skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
On the situation in hospitals specifically:

https://www.seattletimes.com/opinion/the-red-envelope-capita...
The cheap electronic metronomes are just a 555, some passive components and a rotary switch. Diagnosing and fixing one is a really good project for a 10-15yo
It is always good to think where to draw the line in terms of government interference.

But in this case the Swiss direct democracy is working exactly as expected by the people of the country. They voted decades ago that the government must be in charge and enforce the protection of the dignity and well-being of animals as well as update the law based on new findings. The new rules (which include the lobster stuff) going into effect are just the current iteration.

For example, from the first of March all devices that automatically punish dogs for barking will be outlawed. This is an intrusion in personal liberty, but the Swiss as a whole seem quite fine with valuing the well being of the animals higher than their owners liberty to use those devices on them.

If the Swiss are unhappy with the decisions made by the government here, we have the referendum as an quite often used instrument to stop it. You would need 55'000 signatures within 100 days if I remember correctly to trigger a vote on the national level.
The Best of 2600 – A Hacker Odyssey [pdf]
The numbers were bad, Duncan, because not many people wanted to use it. Your theory that they are "killing off projects based only numbers" is something you appear to have made up.

I think Google's real error was not killing it too soon, but allowing it to be developed in a bubble and then springing it on the world with a giant, "Ta da!" It let them ignore a lot of real-world problems and questions, investing heavily in untested design hypotheses. Once you get to the point of a huge global launch, you've baked in problems in a way that is very hard to fix.
Wave was in Sydney, the only Google engineering office in Australia. I walked through their space before they had even announced the project internally. All that almost everyone in the company knew was that Lars and co. were busy on something big. The rest of the office was aware of its nature, but sworn to secrecy until the announcement. I remember going by a whiteboard, looking at this architecture diagram (wavelets?) and still having little clue on what it was all about, other than it having something to do with threads. :-)

I was asking because I have a vague recollection that Kix borrowed OT ideas or even code from Wave. But then I was even more removed from both teams than you. Or maybe it was just an aspirational thing from management to find a silver lining in the Wave shutdown.
Etherbots: Strategic Battling and Reward-Based Economies in Multiplayer Games [pdf]
Why do people keep misusing the word “deprecate”? Everyone I know seems to think deprecate means “to desupport” or to “end functionality” but it means “to discourage its use”. When someone says “we plan to deprecate it soon” they really mean “we plan to remove the feature soon”, since it’s already likely deprecated.
Columnists in certain British media tend to take a lofty, pretentious tone when writing, I've noticed, and it creates an inauthentic kind of intellectualism.

The articles themselves can often come across as quite elitist and judgmental, and the authors can seem incredibly out of touch. Referring to non-Vegan people as rednecks is one such example, as is the term 'prevailing food paradigm', but you'll see this happens in practically every opinion piece published by a British newspaper.

The author most likely has their head stuck up their own ass so all this nonsense about rednecks and prevailing paradigms is just fluff to big up their ego.
There's always going to be a central authority. Have people forgot the past few thousand years of human history?
> Source code is compiled on-the-fly when loaded from a source file or entered via the shell.[0]

> Whether compiling on the fly or precompiling, the compiler produces optimized machine code, with some optimization across separately compiled library boundaries. [0]

> Chez Scheme compiles source forms as it sees them to machine code before evaluating them, i.e., "just in time." [1]

Chez can both JIT and pre-compile. But it absolutely has a JIT, and has had as far back as I could trace.

[0] https://cisco.github.io/ChezScheme/

[1] https://www.scheme.com/csug8/use.html
> USAA and Fidelity are two I've used that don't delay ACH transfers, those have always cleared ACH transfers next day.

This is because they are crediting you the money before they actually have it confirmed. See my reply below to GP, they are doing this because they are more risk tolerant and/or you are a less risky customer.
https://kotaku.com/sailor-moon-still-works-as-a-figure-skati...
with interfaces?

example: see golang
To most Chinese people, it's not really viewed as "trading personal freedoms" for "economic development". It's more viewed as "trading personal freedoms" for a "better quality of life".

