skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Medicaid is great[1], but it serves a relatively small fraction of the population. I assume the parent comment is referring to the fact that most other developed nations provide universal healthcare, at lower per capita cost, with better outcomes and doctor/patient satisfaction ratings.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vx1-X9wpUk4
On the Amiga there are four channels of audio playback that can play sample data from memory using DMA at varying rates. You just set up a sample address, a loop point and the playback rate in some registers and the hardware does the rest.
High-volume production started in April: https://www.anandtech.com/show/12677/tsmc-kicks-off-volume-p...

I don't believe a customer or customers have been announced publicly yet, but the rumour mill seems to think Apple's A12 will be one of the first to ship on TSMC 7nm.
The idea that the best solution to the future challenges of ML is to shame companies into not selling ML products is so inane. Pandora's box was opened the moment the computer was built. And really, the first time a human uses a club
to bludgeon another human.
Honestly, the majority of humanities students I've interacted with have been uninspired and unmotivated. I took a good deal of humanities classes and more often than not comments were uninformed and presentations poor quality.

And what do you expect? These students come in at 18 years old, straight out of high school. You put them in college and they want to do the least work possible. And since it's all papers, there is not an objective minimum for the work. With grade inflation, a poor quality paper can still pass you. By contrast, with engineering there are objective minimums. The program has to compile and tests have to pass. You have the structure that a young person needs out of high school, and the work ethic develops during this time.

Maybe about 1% of the humanities students actually cared about what they studied, their output reflected that in the form of papers and internships...when it came time to graduate a couple of the motivated students were Rhodes scholars or otherwise working in their field of study. Everyone else was either not doing much or working in another area.

Most of the time a degree is just a necessity to go into the workforce for whatever field, and those in humanities couldn't give less of a shit about what they're studying as long as there's a degree at the end.
Uber Regulars Have Forgotten How to Behave in Regular Cabs
From my personal experience, NIH corresponds to the need to DIY to proper understand.
I often feel like I can't decide between options unless I at least built a super-basic, minimal version of the functionality.
The other aspect is this idea of mine that technology is ready for primetime as soon as it can be easily reproduced. People in our field have a sense of elegance - like every problem becomes trivial once you find the best abstraction.
And there is this "do one thing an do it right" idea.

How many bugs do fix by removing complexity that is unnecessary for your special case?
Yeah I'm pretty loud. Idk why, been more conscious of it and lowering the volume knob when heads start to turn.
I think a big part of the issue is that there is this Spectrum umbrella that has appeared around multiple companies. In my area before it was just "Charter" and then they became Charter Spectrum and now they try to go by just Spectrum.

Which is all well and good except in other areas nearby TWC went under that same umbrella...and TWC was always terrible and totally guilty of exactly the behavior you're describing. Under the Spectrum name, they continue to be terrible.
You'll notice the tag-line for the blog is “Digital Humanities: Using tools from the 1990s to answer questions from the 1960s about 19th century America.”

That's what I've been doing for the last half a decade, Digital Humanities (DH). DH is what you get when you ask yourself, “What happens when you add computational methods to the scholar's toolkit? What kind of questions can you ask? What does it imply for scholarship in the Humanities?”

That's one thing that's happening. And it's a good thing. At my uni (a second-tier uni in Western Europe) we have an undergrad program four years old which combines elements of CS (mainly the non-theoretical stuff) with subjects of the students own choosing from the Arts. I believe that within a decade all higher-level institutions will offers programs like this. The Arts & Humanities is undergoing a paradigm shift the likes of which it hasn't experienced in decades, perhaps even centuries. Only those with backgrounds in the humanities are going to be able to write this new chapter in the story of human learning and understanding.

