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The business of medicine in United States is about extracting reimbursements from payers while keeping regulators happy. Well-being and satisfaction of the patient is important only incidentally. Since most doctors would prefer to be in the business of helping patients, finding themselves in the business of billing insurance causes burnout.

Blaming the automation software for this fundamental misalignment is silly. Software is just a tool that optimizes for the needs of the business and the customer. And in American healthcare the patient is not the customer. Insurance companies and the government are the customer.
>"How can you claim this? GR is derived from first principles only. It also does not need any new physical constant to describe Mercury's apsidal precession."

You can derive many theories from first principles but they need to be checked against observation to be useful physics... explaining the orbit of mercury was one of the main checks of any theory. All theories that could not explain that better than Newton were filtered out. My point is only this does not count as a prediction, which needs to be on new data.

>"What?! How can you possibly claim that work published in the 1930s predates GR"

This is something you've made up? The source I provided quotes Henry Cavendish on this from ~1800:

"To find the bending of a ray of light which passes near the surface of any body by the attraction of that body"
Black Mirror :)
> But it's in Netflix's best interests to keep you hooked on a show

Is it? For Netflix the more the watch, the more it costs them. The only thing they want is to keep you subscribed and that's an entirely different sort of motivation.

Traditional TV is focused on selling eye-balls to advertisers; keep you hooked on a show is necessary. For Netflix, they just have to ensure the entire service provides enough value that you'll continue to pay monthly for it.
FWIW: None of this is a theoretical reason.
This is no different than the problems any other compiler/JIT faces.

What you've offered are practical reasons it hasn't happened yet, but not theoretical reasons.
By the nature of the technology, there's no double spending on a blockchain.

Because every node has the same database. All and every one of the miners maintain a copy of what's essentially the same DB, the same distributed ledger.

But there are plenty of stolen keys and seeds for wallets and if someone gets your wallet, all your money will be moved to someone else's. This, sadly, happens frequently.
Expect taxes to increase.
Philosophy of science is about as useful to scientists as ornithology is to birds.

Feynman nailed it imo.
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US is pretty bad re imprisonment: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_incarce...
The article explained that if swapping is allowed then in next years students will strategise, the algorithm that caused the sqaping issue was changed in the next year.
He is saying that race is correlated with almost everything, not racism. You seem to be claiming all statistical differences between racial groups are a result of racism. But black people for instance aren't more likey to listen to rap music because of racism.
> A full list of advancements in physics made thanks to advancements in philosophy during the 20th century: Ø.

Einstein’s theory of relativity was inspired directly by the work for Ernst Mach and his use of thought experiments lies at least as much in the realm of philosophy as it does in physics.

As well, the physicist’s pursuit of Naturalness in scientific theories is also primarily philosophical in nature.
And with that you can see in the beginning it wasn't all what it is now. It's been built up over the years, sometimes added to, sometimes totally refactored for better methods...

I would say the two things to make something complex is: to map out the data identify whats the core elements, and second, start building out from that. As you get the core stuff operational you can work on more bits and refactor, etc. As you build you will be coming up with problems and working out solutions, it's a process.

Also given the scale of Google Maps, from what it tracks and how many access it so many different ways, projects like that are the work of hundreds - many specializing on just one aspect or another.
> Is that really the world people want to live in?

That’s the world as legislated.
> I have a hard time believing that these cartographic mistakes are the reason for China's posture in the South China Sea.

Sure, these aren't China's motivation, but they are China's argument for the legitimacy of their claims. To the extent this research can be said to argue for a political outcome, it is less about dissuading China from its claims and more about reducing those claims from "legitimate" to simply "effective". (Which is more than enough for the Chinese, even if they accepted the research at face value -- which they won't.)
I've been noticing product placement for a long time[1], but the most jarring/disruptive product placement I've seen, at least in recent memory, is that of the Windows Phone, especially when every character in the show uses one. The UI is so distinctive, and they made such a point of showing it off. This was in more than one show. I have yet to see one being used by a real consumer.

[1] Listening to directors' commentaries on <ahem> laserdiscs "ruined" this bit of moviemaking for me early on
But that doesn't stop physicists from opining away as to the nature of reality that's being mapped. It's it from bit, math all the way down, consciousness collapsing the wave-function or a multiplicity of branching universes, the universe is a hologram, the universe is a computer computing itself, and so on.

