skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Comparing the US healthcare cost to other countries is slightly misleading as much of the world free-rides off US pharma research."

I want to see hard numbers on this. I strongly believe that this is just self-serving propaganda to justify ripping off people in the US.
Meh, its not really a bandwidth limitation on modern Bluetooth devices, only that it negotiates a different Bluetooth profle. The high quality stereo audio mode (A2DP) has no support for microphones in the spec and is usually highly buffered, so it switches over to the headset profile (HSP). This mode is designed for compatibility all the way back to your old Motorola Razr flip phone, so it doesn't exactly have the highest quality audio options.

If we were to really look at it as a pure bandwidth concept, Bluetooth has plenty of bandwidth to handle high-quality, low-latency, compressed audio streams between two devices. There just isn't a profile written into the spec to handle it, so there's no standard way of negotiating that between a headset and a device.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Bluetooth_profiles
A small group, in a small number of cities... right...
So I realize that this is going to be an unpopular opinion but I'm going to go out on a limb and hope for the best.

I have a small business, and it's a business that people love.

When I first opened my business I was getting almost no customers because I had no way of informing people about my business.

With advertising, I'm getting clients and my business is doing well. I don't use manipulative tactics or remarketing, but I do use targeted ads to find out what kind of people are looking for my services and market to them by including a short direct blurb about what I do.

As a result, people who need my services can get it at a price they can afford. Another happy result of advertising is I am able to have my own business and bring greater competition to a market place that is dominated by old boys type businesses. The only down side is that some people who didn't want to see a blurb had to see it.

Why is this bad?

Maybe manipulative advertising tactics are bad, maybe advertising that relies on building brand recognition rather than stating value is bad. But I really don't understand why paying to inform people that my business exists and tell them what I do is a bad thing. I think it's a great thing.

I can say this, without modern affordable advertising my business wouldn't exist. Not because I don't provide value, not because there are better more competitive businesses but because people would have no way of finding out that I exist. I don't have the money for a fancy storefront with a fancy sign. I don't have the money to be at the front of the yellow pages. I don't have the age and established connections to get people through referral. All I have is a good idea, and the only way to communicate that idea to the public is advertising.

Maybe there is bad advertising and abuses of advertising. But please let's think twice before throwing out the baby with the bath water.

There was that famous study by Lee Benham who found that eye glasses were 20% cheaper in places that allowed for advertising. I don't know how much we can generalize that finding but I do think that a strong argument can be made that information is big component of the competitive marketplace. Meaning basically I have to be able to inform people about my product. If only huge businesses that can advertise on TV or get sports endorsements or have politicians or celebrities mention them have the capacity to inform people about their products, then they will dominate the market. Internet marketing is the great equalizer that gives little guys like me a chance.
I can’t tell if you’re trolling or not. I hope so, otherwise I’m very worried for your lack of understanding history and how the world works.
> we don't do enough OS research like we used to.

Don't worry; once they finish it in a few years, Google's new "Fuchsia" OS will let them take over the world (to an even greater extent than today).
> Words can not be violent.

sure, sure.

please explain how Facebook did not contribute to the Rohingya "situation" in [Myanmar].

please document how violence-inciting speech never helps spark actual violence (xenophobic violence everywhere since the dawn of speech).

i know, i know... guns don't kill people, people kill people. the issue is: we're all latent murderers. civilization is a very thin veneer. if we were all perfectly rational, maybe we could all get along much better. but were but speaking [animals] and need all help we can get to maintain our outward civility.

i know it's a very fine line to tread, but we must not conflate the baby with the bathwater.

[Myanmar]: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/15/technology/myanmar-facebo...
[animals]: https://theoatmeal.com/comics/believe
I don't understand your syntax on the for-in. Is there some magic on an array that takes a closure and is nonobvious? Or is there a syntactic issue with the code in your comment?
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> This is a feature of several (mostly functional) programming languages

This is just one of a common practice of programming, not a feature of functional languages. These practices are not even "reinventing the wheel".

I mean, this is obvious in many areas: from implementing complex logics like Kubernetes to making hardware drivers in C. Programming languages themselves can't automagically ensure every single conditions because these often happen outside of the program (e.g. targeting hardware state). We need to cover and test all cases by hand anyway.
> First, the author of the article has no professional credibility in either chess or machine learning. He's a professor of math and a writer. No disrespect to either math or writing, I love and value both very highly, but they have very little to do with chess and machine learning per se.

