skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am saying that the physician could have logical reasons also to act like that, and that we could be missing some context.

After begin attacked by an enraged patient (or their relatives) I can understand how the physician could develop a phobia to put him/herself in a similar situation again. Just being forced to return to the same workplace day after day can be emotionally draining and very difficult for the physician.

The biggest problem of using e-mail in this case is keeping the privacy of the patient.
Thanks to audiobooks, reading's popularity still strong in America
> Splitting up tech companies is not a punishment to make the CEO feel bad or change their ways. It is a technique to change how we need the market works to benefit the large population. As such we need to think about how to split them, the effects, and most importantly if the effect achieves the intended result.

What exactly is that intended result?
You are confusing 'definition' with positivism

Interesting. But the subject is the nature of the definition. What is the OED definition of definition (circularity intended):

a precise statement of the nature, properties, scope, or essential qualities of a thing; an explanation of a concept, etc.; a statement or formal explanation of the meaning of a word or phrase

Well that's nice. The first component would be amenable to a sclerotic positivism (which denied subjective phenomena as inaccessible to measurement ergo epiphenomena to be ignored; this jettisoned by contemporary cognitivism and phenomenology ); the second addresses the conceptual without a hint of pragmatic methodology; and the salient element of third component is the word meaning which OED defines as:

that which is or is intended to be expressed or indicated by a sentence, word, dream, symbol, action, etc.

So the definition of definition by the ipse dixit English authority on definitions alternates between a call for precision and some rather vague references to intentionality. That was the intent of the above tidbit on the topic of definition. Namely some labels for subjects are amenable to degrees of precision in definition while others with only conceptual referents will have their proffered definitions disputed, diluted, or otherwise hedged and seemingly imprecise.

Steven Stitch in Fragmentation of Reason which is a personal overview of contemporary epistemology alludes to the inherent vagueness of consensual definitions and eventually settles into what he calls pragmatic epistemology
We cheap developers will steal your idea and fk you up!
I really wish Literate Programming had taken off. I loved that style.
I think you’ve hit the nail on the head... how long do you think we’ve got left? I guess it’s time to scramble up the corporate ladder and get out of harm’s way before the cuts start...
If my computer didn't overheat and throttle the CPU any time you push it over 50% for more than 5 minutes at a time, I might buy this.
That Was a substantive comment, which added to the original.

And it Was cowardly to downvote the original comment, which was documentably factual. It's more than a little prudish to come at me a day later and threaten me with a ban. If you have some kind of personal issue with me, I'd like it explained please.
The celebrity poet Letitia Elizabeth Landon mesmerized a 19th-century public
OK but Android is a loss leader for Google's search business. If you spin off Android and Android is no longer subsidized by the search business doesnt that either

1. Raise prices for customers since now someone has to pay for Android development/upkeep/progress, or

2. Starve and kill Android and leave customers with just one major app store (Apple)?
Lyft/Uber have 3 assets that I can see:

1. Driver network. This will go away with self-driving cars.

2. Rider network. This might take some time for Google etc. to acquire, but probably not nearly as long since they'll have a one-sided market (while Lyft/Uber had to deal with a two-sided one.) This might sell for a pittance relative to their current market cap.

3. Routing technology. Lyft & Uber have gotten much, much better at routing than they were just a few years ago – especially when it comes to multiperson rides. I could see this being pretty valuable, there's no need for Waymo to spend years duplicating the same thing when they could just buy it.
The expert would say, "these keys don't work". Then the judge says, "you will remain in contempt until you provide working keys".
I even recall a remark in that study about how it was generating mostly RISC-like instructions,

There is a very good reason for GCC's x86 backend to do this. Intel/AMD optimisation manuals provide a subset of x86 instructions that are worth using. Instructions that are actually fast in modern designs, that don't fall back to legacy microcode.

This subset looks very RISC-like.

Sure, x86 has CISC instructions that sometimes allow very dense code, but if you want your code to actually run fast you need to do it the RISC way.
I've lived in Austin for 42 years. I've seen alot of change, but the traffic has stayed the same. They wait until the traffic becomes unbearable, and then add a solution, and it's back to just plain bad. The drivers are very rude.
As for the weather, you can have it. I'm done with 3/4 year being overly hot. I hate having to run AC all the time. I hate having to water the lawn.
The look and feel of Austin has been lost. In the old days buildings couldn't be higher than the capital, and they had to allow for views to the capital. Now buildings overwhelm the capital in size, and block the view. It's all about money.
The downtown is becoming vastly overbuilt, with 50+ story condo's. I used to work for the city. I know the infrastructure is just not there for that. There is exactly 1 grocery store downtown: Wholefoods. There is exactly 1 fire department station downtown. It simply can't handle the high rise condos.
The burbs are ok, if you don't mind a hour each way to work, which is what I do daily. Forget mass transit in Austin, its a joke.
We put our house up on the market TODAY (really!), and plan on retiring to Portland and living a livable lifestyle walking, biking and using mass transit. No more AC, just have to use the heater once and a while. Oh, and it's much prettier. I like the last sentence: “The cool people are going off to live somewhere else.”
Do you really want to sit in a bus shelter when it's 102 degrees out? Worse, you can't walk from the bus to your office without getting sweaty and smelly three months of the year.

