skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Tulips changed they way some of the Dutch live. They still have 11,000 hectares planted and grow 4.3 billion bulbs per year, 381 years after the so called bubble. I wonder if ETH and TRON will be about in 381 years.
Embedding Like button makes you a joint controller on data collected by Facebook [pdf]
What happens when you double blind astronomers?
> Projects like this aren't happening in the US because there is no political will. If you are going to have bus lanes you need to have enforcement. Buses should have cameras ticketing other vehicles in the bus lanes. Turn lanes should not merge into bus lanes, drivers should be forced to wait for a green arrow to make a turn across the bus lane.

I can probably speak to a bit of this as I am from Adelaide... and have also driven in the USA before.

The driver mentality in Adelaide, compared to USA (and even the eastern cities of Australia like sydney / melbourne), is a lot more laid back. Adelaide feels more like a really large country town rather than a city. Speeding isn't that common (still happens but its not every single person) & cutting people off doesnt happen as much in america.

The O-bahn, is mostly designed for only specific public transport busses. About once or twice a year a car or mini bus (usually driven by tourists) gets stuck on it and has to be lifted off. They recently did an extension to connect it into the city via a dedicated bus lane that turns into a tunnel. I drive along this stretch of road every day, and I think i see about 1 or 2 people a month driving in the dedicated bus lane, usually because they didn't know what was going on rather than doing it on purpose.

The O-bahn services about 26% of the workers in Adelaide City.
Would PostgreSQL + JSONB work for you there?
Realistically, no hospital is going to give out a price. They don't know what unexpected complication may arise that requires additional services.
Don't forget - due to the speed of light it takes 5-10 hours to get feedback on if the square illuminated, but maybe more because you don't know exactly how long you'll need to wait.

And there's uncertainty in whether your measurement is accurate.

And there's a background of other illuminated squares that can interfere with your readings.

And you're spinning while this is going on.

And the target square is continually moving. You might have just missed it.
You'd be able to tell if every brain structure was replicated by a NN analogue (and we understood them sufficiently well). Otherwise you can only use behavioral replication (i.e. Turing tests) to infer it.
I'm surprised to see lots of people in the comments talking about line items. Line Items are irrelevant. They could include line items for oxygen and toilet paper if they wanted to. The hospital charges whatever the market (and where applicable, regulations) allow. The configuration of the line item is pretty much a customer service problem: 'how do we show what we've done in a way that will get the customer to pay it.'
You're absolutely correct. HN hates hearing this, but it's true.
There is an out of pocket maximum of $7350 for 2018(going up to $7900 for 2019) for ACA compatible plans. Many plans have lower out of pocket maximums too. The health insurance company will negotiate and generally pay substantially less than $377k for a $377k bill.
I don't get it, how did illegal unskilled immigrants come into the picture? The law is to let in skilled non EU labour. I'm thinking software engineers, physicists and executives etc
You don't need single payer. Just get some regulations about pricing. Germany doesn't have single payer but you never hear about these shenanigans.
Even out of network, you are able to bill your insurance directly. There are a lot of private practices not in network with any providers at all where insurance will still cover, you just have to do the legwork yourself usually.
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What is new is the polarization over technology brands

I've survived the apple gigahertz gap, countless generations of console wars, seen usenet flamewars last for weeks, and any number of minor brand skirmishes & salvos. Polarization over tech brands is nothing new. "War never changes" [0]

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f0vGpXPGFZY
Are Remote Teams the Future of Work?
> Analyze the data

How are you going to get it? Even Google has huge regulatory issues around touching health care data. Medical records are some of the most highly regulated pieces of information around. A startup would have to have very deep pockets (or a few lawyers as founders) to have any chance IMO.
I find the first chart so hard to understand. The axes need labels, and the color scheme is not ideal. They should use different line styles, and add a caption below summarizing the findings. There's a reason journals often require graphs to be formatted this way.

This is a resource I've found helpful:
https://www3.nd.edu/~pkamat/pdf/graphs.pdf

"Consider readers with color blindness
or deficiencies"

"Avoid colors that are difficult to distinguish"
Can we at least try a free market approach already?
> a soda fountain,

I get the joke, but I legitimately think home soda fountains are a great idea. Shipping Cans/Bottles around is wasteful (in weight and in packaging). If commercial ones weren't thousands of dollars, but just a couple hundred, I'd probably buy one.

Something like a Sodastream, but by a different company with real soda in it, would be great.
"Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind- bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist's, but that's just peanuts to space."

Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
I love my DeLonghi Magnifica at half the price. I'm not a fancy coffee drinker though.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000N2YKQ0/ref=oh_aui_sear...
You might be interested in the method Freenet uses to avoid disruption of communication: https://www.draketo.de/english/freenet/friendly-communicatio...

