skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have to say, declaring the US system better because Kaiser Permanente is good is a bit like declaring rotten foods are better than fresh because you like yogurt.

Lots of Americans don't have anything like Kaiser, and under the old rules, you could simply die of cancer because you couldn't afford to buy treatment or insurance (as a high school classmate of mine did). 27 years old in 2009; she died of adrenal cancer that probably started in 2004 or earlier but wasn't diagnosed in 2005 because she had no care. She couldn't be covered under her parents' care after college, couldn't get into a state program (they lost the paperwork, then told her she was ineligible because she earned too much at her retail job the year before), then she finally got into another state insurance program once she was poor enough (unemployed & living with parents again after having a surgery to remove a 14-centimeter tumor), and then she finally qualified for General Assistance/Medical Assistance/Medicare. Just about everyone agrees that the progression would have been different if she'd been diagnosed and treated earlier. To not be diagnosed with cancer until your tumor is like 12 cm in diameter because you simply can't afford a visit with a primary care physician --

-- that doesn't happen in Canada.
That wasn't related to zero expense ratio index funds, but instead on the foreign exchange derivatives market. Matt's point is that the worst clients get the best pricing and the people you'd normally want to have as clients get the short end of the stick.
I do value free stuff, but I also value you as an author. Happy to pay for my PDFs of your work.
> a setting on their browser that tells every website they visit that the user has consciously, legally opted-in to all cookies

IMO, you do this when you open the browser. Why does every website need to explain how the internet works?
The more I am seeing examples, and looking at the terrain, it seems like the problem is that it is only acting on the endpoints, and assuming that the map should simply extend from starting point to ending point, regardless of what is between them. But in the truth, it is quite possible to have an endpoint that cannot be accessed in a straight line because you must circle around a mountain, etc. These maps would need to account for those scenarios.
I see this as a natural extension to the “Threats” section. In comp sci (esp software engineering) conference papers are required to have a “Threats to Validity” section to address the reproducibility and generalisability concerns. NSF needs proposals to describe the broader societal impacts but it’s typically to answer the question of — how will this research positively impact society? But I’ve rarely seen it being used for negative societal consequences..
CS should take a few hints from more mature fields (I don't mean that pejoratively- it's just that it's a very recent field). In particular, let's look at what biology did once it was technically possibly to splice genes. A lot of biologists were terrified by what they believed the consequences of gene splicing were (anything from genetic social dystopias and superdiseases).

They gathered a bunch of data and had a meeting in Asilomar (a pretty conference center in the middle of nowhere on the CA coast). In addition to the scientists who actually had the technical ability to splice genes (~100 humans at that point had the requisite skills), some lawyers and philosophers also attended. They argued a bunch. And at the end of the day, they agreed on a voltunary moratorium on splicing, even though the argument for immediately, direct harm had not yet been made (precautionary principle).

Very reasonable predictions were made. Some of the more irresponsible claims were tamped down as being overly irrational. Some basic rules were applied on how to minimize collateral damage. Some strong rules were applied on disease-causing experiments.

It seems, looking back with the luxury of historical distance, that they chose wisely. It was probably because the level-headed people who focused on clear and present dangers, not absurd hypotheticals, managed to win the day.

Today, the logical conclusion of those decisions are just starting to be felt; we now have technology that permits us to make germ-line modifications (those are permanent, inherited changes), and we're starting to do actual trials with newly born children (this is, IMO, one of the most extraordinary moral and philosophical developments of my lifetime).

It's unclear to me whether CS has the same level-headed maturity that lead to this. Nor do I think people in CS can really predict the indirect outcomes of their technology. Instead, I think CS people have an obligation to push the technology as far as it can go within a community-determined set of boundaries, and report the direct implications thereof to the general public, who will then (indirectly through democratic mechanisms) create laws that restrict certain applications.
If by 'better pick' you mean almost 1/2 salary.

I've lived here for quite some time and grew up in Toronto. I've lived in the Valley and around the world, I'm acquainted with most issues.
There is a plan to reserve an .alt TLD for use by non-DNS name services, so this could put all its domains under handshake.alt

https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-dnsop-alt-tld
Does my sweaty T-shirt turn you on?
No, they mean through legislation.
great touch: changing the time keeps the old contour and plots a new one in a different color automatically.
I back out of them all time.

Particularly the egregious dark-pattern ones: "Click this giant green button to let us track you out the wazoo, or click this tiny misleadingly-named link to drag you through a six-hour hell of settings dialogs which will drop you out without actually changing anything the instant it thinks it can get away with it."
Admiral shares come in at 10k for most of their funds. E.g. VTSAX has the 0.04% ER and a 10k minimum, while the Investor class is at 0.14% (VTSMX).

https://investor.vanguard.com/mutual-funds/fees

> Admiral Shares

> * $10,000 for most index funds and tax-managed funds.

