skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
EHR vendors and clinicians need to find a way to come together to both design software that will make clinicians lives easier, but also to change any billing/legal/compliance hurdles that are in the way of putting this technology in clinics. If someone can put all of these pieces together we could see some powerful changes. Perhaps Dr Gawande's new venture with Amazon, Berkshire Hathaway and JPMorgan will give him a chance to control both sizes of this puzzle and create a better environment for clinicians and patients.
Doesn’t matter to everyone, but something to keep in mind is that Mac Mini’s have their power supply inside the unit itself while NUCs need those awful wall warts.
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Quote aren't used for highlighting text in the English language, that's considered incorrect usage. The quotes you used are interpreted as what's called "scare quotes" to the majority of people: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scare_quotes

> they were leftists to begin with and created these seemingly neutral apps to push the dem vote.

They are open about the purpose of the apps, to encourage young progressives to vote.
I'm not suggesting that the (say) Firefox extension would show the path. It would just show whether the path included devices in whatever country. In this case, China. Users wouldn't need to know details. There are many sources of geolocation data that the extension could draw upon.
This always seems to happen because the drivers of the company usually get tired by that point or the large portions of their please-stay incentives have been realized and they leave. I've seen it happen w/ an IBM acquisition just like this one. While they don't "blue wash" things as much as before, years >= 2 are where what the company previously did stagnates and what exists is leveraged to the maximum to satisfy enterprise sales needs.
Net income is the same thing as profit. The parent comment confused income with revenue. Taxing revenue is obviously a terrible idea because it would have a disproportionate impact on low-margin business.

As an individual taxpayer you can deduct certain expenses from your revenue when calculating your taxable income, just like a business. But businesses do generally have a broader set of deductible expenses.
Hate it or not, Apple has to make it relatively commonplace if they want macOS apps to bother developing for it instead of ignoring it. Their short-term goal is 100% of MBP users, and surely, eventually 100% of all macOS laptop users.

Keeping it optional indefinitely, then, defeats this goal.
Replace "AI" with "software" (which for all intents and purposes it is).

> Software is the centre of every business today and the market has been waiting for a solution that eliminates technical barriers to build software so that everyone can engage in the new economy,” said Manu Gupta, Partner at Lakestar. “By creating a software powered assembly line combined with the best global human talent, Engineer.ai’s Builder bridges the gap between an idea and a software product to enable it.”
Most laptops have been in the luxury market for forever! (Judging by your definition of $1000+ as luxury)
Red hat always seemed like a fun company to work for to me. I'm not sure how my opinion of that will change now IBM is holding the ropes.
UX centric design is the future, companies need to understand that. Particularly buyers who are making decisions of of 'feature checklists'.
I've been a big fan of the RedHat line, Yellowdog included, and Fedora has made for an even better experience. From "Core 1" to here it's been quite an experience.

Thanks for pushing the bleeding edge for fifteen years!
We believe that our solution can automate the work Doctors do with microscopes.

This isn’t limited to one parasite.

We can provide a demo today of our robotics that can automate these tests.
I'm not sure why people are downvoting you. It's a documented fact that blue light from the screens of electronic devices inhibits melatonin production.
You are missing the point or are just brainlessly anti-conservative
Well... Pentium Pro was an MCM and that was a looong time ago.

I also remember Unisys Micro-A boards (the Unisys equivalent to IBM's PC/370). IIRC, they had 6 or 7 chips within a single package.
Maybe they shouldn't have framed the contest as finding "a city that is excited to work with us and where our customers, employees, and the community can all benefit", but rather a purely financial and strategic decision that would take their analysts less than a day to wrap up.
Loved the point about needing to think about/teach curiosity for the core ideas of computer science aside from the keyboard and screen
I dont understand what the argument of this article is. As someone who has tried to maintain a blue collar job in a large city (im an engine mechanic)
Its nearly impossible to live anywhere near your job without rent control.

It was good work and good pay, but spending 65% of it on rent? what incentive do i have to stay when the median home price is a million dollars or more? the thing this article does not take into account is the fact that without rent control or some form of affordable housing, that "amazing city" you live in grinds to a halt pretty fast.

Try living in a city where the bus system never sees regular maintenance because the motor pool is 2 hours away. broken down garbage trucks just sit in the road because wrecker crews cant afford to live anywhere near the metropolis. Ambulances and fire trucks might, or might not, make it to a destination because the fleet techs with diesel certification like myself dont live in your city.

pipefitters and machinists need a place in your city if you want clean healthy water and sewage service. And the next time a drunk backs over a telephone pole, you're going to need a lineman or three to fix it.
How do you propose I'd be caught? This isn't a rhetorical question. It's just not at all apparent to me. Nearly all detected 'voter fraud' is not actually fraud, but people making ostensibly honest mistakes - such as convicted felons or people on probation voting. And that's because that is basically leaving video footage and your business card at the scene of a crime.

