skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> really think they should get more training in it, or some type of Bayes-esque tool

They have those online. If you're in your 30s and have a reasonably healthy lifestyle and don't smoke, then your risk of dying from a cardiac event over a ten year period is likely somewhere between 0.25% and 0.5%, depending on how much you exercise and genetic factors.

If anything, Bayesian logic is what leads doctors to ignore signs of heart attacks in young people in the first place.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning–Kruger_effect
Maybe this could be dark energy?

WARNING: This comment contains zero science. I didn't even Google it.
It's a solid, good article. But the repetitive 4 boxes to enter your email address to sign up for their newsletter, that annoyed me quickly.
Well that's not a rhetorical question really. I think based on recent past experience with Google people have actual concerns about whether it will be for social good in the long term. For me this is similar to what's happened in the GMO space. Potentially great technology that gets more of a bad name than it deserves because the players involved have done some really disturbing stuff before they ever got involved in GMO. Getting back to tech, would it be overly negative to have a little healthy paranoia about Facebook contributing to privacy research?
Bigger question, what is I.
You can't solve the problem with only partial foreknowledge. Being required to continue to pay redundant employees is a cost whether you know about it ahead of time or not. And not hiring employees you're not sure if you'll need is a catch-22. If you hire them and don't need them you're screwed, and if you need them but didn't hire them you're also screwed. Which one is the "bad decision" at the point in time when you don't know whether you'll need them or not?

The solution is for employees to negotiate their employment contracts. If you want X months of notice before being terminated, demand that it's in your contract before you agree to work there. But that will mean the employer will want to offer less compensation, because they're incurring a cost and it's always a quid pro quo. Putting the rules in the law instead of the contract only prevents you from choosing the other thing -- lots of people would rather get paid more than have more notice when being laid off.
I had a nasal problem that I didn’t know about until I tried breath right strips. Wearing those things was life changing for me. I felt like a different person and honestly can’t believe I spent my entire life not realizing I had a problem.

Eventually got it fixed permanently, but yea...breathing is huge.

EDIT: The problem I had was called Nasal Valve Collapse. It’s something that happens in much older people, but essentially if I inhaled hard through my nose my nostrils collapsed so I’d have to breath through my mouth. It made aerobic exercise very difficult, taking deep breaths in general too.

I discovered how big of a deal it was when I tried on of those 9 Round gyms in my early 30s. The 1st round is jump rope and it tore my throat up. I was so exhausted after 3 minutes of jump rope that the rest of the workout was basically awful. I came back the next week (my throat was really sore for a week) with a Breathe Right strip on to see if it helped. I did the whole workout, jump rope included, like it was nothing.

After I saw the difference, I tried sleeping in them and woke up more alert than I had in recent memory. Great night sleep. Then eventually, I tried just wearing one all day when I was working from home and it was significant by the end of the day.

There was a point where I just realized that I felt so much better wearing them that I was literally wearing them all the time, including in the office.

Eventually I decided to visit an E.N.T. who diagnosed me and gave me a couple of surgical options...which were both kinda scary and didn’t have great success rate. I visited another to get a 2nd opinion and he was confident that it could be fixed with a slightly modified septoplasty.

I ended up doing the surgery and I’ll go ahead and tell you, the recovery is awful...but it worked. I still see a marginal benefit from using a Breathe Right but I probably have 70% of the improvement all the time from where I was before.
Sometimes it does, sometimes it doesn't. It's been pretty much down hill since then. Had multiple cases where the client works, and the web links don't. Or the weblinks work and the client doesn't. Sometimes calls work... but not receiving invites... or vice versa.

All the users I knew that used skype regularly have fled.
Well... There are different kinds.

The people I talk about aren't even deliberately fake. They really think they're awesome. They can say all the right things. They're charismatic and sound real smart. They have great anecdotes, dripping with wisdom.

It's just that their work is mediocre at best.
You wonder how long the software bubble will last.
The book "8 Steps to a Pain-Free Back" talks all about it and has a long-term plan on how to address it for you.

https://www.amazon.com/Steps-Pain-Free-Back-Solutions-Should...
No way in particular. I just have a steam basket for my big pot, which kinda looks like this: https://image.sportsmansguide.com/adimgs/l/2/231755_ts.jpg

I just throw in the pieces (about 1-2 bites each in terms of size). Sometimes I pile them up all the way to the top! They're pretty strong, so they don't get squished or anything. Cleanup is super easy.

Alternatively, boiling works just as well. I personally just find steaming to be faster (both in cooking and the retrieval of the food), it uses less water, and it eliminates the possibility of waterlogging them.
I was skeptical and looked it up,200g for 1/2 a breast fillet, that was surprising heavy

https://www.chicken.org.au/chicken-cuts/
What was the problem and how did it get diagnosed and fixed?
Could you explain how you got your breathing fixed permanently?
I don't agree with this writer's take on the AA incident.