Most people won't complain about personal freedoms as long as their QOL is improving rapidly.
> I'd rather expect banks to offer cryptocurrency accounts

Yes. And then I expect that someone figures out that it is not actually necessary to transfer my crypto to my coffee vendor for cup of coffee, but as we both trust the bank, we just tell the bank to move some crypto from my account to the coffee vendor's account.

Then, I expect that someone figures out that it would be cheaper (well, actually bank would be willing to pay to borrow my crypto) to keep my crypto in bank if I let the bank to lend that forward for interest.

Finally, I expect that someone figures out that the raison d'etre of crypto, fixed monetary supply just broke down, as now banks can "create" "cryptocurrency" at will.
> Trick is to apply without mentioning your extra conditions, get offer, and then say "I only want 32 hours /week."

This will often result in a big waste of time for both sides. You might not care about the company waste (fair enough), but as someone who values their own time, you might prefer to find out up-front in 15 minutes that your requirements cannot be met rather than after spending a day or more on it.

Same with salary. I don’t go 15 minutes into a call with a headhunter without understanding whether we’re in the same zip code on comp. I’d rather not waste my time.
Decentralize everything, a few years down the line, an established authority that everyone trusts will emerge. It will be the center.
This doesn't surprise me either... I'm actually surprised that only 1-2% of our energy goes to nitrogen fixation through the Haber ammonia process. That it makes up half of all nitrogen fixed and used by plant and animal foods isn't all that amazing either.

It's comparable to the water we consume (in foods and plants as well as drinks last going through a treatment plant. That might be 50%, editorially if you drink a lot of water.
I am not sure what your point is. If macOS has fewer kernel panics on semi-closed hardware (what laptop/PC hardware is more open these days?) than Windows or Linux on a bazillion drivers, then macOS would be preferable to me if the hardware us acceptable, even if supporting a bazillion drivers is a greater feat.
Seems to be unstudied, but this person[0] reports has both severe mental and physical reactions currently to almost anything other than meat, though she was able to eat some vegetables safely before. Her father has similar reactions to many plant-based foods, and they both have had serious disorders activated seemingly by diet, especially severe depression.

In addition, many people are unable to eat yeast or yeast extracts, which are among the few commonly available non-flesh sources of the crucial vitamin B12.

[0]: http://mikhailapeterson.com/2017/12/18/zero-carb-carnivore-d...
> as long as you're willing to accept the haskell package madness

https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/pandoc-bin/
Can you say more about how velocity is an empty metric? I'm an IC, sometimes tech lead, (e.g. not management) and j have always found it indispensable.
That seems quite a stretch, when proto-Indo-European ablaut explains the exact same phenomenon. Also, Germanic strong verbs tend to be relatively primitive vocabulary -- go, sleep, drink, sing... So it's also explainable that these forms could develop prior to more standardized forms.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germanic_strong_verb#Origin_an...
At least these cameras give you WiFi in return
Short. Looks like an office building, not residential: no balconies. (Do the windows even open? Good luck trying to feel good when HVAC is down.)

No ocean/mountain views.
Make no mistake here: the wood used in this will be chemically sealed and pretty much inert. It's actually hazardous waste.
You use a language that lets you use methods and members of objects without requiring a specific class. Java does this via interfaces, Ruby and Python by not typing the parameters.
This kind of "need to do something about it" attitude us how we ended up with the war on terror and the first war on drugs
Do you know how this compares to Netlify? They offer free static website hosting, CDN, HTTPS and HTTP/2.
The idea is to give them "number sense." Kids trained on calculators don't bat an eye at 12+6=72. "The calculator said so." "What do you mean I pressed the wrong button?"
Replacing other forms of communication is always a non-starter; every org builds up data legacy in the various tools they've tried out over the years.