For what it's worth, I agree that the risk:reward is pretty messed up. But we're not the metronome for politics in the US. People are doing all sorts of stupid things, and seemingly getting even more radical. I'm sure you'd agree that there are plenty of people that would think by adding a few votes they'd be doing their part to 'save the world.' I mean there are people assaulting each other over political differences. People are going literally crazy from politics.
It's an increasingly low corporate tax rate world. Ireland's rate is no longer as unusually low relative to other EU nations as it used to. The average EU corporate tax rate is getting close to being in the teens.

For example:

Hungary 9%, Bulgaria 10%, Lithuania 15%, Romania 16%, Croatia 18%, Poland 19%, Czech 19%, Slovenia 19%, UK 19%, Estonia 20%, Finland 20%, Latvia 20%

Even Denmark is at 22% and Norway is at 23%, traditionally high tax countries.

Outside the EU in Europe you have Montenegro 9%, Macedonia 10%, Bosnia 10%, Serbia 15%, Georgia 15%, Albania 15%, Belarus 18%, Russia 20%, Armenia 20%.

Another decade of rate competition and the EU average might be down to something close to 18%.

The real unusual stand-outs these days are the high total rate nations, like France, Belgium, Greece and Germany, rather than the low rate nations.
Absolutely true. When the company I worked for was acquired by a BigCorp year 2 was when pretty much 80% of the original engineers left, despite fairly large golden handcuffs.
Thanks. I've decided to skip over the segment that's been blocking me and write the next thing I was planning instead. Hopefully I will get back to it later.
I will never again buy a laptop or computer where I can’t replace the SSD myself.

Last time I had a problem with my MacBook Pro and took it in to get fixed. They wanted me to write down my login password before they would accept it!

I had to reschedule and wiped my disk before bringing it back again.
I don't have a problem with the Touch Bar. It's kind of handy for occasional things that are context specific and normally involve using the mouse.
It's 2-3 tons carbon emitted per person, per flight. One flight like that would be approx. a quarter of the average carbon usually emitted per person. Shorter flights are much less efficient as a large chunk of fuel is used to simply take off.

Perhaps it's better to restrict oneself to flying OR driving that kind of distance. And it adds up - if you drive: do you ever look at your total mileage, then calculate your carbon emissions?
FWIW This article has been posted/discussed 3 times over the last 8 years. A follow-up article was also posted/discussed once. To see them just search for "Who killed Prolog" using the HN search function at bottom of news.ycombinator.com.
I personally use Chromecasts, but HTPCs are still a thing, and for multiple reasons :
- gaming (console "alternative", emulators, etc)
- streaming a personal library of media files (e.g. through Plex)
- it's way more versatile than the usually pretty terrible SmartTV onboard software in terms of what content you can access - like Amazon Video that only streams to their own crap stick

Media PCs never stopped working, and they're still better at some things. They're just less "convenient" in some ways, and requires more investment, both in time and money, which is why some people switched to streaming boxes or simply using their TV's software.
How Toto’s ‘Africa’ Became the New ‘Don’t Stop Believin”
Apple censors Bitcoin podcast
OS-Lib: a simple Scala interface to common OS filesystem and subprocess APIs
> Growth is good

Given our current economic situation and our effect on our environment I'm not convinced that it is that simple.
(((Globalism)))
The reason I wanted your source was to see the detail - like ranges, breadth of studies, etc..

Many people assume a lot of things that when investigated turn out to be false.

Often assertions don't match their backing: for example you said " The problem with this logic is that the younger the child, the more sleep they need."

However that's not what your first study says. It gives broad ranges, so it concedes that younger children can need less sleep than older children, it's not tied in a simple way to age.

You perhaps meant "on average", which is quite reasonable, and having the source you based you statement on can lead one to assume you were being brief rather than errant.

FWIW those sources look like you quickly googled it; and so weren't really relying on any particular sources.

TL;DR your source supports my observation and contradicts your claim as written.
IntelliJ IDEA is easily the worst performing application I use.

I only use it because of the top class Kotlin support (figures, given JetBrains created it).

I end up regularly toggling Power Save mode on and off to reduce how much my CPU gets blown up. That mode turns off code suggestion, auto-imports, and error detection among other pretty core things.
nany rent control laws only limit the possibility for the landlords to increase the rent on existing contracts. Their main objective is to avoid that tenants be “priced out” of their own apartment and forcibly evicted. Considering the large negative externalities of evictions, there are good reasons to argue that some form of rent control is good for the society at large, even if it causes some distortion in the real estate market.