Another thing that's happening. The economy. That's maybe not an unrelated issue. Are there going to be jobs that people will be rewarded for if they get degrees in the humanities? Not in this economic climate. I don't know if people recognise my handle here (probably not) but my area is philosophy. I can see that people are crying out for philosophical instruction. I just attended a Jordan B. Peterson / Sam Harris live event where 8,500 eager souls turned up. You know what a tenured philosopher of a decent institution said when I enquired of a table of philosophers about Peterson, “Oh, that idiot from Toronto.” Academic philosophy is failing philosophy. Could the same be true of other arts and humanities subjects?

Academic institutions are as politically biased if not more so as the rest of society. And these are the people we are looking to for direction in our lives? I've been saying this for the last while but it is my conjecture that the humanities is broken to exactly the same extent and the same degree that philosophy has lost its way in the last century.

What I'm trying to say is, the crisis in the humanities is deep problem. It is related to the current economic situation, to the current political situation, it's an institutional problem, it's an epistemological problem, it's related to the current cultural climate – ultimately it's a philosophical problem.

Final note (though I could write a lot more) – the culture war between the arts and the sciences goes back nearly 150 years (I've researched this) so this has been brewing for an extremely long time. There have been multiple times in the past when the humanities were in the dominant position and the sciences the reverse so make of that what you will.
You're off by over 150 years.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harvard_John_A._Paulson_School...

Harvard invented one of the first computers.

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

What you might be misremembering is that

> In February 2007, the Harvard Corporation and Overseers voted for the Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences to change its name to the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS).
If you have already accepted cryptocurrencies as the wave of the future, Coinbase provides enormous value. You can't do much in the crypto world without owning some cryptocurrencies, and they are the largest, easiest to use, and generally most trusted way to exchange $USD for Bitcoin or Ethereum.

Most Americans have not accepted that premise (and I don't exclude myself...I'm on the fence as for whether crypto is a bubble or the future of world commerce). However, I'll point out that in 1996 when Larry/Sergey/Scott Hassan were first working on Google, it was far from obvious that the web would be a big thing. Streaming audio (via RealAudio/WMP/etc.) was a year in the future; most Americans had 14.4K connections that made it impossible (my first MP3 took 2 hours to download a 5 minute song). E-commerce was clunky and sluggish, and the big "order everything online!" push was 2 years in the future.
There were only 36M users online, roughly the same order as the number of Bitcoin users in the U.S. (Bitcoin has more international adoption though). Interactive websites were almost unknown, because the technology really didn't support it. Most people used the web for porn, or to lookup song lyrics and share their favorite bands, or to share scientific information.

It wasn't until the early 2000s, after the dot-com bubble burst and yet people continued using the Internet (and found a lot of new uses for it, like dating/socializing/paying for things/watching videos/sharing photos/finding lodging), that it became apparent that it was really here to stay. Not coincidentally, those were Google's biggest growth years.
Definition of “Emolument” in English Language and Legal Dictionaries, 1523-1806
For those of you involved in saving flash projects, consider Haxe and OpenFL :

https://haxe.org/

http://www.openfl.org/

Case Studies:

https://haxe.org/blog/tivo-using-haxe-to-improve-user-experi...

https://venturebeat.com/2017/12/12/flowplay-overhauls-vegas-...
“Slave is an Ephebian word. In Om we have no word for slave,” said Vorbis. “So I understand,” said the Tyrant. “I imagine that fish have no word for water.”

Terry Pratchett
How a scholar’s search of 200 years of dictionaries helped win a historic ruling
Signing over rights is one thing. Discriminating against people without a permanent address, or a phone, or any other person who can afford a laptop and not much else, and has high value contributions to make if only they would be accepted, is being an ass to humanity and you should feel bad and change that.

They even require you to sign their CLA just for README.md updates - that's not "being safe", that's "being willingly idiotic".

Facebook legal is not interested in changing the CLA requirements to something that doesn't discriminate, and despite the rather large number of people who work on their open source projects, who would all love for that CLA to fuck off so they can do open source properly, Facebook as an organisation is still not a good citizen in the open source space. They're still trying to put up a walled garden as much as they legally can, even if you think you can't see the wall anymore.
Any idiot can standup ejabberd and write some user mgmt + a mediocre web interface.

