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Ask HN: What moonshots are you particularly excited about?
I'm working on using modular neural networks with dynamic topologies to forecast large complex problems like disease outbreak and diagnosis. I actually think it may be an interesting structure to approach AGI as well, but I may be incredible naive here.

What moonshots do you think are interesting and have potential?
(a+b)/2 is often a very suboptimal algorithm for calculating an avarage
Contact lenses in the USA most certainly need a prescription, they can only be filled by a precise brand match, and it expires after a year.

Any retailer on the web will need a confirmation from a doc or optometrist before filling.
Haha who calls it this beyond politicians unfamiliar with Hartford’s history?
p have to be just odd.
Then we would've seen the same trend with female doctors treating male patients.
Thaaaat's probably not true... You just don't know enough about the air you're breathing!

Marketing will take care of that. Half-kidding.
Adoption of the previous version (Oreo) is at 12%.

https://www.macrumors.com/2018/08/06/google-releases-android...
Uh if you take the time to imagine pedaling a bicycle and turning the handlebars it's easy to draw. Even people that understand bikes probably default to a visual representation rather than a "mechanical" representation because they're confident in their visual memory
Life is not a conspiracy against your opinions, be carefull with accusations like that. Do not make up fictional enemies.
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In addition to differences in doctor competence and behavior, perhaps the female patients behaved differently when treated by a male doctor.
> Why wouldn't it have good coordination? A bot has access to a perfect model of how the other bot would act - itself.

As far as I know it is five (Hence the name) individual AI instances controlling each character and with basically no AI to AI communication.

It is not one overriding AI controlling all five.

I have no idea if the AI instance controlling each character is identical though, if so then your statement still holds true I guess (Assuming each AI has the exact same information to work with which might be the case). It would be interesting to see if AIs specialised.
Patients also hold unconscious biases. Perhaps patients, especially women, are more equivocal in their accounts when talking to male doctors.
Enabling virtualization is pretty simple,
someone could probably write a little EFI app to do it and chainload from there.
It literally costs pennies to fix by using a film to get amber light.
One of the streets I drive on regularly is the dividing line between two towns, and it actually has the new LED bulbs on one side and the older bulbs on the other. Even without the one malfunctioning LED assembly that's strobing, the difference is pretty jarring and rather disturbing. I'd much rather have the older bulbs back, or at least something closer to them in appearance.

I'm not the only one to notice the difference either - I generally have my phone mounted to my driver's-side vent and on with a map, and when I'm driving on the "old bulb" side of the street with the new bulbs shining from behind on the phone, it's much brighter - presumably its light sensor is perceiving the LEDs as being much closer to daylight.
Facebook, YouTube ban Alex Jones, Infowars over hate speech
draftsmanship (noun)

1) the art or craft of a draftsman

2) the skill of drawing

Draftsmanship refers to both technical and artistic drawing skill.
If we had the compute luxury, I would love to see more AIs trained with faults like a longer reaction time or deficiencies to make them more human.

But yes, very exciting next stages when there are item builds, more heroes, and standard couriering.
Scaling Tile38 on Kubernetes
FCC admits it was never actually hacked
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That's only true if you live hand-to-mouth and spend every penny on consumption.

The poor would be forced to reduce consumption; the wealthy already have more money than they can spend.
If you drive, the lack of street illumination makes it harder (even with your lights on, of course). And driving high beam is not a solution because that’ll blind incoming drivers
> Having a router with something like pfSense running on it is awesome, but not really a requirement. I also don't want to have to tinker with the setup every week.

I barely 'tinker' with mine.

If you have the skills, an 'embedded' PC with linux, freebsd or openbsd on it is all you really need. If you want 802.11 (WiFi), it's best to stick with linux. (OpenWRT runs on x86 if that's what you're used to.)
Has there been any official information on how they came to choose their hero pool?
Your counter-example describes profit/growth due to monopoly.

Perhaps the parent meant a distinct defintion, for a competitive industry.
My company uses Azure quite heavily, but not Kubernetes.

No crashes, ever. Way more reliable than AWS ever was. (GCP is our failover.)

