skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Take that brand new notebook you're afraid to write in-because--for whatever reason--maybe you want to dedicate it to a project that's not yet ready, for example; or you don't want to spoil it: turn it upside down and to the back. Write notes, grocery lists, whatever for a few days in the pristine notebook. Turn it back and now you are ready to write in it.
My point is the rate of growth rather than the baseline, were these vaccines you mention available in 1700? To the general poorer population? Highly unlikely.
Law enforcement can triangulate location from a mobile phone signal via your celluar network provider with or without Google's help, and has been able to do so since the very beginning.
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From Europe's big old dictionary of xenophobia as far back as 1233 http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/wp-content/uploads/2014/0...
It is not exactly true that nobody complains. There a lot of discrimination complaints to go around. But since we do not have means to open the brain and check what was the reason for this or that decision, deducing motivations is hard (unless you are commenting on internet, where everybody knows everybody else's motivations and is not afraid to explain it voluminously to each other). It would also be hard with algorithms, so basically the approach seems to be "reducing the problem to one we already know" - i.e. switching algorithmic unscrutability for human unscrutability and hoping that humans would do better or at least in won't be worse than what we have already been dealing with for millenia.
>Neither do rain storms, but as Searle puts it, no-one would expect a computer simulation of a rain storm to actually make anyone wet.

Of course not, but that's because the simulation doesn't have the right kind of causal relationship with my head to cause my head to get wet. But it might have the right kind of causal relationship with a simulated head to cause it to get wet.

The analogy doesn't hold in the case of consciousness because all that is at stake is its own access to phenomenal properties. There is no causal category mismatch like there is with simulated rain and my physical head. If phenomenal properties are purely relational or functional, then the right kind of simulation will be conscious.
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VPN settings - location - Europe - Germany.

GDPR enabled.
You can develop whatever you want, just don't subject people to arbitrary binding decisions without appeal. The default attitude is one of skepticism, skepticism towards technology that could potentially affect human lives in very nasty ways. If you want your technology adopted instead of banned, it might be a good idea to listen to the people who will ultimately have to deal with the consequences of such technology. Otherwise, why should society adopt a technology that they cannot understand, that possibly no one understands or can explain or will explain? How can society trust you as the creator of such technology when it's a black box?
Endowment funds are usually given with a specific purpose attached. There's no legal mechanism for government to seize them.
Fate of empires by John baggot glubb is the canonical treatment of this topic. It’s also really short and pithy and you can read it in an hour.
"A decision this big has to be made by the CEO."

Or it could be made by the employees of the company as a whole, or their representatives. The currently popular hierarchical structure isn't the only or necessarily the right way to structure a company. Companies could be worker-owned and allow employees much greater participation in decision making.

Anyway, even if one person's decisions are exceptionally consequential doesn't mean they have to be paid an exorbitant amount of money to do it. I'm sure plenty of other people would have taken a fraction of Jobs' salary to make the same decision.

There's a cult of personality around Steve Jobs in SV, and I for one find it very hard to swallow.
Would it be too presumptuous to assume you have less structural engineering experience than you do with software?

You seem to be forgetting that vast majority of software development is churning out the same old buggy barely maintainable CRUD apps in dull enterprise environments or for tight fisted agency clients.
Any reliable source of your allegation that all phonecalls in USA are being recorded? As far as I know such dragnet is allowed only outside of USA.
Searles Chinese Room argument is very typical of the circular reasoning that many analytical philosophers, unfortunately, run into.

Of course the person in the room doesn't understand Chinese just like the individual neurons in my brain doesn't either.

It's the entire house that's conscious.

One reason why the mind is so hard to grasp and why people like Searle ends up with something like The Chinese Room argument which is really, to be honest a very sloppy argument is because of our obsession with turning it into a thing which can be located.

A much more fruitful way to think about the mind is as a pattern recognizing feedback loop and then reason from there.

That also gives you a much better idea way to think about evolution and how not just the conscious but the self-aware conscious mind come to be.

Gregory Bateson has some really interesting thoughts on that IMO.
Old computers did it better (2013)
Why do you think that? Is what I said inconsistent with a rejection of the “conscious rock” concept? Even if you did believe that, you’ve phrased your post in such a way that meaningful conversation is impossible, and any refutation would ring hollow. Very, “Did you beat your wife today?”
I guess I don't understand your question. Is it "What makes Flutter different?" or "Why doesn't Flutter work for me?"
Or it could be made by the employees of the company as a whole, or their representatives. The currently popular hierarchical structure isn't the only or necessarily the right way to structure a company.

Prove it. Why don't you found a company and show us?
Many EV owners who moved back to gas or hybrid cars find the hunt for gas stations and time spent on fill ups infuriating. You can charge an EV from any mains, very quickly on the special mains installed in your own garage.