A car (or truck) is a necessity here IMHO. I do ride my bicycle, but only because I have a shower at work.
> It's an old language and still as strong as ever.

Does it make sense to consider Python an old language if it's still a living language? The next version is coming out in October, and most new projects started today are running on versions released within the three years.

This seems pretty different than something like COBOL, where it's technically still being developed but not in anywhere near the same way.
They're subsidizing the cost of rides. Lyft and Uber are already an extremely expensive transportation option. If the costs start to approach traditional taxi-cabs, then the default hypothesis should be that the market opportunity shrinks down to whatever the size of the taxi market was pre-ridesharing. There's a reason nobody gave a shit about the taxi market pre-ridesharing.
Researchers are training image-generating AI with fewer labels
"OH MAN - IF WE TALK THIS LOUD SOME ASSHOLE WHO HACKED OUR HARD-DRIVE MIGHT BE ABLE TO HEAR US" - govt worker | "CHRIST MAN WE'RE TRYING TO HAVE A MEETING IN THE SOUNDPROOF MEETING ROOM WE MADE SO PEOPLE WITH HACKED HARD DRIVES COULDN'T HEAR US!" - gov't manager 1 "HARD-DRIVES MAN [shakes fist at desktop]" - govt worker
The out-there AI ideas designed to keep the US ahead of China
It seems like you're arguing against a pithy call to shut down credit reporting agencies in general, when the comment at issue was specifically directed at the credit reporting agency that has the worst public track record for security and privacy. It's like if you had asked "but how will the economy function without accountants?" in response to the dismantling of Arthur Andersen, or asked how online banking could survive without Symantec SSL/TLS certificates.

The consequences of shutting down just Equifax are relatively mundane: lenders and other customers of Equifax take their business elsewhere, and Equifax's competitors have some motivation to be a bit better lest they suffer the same fate. The industry as a whole would get along just fine. The less realistic and more extreme hypothetical that you want to debate is irrelevant here.
> in rare circumstances where they tried correlating them

That is definitely not a rare circumstance. I would be shocked if any data company at reasonable scale was not actively doing that.
> The story demonstrates why promoting competition is so important: it allows new, groundbreaking companies to grow and thrive — which pushes everyone in the marketplace to offer better products and services. Aren’t we all glad that now we have the option of using Google instead of being stuck with Bing?

Erm. Should we tell her that Google came before Bing?
Yeah I wonder if this isn't the simple (and sad) truth. Maybe every intelligent species discovers that the laws of physics are unavoidable hard limits and eventually decide it's a pointless waste of energy to endlessly broadcast signals to other stars and galaxies that are moving, ever faster, further and further away.
Don’t need to fly first for that! Business on Emirates a380 will suffice :)
Patch is using AI to write 3k articles a week
I like the tree+stats view
In America and in many other countries, the mere fact of monopolizing a market is in fact a crime. The constitution offers no protection against this whatsoever. Go google antitrust law, and read up on some history. The Sherman Act, Standard Oil and AT&T are some good places to start.
Most older programmers want to be paid more because they are old. Not because they bring added value. That's the issue. I'm over 40. I have no issues getting the compensation I think I am worth. I also am not embarrassed to be paid the same amount as people ten years younger than me. I'm not adding more value than them on a productivity basis ... so I should not get paid more.

Truly excellent programmers in my age group are absurdly well paid as consultants. But it takes courage and extreme productivity to live like that. Most people my age don't have the gumption to do that.
Maybe a spy satellite passes overhead and records the data center walls vibrating.
> Such a system does not evaluate people based on capability or performance

The you're not talking about the same kind of meritocracy that I am. I explicitly spelled out that my usage of the world meritocracy refers to a system in which people are evaluated based on capability and/or performance.

If that's not what you're talking about the we're just talking past each other.

> Because amongst the "initial resources" you speak of there are also wealth and connections, which do not improve "capability or performance in some task", which only improve the chances of someone obtaining and keeping the job.

Wealth creates larger opportunity to improve performance. A wealthy marathon runner can take more time off work to train than one that scrapes by financially. But it does not directly factor into the meritocratic process. Dollars in your bank account make it easier to put in the effort to train, but they don't immediately improve your running speed.

