skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"functional" is a description of algorithm (or program), but not language. Languages usually have ways to program in different styles.
Some backstory on the author: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josiah_Zayner

And evidence of a tie to the site this is posted on: https://mobile.twitter.com/4LOVofScience/status/105956739233...

Edit: But, yeah, site needs an "about us" page.
That's a bad trend you see everywhere. Admin assistant positions are being reduced and now the specialists have to do everything themselves.

In my company we used to have somebody who made all travel arrangements but now we have to do it ourselves which is a major pain and takes a lot of time if you use the system only once a year.
I used to work on stuff that doctors use (and I miss it a great deal), so I've seen a lot of this first-hand.

In my experience, a lot of the problems that medical software and devices have stem from a lack of understanding on the "other" side of the fence. Committees of people who don't really do much medicine anymore meet committees of people who don't write much software anymore and come up with specifications that are almost, but not quite, entirely unlike what the doctors really need.

And then the implementation is outsourced to a team comprised of people who have to churn out software with minimal understanding about how it will be used. These folks will try to understand it at first, but there are so many project managers and customer satisfaction managers and NDAs between them and the people who need the system (and, of course, there's no documentation because that's the first thing that gets slashed out of the itemized billing when the customers see the price) that it takes weeks to get a straightforward answer to even the most trivial question.

Not that it's easy to do things differently. When I was working on devices for the medical industry, I had not looked through an anatomy textbook since my teenage years; understanding the jargon alone was hard, let alone make meaningful design decisions.

I was super fortunate to work for a company that had long learned these lessons and did things correctly. But doing things correctly and profitably takes a long time; most companies don't have that kind of patience so they don't really bother with it. People who possess substantial knowledge of both programming and medicine are extraordinarily rare and not too easy to keep on payroll, so these companies rarely manage to develop the kind of technical leadership required to successfully mentor new people and drive projects over a long time.
Why don't you think physician assistants are medical professionals? They have a medical degree and are board certified.

They are different from physicians, but they're still medical professionals.
If you ever need an MRI, especially an emergency MRI, there could be some complications here...
Apple and Facebook are currently building massive datacentres in Denmark, and Google has bought two plots for future datacentres.

They have definitely been wooed to denmark, labour and consumer electricity prices are some of the highest in the world.

https://facebook.com/OdenseDataCenter/

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-apple-denmark/apple-to-bu...

https://stateofgreen.com/en/partners/state-of-green/news/goo...
>Going from $550 to $14,500 per month is totally unacceptable.

Wrong. It's completely acceptable. It's their business, and this is the risk you take when you make your business dependent on another business.

>This is exactly why I'll always be wary to depend on Google's services. And it isn't the first time they do this either.
>First they monopolize the market via cheap rates and branding, then they make it exorbitantly expensive.

Google isn't the only company that does stuff like this. Almost any company would do this if they had the opportunity.
The i7 (3615QM) in it holds up extremely well. The storage was catastrophically slow but the system allowed me to effortlessly migrate over to an external SSD (then using the internal storage just for time machine backups).

Finally considering upgrading as it has been a while.

The low power consumption of the thing is one thing that always just blows me away. No noise, at all. My UPS seems to last forever when the power does go out.
200 mass graves of thousands of ISIS victims found
yes, those reports of serious injuries and poor medical care are pretty damning. So why doesn't osha or some other office that frequently does fine companies get involved?
I believe the correct way to protect against ReDOS is to use one of the many regular expression implementations that do not have exponential worst cases.

Nowadays there are good DFA or Tree based matching algorithms that are O(mn) where m is the length of the regular expression and n is the length of the input.
Income taxes are a badly implemented tax so you wont get an argument from me there. We shouldn't be extending bad policy.
I haven't had a chance to go back and read the literature or talk to people more deeply, but what I've heard about SpiNNaker recently in conversation and semi-technical talks has been confusing when it comes to comparisons. The distinguishing features as presented are things I expect of large HPC systems.

I don't mean SpiNNaker isn't interesting, and I've been pointing it out as such for years but it's been basically unknown even relatively locally.
Facebook no, Amazon started as one yes.
That’s quite the claim. Got anything to back it up?

Pretty easy really. Multiply the cost of unemployment benefits * number of company employees in that country. Then look at the tax evaded by the company. "You do the math".

JSA in the UK is £73/week, or £3796/year. Let's say a company dodges £1Bn/year in taxes. How many people would they need to employ before the country breaks even?
Based on how much ram that was using, it sounds like Rust is a language that couldn't have been practical until the past ~15 years or so. That is interesting to me, given how long languages like ML have been around. Is there something genuinely computationally harder about compiling Rust?
I clicked on your link and it says "SATA 6 Gb/s Interface". is the Amazon description incorrect or did you paste the wrong link?
Worse how? There are a couple of directions you can go in, just curious (price/storage)?
Don't worry about the cleanup fee - your state has a number for that:

https://projects.propublica.org/graphics/workers-compensatio...
It kinda reminds me of someone thanking a cocaine dealer for giving them some free hits.
The EU was strongly against any trade tariffs.

