skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you look at the old Singularity Conference presentation of Demis Hassabis (founder of Deep Mind), his main argument for using attention, reinforcement learning and deep convolutional networks (and other known systems that were on his slides) for reaching AGI is to use only techniques that the brain uses to be able to decrease the search space for reaching AGI.

I believe his thinking was already proven, and going for emulating and integrating the known algorithms that the brain uses is the fastest way to reach AGI.

https://youtu.be/Qgd3OK5DZWI
I live in DC and there are definitely delivery places that use scooters.
> how does this affect the poor more than the wealthy?

Because the $10 mil in stocks also appreciated by the roughly 7% average annual S&P 500 returns, meaning the rich person's wealth still increased 5% after 2% inflation.

The $10,000 in a current account earned 0.5%, making the poor person 1.5% poorer after inflation.

It's a textbook case of 'the rich getting richer, and the poor getting poorer'.

The poor do not have the flexibility to allocate their capital to higher yield assets that allow them to 'escape' inflation.

I am not advocating a fringe position. In fact, the first three papers I found investigating this issue came to the same conclusion: inflation actually increases poverty:

[1] "Inflation and the Poor" https://www.jstor.org/stable/2673879?seq=1#page_scan_tab_con...

[2] "Poverty, inflation and economic growth:
empirical evidence from Pakistan" https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/34290/1/MPRA_paper_34290.pdf

[3] "Has Inflation Hurt the Poor? Regional Analysis in the Philippines" https://www.adb.org/sites/default/files/publication/28370/wp...
Show HN: Manage multiple kubernetes clusters on bare metal fedora 29
There are real enforceable legal salves you can take for these purposes included targeted NDAs (as opposed to the less enforceable "Don't talk about our stuff") that makes it really easy to prove wrong doings - additionally there are forms of business insurance out there to cover the short term sudden costs of corporate espionage/sabotage.

Basically, trusting in the person to be trustworthy because equifax is giving you a big thumbs up with a stupid grin on their face is a stupid idea. Just set up protections for your company, properly utilize the practice of minimum access and call it a day.
The thing that's most odd about this is if you consider the history of the cause of settlement of Australia... the first settlers weren't exactly renowned for following the rules... that's why they were there in the first place.

Irony at its finest.
that is the whole point of publishing prices. with it implicitly you have to adjust your billing to be able to charge predictably for a service such as MRI etc. and if you dont you dont survive in long run as people gravitate towards the providers that give them clarity.

why should be hospitals be the only ones allowed to do this highly anticompetitive practice?
Were these amounts after insurance? just your share out of pocket? Or actual total?
Yes - I just submitted a related article (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19516173) that has additional details on the data access request and reports that the investigation has spread to Twitter and Google.
Er, and, most folks arrive by car. I'm pretty sure ambulance arrivals are a tiny percentage of their overall business.

Opinion based on a. Being alive and b. Paying accident claims for 5+ years.

Even with accidents, most claims did not involve an ambulance bill. In one memorable claim, a gunshot victim drove himself to the ER with multiple bullet wounds while bleeding profusely.
> Capitalism is just the most efficient form of exploitation that we've found.

I believe slavery already won this category
O.k. Imagine how messed up the database is.

What happens the next time the data is loaded. How does anyone figure out how far away anything is?
Strange that unions go unmentioned, as they raise the cost of existing service: https://thehill.com/policy/transportation/242053-union-defen... and new service: https://californiapolicycenter.org/how-unions-artificially-i.... Union costs are one of these open secrets no one wants to talk about.
Having just watched the SXSW town hall with no preconceived notion of Buttigieg, I completely disagree that he "basically bombed the first 20 minutes". I found him engaging and thoughtful.
You seem to be ignoring that some manufacturers, like Apple, will straight up refuse to do repairs or sell replacement parts in some cases.