Any airline has a right to ask you to exit their plane, just like a taxi driver can ask you to leave his taxi. They owe you a refund, and maybe compensation, but they don't OWE you transportation.

If you were getting into a taxi, and the driver (for some reason) determined that s/he couldn't take you to your destination, they have every right to ask you to exit the vehicle.

Other than some kind of life-threatening emergency, there is no scenario I can imagine where you could be in the right by refusing to exit the vehicle and insisting they take you anyway. If you did refuse, force-able removal is the logical next step.

Writer went on to suggest that racism was somehow involved, which is where I gave up on reading the article.
I looked closely, again, and see that it remains yet another sans font, of no greater interest than any of the last hundred.
FYI, Credit Karma is providing free online tax filing regardless of your income.

In general, I think online tools become worth their cost when you are claiming mutliple deductions and have income from various sources across more than one state. Otherwise, the 1040EZ is where you should start.
Exactly. We are hiring constantly for several positions: junior, senior, lead. We don’t want to saturate job boards so we artificially limit listings.
> Systems have been designed that ... assume the user will be able to figure everything out, [such as] Unix -- ... arguably one of the most user-hostile systems in common use.

Um, you do know that Unix used to come with user manuals? Like, oh I dunno, the vast majority of software in the 1980s and early 1990s? The designers of Unix and comparable systems were perfectly aware that command-line incantations cannot be figured out simply by sitting at the system and playing with it; this is very much not what it was designed for!

If discoverability by novice users is a priority, then that is an argument for menu-driven, interactive interfaces and UIs - which could well be built on top of something like UNIX. But documentation is always going to be important.
yeah, for biking/skiing i use a-JAYS Five. for traveling 1MORE Quad Driver, for at-home audio Sennheiser HD 6XX and for gaming Klipsch ProMedia 2.1. the PC has an Asus Essence STX II 7.1 and onboard Realtek ALC1220 (surprisingly great, btw).

anyone who claims to hear a difference between 24-bit 192khz and a 320Kbps CBR MP3 is drinking some good kool-aid. there's a great quote by Alan Parsons:

"Audiophiles don't use their equipment to listen to your music. Audiophiles use your music to listen to their equipment."
Personally, I still haven’t found a better font for reading and writing code than source code pro: https://fonts.adobe.com/fonts/source-code-pro

B612 seems much more like a Helvetica derivative.
This is not intuitive to me. Why would they be inside black holes and not outside them?
A little subtler than that, but somewhat yes.

The global financial / political / market situation can change for the better or for the worse, unrelated to the quality of the company's own work. Musk is exposed to the upside of these changes. We could have had, for instance, a president who cracked down firmly on fossil fuels and made electric cars much more competitive. (Or leave the US out; the rest of the world could have driven up the prices of fossil fuels.) He should be exposed, in turn, to the downside of these changes beyond the company's control. That's how investments and gambles and ventures work. (Alternatively, if we think it's good as a society for him not to be exposed to the downsides, we should find a productive means to insulate / insure him; transferring the risk onto low-level employees seems like a pretty unproductive approach IMO!)

Given that this employee was compensated significantly in bonuses and not in base pay ("it was okay that @Tesla didn't pay much because the bonuses were going to make up for it over time"), if he was compensated significantly in stock, then I think it's fine for him to be exposed to the risk because he's also exposed to reward if the company does well. But in such a case, a) they should not have canceled his existing stock grants and b) there should have been no need to lay him off immediately, they should have budgeted his base pay based on forecasts of possible not-great 2018s, and given him the option to continue working for base pay + weaker stock.

But if he was compensated in cash, I think Musk should be obligated - not "morally" obligated (I have strong opinions informed by my religious beliefs on moral employment agreements, but that's a different argument entirely), just obligated in the sense of logically necessary to produce robust outcomes that make effective use of the market and place appropriate incentives to maximize long-term productivity for society - to bear the risk of things going unexpectedly wrong in the market.
SELECT with GROUP BY.
Some things are better left to the subconscious. Otherwise one might find themselves in a position of a centipede who lost the ability to walk as soon as it started wondering which leg to move first.
> Or to put it another way, if you can code does that mean you should be able to design a CPU, even a very basic one? After all, how can you write a program if you don't understand how it works at the instruction, transistor, etc level?

You'd be surprised, but this is what computer engineering actually is. From p-n junctions and transistors and all the way to distributed systems.
I think that this is in large part due to hurdles of paying for software easily.

For example

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.iiordanov....

and

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.iiordanov....

are the same GPL licensed software either gratis or for $5. Just buying it via the store is straightforward instead of figuring out where the homepage is, finding a donate button, entering credit card details... .

