skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Should be noted that this is an opinion piece, not only that - it seems to be a propoganda piece, opening with an anecdote, to push for a single payer system by using speculation about one of the most oppressive countries on the planet. He even says to take his BS speculation with a grain of salt.

There might be some good doctors in Cuba but you bet your ass that only Castro and his goons have access to them.

> These clinics, staffed by a single doctor and nurse, are often run down and poorly equipped, but they make health care readily available

I'm going to bet "run down" and "poorly equipped" is a MASSIVE understatement.

> All this is possible because Cuba overflows with doctors — it has three times as many per capita as the United States — and pays them very little. A new doctor earns $45 a month, and a very experienced one $80.

No kidding. As if to suggest that the US should take over paying doctors that would require a massive cut in pay in order for it to work. Canada has a drain problem of doctors leaving the country to go work in the US for exactly this reason.

> There are also allegations that Cuba fiddles with its numbers. The country has an unusually high rate of late fetal deaths, and skeptics contend that when a baby is born in distress and dies after a few hours, this is sometimes categorized as a stillbirth to avoid recording an infant death.

You don't say!

> Dr. Roberto Álvarez, a Cuban pediatrician, insisted to me that this does not happen and countered with explanations for why the fetal death rate is high. I’m not in a position to judge who’s right, but any manipulation seems unlikely to make a huge difference to the reported figures.

Because if he tells the truth the government will likely murder him.

> American medicine is high-tech and expensive, achieving some extraordinary results while stumbling at the basics: A lower percentage of children are vaccinated in the United States than in Cuba.

Probably because of the United States has this thing called freedom of choice, something Cuba is sorely lacking.

What an absolutely moronic piece. The NYT should be ashamed and Kristoff should be blacklisted and the editor that greenlit this garbage should be fired.
The main sections of the talk without note are:

- Bert and Natural Language processing,
- Tesla Autopilot Hardware v2+: NN at scale,
- AdaNet: AutoML with Ensembles,
- AutoAugmentation,
- Training Deep Networks with Synthetic data,
- Segmentation Annotation with Polygon-RNN++,
- DAWNBench: Training fast and cheap,
- Big GAN: state of the art in image sythesis,
- Video to Video Synthesis,
- Semantic segmentation,
- AlphaZero and openAI Five,
- Deep learning frameworks
Time is up – WeedTV
If you want to start with a single self-contained book, then a really good choice is "Modern Mathematical Physics" by Peter Szekeres:

https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/course-in-modern-mathem...

It covers most of the mathematics needed for quantum field theory (which is a big chunk of applied mathematics) starting right from set theory.
Dear lord this is cringe-worthy.
I'm not debating that. London is over x2 the size of Hamburg. Towns that are in zone 4 are around 15km from the center of London, in zone 6 it's close to 30km. I live in London and commute everyday, I'm acutely aware of the cost of travel in the city.
If you're an entrepreneur, this may certainly be true.

But if you're someone who's success depends on staying top of mind, then social media is important. Actors and politicians come to mind. Both of course have to do other things too, but a large social media following will definitely boost them, especially for someone who isn't already super famous.

Look at what social media has done for AOC. I have a friend who is a successful working actor, has produced and starred in a couple of films. Her social media definitely drives business.
Good advice here.

If you choose the project/problem based approach I recommend https://projecteuler.net

You will learn a ton solving these problems (the programming aspect is the trivial piece in most cases).
Hi Mareko!
I had applied for a software internship (by mining) sometime back and haven't heard anything since. Is there any way to know about the status of my application? Sorry to post it here, since the website doesn't state an email address to contact.
Thanks!
Because if they don't have something new, the rental will drop. And Carriers are always asking for more capacity, there are also lots of improvement for the backend which makes ( or suppose to ) things cheaper and easier to manage, most of them normal users don't get to see.
They really don't like when you mention Crane AI.. suspicious!
> not being sufficiently "loyal"

25% yearly raise is what I quote for 'loyalty'
[I didn't flag them.]

The second one looks too much like an informercial and it looks like some spam that is send from time to time. Traying to be as negative as possible: it's a listicle about training for a not very famous platform. I'm not sure that it should have been flagged, but I'm not surprised.

The first one is not so clear. Did you submit both in a short time frame? Sometimes posting something that looks like spam may make your simultaneous post look spammy. Moderation is never perfect. That the name starts with "amazing" doesn't help neither. Also, I tried to follow the link and I was confused because most of the first/second page is the UI of "Marvin" and it looks usable, but clicking doesn't work, typing doesn't work until you realize it's a screenshot, not the real page. Perhaps someone got annoyed of a page that doesn't work and flagged it. Did I already said that moderation is never perfect?