So it seems that your experience is, from my POV, the exception. Maybe there's something wrong with the way you guys have Azure set up?
Is the circuitry to change LED colors significantly more expensive? That would future proof any light temperature issues.
This summer at NYU ITP Camp, a fellow itp'r setup https://paperprograms.org which "recreates just a tiny part of what makes Dynamicland so interesting" (quote from JP, one of the creators) http://janpaulposma.nl)
The outline answers some of your questions. It's really easy to setup, all you need is a web camera and a projector, and the colored dots and a printer. We were up and running playing pong with paper controllers within twenty minutes... Lots of fun.

How does Paper Programs work?
Programs are stored on a server (using Node.jsand PostgreSQL), hosted on paperprograms.org. Each program has a number, and the dots on the paper encode that number. Currently each corner is uniquely identified with 5 dots of 5 possible colours, which means you can have about 600 unique papers currently (this is a significant limitation).
A camera detects the dots and retrieves the program associated with each paper. This is done in a browser, using OpenCV compiled to WebAssembly, and some custom Javascript code. Calibration happens manually, using a UI built in React. Program code and configuration are stored in the browser’s local storage.
Projection and execution of programs happens in a separate browser window. Each program runs asynchronously in a Web Worker, and can request access to a canvas, coordinates of other programs, and so on.
Then there is an editor page, which anyone in the space with a laptop or tablet can use to edit programs, using Monaco. When having created a new program, you can click a print button to print out a new paper that runs that program. It has the program text printed on the paper itself. Any edited program can be reverted to its original state.
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Could you write a bit more in detail about the products you purchased and why?

I have looked myself, but there is a jungle out there and I find it difficult to choose products.
That would only apply if we saw the same trend with female doctors treating male patients.

> The researchers divided 500,000-plus cases into four categories: male doctors treating men; male doctors treating women; female doctors treating men; and female doctors treating women. “All of those are statistically indistinguishable except for male doctor–female patient,” says Brad Greenwood
Not necessarily. It could be that only good doctors treat female patients well, while all doctors treat male patients well. For example, if women patients are in some way harder cases while male patients are not, then treatment of women patients may separate good doctors from the rest.
Express Entry nominations have not been rolled out by all provinces, e.g. Alberta. Provincial nominations are limited to usually 5500-6000 per year. Provincial nominations for EE have a higher entry bar to get into than the usual provincial nominee programs.

Um, Express Entry absolutely determines the outcome for FSWP . 67 points is the first step, you still have to get accepted through Express Entry pool scoring points out of 1200. Where spouse absolutely impacts your final points tally. If your profile is not in the Express Entry pool, your FSWP is not getting accepted.

I have done 3 paper CEC/FSWP applications, 4 Express Entry and 7 Provincial nominations for Quebec (Grad PEQ), Ontario, Alberta and BC combined.
> they invaded

How many bombs did Russia drop on Crimea during that invasion?

Russia may have had ties to local areas like Crimea, but the are not as integrated economically and socially on a global scale. Compared to e.g. US/EU relations, a lot of people in the US still see Russia as suspicious/hostile.

Russia's attempts to disguise their initial presence with astroturf "popular support" is an example of the country being increasingly aware of how they appear on the international stage. Bombs become less appealing as the economic cost of pissing off the rest of the world grows. Unfortunately, there is still a lot of work to do to create that goal.
I see it as a competitor to languages such as Python, Ruby, and Node.js, specifically for writing web services. Eventually it would be a competitor to Erlang/Elixir, but there is a lot of work (and especially testing and tuning) to do before we get to that point, as BEAM/OTP is a pretty solid platform.
We do not "wittingly" use the data for targeted ads.
This is probably why they're releasing OpenShift on Azure. To let Red Hat engineers manage the kubernetes part.

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/openshift-on-azure-th...
who says it wasn't liquidiated in the context of the DAF and put into a more stable investment?

I know when I donated stock to my DAF, it was liquidated and invested in the set of funds that the DAF supports
> In the early days they had to be persuaded to get on at all. A one-legged man, ‘Bumper’ Harris, was hired to ride for a whole day on the first installation – it was at Earls Court – to show how easy it was. Some people were sceptical (how had he lost his leg?) but others broke their journey there just to ride up and down.

