skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I own a company that is attempting to modernize electronic medical records, and there are plenty of legitimate reasons why medical software is bad. The decision makers at large hospitals are even more conservative than other large enterprises. Nobody is willing to risk their career/hosptial by writing an eight or nine figure cheque to an unproven enterprise to run their critical infrastructure. So the market is dominated by companies that were earliest to market (Meditech, Epic, Cerner, Allscripts) or have big enough pockets to compete (GE's Centricity, McKesson). Nobody ever got fired for choosing IBM.

Hospitals were some of the earliest adopters of computers and the systems that were developed have been in place for decades. Most of these systems carry a lot of baggage from their development history and are too risky or brittle to modify without good reason. It's the same story that most big banks find themselves in. Everything is clunky, confusing, and old but the job gets done and that is good enough.

The people making purchasing decisions do not care about the usability of the product, as they are not going to be the ones using it. They mostly care about billing, compliance, data integrity, security, and managing costs. Electronic medical records primarily exist for billing an insurance company or the government. Every other reason given for their existence is secondary to that need. If you don't believe me, check how many staff members are dedicated to billing at your hospital. For reference, the average staff ratio is 2.7 billing professionals for each physician across the industry.

Medicine is both an art and a science. Even physicians in the same discipline vary greatly in the way that they practice their craft. There is no way to turn a hospital visit into an assembly line. Nothing is standard, everything is specialized. This is at odds with the ideal software project, where everything is defined up front and can be turned into an efficient repeatable process. If it were easier I think you would have greater competition which would lead to better products.

Can we do better? Absolutely. The limiting factor is not software development talent. You need to understand how the industry operates to be able to find a foothold. Attacking the incumbents directly will end in certain doom. If you want to learn more about how we're approaching the problem my email is in my profile. We built a product to run our own clinic and are almost ready for wide release.
Some of my favorite talks from Strange Loop:

* Contracts For Getting More Programs Less Wrong: https://www.thestrangeloop.com/2018/contracts-for-getting-mo...

* "It's Just Matrix Multiplication": Notation for Weaving: https://www.thestrangeloop.com/2018/its-just-matrix-multipli...

* Hackett: a metaprogrammable Haskell: https://www.thestrangeloop.com/2018/hackett-a-metaprogrammab...

* Git from the Ground Up: https://www.thestrangeloop.com/2018/git-from-the-ground-up.h...

From PyCon:

* Beyond Unit Tests: Taking Your Testing to the Next Level: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MYucYon2-lk

* Dataclasses: The code generator to end all code generator: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T-TwcmT6Rcw

* Automating Code Quality: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G1lDk_WKXvY

There are probably more I might add later as I remember them.
It is not a matter of "being afraid", it is a matter of those people propagating an ideology based on the subjugation and extermination of minorities, and calling for violence and direct action against said minorities.

When one side is literally Nazis, there is no middle ground and reasoned dialogue, because they've already shown countless times that they cannot be reasoned with. They simply use any talking time to further spread their hate.
It might be possible to mediate between groups who are at odds, but this seems to require a world-class diplomacy at a grassroots level.

I too can not see how centralized government can survive without a centralized source of truth. But what to do about it? It should be possible through other means to arrange public services, public works, and other things required for civilization to survive.
> This is simply the human condition. It was just as true of written language and illustration.

There's a famous book, "The Revolt of the Masses" by Ortega, which claims the opposite. His conclusion is that, before mass media, common people were uneducated, but were actually quite aware of and humble about their ignorance - they did not think they understood how the world around them (incl. politics etc.) works. But after they've been exposed to the press and radio, which mostly gave them random, disjointed and poorly checked facts as well as opinion pieces (almost always with an agenda), they started to believe they understand more than they actually did. That's the "Revolt of the Masses" - masses of people started to have an opinion, and it was often ignorant and stupid.
i can see "overengineered pub talk" as a specific critique instead of them meaning public. i am probably wrong there. but the point still stands as it's rude and not important to make a mention of their english, especially when it seems what they meant is one of two things, both of which make sense.
If you jam GPS these days, you also get confused ubers, delivery riders and tourists milling around.
The historical accounts seem to support the idea that the story is a combination of multiple people. But the guy who got nailed to a cross was an actual historical event and became the focal point for the amalgam.
Since Dallas has a completely different population density and size than NYC, you're making an apples-to-oranges comparison. Do you have data that using the MTA costs more than having a car in NYC?
I wouldn't do this without providing a pro-rata opportunity for the employees. The employees, as small minority shareholders basically have to trust you to treat them fairly and equally, understanding that you, as larger shareholders will obviously be getting a multiple of their payout. If you cash out without giving them the same opportunity, you've broken that trust. You say that "We obviously mean to do right by all the employees in the long run", but they don't know that for sure, and the best guide they have to what you'll do in the future is what you're doing now.
I skipped 3.0-3.3 and used the logging module in every nontrivial program, so py3 never broke anything of consequence to me.
There's been a lot of discussion on how machine learning neural nets are at all like our brains or not - but wouldn't DNA likely be more similar? Lots of random factors that in a roundabout way increase/decrease trait propagation (a new generation before death). And splicing genes would be a bit like assuming you could transplant the bit of a neural net that you think recognizes zero, to be used to write better letter/glyphs for "o"s and/or "ø"s?

