skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If this was around 10 or so years ago, my understanding for the stricter pilot requirements was that same glut of recruits. The Air Force flip-flops on how strict or lax they are on some of those based on the need for pilots at any given time. When there's a deficit, suddenly someone with 20/70 vision can get a slot as a heavy (cargo or bomber) pilot, but when there's a glut they want everyone to have 20/20 vision. It's an arbitrary discriminator because they don't have more effective methods.
Why did she “need” a CT scan? Doctors love to order excessive CT scans to help pay off the machine.
I'm just waiting for mainstream media sites to abuse this to put: 20% OFF SUBSCRIBE NOW in the URL of their page.

Edit: HN doesn't support emoji in comments. That was supposed to be surrounded by sirens.
I trust that someone in the near future will mess with the release build process and the signage will be dropped. Or there might be cases when the signature is suddenly invalid for reasons you cannot forsee yet.
Keep the item on the list, especially if it checks the outcome of a longer process.
Cool, thanks for expanding on your point.
According to the article, Twigg has only been homeless for five years

No, the article is a bit confusing on this point. Read through the whole thing, though: Twigg was homeless as a kid, before she was ever a top tier cyclist. Her mother kicked her out of the house, for some reason the article doesn't explain. This most recent stretch of homelessness has only been five years though.
While some people could be tempted with "paid 3x as much..."

...3x as much as an Air Force pilot whose job is to...wait for it...sometimes drop bombs on people and kill them.

Let me know if you need a step ladder to help you off that high horse.
Satellite confirms key NASA temperature data: The planet is warming – and fast
What does this strange value for “Percent CPU” mean in Performance Monitor?
That's the worst because most likely you are already locked out of most systems so you can't even communicate.
Ask HN: Some questions about recruiting on the job
I'm currently employed but I think it's a good idea to look for another potentially better gig.

1. If I get an offer from a mid-tier company, how long can I stall for? For example, could I put them off continually for a month? Longer?

2. Is it advantageous for me to mention my level? I'm at a relatively big and known company, and I leveled in one year to L2... should I mention this to recruiters / managers?
The US and Russia have been closer to being in a shooting war over the past 5 years, then they have in the last decade of the cold war.

They still have thousands of nuclear weapons pointed at eachother, on hairtrigger alert.

There is zero rational reason for that fear disappearing.
The biggest downside of an open office for is that I type really fast and loud on a mechanical keyboard some of my colleges are bothered by. But other people find the noise relaxing, so maybe I need to just have all the loud clackers get together in a single room.
The thing with those tanks is that it’s effortless to do a sanity check and receive immediate input anytime you like. You can touch the tank, lift the lid, etc.

Your point still stands of course.
Ask HN: Why Does Silicon Valley Hate Trump?
It seems the delicate sensibilities of a few must be protected from Trump at all costs. What is it about him that so triggers the bejesus out of them?

Also, is it just Trump the President? Or was this hatred there (but less visible) before 2016? One more, is it only Trump the man, or does SV also hate his supporters, and if so, why?
It was free for XP, 7, 8 and 8.1 users.

Plus every new release since then.
Can we update the link to the original technical post?

https://hacks.mozilla.org/2019/04/pyodide-bringing-the-scien...

@dang
I don't think you understand how light works.
Freezing your head might be good idea. If one day you could simulate a braina and scan a brain in sufficient detail just freezing might be enough to keep sufficient detail.

Who you are must be in chemistry of your brain not in the electricity because you are same person after epileptic seizure as before.
> (If they're explicitly trying to cause me pain, that would be a no.)

That is my point.

I imagine that, if this was a possibility, quite a lot of people would be ok (or even demand it) to make available "150 years after natural death" sentences, so that they can apply it to their newly deposed dictator. Then, once the new rulers become entrenched in power and begin to like it, they can start using it on their political opponents. Prisoner exchanges between warring countries could become quite interesting. Quite likely, some people might feel inclined to hang on to their loved ones forever. Remember Terri Schiavo [1]?