> * $50,000 for most actively managed funds.

> * $100,000 for certain sector-specific index funds.
It doesn't seem quite like a margin call. The exchange explains here[1]. What appears to have happened is that a client bought a tonne of futures with huge leverage. The exchange noticed and asked the client to reduce the position- because it violated their risk limits. (In a proper exchange, a client wouldn't have been able to get in that position). The value dropped and the client didn't want to sell - so eventually the exchange decided to force the sale in order to resolve this. Naturally, they did this while the futures were underwater, and because of the huge leverage they took a loss (which technically they should try and get back from the client - but most likely the client can't cover the loss).

Fortunately, being an exchange for crypto they're unregulated, so they can do what they like. They basically have a policy where they can take money from people to cover the cost they incurred liquidating this position.

So it's worth remembering that on this exchange any volatility will lose you money. Big move for you? You'll make a load of money, but others will lose and the exchange will come and take your profit toe pay for the losses on margin. Big move against you? You lose all your money.

[1]: https://support.okex.com/hc/en-us/articles/360011941512
The “man boobs” throwaway joke is offputting enough that I’m disinterested in reading further. You may wish to consider how your content comes across.
Even if we use cookies for basic sessions (absolutely no personal tracking, just session ID) - Isn't it mandatory to show "Cookie bar" on the said site?
admiral shares of the total stock market fund (VTSAX) have a minimum investment of $10k. that's also the case for the S&P 500 fund (VFIAX) and the total bond market fund (VBTLX, 0.05% ER).
I'm appalled at the lack of ethics in civil and mechanical engineering!

Automotive engineers willfully destroyed opportunity for stablehands, whip manufacturers, and train conductors out of hundreds of other occupations annihilated.

Civil engineers with their oriented strand board trusses, reinforced concrete, and dimensional lumber stole the livelihoods of masons, carpenters, foresters and so many more.

Engineers have centuries of unethical practice to atone for. They need to stop their work because everything that they do is harmful and unethical!
I've found the same, and for the last year I've been almost always skipping breakfast and usually skipping lunch. I've gotten used to it, and I rarely experience the gnawing kind of hunger that doesn't pass as quickly as it arises.

I wonder if I could adapt just as easily to the reverse, like gp.
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Raw potatoes are good too!
The Ph in PhD refers to natural philosophy, which diverged from moral philosophy early on.
PhD represents what it does, it's just something else than you seem to think it is. PhD is awarded for being a specialist in a very specific topic (+ perseverance in jumping through institutional hoops), not for being a specialist and having an extra understanding of sociology, or philosophy in the modern sense.
Building a High-End Mechanical Keyboard
Yeah, I think you have a point. I'm not sure existing data is enough to generate ideas about all potential new products though, since behavior is shaped by what things/ideas/knowledge we have access to today. That is, what data is going to tell you that somebody wants a product that they can't even imagine yet?

So I'd think consumer behavior data / demographic data / etc. is a useful guide, but I'm not sure it's sufficient in and of itself.

All of that said, Alan Kay said something interesting in a set of lectures[1][2] he did a year or so ago. He brought up the idea of basing new product ideas on "Human Univerals", or universal aspects of human nature that really don't vary. A writer named Donald Brown wrote a book literally titled Human Univerals[3] which catalogs a number of these (a lot of them are pretty obvious though: food, shelter, sex, etc.). Kay suggested reading this book, pick one of the human univerals, and figure out a way to use technology to address that.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=id1WShzzMCQ

[2]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1e8VZlPBx_0

[3]: https://www.amazon.com/Human-Universals-Donald-Brown/dp/0070...
but the second order effects of triggering you, such as you being a jerk to someone, is something that I would have at least some culpability for. its ... complicated. but we still have to try to think about what we are doing
We see these as positives in the US (yay! more specialists! more MRI machines!) but they don't improve outcomes on a population basis and they drive up the cost of care. An MRI machine at every hospital in a metro just means that every hospital will try to get you to use them -- they've got to recoup their costs.
Pyzx: Python library for quantum circuit optimization
There isn't a classifier in the brain, and there certainly isn't a key-value store. The brain mostly runs the sensorimotor systems based on top-down Bayesian prediction, not bottom-up classification or regression.
I also adore The Bridge. Similar braid mechanics, but with a twist. Literally.
As a workaround, we can disable them on the whole and enable on per site basis (the 10% of websites you sign into). Its a hassle but yeah ...
Negative by what metric? And how on earth is a computing scientist supposed to know the social consequences of his work, good or bad?

