skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I had a close friend who developed exactly the system you’re talking about, his website is https://sitata.com

Originally, his goal was exactly what yours is - sell to governments. He even had a close contact within the right department in the government!

As you can see, his business has since pivoted to providing this information to people traveling abroad. From what I recall, he pivoted because you can’t sell to the government if they don’t want it. You have to wait until the government wants something and then you can put together a proposal and go down procurement lane.
Can someone explain:

> 800 million	Carbon dioxide levels fall to the point at which C4 photosynthesis is no longer possible.[57] Without plant life to recycle oxygen in the atmosphere, free oxygen and the ozone layer will disappear from the atmosphere. All multicellular life will die out.[58]
Apple is not a monopolist (24% market share). Being the biggest operating system comes with responsibilities (in EU). If Google would pull Android away from Europe, other parties would take over as most consumers only buy less expensive phones. Microsoft for example would love to have this market.
~90mi/hr to ~75mi isn't that bad, especially in a stable car with good tires.
>I'm not going to have a surgery... because nobody can tell me what the cost would be.

Exactly this! I thought having my friend appeal to the provider's interest in being paid might spur them to figure it out. Surprise! It didn't. Even when explicitly mentioning that the point of asking for this information was to ensure that (s)he had the $$ to pay them, the provider('s billing team) still balked at being asked to figure out out of pocket cost(s). When (s)he threatened to cancel the procedure, they just said "Fine."

(s)He tried w/another provider, who was a little more diligent in trying to figure things out, but the best that they could do was figure out that the insurance company would approve the procedure, and what some of the involved parties were billing. Mind you, (s)he was actually dealing with the hospital where the procedure was to be performed. But of course, since all of the people involved are not hospital staff, they "can't" figure out everything.

It's all ridiculous and the result of bad policy and planning.

On a separate note, I once noticed a billing error. When I called the insurance company to ask if they had any standards/definition for what constitutes delivery of a particular service/procedure, the rep said, "No. We just look at the amount charged and pay if it makes sense."
Astronomers discover 10 new moons for Jupiter
Am I alone in thinking that emoji should be completely removed from the Unicode standard? The character set is an amazing collaboration between companies and countries to place all glyphs used by humans in a standardized collection... And then there's a bunch of smiley faces. Seems like someone at the Unicode Consortium accidentally downloaded a "free smiley pack" malware from the 2000's that injected itself into the standard draft. Just deprecate that garbage. There's already a standard to represent all conceivable pictograms: <img> tags and PNG.
"Maybe people intuitively figured out what was up (one of the parameters of the Drake Equation must be much lower than our estimate) but stopped there and didn’t bother explaining the formal probability argument."

There's no "intuitively" about it. We know from the data available that the probability of machine-building general intelligence of the kind that is unique to humans on Earth is fantastically unlikely to arise. It depends on a confluence of completely unrelated selective pressures: one on tool-making, one on social cooperation, and one on continuous mate competition/selection. There is good evidence that all of those forces are important to specifically human--not dolphin or bird or whatever--intelligence on Earth, and without any one of them we'd still be fairly handy monkey-creatures banging rocks around.

As well as a theoretical understanding, we have empirical data. We can ask, "If something is at all probable how many times will it have evolved on Earth?"

Eyes, for example, have evolved independently multiple times, based on differences in retinal biochemistry. Wings and fins and legs have also evolved many times across an incredible diversity of species. This tells us that things that are easy to evolve have evolved multiple times in Earth's history.

Specifically human, machine-building intelligence has evolved exactly once. This is strong evidence that it has an enormously low probability.

Once you've realized that one of the parameters in the Drake equation is incredibly small, the Silent Universe is no longer surprising. And both empirically and theoretically, the probability of evolving specifically human, machine-building intelligence is incredibly small.

However, I have never met anyone enamoured of Fermi's Paradox who gives any credence to this, which is why no attempt to resolve the paradox will ever have any effect on the discussion. This is in general the case with so-called paradoxes: no matter how many times they are clearly and simply resolved, people who want there to be paradoxes will pretend the resolution doesn't exist, or will deliberately misrepresent it as a non-solution. Or they will present some other non-solution as more compelling, even when the solution presented makes those non-solutions unnecessary.
> At most concerts here in the US the crowd is too busy taking a video of the show instead of getting into the music and moving

Where are you going to shows? This seems pretty regional, and also tied to the size of the venue. The more DIY the space, the crazier the shows in my experience. NYC used to have some utterly insane shows at places like DBA (which unfortunately is no longer with us), and Oakland had some pretty rad DIY venues pre-Ghost-Ship fire (which also unfortunately are slowly getting shut down :().
SBIRs are a good entry point if you are talking US
rbanffy, it was meant per core. Counting L1/L2 across the entire die is rather pointless.

