skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No it is not. Hospitals need to negotiate with insurers to get bills payed. So insurers have a strong negotiation position here. In a dysfunctional market like the US where insurers have near monopolies that basically means they get to screw people over and cut cost everywhere they can. Meanwhile hospitals maximize their bills to insurers while minimizing their actual cost. Patient happiness does not factor into this as they are at their mercy.

If you fix that by giving them the possibility to take their money elsewhere, insurers are incentivized to behave a bit better. Likewise, hospitals will want to make sure they attract patients from good insurers so they keep their revenue coming in.
German (and possibly neighboring languages) term for a video projector. One of the weird "english-but-not-actually" words we have.
> If there's no free will obviously not -- since any crime decision is predetermined upon the earlier states of the universe (even before we appeared on Earth), and any drop in crime in correlation with a "commitment to punish certain behavior" is just correlation itself, and not causation (both things being caused by those earlier states).

An asteroid hitting Earth is predetermined by early stages of universe too. Is the collision just correlated with dinosaurs extinction, or was it the cause?

When a ball hits another ball in snooker - is the movement of the second ball caused by the collision, or just correlated with it? In deterministic universe it was known since the start of time it will happen after all.

Why is it different when people are involved?

If everything is determined by early stages of universe - then you can still discover how exactly that determinism works between 2 particular events (no matter that they share a common causation chain higher up).

In the case of criminals and punishement assuming determinism - our brains deterministically evolved to deterministically respond to punishement by deterministically changing the behaviour when punished. This deterministically caused the brains to come to conclussion, that punishement makes sense. Then they deterministically punish crime, and criminals deterministically respond by avoiding being caught which reduces the crime.

No need for the free will at all.

BTW even if universe is not deterministic it doesn't mean free will exists. After all you wouldn't say dices have a free will.
disassociating themselves from anything that could be considered pornographic seems like reasonable business logic

We will see if their revenue and profit go up or down. Then we'll know if it's the right decision or not.
Invest it into something stable. If you can get even 2.5% interest on your 8 million, that's $200k. I would think realistically you could get 5%.

You can live on that much, never work again, and still leave a nest egg for your kids' education.
"If there wasn't somebody coming by to poke or prod me, there was somebody coming by to do something to the other patient in the room, or if it wasn't that, the door was open and the click-clack of heels on the tile floor kept me awake, or there was too much light coming in from the hallway, not to mention how uncomfortable those beds are, etc., etc. Sleep was damn near impossible."

surely you realize there's more to hospital than just you?
This article isn't very convincing. Personally I recommend the books and videos by Dr. Jason Fung. (https://twitter.com/drjasonfung) If you are obese it is remarkably easy to become depressed and anxious. Especially if you aren't getting exercise because your energy level is so low.

The remarkable thing about Dr. Fung's lectures is he lays down the exact mechanisms which cause obesity. About how insulin resistance leads to reduced ability to utilize body fat. Then about why caloric restriction doesn't work due to the unavailability of fat and reduced metabolic activity. He isn't basing it off empirical work but a detailed study of the endocrine system.
Well that is a non-answer on every front. Of course, if devs start pouring effort into Dart it will get an ecosystem; but why would I want to when Dart offers nothing over other languages?

And yes, we can submit feature requests, and the language authors may and may not add them. I'd rather go for a language that further aligns with the expectations of a modern language from the start rather than plead with the authors to turn it into something it's not.

> Dart is a language that's predictable (no WATs),

Ok, so it beats the raw JS with no dev tooling development experience. That's the bare minimum.

> performant

Plenty of performant languages to go around, including many more performant ones.

> has the best built-in tooling to facilitate quick iterative development

What does it bring over any other language with a semi-decent REPL?

> the best package manager

You'll have to expand on this, it's a very bold claim.

> and can be used to build web, mobile and desktop apps with high level of shared codebase between them.

So can any compile to JS language, Kotlin, C#, Clojure, among others, and since you place so little value on ecosystem I'll throw a special mention to Idris in too, which can compile to performant JS, the JVM (no bridge necessary on Android), C (usable on iOS) and pretty much whatever; and almost guaranteed blows any other language you can name out of the water when it comes to modern features and being pragmatic.
Medicine has different concerns than piloting, though. Pilots don't have to ensure continuity of care for their passengers, and can accomplish their work in reasonable chunks. Doubling the number of patient handoffs, on the other hand, significantly increases the risk of one of the more common sources of error.
Sins of the Fathers
> Unsurprisingly lots of people have been in similar situations

According to this article[1], you need $8.4 million to be in the top 1% of net worth so 1 out of 100 HN lurkers can probably also give useful first hand advice!

