skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It would be interesting to see ML recommendations of the form "There is a 75% chance you'll LOVE this movie, 25% chance you'll hate it" rather than only "98% chance you'll like this movie". Right now those 75% movies are actively hidden, as 75% is considered a bad prediction.

In other words, rather than optimizing for zero risk of disliking something, allow the user to optimize for the possibility of truly loving something, or being surprised. Especially on Netflix, where the risk is you stop part way through and switch to something else!
> when it’s not congested, they’re much lower than credit card systems are for normal businesses

So, it sounds like it only works if nobody uses it.

Sure, you can say we now have <insert name here> which is like Bitcoin, but solves this problem. This, however, is similar to pointing out there are credit cards with lower fees than what you mentioned (e.g. national ones), it's just the major ones that are expensive.
I respect your continued push for Anvil. I see your comments on threads from time to time and even though you're promoting your own product it feels topical and appropriate.
Balancing Multiple Metrics with Uncertainty
You can buy a domain name and do DNS auth. Requires no open ports and you'll get a trusted cert for that one Pi. I did it for mine (but with SNI verification).
They claim to be for efficiency, but their ideas around how to be more efficient are funnel money into private corporations (owned by their donors) for no apparent reason.

This is why we have private prisons, student loan servicers, and a the owner of a student loan debt collection agency overseeing student loan reforms.

Not to say Democrats don't do the same shit, but there's an undeniable difference between Trump appointments and Obama appointments. Trump had no problem putting into power Scott Pruitt, Rex Tillerson, Ajit Pai, and Betsy fucking DeVos -- all of whom are absolutely corrupt business leaders whose entire purpose in government life is to shovel as much money as possible from tax payers into their own pockets.

Those people weren't personally picked by Trump, they were recommended by high-ranking Republicans.
The School Shootings That Weren't
I was recently prescribed levofloxacin. Within 12 hours, I started having intermittent pins and needles sensations. Rather than soldier through it, I thankfully looked up the symptoms and discovered what terrible damage fluoroquinolones can do. I got off of those antibiotics immediately, and I'm paying close attention for any delayed symptoms. Thankfully the peripheral neuropathy has gone.

When prescribed, I was given no warnings. Not even a pamphlet with tiny print. When I returned to the pharmacists with my complaints and research, they were literally Googling it--they had no idea about the FDA warnings.
Not too long ago, I was exploring places to move to should my state (Texas) pass a law hostile to trans people that they were considering. The bill failed, so I stayed, but before then I did a lot of research.

I had a number of people recommend certain Seattle suburbs to me (particularly Bellevue and Renton), and it was towards the top of my list for a while... until some friends of mine who lived there told me that very few homes have central AC. That was an immediate nope. Crossed the whole state off my list.

I cannot tolerate any level of heat. I keep my AC at 60°F or below all the time, and I blast it even in winter. The only time I ever turn my AC off is when it's below freezing out.

On a side note, should Texas revive that bill next year and it passes, I've decided I'm moving to Las Vegas.
This was really awesome! Do you have any resources for how you got started creating an nes emulator? Definitely something I'd like to play around with...
I don't think that anyone is planning on automating the killing process any time soon. Even drone kills aren't automated yet -- you still have analysts in Virginia verifying kill targets.
<T> has issues with ambiguous parsing as < and > are also the less than and greater than operators. Rust recently had an small issue with this:

https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/53562
Idk if I would recommend Griffiths, his texts are usually extremely rigorous. I can't speak for this one but certainly his ED and QM books.
Programming My Child
I feel like the issue here is caused more by greedy Health Care company like HCA than the insurance industry.
At a certain point more money doesn't really mean much unless it amounts to a lifestyle change. Suppose you make $120k/yr and you hear someone makes $132k/yr for the same job at a different company. Is the extra ~$660/mo really going to change your day to day life? Probably not. So, it's at that point that more money doesn't really make a company change all that attractive unless it also comes with better work or leaving a company with better work for a pay increase that doesn't change your lifestyle.
> So while dying of a heart attack he should have been negotiating with the ambulance driver, the paramedics, the nurses, each intern and doctor to make sure they are "in-network".

Absolutely! 
 I work in EMS. Thankfully, our Medic One system is funded entirely by property taxes and we simply do not bill (at all) for any treatment or transport.

However, a few years ago United got a lot of grief over denying airlift transport claims from things like MVAs, or traumas in remote locations, stating that the "transport had not been pre-approved through the insurer".

Apparently in their mind, us paramedics (or maybe the chopper pilot) should have been calling in between stabilizing our patient...

"This is John, I'm a paramedic working on one of your patients who was hit by a truck. We would like to fly him to the hospital due to his extensive multisystem trauma but we need your approval. His name? Hang on, let me find his wallet. No, that's Smythe, S-M-Y-T-H-E, sorry, it's a bit loud with the jaws of life in the background... Yes, I can hold for a nurse consult..."
That’s why three party systems, such as this, is a headache. Everyone involved has vastly different goals, and incentives.