Having more non-gratis but free software would be a good thing

https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/selling.en.html
That was a shocking read. Is the shortage of affordable housing a nationwide phenomena or something that just draws a lot of attention on HN?
Why Does IT Suck with Computers?
When I used to do manual labour, I used to do this when told to do tasks. e.g. if someone said "Go and sweep the leaves and put them in the bin", I'd clarify and say "So I'm sweeping those leaves and putting them in the bin?".

It worked well in making sure everyone was on the same page about what I was actually supposed to be doing. I eventually stopped doing it though because people got annoyed and thought I was stupid or just not listening to them, which was ironic because that's exactly the opposite of what was happening.

It's a shame really, because it did minimise errors. There's nothing more annoying for everyone then when someone spends hours doing the wrong task because of poor communication.
Historically, doctors were some of the most educated people in town and you and your entire family saw the same doctor for many years. They had a lot of context for what was going on in your life.

Now, people move around more, are less likely to see the same physician for years on end, are less likely to see the same physician as their relatives who may live elsewhere, etc.

I don't know how to fix it, but I think these changes are a very big part of the problem. I don't care how brilliant and dedicated you are, having less overall context is going to undermine your ability to draw accurate conclusions about what's really going on.
"...the larger issue that we wrestle with all the time around AI [is] part of what makes us human are the kinks. They’re the mutations, the outliers, the flaws that create art or the new invention, right? We have to assume that if a system is perfect, then it’s static. And part of what makes us who we are, and part of what makes us alive, is that we’re dynamic and we’re surprised. One of the challenges that we’ll have to think about is, where and when is it appropriate for us to have things work exactly the way they’re supposed to, without surprises?"

--Barack Obama
It's a "solved problem" in the sense that it doesn't matter for the use cases USB was designed for. Most people are using USB to connect a few devices at most and over short distances, so these effects are negledgible. But that is not true for stage audio.
The ‘i’ and ‘j’ seem like they could easily be mistaken.
Indeed, and none as legible as a serviceable serif font.

Legibility was a solved problem literally centuries ago.
Thank you for your answer, and the time and detail you put into it. I will consider it.

Everything that I have learned related to programming, hardware, networks, etc in the last many years has been on my own. I have run my own law firm for more than 10 years now. I believe I am capable of self-motivating and being productive.

But, you know, you never know.

I have also had success in formal academics. Sometimes I feel like it'll really boil down to picking one option and seeing what happens.

My main concern in wasting a bunch of time by picking an option that won't get me anywhere, but there's never a guarantee against that anyway.
I run a Filebeat container with privileges to read stdout/stderr of all other pods, which then forwards to ElasticSearch. (https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/beats/filebeat/master/runnin...). It's fairly straight forward, then Kibana + Watcher can ship alters to PagerDuty based on log patterns / queries / limits, etc. I think Watcher is open-source/free now?

I also have Prometheus + grafana, which similarly collects lots of stats from around the cluster, but I'm fairly sure I'm the only person who uses that dashboard, since the only things hooked up to Prometheus are databases and such, no internal applications (yet!).

Being able to aggregate stdout/stderr across dozens of machines previously would have cost either a lot of Chef setup time or a contract with some provider. Now I get a fairly straight forward open-source stack that can be refined over time, and the yaml re-used very easily in any cluster. Plus, the metadata collected from Kubernetes about each log line is extremely useful (For example, out of the box you can query by Kubernetes labels for your graphs etc)
To add to the three points in the article:

Data quality
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_quality

Imputation
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imputation_(statistics)

Feature selection
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feature_selection

datacleaner can drop NaNs, do imputation with "the mode (for categorical variables) or median (for continuous variables) on a column-by-column basis", and encode "non-numerical variables (e.g., categorical variables with strings) with numerical equivalents" with Pandas DataFrames and scikit-learn.
https://github.com/rhiever/datacleaner

sklearn-pandas "[maps] DataFrame columns to transformations, which are later recombined into features", and provides "A couple of special transformers that work well with pandas inputs: CategoricalImputer and FunctionTransformer"
https://github.com/scikit-learn-contrib/sklearn-pandas

Featuretools
https://github.com/Featuretools/featuretools

> Featuretools is a python library for automated feature engineering. [using DFS: Deep Feature Synthesis]

auto-sklearn does feature selection (with e.g. PCA) in a "preprocessing" step; as well as "One-Hot encoding of categorical features, imputation of missing values and the normalization of features or samples"
https://automl.github.io/auto-sklearn/master/manual.html#tur...

auto_ml uses "Deep Learning [with Keras and TensorFlow] to learn features for us, and Gradient Boosting [with XGBoost] to turn those features into accurate predictions"
https://auto-ml.readthedocs.io/en/latest/deep_learning.html#...
I think it's worth specifying that Melbourne's CBD is pretty small, and there aren't a lot of reasons why you'd need to travel within it where you haven't already gotten in by public transport (for which you have to pay, and travelling within the city afterwards wouldn't cost extra even if it weren't free - our pricing scheme is notoriously complicated).