(assuming being rich doesn't make you less likely to visit HN)

[1] https://economix.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/01/17/measuring-the-...
> This bull market is almost 10 years old. We are overdue for a "breather".

I've been hearing this for years. It's just FUD. Yes, the market will deflate again, but in the long run - and I assume the OP plans for the next 40 and not 3 years - it's hard to beat the stock market with other non-time-consuming investments.
> The two types of people I’ve encountered who desire the notion of free will: 1) Person with ego who needs to have a belief in free will. 2) Persons who has ego, gets annoyed by free will being a facade and refuses to think about it because “it doesn’t matter” to this person.

This is a complete straw man. Let me describe the contrary claim: in my experience, the type of person who desire giving up free will either a) want to give up punishment and so confuse justice with moral responsibility, and/or b) are confused about what determinism and choice really mean. You appear to fall in the former category at the very least.

I suggest you read up a little more on the meaning of free will and Compatibilism specifically. There's a reason why the majority of professional philosophers are Compatibilists.
Damn. How do I get into venture? I'm ecking out a living as a chief architect.
>My advice is do nothing with it, and start reading books about finance, investing, and money management.

Unless you have serious interests in it, you're likely to be a lazy investor and lean on index funds with some gambling money.

There's a big pit where investment performance tanks between lazy index investors and serious investors. These people simply want to trade on their own invented investing signals and feel like they are doing something. It's a big, easy trap to fall into.

Maybe stay out of index funds until Trump is gone because he's volatile for world politics and the market has likewise been volatile and that swings index funds. Not because you'll lose money long-term (in fact, time in market > timing the market), but because seeing your portfolio drop $300,000 in a week is going to shock you and you might make bad decisions before you've developed resilience to these things. This is because the news is so good at making the world seem like it's going to end while you are treating it as serious investment warnings because you don't have the experience. It's like armageddon calculus.

Definitely don't invest in cryptocurrency though, even with your gambling money.
Basic Attention Token. Part of the Brave browser.
Waymo One is now picking up passengers in Arizona
It's now close to one year that I have completely switched back to Firefox. For performance reasons and also fear. Fear of Google having full control over browser market and pushing forward their own agenda. Their revenue is mostly ad-driven. What if they decide to change technology in such a way that prevent people like me from using add-blockers and privacy-protection measures against their sophisticated tracking techniques? This fear above all other fears, drove me toward alternatives, including Firefox. Not only I use it and promote it, but I help with development, however limited. I report bugs and invest my free time fixing them. That's what I can do as an indie developer.

Web technology in general and DOM to be specific gives us freedom. They took parts of it away with DRM and pushing it into browsers and standardizing it. I don't want to see this happen for the rest of the web that is remaining.
Would home automation systems fall into this? Could start with systems based around Airplay (I did this for my house) then maybe move on to something like Crestron or ? It's not really software development but it could include specking out components, installation, configuration, etc... I've seen both houses and businesses with systems like that so - could get you a nice cross section of different people to interact with.
Paper referenced: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Jamie_Farnes/publicatio...
Yes and there is an added benefit to frequent interruptions: despite all the monitoring equipement, a human assessment can go a LONG way in detecting trouble. My wife used to be an ICU nurse and her first code (CPR) in her career was when she was doing some routine stuff for the patient and noticed the color of their skin "looked different". When the patient's heart stopped beating, she was already there to get it back going, saving some precious delay.

For non-ICU stuff, yes there could be some better coordination around sleeping time, but again there's so much non-verbal stuff going on in just a physical assessment.

What would really be useful is having cleaning services and admin/billing services come at the same time (well, right after) a nurse comes, to take advantage of that interruption.
Google announces a $7 KaiOS phone
I use orgzly to take notes in my phone. It can create and edit org files and sync the files through Dropbox. Then you can edit the files in your computer through a Dropbox sync folder. It's just a nice app for taking notes for me though. I haven't even edited the notes through my computer. Good to know that my notes are backed up without having to use some opaque backup method.
Technically yes but seriously just don't. CAN is a horror show for security that can't handle a radio without being a security liability and medical privacy violations are expensive let alone wrongful deaths.
I don't think there will be one single moment. Every stumble from a big silo leads to a huge burst of growth and a return to a slightly higher norm. It's more likely this slow transfer of users will continue until the narrative is more "Mastodon finishes off [x]" for each one and less "users are fleeing [x] for Mastodon".

Tumblr/Twitter/Facebook/etc are going to die the same way malls do. One decade they're a big deal, the next people's slow shift in preferences make them irrelevant. At least they won't leave rotting husks this time.
The Political Paradoxes of Gene Editing Technology
In the UK certainly, the programme guide is available over the air on dumb TVs.
> Kite is a plugin for your code editor that uses machine learning to provide you with code completions in real time sorted by relevance.