Pinning makes most sense in NUMA indeed. Nowadays my impression is that often times the multicore/socket hardware tend to be chopped down by virtual machines, though.
> Sounds pretty complex. But you would have to recover all equipment if you wanted to have a chance as meeting the economics of that.

All equipment, and especially the people in the equipment. One "safety incident" would crash the whole operation.
Glad to see another enthusiast even if our approaches differ.
> I grew up in a huge hardcore scene on the east coast.

Boston? That scene was insane in the late 90s.
This argument doesn't make any sense.

Android was developed via billions of dollars of investment by Google. Google has no obligation to provide a free OSS variant, other than for the parts that are GPL'ed.

If all Google is offering is the complete Android experience (including the App store and all the Google apps,) and not any OSS variant, how are manufacturers limited exactly ? They can either use Android, that is being offered to them for free, or roll their own OS.
I wonder why nobody mentioned ratemds.com ? Is it not that well known or ? (Not related to them in any shape or form btw)
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> You do understand that nobody, including politicians and FF users want to remove Chrome, Edge or Safari?

It's punishment. If somebody wants it then somebody has a perverse incentive.

> You do understand that doing that would probably cost those companies (and everyone else) a lot more?

Exactly. You actually punish them, in the way directly contrary the the goal they were trying to achieve with their bad behavior, without suspiciously enriching yourselves in a way that calls your true motives into question.

> We only want a level playing field. Giving companies a real fine is just a way to make sure the board and the shareholders actually gets the message ;-)

But what message are they getting?

It's not as if there is a clear roadmap for how to avoid this sort of thing. Antitrust laws are super vague and prohibit a wide variety of common business practices, to make it effective to use them against powerful nefarious entities with many lawyers. The theory is that the government will only use them against bad actors. But if the government considers you a bad actor just because you're a foreign company, what are you supposed to do then?
Until we find life elsewhere, all we can do is speculate. No matter what happens, unless we find electromagnetic signs of advanced lifeforms, we'll be stuck being only able to speculate for a long time.

I do think it's a fair inference that there can be life elsewhere, and even that there is life elsewhere.

Also, the Fermi paradox is about advanced lifeforms. The universe may be teeming with primitive life forms. If we can't find any primitive life elsewhere in the Solar system, then we might not find out until we develop interstellar travel, and even then, "find out" would mean on time scales longer than a single lifespan.

Pointing out that we can only speculate seems... given that this is obvious... unnecessary. Perhaps you meant that we should not speculate?
> In 2009, they'd have to look to increase employment elsewhere

A goverment-mandated major healthcare streamlining would reduce health administration and support (financing, management, IT, billing, coding, legal support, etc., etc., etc.) in the long term, but in the short term it would create lots of jobs—and mostly in the same general space—in a a surge that (with the most likely kind of implementation timeline) would ramp up over a couple years of implementation planning, stay steady for a few years of main implementation, and then taper off to the new, lower equilibrium as new systems and processes moved from implementation to routine operation.

Probably no better time for that than an economic downturn where employment was soft, if the government is deficit funding to subsidize the implementation costs. It's basically a short-term jobs program with long term dividends for the whole economy.
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Every single comment in here thinks this article is about watergun/poop emoji, which is why we have the problems that the article touches on.
Automated politically correct software in the past has "corrected" text like "Jim Bowman" to "Jim Archer".
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/TEXT-15

https://github.com/joshfraser/PHP-Name-Parser PHP

https://github.com/ianlee74/CSharp-Name-Parser C#
https://github.com/binaryfog/NameParser C#

https://nameparser.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ Python

https://github.com/berkmancenter/namae Ruby

https://metacpan.org/pod/Text::Names Perl
A sitter for the kids, good restaurant, fine food and a glass of wine with my...er.. time picker. Oh wait. Damn punctuation!
I had the same experience so I just bought their iOS port of Graphing Calculator. It's cheap at $10, it's excellent, but mostly I wanted to say thank you for doing such a ridiculous amount of unpaid work, at personal legal risk, for the sake of math students.
people play with 5x invulnerable couriers in turbo mode. Essentially that is what they do. They get their items asap.
Is it fraud to have cash pay slots that require you not have insurance? From your description it sounds like it isn't.

They might (They do, this has happened to me, and the end result was not getting care I needed, but anyway) suggest you not inform them of your insurance, then it's your fraud, not theirs.
I would have zero problem with those things being provided at the basic levels to everyone. No you aren't going to get t-bones, but some bread, eggs, potatoes, and shit? What is the problem there? They are already heavily subsidized industries to provide stability despite whatever else is happening in the markets, we aren't going to just stop growing them unless we are all dead.
Not disagreeing with you, but as it happens the Bugatti Veyron can't do the full top speed for very long (Michelin won't guarantee the tires to run above 250 mph for more than 15 minutes.).
Anecdotal, but I worked for a specialty EMR and consolidation was the big trend at the time (~2010). Lots of one-offs and small chains getting acquired and folded into larger networks. Many of these smaller providers were either not or barely profitable and we saw plenty of others go under.