Doing this would just be feel-good virtue signaling nonsense that would reduce the overall quality of the literature.
Ask HN: What's your standpoint on “Domain hacks”?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domain_hack

Do you use Domain hacks?

do they make you look unprofessional if you're using them on a business website?

etc.

What's your relationship with Domain hacks?
Vanguard returns 94% of the securities lending business of the fund, back to the fund. Fidelity is around 40%, iShares is 50%. Meaning even with fees, Vanguard is a better deal as you get more money back on the money that you own.

It's more complex than just simply measuring fees.

These are some additional factors to consider:

Tracking Error

Capital Gains

Securities lending

Mutual Ownership Structure

https://personal.vanguard.com/pdf/ISGSL.pdf

https://www.ishares.com/us/literature/brochure/securities-le...
If a person says "Engineers are not philosophers", the common interpretation is not "All engineers are not philosophers", it's "Nearly all engineers are not philosophers".

The small set of engineers with philosophy degrees does not negate the parent's statement.
Don't peel them. Pat them down with a paper towel to remove any extra moisture (especially if you're cutting them) and then use butter to get that delicious crunch and browning on them.
That was an amazing read - thanks for sharing. Being pointed to these kinds of brilliant longform pieces of thinking is one of the best things I consistently get out of HN.
$10,000
Probe Memory Packs 138 Terabytes per Square Inch
This surfaced not a week ago in another thread - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17614232
I added some basic transliteration in the output formatting stage so people who don't know Arabic script can understand the results. Accepting romanized input would require a little more work, so I'd have to tinker a bit there.
Cookies were never the only way to do this. Before cookies became popular having the ability to create a session was still possible. The primary method of doing this was similar to cookies, have a sessionId parameter to your query. There were also passive ways of profiling a user's client to isolate it based on what it looked like (IP, User Agent, user agent Accept and Accept Charset, etc see [0]).

[0] http://www.rkeene.org/viewer/tmp/wwwftp_cgi.c.htm#line182
There’s precedent here. Einstein notified the US President when it became clear as to the danger associated with, what were then, recent developments in high-energy particle physics. That allowed politicians, who would have had very little knowledge of physics, to do their job effectively according to the “new landscape” that such developments presented.

The mistake he made was that he only alerted authorities. Which lead to atom bombs being developed in secret without any feedback from the public as to whether this was a direction that they supported.

What we need in 2018 and beyond is for current and future developers of new technologies to alert both authorities and the public so that politicians can legislate for that technology’s use with public input as to what limits are deemed appropriate by the public at large.

The deep fakes example highlighted elsewhere in the thread is a perfect example of this. How can politicians legislate for this technology when they don’t even know it exists? How can the public indicate to those same politicians that they feel that deep fake technology used to create revenge porn is something that the public wishes to be made illegal?

Laws, and society as a whole, are a feedback mechanism that rely on information. Those with that information have a moral obligation to alert the public to consequences that will affect them.
Just to add to this, if you disable cookies, localStorage also goes so not only cookies, any site using storage would also be impacted.
Yes. But the worst client is only worst because he is price aware.

The natural development in financial industry with increased automation is to make everyone the worst possible customer for the financial service provider and that's a good thing.
There’s precedent here. Einstein notified the US President when it became clear as to the danger associated with, what were then, recent developments in high-energy particle physics. That allowed politicians, who would have had very little knowledge of physics, to do their job effectively according to the “new landscape” that such developments presented.

The mistake he made was that he only alerted authorities. Which lead to atom bombs being developed in secret without any feedback from the public as to whether this was a direction that they supported.

What we need in 2018 and beyond is for current and future developers of new technologies to alert both authorities and the public so that politicians can legislate for that technology’s use with public input as to what limits are deemed appropriate by the public at large.

The deep fakes example highlighted elsewhere in the thread is a perfect example of this. How can politicians legislate for this technology when they don’t even know it exists? How can the public indicate to those same politicians that they feel that deep fake technology used to create revenge porn is something that the public wishes to be made illegal?

Laws, and society as a whole, are a feedback mechanism that rely on information. Those with that information have a moral obligation to alert the public to consequences that will affect them all.
The main thing I got out of this thread is that everyone thinks they know the right way to health, that everyone else disagrees with them, and I have no idea how to tell who's actually right.