One such iconic example was Linus Tech Tip's Mac Pro. They know they broke it and tried to pay for repairs, but Apple straight up refused to repair it, saying instead they needed to buy a new one.

Similarly Apple refuses to do repairs or charge extreme amounts once a Macbook is "too old", even if it's otherwise perfectly serviceable. And they are increasingly engineering it in such a way as to specifically prevent other companies from doing the repairs that they won't.

The point of right to repair is that it acknowledges that the economic interests of a manufacturer are to sell you a replacement, not to repair/service a machine. Rather than try and force them to not maximize profits, the legislation is to let others compete in the repair business space. Similar to automotive repair.
This link is just an ad for the new york times!!
Cesium is highly soluble in water, which in my layman understanding means it won't bioaccumulate nearly as much as nonsoluble/large substances like mercury and pesticides.
I just tried this software out a bit and it looks great.

In relation, does anyone have good telescope/camera recommendations?
I've been looking for something relatively cheap, that is less than €5000, that can take good photos and be used with the naked eye?

I am looking at celestrons and sky-watchers but I'm a complete noob here when it comes to judging optic qualities.
You can write questions & answers before you gain the comment privilege. (Everyone can write answers.)

https://stackoverflow.com/help/privileges/create-posts

One or two successful answers is enough to unlock the comment privilege.
It is for me. Product development and technology development with a deep understanding of thermodynamics and energy efficiency can be valuable. Heat kills a lot of things :)
Ask HN: Tips on working for multiple clients simultaneously?
I started my own one man consulting company earlier this year and so far it's gone very well with my first customer. However, I am in talks to begin an engagement with a second company. The type of work I am doing for both companies is highly collaborative, meaning I need to be available to both sides part time Monday through Friday. Both companies know about each other and have accepted the arrangement. It's all fully remote work.

Any tips on keeping both clients happy? How do I manage my time between the two? How do I manage ad-hoc meetings?
This article is really informative, and makes me feel proud to be an Indian. Medical care really is one of those things that no person should have to beg or borrow for, in a civil society. We're still not there yet as a country, but the signs are positive.

FWIW, I'm relatively well off and have medical insurance, but the cost is absolutely negligible compared to what I hear is prevalent in the US - about $10 / month.

It's probably just my bad luck, but I've had three surgeries in the last 10 years - an appendectomy, an ACL replacement, and a septoplasty. Each one of these was done in highly regarded (and expensive) hospitals in Delhi - Apollo, Max, and Fortis. Each time I walked out of the hospital without paying a single dime. I just had to show my insurance card, and the entire stay was cashless. In fact, after my last surgery I realised that I could have even been reimbursed for my medication post surgery if I'd kept the receipts (which I unfortunately didn't).

Anyhow, more power to Narayana.
Ok, but you now have an iPhone that can leak your fingerprint or face data, or make it easy to pull credit card information off of. When that happens, will consumers (and the media!) blame Apple for making an insecure phone or the repair store for using untrusted hardware?
Java is not a safe language
Manufacturing cost for Lego pieces is relatively high, though, given the effort they put into keeping precise amounts of 'clutch power' for every brick.
Governments can contain businesses, and those businesses should run sort-of like businesses. They should care about customers. Ideally, not at a huge deficit.

In Canada, this is called a "crown corporation".

Canadian examples include CATSA (like the TSA), CBC (TV network), VIA Rail (like Amtrak), LCBO and Ontario Cannabis Retail Corporation (provincial monopolies on alcohol and marijuana sales, respectively).
I remember they pitched Mongolia as a place this would be used, but I fail to see how it actually would be. I haven't been back to Mongolia since this came out, but I would bet good money that no one (besides whatever government entity signed onto (bribed/schmoozed) the project) would use this. English isn't that common among nomads that it would make any sense. Everyone knows the Latin alphabet, but reading and writing is all in Mongolian Cyrillic, so it doesn't even make sense that way.

