skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Am doctor in an overwhelmed county hospital in the South. We are so overcapacity that most patients spend 12+ hours in a hallway waiting to be roomed. We have every motivation to discharge patients fast.

Hospitals are dangerous. You lose your sense of autonomy, are woken up throughout the night for blood draws or medication management, and are at risk for nomosocomial infection or delirium.

It’s an emotionally charged place and conflict between families and doctors happens often. Hard ethical questions happen. For instance a young man may come into the ED with massive polytrauma and require immediate blood transfusions to keep him alive. There’s a chance he would be the person to refuse a transfusion on religious grounds, and the family would be upset with our team for ‘violating his body’.

Because of situations like this, or the one described in the cnn article, ethic committees are an essential part of hospital care.
What is a more core principle of feminism, equal treatment of the sexes or empowerment of women? These are not synonymous.
The breadth of your question makes it difficult for any one person to give a representative answer. I'll give a few examples, biased by my limited background.

1. Amplitudology: https://www.quantamagazine.org/physicists-discover-geometry-...

2. Conformal bootstrap: https://www.quantamagazine.org/using-the-bootstrap-physicist...

3. Tensor networks: https://arxiv.org/abs/1306.2164
Your sarcasm, I think, is unwarranted. I'm saying that's the IRS's fear, not that the fear is well-founded or that you should attempt to evade taxes.
Key point from the article:

"Any smoker considering e-cigarettes should switch completely without delay."
I kept reading expecting The Machine to be a metaphor for local economies or something, but no, they want to actually build a Star Trek-style replicator that runs on a trickle of water and garbage that's funded by Kickstarter.
In this experiment, vapor "caused inflammation" and "impaired the activity of alveolar macrophages, cells that remove potentially damaging dust particles, bacteria and allergens."

So it's not great for lung function, but sounds orders of magnitude less bad for you than smoking cigarettes.

Anecdotally, I quit vaping recently, as I'd grown frustrated with the
'chasing the dragon' aspect (I was using its stimulant properties to help manage my ADHD). I now find I get winded much less easily and generally have a little more energy, which I've attributed to slightly improved lung function.
https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/plugged-in/no-the-econo...
Graeber's point was that barter is not used in small societies. In debt-ed social relations were the means of negotiated trade. Paying for things with currency was how one dealt with strangers in a spot trade. In our world most interactions are alienated transactions with strangers, thus money is used. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CZIINXhGDcs&feature=youtu.be...
Video explanation here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n_pa2AisRUs
Bus. Subway. Ride-share. Taxi.
Is it 2/3 though? With the assumptions below it comes out to about 40% of waking time:

- 8 hours of work + 2 hours of commute / 5 days per week

- weekend 2 days per week

- 20 days of vacation + 5 public holidays per year
For CharmPy this is not currently supported, but Charm++ can interoperate with MPI libraries, so with luck it wouldn't require much effort to get it working. I will open an issue on github to track this task.
You are right, I wantonly omitted some of the important properties. Cf. the response of one of the authors in another comment on how their method tackles general metric spaces.
>"I'd like to own my own copy of this movie rather than just stream it, but I really have to get back to hating Republicans." That doesn't seem all that plausible.

That was actually a perfect summary of /r/technology
That wasn’t my intention, and I updated my comment to clarify. Did your interviewer offer suggestions or just sit there?
For established companies I was just thinking about the companies that already have some tool at hand for issue tracking. If the small companies that you mentioned haven't started with an issue tracking software, it's the same to me.

I should probably s/startups/companies not using issue trackers/ but that looks... long :-)
REMOTE (we are based in Los Angeles).

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A 16-year-old car will kill you in a crash that a new one will let you walk away from. That's one big, important factor in the new vs. used debate.

One can be a Chicken Little to the point that I would ask, why drive at all? It's just not worth the risk. A sixteen-year-old car has airbags and designed-in crumple zones. It ain't no 2019 Volvo, but "kill you in a crash that a new one will let you walk away from" is ridiculous hyperbole.

