skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One gigantic missing component is a time estimation. A short time estimate on an important feature could change something from "should have" to "must have". However, estimating time for development projects can get be difficult.

This is why Atlassian pushes the idea of "story points", which is a rough estimate of complexity without real units. This works okay, but you need to have some kind of basis for story points. We went with (using the fibonacci sequence):

- 1 - half a day or less
- 2 - about a day
- 3 - more than a day, less than 2
- 5 - 2-3 days
- 8 - about a week
- 13 - more than a week, probably less than 2

Etc. This gives our business types something they understand, while providing enough flexibility that developers feel comfortable.

Business types need to know the scale of a project as well as its importance, since those two are very much connected.
Most certainly. I did not intend to question the usefulness of maxent models. I just find myself a bit uneasy with maxent as a derivation of and/or explanation of the ubiquity of the normal distribution, given the two issues mentioned above when we're talking about the continuous case. I was wondering if you might have some insight into the issue which could remedy this feeling of uneasiness :)

And regarding the moments, it's just that the normal distribution is the only distribution with a finite number of non-zero moments. Therefore, constraining higher order moments is not so straight forward.

Also might be worth noting that technically, if one was sufficiently UNreasonable, one could constrain the target distribution to take on specific values given specific inputs. This would not be very useful in any real-world applications. Then choosing between constraining only the first moment ("minimal" constraints), or constraining each point you've observed to take on the normalized frequency ("maximal" constraints) becomes entirely up to you. Therefore I don't see quite how maxent models give us the tools for deciding between complexity and accuracy, as the maxent models can be on either end of the spectrum depending on what constraints we choose.

(Unsure if you were implying that it did, but nonetheless it might be something to note.)
I had in mind a combination of the Cambridge Summerville youth study, the massive body of research that working more hours isn't good for productivity, and the (admittedly currently ongoing) research into personal relationships which is showing a marked improvement in relationship outcomes for couples who live together before getting married.
I know someone personally who had to wait months to see somebody. He said screw it and came to the states for care instead (dual citizenship). He was able to see a specialist immediately and found out he was grossly misdiagnosed.
Ok, but a company's market cap is only a measure of its outstanding equity, not its assets or total liabilities.
Stallman downloads all his links and emails once every 24 hours and then process them. Might be worth considering doing something similar with tech blogs or what you follow.

However what side projects you could work on really depends on what you are interested in. I would imagine that anything you could work on on a single laptop would qualify.
Please check out my project[1] if you hate sticky headers.

[1] https://github.com/yourduskquibbles/webannoyances
Serious question though, what is immersion in the programming context? Is it being only in the programming environment and not leaving? Wouldn't using a web browser for documentation or stack overflow be a break in it? Why not just have the windows one needs and configure your ide to be how you like?
I sent you an e-mail describing the incident in detail, with a link to the support request I opened at the time of the incident.

I actually really do like Cloudflare a lot, for the record, so I'd be glad if it turned out to be something more innocuous. But at the time, Support said they'd look into it, and I got nothing but radio silence since then.
Imagine you are a secretary working at a company where HR is physically located across the country. HR needs you to fill out "Government Form 27" which requires personal information.

You fill out the form, how do you transmit it back to HR? You're probably going to email it. Very few companies have a "secure document transfer system" and very few people understand the risks of emailing personal information.
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Compare specifically to the UK then - we get no exercise, have awful diets, are miserable, have a more inbred version of US genetics, fucking love self-inflicted disasters apparently, and are culturally mostly indistinguishable from the US. And yet, despite the fact that we spend a fraction of what you spend on healthcare, have a couple more years' life expectancy.
I was diagnosed with Oropharyngeal Cancer 39 days ago. Keeping up with the appointments alone has been bad enough. I am not sure how I would deal with this if I had to shop around for the best deal.

-I went to urgent care for some swelling on my neck that escalated quickly. 45 minutes later I was getting a MRI. This was on a Friday. They called and said it was cancer.

-Monday I was seen by a ear nose throat doctor. Yes, cancer indeed.

-Tuesday I saw a oncologist.

-At this point I decided to move to Portland since my sister lives up here. So the oncologist referred me to another ENT doctor in Portland.

-About a week later I saw a dentist and radiologist on the same day. Everyone agreed that due to the bad shape my teeth are/were in and the location of the cancer my teeth need to come out.

-A few days later another oncologist

-All my teeth removed (this has been rough)

-Tomorrow a "simulation" and PET scan to see if the cancer has spread

-Tuesday is something called a swallowing test

-Wednesday is a check up with the oral surgeon

-Friday is some intake thing for the feeding tube and a meeting with the nutritionist.

-Next Monday feeding tube installed.

-Next Tuesday another check-up with the G.I doctor.

-Next Wednesday radiation and chemo start.