(Shameless plug: that's why I built CTX - https://getctx.io - a SaaS cloud search tool that indexes your data in things like email, Slack, Trello, GitHub, JIRA and Google Drive)
Does Scala have a visualization suite like ggplot, seaborn, matplotlib, or something similar?

What benefits does this provide over existing python or matlab code?

> Scientific Computing, Machine Learning, and Natural Language Processing

These seem to be three very different problems. Is there a reason why the group of them is called "ScalaNLP"? If the libraries are generic enough then shouldn't other uses be possible/supported?

Is there a reason this doesn't have a generic name similar to the SciPy stack?
I like the UI, I really do, but all these calculators are flawed in that they can't predict the future. What do I mean? Well, I have ~$1.5M right now and I'm 45 and I want to retire ~50. Seems doable, no? But it's not because I have no idea what the cost of health insurance will be even 10 years from now, not to mention over the course of my full retirement. Also, I have two kids whom I will likely want to send to college, another outrageous expense whose total cost is completely unknowable.

I attempted to retire in 2017. Health insurance via COBRA was a total disaster. I was paying $1400/mo. for my family, so even though I have no mortgage and just the monthly bills, I now did have a mortgage of sorts! It completely fucked my calculations as well as my expectations about retirement.

Folks, here is the truth: You need something like $10M these days in order to retire early and not just be a miser ekeing out some cheapo existence. I don't live extravagantly at all, and I read sites like Bogleheads and Mr. Money Mustache, but I have resolved that the best I can do is to retire--as a software engineer, that is, and maybe, MAYBE work part-time in some boring, dispensible, throw-away shit jobs.

If anyone knows of how to work part-time in IT please post. I am not only a developer, I'm good at DevOps, databases, hardware. I wouldn't mind configuring laptops or setting up servers, as long as it's only part-time and pays something. I just don't want to work at Target or Home Depot, because that is even more soul-crushing than what I already do every day.
I don't necessarily read all of them, but ICYMI there is a curated list of engineering blogs - https://github.com/kilimchoi/engineering-blogs
Hey, it looks like a lot of valid comments of yours are invisible to normal users because they (and you) are marked as 'dead' in the system. I've vouched for as many as seemed valid. You might want to message one of the mods to ask to be marked as undead, or something.
To some extent both HN and reddit solve it. But neither make it easy to check which messages are new messages on subsequent viewings (though reddit gold will highlight them).

A properly implemented mail and news reader will indicate new messages in a threaded view after retrieving them. For example, Thunderbird viewing a usenet group makes it very easy to see new messages in threads after clicking on the "Get Messages" button.
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You didnt drive in canada then:

"Drivers are required to take at least 10 hours off-duty or sleeper-berth time within a day. Two hours of the total 10 hours can be taken throughout the day in blocks of no less than 30 minutes. The two hours cannot be counted as part of a required 8-hour break. Please note, however, that the two additional hours can be added onto a required 8-hour break, thereby creating a consecutive 10-hour break."

You might have to 'sleep' while the truck is being loaded. Two rest hours can also be 'defered' to other days as needed/dictated by the boss. And the allowed hours become even longer for drivers in the north.
That parser looks very powerful. I'm going to give it a go.
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Sometimes "use another language" is not a viable option. We are mainly an embedded c++ shop and switching to Java is not an option.
When I think of WYSIWYG editors, I see presentation and content being mixed.

Unless Typora has figured out how to get remove the need to locate the insertion point of a formula, open an editor, then submit the data to render an image that is placed inline or made into a block. If it has figured that part out then props to them for making it easier to write mathematics in an accessible editor.
Interfaces give polymorphism. Implementation inheritance gives method reuse.