The whole article seems to be nothing but a transport vehicle for that ad. Spyware for even more editors.
Academic journals hate him!
Guide to scaling engineering organizations
It features proprietary add-ons that only work on one platform and can't be easily implemented in other platforms?

How?
Since when?
Which ones?
My complaint: emacs requires a lot of configuration that is often arcane or poorly documented.

You: but it's so simple! I only use notmuch-emacs, and ledger-mode, and skeletor+org+LaTeX+yasnippet, and geiser, and jedi, and tramp+eshell, and dired with tons of related addons, and..., and..., and..., and...

Something tells me you just reinforce the point I'm making. I personally have a life outside of looking for and configuring dozens of emacs packages in a hundred different ways.
> I still see no possibility of the classical idea of free will there.

That's because you're mistaken that the classical version of free will requires the ability to do otherwise in the sense of making different choices after rewinding time.

Consider what that actually means: an outcome that is different every time you sample it, even going back in time, is classified as a random phenomena. That's not what free will means, classically. Where is the will if your choices are random?

Furthermore, the Frankfurt cases debunked this old notion of the principle of alternate possibilities back in the 60s. Sam Harris is simply mistaken about the applicability of this principle.
A different view: if we live in a universe that branches into multiple universe at every $PLANCK_TIME, then free will could be our consciousness choosing the branch it follows without actually interacting with the universe.
Wait, so an IDE installer pulling in a web framework for .net that initializes an audio driver that requires HFS all
So that a progress bar can be better than their own native one (pick an API whether wpf, win32, ...) one is somehow not Microsoft’s fault to some degree? I find it really hard to believe they write some of the best iOS/ macOS software if they release this shit on windows.
Apple's New iPhones Have an Expensive Nasty Surprise
As a die hard Vi(m) user, who just rage quit Emacs today because it messed up on undoing things (Emacs did what Emacs does, sadly my brain doesn't work the same way), I had hoped to see more than just "more excuses to never leave your editor"
Put it all in a mix of a worldwide stock and bond index, look up the suggested distribution fitting youe age, probably like 60/40, then take a supet conservative take on the trinity study which suggests a 4% safe withdrawal rate and make it 2%. This puts you at 160k per year. In virtually every circumstance, you can reasonably rely on spending this amount annually, adjusted for inflation, and not run out of money, same with your kids after you die.

Is this enough? Then you may retire, if you don't like to work, or switch work to anything else regardless of pay. That is a personal question, talk to your family mostly, and experiment. Volunteer, travel, sabbatical. Take it slow, don't rush. Like something? Build it out gradually, but don't change overnight. Most people don't enjoy permanent vacations for example.

Donate part of the 160k annual budget as you please.

Hire a wealth manager for a few sessions for advice. But managing it yourself is easy if you stick to simple strategies. No need for exotic investment products or a manager.

But, do hire an accountant. Understand your tax obligations first and foremost.

That's your base. From there you can breathe and think about bigger plans.
Yes. I wonder why other fields don't use a system similar to HEP's Inspire (http://inspirehep.net/) which can give informative summaries on the researchers and their contributions (e.g., http://inspirehep.net/author/profile/Lisa.Randall.1 and http://inspirehep.net/search?ln=en&p=author:Lisa.Randall.1&o...)
Meh, I owned an apartment and didn't own a car until I was 30, until the kindergarten commute with two bus changes really started to get old. You extrapolate the trend from an early datapoint.

Maybe where you live car ownership is for poor, but not here. A rustbucket in Norway would buy you a great car in Germany.
Tech News: WeChatPay Ransomware Hits China, Malware Is a “Pandemic” and More
If ever in Toronto (Etobicoke), visit the Dimpflmeier Bakery. What a treat.

http://www.dimpflmeierbakery.com/

Germany and Eastern Europeans make the best bread. It is at a totally different level than the Bread or baked goods we are accustom to in the USA. SF Sourdough (although delicious) can't hold a candle to a good German Sourdough Rye.
Since we don't have any real stats we can't classify how well the algorithm is doing, one important thought though is how the algorithm is designed.

If you got a good filtering method you can either optimize for a false positive rate or a false negative rate. Let's compare it to a simple spam filter (because if you look at it objectively that's all it is) would you rather have spam in your inbox or loose mails to your spam filter? Spam filter (normally) prioritize a high false negative so you have less spam, but don't loose content. Having a filter that obviously has a high false positive rate is just bad for the content creators (on which tumblr depends)
Academics are highly incentivized to seek quantity over quality of publications. Reviewers are disincentivized from performing thorough peer review (unpaid, tangential relation of paper to area of interest, too many papers to review).