So yeah.. I have no clue how much this shit is costing and I don't really care since I have Medicare. I just wish everyone had the same luxury.
A speaker/headphone can produce sound with only the wire coming from your computer/phone, a magnet, and the cone. The electricity from the audio cable manipulates the magnetic field in the speaker, causing the cone to vibrate.

So while the audio cable is transmitting electricity into the headphones, it's just wrapped around a magnet instead of having other electric components.

This is a good graphic on them: https://animagraffs.com/loudspeaker/

A microphone is just the reverse: vibrations in the air move the cone and its attached magnet, which induces electrical current in the wire.
I’m an amazon seller with our own brand of products, and many of our 1 star reviews are fakes by the competition. For awhile we also had a bunch of returns and Amazon temporarily closed our listing because of the poor performance. When I looked into it the addresses on those orders were to a variety of different motels in Alabama. People are shady af and it’s frustrating trying to do business legitimately.
Unless you want to send a message, not just kill someone. Similar to Skripal.
Good points.

The defence sector simply can’t afford to fund every “good idea”.

Especially every idea, once selected, that leads to multi-decade and multi-billion(trillion in case of F35) lock in.

My thoughts, and hands on experience with military innovation, is focused on the bottom end.

Both in terms of “user” rank and budget for prototype capability.

I genuinely applaud those in the civilian tech sector who vote with their feet on moral/ethical perceptions.

However, it doesn’t hurt to understand history. Both the early generations of Silicon Valley and tech sector history as well as the last generation(dot.com bubble).

Money is flowing now, but all bubbles pop.

Especially Saudi oil money(40 years ago it was the soon to be deposed Iranian Shah’s money propping up Grumman and others).

When money gets tight, moral/ethical protest becomes less affordable.

I put my time where my mouth is and try to teach young serving members of the military how to innovate themselves(at least an introduction to it), rather than paying contractors to do it for them.

I can assure you the projects we’ve been working on have all been quite practical and ethical to work on.

One concept I push is “Its always H-Hour” stolen from my old employer Amazon “It’s still Day 1”.

Creating a sustainable sense of urgency and bias for action, but with an emphasis on resource austerity. We don’t have a Manhattan Project budget. We sometimes borrow things temporarily.

The Indian austere innovation concept of Jugaad comes to mind.

Personally, I think the answer is a mashup of H4D using a StartUp Weekend-like intro, Jugaad like resource austerity, and a YC like innovation community and pipeline. And perhaps something on the high end akin to the Israeli Talpiot Program.

I sincerely hope those ethically opposed to working on defence projects can continue to afford to do so.

As that will mean the tech sector is still awash with opportunity anD cash which will help nudge defence towards conducting more internal adaptation of commercial tech instead of relying on civilian contractors.

I’d certainly prefer we don’t see another peer or near peer level major global conflict.

But conflict seems eternally intertwined with the human condition. At least for now.
"Zero-day in popular jQuery plugin" is a bit misleading for the title then. More like "Zero-day in copy pasted code in PHP if apache incorrectly configured".
Sigh, still hoping for the day it means Hurd with GNU toolchain...
https://old.reddit.com should solve your problem. It does not make use of infinite scroll.
Sadly, with a 128GB MacBook Pro, this doesn't really apply to me without bringing around an external drive.
I'm glad it helped. Took me forever to type it out.
However, there's probably no food that's safe to ingest in each and every circumstance

Absolutely - and this is exactly my point, everyone knows this. There is no point in gods telling humans what not to eat because humans know this already, known this for millennia. Religious prohibitions on food have nothing to do with "health and safety" and everything to do with manipulation and control,
--never try to sell it

To me that should be the only criteria of a wannapreneur.
Here you go:

https://jacquesmattheij.com/dx7_repaired.jpg

Unfortunately no 'before' picture, it was in pretty rough shape, had been dropped from the back of a truck by a roadie after a performance and sat in an attic for the last decades. It took a lot of work to get this back to the state it is in but I had fun doing it and I'm super happy with how it turned out. Lots of keys were broken, quite a few of the contacts underneat the keys had bent as well because even the strike plate was deformed. I have never seen that happen before on a DX7, even when you drop them you are more likely to damage the floor than the instrument, they are built like tanks.
not required on amazon either. you can just review anything.
He [Billionaire Arnold] has spent more than $100 million in health-care-related grants since 2014. A million dollars went to Civica Rx, a nonprofit formed by seven U.S. hospital systems to make generic drugs. Up to $5.7 million is pledged to Initiative for Medicines, Access & Knowledge Inc., which files legal challenges to the validity of certain U.S. drug patents, to clear the way for lower-cost generics.

He funded research about the relationship between pharmaceutical packaging and drug costs, leading Medicare to pass new rules that took effect in 2017. The state of California, advised by an Arnold-funded group, passed a law in 2017 requiring drugmakers to justify steep price increases.

