skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I said MOST free market. I never claimed it operated under ideal conditions. The fact is still though that most other health care systems in the west are considerably LESS market oriented than the US.

A more free market oriented approach than today would just make the US system even worse. Health care is not a natural market. There is too much information asymetry, and wrong incentives at play.

As for standards, you seem to have a rather naive idea of how government makes standards. Usually it will heavily involve industry. It is not like government just dreams up arbitrary shit.

As for example of lack of standards. I remember when living in the US having to deal with 4 different incompatible cell phone standards. I remeber arguing with an American on how it was better to standarize on GSM. He made your point that the market would eventually produce a much better standard than GSM. Except by the time the US market got anywhere we were already moving over to 3G. Sorting stuff out in the market is often simply way too time consuming when technology moves at the current pace.

Anything with banking and finance in the US seems to sorely lacking standards. But I am sure things must have improved since I lived there 15 years ago. Then there was no standard for electronic bills, sending payment to other bank accounts electronically, simple stuff like the formatting/layout of a paper bill.
Also, don't own a pool, a dog, a house with stairs, a car, a rope, kitchen knifes, or cook with fire.
Like much of IBM, Watson was/is a good platform for doing certain tasks, but blown completely out of proportion by IBM marketing. Not to mention that they now explicitly use it as a branding tool ("Watson Cloud", "Watson Health" etc.)

On the one hand, you have Google open sourcing AI tools, courses, adding TPU-enabled machines on their cloud and using their own AI tools to do some pretty neat stuff. On the other, you have IBM marketing deliberately deceiving ordinary consumers as to what its capable of. Its not that hard to take a side.

Disclaimer: I do not currently work for either company
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That's a good sign it's not going to hog memory and randomly lag doing simple things. Leave the cookie-cutter "polished" UI to websites, I prefer my desktop applications have some character.
Pretty much any new features we release are only available on new Windows 10 releases. Unless there's a gigantic demand for a feature, or business impact, we're not really capable on our team of backporting anything.
There's no advantage to your method vs programming the same wrapping key into both devices. As far as the site is concerned, these are the same device but with different counter streams.

I mean, yes the 2 devices can be initialized at different times, but otherwise it makes no matter.
Yes we remember how limited was the web back then. I also miss those times, good memories. But to make money out of it we had to follow the latest trends in UX since they attracted more visitors than us. The first DHTML, the java applets, the arrive of flash, and then XHTMLHttpRequest used by google in their new born gmail. So now we are here with these new awesome technologies and we want to go back. But I’m not sure it will be fun.
This. When they ask you "are you sure" they are just wary of getting jerked around by people who really have no idea, and who can't abide having to live with their decisions. They get those people all the time.

As an aside, I remember somebody returning a standard grilled chicken sandwich at McDonalds for being unbearably spicy.
Recently committed Gasket (Google ASIC Software, Kernel Extensions, and Tools) kernel framework is going even further in that direction.

https://lwn.net/Articles/758745/

> Could allow for APK installable kernel drivers, allowing modules to be upgraded (even live)

https://twitter.com/MishaalRahman/status/1029064974805688320
OP didn't say better, rather "on steroids". Have you met steroid users?
It is rent-seeking, plain and simple.
It's a one page PHP app that any HN'er could probably throw together in a day or two, and it would likely look better and work better than what I built so there isn't much honor in there, I needed a solution, not something that would serve as the basis for a nice write-up.
Trademark law requires (at least in the USA, I can’t speak for other jurisdictions) you to actively defend your trademarks in order to keep them, or you risk losing them.

Trademark law also has the risk of your trademark becoming “generic”, bandaids vs band-aid brand adhesive plasters, this process which is completely out of control of a company and its lawyers, if everyone uses your trademark to refer to any product like yours, too bad, you can’t sue your consumers (you can and have to, sue your competition if they refer to their products with your trademark) to make them stop and the process will continue and your trademark eventually “dies”.

Trademarks are also not automatically valid internationally and also require you to specify what the trademark will be used for, which allows for potentially annoying overlapping uses of a simpler trademark for different products which can hinder later market expansion into other industry if you don’t expend effort registering a trademark for everything from movies to medical devices and machine lubricants. You have a lot of room to fight over these things these days thanks to the internet and global branding, but your not guaranteed to win just because of money, just ask Nissan for example.