I live in the CBD, and the only time it ever actually saves me money is in getting to the bus station to the airport.

It was introduced as part of a protracted plan (or lack thereof) to get rid of their least profitable ticket, and has been carefully designed to sound good while minimising utility.

Not to disparage the concept, but in this instance it was introduced to raise revenues, not lower them. Indeed, as Melbourne's trams are run by a private company, none of their policies are designed out of public-mindedness.
Being SOL is nothing, what's worse is the slight authority play going on. Letting people going back home thinking there's nothing serious or nothing that can be done is criminal IMO. State it clearly: to my best knowledge I can't see anything, keep looking if you feel the issue is still there, here are some other names or places.
When can we start calling Python 2.7 legacy code?
There is an open source project:

http://opentaxsolver.sourceforge.net/

Just noting it, not advising or recommending anything -- whether this is wise or not definitely depends on your own particular situation.
Basically the same as another post on the HN front page: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18956283
Near-duplicate of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18955329
LA is world-famous for being non-walkable (even as it simultaneously is getting much better for walkability, hilariously). Seattle just isn't walkable compared to SF.
Swarm is not going anywhere.
That's not the job of the media as they have no base for that.
That's true, social dynamics changed dramatically. More stress, less stable human relationships, more pollution, less activity .. what was working fine before probably need a revamp. Either that or we go back to slower and more local lifestyles (not bad in my book)
The cognitive dissonance is real
Possibly. And I don't think its bunk.. but there's something with emotion tied up with fonts or handwriting. As to what it is, I have no good idea how to discern.

But again, I cannot refuse the fact that comic sans is so.. derided and laughed at. Nary a week goes by without someone guffawing at that typeface on reddit or social media.

Any ideas how to measure this? Seems like emotion is the key here.
Thanks so much for your extensive and informative answers.
It explicitly does not follow that Tesla HR did anything inappropriate or wrong because the wife of this man went on twitter. There's literally no evidence to show that.
What if upper case O was mapped to lower case o. Then only o/0 are available. No chance of confusion but could be distracting or annoying to read.. end random thought..
>They'd take it into account when deciding if they could afford to hire them.

Sounds like a great way to incentivise companies to discriminate against old people and people with preexisting conditions.
Google collects sensitive data on every hapless internet user. A contest "for social good" should start by helping Google brainstorm a new business model. The one they have now is poison.
Source Code Pro was a step down from Inconsolata that preceded it.

It's not hard to see why people want to make more infinitesimally-different fonts with their own name and a funny ampersand or (in this case) parentheses. What is never explained is why anybody else should care.
I don’t believe the 1040EZ exists anymore.
AI for social good is one of those things that are kind of absurd in it's very premise.

AI is not a thing we program to then deliver abstract terms like social good. It's a thing we program to do specific things which might then end up being used to do social good.
Cost is fallacious. Medical world is stuck in pre advanced electronics era where any device would cost a ton and they rely on companies to make new devices but it's a lucrative market with twisted incentives.

We need a musk like character to shake the medical diagnosis status quo.

ps: I don't want to spend my life obsessing about monitoring my vitals but I'd still prefer to have the option rather than relying on blind faith.
Just read the IRS instructions that come with the forms. I do my taxes by hand and don't find the instructions especially complicated or hard to read.
So your proposed solution is collective bargaining (which isn’t really arbitrary) as long as it isn’t actually legally protected which is what a union is? I guess that is choice, just seemingly not a very realistic one.
I have an anxiety disorder, so in depth conversation with a stranger is going to cause me to be flustered. If you asked me to give the answer in writing I could. If you asked me to code on a whiteboard I could. If you asked me to do a takehome I could. But a verbal conversation with a stranger judging me in an interview setting is the worst out of all possible options for me.
we tend to underestimate the evolutionary impact of parasites and disease. Mosquitos are a major vector; could very well be the mosquitos
Bogus title. The study didn't look specifically at gun suicides or at individual gun ownership, only overall gun ownership percentage by state. Poverty was a much stronger indicator.
For those not aware, Verdana happens to be the font Hacker News uses.
> For years I’d tried to learn algorithms to clear big 4 style interviews. But for reasons ranging from subject matter difficulty to motivation I’d fail again and again. When I got an interview call I had a competitive programmer teach me over chat every night one problem at a time explaining his thinking.

I'm stuck in the same rut of lack of motivation. Interested to hear what clicked after he explained it to you?