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What’s a problem that you and/or others have that you desperately want solved?

What’s an app that you wish you had?

If you had a software developer that could make you whatever you wanted, what would you have them make?
I think 1 is assumed, that they're oblivious about their lies. But then why do the Truons or the Guru in the Blue Eyes puzzle matter?
Governments tax wealth and economic activity. Is there another system which is more fair? Lottery? Head count? Birthday?
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It's funny you mention that, I came here just to post another wonderful remix, "Erlang The Movie II: The Sequel".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rRbY3TMUcgQ
Does this release a huge carcinogenic cloud over Florida?
Not for individual moves, no. Top human players play so accurately, it would be almost impossible. Not to mention the fact that vast swathes of the opening are memorised computer moves. But over the course of a game there are usually one or two moves that are very much tells. Even top humans occasionally blunder. While 'computer moves' are characterised by having a lack of 'conventional' logic to them, and instead relying on a non-intuitive or long-term combination.

Many of AlphaZero's matches were also notable because it managed to achieve very clean strategic positions in a way that seem to be longer term and require more multitasking than a human game (AZs bishops, for example). I bet I could score (a little) more than 50% just shown a mid game board position, no moves.

So it is not 100% by any means. And AlphaZero did seem to be slightly more 'human' than Stockfish, and the games more entertaining as a result. Though still recognisably superhuman.

But I would say, the excitement in human chess is not just a set of moves, but the meta. What the players have played before, how fast they play, their use of time, where their mistakes happen, how risky do they need to play to make up points. This is often more apparent in either short time controls, long game series such as the world championship, or tournaments.

Like watching a good pitching duel in October baseball. A random number generator and pitching machine could conceivably statistically play better, but would miss the point.
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In CA when you go out to the desert areas you often hit fenced in areas you can't/shouldn't cross. This makes it very difficult to approach interesting areas. Sure there plenty of trails but I only realized how confined you are in CA when I got to Scotland where it's so much easier to roam around.
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The Wake is an exceptional book. It introduced me to the fact that Welsh meant slave in old English. It also led me to wonder whether the British trait of forelock tugging or deference to a supposed upper class was really just “colonization of the mind”.
I think the problem here is with Google's definition of success - they're cancelling products with many millions of satisfied users.

I'm not saying I have a perfect solution that would satisfy everyone. But, in the case of Reader or Inbox, for example, I think that they could keep the business going with about a couple of cents from every user. I feel that a company with as much power as Google should really do more to stay on its users' good sides.
1. Insurance got more expensive and worse under ACA (slash Obamacare). Fact.

2. I really don’t give a f*#% about paying for other people’s healthcare.

3. The bureaucracy surrounding pharmaceuticals, insurance, and healthcare markup are the majority of the problem.

4. Nobody wants to follow the money and point at exactly where up the chain the margins get retarded.

5. If it were up to me, I’d do something insane like throw the entire Sackler family in prison, drain their entire fortune, and use it to give free healthcare to everyone in America for the next 600 years.

6. I’m an idiot, and it should be plainly obvious why people shouldn’t listen to me.
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You are probably right. But also statistically, "nobody" is disabled or needs accessibility features. That's a poor argument for running in the opposite direction from providing them.

Benevolent systems cater to the least powerful user, not the median user, and I think it's good to support benevolent systems wherever possible, because businesses are naturally biased against benevolence.
People's tastes vary. There’s no definitive measure of quality better or worse way to enjoy something like tea. British tea tastes may be different to what you appreciate, but that’s nobody’s problem but yours.
This is a great sickness of the web: every website does custom styling on controls, and neglects all but the most primitive UIs. The result is a lowest common denominator: the web only really supports the click and the tap.

Consider the humble popup button: a native one can support mouse input, or arrow keys, or keyboard shortcuts, or type selection, or accessible interfaces. Take it a step further and support scripting.

But if your popup button is a div with an onClick, it won't support any of these. Even if you go the extra mile and reimplement all of them, the user won't even think to try it, because it's a "styled" snowflake. So the web sinks.

HTML is way easier because it does a hell of a lot less.
Most Type1 insulin-dependent diabetics start young, so it’s in the manufacturer’s interest to get you on their insulin for free in hopes that you get coverage later in life.

For type 2 diabetics, most are in or will be covered by Part D, so the manufacturers do the same thing.

But for a one-off treatment for those the middle aged, like the new HepC treatments, manufacturers don’t have the same incentives.
Funny thing, I read about Ithaca Hours before I went to college and found it fascinating.

Then I went to Cornell, and I have never, ever seen them in my four years there.

Although as a teaching assistant I did get paid approximately $10 an hour.
That approach is a good defense in depth technique.

Network security by itself doesn't work but entirely neglecting it as some misguided articles I read recently makes me wonder if security is actually moving backwards when it comes to fundamentals and principles.