In other words, Arnold is spending money on:

- a consortium that will manufacture generics

- legal efforts to hasten the expiration of patents to provide more generics

- research on packaging

- lobbying legislatures to require justifications from drugmakers on price increases

None of this sounds like it's addressing the main problems leading to high costs:

1. The customer (patient) doesn't directly pay all costs. The economic incentive to keep prices low lies mostly with the insurance providers.

2. It takes more than a decade of research and hundreds of millions of dollars to develop a drug with a new mode of action.

3. At least 90% of these projects will fail to deliver a marketable product.

4. The amount of money spent on a drug project balloons the longer it remains viable.

5. Failure of a late-stage clinical candidate often leaves a drug company with two options: (1) kill the program; and (2) send yet another candidate through the pipeline.

6. Data on late-stage clinical failures are often tightly held in silos, preventing other companies from learning costly lessons.
If you grab those WD Easystore 8tb drives when they're on sale you can have 32tb for around $560
Actually, Gary is very real. A lot of people are trying to be entrepreneurs where they shouldn't. they overthink, trying to be the next facebook, when they just need to make a few thousand to pay their rent.

I've been watching a lot of his stuff lately - my bullshit detector is pretty sensitive. He's not full of bullshit. He's got a LOT of great advice and ideas. Maybe his "ego" is a turn-off for some, but he's doing a lot more good than harm.

You don't get anywhere by talking smack on others, and this post is little more than a bitch that Gary is successful, has a large and engaged audience, and has a message that resonates with people. All things I'm sure the author would LOVE to have.

What worthwhile thing has the author said or done that runs counter to what Gary is about?
I think Discourse does a nice job. It changes the URL in the address bar as you scroll down to viewed post ID, and I believe (but can't check now) that is has entire content loaded in the page, and just does the rendering of the viewport as you go down. Don't know how it handles 'JS disabled' case, though.
Speaking as someone who had a second-row seat to Kodak's failure to meet the future, it was absolutely a case of stuck-in-the-past. The brass in Rochester just couldn't, wouldn't believe that the light at the end of the tunnel was a train, and they hobbled their own entries into that market at every turn.
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I guess China wasn't an option?
My argument is, the TLDs already fully control the domain. Given that they fully control the domain, they can use that to request issuance of a domain controlled certificate.

If at the end of the day, the TLD controls everything, I'd rather not have anybody else to worry about.
The bit on Facebook is purposeful. Youtube does the same thing. It's about keeping the user engaged with another novel engagement whether ad or content driven. You may be frustrated and possibly rage quit, but the majority fall for it cyclically and spend more time on the service as a result.

As mentioned elsewhere in this thread: "As someone with ADHD, I immediately close any website that uses infinite scroll. I will become insanely focused on that site to the point that I tune out the outside world. What begins as "oh, I'll just look at this one article" turns into at least a half hour of wasted time before I'll be able to break out of it."
Except there’s a very large gap between:

* corrupt entity A gave me $X

And:

* corrupt entity B bought Y from me at price $Z at essentially market value.

The amount to return in the first case is obvious. The second is much less clear (since the cash was essentially fungible)
In the housing sector there’s a lot of dubious mortgages being written by non-bank originators. But for better or for worse almost all that risk is being laid off on the federal government.
This gets a bit blurry in (some) motorcycles.

My late 90s era Ducati is considered my most people to be "air cooled", but it has oil galleries that circle around the cylinder walls and an air-oil radiator. (Pedants might call it "oil cooled", but those are mostly the same people who "well actually" you when you call it a V Twin. "Well, actually, it's an _L_ Twin..." - just because it's a 90 degree V Twin rolled forward so the front cylinder is roughly horizontal and the read is mostly vertical...)

(And to further complicate matters, the 900cc two valve "air cooled" Ducati motors have those cylinder cooling oil galleries, but the 750cc motors also have oil coolers, but do not circulate the oil in the cylinder walls. The 600cc motors use the same oil galleries as the 750s, but do not come with the oil cooler...)
This is fantastic. I'm not installing it.
None of that will be as fast and simple as pressing Control-f and typing the search term. You don't even need to press enter. Searching within the page is a superbly useful and well-designed interface, and I would be very surprised if any custom web app solution could do better.
It's not just @GaryV, but the culture in workplaces everywhere in our country. People take a lot of pride in staying up all night to finish presentations, working 80-110 hour weeks etc. So if you're a person not doing this, you'll be labeled unambitious, lazy, somebody who likes to chill etc.
It's worth looking at operative lisps such as kernel or wat (I wrote a wat-pl to go with the original wat-js) to get a full understanding of how amazing this model is
> I will accept whatever number of referendums there is
> support for. If there is a push for an ongoing series
> of referendums

> The swing in the subsequent referendum was big enough

> crazy low turnout

Given the harshness and stridency of your evaluation of my attempt to remind you that the UK is quite unlikely to pose such questions in a referendum I think it's fair to echo your own criticism back... and then some!

