skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The conversation goes more like this:

DOCTOR: You have [medical condition]. We can manage it with [medication which is on the appropriate tiered formulary for the patient’s pharmacy benefits manager].

PATIENT: I would prefer to take this medication they advertised to me during the last football game.

DOCTOR: This medication is only a slight incremental improvement over the generic one approved by your insurance. If you want the newer one, it may have higher copays and will have more paperwork hassle as we try to get the insurance to cover it. In the end, it may not be covered. Do you still want it?

PATIENT: Yes. [Leaves angry Yelp review over how the physician wouldn’t prescribe them X medication].

END SCENE

As for the final point, if there are no clinical studies (at all) for a given drug, then it is not FDA approved and would be illegal to prescribe unless under the auspices of a registered clinical trial with a filed IND with the FDA.

If it is FDA approved but not for that specific indication, then it depends on the clinical practice patterns at large whether this is a reasonable course of action vs malpractice. Case in point: Avastin is way cheaper than Lucentis for macular degeneration and works via similar mechanism, but was never tested or approved for that indication. Many Retinologists will inject Avastin anyway because some trials have shown benefit for cost conscious patients or patients from whom insurance will not cover Lucentis. This is not malpractice.

Using another drug from another class entirely without any clinical evidence to back up its use outside of a trial could be considered malpractice, but only provable if there is a bad outcome.

Without a prescription, they aren’t getting the drug legally. With a prescription without insurance/PBM approval, then yes, it could be very expensive for unconventional treatments.
I think It is a future of every society that 'standardizes' on 40 hour, or more work week, and restricts legal immigration of competitively-skilled workforce.

Perhaps, naïve, but the only way for Japan to solve these kinds of problems is these 2 steps

a) work week as well as university workload must not be more than 25-30 hours standard per week.

b) allow immigration for young, technology/STEM - educated workforce ( young, to mean, within biologically reproductive age).
Your advice to her would be filed under "how to succeed in the white cis het male dominated world".

Those aren't the droids she's looking for, so to speak.
Neat, but hard to access, considering the screen shots. Has anyone copied/pasted that in repl.it and tried it out ?
legally every Amazon warehouse should be seized by the Feds for knowingly helping to ship counterfeit goods across state lines. That's what happens to other retailers who do this[1].

Luckily, Bezos owns the Washington Post, has a 600 million dollar contract with the CIA, and is close to signing a 10 billion dollar contract with the Department of Defense. The new HQ in DC probably helps grease those hands as well

1. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/16/nyregion/fake-luxury-good...
I think you mean the Web.
No, it isn't. It's completely intentional marketing. That diction was specifically used to get people to think the library is better than other libraries.
Yes that's right. US courts have ruled that if you buy something, you have the right to resell it regardless of silly agreements like this one. You do have to be careful how you represent trademarks.
If a system is cannibalizing itself it is by definition not in balance. Iterate the process and then it ends.
Yes, if we know nothing about food except for its price, it's reasonable to chose based on price. But do you really think that's true? There's no credible basis for selecting one food over another based on its nutrition?

I wonder if this is the point of much of the smoke blown into nutrition research by Big Food. People get so confused they think wtf, if the big brains can't figure it out, how am I supposed to. I'll just buy that, it's cheap and tasty.
"Do you want to use a machine, or do you want the machine to use you?"

I've found that this question aptly describes the problem you had. This really isn't an isolated issue either, it's everywhere. Modern design is not user-oriented; it's developer-oriented.
My 97 year old grandpa has a MacBook Pro and a few years back he was constantly on the phone with my mom trying to fix issues. We installed a Remote Desktop server so my mom could fix things quickly. After a visit we diagnosed the problem. Because of his poor motorskills, he was clicking and clicking-and-dragging things by accident. To mitigate this, we installed some software that locked the applications in the dock and got him a mouse with a ball you move with your thumb. The problems disappeared overnight.
The distinctions are fictional. The standards for evidence falsifying are placed arbitrarily high post acquisition of evidence in order to ensure no evidence falsifies. It is a useless way to spend time.
Once you factor in internet, the current cost is not too different.
I can relate to this. I tried, unsuccessfully, to teach my parents to use a password manager (e.g., KeepassXC).
I used to use check lists for this sort of critical tasks obvisly much smaller systems back then a 16 machine cluster was a big deal
Seems like the Mid and Tele are using Risley prism beam steering, which would explain the hypotrochoid scanning pattern. [0]

They try to spin the scanning pattern as being an advantage as you get a more dense sampling if you point at it in a certain direction, but I'm not convinced. It is only an advantage if your device sits on a tripod. On a moving car, more predictable, structured patterns such as the Ouster OS-1 [1] make it much easier not only for deep learning, but also for SLAM (e.g. the LOAM algorithm [2] extracts feature points row by row, i.e. by ring). For a moving car or drone, any scanning pattern will sweep into a dense 3D point cloud anyway.