Feel free to imagine more interesting scenarios. If you don't start to shudder, you're just not thinking big enough. You can watch this Black Mirror episode [2] to get you started.

This gives a whole new meaning to the expression "killer application".

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terri_Schiavo_case

[2] https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5058700/
> because I think it is a little creepy checking people's post history.

It's not creepy. It's part of having a responsible and informed dialogue.
Ethic implications = Somebody unethtical runs with it, until the economics of scale make the crime unattractive and the ethic dilemma is replaced with a cheap - ehtically netural alternative.

At least there where meetings with free soft drinks and canapes.
Scientists Restore Some Function in the Brains of Dead Pigs
Not due to startups necessarily so much as changing insurance a lot. I'm on my 6th insurance plan in 4 years (Job 1, not a startup, lasted 9 months. Job 2, a startup, changed insurance 2 months after I started then again the next year for a total of 3 plans over 2.5~ years on the job. Job 3, a startup, had better than average insurance (with a weird/awesome reimbursement plan so I pay 0 deductible and 0 premium and get to cover my wife for free too!). Then one month after I started we got acquired and so in 2019 I now have a normal (still good) corporate insurance policy.

On top of that insurance frustrates my wife so before we were married when she was on PhD student insurance I generally managed that too, plus her transition to my insurance after marriage.

So I'm definitely out-of-norm on this. If anything I like to think that means I'm more qualified to call out how bullshit the world of insurance is, atleast in terms of end-user UX, but obviously that's just my opinion.
I've always wanted to add a clause to those consent forms stating that my consent is conditional to the provider being in-network for the insurance information I provided the hospital. It is their responsibility to make that determination before they start treatment. If they provide treatment and find that they're not in network, then they forgo the right to bill for that service.
How would we know if you wanted to change your decision after you are dead?
One time I switched jobs the company I left was so small (I think ~ 15 to 18 people) it turned out that COBRA wasn't available and new job benefits didn't kick in for 90 days. This was between when the ACA was passed and took effect so getting private insurance for the gap was scary. (Going without coverage was not an option, I have serious medical history.)
This is also the reason why I've never looked seriously into starting a company. I wonder how many jobs would almost instantly be created in the US if this factor of uncertainty was lifted.
Countries have quite happily committed suicide. Consider the attack on the United States by Imperial Japan. Everyone in that government knew that the war they were starting was unwinnable. They were right, and their empire and government was dismantled in 1945.

You can't expect rational behavior from governments. In a time of crisis, there will always be some idiot in power, who doesn't want to face reality, or cares about their pet issue more then overall well-being, or feels that they have no alternative options.
The onus is on you if you make that declaration. You don't know that the reason the machine triggers more frequently in "black hair" is because of improper testing, you're just asserting that. There are such things as objective differences that have objective implications.
For certain strains in certain context sure, but I’m still confused why a Taiwanese populist would side with CPC.

Sure, you could naïvely buy into the whole reunification thing, but it’s not like Beijing wouldn’t assert complete control. Just look at Hong Kong, or the fact that the mainland has a couple of orders of magnitude more of... everything.
Dosyago
Your brain can't hurt, but presumably a phantom body could be made to hurt by providing the right neural stimulation.
I agree, however this is the unfortunate reality of the private healthcare system maximizing for profit. Consumers rarely have proper choice in shopping around or choosing doctors and insurance providers take advantage of this by inventing as many different systems as they can to avoid paying out.

That's why I think full free market healthcare simply won't work. It's far too much at odds with people that need medical care, made worse if you need timely medical care.
> the more private companies are in the healthcare mix, the higher the costs seem to run

One worrying thing about single-payer healthcare in America is that we can look at other countries with a _rich history_ of single-payer healthcare from before the modern era [0] and see that they have developed efficient public healthcare systems, but it does not follow that our system, with its similarly rich history of for-profit entities developing methods to thrive in the weird world of American health insurance, can be immediately brought to a level of cost efficiency that is comparable. Consider, for instance, how much ownership of the healthcare space is held by private equity firms in the U.S. I'd love to see a great transition plan towards single payer, but it would need to be one that takes into account that the operators have no inherent incentive to reduce costs.