If you think about the term polymorph ("many shapes"), that describes the world of differing objects that have the opportunity to satisfy an interface.
Lol, that's exactly life in Eastern Europe/ex-USSR. There's socialized medicine, but if you want better service, you have to bring a gift (whisky, chocolate, money, the latter is always desirable). Not just hand cash over, that's disrespectful nowadays.
I think most people agree in the deep learning community that ways to understand NN's are useful, if for nothing other than debugging, but I don't think the community agrees at all over whether explainability is necessary to use it.

In many cases, it depends on the context. For self driving cars, most companies only use neural networks for components of the cars and an explainable algorithm on top of that that interprets data from the components. If there was a crash, they can tie it down to "the neural network parsing the LIDAR did not classify the stop sign correctly, so the driving algorithm did not stop" without needing much interpretability of the neural network directly. If it's an end-to-end system, such as the nvidia car which connects the camera inputs directly to a wheel output, then explainability of that network is much more important.

There was a poll I saw on twitter a while ago (can't seem to find now) that had asked if users would prefer to be treated by an AI doctor with low explainability but 99% accuracy, or high explainability but only 70% accuracy. I think context is key here as well. If the expert doctor working in tandem with the explainable system is better than the non-explainable system, you'd want the explainable system. But if the non-explainable system is better even than experts, I think most people would want the non-explainable system.
Can you describe what the issue is? Does the USA not give out standard tourist or business visas for your country?
Send me a link to try it for Korean and I'll give you my feedback. You can post it here on Hacker News
http://otfried.org/scala/drawing.html

https://github.com/spaced/scala-js-d3

https://github.com/fasholaide/Dimple.Scalajs
Deep learning signal classification using rtl-sdr dongle
Unfortunately that probably won't work for much longer, as the current administration is planning to slash the CFPB budget.
Yes, "a bug". How convenient.
The answer is face recognition.
Depending on how old your carpet is (10+ years), it could be the foam backing underneath disintegrating and getting sucked through the carpet. Do you have any high traffic areas that are obviously more worn than the rest of the carpet? If so, you need new carpet.
> Text search for " minute"?

That's not very intuitive. It's easier to see new replies to comments one posts by going to the comments view on one's own user profile page, but seeing new replies in general is definitely not (especially if you don't check for several hours).

I think that traditional mail and news clients with their threaded view go it right for that purpose decades ago.
'“the reason to give reasons is so that others will evaluate your actions and beliefs”. Today’s autonomous machines do not have their own interests to serve. Instead, their explanations are forged by and for human beings.'

This seems like the fundamental difference between AI and human intelligence at the moment. Our intelligence is based on our social prowess. We're always competing with, and exchanging ideas with our peers. AI should be modeled based on this.
What makes you think that they might be getting rid of the wildcard cert fee? Their pricing still lists the $250 monthly fee for a shared wildcard cert (i.e. your wildcard domain is added to one of Fastly's SAN certs).

The "Contact Sales" plan mentioned in the Github discussion applies to the "Customer-Provided TLS Certificate Hosting Service" option, where the certificate is hosted on a shared domain map and where Fastly uses SNI to select the correct certificate to serve based on the domain name sent. Note that this option is only available if you meet their qualification criteria, whatever that includes. And it doesn't say anything about pricing, but there is no reason to assume that it's going to be for free. Also, that plan has been around for a while.
If it doesn't work then it should be taken down.

It's even worse, it means the police know it doesn't track criminals and so just want to track regular people.

It tests the water of how much the population is willing to be under surveillance.

Like boiling a frog you don't notice how much surveillance there is until it's too late.
Skimming through the comments in this thread, I'm uncertain what people think goes on during the design and manufacturing phase at a hardware company at the scale of Apple (and if someone does quite a bit in this space, I'd love to hear from industrial designers and folks in supply-chain manufacturing).

At the design phase for FaceID, competing designs are presented, each with their own tradeoffs. These are then culled further for a manufacturing phase, where the design is further iterated on. Finally, they are presented with the limitations of supply-chain and engineering.

