skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Efficiency without social safety nets and other opportunities to replace existing blue collar jobs is brutal capitalism, inappropriate for a developed nation.

This position is not unanimous. I strongly disagree; "brutal capitalism" is both more efficient and more compassionate in the long run. "Social safety nets" merely transfer the burden to more people, increasing it in the process through bureaucratic overhead.
If it works for you it works for you. Once I'd tested out some of the gel it felt better to me so I went with that.

And of course the other things I mentioned like support and cooling.
And bottles are currently disabled so you can't use the most abusive strat that 5 couriers would allow.
Great ideas. We’ve experimented with doing version migrations before and I think it’s definately something we will have good support for in the next several months.

If you haven’t read about our Optic Markdown it’s designed for what you’re describing. A team could specify their conventions and best practices in Markdown and Optic will use the example code in the generators.
I'm not sure about a cooling system, but heated blankets/mattress pads exist for pretty cheap ($10ish.)

Anyone know if there's an inexpensive way to cool a mattress? I found the "ChiliPad" for US$450, with discount codes taking that to $336, which is still way more expensive than any heating pads.

Everything else I've found just seems to be mattress pads with cooling fabrics, which just feel cool to the touch and don't actually cool you down.
I can't speak for Europeans, but in the US it greatly depends on the person. There are many who are open about seeking help, and many who would never go to a therapist.

Talking about problems and issues with someone is important. If it's not friends, or a community leader (priest/rabbi, etc), a therapist is a great option.

Do Europeans talk about their problems with their friends more openly? Perhaps this is the cause of the difference?
> I'm more disturbed by the parts of the article which say that he never agreed to a forced arbitration clause in the first place because it wasn't in the ToS when he paid, but the judge decided to go with the later ToS anyway:

According to several other articles I read this was argued but lost due to the majority of contributed money came _after_ the ToS update which required him accepting the new ToS.

It's still crappy though.
What would count as proof to you?
By that measure, then, the extent to which sick people are covered simply comes down to how much "charity" healthy people are willing to volunteer. Sticker price for my child's medication is $1000 for 4 weeks' supply. I require it to keep him from dying.

How much are you willing to forfeit for my cause, charitable neighbor?
And no, the web barely mattered in the mid to late 90s. That was the time when it was still nice there ;)
No, its even in the url that it is about misattributed paternity. You parent(s) may not be who you thought they are. Someone in my family that was thought to be a step sister, turned out to actually be a half sister.
Healthcare tends towards natural monopolies. Without competitive pressures, what incentives are there for them to slim?
(The rest we are going to disagree on. I know the specifics of these agreements and advised on some of them, so i can't talk about them for rea)

"There's a very good chance that without it being open source it would have went precisely nowhere. "

Why?
You say a lot of things, but none seem to related to why this is true. As far as i can tell, it is definitively not true.

The app developers were happy to go where there was money, and the users certainly didn't care.

Again, i'm a huge supporter of open source projects, i donate to the FSF, etc. I would love for it to be the case to say that Android was a success/failure because of open source.
It's just i've seen exactly zero data that supports this notion, and a lot that doesn't.

The real history rewrite here is the rewrite that Android didn't enable choice or competition. Before Android all of the systems you're talking about had user interfaces that were tightly controlled by the carriers right down to the Verizon internet browser. Your best case scenario would be apple winning. Your worst case scenario is you still have Verizon deciding what your phone user interface should be like.
As brain extracts meaning from vision, study tracks progression of processing
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_ideograph

The only substantial difference I can think of to support not having Unicode codepoint assignments for emoji is this: there is no calligraphy for emoji -- the vast majority of non-artist emoji users cannot write more than a handful of emoji with pen and paper.

But soon we might find that most people cannot write with pen an paper in any script anyways. Cursive has already gone into the dustbin of history, whether we like it or not.
BFR is the main engineering focus of the company. They've already started fabricating and testing many of the parts (including the engines, fuel tanks, and fuselage). It is far past the point of existing only on paper.
Given the actual results and insights provided by economists, I doubt anyone's knowledge on economics.

Question one: is there any successful economy that doesn't require endless population growth?
Unless you are talking about arm/hand position (which there are several offerings):

Because good enough is ... enough.
Because of the learning curve
Because when you have to use another computer you will suffer.
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> But you are missing my point and that of joc815 below you - if I knew the cost, then I could determine whether or not to become a customer.

“If you have to ask, you can't afford it.”

Or, more to the point, medical procedures often have an unbounded upper limit on potential billed costs, without the opportunity to stop work and inform the customer and get new instructions when it is realized that the original estimate will be exceeded, and even getting a reasonable idea of the statistical distribution of charges for a particular procedure under costly comparable conditions by the same provider wouldn't be easy.

