skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> My question was how expensive would drugs have to get before we could stop claiming they wouldn't exist otherwise. Is your answer infinity dollars?

My answer is, the amount that it's worth over the status quo which you still have the option to choose instead.

> There's no "negotiate prices" with a single company having a patent/license to manufacture the drug either.

Sure there is, because there are other drugs. The fact that they're not as good is what makes the patented one worth more than them, but it's only worth as much as it's worth, which is not an infinite amount.

> Yet you were happy to count that under "market working as it should", but when people join together to bargain collectively (in the form of government), then the market is broken.

It's not collective bargaining in this case because the government is representing both sides of the table. On the one hand you have cancer patients who don't want to die even if it costs a million dollars, on the other hand you have taxpayers who don't want to pay a million dollars for someone else's treatment. It's an inherent conflict of interest.

You're not negotiating with drug companies to buy an existing drug here, you're negotiating with drug companies to decide what their incentive to research future drugs will be. "Pay less money" is what the taxpayer wants but not the cancer patient. The only way to make the conflict go away is to align who pays with who receives treatment, so that you decide yourself how much you're willing to pay, instead of someone whose incentive is to let you die so they don't have to pay as much.
The shortcoming with that line of reasoning is that it's still not wholly satisfying. Falsifiability is probably necessary but not sufficient for what most people consider to be science. The problem of induction still stands and falsifiability doesn't have much to say about it. Focusing on falsifiability seems incomplete as a philosophy of science.
There are some short-sighted counter-tactics showing up in this thread. "Do 2FA!" "Detect activity in JS!" "Scan new listings for copied images!" Sure, do those things. However, expect that after you fix the vulnerabilities currently being exploited, the bad guys will find others. They have every incentive to do so.

It's refreshing to see a comment that addresses some of the roots of the problem. Rather than only focusing on plugging holes in the dam, spend some effort finding ways to let off the pressure at the source.
Sounds like that could make for a great PhD project! I would be interested in hiring a student to do that :)
A closed path is S^1, which is certainly orientable, no matter what it's embedded into. You just draw an arrow on the line.

ColinWright's point is that drawing such an arrow on a tiny circle is equivalent to drawing the letter R on the 2D manifold. It gives a local orientation to the 2D surface. (If you wish you may think of this as an arrow into some 3D embedding space, but you don't have to.)

If the 2D space is orientable, then when you take a copy of this little circle (or letter R) and go for a long walk, when you get home your copy will always match the original. That's all that orientable means. In the standard usage, it's a property of the 2D manifold, not of the particular walks you take. I think this is the point of confusion here.
> code blocks with language hints

CommonMark also supports code blocks with language hints (using the ```lang... syntax). What Org-mode has, in addition to code blocks with language hints, is inline code with language hints, which neither CommonMark nor GFM support.

> tables

I'm horrified that, indeed, CommonMark doesn't have tables, though you're right that most people now just use GFM.
It always infuriated me that MS usually wasn't using the tools they gave to developers for their own stuff. I think it has got a little better in the last years. Now they seem to be using UWP to some degree. But before that they didn't use Winforms or MFC. WPF only for VS 2010 and up.
No.. the entire point of a reproducible build is so that you can rebuild the same thing given the same inputs across the world different servers.

Testing that md5sum(software A) works just like md5sum(software A) is just pointless?
Germany Prepares for the 'Painful' End of Internal Combustion
As I see a number of posts negative on the NSF SBIR, so let me speak up in its defense. I'll discuss my experience as well as address some of the criticism I see above. I'll try and answer some follow up questions for people in the replies if I can as well.

My company (zeroK NanoTech) probably wouldn't exist if it where not for this program.

NSF SBIR can aid in the translation of technology that sits in the no-mans land between basic research and commercial technology. In my case the basic potential for our tech had been developed when I was a postdoc, but the federal lab where I worked (NIST) wasn’t going to be able to translate it. At the same time, there was not a great chance to obtain venture or similar funding because the market was a bit too small.

Building off the results of our SBIR-funded research we were able to obtain additional investment from a larger company interested in our technology.

The Phase I program is competitive, I recall about 15% of applications are accepted, but the application here isn’t so onerous, btu the funding amount isn’t very large; this is just for ‘proof of concept ‘ work. The odds of matriculating to Phase II and a much larger pot of money are better, about 40%. There is a decently long gap between your decision to apply and beginning of the project, but I know the NSF is working on this. The NSF is also unique in that you can apply with just about any kind of technology; most other SBIRs are not anything like this.

I’ve also served on review panels for these grants. While it is the case that some applications come from largish companies who seems to subsist on SBIRs, the NSF makes a big effort to invest in 1st time applicants if they have a solid plan. My ‘company’ in our first application was just myself and my cofounder and very little other resources and we won our award. Once you are an awardee, I found the program officers to be very helpful.
You seem to be saying that the meaning of this clause in the standards is undefined (or is it implementation-defined?)