Try resubmitting Marvin tomorrow (it better to wait some time) and if it is killed write to the mods (hn@ycombinator.com). They usually give an official reply soon.
This is all true. The biggest deal breaker for any kind of serious work is being constrained to two layers, routing is so much harder that way!

Milled PCBs also have lousy surface quality which is incompatible with fine pitch parts.
Having seen layoffs in my own company, and having survived them myself, what I found in our case was that as important as they were, the impact was significantly more negative than if things had continued the way they were. To put more perspective, the company was very profitable but had bad margins. The only thing the lay-off managed was a short term increase in margins, followed by years of stalled growth because immediately after the layoffs the best people quit as soon as they found another opportunity, and being the best people, they found opportunities extremely easily. I suspect the margin improvement was less than the lost profits at the older lower margins due to the stalled growth (the company had been growing rapidly before. Arguably, that’s why it became bloated).

I am curious if there is a better way to right size a company after it has become more bloated than it needs to be than a blunt instrument like layoffs.
it’s probably more on the “new business” end of the scale, but that doesn’t matter. what matters is that we support small businesses, particularly those led by women, for a more robust and just society.

(texas’s obsession with taxes is bemusing—-it’s like saying i’m sophisticated because i shop at old navy! i kid, i kid... i don’t need any more avocado toast thrown at me)
> Steering was controlled by the on-board computer, which mistakenly thought the rocket needed a course change because of numbers coming from the inertial guidance system. That device uses gyroscopes and accelerometers to track motion. The numbers looked like flight data -- bizarre and impossible flight data -- but were actually a diagnostic error message. The guidance system had in fact shut down.

The real question is, why was the diagnostic error message interpreted as flight data?

I recommend reading the original report, which has much more meat: http://sunnyday.mit.edu/nasa-class/Ariane5-report.html
>The US actually has very generous social services when it comes to medical care for pregnant women and their babies.

Only if you're white:

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/11/magazine/black-mothers-ba...
Here the link https://github.com/made2591/go-tm
Like Einstein's Olympia Academy!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olympia_Academy
In my view, 5G primarily benefits carriers. I'm not personally excited about it, as it won't provide anything I need that 4G doesn't currently provide. I won't be going out of my way to upgrade anything with 5G in mind (but I won't be avoiding it, either).
Game's on: who writes the copy?
you probably still hit what looks like a singularity from your perspective and get spagettified
The medical tests, the social isolation, the uncontrollable sexual and rage impulses, some of which lead to criminal behavior. Those rise to the level of suffering, all of which could easily be avoided at conception through biopsy and elimination.

It isn’t “just” because this particular case is super rare and scary that I would choose to eliminate those embroyos, it’s that I would have the option to prevent it.

Would I do the same for embryos with diabetes, poor eyesight or cosmetic defects? Probably not, those are pretty manageable.
Right, but the QM view tells us that even a perfectly stationary chargeless black hole in a perfect vacuum alone in a perfectly smooth universe would still experience fluctuations in its event horizon. Unlike the Classical view, QM reveals that even in principle there exists a degree of instability in the horizon.
This is the same joke they already made when they said that sleep is their strongest competition.

It’s false of course. Netflix has actual competitors. And a real threat in the fragmentation of the video content market
This is an excellent list of strategies, really good breakdown that maybe be useful in facilitating behavioral change.

What I find surprising is the lack of mindfulness on the list, i.e. employing mindful awareness to an activity as a way to deal with it.
Skeptical of these numbers:

1. "4 (Cuban) vs 6 (American) deaths per live birth."

Are we sure they're measured the same? Are we sure that the count for deaths starts at the same time? Could easily be that Cuban mothers are more likely to lose a baby at an earlier stage of pregnancy (for example Cubans measure it from 2nd trimester on, Americans measure it from conception so Cubans fail to count early stage deaths).

2. "7500 deaths per year in US".

The author does not seem to have his figures correct. Approximately 3.8 million american babies are born per year. If 0.6% of them die that's 228,000 total deaths and a differential of about 60,000 between US rates and Cuba's. Not to nitpick here but if you can't get these objective facts right how can I take you seriously about other things you're saying?
This is really a big problem since one is forced to keep old addresses active and around. But your email provider, even if it’s a paid service, may have stupid policies to recycle addresses very soon and may not make exceptions for you.

Posteo.de recycles deleted email addresses/aliases in three months. Fastmail is also similar and recycles them within three months or so. Same goes for Mailbox.org. All these paid services are pathetic in this regard.

Runbox.com (which I don’t use) is the only paid email service that clearly states that it never ever recycles email addresses, just like Gmail and Yahoo Mail don’t do either.

I’d like to know about privacy focused paid email services that have a clear policy of not recycling addresses.
Lol try having kids and see for yourself how "generous" it is. We've been "fully-covered" for pregnancy and delivery for both kids and still had to go on payment plans to cover the costs.
The great thing is that their dnas were shockingly similar. It means the sequncing is valid. Now the ancestry composition thing is known to be a nonstandard procedure , just look at their research publications.
I think it depends on what the business is that you're trying to grow.