A 2-decade-old car is going to break down at some inopportune time, like it or not, even with the best maintenance.

Brand-new cars do the same thing. In fact, I view cars like I do electronics: if it makes it through the first six months, you're probably good for 100K miles. And if it breaks down, so what? You email your "flexible hours" employer, tell them you'll miss standup this morning, then dip into the massive amount of funds you saved by not having a car payment to get it fixed. Oh, it's an inconvenience for sure, but is it worth $600/month to avoid once in a great while (or not at all, if Honda or Toyota)? Hell, our VW camper is 37 years old, and I'd rely on it to get me to work every day, and I think VW makes shitty cars. Take care of your shit, and it will take care of you, even if it's a VW.

Some are obviously so scared of breakdowns and that life-ending crash that is assuredly just around the next corner that they'll foot the $600/month (or whatever a car payment is these days) for their big-ass SUV that they make any excuse to justify. Others, IMO, manage risk much more realistically.
It doesn't have to be quickly. It's very convenient. Just touch the volume or brightness button and keep holding, then just move your finger left or right to change the value.
That add-on works in my phone browser.

Which is Firefox for Android.
> Recycling might be the responsibility of the company, but they might systematically find the cheapest way to do it without regard to the full externalities of how it's accomplished.

It's a lot easier to hold few companies accountable, than to hold millions of consumers accountable.

> And good luck trying to prove to a fridge service provider that their unit has an intermittent thermostat problem...

That's also a problem when you buy a product.

> but they wouldn't care much about your power bill, nor fridge features

I suppose the market will do its job. Cost of ownership is transparent (monthly fee plus power use), so consumers can easily choose, and they can easily switch.

> It sounds like a nightmare to me.

I'm already having nightmares about the environment right now.
Agreed. To add, men also seem to value sex more than women (see: prostitution industry), so they'll be more likely to use their power to get sexually satisfied.
There are a lot of assumptions hidden in "the market always works" statements like that. In this case, there's the assumption that the line you're quoting represents a business model that's cheaper than "buy the cheapest fridge possible and replace it with another cheap-as-possible fridge when it breaks," especially when you factor in that you no longer need a repair crew on the payroll (because you don't repair things).

Here's another, more complicated problem: even if the math proves that, say, over a long enough horizon, you'll make more money with the longer-lived, repairable version of the product, that isn't necessarily the best way to maximize returns for shareholders/owners. If that concern overrides all others, then you may well be better off maximizing profits short-term, through any (hopefully legal!) means possible regardless of the effect on the long-term viability of the business, and investing them in other markets with higher returns.
In your area of work, the domain is computational geometry, so asking questions there is perfectly fine.

In fact that is exactly I was trying to imply. Questions need to be about the area of your work, rather than testing candidates on proxy subject totally irrelevant to their jobs.
These aren't mopeds to me. They don't have pedals.
Tinder co-founders sue dating app's owners, claiming they're owed $2B
They might even crash the second hand market at least if mining becomes unprofitable. Some people have tens or hundreds of good GPUs. I'm still running one of the AMD combined CPU/GPU things since all the good cards were ridiculous when I bought the PC. Looking forward to grabbing one of the nicer cards from the altcoin mines for $200
That's incorrect. Refineries have crackers (catalytic cracking units) that can be used to tune the yield. It varies seasonably at the same refinery.

From your own citation:

"Separation processes, such as distillation, dewaxing, and deasphalting make use of the differences in the physical properties of crude oil components to separate groups of hydrocarbon compounds or inorganic impurities, whereas conversion processes cause chemical changes in the hydrocarbon composition of crude oils. For example, Fluid Catalytic Cracking process breaks chemical bonds in long-chain alkanes to produce shorter chain alkanes to produce gasoline from higher boiling gas oil fractions"
"The last two remaining SovRoms, Sovrompetrol and Sovromcuarţ, were disbanded in 1956"

If we're talking about 1950s especially, I can see how this link is relevant. Unfortunately I can't validate any clauses that are there.