Long term strategy for the EMR was focusing on the hospital networks because the trend seemed clear at the time.
You might want to look up the meaning of paradox.

The Fermi Paradox has been dissolved in the sense that there is no longer any paradox; that is, there's no contradiction between what we've observed (no life so far) and what some people expected from doing a rough calculation.

So yes, we still don't know if there's other life in the universe or not and there's no new evidence. But, at least for some theorists who accept this answer, a logical puzzle is no longer a puzzle.
I know I’m not supposed to pile on, either, but... how on earth is your parent still at the bottom?

If you accept this paper’s conclusions, all the rest of the discussion here is about science fiction. There’s nothing about the theory or evidence that demands either explanation or refutation.

And the one person who actually lays that out is being downvoted for, what, being too explainy? This is bizarre.
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The meaning hasn't changed. That's an intentional double entendre.

It's still pretty common. Dyck Insurance was just running radio ads a couple years ago with the slogan "Everybody loves Dyck".
I've been on the Zero Gravity Corp plane- it's cool, but if I had the money to drop, I would absolutely rather go to space. Minutes of sustained zero g would be mindblowing compared to what I experienced.
It's a real eye-opener when you realize that our eyes are no more "true color" than a CCD... I didn't really get that until I took a graduate optical observing class.
No need to change to Europe.

Worldwide is at 77%
http://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/mobile/worldwide/#...

Poland (#6 in the EU by population) is at 97%
http://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/mobile/poland/#mon...
Parking: Where the US embraces socialism
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So if the people's will is guaranteed basic medical services available to all, I don't see what the problem there is.
It's true that with a good amount of knowledge you can go far on just what everybody is throwing away. Maybe dumpster will be the shortest path to science education for people.
That's a completely different problem. Both translation and interpretation does not change the original text, only your interpretation of it. Messing with Unicode glyphs kinda does (well not if you go back to U+CODES, but nobody consumes texts this way).
Albany area. Tons of good of hardcore bands came out of that scene.
I have no write-up, so probably not a terribly interesting comment. But my wife and I decided to make our own 100% wool mattress several years ago by stitching together five italian officer blankets with wool batting sandwiched between each layer. By far the most comfortable mattress I've ever slept on. We've had it for maybe 5 years now I think.
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Toxic Jobs, Low Self-Esteem, and Interviewing
This sentence, mentioning "pages read":

A June blog post by the Kindle Direct Publishing Team assured authors that the KENPC system (Kindle Edition Normalized Page Count) recorded pages read with “high precision” and that the company was constantly working to improve its “fidelity.”
This is awesome! I'd love if you could do things like help upgrade library versions that have breaking changes--say something like generate a PR to go from React 16 to React 17, for instance.

It would also be cool if this could help generate code in the best-practice style defined by third-party libraries. For instance, if the Redux team defined the canonical way to define a selector, it would be handy to be able to have Optic use that information to generate selectors for me. This would take something like create-react-app and break down the best practices into more bite sized chunks.

Really excited about this!
> you can’t sell to the government if they don’t want it.

100% my experience. Saying to a government 'here's a solution you never considered to a problem that isn't your immediate priority' gets you nowhere.
> but the judge decided to go with the later ToS anyway:

You're forgetting that judges and lawyers are the ones who moonlight as paid arbitrators. They're only acting in their own best interests.
Of all the healthcare systems to negatively compare the US system to, I don't really think China is a good pick. Comparing the times that I've had to use medical care in China to my general experience in the US, I would opt for the latter every time. For a simple outpatient visit, I showed up to a well-regarded hospital, where I was greeted with a 2-hour wait, an overwhelmed front desk staff, and a session with a doctor that felt too rushed.

For recurring mild headaches, the doctor prescribed medicine that a doctor in the US would have recommended only for migraines. I tossed that RX script in the trash as soon as I left the office. This was my first personal brush with the flip side of the easy access to drugs in China: the phenomenon of overprescription (https://www.healthaffairs.org/doi/full/10.1377/hlthaff.2010.... & https://blogs.wsj.com/chinarealtime/2015/04/02/chinas-health...).