Insurance companies are mandated to strict profit margins, yes. But they aren’t mandated to align with what the other parties say a patient needs. This creates a situation where insurance companies can discriminantly choose which services, and level of care to agree to pay for.

I see it happening right now:
Long story short, to put it into everyday terminology, our family and the mechanic is urging for a new engine. Insurance is saying “all you need is air in your tires. That’s all we’ll approve.”
thanks for the correction ;)
Free's up time for calling other peoples representatives.
Don't forget the other elephant in the room: certificate revocation.

If your site isn't using HTTPS it will always be "not secure", but always accessible.

If it is, then it's accessible until someone decides to revoke your certificate for whatever reason.

The old quote is relevant again: "Those who give up freedom for security deserve neither."
> To exploit a MiTM you need to be on the same network, this could be achieved through your local-cafe's WiFi or by compromising an internal system of a local network.

Or, say, your ISP injecting ads and tracking scripts into unencrypted pages your browser requests.
Inulin Market Forecast, Trend Analysis and Competition Tracking During 2018-2028
> RAID5 definitely has a purpose, notable small arrays where RAID6 would be wasting space

This doesn't quite make sense to me. Why would the size of the array make any difference as to whether or not the extra drives needed by RAID6 can be characterized as waste?

> or if you have nodes to failover too

In essence, that's RAID5+1, which makes me wonder: If you have node-level redundancy, why bother with the intra-node redundancy?

> RAID6 would likely be at the limit of most modern implementations so you'd have to jump to (n,n-3) RAIDs or higher.

It's not clear to me what limit you're referring to, but, considering how long RAID6 has been implemented, especially in hardware, and how far computing power has increased since then, such a claim is dubious, if not extraordinary.
The 'old guard' wasn't wrong; Netflix pretty much were suckers for licensing a bunch of old content. The part in the transcript where he presents this as a stroke of genius that led to the pivot to original content is a rosy-glass view that gives Netflix too much credit. In my opinion, this fate came about entirely because of the content owners and not because of Netflix.

Netflix basically needed to bootstrap its streaming service with content, so they paid a bunch for syndication. They then sold an all-you-can-eat plan at a low price. Their success butted against pay-per-view providers, other syndicators, and content owners: Netflix blazed the trail and proved that people sign up for video-on-demand in droves if it carries content people want to watch, and is cheap enough to where one doesn't have to think about every view. But this devalued the content, so studios yanked their newer seasons and put them on knock-off platforms for a separate subscription.

This development meant Netflix had to start making deals with less controlling content providers, or produce content of their own. On the other side of the house, Hulu was able to justify its price point by offering current seasons of popular shows, and being a joint venture of influential content owners, but single-owner offerings struggled for customers, unless the IP was exceptional. This is why HBO hasn't yet died in this space, and Disney will likely succeed on their own, but also-rans no longer offer enough in a crowded market.

By the end of the article, they do descend to reality and identify the magic formula: Netflix makes money from the subscription, and a constant flow of offerings both strong and mediocre will tide the user over to make them not consider cancelling. And in time, the ever-expanding catalog is insurance for a change in market headwinds.

The key, though, is will Netflix be able to convince the consumer to part with their money when other platforms with the same business model offer a more compelling catalog? In the long run, that remains to be seen.
That's probably the part you don't read about in the news.
Thanks, this clarifies things for me.
Sorry but I can only agree with parent. Not only was there no up to date documentation, I couldn't even find out how to revert back to offline config. I gave up and looked elsewhere, and I consider myself fairly experienced with LDAP and other products.

Even when I worked out how to do online config, if I made a mistake and the service wouldn't start, I couldn't work out how to manually revert the change so the service could start again.
> "Processor", "Context", "Box", "Request"

There are a lot of interfaces in the existing library that one could consider quite abstract as well. Reader? Writer? error? Another thing worth noting is that many/most C++ codebases manage to avoid the type of generic proliferation you're talking about.
Nice. I'll have to poke through Nion's source a bit to see how it works.

FWIW, here's my lists of other existing similar libraries:

https://github.com/markerikson/redux-ecosystem-links/blob/ma...

https://github.com/markerikson/redux-ecosystem-links/blob/ma...
Now I get ads in gmail relevant to what I search on google.com
Hi, I'm one of the founders of SigOpt (YC W15). This is part 3 of a 3 part series we've done on uncertainty in modeling and optimization (Part 1 and 2 here [0] and here [1]).
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Hey,

Not a self build, but I have just completed the first phase of a renovation. For me the main struggles were getting it wind and water tight especially in a location with bad weather.