However, in a general context of Soviet-Romanian relationship, USSR imported a huge amount of Romanian furniture, footwear, clothes and other consumer goods. I assume these were paid for nicely. As far as I know Romania had uniquely severe economic problems during communist period even when compared with neighbouring countries, but I don't think you should blame USSR solely for that.
I would not skip that stuff, because that inevitably comes into it.
This is an excellent point.

The only reason I could think of was a potential implied subtitle: "the reason to be nervous is that if we stop buying things then those equity values go down" (which is honestly what I first thought when reading the headline)
>The review concluded there was "overwhelming evidence" they were far safer than smoking and "of negligible risk to bystanders"
> I'm just puzzled that this wishful thinking that economic prosperity is necessarily connected to political freedoms still persists.

That's because it's true in ~188 out of 190 on-going instances where oil isn't involved. It's fair to say it's true 99% of the time.

US, Canada, Sweden, Finland, Denmark, Ireland, Britain, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Japan, South Korea, Australia, New Zealand, Switzerland, Netherlands, Austria, Belgium, Israel (this list keeps going)

Versus what?

China... and? Maybe Singapore, a tiny island nation.

Denmark has nearly three times the GDP per capita of Saudi Arabia. Czech has four times the GDP per capita of Iran. That isn't going to change, if anything the disparity will increase between the liberal order and the authoritarian order. China is more of a historical one-off than anything.

The US has at least 10x the GDP per capita of Cuba, and six times that of Russia. South Korea has ~15 times the GDP per capita of North Korea. Australia has 40 times the GDP per capita of Myanmar.

The economic prosperity rankings are overwhelmingly dominated by nations that are more politically free than not. The least politically free nations tend to be hyper impoverished (again, with only a few exceptions for petro states). As such it's not wishful thinking, it's reality.
Foreshadow: Extracting the Keys to the Intel SGX Kingdom
Ad blocking is not a problem. It is the solution to the problem of advertisements.
Is there a pipeline to compile tensorflow computation graphs to fpga? seems like this is one possible benefit of Tensorflow's fixed graphs, that they may be much easier to compile to fpga then other options

Edit: Seems like some experimental work is being done with XLA (and llvm) https://www.google.ca/amp/s/www.nextplatform.com/2018/07/24/...
Maybe there's some kind of line that divides "white supremacist who spews Pepe memes and vile anti-Semitism" from "neo-Nazi", but really, does anyone care?
New Intel Speculative Execution Side Channel Vulnerabilities
"be a shareholder, not a worker"

This. In 2018 with our current economy, I think this is essential. Unfortunately there are some who won't be able to save and invest much.
"Honey I wanted to buy some bitcoins because if they go up we could make a mint.."
Throughput and latency are opposite ends of the same tradeoff. FPGAs enable cycle perfect timing control, while for bare-metal CPU programming.. even if you just have an infinite loop running bare-metal on one CPU, looking at the assembly can't tell you anything about the timing. Modern CPUs have multiple layers of caches with penalties for a miss coming in at hundreds or thousands of cycles. They do parallel and speculative execution of instructions. Instructions cost variable amount of cycles and take variably long depending on instructions before and after.

And then, with the SoCs that are everywhere now.. you are poking some memory mapped register, say you toggle a GPIO output value.. how long does it take to change on the actual physical pin? Is the GPIO peripheral part of the processor or some IP they bought in and then interconnected over an AXI bus? Is it buffered? It's all entirely impossible to say.
If you're spending more than ~50 minutes at the gym you're doing something wrong.
Can you crowdfund your way to a better culture at your company?
Seems like an interesting parallel to this US Army discovery: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2018/04/army-...

