products.

Are you talking about low quality or counterfeit? Personally I don't care about counterfeit, but I do care about quality. In any case, Amazon already has been tackling it to some extent.

http://www.businessinsider.com/how-amazon-fights-counterfeit...
Justice is generally enforced by a human with a proven track record of being reasonable, a judge. I don’t think a judge will go after a CS intern because she forgot a semi-colon in her pull-request. A judge might very well go after a company that has a pattern of emails arguing that dodging around requirements on brakes saves money by not having to replace them as often.

In the case of manual driving, there is an understanding that humans might kill other humans when operating a motor vehicle and the enforcement focuses on a subset of precautions (alcohol, speed, lanes and, for professionals, continuous hours of work). For lane assistance and robot cars, there are no explicit list of guidelines yet, but there should soon be enough cases around: clearly communicating to drivers what is their responsibility; taking necessary steps (which might need professional bodies to define) when releasing something new, possibly a dedicated bureau. Cases will be more complicated because, presumably, only large corporations can handle those. The responsibility will most likely be focusing on testing practices and enforcement, not individual coders.

I suspect the closest structure will be pharmaceuticals & medical devices: it is currently acceptable to sell complex products made by large corporations that can statistically be related to thousands of people dying -- because they come with scientifically sound studies on samples, proving that they save more given a certain diagnostic. A public body defines how to prove that those help and private initiatives try to match those criteria, asking for experimental exceptions to medical practice.

Google has a habit of testing A/B on half of the world’s online population, so they might push against not trying more widely than small tests at clinical scale. There could be an interest in building a realistic simulator and testing code in there; building tracks able to replicate edge cases with mannequin -- things that actually already exist for the auto industry.

The prize is so large and the brand impact of being seen as unsafe too large for stakeholders to not find a reasonable solution.
Building Supervised Models for User Verification – Tutorial
Yeah. The prediction of $10,000 was predicated on:

> I estimate that bitcoin has somewhere between 0 and 0.1% chance of eventually replacing a decent size fiat currency, which would put the value of a bitcoin at anywhere upwards of $10,000 a bitcoin.

Likewise the other prediction mentioned:

> If Bitcoin becomes the new global monetary system

Let's see the results of the people who are holding on with that expectation (and some still are). That $116,000 isn't there until after you move money out of Bitcoin.

But maybe you put money in knowing that it's a speculative bubble, and are willing to pull that $116,000 out now? Sure, but bubbles are irrational. If you had people advocating a schedule for pulling your money out of Bitcoin (the first comment mentions one), than that makes sense, though the amount you would be holding would be a lot less than $116,000. Without that schedule you're left with trying to time a bubble, which is the issue with every bubble. The article doesn't give any indication of why people should sell now, and they shouldn't have sold at $11,600, or why they shouldn't try to hold on until $1,160,000.
That is cool. https://www.debuggex.com/ has nice visualization.
This is more what I was aiming at. Sorry for my poor phrasing before. Maybe replying on HN after some whisky isn't the best idea.

I tried to look up some of the past HN comments and the like I was looking at. While many complained about some missing SV style elements (missing VC, tougher working regulations) there were also mentions of different ways of doing things such as risk aversion or the style of business being more consensus-based (Sweden).

Here in the US, when thinking of dominate European innovative companies, I guess Skype (pre-acquisition), SAP, and even toss in IKEA would be ones that dominated (or in Skype's case, created) their markets.

Anyway, this was all speculative off the dawhizkid's premise of 'would a solid safety net create more entrepreneurs?' and, given we have good examples of that in Europe, I thought it worth taking a shot at.
Waymo is also working on courting other manufacturers, but nothing else has been announced outside of Honda[0] (which hasn't gone anywhere).

Car manufacturers today can be seen as integrators of various technologies. Most all of the driver assist tech out there today comes from companies like MobileEye and Bosch. It tends to make sense from an expense perspective to let that type of tech be developed outside of car manufacturers so the development costs can be more easily be recouped.

[0] https://www.recode.net/2016/12/21/14046496/waymo-alphabet-ho...
I'd like to see some evidence on that because I can imagine staying with one doctor might result in some conditions not being diagnosed.
It's not like there were better alternatives at the time.
I've been laid off twice in 2017, still unemployed from the 2nd one. Not going to lie, its tough. Just have to keep your head down and keep focused on something. I've taken the time to brush up on new skills.
That touches some on one of the big potential advantages of having a "cloud" of cheap self-driving cars available.

