skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> ...they've lost execs left and right, they've had just one profitable quarter...

Im really not a Musk fanboy and I really don’t want to come across as anti-market as I recognize the market’s incredible ability to drive some innovation, but I’d like to point out how markets which are intrinsically linked to quarterly growth can often lead to a race to the bottom and can often lead to a serious reluctance to pursue big experiments—the kind of experiments which can take humanity to the next level.

I certainly don’t know the answer but we need a way to incentivize large risks which, when successful, have a high likelihood to reward humanity.

As the above post illustrates, a system which measures success as quarterly growth is disincentivising big projects and may be making us risk averse on big research, the kind of research and risks we very badly need right now.
It's possible to infer what people would watch from what they currently watch. That's exactly what every recommender system ever does. Netflix says "hey, this thing would be highly rated by some users if it existed, but it doesn't". Then they go and make it.

I'm not sure what argument you're trying to make this into, or what you're talking about when you say data. But it seems like you're on such a completely different wavelength from either me or anyone else in this conversation that your arguments just don't make sense. You're having a totally different discussion where the words you use mean different things. I think it's because you're trying to defend the human creativity of the artists and creators who make the media, but that's wholly irrelevant to the discussion.

The creatives can all be creative, data is used to choose which creatives to promote or use. On youtube, this is "the algorithm" that promotes different people. For netflix, the data is used to choose which projects to fund. The funded ones are created, the unfunded ones aren't. Or maybe its "we need a screenplay that includes these 3 themes". Either way, data is guiding the creativity.

But all of that is irrelevant. No one ever claimed anything about “using data to create art.” The claim, you objected to was that companies like Google and Facebook have an advantage over Disney because they can use data to create content people will like. There's nothing necessarily creative about that, but its still an advantage over a traditional company like Disney.

Your objection was that

>it currently has almost no value for creating new shows.

Which is demonstrably wrong. Netflix does use data to pick themes, topics, and demographics to target with new material. I don't work there, so I don't know exactly how it works, but it doesn't particularly matter. Data does have value when choosing what new shows to create. This could be entirely independent of art or creativity.

As an aside,

>Some guy in Australia who ignores data

I'm not clear why you think he ignores data. The Primitive Technology guy is a computer scientist by trade, his channel appears to do many things that are what conventional good channels do (varying Youtube SEO things), and his content is a strong fit for the current youtube algorithm. He's likely "data driven" in the same way that many top 250-1000 youtube channels are: he does some things to increase subscribers, has a patreon, etc.
Seconded. Showing "F" as a placeholder for pending data entry is a very, very bad idea. Equivalent to a hypothetical email software that autofills "Fuck you" if you don't type anything.
The study seems of have been on data specific to USA of that particular period & it self states that it doesn't relate to the world wide data.

By early 20th century, scientists were in consensus on the effect of coal pollution on climate & have even written warnings for the future[1] as early as 1912.

[1]:https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/1912-article-global-warmin...
We solved it by having a doctor on our team. In fact, not sure how you could solve any healthcare issues without it.
It's more accurate to say they were variable fonts. The Computer Modern used by modern LaTeX distributions was converted from METAFONT to Type 1 in 1992. In the process, specific parameter values had to be chosen - in my opinion, chosen badly, so as to make modern Computer Modern very difficult to read on screen at small sizes because it's too darn light. :(

Reasonable replacements included in most LaTeX distributions include the XCharter or libertine packages for text fonts; eulervm or newtxmath for math fonts; or mathpazo for both.
Are you asking for a source for only that statement or for my post in general? Source is myself. I have a masters in Cyber Security and have worked in the field for 15 years. I've written numerous exploits and have actively evaded antivirus in the past. I can tell you from experience that ASLR is 10 times the pain in the ass that AV is, and NX bits/DEP are maybe 100 times more. Not trying to have a dick measuring contest, just justifying why I don't mind citing myself :-D

Regarding:

> Polymorphic viruses have been in commonplace since decades

I disagree. I wouldn't describe them as "commonplace" until maybe the last decade or so. Regardless, this is probably the weakest of the arguments that I made.

> AV software isn't restricted to comparing file hashes with known threats, there's so much more that can be done for security.

With this I agree, tho I would contend that even the most advanced heuristics and things like hook interceptions such as those Comodo experimented with in the late 2000s are still not what has made us so much more secure. At best AV is a small layer of a Defense in Depth strategy. At worst it's a bloated unnecessary layer that eats cycles and robs system resources that could be devoted to useful activities.

That said, if I had any Windows machines in my home (been on Linux exclusively for a bit over 10 years now), I would likely run Defender on them. I'm not suggesting that AV is worthless, just that it isn't the reason things are much more secure these days.
Another nice example is the fat Cantor set [1] which (like the Cantor set) is nowhere dense but (unlike the Cantor set) has positive measure!