In the cities (where the large majority of the population lives) in the organized ger districts, there are street names and numbers, so this is really a solution in search of a problem.
Nice. All philosophies (or religions, what have you) must be pursued with kindness for all beings first, last and middle.
Seems pretty similar to food trucks (other than the delivery part).
Gut-Busting New York City Buffets That Won’t Pinch Your Wallet
I am sincerely hoping for Beto to blow up. We need someone like Beto because 1. He is young 2. He was a hacker [we need people in politics that understand the most important driver of commerce now] 3. He was in a punk band 4. He is from Texas [he will be forced to have a balanced approach] 5. He campaigns hard 6. He can inspire people positively [as opposed to the constant whining that politics have become]
I was thinking exactly this whilst unfollowing people on Twitter who weren't feeding my hopeless obsession with Brexit. Hashtags are too ephemeral and gamed.
>Why would you want hundreds of full page renderings open on your computer at one time while you're doing other things?

For me, it's not hundreds. It's usually less than 50.

For throwaway content (not elevated to reference), the active tabs are easier to get to than navigating the bookmarks UI.

>Would a screenshot being saved with your bookmark solve this need?

It might help in some aspects but the core problem remains: the bookmarks UI is a separate area that I don't want to "manage" and that effort isn't worth it unless the webpage is promoted to reference status. Dozens of open tabs are just way easier and a more seamless experience. I often cycle through open tabs with Ctrl+PgUp and Ctrl+PgDn similar to cycling through active windows with Alt-Tab. Bookmarks UI don't have a "cycle" mode.
Fun factoid: in the 1930s, it was discovered that you could inject human urine into African clawed frogs; if the frogs subsequently ovulated, the human was pregnant, and for something like 2 decades this became the universal standard test for human pregnancy. It's thought by some that the circulation of those African clawed frogs introduced chytrid pathogens to habitats around the world, since the first recorded pathological chytrid specimens were from South Africa.
They are traders not oil refinery managers. If a trader has the knowledge that a refinery is having a problem minutes or even seconds before other traders they can use that to their advantage and maybe make profit in the market.
What happens when all ISPs in the country combine forces to block Voat, even though there's no law banning it?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_censorship_in_Austral...

Are you going to suggest that people start their own ISP?

At some point, private actors can carry so much economic power that their private rules effectively become laws. Much of Jim Crow was implemented in this manner, in addition to actual legislation.
You don't need to meditate to achieve this. You just need nitrous oxide.

This is great for going to the dentist, but I suppose it's not so great for managing chronic pain, however.
The reason I used Facebook (emphasis on the past tense here) and not Google+ is for one reason only:

I could not post something on my wife's "wall/timeline" in Google+.

This is different than "tagging" someone in that it goes on their page, not yours so their friends can see it.

I closed it and never used it again.
Tried to create an Outline but it seems WSJ blocks them. Very interesting article wrt economics of buffets in NYC. Apologies for paywalled link.
A Survey of CPU Caches (2017)
Not true if the other party stands to profit from the misleading activity. For example, pump & dump

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pump_and_dump
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> Phone companies can't refuse to connect calls systematically from a bad actor

Isn't that exactly what T-Mobile is doing with their scam blocking? Or did you mean something a bit different?
Are you saying that nanoparticles of plastic couldn't ever be small enough for "ingestion"?

I'm having trouble finding references to support my claim, other than phytoplankton attaching themselves to plastic particles, which are then consumed by zooplankton, or plastic particles blocking sunlight thereby preventing photosynthesis, but nothing about actual plastic "consumption".
This doesn’t answer the question because it’s relative to the price of buying at the restaurant. Who is losing the 80% of normal cost? Is it the restaurant or the delivery company?
Why would you expect us to have good models for unprecedented events of unprecedented scale? I’m all for high standards but this isn’t exactly a simple thing you’re pining for.
Yep. I run maybe half-a-dozen open tabs at any one time. And I close my browser at least once per day, which purges cookies, history, and cache. I rarely have issues with paywalls unless there is just no grace period at all for free article views.
I saw a cool demo using Project Tango that did this, except it didn't have live streaming video
This is a microcosm of why the information age has been one crazy miracle after another.
The G4 Powerbooks and first-generation Intel laptops were a PAIN to open up and service.