If you've spent time in China (and it sounds like you may have), you've probably been exposed to the level of health supplement and "pharmaceutical" product marketing in China. It's prevalent on TV, on WeChat, and in newspapers. Supplements like "Nao Bai Jin", which is effectively just melatonin, get pushed on the public without government intervention. "Doctors" regularly appear on elaborate infomercials to promote supplements that claim to do everything from removing heavy metals from you blood to improving kidney function. All of these are available without a prescription.

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This is not to mention that if you're too poor to afford private health insurance in China (i.e. the vast majority of the population), you're stuck with the bare bones basic health insurance the government provides.

For all the hysteria around Obamacare "death panels", it is actually the case in China that patients with terminal conditions are routinely sent home, since hospitals are so overcrowded (particularly in larger cities) and bed spaces are so limited. If the cost of drugs for a treatable disease or condition is too high, public insurance can refuse to pay for it outright.

If it's political corruption you're worried about, keep in mind that the Chinese FDA is only getting a much-needed reorganization as an independent agency this year, and has seen scandals like this: https://foreignpolicy.com/2014/08/13/a-whistleblower-goes-pu.... This is not to mention that still fresh in many people's memories are the massive coverup of SARS in 2003, and a coverup of avian flu in 2013 (https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/apr/03/china-reports-...).

I'm no fan of administrative bloat, and it's somewhat ironic that access to drugs in China is in many ways more "free market" than in the US, but I don't think medical/pharma "corruption" is any less prevalent in China.
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THC is classified under schedule 1, "no currently accepted medical use and a high potential for abuse."

There are heaps of evidence for it being useful in treating anxiety, appetite disorders, chronic pain (possibly better than opiods with much lower chance of addiction), and others.

LSD, schedule 1. Psilocybin, schedule 1. Both have been shown to be effective in treating ptsd. An analogue of the former has been shown to be the only thing clinically effective in treating cluster headaches.

Methamphetamine is schedule 2.

Drug laws are not evidence based.
Not if an intelligent alien race is immortal.
> What kind of writing system allows people to change your words after you've written them?

Er, this happens all the time, writing or not. So many words in the languages I speak fluently have changed meaning over hundreds of years -- especially in French!

This is not a bad thing, provided the rate of redefinition is low enough and that we record the changes so we can understand older writings.
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I am glad to read I wasn't the only one feeling a deep feeling. The facts about past and present gives one an overview effect already, but man the future... makes you feel really insignificant. I am mostly shocked by how all the predictions about Antares etc. show their death pretty soon. We look at these major big stars with awe and inspiration putting great significance to them, yet in the long scale...; their death is closer to us than that of T-rex... much closer.
The thing I'm most skeptical of is them being able to balance the economy in a way that makes it a fun MMO. The technology parts of it seem more achievable.

If you backed in the first few years you'll have access to both the Star Citizen MMO universe and the Squadron 42 single player game. Both keep getting delayed, but the scope of Squadron 42 isn't as huge so I'm crossing my fingers that it'll be a 2019 release.

The Star Citizen alpha 3.3 release (end of Q3) will be a make or break point for the project's current schedule. That's when the "container streaming" system that lets them seamlessly load parts of the universe in and out is supposed to happen, along with Hurston, the second planet (and Loreville, the first planetside city area). If you have a beefy enough computer that's when I'd recommend coming back and giving it a play.
Perhaps you might not be looking at other factors.

Why were you sleep deprived? Were you involved in other tasks that kept your mood up thus fostering creativity? Was it actually that the task at hand was so enjoyable that you had already been putting extra time to get it done? Did you have deadlines?

I've noticed that you're creative when you end up putting more time and thought to any activity. You can fool yourself thinking that you are not getting ideas after sitting down for just 5 minutes to do a task. But if you are deliberate in your efforts (possibly due to the kind of work or imminent deadlines), then ideas will come to your mind.
If you're not looking for a mate as unique and weird as you are, you're setting yourself up for failure
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Star Citizen has pretty much given up all hope of trying to give people realistic expectations of a game. At this point, it's just everything anyone has ever wanted in a space MMO, no matter how grandiose or pointless a complicated feature would be to the overall gameplay.

It amazes me that people are still being duped by it.
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Hence why you need an advisor, right? To help with that?
they have a very active facebook group as well!
@michelvocks -- the Armory team would love to hear more about the challenges you had with Spinnaker. (We're commercializing an enterprise version of OSS Spinnaker).

Also, we've created a 'pipelines as code' feature called Dinghy that may have helped. And our installer & configurator provides a much smoother install & configure experience. Details at www.Armory.io

Hit us up at hello@armory.io if you have more specific feedback (our exec team reads emails to that addy).

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I agree with you, ansible may not be the best showcase of the notebook (much is external) but I think it still remains practical for prototyping: I consider the notebook as a giant notepad, that shows you at the same time your code and the results of the code - in multiple versions, as many as tabs. Better than tabs, or terminals