On the other hand, to provide _new_ affordable housing the only long term solution is an increase in the stock of buildings available for rent.
And Slack!
I'm not a type theory guy, but it seems like you could rank Rust's type system somewhere in the realm of ML, Ocaml, Haskell, COQ, Agda, ATS, or something else. If Rust uses more memory and computation than those, then it's reasonable to assume there is another reason.

I'm guessing you could have a very efficient implementation of Rust, but that it would be rewrite instead of an incremental fix. This statement is likely to be unpopular.
They could compete with having better hardware instead of blank copies.

I remember our government had other computers besides PCs and none of them had CPU clones.

As far as I remember US government was a big consumer from DEC, Xerox and IBM hardware and they also did not have any CPU clones.
Was there a particular type of company that you were applying to? Was your freelancing work on the front- or back-end?
I think the point of the article is that rent control, although it may help a select few people, generally decreases the supply of housing, so is actually bad if your goal is to create more housing at an affordable price.
That was true in the 50s/60s, but times change. Poverty today is triggered by a great many things. Today, a health crisis can destroy anyone's savings. A decent living wage means nothing should you or a member of your family get cancer. Either your have to sink all your savings into treatment and associated support or you have to stop work to take care of them yourself, mooting the wage issue. Retirement is also different today. With interest rates essentially zero, a decent wage during working years cannot provide sufficient savings for a multi-decade retirement. So people need either good pensions or ample investment opportunities. Today that is being funded by real estate but that cannot last forever.

Looking at someone's entire life and the likelihood that they will suffer poverty, their working wage is only one of many factors.
You don't have to be a libertarian to oppose the folly of rent control.

"In many cases rent control appears to be the most efficient technique presently known to destroy a city—except for bombing."
Assar Lindbeck, Swedish Economist and Socialist
Yup, that’s the one! Thanks!
That's what, everyone under 30?

There's plenty to read about how dating has changed, but it will be hard to control for the other generational changes to relationships. Most significantly, the changes introduced when parents and institutional stand-ins for parents found more important things to do with their time than parenting.
No, seems like it would result in a much bigger state machine that includes states and transitions for all those non-exact matches.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finite-state_machine#Acceptors...
You seem to be projecting more upon the material than it is there. Watts is essentially a modern Michael Crichton with the misanthropy and body horror of H.P. Lovecraft. There's not a lot of profundity to be expected in his novels.

There probably is no such thing as truly hard sci-fi, as all speculative stories involves handwaving the details, but you seem to be expecting a level of hardness that you won't find in Watts work, or in most fiction.
Desktop linux is actually coming now, who'da thunk it would be as a trojan horse riding in via Windows.
Thanks, I have seen and tried it. It’s still not GA and quite buggy. Not at a level I can hand over to my family for use.
Obligatory list of some good quotes that are not included:

Rules of Optimization: Rule 1: Don't do it. Rule 2 (for experts only): Don't do it yet.
- M.A. Jackson

Never test for an error condition you don't know how to handle.
- Steinbach

Choose mnemonic identifiers. If you can't remember what mnemonic means, you've got a problem.
- perldoc perlstyle

Every program has (at least) two purposes: the one for which it was written, and another for which it wasn't.
- Alan Perlis

Should array indices start at 0 or 1? My compromise of 0.5 was rejected without, I thought, proper consideration.
- Stan Kelly-Bootle
> after some consideration, I’ve decided to share my thoughts as a narrative timeline. Trust me when say that I have given this format considerable thought. It is likely the safest way (regulatory-wise) to deliver my thoughts on the topic.

Does anyone have any idea what regulations might impinge on Chris's choice of format for sharing his thoughts?
It's by folks from Cato Institute, which is a thinktank founded by Charles Koch. OP was a little imprecise, but that's about it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cato_Institute
Seriously? Both authors work for the Cato Institute. The Cato Institute was founded by Charles Koch, and originally called The Charles Koch Foundation.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cato_Institute
Predictably, online media go nuts over ‘Oumuamua and Harvard scientists
As a french, seing french government officials trying to impose their knee-jerk « let’s tax it » reaction to any kind of problem makes me absolutely sick. They’re just a bunch of jealous incompetent insufferable pompous politicians than don’t understand a thing about the private sector and so instead of trying to fix the numerous reason why we don’t have any competitor to google / facebook etc ( such as our best engineers fleeing to silicon for the last 30 years) , and how come all those companies HQ in europe are in ireland, prefer to add tax.

That will solve absolutely NOT A SINGLE ISSUE , but it’s just another income to feed the bureaucracy.

Thanks to the three countries that stopped this madness.

PS : i also find it outrageous that gafa don’t pay taxes, but let’s fix the tax heavens in Europe then. Don’t start making special taxes on revenue ffs.