" In the past decade there hasn’t been a year without a politician calling for real names on the internet. Some even want to force people to use real photos as profile pictures. All in the name of stopping online hate, though enforcing real names has long been shown to actually make the problem worse.

This article presents another solution, one that has actually proven that it keeps communication friendly, even in the most anonymous environment of the fully decentralized Freenet project.

And that solution does works without enabling censorship."
I think this is a problem orthogonal to private versus public healthcare. I think it is a problem relating to what health insurance is today. Pretty much all hospitals get all their indirectly from patients through insurance agencies. And this is for all services from checkups to bloodwork to scheduled surgeries to emergencies.

Since the insurance companies are the middle man, the cost structures become less directly correlated between patient behavior. Demand is inelastic, particularly because insurance smooths it out. The hopsital needs so much money, so why not inflate the price of advil over here, even though it doesn't directly correlate to their costs.
Salary or contract?

Depending what you do, Australia, but you may need to be somewhat specialised/niched.
Medicare seems to be able to do it even in the US.
Why is this so much of an issue? I agree that is it a more wasteful way to do coffee than other machines, but not significantly so. Why is everyone so up-in-arms about this vs any other single serve item, like water bottles, soda, and tea/coffee cans? The shipping costs alone for moving what amounts to mostly water and all the packaging make pods look innocent or better.
Absurdities like $60 Ibuprofen seem like an unforced error to me. This is the kind of blatant abuse that leads to voters getting collectively angry and getting the legislature involved.
Yes I understood that he got the charge removed. I couldn't understand the initial situation (that such a thing could happen).
Indeed, this is the origin of the term "fire sale".
It takes a while to realize nearly every law is anti-competition protectionism. I didn't realize it until I was working for a multinational food company and the managers were bragging about how the company lobbied for a safety bill that exactly regulated their own industry in a way that cost their competitors billions in compliance fees. They were proud of it. I was disgusted.
Some recent discussions about the proposed HTTP/3 standard:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18427795

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18517047
Once someone is fluent in a language, the logical operations and judgements involved stop being overt and highly visible to the conscious mind. But that doesn't mean that one stops getting the benefits and results of logical operations.

What you might see as logical operations "not mattering", I would see as logical operations integrated so deeply into reflexive operations that it's hard to see where one ends and the other begins. The contrast is that humans can do pattern recognition in a neural net fashion, taking something like the multidimensional average of a set of things. But a human can also receive a language-level input that some characteristic is or isn't important for recognizing a given thing and incorporate that input into their broad-average concepts. That kind of thing can't be done by deep learning currently - well, not a non-kludgey sort of way.

Similarly, I have a soft-spot for the view that a mind is only as good as its set of inputs.

It depends on how you want to mean that. A human can take inputs on one thing and apply them seamlessly to another thing. Neural nets tend to be very dependent on the task-focused content fed them.
Are you positing that the only alternatives are computation and magic?
Indeed - it's essentially the homunculus fallacy, or magic dressed up in the language of knowledge.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homunculus_argument
Totally agreed. This is pretty much the definitive guide on how to perform a high stakes migration where downtime is absolutely unacceptable. It's extremely tempting, particularly for startups, to simply have a big-bang migration where an old system gets replaced by something else in one shot. I have never, ever seen that approach work out well. The Guardian approach is certainly conservative but it's hard to read that article and conclude anything other than that they did the right thing at every step along the way.

Well done and congratulations to everyone on the team.
Duplicate of: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18706522
Even as old as it is, I didn't think it necessary to explain my reference.
They have nice pricing tables for insurances,. Just not for patients. Even unexpected complications will have a billing code but the prices are kept secret.
> As if no one but the top minds in AI didn't know this?

Anecdotal, but nearly all of my programmer friends believe that full-blown AGI is less than a decade away.
https://lobste.rs/s/rtvogu/tree_editors
Yeah, there are absolutely assholes in every mode.

It's just that assholes in cars are a lot more dangerous than assholes who are biking or walking.
That being said, can anyone able to decode this share some cases in which this would be better suited than zlib?
Good to know their data pipeline was performant as they sent my personal data to all sorts of third party platforms without my knowledge

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/18/technology/facebook-priva...
How Freenet keeps communication friendly with anonymity
Incandescent light bulb life is inversely proportional to efficiency. The current choice already costs many times the purchase price in electricity use, so if anything, they chose a value too long.
No idea if they're serious about recyclability, but keeping an old thing is 100% better than getting a new thing while recycling the old one, environmentally speaking. And Apple's "innovations" make that difficult.
If you go into department stores, the vast majority of mannequins aren't clinically overweight unless you are specifically shopping in a plus size store.