We only have it good for one generation (unibodies)
Why do we even ask these questions?

I don't want to work with someone who trusts their own quicksort implementation over one from an OSS library. It's a toxic combination of optimism and egotism that I don't have time for. What other stupid shit are they doing all day long? What does it say about my team if I'm on the asking end? Interviews are short, and information exchange is always limited.

Instead I may ask them to sort a complex object, or cook a piece of data that's organized opposite of what the UI will require. lots of people fail at these tasks. They're my version of fizzbuzz, but they actually represent the work we do.
While this is ideal, time and again it has been proved that an energized base and a demoralized opposition is the best chance at winning election. A passive middle will not win you anything.
good point, I think awards should go to NVidia
Like Steve says, performance is a complicated thing to measure. For one view on it, Lucet ships with a suite of microbenchmarks that compare its execution of wasm with the same C code compiled natively. The `make bench` target runs these. The most alarming regressions are in simple functions that take string arguments - the arguments have to be copied into the sandbox, and then the results copied out, in order to run a very simple function.

So, in those cases, we don't expect to match native, but things will get better when GC proposal lands in WASM, which gives support for operating on memory regions that are outside of WASM linear memory. But in most applications we've experimented with, we haven't found this overhead to be a showstopper.
Why down vote this comment, its true ?
There's enough important applications for single use plastics (keeping medical equipment sterile before use, for example) that I'd hate to see an outright ban.

However, I think we should be seriously be considering a cap-and-trade approach to managing it.

This could also be a tool to get corporations to use recycled material effectively. Post-consumer recycled material could either not count against the quota, or could be counted at a different rate than "virgin" plastic.
I got a similar impression from his Pod Save America interview.

The issue he lead with in his first 15 minutes was how he would restructure the supreme court to be 10 judges or something. Not health care, climate change, or the economy. If the host hadn't introduced him as a presidential candidate I would have thought he was some professor that they brought on the podcast.

To even begin to be successful in 2020 he's going to have to focus his message and speak with conviction. He would get destroyed going up against Warren/Harris/Bernie/Trump.
yea there are other ways to increase labor bargaining power too i just listed the most common off the top of my head
I think we're thinking much alike. I just cringe at the thought of "ruthless" being misheard as validation of some currently prevailing cultural behavior.

We can understand a new college grad naively walking into a well-paid "shitshow" (though we shouldn't forgive their college), but once the person understands better, they need to think rationally about who they want to be and what they want to do, not have help rationalizing.
I can't keep the dang frogs and toads out of my pool. I almost never see them in my yard, but in the warmer months, I see them every single morning in my pool. I live in the US Mid West.
Man Pleads Guilty to Phishing Scheme That Fleeced Facebook, Google of $100M
Just because you use a system like W3W or even just lat/long for a rural address in a developing country, doesn't really mean you will easily be able to navigate to it. Many rural roads don't have names/numbers and may not even be marked on mapping software. Navigating to these kinds of places takes local knowledge (or at least a GPS, a recent topo map, and careful planning) to get to.
My solution is 24/7/365 Do Not Disturb for calls from users not found in my contacts list. In the off chance (<5%) the call is NOT a robocall, they can leave a voicemail if it is important.
What optimizations you can expect from CPU? (2018)
but this is absurd levels of subsidy. Seems too much to be believed.
That will be a great remodeling of current chimneys. Most people I know in the south have them sealed off or gas fireplaces they rarely use.
But AGW is why those things are happening.
Because you never want to distinguish between never and Never and NEVER and NeVer. They are all the same word.