Granted those supporters are frequently cloud vendors, that dont offer mature enterprise integration. But when smaller shops follow those as best practices I'm getting worried.
If you enjoy this type of stuff, a great read is:
IGNITION! An Informal History of Liquid Rocket Propellants
https://library.sciencemadness.org/library/books/ignition.pd...
I think estate tax should be 100% because you sure as shit don’t need your money when you’re dead. Change my mind.
There's a sobering book "The Great Leveler" that argues that the only time growing inequality is reversed is during large scale war or other mass death event like plague.
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Umm... that is a song by Drake, and is incoherent nonsense. I assume you meant to link to something else?
Nowhere did I or the OP say "socialized medicine". The OP said "our healthcare payment structure is totally whack." I advocated divorcing employer involvement in healthcare concerns, in whatever form that would take.

> Repeal laws and this would naturally stop happening

I agree. I think there are regulations that could be changed to immediately economically favor individuals purchasing individual insurance plans vs employer-provided insurance stuff. I'd probably be in favor of that, but would prefer single-payer. Regardless, I'm definitely against employer involvement in employee healthcare at all.
Funny that nobody seems to feel that way about the Romans
That works on SMS, but not totp
Is it only me or are they missing the most important question: will this service have an API that provides a reasonable abstraction and is stable enough to provide backwards compatibility to its consumers?

If not, a lot of the independent deployment niceness will become a major nightmare when consumers of the service's API need to be adapted (if that's even possible).
I challenge that. There are fewer disabled users, true. Statistically, they do exist. They far outnumber folks that use this feature.
Also: green belt and zoning. Not all that useful owning a bunch of land you can’t build on
I'm kinda skeptical about how they measure effectiveness. They use a survey, is that really an indicator of what might happen under any given real life situation?

Having said that I also am skeptical of the diversity training I have received as more often than not it seemed more like a finger wagging session and / or a gee whiz sort of Ted talk about bias, but with nothing to offer as far as solutions go.
> What's special about C# in that regard?

Not unique but far as I understand you can parse a C# module without knowing anything about it's dependencies.

> There's nothing wrong with Unicode text as a serialization format, so long as all your diff tools operate on the deserialized graph.

The point is you need to actually edit the de-serialized graph not the Unicode expression of program. Changes to the code aren't expressed as changed to the text, they're expressed as changes to the graph.

AKA diff is object foo nenamed object baz. And that's it.
Yep he did do the nasty in the past-y.

Oh My.
How is it unethical to protect your users from MITM attacks?

Why would any end user need “recourse” to connect to your server incorrectly?

If you’re no longer serving content over HTTP anyway, what opportunity is lost?
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25mg of Tyrian Purple costs $1,015.00 USD!

I can't find anywhere to buy clothes dyed with it.
Apparently silk dyed with it needs extra steps.
It occurs to me that this is one fundamental commonality across great people that includes likes of Einstein to Feynman to Knuth to Erdos. They can sense the curiosity of a person regardless of their background or expertise and cannot prevent themselves from infecting you with the fundamental joy of discovering nature's secrets. Passion is something they feel obligated to spread even if you are just a gardner or a cook or a high school student while they happen to be towering figures with Nobel or Field medals. If you have that email, please do share!

And RIP indeed.
> The actual people doing OpenJDK development and research of new features are mostly on Oracle's pay check, regardless of which company is doing maintenance.

That's only because Oracle hollowed-out the JCP (Java Community Process) and reduced its function to rubber-stamping Oracle-developed tech. Java was the crown-jewel they paid for - they had the right to do what they wanted with it; but to be clear - it wasn't the community/other companies slacking, Oracle chose to do R&D of Java internally because they wanted to control the roadmap.
Yes, on KGS[0]. I found it to be too addictive and had to play tenuki[1].

[0] https://gokgs.com
[1] http://66.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lo7ry5YAUX1qkt3l6.jpg
Wealth is made by labor, yes. But it is not accumulated by it. It's accumulated by being in a position of power whereby you can extract rents from the laborers who make it. In older times, this was done by threat of physical force. These days, it's more often done by exploiting some economic advantage - for example, if you own any valuable resource, such as land or means of production, you can extract rent from people who use it.

Whenever you see concentrated wealth with such extreme disparity that you have one person owning more than a million others, there are only two possible conclusions: either they really are a million times more productive, or it was actually produced by that million, and extracted from them via rents.