[0] http://www.euro.who.int/__data/assets/pdf_file/0020/96410/E7...
Prices will only go down if competitors also lower their margins. In a competitive market new competitors will enter if margins are high.
Based on history and other industries, I'm gonna say they'll take the profits. At the very least, any savings they pass on to consumers won't be proportional to what they experience.

eBooks save money on printing and distribution but often aren't any less expensive than printed books.

eTickets save money on processing but ticket platforms charge a "convenience fee" on top of the ticket price.

When oil/fuel is at record lows, do airlines lower ticket prices in line? No.

Here's an example from finance: when banks save money via online banking and more advanced ATMs (allowing them to employ less people), do they lower their fees? No.
https://www.latimes.com/business/lazarus/la-fi-lazarus-price...
The Bizarre History of Buca Di Beppo, America’s Most Postmodern Red Sauce Chain
Does Psychological Pain Exist? and Why It Matters
It's not included in the browser, it's just a web page.
There's no way that a multi-thousand dollar EV wildcard cert is a "loss leader".
there is also a distincion between the coastal ice sheets and the continental interior ice and snow cap.
the apparent paradox is caused by misrepresentative interpretation of a report, by the author of the article.

the coastal ice shelf and continental interior are two distinct physical systems.

isostatic rebound is a confound to the measurement of snow/ice accumulation when change of altitude is corelated to snow deposition.

http://rses.anu.edu.au/geodynamics/tregoning/7.pdf [PDF]

https://www.worldatlas.com/articles/what-is-post-glacial-reb...

BTW Re: " and I'm hoping someone can more authoritatively describe the paradox because I'm feeling unsatisfied."

you wont get anymore of an authoritative take on it than discussing it with a scientist, as you are currently doing right now.
>The fact that certain hairstyles are more popular within a racial group IS the discriminating factor, not the machine.

Most of the people who ordered, designed, built and tested the machine are white.

They don't have to explicitly discriminate against blacks.

They can just go their business as usual, designing stuff based on their own norms and cultural habits, and it will come out as naturally discriminating.

If all those whites doing the machine's design had those "certain hairstyles" in the same ratio as blacks, and were flagged as much when they've tested it, they'd have considered this facet of the machine as useless and removed it...
> which should in theory make it more efficient for the sake of maximizing profit

There are multiple reasons why this doesn't work for healthcare even in theory.

- Emergency care can't be substituted without massive cost. Providers compete on distance not on price.

- Emergency care can't be denied (or at least we don't want this) on the basis of price.

- Health is not insurable like cars, etc. You can't predict in advance when you are going to get in a car wreck so you better buy insurance when you get the car. If you could, the price of the insurance would be the price of the car, and therefore worthless. But you could just wait until you feel sick to get health insurance. This is why the ACA has to be paired with the individual mandate to work properly.
Half of all recent sea level rises have been from thermal expansion of water: https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/global-warmin...
Persistent virtual memory is the future.
It seems like we are both partially correct. They could deny you for up to a year for a pre-existing condition prior to the ACA.

https://twocents.lifehacker.com/you-could-be-denied-pre-exis...
ha, I like the clip with the car music -- "Barefoot Blue Jean Night" by Jake Owen
That certainly fits both my employer and my wife's.

Both are large and old.

When I meet with clients in any sort of sales capacity, I wear a suit. Daily wear is nice casual (jeans, button down shirt). Conventions or site visits are pants and a jacket, no tie.
> Just selectively picking out the worst part of its history

There aren't many good parts in European history about the treatment of Jews.