My question is what's the purpose of physics outside of aiding technology if not an attempt at explaining reality, or at least our observation of whatever reality is?
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The vaguery there is the problem. I know how I would decide if it were up to me, but if a supervisory authority comes calling, that's just my argument, and they almost certainly have a preset opinion about what is reasonable.
I don't disagree that life is hard when you are poor, I think you're just not giving enough credit to the resourcefulness of people. People don't just roll over and die when you don't provide everything, they find ways to resolve their issues.

> If there was a private bus operator ("dollar van") serving that route, the local authority wouldn't have to subsidise it.

This assumes the government isn't actively trying to shut them down because they're unlicensed and the licensing system is excessive.

> Place A has a lot of unemployed people with low skills. Place B has a lot of low-skilled jobs. There's no public transport between place A and place B, so a lot of those unemployed people can't get to those jobs. Is it really so irrational for the local government to solve that problem?

I think this situation with a bunch of people sitting around unemployed because they can't get a ride and then suddenly getting jobs because you add an (unprofitable, i.e. underutilized) bus route is a contrived example.

I also think you would probably do better by subsidizing these people directly (e.g. through transport vouchers or just direct payments), rather than having the local government running an unprofitable route.
There are private schools of a sort. They're called "bijzonder onderwijs" (special education), and include religious (protestant, catholic and muslim) schools, Montessori, Dalton and Jena-plan schools, and a bunch of others. But they all follow the exact same rules as public schools, need to meet the same criteria, and are funded in the same way, which means they're equally accessible to rich and poor.
My hope in our new GDPR world is one of two things:

1) Since many companies will have to do the work to become GDPR compliant, they will just make the results of that work available to all customers/consumers, not just EU citizens. (I think I read that it seems like this won't be the case for Facebook, but oh well, I'm already on my way out the door for that platform.)

2) There's a long history of the US and EU and other nations working to harmonize many of their laws and regulatory frameworks. Either the US might adopt the GDPR or something GDPR-like out of its own desire to harmonize, or the EU might make the US adopting something GDPR-like a condition of some other trade or legal agreement.

Both of these are of course best-case, so I suspect in the end we'll get something... not as good.
From 9 months ago... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15062125
They were divisions in the structure, but that's about the only similitude. Acts are an artistic choice, not an imposed constraint with defined timings and mandatory recaps.
A lot of this stuff people are asking about was literally in the article. They want to incentivize students to rank their true preferences rather than strategizing.

If you can trade, then the right strategy is to rank the most popular school first so that you can trade it for the school you actually want.
I'll make an observation that you seem to equate incomplete comprehension and frustration, exploration and struggle, confusion and discomfort. An intellectual challenge can degrade to something unpleasant, like any experience, but it most definitely isn't inherently that.
Since DataLog is just a subset of Prolog I want to link a very good book about modern Prolog and its applications [1].

[1]. https://www.metalevel.at/prolog
And it's the same for devices sold in Dubai too. They have VoIP mostly blocked.
It definitely seems like it often does, simply by raising the barrier to entry requiring a lot more hoops to jump through.
Right. What you did is you documented (internally) what you did, and related decision chains. Before we used wikis, and way back we just wrote it up on paper and archived in folders. Good job and shame on your co-workers seemingly not engaging to similar activity.

What I was referring to though were public blog postings in teh interwebs. And because they are public, you can’t often include details that would make them usable as a documentation in a way internal blog like yours would work.

As an internal tool for documenting what’s been done, or for debriefing. I think blog etc. is just as good as other methods. It’s the public ones where I sometimes wonder how much they add to pool of noise and useless information which makes it so much harder to find good information.

Or I just need to improve on my googling-fu! ;)
It's not so much "the greater good" that's prioritised, but fairness. They don't want rich or savvy kids to have an advantage that other kids don't get.

But I think it's possible to improve over these systems in a way that increases efficiency without harming fairness.
Heh. You know what I found most hilarious about this article? I went to it with my iPhone in safari and got asked to share my location. Who needs potential spy devices when all you need to do is compromise your local news site!
Even if I conceded that philosophy of science is not useful for scientist (I doubt that's the case) my comment was mainly concerned about the layman's understand of the world.

While "Shutup and calculate" is useful for invention and technology it's detrimental to our understanding of the world which, arguably, is why science was so useful to start with.

For an interesting discussion on the power of explanations check out David Duetsch's work in the book the Beginning of Infinity. He claims that explanations are fundamental to progress.
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I'm the same, and very grateful that the mistakes and generally embarrassing stuff I posted probably didn't get archived or saved anywhere. The contents of my Xoom site are long gone, and so are the comments in my BeSeen guestbook. Someone, somewhere, maybe has logs from irc.scifi.com circa 1998, but they're certainly not published.