You could argue that those rents are fair, since they stem from legitimate ownership. But what makes it legitimate? Most land was originally taken by force, for example, and the result enshrined in law (that was written by the people who did this) post factum. If that doesn't make economic advantages that stem from such ownership unfair, then surely the same standard holds today, and those people have no right to complain if society decides to take it away from them by force, and enshrine it into law, just because it can.
> the hell that is making POD/Perldoc work for medium-to-large projects

Such as?
Is everything an MLM
The Trouble with Tech Unicorns
There is no "it's going to be". It's been happening for a long time. The article is way too long to describe this simple issue, IMO. Millions of bartenders, cashiers, etc. losing their jobs might not have another "simple" job to find anymore. The question then becomes what are we (or what are the elites, really) going to do with these people.
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Unions are the immediate solution. We need an industry wide union so it's hard to hire scabs and easy for us to refer each other after layoffs.

The longer term, better solution is to be owners. Worker owned tech companies only don't exist because they're not our currently accepted default. If people stop defaulting to the venture backed capital model we can turn this industry around.
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“Doctor Duncan’s Video Symptom Show!” — Not just subversive, but completely “punk” in outlook.
An app that teaches sign language. Not only ASL but every variant there is. Like Dutch German French etc sign languages.
Great piece Fred
That may not work for low power electronics: they can gather enough power to operate from I/O lines that have pull-up resistors on them.

When this goes really wrong, the chip can burn out.

Some satellite provider in the past tried to exploit differences between genuine cards and fake cards based on Atmel 8515 simulator boards. The fix was to lift the VCC pin of the 8515.
NPR tries to show both angles of stories that tend to be primarily on the liberal radar.

They are my main source of news, but there is a lot of truth to "you report what you see", and most of the reporters are liberal, so they cover liberal issues. I agree that they go out of their way to correct for that bias, and I appreciate that they do.
If inequality is very high (say 1% own 40% of the resources), and a child inherits almost a percentage of the _entire society’s wealth_ just by birth then that select group of inheritances is receiving incredible portions of the accumulated wealth of society by birth becomes an aristocracy.

Thats how I read GP.
> wealth is made by work

It’s also naturally abundant in the form of land, those cadastral game tiles on which life plays out, dominion of which are allocated by the state in a system of hereditary monopolies.

Wealth is not allocated the same way it’s created. That’s why we have the concept of rent-seeking, behavior that increases one’s share of wealth without creating more wealth.

Owning wealth lets you accumulate more wealth without working, because you can charge other people rent in exchange for using your wealth. Not only that; you can also hire people in an arrangement where you automatically own everything they produce using your capital goods.

Rich people know that labor is a very inefficient and tedious way to increase one’s own share of wealth. That’s why they prefer rent, interest, and staying on the top of the employment hierarchy where they have a legal claim on the products of others’ labor.

Yes, work is a true source of wealth, and so is capital and land and the other factors of production. There’s a long history of criticizing how most of the wealth created by working ends up owned by the owners of capital and land—that’s the essential critical point in the discussion of capitalism, whether Marxist or Georgist or Ellermanite.

Or you could say the crucial question is how can we cure the rich people from the delusion that they have a right to appropriate what they have not produced?”
China had not set up military bases around the world in the past because they "did NOT have" the ability to do so. Now that the nation has the fund, they are certainly starting to do so.

The Chinese army set up a major base in Djibouti in the Horn of Africa just a few years ago. It is the PLAN's first overseas military base and was built at a cost of US$590 million. I'm sure it won't be the last.

If China can do what US can, they will do it. To think otherwise would just be naive.
Ask HN: How do you protect sensitive data?
In your company, how do you handle sensitive (e.g. personal) data in your IT infrastructure? How do you control access to that data and how do you secure it? Do you use pseudonymization, encryption or anonymization? Which tools do you use?
Just because it is unpopular doesn't mean its bunk.

From my reading of the situation (having been converted), it seems that being a 'just so' explanation (not so evidence based, just conjecture), and one put forward by a woman in the 1970s, it was met with really over the top hostility for what I think is an interesting hypothesis.

You get into how our fingers prune up for better grip in the water, our diving reflex, and how at-home some spearfishers and free divers are in the ocean, not to mention the multitude of fishing villages that predate written history by who knows how long... it's a very convenient explanation -- which academics are right to be skeptical of -- but I don't think it deserves being cast as bunk.

Somewhat tangential, but here's my favorite video of humans being at home in the ocean, "Living off the Land in Hawaii", with badass laying on the ocean floor waiting for a meal @3:45 https://youtu.be/jJXEepvG6Hc?t=225
Wonderful, Fred. Thanks for sharing.
What “federal health expenditures” are you talking about?

The Obamacare tax was something like 3%, and only for the extremely wealthy.

In contrast, 33% of US healthcare costs go to insurance overhead, and >17% of our GDP goes to health care, so nearly 6% of the gdp goes to private insurance middle men.

Source on 17%: https://www.statista.com/statistics/184968/us-health-expendi...

Now, the entire federal government is currently spending 37% of GDP (though that includes deficit spending), so you posit that at least ~ 1/6th (6/37) of government spending is some healthcare program.