This professor has simply optimized an unethical path through the broken incentive system. He's not alone by a long shot.
"Setting such long expiry times on the cache also sounds like a great way to pollute browser caches with obsolete resources. "

Setting "forever" caching is standard practice for web development for many years. The browser doesn't really cache these forever - it is merely a hint to the browser that the resource won't change and you don't have to check it again.

In fact, the more resources you can put with such caching the better both for you and the browser's speed.
I agree. A financial guru I've listened to off and on for many years is Clark Howard and he suggests always using a financial advisor that you pay outright with fiduciary responsibility. His favorite recommendation is to talk to someone from the Garrett Planning Network. If you aren't paying upfront you are paying far more in bad investment advice that isn't designed to make you money. Think bad investments that offer kickbacks to your "advisor."
> I don't understand how something like can be so expensive to make someone avoid voting.

Because the point of making it expensive is to make people stop voting. It's not an accident, or an oversight. It's the purpose.
> I am sorry, but of course there is no hope of a normal family for a woman of this age.

You could adopt, coparent, or marry a spouse who already has kids.

None of those things are "well, duh"; they have their own challenges and tradeoffs, but so does starting a family when you're young. There are many, many other options, especially as a first-worlder, and many kids that could benefit from another parent, or that could benefit from any parent.
A couple of weeks ago, I demonstrated a blog configuration for a client that was both immutable and serverless -- but you could change the design and add/modify/delete blog entries, of course.

I did a video showing off the web-app side. I'm probably going to do another one showing off the server-side stuff.

It was fun to do. The various pieces of tech are all now coming together nicely.
Everything about distributed systems is terrible
Then you would have to find a plugin for your use-case, or create one yourself.
You still can't create events via third-party apps.
I know Robinhood makes hundreds of millions with this, do you know how large the full market actually is?
Koortslip voorkomen of sneller genezen zonder geneesmiddelen
The unbelievable tale of a fake hitman, a kill list, a darknet vigilante
Not sure how Tumblr is doing things these days, but for a long time it literally was S3 costs, as that's where all the media was being served from.
Stop digging your (energy-efficient, metaphorical) grave! You lost this argument five levels up when you started making assertions explicitly in conflict with the laws of physics.

I can understand if you prefer the countryside: maybe you don't enjoy how people continuously try to correct you when you're wrong. Or these bike-riding eco-hippies just smell funny.

But then you should be glad that others enjoy cities (and logic): if we try to evenly disperse them among the liveable space of the earth, I guarantee you there will be some neighbours moving in far to close for your comfort.
> So, either there is no free will because all your actions are determined by past actions, or instead free will just means that part of your actions are just based on, essentially, the throw of a dice. In both of these cases, you yourself have 0 agency.

Your mistake is assuming that determinism precludes agency. You've merely claimed this, you haven't proven it like you did with case #2.

You'll actually find that you can't prove this and so you should give up that assumption, at which point you've reinvented Compatibilism. That's why Compatibilism is the majority view among philosophers.
Pattern recognition is killing innovation.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/valleyvoices/2018/09/14/pattern...
Love this! As if God designed universe timeline to be immutable. The question is, by making choice B you get universe B unique to that branch you chose, but is it a new branch per person per choice? Or do multiple people get “switched” to that branch?
This is what any reasonable person will think. I fully expect FB to argue that "oh these are just some computer bits you see. There is no way to from this model deduce what inputs made it into this model. It's like a hash function. And since we have removed the inputs, we have complied."

That they are in essence keeping "the ghost" of a person is another thing.
As one of the "wealth managers" who you apparently should avoid like the plague, I'll just put my $.02 here for what it's worth.

There is undeniably a lot of crap in the financial services space. I live in it and I could not agree more. I have to face this down every time someone asks what I do for a living. But this isn't really relevant to whether or not OP should hire an advisor. It just makes the job of finding a good one more difficult. But they exist.

The HN community is mostly made up of DIY types, so there's lots of advice to that effect popping up here. But, much like the infamous Dropbox announcement comment, some people don't want to "get an FTP account, mount it locally with curlftpfs, and then use SVN or CVS on the mounted filesystem", as "trivial" as that might be. Some people just want a little green check mark telling them that their files are synced. I'm 100% pro-DIY for the person who has the capacity mentally and emotionally. (Sidenote: the significance of the emotional capacity peace is severely underestimated by almost everyone). And I will happily tell a prospective client that they don't need me and wouldn't be happy with me if I can see that's who they are.

Finally, most people think my job is making money for people. It's not. I'd argue that one of the most significant pieces of info OP shared was:

> I am freaking out.

That's my job. Talking people down and helping them avoid all the bad advice their getting from family, friends, and internet strangers (there's a lot of GOOD advice here, for the record).

Congrats on your success, OP. Best of luck. $8M is a good thing. Don't freak out.