I am building my personal brand (23k followers on IG, almost 10k on YouTube) and I've found it can bring business, if you sell the kind of thing the followers you attract are interested in.

Right now I'm selling the books I wrote, and soon I'll add stickers, patches, T-Shirts and posters. Then I'll see what comes next.

Will I earn $100k/year? Absolutely not.

Will it grow into a nice side income that allows me to work full time less? I certainly think it will.
But are people actually cutting their Netflix subscriptions because they play so much fortnite? I get that the game has a widely varied demographic, but I would assume that a majority of people putting in large amounts of "Consumer Screen Time" are probably still dependents of their parents, who likely maintain a household media streaming subscription of some kind.

I can't imagine that instances of people cutting out media streaming entirely in favor of gaming are significant enough to pose the kind of threat that Netflix is stating. If so, HBO and Hulu and all the others are in similar peril and the entire entertainment economy is due for unprecedented upheaval.
Pretty irrational and wasteful to just throw away a 100k verified account by deleting it.
> It's also to enable autonomous vehicles to constantly stream data and video feeds back to humans who can take over in real time if the car doesn't know what to do

If this is required for autonomous vehicles, then I'll pass.
Porche's AR-Fueled 40% Productivity Boost
Vegan Yogurt Alternative market
I noticed if you run a business, building a personal brand can be powerful (i.e I make awesome cakes and then people see them and come and buy them), however outside of that and being a public commentator, it's a bit pointless.
They'd still be trusted in the sense that they decide if a bug was fixed or not, but at least transparency would be achieved. You could independently check exactly where your money went.
Wow you are correct, this looks like the same product as Crane AI. Seems to me they don't want to be associated with the product anymore due to the bad rep they have in the community https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Employee-Review-Crane-AI-R...

highly questionable ethics, wouldn't be surprised that it's portrayed in their business model as well
Yeah I have no problem with people hustling and working hard to build something, and as with any other part of life, some will make it and some won't..

I'm just always left wondering, all this effort that so many young people pour into building their social media influence.. What does society get out of that in the end?

It feels like "not much" on a good day (and a lot of social debt on a bad day)..

And maybe this is just me becoming an old man (I'm in my early 40s), but it seems like a waste of a generation's energy and inspiration..
"They don't have the massive overhead of the stores weighing them down."

Amazon bought Whole Foods a few years back.
What do you expect from a post called "Fuck Social Media" talking about someone who deleted his instagram account? Attention-whoreism.
That is also part of the loosely defined term, “mathematical maturity.” When you’ve reached it, you can generally grasp the basics of unfamiliar math quickly. Failing that, you can find out what you need to study to understand it and do so on your own.

You don’t typically obtain that kind of maturity until graduate school, maybe upper undergrad if you’re quite good.
So ancestry companies are a sham?
Ryan? Is this you?
Sure. First world commies like yourself who have no idea how sad and bad it is to live without access to goods or pay 3 times more for a similar item, while earning about 5-20 times less than what they could get in a developed country.

Source: senior software engineer with ten years experience living in a socialist third world country receiving the same (actually, way less) a Subway sandwich artist would make in the USA in his first week and trying desperately to get out of here.
I don’t understand the strawman he is fighting, here. Who believes that having a lot of instagram followers creates business? Surely causation works in the other direction. Can anyone help me understand who claims otherwise?
It's sad that an organization like the NYT would engage in unbecoming behavior to protect one of their own's bad behavior (going against an agreement not to basically doxx someone) and going so far as character assassination because what Naomi Wu claimed went against the NYT's narrative.
Could you clarify your statement? Are you of the opinion that the money is already invested on the side that climate change can not be stopped? Or the opposite?
Begs the question, if they don't, shouldn't they still get familiar with CS? Honestly, how hard is it to read Grokking Algorithms?

Look, I think the dev hazing ritual that is current hiring processes sucks, but Algos and Data Structs are the language that we speak. We have to be familiar with them.
While I appreciate the overall point of the article, I think the author misplaces the power of the designer. Sure, we create the tangible User Interface, however, it is typically a tactical role. Ime, the anti-patterns and other dark design features come from Product Management or above. This doesn't excuse designers from ethical considerations, and indeed I believe they should pay more attention in this regard, however, the message and pressure should be aimed at management.
Marketing departments
In circular motion, acceleration is always perpendicular to the velocity. While the velocity changes, the magnitude of the velocity (aka speed) stays constant.
It’s a very nice collection of people angry at their employers.