> trying to make it representative for the whole religion

It has nothing to do with the religion, and everything to do with the culture.
...it still generates energy. It's a small amount for a small application, but it's purposeful energy.
The phenomena is linked to how often someone switches jobs in the United States irrespective of the type of company or employment (full-time, part-time, self-employes etc).

No matter what an individual’s stance is with respect to another individual’s professional history in terms of frequent changes or gaps, I don’t think that has to correspond to level of healthcare that the latter individual is able to obtain.
Saturday, 17 April, 2984. London Nova, Archmuseum of Human History, 21st Century Repository.

965th anniversary of “Early 21st century’s Uniform Resource Locator portraying a slice of the time’s Gordian technological landscape.”
> it is just a pagan celebration with a fake wrapping of Jesus

There's actually quite a bit of history and uncertainty re: December 25.

See:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christmas#Choice_of_December_2...

http://newadvent.org/cathen/03724b.htm
The future of generalized intelligence will not be based in brittle datasets, but purely based off repeated self-play, allowing for the bootstrapping of an infinite amount of possible data.

Rule based systems fail catastrophically the moment they encounter something that has not been codified into their rule set. I point to Chess as a prototypical example with two AI engines, StockFish and AlphaZero. StockFish, a manually created meticulously designed over the course of decades expert system, is handily defeated by AlphaZero, a reinforcement learning based system that trains purely through self-play.

If you look at any of the sample games between the two AIs, you can see a distinct difference in style between the two. In colloquial terms, StockFish acts far more “machine-like” whereas AlphaZero plays with a “human grace and beauty” according to many of the grandmasters that commented on its play. These of course are purely due to the fact that StockFish has certain inherent biases caused by brittleness from its codified rule set, which causes it to make sub-optimal moves in the long run, whereas AlphaZero is free from the constraints of any erroneously defined rules allowing it to do things like sacrifice it’s pieces as a strategy. Meanwhile, because StockFish codes in the value of losing a piece as giving negative points, it inherently has to overcome this bias every time it might choose to make a move in this manner, pushing its search space to find moves where it doesn’t have to be sacrificing pieces which is more optimal under its rule set.
Don’t – The Secret of Self-Control
Nothing stops them from doing that.

On the other hand, candidates don't have to use the same strategy or excuse to gather support.
The interaction between Jews and Christians was continuous for more than a thousand years and they were still subject to genocides into at least the late 50s, There were large numbers of Americans who agreed with hitlers views of Jews during ww2 they were against the invading, less so the holocaust.

The problem is that judeo-christian is used to try and erase that from history, which then removes the context for “why do I believe Jews own all the banks/control the media/have horns/eat babies/incest/etc” - by removing the recognition that they were horribly abused for a millennia, people don’t realize that they’re simply repeating intentionally anti-Jew propaganda from the early Christian church.
This is not a new feature. It's a wasm library/app that you can use to code for your browser in Python.

So, it's actually pretty cool.

Also, the web browser has been an application platform for nearly 20 years now, so I'm not sure I understand your remark.
The fundamental problem is no body knows the cost of anything beforehand. Neither insurance company not doctors tell the cost of the care. Its really frustrating ! The first step to fix the problem is getting the cost of the care transparently. Without this i am not sure how any of the scheme works whether it is done by govt or private insurance companies !
Personally I like SFML because you can just slap it into a quick project and get things rolling quickly but I agree with it trying to handle too much. I suppose the main reasoning was that it was intended for creating video games. At least you can pick and choose different headers ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
> embrace Tiddlywiki

I used to be an heavy TiddlyWiki user, and I went back to fiddle with it just this week, but even if my workflow feels better[^1] - well. Emacs and Org-mode have really, really spoiled me, and my dislike of browsers has only intensified over the last few years[^3], which is a shame.

> and they can be integrated into your workflow

How?

I was actually thinking of forcing Twine to fill that niche by using Twee and one of the Twee-to-Twine converters, but even if it's built on TW I don't think anyone would be happy with the result.