Even if this were true, your argument doesn't follow from the evidence. The existence of clothing for overweight people doesn't imply that people believe that being overweight is healthy. It only implies that overweight people exist, and someone wants to make money selling clothes to them.
YouTube's not done until Edge won't run.
Well then I want that to be locked down too! I'm sick of the all-or-nothingness of many of these security measures.
How was ACA not a free market approach?

https://www.opensecrets.org/lobby/billsum.php?id=hr3590-111
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In that article he specifically laid out the scenario of a vaginal birth with no complications.
Reverse Osmosis filters everywhere, like in Thailand.
there are some dirty tricks like creating link-farms that link to a competitors’ website to hurt their rankings
Both?

Most successful blogs and news sites I've seen tend to have multiple ways for their audience to contact them. Usually comments for posts plus accounts on various major social media sites and some sort of chat feature (for gaming sites nowadays it's often Discord, though it could be a forum, or Slack or IRC).

Of course, you then have to strike a balance between getting setup on every platform under the sun (and spreading yourself too thin) or putting all your eggs in basket (and depending too heavily on traffic from a single source or platform). But yeah, there are usually multiple ways for people to contact successful blog authors.
I work at Joyent (one of the largest on-record commercial users of illumos today), and am a core member of the illumos community. While we will miss the Delphix folks, they were not driving the bulk of general work on illumos.

I believe that comment by Matt/Kip reflects more of a personal opinion about how things should be (he's a stalwart FreeBSD contributor), rather than how they actually are in practice.
The mantra of the Real World (aka non-technical persons):
CSV is an acceptable serialization format for whatever data structure you deal with.

(and the corollary: any data can be authored or visualized in Excel).
Thanks, haven't come across that. I'm bemused by their claim to be optimists.
I don't believe in the idea of AGI for Dreyfusard reasons, but it's possible that it could emerge from something completely different than deep learning.

For all we know, Isabelle and Coq could be speeding through the road to consciousness but we're busy having a blast doing Computer Vision pretending it's AI.
Looks too much like the best language ever. Please tell us about some of its problems too, not only the good parts.
Making the road safer for cyclists makes it safer for everyone. It's not that selfish.
"S Mode" (as opposed to Windows S which was briefly a separate SKU) in current builds of Windows 10 (Home/Pro/Enterprise) is now arbitrarily admin activatable/deactivatable. As your father's admin (assumedly in this example) you deactivate S Mode, install all the old apps, then reactivate S Mode. Your father still gets access to the old apps, and can install new apps from the Windows Store [1] without your involvement as admin. You just have switch it out of S Mode if your father finds another old CD or floppy behind the couch to (re-)install.

[1] I don't recall if S Mode currently allows sideloading non-Store but code-signed APPX/MSIX packages. I think it is supposed to? But I think my confusion is that it may differ (at least currently) between Windows Home in S Mode and Windows Enterprise in S Mode.
There's also a bystander effect at play here. (Some) people and organizations would like to help but don't know where to start or what needs to been done.

It's like asking some teenagers what they can do and it's not much for any single individual.
I mean, it does say it gives Spotify "access [to] my data at any time". Messages are just data, after all...
I would be worried google will cancel this project in 18 months like most projects. At least with the other distros there is proven longevity.
So basically it's totally OK because someone clicked sign in with fb? I bet the majority didn't realise that implied giving access to private messages.

Seems pretty dark pattern-y at best

>this work was about helping people do two things

One of the most disengenious things I've read in a while. Nothing about this was about helping users.

I hope they get slaughtered on the markets tomorrow (again).
Most of that’s pretty reasonable, but you’re talking about something completely unrelated to the point I was making.
It is possible for the total poverty rate to get lower, while the rate and absolute numbers of people in extreme poverty (hence the term third-world) increase.

https://inequality.stanford.edu/sites/default/files/media/_m...

Analysis in this paper also based on Census data.

Also, I don't know that I would exactly declare victory on poverty rate based on just recent data. It looks like we've just fought it to a rough standstill from the 70's on, which is disappointing from an advancement of civilization point of view. The 2010 decrease was just getting it back to 1970's level poverty after an increase bubbled up post-2008.

https://poverty.ucdavis.edu/faq/what-current-poverty-rate-un...

Note the rise in the below 50% poverty level figure in the chart.
maybe it would be beneficial to replace it or strip it down to ensure your customer never has
to worry about storage performance, for example.

The way the user runs it means that they don't store any metrics locally. The Prometheus agent on the cluster does scraping and then sends the data immediately up to the central SaaS instance (Cortex).

what if your potential customer runs on a PaaS like Heroku

The range of exporters is very extensive (https://prometheus.io/docs/instrumenting/exporters/). And, as K8s has become so important lots of other people are publishing Prometheus metrics.

In the end, to offer Prometheus/Cortex as a SaaS and be competitive with existing players
like Datadog, SignalFX, etc I'd expect you'd have to run an API that your customers can code
against to push data to you.