Copyright on the other hand, while limited in duration, is implicit and automatically exists for any creative work or expression, is yours for free unless you sign it away to someone else or a corporation, with no need to litigate anything about it should you choose not to.
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Should You Choose a Female Doctor?
Things like fraud detection come to mind. Being able to build a model based on previously detected bad actors and then use that model to detect possible additional bad actors is a specialized but useful skill in some contexts.
I think you are abusing language here, probably not intentionally, and it distracts from the actual issue. You seem to understand the difference but for those who don't, here's a crucial distinction that's often overlooked by laypeople:

The Schrödinger (Dirac) equation itself is deterministic. Given a wavefunction at time t=t0, you can calculate its evolution to time t=t1. What is indeterminate is the observation of the observable. The distribution of observations is entirely determined. Only the result of a single observation is indeterminate: in the limit of infinite measurements, you would get the probability distribution back which itself is determinate. The various "interpretations" concern themselves with what happens at the time of measurement. For example, the Copenhagen interpretation says that the wavefunction, which was evolving deterministically, mutates into a new wavefunction which itself evolves deterministically. This act of going from one to the other is considered indeterminate and is given the name of "collapse". However the dynamics of each wavefunction is entirely determinate.
It is! But this is a very un-windows like feature, isn't it? We want this to work on other platforms with as little modification as necessary, and frankly, jumping through the wchar_t<->char hoops is a _pain_. So we'll do it for you!
For speed we don't measure it "upside down", no. But there is another transformation: "rapidity", which does add linearly (at least for one spatial dimension) and goes to infinity when velocity goes to c.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rapidity
I believe that since timescale creates time based partitions, you can expire old data by dropping old chunks: https://docs.timescale.com/v0.11/api#drop_chunks
Yes. Love my DnB :)
Man I would go back to get a brass rat! Wonder why Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute isn't on your list? Then again an online degree takes all the fun out of living in the "asshole of the universe" as the students allegedly dub Troy, NY.
Yes. When I did my undergrad in CS, the people doing Masters degrees were taking many of the same classes. Different course catalog numbers, but they were sitting in the same room with me, hearing the same lectures, and doing the same homework.
We (San Francisco) do have them. Some people don't like them, and there are ongoing fights about that. Generally speaking, "the government" here is trying to "take responsibility" like you ask. It is a certain segment of the population that you should be taking issue with.

I'm not singling you out, but a personal pet-peeve of mine is this "us vs. government" thing. You, the reader, are a part of your government. Pretending like government should be like a restaurant and service you is a category error that causes lots of unnecessary problems while not solving real ones. Take responsibility, indeed.)
I found the bindings.

https://github.com/andmarti1424/sc-im/blob/freeze/src/doc
Curious what the topic was that got all the flags
I've come around to the idea that using binary floats in most cases is and was a mistake. Anything that deals with human readable numbers should be a decimal float not binary.
Much less. Having lived multiple places I got to day the heavy bureaucracy of the US system is apparently immediately when you interact with it.

Some of it has to do with common law. Common law means a lot of stuff always has to be spelled out over and over again while in civil law things default to the law if not spelled out. Hence you don’t need the same amount of disclaimers e.g.
>Seems like a tech bro nightmare.

This precisely summarizes my reaction to Blind each time I’ve decided to log in over the year or so I’ve had an account.
1000x this. Netlify is one of those tools that I really have trouble remembering life without, especially for static sites. The first time I used it, I distinctly remember saying, “oh wow,” aloud. And I still find myself saying that the more I get to know their offerings.
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I worked at Starbucks in Store Planning in the early nineties. The Real Estate group at the time was superior. Picking locations, revenue projections, competitive analysis. This was received wisdom inside the org.

Having Starbucks show up in your town educated (or created) the market. The nonsense about Starbuck driving local coffee shops out of business was never reality based. Competing chains? Sure. But not the mom & pops. And since then, there's been a proliferation of local chains.

That said...

Starbucks (for coffee) != Amazon (for books). Starbucks is more like Anheuser-Busch: mass market, consistency, broad appeal. By their nature, both leave plenty of room for microbrews and local roasters.

Amazon is more like Walmart, a destroyer of markets. Your margin is their opportunity.
Nope! We're only rendering the effect of any attached processes to the VT on the conpty side of things. On the client side (where cmd, type, 7z.exe are all running), they're going to keep working just the same as they always have. They're all running on the "slave" side of conpty, while the emitted VT is coming from the "master" side of the conpty.
Cool! Qemu + binfmt is magic
It's easy to be pessimistic and jaded about this stuff, so thanks for keeping an open mind and for pointing this out. Wells Fargo started in 1852 with good intentions. They were fortunate and experienced exponential growth quickly, and simply lost sight of core values during the chaos of windfall profits stage, finally secumbing to evil sometime during the Spring of 1853. After some overdue self-reflection big changes were put in place, effective Q2 2018.
https://www.omscs.gatech.edu/prospective-students/faq

Unless I misread the below they prefer a Math, CS or Engineering Bachelor’s and a Bachelor’s of some kind is an absolute requirement.