What differentiates this 'tax' from a tariff?
Wow, I see a lot of knee-jerk reactions here and I think most of these miss the point - even if AI helps and writes some of the code, it will only fill out some gaps at certain levels.

Think about this: we engineers are writers of specs, the same way as product owners are writers of specs, except they do it at a much higher level.

The high level spec (lets say the top 5%) gets passed down and we fill out the ~middle 50%. What's the rest at the bottom? It's the shoulders of giants we stand on.

So the same way as we welcome the increasing abstraction levels, from machine code to C, from C to TypeScript and GraphQL, why don't we welcome this development too?

It's not probable that we will get automated away anytime soon, and if we are, well that means AI has truly advanced, certainly something to celebrate, even if it comes at a financial loss for us.

Perhaps, once we won't get paid anymore to improve ad networks, we will have the time to do something that actually improves the human condition...

Edit: can the downvoter please elaborate?
In late 2014 I replaced the disks in my 2008 Mac Pro at work and my 2009 Mac Pro at home with Samsung EVO 840 and 850 SSD disks. I kept track of accumulated writes.

Both machines were heavily used for development and consumer type stuff. No big data stuff or big media stuff.

Samsung rates these things at 150 TB write endurance for the 850 and something around 120 TB for the 840.

My projection based on that usage is that it will take over 35 years to reach 100 TB.

Samsung's ratings are quite conservative. Reviewers that have put these things through write torture tests to the point of error have typically gotten several times Samsung's rating. Around 170 years worth of writes at my usage rate.

I haven't seen numbers for Apple's durability, but if it is within even distant sight of Samsung's EVO performance you can expect to have retired the computer for other reasons long before the SSD dies.

I'd expect that the only reason the SSD might lead to getting a new computer is that you want a bigger SSD, but even that might not be an issue because Thunderbolt 3 gives pretty good performance for external disks.

My Mac Pros have both been retired, replaced with a 2017 iMac (one iMac could replace both office and work computer because we switched to working at home). My Samsung EVOs are now on the iMac in an AKiTiO Thunder3 Quad Mini enclosure.

The internal SSD in the iMac gets just short of 2000 MB/s for both read and write, according to Disk Speed Test from Blackmagic Design. The Samsung EVOs get around 465 MB/s write, 520 MB/s read, so 1/4 the internal disk but still fast enough for most purposes.

Note that the Samsungs are SATA drives. Something that made more direct use of TB3 could probably go much faster.
Given that one of the other articles in the same category of that blog is a futuristic science fiction fantasy excerpt about gene doping, not sure this really belongs on HN.
"Welcome to rigid software not built for adaptability. "

It's not the software it's the organization who cuts admin positions for short term gain. Instead of assistants who help you with that work you have a ton of VPs for diversity and whatever where nobody knows what they are actually doing.
From what I've heard, the root cause is the influx of population. The population is stressing out every aspect of the city, welfare, property prices, education, healthcare and here we have, graveyards. Maybe someone with more insight can chime in
I went to the doctor for a routine vaccination a couple weeks ago. As I sat in the room I had a perfect view of the computer that the doctor was using to fill out the requisite form. It was a pretty bog standard form with a gazillion fields.

But one thing that stood out is that at least twice when the doctor clicked on a drop-down, tbe computer selected a different option that wasn't even visible in the ~8 item scroll drop-down. The second time it happened the doctor turned around to me with a confused look and I said, "Yup, I totally saw that too, I dunno".

I was unclear if this was just native software (kinda looked like it), or just a really old fashioned website.

Doesn't instill a lot of confidence in me about the safety of my medical data...
> "They charge you for every line of code, we bill you for what’s unique."*

What this means to their clients is that if the client hires Engineer.ai to build something, their next client can get the same product for free. Good luck with that, Engineer.ai.