Nor do connections. Knowing the right people isn't going to make someone a faster runner. At least short of things like colluding with a referee, but if that happens then the system is no longer purely meritocratic.
You're right obviously, but a Matrioshka Brain would put out such a small amount of radiation, it'd be invisible for all sensor technology outside of, say, black hole lenses.
OR the Action Replay.
This whole "learn a new one in a couple weeks" mindset is toxic and needs to die.

Yes, you can learn anything at a superficial level in a couple weeks. If you've spent the last ten years maintaining an ASP.NET WebForms app running on IIS, then within a couple of weeks, you can contribute code to a Go microservice running in Kubernetes and using Kafka.

And that kind of "basic competence, with the ability to learn more" is what hiring managers want out of a junior dev, so if you don't keep your skills up, well, great, you're as useful as a junior dev.

But what they want out of senior devs is people who know the ins and outs, who understand what to do and why to do it and can explain that to others, who can avoid the pitfalls of bad tech choices and misguided implementation patterns.

If you've got decades of experience on your resume, my guess is that you want to be evaluated as a senior dev. And if you're a senior dev who doesn't know modern tech, then... you're not that useful. Your encyclopedic knowledge of the WebForms event lifecycle doesn't give you any particular insights into the design challenges of a microservice ecosystem; your ability to tweak IIS for maximum performance won't help you write a Helm chart.

If you want to be hired as a senior dev, you need to understand how the modern world works, and all the posturing around "I could learn it in a week" or "I prefer to focus on problems" doesn't impress anyone.
My product example was not very good. I'll try another angle. We humans are very biased towards what we know. Even professionals can fall for it, for example judges reading about a crime in the newspaper before the hearing.
Portland is a mild-climate city with a famously good transit system and a walkable downtown. If I had to guess, cities where it is comfortable to be outside (Mediterranean/subtropical/oceanic climates) tend to be more expensive in the inner districts, whereas cities where it is uncomfortable to be outside (continental/desert/alpine climates) tend to be more expensive in the car-based districts.
I suspect one of the more interesting aspects of humanity would be that our "day-world" (the sun) is about the same size as our "night-world" (the moon) from our perspective. Sometimes our night world covers our day world completely.

Sun worship might be common, but the human spin on it might be rare.

Studying the impact on our mythology and philosophy could prove interesting to outsiders. It is possible that our species thinks in an extremely binary way compared to other intelligent beings.

Talking to us about it would likely prove less interesting. Betting quatloos on outcomes might prove an interesting sport though.
>The sooner they go under, the sooner drivers start making livable incomes again.

What do you imagine they'll do? Are there other, better paying jobs these people can be doing? If there are, what are they waiting for? Would the collapse of ride sharing somehow create new, better paying jobs elsewhere?
Sheer volume is worth something. Perhaps only a little after the fiasco at the FCC with the forged net neutrality comments.
As Pedestrian Deaths Rise, Cars Get Safer (For Drivers)
Thank you for this. I think the prominence of YC will bring much attention to this space.

The approach that the kidney project is taking is very promising. It expands on the current dialysis method. Improved filtration but self contained in the body. No need to lug around a heavy machine. No regular clinic visits. 24x7 cleaning of blood. Reduced chance of infection. No rejection issues unlike transplants. The cost savings vs current dialysis is mind-blowing. Back in the 80s, our current dialysis method was in their infancy until new materials (plastics) made them feasible.
Virtual filesystems: Why we need them and how they work
I don't think terms of service, basically a contract, fall under free speech. If you and I make a verbal contract that you will assassinate someone we are still breaking the law because assassinations are illegal. Our free speech isn't being violated when we are arrested for doing something illegal.
Here's a fun one for you!

When I was a kid I was briefly a ward of the court. During that time, I had an official address that was not where I actually lived, and somehow the credit bureaus got ahold of that information.

So whenever I need to answer the suite of questions for identity verification, if I get the "which of these places have you lived", there's a good chance I won't know the answer, because I was a kid and never actually lived there.

So when that happens, I guess at one of the addresses, inevitably get it wrong, fail my own identity verification process, and need to jump through a ton of hoops to either re-try the process and hope I don't get that question, or verify my identity another way.
Such a statement can't be proven.
It's also rumored that United lost a lot of entertainment business when they killed their LAX-JFK service and moved everything to Newark. AA still flies a 3-class plane on LAX/SFO-JFK with lie-flat seats in business and first.
I took "damaged goods" to mean traumatized by the experience.

Regarding awareness of how the system works... While everyone has some shared sense of the systems of graduate studies and career development, an individual probably doesn't have much information about instances of wrenches being thrown into the works, especially not outside their own department or university. (Though they might hear rumors about a particular department elsewhere having cultural problems, and they've formed superficial impressions of a number of other professors, from their behavior at conferences or in faculty meetings, but that's about it.)