Well, do you accept Garry Kasparov qualified to comment on this?

"I admit that I was pleased to see that AlphaZero had a dynamic, open style like my own."

"Alpha-Zero is surpassing us in a profound and useful way, a model that may be duplicated on any other task or field where virtual knowledge can be generated."

http://science.sciencemag.org/content/362/6419/1087
This is exactly why Silicon Valley engineers, and engineers generally, need to stop being so dismissive of people with "useless" liberal arts educations, and instead bring in sociologists and anthropologists to think through these processes in a comprehensive way.

I'm being downvoted into oblivion elsewhere on this site for suggesting this, but I feel like it's a very obvious move for tech companies that have this problem.
A few comments:

First, US insurance companies are often pseudo non-profits, with profit caps. [1]

Second, another model is Medicare Advantage where beneficiaries can choose a private entity to administer their Medicare plan.

Third, most commercial insurance in the US is not actually underwritten by insurance co's, but by "self-funded" employers. In this case, the insurance company is merely a third-party administrator (TPA) for the employee plans, using XYZ's bank account (and trying to save them money, offer health incentive programs, etc., to secure repeat business). Most companies with more than, say, 500 employees operate this way, though usually you won't even know this is the case.

---

Finally, if by

> do we want to provide universal access to healthcare?

you mean "do we want everyone to have healthcare?", the answer is an easy "yes". We want universal access to housing, healthcare, employment, etc.

But if the question is "do we want the government to use taxes to ensure that everyone has healthcare?", the answer is far more divided. There's a lot of interesting examples elsewhere. But as you've mentioned, the US government has already dipped its toe into those waters with the VA, and I don't think it's been perceived as a success.

[1] http://thehealthcareblog.com/blog/2012/02/04/does-obamacare-...
Hah, I googled those titles just an hour ago, and there were few random pdfs, and powerpoints.

Now, not a single one.
It is very important to protect the right to free speech and expression. It is equally important that we don't downplay the potency of communication and the singularly powerful role that it plays in the behaviors of humans.

The word is powerful; invoking mental constructs and emotions. Indeed everything ever created or destroyed by a human began as a mental construct and/or emotion. Therefore words themselves are critical to destruction or creation and can be so much more than just violent--they will make or break the entire human species.
So do you believe every institution that enforces community standards — whether it be HN or other forum — is basically headed toward fascism?
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Not new, this paper is from 2012. There's also a link to a google code project which is a 404 now. On the other hand, the MPI library that they compare against is still alive here:

https://www.open-mpi.org
Oddly enough macOS supports AptX.
Which is ironic, because when they came out and people (including myself) compared them to other wireless BT devices, we were lambasted because "Apple finally got this right - no more hoping that your Bluetooth device will pair, no waiting, it just works!".

Not so much.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single_Convention_on_Narcotic_...

This was the first result for both “drugs treaty” and “Narcotics treaty”.
Halide seems like it might have immense potential for fairly general applications in scientific computing, but all of the documentation, tutorials and examples seem dominated by image processing. Could someone elaborate on the limitations of Halide with respect to applications like finite difference and finite element methods, lattice Boltzmann simulations, etc.? These are all ultimately reducible to basic linear algebra and stencil kernels, which seem well suited to the design of Halide. Should computational scientists give it a serious look, or am I missing something?
That’s great! This kind of app is priced perfectly for what it does. I’m going to give it a try this week, thanks for the rec!

I use an external microphone anyways, so on my Mac I never use the AirPods as an input. I do on the iPhone and iPad, but not on the Mac.
I have no problem with anthropologists and those in the liberal arts employed when there are skills they have that help a company. Bubble-1, many humanities students were hired around working with content. That wasn't a bad thing.

As I said in another post, companies also actually used to hire people outside the tech bubble to deal with things like categorization of websites, etc. That went away once they could achieve a certain percentage with cheap labor.
You keep saying "human right" and I don't think you realize this undermines the persuasiveness of whatever else you might be saying.