Now, providers could adopt a flat fee structure and eat the risk of long-tail costs, but that creates a lot of risk (and some perverse incentives) for providers.
“What Foundery is all about – an idea network from MIT”
The mspaint Fu Manchu mustache drawn on the photo of the execution of Nguyễn Văn Lém really bothers me. There's a lot of power in graffiti, but it's labeled as being Eddie Adam's original photo.
Sales Email – Resist the Urge to Sell
> People are always jealous of my nice phones, thinking I spent $800+ when I usually only spend $100-150.

Assumption on your part. I see people that really do spend $800+ on their phones and I don't think jealousy ever entered into the equation, more like 'wow, they can't handle money'.

Maybe their jealousy is just in your head?
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Solution: Stop watching TV and stop following celebrities and social media. They call it TV programming for a reason.

Not everyone is curating profiles, not everyone cares what other people are doing, not everybody wants to be told what to think from someone else.

But you will never know if you don't turn that shit off and start to do what you want to do without fear.
The difference is dramatic. I mean to say: in the drama of it.

An aircraft with a third engine isn’t an altogether uncommon sight, or wasn’t not too long ago.

An aircraft with one thousand extra engines goes a long way to dramatically demonstrate how ridiculous battery powered flight is with today’s, or any near-future, battery technology.
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Android Antitrust Decision Threatens to Shake Mobile Industry
I’ve been developing mobile apps professionally for 8 years. Clients want and care about iOS first. Android gets kicked down the road and outsourced to a third party every time. The only thing that’s changed is that people realize they need an android version eventually, instead of just ignoring it completely.

Maybe it’s different in some other markets but this is simply irrefutable in the USA and anybody trying to argue otherwise is just being disingenuous.
Actually maybe they don't have to pay, LineageOS comes to mind?
Wouldn’t two half votes for $15k be cheaper than the one vote for $18k? Are two half votes the same as a full vote?
I didn't write proof...?
I'm jealous of his 2 year old phone. My iPhone 6s is so slowwww....
Lawmakers Don't Grasp the Sacred Tech Law They Want to Gut
I've built my own mattress, and mentioned that it's homemade to everyone who's been on it... never had any problems, and my girlfriend says it's very comfortable :)
This is why I'm really a big fan of HMOs (of which I'm a member). Wasteful spending hurts both the medical provider and the insurer because they're the same entity. I realize an HMO may not be for everyone, but whenever the idea of universal health care comes up Kaiser Permantee is a really good model to look at. I ran the numbers the last time a healthcare reform proposal came up in California, and it would have been cheaper for the state to just give a "Kaiser Permantee for all" scheme than to expand Medicaid/Medical for everyone.
Auctions trend towards being natural monopolies since the network effect is so strong: more buyers -> higher prices -> more sellers -> more items -> (infinity)
You basically gave the reason for its decline. Somewhere along the way it changed from being a place for people to sell their second-hand stuff to a storefront for cheap Chinese goods. For most people it is too hard to sort through the mess and find actual good deals.
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> What's interesting is I heard that if you pay cash, up front the doctor's office will charge you less.

I was a member of a "health cost sharing ministry" for about a year, while working for a startup that didn't offer insurance.

The idea was that I paid a monthly membership fee to the ministry, and in exchange they would cover my healthcare costs - minus a set amount, for which I was responsible directly. If I made the effort to negotiate a discount with the provider, that discount counted toward the part I was responsible for.

By inquiring about a cash discount and being able to provide a reasonable assurance that the bill would actually get paid in a timely manner, I never once paid out of pocket for a doctor's visit during that time.
Ah. So this goes to the question i ask:
If Google had to do as you say (sell the software with no restrictions), why would google ever sell the software in the first place?

Microsoft tried that and was fairly unsuccessful.

Future folks would likely just choose the Apple model - don't sell the software at all.
Girls will definitely talk about their problems more openly (than guys, no idea about how it compares to US women). Guys will probably tough it out to a degree. It really depends on the person and the more local culture (I found people in the South of England very polite, but uncommunicative compared to Scotland).
Uhm sorry but what you just wrote are pure assumptions. And the fact that you are "a game developer" doesn't make your claims more true.

If you really followed the development process and watched their "Around the Verse" video series you cannot, by any means, call it a "Cryengine demo".

In late 2013 the scope of the game got totally changed. It turned from a small multiplayer space flight game to an MMORPG. So they literally had to start from zero and nobody has any insights about the game development and organization except the CIG developers themself.

A very weird post from you as "game developer".
Two sided marketplaces such as Ebay have very strong network effects and as a result are super sensitive to first mover advantage.
Relatively normal where?

It's a recent development, and is definitely not true of everyone. My father will probably never see a therapist, even though he most definitely could use one.