* https://www.engineer.ai/how-it-works
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This is what you say, not me.
It's actually a reference to the USB-C ecosystem for the laptop line; Marco and his cohosts on the Accidental Tech Podcast have burned a lot of time griping about the state of connecting things to a laptop. Not so much time on the head phone jack, which was mostly a no-op for them (since it was paired with the airpods).
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Sorry but I don't think I'm conflating anything. Social status doesn't change just because you are given money, or have it taken away.
Yep, it's time for my to change the laptop at work, I currently have an old i5 Macbook Pro and it held for +5 years. Even my personal macbook air is from late 2010 (reddit + spotify machine) I doubt that any mac today would held for another 6 or 7 years.
Am I crazy, or are dispatchers generally able to tell what needs an ambulance and what doesn’t?
Denmark is a taxhaven in its own sense for holding companies which might be surprising to many. The country primarily tax income not companies and have a high (deductible for companies) sales tax.
I don't think we can know for sure why they disabled HT. There's arguments for both. It's certainly possible that during the long Spectre embargo, someone was looking around and realized HT was going to be a problem. It's also not that hard to disable HT -- it's a flag somewhere in the on chip settings, in some parts of their product line, it's already done as part of binning and market segmentation. It's just a matter of deciding to have more SKUs with that set. Actually removing the die space used for HT would be different, but then we'd see chip families released without HT in any SKU.
What's your source on "younger children need more sleep"?

Our teen definitely needs much more than his younger sibling. But it seems to be more individual based on my very low n observations, the eldest needed more sleep when he was the age his younger sibling is.

I'd expect there to be a sex-based characteristic to sleep needs to?
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Best display to buy with the new mini is probably:
Eizo Flexscan ev2785 4k 27"
I was part of an implementation team for an EHR at a very large ambulatory unit (i.e., private practices of one of the largest hospitals in the US). Complaints for EHR by medical staff were as follows: 1) "I am spending time looking at the computer instead of making eye contact with the patient. Therefore, patient experience deteriorates." 2) "Pen and paper are much faster inputs than having to click around tabs and typing values" (especially for older doctors). This slows them down, which means they can see less patients (direct impact on revenue). 3) While there were government incentives to encourage practices to implement EHRs, doctors from more lucrative specialties (who are not involved in research) did not see value in having the data computerized. Imagine an ophthalmologist who can perform another Lasek procedure instead of record a patient's drinking status, and other things that may not affect the procedure.
Token security podcast – talking rapid deployment in highly secure environments
When you bought a residential property, you agreed to operate it within certain levels of upkeep, within residential zoning ordinances, adhering to a list of rules the city imposes on you. You didn't settle a piece of land on some unclaimed frontier, and you don't get to change the rules your building, neighborhood, community, city, state, or country imposes on your property just because you don't like them. If you wanted to operate a hotel, buy property zoned for that purpose.
I'll agree that he is dismissive of some of the claims, but only because I have never heard of a doctor in these situations not being somewhat dismissive. Its an interesting environment with a lot of moral hazard at a lot of companies.

I know nothing specific to Tesla's environment.
Well here we go. That‘s not even remotely true. And even if they did, what you somehow think the did, why didn't Tesla sue for libel?
You know that there‘s a huge legal risk for Reveal, which means that an army of lawyer is waterproofing every single sentence of such reports? Reveal has literally nothing to win by fabricating a report of this magnitude. They‘re one of the most prestigious investigativ non-profits in the US. So no.
At the risk of this going slightly off topic. I wondered how that compares to the UK (where there is free at the point of use health care)

According to this https://www.yourmoney.com/credit-cards-loans/living-beyond-m... circa 10% of bankruptcy proceedings were due to ill health.

I don't think much can be drawn from that though as there are too many legal and cultural differences in the application of bankrupsy.
Thanks, I had no idea it was that guy!
You actually made pretty bold claims about discontent being the human condition, I'd say they need proper justification if you want them to be taken as universal truths, not just personal opinions.
I’m pretty confused by the “AI” part of this. It looks like they built a library of components and templates, and then have people snap the components together. Clever, useful to a point, but not AI.
Alternatively, lower down the article:

> I Can’t Believe The Mac Mini Is This Awesome, I Can’t Even Say “Again” Because It Never Was

Sounds like his conclusion is that it's better than it used to be.
Not in technical terms, but the doctor was head of hip arthroscopy at NYU Langone and an associate prof of medicine at NYU. Very legitimate doctor (I really liked him and think he is a great doctor) and facility in NYC. They never made any false promises to me whatsoever and were transparent about the whole process.

From the site:
"
This mechanism uses adult autologous stem cells, derived from your own bone marrow.
In the procedure, the physician will aspirate these cells from your hip, concentrate them, then deliver them back into your body in the area of damage or injury to aid in natural healing.
In all, the process takes less than 45 minutes and the concentration of the cells takes about 12-14 minutes.
Because your procedure will utilize a concentrated serum of your own cells, the procedure is considered “autologous point-of-care”.
"
How is this AI? It looks like they're just building interfaces and then outsourcing implementations of them. I'm not saying it's not a smart strategy, but what makes it AI?
The way to go Ireland. A ridiculously stereotypical statement from the French finance minister:

“It just remains for me to offer Paschal a beer in a Dublin pub, and then I think we’ll be able to move toward a decision,” he said, referring to his Irish counterpart, Paschal Donohoe
Is it scientific? I can't see how it can be falsified, it seems more like an assertion than a hypothesis?
Mythbusters tried it once. It distorted the image in that area, but didn't have enough ferrous material to be ripped out. It's a glass capsule with a very small ferrite rod wrapped in copper.
I'm reminded of https://www.theverge.com/2018/10/29/18027032/foxconn-wiscons... : a particularly egregious example of corporate subsidy.
Ultimately, my point boils down to: "given the possible issues, and multiple avenues of potential detection, any coordinated attempt of sufficient size is likely to be detected".