We all saw how quickly folks migrated off hipchat.

This is commodity software.

It's only a matter of time until MSFT gets their shit together, ships a passable chat product, and crushes slack, having sales channels into like 90% of like all businesses.

Slack is a joke and if they were publicly traded I'd short them.

Inb4 my company's documentation is searchable chat

smdh.
Different that it is a private person suing you vs the state throwing you in jail imo. Also having a family member who's been on the side of one of those sites where people can post anonymous reviews (BadBizReport I think) they are usually bunk. Promotes salacious allegations as restitution is hard to come by and expensive.

https://gizmodo.com/when-a-stranger-decides-to-destroy-your-...

Also the guy in the article definitely seemed to be harassing the doctor with those emails about people getting arrested.
You can use LINE in your desktop without a smartphone though

I agree about WhatsApp issue.
The website you are posting on was created by a Harvard engineering graduate, Paul Graham.

Harvard has a small, elite engineering and applied sciences school, so you'd generally encounter their grads at elite companies and research institutions, leaning more towards applied science research than what's commonly pictured as "engineering".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harvard_John_A._Paulson_School...
You don't have to use operators in package.json, so this pain relief is available to you right now. Just let the version remain precisely as "npm install" wrote it, with no tildes or wildcards or anything.

Admittedly, the "update all packages to latest compatible version" flag described above sounds very nice. There is approximately zero chance the npm developers would ever accept such a PR, but there would be nothing wrong with a utility that accomplished the same thing.
That’s totally fine. Most importantly, I want to work well with functors, generic functions, and compile-time evaluation (for things like manual loop unrolling and so on).
I value expressivity, and I appreciate your efforts! I don’t think it will be long before I try it out.
Coming from South America, I agree. I've had this exact conversation with friends from my home country, it definitely called our attention when each one of us moved to LA.
A Pure PostgreSQL Document Database API
Not all of us. Unfortunately, all it takes is one screamy table to ruin a room for everyone.
This is simply short sighted. Yes, we are at a time in which machines have automated enough of the labor to cause panic and drive students to practical fields, but not enough to cause mass revolt.

But it's inevitable. Some form of UBI will have to be instituted, by consensus or force, and at that point, a large part of the population will find itself with lots of time on their hands and no need for knowledge in any productive area. Then, most majors will be in philosophy, literature or art.
Do you have an actual point to make rather trying to shame me? Even if I was wrong that Facebook doesn't profit from outrage(and knows it), that doesn't have any bearing on whether Facebook users as a group are better judges of validity of content over another group that thinks more about these issues in general. I'd be open to hearing why my perspectives aren't correct.
3. Yields. Historically Intel had the fastest ramp up to the highest yields.

I don’t know if that still holds true.
From Wikipedia

>The opposite predisposition is sometimes called "proudly found elsewhere" (PFE) or "invented elsewhere".
To capture more than just the SWF:

- Load the game into a real web browser and let it run for a bit

- Intercept all network requests with a caching proxy

- Save the external resources loaded to disk

Would that help? The process could be automated, though only for games which load all their resources without human interaction. But then, clicking through a few screens to get a game to start is a much less time- and knowledge-intensive task per game than reverse-engineering the source code of each, at least to get as much data backed up in some state as possible before it disappears.
In USA, most degree programs require a year's worth of liberal arts "distribution" or "general education" courses.
If the rate of patrons went up sinficantly, it would become too crowded and folks would cancel their membership. The
> champion of the people's rights,

The former ACLU, yes, but not the current ACLU: they have repeatedly said they dont want to protect Free Speech anymore.

https://reason.com/archives/2018/07/26/liberty-makes-us-unfr...
> [...] some of them will become legitimized alternatives to .com for consumers [...]

Like what?