Why would a company at Apple's scale not test out many different variations and ask the question: why the notch > black bar on the top (or even embedded into the device itself)? From a marketing perspective, a black bar would have been worse - less distinctive, less screen, potentially more noticeable in a bad way ("the screen you don't have", "wasteful"). The complaints may have been similar. Given the compromises between the target device size, actual requirements of FaceID, and distinctive look, I'd say Apple hit their goals and the market is mostly receptive.
I see, I should have dug deeper before commenting. Wow, parameterized queries, there's been a lot of thought put into this compact library!
Unfortunately for larger data sets d3 is far too slow and will just end up crashing most browsers. It is good for small and interactive visualizations but if you want to do investigations into large data sets you need something else.
You're right that it's difficult for physicians to "turn it off". The contractual requirements you reference, however, are basically unenforced. The only way a physician will get "caught" charging more than agreed is if the patient calls the insurer to complain. Presumably you wouldn't do that to her after she saved your life.
I don't doubt that using org outside Emacs may be problematic to some degree (in terms of expected functionalities, anyway), but I use Emacs for everything, so it's not really an issue.

If popularity alone were sufficient for technological choices, we wouldn't even be having this discussion (and we'd all be using Windows). I try to choose my tools according to how well they work for me. Markdown, in my opinion, is a poor choice compared to org, but I can use it to collaborate with others, no problem.

As for the transition from light markup to TeX, that's pretty much the point of the OP, isn't it? Maybe the break point is different for everybody. For me, LaTeX imposes no extra cognitive load, but then again, I've been using it extensively for many years. If I'm need for something lighter, it'll be org (but really, org usually wins for me because of how well it does all the other stuff, not just the markup part).
I have absolutely no mathematical background. https://www.reddit.com/r/mathbooks/comments/1ehupq/totally_d...

Here people are saying you need a solid pure math background. I skimmed through it and it gets complex very quickly. Around page 58 with the formulas I get lost.

Thanks though, I think I'll be ready for this after Gelfand and Kiselev. Can't wait.
And while that is completely lovely, it places you far short of what is necessary. The trick that is played on US citizens is the goal posts keep moving further and further out because or buying power is eroded so horribly by insidious inflation.

A $50K/yr. job in the early 1980s is today's $120K/yr. job. It took me 15 years to make it to $120K, though. And most people don't even make what I make!
So, what I get from all the various forms of “nowhere else in sport...” is that the author is completely ignorant of the existence of DanceSport.
It depends on how you view it, over the long term you are simply left with people who can cope, whether it is good way to run a team/organization is a different question, but it certainly possible to get gains over longer periods of time

For example in professional team sports you face high pressure constantly, while individuals fail all the time unable to cope with demanding physical and mental nature of the job, teams however can and do usually improve because the retain the ones who can thrive and perform in such environments and "firing" the ones who don't.
WeWork is growing rapidly and has a product people are willing to pay well over the cost for. Meetup doesn’t seem to have those same tailwinds.

If you could buy either company outright for $50MM, I think it’d be a grave mistake to choose meetup. If you could buy 0, 1, or 2 of them for $50MM per, I still think meetup is a hard pass. I’m thinking WeWork overpaid especially if they bought in cash. (Maybe less so if they paid in unicorn shares.)
It's a bit weird when your mathematics education enables you to understand a book written several millennia ago, but not homework written several decades later.
I’m sorry about that, it was blocked on my browser, or I would have put a warning in the title.
This only talks about natural cubic splines. I learned recently that there is a whole family of approaches to constructing cubic splines beyond natural splines; the difference is in the process used to choose the derivatives at the knots. One particularly interesting application is monotone interpolation, which avoids some of the overshooting and oscillation you can get with natural splines:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monotone_cubic_interpolation

It seems the best algorithm for monotone cubic interpolation is the Fritsch-Butland algorithm - here's a nice interactive demonstration:

http://bl.ocks.org/niclasmattsson/7bceb05fba6c71c78d507adae3...