I think this right to fail without a trace is an important one, and one that, intentionally or not, we've taken away from those who came after us.
No ipv6 on Chinese carriers?
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Nothing we lose nothing.
It's so frustrating...people LOVE to drum up fear about technology.
But technology is an enhancer!
It doesn't prevent anyone from doing anything they did before.
If you want to use a horse and cart go for it.
If you want to use a old fashioned rolodex instead of Facebook go for it.
Use the tech or don't.
The problem is people resist change even if it's for the objective scientifically proven better.
Yes, that's exactly why I thought of it! Thanks for the link.

If it makes sense for airlines, it stands to reason that it probably makes sense for rocket-based passenger travel too. Though I expect the containers will be even more heavily mass-optimized than those used on airplanes.
I don't see why strategizing is a problem. Rather then ban it, encourage it, everyone should make the best strategy. Once everyone does, I think it will become clear that the best strategy is to choose the schools you want.
In most places most roads aren't toll roads. Furthermore, the gas tax is very low and doesn't come close to paying the cost of maintaining the roads.

Are you just nitpicking for the sake of it?
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Other than book deals, tv spots and entertainment, what have all of the many Interpretations of QM gotten us? By contrast what has shut up and calculate gotten us? All modern electronics for a start...
Add in a Feynman quote:

"In fact it is necessary for the very existence that minds exist which do not allow that nature must satisfy some preconceived conditions, like those of our philosopher."
Ask HN: Google or Facebook?
Have very similar offers from both companies to join as an engineering manager. Who will you choose to work at? considering (random order):

- impact

- work-life-balance

- growth potential

- culture & fun
Most areas in the world would be improved by a reduction in USA interference, just as you describe having happened in the South China Sea. Our omnipresent bullying makes it too easy for potential rivals as well as potential allies. Without us as a foil they take more care in finding their own way. [EDIT: or, to say it less self-centered fashion, possibilities emerge when they can devote fewer resources to handling interference from afar].
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I'm fortunate in that I don't come up in the first 10 or so pages if you google my name. I've never gone deeper than that. It's a combination of a pretty generic name and an early, almost accidental, decision not to use my full name on any social network -- mostly I'll just use my first. I didn't really plan it, but I'm glad I accidentally ended up ungoogleable.
> There are exactly zero real physical systems that can be modelled with perfect accuracy to any indefinite point in the future.

You're talking about simulation not modelling, which is what I and the GP are talking about. Totally different basket of fish. A model can 100% accurately represent the underlying system, and yet be practically incomputable. Intractability or incomputability are not hallmarks of modelling failure.

Furthermore, you can't dismiss an a priori argument that reality is mathematical by an appeal to empiricism. In such a world, empiricism is itself a mathematical process.
Am I correct in my understanding that a mitm attack that starts with the initial messages could work and the only way to prevent this is to verify the safety number out of band?
Good thing Einstein didn't just shut up and calculate.
Also somebody told Hans Zimmer to turn it up to 11. There was no need for that, ordinary Hans Zimmer is plenty (see e.g. Crimson Tide) but Interstellar is permanently at maximum Hans Zimmer. I presume this is Nolan's fault.
House or Cards. Mind Hunter. Enuf said.
> The idea has it's roots in Aristotelian philosophy

Animals understand "the empirical method". Experimentation, pattern inference, cause and effect... Aristotle may have described it, but like most of the rest of the interaction of philosophy and science it's a post-hoc formalisation, mostly good for convincing philosophers that scientists are doing something reasonable.
It depends on private in which sense. The Netherlands has "freedom of education" and equal funding for public and private schools. As long as you can get enough interest and meet quality criteria, you can start a private school and get public funding for it.

Additionally, there are some (but very few) private schools which don't take government funding and emphasize small class rooms, etc. Typically only the truly rich kids go to private schools, and only when they have difficulty achieving the standards parents want :)
what sql does this produce though? I can imagine that there'd be a hit on performance
Says you, by claiming credit for philosophy in his work. Ironically if Einstein had taken a non-philosophical view of QM maybe his genius could have been applied to its advancement rather than disproven railings against it on philosophical grounds.
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Also valid.
Goes to gym, plays sports, active social life.