If you're commuting hundreds of miles per day, my heart goes out to you regardless.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/nov/07/truth-...
We merged the earlier discussion (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16610903) into this one.

I invited Kevin to repost his old article that was posted in 2007 but never got any discussion on Hacker News: https://hn.algolia.com/?query=Visualizing%20Fitts%27s%20Law&....
I've done study of these exact datasets with Splunk and applied machine learning to detect anomalies in prescribed drugs comparing each doctor/provider behavior to his peer group.

Doing this on a past HHS/CMS datasets - i was able to discover anomalies that was proven to be actual fraud/crime:

Was interesting to discover anomaly in 2015 provider behavior data and then read about that same provider just being raided by DEA in 2018.

Interesting data!

https://imgur.com/a/eIySC

https://imgur.com/a/5BTo6
How much of this is transferable? Is this institutional manufacturing knowledge a gigantic amount of potential energy for tesla’s competition that will put them in lead for EVs? Or is it a friction keeping a competitive EV from a big car manufacturer eternally around the corner?

Is the rework something that is actually comparable to normal automotive manufacturing lines? Or is it highly specific to EVs? If it’s EV specific it seems reasonable to believe there is no relevant institutional knowledge existing at Tesla’s competitors.

I have no background here .. how would one best decide if this is evidence Tesla is behind on a solved problem it’s competitors know how to solve or ahead on an unsolved problem it’s conpetitors are also struggling with outside of the limelight?
The entire house understands Chinese note the person in it, just like your individual neurons don't understand Chinese either.

Don't know what Dennets counter is but it's probably pretty close to that.
Related:

https://news.brown.edu/articles/2017/08/opioids-influence
If you like this kind if thing, I happened to be reading this yesterday about two cyclists who failed to complete the European transcontinental bike race. I like the way he writes and there are some good photographs.

http://road.cc/content/blog/227874-transcontinentall-tale
Hari Seldon's psychohistory brings back fond memories.

Wikipedia link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychohistory_(fictional)
You can look up your doctor here to see if they've "Received Drug or Device Company Money"

https://projects.propublica.org/docdollars/
Time differences also play a big part in effective remote collaboration. I'm not just talking about the obvious 12 hour-ish time differences between something like California and Hyderabad. Even the 3 hour difference between east coast and west coast can have a big impact.

For instance, after my second cup of coffee I'm ready to really start cranking through some ideas, troubleshooting, solutioning, etc. But my colleague in New York has just finished a big lunch and is settling in to spend the rest of his afternoon focusing on the problem he researched that morning. He is understandably annoyed at having to deal with my caffeine fueled mania.
>Men's sperm counts have gone down 50% in the last 30 years, nobody knows why, but the estrogens in our products/water/air aren't out of the question.

I... guess I don't really see this as nearly as scary as "impaired mental development in children" or "increased cancer rates for everyone" - I mean, sure, if you can't have children after medical intervention, that's a problem; but I'm not sure that requiring medical intervention to have a child is in and of itself a particularly bad thing. it's not something you want to do by accident, and raising a child is incredibly expensive; adding a bit to the up-front cost seems a lot less scary than adding to the costs down the line (I mean, through the development problems caused by lead.)
It's no more sensationalist than Tesla's own claims about how many Model 3s they could get off their production line, claims they have completely failed to hit.
I stand corrected. Perhaps then you can clarify how one can "sell short" if one doesn't initially own any of the product. Someone else has said that you borrow it. But if you then sell it you are selling something you don't own, so that is also surely illegal. And if not, it amounts to the same thing.

So it seems that when you don't initially own any of the product, the only way to "sell short" is to promise to buy it later which is still selling something you don't have.

Unless it really is a case of persuading someone to "lend" it to you, and then selling that, so you are selling something you don't own, and someone else is trusting that you'll return it.

Is that right?
>As tens of thousands of Americans die from prescription opioid overdoses each year

The number of people apparently come from the CDC
https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/databriefs/db294.pdf

Is there some data about the circumstances? I was formerly under the impression, that overdoses can generally be categorized into two. Cut drugs and this no information about the dosage and intentional overdoses.

How are tens of thousands of people overdosing with a product with a known content? Are all of those first time users?
Well, I don't see the value in having multiple UI platforms in the first place. So I would rather have one very good UI toolkit for all platforms than having a lot of pros and cons for all the native toolkits.

I think the most common place to find people with your opinion is in mobile app development. And I in my opinion there are two major reasons here at work:

1. Apple is very good at building UIs

2. Mobile devices are comparable weak in processing power, while their use-cases mostly always require an instant & animated result.