Right now, people need their own car and can mostly only afford one, so they only buy cars that are at least pretty good at everything. And that's like 90% of the market, economies of scale are so strong that car companies don't really make anything but that.

Cars that drive on the freeway get a decent advantage from being aerodynamic. And right now, basically nobody wants to buy a car that can't run on the freeway efficiently.

If the self-driving car world moves car ownership from individuals to large taxi fleets, then markets open up for all sorts of specialized vehicles. Now we can make something that's super easy to enter and exit but has poor aerodynamics and high-speed handling. They might be awful on the highway, but the self-driving car taxi company will still buy some as long as they have enough non-highway ride requests and interest in the vehicle type.
At least when you donate to the library, there's a chance they'll think one of those books is worth including in their circulation.

Although I "donate" to Half-Priced Books (sell, but at a pittance), who would then donate what they don't sell to the library, who would then throw the book away, so I have an extra layer of abstraction in my process, and presumably HPB thinks they can sell a few of my books.
Qualcom's chips tend to struggle to keep up with whatever Apple released two generations ago.

But it doesn't matter because if you're building an Android device you can't buy an A chip for it.
I'm sure they'd appreciate a ticket - There's already this which is similar: https://github.com/javallone/regexper-static/issues/26
Reminds me of http://hack.af
No, it's about crypto.
> If there are indeed more than 10,000 of these, then I agree it's selection bias to only look at the successful one. Do you think there were? Personally, I'm having trouble coming up with even a single equivalent case, though I'm sure there are at least a few.

Isn't this basically every startup? If it grows up to become Google or Microsoft, you 10,000X your money. And then 10,000 of them don't.
Scott argues that Bitcoin is an example of why rationalists need to be more confident in their results — I’d argue it’s an example of where they should be much more modest. Hindsight bias is in play here.

The line of reasoning that “this investment has a 1/10000 chance of going huge, and a 9999/10000 chance of being at best a waste of time, so I should invest” is not a rational strategy by itself. If you applied this logic to every moon-shot investment you came across you’d barely break even between the few winners and thousands of losers. You need to know something more interesting about the investment than “this could go to the moon”. Otherwise you’re spending all your time buying and then losing money in penny stocks.

You also have to hold onto Bitcoin much longer than seems rational. It’s rare to find that someone buys Bitcoin at $1 a coin, and doesn't sell at $1000/coin. A 1000x return is the definition of moon-shot. Scott claims that “most people” agreed Bitcoin had a more than 1/10,000 chance of achieving $10,000 a coin — but this is a totally non-obvious result to me. Maybe it’s 1/1000 chance of a price of $1,000? A 1/100,000,000 chance of $100,000? In 2011, how could you reliably make such a precise prediction? For a community centered around epistemic modesty, such a finely calibrated probability like that seems unreasonable.

And for the record — Bitcoin was expected to grow in price proportional to its value as a currency, tool, technology, etc. Nobody said “I’m going to buy Bitcoin because it’s going to enter into a giant speculative bubble and I want to be on the bottom”. Nobody seems to know why Bitcoin has exploded in price, so I’m hesitant to award points to rationalists. Seems more like a case of “correct by coincidence”. You made statistical inferences and acted on the result, and ended up being right, but not for any of the reasons that your statistical inference is based on.
I ended up getting a 2017 Honda Accord V6 with Sensing. I got everything that I wanted, but had to compromise and get passive keyless entry.

The Toyotas Camrys also seemed good, except I couldn't find a V6 to test drive and they didn't have Android Auto.

Just a note: I'm not super-paranoid about my car getting hacked. I didn't want a cellular modem because I know I won't use whatever features it enables, and I didn't want my car to be ransomed for a bitcoin. I didn't want passive keyless entry because it didn't seem like much of a convenience, and it weakens security against petty theft.

My criteria, in priority order:

Must haves:

* V6 engine

* No cellular modem

* No passive keyless entry (not really available anymore, so I had to drop it as a dealbreaker)

Nice to haves:

* Android Auto/Carplay

* Adaptive cruise control, etc.
I used regexr quite a lot during my daily work.