I think you've failed to make the case that there are any countries besides Lichtenstein which operate democratically, or propose even roughly what counts as reasonable margins or mechanisms.

I think you have failed to grasp that change ratchets towards centralized power and that the Brexit was a horrible mistake in which the operators of this machinery temporarily took their eye off the ball.

Calling for a second referendum without specifying the exact terms under which referenda should be callable is just an attempt to have another roll of the dice, no matter which side of the Brexit issue one is on.

W.r.t. Nice specifically, both turnouts were low. And now it looks as though Ireland will be dragged into a "common defence pact" although they will not be "part of an EU army. ( The only recent example of a high turnout that I can remember was Norway... in which a clear majority decided they wanted to retain independence from the EU in a large number of areas. )

I do agree that no decision _should_ ever be final in a democracy though and that there should be democracy (not constitutional monarchy with electoral representation, nor representative democracy in a republic or any other of the not-democracies).
I cannot divulge my sources, so take it for what it is, but in talking with people at the top of several very large private insurers (as far back as 2016) they were sick of how providers weren't healing people and bleeding them out.

I've seen evidence (firsthand) that value based care can work, but it's hard to get provider networks on board when they are the ones who aren't getting paid when readmission rates are too high.
Who is mbs?
I'm in healthcare IT and our hospital uses Vocera. One time our ER team was working a code and the MD triggered Vocera and asked it to call the X-ray tech. Vocera responds, "Calling... PIZZA TRUCK" It was this weird situation where everyone wanted to laugh but we couldn't because we were working the code. So our eyes all met awkwardly in the room as we collectively stiffled our giggles which the MD frustratedly cursed out Vocera. Meanwhile the actual ER tech ran and got the x-ray team.
Your conclusion is off. The most effective way to ensure peace is to have an invincible army.
The parallel universe of unicorns
Corporate bonds (since debt was and still is super cheap as a result of QE) and student debt (most kinds of debt slowed down at least briefly during the GFC; student debt did not).
That sucks. The CVS Minute Clinic will quote you $99-129 for a strep throat visit, which includes the culture and the script if you actually have it. Nurse practitioners are, I think, the future of primary care.

This stuff is all bad, but it's useful to remember that primary care is actually a small fraction of the overall price of health care. Where we're really spending the money is on long-term and end-of-life care.
I don't think any economic models are reliable in the event of 4 degrees of warming. The system is far too complex to forecast with any precision.

We can conclusively say it would be bad, but "how bad" can't be stated quantitatively. Only qualitatively, in terms of "X percent of land would be rendered uninhabitable" or "X% increase in crop failures".

Those are numbers, of course and can be estimated better. I'm saying they can't be combined to a global gdp total. The system is too large, and there will be cascading effects. Some sort of war is also a likely result, and then all bets are off.
I run into this issue in javascript all the time. I want a number to basically act like pacman leaving the left or right side of a screen. pure sawtooth function. unfortunately js’s % operator mirrors at zero. so i always end up having to search for this:

Number.prototype.mod = function(n) {
return ((this % n) + n) % n;
}
That’s not really true, given that the default Apache confit is vulnerable.
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You’ve actually hit on Siri’s biggest problem - inconsistency. Sometimes it works great and others it’s a head scratcher with the exact same query. I think it is getting better though.
> The the cold war's end, which started out like a truce between equals...

Maybe it was taught that way in Russian schools, but I don't know anyone in any part of the West who considers the end of the Cold War to have been a "truce between equals." The Soviet Union collapsed. The Russian Federation is the internationally recognized successor state to a failed empire. It was so in the 90s as much as it is so today.
And I know people in the USA who have gone to Canada or India for medical tourism because they could not get good care at an affordable price in the USA. But these are anecdotes.

When you look at the stats aggregated by OECD, Canada is indeed among the worst public health services in the developed world, but it still provides better care to the median earner than the US health system, at half the aggregated cost per capita.
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Is there a use case for that? I've never run into one.
I'm actually tempted to do a PR against dotnet to see if they'd accept this improvement. My guess is that just like with Roslyn, customers have come to count on the implementation, bugs and all, and it may not be accepted.
You don't have to address every wrong you did in order to start doing right.

By the same token, talk is cheap. AKA "ideas are worthless by themselves."
The fact you think Britain has a single NHS doesn't inspire confidence in your level of knowledge, but let's hear it: why is the system so poor in the UK?
That's not true. If Verisign tomorrow altered .COM to temporarily claim a Google name sufficient to acquire a DV Google.com cert, the CA that issued that certificate would be dead the next day.
China doesn’t have any advanced fans, TSMC is in Taiwan.