It might work with good, continuous testing (ie, with bacteria were you can test x generations in n specimen) - but it's hard to see how it would ever work reliably in higher animals?
This is only acceptable if your company is very successful and it is clear you have made a lot of value for your team and your investors. If the success isn’t there, it will cause lots of problems. If you take money off the table when everyone else’s success is still in question, you’ll lose the trust of your team. A founder selling 5% of their stock could be a lot of $, but 5% of employee #2s is likely much less so the impact of their participation is much less.
The key word being rumour.
Employees are generally not non-diversified investors, since they don't own enough company stock for that to be their primary investment. (Most of their assets could be in 401-K retirement accounts from previous employers, for example.)
What you're describing is that you remembered something much better if you have a use for it. It doesn't mean school isn't effective.

How can you tell that undergrad knowledge didn't help you when you "looked up stuff in numerical recipes". In other words: would your younger self in high school be able to understand the stuff in Numerical Recipes, and able to write some C(++?) classes.

I know I wouldn't, and that undergrad education taught me some strong basics that would let me do it now. The end of class stuff where you take a toy example of how to use your learned basics such as calculating the SVD is just an attempt at giving some "real world" example which exercises the basics, and an attempt at grading you on this, and that can of little usefulness long term yeah, but the core concepts are useful if you pursue your education/career in a scientific path that requires those.
Where's the historical evidence for your claim that the guy who got nailed to a cross was indeed the source of the "Jesus" mythology?
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Why did they do what?
In light of current US politics, I find this idea rather frightening.
There is an important distinction between a phonomonan that stops being detectable at high enough values (to humans), and the size of memory for a computer system.
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That seems to contradict the consensus among historians [1]:

> Virtually all New Testament scholars and Near East historians, applying the standard criteria of historical investigation, find that the historicity of Jesus is effectively certain although they differ about the beliefs and teachings of Jesus as well as the accuracy of the details of his life that have been described in the gospels. While scholars have criticized Jesus scholarship for religious bias and lack of methodological soundness, with very few exceptions such critics generally do support the historicity of Jesus and reject the Christ myth theory that Jesus never existed.

Can you point to where the podcast makes such a claim?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historicity_of_Jesus
It is not common or expected unless the company is very successful. For most companies, investors will be disappointed if you want to sell before an exit.
Please give examples for creating distrust of minorities, specifically for Jordan Peterson.

Also, how does "normalizing trad-right rethoric" equal "working to further fascism and inflame hatred and division"? Where do traditional right values
equate fasism, hatred and division?
Sounds like message-based advertisement is essentially crowd-sourcing a gigantic Turing test. Looking forward to trying to figure out if my chat partner who casually mentions another product or service is a sales person or a ML model.
...What future of humanity? Call me cynical, but we seem absolutely bound on wiping ourselves out one way or another. Our focus on money above all else is killing us all. We’re playing useless games, winning useless tokens, and spending them on useless prizes, all inside an arcade that’s on fire. Climate change, GMO foods, overpopulation, water pollution, nuclear war, ecosystem destruction, we’ll find a way eventually. Just a matter of time.
> Workers who fully commit to Epic — who survive the long hours and grisly sights — are treated to a remarkable perk. After five years, they get a sabbatical, including round-trip airfare for two to travel somewhere they’ve never been for a month, plus a per diem for meals and lodging. (They get another sabbatical after 10 years, 15, and so on.)

Obligatory snark: In Europe we call this paid vacation, and we get it every year.

But on a serious note, it's so funny how experiences temper expectations. Only in a place where most people's vacation time is used for familial obligations or not used at all, does a month of traveling sound like the ultimate luxury. And they're willing to slave away for five years to get this?