The pricing seems to be competitive if you only need a small field of view.

For 360 degrees, it takes four Mid-100s, which would cost $6000, or twleve Mid-40s, which would cost $7200, to obtain the same field of view coverage and the same number of points (1.2 M points per second) as a single Ouster OS-1, which is available to university researchers for $8000. However, buying a single Ouster OS-1 saves you the headache of extrinsic calibration between many lidar units, and the Ouster OS-1 only draws 14 W whereas four Mid-100s would draw a whopping 480 W. Four Mid-100s also weigh twenty times as much as one Ouster OS-1. For high density drone mapping, the Ouster OS-1 seems like a much better choice.

That said, the Livox does have a range advantage over the Ouster OS-1.

[0] (PDF) https://www.thorlabs.com/images/tabimages/Risley_Prism_Scann...

[1] https://medium.com/ouster/the-camera-is-in-the-lidar-6fcf77e...

[2] Zhang, J., & Singh, S. (2014, July). LOAM: Lidar Odometry and Mapping in Real-time. In Robotics: Science and Systems (Vol. 2, p. 9).
I used to install Linux on any computer I could find 10 years ago. Friends, family, fellow students, college labs (yes!) and had almost the Linux snob but I learned the same thing. Some fairly non-technical people I introduce to Linux are still using Ubuntu to this day and they actually feel totally lost when they have to use a Windows computer. They feel like pulling their hair when they have to use a Windows computer for some reason.

I've since calmed down and don't "preach" it anymore because of the "support calls" as I don't have a ton of free time and energy I had 10 years ago but I can totally relate to OP. Once I set a laptop up with Ubuntu and install apps that people need, they go without asking for help for _years_. Only issues people used to call me for were when they had to access documents that Ubuntu wasn't able to deal with properly like MS Office docs or old CDs with auto-play apps. Better broadband speeds almost completely fixed that problem on it's own.
And in fact, you still get that noise and activity light on Windows 10 and a spinning-rust HD! On a system that wouldn't even manage to use the RAM completely while running on a sensible Linux install, let alone filling RAM up or swapping to disk.

I mean, swapping used to be a fact of life in the late 1990s and early 2000s, even on Linux - RAM was just too cramped back then. But then we got machines with lots and lots of RAM even at the low end, and Linux became snappy and quiet-- while Windows is still as bad as ever.
Or it updates after a few key presses, right before I hit enter and focuses on another result!
I was recently backpacking in Colombia. In Colombia, no one shops online: the mountainous terrain makes shipping extremely expensive. It was an extremely refreshing experience. There are malls of course but also many small stores for things like school supplies and niche clothing brands (I bought a sweater from a store that sold basically nothing but sweaters: they also had a fully stocked bar with a pillow lounge, loft, and a TV in the back.) The public transportation is well utilized and people walk in the streets. Small grocery/convenience stores are only a stone's throw from anywhere in the city. This is what we have lost to online shopping.
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> how strange is it when you learn something new of which you haven't known about your whole life only to several days later see it appear on hn.. is there a name for this sort of thing?

https://science.howstuffworks.com/life/inside-the-mind/human...
I'm not sure about task but I use Just [1] - it's similar program. It's nice way to collect commands you often run in given project.

Make is build system, with strong focus on building C program. It has clunky syntax and many quirks. Just is just taks runner ;)

[1]: https://github.com/casey/just
I use XFCE4 to imitate Win95/98.
Not all meats are created equal and most studies about diet do not control for that. There's a difference between McDonald's beef patty's and grass fed beef.
I want to try Mastadon, but after giving up all social media (besides some private slack/irc/discord servers, hn, and reddit) I don't know if I want to go back to it again.

But Mastadon does intrigue me.
With more complex projects, anything that isn't a declarative becomes painful to manage. In complex web-apps, the benefits of using a VDOM over imperative libraries like this far outweigh the extra O(N) memory consumption.
Not gutenough for Germany ironically
Believe me, I wrote the library ;)
Similarly for climbers: https://opp.uoregon.edu/climbing/topics/signals.html
I wonder if we'll see a resurgence of "real work" ui for desktops and laptops now that most of the "everyone else"/"the mainstream" has shifted to mobile.
You should get him an iPad or consider it. My grandpa who’s 94 won’t use anything else.
That said he’s probably used to the setup now.
Washington fears new threat from 'deepfake' videos
Universes may very well self replicate.

It's has been theorized that our universe's Big Bang singularity is not unlike the singularity of a black hole. And they may be two sides of the same coin.