If you want to know why there's a health problem in some developed countries, the confidence of all the factions in the back and forth in this thread is a shining example. Unless you can afford professional guidance (and know how to tell if they know what they're talking about), you don't have much hope unless you stumble on to something that works for you.
Testing apache beam locally with emulators
No problem. By the way, I added some quick and dirty romanization in the output stage if you're interested. It in no way represents how the words sound, but it does make it easier for the Roman eye to parse.

ex. Correct. Input: احتياطي (AHtyATy). Answer: حوط (HwT).
Also check out his Hyper Light Drifter soundtrack, and newly released "Disasters for Piano"
No.

http://ec.europa.eu/ipg/basics/legal/cookies/index_en.htm

(Perhaps surprisingly there is an exemption for "third‑party social plug‑in content‑sharing cookies, for logged‑in members of a social network.")
They were wrong for Maryland as well. There is a house in St Marys that is from at least 1670
They're not talking about computer programmers though (I agree they don't have the ability). The more interesting question is whether Computer Science (the academic discipline) should focus more on the societal impact of computing instead of solely on the technical implementation of computing (i.e. applied mathematics).
Just use example.com
So A Chinese Consoles company could get a AMD Semi Custom Chip.

What is there stopping Apple getting one for Mac Mini?

Or Razor getting one for their Gaming Laptop?
Ask HN: Which companies in your opinion could get as big as Google/FB in future?
Sure, but I do not log in to the vast majority of the websites that I visit, and cookies aren't required for them to function properly unless I choose ('opt in') to log in.
The UK has always had the advantage of being an island protected from the wars that periodically sweep through mainland areas. There are plenty of cities that I have seen Europe that, due to post-WWII reconstruction, make New York and Chicago seem positively old and historic.
Generally no. It's when cookies can identify an individual that it's considered personal data.
I skipped breakfast for years, until I realised it was the reason I was always in a bad mood for the entire morning. Skipping breakfast and lunch might work for you, but it's definitely not a solution for everybody.
Irrational doesn't mean unpredictable. The criticism of "homo economicus" is that it leads people to miss foreseeable consequences.
Bullshit, the market doesn’t demand your right to privacy. Nor does the market care about your property right.

The democracy you live in enshrines those rights on your behalf.
Ask HN: How much do you earn (and save) as a software engineer in bay area?
- Please tell your no. of years of experience.

- And whether it is a startup or fortune 500 company.
Don’t let it get to you. I often find the most useful posts are heavilly downvoted on HN. Thank you for your contribution. Ignore the jerks who who have nothing better to do.
People can't seem to help it. Much the same as when people go abroad and compare everything unfavorably to their home country. Seems like it's reflexive.
Vanguard's expense ration for VTSAX is listed as 0.04% - is this income realized in this fee, or is it realized separately via the fund's performance?
AMD can deliver great GPUs for every company except themselves. Sad.
And it is the lack of water that will kill one
I considered a similar idea during my last conference, when a casual stroll through the poster session left me thinking "I could do a lot of damage with the papers in this room alone". A simple example: one poster about how to change people's behavior with peer pressure over social networks, and another one about how to detect depressed users. You could do a lot of damage combining those two.

Ethics is not CS' strong point. Adding a statement "this is why I think this research is ethical" doesn't seem like a bad place to start, if only because it would force researchers to actually consider what they are doing.
Logs: More Complicated Than You Thought They Were
Hey I finally found someone else who likes Antichamber!
Agile is the management equivalent to electron apps, not very efficient but makes your job easier.
Sadly, your suspicion seems to be supported by even more anecdotal evidence.

From the Economist: "While [Elon Musk danced] with his first wife on their wedding day, he told her, “I am the alpha in this relationship.” [1]

[1] https://www.economist.com/business-books-quarterly/2015/07/0...
> As soon as upper management catches wind, you'll need to justify every little process flow change to them, or they'll start demanding regular reports with burndown charts and plots of velocity over time and crap like that.

I think that's a management problem you'll run into with any development methodology you use. There are a lot of management types that slavishly focus on metrics whether or not they make any sense, and they can do tremendous
damage to any organization.

Give those people a tool and they'll find a way to misapply it, whether it's velocity, or performance reviews, or LOC, or whatever.

Prime example of this was stack ranking at Microsoft. How much productivity was lost due to the political maneuvering and backbiting caused by their misunderstanding of bell curves?
Meanwhile, ICE is getting involved in BTC. Timing isn't at all suspicious there. Nope.
Good to hear, thank you!

And I agree, the generalization above was too broad -- I also value free stuff!
This is what some people who don't understand any art history say about art.

You can often hear this with statements like, "Picasso just drew cubes! Anyone can do that!"
You can't get good and honest advice from someone whose advice is tied for them making trade with you with a extra markup.
Wasting water isn't a problem in some parts of the world.

In many places, water you don't use from your tap will just end up flowing into the ocean anyway.

Treating it will require some energy sure, but then it's an energy problem, which is all recycling is (in places like the US where most of our trash ends up safely in landfills and not the ocean.)
Knowing India, it's probably Government mandated for what they call 'security reasons'. It's hard to get free WiFi or internet without providing a phone number in India.