It may well be for the overall good to expand Medicare to everyone. But it isn't some sort of "human right" in the same way free speech is. It never will be, as that implies we have the "human right" to demand services from others. We don't--that's nonsense to anyone who actually considers it for five seconds.
much of the world free-rides off US pharma research

Hospitals do research now? The rest of the world gets free rides off US-made plaster casts for broken arms?
My personal landing page(s)/website is hosted on GitHub pages. After two attempts, and at both the occasions I just blindly followed tutorial steps hoping it will show as it should - it did but I didn’t understand a thing, I am back to vanilla HTML/CSS and zero JS (I just didn’t need it). I really like it now. If I have to edit something I just change the text needed.

I am planning to add a blog to this landing portal and debating whether I should have comments on it or not. Because if I’ll have comments I’ll have to deal with complicated libraries and add-ons.

Maybe I’ll just have static HTML files linked from YYYY/mm folders as my blog posts and maybe some simple JS for next/previous if at all (in that case I’d want to name individual post files with some discipline so that I can parse it easily later)
Yeah and over the course of 2 or 3 decades of development a lot of software has moved through several different version control,ticketing systems and developers.

So you wind up with files stating an author who no longer works there with an email address that the company used 3 acquisitions ago, a ticket number you aren't even sure what system it was for but you just know it isn't being used anymore and source control history that goes back 5 years out of a total 25 years of development.

The entropy is real.
Well, when you can't deposit your money into a bank without fear of it being seized by the federal government.

Can't take credit cards.

Can't take debit cards.

Can get loans from financial institutions to expand your business.

Have trouble finding landlords willing to lease to you because they don't want their doors breached by federal agents.
There’s also the issue of week-of-year calendars being useful for a very small niche, so it’s basically technical jargon of one speciality imposed on the rest of the world, the same way lawyers debate commas and treat and & or completely differently to sane people.

Familiarity with strftime is part of gaining experience in the field, and will usually involve using YYYY until it breaks and then finding articles like this one written over the last two decades explaining that you have tripped over a loose paver that everyone else in the industry already knows about (but at least now you understand why there are so many broken wrists).

There’s a similar problem in orbital mechanics where people try doing a calculation using Kepler’s equations, but because they’re using degrees they get the wrong result. Of course the equation is entirely in radians, which they quickly learn about but not before suggesting that the languages or APIs they are using need new features to help other people avoid falling into that trap.
The pen is mightier than the sword!

FB is not taking down web sites - they are managing public discourse on their own channels. Constitutional freedoms don't quite apply here.

When the Feds take down web sites, I think a much higher standard needs to apply.
Guess what the number one car infotainment complaint is...

I don't have a public source, but for some vehicles bluetooth problems are the number one complain OVERALL.
I would like to see statistics for these systems as far as number of patients treated vs turned away, and time waiting to be treated. No matter the system chosen, there are only so many resources to go around. It seems mainly to be a choice of who doesn't get the care they need, unfortunately.
I believe this article is about a provision in the ACA to limit administrative costs to 20%, which is highly unimpressive when you look at the way non profit insurance works in every other developed country.
Because we have 40+ years of concrete first-hand evidence that it does not.
when people repeat, ad nauseam, that "America is the richest country in the world", i reflect on stories like this one and think "really?? how many people are benefiting from all these 'riches' when this kind of thing can happen to just about anyone in America?"
I am currently using PyKnow (https://github.com/buguroo/pyknow/) as a rules engine for dialog management (to drive topic stack frame selection). It's just a prototype so far and I have barely scratched the surface of expert systems, GOFAI and logic programming in general.

It is based on CLIPS [1] which is a knowledge-oriented expert systems thing developed at NASA. It allows encoding logic as "gates" that solve for constraints with left-hand-side facts triggering right-hand-side consequences. I like to tell the business people it's like "IFTTT for X".

Can someone with experience contrast this kind of thing with real logic programming? Is it just the level of formality and provability? Are there many logics like we have in philosophy (symbolic, predicate etc.) that are used in programming?

[1] http://clipsrules.sourceforge.net/documentation/v640/ug.pdf
That kinda misses the point. Pseudo-anonymous accounts can be doxxed based on personal idiosyncrasies (like username reuse), but not at scale (yet).
iOS 12.1.2 is 1.6 GB. If you could reverse-engineer it at the rate of one byte per second (which I think is wildly optimistic) it would take you 50 years to get through the whole thing. So no, I don't think it's "wildly hyperbolic" to suggest that Apple could hide a backdoor in there somewhere if they wanted to.
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> This is a feature of several (mostly functional) programming languages, e.g. Haskell

I didn't see that.