Renovation is a gamble, people have said it makes it easy and hard at the same time. Easy in that you have a clearer vision of what you want to do (fix up, restore etc), but harder in that you are constrained by whatever the existing structure is there e.g. (concrete weaknesses, old cladding, planning permissions).

I tried to tackle it pragmatically like a piece of software, I didn't want to get too far ahead of myself in case I ran out of money or something catastrophic happened.

It is interesting how building problems are similar to software problems. For example connecting two types of waste pipe from a sink and washing machine to an older specification of waste pipe, was just like solving an API integration issue (minus the tape and coupling I had to hack together)

Now that the place is wind and watertight, I can now focus on planning the internals over the winter period and then come back to the property next summer with energy.

Since my place was in a remote location, I had to factor in costs of transportation. Which looking back, ate about 10% of my total budget.

Tradesmen unreliability is another thing to factor in, which caused about 2 months total in delays.

In summary, my experience is no different to any other engineering project. I have been tempted to write up about it, however I am more focused about getting back to work as I am near enough broke now :)

Here's a photo of the end result - bearing in mind it didn't have a roof and all the windows were broken / smashed

https://pasteboard.co/HBisuqe.jpg

Feel free to ask any questions, I am from the UK so it might not be relevant in some cases.

Also check for "free" money; as in grants for insulation, solar panels etc.
> Section 2 of the GPLv3 explicitly declares itself irrevocable provided the terms are complied with.

Yes, it does say that. That doesn't actually override a law which makes it revocable at will irrespective of it's terms—the license is governed by the law, not vice versa.

Whether the GPLv3 is a gratuitous license probably depends on the circumstances of licensing in a particular case and not the text alone—its certainly possible for it to be a contract license instead, but it's not, AFAIK, clearly one in the general case.
You shouldn't trust anyone. There's nothing stopping them from doing it again, or continuing to do it and publishing that nice writeup. Of course when your data is on a 3rd party server, that 3rd party has access to it. Why do we keep pretending like anything else is the case?
Eh, there are two execution contexts here.

1. The web browser executing the injected data stream it receives from the remote computer.

2. Your brain interpreting 'non-executable' instructions as received from your browser.

Browser security has nothing to do with me going to 'xyz.com', which is the trusted website for xyz company, and being fed a MiTM telling me to go to a bad phone number for support.
Siam Rice is a decent Thai place around the corner from the Mayors office (and many city/county offices). It’s reasonably priced & fast. That’s a rare combo around there.

I got nothing on the 4 hour hotel.
This x100. It's weird how so many sites, tomshardware being the most infamous of this recently, are trying to push the hype on these cards with so little information.

Take a peep at the comments on this article below
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https://www.tomshardware.com/news/nvidia-rtx-gpus-worth-the-...
A lot of anitbiotics are ototoxic (damage to hearing) or nephrotoxic (kidneys).
I don't think this follows. Insurance profit margins are restricted, but they're a percentage of overall payments to hospitals. If the total charge goes up, their total profit also increases.
There are many examples of things builtins can do which user-code can't:

1. The constructs like "x <- chan" and "x, ok <- chan" (and map indexing and so on) are only available to builtin types.

It's impossible to write a thing like "x, ok <- chan" where it either panics or doesn't depending on if the caller wanted two or one return values.

2. generic types, like 'map' and 'chan'.

3. 'len' can't be implemented for a user type, e.g. "len(myCustomWorkQueue)" doesn't work.

4. range working without going through weird hoops (like returning a channel and keeping a goroutine around to feed it)

5. Reserving large blocks of memory up front (e.g. as 'make' can do for slices and maps) in an efficient manner (e.g. make(myCustomWorkQueue, 0, 20) doesn't work)
Absolutely. I always thought that if you can find multiple 0days, you are good enough to land into any senior developer position in a few weeks. Is that not the case? And why? To me, being able to find 0days was always synonymous with "broad knowledge" + "out of the box thinking".
It's a good example of the same underlying economic incentives. An EDA title is used by a few tens of thousands of professionals, at best. Large investments into making it more user-friendly and stable is not really worth it in the grand scheme of things. It needs to be just the minimal viable product that can get the chip out the door; it will be complex and feature packed rather than usable, and the engineers will learn to navigate around it's idiosyncrasies and bugs just like they solve other technical problems, it's what engineers do.

The chip itself though, that's a whole nother thing. Especially the process that works across multiple designs and becomes an asset for the company. Any nanosecond shaved here improves the capacity of the foundry to compete and helps a billion people complete the task 1% faster or have 1% more memory. The customers have no reason to work around a less performing product, they will just buy from the competition.

So you get this strange combo of supernatural hardware assembled with atomic precision by garbage software written in Perl by an outsourcing guy with 6 months total programming experience.
Newly Discovered 'Rose Hip' Neurons May Be Unique To Humans
400cm oak wood tabletop: 200 Euros

Oak isn't exactly cheap so for that price I assume this is just a tiny layer of oak (sorry couldn't find English term for it) glued on top of plywood or so?