I think regexper more suited for complex structures whereas regexr is better for checking the meaning of simple expressions because of the hover-over function.
I am looking forward to self driving cars, and keep hoping they will get here before my parents lose their ability to safely drive themselves.

Back in the mid 70's there was a 'personal rapid transport' or PRT system proposed which was individual 'cars' on a rail system that were smart enough to stop at a station. The idea was that the rail line had switches where a PRT unit (4 or 8 passenger) could go into a station when called with an elevator like button. You would get in, and then it would head out on the track and not stop again until your destination station.

The idea was that it eliminated the two biggest issues with 'public transportation' which were pickup and drop off schedules that forced waits when you transferred from one line to another, and the fact that the train/bus would make all stops forcing it to be slower than a point to point bus/train.

I believe you could implement that system safely on a dedicated 'self driving car' road. And such roads would be less expensive to build than a rail infrastructure.
Which ironically is 3 more days than the US has as federally mandated vacation.
You literally said: "Almost nothing is a free market".

> in fact a huge fraction of the US economy is very much not free market

Indeed, many industries depend on highly limited resources, such as land, natural resources and so on.
back in the old days, we used to get a ring for each year.
Here is a regexp to match an IPv4 address - looks quite nice and easy to understand compared to the regexp! In fact the visualisation makes it easy to spot the mistake.

https://regexper.com/#'%5Cb((25%5B0-5%5D%7C2%5B0-4%5D%5B0-9%...

(From https://stackoverflow.com/q/5284147/164234 )
Fiction has always existed in a "post-fact age" (whatever that is). Nothing has changed but our awareness of our own absurdity.
SQL Server Triggers: Understanding and Alternatives
Speedrunslive defines a glitch as an "unintentional mistake in games code."

In your example, the dash-crouch in SMB is a glitch.
Im talking about totally thinking differently, not the current situation.

About having a lot of money saved....after a prosthetic implant i added up stuff. $143,000 spent on insurance since 2005. Part employer part me. Up until the prosthetic less than $5k (if that) on health. $143k is almost 3 years pay. I would have rather had it paid to me. Then i would have spent my money for my healthcare
Air Force 1 (really, a VC25A) is a completely customized airplane designed to carry the commander in chief of the most powerful country in the world, indefinitely in the case of war (the airplane refuels in midair). Comparing it to your parents refrigerator is outright disingenous.
Funny enough my worst experience with selling stuff on Craigslist is the items I've tried to give away for free. I had a nightstand once, it had some damage and I didn't think it was worth anything so I put it on Craigslist for free.

First response I got asked if I had the second nightstand, because it was a pair and it doesn't make sense to have just one nightstand. I did not. They weren't happy about it.

Second response asked if I could deliver it because it wouldn't fit in their car. It's free. No, I'm not delivering it.

Third response complained about the damage and said they would take it if I sanded it and refinished it. I offered to cut the price by 50% (from $0 to $0) to account for the damage, which they were not amused by.

Finally I just put the nightstand on the sidewalk and someone came by and took it away.

I think part of it is what others have said, cheapskates are just worse people to deal with in general. But also I think you run into the issue of people get really suspicious when they're getting a too-good-to-be-true deal and are on the lookout for any sign they might be getting scammed. If they're paying premium, they're willing to let down their guard and wait for the results to prove themselves.

No one wants to drive to your apartment only to find out it's a bait-and-switch or (even worse), that they're going to get mugged.
I hit this bug when using htop
They're mostly based in California, though they recently acquired Group Health Cooperative (largest healthcare provider in Washington State).
Instagram is going to implement video calls
I really need to excise that from my comments. I didn't have the right language to express what I was going for.

What you're saying is what I was trying to get at.

So, in Belgium, despite knowing that you could fail and that wouldn't be completely detrimental to your financial life, you're saying that there's an aversion to risking it with a startup due to social consequences?
All Apple A series chips were branded as theirs although it was fairly clear that prior to the A6, all A series chips were designed and manufactured by Samsung. The A4 chip was also designed by Samsung (and Intrinsity in collaboration) to compete with Qualcomm and go beyond the 1Ghz clock speed barrier.

Bloomberg also seems to think that the A4 was Apple's first processor designed in-house, when Intrinsity was not part of Apple. So I'd like to know how much of Apple's own engineering went into the design of the A4, that wasn't Samsung or Intrinsity.
"I'm right no matter what everyone else says!"

Kind of the defining problem of this topic.