> Preferred qualifications for admitted OMS CS students are an undergraduate degree in computer science or related field (typically mathematics, computer engineering or electrical engineering) from an accredited institution with a cumulative GPA of 3.0 or higher. Applicants who do not meet these criteria will be evaluated on a case-by-case basis; significant professional or other work experience with supporting recommendations may qualify as an adequate substitute for the appropriate academic credentials, however work experience will not take the place of an undergraduate degree
Better ways for government and developers to work together
Yeah, that makes sense. Do you have an example of Zeilinger's writing where he discusses his philosophical stance?

Is a philosophical stance something you believe that a physicist shouldn't have?
Reminds me of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=678501
Did you possibly mean Six Million Dollar Man?
That is very likely what I was remembering. As I said, this was long ago (as in 30+ years ago) so I very well may have been remembering this multi-level ROM setup and mixing it up with three valued logic.

I do concur that this would be an interesting topic for another post.
In another life I spent some time training in freediving. I wasn't particularly good, but got to around 4:45 for raw breath hold, a 36m dive, and swam maybe 110m in a pool, all done under strict supervision. Fun sport but very strange, it seems to attract an odd bunch.
The question isn’t whether the statements are true or false, it’s between “bullshit” and “not bullshit” - not bullshit being something like “maybe has an element of truth or is a reasonable position to take”

Believing pain to not be lesser because it comes from psychosomatic sources is reasonably - Most people will act similarly in my experience, and in any case the statement is saying something

Contrast that with the bullshit statements - “The whole silence infinite phenomena”
Emphatic agreement about East Africa. Exciting times...
> I bought that share came with a certain expectation of control

That control is only within the limits on the corporation itself, all within the context of the entire legal system that gives concepts like "corporation" and "shareholder" meaning.

> Would you support a bill forcing owners of large houses to set aside some of their space for the homeless?

I'll see your thought experiment and raise you one. Does share ownership entitle you to direct that the company do something illegal, or immoral? Or that any number of shareholders be able to do so? Of course not. Again, your control only applies within the limits on the company itself.

> Would you give your squatter a vote

Voters and taxpayers are not squatters. They collectively constitute the government that grants corporations certain privileges - e.g. the right to own property or bring lawsuits, even to participate in the political process since Citizens United, all under the shield of limited liability and legal accountability (a corporation can't be imprisoned). The state and its people should receive something in return for that. In the very same language of contracts that you're using, if there's not consideration on both sides then there's no contract.

Don't like the deal? Don't incorporate. Don't try to get that something for nothing. Be a sole proprietor, personally and directly liable for any ill the company does. Good luck. There's a reason others do take that sweet sweet bargain, and not because it's fair to all who are affected.
Being at 1.0 on the average income ratio is well above average. The median US worker comes in at .7 on that chart.

You can work a lot harder to make even more mediocre compensation -- I worked 12-hour days in manufacturing for ten years to make less, and it was pretty difficult on my body. If teaching weren't such a horrible job with little possibility of self-improvement, I would definitely envy them their compensation.
But that's not Watson is and I think this is his point. Sure they had a great model and data to solve that problem. But this doesn't scale automatically for other use cases. You'd have to create a model for your use case and find training data. Tensorflow might offer better tools for that for free than the ones being shipped with Watson.
I drink, smoke weed, eat etc and don't talk to anybody during long sessions. Ignore all people. That's how you do it. Then go back and program more.

Fuck breaks. I hate them. Stay strong.

At id software they said if you wanted to see something, make it happen on a screen.
Some of that is definitely covered in the curriculum, at least in the classes I took at GT that are part of this.
If you live in DC it may be worth filing a small-claim to recover damages.
I'm not a professional software developer I mostly program for fun, so i'm not sure how valid my opinion is but writing my own virtual machine, simple assembly language and two pass assembler probably taught me more about fundamental computer concepts, managing a not too large but still decently sized programming project, different hardware architectures and ways that can be structured and general low level programming concepts than any book i've read or other project i've worked on.
Yes. Scoot uses a vespa style electrical "motor scooter", not an e-bike. I would not be able to carry it up my porch stairs and into my apartment. :)
Do you have any source for this? A bedroom isn't sealed shut like a submarine would be?
I've seen multiple people black out and have blacked out myself under water ... twice? (while training freediving). It comes on slowly and is far easier to do than you'd think.

If you do any of this without supervision it's just a matter of time until you die.
Thanks so much for the share, great gems in here, I still found myself surprised at this:

> True, linux is monolithic, and I agree that microkernels are nicer.