If a black hole creates a child universe and inherits physics from the parent that gives you self replication and possibly natural selection.

In the set of universes any universe that can replicate and pass on it's physics "genes" would be found to have more survivors in existence of it's type.

Lastly, if the physics required for black holes (and associated replication) are the same as those required for life then universes are naturally selected for life.
$1.2T in risky corporate debt is flashing warning signs
It is a distribution that actually cares about the out of the box desktop experience, with the right set of drivers available by default regardless of FOSS religion.
But you could move them around as you pleased. I had Graphics, Audio, Video, Games, etc.
Obligatory, this uses Idris state machines to build a mobile app using OnSen UI:

https://medium.com/the-web-tub/idris-state-machines-in-javas...
Dang right! It's like half the programmers of today have forgotten keyboards are a thing.
What changed is that computers went from a tool used by professionals who didn't start out as, but expected to become power users. To mass market devices intended for casual users who expect to not have to learn anything, to think/decise. aka for things to be intuitive.

Neither is inherently bad. The problem comes when you're apower user forced to. Use casual product or vice versa.
I can guarantee you that there is no equivalent to word on Linux. All compatible office suites display word documents differently, and none come close to feature parity if we're talking about advanced macros and similar.

There is no alternative to Windows If they need Microsoft office for work... Or a VM just to run that shitty application.

Same applies to video conferencing software. If he is forced to use a specific tool, he'll probably be be plain out of luck. Most can't host the conferences from Linux.

Thankfully, most people don't need word or one specific brand of video conferencing software... So using Linux would still be an option to a lot of people
Trump was just a means to freeze up the US so they can't contain Ebola-chan anymore. It might just be the longest running and most complex meme in history. You have to admire 4chan's dedication to a good prank

https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/ebola-chan
A woman went from a $20k Trader Joe's job to a well-paid programmer job
it's a pain to have to locate and reinstall from scratch all the packages I need.

dpkg --get-selections | cut -f1 > ~/installed_pkgs.log
cat installed_pkgs.log | xargs sudo apt install
The icons are nice, but I've never known what 90% of them were supposed to represent. Still can only guess at many of them.

I do like the depth though
I've started the planning phase of a Kubernetes course, geared toward developers more so than the enterprise gatekeepers. As I read stories like these, I jump between different thoughts and feelings:

1) no matter what I think I know, there's too many dark corners to create an adequate course

2) K8S is such a dumpster fire that I shouldn't encourage others

3) there's a hell of an opportunity here

Thoughts? Worth pursuing? Anything in particular that should be included that usually isn't in this kind of training?
Yes, lidars have interference, but much less than radar and sonar. From my other comment [0]:

> Compared to other sensors, lidars are not that prone to interference because:

> * it only takes 1 microsecond to make a ranging measurement up to 150 m, so your detector is on for a short time

> * lasers only illuminate a small spot, and the detector is also looking at a similarly small spot, so it is unlikely for two lidars to point in the same spot

> Now, even if it does interfere, you may see a stream of random points pointed towards the interference source. This may happen if, say, you point a lidar directly at the sun, or if you have multiple lidars mounted on the same vehicle. Such random points are easily rejected as outliers and do not affect the vast majority of the scene. Most self driving cars (I hope) should have outlier rejection schemes that deal with outliers caused by this and other sources, such as snow, smoke, and so on.

Now, as for bringing traffic to a halt by bringing your portable lidar jammer... https://www.xkcd.com/1958/

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18444775
I got my parents (late 70s) an iPad, and they picked it up more or less right away.

I’m not an Apple fanboy by any means, but the reality is that a lot of people don’t need a PC or Laptop of any sort, they just need an iPad!
This is a perfect story for the Russians to put out.

Loved by conspiracy theorists.

Known to be stupid by anyone who thinks logically.

Great for division. Weakens the legitimate anti Facebook side.

Funny how the media has the same purpose as Russian propaganda.

Side note, dumbs things has to believe - "Last year police in New Delhi reported tracking down nearly 3,000 missing kids in just four days using facial recognition technology."

3000 of 45,000 kids in homes could be found using facial recognition... Because they were actually missing and should not be in a home.

We are supposed to believe 6.6% of kids in a home are actually recorded as missing

A parent could go through all the photos in a day, but didn't.

What's the false positives on this?

Can't these kids talk?

Parents walked to the cop shop with a photo but not the local orphanage? All these kids fell asleep in a train?
NYC's conductors do a similar thing when they pull into stations[1].

The urban myth that I grew up with was that they were pointing at a hidden camera to show the dispatcher that they're awake, but the article I linked below suggests that it was taken directly from the Japanese railway.