I have no idea what the authors of the standard would have in mind in putting a non-binding constraint in a standard, unless there's a faction that hopes to make it binding in the future, and hopes this will pave the way.
Bias is something intentional or at least stems from some wrong thinking, even sub conscious. The point here is that it is not bias but rather technical reasons. Not every difference is bias. There is a common trend now to look at every difference in outcome as bias or discrimination and it is very political motivated, works only to one direction and in general has no evidence except from the different outcome itself which could be explained by million reasons. Difference is not bias.
I guess this thing has a pretty sophisticated control system to keep it stable, similar to modern combat aircraft. I also wonder if they have any fuel dumping procedures for an aborted launch; landing with a non-empty launch vehicle still on board seems quite scary.
From what I know for a long the OS division who writes Windows has been at war with the developer division who writes .NET and refused to use .NET. I think it has gotten a bit better recently.
Actually, with regard to whether the sound is better, I think the biggest point that I like about live orchestras is that I can see the performers... each performance is different, I can see where different sounds are coming from and see the passion each player is putting into it. The acoustics are of course also great since the conductor is varying volume to match the room, but it really connects me to the music to watch the person playing the line I'm following with my ear.
Oh I completely agree. I felt completely incompetent when it came to AWS 18 months ago. But now with a lot of studying for 5 certifications (just as an organized company paid study plan), a lot of late nights beating my head on my desk, some green field initiatives, and abuse of our business support plan with AWS’s excellent live chat support,I’m pretty comfortable with most of the non obscure parts Of AWS outside of the Docker and Big Data/ML parts. I’ll be working on those over the next year.
We are also validating responses against JSON schemas in our Ruby production apps. I can confirm it's a very helpful practice and I'm a big fan of it.

Currently we are checking 100% of the responses. I even wrote this gem which uses native code to perform the schema validation to minimize the overhead in our endpoints: https://github.com/foxtacles/rj_schema Validating our largest and most complex responses is taking <10ms, on average no more than 2-5ms which is quite affordable.
That's a proper argument. I did not think that far
It used to be binding, was later changed to be non-binding.
Isn't the problem, then, that the software doesn't work well enough with dark skin?
Having bonds in your portfolio doesn't mean you want a stock market crash
The article contains no occurrences of the term “racism” or “racist.”

Why is there necessarily no problem with a bias if it comes from a physiological difference? If a certain group of people gets falsely convicted of crimes at a disproportionate rate because some computer program misidentifies them more frequently than it does other groups, that is a huge problem that needs to be fixed, even if the misidentification is due to some inherent difference between the group.
Website devs, what took 15 - 20 devs now takes 5
I used to Photoshop>Pixellate a nice photograph very coarsely, and cherry pick a few colours from the resulting "swatch". Not sure how sound a method it was, but it got me past analysis paralysis when starting a new project.
Farmers? Have you eaten in the last couple of days? Not to mention mining and manufacturing. OECD is a global organization looking at world wide changes, movement of jobs elsewhere doesn't mean they've disappeared.
That feature wouldn't make any sense outside of very basic microcontrollers, you don't have any sort of determinism due to things like branch misprediction, cache misses, and pre-emptive multitasking.
But S^1 isn't curved. At least if we mean intrinsic curvature, which is the kind that belongs to the manifold itself.

S^2 is curved, but locally you can't tell it's not (say) RP^2.
More on this informative site by a Russian space geek now living in the US:

http://russianspaceweb.com/soyuz1.html
I wrote a simple web app to find the five most dominant colours in a photo, and present them as a bottom layer to the uploaded photo with the hexadecimal code included. So much used, at least by myself I love to see detected colours in all sorts of scenes or motives.
Seems like Airbnb could monitor certificate transparency logs for these sketchy domains to inspect and initiate legal action against (at least for domains using not using an airbnb subdomain).
So maybe we should not be using opaque ML algorithms for life-and-death situations to begin with? Instead of, you know, hoping that whomever is screwed by them has an active advocacy group in places like MIT.
That’s great and all but Google still ranks Forbes articles much higher than content we produce which to anyone in our industry we are the circa TechCrunch for Food and Ag circa 2007. Unfortunately good doesn’t see it that way and favors bigger name publications with much lower nutritional value.
I agree.

From the article - """Journalists and other news purists may also wonder whether the Times newsroom is now being tasked with producing lots of emotional stories.

Neither is the case, Allison Murphy, senior vice president of advertising innovation, told me in an interview."""

If this isn't a lie already it will be in a few months.

The simplistic counterargument is that writers do this already but as we know... once we have numbers to target the optimizations will kick in.