New gTLDs have been around since 2013 -- five years. I can't think of a single one that I'd consider as legitimate as .com. I can, however, think of a bunch that are frequently used for spam and other abuse...
Here's the rate list...

https://www.jpay.com/PAvail.aspx
There are some 7000 languages i the world, and maybe half of those even have a writing system at all, let alone libraries full of literature.
It depends on the venue, loud people tend to aggregate in loud coffee shops etc because that's the environment they like.

You can sometimes cross the street and the environment in a cafe is the complete opposite.

I noticed this and thought maybe it's because in the bay area there are a lot of choices for everything (restaurants, cafes) so everyone gets in their little niche. Maybe in your place of origin there is less variety?
I learned to code between lingo and the director ide. it was great fun, though being able to change your inheritance tree on the fly is... interesting
I think you're making the point with your own answer.

You say "in terms of revenue and profit...". Oh! Great point. I'd say you are right. What if you were to frame it in other terms?

I mean if the entirety of Google can be summed up in 3 sentences, what topics in the world do you consider to have depth?

Imo it's looking at a Shakespeare sonnet and saying 'yeah it's fucking poem'
Say you somehow have advance knowledge of the burning of the Library of Alexandria. Is it legal to steal as many books as you can from the Library prior? Of course not. Is this the only way to save unique volumes from irrevocable destruction when you have no way to convince the librarians of its imminent fate, or even to contact them at all? Yes.
185,000 is cheaper than the cost of two full time employees, which is the minimum for 24/7/365 oncall.

I assume nobody is going to pay $185k for a hobby project.
https://stephenfollows.com/how-many-films-are-released-each-...

The best I could come up with - 93 wide release movies in 2016.

AMC does restrict the subscription service so it doesn’t cover the Fathom Events movies.
That's just the thing, right? It seems to be a clearly superior technical solution, but it has thoroughly failed from the perspective of human relationships.
Oh, I didn't mean that they'd sell the data. But that MoviePass would use it themselves to generate more revenue from their users.

Instead of just movie tickets, they'll combine it with other things. Dinner and a movie. Movie then a ride home. Stuff like that. I think their plan is to take commissions.
I wish there were more people that come to this conclusion. I can't stand busy cities anymore because music bumpers in their cars, people playing TVs loudly with their windows open, people HONKing their car to get the attention of someone in a building, people clicking their cars, people opening and closing their car doors FAR more frequently than necessary.
ACLU: “Our Mission Is Undermined by Our Rigid Stance on Free Speech”
I doubt that was their original intention. However I do think it's an inherent consequence to what they do (building and controlling their own ecosystem top to bottom, not licensing the OS, staying in the higher price tiers, etc).

Steve Jobs basically admitted the Apple approach only works in that model. In the 2007 Jobs / Gates discussion at D5 [1]. He pointed out that the whole thing only works because
of PC guy (they were joking about the PC guy vs Mac guy ads). What he meant was, the Apple approach requires that context. Where they can be the high quality, high profit, smaller market share position and always have the PC guy competitor as the contrast to amplify their own appeal.

If everyone has a Gucci bag, it's not a Gucci bag any longer.

The best thing that ever happened to Apple, was Google buying and building up Android as the 85% market player. Jobs should have been thanking them every day for that perceived betrayal. The ideal was always to have another PC guy scenario to play off of. You want tons of shitty Android phones out there in the market to compete against. Let them have the worthless bottom ~50% of the market financially, where there's zero profit to be had and lots of mediocre consumer experiences. That makes what Apple does a lot easier, in terms of pitching their value proposition to customers.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZWaX1g_2SSQ
And as a native Californian, I am always amazed at the amount of second hand smoke I encounter when I visit Europe. So maybe we can call it even :P
For all practical purposes defamation is not a crime in the US[1]. Some states still have the laws on the books, but they are not enforced anymore.

The rest of the world however is still a mixed bag [2].