[1]: https://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/mta-conductors-point-st...
So Akamai, CloudFlare et al. will locate servers in a large ISPs data centre. TIL, I just assumed once a resource had been cached then they'd effectively have that collocation (logically); I'm surprised if avoiding the cost of the first hit really saves anything for static content.

Obviously anyone streaming video, it's different.

I wonder if BBC iPlayer (major streaming service in UK) collocate with ISPs.

Will those servers have a local (to the ISP) IP, or do the Akamai IPs get physically routed to the AS?

Fascinating stuff.
GPU Applications Get the Container Treatment
Very interesting question, thank you! Requires some thought, and I'm still evaluating it.

Some initial thoughts are, that I tend to agree with you. On the one hand, I think the pragmatist view would be that society is benefited (through disambiguation of source, quality, etc. On the other hand, to equitably codify such a subjective mechanism (e.g. does it cause confusion in reasonable consumers?) is nearly impossible, and rather than risk unjust vertical empowerment of one entity (government) over another (citizen), I think I'd rather just not do it all (which is to your point).

Like many things, I suppose it comes down to questions of philosophical purity (and therefore morality) vs. pragmatic positions. I see myself as more of a purist than a pragmatist these days, but that may just be my natural inclination toward non-conformity (and all the governments I can think of are heavily tilted toward the pragmatic side).
Yup. For pretty much all outdoor gear I go to Backcountry or REI. Can't risk counterfeits for technical products where specs matter.
User rating does refer to the individual, yes, but product rating is across all examples of that product. I've been asked by eBay to rate products I've purchased, and it even says in the guidelines "rate the product, not the seller". Product description should be specific to the one being sold.
The default UI in Mastodon is definitely its worst problem. Who decided 225x150 was a reasonable size for displaying images?!
yes I was thinking along similar lines.

The problem is of course not the application of knowledge and optimization, but a lack of informed decisions.

I'm imagining something like taking a picture of a barcode or the object itself or alternatively a URL, and then seeing alternative product types. where other consumers can suggest and vote on top 5 alternative product types without advising brands for example.

I'm also quite sure that the lowest level employees walking around in those stores during the introduction of the price optimizations were suddenly bombarded for a period with different questions/requests from customers who were obviously dissappointed and that the employees were well aware that sale of some product types in demand was halted to increase revenue on others.

I'm a bit torn over how regulation could help, or stop "helping" like upholding libel laws (in case mapping commercial product URL's to alternatives could be portrayed as libel). It's also environmentally unfriendly to ship everything instead of picking things up in the hardware store (which can happen on bicycle etc). So part of me really thinks it is somehow the civic duty of the brick and mortar hardware stores to continue selling say block and tackle systems, say by regulating that "if you sell single pulleys, and electromotor winches (two extremes), then you should also sell at least one type of block and tackle system" but this is obviously hard to generalize in a systematic way. An alternative is to have consumer groups / construction sector list essential product types.

I would really like to hear more ideas on how to somehow (in)directly include the consumer's interests into the optimizer's loss function...

EDIT: another traditional entity could be viewed as having a natural interest to inform the consumer or construction worker: the insurance agencies could have a common interest to mandate that every sale or offer of an electric winch be accompanied with a reminder (or signed acknowledgement?) not just of the dangers of low-feedback up down button controlled electric winches but also of potentially safer alternatives especially when the user will only seldom use the device, and be less familiar with the dangers. But that would only work because the blind optimization by one party led to a potential increase in danger to their clients. Also it would only work if the insurance agencies don't just look up what tools were used during the accidents in their database, but for each one of them gather a detailed report and try and determine what other tool would have been safer to use, which is probably a bit more work than they are accustomed to.
The only major online store worth buying fragrances from is Aedes de Venustas.
That’s not quite the same attack. What you describe can only keep you from updating at all, freezing you at whatever your current version is. The attack described above would let the MITM choose the exact version to update you to.
I don’t have a position. I was wondering how to weigh your statement.
> The very definition of a "symbol" presupposes that there is some entity, which assigns meaning to that symbol

No, that's not what's meant at all. Searle is making a distinction between syntax and semantics, where computers process only syntax (symbols are meaningless tokens), but humans can reason semantically, where propositions carry meaning. Both perform symbol processing, so "symbolic computation" is not a useful distinction here.

Further, Searle is asserting that semantics cannot arise from syntax. But this is clearly false, as various methods of computational induction demonstrate: given only syntactic analysis of output bits, you can build a semantic model to predict subsequent bits.

So what gives the symbols of the semantic model meaning? The correspondence of each symbol to real, observable objects.

> Until we learn why it happens in that type of matter, we would not be able to recreate minds.

You're assuming that consciousness requires some special property of matter. There's no justification for this assumption.

Furthermore, you are arguing that we cannot create something that we do not fully understand. This too seems false. We created fire long before we understood it, for instance.