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smith%E2%80%93Volterra%E2%80%9...
I read a really interesting thread recently, can't find it but the gist of it was Index Funds appreciating isn't guaranteed (as they're pitched) and localizing at a country level is a mistake for the future w/giant "emerging" economies in China / India.

The counter "example"used was the Nikkei index which peaked in ~1990 and still hasn't recovered:

https://www.macrotrends.net/2593/nikkei-225-index-historical...

The argument was to leverage index funds as a component of portfolio along with real estate, etc.

Would be curious the HN view.
Depending on where you draw the line (heh), Lagrange's vibrating string work predates the heat equation work by a few years.
American healthcare is so bad that despite being considerably far less wealthy, Mexico and Cuba have a similar life expectancy.

A big part of that is getting the basics right. Diabetics don't need to start gofundmes to afford insulin, they don't get into medical emergencies if they run low on funds, then get swamped with medical debt from having to be hospitalized (further digging their insulin fund hole). they can live healthy and productive lives.
The 70/30 split on stocks to bonds is a little suspect. Traditionally what you want to do is start your career with high (probably 100%) stock allocation and slowly move towards more more bond allocation with time. There’s no right single number there so maybe that’s where 70/30 came from, but yeah, don’t do that for your entire career.
>> Learning to code is not the deepest skill around.

Neither is learning to fly a plane. What's prized is the ability to do it in such a way as to not crash. The same applies to software engineering.
Fintech Takes the High Road, Only to Trip Up
My Year in “Social Exile”
> "Separately, the democratization of media doesn't mean we've improved the net quality. For every Groklaw PJ, there's 1,000 poorly-informed rants."

Maybe part of the reason you're struggling with this concept is because your focus is too narrow. Look beyond political/legal commentary, where small creators are competing directly against international media corporations that provide content in the same category.

Look beyond that, because most of what's out there doesn't fall into that category. There is a LONG tail of independent content being produced that has no competition at all from corporate media. Name any narrow interest or hobby and you can almost certainly find independent creators online that are collectively producing far more content in that topic every week than the corporate media has produced in the past century. Take for instance woodworking. To be sure, there have been TV shows about woodworking, The New Yankee Workshop (Norm Abram) and The Woodwright's Shop (Roy Underhill), both on PBS (which is probably notable, can we expect Disney to produce and commercialize a woodworking TV show?), are very notable excellent examples. But there is so much more content on youtube, the woodworking content on youtube is more diverse, and those independent online creators typically have a closer relationship with their viewers.

Woodworking is a generous example because it's actually a case where traditional media can marginally compete. But change the topic slightly and traditional media leaves you completely out in the cold. What if instead of cutting and joining wood, you're interested in metal? Where is the PBS show for hobby metal working? Would Disney ever give Adam Booth his own machining show? I don't think so.

This is a small list: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Arts_and_crafts_telev...
I work on a telemedicine product using Google Glass Enterprise and the current version of our product was shaped greatly from feedback provided by one early user (physician). It really focused our use cases and made the product much better. That being said, optimizing the current medical process will only get you so far. It will probably not result in large disruptive positive changes. Those will have to come from outside the current process.
One of my favorite episodes of my favorite podcast (Reply All by Gimlet) is about Minitel: https://www.gimletmedia.com/reply-all/french-connection

Well worth a listen.
Part of the correlation would be caused by unhealthy smart people and healthy not-so-smart people being able to attract one another.

Another would be noncellular things like quality of sleep.
Why is that a productive debate? Even if CO2 is not the source, we should still eliminate our reliance on the combustion of fossil fuels because those fuel sources still undeniably pollute our environment in other serious ways. The mining and burning of coal is bad for our environment even if CO2 was a non-issue.
I’m not so sure about that. The Wikipedia article on induced demand has no shortage of cited studies.
I was looking at whatever pulled up.

Most of those are on the other side of the pre-internet chasm though, so not much accurate info.

Thanks for correcting!
What other stuff around Scott Adams, and what's the relevance to this?
Right, but it’s probably done by auditing resources to treatment records. The actual patient needn’t be involved. And in countries like Canada you may end up with multiple operating agencies that are competing for efficiency, such as Coastal Health vs Providence, even though ultimately it’s the government footing the bill.
The nice thing about the Mediterranean diet is that it's fairly easy to stick to and still have many delicious meals, compared to many others. It's no good having some perfect diet that nobody is actually going to follow.
Had a really long conversation with some remarkably smart folks about this.