Also, I'll speculate it's possible that there's an element of survivorship bias: you don't get to be a professor without a lot of hard work, but also bit of luck in enough things going your way. Wronged grad students, on the other hand, tend to quickly disappear from professors' environments.
You could buy 20 eggs, boil all at once and keep them in the fridge for weeks. Just a thought ;)
>I don't want to be accused of being a racist so I can't move into affordable urban neighborhoods with too many 'underrepresented minorities'

???
Setting up the account to try this for our small team, we're running everything on different spreadsheets, pulling different sheets has been "hey X, can you get me the sheet url for Y again".
Thanks for the startup friendly pricing model, keep up the great work!
We use turbojets but are working on a 4:1 bypass ratio TF
I'm looking forward to reading the paper and I know exactly how I'd deal with the noise reduction either manually or by piping it through a Cedar box (https://www.cedar-audio.com/ - I'm not affiliated with them).

I don't think most people realize how good forensic audio tools are in. Cedar stuff is expensive because it works in realtime (sub millisecond processing latencies!) and can be operated by anyone who is capable of manually tuning a radio.
I got a Tesla last year. I love it. But it's been painfully obvious to me that Autopilot is nowhere close to something that will let you take a nap.

Often when I'm stopped at a light, cars that are standing completely still will appear to be constantly moving forwards and backwards on the display. My best theory so far is that the Tesla's spatial model is getting thrown off by the other car's turn signal. This does not inspire confidence.

In general, I find the radar-enhanced cruise control very reliable (so nice in bad traffic), but autosteer is flaky at best.
As far as I can tell, Google hasn't disclosed whether YouTube is profitable. What we know is that most analysts predict YouTube makes ~$10BN in revenue, is growing 30%-40% per year, and is valued at somewhere between $75BN-$150BN (much more than Google paid for it.) But those are just analyst predictions, it's very hard to tell when Google's not saying anything.
I've found Austin traffic to be bad, but very predictable. Stay off the roads during morning and afternoon rush and it's fine. Outside of those of those times, you can get just about anywhere in the city in 30-45 minutes.
Not if being old has a negative connotation, or if being old implies that they have no new ideas, neither of which should be true, of technologies or of people.
Truly stunning animals. But why don't they fling us through the air when given the chance..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vaq4pHxM5P4
I remember one Contra Dance at the Lake Eden Arts Festival in North Carolina which seems to have been written with rapid sequences of eye contact with many different people in mind. During that dance, I found myself stopping my verbal stream of consciousness, and it became entirely about music, dance, and eye contact. I remember coming back to my normal state of consciousness, amazed at what just happened.
>I've also been asked about the previous cars I've owned, which are from DMV and insurance databases, not credit reports.

I've had online car insurance instant-quote systems show me a list including both my current and previously owned cars with just a name and address, so that's encouraging that it's being used as a critical authentication measure.
I assume they meant a non-promotional newsletter that isn’t from the manufacturer.

Those do exist, but not all doctors read them. However, those same doctors might spare 10 min to have a manufacturer rep stop by to answer questions.

I’ll also add that doctors aren’t dumb. They know anything from manufacturers is biased - they want to sell drugs. They usually rely on other physicians to give them info on real world experience with a drug.
Humans are general intelligences requiring almost two decades of specialized training and growth before we even think about letting them drive. The human eye is also vastly superior to any camera in existence, so even being generous there is. O comparison. Maybe such a comparison will be valid decades from now, or longer, but Tesla is selling people a lie today and it’s a potentially dangerous lie at that.
What exactly is wrong with the first and last bits? They're a bit harsh, but not gratuitously so.
I honestly don't see what this has to do with vaccination? The title has a bias written right into it. I grew up in the South (U.S.) and it is culturally normal in some rural areas for kids to run around bare footed. Don't curl your lip at it, it's a normal thing for some boys. I did too, and I made of mistake of stepping on a rusty nail in a board once. I had to go to the doctor and get a tetanus shot. You get the shot after stepping on a nail. Not before it.
There are lots of aliens. Heck, there were aliens attending certain underground raves in Seattle in the 90's.

The Fermi Paradox is about the psychology of humans, not the external universe.

As soon as you can psychologically handle communication with other folks it becomes easy to meet and greet them. There are "outreach coordinators" who volunteer to take humans on jaunts within the local neighborhood (nearby star systems, etc.)

Our planet experienced a disaster ("dis": separation; "aster": stars; "disaster" is a separation from the stars) a few thousand years ago (Younger Dryas comet) and we've been recovering ever since. Our neighbors have been helping us for all that time. Psychologically our species is an accident victim and we have been recovering from the trauma, which is why our history is so messed up and violent. Normal sentient beings are mensches. We'll get there.