The only time that English is case-sensitive is when you want to distinguish between a proper noun and a similarly-spelled word, like rich and Rich. But that hardly ever matters for identifiers, which is what file names are.
Except for the part of the working class who voted for Trump mostly to oppose socialism.
I'm upvoting you because I find it interesting that you are a nurse trying to become a developer because you don't like current EMR systems - correct?

I'm not sure about your title here - what is an "emoji EMR"? Is it an emoji to represent EMRs? I'm missing something here, because the title doesn't seem to square with the description.

What are your ultimate goals?

Are you trying to learn web development tools to show how you (as a nurse) would create an EMR UI/UX?

Do you plan on creating some kind of EMR system (not a small task)?

Note: I have some small experience in this area; many years back I worked (as a software engineer) for a local web app development company and I was assigned to a client working in the space to create a "patient centric" EMR system. All went well until the client wanted us to backdate certain things relating to HIPAA readiness, which we were unwilling to do (at the time, it seemed unethical if not against HIPAA regs). The client ended up dropping us over that (plus balking at the cost, at the time, for what we rec'd for production colo, which was Rackspace, who had HIPAA compliance).
No, because they already have a restaurant. That’s a sunk fixed cost.
the weepy.lulls.emerge thing is really terrible
Had to scroll three-quarters of the way down the page to find the first person who read the article. Hi!
Nice to know that not every ecological disaster is our fault…

> probably via the international trade in pet amphibians

…oh, never mind then.
Of course, the Earth is not really an oblate spheroid, either. That's just a slightly more accurate approximation than a sphere. A quick look out the window reveals that the Earth is bumpy, covered in valleys, hills and mountains that are not included in the ellipsoid description.

As they say, "all models are wrong, but some are useful." The trick is to choose the simplest model that works. The right one to use depends on what you're using it for.
I viewed the source of the JetBlue demo and it's pretty cool how clean the markup looks. It also seems pretty compact for what at first glance looks like a complex page.

I'd like to see a paragraph somewhere explaining what exactly this framework is all about tho, not just a long list of features. It's a CSS framework like Bootstrap? What does it do differently than Bootstrap?
Open-Source Solution Could Lower Cost of Optical Cardiography
Just thinking about how much work and research from organizations like the CDC put in to preventing another Spanish flu-like pandemic for humans, it seems shockingly obvious that pandemics would be occurring for other species where technology and quarantine are not as strictly used. Its only through observations like this that I've realized how devastating the impact of contaminated ecosystems must be. I suppose that's why I've needed to check all those boxes about visiting farms/smuggling produce whenever I go through customs.

Since this article is specifically about frogs, I can't help but wonder if the drastic reduction of insect biomass isn't contributing to their decline. With numbers as drastic as a 75% decline in certain areas[0], it's hard to imagine frogs/birds/etc. aren't suffering from population decline due to reduced food availability.

[0] https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/as-insect-populat...
Unemployment, economy, stock market, GDP - all have been on the exact same trajectory post the 2009 recession. We would have been exactly here even if a tree was the President. The only thing that got worse economically was the Federal deficit, which is a trillion dollars now.
Coding an approximation to a Godel machine naively probably isn't that hard, relatively speaking - it would essentially be an extension to a symbolic computation system. What would be hard is running such a thing with any efficiency.
This is amazingly cool, can't wait to try it out. Is it viable even for small home projects?
> Food delivery startups are not able to scale up in markets like US where delivery guys are expected to use their own cars, pay for gas and high insurance while delivering you $10 dollar food. How are these companies supposed to make profits?

I'm not sure how you figure that is the case. Pizza delivery has been a thriving business almost everywhere in the US for decades. Domino's is a booming $10 billion pizza chain built on delivery (sales up over 50% in three years, for a 60 year old business).

You'll find that most every college town even has numerous food delivery options (restaurants & shops that deliver) and that that has been the case for decades.