Source on 37%: https://tradingeconomics.com/united-states/government-spendi...

Medicare and health costs ~ $1T of the government’s $3.8T budget, which is a bit over 1/4th of the federal budget. That does meet the threshold of your claim, but only if much less than half of Medicare spending goes to actual health care.

Source on 1T Medicare, etc spending: https://www.nationalpriorities.org/budget-basics/federal-bud...

This study from 2001 concluded Medicare is about 80% efficient (20% waste): https://www.nber.org/papers/w8395

Note that the 20% Medicare waste number from the NBER study is not apples to apples with the 33% administrative overhead number, since it includes ineffective medical care (and all other wasted spending) that did not improve patient outcomes in the 20%, but the 33% number for insurers only counts useless paper pushing, and not ineffective care, etc, etc.

So, private insurers really are squandering many more healthcare dollars, and are also much less efficient than the federal government.
Yes, very Zen. And good exercise, if you're young enough.

But me, I'd have just found the shutoff valve for the sprinkler system.

And actually, something like that happened to me. We'd bought this very old house. With an electrical box that had evolved since ~1900. It met code, but was a rat's nest. So we hired an electrician to bring order.

Long story short, we found a circuit that led to an old iron pipe, which had supplied a long-gone outbuilding. The circuit hadn't shorted out, but the pipe was so rusted out that the circuit drew ~5A whenever it rained.

Edit: spelling
Generally anomaly when referring to rocket test fires/launches is an unplanned/unexpected big boom of something that isn't supposed to go boom.
> I don’t believe in universal healthcare

Who do you believe should not have healthcare?
> 3: Don't need health insurance so I'd say that's better.

You do have health insurance, it's just provided by the government with premiums paid through taxes. When people express the concern that their insurance would get worse, they mean that the insurance provided by the government would be worse than what they currently have. There are a number of different things that people think make plans worse or better, which is a major contributor to the difficulty in having a clear discussion about this.
I believe the motivation for referring to things as anomalies is to forestall any rush to judgement about an unexpected event. AKA something 'bad' happened.

Old memory from the 80's an engineer mentioned that he went down to the lab and found an unhappy test tech. Guy was testing a new pressure sensor and it wasn't able to make 10,000 full cycles without blowing the diaphragm. Turned out the test setup was shock loading the pressure sensor. He was surprised it was almost passing. The solution was a rate limiting valve in the test setup. There was nothing wrong with the pressure sensor.

There is a great write up from one of the guys that developed the thrusters for the Apollo program. They had problem where you could get layers of frozen oxidizer and fuel in the inside of the nozzle. Which would then go explode and shatter the nozzle. The solution was to operate the thrusters so that didn't happen.
Healthcare is not pizza.

The top level comment gave a perfect example why. Preventative care is cheaper than emergency care. When everyone (including the unemployed) can get preventative care, total costs go down.

That unemployed person with no insurance still gets emergency care. The hospital doesn't turn them away to die in the street. They don't pay the bill. They go into bankruptcy instead. The hospital makes it up on all the paying customers (the insured). Your $10k is already paying for the ones who don't have insurance. Medicine is already socialized!

Now, if we can acknowledge that, can we do the fiscally responsible thing and make sure everyone can get preventative medicine?
Do neural nets need to be continuous functions of the inputs, or of the parameters? My recollection is that it only has to be the latter.
> Notice how that doesn't depend on salary history info at all.

Does that get you the same salary as showing off your previous good pay stub?

If it does, then we're fine.

If it doesn't, then it doesn't matter that it's voluntary, the system still strongly encourages discrimination based on previous pay.

Imagine a similar system with a protected class. "You don't have to tell us your age, but if you prove you're under 45 we'll treat you better. If you say the wrong age, you're a dirty liar and don't deserve to be hired." That would be blatantly illegal and universally shunned.

I'm not saying this kind of discrimination is anywhere near the same magnitude. I'm just saying that whether it's voluntary or not is a distinction without a difference.

> For California specifically - not currently the other places with this type of law - employers must also share the "pay scale" with "applicants" upon their "reasonable request" (these phrases have been clarified legislatively in sensible ways). So that's even more help in avoiding discrimination while staying honest.

Good, that sounds much more effective.
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> Well every body is a random guy until you share stories.

I absolutely love this quote
I appreciate your comment. A common theme I've seen through my politically conscious life (15 years maybe?) is that Democrats think Republicans are stupid, where most Republicans just think Democrats are misguided.

Where what you said comes into that is that Democrats think they can win just by nature of Republicans being incompetent. Republicans are out there, like you said, doing the dirty work to win elections and mind/vote-share, because while they disagree with Democrats, they know they can't just rest on their smug sense of superiority.
Somehow? ‘Stranger Things’ had nothing to do with this?