This won't end well :P
That’s a good point, the higher the inclination the more of the equatorial rotations Speed you need to cancel out. I’d still argue it gives you more flexibility overall compared to a higher latitude launch site.
I agree with you, just want to call out a pet peeve of mine: in the boiling frog experiement, the boiled frog had its brain removed [1]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boiling_frog
Forgotten Camera-Cover on Streetview Camera
For those who like to read instead: https://web.archive.org/web/20190213042938/https://www.gmo.c...

( I tried to submit it multiple times, but it never took off )
What you describe is different that the topic that came up on HN recently. In that case the author decided that he wants to have someone monitor him. That’s completely different than having a manager constantly look over your shoulder.
Using NL for such things hasn’t been working too great, so it seems worthwhile to try for something better.
If they do, every major shareholder and member of the board of directors of Pepsi should have a permanent array of drones following them, with projectors beaming ads wherever they look. At minimum.
Extinction Rebellion
Its a Document Store which has a whole bunch of read/write interfaces, including Graph, Cassandra, "SQL" (Document), and Table.

And this is part of the problem. Only the Document interfaces work correctly and performantly.
Having gone through some of this, the timelines, requirements, selection process, etc. make the SBIR largely non-viable for a serious outsider tech startup effort and without outside primary funding.

It's great, for example, for professors not fully committing to a venture, but wanting to run it on the side over a prolonged time. Likewise, for a contractor shop cranking these out every year, or a stable non-startup wanting to get an R&D engineer covered. If you are indeed coming from inside the system, it can be a great supplement!

But for most startup folks here, your effort would go out of business before the successive funding rounds materialized, and there is too much risk that they don't happen to rely on them. You can read between the lines on the success stories reported even here. Your limited time is better spent on non-SBIR investors & customers.
> The presumption is that this is racism, but is there any support that it’s not caused by physiological differences?

The conclusion is that the system is biased towards a particular race. The reasons WHY it was biased makes no difference to the fact that the system IS biased.
There are far more than 4* the number of websites though, so it's likely there are more web devs now.
These are lovely! I might use this in some cartography work.

Do these palettes take color blindness/accessibility into account? I looked around on the site (admittedly not thoroughly) but didn’t see this addressed.
This is the core problem.
I'm all for Medicare for all, but what to do with the many physician assistants, nurses, billing specialists that the US is employing and promoting as a middle class career as we speak.

These people will not just stay silent when they become unemployed because practitioners can't afford to keep them.
You need retraining programs (in what? Beats me ...), fund unemployment insurance ...

The point is that things don't happen in a vacuum.
Yangs fans did it themselves.
Lamport also made a free video series for learning TLA+

http://lamport.azurewebsites.net/video/videos.html
Do you mean "is it tested?" if so, I can see some results in table 1. Or do you mean "too big, therefore prone to UB, therefore not usable"?
The story doesn’t cite the specific paper. But I think I submitted the paper last month:

“Predictive Inequality in Object Detection”

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19379827

https://arxiv.org/abs/1902.11097

I’m not denying the conclusion of the paper, but it does have a lot of limitations. Also, Tesla notwithstanding, isn’t object detection primarily done via lidar?
"At some point I’ll be forced to upgrade to touchID/faceId iPad for her as well."

She'll figure that out too. "Hey, look at this picture I drew! Ignore that little hole at the top of the page."
Yes. That is definitely key to living cheap on the water -- skirting the law.

It is a similar situation for walk-on moorings with shore power and water in Sydney. The marina in the bay I linked charges thousands per month for large vessels, but does allow live-aboard tenants.
Depends on your payload and complexity of what you want. There are a couple of design on Thingiverse that uses hobbyist RC servos. The total cost should be less than $100.
> Why should our taxes be handed out for risky business endeavors with no direct public benefit, when the private sector already has the means to handle this.

SBIR/STTR money is primarily used for R&D work for high risk technology. The risk being that it might not work, or might not solve the problem you're trying to solve. You don't spend the money on marketing and sales. It's meant for technologies precisely in the stage that the private sector is not good at handling, for similar reasons that the private sector isn't good at funding basic research. This stage is referred to as the funding gap or the valley of death[0][1].

[0] https://www.nap.edu/openbook/18944/xhtml/images/p37.jpg

[1] https://nsf.gov/eng/iip/innovation.pdf
Well, when Boston Dynamics' dog robot walks into your house with a gun on its back, it's about making sure it knows how to differentiate you from the bad guy it's looking for.

We don't want autonomous killer bots to not be able to tell black people apart just because their creators can't.
the lunchtable example in the article sounds like overfitting.
Agriculture is quite automated these days. Self-driving harvesters have been around for a couple of years.
We're the same with our two kids, although not specifically the flying allowance because we don't fly with enough frequency for that to be a thing. Tablet usage is an earned treat, and if I calculated their usage, it would probably average to 90 minutes a week.