Over communicating may increase velocity, but it seems it decreases overall quality.
A beautiful Tor search engine
Cable, certainly, but the phones you rented from Ma Bell were nearly indestructable. My uncle has a lake house with several phones that were originally provided by the phone company. They still work and will no doubt continue to do so as long as pulse dialing is supported.
No worries, I knew this isn't the place for it but I couldn't resist. Thanks for your honesty!
As for the SaaS part, it doesn't have to be so. When I was running my own companies I ran all infrastructure locally for security reasons. And there wasn't something that I can just $ sudo apt install some-issue-tracker
I find breaking in two as a bunch convenient since it makes it slightly easier to manage lengths. I do smaller for my daughter (2yo) since she struggles with scooping up the long ones on her own but is fine with smaller bits.
What is shocking that Mayo legal department was contacted and there was no reaction, nobody cared to prevent this blowout.
Mayo vice president was contacted by the board member, and nothing was done.
Social worker who should've defended patient rights actually acted against patient's will.
Mayo Patient Experience office was contacted and nothing was done.

Basically every person and institution whose jobs are to protect patient rights, failed. I wonder if all departments so unaccountable and dysfunctional in Mayo?

If its a case of one bad doctor, why so many of the hospital departments failed to do their job?
> treating people poorly who continually spread misinformation and lies does not make you bad or worse than them

So, from their perspective, they should be able to treat you poorly. See how behaving badly towards people you disagree with goes both ways?
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I've waited 20 years for something like that, thanks for posting! FPGAs are great but I think the biggest problem with them is that they're an array of gates instead of logic units (like ALUs). So the learning curve to get to the point where you can place an array of cores and memories and have them all communicate is so high that most people never get that far.

So that's been a huge barrier to exploring the problem spaces that GPUs are currently used for like AI and physics simulations. Hopefully using languages like Go/Elixer/Erlang/MATLAB/Octave etc will alleviate that to some degree.

My gut feeling is that in 3-5 years we'll reach the limits of what SIMD can accomplish and we'll find it difficult to do the kinds of general-purpose MIMD computing needed to move beyond the basic building blocks of AI like neural nets and genetic algorithms. I stumbled onto these links a month and a half ago and I think something like this will make writing generalized/abstract highly parallelized code tractable again:

http://aggregate.org/MOG/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flynn%27s_taxonomy

Original at: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17419917
I regularly ride on buses that were made by BYD. I have been for the past year (or so), and have noticed a few things:

• The front destination signs seem to always have had problems. In addition to the technical problem (that is, problems with the signs themselves), there is also a weird build issue on some of the busses: The bus has a front panel above the windshield, part of which (the part in front of the sign) is transparent. For some reason, some buses got an unusually-small transparent area, with a regular-size sign display, which meant that the test was always partially-unreadable. I assume that different display hardware was supposed to be used?

• The acceleration and braking dynamics are _very_ different compared to diesel (and even diesel-hybrid) busses: Because so much torque is available immediately when moving from a stop, it is very easy to jerk passengers around. Similarly, the busses like to move into regenerative braking immediately the foot is lifted off of the accelerator, often making another jerk. It can be difficult to adjust (as a driver) if you're moving between multiple different types of busses, during a week or even during a shift.

Both of the above issues are things that can be rectified, although I wonder how much modification would be needed to get smoother acceleration and braking. And regardless, the time needed for the bus to be out of service (to implement any necessary modifications) is still time where the bus's value is continuing to depreciate.
Being average at more than 1 thing is more valuable than being great in 1 only
Inflation is caused by too much currency chasing too few goods and services. Creating money alone won't cause inflation, that money has to actually be spent in a market where demand is already greater than or equal to supply.

One great example of inflation is the housing market. Private sector banks create money from nothing, by balance sheet expansion, every time they originate a mortgage. Because the stock of housing is less than the demand, every time the banks create more money it drives prices up. Because money in the housing market mostly stays in the housing market, that is people usually take the proceeds from a sale and put them into a new house, there isn't too much spillover to non-housing markets. The same is true for student loans.