Here are the pros:

1. It's a tool folks use; and being able to use it in AWS/Azure/GCP/etc would be useful

2. When folks use a tool they know, and need more capacity/locations, it'd be nice to be able to 'cloudburst' into AWS/Azure/GCP/etc

Here are the Cons:

1. Smarty pants folks can come up with many theoretical and plausible solutions for anything FreeNAS can do in AWS using proprietary lockin solutions from AWS. If you just reformulate your requirements, there's another solution you can use instead of FreeNAS

2. ZFS is good at helping with diverse physical volumes and this paradigm is moot with AWS EBS volumes (as they are not physical volumes). However, this argument reduces to "don't do parity/erasure coding across EBS volumes."

So, reply here if you want it and I'll work w/ some folks to make it happen.

In my case, there are a lot of places where we use disparately multitiered storage on freenas/zfs/filesystem($foo) and sometimes it makes sense to temporarily "cloudburst" into AWS while waiting hardware to support the load.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Northwoods

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulf_of_Tonkin_incident

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Washtub_(Nicaragua...

Why people continue to put such blind faith in government is beyond me.
The submitted link. "Oct 16, 2017"
So, it's like creating a token for each topic. How many topics do you expect to have.
"Dead" means that the account has been banned. "Flagged" means that the comment has been downvoted.

Dead comments are dead regardless of content. I believe they may be vouched, though that takes some doing.

Otherwise, what dang said.

(I frequently look at dead/flagged comments and have sussed out a fair bit of HN's operative rules. Try to heed by the guidelines and moderator advice. You'll find youself more able to contribute productively to the discussion.)
That's true. But I think the system could be simpler if there were fewer, and possibly just one, entities. I work in a factory, so we live by SAP. And it's complex, typical "enterprise" software, but I don't think it's even within an order of magnitude as complex as Epic.

We want an audit trail, but most of the transactions are made within a single business entity, e.g., from the stockroom to an assembly area. We've had process improvement projects that reduced the number of SAP transactions required to make something.

So maybe the key isn't so much having a government run system, but simply reducing the number of entities. For instance a hospital doesn't have to make a claim to Medicare, if the hospital is Medicare. Also, the game of figuring out how much to bill the patient goes away.

We don't even know how many entities there are in the medical system, or how much money is going to each one. Were I inclined towards cynicism, I'd suspect that this is by design.
I beg to differ as if we were to judge purely based on this logic China and India would have probably also been at the top of the curve, which is not really true. Both of these countries greatly value family and it's quite typical for people to stay with their parents well into 30's and beyond.
He’s got several self-published books:

http://www.people.fas.harvard.edu/~djmorin/book.html
If we had a national healthcare system the documentation would consist of proof of citizenship or permanent residency (or guardian's proof of same in the case of minors). That allows spot-checks to validate that fake or deceased people aren't being "treated" to generate fake charges.

Right now even Medicare/Medicaid need lots of process to verify you are eligible and/or enrolled. That wouldn't be a problem if everyone were covered automatically.
Mexico has rampant obesity and type II diabetes. Mexicans simply do not pursue as much treatment as Americans do. It washes out in the lifespan statistics, which call into question the whole point of the healthcare enterprise.

Healthcare is massively overrated.
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It is unclear from the article if lifespans presented in the calculations include those impacted by homicides/accidents or only natural causes.
1. Reopening a file pretty much always marks a point where it's safe for the contents to change.

2. I don't think I've ever had a problem caused by continued use between update and reboot.
"Ibuprofen and hypogonadism — bench to bedside to misinterpreted hype?" at https://www.nature.com/articles/nrurol.2018.26 :

> A recent study suggests modulation of luteinizing hormone signalling within the hypothalamic–pituitary–gonadal axis and downstream transcriptional effects caused by sustained ibuprofen use. However, this study cannot be used to draw any clinical conclusions regarding effects of ibuprofen on male androgenic or reproductive health. Thus, the andrological effects of its use remain unclear and would benefit from further investigation.
Aim to produce a first draft on the first day. Quick and dirty, incomplete, maybe just a wireframe with stubs. In any language or framework. Just whatever has better documentation or examples. Then make it better every day.
Tangential, but Tao is such a great teacher of mathematics and person. A rare combination of skill and modesty. Highly recommend his analysis and measure theory textbooks.
Fraud wouldn't be limited to high life-expectancy countries though. It would be anywhere with some kind of elderly pensions, which most developed countries have some form of, unless there are specific countries where fraud is more common place.
Oil is not a health food. More plants would make that statement accurate.
We had a fully integrated HL7 iphone app which could interact with OpenVista, and other systems like Vocera and Philips and Siemens systems.

So you were attempting to provide charting capabilities on the first generation iPhone? Honestly even now with larger screens, etc I can't imagine that working well on anything smaller than a tablet, and HL7 would only be a selling point to potential partners or investors - 90+% of potential end users wouldn't have a clue about it. You might as well say "our app supports JSON and EDI!"