Apart from that: De-sk is sort of expensive yes, but from what it looks like part of that price is quality paid for, it looks sturdy. No matter how smart and well-designed IKEA is, 18 euros cannot buy you something which lasts and doesn't wobble even after disassembling and assembling it again unless you attach it to a wall or so - at least that's my impression after years of using IKEA. I personally really dislike tables with even the slightest wobble for any kind of job. Most IKEA tables freshly built out of the box do not fullfill that requirement. Anyway: maybe they have something new now, what legs did you use?
It isn't even good marketing - these demo pages are terrible!
Was the part at the end about the Airbender and zuko a dig at journalists?
> I feel like whenever I hear crazy stories like this about healthcare it usually involves these weird in or out of network issues. I'm certainly not an expert on healthcare, but is there no way to attack the problem from this angle?

Because hospitals, and physicians, have decided that, for the most part, it is better for each of them for physicians to be "independent contractors", so the situation of "your hospital is in network, but your physician was not".

Or for me, most recently, going to my doctor for a checkup on my hypertension at an Urgent Care/Family Practice hybrid. Facility? In network? Physician/Assistant? In network? Lab in the same building (to be clear, it wasn't a multi-tenant complex, this was a medical practice) that they sent me for CBC draws? Out of network. Boom, hundreds of dollars in lab bills.
Apple Pencil support would be super cool on the iPads. Also worth noting, aside from typical handwriting inputs like Wacom digitizers, found in laptops like Lenovo's Tablet lineup, the MSoft Surfaces, etc, Wacom also makes pen tablets at a price point of less than $100USD, although they may be a little different to write on as they are just digitizers, and you'd be watching the screen to see what you're writing. Works great for art though!
Maybe they meant the language, which has some generic functions like append or delete - instead of those functions being attached to a data type or accepting any type, they only act on built-in types. I doubt any of that would change though given the stated goal of remaining compatible in most cases.
Sharlin says> "But is there really a need for people to live in places like Houston?"

Houston _is_ a hellhole part of the year. But ports are necessary and, while they needn't be cities, they usually are.

Two things about that:

- Regardless of climate, cities are too often built in regions that are prime river-bottom farmland. It would have been better if such lands were left for farming (since they flood easily and harbor disease) and the cities located at higher elevation.

Houston was built literally in a swamp. Part of this is it's use as a port city, but it didn't have to be that way. Thanks to storms and flooding the city is slowly moving to whatever higher ground there is (honestly there isn't much).

But as long as the government provides flood insurance at bargain rates, developers will build new homes in flood-prone areas and sell the homes to suckers who don't know any better. The developers sell out and move on to new projects, the homeowner gets flooded and the government(taxpayer) pays for the stupidity and inefficiency of it all.

- Houston's humidity is high, so the usual pressurized A/C system is required. Dallas in contrast has low humidity so that evaporative A/C systems, which are much cheaper to build and to operate, can be used very effectively:

http://www.air-conditioner-home.com/best-evaporative-cooler-...
> One cannot have both I guess?

Not to be snarky, but...

The whole point of LISP-style macros is that you very much can have both. Ultimately, generics will compile down, either via type erasure or a generated specialization, to a "copy-pasted" function (in concept, at least). With a macro, you have ultimate control of how this is achieved.

The problem, of course, is that the people who care how generics are implemented all think their way is the best (leading to a proliferation of slightly-different-and-incompatible implementations), and everyone else just wants something that works fast and reliably.

Bad code can be written in any language. Good code can be written in most languages (yes, even C++...the jury is still out on PHP). Every feature that grants power comes at the cost of potential complexity. What ultimately determines success or failure is the community and best practices that develop around these features.

In this regard, I think Go will be "o.k." even with generics.
Is there an equivalent of "Signature Augmentation System" that targets LIDAR sensors?
Gradually migrating back end frameworks while maintaining HA using ESI
One-off "experiments" become production technology all the time. They address an immediate need at the cost of tomorrow. This hasn't ever changed. Hyperbolic discounting is real.

When you're in a job that requires running experiments, analyzing results, and summarizing findings, all within an hour, shortcuts are required.

I think that analysts/scientists using python and Jupyter notebooks are doing IT a favor. If your job is to refactor/re-engineer python notebooks and corresponding workflows, you've either forgotten how much worse it could be with excel+vba or you fortunately arrived after trench warfare.
Millions of people no doubt.
Health should be separate from commerce. It's messed up to refuse to exchange scientific information that could save a lot of lives to get more bargaining power, but it's also messed up if some entity takes that information and internationally patents a vaccine so they could sell it for ungodly high prices.