You aren't "broken" because you go to a therapist.
This looks great. I'd be curious to see the decision trees, and the training corpus/objective for them.
> This is bad news IMO. I get a lot of great deals on things on Ebay

I wouldn't worry. This is nothing close to existential. Large companies like this use a downturn or bad quarter as an excuse to cull weak performers or just stop the unchecked needless growth that successful companies tend to have when no one's paying attention.
I know a lot of people that have no idea what a browser is.
they want access to the "internet" and they would actually search the app store for "internet" and not "firefox" or "browser".
so at least a browser should be pre-installed.
Many languages will die before being digitized if they have to wait for 20-25 years
I don't know why you picked the redirect rather than the actual title of the page. And the very first line is:

"Kanji are the adopted logographic Chinese characters that are used in the Japanese writing system"

These were already not-ideographs even when they originally made their way to Japan.
I know there's other places I can do a sanity check when a website crashes, but HN is usually at the top of my list.
Glad you enjoyed it. I had some other times when I needed help moving things and had to use some wedges but didn't want to bog down the write-up with too many details.
If, as GP stated, life experience was a significant factor in fostering the therapeutic relationship than older therapists with equal or lesser experience than their younger peers would have better results, though I agree that it likely is simply a proxy for YoE
> I snore and I've been told that I basically stop breathing at times which is as unpleasant as the snoring for the person listening

Snoring is fine. Forget about the inconvenience it causes on others. It's when you STOP snoring that you should be concerned. I have sleep apnea and I know what it is like.

Go get yourself checked ASAP. You do NOT want to suffer long term side effects of sleep apnea, and not all of them are reversible.
Right, it’s probabably a ‘good is the enemy of perfect’ situation.

I know that everywhere I go, no matter what I use (computer, phone, tablet, kiosk, etc) it will have the same keyboard layout.

If you try to improve it, then either my computer is better and everyone else is stuck on the same old keyboard (little benefit) or there are numerous keyboard layouts I’d have I deal with (deficit for everyone) until a new king is crowned.

We seem to have (unintentionally) decided as a society that what we have is good enough and there isn’t a keyboard good enough to make the pain of switching layouts worth it.
> This position is not unanimous. I strongly disagree; "brutal capitalism" is both more efficient and more compassionate in the long run. "Social safety nets" merely transfer the burden to more people, increasing it in the process through bureaucratic overhead.

The majority of Americans support social safety nets [1], so I won't be arguing that point.

Social safety nets have also been shown to reduce poverty, which reduces the burden on those paying taxes for social safety nets. [2] It would be economically irrational (and I'll go as far as to say foolish) not to support them based on that research.

[1] http://www.people-press.org/2017/10/05/2-government-regulati...

[2] https://www.theguardian.com/money/us-money-blog/2014/nov/12/...
Regardless the point was that the spec is factually correct so there's no bait and switch here. If you're lamenting the need to understand that OS'es take up space on the phone you purchased, I don't know what to tell you. Nobody gives the "with OS" memory figure.
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I have a triangular bed (I live in a boat) and you end up with a few unused spots. I think a cylindrical bed would be even worse in terms of "dead space".
That is fascinating! Do you have a reference?
That too, which follows the disinhibition thing.
No more ephemeral than Chinese characters ever were (some were ephemeral, some durable). For example, the list of Kanji to be taught in Japan is updated periodically -- some characters are dropped, some are added. New Han/Kanji characters are invented occasionally -- it can be done because they are actually simplified drawings with one or more root characters and pen strokes added to distinguish them from other similar characters.
That's pretty much the entire argument behind security, in computers or otherwise. Security features reduce yout ability to do what you want on your device.

(And it's not just an abstract "what if I want to shoot my own foot off" issue. Consider e.g. sandboxing, which by its very nature kills interoperability. In a non-sandboxed environment, you can write code that forces two applications to interoperate, whether their authors like it or not. In a sandboxed environment, you're limited to what vendors allow you.)
The difference is that Han and Kanji are 4000+ years old. When smiley faces reach han/kanji's level of consistency if humans 20 generations from now speak in full smiley face syntax, then it's time for Unicode to standardize them.

Anyone from standards committees know that when you attempt to standardize something early that is in development and still mutating, you either 1) prevent further change of the development if your standard is widespread enough, leaving you with an early, not-well-thought-out version that the world has to live with or 2) your standard must keep up with the changing reality, making your standard change over time, which is synonymous with "a bad standard" or "not even a standard".

Unicode has a perfect solution already for glyphs that are currently in development: unspecified reserved blocks. If a tribe of humans wants to develop a language around smiley faces, they can use one of these blocks until Unicode Inc. recognizes that it is consistent enough to standardize. But instead, Unicode has placed emoji in the mainline standard.