In fact this speaks to me as mission critical software like this needs to be as tediously documented as possible to eliminate surprises. Those branches and conditions are collected through a huge pool of trial-and-errors, implying Haskell can provide those valuable use cases out-of-box is misleading, no it can't.

Model checker like TLA+ or Pluscad might do the trick.
It’s true someone always gets squeezed. German and Japanese systems have about the same or sometimes better waiting times but doctors earn not as well as in the US.
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The law doesn't require retailers to scan IDs, but many of them do, in my experience.
I generally agree in principle that if we're willing to put 'value' in a piece of yellow metal (gold) or a clear piece b of rock (diamond), then why not a smooshed piece of paper (currency)?

I'm sure many here have played the mental have of 'what if money was eradicated and use a bartering system' which leads to the basic logic of (eg.) I have a cow to sell and need some eggs that you own... How do we come to an arrangement? Bits of paper with an IOU on is one of the answers.

To me, this is what's happened here in Somalia... But it's just the next step. Rather than IOU's all over the place there's agreed upon bits of paper that represent some 'debt' that can be called in.
It's little different than the concept of a promissory note which is legal in many (?all?) countries.

So when I read this in the article:

> According to chartal theory, the requirement that people pay taxes with government-issued bits of paper is what drives the positive value of these bits.

I don't agree at all.
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Twice the time it takes you to write half a sentence.
I can see that, but at the same time I'm tired of people (intentionally or not) using Bitcoin as a representation of the entire ecosystem.
My advice - stop seeing yourself as a developer / software engineer and become a consultant.

Start with contracting - you’ll still be doing software but instead of being employed you’re now running your own company offering solutions to others.

After a year or two of that you’ll have references and can look at the bigger picture - there are a lot of companies out there suffering with either shit software, shit/pointless processes, or both.

You can solve their problems; often the solution will be a mix of better software and review of the processes (why are they doing this in the first place? Can it be automated away, or just done away with completely?).

If you haven’t already, start a LinkedIn and play the LinkedIn game - accept pretty much everyone (as long as the profile is legitimate, nearby, relevant to your industry) and engage with recruiters - that’s where all my business comes from nowadays as a contractor, used to be only recruiters but now companies are reaching out to me directly.

Good luck!
Please provide sources. Your statements go directly against common knowledge of what Schedule 1 is.
Pay wall :(
The reference has a search function, if you use the little magnifying glass at the top.

You can also use the print option to see it all on one page, if you prefer.
Every submit for this site is just a daily ad for Amazon affiliate linked books (tag=itbook.store-20)

New ads are submitted most days.

There is no "store". Even the descriptions are ripped from other retailers' pages.
There are few linux drivers for particularly buggy hardware that are written in this style. Although OTOH what I think of is hme.ko, where the comments are more on the hillariously funny side than descriptive.
Thanks for the video. (Alongside the rest of the comments here with links).

As someone who played Jazz for a Youth Ensemble at UofH while still in High School but never progressed once I left HS, I've been sort of at a loss finding some of the newer artists worth exploring. What.CD helped a lot in this respect while it was up, and I ended up buying a lot of Robert Glasper and Kamasai Washington after discovering who Flying Lotus was sampling and liking.

Got some tickets to see them Snarky in Seattle, gonna be a blast. Now I've got some a new Spotify Playlist for the next few months!
Wikipedia’s definition is no better. Even if you accept this definition, now you’re faced with the impossible task of defining what constitutes an attack on those grounds. The issue of defining hate speech is at the core of the free speech concerns, because what constitutes hate speech, by necessity, comes down entirely to the whims and personal opinions of whoever is enforcing the censorship.
I've mentioned in a another comment this isn't about Bitcoin and that the ecosystem is much larger than that with other developments.
Ditto. Fast and easy, never had an issue on iPhone or iPad from control center. Have only had weird issues from time to time on the Mac.
FP advocates strike me the odd way that they trying to argue FP can reduce the intrinsic complexity of the problem itself, but they have no proof of it, or their 'proovies' are essentially faith.
Yeah I think for someone more libertarian like you appear to be the argument is more about how bad our system is in terms of costs and outcomes and how good everyone else’s is. We should look at those other systems and see why they work well. The common factor seems to be a commitment to providing universal coverage.

My point is that an argument in economic terms historically has been ineffective for actually getting reform to happen, whereas an argument based on healthcare as a right is effective (I get why it’s not effective for someone like you)
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