So on the one hand iOS users expect the same quality when you build a custom UI and that is hard to match when you start with a UI project. The second reason might be the cause why web-based UI are kinda hard to build for mobile apps. I mean I heard a lot more mobile developers complain about web-app performance than desktop app developers. But maybe that is just because of the different rendering engines.
In my opinion that is the right attitude to have. I actually enjoy being a foreigner!

I'm happy to follow the social protocols while never feeling like needing to belong (which is already hard enough even if you were born a native...).
I'm sure plenty of other people would have taken a fraction of Jobs' salary to make the same decision.

There were literally thousands of armchair CEOs - mostly classic Mac cultists - that were writing about what Apple should do to avoid bankruptcy in 1996-1998. None of the ones I read (and this is all I did back then) made the right calls!

Tell me which one of these people - all of which chose to pontificate about the first iPod in 2001 - would have led Apple to its current heights: https://slashdot.org/story/01/10/23/1816257/apple-releases-i...
The problem with naps in when working in an office is where to nap.

The best setup I had was when I was a member a gym with a quiet room which was on the ground floor of the building of my office.
Tesla has no problem hiring industry veterans.

If you spend a bit of time on Linkedin you'll find that many Tesla executives have spent 5-10 years at other car manufacterers.

To give you a start: a guy in charge Tesla semi spent 8 years at Daimler (https://www.linkedin.com/in/jeromeguillen/)

A guy in charge in Tesla's Fremont factory (https://www.linkedin.com/in/gilbert-passin-74a36117/) spent 17 years at Renault, Mack Trucks, Volvo and Toyota.

Given how rapidly is Tesla's stock rising I'm sure they are pretty attractive employer especially compared to the likes of convicted criminal organizations like Volkswagen.
How do you feel about all the recommandations algorithms out there?
If this new time delay is via an off-chip RC circuit (one of the few ways for a timer to work with the power off as the capacitor acts like a battery) then it could be defeated by changing the components. RC circuits can be made on chip, however large value resistors and capacitors are very expensive to place on-chip.
You must have the funds to borrow. Shorting is risky, even more so going naked. Which is why its been illegal since 2008. In practice, professionals use covered call options to manage their risk.
Fitbits excite people just about as much as Apple Watches, and probably even less I’d say. The whole category is pretty boring if you ask me. Fitbits are basically feature rich pedometers, and look how many people still use those. At least an Apple Watch has a little bit of Apple “pizazz” to it. A fit bit is about as exciting as strapping a featureless IBM computer from the 90’s to your wrist.

There will always be a subset of the population that wants a wearable. I just don’t think they will be/are nearly as ubiquitous as te predications a few years ago.
The NYT article is just wrong. First of all, most people do not have ADHD, yet this "hyperactive" society was built primarily by them. Second, people with ADHD still struggle in this world, arguably more than ever. A century ago, there wasn't even a recognized disorder -- some people just needed more time and effort for certain tasks. Jobs were not as mentally demanding, at lest not on the surface level (many jobs did require more "hyperfocus", in that they were narrower but "deeper"). ADHD became a problematic condition because society sped up, and people with the disorder couldn't keep up with it. As a 44 year old who has taken medication for ADHD my entire adult life, I know that it is slowness and serenity, not rapid-fire multitasking, that enables me to work better. Medication does not rob me of any creativity -- proper dosage enables creativity because it enables patience, and hence structure and planning. I get tired of people telling me my disability is a gift.
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Thank you for the well thought out response. I've read a handful of books on the atomic bomb so this interests me. Have a upvote for your time.
>until companies can actually explain the decisions

That's almost certainly never going to happen. Our most accurate models are unintelligible, and our most intelligible models are inaccurate. There's a trade-off here and without some sort of magic I don't see us transcending that trade-off.
> The leaving passengers luggage will have to be removed for safety as it could be dangerous.

I really do hope all luggage gets inspected /before/ anyone boards the plane.
Everyone wants to come back to the gate.

Source: myself being stuck on tarmack for 2 hours 45 minutes with 180 people, no AC, and “seatbelt on” sign (no way to get up to stretch your bones)
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People mix and match drugs, they lose track of dosing (easy to do when you’re wrecked on opioids), and as their tolerance increases they up their dose. They also frequently take a prescribed drug in unsafe ways, such as insufflation or injection.
I have no opinion on its ability to replace Twitter, but the federated nature of Mastodon means that an instance can disconnect from the instances that are hosting spam accounts, much the same as many instances have disconnected from servers that host racist and alt-right communities and accounts.
Did you publish your findings? How do I get my hands on the data?
What turned me pessimistic about Tesla was this piece of news from a month ago:
"During a conference call following the released of the company’s financial results today, Tesla confirmed that its President of Sales and Services, Jon McNeill, is leaving the company.
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Tesla CEO Elon Musk confirmed that Sales and Services will be reporting to him directly without any plan for someone to replace McNeill."
https://electrek.co/2018/02/07/tesla-president-sales-service...