There's only one explanation for Unicode's horrible decision. Ideagraphs are controversial, and controversy creates votes and attention, which funds their company. If you think this is the way it should work, emojis are for you.
Open doesn't mean the same thing as free. Estoppel does not help that "free as in freedom" was never true.
My only question is whether the world’s cumulative student loan debt will have been paid back before the red giant Sun engulfs Earth.
Just one day later, and the Bloomberg estimate is 4,330 Model 3's per week, plus the usual 2,000 S/X. Good timing for getting a pessimistic comment in.
Normal as in I see references to it in popular culture, US TV shows and films. A Hacker News article, which is international, but must have a heavy US bias.

As I say it seems somewhat strange to me. (I hope this doesn't come across as offensive) but why would you go to a therapist of you aren't "broken" to some extent? (Maybe broken isn't the best choice of words, but I think you understand what I mean by it). It's not cheap to go to a therapist is it? It's not something we do over here. If it is more common than I realize then its not something we talk about.
It won't function without a kernel, but will it not function without the Linux kernel? Since the Solaris days with lxrun all the way through present time with Windows 10's linux subsystem and SmartOS's lx-branded zones, you could run Linux binaries (and entire distros) on a system without the Linux kernel, with various amounts of support/breakage. Still, no GPL2 kernel needed.

I suspect that when a lawyer uses "essential and inseparable" they do not mean the same thing a technologist would mean. The GPL itself doesn't use that language, and anyway it's trivial to argue that a full OS distro isn't "based on" (the language of the GPL) the kernel itself.
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Alzheimer's isn't one of them.
Amazon is a different business model, and doesn't really serve the same market.

Bonanza and Etsy seem to be the closest things to what eBay was "back in the day".
I just figured out a way in which Apple could make a couple of billion with 10 minutes of developer time. There are those little taglines at the end of emails sent from iPhones: 'Sent with my iPhone', they should change that into 'Sent with my iPhone 6'.
Eight years ago I'd agree with you, probably even five-ish, but for the past two, three years there is virtually no difference anymore and Android is usually the priority, except for some designer firms who still live in their Apple bubble.

For the US market it might be different, as it is one of the few markets where Apple is still the clear leader.
Hi Gdb, next week I am giving a presentation on your awesome Dota work to the local data science community in vancouver BC. I have reviewed the info your team has released so far and i have a few questions:

- I saw no mention of CNNs, is it true CNNs are not used even for the 8x8 terrain grid input?

- do you have any comments about rapid+PPO vs say impala+vtrace? Would the ability to use more off-policy data be very helpful here?

- any comments on how you selected the reward constants?

- was the teamwork/tau something your team came up with or was this a known approach?

- the attention keys are most interesting, can you comment on why they dont flow through the lstm? Does it make it easier for the network to quickly change unit attention or some other reason?

- any comment of the choice of single-layer LSTM vs multilayer ostensibly for operating on longer timescales?

- does this result mean that HRL is less critical than some people thought?

- any comment on magnitude of compute, like in the post from may?

Thank you for sharing your fascinating work!
Besides all the special cases in the normal use of Apache Groovy (e.g. definition of `==` different to Java), you also have to remember all the Jenkins-specific special cases (e.g. Groovy's collections methods don't work). I wouldn't call it simple or easy at all.
SCRUM comes full circle and people realize it's bullshit
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I think sleep deprivation is related to hypomanic episodes.
If a patient is cash-only, how would their electronic records be stored, if not ICD-* compatible?
What kind of foam did you use? Did you have any offgassing issues initially?
> I find the argument that advanced growing alien civilizations would construct "Dyson Swarms" pretty convincing.

Why? I know it's a staple of SF that, on a long enough timespan, we will surely eventually build stuff like Dyson swarms and interstellar ships, but the more I observe actual humans, the less convincing I find this argument. Even assuming great advances in technology, Dyson swarms will be ridiculously expensive to build, especially relative to the benefits they provide, and human grumbling about costs and taxes will probably kill the project instead.

More generally, given the conflict between "fund and build this highly exotic and expensive thing now" vs. "don't bother, thus keeping taxes low", humans will always choose the latter in the absence of some kind of external motivation beyond "for science!", or even our own survival. Americans only agreed to spend the zillion dollars to go to the moon because we were in a dick-waving contest with the Soviets, and a lot of the necessary technology was already in existence thanks to money spent on ICBMs.

I think it's more likely than not that we will keep kicking the can down the road vis-a-vis the current problems of our population growth, and then just go extinct when they finally catch up to us. Or, even if you're not that pessimistic, that we just stay on Earth because no one wants to bother with the difficulties of going elsewhere. It's totally possible that the same thing happens to most other intelligent species and so there are no Dyson swarms.