So as you can see, two of the largest examples of inflation in the US are caused by the private sector, not Treasury spending. Please note though that the Federal Government does set banking policy as well, along with various direct and indirect guaranty programs, so in that sense ultimately they are responsible.
Nothing in the parent comment indicates or requires a monopoly. At all.
This is clearly (part of?) the bubble bursting. Now the applications with real utility for larger groups of people will start to emerge (or not) from the wreckage.
That is absolutely the end goal of all these network-effect companies. Uber wants to be a monopoly on transportation, Google a monopoly on search, Spotify a monopoly on music consumption, etc.
Let me try to draw the line you're not following here. The solution parent is outlining is assigning responsibility for actions to the users of the platform, not is creators or maintainers.
I have some pictures of our[1] hotel rooms (at the Alexis Park) from Defcons 7 and 8 and 9[2] ...

Guns everywhere. Tables full of guns. Gun parts. Suppressors. There were more guns than laptops.

How things have changed ...

[1] 303, OC/23.org, TX CuervoCon friends

[2] 1998/1999/2000, I think ?
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Launch HN: Fintual Inc. (YC S18) – Automated Wealth Manager for Latin America
Hello HN!! I’m Agustin, founder of Fintual Inc, from YC’s S18 batch. We’re building an automated passive investment platform for Latin Americans (https://fintual.com). I come from a computer science + business background so when we first started discussing this idea I didn’t have much experience on finance or investment other than what I had learned by playing around with Bitcoin. Since I graduated I knew I wanted to become an entrepreneur, but not having any work experience led me to pretty standard ideas like a music streaming website or a food ordering app. I realised rather late that I needed to join experienced partners to find better business insights and opportunities.

After many conversations with my current business partner Omar, who had been 8 years working for the largest wealth manager in LATAM, I was shocked to understand how Latin American people, including people around me, were unfairly paying enormous amounts of money to banks who offered very expensive and many times overly complex investment solutions to retail / uninformed long term investors. After investigating how Betterment, Wealthfront and passive investment strategies in general had been changing the landscape for Americans, we were motivated to do whatever it took to solve this problem in LATAM starting from our own country Chile which, despite being a tiny country, has more than 60 billion dollars allocated in Mutual Funds by itself.

We started by building a responsive website using AngularJS and Ruby on Rails as quickly as we could to get user feedback soon, we mostly copied the onboarding process directly from Betterment. At the beginning we thought automating every step of the investment process was the most important challenge, but now, after some experience and several conversations with YC partners, we have come to realize the real problem to solve is none other than distribution: how to reach millions of users in an economically viable way. Banks already have the clients, while we have to explain and convince people there’s a better way. At first we tried to find an incumbent to work with us, but after a year trying we decided to get our own license (the equivalent to a FINRA Series 6 license) which took a large part of the seed round and 8 months of work, but finally got it. We’ve been growing at a healthy 10% week over week since March now thanks mainly to word of mouth, but we know we need to have a better handle on this growth for the future.

I’m very excited to be at this point, I have been reading HN for 10 years now and I only dreamed about making a YC launch post. As I said, we need to find a more consistent approach on growth, If any of you has any new idea or has heard of approaches of how could we get more people to realize they’re overpaying (some even pay 7% annual fees!) and get them to know and trust our solution, that would be awesome, but anyway, I’m eager to read and respond to whatever this great community has to say.
The rules apply to you not us!
@bewuethr exactly! BTW there is even easier way how to configure HSTR:

hstr --show-configuration >> ~/.inputrc && . ~/.inputrc

You can run just hstr --show-configuration to check what will be appended
There is a pretty big contingent of people out there who fully believe the "men can't be raped" type stuff.
Robert Virding (Erlang co-creator) joins æternity blockchain