Cortex provides a scalable backend storage for Prometheus metrics, it's designed as one component that someone running at large scale or a SaaS vendors needs. Your comparison isn't apples to apples.

In Weaveworks case we've build integrations into our product that help connect and pull data from other systems. Overall I think Prometheus metrics have a strong future, and there will be lots of SaaS options for sending and consuming the data.
I don't understand this fixation on symbolic reasoning. Do any other animals practice this? If the answer is no, then it is probably not the most important milestone to AGI or at least not the one we should be currently aiming for. Right now we can not replicate the cognition of a mouse. Feels like we want to go to Mars before figuring out how to build a rocket.
> in module mode, using the vendor directory exclusively

But that's not what I'm asking. I want "go build" (with some flags) to use my fork (vendored if needed) for one library, and pick up all other dependencies from the module cache as usual. How do I that?

Because this is already possible in a vendor-only world; I just edit the code in vendor.
> The turtle choking to a Keurig cup in the Pacific doesn't really care that the cup had an additional tax on it.

Right, and the sea life dying from warming and acidification of the oceans doesn't really care that the carbon emissions had an additional tax on it....
Wow, you weren't kidding. The Fed dropped the funds rate down to nearly zero by December 2008.[1] It took the European Central Bank until June 2014 to bring their interest rate down to the same level.[2] They even had a couple rate hikes in the interim.

[1] https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/FEDFUNDS

[2] https://www.ecb.europa.eu/stats/policy_and_exchange_rates/ke...
A lot of people don't get much choice in where they live.
Don't meta descriptions usually do this? I've never seen people use the post content as their meta description, at least not when they've got access to something like Yoast or the SEO Framework or what not.
Normal investment funds don't pretty much. Hedge funds are less regulated and and can punt on pretty much anything.
Every submit for this site is just a daily ad for Amazon affiliate linked books (tag=itbook.store-20). A new ad is submitted every day, like clockwork.

There is no "store". Even the descriptions are ripped from Amazon's pages.
The x axis is compression speed, and the y axis is compression ratio.

Zstandard outperforms zlib in compression ratio, compression speed, and decompression speed (not shown). The only reason to stick with zlib is for compatibility with systems that expect zlib.
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Yeah a well configured postgres instance will usually only start to have issue with more than a billion rows.
In the UK patients pay a flat charge for a prescription which is around £10. For that reason I rarely prescribe something like ibuprofen or paracetamol outside of the hospital. I will always tell the patients to buy it themselves over the counter for around £0.16, unless there is a good reason to deliver it via a prescription.
False.

You can put your code anywhere you want and `go build` and `go run` will work just fine.

It's only third party libraries that have to be in GOPATH, which is exactly a library (well, package) search path.
Well, we have general purpose processors. You can prove they can run any algorithm you want (i.e. are Turing complete), but also, for practical problems (i.e. the ones encountered in engineering solutions in our planet and in our universe), they give reasonable max-min performance. Analogously I don't think 'AGI' is entirely useless -- you'd expect an AGI to have some properties like being able to solve reasonably well problems found in nature and society, maybe have a motivational framework distinguishing it as a separate entity, some knowledge about the world, etc.

edit: In terms of Turing-completeness analogues, the best candidate for AGI I think would be simply brute force capability: can this agent try all possible solutions until it solves this problem? (obviously using a heuristic to prioritize) -- that is, it'd employ a form of Universal Search[1] (aka Levin Search). Humans don't necessarily pass this test rigorously because we'd always get bored with a problem and because we have finite memory. But then CPUs are not truly Turing complete either (it's "just" a good model).

[1] http://www.scholarpedia.org/article/Universal_search
Other problems:
- It may not be possible to arrange landing areas in the desired direction
- Vehicles may not be able to make sufficiently tight turns
- Fixed-wing vehicles cover quite a large vertical distance, especially when rolling as they turn due to wingspans. There's plenty of room for converging paths, and your rules may not allow enough leniency to avoid such paths. A "slight graze" that takes off half a wing is not acceptable.
- Parallel lines converge on the surface of the world. Two planes flying due north (X is a multiple of 360) may collide at or near the poles.
Sure, this is the chart they usually show so it should be:

x-axis: compression speed (in input data)

y-axis: compression ratio (1x is no compression).
Ha! Do you still have a link?
> We programmers write halting programs with great regularity.

Making any program halting program is trivial: add executed instructions counter, halt program at some value of the counter. Proving that an arbitrary program halts is an entirely different task.

> So, the fact that we cannot solve some problems does not imply we are not halting oracles.

If it's allowed to not solve some problems, then I can write such an oracle:

Run a program for a million steps. If program has halted, output "Halts", otherwise output "Don't know".

It can't solve some problems, but by your logic it doesn't imply it's not a halting oracle. You are missing something.