In 2007 that would have been a dancing bear - amazing to see, but not because of how well it dances.
My view is that this may be true in isolated circumstances, but you need to be very careful of the origin of this advice. In the last decade, as money has poured out of actively-managed funds and into indexes, people who make their living from management fees have gotten really worried and have sponsored a lot of submarine stories spreading misinformation or outright falsehoods about index funds. (The Wall Street Journal has been a frequent source of this stuff). Most times when I see an article skeptical of index funds it either quotes, or in some cases was literally written by, somebody managing an active fund which has seen big outflow recently- thus hitting them in the wallet. It makes it hard to take seriously that they're offering unbiased advice.
He's nuts.
Many people save nothing so saving something at 70/30 is a great first step.

If you even understand the difference between stocks, bonds, EFTs, index funds, mutual funds, etc then you're already ahead of the curve and this advice is too simplistic for you.
Ask HN: Change career to deep learning
Background: Graphics driver api engineer ~3 yoe - so have a good knowledge of graphics rendering pipeline, w master's in computer engineering.

Thinking of switching to deep learning - currently doing courses on deep learning and writing some code in personal time.
Should i switch or not? Thinking of joining a deep learning hw company. Thoughts? The pay seems to be really well for deep learning skillset.
>what is stopping me from just cutting out Google and paying the content creator directly?

Nothing per-se, but if you talk to content creators they'll tell you that they prefer Patreon or youtube monetization or similar systems for at least one simple reason: their per-month income is more predictable, which provides them with a sense of financial stability. For many creators this isn't a full-time job, but rather a time intensive hobby that brings in enough money to pay for itself with maybe a little extra. But feeling confident that their expenses will be covered next month provides them with a necessary sense of security to keep doing what they do. If they were to rely on people mailing them cheques every month, many people would simply forget and creators could never be confident of approximately how much money they'll have next month. Patreon and youtube monetization don't provide any guarantees about future income, but in practice creators find that it typically doesn't change that much month from month.

This doesn't mean that youtube monetization or patreon have a permanent monopoly on the payment system for independent creators. Far from it actually, the fact that Patreon broke into the scene previously dominated by youtube monetization demonstrates that if your system provides relative stability to creators, they will be willing to adopt it.

We are still in the infancy of this social transformation, but already we see a clear picture starting to emerge of what creators and their viewers require to make it work.
Since this font contains the feature, let me mention one of my pet peeves in the hopes of raising awarenes: whatever you do, do NOT blanket enable the Discretionary Ligatures (dlig) feature across all of your header/body text. Use it sparingly, pinpointed to where you know in advance there are specific glyphs in the text that need to look different.
Enabling it all across your text with no regard on what text there will be will result in all kinds of unintended ligatures making the text appear bizarre, ugly and unprofessional, especially if there is any chance your text will be localized into non-latin languages.
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What do the zero kids have to do with it? I don’t follow. No kids to revert to the mean and drag aggregate IQ down? How much immigration is there to Singapore of this type? I can’t imagine it’s some large proportion of the population...
That capital U is kind of horrible though. No compensation at large size for what the human eye perceives as a line-curve discontinuity on the inside of the glyph?
What logic? I didn't say it's related to life expectancy, just that it'd a curious random fact about those two countries at the top. It might be related, or not, but I cannot say either way.

In fact, it would surprise me greatly if there was a single culture trait linked to life expectancy, instead I'd expect it to be a combination of vastly different things that make us get to the top.
I interpreted what he was saying differently. To me, he was saying that consumers like renting scooters, but they do not like renting scooters if they have to dock or undock the scooters similar to a citi bike versus a grab and drop approach.
Sounds like the industry responding with "we cant really know guys, right?"
I'm throwing away my Advil right now. Screw that.
His pay package does not come into effect until Tesla network triples in a few years. Supposedly he doesn't claim the salary checks / have a salary at Tesla and his regular stuff seems to be mostly margin out to pay for stuff assume his income comes from SpaceX .
Writing code is like writing a book. You're not going to nail it on the first draft. It's okay to use a library that's probably not right for what you're doing but you can make something work, and then come back later and reimplement it with a more appropriate library. In fact, the problems you run into during the sub-optimal first draft will tell you what tools are really the best for your project.

It can also help to have someone else to keep you on track. Find a friend, a family member, a mentor, etc who is willing to take a few minutes every week to play around with what you create and give you some feedback. Having someone who you can show off to when you work hard, and who will be disappointed if you don't, is a pretty good motivator.
He's become a bit of a conservative-leaning pundit lately. I actually find his take on Trump to be quite useful. But I can see how that would turn a lot of people off to even his non-political thoughts.