Which is what is likely the reason why not much seems to be happening, too many angles to "get caught" and so few groups attempt a coordinated attempt.

This was always one of the valid arguments against computerized voting machines and in favor of paper ballots. The paper ballots require "feet on the ground" attacks with high risks of detection. The "hack the machines" attack requires no large coordinated "feet on the ground" groups, and given some of the machines were reported to be internet connected, could be accomplished from a remote (and therefore safe) location.

PS - the number of "likelys" is because I have no sources for anything (beyond the 55% turnout figure) so it is all "guesstimates".
Sleeping outside in nature / tent with no artificial lighting is better for humans. Something about our circadian rhythms.
Everybody pays tax. The issue is that some companies avoid paying it in the EU, basically stealing from the EU citizens.

The difference between the taxes and tariffs is that the tariffs target a specific country while the tax is same for everyone (working in a specific industry).

Tech companies seems to be the most notorious tax evaders so this was just a push to make them pay a fair share of tax in the EU.

>> Traditional tax systems have so far failed to capture revenue from companies with global reach but limited physical presence
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We've banned this account because you post like this a lot. If you'd like to stop doing that and start following the guidelines, please send us an email at hn@ycombinator.com.

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We sued HERE API at a previous gig I was. We used it for standard geo-coding (also after Google starting asking high prices to use it) and the quality was very good.
They are not selling anything. They are a non-profit. You can donate to them.
>What effect would a tax purely on size (income rather than profit) have on the world economy, if everyone were to adopt such policies? It would discourage large companies and encourage small ones.

How so? Your argument makes 0 sense because the tax is proportional regardless of size. What it will encourage is high margin business and it will discourage low margin business. Larger businesses are able to increase their margins because of increased efficiencies.
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It really is that easy folks
IMO "gamed" is a bit of a strange choice of word. The whole point of score voting is to give each voter more power to express their true preference. If their preference is to assign top scores to several candidates, fantastic, thank you for your vote! If the next voter prefers to give more diversified scores, wonderful, thank you for voting! And if the next voter would prefer to rank order the candidates, you can do that too using score, so great, thank you for voting!

Yes, if you are highly strategic and acutely fear some popular candidate(s), you might give maximum scores to all candidates of which you approve to minimize loss risk. But again, great. That doesn't seem like "gaming" things to me.

With score, voters leave the ballot box feeling they were able to express their preferences and therefore have less regret about their votes. Incidentally, I feel in the long term, approval or score voting would do more to improve the satisfaction people have with voting thereby increasing participation than all of today's "get out the vote" drives have had.
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I don't mind the touchbar. It has it's moments. I just wish they had included it in addition to the normal keyboard, rather than replacing the top row.
Very cool stuff! And yes, I took a look at the paper, as I noted in my edit. But I think there's still two classes of race conditions outside of its scope: ones that require simultaneous execution (where you can get surprising interleavings) and lock-free algorithms where correct use of the memory model is paramount. In my personal experience, these are the hardest problems to debug.
Yeah, I was thinking the same thing. Seems very similar to this problem: https://leetcode.com/problems/cracking-the-safe/

And can confirm that at least one FAANG company has asked this in a real interview.
IIRC, public companies have to disclose above $84MM, though perhaps not immediately.
The "giant security hole" I assume you're referring to isn't particularly worrisome for your own hardware running trusted software. It's more of a problem in a shared environment where you don't know who else is running code.
Interesting idea that FGCS hype killed Prolog; on the Lisp side, we tend to think that AI hype killed Lisp. Also interesting that the author considers Prolog a competitor to Lisp, when (I think) most programmers don't even think of Prolog. Similarly, while we Lisp programmers think of Algol-like languages as our great competitors, I daresay the vast majority of C, Python, C++, Perl, Java, Go &c. programmers don't even think of Lisp.

I think one can just run a Prolog engine in Lisp these days, which would get one the best of both worlds. But I'm not a Prolog programmer, so … perhaps I'm incorrect.
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These sorts of companies are the way of the future if humans are indeed partial halting oracles:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18381723

Formal proof:

https://www.am-nat.org/site/law-of-information-non-growth/

Discussion of proof:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18377525
And those additional 5-9 years are critical for accurately deciding if the amputation of a digit requires hospitalisation....