[^1] Put the info wherever using hierarchical tags which are also tiddlers, emphasis on small highly linked snippets of information versus the "decide which page this belongs to" of my current system[^2].

[^2] Basically Org-mode plus org-wiki plus quite a bit of custom Elisp, mostly to format the content of property drawers when exporting to HTML.

[^3] I still use machines with respectively 1 and 4 GB of RAM, and browsers are 1) huge memory hogs or without JS support and 2) not Emacs.
The roots of the Western world are Greco-persian. Persia was as powerful of a civilization as the Greeks and Persian thought was commonly used by the Greeks.

http://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/greece-iii
>You're advocating for weeks if not months of effort on every subject,

I've already said: "It's impossible for every subject? We don't have to care for "every subject", or adopt somebody else's stance (we haven't figured out ourselves) just to say we have one..."

Besides, that's the price of having an informed opinion -- instead of being a dupe or a parrot...

>I'm reading this all as "you'll never know anything, so don't bother".

That's surely one interpretation.

Another is, you don't have to know everything, but if you want to pretend you have an opinion on something, pay your dues...
737 Max pilot training should include simulator time: Marc Garneau
I want you to work hard, I just need you to be paid more (hopefully a lot!). I'm saying it's better if I'm paid less than you.

What I don't want is for you to put in more effort for the same pay and establish a "new normal".

That's all it takes for us both to be happy. I don't want to hold you back, m'dude.
% python —version
Python 2.7.15
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My wife recently worked for a startup and had them change the company policy to start benefits on day 1 simply by asking. No one really knew why the benefits started after N days and no one cared enough to change it previously.
How could I "policing other people's bodies"? I can't police any thing; I'm not a policeman and neither can nor ought to enforce my ideas on others.

I linked something above with respect to heavy metals; Scientific American is generally considered a good source. It lists infection risk, mercury exposure, and exposure to numerous other heavy metals as risks. I also imagine that these risks are increased with removal, as the ink must be broken up and processed by the body. Ancients mainly used ash, as I understand it, which is certainly lower risk than heavy metals. In any case, it seems to have very little reward for a high risk.

This is anecdotal, but I know some body who nearly had her leg amputated below the knee because of a chronic wound caused by an ankle tattoo becoming infected. This is doubly risky in light of the recent uptick in drug-resistant bacteria.

Finally, a European Commission report says the inks could have serious health consequences (https://www.theguardian.com/sustainable-business/2016/sep/28...).

> I think judging people is extremely tacky, especially when you do so in a way that makes you sound poorly informed about the subject matter.

I'm not judging a person over all, rather I am saying a choice he made may have been unwise. If the evidence I have provided is wrong, let me know why. It is the choice of any man what he does with his body, but that doesn't mean it's not okay to discuss the medical risks. Many people around here seem open to discussing the effects of other risky behaviors; why is it not okay to discuss the effects of this one?
+1! There's such a wealth of computer vision approaches of practical value locked up in CVPR and other research papers that could be exposed this way to enthusiasts and semi-pro users
Satoshi’s Treasure: new puzzle game with $1m prize in BTC
Why do you equate comedy production with obnoxious shouting in public? It doesn't even make sense as a strawman. I don't produce comedies because I'm not a filmmaker. I don't shout random insulting things in public because that's just dumb. Neither fact contradicts any of the views and beliefs I've expressed in this thread in any way.
Shameless plug for a tiny project I did a while back that does exactly this: http://nicolasbize.com/faviconx/
Thank you for divining my true intentions, sagely one. Your argument inherently invalidates any possible explanation for mechanisms that produce differing population outcomes, unless that explanation is racism. Working backwards from default explanations is textbook signifier of ideological thinking.
Sure! Updated from https://venturebeat.com/2019/04/16/mozilla-details-pyodide-a....
They won't let you have the procedure if you attempt to alter the agreement. I've tried!