That being said, I do worry I'm doing them a disservice. I make a very good living, relatively, in the IT field, and I ascribe that 100% to the fact that my parents bought a micro computer in 1982 and allowed me full access to it whenever I wasn't specifically doing anything else. I don't think I would be where I am if they had put some restrictions on my use of the computer. Admittedly I spent the majority of my time playing with BASIC rather than cutting fruit with my finger, so the use cases are totally different. However, by restricting their access I am limiting their ability to do anything with a tablet, including maybe discovering some programming application, or something that might light their imagination as mine was back in the 80's.
I have seen lots of color palettes that look just as nice as these.

But in terms of marketing and positioning a color palette, this is a really superb effort.

The Nordic inspiration and theme, the association of emotions (peace, balance) with colors and color combos ... it's all extremely well done.

Anyone else looking to market this type of work would do well to study it.
You also have to check any new doctor during and after surgery while you are unconscious :-).
Is this like formal verification/formal methods then?
Are you asking for examples where NL hasn’t done well or for potential ways to do better?
Apple’s HQ, Ruskin, Gothic Architecture, and Agile
You are correct — however, it mentions her politicking on the basis of it being so:

> Buolamwini, who’s also founded a coalition of scholars, activists and others called the Algorithmic Justice League, has blended her scholarly investigations with activism.

To respond to your main point:

> If a certain group of people gets falsely convicted of crimes at a disproportionate rate because some computer program misidentifies them more frequently than it does other groups, that is a huge problem that needs to be fixed

No, it doesn’t.

Not if the reason it’s happening is some physical characteristic just makes it harder to be sure in those cases.

The only relevant question is if the rate in each category is acceptable in terms of false positives, and truly, if in each case we reach a level of certainty that convicts the individual beyond a reasonable doubt.

The only reason that you care so much is that you’re a racist, who believes we need to balance the treatment of racially essential tribes — rather than that we need to ensure our technology works at an appropriate level on an individual basis, where varying physical characteristics mean it works more or less well for different people, for which the only relevant criterion for its use in a case is its certainty for a particular face (and not its relative certainty for classes of faces).

I notice you people only seem to be outraged on the topic of small differences in skin color — but that familial DNA tracing works better on men than women is just accepted and taken as normal.

Can you explain why you think differential facial recognition scores actually is meaningful? I mean, you asserted it was a problem — what particularly is problematic about it?

Edit:

For below — no, just this particular case isn’t racism, it’s a genuine difference between people and someone trying to racebait about it.

Not every racial difference is racism, and a lot of claims of racism are just made up nonsense.

https://youtu.be/wR2lK36Tc4M
The important point is that the information that gets to the public should be in the public interest, not business interests.
Also crows:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cbSu2PXOTOc
I believe that ThousandEyes, a very successful Bay Area start up now funded by tier 1 Sandhill Road folks was initially funded with this or something similar.
Elsewhere, it's reported American Airlines has cancelled MAX flights through mid-August (or perhaps more correctly has adjusted their schedule to account for this model missing in the fleet); other airlines are making similar adjustments. I suspect this is based on getting final reports for the two crashes, and something from the NTSB. At this point no matter what Boeing and the FAA say about the new software, I think it'd be a questionable business decision for airlines to put these airplanes back into service without final reports on the crashes.
I plan my diet around whatever vegetable is on sale that week. Then pair a protein with it and maybe a staple starch like lentils or quinoa. You can roast the veggies and protein in simple seasonings and make the starch in a rice cooker with some low sodium broth. Easy weeknight dinner in 30 minutes
I do not! And I'm not running on anything particularly high-spec either.
you can't really define what's going to happen without including an ISA in your language spec.

That's called "implementation-defined".
Aargh, it's kinda pretty and I want to like it, but it really bugs me that these colors don't actually match their descriptions. It feels like an "arctic" color map made by people who have mainly seen the far north on Instagram.

Especially the "Aurora" palette, which is made up mostly of colors that are extremely rare to see in auroras. But also the light and dark palettes without any blue in them are way off, and the description of arctic ice as green-ish is weird.

Also the visual contrast between e.g. nord7 and nord8 is extremely poor.
These seem to already be the crazy days.

I remember when he was selling games way before any "indie games", even before Bejewled if I remember correctly.

I also thought regarding sleep, that he woke up every morning at the same time, and went to bed when he was tired.
I’ve seen no evidence of it.

What I’ve seen is differential comparisons, eg, comparing the rate of white detection to black detection or the difference in certainty scores on each — but I’d really appreciate it if people could show me the actual certainty numbers on black faces so I can see if it’s failing to recognize, misrecognizing, or just less sure then white faces.