EDIT : changed "income" to revenue.
What would be better is if anyone who wanted to live in the city could afford a reasonably priced dwelling. Rent control inadvertently harms that, turning the city into a two tiered system of the hyper-rich who can afford market rate, and those who serve them, who either have to win the rent control lottery or win the subsidized housing lottery.
I totally get your point, and I wouldn't be surprised if you were correct. But at the same time, everyone who has a CC permit most likely also has a state issued ID, so it really is a moot point.

from above:

> The numbers you posted are specific for Driver's Licenses and Passports. The link you posted notes that general photo ids are possessed by white: 95%, black: 87%, hispanic: 90%.

I am more interested why there are so many people who don't have government issued id's. Why is there a disparity? Is it an active systematic voter suppression tactic or other race-driven conspiracy? Or just how the pieces fall in terms of economic class and where these people live?
> I dont understand what the argument of this article is. As someone who has tried to maintain a blue collar job in a large city (im an engine mechanic) Its nearly impossible to live anywhere near your job without rent control.

Therein lies the problem. Rent control is not the only way to make housing affordable to low-income people. It's not the most efficient or effective way, either.

But it persists, because politically it's an easy concept (even if it's an ineffective one), and it also creates a stable voting bloc that will protect it, even if they don't actually need the rent control[0].

[0] In most places, rent control isn't means-tested, so you can end up with incredibly wealthy people living in very valuable properties for next to nothing. Ed Koch, the former mayor of NYC with a net worth of about $10 million, died living in a multimillion dollar penthouse apartment that he rented for $300/month, because the apartment was subject to rent control.
Because Cerner and Epic are awful and the rest are too.
Does the free version supports Horizontal sharding and async/sync DISK writes for data mirroring from RAM ?
I'm surprised no one has mentioned security yet. This seems like a great strategy for building software systems with plentiful security issues.
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Thomas Edison was bad at billing customers. You don’t have to be
Or, believe the org just proven liars after publishing similar accusations by disgruntled ex employees by an OSHA investigation.
Google did not disclose the price for Feedburner, but it was rumoured to be around $100M (I worked at Google at the time and have no insider information whatsoever on the deal).
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The response wasn't that it's not an opinion piece by the Koch brothers, but rather, does the OP have any evidence to suggest the opinion piece is incorrect other than who the author is (why isn't a very convincing argument).
You’re kidding right?
Yes, but it's information at the edge of the image. Show someone a photo of a cat, but clip off the edges, and they'll still recognize the cat.
I think Smurf works.
Doesn’t seem true: https://www.levels.fyi/SE/Google/Facebook/Microsoft/
The MP4 SA is available at http://mailman.nginx.org/pipermail/nginx-announce/2018/00022...
This is the part that got me: "... everyone can build an idea without learning to code"

I went to my first tech conference when I was 13. One of the hot items was a tool that made programmers unnecessary. It was targeted at cheapskate businesspeople. Decades later the company is long dead. But the suckers are still out there. They think that coding is the hard part, in the same way that they think the hard part about building a house is nailing things together. But in both cases, the part you're really paying for is expertise: good development firms and good homebuilders know how to turn hazy human desires into very specific implementations, while also shaping those desires to be reasonable and achievable.
I hope they look into recomposition. Recycling the human body into a tree is the closest thing we have to a second life.

https://www.recompose.life/
The belief that rent control is counter productive isn't a fringe conservative belief. It's held by economists across the polticial spectrum, and is the closest thing to a consensus opinion in economics.
I'm guessing lower than that, as Heptio is/was basically a smallish services organization (I've talked with them).
>Rules of Optimization: Rule 1: Don't do it.

Well that explains the modern web, and a great deal of modern software.
>I have large doubts about zayners scientific judgement

Because he recklessly injected himself with CRISPR, or for other reasons as well?
Disagree. The median laptop price is <$1k and it's not a fair comparison by any metric.
We need a new type of object that isn’t just a clever pattern that can be reused but understands how to adapt to the program it’s in, a smart object. I was hoping that’s what this company was doing with AI but I guess not.
I think this talk (https://youtu.be/L0KuAx1COEk) makes a pretty good case for why a project of the scale of SPARC makes sense from an engineering standpoint.
When there is high demand for a product, including housing, the market has to respond. High prices attract investment in more housing, usually denser housing. Rent Control prevents the market signals from working. There is no incentive to construct more housing because its not worth it.
Additionally, if blue collar jobs can't be filled because its not worth the pay+commute, then either wages have to raise or these go undone.
If the market isn't allowed to operate, then you can't expect these systems to work.
Not given but negotiated, as a part of EU treaties. Similarly to the subsidies for French farmers or the access to Irish waters for Spanish fishermen.