I'm sure those contribute to healthy aging.
Not knowing how to find them, is a load of crap. You can certainly find them, it just takes expensive equipment and time.
> Providing subsidized bus routes to work is basically subsidizing employers who employ these people.

I will be very surprised if you can point to any prominent public figure who wants to slash publish transportation but also wants to increase the minimum wage or provide more welfare or whatever alternate means of helping the poor you feel wouldn't be an employer subsidy.
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People need to bear this in mind more often. I recall watching the second (I think?) episode of Lost in Space the other day that absolutely crowbared in a placement for Oreo cookies, how great they are and how much they reminded the character of home.

It took me completely out of the show. I would honestly have preferred an isolated 30 second ad to that. It does still affect the creative process, too - your show needs to be one an advertiser wants to be placed on, so there's every incentive to soften the show.
> Insights on how to write down symbol games that match sensor readings would come from trying to do that, and gaining experience, would they not?

But your rules provide no guidance to do so, which would require philosophy.

> As far as I can see, that remains within the paradigm of "go forth and match the symbols."

Absolutely, I'm not suggesting changing the spirit of the basic empirical game you outline, merely that a different set or a few additional rules would permit you to generate better games more efficiently. Blind trial and error would eventually work too, but we ideally want to converge on accuracy and precision as fast as possible. What this means in practice is a philosophical question worth answering.
you still need a connection online to verify.
> The problem is, in vast majority of cases the interpretations are either wrong or complete crap.

Can you name half a dozen such interpretations that one could read? Just curious.
That happens because the actual efforts are so watered down that they don't actually stop the offensive actions.

Take Money Laundering. One of the largest vehicles is real estate. The National Association of Realtors lobbied hard for an exemption to the AML rules, and they were granted a temporary exemption that was extended multiple times:

https://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/CFR-2010-title31-vol1/pdf/CFR-...
I keep going back to it hoping that later seasons get better.

It had such a wonderful start...
Yes, or Cython or Nuitka.

And keep an eye on the (poorly named) Grumpy project (Python compiled to Go.)

http://cython.org/

https://nuitka.net/

https://github.com/google/grumpy
Evidence that drinking baking soda can promote an anti-inflammatory environment
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Students are already tested to death.

Not every secondary school is the same. There are a couple of levels:

* VWO ("preparatory scientific education") is the hardest level and prepares students for university.

* HAVO ("higher general education") is the level below that, and prepared students for higher professional education (HBO), or they can choose to do the last two years of VWO in order to qualify for university (though they can also go to university after higher professional education)

* VMBO ("preparatory medium professional education"), used to be called "lower professional education". Teaches students practical skills (trade school?), after which they can get a low-level job, or move on to medium professional education (MBO), or they can do the last two years of HAVO to qualify for HBO or VWO.

In the last year of primary school, students do a "Cito Test", and based on that and the opinion of the teacher and school, they get a recommendation for which level is most appropriate for them. Often it's a mix, like HAVO/VWO, so the student would best go to a school that offers both HAVO and VWO.

I have no idea what happens when a student picks a school that's way outside their recommendation. I expect they'll be refused, but I have no idea at which moment in the process.
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The parent comment said he preferred software with less features, and favored bug fixing and stability over feature X. Feature X could be swapped with any request in Postgres's backlog.

I agree with you: all features have to have a cost and value. The market decides what features are valuable, and they get built and supported. SELECT EXCEPT is not one that the market values yet. And that's fine.
This is a nice subject for a blog post, but you must add more images (a link to the paper and soft is not enough).

Add some (5 or 10) graphics of the typical situation at different temperatures. In particular below and above the Curie temperature, and add a small discussion about it.

Instead of just a link to spontaneous magnetization, put also some graphics with examples so people can see why this model is interesting.

Also add 1 or 2 screenshots of your soft.
sorry, but this exhibits a complete disregard for (or lack of understanding of) the practice of medicine. Many of us love technology - some of us even read hn. But physicians have very little choice regarding use of this kind of technology, other than to leave medicine or go into private practice where we only take care of wealthy people.
And re EHR in particular: is this technology an enhancer as you claim? Because it sure isn't reflected in any objective measures of clinical outcomes.
A "right to be forgotten" in the US would be a silver lining in this whole situation, but I don't doubt that Google and Facebook and other entities would lobby hard to prevent that from happening.
Local governments often fail their poorest citizens, but unlike for-profit companies, they in principle exist to serve all of their citizens, not to line the pockets of their owners. Private companies neither have nor pretend any such mission.