If Musk can't let go of the micromanagement, Tesla isn't going to scale.
Pebble did excite people, but it went out of business and got bought by FitBit, who have done nothing with it.
Do you have any papers or writeups on your methodology and dataset? Would be very interesting to see whether this could direct law enforcement (or, barring that, making it public knowledge so consumers can choose to avoid doctors where there is evidence of questionable behavior).
Correct, and we now know the issue is that someone who had legit access sold the data.
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> I would say there is some critical mass of people that must experience a problem before it becomes a societal problem. What that proportion is I do not know.

Good idea... let’s use it to evaluate diversity programs. Well, it’ll help women, which is roughly 50%. And black males (since we’ve already included women), another 6%. That’s pretty good! Does your “critical mass” include 175 million people, do you think?
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>> Since Tesla employees are unhappy, a lot of them are demonstrating flaws with Tesla's manufacturing process, potentially in an attempt to strongarm their bosses into getting better pay or unionization prospects

This seems like a pretty big/dangerous jump to make with little-to-no evidence.

>> In any case, Elon Musk's 20,000 Model 3 manufactured per month target for late 2017 is incredibly late (See: https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/881757617416056832). A lot of Tesla bulls don't seem to care however and continue to throw money at the company.

I really hate that Musk publicly underestimates the amount of work and deadlines in this process. It's especially annoying for me because I've worked for people who publicly underestimate and it put way more ridiculous work on me and my coworkers.

That said, I also hate this "fraud-boy" FUD. I think Tesla could eventually pull this off. The ramp will obviously be slower than what Musk expects. I, like many bears, take what Elon says with a grain of salt. But cars are rolling off the production line.
At this point, the Model 3 is now the best-selling EV in the US.
(https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2018-tesla-tracker/). Tesla has proven itself with the Model S. People in general love the cars. Tesla will get there, and I think that's why bulls are holding.
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Not really, the GDPR is applicable to persons in the EU (not just in Europe) and not to persons using a VPN server in the EU.

Anyway, the GSPR does not ban American-style surveillance in Europe. Most European countries have used the Snowden leaks as a blueprint to increase surveillance in almost every aspect, especially online and with many related obligations for Internet companies.
Explain Linux with this rational... the most successful and possibly most innovative project of our lifetime.
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I have not dug into this, but I am curious: how would you write multiple interacting, concurrent, timing-sensitive tasks with this? I am thinking about things like multiple complex protocol stacks on top of different interrupt driven I/o ports (uart, I2C, SPI) in parallel with a main application that is supervised by a watchdog.
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> I'm thinking the other way around. Telecoms will have incentive to not invest at all in states with stricter laws. Then in a few years they can say "See, it stifles innovation!"

That's gonna be hard for them; Rural areas are inherently more expensive to provide internet infrastructure to (you have to transmit the data much further for each customer) and the current economic situation is such that rural residents have less money; even if they demanded the same level of telecom service we demand here in the more urban areas, they simply can't pay what we can pay.

Add to this the fact that the demand for good telecom services is going to be dramatically higher in technological centers, and I think that telecom companies are gonna have a hard time favoring the red states over the blue, no matter how much they might want to.
I think that in most cases the electricity run across the finger or the arm and not through the heart.
I guess he proposes to increase the VAT for big players instead of creating an all new form of taxation.
"Embedded DSL" is for better or worse a reasonably well established term for DSLs that are embedded within a host language using the language's own abstraction constructs (libraries, macros, etc.), rather than being implemented as a separate language with a parser and compiler/intepreter. I do usually use the alternative term "internal DSL" though, which I believe is also the older one. Besides avoiding the name clash with embedded programming in the low-level hardware sense, I like it better because the opposite of an internal DSL is an external DSL, not an "unembedded DSL".
The list mentioned in the last posted comment would be helpful to see, if anybody has it available.
Laws are ideas, and ideas spread.

Hopefully it affects U.S. policy in the next decade or so.

P.S. I'm curious how you found my city. LinkedIn?
Airlines for America, in its filing, said the [24-hour cancellation] rule allows passengers to hold "an unlimited number of reservations at once, free of any cancellation penalty during the 24-hour hold period," thus eliminating a carrier's ability to sell those seats to another buyer.

"eliminating a carrier's ability to sell"?

What a bunch of horse puckey.

1) Airlines routinely oversell flights. It seems unlikely random individual passengers are buying out a bunch of seats just to cancel at hour 23.

2) Even if that were considered a risk, a passenger would still need to pay for the seats upfront.
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Didn't read any news this weekend?