It's hard to believe that he was only 23 when he wrote this
Publishers need to own their own distribution, it's that simple. That's their core business and it can't be outsourced
It comes out higher than that. Mine was about $10k all-in.
Horizontal scroll. Orbpageflipping.

Just don't.

PubMed.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3968624/

(There's still a legacy fallback.)
> No, the sentence talks about imaginary pain, not real pain with imaginary causes.

That's exactly what you're getting wrong. "Imaginary pain" does not mean "imagining a situation where imaginary-you is in pain". It means pain with imaginary causes that applies to the real you.
While these degrees are interesting, they still have the same entrance requirements as on-campus programs (transcripts, references, undergrad degree). This is a shame bc there are many people, especially in software engineering, who have the skills yet lack adequate proof of those skills.

I'd love if there were a CS masters that either let you apply directly or complete a specification to get automatic admission. Perhaps after completing foundational courses with a B average. That would greatly increase access and should be sufficient to weed out unprepared candidates.
> two years on there are a few tens of thousands of nodes in the system and it has already far outlived it's expected life-span

This sounds like something that would be more than interesting enough for me to want to read, quite apart from the quality or complexity or ingenuity of the code itself. A nice write up isn't necessarily one that was planned as such at inception.
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Ask HN: Getting into Arduino or ESP8266 and want to hack?
Lately I've been playing around with Arduino, Raspberry PI Zero, and the various modules. I wanted to see if anyone else is in Mountain View who either is getting into or has experience in this space and wanted to talk tech, hack, share ideas or projects, etc
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Being specific means the malcontents will simply adjust their language.

No longer will it be, “get out there with your battle rifles and let the blood of the infidel run free” but it will become, “let loose your holy Christmas candy and witness the tears of the spoilt children of the Left!”

There’s no death threat or incitement to violence there.
Doesn't a geometry specification do the job? That way you don't need a window manager at all.
Goodbye, BetterSnapTool and your finicky edges!
We're in the realm of opinion, but my $0.02:

"China" is the name of a country. For historical reasons the "Republic of China" is one of the names of a different country, but having "China" in its name doesn't make it (a part of) China.

Most people call China "China" simply because China's current territory is closest to the China that existed before the Nationalist/Communist split. It's not a political statement. Two different countries needs two different names. Taiwan is for all intents and purposes a country but it can't declare itself one now because of military threat from China.

Yes, there are Taiwanese who want Taiwan to subjugate itself and become part of China. But all the young people I have talked to, excluding blindly patriotic Chinese, see Taiwan as Taiwan and China as China-- as two separate countries with their own economies, histories, cultures, and languages.
I don't understand your point here.

Google is not a competitor to IBM and so there is no "choice" to be made between the two. Sure Google has open sourced some great technologies (as have many others) but they are raw, low-level tools for Data Scientists to use. They aren't OOTB products ordinary people can use.
Ask HN: Would you join an invite-only community for engineering managers?
Hi HN - Andy here. I'm the co-founder of a startup that builds a modern wiki for growing teams.

Posting here with an idea that's been on my mind for awhile after talking to hundreds of engineering teams, but wanted feedback from the HN community first before decided to take action.

We're thinking about creating an invite-only community for engineering managers. The space would be a place to share knowledge and help each other learn to grow high performance team. From what I've been able to find, there's a lot of information out there on general management, but not a ton on managing engineering teams specifically. Our mission is to help teams grow and thrive together, so the plan is to make this free.

Would this be something you'd find useful?
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Curious, do you offer GMO products for people that care about sustainability and the environment or is it too hard to serve both markets?
The price and the healthcare ... Ok they got us here. But beer? The breadth and depth of beer in the US is insane now.
While parent post is full-of-it on the general question of replicating Watson's full bag-of-techniques against client problems in a weekend, I believe the Watson Jeopardy victory was far less impressive than it seemed.

It's a very-constrained domain, and the challenge Watson won has never been opened to scrappy teams other than IBM. I wrote up my doubts way back in 2011:

https://memesteading.com/2011/02/16/ibm-watson-overprovision...

Here in 2018, I suspect a clever focused team could make a MacBook, with current dumps of Wikipedia/Wikidata and a few other key reference materials, competitive in most Jeopardy matches in a week or two. And, with 6 months to a year, as dominant as "Watson" was against the Jeopardy champs.
Was it covered in a theoretical sense where you took quizzes on it or in a more hands on way where you find xss exploits and exploiting them?
I thought one of Watson's main projected uses was healthcare. Isn't Google's stake in healthcare via DeepMind actually make them competitors in that sense? Unless I'm missing something here, I have not researched Watson a lot.