Reminds me of a Blendtec salesman I saw at Costco who had one of his arms amputated at the elbow. The initial reaction was revulsion, especially since he made frequent jokes about losing his arm in a blender accident as he was using his arm stub to push things into the blender. But it was a very effective demo in showing how the Blendtec was so easy to use that it practically ran itself.
Moxie Marlinspike's counter-argument about the perils of federation: https://signal.org/blog/the-ecosystem-is-moving/

"On some level, federation is appealing precisely because it does freeze protocols in time. It’s great when centralized clients and servers roll out features that benefit us, but they could just as easily roll out features that don’t. Federation gives us more collective control over what changes we accept, but that comes with an unacceptable inability to adapt.

Given that federated services always seem to coalesce around a provider that the bulk of people use, federation becomes a sort of implicit threat. Nobody really wants to run their own servers, but they know that it might be possible if their current host does something egregious enough to make it worth the effort.

However, over the past six years, we’ve also seen the user cost of switching between centralized communication services reduced substantially, particularly given the tendency towards addressing with user-owned identifiers like phone numbers. The device’s address book is now the social network, so using phone numbers as an identifier has reduced switching costs by putting a user’s social network under their control. In a way, the notification center on a mobile device has become the federation point for all communication apps, similar to how older desktop IM clients unified communication across multiple IM networks.

The effect has been visible in the messaging space, where market leaders have come and gone, new popular apps come out of nowhere, and even the most successful players seem compelled to continue iterating and improving their services as quickly as possible.

This reduced user friction has begun to extend the implicit threat that used to come with federated services into centralized services as well. Where as before you could switch hosts, or even decide to run your own server, now users are simply switching entire networks. In many cases that cost is now much lower than the federated switching cost of changing your email address to use a different email provider.

An open source infrastructure for a centralized network now provides almost the same level of control as federated protocols, without giving up the ability to adapt. If a centralized provider with an open source infrastructure ever makes horrible changes, those that disagree have the software they need to run their own alternative instead. It may not be as beautiful as federation, but at this point it seems that it will have to do."
I'm not sure the light profile of LED streetlights are sufficiently different enough from Mercury Vapor lighting for anyone to really notice a difference - both have significant emissions in the blue spectrum, and we used MV lighting for 40 years.
Biofuels has always been and should only be considered as a bridging solution. Crops use a bunch of elements that we really don't need for energy transfer but really do need for nutritious food. Phosphorous most significant among them, but plenty of other soil minerals too. Put them in an engine and poof, they're in the air not being good for much.
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> or that consumers shouldn't demand otherwise

as a customer of Apple I'm delighted by this move.
Usually tax deals or tax holidays are offered to entice prospective companies but given Amazon's US tax burden is already nearly zero what else can these cities offer, free land, protection from unions?

Amazon seems unlikely to choose a city randomly, its likely to already have decided which city suits it best in terms of logistics, efficiency, cost and available labour pool so this seems to be an elaborate game to squeeze its preferred city.
The horse powered dredge boats are interesting to compare to today's technology. They don't specifically give dimensions, but considering the space it takes one horse to walk, plus some extra space for dredging and boat functions, it is easy to place 750 watts of solar panels in the same space.

You could make solar powered dredge boats which would be functionally equivalent to the horse boats. You'd only dredge when the sun shines, but you also wouldn't have to stop and change horses every hour and maintain dozens of horses per boat.

You would get a good 4-5 months of dredging 4 hours/day, and you'd get to take December and January off! (or operate a fraction of an hour a day).

You'd need about 20 thousand of the boats to keep up with current demand, so that might be a traffic congestion problem during the summer months.
and yet all those things happened, in many cases without having to extend free speech to insane degrees.
Are you talking about the controversies regarding statues of Confederate war heroes? The thing they were celebrated for was fighting for the right of the confederate states to keep slavery.

> at a time when owning slaves was accepted by a large fraction of the population as fine.

I guess you don't count the slaves as part of the population then?
Add a refueling station in orbit and this setup requires less BFR + BFS launches.

I am guessing a BFR + specialized fuel container payload will deliver far more fuel to orbit compared to BFR + BFS + fuel.
Critical thinking also takes critical facts.
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I guess, but (1) JavaScript is already there, so using it adds no new attack surface; (2) JS engines get more scrutiny; (3) sandboxing isn't as important anyway since the interpreter only runs trusted code.
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There's a typo that appears twice in the appendix where both 'female physician/female patient' and 'female physician/male patient' were labeled female/female in both Table S2 and Table S3.