As a general heuristic, I would take the overall severity and veracity if each of these stories, reduce by 50%, and that would probably be closer to the truth.
Business owner (capital) positive, not business positive.
The point is that there is little to no evidence that screen time is bad (or good), just a lot of speculation. The argument against screen time is essentially the same as the one used against GMO foods: "it's new, so it's probably bad." Obviously that's not a strong argument but people in these comments seem to be accepting it without reflection.
Anyone here recommend a good security key? Is YubiKey still the best option?

I noticed that they don't have any usb-c + NFC options.
Except I have 4-8ms ping on my internet, with rare peaks at 20ms.

I have between 40ms and 200ms on 4g. Average around 80, with often peaks above 300ms.
It sounds like these companies are running very inefficient machine learning algorithms.
You don't need twins for this test. A single person can just sign up twice for these services and get different results, even if they make a single sample and split it between the two vials.

I thought it was pretty well known that these services are estimates only to a large degree? These services only take samples, they don't sequence the entire genome. Of course there will be errors when you have to extrapolate from a sample.

Even for me personally, my results changed when my parents did it and linked up to me, because their results were able to flow into mine.
What you give up (your dna) and what you get back (ancestry data of a dubious validity) doesn’t seem worth it to me.
Here we go again. This bickering is never ending. Personally I have stopped caring.
Hospital stays for pregnancy complications is incredibly common in the US (and you have to pay for it!) Acting like this is coersion is disingenuous, especially when pregnant women in the US are forced to go home without monitoring when they can't afford an extended hospital stay.

Edit: I should also add that these complications are things that can cause both maternal and fetal death. No one wants to be further than arms-length from medical care when the risk is that high (note the use of "may" in the quote from the parent comment, as if this is a theoretical discussion because they couldn't actually find anyone who was begging to leave).
I use quire.io with four parent nodes titled:

- urgent important

- critical tasks that have high yield on goal productivity

- usually work stuff and active projects

- important not urgent

- tasks that need to get done but are not time urgent

- inactive projects, and other future tasks or projects

- a backlog of soon to be "urgent important" items

- urgent not important

- peasant tasks

- daily tasks to survive (food, bills, etc.)

- personal life stuff

- not urgent not important

- tasks and projects that do not carry a high yield on goal productivity

- home DIY projects, etc.

The urgent important section is where you should be spending most of your day time, but to live a stable life, one has to be able to balance out some time to the other tasks...or delegate those lower nodes to somebody else!
I've tried them all.

- I don't want to return to C++

- I dislike javascript for large projects because even the best tooling is lacking, and the exploding dependency count.

- I love C#, but WPF renders worse than Electron (and Windows only).

- WinForms - mothballed.

- VB6/Delphi are EOL.

- UWP - Very lacking, will probably be abandoned.

- Java - I have no experience.

It will be a case of Flutter sucking less than the current options. Dart is actually a nice language, especially considering the runtime size - there's no framework overhead/bloat.

I imagine it to be Electron, but with a decent set of widgets and without the overhead.

Edit - to answer the main question:

Personally, I wouldn't develop anything more than a throw-away or personal project right now, but it's worth keeping an eye on it.

It would be nice to have a cross-device framework.
This is a non-issue in this case. As I stated, liability in the case of harm to pets is extremely limited by law.

Pets are treated as simple property by US law and the liability is strictly limited to the cost of replacement. There has never been a civil judgement in the US beyond that. There are CRIMINAL issues involving treatment of animals, but none of those are applicable here.

This is pure incompetence by WAG's legal and customer-service departments.
There are a lot of people who believe that building a huge Instagram following is a core component to building businesses, especially in the fashion/fitness/lifestyle arenas. So much so that there are people out there calling themselves "entrepreneurs" who haven't actually done anything other than build a modest following and maybe hock someone else's brand to their followers in exchange for (maybe) a couple bucks.

I think part of this belief comes because a few people like @christianguzmanfitness have managed to build a following of over 1 million people which has enabled them to sell a lot of their clothing and travel and buy expensive cars and such. But that's very much the exception and not the rule.

I do think Ig can be a great tool to grow a brand on a shoestring budget, but I also agree with this article which challenges the all-to-popular notion that if you get a lot of followers on Ig you'll be rich and important.
Is paying money all it takes to speak at a conference? And does it really bring in 10x-100x ROI? I’m skeptical about that part and details were nebulous.
Many of the courses listed there have no course materials available or only very incomplete materials.
Amazon is subsidized by AWS. I'm sure the vendor relationships and existing supply chain have value too.
In the bio:

>> Ben has founded or taken a leading role in 5 businesses in everything from software development to food and entertainment.

You can't be good at anything if you change industry every few years. It takes at least a decade to be truly good at something.
If you're selling a service that you're not actually good at, you're just a snake oil salesman. Your success doesn't depend on how talented you are, but on how good you are at fooling people.