When me and friends briefly served a stint as middle managers in corporate America, we had a vacation policy of "always yes". And people would still start their time off discussions by laying out arguments as to why they really needed time off. No, stop, you need zero arguments to get a yes from me as long as you have earned the time off according to company policy. It's my fucking job to make things work despite your absence, not yours.
Consequences happen, just not in the way the a comic says.
It's simple and elegant. Try implementing for small tilesets and you should get it right away. My bias is still toward search methods for texture synth over neural techniques. Results tend to have fewer artefacts, better long range order ;)

Original repo:

https://github.com/mxgmn/WaveFunctionCollapse
I have often wondered about this; I have read in various places that scholars believe there was a historical Jesus but this always seems like a pragmatic stance to take in societies where the vast majority of people believe that he was either a prophet or a God (which covers almost everywhere where this question would be considered worthy of any serious study). Yet there are some issues that I see:

1. "Yeshua" or "Yeshu" were relatively common Jewish names at that time (it is just "Joshuah" in Aramaic), so vague references in non-Christian writings to a "Jesus" of some kind may not refer to the same person. How many people named "Joshuah" might have led a group of disciples during a period where dozens of messianic claimants were trying to rally followers to one cause or another?

2. It is well known that the bible was subject to extensive editing prior to its official canonization, which makes it somewhat questionable as a historical document. At best we can only derive vague information about big social movements IMO -- no doubt there were Jews who taught the things attributed to Jesus, but I personally hesitate to go further and claim that the bible is an accurate account of a single person's movement.

3. The chaotic schisms in the early centuries of Christianity makes me doubt that useful historical information about the founders of the movement actually survived. The different Christian movements preserved the documents that best supported their cause. Who knows what historical information is not available today that would totally change our views on the topic.
Could it be done in llvm or another backend so all frontend languages can benefit?
Since this is a very politicized topic, as a Muslim I feel it is worth pointing out that there is nothing in Islam that promotes having many children per se (this topic is even omitted in the linked Wikipedia article).

On the contrary, Islam does not forbid contraception or even abortion, up until four months of gestation.

The trend described is highly socioeconomic.
It’s not that hard to build a drone as a hobbyist. Controls on commercially available drones are only going to deter the most casual operators.
This is true. If you are in the EU you might not even legally be able to use a US hosted solution depending on what data you are sending over the chat...
Google cache: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?client=ubuntu&c...
I only see a database error on this website.
This is going in the right direction :)

Funnily enough, decades ago when France introduced the 35h workweek the world (and in particular the US and UK) ridiculed France for it and berated the (supposed) laziness of French people.
> Unfortunately monads aren’t in base scala (as an explicit class at least)

Scalaz and cats are perhaps the most common dependencies in the Scala ecosystem.
>> and a little unfair to us that we didn't get the chance to sell shares whereas they did.

>So, found a company yourself. See what you feel like after you've been slogging for a decade or so without any net. It is always super easy to berate the position of someone else when you yourself are taken care of.

>> You lose a bit of that "we're in this together" vibe that makes it organically motivating to work at a place.

>You lost something that you never had in the first place. Founders, employees and investors never have exact alignment of their goals.

Don't startup employees normally take below market wages and work crazy hours to get the company going? They're not in as deep as the founders but they are making sacrifices for the company.

It's not like they are talking about taking on more investment here and everyone's getting diluted. It's the founders giving themselves a little personal enrichment ahead of all the other agreements that the employees agreed to.

Why would you expect the employees to continue to make the sacrifices to keep the company going if you do this?
I think also apologies require explaining what changes they made and why they decided to do it that way. A look behind the curtain on why they chose way A when they could have chosen way B is illustrative to users.
But it is also 700k per job
The whole podcast is dedicated to going over what historical evidence might exist that documents Jesus. Just as per your link (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historicity_of_Jesus#Sources) there were no sources that mention him until after his death during the first push for Christianity.
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I thought that too but I think that line was just worded awkwardly. It was meant as a change of topic to end the writer's insistence.

For reference:

> I asked if she would tell me off the record. She would not. I asked if she would tell me off the record after this piece was published. She would not. I told her I couldn’t die without knowing. She guided me to the automotive grade pigments.
It has dependencies on CUDA and/or Intel MKL, so not really suitable as-is for embedded/phones.
> Marketers want to put ads everywhere — on boats, in Ubers and even inside fortune cookies.

Can't wait for good ambient AR so we can wear IRL ad blockers.
No problem! You said exactly what you meant. And it got me interested so I'm watching the video for myself now.
The Bushes/Clintons/Obamas make their money from because people want to hear what they have to say (e.g. speeches, books), not because they steal money from the public coffers.
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Because once you start sending secret cameras and gps trackers across jurisdictions for the purpose of catching criminals you really do need a pi license. If your homespun amature detective agency makes a mistake, or gets someone hurt, you better be ready for a multi-year legal headache. Maybe you win out in the end, but it wont be a fun ride.