[1] https://cpj.org/reports/2016/03/north-america.php
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defamation
>Although the initial clinical results with cabotegravir were extremely promising, Four Thieves grew impatient with waiting for it to become commercially available. (The drug is currently undergoing Phase III FDA trials, which means it’s being clinically tested on a large cohort of human subjects.)

>After Four Thieves synthesized cabotegravir, it was just a matter of convincing at-risk populations to use it. According to Laufer, some Four Thieves affiliates began partnering with heroin dealers to cut their product with the cabotegravir.

I know nothing about chemistry/medicine, but this seems stupidly dangerous. There are good reasons to be patient and wait for drugs to go through the phase trials.

It also seems stupidly dangerous to allow uneducated/untrained people to make their own drugs at home by following directions. What if they unknowingly miss a step? For instance, the article is stating that opioids are needed to create Naloxone. That would be a costly mistake to make. They should never release this particular recipe.

These are truly brilliant people who probably have not spent a lot of time hanging around the average person. One reason governments and systems are in place is to prevent the non-well-rounded geniuses from giving an untrained mind an opportunity to make a devastating mistake.

EDIT: This reminds me of the guy who attempted to develop a nuclear reactor in his parents shed. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Hahn
As far as I hear from industry specialists (but don't know first hand), the 'node' terms have become little more than marketing. I believe in 2002 it was still a useful metric of feature size, hence why 9nm would be still ahead.
I can't think of any U.S. law enforcement agencies that have ever asserted (either as a primary or secondary mission) to take care of or otherwise manage the impoverished underclass. Can you cite any examples that you know of?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Americans_by_net_worth

In the top 10, 2 are 1st-generation trust-fund babies (The Koch brothers), 7 are tech company founders, and 1 is self-directed investor. Certainly most of these enjoy great upper-middle-class opportunity and privelege, but these founders did not get their wealth from pedigree-appointed positions at Daddy's company after drinking their way through a Political Science degree.

Then come 3 more trust fund babies (The Walton kids), a self-made casino founder, and another tech company founder.
I don't think seat belts are a very good example of effective ads. The first ads for seat belts started showing up in the late 1950s. By 1981, only 11% of people regularly buckled up. 11% uptake on a device that will keep you from being killed after ~ 25 years isn't particularly good. Seat belt use didn't become a big deal until State Farm Insurance sued the NHTSA (and won) in 1983.

As for the rest of your post, you're right, though you can introduce a problem without devoting hundreds of repetitive words to bashing a competitor. Talk about how hard it is to use chat in remote teams, or talk about any of the other problems with chat. That will at least get people to agree.

In this ad, greater than half the content was devoted to bashing Slack. At best, that's unprofessional. At worst, it's a very poor strategy.

If I were Slack, I'd keep an eye on whatever the hell this company is called and build the feature of it catches on.
Correct.

When I signed up for the free tier nowhere did it say you can't forward your mail or access ot via IMAP or POP3.

A bit misleading IMHO.
A civil lawsuit, however frivolous, is a far cry from 8 years in jail.
And then return them to the owner once the emergency is over? Yes. I don't see that happening here. What you describe is an emergency response; what's happening here looks like looting.

(Edit: soften what could be read as an outright accusation.)
http://stemtosteam.org/
agree re: econ's use of calculus (at the undergrad level), since everything gets reduced to a constrained optimisation problem (with potentially slack constraints that require use of Kuhn-Tucker, if one gets fancy).
But at the graduate level and beyond, it goes way beyond that. one essentially cannot get into a good phd programme in economics without having done at least up to real analysis as an undergrad. my ugrad profs used to say it is easier to get into grad school in econ with a math ugrad than an econ one.

game theory, information economics, social choice theory all make use of lots of pure math. e.g. you have to understand brouwer and kakutani before you understand nash's proofs.

discrete math, functional analysis, topology could be useful for 'formal modelling' (which is what the other social sciences call econ-style theorising).