Also interesting are the raw numbers from Table S2 of patient survival:

Female Dr. Male Dr.
Female Patient 0.866 0.854
Male Patient 0.888 0.883

These numbers make it look like both male and female doctors have a harder time saving female patients, the difference being a 2.5% vs 3.3% harder time. It's hard to reconcile this with the paper's abstract where they say "Male patients and female patients experience similar outcomes when treated by female physicians, suggesting that unique challenges arise when male physicians treat female patients."

These numbers are obviously too broad to tell the whole story but if you trained the male doctors to have the same male-to-female patient mortality drop as female doctors, that still leaves 3/4 of the male doctor male-to-female patient mortality difference untouched. That is unless you throw out the .888->.866 drop, which they apparently did, and I wish I had the whole paper in front of me right now to figure out why.

It looks to me like there might be more productive questions to answer here: Why are female doctors outperforming male doctors in this area? Why are female patients (ballpark) twice as sensitive to the gender of their doctor?

source: http://www.pnas.org/content/pnas/suppl/2018/07/31/1800097115...
Just a heads up this guy has been known to do sketchy things in the past. A simple reddit search of his previous products will bring up some questionable practices
Go doesn't use moving GC. (Though the work needed to implement precise GC gets you a lot of the way to moving GC.)
for my purposes? editing and recompressing 110Mbps H264 3840x2160 30fps video into lower bitrate H265 formats.

It can take a very long time just to process a 5 minute video.
The ways of finding out information about militaries is getting more and more convoluted and hard to prevent
Not always.

For instance we have a process that sends sns messages for alerts. It’s just as easy to go into the console and subscribe to the sns event notifications (emails and sms).

Second example. I initially configure passwords with CF (of course with parameters that are added when you run it.) It’s easier to go into the console afterwards to change passwords as it would be to update the stack and renter the passwords.

You aren’t going to store passwords in source control anyway.
This leaves out an important part: in sensitive areas like a SCIF. All they’re really saying is that modern smart watches can have similar capability to phones—we don’t allow those, so we shouldn’t allow the new watches either. Pretty straightforward.
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I've worked in Boston my entire life, for some of the area's bigger tech employers, and I have never-not-once had anybody even consider the prospect of having a problem with a non-compete.
I respect Toronto's proposal a lot, in light of this: absolutely no specific incentives offered, just an overview of the benefits of working in Toronto/Ontario/Canada from an employee/employer's perspective. I think it was a strong action both in terms of attracting Amazon (there's no other non-US cities being considered, so they are already hugely differentiated) and in terms of reassuring the constituents that the government will not bend over backwards for corporations (especially considering the Google smart city in development).
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Alan Watts was an alcoholic. We're all human and prone to temptation and addiction, and even the ego. Curious about the flaws of Eckhart, or maybe not..
I don’t have access to a biography of all the Field’s medalists. I am simply pointing out that there is a wide distribution of financial privilege in a list of famous mathematicians that I did not choose. I would argue this is unexceptional, but I point it out because I have trouble with the hypothesis that one must come from privilege to get anywhere in math. If anything I should be asking for the quantitative proof of the hypothesis.
Not to mention they make 60+ billion a year after tax. So, they're valued at less than 20x earnings, which is actually low compared to the rest of the FAANGs
Well, that depends. Is the escalator located at the Embarcadero BART Station in San Francisco? Are there people shitting on the escalator? Are the escalators designed to take such an abuse? Would you like the maintenance team to do something else or just fix the same escalator each week?
>What’s easier: building a new internet, or forcing companies like Facebook to be honest and transparent?

Well forcing those companies to reform is simply impossible. That's because their incentives are all wrong, so they will always slither around anything you try to get them to do right.

That means that decentralization, as hard as it might be, is always vastly easier than the alternative.
If you care about those companies, sure.

I'd cut my arm off before working at two of the three and the third would make me think about it pretty hard.

Once you've ruled out the more gross elements of tech...Boston stacks up pretty well.
Are mercury vapor lamps actually widely used now, or for the past decades? I thought the most common lighting type before LEDs were sodium lamps which are most definitely not blue.
I suspect his fans will be pointing others to his website, and probably twisting the narrative ("The truth Facebook doesn't want you to hear!")
They would still have a much broader spectrum. Sodium vapor lights are very unnatural [0] — I certainly wouldn't describe them as "cozy" and "more human", as the author does. Plus, the low-pressure ones are difficult to distinguish from a yellow traffic light.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sodium-vapor_lamp