Every department store security guard knows to never continue the operation beyond the store. Their insurance companies know the potential troubles and wont cover such things.
One can never perfectly compare two cities, can they? And I can't compare cost of car ownership in NYC with and without existence of a government subsidized subway.

But if you measure dollar spent per passenger mile traveled, the MTA is incredibly expensive.
Interesting. Even something like AWS?
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A line chart would forgo the act of scrolling which would eliminate the narrative feel of the graphic (scrolling through time to see what happened next). Considering that the content of the graphic is somewhat complex I think the "noise" serves to represent the data in the clearest possible way (representing countries by their flags) while establishing visual fields that represent relevant conclusions (the long-term preoccupation with a single foreign country). If this had been a simple line chart not only would the data need to be different (showing comprehensive amounts for each year rather than one or two top values) but it would be visually bland. The informational margins and somewhat infotainment-esque color variety are perfectly appropriate for this graphic. A more studious design would betray its content for something more quantitatively robust.
What's the difference between this and something like python-esque generators which also appear to be lazy and have a much saner syntax? Doesn't C++ plan to support coroutines which should provide a similar way to lazily evaluate lists?

Also the example has a lot of boilerplate code that reminds me of template metaprogramming hell. Is this something that's expected to be wrapped up nicely by Boost & co. for end users?
Kinda makes you wonder about other extraordinary claims.. I mean, what did he really do to prove that it wasn't staged? Other than saying he works for NASA...
Very excited to be able to use both ranges and concepts soon.

I started writing C++ just before the 2011 standard and it’s been fun to follow and use the improvements over the last 8 years. I can’t imagine how different the language will look (after the 2020 standard) to the eyes of veteran C++ devs. It must already feel like a completely different language.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crucifixion_of_Jesus#Historici...
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It's probably the jewelery industry to help make their precious and rare rocks sparkle and shine.

I'm sure knowing that glitter is used in a diamond ring would turn a lot of people away.
Your correct that in the real world things are different, in fact here are the real world court cases that in my opinion clearly define the activity of the Brave browser as not a copyright violation.

This case was about google getting money while displaying parts of copyrighted material. The court ruled it was fair use. (https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/834877-google-books-...)

This case ( still pending ) was about google being able to display parts of news stories without paying the authors ( the initial ruling was it was legal, but Germany was allowed to impose a "tax", current guidance is that even the tax may not be allowed and Google will be able to display the content ) https://www.nytimes.com/reuters/2018/12/13/technology/13reut...

Since you referenced people who had the same idea as Brave and it was found to be illegal, would you care to reference those specific cases ?
I think people are a little confused about how much media out there is totally faked. Almost all of the "reality" programming is scripted, staged, and fake. A great deal of viral videos are staged or completely faked as well.
Loved your comparison to the historical Elvis. Whenever I saw news articles reporting on artifacts purportedly related to the historical Jesus, I always thought how little we know about the historical Shakespeare.
probably this very big WTF:

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R markdown? I'm not sure I understand, the text between chunks is plain 'ole markdown. It can be overridden with Latex as needed. What parts feel hacky?
I guess just people that I'm around and some third party news sources that have a pretty big following. Sorry to disappoint :)
There is a similarly crazy person who's moderately famous in my country - he claims he has "a much better instant search algorithm way faster than Google", but sadly because of the mafia and the Illuminati and probably also the Jew-freemasons no one wants to give him capital. He is also smart enough to seem to know what he's talking about, knows hard facts about common search algorithms and actually can code. I wonder how does that happen - he is not even trying to foul investors.
I believe the low birth rates among higher earners has to do with the simple fact that high earners are more carrier oriented (for various reasons). It's hard to educate yourself and bring up children at the same time (my wife is currently there). Anecdotally, a friend just recently failed her (unpaid) PhD because in France (where she lives) in her field you have 4 years to finish. She is Middle-eastern, and she decided to have two children during that period.

Some countries (take Cuba for instance) have little consumerism but their birthrate remains low (dysfunctional economy + educated population).
This is one of those times trusting Wikipedia is laughable.

Wikipedia is not the absolute authority on everything. No, really. Impressive, yes, but it's not correct 100% of the time. In fact sometimes it's crazy how wrong it is. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:List_of_hoaxes_on_Wi...
As each day passes, I wish more people in marketing would put as much effort into something that benefits society instead of eroding it.